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[1 amps: myself back on the. I
«seaport this Sunday morning

floreadthehi. B. It. Iseethe
headlines in big letters, “The Farmer
and His Hired Man." After reading
this page and also the editor' s earnest
,W for help to solve this problem
' I thought that perahps after 27 years’
' ce working for myself and the
other follow, (the other fellow most-
- . 1y) that perhaps my experiences
‘ .-m1g'ht help a little.
* - In the ﬁrst place I am going to tell
you the answer to the problem as I
pseeitandtheniamgoingtotryto
‘ prove it. It isn't the hind man proh-
lem that is staring us farmers in the
face any more than it is the question
at keeping our boys and girls at home.
I claim that it is practically all the
same question. Mrs. Stockman has
answered the question very good so
for as this one man is concerned; her
ﬁgures are all very true and should
have a great bearing on a married

man with four or six children, but .

how about the single man with no re-
sponsibility, no one to support but
himself? How about your boy and my
boy, your girl and my girl? That is
the question that has gotten a lot of
us up a tree.

. me... "can
Faun onmsnrhumuougnor the we

through ﬁanwhenhestarted. He

ﬂiroughﬂne‘mll"aldwsseonsidereblyworse

Job does“h not pay, that high wages
lusion.

incomeonﬂiefarmandarephnnh.

You'llegreethathe oughttoknow
hapsitmayolnngeyour

viewpoint
otherswhohawei’onndnome‘coanlexperienee-orﬂsat

that “the old farm isn‘t such a bad

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Today, our boys and girls or. leave
ingusandgoingtothecity.witha
few exceptions of course. The‘hired
man is dissatisﬁed. Som. have gone
and others are thinking about going.
Can we blame them! No! Why? Be-
cause we do not; we can not, oﬂer the
wages and the pleasures and the op-
portunities that they get in the cit-
ies. There you has the whole thing
in a nut shell. Now in order to keep
them on the term, we have got to of-
Ier them something near what they
get in the city. The city has the

street cars, the Y. M. 0. L. the mov-
ing pictures, and other .at-
tractions is the excitement at ming-
ling with the crowd, the whirls of the
street and the shop.

‘ There is somethhtg about it that I
am unable to explain but nevertheless
it is a fact that when the boy or girl
comes home for a vacation they are
gladtosegyouandallthat. You
drin to town. meet them at the train,
take them home, fill them up with
fried chicken and the host of good

when shewasu
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send {her to causes who made 15*

1 this propOsition Es": tateh
x-weekg’ slum In‘tiir

shewo a and out idea it wefnolli
to cost; how long it would tube”; In"

short how much she would have to
have to put her where ’she wanted to
be. She took the six-waits? course“
came home all "lit up}? Then ‘o
. was going to work and‘earn themes-

 

 

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Peninsular

-0025 ’ Fire Insurance Company
of Merica ‘

Grand Rapids, - - -

CAPITAL $1,000,000.00 -

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buildings.

present value.

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J. FLOYD IRISH,
Bec’ y and Managing Underwriter.

A BIG ,ncw, rcd- blooded stock cOmpany,
‘ with ample capital, that will 1nsurc farm
properly on the same basis that city prop-
erty is insured--ratcd according to fire
preventive construCtion and location of

It IS the opinion of conservative business men that most
farm property is not adequately protected against fire.
Much farm property does not carry fifty per cent. of its

If the farmer’s buildings should be destroyed now, it
i would be a catastrophe for him--—meaning years of saving
and scrimping to replace them. -

Very few farmers have inCreased their insurance since

the World War, (city property owners have) yet it would
cost one-half to two-thirds more now to replace their

N o farmer—no business man—can afford to be undefinsured.

Why not increase your present insurance by plaCing an additional ,
policy with the Peninsular Fire Insurance Company of America?

Ask our agents or write us for our rate schedule on farm property'
You will be surprised at our low rare for three and ﬁve year term policics'

COLON c. LILLIE, 7-

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home. When that shut down she set
Mtheﬁraln'and-wenttoli'lihttolod
for work. ale got it and a“ six
months came home to rest. HQ h;-
ther commenced to talk about new
mndh money she had med and who
11 she ‘was going hack to school shoot
her head and with a shrug said.
“There is nothing stirring. Why.
tether, I am making as much money
now as I will after I have gone to
school I am rushing more than your
local teachers are making," and no u-
meat that that father could put
would change her mind. at;
all of it. She has a brother hand slo-
ter who will he throw school in a
year or two. The father has thrown
up his hands. He toldme Mﬁo
other day that as soon is the j;
children are out at school . _
gototowm Shecamehome ,
rith poison and they have amused
t.
th you can ﬁgure your had i
but here is the situation. The intone-
hile manufacturers want the‘ up.
They have got million of dolﬂss‘h-
vested and they are making from II
to 60 per cent on their investment.
They know that all they hereto as 3h
to dangle good wages. good: ting
plenty of excitement before the syn
or the young people and they are gr
ing to get them. The managoreenl
heads oi the manutactnring em
lee are sitting in cool emcee with their
feet under mme’hogany table mom
25m: cigars, ﬁguring these than
out, and what are you and I
We are plodding around the ﬁeld.
lowing a. plough or drag under a hot
sun. the perspiration streaming em
our backs. ﬁguring. ’ Figuring M!
Figuring how in the name 01 then“
Lord we are going to pay our tons
and 7 per cent interest on the most-
gage along with other expenses tee
numerous to mention. 1 '
Now about the: turmer- that. pays his
help $600 bonus year. How many
“men does this farmer keep and how
much 01 a farm does he work? It is a
pretty safe hot as say that he is a big
farmer; that he has other mass
outside o the farm, and that he M
not d d on the farm for his ML
and butter: alsoth‘at hé'hadhis tools
and machinery be‘ior'e these high
as came into most. Another , ‘
he has the money to takesd ' Wet;

   
 

_ 'ere'ry opportunity that comes mm

Now we may say. for example: I hire
on. men while the big farmer hires
live or six men and possibly more. He
makes a specialty of one or more arti-
cles. He can advertise or handle I
large quantities thereby making a
bigger proﬁt on any one man than ii:

, can on my One man. Again. iI he ha
a article to sell and the market dosed: .

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“y milk ﬂealers,

March 13th 1'
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, "lchlgall Mll-k

ARMERS of Michigan who sell
their milk to a distributing
Company are receiving less than
farmers in the eastern and

on states but slightly more than

the mm of the central and west-
in states. These are facts" gleaned
mom a rcent' report of the U. S. Bur-
can at Markets, covering nearly every

state and important city in.the Unit-3

ed States.

It is generally supposed that the
dances in the Detroit area are receiv-
ing an enceptionally high price for
their milk as compared with prices
elddivhere. But this is not true. The
Detroit price for February was 34. 05;
the' average of the principal markets
for the entire country was 34 36. This
lgure is a little misleading, however,
as it covers the southern states where
ﬂisre is little dairying, and; where, in
some instances the price of milk at
an time of the year goes as high as
3‘ per cwt. But let’s compare the De-
tr'oit- price with that of other indus-
trial cities located in or near dairying
sections

The following cities have;
wholesale milk price than aDetroit:
Hhrtford, 34.14; Sioux City, Iowa, 34.-
10: Kansas City. 34. 33; Boston, 34.65;
Newark, N.J ,3413; New York, 34.12,

(3 per cent Jmilk); Cincinnati, 34.25; .

Columbus, $4.20 (4 per cent milk);
‘P‘ittshurg, 34. 21; Providence,R .,34-

Gities which have a lower wholesale

cethan Detroit: Milwaukee, 33. 85

e, 33.52; Grand: Rapids, 33. 42:

Cleveland, 33 .;95 Toledo, 33. 85; Philar

dolphin, 33. 94; Buffalo, 33. 78; Les An-
geles, 33.76; Chicago, 33..78

Cost ad Selling Brices o!

. “Standard Grade Milk”

The following table presents the
prevailing prices oi “standard grade
milk” in various markets at the
united States. The term "standdrd
grade milk" is used to rotor to that
grade of mill: which is most gener-_
ally sold within the particular city

for which prices are quoted. This
mdeotmilkmaybe-eitherrawor’

pasteuriud but in case of most of
the larger cities it is pasteurised.
The "dealer's spread” or the diffeb
sacs between cost and selling prices
for both wholesale and retail trans-
the bit-

diaerent classes or trade is known.

To reduce prices per hundred weight
to either "a gallon or a quart basis

divide by 11. 03 or 43.53 respectively. :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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males. .... h. .15
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Table A presents a seal n or

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higher -

»ually the result of an

' lax-lo more” of the

“Pump-«- Ceseot mm Economy.

  

noes Reported Below Average

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Hus Co-Operutice Milk Distributing Arrived?

T HERE ARE a score or more
distributing companies in the

erysuccesful. Others are yet in the experimental stage, and n
she vor etym have decided that they can more cheaply market their.
product through independent concerns. Grand Rapids has tried
the cooperative plan, and the farmers are now ready to sell out.
Berries: county farmers have tried it and are satisﬁed. In succeed-
°lng issues we will tell the experiences of farmers who have tried the

cooperative plan. -,-Editor.

roducers’ Cooperative Milk
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business is the market distribution or
fluid milk. These prices are to be
paid producers who make deliveries
in their Own cans either at local
plants or at country shipping sta-

3 tions.

The states making up the several
geographic divisions are as follows:
New England: Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut; Middle Atlantic:
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania; East North Central: Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis-
consin: West North Central: Min-
nesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Da-
kota, South
Kansas: South Atlantic: Delaware,
Maryland,“ District 01- Bulum‘bia,‘ Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
,South Carolina. Georgia and Florida;
East South Central: Kentucky, Ten-
nessee. Alabama and Mississippi;
West South Central: ’Ark'ansas, Loui-

TABLI
‘Bhndtld or Grade “3" Milk

(8.5 per cent butterfat

Range of I
Prices
cwt.

Average
price

 

siana, Oklahoma and Texas; Mount-
ain: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah and Nevada and Paciﬁc: Wash-
ington, Oregon and California.

In most of the important milk con-
suming‘centers or the United States
the prices of natural milk, bought
and sold for Met consumption, are
dwells inadvanoe of delivery.
Price some. do not generally occur
clinker than once a month. Usually
the city milk dealers send
notices to their patrons several days
in mm eta change from the

" schedule of prices then in eifect. li‘he

particularschedule ct prices in effect
during any month of the year is us-
agreement
reached between representatives of
man core and the leading city dis-

ution concerns. In some of the
larger markets.dea1ers negotiate
with representatives of producers’
marketing companies which have the
exclusive agency for the sale of a
producers

these markets.

The prices agreed upon are usual-

ly based upon estimates of produc-

Dakota, Nebraska and'

, ers’ production costs, modiﬁed by the

dealers contentions with regard to
the operating costs and the probable
demands for fluid milk estimated on
the basis of the proposed schedule of
prices. If dealers agree to handle
the entire production of all of their
regular patrons, and if a surplus pro-
duction seems probable, then the has-
is al the dealers' buying prices is

complicated by considerations re-
garding the probable value of the
surplus. -

Unless otherwise qualiﬁed the

prices given in the first column in
the above table show the cost of
milk delivered to dealers at either
city railroad terminals or at the
dealers’ distributing plant where do-
liveries are made direct by produc-
ers. When the price paid by deal-
ers to producers applies to deliveries
at country receiving stations and
does not'include payment for trans-

Comparing January and
for the same

Prion

Increase
or

$33

portation to the city, the average
transportation cost o! some dealers
has been added to the country sta-
tion price in order that the cost to
the dealer (not including country
station expenses) may be shown.
Evansville Indiana System of Deter-
mining Milk Prices

In this market dealers say produc-
ers twice monthly. The semi-month-
ly changes in prices are dependent
upon the prevailing ices paid tor
butterfat in that tan-gory during the
current month, the changing market
prices of shorts, and an agreed upon
schedule of allowances for seasonal

changes in market supply and costs

of production. The tollewing formula
is used for determining the prices to
30.31%“ milk delivered in any hall
y period.

“In. average of butterfat prices
paid by creameries tor the preceding
“days multiplied by the average
butterfat test of milk, plus the price

of 30 pounds short (on a ton basis)
to cover value of skim milk for feed-
ing purposes, plus premium o: 40
cents per cwt. of whole milk for extra
of

costs of producing good quality

market milk, plus or minus the

sonal allowances to encourage m e' '

uniform production. The seasonal
additions or subtractions are as fol-
lows:

January, add 15 cts. per cwt.; Feb-
ruary. add 15 cts. per cwt.; March.
add 15 cts. per cwt.; April, subtract
20 cts. per cwt.; May, subtract 20 cts.
per cwt.; June, subtract 30 cts. per
cwt.; July, subtract 20 cts. per cwt.;
August, add 10 cts. per cwt.; Septem-
ber, subtract 10 cts. per cwt.; Octo-
ber, subtract 15 cts. per cwt.; Novem-
ber, subtract 15 cts. per cwt.; Decem-
ber, subtract 15 cts. per cwt.

Applying the ﬁgures as they were
for the ﬁrst fifteen days in December, .
we have: 4 lbs. butterfat at 3.745 is
$2.986; (For the ﬁrst 10 days the price
paid for fat in cream was 76 cents a
pound. For the next ﬁve days the
price was 72 cents per pound, making
an average price of 3.745 per pound).
Skim milk in 100 lbs. milk (30 pounds
shorts at $2.65 per cwt.), $.795; pre-
mium for production of clean market
milk, 3.400; addition for December,
3.150. Total, 34.330.

If any producer delivers milk in
quantities 20 per cent in excess of the
amount called for by his contract, no
allowances are made tor the value of
skim milk or for extra production
costs but such surplus is paid for by
the dealer on a straight buttertat has-
is. If a producer falls more than 20
per cent short of the amount called.
for by his contract with dealer, he is
paid on the same basis that applies
to the normal supply but a reduction
of 5 cents per lb. of butteriat is made
in such a case.

Boston Price Agreement

Dealers in the Boston market
agree to pay the price given in the
ﬁrst column of Table III for 3.5 per
cent milk delivered in Boston with a
ﬂat deduction of 3.72 cents per cwt..
for can service and graduated deduc-
tion for dealers’ station expenses,
freight and war tax on freight rang-
ing trom 22.9 cents to 64.6 cents per
cwt. for the nearest and iartherest
zones respectively.

For January the dealers agreed to
,pay the above price for 18 per cent
of their sales of whole milk. Where
milk is bought by weight and test the
dealer will pay 4c for each 31 of 1

3 per cent above 3.5 per cent and de-

duct 40 per cwt. for each 31 of 1 per
cent below 3.5 per cent buttertat con-
tents. Where tarmers furnish cans
between the farms and R. R. or milk

—station a premium of 2.3a per cwt.

shall be paid.

For balance of milk purchased, the
deﬁcits will pay the average Cham-
ber of Commerce price for creamery
extra butter too- the month of Febru-
ary 1920 for the butterfat in each cwt.
of such milk plus 321-2c for each
cwt. of such milk. This price applies
to such milk delivered at the railroad
station, milk station or usual point of
delivery in the country.

’ilhe dealers shall report to the New »
England Milk Producers' Association
or to some person acceptable to it, un- .
der oath, the amount of milk pur-
chased and the test thereof and the
amount of milk sold as ﬂuid milk.
Such report to be subject to verifica-
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. _ The March 20th Indus of Michigan Business Farming Will Contain...
how to Boss tho Farmer’s New Hired Mam—the 5. Row Gov. Lowden reduced the Illinois Tax rate. This is the

plan which Milo Campbell will carry out in Michigan if elected.

an.

7. The Problem of the Country Church—by Mrs. George E. In-

6. OomProductlonin

11k, a farmer’s wife.
8.~ The Milk Surplus’Prcbiem.

 
 

 
   

 

 

   
    
  

  

    
    
 

 
 
 


 
 
 
   
    

  

T IS AGREED that the composi-
'g‘t‘ion of soil and its 139% on
. soil productivity and its ex us-
tion is of vital importance to this and
gather nations, whose welfare depends
largely upon agriculture. Soil de-
pletion is a subject that has been
much discussed and studied, and al—
though opinions 'may differ, an
abundance of experimental evidence
‘ tends to show that the maintenance
pf soil fertility is in the main based
,upon m‘ht/hematical principles; that
’ is to say, if the composition of a soil
is known, and also the rate at which
the essential elements are added to
and removed, the length cf time re-
quired to deplete the soil of its fer—
tility, can be approximated. It is
impossible to do more inasmuch as
it is not known just what constitutes
the lower limits to which plants may
remove the mineral plant food con-
stituents from soils.

The composition of soils is deter-
mined by means of chemical'analy—
ses. The methods in use are very re-
ﬁned and only an expert analyist can
obtain reliable results and to make
a complete anlysis of a sample of
soil requires many hours of rather
exacting work. This means, of
course, that this is a matter that
must be considered more from the
point of view of kinds of soil on
large areas than from that of the in—
dividual ﬁeld or farm. ‘The results
of chemical analyses are criticized by'
some on the ground that they have
certain shortcomings and are, there-
fore, of little value. I am led to con—
clude, as a result of discussions by
others and from an abundance of ex—
perimental data and correlations,
that I have been able to make be—
tween the results of laboratory and
ﬁeld investigations, that the chemi-
cal studies of soils are of great value
and have thrown much light upon
the problem-s pertaining to soil pro-
ductivity. Unquestionably, our pres—
ent knowledge of soils and soil fer-
tility would be much less comprehen-
sive if chemical studies had never
been resorted to.

The question at once arises where-
in lies the value of soil analyses. In
order to answer this question we
must ﬁrst see what an analysis
shows. The reaction of the soil is
determined, that is, whether or not
it requires lime; the humus or veg-
etable matter content, as well as the
total nitrogen, and amounts of the
essential mineral elements as well as
others are determined. A knowledge
of these amounts, to be sure, is im-
portant information which aids
greatly in planning permanent sys-
tems of soil management. We are
safe in saying that at present we
have no laboratory method by means
of which the immediate fertilizer
needs of‘the soil can be determined,
but that the chief value of the an-
alyses, lies in the fact that they af-
ford a foundation upon which to
base rational system of soil manage-
ment. It is true that a knowledge
of the amounts of the raidly soluble
matter in a soil may, and has, thrown
some light upon the soil problems,
but inasmuch as there are a number
of factors that influence the avail-
able plant food in soils, this method
is somewhat limited in its useful-
ness. -

The chemical composition of soils
varies markedly. Such factors as the
method of formation, the nature of
the material from whichderived, and
also its age or stage of decomposi-
tion, or disintegration, as well as the
climatic condition, profoundly in-
fluence the composition of soils. The
results of studies of various investi-
gators show in an uncontrovertible
manner that residuary soils formed
in humid regions, as a general rule,
contain less soluble plant food than
- those formed in arid regions. A sum-
‘ mary table of the average results of
, analyses of over 500 samples of soil
~~ from arid regions and about 700

 
  
   
 

  

   

   
  
   

  
 

  

What Science Has Done to Determ

. ‘ -, By M.. M. Mascot. ~r ‘
Professor of Soils, Michigan. Agricultural College

from humid regions throws much
light upon this subject. -
Oxides of Arid Soils Humid Soils
. .75.87 88.21
7.21 3.66
. . . 5.48 3. 88
. . . .16 .12 .

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Magnesium . . . . 1.27 ' 7 2.9
Sodium .35_ N .14
Potassium . .' . .67 ‘ 3 ' 21 ‘

The seven essential elements, of
cropsremoved from-the soil are
widely but not uniformly distribut-
ed. Indeed, if they were, the much
disCussed and studied soil fertility
problems would be of less import-
ance. -

The separates, that is, sand, silt,
and clay, vary in composition. These
were isolated from several soils and
analyzed. The results show that the

009 lbs. to about 1, 200 lbs. All ex-T‘

animation of- census reports and 111-1- _

terviews with numerous farmers re?

veal that this can be attributed '39“
a comparatiwely low acreage of clov-ﬁ .y =“
i fact yer-y few samples; n e", she .11
*less than 2,00 0' b . ‘ r3. ‘5

er especially during the last quarter
of a century, as well as to losses by
leal'ching from manure before it is'
applied to the soil.
one per cent or 2, 000 lbs. of this ele-
ment is consider-ed to be a pair sup-
ply for light soils and for the heavier
ones about ﬁfteen hundreths of one.

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Industry,

of agrlculture Is the basls of all general prosper r.ll.y
the natural resources and Is the supporter of all agriculture. Bette s.ood dloease
although essential cannot materlally Increase the productlvlty of depleted soils.

tlllago,
may Increase It several hundred per cent.

coarser particles contain more silica
and less of the important minerals,
and also less of the essential ele-

ments, especially is this true of resi— ‘

duary soils in humid regions. .. There
are, however, less differences in this
respect between the separates of
soils formed in arid regions and those
deposited by glaciers, inasmuch as
less leaching has taken place because
of less rainfall under the former and
the younger deposits of the latter.
I shall now discuss the amounts
of certain of the elements of plant-
food that soils carry. The composi-
tion of soils may be expressed on the
percentage basis and as the number
of pounds per acre. In making the

latter calculation the precentage is.

multiplied by 2,000,000 or the weight
of the surface layer of soil over one
acre to a depth of seven inches. Ni-
trogen is derived from organic mat-
ter that has accumulated in the
soil since its formation. Moreover,
when the organic matter goes out of
a soil so does the nitrogen. Since
this is true this import-ant element
varies tremendously with soil text-
ure or kind of soil drainage condi-
tions and the management of the
land. It may be increased somewhat
by certain methods which are to be
discussed in more detail subsequent-
ly, but since the vegetable matter de-
cays constantly during the warmer
portions of the year provision must
be made to constantly renew it in the
soil. «Chemical analyses of a large
number of samples ' of- soils taken
from the older farms in Casscounty
show that in many instances the
amount in the surface seven inches
of soil has decreased from about 4,-

 

commerce and education rely upon agriculture for tholr support.

 

Improvement
The fertility of the soil Is the greatest of
control and
Fonlllty

soils vary tremendously in their nit-
rogen content. We have found ,
many light soils’ that contain less
than 1,000 lbs. per acre, other sands
much more while the ﬁne textured
soils range from about 1,200 lbs. to
more than 4,000 lbs. per acre.
There is a shortage of phosphorus
in the soil-s of the world and many
soils in the humid areas respond to
its application. With the exception
of sulphur, soils in general are more
deﬁcient in this element of plant food
than all other-s. One tenth of, one
per cent or 2,000 lbs. per acre is con-
sidered-to be a desirable amount. ‘
The phosphorus content of repre-
sentative. soils from several counties
is given in special bulletin N.o 284.
This may be obtained by writing to
Dean, R. 8. Shaw at East Lansing.
In general we have found that our
prairie soils are highest in this ele-
ment, some carrying more'than 1,800 ,

lbs. per acre, the pineand scrub oak

lands loWest or about 750 lbs. while
other; timbered lands usually lie be-
tween. .

Soils must release large amounts
of potassium to crops. It is usually
present in soils ‘in rather large
amounts and is needed in smaller
amounts than phosphorus, yet there
is a wide range in the quantities that
they carry. Some peat and muck
soils contain less than ﬁve thousand
pounds per acre and it is generally
understood that sandy lands contain
much less than do the fine textured
ones. ‘A soil that has about 3,000
lbs. or more is well supplied with it, ,
however, some heavy soils possess
more than 100,000 lbs. per acre.

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bution. , '
The sulphur content of soils in
general does not run as high
phosphorus};
vegetable matter. and; mineral por-

the application of materials that con-

tain this element results in greatly,

increased yields of seyeral crops.

However, I shall discuss this ‘matter , i

in detail in another article:

Lime or calcium may exist in the
soil in several forms but as a rule
the most of it is united with: the sili-
cates as calcium silicate. About seven
hundred samples of soils taken in the
humid region averaged 13 per eént.

_ It is desirable to Have su'ﬁicient lime

in the soil as the carbonate to give
Our studies
of the southern half of Michigan re-
veal that aside from the old Maumee
lake bed the areas that contain suf-
ﬁcient lime are small indeed. We

are provided with less definite 'in- .-

formation of the soils of the north-
ern"counties, * iesp‘eci-allyf'with the
light phasesof hardwood lands. The
pine lands that we have been able to
test are deﬁcient in it. .

In the‘ next article I shall discuss
available plant food in sells.

PREPARING FOR ALFALFA

I would like some information about
alfalfa and how to start it. I have some
high sand ground, not the poorest in
Michigan; but I have tried clover of ev-
ery kind except sweet clover. It .v'rlll do
well until the hot dry mid—Summer; then.
kill out. Now I hope to place alfalfa. on
this ground and wish
necessar to inoculate with clover ﬁrst.
if so, wil sweet clover act the same as
-another?——F. N Coleman.

Alfalfa is a very exacting crop. It
requires an abundance of lime in
the soil and all the available miner—
al elements, especialll phosphorus
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tains and appreciable Quantity of

,aétive vegetative matter. Unless one

.has a sell that is in a pretty good

state of fertility or- is able to pur-
chase lime and apply an abundance
of plant- food it certainly is not ad-

visable for him to attempt to grow ‘

this crop.

If you.will send us a sample of ,

soil we shall examine it

for lime :

content and advise you relative to »

its use. ,

four or- six cubic yards of marl
should be applied to soils the? are to
be seeded to alfalfa. In addition not'

less than six loads of stable manure

which will furnish - some nitrogen .to
the start of the crop andespecially
some potash, and also at least 300
pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate
per acre. . ‘

Sweet clover and alfalfa may be
inoculated with the same organisms.
If one is to prepare the land for» al-‘.

falfa by growing the sw’e'et clover -

previous to this it is essential that
the sweet clover be inoculated befdre
If the owner of the
land does; not wish to precede the
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“Land values all over this igii—J

, cultural ”region have been inflated
,» td a preposterous - extent The big
" boom started in Iowa last summer
and has been booming ever since.
Last year there was an unprecedent-.

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L 0' ; land fermerly selling at $30 an acre
.. found willing purchasers at $400,
. $500,11p to $800 an acre ”

i “Formerly” was 30 Years Ago

The most interesting and apparent-
ly the most agile word in that par-
agraph is “formerly.” Land was
“formerly" selling at $30 an acre
-» :,in Iowa. I But “formerly“ was 30
' 5 years ago. Not since about 1890
' :‘have farm land -values in the state
ranged anywhere around that ﬁgure.
‘ And-these lands are not now selling
“at $400,’ $500 and up to $800 an‘
acre,” as the correspondent sa-.ys The
average selling price of’Towa farm
land is not higher than. $250 to. $275
‘- an acre. Out of 1, 50'0 instances of
actual sales on which the Depart-
ment, of Agriculture gathered in-
formation, less than a dozen repre-
sent prices of $500 and less than 5

    
  
  

CORRESPQNDENCE print-

, I. ,, . ,gtrust sought to, cover, up its act-
’83:; "a proliﬁc, and what methods it ’fol-
lewed to spread propaganda in its in-
terest. Nor have these tactics been
entirely abandoned 'by the sugar
men. Numerous articles have recent-
ly appeared» in Michigan papers giv—
ing the differenCe that the "beet grow-
ers are getting exceptionally good
returns, and these articles all bear
3 1": the earmark of having been written
o-‘r inepired by. the
@5316 letters and the
. - formation showmg “what organiza-
‘ tion has accomplished for the West- 1
‘ ern beet growers are submitted and
, , vouched for by Mr. Albert Dakan,
, cf Longmont, Colo. ‘
“W. B. Thomas President
Sugar: Reﬁning Company, 117 We
New 150: rk.
"My \Dear Mr. Thomas:
~‘ g With Ihahdyou a copy .of our ﬁnancial-
Exhibit and Income Statement. This is
the form in which we expect to publish
emu

these state , ts

t Yn' 'tommth noti'eﬁ tthatlihiys yéear, iii ted-
, )9 e reg ar , - eprecaI; on
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' an eviden‘ that fanning pays big dividends.

a present values of farm lands?
‘ {he value ‘9! other cominodities.

drent was of Michigan farm lands
, glands are worth twice as much sass tiley were ten
71 note that that; the land speculator. playing upon the

' ty folk, have placed a value 'on farm lands which is -
on to their productive worth?
dials use? “this speculative valueas

their assessment? It would be ﬁne if every farmer ,
“his farm at this speculative .vhl'ue.
3.1th a. few th6usaaid of them had passed into the hands of the ’
, They would be thrown back onto the market and the

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per cent». represent as much as $400

an acre.
, The impression is created all the
Way through the article that the
high prices of food are caused by the

high price of land. The fact is, how-. I
ever, that the prices of foods rose
. and the rise in, land values follow-

ed; The further fact is that if the

“‘ government were to take from the

speculators to such an eitent that'

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manufacturers. ‘
concluding in- ,

  

Isome other cause
products have moved up in approx-,

Iowa farmers by taxation nearly all
of the net earnings of farm lands, as
single taxer‘s advocate, prices of
farm products would still be as high
as they are now, unless lowered by
Prices of food

imatel‘y the same proportion as gen-
eral prices in response to the same
world-wide _< causes—dwar scarcities
and currency inflation. If prices of
farm. products were to any degree
lower than they are, they would be
entirely out of line with the prices of
other products.

How Land Values are Based

Every economist knows that farm
land values are based on the earn-
ing power of' land as .manifested,
largely by its rent and'thatpthe earn—
ing power and rent are the result of
pric-esof products in relation to the
expense of production; During the
war pri‘bes of food products rose rap—
idly, and expenses of production, for
a time, did not rise with the same
rapidity. The result was that farm-
ers made somewhat larger net earn-
(ings than formerly and, consequent—
ly, found it possible to pay more for
land~than before.

“The above letter was written, it
should be n.,oticed at the end of the
1909- 10 campaign. So the Great
Western had been organized ﬁve
yearsand in those ﬁve years had piled
up a surplus of $9,000,000, besides
besides paying regular dividends and
high salaries; .had done that with
sugar‘selling at an‘aver-ag-e of $4.57
per 100,“over‘ that pgriod and beets
at $5.00 .per ton.

“At the end of the 1918-19 cam-

paign the company’s surplus is esti-

mated at approximately $50, 000, 000.
’ “That the farmers have the true
basic facts on the cost of producing
beet [sugar Will be admitted by any
interested party upon‘ reading the
following2I
((New York. June 6,1909

“Mr.NB%Ibert Oxnard, 32 Nassau Street,

“Dear Sir: Agreeable to your request

‘I herewith tabulate the cost of produc-

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'being rather too

«Here are other statements from
the article: .

“The farmers in this region are,
richer today than they have ever
been in their lives, and this means
that nowhere on earth before has
the man who tills.the soil proﬁted
as these folk are proﬁting.

“Today it is the east which is pay-
ing tribute to the money barons of
the western' farms.

"‘M-oreover, unless the east keeps
on being held up by the prairie spec-
ulators who have driven the cost of
farm lands‘up to these absurd ﬁg—
ures, and continues to pay interest
on the watered stock or fictitious
values now represented in these
farms, in the form of abnormal and
outrageous prices for wheat and
corn and meat, the western bubble
will break.

”So long as the consumers stand
for being robbed, existing values can
be maintained. When the consum-
ers revolt and refuse to pay, the hub—
ble will be pricked, and when the ex—
plosion comes, great will be the cas-
ualty 1131 among those arrogant avg-
ricultural gentlemen who now levy
tri‘bute upon the whole world. High
prices of land must be maintained or
else the bubble of fictitious values
will burst:

“Riches,” “tribute,” “robbery,”
and like words are short enough to
serve and ugly enough for anything,
but they have the disadvantage of
indeﬁnite. - For—
tunately the facts are available. One
of the studies made .by the Depart-

» ing 1% lbs. of granulated sugar by the

American Beet Sugar Company and that
of a. typical plant.
. Am. Typical

Beets Plant

Cost of Beets. . .- ......... $2 170 $2.045
Operatinﬁ Expenses ...... . .952 .810
Maintenance ...... 1 ..... .603 .810
Interest ................ .072 ,038
Sugar in ”Process ........ 097 .000
General Expenses ........ 091 .043
Total $3.985 $3.211

Invite your attention to the difference
and hope that during younadministra—
tion the cost of producing 100 lbs. gran-

ulated will not exceed 31-4 cents a
pound—H. 0, HAVEMEYER.I
“New York, Sept. 20, 1909.

“Mr. C. S Morey, Denver, Colo.

"My Dear Mr Morey: I enclose a clip-
ping from a Boston paper in reference
to the report made by the stockholders‘
committee of the American Sugar Re-
ﬁning Company, which may be of inter-
est to you.

"Without Ithaving it appear that its
publication is inspired .by us or our
friends, if it could be published in some
of your Denver papers I think it might
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elton Soc-’y
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Lyman,

., ,_ ering F om High Land Valdesl

7 meat of Agriculture included a group

I was $3,480.

of 324 farms in the. richest portions
of Iowa. The average net income

"of these farms in 1918, with no al-

lowance whatever for interest on the:
investment in land and equipment”
If 5 per cent be allow-sf
ed for interest on the investment at”:
the value of the land before the re;
cent‘ “boom,” there is left onthe‘av—
era-ge, only‘$1,124 to pay for the 13-:-

. bor of the farmer and for the risk to.

the business. On the basis of aver;
age values of land in August, 1919,
there would be left an average of
only $151 to pay the interest on the
value of the land and equipment——
the interest, as the correspondent!
says, “on the watered stock or fic—
tltious valuEs now represented in
these farms in the form of abnormal
and outrageous prices for wheat and
Corn and meat.” After all, $151
does not seem rather “abnormal and!
outrageous.”

City People Get 2-3 of Increase

“Wildcat speculators,” these Iowa. -
farmers are called. But the facts
‘show that nearly one—half of the peo-
ple engaged in buying and selling
farm lands in Iowa during the re-
cent “boom” were city people, and'
this one-half who lived in the cities
got about two-thirds of the money
represented by the increase of sale
value in farm lands during 1919.

In the light of. these facts and of
the almost universal prevalence of
what might be called proﬁteering,
the Department of Agriculture thinks I
it is unfortunate to single out as a
proﬁteer the farmer—the man who
sells his goods in an open market
characterized by intense competition ’
and free, so far as the farmer him-
self is concerned, from any element
of monopoly or pricepontrol.

There can be no question, the de-
partment believes that the recent in-
crease in the price of Iowa farm
lands is unfortunate, even in rela-
tion to farm earnings, under the fav-
orable conditions of production and
prices in 1918, and that it is doubly
unfortunate if the world faces the
period predicted by many economics
prophets. The land economics spec—
ialists of the department say, how—
ever, that the increase was an inev-
itable result of the present industrial
system and that the farmers were no
more to blame for it than any other
class of people.

What Organization Has Accomplished for the Beet Farmers of the West

The interesting features are—that the
investments are considered conservative-
ly valued; that the plants are placed at
a. conservative ﬁgure; that there is keen
competition in the sugar business; that
the Affairs of the company are more
open, and that the company is not owned

by a few rich people—W. B. THOMAS,
(p. 1982, V01. 4.)
Enormous Beneﬁts Result From

Beet Growers Organization

“Slowly, slowly, the beet growers
of Northern Colorado, Nebraska, Wy-
oming and Montana have builded
their organization. In 1909 beets
were $5 per top. New, for the crop
of 1918, the farmers have through
their organization secured $10 per
ton. Many of the factory towns of
Northern Colorado have experienced
a change of heart and have appoint—
ed a business man to go with the
farmers’ committee before the sugar
officials and ﬁght for a fair price,.,_
The farmers appreciate this and ad-
vise efforts to secure the moral sup-
port of all the towns for what is fair
to the growers.

“Counted in dollars the gain to
the growers through organization is
very much beyond what any one on’
the outside realizes. For several:
years past the Great Western Sugar‘
Co. has been securing annually two
million tons of beets. In February,
1917, the company had put out its.
contracts for that year. The. gnaw-i
ers were not satisﬁed,
meetings, sent a big committee to
Denver and secured not only a flat
raise of 50 cents per ton but a writ-
ten agreement from Mr. Morey
that effect and also an agreement- 1’
for a conference before the 1918 con-
tract was put out. That 50 cent

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1 the La Belle hotel March 31111, the
American Farm Bureau Federation
1 was swept into a permanent organ-

‘ ization.

In the election which followed, J.
R. Howerd, of Clemons. Iowa, who
‘ has served as temporary- .preisident
since the last November convention,

.- was elected president for the coming .
Vyear by an unanimous vote. No other '

nomination was made. .8. L.- Striv-

' ings of Castile, N. Y. who has serv?

ed as vice ‘president, was continued
. by a full vote of the delegates. Each
responded amid wild applause with
a brief talk acknowledging their ap—

preciation of the honor and respon-.

sibilties of their positions.

Howard Promises All Sections 00-
operation

V In a brief speech accepting his of-
fice, Howard said he wouldn't prom.

V ise not to make mistakes, but he
I would try not to make the same one
, twice. He promised full co~opera~V

tion to all sections and in all prob;

lems. Calling attention to the fact
that there was no more rich farm
regions to develop he declared that
agriculture was entering a new per-
iod where greater stability of farm-
ing as a business was demanded and
mus-t be fostered.

When Strivings was nominated
vice president, a dozen states second-
ed it. Mr. Strivings said the prob-
toms of farmers demanded the best
thought of. every one. He admon-
- ished patience among the states and
said there must be built out of the
federation a fabric as solid as oak.

He declared the big task ahead is
to make the country see that farm—
ing is made reasonably prosperous
without selﬁsh purposes. Bartering
away the farm products to the rest
of theytvorid to give a market for our
manufactured products must not be
allowed to be carried on as in the
past.

.1 all... 0": 215mm; states at ‘ ““7 '

can in opening

the portals of this country to foreign ‘

growii foods. The federation, he de-

clared. must stand for sf." square deal
, to all citizen's of: the nation. however,

a: iellas farming.
With White! farm enterprise the
assembly plunged into the business

at hand and reconvened after supper ,

worked late into the night. It is the
talk among” all that the federation is
to be a business organization and not

‘ educational in its activities. .1 It
. shall devote itself to develop the bus- ~ '

loose and economic side of forming.
It willnot dabble in politics. a?)

‘ Six women delegates were presen /

Mrs. M. E. Judd, of Dalton, Ga., pres-
ident of-the Whiteﬁeld county fair of
her state, is one. The other ﬁve
were Mrs. L. E. McClung,‘Rupér.t‘, W.
Va.; Mrs. C. H. Savage, Storrs,
Conn; Miss Gertrude M. White, An-
dover, Conn.; Mrs. John C. Ketcha-m,
Hastings, Mich" and Mrs. Charles
Cchuttler. Farmlngton, Mo.
Following the naming of a resolu-
tion committee resolutions were rec-
ommended for the pretection of farm
products from foreign competition,
milk and potatoes Being cited, also on
the farm income tax, wood pooling,
collective bargaining and an inter-
national conference on production.

Dept. of Agriculture Ofﬁcial Speaks

Dr. A. - 0. True, director of the *

states relations service of the United
States department .of agriculture, was
called on for a talk, in Which he
said that it was vital not only to ag-
riculture that it be prosperous, but
to the entire nation. A new condi-
tion which farmers must consider
and proﬁt by was the grouping of
workers and industries for ediciency.

He traced the growth of agricul-
tural education the latest develop-
ment being the extension 3
vided for under the Smith- ever act
Education must be thought of hence—

  

vice pro- ’

  
  

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lab and do a great. constructive work.
Budget of $290,099 for Yesr T:

. An extended discussion in the '11. :
1mm of the lines along which the

federation should can out its work
brought up the 11' es available.

dale, of Am'es, Iowa. stated‘1: that
$200, 000 was in sight for 1020.

The president’s salary came up for
discussion ﬁrst and vice president
Strivings stated the executive com-
mittee after considering the loss

which any man qualiﬁed for the job
would have to suffer in leaving his
farm decided on $15, 000 a year. The
president is elected annually. Trav-

eling expensés were estimated at $3, -1

0:00. It was the general opinion that
the president should be “the man" in
the federation and the management
'of the general one. placed in the
hands of a competent executive. The“

expenses of the ofﬁce. salary of sec- -

rotary and clerks was estimated at

$10, 000 to $14, 000 depending on ‘

where the allies was lOcated.
’ Members of Executive Body

The temporary executive cemmit-
tee was elected, viz: 1

Northeastern region—B. B. Corn- _.

wall, Middlebury, Vt.; E. F. Rich-
ardson, Millie, Mass.; H. E. Taylor,
Freehold, N. J.

Middle states—O. E. Bradfute,

1Xenia, Ohio; Howard Leonard, Eu-

reka, 111.; C. H. Gray, Nevada, Mo.
Southern region——Gray Silver,
Martinsburg, W. Va.; J. W. Morton,

: Athens, Ga.; Geo’rge'Bishop, Cordell,

Okla.
Far west region—W. H. Walker,

Wi110ws, 09.1.; W. J. Jamleson, La

ligent leader- .

  

Acting Secretary." John .W Cover- ‘

   
    
    
   

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sona‘ble sum fer same. .1

V The present membership of the
federation is 485,000 farmers and
the per capita fee averages 40 cents.

Some of the.- themes. or the pro-V.
gram which is now under: consider-

ation for the coming year are:

National legislation that will... pre- 5

vent strikes and unnecessary suitor-
lug.

InvestigatiOn at the tariff' in re-
Ila on to farm nets.

lll‘the clause offering reciprocity,

with Canada.‘ ‘

Investigation of marketing, live
stock prices and foreign competition.

Lower freight rates.

Investigation of foreign tradem-
lations.

Investigation of credits' and for;

sign exchange. '

Establishment of 's Washln
oilice‘, with experts to watch an
port on legislation.

Those who attended from Michigan '

were: C. A. Binghe/m, A. J. Bo ,
A. E. Illenden, Mrs. J. 0. Ketom.
R. Blemhuber, R. Montleth, M. M.
Holbrook, 0. D. Hagerman, Dr. Eben
Mumford, A. M. Berridge, Roland
Merrill, R. G. Potts, James Nicol, the
last named being voting delegates.

-By L. E. Trocaer, in O'Mcago bloc

Stock Drovers' Journal.

Upper Peninsula Farmers Protest Against Attacks on Farm Loan System

1ch An article in the Feb. 26th

issue of your magazine has
aroused considerable concern not
only to myself but to a number of
farmers in this locality, and it is
gratifying to feel at liberty to ad—
vise you regarding the same, and to
ask a favor of you in the way of
granting space in the columns of
your magazine for the publication of
a resolution by our farm loan asso-
ciation, which is herewith enclosed
and is self explanatory.

The article above referred to is
the article by W. G. McAdoo and
the editor’s note of warning accom-
panying same. Will say at this time
that the members of our association
wish to extend to M. B. F. their ap-
preciation and thanks for that note
of warning, and beg to ask one more
small favor, as we are not in pos-
session of the correct address, and
ask that you forward same to prop-
er address of the following named
ofﬁcials at Washington; namely,
Rep. Scott, Senator Townsend, J.
W.1Fordney and the Secretary of
Agriculture. Trusting you may see
ﬁt to grant these favors we are sin-
cerely yours for better conditions—
Thompson-Inwood National F a r m
Loan Association by Dell Smith Mgr.
Of Board.

EDITOR MICHIGAN BUstnss FARM'

Resolution of Protest ,

By Thompson-Inwood National Farm
Loan Association of Manistique.

“Whereas. it has come to the ob-
servation of this association that at-
tacks have and‘ are being made on
the Federal Farm Loan System, and
whereas an appeal was taken to the
"Supreme Court of the U. s. to over-
rule the decision of Judge Van Val-

} kenberg in favor of the constitution?

ality of the Federal Farm Loan Act.
And whereas, speeches are reported
to have been made by the Hon. J. W.
Fordney, chairman of the Ways and
, 1 Means committee of the house of
representatives and by Rep. McFad—

   

 

 

 

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Bankers’ Ass’n Approves Loans on Warehouse Wool

T THE RECENT meeting of the Agricultural Committee of V

the Michigan State Bankers’ Association, we are advi: ed by
Comfort A. Tyler, they unanimously endorsed the pure fabric
law, also endorsed the proposition to ﬁnance pure-bred lamb clubs
in the state of Michigan, also approved of assisting the new Wool
Growers’ Association of this state by advancing individual farmers
75 per cent of .the estimated value of the wool on the association

 

 

 

 

den, 11 member of the Banking and
Currency Committee of the House, in
opposition to the tax exemption
clause in the act, which speeches are
said to be given a wide circulation

by the mortgage brokers of Ameri- V

ca, and whereas bills has been intro-
duced in both the Senate and House
to force liquidation of the Joint
Stock Land Banks, and whereas it
is reported that threats that the tax
exemption on farm mortgages and
land bank bonds would be knocked
out by the present congress have
been made by the mortgage brokers
of America. All of which go to in-
dicate that the force of the efforts

to cripple the farm loan system is '

not yet spent, and whereas the fed-
eral farm loan act was devised and
enacted for the express purpose” of

supplying a generally recognised and 1
the agricultural .

- program of the nation, namely. the

long felt need in

creating of a system of farm credit
that would enable the farmers of the
nation to borrow money on 'farm
land security on long time loans at
a low rate of interest to old them in
carrying out their part of the neat

agricultural program of the nation,V

namely, providing food and. clothing
for the people of a nation, . and,

whereas, the cornmercial end of thief
i' great enterprise was already use
care of by a system of comm“

credit as represented by the ma

’ a-

Reserve Banks, the stocks. of which

is .owned by the National Banks of'

the U. S. and are exempt from all
federal, state and local taxation, as
is also all sﬁte, county and muni-
cipal bonds in the hands (if wealthy
people and whereas, under the pres-
ent workings of the farm loan sys-
tem. borrowers are required to pay
the taxes on the mortgaged proper-
ties, the removal of the tax exemp-
tion clause from the act would leave

the borrower subject to double or

even tripleV tar on the value repre-
sented in the‘ mortgage executed
against it. First, by direct tax on
the property; second, by a tax on the;
mortgage, held by the land bank,
and third, by a tax on the bond is-
sued against the mortgage, and yet
further without the tax exemption
clause itwould be impossible to dis-
pose .of the bonds of theiand banks
at the low rate of interest at which
they are now sold. and borrowers

would be compelled to pay. in addi- '

tion to taxes on. his acknowledge-

- ment of indebtedness (for what is a

mortghge but an evidence of lndebt- 1~ 1

' sd‘ shut.- Clemens sud Va
use. itted'

adhess) an increased rate of interest

.on that debt - .
“New, therefore be it resolved. '
that the tax emptioucisuse in the.

 
    
    
    

conceded but three years ago by the
congress of the U. S.

“Be it further resolved, that ﬁe ,

removal of that Clause or the p

of any bills now pending or her
ter introduced in congress that
might cripple or injure the present
workings of the. farm loan system

”could only be looked upon as I. wil-

f-ul discrimination against the agri-
cultural interests of the U. 'S. and a
disposition on the part of congress
to yield to the pressure aid influ-
ence of farm mortgige brokers/sud
money lenders who seek to destroy
the farm credit system and again
place the farmers of the nation in a
position where they can again dic-
tate rates of interest and terms on
which farmers may borrow money,
and to cast on him an unequal por-
tion of taxation.

“Be it further resolved that any
act as above mentioned by the con-
grass of the U. 8. should and would

be met by disapproval, resentment

and proteStatidns‘, not by this 8580‘
elation alone, but by the thousands
of farmers, throughout the U. S. who

'are ﬁnding refuge in this great sys-

tem from the. Shylocks of old who
seem to be again in evidence in such
force as to again demand that pound
of flesh, the taking of which they
must know would necessarily mean

' the spilling of the blood of this great

credit system.

“Be it further resolved that a copy I
of this resolution be sent to our rep-' '

resentstive in congress with our re-

quest that he use his efforts and 111-"

finance to defeat any and 11111111911345;

urns tendins to minim-s the term was
arises- copy to; the scare 1

systemand

my or Agriculture with” a like red
quest. also that a copy he sent for
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minibershlps hfllliatin with the
state organisation, providing that in 5:1- V
states not having Va membership the...}~,

executive committee of the American
Farm Bureau Federation fix a roe-V 1

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Packers has issued
statement: ‘
, '2 AbsenCe of foreign demand for Am
, erica'n pork continued 1111111111111th
" ' . «February to be a vital inﬂuence upon
‘ ~ ' the market. Export business continu-f
. .1 , at! virtually. at- a standstill.
nation was summarised in a special
5 I bulletin issued February 17. v .
i - , HeaVy shipments of park last fall,

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have apparently put a step to any fur-
- ther demand from Europe for some
. ' ‘ time to come. .
’2 . ports there are consignments of Amer-
~. . .ican pork which are not bsing sold on
‘ account of the depreciated value of
foreign xechange. ; .. ,
seems to be some preopect of
British buying in limited quantities
~ for the March period through their
- appointed. agency in. New York. ,
At home there was a good volume
of pork trade throughout the month,
” but consumers seemed to want the
choice and higher-priced cuts. High
wages in the. south have led to the
purchase 01 ‘choiceu- cuts of pork than
in ﬂormer years, and the result is a
lack of sale for the heavier cuts of
salt pork.
. These heavy meats are being made
_._in good quantity, and greater con-
sumptive demand will necessarily
have to be developed.
Hog prices were higher the last of
January and the ﬁrst of February
than at any time during the winter's
packing. With a strong demand for
light hogs, the spread between prime
’ light and prime heavy hogs widened
until the difference amounted to about
one cent a pound.’ .
1 _ A signiﬁcant factor is that hog re-
, ceipts from the ﬁrst 01 January until
' ' the present time have been from 15 to‘
20 ‘per cent lighter than last year.
There is some diﬂerence of opinion
among those in' close touch’ with the
situation as towhat this means.
One view is that farmers have, been
1 slow to market their hogs, probably
because of price conditions, because
' they wished to Carry on further feed-
ing. or because of difficulty in ob-
taining cars for shipments. Taken in
conjunction with the Government re“
port of January 1 which showed only
about two per cent fewer hogs in the
country than one year ago, this would
suggest that there is a large surplus
on the farms.- Consequently, receipts
from now until summer may be as
heavy or heavier in numbers and also
in weight than they were in the cor-
responding period of 1919. 7

Another view is that the lighter re-
ceipts so far this year indicate actual
decrease of hogs upon”farms‘.

In the beef markets the supply of

« dressed beef is considerably in excess

‘ of that available for home consump-
tion one year ago. The Government,
in 1919, was still buying beef in rath-
er large quantities. Absence of any
such demand ‘this year leaves a great
deal more beef to be absorbed by con-
sumers.

With demand no more than fair, 9.
further depressing factor continues
in the Government’s disposal of con-
siderable so-called Army beef.

Another factor which has had great

.. : ' inﬂuence upon the ‘beef trade has been
7” - . ' ‘the relatively strong demand for hind
‘- '7 - Quarter beef and the :poor demand for
forequarter beef. A more even de-
mand would be an economic gain to
the ,consumer‘and to the meat indusj
, try. . - ‘
’ ‘ Receipts of sheep and lamb have
been less than those one year ago. A
. aller number of stock is on feed,-
a. situation brought about largely be-
cause Colerado producers stayed out
, and did not buy for feedin purposes
, at prevailing prices. Io 9., Illinois
" “ other central states bought free-
, dim lambs. but these animals have for
" sen marketed. ' ,
entire supply from
offline must come
”territory in No-

The Institute of American nut.
following. ' Presto - ,
,4 .ﬂtates was not an exporter of beef,
"and the situation can probably adiust

This sit- ‘.

In many continental ‘

. cows. Prime .

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itself to a basis of domestic consump-
fission a’ ﬁne oi prices which we hope
will be equitable both to producer
and consumer. .

The pork situation, we. believe, is
quite dependent on the foreign de—
mand. The situation is, of course.
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Lapeer Farmers Endorse Bureau
The following resolution was sub-
mitted and unanimously adopted at
the Burnside Township Farm Bureau

“ ld lower;
nay cute and.
- side township, knowing the.
time that have Texisted so long, have

smeeting, Burnside, Feb. 20,1920:
Whereas, We, the farmers of Bum
condi-

organized the Farm Bureau for the
betterment of the same. Therefore be
it

Resolved, that we‘demand a reason-
able margin of proﬁt over and above
the cost of production of our products.

Be it further-resolved, that this
organization declares it to be itsearn-
est desire and purpose taco-operate
with other state federations of farm

bureaus and other agricultural organ~~

izations in efforts for improvement of
agricultural conditions not-only this
state, but other states of our nation.
Signed~Anthowy E'sper, D. HcNary,
W. B. Wilson, Committee 011 Resolu-
Hons.

Will Detroit Develop as Live Stock Market?

OUTH MICHIGAN growers of high
grade beef, in the years in which
they. assiduously have been build-
ing. up their herds in numbers and
quality, have seen the city of Detroit
grow from a population center num-
baring a few hundreds of thousands
to more than a. million. Meantime

iirstclass, Michigan grown bee: has .

been going to the Chicago market,
and still goes—away from this popu-
lation center of a million, just as it
always has done. And to the Chicago
market go Detroit wholesale dealers
through their agents, there to buy
Michigan grown beef, and bring it
back to Detroit‘for‘ sale to retailers
and their customers in this city.

Why this diversion to a tar market
of a food product from Detroit’s gate-
way? and what muses such a trams-
action invqlvingliwo long hauls, ﬁrst
of the live 'stock' 6 the Chicago yards,
then of the dressed the: back to the
market so near its origination? Who
pays the shot? .

George B. Smith, of Addison, Lena
wee county, probably knows as much

”about conditions and their causes as

any man in Michigan. He is secre-
tary of the Tri- State Beef Growers'
Association, composed of owners of
high grade holds in this state, Indiana
and Ohio. He is an Angus breeder
and grOWer. ‘

“The reason,” said Mr. Smibh, inci-
dental to a recital of a plan to correct‘
conditions, “the good beef goes to
Chicago is the lack of a competitive
market in Detroit and the fact that
top prices invariably run ﬂrom four
to ﬁve cents a pound under the’Chica-
go price. for the very same animals.
The one fact is the cause of the oth-
er, no doubt ”

“In the ﬁrst place ” said Mr. Smith,
“get the fact that more than 75 per
cent of all the meat consumed in De-

 

same time that the Detroit pack-
ers pay 20 cents a pound for An-
gus beef in Chicago the best they will
{pay for the same cattle in Detroit is
about 16 cents a pound, and this in
spite of the fact that the haul to Chi-
cage and the haul back to Detroit
would be a saving, deducing only the
cost of the haul from the farm in
Michigan to the yards in Detroit. The
low price for poor beef, ruling the
Detroit market rules price for high
grade cattle—and there you are.”

Mr. Smith acknowledged that it
didn't sound logical, but it was the
fact. And as practical business men
the members of Tri-State Association
of Angus growers have tackled the sit-
uation. This is their plan, now in
course or operation:

They have precurred from Detroit
packers, all the important ones, acon-'
cession of Chicago prices. They are to
ship their stock to Detroit and get
for it the top price which the local
packers are accustomed to‘ pay in the

distant market. Arrangements are.
being made to distribute this high
grade beef, after “manufacture" by

the‘ packers, to a selected list of re-
tailers. This list will be advertised.
Housewives in Detroit, according to
the plan, will be enabled to ask for
and get Michigan grown, ﬁrst class
beef, from these advertised dealers.

The saving is not planned to be in
the form of a reduction in price paid
to‘ the grower, in the reduction of
price paid to the packer by the retail-
er, or ‘ln margin of proﬁt made by
the retailer. In none of these, but in

~a saving of transportation charges,

handling and shrinkage incidental to
long hauls and delayed slaughter.
Mr. Smith and other members of
the Ass’n are at work on sales plan.
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beef,grown
for its.
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trait is mbeef I have been told by grade Michigan beef cattle is be-
:packers ing made
that it from Man-
amounts to Chester by
96 per cent L. Wh i t-
but t h at ney Wa t-
seems a kins, from
large esti- his herd of
mate. Then Angus cat-
the seconds tle. This is
fact, which a. shipment
is that De— ' which un-
troit beef, der the old
the product , ar r a n g e-
manufa c t- . ment would
ured and hr; have gone
sold in this ”802444.?“ to Chicago.
city, is not - ' and part of
in the bulk it, no doubt
prime beef, have been
b u t th 6 brought ul-
product of timately to
dairy herds Detroit, at
cows an (1 much un-

neces s a r y
added ex-
pense, for
sale to dis-
tribu t i n g
patrons o f.
D e t r _o i t
meat mar-
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GRINNCLLD

BIG RESULTS FROM
N. E. MICHIGAN LANDS

Northeastern). Michigan scored hemb
ﬂy at the Shorthorn Congress Show
and Sale, held at Chicago in Febm- _
ary when 10 head of shorthorns from
the Prescott ranch sold her an aver-
age of $1,477. 50 each, a ﬁgure consid-
erably above the average of all sales
at the congress. Three of these Pres-
cott hifers sold for $3, 300, I3, 060 and
$2, 250 respectively. The ﬁgures show
not only what sort of cattle North-
eastern Michigam can produce but
they also show that it pays to raise -
thoroughbred stock.

From Comins, Mich., located in the ,
center 01 the Northeastern Michigan
district, little known to the outside
world because it is not reached by a
railroad, but containing thousands of
acres of ﬁne farm lands, comes a let-
ter from Meno Steiner in which he
says that frOm 19 acres of alsike clov-
er he received $2, 236. 89 for seed and
chaff last year and that in 1918, from
nine acres of this same piece, he re-
ceived $676.12 for the clover seed and
chaff. He says: “We bought this land
15 years ago at $8 per acre and the
more it is cultivated the better it sets.

A 21- -acre tract or reclaimed muck '
land near Pinconning, which was
planted to sugar beets last year
brought the owner $3, 722, which paid
the $2, 800 which the owner paid for
his farm and the remainder went into
a house on the property.

The booklet on “Ranchng in North-
eastern'Michigan,” which the Devel-
opment Bureau published a few weeks
ago, is attracting wide attention
among stockmen. Hescott & Son
distributed a. number of them at the
Shorthorn Congress last month, many ,
of them going to stock breeders ﬂrom
Dakota, and the result has been that
they are receiving requests for many
more copies from neighbors of these
people.

Back From Europe; Talks Prosperity

Trade with Europe will soon as-
sume many pre~war characteristics,
with the added feature of being many
times more brisk, in the opinion of
A. 0. Frank, export manager of the
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Frank
recently return to New York City af-
ter a trip of three months in England
and continental Europe.

“Although they are still suffering
from the industrial difﬁculties which
were 'the inevitable inevitable result
of the war, the European nations will '
soon regain their old—time commer-
cial aggressiveness, I believe," Frank
said. “The resourcefulness they
showed in the war will reassert it—
self in peace and they will again
demonstrate their stamina by re-
claiming a share of world's trade. '

“The industrial activity of Bel— ,
gium is particularly noteworthy.
This plucky. country, undaunted by
its tremendous hardships, is now
rapidly placing its factories on a_
quantity production basis, and is
doing much toward the rehabilita-

tion of the devastated districts.

“International trade, after the re-
sumption of European industries,
should develop, I believe, to a de-
gree heretofore considered impossi-
ble. I look for an unparalleled era
of trade among all nations.”

$1,300 Worth of Potatoes From
$400 Worth of Land

A year ago Wellington Rouse, of
Greenbush, bought the old Burton
place, paying $400 for it. This prop-
erty is located in the sand west of the
village and had been in disuse tor
many years. Lastweek Mr. Rouse sold
$1,200 worth of potatoes raised on this
cheap land and has $100 worth of
spuds left, besides the crop from ﬁve
acres of millet.

Let’s see now~—$400 . from 4 $1,200
leaves $800 in cash to pay for seed and
labor and. the land. He has the extra
potatoes and millet for good meas-
ure—all in one season.

Looks like a pretty good proﬁt and
furnishes an object lesson for boost-
ers for the light lands that are to be
found in same sections of Northeastr _
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A slight improvement in the mon-
ey exchange, a report that England
would shortly begin to export gold
to this country to take care at par.I
_ chases and stabilize her credit, in-
creased building activity, increased
demand tor steel, stiffening of grain
prices—these were the features, of
the past week's trade and market
situation. The money shortage is
acute in some see one and industrial
corporations are selling liberty bonds
to «cure money to carry on their op-
erations. To all appearances those
who need money and have ample
credit are experiencing no difﬁculty
in securing loans. This is taken as
indication of soundness and the gen-
eral feeling throughout the country
the past week has been one of great-
er conﬁdence that has prevailed for
some time.

Grainy were generally ﬁrm thru-
out the week. Cattle were in poor
demand the first of the week but
picked up some as the week advanc-
ed. Hogs were steady for the most
part, though there was little im-
provement in the demand. Beans
were ﬁrm and potatoes advanced.
Butter and eggs were on the decline.
Taken as a whole the conditions

were fairly satisfactory and gives us
reason to believe that most of the
term products have reached
low level.

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DETROITe—Co'rn and cats are ﬁrm despite bearish reports or
supplies. Hay in bettm- supply but good demand. Gloversced.
him ‘
. CHICAGO-Exception of wheat grains in fair demand, supplies , _
shortandmarketsfirm. Predictionsfreelymadehigherpﬁcesw

despite light foreign demand. Hogs strong and higher; cattle
firm- muttooﬁrmedupafterweckofdedines.

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dependent trade. J. Ralph Pickett,

publisher of the 3039an Review:
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which showed a higher supply of
corn in- tarmers’ hands than general-
ly supposed had ano: effect upon the
strength of the corn market at the

or the week. amplies on

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ets were considerably short '0! deb
funds, and as a result the price ad-
vanced. The spring break-up of the
country roads is expected to still
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Oats weré ﬁrm on the Detroit and
Chicago markets with [no changes in
price. Export buying ' which i had
been rather active the past week was
slower and the government’s report
of oats remaining in: farmers' hands
was higher than the bulls had reck-
oned with. Nevertheless, there were
no bearish tendencies to the market;
and it is conﬁdently expected that
the cat market will continue on its
upward trend.

RYE A” BAMBI
Rye has recovered its ﬁrmness and
it quoted at $1 73 on the Detroit
market. Barley has advanced 25
cents per cwt., and is jobbing at $3
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choice ctock sold for $8 per Ibo-lb.
bus. This is 6 and one—third cents
per pound or $3 20 per bushel. No

, other markets were quite so strong,

although nearly all reported higher
prices. Unquestionabiy the reason
tor these abnormal prices was the

«chance at the severe weather. 5
The principal barometer or this mar.
hot the nest sixty days will be the

weather. It cold weather continues

throughout M,arch and according to-

the Wyeth” prophets it will, prices

sustained. but a couple weeks
of warmer weather would certainly
mean lower prices. The same lama
erwhobetusayearsgo thatpo‘ta-
tooswosldgotonperbusheltakes
issue with our views on this year's
potato markets and holds that many

farmers might have lost money had .

theytollowed the advice given in our
December 27th issue. If our road-
ers will refer to all. the issues for
that month they will note that we
predicted higher prices, and when
prices reached their highest level the
last oi December we advised our
readers to begin marketing their
spuds. The price at that time was
good. The average farmer could
have made money, and we still claim
that the farmer who sold one-fourth
oi! his holdings during the month of
January as we suggested was acting

thepartoiagoodbusimsamsn. The"

time to market potatoes is when the
price is going up. Those who wait
for the top-notch price seldom get it,
for they fail to recognise the top-
notch price until alter the crest has
passed and the market recedes. M.

asin thousands at instances in the
past, they sell on a declining market
and lose money. If i had a thousand
bushels 0: potatoes today I would
sell at least one-halt at them and it
the price went up another dollar a
bushel in the next month! Iwonld
have no regrets. For my common
sense would tell me that in nine
years out 0: ton when prices are
abnormally high the market would
go the other way. We: want our
readers to have the highest pasibio
prices for their products, but in the
average years these are best secured
by a gradual marketing of their
crops during the period when de-
mand is strong and prices pay a
proﬁt. , I

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Receipts of hay are on the increase
in nearly all markets and there is a

slightly easier tone as a consequence.-

Demand however, continues good and
no materially price changes are an-

 

ticipated during the, next thirty

days. i

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Detroit—«We: receipts, 722;

mass steady; all others strong, to
50c higher; heat heavy steers, 3.1.50
01!; best My weight butcher
steers. $10011; mined steers and
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» heavy packing sows, smooth, 813. 25

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.8736@13.76;

. consumption,

‘tically 81 per ewt higher.

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hinge-«Receipts 89, 090; steady

‘ to 10c highérl. closed weak; bulk.

814. 0'5@15. 50; top, 815.65; heavy;
medium, 814. 90'@
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@18. 76; roushr 812.60@13;

pigs, ,813. 50614. 75. Cattle: receipts.

14, 000; . strong; beef steers, medi-

. um and heavy; choice and prime,;
. 814.50@10;

medium and ' good,
811. 85614.55; common, 85.750
11. 85; light, good and choice,’813. 75
@15. 40; common and medium, 89. 50
@1215: .» butcher cattle, ; heifers,
cows, 87.10042 75;

canners and cutters,- 84. 9007; veal
calves, 815 25@15.75; feeder steers,
88. 75@1_;2 stacker steers, 87. 250
10. .75. Sheep: , receipts, 17, 000;

strong: lambs, 84 lbs. down, 817. 25

@20; culls and common, 814@17;
ewes, medium, good and choice, $11
@14. 25; culls and common, 8_6@
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LIGHT BEEF TONNAGE
AIDS CATTLE VALUES

An advance or! about 81 per cwt. in
live stock cattle values since the re-
cent period or demorallzatio‘n is at-
tributed to various causes, but that
best consumption has expanded is not
admitted in packing circles. Chicago

has received only about 150, 000 cat:

tle during the past three weeks! and
at other markets supply has been

light. Cattle/are going to market. de— I

ﬂcient not only in weight, but best
yields, few dressing over. 55 per cent.
At a conservative estimate beet ton-

nag. is 20 per cent less than a year .

meme t‘u
tame. ihs' bellied about 32
the recent high spot,

aid if maelerade draws: the residhe

at its winter crop into the market
hgfper er depreciation is prob-
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DETROIT, PRODUCE MARKET

'Firmness in, the leading lines or
tam stuff and in many cases ‘1 er
prices‘are quoted owing to activity in
buying and a small movement or pro-
dues to market- Scarcity felt in pota-
toos'and the market made a, large ad‘I
vanes without attracting an increase
of shipments. The country is taking
little interest in the mm at he
preach tavel oi prices and demand is
warm. Itisaboutthesame with -
poultry, although the, market has not
shown. much advance. Receipts are
small and consumers are taking every
thing promptly. Hogs are scarce and
calves easy. Receipts of butter are
not sufﬁcient to:- the wants of the mar-
ket and an advance is quoted. Consum-
ers have been active buyers all week.
Eggs are in good supply and consum-
ers take everything. There is no
chanCe for an increase in stocks with
the present conditions. Fruits show
no activity. Prices are considered
very high and consumers are practic-
ing economy.

Apples-—Westem, boxes, 83@4; Spy,
83.25@3.50; Baldwin, 83@3.25; Green-
ing, , $3.25@3.50; Steel’ red, $3.50@4
per bu.

Popcorn—Shelled, 100 per lb. '

Honey—White comb, 32@35c per lb.

Cabbage—Horne grown, 85@6 cwt.

Cauliﬂower—42.75@3 per case.

Potatoes—88 per 150-lb. sack.

Onions—Indiana, 885005.75 an 100-
lb. sack.

 

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1,500 RELEWRS SWEAR
LOYALTY '
Fifteen hm Met growers-—

'in .
tor-inn: “saunaw Monday and in an

enthusiastic deanonstrati‘mi, stated
their determination to stand loyall'y
by the position taken by the execu-
tives of the Michigan Sugar Beet
Growers' Ass'n. and grow no boots
thii year union's the sugar manufact-

1'01)

Speakers included Mr.
Thus. Price. president of the Sagin-
av,’ Boot Growers' Ass'n; G. E. Ack-
orman, manager of the Michigan Su-
gar M Grower-3’ Ass'n;
Kotcham, president of the State As-
sociation; Q. G. Patterson, acting sec-
retary of the . United States Beet
Growers’ Ass’n; Forrest Lord, edi-
tor M. B. F., Dr. W. W. Diehl, agri-
cultural ﬂold worker of the Metho-
dist church in Michigan, and Ashley
M. Berridge, member executive com-
mittee Michigan State Farm Bureau.
There was no mistaking the senti-
ment of the farmers present, and it
is fair to say that they represented
90 per cent of the boot growers. It
was the largest single meeting of real
farmers that has been held in Mich-
igan in recent years, a fact which
sugar company representatives who
sat quietly throughout the meeting,
and were apparently very much im-
pressed with, later commented upon.
Full details of this important meet-
ing will be presented in our March
20th issue.

'- 1 ,jLive Poultry—spring chlckens largo _

man; Leghorns, 353mm; hens, 38,
email liens, Willie; roosters,
.338024c geese, 30Mic; ducks, 400

   

ind 87 years' experience Work; ,
out most of the time. I- Was work-
ing for the C. H. Sheep Construction
., of Kansas City, 140., cramlng a -

  
 

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steam shovel in "ow Mexico on the A.‘

'1'. & S. F. R. R., getting 8100 a month

,gand that was good money in 1906 and
19—07. I was trying to pay for a home ‘

hero in Michigan. I had a family oi"
ﬁve; ‘Ihad to buy everything of course.

One morning in November, 1907 we

woke up and were out of a job. Any-

one can remember those times when

the banks were all closed. I_had 8450

in checks on the Bank of Commerce of .
Kansas City under my belt, and the
government . examiners clased the
doors. By a little streak 01! good luck
I got my money and came home. For
16 months money would not buy a
job. You can guess where my savings
went. Again, during the winters of
1917 and 1918 I was working for the
Mason Motor Co. at Flint, Mich, mak-
ing drom 85 to 88 per day and I had a
family, of seven by this time, and just
when I commenced to think we were
going to get through the winter in
good shape, what happened7—every-
thing shut down—mo coal. There
were hundreds of men in that shop,
many of them making 58 to $10 per
day and when they could not get thru
the gates that mor ing they were
down and out. Why Well, there are
a dozen reasons why, but that is an-
other chapter.

I Want to tell my friend, that if he
is making anything like a good living
with that family on a. farm by all
means stay there. You cannot save a
penny in the city and you are not sure
of a living. You might say that others
live there. No, sometimes they live,
and the rest of the time they juststay.
I know what .I am talking about. I
have been there. I may say in conclus-
ion that the city is no place in which
to raise a family of children—Fred

 

ago, when every market in the coun- . . I

try was full of mature steers ﬁnished

in anticipation at a broad post-war ,

European demand that' never mater-
ialized. This winter feeders made
few heavy cattle, a fact on whiCh they
are now congratulating themselves,
as demand centers on cheap light
grades.

Market opinion diners as to what is
likely to happen during the next 30
days. The probability is that a tur-
ther advance of 81 per cwt. would dis-
lodge many cattle now munching corn
as the teed bill is prohibitive ot prot-
it.

Two sour-obs oi cattle supply prom- ‘

ise seasonal volume for the next nine»
ty' days: One is south Texas. which
has approximately 300,000 tat grass
are ready to go to the shambles, and
the Lancaster'section 01: Pennsylvania
credited with 150,000 winter-fed bul-
locks. Iowa has liquidated. other sec-
tions of the Corn belt report a sub-
stantial» deﬁciency compared with a
year agonand there will be no dis-
tillery-ted cattle this year, prohibition
having killed that industry.
repressed artiﬁcially
during the war, revives, this crop can
be readily absorbed. ‘ but the beef
market is an invalid concern. Ad-
verse iactors to an. active, if not
higher, cattle market are a crash in
hides, grease and other by-products.

» Hog Values Recuperate

Hog values have recuperated ma— .

teria’lly since the bear drive late in
February, when average cost at Chi-

cago was depressed to 81.4 06. Last ~'

week late it reached 815. 04, or prac-
meritorious patio since in view/oi
prostration of expor
an adverse rate of ioreign exchange,
and has strengthened the growers’
position.

If bee! .

This is a. -
trade, owing to_-

Packers still praises doubt }
u to the deﬁciency in the winter ‘
crop that I“? been apparent for two
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Don’t Wait for the Spring Rush—
Get Your Cletra'c N ow

A few weeks more and you’ll be faced with loads of work, limited time,

I PRING’ S almost here!

unsettled weather-with help scarce and costly.

Put a Cletrac on the job!
time and cuts costs.

It speeds up plowing—and fast plowmg now means
less work later, because it pulverizcs the soil and

cuts- doWn work of preparing

short, gets the corners and swings back to the

' furrow quickly. Puts more acres
and helps produce bigger crops.

And the Clctrac not only plows-wit prepares the ’

seed bod; harvests, hauls.

 
  

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roads and sawing wood.

The quick popularity of the Cletrac has led to a
bigger output, with lower manufacturing costs.
That’s why we can offer you an improved Cletrac
—and at the same time lower the price from

‘ 31585 to 31395, f [0. b. Cleveland.

Don’ t wait until the Spring rush bits yer-be
ready for it. Get your Cletus now.

One of the more than 1200 Clctrac dealers is near you. See him
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F‘AN‘CIS . MOIiGA'Nl ’ ‘ so'n '0!“ pa New yanJmmonanc'ifﬁino -imm:.,;ma.'- lab;
oo‘mes bored.,WIth society', and d‘eeideszﬁahe an extensiye nan

f trip. . Res- .

an, Francis' broker andna for-mescolleggu‘o 7231;: you‘n‘gM6’1-hh'. : “119x51 plans
to ruin Francis thgough his Wall Street 119131133!"- gznegantpays'l'orres, a, dark-

‘ skinned visitor from the 'Carribesnwlslsugs‘who'fkmws of'atreasure'buried'vby_.ai~
girate ancestor of Francis, to ‘lure‘younf Francis away. e'l‘h'e' lure Works and _‘

ranois starts out alone.
ed by aigirl on the shore;
she has rquarreled.

lie. lands on an “island i:vrlnltherhe has beenhgekon—f
The girlfnllstakes munch Tor... a" lover With "whom

He Is chased from the island by her father. and brothers.» .

' Francis L’explor‘es another island where a young m'an ‘threate‘ns his '

to and

then saves it from savages who attack young Morgans Francis addithe‘young'

man discover they are related.

Leoncia Solano.

The young man, whose name ,1 is Henry Moro
. can, is also hunting for the treasure. They form a partnership.-
0 covers that Henry is the lover of the girl on. the island and

Francis dis-
that her name is

Francis returns to the’ﬂrst island to ask Leoncla to forgive

Henry which she does. .He is captured by Torres andjhe Jets Politico otﬁan
Antonio who proclaim him to be Henry, 'whom they wish to hang for a murder

he did not commit.

and is thrown into prison. Leoncia finds she loves both men.

and Francis plan to, release Henry.

They are about to hang Franols

when ‘Henry appears ‘
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CC HATS 'what I am arriving
l at. You, Senor Solano
have plenty of saddle

horses? Good. And you,» Alesandro,
does it chance you could procure me
a couple of stick of dynamite from
around the plantation? Good, and
better than good. And you, Leoncia,
as the lady of the hacienda, should
you know whether you have in your
' store room a plentiful supply of that

three-star rye whiskey?

“Ah, the plot thickens," he laugh-

‘ ed, on receiving her assurance. “We

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have all the‘properties for a Rider
Haggard pr 'Rex Beach adventure
tale.‘ New listen. But wait. I want
to talk to you, Leoncia, about pri-
vate theatricals. . . ”

CHAPTER v.

T-WAS in the mid-afternoon, and
Henry, at his barred cell-window

stared out into the street and '

wondered if any sort of breeze
would ever begin to blow off Chiri-
qui Lagoon and cool the stagnant
air. The street was dusty and filthy

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the, eyes, and «Henry would
drawn his gaze, had no t.

 

opposit-e,,r:sudden;ly (aroused s.’ _

ragged, mos-cs, dozing :1
ed interestedly up the str

 

could not see, but he could hear the 0. , ,, ~ v "‘j '

' , , Giving his’hOrseto a gendarms'to
held; not stopping to brush“ ,‘thie-%ggilvth? -

gtroin his‘pe’iféhngthe'old‘man limped '

rattling spokes of some vehicle com-

ing‘ at. speed.. ’ Next,’ it surged Twin-to »

ViGW. a rattleétrap _. ﬁght -Wag“0'n

’ - drawn by a runaway horse. In the
seat a gray-headed, grayabearded an-r .

cient st‘rOve vainly to check the an-
imal. _ ‘ - '
Henry smiled and marveled that
the rickety wagon could hold togeth-
er, “so prodigious were the bumpsflm-
parted to it. by the deep rutsiEvpry

wheel, halt-dished and threatening I

to dish, wobbled and revolved 'out of
line with every other wheel. And if
the wagon held intact, Henry judged,
it was a miracle that the crazy har-
ness did not fly to pieces. When di-
rectly opposite the windowhthe old
man made a last effort, half standing

. up from his seat as he pulled on the
reins. “One was rotten and broke.

As the driver fell backward into the
seat, his weight on the remaining
rein caused the horse to swerve
sharply to the right. What happen-
ed then—«whether alwhee'l dished, or
whether a wheel‘had come off ﬁrst
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your knowledge that 2111’s with with your

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. car performing without let-up or miss. It is

a ﬁne, lasting oil that completely retains its
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It so perfectly seals the clearance between
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into the crank case. Thus full compression

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used that the gas has to give. Be certain to

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~ hlil'l'iediy tome Wagon (and “began é .‘
an examination or the several pack-1
small, Which

ing cases, large and
composed itsload. Of One case he

'was especially solicitous‘, even 'try- -

'ing to unit ’and seeming to listen as
he lifted. ’ '

He straightened up,, on being a‘d~- ”

dressed by .one of the ;gen~darmes,
and made voluble' reply. ~~ '
“Me Ala‘s senors, I am an old

-man, and far from home. I am Leo-

poldo Narvaez. It is true, my moth-'

or was German,,may the Saints pre-
serve her rest; .but my father was
Baltear 'de Jesus y ‘Cervallos- ef’Nar-
vaez, son or General Narvaessosf mar-
tial memory, who fought under the
great Bolivar himself. And'now I
am half ruined and-far from home.

“Prompted by other questions, in—

terl-arded with the courteous ex—‘

pressions of sympathy with which

even the humblest moso is over gen—_

erously supplied, he managed to be
politetully grateful and to. run on
with his tale.

Tor-o. It has taken me- ﬁve days,
and business has been poor. My
home isin Colon, and I wish I were
safely there. But even a ndble Nar-
waes may be a peddler, and even a
peddler must live, eh, senors. is it
not so? But tell me, is there a, To-
mas Romero who dwells in this
pleasant city of San Antonio?”
"There are any God’s number of
Tomas Romeros who dwell every—
where in Panama," ‘laughed Pedro
Zurita ,the assistant jailer. “One
“would need a. fuller description."
“He is the,'cousin of my second
wife," the ancient answered hope-
fully,,an-d seemedébewildered by the
roar ‘oflaughter from the’crowdr' -
“And a dozen Tomas Heme-rd: live
in and about San Antonio,”5-the as-
sistant jailer went on, “any One of

cousin, Senor.
cm, the drunkard.
Romero, the thief. There‘is Tomas
Romero—but no, he was hanged a.
month back for murder and robbery.
There is the rich Tomas Romeroﬁwho
own many cattle on the hills. There
is . . . ’ , ' ‘- -. .

To each suggested one, Leopoldo
Narvarez had shaken his head-dole-
fully, until the cattle-owner was
mentioned. At this he had become
hopeful and broken in: ,

“Pardon me, senor, it must be he,
or some such a one as/he. I shall
ﬁnd him; Ifmy precious stock-in-
*trade' can ,beisafely-stored, I shall
seek'him’n'ow. It is well my nits;
fortuh’e‘came upon me where it did.“
I shall/be able to trust it with you,
who are, one can see with half .an
eye, an‘ honest and an honorable
man." As he talked, he fumbled
forth from his pocket two silver pes-
os and handed them *to the jailer.-
“There, I wish you and your men to
have some pleasure of assisting me.”

Henry grinned to himself as he"
noted the access vol interest in ,the
old man and of consideration for
him, on the part of Pedro Zurita, and
the gendarmes‘, caused by the motif

{more curious or the crowd roughly"
‘began' to carr'ygthe boxes into, the .

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which may be your second" wife’s,
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quite‘ so easily as sug-
orthy Detroit lady who
ladies" club meeting call-‘
ig‘h cest" eggs and but—p

word “strike" igs as obnoxious to the ’

average farmer as a rattlesnake and

the idea is pure bunk. The farmer

knows his place and will ﬁll it as a

“good citizen, Tint his power to save
,the nation from hunger and worse

is limited to the .industrial support
of those who must depend on him for
their existence, a. matter which in the

'.present crazy industrial rush is be-

" 'ing overlooked. ”

the farmer. . A, careful canv s 7?
Iowa 311a hortage or farm hands

0,
" It appears that y

dlﬁe~ western
” ' ~ this .

jntryswide shortage
. ‘ _> 1000* 000 and 1, -
500 000;» hich means the cutting off
of Supplies. for between 15, 000 000'
, and 20, 000, 000 consumers. Of
3 course these ﬁgures are approximate.
, A good season will not produce such
' drastic conditions. On the other
l:,and adverse weather conditions
v ill make the situation more alarm-
ing. '
“And this shortage will not be
faced ﬁrst by the farmer, who by the
rules of the life game must provide
for the sustenance of his own fam—
ily before providing .for others.
. Statistics show that the average
farmer can market only 35 per cent
of his products after feeding his own

“There must be a readjustment of
labor. Ten years ago the automo-
bile, the phonograph, the player pi—

'vano and the mavies would have been
«classed as luxuries; now they are
Ccalled‘esseritials." In manufacture,
.sale and maintenance these indus--.

tries now employ one third of the la-
bor of the country. This labor is

"of the highest class drawn from oth—

er industries who in turn replenish-
ed their farces from the farms. The
farmers have no reserves to fall
back on. The war has "virtually
stopped immigration. , "

“The situation is just this—a ‘back
to the farin’ move must start quickly
or thousands of people in this coun—
try- are gbing to go .hungry. And
this move must be started in the cit-
ies. The remedy for the conditions
we are facing today lies in the hands
of big industries, and also their em-
ployes. The demand for men from
the country must cease and the com
tinuing strikes for higher wages and
shorter hours must stop. Otherwise
the cost of living will be a game
with the sky as the limit.”

Dr. Seulke, Cornell, to Aberdeen-Angus Field

R. K. J. Se-
D ulke, pr0*
fessor of

the Animal In-

"dustry at Cornell"

University, N. Y.

to o k u p h i s

new duties as

~_ Eastern ﬁeldman

for the American

Aberdeen -Angus

Breeders! Asso-

‘ ciation, Feb. 15.

. Dr Seulke’s , ﬁeld

1 ' extends from the

m.-Ind. boundary,

‘ east to the At-

1 ntic north of the Ohio river and
W ’est Virginia. .

Dr. Seulke was chosen as the best
man for the new ﬁeld and comes
s- rongly recommended by breeders,
‘ college and experiment station people
and business men. He was raised on
an Indiana; live stock farm; is a grad-
uate of Purdue University, from
whence game two Aberdeen-Angus
grand Chainpton steers at the Inter-
national Exposition, and he has de-

grees tram. lioth Pennsylvania State —

College .913. Agriculture and Cornell.

He conducted a live stock survey of
Indiana a few "years back, and his
work at Cornell is almost Wholly re».

sponsible for a beef herd at that in-
stitution. His beef. bulletins from Cor-
nell Station are standard for that ter-
ritory.

The addition of Dr Seulke to the
Aberdeen-Angus corps, gives this
breed one of the strongest ﬁeld forces
carried by‘ any pure-bred live stock as-
sociation Dr. C. D. Lowe, Knoxville,
Tenn, has charge of the south, and E.

~ T. Davis, veteran breeder; showman

and importer, the middle west. An ad-
ditional man will be appointed for the
territory west of. the Rocky Moun-
tains soon. Some hundred and twen-
ty-ﬁve public sales 0f Aberdeen-Angus
pure-breds will be held by breeders
under the management iii” these men
the coming season, Dr. Seulke already
having arranged to give New York
its ﬁrst sale, at Albany, April 1, while
Michigan’s ﬁrst sale fwill be held at
Saginaw, March 25. Ohio will also
have a spring sale, as will district as-
sociatiouns in Indiana, at Miami, Kent-
land and Logansport, in March ’and
April. ‘1

Some $2,500 in prize money will be
offered for shows in connection with
thesesales of state and district asso-
ciations; the American Aberdeen- An-
gus Breeders’ Association contribut-
ing sums of $50 to $100, depending-on
the number to be sold.

 

 

 

 

There is one freight car today
where three are needed

How the Railroad
Situation Affects
Your Farm

Every Spring brings an enormous de-
mand for Solvay Products. Thousands
of farmers call for Solvay Pulverized
Limestone, Arcadian Sulphate of Am—
monia- and “U-S” Potash during.the
menths of March, April and May. Nat-
urally, they want immediate deliveries.

While in the past, the railroads have
handled their burden of the season’s
excess shipments more or less adequate-
ly, conditions this year are entirely dif-
ferent.

Railroad Congestion This Spring
Will Be Serious

Few new box cars or locomotives have
been supplied to the railroads for over
two years. At the same time, depre-
ciation of, rolling stock has been enor-
mous, and the percentage relegated to
the scrap heap abnormally large be—
‘cause there has been no replacement to
offset this increased depreciation. There
are fewer operatives, fewer box cars,
fewer locomotives. Yet, in the face of
these conditions the country’s indus-
tries are planning to do more shipping
in 1920 than ever before.

This situation will have a serious ef-
fect on your plans ,if you fail to pro-
vide against delayed shipments.

Ordering in Advance is \
Absolutely Essentml
This year, as in the past, we are mak—
ing effort to deliver our enormous
amount of spring shipments into the
consumer’s hands as promptly as possi-
ble. But it will be absolutely impossi—
ble to satisfy all our customers on de-
liveries unless we can obtain their co—
operation.

You may be one who will not be satisfied if

you neglect this warning. We want you to

appreciate the seriousness of the situation—

10 visualize the effect of. delayed shipments

upon your crops-so that you will not delay

a moment your orders for Solvay Puluerizcd

. Limestone, Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia
and U. S.” Potash.

. The Solvay Process Company

2097 Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
  
   
 
  

  
 
 
  
   

 
   
  

 
   
  
 

 

 
  
 
   
 

 

 

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, .
es eecond—cleee' matter. at Mount Clemens, Michigan

Paying the County Agent

C OMMENTING upon the successful eiforte.
J

y of an Indiana congressman to prevent a

cut in the appropriation for the county agents
from $1, 500, 000 to $1, 000, 000, the Price Our-
rent Grain Reporter says: '

“County agents now receive pay from the feder-
al and state governments and from the county
funds, but the county agents, or many or them, do
not seem to realize that there is any impropriety
whatever in accept money from county funds
and then making 11a alarge part of their business
to as far as possib e destroy or interfere with the
business of the merchants and others in the towns
who are compelled to pay taxes for their support.
Rep. Purnel-l says the country needs more county
agents and not fewer, which is probably true, it
they are or the right sort and tend strictly to their
business of farm advisers and do not act as com-
mercial agents to disrupt the mutual relations of
farmers and traders in villages. In this respect a.
great many county agents are getting to be a pub-
lic nuisance,‘ not because their activities are im-
proper if paid for by the farmer himself but are if
paid for by the people of the towns.”

The complaint is justiﬁed. We are acquaint-
ed with a hardware merchant who spent weeks
of valuable time drumming up sentiment
among the citizens of his town for a countyag-
cut. The board of supervisors made the_appro-
priation and the county agent was hired. He
was a hustler from the word go, and in less
than six months’ time the co-operative associa~
tionswhich he had formed were selling lime,
fertilizer, fencing and other farm supplies in
direct competition with the merchant who was
instrumental in getting the county agent and
with all the hardware merchants who helped to
pay his salary. The merchant looked upon this
as a case of rank ingratitude. Can you blame
him?

011 the other hand, the county agent was but
doing his duty to the farmers. He was hired to,
work for them, and anything that would ad-
vance their interests was a part of his job. No.
rules were laid down for him to work by; no
stipulations were made as to what he should
and should not do. He was but one ﬁgure in a
great system, the methods of ﬁnancing which
and the work of which has become established
and approved by the country at large. Trub,
there have been and still are some county ag-
ents who try to walk the chalk line and please
everybody who through taxes contribute a part
of their salary. As a result they please nobody,
not even themselves.

The trouble is that the method of ﬁnancing
the county agent system is all wrong. Who
- wants a hired man, anyway, who gets part of
, his wages from a third party, and doesn’t dare
, to milk the cow, for instance, unless the party
approves. Which is the wiser thing to do—
let the cow go dry, discharge the hired Ina-11,01-
" remove him from obli tions to the other par-

” ty‘i If the county ﬁgent has proven his worth,

’ and we doubt if any farmer longer questions

i that, the farmer ought not to expect that he .

. shall be paid from the public funds, even
' though a large part of them are contributed by
agricultm‘al interests. The county agent can—

' . . not be entirely free and independent to study? .

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During the war we frowned upon free
"speech if it Was against the war. That was en-
‘ t1rely proper, as much of the freedom of speech

at that time web designed to give aid and com-
fort to the enemy. But now that the war is
over and there 111 ,no enemy to 1111,1511“ who
stand 1n fear of honest criticism would muzzle
the country with an anti-free speech law.
That 1s reaction.

From the day when our forefathers con-

ceived this nation, We have prided ourselves

upon being a peaceful, unwarlike people, hold-.

ing institutions of militarism in distrust and
dislike, Wars have forced us to raise volun-
teer armies and conscript those who would not
volunteer. In every conflictwe have been suc-
cessful. We are at peace with the world and
have no immediate need for
army and strong naval force. Nevertheless our
Congress is being importuned to create a‘large

standing army and fasten a military system~

 

 

. LINCOLN ON LABOR .

HE PRUDENT, ‘penniless beginner in the

world labors for wages awhile, eaves e

surplus with which to buy tools or land for
himself, then labors on his own account an-
other while, and at length hires another 116w
beginner to help him. This is the Just and
generous and prosperous. system which opens
the way to all, gives hope to all, and conse-
quent energy and progress and improvement
of condition to all. —Abrs.ha.m~ Lincohi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

upon the. country, that is a counterpart of the.
system which brought ruin to Germany and
damnation to the rest of the world. That, also
is reaction.

In times past laborh'a‘s not had a square
deal. The war createdla shortage of men and
an. abnormal demand for the things which are
made by men. Necessity forced employers who
could not be moved in any other way to pay

higher wages and improve labor conditions.-

Just as employers have taken advantage of lab-
or when there were two men for.evéry job, lab-
or is now trying to take advantage of the em-
ployer when there are two jobs for every man.
The public resents the attitude of labor and
would crush the organizations which labor has
built up to protect their interests. The attempt
to embody in the railroad bill a provision which
would deprive labor of its weapon of protection
was another example of the reaction of the
times.

. Most lamentable of all 13 the fact that a large
body of people have caught this contagion-é of

reaction and do not recognize its manifests--

tions when they appear. Some simple people
would believe that the anti- sedition bills before
Congress are aimed only at the anarchists and
the communists. A careful reading of the bills

' will soon convince them that no matter at

whom the bills are aimed they are full of buck-
shot which will hit the honest critic as well as
the preacher of violence. As for military train-
ing; the good people are asked to believe that
its prime object is to make us 11. nation of
healthful, red-blooded citizens. And label:

are told, is flirting with thereds and
rendered powerless. We are asked to deprive g
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labor of its right} to

to strike.

    
 

. ,1 gain ould be equally “11:11th .01 what

   
  

. fear is not revoluﬁon,~xbut retention” ,
W ._.--~olution in the United some. is remote,
able, if not ruipossible, but reaction is upon thd
«,‘jnat‘ionl. In our struggle to recover 6111“ bat-z
sauce from ted much leaning to radicalism we
‘stopd 1n danger of falling the other way.

   
     
  

    
  

a4 large standing

. they have established certain.

mummy bar-

‘ when menu-y by striking? Of ﬂat

     

brains is organization, tolerates: if it willpot

mat meme; ... embrace“ ..
“get a fair price? for theml ‘ ‘ cases no iden-
tihccalu What is sauce for one is sauce for an-
o r.

We cannot take from labor or any other

        

class of people the right to bargain collectively, "

ﬁx prices based on value, and to withdraw
their commodities from the channels of trade
if they so desire. Providing, however, thetin

the exercise of such right no effort is made to.

coerce others to takl’e similar. action. Labor’ s
only weapon of protection is the strike. There

is a better way to settle industrial disputes,
but until the employer» or the government pro-v

’vides the better way, we must be content with
the poorer way.
disputes of every name and nature which in-
volve the industry and the agriculture of the
country.

 

Standards for Farm Products
F “HONESTY- is the best policy" why

would it not be well to apply it to all-

transactions? The government and the con-
sumer insist that. the farmer. be honest. So
, standards by
what he is getting, is it not also in the same
ard for grains; if a certain percentage of low
grade 1s found in grain of otherwise high qual-
ity, the whole 1s graded low. There is a stand-
ard for wool; 11 standard for potatoes; 3 stand-
ard for beans. Now if it is in the interest of
the public Welfare to standardize farm pro-
ducts and tag them so the purchaser may know
what he is getting, is it not also in the some
interest to standardize and tag manufactured
articles so that the farmer may know what he
is getting? Take clothing, for example. The
man who bliys a suit of cIOthes nowadays takes
as much chance as the fellow who gets a wife
through a matrimonial bureau. Both may
look good but what about the wearing qualit-
ies? That is what counts. The suit of clothes

may be all shoddy and in six weeks’ time be.

all shabby, land the wife may prove a lemon and
in less than six weeks: time sour her husband.
But at the present time there is absolutely no
way in which to distinguish between looks and
quality. Clothing ought to be standardized,
marked and sold according to the aniount of
virgin wool they contain. ’ And matrimonial
bureau wives ought to be classiﬁed, and adver-
tised according to looks, health and temper.
Otherwise there is‘fraud and deception.

The same is true of seeds, feeds, g,asOline un-I
derwear, paints, and a score Of other articles

'which the farmer buys. He has no way of

knowing whether he gets his money ’3 worth Or
not until after he tries them, and then it’ s too
late. Who can in justice say, that the things
the farmer buys should not be as scrupulously
sold on their merits, as the things he produces!

 

The State Constabulary seems' to have put
their foot 111‘ it, in a raid on the homes of three
brothers in Iron City; after the state ecurts
said there was no violation of the prohibition

laws. The yard was undoubtedly intended for '

an argumént for. ﬂier Mien of the useless

organisation which has. been saddled on the
state. ~W¢ Journal-Emu. "

The same truth applies to ‘

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’ ' " Marigoyemnientooﬁtioi. Take for

9 sugar. naysay the gems-y
set at? price, and still: the _ price
. ﬁnisher “ ,dayri'llt'snoth-
m and measly ' p-govenn-

‘ uphold it; Now, I am

' ,a'larmer'produclng grains oral! kinds

and also milk and I saw in the 'last is-
m of M. B. F. you ask not all farm-
ers" opinions as to whether or not we
want the governor to appoint a three-
man oommitee to ﬁx the price of milk.

. I should say “not.” We don’t want to
. import three more“

‘ litlcal suckers,
as that is all it woui‘ be. Talk about
the Reds that we hear so much about.

My'opinion is that”: we could send 99 -

per canto! ourgovernment ofﬁcials to
Russia we could then expect to set up

a lovetnmdlt» to: the people and) hr;

. ti-people which. it should be. I think
this .will‘ give you my opinion of gov-
C'nment control of everything that
the farmer raises—F. Market, Ha-
comb County, Mich.

‘We "get” you. But consider. What
would have happened had the govern-
‘ment not taken control' of the railroads

t'the inning of the war, and run
atom at its expense since then?

1’ _ g fore the United States Sen-

.-last December, Senator LoFolieute
.eaid: “The truth is that the railroad sys-
tem of this country had broken down
prior to the war, and if there had been
no war the roads. would have been in-
ﬁnitely worse off than they are today um
less the government had taken them over
to operate them or. had ﬁnanced them.
The point I am making at this time is
.that the railroads of the country were
wrecked. not by government operation
during the war but private operation pri-
or to the war." These assertions are
frankly substantiated by railway execuo
tives themSelves. You have cited sugar
prices. In the face of the greatest short-
age of sugar of the- last half century,
have you thought what prices might have
been had not the government taken con-

 

trol? There are instances, it seems,
when circumstances make gOVernment
control necessary and Wise. There are

other instances when it is indefensible.
Apparently no rule can be established
that will always apply. The government
which you criticize is your government,
and the officials who direct its affairs are
your ofﬁcials. If you do not like them,
you have the power, with the aid 'of oth—
er "farmers, to change them in any way'
yogdsee 'ﬂt. Why not exercise that right?
—— 101',

AS A CITY CONSUMER SEES IT
I am enclosing subscription ”price
of your farm paper, and in my judg-
ment if more city people would in-
vest a few nickels in taking and read:
ing a reliable agricultural paper,
they could ,judge more intelligently
the situations between the grower
and consumer, and who last fault
for conditions as they now exist. I
believe it is very unwise for farmers
to leave their farms for. city life, and
will regret it after seeing the white
lights for a shortptime as conditions
will change in a few years and the
farmer has his good 'iiving ﬁrst
hand, and the crumbs go to thecity.
So, farmers, stick to your farms and
live a life worth living. I am not
ﬁnancially interested in farming, but
interest myself in things necessary.
—G. E. Waterman, Washtcnaw 00.

Yes, unquestionably it would do the
farmer’s cause much good if some of the
leading agricultural papers could be plac-
ed in the hands of city dwellers. The

resent attitude of the consumer toward
he farmer is largely the result of mis-
understanding—Editor.

BEET GROWERS’
STAND

I have been very, much interested
in the stand taken by you in behalf
of the farmers not only of Michigan
but the whole country, and am pleas-
ed to see that we have (one. editor

APPROVES

that has got some limejinfhis spine,
and note rubbertube. 9 ~ * 4.,
I was one of the members of the .
theebear has algays been e. delight to
_.the..avaros9-;dtizpn. and med-:11: to .

executive committee of the state

grunge that started the tight three
years: ago for a raise in theprice of.
<1'fmui‘heet8.- ,While

.. I don't grow
W I sin” sum 899' the 8°94 work

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‘ ’ llwu not my choice for gov-
. emsr I am going to support him to

,- the best of my ability.

alum sending? in a vote for .M_cA.doo
as my ﬁrst. choice for president, .1

‘ believe‘that his,_record in ﬁnancing ’

I the railroads shews him. to be a- big
ma ', ‘eminently qualiﬁed to handle
the stairs of the nation, Wm. J.

, Bryan would be my second choice-

‘31“! Herbert Hooter third. I think
it would be ”eased idea to have, each
give ﬁrst, “chat! and third choice.

with... mule {use . .

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I have no personally visited this
farm but have'received ‘e. full report
from m. if. W. Nicolson of this do-

partment in regard to Mr. schmidt's ,

operations. I understand 'that con-
siderable success has beenimet with
in improving the quality of very light
land through the use of lupine an'd
serradella by Mr. Schmidt. How-
ever, in the estimation of Mr. Nicol-
son, and others who have visited this
farm,'~there is no indication thatthis

‘. use has been practical nor did I note.

I will now close with the best wishes ~

for your aspen—W. H. Welsh, Hau-
oaer Fem Sales Dept, am and Com-
Mercia! arm, Saul: Ste. Ham. Hick.

W

the
and their candidate .for gov-
ernor is most commendable, and shows
that you are indeed a true friend of
agriculture. -—oEditor.

 

WILL NOT STAND BY OLD
PARTIES '
If you will allow. me a little space
in yonrpaper [would liketopassmy
opinion with regards to . a farmer's
view on the political 'imue in Michi-
gun. I would not support any candi-
date nor onIce‘ that does not come out
independently from the two old par-
ties. Milo Campbell may be a good
man, but he says that he is running
on a Republican ticket and if elected
will stand by that party's principles.
I think we have had too much of one
party now ‘in Michigan. You need nev-
er expect very much good from any
party where the people will continue
to roll up a hundred thousand majori-
ty. We have got to keep elections
more even. I believe in an indepen-
dent farmer's state and congressional
ticket in Michigan this fall. Yours
tor success—John 8. Bend.

I am very sorry to see you take this
stand. What have the principles of eith-
er of the great national parties got to do
without local and state issues?—«Editor.

 

COLLEGE QUESTIONS VALUE OF
LUPINE AND SERRADELLA -

As one of Michigan’s most widely
read farm papers, the MICHIGAN Bus-
INESS FARMING exerts a powerful in-
fluence on Michigan agriculture.
This influence is reflected just now
by the numerous inquiries coming
into this ofﬁce on the use of lupine
and serradella from the reading of a
very interesting article in one of
your recent issues on the use of these
crops by Mr. Carl Schmidt of Serra—
della Farm, Oscoda County.

in the article of the MIOHIGAN BUI-
nmss' FARMING any cost accounts or
estimates. , ' .
I believe it would be of great in-

terest to all those who read the art-
icle, describing Mr. Schmidt's farm-
ing methods, to 866 a nd article
written by a competes investigator
from your staff, » who will make a
careful study of Mr. Schmidt's meth-
ods from' a practical standpoint as
well as the standpoint of general in-
. terest—J. F. (Joe, Professor of Form
Cram, 1!. A. 0.

lib——

Michigan Business Fanning
blLin error in. publishing the results ob-
ta ed by Mr. Carl Schmidt with iupine
and serradella before consulting compe-
tent advice upon the «matter. Acting u
on Prof. Coxs suggestion, we are see -
ing to establish the practicability of these
legumes or determine under what condi-
tions, it any. they m be used proﬁtably
as soil builders. Unt this investigation
is completed, it might be well for our
readers to proceed slowly in seeding
these crops. We feel that the opinion of
the fam crop leads of the . A. 0..
should be the determining factor.-—-‘Edit-
or.

was possi-

TEE BAILBOADS

I read in the paper some time ago
that the heads of the Farm Bureaus,
Gleaners andvGrangers sent a petition
to gOVernmcnt to hold the control of
the railroads for two more years. I
have talked ' with a good many farmers
and failed to ﬁnd one in favor of it. I
have 2,500 bushels of beans and am in-
terested in your articles in your paper
on beans. I think your paper a very
good farm paper.—E. 0. Walker, Supt.
Bliss Farm, Swan Greek, Mich.

The Farm Bureau did not join in the
III 'uouurqsem 0) 11198 Bum 1mm “owned
the straw vote we are conducting upon

the subject, the majority of farmers seem .

to favor government control. But there's
no use arguing the point any further as
the roads went back to the private own-
trs March 1st. Under the guaranteed div-
ldend clause in the railroad law, the roads
will have to have higher rates whichyou
and every farmer in the United States
will help to pay, and which, it has been
estimated, will add $4,000,000,000 annual-
ly to the already hiw cost of livmg.-—-
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PITY THE POOR BEAR

The bear in corn this season has
had a hard pull and a. disastrous one
financially. Ever since the crop was
harvested he has been predicting a
decline and working hard to bring it
about, only to see the" market recover
after every attack and emerge strong-
er than ever. In past seasons the
farmer has played into the hands of
the bear by sellingliberally on a de-
clining market. It was one of the tru~
isms of the trade that the farmer
would hold his grain Hinttil the price
began to break and then rush to sell,
but he. appears to have gained wis-
dom and‘now shuts off the supply the
moment the price declines to a cer-
tain level. This has ibeen the undoing
of the bear. Relying on the grower
to supply the goods he has several
times sold freely at declining prices,
but the‘farmer has not come to his
assistance by leading the market
with grain. and thegresnltbas always
been» a-prmptreco’mry and the bear

commie get (input at the wet.

~Inlotlier years the Wine of ‘

theta-more whose goods were de-

bragged, butthls year, ﬁnds? the bear

in great favor owing. to the. general

desires: the habits to techno pric-
.6131 The M thathe ispcpular, how-

ever. is'not?,b'elping much; 'The' bear'
iusesatsvery. turn and-the tanner"

 

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grain when the price is not to his lik-
ing. The latest example of. this has
just been witnessed._ The bear pre-
dicted that the farmer would sell, in
fact, had to sell because the season is
far advanced and the time ‘for selling
corn is almost past. The railroads
promised a good supply 0; cars to
move the corn and the bear saw for-
tune only a little way off. He grasp-
ed opportunity by selling the farmer's
goods and forcing the price down, but
the farmer again stood pat and now
the bear has another ’sore paw to
nurse. After a short period of decline
the market came back as strong as
ever owing to the smallness of offer-
ings and the seller was forced to set-
t e.

A feature of the market that is
greatly in favor of the farmer is the
high quality of the corn; which makes
it safe to hold. A soft crop must be
harvested, but not so with tine grade

[of the pest harvesting. There is ev-

ery prospect of a Short. com crOp this
year. mg to the shortage. of'farim
labor. and the farmer feels Quite safe
in carrying his grain ever. For this
reason he is not worri over 4 the
passing of the usual time for market-
ing. Recent reports

are not such as'vto case. the helderv

. much anxiety. The supply is less than

supposed and the former is in; a posh.

' tion‘to‘liold the gram OM10 the next -
. , my 1!$hie.f’ie;not.,'satisﬁodwttii ’the
iteadm . bold-"back the :' price—enuresis Free Press. ' ~ _, .

 

 
 

showihg the gut. Milk
quantity of coin backhln- the county-17.. 31¢

v'tnour," feed, eta; passed state

“without proﬁt, or raising-oi." .

» . Q ., _
. T11. . .. horse!
the necessity" for i
‘ ough and. . compl
tivation is. imperatively do“
But this cannot be acch
without adequate labor of . man.
this is dimcuit'ituot absolute?!”
possible to obtain bemused?
apo onofour pou‘ “
gathered into city homgsmm
room is diilicult to obtain,
in the rural districts, many 13..
left uninhabited, it being '
am in one state shalom
standing empty. Will they.
of migration swing back to?
districts? One at two cond ‘_ 5
sure to result in the near? tutu .
.help must be provided for “hilt?!
soil, or more people will be abused
‘ restrict their appetites to a ‘l "
supply of food. The farmer and -
family will not be ofthe latter” 'V
for it is their privilege to satisfy“!
owu needs first. “Back to the Farm,
must be the slogan if adequate supply
of food products is provided. Allied-i
can farmers are now producing but ‘
portion of what they can be madgbc
produce, it cultivated as on. soil at
cultivated in the thickly settled por-
tions of Europe. . .

The discussion of this question in
MICHIGAN Bosmnss Fuumc of rat
21st, is interesting reading and um.
Dora Stockman has shown very elem
ly-tbe situation which the hired mat
will be obliged to meet, who leavectlic
term and moves to the city. The writ
or has a. neighbor who keeps two hilt
ed men, paying $65 per month for the
entire year,a furnishing house-rent.
fruit, ground for a garden and on
man has remained with my column!"
for several years.

As a nation we have become extrav-
agant in our demands; only the best
will satisfy us and a return tothe less ,.
expensive ways of former years is the A
remedy needed. But this can hardly
be expected in this age of automobiles,
telphone, phonograph, ﬂying machines
wireless telegraph and prospective
communicatiOn with the moon.

An earnest and courteous discussion
Of this question can but be helpful,
provided we are broad enough in our
views to look broadly at both sidesof
the question.~J. T. Daniella, Slim
scc County.

  
  
   
     
   
   

 
 
    

   
    
  
 
 

 
  
  
  

  
 
 
 

 
 
  
   
   
   
    
   
   
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
   
      
   
     
      
    
    
    
   
    
    
   

   
  
 
   
       
    
  
  
 

  
 

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True as gosiwll if 1119 farmer m
made both ends meet or laid something
aside for a rainyday. it is because he
has practiced thrift. When the people of ‘
the cities have acquired this Simple hab- '
it, they will cease their wailing about the
H. C. of L.~—Editnr!

WOULD PATTERN AFTER NON-
PARTISAN LEAGUE
I am an interested reader oi your .
paper and on most, or many subjects
can endorse your opinions, but Will
say I cannot endorse your opinions ‘
political action. It I get your co,
ideas they are in opposition to
farmers and labor uniting in 'an
ganization outside the two old party
“You advocate co-operation in.
ing and selling of products and'fco‘“
demn proﬁteering. You cend‘emnth‘
Newbei‘ry method of buying office ‘
state and national legislatures. Y
condemn the yearly increase of m
tion but we seem to come to the part;-
ing of our ways at about this point}
You think to elect a farmer govei‘
or is the mainthing andtoaccomp I)?
that; that his name should be place?
on the Republican ticket. Now at
see it, when we vote that ticket w
are, indirectly, endorsing the Newber-é
ry iniquity, also endorsing the big
cost of living and proﬁteering,
thus lend our inﬂuence against _,
oration and endorse indirectly the
merchants' and manufacturers’ or
lzatiOns and, as is clear to everyone;
that organization is fighting the cor;
operative system to the death. .; '
A large proportion of the voters Of
Michigan are studying carefully the
accomplishments of the North Dakar
ta , “maxilla“! League, whisky? if
rea y g something for the poem ' ’
In six years theyhave taken new
possession of both. legislative am
Wlies through the ballot. inau .
ing system, stag}
vator; provided fee turn

   
    

 
 

  
 

 
 
    

 
 
   
  

once laws and many. other
measures for the whole people»

  

    

  
     
 
 

other stilte‘” 11.38 equaled, or. at
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he“ open, and. this may be neces-
and very wise for townspeople,

 
  

, or exercise, it she will spend
'71" her. garden—whether that garden
a vegetable of flower garden. Re-
tly ’we took up the subject of pop-'
mu‘ raising for proﬁt, and now in
this-iseue we shall consider the pos-
ibility of the flower garden.

,Eyery woman loves flowers, but
some haven’t the sorcalled “knack” of
gmaking them grow. All this “knack”
really is, is a knowledge of the needs
f Athe'ﬂowers as to soil, time of plant-
ng, amount of moisture required, the
ht kind of fertilizer, etc., and any
woman who sets about her task with
‘determination to make 0f it a pay-
ng proposition instead of just a hap-
hazard posy bed, will ﬁnd that there
is much to learn, and that the study
nd work are both absorbingly inter-
esting.

‘ There has been a shortage of flow-
ers, and this shortage promises to
continue. First it came about by the
' government requisitioning all coal
not needed for absolute necessities,
and so a lot of greenhouses were clos-
ed, and many of these will never be
opened again. And of course they
were depended upon for flowers for
decorations for summer as well as
winter.

If you decide upon this as an in-
Vestment proposition it is well to take
only a limited number of varieties of
plants at ﬁrst and make a success of
their culture before attempting a
large number.

And if you desire the ﬂowers to
bloom early, which means that you
can command the best price, then you
should plant the seeds in the house,
. so that about, Decoration Day your

plants will be large and sturdy enough
for transplanting. In planting in
boxes, be sure that your boxes are
xprovided with proper drainage, so
that the soil will not sour.

Asters are perhaps one of the hard-
' lest plants; have a profuse bloom and
‘ are very easy to cultivate. Because
of their long stems «and beautiful fol-
ia‘ge, they are much sought after as a
E decoration‘in, the late summer.
“ Sweet peas and roses are lovely for
the June weddings, graduations, etc.,
and although they require a little
more care, will pay one for the time
spént. In order to have noses pro-
, ductive, they must be well mulchedin-
the winter and the stalks tiedwith
straw to quite a height. Sweet peas
., do not require very rich soil, a clay
' sub-soil with a sandy top is best. They
* are planted in a trench» about six
inches deep. They must be planted
' ' where-they will not get too much sun

   
  
  
 
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
 
  
   
    
  
    
  
  
  
   
 
   
   
   
  
  
   
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
    
 
 
    
  
  
   
  
     
  
 
 
    
   
  
   
    
   
   
    
    
    
  
   
   
  
    
   

 

 

Sunrise in Wintertime ,

By C. Shirley Dillenback.

Ho! Come with me to the sleeping
farm-—
from the
charm,
Would you see a picture the eye to
please
Just gaze while the hoar- frost is on
the trees.
The scraggly poplar has
somehow,
' Gone are its imperfection-s now
As it stands like a princess with
arms outstretched.
Showing intricate patterns so ﬁne-
ly etched
With the wintry sky like an azurw
sheen '
[Filling the vacancies in between.
See the ermine drifts piled row on ,
_ row—4 . ,
" Where“ the gentian and golden-rod
(:0 grow, 1- 7
14181115: u‘D‘tzgld gluten with rainbow w

Far city's man-made

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11.11111 at you o’er the snow e'la'd
hills

    

V0 you ever experienced such ‘

' splendid thrills; -
princely hall with music’s chime

' you do at sunrise in winter-

time?

  

  
 
   
 
 

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- did .you .ever hear such a statcm

. spare time in the open ain‘t , :5...

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moisture. The trench in which they

are planted is only lightly covered

with earth until the plants are about
three inches high, when the ground is
ﬁlled in around them. 'I ~

A's to marketing your pnoduct.

 

and they require a great deal 91 [,of

. A'
11119 lg your county paper stating what.

  

the world has never lnnown. 1 . - «:1

' And right now, Women in 1141111131111:- 1. '-
are coming to her armed with; the; .
most1p0werful weapon in a domed y'A , _ 1
ef-the vote. Ami 11161119? to hits '11-!»
gently use that weapon'we must study ,
the questions presentedand th‘, uali ,

  
 

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coming spring and summer seasons:
Back—'Cast on 81 stitches with No.
6 needles and knit 12 ribs plain; knit
one, purl one, for 44 rows or 22 ribs
being pareful to begin and end each
row with knit one. With No. 3 need-
les knit 12 ribs plain. .With No. .6
needles knit one and purl one, 2-0 rows
Or 10 ribs. Knit first and 1943.11 12
stitches plain of every row and knit
one and ipurl one in the central
stitches for three ribs. Bind off six
stitches at each end for armhole. Knit
the ﬁrst and last six stitchei plain
and knit one and purl one ont e cen-
tral stitches six ribs. Knit-all stitches
plain,'30 ribs. Place ﬁrst 23 stitches
on to a stitch bolder; bind off 23
stitches; start front on last:23 stitches
Knit plain one side, 30 ribs and place
on stitch holder. Knit second side 30
. ribs. plain». Knit across one front, cast;
_ on 27 stitches Knit across the second-
front, knit- six ribs plaim 'Knit the
ﬁrst and last six stitches plain and"
knit one and purl] one on central
stitches, six ribs: Cast on six stitches
at each en'd’of row. ‘ Knit the ﬁrst and
last 12 stitches and knit one and purl

 

FUTU RE

The craze for motors :3 ever increasing. but when the snow. sand or mud are deep, 18' thful
L. and Ivan are the children of Anna and John 1..

horses supply the dependable motive power.
Star-1,. and reside at Fountain, Mich.

kind of ﬂowers you have, and that you
are prepared to fill orders for all oc-
casions will undoubtedly bring you all
the orders you can care for the ﬁrst
year. Another scheme if you have
more than your townspeople will buy
is for you to secure the names of the
ﬂorists in your nearby city. 'W-rite
them a letter, telling them that you
have, say for instance, asters which
will be ready for market, beginning
such a date, and that from. that date
on you will be able to furnish them
with three dozen per day during the
season, or as many as you can be sure
that you can send. Advise them as to
the colors you have, and also tell them
how long the stems are. This all has
a bearing on the price they will pay
In shipping it will be necessary for
you to sort them as to length of
stems.

The ﬂorist will undoubtedly be will-
ing to supply you with the knock-
down paper boxes, marked “ﬂowers”
in which to send them to him.

The most important step at this
stage of the game is to prepare them.
for shipment in such a way that they
will reach the ﬂorist fresh. In order

to do this, you should pick your flow- ,

after sun- -down the
night before making shipment. Cut
the stems a little on the slant. Place
the ﬂowers in a deep crock or other
receptacle so-thoa‘t they will be in wat-
er up to their heads, and set these
crooks right on the cool cellar floor

are with shear-s,

. and let them remain there until morn-

ing. Then take your boxes in.w’hich
you are to ship them into 1th‘e base-
ment. Have plenty of oiled paper. Tie
your flowers in bunches-cf a dozen;
wrap them-inthe oiled paper, so that ..
a little air as possible will reach them
and also line the 4box with the paper.
Then so «plan it that the boxes will
reach the express or postofﬁce‘ just inv
time to catch the train so that they

’will go through as quickly as possible.

The woman who spends her spare

moments in the house crecheting or
‘embrbidering, may- complaint that “She

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from the woman who spends all her .

could just fly she is so nervons’,’

 
 

 

  
  

WOMEN IN POLITIGS ‘1
ATTHEW ARNOL15 self '
ever the world sees 11 “1111133

the ,fhﬁnéﬁf“

 

erpureiy and simply for -.

. our suffrage. , Ht
1
I

'. Declaring that the 5809.181 and ilk'
dustrlal structure"

when women shall come togeth-

 

One on the central stitches for three
ribs. Knit one and purl one, 10 ribs.
With No.3 needles knit plain 29 .
, stitches; knit .one and purl one, 27
fications of the men who ask for our stitches; knit plain 29 stitches, and re-
vote. Then, once having eleCted a man '
we should stand by him. He may make
mistakes—but who doesn’t—and it’s a
sure thing that he will make more
mistakes if he is not given a substan-
tial backing than. he will if you give
him your confidence.

There is only one kind Of criticism‘
that is helpful and that is construct-
ive criticism. When you say a man
is wrong and yet suggest no remedy;
when you knock behind his back and
do not face him squarely'with your
complaints, it is indeed striking from
the back. Petitions signed by a sum.
cient number of voters cannot help but
have a bearing on the question at is-
sue, but just neighborhood talk
against a measure will hurt the ad—
ministration Without doing a particle
of good. ' ~

Bainbridge Colby, the new secretary ,
of state, has deﬁned loyalty to Ameri—
ca as “loyalty to her chosen servants”
and I believe our readers will'be in-'
terested in the following excerpts
from an address given by that new
oﬂicial'recently at a “loyalty week"
meeting held in New Yerk:

“We, must, stiﬂe the voice at hatred
and faction,” added ,Mr.,_ Colby. “We
. must realize that there is not a man.
in America Who does not hold oﬂiceas
a result of the free choice of our CIti- '
zens. It is a high patriotic duty that
we should support and sustain the
men who have been placed in posi-
tions or difﬁculty, burden, responsibil-
ity and even danger, as the result of

FARMERS

 

 

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“An intelligent and: conscientious
opposition is apart of loyalty to coun-
try, but we must not, if we are loyal,
seek to disperse our energies in a. par-
tisan warfare that is waged without
regard to its consequence to the well
being, security or honor or the «mm c

try. ” ‘ ~_A' EE’LL' GET IT. ANYWAY
The speaker referred ‘ut'o General." ' The wealthy old lady Was very

ill
"'Pershing as the “flue Americapmwhos :7 a d e t
“is “a lesson ., .n s n for her lawyer to: make her

in loyalty to “Raisin": 11111-“: wish to explain to "
iwmch makes all spoken words seem s e 1 " ybuj
5.ka and futile." ‘nlily :gogeytegmy’. about (1181108111; of

The 1 lawyer .Was

peat from", 12 ribs: knit one, purl and ’

on all stitches, 22 ribs. Knit plain-12 ' -

ribs and bind off. Sew underarm seam. 1
Finish with croCheted buttons. ’ ' '5 '

 

      
      
 

  
 
  

 

   
  

  
  
 

    
 

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1 weather mesn's rheu-
. “'ikatic (Wings: and other handicapping

. fol 111 relievingpaim and alt/1:1, :tj'jaifttr,
" ﬁr: murder, (embargo, tundra.
“We keep 11 large bottle of Sloan’ s Lini-
ment in the house all the time to use
. when an attack comes on. You know
_ Sloan, s is one of the old timers. Doctor
_ , Earl 8.8101111 put it on sale 38 years ago.

"We get the biggest bottle because it‘s more economi-
al. A little spplled to the spot 2mm»: without
my" and promptly cues up the vein, and oche. ‘_'

 
  
    
        
 

1 1 1 1 1 11 1;: 111
ﬁle. 1, 1‘: 1 11' handy

U

c s. The glorious

* ’ "out. I- recently intro-
, duced by ushes succeeded
_ / everywhere and proved
' ' to be the most showy ger-
. ~v den annual. No thin
‘1‘ can our-pin so the mass 0?
bloom w ich it shows all
Summer and Fall.

”so old-
anth each order we
send 1 trial pkt.encl1 of
GI: hut Kochla, most deco-
tetive foliage annual.

. Savl In Hybrldo whit
ohms “'32)“ ed. no. .. ' e.
new hybrl all colors. Mexgnliloent.
“than Igm- garden or vases.
llnd our 33;” log. all for 20 cu

 

bul-‘F can
bulbs. ﬂunk-”ans ew berries. the ﬁnest
Glodio line. suns-.Irlseez’lyv. Perennials
ines Ferns .eeeP .Astero. ens es. etc. All
is] “NEE" stnins. ind“ many nter-ling nereltie'o.
.30 WISCHILDS. Inc. . Hotel Park, N157.

 

none warm or
esvypprcm light cram

133mm“ 39.1"” oopsdty WEI-2

Montth Payments 1

Jeri-eon

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I IWang’RVeberpm 37 Monk-to, III-I.

STRAWBEBIHES

AND SMALL FRUITS
guilty 11131131311” sons tufy.
en or “one“: It: BOHIIOK ‘
Ell ole. Mich.

DO YOU WAIT TO SELL
Willi FARM THIS SPRIIG?

oCInulﬂed Ad in M. 3. Business Ferm-
Enhance.-

Dye Old, Faded
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er—efiects. We can 't be too care- -

. 3 3111-211 Novemrs'

crimson Wool- .

I flower and ye table seeds. I

F in ME & mlngmcul‘rlggors
on sea .._
tryBooky a Guide NEE.

$latn‘ond Dyeo'.‘ Make Shabby Apparel-

 

,, bly es
, his cram _
get astrido

‘ “n is well" he said, and added
greetefulvly' "A. thousand thanks,

sen'ors. It ﬁanbeen my good fortune

to meet wlth honest men With whOm.
my goods will be safe—only poor
goods, peddled's goods, you under-
:;stand but to nie, everything, my
way upon the road. The pleasure

- has been mine to meet you. Todmor-

morow I shall return with my klns~
man, whOm I certainly shall find and
relieve from you the burden of safe-
guarding my lnconslderable proper-
ty. ” He dotted his hat. ”Adios, sen-
ors, adios "’

He rode away at a careful walk,
timid of the animal he bestrode
which had caused his catastrophe.

He halted and turned his head at of

call from Pedro Zurita.

“Search the graveyard, Senor Nar-
vaez,” the jailer advised. “Full a
hundred Tomas Romeros lie there. "

“And be vigilant, I beg of you,
senor, of the heavy box," the peddler

»- called back. “
Henry watched the street grow de-

serted as the gendarmes and the
populace fled from the scorch of the
sun. Small wonder, he thought to
himself, that the old peddler’s voice
had sounded strangely familiar. It
had not been because he had possess-
ed only half a Spanish tongue to
twist around the language——the other

, half being the German tongue of the

mother. Even so, he talked like a
native, and he would be robbed like
a native if there was anything of.
value in the heavy box deposited with
the jailers, Hen 1y concluded, ere dis-
missing the inc dent from his mind.

In the guardroom, a scant ﬁfty
feet away from Henry’s cell, Leopoldo
Narvaez was being robbed. It had be-
gun by Pedro Zurita making a pro-
found and wistful survey of the large
box. He lifted one end of it to
sample its weight, and snlﬁfed like

1'1, hound at the crack as if his nose

might give him some message of its
contents.

“Leave it alone, Pedro,” one of
the gendarmes laughed at him. “You
have been paid two pesos to be hon-

» est. "

The assistant jailer sighed, walk-

ed away and sat down, looked back

at the box, and Sighed again. Con-
versation languished. Continually
the eyes ofI the men roved to the box.
A greasy p'ack of cards could not die
vert them. The game Ian-.gulshed
The gendarme who had twitted Ped—
ro himself went to the box and
sniffed.

"‘I smell nothing, " he announced.
"Absolutely in the box there is noth-
ing to smell. Now what can it be?
The caballero said that it was Of
value. "'

“Caballero!" sniffed another of
the gendarmes. “The old man's
father was more like to have been
peddler of rotten ﬁsh on the streets
of Colon and his father before him.

Every lying beggar claims descent

from the conquistadores. " ,
' “And why not, Rafael?" Pedro
Zurita retorted. ,“Are we not all so
descended?"

‘ “Without doubt,” Rafael readily
agreed." “The conqu‘ita-dores slew
many “”

“And were the ancestors of those
that survived,” Pedro completed for
him and aroused a general laugh.
“Just the same, almost would I give
one of these pesos to know what is
in that box. " '

“There is Ignacio," Rafael greet-
ed the entrance of a turnkey w’hose
heavy eyes tokened he was just out
of his siesta. ”He was not paid to
be' honest. Come, Ignacio relieve our
curiosity by letting us know what is

 

:in the box. "

“How should I know?" Ignacio

q demanded, blinking at the object of

interest. “Only now have I awaken-
edlf .
"You have not been paid to be

21mm, then?” Rafael asked.

“Merciful Mother of God, who is”
the men who would pay me to be
honest?" the turnkey demanded.

“Then take the hatchet there and
open the box," Rafael drove his point
he "W me" not. .1101? 2.: surely.

 

 

 

   
    
     
    
    
    
   
    
   
   
     
     
    
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
 
 
 

OR a number of years the Grant Six
has been one of the most popular

' . cars selling to farmers, because it has

always been remarkably good value at a

reasonable price.

This year’s car is by all are underslung and 56%
odds ‘the ﬁnest Grant Six inches long—the longest

that has ever been built.

springs ever used in a car

The high radiator and hood of 116 inch wheel base.
With aluminum molding- When the rear seat is

give a new tOUCh 0f diS' ﬁlled the Springs are ﬂat
tinction and with the long,’ so .that the full spring

low body lines, make a
decidedly handsome and

stylish car.

- The famous Grant Six

action is obtained and the
car travels over rough,
bumpy roads with utmost
comfort.

overhead valve engine has

been steadily reﬁned and

This model exceeds in

improved until it is One of wheel base and in size any
the most ﬂexible and re- former Grant Six.

sponsive motors ever put
into a car. It has power

In buying the Grant

and speed beyond what Six you get a car you can

. most men will dare to use.

be proud of, a car that will

The Grant Six is an ideal satisfy you completely—a
car for farm use because of POWCYfUL roomy, speedy, .
its remarkable spring sus- comfortable car of unusu-
pension‘. The rear springs ally ﬁne appearance.

Write {or new illustrated catalogue and name

of Grant Six dealer in your comm unity.

GRANT MOTOR CAR CORPORATION

' CLEVELAND, OHIO

 

 

 

 

 
  
  
   

BLUE BIRD BRAND
111111 e GARDEN

In the Legend, the Blue Bird
stands for Purity, Happiness and good

~ Luck. In Seeds, for the Best that Grows.
Our 1920 catalog gives the Legend and
6" tells why the Blue Bird was adopted as 11'
0 trade mark for Good Seeds. It furnishes the
most complete information on Red Clover
Alfalfa, Alsike, Sweet Clover, Vetches, Millets,
Sudan Grass and other Farm and Garden Seeds
of any free book published It is larger and more
beautifully printed then ever before. It will assist‘
in planning your crop Hcempeign for the coming
season. A post card Will bring YOUR FREE COPY.

supplies of m y seeds ere vory light. Order Now. ’
Save money a d have your seed when wanted.

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There is only one way yto deal with baby chicks
mum is to keep them well. Doctoring a hun-
or more chicks is mighty. discouraging work.

E's pure carelessness to lose more than 10 pet

of chicks. from hatching to full growth. Many.

_ 40 per cent to 60 per cent, and even more.
in profit in that.
book, “Care of Baby Chicks" (free) and a
i'Germozone is the best chick insurance.
THo BABY CHICKS YOU MUST PREVENT
SICKNESS—NOT ATTEMPT TO CURE “I
Mr had a sick chick all last season"—-C. O.
Petunia, Moline, Ill. “Not a case of white dia-
in'three years '-——Ralph Wurst, Erie, Pa.
'n 800 chicks now 5 weeks old and not a
case of bowel trouble"——-Mrs. Wm. Christi-
un, Olive Ridge, New York ”Two weeks after
'0 starbd last spring we were a mighty discour-
aged pair Every day from three to six chicks
letd— A neighbor put us hurt to Germnznne and
we are now sure if we had had it at the stint we
would not have lost a. single chick"—Wm. E.
”herd, Scranton. Pa.
”“020" is a wonder worker for chicks,
chickens. pigeons, cats, do“.
in or other pet or domestic stock. It is pre-
ys as well as curative, which is ten times
1': It .is used most extensively for roup,
trouble, snuffles, sleet, canker. swelled
, sore head, sores, wounds. loss of fur or

M 780. 81.60 plies. dealers or postpald
010. H. LEE co., Dept. F288, Omaha, Nah.

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Careful] lyelemed andtes
big stock and ,ordering now will save you
money. Get our earn less! ﬁrmoﬁdﬁfm-
moth Red. 8w r. y e on ”its

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T0 vors INTELLIGENT-LY

on great" political issues Send 25c for
"Wins iiohlean' Women Should Know About
Um” by Judson Grenall. to Waterford
' Puhlﬂzins company. 308 Thompson. BL,
Ann Arbor-.1ﬁch.

 

 

 

 

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Have you any to sell?

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EAR CHILDREN '-——I know tRet
D a whole lot of you little talks

who have submitt‘em original
arm hays use: anxiously await-

” ingtoseethaninihepapersandto

receive your prizes, and I am very
this week and award the pr.izes

The four dram published
w o e k w e r e
awai- d e d t h 0
prize ,of' a “Trill
Arou nd 1:, h e
World”;in postal ,
cards, but great-
er than the act-
ual value of the
prize you receive
'is the fact that
your draw i n g
was good enough
to be reproduced
in the paper. «I
am sure that you
will be glad to
cut them out and
preserve th e m
and that you will
be encouraged to
try harder than
ever and that
others will also
try for the prizes
and to have their
pictures giv e n
honorable men-
tion in our paper.
.. The names and addresses of the
four who drew the pictures on this
page are, Leona Cole, of Webberville,
Mich; Walter Williams, of Seneca,
Mich; Marion Beeman, of Empire,
and Thelma Middaugh, of Nassau City,
Michigan, and there is an additional
one which will be published next
week and the winner announced.

And I am still getting inquiries rel-
ative to prizes for securing subscrip.
tions to M. B. F. One little girl asks
how many subscribers it will taketo
secure a‘wrist watch and also how
many to secure a camera. It will re-
quire ten new subscriptions at $1 each
to secure either of these prizes, Both
prizes are well worth working for.
The boys have been very successful
in earning Bay Scout Knives which
are awarded for only one new sub-
scriber and also flash lights which
take. only two subscribers. \

One Of our little girls sent me a
picture of the home which she drew,
and while it is very good, our artist
tells me that it is out of “perspective,"
and therefore we cannot publish it. I
wish that Beulah would take another
subject and submit another drawing
as she has talent and with something
not so difﬁcult as a house, it might
not be difﬁcult for her to win a prize.
Remember these prizes for original
drawings will be'awarded just as fast
as we receive enough drawings to war-

nt it and every time there are four
ﬁize drawings they will be published.
Aftectionately yours,—Laddic.

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The Adventure of Practice '

 

 

 

family it was a wonder she

could keep track of them all.
There was the French dol.,l Suzanne,
that brother Tom brought home from
France; and the Scotch doll that
Aunt Margaret had sent over from
the old country when Mary Louise
was three years old; and the rag
doll Mary Jane that the farmin sus-
pected Mary Louise loved the most

MARY LOUISE had such a big

‘ of all. Those t'hree'had been the fav-

orites for many a day. But when
Christmas came the family was in-
creased by four more and then the
nursery was full to overflowing.
One morning, not very long after
Christmas. the house. was so cold that
Mary Louise’ s mother said everybody

should bring their work 'or their play
1 and sit in the living room where a

min! GLOBE mm ‘ one] 5.

big, cheerful log lire made things
was willing enough fer she loved to

play infmntof the ﬁre, but moving
. as you know, is hard work. Espec-

lolly whep one has such a big family.

  

 

glad to be able to print the drawings .her mother to keep her

warm and comfortable. Mary Louise ‘

  

one took one- trip tenths ’
Susanne ,

she wont again for thei
exits clot-hes. z'l‘he third

the four new dolls. Elisabeth, sedg-

ia. Bonnie and Practice Practice had
that queer name. by the way, ‘be-
cause he was given Mary Louise by
company
:while she did her practicing every

day. Mm Louise liked the idea of

  

having him sit on the‘ piano in front

'of her while she practiced scales and

ﬁnger exercises. She didn’t get lone-
some and yet he didn’t bother by
talking as a person might. .
Now just how or why it happened
Mary Louise didn’t know. Probably
because she had taken two trips up-
stairs before she was getting a little
tired. Or maybe it was because she
had such a big; family; maybe folks
with big families don’t count their
children till bed time. But however

it happened, Practice got lost. When ‘

Mary Louise loaded up her arms to
go down stairs he was tucked tight
under her elbow just as easily as
could be. And when, that night, af-
ter the house was again nice and
warm, Mary Louise went to put her

 

 

\ ._x

THE SLEEPY'roer EXPRESS

Just beyond the rain-how’s end a river
ripples down

Beneath a. bridge, around .a bend and
ﬂows through Sleepybown-

Through Bleepytown, where goblins
toil to fashion wondrous toys

d make upfuoirmtlnr mamas for
little girls and boys

And automobiles, just ythe size for lit-
tle hands to drive

Await to whirl you ‘all about as soon
as you arrive.

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepy—
town unless

He goes to bed in time to take the
Sleepytown Express!

I know a foolish little boy who always
starts to w hine

When he is asked to trot upstairs be-
fore it‘s half-past nine.

And often he will stamp his feet and
shake his tousled head.
make a rackhet, even then, when
he is sent toh

Of course. when he has said his pray-
ers it alwa s is too late

To catch the leepyt'own Express—it

half-mast ei ght,

And so. in all his long. long life—he’s
live years old this fall—-

That little boy has never
Sleepytown at a..ll

But gather wiser little boys, and little

less well,
As soon in 8 «clock truck rush
on? their

base
upstairs, poll-men.
r own aaco

Get 25m their and
prayers, just ofe13 the'i
And, wenthetrainoomesrolimgin_
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they wandaruv and
have a most upexciting tune in
Queer war

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Bus eel
; or is Miss Clown]. I like her very we!“
. felt we

her- mother.

  

with the rest of the W?"

“I did,” said Mary Louise, ("but-I

he’ s gone. ”

“Have you. seen Practice!” ' this
asked her hot!!-
er Ned. But he
had not seen the
doll either. ‘- o

/

one of her as.-
uy missing and

‘ every mother
knows that's a
very painful fool-
lug.

But it wasn’t
painful for Prac-
tice. He was hav-
ing the time of

‘hiSE young life.

DRAWN BY' He had slipped

Mamow

BEEMIAN' Louise's a r m s

right by the win-
dow box in the
big upstairs ball.
And there he lay,
in the shadow,
till night time.

When the house was dark as mid-
night, he heard a. little wee, was
sound, close by and'a tiny little voice
whispered, “Please may I take a bit
of your soft warm jacket? I need
some yarn to line my nest. My hab-
ies like soft warm things."

Practice, much" interested, replied.
“Help yourself! My little moiiher
likes to knit and I know she’ll make
me a new one! But tell me all about
your family. "

While the stranger nibbled at the
dark blue jacket he told Practice
about his family up in the attic and
about the cousins in the basement
and Practice was so interested he
almost wished the night would never
end.

In the morning. Mary Louise spied
Practice and she's wondering to this
day how in the world he got that
awful hole in the back of his brand
new jacket. But, of course, she made
him a new one. See): a pretty one
that it seems a shame Practice can't

tell her all about his adventure, and

what happened to the jacket with
the hole.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Laddie :-‘-——This is the second turn:
I have written to you. am a girl
years old and in the 5th 1% I luv.
been looking for the Doc—Dads. My lit-
tle brother, Clayton. cried because they
were not in. I have four sisters and two
brothers. Their names are Louisa, Lur-
ella, Naomi, Helen, Clayton and Freddie.
I am going to get some chickens and tho
I am writing a
verse. ———Herlandra. EWBlld, Elkton, Mich.

A. Mouse

A little mouse sat down to spin.

Puss came by and she pooped in.

What do you make ‘mygood-littio man?

Makin a coat as as I can,

Shall come in and wax your thread

No thanksi‘ Mrs. Puss, you'll bits 0

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Dear Laddie:—This is the second time
I have written to. you but I did not see
my first letter in print We live on an
80~aore farm. We intend to have 10 acres
of beets this year. We have four horses.
Jess, Charley, Maud and Tobias We
have six cows, Flora, Bell, Rose, Bess,
Aggie and Margarete. I am a. girl 11
years old in the 6th grade. My teacher
is Miss Alice ~Russell. For pets we hay.
three cats. Mather said that was the
last incubator full of eggs we could
have; our incubator holds 11 .
have two brothers and ﬁve sister What
is the matter with the Boo-Dads ,that
they are not in the paper? Perhaps they
are having a war with the Brownies or
other small people. I will close hopin
to see my letter in print, I wish some 0
the girls of the M. B. F. would write to
rue —Na.omi Ewaid, Elkton, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie: —This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you. We take the M. B.
F. and like t very well 1’ like to read
the stories and lettuce vgryw wiel. *I am 10

  
  

  

 

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etc, making repairs where needed

seas of bosses-tub yes: and it 3. like
ease of with the help
so sources—4:. 1’. H, The mm ices
were paid It Kenny-Wheat, .22:
5 com, 31.40; am 803:1; 81. ;
1-7; Nultunoﬂ? 3.25; No; I mix-
ed. 825: - é - beans, , pote-
toss, $323: better. ”05!: bottom or
sun. 4" lambs. 18: boss! 14: but
steers. 16011; I i.

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ter and w stems lure 1: oil
ﬁlm work at slmost s; medians
reeds am casein bi by
slow m are used our
many on all the , but th-’
m ' sudden, as the high winds
omzss the snow to and make the

id for farm lands paid by
Miss _ in other states. a
good many from Illinois—D. H. M. The
allowing riees were‘iaiié! st Gorgon?-
Wheot- . ' com : oats. ; m,
#50; bay: 3%. 1 timothy, baled, 325;

o. 1 liuht mix ‘ $23: straw-rye,
$10; wheat-oat, 8' potatoes, $1.76@$2;
m 9e lb.; cob e. 8; head, 25;
”ringers, 28; butter 0: butterfat. 65;
ms. 48: sheen. $12614: hoes. 316: or
steers 76: beet cows, $25; veal calves,
no t- mien. :2».

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rules meant a million dollars sstned
by organized starts iron the com-
pany, on the 1911 crop, and Morey sd-
mitted thereiutobstheresnltota
center-one. is. the following letter:
(latter to J. A. Klein-3.748.)

“Then in September, 1917, the
ismm’ organization sent another
large delegation to Denver for a, con-
terence with the company. The farm-

ers asked $10 tor 1918 beets. The a

company after several weeks of study
concluded it would be very patriotic

, to giro an average of 8! and cover-

ed acres of newspaper specs telling
of its patriotic action. The farmers’
organization again got into action,
raised about $2,000 and sent a com-
mittee to Washingtm to lay the Inst,-
ter before Mr. Hoover. The com-
mittee performed its duty to such
good purpose that Mr. Hoover was
convinced that. the company should

. my still more for its beets. He ap-

ointed 3 commission to get sworn

{many at factory towns on the
cost of beet raising. That commie.
sion made its investigation, reported
back to Mr. Hoover, recommending
an alternative price of :10 flat per
ton, or $9 'min-fmum with 64 cents
advance for each 1 per cent increase
of sugar content above 14» per cent,
and many other vitally import-ant
improvements in the treatment of
the growers by the sugar company,
as the report will convince any man.
Ten dollars ‘ was accepted by the
company.

‘ “The mass price of beats in
1917, wss 37.60, the tsrmers by
means of their organization got a
raise of $2.50 per ton for 1918. On
the beats of a two million ton crop
then, the Great Western Sugar Com-
pany will pay $5,000,000 to its grow-
ers as s result of their organized of-
tort tenths 1918 crop.

Enclosed ﬁnd check for $3 for my
renewal and two 0! my neighlbors.
We like M. B. F. and think you are
working for the tsrmm’ interest,
m last and all the time—E. V. 8..
Kent county. , .

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ﬁrmscLAN 4mg

32, 000 DOWN SECURES 800 AGREE WITH
pair horses. 2 mu 2 cows, 10 h ers. bull.

. steers. all high grade Holstein. hogs poultry. hay.

fodder, carriages, wagons. harness, implements in-
cluded: 84, 800 gets everything. easy terms, big-
gest bargain ever oﬂsred in this rich dairy and
arming section, by owner whose oil interests in
the South require quick removal. Near main line
depot and market oi Dark loam soil cuts 8
7 ~00w tgesture. wood timber.
large orchards: vast quan ty berries or high
New 2-room house, 2

mouse basement barns, silo, corn storage barn,
granary. running wate r house and barns. Details
page 7 Strout's Spring Catalog Barge! 83
states; copy free. STROU’I‘ FARM AGEN01,814
Ford Bldg" Detroit.

FOR 8ALE—-MIOHIGAN CLOVER SEED
IELT LANDS. Old grass covered, all; over clay
ear-

Where clover seed reproduces thirty to ﬁfty
Settlers (English spea kins) are rapidly
becoming prosperous growing clover seed beef.

- mutton and marketing dairy products. No BET-

TER RECOMMENDATION. 1,0 000 acres in
any size tracts from 80 acres up, 810 to 815 an
acre. 10 per cent down, into tetres 8 per cent.
Bettler has option to meet a small stipulated year-
ly cash payment or merely apply the product of
one peck oi' clover seed yearly for every forty pur-

~chased——-UN'I‘IL THE LAND IS PAID FOR. En-

tire forty or eighty often paid for out f the
product of one bushel of clover seed. Wll ad-
vance to settlers for 5 years, interest 8 per cent

on live stock the ﬁrst payment made 11 land
rchased. Win mow land after Ap' m.—
EBHN G. KRAUTH. Millersburg, Presque Isle

County, Michigan.

FARMS FOR BALE—GOT A LARGE LIST
of farms for sale, hay and grain. com potatoes.
some ,of the best
ruit farms in West Michigan. Good market
or your farm produce and stock. You do not
have to pay an agent’s fee of any kind. Just

y the farmer his price if you buy Write me
what kind of farm ou want and terms. Address
GEO. J. ROSPLO . Farm Agent. 204 Third
St. Ludington, Mlchign.

so ACRES. 80 OLEARED. FREE '0!

r. -» S.oil o layloam. infruitbelt.
40 x 50. small house. One

and

Spring creek, barn

mile .woven wire fence. cedarpos 2

5 ac res {all {120th if sold within 80 days, 88 000
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Hersey. Mich.

' FOR GALE—FARM 122 A0 E ~ IL 8
mlensins.ons road. R o'uﬁoﬁd,
Bligh. Best of soil. 8. W. HEMP .B’I. [ans-d" ‘
FORMm BALE—GOOD FARM. 120 AOREB ,

, except orcha‘rd‘
‘ :na'ooéile grove good 'feor‘i‘iiasgela soil. good
“ “ llas 590 acres ml'eoadow 8 acres wheat 11 Jcﬁéoa '
ﬂowed. Price 88. Terms. GEO ORG]: '
. henna Port '11.: Mic h.

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of wo—Jin their on 'of

dressin’ I meek—that they are expos-

in' ’most altogether- the much or what
should or’t to be hid an' a lot of things
like that. Preachers are wailin’ dom
the pulpits—the' older preachers ya
understand—the younger an’ more up-
to-date ones ain't sayin’. much about
it yet their eyesight hein' clearer an'
mebbe better, but the ol’ tellers: Gosh!
They lost about go into tantrums
about it "Why it's absolutely inde-
cent” says one; "it's rec-dichlous an'
outrageous." sez another, an' they keep

.- 'bowlin about it til I git to thinkin'

mebbe they been lookin’ closer' n a
mere mam, 'specially a preacher, art

“to look.

Jest this mornin' I've been raadin’
an article by Rev. Lucien Johnston,
taken from the Baltimore Catholic Re-

‘ vim, an’ what he sea is a plenty. be-
. lieve me. Why Lucien 392; I will not

quote his exact. words, they’ re too durn
high Mutin’ for me, but here’s the
‘slibstance of it: “It women leave cer-
tain parts of their bodies undraped.
(meanin' undressed) because they
think they have beautiful forms. than

men should wear no clothes at all, tor

men have much more beautiful forms
than women, ” and that neither man
nor woman has as beautiful an’ sym-
metrical forms as almost any other
member or the animal world, even the
caterpillar an’ some species of beetles,
has got no heat a-tihousand ways when
it comes right down to hard tacks. An’
aocordi-n’ to the Rev. Lucien, 'bout the
onlrthing the human family can claim
superiority over is the hog an' an’ the
parrot. Gereusalem crickets! Would
not that git ya? Why Lucien claims
that men realize this fact and cover
their bodies with suitable clothes to
beautify ’em, but women have not
reached that high standard of mental-
ity an’ like the ostrich, consider them-
selves safe if their heads arg covered
an' they have a string of beads around
their necks. Now as I said before,
these ain’t exactly his words but it's

‘bout what he means an' so much for
that.

Well, now comes one train Elinor
Glynn—you all: know Elinor, she's
quite a. success asa writer—well, she
ort not to be quite so plain spoken
about her own‘sex seems to me, but
llssen to her now: "A friend insisted
on my going to a. ball last week, and
after my quiet months at Versailles I
was startled at the, nakedness Of evrey-
one. What is causing this almost uni-
versal desire to expose the person to
view? The standard of decency in
such matters has always been only
geographical, but in all ’ countries
where the later christianity held sway
morality had caused a set of instinct!
which experienced horror at any un-
due'exposure of any part of the body
but the “face, neck and hands. .The re-

eel
driest!

   

tithe called in to picture it. New

‘ My anythingwie lei-t to the Imagina-

tied“; yailrrioiit Wanting can be stared -‘
at boldly, and "the eye forced to realize

that ﬁve women cut or ten aré ugly,’
misshapen creatures, often With coarse

skins. Have you ever..- remarked how

much liner and whiter men’s skins are

than women’ s. as a‘ rule?! ‘

Now I've ..‘given Elmer's exact words
an' I‘ll 'admn she’s handin' it to wom-
en putty darn strong but she’s capable
of deln’ things like that so you can
blame her an’ not me lo:- what she
sea. I know an' you knew that hunr
dreds of women appear on the streets
of every city in the land every day in
the week in dresses that make them
look perfectly silly—some of 'em so
tight the wearer can hardly walk in
'ein, others so short, top an' bottom.
they'd nothin" much but a girdle-ev-
ery manner an' kind of dress; seems
as if the more exposure the better the
wearer .wuz suited—an so with all'ts
bain'said an' printed I’ve jest been do-
in’ a little thinkin’ of my own an’ I '
come to the conclusion that women an'
young girls don't go an' tog up in them
sort 0’ duds to please themselves, nor
to please old preachers nor reformers
of any kind b’gosh! It is every wom-
an’s desire to be attractive; she lives
for that, an'. dresses for it. She thinks
because a lot of add'lepated, cigarntts
weakened, ' bow-legged young molly
caddies stand around on the street
corners and gaze at 'em in awe-struck
wonderment they are showing admire.-
tion for them, poor silly little girliesl
If they could only hear the remarks
that were being made by these same
non-essentials, by gosh! they'd go
home an’ yank off such redlculous
gowns, put on some sensible clothes,
wash the paint an' powder off’n their
tacos, wash the back of their necks
an' behind their ears an' then
an’ there resolve to be what the
Creator intended them to be, .. good,
true, natural, lovable women, women
who were created to be mothers, in
due time, not painted dolls nor sub-
lasts for morbid and half-baked ‘sight'
score on the city streets.

Preachers may preach: reformers
may rave until the world ends, but
women will not change their mode of
dress as long as they think they are
in style and the style is attractive. The
question of morality never enters into
the question of dress, not with women
it doesn't and the only thing that will
change her views in regard to the way
she dresses is for the one an' only
young man to tell her she doesn’t look'
good in that costume. It will never be
worn again, take it from me!

”Well, this a longer letter than I in- _
tended to write, but like all great
writers, the things I know least of I
write most about. Cordially yours—-
Uncle Rube.

 

 

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MacHennery came out into '.‘the
kitchen one Sunday night to and his
hired man lighting the lantern;

“Where are you golngﬁ’ he asked.

“Goin’ out to see my girl" ans-
wered the hired man.

llHeck I”
I went in ,the
dark. ” ' ' ‘

“Yosh, " retorted the hired man.

as he‘ to‘t‘ik up the lantern and start- .-

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snorted MacHennery. ‘
"When I done my courtin' I never
» carried a. lantern.

Proved it Five Times

Mrs. Jones read from her evening
paper that John Smith died Satur-
day.

“But he died Friday," interposed
her husband.

“He died -Saturday,” interposed
his wife; it says so here. I thought
it was Friday myself, but I went out
and bought ﬂve copies of the paper
to be sure, and it was the same in all
of them, and they/wouldn’t make the
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hatchet

hand in, Ignacio. _ What

of we
' . ran

Pedro murmured in tones 0f awe.
"It must be very good that such care
be taken of it. ”

“It is Americana whiskey," sigrhed
a gendarme. “Once, only, have I
drunk Americano whiskey.’ It was
wonderful.
it, that I leaped into the hull ring at

l ‘ Santos and faced a wild hull with my '

hands. It is true, the bull rolled me,
but did I not leap into the ring?’.’

Pedro took the bottle and prepar- '

ed to knock its neck off.

“Hold. "’ cried Rafael.
paid to be honest"

“By a man who was not himself
honest" came the retort. “The
stuff is contraband It has never
paid duty. The old man was in pos—
session of smuggled goods. Let us
now gratefully and with clear con-

, science invest ourselves in its pos-
session. We will conﬁscate it. We
Will destroy it ”

Not waiting for the bottle to pass,
Ignacio and Rafael unwrapped fresh
ones and broke off the necks.

“Three stars—moat excellent,”
Pedro Zurita orated in a pause,
pointing to the. trade mark. “You
see, all Gringo Whiskey is ood. One
star shows that it is very ood; two
stars that it is excellent; three stars
that it is superb, the best, and bet-
ter than beyond that. Ah, I know.
The Gringos are strong on strong
drink. No pulque for them. ”

“And four stars?” queried Ignac-
i? his voice husky from the liquor,
t e moisture glistening in his eyes.

“Four stars? Friend Ignacio, four
stars would be either sudden death
or translation into paradise.”

In not many minutes, Rafael, his
arm around another gendarme, was
calling 'his brother and proclaiming
that it took little to make men hap«
py here below.

“The old man .was a fool, three
times a fool, and thrice~ that,” vol—
unteered Augustino, a sullen-faced
gendarme, who for the ﬁrst time
gave tongue to speech.

“Viva Augustine l” cheered Rof—
ael. ”The three stars have Worked
a miracle. Behold ! Have they not
unlocked Augustine’s mouth?” ' ’

“And thrice times thrice again was
the old man a feel i” Augustino bel-
lowed ﬁercely. “The very drink of
the gods was his, all his, and he has
been ﬁve days alone with it on the

. road from Bocas del Toro, and never
taken one little sip. Such fools as
he should be stretched out naked on
an ant heap, say I.”

“The old man was a rogue,” quoth
Pedro. “And when .he comes back
tomorrow for his three stars I shall
-arrest him for a smuggler. It will be
a feather in all our caps.”

“If we destroy the
thus?” queried Augustino, knocking
off another neck.

“We will save the evidence—thus”
Pedro replied, smashing an ‘empty
bottle on the stene flags. “Listen,
comrades. The box was very heavy
——we are all agreed. .It fell. The
bottles broke. The liquor ran out,

“Yo-i1 were

I . and so were we made aware of the

contraband. The box and the bra]:-
en bottles will be evidence ream-f
cient. ”

The uproar grew as the liquor di-

twiith Ignacio over a forgotten debt

. .of .mm. Two others sat-
'= $6 tlo’or, arhis around each

5' necks, and Wept over the
ear of. their married lot. .Au-

, “Then we will

class the box again and—«Put your
is it YOu
. eh? what does it ”feellike? . t.

eyes, focused on a quart bottle or. rye,
' “How excellently it is comprised,- ” -.

Such was the courage of

. volver, they halted, and Pedro, ﬁng-

evidenee— '

- them-selves unseen, they began dis-
" charging their

the thickness of the walls, and hop-

minished. One gendarme enameled .

  

   
 
   
 
 
   
  
  
 
  

   

 

of my heart... Do me a favor.. See,
I weep on yehj' hand. Carry a bottle
' ‘ to the Gringo Mei-gen

and hid him drink and be happy to-

we, the gendarme who had leapt

roaring:
4 “I want a bull. ' I want a bull !”
“He wants it, dear soul, that he
may put his arms around it and love
it, " Pedro Zurita explained, with a
fresh access of weeping. “I, too, love
bulls. I love all things. I love even
mosquitoes. All the world is love.
That is the secret of the world. I
should like to have a lion to play
with. .

The unmistakable air of “Back to
Back Against the Mainmast" being
whistled openly. in the Street. caught
Henry’s attention, and he was cross-
ing his'big cell to the window when
the grating of a key on the door made
him lie down quickly on the floor and
feign sleep. Ignacio staggered
drunkenly in, bottle in hand, which
he gravely presented to Henry. I

“With the high compliments of,
our good jailer, Pedro Zurita,” he
mumbled. “He says to drink and
forget that he must stretch your neck
tomorrow." .

“My high compliments to Senor
Pedro Zurita, and tell him from me
to go to hell along with his whis-
key," Henry replied.

The turnkey straightened up and
ceased swaying, as if suddenly he-
come sober.

“Very-well, senor," he said, then
passed out and locked the door.

In a rush Henry was at the win-
dow just‘in time to encounter Fran—
cis face to face and thrusting a re-
volver to him through the bars.

“Greetings, camarada,” Francis
said. “VVe’ll have you out of here in
a jiffy.” He held up two sticks. of
dynamite, with fuse and caps com-'
plate. “I have brought this pretty
crowbar to pry you out. Stand well
back in your cell, because real pronto
there’s going to be a hole in this
wall that we couldsail the Angelique
through. And the Angelique is right
off the beach waiting for you—Now,
stand back. I’m geing to touch her
off. It’s a short fuse.”

Hardly had Henry backed into a
rear corner of his cell, when the
door was clumsily unlocked and
opened to a babel of cries and im-
precatitions, chiefest among which
he could hear the ancient and invar-
iable war cry of Latin—America,
“Kill the Gringo !”

Also, he could hear Rafael and
Pedro as they entered, babbling, the
one: “He is the enemy of brotherly
love;” and the other,“He said I was
to go to hell—is not that what he
said, Ignacio?" '

_ In their hands they carried rifles,
and behind them surged the drunken
rabble, variously armed, from cut-
lasses and horse pistols to hatchets
and ‘bottles. At sight of Henry’s re—

ering his rifle unsteadily, maundered
solemnly:

“Senor Morgan, you are about to
take up your rightful abode in hell.”

But Ignacio did not wait. He ﬁr—
ed wildly and widely from his hip,
missing Henry by half the Width of
the cell and going down the next mo-
ment under~ the impact of Henry’s
bullet. The rest retreated precipi—
tately into the jail corridor, where,

,weapons into the
1160111. . »
Thanking his fortunate stars for

ing no ricochet Would get him, Henry
sheltered in amtecting agle waited
for the: explosion

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nois from 90c to 60c 1n two years
on each $100.00 valuation, and
saved the state $8, 000,000. 00.
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» soil should be thoroughly prepared,

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years, unless you have arrangements
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in the year in mest seasons When the‘

onions can be sold at a proﬁt but in
years of over production the fellow

who is not in shape to store his on--

ions is caught. It is true that carrots
and beets are valuable when you are

feeding on your own farm but the 7
lack of demand and the met of. the ‘-
handling makes it a doubtful prop—‘

osition as to raising stock carrots or
beets to sell.
say that if this is connected with the
high ‘land farm with stock to feed, it
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tically sure crop on muck, where~
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Can the owner of a farm compel own-
er of adjoining farm to build line fence
that will stop sheep? Is barbed wire a

. lawful fence if either. party Objects? How

eaily in the spring can I compel a. family
to move from my house if there has been
no agreement as to when they should va-
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such has been several times described
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dimensions designated in the law If

he builds such a fence the owner of an
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h a fence and ‘

for its. breaking thru '-

for all the damage it commits. I be-

lieve that properly built barbed wire -

fence is lawful fence regardless of 0b-
jections by adjoining oWner. A per-
son may be removed from a house as
soon as his time of occupancy expires
whatever time of vear it happens to
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Warrant prosecution. Generally
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.committee, or, if no committee is
functioning in the particular local-
ity, the facts should be presented to
the district U S. Attorney,

andum of sale, if possible, and such

to Attorney General.

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COLLECTING NOTE ON TRANS-
FERRED PROPERTY

A is owing B a note which is due next
month.,_ A being old and disabled, signs
OVer his property both real and personal
to C, a neighbor, for his care the remain-
der of his life, with the understanding
that C shall pay- all ebts accumulated
before and after the transaction. New C
refuses .to pay B’ 5 note 18 it cOllectible?
Also how can it be collected?—-~Mr. F. M,
Merrill, Mich.

If “A” transferred his property to I

“C” for the consideration stated,
which isa lawful consideration,
can be compelled to pay the note, if
“A" will not I think the usual prac-
tice would be for “B" to take judg-
ment against “A” and afterwards take
a judgment creditor’s proceedings to
reach the property transferred to “C.”
——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

THE POISON IN AMERICA’S CUP

Will you please advise me where I
can procure Philip Frances bOOk. "The
. Poison in Americas Cup?”.—-D E. 0.,
Fremont, Mich.

This book is published by the Lit-
tle Books Library, 61 Washington
Square, .New York City. Price 25
cents postpaid.——

THE RENTER’S RIGHTS

What 15‘ the law in re ards to a renter .

holding a meadow? T e renter rents
from yearrto year and has seeded a
meadow to cloVer and timothy. The fol-
lowing spring a. new renter ﬁnds that the
seeding has failed to catch, and wishes to

ow the round for corn. The old rent-
er Says t e ground belongs to him just
the same as if his seeding has caught.
and intends to crop the eld himself.
What is right and what" redress can be
had?—--W. 13., Hartford, Mich.

The renter’ s time usually expires at
the and 0f the year and he has no
right to hold longer unless spédially
V'provided in~ the lease. The new rent-

er would have the right" to plow tho.

held for corn..——W E. Brown,

legal
editor. .

 

 

 

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RY. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING. iIIt. Clemens. Michigan.

Ipoultry will be sent on request.
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” . Harsh 13 Poland Chinas. W. J; ~Hegel-v
0131-. A. IA, Mich. * -

nu”. Angus. Michigan Aberdeen-Adm
Breeder‘s? Saginaw, c.h

H lstein. An and Poland China.
Yew OIoug'h. Permafgiic h.
M11 teina. J. P. Olcott, Pm

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Ten Purelfed Holstein
Cows Against 20
Scrubs

Two neighbors, on adjoining farms
'-—-one milks 20 scrub cows—the oth-
er 1-0 purebred Holsteins. They care
for their cows in the same way; they
get almost the same amount of cream
and the same sized check from the
factory where- both sell their milk.
Though both men take in the same
amount of money, the man with the
scrubs uses the whole of his receipts
to pay. running expenses, while the
Holstein man lays aside nearly half.
Another item: The Holstein man
feeds his skim milk to purebred calv—
es; the other man feeds his to scrub
$100. 00 purebred than to raise a
$30. 00 scrub. -

Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.

295 ‘ Hudson Street
Brettieboro. Vermont

REGISTERED HOLSTEIR
FOR 'SALE
Four year E01195 granddaughter of KING 011‘ THE

D-ue May to 27 1b. bull.
' J. I... ROCHE & 80R

Pinclme - . -
I Livinssten County

MR MILK PROBUGER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER.
more PROFIT

Michigan

 

per~co
son 1 its lecrest Application Pontiac—
132652-40 m £33011,“ {yearly- {and-but;
”Mama “.1 cation Pontiao’s -dem made
aging” 2b _ “‘71“ 6313:4'3 lbs. butter
2 1. ‘ n1
. Heir one 11mthank“ test long distance sires.
”than“ I rs and RH giggled sons.
I“ or sﬁmﬁi‘i'éo hfor the average
dairy tanner.
Pedigrees end pﬂces on application.

3. Bruce McPherson, Howell. Mich.

 

 

' FOR SALE
THOROUGHBRED
HOLSTEIH GOVIS

combinin blood of Traverse City e
Maple C'rest stock, granddaughters 0
Friend HenPgelrveld De Kol Butter Boy.

ricer 3800- nd up
wuuums wnrrecne
_.e r. 9. No.4 Allegen. Mich.

 

 

 

 

wagERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
from their herd. We are well pleased with

3&Tad'ﬁm 03“.: Junior Herd. Sirei. “Kingn Pon-

g. u
31.8.1!" e 'deughtsr ofn Pon-
tie lothilde De Kc! 21111.2; A few bull selves for
IW. anmﬂ. .

ttleOreek. Mich.
Registered Holsteine, 1 young cows, A.

  
  
 

 

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Crimp, Howell. Mich:

 

 

1 King
"i 332.?" ° “ﬁ't‘fnpilah‘ﬁ
. on: m ITO
~ Priose‘rleeaneble . 1.1.31.

 

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'H. wuonlcosse. Prop.

It costs no more to raise a ‘

. Inga: (:I'redm "“8 HAPLEO CREST KO
H from F

t0 1 lb. D1111. Herd on st!“ Fed»
”as niw m. '

kitchen Hour-ems son sets. 5?,“ ..

' p" 2...... m... n e

I ‘I‘ 1 marriage 1101.31111st

We are now booking orders for,
sun: bulls from King Pieter Segis
. yobs 170508.- All from- A. R. O. dams
.. . with credible" records. W test ennu-

. gall! fer tuberculosis. W to for prion '
"es and further information.
Mullet! Bros., South Lyons. Michigan

BULL UALF Les-r snvsn'rlsso sou).
but have one more for sale. Nicel-

limarkod, straight back line. e ﬁne individue
”anti! Erthhdy fellow with the making of e largle
do someone a lot of good. Dam has

a 27' lb. record. s. large cow and a gate at

producer Sire e son of Friend Hengerveld DeKol

Butter Day. One of the great bulls
AMER HOPSON. JR.

 

 

 

I Michigan
OOIRBINATION BALE

Owosso -

 

I WILL HOLD
of registered and grade
Annie. horses end Poland China Hogs. on
AprlI 7th, at my farm, 1] miles N. W. of Jack-
son. on Jackson- Springport state road.

 

ERNOII CLOUOH. R2. Perms, Mich.

TWO BULL GALVES

Registered Holstein-Friesian. sired by 89.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap if

sold soon.
' TUBES. Eiwell. Mich.

HARRY T.
unooxsrou FARM .... s . . . . ..

HOLSTEIN BULL

Calves for sNale, sired by MARYLAND BELLE
CLOTHILDEN154358. born Dec.14, 914.
A grandson of Colanthe 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.

BROOKSTOH FARMS

Big Rapids,

Four Choice Bull Calves

Dams have records from 20 lbs to 28 lbs.
Sired by our 32 lb. son of the $50 000 Mill

LAKE SIDE DAIRY. Leke Odessa. Mich.

REG .HOLSTEIHS
HIGH GLASS BULLS ‘

Reedy for service. Prices to suit every
breeder. from $100 up.

Herd under Federal supervision. Headed
by one of the best 86 lb. sons of "King of
the Pontiacs.

Will accept a few good cows for service

 

Mich.

 

 

HILLCﬁEST FARM. Ortonvllie, Mich.
N P. HEHL ‘-
Detl‘olt. Mich, 181 Grlswold St

 

I'lATCH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI. MICHIGA)‘

Oﬂers young sites out of choice aJvanc-
ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
is Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs. butter in 7
days;: average 2 nearest dams 37. 61, 6
nearest. 33. 93, 20 nearest 27. 83.

“Breed1ng--lnd1v1dual1ty--
' Production

Thet’s our motto.
through our on
of the 8'80. 00
Less the o thcr Korn-
dyke Sadie Vale. " the greatest sire of his gen-
ra”tion. Our metrons ere stong in King of
the Pontiscs. King Segis. Hengerveld DeKoI
Omsb by blood. We've been at it since
1900. Usually some sell. Write

nos ROMAN rs nus
,Ieokson. llioh.

 

 

 

 

Folsteins. registered and

HOLSTEIRV'FRIESIAII BULL

nicelyn marked more white than black, Prise
g son of a 20.6 lb. four-year old grand-
daughter of PONTIAC KOR NDYKE
REA DY. FOR '8 ERVC

Sire. MOD EL KING SEGI-S GLIESITAR 204-
234 from a daughter of oms'r ss-
TINE. Cornell’s great 80 lb. cow.A
nearest dams average 81 lbs. end his 48
nearest testedt-o relatives average over thiru

 

pounds. ’ for particulars.
GRANDto RIVER STOCK FARMS
O. O. TWI88,. Mgr. Eaton Rapids. Mich.
FOR SALE

. . I
2 Reglstered Holstein Cows
both 4 years old. One due to freshen March
5th, the other one is milking, bred in December
to 83 1h. 0bull. Federal tested for tuberculosis.

Price $80
Also reglstered Holstein bull 1 old, light
color. price $100. 8 heifer calves 100 each. .
Wm. C. 80 HOOF. R 2. Washington. Mich.

Phone 41- F13. Washington Exchange

TWO GREAT BRED BULLS

On no a fine, beautifully marked son of KING
PONTIAC KENGERVELD FAYNE the hundred
thousand dollar son of KING OF THE PON-
I‘IACS from a 23 lb. Jr. 3 year old daughter of
a near 32 lb. Jr. 4 year old cow. whose sire
was from a 30.59 lb. cow and this heifer is just
one of the choicest heifers of the breed. Good
for 31. lbs. at next freshening. If Interested write
for extended pedigree and price. Guaranteed
right. The other a son of the above sire out of

20 Jr. 2 year old granddaughter of KING

 

KORNDYKE SADIE ALE. Where can you
get better breeding?
JAMES B. GARGETT. Elm Hail, Mich.

 

  

 

 

"Hiking Shot-thorns. Registered females
and up. Bull calves at $100. Cows all hand
m1.1ked ROY 8. FINCH. Fife Lake. Mlch.
HEREFORDS

 

HMEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS '

Having used Bob Fairfax 494027 (son of
Richard gFairfax) for 3 years, I now offer him'
for sale. Also stock of either sex, any age. Come
and look them over.

Earl C. McCarty, Rad Axe. Huron Co., Mich.

 

120 HEREFORD 81111138.“.
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy unlit!
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 hto ”10110 Olbl.
Owners anxious to sell. Will 1:1in .
commission. C. F, Bail. Fairiled, owl.

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

E. J. TAYLOR. Owner
Fremont, Mich.

Individually good and breeding unsurpassed.
0 females for sale at present, but am offering
two exceptionally good bull calves by COLLEGE
DEAD 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.

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD

We still have eight good bulls and some heif-
ers for sale.

Come sand see them
TONY CREEK STOCK FARM
Pewamo. Mlch.

 

 

For Sale, 3011) Bull Born, Jan., 1918

We have bred all our heifers with him as we
are using a 38-lb. son of Rag Apple Korndyke
on the cows. We are offering him for $600 and
guarantee him right in every way or your money
refunded. Send for pedigree.

BAILEY STOCK FARM. YPSILANTI.

Address all correspondence to

JOHN BAILEY
319 Atkinson Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

HOLSTEIHS

FOR SALE
Nine head of cows and heifers, high pro-
ducers and registered.
For particulars address
CLARK HILL and EARL
Clio. Mich.

MICK.

 

 

THORNE

 

 

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

 

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

 

'HORTHORNS AND POLAND CHINAS FOR
sale. Registered cows, heifers, bull calves, bred
sows and fall pigs, either sex. The farmers’ kind

F.M .PIGGOTT & SON
Phone ,

‘at farmers' prices

Union Fowler. Mich.

 

8 SHORTHORN BULLS. 11 MONTHS TO 2

yrs. 50 Young Tom I‘urkeys 20 lbs. up, out of
Antrim's King a 45- lb Tom, at $10 one
JAY w. THUMM. Elmira, Mich.

 

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

 

 

BULLS NICELLI'3AEH§:OZ.LO£03 BONED

teetedde dame. at reasonable ' “6 un-
rnaov r.. ORANDALL.

Howell, Mich.

A Beautiful. Light Colored, Very

Straight Bull Calf, Born October 24.
e71b.Jr.2.old ughtef

son of FONT TIAO DE NInJLANDEBu‘ 35. 4'30“:
butter and 750 lbs. -milk in 7 days.
Sir ed yFLINT HENGERVELD”. LAD whose
twon eereet dams evened:1m 32. 88 lbs. butter and

. 73515 lbs. milk

60.100 EO B.
L. C. KngLERMFIInt. Mich.

 

LAST ADVERTISED SOLD TO
F. W. Alexander. Vassar.
mulch . N once a ll two

ow
1-2 white and etrsi'ghtr es s

NDY YKE

.OE‘IIII‘ILO: “:0 d d ILJ'I'T' "FL-INT-
un one s

PRIIICE. Bull is: 76 or cent

bloodee IND FLINT. If gnu went :em'e

rest descendant of BUTTER BOY R081 INA
new is your obsnoe.

PI‘IOO OROO.
ROY '- FIOKIID. Chianlnl. MlﬂhI'

 

 

    
 

in... of iingortanthoogtiheru of
.r n
Field Men of Rich

 

 
 
  

 
 
  

 

 

HE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch rep and Milking
Shorthorns listed. Address
w. L. Thorpe, Seo.. Nliio. Mich.

SPECIAL OFFER SHORTHOBNS—
Cows, $260. 00 to $300. 00. Bulls, $200. 00
to 8250. 00. Wm J. Bell. Rose City. Mich.

HUROHA STOOK FARM

Over ﬁfty head of Scotch and Scotch Topped
Shorthorns. Amoﬂering several good bulls, cows
and tIlilcifers. Beans. Reds and Whites. Write or

em.
see 8. H. PANOBORN. Bad Axe. Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—SHORTHORN

BULL CALVEI
wready for service. Also young Oxford Down
wes. Prices to sell.

JOE MURRAY G SON. R2. Brown Cl". Mich.

SHORTHORH

Bull. Master Model 57014 many states at
head of]: erd of 50rd otd ypeShorthor me.
E. M. PARKHURST, Reed City. Michigan.

Eon SALE c"! Bred Chou-thorn bull self

 

FOR SALE AT BEA-
eonable grins. The
riseowing ng Scotch

 

 

froms heavy producing dam.
W. 8. HUBER. Oladwln, Mich.

LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN .. ' I.

no N. 8““ COCO-eeoeooeeeeeeeeeeeleseeeelso eeeeeee use-sec ttl. ’nd Shoo,
IO“: Wm .eeeo'neeeeeeeeeeeeeeoeeeese-est:seseeeeeeoeeenorsel Blld 3'“.

the above well-known experts 'wiii visit all live-stock
Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana. as the exclusive
igan Business Fermi 11g. - _
They are’ both honest and competent men or standing in their lines in
11d thywili regresent any reader at this weekly at any sale.
them in care of this paper.Their service is ‘1'!
warrants 7°13?
{OWN live-stock Weekly I

use. eto. may work «do: ﬁesta:

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_ LOOK run our LARGE 1n

" ,1 onzssar:

 

ANGUS

LONGEVITY OF
ABERDEEN-ANGUS

Old Granny lived to be 88
years old and produced 25
calves. There are many cows
"old enough to vote” that
are producing Aberdeen- An-
gus calves today. A. 4
year-old registered Aberdeen-
Angus cow recently sold for
$4, 000 with calf at side. Ab-
erdeen- Angus excel at lon-
gevity and ability to reproduce many
Write for “History of Aberdeen-Angus."

 

times:

AMERICAN ABERDEEN-ANGUS
BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION

811 M. 8. Exchange Ave., Chicago

 

111 NEXT WEEKS M B F

announcing the

181‘. ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE
of the

MIOHIGAH ABERDEEH’AHGUS
BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

at Saginaw, March 26,1920
Write for catalog to

WARD HATHAWAY, Sec’y
Ovid, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

The Most Proﬁtable Kind

load of reds dairy heifers
from LENAWEEt COUNTY'S. heaviest milk pr0<
duoers to include :1. pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming.

Ger lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prompt shipment.

Methods eXDlained in SMITH‘ 8 PROF'II‘ABLI
STOCK GFEEDI ING. 400 pages illustrated.

GEO. B. 8MITH. Addison. Mich.

BARTLETT’SPURE BRED ABERDEEN-

ANOUB CATTLE AND O.|.C.

Swine ere ri ht. end ere priced right.

spondence so cited and inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

GUERNSEYS
GUERNSETS‘WE an: orrsnmo FOR

sale some splendid bull cslv.
out of A. R. dams with records up to 500 lbs.
fat. Our herd sire, a grandson of Dolly 6Dimplee
May King of Langwater, and whose dam has an
A. R. record of 548 lbs. fat at 2 1-2 years Is
also for sale or exchange. Write for particulars
and prices to

MORGAN BROS.. R No 1. Allegsn, Mich.

THREE BULL GALVES

Registered Guernseys. sired by PENCOYD PAT-
RIOT whose nearest dams average 678 lbs.
fat. Bred to improve your herd, and offered roe.-
naiﬂe. Guaranteed free from disease

WF. 8. MYERS A CON. Grand Bisnc, Him.

of farming, a

 

 

 

 

Registered Guernsey's For Sale
1151111 ,horn Nov. 6. 1919.
lbnll. 17 months old.
1 cow. bornc Jan. 11. 1918.
17-8 grade cow. 4 yrs. old Apr . due Apr. 22.
HERBERT L. RUSSELL. Owotse. Mich., R2

ousnnssv euu. oneunsou
y. of the Chene from A. I:
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' W-ri for
, ”a

%G other bulls from 2 to 91 mos.
I

111111
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was. other new BROWN "x. .
sown «man. 111. lellsll'e. 111.11.

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PURE IREgﬂ’IIROWSN eggsguu
93%. :02 ﬁre. Kins Mord No. 2210.111-
Enema.“ Brsvurs 2nd. World' Champion
M “Owl-“govt. Will xive registra-
' roe-r. cm. “n e
'm 6! Brown ‘wiesc
g:
AYRSHIRES

 

II OVERLOOKED
OPPORTUNITY

is olered right here for some Mich-
lgen Ayrshire breeder to get his ot-
tering before 7 0000 Michigan busi-
ness farmers.

Some one is going to grab this op-
portunity and send along is little ad
that will pay him handsomely.

AiiE Yiiii TiiE OIE?

 

the ma ”"3

BII‘AITTY'S‘. cm by ORANGE BUD, him
' 11 son-non

my in.“ J. cLanKE.
LAROE TYPI'MAIO ONINA HOBO. BOAR

swing renew. mums-us

Cochran. Write for “We“ wh_sn

"lien 0. won. Avosa. Rich.
I. T P c a raw spams loans 1.er A'r
. mess.

FARMERS’P
H. O. IWAIIT-l. Grimm IIcIl.

O. 0 FOR MARCH AND
“Bin TYP P o.Anpril 'ishirwtys Iarrow. Fill Dill.
o a batter

rtewri
.li. aeolian. er. Leela. raves.
son seas

 

 

 

 

     

, . ROE TYPE, P. O.’ ‘ .
A Jew onus-am dilator sis. Abelsll
andboars. some very mgﬁrg-emeetssofe »

_ BIG ORPEAN'S EQUAL BIG

‘ "Y “.9bggiﬁ wuss. 31.3““

   

 

 

misses". w

Registered Berkshires

torJunsferrow. Also
laurel-i “tesowdus

 

 

”m3 WHI'I'IH FEW HAY ”All.

”stall-pairs truss-nest
El. unofflusenﬂ. M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

ms mme>Big Bob Mastodon

“II P G BREEgDEﬂ 'F YOU WANT TO GET

in the King row buy a
Gilt bred to BIG BOB MASTODON

He has more Grand Champion Blood in his
veins than any other boar in Michigan.

I have 15 choice Gilli bred to him for March
and April Iarrow.

. ".11

 

 

 

Fell pigs of either sex.

 

O. E. OARNANT. Eaton Rapids, Mich.
POLAND CHINA OIL 8.
BIG TYPE by BIG BONE 4th. grad taoniiEIg

LONG BOB for May farrow.
MOBE BROS..
Mich.

 

PEAOR HILL FARM Ouroo sows end slits sired
i d
13".... 5.1.211 m» .31“ ems. ii? 1.11:
IN IIYIWOOD BROS" Romeo, Mich.
BEBSOLES BIS TYPE IiliiiiiGSm
sale. Are booking orders for spring MKI- W0
solicit lnspecti
BiiEil SDYIS SERVICE BOAIIS
$25 EITHER SEX
We deliver the bags before you

by Proud Principal, Romeo Cherry Kins Brook-
Orion King and Rajah Cherry Col.
Eyearling, spring and tall beers and silt-6 for
ALBERT EBERSOLE. R3, Plymouth, Mich.
Booking, orders for weanling spring pin
pya
IRA BLANK Potter-ville.

Mich.

 

IL . Charles
m 1", P. O.—OLOOINO OUT OUR
boars at a wbargain. Choice sows
for March and April i’srro
L. w. BARNES a CON
Byron. Mich.

 

.6 TH ANNUAL P. c. BRED 80W SALE.
March 13,1920. For particulars write
W. J. HAOELSHAW. Augusta, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE

WALNUT ALLEY...“ .u .01.

Here a few good gilts that i will sell open or
fredm to one of the best bears in Michigan. Write
or prh:

A. I). GREGORY, ionis, Mich.

us: Sell L. T. P. c. elite, bred for Mar. and
Apr. iarrow. Bargain if taken at once. -
H. M. JEFFRIIS. 81.. Louis. Mich.
L T P 0 NOV. PIGS AT A BARGAIN PRICE.
. Come and see or to
ELDRED A. OLARK. R 8,. 8t. Louis, Mich.

 

 

 

in TV?! P. O. BREO OILTB AND FALL
ye'srlings including prize winners Out of
1 100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from Iowa's
greatest he
E. J. MATHEWBON. Burr Oak, Mich.

BIG TYPE "#:5339323”?
sass sows ron 8ALE

 

 

selersneo ONIOTII‘ warn no son:
Large Type Rl C' H085 “sale at prices that will interut you. liﬂser
'.' in! spring ts, . see. today. . . ~
“Elissa 303°." ﬂn'mbm I‘boarsas Cﬁlnsman's I‘M-PH OOOINO. l-ONHDI. Mich.
i2...” H‘sm'ﬁ“éiﬁﬁ°ﬁm 4*
‘iv'. ammi'i‘n’soai‘r. f’ . reassures
“‘ :1. s seen venue-1111: mun. cu . .
DUBOC . 1LA.0.brsd‘atcck. so ”15“".

a. n. asses e eon. n1. Lansing. Mich.
T HAMPSHIRES
HAMPSHIBES

This add will save you from $10 to $20 on
the purchase price of every bred sow or gilt 01th
prominent blood line. Ared to good beer:
for Mar. and Apr. litters. Afew fall pigs left
of 1'1“!" '53; These are all good and well arown.

BUB THOMAS. New Latin-on. Mich.

 

 

 

BRED OIL'I'S ALL SOLD
ONE ”RING BOAR LEFT
FALL PIGS FOR .ALE

 

__W. A. EASTWOOD. Chaser-Ins. Mich.
BRIO OOWO AND BOARB
sale. also fall pigs of

HAHI'SHIIIES for
Call or write

Best of b
RAYMOND SKINNER A DON. Henderson. IM-

. iiAIIPSiiiIi

 

IRED OIL'I’B NOW READY

 

 

 

ORANOCONS OF IROOK-

Dune“ JERSEY enter Cherry King or

Panama Special. 320 at
E. E. OALKINS. Aimu Amer

DUROC BOARS PM“ PM”

WINNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. .Srnith. Addi-
son. ch

assoc Hrs-.33

son A Blank.

 

 

AND IROOD BOWO

Hill rattan bred e'r open. m-

rms. POP? on a
«3.311.... anfm '

 

Firm 4
MEADOWVIEW FARM. REG. OUROO JERSEY
hoes. up!“ for sale.
J. E. MORRIS. Farmincton. Mich.

FOR; BALE—REGISTERED DUROO JERSEY
Beethsx. Alleges. RhodelslandBed

 

 

Barred 9‘Rock and White Leghorn. cockerels. 40a.
BOAR. ALL GONE
.1. 1-:. uvonsurs. St. Johns. Mich. "'4 8%,“'ﬁ ﬂaﬂ&”“ Wheeler Mich.
Am Mel-ins Large Type Poland Chine Bows, breed -

inbred to smgrs e cailt reasonable piroea. Also BIIIIUG BIIEII GILTS ghgkizdiﬂdli‘ng. “113%

p1gs.

own! man. as. 9.. Louis» men. '°' strewnwmmm We?“
L T F c 4“ OFFERING 31’3"") seen sows enn alt-rs

boars. summer and tall pigs.
F. '1‘. HART. St. Louis. Duels.

B. T. P. .O. BREO OILTB SIRED BY MODW'B
{jig Jones 3rd. out of Grand Daughters of Dish-
er’s Giant end bred to Wiley's King Bob, a ood
son of Harrison's Big Bob 810,100 boar. lite
priced reasonable.

JOHN O. WILEY. Schoolcren. Mich.

 

BOARS ALSO sows AND PIGS.
you want. Poknd Chinese

“e have bred them his (01' more
over 100 h bend. Also

ANYTHING

2‘me

cure
JOHN c. BUTLER. 'Portland. ”loll.

DUBOG JERSEY A...“ .m. May

ierrow.
Biredor bredtomy 1..000lb herdbosr.
J08. ”MUELLER. Woldman. Mich.

DUROO DRE!) sows AND OILT8 SIRED DY
Orion Cher King Col. 2nd. Aﬁrst0° aged boar at

 

Detroit in 19 9. and bredto l. oi Sanso-

me. He is an intensely Col. bred beer and the

001's m‘vaerew ne‘vfr morehpopuler than new. Priced
W. O. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

$12 50 FOR A DUROO SPRING Pie. 0

- weeks old .either sex, A. O.-

Broobwater breeding. papers free. Express

charges paid. Booking or ers
D. W. SUTHERLAND. Grand "Ledge. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA

tried sows and gilts bred to MICHIGAN DUSTER
BIG DesMOINES 5TH 1303— O—LINK or WON.
DER BI‘STFR i‘aii Desi

0. L. WRIGHT. Jonssville. Mich.

 

THE OLD FASHION
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA H008
OlLTS—JRED

HOIO E
“OWL-459 1.031 00

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APLE LAWN FARM REG. OUROO JERSEY
Swine. Order your spring Piss now. Pairs

end tries not a
VERN N. TOWNS. RB. Eaten Rapids. Mich.
ODE To FAB-
Bred to

FOII 3A :51? M'sorcuiisind April.
mars-armors ORION me.

O. E. DAVIS A SON, AIM". Mich.

'lm OFFER A law “With-Ollie OIL!“-
she bred sows all

 

 

 

cJ. I. WILLIAI8.
Adams. Mich.

333...?“ m e mroiiom. as. Lenin. may.

 

 

 

7 Swiss sills and Iall‘ yearnnss bred for

3 \ my’,w:g.nd to no.

0.1. c. sows FOR'SAIJE

as. or res ass-r HERO. IN MIOIIIOAN
bril and were 1 o. 0.11..
e motion sew. granted m'ii

March
11 buyer's name. nmwent

  

   
  

  
 

ND IHIP. FALL PICS
ounces gag-Hm" . .m............" ..
pm H. mm“ Mich JOHN W. SNYDER. It. Johns. Mich R4.
nvnoo BOARS or sm,’qvhmrr 0_ I. a
and breeding, including several State
Fair winners. Newton Barnhart. 3‘- I. O.’ ‘0 choice Ired Ollie. 2 extra line Servhe
Johns, Mich. boars. llioce Sept. pigs. either sex or pure.
. OLOVECRLEAF FAR. I“. Monroe, Mich.
Dunne INED :IIETGb FOﬁMAtPRg.“ '3“. 6
row, re y y en G! O. I. .
Dams Col. f“breeding, ood quality. weighing 225 “GINA“ VALLEY IIEIIII 5;”. won at.
lbsuoriiot bt' prl cs :65, while they last. bred O. “m
0 on OAT.
11. o. KEESLER, Oessopolls. mm... H s 9...; “n 3"" ’og"“" hing ﬁdmﬁi

‘ of Registered Durham Cows, Heif-

l'lssy, March 1911: .1 .,

 

 

 

 

 

 

stock 0. D.
JOHN OIIOON. PM Mich" R. No. 2.

I. O. on.” WIIONINO 200 to m L...
in breeding ﬂesh Medic ranch. “Arm and

Hey Isrrow. Guaranteed nIa

«Messy pro roving yoursstldectio n~

orbrefubn: rpurehesz‘m in Have a 4:: 0e-
sr pigs or spring service

as: to sell onus cholera m

priced ﬁlmed Ivy
doublep treatment]: am. as, Mabel. lien.

 

‘ ‘ ' ’ - O. I. O.'s

A few been at Isa. Now beeﬁng
orders ior to he s t 111

>. W martin! mete hipped a wee ax
OLARE V. DON-AN. “var. Mich.

O. I. O. SWINE—MY NERO OONTAINB THE
blood lineso the most noted he Gan furnish
you at “live and let live ’priees.

A. J. OOROEN. Ocrr. Mich” R 8.
Fan SALE 0. I. O. BREO OILTS FOR APRIL
(arrow, Bred to Bartlett's

Choice No. 356 ers name.

 

 

    

 

   
   
 

 

 

 

list breeders.
TYLER. My- 10 manna av...

.PBN’OHRO xﬂﬁn mess-roe

use
“nonhuman
Wu 1 m1.-
“ 11mins

 

atlvaoi’
Mmansmsnuqua-us.

‘ l OAIIOT OIL]. NO Alf-Y MORE
I win“. M“ M 1" m 3;
can er very

ms 1 ”133%.
"H931? not more the; perches

ty nieo ewe hmbs for 8850.
ROPE-NON FARMS. Oeldwater. Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

verytbi’ng so out. and
' to “Strollers 209” an
\ I are breeding :00 ewes b ‘

nod UP.
weighedt 17 lbs. October 1. Rooﬁng" orders
Ior 1920 rams.

OLARK II. HAIRE. West Branch. I”.

PET STOCK

F SALEA Shetland Pony, born May 25. 191 9.
051111111 3. sunk?“ ii“? 3.12%“. 131%..
B

ELBIAN HARES. OI‘IOIAOEo STOCK. rsl/‘AND O
for prices. Sheridan Rabbitry. 011m 5. Sheridan. men.

 

   

 

months old . no.8 0. Write

 

Fon SAL Flemish Giant Rabbits that If.
giants. old and young. in blacks.
steel gray: and natural guys. sality manned.
. .' HIMEBAUOH
Goldwater. Mich.

 

OUNO Fox ROUNOO. WALKER OTRAIN.
Every one registered and guaranteed.

 

E. W. GILL, Clarion. Mich. .0
M. N. BIRO. BREEDEA OF I" ll OLA...
P Flemish Giant Rabbits. lack, steel
gray and natural gray. Write for what you went.

Prices reasonable. -
M BIRD.

HORSES

ONE IRON GRAY 5 YEAR OLOD
Percheron stallion.

Fiiii SALE Prince
t x"was“; U41581 a blacoh

use». and by 311111.11 rs or
"issue. Price 8300.
.sum.

mend iohi once for
2Perci1erons for Sale—~21 Head

Bevier 180757 at head of herd. A horse car-
ryingth blood of In

H. R 6. Lansing, Mich.

 

   

 

 

' bone (six wee

hi
OHAS. OBGOOD A SONG, Mormon, Mich.

BELEIAIS

We are forced to sell our entire herd within
thirty days. 8 imported mares. 5 young mares and
2 young stallions 3 ands years old. his is an
extra good lot and must be sold regardless of price.
.LEONARO. Caledonia. Mich.

Fﬂii SALE 0B TRADE

1W0 IMPORTED “STALLIONO
a Percheron and e 8 years old.
Reason for selling. colts in, the way. For para

 

 

 

4.9 W:5 ”km: in buy
WILL IHRISOINSKE. imiey Oily. Mich. ‘

ticnhrs a dressd
W. J. MDOARTHY A SONG. Ail. Midl.

 

 

 

 

gummy“
, PERCHERON

DRAFT STALLIONS
With Size and Outfit!

rses.
on a breeding plan. ‘ your 1 11
needs a good draft stallion. let Judi
from you.

FRED S STEVENS

Breckenridge. Mich.

 

 

 

OLAIM YOUR CALI DAT. I

_ If you are lennlns en a sale this spring, write
us new and LAIM THE DATE ,

This service Is free. ,
LIT ”sue-lune FANG" OLAII YOUR
OA‘I'I I i .

GREAT AUGTIIIH SALE

 

era. Celves,B
Just east 0! may Village. Fri.

 

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some ”7 concentrates

  
  
 

em and in I thrifty condition.

 

andsoldinth‘etallas

    
   
 

may/be
winter and attained the next year.

memwuemu

When roads are high in price the
use? of cheap rations is especially de-
'Ii1‘ab‘le tor. the maintenance of the
.bmding herd. Cows raised for the
prodctionotcalves onlycanbeifed
, , ;’ ly on silage and dry rougr-

ages entwined with a small quantity

of protein-rich concentrates. By the
asset leguminous muslin“: the pro-
, teiagich‘ concentrate may be omitted.
Dual—purpose cows kept for dairy
products as well as calves should re-

   
  
   
  
 

 

ceive‘ feeds nearly identical with those .

' for dairy cows. for best results. Con-
« . Q elder-able quantities, oi concentrates
f. ; must be used it the cows are to pro-
duce the maximum of dairy products.
The cost at the feeds in the ration
, should be considered and home-grown
. feeds utilised whenever possible.
Cows that are milked should receive 1
pound of concentrate for every 3 to 4
pounds oi milk produced, depending
upon the fat content of the milk.
This is the customary grain allowance

. and is satisfactory. a
The purchase oi! feeds is not to be
5-» discouraged but should be reduced to
x. . I minimum, A successful cattle rain-
er must grow the necessary roughages

- and not rely upon‘ their purchase.

During the summer month; the cow
herd should bemaintained largely on
’ ' .- , pasture.“ Should the pastures become
' ' ' very short a supplemental teed should
he pmvided; This can best be sup-
plied _by silage if availuable; other-
wise forage crops, or even hay, may
-take its place. In the tall the cows
may be maintained an meadows and
aftermath, and late;- in the fall on
stalk fields in regions where a con-
siderable part of the corn crap is not

cut or used tor silage.

..For the reader's convenlaice in
working out winter rations fer breed-
ing. cowI in‘various sections of the
country the United States has been di-
vided into. several: sections, viz., Far
West or“ chest, Western Range, South-
western, the Corn Belt, 'East, and
Southeast, and a few general rations

_ prepared for each. These rations are
only suggested and must be varied ac-
cording to local conditions

9. The rations suggested are per thou-,

sand pounds of live weight and are
only for beef cows in calf. Cows that
are producing milk should have con-
siderably more concentrates for best

  
    
  
 

 

 

. ﬂ . , results.
‘35-: ’ _ Ration 1.
Pounds.
Corn silage _____________________ 35
Corn stover ____________________ 10
Cottonseed meal or oil meal ______ .1
. Ration 2
Alfalfa or clover ________________ 1’0
{f Cornestover or straw ,_ __________ 15
5% Ration 3.
"#2,: I Corn silage ______________________ 40-
Straw . ___________________________ 5,
Oil meal or gluten feed ______ it
_ ‘ "Ration 4. 1
Corn silage 35
.3 Clover hay 19

 

  

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Rationl

. , Pounds.
. Corn or sorghum silage ____..._1.,.-15
Atlanta. :clorer soy been or cow-
pea hay --__ _.,__..____.____..__,_,_. 4

  
  
 
  
 

 

1-15

- 7,11,- _ .;
mto keep "the“ ctlvel ;

. Who rmounutwnthsiol-u‘
'1 I _ 51‘ . men, recently completed her years
\ (end 111 .- tattened out the allowing”
wentereslongyearlinu. _iiitisde-H
sired tp'keep them longer, the cattle
‘freughed” through a second

 

 

 

’ . Corn or sorghum silage _________ 15

 

{IWJerseymaF‘ineRecOI-d

‘ HIiesty's‘ Iris “5701, owned by
Mr. Edwin 8. George, of Pontiac,

authenticated test. as I seven year
old, with 17,461.? lbs. of milk, 356.87

'lbs'. of fat, equivalent to 1,171. 3 lbs.

of 85 per cent butter, to her credit.
Her average tat per contage for the
year was 5.47. She holds two pre-
vious records, one as a three year
old of 589.2 lbs. of tatirom 11,250.!
lbs. otmilk and the other as a tour
year old of 8'78. 97 lbs. fat from 12,-
905 lbs. 0.! milk. Iris is the second
highest Jersey ever tested in Mich-
igan. She is the ninth highest fat
producer and the'tenth highest milk
prbducer oi the breed. She is a
daughter of Royal Majesty, one of
the many noted Jersey sires.

HOG SITUATION FOR 1920 LOOKS
DISCOURAGING TO FARMER

. ' E-ditor,.M.'B. F. In reply to Mr.
G. I. Christie's statement re-
garding the hog situation and farm
products for 1920, will say this: Just
tell him that the farmers of Michigan
have listened to that kind of hot air
until they, are getting about tired or
it. There is not a man feeding hogs
this winter that is going to any more
than play even. I know of two men
who went to Chicago last fall and
bought a carload of cattle each. One
of them has already shipped his and

got returns and he lost just $2, 000. I_

was talking with the other man not
long ago, and he told m. that he was
looking for hishcattle to lose him
about $60 per head. Now just ask Mr.
Christie if he can give any reason
why these men lost so heavily. 1 will
ltell you my opinion as to why they
eat

Last fall they went over to Chicago,
swallowed a lot of that hot air they
have there: bought these cattle for
12 and 13 cents; shipped them about
three or four hundmd miles; put them
in and fed them this $60 to $80 a ton
grain and $30 per ton :hay; then had
to ship them back and take almost
the same money they paid for them
last fall. New here are two men I
know of who were trying to help the
nation out with its low production
of food stuff, and what premium have

they got for it? They got what Pad-‘

dy shot at.

Now, with the farmer facing a sit-
uation of this kind, I think the farm-
ers of Michigan would like to see Mr.
Christie’s ﬁgures, showing them ' just

.Where the great fortune in the 1920

hog crop is going to be. I will admit
thathogs will be a. good price along in
June and July, but where will hogs be
then, Mr. Christie? They will be just
where they were the July after the
armistice; was signed, in the. packers’
hands. Then next September when
the farmer gets ready to put the
spring crop of hogs on the market,
you have not told us what price to
expect. I think: if you were going to
try to tell us,,and tell us the truth,
you would say. around 12 or 13 cents
for you would not want to hurt our
fellings telling us we should have 20
cents—S. E. Watch, Melvin, Mich.

 

Boys’ and ‘Girls’

Sheep Clubs.

You hustlers start right now rais-
ing pure bred registered sheep.
clubs have done it for ’lots of boys
and girls and their dear mothers
too. You have choice of several
breeds and won’t have to borrow
from dad or any one or run any risk.

Write today. hill: act for Particularl'

and "Nature and care at Sheep. ”

 
  

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001311 or sorghum ell-so --_-_..--_ 151
names or pertains hay _____ 10
Velvet beans in pod _-_-_--_-_.___ . 4
Button 5. '

 

 

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DAY OLD CHICKS

 

 

 

 

 

‘ Years I Inocu- oi sliver Leo-d and Willis
. Wrndottes. Fine lot of ye stock It 88 34
“WMVMbﬂn-hn sand. museum-owning. ,Portlsud,“
‘l'lweo »
1:.ng I, M m u“ &_ {mam Lor or "Sings”. serum wmrs
m. V n “#2 Whlm m mm «on. uunasv. emu-II. mos.
"m" We! «the Action turn! calm _-—-— J
WWO. Blown Indians- —
, White W r...

w. solicit mm... m mum 0. K. CHICKEN HATCHERY

your
ﬁrm Dbl 0! PIN and Poultry Willi“. DAY MOLD omens
O‘I'A‘I'I FARM. mil?” White.”
luck I. Km. men ‘ gimm ”W

cwm— MILLER moons: so colon. e11, 100 was.

run am ovum owes a ”15m“ l°'“‘"‘“'""- Ms: W m.

Ill! CHICKS ”mm—g'ﬁ'lit.m s

 

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warn “mail-Ya a. mmorru
Issue seen any!” as I soon

em use
a. mo. Iues limo

1'. 0. WI!
sees 00.. Ilwllnl. nggoﬂl. Incense

 

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I
Puum It“ 0. 6
WHITE WVAIDOTTI. DIR“. ”0“ A".
. wmrii. Leemus
Pig“ hicks. m Mull

ll' m m ' '

Frazer 'lllller, Prop. '5'.” "threats. Dish. 0 com m 0M" m

Wye-intone. Tyren'o Poultry Farm, Fasten.“
“uni. IAFILY IVIIVWHIII IV HAIL
A. 0. White Labor" and l. 0. WA.-
com; the great on me strong, sturdy

now

 

 

ORPthGTONS AND LECHORNS

Twosns tbneds for proﬁt.
free catalogue oi hatching cuss. babyehleh “Wm
breeding stock.

 

CYCLE HATOHER COMPANY. 14. PM“ Ill'. Order
Elmira. N. Y. larch and delivery. venth season. M
DRIKE.. Anoonla' .u" "‘OLLA'D HAWHIRY. "I HMO“. list.

GOOKIRILB,

barre‘gl, giumMan, Silvar kPenciled .11. White
Plymo uen rs es. price. cut.
SHERIDAN POULT V '08.. ll. Obi-Ian. ﬂleh

 

CHICKS AID E6681. "’“ ‘"‘ "2”°n.,...°""
Plymouth Rocks. Superior colorI Proliﬁc lays-
Prepaid by parcel post Ind sate delivery guar-

anteed. Illustrated catIlos
INTIILAKEI PAR“. '01 4. LAWN. Ml.-

 

F0“ S‘LE MAMMOTH BRONZI TURKEVO.
Toulouse Whit Path

ducks either sex. 34 each at once. Old du

weigh 10 ands.

‘ CHASE” STOCK FARM. Mariette, llloh.

 

Martin's Strain White Wyandottes. Heavy layl
xhibition Ind utilitym stock. Baby chicks 3::
Mhundre Hatching as. $8

 

 

me :20”: mt 0 me II).
P
PLYMOUTH ROCKS I" o. w. “Emaﬂntmﬂerd a: “' rdor only

LIOI'I

 

 

GHOIOE IAIRED HOOK OOOKIRELS AID
Pullets bred from Detroit and Boston winners.

laying strain. Prices reasonable. satisﬁe-
tion suntan

nteed.
TOLLEB BROS" R 10. St. Johns. Mich.

BABY OHIOKBI Pure bred White Leghom

Brown momm 817 8:5 100,AnooIIs, 81!
live arrival ”In-ram hand. or now. of all
breeds. Fro-«tales. TRIANGLE. Ohms,

50.0 In so
BABY CHICKSB °° nxmh’uoi «333‘.

Booking orders new It 200 each.
Beeehmont Poultry Farm. cranes". ind. ., In 1.

HATOHING EGGS
FOR SALE “1:33. Imusof sneak

Reds. Pen No. 1 has In ofFiring 1 E5:
inrcoekand matedtoIIuperb bunohoi 3:“
Pens Nos. 2 and 8 headed by two wond-

erelI Ind mated to c uIlly good gallon, Ilso s

 

 

BARRED BOOK OOOKERELS. DIED FROM

great layers.
W. _e. OOFFMAN. Benton. Harbor. Ailoh., R I

 

 

OHI'S IIO IIAUTIFIII. IAIIID HOOK.
are hen hatched. good layers Km I014

on approval. Males $4 to 33 each. ”Photos.

Circulars—John Northon. Clare, Mich.

 

 

Barred nook cookerels from Truncated stats

 

P rtrid ﬂock rices utility ﬂock that is h clue. et our a.
3 I53 mumsC «3.11%: B. 1""ng “l “d 0" a: mu went! for th- 00 sigmo-
II ntood.
"in Hill. a SON. Unison. Mich.

 

PURE IRE!) BARRED ROCKS. GOOD LAY-
ere. That narrow, straight I barring.
Score cards on hens and pullets toD4 twig:

Am In old timer in the bu
incA $2. 50 per 115. Satisfaction gusts nteed.
A. D. STEOKLB. Freeport. Allah” Box 110

"IT! WYANDOTTES; nee FOR “ATOM-
lng from selected layers. 82 per 15, prepaid.
Pouch 810 to
Alli DILOIIO, R8, Three RlveI-I. Itch.

 

O. as. Leonor-n elm. $1.50 per mooning. Polls
duck $1. 50 lot 8. 40¢ each.
sins. OLAUDIA sun's. Hllhdeie. Ilob.

EMBED BGGKS ﬁ$ﬂm¥9§$ 13:"

LEGHORN

0. White Leghorn Hatching Eggs, $2 for ut-
ting, $5 (or 50; $9 for 100. Day old chicks.
310 per 60. $18 per 100,

 

 

 

 

 

.Altenbern. Allen-n. ii
layins strain. 32 per 16.136 1' 45 by pre
, parcel path-”11M. t Iansing, Mich.
O. DUFF LEGHORﬂs, BABY CHICKS, £00.
for hatching Hens, Cookerels. Farm raised. mom sIe ssnnso noose, Inn
Ylns strain. 8 ER . ll £668 to lay. $1 50 setting.
J “'5 31' - 5"" “'- ’ MR8. TIIos. FOSTER. 0mm. lleh., m
I III Whit. MIMI“ 23°-
OHIGKS—EGGS 235m runrNEero'su-un B""‘.:°°,:m 3:25:35“ "£323 210:1:
of winter layers. Real otmakers. SItisiIctiou very heavy lanyi 11.: ”.2 .10“ 1.00
mauled. “datum?" 1‘35"“ P‘m- Grabill, 1“- cHIs . II. wmeuv. vscIllu'm. Mich, sex In:

 

---poultry breeders!

Start your advertising NOW. whether
you have anything to sell right now
or not, get your advertising in these
pages

| WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY

Write MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Breeders’ Directory,
Mt. Clemens,

torspbcinlrateeorbettcrsdﬂsend
copy. we will put it in type and quote
yonior18,2dor52ﬂmes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

cLAY, ROBINSON & Co.

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

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