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J: High: Prices for Michigan Pure-Breda

HE FIRST annual sale of the Michigan Holstein Friesian Ass’n, at East Lansing, Jan. 13th,

set new high levels for Michigan pure-breds. .College Belle Butter Lass, shewn above,
consigned to the sale by the Michigan Agricultural College, brought $3, 250, and her breeding and
milk and butter record shows she was worth every cent of it. Her yearly record just completed,
shows-that she produced 1,100 pounds of butter from 2, 500 pounds of milk in 365 days. The av-
erage of $824 per head of the 75 cows, bulls and calves that were sold reveals something of the
demand that exists for pure-bred stock. Michigan’s reputation as a pure-bred live stock state is
attracting buyers from other. states, and farmers Who invest their money in animals of pure
strain can be assured of a steady and proﬁtable market for their increase for many years to come.

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VB]! LAST Ilegislatnre’ ﬂeshed
, the’ State Department of Ali-

' » f anal» Industry—Wand abolished

‘ what was known as A. the State Live.
Stock Sanitary Commission. The.
,duty of this department is to care
for the health of approximately 7,-
500,000 animals which‘arepwned in
the state of Michigan. It is estimat-
ed that the valde of these animals is
$325,900,000, which shows that the
responsibility resting upon this De-
' partment is no small matter.

The department consists_ of one
commissioner (instead of three, as
'iormeriy under the old law) a state
veterinarian, assistant state veterin-
arian, pathologist, two inspectors,
one appraiser, and two clerks. The
Bureau of Animal Industry are co-
I'operating with the state department
of Animal Industry in the eradica-
tion of hog cholera and tuberculosis.
Under this co-operative plan, the
government is furnishing inspect-
ors in the eradication of tuberculosis
and hog cholera. The expense oi!
these inspectors is borne by the gov—
ernment. These departments are all
working from the ofﬁce of the state
Department of Animal Industry in
the Old State Block, Lansing, and,
as the records will show, are handl-
ing a vast amount of work. '

Tuberculosis
During the last year, 26,766 ani—

.c

mals have been tested for tuberous
losis, or an increase of approximately
fifty—eight per cent. over the previous
year. Of this number, 1,686 react-
ors were tound and‘disposed of ac-
cording to law.» Among this lot are
several large herds which have never
been tested, and which showed a
large percentage of reaction; A num-
ber ot‘herds that showed a moderate-

percentage :of tuberculosis eighteen

months ago are now passing clean
tests. This is encouraging to breed—
ers.- as well "as to the oﬂicials in
charge,” showing that we are making
progress in the control of this ' dis-
ease.

The state and federal govern-
ments hanttaken ,up what isknownw

.as the accredited herd plan, whereby-

herds which are known to be tree
from the disease and which have
passed two successful tests are plac-
ed on what is known as an accredit
ed list. There are now forty-seven
fully accredited herds in this state
and 129 which have passed one suc-
cessful test. The number of herds
which are now being handled by the
state and federal governments is
about three hundred. Many cities
are enacting

ordinances requiring

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mammogram test on all smug which ~
will“! 'mldk {within their corporate

limits. f'ﬂiié-ircenircs - much work
from this dual?- nt in handling re-
actors and. making amusements.
Many private or local tests are being
ccnd'uctcdby localvveterinarians who
are approved for? this work by the
State Department. and much inter-
est is 'belng‘showa in‘ this Work. A
statement has been prepared-shew-
ing the number of cattle slaugh-
tered, the number passed for food,
and the number condemned in the
various counties or the state and the
amount paid -by the state in each
county for the year 1919.
rDuring the last year a laboratory
has been established and the services
of a pathologist procured tor handlo
ingacont'agious diseases. Much ben-
eﬁt has been derived from its use,
and we expect that it is going to be
of material assistance in determin-
ing the nature and cause of diseases

which are otherwise hard to_ diag—_

nose.
Hog Cholera

When this co—operative plan be-
gan, hog cholera was prevalent in
nearly ever county in the state of

 

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Live Stock in Michigan

The week just passed at East

ively that Michigan should and must rank with the leading live

stock and dairy states of America.

There is"no reason why we should allow other states, less
modest, but inﬁnitely better blowersAof-thcir-own-horns, toclaim

for their states tho-position in this
every right occupies.

We have active and well-managed breeders’ amciations in

Michigan.

—and yet there are important breeders, who, for the few
dollars which it com to become a member of the associa-
tion or for other selﬁsh reasons will not lend a hand to a move-
ment which is destined to help their business, whether they will

paltry

or not.

Lend. these associations 9. hand!
For put this down in your note-book, Michigan will succeed
as a Live Stock and Dairy State exactly in ratio to the encour-

agement you, Mr. Breeder, give to
ing for you.

As for Michigan Business Farming, we believe you will
agree that from the ﬁrst issue we have encouraged these twin in-

dustries in every possible way.

It was M. B. F. that ﬁrst, on its own initiative and its own
expense, advertised Michigan’s :‘healthy” herds in the national

dairy and breed papers.

It was this weekly that published the ﬁrst Live Stock and
Dairy Annual ever printed in Michigan.
And it has been one of our greatest sources of satisfaction

Lansing has proven conclus-

industry' which Michigan, by

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that those who patronized the. advertising columns of our Breed-
ers’ Directory, invariably wrote us of their good returns and

that every Live Stock or Dairy Cattle sale’ Which has been adver- ‘

tised in this weekly has been a proﬁtable and outstanding success.

We Michigan folks, who are interested in' this business of
making Michigan’s herds famous, so that buyers will naturally
turn to Michigan when they think of healthy herds at fair prices,
must learn to “blow-our-own-horns!”

It takesamore than one man to make a band, and right now
Michigannmdsabigbmivﬁthalotofbrsssinittoo,tobe
heard above the bedlam of tin horn and tin-pan bands that are
parading for some other less worthy states. A. .

Michigan Business Farming and every man on it is Michi-
gan born and raised with no interests in other states to please or,
proﬁt—end every last man Jack of us is boosting year live stock
business every day, knowing that as you succeed and proﬁt so
must we—fcr now, as ever.

——-—‘ ‘bc prodtsmost who scrvmbesti ’ ’

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sands ct hogsxw’m If (11!!!! ‘trom. I
plan. with: the
stadium-.1011 of hog cholera from the
county or Branch in the year .1914
and continued for two years. '
ing that time hog cholera weren-
tirely controlled in that county and ‘
it was thought best. by the depart-
ments to undertake a datewide,.cam-
paign for the control of this disease. .,
Since that time an organised ter’ce

luncheon :-at.. work tea cenwolthedia- .« ., -;

ease among the many herds of the
state, and by co-opsrative effort with
the veterinarians. the coundy agri-
cultural agents, and the farmers, hog
cholera —has been conﬁned to but
254 outbreaks in the state during.
the presentryear. and these wereﬁin
“snared areas and at as tine ﬂd
the disease become epidemic, thus:
saving thousands of hogs, from the
ravages of this disease. The serum
treatment is no longer in the experi-
mental stage, but, it properly ad-
ministered will promct hogs from,
cholera. We havo had splendid as.—
sistance from the government in
working out this project.

Glanders

The state appears at the present
time~ to be almost, entirely free from
gianders among our horses. We have
had only six cases during the hat
year and these were isolated'and the
areas in which they were kept are

being watched for any recurrence. of

the disease. _
Babies _ .

There has been considerable rab-
ies in the state during the past year,
which we have tried to keep under
control by local quarantines, al-
though in some cases the parties in-
terested and local health 0mm
have not been so prompt as my
should be in reporting this diseuo‘
At the present time we have the at-
tected localities under quarantine. so
that the disease will be contro‘cd
without spreading any farther, we
hope. '
This disease is very far reaching
in its edects, usually starting among
the dogs, and they, in turn, trans-

mitting it to live stock and in many .

cases to human beings. During the
last year a death occurred in one of
our northern counties from being
bitten by a rabid dog." We hope that
the new dog law which has been
placed upon the statute books will
have a far reaching eﬂect in the cen-
tol of this disease, as well as rid the
state of many-worthless and nndedr-

able, dogs. * It becomes, the dntrni...

this department to assist in the en-
forcement of this dog law. While
we realize that it is no small job, 'We
shall do our best to make the law a
success, thereby beneﬁtting the rural
communities which desire to raise
more sheep and do so without tear
of destruction by worthless dogs.

Hemorrhagic Sepﬂcemla

This 'disease is one of the acute,
infectious diseases of live stock, up-
pearing in local outbreaks and,dso
among cattle shipped in from the
stockyards. There have been nine-
ty—six of these cases reported and in—
. vestigated during the last year. A
number of feeders in this state have
had the misfortune of losing out!

and sheep from this disease. The _
of serum is advocated. In many

cases great good has resulted from 1

its use. -
, Blacklcg » . .

We have had but six outbreaks of
biackleg“ and no very heavy locus.
Segregate and vaccinate the beam
animals immediately when the .mt—
breaks are reported. ,

A great deal has been accomplghe
ed in the discovery 0! banter-ins and
serums tor the control of com
diseases; among live stock. These are,
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growers of beets.

HEN the sugar growers of Utah and Id-

aho, through the Inter-Mountain Farm-
ers’ 'Ass’n asked the sugar corporations to pay
them a better price for their products the cor-
porations refused and attacked the association
through the columns of the press which they
controlled. The leaders were accused of trying
to destroy the sugar industry by fomenting
strife among the growers of beets. But the
farmers ﬂung back at them, “When right is
accomplished no one is wronged,” and with
that as a slogan they have swept through the
states of Utah and Idaho, organizing the sugar
beet growers into an association which eventu-

, ally will control the beet acreage of those states.

But we do not have to look to the far west to
apply this truism. Right now

and a Better Beet Price

game who will deny that this is a fair propon-

tion? Where is there one who has the effront-

- cry to stand up before the farmers, and say,

“Your claims are unjust. It is the manufact-
urer who should set the price on your pro-
duct. ”

Now, let us be fair to the manufacturers, for
they are “honorable men. ” They have invest-
ed their money in great plants which provide
an outlet for an important crop. They are en-
titled to some credit for having made possible
Michigan’s great sugar beet industry, although
we would hardly expect them to claim that
they invested their money for any other pur-
pose than to make money. There have been

, »-   “When tht 13 Obtained No One Is Wronged”

Slogan Under Which Michigan Beet Growers Will Push Their Claims to Recognition

next season. The sugar manufacturers well
know that they must have not only the con-
t1 acts of the “delighted farmers,” but those of
e “disgusted” farmers as well in order to
make their 1920 operations successful. Hence,
their propaganda goes on. Story after story
has been published in the press of the" state
telling of the great sums of money that have
been paid to farmers for their 1919 crop of
beets. Speciﬁc instances have been cited -of
farmers “paying for their land” from
their returns on their last year’s crop,
and numerous other statements have been
made public calculating to deceive the public
into believing that the farmers have been mak-
ing extraordinary proﬁts out of sugar beets.
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the beet growers ovaichigan
have gone to battle " with the
manufacturers and under the
banners of “right and jus-
tice” have started a, cam-
paign that will carry them
“over the top,” and secure
to the growers of beets a fair
portion of the proﬁts of the
industry.

 

 

“L OYALTY” spells “success” in the sugar beet growers’ campaign for
recognition by the manufacturers and a fair price for beets. Loyalty
to your brother farmers and to the sugar beet industry will win the day.
The growers are trying to conserve and build up the industry by making
the growing of beets proﬁtable to the farmer.
ed in the belief that he can forever dictate the terms of the contract and
secure beets at less than cost of production, is taking the sure course to
ruin the industry and drive farmers to grow other crops.

The manufacturer, delud-

11ews item relating that John
Jones, the sugar manufactur-
er, has just bought his wife a
new sedan and his son who is
in college a new roadster, out
of his extra sugar proﬁts.
And don’t think that be—
cause the press is silent upon
John Jones’ extra dividends
he didn t have any. No, in-
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‘ of Michigan ought to take a

keen interest in this ﬁght between the growers
of beet, and the manufacturers of sugar. For
a ﬁght 11; is and to the ﬁnish. It is net 8. ﬁght
from choice.‘ The beet growers exhausted ev-
ery honorable and peaceful means to bring the
manufacturers to a conference in the hopes
that the differences might be thrashed out
without resort to extreme measures, but the

manufacturers declined the invitation leaving .

the growers no alternative but to organize and
ﬁght!

This ﬁght is not solely in the interests of
g In it is involved something
of far greater importance than the mere ques-
tion of sugar beet prices. There is involved a
principle of vital importance to every man
who farms. That principle is whether the
farmer shall ﬁx the selling price of his pro-
ducts or whether he shall accept the price that
is offered him. This principle has been in the

. balance for many years, and more than once

the testing point has been in sight, only to be
obliterated by a compromise which left the
issue itself as cloudy as before. Now the sugar
beet growers of Michigan are on the point of
forcing this issue to a clean-cut and ﬁnal set-
tlement. They say in effect to the manufactur-
ers: “You have always ﬁxed the price at which
we should grow sugar beets. You have done
this without so much as consulting our wishes
or taking into consideration our costs of pro-
ducing this product. Now, however, we desire
to have OUR 'say about the price of our pro-
duct. We will TELL you what we WANT for
it and you can take it or leave it alone. More
than that we will tell youwhat it COSTS to
PRODUCE this product so that you may de-
termine whether the price we ask' is unreason-

able, and we challenge you to reveal YOUR

costs to the public. ” .
Where is there a man or woman of intelli-

 

.the credit that is their

. would not run

lean years in the sugar business, but in our
charity for the manufacturers, let us not for-
get that there have likewise been lean years in
the beet business. Don’t htink for a moment
that ALL the losses sustained by this industry
came out of the pockets of the sugar manufac-
turers. If the manufacturers lost money with
sugar at 5 cents how much did the farmers lose
with beets at $4? Give the manufacturers all
due for developing
the beet sugar industry in this state, but let us
reserve a'goodly portion for the unsung and
unhonored farmer who has toiled early and
late, in sunshine and rain, with the help of his
wife and little children, to grow the beets
which, after all 1s said and done, are the actual
foundation upon which the industry rests.
But the lean times have gone at least for a
little while.
for sugar, and the manufacturers stand in a

fair way to make up ten times over for all the-

lossesthey may have sustained. But how about
the grower of beets? Is it not just that he, too,
should share in the larger proﬁts and be com-
pensated in like measure for his past losses!
And that is all he asks. He is not arbitrary.
He does not ﬁx an unreasonable price which
would stress the manufacturers to pay. On
the contrary he asks for a very moderate min-
imum price, but insists that the PROFITS de-
rived from sugar over 9 cents a pound shall be
divided EQUALLY with him. ‘ Is there any-
thing wrong with thati -

,Of course, it is claimed by themanufactur-
ers in their propaganda which has been going
thu rounds of the press that the farmers are de-
lighted with their returns on the 1919 crop.
But we venture to assert that if the manufact-
u'rers had to depend upon these “delighted
farmers” for their 1920 contracts their mills
ten percent of

There is an unequalled demand _

capacity _

says about his 1919 sugar

proﬁts, the less he will have to pay to the in-

come tax collector.

The tactics of the sugar manufacturers are
mean spirited, despicable and un- American.
They DARE NOT ﬁght the issue on its merits,
for they would LOSE and they know it. They
THINK they have the farmers fooled when
they themselves are the victims of their own
cupidity. There is an old saying that “He
who cannot reason is an idiot; he who will not
reason is a fool; he who dare not reason is a
coward, and neither fools, idiots nor cowards
have ever contributed anything of value to the
prog1 ass of humanity ’ To which class do the
manufacturers of sugar belong?

We cannot think the 111111111fact11rers are so
dense as to believe they can cover up their
proﬁts from the farmei, or deceive him into be-
lieving that they cannot pay him a betth p1 ice
for sugar beets. That is not the real reason
why they refuse to meet with the farmers’ 1ep-
resentativcs. They simply cannot bring them-
selva to the point of iecognizing the farmer

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as a factor to be considered in writing the beet

contract. They realize that if they once ae-
knowledge the principle that the farmer has
the moral and legal right to set his own price
that from thenceforth on they must accede to
that principle, and that the days of exorbitant
proﬁts are past.

This is the realissue so far as the manufact-
urers are concerned.
farmer who grows sugar beets and the sympa-
thy and encouragement. of all other farmers
will decide the victor.

“That man or woman who does not desire to ‘

know what is right, or will not work to ﬁnd out

what is right, and who will not make personal f.
sacriﬁces to bring to pass what is right, is an }
undesirable citizen,” and has no right to theii‘

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1a, Edwgd Frensdorf will discuss cost of state government,
~Paythe Hiredﬂan‘tomblohimto

Just a Few of the Good Things 'We Have in Store for the M. B. F. Folks ‘

3. Revelations of the Tariff Commission on the Costs and
Proﬁts of Producing Beet Sugar.
4. Cooperative Marketing, the Producer-to-Consumer Way.
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Wow of Sale Ring at M. A. 0., whore'75 head of Pure Brod: changed hands Jan. 13th, at an average price of $824 a head.

W0 BIG live stock sales and

l the organization of the Michi—

gain Wool Growers’ Association
were features of the twenty—ninth
annual meeting of the Michigan Im-
proved Live Stock Breeders and
Feeders Association, and afﬁliated
bodies, at the Michigan Agricultural
College, Jan. 14th to 16th.

The ﬁrst annual sale under the
auspices of the Michigan Holstein—
Friesian Association was largely at—
fended by both buyers and spectat-
ors, it being estimated that over 700
actual farmers were present. Seven-
ty-ﬁve head of as high grade animals
as were ever brought together at one
time in a Michigan auction sale were
put under the hammer. Col. Perry,
the Well-known Columbus auction—
eer, cried the sale. He was assisted
by Col Mack, of Miss0u1i. The pro-
ceeds of the sale amounted to $60, -
970, or an average of $824 a head.
This is considered an exceptionally
high average, and the prices secured
are'quite likely to establish a level
for succeeding sales of the year.

The highest price offered for any
animal was bid by Waters & Buth, of
Grand Rapids, who paid $3,250 for
College Belle Butter Lass. This
cow was consigned by the College,
and her pedigree record shows that
she sprang from a long line of high

= producing animals. Her yearly rec-
30rd, just completed, shows a milk
‘production of 25,000 pounds and
butter production of 1,100 pounds.
Waters & Buth also bought the high-
est price calf of the sale, Vale Kal—
lmuck Korndyke, for whom they paid
an even thousand dollars.

Fred Knapp, Jr., and Fred Kinzel

 

of Blissﬂeld, Mich., were successful

bidders for Flint Maplecrest Ona.
Butter Bay, a ﬁne specimen of bull,
only a little over two years old. The
price paid was $1,-675——the highest
bid for any sire.

Bidding was spirited most of the
time, but the calves and cows of
high record seem-ed to be in special
demand. Buyers were 'present from
all over the country, some of the
best animals going to Texas and Min-

nesota people who have found that.

Michigan is the home of the coun—
try’s best and most dependable Hol-
steins. For some time past Texas
buyers have been. coming to this
state, and several carloads of pure-
bred Holsteins were shipped to Tex-
as during 1919 from. Livingston
county alone. '

A complete record of the sale, con-
taining names of consignors, ani-
mals consigned, purchasers and pur-
chase price, may be found elsewhere
in this issue.

The Holstein people drew their
share of the crowds at their Wed-
nesday session and, had some very
ﬁne speakers, principal among which
were George A. Prescott, D. D. Ait-

~ken, of Flint and Mr. W. A. Chapin,

of Cha in & 00., feed manufacturers
of Chi ago, who gave an instructive
address upon the world’ s supply of
dairy feeds, future casts, etc. Mr.
Ch-apin’ s address is published else-
where in this issue.

‘ General Program

The ﬁrst session of the parent as-
sociation was held Wednesday after-
noon just before the evening ban-
quet, with Pres. Colon C. Lillie pre-

 

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siding. H. H. Halladay, Michigan
State Live Stock Sanitary Commis~
sion, gave the address. His splendid
review, of the work the state has
done the past year toward the erad-
ication of disease among live stock,
also_a report of the animals tested
andcondemned during 1919, is pub-
lish-ed elsewhere in this issue. ,

The main program on Thursday
was only partially carried out owing
to unavoidable causes. L. Whitney
Watkins, who was on the program to
give an address on “The Agricultural
Outlook” was unable to ﬁll his en-
gagement owing to the death of his
father, Hon. L. ~D. Watkins. O. E.
Bradfute, of Xenia, Ohio, a director
in the American Farm Bureau Fed—
eration, was taken sick enroute to
the meeting and was obliged to can-
cel his engagement. E. C. Brown,
president. of the National Live Stock
Exchange, was scheduled to appear
on the morning’s program, but did
not reach East Lansing until the
afternoon. His“’remarks, a copy of
which had previously been spread
broadcast over the state, were almost
entirely conﬁned to an attack upon
the pending legislation to regulate
the packers. He pictured the evils
that are supposed to attend govern-
ment regulation of business, but it
he had any remedy to curb such mon«
opolies as the packers he did not pre-
sent it.

Dean Shaw talked on “The Diver—
siﬁed Farm,” strongly urging the
farmers to depart from the one-crop
idea. He showed how the diversiﬁed
farm, with live stock as an adjunct,
was in the long run the most proﬁt-
able farm.

Resident’s Address

Mr. Colon c Lune, president ‘01-

the Association, gave a very. ﬁne ad-
dress which so pleased the attending

members that they voted to adopt :

portions of it as a part-or the agricul—
tural program.
of the address was devoted to the
Eai‘m Bureau movement. Mr. Lillie
has long been an enthusiastic advo-
cate of a “State and National Chamb-
er of Agriculture,” and he conceives
the Farm Bureau as a means'to that
end His address is published in its
entirety on another page.

Several important resolutions
were adopted. one of them was an
endorsement of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau, another that the
Michigan Agricultural Collegebe re—
quested to erect a suitable pavilion
for the exhibition of Michigan live
stock, a third requested the Michigan
delegation at Washington to support
a statute deﬁning pure wool and pre-
venting shoddy being sold in such
manner as to deceive the consumer.
A fourth resolutiOn urged the agri—
cultural committee of Congress to do
all in its power to secure appropri—
ations to continue the ﬁght against
tuberculosis. The work of the Mich—

igan State Live StOck Sanitary Com-V

mission was endorsed.
Election of Ofﬁcers

The following oﬁ‘lcers were elect—
ed for the ensuing year: President,
Herbert Powell, Ionia; Vice presi—
dent, J. Fred Smith, Byron; Secre—
tary, Geo. A. Brown, East Lansing;
assistant secretary,
Wards, East Lansing;
H. Hallad'ay, Lansing. Executive
committee, Jacob De Geus, Alicia;
Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe; Alexand-
er Minty, Ionia; J. Lessiter, Orion;
W. E. Livingston, Parma.

Section Meetings

The majority of the meetings of
the various associations comprising
the Live Stock Association, were fair-
ly‘ well attended and interest was
keen. Thesuccess of the others was
indifferent. Several of the associa-
tions had so small an attendance that
the“ .meetings were oalled‘off alto-
gether, but When it is considered that
several meetings were scheduled for
the same hour and that Farmer’s
Week comes within two weeks fol-
lowing, it is not surprising that the
attendance was not greater. How—
ever, such associations as carried out
their scheduled progrﬂams enjoyed
very interesting sessions.

treasurer, H.

At nearly every session some
speaker emphasized the need and
advantage of advertising the res-

pective breeds of live stock which
the various associations represented.
The H-olstein-Friesian organization
are among the largest and most in-
fluential in the ”country and their
present strength is due in a. large
measure to the persistent advertis-
ing that has been carried on not only
by the national association, but the
state association and individual
breeders as well: Hundreds of thou—
sands of farmers have been convert—
ed to pure-brads through the adver-
tisements that have appeared in their
farm papers.

Another subjectto which consid—
erable attention was pa‘id was that
of marketing. All realizing that this
end of the farmer’s business has too
long been neglected.

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Michigan Wool Grower‘s’ Ass’n
The organisation. of Mich. Wool
Growers’ Ass’ 11 which was effected at
the meeting of the Michigan Sheep
Breedens' Assn’, marks a new era in
Michigan’s sheeplindustry. As has
been noted before in these columns
this industry has been forging to the
(flout very rapidly the past several
ms. The” wide discrepancy be-
tween prices paid by dealers in var-
ious parts of the state, and their com-.
para-hively low level, has revealed the,
mead of a state-wide ca~operative
marketing organization through
which the entire crop of the state’ 8
wool could be handled. Many of the
county agents have been instrument-
al in organizing local associations of

(this nature, and have obtained very
satisfactory results, 'but it is be-

‘ illeved that a state organization will

| assist materially in stabilizing prices
throughout the state and bringing to
the farmer the highest possible re-
turns. It was stated at the meeting
that there are now approximately

2,300,000 head of sheep in the two
peninsulas, and this number is rap-

: Idly’ 011 the increase. .

} “Mr. E. G. Read ’ of Richland,
member of the 1919 legislature, and
well known and successful farmer,
was named president of the new as-
sociation. Mr. Read was president
the last year of the Sheep Breeders’
Association and was re-elected at the
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for East, Lansing is secretary of the

Following are the
H. H. :Halladay, Lansing;
7 A. M. McBride,
Lansing; Amos Welch, Ionia; J.
DeGeus, Alicia; Harold Burtless,
Manchester; A. E. Illenden, Adrian;
and J. A. Doelle, secretary of the Up-
per Peninsula Development. Bureau.
Other. states have .tried out the
'co-operative marketing plan with
great success, and Mr. J. B. Walker,

new organization.

{of Gamhier, Ohio, told 'the audience
Ia very interesting story of what has

been accomplished in that state. He
was followed by C. A. Tyler, Detroit
banker and sheep enthusiast, who
told Why “we should have an active

 

Michigan Wool Growers’ Associa-
tion.” The two speakers furnished
much of the inspiration that later
led to the formation of that Asso-
ciation.

. Michigan Jersey Cattle Club
The annual meeting of the Mich.

IJersey Cattle Club, Wednesday, Jan.

;,14th and was carried out to the let-
ter as plamned with the exception of
the banquet which was called oﬂ ow-
ing to its conflict with the general
banquet the same evening.

The folloWing program was given:

“The Detroit Milk Commission and
the Jersey Corw” by Prof. A. C. Ander-
son. It» is a. waste 'of words for any-
one” to try to tell about Prof. Ander-
son’s address for everyone knoWs lhe
handles any subject Well. “It was to
the Michigan Jersey Cattle Club,”

' has been breeding some of the

,to Dudley E.

‘ treasurer,

by H. F. Hebert. Mr. Probert brought
1 out his subject as only one can E16110
st
Jerseys ever bred anywhere. Hall of
' the Mich. Champion cows in 1918 were
' .“Thé Jersey Can Not Live on Her
Past, What. Will You Do for Her Fu-
til-1e?" by Dr. George A. Waterman.
Dr. Waterma‘n’t talk was along the
line of advertising" He carried his
hearers with him in his enthusiasm.
He was? elected chairman or the ad-
vertising committee. . _
“The. Pure Bred Herd and iihe Como
motility," by W.» F. Taylor. The tall:
of Mr. Taylor was intensely interestp
lug. He brought out the fact that the
Jersey brought. the income up where
it was pmsible to send the children-to
college thus making the community
better. : .

Michigan Sher-thorn Asé‘n

The principal interest of the Short-ﬂ

horn people was in. the sale schedul-i
ed to be held Friday afternoon when’
forty-four head were offered. This
sale was held too late in the week
for us to publish the details in this
issue.
sion of the ,Shorthorn Breeders in-
cluded editor Halloell of the Short-
horn orl'd, and Mr. J. B. Tormey,
of Chicago, representative of the Am-
erican Shorthorn Breeders’ Associa-
tion. Ofﬁcers elected: Pres, Geo.
Prescott Jr., Tawas City; vice_presi-

Speakers at the annual seat

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Michigan Aberdeen; * ‘
Angus people. '
Michigan Hereford‘ '

~B‘reede'rs .Ass’n .
. The Hereford meeto
ing at East Lansing,
'Jan..14, proved to be,
the best attended and...
most interesting an-
nual meeting that the
. Hereiord men of the
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once. The old ofﬁcers
will hold over until an-
other year. They arezl
Pres, H. T. Crandall,
Cass City; secretary, J.
Carl Jewett, Mason.
“Wake up there, you
Chester Whites. ”
Ofﬁcers of the Swine
Breeders’ Ass’,n Pres,
W. C. Taylor, Milan;
secretary and treasur-

 

er, P. P. Pope, Mt.
.. _. Pleasant.
i , The Duroc Jersey
W breeders had a good
Above: Sir Topsy Model. «Pleasant Vlow. consigned by

c . Son, of Howell, cold to c. H
for $1,000.
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Waters. of Gland aplds.

den-t, L. P. Otto, Charlotte; secretary
W. E. J. Edwards, East
Lansing.
Aberdeen Angus Ass’n

The absence of. Pres. Minty who
is in Scotland in the interests of the
Abedeen-Angus folk, detracted some
from the interest in the annual ses-
sion, but it was nevertheless well at—
tended and some good speeches were
given by Mr. F. H. Higgins, assistant
secretary of the national association, \

.and Mr. T. F. M-arsten, secretary of

the Northeastern Michigan Develop-
ment Bureau of Bay City.

Another speaker was Dr. K. J.
Suelke of Cornell University, who
will take up the duties as eastern
ﬁeld representative of the American
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Associa-
tion next month and will return to
Michigan at that time to inspect the
cattle that will go into .the sale at

to call off their meeting altogether,

demand and with satisfactory prices.
The excellent program arranged
by the ofﬁcers was exceedingly ~in-
structive and helpful, followed by
lively discussions. Plans are under
way for a very extensive visitation of
state herds by auto the coming sum—
mer by large numbers of breeders.
Ofﬁcers elected for 1920: Presi-
dent, Jay H-arwood, Ion-1a; lst vice
president, Tony ’B. Fox, Pewamo;
2nd vice president, E. E. Cole, Hud—
son; 3rd vice president, W. B. Wood,
Dowagiac; secretary and treasurer,
Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe.
Michigan Swine Breeders’ Ass”n
Fair crowds attended the 'annual
session of the Michigan Swine Breed-
ers’ Ass’ns and the meetings of the
associations representing the several
breeds, with the exception of the
Chester Whites, who were obliged

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crowd and a ﬁne pro»
gram. Addresses were
made by Mr. N. M. Jor-
dan, editor of the Duroc
Jersey Bulletin, Ralph.
Carr, Monroe county agricultural
agent and T. F. Marsten, of
Bay City. The principal topic of
discussion was the sale to be held
Feb. 7th. A substantial appropria.
tion was authorized to advertise the
merits of the Duroc Jersey. The fol-
lowing ofﬁcers were elected: Pres.,
O. F. Foster, Pavilion; secretary and
treasurer, J. B. Miller, Ithaca. Mem-
ber executive committee, W. C. Tay-
lor, Milan.

Other cattle association meetings
were carried out to the letter with
the exception of the Red Polled
which held no meeting on account of

$675. 00 by

scant attendance. The ofﬁcers for
the ensuing year are, Pres, N. C.
Herbison, Birmingham, Mich.; sec-

retary, E. J. Peabody, Grand Ledge.
Be on deck next year, you Red Polled
folks !

The Guernseys held tl1ei1 meeting
as per schedule, carried out an in-
teresting program and elected ofﬁ-

cers as follows: Pres, E. J. Small-
idge, Eau Claire; secretary and
treats, E. J. Hemmingway, Sodus.

Ofﬁcers of Other Associations 1
Michigan Horse Breeders’ Ass’n—ii
Pres, Jacob DeGeus, Alicia; secreo“
tary, R S. Hudson, East Lansing VI
Poland China Breeders’ Ass’n—al
Pres. J. 1?. Hawkins, Hudson; sec-
retary—treasurer, I. K. Maystead,
Hillsdale.
Oxford Sheep
Pres, O. M
tary, I. R.

lreeders’
Ymk, Millington;
VVaterbk'ﬁui‘, Detroit.

Ass’n—q
secre—

Michigan Out Aftel Euiopo 8 _Best

Alex Minty, manager of the TVood-
cote Stock Farm at lonia, has taken
a trip to Scotland expiessly to se-
cure a herd bull and a bunch of high
class females that will make the
Woodcote second to none in the
United States.

It is hoped that, with the addition
of the new blood that is secured, the
Woodcote Stock Farm will, within
two or three years, be able to hold
annual sales «of Anguscattle.

Mr. Minty expects to attend the
great Perth sale held the ﬁrst week
in February.

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ICHIGAN‘ growers of wool
M have taken concerted action
‘ and have organized what is
believed to be a wool growers’ as-
sociation with a real future, This
step has been under consideration
for some time, and the charter mem-
bers felt pretty sure of their ground
before setting the ball .to rolling. It
was well that the wool growers took
their action at this time for a num—
ber of reasons.

Co—operative marketing by farm-

ers, on a big scale which is really.

only in a healthy infancy compared
with What it is going to become, has
been brought forcibly and favorably
before the public’s attention only re-
cently. Michigan, being such a pow-
er in the world’s wool business,
should be able to support a splendid
wood growers’ marketing associa-
tion. It should not be so very hard
to ﬁnance such a program. The bulk
of the several thousand Michigan
wool growers are pretty sure to
have faith in a thing of this sort.
Not all, but a great many co—opera-
tive farmer marketing organizations
have been making splendid proﬁts
and savings according to the annual
reports of many made this winter.
The co-operative enterprises which
get in now with a secure footing on
the ground floor are believed to be
assured of greater success as the
movement expands and improves.
The time in the history of co-opera—
tive marketing, then, is thought to
be especially 'opportune for the ac-
tion of the wool growers.

The present world wool situation
is such that it is well for growers to
be handed strongly together for their
protection and for the betterment of
the wool business. In order to ex-
plain this complex situation, it will
be necessary to give over the most
of the article to the subject. ‘

The months since the signing of
the armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, have
had important effects upon all mar-
kets. The transition from a war to
peace basis in wool, was a sharp one,
and prices dropped off heavily. The
government has done much to the
wool game in the way of auctions;
and nearly all growers are watching
the Department of Agriculture is-
boriously winding up the affairs of
the domestic wool section of the War
Industries Board. '

Out of the four distinct steps and
a possible ﬁfth, the Department pub-
licly admits that not one is really
completed. The ﬁrst step is prob—
ably the nearest to a solution, inas—
much as this consists of getting
sworn reports from the 3,686 coun—
try dealers and the 179 distributing
center dealers to whom permits were
issued. The second step depends on
the.ﬁrst and involves the detailed
auditing of these accounts. Collec—
tion of excess proﬁts is the difﬁcult
third step and the fourth is the work—
ing out of equitable distribution. The
possible ﬁfth step is an'audit'in the
ﬁeld of dealers’ accounts.

Many growers believe that organ-
ization just now among the wool 1n—
terests of the nation will do some-
thing toward stimulating the De-
partment of Agriculture into actual-
ly getting some results with a fair
degree of promptness- Returned
soldiers now back in the sheep rais-
ing business declare that the red
tape of wool ofﬁcials resembles the
case of back army pay and long de-
layed mvail. ‘Thus it goes among
some of the slow going ofﬁces at the
capitol. The only remedy in sight
is organized “stimulation,” such as
the association of wool growers can
provide. “

A Year of Auctions

At the signing of the armistice
there .was a very unequal distribu-
tion of wool in the world. The Am-
. erican and British governments had
absorbed the greater share of the
world’s wool supply. The United
States alone had in its possession

about 458,000,000 pounds of wool,

which he'd to be distributed back to
the trade with the least disturbance
possible to the wool market. The

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State Wool Gromers Organize atEasi Lansing

00L PRODUCERS of Michigan got together last ”week at
East Lansing and formed an association which is making
- the market gamblers sit up and take notice. In connection with
the meeting of the Michigan Sheep Breeders, the Michigan Wool
Growers’ Association was organized at the Michigan Agricultur-
al College, in order to put the marketing of Michigan wool upon
-a co-operative basis, controlled by the producers themselves.
Michigan, with its 2,300,000 sheep and; several thousand
wool producers, has great possibilities, especially in Northern -
Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula, and the new association I]
hopes to develop these possibilities to the limit, turning back all
proﬁts to the farmers handling wool. ‘

E. G. Read, of Richland, was elected president of the new
i association, and Donald Williams, of Lansing, secretary. Com-

petent critics declare that the action taken was at an especially ,
The accompanying article, which explains the
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together, holding the ﬁrst sale about
a month after the armistice signing.
These auctions have been continu-
ing for about a year. They are con-
sidered as having been the most un—
ique in the wdrid's wool history, so
far as the great variety of goods are
concerned. ,

The manufacturers were the heavy
buyers especially at the early auc-
tions, and the prices shot far down.
In the spring the
prices rose again and
the manufacture rs
have been making
enormous p r 0 ii ts.
The Boston wool
dealers and manufac-
turers are said to be
rolling in prosperity
unequaled in their
history. But what of
the wool growers?
Some of them have
made money, but
many have not. In-
stead of the sheep
being fleeced, the iso-
lated and unorganiz-
ed individual
been fleeced. .

The wool- growers of the West
made a notable ﬁght during the past
months in order to get a higher lim-
it established, in order to get pro-‘
duction cost “plus.” They natural-
ly sought to have higher limits es~
tablished. They did not want to
have the wools held by the United
States government to be sold on a
level with theprices- established by
the British government. A bill in-
troduced into the senate by Senator
King would have established mini-
mum withdrawal prices at 10 per
cent above the parity of British issue
prices. This bill ,died in the Senate
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of the Boston wool interests, “it

it died a natural and proper death."

Other bills wanted by the growers
met a similar «fate—their organiza-
tion was not strong enough.

But organized wool growers, fol-
lowing their King bill defeat, went
to work with renewed energy and
scored one point‘ by getting the gov-
ernment to call oﬁ.’ its wool auctions
during the months when the wool
growers would mar-
ket their product.
This period, during
the summer and au-
‘tumn months saw
prices for the high
grades at ﬁve to ten
cents above the gov-
egnment withdrawal
limits. Even the in-
ferior merinos ex-
ceeded the withdraw—
al limits by a few
cents. ,

Thus one can get
a better idea of
what the power of or-
ganization can do for
wool. But numerous
defeats of the wool
growers have shown that further or-
ganization is necesSary. Dealers and
manufacturers are more prosperous
than ever and have all sorts of mon-
ey and influence to throw into the
ﬁght to twist the-market to suit their
will. Much good can be done right
here in Michigan, both in big and
little matters. There surely is con-
siderable similarity between the Po-
tato Growers’ Exchange and the
work cut out for the Wool Growers’
Association.

Stupendous Task Involved

The business of ‘ distributing the
government wool stocks has been a

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yet. "P'l‘he federal; auctiOns haVe liai-
ready; disposed of more than 385,-
000,000 «pounds of wool, or an av-

erage rate of one'million pounds per. ,

day for one-year. Neither England
nor Australia held sales which could
compare with that amount. , ‘
Michigan wool {growers sun's-ed
losses during the past season, which
organization might prevent to some
extent. In the domestic wool mar-
ket at Boston last February, ’ when
prices were generally down, 1—4

and Missouri good" wool, was quoted
at $1.10. During the next few
months practically all good wools
rose in value from thirteen to m
cents. But the Michigan lot dropped
of! thirteen cents. Even in Novem-
ber, ‘when the market was Met
than ever for good grades, the men-
igan’lot still showed! a loss-of in
con , compared with the ﬁ ,
February, 1919. guns 9
One striking phase of the need for
mutual protection among the, wool
growers is seen in the prophesy of
the coming of hard times. Says an
expert in the Commercial Bulletin.
“There are shrewd business men,
who are predicting the worst panic
in history during the next six
months. Others are of the opinion
that there will be at lease a year to
two years of unprecedented prosper-
ity. Between such widely divergent
views of equally well-informed men,
the reader may ‘pay his money and
take his choice.’ For ourselves, we
guess along with the optimist, that
prosperity will last, even at the pres-
ent inflated values rather more than
six months. , .
“It will be interesting to watch
the course of the English govern-
ment Colonial wool sales. It would
seem to have beenthe better course,
could these wools have come for
ward more through the usual chan-
nels but the problem of getting these
wools here under the circumstances

now obtaining is a most unusual and ,

trying one and doubtless the situa-
tion will be worked out eventually
for the best good of everyone. The

_ disposal of the remaining wools own-

ed by our own government will be
of course merely a matter of detail.
It will be close to a year, however.
before the war shackles will be com-
pletely thrown oil! by the wool trade

 
  
      
      

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of the world, if indeed," even then.” .

One of the strongest prediction.
of the New England wool men a
present is that a better day is dawn-
ing for medium grade wools, fol-
lowing the ‘record run of bullishness
for the best grades, especially choice
Delaine ﬂeeces."

But consider for a moment the ex-
cellent work being done right here in
Michigan. Various co-operative forces
in the state have conducted successful
experiments in marketing .wool cod-

reports have been received from Al-
fred Bentail, of Allegan. and others in
Western Michigan, telling of [the ax~
cellent results of coop wool dealing
in that vicinity, during the last year
or so. The Gleaner Clearing House
Association- is another agency which
has successfully handled large quanti-
ties of the crop.

Taking for granted that the future
marketing succeSs. looks assured for a
strong wool growers’ association. let
us turn for a moment to the outlook
of the general industry 1 sheep-rais-
ing in this state. As most readers

I, know, northern Michigan and the Upl

per Peninsula are ﬁlled’ with idle
lands which would make excellent
sheep lands. The undertaking has
been pretty big, heretofore. in the are:
of unorganized individuals. But with
a live, big growers” organicrati/m , ,1

the job it is hoped that the courage.

and the ﬁnances can be obtained to
put Michigan up where she belongs .in
the map-raising states. ' ‘
Taking all things into consider-a—
tion ,on the jumbled-up chess board

of the world wool situation bf Lite}

past'year area and the extremely un-

   

certain future. one feels ”fella, eds-.-
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speaker -’at Gleaner Day at the

7181!: comer-1mm Mr. G. n.
. deﬁance, who was recently
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‘ growers‘ committee to organize lo-
cal associations, that'the Work is be-.

' ing rapidly pushed and meeting with
' great success.

. Such wmeetings' as
have already been held at i Durand,
fat. - Johns and Ithaca entirely dis-
prove the statements of the’inanu-
lecturers that most of the farmers
have signedu‘p. Despite the snow—
~ heund roads the meetin s have been
well attended and not one single beet
grower has yet been encountered

who does not concede to the justice
of the growers’ demands or has not '

signiﬁed his desire to join the asso-

' elation and help ﬁnance the work. .
‘The St. Johns local organization

was formed Monday with. ﬁfty chart-
er membersfeach paying in $1 to

the treasury and signing an agree- .
' ment to pay annual dues amounting

to one "cent per ton of beets“ sold
thereafter. The form of agreement
is printed in bold type on this page.
At Durand the previous Saturday a
large gathering of, growers was held
and all agreed that they would grow
no beets except under a contract ap-
proved by their committee. At the
St. Johns meeting about 1,200 acres
of beets were represented by the at-
tending farmers.

Other meetings scheduled for the
week are: Owosso, Jan. 21st; Sagi-
naw, Jan. 22nd; Pigeon, Jan. 23rd;
Sandusky, Jan. 24th, and additional
meetings will be held as the farmers
in other localities desire to organize.

Mr. Ackerman is following a un-
ique but very effective method in
reaching the farmers of the‘beet ter-
ritory. He has enlisted the aid of
the rural school teachers, many of
whom have agreed to discuss the
proposition with their agricultural
classes in an effort to arouse the
farmer boys to the justice of the
growers’ demands and secure their
backing. Mr. Ackerman has been

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Membership Roll of the Michigan Sugar Beet
‘ , ‘ Growers? Association

eeeoasies-eo...,.

. Local Organization

We, the undersigned, being'desirous of associating ourselves togeth-
er in the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’ Ass'n, for the pin-peso of secur-
ing fair prices for sugar beets in proportion to the price rof sugar, bet-
ter beet labor, and the beneﬁts of organization and of the interchange

-of ideas and experience in sugar beet raising, hereby signify our inten-
tion and become members of said Association and agree to pay a mem-
bership fee of $1 and one cent per ton as dues thereafter as long as we
are members, the amount of which shall be determined by the number

of tons of boots each of us shall market.

We also agree to abide by the

constitutions and by-laws of this Association and will plant sugar beets
only upon securing such contract as shall have been approved by our
committee. In case any of us wish to withdraw from this Association it
is understood and agreed that any of us may do so by mailing a written
notice to the secretary and treasurer of this Association, asking to with-
draw and paying the amount their due this Association at the time of

such notice.

 

 

offered invaluable co-operation in

his home town of Durand, the entire.

class of 14 stenographers and type-
writers of the Durand High School
having volunteered to take care of
his correspondence without charge.
This assistance will greatly facilitate
the organizing of the sugar beet dis~
tricts and will be heartily appreciat-
ed by the growers.

Michigan Business Farming is in
this ﬁght to the ﬁnish and it urges
every reader who grows beets to get
into immediate touch with Mr. Ack-
erman at Durand or Mr. R. P. Peav-
ey, of Caro, who is secretary and
treasurer of the state association.
There is no time to be lost. If the
sugar beet territory can be thorough—
ly organized during the next sixty
days, the manufacturers will be forc-
ed to meet with the sugar beet grow-
ers representatives and discuss with
them the terms of the contract. We
cannot see how any farmer, know-
ing the facts of the relative proﬁts
secured by the growers and the man-

r

ufacturers out of sugar beets and
beet sugar, could refuse his support
to this association. There is. no
question but what the majority of
the farmers will join, _being unwill—
ing to grow beets another year under
the terms of the old contract, with
sugar prices where they are, but a
majority is not enough. There is no
reason why the MiChigan Sugar Beet
Growers’ Ass’n should not be 100
per cent strong and be constituted
an authority with which the manu-
facturers will have to reckon in the
future. So long as the manufactur-
ers do not offer competitive bids for
acreage (every contract that they
present is strikingly similar, not only
in meaning but in phraseology,) and
the farmers must put themselves in
a position to defend their business
from the organized manufacturers.
If the manufacturers ﬁnd it to their
advantage to organize and ﬁx a
standard .price at which they will
BUY beets, why should not the
farmer follow suit and have a stand-

 
  
   

ard price at which they will SELL

beets. This is the proposition, pure

and simple. Will you stand by._ it?

How Every Sugar Beet Grower
' Can Help

lst. By refusing to sign any con-

tract presented by the manufactur-

ers unless previously approved by 7

the gr-owers’ committee. ,

2nd. By turning a deaf ear to
the claims of the manufacturers and
their ﬁeld agents that they are not
anxious to sign up acreage this year.
That’s all camouflage and you know
it.

3rd. By urging your neighbors
to refuse to sign contracts not ap-
proved by the committee.

4th. By joining a local sugar
beet growers’ association, 61' if there
is no local in your vicinity, by writ-
ing the secretary and treasurer, Mr.
R. P. Peavey, to send someone to
your locality to organize one.

As a means to this end, every su-
gar beet grower is requested to ﬁll
out the following coupon and send it
to Mr. Reavey, together with a dol—
lar bill in payment of, your ﬁrs-t
year’s dues. This money is needed
to help pay the expenses of organ-
izing. ’

Mr. R. P. Reavey,
Secretary-Treasurer,
Caro, Michigan.

I hereby make application to be-
come a member of the Michigan Su-
gar Beet Grewers' Ass’n and enclose,
or hand, herewith a membership fee
of one dollar, and request that my

 

name be listed with the ..........

...... local organization. (If there
is no local organization near you
and you desire to have one formed
in your community, put a cross mark

here ( ). I average to raise .......
acres yearly.

.Signed ........ .....
Address

Gleaners to Invade Kalamazoo for National Convention, Jan. 27-31

Members from Thirteen States Will Crowd Celery City for Important Sessions of Biennial Conference

LL ROADS lead to Kalamazbo
for the Gleaner farmers in at
least thirteen states, which are

expecting to send delegates to the
Biennial Convention to begin at the
Celery City, Tuesday, Jan. 27, and
to continue throughout the week. It
is expected to he the biggest event
of its kind in the more than twenty-
ﬁve years of Gleaner history, and
Kalamazoo authorities are in an up-
roar to prepare a royal welcome.
The chief address of the sessions
will be delivered by the Hon. Glenn
E. Plumb, of Washington, D. 0.,
authorof the famous P1umb,p1an of
railway operation. ‘The Gleaners
have been credited with standing
ﬁrmly with the millions of farmers
who are unwilling to have the na-
tion’s railways go back to the old
owners, and they are sure to ﬁnd
high interest in the address to be

.delivered by. Mr. Plumb. The farm-

ers'supply more than half of the na-
tion's freight and pay for it, too, so
the railway problem is one of the
biggest in agriculture. Mr. Plumb
has a. proposal of putting‘the roads
directly into the hands of the peo-
ple, with the government, the rail-
way workers and the public weep--
crating in the running of the system.

Milo Campbell, the generally ac-
cepted farmer candidate for Govern-y
or of Michigan, will give to the
Gleaners what will be his ﬁrst public
address since receiving the unquali-
ﬁed backing of. the representatives
of the leading farm organizations of
the'etate. He is a member of the

l-ﬂleaner organization‘and has taken

active part in. it, having been 11211:
as .
menisci; State Fair." Mr. Camp‘-
s‘ll’s Kahlua?» address will be do:
cred at the opening session, which
' . rt at the Amery at 2 o'clock

  

few arbors which will not send rep-
resentatives. A special round trip
rate has been supplied by the United-
States Railway Administration, and
the Gleaner headquarters is arrang-
ing free trips as prizes for activities
by many members during the winter
months.

“Gleaners are like a great giant
who. has been obliged to'lie rather,
quiet for a year or so," says Grant
Slocum, supreme secretary and the
founder of the order. “This giant
organization has been buffeted by
every storm which could batter
against it—the great war which
took away its young men and made
the others work day and night to get
the most food possible for the boys,
while the women and children also
worked in the ﬁeld and did Red
Cross and other relief work. besides;
the government insurance barred the
progress of much of the protection
end“ of the Gleaner work, with more

than twenty-thousand Gleaners in-

th’e service; then came the deaths in
the war and the greater toll of the
flu epidemic. In spite of all these
troubles, the giant has come up smil-
ing in much better condition than
ever before in every way, and it has
a future never before believed pos-
sible."
‘ Big Times in the Oﬁing

Along',with important proposed
amendments .to the Gleaner consti-
tution and election of ofﬁcers and so
on, matters of the greatest import-
ance are stirring not only the Glean-
ers but also the farmers throughout
the Middle West. The Gleaner farm—
ers the ﬁrst of this month loosened
a big surprise. by purchasing the Ar-
mour elevator interests in Michigan
and by enormously “increasing the
co-operative marketing werk « for
when, they havefbeen darned. '

Ered Llewellyn. >011:th '
_°ésn:¢_-Gcmnanr.; f0 ‘
soar 1 terminal ‘

    

  
 

ed. Along with the ﬁfteen or more
elevators and stations which are al-
ready in line under the Gleaners,
more than ﬁfty others are deﬁnitely
preparing to join the great system.
So it is expected that a chain of
more than one hundred elevators
and stations will be in operation
within a year or so. A splendid new
elevator and store at Lockwood, Ohio
has just been established by the
Gle-aners, and Indiana and Illinois
and other states are expected to
come in very soon. In the ofﬁng is
the prospect of Gleaners owning
their own coal mine, canning plant,
flour mills, drain tile factories and
so on. The whole idea is entirely
co—operative and all proﬁts go back
to the farmers.

Another matter which is stirring
the Gleaner organization is the prep-
aration-for a huge membership drive
to be staged on perhaps a larger
scale than anything of its sort in
the past. “The Cleaners are Com-
ing,” is the slogan which is being
sent out through the arbors to tell
of the approach of the spring drive.

Splendid Program Arranged

The mayor of,Kalamazoo and the
city’s Board of Commerce haye spent
considerable time in preparing for.
the reception "and entertainment of
the invading Gleaner delegates.
Ladies from Indiana and Michigan
are to present drillwork, readings
and music. The “movie” houses
showing “The Story of the Glean—
ers” will be thrown open without any

charges to Gleaner visitors.

The opening session, at 2 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon, in the Armory,
will be marked by the addressed of
distinguished speakers. Wednesday

morning .will be occupied by the

“Story of the Gleaners" at the mov-
ies, and Wednesday afternoon an im-

_ pxi tantbu‘siness session will start
{“3 wt -mpons of the credentials com-
1.3, “r'-'."..'"--".»

  
  
  

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3.)

struction will occupy the evening of
Wednesday, with Miss Lucia Bellamy
in charge.

. Thursday morning will see a con-
tinuation of the business end of the
convention and will continue until
the work is ﬁnished. Ofﬁcers of the
order have excellent tidings to re-
port. The ﬁnancial assets of the or—
der are well over a million dollars.

Among the amendments to be vot-
ed upon by the Gleaners are twenty
proposals. One of these would per-
mit the extending of beneﬁt member—
ship to those living in certain dis—
tricts and engaged in other occupa-
tions than farming, under certain re—
strictions. Another takes up a pro-
posal for reorganizing the Supreme
Council, and still another would pro-
vide for the establishment of an ar-
bor upon the acceptance for member-
ship of a satisfactory number of can-
didates.

The committee in charge of pro-
gram and entertainment consists of
the following ladies: Mrs. Palmer
Landon, Miss Lucia Bellamy, Mrs.
J. L. Huffman, Mrs. L. Joslin, Mrs.
Charles Midgley and Mrs. Emma
Cole. The Messrs. Huffman, Joslin.
Landon and Midgley will be active
in the reception work at Kalamazoo.

A topic of the hour which Glean-
ers will be discussing at the gather-
ings at Kazoo is expected to be the
proposed arrangement for state fed-
erations of Gleaners, allowing for
big state rallies in each of the states
where there is a suﬁlcient number
of members.

More than 70,000 Gleaners in
Michigan alone. forming the largest
group of organized famers in the
state, make the scene of the conven-
tion at Kalamazoo seem especially
ﬁtting. And undoubtedly Michigan,
being the mother state of the order,
is showing the biggest interest in

mi“ biennial, which proﬁt“; to. be' '
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HERE are‘30 employee on'th'e

I two Schmidt farms, Walhalla
and Saradella.
tied, and they occupy heuses furnish—
ed by Mr. Schmidt. The boarders
live in the “Saradella hotel,” they
objecting to the cognoment “board—

:lng house.”, A few come from the

outside—farmers or farmers’ sons.

The men “punch the time clock.”

This is placed in a convenient shelt—

er outside the ofﬁce, where there is

employed an expert bookkeeper. Ten
.hours constitute a day’s work.

i The stock from poultry to racing
J horses, is high bred—the best in the
' market. Mr. Schmidt can show over
1,500 ﬁrst prize ribbons secured
from state fair, cattle and poultry
shows all over the country, besides
a cabinet ﬁlled with prize cups.

On the two farms are 500 sheep,
the 50 cows and calves and the 40
horses already mentioned. There
are only a few pigs.

“Pigs are more proﬁtable to raise
than any other kind of animal.” said
Mr. Schmidt. “But I don’t like pigs
" so I do not raise them."

“Some years ago I raised a large
number of hogs,” said Mr. Schmidt,
; “and I tried out one of my experi-
3‘ ments. I placed before them all the
1 time plenty of food, and in variety.
I

 

 

 

They were not conﬁned to one diet.
In consequence they soon lost their
, hoggish ways, and were dainty in
l their selection of food. They stop-
f ped crowding. If one eating place
was occupied, they leisurely went to
(another place, or waited until some
3 of their companions moved away.
‘ “There comes a time when one
. 2 must stop feeding hogs. Then they
must be marketed. But, as I said, I
, don’t like hogs, so this year I am
i only raising a dozen for family use.”
Mr. Schmidt is an advocate of
heavy feeding. The cows are fed in
iproportion to the number of quarts
of milk they wield. The cow that
’yielded 1,493 pounds of milk in
. July, for example, cost $30.25 to
feed, milk and take care of, while
the cow that yielded 717 pounds of
{milk cost $18.16. This is scientiﬁc
feeding.

iMilk at Cost of Four Cent a Quart

Everything is in the inventory of

3 Mr. Schmidt’s farms. Indeed the
linventory is a marvel in the way of
(minutia. Nothing escapes. Each
‘building carries it owns inventory.

2 _ Machinery is everywhere;
motors supply power wherever it is

i needed, fom the 40 horsepower mo-

itor supplying power to the sawmill

to the small ones running fans. The
[balance sheet showing the cost of
arunning the dairy during July was

an instructive exhibit. The 16 cows

then being machine milked produced

“12,998 pounds of milk. The labor

3 and feed cost $278.69. and the out-

imut was marketed for $406.06. In

;.a word each cow returned an aver-
{age proﬁt for the month of $7.96.
lFrom one cause or anbther there
”was a deﬁcit in the output (of four

 

 

Ten are mar- ,

'bushel of each kind,"

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c How Ca'rl Schmidt'Meiees Money onstmdiest Landm Michigan?

'_ -By JUDSON GRENELL

cows.. The proﬁt on the best pro-
ducer for that month was $31.36.
The average cost for the Whole
herd for producing a quart of milk
was four cents. It is probable that
the overhead and other legitimate
charges for marketing the output
equaled the original cost. The cows
are machine milked. Thelabor cost
of taking care of and milking a
cow is placed at about $8 a month
for a “dry” cow,,say, $4 a month.

“When we have
grain I shall know the exact cost per
said Mr.
Schmidt. “There will be no guess-
work about it. I can tell the exact
cost of cultivating each ﬁeld.”

Two tractors are in use on the
farm, one a Michigan and one an
Ohio make. They can be run with
the greatest economy, because the
ﬁelds are so large—averaging over
40 acres to a ﬁeld—and the soil so
light.

I watched a tractor disc-harrow-
ing one ‘ofthe ﬁelds. It got over the
ground at the rate of ﬁve acres a

day.‘ The gasoline cost" $1.15 and

 

comparatively few have died. .
soon as the labor market becomes "

threshed our ‘

 

0n the uncleared but tensed-in;

portions of his plantations Mr.
Schmidt has thus far planted 500,-
000 Norway and white pine trees. A
As

normal he will plant another 500',-
000—~pehapsla'mf‘illion or more. The
trees are raised from seed dropped
in a trench. They cost half a cent
apiece to raise, and about two cents
to plant. Some of these seedlings
have been planted without regard‘to
order; in other places where the
ground allowed of it they have been
regularly placed. Where fallen’trees
interfered, the rubbish has been
cleared away.

. “This whole region would long be:
fore this have begun to be reforest-
ed naturally, but for two reasons,"
Mr. Schmidt explained. “The, ﬁrst
reason is that the lumbermen were
such hogs that they did not leave a
single seed tree to propagate its
kind. The other reason is that no
one made any effort to check forest
ﬁres.”

“Why jack pines grow so readily
after the better pine has been cut
down is simple. The other pine tree

 

Pure Bred Holstelns—every one a Money-Maker.

the labor $3—-—an average of 83
cents an acre.

“Individually I am prejudiced
against tractors,” remarked Mr.

Schmidt, “though they do the work
assigned them. To successfully
farm there must be plenty of live

stock. Take that $1.15 worth of
gasoline; when it is consumed it is
gone for good. Feed an animal

$1.15 worth of fodder and there will
be 70 per cent of it fertility value re-
turned to the soil that needs it. In
a word, the soil needs manure more
than the farmer needs the tractor.”

We cut from a barnyard-manured
cornﬁeld a stalk 11 feet 9 inches
long; but on an experimental patch
of corn on Walhalla land where dif-

' ferent fertilizers had been used, the

stalks were still longer. [The wheat is
well ﬁl‘led‘and sure to run between
25 and 30 bushels to the wire. The
potatoes show every evidence of run-
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seeds are very sensitive to ﬁre; it
takes very little .heat to ‘kill them.
On the other hand the seeds of the
jack pine are so well protected that
they survive where others die. Ijence
when they drop their seeds, these
ﬁnd congenial soil made doubly fer-
tile by the ashes of the ﬁes, and so
they quickly germinate and grow.

“I have taught my men to watch
for ﬁres. If a smoke is seen any—
where within reasonable distance
they get there as quickly as possi—
ble and stamp or thrash the ﬁre
out. My 500,000 pine trees are get-
tingg a good start. There is no rea-
son why every foot of pine barrens

, not given over to prosperous farm-

ing should not be reforested, to the
advantage of those who have the
enterprise as well as to the state.

“There is, however, one other
thing that deters people from en-
gaging in' extended reforesting."

, near markets;

. is to be seen wherever the pine has

    
   
    
     
      
   
   
 
         
   
      
      
      
        
    
 
      
         
     
       
  
   
 
   
   
   
   
 
    
  
   
    
   
 
 
  
   
     
    
   
   
  
    
   
  
   
    
      
   
    
  
       
      
    

 
 
   

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Who would_ expect,” II.
Inc on the Jack plm plnlm?

12-foot 69m umw- ‘1
continued Mr. Schmidt. “As the pine
trees begin to grow, and the sand
is once more covered with vegeta-
tion, ”along comes the assessor and
increases the assessed value of the
land. The result is that this kind
of enterprise is discouraged, and
many a pine barrens owner declines
to interest himself in reforestation.

What the State Might Do _.- 1

“If the state, was wise it would
tax the timber on timber land only
when the timber was ready to be
marketed. Growing timber is in the
nature. of a manufacturing enter-
prise. One tax onthe ﬁnished pro-
duct would be suﬂicient, as amatter
of equity and justice. The state
could also exercise morewisdom in
its sales of these millions of acres.
State owned land might bedivided
into three classes: First, prime land _
' next, medium lane‘s
that with small capital could be
used for ordinary agricultural pur-
poses; and third, poor,land such as

been stripped off.

“Let the ﬁrst kind be sold in not
to exceed 40 acres lots; the second
kind in not to exceed 500 acre areas;
the third in any quantity to suit
purchasers.

“I look upon it as a duty that the
weal-thy owe society to put to use
this poor land. I have prOved that
even in a ﬁnancial sense it will pay;
that point is settled for all time: the
problem of soil building has been
solved. And I am proving that in a
patriotic sense it is werth all it costs
in time and patience. .

“I tried to interest the state in
the matter of encouraging tree
planting by private owners. but
was severely turned down. It in-
terefered with the speculative
scheme of people who had influence,
with the legislature. Michigan at
least should insist‘that a tree should
be planted in some proper locality
whenever a tree is cut down. . It
would be still better to-plant' two
trees." ' ~

Farmers and High Cost of Living
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ti! ,armer s_ making You know
‘. ' h vs aIWays been in favor of the
“ in nicipial aner‘ship of- street car
__ transportation. This activity is too

to; permit of it being run for proﬁt.
Well, is. this not true of‘transpOrta-
son in general?”
5‘ It was suggested that perhaps the
government oWnership of the means
‘ of transportation, and th9 operation
by a combination of executives and
employee might be "the solution’.

-" “That may or mhy not be the so?

' lution, " Mr schmidt said, “‘but an};-
Way the high cest of transportation
in one cause of the high cost cf liv-

ing. certainly our transportation
system broke down under private
management

- “But a still geater cause of the
high cost of living is the lack of
warehousing facilities in populous
centers There should be commun—
ity owned warehOuses to which the
farmers c‘Ould send their produce and
'be sure of proper renumeration un-
der proper classiﬁcation, less_ the
actual cost of hahdling. which would
be a small item. 1‘

' “So put it down that this ab-
'sence of publicly owned warehouses
has and will increase the _cost of
living over and above what it should
,be.

i. “Again, the high cost of liv-
this could be reduced- by enlarging
the activities of the pacel post.
Weight allowances are now; too
small. The zones are also too small
for such wide market areas as are
to be found in the United States.
’By enlarging the weight maximum
and increasing the size of the zones
producers and consumers would
”gradually be brought closer togeth-
er, to the detriment of no one but
the unnecessary middleman. Of
course not all middlemen are in this
class. But there are enough of
rthem to seriously raise what should
be normal prices.

“Then again, consumers are to

blame. Many are ignorant, and
more are indifferent to that econ-
omy which adds to the wealth ofVin—
dividuals as well as to society. The
poor want the best, which in itself
is not bad for busineSs; but it~sadly
interferes with social economy if

’ each One declines to take out Of the
market Some of the inferior cuts of
meat, for instance, or refuse to burn
anything but the most expensive
kinds of fuel. "

Farmers Ignorant of Cost

Mr. Schmidt considers the aver-

Production of

HERE is at the present time an
I apparent shortage of fertiliz-
ers for the spring of 1920, due
largely to the following reasons: '
The strike in the phosphate rock
mines in Florida for a considerable
. period of time this summer and early
fall, Was one of the most serious
,. things thatxthe fertilizer industry
has had to contend with. Florida
supplies the bulk of phosphate rock
used by manufacturers in the East,
and the strike resulted in a complete
tying up of practically all of
mines, and While the strike today is
technically over, none of the mines
is as yet producing ~full tohndge.’
During the strike the laborers scat-’
tered, meat of them ﬁnding employ—
-ment in' the citrus fruit section, and
;_.m‘an’y have not yet returned.
« On account of this shortage in

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close to the life of the cemmunity.

the V,

1. production it has been necessary for,
theta rs to buy hard rock.)

-~~. , _.‘as Germany". will ,3

V'shipment and ,uge it in their V ,. ’

,tion or acid phosphate, resulta '

  
 
 

'5 “Not 011 new in a thousand

’ knows what it hhﬁs cast him to grow :

the grain he is sending to market”
said Mr. Schmidt. “He does not
know what it ichosting him to feed
'his cattle. ‘ He does net know that
he cannot sell eggs for less than 80
cents a dosen, in Michigan,
charges against the cost cf the‘eg'gs
the market: price of the grain the
poultry-eat-s. . He does not know the
"real reason why hens .do not lay in
winter, when, under proper [condi-
tions, they will be as proliﬁc in win-
ter as in summer.

“He refuses to take advantage of
the experiences of others in so man-
ipulating the soil that crop failure
is almost impossible; and this re-
fusal arises more from mental indo-
lence. not to say laziness, than from
any other one thing.
borhOod are small "farmers who are
making good: also in this 'vicinity
are better-located farms in regar
to natural soil fertility, whoare go-
ing back, and who must eventually
sell at a loss or abandonrwhat little
they have accomplished in the way
of improvements. _

“A famer ought to have the very
best stock in the market, because it
pays best. It costs no more to feed
a good blooded animal than it does
to feed a scrub. The same care will

bring both" to~ maturity; one will, sell .

if 119'

In this neigh- '

,‘ the soil. ”

.A Great (Jo-operative
Enterprise

Mr. Scthdt’s farm-
in‘ gactivities are oper-
ated'on the co-operative
plan. He supplies the
land, the 40 or more
buildings in use and the
active capital. He gives
to the heads of his de-
partments 25 per cent
of the proﬁts and anoth-
er 25 per cent is divid-
ed among the rest of
the employes. The re—
maining 50 per cent is
his share out of which
must come interest on
’ch-pit'al investment and
such overhead charges
as cannot be charged
against the business.

 

This is a new ar-
rangement between Mr.
Schmidt and his employ-
es. so there is no data which can be
taken as a basis for prophesying the
ultimate results. However, as these
employes. receive the very highest

. Wages given to any similar body of
farm hands in Michigan, should
there be a deﬁcit instead of a surplus
they‘ would have nothing of which to
complain and the loss would fall en-

‘tireiy on Mr. Schmidt.

A job nurser on these farms gets
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Oeda :- Lake.- Pinuree P'olnt In the dlstanco.
great numbers of duck s. ,

offhand, the other can Only be mar- '

ketedat a loss‘.

“It is a pity that so mahyfarms
are being run by tenant farmers. It
does not speak well for the occupa—
tion. But possibly some of this ten-
ant'farming comes from the fact that
the farmer, when younger, ran two
farms, an owner and»a tenant. Oth—
ers rent outright, and if the terms
of the lease are loosely drawn the
result is pretty su’rtho be an in-
crease~ in the n’umber‘of both ten-
ant farms and tenant farmers. On

   

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Abound: wlth Fish and Is the restlno place of

for his laziness would cut into their
proﬁts. Therefore a. “foreman” in
the sense of needing someone to
- watch and keep the men to work is
a superfluity which has been elim—
inated. Each man must keep up his
end, or he is practically “ﬁred” by
'his fellow employes.

As a result the ﬁelds are ployed
and planted when they should be
and also in a workmanlike manner.
The hay and grain are harvested
promptly, so that there is no need-
less waste from the unpropitiousness

A ﬁne specimen of the Elk on the Schmidt Farm

of the weather. The cattle receive
the best of care, for the men are
looking after their own interests. In
a word, it is a co- -operative partner-
ship which safeguards the interests
of all.

To add to the close relationship
between employer and employes, a
dance is held in the farm club house
every Saturday night, in which all
are on a democratic equality, and all
participate in the dancing.

There is also on Serradella Farm
3. public school, the 16 pupils being
all from families. the heads of whom
ae employed by Mr. Schmidt.

The Right to be Happy

“Give me a thought to take away
with me,” I said jokingly to Mr.
Schmidt, after a four days’ visit. I
had roamed at will over ﬁelds cov-
ered with a good turf, through
buildings for housing the cattle but
from which the usual smell accom-
panying such use was absent, and
along forest paths leading to Lake
Huron; and I had been taken around
the country along the shores of Van
Etten Lake and the AuSable river
and over the jack pine plains.

”Fiddlesticks,” Mr. Schmidt re-
plied. “I'm no dotage philosopher.
My joy in living comes from doing
things the ‘other fellow' is afraid to
tackle. One has the right to do that
which will bring to him and his fel-
low men the greatest happiness; and
it is inconceivable that happiness
can be obtained by injuring others.”

The chauffeur tooted his horn, and
I jumped into the waiting coupe as
the individualist co—operator waved
me a genial adieu.

Fertilizer for1920 Likely to be Short of Demand

By. W. D. HUNTINGTON,
-President, National Fertilizer Association.

for their sulphuric acid; The re-
duced production has added to the

cost of overhead charges per ton, and .

the cost of lab0r is considerably
higher than dt was when the armis-
tice was signed.

These conditions have resulted in
making the cost of «acid phosphate
considerably more than it was last
spring.

‘ In connectidn With- the raw mater-
ials for complete fertilizers. the man—
ufacturers are considerably worried
over the prdbable shortage in' the

supply of potash which certainly will

not be anything like sufﬁcient to sup-
ply the demand that is already evi~
sauces from the orders that are be-
ing placed. The promises of ship-
.men't‘s from Alsatian: mines, as well
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The supply of sulphate of ammon-
ia will be very greatly reduced ‘be-
cause of the coal strike. This had
resulted in an increased demand for
'nitrate of soda, and of course, as is
always the case, the price has ad—
vanced considerably. Nitrate of
"soda m being offered today by the
importers at a much higher price
than it was purchased» for three
months ago. '

‘ The other ammoniates, such as
Vtankage and cotton seed meal and
,ﬁsh', are extremely scarce, due, I
think, more to the fact that a very
large percentage of all of these art-
iclest now going into food for cat—
tle. which formerly was only used
for fertilizer purposes.

'V There is no question but What
., the fertilizer manufacturers are to;
day, confronted With far more seri-
ous problems than .;
they had during the war,- but every
messihle egort debeing ma e to keep

., methanol

this a considerable short-

‘ :odnetion throughout

with anything ,

the 2h ghost pos- g
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eastern part of the United States for
the spring 1920 as compared with

the spring 1919, and because of the

high price of cotton and other farm ?

products, I do not believe there is
any question but that the demand
will be at least ten per cent great-
er than it was last year.

This is a. f

most unfortunate situation coming'

at a time when the cost of living is
terriﬁc, and can only come down 'by,
increased production so that the suns

ply Will be equal to, or greater thaw E

the demand.

I have only recently returnd iron!
abroad, .where I spent three months
in England and on the continent, and.
as a result of my investigation I
ﬁnd that there is a world shortagq‘
of ‘acid phosphate, and that the sits

, _uation over there is far more alarm-i

ing than" it is here; for they hand

‘ practised” more intensive cultivation‘
_ than we have, and are absolutely deQ-I ‘
pendent upon the use of large quanq :? ,
I am . f

titles of fertilizer per acre..
quite conﬁdent that the shortage in
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HE FEED situation means to

I those who are present today—5—

the available supply of dairy

feeds, and the probable course of the
market.

, The Amercian dairyman was some-
what fortunate at the beginning of
the war, because there was a. very
plentiful supply of dairy feeds.» Prior
to 1914, probably 1-3 of the cottons
seed meal production was exported,
somewhere around 700,000 to 750.-
000 tons. About 1-8 to 1-2 of the
cottonseed meal production usually
went into the manufacture of fertil-
izers in the south. The rest, amount-
ing to anywhere from 1-6 tel-3 of
the crop, or some 300,000 to 700,000
tone, was estimated'as being used to
feed domestic animals in“ the Unit-
ed states. Quite .a large proportion
of this went to feed beef cattle, es—
pecially in the southwest and west.

In 1914, the south was suddenly
threatened with no market for eith-
er cotton or cottonseed
They could not look ahead and see
that cotton was bound to become one
of the most valuable commodities we
, could raise—and that it would treble
in price. Germany and Scandinavia
were our chief customers for cotton-
seed meal. When all ocean com-
merce with them was suspended, the
price of cottonseed meal immediate-
ly slumped. It could be bought at a
very low ﬂgure——-even cheaper than
cornmeal. Very soon this situation
righted itself, and cottonseed meal
went up. Just because it was cheap,
everybody started using it.

Another situation arose that may
never be repeated. The amount of
explosive needed in modern warfare
is almost beyond belief. For every
pound of smokeless powder, it is said
two pounds of alcohol are required
to make it. All the distilleries in
Europe were not able to make alco-
hol enough at the beginning of the
war to take care of f- 10 of their
consumption, and they were forced
to call on the United States, which
had a very large capacity which had
never been fully used. The result
was that every distillery in the Unit-
ed States had all the orders it could
take care of to run continuously for
several years. This took an enor—
mous amount of corn, and all the
molasses that could be obtained. It
is probable that distillers used up in
a single year close to 720,000 tons
of corn, which, expressed in bushels
would be about fifty-six million bush-
els. Possibly, more than this was
used. In any event, there was pro-
duction close to 20,000 tons per
month of that valuable dairy feed
known as corn distiller’s grains. The
result was that we had an abundance
of good dairy feeds for several years.

As we got into the war ourselves,
we ran short of nitrogen for powder
and other purposes, and this hit the
fertilizer trade, who could not get
enough Chilean nitrate, and were

therefore forced to use more cotton— '

seed meal. Cottonseed meal was
under regulation, and the price was
put so low that it was the cheapest
fertilizer material available. Regu-
lation is quite apt to rob the cow
when she is not given an opportuni-
ty to pay up for what she needs on
account of a ﬁxed price and no
chance to bid.

This turning of so much dairy feed
into fertilizer was felt in the shape
of higher prices for dairy feeds. They
started to go up in 1917, and
have gone up nearly $20 a ton since
that time; at least, the high protein
feeds. Our Allies were soon able to
build up enough distilling capacity
to make their own alcohol, and the
distilling of corn was
stoppedsabout a year ands. half ago.
» What alcohol we. needed toward the
. endgofthe war, we woreableto make
I, out of molasses. This put the price
a of molasses up to a very high figure,

around $40 per ton, but at the same
‘ time, we had a'short' crop, and corn
sold at over $2 per bushel.
' It is' well to look over our produc-
tiouﬂand supply of dairy feeds. and
we can better understand the causi-

«é. es of the present scarcity and reason
for me of them being out of line,

products. '

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Cereals Decent-ed by Interests Making Exploswes, Readyustmeats Needed in" semis Breeders

more appreciated at home, and in-

By R. W. CHAPIN, Pres. of Chopin a Company
(From his address to Breeders convened at East Lansing last week)

former years, corn being our chief
animal food, it always had a pro-
found influence on the prices of all
other feeds and grains. A chart
showing the price of bran for the
past'ten years until we got into war-

" time regulation would show that the '

bran price followed the corn price
very closely all-t this time. Some-
times it was a little below and some-
times a little above. These two feeds
are not necessarily interchangeable
——certainly, corn has a very much
greater feeding value than bran, but
the close relationship between prices
shows there must have been some
reason for it that we -do net under-
stand.

Our production of wheat mill feeds
—bran and middlings—while it has
increased each year with the popula-
tion, has not increased very consid-
erably, because, in years gone by, we
grew a great deal more wheat than

they could. get them, they used oth-

er bulky feeds, like distillers and
brewers grains, and sometimes beet
pulipasoat hulls, and other coarse ma-
er a

The increase; in the; number of
dairy cows as shown by the census
which new reports about twenty-
three million cows, does not tell the
whole story. The cows are getting
bigger and better—they produce

more and they eat more. They are ’
being fed better rations and they"

need more dairy feeds, such as bran
and the protein feeds. The 'per
cow production of bran, however, has
gone down. This does not mean the
cows are getting any less bran per

head, but there is not enough avail- '

able to feed them all. It is true a
elarge part of our cow popoulation
is in the west and in some sections
only summer dairying is practiced,
and pastures, with a little farm

 

 

 

Protein Feed for Cows

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TO THE WAR
Cottonseed Meal
Linseed Meal
Gluten Feed

\Vheutr Bran ...................
Middling and Feed Flour ........

Cocoanut Meal

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[‘24,ooo,ooo Cows

Per Cow

.1,500,000 tons 130 lbs.

. 400,000 tons 40 lbs.

600, 000 ions 60 lbs.

.8, 000, 000 tons 260 lbs.

.2, 000, 000 tons 150 lbs.
. 60, 000 tons 6 lbs. '

 

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PER COW PER YEAR, 1919 Per Year
Cottonseed Meal ...................... 65 lbs. 26. lbs.
Oil Meal ..... 2 ................ . ...... 25 lbs. 8.2 lbs.__
Gluten Feed ................. . . . . . . . .50 lbs. 12.5 lbs.
Bran ........ 4 ........... ............2101be. 31.51115.
Middlings ............................ 75 lbs. 11. lbs.
Coconut Meal ........................ 6 lbs. .121bs.

 

 

 

our population consumed, and ex-
ported the flour so that this gave us
plenty of mill feed, For every addi-
tion to our population, we need more
cows to give them milk and butter,
as well as other dairy products. The
cow population has increased faster
than the feed production. Wheat
bran is one of our chief dairy feeds,
even more necessary than middlings.
Middlings is quite largely diverted
to the feeding of swine. Quite a lit-
tle goes into poultry mashes, and a

large amount of it is fed to young.
It is safe to say we have a

stock.
production of about three and a half
million tons of bran and one and a
half million tons of middlings and
feed flours.

When we had such a bumper
wheat crop year before last, we ex-
ported a large part of it, and did not
increase our milling so materially.
The bran situation during the war
was a great source of trouble, and
much bitterness. This was due to

the fact that it was regulated or con~ A
trolled. Whenever man tries to reg-,,

ulate prices, he nearly always makes
a mess of it, because prices have to
regulate themselves. Where prices
are regulated by agreement between
the producer and consumer, there is
less trouble, because adjustments
are made from time to time to meet
the actual conditions, and give both
sides a square deal, but when an ar-
bitrary 'price is put on any commodi-
ty, it is against all the experience of
manki d, and no good can come of
it. Regulating prices does not in-
crease the quantity one bit nor does
it produce any equitable distribu-
tion. This country is too bigto have
bread cards, meat cards, 'or feed
cards, so that every man should get

- his just quote. The card system was

a failure in every country that tried

it.

The dairyman needs bran worse
than any other animal husbandry
man and can afford to pay more fer

it because the dairy cow does need ,

a bulky ration to prevent impaction‘s
where she is fed so many ﬁne ieeds.
like meals Since the ear-lieu days,
tamer; have MWW up their meal

this-being the ‘ t m

 

 

grains, is about all the cows get.
Dairy cows farther east, where they
have pure bred and good grade cows,
have to be fed the year around, for
both summer and winter dairying.
To return to our supply of feed,
.our average production of cotton-
seed for the past ten years was about
twelve million bales. This would or-
dinarily give us two million tons of
cottonseed meal and cake. The
last crop is below the average, and
is variously estimated at between
ten and eleven million bales.
would mean a decrease of about two
hundred thousand tons of cottonseed
cake. This is not all. Texas pro-
duces about 40 per cent of the cot-
ton crop. Texas had very bad
weather at the time of maturity, and
a large part of the seed was damag-
ed Some of the
states also had excessive rains and
their crop was badly damaged. The
meal from damaged seed will mostly
have to go into fertilizer although
some of it will be fed from necessity.
Our fiaxseed crop has been stead—
ily going downward. Flaxseed is
grown in the northwest, chiefly as a
ﬁrst crop, to break up the soil. The
largest crop of flaxseed we ever rais-
ed was twenty-six million bushels.
Our normal requirements at' the
present time are\ not less than twen-
ty-one million bushels. This year’s
crop was estimated by the govern-
‘ment to be ten million bushels, and
by the linseed crushers, who have
been good crop reporters, at some-

where between six and eight million '

bushels. A twenty-six million bush-
el crop would produce about 600, 000
tons of linseed cake, and a ten mil-
lion bushel crop only about 200, 000
tons. This means that we will have

.to draw at least ten million bush-

els of flaxseed chiefly from the Ar—

_ it, and fortunately. we did not try» rgoutlne,.althoughsomo '“Jt’wi‘h‘ﬁ’

had in Canada. ; Flaxseed that comes
from the Argentine is naturally
crushed at our seaports, and to bring
the resulting meal or cake into the
middle west is very costly, as freight
rates are very high.

In previous years, a large partn‘ of

ourhmedmeslandcske.

This '

other southern .

selling prices.

[the marketvalueoftheeorathat

stead of shipping millions of dollars
worth of fertilizer material and food
to Europe, we are inclined to keep
it at home and save the fertility and
get the results from the feed. - .-

You can readily figure that with
this small production of linseed meal

,not half of the. cows in the-country
can gets smell oflt.

moreover.
great deal of it is fed to horses,
steers, shoep and young animals.
Our fourth largest protein feed is
Corn Gluten Feed—a bar-product
from’ the manufacture of starch and
corn syrup. It resembles distillors’

grains vow much in its composition;

except that it is made by a different

process and does not taste the same

or exactly the same when fed. Our
production of gluten feed is ordin-
arily about 000,000 tons a year. It
is increasing rapidly, due to the enor~
mous demand for sugars and sweets
of all kinds. During the last year,
one large starch factory was destroy-
ed by ﬂre—another company had a
very bad strike for 40 days, and the
production of gluten feed was cut
down just when we needed it most,
by an amount somewhere between
80, 000 and 100,000 tons at least.

This may account for the change in *
the relative price of this feed, where-

as last year, gluten feed sold at $15
under corn, right now, it is $15 over,
but no one can say an article is not

- worth what it can bring, or that a
protein feed may not be worth a '

good deal more than the grain from
which it is made. It would take
300 pounds of corn to supply the pro-
tein. found in 100 pounds of gluten
feed, and we can't feed dairy cows'
very well on corn and oats. It is'
better to take out the starch and feed
the protein part to the cow for a cer-‘
tain part of her ration.

It was estimated by the Chicago
“Price Current" that there inﬁll.
year, compared with last, (and
by that, they mean the current year
from summer to summer,) a short--_
age of one and one half million tons
of protein foods, which would figure

out about as follows: 600,000 tons

of brewers9”grains, 240,000 tons of
distillers’ grains, and the remainder
in linseed and cottonseed meal, malt
sprouts (of which there was annual-
ly made approximately 75,000 tons)
and cocoanut meal, (which was a-
war production, and which is no
longer made to any extent, at least.
not right now.)

With this great shortage in protein *

feeds, the relatively high price of:
them can be explained. For the past
ﬁve or six years, protein feeds did
not, as a whole, taking an average
of all kinds, cost any more than corn
and oats. Right now, corn and oats
are relatively cheap, especially on
the farm, the average price, «taking
the country over, would be not to
exceed 800 for oats, which is $50
per ton, or $1.40 for corn, which is
$50. These are wholesale prices or
Protein feeds cost all‘
the way from $70 to $85 wholesale
and more at retail.

One dislikes very much to be
thrown into a discussion on political
economy, for it is a very dry sub-
ject and one on which authorities do
not seem to agree, but everyone must
admit that prices have come up and
money has, gone'down. The produc—
tion of money all over the world is

only limited by the capacity of’ the

printing presses that make it. There
is, at the present time, three and one

half «times as much money, mostly '

paper money, in the U. B. as there
was four years ago. Money is only

a ~convenience in bartering. We'.
,could, if we had to, get along with- "

out it, but it would be Very clumsy.
What the. farmer. is most concerned
about is—are his prices on

with other “palm of the m
most needs? There are always some
discrepancies, of course. There are
times when a hog sells for less than

 

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~ » crope'i Very little, you will
ﬁre to eaten. And yet you must adL

rim and all. just a. much to your
“ Mia! meet to how the annual

supplyoffoodasitisiorthe manu-
»hcturer of automobiles to know the
annual- my of machines. After eev‘
ﬁe! you: of indifferent success in
governmental regulation offood prices

world’s

\

we are more thoroughly impressed '

than ever with the fact that supply

and demand D0 regulate the prices of
‘ the products you grow on your farm,

to a very large extent.
are may speculate, and the bears and
bulls may raid the markets, the prices
of minor crops may successfully be
controlled, and the prices of the major
. crops for a time held in check, but by
‘ the end of the marketing season, the
inexorable laws of Supply and de-
mand make themselves felt as the ﬁ-
nalbarometers of trade. ,

Agriculture has groped for centur-
ies in the dark, never knowing from
one season’s end to another what the
. season might bring forth. Crops have

always been sold in almost total ig-
norance of Ilhe price the consumer
would have to pay. “Better a halt a
loaf than none " has been the motto

The speculat'

,9.“ "Give interestmgCompamon Between Production per Acre and Total of

minow about the;

.WO'rld' 8 Principal Agricultural Countries

could give to the' farmers some idea of
the estimated production of farm
crops. . . The Intemational Institute of
Agriculture has done wonderful work
along this line, and the country, of
which the annual estimated produc-
tion of farm crops is not known to this
institute is hardly worth reporting.
But commendable a’s has been the
work by these two great crop-statistic
get-honing bureaus, it is still crude and
far from comprehensive. Moreover, a
serious question exists as to whether
the general public should-be apprais-
ed 01 theannual production of crops
any more than of the annual produc-
tion of clothing, automobiles, steel
rails, etc. There-is a question as to
whether this is not a matter that is
solely the concern of the farmer, who,
like other manufacturers must receive
a fair proﬁt over cost of production if
his business is to thrive. But in the
absence of any means provided by the
farmer for the purposa of gathering
these crop statistics for his conﬁden-
tial beneﬁt, such efforts as have been
made by governments along these
lines are to be heartily commended.

As a national 'organization of farm-
ers. the Farm Bureau is calculated to
perform this function eventually. The
only reason why farmers produce

crops in excess of the world’s needs, is,

because they each and individually are
ignorant of what crops their fellow
farmers are producing. Were there a
national organization through which
every county in the state of Michigan
could be kept advised of the crop
plans of every other county, who
would say that a great deal of the
frequent over-production of this crop
and the under-production of that crop
could not be largely eliminated. We
assert that were every acre in the
United States producing the crop best
adapted to (it that crops would be pro-
duced in more even quantities, and
the excess or under- supply of the con-
sumers’ 6 needs would become so slight
as to be scarcely noticeable and would
have no material effect upon the mar-
ket price.

Below are a number of charts show-
ing the estimates of the U. S. Bureau
or Crop Estimates and of the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture, of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the world acreage and production of
wheat, oats corn, rye,2barley and po-
tatoes. They are not complete,- but
enough ﬁgures are given to enable the
average farmer to make intelligent
comparisons between the crops fer the
three years mentioned, and to deter-
mine therefrom what the demand and
price may be expected to be on the
balance (it the 1919 crop. The report
shows a shortage of wheat, oats, rye
and barley, but a considerable surplus
of corn. Things to be taken into con-
sideration in examining the ﬁgures
are the difficulties now being experi-
ienced by Iihe export trade, such as
lack of ships, high rate of exchange,
Europe’s poverty, etc. Our conclusion
from a review of these charts is that
materially higher prices are in pros-
pect on all these crops with the pos-
sible exception of corn. Some inde-
pendent reporters claim that the gov-
ernment’s ﬁgures on corn are too high
in which case there is better than an
even chance that corn prices will be
higher before another crop.

Note the much higher production
per acre in foreign countries than in
the United States. The average yield
of wheat in this country for 1919 was,
for instance, about 13 bushels to the
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f“ the fkarmfr’ Who has taken ’his "ODS . ’ (1918) 40, Germany (1918) 25. The av-
0 mar et 11 fear and trembling 195‘; CORN erase yield of potatoes in the United
he might not receive for them what States for 1919 was about 90 bus. to
his labor and investment would entitle I ,,AREA (000 own-en) I PRODUCTION (ooo OMITTED) the acre In Canada it was 130‘ Bel-
him to have. 'He considered himself Country .......... 1919 1918 I 1917 1919 1918 1917 ium '256 Gel‘manv (1917) 200 Neth-
fortunate if he received that price and \ Aana I AcREs I AcREe BUSHELS eusHELs ausHELs g ' . . _ - , ,
’ United States . 102,075 04,467 I 116,730 2,917,460 2,502,665 3,065,233 erIandIS 275_ On nezlrly all other crops
put it gllwéldas merely '[liack luck if he Canada .......... '239 250 I 234 1 . 4 . ' . the Vield in the United States com-
- were 0 g to accept ess. But the South AWN“ ‘ ‘ l I'th oh i M in oth-
twenueﬂh century farmer has come to ‘Argentina. ....... 8,715 8,969 170,660 58,839 pa! es favorab y W! e y 9
"Chile . . . . . ...... 65 65 49 1,702 1,446 1,338 er countries,
the conclusion that the proﬁts and Europe ‘ ‘ ‘
losses of farming need not be left to France (a) ....... 756 734 I 347 ~ 8,743 14,904 The present chaos 111 Russia. makes
the whims of chance. He believeé that 1823ng . .. ------- :33; 2433 I 1*??? Egg 2321):? 513.343; it impossible to gather dependable sta-
more losses are sustained from in- SwitzerlahdHZZZZZZI 6 ' 7 ' 5 '287 ' 58 ’252 “SW35 '0"? that great “mmtrys cmps'
adequate market prjcg than from inad- I but it is sure that none of the Rus-
OCIua'te production, and since produc— Brigsh .If‘fBB'ZZjij 136 “€11; I “ﬁg 939,23 931.332 sian provinces have DI‘Odm‘ed more
tion cannot be entirely controlled by. Philllpine Isles 1,034 . 1058 11,271 18.441 than 51113110191“ for domeSUC needs
man, the losses thus sustained must .Africa I , ' Russia '18, therefore, out of the reck—
be passed on to the consumer. So‘ it is £33333; S: {Africa 3'950 3'33 I 3311,28 41'2” “3'3: 33,2;6 oning for some time to come as an ex-
to the adoption of a national and per- ’ ' port nation.
halplshlauier an imterfngtiolnal plan by RYE The ﬁgures in these tables are
W o 9 supp Y 0 00 prOducts can taken from original reports publish-
be approximated from year to year, _ AR“ (000 OMITTED) I PRODUCTION (00° OMITTED) ed b the various governments, from
AcREe I Aonse AcREsl BUSHELSIBUSHELS IeusHELs Y .
gill thekditstriimtion so airmnged. and Country .......... 1919 1918 1919 1918 1917 the International Instltute of ,Agrl-
0 mar 9 PT ce SO 1‘03“ ﬂied that the 0"“! Amu'l“ culture, and from other sources that
greatest number or farmers may re- 3:11:31”. Stile: :L’f.‘ 7’28; 6'33; 4' 317 83:24:: “£31 633%.? quote government reports.
ceive a fair proﬁt for their goods at Europe ‘ ' The years given here are those
the lowest possible prices to the con- Belgi .......... 496 I 13,681 I _ , h h h t t k 121 e
sumer Czecho Slovakia 1,834 _ , . during wh1c t e arves s a e p c .
Denmark ........ 559 542 436 12,726 8,870 In the countrles lnarked Wlth an as-
The Bureau of Crop Estimates of France (a) ...... 1.817 1,746 1,834 27.833 29,935 24,768 . . d f
th U S D . Germany (1,) 14,200 13, 650I 315.301 274 677' term" ( l the harveStS eXten mm
9 - - epartment Of. Agrlculture ............ 272 272 I 27 9'] 4,571 4.724 42460 the end of one year to the beginning
has spent many years in tho organiz- Netherlands . 133% -1 8118 I 1. .333 $3.23; 313.23; 11,958 of the next year and for these coun-
ing of a crop reporting servlCe WhiChszQel-idnd"123221 ' 51 ' 72 I 55 1:575 1:850 2333, tries the years are 1918—19, 1917.
W H E A '1‘ 0 A T S
I AR_I:_A_ 7_oo‘9_ 9_MIT1'ED) I PRODUCTION (ooo omrrraor I AREA (ooo‘oMI-n-ED) I PRODUQTIQEMWOQ oMI-rrEo)
Country .......... I 1919 I 1918 1917 I 1919 1918 1917 Country .......... 1919 | 1918 I 1917 1919 1918 1917
. ACRES ACRES ACRES BUSHELS BUSHELS BUSHELS ACRES ACRES ACREs BUSHELS BUSHELS IBUSHELS
North America. North America I
~United States 73.243 59.181 46,089 940,987 921.438 636.655 United States 42400 44,349 43,553 1,248,310 1,538,124 1,592,740
Canada .......... 17,283 17,364 14,366 193,689 189,075 233,743 Canada. .......... 14,754 14,790 13,313 399,368 426,312 403,010
South America ' South America
'Argentina. ....... 16.976 17.875 16,089- 184,268 223.636 80.115 ‘Argentina. ....... 2,980 3,200 2,525 I 44,120 68.635 32.009
'Chllo ..... . ..... 1,313 1,302 , 72 , 23,120 22,498 Chile ............. 79 79 126 I 3,250 3,177 6.564
Europe Europe
Belgium ......... 329 9,895 Belgium .......... 660 26,920 _
Denmark . ..... 124 140 ‘13 6.330 4.296 Denmark ......... 961 937 981 41,571 37,653
France (a) .......I 11,316 10,993 10,857 177,978 226,736 134.575 France (a) ....... 6,815 6,721 7,308 168,303 176,504 314,259
Germany (b .. 3,54 '8,573 , - 81,791 Alsace-Lorraine 21
Ital . . . . . 10,571 10.798 10.487 169,56317,6 368 . 139,999 Germany (b) ..... 8,071 8,625 322,475 249, 964
Not erlande 162 14 12 _ 6,01 5,431 3.45 Italy ............. 1,129 1,211 1.107 34,722 41,336 33,889
pain . . . . . . 10.388 10.228 I 10,340 183.929 165, 709 142.674 Netherlands ...... 368 392 371 20,612 18617 18,594
Switzer . 130 20 139 8,524 059 4,556 Norway .......... 343 366 16,810 16,582 17,004
United 1Kingdom .. 2,793 2.106 96, 079 66,350 8.!!! ............ 1,638 1,607 1,425 28,814 30,474 33,048
.1. Sweden .......... 1.811 1.933 57.880 67.142
British Imit- 28,764 85.487 22,940 280,075 870,421 382,069 Switzerland ...... 67 86 70 2,770 5.18 4, 602
A???“ . ...... I 1,376 I 1,390 .89 9,8 3 , 3 34,746 Hniited Kingdom .. 6,603 4,764 267,433 214. 728
re. 93 ' .
Algeria . . . 2,828 I 2.186 8.222 26,559 49,774 23,161 Japan ............ 215 156 130 9,921 12,243 6,690
nie 1,190 .418 1,210 7.000 8,451 6,963 Africa I I
‘Unlon of S. Africa. 953 925 755 10,150 8,833 4.79 Algeria. .......... 533 688 I 682 11,219 22.914 16.126
Allustrul . . 7,990 9.775 l" 11, 533 75,188 114,134 152,420 Tun-is ............ 127 151 124 3.445 4,271 3,996
:New ”alum! .... 209 28 6,65 6.608 5,05‘ ‘Australia ....... 616 844 10,387 14,018
- ’New Zealand . . . . 173 156 178 6,926 4,943 6,371
B A R LE Y
________ _ ~ POTATOES
AREA 3.9.2? omrn'ln) I Pmuoﬂou (ooo OMITTED). .
(Tountry . 1919 1918 1917 1919 1913 1917 I AREA (000 OMITTED) I vacuum-Ion (ooo OIITTEDl
North Amen-g . (“canny .......... 1919, 1918 I 1917 1919 1918 1917
; ACRES acnle noses noel-Ins ausHELe avenue aoaes AOREs AoREs aueRELe BUSHELB aueHELs
Unite 81‘“! . .. 7.420 2.740 8,933 165,719 266,225 211,759 North America
Can ...u .. 3,018 .154 2.392 66.444 77.287 55,038 United States ..... 4,013 4,295 4,384 357,901 411,860 442,108
South America I ‘ ‘ Canada. . ..... 713 736 657 100,545 104,364 79,892
..... 93 96 126 2,977 3,304 4840 South America
, H ‘Chi 1e ....... . . 78 81 70 9.768 9,640 9,091
. . . 75 3,617 ._ Europe -
. . 890 I ~ 1 Belgium ......... 319 76.064
. ..I 569 64! 692 21,455 17,331 Czecho Slovakia .. 89,8
.. - 1.840 1.371 1,699 u .820 87.475 37.265 Denmark ------ . 326 186 14,3 40.605 31.882
....I . 8,640 2,788 103 73.0 9.3:.) France (a) 2,884 3,386 228,433 382,647
, 17:2- 494 \ 469 8,327 ghee 7,4 Germany (1.)" 6,740 I' 8.186 1,082,816 1,234,374
~,e «lands ......I 5 80 52 3335‘ ' .016 3,573 Italy . 741 732 4409 4311
ﬁlm ,. _,,,,,,,,,,, 4.1“ 4,209 4.086 7 00.498 1d,“? Luxemburg 4,73 5,92
.....1 ., 22 ,19 .868 71 Netherlands ﬁg ﬁg 1:143; 133.288 12“978
, 59,230 , .954 :4 "00
. ....... 786 728 839 102,418 ‘
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CALHOUN COUNTY ANNUAL
FARM BUREAU MEETING

The big court room in the Mar-
shall court house was ﬁlled with eag-
er farmers on Saturday, January 10.
Every man and woman present was
talking organization. All were
anxious to hear about the progress
of the Farm Bureau campaign. The
meeting. was the best represented
farmers' gathering ever held in Cal—
houn county. People came from
every township ready to do their
part in perfecting the organization.

County Agent, Paul C. Jamieson

read his annual report, which show—'

ed that a great deal of progress had
been made in the development of the

, Farm Bureau organization, and that.
a successful, constructive program of '

work has been completed.

Mr. Williard Cribbs, of the State
Market Department, explained the
methods employed by the Michigan
Potato Growers’ Exchange in selling
farm produce and in purchasing sup—
plies. He told of the wonderful pos—
sibilities of the Farm Bureau in solv-
ing our market problems. Dr. W.
W. Deihl, the father of the great Il-
linois Agricultural Association, spoke
of the wonderful ﬁeld opento the
Farm Bureau in marketing, in leg-

islature and in education. Secre-
tary, C. A. Bingham, of the Michi-
gan State Farm Bureau, related

some of his experiences with the old
Farm Bureau, and told of the de-
velopment of the New Farm Bureau
which is gaining the suppert of
thousands of farmers throughout the
state. Dr. Eben Mumford, state lead—
er of County Agents, awakened ev-
erybody to the realiziation of the
great need of a strong, active farm-
ers’
for the farmer’s interests in every
bran-ch of the agricultural business.
Dr. Eben Mumford said that we
must organize and make agriculture
a desirable and proﬁtable occupation
for the young men of our country or
our farms will be owned by" peasants
who are willing to put up with poor
conditions and a poor living.

Mr. Paul C. Jamieson, county
agent in Calhoun county, enthused
the crowd with the idea of getting
behind the organization with a ﬁght-
ing spirit to win and to stick togeth-
er. He said that Calhoun county
should get 1,800 members. His call
for volunteers to drive the ca‘nvass-
ers from farm to farm brought six-
ty-ﬂve men to the front. Some
townships are ready for business now
with practically no
work necessary. The farmers of
Calhoun county are certainly to be
congratulated in the way they are
taking hold of the Farm Bureau or-
ganization work—Paul C. Jamieson,
County Agricultural Agent.

OVER 15 MILLIONS LOANED
TO FARMERS IN DECEBIBER

During the month of December, ’19,
an aggregate of $14,281,625 was loan-
ed to 4,267 farmers Of the United
States by the Federal Land banks on
long-time first mortgages according to
the monthly statements made to the
Farm Loan Board. The Federal Land
.bank of St: Paul leads in the amount
of loans closed, the same being $2,-
344,800, the Federal Land bank of
Houston following with $2,239,505.
The other banks closed loans in De-
cember as follows: Spokane, $1,660,-
200; Louisville, $1,381,000; Omaha,
$1,087,100; Columbia, $1,017,900; New
Orleans, $1,015,150; St. Louis, $908,-
770; Wichita, $736,200; Berkeley,
$712, 500; Springfield, $652,900; Balti-
more, $525, 600.

On December 31,1919,6here were
operating in the United States 3,923
.farm loan associations. The total
mortgage loans made by the Federal
, Land banks through these associations
. to 111,131 farmer-borrowers as of that
date, amounted to $296,386,496. Dur-
ing December 7,484 applicationswere
received asking for $28. 913 802. Dur-
ing" the same period 6, 35 loans were

T ’- approved, amounting to 321, 411 ,365.

The grand ..total as above, of 1061113

I a1 Land bank districle as follower

organization which will work]

preliminary \

   
 
 

ributed within the Fedorw.

St. Paul 39,834,906
Spokane ‘. ‘.l. .‘.. . . .- 39, 27,0 420
Omaha . . . . . . . . 37, 942, 490 _
HoustOnﬂ... ...... 33,647,906j
‘Wichita ,. . . . . ........ 25, 333, 600 "
St. Louis ..... , ...... 23,223,110
Louisville ............. 21, 317, 700- ,
New Orleans, ...... . 20, 563, 530
Columbia . ......... 16 0,30, 495
Berkeley ............. 15,713,300
Baltimore .......... .. 11,959, 400
Springﬁeld . . . . . . . . . .j. 11,549,645
Up to, December 31, 1919, interest
and amortization payments due by

borrowers to the banks amounted to
$16, 825, 073. 07. Of this amount all but
$233,904.07, or 14 per cent had been
paid, and of this Sum $115, 499. 71 rep-
resents installments which had only
become due duringthe month.

_‘ ,

Standish Condensary , Closed

The directors of the1 International-

Milk Products Co. have decided to
close permanently the Standish
branch and have-directed their local
manager, C. E. Lo-nsberry, to stop buy-
ing milk after Jan. 15. The local
plant will be dismantled and moved

to Bad Axe where the company” al-"

ready has a large factory. Mr. LcnsJ-

berry will be transferied to Bad Axe. 7

It will take four tosix weeks tedio-
mantle the local factory after opera-
tions cease. Efforts will be made to
induce another condensary to locate
here.

New County Agent in Antrim
A Committee composed of Supervis-

ors Frank Shepherd, of Star, Frank)

Les‘her, of Mancelona, and William
Chapman, or Custer township, has on-
gaged the services of L. L. Drake, of
Traverse City, as
county farm agent to succeed W. C.
‘Cribbs, resigned. Drake has been
in charge of the state asylum farm at
Traverse City for several years.

Canadians Invent Flax Machine

A demonstration of a new flax
seeding machine, the invention of
Messrs. F. W‘. and F. L. Van Allen,
drew an interested crowd of specta-
tors to the John East Iron Works,
Seskaton, Canada. The machine,
which hasbeen designed for the com-
mercial more than the agricultural
end of the flax industry, was operat-
ed and explained.

In the opinion of a number of ex-
perts who were present at the dem-
onstration, it has successfully over-
come the one great drawback of pre-

uvice-presidentvr Orville Lindsay;
. retary,-treasurer Carl Eisen; V
of board of directors, Carl Greenberg.‘_

Grand Traverse '

vious flax deseoding machinery, in-

asmuch as 1118 fiber passing through,
:tho meohiho is not broken up- and ,
300nm; out with all the heads thrash-r '
It It“ ,
been built for the 1111611 trade and

ed and the stalks straight.
when taken into. uso by the manufac-

turer will do. aWay entirely with hand '

threshing, which 'ioathe means of. do-
seeding flax at present.

By the use Of this machine the la-
bor of six to eight hand threshelo is
acConiplished in the some time

 

. China. (Jo-operative Association

The Annual Meeting of the China
C-o operative Association, which Was
was held at the .Gleaner Hall in’ China.
township showed that a. large; volume

, of business had been done. during the
' past year and that the saving which

the organization brought about has
led to a steady increase in member-
ship. County Agent Brody—was pres-
ent and suggestedua few-changes in
the by IaWs With a view to extending
the usefulness of the association. All
of the old officers were re- elected as
follows. P1esident,F1ed Allington;
see-
member

Shelby Market to Expand ..
Shelby’s marketing facilities are to
be considerably increased during the
coming season by the addition of two
large warehouses. Hardin Near is'sto
build one for his seed potato business
on the site of the old baske't'factory

warehouse. This will "gi’Ve Mr. Near
100x50 '

an L-Shaped building about
feet which is to be of frost-proof con-
struction with capacity of many cars

0f potatoes. Mr. Near has developed a -

potato similar to the PetdSkey or rus-
set rural which is yielding from 175
to 300 buslhels an acre.

The Shelby-New Era Co—operative
Association is to build a large ware-
house on property purchased from C.
E. Butterfield, fronting on Second St.
and extending along the railroad sid-
ing north. Although this is an infant
organization its success in co—opera-
tive marketing during the last year
requires this outlay to‘expedite its
business.

'lhis association handles nearly ev- »

ery product of the farm. Shipments
of peaches, apples, potatoes, stock and
other farm products having been
made this year in carload lots and
sold. in connection with a central as-
sociation located at Cadillac.

 

 

that it still lives.

all the time.

American Farmer."

 

 

‘ of thousands of such farmer
given In an abiding mt

Constructive Criticism by a Genesee County Farmer ,

Lennon, Mich" Jan. 14th,1920.

To the Editor: Despite the fact that Secretary Bingham of the
Michigan State Farm Bureau came within the narrowest margin of tak-
ing all the “kick" out of that organization in this state when he an-
nounced that the Bureau must keep out of politics, I am glad to see
I think the farmers are fully aware that all that is
necessary to keep up the intolerable conditions under which the farm-
er’ s are living is “to keep out of politics."
county in large numbers have Joined the Farm Bureau.
organization myself and I am ready to boost for it just as bag as I am
certain that it is working for the interests of the farmers, ﬁrst, last and
The fact that farmers have signed up as members of this

organization, which as yet seems to have no deﬁnite policy or platform,
is conclusive proof that the farmers of Michigan have at last ﬁrmly
resolved that they are going to work with might and main as one man
to throw of! the yoke which has throttled them so long and which well
nigh threatens the very extinction of the American farmer.
who may be suspicious that the Bureau is the work of a master mind
who has conceived a great scheme for the painless extraction of the"
farmers' teeth. I Will say that their fears are entirely unfounded.-
r Judging from the calibre of the men who have joined the Bureau in
the counties which'have beén canvassed there is no danger of the Bu-
rau going wrong. The executive ofﬁcers of the Bureau will be put to
, the test and if they have formed any entangling alliances they will be
relegated to places where they belongr
of the Bureau “Cost of Production Plus a Reasonable Proﬁt for the

The attitude which MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING has taken '
toward the Farm Bureau is most admirable and you have: cleared the
atmosphere in a clean cut and forceful manner. Keep up the good work.

Peter Lennon is both a good lawyer: and a good farmer;
her of the last legislature 8:141:11!ng I violinist” .
warehouse amendment from” being lion-pooped by‘ itgo 9,
any question where Peter Lennonnocandol; on “hangout!

. L0”?

The farmers of Genesee
I joined the

To any

I would like to see the slogan

 

 

   
    

   
  
 
   

Yours truly, : «35V.
* PETER B. LENNON.

 
  

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“Wham 12111011: to T .,
SOUGHT BY PICKLE GR9WERE, ' , ,
Pickle producers of Fruitport and ‘ "

.adioining townships have organized

and economic interests. .

Much enthusiasm is being shoWn by
the members, and the movement is
spreading rapidly.

The members expect to derive great
benefit from the organization; and
point to the advantage of similar or-
ganizations in other parts of 611119
state. '

Where such organizations are‘being
organized we will be glad to render
all assistance possible, and any com-
munication directed “Secretary of the
Association” will be given prompt at-
tention.

President:,A. Berson, Fruitport, R1

Sec’y:-Treas. G. L. Colburn, Fruit-
port, R 1.

Following is an item of cost account‘

based on careful estimates and rec-
ords kept on last year’s crop. The fig:
,ures‘ plainly show that the present
.pricecf $2.50 per cwt. will not cover
cost .of production.

Coot ofthe‘care and the delivery of V

the piékles from one acre of ground:
Rentofground, . $ 10.
Plowing ground, 5.
Fitting, drag and disc, 7.
Manure spread(16 loads at $3), 48.
Man‘ure inghills (6 lds at $3) . 18.
One day. spreading with team , 6.
One day ,manurin-g hills, team 6.
Planting pickles (2 day’s labor) 4.
,Onoday cultivating (for season) 6.
Thinning and hoeing (4 days) 16.
3.6 days picking at $4, ' 144.
VDeliverin-g pickles, 36 trips at $1, 36.

Total cost of production, $306.
Average yield, 1st grade, 150 bu

at $1. 25, $187. 5
Average yield, 2nd grade, 50 bu.,
at $ .40, 20.
Total receipts, $207.5
Total post, $306.
Total receipts, 207.5
$99.50

actual loss by following reasonable
wage and a fair price for the manure.

St. Joseph Co-Op. Men Meet
The Three Rivers Co-operative As-

sociation held its annual meeting re-

cently and unanimously voted to
branch out into other lines or busi~
ness directly related to. the business
of the farmer. Plans for this will be
completed at a later meeting.

Since the organization was perfect-
ed a year ago the association has
shipped 2,351 hogs, 762 sheep, 250
calves and 231 cattle—41 carloads
valued. at over $100,000.

James P. Rogers, manager of the
Bangor Co-operative store, gave an
address on- the workings of their or-
ganzation and benefits to the -com-
munity as well as to the farmer. He
emphasized the point that the busi-
ness which went to mail order houses
largely would be diverted to the co-op-
erative store. He stated that the Ban-
gor store is paying members of the
association 2 per cent dividends.

 

Million Dollar Farn1ers' Organization

_ A meeting of the stockholders of T~
the Gleaner Clearing House Associ- T

ation will be held early in February
at which time the capital stock will
be increased to one million dollars.
We believe this will give Michigan
the largest co-operative enterprise in
the United States. A large number

of elevators now owned and operat~ '
. ed as individual plants have asked .‘to
. :. come in with the Gleaner line; and
=r'tlio rapid expansion in other lines
has made the increase

stock necessary. ,

~ caretakers Pay Faro

The Railroad Administration’ a rut—- ‘

cancelling the practice of ,
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(Continued from last week)

room was young, slight of ﬁg-
ure and“ limped. Nevertheless
there was nothing of dejection in
his bearing or his face. He was
freckled to a degree, smooth-shaven
and his teeth were beautiful. He
had ﬁne eyes also, a deep blue,
flashing like steel as they moved
from one object to another. The
eyes were keen, alert, and determin-
ed; but being set rather wide apart
under his light brows, they gave the
face a candid. almost artless, look,
and when he smiled the deep dimple
in his cheek made it as merry as a
child’s. _. “
“Good evening, gentlemen," said
he cheerfully. No one responded.

T HE MAN who came out of the

, Robbins made a gurgle in his throat.

which the newcomer generously ac-
cepted for salutation, promptly ap—
proaching the ﬁre at R-obbins’ e1—
bow.

“Cold weather,” said he. Two or
three of the company lifted their
heads and eyed the speaker. Rob-
bins wondered were they as keen-
ly conscious as he of the young fel—
low's trimly ﬁtted clothes, what
godd quality that rough plaided
brown stuff was, how dainty was his
linen. He looked at the home peo-
ple’s ragged coats, he thought of the
poverty that he knew, and the re—
flection of a sneer was on his own
lips, and, somehow, a lump in his
throat. /

“Too Cold weather for folks to
travel unless they’re wanted bad!”
said the gray-haired man on the
edge of the company. There was
a thrill of some strong feeling in his
deep voice.

“It does seem that way,” agreed
the young man with undiminished
vivacity. “I am glad to get to a
shelter.

“Here, Johnny,” said the young
man, “run up to twenty—ﬁve and
fetch me the bag there. the black
one. If we are to drink to our bus—
iness, I want you all to join. You
are all interested, I take it?”

The boy whom he had addressed,
the landlord’s son, a lad of twelve,
had been busy staring at the strang-
er ever since he entered the room.
He ran away, but as he ran could
not restrain himself from flinging
one or two glances back over his
shoulder.

Not seeming to recognize any
chill in his reception, the young
stranger approached the stove. No
one moved to admit him to the in—
ner circle; this, also, he did not seem
to observe. “This whole country
looks as if you had been having hard

times.” he continued. His voice had ~

full, rich, magnetic tones, but its un-
familiar intonations jarred on his
hearersythey knew them to belong
to the east, and they hated the east.
“It’s pretty sad to ride through miles
and miles of farming country and
see the burned fence posts that
caught ﬁre from the cinders just ly—
ing where they fell, and the smoke
not coming out of one farm house

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farmers out this way had simply giv-

en up the ﬁght." , '
“Youive hit it." said the mild-eyed

man; “they have. Some of them

have moved away and some of them -

have killed themselves, after they've
lost their stock on chattel mortgag—
es and lost their land to the im-
provement company. There ought
to be lots of ghosts on these aband-
oned farms and in those homes
where the fences are down. This
country is full of ghosts. We ain’t
much better than ghosts ourselves.”

"It was the three” dry years, I
suppose.” ‘ . .

“That and the mortgage sharks
and the Shylocks from the east," old
Captain Sparks interrupted in a
venomous tone; “what pickings the
drought left they got.”

“Pretty tough!” said the strang-
er, declining the combat again.
“There’s one man I want to meet
here; his name is Russell—Doctor
Russell.”

The mild-eyed man explained that
his name was Russell; the other men
looked puzzled and suspicious.
“What’s his little game?” whisper-
ed the captain. “It won’t go, what-
ever it is,” said-the man next him,
Robbins heard question and answer
distinctly; but the young fellow near
him did not wince. “Are you the one

that wrote to Fairport, Doctor Rus-'

sell? I guess you must be.”

"Yes, I wrote to Fairport.”
Russell.

“Well, I hope you liked the barrel
we sent, and the boxes. They were
going to send them to another place,
but your letter decided us. That’s
my church, you know, which sent
them. And, for that matter .it was
your letter ﬁrst turned my father’s
attention to investing in your part
of the country. Oh, tell me, where
did that tea go? My mother" would
send her best L'ondon mixture—"

“Was it your mother?” Robbins
spoke. With a red face and a flash
of his eyes at the sullen group about
him, he withdrew his chair, making
a clear passage to the stove. “I’d
like to thank her then, and her son
for her; that tea and that quince
jam—whose was the quince jam?"

“I rather think my mother put
that in, too.”

“Well, it almost cured my wife;
it was better than medicine, that
and the tea, for, not to mention that
we couldn't get any medicine, it put
heart into her as medicine couldn’t.”
I wonder was it your mother, or who
was it put in that volume of college
songs? I got that. You wouldn’t
think it, but I'm a university man——
Harvard—”

The young fellow caught his hand
and gripped it hard. “Harvard? So
am I—Martin Wallace, ’92.”

“My name is George Robbins, and
I’m a good deal farther back; and,
as you can see, I’m down on my luck.
But there’s no need going into my
hard-luck story; it’s like a lot -of
our stories here. You see where we
are—hardly shoes to our feet; not
because we have :been shiftless or
idle, or have wronged anybody; yet
the cutthroats and thieves in the
penitentiary have had better f-are

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“I am,” draivled Russell;
good it’s donem'e; but I won h’onors

, at the. University of Iowa.”

,"‘I didn’t win any. honors, but I
went to the state university—was
graduated there before I went, to
Harvard. But—you aren’t Teddy
Russell, Teddy p—Russell of the Glee
club and the football eleven?”

“Yes, I am Teddy Russell.”

"E. D. Russell, 'of course; why
didn’t I guess? You were there two
years before me, but I daresay that
you won a, touchdown with a broken
rib on you, and the time all the rest
of the Glee club missed the train at
Fairport, going to_ Lone Tree, and
you went on‘ with the banjoes and
were the whole thing for three-
‘quarters of an hour ! Well, I’m glad
to meet, you, Doctor! Let us have
a good song or two togeth‘er'after
business.” ,

Russell unconsciously felt for the

cravat which was not round his .soil-‘v

ed and frayed collar; he buttoned
his wreck of a frock coat. “Yes, We
will," he began, but his voice stuck
in his throat as the captain’s rough
grasp gripped his arm.

“I guess not,” said the‘captain;
“business ﬁrst, young feller l”

Russell shook oi! the hand m t-
tering something too low for Rob-
bins’ ear; but Robbins sidled nearer
to him, so near that he was able to
exchange a single ’glance and to see

“Russell’s lips form the . words,
“Watch Orr !” They understood
each other.

“Weren’t you from Ann Arbor
yourself, Captain?” said Robbins,
grabbing at any straw of peace.

“I’ve been too poor ever since the
war to remember whether I ever had
a college eduCation or not,” retorted
the captain with a sneer.’ “I. belong
to the people now! their cause is
my cause. -Where do you belong?
We've tended your folks when you
were sick, and helped you lay, by
your crops, and driven the mortgage
sharks off your stuff. Say, what are
you doing now? Are you monkeying
around to turn traitor or coward or

what’s the matter?” . '

“We’re all right, Captain,” an?

swered Russell, the western burr on
his tongue as soft and leisurely as
ever. and no hint of excitement in
his manner; “but I see no harm in
letting Mr. Wallace answer our ques—
tions before we fly off the handle.”
So saying ,before the captain realiz-
ed his purpose he edged through the
crowd to Wallace’s side. Robbins
followed him; and the eyes of all the
others turned to the three menacing
and eager. _

“All I ask is to answer questions
and to make my proposition to you,”
said Wallace, his ,fearless young eyes
.running around the circle. “If you
don’t like it you can refuse and send
me home—to make other ﬁrrange-
ments."

“No, we ain’t going to send you
home,” said Orr. It was the ﬁrst
time that he had spoken. Wallace
flashed a keen glance at him and
spoke his'next words directly to
him. “But I’m sure you won’t want
to do it. You see. I’m your last
chance» and you have to‘examine it.”

They had not expected such an
answer. A little vibration ran like
a wave over the gaunt, ferociously
attentive faces. Wallace’s eyes were
ﬁxed on Orr’sface, which did not
change. Orr’s hand was in the
breast of his ragged waistcoat.

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there’s [a g’ood‘yean "but the“ good"
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years come so seldom! .
not free,

silver- but free" water. -, th plenty.

of water youf'can raise big “crops;
and down in the valley there is not ~_ ,

the danger; «if we dig ditches, of
the river running dry; we can get—”

“And Who’ll pay for irrig'a‘tionZ", “

'a voice demanded. Wallace did not

shift his gaze to the ‘speak‘emv (he
talked to- Orr as if Orr were the only”

man in the room:

"We expect to-
furnish the money.”

“And what will happen on the ’

ditches are digged?” .

”There’s alfalfa to be raised on all
these abandoned ﬁelds.”

“And what’s to, become of us?"
said Orr. "I can :see where you
folks can git a bolt and come out
even; but what’s going to become of
us? Are we to move off the earth
and letyou stay here?” - ‘ .

Every one listened for Wallace's
answer. Even the boy in the door-
way, returning with Wallace's bag
stood half Scared at the foot of the
stairs not daring to go forward.

“Why not stay and take pot luck
with us?” said Wallace cooly. “We
bought the mortgages cheap, and
we’ll sell them cheap. We’ll sell wa-
ter rights» cheap also. And you will
make batterrcolonists than any we
could import—cheaper, too. It’s for
our interests as Well as yours to
make a deal with—you and to make
one that will be satisfactory.

Orr's hand dropped to his side, he
shuffled to his feet, his eyes turned
from Wallace to seek the captain.
“I hadn’t ﬁgured it out you was go-
ing to make any such proposition,”
said the captain.

“Perhaps you thought weintend—
ed to chuck you all out in the cold
and hog everything. We are neither
such pigs nor such fools”. You fol-
lows can help us more than anybody
else. Here is Johnny. Now let’s
come to business.

“All you folks here need is hope,”
said the cheerful young Iowan; “you
have plenty of pluck and plenty of
sense and oodles of experience; and
we stand ready to put in the capi-
tal. What} do you say; does it go?”

After an hour of talk over the
maps, he repeated the question, and
the captain himself led the chorus,,
“It goes; We’ll stand by you."

The blizzard had not come, and

‘the moon.,was shining when George

Robbins and Wesley Orr drove home
from town. VA basket was carefully
held on Orr’s knees. Robbins was

carolingthe chorus to “Johnny Har- ‘

vard” and wishing a health to him
and his true love at the top of a
hoarse and husky voice. Orr looked
solemnly ahead into the little wav—
ering disk of radiance that their
lantern cast. Once he shivered vio-
lently, but he was not cold. Sud-
denly he spoke. There was a quiv-
er in his face and his voice, but all
he said was, “Say. he was dead right.
We was so desperate we was crazy.
Hope, that was what we needed, and
he give it to. us; but how some fel—
lers would have messed that job,
getting round to that same proposal
we all wanted to hug him for! 0 And
I'm mighty
glad we didn’t git a chance to do
what we set out to do. He was slick.
Say, "what is itthe-y' call them newer
paper boys? Spellbinders? That's

him—a ﬁrst class. A number one,
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than ever before in history.
. sure the future of all business is un-

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05.16: the live stock industry

and, in feet, tor all agriculture, be-
, tore

us. More uncertain, perhaps,
To be

certe!n. The whole business world
is trying to solve the problem as to
its status when the after-the-war
normal conditions have been feund.
Some are talking about getting back

to pro-war conditions as though that.
~ is the condition desired or believing

that pro-war conditions must of
necessity eventually come back,
sooner or later.

But. my friends, pro-war business
conditions never will come back. The

,whole American business world in-

cluding agriculture, at least has gone
a step or it may be several steps for-
ward and Arnerice never turns back.
The idea of newer retreating is what
brought Germany to herknees much
sooner than ‘most of us" expected.
The boys in khaki’refused to obey‘the
French- commander in the second
battle of the Marne» when “fall,
back” was ordered. “We neirer re-

" treat" was a new slogan in the world

war and it inspired-not only our own
army-but the armies of the Allies as
well and, more, it inspired the people

,back home, the people” of France and

Great Britain and of Italy, with the

"result of the forward drive'all sleng‘

the.front, which never stopped, never
faltered, until proud, arrogant, con-
ceited Germany begged for peace.

Important advancement has come
to agriculture by means of the world
war. A great, just, business prin-J
ciple has been applied to agriculture
and now it is up to the farmer to
see that there is no “falling*back”—-—_
no "retreating" no return to pro-war
conditions, so far‘at least as agri-
culture is concerned. Agriculture
will intrench and fortify on this ad-
vantage grOund. Trenches are al-
ready being duga and fortiﬁed and
some are now ding, that will resist
all encroachments to force agricul-
ture- back to pro-war conditions. The
farmer does not want low prices for
food products. The farmer does not
want low prices for food products,
even if prices of everything should
go: down with food products. The
farmer sells more of human neces-
sities than he buys and if he pros-
pers, he must get more for the thing
he sells than he has to pay for the
things he buys.

The Forward Step in Agriculture

Whoever heard, before the war,
of the commercial, World, or the con-

- suming public or the government it-

seli advancing the idea, or even ad-
mitting it that the farmer is entitled
to “cost of production” plus a proﬁt.
When the time came that the world

needed the farmer as much or more

than it did the soldier, then economic
justice was advocated. But it was
advocated then rather to prevent ex-
cessive proﬁts than to establish eco-
nomic justice. The price of wheat,
was ﬁxed at $2.20 per bushel, ﬁgur-
ing on a cost and proﬁt basis, not to

‘guarantee the farmer what justice
entitled him from loss, as in other

business, but to prevent him from
making too much proﬁt. The same
can be said‘of the attempt to ﬁx the
price of other food products.

However, the farmer rejoices rath- '

er than complains of this treatment,

because it establishes an economic ,

principle applying to agriculture as
well as to other business. I have

. said before that when the President .

of the United States appointed that

‘ committee representing all classes oir
, citizens to ﬁx a price for Wheat has»

ed on the principle of cost and proﬁt
that the world war would prove the
American agriculture.
The great court of public opinion,
the consuming public, does not and
will not object to paying the farmer

'a decent proﬁt obeys cost for the

food products which they must nec-

essarily consume. The consumer will
_ _ ot‘stand for proﬁteering but he will
willingly per a hut proﬁt.

amid m, with an uncertain.

or hogs one year and
.. makes the next year.

to a very close‘approximatien, at

" least, the net cost of production.
This is no simple matter in agricul-
ture. The business is very compli-

cated and very uncertain. One man
may make a splendid. proﬁt in fat-
tening a bunch of steers, or lambs,

One man may
grow 300 bushels of potatoes one
year at a magniﬁcent proﬁt and

with the same effort lose money the

next year. One community may make
It good proﬁt and another commun—
ity a few miles away, farm at a loss.
One" state has favorable conditions

.one year while another has bad. It
‘can be stated in general as a broad

fact that to have a prosperous agri-
culture, conditions which will en-
able the famner to live ﬁttingly and
maintain at the same time the pro-
ductive power of his land, in other
words, to do his best in supplying
a full ration to the people of the
world, now and in time to come, the
average farmer, under average con-
ditions, for a period of years must
make a proﬁt. It will not do to take
exceptional individual yields, like
those we read about in the city pa-
pers where a man pays for his farm
from one crop of potatoes, or one
crop of clever seed, or one crop of

less all he '

' county cost of

sugar beets, etc. Neither would it
be fair or just to ﬁx the cost of pro-

Wducing milk from, the records of an

exceptional cow or herd, even. On
the other hand, it would not be fair
to the consumer to determine cost
on poor crops or on crop failures.
Consequently, the cost of production
for all agricultural products must
be an average cost under average
conditions for a series of years.

What agriculture needs and must
have as a business organization of
the farmers of every county in every
state in the union whose duty is, un-
der expert supervision, to determine
the cost for each county. But the
’county cost is not suilicicnt. The
each county in the
state must be averaged to get the
average cost for the state. And this
is not enough. The cost of each and
every state must be averaged as a
whole to determine to a close ap-
proximation the cost of producing
a given agricultural product for a
given year for the nation. Then af-
ter we have the data for a series of
years, a national cost can be deter-
mined that will be beyond dispute.

Over-production

What can be done with a. surplus?
The-skeptic will say that one year of

Lt Lansing Takes : up Basic Problems of Agriculture

overproduction will smash the whole
business. Not so. Products must
be held on farms and in local and
terminal elevators and storage and
placed on the market only as the
consumers will pay a just price. An
excess can be held or transferred
into other channels and future pro-
duction limited on this product to
meet the needs only of the market.
But the farmer must be as just to
the consumer as he asks the consum-

' er to be to him. No_food product in

time of scarcity should be held for
excessive poﬁts. It must be sold for
a fair and just price. A policy of
this sort would do away largely, if
not entirely with speculation in food
products after they leave the farm-
er’s hands, because prices would vary
but little from year to year.

My friends, the county, state and
national farm bureaus now organiz-
ing, can and will accomplish all this.
We have an example of what can be
done in a local way in carrying out
this principle, in the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Association. They inter-
ested our experiment station in their
cause and determined by every pains-
taking labor and investigation the
cost of producing market milk. The
Milk Commission came into being

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from his death. The ﬁrst is that opportunity
beckOns to the poor and obscure as well as to
the rich. The rise of John Dodge from the
forge to the head of a great manufacturing
concern operating many forges and employing
thousands of men is the most eloquent testi-
mony that can be had in rebuttal of the old
argument that opportunity no longer exists
for the poor man under our “capitalistic sys-
tem.” And John Dodge’s success is not the
most conspicuous of the successes attained by
men who were once poor. Thousands of oth-
ers as poorly equipped as Mr. Dodge have made
fully as great names for themselves 1n the ﬁelds
of manufacture, science, invention, medicine,
etc. The great will continue to rise from the
ranks of the lowly in spite of all seeming ob-
stacles before them. '

Another lesson to reflect upon has been the
subject of moralizing for centuries past, name-
ly, that riches avail nothing when death comes.
John Dodge had spent the better part of his
life attaining riches, though it was perhaps as
much a desire to create something useful for
other people as Well as a competence for him-
self, that he toiled. But he was approaching a
period in his life when he desired to enjoy his
vast wealth, and last summer he began the
erection of a $2,000,000 residence on the lake
shore road between <- Mount Clemens and De-
troit. This was intended to be one of the most
palatial homes in the United States, and fas-
cinating stories are told of the rare stones and
wood that had been imported to be used in the
construction of the house. All summer long,
a battery of pile drivers and dredges, a score
of teams and a small army’of men were busy
as bees ﬁlling in a large area of Lake St. Clair
directly in front of the-- mansion site. Accord-
ing to rumor this miniature peninsula was to
be set with rare shrubs and trees and threaded
by canals in which the canoes and yachts of
the Dodge guests could ﬁnd a resting place.
Withal, the Dodge mansion and grounds were
to be the last word, in luxury and beauty. And
even as the humblest views with eager expecta-'

tion the putting together of his lowly cabin, We'
. may suppuse that John Dodge lookedﬁgmk
7 forward to the day when he and his M17.

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John Doﬁge canted 1:25“ his last resting p
when life seemed most full and secure. '

’ “My parks, my Wafks, my. manors that I had.-
Even now forsake me: and, of all my land's
Is nothing left me but niy body‘ 5 length i
Whthhait is pomp, rule, ”reign, but earth and

ust
And, live we how we'can, yet, ﬁle We mus .”

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The Real Danger

ET US not be like the-man, who shrinking
away from an imaginary enemy, backed
over the edge of a precipice and lost his life.
A warning has been sounded against B01?
shevism. Irresponsible zealots whom we have
hospitably welComed into our house have ’been
preaching a doctrine that is as loathsome to
the average citizen as the doctrine of divine
right.

less. But their ant-hill has been made to ap-
pear a mountain, and every time you pick up a
newspaper or attend a lecture on“Bol_shevism”

or “Americanism, ” you are made to feel the-

shadow of the mountain encompassing you.
Every reactionary force in the country has
armed itself to ﬁght this shadow. Sundry

its shadow looms ever nearer and more menac-
ingly. Those who have no cause to fear Bol-
shevism are unmindful of its shadow.

When man throws down the gauntlet to an
unseen foe, he commits himself to a losing bat-
tle. Have you not seen a man strike at a bid-
den snake‘l No sooner does he deliver the
blow than he quickly steps backward impelled
by the sudden notion that the reptile may be
under his very feet. That _is the way this
country is ﬁghting this imaginary evil of B01-
shevism. Every blow that is struck is the sig-
nal for a step backward. So we have been strik—
ing and backing until we are dangerously near
the edge of the precipice.

What causes social revolution anyway?
Surely not the preachings of anarchists and
Bolshevists! You cannot convince a great
race of people that they are being subjected to
wrongs if those wrongs do not actually exist.
The most fruitful causes of revolution are op-
pression, high taxes, extravagance of govern-
ment, monopolization, low wages and hard
working conditions. The existence of any one

of these conditions in a government of free

people provides fertile ground for social rev-
olution. But the disciples of reaction are so
busy ﬁghting the preachers of Bolshevists that
they haven’t the time to give any attention to
the audience. In this fact lies the greater dan-
ger to our Republic.

tit!!!

Your Neighbor and You

HE OLD saying that “there is so much

good in the worst of us and so much had

in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of
us to speak ill, of the rest of us” could prob-
ably well be applied to your neighbor and you.
You don’t always speak Well of your neighbor
and you are morally certain that he seldom
speaks well of you. Yet to all appearances you
are the best of friends...
Oh, the hypocrisy that friends practice! A
hearty hand- shake when face to face, but un-
kind remarks when the back is turned. A

friendly “how-dy-do” when you meet on the

street; ’ but a slur or uncomplimentary comment
when you discuss each other in talking with
others. Sometimes it doesn’t take very much to
turn friends against each other. Opposite
vieWs on polities] or religious matters, perhaps
a trade, or a controversy over township affairs,
and the trick 18 dune. Take a dislike to a per-

son and you can easily make ymirself believe ,0

that there is nothing good about him. Every-

thing he does~ Will stones a suspicion in your *
mind that there is something wrong about it. .

"1t and see ﬁll‘ yoorself

' They are like a lot of ants in ‘aforest of »
animals, annoying: but otherwise quite harms“,

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‘dwéll only upon the good traits of others. Tiy

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Necessity is the Motherdof Invention

nonssnv is not only the mother of ing.
vention. She is also the mother of or-ﬂ .

ganization and co—operation. Necessity gave
birth to the potato growers’ association;

drew the farmers of North Dakota into a non-

' partisan league; she conceived the idea of a‘

great national farmers’ organization and with
much travail is now delivering into the hands
of the farmers a child which, if not altogether
perfect, gives promise of great things. The
foundatlon of all successful farmer Organize:
"Was built upon necessity, and the bonds
of necessity have held them together.

‘ Ninety-nine per cent of the success of an or—
'ganization depends upon the need that exists
for such an organization. Necessity overlooks
defects in organizations and their leaders and
will accompany them almost to the verge of

  

blows have been struck, and have fallen wide <~"'destruction- to save the germ and rebuild the

of their mark. To those whofear .Bolshevism, '—

structure 011 the other hand, the most pow-

'erful OrganiZations Willmllapse if a real, vital . ,

need does not exist for their continued exist-
ence. An organizatismis dike a man in this
it must hawe something to do; some

work to accomplish; some mission to perform
to keep it trim and healthy and always in the
running. Farmers who would organize should
keep this ‘thought eVer in mind. Make sure
there is need and room for your organization,
and nothing can kill it. '

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The Passing of an Old Enemy

OHN BARLEYCORN' has gone quietly to '

his grave. The federal prohibition amend-
ment went into effect at midnight, Jan. 16th,
and today the United States is theoretically
dry.

There was a time when this strange fellow
drew millions to his side” .He was the aristo-
crat of the card table, the dining table and the
conference table. Men thought they‘could not
conduct a minor business transaction or affairs
of state without calling him into counsel and

- listening to his advice. But for the betterpart

of a decade he has been slipping from grace.
Men learned that his congenial presence was
but the exterior of a cold heart that knew not
the meaning of friendship, charity or love.
They discovered that society had been enter-’
taining a guest whose smiles concealed poison
fangs which at unsuspecting moments would
fasten themselves into those who sought his
companionship. So they have put him away,
and there is small regret at his passing.
O t . C ﬂ '

Jessim'vieWQ-of the fact: that the majority of our

‘ farm organizations have recommended legisla- '

tion to curb the monopolistic tendencies of the
packers. we rise to inquire why a representa-
tive of the packing trust was invited to there-
cent live stock breeders’ meeting at _our farm-
ers’ college to speakm such legislation.
Or, if 1n the name of truth it was advisable to

heanthe packers’ side, why also 1n the name of,
truth, was not a speaker invited to present the 3

public’ s side? Please don’t all answer at once.
' W # 1. i t

. The cards are all stacked for the next elec-
tion. Will the farmers sit back as usual and

take what is oEered them or Will they demand, '
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rmade over," which recalls that old
airing of the l'iq-udr interests,

"God
never made men godd enough to
form a nation of tee-totallers.” ,

‘The cussednesg of human nature is
no valid argument against any re-
form. It is just what makes reforms
necessary. Without it we would need
nn’government or laws. The mission
of Christianity is to fight human cuss-
edness. When Jesus healed leprosy
and. cast out devils he promised that
after he was gone his disciples should
do “greater works than these." , To
cast out the booze- devil from a nation
is surely a greater work than bounc-
ing an ordinary brimstone imp from a.
single citizen. Had the professed

' Christians of this country really be-

lieved the teachings of the Christ,
both slavery and booze would handle—
appeared many years soOner. with far
less trouble and expense. Let us not
make the same old blunder agaih. It
is. Well ,to be sure we are right before
going ahead but in the name of Christ
whatever ought to be dens can be
done. —-Stacy Broum, La‘ke Odessa,
Mich.;« . .

 

The struggle for the dollar is the strug-
gle for existence which is the first law of

n.ature What is enough for one man is
insufﬁcient for another, and more than a
third man needs Men have different no-
tions of values. Some people are accus-
tamed to a higher plane of living than
others. _ .Their wants are not easily met.
That is one reason why, as we pointed
out in these columns few weeks a 0,
there is so great a difference between to
financial conditions of families living in
the same surroundings and having the
same income. Your problem of a“industri--
al justice” is not unsolvable, by - any
means, and though you may not ever be
able to bring about perfect justice where
every indivi uai receives the portion to

which he seems to be entitled, that is "

certainly no reason for not making the
attempt. Great strides can be taken in
this direction, it is sure—Editor.

WANTS STATE LAND
CLEARING ACT

I am addressing this communica-
tion to the MICHIGAN Business FARM-
ING, with ﬂhepne idea of catching the
eyes of the next governor of the State
of Michigan 'as I do not doubt but
that the fifty-seven prospects to the
last man, are constant readers of
your valuable medium-h even though
they may, not all be on your subscrip-
tion list.

As a modest citizen, with real con-
structiVe ideas, 19 matters not to me

, personally, if our next governor is
drafted from the plow, captains of in- -

dustry, ranks of labor, reformed
lounge lizards, or is merely a plain,
every-day ‘sort of a human, with ‘ no
past to live down, if he but possess
the vision, force and will, to drive
home to an indifferent or hide-bound
legislature, its long neglected duty to
the entire state' 8 interest—in failing
to provide a. StateAid Land Clearing
Act, merely because it smacks of pa-
ternalism—and so necessary to rapid-

. 1y connect the land hungry with the

immense tracts of idle, tax ridden, ag-
ricultural stump lands within our bor-
der. Yes, I will praise 11.1111 while yet
alive, even though he happen not to
be a disciple of Thomas Jefferson

I have n_.e1ver favored legislation de-
signed to pass the buck to the. tax
payers (which includes all consum-
ers) in the interests of a‘. chosen few,
nor am I guilty of advocating it in
this case, for a State Aid Land Clear-
ing Act, properly named, saddles no
burden upon the tax payers. On the
other hand, the rapid development of
our id‘le lands by a hundred per; cent
citizenry into productive fields, en-
riches tihe entire state materially and
otherwise. The ' productive soils of

, northern Michigan, once tamed for

the plow, becomes a permanent source
of wealth to the state and nation. You

xwiil find no abandoned farms with ‘

. bottomed-up fertile soils in northern

Michigan.
As well recognize first as last, that

‘ the rapid development of Michigan’ s

avast acreage at idle stump lands of
Mahatma! value, absolutely
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interested in subduing the forest
wilds or denuded lands. Its improved
or partly improved farms for them
It is the same old story of the yester-
days, of every state in the union. The
indispensable asset 01 pioneer build-
ers, rarely inventory less than 90 to
95 % faith and hope.‘

Financing in a very modest way,
the embryo farmer, in his initial
clearing operations only, out of a re-
volving fund - permitted under an
amended constitution, on long time,
low interest, amply secured on the
land, and payable in the manner of a
drainage tax, entails no expense upon
the tax payers, although the benefits
derived are statewide while furnish-
ing material encouragements so nec-
essary to the pioneer settlers.

No substitute for a State Law
Clearing Act can press so lightly upon
the settler, nor prove so inexpensive
to the tax payers of the entire state.

If there is one single industry (al-
ways in the infant stage of develop-
ment) :that is entitled to the first and
last nip at the suckling bottle, but
forced always to be content with hay

.. tea until weaned, it is the hardy self-

denying types of the Lincoln charac-
ters, in small bands on the frontiers
of civilization, enduring hardships,
while paving the way for others, and
we purposely remain stone-blind to
their dues. Gee! How penny wise
and pound foolish our legislature ap-
pears at times—John G- Krauth,
Millersburg, Mich.

Your suggestion is directly in line with
what we have long advocated. The pres-
ent governor made a promise that if he
were elected he would turn his attention
to the uncleared land problem in this
state and recommend legislation to aid in
its development. But the promise proved

‘ to be nothing but a. campaign tickler. for

the governor has made no effort to carry
it out, and has in fact retracted from his
position. Being in the business of loan-
ing money to farmers on cut—over lands,
at attractive. —ver attractive,——rates of
interest, it is not 0 be supposed that he
would go very far out of his way to make
the state a competitor. The problem of
our cut- -over lands is a. big one, and
should command the earnest attention of
the entire state. —Editor.

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uNnon‘sns M. B. F. EDITORIAL
In your issue, of January'lOth your
article "The State Farm Bureau and

Politics" strikes me as being very

timely and right‘to the point. I agree
with you most heartily. The great
organized strength of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau should be used to-
wards helping to get good men in our
state offices. If it is not to be used
for such worﬂhy purpose, why was it
organized? I feel that I can safely
say that our County Farm Bureau
is going to do its part toward that
end.

We. are going to have a big meet-
ing here tomorrow and expect to have
farmers here from all over this coun-
ty. Dr. Mumford and several other
noted speakers will be on the job.

With best regards, I am yours tru-
ly—Johxn F. Quinlan, Petoskell, Mich.

I am certainly glad to know that the
Emmet County Farm Bureau members
will concern themselves with the ways
and means of securing better government
ameng which is the naming of worthy
representatives. I feel assured that the
great majority of farm bureau members
will take the same interest. ——Editor.

 

OBSOLETE INSTITUTIONS

I have been much interested in the
many expressions of needed reforms
by yourself and the many readers of
your “Open Forum.” It has been plain-

; ly shown that there is a great need
for men to make laws, more democrat-

ic laws, to benefit those who create
wealth, as well as those who get it to
the consumer. Our present system is
crude and belongs to the period of ex-
carts and corduroy roads, fallow dips
and log houses and fire places, when
one newspaper supplied a community,
and once in four weeks a preacher or
religious teacher came to sojourn for
a few days. Today we have a daily

- mail to nearly every door in Michigan

as well as every door in this great
land'. And what does the mail bring
us? Nine out Of every 10 papers pub-
lished support the present system of
unjust distribution of wealth and our

 

The Week’s Editorial

“Politics Demands Every American’s Attention”

 

 

can national committee is appar-

ently talking from broader
viewpoint than that enjoyed by a
mere partisan when hefasserts that
what we need in this country is not
less politics, but more attention to
politics because only thus can ﬁle best
candidates be obtained. Mr. ays is
speaking with especial reference to
the coming presidential campaign,
and while his words are true, wheth-
er taken in a general or in a speciﬁc
sense, they are doubly forceful as
he applies them.

For not since Mr. McKinley and
Mr. Bryan became opponents on the
free silver issue, perhaps not since
the _campaig‘n".that put Mr. Lincoln
in the White. House. has there been
a national election of/such portent
to the country, as the one _due an

T

CHAIRMAN Hays of the Republi-
J

'November'promises» to be.

foundations and policies of our gov-
ernment are to be affected as they
have not been affected for many
years.

The very question of our integrity
as a severeign nation may be at stake.
The outcome of the balloting may
decide, too, whether we are to have
a-genuine ,postwar reconstruction, or
a revolution through socialistic leg-
islation; whether we are to be a re-
public or sink in the mire of state
socialism; whether we are to go back
to a regime of stalwart Americanism

in Washington or; continue under a. *.
near despotism: whether the execu-
this is to continue in control of the .
legislative departments, or whether
_we are to keep our free institutions.

1.W9 are to choose Whether section-
is to rule the United States or

   
 

and an. the people of

  

determine What are to be the rela—
tions between capital and labor on
one side and the great general pub-
lic on the other. Our merchant ma-
rine policies, our railroad policies,
the great question of national pre-
paredness, the equally great question
of national frugality, our future at-
titude toward the Monroe doctrine,
toward Europe, toward Mexico, to-
ward South American, are all in the
balance.

It is impossible yet to tell what
may be the so-called paramount is‘
sue in the impending campaign.
Much will depend upon the devel-
opments of the next few weeks; but
whatever seems to hold center of the
gangs, the underyling issue is to be

mericanism. What bigger issue for
on country can there be than this?

t has necessary for the voters of

ﬁrmer-ion. to concern themselves with
politics throughout the

next few
months as it was for them to con-
cern themselves with the war thru-
out the period of the active ﬁght
against Germany. The demands of
patriotism are quite as peremptory
in 810 one instance as in the other.
The same duty rests in equal meas-
ure on the members of both great
parties. The adherents of each
ought to make certain that the best
man obtainable is chosen to make the
campaigns for the presidential chair.
We can imagine no better political
fortune for the country than the se-
lection of first—class candidates by
both the Republicans and the Dem-
ocrats. Such a development would
in itself be a most hopeful augury
for the future. It would be an in-
dication of a national understanding
of the bigness of the crisis through

’which We are passi'n‘ngetroit Free
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engineered by political

'speak, almost every issue that is ad- I

. women to ﬁll our ofﬁces regardless of.

    

ing made along well dad
ed lines? I have seen three disti ,
political parties organized say noth' ﬁg
of the Gleaners, Farm Burs
Knights of Labor, etc, and only to s
our liberties slipping away slowly
but surely every year, until we have: .
only one state in this country that 1...-
governed by its people and that
North'Da-kota. When every voter 1112 '
M1chigan studies the principles of .th ,
Non—partisan League and its mode of“,
getting control of state and nationaix;
governments, then they will act for
and with a purpose—P. P. Miner, Sag-
inaw County.

  

  

   
  

   
  

   
  

     

 
  

 

 
 
 
 

 
  
  

  
   

   

  
   
 
  

  

    
 
  

   

      
        
           
  
 

 
 

The people of North Dakota are tryin
8. grand experiment. Let us see what it
amounts to before we follow their foot-,
steps. There is nothing basically wrong
with the majority of our laws. We have
exactly theh same election machinery
here in Michigan as in North Dakota. If
we do not employ it to good and useful.
ends, that is not the fault of the law, the
politicians, nor those who abuse the law.
That is your fault, my fault, our neigh-
bor's fault, and the fault of all ordinary
citizens Who permit their elections to be'
rings, and who,
vote for the men whom the ring pick out‘
for us to vote for. —Editor.

 
     
   
    
   
   
 
   
 
  
  
 
  
   
   
 
   
    
     
   
  
  
     
   
    
  
 
  
 
   
   
    
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
   
   
   
 
  
  
 
   
 
  
    
    
   
  
    
   
    
      
   
  
   
   
     

THE COST OF PARTISANSHIP ,'

Regarding your straw vote for a
farmer for governor, please permit 3
me to ask a question, which you are’
asked to pick flaws with. Why a
farmer, a Ford, a Newberry, _or a
millionaire for governor. Congress~
man, president, or in fact any im—
portant ofﬁce? Why no men elected g
by the common people and common
men in ofﬁce? Why always stick to
Republicans or Democrats or any
other political party?

It appears to me so long as we ’
have political parties, just so long
will we have one party ﬁghting the
other. Why not do away with them
and elect men, or women to fill our "
oﬁices regardless of party? '

What does it cost this country for ,
two political factions, strong factions
such as the Republicans and Demo-
crats daily to sit in congress and
stall in their time ﬁghting so to

 

vanced by either party? Take our
congress for instance‘, the number
of men and multiply their salary by
the number and see what it costs the
country daily for them to sit there
and chew the rag.

If the common people, and by
common people I mean the ones who ‘11
actually keep this country going",-
were placed in ofﬁce, and a few of 'I‘ﬁ
the best men nominated by the peo~ 1'5
pie, then what we read in the papers
to be only the experience, education
and ﬁtness for ofﬁce, and let the one 5
who received the most votes be de-
clared elected, and any time that
such a party accepted a bribe, or
missused his ofﬁce then and there
such a party is to step down and out ’3;
would if not be better than harbor- 3-“;
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parties. Do
away with all strife and contention.
Elect qualified men to fill our 0111-
ces regardless whether they have any
money or not. We don’t want mon-
ey men in ofﬁce. We want MEN.

Is not the Ford—Newberry contest
enough for the common people to ,
unite and select their candidates and' '
elect them to ofﬁce. Have not the
common people this power 100 to 1.
Yes possibly 1,000 to 1, and still the
one, the money is ruling, and it will
rule just so long as we have politi
al parties, or try and have one class
dominate another class. What would
your ofﬁce care if your employees
were Democrats, Republicans or what
not. What you want is employees
that make good, who are on the job
and who are working for your inter-
est. and this is it exactly in politics.
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constitution of the United States,
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the war, surely we can unite to u
age our ofﬁces.

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[News that the Russian trading
with the world was to be resumed at
once had a weakening effect last
tweak on numerous grain markets,
especially the wheat section. Min-
eapolis reported that spring wheat
M declined from 15 to 20 cents
for bushel. Furthermore it report-
“that the news had resulted in al-
most on unsaleable condition for
winter wheat in the west.

But this week Herbert Hoover’s
statement on the European situation
backed by approval of other foreign
exports, has bolstered up the wheat
price situation, as well as corn and
other grains. Hoover states that
Russia cannot export wheat as long
so .the people of that country are
-.sterving to death. He says that the
cities of Russia and other Slavic dis-
tricts mus-t have imported food im-
mediately in order to live through
the winter without terrible famine.
The country districts, according to
,his statements, have supplies for
' only a few months.

: Along with this the Grain Corpor-
ation has been applying its usual
bearish tactics. But the week start-
00 out with a bullish tone. Supplies
in Detroit are very low.

In Chicago, the prediction made
not long ago for $4 wheat looked
much nearer realization, when No. 1
northern sold at $3.53 in the Chi-
cago market. This is the record
peak, and it is believed that the de-
mand for fancy grades may easily
boost the top to around $4 before
long. _

 

OOBN RETAINS STRENGTH

 

icons PRICES PER 30.. .um. 20, 1020

 

 

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e. 2 Yellow . . .l 1.87

, 8 Yellow . . .l 1.63 1.54

lo. 4 Yellow :41. .49

 

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W1 Yellow . 1.53
to. 0 mm 1.30 1.34 1.50
lo. 4 Yellow 1.33 1.33 140

 

 

» Nearly all factors in the corn mar-
kets of the country have been ex-
pecting the usual January decline of
corn prices, due to heavy receipts
:ond other bearish elements concen-
trated upon the market at this sea-
s0n of the year. To be sure there
has been some slump, but the fol-
low-up of encouraging news on the
Russian situation and the arrival of
only small stocks at the terminals
:oonsed the corn market to retain its
strength. The Detroit quotations
are only one cent below those of a
‘woek 030. and the Chicago market
has eased all only a cent or two
, _. ore. Last year about this time
ere were heavy losses.

V‘l‘he Russian statement by Hoover
eon-ed a big recovery Monday this
week. Only a few cars appeared at
, for grain shipping purposes,
here-e great supplies of rolling
_ h were anticipated.
lords ailecting many parts of the

islet-don has gone from Chicago to

Y "from the car shortage, although
upeoted that little relief can
dun by the administration.

rim of corn have been increas-
llut even now they are only half
. they were a year ago. Farm:
ul‘believed to have quite fair
"of corn on hand, but, in e
,. of states, show‘e disposition
.001- 81.60 per bushel at «the
stations. The rapid ﬂuctua
"the: past week nuke proph—
‘ assertions at this moment

   
       
   
    
 
  

  
 
  

The bllz-'
lotion also held up movements. A '

. nice in hope of getting -re--

‘ e predict better prices .

  

 

 

 

 

and higher. Hay ﬁrm.

 

 

DETROIT—Grains, excepting rye, show strengthr potatoes
ll higher; beans in fair demand, strong and steady. Seeds stronger

CHICAGO—Corn and oats show strength. Wheat weak. Pro-
visions bullish'. Hog market strong and higher.

 

 

Weekly Trade and Market Review

A LTHOUGH the League of Nations has become a reality and most of
the nations of the world have signed the peace treaty, the United
States has been little aﬁected. Technically" our nation is still at war with
someone or other. Instead of strengthening the foreign exchange. rate of.
money, the past week has seen further declines. The Italian money» is
worth less in the United States than at almost any time in history. The
cotton trade from America to England is bolstering up the English mon—
ey a little and helping our export trade to the British Isles. One other
country, Russia, saw a strengthening of its money value in America this
week, due to the opening of trade relations in that nation.

Business continues to be lively in most parts of America, and it is
believed that the campaign for Thrift Week is cutting down the nation’s

extravagance.

Cold weather is putting in its hardest licks now in the

business and trade conditions, by making cities snowbound and cutting
oﬁ rail transportation. Paris of. Michigan have suffered this condition
last week, and this week one of the deepest snowfalls in years struck
many parts of the country. New York state is one of the heavy suiferers.

In the markets, the usual slump which occurs in January did not

strike the corn market very hard this time.

Cold weather is forecast

as the strengthening factor, while a better price for hogs this week is
also worth noting. Other grains have staid near what they were a week
ago, except wheat, which has dropped somewhat.

 

OATS’ SITUATION HAlZY

 

 

 

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No. a wmm .03 l .00 i .13
No. 4 White --!V-§§_,_-°5 ,_ .14

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Standard ....... I .00 .51 I .30
No. 3 Whlte ...! .ss .30 I .
No. 4 White .. .01 .85 I

 

 

 

There is a considerable ,haziness
in the outlook upon the oats mar—
ket. Reports keep coming from
New York every day, telling of ex—
port buying of oats, but Chicago,
Detroit and other Wes-tern market
men .are not so sure that there is
much movement of oats abroad. Al-
though oats are scarce in the mar-
kets, there has been slight demand
the last week or so, and the price
has edged off a cent in the past
week. It might seem that the gen-
eral bullishness of the oat market
for many weeks has stopped to take
a rest for a spell. That the market
will make still further progress is

entirely likely, inasmuch as the oat
supply is so scant and the need is
greater than ever.

Export of cats is known to have
dropped off at leastr30,000 bushels
in one week, and the total export

' BEANS IN DEMAND LAND armor

35m emcee venom" can- 20, 1020 .-

 

 

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e. H. P. ....... t 1.85 ‘ 1.15 I 0.00
ﬂed Kldneye . . . 13.1! I14."

 

 

Palette ou__s run A00

 

Grids Iooz‘Foit‘I (immune: 1;.
'2. H. P. ..... 0.15 Is.25 10.25
Prime ......... 1.75 I 8.60 9.80
mo Kidneys 2.00 I12.00 13.00

 

 

Beans have picked up a little in‘
the past week with a good demand
and steady market at present in De-
troit and other centers. Detroit
pays $7.35 per cwt. for prompt ship-
ment, and quotes February bid
$7.46; . _

Interesting ﬁgures have been gath-
ered concerning the Michigan bean
crop of the past year. It is estimat-
ed that the total Michigan bean crop
last year was 4,030,000 bushels, a.
loss of 850,000 bushels compared
with 1918. This does not show.
the great shrinkage in acreage, how-
ever, because there were more beans
per acre in 1919 than in 1918. It
is estimated by some authorities thwt
13 bushels per acre formed the
state’s 1919 average, while 1918 got .
only nine bushels per acre.

Saginaw county farmers are re-
ported to be holding back their beans
at present, although nearly half the
crop was thought to have been mar-
keted in October and November. J.
B. Leach, of the Chesaning Farmers’
Elevator 00., says that the farmers
expect an increase of around ﬁfty
cents per bushel in the next month.

, The government report shows that
Michigan produced more beans than
all the other leading bean states,
omitting California, which leads
Michigan slightly. The government
report also tells of advapcing prices
of soy beans in Japan, due to drouths
in Manchuria in the past season. It
also tells of poor quality of the ori-
ental crop. Taking all considera—
tions into account, conditions look
pretty bullish for the bean market
at present.

rate is about a ninth or tenth of that ‘

maintained last year at this time.
Despite the. tired feeling in the oats
market just at present, a new high
level for highest. grade oats was
reached in Chicago a few days ago.

RYE AND BARLEY

- Rye and barley, along with oats,
are now wellestablished as interna-
tional grains.‘ Fluctuations in these
markets have depended almost en-
tirely of late upon conditions abroad.
Rye has suffered the most of any
of these grains during the “January
slump," while barley has actually
gained somewhat. There has been
almost no demand for rye in the
Middle West. Detroit quotes ry’e,
cash No. 2, at $1.74, which is 12
cents below last week’s ﬁgure. Bar-
ley, cash No. 3, $3@$3.20 per cwt.

 

 

 

storms

WASHINGTON? D. 0., Jan. 24, ’20.
...-\Varm waves will reach Vancouver
about Jan. 28 Feb. 3 and 9 and tem-
peratures will rise on all the Paciﬁc

ope. They will cross crest of Rock-

s by close of Jan. 29, Feb. 4 and 10;
plains sections
ridian 90, great lakes, middle Gulf
. and Ohio-Tennessee valleys
Jan. 31, Feb. 6 and 12; eastern sec-

. i 1 and 13, reaching vicin-
ity of Newfoundland about Feb. 2, s
and 14. Storm waves will follow
about one day behind warm waves and
cool waves about one day behind
atom waves. ‘

These disturbances
wort-other «North _

 

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

 

30, Feb. 5 and 11. me: .
' ive to live

will dominate

  
 

near Jan. 21 to near Feb. 14. The
week centering Jan. 5, as predicted,
not only bro t severe storms in
America but Europe also. The
The week centering on Jan. 18 was
also predicted to bring severe weather
events.

Most severe storms and most pre—
cipitation of February are expected
during weeks centering on 6 and 24.
The period of about nineteen days de-
scribed above is expected to brin a.
decrease of precipitation in the ot-
ton states, an increase in the north-
ern states and a oontinuances of mod-
erate precipitation in Canada and on
the Paciﬁc slope. While some ex-
tremor: of weather events are expected.
February will average about normal.
Liv “ck will require about an av-
r ' ‘ ';&a%%r%6 A cold, hard,
storm w very expens-
y stock leaders. Weather

Ci-n- ...-us for bruary seem to fav-
or winter but too backward for
southern

   

 

 

  
 

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POTATOES STILL CLIllIB

 

 

 

 

 

spuos PER cwr.. JAN. 20. 1020
Backed! 7 so}:
Detroit ............... 4 so 0.10
Chicago ............... 4.35 4.50
Plttsburu ............ ..l 4.80 l] 4.70
New York ............. l 5.00 “5:80
Filbgg’oﬂa‘fri‘an scoff”
09mm. ............... 2.00 ‘ 1.00
Mean ............... 1.05 1.00
Flushing ............. I 2.30 I 2.20
New York ............. I 2.00 I 2.30

 

 

 

Potatoes have surprised many by
continued advances, in spite of
heavy arrivals from the Maine grow-
ers and other heavy producing cen-
ters. Western growers seem well
satisﬁed with the prices they are
gettingras a rule. The Michigan
white stock has been pulling down
higher and higher prices. Even the
famous Aroostook county in Maine.
has been taking a, back seat to Mich-
igan and has been getting prices of)
ten to ﬁfteen cents below Michigan
grades.

The following interesting letter
has been received from A. A. Lam-
berston, of Cedar Spurings, Mich.,
regarding the spud market: .

“In regard to the price at which
potatoes went out last spring, I
think that if we had normal weath-
er, potatoes would have gone out at
$2; but the weather turned off hot
for twenty days—hotter than ever
known before. Of course that
brought the southern spuds on much
earlier. The heatalsgpmade buy—
ers afraid of stocking up because of
fear of the spuds rotting. The farm-
ers' business is a continual gamble
in this respect. I have watched sev-
eral seasons and believe that this is
one in which the government esti-
mate is all off—perhaps one—half
out of the way. ,‘

" I have. yet to see Snow in the
Rural New Yorker, ~ make a mistake
in estimating any crop; he has paid
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Very ﬂrm hay markets are reported
generally,” especially New York, De
trait, Chicago and Pittsburg are all
undersupplied.

The hay trade our situation is des-
perate and further expressions from

dealers indicate they do not feel that

the full available supply of vox cars
for hay loadings is taken advantageof.
"We cannot urge shippers too strong-
ly to get in the market now," said Al-
bc-t Miller & 00., of Chicago, “as con-
ditions are ideal. Advices of loadings
and actual receipts continue exception-
ally light and are expected to contin-
ue so for some time yet."

DE'EBOIT PRODUCE MARKET
This week Detroit’s opening pro-
duce market did not develop much
Interest and the price list remains
with scarcely any change. In dairy
products the trade was active and
tone ﬁrm. Receipts of both butter
and fresh eggs are increasing and
demand is enough to take care of it
all. While receipts of eggs have been
steadily Increasing, there is a chance
now that the snow storm will check
the movement and bring another
ptriod of scarcity. Consumers are
taking hens freely, but there is not
much doing in any other line of
poultry, and the supply of chickens
is more than enough. Dressed calves
are ﬁrm and active. Dressed hogs
are in small demand. The market is
quiet for fruits and vegetables.
Apples—Western, boxes, $3.25@
3.50;,Spy, $3.25@$3.50; Baldwin,

8@$3.25; Greening, $3.50@$3.75
per bu.
Popcorn—Ghelled, 11@12c per

1b.; cauliflower, $2.25@$2.50 per
case; honey, white comb, 32@35c
per 1b.; celery, Kalamazoo, 40@75c
per doz.; onions, Indiana, $6@$6.50
per loo-lb.- sack; sweet- potatoes,
Jersey, crates, $3@$3.50; cabbage,
home grown, $100@$124 per ton;
tomatoes, six-basket carrier, repack-
ed, $7. 50@$8. -

Dressed Hogs—Best, 19 @210;
heavy, 17@180 per lb. ; calves,
(dressed), fancy, 28@290; choice,
25@260 per lb.

Lettuce—Iceberg, $2@$3 per
crate; hothouse, 26@27c per 1b.;
Florida hampers, $2@$2.25.

Dress-ed Poultry—Turkeys, 45@
50c; chickens, 30@32c; ducks, 88
@40c; geese, 28®30c per lb. Live
Poultry—~Spring chickens, large, 28
@300; Leghorns, 26@28c; hens,
82@34c; small hens, 27@29c;
roosters, 19@200: young geese, 28

@32c; ducks 38@40c; turkeys, 44 __

‘- 045c per lb.

I

LIVE STOCK STRONGER
One of the encouraging features
0! the week is the better tone for

hogs on the. Chicago markets. The V.

leading markets are strong for all
kinds of live stock, with price jumps
of from ﬁfteen to twenty cents at
some points. Quotations follow:
DETROIT—Cattle market steady;

' best heavy steers, $12®$13; best

   
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
 

handy weight butcher steers, $10.50

@$11.50; mixed steers and‘heifersy

$9.50@$10; handy light butchers,
$8.50@$9; light butchers, $7.50@
$8; best cows, $9.50@$10; butcher

canners, $5.50@$5.75; best heavy
bulls, $10; bologna bulls, $8@
$8.50; stock bulls, $7.50@$8; milk-
ers and springers, $65®$150. Veal
calves: Market steady at last week’s
opening: best. $22®$23; others,
100$”. , Sheep and lambs: mar-
hot strong! 25s to 508 higher than

 

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, «slim, 3151100115135;

cows, $8@$8.50; cutters, $6.50@$7. .

as week's close; best latch. ‘19 75
- twilight“? '
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1‘81“. $1515@
$15. 35; light light, 814.50@$15.20;
has?! packing sows. mm; $14150

. $14. 65; whim sows, mgh, $13. 65@

$14.15; pigs, $13. 50®$14. 50. Cattle:
Firm; beef steers, medium and heavy
weight, choice and prime. $17 50@$19z
medium and good, $11. 50@$17. 50;
common, 3'9. 50®$11 so; light weight,
good and choice, $13. 750818; common
and medium, $9@$13.75; butcher cat-
tle, heifers, $6.75@$14.25; cows, $6.65
@813; “cannerg and cutters, $6:50@
$6.75; veal calves, $170818.|50; feed-
er steers, $8@$12.50; stacker steers,
$7.50@-$11. Sheep: Strong; lambs,
84 lbs down, $17.25@$19.25; culls and
common, $14@$16.75;_ ewes, medium,
good and choice, $92508”; culls and
common, $5.50@$8.75.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle steady;
prime steers $16@$17; shipping steers

’$15@$16.50; butchers, $90$15; year-

lings, $14@$15.50; heifers, $6.50@
$11.50; cows, $4.50@$10.50; bulls,
$6.50@$10.50 ;stockers and feeders, $6
@$10.25; fresh cows and springers,
$85®$175. Calves: 50c higher; $6@
$24. Hogs: 250@500 lower; heavy,
$15.50@$15.65; mixed and yorker-s,
$15. 75 light do and pigs. $15.75@$16;
roughs, $13. 50@$13‘. 75; stage. 3106)
$11750. Sheep and lambs: Steady to
500 lower; lambs, $110821; yearlings,
$100813; weiihers, 130814; ewes, $4
@$12; mixed sheep, $126813. _

 
 
      

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we. ’ :1
times on Michigan and New York

Fleeces:

Fine unWashed, cross; Delaine im-
washed, 87®90;1—2 blood unwashedt
80®82; 3-8 blood unwashed, 68@69;
1-4 blood unwashed, 64@67; 1-2, 3-8,
1—4 clothing, 55@57; common and
brai,.d 41@42.

ERADIOATION OF LIVE STOCK
DISEASES IN hﬂCHIGAN

(Continued from page 2)

"It is hereby ordered by the State De-
partment of Animal Industry, located at
Lansing, Michigan, that all cattle which
are offered at any public fair in Michi-
gan for exhibition purposes within such
state shall have been tested for tubercu-
losis by an accredited veterinarian not to
exceed sixty days prior to said fair.

”It is further ordered that all hogs 01-
fered for exhibition purposes at any pub-
lic fair in Michigan shall be accompanied
by a certiﬁcate of health signed by a
graduate veterinarian licensed to practice
under the laws of the state in which he
resides, showing that said hogs have been
immunized against hog cholera at least
twenty-one days previous to offering for
exhibition following? the use of the si-
multaneous inoculat on, or within a peri-
od of thirty days immediately following
the use of the serum alone method. Pro-
vided however, that this regulation shall
not apply to unweaned pigs under six
weeks of age from sows which have been
immunized by serum and virus
tion at least sixty days beforeparturition.

“Said certificates must be held in read-

iness by the owners of the live stock at

all times for inspection by an authorized
agent from the State Department of A111-
mal Industry."

We believe that the money appro-
priated for the use of this Depart-
ment for the control of diseases of
live stock is money which is well
spent. We are making every effort

  
 

   

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we desire to thank the. hr
live stock in this state for ‘8'“ 3%:
id co—operation which they ’
rendered during the put

trust that the services whlc .
rendered have been of value and H ‘
our efforts have not been in Vila-w
H. H. Hallway, am of M

     
 

'mal Industry.

A paper that's a sort of
track of things—Frank ll. " ..~.
Saginaw County. ’ it

You, orrathermr M. B. his“
more for the farmers than
paper. Let’s stick together to
We will win in the long race, so
forget to keep M. B. 3'. coming
along. Yours tor mar—09 I.
Elsie.

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How Breeders Feed Unicorn I
to Make Records  

'BREEDERS use Unicorn as a high
protein feed. It has just the right
combination of grain and oil sccd pro-

 

 

 

 

NOTE

Feed, made of corn,
oilmeal and bran.

 

 

  

 

For those breeders who do
not raise corn and oats, we
recommend our Centaur

protein.

 

 

Semi-Office! Year Records Made With Unicorn

Breed Age Lbs. Milk Lbs. Fat
’Walcovris Ollie Mooic Holstein Jr. 2 21,569.70 808.50
'Nancy Whitehall Ayrshire Jr. 4 1!, 707 .00 754.00 ‘2
Star Watson M003: 3rd Holstein Full-aged.25,99+.50- 736. 56. 22;"
mean Waldorf Holstein Jr. 4 24,648. so 394.39
(World's mill: record in class when mad!)
Docdc Binnema Flora Holstein 11 yrs. 28, 857.00 1005.66

oats,

reins for balancing with farm
Unicorn tests more than 21% dngwtz'é/e

The percentage of protein is important,
but no more so than the combination
and quality of the feeds used.

Unicorn is the feed for record-making.

The following records recently corn-
pletedwcre made on a mixture of
about 70% Unicorn, 15% hominy (or
corn), and 15% oats.

(World’s milk snafu! recovdfar cow after as)
' World's fa! record in class when mic.

grains.

Unicorn is made to ﬁt your cows by
people who know feeds and cows. ; a,

Feedin cows “right” is difﬁcult. Uni-
corn hc ps you get a maximum yield.
Unicorn 1s not high priced When fed
with your own grain. ‘

CHAPIN & COMPANY Chicago

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. ' . THRIFT
" (T0 EARN a little and to spend

 

    

a little less," was the creed
advanced by Robert Louis
Stevenson and this is ‘practically the
a-me creed which the nation has
asked "every individual to adopt as
his or her own, in the program it is
advancing in this ”Thrift Week.”
It is' a well known fact that this
,_,questi0n of ﬁnancing lies largely
'with tﬂe women of the land, as al-
most any woman can spend more
than a man can earn, if she so will,
or a determined woman can compel
a spen‘dthrift husband to meet her
demands for a “budget” and can so
plan the family expenditures that
there will be a deﬁnite amount laid
. aside for legitimate ilvestments.
,, Investigation after investigation
.‘ has been made by prominent men
‘ , and women regarding the H. C. of
L. and each and every one has agreed
_in the ﬁnal analysis, that the only
remedy lies in greater production.
'Just as there must be greater pro-
duction in order to remedy the pres—
. ent problem of costs, so there must
be greater saving if we are to keep
our country first of all, for produc-
tion has lagged for two years and in
order to catch up it will take a vast
amount of capital and it is up to the
individual to assist in supplying that
' capital through sane investments in
~ bonds which will assist our country
in catching up.
It is, a most remarkable condition

which exists—with prices higher
' than they have ever been in the hist-
ory of our lives—,gtill there is not a
bread line or a soup kitchen from
coast to coast of our fair land. This
is a marvelous record for any coun—
try—n0w the thing to do is to’keep
it so by keeping men employed and
they cannot be kept employed unless
the country keeps prosperous and a
thrifty country is a prosperous coun-
'try. And so to help instill the gos-
' rpel of thrift in our minds the govern-
, ment has given us these command-
ments which it would be well for us
to keep in mind, not only this week
which has been set aside as Thrift
Week, but every week throughout
the year.

  
    
    
 
 
   
      
  
  
  
  
    
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
 
  
  
  
  
     
     
 
  
   
   
  
   
 
  
   
   
  
  
   
 
      
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
  
   
  
    
  
  
  
    
   
   
 
 
 
   
    
 
   
   
 

(THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
, INDIVIDUAL . FINANCES

lee—“Tori; and earn—to help in-

OF

how you should dispose of your in-
come.
fie—Keep. a record if expenditures
» to see how close you come out to
your estimates.
4.———Have a bank account—To keep
., money in a safe place and help you
' save. ‘
' 5.-——-Carry life insurance to pro-
“tect your loved ones in case of your
death. .
, 6.—Make a will to insure your re-
sources going quickly to .your loved
ones in case of your death.
7. --Own your own home to secure
. the greatest satisfaction in your own
7 home.
8.—.—-Pay your bills promptly—To
». meet'the moral obligations you have
to your creditors.
' '9.-'-—anest_ in government securi-
tiesrL-z-To help your country and make
a wise investment.
~ .10. ”Shale with others—To ful-
ﬁll your religious duty of steward-
ship.

“PUBLIC INSTRUCTION SHOULD
BE THE FIRST OBJECT OF
GOVERNMENT"

  
  

     
 
       
   
     
     
   
       
      

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hers salaries have not
have other compensations,

  

4' ‘ ' Edited by MABEL CLARE LADD

ing consideration: at the hands of
our public omcials, and with their
decision rests the question of wheth-
er we shall have competent teachers
or not. If the salaries are not forth-
coming, teachers will more and mere
desert this profession and girls grad—
uating from high school will cease

to ﬁt themselves for the occupation

of teachers. And what hearing has
this on the subject of consolidated
schools, you ask? Just this:,

If several schools unite; convey-
ances are provided for the children

and hot lunches, the cost of hiring“
the teachers will be spread over' a’

larger are-a—~—-the cost, will not be
burdensome, but the position can be
made ﬁnancially attractive enough

so that the best teachers can be se—_

cured.

Legislation affecting this problem.

”will necessarily dovetail very closely
with that affecting good roads, for
without one the other is impossible,
so the subject is one which should
have the thoughtful consideration of
every woman of voting age.‘

Much interest is being shown in.

the coming conference to be held at
Cedar Falls, Iowa, February 17—19
on this subject. At thisrconference

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Hero I: the successful consolidated school at
Otter Lake. Mich.

the best educators in the entire coun-
try will 'be present and work out in
detail plans for the consolidation of
schools where the community will
warrant it. In order that our read-
ers may keep abreast of the times,
we advise you to write to Mr. J .L.
McBrien, Director, of Rural School
Extension, Bureau of ~Education,
Washington, D. C., and request a
report of this conference. It will be
available soon after the conference.
So far Iowa has shown more inter-
est in the subject than any‘other
state. A

 

L crease the world’s goods and de-
crease ‘cost of living. »
‘2.——Make a Budget—Ascertain

tl-IE SUBJECT of consolidated.

gain and again until, through

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THE T113125

OF THRIFT

By EDMUND VANCE COOKE

When you look, in envious wonder,
At some plunger after plunder,
Now on top and now in under

In the whirlpool’s drift,
Just remember there’s a fraction
More of solid satisfaction
In the safer, surer action

Of the tides of thrift.

When you’ve had an extra earning
And you feel a sudden yearning

When fate sends a shrinking dollar
And you want to make a holler.
And you’re bound to show your
choler

At the stingy gift,
Leave it with the lowly banker,
For there’ 11 come a day you’ll hanker
For the safety of an anchor

In the tides of thrift.
Oh, yes, dollarsdrive one dotty
And some ﬁnanciers are naughty

For the smoke of. greenbacks burning And the bank cashier looks haughty,
Steady! Not so swift!
Why not start a little pile, and
After While you’ll smile and smile,
and
Find you own a little island
In the tides of thrift.

 

As his eye-brows lift,

\ But some days the wolf comes prowl-

ing
And you meet him without scowling,
As you gently choke his growling
In the tides of thrift.

 

 

DISHES TO TEMPT THE APPETITE

Just at this season of the year we
begin to tire of the same old routine
of' foods and wish we had “some-
thing different” to eat. After all,
there isn't much different in the
way of foods—it’s mostly new and
unusual ways of preparing what we
have, for while it is true that we do
not have the green vegetables in
winter, still we have canned fruits
and a generous variety from which
to plan our menus. Perhaps you
will ﬁnd something new either for
your regular meals in the following
recipes or for company dishes when

you wish to dress up the table—or

for that Sunday night lunch.

-Celery Stuffed With Cheese

Scrape and wash one head of cel-
ery. Take some cream or Canadian
cheese, mix it with a little milk and
work until creamy. Stuff the cheese
in the celery with this and serve as

-a salad, being sure it is very cold

when served.

Baked Corn
One can corn, 2 eggs, 1

teaspoon of melted butter, 1 pint of
sweet milk. Mix the ingredients toe
gether, adding the well beaten eggs
last. Turn in buttered pan and make
in 'a slow oven until ﬁrm.

 

Cheese and Rice
9116 cup cooked rice ’7 '2 e

2 cup chopped dates.

table-
:,spoonful of-salt,.pepper to taste, 1

 

, baking _.
9.

en separately, salt and pepper, 1—2
cup of milk, 2—3. cup of cheese, out
ﬁne and grated. Put all together
except egg whites and fold these in
last. Bake twenty minutes or more,
set in pan of hot water.

Date Sticks

Yolks of three eggs, well beaten,
add 1 cup of granulated sugar, 3.
pinch of salt, '1 teaspoon of vanilla,
3 tablespoonfuls of boiling water and
beat well. 'Then add 1 cup of flour,
2 rounded tea'spoonfuls of baking
powder, 1 cup broken nut meats, 1
Mix well and
add whites of the eggs. Bake in a
slow oven having line the cake
pan with oiled paper. Cut in oblong
pieces and roll in powdered sugary.

Pear Salad

Take halved pears (either fresh
or canned) and ﬁll the cavity left by
the core with dates (whole or halv-
ed) sprinkle with chopped nut meats.
Whipped cream may be used as , a
salad dressing on top. '

Potatoes O’Brien

Boil in salted water 1‘- 2 dozen me-" '

dium sized potatoes until nearly
tender, drain and chop in cubes ' 1— 2
small can pimento shredded, moist-
shed with good- rich milk or . thin

‘ cream, use paprika to taste, lump off
Tin-.117 filth/V h

butter, size of an egg.
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oUR READERS’ oWN
, COLUMN ,

Editor” Woman’s Department, M.

 

 

 

. Dear Miss Ladd: I saw in one of
the last ”issues of M.. B. F."“th’at you‘
were interested in assisting farm wo-
men in every way possible and that
in this particular case you gave in-
structions in the art of basket weav-
ing from corn husks. I, mo, would
like to make some money. I can
crochet, embroider and do plaimsew-
ing from- corn husks I, too, would
is sale for such things in the cities.
—-Mrs. L. W.

My dear Madam: Yours is_ the secé /
ond inquiry I have received within
the past two weeks on this same sub-
ject. I have made a very thorough
survey of the ﬁeld in this city, and,
although there are fancy work shops
galore, I ﬁnd this to be the case.
Crocheted yokes, etc., had a great
vogue two seasons ago and were so
generally wern and much made that
they were sort of worn themselves
out so far as style is concerned, and
this year there has been absolutely
no sale for, them. There is, however,
sale for luncheon sets, etc., but no
shop accepts them‘unless you join
their shop, paying for displaying the
articles. and then take your chance
on their being sold. Unless you can

~ do a great deal, and are in a position

to know just, what the demand is, it
Would cost more than it is w-érth to
try and market crocheted goods this
way, as in. almost any city of size "
there is what is known as a “Wo—
man ’s Exchange” where articles are
sold under this plan. Just before
the holidays is,-of course, the best
time to sell articles that are hand-
made.

As for the plain sewing, that is

greatly in demand, but the question
of supplying you with work when
yen are far from the source of de-
mand is a puzzling one. Were you
in the city, yen could put a liner ad
in the evening paper and secure
enough to keep you busy all your
spare time, but there are very few
who would send their work out of
town, take'a chance of your doing
it as they'desired it without 'a per-
sonal interview and in the case of
children’s clothes or plain sewing of
that kind, 'which is» the kind most in
demansthere is the big item of fit-
ting. . ' _
I do not like to discourage you——
on the Other'hand, I am afraid that
I wouldbe entirely wrong to 'en-
courage 'you to .build your hopes
very high, on this sort of work.

SEEN IN CITY SHOPS

' HE LIGHT, weight‘ wool and
I silk skirts which have just come
in for the summer season are
pleated—enot 'the‘ large pleats we
formerlyvknew, but tight little pleats
almost accordian size. And‘ the
skirts are so, built that they are
larger at the top than the bottom.

A dainty dress caught my eye as '
I was window shopping the other
evening. It was blue taffeta, with
a much ruffled skirt. And the top
of each ruffle was headed with a
bias fold—Sort of a pipin of an Alice
Bluerlinen. ' There was a yoke also
of this same linen. It sounds funny
to think of trimming silk with lin-
en, .but with the present high prices
of linens and cottons, they are real-
ly as precious as the time honored
silks. -

Then again we saw a. white silk
shirt made of that Famta-si silk just
like they wore last year except that

this one had a bright colored belt

With tab ends of a- rose pink. A
friend who Was With’ me and who is ‘
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No. 2979.-—-A New Coat for the Little
Miss. Cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12
ears. Size 10 vresuires 3 1-2 yards of
4-inch. material.

Nos. .2973-2975.-——A Prett C t .
Waist 2973 Cut in 7 sizes: 32', 36.08351123,
42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. Skirt
2975 Cut in 7 sizes: 22, 24. 26, 28, 30.
82 and 34 inches waist measure. A medi-
um size will regézire 6 yards of 36-inch
ﬂatggahodél‘halm irtl rﬁeasures' 1 7-8 yard

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No. 2988r—Girl's Dress. Cut in
sizes. Size 10 will re ui -

44 inch. material. q r? 3 1 4 yards of

No. 2994.—'—-Ladies' Cdmhin t -
merit. Cut in 4 sizes: Small, fie-1:53): - 1325.
mm, 36-38; Large, 40-42; and ’Extra
Large, 44-46 inches bust measure. Size
Medum requires 38-8 y rds of 36-inch
material, with 3-8 yard or the' ruﬁie. ‘

No. 2666.—Girl’s Dress. Cut in 4
sizes: 8. '10., 12 and 14 years. Size 12
{will require 3 1-2 yards of 44-inch mater-
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since: 0. 8. 10 an, '12 years. Size" 10 will

No. Sana—Ladies House Dress. cut in
.»‘ : 34, 86,‘ 38, 40 42, 44 and ’48
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very necessarya’rticles on hand, bet-
ter stock up during the" January
sales, as‘the clerk. who measured oil
a supply fer me the other day told
me that I shouldn’t object to paying
31 per yard for such good Wide sheet-

ing now,‘ and he advised me to get.

double the supply I ordered, for said
he, “When, we get our new supply
in we can'ts’ell it for one penny less
than $1.25, and it" looks now as if
our supply would be limited.” Peo-
ple work such short hours yOu know,

that production 'is cut'dow'n and we.

have to pay for it.”. I opened my
purse, counted my little roll of
bills, resolved to torego the ‘hot
chocolate and cake I like to treat-my—
self to when I am down town shop—
ping ,and bought an. extra length.

CHAT 0N CHICKENS
. HATE to see people wasting their
money, getting no results. and at
_ the same time ’ making their
chickens sick by loading them up too
heavily with expensive grain and

‘ other rich food, and for this reason

I may beexcused for harping ‘30 con-
tinuously on the need of roughage
or green stuff.

Some time ago I stated that it
would be a good deal better to mix
one third sawdust with the grain ra-
tion for chickens, hogs, horses or
cattle than to feed no hay or green—
stuff at all. This is a new idea and
has been ridiculed by some, but

nevertheless it is a good point for‘

you to consider.

If you cannot get green stuff in
the winter, take clean, dry sawdust,
ﬁnely cut hay or straw, or anything
of similar nature. Put this in a pan
in the oven and brown it well. It
will do no harm it somewhat burn-
ed or charred.

Then mix this in the mash with
the ground grain in an amount one-
third of the total ration and you will
ﬁnd that the chickens will do better,
thrive better and produce better than
if ted the grain alone, and at a lot
less expense.

The charred sawdust really forms
a mixture of charcoal and vegetable
ﬁbre, which dilutes and makes more
bulky the rich grain ration and pro-
vides the digestive organs and in—
testines with sufﬁcient bulk to pro-
mote healthy action.

WATERPROOF APRONS

For many purposes a waterproof
apron is desirable. Leather is ex—
pensive and so scarce now that its
use should be. conﬁned to purposes
for which substitutes are unsuitable.
A material classed as a leather sub-
stitute is well adapted to this use. It
has a cotton fabric base and is py—
roxylin surface coated. It‘is more
durable than ordinary rubberized
goods; therefore, well worth its
somewhat higher ﬁrst cost. On the
other. hand, it is cheaper than
leather.

BEAT HIM TO IT
The stranger on a. walking-tour
came across an “old, old man a-sit-
ting on a gate” and began to ask ques-
tions:
“You are a farmer, I suppose?”
“No, not now. I used to be, but I

. gave it up."

“Well, you don't seem to be very
busy. You have plenty of time on your
hands, haven't you?"

“Lots of it."

“Ever do any work?" ,

“Once I did.”

“What do you do now, if I may

' ask ?"

“Don't do nothing. Hain’t done
nothing i‘or nearly ten years."

“So. Why, you’re in luck! If I did
nothing for half ‘hat length of time I
should be in the poorhouse." .

The old man’s race beamed with a
glad surprise, and‘t-hen. as one who

ues lit at its just Worth. |he. cried, de_-
lightedly:""l‘hat"s just where I be!"—
Ptttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. , ’

 

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It is absolutely dependable. It is always the same—
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When you write any advertiser in our weekly will you mention the
fact that you are a reader of Michigan Business Farming?

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whether wool, silk,’linen, cotton or mixed
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. dueSts are still being received
~' with reference to prisesend I
want to again tell you that any
prizes 'Oﬂered for Christmas can still
be won on the same terms. One lit—
tle gig has written to ask how many
subscribers it will take to win a
swalking doll. She wants a big
prise, but it can be won—people have
won automobiles you know who do-
voted‘all their time and worked hard
to 'get enough—and I want to tell
this little reader of the Children’s
Hour. that it she will secure forty
nswrsubscribers she can have one
of these dolls. Perhaps she can get
some'oi her .relatives to help her and
together they can win it.

I still hav on hand two of the
flashlights I ordered for Christmas

‘ which were not won, and as it only
takes two subscribers to Win one, I
hope that two of our boys will get
busy and win these.

,This week, true to mypromise, we
will begin our continued story which
will run for ﬁve weeks and‘which I
am sure you will ﬁnd very interest-
ing and instructive. , Affecti-onately
yours, Laddle.

 

Dear Laddiez—This is the ﬁrst time I
have ever written to (you. I am a girl 11
years old and in the th grade. My teach-
er's name is Helen Conklin. I like her
real well. I like to read the boys’ and

irls' letters and I also like the Doc Dads

hey are such funny people. I have two
brothers and two sisters. My brothers'
names are Alger and Russell. 16 and 6
years old; my sisters’ names are Alice
and Leah. For pets I have one old cat
named Betty. I would like to have some
of the members of the Children’s Hour
write to me. I hope I will see my letter
in print—Clara M. Gurden, Linden, Mich

Dear Laddle:—This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you. I am a. boy 9 years
old and in the 4th grade at school. I live
onan 120-acre farm. I have two broth-
ers, Maurice and Thomas. . For pets I
have two rabbits and two cats;one cat
got its leg in a trap. Maurice and my
ather found her in the trap. We live
across the way from school. Our teach-
er is Mrs. Helen Ditto. I will c105e hop—
lng to see my letter in print—Laurence
Dillman, Elm Hall, Mich.

 

 

Dear Laddiez—This is the second time
I have written to you. I am 11 years old
and in the 6th grade. I made two grades
this year. My teacher’s name is Miss
Esther Delaney and I lke her ﬁne. I have
two brothers and one sister. They are:
Ralph. aged 12; Helen, 9 and Robert, 6.
We all go to school. Father takes the M.
B. F. and likes it real well I enjoy read-
ing the children's letters and stories.—
Eﬂle Holcomb, Swartz Creek, Mich.

 

Dear Laddiez—I have never writtento
u before. I am a boy 13 years old. In
7 rch I will be 14. I live on a 40-acrs
farm. My sister takes the M. B. F. Ev-
erybodfv‘ likes it down this way. I am in
the~‘6t grade at school. I have 11-2
miles to go to school. My letter is get-
ting long so I will close.—~Wm. E. Salo,
, Kaleva, Mich. -

 

Dear Laddiez—As I never. have written
to you before, I thought I would try my
luck in winning a prize. I am 11 years
old and in the 7th grade at school. I live
on an 80-acre farm. My father takesthe
M. B. I". and likes it very much and so
313' As lI aim writing a. stoiy 1;ng not

e et or very ong.—- ar e yrne,
Burt; .ﬁh.

Little May.

Little May stood for a long time watch-
im her sistter. until Alice looked up with
a smile. and said, “what makes you look
so and, Little May?" "Oh, use I
want so much to be big! How did you

t 80 big, Alice?” “It is much nicer to

little. said Alice, laughing.“ “Oh. no!
it is n " said May, shaking her golden
curls. ." t is dreadful to be little, for
when you are little you can do nothing. _
I say to papa, ‘If you please, papa, will
on take me with you on your sailboat
, ay?‘ and papa. says, ‘No. The wind is
. too strong. You cannot go, for you are

too little.‘ And I say to mamma~ ‘If you
please, mamma, may I so with you to
walk? And mamma says ‘No. You can-
not go. , I am going for a long walk,
it would. tire you. You are too little.
.And ,I say. to grandma. V‘May I go for a
drive-with you, if you please, grandma?
And .she says. ‘I am going to take a. long
“drive. you cannot go. You are too little,
.‘And H'I should say to you; ‘Alice, if you
loose, may I paint on your picture? 1:“

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do not ow how to growvblc. tor
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, THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES

By Ethel Allen Murphy" , ,"

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and Tommy Thoughtful had

run up on the back porch to
get away. from a sudden thunder
shower that drove them in from the
garden; They sat looking out on
the fresh greenness that began to
sparkle with rubies and diamonds
under the beams of late sunlight
that broke through the clouds.

"I heard a very pretty story last
'summer in the,Golden Girl's Gar-
den,” said the Garden Lady, ”and
this rain reminds me of it."

“Oh please tell us !” cried June
and the United States School Gar-
den Army soldiers who clustered
about the Garden Lady.

“One late afternoon, just after a
rainstorm, I was walking down the
grass path' in the Golden Girl’s Gar—
den. I didn’t mind getting my shoes
wet, for they are shoes that nothing
hurts, and I do love the garden after
a rain. The sun had come out after
a good, long, no't-too-hard rain, and
every flower and leaf Was hung with
little rainbows. The grape arbor
ful for the nice, soaking rain, and I

THE Garden Lady, Nancy, Jane, ’

ful for he nice, soaking rain, and I ‘

remember thinking how ﬁne it was
that the rain had come, because if
the thirsty grapes had not gotten a
good drink just then, I am afraid
there wouldn’t have been any nice,
quivering grape jelly, with its de-
licious flavor and lovely .purple
lights. And, of course, everyone
knows that there is nothing nicer
than. grape jelly on a bread and but-»
ter sandwich in the winter.

\

"But how'would the drought have
hurt the grapes so there would not
have been any jelly?’f asked _Tommy
Thoughtful, who, being‘a boy, didn’t
know as much as Nancy and Jane
about jelly making.

“Why," answered the Garden
Lady, "jelly is made from fruit juice
that has acid and pectin in it.’ It is
the pectin in the fruit juice, which
when it h cdoked with sugar and
acid gives, after cooking, Just the
right consistency to jelly.“ And the
Garden Lady smiled mischievously
as she used the big word.“con-sis-
ten—cy,” and added. “It is a great
disappointment when 'the jelly
doesn’t jell.” ‘

“You see, Tommy, when there is
a drought it keeps, the plant from
storing up the pectin in its fruits.
And no pectin, no jelly! But I
started to tell you about the story I
heard.

“I found myself looking down at
a golden squash bloom, which had a
very, very bright raindrop just hang-
ing in its edge.

"Suddenly I heard the deep, mel—
low voice of my old friend, the Gal-
lant Scarecrow. The Golden Girl
calls hint the Garden’s Guardian
Knight. It seemed to me that he had
leaned over his pansy bed to call me
softly. '_

“ ‘The SPEAKING HOUR has
come. Listen, Garden Lady 1' he
said." -

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Dear Laddie:.—This is the ﬁrst time I
havewritten to you. My father takes
the M. B. F. We have a Shetland pony;
his name is Sultan. I have two brothers»
and no sisters. We have a dog named
Polly and little cat, Baby Elephant.
There is a b g hill across the road. I like,
to slide dOWn hill. I am 9 years old. I
go to school and am in the 4th grade.
Our teacher is Miss Morrison. My fath-

. or is a. veterinarian. We live in the lit-
tle town of Winn. I, hope I will see my
letter in print sbon.—Dorothy Augusta
'Fox, Winn, Mich.

Dear Laddie—I have been reading the
boys’ and girls’ letters for some time, and
now I will try and write a letter. I am
eleven years old; have brown hair and
brown 'eyes. I have twa miles to an to
school, and I am, in the sixth grade.
live on a farm of one hundred and
twelve acres. My father takes the M.

“ B. F. I like the D00 Dads. I have two
cats for pets. My cats names are Tom
and Tabby, and my rabbit's name is Bun-
nie. Well, as my letter is getting quite
long, I will close.Myrtle Bessy. Butter-
field, Mich. , .

 

Mary’s Little Man
» Mary had a little man,
Insure his life? Oh, no!
“Many better ways,” said John,
“That I can use my dough." .
After John “cashed in his checks,”
Mary paid the expense.

And found she had—just listen now, *

Five kids and—«thirty cents.
Merrill’s Bulletin.

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bungalow was put out under

the eaves ot a garage. Not
long after the bungalow was fasten-
ed in place a family-oi! wrens dis-
covered it and began building their
nest. About the time the nest was
ﬁnished along come M'r. Robin and
planted his large nest right on top ’
oi! the bungalow root. ' ' 1

TWO YEARS ago a little wrcn

This prompted the a designing oi! ;
the combination house shown in the,
drawing, which was put- up in place;
or the, bungalow and inhabited by.
two families. ~ ' ~ ' '

It is said humanism

   

  

. ing the second'nest after the young
‘are about ready to leave the ﬁrst.

For this reason the bottom was par-

titioned oi!’ making two compart-,
ments so Mr. Wren could stay at

home, busy himself building the sec-

ond nest. while Mrs. Wren was sit-

ting on the ﬁrst. '

Material can be obtained from a

,pine shoe'box. A shoe, box is sug~

gested because the material is about
the thickness desired and the lum-
ber dressed so very little planing is
necessary. . - ' ~ ‘ ,

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Make the side pieces 3-8 inches by
5 1-2 inches by 8 5—8 inches, and on
one side only locate and bore the
one inch hole. It you have a
bit this size it may be cut with a
knife.» Do not’make the hole ..l;§,JI‘
than the dimension given as the hole“
for a wren should not be larger than
a silver quarter. ‘ ~

The front is 3-8 inches by 5 l¥2
inches by 7 inches and has the same
sized ho'ie bored in the center. The
center can be located? by the inter-
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the old nest cleaned out. The
will use the old nest often,
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E0.“ M. Ore-d Rem: Riﬂes Korndﬁe Queen: Deter Race. (meaning ....... . . . .8 800-. 00
F. Cantu. Howell: Verb Seals Kori. .yhe: Hunter Bros. Northﬂeld Minuet . .... 800.00
ml. WHO“; Vale Kabul Emble;m ‘Wemmnnlkh ..... 1,000.00
I Ore-titles“ 1'1ch Berke; E. 6‘. Stevenson. Detroit ..... ........ ..... 000.00
Hull. Curbﬁm; Fade: W. P. Schilling, Northiield, Minnesota ...... ......u. 050.00
MIME“ Mmenmldl‘onlhe:nmneyne. Reneo.. ..... .......... 876.00
“3.0!“!!800” ”Howell Mole:W.l'.Bol.‘llim.Nortbﬁsld,1ﬂnmsnh ....... 800.00
Ink I. Giddy & 00.. Hows“; E-‘syne Angie Hengerveld Pontisc; W. W. Hountsin. Flint . .. 1.000.00
it. H. mm a Son. Okemoc; Winnilred Mutual Korndyke'. Lewk Hoerl. Curleton .. . .. . 350.00
I. H. MOD & Son. .0ksmoe: Martha Vindetfa DeKol: W. G. Davidson. Philadelphia. . . .. . 800.00
I. H. ﬁelds as Boo, Dumas: Winnifrsd Mutual Friend: Waters & Ruth. Greud m.1.250.oo
I. H. Dulleb & Son. 0km; Winniired Mutual Friend 5th; Gare & Dickey. Dena. l'ens 735.00 I
I. H. ,Deniell & Sou, Okelnos: Centrilh Honwtje Pietje: A. E. Jenkins, Lansing ..... .. 1,525.00
Adrew '1'. Din. lake Odessa: Butter Girl Alcortm Pontiac DeKol; E. G. Stevenson. Detroit 875.00
. 1‘ Din, Lake Odessa: Snowflake Pontiac Alcartra DeKol; Floyd Fuller. Jeddo . . . 350. 00
1'. Dirt. Lake Odessa; Pride Alcoa-tn Pontiac DeKol: Dnte Holstein Flume. Bern‘s 2 000. 00
And!!! '1'. Dirr, Luke Odessa; Lillian Kin: Seeds Pontiac DeKol; Gnge & Dickey ....... 620.00
Ohsrhe 8. H008. Howell Betta Mannie Perfection Model, L. D. Cobb. Blaine ........... 500.00

les 8. Heeg, Howell: Sir Topsy Model 0! Plusent View: 0. H. mink. Chesanin; ..

bl 3 H E. Waters. Grand Rapids . . . ...............

flu 8.11.3152, Howell; Topsy Harte: Pet Cnmry;D
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.R Wnterl. Grend Rapids ........ 8,000.00

 

8. Hecg. Howell; Rhee ItHarte: Elzevere 2d: Gaze & Dickey, Dulles. 'I‘em
1’ Henncy &C. Lepud,Lo kc Odessa: Goldie Alcsrts Hengerveld;1. C. Both. Gd. Re ds
1:. Henney a. C. Lenard. Inks Odessa; Ron Bobbeur Korndyke Beds; E. G. Stevenson. t. 300.00
L. Henney & C. Lenard Lake Odessa; Lily Alcnrta Komdyke; J'. G. Glustet. Abbomford 300.00
L. Heuney & C. Lenora. Luke Odessa; Rosa Bnnheur Eon-noble: Gene & Dickey ....... 775.00
1L. Henney a. O. Lenard. Lake Odessa; Goldie Mechthilde Bengerveld: Dr. Lewis! Crsbb . 430.00
1 Hitchcock, Clarlotte: Bessie Roxey DeKol: Gage a Dickey .................... 505.00
1’! Hitchcock. Charlotte: Goose Bay DeKol: . Come hock Peri: ............ 730.00
. lurlottc; Camry Ponthc Grant; III. 0. Aldrich. Fowlerrllle ......... . . 800.00
Jenkins A Son. Innsinr; Vets Veemsu Korndyke; R G. Stevenson. Detroit ......... 890.00
Deiry, Lake Odesss: Inks Side Lo Duchess; Dr. Crsbb ............ ... 00.0
Deity. lake Odessa: Camry Dex sync; Gage 8r. Dickey ................. 825.00
Dairy. Lake Odessa: Lakeside Longﬂeld DeKol. Stevenson Detr rito ........ 590.00
Dairy. L Odessa; Lo cld Korudyhe Yeoman Duchess: L. . Crab bh MWortb, '1‘ 50.
Dairy, Lake Odessa: eedie Mercedes Mechthilde: G. Stevenson. Detroit ..... 2,175.00
Busi- & 6. Wood. Lake Odessa: Canary Johanna Nix]? Stortz & Benkholl. Le 1,300.00
Dairy. hke Odes: Woodie DeKol Beauty: Gage & Dickey ................ 605.0
. McDonough, Howell. Flint Hengerveld Crescent: Mneolﬂ Bros. South Lyons ..... 1,075.00
McDonouzh Howell; Houwtje Harte: Wayne; Gore .8 Dick ey ............. .. 635.00
-- ePherlon. Howell: Allslsdnle Pontisc; M11901! Bros. South Lyon ........... 625.0
llc Pherson, Howell; Ginny Msplcerest Column be: In. Esterkwesther, Nortbsme 220.00
McPherson, Howell: Ginny Colantha Centrilln: Gels s51): .......... . . . 910.00
lest Lansing: College Bel] Butter Len: Water & Buth. Gnnd Rapids ......... 8,250.00
-. list Lem: Pauline Houwtje Colmthe: W. G. Devidso n. Philadelphis ...... 000.00
. Katharina. Pauline Mutual Canary. W. G. Devidson ...... ........ ...... 75.0
- Setterh. Volley Pinert Pride- E. M. Home Borneon ...... . . . .. . .. 1,000.00
. use... a : x’. v.1. Dario]. 230:1) IMO ..... 575.00
-&et.8. :LlllianrkeSe Pieter; . . Phllsdehle....... 00.
B ’ Line do 00.

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IL Rising, Woodland; mm. Seals J Pontiac. M. D. But. Grand .. .. . . 610.00
Rummy. Hudson: Lady Concordia Korndyke DoKol' ..... . ..... . . . . . . . 400.00
Romney. Female; 0. o. Maser, he . . . ....... . . ...... . . . . . a.
R. Rummy. Hudson. Gerster Concordia Fondue; One 3 . .. ....... . . ... 5.25.00
. Fowle . e Canary; H WM ................ 76.
Bonus. Battle Creek. Wolverine Alice Coin; W. I; 8 Northﬂeld, Mmu. . . . 075 00
lo Creek; Wolverine noisy Pontiac: 0. O. loser. ellss ........... 25.
Greek: om Korndyke: w. , Smith Greek . . 400.00
Bpntue. Battle Creek; Wolverine Alice Pietertjezn. H. Risa. Wayland ........ 530.00
Tobin, Album Imperial Juno Bell Sea/ls; W 8» Thunder; 0e ............ 00.0
Tobin. Allen-n; Imperial Daisy Sezis Wednsh: J. Kinkhnd. Tom mnernnee . ... 775.00
Tooley. Bonn; annulus e o . Davidson.B Philsd elph is . . . ... 820.00

E. Waters. Grand Rapids: Maryland Seals Bellewood Alex: 11.3 Both. Cometock Pk 575.00
E. Wotan. Gd. Rapids :Marylend Beg-ls Bellewood
“$511153“ & 8011.90]. ds: tility Semis ﬁenseneld; Gaze & Dickeym -----------
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A. Yerington Ross; Flint Kaplccrest One. Butter Boy; Fred

1). Althea. iron; that snobs Vole Girl; w w. Mountain.
D. Althea. Flint; Herjory DeKol lF'syne: W. W. Mountain,

    
 

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t. ................. 75.0 00

Colsnthe: R. G. Stevenson. Detroit ngggg
Msson: Ccston Alexis aegis Poutisc: A. Black. mm Lens sss'oo

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MAIL BOX EVERY

-—-it brings you all the news
hiding the plain facts.

—-—it tells you when and where :5
what you raise! “t the ”93‘ Fri“- tor

it is a practical paper written b
y Miohiaen men close
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no matter whom else it helps or hurts!
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ﬂon price THREE YEARS. . .027 No free-list. but worth

toalll FIVE YEAB8....$3 nonethanwonlk.

”OHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. Mt. Clemens, Inch.
MFriemisz— '

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fd-g‘which I enclose herewith $......... in money-order, M or
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THE fact that there are four different Saginaw Silos . '
» shows how thoroughly we are prepared to meet

your silo requirements.

Only e compeny with our resources and worming foolish

csneifordtoplenenddevclopmchacompictelinc. Reginald-

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by years of use.

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YOU-Ii HIDE.

Horse or 00w hide. Calf or other skins
with hair or fur on. and make them
into coats ( for men and women), robes,
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your
iureeeda will cost you less than to buy
them and be worth more. x

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pay the freight both ways; b "
sale dyeing process on cow :nguliors';
do; 33:31: :21?! other gins; about the
taﬂdermy, etc. game ophies we sell. ‘
on we have reoentl t -
other we call our Fashionybggk $1301.};
devoted to fashion plates of muﬂ’s
inactive? and other-lilac fur garments:
. p ces : a so gar-m um .
sled and repaired. onto “1
You can have either book by send . '7
{311: correct address naming which. or '
th books if you need both. Address

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scarlet, aswellasorimson.
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DOG DISEASES
And How to Feed

Hailed free to any address by
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* , as general and local agents. in coun-
, lies and townships where we are not now
represented. ertaorca‘ii-ai once.

(ﬂu ﬁx It" Lisa for Coma-via: Ant-s! Lift.)
PARSONS CHEMICAL WORKS. Loans Par!
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60.2fl,gon account of a new school be-

8 built. My son-in-law has 60 acres with
3.500 debts on it. His valuation in 1918
was $3.100, with 345.00 school tax, and
this Year (1919) his valuation was raised
to $34.00, with ever 100.00 school tax
and a total ‘tax 817 .00. The advice
I would like to get is this: Have they a.
right to raise the taxes on mortga ed
farm to the same level as a man roe
from debts—E. A. K., Eau Clair . Mich.

Your tax is undoubtedly legal and
according to law. It is the same ex-
perience we all have. The great
[crisis we have been going through
has required more money and the
taxpayers are the ones who have it
to pay. There is no deduction from
your assessment to be made by rea-
son of any mortgage encumbrance.
That was a law at one time but it
was repealed some time ago—W. E.
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ILLEGAL SALE
A sells a farm to B on which is a pile
of lumber whichis verbally reserved. B
sells the farm to C's wife, telling C ini
his wife's presence. that the lumber be-
longs to A. C sells part of‘ the lumber
and forbids A's re_moving the rest. Has
A any redress? If so, how proceed?—A

Subscriber, Millington, Mich.

 

A has redress against C for the
value of the lumber sold and may
replevin the balance or he may hold
C for the whole of the lumber if C
has refused to give the lumber to
him.——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

If there is nothing paid on a. real es-
tate mortgage for a certain length of
time. does it outlaw the same as a note?
—Subscriber. Sanilao county. '

The statute provides: “When a
recorded mortgage on lands or prop-
erty has been paid and satisﬁed, or
when ﬁfteen years have elapsed
since the debt secured by such mort-
gage became due and payable, or
since the last payment made there-
on, and no suit or proceedings have
been. institutted thereon to collect
the same, the owner of the land or
property may present a petition to
the circuit court, etc.," and have an
order entered discharging the same.
~+W. E. Brown, legal editor.

RIGHTS OF STOCKHOLDERS

Our Farmer’s Co-operative Elevator
failed. I was among those who bought
non-assessable stock. The directors
threaten to assess our stock loo-per cent.
to make up the loss. They claim there
is a state law by which they can do this.
Is it true that there is such a law? They
have hired an attorney and have notified
the stockholders for a hearing in about
a month. Should we not hire an attor-
ney? I for one will not pay unless I
have to.—A Subscriber, Mt. Morris, Mich.

 

There may be certain things that
stockholders in a corporation are li-
able for. It depends upon what
claim they make against the stock-

  

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tax $34.00 and a total .

have the advice of a. good attorney
to determine your rights and liabil-
ities.——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

TREASURER NEED NOT sna-

FREEIIOLDER
. What is the law in re rd to a treas-
rer of the school board Is it necessary
or him to be a free-holder? Can he is~
sue orders on the funds of the school
district without the consent of the board?
—0. A. W., Pinconning. ,

The treasurer need not be a free-
holder. Any qualiﬁed voter may be
elected treasurer. The treasurer is
not authorized to issue any orders
on the funds. It is his business to
pay the orders issued by the direct-
or countersigned by the moderator.
Any violation would subject'him to
liability on his bond—W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

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WIND .UPSETS BUILDINGS" AND
CONTRACT ’

A bargained to buy a. farm .of B, Oct.
5, 1919, by paying $200 down to hold the
bargain. A is to complete the deal Apr.
1, 1920. As A has the farm rented, for
Zmoney rent to that time. B pays all
taxes, insurance etc., to that time. Now
the recent win storm blew down the
mill; blew the roof from some buildings
and did other damage. Can B be com~
pelled to repair the damage?
was said at time of bargain for sale of
the farm regarding up—keep.—Subscriber,
Oakland County. 7‘ ‘

I am of the opinion that “B” is
under no legal obligations to make
any repairs to the property after the
contract of sale. If there was 8. cy-
clone insurance I think that “A”
would be entitled to have it used for
making the repairs.—'-W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

 

LEGAL FENCING

Does a farmer have to fence against
sheep and hogs the same as other stock
usually kept on a farm? .Was a change
made in the line fence law by the last
legislation?—-Subscriber, Lapeer County.

Sec. 2206, of C. L. of 1915, pro-
vides: “All fences feur andone-half
feet high and in good repair, con-
sisting of rails, timber, boards, wire,
or stone walls, or any combination
thereof, and all brooks, rivers, ponds,
'creeks, ditches and hedges, or other
things which shall be considered
equivalent thereto, in the judgment
of the fence viewers, within whose
jurisdiction the same may he, shall
be deemed legal and SUFFICIENT
fences.” I am of the opinion that it
is necessary to fence against hogs
and sheep but no different fence than
above or for other animals need be
constructed. I do not find any
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Taxes for 1917 would be payable

in 1918 and would be sold probably .

about May 1921. Taxes returned in
1917 would be probably sold about
May, 1920. A certain time after
they are bid in notice must be served
on the former ownerif they can be
found and posted if they cannot be
found. After the, lapse of a'certain
number of months the purchaser ob-
tains a. titlefrom his deed.
paid the’j‘taxes you would acquire no
title except by virtue of the adverse
passessi'oﬁ‘ for the number'of years
required by law. The mere paying
of~ taxes would give you nolvlegal
right t0;.,the land. V If‘you putxbuil‘d-
ing’sfth'eré'fon without any right you
could ’"get nothing for them if the
oWner ”reclaimed the land—W. E.
Brownfleg‘al editor. I, g ‘-

 

,_ A VERBAL LEASE .
A rents farm from‘B for one year with
privilege of‘ mare and has sown quite a
lot of fall crops,-18 acres. All this was

done with meander-standing that A was x

to have the place the coming year and
now A is obliged to move off, the place
. being sold. It was a verbal agreement.
—R. H. M., Perrinton. Mich.

_ -—--1
A verbal lease of farm for more
than one year is void as to the ex-
cess unless you have. entered upon
the second year. If, in reliance upon
your arrangement, you went to cost
and expense, I am of theopinion that
you may recover your damage by
reason of his selling. The courts
will not permit the statute of frauds
to be used to perpetrate a fraud—W.

E. Brown, legal editor.

A FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION

In November I bought a cow, claimed
by owner to be- registered and due to
calf in June. Dealer was to send papers
in a few days but has not done so yet.
December 24 cow calved. This is put-
ting me to a great disadvantage and I
am wondering just what redress I could
get, especially as she does not prove to be
registered—A Subscriber, Lake Ann.

 

The statement made that the co
would f‘calf” in June and was reg-
istered, made for thepurpose of in--
ducing you to buy and you relied
upon the.statements, \make them
Warranties. You can recover the
damage done you by reason of the

last 1egis1ature.+—W. E. Brown, legal * breach of warranty in both cases—y

editor.

W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

 

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Hyena—If you were a laughing
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The Widow’s Spite

The Parson—“Mrs. Smdﬂhers seems
very cross with inc—didn't yen notice
she almost cut incl”. ' ,

The Microﬁlm; act .s'urprised!"
The Parson-1+“But Why'if' y . '

- The Friendf—“Dbn't‘ . you, ‘ remember
when you were preaching her ”hus-
band’s funeral sermon" you‘ﬁsaid he
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Passing the Buck
Overworked Husband—“You've been
keeping me waiting around there like.

an old fool for an hour."

Wife—Well, my dear, I may have
kept you waiting, but I had nothing
"to do with how you waited.”

 

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Frog—Aw, everything «makes me
sick. ' ‘ ‘ '

. Snail—creaking as usual. obi

.. _ . Comparative Luxury.

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gpr'osperous this year, ' I' think ﬁyou
fmlxht 81W ‘ mm- ism-smut“! a. a
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Millie—L‘Tlow dier. Bonds get his
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Clarence—“By putting the man she
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' Ingenuity .
Guest—“Waiter, this steak is like

leather andvhe knife is dull."
Waiter—“You might strop the_knife
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He’sfilling his last cavity.

  
 
   
 

  
  
 
 

 

  
  
 
   
   
 
 
 
     
 
 
    

      
   
 
  

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manned" to think mebbe it’s gamut?“
1 timegwe had .a change of some'kind ,
res-sanost any change might be for the

' “better y’know—but whether a farm-

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or would _ be the right thing for not
I d’know, do. you? .. ' . A

i Farmers, ’yknow, gener’Iy speakin’
are a kinda hard‘headed sort—not
easily hoodwinked, so. tospeak, sort
0’ slow ’bout runnin’ up expenses-—

"you know 'how they be, seem to Want

to run things cheap as ,possible an?
I d’no as we want that—y’see wefve
got kind’a used to extravagance now
an ’any sudden change fer the better
e—the savin’ of a lot of money to our

taxpayers might not be good for us,,.

mebbe—’til we got a little used to
gt anyway. ' ,
Now if we w-uz ‘to have a. farmer
man for the head of our state gover-
ment, why Milo D. Campbell Would
be all right with me, or Herb Bak-
er—.—any of these good men ,_ would
do with Milo D. as sort of ﬁrst choice
I reckon. ' ’course, now that we
have our state boxin’ commission,
with men drawin? good fat salaries,
to look after our important prize
ﬁghts, an’. such, an’ sev’ral other
equally inmportant commissions,
thatfwe've‘ been deprived of all our
lives an' had to skinch along with-
out, why there ain’t such "an awful
101: of things for a guv’nor to do—
Just‘a few more commissions to be
created y’know—to take care of
name of the political ringers for
which there ain’t no regular jobs—
course y’know a quite a number of
’em has been taken care of durin’
the last few years—mebbe you’ve
noticed it by the way your taxes
have jumpedL—but there is need of
a few more commissions an’ I’ll name
a few with the understandin’ that I
stand ready to take charge of any
one of ’em at a salary, say, about
$3,500 a year, I think I could man-
age to squeeze along on that seein’
as 'how in most of these new com-
missions a feller can look after ’em
an’ keep right along with his reg-lar
work—well I’d kinda like to see a
cemmission appointed to look after-
the welfare of hairless frogs, and
one fer homeless dogs and cats, a
commission to learn whyydung wo-
men wear their dresses so low at the
top, and so high at the bottom and
so darn tight too. An’ then a com-
mission to learn why there are so
many 01’ maids an’ grass widders
unappropriated, when there are so
many men running around without
homes—oh, y’know it don’t make so

,much difference what the commission

is for—the main idea is to ﬁnd jobs
for the political wire—pull'ers—payin’
positions for the faithful, as the fel-
jer says.

Now, from what I know about
this Campbell feller, he wouldn’t be
the sort of man to go in for this kind
of thing—I’ve always heard that he
was a purty dum bright guy—-a level
headed man, a good feller, a friend

to the l-aborin’ man and .the farm-.‘

are, considerably interested in farm—
in' himself, a man with lotsfof back-
bone an a. ﬁghter for what-i he ‘be-

"lieves to be the right thing—éthelt in,
has won many battles for mg Tights,

of'farmers in Michigan, ,‘,’believes
they should have a fair‘ proﬁt for
their labor an’ a fair price for-their”
products—fact is, it is quite gener’ly
conceded that Milo D. Campbell
wouldmake an A No. 1 Guv’ner an’j
that he could easily be elected-i-but
I'm jest a little mite afraid we would
not get any more of, them commis-
sions, that the tax rate would be low-
ered, that a lot of swivel chair fel-
'levrststiattered in offices-around the
state, pullin’ down good fat salaries
tori‘doin’,'nuthin’ but shootin’ hot
air, mightphavev .to go to work an'
that would‘be hard on the poor fel-

de'rs, after three er, four yearsnof milk
311' ‘ ,, , put you - think?

.; the .. same .an’.mothwith—
' heath. I; might infer" set a:
nun ssien’, 1ca'u'segthere-

I- heiress ,the time
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' ”than, that Milo .D.‘ camp-

he will‘ represent the farmers’
ts, an'i see that they get the

  

" interest
been patiently waiting
weary years.

‘ Everybody who pays taxes has
prob’ly noticed that they areexcess-
ively high,’too dam high, I say,—
Well, if you’re tired of this sort of
thing jest look around you an’ see
what has caused such a large in-
crease in the amount of money you
pay to the state.

When you have discovered the
cause jest to work an’ help elect
\some man or men for our state of-
ﬁces who don’t happen to have such
extravagant notions—that had rath-
er lower .than raise state taxes an’
you will ﬁnd quite a change—well,
a word to the wise is sufﬁcient. Cor—
dially——UNOLE RUBE.

THE COST OF PARTISANSHIP
(Continued from page 17)
and still he may possess just the
qualiﬁcations needed. The writer be—
lieves that a common man for gov-
ernor one who has had to work his
way through life would better rep-
resent the voiée of the amajority of
people than any rich man, and this
can apply for all ofﬁces, but how
to go at it to nominate common peo-
ple for the ofﬁces I do not know, and
I wish for you to tell me if you can.
It takes money to run a conven-
tion; who puts up this money for
‘these conventions? As far as I know
from what I have read it comes from
moneyed people. Is not this wrong?
Should not the country pay for the
expense of our conventions, and
should not every person be given a
show for ofﬁce if they are so inclin-
ed? Can a common man get recogni-
tion? I believe not. Take some com-
mon person that you have never
heard of and place him name along
with the rest of the men you have
mentioned for governor and he will
not get a look in. Why, because he is
not known, and how is he to become
known? Must he be a big business
man, a. successful lawyer, a rich man,
a man known to the public, yes un-
der the system we have at present he
must be known. Who pays the pa-
pers for landing men at the head of
our government? Would these pa-
pers take up some unknown and
laud him, especially if he has never
held an office and is unknown?. No.
But it is the known man who re-
ceives the advertising. How are we
to become known? By changing our
system and allowing all men, rich
and poor, the opportunity of ﬁlling
ofﬁce and let the papers say as much
for the poor man as they do for the
rich man, and what they say let it
be sworn to, for we read so much to-
day that we do not know what to
”believe. You cannot tell me that it
is always the most successful man
in making money, who are the wis-
est men. Circumstances alter cases.
I will close by saying that it is
high time that .the common people
united. regardless of any party and
. elected MEN and WOMEN to ﬁll all
ou-r‘oﬂices from the smallest to the
,Xhigh'est, and such ofﬁces to be ﬁlled
.. from the ranks of the common peo-
. p1e.;+J.,W. Aldrich, Falmouth, Mich.

 

onugaxpress our opinions to a nicety.
7- Political parties usually eucceed m cloud-
ing.the iséues,.inStead of clarifying them
as they claim; 'But not all people think
alike on this matter- I hadavery heat-
ed argument one day during the last ses-
sion of the’ legislature with-a member of
the Senate, who insisted ‘that ‘political
parties Were absolutely necessary, to the
perpetuation of good government. “The
moreucomplex ‘you make yourvzelection
’machinery” he said, “thensafer is the de—
mocracy". -, When We see the kind of men
who are frequently selected to office be-
cause they are good republicans or good
bemocrats. we' feel like exclaiming, “Oh.
partisanship”what-crimes are committed
in thy name". y a farmer for Gover-
nor? Because the happy, Utopian day,
when all nien'will' gauge issues and po-
litical candidates strictly on their merits,
_~ has not yetarrlved, and until it does ar-
rive, farmersnmust 'take'the same steps,
as all others, employ to support men for
._ office who are known to‘ be 'in' sympathy
(with their vocationf . Sen. Baker .‘intro-
gggeegggmtéﬂlmgi the- last—egssion limiting
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KENT (W)—The Farm Burean moxe-
ment has begun. Sentiment concerning
this organization seems to be Isomewhat
divided among the farmers. -Man of
them prefer-to wait and see what the re-
sults will be before signing up for three
years. If it does what is claimed it
will solve many problems. The main

work now is doing chores. There has

been an unusual run of sleighing for the
season. The Weather has been favorable
for feeding cattle. Fall sins are Well
covered with snow. P ces offered at
Grand Rapids:: Wheat, $2.33 to 3.35;
corn, $1.50 to $1.60; oats, 88c; rye. 1.55;
hay, No. 1 timothy $27 to $28"; beans,
(0. H.‘ P. Pea.) $6.25 to $6.50 per cwt.;
red kidney, $10 to $10.50 per cwt; pota-
toes, $2 to $2.10 per bu; onions, $5 to
$5.50 per cwt; cabbage, $5 to $5.50 per
cwt; poultry, springers, 22 to 24c; tur-
keys. 34 to 36c; butter, 50c up; milk at
condenser-y, $3.65 for 4 per cent; eggs.
70 to 72; live stock. sheep, 14 to 18¢;
lambs, 20 to 22c; bogs, 17 to 19c; beef
steers, 16 to 180; dressed beef cows, 12
t 0160; veal calves, 16 to 23c; wool, 55c;
apples, $2.50 to $3.50.

ALLEGAN—Farmers in this section
are not doing very much at present but
their chores. Cold with scarcely enough
snow for sleighing. Not much produce
moving. About 40 representatives in Al-
legan. Wednesday, Jan. 7 and perfected
the Allegan County Farm Bureau. Meet-
logs were held in the various townships
a week previous at which‘ time directors
were elected to represent the local organ-
izations at this meeting. Other organiza—
tions represented were the Saugatuck
Fruit Exchange, the South Haven Fruit
Exchange, the Cleaners, the Grangers,
and the Wool Gmwers’ Association.——. F.
The following prices were‘paid at Alle-
gan:-.-—Wheai. $2.35; corn, $1.45; oats, 85
rye, $1.65; beans, $6; hay. $25 to $28
wheat-straw, $9; potatoes, $1.60; onions.
$2.50; hens, 17 to 20; butter, 58; eggs, 60
beef steers, $7 to $9; beef COWS. $6 to $8;
veal calves, $15; sheep, $8 to $10; lambs,
$10.50; hogs, $13.50.

MASON—Cold with occasional snow’
storms. Some hogs and cattle being sold.
Some potatoes are still being held.
Weather is too severe to permit any great
rush to market. The warehouse and ele-
vator at Scottville. formerly owned by
Lewellyn and Armour & Co., has been
purchased by the Gleaner Clearing House
Association. The Mason County Market-
ing Association will have possession of
the warehouse until next June. The two
farmer organizations will probably co-
operate in the future. At a meeting of
the West Amber Community Club, Jan.9,
a solid vote was registered against the
Kahn bill, which provides for universal
military training. The secretary was in-
structed to write a letter of protest to our
congressman. About 25 adults were
present—B. M., Ludington, Mich.

 

 

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INGHAM—Very good winter weather,
with little snow. Not much doing. Plen-
ty of measles and chicken pox among
the little folks to keep them thinking. A
few hogs going to market; ‘litt‘le stock
moving; stock doing well. Fire recently
destroyed two farm homes here. Some
are looking for farms to buy, coming in
from Ohio, Indiana and other parts.
Quite a. number of farms for sale here
and good ones too.—-C. I. M. The follow-
ing prices were paid at Mascot—Wheat,
$2.20@$2.30; cats. 80; rye, $1.74; barley
$2.50; hay, $20; wheat-oat, $2; beans,
$6.50; potatoes, $2.25; hens, 19@21;
ducks,‘12@20; butterfat, 63; eggs, 66;
sheep, 7@9; lambs, 1.2; hogs, 14; beef
steers, 8@12; vael calves. 15.

 

 

WEXFORD, (W.)—Hurrah for the
real, sure enough snow. It's here and
plenty of it. Winter started in rough so
we hope for a. good spring. Some wood
cutting, but not very much produce is
moving—S. H. S. The following prices
were paid at Cadillac—Wheat, $2.20 to
$2.25; corn, $1.40; 56 lbs. shelled; cats,
85; rye, $1.50; hay, $30; beans: Pea,
$6.50; red kidney. 39; potatoes, $2.65;
hens, 17 to 20; springers,'18 to 19; ducks
20 to 23; geese, 17 to 20; turkeys, 28 to
30; butterfat, 67: eggs, 55; hogs. 16 to
18; veal calves, 18 to 22.

 

-HILLSDALE, (E.)—Cold with some
snow. Farmers are harvesting ice and
getting their year's supply of wood. Not
much stock fed this winter on account
of scarcity of feed—A. J. B. The fol-
lowing prices were paid at Hillsdaiez—
Wheat, $2.18 to $2.23; corn, 70; cats,
70; rye. $1.70; wheat-oat, 11 to 12;
hens, 19; springers, 19; ducks, 20rtur~
keys, 35; butter, 50; eggs, 70; sheep,
$3 to $7; lambs, 15 to 171-2; hogs, 11
to 141—2; beef steers. 7.1-2 to 9;

 

MONROE (W)——Farmers are busy do-
ing chores this cold weather. The ground
is frozen quite deep. We have had very
little snow so far this winter. There is
some grain, ‘mostly corn, being sold at
present. Some hay for sale, but not mov-
ing yet. Roads are in fine scape for
travelling. Prices offered at Peuersburg

are as follows: Wheat, red. $2.40: white ,

$2.37 ;,corn, ear, $2; oats, 84c; rye. $1.65;
barley, per cwt., $3:.—-—W. H. L.

 

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wood and putting. up ice. and some are

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GENESEE—Farmers are not doing
much besides their chores and working up
wood. Bonds are drifted full of snow in
several places, but a. fairly good road for
sleighs has been cut thru the most of the
roads. We are. having zero weather
again and also more snow. Some field.
are mostly all bare while others are
covered with a good covering of snow.
Wheat and rye have suffered considerab-
ly this winter. Wheat will probably be
short crop next year although several
farmers are ﬁguring on putting in some
spring wheat. Auction sales are still
quite plentifu1.——C. . S. The followmg
prices were paid at Flint—Wheat:

'Sprlng, $2.60; red, $2.48; white, $2.43;

corn, $1.40; cats, 91; rye, $1.73; hay. No.
1 timothy, $24@,$27; No. 1 light mixed,
$21@$24; beans: pea, $6.75; red kidne ,
$11; potatoes, $2@$2.25; onions, $6.5 ;
cabbage, $5 bbl.; cucumbers, $2.50 doz.;
hens, 24; springers, 24; ducks, 32; geese
28; turkeys, 40; butter: dairy 65®67;
creamery, 70@72; eggs, 75; sheep, 7@
$8; lambs, $10@$$11; hogs, $14.50@ 15;
beef steers. $8@9; beef cows $6.‘50@$7;
veal calves, 17@$18; apples, $2.75@$8.

BAY—Beans are still moving on the
market altho the price remains about the
same. Farmers of this part are taking
it quite easy about the beet contracts;
none seem to be in any hurry and in
other words if there is not a rbangs the
acreage will be cut a. great deal As I
have heard many say they Will grow
some other crop as we all know that the
sugar beet takes a good deal of strength
from the soil, so we are not anxious to
run our land out and receive nothing for
it. Of course a few contracts have been
taken but in all is small. The farmers
here on hearing of Milo Campbell being
the choice for governor are strongly in
favor of Campbell at the next primaries
and be is the man ‘-ey should support
and stand by.—-A, A. G. The following
prices were paid at Bay Cityr—Wheat.
$2.50; corn. $1.45; oats, 86; rye. $1.64;
barley. $ hay, No. 1 light mixed. s25;
beans. $6. 5; potatoes, $2; hens. 20.

 

 

LAPEER—Farmers as a. rule are cut-
ting wood and doing chores and tryingto
keep warm. It has been very cold for
the 'last two weeks, with hardly enough
snow for sleighlng and too much in some
places for wheels. Not much of any live
stock going to market; some hog mov-
ing with the price very good—C A. B.
The following priceswere paid at lmla ,
Cityr—Wheat, $2.35@$2.40; 02' 90
85; rye, $1.50@$1.65; hay. $22®$25z
rye-straw, 7@$8; potatoes. $1.50: onions
$2; hens, 22; springer-s. 2261724; ducks,
25; geese, 27; butter, 58; butterfat, 60:
eggs, 60; beef steers, 8@10; beef cows.
41-2 to-6; veal calves, 17; sheep. 3@5;
lambs, 13@15; hogs, 131-2.

CALHOUN—Farmers are cutting wood
and logs. Hay and straw selling some.
Now there is a. call for potatoes at pres-
ent. The farmers have been holding
them for a. better price. Some logs are
going to the mill since the snow came.
—-—C. E. B. The following prices were
paid in Battle Creek r—Wheat. $2.486
$2.50;; corn, $1.40; cats, 75; rye. $1.70;
hay: No. 1 timothY. 28; No. 1 light mix-
ed. 25; wheat-oat. 11; potatoes. $2.30:
hens, 23; springers, 25; butter, 60;
eggs, 75; lambs. 10@15; hogs. l4; beet-
steers, 8@10; beef cows, 5@7; veal
calves, 10@16.

JACKSON. (N. E.)—,—-Very little pleas-
ant weather past two weeks; mid and
stormy nearly every day with high winds.
Farmers are doing chores. Ice has been
all harvested and baiting hay is in order
when the weather permits. Som» wood
being cut and some was shipped out by
rail. Very little being sold. Vo'vm of
the annual meeting of the Comparative
Live tock Shippin Association hnu been
sent t the stock holders.-,—A F W The
following prices were paidﬁBeans. $6.50
3%??? 50070; butterfat, 69: bags.

 

 

 

VAN BUREN—Jrrimming grapes Is the
important thing in this section not
week the diﬂerent Institutions had their
annual meetings; 31 report a successful
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180- QRI HIDWIGT "CINEV-MAKER. ho88.-
800. hnprmd road1~2 mm ”to
m m1, creamer; all advantages. so some
well- mined, strong e, clay subsoilnilo .acre's
misused Numerals ated‘ 1,000co sxwood;
much fruit; Excellent lo-room house. stock
barn, horse hay fork, etc. cow ba‘rn, granary,
”corn and beg buses, garage. An excellently 10-
33318 product}? sham, 3331181. ,,800 easyB lterms.

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23 states; cop! free. . A. STBOUT 1ImAGENGY.

814 BE. Ford Bldg., Detroit.

 

FARM FOR BALE—160 ACREO. IO. 1,
buildings. Silo. Spring-e peter. No.
soil. 8 acres of wheat on ground.1 ,
seeding. Terms to suit purchaser. Price if sold
by April 1st. 69, 000. Buildings worth 85. 000.
C. E. RATT Marion, Mich.

160 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. 125 ACRE
clear, the rest in pasture. Good location one
fllme from elutown on igrsvelﬂ road].a (1}ood lgulldilrlilgsé
owmg w fence. ne 0 y cam,
from school. 60F. LENI' l',NEB 112, Turner, Mich.

FOR SALE—80 ACRES. ONE MILE FROII
Besvert'on‘, Galdwin County. 75 acres improved
ell good level hind. Frame house, barn and other
buildings. Easy terms. Address, Box 2 care
Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mic!»
lean. and letters willbe forwarded.

FAR FOR SALE-«BIO LIST OF FARMS
for “leggy the owners, giving name. bastion
of farm, don.
mutual and co- -operstlve between the buyer and
seller and conduct ted for our members. CLEAR-
ING HOUSE ASS’N, Lend Dept... Palmer and
Woodward Ave.

I HAVE 880 ACRES OF LAND III HISSAU-
kee county for Isle. Good stock ranch or mixed
farming. THOMAS WHITE, Marion, Mich.

 

80 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. ADDRESS

lock box 133. Mt. Pleasant Mich.

FOR SALE—1200 AORE FARM WITH OR
‘without gravel pit, truck and machinery. New
hmust cement silo and other buildings. One
mlle of Albion on electric line. ELMER
VANSK‘KLE. Albion, Mich.

 

FOR BALE—100 ACRE GRAIN AND STOCK
farm. 815.000. 110 acres plowlsnd, rest past-
urs and woods. 8 room, good house, large barn

dothsr 6outbuildings, cement block double wall
silo,1213.Ch.y loam, well fenced, high state of
cultivation. Owner sick. Far particulars write,
LEOPOLD WALDOW, Dowagisc. Mich.

 

63 ACRES. ONE MILE FROM HERSEV.
3 1-2 miles from Reed City on gravel road.
frame house. two small barns. Soil part clay,
part sand loam. Well and spring water. 200
young fruit trees. 40 acres cleared, balance
wood timber. Price $1, 600. One thousand
down, balance time. Wm. A.
sey, Mich. -

 

FOR SALE—FAR. OF 10 ACRES FOUR
miles from Flushing. Frame house and barn, new
granary. Good well. For price and terms write
E. MOORE. St. Johns, Mich.

 

200.AORE FARM AT A BARGAIN IF TAK-
en soon. 12 room house. large barn, cement silo,
rock well. wird—mill. Good fences; one hundred
acres improved. -balsnce pasture. Clay loam,
seven miles from Cass City, one mile from re-
wrda reed. four miles from Greenhsf ROBERT
FUESTER Cass City, Mich.

 

820 ACRES CLAY LOAM. 1 MILE FROM
town

hnstlingto 2 miles from another small

Good market. 150 acres cleared. Good frame
house, 2 home. 1 40180, 1 30x80, granary 30
x30. Buildings all in good repair. Price if
taken at once. $85 per acre. ' Terms,A $8 000

cash Balance to sultp purchaser. W. A. RM-
STRONG, Tuner, ch. '

 

FOR SALE—80 ACRES of A NO. 1 LAND.

‘ buildings of all descriptions. all in good -mpeir

on sums road. Nine room house, top ground
callsr,2 barns, us good hen house, good
well, price $10, 000.“ $4. 000 cash, balance to
suit purchaser. This is s good bargain for
some one wanting a ﬁne farm. D. A. FOLEY,
Turner. Mich. .

 

 

 

 

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FOR SALE—THREE UNIT HINIAI IILK-
ing machine, extra pail, for 20 cows, pulleys.
shsft, rods, tubing, all ﬁttings in A1 condition.
Most of milking herd sold. Address, H WARD
EVANS. Esu Claire. Mich.

 

 

FOR GALE—QUART!" OF CLOVER BEED'
Write for prices and sample. oGolumhi-
anysndo Cookerels. FRED SCHWEITZER
R. F. 1)., szkawlin, Midi.

BUILDERS' PRODUCTS CO..14 PASADENA
Ave, Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints,
Varnish. Spraying Mate terials Sprayers. Manual
mailed free. M. B. TEEI’LE, Mgr.

. .SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY PLAIN
a specialty. Money makers. Fourteenth year.
Many satisﬁed customers. HAMPTON & SON,
Bangor, Mich.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
H." mire Michigan Business rining, Mt. Clem-

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WE PAV 8100 MONTHLY SALARY AID
furnish rig and expenses to introduce guaranteed
poultry and stock powders. Bigler Company,
X682. Springﬁeld. Illinois.

BUTTER FACTORY FOR SALE—INCLUD—
es steel roofed fully equipped cement factory, ice
house, large barn and acre land. Locamd at Rose-
Gogd railroad facilities Price for
entire ptlan $2, 0.0 For particulars, write or
phone WM. WILSON. R5. Yale Mich.

LANDOLOGY—A IAOAZIRE GIVING THE
facts in regards to the land situation. Three
months subscription FREE. If for-s home or
as an investment you are thinking of b good
farm lends, write as s letter my.
“Hall IJOGY end all psrﬂcuhrs
FREE."'E Address Editor. Landology. andmors
Lend Co”, 398 Skidmere Bldg“ marinas, Wis.

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based on the cost of production and
distribution and the consumer. réa-
Ilzing the justice of the proposition,
murmurs little. What the Michigan
Milk Poducers Association has done
for market milk in the Detroit ma;-
ket, the state and National Farm
Bureau can do for agriculture in the
whole nation. - ‘~

Applying This to Livestock Industry

The breeder of pure bred livestock
is'interested in the price of wheat or
potatoes ,etc., as much as he is in
livestock. One branch of agriculture
cannot prosper, for long unless other
branches prosper. All must go up or
down together. With little or no
proﬁt in beef or pork there would
be much less demand for pure bred
sires because there would be no
money to‘ purchase them_ with. If
there is little proﬁt in wool or mut-
ton, or in milk and butter and cheese
the market for pure bred animals is
seriously affected. 80 it is a ques-
tion of united effort for the beneﬁt
of all.

Unless the farmers are united in
a strong business organization, prices
of food products will be forced
down, down, perhaps to pro—war
conditions, while the price of other
products will remain high. Every
time the Attorney General makes a
drive at the “high cost of living”
just one class of products are attack-
ed~food products. 'The products
the farmer produces and sells. Noth-
ing is done to reduce the price of
shoes, of clothing, steel or imple-
ments, or labor. The farmer’s pro—
ducts are assailed because he has no

organization like the National Coun-

cil of Organized Labor.

Why did the market on live hogs
drop eleven or twelve cents, per
pound? Did labor come down or
hardware drop in price? Was the
cost of production less or the de-
mand even less? Was it not because

farm products presented a weak
front in the battle line and they
knew it?

Michigan breeders of improved
livestock, the future of your business
and the future of all agriculture is
just what you choose to make it. The
world wants beef, good beef, and
they are willing and able to pay a
proﬁtable price for it if you will con—
duct your business in a business—like
way. The world wants pork, good
pork and lots of it and they must be
educated to pay a price that will war-
rant the farmer in producing it. The
world needs mutton and wool.

The world needs dairy products.
We never knew until recently how
necessary dairy products are for the
proper development of mankind. Dr.
McCullum’s researches in nutrition
teach us that with a diet containing
dairy products, man is more resis—
tant to disease, he has more vitality.
Milk contains vitamines that are al—
most life giving in their influence.
Our War Department gave as a. rea—
son for purchasing butter for the
army instead of oleo that it was
found that wounds healed more read-
ily where the patient had received
butter in his ration. The world war
has proven that children deprived of
milk cannot develop normally. Know-
ing these things, why should we not
use some of our money—lots of it—
if necessary, to educate the people
of the cities to the great importance

.of dairy products in their diet. The

man who produces beef, pork or
wheat, or fruit, for a living can af-
ford to contribute to such a fund be-
cause he is sure to be beneﬁted in-
directly. Teach theéwgge earning
men and women of our cities the real
importance of dairy products. Cause
them to see and feel that their child-
ren it well supplied with milk and
butter and cheese.

To me, the future of the livestock
industry and, in fact, thefuture of
the whole business of agriculture
looks bright indeed. The importance
of agriculture has been brought to
the attention of the warm so promr
inently by the world war. The no-
cessity of giving the farmer a square

deal has been made obvious to the

public and the lasso learned by
our farmers has so ﬁlled him with
hope and lifted him above sordid
drudgery that he will. like our ermy

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No matter What the make of your present sepa-
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Also Qunits rv groraoe For Smoked Meats

Farmers use them
to smoke their

Sausage. Bacon and
Hams

Also to keep meat
in so it' does not
mould and free
from insects.

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velopment into - proﬁtable ani-
mals, whether for stockers,-feeders,
or finished animals for slaughter,is

a phase of the beef-cattle business,
that concerns beef producers every-'

where. _ -

Closely associated with the grow-
ing, feeding and successful handling
of the calves, and which also deter-
mine largely the proﬁt or loss from
the business, are the selection of the
breeding herd and the feed, care, and
management given it. '

This article is intended to give in

a general way the practices -which '

successful breeders and feeders of
beef cattle have found most proﬁt-
able and which experiments have
proved to be most reliable.
Selecting the Cow'ﬂerd

If a good cow, bred to a good,
purebred bull, will produce a good
calf, a better cow bred to a better
bull will produce a better calf. With
that idea clearly in mind, cows to be
used in a breeding herd may be se-
lected with a considerable degree of
conﬁdence. While the selection may
not need to be made from native
or high grade cows, yet the type of
cow most desired is the useful kind.

It is advisable
frequently for

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'1}? improve the average otthe calves ’

, stocked with breeding

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W,

genuine men
in the. herd. . , . ~.

. (Jews. that have proved ,to be non-

breeders ehouldl be eliminated. ,They.

should preferably be sent to the
butcher to prevent their being resold
for breeding purposes. 1/ .“Shy breed-

ers" also 'should‘ be disposed of .in:

order that no cow may board at the
expense of the others. ‘_

Herd Management .

Proﬁtable beef production com-
mercially depends upon the grade-
cow herd and the use of a good pure-

bred bull, managed so that each gen- '

eration of cows selected. is an im-

provement upon the preceding one; -

In order that this may be» true the

best heifer calves should be retained f

each year to take the place of [bar-
ren,.or shy-breeding cows. All oth-
er , calves produced may be‘ sold
either as weanling calves at‘6 to 8

months old, as stockers or feeders at .
~ ed. They differ in that cows intend-

1 or 2 years, or ﬁnished as baby beef
at from 16 to 20 months, or as fat
steers at an older age.

Small farms in a high state of

cultivation and where large quantis-

ties of feed are produced may be
cows to a

   

 

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more ‘than' likely it will~becomegnec.-

essary to' vary from that method noel--

casionally on account of changes in
conditions. Unfavorable years for
growing food may make it necessary
to sell! the calves at weaning time.
Also, on farms where it is intendid
to. carry the calves over as smokers,

‘ pastures and winter feed crops may

‘be cut short by drought or other

' unforeseen condition, making it nec-

essary to dispose of the calf crop

earlier than usual. .
Three Systems in Vogue
3"‘The "systems of handling beef~
breeding herds which are more ex-
tensively practiced than any others
are “beef,” “baby beef,” and ‘_‘dual
purposg.” In the ﬁrst. two systems
calves run with their dams until
weaned, none of the cows being milk-

ed for producing calves for baby beef
generally receive better care because
their calves are to be fattened short-
ly after weaning, which makes it
necessary to push them as rapidly
as possible and to give them a good
start.

The straight-

 

 

t-he begi n n e r
with little exper-
ience in handling

beef cattle to se-
lect the most
useful type from
the cows avail~

0" caring f 0" SOME of the most essential items in growing beef on the farm

are:

able. As a rule
it pays to start
with as good

foundation cows
as possible, al-
though the ex-
perience of the
individ u a l a s
well as capital
and availa b l 6
equipment, at 6

Essentials in Growing Beef

First. Plenty of pasture and feed.

Second. The right kind of cows—those that will produce good
calves regularly.

Third. A good, purebred registered bull—one
calves persistently.

Fourth. A large calf crop. This means that all cows shall drop 13'
calves, and that the calves shall be properly cared for at birth.

Fifth. Proper care of the breeding herd and the calves.
Sixth. Selection of good heifer calves to replace .old or inferior

that will sire good

beef system is
primarily adapt-
ed to regions
where pasture is
plentiful and
cheap. This sys-
tem is more gen-
erally practiced
in the United
States than eith-
er of the other
two. '
The baby beef
system is a high-
special 1 z e (1
line and is pe-'
. culiarly adapted
to regions where
a plentiful sup-
ply’ of fattening

£133,153 nZtﬂria‘if; °°Ws° ' “ad" 1” mm“
he} p d 6 M d 6. Seventh. Prevention of disease among the breeding herd (and, the together w i th

While there may
be differences of
opinion as to the
type of cows to

select, wheth e r
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younger stock.

Eighth. Shelter sufﬁcient to protect the cattle from . both. severe
cold and extremely. hot weather.

Ninth. A practical knowledge of fattening
Tenth. Marketing toradvantage.

cattle for market.

sufﬁcient pasture
for the summer

the breeding herd
and n ur s i n g
calves. ' At pres-
ent the corn belt
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or of high grades ‘
each cow should be a useful animal.

In either case the cow that proves
to be the most useful, consequently
the most proﬁtable, is of the large,
roomy, vigorous type, possessing a
strong constitution as indicated by
a wide, deep conformation with a
good chest or heart capacity, strong,
clean-cut muzzle, bright eye, and
alert but gentle disposition.

Cows of good quality that do Well
themselves on limi_ted feed rations,
as indicated by their uniform flesh-
ingsg loose, pliable skin, glossy "coat
of hair, and are not coarse or rough
in any respect, should be selected.
Cows of that kind, when bred to the
right kind of bull, usually reproduce
regularly calves that .will develop
into good steers. Such cows also us-
ually give sufficient milk to nourish
their. calves properly. It should be
the desire, therefore, of the owner
to select, for the breeding herd, cows
that when bred to good, purebred

maximum carrying capacity and the
calves disposed of at weaning time or
fattened as baby beef: to advantage.
In that way practically no cattle oth-
er than the breeding herd are' main—
tained, whereas if the calves are
carried over as stockers sand feeders

'to older ages more feed and pasture

would be required. This practice is
often found .to be very proﬁtable.
If, on the other hand, a limited quan-
tity of feed is produced on a farm of
this kind, it wouldbemore proﬁtable
to sell the calves "at“ weaning time
to men who 'make a specialty of feed-
ing that kind of cattle for the mark-
et.

Breeders who operate large hold-.
ings Where extensive pastures are
available and feed enough isgrown
to carry the calves’ through thewint-
or as ‘stockers often ﬁnd’itmore
proﬁtable to carry them to an older
age so as to market the grass and

_ out” and
‘ make very acceptable beef.

ical region where
this system fits
in best, but it is practiced in. a limit-

, ed way in other sections.

The dual-purpose system is prac-
tised extensively in many semi-dairy
districts. In this system all the
cows are milked and the calves are
raised on skimmed milk and supple-f
mental feeds. Often the dual-pur-
pose idea resolves itself into trying
to make dairy animals out of a. strict-

_ly beef breed. From the standpoint “

of beef production the dual-purpose
system :is commendable if adhered to

»' rigidly; otherwise there is little to
‘ recommend it.

Dual-purpose calves
as a rule do not possess the beef-type
characteristics of‘ strictly beef-bred
calves,‘ but when they are f‘grown'
fattened properly they

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F11 "I T i- in WI 111111 e breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request. Better still. write out what you have to charm!” us out ’It 111
$16 tel. No.11 1391‘»? 151161.10“? 3’9"“ 331113. You can change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy or changes must be received one week before date
Motion lulu“ mud ” much! it!" 1:3“: 11:11 for them. Write today i) .
BHEEDERG‘ KURR’T‘“! " """ “‘" 7' R“i£'-.‘.‘= FARMMG W". ("em-1:. M'ch'rwm

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run so: are HDLSTEIII ' ,1,“ .01.
"DLSTEINS be“) this “in $200 Bach- Also yearling: "
' bred to1111310 L b'lil’gi'enonreov‘iigfvliigmmighn'
roll SALE - . -

Fourteen head of high grade registered , . SHORTHORN
stock to be closed out. For particular: and
padig’ee' “"1“" non SALE—ONE ROAN DOUBLE

E. P. KINNEY Standard Polled Shorthorn Bull Calf born

East Lemma, Mloh. Apr. 12. One red Shorthorn Bull Calf, born

March 23rd. a beauty, and Two Short-
horn Heifer Calves born Jan. 6th and
Two BULL GALVE 23.32.15.135"? 1115;311:3550; by gorge gone; Bulge {g

11 d t of 7 s 'and 30 days after __.' _- a“ “30 1 all
3111331; 31131 2 rgcggrd of 2133??) butter, 469 9 milk Ste Marie. Mlch.. R 2, Box 70. .
in 7 days, at 3 milkings a day. , ,

VERNON GLOUGH. Parma. Mich. 3 SHORTHORN BULLS. 11 MONTHS T0
yrs. 50 Young Tom Turkeys 20 lbs. up, out o
Antrim’e King a 45 1b. Tom. at $10 each.

JAY W. THUMM. Elmira. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choice Registered Stock

PUREBRED HOLSTEIN COWS I PERCHERON S ' Choice Regigltaexeld Shorthorns
HOLSTEINS . . One Mondale br1331c§°3$ 013111. 1111.]. 131113131111 11'}de .

YIELD FIVE TIMES MORE smopsms
, . ANGUS MURDO BANCROFT, R1. Fowler, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

In the opinion of Supt. Smith of the Geneva Experiment , , THE VAN BUM.“ co Shorthom
Station, the average production of butterfat per year per cow in Dorr D. Buell, Elmira, M1011. Breeders’ Association have young stock

‘ - . for sale. mostly Clay breeding. Write
New York State is about 100 lbs. The State College at Ithaca . R. F. D. .NO. 1 your wams to the secretary, Frank Bal-
has a cow descended from common stock on one side and from a , - (0% Hartford, Mich. ,

line of pure bred Holstein sires on the other This cow has pro~ BULL NICELY MARKED. GOOD BONED

duced 479 lbs 01' fat in a year NOt a startling record as several 111111 11111111 out .11 A. n. 1). and 1111— HE BARRY couu'rv suonruonu BREED-
1’ bred Holsteins have record's Or more than twice as 1—11th testci 111111111. of reosonﬁhic prices. T crs \ssm-ntloll .11111:1111111 their fall catalog ready
Du e ' TRACY F. CRANDALL. Howell. Mich. for distribution. Scotch S1-ot1l1 1‘op and Milking

but it is interesting as proof that intelligent implovement of a Shorthorns listed. Addriss _
herd of grades can multiply the butter yield by four and ﬁve. WHEN [N NEE or :1 in}??? 61-1133 w. 1.. Thorpe. $00.. M110. Mich.
. regis cl‘e1 o 3 em '11 .2

sen? fOT_Free IlluStraFed BOOkiBtS. They contaln valuable old enough far. 3"1'1‘11'13 come and see or \1‘1‘110- HAT DO YOU VVANT'? i 1epresent 41
information tor every Dalrylnan. « Herd free from lawman. SIIORTHORN breeders 111111 put you in
H- 5- BROWN,-t31‘°fd§"t”iiv (imfh- touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls

Breeder 0f Laws "'3‘ ' "L y all ages S‘ome females C W. Crum,

THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION _ President Central Michigan Shoxthorn

Ass c’at' , M B"de.', M l
295 Hudson Street 0 1 Ion C H K 10 1igan.

'BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT ' HOLSTEINS 111111111111 srocK FARM

Over ﬁfty head of Scotch 111111 Scotch Topped
CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK Shortllorns. A111 ofl'ol'ing several good bulls. cows

and heifers, Iloans. lleds and Whites. Write or

LAHGHURST STocK FARM see “181;; H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe. Mich.

MAPLE PLANE HOLSTEINS ' 1 ‘ . FERD .1. LANGE. Prop.
Five Bull Calves, one from 30 lb 5 11.11111 cow, MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEIN Sebewaing - - - 7 - MIOh . egadefhrE-Efiigflrﬂzgg)"yellggL'O-xfoglmb‘inev:

b. cow; one from 2711) cow; one .2 Ewes. Prices to sell.
:xmh:m20281b.l two yr old heifer and one from We are now booking orders for JOE MURRAY 1! SON, R2. Brown City, Mich.

Ill 18 lb. three yr. old whose three nearest dams Young bulls from King Pieter Spgis
everazeth29 3116s.]b 'Ighel' Sire of these calves is I vléygins 13103196. All 130m A R. O dams 0 Twﬁo GEEfAi'rllBREDk nBULL§ KIN‘C SPECéAL OFFER SIIOR'I‘HORNS—
War an “n cre e recor S W _ Ylf‘ ll l'll‘. “fill i ll V mnr 8 SO“ 0 1 I S 00 t 30

GUY WAKEF'EL‘U F°‘”'°"""’°' mm" ally for tuberculosis. WritetegctlraSi-ll‘d PONTIAC HE\GERVELD IFé‘YNE tifing‘m‘ged 5102,253ng Wmo Js B21??Ro§eux(l§ity?219{(ic(ho

thousand dollar son of K IN 013‘ P N-
eg and further information I‘IA(S from a 23 lb. Jr. 3 year old daughter of

.Musloﬂ Brd‘su South Lyons, Michigan 11 near 32 lb. Jr. 4 year old cow. whose sire . " 1210113151,]; AT REA-

“n MILK PﬂonucERR ‘ 'was from a 30.719 lb. cow and this heifer is just . ‘ ﬂ “THORNSHOIiahle prices. The

,tfme 3% 1the ctlloil*estfllellfers 0f Itthe threetd.d Good i U :1 prize. winning Scotch

lore BUTTE or be a next res lenmg 1n 81‘9”? ere ”11". Master Mo el 576147 in many states at
moggugnigg‘lillernpg 23:59- MUK- n A Beautiful, nght Colored, Very for extended pedigree and price. Guaranteed bowl of herd of 50 good tum Slmrtilorns.

A son of Maplecrest Appiita'tion Pontiac— Straight Bull Calf. Born October 24 right. 'Ille other a son of the above sire out '05 E. M. PARKHURST Reed City, Michigan.
132652—from our heavy yeorly- -milking- aood-but- From a 17 W. Md daughter of a 11 20vvlh.'.lr. 2 year1 old granddaughter of KIM:
ter-rccord dam will soli‘e it. 11011 of PON'rlAlc ml: NIJLANDER 3.143 lbs 1101 ‘MI‘E 35mm ““41“ “he” 0““ ’0“ Clay Bred Shorthorn 111111 can

Manlecrest Applicution Pontiac’s dam made butter and 7,0 “,3 mpk in 7 day get better breedlng? FOR SALE {mm n he)“ mmhmng dam
35,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 13443 lbs butter Sired by FLINT HENGERVELDs LAD whose ”MES 3- “RGETT' 5"“ ”3'“ MM“ w. s. HUBER. (Giadwln. Mich.
and 23421. 2 lbs. milk in 365 days two nearest dams average 32. 66 lbs. butter and

He is one of the greatest bred 10118 distance 731.45 lbs. milk in 7 (hunt "liking Shorthorns. Registered females $200

lites. Price $100 F. 0. B F1111 . -. . 1 1
H111 daughters and sons will prove it L. c. KETZLER. Ftilnt. Mich. FOR SALE ”‘1 “p M” "1““ "* 311111, "0‘“ 1111 “and

' H ' ' milkei. ROY s. FINCH. F'T L 11, Mlh.
1".an 11.13.3333"3331133331;'33:... THOROUGHBRED .. . . .

“15113523311 nrlces on application - “BVPQdinngndiVidllaiityu . "OI-STEIN ﬂaws Fan SALE

1. Mi hi
R. Bruce MCPhersonl Howel c combining blood of Traverse (‘ity and _ ’
Production” \ Maple (‘rcst stock. granddaughters of Two sllorthnrn heifer calves, cnlved Dec. 27
Friend Hengcrveid De Kol Butter Boy. and Jan. 3. Bates blood. Color red and white

sired by a- son of Y
B ll Cal eSFriend Hengerveld $132151! oul' Emmi; “1: make it possible Prices $300 and up and red with little white from good milking 1111-
.ll v . 3 our wo erd bulls—~onc a 38 lb son WILLIAMS & WHITACRE cestors. $200 each. Would sell either on.
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Kol Butter of the $30, 000 sire 1111 K 1
Boy and by a son of King Segis De K01 Lass the other a 36 lb. gsm1°f¥dy1§fmli€ﬁﬁi R F D "0-1 Allegan, Mich. 0., both.‘ Also two bulls, 9 and 12 months old,
Komdyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec- dyke Sadie Vale “the greatest sire of his gen- . Satisfaction guaranteed. -
ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25 "“1“" 0‘" millions are Storm in King of Wm. D. McMULLEN

. . the Pontincs ling S i ll '
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding and Ormsby b13017 {155% leggerﬁlditngggg 1 Adrian. Mlch.. R 1
_ considered: 1906. Usually something to son, wme ._____.._-

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM ' “8' calves out of A. R. (111111115 up to HEREFORDS

111w fol hull
W. W' WYCkom' ~ ' Namleon Mich ' Boﬁggxﬁ'umﬁfhﬁms 2'7 lbs. by a son of the celebrated King Korlldyke

 

 

 

 

———__ 53:15.9“333:“1?.alwﬁit.“2.151.122.1336”e“ “"“‘ REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE
H A T C H H E R D _ . LEHGL 'ISTAHGE HOLSTEIN , ORCHARD CREST HERD Kmo REPEATER HEADS oun HERD

(State and Federal Tested) GALVES 0F We still have eight good bulls :2.11d some heif-
‘ YPSILANTI, 1111011111111»1 Can mm a nice] m 11 11 h if bEiTHE" 85" caghorsltgsmiizwp ”81331131331158 see them
at e I -

Otters young sires 0‘“ 0f Chow“ ’- lvanc‘ dams that overlie); above {20%; 11:80. egugyérsegﬁg . STONV CREEK STOCK FARM
.ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art- 24 000 11111 milk in one year Choice Duroc Sows. Pewamm W0"-

38 Vale. Own deém 34. .1.6tlbds hutgezrsiln g A. FLEMING. Lake. Mich. 3 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN Buuﬁ

ays;; average neares ams ‘

60, $180 and 8250 ages, 8 mos, 8 most,
nearest, 33. 93, 20 nearest 27. 83. Fun SALE BULL CAI-F MOSTLY WHITE End' 3 years. They are closely related LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS
a. fine individu- to Johanna McKinley Segis and combine Not how many but how good' A few .

:11. Straight as a line. Sired b Flint the blood of Kim: Pieter and King $8319 in well- develo ed, b !
Elmwood Stock Farm Offers «(lirei’tofe'fc LAad 11110. K237511013. He yin a smggsgl: thet $1033“ degrceeﬁyl “16121111“ 11 ﬁr? lfineﬂof sale, bloodplln'es Sihy'1nﬁi3fiaia1i1‘i3‘ivo.f‘i'
a e orn _ mes a n 0 or con 0 ' ‘
bull cabs: troan 30051 producimt dams with 11.11.93: bulls of use“ breed ’93,, oil? .“dﬂghtﬁieﬂjf £3211: breeding as Selina Fafne Johanna, (‘5; It you want a prepotent sire, that will
11'. r3100; 1151 P“? ‘3 “gram“??? °f ”mm” Maple Crest Pontiac De K01 Hartiz N9 125396, . day Champion of the World) for pedigrees beget graze“ “sue” 3“" matu‘m".
'ornA y ueodgr R%IT‘%CMAN' F1'lc.es.'i.rey :esolmble. his dam having a. record of 22 lbs in 7 days end address and market toppers, buy a. rezlstered
_ . ow erv . 3011 31 27-..le in 30 days at 2 yrs old . GUY sun-r", Kalamazoo, Mich., R10. 311 1 Hereford and realize a big proﬁt on your
JAMES HOPSON, Jr.. Owosso, Mich" a 2 . investlﬁent. A lifetime devoted to tho '2

Two BULL GALVES ‘ - ‘ . breed. Come and see me. -—E. J. TAY-
buliieziziteied liaistein- Friesien. sirei by 39. 81;] lb. - '. . LOR' Fremont ’lllchlgan
an rom eavy pro1uc1ng young cows. lese .
“11368 are very nice and will be pliced cheap if ‘ ' CLAIM YOUR SALE DATE kniﬁt? ongEo€0¥gl SEEPE'RS AIiist‘:
IO soon. - , ‘ 03. 5 anc qua
ARRV T. TUBBS Elwell. Mich. . . ghol' thorn and Angus steers 5 toy1000 lbs.
To avoid conflicting date: we will without cost, list the date of any live stock sale In wners anx OUS to 8611. Will hel buy 50. -'
WOLVERINE 8700K FARM REPORTS coon ‘ K'JZMDM- If YOU are considering a sale advise us at once and we will claim the date for you. commiSSion. C. F. Bali. Fairﬂe 11, Iowa.
“1:316? fro? task h§'d'-w'i1h{§ gen plehllsed :3th > [9,181 LIVQ Stock Editor. M. 3. F1, ”3.010771605-
cav r u u 1r lie “ in -
91‘1”“ Lugtae .(kgtgdi’ke $131111"e who if 3. “Sup of .. 5:3? g 1311ng Mﬁhighm Dame-Jersey Swine Breedere' Ass’ 11. East Lansiilz. Mich- HEREFOHDS 1:23;? Hgggglfﬁlggo‘:
“adnélgttiiiigg 5:“ 63:52 fronlAafe%Hg&ff1&<ivnggl-_ . l, ;- 1 Feb 26.. Polifgg (111113;. an\‘Villliiiiii ﬁne-.311 Iégibﬁiagﬁtyongldﬁhciwanion (111-. have 150 head we offer you anything def V
Isle. '1‘. w. Spmgue, 21L 2.3111111; O'reekquch. , . » Mar-26.11112”. Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders. Saginaw. illicit. .either 881:. horned or polled any use
, _‘ / ‘ 7 lit-iced“!l rgasonable. The McCarty’a. Bad
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Mi 1" New age?” a. 1- builagiwo 2 LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN” . , Hardy Northern Bred Hereford.

2 white and. straight 83‘. e E. 11.13311 . Cows and Sheep BERNARD FAIRFAX 624819 HEAD OF HER

E CHEST“ BNDVKE Felix Witt . .- .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --HOl§es and. Swin‘b 20 this Yam. ’8 calves for sale, 10 1111113 and 1

anlL from UNTO" “11"?“ . . , . heifers.
.22 11:11:“?wa of 'I.F INT . . -. 3 __ ther of the above well- known experts will visit all live-stock JOHN MacGREGOR‘. Harrlsvllle, Mich.

m'r . some 2 , lg: MBighiigan. §orth1iern Ohio and Indiana, as the exclusive '
‘ ”11311 n‘ a ess arm ng. . .1
113w nest mid comps tent men of standing in thiair linesI in» HARWOOD HEREFORDS
, .1 exponent any reader of £111 is Weekly at any sale, making ' If you Want a start fro!!! the GP,
' . ~ ' in carom: this paperﬂ‘heir' services. is free to . Chamgion Hereford Bull of 1411;th
tyour sale ” , They work exclusively in 7 us. eons bulls from 9 to!”
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ADIRDIEN-ANGUG BREEDERG AIG'U

811 IICI’IIIIIO RUG-
Chicago. Ill.

. on tr: scaled. rec. so. A m mac
or ones
MOW PARM} RAW Mich:
BIG TYPE P. C. IRID GILT. AND PAL].
prise winners. On 1; o!
mammoth sows iron Iowa’s
tee erds.
I. J.’ MAW. Duff OAK. MICII.
ROY. Douglas-e AT A "'IARGAIN PRICE.
‘ ILDRED A. CLARK. R 8. It. LouIs. Mich.

BIG TIP-En rouse amuse

DIAII'I'I'I QUALITY
FORD
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The Most Proﬁtable Kind

STOCK FEEDING, 400 pages illustrated.
SMITH. Addison,

St. Johns,'
816 in twin $111,011th Grand Daughters of amd
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priced reasonable.
Loﬁ‘m‘A ' ‘ w mégﬁ‘J‘NT (if Svggmfgigmh'ggg .IoIIu o. WILEY. eonooIoI-m, Mich.
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the .
OARS ALSO SOWS AND‘PIGG. ANYTHING
hosts gnome best type for combination and B on want. P lend est
r lot menu assembled at GLENWOOD e “$1211.“ bred embl‘gdfor more 6 mt}.
“RM “r mm mm“ a H ls‘tei d 0:: (1'. Everything sold at
Methods OXDIA nod in SMITH' S PROF‘II‘ABLE Final-31302.3» 33::n3nd or

mm .IoI-In c. BUTLdER. ﬁlms. Mich.

 

  
   
  
   

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be

have bre Angus cattle. We
and breed the best.1‘hey
ht and priced

YOUR WANTS CAR

us Home Stock Farm.

right. Tell us what you want.
ANGUS HOME STOCK FARM. R2, Devlson, Mich

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA

tried sows and gilts tsreb dto MICHIGAN DUSTER
BIG DesMOINES 5TH BOB- O- LINK or WON-
DER BUSTED» ll pigs

0. L. IAIRIGI'ITp Jonosvllle, Mich.

OLD PASHIO

supplied at the old re-
For 0 years we
know the goods ones
are bred right, fed

 

   
  
   

BARTLETT"

Swine are rig ht and are

PURE BRED
ANGUS CATTLE AND O. I. O.

spondence solicited and inspection
CARL BARTLETT, Lawton, Mich.

GUERNSEYS

THE ON
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA HOGS
CHOICE GILTS—BR RED
March, April-450A to $100

J. M. WIL

AMS,
No. Adams.

Mich.
LARGE TYPE P. 0. SPRING BOABS
and gilts now ready to ship. Also one

ABERDEEN-

’

priced right. Corre-
vited.

 

 
 
  
  
    
  
 

May King of Langwater, an
also for sale or exchange.
and prices to

MORGAN BROS" R Ncr

GUEHHSEYS wsaEle 5):: splendid bull calves

‘ at of A. R. dams with records up to 500 lbs.
get. Our herd sire, a grandson of Dolly Dimples

A. R. record of 548 lbs. fat at 2 1- 2 years is

Fall Yearling Boar and Fall Pigs. Clyde
Fisher, St Louis, Mich" R. R.

WONDERLAND HERD

LARGE TYPE P.
A few choice bred gilts far sale. castle? fall ﬁilnt:
, ver goo prospec, o exce e
“Id boars some reg to ORPHAN' S SgEgiéOR

OFFERING FOR

(1 whose dam has an
Write for particulars
1, Allegan. Mloh.

 

' Gliti‘trtiIAN'so EQUAL byB
he by BIG G ORPH Dam,

 

   
   
 

JERS on PHAN .
EYS BEAUTllrE’S CHOICE by ORANGE BUD, by BIG
BULL CALF FROM R. OF M. COW ORA A.
JERSEY Born Dec 26, 1919, $40. Reg- FreeG livery tow'z‘lsltjl's CLARKE
d (1 liver 0d. . I
meted Eﬁn E. ‘CALKINS. Ann Arbor, Mich. Eaton Ranlda. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

RED POLLED

(his name)Big Bab MastOdon

 

 

 

    
    
   
 
 
 
  

Roystan Sin

and

West Branch -

 

CHOICE RED POLLED CATTLE

ounoc JERSEY swms FOR SALE

WILL COTTLE
R1 -

“B P c BREEgnEB IF YOU WANT TO GET
iYAStbODO King row buy a
Git bred to BIG BOB M ’1‘
1He has more Gragga Cabampionom Blood in his
1 than a other r n
'6 ilshave iii1y choice Gilts bred to him for March

(1 ril {arrow
31.1 EépOARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Allah.

HERES SDIIIETHIIG GGGD

THE LARGEST BIO TYPE P. C. lCI-l.
Get a bigger and better bred boar plig f so my

ck Farm

Mich.

 

 

herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.

 

      

SWINE

id if not as represented. These boars
Hummic?‘ L‘s Big Orange, Lord Olansman.
OrangewPrics an nd L’s Long Prospe

 

 

 
 

POLAND CHINA

E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma? tMich.

 
 

‘ul.

mm: a pong." 30s 0......
the coming boar oi the breed; by

000 Fannie's Orion.

get on our mailing list for private
sale tolder. Address

OORNAIAFA DUBOO FARM
Moms-J, Mich.

 

 

 

 

FIIBLIG SALE

Tuesday. Feb. 11. 1020
80 HIGH CLASS

DDRDG BRED SDWS

Arrange to attend
BARNEY Calm.

DUBOC BOABB 0F SIZE. QUALITY
and breeding. Including several State
Fair winners.
Johns, Mich.

UROC JERSEY MINE FOR SALE. YEAR-

ling boars ready for service, spring boars, also
yearling gilts open and bred for spring litters. to
snama Special 11th, a g'ood son
Special out of Orion Chief Bell 5th.
boar pigs. Write for description and prices. Vla-
ltors always wecol

THOS. UNDERHILL A SON. Salem. Mich.

C. Mich.

 

 

 

 

IIIGHIGAIIA FARM

IDRDGS

We have a gumber of tried sows, and fall

and spring for March and April
farrow Spring is will weigh 275 300
lbs. Prices range from $65 up to$100 and
above. , .

These are extra line sows.

Satisfaction is guaranteed.

MICHIGANA FARM. LTD.

0. F. Foster. Mgr. Pavilion, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Dunn BOARS. GILTG AND BROOD SOWS
of all ages. Bows bred or open.”

ton A Blank, Hill Crest Farms. Perrlngton. Mich.

Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

nunocs BOTH SEX FOR SALE. LAST 0'
Mar. and ﬁrst of April farrow, 1919.
elghing around 175 to 20081113., priced from
850. 00 to $60.00 with pegredi
H. G. KEESLER, Osssopoli: Mich" R 5
PRIZE

DUROC BOARSM"o WINNING s-rocn

ready for’ service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-
son, Mich.

FOR SALE

 

 

 

BIG TYPE DUROC JERSEYS—-
one yearling 2K1,” sired by Brook-

water Tippy Orion No spring 1'3.
line individuals. Fall 01 either exsired I)!
Cherry Premier 2nd 102819. Albert Eber-
sole, R. F. D. No. .Plymouth. Mich.

 

 

  
   
   
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
 
 

boars. 4 mos2m old, weight
including certiﬂ
IUEHANS A

228 8. Chestnu

Have a few spring boars
{ea earling sows.
mags 2nd, King’s Giant
They are three real boars

W. B. RAMSDELL.

For: aALE—a runs one POLAND chin?

ron SALE
Large Type P. C. Hogs

Bred to such boars as Clansman’s

ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINA H068. BOAR
Lpigs spring farrow. Single Comb Rhode Island
Red 0.0ckerels Write for pedigrees and prices.
Inspection invited.

RED C. V088. Avooe. Mich.

FOR SALE—LARGE TYPE POLAND
China. boars April and May farrow. The
farmer's kind at farmer's prices. F. M.
Piggott & Son, Fowler. Mich. .

A FEW aroma scans LEFT'AT
I. T P G ranmsns' PRICES.
H. 0. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Mich.

175 lbs.

OLOW
l-Imlns. Mich.

3 50 each.

and spring gilts, also

and Smooth Wonder.
Free livery to visitors.
HaIIover, Mich.

 

   
    

IG TYPE P. C.
Orange Model and 0.
better in state.
W. J. HAGELSHAW,

GILTS,

Priced to se 1].

BIG TYPE P. C. SOWS FOR MARCH AND

 

 

 

 

 
 
  
  

for p

WALNUT ALLE

Have a few good gilts that I will sell open or
bred to one of the best boars in Michigan. Write

A. D. GREGORY,

 

 

BRED T0 BIG April Thirty furrow. Fall pigs,
li.’ a Defender None none better. call or write
E. R. LEONARD. St. Louis. Mich.
Augusta. Mich.
BIG TYPE DUROQ
boar-s all sold

PEACH HILL FARM

D too tall boars for sale.
$332? orubetter still. come and see them.

Visitors welcome. ' Mich.

Ionia, Mich.
INWOOD BROS.

 

    
 
 
 
 
 

AH

LTD

1'. '1‘. HART, St.

MOS! BROS" 8t.

OFFERING SPRING
boars summer and tall pigs.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

A Mia; Sow “Pigs of Spring (arrow. Also Barred

DDRDG JERSEY

BRED SDHS-SERVIGE BOARS

Booking orders for mail" Grins 1118!

' $25 EITHER SEX

We deliver the boll “*0!

Louis, Mich.

Charles. Mich.

 

   
   

RIG TYP "

for March and #111 far

OP—OLOSING OUT OUR
boars at a wbargaln. Choice sows

BARNES A SON
lyron, Mich. E.

”O
IRA BLANK Potter-villey,
"EADCWVIEW FARM. REC. DUROC JERSEY

F 11 igs for sale.
bogs aMIEIRRIS. Pennington, Mloh.

 

 

  
    

IT PAYS POLAND CHINA HOGS

JOHN C BUTLER,

TO BUY PURE BRED

WRITE us YOUR WANTS
Portland, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Spring glib and fall year-lingo bred for March.
expreasw and mt“ toxin buyer's Home
usry‘way me.

lEWE’l-‘I‘

c. sows FOR SALE

OTAIE OF THE BEST HERD8 IN MICHIGAN
Aprﬂandmuayiittors. rumour). pay
if you want a TYPE sew. gaunt-ed rlgﬁt in

 

 

 

{gnawed in Mar and April,

Mich. ‘

blather-sex...
Cellar

 

FOR GALEéREGISTERED DUROO JERSEY‘

swine. Both sex. All ages. Rhode Island Red
Barred Rock and White Leghorn cockerols. 40 a.

and 80 acre farms. Easy terms
. U. BARNES. Wheeler. Mich.

FOR SALE REGISTERED DUROC JERSEYS

of quality. Three good boars.

1919, weighing 300

Modern type with big bone.

Write for pedigrees and prices. Satisfaction
guaranteed.

F. HEIMS & SON. Divison, Mich.

Fun SAI- BRED ‘SOWS. DUE TO FAR-
row in March and April. Bred to

MASTERPIECES ORIO‘.’ KING.
C. E. DAVIS A RON. Ashley.

GwE OFFER A FEW WELL-DRE!) SELECT-

ed spring Duroc Boars, also bred sows and
tsin season. 50a 110 rwrlte

MoNAUGHTON A FORDYOI’. 8t. Mich.

HILLIP’G PRIZE WDNNING WROOS FOR

sale—A few good boarst of breeding “c.3180
a few good gilts prices right .let me convince you.
Rom D. PIIIIII”.

Milan. Mich.
YDI’S BIG TYPE DUROCld 18 SPRING
cboars for ale.

Goodo “31mm“
Priced right if taken soon.I all or write
“GARRY L. HYDE, Ithsss MR Plum

350 lbs. each.

 

Mich.

 

Louis,

 

 

 

 

 

.IOII
BERKSHIRES
REGID‘I'ERED:4 DERKGIIIRES FOR SALE. AUG.
10mm: 40apiecs.whlletbeylast. Set-

sifaction goers teed.
. JORN YOUNG, Ireokeandee. Mich.

GREGORY FARM BEBKSHIBES FOE

profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.

CHESTER WHITES

cIIEOTER WHITEﬁ—A FEW MAY BOARG.
(all pigs in pairs or tries from most prominent
at is Beg! red tree.

P. W. Alexanders Easter. Mich.

YORKSHIRE

D BR-ED YORKSHIRE “LTD. DUE APR. 1.
M. A. O. bred stock.
A. R. BLACK A SON. R7.5 Lansing. Mich.

f namemnne
HAMPSHIRE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cum
OUSTHOMASIIILUMMM

w: ,

Joe 0110!: and; darn bythe 1’20,- 1'
I: in need 01' choice bred guts, ..

Newton Barnhart. Sf. ‘

of Panama ‘
Also fall

 

  
 
   
   

O5LO.

IR DRIED!" m I.“

DID. m «W... ,,
Omar-#3.
“Iii“ ..m.'.'.‘;.ff§.:r‘~..'s~

III TIDE O I GHm'“ ”"3“"
Eli‘fﬂﬂ a w. sﬂp‘Tow.p

ELM FRONT S‘r‘olb'xz‘ FARM

Will Thee-so. Dryden. list.

I. est—FALL PIGS NOT AKIN seawe-
Buff Bock Coekereis. $3 each.
canvas LEAF erocx snm'n. Monroe. Mich.

 

35$;

 

 

 

SPRING ROADS READY 1'0 EH11,

alsobredcﬁtaan atewtallpigaSome
ofthebesto Dismalredbylumcg
Master No. “$87. All stock shipped

0. D. Jeuphv ,lc lifter d,

 

O. I. C. SWINE—MY NERDe CONTAINS TRI
blood lines of. the most notedh erd._ Can to: nigh
won stock at "live and live" prices.

A; J. GORDEN. Don. and... R a.

Mndeway-ansh-ka farm

offers 0., I. C. bred gfits and two serviceable boa!

pigs. Also bred to lay Barred Rock hens and

{pullehn Embden Geese and White Runner Ducks.
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden, Mich. ‘

nae o I c sperms M om-

Choice spring gi'lts bred for April farrow $70.
Tried soWs bred for March farrow, $110. Spring

 

 

boars $40 Thrifty pigs, either sex, $20. Sat-
ction guaranteed.
GIBSON a SRIVELY Constantino. Mich.
OF 0. I. O.

SAGIHAW VALLEY HE

hibition prize at Saginaw Fair. Our herd boar.

C. C. Michigan Boy, was the largest hog of all

breeds shown. Pigs of this big type. prize win-

him; stock, registered free and shipped C. 0. D.
:IN GIB°ON. Fosters. Mich.. R. No.2.

SHEEP i.

REG. SHROPSI-IIRE BRED EWES 1 TO 3
years old, large. healthy, well fleeced. Represent.
aﬂves of this flock gave satisfaction in 15 states
last season. Rams all sold. 0. Lemon, Dexter, Mich

OXFORD DOWNS

X can spare a few registered ewes of any age.
0. ,M. YORK. Ellington. Mich.
KIDS OF MICH. YOU ARE THE FUTURE
farmers of the state. 1 am one of me
best sheep breed— in the stab. at
gather, that you may shrt your own ﬂock of
registered Shropshirea now. A lot a! kids have a1)-
readydoneso.butlwsntmone. lwilihsyyour
ram lambs and Ian-operate withyon every way.
Write me for my proposition and mprices. on- I.

Kore-Ken Far-s, 8.1.. was Pap, Cali-1hr, Michigan

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Everything sold ouLbo ewes and
Iain breeding 50 ewes in “St-roman 209'»
excellent big honed type ram lamb that
weighed 17 n; Octobe r L Booking order:
1920 ums.

swine won ex-

 

 

 

 

CLARK U. HAIRE. W’est Branch, m.

PET STOCK
FUII SALE Shetland Pony, mm. as, 25, 1919.

Also bred mare, 2 years old.
MARK B. CUROY. R 8. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

   

 

BELGIAN "ARES.q CHOICE STOCK, 8 AND 0
months old alsos C. Ancona Cock-rein Write
for prices. ﬁberidm Rabbitry, II. 5, Sheridan. Mich.

 

 

 

FOR SALE

- Garland oi

GRADE DRAFT GDLTS

CHAD. A. IRA-Y Ohmol. lion.

 

 

 

 

it Pays Big

or poultry in
M. B.F.'s

 


 

 

 

    
     

   

‘ ‘ - BR‘ED' Roi-LIST

 

4 SERVICE BOA85

Write for Cut-log. WM. COX, Prop’ r.

mmm-wmwue ﬁeld-men'krlrlk. m. MM been of 11:. Cox.

 

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NEW SPRINE ~IIATAIJIII

Old ck is W Id-

In. mung mu WWII” .‘ﬁd then‘to
order as early II
n" il’ﬁﬁm W70 Goblet we hove

N PM“? hintneti will hob
on on.
irteen Neeivy Breeds. ’
ghreewglspeolel Ego Breed

tn he"! 15 breeds: White- Leghorn. In! posted
Ind oertlﬂe AI heavy produoers by the Poultry
III-Mon- enemas: or momma-II couou.
“:10! "VIII and Pollen. Several breeds: see

We solicit your laurel: in the Homestead
plan. 01 Pue- :me Ponlﬁy will!!!“

STATE FARMS ASSOOIATION
Desi: B. Kalamazoo. Michigan

I. ,
be particularly interested in the ex-

 

 

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DUROC AUCTION

0.0purebred.“AWN“.WW’MWH'IHNWHWWII-
onoflihe

momm- IIIIIOO-JIROIY MIN earners WWIITIOI
A‘I’ I. A. 0., EAST LANSING. "IONIC Olli-

F‘NDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1920. 1. 00 O'CLOGK
be useful
m,,mm&m:nm%;ggmmwuneuuun maximum e
“1'0!th or Win! 1' nuke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

f Ldtchﬂgzl. Am m m Inwood ..... . ...... ..Bornee
o .Iliehlnnmd ~ Henry 93 .................
assistants will oonduettheeele. Newton BumhIrt . . at. Johns
puwrlteeny advertiser is our weekly will you mention the fee: that you In I
reedé oi hﬂI‘lehlgn Business?“ 11mm Mﬂmm.tool

 

 

 

Collie Puppy Sale

For ten days only I well sell thorough-
bred Collie puppies for $10 and :15,
either males or spayed funnies; natural
heel drivers. bred from trained stock.
Send check In ﬁrst letter; ell puppies
.. guaranteed. Order today or you will be
too late.

Dr. EWALT’S-OOLLIE FARMS.
Mt. (lemons, Michigan.

EWALT’S em HECTOR
(gin .No. 244.685)

 

GOGKEIIELS~ PIILLETS
PURE IRID UTILITY STOCK

COOKER EL’S-
WHITE WVAIOO‘I'TIO. 8. I... WVINDO‘I’TI.
"'8‘ WMW8

IA FRED BOOK K8. III? F PLYMOUTH ROCK
ROSE AND CI.“ 6 I. I. EDS 8
8. O. ILIOIEI IIIORO“

8. O. W“ LIMRNO
ROSE COMB BROWN LEOHORIS. AIOONAS

PU LLETB
'WI-IIT! WVANDOTTES. EARNED BOOKS AND
8. 0. WII I-IITI LEOIIO “N
0MP or,“ write us your wants.
QVALLEY. RIDGE POULTRY FAR
Frazer miller, Prop. Bioeminadels, Allah.

 

  
 
 

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' shimmers Militant... IIIIII. may

ﬁne." mm out... has». ind-L. I I: )7

H44.

 

GIIII9I Innate nocx oooIIInILI no .

GoPullets bred from Detroit end Boston winners. ,
estrain. Prices reuonsble, setlsfeo—7
iliond manta .

TOLL“ allies” It 10. It. Johan. lion. 7
3mm Rook Meals from Tnonosted Otnte:
Oontes twinninx strain.
need male 260 I record.

so 033m me.- Is. 34 and 35.:
“II? "are I sou’ envoy-wood. Mich. ,

 

OHN'I BIO BEAUTIFUL IARBED ROCK.
are hen botched.“ good long“ growch quick. sold

on I revel. Ph otoe.
Wu? Northon. (Harem

ARRED ROCK OWKERILO. HEAVY LAV-
Inz strain. 83 to 85 Setisi siection manned:
GEO. W. HART Stanton. Mich.

ONE.
WHITE BOOK °2€“'§"%'a“'..°"2'5°§o so.

Also Duroc beer ready ior service at 34.0.00
MERLE II. GREEN.
Ashley, Mich.

WYANIXYITE

wYem I Breeder of Silver Laced
Fine lot of young stock .It 33,31
and sales. Clarence Browning, R2, Portland. Mich

 

 

 

 

A FINE LOT OF FISHELL STRAIN WHITE
Wysndotte Cocksrels. $3 to 3 each.
CECIL HURLEY, Groom I. Mich.

 

 

 

Cookerels and yearling hens, Orpington, Rocks,
Beds. Wyandottes Leahorns. Spanish, Mineral,
Campines. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton Mich.

GOOKERELS, BRAKES, ANOONAS. BUFF
barred, Colombian, Silver Penciled and White
Plymouth Rocks; Rene drakes, price, eac.h
SHERIDAN POULTRY laYIJSH RS, Sheridan, Mlch

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
breeding stock.

OYOLE HATCNER WANV.149 Phiie Bldg.
Elmira. N.

 

 

B. P. BOOK. W. P. ROCK. WHITE “IVAN-
dotte ~Buﬂ gton Cockerele. spring hatch,
large, high grade, pure bred, from good layers.
34 and $5 each. D. G.ILLET, Betas, Mich.

 

LEGHORN

n 0 BROWN LEGHORN COOKERELS, SIRED
bug: I :1?de SQ. wingerht Large, vigor-

ous up. no rent

ll'lo-ish Glent Rebbitsthet are Ilium “d.
I. E. IIIIAEBAUOII. Goldwater. Allah.

s 0. WHITE LEGHORN MATCHINB EGGS.
Have 10 more Cookerels for sale. Tom .Ber-
ron 274 on strain. A. Altenbern. , Kiel.

 

 

 

 

 

Do You 7 Raise Pure Bred
Live Stock er Poultry?

HERE ARE TIMES during the year when every reader of
7 MlB..F., who is I mini pure-bred live stock or poultry,
could use our advertising columns to advantage.

If you have something to sell now, or will have a few months
from now, NOW IS THE TIME TO ADVERTISE IT.

Write out plainly, on the line below, what you have to oﬂer,
or what you breed. Then. send it to us and let no set it up in type,
send you a proof and make you. a price for running it, 13, 26 or 52
times.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I...

RHODE ISLAND BED

cncKEﬂEl-SB me All! SINGLE eon
$3 0 d 85 L :egﬂegmgofor com
e an see c 11 mi-
cchKs ROSE AND SINGLE OOIB I. I.
Nd b Bleds. atBugrdsd fiyﬁIoiuth Rocks. Pre-
ypalrce no I see over to
Write for tree illustrate (1.th y mren ed
ilTE RLAKEO FARE, Box 4. Lawrence. liloh.

chic Insulated 3: now
,March and April delivery. Eleventh.r season Cet-

 

ANCONAS
FOR SALE

ANCONA COCKERELS $2 anon

JOHN YOUNG. Breckenridge. Mich.

BABY CHICKS

MARTIN'S- STRAIN, WHITE WYANDO‘I'TES.
Baby chicks. Hair 11mg eggs. Write for pric-
es. Order early. Also progressive and superb
overbearing strawberry plants, $2 per hundred.

c. w. HEIMBAOH. Big Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

ABY CHICKS: Pure bred White Leghoml.

Brown Lezhorns, $17 83;“.100," Anoenes, 818
live arrive] tunnnteed. Eggs of
breeds. Free catalog. TRIANGLE. Clinton. Mo.

0. K. CHICKEN HATCHERY

THOROUGHBRED DAV OLD CHICKS
Single comb White, 3111! end Brown Leghorn.
White, Hut! and Barred Rocks.

S. 0. R. I. Reds. Anconas. White Wysndottes.
25 chicks, $8. 25; 50 chicks. 811; 100 ehloh.
20.0

c. NIORNINGBTAR. Prop.
Box 263. Phone 115. Fenton, Mloh.

CHICKS—CHICKS

HIPPIO SAFELY VIRVWI'IERE BY MAIL
8 S C. White : mend Mottled An-

. the t on I.Inechines. Strong.
cones mtud stung:

 

8103 free
"SOLLAID IIATOIIERY. I7. Holland. ﬂleh.

1

 

HATCHING EGGS

0. BR. Leghorn eggs, $1.50 per setting. Polio
“duck. $1.50 for 8. 40c eI.ch
no. OLAUOIA BECTTS. IIIIIIdeIe, Mloh.

 

 

 

Case and Grand River Aves.

 

CREAM WANTED

We want more Direct Shippers of Cream.

”We guarantee correct w*‘*hts and Tests.

We insure the return or your empty can, or a new one.

We guarantee the legitimate top market price at all times.

Write for shipping instructions and full information.

DETROIT CREAMERY co’.

We are absolutely responsible.

DETROIT, MICH.
Ask your banker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS is NOT AN ORDER A ,
We desire simply to show you your advertisement in print
m lines it will occupy We W111 oer-root, change or m.
“ , I

   

 

 

 

---poultry breeders!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start your advertising N 0W, whether
you have anything to sell right now
or not, get your advertising in these
P3308 .
WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Breeders’ Directory,
Mt. Clemens,

for special rates or better will semi
copy, we will put it. in type and quote

you for 13. 26, or 52 times.

 

Chicago South St. Paul
East 1311113110
.7, El Paso

 

OONBIGN YOUR LIVESTOCK T0

CLAY, ROBINSON 8; CO.

LIVE STOCK COMMON

South Omaha
Fort Wort
South St. Joseph

Dever Kansas City
East St. Louis Sioux City

 

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VERY FARMER knows that

fertilizers produce big crops; but
fertilizers do not always have a
chance to show What they can do.”
Selected seed, good soil properly
managed, the intelligent use of lime,
good cultivation at the right time,
proper rotations and a iudicious
choice of fertilizers are important,
but sometimes these fail of the
greatest possible return because the "
fertilizer was not carefull app l1ed.,7

There should be he weak ink in the

Chat”. | 7 7 7 7 « - * 1 " ' date need weii- balanced. complete terrains. rich in phosphoric acid. to prodiaee heavy grain and
stout Straw. This big‘ crop was grown in Bristol County. Made}. with A. A. C. Fertilizer.

Make your Fertilizer do Its Utmost

“-16—. .7 -.1»,.,- 1... :v._m,i

 

Our fertilizer is hlghly Concentrated. It
is many times richer than manure.

When planting by hand, the fertiliZer
should be thoroughly mixed with the soil“
before the seed ls drOpped.

If applied by machine select one that
mixes the fertilizer with the soil thoroughly.
Some planters have a special attachment for
mixing the fertilizer with the soil. Be Sure
that yours is properly attached. ' '

If fertilizer is applied broadcast, sow it
evenly. . 7

Fertilizer should not be a plied to grass
or grain that is moist. Appy around, and
not on, other plants.

Thisﬂnfld in Amines 60-865. .ﬂaiae. mamhasiaeis persese. Potatoes require plentyot readily
ilab‘ie pient food,_ pounds of A.- A. C. Fertilizer per safe as used to grow this big crop.

.“How to Make Money with Fertilizers"

This Bureau has carried on ﬁeld tests for many years with many kinds of Is a 56 pagebook (4'6 illustrations) containing information every farmer needs
fertilizers and fertilizer materials, lime and other soil amendments :11 many in relation to the proper use of fertilizessé'oit ”shows where the proﬁt is to be

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states on dilierent soils, under different climatic conditions. It has demou- found, and how to get it. It' rs different In other fertilizer books and 13 not

strated to many farmers the best fertilizers for their purptase and the best ways a 'catal e. Any one of our ofﬁces named below will send it free to you if

of using them as well as the best methods of managing the soil. {Each farmer ' yOu wil say how many. acres .you expect to pint this year. Study the ferric

has his own soil problems. Perhaps our Bureau may help you solve yours; lizer question now, while the soil is cold. When it Wanna up it will be too

It' is under the personal charge of Dr. H. J. Wheeler, formerly Director of‘: late. Send that postal today. Pages 43 _to 48 alone are worth the price of

the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station trian'y postal cards. If we have no agent in your town, we want one. Write
This service is free to you. us for nearest agent’ 3 name or ask for an agency for yourself.

Many of our brands have been on the market for forty to sixty years.

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