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‘ tall at from sixteen to eighteen Cent's
a pound and other foods are in pro-
portion, the Hen. Edvard Theodore,
Premier of Queensland, Australia,
told a representative of the National
Board of Farm organizations a ’few
days ago. Mr. Theodare said these
moderate prices were made possible
by the elimination of the speculative
middleman which has been accom-
plished in the State of Queensland.

Proﬂteering in 'foodstuits is not en-
tirely unknown in Queensland, Mr.
Theodore said, but the government
has found and applied a remedy. The
remedy is simple, effective and com-
plete, the youthful premier‘declared.
If the food proﬁteer refuses to desist
.from his practice the government
doesn't put him in jail; it simply en-
ters into competition withhim, thus
forcing him to trade on reasonable
terms.

“I notice,” said Mr. Theodore,
“that beat sugar growers in the
United States are complaining that
while they are getting four cents a
pound for the sugar in their beets.

_' UGAR is soldin. Australia, and :in H ‘
v ‘ abundance, at eight cents - per
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the Speculators are. selling-the pro-

' duct at prices. reaching as high as
thirty cents a pound. A Situation of
tnis kind in Australia would be im—
possible. It 'is made impossible be-
cause the government itself has as-
named the duties of the distributor
or the middleman as you call him
here. " '

“Of course there is difference in the
cost of production in the, United
States and Australia, but _allowing
for everything, sugar in this country
should retail at less. than one-half 4
the, present rates. All the labor in
the sugar area, of Queensland is per— '
formed by white men who receive
from four dollars and a halt to about semen of sugar are able to get this
six dollars a day for their toll. very necessary food at prices which

"But at eight cents a pound to can be properly regarded as moderv
the— retailer the planters are making ate."-
very» comfortable fortunes. They are “Is not this state Socialism?” the
making fortunes because they are prime minister was asked.
getting all that their product brings "Not at all; it is simply geod bus-
minus the actual cost of placing it in iness sense,” was the reply. “I am
the hands of the consumer. not a Socialist. There is not a 30-

“There is one sugar reﬁnery in cialist in my cabinet and very few,
Australia and it is a monopoly. We it any, in the Queensland parlia-
could have suppressed it by the meat. We simply sought and found

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eminent plant. But instead of tak~
lug such drastic means of piercing
' compliance with the public demand
(for sugar at moderate prices the
government invited this concern to
co-operate. ‘The reﬁnery met as

that for reasOnable compensation it
acts as a distributing agent. The
shareholders in the reﬁnery receive
substantial annual dividends. I
“The water, however, has been
squeezed out the stock and artiﬁcial
boosting of securities has ended. Per-
sonally I don’t care what proﬁts the
refinery makes as long so the con-

~ simple processot a: gov~ V

more than, half way and theresult is

        

  

,we had not used the methods to
which I have referred in resisting.
such improper efforts to get ’ rich
quick. ,

“If such 'immoderate prices had
been demanded for sugar the farm-
ers would still, as they are deing in
this country, collect but a small per-
centage of the gross sum realized. As.
it is the cane growers are getting well
paid for their labor, the reﬁners are
getting a fair compensation for their
service and the workmen are getting
good wages. The whole problem is
summed up in the one word coeo'pera-
tion. This ‘can be done through pri-
vate eﬂ'ort or under governmental di—
rection. The way which proves the
most eﬂective is the wise way."

' The premier said the meat pront-

eers were unhorsed when the govern-
ment went into the cattle business.
He declared that the speculators de-
termined to ﬁlch from the‘farmer as
well as the consumer but when the
government went into the meat bus-
iness they 'were obliged‘to meet the
government’s terms.

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champions of the Essex, calls for particular

caution.

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marking .
standards throughout the light car ﬁeld.
But the facts quickly expose that mistake.

The Essex Motor is'patcntcd.

standard motorsthat yield but 18 H. P. at

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without it as it helps very much in

and meat distributing business, not
for proﬁt but merely as the agent of
both the producer and the consum—
or,” said Mr. Theodore. “The conse-
quence was that in getting his sup-
plies the speculator was, obliged to
.pay the stockman as much for his
beef as the government was willing
to give him. We gave him what, at-
ier a thorough survey of the whole
situation, taking in the cost of pro-
duction and all other elements, what
would leave him a fair margin of
proﬁt to compensate him for his in—
vestment both of labor and money.

“Then we charged the consumer
just enough above the original cost
of the beef to take care of all over-
head expense. This policy naturally
forced the speculator to meet our
terms, something he could not do and,
(outinue to be a speculator. There
is nothing more reprehensible in the
conduct of a merchant than to en-
gage in artiﬁcial speculation in food
products. But you can cure this
evil by putting the proﬁteers in jail,
although they ought to be there.

“You must devise a. means for
beating them at their own game and
on their own ground. We have done
this in Australia. The results are
shown in the tact that speculation in
farm products is reduced to a mini—
mum and proﬁteering, if practiced at
all, is done on a very small scale.”

Mr. Theodore saidthe farmers of
Australia were well organized. He
expressed surprise that there should
be any considerable opposition in or
out of congress, to such a measure
as the Clapper—Hersman bill which
(gives the farmers an unquestioned
right to collectively market their ‘
products.

“There is no opposition anywhere
in Australia to a system which “makes
direct dealing between the producer
and the consumer-possible,” said Mr.
Theodore.

$14,500 IN SPECIAL PRIZES FOR
HOLBTEINS, 19

For the current year, the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America,
through its committee on special
prizes, offers fourteen thousand ﬁve
hundred dollars to be distributed as
awards at fairs for the excellence of "
exhibitions of Purebred Holstein-
Friesian cattle.

It has been the custom of this As-
sociation to stimulate Holstein breed-
ing interests throughout the country
by appropriations of prize monies
and in some instances by the award
of suitable prise cups and'plates to ‘
winners in various classiﬁcations. . ' ,

Up to the present time it has been
deemed practical and expedient to
limit this award of prize money main-
ly to distribution at state ‘iairs and
expositions cautions} scope.

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W0 THINGS are now apparent in

L the sugar beet controversy. One

‘of them is that the factories will

" not grant the growers a conference

' this year, and the other is that they
will be short of tonnage;

All kinds of excuses have been
given by the manufacturers to ex-
plain their contempt for the growers’
Organization. One of them is that
a certain leader of the organization,
with whom'they would presumably
have to treat, -is not a sugar beet
grower. Another that the price ask-
ed by thegrowers‘ would be ruinous
to them. Still another that they had
all the acreage they needed so why
bother to have a conference. ,

The actual reason why the Sugar
Beet Growers’ Association has been
unable to win its ﬁght this year is
not'hard to ﬁnd. The blame rests
upon the shoulders cf certain farm-
‘ers who number no more than the
ﬁngers on the two hands. “Eighty
per cent of our members are loyal
and will grow no beets,” said Man-
ager Ackerman as late as May 29th.
But the other twenty per cent which
raised the White flag of surrender
have made it possible for the factor-
ies to run. Go into any sugar beet
section of Michigan where farmers
have planted beets, interview them,
and you will ﬁnd in the majority of
cases that they simply followed the
lead of some prominent farmer who
either did not join the Association or
was tempted into a betrayal of the
Association by a bonus from the fact-
ories or the glittering promise of
$16 beets. -'The stock argument is,
“I had no intention of planting beets,
but So-an-So planted some, so I
thought if he was going to I might
just as well.” And so it goes, like a
bunch of dominoes stood on end.
Knock one of them down and the en-
tire line topples over. We say again
that. the responsibility for the defeat
of the sugar beet growers can be
traced to less than a dozen farmers
who by their own disloyalty to the

Association encouraged others to be‘

disloyal. Had the dozen stood loyal
they would today be growing beets
under a new contract, a contract
that recognizes them as business men
and gives them a fair portion of the
proﬁts.

Why Some Farmers Grow Beets

THE BUSINESS FARMEn has received
several clippings of articles written
by farmers and published in various

papers in the sugar beet districts.
Requests have been made that we
answer them in these columns. To

do so would require much more space
than we have to spare so we will
have to conﬁne ourselves to a brief
discussion of the principal points rais-
ed by these farmers who have not
“only decided to grow beets but have
been encouraging their neighbors to
do likewise. It is plain to be seen
that fully one-half of such articles
are inspired by the sugar manufact-
urers. There/is a touching refer-
ence to the money the manufacturers
have loaned to farmers “at seven per
cent.” There is a caSual mention of
« the mortgages that have been paid
from the sugar beet crop. One would
gather from a reading of some of
the articles that the sugar. factories
were doing the farmers a favor in
accepting their, beets. _ _
Other articles have been» written
by farmers in defense of their own
intention togrow beets
.Iibly represent the sincere convic-
tions of the writers. ,One such let-
ter came from a Clare county farm-
* ’ or who was going to. grow beets for
1 the -_ﬁrst time because the striking
sugar beets ._ ‘owers had said they
' ‘  which had always
rep  His argu-
rowers

« have been padded.

and pos—'

ugar Plants will Run with Lower Tonnag ‘

Rehzsaf of Over Eight Thousand Farmers to Grow Beets Under Old Contract '

Will Mean Shorter Run. for Factories

him in the bean business that he
would have to get even by growing
beets. But he didn’t ﬁgure far
enough. He didn’t see that the only
case in which the beet growers would
grow beans was in the event of the
factories not conceding them a con-
ference and that the only thing that
would prevent a conference would be
the disloyalty of just such men as
himself.

A well-to-do farmer of Gratiot
county, according to his letter in the
Alma Record, will grow beets because
the world is short of sugar, labor is
striking, speculators are proﬁteering,
and the farmers ought to set an ex-
ample for the others by working
hard and being satisﬁed with less
prices, the assumption of the reader
being that the farmers never having
done an honest day’s labor in their
lives and having made large proﬁts
in previous years can now well afford“
to play the part of the big brother
and do a little sacriﬁcing for the
rest of the world.

Such a spirit of brotherly love and
renunciation would gain the admira-
tion of all mankind were it not for
the very facts which our farmer
friend has stated. With labor strik-
ing, capital proﬁteering, every kind
of business in the world straining in
mighty competition for more than its
share of the consumer’s dollar, the
farmer must as a matter of necessity
see to it that the other fellow does
not get any more of his share of the
dollar. For heaven knows the farm—
er gets a small enough share as it is.
Its an imposition to expect that the
lowest paidindustry in the world
shall make any more concessions at
this time to the proﬁteers in other
industries. Charity begins at home.
Let the farmer organize and secure
such prices for his products as will
enable him to give his. family the
comforts and conveniences enjoyed
by the average business man of the
city, and he can then afford to talk
about philanthropy unto others.

The correspondent in the Alma Recu
am also contends that the ﬁgures
showing the cost of growing beets
He can speak
only for himself. But there is ample
evidence to show that the farmers
who produce eighty to ninety per
cent of the beets sliced in Michigan

factories cannot grow them year in
and year out under present condi—
tions for the price guaranteed in this
year’s contract. It is admitted that
some years this can be done, but
how is our friend going to make up
the losses of the poor years? All
other business enterprises create
sinking funds and surplusages to tide

them oVer in lean years. Why not
the farmer?
This same correspondent claims

that the statements about the proﬁts
of the manufacturers are exaggerat—
ed. Presumably our friend has some
ﬁgures of his own which have not
been made public, and if he will send
them to us we will be glad to publish
them in the columns of THE BUSINESS
FARMER. Such ﬁgures as have been
published in THE BUSINESS FARMER
showing the proﬁts of the manufact-
urers have been copied verbatim from
ofﬁcial publications of the United
States government. Yet, our friend
asserts that “any person with com-
mon sense can see they are not the
truth.” If they are not the correct
ﬁgures, please Mr. Farmer, give us
the right ones. We have asked the
manufacturers to do this in a con-
ference, but they have refused. They,
too, say “the person of ordinary in-
telligence can take these claims for
what they are worth.” Possibly, Mr.
Farmer, you own some sugar stock
and because it hasn’t paid you the
dividend which the government ﬁg-
ures show the manufacturers have
earned, you think the ﬁgures are in-
corr-ect. But how do you explain
the $350,000 in Liberty bonds and
the $5,000,000 surplus fund shown
in the last annual statement of one
of Michigan’s leading companies?
Threats of Violence Propaganda

The state press has carried many
lurid ,storiesiof the alleged ,acts of
violence and terrorism perpetrated
by beet growers against the disloyai

members of their association. In—
vestigation has shown that the
great majority of these reports are

groundless; and are spread by sugar
factory representatives for the pur-
pose of injuring the good name of
the farmers. One of the alibis giv-
en by Mr. Joel C. Merriman, a repre~
sen‘tative in the last session of the
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so, was that he could not sanction
the threats of violence he heard. Who
does sanction them?

for the entire army to desert. Re-
forms would never be won, and pro-
gress would mark time if the major-
ity lost courage and quit the ﬁght
because of the irresponsible acts of
the minority. It might be mention-
ed in passing that Mr. Merriman was
one of the sixteen farmers in the last
session of the legislature who could
not trust the people to vote on the
warehouse amendment.

It is also worthy of mention in
passing that the same week the Deck-
erville local consisting of twenty
members, of which Mr. Merriman is
one, voted to plant beets, the Peck
local, twenty miles away, with 286
members voted almost unanimously
not to plant beets, the vote being
275 against planting and 11 for. This
local also passed a resolution con-
demning “any violence to the person
or property of any farmer in this vi-
cinity who desires to grow beets in
1920.” Another resolution that was
adopted is as follows:

“Resolved, that we jointly agree
not to exchange work in any way or
aid any farmer, except in case of
sickness, in any work on his farm,
who attempts to grow any beets dur-
ing the summer of 1920 under con-
tracts not approved by the Beet
Growers’ Ass’n.”

Sugar Beet Tonnage May Be Short

From what evidence as can be ob-
tained it seems certain that many of
the factories will have a short run.
In the ﬁrst place their acreage is not
what it ought to be considering the
normal abandonment and losses of
crops. In the second place a large
percentage of the acreage has been
contracted with farmers in out of the
way places, men who have had no ex-
perience in growing beets and the
suitability of whose soil is open to
question. ’

As to what the price of sugar may
be no one can say. In the absence of
government regulation it is likely to
be high. But the government ought
and. we think will take some hand
in regulating sugar prices. There
are approximately 200,000 farmers
in Michigan who do not produce su-
gar beets and therefore must buy
sugar. Since a few thousand of their
brother farmers have signed con—
tracts which guarantee them $10 per
ton for beets, or a possible 4 cents
per pound for the sugar in the beets,
they will logically assume that this
price is satisfactory to the growers
and should object to paying 20 to 30
cents a pound for sugar. Might it
not be well to petition the federal
government'to set a price to the con-
sumer at around, say 10 or 12 cents
a pound which will pay the farmer
what he wants, give the manufacturer
a fair proﬁt and a reasonable price
to the consumer.

Getting Ready for Another Year

Manager Ackerman tells us that
the failure of the Association to~~win
its ﬁght this year will not deter them
from continuing it and plans are be-
ing made now to thoroughly canvass
the entire sugar beet territory by
fall and secure every beet grower and
prospective beet grower as members.-

' The Association has placed an order ‘

for buttons showing a sugar beet,
which will be distributed to the mom; .
hers. The preposition, 'of farmer-

owned sugar factories will likewise  
be taken up, and investigations will . 
be conducted showing what success - I
farmers have attained in "  and x 1

other countries 7in3thcf ‘
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Method 1

HE prime object of the farmer
. who plows with a tractor is to
‘ do a good job of plowing. He
also desires to do away with the use
of horses altogether in opening up
a land,- or in ﬁnishing it; and by lay-
ing out his ﬁelds properly, the plow—
;man can easily accomplish this. The
farmer also wants to reduce to a
minimum the time spent turning
corners or ends with the plows rais-
ed. Time wasted in useless turning,
or traveling unnecessary distances
across the ﬁeld, reduces considerably
the amount of land turned in a
day, and lessens the efﬁciency of the
tractor. The great efficiency is ob-
tained when the plows are left in
the ground all the time; but this
does not always result in the best
plowing, The short turning radius
necessary when the plows are left
in the ground makes awkward work
for most tractors.

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The two methods in common use
are: (1) the plows ,are raised at
each end, (2) the plows are left in
the ground. The advantages of the
ﬁrst named. methods are: (1) the
short, awkward turns are reduced,
(2)y'_it is easier on the operator as he
does not have to bother with the
corners, (3) there is less space left
in the corners, (4) it is generally
agreed that a better quality of plow-
ing results. The advantages of the
second method are that (1) no time
is lost by raising the plows, hence
more work is accomplished in a day,
(2) the tractor operates more efﬁ-
ciently as fuel is not being burned
while the plows are idle, (3) the
number of dead and back furrows is
greatly reduced. It can be said,
however, that the method where the
plows are idle at the ends is the most
popular method.

Plows Lifted at the Ends

The ﬁrst thing is to determine the
width of the lands and how wide to
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amount of time wasted in running
idle across the ends of the ﬁelds, also
the fewer the dead furrows. A two~
plow tractor will plow a strip of 40
rods wide laid out in six lands in
about 1 1—2 hours less time than if
it were laid out in three lands. A
satisfactory width of land for a
short turning tractor such as the
L‘Z__,,_ is from 80 to 150 feet. In
demonstr a-

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Method 5

a straight fur-
row.

Method 1

The ﬁrst step necessary is to mark

. off the headlands of uniform width
around the entire ﬁeld.

The next step is to measure off a

land of the width desired, then set

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land.
line.

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ft. It is tinue t his
best to till the en-
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unplo w e d plowed. The
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tha t t h e but it can
tractor can be highly

plow continuously around the ﬁeld
in ﬁnishing up. Forty foot head-
lands will be found satisfactory. It
is better to have wide headlands
rather than narrow ones.

If the ﬁeld is to be ﬁnished with
no irregular unplowed strips be—
tween the lands or at the edges, it
is necessary that the headlands be
of a uniform width and to have the
ﬁrst furrows as nearly straight as
possible. If there is a road or lane
at the end of one side of the ﬁeld

 

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an individual '{f/ \
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recommended tractor.

Method II. ~
By this method each land is plow-
ed to a dead furrow instead of around
a back furrow, as in Method 1.
Measure off the width of land de-
sired and set stakes along this line.
Start the land by plowing through

this line, turning to the

left and

come down along the line of the
headline running parallel to this line.
Continue to plow around the land
till there is a dead furrow in the mid—

off” as a rule quite

Method 8

Dead furrows occur where the back
furrows occur in Method 1, hence if
these Methods are alternated each

year, there will be a tendency to level ’
the ﬁeld by smoothing out the back '

and dead furrows. This is probably
the most popular method in use for
the caterpillar tread type of tractor.

Method III.

This is a combination of Method I
and 2. Starting at one corner of the
headland run a single furrow (throw-
ing the furrow in) entirely around
the headland. This will serve as a
guide for raising and lowering the
plows. Note the method of turning
the outﬁt at the corners. The sec-
ond land is plowed ﬁrst and is plow-
ed around a back furrow in the same
manner as in Method 1. After the
second land is ﬁnished the ﬁrst land
is plowed in the same manner as in
Method 2. »

Method IV.

This ’method tends to eliminate the
short turns which occur when ﬁnish-
ing up a land. Start the land the
same as in Method 2. Plow around
this land turning to the left until the
strip in the center is too narrow for
convenient turning at the ends. NOW’
measure oif a new land of the same
size as the ﬁrst land. Start plowing
along this line and turn to the left
at the headland and continue plows
ing out the narrow strip in the ﬁrst
land. After a dead furrow has been
made on the ﬁrst land,
plowing the second land until a nar-
row strip remains and then repeat,
the process till the ﬁeld is plowed.
It is an indivdual‘ question whether
the extra travel is preferred to the
short turns. It is evident that the
wider the strips left in the middle,
thegreater amount of idle time spent
on the ends. .

Method V. ,

In this method the entire ﬁeld is

laid out at one time by plowing all

the back furrows before startingto
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of the deter— ing of a land.
mining factors it If one trip
may- be men- '" ‘ across the ﬁeld
tion-ed. In sec-g l each Willy does
tions where no p ow a.
there isaheavy strip wide '
rainfall or the ' ﬂgmowa‘ igneous enough to turn
Ja‘nd naturally  ..-_ ' cqnvenientlygat
needs “draining 4‘ 4/ _ —.—= \  .,\ the ends, the
the land should  I '-_ %-:;;,.Ij procedure can.
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where the out-
ﬁt ‘can turn,
it'may be pref-
erable to' plow
out both sides
of the ﬁeld
and the end
near the lane,
‘ with the body
"of-“the ﬁeld.
leaving " only
the headland
at the end of
the, ﬁeld. { '
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land.

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running across .

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 rIo'N‘ of the possibility

      

a muck land‘is an old one, probab-
ly as old as muck farming. The re-
sults arrived at seem, as Ewe read

o’verthe old reports,‘to vary 'direct- ,
ly with the season in which the ex--~

periments were conducted.
season described happened
hot and dry with an absence of the.
frosts which are the bane of the
muck farmers existence, then the ex-
perimenter said that com was
entirely feasible proposition, where-
asvif the season were cold, wet and
treaty, corn was declared to be an
unproﬁtable crop for muck. soils. In
other words in reading the reports
carefully, we almost invariably ﬁnd
the weather to be the limiting factor.

In discussing the question. you
will please pardon the writer for
using the personal pronoun rather
often. as we are to tell .our own ex-
periences, those being the only ones
concerning which we are qualiﬁed to
speak with authority.‘ About ten
years ago, we began to raise, or
rather try to raise, corn in connec-
tion with out mint- farming. Per—
haps you, as farmers, have noticed
that nearly, every farmer has the
best and earliest strain‘ of corn in
his,_neighborhood—much as your
team can outpull any other round
about. So when we ﬁrst‘tried to
raise corn we went to the best high
ground farmers and secured seed of
the, earliest maturing varieties that
we could locate in the neighborhood
—e-varieties that we were] assured,
were the earliest in our 1 part , of
Michigan. We tried them' out faith-
fully and were rewarded with enor-
mous stover and ears that ﬁlled out
ﬁnely but that apparently did not
know enough to realize that they
must stop playing and get to work
and ripen up if they were to be of
any use to us. You muck men know
to‘ your sorrow that you are “living
on borrowed time” if you have crops
that are not mature by Sept. 10, that
is providing our old friend, June
Frost (not Jack Frost) has not hap-
pened along early in the season. It
has been our experience that no
local corn that will grow on the high
ground of Lower Michigan, will ripen
on .the muck, more than two years
out of ﬁve—in other words just of-
ten enough to keep you “hoping.”
= After two‘ or three years of this
it occured to us, which was not a

If the

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 successful on Muck as It Can be
‘ - By E. L. woonmuus
all, that We had ’ Supt. Mentha Ranch, A.-M. Todd 00.

i-rbrilliant idea at

better try to ﬁnd -
some, seed which was rais-
' ed in a locality with a
shorter season. Now that
.is What we had over-
looked largely, the fact
that in bringing corn on-
to the muck we’ were real-
ly moving it to a place
further north by several
hundred miles as far as
the length of growing
season was concerned, as
well as attempting to
grow it in a new environ-
ment as regards an
abundant supply of mois-
ture right through the
season. These high
ground corns were used
to a drouth in August
Which would help to rip-
en them, and I do not
ub'elieve that (there (is a
plant that is so quickly
and easily modiﬁed as in
the corn plant. It is gen-
erally agreed that it was
of Mexican origin and a
tropical plant. It has be—
come acclimated as it
was moved north until
today there are varieties
of corn that mature in
less than 70 days and
thers that require 200
. ays.

In reading done in this
connection we came to
the conclusion that the
most wonderful. c orn
growers in America were
not the farmers of Iowa
and Illinois who have a
climate made to order for
the production of ' mam-
moth crops of corn, but
rather the tribes of Am-
erican Indians who roam-
ed the plains. long before
Columbus discovered Ama
.erica and who had adapted, the
corn plant to almost whatever
climate they found as
ered. The Indians of each sec-
tion from the cold climate of the Da-
kotas to the heat of New Mexico had
their varieties of Maize and the ear-
ly French explorers exclaimed in
wonder at the agriculture they found
among the Indians. The Indians
grew two general varieties—the hard

 

Mentha Muck Corn

they wand- ~

or Flint

and the soft or
corns from which
squaws made corn flour.

the varieties that were
grown~and the peculiar
part of it is that the
strains were kept pure
until the white man drove
the Indian away and dis-
turbed his civilization.
There were soft yellow,
soft white, red corn, spot-
ted corn, blue corn, yel-
low flint, white flint,
clay-red corn, pink corn,
black corn, sweet corn,
mixed yellow and red an\d
others. A day could be
well spent in studying
the agriculture of these
ﬁrst American “champion
corn growers” but time
does not permit it here.
We have grown many of
these corns and I will try
to explain by the samples
the nature of the varie-
ties.

Some of these corns are
so small that they can-
not be cut by machine,
although we must remem-
ber that they all grow
larger on the muck than
in their natural home in
the northwest. It is
largely due to the efforts
of Messrs. Oscar Will &
Co., and of Messrs. North-
rup King & 00., that
these early American va-
rieties have not entirely
died out.

They are nearly all of
a very leafy habit of
growth and so make ex:-
cellent silage, the leaf
AREA being far more im-
portant than the HEIGHT
OF STALK which the large Iowa
corn shows. The Mountain Experi-
ment Station has done valu-
able work in measuring the leaf
areas of these Indian corns as com~
pared with the tall and less leafy
varieties. Of all these Indian come
we have found that a white flour
corn that we have bred up shows the
most promise. This corn at ﬁrst
was mixed—containing 8, 10, 12, 14,

The following are some of

  

Sown Late and Harries-ted» Early  I

kinds
which they used
. to make hominy
flour

the

and 16 rows and we are still working-1L"
to see which is the most promising;
Personally we feel that no corn
should be grown on muck unless it
can be planted as late as June 10
and be ready to cut before Sept. 10.,
The June frosts are too apt to cut
it down if planted in May. As a
grain crop we‘do not advise corn un—
less one is willing to put it'into si-
lage if a frost comes too early but
as a silage proposition we feel that
this white flour corn is going to be.
a winning combination as it can be A
grown intermingled with soy beans
for the silo. There is no doubt but
what the small farmer will ﬁnd it a
safe grain crop nine years out of
ten as well, but we would not ad-
vise any farmer putting his money
into several hundred acres of corn
to harvest as grain. The frost
danger is always present and there
are other crops such as roots and
hey that are safer and pay as well.
But if the small farmer has a silo,
then we feel justiﬁed in recommend-
ing this White Flour corn or else
Smoky Dent as silage corns. Of the
two the White Flour will mature
earliest although there are strains
of the Smoky Dent grown in Dakota
which are equally early.
(The above article was prepared
and read at the Muck Farmers’ 00n-
vention by Mr. E. L. Woodhmms.)

 

KILL CORN DESTROYING BIRDS

Shall we kill the crow, hawk and
owl? I would say, yes; they are all
very destructive to our poultry, game
and corn crop. They can be easily ex-
terminted by the use of strychnine
and this is the best time to do this,
when they just return from the south
and are hungry. I use a hen that has
died during the winter months. Pick
the feathers from the breast, cutting
slices through the breast and‘thighs,
placing a few grains of strychnine in
them. Place the hen in“ thefcenb'er of
a back ﬁeld and visit it ever‘y‘day,.add-
ing a few more grains‘ of“ strychnine
they eat the ﬂesh off. I have practised .
this for several years and haVe not
killed a dog or cat as they never trav-
el the center of ﬁelds. They always
follow the fences. Cats do this for
protection. There is not a single hawk
to be seen in our neighborhood and
but few crows—«F. Moore, Newaygo,
Mich.

“My Favorite Breed of Sheep for Northern Michigan Farms”

0U ASK me what class of sheep

I consider the best and most

proﬁtable to run in northern
Michigan.

I consider the‘ best ewe to keep
in any country is a half-blood ewe.
What I mean by that is a ewe that
is part Merino and part Lincoln, Cots-
wold, Shropshire or‘Hampshire.

I prefer either a Lincoln or Cots-
wold cross, or so-called white-faced
ewes. This cross is the most pop-
ular in the west because they shear
better and are better rustlers for feed
when feed is short'although the lat—
ter, or black faced are more popular
in the south and central states. Prob-
ably because they are more on the

'mutton type ,0f sheep.

‘. The Merino sheep are the hardiest,
best shearing and longest lived sheep
that can be had. But to run them
in large bands in this state. The
lamb isusually small and weak and

“the ewe is not a very good milker at
’«its. best, and so the percentage, of
limbs raised would be small." Also

they are very slow maturing and sub-
ject to hoof: troubles. , Such as foot

The enamortbreed of sheep" '1 men;

‘ tinned are more subjectto intestinal

roubles, 'sheari light and. shear a
grade of wool that, is very undesir-'
able; at present 14 blood. They are
   ' and last but not
” ’ at when we
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E ARE contemple purchasing 1,000 head of sheep in the near fu-
Wture to be placed on a. section of wild land in Midland County. May we
ask your opinion as to the kind of sheep you would consider as the
most proﬁtable and which are the easiest keepers and healthiest sheep?
We have been advised to purchase Western Sheep from either Min-
nesota, or Iowa, for the reason, that they do better in large numbers.
' Can you quote us from the experiences of other large Michigan sheep
radsers whom are purchasing from the West? a ‘

BESSE BROTHERS, \ .

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Their advantage is that they are
early maturing sheep, free milkers
and wonderful mothers.

In a half blood sheep you get a
combination of the two that makes
a good mother, shears a good fleece
of desirable wool and crossed with a
Hampshire or Shropshire ram gives
an early maturing desirable lamb for
market. . .

I have on hand on my ranch here
between ﬁve and six thousand ewes.
Most of them half-blood ewes that I
expect to sell somepart of them'this
year. ‘As, sheep are selling so, high
in the West I don’t think it "would
beﬁadvisabrle for any one'to try to
get any ewes‘there this spring. _
 Ewes are selling as high as $25
~and"in some parts, of the >West they
are selling as high as $30 dollars.
,Th'is is due largely to— the big
Shortage caused by the very dry sea-

West‘ last year and
'year gjbefore. “

  

   
  

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BLACK FACED SHEEP
EGARDING the most proﬁtable
breed of sheep for Mr. Hesse, I
. would- say, by all means, the
black faced lambs for the butcher and
the black faced fleece (the middle
wools) for the highest price, also all
black faces are classed middle wools
and mutton type, you want this dual
breed, in the order named. Shrop-
,shire for form, Oxfords for size,
Hampshire for milk, but poor in
term, Sout-hdown ranks with Shrop-
Shire for form but run small in size.
,.If Mr. Hesse can obtain a foun-
dation flock of good black face ewes
-2.years to 4 years old, use for ﬁrst
three years, a pure blood Shropshire
ram ,to give conformation, then
switch ontoa pure blood Oxford
mm. for 4th and 5th years to in—
crease size, for Shropshire lambs will
naturally ’run smaller if you do not
“make this change. Use Oxford ram
for at least two years, and then come

»back to the Shropshire mm. 'The

wise shepherd will catch on. V
- 1 grade black face ewes‘lcan not
.. . western Merino ewes, not

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older than four years, under any \
consideration, and by all means use
a black face ram, never Merino
rams.

Save the ewe lambs for breeding
stock, using black face rams. The
third generation of ewe lambs will
produce as ﬁne middle wool breed-
ing ewes as one could desire. All ‘
northern Michigan wants them.

The Merino lamb is not popular
with the butcher. The size and qual-
ity is not there—~nor is the fleece
(ﬁne wool) so valuable.

For proﬁt, the middle wools,
black faces always.

The proper time tovbuy breeding
ewes is in the middle of the sum-
mer, When taken from its lamb,pro-
viding the udder is sound, likewise
the teeth. 1 '

Breed ewes no earlier than Nov. *
15th to bring lambs by April 10th,‘
when weather is warm and losses,
light. - *4
In selecting a foundation flock,‘
it is very impertant to remember,
that when the breeding days‘of a»?
black faced ewe is over, the carcass.
will-possess a mutton value in ma (
cases equal to the original invest
ment. » r . a 

You will ﬁnd no mutton value in
the carcass of an aged Merino. . '

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of ewes“ will determine your 36!
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'5   Summarpof Federal Trade cummiss‘ion’s‘ Findings Show “Biglt-F'ive’? yin-Virtually. 8- C I .

VVHER‘E‘ have. been nine- hearings

twithln the last few years on leg-
L islation to control the meat pack-
ing industry. The hearings within
recent years have been based upon
|the most thorough, fair and complete
investigation ever made of' any big
industry, the investigation of the
meat packing industry made under
order of the President by the Fed-
eral Trade Commission. ‘

Trade Commission's Findings

In their report to the Presidentin
July, 1918, the Federal Trade Com-
mission stated:

“Answering directly your question
as to whether or not there exist mon-
opolies, controls, trusts, combina-
tions, conspiracies, or restraints of
trade out of harmony with the law
and the public interest, we have
found conclusive evidence that war-
rants an unqualiﬁed afﬁrmative. * *

“It, appears that the great pack-
ing concerns of the country—Swift,
Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson
—have attained such dominant posi-
tion that they control at will the mar-
ket in which they buy their supplies,
the market in which they sell their
products, and hold the fortunes of
their competitors in their hands.”

Control of Transportation Maintains
‘ Packers‘ Position

“ ' * ' If these ﬁve great concerns
owned no packing plants and killed
no cattle and still retained control
of the instrument of transportation
of marketing and of storage, their
position would not be less strong
than it is."

“The producer of live stock is at
the mercy of these ﬁve companies
because they control the market and
the marketing facilities and, to some
extent the rolling stock which trans—
ports the product to the market.

“The competitors of these ﬁve con-
cerns areat their mercy because of
the control of the market places,
storage facilities, and the refriger-
ator cars for distribution.

“The consumer of meat products
is at themercy of these ﬁve because
both producer and competitor are
helpless to bring relief.” * " *

The Commission's summary of its

' Control of Many Commodities

 

 

 

 

Regulating the Packer 7 .

PACKERS are as hard to catch as the Fourth of July
I pig. Now you have them and now you don’t.
that the Big Five is the‘grcatest octopus that ever fastened its ten-
acles upon the country, and then after reading some of thdr literature
you are Just as sure that they are as harmless as lambs. The eﬁorts
of some of the farm organizations and the Federal Trade Commission
to bring the packers within the regulating reach of the United States ~
government have not met with consp
hearings have been held, but the legislation providing for the control
seems no nearer adoption than when ﬁrst introduced. To keep the in-
terest alive, the various Washington ofﬁces of the various farm organ-
izations have been sending out articles to the farm press giving the gist
of the testimony submitted at the hearings, etc. The accompanyiu
article is submitted by the Farmers’ National Council which has been
particularly insistent that Congress adopt some legislation for control-
ling the packers. The facts set forth are worthy of attention and should
arouse every producer of live stock to immediate action through his
representative in Congress.—-Editor.

greased

Now you are sure

icuous success.

Hearings after

 

 

 

 

ﬁndings states, “Five corporatidns-—
Armour & Co., Swift & 00., Morris
& 00., Wilson & Co., Inc., and the
Cudahy Packing Co.-——hereafter re-
ferred to as the ‘Big Five,’ not only
have a monopolistic control over the
American meat industry, but have
secured control, similar in purpose
if not yet in extent, over the princi-
pal substitutes for meat, such as
eggs, cheese and vegetable-oil pro-
ducts, and are rapidly extending their
power to cover ﬁsh and nearly every
kind of foodstuff.” * " "' ‘

“The monopolistic position of the
Big Five is based not only upon the
large proportion of the meat busi-
ness which they handle, ranging from

61 to 86 per cent in the principal ,

lines, but primarily upon their own-
ership, separately or jointly, of stock-
yards, car lines, cold storage plants.
branch house's, and the other essen-
tial facilities for the distribution of
perishable foods.

“The menace of this concentrated
control of the Nation's food is in-
creased by the fact that these. ﬁve
corporations and their ﬁve hundred
and odd subsidiary, controlled, and
afﬁliated companies are bound togeth-

er by joint ownership, agreements,
understandings, communities of in-
terest and family relationships."
How the Packers' Power is Used
“The power of the. Big Five in the
United States has been and is being
unfairly and illegally used to—
Manipulate live stock markets;
restrict interstate and international
supplies of foods; control the prices
of dressed meats and other foods;
defraud both the producers of fobd

and consumers; crush effective com'w

petition: secure special privileges
from railroads, stockyard companies
and maunicipaiities; and proﬁteer."

' Packers' Proﬁts

“The packers’ proﬁts in 1917 were
more than four times as great as in
the average year before the Euro-
pean war, although their sales in
dollars and cents at even the inflat-
ed prices of last year had barely
doubled. In the war years, 1915, 16,
17, four of the ﬁve packers made net
proﬁts of. $178,000,000.
- TheMeatIndustry

“The most satisfactory single in-
dex of the proportion of the meat
industry controlled by the Big Fve,
is the fact that they kill in round

_ was as follows:

   

ﬁgures 70 per cent of the live stock
slaughtered by all packers and butch-
ers engaged in interstate commerce.
In 1910 the Big Five’s percentage of
the interstate slaughter including
subsidiary and aﬁiliated companlbs
Cattle
Calves ...........78.0
Hogs 
Sheep and lambs . . . .88.4
“Swift & Coxis the greatest but-

ter distributor .in..the United States.  .. .

handling in 1916, in round ﬁgures,
60,000,000 pounds, or nearly as
much as the combined sales of the
two largest nondpacker organiza—
tions.

"Judged conservatively by trade
estimates, the Big Five packers
handle at least half of the interstate
commerce in poultry and eggs and
in cheese. The packers are also im-
portant factors in the preparation
and distribution of condensed and
evaporated milk and are rapidly in—
creasing their proportion.

Staple Groceries and Vegetables

“Recently the big packers began
dealing in various "staple groceries
and vegetables, such as rice, sugar,
potatoes, beans and coffee, and in-
creased their sales at such a rate that
in certain of these lines they had
become dominant factors. Here
again the immense-selling organiza-

‘ tions of the packers, built up in con-

nection with their meat business, as-
sures them almost certain supremacy
in any line of food handling which
they may wish to enter.
Fertilizers
"The fertilizer industry lies at the
base of the Americanjood produc-
tion. The. packers, controlling the
disposal of more than two-thirds of
the offal produced in the packing in-
dustry, have become the most im-
portant factors in the manufacture
of animal fertilizer ingredients and
have strongly entered the ﬁeld of
production of mineral ingredients. In

v mixed fertilizers they produce 19 per

cent of the total. ,
Instruments of Control and Monopoly
“These stragetic positions, which
serve not only to protect the controls
(Continued on page 17)

Gleaner Clearing House Example of What Organized Farmers Can Do

RANT SLOCUM, head of the
G Gleaners, tells us that an audit

has just been made of the
books of the Gleaner Clearing House
Ass'n, and shows total assets of near-
ly one half million dollars, with sun-
plus and undivided proﬁts of nearly
$60,000. Upon the strength of this
showing and upon what the recent ex-
perience of this marketing associa-
tion has shown the possibilities of
co—operative marketing to be, the
stockholders have voted to increase
the capital stock to one million dol-
lars, and the Michigan State Securi-
ties Commission have already issued
its license for the sale of the stock.

Discussing the showing made by
the Gleaners, Mr. Slocum said:

“I do not believe that any other
farmers’ organization in the United
States has made a showing equal to
ours. Thousands of dollars have
been spent in organization work
which has been wholly cared'for from
the proﬁts of the Association. And
aside from this the present manage-
ment inherited certain losses which
could not be avoided by unexperienc-
ed operators during the ﬁrst year,
when several local plants were tak-
en on at a time when it was impos—
sible to get an efﬁcient buying and
selling organization.

“At the present time every plant
-ls either on a paying basis or actual-
ly making proﬁts. The Aesociation
knows where every local branch
, stands and knows monthly the act-
ual condition of the entire organiza-
tion.

“It is not the intention of General
Manager Lewellyn to take on new

plants here and there, regardless of ,

location, opportunities for business
and general conditions. The Associa-
vnme elevators‘m, . .01 the", tact
halt»  stunner has beamin-

  
  

 
 
 
 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
r Assets

Cash on Hand and in Banks  76,242.68
Land Contracts, Detroit Property  57,287.50
Lands, Buildings, Machinery and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 114,115.03
Accounts Receiveable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56,150.90
Notes Receiveable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298.81
Inventories, Merchandise on hand   . . .. 124385.05

$428,835.05

Liabilities

Current Accounts Payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 70,403.58
Bills Payable . . . . . . , . . . , _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ 121,140.10
Capital Stock . . . . . . . . . . . .r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194,140.10
Surplus and Undivided Proﬁts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,251.79

$428,935.79

State of Michigan, County. of Kent, s.s.

Alvin F. Bredshall, being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the
General Auditor of the Gleaner Clearing House Association,
above statement, to the best of his knowledge is true in substance and in fact.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of May, A. D. 1920.

My commission expires March 21st

and that the

ALVIN BBED SHALL.

Rosanna Boyland, Notary Public.
1922.

 

 

 

 

vested for the volume of business
that could be expected from the adja--
cent territory. A general survey'is
made of all localities where Gleaner
elevators are to be established before
the investment is accepted. Business
is being conducted on a business
basis and therefore success is assur-
ed. '
“General Auditor Bredshall has all
plans laid for the \coooperative'oper-
ation of all local plants and com-
mencing with themext ﬁscal year,
patronage dividends will be paid - at
each point. This was under the old.

order of things, but with fourteen"

plants now in Operation, every local;

stockholder will participate in the
“proﬁts

  

at his-local lit-nub that:th

  
  

And just as soon as the Gleaner Cor-
poration is organized as, a sales, buy-
ing, operating and ﬁnancing branch,
all stockholders will participate in
the proﬁts made through this corpor-
ation. This simply means that the
farmer will participate in the proﬁts
on his products from the time they
leave his ﬁelds until, they reach the
hands of the retailer. r

"‘The work of the Association is
now but in its‘ infancy, after twelve
years of successful operation," con-
tinued Mr. Slocum. "No farmers' or-
ganization in the United States has
a- better standing in the leading mar-
ket‘ centers. my“ will ﬁnd .by‘coln-

   
  
 

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men of vision, forward looking busi-
ness men, are now interested in the
work of our organization. It’s plans
stand the test. The Gleaners do not
claim to be wonder-workers. They
realize that there is nothing about
the word co-operation that is going
to lift them over the rough spots in
the business highway—strict busi-
ness principles must be applied in or-
der to make a business organization
successful—and then the proﬁts are
distributed co-operatively. “Bio-
Biz,” if you please, with the word
“Co-operative" inserted between the
words “Big” and “Biz.” That’s the
Gleaners.”

As a publication which is interest-
ed in the progress of all farm organ-
ization the Buersss FARMEB congrat-
ulates the Gleaners upon the splendid
showing they have made. That they
will make still higher records in the
co-operative business ﬁeld under the
leadership of the big business men
who are managing their co-operative
marketing association, there can be
no doubt. A million dollars sounds
like a pretty big capitalization for a
farmers' co—operative organization,
but \as has been pointed out in these
columns before there is no reason
why the farmers should not handle
big business enterpries as cape.ny
as other men. The very size‘of the
amount gives one a feeling. of. big
ness and security, and the Gleaners
will, undoubtedly find within another

‘ two er three years that even this cap-

italisation will not be, large enough
to ﬁnance their rapidly expanding
business. «

When we consider the work. that
is bolus done by the Gleaners,. the ..

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copyright 1920. by The Goodyear me a; 'Bubor co.

“‘ We haul local growers’ fruits- and delicate vegetables, such as lettuce,

on pneumatics— Goodyear Cord Tires—e because they are marketed in
better condition this way and buyers give ﬁrst choice to produce so
protected." Our Goodyear Cord Tires run everywhere in cultivated
ﬁelds and in a sandy orchard and deliver mileages to 15,000.”—
0. C". McIntosh, of McIntosh & Andru, Truckmen, Palmetto, Florida

N statements like this make apparent, more
- and more farmers are preventing the
bruising of fruit, mutilation of delicate vege-
tables and much- shrinkage in livestock by
hauling on Goodyear Cord Tires.

In this way they reverse the "situation that ex-
isted when solid-tired trucks or wagons were
usedwith a resulting loss in crops, stock weight

and general income due to-slow, jarring trans— v

port.

On the resilient Goodyear Cord Tires a farm
truck delivers smoothly and quickly, safeguard—
ing the original condition of the load so as to
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The able pneumatics thus become important

' factors in the marketing of perishable produce

and carefully fattened animals, as well as in
practically all the work of raising and handling
on and OH the farm.

The excellent and often unusual mileages
obtained from these tires attest the toughness
of Goodyear Cord constructioh developed with
that extraordinary manufacturing carefulness
which protects our good name.

Farmers’ records, detailing how pneumatics
assistcrop moving, motorization, chores and
other activities, can be obtained by mail from
The ,Goodyear Tire 8c RUbber Company,
Akron, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

    
  
  
  
   
   
    
  
   

  
  
  
  

     
   
 

 
   

  
  
   
      
   
  
   
    
   
 
  
 
  
 
     
  
  
 
   
   
  
  
 
   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT PRICE. PER III. was 1. 1020
Grade loetrolt Chicane I. Y.
lo. a lad  3.1a 8.12
lo. a White  8.10 8.11
lo. 8 Iliad ...l8.10 8.1. ~
muons on: YEAR AGO
Grade some. lObha'ee I. 1.
lo. a nu  23s I 8.00
la. 2 White  2.
lo. 2 mm  2.58

 

 

 

 

Considu-able stnength was shown in
the wheat market last Saturday and

prices advanced when cables were re-

ceived that Argentina had placed an
embargo dgainst further exportation
ref wheat, but later news showed the
ﬁrst report to be false and that they
intended to export more than ever.
This last report seems unreasonable.
It is estimated that exporters own
87,000,000 bushels of wheat in Ar-
gentina, which, ».to all indications. is
the entire supply of the grain avail-
able there at the present. And Ar-
gentina has been trying to force ex-
porters to buy 1 1—: tons of corn
with every ten of wheat and has
wanted a little oats and flax taken
in addition to the corn, so it does
not look as if they would export for
a time at least. Export demand has
fallen off some during the past week,
but is beginning to revive. France
and England are out of the market
at present. From present prospects
wheat will stay up until the turn of
the year, but after that all is dark.
Weather conditions from now on
will determine the market's trend
from that point. A prominent grain
trade journal says that perhaps $5
will be seen by cash wheat but it is
a safe bet that there will be some
mighty hard sledding before it gets
there. Weather conditions have been

rather favorable in this country of__

late and reports show promise of a
larger yield than was predicted a
month ago.

 

CORN ADVANCES

 

CORN PRICES PER BU.. JUNE 1. 1020

 

 

 

 

Grade lDeM-oit [Chicagol N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow  I 1.91 l 2.16%
No. 3 Yellow . . . 2.05 2.14%
No. 4 Yellow . . .l 2.00 |

“emerges: ‘VEAE‘Aeo

Grade [Detroit Chicagol N. Y.

 

No. 8 Yellow  1.88 1.00%

No. 2 Yellow  1.98
No. 4 Yellow 1.80 1.66%

 

 

 

 

There has been a scarcity of corn
all week and the price has been ﬁrm
with a small advance. It is believed
that larger receipts will soon com-
mence to appear on the market.
Consumers have stood aside to al-
low prices to go as low as they would.
They have quit buying trusting that
prices will be more to their liking
later. The public has been doing
Without corn so long that dealers
wonder how the market will be af-
fected when supplies become plenti-
ful and consumption is resumed. A
large demand is expected. Argen-
tina claims to still have about 800,-
000 tons of old corn to sell before
touching the new crop, of which, they
estimate they have a surplus of 4.—
000.000 tons. -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OATS FIRM

0'11" PRICES PER su.. JUNE 1. 1e§_

 cm» [Detroit iChioapol N. v.
No. 2WWhlte ...| 1.23 1.01% 1.40
'11. 3 White ...| 1.22 1.01
"o. a White ...| 1.21

"raises om: vesn aeo
Grade ID~etroit IChicagol N. Y.

 

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Ni. 3 Whlto

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There are light offerings and scat-
tered buying in the oat market. The
weather conditions have been'very
favorable for this grain. Conditions
in the market at present point to
higher prices. The East needs large
quantities of cats before the new
crop, and the Canadian supply will
be exhausted within another month.
“Argentina has several hundred
thousand tons of oats yet,” says a
prominent grain paper.

  
Rye has advanced 10c and is genot—

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DETROIT—Wheat stronger. Beam steady. Eye is lifeless.

Advance in corn, caused by Argmtine ban. Potatoes scarce and

higher. ~
CHICAGO—Corn _and oats higher.

Exporters calling for
wheat. Hogs lower. Provisions drop.

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Weekly Trade and Market Review ,/

FEDERAL Reserve banks continue to call in their loans. But it is
like trying to keep an apple under water—"you push it down one
place and it comes up in another. Loans arecalleduin one direction only
to have inﬂation appear in another.- It has been proposed that the
banks charge a higher rate of interest on non-essential loans, but this
would be diﬂicult to carry out for the reason that it is hard to distin-
guish between emential and non-mential business. Take for instance,
the cut-rate sales of the department stores, the 20 to 50 per cent reduc-
tions in prices, forced by bankers, applied to. essentials as well as non-
essentials.

As a result of called loanswe will see a gradual sagging of prices,
including some foodstuifs. It was learned last week that there is food
in storage on which loans have been running for over a year. Such
loans are going to be called.

Grains in general strengthened up during the past week andhigher
prices are noted on some markets 0 ' g to the light receipts. Stocks
remain small. especially corn. Reports come from both Eastern and
Western markets of little or no corn on hand. ' '

“The trade anticipates a liberal movement from the country as soon
as the cars arrive from the East, but, it will take several weeks before
the full eﬂect of these can be felt,” says a press dispatch. “With large
amounts of wheat on hand in the Southwest and banks loudly clamor-
ing for a reduction of loans, at great many cars will probably be sent to
that section rather than into the cornbelt.”

 

 

ed at $2.10 for No. 2 on the Detroit
market. ’
Regarding the future trend of the
market the Rosenbaum Review says
as follows: "Prices have dropped
along with other grains. Barley is
likely to stay down. Rye is not. For-
eigners want the latter. {Germany
being the best buyer, but here is
little or no hope of export demand
for barley and with only a moderate
demand and some Canadian grain
arriving from time to time is looks
as though some further recission in
price was probable. After a drop of
over 25c on rye it looks like good
business to look for a substantial ral-
ly, especially if Europe comes into
the market in volume. The outlook

for the new barley crop is fairly good,
,even though the Paciﬁc coast has
lost its outlook for a bumper crop.
The June lst returns on rye will be
better than those of a month ago. If
wheat is worth $2;70@2.75 for Au-
gust shipment and $2.65@2.70 for
September, then certainly September
rye is worth close to $2. Barley
prices seem high as compared with,
cats and for the 1920-21 season may
possibly have to be ﬁgured on as
a feeding grain almost exclusively,
as the industrial call will scarcely be
much larger than last year and the
outlook for the crop is fairly good——
at the moment. The Northwest is
putting in more feed grains this sea-
son and that means a lot of barley.

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer 7

almost universally true that long-per-
iods of high temperatures east of
Rockies bring corresponding low tem-
peratures west of the great ridge.
Storm forces are expected to be
weaker during balance of June than
they were for the three weeks pre-
vious to June 10 and temperatures
are expected to rise from June 10 to
July 1 more than the season suggests.
Moisture for balance of this season
3'2": ‘i’l’ﬁ‘yi‘l‘imii “W3: 93.: 2‘3"”?
WASHINGTON. D. C. June 5. 1920- ’ ° 9 3" ° 3“ e t° °
—Warm waves will reach Vatgcouveri, 13:8? “in  gggﬁcgggﬁmnthew‘ﬁmgﬁ- *
B' C" 3130‘“ Jun“ 10' 16' 21' “6 an for much warm air from the Gulf of
Mexico and Caribbean Sea to move

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T , Moderate
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temperatures will rise on all the P3;

3 .
cRioﬁgklselgpgi, (33:an oyﬁuggosﬁ'cﬁ't 23’ northward east of Rockies and cold-
27; plains sections 12, 18 23, 28; merb 8" a” 10 move southward west of the
“mm 90' upper Great ukes_ Ohio Rockies. Readers are expected to
Tennessee and lower Mississippi val- mm“? the” Statements "in Ofder
leys 13, 19, 24, :9; mt lower lakes u fthey may better understand fu-

eastern sections 14, 20 25. no. r. 1" Wm“. .

resent? vicinity of Newfoundland Most severe storms of the next at:
about use 15, 1, 20, July 1. Storm mouths will be during the wee eenp
waves will follow about one day be. t on Jul,- 13; u 11 “f
hind warm waves, waves about, Sept. 11; Oct. 8 and 25; Nov. 8" Dee.
one day behind storm waves. 12. Such stoma aw much in do

disturbances will control crop- With weather and if you are in-
weather of this continent from near tenets!“ m
June 10 to near July, 1, and the new
ampWeather conditions that will oe- tonne
our and determine ‘erorweather and Dtedlct
crops of 1920 will ‘be ful y inaugurated
but is expected‘ to make onl gradual published and particular interest is
changes. one feature. is 3.! cat sure . tered on the predicted northern,
to be manifest the period June ostg of that week. i
10 to Jul! Izadeeidad danish .
higher temperaturem and before we *
are thru the summerwe will be longing . h . .
for cooler weather. This will be m , , r .v -

 

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New York so per cent, Wisconsin,
70: Colorado, 05; New Hence, 80;
Idaho, 100 and lichigan 75.

Michigan elevator op’erators do not
agree with the . er in estimates
for this state. ‘ ey say Hichigsn
will plant a normal acreage this year.
bet us hope so, because it looks as
if they would be a proﬁtable crop to
raise this year;

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Santa! lull
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chime  . . . . . . . . .. 3.00
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Movement of old potatoes is hard-
ly enough to make a market and the
price is higher. New ones are not
moving much better and prices are

. following the trend of old potatoes.
Fewer acres of spuds will be raised
this year according to the Bureau of
Crop Estimates report. They say
New York will plant 97 per cent of
last year's acreage; Michigan 90.
Wisconsin~96, Minnesota 89, Colora-
do 94, Idaho 95, California 110 and
Maine is expected to plant 100.

 

HAY CONTINUES IN DEMAND
i No. 1 Tim! Stan. Tlm.i No. 2 Tim.

 

 

Detroit . .l3750668-3650031M0u-
Chicago . . l48.00 @ 50 47.00 @48 48.00 41
New York l83.00 @ 84 84.00 83
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Detroit . . lease 0 87l35.80 @ IO .50 0

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Chicago .  4 .0004! 45.0004:
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HAY PRICES A YEAR AGO

    

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The estimated acreage of hay in
Michigan is 2,517,000 or about 5 per
cent under the acreage of last year.
There was loss of new seedings in
some northern counties by drought
and grasshoppers and in some south-
ern counties by drought which more
than offsets the tendency to increase
the amount of land in grass and past-
ures this year. The May 1 condition
of 84 indicated a production of 3;
256,000 tons or 2 per cent under the

. estimate for last year at the same

about 318,000 tons‘and the lack of
railroad transportation has retarded

the shipping of this surplus which un-

der ordinary circumstances would
have been killed out. In some of the
western and northwestern » _ counties
which had a light crop last year they
are practically’without any hay now.
Pastures are backward. Bay is, in
demand .andlrmfand with light 139-.

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DETROIT—~Canners ,and bills

steady; all other, grades 26» to- I .oo. 
miller: best heavy  $11150QI»

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The Maybarley delivery at Chicago
did not declihe as fast-as the cash
for the latter was ata big premium.
ReadJustment has been compléted.”

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Mr. C. H. Gustafson, president of

' the All-American Farmer-Labor Co-

operative Commission and chairman

of the executive committee has just '

made public the action of the meet-
ing of the executive committee re-
cently" held in Washington.

The entire executive committee
was present including, in addition to
President Gustafson, who is president
of the Nebraska Farmers' Union,
Warren 8. Stone, Grand Chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-

' eers; Hon. Herbert 1". Baker, Presi;

dent of the Farmers’ National Coun-
cil, and member of the Supreme
Council National Gleaner Federa-
tion; 0. H. McGill of the‘ Washington
(lo-operative Timber Mills; George
P. Hampton, Managing Director or
the Farmers’ National Council.

Mr. Gustafson stated that the meet-
ing of the executive committee which
lasted for. two days was most en-
couraging. The members, who have
been in touch with the development
or co—operative organization through-
out thecountry, report that the de-
mand for active and effective co-‘op-
eration is increasing so rapidly that
it is difﬁcult to keep up with it. One
important evidence of this is the fact
that the University of Wisconsin and
the University of Nebraska have re-
cently established departments to
train co—operative managers. The
executive committee authorized the
creation of a committee on direct
trading to consist of representatives
of three producers, and three con-
sumers co-operative organizations to
secure information and disseminate
it as to existing producers and con-
sumers , co-operative organizations
and to work out plans for better dis-
tribution through direct trading be-
tween farmers co—operative organiza-
tions and organisations of consumers.
A committee on legislation was also
authorized to ‘work for adequate na-
tional legislation regarding co~oper~
ative organizations, and to work out
a uniform state law for co-operative
organizations.

The Committee on Banking and
Credits had already been created with
Mr. Warren S. Stone as chairman,
and Mr: Fred C. Howe as secretary,
reported its plans to stimulate the

.Sstablishment of coeoperative banks
which are essential to the widest de- '

velopment and growth of co-opera-
tive organizations and of direct trad-
mg.

The committee decided that the
next meeting of 'the $11 American
Farm Labor (lo-operative Commis-
sion should be held in Lincoln, Ne-
braska on Lincoln’s birthday.

Mr. George P. Hampton. Manag—
ing Director ‘or the Farmers' Nation—
al Council was selected GenerairMan—
ager of the Commission; Fred C.
Howe. as Secretary; Oscar H. McGill
Director of Field and Extension
Work; and Benjamin C. Marsh, Di-
rector of Legislation and» Publicity.

It was decided to hold state can-
ferences on co-operation as the co-
operative movement develop.

 

STATE FARM BUREAU HELPS
GANNING PLANTS

To prevent loss of hundreds of
thousands of dollars to Michigan
fruit growers, the Michigan tate
Farm Bureau is actively at work an-
deavoring to get {preferential ship-
ping rating for canning plants in
Michigan. The majority of the 100
canning plants in the state may be
unable to opeiate on their scale this
summer, because of inability to se-

, cure cans, coal and sugar.

Paralysis of the railroads by the

 recent switchmen's strike and the re-
‘ suiting jam of treight and empties at

many important junction points is
responsible for the predicament of
the corners. .,

.-.wm-a good fruit year in prospect

e busiest-unease in sometime
 it. the!  set ,,

plants have their cans ordered in the
east. butcan’t get shipment. They
are not only having dimenlty in get-
ting coal shipped them, but also in
the purchase. And sugar, While it is
scarce- is almost prohibitive because
of the soaring price. ‘

While these canneries can oper-
ate without sugar, they can't without
cans and fuel. At this time of the
year, usually they are stocked with
both. The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission will be appealed to by the
farm bureau in efforts to get the can-
neries that will permit ,cans and coal
to be shipped to them on the grounds
that the food stuffs involved repre—
sent a public need.

The sugar problem places the can-
neries'in a quandary. If they can
without sugar, they are unable to
put out their usual brands, and their
usual~ trade is disappointed. If they
use sugar at its present price, a con—
siderably higher price for canned
goods next winter is certain. For
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county last year paid approximate-
lyp$50,000 for the sugar needed.
This year the same quantity of sugar
will cost approximately $125,000.

 

FEDERAL FARM LOAN BANKS
SEE DULL SEASON

Federal farm loan ofﬁcials in a re-
cent conference found no way to
avoid a summer of inactivity in loan-
ing operations.

Despite the fact that the 12 land
banks have borrowed about $16,000,—
000 from private banks to loan to
farmers, more than $50,000,000 in
applications for loans have accumu-
lated. In going into the open market
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-  shiny“ , Taking» the helmet from.
. «the headiof' his ancient kin, he plac-

u _ed;ait:_.eni-hisv OWn- head. _.‘Likewise,' did

,~;hc idrape the rotten mantle about his
the

 formnandzgequip himself with
.greatmswond and: the. great afioppy
boots that almost fell to pieces as
,he pulled them on. Next, half ten-
derly,,,he deposited the nude mum-
my .onits back in the dark shadows
behind the other mummies.‘ And,
ﬁnally, in the same spot at‘ the end
, of the line, his hand resting on the
sword hilt, he assumed the same
posture he had observed of the mum—
my.

Only his e es moved as he ob-‘

served the pe n venturing slowly and
fearfully along the avenue of upright
corpses. At sight of Torres he came
to an abrupt stop and with wide eyes
of dread muttered a succession of
Maya prayers. Torres, so confront-
ed, could only listen with closed eyes
and conjecture. When he heard the
peon move on he stole a look and
.saw him pause with'apprehension at
the narrow elbow turn of the pass-
age which he must venture next. Tor-
res saw his chance and swung the
sword aloft for the blow that would
split the peon’s head in twain.

Though this was the day and the
very hour for the peon, the last sec-
ond had not yet ticked. Not there.-
in the thoroughfare of the dead, was
he destined to die under the hand of
Torres. For Torres held his and
and slowly lowered the point of he
sword to the floor, while the peon
passed on into the elbow.

The latter met up with his father,
Leoncia and Francis, just as Francis
was demanding the priest to run the
knots again for fuller information of
the how and what that would open
the ear of Hzatzl.

“Put your hand intorthe mouth of
Chia and draw forth tl‘e key," the
old man commanded his reluctant

son, who went about obeying. him-

most gingerly.

“She won't bite you—«she's stone,"
Francis laughted at him in Spanish.

“The Maya gods are never stone,"
the old man reproved him. “They
seem to be stone, but they are alive,
and ever alive, and under the stone,
and through the stone, and by the
stone, as always, work their everlast—
ing will."

Leoncia shuddered away from him

and clung against Francis for pro- I

tection, her hand on his arm.

' "I know that something terrible is
going to happen,” she gasped. “I
don't like this place in the heart of
a mountain among all these dead old
things. I like the blue of the sky
and the balm of the sunshine, and
the widespreading sea. Something
terrible is going to happen. I know
that something terrible is going to
happen."

While Francis reassured her, the
last second of the last minute for the
peon were ticking off. And when,
summoning all his courage, he thrust
his hand into the mouth of the god-
dess, the last second ticked and the
clock struck. With a scream of hor-
hor he pulled back his hand and

" gazed at the wrist where a tiny drop
' of blood exuded directly above an ar—

ltery. The mottled head of a snake

:thrust forth like a mocking, deris-
f ive tongue and' drew back and dis-

~appeared in the darkness of the
-' mouth of the goddess.
, “A viperine !" screamed Leoncia,

recognizing the reptile. '
And the peon, likewise recognizing

’ the‘viperine and knowing his certain
, death by it, recoiled backward in

“ horror, stepped into the hole,

and

9 vanished down the nothingness which
, Chia had guarded with her feet for

1 'ing Leoncia.

so many centuries.

For a full minute nobody spoke,
then. the old priest said: “I have
angered Chia, and she has slain my
son." ‘

"Nonsense," Francis was comfort-
“The whole thing is
natural and explainable. What more
natural than that a viperine should
choose a hole in a rock for a lair
It isthe way of snakes. What more
natural than that a man» bitten by
a viperine, should step backward?

« And. 7what more natural, with a hole

behind him, than that he should fall
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of the hole and fountained up in,the
air like a geyser. “He is‘ right.
Through stone itself the gods werk
their everlasting will. He warned
us. He knew from reading the. knots
of the sacred tassel.”

“Piffle !” Francis snorted. “Not
the will of the gods, but of the an-
cient Maya priests who invented
their gods as well as this particular
device. Somewhere down that hole
the peon’s body struck the lever that
opened stone flood-gates. And thus
was released some substerranean
body of water in the mountain. “This
is that water. No goddess with a
monstrous mouth like that could
ever have existed save in the men—
strous imaginations of men. Beauty
and divinity are one. A real and
true goddess is always beautiful.
Only man creates devils in all their
ugliness.”

So large was the stream that al-
ready the water was about their
ankles.

“It's all right,” Francis said. "I
noticed all the way‘from the en-
trance, the steady inclined plane of
the floors of the rooms and passages.
Those old Mayas were engineers, and
they built with an eye on drainage.
See how the water rushes away out
through the passage—Well, old man,
read your knots, where is the treas—
ure?” ,

“Where is my son?" the old man
counter-demanded, in dull and hope-
less tones. "Chia has slain my only
born. For his mother I broke the
Maya law and stained the pure Maya
blood with the mongrel blood of a
woman of the tierra caliente. Be-
cause I sinned fo'r him that "he might
be, is he thrice precious to me.‘What
care I for treasure? My son is gone.
The wrath of the Maya gods is upon
1116.0! ,

With gurglings and burblings and
explosive air-bubblings that advertis-
ed thc pressure behind the water-
fountained high as ever into the air.
Leoncia was the ﬁrst to notice the
rising depth of the water on the
chamber floor.

“It is half way to my knees," she
drew Francis' attention.

"And time to get out," he agreed.
grasping the situation. “The drain-
age was 'excellently planned, per-
haps. But that slide of'rocks at the
cliff entrance has evidently blocked
the. planned way of the water. In
the other passages, being lower, the
water is deeper, of course, than here..
Yet is it already rising here on the
general level. And that way lies the
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Thrusting Leoncia to
placeof safety, he Caught the apam
thetic priest by the hand and drag-
ged him after. At the entrance of
the elbow turn the water was boil-
ing above their knees. It was to

their waists as they emerged into the -

chamber of mummies. ,

w And out of the water, confronting
Leoncia's‘ astounded gaze, arose the
helmeted head and ancient-manned
body of amummy. Not this alone
would have astounded her, fer other
mummies were overtopp‘ilng, falling
and,being washed about in the swirl-
ing waters. But this mummy mov-
ed and made gasping noises for
breath, and with eyes of life stared
into her eyes. ‘

It was too much for ordinary hu-
man nature to bear—a four-centur-
ies old corpse dying the second death
by drowning. Leoncia screamed,
sprang forward, and fled the way she
had come, while Francis in his own
way equally startled her. let her go
past as he drew his automatic pistol.
But the mummy, ﬁnding footing in
the swift rush of the current, cried
out: '

“Don’t shoot! It is I—Torres!
I have just come back from the en-
trance. The water is over one's
head and higher than the entrance,.
and rocks are falling." 

“And your way is blocked in this
direction," Francis said, aiming the
revolver at him. -

“This is no time for quarreling,"
Torres replied. “We must save all
our lives, and, afterwards, if quar-
rel we must, then quarrel we will."

Francis hesitated.

“What is happening to Leoncia?"
Torres demanded slyly. “I saw her
run back. May she not be in danger
by herself?”

LettingTorres live and dragging
the old man by the arm, Francis
waded back to the chamber of the”
idols, followed by Torres. Here, at
sight of“ him, Leoncia screamed in
her horror again.

“It's only Torres," FranCis reas-
sured her. “He gave me a devil of
a fright myself when I ﬁrst saw him.
But he’s real flesh. He’ll bleed if
a knife is stuck into him—come old
man !' We don’t want to drown here

like rates in a trap. This is not all

of the Maya mysteries. Read the tale.
of the knots and get usout of this i"

“The way is not out. but in," the
priest quavered.

“And we’re not particular so long
as we get away. But how can we
get in?"

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divin‘ed } Francis’ ' vengeancB. , 0f thiié‘

Torres-took no notice, and gaily wad:  ,-
ed toward the goddess, saying: “Only  

too glad to, be of'service.”' ,
And then Francis’
play betrayed him; __
_ “Stopi'ﬂhe commanded harshly,
himself wading to the idol’s side.-
And Torres, at ﬁrst looking on in
puzzlement, saw what he had escape
ed- Several times Francis ﬁred his

sense of “fair

pistol into‘ the stone mouth, whilc‘

the. old priest moaned “sacrilegc i"
’ Next,,,wrapping his coat around his
arm and hand, he groped into the

' mouth and pulled out thewounded "

'viper by the tail.‘ With quick swings
in the air he beat it head .to a jellyi
against the goddess’ side.

Wrapping his hand and arm
against the possibil-ty of a second
snake, Francis thrust his hand into
the mouth and drew forth a piece of
worked gold of the shape and size
of the hole-in Hzatzl's ear. The old
man pointed to the ear and Francis
inserted the key.

“Like a nickle—insthe-slot—ma-
chine," he remarked, as the key dis-
appeared from sight. “‘Now what’s
going to happen? Let’s watch for
the water. to drain suddenly away."

But the great stream continued to
spout unabated out of the hole. With
an exclamation, Torres pointed to the
wall. an apparently, solid portion of
which was slowly rising.

. “The way out," said Torres.

“In, as the old man said,” Francis
corrected. “W611, anyway, let's
start.”

All were through and well along
the narrow passage beyond, when the
old Maya crying, “My son !" turned
and ran back. ,

The section of wall was already do-
scending into its original position,
and the priest had to crouch low in
order to pass it. A moment later, it
stopped in its old position. 80 ac-
curately was it contrived and ﬁtted
that it immediately shut‘ oi! the
stream of water which had been flow-
ing out of the idol room.

Outside, save for a small river of
water that flowed out of the base of
the cliﬂ, there were no signs of what
was vexing the interior of the moun-
tain. Henry and Ricardo, arriving,
ngted the stream, and Henry observ-
e : ‘

“That's something new.
wasn’t any stream of water
when I left.”

A minute later he was saying, as
he looked at a fresh slide of rock:
“This was the entrance to the cave.
Now there is'no entrance. I wond-
er where the other are."

As if in answer. out of the moun-
tain, borne by the spouting stream,
shot the body of a man. . Henry and
Ricardo pounced upon it and drag-
gde it clear. Recognizing it for the
priest, Henry laid him face down-
ward, squatted astride of him, and
proceeded to give him the ﬁrst aid
for the drowned.

Not for ten minutes did the old
man betray signs of life. and not un-
til af-ter another ten minutes did he
open his eyes and look wildly about.

“Where are they?" Henry asked.

The old, priest muttered in Maya,

There
hero

untilHenry shook more thorough
consciousness into him. r .
“Gone—all gone," he gasped in

Spanish. ,
“Who‘f”. Henry demanded. shook
memory into the resuscitated one,
and demanded again. '
“My son; Chi-a. slew him. Chis
slew my son, as she slew them all.-'_'
“Who are the rest?"
Followed more shaking and repe-
titions of the question. \

“The rich young Gringo who be-' 

friended my. son, the enemy oftho
rich «young Gringo Wham men call
Torres, and the young woman of the
Science Who was the. cause of anthat ‘ '
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CHAPTER XVI. .

_. IDWAY between the out-burst
 .ing stream of water and the
' rock slide, Henry and 'Ricardo
stood in hurried debate. Beside
. .them, crouched on the ground, moan-
. ed and prayed the last priest of the
: Mayas. From him by numerous
; ‘shakings that served to clear his ad-
: dred old head, Henry had managed
to extract a rather vague account of
what had occurred inside the menu-

 

tain. ,,
“Only his son was bitten and fell
j into that. hole," Henry reasoned
‘ hopefully. -

“That's right,” Ricardo concurred.
: “He never saw any damage, beyond
a wetting, happen to the rest of
them.” .
“And they may be, right now, high
up above the floor in some chamber,”
; Henry went on. “Now if we could
attack the slide, we might open up
' the cave and drain the water 'off. If
they’re alive they can last for many
days, for lack of water is what kills
quickly, and they’ve certainly more
water than they know what to do
with. They can get along without
‘ food for a long time. But what gets
" me is how Torresxgot inside with
‘. them.”
“Wonder if he wasn’t responsible

us," Ricardo suggested. .

But Henry scouted. the idea.

“Anyway,” he said, “that isn’t the
' present proposition—which proposi-
‘ tion is: how to get inside that moun-
tain on the chance that th-eyare still
alive. You and I couldn’t go thru
‘ that slide in a month. If we could
get fifty men'tohelp, night and day
shifts, we might open her in in forty-
;\ eight hours. So, the primary thing
is to get the men. Here’s what ‘we
must «do. I’ll take a mule and beat
it back to that Caroo community and
promise them the contents of one of
Francis‘ checkbooks if they will
come and help. Failing that, I can
get up a crowd in San Antonia. So
here’s where I pull out on the run.
In the meantime, you can work out
trails and bring up all the mules,
' peons, grub and camp equipment,
Also, keep your ears to the cliff—
they might start signalling through
it with tappings.”

Into the village of the Caroos
Henry forced his mule—much to the
reluctance of the mule, and squall
ly as much to the astonishment of
the“Caroos, who thus saw _their
strong-hold invaded single—handed by
one of the party they had attempted
to annihilate. They squatted about
their doors and leafed in the sun-
shine, under a show of lethargy hid-
ing the astonishment that rt-ingled
through them and almost put them
on their toes. As has been ever the
way, the very daring of the white
man, over savage and mongrel breed
in this instance stunned the Caroos
to inaction. Only a man, they could
not help but reason in their slow
way, a superior man, a noble or over-
riding man, equipped with potencies
beyond their dreaming, could not
dare to ride into their strength of
numbers on 9. tagged and mutinous
mule. .

They spoke a mongrel Spanish
which he could not understand, and,
in turn, they understood his Span-
ish; but what he told them concern-
ing the disaster in the sacred moun-
tain had no effect of arousing them.
With impassive faces, shrugging
shoulders of utmost indifference, they
listened to his proposition of a res-
cue and promise of- high pay for
their time. 7 '

' “If a mountain has swallowed up
the Gringos, then is it the will of
God, and who are we to interfere

4 _between God and His will?” they re-

plied. “We are poor men, but we

,_-care not to work for any man, nor

“do. we care. to make war upon God.

Also, it Was the Gringos' fault. This

,isvfnot' their country. They have no

' night here" playing pranks on our

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couple of wretbh‘e’d 'prisonerse—run-
away peons from the henequen plan-
tations at,‘Santos. ‘While the judge
and the Jefe’listen'ed to Henry’s tale
and appeal forhelp, the Jets gave
one slow wink to the’ judge, who was
his judge, his creature, body and
soul of him. ~

“Yes, certainly we will help you,"
the Jefe said at the end, stretching
his arms and yawning. ,

“How soon can we' get the men
together and start?" Henry demand-
ed eagerly. -

“As for that, we are very busy—
are we not, honorable judge?” the
Jefereplied with lazy insolence‘.

“We are very busy,” the judge
yawned into Henry’s face.

“Too busy for a time," the Jets
'went on. "We regret that not to-
morrow nor next day shall we be
able to try to rescue your Gringos.
Now, a little later ”

“Say next Christ-mas,” the judge
suggested. '

“Yes,” concurred the Jets with a
grateful bow. “About next Christ—
mas come around and see us, and,
if the pressure of our affairs has
somewhat eased, then, 'maybe pos-
sibly, we shall find it convenient to
go about beginning to attempt to
raise the expedition you have sug~
gested. In the meantime, good day
to you, Senor Morgan.”

“You mean that?” Henry demand-
ed with wrathful face.

“The very face he must have worn
when he slew Senor Alfaro‘ Solano
treacherously from the back,” the
Jets 'soiiloquized ominously.

But'rI-Ienry ignored the later in-
sult.

“I’ll tell you what you are,” he
flamed in righteous wrath.
“Beware !” the judge

him.‘ '

"I snap my fingers at you,” Hen-
ry retorted. “You have no power
over me. I am a full-pardoned man
by the President of Panama himself.

    

 

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'e . Yohiare mongrel pigs."
"Pray, proceed senor,” said the

Jets, with the suave politeness of

deathly rage. ' _V

“You’ve neither the virtues of the
Spaniard nor of the Carib, but the
vices of both thrice compounded.
Mongrel pigs, that’s what you are
and all you are, the pair of you."

“Are you through Senor?—-quite
through?” the Jets queried softly.

At the same moment he gave a
signal to the gendarmes, who sprang
upon Henry from behind and dis-
armed him.

“Even the President of the Re-
public of Panama cannot pardon in
anticipation of a crime not yet com-
mitted—am I right, judge?” said the
Jets. ‘

“This is a fresh oﬁense,” the judge
took the cue promptly. “This Gringo
dog has blasphemed against the law."

“Then shall he be tried. and tried
now, right here, immediately. We
will not bother to go back and re-
open court. We shall try him, and
when we have disposed of him, we
shall proceed. I have a very good
bottle of wine—-”

“I care not for wine,” the judge
disclaimed hastily. “Mine shall be
mescal. And in the meantime, and
now, having been both witness and
victim of the offense and there being
no need of evidence further than
what I already possess. I ﬁnd the
prisoner guilty. Is there anything
you would suggest, Senor Mariano
Vercara e Hijos?”

“Twenty-four hours in the stocks
to cool his heated Gringo head,” the
Jefe answered.

“Such is thesentence,” the judge
affirmed," to~begin at once. Take
the prisoner away, gendarmes, and

'put him in the stocks.”

Daybreak found Henry in the
stocks with a dozen hours of such
imprisonment already behind him.
lying on his back asleep. But the
sleep was restless, being veved sub-
jectively by nightmare dreams of
his mountain-imprisoned compan-
ions, and, objectively, by the stings

  

 

of countless mosquitoes. . So" it was.
twisting and squirming and». striking
at the winged pests, he awoke to full
consciousness of his predicament.
And this awoke the’full expression
of his profanity. Irritated beyond
endurance by the poison from a thou-
sand mosquito bites, he'ﬁlled the
dawn so largely with his curses as
to attract the attention of a man car-
rying a bag of tools. This was a
trim-ﬁgured, eagle faced young man,
clad in the military garb of an av-
iator of the United States army. He
deflected his course so as to come
by the stocks, and paused, and list-
ened, and stared with quizzical- ad-
miration.

“Friend,” he said, when Henry
ceased to catch breath. “Last night-
when I found myself marooned here
with half my outﬁt left on board, I
did a bit of swearing myself. But
it was only a trifle compared with
yours. I salute you, sir. You’ve
an army teamster skinned a mile.
Now if you don’t mind running over
the string again, I shall be better
equipped the next time I want to do
any cussing.”

“And who in hell are you,” Hen-
ry demanded. “And what in hell are
you doing here?”

“I don’t blame you,” the aviator
grinned. “With a face swollen like
that you’ve got a right to be rude.
And who beat you up? In hell, I
haven’t ascertained my status yet.
But here on earth I am know as Par-
sons, Lieutenant Parsons. I am
not doing anything in hell as yet;
but here in Panama I am scheduled
to fly across this day from the At-
lantic to the Paciﬁc. Is there any
way I may serve you before I start?"

“Sure,” Henry nodded. “Take a
tool out of that bag of yours and.
smash this padlock. I’ll get rheuma-
tism if I have to stick here much
longer. My name’s Morgan, and no
man has beaten me up. Those are
mosquito bites."

With several blows of a wrench,
Lieutenant Parsons smashed the
ancient padlock and helped Henry to
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_The Farmer and the Country Newspaper

HE ATTITUDE of the average country

newspaper toward the farmer is beyond
understanding. Instead of being a help to the
farmer it is frequently a hinderance. Instead
of showing any interest in the farmers’ efforts
to make their business more proﬁtable, it con-
ﬁnes its editorial discussions to town issues.
Or, in cases of controversy between the farm-
ers and the people of the towns, instead of
championing what seems to be the fair and
just phase of the issue, the country newspaper
invariably sides with the people of the towns,

, be they right or wrong.

When Congressman Fordney, for mysteri-
ous reasons which he has not seen ﬁt to divulge,

withdrew his support from the bean tariff bill, .

nearly every newspaper in his district print-
ed an alibi for him. Instead of? getting the
wires busy and using their columns to con~
vince Mr. Fordney that he ought to get this
bill out. of his committee and help to preserve
Michigan’s bean industry, nearly every last
partisan newspaper publisher of the eighth dis-
trict resorted to dirty slurs and lying state-
ments about the Business Farmer and the ag-
ricultural leaders who had worked tooth and
nail to secure this much needed legislation, be-
cause they had dared to criticize the political
wig-wagging of Congressman Fordney.

When the sugar beet growers asked the man-
ufacturers for a conference and a fair division
of the beet proﬁts, what did the country pub-
lishers do? Some of them, honest and justice-
loving fellows that they are, gladly gave the
use of their columns to the growers to present
their side of the case, and occasionally wrote
an editorial in their behalf. Others were de-
liciously “neutral,” breaking their neutrality
only on occasions to publish an extensive “in-
terview” with the manager of a sugar factory,
setting forth of course, the factory ’3 side of
the controversy. For some reason the coun-
try publishers were not so anxious to “inter-
view” the beet growers and give the public a
few worth-while facts instead of deceitful pro-
paganda. In some instances the publishers
even went so far as to charge the beet growers
for printing notices of their meetings and art-
icles presenting their side of the issue.

Why is this so? -

Agriculture is the foundation which sup
ports nearly every town, merchant and news-
paper in the bean and sugar beet districts.
Take away the farmers and let the farms lie
idle for a single year and what Would happen?
Merchants would look their doors. Spiders
would weave their web across the ink fountains
of the newspaper presses. Weeds would grow
in the streets. The towns. and the counties
would become insolth because there would be
no oneLto pay the taxes. ‘ . _ g

The towns and of Michigan are as
dependent upon the trade of the farmers as
the engine upon the boiler which provides it

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twenty to thirty cents that‘the consumer pays
for sugar goes to the farmer. Part of this

ﬁve cents eventually ﬁnds its way into. the cof-_
[ers of the merchant and the newspaper. But -

no beneﬁt is had out of the other ﬁfteen " to
twenty-ﬁve cents if we except the paltry frac-
tion of a cent per pound which is expended

locally in labor and supplies in,  whom '
sugar factories are located. The major part"

of the wealth that is created by theme-n who

grow the heels goes hundreds of miles away,

from the place where the. boots are produced
and the several communities are that much
the poorer. r ’
It ought to be a matter for rejoicing on the
part of the country merchant and the country

publisher when the farmers organize to secure

a better price for their products. For it

means that much more money kept at home; 

that much more money spent in the merchant’s
store who in turn spends it for advertising and
printed matter; that much more money spent
in public improvements. It‘means better farm
homes, more farm conveniences, more automo-
biles, more tractors, better dressed farm-folks.
It means a more prosperous and contented cit-
izenship. It is all for the good of the people of
the towns fully as much 3; of the people of the
farms. Then why, in the name of the seven
wonders, do not the merchants and the pub-
lishers help the farmers to secure what is
rightfully theirs instead of-  obstacles
in their way? You can search us. It’s a mys-
tery too deep for us to fathom. ‘

In Memoriam
{"S RATHER unusual to write a memorial
day editorial after memorial day has peas-

cd, but it is our conviction. that every day
should be memorial day, hence these brief

. thoughts may not come amiss. Anyway, mem-

orial day doesn’t mean so much to us old.fash-
ioned folks as it used to. Time was when the
entire town and countryside turned out in
their Sunday best and marched to the come-
tery, there to do reverence to the soldier dead.
They went because they wanted to go. They
got a vague sort of comfort from standing
with bowed and uncovered heads before the
graves of the unknown dead while the band
played a few solemn notes or the preacher read
briefly from the Bible and the village choir or
soloist sang, “Nearer My God to Three," in

soft, sweet tones that brought tears to the,

eyes of every listener.

But that was before every other inhabitant
owned an automobile and baseball games and
ﬁshing excursions became pOpular Decoration
day pastimes.

It rather seems to us, shameful as the
thought is,. that people now observe this hal~
lowed day rather from compunction than a
sincere desire to pay homage to the dead. The
faithful ones who defy the blistering sun or
chance the sudden rainstorm to march in the
parade are pitifully few compared with other
years.

All this is regrettable. It is a. reflection
upon our national spirit. It ought not to be.
Perhaps it is natural that as the older veterans
who added a more or less tragic meaning and
picturesque touch to Decoration day ceremon-
ies, pass away, their friends and their relatives
should lose "a part of their interest in the ob-
servancc of this day. But they ought not to
entirely erase them from their memories. They
ought, in decent respect for those who have
died in defense of home and country visit
their graves on this Occasion and make those
few veterans who are left tofcel that weirdo-
partcd comrades have not been entirely for-
gotten. ’ ' ~ - 

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marked gravesfand the other countless thenc- »
ands whogaurvivcd-thc wars arid died of old“

age, wears hd into ponderingmr the some
for which they fought. rather than their, indlq
.vidual greatncm’. Evens-the pom 
who stands before the graves of. such as those V

.muat feel an awakening of patriotism and a de-
'uiretubeablotter-citizencubismindtakain1

the full signiﬁcance of the cause for which
these men fought and died. "

So than Hemorial day holds a meaning for
eachoncof-us, and itis ameaning not hard to
understand. We are not worthy the name of
Americans if we do not take part in the an-
nual, observance of that day and if we do not
also during our leisure moments of other days,
turn our thoughts into. the channels’of patriot-
ism which led our, forefathers into wars that
have preserved this democracy. to us and our
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Playing the Game Square

HE WORLD is full of small men. When
' backed into a corner and defeated in an
argument they snarl like a pack of coyotes.
They cannot take an honest licking. They are A
always full of excuses. Their vocabulary con-
sists largely of “ifs” and “bats” When they
do not approve of the contentions of others

 of coming out into the open and argu-

ing the case on its merits, they get behind a
tree and shoot marathon darts of innuendos,

insults and lies hoping to hurt their“ opponent
in the eyes of the public. They are always ao-
cusing others/of having ulterior motives. When
a politician is criticized for not doing his plain
duty his critics are invariably charged with
having partisan designs. .It is becoming al-
most impossiblc nowadays for the lover of good
government to express his honest opinions on
the shortcomings of those who are trying to
administer the government and making a sor-
ry mess of the job, without getting it in the
neck from the friends of the lawmaker. We
will have better government and better man to
run the government when we all acquire the
courage to face the real issues even at the ex-
pense of inviting the tar-gets of our small-cal-
ibred enemies, and take a beating if necessary.

The Farm Bureau and Politics \

ET THERE berejoicing. The Farm Bu-

reau is after all going into politics. At
least such is the declared purpose of the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation; according to a state-
ment which appeared in a recent issue of its
ofﬁcial publication. This statement says:

“From all sides comes the query: ‘Wlll the
farm bureau ignore polltlcs?’ Not exactly. To
ignore politics, and by that act refuse to accept
a share of responsibility. would be dlstlnctly un-/
American. For politics is a. part of the machinery
or American government. '

“The federation will concern itself with men
and measures rather than with parties. It will
have absolutely nothing to do with the political
stew from a partisan standpoint. But when ques-
tions develop that have a bearing upon the agri-

cultural interests of the country, or questions

that deal with the lite and stability of American
institutions, depend on it the Farm Bureau Fed-
eration will be found very much in evidence.”
Three cheers for the Iowa Farm Bureau
Federation. Its declarations upon this import-
ant subject of politics sounds a little different
than the initial semi-official declaration of the '
Michigan State Farm Bureau, which declared

- that it would steer clear, of politics, concerning
itself NOT with MEN buf'with MEASURES.

Butthe Iowa people have learned from expen.
'ienco that measures are meaningless, useless *
 unlemgood'men are elected to 
them out," hence, in their estimation, men come

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LEGISLATORS

I noticed in your issue of the M.‘

B. F. under date of May 22nd, the
letter. “Farmers for Legislature.”
I! I remember the writer was from
Bennie. county. I was glad to hear
from him. ’I have been asked sev-
eral times by good busyfarmers ef
Tuscola. county who the seven men
were that voted against. the. ware-
house bill and I had forgotten who
they all were. I know of one from
our own county who lay in with W.

‘ I. Ivory against the farmers on the

warehousebill; I wish you would
give us the names of the seven who
said by their votes that the farmers
did not know what they wanted. We
as agriculturists want to keep an eye
open for those follows as some of
them are now looking for another
job and more pay to do us again.

.Some of them were very anxious
to have an investigation of Nathan
Simpsonand the binder twine at
Jackson. prison, one of the good
things that-came our. way. That was
all right if these had been a shadow
of' a doubt of anything wrong but
when the committee gave him and
the Gleaners a clean slate not one
of them said, “that is good," but
hung their head when asked about
t. .

‘ If there ever was a. time wnen
farmers should disregard parties and
vote for men that will give agricul:
ture some consideration and by so
doing will help every other honest
business in our state, it is this coming-
election. We should stand for men

in our districts that we know are in- '

Iterested and will dare to do the fair
thing under all conditions.

I wish you would tell through the
BUSINESS Flume:- why we have to pay
from four to ﬁve dollars per pound
for yarn when we are only oii‘ered
about fifty cents for our wool. I am
ready with the rest of the flock own-
ers of Michigan to look into this ques-
I-tion and see who is responsible. If
this wool is not needed now we’d
better take care of it until it is.—
J. J. E., Tuscola County.

Instead of seven there were sixteen
“farmer” legislators who could not trust
the people to vote on the warehouse
amendment. They are as follows: Or-
ville E. Atwood, Newaygo county; Harri-
dbn H. Averill, Ottawa county; Chas. 0,
Bllnn. Tuscola county; Burney E. Brow.
er, Jackson caunty; Henry Cross,
Gladwin county; Miles S. Curtiss, Cai-
houn county; Herbert M. wdy, Ber<
rien county; Albert G. Griggs, Oakland
county; Will C. HartWay, Macomb Coun-
ty. Arlie L Hopkins. Manistee county;
Wm. E. Ivory, Lapeer county; John L.
Martin, Shlawassee county; Joel C,
Merriman, Sanilac county: Edward G.
Reed. Kalamazoo county; Hang T. Ross,
Livingston county; Fred B. ells. Cass
county. One of these, as you will note,
is from your home county—Editor.

———_———‘—.

PROPOSED PAROCIIIAL SCHOOL
AMENDMENT

,Editor The Business Farmer:—
You are doubtless aware of the cam-
paign being instituted in behalf of
the adoption of an amendment to the
State. Constitution. The proposed
Amendment is- as follows: '

“Section 16. All residents of the
State of Michigan, between the ages
of ﬁve years and sixteen years, shall
attend the public school in their re-
spective districts until they have
graduated from the eighth grade;
Provided, that in Districts where the
grades do not reach the eighth; then
all persons herein described in such
District shall complete the course
taught therein.

{‘Section 17.
enact all necessary legislation
render Section sixteen effective."

This roposed amendment is to
be plac d upon the ballot to be voted
in November. next, and the edect of
this amendment, if adopted, will be
to prohibit all sectarian or religious

schools for children between live
and, sixteen years in. the State of
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of the American conception of civil
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State cannbt interfere with the prov-
ince of the church in its religious
activities, provided. those religious
activities do not abridge the equal
rights of the people'at large, or men-
ace the welfare of the state in its
government.

In raising this question and in op-
posing the amendment, I am not pro-
posing any unfriendly pronounce-
ment/ against the public school sys—
tem. Noﬂfo‘r a moment would I say
aught against this American bulwark
of liberty. It is the best devised
system possible for the purposes for
which it wasbrought into being. Our
public school is a. conservator against
possible inroads of un~American pol-
icies, and has produced some of our
greatest statesmen, ﬁnanciers" and
leaders of thought. It is an import-
ant factor in the development of
American citizenry and must needs
be continued and sustained by gen-
eral taxation. ~

I submit. however,-Mr. Editor, that
a church school system is not neces-
it is
not necessarily a breeder of unpatri-
otic impulses, anarchism and the
like. Just as loyal American came
from the church schools in propor-
tion as come from the public schools.
But, if at any time it should be found
that any schools, designed for in-
structing children of whatsoever age
are teaching by precept or example
anything that is antagonistic to the
nation’s welfare, and thereby become

' the breeding place for anarchism or

'bolshevism or unpatriotic impulses,
the police power of the state is avail-
able and should be exercised to put
,out of business such school system.

Moreover, any system of educa-
tion, secular or sectarian. which finds
it necessary to do business behind
closed doors and adopts a curricu-
lum of studies which teaches policies
inimical to the best interests of Am—
ericanism and will not bear the light
of day; or, instills into the minds of
the young a spirit of unfriendliness
for the American government. and
favor the government of some for-
eign potentate, the civil authorities
should promptly lay hands on it and
close it out. And if the Wayne Coun-
ty Civic Association knows of any
such enterprises being conducted in
Michigan or elsewhere, it should re-
port the facts at once to the public
as well as to the proper authorities.
If the police power is not sufﬁcient,
then the legislature should provide
the proper statutory laws.

But the proposed amendment runs
counter to the inalienable rights
vouchsafed by the American Charter
of Liberty, based upon the Declara-
tion of Independence which asserts
that “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" cannot rightly be abridged
by statutory or constitutional law.
Without going into the comparative

   

merits of the public or secular and
the sectarian or church school sys-
tems, “is it not the inherent right of
parents to begin the religious 'train-
ingot their children for the kingdom
of God While they are young and im-
pressionable? 'Is there not a here-
after for which to prepare? Is this
the only world possible? And does
death end it all?

There are many who contend that
the public school should be “Christé
tanned” by introducing religious in-
struction and by compulsory reading
of the Bible “without comment." But
those good friends are either unmind-
fui of, or antagonistic to the founda-
tion upon which our forefathers built
this great nation,——and these fore-

fathers were Christians themselves. ~

Let the state continue to give op-
portunity for free public education,
along the only possible lines, secular.
and let the church look after the
spiritual interests of their school
children, bearing in mind, of course,
the need of common school instruc-
tion. The state cannot rightfully in-
terfere. But, if the American peeple

. elect to close up church or parochial

schools and debar sectarian educa-
tion to children whose parents desire
it and pay for it, and compel all
children to attend the public schools,
they must be prepared for a move—
ment to be inaugurated whereby the
public schools will be sectarianized,
which would ultimately mean that
the denomination with the strongest
voting capacity would be in control.
And, is there any doubt as to what
such a contingency would precipi-
tvate?

In our judgment, therefore, the
proposed amendment to the Consti-
tution of Michigan is tin-American
and unnecessary. I thank you for
space to insert these thoughts and
suggestions—S. B. Horton, Secretary
Religious Liberty Association, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan.

A NON-PABTISAN

Enclosed find check for $3 for
a ﬁve year renewal. Although nom-
inally a Democrat I voted for Low-
den and expect to vote for Campbell.
Less party and more politics, it seems
to me, is what we farmers need to
help ourselves out of the hole we
are in. I don’t need to say I like
your paper for if I had not I would
not have renewed.——-D. E. T., Genes-
see county.

 

 

Mr. Campbell needs the votes of the
democratic farmers in the primary more
than he does in the election. but because
of the fool act of the last legislature in
making it impossible for a man to be a
candidate on more than one party ticket,
democrats who vote for Campbell in the
primaries will have to enroll as republi-
cans. A good many loyal democrats
have signiﬁed their intention to do this
very thing, and we think the winning of
the governorship by the farmers is of
such moment that every democratic
farmer in Michigan can afford to re-
nounce his party ties at the coming pri~
mary election and throw their support
in Campbell. What do you think about
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WHY FOSTER FARMING?
Employers who are in need of
more help have been somewhat
critical of The Press for defend-

ing the interests of agriculture and ‘

deploring the drift of man power
from country to city. That is natu-
ral, of course, for a man's own prob-
lems are the problems that seem
most vital to him, but it is the duty
of a general newspaper to look to the
good of the general public which it
seeks to serve. A hope for the pros.-
perity of agriculture is a hope for
the prosperity of the whole people.
When farmers desert the industry to
which they were born like passen-
gers (inserting. a sinking ship then
manifestly something is wrong with
agriculture. To learn what is
wrong a searchllght must be turned
on agricult re. and the Press has

  
  
    

   

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of other countries absorbed all their
production. Therefore the problem
of successful farming in America and
for America must be settled sooner
of later, and the sooner the better.
The present trend is likely to lead
to disaster within ten years. Every
time a farmer sells a herd of cows
for beef and takes a factory job he
not only reduces the milk supply to
the extent at his production but he
eliminates the reproductive possibil-
ities of dairy cattle by many times
the number of cows he actually sells,
for a good dairy cow, in ten years of
useful life, will give to her owner
at least, four good heifers. The loss
of a herd therefore is a loss to‘ the,
general public which never can be
made good. ' Herein lies one of the
game of 14-cent milk in Grand Rap-
80 it is in all other branches of
farming. It is not simplifor, the
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MILK PLANT, OONSOLID;

SCHOOLS AND SUGAR BEE;

I have decided to send in my all
on the milk question which I 
corresponds with the most of _
neighbors. We seem to feel W
the farmers should own the milk I:
ceiving stations in the Detroit m
also a central sales agency in. mi
tbit and allow the grocery trad. ﬂ
distributors to handle it upon e 00‘-
mission basis, but maintain contr
of it until it reaches the consume
1 quite realize that this would mean. _'
some ﬁght but we have got to star! .
it before we can gain our rights and
I can't quite understand where we
will gain anything by putting it 0!.

In regards to consolidated school-
would say that our township votes
on consolidation June 5th and the
farmers in my vicinity are going to
oppose it. One of my acquaintances
that lives on Grosse Isle in the De«
iroit river told me that they have
bonded so much down there that his
neighbor can’t rent his 160» sure It:
farm for enough to pay the taxes-
and if we continue the way we are 
going the state won’t be much better
off in the near future. 

In closing would like to say that 
there is quite a~ number of farmers 
raising beets in this locality this year  '
but not those that receive the M. B.
F.“'1L B. D.. Genesec County. .

   
     
     
    
     
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
    
 
  
  
    
    
   
  
   
  
    
   
   
    
     
     
  
   
   
  
  
      
   
   
   
   
   
  
    
   
  
   
   
  
  
   
   
   
      
     
  
  
   
       
   
   
   
 
 
   
    
  
  
   
    
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
  

 

No, nothing can be gained b the fam ’ V.  :
are putting off the control 0 their own
business. Eventually the farmers will put
their own prices on their dairy pr
and follow them through to the consum-
er, So why not do it now. Wish you I
would give us the name of that Greene 3;.
Isle farmer. We’d like to know how -.~
much of his taxes are due to the consoli-
dated school and how much to other pub-
lic expenses. If what you say is true
about the readers of M. B. F. not grow-
ing any beets it ought to be to the in-
terest of every . B, F. reader to see
that his neighbor gets the paper. 1.
numbers there is strength and when
majorit of farmers of Michigan read tho
M. B.  we'll win our just ﬁghts with-
out a single defeat.—Editor.

GRIT AND LOYALTY

We had a dandy big meeting here
last Saturday evening and during the
meeting we found out some people
will tell stories claiming one good
and loyal member left our associa- '.:
tion and planted beets. It is not so. 9
He' has no contract and the one he
had he returned telling them more
money for beets. We are planning
on having another meeting next Sat-
urday evening, also trying to get a
good speaker for that evening. We
were late in getting our Sugar Beet
Growers' Association started but so
far we are one hundred per cent
true, and willing to say we stay that 
way until we get our just and law- 
ful dues, then we will grow beets, 
and lots of them. Yours truly.—
F. E. 8., Bay County. -

 

Men, we know it takes grit , courage
and 100 per cent loyalty to take a stand
like this when farmers elsewhere are re- - '
nouncing their vows to their association.
and are planting beets. Manager Acker- .
man says that 80 per cent are loyal. but
the other 20 per cent have raised Cain.
How blind they are. With everything in
their favor they have fallen by the way- 1
side, hopelessly beaten. Some day they
will rise and thank their lucky stars for .
such neighbors as had the courage to
stick to the fight to the bitter end and
eventually Win the recognition for which ,:
they have been striving, All is not lost ’
if some remain loyal.—Editor. I ,

 

COMPLIMENTS TO BAERWOLF‘

I am a reader of your paper and
must say I’d never be without it. I;
read the letter of Mr. Baerwolf and
am much disappointed over him. My
opinion or him is that of an old Wonk,
an. She was given a spelling bookie;
read and when she returned it was
asked how she liked the book and:
said, “Oh, all right, only ‘I couldn't
get the run of the story." I ‘
that’s what’s the matter with 7380:»-
wolf. I must say it it the most '
able term. paper I ever saw. 1th
my subscription must be out for '
time so I am enclosing check for' ’
for three years. Why, this is i 
cheapest buy I ever made in 
--H. E, Prescott, illicit. . . ‘

    
   
   
   
   
  

         
 
 
  

      

         
 

     
    
 

 

 

  
  
 

 

  

 

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ITI-I prices on everything so
high and help absolu_tely im-
-' possible to get, a vacation is
t of the question for us," remark-
 Mrs. Pinney, to her neighbor in
town who was planning on her sunt-
‘mer vacation trip.
“Then why don't you interest some
'of your neighbors andfriends in the
country and town who are situated
as’you are. and secure a Chautauqua
there for a week this summer," sug-
gested the friend, who realized that
after all a vacationwas simply a
change—~seeing and talking with dif-
ferent people—getting their ideas—
Seeing how the other half of the
world lived, etc. And that the next
best thing to travel and books was
a summer Chautauqua which is
growing more and more popular
' every year.

These two friends talked the mat—
ter over at quite some length and
ﬁnally decided that it was an ex—
cellent suggestion, but how to pro-
ceed they didn’t know, until the idea
came to write the Woman's Depart—
_, ment of M. B. F., for said Mrs. Pin-
ney, I have found that the editor
“seems to be able to get us just the
help we need whenever we write
her.

And so last week in my mail came
an inquiry as to what a Chautaqua
would cost and how to get one. Never
before had I realized the immense
good these summer Chautauquas do
the people in general until I started
to look up the information for our
friends. I found that in 1919 sixty-
two hundred Chautauquas, covering
one hundred thousand sessions with
an attendance of ﬁfteen million peo-
ple, was the record made. This to-
tal number of sessions cost the peo-
ple who participated in their benefits
ten million dollar‘s, but the concen-
sus of opinion was that America as
represented by her citizens who took
advantage of this wonderful oppor-
tunity for intensive learning and
pleasure, never spent ten millions of
dollars in a better way.

Instance after instance was
brought to light where a boy or girl,
after hearing one of the instructive
and intensely interesting lectures
~was ﬁred with enthusiasm to make
more of his life than before—~was
given a new line of thought. Or
other instances were cited where
young people who were gifted with
musical talent but who hated to prac-
tise were enthused to take up their
tasks anew.

Mothers in homes who were un-
able to attend many such interest-
ing meetings previously—and men
who perhaps thought they wouldn't
find anything of value there, left
with a new grasp of a situation—
these people who came to them from
afar—-who had travelled around our
entire country did not bring a nar-
row self-centered opinion—they are
the broadest people you can meet
anywhere.

Then too there is the opportunity
for social intercourse such as only
comes a few times during the year
———-such as at the County Fair or at
, a Chautauqua. Friends from afar
greet and clasp hands—opinions are
exchanged before and after the meet-
ing which are worth a great deal.

But over and above all other ad-
 vantages stands the educational ad-
vantage of a Chautauqua, and the
' armer’s wife is just the one who has
been hungering for something of
this kind. Yes, and her husband has
also. While a woman is about her
‘shiousehold duties and a man is at
ark on the farm, their brains are
'sy—a—every‘ minute in the day—and
izthe are beth glad of thi opportun-

 0 start a new train of thought.

 ; ties-andqsmall towns are coming

,realize missus more each year
at the farmer is the backbone of
.;country-—-that he is a business
a and not a hayseed": that he will
rt something, ..worth3 ,gwhile—

while,_he caesium want "high
‘ ”  , eherdoesrimnt anything
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A Department * for the .‘Women 

the toll exacted

was a shortened

.note and also I
 iteacher. -In 1g,”

  
 

   

‘ Edited by (menu NORRIS,

struct him and his family of' grow-
ing children.

Many a family cannot afford to

leave the farm or home and take
a vacation—end father will not go
because mother cannot leave and
the same thing is true of mother—
but through the
Chautauqua a
touch of the out-
side world is
brought right to
the home town.

But the time,
some one is
thinking, a farm-
er cannot afford
to spend his af-

ternoons sitting
inside a big tent
in town listen-

ing to speeches
or music, no mat-
ter how good and
instructive they
are. And right
here is' where the
Chautauqua man-
agers have fore-
thought, for they

have provided the current was
the same enter— swift. Coolie s '
tainment b o t h carrying heav y“
afternoo n a n d burdens co u l d
evening of their not ford it.

stay. and it is at 21.321330??? '33.:32‘23 $320233 Queer, hump-
rea] rest after where the reaper will not go. Picture back br 1 d g e s

the supper things
are cleared away
to drive 'into
town and sit in these big cool tents,
it is indeed a fitting ﬁnish to the day
and a wonderful change.

If you are interested enough to
talk to your neighbors and friends
about this and ﬁnd that there are
enough progressive citizens in your

Michigan.
son.

Coral,
small

, community who, for their children's

sake as well as for their own, are
willing to pledge the amount they
need to bring the Chautauqua to
their town, you will almost always
ﬁnd that the amount will quickly be
covered by the advance sale of sea-
son tickets—for everyone from far
and near who is progressive, will
want to attend, but it is for a few
in this, as in everything else, to start
it——-to talk it up—and to do the ad-
vance work of getting it there.

If you are seriously interested and
wish to know more of their plans,
special courses, dates, cost, etc.,
write direct to the Chautauqua Insti—
tute, Chautauqua, N. Y. Ordinarily
we do not feel like giving names and
addresses through our paper as we
feel that it is free advertising, but
the editor is so strongly in favor of
anything that will be for the good
of the_community that we gladly give
this information, and do so without
the knowledge of the Institute.

 

“POLLYANNA” IS DEAD
0 WELL known is the author of
the “Glad Books,” as they are
popularly termed, that this was
all the heading needed as the mes-
sage was flashed across the wires by
the Associated Press. '

She worked long and faithfully be-
fore recognition' came' her way to any
extent, and did so in the face of bod~
ily pain. Her first Pollyanna story

did not appear until 1918, although .

she was author of about 200 short
stories.

‘Her writings were true to her owng
views of life—for she always found
something to be glad for—in spite
of her physical suffering. It was
given her to dream dreams which
were to come

 

submitted by Mrs,“ Chris Rasmussen, of
of her husband and

she married John‘ Lyman Porter and
when the reaper called, she was in
her ﬁfty-first year.

Her best known books
course “Pollyanna,” -
Grows Up,” “Just David,” and “The
Road to Happiness." Other books

7 ' are “Cross Cur-
re 11 t s,” “T h e
Turn ’ the
Ti d e,” "T h e
Story of Marco,"
"Miss B i 1 1y,"
“Miss Billy’s De-
cision,” “M i s 3
Billy Married,”
and "The Road
to Understan d-
ing."

are of

of

 

\VORTH CON-
SIDERING
UNDR E D S

of years ago
a r i v e r
flowed from the

mounta i n s o f

Northern China

to the sea. Al-

though not deep,

were built across
it—such as you
see on “willow”
plates—and over these th coolies
crossed in safety. '

Years passed, the stream dried up
——-but they continued to cross over
by way of the bridge. Telling with
their heavy loads over the cumber-
some stone—while they could save
limitless time and labor by going
over the now dry river bed.

Are you still going over the bridge
of years ago, or using your brains
over the shortest route?—-Reh‘cmce
Bulletin.

 

WHERE IS THE BAREFOOT BOY?
NLY.A few short years ago and

the boys were looking forward
‘ to vacation time when they
might discard shoes and stockings
and all during the summer months,
with the exception of special days
and Sundays, roam over fields at
work or play, with the feet free and
unhampered. Of course occasion-
ally you stepped on a thorn, or a
sharp stone, but very early in the
season the feet became hardened,
and oh what joy to be able to wade
through any little stream you came
across and climb anywhere without
being afraid of spoiling your shoes or
having to clean them when you re-
turned at night. Oh, yes, of course
Mother always insisted that before
bed time those dirty feet must be
scrubbed and we didn’t always have
warm water—and sometimes we
wished we might sneak into our
beds without going through the for-
mula of cleaning up—but _anyhow
shoes didn’t bother us.

Now it’s different. The other day
I read in the city paper of one ‘boy
who had left school and gone to
work and when found and question-
ed by the delinquency emcer he stat-
ed that he wouldn't go to school
without shoes’ as good as the other
boys wore and one of his playmates
had just paid $13.30 for a pair of
shoes—just think obit—£313.80 for
a pair of shoes. I wonder if we are .

 

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for her overwork

  

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Let us learn to anoint.

some w h a. t to
blame fer the
high “ cost . of
clothingL‘Are we
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an author she does notcheer the burdened m; ' send as the other '
was a‘ choir and ﬂower. on the come out no es- , fellow v has and -

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the price of the ‘ finer product.
knowing full well that we will
ﬁnd a way to pay the price and that
we will insist on having the best.
Holland recently imported some
wooden shoes to America—but they
went begging of course—they fact
of their coming didn’t worry the
American manufacturers at, ell——
'they knew full well we wouldn’t wear
them. .

There is absolutely no question
but thatlwe could lower the price of
things if we would only buy what
was absolutely necessary and if we
were willing to worry less and work
-more. How well do I remember
when only a little girl of getting up
at ﬁve o’clock in the morning» feed-
ing the chickens and walking two
miles to school and two miles home
again at night—-feeding the chickens
at night again—ﬁlling the .wood box,
clearing the table and assisting with
the dishes. And now we must have
an automobile every where we go
with gasoline at 29c per gallon. And
no wonder that fresh vegetables are
so high when there are so few—i
where are the gardens every house-
wife used to have? Formerly we
raised all we ate on our table right
at our back doors with the excep-
tion of sugar and meats,.spices and
coffees. . Now we buy everything in
pound lots—think of it—potatoee
by the pound!

Spring was in the air—and with
that air of listlessness that comes to
one I was wondering what to have
to eat when I should go home‘ from
the ofﬁce. I wandered into the corn-
er grocery store where a Greek and
his whole family had bought but the
former American grocer Who kept
his store open only eight hours a day
and hired help—delivering all his
goods. I realized that that so-cail-
ed foreigner had a right to make
good. There are his wife and two
sons all working, and they are there
every evening to serve thoge whose
duties keep them from doing their
trading in the middle of the day.
And they keep no delivery wagons”,
you carry home what you purchase
in a sack or basket. And there I saw
a huge bushel basket of dandelion

greens. Oh, joy ! Just what I| had
been longing for. Timidly I asked
the price. Twenty—ﬁve cents per

pound said/he. I simply gasped, for
you know how they wilt and how
few there are in a pound. I went
home, dug out my old shoes and an
old suit, got on an interurban car,
and only a few miles from the very
'heart of the city I had the most
wonderful afternoon ﬁlling my mar-
ket basket with greens enough for
several meals and all it cost me was
10c car fare, a little recreation in
the fresh air during my afternoon of!
duty. .
And I planned great'plans, built
great air castles while in God’s great
out-of-doors. And in my mind’s eye
I saw the time not far distant when
the peak in high prices would be
reached and the real estate dealers
would be glad to sacriﬁce a lot to
me at a reasonable price just 'out-
side of the city limits where I could
build me a little cottage with a'good
sized yard for flowers and a garden.

Just a few weeks ago some typists
in the city set a scale of prices which
they were willing to pay and which
they pledged they would maintain.
And the limit as just where the lug-

" For instance,
they set 810 as the limit to be paid '
for a pair '0! shoes and" $36 for a -'
dress, while they stated they would“
pay $50 for La "suit;  Presto, Hnext

,Jndrning’ appeared ads 7 from a four dif— ‘
ferent» leading, stares in that 'city ad-' 1
vertising sales on just those articles
and everyone either): at just 1 the
limit these gins had 1) ged $319135 ‘
selves to pay. Aug,  

  

  
 
     
 
  
  
   
   
 
 


 

 

 
  
  
  
  

    

 
 

  
 

snth e194”. " -. - , ,
' "tf'lov’e' that: Francis,” he, conclud-
ed. “He is thedead spit of ‘myself.

we’re;more like twins, and we must- ~

be distantly related. As for the sen-
orita, not only do I love her but I
. am engaged to marry her. * Now will
you, help?
"It takes a long time to get to the
Maya mountains on foot or mule-
'back;‘ but if you give me a lift, in
your machine I’d be-there' in no

time, along with a hundred sticks of -

dynamite, which youcould procure
for me and with which I could blow
the side out of that mountain and
drain off the water."

Lieutenant Parsons hesitated.
- “Say yes, say yes,” Henry pleaded.

Back in the heart of the sacred
mountain, the three imprisoned ones
found themselves in total darkness
the instant the stone that blocked
the exit from the idol chamber had
settled into place. Francis and
Leoncia groped for each other and
touched hands, In another moment
his arm was around her, and the de-
liciousness of the contact robbed the
situation or half its terror. Near
them they could hear Torres breath-
ing heavily. At last lie-"muttered:

“Mother of God, but'that was a
close shave! What next, I wond-
er?"

“There'll be many nexts before we
get out of this neck of the woods,".
Francis assured him. “And we might
as well start getting out.”

The method of procedure was
quickly arranged. Placing Leoncia
behind him, her hand clutching the
hem of his jacket so as to be guided
by him, he moved ahead with. his
left hand’in contact with the wall.
Abreast of him, Torres felt his way
along the right hand wall. By their
voices they could thus keep track of
each other, measure the width of the
passage and guard against being sep-
arated into forked passages, For-
tunately. the tunnel, for tunnel it
truly .was, had a smooth floor, so
that, while they groped their way,
they did not stumble. Francis re-
fused to use his matches unless ex-
tremity arose, and took precaution
against falling into a possible pit by
cautiously advancing one foot at a
time and ascertaining solid stone un—
der it are putting on his weight. As
a result their progress was slow. At
no greater speed than half a mile a
hour did they proceed. ~

Once only did they encounter
branching passages. Here he light-
ed a precious match .from his water-
proof ‘case, and found that between
the two passages there was nothing
to choose. They were as like as two
peas. "

“The only way is to try one," he
concluded, “and if it gets us nowhere
to retrace and try the other. There
is one thing certain; these passages
lead somewhere, or the Mayas would
not have gone to all the trouble of
making them." -

Ten minutes later he halted sud-
denly and cried warning. The fact

he had advanced was suspended in ‘—

emptiness where the floor should
have been. Another match was
struck, and they found themselves on
the edge of a natural cavern of such
proportions that neither to rightnor
left nor up nor down, nor across,
could the tiny flame. expose any lim-
its to it. But they did manage to
make out a rough sort of stairway,
half natural, half improved by man.
which fell away beneath them into
the pit of black. l ‘
In another hour, having followed
the path down the length of the
- floor of the cavern, they were, re-
warded .by a feeble glimmer-of day-
light, which grew stronger as they
advanced. , Before they knew it, they
had come to the source of it-é-being
much nearer than they hadgiudged:

. -and.Francis, tearing away vines and

sh'rubbery, .crawled out into the
blaze of the afternoon sun. In a
moment: Leoncia and Torres were
_ beside him, gazing down into a val-
ley, from  eyriepn a cliff. Nearly
01 tar-inas/the'valley, a*'full league

' t neared to - be

  
 

Where's the ' machine? ,

' the sun I possess," was his reply, as,

and his report in the archives,

-. caught him and made a mummy of

' Da Vasco and his party were left

walled, for; kn wi‘ythey. were never seen again

as it?” demanded-Fran-

:i‘ood' persons. We should

“But Francis," listen," Leoncia
said.“ ' “The tales I have heard of it,
ever since'I‘was a little girl, all
agreed that no person who ever got
into it ever got out again.”

“Granting that is so," ,Francis
could not help smiling, “then how
did the tales._come out? If nobody

ever came out again to tell about it,
how does it happen that everybody
outside knows about it?"

“I don't know," Leoncia admitted.
“I only tell-you what I have heard.
Besides, I never believed. But this
answers all descriptions of the tales."

“Nobody ever got out," Torres af-
ﬁrmed with the same solemn utter-
ance.

“Then how do you know that any-
body got in?" Francis persisted.

“All'the lost souls live here," was
the reply. “That is why we'venever
seen them, because they never get
out. I tell you, Mr. Francis Morgan,
that I am no creature without reason.
I have been‘educated: I have stud-
ied in Europe. and I have done bus-
iness in your own New.York. I know
science and philosophy; and yet do
I know that his the valley, once in,
from which no one emerges."

“Well, we’re not in it yet, are we?"
retorted Francis with a slight man-
ifestation of impatience. "And we
don’t have to go in, do we?" He
crawled forward to the verge of the
shelf of loose soil and crumbling
stone in order to get a better view
of the distant object his \eye has just
picked out. “If that isn't a grass-
thatched roof ”

At that moment the
away under his hands.

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soil broke
In a flesh,

the whole soft slope on which they
rested broke away, and all three
were sliding and rolling down the

steep slope in the midst of a mina-
ture avalanche of soil, gravel and
grass tufts. -

The two men picked themselves
up first, in the thicket of bushes
which had arrested them; but, be-
fore they could get to Leoncia, she,
too, was up and laughing.

“Just as you were saying we did
not have to come into the valley !”

she gurgled at Francis. “Now will
you believe?{'
But Francis was busy. Reaching

out his hand, he caught and stopped
a familiar object. bounding down the
steep slope after them. It was
Torres' helmet purloined from the
chamber of mummies, and to Torres
he tossed it. *
“Throw it away," Leoncia said.
“It's the only protection against

turning it over in his hands, his eyes
lighted upon an inscription on the
inside. He showed it to his compan-
ions, reading it aloud:

“DA VASCO."

“I have heard," Leoncia breathed.

“And you heard right," Torres
nodded. “Da Vasco was my direct
ancestor. My mother was a Da Vas-
co. He came over the Spanish Main
with Cortez." '

"He mutined," Leoncia took up
the tale. “I remember it well from
my father and from my Uncle Alfaro.
With, a dozen comrades he sought
the Maya treasure. They led a sea-
tribe .of Caribs, a hundredstrong,
including their women, as auxiliaries;
so
Uncle Alfaro told me. says that they
were driven into the Valley of the
Lost Souls, where they were left to
perish miserably." .

“And he evidently tried to get out
by, the way We've just , come in,"
Torres continued, "and the Mayas

him.” 1 V

He jammed the ancient helmet
down on,h‘is head, saying, “Low as
the sun is in'the afternoOn sky, it
bites my crown, like acid." -

“Andfjamlne bites at me like acid,"
Francis confessed. “Is the valley
inhabited?"

.f‘I should'vknow, Senor," Torres re-
plied. “There is the narrative of
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taking another name as my "Pen . . _ day. I couldn't." = Dear Aunt cum—Myrasher takes tho
" halite,” but you will all be in the ham“; 8°03. 1” “I complete’ an "wen look here. Gordon I mm M. B. F. and likes it ﬁne. I read the
_ _. t and. know that I am mm the lined and all. ' , ’ , "Children's Hour" as week and like
""0 v“ ,, h b "Why, its s beauty, Gordon, . it can desisn. Father a'blrthdays only it ﬁne. 1 live on as -acre farm. w
some Laddie Whom 5’0“ 8'3 9°“ am not look home.made a bit." a month away. Do you suppose. it have two horses. one his. one cow an

writin to before. Hereafter please u
’sddresgs your letters to Aunt Clare, “1 0h» “793:”? 4:23,
core Tm: MICHIGAN BUSINESS Faun, refugted an“; my
Mt. Clemens, Mich. 01' d - i n Dildn'i
For a long time I have been search— °Wn 1:9 gusta- w _
ing for some short stories which we 2%)? Nb 8;
. 'could print each week which would thegw-just 11- now:
teach you something for you know hes 1 310 1d
the kind of stories I always like best ark 01:11; 9 dWOII't’
are the ones which teach me some- 6 , tr Igﬁthd 5
thing I did not know before. And yougns- " 433.
at last I have found such a series, YOHO (I’Wd ,t
the ﬁrst of which will appear this h thft 1 in m[Illness
week and I hope you will enjoy read- tha 00! S e 1:
,ing them as much as I have. Affec- it 01’ 0119,11 mgaln s
tionately yours, AUNT CLARE. S as we ma 8 a

V _ w-._~.—‘.I damned ‘ mat a calf and 27 chickens. I am 12 years
» old and in the 7th grade. I have tour
' 9018013, With 1131‘? sisters and two brothers. I have not seen
1“ M“ ‘°’ W“ swim“??? “"3 E“ “lad? Y?" i?“
drooping creepers of De“ ° "3 ° “9 m e r n pr“ -"
J a Hollin h d, 5,
his, you could e M! . ‘gs ea. East Jordan.
it? I believe you Dear Aunt Cla I 10 of
« , re— am years
could' now Ive seen age and in the fourth grade at schooli
how beautifully you 32 children goes to the school I do.
have done this_"_ Livgiotn a feign of ioouacres. IVII havo got
, ser an no ro ers, sister's
‘Sure 1 could. It’ll name is Arvilla. I like to rea the let-
be a, tough job to get 1'ters int thevéii.  EthI halve got ﬁv; cats
or pe s. e ave reg orsc, an four
it d°n° “1 a month- . cows and 1 calf. We have 103 chickens
bUt if You Will draw and two pigs. I hope to see my letter
me everything to in print—Lucile Fouch, Traverse City,

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any shop one. I ‘0 “Esta! g‘mhan: hDear Agnt (glare—This is the ﬁrst :
' hadm’t a notion you can 0 1'3" 9r 93 - “9 W“ en 0 y°“~ 1 2.1m 3 gm 1
D GIRLS , . years t d I th
OUR BOYS AN , could handle tools wem set it up the grade gt $512001“ Myaghtlligr tgkefsoul‘ltll;

Aunt Clarez—I have just been ,
a.de the letters in the “Childrens 60“ Well. '
Eour and as I have a letter-writing Wen, you see, 818,

Four! thought I’d just have to write a most of the stun
t

day before, and you JIWTB. F. 811? we alli like it very much.
, we on a arman we have 80 acres

ﬁnd some way to and 6 cows, 8 pigs, 2. horses, 65 chick-
keep father from go- finfleaéid in ducks. For pets I have a
0 . . 02. 3 name is Sport. My teachers

“18 I?“ the ma“) name is Miss Eleanor Smith' and we all
on t at evening. Its like her very much. Will close for this

ou,too. This is the third one
halyamwlhtten tonight. I am 15 years I've been making
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am x ecting to pass. I am ‘

lﬁﬁhhﬁnleet. Zelyépinchesi tall], and have own fun- I Wanted . a go.» umbEleanor ak‘ suptem Vina”.
k hair and common b u s -gray eyes. . Dear Aunt CEg'naszI am 10

would like to have the boys and girls and am In the 4mm grade. Lg?{: 2.1::

Write to me- Say. don't belle“ many Dear Aunt Clare:-—-I am sending some Dear Aunt Clare-— v Dickem’on 9011001- M tea-Cher i
of the boys read the page asui 8623:: pictures that I have drawn, hoping to ﬁrst time. 1 m 10 ygarzﬁmwzﬁénfn $2, Lulu Walton. I haveya brother ﬁnal}?
ace their letters. and If“ t5 the it let_ see them in the paper. My father takes 6th grade. I live on a 113 acre farm. I Arthur Md 3 “we 535‘“, Luella» M7
lar hasnt the heart to pl;I 91 fear the M. B. F.. and he thinks it is the best have a. pair of roller skates and have 13th" 0W“! an Eighty acre farm. There
are 'the waste basket. W 61“?r ur m_ paper of all. I am 13 years old and go lots of fun with them. For pets I hay. is a. saw mill at our place now sawin
is ones destination will be- I; 56 to the country school. I love drawing, 2 cats. I have no brothers or sisters 0‘" 1033 into mulber- Which Will be use:
friend. Florence HumDhTeY- 0" but I have never taken any lessons. I Papa takes the M. B. F. and likes it. I t° make 3°h°°1 fumiturﬁ- For Pets W0
ale, Michigan. gave neger wgittgn beforde iiult Il thave like lto read the Children's Page, As have a «Sigmund two kittens. 1 hope to
—-——‘ een rea n e oys’ an grs' e ers. my etter is ettin I see my 1- n. rinL—Hel n -
Dear Aunt Clare—I am 9 yeaé's :1; I took the th grade examination. I live hoping to see git in SpriSEE—Igtugimll‘iﬁl‘irlg' berg“- GI'B-Dt. M103. e Landon
age and am in the fourth gm 8 a t_ on a large farm. I will close.——Burteen Howell“ Mich. '
school. I have a mile a.th threéaggepl Ettinger. R. 4. Mt. Pleasant, Mich. ' ._.__.. Dear Aunt Clare—I am 10 years or '
ers to walk to scholclil. M YCuster My Dear Aunt Clara—4 am 12 years old age and am in the fourth grade at
ame 18 Miss DOI‘Ot {1 “yd an “ks D A t Cl ad. h and am in the 7th grade and I am work- . 501100“ M tucrlefs name ‘3 M188 Mar-
t‘335ytai‘ﬁi‘iifh°¥ili?s {'15 :Eadwfhe Boys cummi’tagsaﬁﬁiik‘ému 3?... "“f hév‘é inf, my “a,” to pass the exam‘nmn- ﬂute” ink’el. l m" “‘0 ""16 9““
. ' ve o a. a ‘ 8‘0 0 SC 00 .
"a his arm" .. asserts: ilv¥es¥¥§f§£3sy3iub§£°il has at; inumbgr or Elegt’eﬂ'ﬁﬁieiog"  st...“  My £53336“??? 35%”?
oug W011 ' , ' have a new Dodge car 'and we have it ' ' an “kes it very mUCh For De“ ‘
“d I hope it ,escapes the waste paper teachers name was Mrs. Martin Manzo, running near] all th ’ti 6 F I have one dog and one littl Sh 18. d I
asket. I have four brothers and two Our school is out. I will be in the sev- v have a do ¥ 8 m ' or pets I pony. Well this is a1 8 at n
“stem, We live on a 40 acre farm. We enth grade next year. The names or the would appféciafg an?! 301;: gifttfﬂg‘ gm: this time—Marion E}  ngztgg‘: 

have 2 horses 3 colts, 2 cows, 3 calves. birds of last week's puzzles are £13322]? would write to me__Ruth Yankle' Breck_ Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

t 40 chickens, 7 turkeys, 3 large link, Rice bird, Finch, Heron,
$311,113; and a cat. Well as my letter is Barbet, Oriole and Linnet. Well I will enrmge' Michigan Dear Aunt Clare—J am 11 id
getting long I will close. hoping to see close. hoping to see my letter in print.— and in the sixth grade at schyelars g1
. y letter in print.~—Mi1ton J Dalrymple. Minnie Falls, Carsonville, Mich. Dear Aunt Clare—~This is- the ﬁrst I father takes the M_ B F “Sol-mes ‘

r , Mich. -———- have written to you. I am 13 years old -

esmbu g __.._._. . Dear Aunt Clarez—My grandfather and in the 6th grade. We have a. stand- g§£g01$:§gz alt ggiatlgng‘ég‘i’ﬁl 111 *i« new
Dear Aunt Clare—This is the ﬁrst I takes the M. B. F. and we all like it ard school, I live on a do acre farm two miles to walk to schO-l I

have written to you. I am a. girl eleven real well; we could not do without it. and we have 6 cows, 2 heifers, 1 steer 4 sisters and one brother 03V. had

years old. My birthday was the 27th I am a girl 13 years old and am in the and 4 calves. We have 4 horses and sale last month and sold .eve ethin gm.

2 April. I have six sisters and three 7th grade at school. I hope to pass the about 75 chickens. I have four broth- one horse_ We have bou ht “'1 g “t .
rothers. I like to go to school and examination this Year. I have one broth- ers and three sisters. My brother takes are 0mg to move to tow: v96 Xl’laice and

rdly ever miss a day. I am in the er and no sisters. Hoping to see my let- the M. B. F. and likes it very much. I I w 1 closepﬁmdson L_ in“ 3t We"

sixth de. My teacher's name is MYS- tel‘ in print—Evelyn Steeblﬂ Caledonia hope to see my letter in print.-—Hllda imon, Mich. Cell . Farm-

 

 

 

Fraoe uletlt, I take miegic lessons and Michigan. Johnson, Ludlngton’ Mich ‘ ‘
the music very well. e ive on a ‘ V ‘
lgundred acre farm one quarter of a mile YeagYOﬁurndcl; in: ‘53s: girgdee‘gﬁ

ml? wllaﬁe-"Cgllgrznpetnzgﬁﬂl’vg 0 School for pets I have a little puppy
t. I kc t a s ' ‘ do! and a cat named Fuzzy. We have

will have to close now hoping to see my m 
otter in Digits—Margaret Demberger, V
Ioonard, M gan. can ed Bu
T—m - " Chickens and a piryewrglvex illitsiogs'
magﬁggrt‘ glaryom h%e‘3¢£e° 3‘2”; hogir‘lgm to sésgieeymy letter in grown. B. F.
vl’l'. and like it very much. I am a» Red Oak, .
y 10 years old and in the 5th grade
school. My teacher's name is Miss
. ssie Smith and I like her very much.
For pets I have a pig and a colt, I live
' on an 80 acre farm and we have *5 horses
‘. 1 cows. 5 pigs and about 275 chickens.
. have solved the. (puzzle of last week
the M. B. F. on I am also sending
riddle. Well as my letter is getting
3 I will close, hoping to see my letter
- print—«Floyd Weaver, Brown City,
h.- Which was on earth first, the
or the egg. Ans—The mother of

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ve 6 times gathering ﬂowers now. a town of horses. their names are Paddy
and John. We live on an 80 acre tar-m.
3°° ‘ We have a cow named May and a little

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Dear Aunt Clue—I never wro
you before so I thought I would not; a;
am a boy 18 years old and am in the 5th
grade, My teacher’s name is Miss Zita
Eddy. There are 5 pupils in our class.
We have 8 horses and 5 head of cat
and I have a dog, his name is Ring.
haw; 7 brothers and 3 sisters. I must
close and leave some room for the other
children. Hoping to see my letter in
print—Leo Samuhki. Kaw‘kawlin, Mich.

 

 

Dear Aunt Clare:-—I am a littl
years old and am in the third‘graﬁegh‘l '
teacher‘s name is Mary B. Kippis. and
: like her very well. I live on a “7-:ch
farm. We take the M. B. F. and like it

 

Dear‘ Aunt Clare—This is the ﬁrst I
have written to you. My father take?
the M. B. F. and likes it very much. .’
a. girl 12‘ years of age and in the
h grade. My teacher's name is Miss

ﬁne. I read the boys' and ir '

every week. We have 7 horsgesfslalehm
of cattle, and a'Fordson tractor. I have
three sisters and three brothers. Hoping
to see my letter in print. I will close.—
Martha Dr Hohnelster, Sebewaing, Mich,

        

  

 

    

   

a
i. Swanson. I like her very much. We

ve 26 pupils in our school. I have Six
rather-s and two sisters and two are
 I will close for this time and
e a little space for the other little
is and boys. I hope some or the
is and boys will write to me. Hop-

      
    

 

      

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My father takes the M. B. I". and
1!; égnggggh'Diecheas $3 Il‘klllle l3 7 7‘ H I V 7 ﬂ  l 7 7  ' First
“$20033th I am 13 years You see here the names of ﬁve animals.» The puzzle is to ﬁll in th. about' {ﬁrmsignth Du {ion r.“ .
, grade at school I an“ so a t h . _ H n w o are owed his .
hroth and two sisters. their , - _ ° W the, “Em” 0‘ Em dd” in the idiom» State“ teaspoon? ‘ ; ~ ' -  _. » g; '
‘ ’ Aimee and lit‘osie. tWe .‘ Tennessee. Michigan. Illuminated Colorado. can you r" ,  Jren ‘ -' - ‘ i v  "
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 , “_‘ After-the back furrows
, have been plow-ed such land is finish-
ed as in Method 1., The whole ﬁeld
must be'stsked out before starting
and care must be taken to keep the
lands of a uniform width.
Method VI.
Plows Ids in the Ground

A better quality of plowing re-
sults by following the previous meth-
ods than is the case when the plows
are left in the ground all the time

the tractor is moving, but many farm-
ers consider the time saved to be of
greater importance. V

Plowing is started at the outside
of the field, throwing a furrow tow-
ard' the fence and turning to the left
at the corners without lifting the
plows. Care must be  to make
a satisfactory curve on the ﬁrst
round as it will be dilleult to change
the shape of the curve after the
'lrst round without “cutting and cov-
 And it is not necessary to
measure any distances or place any
stakes, this method is a time saver
over any of the other methods. The
plows are left in the ground from the
time the field is started till only a
small piece remains in the middle.
An irregular or crooked field can
just as readily be plowed in this
manner as a rectangular one. This
method is most popular where disc
plows are used.

Method VII.

,. The diagram illustrates a method
whereby the poorly plowed diagon-
als of the field and the center can be

 

  

plowed. The strip of land in the
center of the ﬁeld should be the
same‘width as the diagonals. The

only time the plows are lifted is dur-
ing the few short turns at the ends
of the diagonals.

Method VIII.

In this method the corners are left
unplowed. The outﬁt starts down
‘ one side and when within 10 feet of
the corner the plows are lifted and
put in again when about 10 feet
beyond the corner. continuing on to
the next corner where the same op-
eration is repeated. ' Continue plow-
ing ardund the ﬁeld, leaving a strip
20 feet wide extending from the cor-
ners to the center of the ﬁeld. When
the we) in the comer of the field
has reached a width of 20 feet, plow
out the diagonals as shown in the
diagram 7. A great deal of rough
riding is eliminated by driving over
the unplowed ground as compared
‘ to the plowed ground in the previous
method.

Method IX.

Often in starting a ﬁeld where it
is plowed around continuously, it is
diihcult to make an easy curve at
the corners. Where the corners
have a small sharp curve it is difﬁ-
cult to keep from missing small strips
of land and at the best do a. poor
job of plowing at the corners. Dia-
gram of Met-had 9 shows a. method for
stating easily around corners. Each
corner is plowed out separately, and
leaving a well rounded furrow to
turn the corners. The greatest ob-
iection to this method is the size of
the land left in the .middle of the
field because of the longicurves at
the corners. It necessitates the rais-
ing of the plows for the last few fur-
rows in the center of the ﬁeld.

' " Method x.

Diagram of Method 10 shows the
method of laying out an irregular field.
The essential requirements in plowing
an irrgeular field when the plows are
lifted at the ends is to keep the head-
land of a uniform width throughout.
The body 'of the ﬁeld can be ploWed
by any of the methods ' described
where the' plows are lifted at the
ends. - a .

, .7 V W XI.

Diagram of Hethud 11- shows anoth-
“ er method for plowing irregular ﬁelds.

mneldis divided into two sections
melting one ﬁeld a rectangular shape
and the; other embracingthe irregu-
is: ion « amid one could be
~  Mensa 1. and

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courtesy Cleveland Tractor 00., cleve-

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WHY
SHOULD 3E ADOPTED
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which the big packers have already
acquired, but to insure their easy
conquest of new fields, are:

“Stockyards, with their collateral
institutiOns, such as terminal roads,
cattle loan banks, and market papers;
private refrigerator car lines for the
transportation of all kinds of perish-
able foods: cold storage plants for
the preservation of perishable foods;
branch house system of. wholesale dis.
tribution: banks and real estate.
Private Car Lines and W

(ion Privileges

“The Big Five own 93 per cent def
the total of all. kinds of cars owned
by interstate slaughterers, including
refrigerator, stock tank. box, 7 flat
and gondola cars. The most import—
ant of these from the standpoint of
mouopolization are the refrigerator
ears.

Branch Houses and Car Routes

“The packers’ distribution of their
products is effected through a sys-
tem of branch houses located in the
large towns and cities and a system
of refrigerator ‘peddler car.’ routes
which reach the smaller communi-
ties. Swrift & Co. reach a larger num-
ber of cities and towns by peddler
car than all other packers
Armour & Co. have deveIOped a sys-
tem of delivering from their branch
houses by trucks. reaching by this
means over 20,000 towns, and mak-
ing their total number of towns

' greater than Swift & Co.

The Commission showed that the
packers control from 51 to 100 per
cent of the stock of 27 branch yards
of the bigstock yards, and over 25
per cent of taro other branch yards.

Packers Financial Afﬁliations

"In the ﬁnancial ﬁeld the packers’
strength is based not so much on act-
ual ownership as upon the influence
which they can exert by reason of
their volume of business and com-
manding industrial position.

“They are further entrenched in

ﬁnancial institutions throughout the

United States. as is evidenced by a list
of 61 banks in ﬁfteen cities which re-
lates only to the principal cities and
packing centers In each of these
banks the packers are represented on
the board of directors through mem-
bers of the individual families, or
through ofﬁcers, directors, or confl-
dential employee of the packingcom-
panics. In addition. there are a
number of banks not covered by this
list. in which close business associ-
ates of the packers are directors.
Recommendations of the Federal
. _ Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission
made three important” recommenda-
tions to end the evils existing in the
meat packing industry: '

That all the’rolling stock used for
the transportation of meat animals,
the principal and necessary stock.

yards of the'country, and all private—'

ly owned refrigerator cars, and all
necessary equipment for their prop-
er operation, be acquired by the rail-
roads, and operated by the govern-
ment. It recommended that they
should be taken over through the
Railroad. Administration that being
the only way in which at that time
they could be made a part of the
transportation system of the coun-
ry.
.Packers’ Investments and Proﬁts
Armour-ls net proﬁts for fifty
years, as reported by themselves were
$179,000,000, on an original invest-
ment of $160,000. Swift & Co.'s net
worth capital stock and surplus in
1896 was 514,500,000, and they to
port net proﬁts for twenty‘three years

' of,.$21£,240,000. Wilson a Go. re- '

port their net worth in 1894 was 84,-
694,000, ‘ their net proﬁts for 25
years as7844,390,000. Morris a 00..
net worth in 1909 is reported as :23,-
229,000 and théi-r net proﬁts for ten
years ' were, $23,034,000. The Cud-

 

     
 

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PAY —honest treatment
-—a guaranteed price for the week
TRANSPORTATION —-—gua.rantee against loss of can or ‘
cream in transit

 

 

REMEMBER— - ’

A race is never won by a single step—neither can you
judge a market by a single trial. An averdge will show why
your successful neighbor ships his cream

FREEMAN bAIRY c0. _

FLINT, MICHIGAN

Write for price or further information

 

IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE?

Try an.‘\ ad in M. B. F.'s Classiﬁed
Business Farmer’s Exchange.

It ﬁnds the buyers

 

Time flies—make every minute profit-
able by using labor saving methods.
Put a silo on your farm and get double _
the results from every acre. '

Put at Saginaw on your farm. Anyone of the four
different Saginaws will pay its way the ﬁrst year.

Write today for Saginaw silo facts.
Address Dept. No. 12

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tents a wonb'sea uses; mm-
‘fmum size accepted, 20 words. To main-
tliil low rate, we are compelled-to eliminate
bookkeeping. 'J'h’erefere. use» on -
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A 4 . ~ The rate Is 5 «nag-wow
; re ardless of number of ._ as.“
,. aoount. o spyinnst Ital“ .. . .
A: of? preceding week...‘ You wlli help II! 00"-
lnuo our low rate by making your "mm‘m’
(«mix right—Adams. Michigan Buslnm Farm-
hlix; dv. ’Dep’t, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

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' 00 CASH SECURES BIG EQQIPPED
mglf’aFaruL. One of Oakland County8 K00d
farms fully equipped ready for business, splend-
idly situated near his BR town; 80 acres produc-
'-tive tillage, 40 acres stream-watered pasture and
' wood, variety fruit; good residence, 6-room ten:
-- int house, big basement barn, poultry house, etc.,
owner called away throws in 8 horses. 7 cattle.
'bogs, poultry, new binder, manure-spreader, plows,
harrows. cultivators, other machinery. tools" hay,
corn. 'i‘odder, potatoes, etc.; everything s .800.
$2,600 cash (batlaarce I{easy tgméhmsDesmﬂsa “sagas

trout's ‘a 0 arm a .
72 s STROU'E‘ FARM AGENCY. 814 BE.

  

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copy free.
Ford Bldg” Detroit.
STRIPPED HARDWOOD LAND, RICH

clay loam—~easy terms. $12.50 to $15.00 an
‘. acre. Neighbors, roads, schools. Four to ﬁve

miles from Millersburg. Never failing clover

seed will make your payments. JOHN G.

KRAUTII, Mlllersburg, Mich.

 

180 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—90 ACRES
under cultivation. 90 acres asture and small
' ber. Equipped with all arming tools and
good stock. For full information write ALBERT
DIETZ. llzzwks. Mich. R. F. D. No. 1.

SALE—1,000 ACRES OF LAND IN
Good pasture or mixed farming.
Will subdivide to suit pur-
Marion, Mich.

FOR
Missaukee Cu.
100 acres cleared.
chaser. THOMAS WHITE.

FARM. CUTOVER AND TIMBERED LANDS,
large or small tracts at $15 to $60 per acre.
Splendid investment. ’ELLS do CRUCE,

‘ Mdnticello, Arkansas.

FOR SALE—122 ACRES 8 MILES FROM
Innsing on good road, all improved. Good build—
iﬁgs. heart of soil. 8. W. HEMPY. R 7, lane-

g. 1c.

FOR SALE—220 ACRES VERY BEST OR-
chard buildings, wood lot. 4 miles from Bellalro.
$15,000. For particulars address BOX 215,
Bellaire. Mlch.

FOR SALE—80 ACRE FARM. EXCELLENT
loll, all under cultivation, good house,_ fair barn.
plenty water. Will sell entire equlpment in-
cluding 8 high grade Holstein females. 4 miles
from town. Inquire LYLE SHARP, Clifford,

ch.

FOR SALE—EAST HALF OF SEC. 5.
Center Twp.. 00. of Emmet. Correspond with
owner. JESSE E. WEBSTER, Pollston. Mich.

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\WRITE THE CLARE JEWELRY CU. run
bargain sheet of watches and silverware. We do
watch repairing. Lock Box 635. Clare, Mich.

IEST “OLD
Direct from
po id, 81.
Dept. . Harves-

 

 

TOBACCO—KENTUCKY'S
Homespun" chewing and smoking.
farmers. Trial offer, 2 pounds.
KENTUCKY TOBACCO ASS'N.
ville. Ky.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-r
eat. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M.
M." gar:l Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clem-
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BUILDERS' PRODUCTS CO" 14 PASADENA
Ave.. Detroit. Wholesale to consumers—Paints
Varnish, Spraying Materials. Sprayers. Manual
mailed free. M. B. TEEPLE. Mgr.

FOR 8ALE——SEED POTATOES. ADDRESS
JOHN SKINNER. R 3, Greenville. Mich.

FOR SALE‘APPARATUS PERTAINING 70
making cheese. Write for particulars. FRANK
L. CUSTER. Evart, Mich.

woman

Several men with auto" or horse and rig

 

 

 

. to act as subscription agents for 11. B. 1'.
Good proposition to serious men who can
give their entire time to the work.
Write details and tell us brieﬂy

addressing

for

about yourself.
Clrculatlon Manager

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

Mt. Clemens. Michigan

 

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:18 Your Farm for Sale?

. Writo'out a plain description and 11...
up. So for each word, initial pr Sroup of
"ﬁgures. Send It in for one. two organ.
be. There's no cheaper or better in;
“selling a form In Michigan ‘ and you
.3 ll direct with the buyer. No agent- .1-
Weaiona. If you want to sell or trad.
III :fann. send In your ad today. Don't
 I fall: about It. Our Business rum-

   
 

   
   
  
 
 
  

  
  

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(A Clearl

DRAIN mom OFJWAY ’7'}
A. B. C. oWn land where the water is

drained from A's and B’ through a tile

across C’s into the - river. Before the
tile was laid the .water stood on A.

and C’s land and during floods ran into
the river. The tile was laid across, C’s
land over twenty five years a. 0. IA and
B made the agreement and .ou t the
right of C to put the tile across ’5 land...
The writln s to this have been lost. Now
Cs land as changed- hands several --
times. This owner has several gullles
where the water has washed down the
banks from rains. One has been start-
ing near the tile until it has reached the
top of the bank. C claims the tile is
causing this damage. The gully was
ﬁlled last fall but -has washed away
again. During this time the water
which is drained throu h ditches on
bad land has not ove lowed but ran
through the tile. Now C stops up the
tile and orders A and'B to build dams
on their farms and hold the water back.
If there should be a. hard rain it is li-
able to do damage to the three farms.
Who would have to stand for that dam-,
age? Has C the right to stop the tile
without notifying the owners? If a.
larger tile is wanted who would have
to furnish the tile? That drain is in
the natural water course and no other
way for A or B to drain their land. This
drain the drain commissioner has no
authority over. Now A and B do not
think that any of their ‘water has caus-
ed this damage, Do A and B have to
stand the damage of the gully because
the rains have washed the dirt away?
B has always kept~ his ditches cleaned
so as to keep from clogging the tiles.
,Any advice you can give me will be
greatly appreciated—T. B., Allegan
County. ~ -

 

It is a difﬁcult question to deter-
mine the legal rights of the parties
from the brief statement and unus-
ual conditions existing. Without an
agreement from some one having au-
thority to make it A and B would
have no right to gather the water
from their land by ditches and drains
and cast it upon the property of C to
his damage in any different way than
would go in a state of nature. A and
B might buy a right of way for a
drain across the land of C and in
that agreement would probably lay‘
the key as to who would be liable for'
the damage. If A and B bought a
right of way for a drain and agreed.
to maintain it one keep it in re-
pair they would of course be liable
for the damage and also be bound
to maintain it and upon failure 0
would have the right to prevent‘ so
far as possible further injury and
hold them liable for what damage
had been done—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

SEN. JOHNSON A PROTESTANT

As further evidence of the Protest-
ant leanings of Senator Johnson, we
quote the following from a letter
from Congressman Cramton who was

Johnson's campaign manager in
Michigan:
“I am not able to say in what

church either the Senator or Mrs.
Johnson have their membership. I
know they are both Protestants, and
that Senator Johnson was a Knight
Templar at the age of twenty—two.
Further, Mrs. Johnson mentioned to
me one day that she'and the Senator
were married by a Baptist minister.“

 

NEGLECTED TO PAY MORTGAGE

My mortgage fell due March 19, 1920
and as the local ring of shysters will
not renew it, and intend to foreclose.
what can I do to help myself. What
can they do to me, and how?——A. Sub-
scriber, Van Buren County.

 

From your statement I fear you
have been‘ improvident enough to
give a mortgage agreeing to pay . a
debt on a day certain and then have
neglected to make sure you could
either meet it or secure a reneWal or
place the loan elsewhere. Mortgages
are commendable and legitimate
means of conducting business. It is
the failure to meet them that makes
the trouble. If foreclosure is start--
ed as would seem likely from the
statements in your letter you will
have one year from'the date of sale 5
to redeem, if the foreclosure is by
printing a notice in a newspaper, and,
if the foreclosure is in Chancery you
will have about the same length of
time from the commencement. «In
the, meantime you can sellrtrade,
lease or work yOurself, ,subieet to ,
the mortgage. up to
tanninatlonfot  t1
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' Department forffa‘rmers’ every day‘ troubles.leme ‘ , , ._ . , .
e are here to serve you. Subscribers desiring a personal answer it! real to a .oL'alsosirmatm'orma

the “WSW”
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awn mansion?

“as” "mm “1° $3197 Div-paying a.” 

amount with interest. .‘:11 you are

unable to pay, unable to borrow f~
from any one enough to pay up, and

unable to renew it. would look to me

as though the best thing for you to

do would be to sell for all you .can

get and quit the farming business.—

W. E..Broum, legal editor. v

COULD SOME‘ READER ANSWER
THIS INQUIRY?

Would some of the readers of M.
B. F. please tell me what success they
have had in having collar boils or
swollen lumps, caused by working a
horse in an ill-ﬁtting collar, removed
by surgical operation? Is it a mere
beneﬁt in appearance or does it per-
manently remove the soreness from
the shoulder. This horse of ' mine
has a swelling about midway up on
the shoulder and I have been think-
ing of having it operated on but
would like to hear ﬁrst from some-
one who has had such an operation
performed.———W. H. 8., Newaygo C'o.

 

BUILDING LINE FENCE

A owns the N. E. 1-4 of a section, B
owns the N. W. 1-4 of the same sec~
tion. A has built a 3 barbed wire fence
on.the‘ north eighty rods between them
B built the south eighty rods four
years ago of good woven wire. Two
years ago 0 purchases the south 1-2 of
section belonging to Thus getting
the 80 rods of woven wire line fence.
New B wants A to build his half of
woven wire, but A refuses to do so
claiming that he and B should have 40
rods each to build. Can B take 40 rods
off of C's property and put between A
and B? Can they compel C to buy 40
rods of fence for them. Who must
build the fence7—R. 8., Sanilao County.

Section 2210 of the Compiled
Laws provides that if the division of
the line fence is recorded in the
town clerk's ofﬁce "it shall be bind-
ing upon the parties and upon all
the succeeding occupants of the
lands; and they shall be obliged al-
ways thereafter to maintain their re-
spective portions of said fence." I
would be of the opinion that if that.
has not been done then section 2212
would apply, which provides that
when any controversy shall arise and
'it appearslthat one of the parties has
built the whole of the fence then the
fence viewers. may require the other
to pay for one half of such fence
and the value and collection of it to
be in accordance with the provisions
of the law. Under this arrangement
I think 0 would be required to pay
B one half of the fence and B would
be required to pay or construct one
half of the fence between them.—
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

A CURE FOR BLUE LIOE

If D. S. will try this to kill blue lice
It may help. Take a bar strong
laundry soap and warm water mak-
ing a etliﬂ lather all over the calf
rubbing well into the hide. Leave
on to dry. The stiffness after drying
is what kills the lice. I have seen

this done with success—if”. 0. G.

 

ENTITLED TO DAMAGES

As I sold m farm on a. contract and
since I sold the neighbor joining it
d amlte'd stumps on his farm and
b wed them through In line fence. I
would like to know to w om to look for
damages. the one I sold the place to or

man that blowed the stumps. I
verbally bargained or a farm, paid $100
down to hold the mm for thirty days.
During this time he got a chance to sell
for more money and wanted to give me
my money back six days after the ver-
bal bargain was made. Can I hold the
farm or will I have to take my money
back. as I am ready to pay him the
whole balance as seen as he will accept
it. , Bay County. ' ‘

The purchaser of the farm is en-

titled to damages tom the neighbor
' who did the injury or caused it to be

.done. You are entitled to only you:-

agreed price for the farm. The law

pnovi'dea as follows: “Every contract
for the leasing for a longer period
than one year. or for the share of my

"lands. Or any interest in lands, shall
-- be. void, unless the contract, 0“;- some

note or' memorandum thereof, be in
William signed loathe. party)!
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or Mum-lea. “law's: !
"'Assn'sss‘mms’roo'nrquu 
A, B and C own r ‘  in small
town.' The former”

dollars and thes'ltax  (i=0.~ 

Since A. B, and C. own'thls' prbperty‘tbe,
valuation hasdeclined until ﬁ‘we are told
We can not get $800 for the slot and the
tax valuation has beéh raised to 81.000.
What little rent we agetvdoes not 
to pay our tax and- insurance; 80‘:

we have nothad a chance to sell at any ,
done to logger. "
' ,

price. Can an hing be
the tax on th a property? If so
shall we proceed. We hired an utters.
ney .for a stated feeto look after this
property, rent and collect rent pay, -
surance, etc. Later we gave him pow-
er of attorney. He was to? collect rent
a month in advance. Now if he ’falll

. to collect rent and lets the renter move

hold this attorney for our
Kalamazoo.

out can we
rent?—-—A.

"

'You should state the full facts to
the Board of Review when theta!
assessments are under consideration
and tell them just how it stands and
they should make you a reduction if
they ﬁnd you are justified. Your
agent would‘ be personally liable for
rent he could not collect if he'exer-
cised reasonable diligence in the
matter unless your contract with him
was that be guaranteed the payment

, of the rent. If he neglected his duty

he ‘would be personally liable.—
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

SECURING R. R.‘ CROSSING

What steps must be taken to scour!
a R. R. crossing? We have tried to so-
cure a. crossing for eight years but hav
been unsuccessful a? the company “km:
for $200 and our ownship could no
raise it but last spring we petitioned for
it, the tax voted and the $200 ra
which under the agents directions
Raced in the bank and be notiﬁed the

company. but now they have rai
the price to $400, at can we do?—
L. B. L. Midland County.

You do not state whether the
proceedings desired to establish a.
crossing is on a new highway or
whether it Is on a highway that was
in existence when the railroad Was
built. If the highway was there when
the R. R. went through then it is the
duty of the . R. to build the cross-
ing and maintain it; but if you‘ha-vo
laid out a new highway since the
R. R. was built you will have to at-
tend to it. Section 8243 (6) re-
quires R. R.‘ to build the crossings
for the highways in existence and
section 4314 of the C. L.'1915 pro-
vides the method of procedure when
you lay out a new highway. The
sections. are too long to repeat hero.
—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

W.

 

EXOIIANGING LIBERTY“ 130an

We have two $50 bonds of the second
and fourth liberty loan issue in the bank
for security on a small amount of money
due May lst. Today We went to get them
renewed and raised to the 4 1-4thper cent

e
Why should we pay when it is all the

government's own work or is the b

» {or sending,.ithem  .
put those bonds in I ad registered bond
I wanted them to. take but they won!
not saying they preferred the one’s no '
registered and promising they would go
them renewed when the time came—I;
A. I... Isabella County.

I do not know why the bank
charged 26c unless it ‘was'for inter-
est due on your loan'or for services
in connection with the bond. The
bank would not be obliged to render
services for nothing and if you bor-
rowed money and pledged the bonds \
there might be interest due on the 1
loan more than the interest on the
bond would pay.———W. E. Brown, Io-
aal editor. 4

 

MAKING JOINT, DEED
In ease of wife owning property and

wishing to make it jointly with bus-

band, is it required by ‘the state Is.

that she first deed it to a disintere-

party before making 9. out deed

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Genesee County. .. -
In order to createan est-ate by the r 

entirety, commonly called. a joint on-
tate of husband and »wife..lt is neces-
sary that the conveyancejbe made to

them by the same instrument.‘  
is the, reason why a conyeyance_'is 

ﬁrst made to another».perm.,..¢nqi

from that personba'ck so... 
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H,'i.‘"]_3ut ain't strikers an’ sich,
the consistent guys? After try:
- 1111' their daﬁrdest to- tie up ev-
erything in the country, the outlaw
switchmen, now that their nice little
scheme has been nipped in the bud
an’ things are gettin' to normal-‘—
new men in many places havin’ step-
ped in an' helped to keep things mov-
iu’——are settin’ up a loud an’ wailin'
cry about‘ the farmers quittin’ their

‘ Jobs to take positions in the factor-
ies where wages are high an’ hours
are short an’ where they take no
chances—the pay bein’ sure an’ com-
-in’ every week.

In a little confab I had with one
of the he bosses of the switchmen
’tother day in a restaurant, you
know there is more real knowledge
scattered around in restaurants an'
barber shops than any number of
colleges in the land can show—well
this he ~feller after talkin' awhile
about his own strike an’ how it come

’to fizzle out, commenced yelpin’

about the farmers. “Why,” he sez, .

“the darn farmers are quittin’ their
jobs—leavin' their farms an’ comin’
into town an’ gittin’ jobs here an'
in every city its the same,” he sez.
Now when a guy like that wants to
talk about his own affairs your Uncle
Rube scurs'ly ever busts in—jest let
’em rave, 'til, they git through, so
to speak. But when they beller out
somethin’ mean about the farmer, it
kinda raises my dander an’ I most

' genr’ly fade into ’em an’ try an’ find
out how much theyknow an’ every-
thing. *

So I sez to this guy, well ain't
the farmers got jest as much right
to quit their jobs as any other class
of men, switchmen included, I sez.

“No they ain't, 'cause we've got
to have stuff to eat,” hesez, “an if
the farmers quit where we goin' to

git it?" Well I sez, it does kinda-

look’s if we needed the farmers on
the farms but mebbe I sez the farm-
ers are a gittin’ a little tired of
workin’ 12 to 16 hours at a small
rate of pay, to feed a lot of scala-
wags that won’t work but eight
hours an’ want eight or ten dollars
for doin’ of it, I sez.

He got warmed up quite a bit at
that an’ sez “What'n'hell has the
hours or the wages we want got to
do with the farmers. They’re our
main dependence an’ if they quit we
might as well hang up our fiddle for
we can’t work if we ain’t got noth-
in’ to eat.”

’Zat so, I sez, well s’posin' the
[farmers stick to their jobs an' raise
all the stud! that’s needed to eat an’
to wear, what good’ll that do the
people in the cities if the railroads
are all tied up by a lot of disgruntled
sons of guns breakin' their contracts
and violatin’ the laws an' quitting

‘ their jobs just when they're needed
the most, I sez.

     

   
      

  
 

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A Kindly-Light

The clergyman of a poor parish
was showing a rich lady round, hop-
ing to touch her heart and so receive
a big check for his people.

“We are now passing through the
poorest slums,” he said, as the car
.turned into a side street. “These
people have little to brighten their
lives.”

“I must do something for them,"
sighed the lady, adding to the chauf-
feur: “James, drive the car slowly,
and turn on the big lamps."

You Never Can Tell , -

A Boston man who spent the hol-
idays in his home village related a
rather amusing incident. On New
Year’s day he and his brother hitched
up the old wagon, piled a lot of hay
into the bottom for warmth and
started oi! visiting. "A spark from
one of their cigars fell on the hay in

the rear of; the wagon, smouldered a -

while and» then burst into a roaring

   
   
 

A: (armor j who had been driving

  them put the, ,'
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“Well.” he" sez, “it we git the
wages we want, things won't be tied
up—everything will be workin’ ﬁne
an" there won't ‘be no trouble,” he

, sez. —

Jess, so, sez I, sounds real nice as

, you tell it, a nice smooth little tale,

but I don't believe it, I sez, if you
tellers got all you asked for, if it wuz
granted to you today, tomorrow your
hired trouble makers would hatch
up somethin' else an' in a little

“while things would be tied up agin'

—-—you tellers. I sex, has got the strike
lever an? there ain’t no way of cur
‘in’ it ’cept by the hunger route—

’when you git good an' hungry, I sez,

you’ll be willin' to work more'n six
or eight.hours an' you'll be willin’
to do it fer less'n a dollar an’ hour,
too, I sez. Fact is, I sez, the farm-
ers has got to buck agin’ this dollar
an’ hour game an’ they can’t pay that
price so they don’t git the help——
the city gits all the men an’ the farm-
er has to work alone—he's gittin’
tired an' along in years—he’s doln'
all he can under the circumstances
an' if there ain't enough to go
'round at the end of the season, the
farmer won't be the one to blame
an’ by gosh, he won't be the one
to suffer either, I sez. It’s time, I
sez that farmers, many of them have
moved into town, the high wages
have brought them in, farmers are
out fer the coin jest the same as the
rest of us an’ if they can’t git it‘otf’n
the farm they’ll git it.in the factory
—the cares of the whole world don't
rest 'specially on the farmers should-
ers—they’re no more responsible for
the welfare of humanity than any
other class of workers an' they think
they’re played a losin’ game jest
about long enough an' some of ’em
are jumpin’ the job an' they have a
perfect right to "do it too—jest as
much right as switchmen, coal min-
ers or any other organization, but
there are thousands of good farm-
ers still on the job, doin’ all they can
an’ will continue to do it as long as
they can.

“Yes,” he broke in, "an’ the con-
founded robbers are organizin' to
boost the price of food an’ every-
thing clear out of sight. They're
robbers, nothin’ less," he sez.

Say! Fellerii I yelled, I'd like
to talk with you awhile but you make
me laugh so I can't do it—organiz-
ing? to boost the price of food? Well
mebbe they are trying to get together
an' git a livin’ price out of their la-
bor an’ money invested an' they
have a right to organize—mi gosh i
I sez, you who've belonged to an or—
ganization for years, buckin’ at the
thought of farmers organizin? Sure,
you do make me laugh, I sez, an'
with that our conversation closed as
he didn't seem to have anything
more to say. Cordially yours.—
UNCLE RUBE.

Sense and Nonsense 

give us warning?” inquired the city
man.

“Well,”. responded the old fellow,
“there’s so many new-tangled no—
tions nowadays, I thought you were
going by steam‘.” _

 

AIVHope That Failed

The great ocean liner rolled and
pitched.

“Henry,” faltered the young bride,
“do you still love me?”

“More than, ever, darling," was
Henry’s "fervent answer. I

Then there was an eloquent silence.

"Henry," she gasped, turning her
pale, ghastly face away. ‘51 thought
that would make me feel better, but
it doesn't.” ‘

J In the 0 Zone
Doctor: Did you open both win-
dows in your sleeping room last night
as I ordered?
Patient: No, doctor, not exactly.
There's only one, window in my room
but I openedit twice.

 

 

   
 

 

 

  

CREAM SEPAATOR ‘

    

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Ordering Your 1920 b * ' ,

    

There are a dozen reasons why this is so.

For three years it has not been possible to make enough De
Laval machines to meet the demand. More than ever are being
made this year. but the demand is still greater.

 

Cream Separators have advanced
less in price than anything else used
or produced by the farmer during the
war years. If labor and material costs
continue to advance so must separ-
ator prices.

Such an advance must come very
soon from increased freight rates,
if from no other cause. '

Freights are still slow and uncer-
tain. There may be unavoidable de—
lay in getting a machine when you
badly need it from this reason.

The flush of milk and hot weath-
er are near at hand when a De Laval
saves most and an inferior or half-

worn-out separator wastes most.

There are still other reasons, which a De Laval best demon-

strates for itself.

You will have no difﬁculty in observing them.

Every local De Laval agent will be glad to afford you the oppor-

tunity to do so.

If you don’t know the nearest agent simply address the nearest

main cities, as below.

The De Laval Separator Co.

105 Broadway
NEW" YORK

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CHICAGO

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The following are a few of the subjects this book handles
and which you may want to know more about:

History of sheep and why important to know.
Different breeds and kinds to buy.

How to breed for market requirements and when.
Care of pregnant ewe and how to feed.

Docking, castrating and caring for young lamb.
Advantages of early marketing and how to feed.
Progressive system for the summer flock.

How to buy and feed western sheep and lambs.
How to produce more economical. sheep feeds.
How to grade and tell when sheep are list.

How to feed ln-ii‘eld and dry lot or barn.

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century of experienco back of the

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and the power to drive them.
Mechanics and experts have grown old in their serv—
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ever produced.
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uncertain machine. Get a Red River Specral and
be sure of clean‘threshing.
it beats out the grain. Its big cylinder, the “Man
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real grain-savers.
if interested in threshing for only your. own use.
ask about our "Junior" Red River Specral.

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CENTRAL MIOH. POLAND CHINA
BREEDERS FORM ABS’N I
The breeders of Big Type Poland
China Hogs of central Michigan have
longtelt the need of a closer fratern—
al spirit among themselves, as breed-

ers, to promote public sales and for '

the best interest of the breed in this
state, and particularly for their sec-
tion of't'he state. -

At a. meetingtheld on May 15,
1920, E. R. Leonard, St. Louis, was
elected president and C. A. Boone,
Blanchard, secretary and treasurer

of the Central Michigan Big Type-

Polahd China Breeders"Association.

A sale circuit was formed for Oc-
tober 26to 30th, with the Boone-Hill
Co., Blanchard; E. R. Leonard; St.
Louis; Chas Wetzel & Sons, Ithaca;
Brewbaker & Sons, Elsie and Wesley
Hile, Ionla. This will be a ﬁve day
circuit, the ﬁrst sale circuit ever
held in Michigan of the Big Types.
Leading blood is well represented in
the several herds, and this will at-
ford an opportunity for the public
to obtain advanced Poland Chinas
at their own- bids. It is hoped that
the breeders of the state, as well as
other states, will help make this a
success.

' In a short time every breeder in
that territory will be a member of
this association, and a large sale
circuit is looked for next year, with
possibly a bred sow circuit this
winter. 

SHORTHORN BREEDER PURCHAS-
ES HIGH GRADE SIRE

.Mr. M. B. Hallstead, Shorthorn
breeder who conducts a pure bred
stock farm at Orion, Michigan, has
purchased the Red Roan. Shorthorn
herd sire, Orange Goods No. 795761,
bred by J. Leitch and Son of LaFay-
ette, Illinois. This bull is a Cruick-
shank Orange Blossom and carries
a large per cent of the same blood as
Imp Villager No. 295884. 1

Michigan Shorthorn breeders may
be mighty proud that this high grade
bull has been brought to this state
to help Michigan become one of the
greatest livestock states in the
United States.

SPRING TIPS

1. Do not fail to provide clean,
warm quarters in which your cows,
ewes and mares can bring forth
their young. Navel ill comes from
dirt. " I

2. It is dangerous to expose
young stock, especially foals and colts
to spring rain-storms. A day’s ex-
posure, if not fatal, may stop a
month's growth. .

3. It is bad policy to turn the
stock to pasture before the grass has
well started—bad for the pasture
and bad for the stock.

4. When the pasture season be-
gins, turn the stock out at night, in-
stead of in the morning. Then they
will feed through the night, and not
lie down until the sun has warmed
the air and the ground.

5. Get‘your horses into condi—
tion for spring work—the young
horses especially. Many a colt has
been ruined by
being put to
hard work with-
out preparation.
It is the same
with green hors-
es. ’

,b. h warm

w e a t h e r ,
thorough groom-
ing'is almost as
important as.
feeding. Without

   

     

   

it, dried sWeat,
dead 'skin and
dirt clog the

pores, make the
horse uncomfort-
able snd. affect
his health.

7._; Look out
for" sore should-3
ers and backs, .
especially" lnﬁ‘
plowing:- ~Be sure *
that your callers, 

  

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big is as, bad as one too small. It
the collar rides upfuse a'martlngale,
or a girth running from- trace to
trace, back of the forelegs.---

8. When the horses are at work
on a warm day, lift‘up the ' collars
now and then to cool their shoulders
and wipe off the sweat and dirt with
a bunch of grass. '

9. Wipe oi! the harness marks
on your horses when you stop work
at noon and at night, and clean the
inside of the harness, ’the collars es-
pecially. The salt sweat drying on
the skin and on the harness is what
makes the trouble. -

10. If the skin is wrinkled under
the collar or saddle, bathe it with di-
luted vinegar or witchhazel. If the
skin is broken, bathe it with clean
warm water containing a little salt.
Fix the collar, with padding or oth-
erwise, so that it will not touch the

  

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sore spot the next day. A little care— ~.
lessness at the beginning may cause -

a lot of trouble to you and suffering
to the horse.

11. Clean your horses at night,
Water them, give them a good bed,
and water them again after they
have eaten their hay so that they
will not be thirsty all night. Let
them rest an hour or more before
they are grained. '

BIG HOLSTEIN SALE AT HOWELL,
JUNE 8

One of thelargest live stock sales
held in Michigan this spring will be
staged at Howell, under date of June
8, when the McPhersOn Farms Com-
pany and the Cluny Stock Farm will
offer at public auction 50 head of
high grade A. R. O. Holsteins.

Mr. R. Bruce McPherson, propri-
etor of both farms, informs us that
the list of stock offered will include
a cow with a record ‘at- four and one-
half years of 106.9 pounds of butter
in 30 days—a daughter of this cow

 

with a 365 day record at three and’

one-half years of 20,241- pounds of
milk; a proven 30 pound bull—a
grandson of the great King Segis
Pontiac—also 10 daughters ‘of this
bull; a 29 pound bull; 2 daughters
of a 33 pound sire; 5 granddaught-
ers of the great Colantha_Johanna
Lad; 1 daughter of a 27 pound Sr.
3 year old; 1 daughter of a. 26 pound
Sr. 3.year old; 2 daughters of a 25
pound cow; 3. daughter of a 24
pound cow; and 8 daughters of Mr.-
McPherson’s senior herd sire, Maple-
crest Application Pontiac.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac has
wonderful transmitting power and
up to present date has 16 A. R. 0.
daughters of which 2 have completed
semi-official tests of 305 days and 6
are taking this test at the present
time.

“I am disposing of practically ev-
erything I have except some daugh-
ters of this sire and their off-spring,"
says Mr. McPherson, "retaining only
a few other animals which form my
foundation herd.”

All of Mr. McPherson’s herds are
under Federal supervision and every
animal offered at this sale will be
tuberculin tested and sold on 60 day
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RESULTS FROM GRADE COW AND

_ PUBEBRED SIRE ' , '
'What a result a banker got by

breeding a grade cow to a pure bred

sire can be seen in the following ar-

ticle: ~ ‘ _ ' I 
About five‘years ago a hotel keep-

er bought a cow from a butcher that

‘was going to be‘shipped out for a

cannon After he, bought her he
bred her to Pogis 99th, the 11th of!
Hood Farm No. 122016, “owned by
the Riverside Stock Farm of Men-
don, the result was a female calf,
when this calf was a two year old

. she was put on test in a county as-

sociation, as a ﬁve year old she pro-
duced 7,015,pounds of milk with an
average test of 6.7 per cent and a
butterfat of 400.1 pounds. This '
year she will ﬁnish as a four year
old Jr. .She has two months to go
yet before the year is up. To date
she has 8,206pounds of milk with
a test of 5.6 per cent and a B. F.
of\462.3 pounds in the ten' months
that she has been tested. The total
value of her butterfat: was $302.68,
her feed cost $81.31 that gave her
a proﬁt of $221.27 over her cost of
feed. This record was made under
ordinary conditions on the farm, she
is owned by Mr. Estes the banker of
Mendon, Mich. If there is any grade
cow that can beat this let's have
her, record. This last record 'Wae'
made while I was testing her.—
Richard Btmbbmg, Testﬁ'r, St. Jasepb
County. ’

 

EASTERN WINTER more 131m
HORSE MARKET

Horses and mules are selling eas-

ily and at top-notch prices on the

East St. Louis market. The demand

A is greater thanever before in history.

Mr. Searcy of the Campbell and
Reid Horse Company, says that this
is not a. temporary inflation, but has
been coming steadily and surely for
the past ninety days. The buyers
from the eastern cities, particularly
those from the North Atlantic sea-
board, want heavy draft horses for
city work and are paying from $276
to $350_for all they can get. Mr.
Searcy says it is very evident that the
storm experiences of the past winter
have swung general sentiment very
strongly in favor of good horses and
mules for city hauling, and that for
100 per cent reliability, in all kinds
of wind and weather, the horse and
mule team are right there. He pre-
dicts that the demand will be per-
manent from now on, and that the
supplyis inadequate to meet it.

A market condition which has pre—
vailed steady andhlg-h as long’ as
this, means that, all things consid-
ered, the horse and mule are the
staple units of transportation.

 

HOT WEATHER HOG .SHIPPING
POINTERS

1. Haul or drive your hogs into
shipping station in ample time to
allow” them to become rested and
cool before loading. ‘

2. Insist upon a clean 'car bed-
ded with sand. '

3. Wet down the bedding and
interior of the car before loading.
\ 4. Give only
a light ' g'rain
feeding before‘
shipping. Heavy
feed means more

body heat gener-
ated. - '

5. Load not
more than one

hour before/tho
train is to de-
part. -
. .6. L o a (I!
slowly and, care.
' fully. Avoid fez-
;Ici‘tement’ and,"do

     
 
 
      
 

  
   

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gig:th  E» .

To avoid conflicting dates we will without-
«stylist the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vse us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. O-
F.. Mt. Olemens.‘

June 8. Hostelns. McPherson Farms 00..
and uGlunoy Stoek Farm;‘ Howell. Mich. -'
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Duroc-Jerseys . 0. F. Foster.
Pavillion. Mich.
Oct. 27. Poland Chinae. Wesley ‘Hile.
Tonia. Mich. '

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Paid in'Milk' for Purebred
» A Holsteins

The Reveille, Bellingham, Wash.,
reports that the Pacific Condensary

Co., sells high—grade Holsteins to
- the ranchers at cost, taking payment
in milk.

The company needs more milk and
by introducing Holsteins expects to
make dairying a proﬁtable industry,
thus increasing the acreage in dairy
farms as well as the milk output per
average .cow.. Just another instance
of the’standing of Holsteins among
business men.

Sand for free Illustrated Booklets.
They contain valuable information
for any Dairyman.

THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

205 Hudson Street
Irattleboro. Vermont

: Mn mix rnonucrn

Your problem is more MILK, more BUTTER.
more PROFIT. per cow.
son of Maplscrest

 

Application Pontiac—
182652—from our hsa —yes‘rly-milking-good-but-
Oar-record damwill solve t.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac's dam made
“5.108 lbs. butter in 7 days: 1844.3 lbs. butter
‘end 23421.2 lbs milk in 365 days.
He is one 'of the greatest long distance sires.
‘19s daughters and sons will prove it:-
rite us for pedigree and does on his sons.
Prices right and not too hgh for the average
dairy farmer.
Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. .Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE
THOROUGHBRED
HOLSTEHLOOWS

combining -blood of Traverse City an
Maple Crest stock, granddaughters 0
Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy.
Prices $800 and up
WILLIAMS A WHITACRE

R. F. D No. Allegan. Mich.

 

 

 

 

BUTTER BOY ROSIHA PRHIOE

257572, herd sire. son of Kin Ona. His sire
is from a 80 lb. cow that me c 1.345 lbs. in
ne year and dam, Butter Boy Rosina 2nd 200.
40. made 29 lbs. and almost 800 lb. in ten
months. she has a 33 and 84 lb. sister. Have
some fine young bulls and heifers and some heif-
ere‘ bred to him. all from ' cows with
records from 22 to 30 lbs. Write for prices.
ipshire hogs. fall boars, rudy for service
and gilts. 'Booking orders for spring gs.
Belgian and Percheron Stallions and mares. Im-
ported and American bred. ‘
I SAOINAW VALLEY STOCK FARM
Iii Sprunger A Son. Props... Saginaw W. S.. Mich

' ran SALE.

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age fro 2 to 8 ontbs
a BULL C-ALVES ‘\
one ready for heavy service
two with 18 and 20 lb. seven day records. Il‘ive
th good proﬁtable cow testing records. Write
or pediarees and prices.-- » ~ -
Herd free from disease. '
H. E. DROWN. Sreedsvllle'.-VMlch.
Breeder of R . stock only ~ ‘
7 A WELL BREO HOLSTEIII v
, * _.;;sun,cnrrosssl.s-
Dora Deo.’12. '1919. 'A bull or good 4 my. has
vs goo: straight-‘rum and a conic n’t
’ lbs:

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IREEDERS’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

 

 

HATOH HERD

(State and Federal Tested)
YPSILANTI. MICH.

orrrns rouse SIRES

Yearlings and younger, out
of choice advanced ' registry
dams and King Korndyke Ar-
tis Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs.
butter in 7 days; average 2
nearest dams, 37.61, 6 near-
est 33.93, 20 nearest, 27.83.

 

 

 

 

Bulls From an Accredited Herd

HILL CREST FARMS. MUNSON. MIOHIGAN
BISINGHURST JOHANNA ‘ORMSBY DIMPLE

195063

born Nov. 25. 1915, is offered for sale. His sire
is by Johanna Concordia Champion 60575 (29
A. R. 0. daughters. two 30 lbs.. 9 above 20 lbs.)

is by Golanth Johanna Champion 45674
60 A. R. 0. daughters) a son of Colsntha 4th’s
Johanna, 85.22, the only cow to ever hold at one
time 11 world's records in every division from
one day to a year. H‘His dam, LindenWood Dimple
2nd 139424. 27.33 lbs. butter. 465.30 lbs. ﬁlllk,
average per cent fat 4.70, is by Duke Ormsby
Pietertje De K01 4476!: 10 A. R. 0. daughters,
2 above 30 lbs.) and on of Llndenwood Dimple
104601. She has 75 per cent the same breed-
ing as Lindemvood Hope, 30.61. Write for price

fl
EDWARD I. BENSON A SONS. Munson. Mich.

BABY BULLS

Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsterr—etraight as a line.
big-boned rugged - fellows.
our 38 lb. senior sire.
ORISKANY PONTIAC from splendid
vidual dams of A. backing and the best
of blood lines.

Write for our sale list.

sosnnmn Finns”

JACKSON. MIOH.
Holstedn Breeders Since 1906

and other informatio .

 

 

I new Is your chance. .

nszisv smcx FARM

YPSILANTI. men.
Increase Your Production at the
Price of $50

Bull born May 3rd. Sire a grandson of
John Hengerveld Lad 61 R. 0. Daugh-
Dam a 2 year old granddaughter of

tors.
a 21 lb. cow that will be tested at next
freshening. We have just ﬁnished testing

2 cows.-.. One made over 30 lbs.,' the other
made 27.65 from 779 lbs. of milk

a" JOHII BAZLEY

319 Atkinson Ave.
DETROIT. MICHIGAN

$100 Each

 

 

 

 

four to ﬁve months old. Guaranteed straight and
right. Registered. crated and delivered any part
of Michigan for above price if taken. at once.
'Herd under State and Federal supervision. Write
. D. JONES' R

Mich.. R 1

Joe Meta. Mar. Romeo,

OUR HERD SIRE

MODEL KIHG SEGIS GLISTA

His sire a 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segls
Alban De Kol.

His dam, Glisia Fenella. 32.37 lb.

Her dam. Glista Ernestine. 35.96 lb.

His three nearest dams average over BS lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives avenge
over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. We offer one
of his sons ready for service.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS

 

O. O. Twlse. Mar. Eaton Rapids. Mich.
LAST ADVERTISED SOLD TO
Mr. P. w. Alexander. Vassar.

 Mich. New offer a bull two
years old about 1-2 white and straight as a
line (sired by MAPLE CREST KORNDYKE
HENGERVELD end from FLINT ULTRA
NUDINE a 28.22 pound daughter of FLINT
PRINCE. Buii carries 15 per cent same

blood as KING FLINT. If you want a dl.
rect descendant of BUTTER BOY ROSINA

Prlce 8200.
ROY F. FIOKIES. Chesaninl. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEIN

We are now booking orders for
{oung build from King Pieter spa»

yons 170506. All from A. R. 0. dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric~
es and further information.

Muelol! Bros.. South Lyons. Michigan

 

 

 

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pon-
c Lunde Korndyke Saris” who a ‘son of
"Kin of the Pontiscs" from a daughter of Pan.
tiac lothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. '1‘. W. Sprague. R. 2. Battle Creek. Mich.
A NIOE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL~
calf born February lst. Six-edby Flint Hen-
gerveld Lad. whose two nearest dams average
32.66 lbs. butter and 735.45 lbs. milk in 7 days.
Dam, a 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De

Nijlander 35.43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk 1
7 days. Write for prices and extended petligre:

L. O. KETILER
Flint. Mich.

. TWO BULL OALVES

Registered llolstein-Friesian. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap it

sold soon.
HARRY T. TUBSS. Elwell. Mich.

‘36 pound son of KING or THE
PONTIAC’S Heads our Herd

Several 30 pound cows all under Federal Sup-
ervision. good bull calves and a few bred heifers
for sale.

HILL OREST FARM.

or write .
John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold SL. Detroit. Mich.

  .ADVERTItSED SOLD.

‘ u ve one more or sale. Nic -
1, marked. straight back line. a ﬁne individual.
large growthy 'ellow with the making of a large
bun. Would do someone a lot of good. Dam has
a 27 lb. record. a large cow and a great milk
producer. Site a son of Friend Hengerveld DeKol
Butter Boy. .one of the great bulls. j

 

 

Ortonvliie. Mich.

 

#1

- HOLSTEIH BULLS

one coming 5 years weighs over ton, wonderful
conformation. a sure producer: one coming two
years, best blood lines, low price for quick dis-
persal. easy payments to reliable parties. Would
trade for heifers.

BROAD VIEW FARM .

LaPORTE. IND.

 

 

SHORTHORN

SHORTHORHS

5 bulls. 4 to 8 mos. old. all rosns, pail fed.

 

Dams good milkers. the farmers' kind, at farm-
ers' prices.
F. M. PIGGOTT A SON. Fowler. Mich.

 

THE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN BREED-

ere Association announce their fall catalog ready

4 for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and Mil

Shorthoms listed. ddress

W. L. Thorpe. Sec.. Milo. Mich.
YOUNG BULLS

MILKiigG SHORTHORH FOR SALE

. M. YORK. Mlillngton. Mich.

 

THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale, both milk
and beef breeding.
Write the secretary,
FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich.

33 lb. Grandsons of King of the Pontiacs from

FOR SALE AT BEA-

sonable prices. Tho

rise-winning 800
Bull. Master Model 576mlJ in many states a

head ofr'herd .of 50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. PARKHURST. Reed City. Michigan.

 

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

 

apie Ridge Herd of Bates Shorthorns Of-
fers for sale a roan bull calf 7 mos. old. Also 2
younger ones. J. E. TANSWELL, Mason. Mich.

 

 

HEREFORDS

Hardy Northern Bred Hereiords

BERNARD FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HER.
20 this year's calvos for sale. 10 bulls and 1.
heifers.
JOHN MacGREGOR. Harrisvllle. Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING REPEATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulb and some heif-
ers for sale. Come and see them.
MARION ‘STOCK FARM
Tony B. Fox. Prop.
Marion. Mich.

 

 

 

120 HEREFORD STEEBS. ALI.
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy unlit,
Shorthorn and Angus steers 6 to 10%0 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will he] bu 5..
commission. C. If Ball. Fairlie d. wt.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Bob Fairfax 495027 at head of herd. Bod!-
tered stock. either sex. polled or horned. mostly

 

 

 

In! ale. Come and look them over.
..EARL 0. MCCARTY. Bad Axe. Michigan.
ANGUS

 

 

 

I The Most Proﬁtable Kind

of farming. a car load of grade dairy heifers
from LENAWEE COUNTY'S heaviest milk prior
ducers to Include a pure bred ANGUS hull of th
most extreme beef type for combination but a
dairy farming.
Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prom t shipment.
Methods expla ned in SMITH'S PROF'Il'ABLl
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages illustrated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.
 ’PURE BRED ABERDEEN-
ANGUS CATTLE AND (LI-O.
Swine are right and are priced lithi- 00""
spondence solicited and inspection invi
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

REG ABERDEEN ANGUS BULLS

12 to 14 months old of extra quality and richly
bred. Inspection invited.
RUSSELL BROTHERS
Merrill. Mlch.. R 3

GUERNSEYS

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS
Away with the Scrub Bull.
Breeding better Guernseys.
Bull calves that will improve your herd.
. WILLIAMS
North Adams. Mich.

UERNSEYS FOR SALE. 1 BULL, ST. AUSc
Sultan, sire Longwater Prince Charmant
(18714) 4 A. It. daughters, 416 lb. fat at 2 1-2
years old. Dam, Dagna of Hillhurst (35969) A.
R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1—2 yrs. old. 1 bull call 6
mos. old of similar breeding. Also a few Rn.
heifers of the above bull. It will pay you to
investigate. Prices and pedigree on application.
MORGAN BROS.. R 1, Allegan. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JERSEYS

 

OR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

f rd Down Rams.
010 J. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mich.

Shorthoms at Farmers’ Prices

FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL cangn
under one year 0 These are all roans and
choice individuals. '

FAIRVIEW FARM
'3' '"d Aims. Michigan

F.
 FOR SALE AT REASON-
able prices. 1 bull, 16
months old also a few cows and heifer calves of
good producing cows.
OSCAR STIMSON. Drown City. Mich.

SHORTHORIS °"” “ FEW Len-

AT OLD PRICE.
Wm. J. BELL, Rose City. Mich.

 

 

. FOR SALE
TWO REG. SHORTHORN BULLS
for service. *Also one Reg. Short.th

 

JAMES HOPSON on. m" .
...... . . ..  .2; _.r .   see. ditt:¥t.f°“€f:l... in.
“MISTEnEn'_ no";erle or corn Olsy endow-mom bull cm

W- 93'FF'Nc 3- .5" Howell. Michigan

Sex for 'Ss’le .

 

  from a heavy producing dam.
W' S. HUBER. Gladwin. Mich.» .

 

 

 o. I LIVE STOCK FIELD MEN .
   ,Oattie and Sheep

One or, the other of the above well-known exporto will visit all livestock sales of

northern Ohio and Indiana. aslthe exclusive Field Men of The Michigan

huportance in menu. ,
Business armors. w, n

   

and  . will rsprssent- , 't der
Write; in.csrr-ofv   0‘

   
 
 

\

are both honest andcompetcnt men of standing in their lines in Michigan

. this weekly" at any sale, making bids and purchases.
Their service is‘ free“ to. you. They
rim {70* exclusively in‘

Horses and Swine

will also help 7011
the interests of Michigan’s OWN livestock

 

  
 

 

 

 

Highland Farm-Jerseys

Oiieis: Bulls of serviceable age. of R. 0. M.
Sire and Dam's, With high reduction records.
Also bull cell's. Write for pr nted list of prices
and description.

HIGHLAND FARM. Shelby. Mioh.. R 2.

or Sale—Jersey bull calves. Oxford and MI-
jeety breeding. Dams are heavy producers.
J. L. CARTER. R4. Lake Odessa. Mich.

 

MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONI
of our Majesty buiis.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON, Ionic. Mich.

Registered Owl Interest Bull

ready for light service. Perfect in color and
breeding. $100. One three weeks old. 860.
L. H. OHEESEMAN. Clarketon. Mich.

~—every
breeder—e

Can use M. B. F.’s
Breeders’ Directory
to good advantage

What have YOU 2  i: 
to offer? r

 

 

 

   

 
    
     
  
 
 
   


   
 
  

 
  
 
  

 
  

    
   

   
 

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.' 'verftim. _ . _ . I .
‘  "114’ months old from prize winnirig ud-
. it priced low my terms to reliable parties

. or‘hwould use: for heifers. -

,BIIDAD VIEW FAIIII
.mom. mo.

AYRSHIRES
row- bzﬁs—nsetneneo svssmss

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bulls and calves, heifers. and heifer calm
Also some choice eon.
’ FINDLAY IND... II 5, Vassar. lion.

 

 

BROWN SWISS ’

roll SALE

HAVE ANOTHER PURE DRED

DWI 'SYIISS BIILI. DALE

that was born Feb. 4. 1920. Will give purchas-
er registration and transfer.
FRANK POET.‘ Clan. Mining‘skO

 

of Brown Swiss

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

BIG BOB MASTODON‘

Sire was champion of the world. his Dam's
sire- was grand champion at Iowa. Statc Fair. Get
A grand champion while the getting is good. Book-
ing orders.now. Bred gilts are all sold. but have
10 choice fall pigs sired by a Grandson of Dish-
er“- Gisnt. 3' boars and 7 sows. Will sell open
or bred for Sept. farrow, to BIG BOB.

C. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich.
THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.

Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These boars
in service: L‘s Big Orange, Lord Clansman.

Orange Price and L‘s Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mlch.

WONDERLAND HERD

LARGE TYPE P. C.

A few choice bred gilts for sale. Also fall gilts
and bears, some very good prospects of excellent
breeding. Gilts bred ORPHAN’S SUPERIOR
he by BIG ORPIIAN’ EQUAL by BIG BONE

RPHAN by the BIG ORPHAN. m,
BEAUTY’S CHOICE by ORANGE BUD, by BIG
ORANGE A.

Free livery to visitors

m. DLARKE.
Eaton Rsnlds. Mlch.

 

 

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L s P o FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
boars left. A few extra nice gilts
lei‘t bred for April (arrow.
H. o. BWARTZ. Schoolorsft. Mien.

 

T. P. C. SOWS
booked for
Mich.
E.

ALL SOLD. ORDERS
boar pigs at weaning time from
champion herd. Visitors always welcome.
R. LEONARD, R 8. St. Louis. Mlch.

 

HAVE

BIG TYPE P. C. GILTS ALL SOLD.
boars

one yearling bear and also some fall
that we Will close out It a bargain.

L. W. BARNES «A SON.
POLAND CHINA8

Byron, Mlch.
BIG TYPE m... 9...an

Nine fall gilts out of litters of eleven and
thirteen’. for sale

 

 

E. MYGRANTS, St. Johns, Mlch.
BIG TYPE P0-
lsnd Chime.

  Gllts all sold.

y 1920 crops will be sired by Giant Clansman
No. 324731. sired by Giant Cinnamon and Art's
Progress No. 37 041.

A. D. GREGORY, lonia, Mich.

TH ANNUAL P. C. DRED SOW SALE,
March 13, 1920. For particulars write
VJ. J. HAGELSHAW. Aususts. Mlch.

Big Type Poland Chlnaa. Am offering three boar
pigs at weaning time at reasonable price. Reg<
latex-ed in buyers name. Sired by Big Long Bob.
Write for pedigrees and ices.

Charles. Mlch.

Dl'
MOSE 3808.. 8!.
B T. P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT, EXCEPT SOME

boars, summer and fall pigs.
F. '1‘. BART. St. Louis, Mich.

 

 

 

I Am Oderlnq Large Type Poland China
bred to F’s Orange at reasonable prices
fall pigt‘ Write or call.

CLYDE FISHER. R8. St. Louis. lion.

Bows.
Also

 

' T. P. 0. ALL SOLD OUT. EXCEPT DONE
fall gilts. Thanking my customers.
JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolcrsft. Mlch.

BOARC ALDO COWS AND PIGS. ANYTHING
wyou want. Poland Chinss of the type.
e have bred them big for more than ears;
over 100 head on hand. Also registered erch-
erons. Holstems sud Oxfords. Everything sold at
s reasonable price. and a square 1.
JOHN c. BUTLER. Portland. Mlch.

FAREWELL LAKE FARM

large type P. C. Have a ﬁne lot of spring pigs

gy Clansmsn‘s Image 2nd. The Outpost and
ing’s Giant. I will sell King's Giant No. 827.-

749. He is a real sire. He was first prize year-

ling boar at Jackson Co. fair, 1919.

' W. B. RAMBDELL. Hanover, Mlch.

 T.POLAND amuse. Orders Booked for
spring pigs from Linc anans Strain.
ELDRED A. CLARK. St. Louis. Mlch.. n a

 

 

I ~ DUROCS
UROC.JERSEYS. FALL BOA'RS. WEIGHT
200 lbs. each. Sired by s 800 lb. boar.

Priced reasonable.
O. E. QAVIS A SON. Ashley. Mlch.

. styrene and
O"?! m.

  

registered. on”. ‘coming, 5 years., weight»

Detroit,

 

‘ 0.1.‘c. sews FOR SALE

one or run see-r assoc Is'mcmess '

pring l ‘ foil rhn bred for Mama. April
.' “a "u! tumors name. If you want s

 
     
 
    

   

    

   

“ins Ills by Won't
Orion. Int 8_I-., Yeeﬂing
Jackson. Gd. Rapids and Saginaw. 19”

PhillipsBros, Riga, Mich?

WIDE“ EARN

ed Us ad Dnrocs
' “d " 8° Pulllon. won.

0. F. FO‘ETER. '9'.
FALLBDARS

DURDD JERSEY ...... ... 0....

Chem King Col. 2nd. ﬁrst aged hour at Detroit
in 1019. 'il'hese are growthy sad the right type
D

rioed to se I.
W. O. TAYLOR. 'Allsn. llloh.

 

 

 

W
UROC JERSEY. SPRING PIGS, CHOICE
breeding, $15 each. also two b'red gilta, $00 ea.
F. W. SLEDER, R 4..Trsverse City, Mloh.

uroo Jersey Bows and Gina bred tor Auo. and
Sept. isrrow. 1.000 lb. herd boar.
' J08. SCHUELLER. Weldman, Mlch.

DURODS
C.

 

OF BREEDING SIZE AND

UALITY.
8. POWER. Jerome. Mlch.

 

nuroc sows and glits bred to Wall's Kind 82949
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc board. Newton Barnhsrt. St. Johns, Mich.

 

 BOAR PIGS FROM BROOKWATER
bred sires and dams. $20.00 at 8

Mlch.

weeks.

E. E. CALKINS.
 BOARS. GILTS AND BROOD SOWG
, of all ages. Sows bred or open. New-
ton 6‘: Blank. Hill Crest FormshPerrlngton. Mlch.
Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

DUROC BOARS anon PRIZE

\VINNING STOCK
ready for service. GeolB. Smith, Addi-
son. Mich.

Ann Arbor.

 

 

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
hogs. Spring pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS. Farmlngton, Mlch.

OAKLAle PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Bosr——Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

A few spring pigs left at $25
BLANK & PaTT‘ER
c .

 

Pottervl Ilo.

 

MAPLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
Swine. Order your spring pigs now. PM"
and trios not akin.

VERN N. TOWNS, no. Eaton Rama-smelt

DUROG JERSEY I SEWER '23.?

 

sprin  Hegesmfem 
for  .snd__ 7 fem ,thst are good s

ntbosr ,t Since. it 8
weeks 0 Bstls action narsnteed. Call or" write
GUI THOMAS. If" Lothmp. Mlch.

 

 

‘ 0.12.0.- ‘
on m: 0 HI

onssrss Iain: son:

A choice lot of spring and fall pigs. Two year-
ling herd boars. Two ﬁne sows due in June and
bred gilts. I ship 0. 0. 1).. in buyer'-
name and guarantee satisfaction. ‘

JOHN C. WILK. Alma. Mlch.
o I.
in

0. sins wsmmse zoo to 213 no.
May furrow.

breeding flesh bred for March. April and
Guaranteed safe in dam. I will re—
place a
or refun

'proving otherwise to your satisfaction
tuber boar pigs ready for spring servi

 

 
 

 

pure price in Juli. Have a few 0c-
ce that are
right priced to sell. 'Herd cholera immuned ‘by
double treatment. P. C. Burgess 88. Mason. Mich.

o I c ‘AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE-—
Boar pigs of March fsrrow ready
for June shipment. Price 820 each. Best of
bloodlines . Recorded free in C. \‘V. R.
CLARE V. 'DORIAN. Omar. Mlch.

FOR DALE—REGISTERED 0. I. C.
sows Md suckimzwpigs.
JOHN ODOERFEFR, Mariette. Mlch.

o. I. O.’s—-—8 Choice young boars. March and
April pigs at weaning time. .
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mlch.

O. I. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Can fu h
you stocs at "live and let live” prices

A. J. GORDEN. Dorr. Mlch., R 8.

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
offers a few more 0. I. C. bred gilts also, hatch-
ing eggs from "Regal Dorcas." White Wyan~
dottes and "Parks" Barred Rocks at $2 per 15.
White Runner ducks 52 p 11 and White Chin-
ese Geese at 40¢: each. A eggs prepaid.

DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

l AN] BOOKING ORDERS FOR 0. I. c. SPRING
D128 bred from a 1.000 lb. boar and s 20.
months old dam weighing 700 lbs.
of the most famous breeds.
FRANK MASON
Merrlll. Mlch.

Also others

  

.wANT A ONEEP? Lot Anselm Hampshire

1 can" oiler 10 very
that wi

 

 
  
 

   

 

 

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typo. rem. z b , that
Booking otters

   

 

{or 11920
CLARK U. .IIAIRI. W.“ M. “ION.

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She p Association and we s. dandy booklet
with t of breeders rite CONFORT A.
TYLER. Ioo’y. 10 Woodland Av... Detroit. Mich.

KIDS

 

I CANNOT CELL YOU ANY NONI

ewes until next fle To some own up),
good young 811 its owes
il lamb in April for 8400. Their lambs

contracted ‘t'on‘lne should not more than c
. .

Also.10 mi hty nice ewe lambs for .350.

e and see us.
ROPE-NON FARMS. Goldwater. Iloh.

 

      
 
 

    

«smile and pay exprpss
, “ ‘sslﬁrszlswdre.
‘ . PARSONS. GrsndLedge.Mich. 3.!

PET STOCK

ELGIAN Rimes—rouse AND OLD STOCK,
all high bred. Send for prices.
SHERIDAN RABBITRY. Sheridan. Mlch.

' HORSES

GHOICE REGISTERED PERGHERONB For Oslo
1 gray mare 12 yrs.
1 black mare 3 yrs.
1 sorrel more 8 yrs.

I Spring Colt.

BARNEY GIESKEN, R8. St. Louis, Mlch.

 

 

   

 

   

 

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I AND
I PERCHERON
DRAFT STALLIONS
With Size and Quality
mgﬂdn‘lEBhﬁrEsrsf N10 "W1: :3: 331810;:
on a breeding plan. If your locality

needs a good draft stallion, let me hear "
from you. /

FRED D STEVENS

Breckenridge. Illoh.

 

 

 

 

Can furnish stock not akin. Also yearl-
ing sows. Will breed for early fall litters. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS a. SON. Davlson. Mlch.
 Sprlnq bred sows allh sold. i lilang . . ‘.
good Sept. pigs, bot sex, srer _ y L l L S  d
Liberty Defender 3rd, from Col. bred dams. Gills .  e   A s m

Will be bred to an Orion boar for Sept (arrow.
H. G. KEESLER. Castopolls. Mlch.

E OFFER A FEW WELL-DRE!) SELECT-
Gute'dinpl‘lng DuracuBosrs.m;lso bred sows sud
' s n. s or w
MoNASGl-IEI'ON A FORDYCE. St. Louis. Mlch.

GI T3 BRED FOR AUGUST FAR-
DUROD..."

Spring pigs either sex.
JESSE BLISS A SON, Mlch.

BERKSHIRES

ARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES.
Bred gilts and spring pigs for sale.

 

Henderson.

 

 

 

PRIMEVAL FARM, Osseo. Mich.
“  ARE QUALITY HOGS”
 equipped with that delicious
lean streak and not so much blubber. A lew

hi sow pigs to offer, splendid individuals.
c oceARIA A. WEAVER. Chosanlng. Mlch.

 

GREGORY FARM BERKSHIRES FOB
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. 8. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.

fDR SAL

 

REGISTERED BERKSHIRES 0'

the mostd fashionable breAeIding.
r open. Gilts an young rs. so a
2;?“ {soil pigs. No aged stock. Prices. 850 to

Riggonv onovc FARM. Pontiac. MIEI... as
CHESTER WmTES
CHESTER WHITES “WM PM In Pairs ..

‘2?“ "‘"i‘ ‘1? mill:
t sonable prices. so a ew re 1
Richly {figmw W. Alexander. Vassar. Mich.

EGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS FOR
sale at prices that will interest you. Either
‘t toda . ’

"x. vIY'i‘IIIEI’III CyOSENS. Level-Ind. Mlch.

YORKSHIRE

D YORKSHIRE GILTS. DUE APR. 1.
small: C. bred stock.
A. R.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BLACK A SON. R7. Lsnslng. Mlch.

 

HAMPSHIRES

I LEFT. BOOKING
 FREE-1d 231:: 'f’ofsspring pigs. $15.00
st 8 wee o .

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v ,  ﬂ; canners. $5@
, 5.76.:  tflleavybulls, $8.50@9; bo-
 lognahulle,‘ “@8435; stock bulls,
“93:59; feeders; ‘$9@11;‘ stockers
{75008.50; milkers and springers,
5856125. Véal calves: market act-
ive; best, $16.50,@17; others, $10'@
13. Sheepeand‘ lambs: Market dull;
best lambs, $16.50; fair lambs: $14
' 015; light to common lambs, $9@
12; fairto good sheep; $9@10; cull
and common, 8305.
active: Piss, $13.50; bulk of market
$14.76; few choice, $14.86. v

CHICAGO—Beef cattle lbs to 25¢»

higher; top yearlings, $14.30; best
heavy, $13.75; bulk all weights, 312‘
013.15; stock steady to strong;
spots higher; choice heavy cows, 88:
bulls and canners steady; medium
bolognas, $7.75@8; calves steady to
strong; bulk vealers, {13.60 @1415;
feeders steady to strong, but quiet.
.Hogs: Top, $14.90; bulk all weights,
$14@14.75; pigs, 25c to '50c'lower.
Sheep: Bulk lambs steady; others
loWer; sheep 50c~ lower; good and
choice shorn lambs, $16.50@17;
common kinds mostly, $12@13;
choice spring lambs, $17.50; others
mostly $16.25; good and choice fat
ewes, $9@10.

 

BOSTON WOOL MARKET

The Commercial Bulletin says:
“Business during the past week has
been virtually at a standstill both in
the Eastand- West and the few small
sales which have been effected have
almost invariably been at the expense

of prices. Quotations are very difl‘l—~

cult to make with any certainty.
“The situation in the goods mar—
ket is still very unsettled, although

   

and, ticks.

PARSONS

'1 Writd'for Club Oler

: heavy  vein

light '2- butchers, situation is:

Hogs: Market.

  
 
 
     
   

' tracer

his

   

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hoped that renditions will/begin to
improve presently.” ' - -

Quotationsgmore or less nominal.

Michiga’n.‘and New York fleeces.—
Fine unv’iashed, 66@68c;- delalne',
unwashed, 86@‘87c; 1—2 blood, un-
washed.7-3'@7'4c; 3—8 blood, unwash-
ed, 61@63c. _,

Ohio and -Pennsylvauia ﬂeeces——
Delaine unwashed 88@99c; ﬁne, un-
washed, 70c; 1-2 blood combing, 75
@77c; 3—8 blood combing, 62@63c.

Wisconsin, Missouri and average
New England—ll-Z blood 70c: 3-4
bluOd. 67"@58c; 1-4 blood, 53@55c.

Virgina} Kentucky and similar.—
1-2 blood unwashed, 7868M: 1-4
blood unwashed, noose.

Scoursed basis: Texas—Fine 12
months, $1.60@1.85; line 8 months
81.45 @150.

California—mor‘thern, $1.65; mid-

‘

die country, ‘ 81.550130; south,
$1.30 0 1.35.
Mohairs——Best combing, 6 0 @ 6c;

best varding. 6 5 @ 80c.

 

_ EXHIBIT

 

w ANTISEPTICS

5 ~ . A x I - thel year aroun‘rli keep stock healthy
- - h  "  an res from isease germs,

A $7.50  makes $60.00 worth of medicated salt, or
at conditioner—saves you big money. '
Send $3.00 for a box off”le TON-MIX”
medicate a barrel of salt. For hogs, sheep, cattle, horses, an poultry.

CHEMICAL WORKS. Grand Led“. Michigan

HOW TO SELL smug
WHERE?

 

L. A. LILLY, Pres.-Mgr.

It Does More and Goes Farther
' Than Any Product Known

Wise Stoclcmen Everywhere
m "X-TOH Users
worms,

by parcel eat. It will

 

 

Park Farm: Exocrine-n Station

Em. road. but it is"

 

 

 

 

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rates or
it in type. send pros! and
Advertising Department,

    
    
  

under this heading at 80 cents per line, per Issue.
Write out' what you have to offer and send It in, we will'put
note rates by return mail.
I. Clemens, Michigan.

         
 
  
  
 

Special
Address The albumen lusigtsu farmer.

 

   
  
 

POULTRY

“a CHICKS

“HOMESTEAD FARMS

A mpenﬂve
in Pure Breed P
,1 Poultry. Chicks and eggs
 ' delivered at your door prepaid.

Oundard Heavy and Laying
Breeds

 

Work
ractical

You will be interested In
the Ext: Quality White Log—

WWW

Live and healthy Olsch and mdsiactory hatch
from eggs guaranteed.

Send (or new Catalog with illustrations: it
Will hell? You your is. Also it ex-
i-ho Farms plan of ctr-opera

STAT! FARMS ASSOCIATION
Dost Kalamazoo. Michigan

ORPlNG'l'ONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
(me catalogue oi hatching eggs. baby chicks and
breedan stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 148 Philo Bldg.
Elmira. I. Y.

 

Fun  MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.

ducks, either sex, $4 each at once. Old ducks
weigh 10 pounds.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette, Mich.

 

G. BUFF LEGHORNS, BABY CHICKS, EGGS

for hatching. liens, Cockerels. Farm raised.
Good laying strain.

_ J.-W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

WHITE LEGHORNS
Circular free.
Mlch., R 4

 

RABOWSKE'S 8. C.
Stock and eggs for sale.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill.

 

  

—T

O. K. Chicken Hatchery
THOROUGHBRED DAY OLD CHICK.
Barrera Plymouth Rox.

. eds.
8. C. Brown and White Loghorns. '
:6 chicks, $6.25; ’50 chicks, 811; 100 chicks;

MORNIN GSTAR. Prop.
1 15. Foam. Mull.

CHICKS—CHICKS

A. O.
Box 288. Phone

 

SHIPPED CAFELY EVERYWHERE IY IA".
8. C. White herboms and B. C. ﬂowed An-

com; the great egg machines.

chicks. guaranteed to Iotlsf Order In!

lay and June delivery. venth scan 0-

ales tree.
HOLLAND BANNERY. R1. Holland. Ish-

Rose and Cinch-Coil.

CHICKS AID EGGS R, I. 3..., 3......

Plymouth Rocks. Superior color. Proliﬁc layers.

Prepaid by parcel put and safe delivery IMF.
antsed. Illustrated catalog tree.

. Kl! It!!! Box 0. Lennon. Mich.

BABY CHICKS. PURE OCR-ANTON STRAIN
Rhode Island Reds, $20 per 100. Order now.
H. VAIDEPELS. Iceland. Mich.

HATCHING EGGS

FOR ME HATGHIIG sacs

FROM A HEAVY LAY-
nig strain of S. C. R. I. Reds at 82.00 per set-
ting of 15 eggs, $10.00 per 100.
_Stock of excellent type and
times.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS ‘ SON. Davison.

 

 

 

 

 

quality at all

Mich.

 

R. i RED HATCHING EGGS, 59 PER 100.
Special eggs from 300 egg hen, 75c each.
W. H. FROHM. R 2. Mt. Clemens, MIOh.

 

. C. Leghorn Eggs. from Kuip and Gale Strains
$1.50 for 15. $8 per 100. M. Pekin duck
eggs, $1.50 for 8. Mrs. Claudia Bette. Hillsdale.

 

WYANDOTTE

Bllver Laced Golden and White Wy_andott
Eggs from best quality, only $1.75 per 1.); .
per 30 by parcel post prepaid. Buy from old‘re-
liable. Clarence Browning, R2, Portland, Mich.

 

03.
2 I)

white Wyandottes, Dustin's Strain, culled by ex-

perts for utility, size and color. Eggs 15 for

$2.00, 50 or more 100 each, by mail prepaid.
VANO FARM, Martini-d. Mich.

 

Fine W. Wyandottes at Half Price. Best_ layers.
Keelcr's strain. Eggs 70 each, postpaid.
N. FLECK. R 6, Ind.

LAinSHAN

ILACK LANGBNANS OF QUALITY -
Bred for type and color since 1912. Started
from Denheaded by Black Bob. First prize cook
at International show at Bull’alo. Jan. 1912. En-
$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter layins strain.
SIMPSON.

Plymouth,

 

 

 

OSE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS FOR
hatching stock. guaranteed, $2 for 12').
Wm. J. RUSCHE. Alpine, Mlch., R 1

 

08E COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS FOR
sale. One ﬁfty per ﬁfteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality

guaranteed.
E HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater, Mich.

 

ROM COOK'S IEST: 8. O. DUFF, WHITE
and black Orpington eggs, $4 per 15; $7 for 30
GRABOWSKE BRO$.. R 4. Merrill. Mich.

 

RITE WYANDOTTES; EGGS FOR HATCH-
ing from selected layers, 52 per 15, prepaid.
Pens. 816 to 825.
FRANK DeLONG, R8, Three Rivers, Mich.
  Eggs from vigorous early
maturing stock from heavy

laying strain. $2 per 15. $5 per 45 by prepaid

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After the Minnesota National Sale

THEN

The MCPhersOn Farms Co.

AND

Cluny Stock. Farm

5’ SALE ’
 at Howell, Mich, June 8, 1920
so . HIGH CLASS A. R. o. HOLSTEINSV ‘ so
. * . SaleBegins- at 10.30A. M. at the Sales Pavilion-

Auctioneer—B. v. KELLEY;

'S. T. W’

.p is _ VMcP‘herso-ri Farms Co. and Ginny Stock Farm

4

l—In the Box,

 

 

 

 

DE cﬂAs_ w. wobbonmo, uloh. parcel post. R. G. Kirby. R1. East Lansing, Mich.
“3 KS srcmuo sacs—PLYMOUTH Rocks (ALL
B Y CHIC varietkies) Cthiilto Wyandotbe, Ancona and Ron-
nlsh Houdam en Ruc s. a 0: LC.
Emm'gm‘ﬁlﬁ'; 3.1.":§°‘859§.?mm,' Brahmas, snamosn POULTRY vsnos. Sheridan, Mich.
Wyandottes: Tyron'e Poultry harm. Fen‘wn. Mich
. c. sue a. c. snows LEGHORN seas

$1.00 for 13.

for hatching winter layers,
EVA 1’ Mich.

RYON, Jerome.

8. C. Black Minorcas exhibition stock Northrup
,strain Eggs for Hatching $3 for 13, $12 per 100.
Can Poultry Yord, O. J. Deedrlck, Vassar, Mich.

 

s. . BROWN LEGHORNS. FARM RANGI
eggs. 15, 81.60 postpaid. 100 erpress. $8.
HARLEY L. FRY. North Adams, Mich.

 

 

RESULTS !

April 6, 1920

 

Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich,

Gentlemen: — Enclosed please
ﬁnd check for $14.60, the sum due
for 13 weeks’ chicken ad and one
week strawberry ad. If we need
any more ads we will let you
know later.

Your ads surely bring business.
We’re all sold out for April and
May. Yours is the best paper for
Michigan farmers that there is-in
the state. Continue in the same
good Way and you will have the
support otvevery bona. ﬁde farmer.

Cordlally yours,
C. W. HEIMBACH,

Route 5, Big Rapids, Mich.

 

M. B. F. brings them

 

 

 

—'-READ

the Classiﬁed Ads
—.m—
M. B. F .’s
Business Farmers’ Exchange

' Big Bar

 

 

 

 

     
 

 
 
 


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