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7 GOVERNMENT that is :of,rby and for the-people is like an
~ "intricatevpieee of machinery. The only great difference is
‘ the human equation. The cogs, wheels, pinions, bolts, shafts and
elevers. of' the machine take the form of .menand-women in the

government, Who-being human, donot- perform their allotted

tasks quite sofaithﬁully. and well as do the. parts of the machine.

«7 Butlthe twoare alike in many respects. The wheels must have '

(an occasional cleaning; they clog with dirt and do not run
smoothly. Parts must‘be frequently examined and replaced;
them are oftenadefects in the material; it becomes worn and use-

' 1* less and threatens to: interfere with “.thef'e'ﬁicient operation of the i

: ‘Acntire'machine. .
'We are'supposed tobe living in an age of wonderful eﬂic-

.,.i.iency.. .IO.ur.-faetories and ourfarms and our public utilities are
«composed ztoabe models of :system, rendering maximum service at '

“"mi'ninrumwcosm 1But the thing that ought toabe the special ob-

..ject‘ofcour pride..an'd.'soli‘citude,—our. governmeht,—is in a lag

mentibleveondition «if-disorder bordering closely on the chaotic.
all‘hriszwould not be so bad were the people who are the real mak-
scersmndnouretakers of: government impressed with the need and

ardesireiforitaking'prompt steps to curb the .wastefulness, repair
‘ V_the damaged 'ipa'rts, discharge“ :the-ienstodians. who {have , permit-
. .l‘tedeitto fall ,into...such adisgraceful reendition, and “ﬁll ' their

:2aplaces.uwith.men of . character. , ,
We need to‘hark 'back toathe founderszof .this government
and relearnour lessons on. democracy and medutiesziasicitizens.

aGeoug‘eWashing-tonris speaking. 'It isihis farewell address. ’

' """l'l‘h‘e Unity of Government,~rmhieh-rconstitutes -you..~one,.people,

‘ '-‘-'ls‘-alsa‘-now dea-r‘rto you—4t: is justly so;..-for it is a main Pillar in the

”(Emacs rotyour real independence; the support of your tranquility

‘~"*“iat home; your peace abroad; ofryourlliberity; of your prosperity in

”novelty shape; "of t’hat'rv'ery Liberian-which yourso highly prize * * * it
‘r‘ls‘vbf-d'n'ﬂnitemomen'tpthatyou should properly estimate the immense

“*rvalu'dv! your'nationals'-union to. youroollective and individual‘hap-
«- .vépinesetmthat‘yowsh'ould ‘eherish «a cordial, ihvabiitual and immovable

,ﬁﬁattaeirment ‘todtraccrrstom'ing yourselvesnto rth-imk and speak of has
‘~ ‘o'f’ﬁtlre‘if'aliadmm'ef yam-”political safety and prosperity; ‘watchdng
' *‘zforﬂ'tr'presemttonvwitlf jealous ,anxiety. * * * "'

It is a noteworthyiéact that the 'iearly days of the .Bepn’blic

-, , t‘upamlucodtmanyzof 51th motion ’5 -most .able and: distinguished dead-

ere. 1' ; Whis/ can be legally :eufdenstood. ' .aThe .hard-won freedom. was

' dike 'at-rare‘rjewelrifarimore prooimas‘ than'athe: lives it had :cost.

=._;aneesecured,o.it must .begmadc secure. “It could not bee‘entrusted
use carelession deceitfulahands. . It. must be: surrounded and
guarded by'proven menrrwhosegpledgetowthe{government would
3 "be 'held 'inviolate. -0nruforefathens laid? down ’rigid require-
mments for the protectors of their neW‘govei'nm'ent. Thus, only the

w, bestvmen-of :thanation’came forward ‘to.direct the aifairs of gov-

! ~ernment,’iand we mayxzreasonablywbelieve that the most of them

were ‘moved ‘by ar'sincere‘vdesire to :aid‘the smuggling Republic .

than stoisecure emptytpolitica’l'honors for themselves. .
"iTime‘has wrought-great changes;the infant Republic has
grown intol'stalwart manhood, .:,=and- those who, in periods ’of
its immaturity watche'd’with‘ anxious eyes when dangers threat-
ened, have long ‘sincecrelaxed‘their vigilance leaving the Repubi
lie to the mercy of its enemies. ”The motive for seeking ofﬁce has
largely changed from a desire to serve to a desire to be served.
Men of evilintent aspire to office: and; gain ofﬁce by evil methods
to which good men will not-stoop. Consequently there is
-.corruption in high places; the dirt of graft-clogs up the wheels
of government; cariess men are‘at 'ther'l'evers'; "everywhere is ev-
idence'of inefﬁciency and waste of energy.
The ignorance of the average citizen of the, workings of the

' government is truly appalling. If he but knew, the opportuniﬁ
.. ﬁesthat-erxist for unscrupulous men in ofﬁcial positionstoinﬂu-
tence andxeorrupt-':other.».public servants «with/whom they; come vim

contact: sorwas fully impressedwith thereonsequence‘s ofvicions

. .. laws ‘orf-total indifferenceuto the need for. good. laWs his: -attiu1de -
. :imd“fpnﬁties,’i/the ‘ééscience‘of.rrgovernment’hwould quickly : . rnm’ . .. . -
. . mid ”heswaujld«.bewasameticulousiin the tuttxreviinfthe so: . «the gays ant and pass, upon It‘s

  

 

 

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lection of the men who run for ofﬁce as he would be of the men
whom he would put in charge of his private business. The seeds
of evil which are sown by corrupt men in positions of public
trust do not as a rule, unfortunately, bear their fruits of demor-
aliza'tion until long after the sowers have retired to private life:

"So it is not always easy to trace the responsibility for unjust
laws, zg1=0wthfof special privilege, subordination of government

to special interests, high taxes and other evils.

. At the rmoment‘we seem to be in a conﬂictbetween various
The ease with‘which capitalism
.hasreached its pinnacle of power under, the protecting arm of
the law and frequently in deﬁance of the law has aroused the
envy of others and tempted them'to try the same measures. They
are seeking to unseat capitalism from its present position, but
capitalism .is resisting with very poor grace the reforms that
must be brought about before the unrest of the nation can be
soothed, thus inciting the reformers to the adoption of a pro—
gram which, if carried out, would be as full of dangers to our
«liberties'a-s thosewhieh now encompass them.

I- am not'a crier of calamity. Eventually all will be well.
Emerson says :

' ‘z‘Thisf law (of action and reaction) writes the laws .of cities and
nations. 'It':will not be balked of its end in the smallest idea. It is
in vain to build or plot to combine against it. Things refused to be
mismanaged long. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the
checks exist, and will appear. If the government is cruel, the gov-
ernorfs-lire is’not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue-Will yield
nothing.‘ If‘you make the criminal codes-anguinary, juries will not
convict. (Nothing arbitrary, nothing artiﬁcialcan endure.”

Batiwe relight not to await the conditions which will auto-
matically set the Emerson law toworking. ‘On'the contrary, as
long as there arespeaceable means for overcoming the defects in

“our government and in our—social,order,'those means ought now

to be-employed. But they will not be“ employed :if the mass of

r'citizens-who make up'lthe commonwealth andthe nation cannot

xzbeunoved to action. It isto their interests, ﬁrstiand'primarily,
that these corrections :should be made.

Theremust be an ‘awakened‘civic consciousness on the part
of every man and woman. -They must be made to feel as their
forefathers felt, that-free [government is the most precious of all
‘theirearthly possessions, and thatit must be studied, understood

and Wisely managed if it is ‘to performits functions and give to

all their fair portion of its beneﬁts.

“The less government we have-the better—the fewer laws, and
the‘less‘conﬁded power,” says Emerson. "‘The antidote to this
abuse of formal government, is, :the influence of :private character,
the growth of the individual * * *.:We think our civilization near
“its meridian,"but we are only at the cook—crowing and the morning
star. In our barbaroussociety the influence ’of‘ character is in its

infancy * “ * *”

May we not put aside all other considerations when naming
those to represent us in government except characer and capacity
for serving? The nation is not without men of character, but
those who will "always do the right thing instead of the expedient
thing are very rare, indeed. The principal tribute that can be
paid to a good many men in public ofﬁce is that they were good
politicians. The poor politician seldom captures an of-
ﬁee in a spirited contest, although as a man of character he may
stand head and shoulders above his successful opponent.

Good government is difﬁcult of attainment and perpetuity.
It cannot possibly be secured by indifference to the changing
needs of the commonwealth or to the character of the men who
are chosen to provide for those needs. Good government is with-
in reach. The gap can be bridged by ﬁrst, an overwhelming de-
sire for good government; ~second, knowledge of what constitutes

«gocd'government; third, acquaintance with the responsibilities, _

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R. FARMER is going tobe the

man of the hour at the ceiea
» bradon now being prepared
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d legs and many 00— operating bodies.
This event is the fan ous Farmers’
.Week, to be held this year at East
Lansing, February 2- -7 inclusive.
Last year more than 5,000 farmers
turned out to the meetings and ex-
hibits, but next month more than
8,000 are expected to attend.

In addition to thousands of farm-
ers coming as individuals or as fam-
ilies, a dozen or more meetings of
state agricultural associations will
make East Lansing the Mecca, the
ﬁrst week in February, of great
throngs. For example, the Michi-
gan State Farm Bureau members,
who will number somewhere around
20,000 by February ﬁrst, will hold
their regular winter session—which
will probably be‘ one of- themost

“ importantgatherings in the history
of that organization.

Members of the Michigan Crop
Improvement Association will also
assemble at the college during the
red letter week on the farmers’ cal-
endar for February, 1920. The
Crop Improvement folks will go to
the meeting elated with the recent
victory of their handicraft at the In-
ternational Hay and Grain Show at
Chicago.

The Michigan Milk Producers’ As-
sociation will be another of the high
lights on the program of Farm‘ers’
Week. The splendid work of that
association during the past year
against terriﬁc odds, together with

the chances for much better work '

the coming year, will assure great
interest on the part of its many
thousands of members in this state.

So much progress has been made
recently in the marketing of the
spuds grown in Michigan that the
gathering of the Michigan Potato
Producers' Association during Farm-
ers',Week will certainly create its
' share of attention. The Michigan
Veterinary Association and the
Michigan branch of the American
Poultry Association will both have
special features at their sessions
which will make it worth while for
all members to pack their grips and
attend. A splendid poultry show will
be one of the headliners on the bill.

Faced with extinction. unless rem-
edial action is taken, members of the
Michigan Maple Syrup Makers As—
sociation say that it is of prime im—
portance for all engaged in their
trade to attend the sessions at East
Lansing during Farmers’ Week.
Other meetings which will help put
the event big include those of the
following:

Michigan Muck Farmers’ Associ-
ation.

Michigan Milk and Dairy Inspect-
ors Association.

Park Superintendents and City
Foresters.

Rural Y. M. C. A. Secretaries.

Other organizations may join in
line for the especially opportune time
for a gathering. Meetings are ar-
ranged so as not to conflict with
- each other to any great extent, and
the speeches of the many notables
on the program will be held at sep—
arate times and at hours when no
meetings are in session. Authori-
ties at the Michigan Agricultural
College are delighted at being of
more service now than ever in their
history; and one of their greatest
services just now to farmers in gen-
, era] is the opportunity and encour-
agement the college is furnishing
for the beneﬁt of organized ruralists
through such means as Farmers’
Week.

Much can be said of the import-
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List of All-Star, Speakers ’
J. R. Howard, president of the American Federation of Farm

H. C. Taylor, chief of the Farm Management Bureau of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, in charge of gathering cost of pro-

Former Congressman A. F. Lever, member of the Farm Loan
Beard, and successful sponsor of such legislation for the welfare of

Governor Frank C. Lowden, of Illinois, one of the Republican
possibilities for the coming ,pres1dent1al nomination.

Dean Alfred Vivian, of Ohio State University, who Will give a
daily, illustrated lecture on “Farmers’ Tour Around the World.”

Dr. C. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, famous

Dr. W. G. Gunsolus, president of the .Armour Institute of
Technology, of Chicago; former pastor of nation-wide reputation.

A. J. Kiernan, chief of the government work on tuberculosis
eradication, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agricul-

Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld, president of Massachusetts Agricultur-

President G. C. Creelman, of Ontario Agricultural College.
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the program—importance not al-
ways generally recognized. For in-
stance, the Rural Y. M. C. A. secre-
taries in Michigan are hanging up
a record unequaled anywhere. Five
years ago Michigan had one third
of all the rural “.Y" workers in the
United States, and the state has gone
considerably ahead since that date.
All-Star Group of Speakers

Just to get an idea of the unusu-
al strength of thespeakers' program
for Farmer Week, we quote the fol-
lowing extract from a letter from
the Michigan Agricultural College,
in response to inquiries from Mich-
igan Business

college. In fact, more will be done this
year to make this a big and successful
convention for. farmers of Michigan

than ever before. _
J. B. HASSELMAN.

Dean Alfred Vivian, of Ohio State
University, will provide one'of the
big features of the program of the
speeches. His set of illustrated lect-
ures on “Farmers’ Tour Around the
World" are already very famous.
Dean Vivian has studied at ﬁrst hand
the agricultural conditions of prac-
tically every country in the world
and he has a treasure of splendid i1-
lustrations. One of his lectures will
be given each day during the week.

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Farming; the ers show that
letter shows the week will
other facts as be a three—
to the great ringed circus
importance of and Fourthof
the occasion: July celebra-

t1on combin-

Michigan Busi-
ness Farming,

Mt. C lemens,
Michigan.

It is felt here
at the college
that the list or
speakers is the
best ever got-
ten together for
a state agricul-
tural conven-
tion anywhere.
You will note
that any one of
five or sin" of
the speakers
would ‘ be a
headliner at any
other event cf
this kind.

The members
of the various
agricultural as-
sociations meet—
ing together
here during the
week will mark
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A. F. L‘EVER
Member National Farm Loan Board. who
will be one of the Farmer's Week speakers.

ed. For in-
stance, a pres-
idential
didate” is one

ers alongside
a famous Bri-
tish poet and
war corres-
pondent. Then
there is— a sil-
very tongued
preacher and
college presi-
dent; super
experts in var-
ious lines of
farm work in-
cluding an ex-
congressman,
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the state. Mem- r ..
bers will have ‘
an opportunity

to attend one or more of the meetings, V

and at the same time “take in” the at-
tractions of Farmer's Week.
Exhibits will be very interesting this
e.ar We will have guides and charts
to help visitors find their way about the

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MVETERI IM 9
$2,22anan

Gov. Frank
‘C. Lowden of
Farmers" Week

Illinois, is the

speaker who is often mentioned as

a possibility for the Republican pres-
idential nomination.

‘can- ~

of the s eak— \
p ‘include: Dr.’ W. G. Gunsolus,‘f0rm-

efit of farm- .

Cecil Roberts .

h war as
A. C program.

as Mr. Roberts, who take the stu-
dents and farm visitors away from

’ “shop talk" for an hour or so, now.

and then. This is in line with a
broad-mindedness which the farmer
class has been showing strongly——
that is, the farmer .wants to under—
stand his brother human beings in

all other classes and make decisions .

from the standpoint of what is best
for the greatest number.

One of the most important speak-v

era is to be J. R. Howard. elected
this winter as president of the Am-
erican Farm Bureau Federation, dur-
ing the famous convention at Chi-
cago, where the farm bureau organ~
izations from 35 states arranged to
afﬁliated as a national body. Mr.
Howard is a product of the middle

west, ‘Iowa, and has‘a great mes-w
The thousands of Farm Bu-

sage.
reau members who expect to attend
the sessions at East Lansing assure
Mr. Howard of a big and enthusi-
astic audience. '

H. C. Taylor, another of the
“heavy artillery" on the M. A. C. pro-
gram, is the new chief of the Farm
Management Bureau of the United.
States Department of, Agriculture at
Washington. Upon Mr. Taylor’s

s'houlders rest the responsibilty of-
working out the cost of production ‘

‘ﬁgures for'the farmers of the na-
tion. Michigan is one of the lead-
ing states in the work of seeking ac-

.curate costs of production and many

a farme' is expected to get some
helpful tips from the work which
Mr. Taylor will explain.

Former Congressman A. F. Lever,
who has been responsible for. much
of the recent legislation toward the
country life improvement, is a strong
ﬁgure on the bill at the M. A. C. He
is now well known to farmers ,thru
his work as a member of the Farm
Loan Board.

One of the men on the list who
has created a high reputation both
with the general public and the
faimers is Dr. C. V. McCollum, nu-
trition expert at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity. His writings may be found
on the tables of almost ~ any pro-
gressive dairymcn in the State of
Michigan. as well as any other state.
The general public knows, him best,
perhaps in connection with his re-
search and explanations of “vita.—
mines.” Dr. McCollum was former-
'ly at Madison, Wisconsin, and is
quite widely knownin Michigan as
well.

Others who will address meetings

er pastor and now president of the
Armour Institute of Technology,
Chicago; A. J. Kiernan, chief of the
tuberculosis eradication, Bureau of
Animal Industry- Department of
Agriculture, Washington; Kenyon L.
Butterﬂeld, president of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, auth-
or and noted authority on agricul-
tural problems; Henrietta W. Calvin,
Bureau of Education, Washington,
D. 0.; President G. C. Creelman, of
Ontario Agricultural College,‘ who is
expected to say something about the
splendid work of the United Farmers
of Ontario.

Exhibits of Top Notch~Classi

The exhibits at Farmer’s “Week
will cover. every division of agricul-
tural life. They will be new this
year and will all bear directly upon
the farmers’ problems.

The major divisions of the display '
will cover farm .crops, horticulture
and animal husbandry.

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the state of Michigan. It certainly-
is a splendid monument of the pub-
‘ lie to the greatness of agriculture:
. There are the ﬁne new structures,‘ ’
and .the old ones with many memor--"
_ies.- There is the "Museum With the ~
”old Civil War stuffed horse- and the" ‘
‘~s_tone age fossils, and, better than
that, the up- -to-date scientiﬁc dis-
‘ plays of modern agriculture. . _
It surely is an- inspiration for the

young folks on the farm to look at
and study the wealth of informa-
ti0n gathered at the College. It is
an appeal to their manhood and wo-
manhood to see the gymnasium

rwork and the drills in the ﬁeld; and

it is a huge argument for the young

‘folks to stay right on the farm with
Dad and Mother, when the best that

the College can show ‘ is s-etrbefore
them. 'There are the splendid pure-

bred cattle, and all other— kinds of ‘

stock, which produce proﬁts to such
an extent as to make all or them

the exhibits of grain which take the
international prizes All the up-to-
date methods of. the business of
farming are at least touched upon
at the college. It is a inspiration
for any boy or girl of he farm to
take a peek at what the College has

to oifer—what‘it has to say on be-

half of the profession of farming.

Nearly all of the exhibits which
the college sent to the recent Inter-
national Hay and Grain Show at
Chicago will be ondisplay in the
crops section. The competitive ex-
hibits in the Michigan Crop Improve-
ment Association Show will alsobe
features of this section.

In regard to the hay and grain ex-
hibits. great interest is bound to be
shown at Farmer’s Week this year
by the farmers of Michigan. Did
you know that eight out of the six—
teen prizes awarded for samples of
rye and more than half of all the
premiums given out in the class for
wheat are among the victories seer-‘-
ed by Michigan producers at the In-
ternational Grainand Hay Show at
Chicago this winter? And the farm-
ers of Michigan walked away with
many other prizes at that great ex-
hibition, so they come with the flush
of victory” to the Farmer’s Week
show where most of the Chicago
prize winning exhibits will be re-
peated. . ~ ‘

In their class for wheat, soft red
winter, Michigan growers competed
against the entire United States and
Canada, such states as Kansas and
the Dakotas, famed for their wheat,
being included.

farmers came out with their heads
up and their pockets full of prem-
iums—more than half of those offer-

-. ed in the class.

There was but one class for rye,
including splendid exhibits from
Canada and many parts of the Unit-
ed States. Out of the 16 prizes
awarded, the Michigan men bore off
with eight.

One feature of the show of which
the Michigan Agricultural College
can boast is the rosen rye and. 'red
rock wheat victory. The College for
a long time has been advocating the
use of these, excellent varieties, and
it's samples proved to be head and
shoulders over anything else at the
show.. Rosen rye took ﬁrst, second,
fouith and ﬁfth prizes in its total of
eight piizes out of a possible .16.
while none of the other varieties
succeeded in gaining a noticeable
success.

The same was true of w.heat Red

irock took the ﬁrst three places in

who stroll every year ' over 75' '

Then there are,

In spite of the high'
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’ “ gun State Farm Bureau"

~~ ’ The Michigan Crop Imprdvcment Association.

Thchichigan Milk Producers’ Association.

Tl The Michi;an Potato Producers’ Association.

‘ " The Michigan Maple Syrup Makers’ Association.

' The Michigan Veterinary Association.

”ﬁrm ‘ - The Michigan branch of the American Poultry Association.
' The Michigan Muck Farmers’ Association.

The Michigan Milk and Dairy Inspectors’ Association.

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its class, along with many other low-

er. awards, and was easily the out-
standing Wheat of the show. Al-
though ﬁrst place was lost to Mich-
igan in the wheat entries (John Dun—
bar, of Rudyard won the second
honors,) local grewers carried off
the blue ribbon with a Michigan
product—r—Red Rock.

The Michigan Educational Exhibit
at the show was the largest and best
entered the Michigan Crop Improve-
ment Association, the Michigan Po-
tato Growers Exchange and the
Michigan Agricultural College unit-
ing to prepare the display. A large
map of the state upon which were
posted views of the varied farming
industries, a mound ofselected Pe-
toskey potatoes, bins of Rosen Rye
and Red Rock wheat, and a special
display for the —Upper Peninsula
were features. of the state display.

“Practically all the Michigan ex-
h‘ibits which were at Chicago will be
on hand for the Crop Improvement
show during Farmer’s Week at the
College the ﬁrst of February” says
J. W. Nicholson, secretary of the

v Michigan Crop Improvement Associ-
"Other growers who did not.

ation.
exhibit at the International will get
into the game at this time and see

HE following statement, given

I out by Hon. Jonathan Bourne,

Jr., president of the Repub-
lican Publicity Association, coincid-
es exactly with the arguments that
Michigan Business Farming has pre-
sented against the collective “dicta-
tion” of labor unions in comparison
with collective “bargaining” desired
by the farmers:

“The hope of labor union leaders
that they would be able to enlist the
aid of organized farmers was doubt-
less due to the fact that“ the agri—
cultural producers have been en—
deavoring for many years ,to better
their condition through the adop-
tion of the policy of ‘collective bar-
gaining.’ says Mr. Bounne. " The la—
bor union leaders failed, however.
to note one vital difference between
the policy adopted by themselves and
that pursued by organized farmers.
The farmers have endeavored to
utilize collective bargaining in a
thoroughly democratic manner. The
labor union leaders, n the other
hand, have endeavored to transform
collective bargaining into collective
dictation. in a manner that is auto—
cratic.

“Fruit producers, grain producers
and cattle producers have endeavor-
ed to secure better prices for their
products-by pooling their output and
bargaining-“with buyers for the sale
They have never, how—
ever, forbidden or endeavored to for-
bid any other farmer fro mselling
his product anywhere. at any time,
at any price. The effort of the or-
ganized farmers has been entirely
lesitimate- conducted for a proper
end and by proper means.

“With collective bargaining on
the part of labor unions there is no

a

how their samples compare with the
best in the state. The result will be
one of the best grain shows ever seen
in Michigan, or any where else, for
that matter.”

A practical demonstration to show
the actual working of a cow testing
association, exhibits to show the ef-
fects on successive generations of
good breeding and stock specimens
from the Chicago stock yards to il-
lustrate daily market ‘quotations,
will be found among the animal hus-
bandry booths.

An entire building is to be given
over to the horticultural show alone.
The second annual state champion-
ship poultry show, household arts
and science displays, and exhibits of
farm machinery and veterinary med--
icine work will be prominent during
the week.

,The Michigan State Round-11p
Poultry Show. a blue ribbon exhibit
which will bring together all the
best» birds in the state, will be held
at the College in connection with the
many other features. Nearly 100
different poultry establishments in
the state will enter a total of over
600 fowls.

Inasmuch as only those birds
which have won premiums at other

"Collective Bargaining vs Collective Dictation

material fault to be found so long
as it is bargaining in fact. The
flaw in the labo runion procedure
has been, however, that the union
not only proposes to sell its own la—
bor at prices which it may ﬁx by
collective bargaining or dictation,
but it proposes to deny to any other
man the right to sell his labor at
any other price. It denies the fund-
amental principle of individual lib-
erty. It endeavors to enforce the
rule that no man shall work unless
he ﬁrst subscribes to the contracts
of the labor union and renders him-
self subject to the mandates of the
walking delegate.

”This policy the farmer has never

’adopted and never 'will adopt. Such

a policy is contrary to the principles
of the American government, and,
though it may succeed temporarily,
it must fall eventually because an-
tagonistic to the pullic welfare. It
is quite possible that a group of ag-
ricultural producers could organize
its particular branch of agriculture
so extensively and adopt methods so
severe as to practically dictate the
price of its output. Organized dairy-
men, for instance. might for a time
intimidate non—union dairymen by
overturning their milk wagons,
shooting their driVers, poisoning
their herds, and bomginb their fam-
ilies, but such methods would not
long succeed. Nor is there any
danger that such methods will be
adopted. Agricultural producers
are owners of property; they are
heads of families; all their interests
are' aligned with law and order; all
their methods therefore will be in
accordance with law, and with full
recognition of the rights of others.

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will have to be champions among
champions. "
All entry fees are to go to the

prize winners in each, class, forty

per cent for ﬁrst place. and thirty,_

twenty and ten per cent for the next
three places respectively. Every
bird which places will get at least a
ribbon." The entry fees are to be
ﬁfty cents for single birds and two
dollars for pens. Prof. C. H. Bur-
gess, head of the Department of
Poultry Husbandry, is in charge of
the exhibit.

One of the special features of the
many headliners at Farmer’s Week
will be the opening of the series of
truck and tractor schools to be con-
ducted by the M. A. C. this year. The
ﬁrst of these four week‘s’ schools
opens February 2, and visitors at
Farmer’s Week can get a chance at
least to look in on the experimental
work. A much larger enrollment is
assured than last year’s, and num-
erous. innovationsare planned. Gas-
oline power is going ahead by jumps
and the need of skilled workers for
trucks and tractors is becoming
great among those in the farm bus-
iness. Farmers who expect to visit
the College during the February
events are urged to look up the
truck and tractor work which is
making such headway.

More than a dozen makes of tract—
ors will be used and each student
will know how to run all the ma-
chines before ﬁnishing the course as
well as 1epairing them. Things to
be emphasized in the course will in-
clude ignition, valve and spark tim-
ing, carburetor adjustments, brake
and fuel combustion tests, and light-

‘ing and engine trouble work.

A. M. Berridge, of the M. A. C.,
is head of a committee comprised of
men from every department of the
college designated to take charge of
the gigantic task of completing prep-
arations for Farmers’Week. Knock-
ers may come and knockers may go,
but there can hardly be any knock-
ing this year in regard to Farmer’s
Week. The College authorities have
been going their limit in arranging
for the best possible hospitality and
entertainment for the farmers of the
state, and it is believed that the
great majority of farmers appreci-
ate the efforts being put forth,

Said one prominent ofﬁcial at the
M. A. C. the other day, “the College
belongs to the farmers of Michigan
and it wants all the farmers to get
away and take physical possession of
the institution for the ﬁrst week in
February this year. We want as
many farmers as possible to see that
the College is doing real, vital. prac-
tical business. By coming to Farm.-
er’s Week the farmers can not only
ﬁnd out these things for themselves,
but also they can take one more
step in the great business of getting
together.”

Farmer’s Week has a splendid
tradition to keep up. Before last
year it had done good work under
the name of "Farmers’ Week and
Housewives’ Congress.” But last
year it broadened out into wider
ﬁelds simply under the name of
“Farmer’s Week.” The Michigan
Livestock Breeders and Feeders As-
sociations, the Farm Bureaus, the
Crop Improvement Association, the
Muck Farmers, the Poultry Breeders.
Drain Commissioners and Maple Sy-
rup Makers and others joined in mak—

ing the affair a big one. More than
5,000 attended last year.
This year, the great advancing

strides are expected to keep on, and
some estimates put the expected
number of visitors at around 10, 000.

, The college is resounding with prep-

manly heat: The ‘nirsc'j‘
also prizes at East Limiting '

  
     

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N THE LAST‘ article the ways In
which the water in the soil

held andith‘e' water'retaininchw-
- pacity of different-'kinds‘of‘ seil“-were
considered. ' In order/that the reader
may have a better: understanding‘of
the discussions of moisture control
that are to follow, the relationship
of crops and soil moisture is to be
presented.

It has been long known and ap-
preciated that the water relations of
soils and crops are of tremendous
importance, in crop production. The
loss of water from the leaves of
plants and the conditions that may
increase or decrease this amount
have been studied from time to time
by many investigatorrsince about

. 1699, and as a result we-have at our
disposal much valuable “information
regarding this subject. In view of
the importance of this matter we
are to discuss in this article, 1, what
water does in the plant. 2. How wa-
ter enters and leaves the plant. 3-.
Root systems of crops. 4. Water re-
quirements of crops. 5. Conditions
that affect the watergrequiremen‘t‘,
and 6, how to make the best use‘ of
soil moisture.

It was stated previously that wa-
ter is the means ‘of conveyance» of
the mineral plant: food-“from' the soil
to the roots of theplants. ‘Upon‘eni-
tering the roots these must be trans;
ferred‘ to“ the-stems and leaves :and
flowers of'the plant, andi'hers again
water is essential; J ust‘ assoon “as
there is a deﬁciency and the" plant
Wilts, the .movement of these“— into
and within the plant ceases and
growth likewise leaves off. Further-
more, water ‘in'- itself is: as planti'frood
and becomes a- part ot the plantl‘tisi
sues. Moreover, leaves of plants
that are supplied with water. maybe
cooler by several degrees‘than. the
temperature of the air surrounding
them‘. In some instances thisis
probably a means protection
against extreme heat.

Practically all the water that
leaves the plant does so through the
root system and. is removed mainly
as the ﬁlm water that surrounds the
construction, or structure of the root
construction, or structure oft he root
system of plants is essential for full
understanding of the moisture re:
lationships of soils and crops. Under
ordinary ﬁeld. conditions the main
absorbing portion, or the partsthat
actually removes water from the
soil is generally spoken of as_root
hairs. These are minute very thin
walled elongated single cells that are
sent out from the surface of the. very
young portions of the roots. On.ac,~
count of their soft or mucilaginous
like nature they are able to, pass be—
tween or around the soil grains or
groups of soil particles, thus afford-
ing very intimate contact with.them.
The tips of growing roots are also
instrumental in. taking in water.

of

These are composed of .masses of
soft thin. walled cells.
The number of. ‘ root hairs. and

therefore thewextent. of the. absorb—
ing system of. plants vary with. the
moisture. content, as .a~“ rule,. when
the water supply becomes- somewhat
low, there- results an enormous: in;
crease in theinumbens.. It- has been
estimated that thesroot'hairs present
on the roots of corn under. average
conditions increase the surface: in
contact with the. soil mass about
ﬁve times. and. barley twelve times.
If the water content is decreased
the surface in contactwith thensoil
may be- more than doubled. ..This,-
of course, affords a wider feeding
zone of the rootsystem. Moreoven,
the nature and. amount of the plant
food present affects the/numbers
formed. ’ -

Owing to their thin walls, their

intimate contact with the soil part-.

icles and therefore, the ﬁlm water,
the root hairs are able
‘ withdraw water from the soil mass.

As the water enters these ‘it is. pulled.
or forced inward. and upward. thru‘

the larger portions .of the root sys-
‘ tems, and from thence into all parts
of the above ground portions, and

31s ﬁnally given off to the atmospheres“
-£“t rough small openings in the leaves?

a: the plants:

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w The methods of penetration) “of
rnoots through the scil mass. for any:
tremely interesting.
so arranged that the development of

the roots of plants takes. place just ‘

back of their tips. The divisions at

the tip are few in number, and thus:

the root advances by means of con-.
tinually forming cells. In other”
words, the whole root is not pushed:
through the sell as one would a wire
but only a small and continually
forming point does the advancing.
Fortunately the root- hairs are form~
ed: just back~of¢the advancingbtip‘,
and are therefore not dragged “or
pulled off» as- it enters» the: soil‘ n'Iass.
Moreover, it‘ is well known- that the
root .hairsn usually becomevv inactive
after: they are: a few; days old‘."

It was = shown -in' the previous chap-

Nature wisely. ,

> is 14‘ inches,“ while (in: Texas ”it

1y: 1 admits: anthem watch roost”. of crops.

. Whﬂre-WWiSEiOW}: other! conditions the

same. the. 81113111112301; water trans-
piredis lessthan‘ where It. is higher.

A single-corn plant on‘va‘ver‘y .hot
dry ‘day. may :loses‘l'ttv'lbs. .901 ' water
through its: leaves,:"wheneafs' on days
of more. . normal. temperature pmu‘crh
less. It has been shown that the
natural: vegetation is: a- good indicat-
or of crop production, so far as cli-
mate is concerned: Attention should
be‘ called to the occurrence of short
grasses, such- as buffalo and. grama
grass in the semi-arid reg-ion rext‘end-
ing‘from‘ Montana te‘Texasp (0111 the
westward‘it is limited by- larid conj-
‘ditions and 'on <t-he~ eashby competi-
‘tion- with ‘other‘ygrassesn In» this
belt in Montana the. annualrainfall
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ARMERS are going out. harder every year in their agenolduﬁght-
to‘ con‘puer natuiai conditions which tend! to ruim our. hinders:
crops. .A thoroughknnwledgeof soil. moisture: in. reiationslnp to :
‘cmpsris‘tone‘orf atheigzreatest helps neither fight; so BmfsMoMeMam. -.
, C001,,so11s expert at the Michigan Agricultural Gollcge', has gathers“
-‘ "ed :zthe best aradldilo factsom the subject: ‘ ‘

This article” while containing valuable tips, is mane" 01: less in.- ..

' troductery to some {of thwarticlos whichlmﬂ folliew“ ‘ ‘

In. orden‘ to ‘ underst’amdshotten2'thcegokirzmmezs of: information .1.
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ter that the“ﬁlm.moVementiof water

'in soil is quite slowandrthat‘most :of,‘

the water that plant removes from
the soil is that which liesiwi'thhrthe
zone of root penetration; ‘and that
which falls as rain - during-the ‘ grow-
ing season. Such ‘beingthepase, the
depth of the root- penetration of-
crops is of vast importance, so far
as the water supply is concerned.
The nature and: extent of' met de-
velopment of crops' differ :m'arkedly.
Some crops are coarse, ‘somey‘ﬂne,
some deep some moderately‘vd'eep
and some shallow‘ rooted:-

There are several conditions that
may and, do affect appreciably ,.the
extent of ..the root systempf. a given
crop. It is generally considered that
roots of plants penetrate more deep-
ly in soils formed "in‘ reg'ions—‘of‘low~
rainfall than‘th‘ey do in those‘ under
humid conditions.“ Again, if the
moisture content is somewhat low
there is a' greater root-development
than‘if it ishigher; M'oreover,‘ nums
erous investigators have‘ shown that
the branching or we is is‘ much great-t
er in‘ soils thatgcontai‘n‘xan“ abund4
ance‘ of plant 'foodmate’ria-ls than in-
those which‘are'lower in: them.-

Water.“ Requirement ctr (ii-open ‘ ,

It was previously stated thatithere
is at all‘ times a‘movementcf“ water
from the soil to,.the"rootsvand':from
them to the .‘above‘ ground portionr‘or
the ' plant; andwit necessarily fellows
that there is a constant lossof water.

from..these above‘groun‘d portions‘to .

the surrounding atmosphere. This
loss is spoken‘of'as-transpiration; or
we say corn ‘npiant,’ for example;
transpires on ' loses: so ' vmu'cho wanton
duringazgiven periodi. . There is one
other termL-th’at weushall-use in this
discussion; namely, the. water. cost
ofa crop..._ By thisuis‘meantw the
amount of water required to produce
a given weight of dry plant material,
expressed as. theranumherooﬁv pounds».
of water required to produce, .one,
pound of the dryrmateria‘l;

Now the water cost of a given
crop varies-.‘with- such conditions. lass
,1. Climate-or temperature; water.
vapor in the air,“ wind movements, 2.’
The soil, 'or“the nature and. strength
of the soil solution, and?» Crop or:

the extent .of leaf surface, and the
agent, the plant. . , -, ,l ..

The temperature: some air gmtrf

   
 

.21 inches. The difference ine the
amount of rainfalliis‘ affected/main-
ly by difference in temperature.

In additibn‘ to temperature the
amount Of‘ water vapor in the air
or its relative humidity is impertant.
Where the air contains much Water
vapor the loss of water from the
leaves ofplants is less than if it con-
tains very little. Thus plants grow;-
ing in low moist situations require
less water for their develOpment
than those growing under drier. con-
ditions ' Celery grown on low. lying
muck land uses less water than if
it is grown *on the same soil transr
ported to higher situations .because
of the dampness and cooler temper—
ature of .the .air. '

Now if the temperature is high,
the relative humidity low, and the
wind movements are strong the
amount of. watervthat the. soil must
furnish to the plant is indeed: greatl-
on than if the wind movemlent -s. is
much. less-noticeable. vauning'. "‘a
hot, windy -daycorn.and..other plants
may wilt. but .when.-~thenairr.isrcooler
and\._ther-wind diesrdawn- at might
they“ again...become:-ri'gé~d. >

’It Was -~.-p_no;ven: manys'years‘v: ago
that: cnopslgrownuon :2 tensile2 Soils
have a low-“r water cost than. it

growh on soils: low: i115 fertility. Re-
cently Kdesselbachg 701’.) Nebraska, d'e-
termined the water cost; of corn
grown in: soil' of dillflenent' degrees of
fertility.

Hefound the water costto ' be
about 569 pounds= where the corn
was grown on very poor soil where.
as it required 49"4 pounds in soil of
intermediate fertility and only 333
pounds in fertile soil

It is very: probabI‘eJma‘t the tends
(army for some of' Michiganls" thinner
farm lands to suffer early from
drought is due to an insufﬁcient
simplyr ‘and‘liick of proper bal’amce of
plant food elements-1n: them; Game
In] husbandry. or mtatiom'ot coupon

and. intelligenli soik mobilization.“ imam for iguana or exposed: sit~ ,

unit of dry- matter forn'ie’d' would he." 1
decreased the great drain :on the

some supply/of: moisture by. the. large. ,. I

..L-H

.fd‘evelupmsnt might at ya: given time

result dihastnously. Or it seems. it
.the addiizionv of manure;- .or fertilis-
er,. appreciably increases the plant '
growth, the total‘- amount of, water
‘-t:he--sQil’-m11st furnish to ‘the crop is.
“greater than if the fertility‘had no".
been increased unless the rate of
se‘edinglis‘ thinner. I

The water. cost of different crops
varies.:greatly. . The amount of water
required to produce one pound of I
dry matter of several crops in the
latitude of central Michigan lies be-
tween 300- 500' lbs Weeds require
about as much water for their
growth as the ordinaryicnops‘, as the
estimates glven‘ bring out

Relative -Wa'cer costs of rising ~ -

TLegumes; poundsv ‘.-. . L ..... 450s7~£l0
Small: grains, lbs: v. ..... ». . 300-450
'SOrghum- lbs.“ . . . . ‘. ...... 250-350
‘Mlll’eih lbs . . ....... 250.1350
Weeds-,r- lbs 5. :14. . .. ..... 3. . .300e569

IL. should, .be remembered, hotvew
,r, that the climate «and». 8011» condi-
ions spoken. of above; may. either '11»-

_crea.se or. decreasei. them. amountsii

Nameleh us suppososltlnmthnim
ten‘ costs of: whean‘iis 'taOﬂ-iandmher‘dry
~mﬁﬂﬁl‘5l pnedmmd ale .1 Itswo e: tone :por
acres. ~.This.:. humumdhatﬂﬂ Outcome!
water: muscrbo mppliedilby anemone
0% soil; Lomabnutxr'r inchesrof 9min:-
falh. Miomoizeml wot-should motizl‘ose
sight/afﬁrm fact: that enormous
quantities mush beésuppliod im‘ short
intervals of time“ more {thann- -the
weight of. the plant on hot. days
must - be: funniﬁiedt- . as was +staatedz to
bet. the ., case: «with 1-: com. and: thati this

estimateidoesq not take: inter. considr-
oration-l the loss from: the. surface. of
the soil.

An: important: , ‘considi‘ereutiomN -. in
arid: or ‘ regionss‘of; low: precipitation
is. the; effect: the: : extent: of: the tiles!
surfaces eXposedu has . upon: the: ‘water
costs: »'It* hasmbeen ‘xshowm- by ithe'i» Nel-
braska' Experiment Station that
where thelleaf derelopm‘ent of corn
Was reduced #14 per cent by selection
that the Water cost Was’ reduced 16
per cent. ., Moreover, varieties of! the
sa/me'cropsvmayhdifmr appreciably: in
the amount of water required tovprm
duce' av-giveipéyieldl.» ,

It has also been shown“ that? young
plants. require“more‘ Water' for" the
production .of a given amount‘of any
plant- material than ‘do ."older ones,

r andth‘is is held‘to be.of"some import;

ance: in. grazing lands under 'con'disr
ti'onsOf low rainfall. One .would' 05‘-
tain.im-ore dry..matter..for a given
amount of water in the .soil by. not
grazing. until an appreciable growth
had-.taken. place . .. .

Im onden to makeuthe'umosteooi
nautical, ruserof soil moisturermdiich
must.- he done nﬂHElT-‘zl’ﬂl‘EGrT areasi each
ofvthe above conditions bhaonaffeot-
therzaannunt-aﬁ watesirequimed should
beaconsidese‘dt :1 clothe rainfall do do;
ﬁnient. are MFUDBODGBIYL distant) um
thr ouch . ,tho: :igrowingio. seasongm coups
withsgexnonsiso moot :snstcmm should
be; gram .: ‘if’rpossiblex: inasmuch: -, as
they :‘hane larger .11 soilcu assasafsrom-
whi Chi tel‘:w1‘thdraw.wat¢er.-chair. do: the
shallow ..on‘. :less extensive»: rooted
crops. ‘ Moreovem‘df E;8€Gﬂi0ﬂ.‘lsusﬂ
s‘iti’ua'tedt. that .the‘: temperature 2 and»
windi‘ velocity" areahig‘iln (mops 1: that
mature? early in: thesiseasomorethac
have a minimum leaf surfaces-and
low; water-cost may ébwzgnown. ._ Fre-
quently-i‘.‘ south-‘1 slopes: ‘- are: aunswm
able for certain crops when the no- '
posite or north slopes are ideal for
them Agaimlarnns‘ that“ have large .
lea-f surfaces; :and.‘ ,require \large
amounts of water are usually; more
suitable? for... low moist areas than

should meet“ the conditions hm- as nations. As swili‘ be shown) later on

abut. At first ‘ consideration ‘ene.
might lay: too much emphasis or
this. feature

   

Suppose: by that-t from”
W‘ I

some crops thrive. best on lSQIIS*Gf. ﬁne
texture: and others on soils of been so ‘
xtuz‘: “and -as: a. general rul‘ ..

    

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

   

     


 

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

  
   

 

 
 
 
    

 

 

  
  

. :pehditure of the
, . J public's money,
W 5.it must be that
, we get for great-
or value for the
money we pay in
taxes than did
the people of the
early European
dynasties.
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representation, .us-
ually resulting
i n e x c e s s i v e
taxation. The :hist-
ory of many gov-
..ernments .seem to
show that, starting:
with anominal levy
. against ,prope r t y
owners. the tax was
gradually increased
year. by year until‘
it became burden.-
some and the peo-.
ple revolted. Elk-l
. .ceptin. cases where
. unusual demands
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or other abnormal

been satidﬁed .the’
.tax rate. in all coun-
,. .tries. advance, and
..s'eldom If ever tie-
clines. ...So. the. .tax

 

 

   

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; norm Ahatg,meeple.obhomntus
es. tilesﬂndeuthet. abemhnhe
mt nelsistsnt ~Wﬂhm
amine MMMABIM‘ then-continues
than theridaymwhenajhetvzﬁrst «tithe

1.18128 becomes
matter. son. superman -+every cits/semi
.izouhe Mohammad weighed“. lest it.
beam handlebars about the mock
.andadsayehim to nuin.

. Alone in 2thismstate have: increased:
mam: the mast tow .ryears shat,

aor taxation Without

.chequer. to pay War.

. indebtedness ..have.

.vt-axes. are needlessly high, and be-
lieves that the subject should be
thoroughly-discussed and the next
legislature importuned to adopt
remedial measures. The accom-
panying article is the ﬁrst of a ser-

ies to be published during the bal- ‘

once of the winter months upon the
subject of taxation—EDITOR.
t t t O
C. FERRIS, of Alma. Gratiot
E county, owns a farm of 80
‘acres. Twenty-four years ago
the farm was assessed at‘$1,600. and
Mr. Ferris paid a tax of $18.73. His
tax receipt, dated Feb. 22, 1896,
is reproduced below. Twenty-two
years later. the assessed valuation
.had been increased to $9,000, and
on Dec. 18, 1918, he paid a total
state, county, township, etc., tax of
$245.47, an increase of over 1,000
per cent. The folloWing year. the
"valuation of his farm was increas-
ed to $14,000, and according to his
tax receipt '- printed :below, he paid
taxes aggregating $334.60, or an in-
crease. over.189.6 ofsnearly 1,800 per

cent. What’s the answer?
The answer is partially this: The
cost of. 'living has increased. Food,

clothes and supplies incur public in-
stitutions «cost nearly double What
they did awfew years ago. Salaries
to instructors are higher; road ma-
terials cost more, and we are build-
ing "anmuch: more expensive type of
road than formerly and upon a
larger scale.- As population increas-
es- the cost of- developing the gov—

ernment-and its variousifunctions for .

meetingsthe needsof the-people, also
increases. But that answer 'will not
provide a complete solution to the
increase in taxes.

I Campﬁon ,in. High Places. .Inn‘eﬁciency . of‘Public Ofﬁcials,
. and Multipliciiy 'of Commissions Blamed
for Huge Increase

ne‘enother reason afori higher taxes-

is thetineﬂioiency-of government. Po-
litical parties and “politicians: have

fallen into the evil ha‘bit ofwusing?

the oiiieee7 and influence of-‘govern-
ment to” provide . salaried positions

for their ‘ driends, ~- and their , friends? «

friends. ~28caroeiy Jansession of. the
w state tlegislature ripeness by- '-but

 

 

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'was collected is

-.wa-iling and/.enading; taxes. ~A pita

linen, heusays, maycheerfxully. meet
{any .expensenof commodity .endt :lux- I _" ' --

ury and feel that he issgettingzthe :
~worth sinus-truancy, :but.-he lover-t
ably-nous reminder .ahill hinder spro-

mt .~and::escapes: itralato‘gether :if * 1

possible.

It 'is'"‘not 'the‘part of good - citizen:
ship to be perenially-complaining'
about "the taxes. We have taxes
:because 'we have schools, highways,-

»thenh-a'bit of be— - ‘

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public institutions, police and ﬁre-

“'7’" rmamnwonmp—ky. ' “
W 0f Lglzuu'm Upon the lolbwinldua-ibodtncholhldud
. WMWmehd-wwml‘u.mn “Mickeys".

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protection, and numerous other ad-

vantages which are only possible un-
der-some form of central government
or.;a.uthority. ' The necessity of some
kind of .tax against the people who
endoy thebeneﬁts of the tax is es-
tablished...and we have now only to
treat-with .thennethods of taxing and
the amount :to be collected. Under
..the- old [despotic dorm of. government
people wuss-23 taxed int-o veritable
rbut'we mi! today pay a ri-

ougggly sm‘ part‘of our income!

 

".-»this is true des~
dorm sof- gov-

         

  

.materially the 1:1th ten years,
the producing

,/ and that the increase of taxes ‘

...their prod!u.cts MIQBIGAN Busi- ' “

' . snowmen sis not «to teatisty on u r-
+ gentvneed. abut =to 'rgive patronage

“icalmdebts. instead of
- '.tpositions,'~boards 1and commissions
' its most expandingwneeds, our leg-
wiislature too often: casts about for
«work-to cheep their. boards and
‘wcommissions busy.
’ and cost of state boards- andhcom-
“missions have
-mously the last few years.
>' vcitisens of the state will, for in-
buxstance, live in fanciedzsecurity un-
til the legislature meets and dis-
covers that the burglars and thigh-
'waymen and murderers are

 

 

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~ ‘whatA-somesexpendituvre is-‘Sauthor- '

~«to somebody ‘in payment of pout-i
creating '

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How State Taxes Have Increased
Tax Levied 1895 . $3,013,919.52
Tax Levied 1896 .. 2,068,538.63
Tax Levied 1906 . 3,383,785.22)
Tax Levied 1907 4,884,852.61
Tax Levied 1910 4,729,000.()'.'
Tax Levied 1912 5,452.308.i.’=
Tax Levied 1915 9 507. 090.5!
Tax Levied 1916 7, 220 8.31.20
Tax Levied 1919 .17,430,895.’::2

 

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Gratiot Wayne
1895 26,671.85 $ 506,765.23
1896 39,308.04 383,721.30
1910 43,633.03 970,834.44
1916 91,675.52 2,400,540.35
1919 175,858.37 6,156,205.01
abroad in the land and the people

must be protected. Hence, a bill is
rushed through creating the state
constabulary. And why not? It
only cost-s a half million dollars a
year to maintain, and look at all
the grapes the constabulary will
save from the marauding bands who
make our high-ways and by-ways a
perpetual menace ! Or, again,
someone discovers that the state is
drifting into an aenemic, effeminate
condition that needs to be remedied
by instructing the youth in the man—
ly~.art of boxing. So the legislature
creates the boxing commission and
the brutal pastime of prize-ﬁghting
is with us again.

-Almostevery session of the leg-
islature-brings to Lansing some in-
spired r-legisl-ator who feels that he
is the ..ordained- exponent of some
mightymission that can only be
carriednout by the-adoption of new
laws or the making of new commis-
sions. Not infrequently he succeeds
in- ahonvdnoing the majority of" his
colleagues thathis rpet idea is vital
-tor;progress-'~ cruperhaps. his -...colleag-
ues. being :gentlemen. of. Lforesight
readily agree. "to: his. proposal-to, put
him in their debt-since the :time may
undoubtedly come .when some among
them may have an .ideasthey‘zwant to
sell to .the .state. Thus jobs are
created,- .boards and commissions
come into..being, expenditures climb
and thetaxrate'takes the air route.

.Another' reason why some taxes
are .high,.thoseuof our Gration coun-
ty :friend, for-instance, is because
some. other citizen :is not paying his
just share. The state of Michigan
generally,..but the county of Wayne
and the cityof Detroit, in particular.
have been blessed with wonderful
expansion .and prosperity the last
decade. The population of Detroit
has doubled; the property value has
tripled and quadrupled, and it sure—
ly seems that the increase of wealth
ought to be suﬁicient to meet the

growing expenses of government

with but very little if any increase
in the tax rate. A comparison of
the taxes levied in Gratiot and

Wayne counties shows that the

Wayne county tax has been in—

creased over the Gravtiot tax about
as two to one.

On the face of it this looks like

a fair spread, but when we take

into consideration the enormous

development of Detroit and the in—
crease in the valuation and rents
(Continued on page 19)

 

 

they have become a. teal prob-
.lem and a burden upon the av-
erage land-owner. Farmers
are complaining bitterly that
they cannot afford to pay such
high ..taxes. Thep point out
that while the market value of
their darms has increased very

value has re-
mained practically stationary,

is wholly out of proportion to
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.mintimations of fall weather, though?
i this notiﬁcation is modiﬁed by
‘ fact of being less than a mile from.

AVE you learned
any new . wrinkle
in farming this
year?”_ The ques-
tion
Carl E- Schmidt,

our shins around
his ‘ﬂreplace one
cool August even-

merrily blazing.
Outside the wind
was rising, and the
. chill in the air

 

la is far e_nough up state to get early

the

5 Lake Huron which continues to take

i localities further inland have been.

the “nip” out of the air long after

‘ frostbitten.

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, and sand

Walhalla is some eight miles north
of Oscoda. It is in the very heart
of the pine barrens region. What
with scrub oak and jack pine plains,
“reaching to China,” one

3 might travel the world over Without
, ﬁnding a locality less likely to offer

encouragement for proﬁtable farm-
ing. Indeed, when Mr. Schmidt de-

‘ cided to become a farmer, some 14

.farming.

years ago, he said to his buyer:

“Find me the very worst land in
Michigan on which it is possible to
raise crops.”

That is why Walhalla came to be
located in IOsco county.

Mr. Schmidt answered offhand my
question as to the latest wrinkle in
Anything new he discov—
ers in the farming line is free to
the world. And he is willing to ad-
vertise his failures as freely as his
successes. For each failure, as well
as each success, holds a lesson for
those who are willing to proﬁt by
the experience of others.

“I have learned this year at least
one thing that will eventually be of
great value to all farmers,” said Mr.
Schmidt. “I have learned how to
keep‘crows out of .farmers’ grain
ﬁelds. And the thing is so simple
that it is a wonder no one has before
caught on to it. Hereafter, if any
farmer'suffers loss from the depre-
dation of crows, it will be his own
fault. It is only necessary to mix
tincture of aloes with red, blue or
green analine dye, and sprinkle this

' mixture on the seed before planting.

“Crows will not bother his ﬁeld
more than once. The ﬁrst taste sat-
isﬁes them that it is no feeding
ground for crows. Nothing doing.
They leave severely alone the seed
thus treated. .

“And the cost is nomina1—-not to
exceed ﬁve cents a bushel. If, be-
cause of the moisture, the seed has
a tendency to stick together, mix it
with some ﬁne sand. I have tried
it and it works. There will be no

‘ failure.”

Iproducing proﬁtable crops.

Mr. Schmidt now has 800 acres
of sand lands under cultivation, and
He has

2.000 acres of grazing land—land

:that has been cleared and seeded—5
1 and on which are 500 sheep, 50 cows
; and calves, 40 or more horses, 1,500

 

chickens and a dozen pigs. And he

has demonstrated that

on Michi—

was put to . .5

as we sat toasting _,

ing. The logs were _

made the ﬁre at:
. tractive and comforting. For Walhal-,

 

 

 

A. SchmgdtiF arms in Iosco County Revelation" of what. can be deﬂected?! Soils'onced

.ful,’ require knewledse of biology: "

s'y JUDSON GRENELL ’_° '

 

Walhalla farm house, In the heart of Iowa county and plains. ‘

gan’s most undesirable soil, from
an agricultural point of view, it is
possible to successfully and proﬁt-
ably raise crops.

A Real Land Problem

_ ”The sand goes down .40 feet,"
says Mr. Schmidt. “Then there is
a layer of rock salt, . say. 10 feet
thick. And after that is more sand
——25 feet of it—and again a layer
of salt, but not so thick as the ﬁrst
layer. Then more sand and more
salt'in layers. Finally at 400 feet
down shale rock is struck. What
comes after that'I do not know.”
That is the kind of- soil with

'which Mr. Schmidt has been experi—

menting. “I have no interest in
naturally fertile soil,” he said, “I
wanted a real land problem to solve,
and I got it good and plenty when I
began with these Michigan pine
barrens.”

Fourteen years is too short a
time in which to obtain a proper
perspective of what Mr. Scmidt has
accomplished in Iosco county. When,
50 or more years hence, this part of
the state is all properly utilized—
the sand plains under cultivation afid
the swamps drained and put to good
use—the historian will ﬁnd a rich
vein of information in the data Wal-
halla and Serradella farms will fur-
nish. Cedar Lake, seven and a half
miles long and in some places half
a mile wide, separates the two farms.
but both are the property. of Mr.
Schmidt. Most if not all of the cul-
tivated portion of this “domain”
consisting of several thousand acres
-—lies west of Cedar Lake. Walhalla

itself consists of the residence prop-

er ,the up-to-date poultry buildings,
the stables for high bred horses, the
buffalo and elk parks, and the build-
ings occupied by the house hel-p. Ser-
radella is the working farm.

. The Schmidt residence is modest
looking in outward appearance, but
is spacious within 'and contains all
the conveniences associated with
wealth and comfort. It is approach-
ed by a causeway, each edge planted
with poplars and‘ cutting the lake in
two.‘ Swans, geese .and several va-
rieties of ducks—among them a nice
flock of domesticated mallards—
utilize the lake, which is well sup-

plied with ﬁsh.

The‘ heating (steam)' lighting,
(electric) and water systems (tank
pressure) are the latest in these nec-
essaries to cultured living.

The names of these farms run into
legend and utility. “Walhalla” has
to do with Norwegian mythology—
a resting place for fallen: heroes.
“Serradella” is from a Spanish le-
gume which was imported through
Germany where it had been thor-
oughly .tried out; and Mr, Schmidt
found it would also bring fertility
to the sand plains of Michigan.

Soil Building

The problem of ‘soil building is
the problem of making these sandy

areas commercially proﬁtable. In .

this direction Mr. Schmidt has done
remarkable work—not to say per-
formed miracles.

“I am a tanner, and at ﬁrst blush
it would seem as if farming had
nothing in common with tanning,”
remarked Mr. Schmidt. “But such
is not the fact. Both, to be success-

f and chemistry.

‘What is the son ?What is

to raise crops? What is needed in
order to tan leather?

 
 
 

the". '
skin? What must you know in order ~ -

“Without basic chemical knowl-

edge and capital, failure is sure to '-
follow either industrial activity. I,- "
have seen 27 tannery companies go

out of business mainly because they
were short on knowledge of chemis-
try; and I have seen where
times that number of farmers have
failed because of lack of chemical
knowledge and a few doll-.ars ”

So when Mr. Schmidt started to
endeavor to make a success of farm-

, ‘ing on what. in the opinion of most

people, was absolutely worthless
land, he started with knowledge of
the necessity of discovering the sec—
rel; of arable soil. There must be
nitrogen, the chief food for vegetable

many .

life, but nitrogen will not stay in‘

Stand soil without humus.

What is humus? Simply decayed
vegetable matter. What is the quick-
est, best and most economical meth-
od of adding this humus to the
sandy soil of Iosco county? Plant
certain kinds of crops, and when
they have reached maturity ‘turn
them. under. Plant what? First,
lupin; next, serradella—both legum«
inous plants.

There, in a few words, is, Mr.
Schmidt’s philosophy of soil build-

. ing. Legumes gather nitrogen from
the air. When you have humus, you
can get your nitrogen; and in nitro-
genous soil crops will gro'w.’ And
never spare the common but valuable
barnyard manure.

Making the Soil Stick

Have youeverinoticed the clouds
of dust raised "by a strong wind
blowing over a. sandy plain? You
will not see this on Mr. Schmidt’s
cultivated acres. The soil has body;
it stays down! and it is aided in this
by the peculiar way in which it is
rolled—in, ridges piled at an angle.
other things—clove among them.

After lupin and seradella come
other things—clover ._ ameng them.
Then follows grain—fwheat, rye, oats
etc. After the soil has been built up
it will raise corn and potatoes—two
kinds of farm preduce Which are
death to pinmbarrens farmers if the
farming is started with them.

'A drive of :50 miles _or so through
Iosco and Alcona'counties brought
to view many evidences. of where
farmers had started the wrong way
to make their industry a ﬁnancial
success.
the shape of abandoned farms.

_ Wandering over these sandy plains
one August afternoon with 'Mr.
Schmidt, and getting stuck oCcasion-
ally in a sand pit, there was seen a

 

 

   

. a primitive

, *— ‘ A

newly started homesteaded farm of
80 acres. A pole fence surrounded
house of * logs and a
couple of still more rudely con-
structed outbuildings. On one side
of the house was a potato patch; on
the other side a cornﬁeld. Neither
was promising, but possibly a few
bushels of corn and potatoes would
be harvested. ' -

“Here is what these poverty strick-
en farmers all do." said Mr. Schmidt.
“They must have something to live

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* and next year’s drop will not be

T worth gathering.
the main: thoroughly _ discouraged,
“ svili abandon the farm. By doing-

,,odd jobs for farmers near by the

homesteader may hang on a little ’

longer, but by the end of the fifth
_ year his vision of owning a farm
- will have vanished ”

There is hardly a mile of this sec- f

tion of the state that does not indi-
“cate in some spot the futility of ' a
. poor man trying to successfully farm
on these pine barrens. ' Trees will
grow, why not crops?
Indians, Potatoes and Moisture .
Some few miles west of Walhalla
is an Indian settlement. ,AuSable

is the gea‘test'shippi'ng point in Mich— .
A few In‘- .

igan for 'huckleberries.
dians are still left, obtaining a sort
of living from scraping the soil of
a. few acres where there happens to
be some clay, and eking out a living
by berry picking and occasionally
being a helper to some sorely driven
farmer.

“Drink and the devil has done for
the rest. Mainly drink. However,
.I noticed one very good looking po-
tato ﬁeld that seemed to warrant at—
.tention.

“Fine looking potatoes,” I said:

- It was Mr. Schmidt’s opportunity.

“These Indians,” he ,. remarked
slowly, “have learned a great secret
about potato raising, and they dis—
covered it without any help from
their white neighbors. No matter
how dry the season may be, and oth-
er farmers’ fields are burning up,

their potato ﬁelds will always have ,

all the moisture needed.”

“How do they do it?”

“They plant between each row of
potatoes a row of onions. and that
solves the problem of moisture.”

   
  
   

ea: Ill 2 -.
This ﬁrst crop will one;
haust this light 3011 of its nitrogen, '

The third year?

 

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ledge of farming.
he, “the ‘ onions
the eyes of the pota—
oisture problem is

   
  

solved” - a; r '

All of which demonstrates
Mr. Schmidt does not spend all his
tune
'Ilems

L! .‘

       

that
thinking cut agricultural prob-

' " ' t he 11 ‘ r
y. 2 shou d 0be ignorant: 91 this particular.

trap, and did not discover it in time
the result would be a plunge over a
30-foot embankment. And nowhere
has there been placed any sign to
indicate danger. Approached in the
daytime, one might escape the, trap,
but should the machine be brought
too near the edge of the pit, it would-
crumble before it could be backed.

 

 

 

 

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Most of these Indians are half-
breeds only a few have any of the
characteristics of the “noble red
man,” but an occasional squaw shows
in her figure and the way she carries
herself why so many of the early
pioneers developed a taste for squaw
wives. ‘

A Highway Death Trap

Returning over another road
marked “to Harrisville,” was seen a
startling example of indifference to
public interests. The Detroit &
Mackinac railroad had ‘worked a
greatlgravel pit alongside their right
of way. The'sides had 'caved in so
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11g roadswacrw these

confused as to direction, and circled
around for hours,

extricate themselves. Only expert

woodmanship or familiarity with the _

locality can save the lost from ex—

treme worry, not to say heart fail-. .'

ure.

Nor need one expect someone to"
come along in a little while and give" _

proper directions. The region is
almost entirely uninhabited, and
even the main highways are not

much if any different in appearance
from the old logging roads.

Returning to Walhalla over 'a
highway that would make advocates
of good highways almost give up in
despair of ever being able to inter-
est people of this section in the good
roads proposition, the “civilized sec;
tion" of Iosco county was ﬁnally
reached. and a near view washad of
Mr. Schmidt’s farming system.

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Settler’s cabin and plains land in process of cie aring.

National (lo-operative Live-Stock Shippers Expand Organization

E. E. Compson, Michigan Manager, Describes Work and Plans of National Association;

 

E. E. COMPSON . ‘
Mgr. Michigan Live Stock Exdh‘ango' '

VER 300 co- operative livestocki
0 shipping delegates. represent-

an provinces recently assembled in-
Chicago andI unanimously perfected’
‘ a permanent National Federation of
Cooperative Livestock Shippers. '.
The following states in the order
named were represented by the larg-
est delegations: Iowa Michigan, In—'
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Da--
_ kota, Minnesota. Other states repre-
sented were: Nebraska, Ohio, Kan-
ms, Oklahoma, Washington. Colora-‘
‘ do, North Dakota, Missouri Ten-'2
nessee, New York,- California, Ken- .2
' tacky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and,
Canada. »

. rector;
. Neb., director; H. 'M. Phillips, Palm-

co-opera—tive Livestock. Shippers.
has been largely through his eﬂozts

i lad; leaders in their 1 respective sec-

School of Instruction

Waconia, Minn., acting secretary;
Earl J. Trosper, 906 Royal Insur—
ance Building, Chicago, organizing
secretary; C. Hoover, Longmount,
0010., director; T. M. Paterson, ag-
ricultural college. Miss, director;
A. S. Anderson, Beresford, S. D., di-
C. H. 'Gustafson, Omaha.

rya, Mo., director; J. F. Larson,
Ellsworth, Wis., director; M. E:
Sherman, Kendallville, Ind., direct:
or. '

Ofﬁcers Recognized" ‘ _Leaders

Knute Espe has organized 12 live—
stock shipping associations in his
home county (Story) one of which
he serves as president. He is asso—
ciated with W. T. Barr, famous
Chester White breeder. who is well
and favorably known among the
livestock .men of the country.

E.‘ E. Gempson is state manager

for the Michigan Federation of Co-

operative Livestock Shippers and is

one of the moat able men in the
movement.
'John Miller is president of the

Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association

,0: 113113033. an ofﬁcer in one of the
-. oldest livestock shipping
ing 21 states and four Canadi-‘f‘

associa-
tions in Illinois, and a recognized
leader

2 Selby Peterson is treasurer of the
Minnesota State Federation of Co-
It

that eight bills of immense. beneﬁt

,to the ”Minnesota livestock shippers

have been put through the Minneso-
ta legislature.

Earl 'J Trospe'r is the originator
of the National» Federation idea and

it has been largely through his of-

fonts that the federation has been
successmllyi, launcheds He is a recog-
nized agricultural leader and both

7 practical and impartial in his work

_. All of the directors are recogniz-

to be Held in Detroit

a general way are as follows:

To encourage better and more eco-
nomical methods in the production
and distribution of livestock and
livestock-products; to promote co-
operative education, and to encour—
age the organization of co—operativc
livestock; marketing organizations;
to develop uniformity in the plan of
organization and method of opera-
tion of local livestock shipping assoe
ciations; to aid such organizations
in problems of general interest in
transportation, handling and mar
keting; to lease, buy, build, own, im-
prove, mortgage, sell and control
such buildings and other real and
personal property as may be necese
sary in the conduct of its operation;
and to perform any other work
which may be of beneﬁt to its mem-
bers or helpful to the industry.

Basis of Financing '

The national and state federations
will be ﬁnanced on a small member-
ship fee and a per car charge basis
which will be regulated from time
to time to meet the needs of the ship—
pers. " '

All Shippers Strong for National and

State Federations

Such men as E. E. Compson, Re-
mus, Mich.; W. A. Mc‘Kerrow, secre-
tary Minnesota State Federation of
Shippers; J. R. Howard. Clemens,
Iowa; H. C. Wallace, DesMoines; I.
S. Brooks, Ottawa, 111.; S. D. Hall,
Bureau of Markets, Washington, D.
C.; H.W. Danforth, St. Louis, Mo:;
2M; R. Myers, Chicago, 111.; J. F. Lar-
son, Ellsworth, Wis.; representing

'the American Society of Equity; J.

C. McGregor, Ontario, Canada, Unit-,
ed-Farmers of Ontario; M. P. Tullis.
Regina. Canada, Department, of Ag-
riculture; Clifford Therne, famous
Chicago transportation attorney and
others, gave strong, constructive

. talks favoring national and state or-

ganizations.

. Sentiment Unanimous- ,
Throughout the entire two days
‘ e large delegation of live-

"Will be available for distribution ‘in‘
' the near future. _- ‘

stock shippers, representing 21 states
refused to disagree. The National
constitution recommended by the
ofﬁcial committee was adopted with-
out an important change. All states
delegations were eager that the ore
ganization stand on its own feet to
the end that all co-operative live-
stock shippers, regardless of location
of afﬁliation with other farm organ-
izations, be accorded uniform recog-
nition.
9
States Makes Deﬁnite Plants to
Organize

The following states went on of-
ﬁcial record at the meeting request-
ing the service of the organization

secretary in helping them perfect
state federations of livestock ship-

pers at Indian, Fort Wayne, Dec. 11; ’

Colorado—~Ft. Collins, Feb. 15; Il-
linois, prior to Feb. 15. Iowa, South
Dakota, Wisconsin made deﬁnite

plan-s to federate,

date to be an—
nounced later. '

Short Courses for Managers ’

Successful short courses fonman—
agers and others interested have
already been held at St. Louis and
Kansas City.
will be held at all leading, terminal

markets including: Omaha, Sioux
City, Denver, Chicago, .Detroit and.
St. Poul. The dates are as follows:

Detroit Michigan,
Stockyards, Feb. 10 and 11; Chicago,
Ill., Feb. 17, 18 and 19; Omaha, Ne~
braska, Feb. 23 and 24; Sioux City,
Iowa, Feb. 26 and 26.

The national federation has com-
pleted arrangements with-the U.-S_.
Bureau of. Markets to have Doty, of
the Chicago Bureau of Markets sup-
ervise the various schools.

Note: The
will welcome letters from the agri-

cultural press requesting speciﬂc in-v '
formation for publication also offer-r l.

ing constructive suggestions as to
need in their territory.
Notes: A bulletin covering organ-

ization and developments to date

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barrens run in every direction. Peo'
ple have Wandered in them, become,

sometimes for a
day and a night before being able to

Similar short courses _'

Michigan Central _

National Federation . .

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11.0? CAMPBELL has deﬁnitely
accepted the invitation of the
farm organizations to become
a..;.candidate for Governbr, and has
ubliely announced that he will make
Jtﬁea race on the Republican ticket,
having been a life-long adherent to
-'Repnhiimu principles Mr. Camp-

  

  

  

  

”Which makes his position clear upon

.; fore the). public eye. It contains a
. ,.- gauxhsdeahthat should appeal to the
_»common sense of the average citi-

zen, : man... or woman, farmer, labor—
-. er orncommercialist. There is noth-
.’ ing- insthe program that savers of
. class distinctions or a desire to se-

: cure. class privileges through the
- pawer of the law. Legitimate busi-
. nose interests that have shrunk from

the idea. of farmers taking a hand in

, state politics lest they abuse the

privilege, may ﬁnd reassurance in
Mr. Campbells pronouncements,
quiet their fears and co—operate with

.; thefarmers in the name of good gov-

; ernment. '

,. Mr- Campbell returned last Sun-
,_ ‘1’ day from. Washington and will de-

now on i202 his candidacy. He is 'a

., born campaigner, a good m”ixer,’
, because heunderstands the problems
of most of the people whom he
meetsandman discuss them familiar-
ly and with authority. Moreover,
he is a good platform speaker, and
being heart and soul with the
themes he has preached during his
long career of public service, will
have no difﬁculty in holding his
place with any of the other guberna-
torial candidates. Those who have
never met Mr. Campbell will now
have that opportunity as we are in-
formed that he intends making an
aggressive speaking campaign thru—
out all the rural districts of the

state.

News of Mr. Campbell’ s candidacy
has spread rapidly throughout the
* state and the majority of the press
comments thereon have been of a
favorable nature. Several newspa—
pers have voiced their disapproval
of Mr. Campbell’s having been an-
nounced as a “farmer candidate,”
believing that the governor of Mich-
igan should be elected by and made
, responsive to all classes of people.
Otherwise, this publication regards
Mr. Campbell in a very favorable
light. Except for the fact that Mr.
Campbell has been active as a farm-
er and a farm organization leader
and has been endrosed by the farm
" organizations, he will run as the
candidate of ALL the people, as he
properly should. There can be no

HE FIGHT is on. The sugar

I beet growers of Michigan, thru

their committee, have failed to
gain a conference with the manu-
facturers on the 1920 contract, and
there is no alternative now but to
hoist the flag and scrap the issue out
upon its merits.

This is what the growers’ commit—
tee-deﬁnitely decided to do at their
meeting in Owosso last Saturday af-

~ternoon. Chairman Ketchan who
had sought by every honorable
means to- secure the attention of the
manufacturers to the terms of the
growers, presented letters to the
committee from various manufactur-
ers, all stating in effect that they
. did not care to meet in conference,
that the present contract was good
enough for them, that the sugar beet
content this year is low anyway. etc.
Not a: single manufacturer gave the
.‘ committeesany encouragement that
ﬁrmer-growers could expect a more
«zesuitablebshare of the 1920 sugar
j .v‘proﬁts.
1U. Tha:.committee will lose no time
.- nowoin thoroughly organizing the
smite sugar beet territory. Despite
- 2tEe claims-of the manufacturers that
-: the. majority of the contracts are
signed, investigation proves that this
i not the case. It is truethat some,
ﬁtmerdhme signed, but a good
" tef“ them did not grow beets last.
" e not generally classed

  

  

  

  

  

  

Candidate for Govemoré’er

shells also' announces a ”platform",

the most: important matters now be- -

‘ f vote the major part of his time from ‘

contract but the great:

 

TO THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN.

~ ‘

I have Just. received an urgent request that I become a. candidate
for goremor from a conference committee appointed by the various
i'amn organizations for that purpose.- '

~ I have previously received pressing invitations to the some effect
from organizations in other lines and from widely different sources.

As a result I have decided and now announce that I am a candi-
date for the Republican nomination for governor. - ,

In doing so, I wish to say that I shall endeavor to become the”
standard boarer of certain great principles which I regard as vital, and
in their interest shall devote all my energies/to a vigorous campaign,
not merely in the hope of becoming governor, an honor which I do not
covet for itself alone, but in the hope of furthering those principles.
which is the highest ambition of my life.

There will be no pussy-footing in my campaign.

Ishall, from

time to time, make plain statements of my position on public ques-
tions, realizing that I may invite serious opposition but believing the
people are entitled to know what to expect from me.

I shall stand on the following platform: ~ ‘

FIRST—Americanlsm.

SECOND—Republicanism. Subject to my duty as an American, I
shall adhere to the principles of the Republican party of which I have

. been a. lifelong, active member.

THIRD——Collective_ bargaining for both farm and industrial labor.
FOURTH—Improved conditions and an adequate wage for labor.
FIFTH—A basic eight hour day in industry but not a shorter day.
With the present pressing need for production we cannot prosper on

half time.

SIXTH—Against the demands of the “red” element in labor uni-
ons and for the apparently successful effort of constructive leaders to

preventr their domination.

SEVENTH—Proper relief for disabled soldiers and sailors. Where
the federal government has failed to function adequame for this pur-
pose, I believe the state should supplement its work.

EIGHTH—Reduction in the number of state boards by combining
groups of related activities along the lines successfully worked out in

Illinms.

NINTH—The preper recognition of women in matters of govern-

ment.

TENTH—Certain reforms in insurance laws which, Without injury
to insurance companies, will greatly beneﬁt the insured. But. not state

Insurance.

ELEVENTH—Good roads and such internal improvements as will

make Michigan :1 better state.

TlVELFTH—Oﬂicial independence.

I shall make no promises in

advance of the election, either of positions or policies except as con-

tained in my public announcements.

Hoping my platform and candidacy will Win your approval, I am

Sincerely,
MILO D. CAMPBELL.

 

 

 

question about this. Farmers will
support Mr. Campbell because he is
acquainted with their problems and
will give them the attention which
their importance deserve, but at the
same time he will not overlook the“
needs of other people.

UST AS interest was beginning to
J get lively in our straw vote for
Governor we are obliged to
bring it to a close because the farm
organizations have endorsed their
man, and there ought not to be any

other choice for the farmers. A total
of over 1,700 votes has been receiv-
ed to date, and had the vote run an-
other month we are sure that at least
5,000 votes would have been cast.

A number of our readers me tak—
ing considerable interest in the
presidential situation, and at their
request we will begin in the next is-
sue a straw vote for President. There
are any number of candidates for the
job. but whether any of them meas-
ure up to presidential requirements
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ATTENTION, BEET GROWERS

Mass meetings for the purpose of thoroughly organizing against the
arbitrary stand of the manufacturers will be held at the places and on

the dates listed below:

St. Johns, Clinton counyv Jan. 19; Ithaca, Gratiot county, Jan. 20;
Owosso, Shiawassee county, Jan. 21; Saginaw, Saginaw c'ounty, Jan.

22; Pigeon, Huron county, Jan. 23;

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as beet farmers. It seems very ev—
ident that the majority of farmers
who have grown the majority of
beets in the past have not yet sign-
ed their contracts for the 1920 acre-
age. So the success of the growers
in getting a better contract depends
wholly upon the extent and strength
of their organization.

Mr. C. E. Ackerman of Durand has
been put in charge of the work of or-
ganizing and the campaign will be
started at once. As noted above,
mass meetings are already scheduled
for the following week when com-
mittees will be appointed and all the
townships ,of the principal beet'growé
ing counties intensively canvassed.

As the sugar beet situation stands
today the manufacturers will make
enormous proﬁts on the 1919 and
1920 crops, and they have failed to
produce a scrap of evidence to the
contrary. Some farmers may be.
satisﬁed with the terms of last year’ s"

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- Michigan is nﬂththﬁj- only 9138“.”

.not. Bay county farmers are de-

termined almost 'to a man not to

- grow a single acre of beets unless as-

sured of a price that will net them
$15 per acre or better. While farm-
ers of other counties do not feel quite
so strongly about the matter, there
is plenty of sentiment showing that

the dissatisfaction over the old.con-’

tract iswidespread. Even were the
farmers entirely satisfied that they
were making fair proﬁts under the

old contract they ought to insist on,

a fairer divisionof the consumer’s
dollars. . The manufacturers ought
not to be permitted to make a great-'-
er proﬁt than the farmer. in proper-
tiOn to the investment and risk in-
volved. . . '

Sugar beet growers, this isjyour'

opportunity to show your loyalty to
your brother: farmers and to the
sugar beet industry. of the country.

‘ liters.“ "There is some talk of boom-

7 in: Ford as. a possible Michigan'-

~ candidite on the Democratic ticket.

Wood and Wden supporters are. .»

busy in the; Michigan field and a
number of "Wood for
Clubs” have already been organized.
Sen. Poindexter of Washington, who
Was the ﬁrst to declare his candidacy
is ﬁnding it hard to drum up. senti-
ment in his behalf. As the Detroit
News recently puts it, “has anybody
seconded Sen. Poindexter' s nomina-
tion?" The press generally does not
take the Poindexter candidacy seri-
ously. The Senator is too "western"
to suit our cultured eastern breth-
ern. Hiram Johnson has ﬁled peti-

tions. in several Republican prefer?

ential elections, and will be a'factor
to be reckoned with. Harding of
Ohio also looms up as 9 possible
contender.

On the Democratic side, Wm. Jen-
nings Bryan is loose again.- and he
threatens division if' not disaster
among the Democratic ranks. .

His determined stand on the
League of Nations has considerably
upset many of the strongest demo-
cratic leaders, principal of whom is
Wm. G. McAddo, the president’s son-
in-law, and it is declared that with-
in~law, A. M. Palmer has showed
himself a good politician if'nothing
more. He has forced himself into
the limelight with reckless abandon
the past few months, staging spectac-
ular verbal ﬁghts against the proﬁt-
eers, and more recently employing
the secret service in some very ques-
tionable raids and arrests Without
regard to their constitutional rights

of those affected. ,’

Another proposition that will be
included in the straw vote is the dis-
posal of the railroads. The ques-
tion as it stands today is whether the
government shall con inue to oper-
ate the" roads at pr sent with a
small monthly deﬁcit ut no increase
in'rates, or whether they shall be
returned to private owners, and
freight rates increased enough to
pay the owners a six per. cent net on
their watered stock. The farmers
are the big freight payers of the
country. Let them decide what
shall be done with the roads. The
Cummins and Edge bills are now in
conference. Neither railway execu-
tives or employes approve of all pro-
visions of these bills. A compromise
may be affected, however, within an-
other ﬂve or six weeks, so if the
farmers are to make their wishes
known,. they must‘ get busy AT
ONCE. Watch for the coupon. ALSO.
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
AND SENATOR.

Beet: Growers, Turned Down by Manufacturers, Begin Organized Fight

organize to secure their just rights.
The contest ha sbeen staged in oth.
er states and the national convention
of growers to be held soon in Salt
Lake City, will be a mighty protest

against the aribtrariness of the sugar ‘

manufacturers and their autocratic
manner of dictating the terms of the
contract. The eyes of beet growers
in other states will be upon the Mich-
igan growers. If we in Michigan
succeed in the undertaking we have
inaugurated, they Will be cheered
to push ahead with their campaign.
If we fail, they may fail and the
backbone of the farmers’ honest ef-
forts to secure what plainly belongs
to him may be broken. We consider
the issue between the growers and
the manufactures of vital conse-
quence to all Michigan agriculture.
The ﬁght MUST be won. There can
be no compromise. The sugar man-
ufacturers MUST be forced to come
to the front and lay their cards on
the table alongside the farmers! The
farmers are willing to let the public

, judge the merits of the case, but the

manufacturers shrink from such an
parading of their preﬁts. Organiza-
tion will turn the trick for the farm-
ers, but it must be 100 per cent or:
ganizatien, without a sin is slack ‘
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.- resolutions were

~ cent.

’ . money. His wife was ill, and doctor-

‘ . ,and hospital expense 'had eaten up all
. p ”T

in Michigan took place
last Friday at the Fort Shelby Ho-
tel, Dot!“0!t.-

men and senators of the wishes of
Michigan labor and farm organiza-

tions as to the further operation of'

the roads. All present declared
themselves strongly opposed to the
Cummins bill and in favor of the re-
tention of the railroads for a furth-
er period of at least two years or un-
til such time as congress can pass
legislation that will adequately pro-
tect the interests of all parties eon-
cerned in the country's transporta-
tion.

Most of the labor heads declared
themselves in favor of the Plumb
plan, but the farmer representatives
withheld whatever views they had
upon the plan and cautioned the '13.-
bed delegates that they were not in
‘a position to speak ofﬁcially for their
members .upon that proposition. Some
of the labor heads also spoke against
putting the meeting or any del-
egates upon record on the Plumb
plan, frankly admitting that many
of the railroad men themselves who
had not studied the plan were quite
divided on the matter.

The action taken by the farm lead-
ers was merely supplementary to
what the organizations themselves
had taken in state convention. At
the annual meeting of both the
Farmers’ Club and the State Grange,
adopted favoring
continued government operation for
a period of two years. and the execu-
tive committee of the Gleaners had
similarly spoken for its membership.

Grant Slocum, president of the
National Gleaner Federation, was
chairman of the convention. Jennie
Buell, secretary of the Michigan
State Grange was present, and was
one of a committee of ﬁve to draft
the resolution that was wired to the
Michigan delegation. The Farmers’
Clubs were not oﬂicially represented,
but Mr. A. B. Cook. chairman of the
legislative committee of the associa-
tion, had previously advised that he
was in hearty accord with the pur-
poses of the gathering, but because
of another engagement would be un-
able to be present. Over ﬁfty ofﬁ-
cers of local, state and international
labor organizations, representing al-
most every branch of railroad labor
were in attendance and took an en-
thusiastic part in the program.

One‘of the principal ﬁgures at the
convention was Benjamin C. Marsh,
secretary of the Farmers’ National
Council of which organization, Sen.

,HE FIRST conference betweenf' "
farmers and laboring men ever

The primary. purpose. .-
or the meeting was to discuss' the:
railway problem and take action to-_
ward advisihg’ Michigan congress-

 

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Chicago, Illinois.

All American Farmer-labor Co-Operative Commission

,; A11 all American Famer-Labor (Jo-operative Commission has been
‘ . as a result of the Farmer-Labor
he!d in Chicago, November 21 and 22nd, last, of which Sen. Herbert

, The objects of the commission are to co-ordinate and encourage
' 'co-operatzlve effort between and among organized producers’ and con-
sumers and to unify action in eliminating speculation and proﬁteering
in the necessities of life; to develop intelligence. mutual understanding

The Vice Presidents of the Commission :-:1re L. E. Sheppard, pres-
ident or the Order of Railway Conductors, Herbert F. Baker, president
of the Farmers’ National Council, J. W. Kline, General President of the
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers of America- E.
0. F. Amos, President of the Paciﬁc Co-operativc League, J. M. An-
derson, President of the Equity Co-operative Exchange.

.. The activities of the All- American Farmer-Labor Co—operative
Commission are being centered upon organizing the All-American Co-
operative Congress to be held in Chicago, February 12 to
sp0nsors of the movement feel it- is most
Congress on Lincoln’s birthday, for the object of the co-operative move-
ment here is to Americanize American industry and make it truly efﬁ-
cient for the service of the American people.

. Requests for information should be sent to Mr. Oscar H. McGill,
General Secretary, No. 35 Bliss Building, Washingtom D. 0., or to C.
F. Lowrie, Chairman Committee 011 Arrangements.

erative Conference

15th. The

appropriate to start this

342 River Street,

 

 

 

 

 

Herbert F. Baker is president. Mr.
Baker was unable to be present ow—
ing to the serious accident which be-
fell him a couple of weeks ago when
an acetylene tank exploded, burning
him severely and nearly depriving
him of his eyesight. He sent a tele—
gram, however, announcing that he
was in sympathy with the move.

Railroad labOr organization heads
told many instances of the deliber—
attempts on the part ,of railway ex-
ecutives to discredit government op-
eration. One of the labor heads
said emphatically that the govern-
ment made a mistake by keeping in
executive positions men who were
opposed to government operation
“They should have been ﬁred on the
spot, ” he said.

At the,evening session Mr. Oscar
H. Megill of Seattle, secretary of the
All-American Farmer-Labor Cowper-
ative Corporation, gave an address
on what had been accomplished in
the state of Washington by way of
co-operative marketing, from pro-
ducer to consumer. He stated that
they had found, that while not all of
labor’s and farmer’s interests were
mutual, many of them are, and that
out in Washington, they had co-op-
erated on such projects as were mu-
tual and left others strictly alone.
No deﬁnite action. was taken to
bring about a co-operative exchange
of goods, but everyone present evinc—

'ed a great interest in the proposal

The following statement and reso-
lution was adopted, signed by each

one present and sent to Washington. I

“At a meeting held in the city of
Detroit, January 9th, attended by
representatives of the Michigan
State Grange. the Michigan Federa—
tion of Gleaners, State Ass’n of
Farmers’ Clubs, and delegates of 1a-
b'or organizations, comprising in all
vﬁfty-six delegates, representing at
least 70 per cent of the voters of
Michigan. it was decided'after care-
ful consideration of the‘railroad sit—
uation and the rights of organized
farmers and organized labor and the
people of Michigan as a whole that
government control and operation of
the railroads be extended for a per—
iod ‘of at least two years and that
congress enact legislation making
such extension mandatory. The State
Grange, the Michigan Federation of
Gleaners, State Ass’n of Farmers’
Clubs, comprising in their member—
ship over two-thirds of the farmers
of Michigan, have recently adopted
resolutions demanding such action.
All the railroad organizations and
state and local federation of labor
have taken the same action. An
overwhelming majority of the people
of the state are in favor of a two-'
year extension. At this meeting the
following resolution was adopted:

“That we 1nstruct the Michigan
delegation in the House of Repre-
sentatives and the United States
senators for our state to introduce
immediately and to work unremit—
tingly for the prompt enactment of
legislation making mandatory a

two year extension of government
Operation of the railroad from March _

1,1 9 2 0. ”
Signed,

David H. O’Connor,

Business .‘Repne- ’

sentative, Local No. 514. Intfl. Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers; Fred’k G. .
Palliter, Sec’y, Detroit Bldg.~ Trades

Council Detroit; J. H. Staley, Gen’l sec’y-- .

Railroad Telegraphers,
D. N. Smith, Order of Railroad Tel-
(graphers;G1ant Slocum, Pres. National
Gleaner Federation, Detroit; Jas. Slo-
cum, Gleaner Fire Ins. 00., Detroit; J.
Steele, lst Vice Pres, Michigan Federa-
tion of Labor; Thos. J McBarron, Gen’l
Representative Brotherhood of Railway

treas.
()nt.;

and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, . .

Express and Station Employers Miluau-
kee, Wis. , Frank X. Martel, Business
Representative Detroit Federation of La-
bor, Detroit; A. D. Manley, Genl Chair-
man Switchmen’s Union, Michigan City.
Ind.; H. P. Mangold, International Ass’n
of Machinists Detroit, K. B. Nolan, Agt.
Sailors’ Union of the Great Lakes, De-
troit; R.
der Railroad Telegraphers, P. M. System
Central Lake; H. F. Baldwin, Vice Grand
Pres. Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handle1s, Ex-
press and Station Employes, Benton Har-
bor; C. L Brisley, Representative Grand
Trunk Railway Clerks and Freight Hand-
lers. Detroit; L. S. Edwards, United
Brotherhood of Maintenance-of Way Em—
ployes and Ry. Shop Laborers; Raymond
P. Emerick, Pres. Detroit Bldg. Trades
Council, Detroit; A. 0. Anderson. Gen’l
Vice Pres, International Brotherhood of
Blacksmiths. Drop Forgers and Helpers,
St. Paul, Minn; Robert Byron, Repre-
senting International Ass’n of Sheet List--
211 Workers. Chicago, 111.; Wm. Bailey,
Pres. Detroit Federation Labor; Miss
Jennie Buell. Sec’y State Grange, Ann
Arbor; Eugene J. Brock, International
Representative, Int'l Alss'ns of Machin-
ists. Detroit; Fred M. Griffith, Interna-
tional Ass'n of Machinists. Detroit; ‘R. L.
Holloway, Assist. Supt. Sec’y the Glean-
ers, Detroit; F. K. Harris, Sec’y Local
No. 58 International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers. Detroit; F. F. Ingram,
member Michigan State Grange, Detroit:
Jos. Lyons. lntern’l Representative of
Electrical. Workers. Springfield, 111.; Pet-
er A. Miller, General Council Unitetd Bro-
therhood of Maintenance-o'f-Way Em-
ployos & By. Shop Laborers, Detroit; S.
C. Flood. Representative Telegraphcrs of
Northern Michigan. Bay City; Wm. Fros‘t
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Detroit; Oscar H. McGilI, 'Sec’y
all American Co-operative Comm'n Wash-
ington, D. C.; C. L. Gambill, Represent?—
ing‘ Brotherhood of Railway and Steam-
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers. Express
1nd Station Employes New Richmond,
Mich H. . Watson, Business Repre—
sentativo Local Union No. 58, Int’l Bro-
therhood of Electrical Workers Detroit;
Richard Young. Sec’y Blacksmiths’ ‘Lo-
02115. Detroit; Nick Hanbrick. Brother
hood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship~
builders and Helpers of America. Local
\I0. 166. Wyandotte. Mich; .I. M. Wilson.
Representative Boiler Makers & Tron
Ship—builders; Thos. P. Smith, Boiler-
makers’ Int’l Union Chicago; Forrest
Lo1d. Editor Michigan Business Farming;
0 C. Trask, Assist. Grand Pres. and
Manager of Industrial Department Unit-
ed Brotherhood of MaintenmemeWay
Employers & Ry. Shop Laborers. :Detrolt,’
John J. Scannell. Sechytreas” Michigan
Federation of Labor Detroit'; Sam’l Pi.
Tobin, Business Mgr., Detroit diaper-News
Sec'y Local No. 25 Bridge Structural Iron
Workers, Detroit; Mr. Theo Veth, Rep.
of Switchmen Union of North America,
Detroit Lodge No. 113, Detroit.

Supreme Court Upholds Decision in Auyer-Postal Usury Case

held the decision of Judge Hal

THE SUPREME court has up-
Cutler of the 19th, judicial cir-

 

 

made the defendant executed two
promissory notes to plaintiff’s ras- -
Signor, one for $1,300 and the other

’ Sears Farmer Saved Nearly $900 by Resorting to Court against Usurious Interest
and Auyer was . Auye r f r o m
obliged on sev- ALL interest
eral occasions charges and ap-
to give notes - plied what he

cuit, who held that the payments of
all money made by Mr. Fred Auyer,
of Sears, Mich, to the Postal Bank
at Evart as interest on a mortgage
loan, were void because the interest
charged was usurious.

The Auyer case was one of the
comparatively few protests against
the very common practice of usury
indulged in by many banks in the
sparsely settled sections of the state.
The details of this transaction were
published in the June 28th issue of
M. B. F. A brief summary of the
cases follow:

Fred Auyer, a farmer living near
Sears, in Osceola county, secured a
loan of $1.231,from Jas: Postal of
the Evart Savings bank. giving as
security a warranty deed to farm‘
preperty, valued at $4, 000 and up-
Ward. As interest on this Postal ex-
ﬁtted a bonus of 10 per cent plus the.
highest legal rate of interest, 7 per
Auyer was hard pressed for

  

  

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- Business

, his farm. ,

for the inter-
est. Finally in
desperation, he
asked Postal
regarding the
bonus and de-
manded that it
be returned to
him. There was
considerable ar-
gument over
the matter, and
ﬁnally Mrs.
Postal, whom
it was claimed,
had actually
loaned the mon-
deeded the
farm to an at-
torneys who
started forclc-s-

 

Fred Auyer,
whose illness and death put Auyer Into the
hands of the owl-ers.

 

 

Sears farmer.

had‘paid as in-
terest upon the
principal of the
loan, reducing
amount claimed
by the bank
from $1,600 to
$992.22.

The Postals
appealed to the
Supreme Court
which as before
noted 11 p held
t h e d e cision.
The c o 11 rt’s
ﬁ 11 d i n g s a s
render e d b y
Chief Just i c e
Brooke, are as
follows:

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and the wife

 

 

Farming -in an effort

to save something from the sale of

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ure proceed. Court, State of
'ings. At this" Michigan, Wil-
DOint Mr Auyer came to Mt. Clem- iliam F. Umphey, Plaintiff and Ap-
ens and sought the aid of Michigan pellant vs. Fred Auyer, Defendant

and Appellee.
Before. Full Bench: Plaintiff as as-
signee of Margaret I. Postal.

brought suit to foreclose a real estate
' mortgage held as collateral to a prom-

is'ory ote.

 

At the time it!

   

e loan was

for $59.42. It is claimed'rby defend-

ant and admitted by plaintiff that in- ,

cluded in these two notes is a ten
percent bonus or commission to Jas‘.
R. Postal, husband of plainti’s assign-
01 through whom the loan was nego-
tinted. Defendant in his answer set
up facts which he claimed constituted
usury The case was heard in open
oomt, all the parties in interest be-
ing examined orally and a decree was
coined providing for the foreclosme
of said mortgage, but holding that
the tiunsaction was a usurious one
and limiting the amount of the den
cree to the principal sum unpaid.
From this decree the plaintiff ap~
peals. .

Justice Brooke,
facts).

“There would appear to be no dis-
pute between the parties upon the
facts in this case except that the

(after stating the '

plaintiff claims that the ten per cent “

was exacted by Jas. R. Postal as a
commission to himself for negotia.-

ing the loan from his wife to defend; 1
,ant, while the defendant claims the

the ten per cent was exacted by Poi»:

tal as a bonus to his wife Toronakm

the l-.oan This conflict in the «Medina
. . t 11 cases m;

M. Burr, General Chairman Or- .

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NEoEssrrIEs ARE EXPLAINED

The immediate needs. of Germany-g";

according to a government report,
are: (1) Food for her workers; (2)

iConcentrated feeding stuffs and ma-

n'ures for her agriculture; (3) Raw
materials for her manufacturers.

In order to stay the constant de-
terioration in the productivity of the
tsoil it would be necessary to import
and concentrated
feeding stuﬁs. In the reconstitut—
ing of the agricultural conditions,
one of the most pressing needs, if
the younger generation is to be sav—
ed for future work and production,

- is to increase the present inadequate

supply of milk in the great towns
and industrial regions wlhose need ofa
daily supply of 3, 000, 000 to 3, 500,—
000 liters (792, 500 to 924, 600 gal-
ions) of milk represents the mini-
mum requirements for the children
and invalids in these areas. This is
equivalent to about 500 000 tons of
concentrated feeding stuffs per an-
num.

If the wheat necessary for human
consumption is introduced unground
and the milling rate is diminished to
80 per cent, a considerable amount
of offal will be available for this pur—
pose Assuming the importation of
1,000,000 tons of wheat, there will
be 200, 000 tons of offals.

 

Growers of Canning Crops ‘Organize

Believing that there is no suffi-
cient reason why growers should be
paid a variety of prices for canning
crops, according to the section, and
that in general prices paid growers
for canning crops are too low, a rep-
resentative meeting of canning crop'
growers was held at Rochester, N.
Y. The meeting gathered at the call
of the Monroe County Farm Bureau,
New York State College of Agricul—
ture, Cornell University and the state
department of Farms and Markets

The skeleton of an organization
was formed. Papers of incorporation
will be ﬁled and the organization
perfected without delay.

It was argued at the meeting that
the time for the individual to bar—
gain successfully with the canning
industry for the purchase of his peas,
corn, tomatoes. beans and other can-
ning crops has passed, that only
through collective bargaining can
the grower hope to get fair returns
for his eﬂorts and capital invested.

Development Bureau “Tants Corn

“This has been one of the best
corn growing years in the history of
Michigan,” says Sec’y Marston of the
Northeastern Michigan Development
Bureau, “and because corn is fast
becoming one of the standard crops
of the district I would like to have
a really ﬁrst claSs display of the pro-
duct for the windows of the bureau
ofﬁce. whele it would be seen every
day ‘by hundreds of people, a large
part of whom are strangers to Bay
City and this Section of the state. I
would appreciate it very much if the
farmers of the bureau territory who
have choice grown corn this year,
would pick out three or four ears
and ship them to me at Bay City so
that I can display them at the bu-

' I'Wilrl‘ own .1 .

're'au omce together with the name:

‘ paper.

 

The following poem was sent‘to us by
Mrs. C. E. Lonsberry, a Dimondule sub-
scriber, who tells us that the author, C.
V1”. Stephenson, is a minister of the gospel
seventy-four years old, of the Methodist
Protestant denomination, and is a resi-
dent of Lansing. The poem was pub-
lished in 11. recent issue of the Lansing
State Journal. Mrs. Lonsberry thinks it
is too good not tobe published in a farm
We agree with her, so here‘it is:

The farmer, with patience and heartyﬁ

wnil,
through the
hours;

Works 'lo'ng, dragging

, He does not demand 11 shorter work day,

Nor fail to exert all his powers.

Before the bright sun in the east is eg-

low.

4' , » While city folks cuddle and dream.

and address of the grower. ”

 

M. A. 0. Plan Tractor School
Truck and tractor schools which

will. be conducted by the Farm Me-w

chanics Department of the Michigan
Agricultural college during February
and March are expected to draw an
even ‘larger enrollment of farmer:
students than in previous years, ac-
cording to ofﬁcials in charge of the
Course The constantly increasing

:use of gasoline power in farm work

and the need 'for adequately trained

,menAto handle the machinery have
made the motor schools among the .

most popoular of the winter courses
oﬁered at the college.
More than a dozen makes of tract—

.ors will be used during the -,school ..
eachstudent being required‘to be-__

come familiar'with theldifferent ma-
chines.

Ignition, valve and spark timing,
carburetor adjustments, brake and
fuel consumption tests, lighting and,
engine trouble work will be among
the things emphasized in the course.
Actual adjustments and repairs on
trucks and tractorsin the laborator-
ies at the college will play a promin-
ent part in the work.

Each school will run for four
weeks, the ﬁrst opening on February
2, and‘~the second on March 1.

Sporting Events at Fairs

G. W. Dickinson. secretary—manag-
er of the Michigan State Fair, and
president of the International Asso-
ciation of Fairs and Expositions, the
national body which includes in its
membership the executives of all the
leading fairsin America, declares
that sporting events will play a great-
er part in future fairs than they have
in the past.

At'a recent meeting of the nation—
al body in Chicago, at which time
the Detroit fair leader was chosen
president, fair secretaries from all
over the country asserted that the
interest in sports. aroused among
the soldiers during the war makes it

pimperative that sportingvevents be
given greater consideration in their

coming expositions.

“While the fairs were originally ,

for agricultural encouragement, the
expoSition of today has outgrown
that idea,” Dickinson explained. “Our
fairs have become gigantic institu-
tions, not only dealing with agricul-
tural pursuits, but the industrial,
commercial and entertainment phas-
es of human activity. While sports
have been well represented in fair
programs, in the future they will
cover a wider scope.”

Sugar Company Builds Beet Dump -

The Columbia Sugar Co., will
build a $40,000 wagon beet dump at
its plant at Mount Pleasant, accord—
ing to an announcement recently
made by the company.

Much complaint has been made
by the farmers because ofthe ted-
ious work in unloading beets by
hand, and at the mass meeting of the
growers at Saginaw a month ago,
the subject came up. It was the

general opinion that the sugar man- ~

ufacturers should provide unloading

. devices.
' Lbeet territory. the farmers don"t pass
-. resolutions telling what they think

_‘ the sugar éompames "should .or

~less shall be allowed under

out in the western sugar

should not” do. :‘I‘hey. write it into.

the contract that ii the sugar com-3
1 ies want the farmers to unload the

beets they must pay for the job. The

following clause is in; the contract 4

that has been drawii up by the Inter-
mountain Farmers’ Ass’ 11 to be pre-
‘sented to the sugar manufaCturers:

“The grower will deliver his beets
at the nearest receiving station of
of the company and the company
agrees to furnish adequate facilities
for handling of beets at said station
and in case the grower is required
to shovel his beets after he is eduip-
ped to have them dumped the Com-
pany shall pay 25 cents per 633151 for.
such shoveling and the company—shall
pay at the prevailing rate of wages
per hour per team- for all delay in
unloading at the receiving station,
except that delays of 30 minutes or
. this
agreement.”

EMMET COW TESTING WORK

The Emmet County Cooperative
Cow Testing Association, No. 1,. fin-
ished its first month’s work Decem-
ber 31. The tester visited 26 herds
with 210 cows on test. Considering
the newness of. the work the (stir-st
months results were good. Thirteen
cows produced thirty pounds or more
of butterfat for the month. Of this
number three produced over forty
pounds of fat. Five herds had an av-
erage 0f over 600 pounds of milk or
25 pounds of butterfat.

Three [herds were not put on test
but” will be entered in the January
testing period. Interest is being
awakened for another cow testing as-
sociation and it is hoped that in the
spring, association number 2 can be
started—Paul Hayward, tester.

Stat/e Crop Value $342, 602 000

The value of the leading crops in
Michigan during the past year was
$342,602,000, the greatest on record
according to the report of the Bu-'
reau of Crop Estimates. This larg—
er total was chiefly due to the high—
er price level and not to greater acre-
ages of yields.

The report includes grain crops,
hay and potatoes. sugar beets, clov—
erseed, apples, pears and peaches,.but
not such crops as small fruits, truck
crops, chicory, mint, etc. The total
acreage of crops included. exclusive
of fruits is 8,856,000. This is an ex-
cellent shoWing, the report says, in
view of the movement from the farm
to the city and the diﬂiculty of se-
curing labor.
grasshoppers also served to reduce
the yields in some Sections. The sea-
son generally was good.

The acreage and yield of some of
the larger crops were: winter wheat,
844,883 acres, 17,153,613 bushels
spring wheat. 76,653 acres, 860,225
bushel; rye, 841,084 acres, 11,258.-
657 bushels; oats, 1,182,707 acres,
28,247,541 bushels, barley, 215,358
acres, 3,646,485 bushels and beans

220.265 acres and 3,031,000 bushels.

SUPPOSE THE FARMER SHOULD STRIKE?

By REV. C- W. STEPHENSON -

His song ‘may be heard in the crisp mor-
ning air,
He catches the day god’s ﬁrst gleam.

Before the old clock on the mantle strikes

five,
His horses and cows are all fed; _»
He knows he must till the broad 'a‘cres
or die
For wool; means the bringing of breed

He thinks of the Inmions needing‘ his aid,
The corn ﬁnd the wheat must be grown,

He coexes the cane and sugar beet forth;
No harvest if seed isn't s'oy'vn.

He knows how to core for . cattle and

 

shoe
.He sprays I,5he finé orchnﬁd ‘76“ ohm

He ﬁlls his great cribs and cellars for
115.. _
Asks only that'we treat him fair.

Through summer's fierce heat and win-
ten" 5 ohm blast:
Through the mud. the snow and the
_‘, rain;
Through autumn and springs—no voca-
.. tion for .hini—- ,
n5 thinks not alone of his gain. '

Suppose he; sit hack and shin-k his great

~ . A cowardly ilacker he’d be i,

Suppose db: should motpike for; a six-hour

 

 

'ed States will
~ twine for their crops. "

A severe drought and .

        

EsAns‘MEXIOAN“ more common .

Conditions in the 11311111 producing

~' sectien of Yucatan, . Mexico, respit-
'2 ing from: the action of the MeXie‘an
-, government oﬂcials,
‘. Michael J Smith: of: New York. a.
i-«hemp merchant, testiﬁed, at a near;

are alarming,

ing investigating Mexican affairs.
“Unless semething is done to re-

.lieve the situation,”- said Mr. smith.
' “it is practically certain that 'within

a few years the farmers of the Unit-
be without binder

Smith said the "planters had been

robbed by the Mexican authorities'
' and Were on the verge of bankrupt-
= cy. Because
* practices exercised by Mexican au-
-i thorities for the purpose of control-

of the monopolistic

ling hemp production and prices Am—
erican farmers, Smith testiﬁed, paid

an excess of $12, 500, 000 from 19I6 ~

to 1919.
Under regulations brought about

' by Salvador Alvaredo, former gov-

ernor of Yucatan, he \said, hemp
prices advanced from 7 3-8 centsja
pound in 1917 to 16 3-8 cents that
year and to 19 1-4 cents in 1918.
This year the price fell to 15 1-4
cents because of accumulated stocks.

GOVERNMENT BULLETINS FREE

A copy of any of the publications
listed herein, except otherwise noted,
may be obtained free upon applica-
tion to the Chief of the Division of
Publications. United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
0., as long as the department’s sup-
ply lasts.

Juding Beef Cattle, by E. H.
Thompson, ~--Animal Husbandry Di-
vision. Contribution from the Pu-
reau of Animal Husbandry. Farm-
ers’ Bulletin 1068.

Poultry- Houses. COntribution
from the Bureau of Animal Industry
1919. Department circular 19. For
members of boys’ and girls’ poultry
clubs.

Sweet Potato Diseases, by L. L.
Harter, Pathologist, Cotton and
Truck Diseases. Contribution from
the Bureau of Plant Industry. Farm-
ers’ Bulletin 1059.

Buckwheat, by Clyde E. Leighty.
Agronomist in Charge of Eastern
Wheat Investigations. Contribution
from the Bureau of Plant Industry.
(Farmers’ Bulletin 1062.) Gives
method of planting, fertilizing and
harvesting buckwheat.

The Flat-Headed Apple Tree Bor-
er, by Fred E. Brooks, Entomologist,
Deciduous Fruit Insect investigation.
tomology. Farmers’ Bulletin 1065.
Describes life history and habits of
this pest and suggests methods for
its control.

Tuberculosis in Live Stock; De-r

tection, Control and Eradication, by
John A. Kiernan, Chief of Tubercu-
losis Eradication Division and Alex-
ander E. Wight, Assistant Chief.
Contribution from the Bueau of An-
imal Industry. Farmers’ Bulletin

- 1069.

The Bean Ladybird and its Con-
trol, by F. H. Chitenden, Entomolo-
gist in charge, Truck Crop Insect In-
vestigations. Conrtibution from the
Bureau of Entomology. Farmers'
Bulletin 1074.

 

 

 

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Suppose he’d lay by the plow.and the
hoe

Let mower and reaper decay?

Suppose he’d lie idle week after week.

While he shouted: “Less work and
more pay!"

Suppose he should say: .“It is nothing
to me
How many are hungry and cold,
I won” do a thing to help anyone eise3

My god is the glittering gold!”

With nothing to eat and little, to wear, .. _:
We’d curse the" good farmer right well’31
We’d onyx. "new. " hog in 111. seman-
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And we'd wish to toe him mien:

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Do you realize what this .means?

No matter where you live—in Maine or California—
Oregon or Florida—Somewhere among your neighbors
and friends you will ﬁnd Delco-Light.

‘And Where you ﬁnd Delco-Light you invariably ﬁnd “A
Satisﬁed User.” ’

And these satisﬁed users—over 80,000 of them alto ether, are
the concrete evidence of Delco-Light leadership in the arm light
and power ﬁeld. '

Look up a Delco-Light user in your neighborhood—

Ask him what Delco—Light is doing for him—

Note the smile of satisfaction that comes over his face as he tells you of the never-
_ failing, day-after-day service that Delco-Light is giving him—

‘Of the abundant electric light that i: is furnishing for his house and ham—-

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der the horses’ hoofs; the wa-

gon wheels rattled on their
own account. A December wind was
keen enough to make the driver
wrap his, patched quilt closer and
pull his battered straw hot lower
over his ears. He was a .man of
thirty, with high, tanned ‘features
and eyes that would have been hand-
some but for their sullen frown.

“I should call it getting good and
ready for a blizzard,” observe the
other man on the board (sea the
wagon had none); “maybe he won’t
tome.” '

“He’ll come fast enough,” return—
ed the driver; “you don’t catch ~buz—
zards staying in for weather!”

“I don’t know. He’s a pretty lux-
urious young scoundrel. Bixby says
he had a letter from him—very par-
ticular about a ﬁre in his room and
plenty of hot water and towels. Bix-
by is worried lest the boys make a
fuss with him in his hotel.”

“Bixby is a’ coward from Way-
back,” was the driver’s single com-
mentor reply. The other man eyed
the dark. proﬁle at his shoulder, out
of the tail of his eye, rubbing his
hands up and down his"wrists under
his frayed sleeves. He was a young
man, shorter of "stature than the
driver. He had a round, genial, tan-
ned face; and a bad cold on him.
His hands were bare because he had
lent his mittens to the driver; but
he- wore a warm, if shabby greatcoat
and a worn fur cap. '

“I don’t suppose,” he said in a
care-less tone, “you fellows mean to
do more than scare the lad well.”

“We scared the last man. Doc Rus-
sell got him fairly paralyzed; told
him ’bout the Shylock that turned
out the .Kinneys, and Miss Kinney’s
dying in the wagon, she was so weak;
and Kin—somebody (’course he
didn’t mention names) shooting that
man; and their arresting Kinney, and
the jury acquitting him without
leaving the box. Oh, he told a lot
of stories. Some of ’em I guess he
made up out of his own head; but
that Iowa lawyer swallered the whole
batch, hide and hoofs and all. And
he couldn’t git out of town quick
enough! But what’s the good?
Here’s this young dude come again.

THE FROZEN soil rattled un-

Say, do you know it’s his pa that
owns most of the stock in the
trust?” '
"No?”
“Yes, sir. He’s got the upper
hand of ’em all. They’ve bought up
every last bit of foreclosed land

’round here. Yes. we was so mighty
smart, we ﬁxed it that nobody’d dare
to buy; and nobody around here
would dare, even s'posing they got
the money. which they ain’t~—”’

“There certainly ain’t much loose
money around here. Wesley. At
least, when I ran the paper I didn’t
ﬁnd it; I was glad to rent an aband-
oned farm and trade my subscrip-
tion list. for enough corn to pay the
ﬁrst installment on some stock and
a cultivator.”

“Did you pay any more?”

“No; times got worse instead of
better. I’d have lost the stock and
the cultivator and every blamed thing
in the way of implements I’ve got
if it hadn’t been for you fellows run-
ning the implement man out. of the
country; he’d a, chattel
that was a terror. But what were
you Saying about the land? Nobody
‘ would. buy?”

“Of course nobody would buy-
and we hugged ourselves we was so
durned slick. Oh, my! Now, here
comes, along, one of them bloody
trusts, that's eating this country up.
and goes to the land company and
buys the-foreclosed land for a song.
It goes all the cheaper because its
known for and wide that we elected
the sheriff not to enforce writs, but
“let ’em; and the same with all
as, nian'tliat.trics-.o push us
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and the investment company sold
cheap as dirt.
couldn’t git anybody to take up a
farm ’round ‘here. Look a.’ there!"
He jerked the point’of the switch
that served for a whip in the direc-
tion of a dark bulk looming against
the glowing belt of red in the west.-
The outlines of a ruined chimney
toppled over the misshapen roof. The
door and window openings gaped for-
lornly; doors and windoWs were
gone long since, wrenched off for
other needs. __’ .

“That farm belonged to as hard-
working, smart a feller as ever hand-
led a plow. Look at them ﬁelds,
gone to desolation like everything

else, but the furrows use to be as
straight as a line with a ruler. He _
fought the hard times and the

drought till his wife died, and then
he said to me, ‘I’m beat; I’m going
to take the baby back‘ to. Winnie’s
folks. If I’d only gone last year I
could have took Winnie, too. The
company kin have my farm, and I
hope to God it’ll be the curse to them
it’s been to me!’ There the farm is.
And look further down” —shifting
the switch to another direction—-
“there’s another dropping to pieces.
Lord, when I think of the stories
they told me about the crops when I
fust came and'put in four hundred
dollars that I’d worked hard for in
a sawmill. and I think how we used

   
 

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"Batman they get to bu‘ ., Wes-

- lay Orr?” ’ _

“They’re not needing much buy-
ing. They’re, on to a new scheme——
going to turn all these farms into
big pastures and fatten cattle with
alfalfa. raise it and ship it; then'the
lower part of the county, dqwn be-
low town, they intend to run a ditch

~ through from the river and irrigate

it. They will fetch in a colony who
will .pay them about ten times what
they paid, I expect, and——”

' “ButWe won’t let them—’5

“Depends on how many guns the
colony’s got and how much .ﬁght
there’s in it. They’ll try it. anyhow,
unless—”

“Unless——” repeated Robbins un—
easily. '

“Unless they’re scared off, unless
they think it’s death for a man to
tackle us.”

“I kinder wish,” said Robbins,
.“that he came from another town.”

“What’s the difference about \the
town?” _

”Oh, none I guess. But that
town, it’s in Iowa, and it sent the
best things we’ve ever had. One
woman put in a lot of jams and jel-
lies and tea—such tea! My wife
was sick then, and I didn’t know but
I’d lose her. I gave her some of that
tea and some jam, and she began to
pick up frOm that day. It
quince jam} and made her think of
home, she said. Her father was a
Connecticut man, and they had an
orchard with quince trees in it—I‘re—
member—-” He did not finish the
sentence, but he sighed as he ab-
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to set around the ﬁre evenings, my
wife and, I, talking about how the
town was a growing and what it
would be when the trees was grow-
ed and our children was going to
school, and how we’d have a cabinet
organ and we’d have a top buggy,
and we’d send for her mother, who
didn’t jest like it with Bill’s wife—
we was jest like children. making be-
lieve! But that ain’t what I was
driving at. Here it is. We calcu-
lated that we’d be alone, beéahse the
poor, miserable remnants of stock
and machines and farms we got sim-
ply wasn’t worth outside folks tak-.
ing, and inside folks wouldn’t risk
their lives by dispossessing us. That’s
how we sized it up, ain’t it?”

“I don’tsee yet what you’re after;
Wesley.” .

"You will. 'We reasoned that way.
But along comes'this company, this

(ﬁrs; and we’re ready. toshoot. ~-———trusti,wt~hat’s clean nagafnstthetmq ‘-
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the harness mended with rope.
“I' bet he didn’t have nothing to

do with that box,” said Orr; “most
like, the people sent us that were
poor folks themselves and had to
pinch to make up for the things they
sent us. ’Taint the rich people are
sorriest for poor folks. This young
Wallace—~his father’s the owner of
a big paper, and rich beSides, and
he’s got this boy in training for edi—
tor; and when that ﬁrst duck could
do nothing out here, the old man
said he’d buy‘in. and theyoung one

»thought it a mighty smart thing to

do to Come over here and turn a lot
of half-starved women and children
out in winter. What’s he .care?
What do any of these rich» folks
care?” ~ ‘

“I don’t think you’re. fair, Wes-
ley,” said Robbins. "‘All, rich folks
aren't mean. I- know

  
 

  
 
 

   

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the slough!
here, and ’ceptfng the first year, ev-

ery single year has piled interest on ’

the mortgage. Every year we’ve
had less clothes to wear and poorer

stuff to eat, and it’s been mend" in- .

stead of buy, and we’ve had more
debts and more worries every year.
I tell you, Mr. Robbins, I thought‘it
would kill me, once, to come, on the
county. .. I’d a) said I’d starve ﬁrst;
but you can’t see your wife and the
children starve. Iuwentin last wint-
er and asked for'relief. I’d that
old hound dog of mine with m3, you
kn-owed him. He’d been a good dog.
He came with us when we, come
here, running under the wagon. All
the children had played with him.
I took him into town, and I asked
every one ’I knowed would he have
that dog for a gift; I showed off all
his tricks, feeling like I was dirty
mean deceiving him, for I done it
so somebody would be willing to take
him 'home and feed him and take
care of him, for it’s 'God’struth I
hadn’t enough for him and the child-
ren too. But nobody wanted him;
he was pretty old, and he wasn’t
never handsome. And one store I
Was in, as I went out I heard a drum-
mer that was trying to sell goods
say, ‘I saw that feller at the Re-
lief, but I notice he’s able to keep
a dog. Lets the children go hungry
ruther’n the dog, I guess.’ I kind-er
turned on him, then I turned back
again, and I whistled to Sport, and
I looked at him and saw how his
ribs showed and his eyes was kinder
sunk. He wagged his tail and yelp-
ed“ like he used to. seeing me look
at him; and then I went straight to
that drug store Billy used to keep—
Billy Harvey. He moved away last
year; he was a good friend of mine.
I said to him, ‘Billy, you got some-
thing that would kill ardog in a
flash, so he’d never suifer or kno
what hurt him?’ And Billy—he un-
derstood and he said he had. ‘You
jest put it on his tongue and he’d
never know what killed him.’ Billy
was sorry for me. He gave it to me
for nothing, and he gave me some
bones and corn bread and milk; so
Sport had a good dinner. And he
come right up to me and looked me!
in the eyes, wagging his tail. His
eyes was kinder dim, but they was
just as loving as ever. And he was
wagging his 'tail' when he dropped.
Then I went home and the children
asked me where was Sport. and lit-
tle Peggy cried—oh, Lord!”

“It was awful hard on you, Wes-
ley,” said Robbins gently. .

“I suppose it wasn’t nothing to
what some men have suffered. There
was poor Tommy \Valker, give up
his farm when it was foreclosed
——-thought he had to—and went
off tramping to Kansas City, and af-
ter he’d tramped a week there. look-
ing for a job, gave it up and jumped
into the river. And'you know how
old man Osgood killed himself, hon—
est an old man as ever lived; al-
ways kept his machinesunder cover,
too; he couldn’t stand it. They
found it harder—and lots more, too;

but I’ve found it hard enough. And
I know I’d shoot that sneaking,
sneering young Shylock. and not

mind it near so much as I minded
killing poor Sport.”

‘,‘1 don’t know but we’d all better
quit," said the younger man with a
sigh. “Th-is isn’t a living country.
Three years of drought would break
any country up. It’s not meant to
live in. We had a fair crop this
year, but it’s so low; and freights
though' they’re lower, are pretty
high. I don’t see any way out of it,
And I declare I think if we run this
young fellow oﬂ we’ll only get
bad name fbr the place.” .

“I don’t care

said the Other sullenly. “I got a

wife and three children; I was forge; 4.

closed a year ago—80’s you, Leo’s a
lot .of the boys; we’reat the end of
our string now—legally.‘
rdid we say?

wa it 18
mage to kl

   

    
    
 
  
 

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‘ wthere savage windshad b'lown

- dark, and the greater part
‘ loWer. story; but

, .. ution, and how
. in. (and initiative wil
w’free s‘ilveri‘will helpr—I gues

talk how they’re ﬁghting the battles

fat "the peer man, and the eastern _
‘bioodsuckers has ,ruinedus, and the

Shylocks are devouring us, and they
holler the roof off. I listen to ’em,

'but I don’t believe ’em.any more
than you do.”

_ “-But,” interrupted the' other man
eagerly, “I voted with the people’s
party—”

“Of course you did. We was go-
ing to be unanimous, and you dass
not stand out; but you didn’t believe
in it. Me either. I ain’txmakin’ any
pretense, but I’ll tell you it’s jest
here—I’m down to bed-rock; If I
let my farm be took, away and my
stock what’s going to become of my
wife and children? You can call it
stealing, or resisting the law, or any-
thing you please, but J I’ll kill that
feller before I'll let him turn me
out." "

“Don’t you think we can scare him
off? Killing’s a nasty word.”

“My father was with John Brown
and; he helped kill a man. He never
lost no sleep about it; I shan’t neith-
er.‘ Look here, Mr. Robbins, I got
lots ‘of time to think, winters—blots.
Remorse and all them ﬁne feelings
you read of. they don’t belong to
folks that are way down in the
dirt. You got to have something to
eat and wear, and not have your
stomach sassing you, and you half
froze most of the time; when your
body is in each a ﬂx~it’s
your mind so full there ain’t any
show for any other feelings. And
look a’ here, ' there’s worse”— his
voice sank. “Why, you git to that
pass you ain’t able to feed your own
wife and babies. When this morn-
ing Peggy kept hushing the baby,
and she was fretting and moaning;
and Peggy says to me, couldn’t I
git a little crackers in town; maybe
the baby could eat them? I didn’t
feel nothing ’cept a numb aching. I
kept saying, {I'd ’a felt that, once!’
But I didn’t feel it now. And all of
a sudden, it come to mel'twas be-

cause I was gitt-ing past feeling-—

like you dowhen you’re‘froze. jest
before you die. I read a story once,
when I was a little shaver, that kept
me awake nights many a time,-——”
“Look here, Wesley," his companion
You're getting
light-headed. Get rid- of sad]: fool
thoughts as those or you’ll be going
off to the insane asylum; and mighty
little use yonr family will have of you

there!"

Orr gave him no answer. Robbins
watched his impassive face and
frowned.

Silently the two men looked at the
nearing lights, while the wagon creak
ed and swayed and rattled over the

. road.

There were enough lights in the
windows to reveal the wide untidi-
ness of the street, the black, boarded
windows of the empty shops, the gaps
in the sidewalk, the haggard. gardetiils,

e
heart out of deserted rose-trees and
geraniums. In general the sky-line
was low and the roofs the simplest
peaks; but it was broken in a few
places by three and four-storied brick
buildings of the florid pomp on which
a raw western town loves to lavish
its money. Now they loOmed, dark

‘ _ and silent, landmarks of vanished am-

bition. The sole sparks of. life in the
place were at the hotel. It had been
built, "during the boom"——-a_large rec-

'tangle of wood, with a cheap and

gaudy piazza; all painted four shades
of green, which the climate had
burned, blistered and bleach-ed in-
to one siékly, mottled brown. Long
ago the stables of the Ihostelry had
"been abandoned, but this night the

stable yard was full ‘of wagons.

The upper story of the hotel was
of the
' the kitchen was
bright, and yellow light leaked. thru

I ' .Veveryr'chink .and crack «in the office

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and. flabby, and the furtzive eyeshots
that its cast toward the stove were
anxious beyond .his’ - concealing. Any-

one, however, could perceive that mat— .

ters ‘of heavy import Were being dis-
cussed. The rmise'rably clad men
about ,the stove all looked sullen.
There Was none of the easy-going
haddnage so habitual with westerners.

“Where is he?” said Orr, in an un-
dertone~ to a large man in a buffalo
coat. The large man was the sheriff
of the county. He jerked his thumb
over his Shoulder in the direction of
the dining-room.

“What’s he like?”

.“Little fellow with a game leg.”

Orrfrowned. Robbins felt uncom-
fortable. A gaunt man on the out-
skirts of the circle added: , “He’s
powerful slick, though; you can bet
your life. That girl Susy is all won

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, gether.

'he thought.

.“Well, if there is, I idon’t know
it-" said the, sheriff. ‘

“You never will known anything
agent it, either,” a gray haired man
a ded.

“That’s right, Kinney," two or
three spoke at once. But immedi-
ately a silence fell on them. Robbins
who felt himself an outsider, could
see that the others drew closer to-
Once or twice he caught
sinister murmurs. He began to wish
that he had not come.

“It would be no earthly use for me
to chip in and try to soften them,"
“They’re crazy with de-
feat and misery and the fool stuff
campaign orators have crammed
down their throats.”

Just then the dining room door
opened, and Robbins was the only
one of the group to turn his'head.
The other men gazed at the ﬁre, and
the heavy silence grew heavier.

(Continued next week)

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that, is used to the ways at Lansing
as the lobbyists are too well versed
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“Pleased to Meet You”

E’LL MEET you at East Lansing Farm-
ers’ Week. Of course, you’ll be there.

It’s the big annual get-together at our agricul- \

tural college for all the folks who farm, all the
folks who would like to farm, and some folks
who couldn’t run a farm if they had to. But
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farming, their hearts—at least, most of them-—
are in the right place. They will gather from
all parts of Michigan, thousands of them, to
discuss and perchance to solve some of the
problems of agriculture Fine speakers, big
men all, will be there from all over the coun-
try to give the farmers the beneﬁt of their wide
experience and their viewpoint. Annual meet-
ings will be held by the Farm Bureau, the syr-
up makers, the spud growers, the grain breed-
ers, the milk producers, and other farmer as-
sociations. You don’t have to belong to one of
these associations to attend their gatherings.
Watch these columns for the detailed program
and you will ﬁnd many things that will inter-
est and help you. The dates are Feb. 2-9. Plan
to be there. We’ll her-pleased to meet you.”

 

“Ouch, Get Off My Foot”

AXES TO A farmer are like a bunion to

a foot. They are both sore objects to tread
upon. Unlike the bunion, however, taxes are
necessary. Perhaps the Bolsheviks don’t be-
lieve in taxes. But they do not need to. They
conﬁscate enough wealth to pay the cost of gov-
ernment. We’re not so civilized as that in this
country. We have a foolish theory here that
every man who owns property and enjoys the
privileges and protection of government should
pay a proportionate share of the cost of sup-
porting the government This theory doesn’t
always work out in prictice, it is true. Some
people always have paid more than their fair
share of taxes. Some have paid less, but that’s
no reason why we should. abolish taxes alto-
gether and go a-bolsheviking.

The good citizen will not complain of taxes
that go to pay the legitimate expenses of gov-
ernment and the public institutions. Neither
will the good citizen complain when, during
years of extraordinary state expenditures, the
rate is a trifle higher than in pervious years.
But Mr. Good Citizen’s patience ceases to be-

? come a virtue when his tax receipts shows an
increase of eighteen hundred per cent in a
quarter of a century, or twenty per cent in a
single year. He howls, “get off my foot,” and
we heed his cries with compassion and under-

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the intangible .valﬁé of property which yields
the income. There are. at least three almost‘ne- '
glected sources from which the state eculd and.

should realize a large income, thereby easing
the burden now placed upon landoWners. They
are the income tax, the tonnage tam/and a mud:

“ greater tax upon the water power companies.

who utilize the streams and millions of acres
of land adjacent thereto. . _
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Interlocking Directorates

T HAS been seriously argued that milk, be-

ing one of the necessaries of life, should be
put in the class of public utilities along with
gas, electricity, railroads, water, etc., and the
charge therefore be regulated ‘by ordinance.
While it is true that this would be pretty tough
on the farmer who has been getting “rich” out
of the dairy business, there is no need for dis-
couragement. There’s a neat little way to get
around ordinances and all other rate-making
legislation. The railroads have tried it, and it
works ﬁne. '

When the state determines what proﬁt the
farmer shall have on his milk and ﬁxes the
price to the consumer, the farmer, if he is a
good business man, will tap his “money bags”
and buy an interest in the dairy food trust, or
the milking machine trust, or the milk pail
trust, and when his proﬁts from hisemilk are
not satisfactory, he will ask the directors of
the various trusts in which he is interested to
charge him more for dairy feed, milking ma-
chines, milk pails, etc. This extra charge he
will bring to the attention of the price-making
body as an argument that the price of milk
ought to be. raised. Of course, the law could
not compell this poor farmer to operate at a'
less, so up goes the price of milk, and when the
ﬁrst of the year rolls around, Mr. Farmer re-
ceives his extra dividend checks from the milk
pail trust. '

This simple illustration will serve the reader
in getting a better understanding of what is
meant by “interlocking directorates” of the
railroad companies and scores of other con-
cerns which furnish them with supplies. J. P.
Morgan may be a director in a half dozen rail-
road companies. At the same time he may be
a director in a locomotive factory, a car-shop,
a steel mill, a brake trust, or a half hundred
other concerns which sell material to the trans-
portation companies in which he owns a block
of stock. The Interstate Cemmerce Commis-
sion has jurisdiction over the rates for which
Mr. Morgan may charge the patrons of his rail-
road systems, but it has no regulating powers
whatever over the ‘many corporations which
furnish the supplies. In other words, the pro-
ﬁts in transportation are ﬁxed by the govern-
ment, but the proﬁts of the other corporations
may be as large as the traﬂic will bear. We are
not, therefore, surprised at the charge that the
directors of railway companies have for years
purchased supplies from other companies in
which they were interested charging them-
selves'muCh higher prices than they would
have to pay elsewhere, and passing the extra
cost onto the patron, thereby affecting not at
all the transportation proﬁts, but increasing
very largely the proﬁts of the supply compan-

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These “interlocking directorates,” it is
claimed, are found existing between nearly ev-
ery railroad of importance and the corpora-
tions from which they buy their supplies. So

the next time some special privilege zealot tells .

you, “the government hasn’t any business run- ‘-
ning the railroads,” ask him what he knowsI
about ”interlocking directorates.” -

 

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Michigan, there was someie‘ar that the Demo-

 

cratic appdilitee might be a man Who, would i. i
_ keep one eyeclosed and the other eye winking ’
the inﬂuence ‘

at violators of thalam. ' All
Michigan drys could muster was directed in
favor of Mr. Graham whose well-known atti-
tude toward booze and the saloon left no doubt
as to how the law would be administered in. his
hands. - ._ , '_ ' . .

The government, is without doubt making- e
sincere eifort to enforce the federal prohibition
amendment, and its choice of enforcement

agents is to be heartily commended. The ex- ~

tent to which prohibition will prohibit depends
in a very large measure upon the character of
those officials, and the one sure way to make
the people disgusted with- prohibition is to let
the boot-leggers and other whisky purveyors
~ply their trade with only an occasional spec-
tacular arrest and confiscation. With A. C.
Graham to assist the splendid work that Fred
W00dworth, dairy and food commissioner, and
his corps of assistants have been doing to
make the state bone dry, We predict that the
illegal traffic in Michigan will soon shrink to.
harmless proportions and in a few years cease
altogether. ‘ .

 

A Bad Bofshevist Bill

ERTAIN INTERESTS in the United

States shrink in fear from the menace
of Bolshevism which throws its black shadow
to the uttermost ends of the earth. In this
hysteria of fear, the Department of Justice has
been importuned to gather in the disciples of
Bolshevism and radical socialism, and the raids
that have recently been conducted upon peace-
ful gatherings and the arrests that have been
made without warrant or reason would ~ be
highly ridiculous were they not so‘ serious in
their consequences. If danger threatens the
Republic from this source it must be because
there are grounds for dissatisfaction, and if '
there are grounds for dissatisfaction, raids and
summary arrests will never ”pacify. That no
such danger impends, we ﬁrmly assert. That
there. are evils which give specious substantia-
tion to the arguments, of the radicals, we do
not hesitate to acknowledge. But the repressp
ive measures that are being used to curb pub-
lic discussion strike deeper than now appears _
and arouses not only the ignorant and suspic-
ious but the. intelligent and trustful to a sense
of oppression and a violation of sacred rights
guaranteed under the Constitution.

A bill is now pending. in Congress to per- ‘
petuate the war-time sedition act. It was draft-
ed by the Department of Justice and has ali
ready passed the Senate. The purposes of the
bill are all right, but it puts a dangerous weap-
on in the hands of oiﬁcers of the law, who are
given discretionary poWers which may easily,
be abused. If the ofﬁcers of the government
can thus employ the law to ferret out and pun-
ish plotters against the government, they may
not ﬁnd it so very difﬁcult to ﬁnd a way to
punish constructive critics and reformers
whom they would like to think are plotting .
against the government. Frankly, we are .
afraid of this bill. "We fear the time, may come
when the people will weep bitter tears of re-

gret that they ever permitted it to become a 7‘

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‘ 4' I Well remember the ﬁrst ticket I
ever voted the picture at the top of .

; a skilled mechanic with a compass
in one hand. stepping over a pile of
cog wheels and machine parts to
shake hands with ‘a farmer between
,the “stilts"iof a plow.

Let the readers compare that old
word picture with-the raving of the
so-called Uniou and I will not worry
over the expected verdict should the
time ever come when his chosen
candidate and the great labor party’
candiates are up in opposition for
honors. Union says government ex-
pends forty million a year through
the Department of Agriculture to
"isolate a bug." M. B. F. has done
better. . It has not cost so much to
republish the item and has surely iso-
lated a bug and one worth keeping

in public view that it may do no more ,

harm. Union labor and farmers un-
der various party names have had
many splendid men in congress, sen-
ate an-d in executive and legislative
departments in every state since the
time above referred to and will again
in. spite of Union. All American.
Some farmers. -

Can you imagine the need of a
middleman standing between a Hur-
on county'farmer with a bag of beans
at $12 and a miner with a young
growing family of Scranton, Penn.,
to keep them from abusing each oth-
er. Nonsense, nothing between them
but a freight rate and want made
known; and same applies to every
food product as well as clothing, al-
though beans are so 'near a perfect
food for a working man if he can
just-get a little water and fuel. Noth-
can be used in comparison to con-
vince the reader of the vital point of
view. The more we study the needs
of our great consuming centers the
more we are ashamed of our utter
.failure to keep a good supply of
staple food and clothing product
handy to sell at a profit, the moment
our great cities of laborers near the
coal, steel, cement, machine and
shipping plants are in need. any
time during the year and I further
believe in the light of what has re-
cently transpired it would be well

to keep a large cache of coal handy
near the (homes of Michigan men.

A farmer is by nature a storekeep-
er in many ways. 13 he were not, farm-
ing would soon run down ‘ at the
heel, but I think he should not have
all his store at his farm. No real
union labor man could ﬁnd fault
with this since it would cost him
nothing and would also tend to
make him feel safe; with this needs
in plenty in sight.

» I wish to make a few assertions:

The farmers of Michigan have
capital enough to do this. The pres-
ent laws are suﬂlcient. Agriculture
in Michigan must not go begging of
other classes of capitalists! No need
of it. Farmers as a rule'do not look
for large rates of interest, though
they'sometimes pay high rates. The
'farmersof Michigan would be satis-
fied with a lower rate‘ than they pay
if they were assured it was to main-
tain the storehouse of the nation. I
believe the system could be ﬁnanced
by a trust and loan company with a
central clearing house and branches
in every county with 30, 000 or more
poplation. Such an organization
would be a tremendous force politic-
ally as the state bank is now. We
must appeal to all farmers. ’We must

. be prepared to, withstand temporary

disappointment in season.

I have long urged the
with whom I have came in contact

farmers

V in persuasive argument that it {is

‘_ ' er legislators
also a far-3131*.
ministration for instance. -He can-.

vessed the state as a farmer but he

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,farmer at last session than the farm-
so gOvernor who is
.Take the Warner ad-

kept the old mortgage tax law on
' the statute books and a psychologist
governor come in power ’by accident
and brushed the nefarious law away.
Dr.~ Ferris made one great mistake.
however, when he signed the amend—
ed drain law and the present govern-
‘or has won the lasting friendship of
many a good farmer when he sign-
ed the present drain law, the best
we have ever had and still in need
of urgent repairs. Also the Covert
road law needs some help as it is
almost a good law. Yes, the drain
laws and road laws, will during the
next decade he the cause of our
largest item of taxation. We realize
it and live in hope and in great fear.
Osborn for governor for he is not
afraid to leave the beaten path.—
Agricola Publicus, Port Hope.

 

The recent announcement that organ-
ized farmers and organized railway men
would attempt a. co- operative plan for
the exchange of commodities shows us
that the day of the food middleman and
speculator is passing away We need
laws to facilitate collective and co- -oper-
ative bargaining, and ought to elect men
to ofﬁce who have the vision to see the
wonderful opportunities that lie in this
direction. The trouble with a good many
of the “farmers” who were in the last
legislature was that they were steeped
and parbolled in politics long before they
reached the legislature and couldn‘t re-
sist playing the political game. Most men
are only human in this respect. We need
a. few Simon- -pure farmers in the legis-
lature who have not been corrupted by
partisan politics and politicians. —Editor.

SUGAR BEET CONTENT

Your publication has brought to my
attention certain statements concern-
ing the manufacture of beet sugar
which call for comment.

I quote the following from your is-
sue of Dec. 13 in an article entitled,
"Growers ask for a Better Sugar Beet
Contract.” Last year beets tested 16%
sugar, hence that means that from ev-
ery ton of sugar beets, the manufact-
urer extracted 320 pounds of sugar.
At the prevailing price Of 9 cents per
pound, the manufacturer received
$28.80. To extract the sugar, pay in!
terest, depreciation, and profits, they
have left $18.80. This takes no ac-
count whatever of the presumably
large value of the-pulp, molasses, and
other by-products.”

I note scattered throughout the ar-
ticle quoted, and that of Dec. 27, en-
titled, “Beet Growers ask for 50-50
Split of Profits,” statements that you
are actuated only by a feeling of jus‘
tics and fairness to both sides involv-
ed in the question and that: “We will
be glad to correct any statements
whidh they (the manufacturers)
prove incorrect.” Presuming there—
fore on your sense of fairness thus
set forth, and upon your eXpressed
willingness to correct any erroneous
statements, I take the liberty of call-
ing these facts to your attention:

  
  
 

First, in any chemical process
where organic materials are involved,
it is impossible to make a 100% re-
covery. This statement should re-
quire no involved technical proog as
oyur own good common sense whll
tell you that this must be so. As an
example, consider that all of the but-
terfat in milk does not go into the
butter but part of it goes into the
skimmed milk and part into the but-
ter milk. Yet the processes involved
are very simple. You can readily see
that in the [highly complicated pro-
cesses of beet sugar manufacture the
losses might naturally be greater. As
a matter of fact a standard beet sug-
ar factory is doing very good work
indeed to recover 80% 0f the sugar in
the beet. I am a. chemical engineer
with nine years' experience in the
manufacture of beet sugar and I will
be glad to give you a supporting af-
fidavit to this effect.

Again you mention, “The presum-
ably large value of the pulp, molasses
and other by-products." We assume

' that you know that molasses contains

sugar, and as an authority on farm-
ing subjects, you should know that
beet pulp likewise contains sugar.
Let me ask you where this sugar
comes from if, as you say, the manu-
facturer selnls as refined sugar 320
lbs. from a 16% beet. Your state-
ments contradict themselves and
should be sufficient proof to you of
their inaccuracy

Allowing an 80% recovery instead
of the 100% which you assume, a ton
of 16% beets would yield the manu-
facturer $13.04 instead of the $18.80 as
stated in your article. When you do-
d‘uct from this $1 to $2 to pay freight,
rehandling costs, agricultural and
seed expenSe you have left $11 or $12
from which to pay manufacturing
costs, interest, depreciation and taxes.

I will not mentiOn the risks which
the manufacturer must take or the
years when a. drop in price has rob-
bed him of his profits. I am not
advancing any arguments to promote
the raising of beets at any price, and
I do not wish to enter into any con-
troversy with you on the subject, but
hope that your sense of justice is such
that you will'be glad that I have call-
ed to your attention the inaccuracies
mentioned and that you will be anx-
ious to frankly correct them.—E. E.
Stiff, Holland, Mich.

The correction is gladly made. Mr. W.
H. Wallace, president of the Michigan
Sugar Company, was my authority for
the statement that the 1918 beets yielded
16 per cent sugar. Our understanding
was that the Michigan Sugar Company
extracted that much sugar from each ton
of beets. We ﬁnd upon inquiry and in-
vestigation that our statements in this
respect were incorrect. We note that
you do not care to enter into a contro—
versy as to the justice of the farmers'
demands for a more equitable contract.
Accepting your ﬁgures as correct. and
adding in the value of the by-prod‘ucls,
does it not nppcnr to you that the sugar
manufacturers are getting considerably
more than their share of the sugar pro-
ﬁts? Come, be as fair with us as we
have been with you and tell us your
views upon THAT subject—Editor.

 

 

4 The Week’s Editorial--“Pork Plenty and Scarce”

 

 

Hogs are. worrying Kansas. Sen-
ator Arthur Capper writes a letter
to Secretary of Commerce Alexander
telling the troubles of Kansas. He
says 1,600,000,000 pounds of surplus
pork ,are left on the hands of the
meat producers of the west and the
stockman must face enormous losses
unless assistance arrives promptly.

Europe has stopped buying Am-

erican pork, the Senator says, and

it is his judgment that some ar—
rangement should be made to ex-
tend credit to the people across the

see. that they may be enabled to take

the fate which they need and that
the stockmen and farmers of the
United States may not be forced out
of business. Besides he advocates-
as a further remedy, the reduction
charges, thus

«amt, accu ulation “of

meats which the American people
cannot use.

The citizens of Detroit who car-
ries home a microscopic slice of ham
purchased at 30 to 50 cents per
pound, or who feels the necessity of
cautioning his chlidren to “go light
on the pork chops or they won’t go
round,” might wonder why a little
of this enormous surplus couldn’t be
shunted off the European routes into
Michigan.

Senator Capper says the situation
is so critical that farmers are com-
pelled not only to reduce their
breeding stock but also in many cas-
es have gone out of business of stock
breeding altogether. Wouldn’t it
be too bad if both Europe and Am-
erica should- have to go hungry for
pork just because the western farm-
ers have too much? What’s the
matter with this crazy world. any-
way? Detroit News

 

gloves and his M314.
were hard and calloused spiitti g
rails 'he did.
Politics at Lansing are getting
mighty rotten. There needs 1: $6
housecleaning there the same
farmer does to his corn crib w’h
gets infested with rats. Our tax
increasing by leaps and bounds.
informed that there has been . ,-.
at Lansing about 1,500 needless .,
useless jobs and ofﬁces so that T

  

   
    
   
    
  

   
  
     
  

 
 
  

 

     
  
   

  
   

 
  

  
  

       
  
  
   
    
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
      
    
   
    
    
  
   
 
  
  
     
    
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
     
    
 
   
 
  
  
     
   
  
  
   
  
    
   
  
   
   
  
   
    
 
 
 
    
  
    
    
  
    
   
   
  

litical debts without going dOWn.
their own jeans. ‘" ,

I don’t know why a airmen" W th
college education and well read, 1
posted on all topics of the day bebldeﬂi
and there are such, needs any exp’oﬂ"
ence other than he gets on the farm't
ﬁt him for governor. An up-tod
farmer has a broader and a more 6.1
versiﬁed knowledge than any 0th,
man and if he is not qualiﬁed to
governor just tell me who is. And
he is thoroughly in sympathy w-
farming and farmers he will net beet},
apt to join the clique and become a
“king.” —A. A. L., Kent County.

“We, the farmers of Michigan, here-by
agree not to support any candidatew for
ofﬁce who wears kid- gloves ” My, t
a shedding of kid- gloves by the politics ,
ians there will be! Glove factories will
go into bankruptcy and the leather mar-
ket will be shot to pieces. But would we,
have any improvement in our political
situation? No doubt, the old woolen mite
are a better guide to an honest heart and
a. broad mind than kid—gloves but it does
not always follow that the mittened
man is always a wise and good man, or
the kid-gloved individual a knave. You’re
quite right about the situation at Lans-
ing. The state needs a house-cleaning.
from cellar to garret, and when we elect
men for the job, we not only want to look
for those who will pledge themselves to
clean house, but who also know how to
do it. There are a good many men in
Michigan 'who, in their younger days were
callouses on their hands just as Abraham
Lincoln did, but like Lincoln, were push:
ed into positions where they had to use
their brains more and their hands less
and are today just as dependable and cer-
tainly better equipped to serve the people ‘ '
than in their younger days. There mus ,
not be any question about the attitudeth o
the next governor of Michigan towardth
farmers. He must be either an actu
farmer or a man who has been actively
identiﬁed with farm affairs, and he mus
be broad-minded enough to give equa.
consideration to all essential interests 0
the state. If there is a man listed among
the “farmer candidates" on our straw bal-
lot whom you cannot trust to act as the
next governor of Michigan, we’d like to "'
have you name him.——Editor. .

RETURNING TIIE RAILROADS

You ask for the sentiment of the
people on returning the railroads to
the private cw-,ners and I can net
seen any better way to get at it than
by the way we used here in the little
town of Winn. We took a vote on the ,
matter here and out of sixty-nine -
men, three voted to have the roads re-
turned, and fortymine to have the
government own and control them in
the best interest of all the people, ten‘
not voting either way. Among those
who voted were 'two doctors, one
preacher, four produce shippers, one ‘
barber, one meat dealer.—-—W. W.,
Winn, Mich.

 

 

This is interesting information. One of
the arguments used by some of our com '
gressmen for the immediate return of.
the roads is that public sentiment seems
to be “so overwhelmingly in favor of it.’
But we imagine that if a. poll were made
among the “folks back home," they,
would not ﬁnd this sentiment so “over5
whelmlng. ”—Editor.

A FARDIER FEDERATION

 

cred and urged a working federatio
of the farm organizations of ti!)
state. We strongly favor the mov’
ment for a farmer governor and also
for a larger farmer representation
our legislature and in Congress. 3
number of the farmer candidates
mentioned we know will measur 1
in force, intelligence and ability
any men that can be named. he
unite for a clean, broad-guaged;
aggressive candidate and for 93!}.
est, clean and able administrdtd,
state affairs .-—Louis A. B.,\ ‘
Farm, Bangor, Mich.

 
  

  
 
 

 
  

  

 
  
 
  

    

 
 
 

  

 
 
   
 
 

 

   
  

The farm organizations have
a man who will measure up
quirements. Now, if the farmers
busy in their local distric
and elect men in whom they«
dance, we shall have the
ministration that “you deser- ,

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, ‘Wheat has attained a point on the
American markets unequaled dur—
ing the Century. A car of dark No.
1. Northern spring has sold for $3.50
per bushel. Hard winters have been
selling in Kansas City at over $3,
and generally strong high prices are
noted. In Detroit, the rise in price
during the past week has averaged
716 cents per bushel for all grades.

The Grain Corporation has been
selling some wheat to dealers but
shipments have not been as large as
desired. Julius H. Barnes, federal
wheat director, has just come out
with the interesting statement that
j wheat and flour handlers are con-
fronted with price hazards which
may follow withdrawal of govern—
, ment control when the activities of
the Grain Corporation are brought
to an end in June. His statement
was issued to the 42,000 who hold
licenses issued by the corporation.

Mr. Barnes emphasized the state—
ment that “the reduction of com-
mitments to the minimum required
for the conduct of necessary current
business” will be a wise policy for
the grain trade upon the termination
of two years of ofﬁcial stabilization
and in view of the present world sit-
uation. He is encouraging in his pre-
diction that thrift in the use of the
nation's food supplies has begun to
replace general extravagance.

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com! rates: PER su.. JAN. 12. 1020

Grade Idiom cgnpigoI 151.;
No. 2 Yellow ...l I 1.68
No. 8 allow .. .I 1.54 1.49 I ..
No. 4 Yellow . .I 1.50

Pmoss one—vs!!! A00

end. loom-bl? chIcagoTi. v.—
No. 2 Yellow . . .I I 1.51
No. 3 Yellow . . .I 1.41 1.40 I 1.56
No. 4 Yellow .I 1.42 Lee" I 1.59w

 

 

 

Corn dropped off as much as two
cents in the Chicago market accord—
ing to opening quotations at the ﬁrst
of this week. For some time stock
has been taken in the fact that us-
ually there comes somewhat of a de—
pression in the corn market during
the menth of January, even though
the demand usually increases and
snow delays shipments. One of the
main reasons for throwing the corn
market off color was the fact that
the Federal Reserve Discount rates
were tightened considerably.

Uncertainty as to shipping condi—
tions has created much discourage—
ment and given the bears a freer
chance to operate. The railways of
the nation are short somewhere
around 300,000 cars, as compared
to the theoretical requirements. Fav-
orable weather may make possible
the long predicted run of: corn to
the markets, inasmuch as the federal
controllers have_consigned many
trains of cars to be used for deliver—
iesof corn.

OAT MARKET STRONG

 

_0A1' emcee PER BU.,‘JAN. 12, 1920

 

Qiqcé_:;: I ,DetroltllthIcagc 'I _u. v.“
._ fitandard ....... I .89 I .85 l .98
No. 3 White as I .34 I

 

wk- I --.-8,11-.. -83 . LA-“
‘ ' nomadic“, reﬁlled, 7 *—
, ”evade”: _‘ Igetroltu‘ljhlcaaollmli. v:
'Sundal‘d ....... .73 .68 I » .78
o. e White ”'I .12 .91 I .71

. ,o. e White .11 .so .15

 

  

Although the prices for oats show-
edi’avfra-ction of a cent decline .at
themarkets’ opening this week, oats
technically are in about the strong—
position of any of the grains. The

orary slump was duealmost en-
ly- .rtoa sympathy with corn. East‘-
andfpr ,Julvdellvery 2, has

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
  

 

 

 

ﬁrm and buying active.

 

 

DETROIT—Scarce supply bolsters wheat markets; potatoes
higher; "beans strong and‘steady. Seeds are active and steady. Hay.

CHICAGOw'Corn and oat prices drop slightly.
bearish. Hog market dull, cattle higher.

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Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Trade and Market Review

USINESS is generally in healthy condition, despite unrest in some

quarters.

Orders from big dealers are greater than .ever before;

the steel strike has officially closed and no other great strike is troubling

America.

The Peace Treaty, so far as the European nations are con-

cerned, has at last been signed and trade has been resumed. America is
still held up because of the Senate’s delay in signing the treaty, but it is
expected that a settlement must be made soon, causing an encourage-

ment to world trade.

Among the factors which one should consider for the coming months
is the fact that this is a presidential election year, during which govern-
ment is likely to be swayed by motives of winning popular approval.
Business this year will have to yield somewhat to the issues of the elec-

tion. of the precedent of other election years holds true.

It must be

further acknowledged that there is a feeling of uncertainty and unrest
in the nation; probably much of this is due to the breaking down of the
war strain and conditions aggravated by much ﬁery and unusual talk by
intellectuals, accompanied by some real grievances of the “underdogs.”
The government apparently has abandoned the intention of granting
further credits to Europe which needs billions. The effect of this is fear—

ed tobc dangerous for our export trade, although private corporations

may arrange for great loans.

Wheat seems assured’of general ﬁrmness for the time being,

but

there is considerable hazard in the corn market, due to the dumping of
large stocks on markets, something which frequently happens in Janu-
ary. A great amount of buying, however, may save the day for the bulls.
Potatoes seem to be going sky-high, compared with old prices. Hay stays

ﬁrm, and live stock prices have gone down before heavy receipts. Crop.

reporters tell of higher prices for many prodcuts to the producers, and
it is believed that in general the tendency should continue.

In the meantime, business in general is healthy, while the producers
are being pestered as usual by the army \of market manipulators. '

 

made for a ﬁrmer condition than
May delivery.

There has been a persistent de-
mand for cash grain fer export. and
millions of bushels have been set
aside for this purpose. And there is
strong demand for all the stocks on
hand in most markets. The oat crop
in the United States this year fell
well below the ﬁve year average, and
the same condition applies to the
output in Europe and the Argentine.

It is true, however, that oats may
decline in case of sharp drops in the
corn market, or in case some factor
hampering foreign trade should
arise.

NOT ENOUGH Rm

It seems as though-3 exporters are
unable to get all the rye crops they
want in this country to satisfy Eu-
ropean demands, and they snap up
quickly nearly all receipts at the
markets as fast as the stuff arrives.
Naturally the effect is very strength-
ening on the markets, although the
prices have not advanced much. De—
troit quotes rye at $1.86 for Cash

. No. 2.

The export demand for barley has
not been so good of late and some
slight ups and downs have occurred
due to the export factor. Detroit
quotes barley Cash No. 3 at $3,.

 

 

Foster’- Weather Chart 1920
x. .

Severe.

 

W‘ASHINGTON, D. 0.. Jan. 17,1920.
——Warm waves will reach Vancouver
about January 16, 22, 28 and Feb. 3,
and temperatures will rise on all the
Pacific slope. They. will cross crest
f0 Rockies by close of 17, 23, 29 and
Feb. 4; plains sections 18, 24, 30 and
Feb. 5; meridian 90, great lakes, mid-
dle Gulf States and Ohio—Tennessee

sections 20, 26. Feb. 1 and 7, reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about Jan.
21, 27, Feb. 2 and 8. ‘torm waves
will follow about one day behind
warm waves, cool waves about one
day behind storm waves.

These disturbances will dominate
the weather of North America from
near Jan. 17 to near Feb. 8. The
week centering on Jan. 17 was expect-
ed to begin with high temperatures on
meridian 90 and end’with colder than
usual, the cold reaching that line/near

, Jan, 22. Then about the usual aver-

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecastcd by w, '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

valleys 19, 25, 31 and Feb. 6; eastern,

age of temperatures with no unusual
changes up to Feb. 3. ‘Severe storms
are expected during that week about
middle latitudes moving southeast-
ward and on meridian 90. See Fos-
ter’s Weather Map. If you have not
received it send your'address and a
l—cent stamp. t01 W. T. Foster, 1625
1-2 North Capital Street, Washington,
D. C. You cannot fully understand
these forecasts without that map. It
will not be sent you unless you. are a
subscriber to some newspaper or mag-
azine that publishes my. forecasts.

I give the dates that weather events
reach certain places along the line
benefit out of the. forecasts. Nearly
all the storms affect Vancouver, in the
extreme northeast and you must do a
little thinking in order to get most
from .the extreme northwest to the
vicinity of which they move south-
eastward usually. When only meri—
dian 90 is mentioned thhe vicinity of
Vancouver is about two and a. half
days earlier and Newfoundland about
'the same time later. Middle latitudes~
are near'40 to 45. A storm on these
latitudes affects the whole continent.
It is warm southeast of the storm cen-
ter, at low, and cold northwest of it.

 
 

   
 
 
 
    

 

 

 

"BEANS IN FAIR DEMAND

 

BEAN emcee PER own, JAN. 12. 1920

 

 

Grade IDetrolt chicane N. Y.
o. H. P.‘ ........ 1.25 1.15 '
Hill Kidneys . 18.15.

 

 

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Grade Ioomn chime I I'IT’V.
o. H. P. . .. . ,.a.15 3.25 110.25
Prime ...... .. . . - 1.18 8.80 I 0.30
Red Kldneys . . . 12.00 12.00 I1 8.00

 

 

 

Beans are in fair demand and
steady this week. after dullness sOme

day last week, and especially during.

the holidays. During the last month

..farmers generally have shown a.
strong disposition toward holding
back their beans until fairer prices
are offered. Along with this factor,
elevator men announce that more
than half the Michigan bean crop is
thought to have been' shipped out of
the state; Eastern states tell of
very short supplies. Along with this
is the condition of shortage .in the
bean production this past .year—it is
the lowest for about four years. El-
evator men agree to a large extent,
we are informed, that the farmers
should get a higher price in order
that the production continue in the
coming season. Taking all these
factors into consideration, the long
hoped for boom in the bean market
is conﬁdently awaited by thousands
of farmers who are holding their
supply for a fair price.

POTATOES STILL 01m

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_spuos PER cw1'.. Jpn. 12,“;ezoﬂ
I_8eoked I Bulk
Detrolt ................ | 4.50 I 4.80
Chlcago 4.50 I 4.30
Plttsburg .............. I. 4 00 | 3.90
N. "' V"'~..;;_-:_r'__.._ ..-. ._.. L
Palofjfbisfvun "neg"__
Detroit ............... I 2.15 I 2.00
Ohlcego ............... I 2.15 I 2.00
ltuburg ............... I 2.10 I 2.00
New York ............ I 2.16 l 2.00

 

 

 

Potato prices in general have gone
up during the past week or so. al-
though increasing receipts endanger
prices at some points. In the grow-
ers’ markets in Detroit this week, as
high as $2.50 per bushel was paid
for the best grades. Greenﬁlle
quotes spuds at $3.45 per cwt.

In the East the spud market is
ﬁrm and prices are high. New York
City reports receiving much frozen
stock which had to sell at low prices

but the good grades which arrived.

in good condition are bringing quite
fancy ﬁgures. Aroostook county,
Maine, reports that potatoes locally
are bringingar—ound $3.75 per cwt.
In the cities, of course, the ﬁgures
run higher. Eastern experts to a
large extent predict somewhat high—
er ﬁgures in the potato market.

As for the middle west, 'Chicago
shows the highest ﬁgures for the
season on the potato market. Mild
weather and an active demand with
a pretty light supply shot up the
prices to over $4 for nearby white
stock. This bit of news is especial-
ly interesting to Michigan potato
growers who are sending heavy con—
signments to Chicago this winter,
much larger than in the winter a
year ago. Experts in Chicago do not
seem to be doing much predicting.
And although some good authorities
prophesy still further upward jumps,
the bears tell of the havoc which un-
usually heavy receipts would cause.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

The growers’ markets in Detroit
are notable for generally higher
prices asked for all lines of vege—
tables, and for the limited amount
of trading at the topﬁgure. The de-
mand‘for celery is good and sales are
made all the way from 600 a dozen
small. stalks up to'$1.15 for some
extra fancy. Root crops are high in

— price and while the supply is heavy
the movement is slow and the mar-
kets do not clean up until- substan-
tial cuts are made. _

' Potato growers have a hard time
dispbsing of their truck loads at
$2.50. Apples are plentiful and in
fair "demand. at ~ unchanged prices.
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"wished. A‘ealthy demand means

" ‘ fauna; min soc dozen

bu e1: parsnips, $2 to 82. 59 bush.-

- .‘el, pumpkins, $1 to $2 desen; pep-

corn, 82. 50 bushel; rutabagas, $1. 25
to $1. 50 bushel; squash, 20 to 2 1-8
cents pound; turnips, $8 bushel;
live poultry. hens and heavy spring-
ers, 320 to 33c pound‘ light weight
chickens, 27c pound; dressed pork,
18c to 20c pound; dressed veal. 26¢.

HAY PRICES ADVANCE

 

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”stroll. .80.50 (a) 81 29. 50 @ 80I28. 50 @ 23
Ghicago .30.00@31 28 .0 @ 390 7.00 (a) 2“
New Yo Pk 85. 00 G 81
Plttsburo .33.00 Q 34 32.00 @ 33 30.50 @ 31

 

 

 

I . No. 1 I No. 1 No. 1
l Light Mix. IGIover lllx. I Glover
’ietrolt .l29. 50 @ 30l28. 50 @ 29 28.50 @ 20
Chicago 29. 00 @ 30l27. 00 Q 28 28.00 @32
York 34. 00 @ 36I31. 00 Q 38
Plttsburo 32. 00 Q 33i84. 00 @ 35 31.00 D 32 '

HAY PRICES A YEAR AGO
' INo1..Tlm|Stan TImINo 21'lm

' “stroll ..I28 50 @ 29 27. 50 @ 28I28. 50 @21-
chlcailo I80. 00 G32 29. 00 G 3-0128 00 @ 20
"lew York ‘30. .00 @ 32I29. 00 @ 31 I27. 00 @ 30
Pittsburg 27. 50 @28I27. 50 _@ 28:28. 50 @2

 

 

 

'10.! No. No. 1
Il Light "1“. [Never Mimll clover

Detroit . . 27.50 0 20. 28.50 G 24 22.50 6 28
chicane . . 28.000 28.00 @‘29 18.00 @ 25
New York 28.00 @ 30 28.00 @ 28 4.00 O 28
Plttsburg . 27.50 C 28 27.50 @ 28 28.50 @ 27

 

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Receipts of hay are light at all
markets, due to light country load-
ing, the car shortage and embargo
restrictions. Trade is only fair, al-
though it ha spicked up some since
the ﬁrst of the year. Sharp advanc—
es were made'in New York owing to
an unusual embargo situation, while
at other points both East and West,
supplies have been moderate and
trade more active during the week.
All markets report a good trade in
the better grades, and that low
,qualities are more plentiful and less
sought for.

CHANCE FOR MEDIUM ‘WOOL

“It has struck twelve o‘clock for
ﬁne wools” said a well-known buyer
for a large mill at the close of the
government sale recently. This sen-
timent is found to be more or less
generally echoed through the trade.
Nor does it necessarily go so far as
to say that like the downward move—
ment of the hour hand of the clock,
the value of ﬁne wool will steadily
decline, for such is not the consen-
sus of ‘opinion. Rather, that the top
has been reached and that the out—
look at this writing is for an increas-
ing interest in medium wools which
long have been neglected more or
less and consequently less pressure
to buy ﬂne wools and so push prices
higher.

Quotations in Boston‘ follow for
Michigan and New York fleeces:

Fine unwashed, 67@68; Delaine.
unwashed, 87@90; 1-2 blood un-
washed, 80@82; 3-8 blood unwash-
ed, 68@691-4 blood. unwashed, 65
@67;1-2,3-8,1-4 clothing, 55@
57; common and braid, 41@42.

MORE STABILITY IN LIVESTOCK

The holiday season is over. The
turkey has had his brief reign, and
again the three staple meats come
intotheir own. Unusually wide fluc-
tuations have occurred in the mark-
ets of late. We have seen a sharp
and regrettable decline in fat cattle
values, but some later recovery a
meteoric rise in lamb values and a
substantial advance on hogs. But

~ withal there has been a dominant

note—as they say in musical circles
—-of stability, a healthier tone to
the general trade, a harbinger of
more stable conditions, let us hope.
It has not been hard to clear the ot-
ferings——for buyer and seller to

. some fairly early agreement as to

values. Possibly the sharp weather
bashed something to do with it, for

a long session in the yards these

days is not a thing to be devoutly

d one—more buyers,

g hm .,.-lea'f lettuce, 810 poundr:
~ onions. 8'8 bushel; oyster plant, 75o
A. 4 en: potatoes, 52. 40 to .88. 50 per

37. 50: milkers and swingers, 860 to

handb’y’: .
. $10 to $10 50;

 

 

to 87. 50; cutters. 86; camera, 85. 25 to
85. 50; best heavy bulls, $9; bologna
bulls, 88 to *88. -;50 stock bulls, $7 to

$1.85 Veal calves: Market very dull; '

best, ‘19 to $22; Others, $8 to $17. tion! " says-

Sheep and lambs. Market 500 h;ighebr
sheep steady; best lambs, $19. 25; fair
lambs, $18 to $18. 75; light to common

$9. 50 to $10; culls and common, $4
to $7. Hogs: Market steady to 100.
higher; all grades, $15 to 815.10.

 

STATE TAXES INCREASE
(Continued from page 7)

the comparatively slight increase of for it

state m... I

_he‘l£e‘rs, 89 to $9. 50; poet that if. is.
, yligiht butchers, $8.25 to $8. 75; iect that deserves the attention of a erty and particularly the

Eighty WQ‘S, 8725 to 87. 75, best tax expert
COWS. ”50 f0 3915' Wither COWB. $7. Wayne county or her politicians.

Another reason why some people tax like John 31'0“” 5°“ ~
are ﬁnding the higher taxes burden- marching on 5““ the same. I i! ,
some is because others are not pay- ‘
tug according to their ability to pay.
Adam Smith, in his “Wealth of Na-
“The subjects of every
state ought to contribute towards the
iiiupport of the government, as near-
y as possible, in re ortion to their
lambs, $12 to $14; fair 00 300d sheep, respective abilities; fhat is,
portion to the revenue which they
respectively enjoy under
tection of the state. "

This is good
could well be applied to Michigan.
Thousands of people in this state

are today drawing salaries

750 PER CENT IN 24 YEARS $5,000 to $15,000 'a year without
having a taxable investment.
. are accordingly enjoying the protec-

'°‘ “W property, as compared With tion of government without paying

Manufacturers, too, are mak-
values of Gra-tiot county. we raise 8. mg large proﬁts from

 

 
 

We. do not asSert that -‘ *- x ”
this is the case, but we strongly sus—
3Anyway. it is a sub-

  
    
 

thereby relieving the man. lo

    
    
  

  
   
 

passed by who, in occasional years, me. on.

  
 

proﬁt from his operations, but

     
  
  
  
 

      

old saying that one man 's"!
is another man’s misfortune-
the fortunate who can afford :
- so pay the tax. '
This tax problem is the bi
thing confronting the state
present time. When state m
Jump in three years from 87,2200
to $17, 000, 000 it’s time to only
. halt and make an investigation
is to the advantage of every
and his wife to take an interes
this matter and send men to the
islature who will give the all
their serious attention instead
spending their valuable time ,
to create more jobs to make
taxes to put more burdens on
taxpayer.
(The second article in this
on taxation toil! appear in (m

  

  
 
       
      
       
   
   
   
 
   
  
   
    
 
   
  
    
    
   
  
   
   
  
 

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question as to whether or not Gra- state derives no direct beneﬁt and issue.)

 

 

Hudson’s Four Year Old
Prophecy F ulfilled

’The Super-Six Motor Patented, Controlled And
Exclusive to Hudson Has Met Every Promise .

“The superior type which all must
concede” is a claim we made for the Hudson
Super—Six nearly ﬁve years ago.

Today close to 80,000 Super—Six owners and
scores of ofﬁcial records reveal the truth of
that prophecy.

Hudson originated'through the Super-Six
a principle which added 72% to power and

, 80% to motor cﬂiciency. It reduced vibra-

tion almost to nil and thereby increased
motor life. The forces which in other types
destroy are in the Super-Six directed to useful
employment.

They account for, Hudson becoming the
greatest speed, hill-climbing and transcon—
tinental car ever built. Its position is not
questioned. Everyone knows it.

Hudson Alone Controls
the Super-Six

There is little doubt that all would adopt
its invention were it not for the patents which
Hudson holds.

Think what it means to add 80% to efﬁ-
ciency without increase of weight or sacriﬁce
of simplicity. That advantage was .recog—
nized by engineers as soon as the prmc1ple
was revealed. Everyone admits the _un-
rivaled position of Hudson. Who questions
its superior ability' in any performance that
calls for power, ﬂexibility and endurance?

Further development of the ﬁrst Super- Six
was inevitable. But nothing has called for a
change 111 the principle which gives it exclu-
sive advantage. Improvements have come
through reﬁnement and‘ 1n raising other car

units to the stande of its motor.

‘

Each Year Has Seen
a Greater Hudson

No one at ﬁrst realized the Super-Six cap-
able of withstanding such punishment as 1t

has taken in the hardest tests ever imposed on-
a motor car.

The fastest l 00 miles ever oﬂicially recorded
of a stock car did not show Hudson’s limit.
So harder tests were imposed. The twenty-
four hour run was one; and although a Super-
Six stock chassis in that time traveled a dis-
tance greater than from New York to Denver,
its endurance limit remained unknown. The
trip across the continent from San Francisco
to New York, in a seven-passenger touring
car, was made in 13 hours less time than its
nearest rival. And then, since that did not
show its endurance limit, the car was turned
about and completed a test never attempted
by any automobile before or since. The
round trip was made in 10 days, 21 hours.

So the Present Hudson
Is Even Greater

Each successive Super-Six model has added
to Hudson’s leadership. . Each Hudson has
become even more dependable, and now it
seems to be as nearly perfect as it is possible
to make an automobile.

And Everyone Admits
Hudson Leads in Style

Look about in any assemblage of ﬁne auto-
mobiles and note the dominant distinction of
Hudson. Even sellers of rival cars, unwilling
to admit the mechanical superiority of the
'Super- Six, because in that particular they
know none other can use its motor, openly say
Hudson sets the style 1n body types.

The Super-Six motor made Hudson the
largest selling ﬁne car in the world. Buyers
have always had to wait for delivery of favor-
ite models. They are waiting today. You
will surely want a Super- Six sometime within
the next year. Now is not too early to- order.

v...---_\-i—-..

Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit 7

  

  

     
   
    
      
  


 
 
    

   

“If you can keep your head when all
out you are losing theirs and blam-
lug it on you; if you can wait and not
the tired of waiting or, being lied
about, not deal in ltes—The world
is yours, and all that’s in it; and,
jwhat’s more, you’ll be a man.”—KIP-
game. '

  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
    
       
    
 
  
      
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
 
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
  
  
   
    
  
  
  
   
 
  
     
  
  
 
    
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
  
   
    
    
 
  
   
   
 
    
 
  
    
  
   
  
  
   
  
    
  
 

 

OME call it POISE; some call it
SCIENCE, but whatever that
thing is which gives us the grasp
,on ourselves and causes us to grip
our mentality and hold fast to the
things we know and not be led astray
by the things we hear, is something
most of us need to acquire more of.
' A sharp reminder of this fact came
to our attention when we "were told
that in one city in Michigan alone
forty people were driven insane over
their belief that on Deiember the
seventeenth this old world would end.
some there were who dared dark
. deeds; While others remained in pray-
er all day, but 01d Sol rose as usual
and set again at nightfall, leaving no
trace of the prophesied end with the
exception of those people to whom
the end of their reasoning power had
come.

If each day we do our alloted tasks
as best We may; if each day we treat
our fellow men as if this were indeed
the last day, then surely we have
nothing ‘to fear whether the end come
now or fifty years from now, and in
the meantime we might as well be
found busy for in work comes content-
' ment, and the man who is busy finds

little time for these flights of fancy
which result disastrously There is no
gainsaying the fact that the mental
condition of its people plays a large
part in the health rate of any city,
and when we realize this and also
appreciate the fact that our mental
attitude toward life and things in
general rests with ourselves, then,
and not trill then will we have grasp-
0d the big fact that we can indeed be
masters of ourselves and our destin-

ies
The late Sir William Osler, who
_only recently passed away, was a

great apostle of the doctrine of work.
It was in an address in which he de-
plored the tendency to discard elderly
men while they had still plenty of
work in them that he made the re-
mark that has been taken from its
context, misquoted and given an en-
tirely different meaning. I refer to
his statement that if you take men
still capable of good work from their
employment and give them only a life
of leisure, you might as well chloro-
form them. He referred to so many
men retiring at the age of sixty, and
from this statement came the “Osler”
idea of doing away with all who had
passed their period of usefull-ness,
which was not as he meant.

And it is with women as with men.
ohly perhaps to a greater degree, that
, if you do not keep the hands and mind

busy with useful occupations, distort-

ed ideas are apt to creep in. The best
cure for any kind of “nerves" is use-
ful occupation.

SEEN IN CITY SHOPS
»Since early fall the tendency has
_’been toward short sleeves. The
.light weight silk and satin dresses
of winter had the short sleeves, but
now that the shops are beginning to
show the clothes for wear at the

,all the smart frocks are short of
sleeve and this is a sure indication
of the coming season’s styles, for
“,,Whatever the winter resorts accept
is usually to be depended upon as
being good for the full season

‘1 The new slippers which the shoe
tones are displaying have a bow tie

   
 
   
  

our. these are only a fad, for they

   
 
 
  
  
  

t3 is something new. A slipper so
:ioned that a bow is necessary,
needs always have that ac‘com-‘
mm. and unless that bow is
d‘ tl'y tied, it is tacky.
the foot is small.
lattentiou to; a.

   

  

tion. _

southern resorts. it is noticeable that ‘

,‘nd .yet ’they are not an oxford. How- .
1ilrill‘not take up the fad, just because '

I The Farm
A Dope

 

meat for the Women

 

WOM EN IN POLITICS

By JUDSON GRENELL

 

 

have time again to turn to the
consideration or more serious
reading, and so we will this week
publish an
Grenell's Brochure, which many of
our readers are following with profit
as Well as interest.
Broad-Minded Oﬂ‘lcials Needed

Michigan is a. great mining, manu-
facturing and agricultural common-
wealth Its variety of industrial ac-
tivities call for officials of more than
usual broad-mindedness and proficien-
cy. Available material for state of-
ficials is therefore not so say to find.
Too often the contest has been be-

WITH THE HOLIDAYS“ past we

tween candidates of mediocre ability; ,

whoever won, the voters lost'. Yet

there is an abundanCe of good official

installment of Judson

sossed by .the candidate ambitious ,to
be a state official.

Highways
» Michigan has not yet found herSelf
in the matter of highways. As this

is written the questiou of issuing $50,— a

000,000 worth of bonds, to be expend~

* ed in improving roads, is being dis-

cussed. ‘The state has some 75, 000
miles of highways. Equally distrib-
uted, this $50, 000, 000 would allow the

V'expenditure of $666. 66 on each mile
of'highway. This ‘is‘too much in the

case of raods infrequently used, and
much toa little" for trunk lines—those
subjected to heavy traffic. One may
well hesitate to say whether or not
the expense of the beneﬁt conferred
by improving highways can be equit-
ably distributed by bonding the en-‘

 

 

“I took a piece of plastic clay
And idly fashioned it one day,

And as my ﬁngers pressed it still,

It moved and yielded at my will.

I came again when days were past,
The bit of clay was hard at last,

The form I gave it still it bore,

But I could change that form no more.

I took a piece of living clay,

And gently formed it day by day,
And molded with my power and art
A young child’s soft and yielding heart
I came again when days were gone;

It was a man I looked upon;

He still that early impress bore

And I could change it nevermore.”

 

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material in Michigan, and it is now
up to each woman voter to help find
it. Apply commonsense to the situa-
Seek for those who are——
Broadminded.

With executive ability.

Of high character.

Clean in their morals.

Not classbound.

Of wide experience.

As to Class Candidates

It has always been a. mistake to
elect a‘pronounced class candidate.
Few, if any, can throw off class pre-
judice and discard the class view-
point. A class candidate, if elected,
will accentuate whatever most fav-
orably affects his class, at the expense
of other classes; and it makes no dif-
ference whether the class represent-
ed is one composed of mine operators,
manufacturers. farmers or wage
workers.

The woman voter must favor no
class as against the mass. Here'lher
intuition, if she will but submerge

her own class prejudices, will be of *

great help to her. Intuition is only

the combining of the judgment of all .
the senses enlisted to enable her to

reach a. wise conclusion. ,,

Intuition, without seeing each link,
in a. chain of circumstances, will leap

wide 011me of unexplained and some
times ' unexplainable circumstances
and conditions, and arrive at a wise
conclusion. _

A majority of the Michigan legis-
lature, composed of 32 senators and

100 representatives, makes the laws; —
the judiciary interprets them, the ex.-

   

ecutive enforces them. To be w
high; was " to

“for a state to expend.
Today the country has be"
comes accustomed to big figures—to v
2 billions
3“extr-ava‘gant," in- order to prevent
gireater extravagance in other direca
t one

tire state for beneﬁts that cannot be

equitably distributed.

Considerable sums expended yvithin
recent years for improving highways
have been wasted. Sometimes at-

tempts at economy have resulted'in ..

extravagance; sometimes there has
been a profilgacy in road building
quite as bad. The immediate and
greatest beneficiary of an expensive
highway ought to be taxed in propor-
tion to benefits conferred, and then
the inferior beneficiaries should not
be expected to pay for what in the
very nature of the case can only in-
incidentallly benefit them.

Bonds

The woman voter, in voting for
bonds, must also keep in mind the. un-
questioned fact that immediate‘ ex-
penditures of unusually large sums in
any given direction deranges normal
busineps and normal prices. The
country’s war expenditure experiences
show this. Usually the increasing
cost, because Of this derangement, ex-
ceeds the immediate beneﬁts; The
losses‘ more than offset the profits.
sun, what is a large sum for a. local-
ity, may be reasonable, or even small,
Figures are
relative.

It is sometimes sensible to

. ‘ Taxes .-
The cost of Michigan’s state govern.
ment runs into the millions.

 

This;
cost ought to be equitably distributed,
ti . the!) tits lot

and a special tax on public utility cor-
porations. The defects 11': ,

ments. «to shift taxes, or to increase or
decrease the number of things taxed.
The tax on personal property is ac-
knowiedged by all who have given
any study to the problem to be so in-
equitable in' its application as. to
shame the state. 'Thetaxes on public
utility corporations are shifted to cen-
sumers, either by higher rates or by
by inferior service, just as'the war
tax on places of amusements are shift-
ed to those who attend such places of
entertainment.

Taxation should favor the wealth

producer as against monopoly or un-

earned increment.

Consider These Propositions

1. Favoring the. broad-minded can-
didate with experience, as against
the one who represents a class.

2. Making institutions for the un-
fortunate, as far as possible, self-sup-
porting.

’3. Placing authority and responsi-,
bility in as few hands as possible by
advocating the" short ballot.

4, Frowning upon all attempts to
use state property for private gain.

5. Carefully scrutinizing bonding
propositions, to the end that the tax
burdens laid may be borne by those
directly benefitted.

6. Encouraging thrift by untaxing
wealth.

7. Cultivating the intuitive faculty
wlhere complete knowledge 01 a candi-
dgte or a. problem is not to be obtain-
9 . .

OUR READERS’ OWN
COLUMN

Dear Laddie: As the children call
you. I am sending you a sample of
Bodi-Tone, and one of the letters I
got. I have already taken some of
this patent medicine, and if you will
aséertain if it is really. as good as
they claim? I would like to give it
a further trial.—Mrs. R. B.

The Food ‘and Drug Department
of the State of Michigan made an
analysis of this patent medicine and
report as follows: “This prepare;
tion containsvthe following: Iron
phosphate, lithia, berberin, rhubarb,

 

 

 

 

Peruvian bark. emodine bearing
drugs.
There is nothing here which

would prove injurious to the‘kid-
ney-s UNLESS the sufferer had an
aggravated case, when harm could
be possible as a result of taking the
tablets. "

You see, my friend, with this, like
lots other patent~medicines, a little
will probably do no harm, but if
you are troubled enough so that you
need to take a quantity of any drug
it might be far better to be under
the direction ofa reputable physi-
clan;

 

‘Editor. Woman’s Department, M.

'B. R: My hair is coming out at an

alarming rate. In the cities you
are close to hair dressers who make
a specialty of this work and through
their treatments can probably stop
this loss, but I want something that
I can do at home to not only stop
the hair falling but promote a new
growth.

 

True, we in the cities are near hair
dressers who do give treatments and
charge big prices but the greatest ‘
good they do can be done right in
yourbwn home if you will only take
the time. In the ﬁrst place, try
warm salt and water for the falling
hair. Rubr this well into tlie scalp
ever-y night. and then follow this.
with a brisk mascage for oneLhalf
hour. If you will thoroughly rub ’
the scalp, massaging it gently but

. onhslt u.

the tax. ‘.
laws are 30 numerous that every leg-g
‘islature is called on to pass amendn~

 
  
  
   
   

 


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, . Cut g. alkecilgithmi;

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, . “Not; ”tea-.3. ..ro '.

.. . ,-li.zes:g34.,j,33.,38, 4, ,‘42 44
,4 beat measure“ l3 7:8
,wlth‘plaits extended.

No.1 "3042.?Girl’s Dress.

sizes: 8. 10,12 and 14 years.

 

 

 

 

 

  

,. V
No.~ 3037.—--A Practical Model. .Cut in
7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40 42, 44 and 46
ches bust measure. Size 38 requires
-8 yards of 36-inche material. Width
girggess at lower edge. is about 2 1-4

,, No. 3053. Child's Dress. Cut in 5
sizes: 1, 2 3, 4 and 5 years. Size 4

requires 2 134 yards of 36-inch material.

No. 2733.——Misses' Dress. Cut in' 8
sizes: 16, 18 and 20 ears. Size 16 will
require 37-8 yards 0
Eh: dress'mea‘sures about 2 yards at the

o . . .

No. 3034.—-—A Popular Style. Cut in 4
sizes: 2. 3, 4 and 6 years. Size 4 re-
quires 26-8 yards of 44-inch material.

No.- 2766.—-—Ladies' Apron. Cut
sizes: Small, 32-34; Medium.
lar e. 40-42; and Extra large, 44-46
inc es buse measure. Size 38 requires
877-8 yards 01,186-‘inche .material. The
Sleeve protectors ‘require 3-8 yard.

in 4
36-38;

 

cent for which
patterns at 100

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, Herewith find . . . ...‘
. send me the following
each: ’“ ’ '

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guy. M , ..
‘ ..hOus‘ehold' who can- take turns mas-
saging each others scalp, the result
+.,,‘.wi‘li Warrant the effort.

‘ r Style. {cattle}
3 . r334 "5 “ti?
, . _ ‘ “ﬂ dist.
measures about 2 yards at lower edge ,-

Cut in. 4-
. Size ‘10
' requires 4 1—2 yards of 27-inch material.

  

  

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course my, ginggiis,_tiretsome work,
but witxther are two women in the

 

PLAN YOUR GARDEN NOW

, ‘ GAIN the catalog and seed hous-
" " es are sending advertising mat-
ter, reminding us that very

soon willspring be with us and that
we must plan our gardens early, or-
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' children in poverty and dirt. My chil-

44—inch material. .

behind every one of them is an un-
pompous mother.

pers, “of governments,

dignitl'es.

to me? I want life, human life.

my cradle in peace; I. do not want

mysonsbrought up for slaughter; as
“pawns 'in' your mad amb‘itions.

and. Croat-Italian quarrels, and Pol-

berry shrubs, they are better ordered
early as they will be more apt to

grow it they are planted before they

begin to sprout. Plants are dormant
at this time and in excellent condi-
tion to handle.

It, is usually the women of the
farm who have to care for the
garden and if berries are planted it
is usually they who express a wish
for them and have to see to their or-
dering. At the price which they have
been bringing for the past few sea-
sons they are a very proﬁtable crop,
and as the most of the work consist-
ing of planting, etc., can be done be-
fore the heavy farm work begins,
the men folks will not object to set—
ting them out. Of course the pick-
ing will fall on mot-hers and daugh-
ters principally,‘but if women are
to enter the class of gardeners, prob-
ably the small fruits such as berries
are among the best things to begin
on as fruit can be picked before the
sun is high. and the work is lighter
than any other kind of gardening.

Instruction for" planting and pre-
paring the soil will be sent you by
any reliable shrubbery house fog it
is to their advantage that your
shrubs and vines. grow.

THE ETERNAL WOMAN
ACK of every question stands

B‘ eternal woman. She has
her way. She rules not

from the throne, but from behind the
throne; not in the council chamber,
but in the desires and dreams of the
councilors who sit there. ,

She (has no voice, yet her arm
stronger than the soldier’s.

She has no voice, but nations are
moved by her smiles or her tears.

She is the secret of all, the solution
of every puzzle, the clew to every
maze, the splinter in every wound.
As God is, so she is—silent, yet dis-
posing. ‘

She is the cause.

It was she who brought prohibition.
“What,” she said, “are your mouth-
ings of personal liberty? Stop pois-
oning my boy. What are your gay
nights on Broadway, the glitter of
your revelries, the glow of your good-
fellowship, the composing shadow of
your skeptic customs? You are
trampling my soul, while your hot
eyes leer at my body.

“I must have my soul and my boy.
Your Bacchic furies must go. _

“I am tired of your intolerant pas-
sions and your debauched logic. I
am done with alcohol.” .

She is behind the labor unrest.

“What I demand,”\she, cries, “is the
door of my dréams. I have borne

is

dren shall have their chance. What
care I for your laws and precedents?
Give my boy his chance. I and the
children of my body‘ are human be-
ings. What are property and capital
and policemen and all authorities and
magnificence to me? “Unloose _your
strong systems and institutions, and
let my boy breathe and be a man.
How? I care not. One way or anoth-
er you must do my will. I am a
mother." ,. - ‘
Slhe‘is back of the peace council.

Only pompous men Sit there. But _

“You prate' of nations,” she whis-r
_rights and
What are all such things

“I am tired- of wars. I want to rock

{What are your Monroe .Doctrines

and your autocra-

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what you raise! ‘

——it is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
t the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up!
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the interest. or the business farmers of our home state,
no matter whom else it helps or hurts!

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’ YEAR CHILDRENz—We have re-
cently awarded two prizes for
original drawings, and if the
artist is. unable to get these in this
week, I promise you that they will ap-
pear later. The prizes of “A Trip
Around the World" in postal cards
were sent to the winners, Myrtle Neu-
man, of Glennie, and Henrietta Dros-
ter, of Eagle, Mich.

And now I want to tell you what 1
have planned for the winter months
and hope you will be pleased. You
know in most of the home magazines
they run what we call ”continued
stories, " that is, stories which are too
long to be printed all in one week and
so a part is printed each week until
the story is completed. This week we
home a complete story, but beginning
with next week and continuing for
a' number of weeks, we ,will have a
continued story and at least every
other week, and perhaps every week
we will be able to have a puzzle. We
want our page to be just as interest-
ing as any other in the paper. Affec-
tionately yours—~LADDIE. I

 

 

THE JUNIOR _COOK

Orange Salad

Pick over and wash one head of
lettuce. (A tender cabbage leaf might
do.)

Wrap in a cloth and put in a cool
place for at least two hours

Just before meal time, peel and slice
two oranges.

Arrange the lettuce leaves (3 to a
plate is plenty). on a salad plate.

Put two or three slices of orange on
each plate on top of the lettuce.

'Into a measuring cup pour

Three tablespoonsful vegetable oil
juice as preferred.

One and onehalf tablespoonful of
either white vinegar or lemon
juice as preferred.

One-half teaspoonful salt.

Oneihalf teaspoonrul paprika.

Mix together well with a spoon and
then dip over the dishes of salad.

Serve at once with wafers or tiny
brown bread sandwiches. \

One head or lettuce and two oranges
will make eight plates of salad.

Fine for a holiday luncheon or din-
ner.

 

 

LETTERS FROM 'OUR
BOYS AND GIRLS

 

 

Dear Laddie—«II have never written to
on before, so thought I would try my
uck. I go to school every day. I haven t
missed but one day and a half this year.
I am twelve years old now. My birthday
. is the third of November. I am in the
sixth grade at school. I have a. little
brother three years old. his name is Mer-
ton and his birthday is the 4th of July.
We had a. Christmas tree at school and at
home too I got a lot of nice presents.
The snow is pretty well gone here now.
We have a. dog and cat. The dog’s name

‘Shep”. We live about six miles from
e nearest town. We have a Ford car.
I will close for this time as my letter is
{Getting quite long. Hoping to see my let-
r in taint —Myrtie Hage1, Vermontville,

Mich" D., No. 3.
Dear Laddie—I am 11 years old My
Ether takes the M. B F. My father has

 

o colts named Bets and Maude. We
ve four horses and four cows, also two
yearlings and three calves. We have 33
cap and 29 pigs. \Ve have an 80-acre
. I am in thhe fifth grade ata
school. There are 18 pupils in our
school. My teacher's name is Miss Hill
I am going to be a farmer when I get big.
My lettex is getting quite long so I will
ose, hoping to see my letaer in print.—
asil Miller, Batavia, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie——I have written to you
before, but didn’t see my letter in print.
no thought I would write again. I am 11

ears old and in the fifth grade. I like

go to school. My teacher’s name is

iss M. A. Thayer. I like her very
much. There are 37 children in my room.
“’eil I will close for ‘now, hoping I will

tter in print and hear f1om some
of the ot er little girls and boys. —Ruby
‘ Randall, Webbervlllé, Mich.

Yewmylt

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I

ve written to you. I am ten years old.

have no brothers or sisters. For pets I

v7. tWOW cats, their names are Fuzzy and

We hays two horses and eight

. I also have a pet calfo enlist! 1April.
e .

  

 

PLANTING A TEA SET

By SARA_ E. WILTSE
(Copyright reserved).

 

ORE than 60 years ago a small
M girl lived-on a farm in Michi-

gan. Her only dishes were the
broken parts of a little china tea-set.
The sugar bowl had lost its cover, the
teapot spout had been broken off,'and
the cream pitcher had no handle.
The tea cup was very friendly with
the cream pitcher, for it too was with-

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uut a handle, and 1.1.18 small girl
played there were two saucers, as one
was in two parts! These tiny dishes
were decorated with very pink flow-
ers and delicate sprays of green
leaves. Every little piece was well

 

 

washed and dried whenever the small
girl and her smaller doll had a tea-
party.

One day when the farmer was plant-
ing acres Of potatoes the small girl
watched the careful cutting of the
seed-potatoes before .they were put in
the ground.

Feeling sure that she 'had mastered ‘

the lesson about potato eyes and the
fall crop, she hurried to look at the
parts of her beloved tea-set. She had
a. plot of her very own in the flower
garden, and for. once she Was glad
that her dishes were already broken,
for she decided to plant them!
part was put into its little hole and
covered with a shapely hill of good
earth. Her garden was hoed, we'eded
and watered with diligence, and when
others were digging potatoes, she dug
for tea-sets! She was a brave child,
and when she found only the pieces
she had planted», she washed and
dried them, saying to herself—“Good
thing the seeds didn’t ro-t"——-and no-
body knsw of. (her thwarted attempt to
grow tea-sets until she was a grown
woman, with a little boy who lOVed to
hear her tell about long ago when
she was a little girl. Then one day
she told him the secret.

Not long afterward she had a birth-
day and one of her presents was a.

lovely little tearset with pink flowers“

and sprays of green leaves. The little

boy had saved his pennies until he >

had enough to buy the gift of which
nobody but (his mamnma guessed the
secret when he said that it was for
the little girl whose tea-set never
grew. She took her boy in her arms,
and laughing said, “But it has grown,
it has grown, my precious boy, and
it is more beautiful to me than any
tea-set ever made.” .

Every ‘

  
   

, .‘o‘tm PUZZLE
’ The Three clowns
It is told ’of a circus parade in
which three clowns walked; they
were numbered 6, 3, 1 and a free tick-
et to the circus was offered to any-

 

one who. could so arrange them that
the whole number formed would be
divisible by seven. Can you arrange
them?

(

Ax-Golf-

The old farmer was trying to im-
press upon his son, who wanted to
play golf for exercise, that chopping
wood would answer the purpose just
as well. “Oh no, father,” said the
boy, “it is the walking between
strokes that makes golf such a valu-
able exercise; that gives the legs a
change as well as the arms." “Oh,
that’s it, is it?” said the old man.
And then he went into the yard
and placed sticks of wood at inter-
vals all around it. After this he
handed the boy an ax and said: “Now
play the full course.”

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. My father takes the
M.‘ B. F. and likes it fine. I live on a one
hundred twenty acre farm. We have 11
head of cattle, six hogs four horses, some
sheep and .about 60 chickens. I help my- .
father on the farm. I have four sisters
and two brothers. I am next to the old-
est. I am thirteen years old and go to
high school at Farwell and am in thhe
ninth grade. My teachers are Miss King.
Mr. Chappell and Mr. Oden. I like them
all fine. I take four subjects My sister
Genevive is writing too. Will close, hop-

ng to see my letter in pring—Vélma
1Schofield‘. Farwell, Mich. R. F.

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ing the effort to conquer the

air, any toy that tends to de-
velop~ an interest in this matter is
at once, exteremely useful and very
interesting. The one shown here-
with will appeal even to the young-
er boys-r-in fact, it is an excellent toy
for the real young boy to make. And
as for the older boys it is a very good
toyrfor them to ﬁrst make in starting
out on any experiments along this
line. We ~must- all do the smaller.

  

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, y the dart into the air. “films to
things before weoanrhopezto-sdp suc- 2 . ‘ ti:

  

And then he went into the yard
could accomplish tasks at the very
ﬁrst attempt, and yet I feel that such
would not be the case.

* Every boy .knows what the sling-
shot is and also what'the dart.is—'4—-.
the kind you make'from a.‘ shingle.
cut a notch in it, then tie a string to
a stick and after that hook the string

to the notch by a knot tied in the ~

end .of the string. and then I

   

- the thickness of the cardboard

  

ing this slot.
. d _

First get out part A from a light
piece of wood. You will notice that
this piece tapers ‘both ways—both in
width and in thickness. The slot in
the broad end must be cut carefully. ,
A fine saw will be necessary—as near
to
be used for the wings, as it is possi-
ble to get. It is easily seen that this
piece can be spllt very easny in saw-

 
    
    

  
  
      
     


 

  

        
   

ﬁshou‘ldb‘e bound with ord‘inary'string
.as shownin the drawing.

" The sling should be made next.
Thismay be made from wire or from
Wood. Every boy;knows how to get
one. from wood—the crotch from a
small tree, that is, where two small
branches separate; If wire is used,
it should be heavy enough to with-
- stand the strain of casting the glider.
Form to the shape indicated and at-

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as be 7, sad in fastening the
‘parts. together after which they

  
 
 
 
 

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.l‘t' ‘.is
used to elevate the frent wing which
causes it to rise. No finish will be
necessary. After you have success-'
fully made one of these gliders you
can then try your hand at larger
things—some of Which will appear
later in these columns. Watch» for
them. Explanation is. given on the,
drawing as to how to proceed to
launch the glider. Much fun can be
had by having competition among
several boys to see who can sail their
glider the farthest.

 

HOW To JUDGE A. DAIRY Cowl

 

 

 

 

A—moutﬂ, b---nostrll, c and e—face, d—eye. .f—neck,

 

n—horns, k—withers, l—baok, m—

chest, n—heart girth, c—lolns. p—hips. q—hlps to pin bones, h—legs, r,—thlgh, t—udder, u—

teats, v—mllk veins, and w—mllk wells.

0U WERE promised not long ago
i that you would be shown some
pictures which would help you to
know how to judge a goo-d dairy cow
and explain a lot of things probably
hazy in your minds. It is very im-
portant for a young person on a farm
to know how to explain these things.
Your city relatives will be asking you
Just such questions and you would be
ashamed not to be able to answer
promptly and correctly. Besides that,
if you know how to size up a good or
bad cow, it is going to mean money
in your pockets when you grow up,
and maybe right now, if you are al-
lowed to have charge of some stock
on your farm. .

The breed of the cow does not mat-
ter so much so long as she is a good
dairy cow, (in this article we are go-
ing to limit it to talking about the
cows producing the best supply of
milk.) Jerseys and Guernseys usual-
1y produce the richest milk, while
Holstein, Ayrshire and Brown Swiss
can usually produce the largest
amount. 80 there is considerable dis-
cussion as to which is the best kind.
In any case, you are most likely to
succeed if you choose the breed you
like the best.

It does not pay to buy a cow mere-
ly because she is cheap. A poor pro-
ducing cow is pretty sure to lose mon-
ey for you, no matter how much care
and feeding you provide. If you have
to choose between buying one‘ from
two or more cows, find out the results

,in the diagrams.

of’the scales and the fBabcock test. A
good dairy cow should be well devel-
oped in many points, not merely in a
few. She should have a. large mouth;
large, open, distended nostrils; fair
length from muzzle to eyes, which
should be Ilarge, bright and prominent
separated by a broad, well dished
face. '

The ears of a good dairy cow are
usually of medium size. The horns
small and incurving (or otherwise
agreeing with the standards of the
breed‘). The neck should be clean-
cut, lﬁig and ‘thin. Be sure to watch
for the wedge shape, which is shown
The Withers should
be painted with the backbone refined,
but prominent, often jointed and
straight from the shoulders to the tail
setting. There should be depth to the
chest, and ﬂat and deep ribs. The
hide—should be supple and the hair
silky. Her thighs should be thin and
well arched out. A large, highly at-
tached udder invariably shows a. big
yield. The teats should be well
placed, one at each corner. Also be
sure to watch for the milk veins ex-
tending from the udders. It is better
to choose a. good cow of this sort with
a blemish or two, than to choose a
poor cow which may look fairly pleas-
ing to the eye. ‘

With these points in mind, you
should talk the matter over with the
folks and with others who are well-
posted on good dairy cows, and you
will always be pretty safe in making
a deal of this sort.

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V MUSKRAT TRAPPING HINTS

 

 

sidered easy to trap, many
points may he of beneﬁt to
you and help to increase your catch.
For the beginner it is best not to try
to handle too many traps, six or
eight is about the right amount. In
making sets in the banks of streams
muddy water will often tell if the
hole is inhabited. Set the trap at
the entrance and fasten the chain so
the rat will not pull itself back in
the hole after being caught. It it
does it is very difﬁcult to get it out
.. without spoiling the den.
, Ifyon catch a rat set again in the
same place andtyon will/likely get
another, Ieyhave caught four rats “in
'Dneho‘l’e. Another good set is to
, ﬁnd moundsabove the water which
,xinditiatd-‘pre’sence' of muskrats and
‘ ‘ lace a trap- at theioot of it about.
‘ ’ ' road the - ater.. A
" ‘ wil ‘ l a

a LTHOUGH the muskrat is con-

    
   

  

   

.ed so the rat will go over the trap to

effective late in the season than in
the early part. They should be plac-

get it. So much natural bait in
plain sight *might attract the atten-
tion of people who make it a business
to take other people's catch. In mak-
ing shallow water sets reach your
trapping ground at dark as a musk—
rat will chew oﬂ' its leg is soon as it
is light. Do not skin muskrats as
soon as they are taken from the wa-
ter, wait until they are dry. The hide
should be taken off. and stretched
pelt side out. Remove the tails as
they are worthless. Hides caught
during warm weather should be rub-
bed with salt on the flesh side and
shipped as soon as possible. For
stretching the average muskrat, a
board ﬁve and a half inches wide at
the bottom and narrowing down to
two inches at the top, eighteen inch-
es long and a fourth inch thick will
do. Let the hide dry a vector ten ‘

  

     
 

 

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9“”. 133) ;
, , crests me. Stop war! --
m}. care not what your _ homes may-
be; all I ask is that you 0 not slump
back into the old plan whereby you
settled your disputes periodically by
a. carnival of murder, burning, rape
and devastation.

“I am law. ‘ I am common sense. I
am democracy. I am ' justice. All
those things are but names for me.

“I am dumb. I have no place in
your parleys, no vote. But in my
hands, men, is the reward you crave.
In my body is the food of your high-
est hunger. _ In mysoul is the golden
casket that holds your dreams.

“You shall have no peace 0f mind,
you shall have nothing but bitterness,
and bloody revolutions, and the ter-
ror of night until you give me what
I want.

“I am the eternal woman. And
with me is the eternal God..And with-

   

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> out 115 you can do nothing but evil.”

FRANK CRANE
( Copyrighted, 1919)

 

VEGETABLES—DRESSED
. UP

It is just about this season of the
year that we begin to wonder what
we will have to eat to vary the menu.
One of our readers reminded me of
this when she wrote in last week,
asking: “Why don’t we have any

   
  

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MEWS“!
. _ "dishevep
eat, I should like-some new a .
ing ways of preparing orse Q
And so this week .I aim-giving ‘
a few special dishes made of ordinary
fruits and vegetables such as 16,
would have in your collar or can
very easily obtain. Some of them-can ,
be used for left overs, while some are
very nice for luncheon
dishes. ‘

   
  
 
   
 
    

Turnip Balls .
Cook rutabagas or turnip tender.
drain, mash, season with salt, pepper .
butter and a little sugar, roll into '
small balls, dip in beaten egg: ﬂour
or bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat.
With care this can be browned nico-
ly by rolling in skillet with a little ‘
drippings.
Carrots .and Peas c 9

Select rather large carrots. Cut
them off so they will be of even
lengths, using the large end. Cook
until tender, then with a sharp knife
cut out the inner and lighter part.
leaving the darker shell. Heat and
season a can of peas and ﬁll these
carrot shells with the peas. This
special, served on the plate direct
from the kitchen, with potatoes on
the half shell, makes a very attract-
ive plate for a company dish.

The ends and insides of the car-
rots thus used, can be utilized in
vegetable soup.

 

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be taking M. B. F. ii theyexpected to keep abreast of the times and
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Eere’ s the book that tells all about
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CRIBS and BlNS—the cribs that are ;\ 5Q”?
made of galvanized steel—are ﬁre- or?
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Wholesale Prices
Highest Quality
Don’t fail to investigate these bargains Recleaued Tested
Timothy $5. 60b u L Sweet Clover $6.40 bu. Alsike Glover
and Timothy $8.10. bu. Sudan Grass 15: lb. Clover and
other Grass & Field Seeds at low prices. All sold subject
to State or Govcrment ’l‘cst under an absolute mono
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seeds. Located so as to save you money and give uick
service. Send today for our money-saving Seed uide
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Tanners of Horse and Cattle Hides

,. All kinds of skins
, with the fur on. We
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mittens and ladies
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MMwatm Clove:00d ”dam Alsilke: sold estaugalgcvteg
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“Mod a general ﬁnd local agents, In coun-
ties and townships where In m not now

represented. Write or call at once. _
(77!: Ti: 1hr: Lina for Conny-um: Animal Lift. ) ‘
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._ lowing questions: ~
It A

sold a. farm
to B and B payed
oneéslxth down,the

balance on con—
tract of a. stated
- amount plus the

interest annually should B give a mort-
gage in connection with his note. If 50
could A sell the mortgage to another
party? If not, would thera be any way
that A could get the balance other than
as contract stated? Yours truly, S. A. H.

It the farm is sold on a contract
there would be no mortgage and
usually no note as the contract spec-
idea the payments and time and rate
of interest as well as the other terms
of a contract. The record title re-
mains in the grantor in the contract.
One may sell the contract the Same
as he would sell a mortgage, but he ~

.would also give a deed of the farm to

the‘purc‘haser of the contract, mak~
ing the deed subject to the terms of
the contract. —-—W. E. Brown, legal ed--
itor.

USE OF SPARK INTENSIFIEBS -

Does a. spark intensiﬁer on a. Ford,
short the coil or many way harm the
coil or magneto? What, makes so many
porcelain cracks in my can—A. F. S.,
Saginaw County.

There is no harm in the use of a
spark intensifier in Uhe Ford coil sys-
tem. Nor will it ha‘rm the magneto.
I have the assurance of a prominent
Ford dealer which agrees with this
statement. The second part of the
question regarding the cracking of
spark plug porcelains is answered as
follows. There is more or less vi-
bration in a Ford motor at all speeds.
There is a particular speed at which
there is more vibration than at any
other. On some cars this excessive
vibration occurs at a rate of speed
of about seventeen miles per hour.
On some others it is a little higher.
This would account for the tendency

to break porcelains as is frequently '

the case in Ford cars—E. 0. Sauce,
M. A. 0.

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TAX ON BONDED STOCKS

Does a. person need pay special tax on
full blooded stock that he keeps for the
improvement of his own herd and not be
a. member of a Breeders’ Association?
Also give No. of volume Statute and page
for the benefit of furthur investigation.
Please answer in next issue if possible.
ﬁmgs ﬁruzly,‘ H. A. Rae, Beaverton, Mlch..

18th, relative to a special tax on full,
blooded stock.

The constitution and laws of the
State of Michigan require that all
property shall be assessed for pur—
pose of taxation at its true cash val—
ue; therefore the owner of full blood-
ed stock should be required to pay
taxes on the actual value of the
stock, the same as on any other
class of property—Board of State
Tax Commissioners, B. F. Burtless,
Secretary.

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clan-”in mm for urmm': .' ' .
all 05:11»:an :1: reuse“! {or Informstlon sources“ to this document. Ween

We have your letter of December '

It’duewﬁ’ 0%

every day traubl

CONCRETE GRANABY

I’ve been building cement granary
this fall and I would like to know irony

of the patrons boys had any exer erlonco
ln keepn grain in such a. hull
wish or rat r Will have to line th blue

with lumber to keep the grain array from
the cement or put it rigt on the ﬂoor.
that has tried this

Now, if someone

. would give me some advice throng; the

paper I would appreciate it. --W H..
Walker-ville.

It is a very common practice to.
keep grains in bins having concrete
floors without the use 01' any wooden.
ﬂooring to keep the grain away from
the concrete. If the floor were made
of a very lean mixture, and, there
fore, porou’s, and it it were located

‘where the natural drainage Was bad,

there might be some necessity for us-
ing a wood covering but usually there
is no necessity Wlhatever for it- Neith-
er Will there he need for a. wooden lin-
ing when the granary walls are made
of concrete. This is proved by the
fact that hundreds of. concrete grain
elevators are in. daily mic and are
keeping grain in a first-class condi-
tion. All that '15 necessary is that the
walls be made of a. reasonably good
quality of concrete. We might men-
tion in this connection that practical-
ly every grain elevator of over 100,-
000 bushels capacity which has been
built during the past six years has
been of concrete.——'—A. J. M. Curtis.
Manager Farm and Cement Products
Bureau, Portland Cement As’sn.

 

INFORMATION FOR TI-[E CENSUS

Will you lei; me know why it is that
in the government census the valuation
of farm property is taken while the city

property, that Is, what is not for farm
purposes. is not asked for?——M. AZ, Lin-
col-n, Mich.

The census law does not provide
for the census of property that is
not producing something. The law
says the census shall be restricted to
inquiries relating to population. to
agriculture, to manufacture, to for-
estry, and forest products, nd to
mines and quarries. A far is a
factory in the sense that it is pro-
ducing something, whereas a city
home and its surroundings 'is merely
a place of habitation.

Questions relating to agriculture
include name, color, sex, country of
birth. Of occupant of. each farm.
tenure,'acreage of farm, acreage-of
woodland, value, of farm and
provements, and the encumbrance
thereon, value of farm implements,
number of live stock on farms, ranch-
es and elsewhere, and the acreage of
crops and the quantities of crops
and other farm products for the year
ending December 31st next preced-

phomful .«untlou elven M

_ which they are kept.

im- .

  
     
  

terprises.
, the cam
vested 111 such enterprises ~Edltar.

here ‘0 “ll" you.)

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COST OF WINTER FEEDING

I have a. friend who has two horses. ‘

four coWs and a. year-old calf and wants
me to take them and let them run with
I keep my cattle in the barn
every night and give them good “oats,
straw and 1111 the shocked corn fodder
the can eat, and salt and water. What
is two'rth to feed and take care of these

seven head of stock a month as he wants .

me to keep them till grass this spring?
The cows are dry and not giving milk at
all. Please give me advice. -—A. E. 0.,
Saginaw County.

It is rather difficult, according to
Prof. M. “A. Brown, of M. A. 0., it
not ‘lmpossible‘ to estimate the
monthly cost of handling this stock,
as much willdepend' upon the amount“
of feed fed them and the condition in
Furthermore,
the amount of stalks and straw fed
to them will depend a great deal_on>
their quality.
ﬁgure this to both parties would be
to make a careful estimate of the
amount of. straw and stalks that
these cattle and horses consume and
then let the owner of the stock pay
the man who is caring for them for
the feed at market price. Straw
with us is worth from $10 to $12
pér ton on our local market.

This arrangement would not take
into consideration the labor of car-
ing for them which would not need
to be considered if the feeds were
paid for at a pr1ce such as they would
demand it hauled to market as, in
addition to saving the labor of haul-

‘ing the feed to town, the caretaker
would also have the manure left on

his place.

 

HOW TO FEED MOLASSES'

Could you tell me how to feed molas-
ses? Should itbe bediluted and how much
should be fed to horses and cattle?—-—-Sub-
Scriber.

In using the heavy molasses usual-
ly sold for feeding purposes one
should add from one to two parts or
water for every portion of molasses,
says Prof. A. C. Andersonr of M. A.
C. Stir this thoroughly and in the
case of cattle pour the material on
the silage and grain or sprinkle it
upon the rough feed. In using mo-
lasses for horses it is almost always
sprinkled on the hay or straw. In
feeding beet sugar molasses one
should usually limit his feeding op-
erations to one pint per day. Double
this amount however, may be fed in
the case of cane molasses. In all
instances begin with small portions
and gradually increase to the desir-
ed quantity.

 

SENSE AND NONSENSE

 

 

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.Elg‘ggevitf
- ' w11.1. GROW wmcs .

Mr. Butterfly—Mr. Caterpiller is
not sporty these days.

Mr. Moth—No, but he will be very
ﬂy later In the season.

 

Reckless Doctoring
Doctor: “Madam, I shall have to
paint your husband’ 5 throat with 11l-
trate of silver. ". .
Proﬂteer’m Wife:
trate o! 'gold,-doctor.
is quite immaterial."

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The expense

 

Preparedness
Wifle—Q—“Dear John. mother was
so pleased with all those nice things

me.

 

you said about her in your- letter to a
You see, she Opened it by mls-’

The Awful German > Language
Jud Tunkins says he has no ob-
jection to German music. What he

frets over is the German words that.

go with the music. \

 

A Suggestion
Perhaps the United States would
accept a. non—resident membership

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LIKE ‘Lors or us

Mrs. Fly—The old hypocrite, he
told me he never went near that

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The Thrifty Scot

  

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Bix—“I wonder why a. Scotchmen
have

Earning His Best
“Some oﬂlceholders are not very
industrious."
’ “Well,” explained Senator Sorgh-
um, “after a man has been running
for oﬂice he's liable to feel tired
enough for a good, long rest.”

 

The Usual Distinction

.. “‘Don’t you admire determination ‘
In a. man’s character?”

“That depends. If it brings suc-
cess I praisé it as splendid persever-
ance. If a. failure, I denounce it as

, ; confounded obstinacy.”

 

 

  
  
   
  
 

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.~ gain": grandad a' vacation of . two

Weeks ...war a Christmas an’ New

. rem y'know. I jest thought I'd go

at it an’ solve this hull dum question

» ,ofhig‘h‘cost of living' an’ some other;
things, that have been a. puszlin’ so

many of our prominent men an’ wo-

. , men, as well as investigatin' commit-a"
tees, for some considerable time.

I“ spent sleepless days an' restful

' nights a lookin’ round an’ by keep?

ing my eyes open an’ my mouth shut,
I have-‘ to my dwn satisfaction , at
least, learned quite‘a considerable.
Of course, as everybody who has, to
buy anything knows, prices on most
everything, sugar an" whiskey in-
cluded, is a little. high—quite high I
might say—but the. cast of high liv-
in’ is adarn sight higher an’ right
here is where the trouble—a hull lot
of‘it anyway,vcomes in. .

I found clerks drawin' twenty to
thirty dollars a week, had to have
the ﬁnest clothes made, why they
think nothin’ of payin' seventy-five
to‘a hundred dollars for a suit of
clothes, ﬁfteen to. eighteen dollars
each for silk shirts, four dollars for
a tie, ﬁfteen dollars for a hat, ﬁfteen
to twenty dollars for a pair of shoes.

two to three dollars a pair for silk_

socks—oh, they must dress like pea-
cocks y’know or folks’ll think they’re
cheap skates dont'che know An’ by
jingo, their Wives have to go ’em
one better in matters of dress, or that
hateful Mrs. So and So may be a

‘wearin somethin.’ costin’ a little

moment so be entitled toturn up
her little snub nose when she meets
Mrs. thirty dollar‘a week clerk an’
that wouldn't do at all don’tcha see.

Now the man .who employs Mr.
clerk an’ who mebbe is worth, ﬁn-
ancially, considerable more than he.

'will manage to wiggle along on a

35 or 40 dollar suit of clothes, a $3
hat, a $2 or $3 shirt, at 75c tie and
shoes costin' not more’n $6 or $8
an’ seems jest’s if he looked ’bout as
well dressed an' feels "bout as com-
fy as his thirty doll‘ar clerk, even if
he don't happen to be weardn’ silk

‘s-ox an' silk shirt an' everything.

Then I go in the butcher shop—-
Mr. Clerk comes in an’ he must have
the finest cuts of meat, sirloin ‘ or
porterhouse "‘cut thick y’know and
trimmed up all slick and nice an’
please wrap it up in two papers."
on, they’re particler all right, an’
then in comes Mr. Employer an’ he
says “got a good soup bone today?”
“Well send 'er up an’ say jest gim-
me a pound or two of liver will, ya?
I'll take it right along because I
want it for my supper y’know.”

Now it’s a well known fact that
the cheaper cuts of meat contains
the most nourishment but Mr. Clerk
ainft after nourishment, he's got the
money an’ he wants to spend it,‘an'
nothin’ cheap about him, he's got to
keep up appearances y’see an’ how
£31111 ?he do it on soup bonds or liver,

11 ,

In these days of high prices, the
thrifty farmer is spoken of in terms

(of awe, an’ with bated breath (or

breath otherwise perfumed) our city
friends will say “jest look at the ol’
farmers. they’re a gittin’ rich an’
makin’ money so fast they have to
come to town with a truck load of'it
every few days cause they ain’t got
room on the farm to store it an’ have
to bank it real often.”:—that's about
what our friends think, whether they
say it or not. ,

Well, take it for granted the farm-
ers.xas a whole. have saved a little
money— you probably have noticed
that, rich as they are thought to be,
most of 'em drives a “Henry’s
Pride” otherwise known as ~“Tin

Lizzies,” an'4 seem jest about . as .

happy‘as though thew wuz drivin'

. automobiles. ‘ _

,But' the twenty—ﬁve dollar a «week
clerk" don't'drive no .Tin Lizzie, not

' _ o‘nffraur life, .he‘wants a .44 calibre,‘

- 1:2 cylinders"high-'jumpin" car-+-one "
* 'thatillggo. better’n a mile a minute
. ‘_”W‘1i9il,8he’s"<_m low. somethi‘n’ costin’
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“of“shees. for which she. had» paid $8
in “germane; i'l‘h‘eywere jest what
”the F. C. lady :wanted, so‘ she went
down town, to ‘iind some like ’em.

“A'Goin'riiuto her favorite shoe store,
"she was '-sh0wn some shoes that look-

ed"'exaCtly like her friends, but they
wuzjonly $6‘an’-she must have $8

"senses. Wallfthe dealer bein" wise
T to. women’s .my, son “now madam,

I have no shoes of that style at $8
today but come in tomorrow after-
noon an’ I’ll have 'em,” he sez.

'Boon’s the lady went out he jest
'marked $8 on the box, laid ’em away
an’ when she came back next day
the shoes were ready for her an'
she took ’em, an' went away happy
in. the belief that she had her eight
dollar shoes, an' the dealer was hap-
py cause he’d pleased a good custom-
-er‘——but_jest the same he’s more con-
vinced than ever that “there’s one
born every minute,” “and they’re get-
tin’ more numerous every day.

I have mentioned Mr. Clerk here, i

but what I have said regarding Mr.

' and Mrs. Clerk applies to workers in

general—of. course there are excep-
tions but the fact remains that peo-
ple of small incomes, comparatively
speaking are in trying to keep up
appearances. living beyond their
means, and in always demanding
high priced goods, are keeping the
cost of living unreasonably high and
also unnecessarily high. We could
alllive cheaper if. we would an’ be
jest as happy too—Uncle Rube.

 

What the Neighbors Say:

COST OF PRODUCTION

We will vote 'for any man who thor-
oughly understands farming and is
familiar with cost of production and
who'will do all he can to secure for
the' farmers a square deal on a cost
basis. .

We also agree with you that it is
necessary to have a large representa-

 

' tion in the state legislature to back

up 3' governor and be composed of
men who are not afraid to act as they
see best. ~

The virgin fertility of the soil is
giving out on many of our farms and
we are confronted with the necessity
of using commercial fertilizers, and
the. steady rising prices of machinery
mean higher production cost for us.
It is time we were figuring what it
costs us to raisa a crop and get to-
gether and organize for the purpose
of marketing and asking a price
which will at least cover the average
cost of production.

. I believe it is time that we were
looking up our men to represent us
and single them out and that it is the
duty 01 every farmer to get busy.~
J. T,, Bentley, Mich.

 

With Mr. L. Whitney Watkins and
Mrs. Dora. Stockman on the Board of
Agriculture, .we hope to see ,our agricul-
tural college taking an even greater in-
terest than in the past in the study of
producing costs on the farm. There is a
great deal to be done along this line, and
if it is a matter that can be aided by
legislation, by all means we want men
who can be trusted to take the necessary
steps—Editor.

“YOUR PAPER PRODUCING RE-
' . . SULTS"

, Our first choice for governor is
Herbert F. Baker, also we must put
in. some men who are in sympathy
with our aims. ‘Look the way tax-
es are soaring. Go to any city and
every third man you, meet is some
petty ofﬁcer living on the producer.
Our- legislatures, every time they

.meet, must ﬁnd some soft jobs for

their henchmen. Soon there will ,be,
no producers but all officers. Is it not
time to fcall .a halt? -Your_paper is
producing»~results in the minds of
the farmers. of - this township.—
Jfohn H. Shamer‘Essewv-ille, Mich.

I————!—"—‘--y—-_—Q - _ . .
You willhe‘ intereStedP- in the article on
another page of this. issue. “State taxes
increased 1.800 :per cent in 24 years.” It
IS time to call. a ~halt. The wealth of
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since it is a very serious and practical prose
song, the engine shall here be called strictly
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farm life more than ever worth while.

International quality in general and International
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GENESEE—dilarrmers are ﬁlling their
iceshousesuworking up Wood; a. few are
. husklng corn. and several are doing team-
ing. The weather is m11:der and we halve
had a..- 'llght- arrow. The soil is frozen quite
deep. Earmers are some potatoes,
hay and live stock. Auction sales are
still quite plentiful and prices received

aregood. although not as: :hlgh as last
fall. The farmers are going to take an
active part in- politics from now on, and
will stand solidly ‘rbehind Milo Campbell;
as the darmers’zrcandldate for governor.—
tC.-W. S. The following prices were paid

Flint: —Whea.t: Spring. 82.50; red,
82. 40;- White, :2 3-8 corn, 8.1. 40, :oats 911':
rye, 8'1. 65; hay, No.1 timothy, 824 to
827 ;-No. 1 light mixed, 821 .to 824; beans
pea, 86. 75; red kidney 811:potatoes, 82
to 82. 25;- onions, 86' .50 cabbage, 85 11le

ers. .;24 ducks, 32;. geese, 28; turkeys, ‘40
butter: creamery, 70 to 73; dairy,o 68 to'
72; eggs, 75 to 78; she eep, 87 88;
almbs 810 to 811; hogs, 814.50 -to 814. 60;
beef steers, 88 to. 89; beef cows, 86 to
87. $03250. veal calves. 18 to 19; apples”, 82. 50
to

 

. JACKSON, (E. )——-The farmers are not
selling much of anything. They are hold-
ing their rye for a. higher price. The
weather has been very good this winter.
We had a heavy snow storm the 8th of
January. Farmers are not building.
Taxes too high. One farmer did "start to
build a barn this winter-.40x70 feet'and a
cyclone blew it down before it was ﬁn—
ished. killing one ..man ——.B. T. The fol-
lowing prices were paid at Jackson. —
Wheat, 82‘ 30; oats, 85; rye, $1.70; beans
86. 5'0 hay,.86 rye-straw, 8,11 .Wheats
straw, 8111 oat-straw, 811.; potatoes, .;82

hens, 23c; springers, 23; butter, 64', but -
terfat. 70';e em 75; beef steers, 10; best
cows, 7:; weal calves, 18;;sheep, 9, lambs
18: hogs, 12 1-4. -'

 

MAN-ISTEE, (N. —)—Not much. doing 1n;
these parts; a few potatoes going to mar-
:ket, a few hogs and chickens 11130, "but

1that is all. The weather is .rough and
gsome snow. The ground is frozen. Some
Some

nfamem'are.mylnf .to 4103 a- -.l.lttle.
1 are hauling.gra.ve but not much doing as
1the roads 'are either bare or "111-111..de
,.C H. 'Ph rfolloswing': prices ':Nvere paid.
"at. Bear. Lakei—sWheat, {:82 corn, --81. 40' ,
ioats 90; rye, 81. 25.; hey. No.1 timothy,
135;No.1 light mixed, '32- ,1traw=rye; 10;:
wheat—oat 12' beans: Pea, 86; red 1:11-
.. ':potatoes, 1824.504; Hhensﬂ 20;
1sprlngers,.20; ..hutter. .55.;- butterfat, .63;
:eggs,. ES'r'lrog's; '12 ; :be‘e‘f' 'steers,- “Prime!“
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-. .GHAtnIiEVQDC, "(:5n W.v)-441Earmers.a.re:
gshovellng snow and building ﬁres“ Il‘hls
11s the third day of the worst ate the"
1wlntern The loca'kmi'lmt 4132211111. snags
1 amp 2.: Ninth: marsh 2potatoes; other stufg1
in. out as before. The ‘farmers show a dis-
:position 'to hold thcuns: but they 111-66011.

3A 2goodcmany1‘umerslarousrslllng a. ﬁfeW>
lhogsr—-C. M The tfollowlng prices were
i offered at .Ealst Jordan: —Wheat, ‘82. 10 to
182; 08; :com. 812-40; rye, “81.14'-»'hay"828'
:to‘ 8130-; :straw—rrye,‘ 8'15; wheatnoat, 815-;
:beans, 86:270.; potatoes,.-82.50 :to. 482.60;
onions, 50 1b.; hens, -22; springers. 25,;
;butter, 65, butterfat 67 “eggs, 7'0; 'hogs.‘
12; beef steers, 5 L'to 6 ;.sbeef2nows,- 4 ;to 7:4;-
:apples,. $2.

 

WEXFORD—TRoads. are .drifted badly
in some 'places; impossible 'to get 'thru 'in
someot :the .,cuts and still more. snow-
4, coming. :If -1t keeps on and we. don't get
~a thaw. this month which we generally
4' do, We will have some show by spring—-
~ H. S.. The following prices were
paid at Cadillac. ——-Wheat, 82.20 to $2. 25;
com Shelled 81. 40; oats, 85; rye, 81. 50:
hay, No. 1 timothy, 830; potatoes 83 cwt
'cabbago, 20; 'hens. 19 to 21; 'springers,
19 to 21;:ducks, 20 "to 23; geese, 17 to
'20; turkeys. 28 to 30; butterfat, 65;

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eggs. 55; hogs, -10 to 18; veal calves. 18
to 22.
VTANTSYI‘EE, (NJ—Farmers are not

~very busy at present. The .snow is too
.deep to do ‘much but cut and. haul wood
and hay, and feed and do chores. Weath-
er cold and snowy. Farmers are not
selling much unless it is rye. Auction
;sales- are-being held at 'various parts' of
.the country. I think the farmers are
holding most of their beans and potatoes
1 for higher prices; ' Farmers: am"huym’g a
:good deal at theauction- sales. Too cold'
to'do much building—H. A” The follow-.
ing prices were paid at Bear Lake:—

 

:done by farmers. mostly chores. It is
gvery cold here. The roads are good with
'just a Little snow. The ground is frozen
shard. Very little grain being marketed,
:aIt the most rwas sold earlier in the sea-
:son. It doesn t seem as if as much stobk
4was being fed as usual this winter—«GU
:R.. The following prices were paid at
‘Olivet: ——Wheat. 82. 43 oats, 80; rye,
81770; hay, 825; straw— -rye, 88. 50; beans
:picking. stock, 865 0.;rpotatoes, 81 50; hens
'21; butterfat, 65; eggs, 60; lambs, 16:
hogs, 813. 50; beef steers," ' ' '
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ARENA-C -.(E 928nm” below and.
then some; it makes .oxfellow wonder
Where: he has been. all so er. Hay 'ba1-4
:ers abuser: and buying at far prim-381433831131
declined 60o owt.1alst week. Fmrs
on Using whores and 's‘cttlng up .WoOd.
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cucumbers 82 50 ..'doz ., hens, 24', Spring-

:Butter, 455.; "eggs, 55; butterfat, 63; po-’
totaes, 842.80; Navy beans, .86.
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.HURON (N.4W..)-.—~The following prices
were pald at Caseville.‘:———Wheat, $2.25;
oats, 68; hay, 'No. 1 timothy, ‘25; No. 1
14:ht-.m~.ixed, 23'; beans-186.475.: potatoes,
81.25; onions...8; hens-144; springers, 17;

cks, 32; geese, .27; butter, 56, butter-
fat, 63;.eggs, 68, hogs, '12; beef steers,

;-bee o':0ws, 7 .veal calves. 124;". apples,
2 50.——C. G.

~2GRAND TRAVERSE—eNot '-m1rch 4do-
ing «these days; :Snow is so [deep it .15
hard work to get around. Two days last
week we did not get any mall- a. the
roads were no bad. ——C. B fThe for low-
ing prices were paid nib Williamsburg: —
Wheat, 82.15; com 81. 40; oats; 80; rye,
81.504; ' beans, 83.60'; ' potatoes, ‘ 82.70 to
82.7.5; butter, '68; butterfat,~68','v eggs, 60
veal calves, 18. .

SUPREME .130an - DEGISION
LIN- POSTAL . sUSUBrY...453ASE.
(Uontlnuedjrom page '11) '
of the-parties. under purview or. the
case is «important The statute, '0.
L. 1915, Sec 5998 provides: '

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snranca, made onxtvendor ormpou .a;
consideration . or ‘ contract; therébyor
Whereon, a mentor :rats 01 interest
has ‘ 'beeu,'.' dircCtl'y‘ ..or ' indirectly, ..ret
Winfred or‘recelve'd.'“.tham. is 9.1-.
lowlid: hy"luw; Shall? be ‘thsr’aby '.r‘an-.
dared void: “but "in any: action 'brough't
by mmerson on"such usurious con-
tract mmm1mxbeptiahiis pro-
vided :lmcthedtullowim'sssetmn, if It
shall mpear. themamgmsterumte :c-of-
intarestdhm'rbeanzdirmtly orzi'lnﬁlrect-
1y; crammed“ saken- 'aomseasived, urban
is" ill-land byslaw: the defendant-$11311
not be compelled 'ctotpayr1any‘dnterest-
there-on. ” ’

‘YThe- Waxmdonota inrovided.
for isewem percent sinterest, were migh-
estxiegalrmtelz endothe- ummsrmclndod-
the ten mmentraddmmnals: There 415.
no claim-.4. .madeurthat moreothaln .3 181,-
23139 .was paid-rout .by.-.Mrs~. Tested
and .dt..is admitted that. she.-.-receiv.ed
notes aggregating- 81,359.42, payable '
to .herself. The ..Words..of..the statute
are plain:

“If. it ..shall appear. .that a greater
rate of. interest has. been. reserved,
taken or received, .than is. allowed by
law, th defendant, shall not be com-
pelled to pay any interest thereon.’-”

Whether iMrs. Postal or her hus-
band received the ava-ils .of the ten
per cent commissiOn 'or bonus would
seem unimportant. .It certainly was
reserved 'to her-in the written instru-
ments constituting the evidence of
the transaction. In .the course of
his evidenCe' James 'R. Postal testiﬁed
that in‘ negotiating the deal with “de-
fondant he was acting as 'agent for
his wife. 'It. should. perhaps be"n0ted
that the Plaintiff "does 'not'claim :to be
a holder for value Without notice but
admits that .he 'takes the security with
such lnﬂrmities if any as would have
attached thereto in the hands of the
original holder

The decree is affirmed

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is arise and .rate .. o. . .water

: - “tra‘ .
loam "soilcrop‘pe-d“ tosalfalfat. Water
fl‘efel‘rangedfmmJ-‘T ‘to .21. feet from
chasm-race dependingnpon. the. ﬂow
'i‘n‘fthe iri'Ver two endless—half miles
{distant _‘ , .
‘Eﬂbct‘ of Capﬂliarity on -Soll?.Moistune

‘, Alfalfa ’on bench land., Per cent
water in soil.

Depth ‘ 520 529 5.22
feet .1911 1911 1912
,1 10.5 8.5 21.0
4 8.7, , 8.7. 8.4
8 9.0 . 9.1 . 9.0
9 11.1 9.1 10.1 ,
12 13.0 9.6 12.7
1.4 ‘ 19.3 17.2 21.3
15 24.6 21.0 24.8

Each foot of soil was sampled't
a depth of ﬁfteen feet from. the sur-
face andthe water Content determinI-
ed on March..20, June 14, 1911 and
also on April 22, 1.912.. . This,. . of
course, shows the distance from the
free water that capillary action took
place as. well. as indicatingeIits-Wrate
and. _ in. addition». the depth - to .which
the old alfalfa plants removed was-
ter in the loam. soil.. The investi—
gator makes. thesecomm‘entsvon the
results presented. _

“The table. shows that during the
winter months» when the alfalfa is
not. using._.the~water, there-"is anin~
crease. in...the.-moi'sture content of

the ‘soil; from. the sheet water" to the

nintthot. from. the." surface. The
table shows -a fluctuation :in theIwa—v
for. content. of the ﬁrst three feet of
soil, due to. water from. rains or
snow on the surfaces-
change is found. in the waterrcontent
Of the next ﬁre-feet.“ No water has-
passed th‘ru thisto increase the con,-
tent belbw. The lowest section ob—
trained; the ﬁfteenth foot, being clos-
est to sheet. water, is most nearly
saturated; The amount. of water in
each section ,above this» diminishes
until we reach a point where capil—
lfary‘action is equalized. by the force
of’ gravity and. the ‘ u'pward‘ move-
ment of‘water stopsw During-the-
‘summer the crops use this water.
The ﬁfteenth foot is, however; close:
enough to the: sheet’-wa~ter.~ se-thati
there- is‘ a constant . supply) rising:
within the‘soil zone occupied-rhythm
lower~ropts of‘the. alfalfa. It. should:
be remembered that this - rise}. of
water "into the lower levels; shown
in» Table 29‘, is due. to. the presence
of sheetvwater on a few feet below;
so that the upward. rise of watesin:
this'soii does not. in any. wayidiminn
lshthe per cent of water in the!
soil immediately below it and-.that‘
this action" would. cease . very soon

7 after the free water was exhausted.

- Thesoiiin this .ﬁeld‘has not been
dried .in any; section. as. dry as- the.
same section-in the alfalfa ﬁeld. on?

    

“tar that water. table. in“

Practically , no. .

   
  
  

. , ‘ he water from
; mt outclhhmona fromuth‘e
soil}; {myth intermediate . sections;
Dn'n'ln‘gguthe uyear 19114): anal-1911; a
.. ﬁeld..of,; alfalfaonl the-stable: land . died
ton...l7ack.-of moisture; The alfalfa

     

‘7 ms.seeded.~.in\ messed. was well ess-

tablished:. in the teen" ‘. During- the
some years-.Ithe alfalfa on the bench
. notpnly. lived through but produced
:11th normal crops of hay.”
.. IIn'viewofthe fact that ﬁlm. move-
" me‘nhisquite local in soils. that is,
where the water tableeis several feet
belowthe surfaces the depth of root

~ penetration of the crops is one of ex‘—

tremely great importance in the
utilization. of moisture in the deeper
layers of soil.

We have found that temperature

* plays .a. veryi-mportant part in regu-

lating the ﬁlm movement of water
ln~the soil; In fact it may conserve
water- in the soil. Many maintain
that. tillage.» operations to conserve
moisture other than by the eradica-
tionrof ~weeds. is of little value, in.
omen. words.-~ the mulching of soils
by cultivation is not necessary. The.
effect: of. temperature probably «ac-
countsyfonthe: results reported by
severalrvinvestigators.‘ ‘ If a warm,
dry layer of soil‘ overlies a cool, moist
one there cannot be any movement
of capillary or ﬁlm water upward
inasmuch as the attractive power of
the soil decreases with a rise in tem-
perature but increases as it is low-
ered; moreover, the fluidity of the
water- is decreased with the lowering
of the'temperature. We have shown
by many tests that no. movement of
water takes place when we have
conditions with respect to soil tem-
.peratures as above outlined. Now
under ﬁeld conditions, as earlier
stated in this contribution, during.
the day the temperature of the sur—
face soil becomes appreciably warm-
er than the lower layers and thus
water movement does not take place.
At night however, the temperature
of the soil reverses itself and it is
possible that a slight upward move-
ment of water takes place. This
would be’lost from the surface by
BMaponaition » during: the following'
dayyhowever; This is of utmost'ims-

pontance and will be discussed ~more~r=

fully subsequently:
' Movement. oftWaten Vapor

The *trans‘looati‘on of waten in. the

fomn::of vapor is appreciable in the
surface: layers:
thatItakes.-piace: from the“: soil after
ardry' layer is formed- on.»the surface
must be accounted. for as vapor
movements: thru.- the interstices of
of themsoii. . Of course, this is con—
ﬁned m'ainlys'toathe regions of soil
that havera rather wide daily range
ofr'Itemperature.' Soils in which
cracks form loserrconsiderable moist—
une'vin thisxmanner‘.

Hampshire'Hogs Sacrament International '

gress of the Hampshire ':Breed

of hogs has been one: off the

most v sensational u ever." enjoyed :byI
any breed of hogs in any year. Over:
1,00,000 pedigrees .havexIbeenaoprint-
ed in herd‘.book form..- ThetReoosdi
Assodation- has paid all of.these..
printingIbii'ls under abnormal pric—
esgsyetr therAessociation‘is about $5,-’
000:. better :off-‘rtha‘tﬁ it was at the'
beginning: of til-19‘,l notwithstanding"
thee-fact that Isllg—htlyi'over ‘$'II;'1'00"
wasrnpa'id) out in» special; premium“
mon-eyzduninguthe-‘yea‘n ' -
At the recent \Chicago. Internation—
al the Hampshires'in the pen classes.
were much more nu'merous,'larger
and-ofwmnre perfect form than was
ever shown before. Inrthezcarloa'd

DURING.- the-past year the pro-

classes't‘heyiwon two out of three

ﬁrsts and all the. Grand Champions .

in‘the’ carioad'lot's and then outsold
any'an'd all‘ breeds for the single car
orIfor average of all cars in the ex-,
hibi‘t.'~_: '

jfrns‘ single. car; ‘of- Hampshires sold .,
for $20.59-: The; average.- selling-.:
price» :Wasu.$_1 9.083.»: The averagerpricer-
of: the- Buttons was;~*~$1-6.13.; the .3va =
erage, sellinggffpriee of t-hfe..Polands -

was: 1' $16.19: the". “average ..
Chester .Whi‘teﬁ; $11.13;.

oﬁ «. the.

ing, heavy. weights..and~sold. forr»$19,.
yet the, average. of the Hampshire.

was. above the tip-top, realized. for '

any. :other. can $1.501 above the: price
of any other carat the international.
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’ Wisconsin, Illinois‘ and Ohio,
indicate that considerable in-
terest was taken“ in a’ news item
which recently appeared in the
Houghton Mining Gazette with ref-
erence to the forty 'per cent dividend
declared by the Houghton. County
Live Stock Association which was
organized lessthan two years ago.
An unobtrusive statement, mention-
ing that part of the 40 per cent'was
due to sales of sheep, was embodied
in the original news item but evi-
dently disappeared while in transit
or while being trimmed out in the
tonsorial department of some edi-
tor’s sanctum. \
Primarily the Ho’ughton County
Live Stock Association came into
existence as a. war measure. Food
production at that time was being
increased beyond ‘ anyone’s expecta-
tion, the women of the country do-
ing far more than “their bit." The
wheat crop was increased by more
than four hundred per cent and the
mining companies led the way by
giving free use of vast tracts of land
which they ﬁrst fenced. plowed and
harrowed, thus helping to increase
a potato crop of

M. G MAR -- ' "_ 1 .

n'rrnns thus far received man ed in the contracts mm... against)"

the dog nuisance. even lthOugh , it. is
well known that a poor man keeps
one dog, a very poor man :keeps two
dogs and‘ a dam poor man keeps
three dogs. Care was taken however

to place the sheep only with those,

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who would agree to fence on with .

woven wire. ﬁve to ten acres of cut-
overland for sheep pasture and as
.most‘ of them were unable 'to pay
cash for'the fencing, arrangements
were made with one of the local
hardware ﬁrms to sell lt‘to them on
time. The object in placing these
sheep on cut-over land pastures of
partly developed farms was to en-
able the farmers to ﬁnd out that
sheep will do most of the land clear-
ing and‘pay for doing the work.

The best high grade yearling ewes,

obtainable were secured and placed
on these farms early in the spring,
while during the fall pure bred rams
of the same breed were furnished at
, the rate‘ of one for every 15 to 20

ewes, the several groups of farmers '

agreeing among themselves as to
who would take care of the rams,
the others paying the custodians a.
fee suﬂicient to pay for the feed and

   

lamb crop averaging {8.5. ,. per, cent

‘iwhil'e' times sheared twice averaged ,
This-great diﬂere’nce“

43.6 per cent.
would condemn the’practice of fre-
duent shearing, were it 'not‘that the
highest persentage, or 133 per Cent
was obtained ‘by one "farmer whose
ewes were sheared twice and drop-
ped their lambs in February. Ina.
larger flock not kept on shares and
handled in a like manner the‘ in-
crease was 88 per cent, the lambs
being dropped in January and Feb—
ruary. ’ p

The amount of brush destroyed by

the sheep on the fence areas of cut

over land after the two season of
pasturing, varies according to the
original condition of the areas. The
largest amount: was destroyed where

, the 'brush was low enough to enable

the sheep to reach the tops, and
the least amount where the 'brush
consisted mostly of tall saplings.
where the fenced areas consisted of
brush and stump land. less brush
was destroyed, the sheep during the
latter part of the season preferring
the clover and grass growing among
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which for the —-
ﬁrst'time in the ‘
history of the
country was not
only suﬂi‘cient
for local needs
but left a surplus
of over 20.000
bushels which
were shipped out.
When ﬁrst ap-
proached with
the suggestion
that mutton and
wool being ﬁn-
portant war ne-

unable to secure
them. one of the leading bus-
Iness men answered: “Never mind
the investment put me down for
{1 COUDle of hundred dollars and
If I never .see it again it will have
been Worth far more than ’ that
if it helped provide extra meals and
blankets for the boys over there."
This spirit prevailed to a large ex-
tent until after the Live Stock As-
sociation was organize! and when
the number of needy farmers prov-
ed to be greater than anticipated,
the First National Bank of Hancock
offered to supply the necessary
funds to all farmers who were will—
ing to buy the sheep on time.

Sheep were therefore supplied to
all farmers who could be induced to
keep some and among these were a
few who offered to pay cash, while
quite a number accepted the offer to
give notes payable in from six to
twenty-four months. Those who
preferred taking the sheep on shares
from the Live Stock Association en-
tered into a contract which has un-
ique features from an economical
standpoint and is calculated to pro-
vide a stimulant for better co-opera-
tion and for the general improve-
ment of live stock.

All of the sheep on shares were
placed with farmers who formerly
worked in the mines and after sav-
ing up a few hundred dollar‘s
bought some cut-over land‘ which
they are gradually developing into
farms. Originally they came from'
Northern Europe where they handl-
ed a few sheep, using methods gen—_
erally unknown in American sheep
husbandry. such as shearing sheep

two or three times a year, breeding ,

when
cutting

without regard to the time
lambs would be dropped,

brush during the fore part of the '2

summer and storing'it for winter,
food and carding and spinning the
wool and knitting it into various
garments. No attempt was ma'de‘tg
“educate" these farmers in American“
methods. It was deemed mere ad-
visable 'to remember that education
is the summed of experience of great
numbers, and that even he who

knows itfail ‘ may still l._..b‘eyuung

enough to learn from others and air
{on from these .he least. expects.“
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‘ market value of" the

  

care. The contract speciﬁes that the
rams are to be exchanged each year
among the several groups of farmers
in order. to prevent inbreeding, and
as the contract runs for ﬁve years.

~ one of its clauses provides for the

castrating of all ram lambs during
the ﬁrst four years. thus enabling
the farmers to raise practically pure
bred rams during the ﬁfth year.
Those clauses should enable the
farmers to appreciate that co-oper-
ation is the keystone of successful
farming;
avoided, that one breed within a
community is more proﬁtable than
several, and that pure bred stock
held co-operatively is cheaper than
scrubs kept individually.

The contract provides that sheep
not properly cared for may be taken
away Without giving previous notice
and the farmer held for damages
equal to the difference between the
original value and the appraised val-
ue when taken away. Being a case
of learning as much as one of edu-
cating, this was considered more ad—
visable than attempt to condemn
old world practices in sheering of-
tener than once a year, breeding at
any time or using brush as winter
food. Whether these practices are
to be condemned is still an open
question,
tained up to the present time.-

The sheep have passed through
one winter and came out in fair to
excellent “Condition, while the ewes
had their ﬁrst lambs last spring.
Sheep sheared twice a year_yielded

that inbreeding is to ‘be.

judging from results ob-

an average of ten pounds per fleece, _

‘while thoSe sheared once yielded an
average of 8 1—2 1bs.- :As all of the
wool was used locally, the actual

shorter , wool

couldn'ot be‘rascert‘ained, nor wheth-

.._~ fore part of the
% season. At a
very conservative
valuation, the
saving in the
cost of clearing
the land on the
fenced used for

cents an average
of $2.50 per acre
when comparing
these areas with
adjoin in g u n-

 

cessities. sheep fenced b r u 5 h
might prove a land. -

good investment AS above stat-
, when furnished ed the contract
to farmers Wh provide 5 f o r

0
- , , H 0 County. has sent in the above picture of his splendid three- , _

were ﬁnanc1a11y year-«ﬁgh's‘hgegawlthefhg‘egtursigm‘bs. The lambs w ere only four months old when picture was taken. ke 5‘ D l n g t h 9

sheep ﬁve years
after which they, or an equal num-
ber, are to be returned to the Live
Stock Association, the farmer mean-
while turning over’One half of the
wool and one half of the lambs to
the Association. In order to give
an inducement to the farmers to re-
tain all of the wool and the lambs,
they are given an option to pay cash
based on prices which are calculated
to be below actual market values.
Thus with a market value of 65 to
72 cents a. pound for wool last year
and 55 to 60 cents this year, the
price agreed upon is 50 cents, then
40 cents, during the third year; 35
cents during the fourth and 30
cents the ﬁfth year. Likewise, the
price of lambs, when ready for
market during late fall, ranges from
$10 the ﬁrst year, down to $6 dur-
ing the ﬁfth year. ' While the ewes
cost $18.50 and the rams $38.50,
the farmers are also given the op-
tion to keep them at the end of the
ﬁfth‘year by paying $10 a head for
them. ,

Since placed on shares. some of
the sheep have been sold by the As;
sociation on account of having been
returned by farmers who sold-=‘but
and by others who wished to reduce
the size of their flocks. Those sales
of courseaccountdn a great meas-

ure for the forty per cent dividend'

paid to the stockholders this year.

 

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LONG HARD VWINTER
SAY TEE PROPIHBTS
That the present winter is to be a
“long, hard one": is the prediction,

which is Coming from many quarters " .

and sources, says the Arenas County

"' News:—

‘er it :had a sufficiently. lower value,

to ‘offset’fthe one and" a half pounds
extra. yield. and the additional labor
in shearing. ‘ ' " ’ ' ’

Brush'l‘cu‘t by several .61 the .mtm. ,

ers while clearing, land during 'the'?

-fore., part of the summer and” cured

_' in small bundles for winter feed was
relished by the sheep in all cases,
’ " fed“, "
hi

When given to "themswhile‘ hei‘
'pon"mii§edj\hay.i;the _ 99D .11};

. 'Men who Eludgethe future weather

by the habits and ', preparations of

the Wild animals. seen unanimOuB in .
' predicting that this winter will be

one of unuSual severity.‘

Hunters and trappers in the north? ,

ern peninsula declare, that one sign

which never fails His- new «presen;
hat- w '
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sheep . pastur 6
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, ito'rspoagmt- pant a“ " sh itsjjo, it is 'evi-
' here ~ is nothing militias addedyfor-
. few Mde’r'the-Isun," apply] , ,
, 1W ' flirts cawe‘ellas to otherjact- g _ . . ”severalgsources or sul-
" fﬁmS? Tim-frecent mOV'ement to‘ ap— . Thhalr contains it in the

I; V Ian, )5 ‘ster to the soil is a re- , formbrewing-sulphur dioxide, pro-
'D n+0".ew11at“was done a genome educed jbyjt- ..burning of coal and
* tioulor‘so ago. However, the explan- . Wood. This, gas is washed to the
"-atidneot. its value is different. Chem—M soil by rains and may become avail—
ists‘ot the early day explained Its- able ,rorgplant use. From .5 to 1_8
action as a soilstimulant. The “1011‘ ,glbs- are added per acre from this
am, chemist adds the thought that ‘ source. - It is evident that there
land plaster supplies sulphur, 3' Would be more sulphur in the air
necessary plant ingredient, .., ' - during the Winter and near the large

. Sulphur will likely be a constitu- cities, it it were not for th? 111238?
rent future of fertilizers. Nitrogen, ‘bymzagtémfgér tmlzn'zotrsc: mAgnothe:
phosphoric acid and sulphur or nitro- 5“ out 1 hp 1 f om acid hos-
gen, phosphoric acid potash,~ and source 0 sup ur s r p

. sulphur will be the ,fertilizer 'com— ‘ Dhate which ”mains sulphur as ‘2‘“‘
ponents. Recent fact indicates that cium sulphate. There is a (“lemon

. ' ‘ ' 5’ ' he‘beneﬁt from
nsider- as. to how much of t
gtlztsanllgﬁﬁgdaggllﬁg sidlilsware de- ‘ the adding of acid phosphate comes

' . - ~ . ., , from the~phosphorus or the sulphur.
estuaries.assassin: some eMvene
soil is probably as great as that of ' beds in gypsum orllalrlld plaSter’ G 101:
adding phosphoric acid. .. . - igan conta ns su p ur near ran
., , ' . Rapids. In the past the farmer used
tliow doetshit happ‘enghfat Kalli”: ‘ land plaster freely on the sclls. No
no nlown ese ac :1 e ore- ' .31 doubt that a part of Its value is due
“ma questlon. T e answer s to the sulphur. Its probable value
easy. In the older-method ofManalyze was also due to the action on the
ing pllants forbthe amount givsuipﬁur soil in liberating plant food, hence
m eeeeee ee eeeeetm
. , ' ,, ‘vr, sanotersor.
shows 'a. low per cent and the concluJ “Enigma; sulphate, a product of
£101:th gill-heﬁomieinl: 1:331:21)ng I the gas “1?“,er ff used 1,“ tierttmzer
' » because 0 s n rogen u i con-
pliant,dthgivolatiiebsu‘lipltlur,lie (alriveg tainsv sulphur. Sulphate of potash
0 an t s mus , e 9 arm ne an .isanother fertilizer, used because of

added to the amount in the ashes the potash, containing sulphur. The

to determine the total amount used ”(1' , . - - , ‘
- - . rlrect addition of sulphur in the form
by the plant. Total determination - ofl‘a powder to the soil much as you

or sulphur 511.0” that. some Plants. rwould apply‘lime, is a source used in
contain 100 times as much volatile i-the west. ‘About 100 lbs. per acre is
sulphur as that found in the ash.' ‘used. ‘Two counties in Oregon used
Corn-and wheat contain 40 times as 300,000 tons in 1916 largely on the
"“1"" “lame as ﬁxed-sulphur» The alfalfa ﬁelds. The following yields
volatile sulphur can be easily notic- ,were found: powdered sulphur to
ed in the burning of coal, ,3. product soil gave 5 378 lbs. of hay gypsum.
produced by plant life. These facts ' 2 645 lbs.,, checks 2,176 lbs. The

may make a decided change in our , - -
fertilizer tormulas.- tshldglhtlvlviciencreasmg the yield more

Sulphur exists in plants principal- Another source of sulphur is in
ly as sulphates, in protein and in barnyard manure and organic mat-
some 0118- Perhaps the most nec- ter. The addition of manure re-
essary form is protein, the most val- places sulphur as well as nitrogen,
uable constituent of plant and ani- phosphoric acid, and potash. The
mal life. Some proteins contain over combined sulphur of protein and or-
2 per cent of. sulphur. ~ ‘ ganic matter is disintegrated much

.The housewife is familiar with the the same as is combined nitrogen-
effects of protein from plants and an— The “11’1““ is oxidized or changed
imals in tarnishing silver. This most to a sulphate when it is 0f use to a
noticeable from cabbages, eggs, tur- plant. This process is called 5111‘
nips, and onions. these contain a phoriﬂcation , a jaw breaking word.
high per cent of volatile sulphur. The change is similar to nitriﬁcation
Another product containing sulphur WhiCh is the disintegration 0f pro-
15 wool, about 1-2 of 1 per cent. A tein and the changing to nitrates
100 lb. fleece would contain 1-2 lbs. which are of value to Dl'antS- Both
of' sulphur- OrdinarilyMthis, is ob- reactions are brought about by bac-
tained from the feed. Perhaps the tori-a 0: the 3011- -
custom of adding sulphur to salt is This “”019 has given the reader
of more than medicinal value. 3113’ 1:11 parft 0f} the story 013 the T913“

‘ ' ons p 0 en phur to life; there is

amldﬁlnisiso: Slislglﬁrpgfdts ind . the much to be learned, the curtain is
p osphorus . .

they remOVe' per acre of _ average lifted and it is up to chemistry and

crop. ’ ' practical experiments to put matters

on a ﬁrm foundation. Perhaps our

 
  
  
 
 

 

 

 

 

Barley ‘ . . , , M , . , . . , , 6.1 9 forefathers were “wiser than they
Oats 8.0 8.4 knew” in adding land plaster to the
Corn 3.8 7.9 BOH- .

Meadow hay 5.} 5.3 i' g _ ,

Clover hay.......... 9. 10.9' " “

Beans ........ . . .. -9.3 - 12.7 FARMERS LEAD WITH TRUCKS
Turnips . . . . . . . . . . 17.8 9.9 That the proposed” expenditures in
Cabbages . . . . . . . 32.9 25.3 the United States for the next year

_ . , . for hard-surfaced hi hwa wil
‘From the table-we notice that $633,000,000 as cozgparefls witlll £2
legumes, turnips and cabbases use $125,000,000 expenditures of the
the most sulphur. The latter are closing year for the same purpose
members of the mustard family, means more to the farmers of this
whose members require a large country than nearly any other class.
amount of sulphur. Other members Nearly 60 per cent or the trucks of
are radishes and mustards. It is the United States work in the coun—
also noticeable that the demand ior try, though a large “percentage of
sulphur is similar ,to. the demand for them may” be housed * in. . the cityM
phosphorus. For some time we have ' About 20.per cent of them are actual-
realized the demand 0f plants’ for 137 owned. by farmers, which .repre-
phosphorus and the lack. 0! this sents 10,000emore than are used'by
element in the‘soil. It is now evi- “any other class of producers. . The
dent" that-We-must consider the de- manufacturer who come next in
mand tor'sulphur.. line in the use of trucks.
inﬂow, much sulphur is ”18.113 in the This means that: more roadWays,
“3011?“:18‘ theneXt question. Here is -the forerunner-cf the truckand civ-
the gngiy‘gi'g '0: son by one of the . illzation, will enable them‘to‘ use
--.9XD§¥.im.e_I,1t, “$101,182 , " ' , ,the trucks- for transporting greater

«Stile hate; ”ﬁg!" “’55 per cent, .1, variety of Acommoditifes with a-con‘se-

 

:9 7 , , the Federal Motor ,Co. ,
2 6505,01???» .«141 9“ “n" ' , f‘The.possibllities_M-of the
“ carrying commodi i ﬁ3.be;tWeen-'rarms

       
  
 
 
 
 
  

 

  

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special fertilizers for top-dressing grass, special fertilizers for Corn,
Oats and other grain, special fertilizers for use with manure or
without.

 

 

tilizers best suited to your crops and your own farm conditions.
This Bureau has made fertilizer tests in many states. It is under the
personalcharge of Dr. H. J. Wheeler, formerly Director of the
Rhodc Island Agricultural Experiment Station. Write for informa-
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Fertilizers.
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of acres on your farm but largely by the amount of feed
that those acres produce. You can carry more live stock
by growing more feed to the acre. The right fertilizers
produce more feed, which increascsthc manure supply
to bereturncd to the land and increase its crop-producing

A-A- C- Fertilizers

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They are specialized fertilizers that help to produce maximum

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wood, fruit. Good 8-room house.
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Income under aged own last year dome a specialty. Mnnemeukers. Fourteenth your.

but little was $2.160; to retire, he will include Many satisﬁed customers. HAMPTON dz SON,
to quick buyer Holstein bull, 14'cow3. 4 year- Bangor, Mich.

6 calves, pair horses, lot hogs, poultry.
separator, binder, complete machinery .
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live stock sale in Michigan. If you
are considering a sale advise us at
once and we will claim the date for
you. Addr‘essﬁ Live Stock Editor.
M. B. F., Mt. Clemens.

Jan. 20, Holsteins. Lewis J. Benjamin.

Clio, Mich.
Feb. 6, Durocs. Michigsn Durco-Jersey
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NF our Thousand ”Fivezil'iun-
. dredQuarts o£Milk

. ...per Year

5 The big yield cow is .the .onlycow
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able in the United States. The dairy
farmers of Holland have blazed the
way to a successful national dairy
industry with their Holstein— —Fries-
inn cowsrthat'nvernge between 9:000
and 10,000 lbs. of milk .per year.

Imagine our cows- averaging 4, —
€8.00 quartskOur farmers would then
be able .to make the ﬁnest, .best .and
cheapest milk on earth, just as the
Hollanders do now, and prosperity
would abound, dor every quart would
mean proﬁt.
'1 Send 1.0r Enos Illustrated Book-
lets.

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MAPLE PLANE Summits

Elva; "Bu‘ll Gains, "one .rrom 30 lb. 5 yr. old cow,
one drum .28 ...lb cow : one 1mm‘h2.7l.cow; one
from s 20 ‘lb. two yr. old 'heifer and one from
en 18 1b.. three yr. old whose three nearest dams
Home ‘29 lbs ‘The Sire 0'! these .cslves is i
”tut “19.530 ‘lb bulL

GUY MAWEFIEUD. vFewiervHie. Mich.

”I!“

bur \probism ‘is more MILK, more BUTTER,

more PROFIT, per cow.

..A. son 01.‘ lsnrest Application . Pontiac—
imam—mm our heavyiyeariy-milking-goodwbut-
termecord. dam will solve it.

Mani ee.rest Application Pontiac! mead
85a103...1bs butter in 7 days; 13444. 3. lbs. butter

11% 421.2 .lbs. milk in 365 days.
“lie. .is one 01 the greatest bred long distance

sires.
slit daughters and sons will prove it.

5 .Wr‘stclus ion pedigree :snd prices on his sons.

' Brice- htend not too high for the average

dairy farmer.

.. Redisrees and prices on

R. YBnnce: -MnB.herson,

ALICE-1015 SALE
JANUARY .20, 1920

without reserve, all my registered Holstein cattle,
misting of 12 females and one bull ,sged from
0 months to 7 years old. Some A. R. D. cows.
Mostsll in 80 ..pcund class. All number one
uttle, 2 to freshen in January,

80 pound sires.
’ Sale to be st my term, 4 miles east and 1-2
~ north of Clio, Mich.
LEWIS J.
Flint.

‘ Post Ofﬁce Address,

li.cation

owell, Mich.

BENJAMIN. Prop.
Mich.

1725 Lepeer Street.

 

 

 

I «We are -now booking orders for .
cum bulls teem King rPieteor Ségis
l4 v... 1mm. an from AR ocems
5 ileb _ We test annu-
sis. Write 101: .pric-
..ntermati on.

    
  
  

 
 
 

- Korndyke, from A...R.- O.

4 in April by»

Assistant“ 2311053 1101515E1N44 4

'4‘? e; 457m-

“ 5 ...ynu.

5 (State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI, MICHIGA)‘

Oﬂe‘rs young sires out or choice simme-
ed registry dams and King .Korndyke‘ Art-
is Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs’.- butter in 7
days , 3 average 2 nearest dams 87. 61, 6
nearest. 83. 98, 20 nearest 27. 83.

 

 

HEIFEB

5HOL8TEINE BORN APRIL 18. 1919. WELL

marked. Sired by e 27 lb. bull, its dent. en

untested deughte r of Madison Jetske Sir

9:11?st y 2 A. R. 0. daughters Price $125
vere

HOWARD EVANS. Esu. Dialre. Mich.

Bill] 031‘“? si‘gaii-azninéé’rvﬁ

.4Kol Butter
Boy and. by .a son of King Segis De K01
..dams with— rec-
’ordsof 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.26
at full age. ~Prices5 reasonable breeding
considered.

5~WA~LNUT GBOVE‘W FARM l

W. W. Wyckoif, ' 5 Napoleon Mich.

 

 

 

 

. OUR sBEQlOlERBD 2 ‘xHOLSTEIN HEIFERS
coming two years old. «Will be .fresh in about
two months. Nicely marked. Good breeding.
MARTIN mearumwlek. Mich.

wOLILERINE 8100K FARM REPORTS 0090
sales from their herd. We are well pleﬁised th
the. calves from .our Junior-:11 gerd Sim mg n-
thiriLmidihhM f who. .91.; son of

80 e on cs” romed ht P -
tiac Clothilde .D.e. Kel 2nd. A f augullercnlsesor n

cw
sale. ‘W.’ ”Scrum R. 2, Battle Creek ,5Mléh‘."

1.. 1.4.490 iBlJLL MINES
B -
A. Amanmm Easiness;

 

sold soon.

52mm 1'. TUBES, Elwell. Mich.

Eimwoocl Stock Farm Offers

bullwlvesdsem mood"! producing dome with A PR:
0. records sud sired by s grandson of Pontiac

. Lomdxke 4311th *Pet. m bible.

mes
sum .\ 1 “mule. lﬂich.

 

.Aueues'
- — 5 “LIST “ADVERTISED GOLD To
; .2 ” 2?MP; 5.3 “Ls-IMOXCHEN‘p Ales”.
Mich. oﬂer e sun étwo
- years old about 1*! iwhite Mi!
line (aeltod‘mb! MAELE‘AEORIOT eKOlNlWKE
RENE EMELD .end from FLINT ‘ERULT
, NuDlNE e .2032: mound daughter on FDINT
- 'PRINOE n.3ullugerries .15 one went meme
blood as KING FLINT. If you. scent I 'll-
rect descendant of BUTTER BOY .RQSINA
now is your chance.

. PNBO 5200.
ROY - F. FIGIHESL -~chesening. Mich.

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. A :BeantimL3~Jﬂghte..-.-4i€1ﬂornd,4. ...ymvy'
. Signightiﬁnll Pea”.- :Born’ i0ctahen'24.
mm s 17 lb. 3 id.

1 son of- PONTIAC LIFE. 43215f14344111210150 Emmws ell?"
ibutter...-anrl..7150 'ihsi. milk in .7 (days.

' ‘ ‘ 1.1mm" iHENGEIW ELI);...LAD.svhossll
ensueetsdsms «average. 32.06 lbs. butter ‘snd
lbs. milk. 'in 7days.t ..
Price $100 .il‘...0 B...Flint 1'
KETIL‘EB. ‘Flliit‘; Mich.

 

 

f‘Bree’diu. ludiwduaiit »- " 4'
Producho

That’s our. We snake it. possible '~
.01 the $80,000 sire,.'King :Korndyke Pontiac
Less. the .01: her a. db. .son ‘10 Tiling 'Korn-
'dyke Sadie Yule. "the greatest sire of his gen-
: ‘ tion. 5.0m- lustrous are. stung .in.gKin of.
5 the Routines, King Segis . .chgerveld DeKol
. and Omsby blood. ”We ve been at it- since

 

 

 

 

‘11:)06. Usually something to ' sell. Write
4 wave Rams means
5 ﬂeckeon. Mich.
HOLST E l N
ALVES 0F
‘ELTHER SEX

.Csn spare a nicely marked heifer backed by .seven

24, 000 lbs. milk-in. one your“ Choice. Dumb
A. FLEMING. Lake. Mich. -

1'10 BULL W

whose dsm rat ageIcf 17 years hnd

oslving has a. record of. 20. 53 butter, 46:99 milk
milkin-gs a day.

N .GLnuGi-l. -P.a4rma... Mich.

Eon SALE suLL EAL AA... A...

a. fine individuJ
sl. Straight as a. line. Sired by tht- Maple
Crest Ono. Lad No. 237907. He is a grandson
of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke, one of the great-
est bulls 014 the breed. Dam is a daughter of
Maple Crest Pontiac De K01 Hartig No. 12539611
his dam having a. record of 22 lbs. in 7ds.ys and
8127lbs.in30dsys st2_yrs. old.

JA AMES HOPSON. Jr.. Owosso. Mich... R 2.

 

in 7 days, st3
HERALD

 

motto.
through our two herd bulls—one a. 38 lb. son ..

adsms that average shove 1200 .lbs. Dbutter and?
Sons.

ONE BORN DEPT. 5.

1 .

calves are very nice end viii be priced cheap 1! ,-

3
. in; ﬁne odndition.
i

’ 2 all ages.

GOOD BONED
and ten?-

mos: '3

ms 'NIOEL‘Y’ MARKED.
7171111 behestcutnt A43. 0.
tested dams, at .msonsble. pri
TRACY F. O‘RANDALL.’ iI'lowell.

#1.

My More insult Hacienda

“BMWMHIPAWMUL’MNIEW DENIED
2.0.1his weer’ s .cslves. 101.3510. 1.0 .bulls and 1.0

5 . (UDHMMREOORHMWHIO. fllch.

 

Choice '-=~Registered _' Stock

'PER'CHFRONS
"HOLSTEIHS ,
snnonsnmss
ANGUS

Dorr D. Bucll, Elmira, Mich
R. F.D D..No 1

 

 

 

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WHEN INNEE °5,* ...-...
tersd ..Holstein Bull
old enough for service some and see or write.
Herd free from abortion. '
H. “GIN. Breedsville, Mich.
Breeder of Registered Stock Only

m SALEM iiOLS'IZEiIS
51resh.this “11.58200 each. Also yesrlings.

bredto 1.030 lb. bull. One mile from town.
:W. L. MEYER.- Fowler-ville, Mich.

I offer a time; be autifu Hy marked son 0! KING
PONTIAC HzElilGERWELD FAYNE the hundred
thousand dollar son of KING ,"OE THE PON-
TIAOS from s 23 1b. Jr. year old daughter of
a- near 32 lb. Jr. 4 ”113.com whose .sire
was .irom s. 30. 59 lb. cow and this heiferis juosé
one of the choicest. heifers of theab
-0 lbs. st'ne xtefneshenmg. It inhmted
5for :xteinded “£211 gree and price. Guaranteed
right. ~ I we. a nr‘sndson .‘Jof KING GihKO‘RN-
DYIQES ADIEVALE from. s .gr.est 23 dam
..Miehluen.

ready for service.
“In: It: Iceman. Elm «Mali.

BHOLBTHORN

ran. umorzn 1101135 31pm
‘ Standard Foiled Simnihornd3uli. Ge)! .horn
Apr. 12. .One red Shorthorn Bull Cali, bani
iManeh 23rd, ..s. beauty, and Two Short-e
thorn Heifer Gal-yes 2box-115011.11. 6th5~nnd
April: 3111,5th abyl Yorke W Duke? cc
16884—545109. Paul Quack,- aSault
Ste Marie. Mich. R 2, Box 70. ’

”:8 RIHMN ”LLBJN‘F MN!“ ’4.1'O'i2’4

‘ 50 Eating Tom..1‘urkm120 lbs.. 11 out of

'Ar’itrirn’s "UKing s 45 lb. Tom,"s.t' $1099.11.
.ssnw JmlMMn lélmh‘e'i’Mlch.

2, AND 3
yrs. old;
All

i .

L-in

’ FOR SALE

Cho'iceiRegistered Shorthoms

One ..Avcndale hred:rosn..buli,.1.1 months old.-

Price 82400. One Scotch‘ bred

0aiding: “hulls n1 wood mummies mm.
rice .3

mm 75'
onucmtwm , rumor,- "Mich. "-‘

and”

. milk-E NAZN BURAEN 00. Shorthor’n
Breedens' Association have sung etc b;

i for *sale, *mostly Clay tree ing. W1-

youn wants to sthe:sec1:etary;: Frank Bei-

. by; .Hnrtfond; Mich

:m‘f

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MINIMOUN'I‘Nz N mum.
Association announce their Juliuteiog seedy

lior distribution. Scotch. 3m rep and Milking

i Shorthorns . d. it

3 — w... L. Thorpe, Sec...Mlic. Mich.

:. furtwrmcrssormwnmr i represent'i'll

. enrolment: breedeumCm put ynudn.
5 tench mithahest'milk 01‘..be strains. Bulls
Skn-ne females. C. ‘W. (ix-um,
sPresident Central Michigan ‘
éAnsocisrtion, McBrides,‘fM.inhigan. 5 .

.- A ‘ ,
Will “00K FARM
Over ﬁfty head of Scotch sud Scotch Topped
'Shorthorns. Am nﬂsring ..seversl .good bulls, cows’
fend heifers. Roens, Reds and Whites. Write or
see
. ms"!!! PANHBORN.‘ 'Bad Axe. ‘Mlch.

FOR aOILE-«i-icﬂtm’l'HORN BULL GALFES
- A..lso young Oxford Down

1.
'.80N R2, Brown City, Mich.

 

s.

Ewes '
‘ J9! MUM”!

. zSPECIAL OIFEB. EHOBTHO’BNS—
iCawA, $350. 004 to $300. 00.. Bulls, $200.00.
‘..to $250. 00. Wm J. Bell, Rose-City. Mich.

 

im 5 non ﬁgssnglﬂ 0.3.3 3%..

$0an winning Scotch:
Bull Master Model 57 614 inh many state s st
iheed ot— herd doi‘ 50 good: types hrto rt.horns

. E. M. RARKHURBT. Reed city. .Mlchlgan.

 

HEREFORDS

‘REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR .RHE D

 

era for sale.
Come and see them
STONY GREEK STOCK FARM

 

Pewamc. Mich.

 

E. N. Bali
’Te'iix Witt

.....

..... aces-senses

. They

 

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assessooeseeoeesoeelses-sss

...-tee-eo-eto-

Maw WNW
mcm%mn ”stock. are slyly

 

uvs‘srocn FIELD. MEN ' . ; A...

.. .Cow's and Sheep.
..'-Horses and Swine.

OI.- .........

One .or the. other of the above well-knownexperts will visit all live-stock - 3-

. sales of importance in Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana,» as the exclusive 5 '
- Field Men 69 Michigan Business- Farming.

, are *both honest and competent .m'en 01 standing in- their. lines .in . .
: Michigan .andmhey will. represent any reader at thisrw'eekiy at any sale; making ‘
purchases. Writs them in: care; at this mammals men-vice so

free to
.tﬁe dim WWIMMW Lin 5..

  

 

We still have eight good bulls and some heif- 4

   

. greatest her
i mi. '8“

 

LAKEWOOD. .HEREFGRDS

Not how many. .but how .goodi A few
weliadeveloped. beefy, young bulls for
sale, blood lines and individuality No.1.
If you want av prepotent sire that will
beget grazers, rustlers, early matuners
and market toppers buy a registered
Hereford-and realizes. big proﬁt on your
investment. 12A: lifetime devoted to the
breed. Come. magnesium—APE.” i. «TAY-
LOR, Fremont, Michigan.

HARWOODHEREFORDS

qu<you want a; retart from‘ the Grand
Champion Hereford-2 Bull 'oﬂMiJchigan see
us. Young hulls irom. 9 .to 13 .months.
Don’t- write. Come and see. Jay Har-r

wood & ~.’Son,.5'?'Ionia," Mich .
«JUST «PURCHASED 3
manns NEW HER-D8. —- NOW

have 150 head We o.i'fer you anything de-
either sexmhorned 5or polled, any age.

 

 

Raised reasonable. . The McCamy’s, Bad-
Axe, Mich.
120 HEREFORD B'IE'EKS. ALSO

know of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn. and Angus steers 51’ to 1000 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 500

 

 

 

 

commission. C.*F‘_'"Bail,Fairﬁe1d,Iowa.
“ANGUS

T‘liie*.Musf._Ptniitablé5Kind

oi ﬂaming..e :inad5 m! grade dairy heifers

from .LENAWEEr COUNTY" S heaviest milk- pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most «extreme :heel type: for; cmn‘binwlion beef and.
dairy lfarming.

lotxtshipmegitgmgssemblsd ht 'GISENWOOD
stamp
insd in SMITHS PMELEABLE
400m lustnrted.

G‘. ll
3. SMITH. .wmdisonmﬂllch.

 

GEO.

Mil“ "- TOUR ""WAN'TS‘ "OAN ,

‘T ‘ N he sepplietidtstire old re-"
liable Ansus. Homeﬁtock. Farm. vFor 80 some»). .
have bredI1 Angus nettle. We know the goods ones
and heed Ithewbest. tiFBheyusrenbeed. right, .fed
right and priced right. 1. ;.Tell us. what you went.
AN ”SJHOMEWK TARM‘," 32, iibsvison. Mich,

 

4 9 swims: snsnmf
BARTLETT sauces 0111'th AND _o.|.c.

Sdne r 5: ht..- and are pricedvrigiit. Corre-
1s e ri 1 n .in

spondence .s
cm BARTLETT Lumen. Mich.

‘1 “ERNSE YB

WEWY4 GPARE‘ HUME!“ FOR

1.. sale com. splendid hull. calves
out of ’A. R. damswi with ecords. 50

lbs.
lat. signs. ﬁrﬁmirewségmndgmml ,
A:‘I”R. record or 4145‘48 lbs. m et’ 2 "‘
slsciiiiorrisolem Lore-1mm!!! HWri

d: l
.... “rip; “some. a No wanes-Ir *llloh

 

WES

’ 0" women "301’ .
JERSEY “BULL L ‘M 01%|:

.Born D80. 26.19'1’9.

3140.
d d iivered. .
istersd‘Een£ .K‘eOILWING. lAnva‘PiIm-wMich.

SWINE

‘5 POLAND CHINA

BIG TYPE I3."| «O. -GH.I'8. MED -T0 BIO
iOmnge Model and O. H.’ 15 Defender. None
better in state. Priced to sell

. .W. J. HAGELSHAWa Anions“. aMlch.

WALNUT .‘ALLEYAfAS A‘E‘S’Aﬁ'
ﬂare a few good \gllts that I will sell open or

bred to one of the best'boarrs in' Michigan. * 'Write
for prices.

5A: D. GREGORY, lcnia, Mirth.

L9T‘P AM 'OFI'ERINGJ ﬁl’BIN—G
boa-rs; summer and tall pigs.
F. ’1‘. ‘HA'BT, 258i). 1101118,;Mich.

BIG lYP-E POLAND CHINAS

.A.few Sow Pigs of Spring furrow. Also Barred
Bock Cc:.ckerels
MOBE 58808.. at; Ohm-lee. Mich.
BIG TY? P. c.—cLosme ou-r oun
boars at a bargain. Choice sows

for March and April ferro w.
L. w. ARNES a SON
‘ Byron, Mich.

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

We ere oﬂ'ering March and April boars
Hillcrest Bab ng. Big Bob, one of the greatest
progenitors of t a Big Type Poland Chincs ever
known to history Their dams are by the 1915
Grand Champion Hillcrest Wonder and by Grand

the ﬁrst boar to actually weigh over 1, 200 ’
lbaion *tiie scales Price $50.00. A. few young
er .ones at 345. 00.
NIHL

OREB‘I' FARM. Kalamazoo, Mloh.
BIG “PI P. DeiBRED .Blkile MFR-11%,:

yearlings including prize winners. Out ..
1,100 lb. shire and mammoth sows item low}.

   

 

 

  
  

 

 
    

       
  
  
  
 
  
   


 

 

  
  
  
 

 

 

 
   
 
       
 
     
      
  
 
  
 
   
    
   
   
    
  
  
   
 
   
       
  
   
  
       
  
 
 
 
  
   
    
   
    
  
  
   
   
    
  
  
 
   
  
 
  
  
   
 
    
    
   
   
   
   
    
       
      
    
       
   
      
        
    
   
   

   

 

        
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ..m1m' W , .. ' a
we 11 tins 211?.”2’: 11311511le 151 states " ” ' "'m ' 2%? manngwﬁ WW
I. . . , no gave sells on n can _. 10M «M4
M52 811: (also 1411111.. In“ ”W" 4‘3“” 8“ “0‘0““ Lem" “Baxter Mich' a E any;
: .. ' , ' ‘ c. wuws casuamv: .Hm°gms.
Pfﬂﬂ-hlﬁ’s Whiz-Dﬂﬂmk-WOR’". . Have 10 more Cockare‘s for: sale. Tom Bat- ~
I. {sale-«311211111 gm’l’u bums~ 1*pr “1:3. also ' l " . ° - run 2121 egg stmin. A. Altenhe’rg, Alieglm, Mich.
. ‘ ”a on goo ﬁght; one can «Enron. can smre’ a few registered“ ewes of any age.- I "
$1581.72! gthﬁm.LmM:1“t§-e :;MW Henry D}? FMllW»MlIIﬂ.i 111111112. 1‘ .. 0. Ma VORKH Mlﬂlnmomallleh; . RH‘QnEIqWDI REBEL... .. -1
ha" W1 1119111 W°f°r" 111:. 151w: 3111. “mm - 1.11. 311111116 ‘ 20F. mon’ ' °
. . °°‘ YOU 'ARI TH! FUWRI‘ Iﬂ'T KIR’ R. REDS: 16.112111110111138.
- :ggtlglgggﬁs (an hmﬁordsvﬂverythm 51%;.th : '35“ "W'EMAW Mixed by Pain- with: .m fume" of. therstste. I am 0118.0f the W“ Bred Afor. calf: and eggs: Choice farm nailed
.. new 133“} ”KIM”?! ‘Call or smith “but. sheep broaden? th 3131» I 1104-. '
In mot! mm 931. 1. . I ﬂ'ﬁh in e lets get. cookerels at Wmsonabl noes. Day. 014-. omits.
JD" .4“in Who.- » . Hm '— . mu -39 03' ‘Ee‘mm’l‘ that you may man your own flock of Order now for early's 11g Ideiivery. Writemfoi
. _ ° _ A. . :gggeagosgopghlcr? 11$“ A lot. of kids have“ 112 prices.
. 31G TYPE POLAND CHlNA * wﬁgxmgfgon w $333.}... Minnow: 2:221: 2.2:: mm“ "m 1- m 1......
sorﬁanawxresmlm SIIQHIGAN Angumo 2m ' ° 9 0' my WW“ 8'“ prices 30* a, s. c. RHODE ISLAND RED GOOAERELG
$84 WW5.“ HWBME N! 1%? 11111111110111 . . ., ﬁll? WHMﬁsh—u. ﬁst; ,‘mKQM¢&Wt¥Mﬂoldbsmﬂv vﬂich gm '1 fromogoesw 12511132111141; '1: Brim} $3150.52 11 .
W . . 1 . “1“; , . R'Kn 3 .
. , °°.°°°z:°.....°°°...w...... . .. ~ A..............- sAmmss 5111219 m... °
‘ .2 1711: am "a...“ GREGggY mug? 113131155115;th FOB ‘ ___’__}:L_‘{1‘_‘ff? ﬂ“;
snorrmmm muons“... _ profit C meta r as a. r e vaur . . ., 11
° ' cum on we m 'wants. -:~:W 82.? emu. Willie Hall]: 2111. ‘r algegyrtlrgirg; 5151161 out gothsfms aladogmms. ﬁgﬁwg‘zﬂ coouenus “"“a' " "'
March A ril $50 to 100 . (‘6 ng ewes roman ” an I
Jul“? Jun Inns?“ 2 excellent big. boned~ tyne mm lamb that W.’ G. GOFEMM1I§nm.Harbon..Mlcha. R118
. No. Adams. M1011. . . CHESTER mm ‘ "Eisner? 176 lbs. Octobnr 1. Booking orders '
' .. cugsrgn wanes—A new MAY Bonus, for 1920 rams 140105 BARREW Rocxvcoortzneusr Ann
1° - ~ . .. T I. . , Pullets bred flnm Detroit° and Boston. winnus.
ABGE EYPE P‘ 0- SPRING °BOARS f3“ 1’1“ 5“ mint 0“ trio: from MM nromlgem’ _. “BARN-Ur HMREIWm1°Bmsh...Mlcha _ Gdod laying strain. Prices reasonable. satisﬁe-
34d 11:0 hi 1 bloodlines at reasonable prices. Registered res. . I
and’ gilt‘s now re 5% s 1AA so one 1 F: m A1 ”or 11 men .. . _. ”Ion guaranteed
Fall Yearling Boar and: Fall RPigs. Clyde . ' m; " _ . _. . TOLLEs 31103.. 114 10. St. Johns, Mich. 31'
Fisher;- 8112” Lbuis; MlCh‘ R.R EMIF‘BSH} _ " ’PETM .Sm 2 5' 23: ‘° -
' RES“. ,. . I. :1 CK . . °.' Barred Rock Cookmlwfrom Trapnestel State
~~ . 1 ' . ”"2 " ' . Contest winning strain, direct. Sired by popli—
.W‘i l ﬁg " . B mm . m 3 ' ' ' reed male, 260 egg record. Also a. few choke
“ l2 ‘ m . ”GIANVHRRES,‘310.MIOE Um.3"AND~:G ‘Iia'rtridga Rank Cooker-e13 price; $3 $4 Iand $15.
. 51:11:15.9.“ superior. breeding and good quality . Will ﬂnd j monthsnld. Also S. C. Anemia Cookerela. Write N. AYERS: a SON. slimmed. M11111. '1
' A few. ahoica brad- gills Ifm. M1;c“A180 fall gilts . mnéijgé‘zﬁfmgznﬁlog‘lgm Boy for prices; Sheridan Rbbbltry. R 5-,: Sheridan, Mich.
3 and hours, some very goodp ospeétsr-Of excellent . ' I . ' ° . . _ .
~° 21.22.2122 22521 222120“ " ' 212°1°2222 .. ., - POELTRY - ° 1213"“ -1311: .
he W NI. b BI 0R RPyAN ' Dam asu I'tH HOMAs..new Lothrop... Mich. ' 1 an approval. Males $4 to $8 each Photos.
' , ‘ ORPHA y tie] " 1p . . Circulars. ——Jol1n NOrthon, (lore: Mich.
g°°°222°1°7°°°°0° b“ ’“ BU” by m ’ “5‘" “L mom
RA r
° - Free livery ti)” £31131 GLA’RKE 0",},(LLSF'3'I'32 38,?" 31%” . WH'TE MICK 000111511:le 09111036 oucls
' ' ' - " w. A. LEAWODD coesanlm .Mloh.«. at. $3. on in «1.10 911.01
Eaton Rapids. Mich. ‘ t . . "EW‘ 3’m.r QHAH’G Also l)ul()(’ meEer-ezglyﬂflwesaeggﬁrut $401100“
“Wmm BRED sows AND» BgARS - 'I‘llolIe‘ who want Day Old Chicks. should order r' Ashlsy,;Mich1. ' "1
for sale. . also full 111°. 5. of early. There v-wlliv be A big demand; again 1;th . , .
(his name) ig holll sex. llest of breeding. (1.1111 or write year. With. eggs 75 cents.- in your home -town .
MB Pﬁmglﬂb" you wmrr TO‘GE!’ .2 nAvlvao smuutn a «5011;: Henderson; M1ch.° °pIeople 15111 buy heavily or the laying breeds For H'TE ’ROGKS- BEST EXHlMW'O‘NI-{ﬂg'gg
ﬁ—thé King~ row buy a . six was we. have booked orders f r n d - blood in the country. ”ma-rand Coo era
Gilt bred to BIG BOB MIAMOD .llvery 0 “mi 3 e to $5 RICHARD 11. GRETTON: Mason. Mldll.
He lEzra more lhmrﬁd Clislﬁpitinlril Blood in his get u}: lgilw nowd theT breed you will want. ’1
ins t n on otler canon-v- lc gall. ew ‘a as. may .anuary 15. All ta . 2. ..
”I have 15 yClIOlCE Gills bred to him for March - ° I - . r . y . - .2 -l‘.1res(ls..s ndard VVYA51)0TI'LS
and April famgg , WHYNMRKBE ’ . You will be especially interested in the extra
c, E. GARNAM. - Eatow Rapids, Mich. - _ .» ‘ ‘ “ ‘ ’ Ezzvy‘ge'lfgfl‘zg breads: Wh 1:6 Leg-germ Ingpeoted 30 Years a Breeder of Silver Laced andr Whlts
. . ., . . ' “3 “WY' PM ”09"! Y the oultry \\yllllllnttes. File 1111. of young stock at $3 $4
LARGE TYRE E. ..0 LARGEST“. IN MIOH.. \“sn: , HAMPSiﬂR‘ES . gatizrgon Specialist of the Michigan Agricultural 111111 :15 c11.l‘lni‘elll°ul Blnwnin; 11;, Portland; Milli
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m) herd if looking for 1:} bog; Dis t 1% IS ablit . Eggs for Hatchlng—Sitlillgs and for incubators.
. tle bigger and better bre t n 3011 ave son .1 I .. _
' able to ﬁnd and satisfy your wants: Come and «1 breeds. bugs for qullIeI-s. . . FINE LOT OF FlSHELL srnAm wan-.1:
599 the real blg 1531’" both in herd 130““ and ‘- The have been winning at the Internation— A few highquullty umltl‘ (.ockerels 1“ Smnll- \\\Lll'lilll“ 4 ullmli, $3 in $1 c.1111.
brood sows Hours in service L’s Big Orange y nrd bleeds. Let us ilCSle'llM‘. and quote these czcn HI’RI EV Cmswell. Mich-
lord. Clansman Orange Price and is Long Pros- '11- They W111 Win for )0“ They make good - birds. Brown Legllmn Yearling: Pullers. 0n. '
° pact. Expenses paid of not as representelL Prices mothers, mi3e large litters and produce the ‘mggngegothgnle‘GEE; for “m. (1ka °\\'(‘0\'1\a
A reasonable. . . ~ 1 °, l; lice. . '. 2 yr. . . .
best pork which sells at the “ll-.1165 If sTATE FARMS ASQOGMTION ML .. .. "we .,.._
-. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich. . . .
' ~ Bred gilts ready for shipment. Also a few 0““ 3° Kalamazoo, MlCh- ANCONA COClliERELS 53H E31942}?
LAnGE ups POLAND CHINA. HOGS. BOAR chef“, fun pigs from new blood lines. ' Wow yonmn on“ o Arch
plgs spring farlmv. Single (lomb Rhode Island GGGKERELS AND PHI-LETS “ " ‘° “° "ew‘ ”9“ ' '
Red (Iockerels “ rite for pellivlues and prices. w ° ~ _..
Inspection invited. JOHN W. SNYDER, . Ill (‘ KS °\.\'l) (i l‘ ESE
’ FRE D c V085. Avoca. Mich. ' y lllllLICll grade hllrolllrod lf’l‘llll'l‘Y biralS lit l‘ca- _. .4
“ Route N0, 4 St. Johns, Michigan hall‘llvl‘s‘inpllflfs,‘ \V‘i‘) SIUD (ill lippl‘Ovlll. . :IITI‘ l’l“ l\ I)! ( l \ \\l) \‘,]II’H_F
FOR SALE—LARGE TYPE POLAND . ll... us IVOlll llzlllts. \\l' om-r the followmg ‘ W . 3 ‘ .1 .‘\‘ \ 1
China boars April and N‘wy fanow' The bleggil'erl l’lylnouill llmks ("(KkCX‘OlS 11nd Pullots. :gril‘liklun (ililli1‘:::;r:“\i“1:°u ‘ LAUDIA
farmer’s kind at farmer's prices F. M. I \Vllite Wlandwttos (,‘lwlivl'u‘s 11ml Plumb-"1”-.. . 1 . . ., . .
Piggott & Son, Fowler. Mich. 0 l 1, ' S. C. White Ielvllnrns (‘mkel‘els and l’ullels.
. .,- _H., _.. __ k,'_,... L“: guilt“! ‘Ql‘lllllii'ttntn (Ul- ($010113. 'l‘l'li K lrgys
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' Guaranteed safe in dam. I will replace Any proving " , .' L . "1:11‘ 1‘. . . °.
. BIG TYPE? ‘. 0. SOWS‘ EOR MARFGH AND. ' otherwise or refund the pﬁrcgaseh {nice A fog £055 bﬁ’ﬁ‘g’k Iﬁglégcgléllgﬁgm Evokerels. \\lll( flr llllJS. 311:. My ﬂarwood, Ionls, Mlcll.
° A 1‘11 Thirst BI‘I‘OW- all DigB.' o (i fall l 5 either sex. er 0 0 era immune ‘ . I -. . '
ii none beﬁttsrn 4 .Gallp or. wrl y gyodouble liliﬂtment. Only a. few service hours 10ftuggzefgielift‘élflifff‘. or‘lﬁmhf‘f‘I 1”,).0kdel“\pi}§’ ’of B \B} CHICKS
° '7 E. n. LuauAm ”'81. Louis Mich. F. c. aunaass 113, Mason. Mich -- . . .‘t ‘1‘“ A“) L 3“) S- .° 93" w, —~——
. . , . Erileltson‘iml llllnltllfd- Belglllll limos 21ml l‘lellllsll ARTINS STRAIN WHITE WANDOTTES
’ rum 8 ll ages ll nil-gain prices.
DmQ 'a,...~ FEW 8011ng win, VALLEY: RIDGE‘POUIJJ‘iﬂY FARM" Baby r-ll‘lrks llntr lung eggs). \l rite for llrlic-
F gig} “€101! 0 2131311150 lgedngilts for e-Frazerlﬁlller, Prop: Bloomingdale. M1011. groin-(3211?: I‘tI‘I‘I‘I)1,I.n;.“§,°mﬁi,’§1‘ 2mg; ﬁﬁdﬂlmb
or 1 and prl arrow. 11p C. .
FEM ”LL ARM C. REAL?“ ¥%%£¥c§¥3311$2€ggm R clOCKwels (111ml yenIrlinlg lions, ()nlillglull, Rocks, 6' W HEHMBACH Big Rapids, Mich
ChoimDumfalmers for sale. #8». WI otteﬂ- .I 1012 101“; Spanish. Minorms. A V 01110113: l° °. 1 .l “111,2 Inrhorns.
' wﬁrso;g:6§:stﬂl, cums andzsse them. Will Thor-man, Dryden, Mich. unnpmes. Tyrone 10‘1”” “mm “mum" MM" 15mm Lesllorns, $1111; €;%e(10(),ll\:1‘11’111::» f$1181
- ' ' ' . ‘ l"°z°°‘°l r:rzt.1l. )rl.er 11w. ﬁggso a
. ”WOOD .3308- °- Romany MM!- . " ° 9:":ng 91:63 ngrlegg. ”£1511ch OCKERELs, onsxss, ANOONAs, aura lilies:mi‘re‘éuonlollgéf TRIANGI‘JE. Clinton. Mo.
‘1 .2 GLﬁgh' LEAF $00K“ kasﬁ Monroe Mich. barred, Colombian Silver l’ellcilerl and White
.5 ‘,. BUM-1391413181 OF ’ sn‘EgT. QUABITX'L". ' ' ' l‘lylnouth ROCKS; Rollen drakes, price 353 921(3));0 K, CHICKENZWCHERY
. . aindw breeding: including SBVBI’al' State}. I SHERIDAN POULTRY YDS.. R5 'Shorldan. Mich ° ”
°-° Fair'wiﬁrrersr“ Newton. . Bam-hwnéx» .Str 8123111231 BOARS READY TO SHIP. THOROUGHBRED Dmi cub CHICKS
Johns BIi'C'h. also bred Gilts. and a few. fall pigs Some ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS Single comb, White Bali and Brown Leghorn;
. 1 . . Of. the best 0.- I. C. pigs sired by Jumbo ‘ T t b l f fit W 't 1 f white, Billﬁ‘nﬂléd szrred- “Willi” W l t
F00? JEBS‘EWFBWINI ATM‘.SALE.. rlﬂﬂ’ﬂb‘. ~ Master ND... 64687. All stock shipped C “70 31‘9“ Tears 0T pro - ‘ r18 tm M or S. C. R . e ‘1 nl'onas, l e yum O tes
gig; boairts rouly. for service. spring borarlyaiso O. D Joseph. Van Etten, Clifford Mich {jggedfggalgggw 0f lntching H2221 bﬁbv chicks "1d szgﬁoghlcksv $6- 25: 5° chicks: $11. 100 ch'cksv
1 112 gr 3 opnnnnd- brad~‘~£nr. spring- 11mm...ta° °~ H - °
Panama Spec,“ 11111, .1 “and son of Ram,“ MY Haaozcowrnms THE CYCLE ATGHER COMPANYI.149 Phllo Bldg. A. c. MORNINOSTAH; Prop.
Special (“It 0! 011”“ Chief. Bell 6““ A150 falL biog?! Illrrgsvglruzglfmst noted hem] Call furnish. Elmlra, N' Box~ 263' Phone 115' Fonton, Mich.

 

. boar pigs. Write for (inscription and prices 538‘ > on stock 11.11 "live and let live’ mice-a
ltors always welcome. y A. J,- GORDEN Dorr. Mich” R
, THOS. UNDERHILLLJ: SON. Salem; Mil.

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-: Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton. . h offline 01 1-. C. bred gilts 11an two servil‘eahle brnu -- . , . .
' 138... Also bred to lay Barred Rock liens 11nd '

EADOWV-IEW FARM. REG. DUROG JERSEYy Dullebal 3"me Geese and White Runner Dug-113;.
hogs.» Fall pigs; for sole: IKE c. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

J. E. MORRIS. Farmington, Mich.

111nm salmon" snug LAST or: REG‘ 0 I 318956“ ‘FOR “m“ °""'“°"°‘

wnonsﬁfat" 313d ﬁrstjof April fﬂ'l'l‘OW, 1919. ChOice Spring gllts bred f0]: ADl'll furrow $10. I H
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on Mbh.‘ hibitio‘n prize at Saginaw Fair Our herd boar,

‘g C. 0. Michigan Boy, was the largest hog of all Mt. Clemens

Huh 8‘ 4 m “Pl.” 011‘”: breeds shown. Pigs Of tln'svblm type, prim win- ,
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3018. R. E‘. D: No. 3'; Plymouth- Mich. m .Ebab’f" you for 13 26, or 52 times

FOR SALE—REmTIRI' DURHO“JE I“;
a1w1lno.lloth sen: All Ages. ..I.Rliol(:e Island Rail“
and (Tours 1am..as_1 terms. coo: erels. 40 a... '
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lot of sows and yinrthnt: will go on any farm and make a. proﬁt to the pure remiss-12~
' * For Catalog or further information. address Newton Barnhart St. Johns. Mich.

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W arterial Roofing Offers The Most Sensatidnal Savings Gollernment ’Barbed Wire‘

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“ﬁxﬁmﬁgyﬁbei Never before; .m our entire career have we been able to place
Sui-faced rooﬁng in rolls of before the buying public such colossal bargains. For more than ~ .
108 square feet: complete a quarter century we have successfully completed the greatest merchandising Bought by us at less than the actual
7. ““11 “a‘lag’gﬁg’em' and dismantling contracts in the history of theworld. ,But no other purchaseof ours cost of manufacture. . Finest barbed
.‘ SPly. per £011...'...$l.56 offers the unlimited buying opportunities we are placing before you with'this wire, made under l'lgld Government
' 2 Ply. per roll...... 1.40 announcement. Bigger, better, greater values m practically everything now await supervision. Made of 12 gauge open-
I ‘ ' 7 1 Ply, Der mumm- 1-22 the quick, wise buyer. The following brief outline of camps Doniphan and hearth steelwirewith {our point barbs,
' Rawhide Stone faced 801d Shelby are but two of many stupendous purchases, the,beneﬁts of which will be . % in.long spaced Sin. apart. Covered _
medal rooﬁng guarameedﬂtee" uniformly distributed to the people of the’nation, in the greatest sale of all time. with special weather reSISting paint.
33:35, R§§_§%§0881§1:,3f§1ieet W“?,“,‘f“§;‘§§ ' Sh lb Put up in reels containing 750 feet;
Famous Rawhide rubber roofing, 3 ply camp 0°“.th ‘ camp 6 y . welght per reel 58 lbs-
guaranteed forlZyears. Rollsof 108 sq. ft. with At Fort Slll, Oklahoma Near Hattlesburg, Miss. KP-loo. 65 reels or more. per reel..$l-80
nailsandcement.KP-304.3ply,perroll,$l.95. . . , _ 100 reels or more. per reel. . 1.98
2ply. per roll, $1.80. lply. per roll.$l.45. With the award of this completely In securing this camp, we are now able 50 reels or more. per reel . . 2.00
‘ equipped Army Camp,we secured millions to place before you practically all equip- E5132. Lzss‘ﬁgggg 32‘1": £2; {3:} ' ' git.)
of feet of high gradethoroughlyseasoned ment of one of the largest and ﬁnest ' es " '
.s : lumber, enormous quantities of doors, Government Army Camps. Think of GIIVIIIIZOd/qwn'.
w“: Susi-erect rooﬁng, pipe,valves, pipe ﬁttings, plumb- it! Nearly 20,000,000 feet of lumber QGaugOy " ,

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‘*"”‘:.""'~M‘ . $ 25 ing and heating material. We have and wallboard; thousands of closet out- or 100 “,5
' 2 prepared complete lists of everything. ﬁts, heating stoves, refrigerators and p ' .,
. . » .. _. , p we have for sale at this Camp and have heaters; large quantities of electrical 51"984- _New G‘l‘g‘n' .
28 gauge painted 2% in. corrugated ovar- stationed our representatives on the apparatus, pipe and practically every- 11516511 v.33? ‘53:,“ 231?: £51 ,.
apjgulgwgftfogtﬁgé teet............sz.as ground. All mail should be addmud thing used in a town of 30,000 people“ vanizedfencingwlte.5331933 ‘
26 "use painted 2% in. corrugated W to us here at our main headquarters in. Address all mail to our main hoad- mill stock but noglm continuous lengths. Ono
hauled sheets. KP—801. Pei-100 square reet.os.oo Chicago. quarters here in Chica”. cause to the bull 0- _
9 gauge,.....$3.65 12 cause-u-HMJO

a guise extra he.v, pm‘ed 2% in. corru- ‘ ...... 3.80 13 0...... 4.25
earnestness. ....................o - "3“ “‘° °°"P°" '°" A" Pan'cuh“ "W! - 2? :;:::...... 3.95 14 2:22....... 4.40

593-91335 20,000,000 Feet of High-Grade Lumberll'“1'30"“5
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seasoned lumber. Like all of the material used in the Government Camps, this lumber was purchased
under rigid government inspection and is of splendid quality. Sit right down and ﬁgurezyour requirements now!
you can use buildings of any kind, send us your requirements and let us give you the beneﬁt of the savings we have
made in these great purchases. Any of the buildings at the camps can be taken down and shipped to you with a-big
saving. Our complete list includes buildings of every size. '

2,000 Complete Buildlngsl . . ,All Sizes for Every Una!

225 Mess Halls, all sizes .- '1‘ ; f 200 Power Houses, size 9ft. x 35 ft. Chemicallndoor'llciilmm
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able record—not a Single return, not v, " = '; . , , : a ‘ 5 0- man who shall; corn " an" ' '
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nickel - lated connected -Iwaste and overﬂow, ’°“' “h“
nickel-p ated double bath cocks. The white porcelain
enameled lavatory is furnished with nickel- lated
trap and nickel-plated campression‘ faucets indexed for ot and
cold water. The closet includes a" white vitreous earthenware
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