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B ' G’ l ' This School Outﬁt YOURS
oys. ll' 8. for a LITTLE Extra Work
During the past
30 days more than
50 “LIVE WIRE"
boys and girls have
secured this dandy
‘outﬁt ”which con-
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pen holder, 1 com-
bination pen and
pencil, 12 pen
points and holder,
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eraser and 1 alum-
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HOW THEY DID IT

They simply called on two of their friends who were not taking
Michigan Business Farming. had them look ver one or two recent

 
 

copies and explained just what this wee has done and is doing
for the fa1mers of Michigan and convin d them that they ought to
be taking M. B. F. it they expected to k ep abreast ‘of the times and
derive the same beneﬁt over 70,000 far ers are now enjoying. Then
they explained that they were working I a school outﬁit. That
settled it, their friends subscribed and now the chool Outﬁt is theirs.

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friends who are not now taking M B. F. and ask them to help you
win the outﬁt by giving you their subscription to M. B. F. tor one
year at $1.00 each. Send us the $2. 00 with their names and ad-
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.- The Farmer’s Side

The “hired man” has certainly
started semething with me In 1917
I had one hired man whom I paid
$30 per month. We farm 170
acres. That was the year that it
was too cold for beans or corn to
mature. We had been advised by the
farm bureaus to plant a large acre-
age of each. The Corn was killed in
the milk and was almost a total loss?
The beans, only a few of them even
got dry enough to keep. The whole
crop was almost a total loss. That
year I lost the interest on my in-
vestment my own work; my wife's
work and more money than I paid
the hired man. My “hired man”
saved $240 and

T100 SiddS‘lo the Form Lash, ’.

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take notice,

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every farmer ma

   
 

  

one, but many wives.

Let the men thrash out the ﬁn-
ancial side of the problem. We are
concerned with weightier matters,

How many will agree that eatin‘g, ,
working and sleeping are 'the sum
total of life? / I Will not. Yet that .
is all we do. 'For two years we have '
been on this job, and no such (ex-
citement as a concert, lecture, ”show
or even neighborly visit has ever
broken"‘thle even tenor of our way. "
Why not?

We are as completely tied to the .

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land as the serfs of Russia eve1 were.

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made a payment , mentxmight read: ‘

on 40 acres of ' “seven days shalt. 2:

land whichl sold He “Star-ted” Something thou labor and .

him for, $1,200. Genesee county “hired do all thy work,” ..

The Mutant year, man" M something then we would be

1918,. I farmed Justashe thought he would obeying it. More

370 acres and H and the accompanying letters than that, when ‘

had two hired show whit he started. They it rarely’happensW

311811. The one I are the ﬁrst of many we have that the work is ,;

had the year be- received upon this subject, all ' done, there is , ~
.fove received $40 of whichwﬂl be published in no way to go. ‘

per month a n d . due mm We hope that. am. Never once have , '
the new man $35 readers will not entirely 0011- we had the use

per month for ﬁne themselves to a. recitation of a horse for

the summer. The of their experiences, but. will any s'bcial pun-

war was on and suggest whatever thoughts pose. We have g

we put in 50 they may have to remedy the gene to town to— .f

acres 9" beans situation—Editor. , gether when bus- :

which were prom- ' iness was r/‘h §

ising the ﬁnest

crop until the hot Winds struck
them the last week of July then they
withered up and we harvested about

. three' bushels per acre and the gov-

ernment so manipulated things that
we have never been able to sell
them. That year I ﬁlled out an in—
come tax blank and found I had
lost my own work, the interest on my
investment, my wife's work and
$358. One hired man saved a little
over $300 and the other $200, and
I sold the new man 180 acres of land
in order to pay hini. In the year
1919 I had the same two men, paying
one $50 per month and the other
$40. This year we farmed over 500
acres and we had good crops and
good prices. The man. who was get-
ting $40 per month quit, sold me
back his land, put all the savings of
two years into an automobile and
rode away. (He is now living from
hand to month On $5 per day in De-
troit.) The other_ man married.
bought 80 acres more land of me
and rents next year 200 acres of-
my land besides working his own
120 acres. This man has in less than
four years acquired a home of 120
acres for which he paid $3,600, turn-
ing in his savings and $500 of other
money which he had and now oWes
me only $1,900. He began working
at $30 per month and never receiv-
ed over $50 per month. As fast as
he bought his land he rented It to
me onshares and turned his share
right in towards paying for the land. .
Of course I sold him the poorest land
I owned, some though, I wanted to
get rid of, but I always stand ready
to buy it back at the price he paid
me for it. In all these years I have
worked for my board and clothes
and my wife has worked for 'her
board and clothes and we have had
no interest on our investment. The
good year of 1919 wiped out the
losses of 1917 and 1918 and paid for
a tractor which is about worn out.
For 1920 .I am undertaking to
farm 120 acres with the help of one
man whom I have promised $50 per

,month with house, garden, cow, pign

chickensand some time 01! to help
his father harvest an apple crop if
there is any. . I also promised" him
1-3 of the proﬁts after deducting
from the value of the products the-
interest on the investment, the pays
for what I can do and other expenses.
It I can only get a little for my work

"and interest on my Investment, I will

be pleased. I do 1161: expect any
profits. 401m 0'. Staﬁord, Vaanrcn'

 
 

 

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"in” Hh-o’d Min" Has Her Bar
. Mrs. HiredM' is In of t L

, until seven or sight at night is just 1
, time‘ enough to eat his meals, he has f

city and Work as many hours as he i ' ’2
races on storm each day, at tittyor ,; "
,“slxty'. cents per hour and see what It '

amounts to, In canary”

L that we both had
to 80 We occasionally have the f
pleasure of going to chmch if the I
car is running and there is room. In 5 . ‘9
the neighborhood we are simply X’s : , ’
hired man, and it is an actual fact ’
that I have met only‘one woman out;-
side of the farmer’s family Talk
about social standing! I play the
piano well; am interested in all cur-
rent affairs, thanks to the papers and
magazines; am well educated; in the

not have been conside1ed quite a.
desirable acquaintance. Yet I might
just as well be on an island in the
South Seas as on this 240 acre farm.
Even my husband is so dragged out
by the long hours that his ﬁrst
thought is for rest.

It is not just the man who is sold .
out, body and soul, to the fa1mer; J
his wife is also, and the retulns do I
not make such slaveiy WOIth while.

I will cry as with one of old,
“give me liberty or give me death. ” _
Not as part of my argument but i

incidentally I would say that the
following is true:

1. We are allowed 1 quart of
milk per day. , .
‘ 2. We buy our own potatoes. l

3. We buy our butter. 3

4. We buy all our own chicken 3
feed. 3

5. We buy our meat.

6. We get $50 per month and

rent and fuel and fruit that grows
on the place.

-7. The owner values his farm at -
$35, 000.——Mrs. Himd Man, Clinton .
County. '

7—w—w— s
The Hired Man’s Side 1‘

I have read your valuable maga— 1
zine for some time and in regard to ? »
the farmer and his hired man. .
would say I have worked. on the »
farm for several years and am just
as far ahead today as I was when I
began.

I have read the items, “the farmer 1
and his hired man," but have not I
seen the question asked, how many '
hours must a hired man work each I
day— on a. farm? Ans. About six‘ 3
teen or seventeen hours, the only 1
time he has to himself trom tour— l _ .‘
thirty or ﬁve o’clock in the morning i ‘ t - ’

      

chores .to attend to. three times: -'
day. Let-this hired man go to; the !

   
  

  
    
  
 
 

    


   
 

 

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BUSINESS FARMING

M arch 6th
.,1920

 

~ I I ﬂew Much Do You Think You Would Have?
A Little Figuring Shows That the Combined Pocketbook is Not so Fat as You Think

I ALL THE wealth in this country which is»

known as "capital" were to be divided among
, all the people, how much would each person
receive? Would you be richer or poorer by such

. O division?

If the money which is paid annually for the

to its owners, and given, instead, to the wage
era, by how much Would their Income be in-
Med? ~

There is a widespread belief that the workers,

distinguished from the employers, have not

:1 getting a fair division of what is produced
h industry.

The radicals are telling the workers to take

or the industries and run them “for their own

11. They declare that their share would
,M be far greater than it is under the present
mom.

There is nothing more important than to get
mtg-51th about this matter. For no one 'will

at the best state of society would be that
which. aﬂorded the greatest good to the greatest
ber. "

We must realize at the outset that thereare
upltalists of-all degrees. The man who owns a
Ihgle bond, or who has a hundred dollars in the
aviugs bank, or has bought a single share of
stock in a company, or oWns his own little store,

”End this capital in industry were to be taken

,1 or his «stock of goods, no matter how small, is a

I dusty or a business have been paid.

, than twenty-ﬁve per cent more than his

l. vested it, he would lose the income from
1' that; and this loss might wipe out the gain
I in his salary or wages.

I

. ﬂying any return for it,
' could be added to wages, the result must
: , nevertheless seem disappointing to the peo-
; ple who have been thinking that such an

\ , a great deal more.

[i .

I .1! he “0“? gets. If you have 820 a week now,
, l ,1! mid

  
  
   
 
 
 
 
   

- Professor. David man. of the University

business is active capital.

“capitalist. "
Any money which is employed in industry or

which remains after the other expenses of an in-

They are
share which goes to the people who have put
1' money to work in the enterprise. It is paid
them in the shape of interests on notes and
do, and as dividends on capital stock.

If we are going to do away with private capi-

.bl altogether, you will have no more right to

own one bond, or one share of stock, than an-
other man will have to own a thousand. - If you
(any that anything shall be paid for the use of

money. you will have to give up any return on

your own savings.
But perhaps you have not saved anything i All

you have is the salary, or the wages, you receive. .

And you think this income of yours will be very
much greater if the people. who have saved mon—

ey and invested it should get nothing in return”
and the proﬁts Which now go to them should be

divided among the workers.’
On this point I am going to quote a man

Proﬁts are the amount.

By GEORGE E. ROBERTS
Vice;chsid‘ent of National City Bank, N. Y. City.

 

 

_ FROM THE AMERIGAN MAGAZINE

'0 ' The accompanying article was DUb-.
lished in the March issue of the American
'Magazine, one of the most interesting and
helpful Journals in the country. It is by
special permission of Mr. John M. Siddall,
the editor, that we are able to present it
to the readers of Michigan Business Farm-

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by'about $380 per year. This agrees with Pro-
fessor King’s estimate, which was based on pre-
war ﬁgures.

Professor Friday adds signiﬁcantly that the
average wage would increase by $330 a year——
provided no decrease in the products of industry
Was brought about by this conﬁscation and dis-
tribution of proﬁts.

But sucha decrease would inevitably come. If
all private savings were seized and put into in—

dustry without giving the owners any return for
the use of their money, people would naturally,

,hide whatever they were able to lay by.

If, by your energy, ability and thrift you were
able to save part of your wages or salary, would
you let somebody have it to use for nothing? No;
you would keep it yourself, as you would have a
perfect right to do.

Your common sense will tell you what would
be the effect of this idleness of money. Your sav-
ings- are your surplus. Capital is simply the ac—
cumulated savings of all the people. But capital
which does not work, money which lies idle, is
of no» beneﬁt to anybody.

A bag of gold pieces, or a package of bills, hid-
den away in a box, might as well has bag of peb-
bles, or a bundle of waste paper, so far as its
present value to the people is concerned.

What would become of the industries which
paygus our wages and our salaries, if people re-
fused to put their savings into those industries?
Business must have capital. The merchant must
have money to buy. his goods. The manufactur-
er must. have money in order to build his plant
and install his machinery. Where are they going
to get this money if nothing is to be paid for its
use? You won't let him have yours. Your

neighbor won’t give up his savings. You can
see for yourself what the result would be.

You will have to admit that something must
be paid for the use of money. But you may think
that the amount paid has been too great; that
the human
three fourths of the total product of industry.

That is a subject which is being studied by the
best minds in the country. Many attempts are

. being made to establish a standa1d1zed “fair prof-

it” arrangement which will meet the complex
conditions of business The1e are many difﬁcul-
ties to be overcome. And again your common
sense will make you appreciate how far from
easy the problem is.

'For example, suppose you have saved $5,000
and have put it to work for you in a certain fact-
ory. You have studied the matter carefully. You
believe that the plant turns out a product which
will be in demand and that the men at its head
are honest and capable.

You ﬁnd that your judgment has been good.
The factory is managed well, the business grows
and is prosperous Because its managers are
hard workers and have unusual ability—just as
you 'thought—the proﬁts are such that you re-
ceive 10 per cent 011 the money you invested. The
chances are that you might object if. you were
told that a “fair profit” was only 6 per cent, and
that therefore you could not‘have more than that.

I am not saying that this would be a just ar-
rangement. I am merely suggesting that you
yourself might claim that it wasn’t. And I make
this point only to show ,that the question of the
adjustment of proﬁts is a~complicated one.

It is only the people who have nothing to lose,
and who think they have everything to gain,
who profess to ﬁnd these problems simple.
the thrifty man, who has saved even a few hund-
red dollars, there are many things to be consid-
ered.

There is another theory advanced by some peo—
ple which is even more diﬁicult to accept. This
is the theory that everybody should receive the
same pay no matter what he does. Under the
system these people would inaugurate, the man-
ager, the skilled worker and the unskilled worker
would be paid alike. The editor of a great news-
paper would get the same as the ofﬁce boy. The
engineer at the throttle of the Twentieth Cent—
ury Limited, with scores of lives in his keeping,
would be paid the same as the section hand who
shovels dirt along the right of way.

This may seem a glorious arrangement to

 

who has made a careful investigation. Pro-

 

hssor Wilford I. King, of the University of -
Wisconsin, a few years ago published a
book called "Wealth and Income of the Peo-
ple of the United States.” He used govern-
ment ﬁgures in arriving at his conclusions.

Professor King found that if all the prof-
it! which now go to pay interest and divi-
dends were to be divided among all the wage
earners, in preportion to the pay they are
receiving, each man would get not more

Of course if he has saved money and in-

Just what you could do with your savings
b not clear, if nobody paid anything for the
lies of money. But if you can conceive it
possible that money could be used without .
that all proﬁts

unneenmnt would give therw'age earners

The plain truth is that each one would ll
receive not to exceed a fourth more than

there ”5 than; and ab on. Pro-
on: says, this is an extreme rather
oderate “till-3N , 1

  
  
   
 
   
   
 
   

 

 

*9 it, he made a similar study of in-
d as: gamma wage in

paying article. Were an

to be undertaken, how mu
land-oWning farmer have after the melon was cut and
divided. According to the figures the average farm-
car would have much less after the division than be
His hired man would get only a very
small share of the plunder. The balance would go to
other hired men and wage earners of the city.
would he a case of dividing the earned wealth of the
few among the many, so that the few would sacrifice
much and. the many would sin but little per capita.
~ oberis’ article as an argu-
ment that all industry is pure and deriving only fair
returns upon its. investment. For such is not the case.
“this article to show just exactly what it
show that an even distribution of
‘calandunjustandcouldsot ..

had before.

We do not prwent ﬁr.

The Proﬁts of Industry

HE SUBJECT of a more equal distribution of
wealth has been discussed to some extent by M.
B. F. readers, and one or two have advocated the abol-
ishment of the “profit system,” as a means to that
end. While we ﬁrmly believe that something should
be done to prevent the centralization of wealth in :1
Present income from his labor. “ ' few hands because of the power that such control of
wealth gives to the pcsscssors, it has always been our
opinion that the decentralization of this wealth would
not add so much to the per capita income as general-
ly supposed. This opinion is home out in the accom-
ual distribution of wealth *
more or less would the

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the ofﬁce boy and the section hand; al—
though, if they have any brains at all, even
they would laugh at it.

Iii!

A great many people complain because they
think the heads of business are paid too
. much. They hear of the high salaries re—
ceived by executives, such as presidents of
railroads, or of large industrial corpora-
tions, and they think that these men can-
not be worth all that money, no matter how
competent they are. They say that there
cannot be so much difference between the
value of any two men as to justify paying
one of them $50,000 a year and the other
one only $1,500 a year.

s o t 0

Imagine what it means to a business which

000,000 a. year. A competent executive at
its head may easily gain. millions to the or-
ganization; and- an incompetent one may
cause it to lose millions. An able and bril-
liant many, if he can be found, is well worth
$100,000 a year to that business.

Suppose you were ill and had- to have an
operation; would you pay more to have it
performed by the ﬁnest surgeon in the
country than you would pay an inexperi-
enced and stupid doctor? If you had a law-
suit on your hands, would a keen and train-
ed lawyer be worth more to you than a dull-
witted one with almost no legal experience?

     
 

 

 

 
   
  
 
   
 

more for a diamond than you would for :a,
piece of glass? If you were going to b y
an automobile, would you give more i

   

 

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has aggregate transactions of perhaps $-100,- ‘

If you wan-ted to buy a ring, would you pay ”

We Made an Even Division of All the Money?!

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thousand men is ready to
clear your land 9f, stumps
and boulders, to dig your
drainageditch, and to plant
His name is

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Red Cross Dynamite
Safe, sure, inexpensive

In this golden year for the
farmer, every i-.lle foot of
ground you own and do
not cultivate is costing you
money, and every stump .
in your ﬁelds is not only
’ making it harder for you
to plow and cultivate, but
is occupying valuable land
that might be growing
I crops. Get themouf! Pro-
' gressive farmers are using
millions of pounds of Red
Cross Dynamite every
year to do this and similar k
work. !
Put the Giant Farm Hand
to work for you. If your
project wm‘rants, we will
send a demonstrator to
show you the easiest and
cheapest way to do your
1’ work.

See Your Deqler

In any case, ﬁnd out what the
Giant Farm Hand can do for
you — and how. Write for
, “Handbook of Explosives”
' today.

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Sales Dept. : Explosives Division

WILMINGTON DELAWARE
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This School Outﬁt YOURS
for a LITTLE Extra Work

During the past
30 days more than
50 “LIVE WIRE"
boys and girls have
secured this dandy
‘outfit ‘which con-
sists of 3 pencils, 1
pen holder, 1 com-
bination pen and
pencil, 12 pen
points and holder,
1 pencil sharpener,
1 ink and pencil
eraser and 1 alum-
inum collapsible
drinking cup, all
packed in a beauti—
ful box, without it
costings. penny.

Boys! Girls!

   

HOW THEY DID IT

, They simply called on two of their friends who were not taking
Michigan Business Farming. had them look over one or two recent
copies and explained just what this weekly has done and isi doing
for the farmers of Michigan and convinced them that they ought to
be taking M. B. F‘. if they expected to keep abreast or the times and
derive the same beneﬁt over 70, 000 farmers are now enjoying. Then
they explained that they were working for a school outﬁit. That
settled it, their friends subscribed and now the School Outﬁt is theirs.

HERE’S YOUR CHAN OE

All you have to do to win this outﬁt is to call on two of your
friends who are not now taking M. B. F. and ask them to help you
win the outﬁt by giving you their subscription to M. B. F. for one
year at $1. 00 each. Send us the $2. 00 with their names and ad-
dress p‘lainly written and the outﬁt will be yours. , .

Get your Father, Mother, Big Brother or Sister to help you.
Address MICHIGAN BUsinnss FARMING '

   
  
    
   
   
 

 

  
   
 

 

 

 

. The Farmer’s Side

The "'hired man” has certainly
started something with me. In 1917
I had one hired man whom I paid
$30 per month We farm 1‘70
acres. That was the year that it
was too cold for beans or corn to
mature. We had been advised by the
farm bureaus to plant a large acre-
age of each. The corn was killed in
the milk and was almost a total loss?
The beans, only a few of them even
got dry enough to kéep. The whole
crop was almost a total loss. That
year I lost the interest on my in—
vestment, my own work, my wife's
work and more money than Ppaid
the hired man. My “hired man”
saved $240 and

every farmer muggiwell take untied.

101‘ these are‘the sentiments of not

one, but many wives

Let the men thresh out the ﬁn-

ancial side of the problem. We are
concerned with weightier matters,
fHow many will‘agree that eating,

 

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working and sleeping are ‘the sum '

total of life? ” .1" will not. Yet that

been on this job, and no such,ex-
citement as a Concert, lecture, ‘sh‘ow
or even neighborly visit ‘has ever
broken “the even tenor of our way. "
Why not?

’ is all we do. ‘For two years We have ‘

We are as completely tied to the ,

land as the serfs of Russia eve1 were.

Th e command-

 

made a payment

mentxmight read:

 

on 40 acres of
land whichJ sold
him for.$1,200.
The Inert year,
1918, I farmed
370 acres and
had two hireti
men. The one I
had the. year be-
.fore received $40
per month a n d
the new man $35
per month for
the summer. The
war was on and
we put in 50
acres of beans
which were prom—

 

 

then we would be
than that, when
that the work in

no way to go.
Never once have
we had the use
of a horse for
any s‘Ocial pur-
pose. We have
gene to town to-
gether when bus-
iness was rmh

 

 

 

 

ising the ﬁnest

crop until the hot winds struck
them the last week of July then they
withered up and we harvested about
. three- bushels per acre and the gov!-
ernment so manipulated things that
we have never been able to sell
them. That year I ﬁlled out an in—
come tax blank and found I had
lost my own work, the interest on my
investment, my wife's work and
$358. One hired man saved a little
over $300 and the other 8200, and
I sold the new, man 180 acres of land
in order to pay,hini. In the year
1919 I had the same two men, paying
one $50 per month and the other
$40. This year we farmed over 500
acres and we had good crops and
good prices. The man who was get-
ting $40 per month quit, sold me
back his land, put all the savings of
two years into an automobile and
rode away. (He is now living from
hand to mouth on $5 per day in De-
troit.) The other_ man married.
'bought 80 acres more land of me
and rents next year 200 acres of
my land besides working his own
120 acres. This man has in less than
four years acquired a home of 120
acres for which he paid $3,600, turn-
ing in his savings and $500 of other
money which he had and new ones
me only $1,900. He began working
at $30 per month and never receiv—
ed over $50 per month. As fast as
he bought his land he rented it to
me on-shares and turned his share

or course I sold him the poorest land
I owned, some though, I wanted to
get rid of, but I always stand ready
to buy it back at the price he paid
me for it. In all these years I have
worked for my board and clothes
and my wife has worked forf'her
board and clothes and we have had
no interest on our investment. The
good year of 1919 wiped out the
losses of 1917. and 1918 and paid for
a tractor which is about worn out.
For 1920 _I am undertaking to
farm 120 acres with the help of one
man whom I have promised $50 per

chickensand some time off to help
his lather harvest an apple crop if
there is any. I also promised him
1-3 of the proﬁts after deducting
from the value of the products the
interest on the investment, the pay
for what I can do and other expenses.
It I can only get a little for my work
and interest on my investment, I will
be pleased. I do not expect any

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right in towards payin’g for the land. -

,month with house, garden, cow, pig,

profits h—Jolm 0'. Staford, Vaan-cn

. does on 9. term m1: day, at ﬁfty or
slur cents per hour and see wha it
..amoynts to. in my

   

that we both had
to go We occasionally have the
pleasure of going to church it the
car is running and there is room In
the neighborhood we are simply X’s
hired man, and it is an actual fact
that I have met only‘one woman out-
side of the farmer’s family. Talk
about social standing! I play the
piano well; am interested in all cur-
rent affairs, thanks to thepapers and
magazines, am well educated; in the
past have been considered quite a
desirable acquaintance. Yet I might
just as well be on an island in the
South Seas as on this 240 acre farm.
Even my husband is so dragged out
by the long hours that his ﬁrst
thought is for rest.

It is not just the man who is sold
out, body and soul, to the falmer;
his wife is also, and the retuins do
not make such slavery worth while.

I will cry as with one of old,
“give me liberty or give me death. ’:

Not as part of my argument but
incidentally I would say that the
following is true:

1. We are allowed 1 quart of
milk per day.

‘ 2. We buy our own potatoes.

3. We buy our butter.

4. We buy all our own chicken
feed.

5. We buy our meat.

6. We get $50 per month and
rent and fuel and fruit that grows
on the place.

7. The owner values his farm at
$35, 000 .—Mrs. Hi1 ed Man, Clinton
County. ~

The Hired Man’s Side

I have read your valuable maga-
zine for some time and in regard to
the farmer and his hiréd man,
would say I have worked on the
farm for several years and am just
as far ahead today as I was when I
began.

I have read the items, “the farmer
and his hired man,” but have not

seen the question asked, how many '

hours must a hired man work each
day on a farm? Ans. About sixn
teen or seventeen hours, the only
time he has to himself from four-
thirty or ﬁve o 'clock in the morning

.. until seven or eight at night is just

time: enough to eat his meals, he has
chores to attend to» three times I
day. Let this hired man go to the
city and work as many hours as he

‘ ’ "seven days shalt. %
He “Started” Something thou labor and
Genesee county “hired
man" started something
Just. as he thought he would
and the . accompanying letters
show what he started. They
are the, ﬁrst of many we have .
received upon this subject, all done, there 1“
of which. will he published in
due season. We hope that our
readers will not entirely con-
ﬁne themselves to a. recitation
of their experiences, but. will
suggest whatever thoughts
they may have to remedy the
situation.—Edibor.

do all thy work," .
obeying it. More "

it rarely happens ’ '

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~ I . ﬂow Mueli Do You Think You Would Have?
A Little Figuring Shows That the Combined Pocketnbook is Not so Fat as You Think

1' ALL THE wealth in this country which is '-

known as "capital" were to be divided among
all the. people, how much would each person
meive? Would you be rich-er or poorer by such

If the money which is paid annually for the

of this capital in industry were to be taken

11: its owners, and given, instead, to the wage

“more, by how much would their Income be in-
dressed?

There is a widespread belief that the workers,

'Eodlstinguished from the employers, have not

11 getting a fair division of what is produced
hindustry.

The radicals are telling the workers to take

or the industries and run them ”for their own

fit. " They declare that their share would
ﬁles: be far greater than it is under the present
alters.

There is nothing more important than to get

truth about this matter. For no one will

that the best state of society would be that

which. afforded the greatest good to the greatest
her.

We must realize at the outset that .there are
.pitalists of-all degrees. The man 'who owns a
single bond, or who has a hundred dollars in the
savings bank, or has bought a single share of
stock in a company, or owns his own little store,
or his «stock of goods, no matter [how small, is a
"oapitalist. ”

Any money which is employed in industry or
business is active capital.
which remains after the other expenses of an in-
dustry or a. business have been paid. They are

share which goes to the people who have put
r money to work in the enterprise. It is paid
them in the shape ‘of interests on notes and
ds, and as dividends on capital stock. .

If we are going to do away with private capl-
hl altogether, you will have no more right to
m one bond, or one share of stock, than an-
other man will have to own a thousand. ~ If you
deny that anything shall be paid for the use of

honey, you will have to give up any return on

your own savings.
But perhaps you have not saved anything l All

you have is the salary, or the wages, you- receive. .

And you think this income of yours will be very
much greater if the people who have saved mon-

ey and invested it should get nothing in return...

and the proﬁts Which now go to them should be

, than twenty-ﬁve per cent more than his

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“receive not to exceed a fourth more than
. he now gets.
*Wu wouldrhave no then: and so on.

  
  
   
 
 
 
   
  
  
 

divided among the workers.’
On this point I am going to quote a man

Proﬁts are the amount.

By GEORGE E. ROBERTS
Vicanestdent of National City Bank, N. Y. City.

 

 

* FROM THE AMERIOAN MAGAZINE

’3 The accompanying article was pub-.
lished in the March issue of the American
-Magazine, one of the most interesting and
helpful Journals in the country. It is by
special permission of Mr. John M. Siddall,
the editor, that we are able to present it ‘
to the readers of Michigan Business Farm-
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by about $380 per year. This agrees with Pro-
fessor King’s estimate, which was based on pre-

- war ﬁgures.

Professor Friday adds significantly that the
average wage would increase by $330 a year—
provided no decrease in the products of industry
Was brought about by this conﬁscation and dis—
tribution of proﬁts.

But sucha decrease would inevitably come. If
all ’private savings were seized and put into in-

dustry without giving the owners any return for
the 1136 of their money, people would naturally
,hide whatever they were able to lay by.

If, by your energy, ability and thrift you were
able to save part of your wages or salary, would
you let somebody have it to use for nothing? No;
you would keep it yourself, as you would have a
perfect right to do.

Your common sense will tell you what would
be the effect of this idleness of money. Your sav-
ings- are your surplus. Capital is simply the ac-
cumulated savings of all the people. But capital
which does not work, money which lies idle, is
of no, beneﬁt to anybody.

A has of gold pieces, or a package of bills, hid-
den away in a box, might as well bea bag of peb-
bles, or a bundle of waste paper, so far as its
present value to the people is concerned.

What would become of the industries which
pay ‘us our wages and our salaries, if people re-
fused to put. their savings into those industries?
Business must have capital. The merchant must
have money to buy his goods. The manufactur-
er must. have money in order to build his plant
and install his machinery. Where are they going
to get this money if nothing is to be paid for its
use? You won’t let him have yours. Your

neighbor won’t give up his savings.
see for yourself what the result would. be.

You will have to admit that something must
be paid for the use of money. But you may think
that the amount paid has beentoo great;
the human workers should receive
three fourths of the total product of industry.

That is a subject which is being studied by the
best minds in the country. Many attempts are

. being made to establish a standardized “fair prof-

it” arrangement which will
conditions ‘of business.
ties to be overcome.
sense will make you
easy the problem is.
-For example, suppose you have saved $5,000

meet the complex
There are many difficul-
And again your common
appreciate how far from

and have put: it to work for you in a certain fact- '

ory. You have studied the matter carefully. You
believe that the plant turns out a product which
will be in demand and that the men at its head
are honest and capable.

You ﬁnd that your judgment has been good.
The factory is managed well, the business grows
and is prosperous. Be’Cause its managers are
hard workers and have unusual abihty—just as
you 'thought—the proﬁts are such that you re-
ceive 10 per cent 011 the money you invested. The
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told that a “fair proﬁt” was only 6 per cent, and 7

that therefore you could not‘have more than that.
I am not saying that this would be a just ar—
rangement. I am merely suggesting that you
yourself might claim that it wasn’t. And I make
this point only to show that the question of the
adjustment of proﬁts is a~compl1cated one.

It is only the people who have nothing to lose,
and who think they have everything to gain,
who profess to ﬁnd these problems simple.
the thrifty man, who has saved even a few hund-
red dollars, there are many things to be consid-
ered.

There is another theory advanced by some peo-
ple which is even more difﬁcult to accept. This
is the theory that everybody should receive the
same pay no matter what he does. Under the
system these people would inaugurate, the man-
ager, the skilled worker and the unskilled worker
would be paid alike. The editor of a great news-
paper would get the same as the ofﬁce boy. The
engineer at the throttle of the Twentieth Cent-
ury Limited, with scores of lives in his keeping,
would be paid the same as the section hand who
shovels dirt along the right of way.

This may seem a glorious arrangement to

 

who has made a careful investigation. Pro-

 

fessor Wilford I. King, of the University of -
Wisconsin, a few years ago published a
book called “Wealth and Income of the Peo-
ple of the United States.” He used govern-
ment ﬁgures in arriving at his conclusions.

Professor King found that if all the prof-
its which now go to pay interest and divi-
dends were to be divided among all the wage
earners, in prdportlon to the pay they are
receiving, each man would get not more

present income from his labor.‘

Of course if he has saved money and in-
vested it, he would lose the. income from
that; and this loss might wipe out the gain
In his salary or wages.

Just what you could do with your savings
3 not clear, if nobody paid anything for the
Ilse of money. But if you can conceive it
possible that money could be used without
Ilving any return for it, that all proﬁts
could be added to wages, the result must
neverthdless seem disappointing to the peo-
Dle who have been thinking that such an
arrangement” would give the'wv'age earners
a great deal more. .

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PT 1 0502326? “that“. v. 5) ﬂy
a essor David Friday, of the U vors

Of mm has made 11 slmilar study of in-

that the average was in

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psnying article. Were an
to be undertaken, how mu
land-owning farmer have after the melon was cut and
divided. According to the figures the average farm-
a- would have much less after the division than he
His hired man would get only a very
small share of the plunder. The balance would go to
other hired men and wage earners of the city.
Would be a case of dividing the earned wealth of the
few mm the many, so that the few would sacriﬁce
much, and the many would Rgum but little per capita.
' - oberts’ article as an argu-
ment that all industry isr pure and deriving only fair
returns upon its investment. For such is not the case.
, article to show just exactly what it
‘ ishow that an even distribution of

had before.

We. .:gm1ﬂﬁ$

We do not 1117th

The Proﬁts of Industry

HE SUBJECT of a more equal distribution of
wealth has been discussed to some extent by M.
B. F. readers, and one or two have advocated the abol- '
ishment of the “profit system,” as a means to that
and. While we ﬁrmly believe that something should
be done to prevent the centralization of wealth in a
few hands because of the power that such control of
wealth gives to the possessors, it has always been our
Opinion that the decentralization of this wealth would
not add so much to the per capita income as general-
ly supposed. This opinion is borne out in the accom-
ual distribution of wealth *
more or less would the

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the ofﬁce boy and the section hand; al-
though, if they have any brains at all, even
they would laugh at it.

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A great many people complain because they
think the heads of business are paid too
much. They hear of the high salaries re-
ceived by executives, such as presidents of
railroads, or of large industrial corpora-
tions, and they think that these men can-
not be worth all that money, no matter how
competent they are. They say that there
cannot be so much difference between the
value of any two men as to justify paying
one of them $50,000 a year and the other
one only $1,600 a year.

s o s 0

Imagine what it means to a business which
has aggregate transactions of perhaps $-,100 -
000, 000 a year. A competent executive at
its head may easily gain millions to the or—
ganization; and- an incompetent one may
cause it to lose millions. An able and bril-
liant man, if he can be found, is well worth
$100,000 a year to that business.

Suppose you were ill and had'to have an
operation; would you pay more to have it
performed by the ﬁnest surgeon in the
country than you would pay an inexperi-
enced and stupid doctor? If you had a law-
suit on your hands, would a keen and- train-
ed lawyer be worth more to you than a dull-
witted one with almost no legal experience?
E you wanted to buy a ring, would you pay
more for a diamond than you would for a.
Mace of glass? If you were going to buy

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have _. been the victim
,gstances brought about
. propaganda.

. issued by the
‘ upon as propaganda to further their

i over-supply

‘ supply on hand.
‘ fact that Germany, is unable to pay

'tully» develop.

HAT IS the trouble with the
,live stock situation at the
‘ present time? This is a ques-

cvj'tion that would receive a multitude ~
. . of answers, , depending upon
' , source from which they come. How-

the

ever, when looked upon in a consev—
ative manner. it appears the markets
of circum~
largely by

Pressure 'and then more pressure

; has been put behind the fact that
' the meat export

business of this
country is waning to a pre-war has--
is. This is undoubtedly true due to
the cause of foreign money values
dropping to such low levels. This
naturally brought the trafﬁc to a
standstill less the foreign buyers pay
plrem‘ium prices for their commodi-
t es.

For some time past exchange rates
on European nations have been in
a dangerous position and when the
English standard dropped so sharply
attention was drawn to the fact more
so than ever. At the time, it was
stated that the foreign nations had
run their trade balances down to
such a level that their credit was on
the verge of dropping off. To rem-
edy this, it was suggested that they
import less, increase production at
home and send more products from
their country to offset what they are
requested to buy on the outside.

Only recently, the American Insti-

tute of Meat Packers, which includ—

es practically all the ﬁrms in the in-
dustry. both large and small, issued
a statement that there was no ex-
port demand for American meat.

‘ They gave the adverse exchange con-
. ditions and rebuilding in Europe as

the reasons for this state of affairs.
It was a very bearish statement and

i while it has been known that the ex—

change conditions would undoubted—
ly slacken the call, the statement as
packers was looked

campaign to force prices to a pre-
war level. -

In the statement it was 'fnade
known that foreign countries have
resumed meat production to an ex-
tent that the affect will be noted in

' a slackened demand for the Ameri-

can product and it would result in an
in this country. The
statement went on to say that sales
of American pork have stopped in
France, almost ceased in Holland and
that England has a several month’s
It also hears the

for the products which they need
from this country.

The report of the institute was
far-reaching and according to some-
men in the trade, was to bearish as
they believe conditions are not as
bad as painted by the packers. How-

- ever, the papers of the country car-

ried the report of cessation of ex-

' port shipments and it had the affect

of lowering prices. 0n the day the
report was issued, hogs declined 50¢
per hundred in most markets, the

'cat-tle trade was very dull at weak

to lower prices while only moderate
supplies seemed to prevent declines
in the sheep trade.

Cattle prices have been working
lower for some time past. During
lthe past sixty days, practically all
the cattle that have been fed grain
have been sold at a loss to the owns

' are. Just why the man handling this ‘

grade of stock should be punished at
this time has been a mystery to most
men in the trade. Packers stated
that the demand has been lacking in
local consumptive circles arid the
small export orders and then pros-

' pects of discontinuance undoubtedly

would mean‘a surplus on their hands.

' 'The best part of it is, the packers dis-

count the prices before’ the reasons

Considerable dissatisfaction has.

* been-noted among ,th’e'ca-ttle feeders- ‘

-during recent weeks. ,.
table to explain why packers should
5 be pounding values at this time when

They are un-

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Shortage of Hogs rain

sjem‘e'nt after the experience of the:

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stock to be ﬁnished in native terri-
tory. Feeders wanted them keenly.
but at the same 'time packers were
in the market for light weight beef
and their competition forced feeding
cattle prices to a relatively high
level. The feeders w,ere lead to be-
lieve that the. demand would hold
good for some time to come and on

that account paid the prices for the

thin stock. Now when the cattle
are coming back to market, it is hard
to get the buyers to look at them
and when they are sold, prices are
on such a level that losses have re—
sulted in majority of cases. In many

instances the selling price, after 80

to 100 days feeding, has been lower
than the.cost as feeders. c

There are many feed iots still
sheltering cattle that were put in at
high prices. Owners are carrying
them longer than expected, living in
hope that conditions would assume a
brighter aspect and allow them to
get out on their ventures with an
even break. The unsettled condi-
tions in the fat cattle market. loss-
es to feeders, indifferent opinions as
regards the future of the business
has been responsible for the small
stocker and feeder demand since the
ﬁrst of the year. The damage has
been done as far as most feeders are
concerned and they have decided to
stay out for the present and watch
developments.

Steer prices have ruled at a rela-
tively narrow range during recent
weeks. The better quality cattle,
which have been fed the longest,
have shown most decline from the
high time. At the same time, pack-
ers have purchased the cheap grades ’
with fair action. Killers claim there
is no demand for the better classes
of cattle, the consumptive demand
calling for low priced cuts, eaters,
wanting quantity instead of quality.

The kind that Michigan Produces A.

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are rhirougheet the coumrgsoiesfto Better

By Joesph. M. CARROLL

Representative”; . " 9,.

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_ markets
have been.rather small'forthis sea-

Arrivals of came at all

son of the year. The receipts around
the outset of the year were rather
large but for the past several weeks
supplies have been diminishing, yet
the market has failed to respond to
the lighter receipts. The cattle in-

dustry was the ﬁrst hit by the clamp

on export business as killers used
this factor as a club semevmonths
ago. Argentina and Australia are
now furnishing large quantities of
meat for the English trade. and tak-
ing care of the demand-that we ﬁlled
during the war. During hostilities
it was a case of getting meat sup-
plies from the nearest point in order
to save shipping. However, the sign-

‘ing of the armistice released shipping

for the Argentina and Australia buSv
iness nd cut off-the demand from
this country. «

, In the hog market the situation
‘has been somewhat different. Dur-
ing the opening month of the year
an unusual advance put prices on a
relatively high basis. Packers had
an idea that they were going to put
up some cheap product at this time,
banking on large arrivals folldwing
the small liquidation last November
and December. However, the large

‘ receipts did not materialize and in-

stead of getting hogs around $10 as
some expected, sales were made up
to $16 at the high time. ‘It was out
of the ordinary to see prices make

such an advance during the open-_

ing month of the year which is gen-
erally a weak period in the trade:
However conditions have been
uneven since then and the bloom has
been removed from the market. The
buyers have had several factors to
put to work to bear prices. Falling
exchange conditions, talk of cessa-
tion of. export business made the ﬁn—

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Markets

Duini the"; semi—pining days. on' the
stock-.exachangegand the, board" : of. ..
trade, buyers-at thesmck yasds Were . _.
‘: carrying out their‘end ogjthe _.game.-~. .

by declining hog prices "$1.50. with- ..
in a two days period. ,This break
eliminated practically all ithe- ~‘*ad"-._-r-; »

vance scored earlier in the '-,year.

Later they succeeded in another cam--

paigﬁend at the. lowest time prices
were at thebottom level for the year
so far.‘ ' ‘ . f f-

Just how far this decline will be
carried is questionable. ,Hog feed—
ers state that with "grain [prices at
their present level.‘ theylw‘ill be un-
able to stand much of a decline, as
they have been’ working on a very
slim margin for some time paist and
since the‘present crop of hogs has
started to move to market, talks of
losses have been heard. '

There is still‘talk of lowering the \

meat prices to reduce the cost of
living. Every once-in a while some

agitator will make such a statement,
'leading the‘f public to believe that the

meat prices are holding other com-
modities at a, high level. But rec-
erds show that-live stock prices are
sharply below a year ago.
not be said about other food products
while on the other hand the consume
er is. paying more than ever. before
for bulk of products that enter into
everyday use in “the household. That
does not bear out the Statement that
meat prices are holding other com-
modities at a high level. If other

foods Would follow 'the course - pf ,

meats, there ’is no question but that
prices and cost of living would take
a drop. The public is hot clamoring
for lower meat prices, because in the

average shop a person fc-an readily ,

notice the difference when compar-
ed, with the high time. lBift some
butchers have failed to adjust their
retail prices to keep in line. with
wholesale costs. In some neighbor-
hoods it seems values have changed
little despite the lower live stock
In such instances the people
have a"reason to complain but gen-

eral price cutting should not be car— -

ried out because of. this at the ex-
pense of the producer and feeder who
has no recourse when his stock is
ready to market.

The recent break in hog prices is
rumored as a means for packers to
cheapen up on the product they have.
in their cellars. Since early in the
year, it is stated in market circles. an
eastern syndicate has been buying
pork products in anticipation of a
broad export demand. Packers‘sold
considerable product to this outﬁt
and the smaller packers of the ‘east
were ﬁnding an outlet through this
source. Much of the meat was sold
for May delivery and on a basis of
$15 and $15.50 hogs. Now the pack-
ers are ﬁgured to'be lowering mar—
ket prices, to cut costs so the pro-
duct can be turned over at a good
margin. This undoubtedly is one of
the reasons for the decline, as pack—
ers are reported to have a supply of

. stock on hand that was put in at

prices higher than present levels.

Most men in the trade are of the
opinion that the recent decline is
only temporary. Theylook for an
adjustment of conditions» that would
work for higher levels. Some have
predicted that within the next 30
days,_ conditions would take a turn
for the better. .

Itisknown that this countryrhas
a monopoly-on the fats‘of the world.
While, foreign nations are reported
returning to’a p‘re-war basis in live-
stock production, it is\the belief that

"it.will be some time before they will
_ be able to get; along without the help

of this country“, -- . _

Germany .5331! --great‘ needs of meat

,prodncts;f especially , pork 'and lard.

, Bo greens, the needs there, that hit
hashes; stated’if they were able to
* hay j,*in;;:a‘-,i nee“, manner they would ..

'nicer.i'outjlhetssellamof lever "packing ‘ a
« _ house. ingthi‘s; country. Ger, ‘ ill-«1.1%?- ‘
. gifﬁdmrom its ~‘;:~.riac

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1 9' alue 54 crops
0130 w . 11:, “3 Strata, ot M10mgan
uring ‘ ’ 00.1- is prob—

- st on ‘record, net he-
recedented acreages of

crops mentioned in this bulletin. is
8342 602, 000. The 51:15.11 frixits.
truck 030113, 0112002357, mint and var-r
ious minor crops are not included,"
because quantitative estimates are
not available. Neither is the value
of live stock included, as that. Will
be reported at a later date. ' ;

The total acreage of the c‘rop3 in-
cluded, exclusive of the fruits,
8,856,000. This is a remarkable.
showing on the part of Michigan
farmers when the difﬁculties under
which they labored are taken into
consideration. .F‘a'rm labor was ex-'
tremely scarce and high in price.
Many farmers and iarmérs’ sons
have left the farms and moved .to
the industrial centers, in many cases
the farm being entirely abandoned
The cost of farm machinery and all
farm supplies is so much higher in
recent years that farming operations
on many farms are necessarily hand-
icapped by lack .of working capital.
It is apparent that these difficulties _
were overcome by increased hours of
farm labor, the shifting of crop ro--,
tat-ions, and by the use of improved
methods of machinery.

wﬁiter Meat

The crop of 1919 was one of the
best ever grown in the state. The
acreage was the largest since 1915,
and the average yield per acre, 20. 3
bushels, was the largest except that
of 1915 in the last 15 years. ‘1 The
total production was also the larg-
est except that of 1915 in the same
period of time, being 19,295,000
bushels. This record production was
the result of unusually favorable con-
ditions throughout the growing sea-
son. The winter was. mild and the
abandoned acreage from winter-

.killing was exceptionally small;

The amount of wheat purchased
by mills and elevators during the
month of December is estimated at
1,190,000 bushels; the amount pur-

chased since August 1, 7,810,000
bushelsg
Spring Wheat
During the past four years the

acreage of spring wheat has increas-
ed from a few thousand acres to 85, -

yields-:11 190001139 of the higher price
levels reached The value 01' the? ’

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Sermce Issue Annual Statement of Crop Production and Acreage

. . __ ‘nyj COLEMAN ’o. VAUGHAN, Secretary of State
VERNE H. CHURCH, Field Agent, U. 8. Bureau of Crop Estimates.

 

   

excellent. It is estimated that 10,
460 cars will be shipped from the,
commercial area as compared with},

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IUMMIRV 0F CROPS CROWN IN MICHIGAN. SEASON OF 1919
. Acres Yield Production Price total value Value but
0301’ 000 om't) per core (000 om't) l Dec. 1 1000 on t) l acre
Winter wheat . . . . .I 950 , 20. a 19,285- :2 10 340,490 342.03
ring 17 heat . . . . 85 , 12 952 2.10 1,999 23.52
' ‘. . . . . . . . . . . .I 11, 650 I 89 0 64.850 1.88 88.803 53.82
Lilia .........’.... 25.0 86,875 0.11 26,181 17.75
'11-,» . . . . . .... 1".380 19.0 .320 1. 8 6,278 22.42
glean: . . . . . . . . 810 18. 0 4,030 4.20 16,926 54.60
‘ . 900 15.0 15,500 1.28 17.280 19.20
48 13.8 ‘ 662 1.37 907 18.91
826 88.0 28,688 1.85 88,729 118.80
2.650 1.2 3.180 23.40 74,412 28.
110 9.1 ' 1,001 11.28 11,291 102.65
eed 72 - 1.4 101 27.50 2.778 38.50
Apples (agricultural) 6,484 2.20 14,265
Apples (commercial) 1,109
Peaches ........... 480 3.10 1,488
Fears » ....... .. 426 1.80 767
T591 . . . . . . .I 8,856 I I $342,602
013 in 1918, it was only 11.2 bushels Beans

in 1919.“, The estimated production
for the‘pa'st season is 952,000 bush-
els, having a value of nearly $2,-
000,000.

Corn

Oue‘million six hundred ﬁfty thou-
sand acres were grown in the state
this year. The average yield per
acre‘Was 39.0 bushels, and if all of
devoted to
grain this yield would have produc-
ed a crop of 64,350,000 bushels. As
a matter offact, approximately 35
per cent of the acreage went into
silos. Treating this as being of
equivalent value. per acre as the
grain crop, the crop is worth $88, -
803,000, or more than that of any
other year in the history of the state.

Oats

The crop was relatively the poor-
est of those grown in the state this
year, and was the smallest produc-
tion since 1907, being only 36,875,-
000 bushels as compared with 66,-
320,000 last year. The season was
unfavorable for the spring grains,
and many thousands of acres of oats
were not harvested at all and many
thousands were cut for bay. The
yield per .acre for .the total acreage
of 1,475,000 was only 25 bushels.
The value of the crop, based on De!
cember 1 prices, is $2,181,000.

, Barley

Barley suffered similarly to oats
the yield being only 19 bushels per
acre. The acreage was also 20,000
less than last year, so that the pro-
duction of 6,,320 000 bushels was
nearly four million less than that of
last year. If sold on December 1, it
would have brought a total of $6, -

The bean crop is estimated at 4,-
030, 000 bushels or approximately
850,000 bushels less than last year.
While the acreage was only 60 per
cent of last year’s the yield was 13
bushels as compared with nine pro-
duced last year. At an average val-
ue of $4. 20 per bushel ,the crop was
woxth $16,926,000.

Rye

The most marked change in acre-
age of any crop is that of rye which
has increased from 325,000 in 1916
to 900,000 in 1919. At 15 bushels
per acre, a production of 13,500,000
bushels is obtained, the largest of
any state except that of North Da-
kota. The valuation of the crop is
$17,280,000, which is in marked
contrast to the valuation in 1905
when the crop was only 2,146,000
bushels and was worth $1,266,000.

Buckwheat .

This crop is grown in many sec-
tions only as a catch crop——-that is,
a substitute for crops that for some
reason could not be planted in sea-
son. As planting conditions in 1919
were more favorable than in other
recent years, there was less need for
substitution and the acreage of buck-
wheat was consequently smaller than
usual, and less than in any year
since 1905. The yield was 13.8
bushels and produced a crop of 662,-
000 bushels worth $907,000.

Potatoes

The potato crop, based on Decem-
ber 1 prices, was worth $38,729,000.
The production amounted to 28,—
688,000 bushels or about the same
as last year. Fourteen thousand less
acres were grown but the yield was

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000 cars last year. The commercial
crop graded as follows: No. 1, 78
per cent; No. 2,15 per cent; culls. ’
7 per cent. - -

     
          
        

Tame Hay
The estimated production of 3,-
180,000 tons, or about 500,000 tons

          

greater than last year. The yield
was lighter than usual, being 1.2 ‘
tons per acre. Two million six

hundred ﬁfty thousand acres were de— .
voted to the crop, which is a slight.-

ly larger area than last year. 0w-

ing to the high average price of

$23.40 per ton, the value of the crbp

is the highest on record, being $74,-

412,000.

      
    
   
   
   
   
  
   
 
 
    
  
 
 
  
  
     
   
  
  
  
   
  
    
  
 
  
   
    
    
   
     
   
    
  
   
   
    
   
   
  
   
   
    
   

Sugar Beets

The ﬁnal revision of the estimat-
ed acreage, yield and production is
not available, but the preliminary
estimates are 110,448 acres harvest-
ed, a yield of 9.1 tons per acre, and
a total production of 1,001,000 tons.
As the average price paid to farmers
was $11.28 per ton, the average per
acre value of the crop amounts to
$102.65, and the total crop value,
$11,291,000.

Clover Seed
The clover seed acreage is much
less than usual, being estimated at
72,000 acres. One hundred one
thousand bushels is the estimated
production as compared with 90,-
000 bushels last year. The average
price per bushel was $27. 50, and the

total value, $2,778,000.

Apples

The apple production is placed at
6,484,000 bushels as compared with
9,792,000 bushels last year. The crop
was generally good from Oceans
county northward along Lake Mich-
igan to Traverse City, but was gen-
erally light in the southwestern
counties. Over the remainder of [the
state, the agricultural crop was prob- .
ably the lightest in many years. The ‘
commercial portion of the crop is '
placed at 1,109,000 barrels, that of
last year being 1,495,000 barrels.

Peaches

While the state produced over two
million bushels in 1915 and again in
1916, the crop this year was only
480,000 bu., although this was much
larger than that of last year when
only 85,000 bushels were produced.
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000. While the yield was 18.0 bush- 278,000. slightly larger, and the quality was 488,000.
Survey of Acreage, Yield, Production and Value of Important Michigan Crops
. . con" , . nvs
, Avert. o l ‘ g Average Total Average Toltal Average
YEAR I hAcres [ yie 8- pggl'laétl‘m ASS-gage 321's; A3330" YEAR I Acres yield production I price1 J0 va alue value
arvested per acre , (000 om’t Dec. 1 000 om’t) per acre “"95“?“ per acre (000 mn't 1306.000 om ’t) per acre
1905 ............ 1,229,000 34.0 .r. 134,100 10.0 2,740 0.59 I 1,200 494
1906 ------------- 1.475.000 87.0 1411735" 8'44: 220% i033 400.000 , 14.5 5,500 l 0.59 I 3,422 8.55
1907 ............ 1,900,000 .001 57’190 0'55 - 31'454 10.50 370.000 14.5 5,452 I 0.72 I 3,925 10 44
1903 ............. 1,900,000 81.8 00‘420 004 08'069 20.35 368000 15.5 5.704 I 0.71 I 4,050 11.00
1909 ............. 1. 90.000 33.9 52'907 0'01 |' 92'273 2031 419.020 13.9 5,014 I 0.09 I 4,012 9.59
1910 ............ 1,670,000 32.4' 54'103 0'53 28'677 1717 418.000 15.3 0,395 I 0.03 I 4,349 10.40
1911 ............ 1,090,000 93.0 55'770 0'05 00'250 2145 400.000 14.0 5,840 I 0.05 I 4,004 12.41
1912 ._ ........... 1.025 000 34.0 55’250 0'57 01'492 .1908 070,000 13.0 4,921 I 0.05 I 3,199 8.64
1913 .’. .......... , 75.000 33.5 50'112 007 87'595 2244 075,000 14.3 5,302 I 0.62 I 3,324 8.87
1014 .............. 1,750,000 86.0 08,000 0'67 42'210 24'10 971,000 16.0 5.936 I 0.91 | 5,402 | 14.56
1915 ............ , 0,000 32.0 50'000 '08 I 03’080 2176' 350,000 15.5 5,425 I 0.05 I 4,011 13.18
1910 ............. 1, 50.000 27.5 4537:; 8'95 43'100 2010 325.000 14.3 4,040 1.30 I 0.042 10.59
1917 ............ 1,7 0,000 21.5 97'625 1'32 08'470 6912' 341,000 14.0 4.744 I 1.05 I 7,077 23.10
1918 ....... 1. 10. 000 410.0 48'800 1'30 02'790 890?) 515 000 14.3 7.304 1.50 I 11.040 21.4:
1919 ............ 1.050' 000 39.0 642350 1:88 I :80 53202 900. 000 15.0 13,500 I 1.23 I 17,250 I 19.20
Average ..... ...| 1.000, 933‘ 92:9 50 517 " 404,141 14.7 5,939 I 0.91 I 5,651 I 13.29
. 0.79 I 41,540 24.90
X ' ' - “ POTATOES
A OATETE] Acres Average Tgtal I Average I Toltal Avelrage
' 781386 o, Ayers, , ‘ yi 1d pro uction price Ht 110 vs ue
YEAR hé‘ilees'lzed Yield . DIOdlmtiOn price“ I 3:1?1161 11:13:58 YFAR l harvested I per eacre . (000 onl’t Dec. 1 000 “7077711) I per _acre_
0 p" “1" (0° 0 m“ D99 1 00° 0“”) P“ “m 1905 241,836 .07 10,203 I .050 I 9,074 37.52
1905 . ........... 1,010,000 95.0 95, 949 0.10 10,785 , 10.68 285.000 .95 27,075 . 0.34 I 9,200 32.30
1900 - 30.7 43. I4 8 0.13 ' 14.437 10.13 299,000 .90 20,910 0.49 12,109 40.50
1907 0 20.8 ’80' 584 0.48 14,056 9.98 325,000 .72 . 23,400 0.58 I 13,572 41.70 ,
1908 4 .2917 41.147 0.49 20,505 14.55 365,483 1.05 38.244 0.35 I 13.305 30.75 -'
1909 ............ 1.429.070 30.7 48.170 ' 0.41 17,980 12.59 350,000 1.05 36,750 0.31 I 11,392 32.55
1910 ........ . 1,515,000 841.9 51,010 0.95 -- 18.028 11.90 330.000 .94 31,020 0.71 I 22.024 00.74
19.11 . . 1.500.0007 29.6 42.900 0.46 19,734 13.16 350.000 1.05 36.750 0.41 I 15,008 43.05
1912 ............. 1.485.000 81.9 51.026 0.93 17.103 11.52 350,000 .96 83,600 0.03 | 17,808 50.89
1913 ...... 1.500.000, 90.0 45,000 0.99 17.550 11.70 364.000 1.21 44,044 0.30 I 13.213 30.30
1914 ........... . 1,515,033 91.5 .390: 52 0.15 22.838 15.03 355.000 .59 20.945 0.56 I ”11,729 33.04
1915 ........... . 1,130.0 _ > . 1.0 3.10 0.15 22,491 14,70 320,000 .48 415.360 0.60 I 24.570 70.00
1910 . .. . . 1,423,000 1,0. . .0 0 .. o. a , 22,620 15.90 878,000 .95 35,910 ‘ 1.05 37,700 99.75
1917 ..... . . . 1.1.50.3 0 0,0 5.1.00 0. 4 L 435,712 2304 340,000 .84 28,560 0.89 I 25,418 74 70 .
1918. ........... . 1. 1H,. 0 - 40.0 :' 8,129 ' . ; 0191 15,731 27.60 326,000 .88 28.688 . 1.35 88,729 118.80 ,, j
1919: 4 ' 1475:0949 2.5-0 . . .175 . .0. 1,, 26.181 17.75 334.955 .00 29.504 0.07 1. 18,334 54.77 E»
Average 1g. | 1.450.472 82.1 .-"46.225- » 0.46 , 21,700 14.09 , I I
- ' ' “ 4 ’ V " APPLES (Total el- Agricultural cup) .7"
" ~ '~ 7 '- ,. ”em" Total Menu . “Total. Average --5 '
. ' ’ ., ' YEAR hA°’:: d yield; production mica ~' I " value «Value? a r i
'Tf'..‘1‘0tal I Averazc “"9 e per core (000 0111.6 -1300, 1. 000 oust) per acre . I
:. nun . .. . ...... .1 , 17,200 ,. . , "
.00 om’t) per 0ch i3}: ............ ’ ="
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. , Is This Treason ? .

. A. B.OOOK hetero the
, mass meeting of famrs
at Owosso: “I have raised

manin'Shiawasseeeounty. But
I did not sign a contract for
1920 acreage, and I will
form sign another bu con.-
rrset until the farmers have a
part in its making. If that is
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ufacturers that they had Shia-

wamee county “sewed up” was
a little premature, or else it was a
bad job of “sewing." Hundreds of
farmers of that county who signed
the blanks presented by the field men
of the Owosso Sugar Company, with-
out being advised of the higher cost
‘of labor, have written the companies
and cancelled their acreage. This
fact come out» at the big mass meet-
ing of ﬁve hundred growers held at
Owossc on Tuesday of last week,
every last man of whom got to his
feet and by his standing signiﬁed
that he would join the beet growers'
association and accept the terms it
may negotiate for them with the
manufacturers.

The attendance and the enthusi-
asm at the Owosso meeting was a
surprise even to the most sanguine
leaders. Manager, 0. E. Ackerman
. explained what had already been ac-
complished by the growers in other
counties, and expressed the hope and
belief that Shiawassee county would
join solidly in the movement and
hasten the day when the manufact-
urers will no longer dictate the terms
of the sugar beet centract. John
Ketcham, who 'had been to Wash-
ington to present the claims of the
sugar beet» growers to the Attorney
General told the farmers that the
Department of Justice was already
at work investigating the relative
costs and proﬁts of sugar beet grow-
ing and beet sugar manufacturing,
and that the Attorney General had
faithfully promised that he would
assist the growers to 'get a square
deal. This encouraging information,
Mr. Ketcham said, should induce the
growers to stand pat and not sign
any more contracts.

Colorado Represented

Albert Dakau, of Longmont, Col-
orado, chairman of the research and

Th BOAST of the sugar a...

publicity committee of the United
States Beet Growers’ Ass’n, was
present and made some startling

charges against the sugar beet trust.
These charges we 0 all the more in-
teresting to Mich gan beet growers
because they involved a prominent
Michigan man, Chas. B. Warren,
present Republican national commit-
teeman and large stockholder in
Michigan sugar companies. Mr.
Dakan has spent the better part of
the last several years in digging up
ofﬁcial records showing the methods
employed by the sugar trust in se-
curing control of the boot sugar in-
dustry of Colorado, Utah, Michigan
and other states, and he throws an
illuminating light upon the manner
in which the sugar companies at the
command of the trust bought up
prominent farmers, subsidised news-
papers, and hoodwinked the farm-
ers. Mr. Daken said-in part:

“ll. 0. Havemeyer was a genius
in business organization. By 1900
he was absolute master of the U. S.
sugar business. About that date he
saw the beet sugar industry looming
high on the western horizon and re‘-
allzed its meaning as a competitor
and set out to seek control. Many
truly independentmompanies were
springing up in Michigan, Colorado
and Utah-Idaho territory. To these
regions the secret agents of Have-
meyer proceeded. In' every beet
sugar factory community competing

. sites‘ were secured by these agents. ,

They bluntly told the independent
factory owners to give wan Street
central or Wall Street would build
”Wting' plants beside those al-'
’ readyabu'ilt and pay any vprice,,‘-‘eveu

1..

' price to farmers was $4.50 pea-ton.

$10, per ton 2 Eur beets." . «The going

   

“No independent factory ‘ could
stand out against the sugar trust‘s
millions. By 1m. movement reign-
ed absolute in both best and cane
sugar in the nation. . ~
_ “The people of the United States
then began to tire of. exploitation at
the hands of the great captains of
industry. Melon, were elected to
serve humanity instead of mammon.
Among other things a‘snit wu start-
ed to dissolve the sugar trust. Its
oﬂices in W‘all Street, Denver and
other cities were raided by federal
ofﬁcials who secured thousands of

private, c cull-
dsntial letters
a n d r ecords.

These were ad-
mitted ’undcr
oath by the su-
gar men as cor-
rect and print-
ed in the rec-
ord of that case
which is pend-
ing in the U. 8.
District Court
in the South~
ern District of
New York.
“The sugar
beet grower s'
commit-tee se-
cured the above
re c o r d a n (1
many other
documents in
its search for
information.
The conﬁdential letters of the su-
gar men tell such an astounding
story of brazen exploitation that it
is deemed wise to present a few of
them. The methods of C. S. Morey
in the states of Colorado. Nebraska,
Wyoming and Montana, are dupli-
cated or practiced by Charles B. War-
ren of Michigan, and Bishop Cutler,
of Utah. The private letters show
intimately how these minions of the
sugar trust . secured “prominent
farmers" in every factory communi-
ty to spy on their brother farmers,
throw cold water on farmers’ organ-
ized efforts and keep the trust oﬂi-
cials posted and also keep country
newspapers in line. These letters
also tell how sugar factory manag-
ers are really community managers,
ho dominate commercial clubs,
unty fairs, school boards and lo-
cal politics, designedly in the inter-
est of the trust. '
“Every farmer should have copies
of these letters. The story they so
graphically tell teaches him the ab-

  
 

 

Organ. ‘ im- a.

men -who were trained by Home:-
yer to exploit the farmer still sit in
the seats of power in the sugar busv
laces of thh country. There is no
evidence that they have reformed.
Beet growers have as yet only an im-
perfect organization, still it has won

many millions of dollars for them.‘

as the following records prove. _, It

looked like a hopeless task to “tackle

mach a. power, but its the story of

David over again.

Why Bea; Growers Found it Neces-
Organize-

answer o’ld b y
the f lowin 3
letters: (p. re-
fers to page of
Sugar Tr not
Suit Record.)

“117 wall St.
New York.
“Mans. S. 1&3?
e nver o
y’Dm Sir: It

occurs, it to use
today t h a t Ken
might p r o -

ndontisl mum
between 'm o

my associates in
reference 1: o a
p o s s i b l e pur-
o h a s e o f h o
stocks oi." the dif-
ferent Beet Sug-
a :- Corporations
in your :1 t a t e.
Your early a. n d
favorable consid-
appreciated.—-—H. O.
Amer. Sugar Re-

eration will be
HAVEMEYER Pres.
ﬁning 00. (p. 332, Vol. 1.)

Morey Accepts and Boards Wall Street's
EuBoatxs

“Denver, Colorado.
"Mr.NH.YO, Havemeyer, 117 Wall Street.

“Dear 'sir: I stated frankly to Mr.
Thatcher and Mrs Gganggr that I 231% mg
myself in your 0a an was
at? with you in every way—O. 5. MOR-
E . ‘

Gets Some “Good Farmer friends" to
Help Run the Boa-t.
ngrif H. 0. Havemeyer, 117 Wall Street.

. “Denver, Colorado.
“Dear Sir: We have thought best to
let the tumors 0001 03 a little and are
n any hand in the matter of
their moo aside from having some
of our good gamer friends present to
keep us and also to counsel the
farmers be sensible and moderate in
their-demands. lfwcgctlntoct a
place We shall consult with you store
we make a e whatever in our

contracts. S. M REY. (p.142)

“Prominent'Men” to Help “Fix Tax As-

sessments. _
“Denver Colorado.
"MnNnLYo. Havemeyer, 111' Wall Street.

 

skeptical.

Does It Pay to organize 7 k

‘ 1
0 ARGUMENT should be needed other than that contained in
the accompanying report of Mr? Albert Dakan that farmers
must organise for their protection against the selfishness .cf the
sugar trust and other trusts. Some farmers are slow to organize.
Othersm lousandsospidousoftbcir;
Igtbinkbelongisgtosn organics 1': means justpay-

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minﬂonwhichyouuc-
with your help that org tion can become a tro-

mcndouswﬁlower for good, and thssmall duos on pay to help 33.
be returned to you a thoussndf d.
Dakan says about the value of organism to the boot farmers of

Read what .

we have never had a substan-
thc boot counties. But even,

the THREAT of organization and the holdings of a few meetings
have had the effect in the past of inducing the manufacturers to
pay a higher price after they had solemnly declared that they could
not afford to pay a higher price. Have the manufacturers in the
state of Michigan ever raised the price of beets voluntarily? Have
not all the increases been as a resent of some suggestion or urging
' or forcing on the part of the growers themselves. If emthesemb-
lance of an organization has been able to gain these concessmns 1n
the past what cannot a solid and well ﬁnanced organization do in
the future? Every beet grower in Michigan knows what the answer
is. The Michigan Bethrcwets? Ass’n is. youngibut ithas My.
enrolled over seven thousand members. Join now if you have not
already done so,-and puttbis sufochiicn in aposiﬂcn where it, can
negotiate the terms atoll futuresmMaud spare youths m.

   
   
  

  

    
 

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white necessity of cogent-snort on‘
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The influence of a few
strong men would save us a

mod
money in w rights, litigation
the asse- can of our more
0. S. MOREY. (Vol. c. p: 18 7.)

“Voluntary Bales" Exposed

“Mr. C. S. More New York City.
“Dear Sir: 9 must take the 1mm

live in this matter and before the

on make their danands we met p

1y announce that we voluntarily

our price. After having seen Mr. Ha _
mayor in New York wire me at on

date what course you advise us to

sue so that I may take advantage til
situation, and disarm our farmers ll!
making the first announcement—#0. A.
’ GRANGER. (General Manager.)

Cities Instructed to Aid Wall Sized

"In December, 191;, the
growers sent a' committee of three
men from Colorado to Washington
before the Hardwick Committee.
These men gave the farmers’ side of
the business. Immediately after
their testimony was in a general let-
ter sent to Commercial Clubs to so-
leot “good farmers to go to Wash-
ington and attempt to discredit what
the farmers committee had done
quite thoroughly. The Commercial
Clubs of Northern Colorado respond-
ed with alacrity, carefully hand-

picked a strong delegation of “prom- '

inent good farmer friends," as M!!!5
.ey describes them, and sent them to
Washington and they did their best
for the sugar trust.———(Seuate Lobby
Probe Report, Vol. 2, p. 1883.)

Business Men and Public Mislead

"The oﬂicisls of the Greeley sugar
factory in order to checkmate on
farmers' committee, took some prom-
inent Greeley business men. among
whom was the editor of the local
leading opaper, down to the factory,
opened the books and ‘showd'
them that that factory was only
making about 3 per cent on its in-
vestment. This was a willful mis-
representation, for the farmers’hcom-
mittee has possession of document-
ary evidence of a very great proﬁt
made at that factory over the period
disclosed and the methods used by
the company in doctoring its books
for such deceptive purposes— Then
for years the sugar company ofﬁcials ,
have systematically conveyed half-
truths to business men in conﬁdence
and have vaguely threatened to
‘close down or more a factory unless

'- im business men joined in helping

squelch the tormers’ movement for,
a better price.’ Go into almost any
sugar factory town and some credo-
lous 'business men will be found who
turn pole with fear for the loss of a
factory, at the mention of the farm-
.u's' efforts} The company officiah
have always stoutly» aﬂlrmed that
they vdluutarilyw raised the price of
boots without any reference to» the,
farmers’ demands, indeed would have
paid more if the farmers had stayed
home and kept still." '

(Note: Hr. Duke» has given I. B.
F. a very convincing report of 10m
organization has Washed for tho
tamer: of, the western states. TM:
will be published in a later «has, to-

asthar with correspondence showing ‘
m the ‘moufacturers not only mos-

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torn'etienalUniens end
i ism-”eta“ trading ef‘eeéep-
cf eo-eperetive methods.

The day before the Congress open-
., Mr. C. H. Gustatso'n, president of

' etetement with: had been given
wide’pubiicity. that the Congress
9011*-
‘mdfh‘t any such rumor 7::
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Mr. . amp 11. mean
director of the Farmers‘ Ne-
Ceuncil was chairman never

the continuance of the Commis-
creeted by the November Cen-

ce, with power to add to it

her and recommended that the

as reported be a proved by the

as deﬁning e work of the

ion during the eemingozeer.

plan and scope included nee»
work on ee-eperetien. unify-

. strengthen and stendardising
oe-epere ve organisations

and planning for the extension of
mutton on a sound basis. It
*0 tncluded e Mat legislative pro-

‘eftermendleberfcrcester.

two veer extension of government

n of the railroads, for reten-

‘of the government built ehipe
.d of nature) resources still in pub-
h cwncrshfp. the enactment of the
havenqandercon bill to control the
and ﬁnancing of the costs of

: wer through thehighest rates of
ﬁxation levied during the war. The

‘ every veer on ‘Ldncein's
. end that the preparation of a budget

resenting. leading No.
' term endiebcr'err

Brotherhoeds. spend "
’ the practical

‘ j W Committee. also recemé
mendedthate‘ National Farmer Lag
her , Cooperative Congress be held
Birthday,

   

covering the cost-cf maintaining the
work of the Commission end the com-
mittees ‘ ed for. be assigned to
e Wines appointed by the
chairman of the Commission. An

amendment from '“ the floor was
adopted that the Committee should

' ell report to the Commission. and the

cemmittee‘b report was unanimously
adopted by the Congress.

‘ Banking and Credits

.The Committee on Banking and
Oi’edih‘ef the Commission recom-
mended s general endorsement of
the'credit union movement and that
such etc as are possible be taken
aid tn further development of
credit unions in states where laws
make them possible of successful op-
eration. end that action be taken to
secure the enactment of credit union
laws in states of the union where ad-
equate laws do not exist and that
United States congressmen be peti-
tioned to enact at as early a date as
ible a general law authorizing

e creation of credit unions and of
people’s banks. it recommended too,
the appointment of a permanent com—
mittee of ﬁve members to serve with-
out pay to carry out the committee’s
recommendations, to be composed of
the following members: Warren S.

'Gtene. C. E. Gustafsen, Gee. P.

Hampton. Sydney Hillman end Frank
A. Bust.

It was recommended that this com-
mittee be empowered to select addi-
tional members resident throughout
the United States to ce-eperate in its
work. to encourage the establishment
of National or State banks to meet
community needs. and to be afﬁliated
with the Federal Reserve Board
whenever possible. This report. too.
was unanimously adopted by the
congress. -

nines Trading
The Committee on Direct Trading
dorsal! the establishment of direct

ng and marketing and that a
special committee be appointed to

a Apply coepéraaz'efpsnc:

draft a plan of organization to safe-
guard the interests of all organiza-
tions having this purpose. new in ex-
istence. It also suggested that the
Congress ask that the thbusands of
army motor trucks not used, should
be turned over to be used to cheapen
the cost of distribution of farm pro-
ducts.

Standardization ed (lo-operative
eds

The Committee on Standardization
of (lo-operative Methods advocated
that ce-operative stores be uniform
in appearance. and that there be uni-
form arrangement of goods and
stated that while in the short time
the ce-eperative work hes been car-
ried out in this country it has not
been possible to work cut a system
of bookkeeping which would be uni-
versally applicable; that a tentative
system of uniform accounting has
been developed to the point’whidh
makes it possible to keep records so
that accounts of stocks and sales
may be taken weekly. monthly and
quarterly and be audited.

(Do-operative Legislation

The Committee on Co-eperative
legislation recommended that a na-
tional law for incorporation ed co-
operative societies be prepared and
presented to congress by e commit-
tee of live after investigation and
that a uniform model ce-operative
law for states he prepared: advocat-
ed endorsement ef the principles of
the Plum Plan and endorsed the two
year extension of government oper-
ation of the railroads.

The committee on cooperative ed-
ucation urged a nation wide cam-
paign on the fundamental principles
of co-eperation and the essentials of
the Rochdale system and the estab-
lishment of training schools for co-
operation.

The Committee on a Cooperative
Press advocated the establishment of
co-operative newspapers as rapidly
as possible.

Women and (Ir-operation
The Committee on Women end the
(Jo-operative Movement of which
Miss Jennie Buell, secretary ed the
Michigan State Grange was chair-

pié to Allnyon'imerCial Activities

  

man, advocated that women-become
identiﬁed with the ce-eperative move-a .
ment to the same extent as the men

anden the same basis and with equal '

representation and that existingi
community groups in the beginning 5'
be made the'nucleus for direct trad-
ing between the producers and con-
sumers. The reports of all the com-
mittees with a few amendments were
adopted by the Congress. ' "

Resolutions were» adopted endors-
ing especially the principles of direct
trading provided in the marketing ,
section of the Kenyon-Andersen bill ~
to control the packers, and the gen-
eral principles of that bill reafﬁrm-
ing the delegates belief in the en-
forcement of the constitution of the
United States as it- is written, and;
endorsing the world war veterans‘
organization’s efforts in this direc-
tion, and opposing the sale of the
German ships and all the ships we
have constructed.

Results of the Congress

The results of the Congress are
chiefly four: (1) The fact was put
before the American people though
the splendid publicity given the
Congress that while competition may
be the life of trade, co—operatien is
the life of the traders—aand we are
all of us traders. This general ap-
preciation of the importance of co-
operation is essential to the exten-
sion and success of the ce-eperative
movement. (2) Steps were taken to
secure the establishment of credit
unions on a sound basis and state
and national banks to be afﬁliated
with the Federal Reserve Bank
whenever possible. (8) Plans were
perfected for the standardization and
effective operation of co-operative er-
ganizatiens to avoid mistakes of in-
efﬁciency. and the too great haste
which makes waste. (4) Knowledge
of the successful direct trading such
as is carried on by the farmers' un-
ion of Nebraska was sent throughout
the country and the delegates, both
labor and farmers determined to or-
ganize ce-eperativelf, so that, es ex-
pressed by Mr. Gustafsen. consumers
co—eperatives could meet at city gate.
the co-eperntive organisations of
farmers bringing their products to
these city gates.

Hiram Johnson Leads; Hoover. Wood and Ford Fellow in Order Named

Bryan Stands Fifth in List, Followed by Lowden and LaFolIette: the President Makes Poor Showing

HEMTUMefiestwoek’e

showed up strong since we listed
among the candidates. and is
neatly indicated as second or
choice where the vBet:r but:
were other preference. n
“populerodellisﬁiramJo‘hn-
he. who has received nearly twice
n’ many votes as the next nearest
date. John-on is to visit Mich-
this month. and make ateur of
state in company with Louis C.
, his campaign manager.
Thousands have not yet voted and

   
 
  
 
  

 

 
  
 
  

men are probably good men and
represent e barrel of money. but
”the love of money is the root of
all evil”. This is what our guide

book says and don’t we see it do-

monstrated. Men trying to carry
out their selfish ends regardless of
right or wrong. May the Lord
help In to get the right man, this
is my prayerr—E. 0. Doctor, Benzie
County.

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1mm FOR PRESIDENT
Afterieekingeveu-thenamesefthe
candidateelfeiltofixndmyideai ofa
statesmen. ,In this ,crisis of our na-

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CLIP THIS COUPON
My Choice for President

midmumdmtheohumormemwho isbebe thencet
tuition“: of the United States. and have indicated my dloice be-
'3

Herbert F'. Hoover D
Wm. Jennings Bryant] Miles Peindexter . .
wm. H. Taft .....

" ' licensed Wood WC] Bohemia-hum {1
Wm “- WU Hiram Johnson ...D

I g-QQ~O~O~'Q~MO “Gran—need e-e e an acne —:l?—“e—C‘~{O~—w

almost taken away from us. If we are
to regain and maintain mess rights
we must have leadership that is tried.
true and honest. A leader that has
been hired and has preven his quali-
ities, one that has not wavered from
his cause, when assailed by the press
ofthg country with intense abuse, one
who, by the force of his own far-
reaching and clean understanding un-
impeached integrity and power. has
faced alone the stormof falsehood and
deceit. Such a man is R. M. LaF‘el-
1ette.-—Wm Sische. Fremont, Mich.

 

FORDNEY am A VOTE

We would favor our good Mr.
Fordney. who is honest and reliable.

 

 

 

Frank Inwdon ...D
Wm. G.‘Me£doo ..D
A.Mitohel] Peimer D
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It would seem such a healthy chan
There are some names in your ,
that tt seems a pit: to print in same
columns with others of real honest
Americans. I would take from the
list the names of Woodrow Wilson,
Wm. G. McAdoe, Herbert 1“. Hoover;
and because of Wm. H. Taft's Irish-
English explanations he would be
sure not to get the nomination. We
want no generals for an execuLve.
No more war stuff to cripple the
masses at the. gain of the classes.
There are other names like Senator
Lodge and LaF‘ollette that would
look like success for party and coun-
try.—,-N. D. Crosby.

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HOOVER GEN TWO

I enclose straw vote slip. Please
record two votes in our family hr;
Herbert Hoover. We believe that this»
nation should have a real bustness ex-
ecutive of preven ability at its head
during the coming years of recen-
structien, and unquestionably Mr.
Hoover has demonstrated that ability.
I look at this like all farmers must
[what the matter of dectien of pub-
lic eﬂdals from new on Choose the
best man for the place and eliminate
about ninety per cent ef this foolish

eade‘l‘. ~

—~

HOOVER M WENT.

Why not a can les- e terms
ers‘ eel-em for 1 Do you
knew of any who under-

stands better the world‘s feed sugply ’
and it distribution, than Her :5:
Hoover? The bet that he is '
_ the m recommends
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{( continued from last week)

I “ to the. beet Vgnowers from the
‘ range 'in' November, 1918., Mar-
keting began on February 10 ahd was

concluded about April 1, 1919, The
2,250 steers showed; an average. gain

of 170 pounds per head. The average“

spread in the price, of the feeders and

the finished cattle was 212 cents pen.
)pound. The beet growersin some in-;.
stances pastured the cattle'upon their,

different fields for a time after receiv:
ing'them, but were fed and ﬁnished
mainly with alfalfa hay, beet-top sil-
age. and beet pulp. The most satis-
factory practice was .to start with
pulp and hay and later add the silage,
finishing with about 30 to 35 pounds
of silage and 15 to 20 pounds of hay
perfday. Not many feeders used
grain. Several used a light spread of
beet molasses upon the pulp or :hay.
"After making deductions for the mar—
ket price of hay and all other feeds
and also for wages far the time spent
in feeding, the 32 beet growers made
net proﬁt of more than $40,000 in
«feeding this lot of steers. This did
not credit the operation with the sev-
_eral thousand tons of manure which
was later spread upon the best ﬁelds.
thus greatly aiding to maintain soil
fertility.

John Stosich was one of the most
successful of the 32 feeders. His 26
steers were delivered to him on No-
vember 22, 1918, at an average weight
of 1,018 pounds. On March 11 they
weighed out at 1,265 pounds gross,
showing a gain of 247 pounds per
steer. During the ﬁrst three weeks
the steers were grazed on the fields,
gleaning feed from along the fences,
irrigation ditch banks, and the au-
t'um-n growth on the grain and other
fields that otherwise would have been
waste. On December 15 they were
started upon a light feed of hay and
about 75 pounds of wet beet pulp per
head each day. The pulp was gradu-

ally increased to 140 pounds. On Feb- .

ruary 1 beet-top silage was mixed
with the hay and pulp. The pulp was
gradually decreased, and finally the
beet—top silage was entirely substitut-
ed for .it', finishing the steers on 30
pounds of silage and less than 20
pounds of alfalfa hay daily. The
steers produced 225 loads of manure,
which Mr. Stosich spread upon 15
acres that were seeded to beets in
April, 1919.

These results are mentioned in de—
t‘ail because they illustrate an entire-
ly profitable method 0f marketing
surplus hay with the beet tops and
other farm-grown feeds. At the same
time they produce a fertility that ren-
ders it possible to increase the beet
_ tonnage

Siloing and feeding the beet tops
mixed with pulp, hay. and molasses
were the incentives which started the
beet growers in this particular dis-
trict to feeding cattle. They would!
not have undertaken to do the feed-
ing had it not been for the increased
supply 0f feed they :had secured as a
result of siloing their beet tops. Their
winter profits in the feeding opera-
tionshandsomely supplemented their
earnings from the growing of crops
during the summer. They :had no
worry about marketing and deliver-

  

HESE CATTLE were delivered "

    

   

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how’fhai

to fertilize ' properly an "increased “

acreage and to meet the perplexing?-
...problem_ of maintainingsoil fertﬁtty.: _
This procedure has stabilized the beet;

crop with these growers, and it. has

also greatly aided them in establish?

ing ia‘crop rotation, which is serious:

' 1y needed in most beet-growing areas.
Making better use of. the best. tops .
will reduce the hay requirements/and.-

ailow part Of the alfalfa landhto .be
plowed. . More feeding. means. more:
manure available on the farm, whille.
better fertilized soil allows other in»?
tensive crops to be grown proﬁtably~
inirotation with beets, grain, and a1:
falfa. The. procuring of the steers and.
the supervision of their feeding were
done by an experienced feeder em-
ployd by a sugar company. The en-
tire enterprise also had the assistance
of the farm bureau and the extension
“Vision of the University of Idaho.‘

Proﬁtable Gains

A sugar company in Celorado owns
and operates several thousand. acres
of land tributary to its sugar factor-
ies, feeding regularly several thou-‘
sand head of cattle. One lot of 135
steers made an average gain of 2.3
pounds per head daily in a period of
115 days, counting the shrinkage in
buying on the Denver market and on
the outshipment to the Kansas City
market. This company found the fol- ,
lowing ration per steer per day to be

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northern Colorado district after_ an
experience of several years says—-
'We believe 1 ton of tops properly sil-
oed is worth almost, if not altogether. as
much as a ton of alfalfa hay for feed-
ing to cattle. Any farmer, regardless of
the size of his beet field. can,, cheaply
make a. pit, save all of his tops, and feed
them at any time, as there is no limit
to the time that they will keep. ‘ We have
been very successful in getting good
gains on our cattle since we started
, feeding them in this.way. .

Collateral Value V

‘The average beet grower concludes
that 2 tons of good beettop silage is
worth 1 ton of good alfalfa hay. Very
few men'who have fed the silage
think that it has a value less than 50
per cent of the value of hay. Those
who consider the value as great as
the estimate above ‘quoted probably

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Type of earth sllo used In the west.
quire so much care In packing. etc.

good: 25 pounds of beet-top silage, 60
pounds of beet pulp, 10 pounds of al-
falfa hay, 4 pounds of beet molasses,
and 3 pounds of cottonseed cake. Ac-'
curate rec rds of the operations show-
ed a labor t of 70 cents per ton for
hauling the tops and filling the silo.
This company calculates that cured
silage was~produced at the rate of 35
per cent of the weight of the market-
ed beets and that a heavy crop of
beets will yield from 5 to 6 tons of
silage per acre of beets. A 10-to.n crop
o: beets has yielded 3 1-2 tons of cur-
ed silage per acre. In estimating si-
loing capacity (the earth-silo type)
about 38 cubic feet for each ton of
beet t0ps is calculated, allowing a set-
tling of 12 inches for a well-packed si-
lo 5 feet in depth. The following an—
alysis of corn silage was made at the
company’s laboratory: ..

Comparative Analysis of Beet-Top
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Constituents Beet—top Corn
silage. 1 silage2
Moisture _____ _ 64.36 68.50
Ash3 ________ 9.25 1.51
Crude protein 2.87 3.12
Crude fat _____ .44 80
Crude fiber 5.46 6.53
Nitrogen-free .
extract __ 17.62 20.54
1 It is possible that silage
produced from beet tops
grown in other ' localities

might show a higher or a
lower feeding value. .

2 The analysis here given ,
for corn silage is consider;
ably higher than the gener-
ally accepted standard anal-
.ysisfor the product. 3

2 Dirt gathered with the
tops makes a high ash con-
tent. ‘ »
A” Value"

  

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Commercial types of silos are best and do‘ not re-

ly based upon the intrinsic value of

the silage. There are two collateral
values in the silage that are not
shown in the laboratory analyses,

'.name1y, (1) the succulent character

of the feed, which stimulates an appe-
tite in the animals and causes them to
consume greater quantities than
where dry, cured feeds only are used;
and (2) the beet-top silage when fed
with alfalfa hay helps to balance the
ration and causes the animl- to utilize
better all the feed consumed.

Extensive Feeding Tests

A firm of extensive beet growers in
Idaho feeds several» thousand sheep
and grows from 75 to 150 acres of
beets each year. For tWo successive
seasons they have made and fed about
500 tons of beet-top silage. They re-
cently made the follow-ing statement:

We did not keep check on all of our
feeding all winter, but we weighed the
feed to some of the herds of sheep long
enough to satisfy ourselves that a ton of
beet-top silage is worth as much as aton
of hay. We have also proved to our sat-
isfaction that beet-top‘silage for fatten-
ing sheep and cattle is cheaper and will
fatten quicker than grain or corn.
think that the tops, if gathered immedi-
ately after being cut off, will weigh half
as much as the beets.

It should be noted that the above
statement is based ’ upon observation
rather than upon actual test by
weight, but it‘ shows what value the
growers place upon beet-top silage
used as a stock feed. The growers re-
ferred to above find that by, feeding 3
pounds of beet-top silage per head “per
day they.ca_n reduce the hay. require-i].

After an experience .of' two .Zseasons
with beet-top silage" successful _Ida'-, *

ho- feeder offers" the following'suggesf4 -

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shoo'p grazing on boot. tops left, In the. gold ‘ .. .

portant to eliminate the dirty ; Three
sounds of beet-top Silage per head per
ay were fed for. a period "of,.40,days to
.800 headwo sheep, ‘
agd4 oneahal lambs
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of like quality that were fed-entirely on
beet pulp and -hay.,‘ The silage comes out
warm, even in midewiimter, and is greatly
. relished by the. sheep. , - '

abbut ﬁne-half ewes
, 'whioh' “made; a gain

This redeﬁned? 125' tons of silage '

from 25, acres of beets. .It cost him

about $1 periton to gather and silo the"
tops. 2 /» . .. 7. .9 . ~
Unanimous Approval; ,

As against the very few adverse

experiences which has'e been reported.

the following statement taken from

the. Farm Bureau News,‘ the official

organ of‘the Sevier County (Utah)

Farm Bureau is offered!

Without an exception. every man who ‘

siloed beet tops last year reports excel‘
lent results and savings from the feed
that it furnished. Most of- the farmers
reporting rate the value of the silage at
about 2 tons of silage equal to 1 ton of
the best alfalfa hay. One or two men
say that it is nearly equal in feeding
value to alfalfa hay. . ,

Feeding Aged Ewes
One man had bad results in feeding
.beet-top Silage to aged ewes. Sam-
’pleswere taken from the silo. ' The
panalyses indicated that the silage was
normal. It is likely» that the chief

cause, of trouble was the feeding to.

”weak ewes of too much of thesuccu-
' lent silage at the outset. In most in-
stances, those w‘ho use aged ewes find
that silage will cause them to produce
more milk for their lambs than they
otherwise would, which allows them
better to sustain their usual large per-
centage or twin lambs. Two instances
were reported where the milk ﬂow
was exceSsive when beet-top silage
was fed to aged ewes, and theeudders
became swollen and feverish and gave
trouble in'this respect. Beet-tap silage
should always be fed lightly at the
start.

Feeding Steers

In another instanCe an extensive
feeder lost several head of steers
while feeding beet~topsilaget The tops
were gathered carefully from‘a sandy
soil. The silo was located on a sandy
spot. It is difficult to gather tops
from a sandy field and then sil0' in-
s-andy earth with sandy side walls in
a pit silo without having an excessive
proportion of sand in the silage. In
some instances as much as 5 per cent
of the net weight of the silage was
found to be sand and dirt. Compact—
ing in the stomach of the animal is
almost sure to follow when there is
sand or dirt in the silage. "

Beware of Moldy Silage

Steers have ‘died as a. result of im‘
properly feeding hayand grain. It is
important that the moldy silage that
is found on and near the surface or
”sides of the silo be carefully removed
and destroyed. Moldy silage is even
more dangerous than moldy straw or
moldy hay. These often cause loss
with animals.
. In a few instances horses ,were‘alt
lowed to get to the beet-top silo and
gorge themselves. Even good silage is
not recommended for horses, , pigs, or
calvesé‘ Mendy silage is almost sure to
cause- trbuble 1f fed to ., any kind, of.

7:“9‘33"? The total number of badegrer . ~
Suit; _.reported.,ifrom.;the . feeding-got .,

beet~tbpsilage i135 veryrslilalls“ _
(Earths?- details on gathering, sil-

ogtng and ﬂooding the bmproducts of,

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50 minutes.

Horses take 2 hours.

The pneumatic-tired truck

saves much labor and expense on_ my two farms totaling 180

   

HERE are farmers everywhere through—
out this country today who have prac-
‘ t1cally. duplicated the'expe‘rience related
above by this \Kentu’ckianp ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘

ThCYhave proved that GoOdyear ~Cord Tires
free them; from slow‘hauling,‘ either by: horses
or solid-tired trucks, and .thilslfre‘e‘thern frOm
one of the Worst handicaps eVerALpla'ced on

farming effOrt. ' "

The use of the spry iGoodyear Cords has" the
effect. of :m‘ovm’g a farm .close‘ri‘to 'town, of
speeding up the other poweradriven machinery
on it, and so of getting‘each day’s work done
mOSt easily and qu ' ' -,

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Thus the perfected pneumatic truck tire is a
powerful factor in that progress which not
only is increasing decisively the income of
the farmer but also is making his activities far
more pleasant.

Its traction, cushioning and nimbleness have '
been made thoroughly practical for farm truck:
ing by Goodyear Cord construction, which
adds a tremendous toughness well known to
rural users of Goodyear Cord Tires. ~

Accurate information detailing the results at-
tained by farmers, ranchers and country motor
express lines with pneumatic-tired trucks can
be secured by writing to The Goodyear Tire
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having customers not only eatisEed, but
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The thresher that

more work and Mia-
It is the greatest grain saver
he grain out of the straw—the
result of 72 years' building
machinery exclusively.

You are sure of doing or customers a clean
job of threshing. yo

That mesmalong.proﬁtableaeasoaforyou.

The ideal threshing outﬁt is the Red River
ggedal Thresher and the famous Nichols-
epar¢§team Engine. .

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(srmsamzso)
Parasiticide. Disinfectant
USE IT ON ALL LIVESTOCK

To Kill Lice, Mites, Fleas,
and Sheep Ticks.
To Help Heal Cuts, Scratches and
Common Skin Troubles.

USE IT IN ALL BUILDINGS

To Kill Disease Germs and Thus
Prevent Contagieus Animal Discuss.

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FREE BOOKLETS.

We will send you a booklet on the
treatment of mange. eczema or pitch
mange, arthritis, sore mouth. etc.

Wewillsandyouabookletonhow
to build ahog wallow,whichwill keep
hogselesnandheelﬂu.

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' lug.
‘ very enthusiastic meeting was held.

Association liaison ,
first annual winter , . , _
meeting on Wednesday, February 18

, at Owosso. Owing to impassable roads

and an epidemic of “flu" only also”
twenty people were out for the met-
In spite of. small attendance a
A business session was held at
H. E. Dennison, at which-time ciao;
tion of emcers was held for the en-
suing year. The following oihcers
were re-eiected, President. F. IL
Crows, vice-president, F. A. Thomp-
son, Secretary, L. C. Reynolds, and
treasurer,
for the coming year are F. G. Fred-
erick, Geo. ,Winegar, Sr., C. 8. Rich-
ardson, H. 0. Home and Chas. Van-
dermark.

A luncheon was held at Christian's
tea room at 12:00 after which the
following program was given:

“Jersey Cattle in their Native
vHomeJ' Professor A. C. Anderson;
“The Value of Live Organisations in
Promoting Jersey Interests," Mr. AL‘
van Balden. president of the Michi-
gan Jersey Cattle Club.

At 3:00 the breeders attended, the
Lincoln theatre in a body to see the
ﬁlm, “Hearts and the Jerseys,"
which was loaned by the American
Jersey Cattle Club for the occasion.

Plans for the ensuing year if car-
ried out will put the Jersey Breed-
ers of Shiawasseecounty on the map.
Action looking toward Register of
Merit testing and the standardiza-
tion of breeding through the selec-
tion of similar blood lines in sires
were some import-ant things done at
this time. '

Shiawassee county has nearly two
hundred head of pure bred Jerseys
and with a good live organization
working in connection with the stats
and national organizations the
breeders feel that this county can
become a real. Jersey center.

Live Stock Shippers Being Penalized

According to the new rules adopted
by the Chicago Live Stock Exchange
9. cc-operative s‘hipper of live stock is
not an absolute criminal at least an
offender against the rulers of the
stockyands and as such must and will
be fined for each and every offense.
Where the specially privileged stock
buyer may sell a canload of cattle at
the yards for a commission ranging
from $14 to $18, the co-operative ship-
ping association’s farmer must pay
from $14 to $25. The same rate ap-
plies to calves and in the case of hogs
the stock buyer can get away with a

Farmer for his crime of butting in is
an attempt to out down higexpensa of
doing business must; pay from $12 to
$16. Great game, isn't it? Yes, for it
is estimated that the co-operative
shipping association shipping to the
Chicago markets will during 1920 pay
from one and one-quarter to one and
one-half million dollars more into the
pockets of the Chicago Live Stock Ex-
change than they did in 1919.—Organ~
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Dep’t of Agriculture Seeks (Jo-Oper-

ation of Farm Organizations

In seeking solutions for present-
day problems in which agricultural
interests of this country are so vital-
ly interested, it is the desire of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture to secure oo-operation and
frank suggestions from any and all
organisations , directly concerned
with farm progress, declared Edwin
T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture
today, in welcoming a delegation of
100 farmers representing the Nation-

“The industries which this do-
partment is designed to serve are of
tremendous magnitude and there is
no one, I behave, who appreciates
this more keenly than the Secretary
of Agriculture," said Mr. Meredith.
"If we are to serve the ‘farmers of

, this country, and through them the

Nation as a whole. they must have
contact with the department and the
department with them. .Therefore,.1
.am speaking no idle phrase when I.

  

 

10:30 in the ethos of County Agent"

Mark Grout. Directors ,

charge of from $10 to $12, but Mr. ‘

a1 Board of Farm Organizations in,
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meetings scheduled to: the week a
communities desirous ed wta'blish-
ing branches of the farm bureau.

 

Reduced Flood Production
Greatly Is .
Serious risk of reduced food pro-
duction this year because of high
wages demanded by tarm labor“,

I high cost of tuna equipment and

supplies, and because of pronouns-
ed movements of people from the
terms to the cities is indicated by, re-
ports and letters that are reaching
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture tron: many sections of the
country. ,

The most deﬁnite~ of these reports
come from New York state, where
records of the population on 8-775
representative farm on February 1
this year and February 1 a year ago
were made by Federal and state
workers. It was disclosed that dur-
ing the past year the number of peo-
ple on these farms decreased nearly
8 per cent and the number of hired
men decreased more than 17 per
cent. It the same ratio holds for
all farmslin the state about 85,000
men and boys left farming to go into
other industries, while only about
11,000 have changed from other in-
dustries to taming. ”This is a more
rapid movement from the farms to
other industries than took place in
the early part of the war.

The same condition in varying
degrees exist in all sections, accord-
ing to the Federal Bureau Of Crop
Estimates, although they are not so

acute farther from industrial cent- -‘

ers. -
Another New York report, applic-
able in some degree in every part of
the country, b that farm wages this
year will average 14 per cent higher
than they were in 1919, although in"
1919 they were 80 per cent higher
than they were at the beginning of
the war. Estimates from 350 form-
ers in all parts of New York state in-
dicate that experienced term hel ,
hired by the month, will be paid th
year about $52 a month and board,
as compared with $45.50 last year.
Experienced married. men, not board-
ed but provided with a house and
farm products, are expected to 1b-
ceive on the average about $08.50 a
month in' cash ‘as‘compared‘with $00
last year.

Numerous letters *to the Depart

.‘ment of Agriculture from its hold

workers or from farmers indicate a
widespread dbl-settle- te cut down
plantings so that the work ef‘eul-
tivating can be att-ded to hy the

.1qu himself or hy member- of-
‘his is‘inily. harm that ﬁrm-

minded in companies with sam‘
industriesand make a proﬁt on their

products is : uently made." _ y

minors: also, glare an entail-r
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compared with 23,475,-
000 in 1919, 20,787,00011: 1914- and 20,-
825,000 in 1910. Total value '- $3.“
“W000 compared with 01.883.900.-
000 a year ago $1,118.000000 in 1914
and in 1910. "

Other cattle decreased been 45,085,.-
000 in 1019 to 44,385,000 is 19m, as
against 35,855,000 in 1914 and 41,178,-
000 in 1910. Veins was $1,015,000.00.

compared to $1,993,000.13” in -1
$1,111,900,” in 1314 Ind $788.00“
in 1910.

Enema 31,109,000 in

numbered '
21,482,000 in 1019, 20,903,000 in 1014

and 19,33,000 in 1910, and were valued
at $$1993,000,000 )this year, compared
to $2,115,000,000 last year, $2,393,

000 in 1914 and $2,143,000,000 111191

There were 72,909,000 swine in d
farm-in the United States is
compared to 74,584,000 in 1919, 58
000 in 1914 and 58,186,000 in 1
They wen; valued at $1,888,000.00.
this year, compared to $1,048,0Wﬂ
last year, $013,000,000 in 1914
$533,000,000 in 1910.

Sheep have declined in number
steadily since 1910. On Jun. 1, 1920.
there were 48,615,000, compared to 48/-
866,000. a year ago, 49,719,000 in 1914
and 52,448,000 in 1910. Total who I!
1920 wa‘ $512,000,000: in 1919, 8538,-
000,000; in 1914, $200,000,000, and in
1920, $210,000,000. ,, ‘

 

Fittee‘n Million Immedtom,

During January
During the month of Janna

1920- an aggregate of $15,055.91?“
was loaned to 4,402 farmers of .
United States by the Federal
Banks on long-time first mortgage.
according to the monthly statements
made to the Farm Loan Board. 'llho
Federal Land Bank of St. Paul leads
in the amount of loans closed,the
same being $2,607,300, the Federal
Land Bank oi! Houston ”low"
with $2,487,985. The other banks
closed loans in January as follows:
Spokane, $1,909,200: Louhville- $1,-
322,700; Omaha, 31.132300; Colum-
bia, $1,041,500; New Orleans $988,-
200; Wichita, $924,000; Baltimore,

$780,200; St. Louis, $702,350:
Springﬁeld, $578-BOO; Berkeley,
, $571,490. /

During January 6,877 applications
were received by the twelye banks
asking for $25,073,158, and during
the same month 6,852 loans were a
proved by them amounting to $2
552,875 . \ -

’ On January 31, 1920, there w
operating in the United States 8,94
Farm Loan, Associations, and the 06-
tal mortgage loans made by the M
are] Land Banks through these asso-
ciations to 118,189 farmer-borrow-
ers as of that date. amounted to
$818,445,281. Deducting from this
amount the loans paid oi! in full by
borrowers to-wit: $7,041,805, the
grand total of loans now in force is
distributed within the Federal Land ‘
Bank Districts as follows:

  
  

  
 

St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . .. 442,378,400
Spokane .,. . . . . . . . . . ., 41.104.170
Omaha eeaOeeeeesoees 88,925,8"
H’ouston e o, e e‘sv‘ow's e s e. .39038'7‘1
Wichita . . . . . . . u . . .‘ . 80.10148”
St. Louis . . . . . . . .7. . . . 28,874,100
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.mghway ' Department,

, .Hishw hill. one“ the nestlinpcrto
m deal 0‘! oomtfuctiye legislation-
1“

2hr: and mils" cooperative State Aid

mowers. li‘higbﬂl
substituteiorthepresent

System. A ﬁllly operative National

Sﬁtem by which there would he built

and maintained entirﬂy at National
expense a. National comected blah:-
way system. It has the support. of
ﬁrmer interests in a large way; oi
dutdmohile armors a. repr in
all their large organizations; oi high»
way organizations quit. 8611819:qu

‘ and at the automobile building indus!

try almost to a- man.
Readers of Mromoan Business

'chwillbelntﬂ‘eoteddnthllbln

i principal provisions, and some of
timothathanhappened with»
lore it reached the present term in
which it was written and introduced.
just prior totheholldayrecessoithe

Senate.

The following paragraphs h‘om a re-
cently issued ointment by Senator

Townsend Elves the WW PW"?
. ions or :he bill:

, thoeoustmctinnand
maintenaneootanatimlmtﬂm“
high“?! enclaiively at the about
amermmU'

'2.’ (hostess Federal 11mm:
commimoatobommedbythepree-
identwiththeadviceendceneentot

. eSenstetomkeowrallthehlsh-
say mnctions now amused b! “10

t of Agriculture, and to

construct and maintain a national
hwa em.

M‘E'ﬂ.Tl1:n':.ttional highways shall eon-j
list of two main highways in every
state. comprising one per cent of the
total highway mileageoi oieach state
as ascertained by the commission,
where one per cent is not suiﬁcientto
cause these highways to connect with
(8) adjacent states, (b) bordering
countries, (0) waterways, the commie-
Iion is authorized to attend the mile-
ll'e in that amount. "

“4. All highways shall be adequate
torpreeentandltumrenseds. with a
right or way 66 feet, and a minimum
surface at 80 feet. 1

“5. The commiss on
consult the state highway depart
mate as to locations of these high-

"ys and is further urthor’iaed behave

all the work undertaken by the State
supervisory
power remaining with the commis-
lien.

10. For the purpose 0! carrying out
the Act there is’appropriated $0,000;
000 which shall become immediately
available; $75, 000.000 for the ﬁscal

beginning July 1,1920,and $100;
W00 000 tor eachof the three succeed-
ing years, in all $425, 000, 000. ”

An earlier draft of this bill intro?

dosed in the 65th Congress and print-
ed. was distributed widely by'Benator
Townsend. Among others, it was sent
to over

we Why the National oméo ofﬁce in

the replies received were ~

ntoiiniarorotﬁe'l‘ownaend
Following this referendums.

mboroichanuenaussaﬁtﬂdhy the

Wm incorporatedinthebm.
Itmsenttohmdredeototheror-
Womb limimrmmd
ﬁeneultoftho comtructin criti-

matron: all these sources how

in themesentbm.

A; in session in Grand m in
November, 19-19 the Nation! Grange
m the carom!!! NM "90‘!"
ﬂan dealing with the hixhway pmhv

Hlemendnierringtothe Townsend

oo-operuewithothereinpcfectinga

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amendenactmentifpouihla
A“ ottheiundamentaleeom

.93 mwpmbleoeexplam
iﬁorm'o'nrjerthewnbytho

s2.

.dtot‘theroad

redireetedto

7. 000 different subordinate ‘
According to reports made .

 

Automobile de-

, tahout h‘ard subarea-
«We wan.‘ an new wn
and county old has mute m
and news: etc. gamete he euthan-
pen er-doreiop by accident. Then is
o mm economic reason, buts

madaeondiﬂonwhdchhases-

‘capedgeneralattention.

When doc this road beneﬁt?
At ﬁrst it me, of course. essential
to M Individual. He needed it toget
to his dwelling place But as agricul-
developed to a productive indus-
y. as cities grew and the surplus pro-
ducts of the terms became the food
at tillage: and cities. then the bone-
ititted. That shift to
beneﬁt has reached. its height at this

-Aaoidresdcheapensthehauling
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the consumer beneﬁts. The bulk of
the freight hauled over American
1:22:15 is term products going to mar-

A good road by a ﬁrm does not
make that term a pound more of grain

'or meat or anything else; nor does it

enable a farmer to produce any term.-
product at less cost to him. What the

good road does to the farmer is to in-!

crease the livability or country life,
give better access to church, school;
some opportunities and recreation, but
these are items difﬁcult if not impos-
sible to translate into cash value.

When propositions to spend millions
on hard-surfaced roads are presented
to the farmers, these facts are the ones
they think about. Every step in the
development of highway policy has
come because of this situation, wheth-
er it was appreciated ognot.

Goodroadsareot beneﬁt to the
whole public. The Townsend bill is
the ﬁrst appreciatiOn of this in a broad
national way. The Townsend bill un-.
dertakes to set apart suficient mile-
age of highways, estimated at one per
cent of the total in each state. to make

 

 

 

 

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Senator 3 Bill Described and Commended by National Grange .

HH

up a national system. These roads
which would be the most expensive to g:
build because the most necessary? and
hardest used by the great increasink
track We, the government m 5
build and maintain at its o'wti ex;
pence. This is the broadest recogni- 2
tion yet in evidence of the apprecia;
tion 0: all the public. that good money
are of beneﬁt to all the public, by re'a- ‘
son of their efﬁciency in reducing
transportation costs on all commodi-
ties hauled over these roads.

It is hoped and expected that the-

enactment of the Townsend bill and-

the building or this national system
will lead to and be followed by simil-
ar activi on thedpart oi the states. A g
state relieved by the national - con-
struction 02 the part of the national
system in that state—the 'roads of ‘ ~

.most importance and greatest 61pm. "
in the main—will have its resources 2 '

available to build the next important
roads on greater mileage became 19.3-
expensive. In like manner, counties
and towns can work out thir» prob~
leans, each from resource; untouched 5
(Continued on page 21) ;

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’0st Essex Shares
' Hudson’ 3 Qualities

They Show Why Elm Went 30.37 Mles in so Hours ..

A critical public has judged tthssex.
In the year past it set a worlds sales

record.

More than $35,000,000 was paid for
22,000 Essex care now in service.
That shows how men wanted what

Essex offered.

Now Essex proves the accuracy of

/ motordom’s judgment.

Let the ofﬁcial tests speak:

For instance, the radiator shutters by .
which efﬁcient Operating heat 18 main- - H

tained 1n coldest weather. They mean

everything to satisfactory winter driv-
ing. Closed, they keep the heat m.
N o unsightly hood covers are needed.

They give summer efﬁciency to gaso-

line. They cnd hard starting. And in

warm weather, opened, they give the

On the Cincinnati Speedway 3 stock
chmdsEssex made a new world mark of

3037 miles to 50 hours, under observa-
tion of the Amer-Emu Automobile As-

m.

atotalof5870milesh94houre, 22
mmm avuagingover

amileamimrte.

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.. . 1 .g . - - ,slliiici‘ _
a ‘, . ,fstari’besd' 3"? . .. , ‘ . ,7 .1
" ._ ,LTorres,’ overwhelmed’for the‘ mo-
'm’ent by his "mistake, took 'the ,ex-
tendedjhanded and uttered apologies’ ' his hands.-
both to Francis and Leoncia. ' ' aloud: _ ' _. . g .
' “And now.” she beamed through ""130 think r-Qf'it!.,Ohce.1.0n1y~‘the , '
laughter, clapping her hands to call Tether day—aOr was it a million yearsv; . «-.,
a house~servant, “I must locate Mr. ago?~—I_ though-t auction jgbridge, at»~ \‘i
visitor, to lure Francis to the Carribean Islands where a'pirate ancestor of Morgan: and 80, andget some Clout 8 dollar a point was some ex'clte—y
. Morgan has buried a great treasure. The lure works and ‘young' _Morgan‘starts seen. And after thateSbnor TOI‘I'QS, mam"; NOW, sirs, you‘on yen! horses :c'i‘

out on the trip alone. Becalmed in a small, vessel at sea, he lands on an'island - ' . v, 4 . ' . - , ' -
whither he had been beckoned by a girl on the shore. The girl inistakes Fran— if you Will 1181:11th us, \we ‘-Wl11_liell With your Weapons threatening, the -
cislor a lover she has quarreled wlith. He itsh chaisle: dfrorrlnI the island by her you‘aooutHem-y, . 1 , Violent introduction Of foreign Sub-
father and brothers. Franc exp ores ano er s n w ere a young man '» — hﬂ 78h d6 " , ,’ -'

threatens his life and then s'aves it from savages who attaokyoung Morgan, 0 8 parted! and .Whilo

3.0.,grodoigown the? ach “
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There's j lug." four were‘ “hand-Edog 'h'
vintage: the =twb‘rie'aciera'vn ,
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.. ' . . Synopsrs of Preceding Chapters ,
FRANCIS MORGAN, son of a'New'York millionaire. who has Just .died,‘ has
become bored by the city's luxury'and tameness and has decided to go on an
extensive fishing trip.' Regan, a former colleague of Francis’. fatherh is plot-
ting to get the young man out of the way so that Regan may be freeto man-

ipulate the great Tampico .oil stocks in which young Morga‘n is heavily in~
vested and in which he has great faith, Regan gets Torres..a dusky-skinned

stances into my'poor‘ body,‘ tell- me
~ what'is' doing now. . Don’t I ever get

Francis and the young man discover they are related.
name is Henry Morgan is also hunting for the hidden treasure.
Francis discovers that Henry is thealover of the girl-on the

a partnership.

The young man, who's
They form

island and that her name is Leoncia. Francis returnsto the ﬁrst island to

get Leoncia to forgive Henry.

I explained there, Henry

and I are some sort of dis-
tant relatives—forty-ﬁfth cousins or
something like that." '

To his bewilderment, a great doubt
suddenly dawned in her eyes, and
the old familiar anger flashed.

“Henry," she accused him. “This
is a ruse, a devil’s trick you're trying
to play on me. Of course you are
Henry."

Francis pointed to his mustache.

“You’ve grown that since,”
challenged. ‘

He pulled up his sleeve and show-
ed her his left arm from wrist to el-
bow. But she only looked her in-
comprehension of the meaning of the
action.

“Do you remember the scar?” he
asked.

She nodded.

"Then ﬁnd it."

She bent her head in swift, vain
search, then shook it slowly as she

“M ORGAN, Francis Morgan, as

’ faltered:

‘ ’rnp‘,to52th'e"whiie hacienda. '

”I . . I ask your forgiveness. I
was terribly mistaken. and when I
think of the wdy I . . 2 I’ve treated
you. . . . ”

“That kiss was delightful,”
naughtily disclaimed.

She recollected more immediate
passages, glanced down at her knee
and stifled what he adjudged was a
most adorable giggle.

"You say you have a. message
from Henry." she changed the sub—
ject abruptly. “And that he is in—
nocent . . . ? This is true? Oh, I
do want to believe you i"

“I am morally certain that Henry
no more killed your uncle that did
I___'l

"Then say no more, at least not
now," she interrupted joyfully.
“First of all I must make amends to
you, though you must confess that
some of the things you have done
and said were abominable. You had
no right to kiss me."

“If you will remember," he con-
tended, “I did it at the pistol point.
How was I to know but what I would
get shot if I didn’t."

“Oh, hush, hush," she begged.
"You must go with me now to the
house. And you can tell me about
Henry on the way.

Her eyes chanced upon the hand-
kerchief she had flung so contempt-
uously aside. She ran to it and pick-
ed it up.

“Poor ill-treated kerchief," she
crobned to it. “To you also must I
make amends. I shall myself laund-
er you, and " Her eyes lifted
to Francis as she addressed him.
“And return it to you, sir, fresh and
sweet and all wrapped around my
heart of gratittfde . . . ”

he

”And the mark of the beast?” he \

queried.

“I am so sorry,”
penitently.

"‘And may I be permitted to rest
myshadow upon you?"

“Do! Do!” she cried
”There !' I am in your shadow now.
And we must start."~~v~

she confessed

» ,‘Francis" tossed a peso to the grin-
' .ning Indian boy, and. in higheelation
nturned and followed her into the
“tropic growth on the path

~ ‘ ’3 gated.” the, broad piazza of the y. »
' . . ' i «a .Alvarezsrortearw.”

she ,

gaily. ‘

' v

. ,

way. ‘And he saw what made him

grit his teeth and draw very erron-
eous conclusions. He muttered impre-
cations to himself and forgot his
cigarette. ' ‘

What he saw was . Leoncia and
Francis in such deep and excited talk
as to be oblivious of everything else.
He saw Francis grow so urgent ‘of
speech and gesture as to cause Le-
oncia to stop abruptly and listen

further to his pleading. Next—Tor-~

res could scarcely believe the evin-
dence of his eyes, he saw Francis pro-
duce a. ring, and Leoncia- with avert-
ed face, extend her'left hand and re-
ceive the ring upon her third ﬁnger.
Engagement ﬁnger it was and Tor-
res could have sworn to it.

What had really occurred was the
placing of Henry’s engagement ring
back on Leoncia’s hand. And Leon-
cia. she knew not why, had been
vaguely averse to receiving it.

Torres tossed the dead cigarette
away, twisted h'is mustache ﬁercely,
as if to relieve his own excitement,
and advanced to meet them across
the piazza. He did not return the
girl’s greetingat the ﬁrst. Instead
with the wrathful face of the Latin,
he burst out at Francis:

“One does not expect shame in a
murdered, but at least one does ex-
pect simple decency.”

Francis smiled whimsically.

“There is "goes again," he said.
”Another lunatic in this lunatic land.
The last time, Leoncia, that I-saw

’ this gentleman was in New York. He

db business
New I meet him here and

was really anxious to
with me.

the ﬁrst thing he tells me is that I

am an indecent, shameless murder—
er." '

.“Senor Torres, you must apdlo—
gize-” she declared angrily. “The
house of Solano is not accustomed to
having its guests insulted.”

“The house of Solano, I then un-
derstand, is accustomed to having its
men murdered by transient adven-
turers," he retorted. “No sacriﬁce
is too great when it is in the name of
hospitality." <

thatwled ;

Francis-followed away to Zuniroom
on the --heels . o'f - a'..y;oung and: pretty
mestiza'woman; ”Torres." his ,,brain
resuming its functi’o‘nsffo‘un'd he was

more amazed. and angry than“ ever. .
This, then, wash; ne‘wcbmer ands.
stranger ‘to Leoncia whom he‘ had

seen putting a ring on her engage-
ment ﬁnger. , He thought quickly
and passionately for. a moment.
Leoncia, whom to himself he always
named the queen of his dreams, had,

on an instant’s- notice, engaged her--

self ton strange Gringo from New
York. It was unbelievable, m'on-
'strous. \

He clapped his hands, summoned
his hired carriage from San Antonio
and was speeding down the drive
when Francis stolled forth to have
a‘ talk with him about further de-
tails of the hiding place of old Mor-
gan's treasure.

After lunch- when a land—breeze
sprang up, ,which meantiair wind
and a~quick runacross Chiriqui La-
goon and along the length 'of it to

the Bull and the Calf, Francis, eager ’

to bring to Henry the good word that
his ring adorned Leoncia’s ﬁnger,
resolutely declined her proffered hos—
pitality to remain for the night and
meet Enrico solano and his tail sons.
Francis had —a further‘reason for
hasty departure. He could not-en-
dure “the presence of Leoncia—and
this in no sense uncomplimentary to
her. She‘charmed him, drew him, to
such extent that he dared not on-
dure ‘her charm and knew if he were
to remain man-faithful to' the man
in the canvas pants even then dig-
ging holes in the sands of the Bull.
So Francis departed, a letter to
Henry from Leoncla in his pocket.
the last moment ere he departed,
was abrupt. - With asigh so quick-
ly repressed that Leoncia womdu'ed
whether or not she had imagined it,
he tore himself away. She gazed
after his retreating form down the
driveway until it was out of sight,
then startedat
the ring on
her ﬁnger with
a. va g u e 1 y
troubled ex-
pression. '
From t h 9
beach Francis

01! this beach without, gunpowder
complications?“ It is my ears, or
merely my mustache, you want?”
“We want you," answered
stranger leader, 'whos‘e mustache
bristled as magnetically as his crook-
ed black eyes. .
“He" is the honorable Senor Mari—
ano Vercarave Hijos, Jefe Politico
of San Antonio,” Torres replied.
“Good night," Francis laughed-,1 re-
“membering the man's description as
given to him by Henry.
you think I’ve broken some harbor

rule Or sanitary regulatibn by an- ,

chorlng here. But you must“ settle
such things with my captain, Cap-
tain Trefethen, a very estimable gen-
tleman. I am' only the charterer of
the schooner—just a passenger; You
will ﬁnd Captain Trefethen right up
in maritime law and custom.

“You are wanted for the murder
of Alfaro Solano,” was Torres' ans-
wer. “Ybu didn't fool me, Henry
Morgan, with you talk up at the he-
ciends that you were some one else.
I know that some one else. His name
is Francis Morgan, and I ' do not
hesitate’to add that he is not a mur-
derer, but a gentleman." -

"Ye gods and little ﬁshes !" Fran,-
'cis exclaimed. “And yet you shook
hands with ‘me, Senor Torres."

"I was fooled," Torres admitted
sadly. “But only for a moment. Will
you come peaceably?" _

. . “As if ” Francis shrugged his
shoulders eloquently at the six rifles.

"I suppose you'll give me a pronto
trial and hang me at daybreak."

“Justice is swift in Panama,” the
Jets Politico replied, his English
queerly accented but understandable.
“But not so quick as that. We will
hang you at daybreak. Tin o’clock
in the morning is more comfortable
all around, don’t yen think?”

“Oh, by all means." Francis re-
torted. “Make it eleven, ‘or twelve
noon—vaon’t mind."

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making the iron or 'its intention.
"Inna! Imcio !" he ordered in
Spanish. “Dismoutl Take his
weapons. No, it will not be neces-
nry to tie his hands. Put him on
the horse behind Gregorio.”

Francis, in a memorably “Mew-rash-
od adobe can with walls ﬁve feet
thick, its earth ﬂoor carpeted with
the forms of 112.1! a damn sleeping
peon prisoners, listened to a dim
hammering not very distant, remem-
bered the trial from which he bad
Just emerged, and WW long and
low. The hour was halt-past eight

in the evening. The trlai had begun.

atveiight. The hammering,
which place of eminence he was
scheduled at ten next morning to
swing by a rope around his neck. The
trial had lasted half an hour by his
watch. Twenty minutes would have
covered it had Leoncia not burst in
and prolonged it by the ten minutes
conrteously accorded her as the great
lady of the Selene family.

"The Jeie was right," Francis ac-
knowledged to himself in a matter of
colloquy. “Panama justice does
move swiftly."

The very possession of the letter
given him by Leoncia and addressed
to Henry Morgan had damned him.
The rest had been easy. Half a doz—
en witnesses had testiﬁed to the mur—
der and identified him as the mur—
derer. The Jefe Politico himself had
so testiﬁed. The one cheerful note
had been the eruption on the scene
of Lconcia, chaperoned by a palsied
old aunt. of the Scheme family.. That
had been sweet—-the ﬁght the bean-
tiful girl had put up for his life, des-
pite the fact that it was foredoomed
to futility.

When she had made Francis roll
up the sleeve and expose his left fore-
arm, he had seen the Jefe Politico
shrug his shoulders contemptuously.
And he had seen Leoncia fling a

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speech, shaken his head

But what its bad notsesn was the
whispered “colloquy ”between Torres
and the Jade, as the tonne:- ‘was in
the thicket forcing his Way through
the prom to the witness box. Ha I.
more saw this particular side-play

than did he know “that Torres was

in the pay at Regan to ”keep him
may from New York as long as pos-

sible, and as long as ever it posslb

nor than did in; knew that
himself was in love with Launch. \
was consumed with a jealously that
know no limit to ”its ire.

All of which had blinded Francis
to the play under the interrogation
of Torres by Ire-cinch, which had

compelled Torres to acknowledge _

that behind never seen a m a

. Francis Morgan‘s left forearm. Wk

Leone-is had looked at the little all
judge in triumph, the Jet’s Politico
had advanced and demanded of Tor.-
res in statesman tones:

“Can you swear that you ever saw
a scar on Henry Morgan’s arm?"

Torres had been baffled and em-
barrass-ed, had looked bewilderment
to the judge and pleadingness to
Leoncia, and in the end, without
that he
could not so swear.

The roar of triumph had gone up
from the crowd oil? ragam‘ufﬁns. The
judge had pronmmoed sentence, the
roar had doubled on itself, and ‘Fra'n-‘
cis had been hustled out and to his
cell, not entirely unresistingly, by the
gendarmes and the Comisario, all
apparently solicitous of saving him
from the mob that was unwilling to
wait till ten next morning for his
death. ~

“That poor dub, Torres, who fell
down on the scar on Henry I" Fran-
cis was meditating sympathetically,
when the bolts of his cell door shot
back and he arose to greet Leoncia.

But she' declined to greet him for
the moment, as she flared at the

 
    

 
 

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kntled Admire. They knew I was
Henry Morgan. When one knows,
why bother to and out?" .

Deal? to his Words, sobbing and
struggling to cling closer while'he
spoke, the moment he had ﬁnished
she was deep again in his arms,
against him, to him, her lips raised
to his; and, ere he was aware, his
own lips to hers.

“I love you, I love you," she whis-
pered brokenly.

“No, no,” he denied what he most
desired. “Henry and I are too alike.
It is Henry you love and I am not
Henry.” '

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“All ' Gringo- look
nodded

     

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population and mm, Enrico So-
lam, and his ﬁve tall sons. .
and his sons fumed and strucwa. but
the Jets Politico, backed by the Gun-
isiaro and his gen-names was alan-
ant. In vain, as Francis was forced
- to the foot of the sea-ﬁeld, did Lean-
cia strive to get to him and did be?
'men strive to persuade her to team
the patio. In vain, also,
father and brothers protest that
Francis was not the man. The Jets
Politics. smiled contemptuously and
ordered the execution to proceed. j

-On t-op'the scaﬁol-d, standing on
the trap, Francis declined the min-
istrations of the priest, telling him
in Spanish that no innocent man be-
ing hanged needed intercessions with
the next world, but that the men who
were doing the hanging were in need
of just such interceSsions.

They .had tied Francis' legs, and
were in the act of tying his arms,
with the men who held the noose
and the black cap hovering near to
put them. on, when the voice of a
singer wasfheard approaching from
without and the song he sang was:

“Backto back again the mainmast,
Held at bay the entire crew . . ”

Leoncia, almost fainting, recov4
ered ‘at the sound of the voice, and
cried out with sharp delight as she
descried Henry Morgan
thrusting saide the guards
gate who tried to bar his way.

At sight ctihim the only one pres.
ent who suffered chagrin was Tor-
res, which passed unnoticed in the
excitement. The ‘popula-ce was in
accord with the Jefe, who shrugged
his shoulders and announced that"
one man was as good as another so
long as the hanging went on. All!
here arose hot contention from the,
Solano men that Henry was likewm
innocent of the murder of Altai-o.
But it was Francis, from the scaffold
while his arms and legs were being
untied, who shouted through the tu—
mult: '

“You tried me! You have not
You cannot hang a man
He must have his
trial 1”_ "

And when Francis had descended
from the .scnﬂold and was shaking

, Henry’s hand in both his own, the
‘ Comisario with the Jets at his back,
. duty arrested Henry Morgan for

the
rounder a: slum .Solano. .

CHAPTER IV.
“WE MUST work quickly--

that is the one thing sure,”
Francis said to the little
c'oncla've of Solanos on the piazza a!
the Sol/aha hacienda. ”
“One thing sure 1" Leoncia cried
out scornfully ceasing from her an-
guished pacing up and down. “Th
one thing sure is that we must saw
him.” ,
As she spoke sheshook a passion-
ate ﬁnger under Francis’ nose to on- '
phasize‘ her point. Not sum it.

, shook . her layer with! equal busiest

under. the noses at all and sank! d
her father and brothers. , '
“Quick ‘2” she am an.

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f, " ﬂeddeep’.:in the throes of sad-
}: ’Leoncia's fervor was magni-
W, but'lt;was for another man

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him: Strong upon his was the mem-
error the jail" patio after he‘had been
released‘and‘ Henry had been arrest-
ed: 7" He couldstin- see, with the same
stab" at the'heert. Leoncis in Henry'r
arms, Henry seeking her hand to as-
certain if his ring was on it, and the
long kiss “embrace that tollowed. _
_?-Ah, well, he 'sigbed to himself, he
had done. his. best. After Henry had
been led away, had he not told Deon-
cia, "its deliberately and coldly,
that enry was her man and lover,
and the wisest of choices for the
daughter of the Solanos?

But the'n'iemory of it did not make
him a bit happy. Nondid‘ the right-
ness of it. Right it was. , That he
never questioned, and it strengthen-
ed him into hardening his heart
against her. Yet the right, he found
in his case, to be the sorriest of con-
solation. ‘

And yet what else could he ex-
pect? It was misfortune to’ have ar-
rived too late in Central America,
that was all, and to ﬁnd thisﬁower
of woman already annexed by a pre-
vious comer—-—a man as good as him-
oelf, and, xhis heart of fairness
prompted, even better. And his heart
of fairness compelled loyalty to
Henry from him—to Henry Morgan,
of the breed and blood; to Henry
Morgan, the wild-ﬁre descendant of
s. wild—Ire ancestor, in canvas pants
and floppy sombrero, with a‘ pen-
chant for the ears of strung young
men, living on sea biscuit and turtle
eggs and digging up the Bull and the
Calf for old Sir Henry's treasure.

And while Enrico Solano and his
sons talked plans and projects on
their broad piazza to which Francis
lent on half an ear, a house servant
came, whispered in Leoncia's ear,
and led her away around the all of
the piano, where occurred a scene
that would have excited Francis’ ris-
ibilitios and wrath. ,

'Around the ell, Alvarez Torres, in
all the medieval Spanish splendor of
dress of a great haciendsdo-ovmer,
such as still obtains in Latin Ameri-
ca, greeted her, bowed low with doll-
ed sombrero in hand, and seated her
in a rattan settee. Her own greet-
ing was sad, but shot through with
curiomess, as if . she hoped he
brought some word of hope.

"The trial is over, Leoncia," he

said softly, tenderly, as one speaksxsioned grasp of Torres, brought her

of the dead. “He is sentenced. 'I‘o-
morrow at ten o'clock is the time. It
is all very sad, most very sad. .But
. . _. - " He shrugged his shoulders.
"No I shall not speak harshly of
him. He was an honorable man. His
one fault was his temper. It was
too quick, too ﬁery. It ledlhim into
a mischance of honor. Never, in a
cool moment of reasonableness would
he have stabbed Alfaro—"

(“He never killed my uncle l” LO-v
onc'ia 'cried, raising her averted face.

“And it is regrettable." ’I‘orres pro-
ceeded bently and sadly, avoiding
any disagreement. "The judge, the
people, the Jets Politico. unfortuna-
a-tely, are all unitedyin believing that
he did. Which is the most regret
he did. Which is most‘regrettable.
But which is not what I came to see
you about. I came to offer my ser
vice in any and. all ways you may
My life, my honor, are

at your disposal. Speak. I am your

' slave.” .

Dropping suddenly and gracefully

,on one‘“knee. before her, he caught

her hand from her lap, and would
have instantly flooded on with his
speech, had. not his eyes lighted ori

the diamond ring on .her engagement
finger. , p
therrown' with bent face until he

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jeo'uld drive it from his features and

begin. tospesk. ' . _
(‘I‘knew you when you were small,
'cia,‘ so very, very charmingly
" i .1 loved. you always—~No.
Ia “ "-“My heart must
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guessed. I have beenon i!
ever since.» I have been consumed
by the flame of your beauty, by the
flame or you that; is deeper than
your beauty." ‘ _
He was not to be stopped, as she
well knew, and she listened patient-
1y, gazing down on his bent {head and
wondering idly why his hair was so

unbecomingly cut,. and whether it ,.
had‘ been last out in New York or

San' Antonio.

"Do you» know «what you have.

“have been to me’erer since your re-
turn?” . '

~She did not reply, nor did she en-
deavor to. withdraw her hand, al-
though his was crushing and bruis-
ing her flesh against Henry Morgan’s
tint. She forgot to listen, led away
his chain of thought that linked
far. Not in such rhodomontade of
speech had Henry Morgan loved and
won her, was the beginning of the
chain. Why did those of Spanish
blood always voice their emotions so
exaggeratedly? Henry had been so
diiferent. Scarcely had be spoken a
word. He had'acted. Under her
glamor, himself glamoring her, with-
out warning, so certain was he not to
surprise and frighten her, he had put
his arms around her and pressed his
lips to here. And here had been
neither too startled nor altogether
Not until after that
ﬁrst kiss, arms still around her, bad
Henry began to speak at all.

And what plan was being broach-
ed around the corner of the e11 by
her men and Francis Morgan? Her
mind strayed on, deaf to the suitor
at her feet. Francis! Ah—she al-
most sighed, and marveled. what of
her self-known love for Henry, why
this stranger Gringo so enamored her
heart. Or any man? No ! No ! She
was not ﬁckle nor unfaithful. And
yet? Perhaps it was because
Francis and Henry were so much
alike, and her poor stupid loving‘ wo-

 

man's heart—while it had seemed
she would have followed Henry any—
where over the world, in any luck
or fortune, it seemed to her now that
she would follow Francis even farther
er. She did love Henry, her heart
solemnly proclaimed. But also did
she love Francis, and almost did she
divine that Francis loved her—the
fervor of his lips on hers in his pris-
on cell was inerasable; and there
was a difference in her love for the
two men that confuted her powers
of reason and almost drove her to
the shameful conclusion that she, the
latest and only woman of the house
of Solano, was a wanton.

\ A severe pinch of her ﬂesh against
Henry’s ring, caused by the impas-

baek to him, so that she could hear
the spate of his speech pouring on:
“You have been the delicious thorn
in my side, the spicked rowel of the
spur forever prodding the sweetest
and moist poignant pangs of love in
my breast. I have dreamed of you.
and for you. And I have my own
name for you. Ever the one name
I have had for you: the Queen of
my Dreams. And you will marry
me, ily Leoncia. We will forget this
mad Gringo who is already dead. I
shall be gentle, kind. I shall love
you always. And never shall any
vision ’0! him arise between us. For
myself, I shall not permit it. For
you .' . . I shall lore you so that it
will be impossible for the memory
of him to arise between us and give
you one moment’s heart-hurt."
Leon‘cia debated in a long pause
that added fuel to Torres’ hopes. She
felt the need to temporise. If Henry
were to be saved . .’ and had not
Torres offered his services? Not
lightly could she turn him away
Ivivihen- a man’s life might depend upon
m.
“Sneak 3—1 am consuming !” Tor-
res urged in achoking voice. ,
“Hush! Hush !” she said softly.
‘l‘How can I listen to love from a live
man, when the man' Iloved \is‘yet
alive?'.' .- ‘ ' . ’
' Loved ! The past tense of it start-
led her. Likewise it startled Torres,
fanning his hopes to fairer; llamas.
Almost,was she his.’ She had said
loved- She no longer bore love for
Henry; .9 She had loved him, it?! no

  
 

 

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The MilitaristsxTake a Licking

FTER every war there is a certain

amount of unscrambling to be done. Use-
less ﬁghting equipment is scrapped and the
vast army of private soldiers and petty oﬁcers
is dcmobolized. But there is always a large
number of army ofﬁcers who do not want to be
unscramblcd. They enjoy the easy, respecta-
ble job of ofﬁcering, and they and their
friends try to induce Congress to provide them
with an army or something to ofﬁcer. In
these efforts they are encouraged and aided by
another substantial group of citizens who have
money invested in Mexico or other foreign
countries, or perhaps- Would invest their mon-
ey in other countnics if they could be assured
of the protection of the United States govern-
ment in case the people of the other countries
would not stand for the exploitation of their
natural resources. Naturally they want a large
standing army and compulsory military train-
ing. Between this class of citizens and army
officers in the American Legion Congress has
been pestercd to death to enact such legisla-
tion. But they are not the only ones who
have been busy. The men and women of the
United States who have something more at
stake than army jobs and investments in for-
eign countries have been doing a little lobby-
ing themselves and because they represent a
very considerable part of the population Con-
gress has been obliged to listen to them. As a
result, the army reorganization bill has been
passed by the House minus the clause for com-
pulsory military training.

Military training is a dead issue in this
country now, but there is something that goes
with military training which is a very live is-
sue, and that is physical training. In every
grade in every school in the United States
physical training should be taught as a part
of the curriculum. In the lower grades this
training need not be more than the simplest
calislthcnics, deep breathing, chest expansion,
body bending, etc., but in the higher grades,
the dumb bells, the Indian club, the basket
ball, and the more intricate gymnastics should
be brought into use. Moreover, the taking of
these courses should be as compulsory as the
reading or arithmetic lesson. We are not a na-
tion =f weaklings as some of the military train-
ing exponents claim, but we have not yet de-
veloped. as strong a race of men and women as
it; is possible to develop. Too many of our
‘ children are sickly and too many of our adults
are chronic sufferers. The time to build the
body aright and enure it to the hardships and
diseases of life is when it is young and yield-
ing. We do not want,——,we will not have,—
compulsory military training, but we should
by all means have compulsory physical train-1
*ing.

 

Effect of Industrial Activity on Agriculture
HE MICHIGAN Manufacturer and Fi-
nancial Record is greatly perturbed over
5 [the suggestion recently made ' by Orlando
* «Barnes, of the State Tax Commissmn.‘ hostile

 

those who. wmild comps the
ice to pay thr

  

. golden eggs. Listen to this mess (11 error:

“The farmer who has soon Michigan pass from
an agricultural state to the ﬁlth industrial area of

the nation; who has seen great industries grow up

until they furnished” employinent to thousands of
men; who has experienced the doubling. tre‘bling
and quadrupling of his farm values by reason of
the great markets that the industrial cities have
built up at his very doors; who has been so blind
that he could: not see his own opportunity as a
producer, and so dense that he could. not present
the attractive side of farm life to his sons, letting
them grow up to become recruits for the city’s in-
dustrial life, has engendered a jealousy in his own
mind. "

We will not accuse the editor of this organ
of the industrial interests of hypocrisy. No
doubt he believes all that he has written. But
his ignorance of the rural mind and the inﬂu-
nce of industri prosperity upon the mar-
ets for farm products, the value‘ of farm
property, and upon the farm’ labor supply is
truly pitiful. Yes, it is altogether true that
the farmers have seen the industrial centers of
Michigan grow into greatand prosperous cit-
ies. And at the same time they have seen their
farm help migrate in a steady stream to the
factories of these great cities which have bid
for their services and secured them because the
farmer could not meet the competition. They
have seen their farm values and assessment in.
crease by leaps and bounds, but it has not oc
curred to their critics that this increase has
added nothing to the productive capacity of
the farms nor to the farmers’ net income.
Farm values are high 1n the loWer part of the
state, not because the demand exceeds the sup-
ply or because the net income from the pro-
ducts of these farms is much greater than in
former years, but because we are in a period
of price inflation and the land speculator has
put an artiﬁcial value upon the farms which
is partly upheld by the speculation in the im-
mediate vicinity of the big cities where fancy
prices are paid for farm property to subdivide
into city lots. It ill becomes those who have
taken the farmers’ sons and hired men to crit-
icize the farmers for their failure to keep them.
A careful investigation Will prove that the
proximity of great manufacturing centers to
agricultural communities is a curse rather
than a blessing to the communities, and that
the largest ninnber of abandoned farms are
found in the eastern states where industrial
activity is the greatest.

 

Lost, Strayed or Stolen

INTER is hanging on with a ,powerful
grip. Snow-bound ﬁelds and roads, and
ice-bound lakes and brooks give no sign that
spring is anywhere about. Even the old-tim-
ers who remember so vividly the ﬁerce winters
of the early eighties and ninetes whistle and
say, “Gosh all hemlocks!” when they look at
the thermometer these late Winter mornings.
Where is spring? Is she lost, strayed or stol-
eni
Paradoxical as it may seem, the shortest
month of the year is at the same time the long-
est month of the year.’ Or so it seems to those
who are anxious for the springtime. Decem-
ber, January and February are, according to
the almanacs, the months of winter. March is
supposed to usher in the. spring. But March
fell down on the job this year all rightvas we
haven’t seen anything of spring in these parts.
How about yourself?
Ah, well, all things have an ending. Each

day the old earth swings her northern lati-

tudes a little nearer the sun. and in the pieces
having a southern exposure the snow melts a
little nearly every day Very soon now,-—- -—‘-per'-
haps tomorrow or perhaps a couple weeks from
tomorrow,~—the feathered harbinger: of spring

will put in an appearance; the little fringes of ‘_ __,

  

icethat chngto theedgieo1. amenities ’
Willi) MM v

 

. .V th
rjust portion of the state taxes.
to the man w 0 ﬁlled the goose that laid 1:th

his wiles for not laying more eggs. An

the signs of spring. Let’ em come.

 

’\ Milo Campbell After Wool Gougers

  
  

  

we shall all 5' eel again the great joy of living *
throbbing in our veins, and We shall- want to f}
be but of doors, and smell the freshness of the ' ~
ozone left by the ﬁrst .warm rains. These are

 
 
   
 

 

        
     
 
     
 

MILO CAMPBELL, candidate for g0v ern- "

or, bearded the lion in 11113 den, so to
speak when he appeared before a Boston city
Club last Week and attacked the Boston wool
dealers as gougers and proﬁteers some of
whom were present at the meeting. For a long
time Mr. Carnpbcll has been on the trail of the
men who were responsible fer the gigantic
wool sWindle during the weir", which took mil-
lions of dollars out of. the pockets of farmers
and placed them in the pockets of the Boston
Wool dealers. Mr. Campbell 5 published

charges and his personal appeals to the depart- ,

ment of justice failed to secure action against
the. oifenders, whose guilt was substantiated in
the public eye 'when they failed to make an-
swer to the charges. As a result of Mr.- Camp-
bell’ s investigations and disclosures of the wool
trust, there must come all elimination of the
excess proﬁt takers resulting in greater 1‘6-
turns to the producer and cheaper clothing to
the consumer. We‘admire Mr. Campbell for
his courageous. exposure of the Boston wool
trust, and feel proud that we are to have the
opportunity of supporting him for governor of
the state of Michigan.

.Wheat Guaranty Will Continue

HE GUARANTEE on wheat will cen-
tinue despite the desperate eﬁorts of .

Sen. Gronna of North Dakota to have it re-
moved. The farmers did not feel like chanc-
ing their entire wheat holdings upon Mr.
Gronna’ s judgment, and so petitioned Con-
gress not to consider the Gronna proposal.
Some farmers are worrying about the Wheat
market.

on a higher price.
that the government guaranty expires June 1.
Between now and then a farmer can secure
at least the minimum government price. Af-
ter that date he must take his chances. Should
the exchange situation clear up, there is great
probability that wheat prices would advance,
but if there is no improvement in the trade
conditions, there. is little prospect of any ma—
terial price changes. We caution farmers to
study this situation very carefully lest they be
caught with their grain on a falling market
when the government guaranty is removed.

The editor of a newspaper who owns a block
of stock in a sugar company suggests that the
attoﬁley general investigate the lessee of the
sugar companies and make the farmers help
share them. Sure, that will be all right. Share
the profits of the beet sugar business the last
ten years with the farmers, and the farmers
will have plenty of cash to pay their share of
the losses.

The Michigan Manufacturer 81 Financial
Record admits that for eight years the “bal-
ance of power _in the state legislature has been
held by the industrial counties.” Well, why
brag about it! We only have to look at our
our tax receipts to know the statement is cor-
rect. ~ _ - ~

L—.—-—————-———.
Order your lime and fertilizer yearly. With
the fertilizer shortage, the car shortage, the
farm help shortage and the food shorten. 1..
good many 1mm are going to be short at
crops and cash next fall.

 

     

They are not certain Whether they l
ought to sell their crop now or take a chance ;
It must be borne in mind

 
      
       
  

  

 

 

   
 
     
 
  
 

  
 


   
  

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farmers or anyone else.

are ways than one. In tact, Ilenine
is. much yfairer to his people than a
lot of prODDSed legislation is, to the
. peeple of this state. How shall we
get a fair price? Well, here is one
way it could be done: Let the Glean-
t3, Grange/‘5, Farmers’ Clubs, etc., each
year at their annual round-up elect
one 01' their number as a part of a
committee to meet at a certain date
with the pure food commissioner and
determine what the actual cost of pro-

ducing milk is for that year as near

as may be and then d ten per cent
to the actual cost an that shall be
the price 0! milk nor that year or it
might be for a three months’ period
or a six months' period. Then let the
municipality where milk is sold or-
ganize a milk committee of such
nature that it could absolutely con-
trol the situation and the city become
cospomsible to the State Dairy and
FoOd Commissioner who shall see that
on complaint the city is‘ treating ev-
eryone fairly. Milk prices to be pub-
lished in papers of city as often as
they are made and the price the milk
Dreamers get also to be published
And at same time there should be a
clause compelling manufacturers and
all others handling goods in this state
of whatsoever kind to label their
gobds'in such a wayras to show prices
«they sold ”gods at and the date of such
sale and that every jobber or dealer
through w‘hose hands the goods shall

0. shall 8.130 brand the price and date

9 sold the goods for, or in ' other
words: the cost plus 10 per cent
shall be the selling price of the goods.
If it shall ‘be determined that a 10
per cent increase! is not a sufficient
amount for handling the goods, then
a commission of experts from that
trade, business r profession shall de-
termine what 3 all be a just proﬁt.
The findings of the commission shall
be subject to appeal and revision by
the Supreme Court of the state. There
to be no haggling in justice and dr-
cult courts.‘ I believe that it the prin-
ciples mentioned were carried out we
could, :get appropriate justice instead
of the wild helter-skeltering night-
mare of proﬁteering we have now.—
Wm Kilpatrick, Oheboygan.

 

That's a'rather novel' suggestion, to
say the least. But would it work? No
two individuals or firms produce goods
at exactly the same cost A firm may
lose money one year only to make it up
the next. Under legalized price-ﬁxing he
would have to bear his loxses, but his
gains the following year could not exceed
‘ten per cent of his cost for that year.
Again, production fluctuates. At one
period there is a. great surplus of food
and other commodities, and rather than
gear a total loss the producers thereof

id against each other which lowers the
price and has a. natural tendency to in-
crease consumption. In order to make
legislation et-
fective therewould have to be maintain-
ed a very elaborate and expensive admin-
istration machinery to care for the in-
evitable complaints and punish the prof-
itcers. What do our other leaders think
of Mr_ Kilpatrick's suggestion7—Editor.

STANDS WITH BEET GROWERS
, I enclose my subscription to- your
paper. I am with‘the beet growers
ﬁrst, last and all the time. I did not
know there was a move on foot to

' get better prices for our beets until

I received yOur circular. I had three
and a half acres of beets last year,
worked them good and had them
nice and clean. and got only $35
from them after all the expense was
paid, The sugar company takes ab<
solutely no risk. They take a note
for the seed with '7 per cent interest.
We give them a. note for the work

with interest. It We raise any beets,
all right. If we don’t we lose our
work and pay them for their side
0! it just the same. I am ready to

’ . ', 6131!. a contract. with every beet grow-
”1131 the state not to sow a beat seed

see they will sign on the $12 OOH-y
. .£ Med 011 9 cent sugar. I:
7 £3 11 beet growers will do that they

as wil come across. They are

  

, W
tats 3116111111 ﬁx price or

. 9%
yes unfair to the producer in_

. mseed.—.3-J.’.W.,I-Noble Genesee county.

You feel exactly the same as most or
the growers do, whether they grow
one e. me or ﬂf-t acres of beets. It the
farmer is- to ta the major risk he

ought to have the major proﬁts out of

$9ﬁ “drawn "2 asinm° "m
n e e is 11

even 50-50 split. -—Editor. 0 an

BOOST BY TELEPHONE

While I hve not written to you be-
fore complimenting you upon your
unswerving stand on all problems
pertaining to the farmers’ interest,
I wish to thank you nevertheless. I
am behind any movement that will
have a tendency to improve farming
conditions. I believe Mr. Campbell
is the right man to make the run for
next Governor and I pledge my vote
and support in his campaign. As I
believe in boosting the good cause I
am enclosing $1 bill to renew my
subscription for one year.
sending two oth-

Am also .

tirely, and increase the unearned in-
crement tax in- order to absorb the
unearned increment.

“But," someone may say, “what
difference does it'make whether we
raise taxes from land values or from
wealth values?"

It makes all the diﬂerence be-'
tween being a prosperous farmer or
a tax ridden farmer. Do the farm-
ers of Michigan realize that the “un-
earned increment” in land value in
the city of Detroit alone,
thankall the unearned increment at-
taching to Michigan farm land?
That is to say, on 50,000 Detroit
acres there is a billion dollars of un—
earned increment. And less than a
thousand persons and corporations
and estates own over half of the
value of the city of Detroit.

That is to say, shifting taxation
from wealth to unearned increment

would relieve the

 

er . subscriptions,

farmers and

 

one year each
for which they
agree to pay lat-
ver. The reason
I am not sending
their money is
that I called
them on the tele-
phone this morn-
ing and got their
subscription that
way. (Tell oth-

what is wrong.

 

WILL JOIN THE FARM BUREAU ’6”,
AND BUN rr ues

Am enclosing amount for
years' subscription.
ﬂdence in your paper. and know that
the farmers of Michigan feel that in
your paper and work they have a
watchman of their interests
always on the Job.
we need, and»! lots of it.
of farmers depend upon you to know
We shall join the
Farm Bureau and we shall run it.—
C. 0. Bichwood. 10111:]. County.

”make the own-
of the val-
they have
not. earned pay
the taxes.
Farmers think
the single tax law
will tax land.
Not so. It aims
to tax land value
—a very differ—
ent thing. Land
value makes a

three
Have great con-

that is
That is just what
_ A majority

 

 

 

 

 

ers to boost over
the teleph o n e

when time is limited—Reader, 00n-

way, M ich.

All right, Mr. Booster, we accept your
suggestion and thank you for your in-
terest and help—«Editor.

SITE-VALUE TAXATION

“The proof of the pudding is in
the eating ". So please allow me
_space to answer a question put by
Mr. Stanley Warner in your issue of
Feb. 21.

Mr. Warner says: “I don’t see how
Mr. Grenell can be in sympathy with
the farmer and at the same time ad-
vocate single tax or the ‘untaxing of
wealth.' " And another correspond-
ent says: “The single tax is a. bean-
tiful theory, but it has never worked
out successfully."

It is because I look upon the farm-
er as the most excessively taxed of
all wealth producers that I advocate
“untaxing wealth.” For nearly all
that the farmer possesses i-s wealth.
What I mean by “wealth” is those
values created by human exertion.
Thus to untax wealth is to untax
farmers.

Two values attach to every farm:
one is wealth value, which is usual-
ly large; the other is unearned in-
crement value, also known as social
value, which is invariably small. I
would untax the wealth value en-

city lot on Wood-
ward avenue, in
the center of Detroit—a lot 60x100
independent of improvements, worth
on the market $300.000. This is a
social value. and is produced by the
million people living in and around
it; by one person, black or white,
rich or poor, as much as by any oth-
er person. This social value ought
to be made to pay the taxes, because
it is independent of the individual ex-
ertions of the units.

The taxation of site values means
the untaxing of values created by
labor. It will encourage industry
and enterprise and discourage land
speculation. And in this untaxing
the farmer, of all classes, will re-
‘ceive the greatest beneﬁt.

Now one word as to the single tax
being ﬁne in theory. but which
never has, been tried. If a thing is
right in theory it will work; when
it does not work it proves that that
theory somewhere holds a fallacy.

The single tax (site-value taxa-
tion) is working. It has been work-
ing for a number of years. Those
who are living under single tax con-
ditions are prospering. They have
resisted every effort to go back to
the “tax everything” blundering and
inequitable way of collecting reve-
nue.

The single tax is working in the
Canadian northwest, in Australia, in

 

 

The Week’s Editorial

 

A WRONG CONCLUSION

Some tow-n people (you have heard
them, so have we), have in times past
apparently forgetful of what their
own attitudes have been concerning
matters of public welfare, have accus-
ed the farmer of being the author,
abettor, and instigabor Of all kinds of
anti-enterprise propaganda and have
therefore deplored his retirement
from his agricultural pursuits to take
up his abode among the urban dwell-
ers, wihere churches, schools, etc., will
be more convenient for himself and
family.

Such accusations may be true of
some farmers somewhere, but North
Branch’s experiences in this particu-
lar have been decidedly negative to
the imputation. We, of town, it we
will but frankly admit it, must take
off our hats tgmth e farm folk-s of this
community. ey have us standing
still when it comes to public as well

as individual improMents. .,

What would have become of the
good roads program now so gener-
':being carried into effect here.

it the farmers had been afraid

of taxation, and the “tight wads”
some people are pleased to call them?
Our farmers have eagerly assumed_
heavy burdens of taxation that their
market places might be made more
easily and agreeably accessible and
the comforts of the pleasure drivers
inestimably enhanced. Furthermore,
they have and are continually build-
ing better, more modern and sanitary
equipped homes, as well as otherwise
making their premises more sightly
and productive.

Those who have sold, leased or
turned over their farms to the control
Of their sons and have come to this
village to reside, with very few or
captions, if any, can be counted
among those who are ready and will-
ing to support every reasonable mow
ment for municipal improvement, and
are the least of the centers against
the taxes which such undertakings
would involve. . ’

In view of the object lessons so
conspicuously in evidence we will be
obliged to be up and moving it we
keep pace with our terms; i1 iends.~
North Branch Gazette.

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is more .

. think the farmers would do Well

  

worked, pays?"
taxes than unused land’bein

for speculative purposed. : “
value (unearned increment). ant}

.termines the tax. Farméin
couraged; land speculation -
couraged.—Judson Grenell, W
aw Gounw..

  
 

  
   

 
    
 
  

  

 
  

 
 

    

 
 

             

    

      
 

 

 
 

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POLICY 0R DUTY _~
In sending my vote on proﬁt!
I think Johnson is the best an
to the Americanism and vital ,
ciple oi Roosevelt. I believe ﬁt
ultimate operation of the to
by the government but it this .
be best to try to continue under W
present circumstances. It nil: f,
wise to turn the roads over to
veto operators again for trial.

choose the M. B. F. as the best ..
and representative of their infarct
So many farm papers now offer to
the agents and advertising media
for speculators and manufacturerb
and their claim to be a farmers’ pen
per is a pretense. .

I don’t see why a. farm paper can-
not be published for the interests
farmers and at the same time b.
the best advertising medium. .

In regard to the Farm Bureau. I
thing the great task of the farmers
is to convince the nation that food
productions and soil conservation
must be made a national issue. That,
the ﬁnancial. manufacturing and bus-
iness interests of the country must
co-operate with the farmers by equal-
izing prices that farmers may be en-
abled to keep up the soil, the farm
equipmentand labor supply.

Farmers cannot keep up the ter-
tility of the soil and the food supply
while all the organized industries are
using the press ﬁxing and price-ﬁn
ing power against them. Exploita-
tion must be stopped, the soil ital
ready on strike, and it will require
national co- operation with the farm-
ers to recompense her and induce her
to call off the strike.

We cannot maintain the present;
standard of living, increase the pop.
ulation and continue to exhaust the
soil. We are undermining. the four: .,
dations of our structure to build it
up and it is pretty top heavy.

We are flouting God and nature
and defying the law of compensa-
tion. What we need is a higher
standard of righteousness and comb.
mon honesty and a regard for'nae-
ture. If we build up our character
and our soul we will have nothing to-
fear. .

A plunge into debauchery of char»
acter and natural resources is th'
greatest danger that threatens us.-.--
—John E. Belt, Lapeer County.

 

There is no reason why the interests of:
farmers and the manufacturers of the

commodities which they use should

clash. Anything that makes the farmer
more contented and more prosperous
should be encouraged by those who

want to trade with farmers. Most 0t
them realize this, and it is only an 00-
casional advertiser who withdraws hil-
patronage from a farm paper because
he is displeased with its policy. A-
good many farm papers, however. live"
in fear of their advertisers, and 0010
their editorial policies and news stories
to make them pleasing to their adver-v
tisers. This is a. policy which M. B. H‘s.
will never adopt. It will lose its slivers

tising, it need be, before it will W
rice the interests and respect of
readers. But we are convinced ».1
we shall not often be confronted m
such an alternative as that, for W

lieve that the majority of men '
advertise in these columns like
majority of farmers who read these
columns are big enough to concede us
a right to hold and express our opinionsv
and will not seek to lead us from cm"
chosen course. —Editor

 

BRITISH PBOPAGAN DA

I wish to tell you that you publish
the only farm paper in lilichigan;
that is worth the price of subs
tion. The old style of “puss .7
farm papers make a fellow tire
also wish to say that D. E. Ores
the nail squarely on the has
every sentence he wrote in your
Zist issue. 'Thousands, yes, in
of people have felt the same '

(1' unlinaed on page 27}.

  

    
     
    
  
  

    
  

   
   

  
   

        
       
  

  

     

    
   
   


   
  

   

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There istno imprOvement in the
' go orzmoney situation._ EI-
ghave tallenvf- to a- negligible
. ”in illegeife'ct of Which has al-
M been seen upon prices of food
ducts. The demand-for- leans
all classes of industry was never
”inter, and because of the hugede—
a: «use in the nation’s--gold supply
the “Federal Reserve banks have been
obliged to call in some of their loans

     

 
   
   
  
 
   
   
  
  
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
    
  
  
    
    
    
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
    
  
    

becoming more stringent in their
loans to patrons. In a measure, this
Ila good thing. Millions of dollars
a.» changed hands since the war
through speculation, encouraged and
aided by the ease with which the big
speculators have been able to secure
.aieney. This class of loans will be
the ﬁrst that the banks will shut
' down on, and with good effect upon
the oraly speculative tendencies of
:. the time. However, if the gold sup-
/ ply" continues to decreasegfarmers
may experience some difﬁculty in se-
elrlng loans for their farming oper-
ations this spring and summer, and
in any event will be obliged ”to pay
top-notch interest charges. The coun-
try realises, however, that the farm-
ers credit needs must be supplied,
and he will probably be the last to
auﬂer in case of a money stringency.
The dtuation is not particularly en-
couraging, neither is there cause for
alarm. ' The Federal Reserve System
was provided to meet just such emer-
genoia with which we are confront-
ed and conﬁdence is expressed that
It will not fail to keep the ﬁnancial
structure intact and the wheels of
commerce going.

The most serious thing that the
firmer faces today is the falling
prices on his products. This started
several weeks back, but has contin-
ued, with intermittent recoveries
which have not lasted long. It looks
he the ﬁrst step in the gradual
downward revision in the high cast
of living, but why the most numer-

” *1 TRADE ‘ 4ND ‘ Manny »

ﬁ member banks, which in turn are

 

 

 

and hogs ﬁrm after weak start.

reserve reports.

 

Inuit

L DETROIT, March 3rd.———Corn up 20, oats 10-, and-rye 30. Mar-
' ket'strongestrin month. Beans ﬁrmer.

CHICAGO, Mar. 3rd.+Corn market ﬁrm upon receipt of crap 1‘
Oats advance 2 cents. Hegs steady; ﬁrm; sheep .
and lambs weak. Potatoesastrong and higher. '

None: 1' above summarized wlrea are
page is set l’n C2310. They contain last minute information up to withln ops-hair how of
0 Editor.

 

Potatoes higher. Cattle

received AFTER the balance eflthe

 

 

market
.90-

 

 

ous and essential class in the Unit-
ed States he the first to feel the brunt.
Could the markets of the world be
unlocked to American food products

. through the stabilizing of the money

exchange and larger purchasers‘ of
European goods the tenor of the
markets would be exactly the oppo-
site.

WHEAT DEMAND snow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT Pmcss Pen 00.. Islam

Grade Detroit ‘chioasof I. Y.
No. 2 Red ..... 2.41 2.00
No. 2 hlte 2.45 I2.ss i
No. 2 lxed I

PRICES on: .1511 see

Grade loos-on [Chlgaaol II. v.
No. 2 Red 2.80 2.30% 2.30
No. 2 White 2.20 2.20 2.84%
No. a Mixed 2.20 2.21 2.33
There is no denying the fact that

the upward trend seen in the wheat
market several weeks ago has been
halted, and many think permanently
for the balance of the year. Experts

for the week ending Feb. 14th were-

3,708,000 bushels, and for the follow-
ing week 3,882,000, as compared with
5,468,000 bushels exported for the
week ending Feb. 22nd, 1919. The
Price Current Grad” Reporter says in
this connection: “Prospects are for
a large carryover oz wheat at the'end
oi the crop year. as the export move-
ment has dropped to almost ‘nothing,

 

 

 

 

 

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“I’ve Bought APEX Seeds for 35 Years?

   
  
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
 
  
  
  
  
  
 

It is no uncommon thing today to ﬁnd farm
owners in Michigan who have used APEX
seeds for 35 years consecutively.

Their sincere respect for the APEX brand,
after a 35 year period, is well worth remem-
bering when you purchase seeds.

To carry the brand APEX—weeds must be
absolutely high grade, vigorous and pure of
quality—they must pass analym' tests for
germination and Whigan Seed Law require-
ments—theymustbegmwn lathe Northof
America to hairethdr wooess inbthc hardy,
rugged soils and clknots of Mchignn.

For35h§earsprodnoegeedundathenmeoi"
Ask your dealer or write us
CAUGHEYJOSSMAN COMPANY ,
mm SEED mums ,
nmorr MICHIGAN -..

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Rea-cleaned and Tested

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_ loading stations.

 

actual clearances of domestic grain
during the first two weeks of Febru-
ary. as near, as can be ascertained,
having been around 2,000,000, only a
remarkably small showing.”

We must watch the wheat market
very carefully ﬁor the next three
months. The government’s guarantee
expires the coming June, and no man
knows what will happen thereafter.
If Europe is not going to be in any,
condition to take a large part of our
supplies we are going to be obliged to
take a loss on our wheat after June
lst or hold it over another year. In-
dications point to at below normal
crop in 1920. “Winter wheat condi-
tions are by no means bright," says
the above journal, “and there is suf-
ficient evidence at hand to indICate
that the abandoned acreage this year
will be somewhat above normal, and
unless weather conditions are ideal a
small crop will be secured. Scattered
reports from ..the northwest do not in-
dicate any increase in the spring
wheat acreage, but this will ultimate-
ly be offset by the large amount of,
grain carried over into the new crop.”

We have been asked by a number of
readers to advise them personally
what to do with the balance of their
wheat holdings. If we only knew!
Were trade conditions normal wheat
would be selling now for 25 per cent
more than it is. If trade conditions
improve during the next few monthhs
which is very doubtful, the foreign
business would soon shoot the price
upward, but if you want our honest
opinion, we will say that the farmer

' who can get $2.20 net for his Wheat
will be money ahead in the long run
to get it while the getting is good.

CORN GETTING KEARISH AGAIN

CORN PRICES PER BIL. MIR. 1. 1320

 

 

 

 

 

 

egg. [emu wile-in- n. VT
lbs. 2 Vellew .. .I f 1...
No. a Yellow ...I1.50 1.50 (1.01
No. 4 1.1qu £171.52 I1.__4§ 1.04

emcee can run and“

 

 

 

Grade- 'Ihemilnniéﬁ I- I!»
No. 2 Yellow ...! i f 1.54
No. 8 "Yellow . . .l 1.88 I 1.98 1.52
his. 4 Yellow .. .l 1.33 l 1.31 l 1.48

 

After the bulls upset all the dope of
the bears at the beginning of last
week and actually turned a declining
into an advancing market, the bears
again got control, and are using the
expectations or a freer car movement
as an argument that the great bear
movement has begun. A3 a matter of
fact. the only bulls w‘ho’ve got the
courage at their convictions and the
power to back them up are the farm-
ers who want $1.50 for com. 1’. o. b.
If these boys per:
sist long enough in their demand for
dollar ands half corn, they‘ll get it,-
deSpite the roars of‘the bear speculat-
ors. The market dopesters figure
out that henceforth and' forever, now
that; the railroads have gone back to
the private owners, all trams will run
on the nick of time, empty cars will
be available at every siding for load~
ing, and crops will be moved from
producer to consumer like clock-work.
Of course, they‘re going to be reeled,
but they don‘t know it, and their ig-
norance is keeping. the grain markets
in a wobbly. condition with prices
most uncertain. However, we cannot
see how a freer movement“ of the crop
at thfg time ’when farmers are hang-
ing back from selling is ng to re-
sult in lower prices. We ould think
that it would have «exactly the oppo-
site street. Fm cor movsmﬁmt» on-

.r

“bill-'8 “me“ M‘s—outlawed or: *1.

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_ good‘ieeling and optimism. \ _
but know it, thesfarmefs hold the slab '

cwt,

~m0re conducive ”to a bull.market’:t«hen'

nation in the palm of their hands;
and can feed the market at virtually
their own price providing'their grain
is handledpromptly all down the line:

BYE AND BARLEY .. .
Eye is little higher, but there is":
no particular strength to the market;
being influenced by substantially the -'=
same conditions that are affecting
other markets at this time." Barley
prices have not changed ior‘some
time, and the market is easy. Bye
$1.61 per bushel; Barley 32.90618
per cwt.

 

 

' oars nonnmdrnnm oWN .

ostr PRlCES PER, 310.. mm. 1, 1920

 

 

 

Grade 1056-311 thMoEN.-Y.
No. 2 won. ...r .04 l . [1.00“
No. a was. .se . .00 I
No. 4 White ...I .92 I .30 I

 

 

 

 

 

Palofe‘ouz YEAR aeo

 

 

 

 

 

.. 01005 "ipng1_ioMom9£f. II.
Standard ...... I .61 m .60 I icsv.
No. a White ...I .61 I .09 I .01
m. 4 wan. ...I .00 I .58 I .05
Oats are not so strongly aﬂeCted

by the conditions that“ are bearing

other grain markets. France is tak-

ing considerable of the crop under
ﬁnancial arrangements entered into
last fall. Some difficulty is being ex-
perienced, it is true, in export con-
tractors meeting their obligations,
but even this has litte effect upon the
general situation. There will contin-
ue to be occasional fluctuatiOns inthe
oat market, but unless trade condi-
tions become demoralized, the trend
will continue to be upward at least
until we know something about what
the 1920 acreage lg to be and the
growing conditions. »;

 

BEANS AT STAND STILL

 

 

 

 

 

 

sun Princesses om. Inn. 1. 1020
Grade iDstrolt lchloami I. Y.
c. 11-. P. ...... I 0.15 ‘11” 0.00
Ema Kid-um ...I14.25 4.50 14.155
names on: "aggro
. em. ram-on Oblong!!! IT‘T'. .
c 11. p. ...... I 1.15 0.15 I 1.00
me ......... 1.00 .00 t 1."
Red Kidneys no.2; 11.00 11.50

 

 

 

 

The bean situation looks bad, but
according to those who deal in beans
and watch the market closely, the
looks “be deceiving.” We want to
caution our readers right here that
the recent drop in beans means noth—
ing at all. In fact, the ob
news comes that beans will probabb
go a little lower, BUT this will be In
preparation for the risevthat is an-
pected to come. We are ad
that little if any trading is b
done at present prices. The w "
must have beans and 1900.11 only deter
its purchases about so long and than
it must gointo the market and M
for the supplies. The present dull—
ness may continue for another month
or perhaps two at the outside, but
basing our judgment upon informer
tion that we believe” to be absolute-
ly reliable, buyers will be activeb
in the ﬁeld by that time, and in view
of the short supply prices are bound
to seat. The market today is in no
condition to warrant a farmer Idli-
ing. 4

 

renames sunny

 

 

 

 

 

 

”use as: «In. jam 1, 1020

l Cloud Bali.

Detroit ................ 4.06' 4.00

came ............. 4.00 4.10

Husburg ............... 4.01 4.00

New York .............. 4.30 4.40

smote out use i’o‘o .

“De elt .. 1.10 1.00
on go .......... 1.10 1.10 .

mus . .. .. 2.00 1.00

New York ............... 2.08 1.80

 

 

 

 

 

The unseasonable cold weather his .
held the potato market ﬁrm and '
price changes or the past week have
been upward'on mostmsrkets. TH
Chicago. marketpwas easy at the op”-
ing of the week. but on‘ Thurs”
and Friday last, there were: adv-a0. ..
es tangle iron ,10 to. 20 cents, '_
15:09:! one alum ' ‘ at ' '
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n to“ the high level of late rm-
Mendwouraonrroadorstoset
holdings on the market before

Imam weather arrlvee. nearly

m and: prove disastrous to the
market, but “the condition- point
h cool weather well into Aprlluul

should attord farmers every oppu'tnn-
itytomove meircropetnlr prices.
According to authentic reports the

; Nth prices here have attracted for-'-
3 an growers and several thousand

bushels of
come in through the‘ port of New
York the motive weeks. And more

3 are on the way if wean believe the

We; from the Chicago Packer;

“The information comes tron:
Denmark .to the eﬂect that there
would be several heavy consign-
ments of potatoes in here within the
next few weeks. The New York
branch of the Department of Agri-
oﬂture received a cable Tuesday
looting that the steamship “Freder—
bk the Eighth’ which left Copen-
hagen February 19 had 7,433 sacks
of potatOee aboard. The sacks weigh
150 pounds each. It requires about
12 days for the trip so the boat
lhould dock in New York harbor the
lore part of next week. There are
also about 200 tons of Danish cah-
bote aboard. ~

"Some of the potato men who are
Importing Danish potatoes evidently
meet to do some business, as up to
ﬁe middle \of this week, custom
house permits for the admission of‘
”reign potatoes into this port cov—
ered about 365,000 sacks. Potato
Ion do not expect anything like this
amount here because importers in all
Commodities always ask for permits

tly in excess of what they expect
receive.”

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Record prices ..were made on hay
this week in Eastern markets due to
retracted storms and consequent
ine conditions. Consumers’ stocks
have been working down for several
weeks and they have been forced

Into the market regardleu of prices.

Country roads are almost impassable
on account of deep snow and heavy
drifts and the amount of hay loaded
is very small. Shippers, however,
are making every effort to get bay to
market and with a break in the
weather increased supplies and a re-
turn to normal values is' certain.
Railroads are furnishing cars more
freely but the rail movement is slow
because of the storms; Future
prices will depend entirely on the
movement to market and conserva-
tism on the part c! shippers is neces-
sary to avoid losses on goods that
can not move immediately, for when
the movement does incmoe consum-
ers will buy in limited Quantities and
the decline will probably be even
sharper than the advancOr—Hoy Trade
Iowmal.
‘OATI‘LE , MARKET CONTINUES
DOWNWABD COURSE
Detroit—44933311113. 746; were
“putters, '75:! lower; butcher cows
(do lower; all other grades closing
ﬁll and 25c m, sons going over
mom; beet heavy steers, 319. 75@
11.85; best we: weight butcher
m 5109. 75; mixed steers and
auras 83-7589; may. light butch-
80.8.59: light- butchers. $6.50=@
'cows. $968. 50; butcher
7 cutters. 9.565. 59 can-

  

" 3 33' Mr lambs. 517-018 .50; light to .'
“mes will not 80

Danish potatoes hare.

- Sheep:

.519 590

common lambs. 912@15. 50; fair to

good deep, ‘812@1'3; calls and

common, ”as Hogs: Receipts,

'2, 863; market fairly active; pigs,_

3 836813.50; heavy, $14. 50; mix-
hogs, 9.14 76@16.

East Buffalo—Cattle. Repeipts.

' 1.90 core; prime shipping steers. $14
014. 50; best shipping steers, 911.50 -

020.50; medium shipping steers.
9105001150; Canadian heavy steers.

$11®11£0:Canadlan steer; and heif— I

'e'm, $9.5m19.60;best native year-
lingo, 950 to 1,090 lbs $12@13; light
native yearlings. good quality, $10.11;

Just handy steers, $10 .;50@11 mum

good kind, slooioso; handy steers
and heifers mixed. ”@10; western
heifers, $9@10; state heifers, $9@10;
best fat cows, $9. 50@10; butchering
cows, $7@8; cutters, $6@7; canners,
$4.50»@525; fancy bulls, $9.50@10;
butchering bulls, $7.50@8.50; common
bulls, $7@8; best feeders. 900 to 1.-
000 lbs, 99.50610; medium feeders.
$899; stockers, $6.59@7; light com-
mon, $6@6.50. Hogs, receipts, 80
cars; steady; medium and heavy,
$15.50@15.75;muixed, :16; yorkers
and pigs, $16@16.25. Sheep. Re~
eeipts, 40 cars; steady: top lambs,
$20.75@29.85; yearlings, $16@
18.50;.wethers, $15®15; ewes; $14
@1450. Calves, $7@23.

Chicago—Hogs: Receipts, 44,;000
estimated tomorrow, 40,000; steady to
15c lower; bulk, $14. 25@15; top,
915. 25; heavy, $14. 40@14. 69; medium,
$14.50@15; light, 914 85@15 .;25 light
light, 914. 50®15; heavy packing sows
smooth, $13@15-50; do rough, $12.25
@1275; pigs, 13.25=@14.50. Cattle:
Receipts, 13,000; estimated tomorrow,
13,000; ﬁrm; beef steers, medium and
heavy weight, choice and prime $14.25
@16; medium and good, $11.50@14.25
common, $9@11.50; light, good and
choice, $12@15.25; common and medi—
um, $8.50@12; butcher cattle, heifeIS,
$6.;50@13 cows, $6.25@11. 75; canners
and cutters, $4. 50@6.5;2 veal calves,
$15.25@16.50; feeder steers, $7.50@
11.50; stacker steers, 96375691025.
Receipts, 13,000; estimated
tomorrow, 10,000; ﬁrm; lambs, $17.50
@2030; culls and common $14@17.25
ewes, medium,'gIood- and choice, $11.25
@1450; culls and common $6@$10.75.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Eggs in good supply and brisk de
mand. Butter steady and quiet and re—
ceipts not large. Farmers are not lib-
eral sellers of potatoes and there is
an increasing demand. An advanCe is
quoted and the market is firm in oth-
er vegetable lines owing to moderate
offerings. All fruits are in moderate
demand and quiet. Receipts of poul-
try are small and the market holds its
ﬁrmness owing to active buying by
consumers.

Apples—Western boxes, $3@4; Spy,
93.25@3.50; Baldwin $3@3.25; Green-
ing, $3.50@3.75; Steel’s red, $3.‘7’5@4
per bu.

Honey—White comb, 32@35c 3 lb.

Cwliflower—92.50@2.75 per case.

Potatoes—~97 per 150-119; sack.

Guide—Indiana, $5.'75@I6 per 100—

2b. sack.

Calves (dressed)—Fancy, 37@28c
per lb.

Ih'esoed HogsA—Best, 1992M; heavy
17@18c per lb.

Live Poultry-—Sprlng chickens,

largo, 36®3Ec; Longhorns 35@36c;
hens, ”@490; small hens, senate;
manta-s, 3392a; gem, mate;
ducks, 49am; turkeys, “@453; lb.

Dressed moldy—Chickens, 37®380
ducks, mm; geese, 28@30c per lb.

SKY IS CLEARING

Couldn't do without BUSINESS
Fame no-how. Here’s my $1. I
am going to write Mr. Fordney today
and give him my resikcts. I am
farming 180 acres, every foot of it
available tiled to perfection and one
of the best kept up farms in the
Thumb and through such shysters
as Mr. Fordney we are kept grub-
hing. I am one of the fellows prom-
ised by Mr. Wilson a golden harvest
through the .war.
not reap it it would be our own
Inuit. Consequently I started in
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before, the necessity for na-
tional unity; one ﬂag, one
purpose, one form of patriotic
understanding.

A confusion of tongues
makes for a confusion of
ideas and principles. Every-
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up-building and maintenance
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makes for national strength
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constant occurrence.

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wires are to be cﬂective, those
who use them must speak the
earn: languageThe telephone
best serves those who have
become one with us in speech.

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is not enough from those who
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Deal. I have been 41 years farming
and have done enough overtime work
to have made 5 men rich as farmers
would reckon, and thank the Lord I
believe the sky is clearing for a fair-
er. dawn. Hoping and trusting—4.
D. 8., Tusco-ia County.

WHAT'S A FARMER?
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sustenance and that of his fondly, than.
of his products that other people will not
ntillz 3.

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the daily papers, but who can Gone neor- .
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, oonver about March 8, 13, 18, 24, and
t temperatures will rise on all the
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Rockies by close of March 9, 13,

19, 25: plains sections 10, 14, 20, 26;
meridan 90, great lakes, middle Gulf
States and Ohio Tennessee valleys
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» GAINthe. Lenten season is with
A ns and we hear of the toreg'o-x
Every person certainly has a right to
his oWn belief in this matter, but I
was impressed the other day by a
little Sunday School lesson ,I heard
”a progressive woman teaching her
class in connection with this subject:

“I gained myjnspiration from the
resolution adopted by the Boy Scouts
during Scout week.” she said—eto‘ “do
one kind act each day during that
week,” and I just thought that if we
tried to do one kind act or say one
kind word to some one less fortun-
ate than ourselves, we would be fol-
lowing very closely in the footsteps
of'our Savior, and so I am going to
adopt their slo-
gan during the ' .; r
Lenten seas o n, 1 '
and I hope that
when the season
is past the habit
will be so ﬁrmly
grounded, that I
shall continue it
throughout the
year. And‘I 'am
simply making
the suggestion to
you . today. I
shall not ask for
a deﬁnite prom-
ise, but think it
over. girls and
see if, in perhaps
taking some of
your own time in
the doing Of a
kind act for an-
other, you will
not ﬁnd that you
are not keeping
the true letter of the law.”

And When the next day I called on
a sick friend, only to ﬁnd that this
same Sunday school teacher. who is
a busy woman with a family of ﬁve
to do for, had been there before me,
with a cup of custard for the sick
woman, I knew that she was living
her religion every day.

We haven’t heard from our poet.
Mrs. Dillenbeck, for a long time, so
I am glad this week to be able to
give you a poem particularly adapt-
ed to the season, from her ‘pen, on-
titled: “A Simple Prayer.”

Yale, R 6,
picture contest.

\VOMEN ENTER THE GAME

T WAS just about this time last
Iyear that Mrs. Julia Martin sat
in her sitting room on the farm
whereoshe had come as a bride, and
faced the problem of the future for
herself and two sturdy, growing boys.
The ravages of the flu had claimed
her husband, whose early efforts had
directed to paying for stocking his
farm, and now, just when he was in
a position to turn his work into mon-
ey which might be laid aside for the
future,‘he was taken and as his wid-
ow sat in her home. she realized that
the task before her was no easy one.
Should she sell the farm for what
she could get for it and move into
the city t‘wenty miles distant and
there secure some work for herself
and endeavor to make enough to
keep her boys in school, or what
should she do. To hire help and run

from experience was out of the ques—
tion,'forlhadn’t Will vainly tried to
get a man just during the harvest
time.

Were she to move to the city, what
would she do? She had married
young—never had any business
training, and, although she was an
excellent housekeeper, wife and
mother, what could she realize on
that now it she were to go to the
city. No one would want even a.
housekeeper who had two growing
= boys; to feed. , _ ‘_

One thing was sure. She had
made .up her mind that her boys
should receive a good education.
They must continue in school.‘ .. -'

All her his she had‘lnont on a
farm. . .
poultry raislngand.knew that“: she

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Edited by MABEL CLARE—LAD]; .
Gradually, the light dawned on
her; She would advgertise’sixty-acres
for sale, reserving for herself the
On this twenty~ ,she’
would build a very modest little cot-1 .
tags, where, with .all the rooms '.on
one floor, it would take the minimum
'of effort to do the housekeeping.
Then she would invest in an incubat-
or, a broader, build some, small
chicken houses in the most approved
style and start in to raise some chick-
ens f-or early market. and keep hens
for winter eggs.

And she would have hér straw-
berry bed transpianted before she
sold the big house and the sixty

shrubs and flowers add to the attractiveness of the home grounds.

ls here shown tying ,up her plants. This Is ono_of the pictures a

acres. She would invest in some
raspberry bushes and currant shrubs. ‘
With the help'of her two boys nights
and mornings she ﬁgured that she
could raise enough on the twenty
acres to feed her chickens without
buying and also the one cow which
she planned to keep. " ‘

Her. plans are now complete—al-
ready the ﬁrst eggs are in the incu-
bator and when a friend who knew
her offered to take me out I was
more than delighted. “Perhaps some
of our readers will get an idea,"
thought I. And so I pass it on to
you for what it is worth.

But before closing I must tell you
of her plans to “sell her goods."
“Everyone tells me that people in
the cities/are more than anxious to
get fresh vegetables, chickens, eggs,
etc.. and so I have ﬁgured out that I
shall not need a machine to" take
my products to markets, but instead
I am asking each of my friends who
knows a family. in the near-by city
who own a car, to give me their
names and addresses, and I am go-
ing to write them a little note, and
see if .I can’t market my products
without stepping out of my yard.

“Just a minute, let me read you a
letterel have framed up and see it
you think it will work.” Full of ad-
miration for this energetic little wo—
man, I awaited with curiosity, the
reading of the letter which she was
to send out.

“I am planning to write each one
personally, for while it. may take
some time at ﬁrst, I ﬁgure that when
once I get a customer. I shall never
need to write again and that each
customer I get will tell their neigh-
bors if they are pleased, and after I
am once started, my project will ad-
vertise itself.” Here is the letter:

"Dear Mrs. Brownz.

"Our mutual friend, Mrs. Graham,
advises me that yen own a machine
and—often motor into thecountry on
Saturday alterations ' and in, the t‘
evening. I have a small garden truck L
farm and also raise poultry.

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ply or ﬂash eggs.'a chicken or fresh
vegetubles'“trom~the Garden. '

a».

a.

. "you can reach me} by "tolsph‘ene ,3:
' and it you can arrange to can the ‘

evening before, can
lire-Bed tor you“?

have ”a, chicken

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secure an incubator.

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tablesund eggs” tram me, pimzm- -; ~

ityme asfsoon as convient as I donor
‘Wish to. notify more people than I ,
can supply." ‘ p, _ ,
- » “Yours very truly,” ~
(Mm) Julia Martin.

This little ‘woman had thought

{ herself unprepared to face the world

alone and yet her reeourcetulnen
amazed me and I am sure that she
will make a success of her venture.
Herboys will be kept in school and
away from the city until they have
their morals ﬁrmly grounded and
will live‘ wholesome lives.

POULTRY
non. Pnom

HERE is no

I gainsayi as
th e t a ct

that there is
money in raising
poultry and in

' the, sale of eggs
———for some peo—
ple—an d the
people who make
the money out of
this business are

those who give
thoughtful con-
sideration I. nd

study to the sub—
ject —~ in other‘
words who make
a business prop—
s osition of i 1:.
Mrs. Wm. Yulll, of MOSt farms have
worded a prlzo In our a few chickens—-
there are enough
~ scraps from the
table to feed a. few; the flock is in-
creased and it is necessary to have
regular feed fer the chickens. But
often no attention is paid to the
breed or strain, it’s just. a. hit and
miss assortment of chickens, when
the truth of the matter is that in enr—
der to be a truly paying proposition,
as much attention should be given to
the breeding e: chickens for laying
or forlearly marketing as to the oth-
or farm stock.

It is generally the women of the
farms to whom falls the care and the
feeding of the ﬂock, than why should
not she make of it a businessb—sac-
cure the chickens which are known
to be layers it she is going into it to
raise hens for the eggs, or select a.
strain which will be ready for unr—
ket most quickly if she is mining
broilers.

If one goes into the business for
real proﬁt, then of coursre it. pays to

In some. agri-
cultural schools, the running oil an

incubator is taught as part of the

regular course in agriculture.

Cromwell. in‘ his book “Agricul—
ture and Life” states:

The larger incubators heated by
water, which in turn is heated by
coal, give better satisfaction- There
are a number of rules for running
the incubator which are easily learn—
ed. Here are the principal ules: ’

1.—-—~Select. part. of the hens that
show constitution, vigor and vitality.
2.—-'I‘rapnest.these the ﬁrst, year.
Sell the eggs. Do not allow male

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chilling them. Start with the same
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ginning after the second Or third day.

2 A SIMPLE PRAYER
By C. Shirley Dillenback

Help me to earn by honest toil and
. not by strife,

My daily bread. so ﬁtly called the
staff of life;

Nor stint the measure of my daily
toil— -

Though those who merit may not
reap the spoil;

To help each comrade that I find in
dire distress,

Although, perehance, there never is
redress——

To seek each day such comforts as
will give,

Contentment with the humble life I
live;

To see some good in everyone I meet.

Though it be a beggar of the village
street,

0r fallen maid whom others fain
would shun— .

Let me remember each as someone’s
cherished one;

To keep ‘ my faith
strive for gold

And earn-at last a-
fold—

Where each receives the merits he
h!“ won

80 let me live until the race is’run

In harmony with all my friends and

"' God

As those in ancient times who tilled

-- the sod.

though! others

shelter in the

, We are very sure that Our Page
will be much more attractive than it
has been from the fact that we are
receiving so many pictures of homes
and farm scenes of our members.
All that we can use will be paid for
with a special prize, and those that
are not available for use will be re-
turned.

More and more the
are coming to learn that our Per-
sonal Service Shopping Department
is a real beneﬁt Special patterns
have been secured for subscribers
during the past week, and we bought
a. rubberized apron with pockets for
one subscriber who was going down

south and wanted such an apron to.

hold her w'ash cloth, hair pins, and
the numerous other articles a wo-
nian needs in the dressing room.
~ These aprons are very handy as they
can be tied around the waist while
you are dressing and all your toilet

. items. :Thi
' sand bilk

lamp go out or the tem-"

the after- I

‘I ‘ the ideal of the To’Wn-

This is whatis cempre‘he'nded in the
resolution of the National Grange
Which raids as ibiliows:

“The present and potential develop?

ment of high power motor trucks and
high speed passenger cars practically
revblutianiZed the highway conditions
and necessities of this country, and
with due regard for the demands 0:
the present and the future necessities
for permanent, hard surfacd highways
we believe that the time has come
when all the National Government
highway activities should be uniﬁed in
a single administrative department,
under such limitations of powers as
will secure the greatest possible de~

, gree of efﬁciency and economy in the

expenditure of national funds. We
favor the working out of a national
highway law that will best Serve the
welfare of the whole country and dis-
tribute the expense 01 highway con-
struction equitably between the bene-
ﬂciaies."

,, There should be no misapprehension

about this unduly relieving country,

people of highway expenses. After all
these 'hard roads are built for the ex-
pense of which the farmers will pay
their full share of all taxes direct and
indirect, there will still remain sever-
al million miles of dirt roads which
the country people will build and take
care of just asthey always have done.
State highway departments will have
a man-sized job in every state after
the meagre one per cent called for in
the Townsend bill are built and main-
tained by the Federal Government.

Senator Townsend has a broad and
statesmanlike ngp of this whole

.pr’oblem.’ Farmer people everywhere

will make no mistake in urging the
passage of this bill by the present Con-
gross.

 

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Best paper in the state for the farm-
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Every person certainly has ‘11 id t to
his ovtn belief in this matter, ﬁt I
was impressed the other day by a
little Sunday School lesson I_ heard
’a progressive woman teaching her
class in connection with this 's‘ubject:
“I gained my inspiration from the
resolution adopted by the Boy Scouts
during Scout week ” she said—to“‘do
one kind act each day during that
week, ” and I just thought that if we
tried to do one kind act or say one
kind word to some one less fortun-
ate than ourselves, we would be fol-
lowing very closely in the footsteps
of our Savior, and so I am going to
adopt their slo-
gan during the -
Lenten seas o n,
and I hope that "
when the season
is past the habit
will be so ﬁrmly
grounded, that I
shall continue it
throughout the
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us and we hear of the forage-1
ing of pleasures our mimics '

5: nailed by Hanan am noon

Gradually, the light downed on
her. She would surmise sixty acres
for sale. meaning for herself the

. end twenty.- On this twenty she
«would build a very modest little cot-

tags, where, with .all the rooms on
one floor, it would take the minimum
or effort to do the. housekeeping.
Then she would invest in an incubat-
or, a broader, build some small
chicken houses in the meet approved
style and start in to raise some chick-
ens for early market. and keep hens
for winter eggs.

And she would have her straw-
berry bed' transplanted before she
sold the big house and the sixty

 

tables and sets from the.

can supply; . a 1
“Yours very truly, ” . ~
. (Mrs. ) Julia Martin.

This little woman had thought

" herself unprepared to taco the world

alone and yet her resourcefulneu
amazed me and I am sure that the
will make a success, of her venture.
Herboys will be kept in school and
away from the city until they have
their morals ﬁrmly grounded and
will live‘ wholesome lives.
POULTRY ,
FOR. PROM
HERE is no
I ' gainsayi 1&3
th e f a at
that there is

money in raming’,
poultry and in

——for some peo-
ple—an d the
people who make
the money out of
this businem are

those who give
thoughtful con—
sideration a. nd

, study to the sub—
ject —— in other
words who make
a business prop-

el ositio-n of it.

 

kind act for an-
other, you will
n-ot ﬁnd that you
are not keeping
the true letter of the law.”

And when the next day I called on
a sick friend, only to ﬁnd that this
same Sunday school teacher. who is
a busy woman with a family of ﬁve
to do for, had been there before me,
with a cup of custard for the sick
woman, I knew that she was living
her religion every day.

We haven’ t heard from our post
Mrs. Dillenbeck, for a long time, so
I am glad this week to be able to
give you a poem particularly adapt—
ed to the season, from her pen, en-

plcture contest.

titled: “A Simple Prayer.”
YVOMEN ENTER THE GAME

year that Mrs. Julia Martin sat

in her sitting room on the farm
where-she had come as a bride, and
faced the problem of the future for
herself and two sturdy, growing boys.
The ravages of the flu had claimed
her husband, Whose early efforts had
directed to paying for stocking his
farm, and now, just when he was in
a position to turn his work into mon-
ey which might be laid aside for the
future, he was taken and as his Wid-
ow sat in her home she realized that
the task before her was no easy one.

Should she sell the farm for what
she could get for it and move into
the city twenty miles distant and
there secure some work for herself
and endeavor to make enough to
keep her boys in school, or.what
should she do.
the farm of eighty acres she knew
from experience was out of the ques-
tion, 'for hadn’t Will vainly tried to
get a man just during the harvest
time.

Were she to move to the city, what
would she do? She had married
young—never had any business
training, and, although she Was an
excellent housekeeper, wife and
mother, what could she realize on
that now if she were to go to the
city. No one would want even a
housekeeper who had two growing

IT WAS just about this time last

One thing was sure. She had,
made up her mind "that her 110?:
should receive a good education.
They must continue in school. ~ r

All her life she had spent on a
form. 8110 understood gardening
poultry raising and knew that she.

 

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. could soon learn what was m1: '
1 to know also? moi j' o. m.

Shrubs and flowers add to the attractiveness of the home grounds.
Vale, R 8, la here shown tylng up her plants. Thls Is one of the plcturoe awarded a prlzo in our

acres. She would invest in "some
raspberry bushes and currant shrubs.
With the help of her two boys nights
and mornings she ﬁgured that she
could raise enough on the twenty
acres to feed her chickens without
buying and also the one cow which
she planned to keep.

Her plans are now complete—al—
ready the ﬁrst eggs are in the incu-

bator and when a friend who knew '

her offered to take me out I was
more than delighted. "Perhaps some
of our readers will get an idea,"
thought I. And so I pass it on to
you for what it is worth.

But before closing I must tell you
of her plans to “sell her goods."

\“Everyone tells me that people in

the cities/are more than anxious to
get fresh vegetables, chickens, eggs,
etc.. and so I have ﬁgured out that I
shall not need a machine
my products to markets, but instead
I am asking each of my friends who
knows a family. in the near—by city
who own a car, to give me their
names and addresses, and I am go-
ing to write them a little note, and
see if .I can't market my products
without stepping out of my yard.

“Just a minute, let me read you a
letter I have framed up and see if
you think it will work.” Full of ad-
miration for this energetic little wo-
man, I awaited with curiosity, the
reading of the letter which she was
to send out.

“I am planning to write each one
personally, for while it. may take

some time at ﬁrst, I ﬁgure that when -

once I get a customer. I shall never

need to write again and that each

customer I get will tell their neigh-

bors if they are pleased, and after I

am once started, my project will ad-

vertise itself. ” Here is the letter:
“Dear Mrs. Brown:.

”Our mutual friend, Mrs. Graham,

advises me that you own a machine

and" often motor into the country on

Saturday afternoons and in the
evening. I have a small garden truck
farm, and also raise poultry. for sale

. and thought yen blight be intereuedfi.
Tin motoring out and securing a sup-

ply of fresh sees. :1 Chicken or trash-
insomniac from the screen.

"Ion can reach me by telephone ..
’ and it you can arrange to can the in
,evening‘ before, can have” a ”chicken

   
  

dressed for you.“ . :'

0 take -

111m. Wm Yulll ,, Most farms have

there are enough

scraps from the
table to feed a. few; the flock is in—
creased and it is necessary to have
regular feed fer the chickens. But
often no attention is paid to the
breed or strain, it's just a hit and
miss assortment of chickens, when
the truth of the matter is that in or-
der to be a truly paying proposition,
as much attention should be given to
the breeding of chickens for laying
or for early marketing as to the oth-
er farm stock. ,

It is generalli the women of the
farms to whom falls the care and the
feeding of the flock, then why should
not she make of it a business—net—
cure the chickens which are rum
to be layers if she is going into it to
raise hens for the eggs, or select a
strain which will be ready for nor-
ket most quickly if she is main;
broilers.

If one goes into the business for

real proﬁt, then of scores it pays to
secure an incubator.

In some agri—
cultural schools, the running of an

incubator is taught as part of the

regular course in agriculture.

Cromwell in his book “Agricul-
ture and Life" states:

The larger incubators heated by
water, which 1n turn is heated by
coal, give better satisfaction Then
are a number of rules for running
the incubator which are easily learn—
ed. Here are the principal uIes: '

1.—-Select part of the items that
show constitution, vigor and vitality.
2 ——'I‘rapnest these the ﬁrst year.
Sell the eggs. Do not allow male
bird to mate with these the ﬁrst year.
3.-—-After a reasonable mil with

.5 good feeding, mate the best layers
. from these with males those ancest‘
, on; were known to be. egg

strains.‘
From these matings get eggs for est-

' T” ting

i.———Set the incubator in a
ventilated room Where the tempera-s
ture does not very rapidly or for. ,

5 .-—Overhanl cubator mm
1y to see that it. is in coed order and
be sure that you understand all ports.

6' 5—8tart the tacuhater some days
bolero yen are a put in the out to
bc sure that you understand how to

.,,,,ruu1t. Beaurethettho 1mm ,

and that them a

cam“.

fore it you wish to secure yonr vege-
please not? , ,

“ﬂy the as soon as dentist“. as I do not; .

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end a freshly trimmed wick for
night. '

, 14 .-'-—-Do not handle or even touch
the eggs with oily hands.

15 .-—Test eggs on the sixth or sev- ,
enth day, throwing out infertile eggs.

Iii—Keep the machine dark dur-
ing hatching time. Do not opbn it

' unless absolutely necessary.

17 .-—Foliow the manufacturer’s
He probably knows best
how his machine should be run.

18.——Leave the chicks in the nu'r-l
‘sery for twenty—four to fortyéeight
hours after hatching. They do not
need feed. '

19. —-—Dbn’ t spend your
time helping weak chicks.
can’t get outLof their shells, they
probably are not worth helping. ’ *

20.1—Ha've the brooder ready and
transfer the chicks to it without
chilling them. Start with the same
temperature for the brooder that you

‘ had in the incubator and lower grad-

ually, say ﬁve degrees per week, be-
ginning after the second 0r third day.

/ A SIMPLE PRAYER
By C. Shirley Dillenback
Help me to earn by honest toil. and
not by strife, .
My daily bread, so ﬁtly called the
staff of life;

_Nor stint the measure of my daily

toil-—

'Though those who merit may not

' reap the spoil;

To help each comrade that I ﬁnd in
dire distress,

Although, perohance. there never is
redress——

'l‘o se'ek each day such comforts as
will glve,

Contentment with the humble life I
live;

To see some good in everyone I meet,

Though it be a beggar of the village
Street,

0r“ fallen maid whom others Iain
would shun—

Let me remember each as someone’s
cherished one;

To keep my faith
strive for gold

And earn at last a
fold-—

Where each receives the merits he
has won

80 let me live until the race is run

In harmony with all my friends and

though others

shelter in the

’ God .

As those in ancient times who tilled
-' the sod.

_ We are very sure that Our Page
will be much more attractive than it
has been from the fact that we are
receiving so many pictures of homes
and farm scenes of 'our members.
All that we can use will be paid for
with a special prize, and those that
are not available for use will be re-
turned.

,More’and more. the subscribers
are coming to learn that our Per-
sonal Service Shopping Department
is a. real beneﬁt Special patterns
have been secured for subscribers
during the past Week, .and we bought
a. rubberized apron with pockets for .
one subscriber who was going down
south and Wante'd such an apron to
hold her w'ashfcloth, hair pins, and
the numerous other articles a wo-
man needs in the dressing room.

‘ These aprons are very handy as they -

can be tied around the waist while
you are dressing- and all your toilet

aorticles are close at ha (1, and at
night they roll up and

e different"
«uses are kept in their separate.

‘ ' cempartMents. gnu-ch like the com-'_ ,
tort hits the Soldier boys used to use. ‘

snafu; take oh a lohgl'
motor trip ‘

_ resolution of the National

the after- i
.. revolutionized the highway conditions

. gree of efﬁciency and economy in the

valuable"-
If they

. pr’oblem.

 

in
. ideal or the Torm-

and bi '

This is what is comprehended in the
Grange
which reads as. folliows: - .

“The present and potential develo
ment of high power meter trucks and

high speed passenger cars practically

and necessities of this country, and
with due regard for the demands of
the prosent and the future necessities
for permanent, Ihard surfacd highways
we believe that the time has- come
when all the National Government
highway activities should be uniﬁed in

asingle "administrative department,
under such limitations of powers as
will secure the greatest possible de-

expenditure of national funds. We
favor the working out of a national
highway law that will best serve the
welfare of the whole country and dis-
tribute the expense 01: highway con-
struction equitably between the bene-
ﬁciaies. " '

There should be no misapprehension
about this unduly relieving country

people of highway expenses. After all

theSe 'hard roads are built for the ex-
pense of which the farmers will pay
their full share of all taxes direct and
indirect, there will still remain sever-
al million miles of dirt roads which
the country people will build and take
care of just as they always have done.
State highWay departments will have
a man-sized job in every state after
the meagre one per cent called for in
the Townsend bill are built and main-
tained by the Federal Government,

Senator Townsend has a. broad and
statesmanlike graSp or this whole
Farmer people everywhere
will make no mistake in urging the
passage of this bill by the present Con-
gress.

 

‘_WE THANK YOU
Can’t get along without M. B. F.
Best paper in the state for the farm-
ers. Hope we land our governor.-

a .,-. .’>

 

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thing used with it—ﬂour, sugar, eggs,
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THE JUNIOR COOK
Rudabago
Many times tasty and inexpensive
vegetables are not used as much as
they should be because the cook
doesn’t know the best way of pre-
paring them. Rudabago is the very
cheapest of all winter vegetables and
when cooked this way is one of the
most delicious.
Peel and cut into inch size pieces
shoot 2 pounds of rudabago.
Wash, cover with water and put
on to cook, in a tightly covered ves-

After it has boiled hard for ten
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for 1 and one- -half hours.

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witha wire masher and add 1 tea.-
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and cook for one- -half hour more.

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be thick and a rich yellow and should
be cooked dry enough to serve on a

te with meat without seeming

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h best) and cook ﬁve minutes more.

Va Serve hot.

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crumbs, dot with meat fat and bake
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inside the tire crackled merrily and
under the reading lamps mm of
oranges, mind and yellow, smiled
like so many little shining suns and
invited Jamie; to partake of their
sweetness .

“My, these oranges are good. grand-
ma)’ said the little boy, pulling oi!
the fragrant peeling. Where did they
come from?"

“Probably from Florida or. Califor-
nia where it'e- nice and warm meat of
the time," said his grandma, looking
up from her knitting. “Lettuce—ere
they navel oranges?"

Jamies held one up for her to see.

“Yes, they are carols. Then the!
cane from California, most likely tor
most at the Florida oranges have
seeds in them."

"What is a navel orange, grand-
ma?" Jamie asked.

His grandma picked up an orange.

-"Do you see that little cluster of skin

at the end? Sometimes inside oi that
is another tiny little orange. And

.then navel oranges never have any

seeds."

"How’d that happen? Did some
smart man make them grow that
way?"

“No, they grow that way naturally."

“How do new orange trees grow if
there's: any seeds to plant?" the lit-
tle bOy wanted to know.

“They are budded or grafted, " add
his grandm

"What does that mean?” Jamie
asked.

“A small piece with buds on it is
outfromatreethstisbearingor-
anges, andsetinthewoodeiatree
whichhasbecometooold'tobearany
more fruit. It is tied~securely into the
slit barker the old tree, and after a
while itbegins ot grow and makes a
fine young tree".

T‘Don’t any oranges. grow irom
seeds?" asked Jamie.

“Oh, yes, but the best trees are
made by budding. If you plant sev-
eral orange seeds in aflower pot and
keep'them (mice and warm and give
them plenty-of water, you can raisea
little orange tree yourself—a seedling,
but it won't grow v large.”

“How big are regular orange trees?"

“About as high as this ceiling. The
leaves are always green, and there are
blossoms, green fruit and ripe fruit
on the trees all at the same time "

“How funny! How long does it take

for oranges to get ripe?" Jamie ask-
:‘About a year, but there are usual- ' '

1y three crops a year, and the trees
keen right on blossoming all the
time."

“Do the trees grow in orchards?"
the little boy asked.

“Yes, they are set out in rows, with

[ditches containing water between

them.”
”Water? Wh t for?"
“The co - es where the oranges.

.grow havewhat they call dry seasons

when there isn't any rain, so the trees
have to be watered and this is done

by the 'ditderrlgation ditches,

they are called, " ﬁnished his grand-

“How many oranges grow on one

tree?" asked Jeanie.

"Anyway from 250 to 600 a year in
California, although in more tropical
countries there are men, than that on
one tree." -

“One time I" Ind an orange that was
red inside. What kind or an orange
was that?" Jamie wanted to know.

“That was a blood orange," said his
grandma.

"Are there many kinds oi oranges,
grandma?"

“Over a hundred different varieties. -
. Did you ever eat a tangerine?"

“I always call tangerines kid glove
oranges. Why do people call them

. that?" asked Jamie.

"I suppose it is because they are so
easy to peel and eat that you could
do it without soiling your gloves."

"I wonder (if I could!” laughed Jam-
ie. “But what makes some oranges
kind of brown. grandma? Is that an-
other hind?"

‘ﬂ‘hey are called ruseet oranges,“
replied his grandma, “but they are
not any special variety. You could

here, because the orange growers did“

not know how to pack them so they
wouldn’t-rot. They have to be hand-
led very carefully. Each orange is
picked by hand and put into a bag or
basket. The pickers and packers must
halve their finger nails out very short,
for the slightest prick in the skin
causes the orange to decay. And they

must not be bruised, either. After-‘

they are picked they are set aside for

’ a few days to rest—curing, that is

called, then they are sorted.”
“How are they sorted?" Ja’mie
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”I to it that the man who 'was to
die at ten next morning, should have
neither reprieve nor rescue. The

thing clear, it he were. to win

‘ ,, quickly, was that ‘ Henry

organ should die quickly.

"We will speak at it no more . .
how," he said with chivalric‘gentle-

, as he gently pressed her hand,
:0“ to his feet, and gazed down on
Oil'- ‘
‘_ She returned a soft pressure of
thanks with her own hand ere she
released it and stood up.

“come," she said. "We will join
the others. They are planning new,
or trying to ﬁnd some 'plan to save
Henry Morgan." ' '

The conversation of the group ebb-
ed away as they joined it, as if out of
half-suspicion of Torres.

anythlnx

"Have you hit upon
yet?” Leoncia asked.

Old Enrico, straight and slender
and graceful as any of his sons des-
pite his age, shook his head.

"I have a pla'npif you will pardon
me," Torres began, but ceased at a
warning glance from‘Alesandro, the
eldest son. .

On the walk, below the piazza, had

appeared two scare-crows of beggar"

boys. Not more than ten years of

e, by their size, they seemed much

er when judged by the shrewd-
lless of their eyes and faces.‘ Each
wore a single mansions garment, so
that between them it could be said
they shared a shirt and pants. But
Inch a shirt !- And such pants ! The
latter, man-size, of ancient duck,

were buttoned around the lad's neck,

the waistband reeled with knotted
twine so “not to slip down over his
shoulders. His arms were thrust
through the holes where the side-
pockets had been. The legs of the
pants had been hacked off with a
.knife to suit' his own diminutive
The tails of the
We shirt on the other boy drag-
ged on the ground.

"Vamos i" Alesandro
ﬁercely at them to be gone.

But the boy in the pants gravely
removed a stone which he had been
carrying on top of his bare head, ex-
posing a letter which had been thus
carried. Alesandro leanedover, took
the letter, and with a glance at the
Inscription passed it to Leoncia,
while the boys began whining for
money. Francis, smiling, despite
himself at the spectacle of them, toss-
ed them a few pieces of small silver,
whereupon the shirt and the pants
toddled away down the path. ‘

The letter was imm Henry and
Leoncia scanned it hurriedly. It
was not precisely in farewell, for .he
wrote'in the tenor of a man who
never expected to die save by some
inconceivable accident. Noyerthe—
lees, on‘the chance of such incon-
ceivable thing becoming 1' possible,
Henry did manage to say good-bye
and to include a facetious recom—
mendation to Leoncia not toiorget
Francis, who was well worth remenr-
boring because he was so much like
himself, Henry.

Leoncia's ﬁrst impulse was to
show the letter to the others, but the
]portion about Francis withstrained

er. -

"It’s from Henry,” she said, tuck—
ing the note into her bosom. "There
is nothing of importance. He seems
to have not the slightest doubt that
he will escape‘somehow.

\ “We shall see that he
Francis declared positively.

, With a. grateful smile to him, and
with ’one of interrogation to Ter-

shouted

does,"

, resrﬁLeoncia said: ,' .
"You were speaking at -a plan, 4

Send: Torres?" -- '_

Torres smiled, twisted his mus--
techs, and struck and attitude .0:
,f‘Th eh isﬂone way, .the Gringo,

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Henry, it looks as if it were all up
with him "

"You mean you doubt me?" To:‘
res bristled. ,

"Heavens. man," Francis, pro—
tested.

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that I am forbidden by you, a man

 

eat and most honored friends."

Old Enrico who had not missed
the rising wrath against Francis in
Leoncia's face, succeeded in con-
veying a warning to her, are, with
e. courteous gesture, he hushed Tor-
res and began to speak.

"l‘here'are no councils of the So-
lanos from which you are barred.
Senor Torres. You are indeed an
old friend of the family. Your late
father and I are comrades, almost
brothers. But that—and you will
pardon an old man's judgment—does
not prevent Senor Morgan from be-
ing right when he says your plan is
hopeless. To storm the jail is truly
madness. Look at the thickness of
the walls. They could stand a siege
of weeks. .. And yet, I conﬁnes it, al-
most tempted when you ilrst broach-
ed the idea. Now when I was a
young man, fighting the Indians in
the high Cordilleras, there was a
very case in poina. Come, let us all
be seated and comfortable, and I'will
tell you the tale . . . ”

But Torres, busy with many things
declined to wait, and with soothed
amicable feelings shook hands all
around, briefly apologized to Fran-
cis, and departed astride his silver-
saddled and silver-bridled horse for
San Antonio. One of the things
that busied him .was the cable cor-
respondence maintained between
him and Thomas Regan’s Wailetreet
oﬂice. Having secret access to the
Panamanian government wireless
station at San Antonio, he was thus

‘ able to relay messages to the cable

station at Vera Cruz. Not alone was
his relationship with Regan proving
lucrative, but it was jibing in with
his own personal plans concerning
Leoncia and the Morgans.

“What have you against Senor
Torres, that you should reject his
plan and anger him?” Leoncia de-
manded of Francis.

“Nothing," was the answer, “ex—
cept that we do not need him, and
that I'm not exactly infatuated with
him. He is a fool and would spoil
any plan. Look at the way he fell
down on testifying at my trial. May-
be he can't be trusted. I don’t know.
Anyway, what's the good oi trusting
him when we don’t need him? Now
his plan is all right. We'll go

' straight to the jail and take Henry

out, if all you are game for it. And
we don't need to trust to a mob of
unhung rascals and beach-eweepings.
If the six men of us‘cau't do it, we
might as well quit.” ‘ '
“There must beat 1 t a dozen
guards always hanging .
jail,” Ricardo, Leoncia's youngest
brother, a lad of eighteen, objected.
Leoncia, her eagerness alive again,
frowned at him; but Francis took his
part. ‘ .
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food afling and
mutants-is hose.
1nd so, how
much, ﬂtend how to.
_Krl-ggare mleﬁrbfeed corn and oats ground
are 68.11“ 1,

together good for mllch covet-AA. E"
Burt. Mich.

When used in proper quantities
beans may be fed to dairy cattle with
good results.

There are three ways in which cull
beans may be fed: - ‘

1.. They may be ground and mix-
ed with other grains.

 

2. They may be fed whole by\

soaking from ten to
hours before feeding.

, 3. They may be fed after cook-
.ing. The cooking of cull beans en-
tails considerable labor and where
a considerable number of cows are

twenty-four

to be fed this method of preparing ‘

is seldom feasible. When the beans
are soaked it is best to put the wet
beans on the silage and then drop
the ground feed on both of them.
This causes the provender to stick to
the silage and the cow ingests all
of the material together.

It has been our experience after
a good many trials in feeding beans
that a cow will not consume over
three pounds of the dried beans per
day and still clean up her feeding
regularly. So in making a grain
mixture it is not advisable to allow
more than three pounds of dry beans
for each mature cow fed—A. 0'. 'An-

dcrson, Prof. of Dairy Husbandry; M. .

A. 0.

 

TAX EXEMPTION LIllﬂT
I have a forty acre farm near the
village of F and Would like to know
how many cows and horses I may keep
without taxes. I have three jersey cows
and a. span of horses. I like the M.
B F. very mhch and will soon have to

renew. —Mrs. M. ,Oakland County
The law does not speciﬁcially ex-
empt any number of animals from
taxation. A person who is a house-
holder is entitled to an exemption. of
$500 on household provisions. fur-
niture and fuel and an exemption of
$200 on personal property actually
used in his business. Your subscrib-
er, therefore, would be entitled to
an exemption of $200 worth of live-
stock used on his farm if he is act--

 

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Q“ ooin‘pli‘i’liig '2: m'in‘m for Inna-mulch “dressed to on; dopamine We are bore ‘ ,.

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ually a householder in the township.
Horses and cattle not over one year

’old and sheep and swine not over --

six months old on the second Mon-

many of April are also eXempt from

taxation .-‘-L—'B. 1?. Bonuses, Secretary

Board cf‘lS'tate Tao Commutation.“ *

 

DETROIT MILK PRICE ,

Please give me some information
about the Detroit Conunlssion’s milk
. I have not seen anything” of it
in- your Michigan Business Farming
for long time. I wish you would
publish it in your Business Farming
every time the Commission sets the
price. ,--J. .l‘. H. .,,Vassar Mich. ,

We referred your letter to Mr. R.
C. Reed, secretary of Michigan Milk
Poducers’ Association. His answer
follows: ‘ Will say that we will try

‘ in then-near- future to give the report

of the Detroit Commission findings.
Frequently, I do not know of the
meeting of the Commission until a
very short time prior to its sitting
and have about all that I can do to
keep ’my locals advised in proper
time. The Commission is not called
by myself; it is a law unto itself and
does its own sweet will, which has
been very fortunate for the produc-
ers “of- Michigan up to the present
time. There will be no meeting of
the Commission until‘ the latter part
of next» month as the milk price for
March is on the same basis as the
milk price for February, or $4.05,
I. o. b, Detroit—R. 0’. Reed, Secre-
tary, Michigan Milk Produccrs' Ass’n.
——¥———__._.._.

LUPIN E SEED

With great interest I followed up ar-
ticles about lup-ine and seradella. I know
these plants and their value and though
as much as I would like to sow them and
as hard as I tried for the last two years
I could get no seed. Some-seed stores
didn’ t know it at all. Some didn' t handle
it. Now if I could get information where
to obtain some if only several pounds of
each I’d very much appreciate the favor
—P. .. Big Rapids, R 1.

MrK Schmidt advises that be pro-
curéd his seed from Nungessen, Dick-
inson & (30., or Hoboken, New Jersey.

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he
with tWO suretles in the sum oI 3.2:,-
500. This will entitle, him to act 'for
four years. There are certain dut-
ies he must porterm as pqute‘l out
in the. statute. The law applte;rto
each partner of a ﬁrm.- See 0. . L.
1915, See. 702Land following Ap-
ply to Secretary of Stator—W W.
Brown; legal editor. '

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OAT SPROUTER

 

I have just bought a house with a. fur- ,
nace and wish to know how to make oat. ,

sprouters. —<Subscrlber

On the basis of 100 hens build
frames that are 10 x 20 inches and
2 inches deep using on the bottom

common lath far enough apart to '

allow the water to trickle through
but near enough to prevent the cats
from dropping through. Soak the

_oats twelve hours in warm water.

Spread them on a tray one inch thick.
This is for Monday. Tuesday pre-
pare the second tray in the same way
and following with a tray each day
of the week until he has the full
seven. Place these in a frame work
as drawers Would be in a commOn bu-
reau. Sprinkle with water at 65 de-
grees temperature every morning.
Keep them near the furnace in the
furnace room. By the following

~Monday the ﬁrst tray will be ready

to feed the sprouts. They should be
from 14 to 1 1- 2 and well matted
with roots. We recommend one cub.
ic inch per hen per day but two cub-
ic inches would not be out of the
way. After the tray has been empt-
ied spray it with a weak solution of

formaldehyde to prevent moult and‘

start over again—0'. H. Burgess, Pro-
fessor of Poultry Husbandry, M. A. 0.

Will you kindly advise me how much
a cord of stone should weigh? ——-J. B.

It is very difﬁcult for us to state
the weight of a, cor-d of stone. as dif-
ferent stone are composed of differ-
ent substances which cause them. to
very greatly in weight. Howecer,
one cord of stone composed of bed
rock weighs 22, 240 pounds.

 

 

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NOBLE BIRD

Hen—My I
certainly am
helplng to low-
er the cost of
living.

 

 

His Identity
“Permit me, sir!" suavely said a
distinguished looking stranger in

Wayoverbehind to the owner of the 1.

balky mule. “I fancy I can start the,
stubborn but useful animal"

Apprdaching t‘he varmint from the
front he addressed a few words to him
in low, well- -modulated tones, whereat
the mule flapped his ears in pleased
acquiescence and marched onward
with his load.

,“Well, I’ll be dod-swizzled!"‘ ex-
claimed an innocent bystander. “Did
you see that? Who is that teller, any-
how?”

“He is a representative of a large
Eastern publishing house who calls
upon and sells to prominent citizens
valuable literary works that they do
not want and haven’t
for ” replied another a,
more sophisticated bystander

. Ills Likely Fate

“I hear your hired man has myster-
iously disappeared, " said Farmer
Bentover. ‘What do you s 'pose has

 

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‘t any use '
somewhat j

Not Censored!
Women should not be censured for/
wearing narrow skirts—it may be
their only safeguard against jumping

at conclusions.
0

 

“What do you think of the two can-
didates?"

“Well, the more I think of it the
more leased I am that only one of
them c be elected."

Men employ speech only to conceal
their thoughts. —-Voltaire, 1778

 

 
 
   
  
   

COULDN'T
MAKE HIS
2 FEET BEHAVE

Bug — l Just
' can’t help danc-
lng when they
beat this drum.

A-Jlady passenger, on a train going
through the country, saw a wind-mill
for the ﬁrst time.
to her home city, she told some of her
friends how kindhearted the farmers
are. .“'.l‘ust think of. it," said ’éhe:

~ / 1 4 In Bad Shape
John, . wedlour, came $3an

 

 

Upon her return '

“They have electric fans for their cat- 1 "
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A Quick Shave ,

A man came running into a barber
shop and said to the harbor, who hap-
pened to be an Irishman:

“Shave me as quick as you can; I
want to catch the next car."

Pat, the harbor, hustled and soon
had the man s-,haved when he said:

“Well, you did awquick job!” .

‘8Yes, " says the barber, “but I could
have shaved you quicker than that if
I had had a. little more time." »

According to Orders _

The doctor consulted his thermom-
eter and looked startled. Then he
hurriedly tested his patient’s pulse.

“Good gracious, man!” he gasped.
“What have you been doing? Your
temperature is up to danger point and
your pulse is terriﬁc. Have you been
limiting yourself to infant diet, as I
told you?"

The patient nodded teebly.

.“Yes, doctor, I have,’ ' he whispered.

“During the. last twenty-four hours I
{have eaten three _apple cores, over a
dozen matc‘h stalks and various bub-
tons; but I ﬁnd considerable diﬂlcub
ty in chewing the coal ”

 

 
    
   
   
   
    
     
    

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' $15.93!, Do. 5" lane
< sl‘pri‘se las‘ week an' to:- a little
,~ [spell was a feelin'" purty dum‘
goodfjrgot a raise in wages-hadn’t
. {neatly asked fer it neither; jest kinda
hinted that I’d sort a like it ya know.
~ Well I got it; we all did, an' by gosh!
I--~was ﬂggerin’ on what a lot of things
I was goin' to do with all that extra
money, 65 cents a day extra means
\quite a bit in .a year ya see. Well I
didn’t have to ﬁgger very long, hardly
stall ya might say, 'cause the, other
tellers, the business tellers heard of
it 'bout as soon as I did an’ they had
» everything planned to git that mon-
ey, an' they’re gittin’ it all right too,

    

  

belie v e m e !
they know how
to. git it all
right.

First thing,
my meals-went
up, 5 and 10
cents. I’m' tak-
in’ 'em at a res-
taurant n o w,
my r e g ' l a r
boardin’ m is-
tress bein’ in a
' hospital try 1 n'
to git well from an operation—5 and
10 cents—an’ many of the things I
out was gitti-n’ cheaper, eegs, butter,
likes o'that. Not only meals went up
but the pesky barbers, they heard
about the raise an’ up went their
prices, 5 and 10 cents on a shave an’
16 cents on a hair-cut. They had to
live they said, an’ I said mebbe they
did but I didn’t see no real reason
_for it, safety razors an’ everything be-
im' so cheap, but they ,stuck an’ so
more or my money ﬁcund‘a outlet.

Then socks went up an' clothes,
sugar and flour; doctors raised their
rates an’ ice took an upward jump;
jest think of it, ice goin' up, when we
got more of the darn stuff than we
know what to do with Well, I soon
found that I wuz worse off with the
raise than I was without it. ﬁnancial-
ly speakin', an’ so I can’t see where a
raise in wages has helped me a darn
bit, can you? ’Oonrse wuZ‘glad to
git it an’ appreciated 5. all right, but
the things I wanted to do with it I
can’t ’cause it all goe'I for livin' an’

 

' breathin’ an’ clothes any way, so
‘ what’s the use? ,
.An’ speakin' ’bout wothes! They

wuz a teller blow into Fhls town the
other day—quite a olduh teller—sed
he come in to see the mghts of a big
city; sed things wuz ,lurty dull to
home, not much goin' m. He said,
"Why,” he said, "a_ fuller dropped
dead in the postoffice «.ver there last
week an’ they didn’t ‘zind,him for
three days;” “gosh!” he sed, “I’d hate
to drop dead on the streets back
- home,” “I swan!" he sed; “they would
not discover me ’til they had ’nother
band concert.” I asked ’im where he
hailed from an’ be sed. “from Marsh—
all, Mich, b gosh!” Then, beluga
former resident of that t'hiivin' city,
I kinda got in conversation with the
ol' teller an’ asked ’im how he liked
our town, “0, ﬁne,” he sed; “Hot dog!
but there’s some purty sights here."
He ~sed, “Why, you got the swellest
women. classy an' right up to date
dressers,. too." .“Why,” said he, “I
stood right there by the bank corner
an’ watched the young women go by;

 

w... I."'got' quite ‘ a

'- ”stand it... as“. may he Sea: “uni

then went an! give half mymOney 'to
a blind man. sellin’ led pencils, am' if
the wind had been -blowin' a litTle

-~ harder," he sed, _“I'd a gin him every

darn cent Ihad." ' 1

Well, 1' left 'im an’ went an' stood
on that same corner fir quite a spell
’an’ ’though I didn't‘give away any
‘money, by ginger! I've got a lot of
sympathy'i’er them that can’t see.

Yes, this a darn nice town all right,
as towns go—lotg of work an' reason-
ably fair wages—hut as I-have off’en
sed before I don’t think young men
can save as much money here or in
any other city as they can workin’ on
a ﬂarm, an" in the city-you're a no-
body ’less ymf‘ve got a good big bank
account an' live high; you’re jest a
part or a machine, only one of the cog

- wheels, so to speak, on ain’t sure of

your ijb 15 minuits. ' ,
’bout the quickest. work that has

I been done here in some time, happen-

ed the week bginnion’ Fb. 15, 1920. On
Monday night, by holdin’ a hammer
over her head an’ threatenin' to kill
her, a feller named McCauley, com-
pelled a young widow of a month or
two, to promise to marry him; Tues-
day‘ they were married; Friday morn-
ing he beat her head in with an ax;
Friday afternoon at 3 or 4 o’clock
they found ‘him dead in a roomin'
house, he havin' committed suicide by
the pizen route. The woman left
three children by a former husband,
with no one, apparently to look after
them. .

Oh, yes, things seem to be swift in
the city, any city, thievin' an mur-
derin', everything happens; hold-ups
an’ marriages, which is only another
name for hold-ups sometimes, an’ di-
vorces, gosh! more divorces, purty
dum nigh than marriages or births,
ain’t it awful how some folks jest
love to git into the divorce courts; oh,
well, lawyers are supposed to have to
live, same as barbers or ice men, pick-
pockets or bootleggers; mebbe they
have to be here

but not on my (301’ we occur 70

account they Have 11' BACKAGAIN

don't. COUNT'A FLU!
Speakin’. of . =

bootleggers M '

brings up the

que st 1 o n o f
booze-‘ a feller
got a talkin' to
me ’h’other day

  

an’ he sed-
“Don't you :3; ~ ’
think doin' “ ‘ "-

away with licker has a good deal to
do with this influenza epedimic?"
“Dunno’s I do," I sez, “Why?
“’Cause,” he sed, “I notice I
never had any such thing when there
wuz plenty of likker to be had.”
“Well,” I sez, “neither did I, am so
far, I ain’t a havi-n’ it now, be you?"
“Well, no,’ .he sez, “not yit I aint, 'but
gosh, all hemlocks! I might have it
enny time, an then what?" he sez. I
sez to ’im, “My dear sir. the probabil-
ities are, you won’t, but if you did git
it your chances for recovery are a
darn sight better than they would a
been two or three years ago when you
kept so full of booze you looked like
a puffed—up warty toad am’ if a rattle
snake had hit ya he’d met a instant
an’ horrible, death." Cordially, Uncle
Rube.

‘A Few GlOom-Chasers From Today’s Mail

We have conﬁdence in M. B. F.—
' .G. S. lit. Cass County. .

Can’t farm without M. B. F.4—0. 'P.,
Mecosta/Connty.

 

I think your paper is all right. I
take quite a few papers but I think
yours the best.——W.“‘E. R.. Saginaw
County. ‘

 

Am reading your «farm paper and
hope'you will keep right on and not
’ get cold feet. - We farmers need a’
pﬁerjithat will stay by ‘us.——'R. L;,
~ W8 Growl/.2 - . , ‘ .
> " 'a“" . . -—-——— . i
i want ’t-or'niss any issues
the '1 may. ,we thave
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You are doing a good work for the
_farmers. Best paper I receive—W. A.
E., Saginaw County.

Please send me your paper for
which I will enclose one dollar for
one year. I think it is a fine paper,
one that we all ought to take—W. 11.,

Wayne 00.

Dear Sir -—-Enclosed find our
straw 'vote. There are four voters
at our house and all boosters for
Johnson. The .man that did a lot
to get the boys out of Russia and
we think that every soldier should
’boost for, Johnson. ‘Now a word
about M. B. F. the only farm paper
in ,Michigan worth reading because

 

  

  

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F THE farmer is ever to enjoy a reasonable leisure
such as nearly all city people now have—he must do
more work in less time.

THE

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25 H. P. on . Tum a Acre
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The work costs no more—usually less—than it would if you did it
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That is possible because the Huber Light Four is the “Tractor
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The Huber Light Four is powerful enough to pull three plows and a
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Wriiefor booklet " The Foundation of Tractor Dependablli ".

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so ACRES. SOIL CLAY LOAM. S ROOM
house, barn, sheds silo, granary. good well, young
orchard. 45 acres 2cigarcg, 0 ll t”2‘21- plow.
10 I we, 3 mares, roo sows, s.
forfcgnrtimlars. ms. 0. A. ROGERS.
R5, Marion, Mich.

 

FARMS FOR SALE—BIO LIST OF FARMS
for sale by the owners, giving his name. location
of farm, description, price and terms. Strictly
m l' and co- -operstive between the buyer and
seller and conducted for our members. 0L EAR-
INQ HOUSE ABS’.N Land Dept, Palmer and
Woodward Ave. 9

 

280 ACRES GOOD CLAY AND GRAVEL
loam soil. 120 acres under cultivation. Good
fences. good roads. good buildings, water
sores, 2 miles from Marion, Mich.,126
3 1-2 miles from Marion, Mich. Price 860. 00
per acre. write owner. W. J. TURNER. Marion.

‘ Mich; .
120 ACRE FARM FOR SALE, 1-2 MILE
’ irom town, good buildings. 50f ttrees, wind-
mill, os. Will sell stock and me cry with
farm. Easy terms. Address Box 24, Bentley.
Mich., Bay 00.

1. FOR SALE—440 CR 720 ACRE FARM. J.
Mich.

E. SHARP. Grant,

 

FOR SALE—FARM 122 ACRES. 8 MILES

from Lansing, on good road. All improved. Good
buildings. Best of soil. S.W HBEMPY R7. Lans-
ing. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—150 ACRES BLACK AND CLAY
liosm. 15 acres timber, 60 acres tile drained.
Large 11 room brick house, 8 large barns, hog.
and hen house. 8 wells and a nice young pear or-

‘ chard. This is s grand farm and must be seen

tobe appreciated. 1- 2 mile m3. L. W.

ASQUITH, Armada. Mich.

 

FOR BALE—FARM CF 84 ACRES. 8 MILES

160'

  

wood, --‘lsrge orchards. " .

 

ﬁISCELLANEOUgﬂ

 

sees men's oousLs «SOLE WORK
slhloes. brown or black. sewed tongues. s Bto
wideto ermA Sac at post I“ . Actual.
5 values. ODAVIS BROS“ 210 8. sh. A." .
higsn.

Lansing, Mic

 

REGISTERED FARM SEEDS.
Michigan's highest yielding varieties Michi-
an 2—row Barley, Reg. No. 9 1 at $2. 35 961‘
and Wisconsin Preeedig at $2. Such
. 1‘. BANDEEN, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. ,

extra.

 

Trisloi! oiler.
T1130“) TOBACCO ASB' N.. Dept. 5.‘
e. y.

FORto SALE—-CANADIAII FIELD PEAS.
resdyto sow, $6 cwt.. he s included. with 150
Kaunas or more. WALTE BROWN, Shepherd,

CUMBERLAND RASPBERRY PLANTS FOR
Isle. Plants by the twenty—ﬁve, ﬁfty, hundred
and thousand. The most extensively grown of
sny blackcs. Send for price list“ ELMER II.

EVIN.S urseryman, Ovid Mich.

BUILDERB' PRODUCTS 00.. 14 PASADENA
vs.. Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints,
.Irnish. Spraying Materials, Sprayers.

led free. M. B. TEEI’LE Mgr.

WSS-

 

 

 

 

SENATOR DUNLOP STRAWBERRY PLANTS
—-Money pickers. 1019 demand exceeded supply
Prospctc some this season. Order surly. $5. 00
germ 1.;000 $2. 50 per 500. Per 100, 75 cents.
HAMPTON & SON, Bangor, Mi‘ch.
$2.35 CHILD’S RUBBER BOOTS. SHINY.
fresh, ect goods, sizes .71 to 10 1- 2. Sizes ll
to 2. 2.65. Post free. DAVIS BROS. 210 8.
Wash. Ave.. Lansing. Michigan.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M.
M.” care Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
sns. Mich.

 

 

 

WE PAY 8200 MONTHLY SALARY AND
furnish rig and expenses to introduce guaranteed
nltry and stock powders. Bigler Company.
682, Springﬁeld' Illinois. ‘

 

WRITE THE CLARE JEWELRY 00. ruri
bnrgnin sheet of watches and silverware. “’12 do
watch repairing. Lock Box 535. Clsre, Mich.

VIOLIN WITH COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR
us. so trial. Busy payments. Handmade
snd sweet toned Write Miss Bertha Murdlss.
Shawnee. Kansas. .

 

 

   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
 
  
      
         
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
  
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
  

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1 cast at Hopkins. Well improved Price ﬁsht- ssnsroa cum." STRAWBERRY PLANTS
E A bargain Write GEO A- TUTTLE Hovkim- 5 per 1,000 delivered. .0. H. STANLEY. 1:2;
.‘ Mich. aw Paw. Mic
‘ .3 ORE FO7R BALE—TEAM OF LARGE MULE8. 8
l gooﬁonbuisldAilr-igs .2339 :30" “1:10 oAmhudS and? years old sound kind and good workers.
maple no" ' one“. 10m ”1] good W. ABQUITH. Armada, Mich. a
96 acres cultivated. so woods. and
pasture. 50w mmssdow. 8 sores wheat 11 acres . MICHIGAN CHOICE WHITE CLOVER HON-
lowsd. Price $8. 000. Terms. GEOildE JOHN- or in 6 lb. (Eh, psi or 84 pails in
l TON. 38. Port Hope ps. Mich. bﬁml. AR E RBEAKIE, Grindstone City.
800 ADRIO. GOOD CLAY AID GRAVIL 1.000.000 FORMULAS, RECIPES, FERTIL-
soil. Can be IoId' ‘0 farms. Isers. stock remedies .tonics. I ole les. How
ubibﬂiﬂnn'nlﬁwcmufm“ bmkesnddoev Ollipsaes.9
sndbsrrisshnslllsksen .sndisnn mm --g..1m,..,m39,99
com on I III. II"- N‘" M “4 edicts.” Vslnsbls book for every farm pos id,
hr WWII“ writs 5001‘ only 3.10. Psy postman on arrive oney
BOX 96. m. Inc you want it. Send no money! .Just a
mﬁ—mwl 0. GOOD DNOW, Dept. "I16.”
$14 AORI FARM. RIACONAILI1 8 1-2 1'
futon. ”Bins. v soil. sores
.Bgcod etched. 7 room house t.. WANTED—MARRIED MAN. GENERAL
midi!” pod Ming his. snddsiry work. usthksmllchsrze at
cg without stock and tools. limes. Near Pontiac. Address. EDWARD
3‘ mumﬁ , mm. c. sumo. sm— rrmm’s. Ypsihnﬂ. men
In. m. lento

 

FOR CALI—100 TONS OF LOOSE MIXED
by CHESTER WEDGE. Elwcll. Mich.

 

sass sovs' cornea roe LACE snore
9 to 13 1-2, solid soles will wear. Sent
ma DAVIS 131103.. 2ios Wash. Ave..

MARRIED MAN ‘
WANTED

married man to work on this farm

 

“I.“ no children. Must be competent
bsd bsb xfood opportun’
.bls. msn who is willing sn ble to give

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dd ress

HERBERT W. MUMFORD
m Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

’Is Your F arm for Sale?

Write out n plain description Ind Ig-
nlclessrsseh worthiﬂdsrgnnp of

'Ignrss. Send It In for one. two or three

hos. There's no cheaper or better- wsy
“and-mumshigsnnndycn
loci direct with the buycr.'Nc agents or
your Ins-n, send In your Id today. Don't
commissions. I! you wont to sell or trade
Jess an: chant it. 0nr.anIness Forming
W Exchange gets results. Address
W Inst-us Forming, Adv. Dept.
ls. Olen-ans.

 

. mm more moons
and help your friends by selling them

We own term weekly. Liber-
sl commission and all Inppiies free.
Bum,

Venom.
Mm

Manual

 

  

s‘r motto
135%”3“ thee“ wellto

care of the si Hey is bringi

ood price for there is not muchngom be

 

d. 1£0133st m hith
Thersis tic/building in the can
of auctions ﬁve or six a. week.
The follbwfrig prices were
Creek: —-'Whea.t, 2. 30@$2. 3; cats. 85;

$1. 47; y: 0.1 timothy. $30: No.

Wine mixed, y530; potatoes, :3; sprin-
etc. 27. butter. 60; eggs, 53; lambs, 10
17; hogs,14; beef steers, 8@10: best
cows, 7; veal calves. 10.

and scarce.

  

        

    
  

 

     
  

MISSAUKEE (S)—Practicadly all that;

the farmers are doing is their chores.

are hauling gravel on a' three and
a. half mile road. There are .still some
potatoes left in this neighborhood which
the farmers are holding for higher prices.
Hay is very scarce Other feed is also
scarce. Many dormers are buying feed.
No coal can be gotten here. The supplies
are about all run out. Farmers buying
,wood. others getting pine stumps an
burning them Are having plenty or
cold weather this winter. The coldest
we have had was 20 below zero. We
also have a large supply of snow this
winter. Anybody not having enough.
come and get some. The following pric-
es were offered at Falmouth on Feb. 23:
Wheat, $2. 20; com. $1. 60; oats, $1; rye.
$1. 45; No. 1 light mixed. $35; rye straw,
$16; beans (C. .Pea) $6 cwt.; po-

tjatges, $3. 50; butter 550; eggs, title.—

MANISTEE—The farmers are cutting
and hauling wood; some are hauling
hay and doing barn work. Weather
has taken another slight change to cool-
er with some snow. Quite a. number of
people are sick with the grip or pneu-
monia and influenza. again. Farmers
are not selling very much now for it is
too cold. No potatoes hauled and no
cars. They say beans are cheaper. Not
much building here; some are buying
seed and feed—ill. A. The following
prices were quoted at Bear Lake:-—-No
price is quoted on potatoes and few, if
any, are being bought, on account of the
shortage of vars. Navy beans are $5.25
per cwt. Rod Kidney beans $10 per
cur-t.. rye $1.30 per bushel, wheat $2 per

bushel; butter, 50; eggs, 45, butterfat,
45; beef, 5@7c on foot, 106013 dressed:
pork ll®l3 on foot, ]5@17 dressed:
veal, 1061713 alive, 18@22 dressed:
chickens, 206025 per 1b,, alive, 25@29
dressed. Hides are 16ﬁ720c per 1b.

 

MONROFr—(NEJ—«Very ﬁne weather
now; had a slight thaw; snow about gone
and the roads are good. Wheat appears
to be in poor condition, ‘but cannot tell
till spring how it will come through.
Lots of Sickness and some deaths. Hay
and fodder of all kinds high and very
scarce, not much grain-left to ship out.
Lots of auction sales with poor atten -
ance. Many farms for sale, no hep
what is left going to the city to work
leaving farm idle as they can earn
more than farming and be at home for
board and nights, as the Interurban
goes through this territory, The follow-
ing prices were altered at Newport, Mich
on Feb. 34, 1920:r—that, $2.20: corn.
$1.80 on ear; oats .85; hay no 1 timo-
$32.00; no i‘light mixed, $30 .00:
$8.00; potatoes $7. 00 '8"
onions .06; cabbage

30; mringers ..30 ' butter
' live stock (live wt.
sheep changing eVery day; hogs. 10
110; beef steers, 8c: beef cows. 6c; veal
calves, 17c..—W E. M.

_,__..

WEXFORD—We have had a few days
of nice weather. Trains were hung up
for a few days last week on account of
the severe b1 zard. worst that has been
known for many a. moon but at present
things have resumed the normal stage.
Quite a number of flu cases throughout
the county. There have been three or
four cases in this vicinity. The entire
family of Ton§ Kemich was down with
it, and Miss lag‘le had to oﬂ‘iciate as
nurse and do the chores at the. barn for
nine haed of cattle, and two horses. Mr.
Volf’s family were 0 sick with the
flu and John Dehu's but all are getting
better now. Quite a number were oblig-
ed to leave camp on account of sickness
in their families—«S. H. B. The following

rices were paid at Cadillac: ——Whea
Eg‘urggz. 2:13:01"; 1.35, gshglzlca’; oatltl:
u ea. cwt.
beans:C._H15.$0 red kidney. "so!
hay. $31: epotnlt 3 owl. ”:6
as; may” m; duc “etc
25 8’ Chin It, 62;

use.
les. $3 50 per cwt. veal cal
ll"? hogs 16cm ' V” 1'

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SANILAC (NE) -- Lots of snow.
making the roads in bud conditi
The Flu also leaking its toll in this
locality, nearly every home having more
or less to‘ do with it. many homes in”
been saddened. by Its effects. But in
spite of the fact Idiom-mas ve‘or-
nized around Cromil. end reafter
he expect to ,do their own shipp
buying of farm slsom co
and many other things if the Wicca] denier
do not come out and play square.

Through this association will let you ,
m '

know in future reports 'how min
rum The Croswell Milling
trying to sail out to the leeners.
sthe report and we all em'igls

s hay and stock Is mov 111:

more are waiting for

mam horses

in bk Osmond
sir price. The following prices w
at Cs-zewell Mich jolt. onI Feb I?

    

  

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Gleaner elevator. The £0110!“ %

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MUSKEGON—Fcrmere are busy get- —

’ting wood and putting up ice. Not very
much being sold at present. About two
feet of snow. A great many farmers are
holding beans for higher prices. Not
much encouragement for next year The
ﬂu has claimed several In neigh-
borhood. The following prices Were otter-
ed at Revenue. on Feb. 20: Corn. £11.60;

lrt 1 li$~1b§m°¥t ”OP. P
“a. 1: ans ea)
$53.50; potgd'ioes, £2. 25 -—E. E. P.

 

MONTCALM—The farmers are cutting
logs and buzzing wood. Some are ﬁght-
ting up ice whichis 2,1 inches thick. s
school is closed on account of the teach-
er's illness The snow is about 24 inches
deep in the woods. The peopr of links:
view are suffering for the want of coal
and wood—G. . The followin

rices were aid0 at Lalkeview: -—Whes.

2.;50 corn colts, 90; rye. $168

y: N.o| i tirnothy,\$ $3.0; No.11igih
mixed, $30; straw— e, 15 ; wheat-oat, 1
beans: Pest, $8; kidney, $13. 76 £10-
tatoes, $3. 50; onions. $2 .60; hens. 2;
springers, 20; ducks 24 geese, 20; tur-
keys, 4o; butter, 65; butt crfat, 05; eggs
48; sh'cézp, 60' lambs. 8; hogs, 15: bee
gtaeers,8. .beed cows. 5; veal calves. 150

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INGHAM—Cold weather and snow.
Very good sleighing with very little
thaw since fore pant of December. Farm-

' ers in this place are getting in logs to

saw Two new barns to be built in 0
spring. Lots of sickness here still. on
auction sales billed for next week all
within a. few miles of here. Some are
tired of fanniNng, others {ls etting older.
and no help. Not much as 1{ing of stock
at present. Outlook good for 00-01%:-
tions buying two elevato one at
and one at Mason. Expo"?e close d

, at has bsoo of Foster‘s
Weather Guide? We mice it—C. I.
The following prices were paid at Mass
——_Whee.t, $2. 200”. 25: co
80; rye. $1. 40; homely.” ”raj:
Timot by. $25 No light mix
wheat-oat, :12
$2 .;25 butter.
45 52; lambs,
10 11; beef cows. 5 8:

3mm

ea. 3
14: beef
vsslcslvm

w
GENESEE—Farmem are workhgl.
wood. doing chores and attending sue-
tion sales. The weather-has vs
coldsnd wehnvslrsdquitss. t 3

snow. The min are open
automobiles but they are for from bsin

in good shape for any kind of tn.
There is dgood sieighing on most coun
roads an considerablstsssn is“?

The fields are covered.
mikes" .sre

and live stock
meeting of t e milk core of this
cinlty was held at snton on Samar-do.
Feb. 28. Auction» sales are very plant!)
ful and prices received are lcwes- than
formerly. A number of the funnel-sags
selling out and my to the cities
Farm help will be v0 source this y
W. The to owing prices we

yer of snow M7
tectlon for crops.
potatoes, ha.

   

paid at Flint: —W'hes. $2 .86; co 1
cats. 93; rye 31.45- obnokwheat, T? :w't.
been; : c. If P. kidney. :11
ha. $26@380; nominee, 3. 40@$2.
on one, $6 6 Whale $ bl. ; cucuo
here. $2.50 doz : bone, 32: ducks, 3
geeseé 82:10 4 utter, cream
eggs, 50@52
rinses: steevegls. $111
I
1 1 lamb
§:0;b€3:i I31? I A. 319

:Not mu
the winter.

far-I psper published.
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Enclosed ﬁnd $1 for which please
keep M. B. 3'. coming to my address
nor ”other your Don't forget to
send mien. weenie copy. I admire the

1". goes after «things. Just
Wright on fearlessly and also
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' thermallntii “to say anything in
this freetcountry of‘ours. “
{Que of the main causes of the so-
csned unbestdn‘this country is that
our~ , is are realizing more and
more j -t we have been used as a
tool to take the chestnuts out of the
. are for dear old England, the great
_ empire which is built up by land
grabbing, and piraCy.

We had to ﬁght against "militar-
ism and autocrscy” and at the'pres-
out, time, our 100 per cent Emeri-
cans are- trying hard to saddle these
slme things on this country. Mr.
Crosby says, ‘fawfnl tales of Hun
atrocities, made up in English news-
paper ofﬁcers," that is just where
most of these stories did originate
and a very large number of Ameri-
cans didrealize this fact during the
war but our pro—English element
\which had brought us into the war,
continued to spread these lies broad-
cast over the country for two ea-
sons viz: to help out dear old Eng-
land and to prolong the war so that
they: might make millions and bil-
lions of war proﬁts.

Not every one believes the old
chestnut that Germany would have
come over here to conuer us after
ﬁghting England and France. If
Germany had been so land hungry
. why is it that she did not go to war
with her small neighbors like Hol-
land. Switzerland, ‘Luxemburg and
others and why is it that these small
nations did not join the allies when
they realized for certain that Ger-
many would lose the war?

The following is taken from the
Winnipeg Evening Bulletin, 8. Can-
adian paper: ‘ '

“Captain A. A. Cameron, assistant
professor of the Manitoba University
in a lecture held in this‘ city asst
night made the statement that the
British army never encountered any
difﬁculty in regard to poisoned wells
—4Mr. Cameron who was an ofﬁcer
of the ﬁrst water'tank Co. R. A. M. C.
during the war asserted that he did
not know or hear of a single case
where a well had been intentionally
poisoned by German soldiers.”

The above statement is made by a
‘C‘anadian officer who certainly had
no” object to defend the Germans.

How different were the “awful
tales” we read in our pro—English
papers during the war.

'No wonder the president suffered

a nervous breakdo’wn,.he probably re-
alized at last that he fell in with a
bunch of hypocrites and land grab—
bers at Pals which has the Huns
beaten ten to one.
-Where are the fourteen points
which were accepted as a basis for
peace? How about self determina-
tion which was so loudly proclaimed
before the shameful conference at
Paris.

I am not a pro-German in any
sense. I was born here in Michigan
over 60 years ago and am generally
able to consider things from both
sides but I would like to ask the

question. What did we gain by our
entering the warl—Theo. Bengal,
Fowler, Hick.

 

wm some of our readers tell Mr.
Bengal what we gained by entering
the warl—Editor.

u. s. n. PAVES WAY FOR onesel-
MATION

Will you please outline in your
valuable paper the steps necessary to
be taken in a county not yet a mem-
ber of the Michigan State Farm Bu-
reau in order that it may become a
member.

Sanilac is one of the best agricul-
tural counties of the state and there
is none that needs the services of
the bureau more than do we. Yet
so far as I know there has been‘no
move made to organize us and there
is no application in.

The farmers here are all talking
organization. All we lack is lead-
ership. - [believe that a few dollars
spent "in advertising the :Farm Bu-
reau, inthe local papers of this coun-
. tyimuld crushed the farmers so that

at least 9-5 per” cent would sign up

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always a- few.

  

1" leﬂo‘ved by the other two big or-
ganisations, labor and capital.

I have been a reader 'of your paper
for years. I believe that it is doing,
or at least is attempting to do a
greater service to society than is any
other paper in Michigan. I am not
saying this to tickle your- ears, but
because I sincerely mean what .I say.
I ﬁgure it like this: an ideal democ-
racy such as we wish ours to be is
the g: eatest producer of human hap-
piness that has ever been devised by
man. This republic can not become
ideal nor can it remain as good as it
now is without it be the, home of a
con-tented intelligent and happy peo-
ple. The people of this country can-
not remain contented and happy un-
less there is a reliable and continu-
ous supply of food of honest quality
and honest quantity and a reasonable
supply ahead for a rainy day. This
supply of food cannot come from a
race of economic slaves but must be
furnished by a self-respecting, in-
telligent and contented class of farm-’
ers.

Intelligent men will ‘not stay on
the farm unless farming can be made
to pay well enough that his wife
need not be a slave, that he need not
work his children to an extent which
would not be allowed anywhere else
but in a country community. and
where he himself may have some
time for recreation and mind devel-
opment. .

Such a proﬁtable mode of farming
can never be reached without an

”organization that can meet at the

conference table on equal terms with
organized capital and organized 1a-
bor.

Your paper is doing more than is
any other paper in Michigan to build
up such an organization.

Therefore, I say, your paper is
doing more than is any other paper
in Michigan, to keep this old ship
of'state off the rocks of discontent
which leads to all sorts of social dis-
aster.

Anything that I can do to help
with the good work will be cheerful-
ly done. I am in favor of Wood for

president and Campbell for govern-'

or. Am in favor of the treaty with
the reservations. But NEVER with-
out them.-—A. Y., Tuscola County.

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If you will write to Mr. C, S. Binghcun.
secretary Michigan State f Faun Bur-
eau, Birmingham, he will advise you
of the Bureau's plans for organizing
Tuscola. county. To better the econ-
omic condition of the farmer, and bring
about that era of happiness, content-
ment and universal justice which you
so will describe is the ambition of every
man who has a ' in the making of
this publication. No greener encour-
agement could come to us than the
showing that the? understand and
appreciate these orts —Editor.

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THE NEWBERRY TRIAL

While attending the Newberry
trial (voluntarily) I had “one sweet-
ly solemn thought," i. e., the proto-
plasmic Newberry cannot destroy
what Ford can build up. Let us get
some satisfaction out of that.

. The vital Question is not the guilt
or innocence of the man. The import-
.ant thing is—why these vast ex-
penditures were made. When we
find, out what business interests in
New York really nuanced the'deal
we will gain a more comprehensive
view of the machinery of our “self
government." ‘

,Why do we call it self government
when we sell the majority of our
votes for a cigar or a circular letter.
People who do so are as guilty as
Newberry. If each man would make
a business of writing—letters of
praise or condemnation to public of-
ﬁcials he would be well repaid for
his trouble. The influence of the
public would then be very great. Why
“not use this influence instead of be-
ing influenced by the self-advertise—
ment of the ofﬁcial before election
and than allowing him to do‘as he
pleases afterward. ’ . ,

The Newberry case shoWs up the
need of aninitia‘tivmreferendum and

recall in this state—d. w., Barry Op. ’

 

 

 
    

     
 

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referendumiaws. ut not jig” recall.

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Soon the litters’pf pigs will be coining,
and the colts wlllbe dropped. Feed
your brood sows Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before and after _far-
rowing. It makes the bowels active, relieves constipation,
promotes good health and good digestion which means
healthy pigs and a mother with a milk supply to nourish.
Condition your cows for calving by feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic
before freshin . Then i ed it regularly to increase the flow of
milk. It lengt ens the m1 king period.
Give your brood mares a course of Dr. Hess Stock-Tonic. And
your work horses. It puts your team in fine fettle. You cannot
afford to low, barrow, sow, mow, reap or team with a team out
of sorts, ow in sgirits, rough in hair, blo out of order, or full
of worms. Dr ess Stock Tonic is good or sheep—especially
good for ewes at lambing time.

Why Pay the Peddlcr Twice My Price?

You buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic at an-honest price
from a responsible dealer in your
town. Get 2 lbs. for each average
hog, 5 lbs. for each horse, cow or
steer, 1 lb. for every sheep. Feed as
directed and see the good results.
Guaranteed.

25-lh. Pall. $2.25: 100 Ila-Drum. $1.50

Exceptin the far West, South and Canada
Smaller packages in proportion

DR. HESS & CLARK. Ashland. 0.

Spring Is Here.
the calves, the lambs,

   
  
   
    
   
  
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
   
   
 
 
  
  
 

 
   
 

 
    
  
 

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Every man, woman or child in the country ought
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lightJ brighter than a clumsy lantern. We have secured a limited num-
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never so at retail for less than $1.50. some dealers charge $2» but till"
til our supply runs out we will send one complete flash—light, includinr
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Stop Losmg Calves
Abortion 1:; unnatural, and denotes a run-
down condition of the nital organs.

these organsan andgtehey will resist
the ravages of the Abortion germ.

KOW-KURE is a medicine that acts
ghectly on tlhe genitalf andf digﬁstive organs.
thg themtevi o perect lth. Co
treated with KO§XLKURE beefzre cal W8
do not abort. You save both the calf hug
the cow' 3 health by using the KOW—KURE

preventive treatment.

and treatment of Retained Afterb "me”,

Bunches. Scams and lgglk Fever. Sold by feed
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STRAWBEHBIES

AND SMALL FRUITS
Quality plants that satisfy.
Send for catalog. .
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and DANISH BALI.- HEAD CABBAGE SEED

Special surplus offer for ﬁrst quality seed.
Slend this adv. in to us. Ask for 1920 cat-
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Highest quality Northern own seed.
Carefully cleaned and taste. We have a
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money. Get our sam les 0! Medium and Mom-
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Contaglous Ahortwn

Easily administered by hypodermic
syringe. Kills abortion germs quickly
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pat-

ure blanks mailed free. Send
name and address today.

eerily, Packers, however, say
are unable to handle this paper and
need the assistance Of the banks if
it is to be carried out. .

Hog supplies at all markets have
been gradually deminishing since
the ﬁrst of the year.
the ﬁrst two menths will show a.
sharp decrease when compared with
export business should fade away, the
the previous year. Allowing that the_
increased demand in this country
must be taken ”into consideration.
Labor is well employed at the pres-
ent time and wages are the highest
ever known and some ’traders are
promised further increases this
spring. The laboring class is the
meat buying power of this c0untry.
When workers have the money they
have liberal portions of meat at ev‘
ery meal. This is noted in the butch-
er shops where they do their buying.
Then with supplies falling off and the
domestic-demand the largest ever
known, it seems that the export ques
tion should not be taken intd con-
sideration too seriously and it should
be used less as propaganda by the
packers when they wish to carry. out
a bear campaign in the market.

The sheep and lamb market (if
course needs no bolstering because
a more proﬁtable season was never
before noted in the history of the
trade. No matter What a feeder
handled he was able to make money
because for more than three months
prices enjoyed an unbroken ad-
vance. This really put lamb and
mutton in a class by itself. Even at'

A New Electric

SMALL electric milking ma-
A chine mounted on wheels so it
. can be moved from cow to cow
has just made a considerable stir in
the dairy world. The new Moto-
Milker requires no pipe line or in-
stallation, is ready to use when un-
boxed, and is so simple and handy
that is is suitable for the vast num—
ber of dairies having from 8 to 20
cows.

Cups with rubber linings fit over
the cows’ teats. and a gentle suction
sucks the milk out.- Then. intermit-
tently, compressed air squeezes and
massages the teats to keep them in
perfect condition. The milking is
done almost exactly as the calf does
it, and the method is really far more
natural and calf-like than squeezing
the teats by hands.

The gentle massage by compressed
air is comfortable to the cow and

'makes her let her milk down faster.

Fast milking is generally believed to
increase a cow’s milk production as
time goeson, and government and
other tests have proved it to be the
case with this milker.

The same milking priciple in ex-

actly similar teat cups with the com—I
pressed air squeeze is now in use on
over one million cows, many of them
pure breds that have been milked in
this way for six and seven years run:-
ning.
cows is well established and is rec—
ognized
leges.

Hence the good effect on the

by most agricultural col-

they .

Arrivals for »

pulsation of suction
which milks the cow so comfortably. ‘\
Rubber tubes connect the pump to

the milk pail and teat cups.
engine is necessary and most of the
parts needed on pipe-line milkers
are eliminated.
sators, no gauges, no tanks, no belts,
no pipe lines,
springs,
and gas engine are eliminated.
3-4 K. W. farm lighting plant will
run the milker, the power cost be—
ing‘about 20 per day.

      

  

  

é, ‘ .
when compared with coho, .:
prices a year ago last fall and winter

:caused many men to clear out. the
big range owners of the West trimr

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ming their herds closely which re-.
sulted in the small arrivals and hat-
urally prices advanced. Most sec-
tions of the west are still short of
foundation stock and it is the belief
that relief from small receipts Will
not be possible 'for- some time to
come. '

_ The general situation in live stock
matters has been very uneven and
moreso uncertain for seme time past.

It is such bonditions that have caus-”

ed the feeders to become skeptical
and doubt the sincerity of the pack—
ers.. But men im the country state
that the affect will be noted in.the
future. They claim that the hog sup—
plies at the present time are small-
er than generally expected and the
low prices last fall and winter will
be a gauge for the next crop of pigs.

.On that accOunt, it is the belief
that arrivals of stock during
summer months will be relatively
small and regardless of present con—
ditions, prices are looked upon as
subject to advance. An arrange-
ment of some kind that would allow
export business to be carried out, is
looked for. If this materiali‘zes, it
is plainly seen that ,thes‘mall surplus
of stocks in this country will not last
long and the meat business will be
carried out on a cash basis moreso
than ever before.

Milking Machine.

The new electric milker is simple
in the extreme. An electric motor
drives a slow moving piston which

makes suction on the back stroke and

compressed » air on the forward
stroke. This piston gives the slow
and pressure

No gas
There are no. pul-
no stall Cocks, no

and the high speed pump
Any

Two cows (eight: tents) are milk-

ed at a time, and one man can milk .-
about 18 to 20 cows per hour.
one man does the work of
three, not only releasing the other
men for other work,.but making the
owner entirely independent of hired
help so far as the dairy is concerned.
The labor saving usually amounts to

Thus.
about

between $300 and $400 yearly. In
a rush time or if the help should
leave, the farmer can order one of

these machines during the day and
be using it the same evening;

Additional. information regardlng
this wonderful little machine will be
supplied by M. B. F. to any

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.l Write for Catalo ' '
movement itis. 208 and see what- an in.

        
     
     
     
    
   

  

        
      
  
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
    
 
  
    
  
 
   
 
  
  

  

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Machine has double walls; copper tank.
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These labels are of a, desirable size
and are printed in two colors: border
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for your syrup or' produce. Cash must
accompany order, which will be sent
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and tell you what It will cost for 13.
mAu‘ctlon Oales advertised here at special low rates: ask for 'them.

26 orszt times..

A :ECTAIB ADVERTISING RATES under this heading to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request.
You can chlarlltoe gigs of) ad, or copy as often as you wish.
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BREEDEBS' DIRECTORY. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

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Better still, write out what you has to offer, let us put It In.
copy or changes must be received one week before date

    

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To avoid conflicting dates we will without
beet, lint the date of any live stock' sale n
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise :us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Ad dress, Ll've Stock Editor, M. B-
F... Mt. Clemens.

March 8. Jerseys. Henry J. and CArleton

R. Lewis Ypsilanti. Mich.
-Mareh13ﬁPoiand Chinas. W. J. Hazel-

W. rA sta Mich.
a. Angus. MMichigan Aberdeen-Angus
'Breeders “111.111.1111
Apm ‘1 Holstein; Angus and Poland Chinas.
vernon Clcuzh. Perms-
.l. P. Oloott, Perry,

 

An1ilr2 Holsteins.

 

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i' * , 'HOL'STEIN-FRIESIAN
- REGISTERED HOLSTEIII
FOR SALE

Four year old granddaughter of KING OF THE
HENGERV ELDS.
Due May to 27 lb. bulL
J. L. ROCHE & SON

Pinoirney - .
Livingston County

MR MIlK PROOUGER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
more PROFIT. per cow

son of Maplecrest Application Pontiac—

132652-from our heavy-yearly-milking-good—but-

Michigan

 

. tor-record dam will solve it.

- lFor Sale:

4‘

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‘5 KORNllYKE SADIE
* get better breeding?

- .KING on THE Poxrmc‘s‘;

  
  
 
  
 
    
   
 

   

“~ bulls offered for. sale are
3 cowe. Address all correspondence to‘

Maplecreli:b “Application Pontiac’s dam made
8103 lbs 1'11! 7 days: 1344.8 lbs. butter
and 28421.1,2 lbs. I‘milk in 365 days.

He is one of the greatest long distance sires.

ills daughters and sons will prove it.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

Pedierees and prices on application.

8. Bnuc‘e McPherson. Howell, Mich.

 

“FOR SALE

Thonousnsnsn
11013111111 cows

combining blood of Traverse
pie Crest stock. granddaughters
Friend Hergerveld De K0] B1uitter Boy.

I 58001! mi
, WILLIAMS & WHITAGRE
R. F. D.‘ No. 4 Aliegan. Mich.

City and
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Registered Holsteins, 7 young cows, A.
0. bred to 31 1b. bull. Herd on State Fed-
eral accredited list. Wm. Griffin Howell. Mich.

TWO GREAT BREO BULLS.

One a linen beautifully marked son of KING
PONTIAC HENGERVELD FAYNE the hundred
thousand dollar sun of KING OF THE PON-
I‘IACS from a 23 lb. Jr. 8 year old daughter of
a near 82 lb. Jr.14 ye r old cow whose sire

 

es and price. Guaranteed
lehe other a son of above sire onto!

2 year old granddaughter of KING
VALE. Where can you

AMES B. GARGETT. Elm Hall, Mich.
AM OFFERING

TWO FIIIE YOUIIG BULLS

Sired by a son of King Segis Champion
Moble and dams gr. daughters of King Segis.
~ No. 1 born Oct. 16. 19, nicely marked,
nearly 1-2 white. record of dam butt tter 7 days
21 lbs. Milk. 530 lbs. Price 875.

No. 2 born Jan. 23. beautifully marked
trifle more white than black from nearly a
22 lb. dam with 536 lb. milk Price 860.

Ask for pedigrees and full particulars.

F D M. BOY

for extended pedigr
right.

 

 

Musoer 111103: HOLSTEIN

We are now booking orders for
O“!!! bulls from King Pieter Seals
)7 ns 170506. All from A. R. O. dams

W1 credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for price
as and further information '

Musloﬂ Bram, South' Lyons, Michigan

BULL 0A”: LAST ADVERTISED some.
but have one morerfor sale. Nice-
ly marked, straight back line, a ﬁne individual.
131‘138 growthy fellow with the making of a. large
bull. Would do someone a lot of good. Dam has
a 27 lb record, a large cow and a great milk
Producer. Sire a son of Friend Henge1veld DeKol
Butter BOY. one of the great bulls.
JA MEO gzoPSON, JR.

 

 

Owoeso - Michigan

Eimwood Stock F arm Offers

bull calves from good producing dams with A. R.

1). records and sired by a grandson of Pontiac

AOI'IIdyker and Pontiac l'et. Prices :sry reasonable.
UGUST RUTTMAN. Fowlerviiie. Mich.

HOLSTEIII FRIESIAII BULL

nicely marked. more white than black, Prize
winning son of a 201b.four—year old grand-
daughter of PONTlA(‘ KORNDYKE. '
READY FOR VIC
.Sire. MODEL KING SEGIS G IISTA 204. -
234 from a daughter of GLISTA ERNES-
TINE. Cornell’s great 30 lb. cow. His three
nearest dams average 31 lbs. and his 46
nearest tested relatives average over thirty
pounds. Write for particulars

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS

C. G. TWISS. Mgr. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

I WILL HOLD A COMBINATION OALE
of registered and grade Holsteins, registered and
grade Angus. horses and Poland China Hogs, on
April 7th. at my farm.11 miles N W. of Jack-
son, on Jackson Springport state road.

VERNON CLOUGH. R2, Farina, Mich.

 

TWO BULL OALYES

Registered Holstein-Friesian, sired by 89. 87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing yOung cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced chea'p if

said soon. _
TUBBS. Eiwell. Mich.

BITU-UKSTOII FARM REG! s 1- 1-: n e n

 

HOLSTEIN BULL

Calves'for‘ sale, sired by MARYLAND BELLE
CLOTHILDE No. 154358. born Dec. 14, 1914.
A grandson of Colantha Johanna Lad. one of the
greatest living sires, and of a 31.44 lb. daughter
of Sir Korndyke Manor De Koi. His two near-
est dams average 25. 89 lbs. butter in seven days.

BROOKSTOII FARMS

I-I. w1oolooma. Prop. 919 Rapids. Mich.

 

Four Choice Bull Calves

Dams have records from 20 lbs. to 26 lbs.
Sired by our 32 lb. son of the $50,000 bulL

Write

LAKE SIDE DAIRY. Lake Odessa. Mich.

REG HOLSTEIIIS
IILGII OLASS BULLS

Ready for service. Prices to suit every
breeder. from $100 up.

Herd under Federal supervision. Headed
by one of the best 36 lb. sons of““Kiug of

the Pontiacs.
W111 acc’cpt a few good cows for service.

 

HILLCREST FARM Ortonville. Mich.
JOHN P. EHL
Detroit. Mich. 181 Griswold 8t

 

HATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN
Oﬂers young sires out of choice I... Want:-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
ie Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs. butter in 7
days:; average 2 nearest dams 37. 61 6
nearest, 33.93.20 nearest 27. 83.

 

 

‘ (Breeding - - Indiﬁduality ' "
Production”

Theta our motto. We make lat possible
through our two herd bulls-onea l . .
0f the 830, 000 site, King Korndylge Pontiac

as. the other a 36 lb. son of Korn-
dyke 0Sadie Vale.‘ 'the greatest sire of mine gen-
era Our matrons are stong in King of
thet1 Pontiacs. King Segls, Hengerveld DeKol
and Ormsby blood. We’ ve been at it since
19 906. Usually something to sell. Write

BOA ROMAN FA RMO
Jackson. Mich.

 

 

 

 

BULLS NIJOELYIMARIEEII’. GOOD BONED
u caves on 0 00A. R. O. and un-

tested dame. t
TRAC a reasonable

 

Waldron. Mich. Y F. CRAIII'JALII?’loo Howell. Mich.
HERE'S A
ABULEGggggEEN‘I’luEOH 7° "E“ A Beautiful- Light Colored. Very

A grandson of the $50 000 bull. Hie dam a
20 lb. jr. 4 year old. Next dam a A. R. 0. cow.
Come and see his dam and his sisters and his fine
heifer calves. This bull is coming 2 yrs. old. 90
per cent white. You will not he disappoln.‘ ed if
you come :to see him. Pedigree on request. 1 rice

2350. Hand free from abortion.
H. E. BROWN

Breeder of Reg. Stock Only. Breedsvlile. Mich.

1 BAZLEY ' STOOK FARM

YPOILANTI. MIC
Oﬂers 2 grandsons of KIN GOF THE PONTI-
0 granddaughters of

ACS. also 2 sons of
Price 81001.0

$175
. Herd under state and federal inspection.
from

. x JOHN .BAZLEY- . ~~
’319 Atkinson A-ve., Detroit. Mich.

 

REGISTERED HOLOTEINS FOR BALE. FOUR
bull calves sired .by a son of King Segis ('lmm-
plon Mabel. He is a double grandson of King

Begin De Kol Korndyke Dams are heavy producing
hm“ cows.

Prices reasonable. breeding considr.
‘0: I. P. DeHOOP, Iceland, 1Mlch.. R 3‘

‘miha erect? nan. earners soon
lift Ass-mans 5'1"“ as re

11 11s."? 9 win-"ism .311 of
administer of P1311-

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Stgaight” Bull Calf. Born October 24.
rem 9. lb. 2 . ld

son of PONTIAC DE NI’JrLAo (11513113812313 olbsa
butter and 750 lbs. milk in 7

twoShifgt “:18: FLINT HENGE2RVELD8. LAD whose

av
735 45 lbs. milk m sea-egg; 3- 66 lbs. butter and
Price 8100 F. O.

 

LAST AMNVERTISED SOLD TO-

B. Eiln
L. C. KETZLER, Flint. Mich.
"Pic F. W. Alexander, Vassar.

New offer bu II two

boutc1-2 white and s night as a

line (:Eilredn EIn! MAPLE ORE EO‘I’ KORNDVKE
HEN LD :and from FLI NT- ULTRA
NUDINE .1 £28.22 pound da‘uehtsr of FLINT

RINCE. Bull carries 1% per cent
V wrist”. '32:: gig-""- BUTTER ”Buoy.“ . m.
‘ 0
new is your chance. ROOINA

_ warm 8200.
* ,nnv it. flames; shaming, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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SHORTHORN

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41

SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females.
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan.

 

110127110“th AND POLAND cnmas FOR
sale. Registered cows, heifers. hull calves, bred
sows and fall pigs, either sex. The farmers’ kind

at farmers' prices.
F. PIGGOTT a. SON

M.
Union Phone Fowler, Mich.

 

3 SHORTHORN BILLS. 11 MONTHS TO 2
y.rs 50 Young Tom I‘urkeys 20 lbs. up. out of
Antrim’s King a 45 lb Tom. at $10 0e.ach

JA W. THUMM. Elmira. Mich.

 

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

 

THE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-

ere Association announce their fall catalog ready

80231:th Scotch Pop and Milki‘ 'ng
res

for distribution.
Shorthorra’. listed.

W. Crum, -

  
   

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE .

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulls and some heif-
ers for sale.
Come sand see then
TONY CREEK 81'ch FARM
Pewamo. Mich.

ANGUS

TIIPEE BULL OALYES

Registered Guernseys, sired by PENCOYD PAT-
RIOT “hose 3 nearest dams average 67 lbs.
fat. Bred to improve your herd, and offer d rea-
sonable. Guaranteed free from disease.

P. S. MYERS a SON. Grand Blane. Mich;

l The Most Profitable Kind I

01' forming. a car load of gra ade dairy heifers .
from L ENA‘VEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro-
ducers to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming.

Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.

Methods explained in SMITH’S PROFTI‘ABLE
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.

GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

DON’T FORGET

liable Angus Home Stock
have bred Angus cattle.

 

 

 

YOUR WANTS CAN
be supplied at the old re—
Farm. r 30 years we
We know the goods ones
and breed the best.1‘hey are bred right, fed
right and priced right. Tell us what you want.
ANGUS HOME STOCK FARM. R2. Davlson, Mich

BARTLETT, PURE enep escapee;-

ANGUS CATTLE AND 0.l.0.
Swine are right and are priced right. Corre-
spondence solicited and inspection invite

CARL BARTLETT. Lawton, Mich.

 

GUERNSEYS

WE ARE OFFERING FOR
EUEBHSEY sale some splendid bull calves
out of A. R. dams with records up to 500 lbs.
fat. Our herd sire. a grandson of Dolly Dimples
May King of Langwater and whose dam has an
A. R. record of 548 lbs. fat at 2 1- 2 years in
also for sale or exchange. Write for particulars
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L' Th°"’°’ 8““ " M”°' M'°"- MORGAN 31103.. R No 1, Aileoan, Mich.
' ‘ LL enauosou
SPECIAL OFFER snonruomvs— [:03 SALE- GUERNSEY 3” R 0. d“ 10
. of Gov. of the Chene from A. 111,
cows. $250 00 to $300 00 Bulls, $200' 00 mos. old. Also other bulls £10111 2 to 7 mos. old.
to $250. 00. Wm J Bell, Rose City. Mich Writec for pmmulars V
A. HENNESEY Watervllet. Michp‘
HURORA STOOK FARM JERSEYS
O ﬁfty head of Scotch and Scotch To d ”M
Shorlzhxorne Am oii’ermg several (1 bulls. 2111):" or Sale—Jersey bull calves. Oxford and Mn-
and heifers. RUM“ Reds and W- 8. Write or jesty breeding Dams are heavy producers
9“ ”’9’“ .1. L. CARTER, R4. Lake Odessa, Mich.
s. H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe. Mich
BROWN SW’ISS
BULL CALVES

FOR SALE—JHORTHORN
ready for service. Also young Oxford Down
Ewes. Prices to sell

JOE MURRAY Q SON. R2. Brown City, Mich.

SHORTHoBN ‘Pﬂze- -winning Scotch

Bull. Master Model 57614 in many states at
head of herd of 50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST, Reed City. Michigan.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE AT REA-
sonable prices. The

 

Clay Bred Shorthorn bull calf
from a heavy producing dam.
HUBER. Gladwin, Mich.

 

YOUNG STOCK
either sex. also

Mich.

POLLEO SIIORTHORII

young cows. White \Vyandottes.
FRANK BARTLETT, Dryden.

 

Registered females $200
Cows all hand
Mich.

“liking Shorthorns.
and up. Bull calves at $100.
milked. ROY s. FINCH, Fife Lake,

_ HEREFORDS
MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Having used Bob Fairfax 49402111011 of
Richard Fairfax) for 3 years. I now offer him

 

 

 

 

for sale. Also stock of either sex, any age. Come
and look them over.

Earl C. McCarty. Bad Axe. Huron Co.. Mich.

120 HEREFORD 81EERS.AL80

know of 10 or 16 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 1000 lbs
Owners anxious to sell. Will hei buy We
commisaion. C. F Ball. Fairlie d. Iowa.

LAKEWOOD HEREFOROS

E. J. TAYLOR. Owner
Fremont. Mich.

Individudllv good and breeding unsurpassed.
No females for sale at present. but am oﬂ'erlng
two exceptionally good bufll calves by COLLEGE
BEAU 42153 . only son of that grand old matron
“DELILA” illustrated in January 24th issue of
”Business Farming” and founder of M. A. C.
Hereford herd.

Come and see them. '

 

VAL VERDE FARM BROWN SWISS
Registered calves for sale—both sex.
EDWIN GRISWOLD, R1, Beiialre, Mich.

FOR SALE

PURE BRED BROWN SWISS BULL

Calved April 28th.1919. H15 dam, Gertrude
No. 6191. her sire. King Edgard No. 2219. His
dam College Bravura 2nd. Worlds Champion
Brown Swiss Cow. Will g1ve purchaser registra-

1n and transfer
to FRANK POET, Clare, Mich.. R G
Breeder of Brown Swiss Cattle

RED POLLED

REG. RED POLLB
Bulls serviceable age. dNo. 30685. Elmwood

bull heads herd
‘Ili'ivxl BtAITTENF-‘IELD & SONS, Fife Lake. Mich.

AYRSHIRES '

 

 

 

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MI OYERLOOKEO
OPPORTUNITY

is offered right here for some Mich-
igan Ayrshire breeder to get his or,
fering before 70 000 Michigan busi-
ness farmers. .

Some one is going to grab this op-
portunity and send along a little ad
that will pay 1111.1 handsomely.

ARE YOU THE OIIE?

 

 

HOFSES

   

 

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

A D FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HERD
3”:sz years calves for sale. 10 bulls 'and lo

cJOI-IN MecGREGOR. Marrinvlile. Mich.

 

 
  
     
 
 
 
 
 

 

LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN " ' “ " "

cweoatwnlfoenpeeanaon ......Cattlo and Sheep

. , 9 hi“
”One or the other of the above "well—known experts will viiit all live-stock
11111111 new bgﬁhigan ﬁﬁﬁeﬁ Ohio and Indiana. as the exemsiv‘e

 
  
 
  
 

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gyms. yes imported mares.
1 s lilo a 4”!

 

F0“ SAL ONE IRON GRAY 5 YEAR OLD
Percheron stallion. Prince
148423.81red by Brilliant TV No. 47531, a black
horse and sold once for 83. 000.» The dam
Prince a large gray mare No. 148 423. Price 8300.
D. E. DEAN. Milford. Mich. .i. "

Percheron: for Sale—21 Head

Soviet 13,0757 at head of herd. A horse can-
rying the blood of 2Imposant, his sire and
ley’s Samson. two 2,400 lb. horses. He is 42
months old. weighs 2,150 )1» carries 14 inch

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1.013.“ A? 3313363111 a sous. Woodhull”!!-

BELGIAIIS

we are Jorcs'd m sell our on’tiare

   
     
 
  
   
   
  
     
 
  

   
  
  

 

  
  
   
   
  
 
 

  


    
   

    
  

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1 LONG .303 for my terrow.‘
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st. chum - ,Mlch.

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r. Mart-J1 and April furrow. '
' ‘ .‘W. BARNES A 80

Byron, Mich. ,
6TH ANNUAL P. C.

March 13. 1920. For. particulars write
W. J. HAOELSHAW; Augusta, Mich.

. WALNUT. ALLEY..'?.§..‘I‘§$§
Have u fen good gilts that I will sell open or

bred to one Hi the best hours in Michigan. Write
Ior prices

A. D. GREGORY, Ionia, _Micii.

 

AD
H

"cam L. r. P. c. Glits, bred for Mar. and

furrmv. Bargain if taken at once.
. M. JEFFRIED, St. Louis, Mich.

' m TYPE P. m—omsmo . our dun
_ ' boars st 1;. barman. Choice sows.

BRED 80W SALE.

 

LT P 0 NOV. mos AT A BARGAIN PRIDE.
' ‘ Lianne and see or write -
Louis, Mich.

ELDRED A. CLARK. R 8. BI.

. BIG TYPE P. C. BRED OILTS AND FALL

yearlings including prize winners. Out of

1,100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from Iowa’s
createst herds.

E. J. MATHEWSON, Burr Oak, Mich.

BIG TYPE Penance
u'rlED 80W8 FOR SALE
BOARS ALL GONE

J. E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich.

I Am Offering Large Type Poland Chino Sows,
bred to F’s Orange at reasonable plrces. Also
toll pigs. Write or call

CLYDE FISHER. n3, St. Louis. Mich.
L 'l' P 0 AM OFFERING SPRING
boars. summer and tall pigs.
F. T. HART. St. Louis, Mich.

 

B. T. P. .C. BRED GILTS SIRED BY MOUW’S
BI: Jones 3rd. out of Gruml Daughters of Disli-
er's (ilnnt and bred to \Viley's King llob, it good
sun of Harrison's Big Bob $10,100 boar. (iiits
priced rezsmmble.
JOIN ‘D, WILEY. Schooicraft, Mich.

OAT-S MSG SOWS .M‘lv') PIGS. ANYTHING
you want. Poland L‘lu‘nas of the biggest type.
“9 inH‘rI hml them big for more than 25 ears:
over Hm head on hand. Also registered [gamb-
erons, llu‘steéns, and Oxfords. Everything sold at
a rmsowow- price, and a square deal.
JOHN C. BUTLER. Portland, Mich.

Bio TYPE POLAND CHINA

tried so'vs on'l qilts bredto MICHIGAN BUSTER
BIG DESMUINES 5TH. BOB—O-LINK or \VON-
DER lii'S’i‘i‘Ili. Fall pigs.

» 0 L. WRIGHT, Joneavlllo, Mich.

 

HERE’S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These boars
In service: L’s Big Orange. Lord Clansman,
Orange Price and Us Long Prospect.
E. LIVINGSTON, Perms, Mloh.

THE OLD FASHION
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA H068
CHOICE GILTs—BRED
March, April—$50 to $100 ’

J. M. WILLIAMS.

No. Adams. Mich.

WONDERLAND HERD

LARGE TYPE P. C.
A few choice bred gilts for sale.

Also fall gllts
nd boers,

some very good prospects of excellent
reading. Gilts bred to ORPHAN‘S SUPERIOR
he by BIG ORPHAN’S EQUAL by BIG BONE
ORPHAN by the BIG ORPHAN. Dam,
BEAUTY’S CHOICE by ORANGE BUD, by BIG
ORANGE A.
Free livery to visitors.

Wm. J. CLARKE,

Eaton Rapids, Mich.

(ms nanw>Big Bob Mastodon
"n P c BREEDER IFanIU WANT TO GET

e King row buy 1

Gilt bred to BIG BOB MASTODON.

He has more Grand Champion Blood In his
veins than any other boar in Michi an.
' I have 15 choice Gilts bred to iiilm for March
snd April 'i‘nrrow.‘ Fall pigs of either sex.
C. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

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ARGE I'YPE POLAND CHINA HOOO. BOAR
UL... spring farrow. Single Comb Rhode Island
Red (,iockerels. Write for pedigrees and prices.
Inspection Invited.
FRED O. V088. Avooa. Mich.

" L T P c A FEW SPRING IOARS LEFT AT

FARMERB' PRICES.
H. 0. 8WARTZ, SohooIcI-sﬂ, Mich.

P. 0. COWS FOR MARCH AND

April Thirty (arrow. 1
bouo- beEtter. call or write - Fol p13"

R. LEONARD. 89.. Louis, Mich.
FOR SALE

ﬁLarge Type P. C. Hogs

H‘ave a few spring hours and sprin Ilts

rllnz sows. Bred to such boars Joining-3

"e 2nd, King's Glsnt. and Smooth Wonder.
th . Free livery to visitors.

. . RAMSDELL. Hanover, Mich.

    

sole. Are booking orders ,for s19 ' . .
"nffsiiiapiﬁoii‘énm. In. Plymouth.” 9°“:

sum JERSEY  ,
, BIIED SONS SEIWIOE BOAIIS .-

Booking orders for wesnllnz sci-ins ﬂ“

$25 EITHER SEX

We deliver the hon before y

including
Newton‘

and breeding,
Fa'ir winners.
Johns, Mich. ~

e. " Iv

. on my
IRA‘ BLANK « Potter-ville, Mich.

. ' on SIZE QUALITY
DUROC BOARS se'veral. State
Barnhart. 81:.

um,“ 73,19: m: um

. yearling. sprinz and {all boars “anal-“8%:

 

row, sired by

2:3..0 not 'get, price $65, While they last.
non oer.

» H. o. KEESLER, campons. Mlchu RP .

Liberty Defender.

Dams Col. breeding, good qualit)’. weighinz €393

Dunoos BRED aIL'rs FOR APRIL FAR-

 

FROM

DUROC BOARS

ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi‘
son, Mich. ‘ .

PRIZE
WINNING ,s'rocn

 

of all ages. Bows bred or open. Now-
ton a. Blank, Hill Crest Fbrms. Perrington. Mich.
Farm, 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

 

EADOWVIEW FARM. REG. DUROC JERCEY
hogs. Fall pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS, Farmlngton. Mich.

FOR BALE—REGISTERED DUROO JERSEY
swine. Both sex. All ages. Rhoda Isknd Red
Barred Rock and White Leghorn cockerels. 40 I.
and 80 acre farms. Easy terms.
W U. BARNES. “healer. Mich. .

 

Choice broodlng, splen-

DUROO BBED GILT did individuals.

for April fan-ow. Would like. to have you see them.

CHERRY LAWN FARM, Shepherd, Mich.
Dunno JERSE BRED SOWS AND GILTS
April and May furrow.

Sll‘L‘iI or imwl in mg; 1.000 lb. herd boar.
JOS. SCHUELLER. Weidman. Mich.

 

 

DUROC BRED sows AND GILTS SIRED BY
Orion Cherry Kim,r Col. 2nd, ﬁrst aged hour at

mo. He is an intensely Col. bred hour and ‘the
Cal’s were never more popular than now. Li‘med
from $65 to $100 each. “

W. O. TAYLOR, Milan, Mich.

 

A ,FEW BRED DUROG GILTS. FRED TO A
son of Principal 6th. These slits are long-
bodied with good barns and shoulders {md Will
weigh 250 lbs. Bred to furrow in April. Pedi-
gree on request. Price crated, $100 each.

H BROWN, Breedsville, Mich.

06 SPRING PIG 6
FOR A DUR !
$12050 weeks old .eitber sex, ,M. A. 0.-
Breakwateri d bragging: d now
11 es pa . 00 mg or ers .

C 86? W. SUTHERLAND, Grand Lodge, Mich.

 

 

Swine. Order your spring. pigs now. Pairs

(1 ti 3 n t skin.
on Rr0 N.0 TOWNS, R6, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
F0“ SAL anzo sows. bus. 10 na-
row in March and April. Bred to

MASTERPIECES ORION KING.
0. E. DAVIS & SON. Ashley, Mich.

 

. w
E OFFER A. FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-
Giltesdiﬁpring Bur-8c” r write ‘
MoNAOlOsHEgIPOYN ﬁaFORDYOE, St. Louis. Mich.
REGISTERED DUROO JERSEYS
FOR SAL of quality. Three good been.
farrowed in Mar and April, 1919, weighing 300
to 350 lbs. each. Modern type with big bone.
Write for pedigrees and prices. Satisfaction

“mug.“iislms a son. Davlson, Mlch.

 

l A few good hours of breeding no, clso
s I?w°;od zilts. prices right, let me convince you.
Henry D. Phillips, Milan. Mich.

 

 

BERKSHIRES

EGIST o nsnxsmnss ron SALE, sue.
Ii 10 plgs'cr 840 a piece, while they last. Qat-
islsctlon guaranteed. Taking orders for sprinz Dias.

JOHN YOUNG. Breckenridge, Mich.

 

 

BEGOIY FARM BERKSHIBES FOB
prglt. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Cores, White Hall. III.

CHESTER WHITES

TER WHITEC—A FEW MAY ROAM.
01.5118 plan In pairs 01:] tries from ii?“ prominent
mono 9 cos. ms.
bloodnnuy-sfk'f Alexander. vuup, Mich.

8T RED CHESTER WHITE PIG FOR
Enable st". prices that will interest you. Either

today.
"x‘ VIVIYAEPH coszus. Lem-Ina, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

- romaine ,

Vanni-{Ins oIL'rs. nu: APR. 1.
ﬁmnﬁai 0 stock. $50 each. ,

 

 

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AIR. ILADK O DON, R1. Lamina, Moll.

 

 

bred Ior Much,

”Vii-iii “15mm

0. I. C. SOWS .
ous‘or res scurrilous II MIOHIOAN
sum. name. It yonwslt s, BIO ‘

FOR SALE=

   

   

"a sow. 3...... MM!» In

.: 4 r ,

Dunne nouns, GILT8 sun snoob souls.

Bred ‘

Detroit in 1919. and bred to All Col. of SHED"

Reg. papers free. Express

APLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY.

B are, also bred '9'” snd‘

NILLIP’B PRIZE ‘WINNING DUROOS FOR'

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crimson"
PHI. ,
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homes. New Latin-op, Mich.

  
 
 

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w. s. nan-moon. mg, no...

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ﬂiﬁsﬂiﬁfsﬂ or “33.5" .0...“
RAYMOND eunuch"; 33h.
HAMPSHIRES 3:0!!! al‘L'rs now READY

I GRIP. FALL PIGO
rom new blood lines. ‘ '
JOH W. SNYDER, St. Johns, Mich R4

 

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Amqu v71 o. o. .. ..
hibltlon Drizie “Asaléi! gag-Rnogrlﬁ: won ox.

 

rd boar
0. 0. Michigan Boy, was the In t b ‘
breeds shown. Pig‘s of big reg“... o "of“:li

ulna stock. registered free and ship 0. 0. D.
JOHN GIBSON, Pastors, Michfeg. No. 2

o l. C. GILTS WEIOHING 200 to 276 L38.

in breeding flesh bred for March, April and
'May furrow. Guaranteed safe in dam. I will re-
place any proving otherwise to your satisfaction
or refund purchase price in full. Have a few'00~
tobcr boar Digs ready for spring service that no
right priced to sell. Herd cholera immuned by
'double treatment. F. O. Burgess RB, Mason, Mich.

Dbl. Olsoghiolcssarted mocha extra ﬁne Sérvlco
cars. 0 09 on pin. that s x ' .
”GLOVERLEAF FARM R1,: Mozmgt $8?ch

0. I.,»°.'l
A few boars of serviceable age. Now booking

orders for spring hrs to be shi
time. Write yougwsnts to pﬁd at weaning

CLARE V. DORMAN, Snovcr, v-Mlch.

Mud-way- ausii-ka farm

errors 0. I. C. bred gilts and twa servi e l

puii't Allsobbredcto lay Barred c aberoer

pu e s, cm ren eese and White Runner D .
DIKE C. MILLER, Dryden, Mich. ucks

FOR SALE?" I. c. ‘FBFRED GILT§ FOR APR”,
' . _ arrow, . .10. Bred to Bartlett's
0110108 l\o. 3:)649. Will register in buyers name.
WILL IHRISCINSKE, Imlay City, Mich. '

bﬁ‘ﬂrity. “a, with

" or write
nodal-son, Mich.

 

" m: on? “increased“ '
'm nose, Lumen ears two 'stI

spring" bodr. dun bred,
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our A chum - Lot mm" 'ém‘iusmiﬁ

' Assn d u a y _
witiithgiesg 02 mm {Tonto OOMFORT A.
TYLER. Boo'y’. 10 Woodland Avs.. Dotroit. Mich.

'. , SHIRE BRED EWEO 1 T0 '8‘
means] ,CWRRO'P healthy, well fleeced. Represent.
stives 0‘ this flock gave sstisfactlon' In 15 states
last season. Rams oil 0. Lemon, Dexter. Mich

. . . . . .1 ,_ i
In OF MIDI-I. YOU ARE- THE .FUTURE
K farmers of thestste. I am one of the
beat; Sheteg) t;breeders in all; gag. owli'ieti‘logcgt ts;

. n me I o . ,

ﬁgmetlered ghrggshiresynow. 1A lot of lads have sl-
recdy done so. but I want more. I will buylypur
ram lambs and tic-operate with you in every W819
Write me for my proposition end prices. Box. 8.
Kane-Kan Home, 8. L. Wing, Prop., Goldwater, Mick's:

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP :

E70 hint. t. both ewes snd rams
moodhmnglg $1.. to ”Stream 200! an
excellent blur boned type mm lamb that
Weizhed 176 lbs. October 1. Booking orders
for 1920 runs.

on“ u. HAIRE. w“: Branch. Mich.

i’ET STOCK $33

SALE Shetland Pony, bornMay 26, 1919.
Fan Also bred more. 2 years old.
MARK B. OURDYI. R 8. Hawaii, Mich.

 

     

 

ELGIAN "ARES, CHOICE STOCK. 9 AND 0
Bmonths old, also 8. C. Anconu Corkerels. Write
for prices, Sheridan Rsbbltry, II 5. Sheridan. Mich.

Flemish Giant Rabbits that. are
FOR SALE giants, old and young. in blacks, ’
steel greys andEnatural greys. Quality guaranteed.
. E.

HIMEBAUG H
Goldwater. Mich.

 

 

OUNG FOX HOUNDS. WALKER STRAIN.
Every one registered and gnnmnteed.
E.

W. GILL, Clarion, MICh.

 

 

 

“Swamped‘ with inquiries”

 

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M.‘B. F.,
Mt. Clemens.
Gentlemen:
We can say that we have more
.than got results from our ed, as we
have been swamped with inquiries.

Morenci, Mich.
February 16, 1920.

Mich.

F. L. HOUCK, Prop.,
Cornalfa Duroc Farm.

 

 

 

 

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.- hiding the plain facts.

where to get the__ best prices for

-——It is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled'up!

it has always and will continue to ﬁght every battle for
the interest . of. the business farmers of our home state.
no matter whom else it helps or hurts!

‘ONE YEAR.......OI

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tool]! ‘F'IVE YEARS.....$3

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. Mt. Clemons, Mich.

Keep M. B. F. coming to the address below for. . . . . . ..

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itarmer can’t .a 0rd to

. what.

born this spring if possible.
. plan to have the silo full and a little

“ensilage and hay; no grain.

these last couple of years that

'1 the farther hardly knows what to

do. And the livestock market has

led the list In breaks and slumps just ‘

at the critical time. The average

take-many
chanoes until conditions settle some-
The man who can invent a
way to take all chance out of farm-

ing hasnot yet appeared. So we

must do our best under the condi-~

tians at hand; ‘

On a good many Michigan farms
it will pay to plan to produce a lit-
tle extra doughtage in this seasons
crops. Put in an extra ﬁveacres of
And

to spare this 'fall if you can. Then
in November or December, accord-
ing to the market conditions ”and
"your best judgment, get a couple of
your neighbors to go in with you and
buy a 'carload of Steers. ’Ilhat-will

give you six or seven each and save

freight by buying-“in carload lots.

G'et light: thin stock. What are
termed “cannersf’ is about the grade

you want. - They will it igh about
six hundred pounds eac and sell
near the bottom of the market;

probably under ten cents per pound.
It doeSn’t matter that they are quite
thin so long as they are healthy. The
thinner they are the cheaper you can
buy and the greater gain per pound
youn will make in fattening, them.

And the gain in the price per pound ,

is where your proﬁts lay, not in the
number of pounds they gain. The
gain in weight will cost all it brings
in most cases.

_ When you get them home don’t
attempt to see how fast you can fat-
tenthem. Start: them in easy on

feed of ensilage twice a day with a
feed of. hay once or twice depending
upon the supply you happen 'to have.
If you feed them hay at noon, feed
straw mornings and nights with the
ensilage. Give them as comfortable
quarters as you can. But don't try
to make it frost proof. Frost won’t
hurt them if it is ry

is shut out. A‘ gooﬁ tight shed with
an open south or east door will do
nicely if you use lots of bedding.

Do not look for sudden gains with
this method of handling or you will
be disappointed. For the ﬁrst month
or six weeks you will not see much
if any gains, but keep at it. It has
these merits: it is easy and inexpens-
ive. The extra work the half doz-
en feeders will make you won't
amount to more than two hours each
day. *' And as the feed ‘consists en-
tirely. or nearly so, of such rough-
ages as the best farming practice
teaches that you can’t afford to sell
oil the place anyway it is surely in-
expensive.

lf your ensilage and hay are of
good quality by March ﬁrst your
steers will begin to Sh0_W some round-
ness of form. You will begin to see
that they are actually getting fat on
that ration 'and are growing nicely.
But if for any reason one or two of
them seem to be falling behind the
others a bit and their hair seems
tight on them, feed a couple of ears
of corn broken, or its equivalent,
once or twice a day to the backward
ones, beginning about March ﬂrst.‘

‘ ,Don’t expect to fatten them to a
marketable condition on this ration.
That isn’t the intention. Though we

have more than once turned off good ‘

beef during February and March us-
ing just the ensilage and hay ration.
without one pound of grain, and they
were cattle ' that went onto winter
teed pretty thin in flesh at that. But
the whole idea in the present case is
to' get them into good, thrifty condi-

tion by the time pasture comes on

in the spring.

When the pasture season opens
turn your feeders into the best past-
ure you can procure. And be sure it
isn’t- over-stocked.

in isuCh an unsettled condition '

A good'

and the wind -

, . If- you or; hiring
' the pasture pay an extra dollar..por
Wm tom .

* era
creased .3494, 000.000. This
I“;1,”>o! $834,000,000,-

  

untilJulyiiretsou

steers all the pasture they can use. . _

It won’t inconvenience your neigh-
bors so much as it might seem to at
first glance- ,.

-' Their pasture that carries their
dairy herd during the dry season of
midsummer and fall will carry the
young stock too for a month or two
in the spring in pretty fair shape.
Then after your steers go to market
you can take care of their young
stock when the dry spell comes on.
That plan works good for, both part-
ies. .

‘ When you put your steers in past-
ure is when’ you really expect them
to put on meat. If the pasture is
good, with lots of water at all times

and a little shade, they won’t disapr

point you. By July first it not soon-
er they will be ready for market. And
if they have done reasonably well
they will have gained from one hun-
dred and ﬁfty to two hundred pounds
each .Watch your cattle and the mar-
kets and use your own best judg-
ment about when to market them.
I would. add this- much: as a gen-
eral practice I do not think it will
pay you to ship them to the packing
house markets. Light, grass fed cat-
tle do not ﬁnd favor there as a‘ule.

And they shrink a lot on the way. ‘

But they are just prime for your
own local. butchers summer trade.
So sell them to him if you can. You
don’t have to sell them all the one
day. Turn them in as fast as he c 11
use them It doesn’t cost you much
to keep them an extra week on grass
and you avoid all the shrinkage. But
again, use your own best judgment.
If the packing house markets are
high on light cattle ship them. If
the three of you ship together again
it will save freight by making a car
lot. Either way the cattle should
turn you a proﬁt and the expense
and chance is small.

HOG RHEUMATISM

I have a bunch of shoats that weigh
about 90 or a 100 lbs, and they are all
getting lame: appear to be stiff and very
sore for when I move them they just
squeal awful. I have been feeding corn
in the ear and all the milk they would
drink twice a day. I wish you could send
me word alt once how to treat those
shouts for Ifear I will lose the whole
bunch—L. F, 8., ”Remus, Mich

Your hogs are affected with rheuma-
tism, either muscular or articular.
Th clatter is far more common and
the attacks more severe. About the
only way you can distinguish the dif-
ference between the two; in the artic-
ular form the onset of the trouble is
more sudden. The affected articula-
tions become swollen and are very
sensitive; the animal refuses to place
weight on them or, if compelled to do
so, expresses pain. If articulations of
more than one leg are simultaneously
‘aﬂected, the animal remains lying
down, arising only after considerable
urging. There is usually some rise of.
temperature and a diminished desire
for. food. The disease runs a variable
course, the attacks being intermit-
tent. A1n attack usually continues for
about two weeks, then the animal ape
parently recovers, but sooner or later
the attacks recur. The treatment for
both is practically the same; provide
good, dry quarters and give twenty
grains Sodium Sulphur three times a
day. The outcome of the disease is
uncertain, and if the animals are in
butcher condition they can and should
be- slaughtered as soon as the symp-
toms disappear.

 

Senator Cummins, on the floor of
the Senate, recently said that the
$900,000,000 a your rental paid the
private interests of the railroads by
the government was so exorbitant as
to "shock the moral sense of man-
kind." He said $700,000 would
have been. a fair rental. This is
where $400,000, 000 (two years’ ex-
cess) of the $100, 000,000 alleged
“loss" under government operation
went. Director General Hines says

thatifratclhsdbeenraisedwhen'

the governinent took over the roads
instead of six months later, the op-
tetanus would have been in-
acéo‘ unto

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DAY 01.1) CH lCKS

NEW SPRING cantanooh
The Day Old methionine“ is on.
complete catalog we have ﬁt anlhﬁ’l;
help you.
Thlrtecn Hen

Three Elpgoh my? “are

You will cuhrly interested in the ex-
tra heavy laying breeds:Wbiut:.uLccho1-m Inspected
and certiﬁed or heavy the Poultry
Extension Specialist oi the Aorlou oral Colic

Cookersls—-Wc have Barrel Bock s.
Wyandottes, R. 0. Brown Legh om

7““me White Holland l‘cm.

We solicit your interest in the Homestead
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WRITE WYANDO‘NTTIES. RARRED ROCKS AND
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We ship on oappro va.l write or wan nts.
VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY FARM
Frazer Mlller, Prop. Bloomingdale, Mlch.

 

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs. baby chicks and
breeding stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Phllo Bldg.
Elmln. N. Y.

 

OCKEBELB. DRAKES. AROORAB, DUFF
barred. Columbian. Silver Peuciled and White
PlymouthRoczks Rouen dra,kss p.rloe88 es.c.h
SHERIDAN POULTRY nYI)8., RI. Shorldon, Mich

FOB SAL

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
Toulouse geese, White Pekin
either sex, 84 each at once. Old ducks

Weigh 10 poui¥is
CHASE OCK FARM. Mariette. Mich.

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

HOICE BARRED ROCK COOKERELB AND
Pullets bred from Detroit and Boston winners.
Good laying strain. Prices reasonable, satisﬁe-
tion guaranteed.
TOLLEs BROS" R 10. 8%. Johns. Mich.

 

 

BARRED nocu coohnus. snso mom
great layers.
w. G. COFFMAII, Benton. Harbor. Mloh.. R 8

 

OHN'S BIG BEAUTIFUL IARRED ROCK.
are hen hatched. good layers grow quick

on approval Males 4 to SS P052)!-

Circulara—John Northon, Clare. Mich.

 

Barred Rock Cookers“ from Trspnnud Stu“

Contest winning strain, direct. Sir-ed by

reed male, 260 egg record. Also a few c 0100

artridge Rock Oockerels, prices 83. 34' cand 35.
N. AYERS A 80". sllverwocng

 

URE BRED BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-
ers. That narrow, straight sns ppg barring.
Score cards on bone and ullets to 4 point.
Am an old timer in the b ness. Eggs for batch-
ing, 32. 50 per 15. Satisfaction guaranteed.
D. STECKLE. Frceport. Mich" Box 110

 

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‘live arrival guaranteed. 1‘8:er now.

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30 Year-c er of 8llver Laced on
W ys‘ndottss. QB lot of you
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stock at 83 a

A FIRE LOT or risusu. cream WHITE :

Wyam‘lottel LCockei-els. 88 to 85 each.
MORLEY. Cromll. Mloh.

ORPINGTON
BUFF WRIST“ COOKERELSUSM

birds weighing 8 lbs. or more. 84 ea, .
CLYDE GODFREY. Joncsvlils. Mich.

BABY CHICKS

7 o. it CHICKEN HATCHERY

THOROUGHBRED DAV OLD OHIOKI

s is comb. be. BuﬂsndBrownLogho
to, 3‘13! and Barred Rocks.

8. 0. R. .Rods. Anconus, White \Vysndottal.

uonghlokl. $8.25: 50 ohloks. '11'100 omen,

A. C. MORRIROBTAR.
Box 208. Phom115.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pl‘op.

Fonton. Mloh.

hicks. Lochorm. Minors“. Spanish, Houdans.
Campines, Reds. Roch. Orpingtons. Brahms;
Wyandottes. Tyrone Poultry hm, Fenton, Mich.

CHICKS—CHICKS

SHIPPED OAFELY EVERYWHERE DY MA".
8. C. White Leghorn: and 8. Mottled An-

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March l”send April delivery. Eleventh season. Oct- 7"

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HOLLAND HATCHERV.'R1. Holland. Mich.

 

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Plymouth Rocks. Superior color. Proliﬁc layers
repaid by parcel post and sci. delivery guar-
anteed. Illustrated catalog free.

Mich.

lNTERLAKEs FARM. Box 4. Lawrence.

 

"anln’s Strain Whlte Wycndouu. Heavy
exhibition and utility stock. Baby chicks
and $20 per hundred. Ha
per hundred. Booting orders rder early.
.W. HEIMBAOH, III Ruplds. Mloh.

ABV CHICKS: Pure bred Whita Leghorn.
Brown Leghorns r 100, Anconss, 0-33

breeds. Free mtslog GLE. Clinton? fMo.
50,000 for 1920. Bar:

BABY c H I c K Rocks. Exhibition Quality.

Booking orders now at 200 eac.h
Beechmont Poultry Farm, 031m". lnd., lo! 10

HATCHING EGGS

FUII SAL HATCHINC E008 FROM 1
heavyla gltrsinofs. O B.
Reds. Pen No.1 beads by s Owen Farms your
ing cock and mated to a superb bunch of pullets.
Pens Nos: 2 and 8 headed by two wonderful cook.
erels and mated to equally pulletl. also .
utility flock that is high clan. Get our prion
on your wanted. for the coming season. satin-,9.

tion guarants
A 80". Mich.

F. HEIMS
WHITE WVANDOTTEG, EGGS FOR HATCH-
ing from selected layers, 82 per 15, prepaid.
Pens, 818 to 325.
FR RANK DOLONG.

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II 0. BR. Leghorn eggs. $1.50 per setting. Pull!
duck, $1. 50 for 8 goon 400 each.
Hillrdelo. Mich.

. China.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTU.
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la 11 strain. $2 per r 45
. LEGHORN _ ”$51.0... n .Kirby, Us! tum..." Mich.
C. White Leghorn Hatohlno Eggs, .2 for set- FROM BIG BARRED ROCKC. IRED

ting, $5 for 50; $9 for 100. Day old chicks.

$10 per 50. 818 per 100, E. Altcnbsrn. Allegsn.

EGGS to lay. $1. 50 so

tﬂng.
MR8. TROS. FOSTER. Ole-opolls, MloIL, R1

 

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for batching. Hens, Oockerels. Farm raised.
Good layidng strain.
w. WEBSTER, Roth. Mich.
Bic Whlts Lschorns, 280-

CHICKS EGGS 285 TRAPNESTED Strain

of winter layers. Real proﬂtmskers. Satisfaction
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era are selected for good5 markings, or and
very heavy laying, $2 per 5, 810114.90
CHAS. H. WRIGHT. Ypsllluntl. Box 10.

Barred Rock Ego: for Early Hatching. rlgélrood-

Mich,

‘wHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, FISHEL STRAIN

direct. Farm treated, good winter In on. eggs

:2 per 15, $10 per 100. Order- book now to!
spring deliveries.
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or not, get your advertising in these
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WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Breeders’ Demon,
- ' Mt. Clemens,

for specilﬂ, rates or better still send
copy. we will put it in type and quote
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{Figure This for YOursel-f .

How much more would it have meant to you in the past if you

had been able to deliver your crops, your garden truck, your ,

dairy produce or your live stock—hogs, cattle, sheep—to mar-
ket 1n time to take advantage of the highest quotations?

Figure back—you’d have been a very rich man by now.

Add to that what you would have realized from a greater acre-
age seeded each year, and crops harvested in prime condition
so as to command the highest prices.

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This extra efficiency—this extra profit—is now possible to
‘the country Business Man. ‘

A Reo “Speed-Wagon”—-—on pneumatic tires—will enable you
to rush.your produce to market within a few hours after. you
have gotten the tap quotations—and to deliver the most perish-
able fruits or live stock in prime condition and With the mini-
mum 0f depreciation in weight and value.

Free yourself from a non-competitive, small-town market!

The “Speed-Wagon” brings several markets within reach and
stimulates competitive bidding

N o matter what your specialty or the nature of yOur produce
you can have a body that exactly suits your needs, by mount-

. ing on the basic body below any of the attachments shown at

left The adaptability of this “Speed- .wagd‘n" is almost
limitless. ’

Two standard types are shown at bottom—the standard basic
(express) body and the canopy express—and you can buy
from your Reo dealer any or all of the attachments for a few
dollars extra—either at time of buying the ‘Speed-Wagon”‘

. or any time thereafter.

Electric starter and lights are standard equipment. s _ p S,

‘ ,l There is a Rea Dealer in your ViciniM
. If You Don’t Happen to Know Him
9 Write the Factory for Illustrated Catalog

Re}, Motor‘jrCar .VCom'pan'y,’ Lansing. Mich.

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