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CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN ELEVATOR
, COMPANIES

'In the United States there are
- some 14,000 co-operative marketing
* associations. To many of them, the
‘ Bureau of Markets, United States
Department of Agriculture ,has given
valuable assistance by furnishing
specimen copies of'by-laws and by
indicating proper methods of organ-

ization and administration.
. “The Organization of Co-operative
' Grain Elevator Companies" is the
title of Bulletin No. 860 just issued

. ,by' the United states Department. or.
‘ ‘Agricnlture upon this subject.‘ The

bulletin is addressed to those who
desire assistance in the formation of
(to—operative grain- elevators, but the
subject- matter is treated in amen-
ner that makes the bulletin of in-
terest to those engaged in other
lines of co-operative endeavor as
Well. The scope of the pamphlet is
-limited to matters regarded as fund-
amental and general, and it is in-
tended that the suggestiqns and rec—
ommendations be considered with
references to and in connection with
special co-operative laws and the
laws governing corporations in each
of. the several states of the Union.
The bulletin points out that the
success of any organization, whether
co-operative or for private profit,
rests upon‘ social or economic need;
a sound organization plan, and efﬁ-
cient management. It then details
the various factors that produce these
basic conditions. It dwells upon the
organization of joint stock compan-
ies, private corporations of the cap-
ital stock form and co-operative as,
sociations incorporated under special
co-operative law, the three common
forms of organization of farmers' el-
evator enterprises in the United
States.
Under the chapter of preliminary“
_ survey, matters of local conditions,
prospective membership, capital, val-
ume of business, and methods of sur-
vey are covered. Then the processes
of actual organization are discussed

and a suggested form of y-laws
given.
The bulletin also contains some

general suggestions regarding the
selection of the plant, the choice of
directors and a manager, a mainten—
ance agreement, emergency capital
and speculative tendencies. The ap—
pendix gives detailed forms to cover
every phase of the administration of
the organization from a capital stock
subscription contract to a form of
stock certiﬁcate, and service and
maintenance agreement.

The pamphlet has been Written by
experts in matters of co—operative as-
sociations. It is the composite re-
sult of aetual experience and should
prove of valuable assistance to those
interested in co-operative market~
ing. The bulletin may be had upon
request of the United States Depart—
ment of Agr'l., Washington, D. C.
C.

HIDE AND MULE STOCKS
ACCUMULATE

Heavy accumulations of raw stocks
of hides and skins are reported to the
United States Department of Agri-
culture by 1,094 packers, dealers,
importers and tanners, May 31,
1920, as compared with the stocks
reported by 1,111 concerns April
30, 1920, and 1,266 concerns May
31, 1919.

The May holdings show percent-
age increases over those of April as
follows:

Calf skins 19.8
Iiip Skin! oeueooooIdIOOIOIC. 10.5
Horse hides .............‘... 22.5
Horse fronts (whole)

Horse butts (pairs) ......... 8.!

Horse shanks ..............160.4~
Mule hides . ...... ”X”... 40.2

, Colt, ass, donkey, pony .. . . . . 8.3

., Deer and elk skins ......... 5.2

. Kid skins ................. 404.3
Cabretta ............. . . . 15.7
pSheepandlambskine .8
V . . ‘ Buffalo skins .............. 91.6
‘ «Pig ‘ Skins (strips) ........ .- . 4.5
lligﬂm'mkoeesrcoewe-eo 2.2

0...... 18.6,

11,9739?!“ declines in only four. ,

  

items as follows: Cattle hides, 4 per
cent; kangaroo and wallaby skins,

"17.9 per centpgoats skins, 3.7'per
(1)1608!) 39;?

cent; and pig skins,
per cent. ' .
As compared with the holdings
May 31, 1919, the summary shows
percentage increases as follows:
Cattle hides ...... . . ..... ' 28.1

CE" SklnB‘.......osc...n..12.7
Horse hides ..............205.5
Kip . skins .. . ........... . . 138.9
Horse fronts (whole) ...... 132.6

Horse» but-ts (pairs). . . . . . . 146.6
Bom'M'2e‘eeeo.oeeeeoee 7‘o3
Mule hides, ................ 956.3
Colt,‘ ass, don‘key, pony . . . .119.8
Kangaroo and. wallaby . . . . . . 12.8
Cabretta ........... . . . . . . .. 10.2
Sheep and lambs 1117‘
Buffalo ...... .......'......207.0
Pig skins (strips) .v. . . . . . . . 21.6
Alligator skins ..... . . . . .3,.4’15.3
The decreases. were as follows:

Deer and elk skins, 30.3 per cent;
goats skins, 6.6 per cent; kid skins,
36.5 per cent; and pig skins, (pieces)
40.7 per cent. .

The percentage distribution of the
total stocks of hides and skins amoug
the various branches of the trade on
May 31, 1920,‘was as follows:

Tanners, 71 per cent; importers,
13 per cent; packers, 11.5 per cent;
and dealers, 4.6 per cent. Cattle
hides were distributed as follows:
Tanners, 46 per cent: importers, 14
per cent; packers, 32 per cent; and
dealers, 8 per cent. Calf skins: Tan-
ners, 64.3 per cent; importers, 6.7
per cent; packers, 14.7; and dealers,
14.3 per cent. Sheep and lamb skins,
Tanners, 65.7 per. cent; importers,
18.5 per cent; packers, 11.4 per cent;
and dealers, 474 per cent.

 

FILMS T0 INTRODUCE CATTLE
" AND SWINE

Introduction of American breeds
of live stock and poultry into South
America, particularly Argentina, is
to be aided by the use of motion
picture ﬁlms prepared for this pur-
pose by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. The ﬁlms also
will show American methods of
breeding live stock and handling it
in its many phases from the farm to
the home stable.

The Argentine government has
shown special interest in the intro-
duction of American methods of
handling live stock, as it has, in-
deed, in the agricultural practices of
the northern half of the continent
generally. As evidence of this the
Argentine Embassy at Washington

  

' has already purchased 1'0 ﬁlms on

these subjects for educational use in
its country.
the department’s bulletins on agri-
cultural questions translated into
tSipi‘mish for distribution in Argen-
no.

‘The Buenos "Aires & Paciﬁc Rail-
way has been another purchaser of
ﬁlms and still pictures for use among
its system. Its representative in this
country, Ricardo -Vide‘la., recently

- called at the department in quest of.

_ ﬁlms showing the swine industry in
the United. States. He was enthus—
iastic over ’the opportunity of almost
immediate success if efforts were con-

centrated on the introduction .of Am-,

erican swine into Argentine.» He

Proposed that a ﬁlm he prepared bye

the department showing the swine
industry in the United States, which
could be used along the routes of the
Buenos Aires & Paciﬁc Railway.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
welcomed the suggestion and prep-
arations are being made for ﬁlming
the various interesting phases of the

subject. It is planned to show im-
portant swine breeding farms, the
work in the big Chicago packing

houses, and the preparation of the
product for the table. Pictures will
-.be made of the various types of Am-
erican hogs, and an effort will be
made to give some idea of the vast-
ness of the industry in this country.

MILK PRICE GOES TO 16 CENTS

As partial compensation ‘to the
milk producers who have been sell-
ing milk the last three months for
less than cost of production the Milk
Commission last week increased the
price to 16 cents per quart restoring
the former price to the farmer of
$4.05 lees deductions for surplus.

The price will undoubtedly remain-

here until the consumer or the press
goes on another verbal raid against
the high cost of living when it may
take a drop. Approximately one-
half of the sixteen cents goes to the
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AMERICAN. HAMPSHIRE SHEEP
ASS'N ADOPT NEW INDUSTRY

The American Hampshire Sheep
Association has recently adopted an
advanced registry. An animal to be
eligible to this advanced
must be a first prize winner and have
two direct progenitors who are ﬁrst
prize winners at some fair or expo-
sition where this Association offers
special prizes. .

What Helps the Farmer Most?

HAT EXTENSION agency is‘

most helpful to the farmer?
- Among 2,300 farmers of whom
that question was asked, 38 per cent
said that they received most help
from the county agent and the farm
bureau. The agricultural press was
given first place by 31 per cent.
Three per cent of the farmers inter-
viewed said they received most help
from farmers’ organisations other

than the farm bureau and 3 per:

cent said they received most help
from bulletins and agricultural re-
ports. Twenty—two per cent had no
deﬁnite opinion as to which agency
was most helpful to them.

Bought Views of I'm

These opinions were gathered in
a survey made by omcial's of , the
States Relations Service, United
States Department of Agriculture, in
a number of northern and western
states. The purpose of the survey
was to get the viewpoint of the
farmers themselves as to the rela-
tive emcieacy of various phases ed
agricultural extension work and to
learn the outstanding problems of
rural districts as viewed by the farm-
er of those districtb. ‘ -

An indication of the eﬂlciency of
farm bureau work is Sound by son-
trasting the replies in states where
the farm bureau is assailed and in
these when it Is not. In the team;

   

er, as per canto!” the farmers inter?

. a.

viewed placed the county agent and
farm bureau ﬁrst among the agencies
that are of service to them, and only
18 per cent placed the agricultural
press ﬁrst. In states that have no
,farm bureaus, 26 per cent placed the
county agent ﬁrst and 39 per cent
\ placed the agricultural press ﬁrst.
labor the Biggest Problem
One of the questions asked was,
' “What is the biggest problem of
farmers in your community today?"
The farmers who answered this ques-
tion were divided as follows: labor,
682; improved farm practices, 687:
marketing, 309: better organisation
of farmers, 55; ﬁnancial assistance,
21; reads, 14; repeal of daylight sav-
ing law, 3; schools, 1. r
or the farmers visited, two out of
every three were ”anointed with the
county agent and his wor . .and 90
per cent of.) them were laverable to
it. one tarmac out of every three
was receiving the bulletins o! the
United sum Department of Agri-
culture and two out at every ﬁve the
bulletins at thegﬁtate college's! agri-
culture. Feur farm families out of
every ﬁve were taking both a daily
and an agricultural paper, and one
out of every two a. magazine. usually
a women’s alum . .
in every threevisitsdeas‘a member
of the, farm bureau and
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- snoa'rnomv anemones PICNIC

_ Early in tho'morning of June 25,

there were unusual signs of activity‘
at the Geo. Heimforth Resort on ‘
Lake Leelanau, Leelanau County,
the occasion being the second annual
meeting of the Northwestern Michi-
gan Sher-thorn Breeders'. Aesocia:
tion, and incidentally to help Mr.
Heimforth celebrate his 49th birth-
day. . ' ' . - ‘

The day'~was ideal, long tables had .
been constructed in the grove in an-
ticipation- or the his not lock dim:
ner. In addition to the many
ﬁlledbaskets brought by the picnic-*-
ers, the host ushered in an eighty
pound lamb roasted adds-barbecue
style. Next came the presentation
of the mammothpbirthday cake with
its 49 candles by Professor Edwards.
For the next hour the near three
hundred guests did their best to
clean up on the eats-but Were unable
to reach the goal. ,

Toastmaster Fred Smith of Elk
Rapids, then introduced several lo-
cal speakers. Mr. Thomas Read,
speaker of the House of Represents;-
tives was next introduced followed
by Professor Edwards of M. A. O.
(the Shorthorn Breeders' friend) and
speaker of the day. In his talk Mr.
Edwards made a strong appeal to
breeders to rally to the support of
the Michigan State Shorthorn Breed-
ers’ Association that they might be
of greater/service to the Shorthorn
Breeding fraternity of Michigan.

Following the speaking a short
business session was held the fol-
lowing otiicers being re-elected for
another year: J. W. Zimmerman,
Traverse City, Mich., president; Geo.
Arnold, Bates, vice—president, and
R. F. Zimmerman, Traverse City,
Secretary-Treasurer. .

In conclusion a rising vote at
thanks ' was tendered Mn. Helm-forth,
and it was voted unanimously to ao-
cept Mr. Heimfort-h’s invitation for
the next annual meeting to be on
the same date sit the same place.

Mr. Heimforth Sr. and Jr. are two
of the livest 'Shorthorn enthusiasts
in Michigan and .we predict it will
not be long until Valley View Farm
Shorthorns will be known far and
wider-Gourmand.

ESTIMATE 0F WHEAT YIELD

The Bureau of Crop Estimates re-
ports the estimated yield of wheat in
the United States as 780 million
bushels which is 60 million bushels
less than was produced in 1919 and
40 millions less than in 1918, but
nearly 600 million bushels more than
the average from 1909 to 1913. Can-
ada’s acreage and yield is reported
to be slightly less than last year. The
Argentine reports an estimated yield
of 212 million or almost exactly the
same as was produced last year. In _
.France the acreage of wheat this year
is 12 million acres or an increase of
less than 600,000 acres over 1919.
In British India the estimated pro-
duction for this year exceeds that of
last, year by about 100 million bush- ‘
sin, but the estimate for Australia
shows almost a 59 per cent decreaset
The Bureau has no omcial ﬁgures on
the estimated production in other» im-
portant ‘ wheat growing coun-
tries. Russia and Germany may or
may not have a large production in
prospect. A safe guess is that they
have not, so taking in all the known
facts and figures and those we can

 

safely surmise £311.80 crop of

wheat will hem loo than the 1.919 ;
crop. . ‘ .
Canadian production of cats will
be slightly in excess- of last year's
yield. > There is a reduction of 1‘;-
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AVE OUR readers tried to an-
alyze the fluctuations that have
been so marked in the grain

markets the past fortnight and to ex-‘~'

plain why the wheat market, for in-
stance, after months of- persistent
climbing. should all of a sudden be—
come shaky with a tendency to
tumble? We have watched this mar-
ket carefully for thirty days and
must confess to a certain bewilder-
ment over its antics. With the en-
tire world short of wheat and the
United States producing at the very
best a million bushels. less than in
1919 there has not until recently
seemedany very good reasons for a
drop in price, at least so many weeks
previous to the crest of the 1920
movement.

By far the most important factor
which must be reckoned with ‘as af-
fecting futureprices on grain is
transportation. In times past the
nation has been confronted with a
car shortage which has hampered
business more or less, but you can
,take it from us and a good many oth—
ers who have looked into the situa-
tion that any car shortage which has
faced this country in previous years
would look like a surplus compared
to theshcrtage which now exists and
is certainly to become much worse
as the crops are harvested and made
ready for shipment. Arm in arm
with transportation goes another mis-
chief maker, the ﬁnancial situation.
Both are boon companions. Both
are as certain to kick the props out
from under the grain markets as day-
light is to follow dusk.

One hundred, 'million dollars are
tied up by Kansas farmers and ele—
vator men in last year's wheat crop.
That is to say nothing of a. some-
what similar situation prevailing in
other states. . The crop has not been
'put upon the market simply because
there have been no cars to move it.
There is urgent demand for the
money represented in those crops. A
lot of it was loaned by the federal
land banks. ‘More of it was loaned
by local banks against their own
deposits. All banks are calling in
loans to meet the inevitable demand
for ﬁnancing the harvesting of the
1920 crops. This means that just
the minute cars are supplied enor—

mous crops of
grain are to be
moved In the meantime part of the
1920 crop will have found its way to
the markets and will tide the mar-

' kets over for the next sixty or ninety

days in which time it certain that the

What Of the Future of the Grain Markets?

Do Factors of Transportation, Credit, Demand and Supply F oretell Lower Prices \
for the Next Few Months?

Europe for Am-
erican grain? It
is safe to say that much more grain
is needed in Europe than will be im-
ported next winter. All European
countries are making a desperate ef-
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price. which will follow in |92|.

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,ln order to emphasize our belief in lower cereal prices all along the line for thin
Fall. after the temporary European demand has been satisﬁed. we are using this entire

For the Long Pull after August
We are Decidedly Bearish “

on

. ' CEREALS

The present range of prices is largely transportation made.

There is nothing in the fundamental situation, as we see it now. which can hold
prices anywhere nearthc present range of values. We repeat,—~the‘ﬁnancisl situation
alone justiﬁes a belief in much lower prices.

‘ European demand by September let; grain will begin to pile up "in the country. There

is no hope that present prices will be maintained.

» Therefore, farmers. if you can possibly hold your grain, do so. and enjoy high

Therefore, grain buyers; bear in mind that the tendency of prices is downward
and buy cautiously, conservatively. and at a profit.
Better do no business than to buy at a loss. Simply insist upon
a good margin and keep all the cash on hand you can possibly raise.
—4. Ralph Pickell in Rosembaum Review.

There will be a decided slump in the

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majority of the old crop will be mov-
ed. And when it moves prices are

certain to move with it,-—-downward..

It is in anticipation of such a com
dition that the demand is slackening
for grain as no grain dealer wishes

y to pay higher prices now than he

can secure thirty or sixty days from
now. ,
Now what about the demand in

the smallest possible fraction. Acre-
age in all those countries are just
about normal and we gather from
such meagre information as is avail-
able that the condition of the grain
crops is excellent.

Europe’s estimated imports for the
1920—21 season are placed a little
above 500 million bushels. North
America’s estimated exportable sur—

plus is around 400 million bushels.
Australia and the Argentine will havo
grain to export, so that it appeal's' '

that if anything the exportable sur-
plus is a little short of the import re-
quirements. Now none of the Eur-
opean countries will do any import-
ing to speak of until they are oblige

ed. They will defer their purchases

until all their crops are harvested
and they have found out how much
each of them can supply the other
with respective cereals. For a time
consequently European purchases in
this country are likely to be meagre
and inasmuch as it has been the
European demand which has been
the big price factor the p-ast several
years it is fair to assume that the

lack of that demand for a period of »

time will also be a determining price
factor. _

The warning and the chart publish-
ed on this page are taken from the
Rosenbaum Review of Chicago, the
editor and publisher of which is J.
Ralph Pickell, a man of wonderful
ability, foresight and judgment. We
would characterize Pickell as the best
crop and market analyst of the day.
He has special sources of ‘ informa—
tion on the world economic condi-
tions and shows rare intelligence in
interpreting this information with
respect to its effect upon future
prices. Note carefuuy his warning
to both producers and members of
the grain tYade. Note that he urges
the farmers to hold their grain if
they can. Note that he warns deal-
ers against too heavy purchases or
purchases at too high a price. "Buy
cautiously, conservatively and at a.
proﬁt" is his admonition.

It goes without saying that the mat--

jority of dealers will follow this ad- 9

vice. And in so doing they will
help to make the market prices the
next few months. Except in rare
cases the dealers will anticipate a
lower market rather than a higher
one, and the farmer who must sell

upon a declining market will be the ' ‘

suffered. Therefore, Mr. Farmer
take the advice of Mr. Pickell and
THE BusmEss FARMER and unless

it is absolutely necessary to sell your ,

crops direct from the threshing do
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on the application of the

0R SEVERAL weeks the Inter-
Fetate Commerce Commission has
been conducting public hearings
railroads
for an increase of 27.85 per cent in
freight rates in order to net them

the 6 per cent income guaranteed to.

them under the Cummins law. Un-
til very recently most of the argu-
meﬁts of the railroad companies have
gone unrefuted, such individual ship-
pers as have appeared before the
Commission not having the essential
facts to show that the roadscculd
get along with a lower increase than
they are asking for. It remained
for Mr. Clifford Thorne, represent-
ing the American Farm Bureau As-
sociation, to make the Commission
sit up and take notice when he pre-
sented plain facts and ﬁgures based
on calculations involving months of
research, showing that the railroads
were not entitled to an increase of
nearly 28 per cent in freight rates.

According to the Farm Bureau
Federation Mr. Thorne’s statements
showed:

(1) That the railroad valuation
on which the guaranteed 6 per cent
returns are ﬁgured are tremendously
overvalued—to the extent of several
thousand million dollars.

(2) That the present basis of in-
come and expenditure is not a fair
basis to ﬁgure future proﬁts upon,
and

(3) That even on the present
basis the calculations of the rail-
roads allow for increased expendi-
tures next year but do not allow for
increased'business and revenue.

Mr. Thorne showed——and support-
ed with volumes of carefully tabu-
lated figures—that on the basis of
the ﬁgures submitted the railroads
would need an increase of only 18
per cent instead of the proposed 27
per cent to pay the six per cent div-
idends guaranteed under the new
railroad law.

Save Public Million Dollars a Day

If successful in the contentions
presented, this work of a corps of
statisticians under Mr. Thorne’s di-
rection and supported by the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, to-
gether with the several shippers' as-
sociations handling livestock, grains,
and other products, would be a ma-
terial factor in saving the public in
freight overcharges a sum amount-
ing to approximately a million dol-
lars a day. According to the ﬁgures
presented, the railways would still be
getting adequate returns to meet all
maintenance and operating expenses
and to pay six per cent dividends.

Agitation Started by Farmers’ ”National Canned Gets AW Bachihgi'of Farm i red

Such a method M “.1” ,

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Farmers and the Railroads

HO COULD POSSIBLY be more interested in cheap and emcient
Wtransportation than the farmer? Of all classes of poople his

freight bill is the largest, and of all classes of people he is in-
convenienced most and caused the greatest loss when transportation is
demoralized and tariffs are high. We used to believe that production
was of prime importance in the business of farming. Then we came
to the point where we believed marketing was of superior importance.
But since our sorry experience with the railroads the’ past ﬁve years
we‘ have reached the conclusion that transportation transcends all other-
ccnsiderations, andthat no business can thrive or even long endure that
does not have ready and reasonably cheap access to the markets of the
worldand the sources of the raw material. Transportation, as amat-
ter of fact, goes hand in hand with marketing, and now that the farm-
er and his organizations are giving such close attention to this end of
the business they will be forced to take a larger interest in the trans-
The accompanying article is a clear, concise
and authentic statement of fact relative to the future cost of transpm-
Unless the farmers of the nation are on their guard the rail-
roads are going to get an increase in freight rates that will be keenly
felt by every farmer in the country. Farm organizations and individ-
ual shippers as well should be on their toes every minute to protect
their pocket book from undue demands on the part of the selﬁsh in-
terests that control the railroads. —Editor.

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Mr. Thorne’s briefed, statement

follows in part:

In Re Proposed Increased Rates

“In this proceeding the railroads
of the United States are asking for
an increase in freight rates which
will produce $1,017,776.99!) annual-
ly. This is the ﬁrst billion dollar
case ever tried before the Commis-
sion, or before any other tribunal.
At this moment railroad labor is de-
manding a billion dollar increase in
wages. It is distinctly understood
that the rate advance in this case
will not care for any portion of the
increase that may be necessary be-
cause of wage advances ordered by
the Labor Board; that will be fol-
lowed by another freight advance,
as a matter of course.

“During the past three years the
total annual interest charge on the
public debt of the United States gov-
ernment has increased from $23,-
000,000 to 91.053.000.000.

“If. the railroad stockholders and
bondholders, as well as railroad la-
bor, are successful in all their de-
mands presented at this time, the in-
creased transportation burden'on our
people will be twice as large as the
total annual tax burden o‘ccasioned
by the greatest war debt in our his-
tory.

“The issue in this case is not
whether an advance in rates should
be granted; but the issue is how

much of an increase is justiﬁed. All
of those for whom I speak Want to
see the railroads self-sustaining. The
public interest demands an adequate
transportation service. Service is of
ﬁrst importance; but the charge for
that service is also of importance;
and the economic effect on our com-
mercial life of such stupendous in-
creases in the transportation tax as

are here contemplated must be ser-'

iously considered.

“Those whom I represent are ab-
solutely united on the proposition
that whatever advance is granted
should not be excessive in amount;
and that, for this purpose, a check of
the railroad ﬁgures is justiﬁed.

Value of the Railroads

“The basis for all the computa-
tions of the railroads in this case is
their so-called property investment
account, which they claim repre-
sents the value of their properties.
This aggregates for the United States
$20,616,573,399. That represents
the “book value” of American rail-
roads, and in no sense constitutes the
actual investment. I believe that the
facts which we shall offer will dem-
onstrate that this amount is excess-

ive by several thousand million dol-.

lars.

“The carriers have failed to make
any allowance for depreciation. They
have assumed that all their cars and
locomotives, and rails, and ties to-
day are brand new, right out of the

Hark Back to the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,

By BERTRAND BROWN

N NOVEMBER, 11, 1620, in the

cabin of the Mayflower, a tiny

bark lying 011 the Massachus-
etts coats, a little band of liberty-lov-
ing men, from “Brittania,” entered
into what history has styled the
Mayflower Compact. This agree-
ment bound the 41 adult males in
the ship’s company into a civil body
politic for the better ordering, pre-
serving and furthering of their mu-
tual ends. And it provided for such
just and equal laws and offices as
should be necessary for the general
goodof the colony.

Ten days later, so records Dr.
Charles W. Eliot’s inscription on the
Pilgrim Memorial Monument at Prov-
incetown, Mass., “the Mayflower car-

, rying 102 passengers, men and wo-

men and children, cast anchor in this
harbor 67 days from Plymouth,
England.

“This body politic, established and
maintained on this bleak and barren
edge of a vast wilderness, a state
without a king or a noble, a church
without a bishop or a priest, a dem-
ocratié commonwealth, the members

' of which were straightly tied-to all

care of each other's good, and of the
whole by every one.
“With long-suffering devotion and

" sober resolution they illustrated for ,.

the ﬁrst time- in history the principles
Feivil and religious liberty and the

practice of a genuine democracy."

Meantime, uninformed of the Pil-
grims; fellow-colonists of Captain
John Smith had met at “James City"
(Jamestown,) Virginia for the ﬁrst
American Legislative Assembly. On
July 30, 1619, they had thus broken
ground ‘for the foundation of the
present democratic form of govern-
ment in the United States.

This year (in
1920) these events
are being commem-
orated in the Unit-
ed States, in Eng-
land and in Holland.
In August, the cr-
igin of the Pilgrim
movement will be
celebrated in Eng-
land. And early in
September, meet-
ings will be held in
Holland in memory
of the Pilgrims’ so-
journ in that
~country.. ,

In September
a “second May-

 

flower” will set which these an-
sail from South- rt “M b 1. o r ”Wm {casters e’stablish—- '
hampton. En s- “'0 m Wv "W ", . Jed—Tana which
land to follow “"5“ ‘3.."‘"a’:““"’.':‘33n’ m” "3" "v ‘ {their sons, that '
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taken by the original Mayflower.
(But this second Mayflower will be
modern, and therefore much more
seawcrthy than her smaller pred-
ecessor.) .

This boat, carrying many promin-
ent people in England, Holland and
the United States, will anchor in
Provincetown Harbor in late‘ Sep-
tember. Its arrival will perhaps
mark the crowning dramatic episo e
or the entire Tercentenary celebra-
tions.

These events will not be celebrat-
ed in the United States by the cits

izens of .Massachusettsand Vir-
ginia alone. Nor solely by
the New England and the
South Atlantic States.
Communities throug h-

out America are plan-

,ning to take this op-

portunity to review
v p the “foimdati o n

‘ upon which the
United States
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is. unjust, and has been ilpeciticialwr
repudiated by the Supreme Court of
the" United States. .This single item
of accrued depreciation for the rail-
roads in this case amounts to $995, -\
384, 881. Unquestionably this sum
should be deducted from the base
ﬁgure purporting to represent the
value of the railroad properties.

Market or Commercial Value

“A rather interesting ﬁgure offer-
ed of record is the present market
value of all the railroads in the Unit:‘
We have used the market
quotations of all securities quoted,
and the par value of those not quot-
ed.

“The computations more

cover

them 90 per cent of all the securities

outstanding in the hands of the pub-
lic and the ratio thereby secured has
been applied to the balance. In this
manner we have estimated that the
present market value of the Ameri-
can railroads is approximately $12, -
200, 000, 000. Contrast this with the
value demanded by the railroads in
this case aggregating $20, 600, 000, -
000. They desire to add $8,000,-
000, 000.

Par Value of Railroad Securities

“The par value of all railroad cap-
ital outstanding in the hands of the
public December 31,1916,‘was $16, -
332, 578, 328. We have written to
the companies handling over 95 per
cent of the traﬂic in the United States
and ﬁnd a very small relative amount
of securities issued since that date,
the total outstanding as of the pres-
ent time substantially less than $17,-
000,000,000. Contrast that ﬁgure
with the $20,600,000,000 demanded
as a basis by the railroads in this
case.

Bureau of Valuation Figures

“A witness for the‘r-ailroads has
introduced evidence of the reproduc-
tion cost new, found by theVa-luation
Bureau of the Interstate Commerce
Commission for some ﬁfty proper—
ties. Again,the carriers have fail-
ed to deduct accrued depreciation.

“We will nee the term ‘present
value’ as meaning the cost of repro-.
duction new, less depreciation, of all
property other than land, plus the
present value of the land, used for
carrier purposes. The present value
of these properties which we were
able to secure equals $2, 691, 949,-
667. This is equivalent to 83. 21 per
cent of their sc-called property in-
vestment. If this is typical for the

country as a whole, the present value

(Continued on page 9)

300 Years Ago

sons have handed down to us through
our form of representative govern-
ment.

America is appropriating, from na-
tional and state treasuries, hundreds
of thousands of dollars to be used in
plans for the commemoratioh. One
plan is to erect, overlodking Ply-
mouth harbor, a colossal statue of
Massasoit, the Indian chief who 11e—
friended the Puritan pioneer
other is to set the Plymouth Rock,
which is 1741 was raised above the_
tide, in its original position.

Seventy American cities, including
New York, Chicago and Boston have
started plans for their celebrations
of the Tercentenary. The. Sulgrave
Institution and the American May—
flower Council have been active in

'co-ordinating these plans.

Community Service (Incorporated)
One Madison Avenue, .New York, has
drawn up suggestions for’the use of
communities planning to celebrate.-
have been distributed for the use of
schools, churches, clubs and general
community groups throughout the
United States and. her territories. By

writing to Community Service at the ‘

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above address. individuals can so

cure valuable intomaticnmn 60:19.".
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. , onpage 6 atom-,ApriZBrd issue of
THE 'Bti‘smnss _Fsg‘nnn we published
,a photograph with the caption, “‘Fer-
- tilizer increases Orchard Proﬁts.”
Several of our readers wrote us ask-
ing .us for information regarding the
mixing and applying the fertilizers
so .we secured the services of Mr.‘ 0.
M. _Baker, editor of the Division of

 

Publications, Ohio Agricultural Ea-
periment Station, to prepare this
article.

N 1908, F. H. 'Ballou; Assistant

Horticulturist at the Ohio Exper-
’ iment Station was asked to see
what he could do in rejuvenating the
orchards in southern 0hio.x Many of
the old orchards here had refused to
bear even though 15 or 20 years
oldand in fact had, never borne a
crop of fruit or enough fruit to pay
, any interest on their investment.
~ Ballou at once found out that it
was necessary to begin a complete
spraying program, which would des-
troy many of the insects and .also
keep fungous diseases in check, but
even when this was done there seem-
ed to be something lacking, for the
trees refused to bear and feeling that
the trees needed plant food, he be-
gan to study the needs otorchards
for fertilizers. As a rule most or-
chards on the hilly ground of south-
ern Ohio were covered with a heavy
growth of poverty grass, broomsedge
and other weeds, this being the ﬁrst
indication that the soil on which the
apple trees were groWing ,was lack-
ing in fertility. ,Natu lly on steep
hillsides there was a ood deal of
erosion and even in these old or-
chards there were attempts at farm-
ing, corn being grown between the
rows o_f trees, which still further de-
pleted the soil of plant food the
trees ought to have had.

With the idea of using commercial
fertilizers, Ballou started out by
making an application to each tree
of 5 pounds of acid phosphate, 5
pounds nitrate of soda and 2 1-2
pounds muriate of potash. This
worked out successfully, the nitrate
of soda putting new growth into the
roots of the trees and starting new
shoots, while the acid phosphate was

Some Pointers

I would like to See an article on
raising, and marketing cabbage in one
issue in the near future—B. A. E.

l

 

' ATE cabbage may be grown on
quite a variety of soil. ‘ How-
ev r the best results will be se-

cured o a clay loam or sandy loam.
A soil which does not hold moisture
readily will not prove a very satis~
factory one for late cabbage. It is
quite important that a-rotation be
'followed for the cabbage crop not
only in order to provide against di—
sease development but also to per-‘
mit the working into the soil of or:~
ganic matter through the plowing un-
der of clover or other crops.

Danish Baldhead or Holland . in
one of the most common later vari—
eties. The heads are nearly round,
very hard and usually weigh from
three to eight pounds each. This is
a good storage variety. Flat Dutch,
Succession, and Autumn King '
standard lat-e" varieties; Houser is
one of the latest maturing varieties.

Plants for the late crop are usually
grown in the open ground. A- good
garden soil with plenty of moisture
is satisfactory for the seed bed. The
location should be changed each sea-
son. ‘ ,

One of the chief enemies of the
cabbage plants is the m-agot. _It is

not an easy matter to guard against"

the attack of thisienemy. Sand; which

. has been treated with a small amount
of‘kerose'ne’ or turpentine scattered
along the row at frequent'intervals

. ,Will Keep the flies from depositing
“eggs on the plants. The effectiveness

. 4 ofthe method depends entirely upon ~
31;: thoroughness With which" it‘_ is

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ductsua Successful Orchard Fertilization Test

By C. M. BAKER

' ' and Agricultural

  

phosphate per tree. /
particularly valuable for growing
grasses in the orchards. This was

an important problem in order to
prevent the hillsides from washing.
One of the .most surprising things
that come to Ballou was the fact that
when nitrate of soda aﬁ'd acid phos~
phate were placed in the above men-
tioned amounts under these old ap-
ple trees, a heavy growth of sweet
clover, some timothy and other clov-
ers at-once began to appear even
though no seed was applied. Hence
it was shown that these better grass-
es were here in small amount and
only needed some plant food in or—
der to stimulate their growth. Thus
it has been possible to grow a lot of
grass in the orchards and to provide
an excellent amount of mulch, where-
as in some cases formerly it was nec-
essary to haul straw into the orchard
to provide a mulch. As' an example:
an acre of 40 trees, 22 or 23 years
from planting was reported by Mr.
Ballou in connection with demonstra-
tion work at this time. These trees
after removal or thinning yielded
on an average of 2,000 apples per
tree, or a total of 1,430 bushels. The

on Planting, Cultivating and Marketing Late Cabbage

«Heavy gnu mulch produced by tortillzlnu trees wlth 5 pounds each of nitrate of soda and

Experiment ”Station

apples were Rome Beauty and con-
stituted the second crop after the or—
chard had been reclaimed from un-
productiveness by fertilization and
spraying.

In all of these tests, where acid
hosphate and nitrate of soda have
een used to fertilize the trees, the
poverty grass, weeds and broom

sedge have been completely eradi-
cated, simply by the competition of
the better grasses and yields main-
tained'at a cost of about 35 cents
per tree.
by Mr. Ballou gives an idea of the
value of orchard cultivation:
Fertilizer Experiments in Grass-
Mulch Orchards
“In a separate orchard large trees
.wholly cared for by the grass-mulch

method, experiments have been com—
pleted in which a number of combin-
ations of chemical plant food were
used in comparison with no fertiliza-
tion. Following is a summary of
this series of fertilizer tests:

The unfertilized or check plots pro-
duced 36.7 barrels of apples per acre
per year. .

The plot annually fertilized with

By C. W. WAID .
Extension Specialist, Michigan Agricultural College

has not been done sufﬁciently exten-
sive as yet to warrant recommending
it for general practice.

Cabbage will prove most satisfact-
cry on a soil that has been well ma-
nured. In addition commercial fer-

 

} ‘.‘. .. China gilt we ever owned,’
saved
his type, Poland China. , . :

:_sheep), registered, . . . . _
:,“By»=t.rrins it once you will be
onloosfeed than’the grades»?! ,

Lady Banal-yard and Her Lusty Famlly

, PURE BRED STOCK PAYS, SAYS Wm. DEAN
, ADY DUSTER 8rd was the ﬁrst pure blooded Big Type Poland
writes Wm. Dean & Son, of lonia.
county to the Business Farmer.
eight. of them and we call her a good mother as well as a. real

_ “Although wehhave had blooded stock but a short time, We have
'cometo one conclusion'amd that is this: that there is just as much dif-
ference betweenpure bleed stock and grades as their is between No. 1
, seed oats and screening and certainly nofarmer would think of sow-

' .ing screening for ,seed,'so why not have mere funnel-s raising blooded
stock or ,at least have the sire of what they raise (cattle, hogs or

  
 

 
  
 
  

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The following description

_on the formerly very thin, poor or-

, Der acre per year,

‘market' there would not ne'edit

preventing over production.

     
 

the usual formula of 5 pounds sac
of nitrate of soda and acid phosphn
applied on a mulch of straw main
.tained in circular form under Hm
outer exteremeties of the branc
of the trees produced an average dd?
117.4 barrels of apples per acre on,
year. This was a gain of 80.7‘ b '
rels of apples per acre per year
compared with the yield of the‘une'"
fertilized plot. ,
The plot annually fertilized wit
2 1-2 pounds of nitrate of soda an ,
5 pounds of acid phosphate per tr‘ ‘
per year, applied on a mulch of straw:
produced 93.4 barrels of«apples per
-acre per year. This represented a'
gain of 56.7 barrels of fruit per acre.
per year as compared with the un-
fertilized yield and a loss of 24 bar— _.
rels per acre per year in comparison
with the plots fertilized with the 6-5
formula. . .

The plot fertilized annually with
10 pounds of nitrate of soda and acid
phosphate per tree, distributed even-
ly over the three squares of ground,
without a mulch of straw, gave an
average of 118.1 barrels of apples 7
per acre per year for the 5-year per-
iod, or a gain of 1 barrel per acre'
per year for the double quantity of
“all over" fertilization as compared
with the 5—5 mulch formula. The
gain of the 10-10 formula was 61.4
barrels per acre per year as compar-
ed with no fertilization.

The cost of the 5-5 and mulch, and
the 10-10 “all over” schemes of fer-
tilization with nitrate of soda and.
acid phosphate, which gave so nearly
the same results in fruit production,
is practically the same. However, in
special favor of the double quantity 7.;
or “all over” plan of application we ” ‘
have an additional result that is very
gratifying, namely, that it resulted

     
   
   
  
  
    
   
  
    
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
 
    
 
    
 

       
   
   
 
  
   
    
  
   
   
   
   
  
 
   
   
     
   
    
  
    
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 

 

 

chard soil between the trees, in the
marvelous development of a 'heavy
soil covering of the ﬁner grasses, fur-
nish'ing mulching material at the
rate of 2,515 pounds sun-dry weight
or 59.8 pounds
per tree square per year. This was
a gain of 1,872 pounds of dry grass-
es per acre per year, as compared
(Continued on page 17)

tilizer may be used proﬁtably in quite
liberal amounts. For late cabbage
a fertilizer containing 2 per cent ni-
trogen, 8 to 12 per cent phosphoric
acid, and 4 or 5 per cent potash;
would be about the most satisfactory
if it can be secured. It can be ap-
plied at the rate of at least 1,000
pounds per acre.

_The distance of spacing the plants
Will vary with the richness of the
_soil and the varieties grown. Thirty
inches by thirty inches is a good
spacing when it is desired to cultié
v'ate both ways. Cabbage will res;
pond to very thorough cultivation.
After the plants are large they "'
should not be cultivated when the'
leaves are brittle and thus easily.
broken. All cultivation after the
ﬁrst should be shallow. _The yields-7
of late cabbage vary from ﬁve to}~
twenty tons per acre.

In sections where kraut factories?
are located practically all of the cab-
bage is contracted to these factories.: '
There is no crop which varies more
in price than cabbage. Sometimes!"
the contracted price of the kraut
factories is, very much below that
which the growers could get in the
open _market. Growers who are 10-
eated near "large cities usually secure
better returns than those. Who gro '
for factory purposes. '

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at any time. of thenyeari.
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3. son. L. HUNGER. of the De-

" trait Board or Commerce.‘ in

charge of the arrangementslor
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide-
water conference, has asked Tun
Beams Fm to extend its road-
ors a cordial invitation to attend that
meeting which is to be held in Be-
trolt at the Board of Commerce,
Jul 22nd, 23 and 24th.

No doubt a good many farmers
have thought rather indid'erently
toward the proposal to open the wa-
terways between the Great Lakes
and the Atlantic ocean to ocean-go-
.ing vessels: Possibly they have not
at ﬁrst hand appreciated the full sig-
niﬁcance or importance of the pro-
ject. Commerce is quite commonly
though erroneously associated ‘ in
many people's minds with manufact-
uring industries, but as a matter of
fact the value of agricultural pro-
ducts transported by both rail and
water far exceeds the value of all
other products combined.

There is an old saying that "Jones
always pays the freight," meaning
the farmer. It is as true as gospel.
Coming and going the freight charg-
es are tucked onto the farmer. So
he ought of all men to be interested
in any plan which proposes to short-
en routes and result in cheaper rates.
The Great Lakes—St. Lawrence tide-

De’tmilBocrdof Commerce Anxious in [lane Forum AWConocnllcnmdLearn

was tarnished in realm, when it was

the Advantages Of the New Route

water‘, project is of this nature. It
promises to be the most important

what it would mean now to the hex»-

rossed farmers oi the west and
Michigan it the crops which are
in; held back from the markets
cause thoroaronooantoohlpthem
to tha‘seaboard could be transported

perplexing until some shorter route
than the long haul by rail via New
York City is devised to connect up
the agricultural regions of the Mid-
dle West to the markets of the world.

Advantages that will accrue to the
farmer ii the Great Lakes-to—the-Sea
project is put through are discussed
in a recent issue oi The Detrolter by
Chas. P. Craig, executive director of
the Great lakes-St. Lawrence Tide-
water Ass’n. as follows:

"The price of grain at the seaboard
should be the price at thg. interior
plus freight and charges and the
merchant’s profit, the latter a small
margin. This spring rye was the
principal northwestern grain moving

tor export. In April. mm day to'

day, the price delivered in New York
wastromltolioonloabov'othe
Duluth price plus _
as. In In! the
to 18 to I: conic. m m.»
ing 170. had no menace that he
would ho able to deliver it. The
‘mcrcbant's board.
the margin necessary
sell against tailors to deliver.
councbd tor the extra spread. It is
not extra proﬁt. In tact, on perish-
ables it. may involve a boob: loss.
This margin. ranging troml to 20
cents per bushel. which the export-
er must take to protect imsell,
would go to the producer. ll _ por-
tation and handling conditions would
permit its elimination. The merchant
is compelled to gamble and the farm--
or's price is docked ‘

“Similar evidence wombronght out
at Omaha. One potato grower re-
ported 45,000 bushels sold at $2.25,
which he was unable to deliver. The
price at the moment was all the way
up to :4. At the very time when po—
tatoes had reached an unexampled
height in the city markets, they were
stranded in the country markets and
great stores were lost entirely

"A striking example of such loss

reported a flock at so. 0M shoes We

lobed at the loading station cocoons
no cars were to be had and no Md
could be obtained.

"in every line scalability markets
were ‘wlld‘ because ct transportation
shortage.

‘Wholssalers reported that their ‘

entire working capital was tied wg
heights and prepaid purchases, loll
they could not obtain and therefore
could not deliver on contracts. In-
terest charges on duplicate stoc
premiums on fol-cod purchases an
lost business on the same account. in
many cases doubled- the overhead ex-
pense and were additional causes
oi increased prices without corru-
pending gain to the distributor. " .

"Not to multiply examples, let two
be given. A. H. GroVerma-n repre-
senting the seal industries, declared
at Superior that there was no cool
shortage, and had been none in
years, due to inability to furnish coal
at the mouth of the mine.
mines can raise coal as last as they
can load oars: continuous operation
is dependent on car supply. It this
laloos-to—ocean route were open today.
he declared, the railroads could
strike oil one billion dollars irons
thelr- estimates of needed equip-
mont. "

Third Party Movement Takes Shape at Chicago with Program for Government Ownership

ILL-IONS of farmers, laboring
men, professional mom—yes,
and business mam—who are

disappointed over the standpatlsm of
the Republican and Democratic part—
ies as expressed in the platforms
adopted at their recent conventions,
have been looking to the‘third party
movement in hopes that it will adopt
a platform which they can sincere-
ly and enthusiastically embrace.
Whether the convention of the Third
Partyists now in session in Chicago
will do this or whether it will split
upon the rocks of dlssention remains
yet to be seen. As is always the
case with new movements of this
kind the third party has attracted to
its standard every brand of theorist
and radical in the country, and,while
a certain amount of so-called radi-
calism (which actually is nothing

more nor less than a term employed.

by reactionaries to describe progress-
iveness) is essential no third party
embracing all who are disgruntled
with the old parties can be formed
let alone win an election it it adopts
all the theories held by its various
groups.

It the third party is to be a radi-

cal labor party espousing tho prog-
ram of the Russian Soviets and
calling for the nationalization of all
industry. it will lose the support of
all farmers and such strength as
might come to it from the progressive
wings of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties. There are men active
in the affairs of the third party move-
ment who are ready to go that tar.
It the third party, however, sensibly
conﬁnes its "nationalization" program
to public utilities and natural re-
sources which by their very nature
appeal to the average person as be-
ing legitimate industries for govern-
ment monopollzation and operation,
it may become a force to be reckon-
ed with.

“7110 Make Up the Third Party?

The convention is being partici-
pated in by fourteen different polit-
ical or semi-political bodies, as fol-
lows: the National Nonpartisan
League, the Farmers’ Alliance, the
National Consumers’ League, the
American Labor Party, the National
Single Tax Party. the National Pub-
lic Ownership League. the National
People's League, the American Con-
stitutional Party, which was organ-

ized by W. R. Hearst a few weeks
ago, the World’s War Veterans, the
Washington State Triple Alliance, the
Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, the
New York Labor Party and the Lib-
eral League.

'lho Program

"Public ownership or transporta-
tion, including stock yards, large ab-
battoirs, grain elevators. terminal
warehouses, pipe lines and tanks.
Public ownership of other public util-
ities and of the principal natural gas,
mineral deposits, large water pow-
ers and large commercial timber
tracts.

"No land (including natural re-
sources) and no patents to be held
out of use for speculation to aid
monopoly. We favor taxes to force
idle land into use.

"Equal economic, political and le-
gal «rights for all, irrespective of sex
or color. The immediate and abso-
lute restoration 01 free speech, free
press, peaceable assembly, and all
civil rights guaranteed by the Con-
stitution. We demand the abolition
or injunctions in labor cases. We in—
dorse the effort or labor to share in
the management of industry and la-

bor's right to organize and bargain
collectively Abrough representatives
or its own choosing."

The above platform represents the
tentative dratt that was made by the
"Committee of 48" at St. Louis last
December.
be added as follows:

“That Congress should not de~

clare war or the existence at a state ~

of war (except in case of invasion in
force) unless authorized by vote of
the people.

' “Opposition to universal military
training in time or peace.

"That our government should
make every eilort to secure universal
disarmament by international agree-
ment. ,

“That the economic'blockade of
Russia should be lifted."

11100011de

The convention. threatens to split
on the choice or the candidate. Hen?
Ford would be the quick and unan
mono choice were it not for the tool-
ing that he might make it a Ford
party and that the party might pass
away with Mr. Ford's demise. Sen.
Robert Lall‘olietto ot Wisconsin is

. second choice.

»

The ‘

Additional planks may ,

Campbell- for-Governor Pro-Primary Committee Needs Expense Money,

WAY HAS presented itself in
which the farmers of Michigan
may assist in a very practical

way the candidacy oi! Milo D. Camp-
bell, the farmers' candidate for
Governor. The Campbell-tor—Gov—
ernor Committee, consisting ot‘men
representative of the farming inter-
ests, have heretofore paid from their
own pockets such incidental expens—
es ns have arisen in connection with
their conferences and other work in
Mr. Campbell’s behalf. As the pri-
maries draw near, however, there
will be other expenses which of ne-
cessity must be incurred in the le.
gltimate promotion of the Campbell
campaign. and after a careful dis-
'cussion of the matter the committee
has decided to call upon the farmers
of Michigan for contributions to the
Campbell-ior-Governor campal g n

fund.

THE BUSINESS Fumes does not
make it a habit to solicit loads from
its readers for political purposes and
we do not want our readers to think
that we are trying to establish any
sort of a precedent in this appeal.
But lathe present case we ice! that
our interest is altogether justiﬁed

and will be approved by our -readers..

The farm organizations have on-
; dorsed Mr. Campbell and there is
' ample evidence to prove that that

dorsaloont meets with the approw

 

tum-corny oi tumors. “”5

lng gone this far none of us who de-
sire to see a man elected Gov-
ernor of Michigan who is in sym-
pathy with agriculture can afford to
lay down on the job and let the
other fellow do all the work. We
feel that every farmer is personally
aifected by this matter and that it
should be as much to his interest to
see that Mr. Campbell is nominated
as it is to the interest oi! Mr. Camp-
bell himself.

A great deal of money is not need-
ed; in fact, is not wanted. The peo-
ple of Michigan have shown that
they are not in empathy with large
political expenditures, and, moreov-
er the law expressly forbids them.

When Mr. Campbell accepted the in-
vitation of the farm organisations to
become a candidate the subject or
campaign expenses came up and Mr.
Campbell went ﬁrmly on record as
favoring strict compliance with the
law. But the maximum that a can-
didate can spend is so low that it
scarcely permits the candidate to
present his campaign in a proper
manner to all the voters, so he must
rely on his friends. it he has any,
and it he hasn't he has no business-
belng in the race. Mr. Campbell is
not a rich man in any sense of the
word and were there no law on the
statute books necessity would force
him to economize on his “passes.

 

mr. A. B. Cook, Treasurer,

Date Loo-ooo'.ooooooaoo- 1.’0

Farmers’ Csmpbell—ior-Governor Committee,

Owosso, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Cook:

I want to help nominate Milo D. Campbell Governor at mchigan
and to that and I pledge my vote and , support and enclose

S . . . . . . .~ to help d’etrcytbe campaign expenses of your coulmittoo. _

  
 

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' 31.000 "RM! Remittances should

There are certain expenses
above mentioned which the Farmers’
Campbell-lor-Governor c o mmlttoe

-_ feels that it should take care of. A.

little advertising will have to be done
in some localities. A little printed
matter will have to be gotten out and
some work will have to be done in

some sections on primary day to get

farmers and their wives out to the
polls who might be tempted to stay
at home. And there will be other
incidental expenses which will re-
quire some money.

It is upon the request 01! Mr. A. B.
Cook, treasurer of the Campbell-tor-
Governor committee that we make
this appeal for funds. We are glad
to do it. Tm: BUSINESS Fauna wants
to see Mr. Campbell elected because
he is the farmers' condidate. And
we.believe the maiorlty oi the term-
ors of Michigan want 'to see him

elected and will assist both by their ,

, money and votes to help him occur.
nation. Bonus

Four
contributions

thonoin Tu
Inwillncrt oi! the

. with ”5. Who will follow? Amounts

'ol :1 to 335 will be most acceptable.
Positively no contribution oi over

made direct to ILA. ,, .30003.

  

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that a man is known by the

, company he keeps—but John R.
Mahler is known, half a mile off, by
the way he waves his hand. He
waves to everybody he oversaw be-
/fore, and he has seen a great many

people during the 23 years he has ,

been with the United States Depart—
ment of Agriculture as chief, assist-
ant chief, head of the pathological
division and one thing and another
in the Bureau of Animal Industry.
The people who know him best say
he never forgot a face or a name.
Considering the number of peple he
has met‘ under a multitude of cir-
cumstances, that seems improbable,
but—well, listen to this:

Mohler recently visited one’ of the
cities where he was on-dutya good
many‘ years ago as a meat inspector.
He took a stroll through the pack—
ing houses. Every now and then
that genial wave of the hand would
sweep out to some men an the killing
floor, frequently a negro. His es-
cort noticed it and asked .him if he
would like to shake hands with the
men. He said he would. He did
shake hands with them—and every
man who was there in his day he
called by name.

Dr. Mohler looks like a man who
eats three square meals a day of
wholesome food and sleeps soundly
on a good bed, ”untroubled by a
cloudy conscience. He is a big. man,
physically as-well as otherwise. He
has a big head which seems to
well ﬁlled with scientiﬁc knowledge
and human understanding.

The job he ﬁlls and the way he
ﬁlls it require that kind of man. The
Bureau of Animal Industry is the
biggest enterprise of its kind in the
world. It employs 4,400 people,
about 500 of them in "Washington
and the rest scattered all over the
United States. ‘

Among them, they
are the ﬁnal au<
thority on, nearly
everything pertain-
ing to live stock.
Three of them dis-
covered rthe hog
cholera serum that
has reduced loss»
es from that di-’
'sease enough to
save" the farmers
of~ the United
States about $40,-
000,000 a year—a
discdvery by the
means of which
any farmer can
protect 'his hogs
against cholera.
A member of this
human was re-
sponsible rfor the.
discovery of insect
causation of dis-
eases—the discov-
ery that made the
Panama Canal pos- -
si‘ble, by giving
to science the sec-
ret of eliminating
yellow fever from
the Canal .Zone.
Of course, the Bu-
reau of Animal In.
dustry men were
not thinking about

 

that when they
made th e d i s-
covery. They were trying to ﬁnd

out how splenetic fever was trans-
mitted from Texas cattle to northern
cattle, though the two never got near,
enough together to see each other.
‘ They found out that the Texas cattle
carried a species of tick, that these
ticks were frequently scattered over
pastures, picked up by the northern
cattle and transmitted the disease to
them.
. As a young man in the bureau,
Dr. Mohler was on duty as an in-
-; specter along the Mexican border
53.“ ‘ ‘ and learned a great deal about the
' ‘ cattle tick He came back to Wash-"
- ington strong in the belief that the
cattle tick could “be eradicated from
So 8 1‘; The experiment

  

 

     
  

tum jugtance, this division

' .- A7 A WISE MAN a long time ago said ,

vU-nited States, as well as all

By DIXON MERRITT

V‘P‘Meet‘Dr John R. Mahler, Chief 6f the Bureau of Animal Industry—He is Waving at You

 

 

services may do so.

 

 

IS the ﬁrst of a series of articles this publication is running
I in co—operatlon with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to ac-
quaint our readers with “the type of men who are making possible
the wonderful service the department is rendering and stands readyto
‘ render dnr readers, that those not now availing themselves of these
Accompanying this sketch also is an article de-
. scribing the duties of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry.—Editor.

 

 

 

 

slaughter of the last tick is schedul-
ed for 1923. It will represent 17
years work when it is completed—

and already it'is saving. the country.

40 millions of dollars every year.
This has all been accomplished by
driving the cattle, every so often,
through a vat ﬁlled with an arsenic
solution which kills the tick on the
animal’s hide.

The men under Dr. Mohler’s
charge inspect all of the meat that
goes_into interstate commerce in the
meat
'that comes into this country and all
that goes out. In every packing house
whose products cross a State line,
a veterinarian or inspector-of the
Bureau of Animal Industry inspects
the'animals before they are slaught-
ered. If there is anything to show
that they are unsound, they can not
be slaughtered for human consump-
tion. Those that appear to be sound
are slaughtered—and every piece of
the carcass is gone over carefully by
other inspectors. If there is any-
thing wrong, it is condemned. ‘When
a piece of meat or a can of meat
product is stamped “U. S. Inspected
and' Passed” the consumer is assured
ofmeat from a healthy animal and
killed, cured; and canned under san—
itary conditions. Dr. Mohler in his
work up through the bureau was con-

velops in mouldy hay and such things
and prepared a serum that protects
against it. Then the discovery was
made that botulinuspoison in can—
ned foods; frOm' Which a'good'ma'ny
human beings have died recently, is
caused by the same bacillus—and the
serum discovered by the Bureau of
Animal Industry has been called into
use for human beings and has saved
some of the victims.

I said a while ago that Mohler
looks like a man who sleeps sound-
ly, but very few men have lost more
sleep in the line of duty than he has.
Each of the three times when foot—
and-mouth disease has got into the
United States, Mohler was caught in
the swirl and rush of the thing and
worked night and day until he knew

that the disease was driven back
across the Atlantic. He conﬁrmed
the diagnosis in the outbreak of

1902.
1908 he did a brilliant

When the next,one came in
piece of

scientiﬁc detective work,in tracing

the source of the infection to a con—
taminated strain of smallpox vaccine.
He was directly in charge of the
radication work during the outbreak
of 1914-15.

Another thing that the Bureau of
Animal Industry people do is to in—
spect all live animals that come into
the United States from foreign coun—
tries. Most of them are all right, of

 

Dr. John R. Mahler. (inlet of Bureau of Anlmal Industry, 9. 8. Department of Agriculture.

nected with this branch of the work
for some time.

In all of the kinds of thingshe
was tried at Mohler made good..He
knew how to apply scientiﬁc knowl-
edge to practical affairs. But he
also showed a fondness for research,
for digging deeper into a. thing than
anybody had gone before. That led

' to his being brought back to Wash-

ington in the pathological division
of the bureau. He stayed there for
15 years, the greater part of the

time as chief of the division. The
pathological division investigates
diseases of animals—what causes

them and how they can be cured. Its
work is constantly helping farmers
to save valuable animals, and: once
111 a while it saves ham life. For
him

111 inn-see, discover-
.to uhadﬁmm

   

course, but now and then some of
them are very much wrong: Several
years ago some Brahman cattle—
-the holy cattle of the East—were
brought to our‘ports by Texas ranch-
men, because they are not bothered
by the cattle ticks. The ranchmen
were very anxious to get them to their

,ranches, and they had the support of
“high ofﬁcials of the government in

the effort. The cattle were to be
released next day—when this same

.‘Mohler we have been talking about

discovered that some of them had
surra, a very terrible cattle scourge
from which this country is free. The
holy cattle found infected were not
released~and the country was sav-

‘~ ed from-11' disease that might have

done more damage than the cattle

_ tick. Even- Kendron, General Persh—

w denied partici-

-thrax, influenza, etc.

W parade lie-r *

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cause he had not passed quarantine.
The bureau was asked to waive the»
restrictions in order that Kendron
might carry his master in this great
home-coming festivity, but Dun:
Mohler felt that the risk was too;
great, so the famous steed was re«
quired to serve his term in quaran-
tine.

Those are a few of the things that
Mohler and his men do for the stock
growers of the United States. In ad—“
dition, they are experimenting ail
the time on breeding problems, feed-
ing methods and a great many other
things, and are making their dis-
coveries available to everybody who .
is interested in live stock. ‘

Mohler is a very successful admin-
istrator of that big work his inti-
mates say, because he is a democrat
——aspell it with a small “d." He is
just one of the 4,400 workers—a lit-
tle busier, perhaps, but just as ac-
cessible as any of them. Others say
that his success is due to the fact
that he combines the qualities of the
researcher, the practiotioner, and the
administrator. And he has been
able to do that, I believe, because he
never had a fad. I tried diligently
among the men who know him best
to get them to tell me something out- '
side of his regular duties that he
works at or plays at. They couldn’t
do it. The nearest any of them came
to it was one who said. “Well, Moh-
ler loves, a good joke—loves to hear
one and loves to tell one.”

Certainly this short sketch of the
chief of the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry—one of the 17 great bureaus
of the Department of Agriculture—
gives some idea of the wonderful
service the bureau is rendering the
farmers and, people generally by
helpful suggestions regarding protec- - ’
tion of live stock and directions for
prevention of loss
by disease, and .5,
considered in con-
nection with the
other sixteen ibu-
reaus some idea
may be had of the
service of the De—
partment of Agri~
culture as a whole.

     

  
   
   
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
   
    
  
  
   
    
    
  
   
  
   
  
 
   
   
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
   
  
  
     
  
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
   
  
   
  
 
 
   
   
   
   
  
 
  
  
  
  
    

\VORK OF THE
BUREAU
CTIVITIES of
the Bureau" of
Animal Indus-

try are particular-

ly those dealing
with live stock
and dairy produc—
tion, disease con-
trol, inspection of
animals and their
products, research
and similar‘ lines
of eﬁ’ort. The bu-
reau has about 4, -

400 employees of

whom more than

3,700 are assigned

to duties in vari-

ous parts of 'ﬂhe

United States,

outside of Wash-

ington. The bu-
reau is principal-
ly a ﬁeld organi-

zation. .

There are 14
main divisions in
the bureau as follows. Animal Hus-
bandry. Biochemic Division—Bio-

chemical and bacteriological research ,

concerning animal diseases, meat‘

productiOn, and disinfectants. Pre~

pares tuberculin and m-allein for dis- L

tribution to authorized officials. Con- "

ducts analyses of dips and disinfect— I.

ants. Dairy Division. Experiment".

Station—A veterinary experiment

station is maintained at Bethesd

Md., for conducting investigatio

animal diseases. Its facilities *

used by the various divisions. F191};

Inspection Division—Has charge. ‘

eradication of sheep scabies,

scabies, horse scabies, dourine, . f

Supervisosi ' ‘

terstate transportation of live :1

Division of Hog Cholera

Meat InspectiOn Division. -

eons Dishes;- Path“ " '

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TRADE ANDiMABKET REVIEW

Concerned as the farmer always is
in the disturbances that radio the in-
dustrial world he is nothing but a
spectator compared to the worker
and the industrial employer. It

wouldnotbetruetosaythstthe,

farmer will not be aﬂected,——is not
in fact already feeling the effects of
the airmen that is raging-in the
world's economics—for he is. The
insuﬂicieney of transportation, the

lack of mdihandthedisperlty-in.

vealreaiy
uncer-

the foo-rip exchange -
been Inﬂected in lower

mothkcommaudbefore‘

another thirty days have passed
every farmer will clearly see what
a slave to transportation and credit
he really is.

But among the few things that the
farmer can be grateful for is the fact
that people must eat. Although
V there may be no cars. cars there will
be when the people are hungry and
clamoring for food. Although there
may be no ready money to loan to
farmers when the harvest is at its
height, long, long before the people
face the necessity of going without
food, plenty of money will be placed
to the farmer’s credit. 80 we can
conceive of no crisis involving the in-
terests of the city laborer, the em-
ployer and the farmer in 'which the
latter will not receive ﬁrst consider-
ation.

In these respects the laborer and
the small employer of the city are
not so fortunate. The shortage of
cars has already closed some factor-
ies. Others are running on a hand
to mouth basis, frequently being
obliged to shut down a day or a
week awaiting arrival of raw mater-
ial or cars to clear their shortage
spaces of the ﬁnished goods. Unem-
ployment due to these causes primar-
ily is increasing alarmingly. And for
the workman who is thus deprived of
his wages there is no relief, either
private or governmental.

Crops throughout the entire state
are looking fine. The hall storm of
last week did some damage but re-
ports of ﬁelds totally destroyed have
been investigated and found to be
not true. The stem in some rc-
spects was the worst that has visited
the state for some time and it is sur-
prising that the resulting damage was
not greater. The downpour. accom-
panied in places by a brisk wind,
caused some lodging of grain where
the stand was heavy. It is reported
that in some of the western counties
the corn was stripped of its ears and
ﬁelds of wheat, rye and oats laid flat
to the ground. If this is true the
storm must have In much more
severe in that section than it was in
the eastern part of the state which
shows very little evidence of the
storm.

Corn is as far along now in most
counties as it was last year which
was one of the state’s best corn
years. The stand of cats in most of
the southeastern counties is unusual-
ly heavy, and most of the farmers
have harvested or are harvesting be-
tween the rains, a good hay crop.
Wheatisalittlethinandnotheed-
ingupanytoowelhbutryeshows
promise of being a good crop.

At this season of the you all the
grain markets are subject to
“change without notice.” The Iner-
hots are more or leis influenced by
the great and comparatively un-
known factors of the supply and con-
diﬂouofnewerops. Asuddeudown-
ward sweep of prices should not be
‘ construed as a permanent falling on‘

of the markets. and a sudden rise in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHICAGO—The outstanding features of the wheat situation
is the condition of the crop in the Northwest, where black rust has
been reported. Another week will determine the aﬂoat of this

outbreak open the yield and resulting prices.

kinds 1n slightly better demand.

Live stock of all
Bearish tendency prevails' in all

DETROIT—Grain We held only temporary. Oats low-

er. Hey guy with prospects of lower prices.

(louI'hsebeu
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Last week wheat prices showed a
marked tendency to seek lower lev-
els and for a day or two the market
declined. Reports on Saturday and
Monday of the appearance of black
rust in the northwest had a. bullish
influence and prices returned to
somewhere‘near their former level.
It is stated that the weather condi-
tions of the past few weeks have
been ideal for the development of
rust. In Michigan we have had much
rain and a. few muggy nights, and
we understand that the same con—
ditions have prevailed in the prin-
cipal wheat growing sections. The
harvest has been under way for some
time in the southwest and will begin
next week in the northwest, provid-
ing the weather continues warm and
dry enough to ﬁnish the ripening
process. While speculators use every
excuse to manipulate the market in
their favor. it is a remote possibility
that the black rust may reach such
proportions as to make any appre-
ciable cut in the wheat yield. West-
on farmers, particularly of Kansas
and adjoining states will be free
sellers of wheat as soon as it is
thrashed, so it is reported, in order
to liquidate loans that have been
made against their crops. This will
mean inevitably a temporarily low-
er market.

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fie. 8 Yellow 1.0.
No. 4 Yellow ...

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ish influence on the price and ~‘tho
trend has been downward for sev-
eral days past. No scenario one
bogey of dread and doubt as to what

calamity may befall this crop is dissi-.-_

. pated than another arises. There was
well-founded fear in eary spring that

the seed would rot in the ground.

Then a spell of dry weather was in
the offing and wild predictions were
made about the failure of the crop.
But the crop has withstood all un-
usual weather conditions and in
spite of the lateness of the season
is only about a week behind the con-
dition a year ago. The comparative-
ly cool weather that has prevailed
throughout the entire summer is
bringing visions of early frost to the
gloomsters. Early frost means soft
corn and soft corn means the devil
to pay in the corn markets. But the
weather the last couple weeks has
been ideal for corn—plenty of moist-
ure and warm nights. If these con-
ditions continue throughout thé bal-
ance of the summer, barring possi-
bility of too much rain, corn will be
about as far advanced on September
lot as it was on the same date last
year. We unnot be pessimistic
about the corn yield. If appearanc-
es are not deceiving we expect to see
Michigan at least produce a better
than average crop.

As to the future of corn prices,
authorities diner. Some claim that
wheat being an international ~grain
will be affected by international con-
ditions, but that domestic corn prices
are subject solely to domestic condi-
tions. Be that as it may a certain
number of factors that will control
the wheat situation the next few
months, such as transportation and
credits, will also largely control corn
prices. For that reason we expect to
see a slump in com. This may not
take place simultaneously with the
wheat slump, but may when the
grain is harvested.

 

OATS FOLLOW WHEAT
Neither the carryover of old oats
nor the estimated yield of new are
sufﬁcient amounts to warrant any
considerable downward revision in

the price of this grain. The govern»

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FOR THE WEEK

AsForecastedbyW.T.FosterforTheMiehiganBusinessFarmer

for July 1920

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1930 crop. If it through
that crucial test without damage we
may reasonably expect at least a fair
corn crop for this year, Sometimes ;
frosts damage northern crops last
half of August and this is one of the
times that such frosts are expected
in our middle northern states and the
Canadian of them.

for
enough advanced to determine. but I
am expecting some northern from
:‘urlng the week centering on Aug.

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meut's estimate of 1,295,000,600
bushels is less than four per cent of
an increase over last year’s crop. an
amount for less than the total do-
mes-tie and foreign requirements.
Outs" have suirered some serious ro-
verses the last several weeks and it
is probable um price: war- so still
lower, but in the absence of 0 nor-
mal supply much lower prices can
oaly be transitory and of short dur.

 

RYE STEADY

The European demand for rye is
holding this market steady, with
prices ranging this week around the
$2.30 mark. Poland and Austria are
especially interested in American
rye and quantities of it will he
wanted right along for export to
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' The been market consistently holds
to the position which it, assumed sev-
eral weeks back when the speculat-
ors bolstered the market for a brief
period in order to move their sup-
plies that bsd accumulated. Trad-
ing is inactive, demand slow and
supply plentiful, with prices dragging
along the $707.50 level. The con-
dition of the crop in the western.
states is good and in Michigan ex-
cellent, giving promise of a satis—
factory yield. Kotenashis which
have been the demon on the trail of
the navy been for three years have,
lost none of their influence upon the
domestic market and to them may be .
attributed the present condition of
the bean market. Kotenashls are
received weekly in large quantities
at Paciﬁc ports and at always at
prices which can undersell the navy
bean. The hopes of the farmers for
better prices next winter lies almost
entirely in the cut -in. the acreage
this year which foretells a greatly
reduced yield.

NEW POTATOES WEAKER

 

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Fresh supplies of potatoes from
the Virginia's, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and ‘Misslsslppl‘ have Weakened the
potato market considerably, iobbing

prices in Chicago running as low as

$3. 90@4 per bushel. We may rea-
sonably expect further declines on
the early potato market as harvesting
moves northward and local crops ms-
ture. However, at the very best the
early potstoes satisfy a temporary
need and are wellout of the way by
the time the late potato movement
begins in earnest. So whatever
prices prevail on early stock ﬁnish
is quickly consumed they cannot be
taken as a criterion of prices on late
potatoes which are brought in quen-
titles for winter storage. The prion
that will obtain this fall on the oon- *~
merciel potato crop will be largely

mode by transportation. It is a
foregone oomolnsioutbat mm in
one of an outright. panic which .
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line st this time, but it would do no
harm to give the matter 3' little pre-
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There has been some further eas-r
ing a! in the hay markets during
the week owing to improved condi-
tions and the effort of holders oi old
hay to move their supplies before
new hay is marketable. Farmers in
the East are anxious to empty their
barns or what hay is still back and
as most of it is owned by dealers, an
effort is being made to secure cars.
The crop has improved in the past
two weeks owing to more favorable
weather, but most sections report a
large percentage of woody hay. Beck
0nd cutting alfalfa in the West is
heavy and of excellent quality. The
hay crop this year promises to be a.
record breaker, but the gain over last
year will be West 0! the Mississippi
River, the tame hay states reporting
a. larger acreage than the past season
but a- smaller yield per acre.

GATTLE STE‘ADY To HIGHER

Cattle values have been on the
upgrade for the better part of the
last two weeks, choice steers bring-
ing as high as $17 on the Chicago
market last Fri-day. Stockers, can-
ners, cows and other of the lower
grades were in plentiful supply but
demand is slow for this type of an-
imal and prices are way below nor-
mal. Receipts of last week were
considerably under the previous
week’s arrival on the Chicago mar-
ket and with indications that offer-
ings will not increase for some time
to come, the present level of prices is
expected to be maintained.

Hogs are due for an advance in
price if the renewed interest in pork
supplies on the part of export buy—
ers is any indication.
hogs last week on the Chicago mar-
ket were far short of the previous
week and of the corresponding week
a year ago.

Sheep and lambs have partly re-
covered from the drastic declines of
a. fortnight ago, but are hardly back
where it would pay a farmer to sell.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT—Cattle: Market is very
dull, some going over unsold; best
heavy steers, 814; best handy weight
butcher steers, 811@11.50; mixed
steers and heifers, 89@10; handy
light butchers, 88. 25@8.75: light
butchers, 87. 2568; best cows, 88@
8.50; butcher cows, 86 5067. 25;
cutters $5; canners, $4. 50; best
heavy bulls, 88; bologna bulls, $7. 25
@1. 75; stock bulls, :6. 59oz: feed-
ers, 88010; stocks-rs, 875008.50);
milkers and swingers, 8800160,.
Veal calves: Market opened steady,
prospects lower; best, $17@18; -,£air
$I5@15; culls, $7@14. Sheep and
lambs: Market slow; best lambs, 815
@15 50; fair lambs, 813614; light
to common lambs, $10®12; yearl—
ings, $8@10; fair to good sheep, $5
636.50; culls and common, $2@4.

Bogs: Market slow; pigs, $14. 50g

14. 75; heavy and common, 815. 75;

  

mixed, 1:15. .85®16. 15; yorkcrs,
an. ass 35. -

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itron'g; ' undesiﬂble finds quiet.
Hogs: Better grades steady to 100
lower; others mostly steady to
strong; top early, 810. 85-; bulk light
and light butchers, 815. 80016. 25;

bulk 250 lbs. and over, 818. 9069
15.75: pigs 25c higher; bulk desire
able kind; “3.25614. Sheep: Slow
and' strong to 25c higher; choice-
western lambs, 816.80; bulk, 816@
816.60; top native lambs, $16; bulk,
$15@15; fair native yearlings.
$11.50; very good native wethers,
810; choice western ewes, 88. 50;

bulk ewes, 8808.50; best ﬂooding
lambs, 8-13. 56.-

 

 

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thehetcep‘leoﬂdswbut ”inert
u . are 0
than realm (11‘;

week

the west permithe. until the
reins farmers were heaving, culti-
and. ”palates Most

voting corn, buns
ﬁrmer: start at

am: we coed
“yin. and" if the weather is good next
week wm see a. lot of hay cut and haul-
ed. H” is quite light this year and
will probably bring high prices this fall.
Out! and barley will be emu short this
rm, while rye and wheat will not be
quite M3500 the average. 0cm averages
mush a few ﬁelds are quite
acreage- of beans extra
small and although some ﬁelds are look-
ing line; over half of the «range is only
fairly good Not much buckwheat has
been not in, on account of dry weather
We had some heavy rain. and hail
his the last couple of days, which has
nearly ruined some ﬁelds of corn, beans
and oats and (ion. considerable dam-
- to other crops in this vicinity. —C.
S. The mliowm prices were oner-
ed at Flint: Wheat, 82. 75; com, 81. 9:0
oats, 81.15; rye, 81 8-5 buckwheat
per cwt; beans (C
red kidneys, 8'11; hayd
straw, wheat straw and out straw, 880
12" old potatoes 8350@5; onions. $150
a 135:3o@ns3 30,2; 30c ﬁr. goings,
no 5. e; geese, or eye,
@4013;a utter, dairy, 50@55c; cream-
cry 58; eggs, 40®450: rs,
0&1520 beef cows, 6.50 8; veal calv-
es 816620;..sheep, 7oz; lambs, use
15; hog-s, 15@16

 

MONROE (N El—A little too much
rain skirt now. We ﬂamers are busy
trying to make ha. between showers
Wheat that amour! anything is
about. £1; to out. It averages poor, due
to "ﬂy, rust and hail. Corn is getting

yellow especially on best of bin
corne land, oats are picking up and will.
make a fair crop, although some oats
and barley fields are scolded, by rain
and hot sun they look rusty. No help
to- be had at any price, which will make
quite a loss of needed crops as weather
is bad and 10 of help needed. We will
have enoug h or ourselves, but how
about the gclttes and other countries,
who on short? We have got to have
prices on our products so we can bid
tor labor against mamrfactums or some
ineswill go hungry and that scour—G

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tremors railroads
mately $17,155 058?, 000,
to their book value of over 8920.50.11 -
000000,used by rain-coda din this case.

“The railroads have suggested that
an allowance for ‘going value,’ work-
ing capi-tal,.and materials and sup-
plies should be' added to the ﬁgure
above stated. Going value has been
subject to much litigation. The
present record is wholly lacking in
any competent ﬁgures whatsoever as
to the amount of such values, if
they should be added.

”As a possible onset to such tset-
ors, we cite the following tacts: The
Federal government and the State of
Texas have made donations of land
to. American railroads aggregating
more than 146,000,000 acres. This
vast domain is larger than the entire
land area of Pennsylvania, Ohio, In~
diam and Illinois combined. This
great empire is larger than that of

Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Syria-er-

land, mgl‘and, Scotland and Ireland
combined. Without stating the
amount, a witness tor the .wrien
conceded that this was reasonably
Worth several hundred million doi-
lars. It is new proposed to capital—
ize this vast empire, and make the
public forever after pay an annual
tax to the railroads on its present
value, a value which has cost them
nothing.

"As a possible oirset to working
capital and materials and supplies,
we have shown that- when the rail-
roads were taken over by the govern-
ment they had ,an unappropriated
surplus in such forn‘i as to be readily
available (in cash, bank deposits and
securities in unamliated companies)
aggregating more than $800,000,000.

“As another possible onset to the
items named, it must be remember-
ed that much of these properties has
been built out of earnings. The ﬁg-
ures for the Pennsylvania veriﬁed by
its o-ﬂlcials in another proceeding
showed that this amounted to more
than $300,000,000 for that system
alone. This Commission has unani-
mOusly held in a previous case, and
the presidents of two leading rail-
roads in the United States have de—
clared under oath on the witness
stand that such items should not be
capitalized for the purpose of jus-
tifying increased rates.

“As further evidence of the present
vuluc oi these railroad properties we
suggest the propriety of capitaliz-
ing the standard return guaranteed
to the carriers during the war per-
iod, and adding thereto the value of
additions to property made since
December 31, 1917, and also the in-
gestment in non—federal controlled

nos.

13””

' railway operating

am at

 

cont,
anointing to 816, 611.858, 640. It
'tnereihmdssreenttttod necrosis

per cent upon. this Valid under the
Cummins‘Esch Act, their total net
income should
equal (above all expenses and taxes)
$836, 663, .036.

‘This is equivalent to adopting the
standard return, and adding thereto
six per cent on all additions to prop-
erty subsequently made. In View of
the entire situation, for present pur-
poses, this. method is probably the
best.

“The standard return
whet congress deemd to be reason-
able for the properties at the time
they were taken over by the govern-
ment. In addition to that fact, the
standard return is equivalent to the
net revenues or the railroads during
the most prosperous three-year per-
iod they have ever experienced

“The railroad oﬁcials have esti-
mated what would be the net reven-
ues during the coming year on. the
present m of freight and passen—
ger rates. They have created a. con-
structive or imaginary year by ap-
plying the unit costs anticipated for
the next twelve months, to the traffic
0: the year ending October 31, 1619.
In other words they have made full
allowance for all increased expenses,
but have made no allowance whatso-
ever for increased business.

‘Trecisel‘y the same meth d was
adopted by the railroads in 1 17, m
the Fifteen Per Cent Case. At that
time we objected and showed the
large errors that such a. method of
accounting would produce if applied
to preceding years. In the fall of
1917, on re-hea-ring, we showed that
in nine months the railroads had al-
ready earned 350,000,000 more than
they had prophesied they would earn
during the entire year.

“Fortunately we now have the
actual returns for “the entire cal-
endar year 1917. And we ﬁnd that
the rallroeds’ prophecy in the spring
01 1917, as compared to the actual
returns for the year in the Eastern
District alone,_involved an error of
over $95,000,000.

“We have shown that an increase
in their total revenues of 12.85 per
cent (instead of 19.48 per cent as
estimated by the carriers) will en-
able the railroads of the United
States to earn six per cent upon the
value of their properties, arrived at
by capitalizing the standard return
at six per cent and adding the in-
creases to property subsequently
made. If the entire increase is con-
ﬁned to freight trafﬁc the advance
should be 18' per cent (instead of
27. 85 per cent as proposed by the
carriers. ”)

 

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Business and Philanthropy

S IF the farmer wasn’t harrassed enough

by bugs and blight, ﬂoods and frosts, fail‘
ing crops and falling markets, shortage of labor
and machinery, lack of credit, the problem of
keeping his boys and girls on the farm and
other perplexities too numerous to mention, to
say nothing of the little problem of making
both ends meet—some well-meaning folks
would charge him with the responsibility of

feeding the world and hold him criminally

liable if any suffer for want of food. At the
same time none of these well-meaning folks
would think of soiling their hands and bending
their backs at the arduous labor which some
must perform in order that this precious food
may be produced.

It is an old and proven saying that business

and sentiment will not mix. While it is true
that many of the nation’s richest men are also
her greatest philanthropists it does not follow
that any of them combine their philanthropy
with their business. They do not. That is the
reason they acquire great wealth. The prac-
tice of philanthropy in the conduct of business
would mean less proﬁts to the business and
lower prices to the consumer. If John D.
Rockefeller’s philanthropic nature had found
expression in the policies of the Standard Oil
Company, Mr. Rockefeller would not now hays
so many millions that he cannot count them,
and gasoline would be cheaper. The same is
true of Andrew Carnegie and other steel bar-
ons. Ilad Henry Ford been as charitable in
ﬁxing the price of his motor cars as he has
been in building hospitals and other worthy
monuments to his name, Ford cars would be
cheaper, but We probably wouldn’t have the
hospitals. Had Dodge Bros. shown a philan-
thropic spirit in ﬁxing the price of their pro-
duct, the cstate of John Dodge would not now
be completing a two-million dollar mansion at
Grosse Point'and Horace Dodge might not have
been able to give his daughters Wedding which
for pomp and lavishness set the society world
agog.

Perhaps the reader may think we are getting
a little far aﬁeld from our subject but when we
show the connection between gasoline, steel
motor cars and the production of food the point
we have in mind Will be clear. All three of
the above commodities, no less than the very
money and labor used in their manufacture, are .
now considered essentials in the successful con-
duct of a farm. The drillers of oil, the makers
of steel and motor cars, as well as the manufac-
turers of hundreds of other commodities, all
draw an enormous amount of labor and credit
from the farm. Upon their ﬁnished product
they set a price that equals cost of production
plus a proﬁt, —in some cases a very handsome
proﬁt. They sell this product to the farmer
at their ﬁxed market price. There' is no senti-
ment involved in the transaction. No discount.
is allowed because of the peculiarly hazardous

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Neither is there: h" thought of p, ' '
upOn the part of those Who buy t ‘
products. The middleman and even the con-

. sumer himself. will naturally buy at the very

lowest ﬁgure at which the farmer can be in-
duced'to sell.

pay the farmer a fair proﬁt. In themajority
of‘ cases they do not. With the purchaser, of
the farmer’s food the transaction is amatter of
dollars and cents, pure and simple, undeﬁled
by any philanthropic notions. ,

In view of the fact that all With whom the
farmer deals conduct their business upon a
rigid business basis, unmixed with sentiment,
and the farmer is of necessity obliged to fol

- low in their footsteps so far as possible, is it

fair or reasonable to criticize him for his
failure to plant crops which may not grow or
which for lack of labor may not be harvested,
to raise high- priced live stock which may ﬁnd
no market, or develop any branch of his busi-
ness beyond what he is reasonably sure will
bring him a proﬁt?

The Sugar Beet Acreage

ARMERS who are not growing beets this

year because the manufacturers refused to
give them a fair share of the proﬁts question
the statement of the factories that the acreage
this year is the largest in the history of the
industry. In letters to the editor they all state
without exception that the acreage is far less
than normal'in their respective localities, and
they have asked us to express an opinion as to
the correctness of the reports of the total acre—
It is impossible to determine the exaCt
acreage. The Department of State and the
Bureau of Markets must of necessity rely upon
the reports of the manufacturers themselves
for information of this character.
learned something of the temper of the manu-
facturers this year we would not put it above
them to exaggerate the acreage for which they
have contracts if it suited their purpose to
do so, and in view of the fact that the beet
growers are already getting set for their fall
campaign, it would be very much to the inter-
ests of the manufacturers to distort their acre-

. age ﬁgures and make it appear that the efforts
- of the growers to reduce the acreage were
fruitless, thereby discouraging them possibly.

from further efforts at organization.

A recent report of the Michigan acreage in-
dicates an increase of about ﬁve per cent over
last year. Even accepting that this is correct,
which we refuse to do, the fact in itself would
be of no signiﬁcance as reﬂecting upon the

success or failure of the beet growers’ cam-

paign. The manufacturers might conceivably
have ﬁve per cent more acres under contract
this year than last and yet secure less than ﬁfty
per cent of a normal tonnage. This might
happen even in the face of normal growing con-
ditions. It must be apparent to all pioneer
growers of beets that a very large percentage
of the 1920 crop has been planted on land
Which has never before grown beets and 18 en~
tirely unsuited for growing them. Also that

' a large majority of the farmers growing beets

this year are entirely unfamiliar with their
culture. Under no circumstances except ab-
solute necessity would the manufacturers have
contracted for beets in a good many localities

which are attempting to produce them this 4

year. Acreage means nothing; it is tonnage
And we shall be very much sur-
prised if the sugar factoi-ies of this state have
seventy-ﬁve per cent of an average tonnage
when the beets are weighed.

We hope that nothing may transpire to
swerve the practical beet growers of Michigan
from their avowed purpose to have a voice in
the making of the contract and a fair share of
the proﬁts. It is our ﬁrm belief that no mat-
ter how favorable the balance of the season
may be there will be hundreds of growers who
will lose money on the crap this year and WIII.
be ready to join hands with the organizatioir
this coming fall. The dominatin principle of
the best groWers’ “strike’ ’ ufd Rh 1

  

 

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Why a Great Naval Programw 2‘ ‘ ‘ ’

HE UNITED States is rapidly building
what Secretary of the Navy Daniels dc» '
clares we moSt need, “incomparably the great». '
est Navy in the Worl. ”
just been launched. It is the largest battle-
ship ever built. The Iowa and, the Messia-
chusetts will be even larger. The navy program
of twelve super-dreadnou’ghts will be comple-
mented by a proportionate number of battle
cruisers, scout-cruisers, destroyers, submarines
and,other war craft, giving the United States
a navy that should inspire awe in its imagin- .
ary enemies and horror in the overburdened

t_.axpayer

Whether Secretary Daniels‘is sincere in his
advocacy of a matchless navy or whether as an

. appointee of the Wilson administration he is

trying to punish the nation far not accepting
the Wilson League, of Natons to insure the
peace of the world without armament, is not
clear; but inasmuch as the Secretary has al-
ways been knoWn asa peaceful old gentleman
somewhat averse to military preparedness in
times of peace, we may reasonably cenclude
that his naval recommendations are not-entire-
ly disassociated from the failure of congress to
adopt the League of Nations covenant.- Be

. that as it may the Secretary seems to have met

with remarkable success in leading a Republi-
can congress into an unprecedented ship build-
ing program.

Do we need a greater navy? Japan, we are
told has already been outdistanced in naval
’armament by this country. England’s naval
expansion, if she has any plans for such, are
entirely at a standstillbecause of lack of mon-
ey and material. Germany’s navy is at the
bottom of the sea, and the combined armaments
of all the other leading nations are not formi-
dable enough to cause any alarm even if they
were directed en bloc‘ against the United
States, a possibility as remote as the Ressurec-
ﬁrm.

The building of super-dreadnoughts at this
time when all bthe World is suffering from the
deep economic wounds inflicted by the great
war is a criminal and inexcusable waste of la-
bor and money. The recent congress robbed
the constructve agencies of the' government
like the Department of Agriculture of hund-
reds of millions that money might be had to
build engines of destruction. The people are
restless and sullen under the tax burdens. In-
dustry and agriculture alike are crippled be
cause the resources of the Federal Reserve
system have been drained and there is no oth-
er source of credit to which they can turn for
relief. While the government scrapes the bot-
tom of the exchequer to buy steel, brass, lum-
ber and other materials and to pay the wages
of ship builders in the construction of dread-
noughts which at the end of ﬁve years may be
obsolete and ready for the junk pile, all in-
dustry languishes for want of men, money,
material and transportation. '

Certainly the farmers of this country will
not approve of such senSeless and wanton
waste of the public funds, at this critical per-
iod and we doubt if there are many other
classes of people who Will approve of it..- A
poll of the press of the country shows an 9.1-.
'most undivided sentiment against any increase '
in the naval armament. The people should at
an early date ' ﬁx the responsibility " for the
policy which is being followed by the navy de-
partment and show the militarists, Whoever
they may be, that they have exceeded their
authority as the representatives of the people
and demand that an immediate halt be called
on further naval expansion. 1

 

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‘ " Mona numerous EDUCATION

,5 NEEDED INSTEAD or LESS .
-While reading your last issue of
the M. B. F.. I also happened upon

the editorial to “Abolish Parochial

SChools," framed by a certain J. B.
from, Kent county. If the person

-- in qu’estionhad not drawn my atten-

tion to the fact that he had for the
past eight .years been director of a
public school I should-probably have
ignored the absurdity of his editor-
ial as proceeding from a mind too
immature to cope with the—educa-
tional difﬁculties that confront us
today. But occupying such an ex-
alted and so important a position as
director of a public school, I cannot
refrain from setting Mr. J. B. aright.

At ﬁrst, Mr. J. B. has reference,

only to the parochial schools main-
tained by the Christian Dutch Re-
formed church. However, in the
course of his editorial, I quote him
to say that “as for schools maintain-
ed by other denominations their pur-
pose and aims are too well known to
need any discussion here.” Mr. J. B.
therefore, make a sweeping asser-

, tion, and declares that all parochial

schools should be closed. From a re-
ligious standpoint I defend the cause
only of the ChriStian Day school of
the Ev. Lutheran church of the Mis-
souri Synod.

I wish to say at the outset that Mr.
J_. B. is either totally uninformed re-
garding our parochial schools or that
he maliciously casts such judgment
upon our schools. The doors of our
parochial schools are open --to every-
one. Why _don’t you come to see
for yourself, Mr. J. B., whether we
inculcate Bols-hevistic principles into
the minds of our pupils? The very
fact that Mr. J. B. knows nothing
about our‘ parochial schools accounts
for his editorial, and a discussion

_ upon this surely would be opportune.

That Mr. J. B. displays such a
narrow-mindedness regarding the
welfare of our country by despis-
ing religion is a puzzle to me. Presi-
dent Lincoln once said that “what-
ever makes a man a good Christian,
makes him a good citizen.” All the
world over there is a great cry for
more spiritual instruction for our
youth. I shall quote several para—
graphs of the committee report as
adopted by the Methodist General

' Conference, which met in Des Moines,

Iowa, from May 1 to 27, they read:
“We have three and a half millions
of children and youths in the Sun-
day schools of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. This is the largest
body of young life under the direc-
tion of any Protestant organization
in America. If rightly trained in
the Christian life, this great body
of youth may become the saviors of
the world.

“The Sunday school alone is not
sufﬁcient for this gigantic task. One
hour a week on the Sabbath day is
not sufﬁcient for such an undertak-
ing. More time at a more favorable
period under more favorable condi-
tions with a trained leadership must
be secured if the youth of the church
is to be thoroughly trained in the
principles and practices of Christian

. character.

“The public schools is not the so-
lution of the problem. In a republic

' like ours where church and‘ state are

separate and public fundscannot be
appropriated for sectarian purposes,
the public school cannot be used as
an agency for religious instruction.
Some other agency must‘be created.
Only one course appears to be open.
Week day schools of religion must be

' established wherever practicable, and

under the auspices of the religious

.‘ agencies of the community where
w the children may be regularly taught

and trained in the. principles of
Christian Conduct. Only in this way

can we hope to adequately train the
_. youth of the church and the commun-
_ ity in the gospel. ” (The Daily Christ— »
«131‘» Advocate. Dips.- 388- 530. ) ‘

Mr. J. B., this assembly of men

‘saw the necessity of religious in- __
Should .we then abblish ’
‘ 1 heel weew in‘ exists

. asxff mRepublican had taken a leading

  
 
 

 

 

 

 

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The Pro and Con ~of the School Amendment

NTEREST is keen in the proposed amendment to abolish parochial
I schools, as shown by the. large number of letters received from M.
B. F. readers, both pro and con.

'abuse will be published in these columns, without further comment,“

’ the readers of the Business Farmer already know what our position
on the matter is. If further discussion of the subject by the editor is
deemed advisable it will be presented in the regular editorial columns.
In order to avoid hard feelings between subscribers and neighbors of
"different religious faiths let. us be careful to conceal our religious pre-
judices as much as possible, and to discuss the proposal strictly upon

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Here is another notation' to the
same effect from the March 4 issue
of the Presbyterian, wherein Rev. E.
L. Jones declares that the matter of
religious education is “the para-_
mount problem confronting the Pro-
testant church today ” Rev. Jones
says that the Sunday school "with
its maximum of twenty-six hours a
year of religious instruction, it is
hopelessly inadequate. This no one
presumes to ,deny." Rev. Jones then
gives the advice that “systematic
instruction in the Bible and proper
religious instruction in all other
studies for five day-s in the week
from Sept. until June from the kin-
dergarten to the high school be giv-
en 1! ‘

Enough said, Mr. J. B. Broad-
mlndedness and justice will conquer.
“Now I believe it behooves ever-y
voter at the coming election to vote
upon this question as he sees it, but
here is one to vote no on—Athe school
.question."—C. R., Tuscola County.

FARMER CANDIDATE IN BSTH

Under the heading “Clare Farm-
ers Put Candidate in the Field” the
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER prints an
endorsement of Senator McRae from
the pen of Herbert F. Baker, all of
which I endorse, but I don’t want
you to overlook the fact that Os-
ceola county has presented a real
farmer for senator from the 28th
district.

Hon. John Schmidt served three
terms as a member of the lower
house of the Michigan legislature,

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ber of that body, and by experience
and temperament is ﬁtted-for the of-
ﬁce of senator.-

Mr. Schmidt was born on his Os—
ceola county farm, and is now and
always has been a farmer, and has
no other business, and with his son
gives his whole time to farming and
cattle raising, he has however found
time to help in every worthy cause
for the upbuildi-ng of the community,
for the advancement of agricultural
interests. He took the lead in organ-
izing the branch of the Gleaner
Clearing House in Reed City, is a
member of the Grange and Gleaners,
and has taken great interest in the
Osceola County Board of Commerce
whom you know has done so much
for ,the county, is a good business
man, and will be a credit not only
to the farmers of the district but,to
the whole state of Michigan.

Inasmuch as you have given some
space to the candidates from the
28th senatorial district I hope you
can see your way clear to give Mr.
Schmidt the credit he deserves and
his record as a legislator and a good
citizen warrants—M. M. Callaghan,
president Osceola County Board of
Commerce.

 

We are glad to learn of Mr. Schmidt’s
qualiﬁcations. The Business Farmer is
not interested in the political candidacy
of any man except to reﬂect the senti-
ment of the farmers themselves. Who-
ever the farmers of the 28th district en-
dorse for their senator will be the choice
of the Business Farmer. In the absence
of any endorsement the Business Farmer
will hold aloof from the campaign—Ed-
itor_

 

 

 

Enclosed ﬁnd a clipping from The
Successful Farmer, which if it is con-
venient I wish you would print in the
M. B. F. as it voices just what the
most of the people think—W. H.,
Howard City.

AN AMAZED REPUBLICAN

I_ am a prohibitionist Republican
in a labyrinth of amazement at the
course our wise men at Washington

have taken upon the great League of‘

Nations document of Versailles.

The opportunity for the establish-
ing of a great and wonderful code of
laws whereby the world might have
a lasting peace, has been most un-
reasonably, selﬁshly and enviously
defeated and left our great nation
outside the circle of the great, hon—'
Crable and liberal nations. The only
reason that our wise men give for
thus banishing our nation is “We
do not want to assume any of the
responsibility of doing our part in
establishing and maintaining Justice
and Peace in the world." They want
to get into the great show but they
want to crawl in under the tent and
enjoy the performance Without hav-
ing bought their‘ticket. That is the
most charitable way we can put it.
The, real fact in the case is, the dose
of jealousy and envy is mightily
working upon their disgruntled and
miserable mental faculty. Now, let
me tell something that every wise,

, thinking. citizen already knows. If.

it had been a Republican president
who had gone to Europe and was
honored and landed and esteemed as
was our great Christian President,

formulating that great code
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those trumpet blowers at Washing-
ton would have cheered until the
dome of the capitol would have fall-
en. They are mighty blowers of
trumpets, trumpets of just one tone
and that tone in a minor key.

They seem to forget that the great
culprit nation, Germany, at the very
time when she was hard pressed,
boldly hove into the ,N. Y. harbor
and shot her guns into the .city. In
their envy they seem to forget that
Germany contributes her defeat to
America.

In their spite against the “Wilson
League of Nations,” they would
rather stay outside that envied
League and remain as a nation out-
side and alone until the time shall
surely come when Germany will have
recovered from her great defeat, and
then she will most assuredly seek and
ﬁnd an opportunity to insult our
flag and America will have no
friends among the great nations. Do
you ask why? I answer: Because
the impression over the sea is, we
were too selﬁsh to bear our little
part to become a member of the
brotherhood of nations and we were
not worthy of aid or sympathy al-
though, that-is not the real cause of
our stay-ing "out of the League. The
real cause is, a Democrat had the
most renowned honor of being in-
strumental in its foundation. If a

Republican had been sent to Europe

and had brought back that great
Christian Code then would our Re-
publican majority at Washington
have signed it and embraced it and
la‘uded‘it, though it called for a

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standing army in Europe of 500 000

  

FATHER OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
AMENDMENT EXPLAINS .
Referring to your editorial of
June 12th, on the proposed School
Amendment, we beg leave to present .. gl’
our view of the question. 1
,The reference you make to the
Constitution, is quite- in keeping
with the principles inculcated in this
amendment. In the Declaration of
Independence it was decreed that all

«men were created free and equal, and

the Constitution prescribed that each
individual worship God according to
his own conscience. As Society de-
veloped, they saw that it was neces-
sary that all children be educated,
and with this idea in mind, it was
determined that all children should
attend school for so many days a
year, and so many hours a day. It
is impossible and inconceiveable that
a State could compel children to at—
tend anything but a non- s—ectarian
public school, without fostering a re-
ligion. If churches had not usurp-
ed the authority and duties of the
state this question would not be
raised.

You make the assertion that the
proponents of the amendment claim
the parochial schools were unpatri-
otic, but do not submit any proof.
From the Michigan Catholic of
March 25th, we quote as follows:

“Where there is a question, how-
ever, of clashing of rights or prerog-
atives, the inferior institution must
needs acknowledge the prior rights
and prerogative of the superior es-
tablishment. In this case Church
rights are superior to state rights."

Is this the kind of doctrine, with
which to instruct future American
citizens?

You set up three reasons why the
amendment should not be passed.
First because there is no need of it.
There is only one way in which an
institution can be properly judged;
by its products That is where it is
removed from the influence by con-
tact and association with products
or other things of a like nature.

For the last 1, 200 years the great-
er part of the world has been under
the educational influence of the R0-
man Church, and we would like you
to point out one example of their
efﬁciency. They have absolute con-
trol of education in Quebec, Spain
and Mexico, and are fast gaining con-
trol in southern Ireland.

If we ever hope to have a united
democracy, we must have all our
citizens educated with principles in
sympathy with democracy.

It might be well to quote you here
from a. Syllabus of Pope Pius IX,
which has never been repudiated or
denied.

“The Church has the right to ex-
ercise its authority without having
any limit set to it by the civil pow-
er. The Church has the right to in-
terfere in the discipline of the pub»
lic schools and in the arrangement
of the studies of the public school.”

The last quotation indicates that
parochial school interests claim the
right to interfere with our public
schools. This is in exact keeping
with a statement made by Rev.
Rincke, who is chairman of the Leg-
islative Committee of the Parochial
school interests (at a meeting at the
Nazareth Lutheran church on June
2nd) to the effect, that he and sev-,
eral others on the committee, drew
up our present compulsory school
laws. This shows conclusively, that
these people are carrying out the
dictates of the Papacy. _ ,

Your second' objection is, that the
issue smacks ‘of religious intolerance.
We cannot see where your contention
has any grounds, inasmuch as the .
state is absolutely divorced from;
creed. All this amendment requires;
is the attendance of children in a
purely American school for ﬁve hours

' a day for 160 to 180 days in a year." “

Surely you will concede that the
state has some interest in the child
and is entitled to at least that amount?
of time, when after deducting sleep-
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ERY OFTEN we think of Wo-
men’s Clubs as being just sort
.1 of social centers where those
, who have more time to spare than
they know what to do with, congre-
gate, and theorize. However, this
is not always true, nor are these

‘ ’ clubs always card clubs nor literary

clubs. Many are grganized for the
betterment of the community in
‘which they live and as everyone
knows that an exchange of ideas is
to be desired where vital questions
are considered, these clubs are serv-
ing a very vital need.

Recently delegates from the lead-
ing Business Women’s Clubs through-
out the country held a convention.
There we're speakers there from every
part ofthe land who had made a
specialty of their particular branch
of work, and they were there to tell
the other how it had been accom—
plished.

Women are in business every-
where, and they are in to stay. Where
the woman has home duties to per-
form, she has a God—given task, but
not every woman has a home of her
own. Many are out in the business
world forging their own way, and
it remains for the women who have
beaten the trail to, show those who
are unfamiliar, the way.

The report of Miss E. L. Spoor, of
the Detroit Business Women’s Club
is so interesting that I know a great
many of our readers would be able
to glean helpful hints therefrom, so
I am going to give you just a few of
the most forceful .points made by the
several speakers, as reported by
her:

Miss Audie V. Gronbery, of Grand
Rapids, Investigator for Mother’s
Pension Fund, told of the develop-
ment of this fund, of the immense
amount of good it was doing for its
beneﬁciaries, keeping the mothers at
home caring for their children, but
she showed how entirely inadequate
it now is in many cases and advo-
cated some plan which should be
brought forward by the united efforts
of the women of the state so that a
law might be enacted in Michigan
equal to that of any other state.

Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, of
New York, who is executive Secre-
tary, of the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women,
used as her topic the “Open Road.”
She urged women to play the game
as men play it, keeping to the rules
of the road. To quit asking for
rights and retain their privileges. She
said women should have courage to
follow their own judgment, that they

1st stop worrying about details and
f eling that they alone are carrying
the whole responsibility of the bus-
iness in which they are engaged. “Do
the big things and leave the details
to others." “Cultivate true fellow-
ship and eliminate all personality
and petty gossip.” She said further
that some women enjoy martyrdom.
We must stop enjoying our misery.
Insist that pay for women in busi-
ness be based on service, not on sex.
But be big enough then to ﬁll your
job. In closing she pictured women
marching down the broad highway,
the trail that has been blazed by the
pioneers in business life, and run-
ning on ahead is a black cat, con-
stantly looking back, but always
keeping ahead until it disappears
from sight. Hereafter as women ac-
quire a broader view and a clearer
vision there will be no more catty
.ways and methods.

Miss Jessie Ackerman, of Chicago,
said: “Woman is the reserve force
of the world, and the Lord has called
,h-is forces out to prevent the moral
losses to humanity. Women in the
cum have fitted children for the
orld, and LOW they must go out and
ﬁt the world for the children. Women
should preach Christian citizenship. ”

The New Fatherland” was the
n ject treated by Miss Harriet Vit-

 
 

tn University Settlement, and
oh

‘, of Chicago, head resident North-z ,

in 2. position to. know .,

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A Department for the Women

Edited by CLARE NORRIS -

her subject. She said in
“There is no gift like citizenship,
but like all gifts it brings its price.
Whether we are worthy citizens will
not be known until we have lived our
life story. We must improve our
home education system before we
try to transplant it to another land.
Another thing left for Women to do
is to wipe out the imaginary line be-
tween capital and labor. After all
the so-called unrest is mostly in the
minds of those who have never been
classed as laboring, peopn. We are
frightfully worried because the la-

part: ’

B. Marsh of the Good I—Ibusekeeping
Institute Stair.

Can I join my family at church
on Sunday when there, is a hearty
dinner to prepare?’ This is a ques-
tion many women are asking them-
selves and the answer is ‘.‘yes.” Make
a few preparations, go to church—
then cook your dinner afterward, a
dinner that is simple,.yet hearty and
tasty. Simplicity should be the key-
note of the Sunday dinner.

j Save your more complicated meat,
vegetables and desserts for the week
day meals when time is not so great

 

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t. } society.

lished. They are:

shut in.”

the great are small.”
and the child’s paradise.”
are treated the best."

 

 

V What Is Home ?

Eight hundred replies came to _ a London magazine
which asked the question, “What is home?’?
were were written by persons representing all classes of
They emanated from homes of reﬁnement and
wealth, and frOm those of crudeness and poverty. Seven
which the editor called “gems,” were selectcd and pub-

“Home—A world of strife shut out, a world .of love
“Home—The place where the small are great and
“Home—The father s kingdom, the mother’s world,
“Home—The place where we grumble the most and

“Home—The center of our affection, round which
our heart’s best wishes twine. "

“Home—-The place where our stomachs get three
square meals daily and our hearts a thousand.”

“Home—The only place on earth where the faults
and failings of humanity are hidden under the sweet
mantle of charity.”—William J. Hart.

These ans-

 

 

 

boring man has at last his chance.
There are two ways to abuse citizen-
ship—one is not to vote, and the

other is to use the vote for ulterior .

motives.‘ One of the great needs of
today is for a minister of education in
our federal government. We must
have an efﬁcient educational system,
and should this be accomplished pub-
lic education would earn its title to
the backbone of the nation. Schools
are today turning out pupils unﬁt;
300,000 babies die every year in the
United States, and there is no ques-
tion but that if the mothers were
properly educated in the most vital
questions of life many of these babies
through intelligent care and feeding
could be saved. And this should be
taught in the public schools. And
it is the women who must demand
it if it is ever taught. Some day the
motherhood of the land, potential or
actual, will rally to the rescue of
these young lives that are needlessly
sacriﬁced. Set modest standards of
dress, dress that will adorn and not
caricature."

HOME COOKING
ANY OF OUR readers have miss-
ed the excellent articles on
Home Cooking which for some
time were a regular feature of this
page. It is with pleasure that we
announce a new series. Miss Eliza-
beth Mathewson,

included in your dinner.

an item nor rest so essential. In
their place serve broiled or baked
chops, steak, small roasts or ﬁsh,
which require little or no preparation
and little time for cooking. Sim-
plify the vegetable courses by avoid-
ing all scalloped or creamed dishes,
which take so much time to prepare.
Serve carrots, turnips, celery, and
such vegetables in their simplest
form, that is either whole, sliced or
diced, according to the vegetable;
when properly cooked and delicately
seasoned with salt, pepper, paprika,
butter, etc., you will not miss the
more elaborate dishes, and it sup-
plies the variety which is always so
important. Frequently serve from

,your store of canned or home pre-

served vegetables. These are cook-
ed and require only reheating and
proper seasoning to beready for the
table. ‘A salad may or may not be
A salad of
crisp lettuce 1s simple but appetiz-
ing, for variety other vegetables
such as tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.,
may be added. ‘

At all times fruit is an acceptable
dessert, particularly as a quick-time
dessert. The fruit may be served as
it comes from the market or, if pre-
ferred, it may be .cut up, slightly
sweetenedand served plain or with
cream. Sliced oranges, bananas, and
canned pineapple make a delicious

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of the staff of the
Grand Rap i d s
high schools, has

secured for us
everal article 3 as it passes——
:ach from the. Something to live for and

pen of an expert
in her particular

line on this sub- b, n b . pineapple ‘ m ay
ject: The, ﬁrst rnuufg'gn: “mu; you through be prepared ear.
appears in this r you! 01' endeavor: t 1y. and are im-
issue. _ , . 3mg. tyingu'euvgcuelrss may no come proved by stand- .
The, Sunday But nothing can some a climber . ing an hpnr on ,
Dinner two in the cooler, ,‘- ‘

  

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Weekly Cheer '-
Start the day right and you’ll ﬁnd
thing to love:
View not ethe future through indigo
'Noto‘ “no bright streams and the

Start otho day right
1131!:an to]:

when sweetened
and sprink l e d
with cocoanu t,

little time it
takes to, prepare
such a dessert.
The orange and

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' elbows.

and yet what a-

cocoanut is a matter of but a few ‘
minutes. In winter halves of grape
fruit and in summer pieces of melon .
suggest time-saving desserts. When ,
fresh fruit is scarce use your own }
canned fruit orthat commercially -I
canned. Very" nice canned apricots
are for sale at most stores and offer

"a variety from the Michigan fruits.

Serve fit as a sauce, either plain or-
topped with whipped cream. Sudh a
dessert served with home made cook-
ies or cake cannot be surpassed. An"-
other satisfactory drish is to use cake
that is becoming dry by pouring over
it a soft custard. This not only is
a form of ecqnomy but makes a very
satisfactry dessert.

And so it should be with -yout
Sunday dinner, from the ﬁrst course
to the last, wholesome, tasty, plenty ‘
of everything, yet simple and at-
tractive. Nothing simpliﬁes the Sun—
day dinner problem so much as a ‘
tireless ecoker, and those who own.
one are especially appreciative on

' Sunday. Following are a few menus

for suggestions:

Fix-ole" Cooker Dinner
Baked Ham Boiled Pot-ton
Buttered Carrot Cold Slaw
Bread Pudding, $W'hipped Cream
‘Oven Dinner
Broiled Lamb Chops
Mashed Potatoes
Fruit Cookies

Bong. Dinner

Hamburg Steak
Lettuce Salad -

Tapioca with Cream

 

, SEEN IN CITY SHOPS
BOUT the most fashionable sum.
mer goods one can buy, and in—
cidentally about the most scarce
and expensive at the present time,
is navy blue dotted swiss. The dots
are‘ embroidered on and therefore
will not run. It is cool and very
good looking when simply made,
white organdie being most favored
as to trim. The hems continue to be
very deep in the skirts—how fortun-
ate for next year skirts will undoubt—
edly be longer and that deep hem
will come in handy. ‘

We used to think that babies from
the mere infant stage to five or six
years of age «must be dressedentire—
ly in white, but nowadays even kid-
dies’" clothes change as to style. Cery
dainty too are the little organdie
frocks they are fashioning. this year
of the very delicate pastel shades.
And babies sleeves tOO are short——
mere puffs which display the dimpled
I saw a dear little child of
only eighteen months wearing a
flesh colored organdie dress with a
bonnet- like hat to match, the hon-
net being tied with ribbons of two
colors—blue of the daintiest shade
onone side and the flesh pink on the
reverse side—very Frenchy indeed
for such a tiny miss. And the moth-
er Conﬁded in me that she had want-
ed such a dear little one in a light
shade of yellow but When she pnic-
ed it, the shops wanted $12 for it—
just think of it for a baby dress—
and so she had bought a yard of
goods—a bit of ribbon and was go-
ing to make it herself.

The long, pointed shoes are doom-
ed—irtheir death knell has been sound"-
ed by the shoe manufacturers—we
know it from the fact that the shops
are selling them at greatly reduced
prices Fall will see the. round toes
and low heels. There is no denying
the fact that the long last shoes are ’
most attractive

 

A HELPFUL HINT .
AVE THE inside Wrappers of
cracker bOxes—athey are heavily
- waxed and excellent to use to
wrap stamps in. Many times when

making small remittances it is more .,
~ convenient to send stamps, but they

will net he accepted if theyare stuck“.
together or to the letter .- 1-61“ on ope;
and i! . ill 11: t tn" -

  

 

      
 
  
    
    

  
  
  
    
    
  

 


 
 
  
     
 
  

 

 

 

"8° hilly d
21' yourself to the first woman
a white skin who presented her-

 

. You are jealous," he charged, and

, knew a heart throb of joy as she nod- ‘

- d’ed. “And I grant you are jealOus;
‘but at the same time, exercising the
woman' s prerogative of lying, 'you are
lying now. What I did, was not
done eagerly nor gladly. I did it for
your sake and my sake—or for- Hen-
ry’ s sake, rather. Thank God, I
have a man’ s honor still left to me !"
Man's honor does not always sat-
isfy women,” she replied.

"Would you prefer me dishonor-
able ” he was swift on the uptake.

“I am only a woman who loves, "
she pleaded.

“You are a
wasp,” he raged,
fair.”

”Is any woman fair when . she
loves?" she made the great confes-
sion and acknowledgment. “Men
may succeed in living in their heads
of honor; but know, and as a humble
woman I humbly state my woman-
hood, that woman lives only in her
heart of love. "

“Perhaps you are right. Honor,
like arithmetic, can be reasoned, cal-
culated. Which leaves a woman no
morality, but only.

“Only moods, ” Leoncia completed
abjectly for him.

Calls from Henry and the Queen
put an end to the conversation, for
Leoncia and Francis quickly joined
the others in gazing at the great web.

"Did you ever see so monstrous a
web. "’ Leoncia exclaimed.

“I’d‘ like to see the monster that

stinging, female
“and you are not

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Author of the “Valley of the Moon,” and other stories.

 

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izen of the web, a monstrous spider,
still wriggling with departing life,
shot through and through again and
The solid center of its body,
from which the legs radiated, was
the size of a normal waste basket,‘
and the substantial density of it
crunched audibly as it struck on
shoulders and back, re-
bounded, the hairy legs still help-
lessly quivering, and pitched down
into the wave crisping wa-.ter All
four pair of eyes watched the corpse
of it plunge against the wall of rock,

’ suck down, and disappear.

“Where there’s one,

two,” said Henry, looking dubiously
up toward the daylight.

“It is the only way,"

again.

Francis'

Queen. "Come,

time see it."

Her arms open in invitation, Fran-

cis could not decline.

“It is a hole in the sheer wall of
a precipice a thousand feet deep "
he explained to the others the glimpse
- he had caught from beyond the spid-
er web, as he clasped the Queen in
his arm and leaped 011'.

my husband, each
in the other-'s arms let us win thru
the darkness to the sun-bright world.
Remember, I have never seen it, and
soon, with you, shall I for the first

riﬂce?" she demanded.
“Because . . .”
looked at her wonderingly.

pleted.

tached.
mistaken,
pretty well satisﬁed bridegroom.”
VHNO'II
phaticaily. “He has a
order not to hurt her feelings."
“Oh, I don’t know.
there are

said the

why shouldn't he ?

a quick movement,

she demanded:

“How do you love me?
love me madly?
badly madly?
you, and more,
more?"

and more,

He could only look his bewilder-

“Why did you accept Francis’ sac-

He paused and

"Because I wanted you," he com-
“Because I was engaged to
you as well, while Francis was unat-
Besides, if I’m not greatly

Francis appears to be a

she shook her head em-
chlvalrous
spirit, and he is acting his part in

Remember,
before the altar, at the Long House,
when I said I was going to ask the
Queen to marry me, that he bragged
she wouldn' t marry me if I did ask?
Well, the conclusion’s pretty obvious

_ that he wanted her for himself. And

He’s a bachelor.

And she's some nice woman herself.”

“But Leoncia scarcely heard. With
leaning back in
his arms away from him so that she
could look him squarely in the eyes,

Do you
Do you love me
Do I mean that to
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.for me. Rather;wo ' ‘ ’~ .
as loving you deeply, and gm
and enduringly. Why you see
much a part of me that I feel a
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hated her from the first. ”

“My! What a spitﬂre. I 1:».
think how much you would have

“We’d better follow them, ”
put an end to the discussion.

And Henry, very much baptist
clasped her tightly and leaped
into the white turmoil of water.

On the bank of the Gualaca Riv,
sat two Indians girls ﬁshing; J~u
up stream from them arose the p
cipitous cliff of one of the buttresses
of the lofty mountains. The main
stream flowed past in chocolate eol— :
ored spate; but, directly beneath'
them, where they ﬁshed, was a quiet,
eddy. No less quiet was the ﬁshing.
No bites jerked their rods in token
that the bait was enticing. One of
them, Nicoya, yawned, ate a banana _
yawned again, and held the skin she
was about to cast aside suspended in“.
her hand.

“We have been very quiet, Con—
cordia,” she observed to her companq-a
ion, “and it has won us no fish. Nowg,
shall I make a noise and a splash.
Since they say ‘what comes up -must‘
come down,’ why should not some-
thing come up after something has

 

made it, " Henry said.

"And I'd rather see than be it "
Francis paraphrased from the “Pur-
ple Cow. ”

“It is our good fortune that we
do not have to go that way, " the
Queen said.

All looked inquiry at her, and she
pointed down to the stream. _

“That is the way," she said. “I
know it. Often and often, in my mir-
ror of the World, have I seen the
way. When my mother died and was
buried in the whirlpool, I followed
her body in the Mirror, and I saw it
come to this placeland go by this
place still in the water."

“But she was dead," Leoncia ob-
jected quickly.

The rivalry between them fanned
instantly.

“One of my spearmen," the Queen
-went on quietly, “a handsome youth,
alas, dared to look at me as a lover.
He was flung in alive. I watched
him, too, in the Mirror. When he
came to this place he climbed out.
I saw him crawl under the web to the
day, and I saw him retreat back--
ward froni the day and throw him-
self into the stream."

“Anqther dead one,” Henry de-
manded grimly.

“No; for I followed him on in the
Mirror, and though all was darkness
for a time and I could see nothing,
in the end, and shortly, under the
sun he emerged into the bosom of a
large river, and swam to shore, and
climbed the bank—it was the left
bank as I remember well—and dis-
appeared among large trees such as
do not grow in the Valley of the Lost
Souls."

But, like Torres, the rest of them
recoiled fnom thought of the dark
plunge through the living rock. ,

“These are the bones of animals
and of men," the Queen warned,
“who were daunted by the way of
the water and who strove to gain the
sun. Men. there are there—behold!
Or at least what remains of them for
a space, the bones. ere, in time, the
bones too, pass into nothingness."

“Even so," said Francis, “I sud-
denly discover a pressing need to
look into the eye of the sun. Do the
rest of you remain here while I in-
vestigate. "

Drawing his automatic, the water-
tightness of the cartridges a guar-
art-tee, he crawled under the web.
The moment he had disappeared from
view beyond the web, they heard him
begin to shoot. Next, they saw him

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Henry had gathered Leoncia to meat, , gone down? I am going to try.
him and was about to leap, when she “Do you?-——do you?" she urged There i" '
stopped him- passionately. (Continued on page 20)

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ERY OFTEN we think of Wo-

men’s Clubs as being just sort

of social centers where those
who have more time to spare than
they know what to do with, congre—
gate, and theorize. However, this
is not always true, nor are these
'clubs always card clubs nor literary
clubs. Many are organized for the
.betterment of the community in
which they live and as everyone
knows that an exchange of ideas is
to be desired where vital questions
are considered, these clubs are serv-
ing a very vital need.

Recently delegates from the lead-
ing Business Women’s Clubs through-
out the country held a convention.
There were speakers there from every
part of‘the land who had made a
specialty of their particular branch
of work, and they were there to tell
the other how it had been accom~
plished.

Women are in business every-

_ where, and they are in to stay. Where
the woman has home duties to per-
form, she has a God-given task, but
not every woman has a home of her
own. Many are out in the business
world forging their own way, and
it remains for the women who have
beaten the trail to, show those who
are unfamiliar, the way.
' The report of Miss E. L. Spoor, of
the Detroit Business Women’s Club
is so interesting that I know a great
many of our readers would be able
to glean helpful hints therefrom, so
I am going to give you just a few of
the most forceful .points made by the
several speakers, as reported by
her:

Miss Audie V. Gronbery, of Grand
Rapids, Investigator for Mother’s
Pension Fund, told of the develop-
ment of this fund, of the immense
amount of good it was doing for its
beneﬁciaries, keeping the mothers at
home caring for their children, but
she showed how entirely inadequate
it now is in many cases and advo-
cated some plan which should be
brought forward by the united eﬁorts
of the women of the state so that a
law might be enacted in Michigan
equal to that of any other state.

Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, of
New York, who is executive Secre-
tary of the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women,
used as her topic the “Open Road.”
She urged women to play the game
as men play it, keeping to the rules
of the road. To quit asking for
rights and retain their privileges. She
said women should have courage to
follow their own judgment, that they
must stop worrying about details and
feeling that they alone are carrying
the whole responsibility of the bus-
iness in which they are engaged. “Do
the big things and leave the details
to others.” “Cultivate true fellow-
ship and eliminate all personality
and petty gossip.” She said further
that some women enjoy martyrdom.
We must stop enjoying our misery.
Insist that pay for women in busi-
ness be based on service, not on sex.
But be big enough then to ﬁll your
job. In closing she pictured women
marching down the broad highway,
the trail that has been blazed by the
pioneers in business life, and run-
ning on ahead is a black cat, con-
stantly looking back, but always
keeping ahead until it disappears
from sight. Hereafter as women ac-
quire a broader view and a clearer
vision there will be no more catty
ways and methods.

Miss Jessie Ackerman, of Chicago,
said: "Woman is the reserve force
_.9_f the world, and the Lord has called
his forces out to prevent the moral
losses to humanity. Women in the
“home have fitted children for the
world, and LOW they must go out and
fit the world for the children. Women
‘ should preach Christian citizenship."
' “The New Fatherland” was the
blast tieated by Miss Harriet Vit-

western University Settlement, and
is in a position to, know

tum, of Chicago, head resident North: ,

 

The Farm Home
Mm A D (apartment for the Women

   

Edited by CLARE NORRIS -

her subject. She said in part:
“There is no gift like citizenship,
but like all gifts it brings its price.
Whether we are worthy citizens will
not be known until we have lived our
life story. We’ must improve our
home education system before- we
try to transplant it to another land.
Another thing left for women to do
is to wipe out the imaginary line be-
tween capital and labor. After all
the so-called unrest is mostly in the
minds of those who have never been
classed as laboring, peopE. We are
frightfully worried because the la-

B. Marsh of the Good Hbusekeeping
Institute Staff.

Can I join my family at church
on Sunday when there is a hearty
dinner to prepare? This is a ques-

tion many women are asking them-

selves and the answer is “yes.” Make
a few preparations, go to church——
then cook your dinner afterward, a
dinner that is simple,.yet hearty and
tasty. Simplicity should be the key-
note of the Sunday dinner.

5 Save your more complicated meat,
vegetables and desserts for the week
day meals when time is not so great

 

 

 

 

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lished. They are:

shut in."

the great are small.”
and the child’s paradise.”

are treated the best.”

 

 

 

What Is Home ?

Eight hundred replies came to a London magazine
which asked the question, “What is home?’f
wers were written by persons representing all classes of
MI society. They emanated from homes of reﬁnement and
" wealth, and from those of crudeness and poverty. Seven
which the editor called .“gems,” were selected and pub-

“Home——A world of strife shut out, a world of love
“Home—The place where the small are great and
“Home—The fathers kingdom, the mother’s world,
“Home—The place where we grumble the most and

“Home—The center of our affection, round which
our heart’s best wishes twine. ”

“Home—The place where our stomachs get three
square meals daily and our hearts a thousand.”

“Home—The only place on earth where the faults
and failings of humanity are hidden under the sweet
mantle of charity. "—\Villiam J. Hart.

These ans-

 

 

 

boring man has at last his chance.
There are two ways to abuse citizen-
ship—one is not to vote, and the

other is to use the vote for ulterior ~

motives.‘ One of the great needs of
today is for a minister of education in
our federal government. We must
have an efﬁcient educational system,
and should this be accomplished pub-
lic education would earn its title to
the backbone of the nation. Schools
are today turning out pupils unﬁt;
300,000 babies die every year in the
United States, and there is no ques-
tion but that if the mothers were
properly educated in the most vital
questions of life many of these babies
through intelligent care and feeding
could be saved. And'this should be
taught in the public schools. And
it is the women who must demand
it if it is ever taught. Some day the
motherhood of the land, potential or
actual, will rally to the rescue of
these young lives that are needlessly
sacriﬁced. Set modest standards of
dress, dress that will adorn and not
caricature.”

HOME COOKING

ANY OF OUR readers have miss-

ed the excellent articles on

Home Cooking which for some
time were a regular feature of this
page. It is with pleasure that we
announce a new series. Miss Eliza-
beth Mathewson,

an item nor rest so essential. In
their place serve broiled or baked
chops, steak, small roasts or fish,
which require little or no preparation
and little time for cooking. Sim-
plify the vegetable courses by avoid-
ing all scalloped or creamed dishes,
which take so much time to prepare.
Serve carrots, turnips, celery, and
such vegetables in their simplest
form, that is either whole, sliced or
diced, according to the vegetable;
when properly cooked and delicately
seasoned with salt, pepper, paprika,
butter, etc., you will not miss the
more elaborate dishes, and it sup-
plies the variety which is always so
important. Frequently serve from

your store of canned or home pre-

served vegetables. These are cook-
ed and require only reheating and
proper seasoning to beready for the
table. 'A salad may or may not be
included in your dinner. A salad of
crisp lettuce 1s Simple but appetiz—
ing, for variety other vegetables
such as tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.,
may be added.

At all times fruit is an acceptable
dessert, particularly as a quick-time
dessert. The fruit may be served as
it comes from the market or, if pre-
ferred, it may be .cut up, slightly
sweetened and served plain or with
cream. Sliced oranges, bananas, and
canned pineapple make a delicious

com!” 11 a t i o n

 

 

of the staff of the
Grand Rap i d s
high schools, has

secured for us
veral article 8 as it passes—
:Zch from thé Something to live for and

pen of an expert
in her particular
lino, on this sub-

ject. The, ﬂI‘St Failure may mock you
gunman in this Fame and success may not come
ssue' , at your will;
The S u n d a y But nothing can hallo a climber
Di ' forever
,nner Start the day right
RecognitiOn is half 1111 the hill.

 

 

made to Dorothy

Weekly Cheer -
Start the day right and you'll ﬁnd
thing to love;
View lnot ethe future through Indigo

Notex lthee bright streams and the
' blue sky above.

years of endeavor; 1y,

when sweetened
and sprinkled
with cocoanu t,
and yet what a
little time it
takes to prepare
such a. dessert.
The orange and
pineapple may
be prepared ear-
and are im-
proved by stand-

come-

through

and .you're

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ing an hpur or,
two in the sealer,

‘ " 91' Janna; and

cocoanut is a matter of but a few '
minutes. In winter halves of grape
fruit and in summer pieces of melon .
suggest time-saving desserts. When ,
fresh fruit is scarce use your own ~
cannedvfruit or that commercially E
canned. Very‘nice canned apricots
are for sale at most stores and offer

'a variety from the Michigan fruits.

Serve'it as a sauce, either plain or
topped with whipped cream. Sudh a
dessert served with home made cook-
ies or cake cannot be surpassed. An- ;
other satisfactory dish is to use cake
that is becoming dry by pouring over
it a soft custard. ,This not only is
a form of ecqnomy but makes a very
satisfactry dessert.

And so it should be with ~your
Sunday dinner, from the ﬁrst course
to the last, wholesome, tasty, plenty ‘
of everything, yet simple and at-
tractive. Nothing simpliﬁes the Sun-
day dinner problem so much as ,. a -
tireless cooker, and those who own.
one are especially appreciative on

‘ Sunday. Following are a. few menus

for suggestions:
Flreless Cooker Dinner

Baked Ham Boiled Potatoes
Buttered Carrot Cold Slaw
Bread Pudding, hipped Cream

Owen Dinner
Broiled Lamb Chops
Mashed Potatoes
Fruit Cookies
Bang. Dinner

Hamburg Steak
Lettuce Salad ~
Tapioca with Cream

. SEEN IN CITY SHOPS
BOUT the most fashionable sum-
mer goods one can buy, and in-
cidentally about the most scarce
and expensive at the present time,
is navy blue dotted swiss. The dots
are' embroidered on and therefore
will not run. It is cool and very
good' looking when simply made,
white organdie being most favored
as to trim. The hems continue to be
very deep in the skirts—how fortun-
ate for next year skirts will undoubt-
edly be longer and that deep hem
will come in handy. '

We used to think that babies from
the mere infant stage to ﬁve or six
years of age must be dressed entire-
ly in white, but nowadays even kid-
dies’ clothes change as to style. Cery
dainty too are the little organdio
frocks they are fashioning this year
of the very delicate pastel shades.
And babies sleeves tea are short—
mere puffs which display the difnpled
elbows. I saw a dear little child of
only eighteen months wearing a
flesh colored organdie dress with a
bonnet like hat to match, the bon—
net being tied with ribbons of two
colors—blue of the daintiest shade
onone side and the flesh pink on the
reverse side—very Frenchy indeed
for suCh a tiny miss. And the moth-
er conﬂded in me that she had want—
ed such a dear little one in a. light
shade of yellow but when she pric-
ed it, the shops wanted $12 for it—
just think of it for a baby dress—
and so she had bought a yard of
goods—a bit of ribbon and was go-
ing to make it herself.

The long, pointed shoes are doom-
ed—itheir death knell has been sound-
ed by the shoe manufacturers—we
know it from the fact that the shops
are selling them at greatly reduced
prices. Fall will see the round toes
and low heels. There is no denying
the fact that the long last shoes are
most attractive

 

A HELPFUL HINT .

AVE THE inside wrappers of
cracker boxes—they are heavily

- waxed and excellent to use to. ,
wrap stamps in. Many times when
making small remittances it is more
convenient top-send stamps, but they
will not be accepted if they are stuck _

, together or to the letter or envelope, ‘ ‘
and if you will curt theéspi nside wrap-y, "

 
 

 
 
  
 
   

 

 
   
      
   
 
 
  


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“his,”
I'“You are jealous," he charged, and
knew a heart throb of joy as she nod-

- dell. “And I grant you are‘jealous;

'but at the same time, exercising the
woman’s prerogative of lying, '{vou are
lying now. What I did, was not
done eagerly nor gladly. I did it for

_ your sake and my sake—er forAHen-
ry's sake, rather. Thank God, I
have a man's honor still left to me !"

Man's honor does not always eat-
isfywomen,” she replied.

“Would you prefer me dishonor-
able " he was swift on the uptake.

“I am only a woman who loves,"
she pleaded.

“You are a stinging, female
wasp,” he raged, “and you are not
fair.” ‘

“Is any woman fair when . she
loves?" she made the great confes-
sion and acknowledgment. “Men
may succeed in living in their heads
of honor; but know, and as a humble
woman I humbly state my woman-
hood, that woman lives only in her
heart of love.”

“Perhaps you are right. Honor,
like arithmetic, can be reasoned, cal-
culated. Which leaves a woman no
morality, but only . . . ”

“Only moods,” Leoncia completed
abjectly for him.

Calls from Henry and the Queen
put an end to the conversation, for
Leoncia and Francis. quickly joined
the others in gazing at the great web.

“Did you ever see so monstrous a
web 1” Leoncia exclaimed.

“I’d- like to see the monster that
made it," Henry said.

"And I'd rather see than -be it,"
Francis paraphrased from the “Pur-
ple Cow.”

“It is our good fortune that we
do not have to go that way,” the
Queen said.

All looked inquiry at her, and she
pointed down to the stream:

"That is the way," she said. “I
know it. Often and often, in my mir-
ror of the World, have I seen the
way. When my mother died and was
buried in the whirlpool, I followed
her body in the Mirror, and I saw it
come to this place and go by this
place still in the water.”

“But she was dead," Leoncia ob-
jected quickly.

The rivalry between them fanned
instantly.

"One of my spearmen," the Queen
‘went on quietly, “a handsome youth,
alas, dared to look at me as a lover.
He was flung in alive. I watched
him, too, in the Mirror. When he
came to this place he climbed out.
I saw him crawl under the web to the
day, and I saw him retreat back-
ward from the day and throw him-
self into the stream."

"Anqther dead one," Henry de-.
manded grimly.

“No; for I followed him on in the
Mirror, and though all was darkness
for a time and I could see nothing,
in the end, and shortly, under the
sun he emerged into the bosom of a
large river, and swam to shore, and
climbed the bank—it was the left
bank as I remember well—and dis-
appeared among large trees such as
do not grow in the Valley of the Lost
Souls.”

But, like Torres, the rest of them
recoiled from thought of the dark
plunge through the living rock.

“These are the bones of animals
and of men," the Queen warned,
“who were daunted by the way of
the water and who strove to gain the
sun. Men there are there—behold!
Or at least what remains of them for
a space, the bones, ere, in time, the
bones too, pass into no-thingness."

“Even so,” said Francis, “I sud-
denly discover a pressing need to
look into the eye of the sun. Do the
rest of you remain here while I in-
vestigate." , .

_ Drawing his automatic, the water-
tightness ,of the cartridges a guar-

antee, he crawled under the web.

The moment he had disappeared from
view beydnd the web, they heard him
begin .‘to shoot. Next, they saw'him
retreating aback-ward, still shooting. -
) it’d; ext falling upon him,» -‘two
V ' fr 'bleickvhaired‘ ‘ leg-21
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, “By JACK LONDON

. Author of the “Valley of the Moon.” and other stories.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

izen of the web, a monstrous spider,
still wriggling with departing life,
shot through and through again and
again. The solid center of its body,
from which the legs radiated, was

the size of a normal waste basket,‘

and the substantial density of it
crunched audibly as it struck on
Francis' shoulders and back, re-
bounded, the hairy legs still help-
lessly quivering, and pitched down
into the wave crisping water. All
four pair of eyes watched the corpse
of it plunge against the wall of rock,
suck down, and disappear.

"Where there's one, there are
two," said Henry, looking dubiously
up toward the daylight.

“It is the only way," said the
Queen. “Come, my husband, each
in the other's arms let us win thru
the darkness to the sun-bright world.
Remember, I have never seen it, and
soon, with you, shall I for the ﬁrst
time see it."

Her arms open in invitation, Fran-
cis could not decline.

“It is a hole in the sheer wall of
a precipice a thousand feet deep,"
he explained to the others the glimpse

. he had caught from beyond the spid-

er web, as he clasped the Queen in
his arm and leaped oif.

Henry had gathered Leoncia to
him and was about to leap, when she
stopped him.

“Why did you accept Francis' sac-
riﬁce?" she demanded.

“Because . . .” He paused and
looked at her wonderingly.

“Because I wanted you,” he com-
pleted. “Because I was engaged to
you as well, while Francis was unat-
tached. Besides, if I’m not greatly
mistaken, Francis appears to be a
pretty well satisﬁed bridegroom.”

-“No," she shook her head em-
phatically. “He has a chivalrous
spirit, and he is acting his part in
order not to hurt her feelings."

“Oh, I don't know. Remember,
before the altar, at the Long House,
when I said I was going to ask the
Queen to marry me, that he bragged
she‘wouldn't marry me if I did ask?
Well, the conclusion's pretty obvious
that he wanted her for himself. And
why shouldn’t be? He's a bachelor.
And she's some nice woman herself."

“But Leoncia scarcely heard. With
a quick movement, leaning back in
his arms away from him so that. she
could look him squarely in the eyes,
she demanded:

“How do you love me? Do you
love me madly? Do you love me
badly madly? Do I mean that to
you, and more, and more, and
more?"

He could only look his bewilder-
ment. .

“Do you'I—do you?" she urged
passionately.

   

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and ,enduri'ngly. .WIhY, you 9613)
much a part of me that I- feel? _
as if I had always known you
was that way from the first)“;

“She is an abominable ,on
Leoncia broke forth irrelevaﬁ.
hated her from the ﬁrst.”

“My! What a spitﬂre. I he
think how much you would havﬂ
ed her had I married her lnste
Francis." 3 ,5.

"We'd better follow them,“
put an end to the discussion. "

A/nd Henry, very much bepu é
clasped her tightly and leaped?
into the white turmoil of water."

On the bank of the Gualaca R it!
sat two Indians girls ﬂshing.‘ .Jus
up stream from them arose the p‘ ,
cipitous cliff of one of the buttresses
of the lofty mountains. The main.
stream flowed past in chocolate col-
ored spate; but, directly beneath,
them, where they ﬁshed, was a quiet ‘
eddy. No less quiet was the ﬁshing.
No bites jerked their rods in token
that the bait was enticing. One of
them, Nicoya, yawned, ate a banana
yawned again, and held the skin she
was about to cast aside suspended in .
her hand. ‘

“We have been very quiet, Con-»-
cordia,” she observed to her compan--
ion, ”and it has won us no ﬁsh. Now
shall I make a noise and a splash.
Since they say ‘what comes up ~must
come down,’ why should not some-
thing come up after something has
gone down? I am going to try.
There 1"

(Continued on page 20)

 

 

 

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There is more to the production of ﬂour than the
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methods have made

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Only the choicest Wheat is used. It would be a revelation to wo-
men to see the amount of dirt, chaff and undesirable materials
that are removed from every kernel of wheat.
three scourings and aﬁnal washing precede the ﬁrst break.
Nothing but the “goodies”—-—the nutrition values remain. These
are milled to a beautiful, clean whiteness. Close inspection by
experts at every stage. ‘

LILY WHITE quality has been maintained for nearly sixty
years. Without fear of contradiction we say that it is not only
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' EAR CHILDREN: I was so dis-
‘appointed when the flags which
‘ I ordered for prizes did not
“ reach me in time to get them to their
winners by the Fourth of July. How-
ever. there are so many days when
the ﬂag is displayed as we learned
from the letters sent in, that we will
still have plenty of opportunity to
use them. Many letters which were
excellent were received after the
prizes had been awarded and the let-
as. sent in to the printers—we real~
lrhsgo to get our page: all set up a
In: time before it is in your hands
you, know. By the time you receive
at paper. the page for next week
wlll unborn type. so yousee we
have to plan ahead for what we are
to have.
Some good stories have been re-
ceived in the. contest for original
5 stories, but they were too long——
they would have taken more space
than we can allow any one contribut-
or, so we had to omit them in order
to give space to just as many at our
little correspondents as possible, and
me printer has promised if we have
space to crowd in a short little dog
story this week. Affectionately
yours—AUNT CLARE.

 

DOG’S LONG TON GUES

ND THE Memory Man said:
“When dogs could talk, they
were always boasting and talk-

ing. Once a king went on a visit
to ‘8. neighboring court, and took his
favorite dog with him. A very im-
portant. secret treaty was made be-
tween the two kings, and the royal
visitor turned homeward. Half-way
home he missed his dog, and, on his
'arrival, he found that the terms of
'the secret treaty were known to ev-
eryone. .

“Angered, the King called his dog,
and bidding it put out its tongue, he
gave the tongue 9. very hard pull, so
that it hung far out of the dog’s
mouth. ’

"That is why, today, when a dog
runs home, he always looks as if he
wanted to tell tales of What he has
seen. but his tongue hangs out so
far that he cannot talk.

"Tale-bearers never bring any good
.to themselves.”———R. W.

 

PICNIC EATING

ﬂ}, EVERY week, now, you and the

other girls will want to hike oﬂ
somewhere into the woods or
ﬁelds. You need something to take
along, and something to bring back.

Your lunch may take on the char~
actor of Spring. Make sandwiches
of thin slices of bread and butter,
with leaves of lettuce or cross and
s. boiled salad dressing for the fill-
ing. Stuffed eggs will taste good
and look pretty, too. Out hard—boil-
ed eggs in half, remove the yolks
and mix them with mayonnaise
dressing, or Just with butter, salt,
pepper and a. little mustard. Put
this ﬁlling back in the whites and
wrap the stuffed eggs in oiled paper.

Plain bread and butter sandwich—
es may be cut in leaf shape, with a
scalloped cookie cutter. Radishes.
the red skin slit and peeled down
a little way in the shape of a flow-
er, sandwiches of thinly sliced cu—
cumbers, salted, balls of cream cheese
wrapped in lettuce leaves-uni} these
will taste of outdoors and will ﬁll
your lunch box in a new way.

For sweets, take sugar cookies cut
with the leaf cutter, or plain cup
,oakes, each with a flower shaped
candy or candied. violet or candied

' “orange peel in the center ”of the

.‘icing.

While in the woods you can make
some May baskets. *On your walk
gather as many straight branches

V with bark on as you can. When you

bring them home, Whittle them with

, your Jack-knife—of course you .are
the kind 'of a girl who can use one— '

_ the same length. Select a square
at wood, thin and smooth, to’make
we bottom at the basket and glue the

 

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, M‘u .

By Francis Roy-Wheeler

SECRET Service , Hm had.

been so struck by Hunting Eye's
- “intense interest in the Navy and
tholArmy, and ,by the Indian lsd’s
eagerness to don his country’s uni-
form that he decided to take hm
with. him on his,
next trip to. Wale
tum.

There was a
nest deal to be
aim to Hunting
m: the

lass: the General .

 

adventures on a
mall train: the\
Wild to H o n s e,
where, as the Sec-
rot Service man
expla i n e d t h e
“temporary big
chief” of the Belt-
ed States lived;
but last of all, and
best of all, came
the Capitol.
“Bigger than the’Army and the
Navy,” the Secret Service man said,
“bigger than the courts of justice,
bigger than the President—what do
Iyaou"suppose that can be, Hunting
ye.|.l

The Indian lad did not hesitate a
moment.

“I know," he said, “the Council."

“Yes," said the Secret Service man
“the Council, or as we call it, Cong-

 

ress. And it is bigger than every-
thin else for the same reason that
an ndinn tribal council is bigger
than the chiefs—because every one
has a part in it. '

”You spoke of the promise that a
soldier makes
when he puts on a
uniform. But i t
isn’t and: ms sol-

promise. Hunting
lye. Every Ameri-
can. citizen males
s pm is o—«h 0
rows to do every-
thing he can to
help his country,
not only to obey
the laws but. to
help melts the
laws; not only to
pay his. taxes, but
to help see that
they are rightly
imposed and prop-
erly spent. Every
American citizen
should. have as his

chief desire to
make his country
better, clea n e r,
more industrious, more frugal,
more deserving of honor with
every day he lives. He can do! that
by being so himself. The pride of

Americans. pride in those things of
which a man should be proud.”
Hunting Eye looked up, his eyes
shining.
“The Indian will not fail!" he said.
“Nor anyone else, I trust,” came
the reply. “America cannot fail."

 

fashion. Fill this basket with damp
moss and rich earth, to hold fern
roots and wild flowers. It will be a
great addition to your piazza, or set
on a table for weeks.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Aunt Clare—This is the ﬁrst
time that I have written to you. I am
18 ycarseld and work on the farm. We
have no cows or sheep but we have got
three horses My father takes the M. B.
F. We live on a farm of 53 acres and
it is a nice farm. Well, will have to
close. Morris Kimberly Belding. R 2.

Dear Aunt Clare—This is the ﬁrst I
have written to you. I am 12 years old
and Will he in the eighth grade next year

when school starts again. I took the
seventh grade examination Be ,Rllhy
and phgiology and passed. c as the
M. B.~ . and like it ﬁne. 1 read the

Children’s Bom- cvsry week and enjoy
it very much, Here is a riddle: I know
someplace you never have been and never
will be but in that very same place you
will be seen by me. Answer—Looking
glass. Della Hollinshead, East Jordan.
Mich... R 5.
”—6,

Dear Aunt Clare—I am 16 years old
and in the ninth grade. I have one rab—
bit. I have six brothers and twa shters.
We have been taking the M. B. F. for
many years, and we like the paper well.
I saw sane prizes awarded to winners,
so I thought I would try to win, Orval
Sharp. Vestaburg, Mich_, R 1.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—We take the M. B.
B. and like it very much. I also like to
read the Childrens Hour. I have writ-
ten to you before but didinot see my let-
ter in print but hope to see this one. also
my drawings. Flor pets I have two cats,
two rabbits and one dog. Martha Half-
mn, Fowler, Mich.. R 8 _ .

 

 

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Des? Aunt Clare—I am a l 12 years
old. live on n farm of acres. We
have about u chickens and 80 little
chickens Forxeaslhanamuda
dog. We have horses and four cows.
I am in the at lily
teacher's name was In Am Gregory.
I like the complete stories best. I hope

to see my letter-in print—Iron Car .
Rockne! Mich. 8"

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Deal-Aunt Clare—n1 an a tame: boy,
18 years old and. in the 8th grade at
school. I have been reading the Child-
":le leulawritepl
live on a. 326 acre farm and like th
farm life, the best of all. We have {our
horses sir cows. ‘5 sheep and n tractor,

For gets I have n d and her
My the: take: the . B. F. and mu
it very much, Murland Rowe, Flushing.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—(rhi- is the ﬁrst
timeIhVowl-lttatoyou. lamnzlrl
12 years old and will be In the 1th grade
next year. My father takes the M. B.
P. and likes it the. I: is 3-4
miles west or Ithaca. I live on a 420
acre ram we have 19 cows, 10 calvesi
14 little pigs. 9 horses and one colt.
have two rs and We sisters, For
ets I have a dog and a. lamb. Ella

uscott, Ithaca, Mich. '

 

Dear Aunt Clare—My father takes the
M. B. F. nd we like it very well. I have
written to you once before but did not
see my letter in print so will try again.
Our school was out the 11th of June; My
teacher's name was Miss Lena Cole and
I liked her very much. I am 10 years
old and in the 6th grade. Forrdiaets I
have a dog and two cats . I ‘1 close
illicit!“ tine. Evelyn Starks, Ravenna,

 

Dear Aunt Clare—J was ten years of
age the 12th of June. I am in the ﬁfth
grade. Our school was out the fourth
of Jane. My teacher's name was Lillian
Van Aukens. I have three sisters and
one brother going to school. My father
takes the M, B. F. and likes it very well.
I wish. some of the other little girls
would write to me. I will close, hoping

 

to see my letter in print. Helen Cakes.
Shaftsburg, Mich, R 1. ,
Dear ~Ai'mt Clara—I am a. girl in

years old and in the sixth grade in
school. My teacher’s name was Miss
Oml Rankin. I live in Monrovia. Indi-
ans. not very far from. Indianapolis but
I‘ am spending my vacation wtth my
Grandpa and grandma Hadley. I ha-Ve a
brother- and sister. For pets I have a
big black dog and a. white cat and I
white horse on. which we ride. I will
close hoping to see my letter in print.
Joyce Hadley, Lakc'vicw, Mich, R 9.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—I have been read
the letters in the M. B. F. and like it
very well. I love to read the letters on
the Children’s Page. I am nine year-
old and will be in the fifth grade. My
teacher’s name is Miss Bertha Marie
Tram. We the on an so acre farm.
We have seven horses, 17 pics and two
cows. two calves. For pets I have three
kittens. I Would like to have some of
the girls write to me. also Aunt Clare.
too. Vivian Dougan, Grant, Mich, R 2.

Dear Aunt Clare—This is. the ﬁrst
time I have written to you, I am ten
years old and going in the can grade,
I have seven sisters and four brothers.
My father takes tht M. B. F. and likes
it very much . I like to read the
letters in the Children’s Hm I have
three pet kittens. We are drawing hay
and 1' drtve the horses while m brothers
are loading with the boy 10 r, ’which
I enjoy very much I think I. must close
as my letter is getting long. Rosella.
Spitzley, Pewamo, Mich.

Dear Aunt Clans—This is the. ﬁrst.
time I have written to on. I have, three
sisters and three brot are living. One
sister and two brothers died with the
ﬂu last winter. the flu and was
very sick and the Red Cross nurses tools
me to the Detention Hospital and I was
there seven weeks and then I was tak-
en to the general hospital. I was these
six Weeks. am home new. 1 bay:
been home four weeks and 1" Weight 7
pounds when 1 com home and now I
weigh 88 pounds. My father lives on a
100 acre. farm, We have two horses and
two cows and ﬁve calves and sixty chick-
ens. As my letter is getting long 1' will
close and to sce'my letter in print.
My father takes the M, B. F. and likes
it very much. Miss Benene Pearl Critts.
St. Charles, Mich.

Dear Aunt Clare—I have never writs
ten to you before. I am a. little orphan
girl twelvelycars old.‘ I have two broth-
ers and one sister out somewhere, but I
don't know where. _I write to my broth.-
er by- sending the letter through. Cold-
wnten I took examinations up town and
got my standings a fewd-ays ago» 1 will
be in the eighth grade next year, Papa
takes the M. -B. F. and likes it very well.
I like the Duo Dad: I get lonely with-
out these. I also llkojtorend the (mild.
son's Hour. For pets I have a dog. cat
and. canary bird; trained alamb o
' bottle and visitation sell her wool a
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~8u day to pursue their religious‘bes ‘
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The third objection is the Question
oi taxes. ' '

When the date decides to. provide.

education for all its children, the
question is, should it perform all its
functions, or should it delegate or
Ihlrk pa of them. Your article
seems to infer that the adherents of
the parochial schools are so much
more thrifty that they can afford to
pay the double tax towards the main-
tenance of their own and ' public
schools. and that this is not a bur-
den to them. If that is your idea
then there must be something u su-
parlor in the spiritual or secular
training of the parochial schools and
we make the charge that every child

in thisldemocracylhas the right to

the very best that this democracy can

aﬁord: so that, any grbup of people,

withholding any meritorious quail-
tles from the child of the public
schools, are subject to criticism as
to their citizenship and loyalty. If
they were Americans ﬁrst, they would
see to it, that the meritorionsqual-
ities of their schools are incorporat-
ed in the public school, and all the
children would receive an equal
beneﬁt. Or, is it that they are con-
strained to attend - the parochial
schools by threat of withdrawal or
refusal of absolutlon, or the con—
demnation of a mortal sin.

Your article contends we do not
submit any proof and we refer you
to the Michigan Catholic of June 10th,
on the subject of the Canon Law
on the Parents' right and'Duty, which
winds up with this paragraph:

"Therefore, parents anl guardi-
ans, who without grave reasons, ap-
proved by the Bishop send their
children to non-Catholic schools
when they can be sent to a standard
Catholic school, are to be held as
violators of natural and religious
rights and duties. They are contu-
macious of the laws of the church
and unworthy to receive the sacra-
meat."

We know of scores of instances
where parents have been forced to
take their children out of public
schools and send them to the par-
ochial schools for the reason that the
priest would refuse togive them ab-
solution or to baptize babies.

The real issue is to remove this
question of controversy by having the
state perform all its functions and
completely separating church and
state—Jo's. Hamilton, Public School
Defense League of Michigan.

nix-GOV. F'ERRIB CONDEMNS
SCHOOL AMENDMENT

The amendment proposed has on
a cursory reading, a very innocent
appearance. It the amendment is in-
terpreted with exactness it means
several things. In this brief article
I am not going to discuss the amend-
ment in detail. One thing I am sure

 

. it has for one of its objects, the clos-

ing of parochial schools of Catholics,
Holland Reformed and Lutherans.
Beyond a doubt it would affect a
goodly number of private schools
that are attended by pupils under 16
years of age. My own belief is that
the aim of the amendment is pri—
marily, to close the parochial schools.
I am too much of a democrat not to
knw that any attempt f this kind
would be ruinous to Michigan de-
mocracy. I am talking about con-
stitutional democracy. What possi-

~ ble objections can a loyal American
raise to parochial schools? They are'

all teaching the subjects in the Eng-
lish language. They are teaching
patriotism» They are loyal to the
Stars and Stripes, they are 100 per
I feel that this is
a cowardly attack upon thousands of
our best American citizens. While
I was Governor of Michinn, various
attempts were made to close the par-
ochial schools. In Michigan and oth-
er states dltmnt church denomin-
tione have conducted their schools
and colleges sometimes with refer-
ence to the work of advancing ' the
Congregational church. sometimes
the Presbyterian church, sometimes
the Mathew What possible objec-
tion can there be to the teaching of
moo mealtimes winin-
‘ “ j with our political or‘soslol
Mn; W shoeing Neutral
‘ churches he. kept run any more

  
   

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it!!!“ ﬁne

from the standpoint of what the

state would lose ﬁnancially by clos-
ing the parochials‘choole. I refuse
to discuss what other organizations
would loseby passing this amend-
ment. I concentrate my forces on
the religious bias that is involved in
the amendment. The amendment
should be overwhelmingly defeated.
The recent war has taught us that
Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists,
Gomentlonaliste, Preebyteri a n s.
Christian Scientists, eta, can. all
work together“ Our democracy
should guarantee this privilege. If
necessary. I am willing to go forth
and try to show my friends that this
amendment is nil-American, there-
fore dangerous and undesirable-
Weadbrldge N. rm. Big Rapids.

Michigan.

mos: your annex “WHEN run
some to more)

I like to read what the neighbors
have to say and I did laugh at what
Joseph "l‘roisnek had to say. There
are a lot more in the same boat with
Joseph and August but they are not
so fast to let the public know their
opinion. I have it estimated that
nine men out of every ten will in-
dulge in a drink of some kind but
when it comes to the ballot the ma-
jority will vote dry, and I believe
our worthy editor is one of the nine
for he makes a trip to Washington
quite frequently. A prominent man
told me the other day those fellows
have enough booze to last them a
hundred years in the capital city. If
I should meet the editor and had a
flask in my pocket and wanted to
save the contents for the future,—
well.,—-—I would not show it to him.
I may write again some time if I
survive the shock that I am going to
get when the editor gets through
with Ina—Albert Trojasck, Charle-
ootm County.

You are a born psychologist, Albert.
Any boob can spot the teetotaier, but it
takm a men of shrowdness to pick out
the nip: drinkers. How do yout do it)?
Andwyareyousocrue as opu-
llsh to the world your insight into the
editor's secret indulgence in, the bottle!
Seriously, Albert, you‘ve not a bum
steer, Your guessing average would en-
title you to a place just one degree be-
low the Tigers. Possibly it is true that
nine out of ten men drink when the get
the chance. I know that some my
best friends occasionally drank a glass of
beer when it was legal to do so, If 1
were one of the nine I would not be
ashamed to say so, for I would hays lots
of company and some of it pretty desir-
able compan at that. But I am worse
than a prob bltlonlst; I am a total ab—
stainer. a “teetotaler” if you please. I do
not abstain from alcoholic beverages
through any religious or moral scrup es,
but simply because I have never acqulp
ed a liking for liquor or a habit of drink-
ing. I have never tasted ferment-
ed wines or whiskey and the amount
of beer I have consumed during
my entire life would not fill an ordinary
drinking glass. It is not hard for me
to speak against the saloon because I
never patronized it. And I am entitled
to no credit for being a “prohibitionist.
The fellows who are entitled to the credit
for putting the nation dry are the six
out of nine drinkers who gave up their
beer and whiskey that the curse might
be removed from the reach of those who
could not leave it alone and whose lives

ere being wrecked upon the rocks of the

quor- traﬂlo. Yesbml) have heard that
there is ty of so in Washington
but I (ll n’t see any of it. During the
net six months I have been in Chicago,

ashlngton, New York City, Brooklyn,
Atlantic City. Wheeling, Zanesvllle, Sy-
racuse. Albany, Buffalo and Detroit, some
of them notoriously wet cities when there
was a saloon on every other corner and
I have seen one drunken man. I saw
him day before yesterday on the streets
ofﬁlgﬂunt Clemons. Write again. Albert.
—— or.

FERTILIZER GIVES NEW LIFE
T0 OLD ORCHARDS
(Continued from page 5)
with the yields of native weeds and
poverty'gruo of the unfertilized plot.

Ne grass seed wu‘s sown.

Plots fertilized with 10 pounds of
bone and tankage, per tree per year,
applied evenly over the tree-squares,
produced an average of 73.3 barrels
or sepia per acre per year. This was
a gain of 35.6 barrels of apples per
acre per year in comparison with the
unfertilized plot. and a loss of 45.8
barrels per ”acre per year in com-
parlson with the use of the 10-10
formula of nitrate-of soda and acid
phosphate. .

A number at other seriously treat-
ed plots was included}: this orch-
ard fertilisation test; but these that

 

here lust been described are the

more important.»

  

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SEPARATOR

we saves most over
.1. = l \ any other separator
or skimming system.
re A GREAT MISTAKE for any dairy farmer without a sepa-
I tutor or using an hiforlor machine to put on the purchase of a

New Do Laval Cream Separator in the summer months espooo
ially with buttersfat. at the present unusually high price.

  
  
   

Great as are the advantages of the New De Laval over all
other separators, as well as over any gravity setting System, at
every season of the year, they are even greater during the mid-.
summer season than at any other time.

This is because hot weather conditions occasion greatest but-
terfat losses with gravity setting and render it most diiiicult to
maintain quality of product with any gravity system or unsani-
tary separator, while, moreover, the quantity of milk is usually
greatest, and any loss in either quantity or quality of product
means more. ,

Then there is the great saving in time and llibor with the
simply, easy running, easily cleaned, large capacity New De Laval
machines over all other methods or separators, which naturally
counts for more at this time of the year.

Hence the great mistake of putting on the purchase of a
New De Laval Cream Separator in summer, whether you already
have a poor machine or none at all, and every dairy farmer should
keep in mind not only that a De Laval will pay for itself in a few
months but may, if desired, be bought 011 such liberal terms as to
actually save its own cost while being paid for.

. Every claim thus made is subject to easy demonstration, and
every De Laval locnl agent is glad of the opportunity to prove
these claims to you, in your own dairy, without cost or obligation'
on your part. .

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Why not see the nearest no Laval agent at once?
If you do not know him, write to the nearest
ofﬁce for catalog or any desired lnformaﬁon.

The De Laval Separator Company

165 Broadway 29 East Madison Street 61 Beale Street
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCX)

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. headquarters at Lansing.

that you would be liable

; damage as I think you are bound to

keepthem in the highway—W. E.
Brown. legal editor.

. Jinnusrman BOARD NOT INSUR-

_ r , mo .
‘WOWASI'n‘ a. _.
cor nixed here and j
th state was ask-
to recommend
some reliable wool
dealing ﬁrm thru

 

could sell their

‘ wool crop. They referred them to Trau-

gott Schmidt & Sons of Detroit. This
firm sent their grader here and graded
the Association’s wool and ﬁnally .pur-
chased it outright but through the ad-
vice of Mr, A. R, Livingstone, the grad-
er, one'of our members was pursuaded
to consign his wool. The grader assured
him that his grading would be accepted
anywhere. When the wool was sold it
was under a. different grading. Of
course this member was the loser on the
,deal. I am enclosing papers showing
the transaction. Kindly write to this
man and tell him what can be done."

F. F. S., Fairview Mich. *

A letter signed by Mr. Livingstone
accompanied the papers and d'eclar—
ed that Traugott Schmidt &' Sons
had suffered a loss of $64.13 even on
the basis on which the wool was set-
tled for. The following explanation

was given for the failure of this ﬂrmt

to abide by the grading of Mr. Liv-
ingstone:

“The fact that unusual market
conditions have arisen has made it
impossible for us to deliver to the
manufacturer your clip on my grad-
ing, cannot be remedied. You should
consider yourself very fortunate that
your cotted, black and seedy wools
have been sold at all as probably not
ﬁvo per cent of the wools of that
character grown in the United States
last year have been marketed yet
(March 1, 1920) and cotted wools
today are worth about 15 cents per
pound, and black and seedy wools
about 25 or 80 cents per pound.
Moreover, ‘if your quarterblood and
three-eighths blood wools were still
on hand, they would not be worth
over 90 per cent of the price they
were sold at."

After an exchange of several let-
ters with Mr. Livingstone and Trau-
gott Schmidt & Sons, the following
was received from the former:

“Inasmuch as I have quit Messrs.
Traugott Schmidt & Sons of De-
troit, I refuse to take issue with Mr.
Neff, or others in his behalf, in any
controversy they have with Schmidt
& Sons. I will say though, that it

7 is my opinion that Mr. Neff cannot

gain anything by pressing his com-
Let him and all wool growers
congratulate and avail themselves of
the Co-operative Association with
It has al-
ready virtually if not completely,
put Schmidt & Sons and several oth-
er wool dealers out of business. There
is no question in my mind about their
ability to handle properly, sell at
top prices to the ultimate consumer,
and establish a clientele that will
welcome their methods and services
for as long as they live up to their
present standards.”———Alex R. Living-
stone.
h—————-—~——— ,
MUST KEEP STOCK IN ROAD

A bought a giece of land of B for pas-
ture. B's brot er owns a piece of land
across the road from the
bought of B. A’s cows have to be
driven to and from this pasture each
day. The road turns a square corner
around B's brother's land which has no
road fence, the stock run across the
corner of B's land. Can B's brother
make any trouble with A about this with
nothing to keep them on the road. B's
brother does not make any trouble, but
his father is trying to_--C. G. M., An-
trim County.

I am of the Opinion that one who
drives cattle on the highway must
keep them from trespassing upon pri—
vate property. The liability would
only be the damage done. If it is
quack grass sod I would be of the
opinion that there could only be a
nominal damage. I would be of the
opinion that such a. boy and dog
would be proper to prevent the claim
that such cattle were at large in the
highway so they might be impound-
ed for being in the highway alone.
But if they got away from him and
did damage on the premises of the
neighbor I would be of the opinion
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children’s keeping and the alimony out
of wife No. 2 insurance in the State .In-
dustrial Board‘I—A Subscriber, Mont-
calm County. ' -
The Industrial Accident Board is
not an insurance company. They
have supervision over industrial ac-
cidents. Your letter does not state
whether the beneﬁt is fro-m death or
disability by reason of the accident.
Act No. 64, Laws of 1919, Sec. 6,
makes provision for the payment of
beneﬁts in case of death where the de-
ceased leaves depedout children by
a former marriage. I am of the
opinion that this is a matter that.
should be determined by the Indus—
trial Accident Board, Lansing, Mich,
and a ietter to them will receive
prompt attention. They will give full
instructions, information and how to
proceed—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

 

STOCK ON ROAD

I have a neighbor who for the last
three years has turned his cows and hers-
es out on the road to pasture; besides
he has thirteen head of hog running
loose. It is not safe to go to bed at
night for in the morning you will find
them in the wheat. He has been told to
shut them up a good many times, but
he pays no attention. 'Last car a man's
cattle got i his wheat and 0 made him
gay one do lar a head before he let him
ave them. I don’t want to
trouble but would like to
could be notiﬁed without any trouble to
léeep} hIiIs stock shut up off the road,—

 

A man has no legal right to allow
stock to run in the highway except
in the control of an attendant and
then only on his own side of the
road and in front of his own premd
ises. Such stock if found otherwise
can be impounded, the owner then
required to pay the statutory fee for
the impounding. Should they break
into the premises of another the
owner is liable for all damage done
which may be collected by impound-
ing of the animals and serving the
required notice—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

KEEP CATTLE WITHIN HIGHWAY

I would like a little information about
going over the public road with my milk
cows. I have 7 milk cows which I take
to the pasture in the morning and back
home in the evening over the public road
or highway. Now my neighbor has a
field of oats and as the oats sows to the
road bed and no fence my cows at on
his oats when taking them bee and
forth sometimes. Now I would like the
Michigan state law about driving cows
over the highway where there is no
fence along and the land is plowed to
the roadbed and cropped—N. -D,, Ottawa.
County. '

The owner of the adjacent land
owns to the center .of the highway
subject to right of the public to the
use of the highway for highway pur-
poses, one of which is the right to
drive cattle over it. ' He is not oblig-

ﬁSonse and

Enjoyed Their Music

“Could you change de tune 0' one o’
dem cuckoo clocks?" asked Rastus.

“What’s the idea?" .

"I wants an alarm clock. I don't
take to dose hasty an' excited alarm
clocks. If you could train one 0'
dose to cackle like a chicken, I could.
wake up spry an' hopeful every
time i”

 

. Comforting Statistics

She was looking through a moth-
er’s magazine when suddenly she
said: _

“From the statistics given here,
dear, I see that every third baby born
in the world}: a Chinese." _

The fond father, who was buried
in the pages of the evening paper,
peered over the topvlong enough to
reply: “Thank heaven, this is our
fire ." »

 

SchoMIc Toots

“What's the matter?
thoughtful." . N .
.“My six year old son brought home

You look

‘ a list of questions to answer." ,,

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chi-om :.‘ , fmh to in . . sown“
pencnoionmr by moi to o auntienj ., about noun-’1 should one!” 01.

ed to fence the highv’ray but'the OWn-- .
er of cattle drivanoyert'he'highway
must keep them within the bounds“
of the highway. The owner of cat-
tie driven through the highway can-
not allow them to pasture on the
highway either from grass or crops: :
but if they eat of the crops sown in
the highway while being driven
therefore, if within the limits of the
highway. The owner of the cattle

. would be liable for any damage done

by his cattle while driving along the
highway if they go out of the bounds
of the highway.——W. E. Brown, legal
editor. " '

 

SHARE OF'SECOND WIFE IN WILL

Could you please tell me if a man can
out off second wife with just her sup-
port with a will from all personal pr?-
erty and real estate at his death. e
leaves children which he had by his ﬁrst
wife, but he had none by his second
wife—A Reader.

 

The second wife is not obliged to
accept the provision made her under
the will but may claim underthe sta-
tute if she makes such claim with-
in the time provided under the law.
Under the statute she would be en- ,
titled to his wearing apparel, house-
hold furniture and other personal
not exceeding $200 and an allow-

- once for her support to be determin-
ed by the” judge of probate.

If the
husband left more than one child
the surviving widow would be en-
titled to take under the law one
iihird of all the real estate and one
third of the personal after payment
of debts and expenses. 'I\he election
to take under the statute must be in
writing and within one year from
the probate of the Willa—W. E.
Brown, legal editor. ,

 

HUSBAND GETS PERSONAL

Can a second husband hold a wife‘s
furniture and personal belongings that
was left her by her former husband. Can
her children claim them if she should
die while living with second husband.—
E. B., Van Bureau County. , 4

 

Upon the death of the ﬁrst hus-
band, if he died without leaving a
will, the household furniture would
belong to his wife. If she remap
ried and died leaving a husband and
no will all of her personal property,
after payment of any debts shehad
(and expenses of last sickness and
funeral expenses are’ not her debts
unless she bound‘herself in her life
time to pay them) would go one third
to her husband surviving and two
thirds to her children if more than
one. Household property in law
would be treated as any other-per-
sonal property—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

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IQOIISQIISQ -
Everlasting Fire

Mistress (to cook from the coun-
try)—“Well what do you think of
our gas fires?"

Cook—"I think them wonderful
ma’om. ‘Why those in the kitchen
haven’t gone out since I came here
over a week ago.”

 

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Helpful Hints
Borem—“Now. what would you do
if you were in my shoes, Miss Out-
ting?” .. ~
Miss Cutting—“I’d point the toes
toward the front door and give them a
start." '

 

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“And why is he here?” we inquir- .
ed, stopping in front of Padded Cell "
No. 44. . “ . . ~

' “He was a politician and when he
ﬁnally got in autos he really tried to
carry out his campaign pledg‘e’s,”*ro~
plied the attendant. '

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sible? How long would). manhole , im
‘on lumber, left by him on when
he sold to us two and one half your!
from
oaths.

880- We have not seen or heard
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th’is man during the past 18 m

» her or sell it'f—J'. H., Montcalm, Mich.

Sec. 8, of Act 339, P. A. of""1919,

page 605 provides- that any person -

who becomes the‘owner of a dog af-
ter the 10th of "January, 1920,‘that
has not been licensed shall forth-
with apply for and secure a license
for the deg. It is made the duty of

the supervisor when he makes his

assessment to" make a’ list of ‘dogs.
that should be licensed and report
them to the County Treasurer,‘ and
hisduty to check up the dogs licens-
ed with the list ofdogs reported and
to notify the sheriff of such dogs
whose duty it shall be to locate and
kill all such unlicensed dogs. You

. would have no right to the lumber

left on ‘the farm for six years, the
statute of limitations and possibly
not until you had notiﬁed him to
remove the same if there was any
agreement at all about leaving it.—
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

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' GET DEED on FARM

When a person finishes Davin! for I.
farm what should be done. Please ex-
plain clearly about the abstracts and
mortgages—P. 0. Wayne County.

When a purchaser pays for a. farm
he is to receive a deed from the sell-
er. The seller does not have to fur-
nish an abstract unless he agreed to
do so at the time of the contract for
sale. The parties may agree that
after the payment of a certain
amount of the purchase price the
one will give and the other will so—
cept a mortgage for the balance;
but unless such an agreement is
made the purchaser is not obliged to
give one and the seller is not obliged
to accept a mortgage in place of pay-
ment of balance due—W. E. Brown,
legal editor.

 

 

BACKER "OF NOTE HOLDING
My husband now deceased loaned i:

-young man 850, March 18;" 1905.

father backed the note. June 10, 19?&
this boy promised to pay this sum w
interest at 7 per cent per annurm but
did not do it. Left it for his father to
pay. His father. commenced June 10,
1905 to make payments on this note.
He kept making payments on this note
up to Nov. 13, 1915,‘but has paid none
since. He has paid all the principal but
$8.75. As long as my husband lived he
never refused to pay it always ”said he'd
gay every cent of it. Since he died I
ave asked him about the matter and
positively ” refuses to pay another con
of \it. The note is in my possession.—
E. M.. Charlevoix County. 4

I am of the opinion that the guar-
antor is liable‘for the full‘mount
and interest to date of collection. It
does not'outlaw until 6 years after
the last payment—W. E. Breton, lo-
gal editor. .. ’

 

LAWFUL CLAIR!

When I was four years old my uncle
gave me two sheep and doubled them it?
my father. When I was twenty-one
mentioned it to him and he 88.th “0h
never mind I will look after om."
Can I put this in as a claim against thz
estate? I have two good witnesses tho.
heard the transaction—R. D., _Montcalm
County. ,

If the claim has not outlawed I
would consider it a lawful claim
against your father’s estalhe.-—r
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

 

CANNOT COLLECT BOARD .

I would like a little informathn. re-
gard to my father. My brother-in-low
took care of him 8 years. No
ment made whatever. Now be onto
board. Can -_my‘ brother-in-law collect
board bill from us? None of us tel him
to keep father.——Suhsoriber. Clam

You are not "liable for} the board
of your father without an agreement
to pay—W. E. Brooch, legal editor.

 

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~60ndncts work relating to animal
diseases, their control and suppres-
sionhincluding bacterologicai and
pathological investigations . into the
causes and nature of disease. Pro-
duces. and distributes black-leg vac-
cine. Quarantine Division—«Super-
vises work relating to importation
and exportation of live stock, and
importation of hides, skins, wool}
. hair and similar prducts especially
with regard to danger of transmit-
ting infection through these com-
modities. Tick Eradication Division.
Tuberculosis Eradication Division.
Ofﬁce of Virus-Serum Control—-Has
charge of regulator work in the en—
' forcement of the virus-serum-toxin
law aimed to insure a high quality
of commercial viruses, serums, toxins
and similar products for combating
animal diseases. Zoological Division
—-Conducts laboratory and ﬁeld in-
vestigations of animal parasites.

Experimental. and Breeding Farms of
of the Bureau of Animal Industry
In addition to the experiment sta-
tion at Bethesda, Md., where inves
tigations are largely of alveterinary
character, the bureau maintains ex-
perimental and breeding farms at
Beltsviile, Md., Middlebury, Vt., and
Dubois, Idaho. Besides these prin-
' cipal farms it conducts a great quan-
tity of experiments on farms where
the work is handled co-operatively
with other bureaus, as at Huntley,
Mont. and ”New Iberia, La., or with
various stat-es. The Dairy Division
of the bureau supervises the work of
the Grove City Pa., Creamery, where
dairy research results are tested un-
der commercial conditions.
Impbrtant Work Already Completed
Work which the Bureau of Animal
Industry has carried to actual com-
pletion includes:
Discovery of the nature of Texas
or tick fever and perfection of a

method for eradicating the ticks
which carry this fever. Thus far
more than half a million square

miles of formerly tick-infested terri-
tory have been freed from ticks and
released from quarantine.

Practical eradication of tubercu-
losis from live stock in the District
of Columbia, and in addition from
2,200 herds now on the accredited
list.

Discovery of anti-hog cholera ser-
um and methods for protecting swine
from hog cholera.

Improved methods of making tu-
berculin diagnosis of tuberculosis in
cattle and swine.

Complete eradication of pleuro—
pneumonia from the United States,

suppression of foot-and-mouth dis-

ease on six occasions and the gradual
eradication of other serious live-
stock diseases.

Exclusion from the United States
of about 10 serious animal scourges
present in other countries. (Details
of the disease situation are given in

the Department’s 1919 Yearbook,
just published.)
improvement through inspection

and. supervision of methods of hand-
ling export live stock.
Important Work Now in Progress
Among the speciﬁc activities of
practical and popular interest now
being conducted are the following:
Development of an American util-
ity breed of horse.
A ZOFy'ear experiment to determine

how the milking qualities of beef
cattle are transmitted.
Detailed experiment on inbreed-

ing of dairy cattle.

Development of a breed of sheep
about equally valuable for wool and
meat.

Exhaustive experiments in animal
gentics to obtain more definite in-
formation of operation of heredity.

Methods of making Swiss, Reque-
fort, Comemb'ert'and similar foreign
cheeses so that American dairymen
and factory operators may compete
with the foreign trade in these pro-
ducts. This Work is well advanced.

Requirements for milk production
on farms insix typical sections’ of‘ the
United States. This work.~ partly:
completed, consists of observations

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particular reference to the import-
ance of mineral salts in the feed of

high-producing dairy cattle.

Meat inspection investigations of a
For instance, the

varied character.
bureau has experimented with the ef
fect of X—ray on trichinae in pork.

Continuous work is being done on
prob-
lem is especially important on west-

stock—poisoning plants. ' This

ern ranges.
Studies of internal

or growth and development.

Eradication of cattle ticks. tuber-

culosis and many other diseases.

Results in Progress of Publication

have
progressed far enough and have giv—
en sufﬁciently complete information
to justify the publication of results.
Among the more important bulletins
containing these results, which are
in process of publication, are the fol-

Many of the experiments

lowing:

Diseases of Sheep.

Parasites of Sheep .

A Primer of Animal Breeding.
Milk Plant Construction
Equipment. ‘

Principles of Live Stock Feeding.

Hog Lice and Hog Mange.

Feeding Garbage to Hogs.

Cost Factors in Producing Milk in
Northwestern Indiana. (For the Chi-
cago District.)

Besides those mentioned are -a
considerable number of technical
or semi—technical publications. It is
expected that all of the bulletins will
be received from the printer within
the next three months.

Relation Between Research, Experi-
mental lVork, and Extension
Activities

The most successful and direct
method of making results of experi-
ments available to a large number
of farmers is briefly this: When re-
search on any problem gives encour-
aging results the method of applying
the principles discovered are tried in
an experimental way under condi-
tions as near like those of the aver-
age farm as possible. Following ex-
perience gained through the exper-
iment, the method for accomplishing
the desired result is repeated at oth-
er stations and farms of the bureau.
Then when the method is considered
well developed and suitable for gen-
eral application, it is made the basis
for extension work.

This same principle has been used
with success in hog cholera control,
in improvement of cheese making,
poultry'culling and the castration
and docking of lambs. This order of
procedure, namely: first, research;
second, exhaustive experiments; and
third, extension, is used with suc-
cess by many large business houses,
and it appears to be a logical method
of giving new facts to the public. The
extension work of the bureau is sup-
plemented by literature, posters,
lantern slides, motion pictures, and
other mediums of publicity.

Important Policies of the Bureau

Following are a few policies which
indicate the bureau's attitude toward
practical live stock problems:

In disease control, both sanitation
and a high standard of intelligence
by live stock owners need to be en-
couraged in every possible manner.

Farmers may wisely be encouraged
to spend more time, labor and men-x
ey for clean up
work, in proportion to the amount
they now spend for drugs and rem-
edies of various kinds.

Although live stock owners may
successfully treat some of the minor
ailments of stock. it is best for a
farmer's own interest. and especial—
ly for a community, to consult a com-
petent veterinarian immediately
when an infectious. or apparently in-
fectious, disease breaks out.

The double or simultaneous treat-
ment for hog cholera is preferred to
the serum-alone treatment. when the
operator is skilled.

The best policy of eradicating pos-
foot-and-mouth
disease is that off quarantine and
slaughter,"f’tbgether; with compensa-
tior- in wd"‘rsm or indemnity.

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parasites of live stock, particularly
parasites which interfere with prop-

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proﬁt has! not .

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30 ’3' Day“ Guaranteed

Y are safe in ord any
Trial. qgaunﬁw of Milkoﬂnm’aw."
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poultry in a thirty d)? test. then you

ate refund every cent you aid us. We
arelgo conﬁdent that you will End Milkoiine
the best money maker on the farm that the
S. W. Boulevard Bank of Kansas City sub-
gmgiates this 0351'“. Yo:h mkthtoc sole Judge.
en mone er. or so as or out .,
nearest dearer and wewill ship immediately.
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can be operated with any small steam
engine, or medium sized tractor.

Will do excellent work in all kinds
of seeds and

 

your neighbors.
small portion of your time in custom
work to pay for the machine as well
as pager to operate it. 1

~ urnis second hand steam eng nes or
rain (including clover, tractor, to operate same.

Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co.

It will take only a
We can also

We. can ship from stock same day

der is received. Write us for cat-

alog, or. if in a hurry, wire us at our

timothy, alfai a peas. etc.) and is
fully guarantee the same as our
standard size threshers. or
Save your own grain; thresh when
most convenient and accommodate expense.

Port Huron,
Michigan

 

 

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for a greatly augmented force of in-
spectors. Since the number requir-
ed probably will exceed the number
which the bureau can furnish, ar-
rangements for having the work done
to\some extent by private veterinar-
ians seen practically essential.

When a person writes to the de— ‘19
partment for information relating to
the Animal Industry, his letter is 0‘
answered within three days in most
cases. When the best qualiﬁed per-
son to answer it is temporarily in the
ﬁeld, or the letter requires special in-

to

knowledged and the writer is inform-
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Animal Industry employs
mately 2,000 veterinarians, it is able

ing the disease-control
which the bureau was
tended and tor which it was
ally onganised. This tendency in
vestigation for the reply, it is ac- larded ail-constructive and ,
and is being encouraged.

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credited herd plan shows the need supervision and accrediting of voter-r 5
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exert influence in that ﬁeld.
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work in recent years has been to

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breeding. feeding, and general! care:

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“7: u growing crops; level productive
ﬁelds. 75~cow pasture; valuable timber, market
nearby; variety fruit. 400 sugar maples: 2-story
louse. good water nuple shade; 2 barns. loo-ft.
cattle shed; owner’s plans force sale, c\’el;y[.u.l|g
’Cces hr $4,000, only $1,500 msh balance ensv

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ids, Mich, R 5.

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'nnd get better land for less money. ALBERT
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IMPROVED FARMS FOR SALE—OSCEOLA
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liar the farmer. Productive soil. ﬂne climate,
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FRED E. SCHEMER. Rhodes. Rich.

 

 

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
Delivered prices Address "II.
II." csre Michigan Busine- Firming, Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich.

CORN HARVESTER—ONE-MAN. ONE-HORSE,
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BABY ‘ TIER, 00.. Salim, Kan.

 

FOR SALE—CASE 10—20 TRACTOR ll
Reason for selling. Want
CBAFFEE.

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Is Your F arm' for Sale?

Write out a plain description and fl;-
ure 50 for each word. initial or group of
ﬁgures. Send it in for one, two or three
times. There's no cheaper or better w"
of selling a farm in Michigan and you
deal direct with the buyer. No agents or
commissions. If you nut to sell or trnda
your farm, send in your nd today. Don’t
just talk about it. Our Business Farm-
ers’ Exchange gets results. Address
The Michigan Business Farmer. Adv.
Dept. Lit. Clemens.

Government Shoe

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We have purchased
dim-t from the local
camps of the Govern-
ment. over 50.000 pairs
(JENI’INE ARMY
I-‘lTSSET
K'IOES, ASK THE
ilHYS ~'
i‘llEM. Some of
those shoes were re—
pairtedsgn’ txlsltel Govern—
"1"“, 0e ‘ ops; balance we are repairing with
genuine oak leather. Uppers will wear two years.
hoie the followup ﬁgures: New Army Uppers
are worth $1.00: ﬁrst class shoe shops get $3-50
for ‘11.. soles and heels. Tomi $9.50. OUR
lvldl l: $-.i40..' or loss than 1—3 their true value.
lusul $1.00, giving size desired. Balance on de—
lncx'y. Satisfnction gusmnteed. Send orders
to Gor’t Shoe Drpt~ .

KINGSLEY TIRE & SHOE SHOP
Dr'cxel Blvd. & Cottage Grove Ave.. Chicago, Ill.

RESULTS 2

. (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 wayand you will have the
support of every bona ﬂde farmer.

I Cordially yours, .
C. W.- HEIMBACH. ‘
Big Rapids, Mich.

 

     
     

 

    
      
     
        
         
          
           
      
 
  
   
    
   
   
   
  
    
  

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point where it had struck. .j ,
"'If anything comes up I hope. .it

will be big,” Concordia murm’ured

with equal laziness.

And upon their astonished gaze,
even as they looked, arose up out of
the brown depths a. great white
hound. They jerked their poles
up and behind them on the bank,
threw their arms about each‘other,
and watched the hound gain The
shore at the lower 'end of the eddy,
climb the sloping bank, pause to
shake himself, and then disappear
among the trees. '

Nicoya and Concordia giggled.

“Try it again,” Concordia urged.

“No; you this time. And see what
you can bring up.”

Quite unbelieving, Concordia toss-
ed in a clod of earth. And almost
immediately a helmeted head arose
on the flood. Clutching each other
very tight”, they watched the man
under the helmet gain the shore
where the hound had landed and dis-
appear into the forest. .

Again the two Indian girls giggled
but this time, urge as they would,
neither could raise the courage to
throw anything into the water.

Some time later, still giggling over
the strange occurrences, they were e-s—
‘pied by two young Indian men, who
were hugging the bank as they pad-
dled their canoe up against the
stream.

“What makes you laugh," one of
them greeted.

“We have been seeing things,”
Nicoya gurgled down to them.

“Then you have been drinking pul-
que,” the young man charged.

Both girls shook their heads, and
Concordia said:

“We don’t have to drink to see
things. First, when Nicoya threw in
a. banana skin, we saw a dog come
up out of the water—7a white dog
that was as big as a. tiger. of the
mountains—” _

“And when Concordia threw in a.
clod," the other girl took up the tale,
"upscame a man with a head of iron.
It is magic. Concordia and I can
work magic.” .

"Jose,” one of the Indians address—
ed his mate, "this merits a drink.”

And each in turn, while the oth—
er with his paddle held the canoe in
place, took a swig from a square—
faced Holland gin bottle part full of
pulque.

“No,” said Jose, when the girls
had begged him for a drink. “One
drink of pulque and you might be
more white dogs as big as tigers or
more iron-headed men."

“All right," Nicoya accepted the
rebuff. “Then do you throw in your
pulque bottle and see what you will
see. We drew a dog and a man.
Your prize may be the devil.”

“I should like to see the devil,"
said Jose, taking another drain at
the bottle. “The pulque is a’ true
ﬁre of bravery. I should very much
like to see the devil."

He passed the bottle to his com-
panion with a gesture to ﬁnish it.

“Now throw it into the water,”
Jose commanded.

The empty bottle struck with a.
forceful splash, and the evoking was
realized with startling immediacy,
for up to the surface floated the mon-
strous, hairy body of the slain spid-
er. Which was too much for or-
dinary Indian flesh and blood; So
suddenly did both youn men recoil
from the Sight that they captized the
cance. When their heads emerged
from the water they struck out for
the swift current, and were‘swiftly
borne away down stream, followed
more slowly by the swamped canoe.
Nicoya and Concordia had been
too frightened to giggle. They held
on to each other and waited, watch-
ing the magic water and out of the
tails of theireyes observing the
frightened young men capture the
canoe, tow it to shore, and run out
and hide on the bank. .
The afternbon sun was getting low
in the sky era the girls summoned
courage again to evoke the magic
water. Only after much discussion,
did they agree both to flingin clods
of earth at the same time. And up
arose‘a man and a woman—Francis
and the Queen. The girls fell over
backward into the bushes, and were

themselves unobserved ”as they watch-

    

 

  

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have we no power ofimagic.”

Together they threw in clods and
uprose another man and woman. But
this pair, Henry and Leoncia, could
swim, and they swam side by side
to the natural landing place. and, like
the rest that had preceded them,
passed on out of sight among the
trees. ’

Long the two Indian girls linger-
ed. For they had agreed to throw
nothing, and, if something arose,
they would coincidence be prOved.
But if nothing arose, because noth-
ing further was by them evoked,
they could only conclude that the
magic was truly -theirs. They lay
'hidde’n and watched the water un-
til darkness hid it from their eyes:

' and, slowly and soberly, they took

the trail back to their village, over-
come by an awareness of having
been blessed by the gods.

CHAPTER XXII

OT UNTIL the day following his
escape from the subterranean
river, did Torres reach San An—

tonio. He arrived on foot, jaded and
dirty, a small Indian boy at his heels
carrying the helmet of Da Vasco. For
Torres wanted to show the helmet to
the Jets 'and the Judge in evidence
of the narrative of strange adven-
ture he chuckled to tell them.

First on the main street he en--
countered the Jefe, who cried out
loudly at his appearance.

“Is it truly you, .Senor Torres?”
The Jefe crossed himself solemnly
ere he shook hands.

The solid flesh, and, even more so,
the dirt and grit of the other's hand,
convinced the Jefe of reality and sub-
stance.

Whereupon the Jefe
wrathful.

“And ,here' I've been looking upon
you as dead !” he exclaimed. “That
Caroo dog of 8. Jose Mancheno ! He
came back, and reported you dead—-
dead'and buried until the Day of
Judgment in the heart of the Maya
Mountain."

“He is a fool, and I am possibly
the richest man in Panama,” Torres
replied grandiosely. “At least, like
the ancient and heroic conquistadores
I have braved all dangers and pen-
etrated to the treasure. , I have seen
it. Nay ”

Torres’ hand had been sunk into
his trousers’ pocket to bring forth
the ﬁlched gems of the Lady Who
Dreams; but he withdrew the hand
empty. Too many curious eyes of
the street were already centered on
him and the draggled ﬁgure he cut.

“I have much to say to you,” he
told the Jefe, ”that cannot be said
now. I have knocked on the doors
of the dead and worn the shrouds‘ of
corpses. And I have consorted with
men four centuries dead but who
were not dust, and I have beheld
them drown in the second death. [I
have gone through mountains, as well
as over them, and broken bread. with
lost souls and gazed into the Mirror
of the World. All of which I shall
tell you, my best friend, and the hon-
orable Judge, in due time, for I shall
make you rich along with me.”

“Have you looked upon the pulque
when it was sour?" the Jefe queried
incredulously. .

“I have not had drink» stronger
than water since I last departed from
San Antonio," was the reply. “And
I shall go now -to my house and
drink a long long drink, and after
that I shall bathe the filth from me,
and put on garments whole and de-
cent.” .

Not immediately, as he proceeded
did Torres gain his house. A ragged
urchine exclaimed out at sight of
him, ran up to him, and handed him
an envelope that he‘knew familiarly
to be from the local government ~
wireless. and that he was certain
had been sent by Regan. ‘

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. . ,4 e was
intercepted brthe ~old' Mays priest
with whom he had last parted in the
‘Maya mountains, He recalled as
from an apparition, for Sure he was
that the old-man, was drowned in
the Room of the .Gods. Like the Jets
at Sight of Torres, so Torres, stﬁsight
of, the priest, draw back in startled
surprise. - > ' ‘

“Go sway,"‘he said. “Depart, ,
restless old man. You are a spirit.‘
Thy body lies drowned and horrible
in the heart of the mountain. You
are an appearance, a ghOst. Go
away, nothing corporeal resides in
this illusion of you, also would I
strike you. You are a ghost. Depart
at once. I should not like to strike
a ghost." .

But the ghost seized his hands and
clung to them with such beseeching
corporallty as to unconvince him.

{‘Money,” the ancient one babbled;
“Let me have money. Lend me mon-
ey. I will repay-B—I who know the
secrets of the Maya treasure. My
son is lost in the mountain with the
treasure. -V The'Gringos also are lost
in the 'm‘ountainf _ Help me to rescue
my, son. [With him alone will I be
satisﬁed, while, the treasure shall all
be yOurs. But we must take men,
and .much of the white'man’s wond-
erful powder and tear a hole out of
the mountain to drain, the water in
the room where stand the jewel-eyed
Chia and Hzatzl. .Their,_eyes, of
green and red alone will pay for all
the wonderful powder in the world.
So let me have the money with which
to buy the wonderful powder."

But Alvarez Torres Was a strange-
ly constituted man. Some warp or
slant or idiosyncrasy of'thls nature
always raised insuperable Obstacles
to his parting with money when such

.parting» was unavoidable. And the
richer he’ got the more positively this
idiosyncrasy asserted itself.

“Money I" he asserted harshly. as
he thrust the old priest aside and
pulled open the door of~Fernandoz's
store. “Is it I who should have
I who are all rags and
tatters‘ as a beggar. I have no mon-
ey for myself, much less for you, old
man. Besides, it was you, and not
I, who ,led your son to the Maya
mountain. On your head be it, not
on minethe death of your'son who
fell into the pit‘ under thee. feet of
Chia that was digged by your an-
cestors and not by mine."

Again the ancient one clutched at
him and yammered for money with
which to buy dynamite. So roughly
did Torres thrust him aside that his
old legs failed to perform their wont-
ed duty and he fell upon the flag-
stones.

The shop of Rodriguez Fernandez
was small and dirty, and contained
scarcely more than a small and dirty
showcase that rested upon and equal-
ly small and dirty counter. The place
was grimy with the undusted and un-
swept filth of a generation. Lizards
and cockroachcscrawled along the
.walls. Spiders‘Webbed in" every
corner, and Torres saw,’crossing the
ceiling above, what made his step
hastily “to the side. It was a seven
inch centipe'de which he did. not care
to have fall casually upon his head
or down his back between shirt and
skin. And, when he appeared crawl-
ing out like a huge spider himself
from some inner den of an' unventi-
latedcubicle, Fernandez looked like
an Elizabethean stage-representation
of Shylock—withal he was a dirtier
Shylock than even the Elizabethan
stage cOuld) have sto-msched. ‘

The jeweler fawned to Torres and
in a cracked falsetto humbled him-
self even beneath the dirt of his shap.
Torres pulled from his pocket 9.
haphazard dozen or more of the
gems gulchqd“ from the; Queen's chest.
selected the smallest”; and, without a.

word, while at, tiresome timeroturné ’
ing the rest to. his pocket, passed it ' '
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,rch‘ases ' inane by
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Michigan ﬁlir

Changeling Queen, consigned by the
Strickland Estate; of Carthage, New
York. Changeling Queen has two
records above thirty—six pounds, the
better one being 38.9, and she was
bought by Both and Waters of Grand
Rapids. In the Seven day division
‘ she is the highest record cow owned
in Michigan.

The G. L. Spillane & Son Company
of lio ,Michigan, bought the 32.5
pound cow Vale Cornucopia Fayne,
consigned by D. D. Aivtken, and her
daughter Eva Fayne of Cluny, a 24
pound three year old consigned by
R. Bruce McPherson, of Howell.
Michigan. The Spillane Company is
making a ﬁne showing in long dis-
tance work, and there two cows will
be put on semi-ofﬁcial test.

Mr. >W. L. Hoffman, steward of
the Michigan School for the Deaf at
Flint, took back two good heifers.
Pontiac Monica, a sister of Pontiac
Irene, consigned by Pontiac State
Hospital, and Traverse Inka Princess
Weg, a granddaughter of old Trev;
erse Princess Weg, consigned by
Traverse City State Hospital. These
were two excellent heifers, both with
good records and breeding, and will
make a valuable addition to the herd.
The Flint school is one of the last of
the Michigan institutions to be con-
verted to the Holstein idea, having
kept a herd of Ayrshires .until recent-
ly. However, they are starting in
with a very good class of cattle and
the steward says that they have al-
ready increased their milq supply
very materially and with only one—
half the number of cows.

The Michigan breeders were great-

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ly pleased at the .
Aitken as President of the'.Nati0nal
Association for another' year. They
feel that no one was better ﬁtted to
stand at the helm during the troub-
ulous times of the past year and that
no one is better qualiﬁed to go on
during the coming year and help to
solve the problems now before the
organization. ,

A list of the names of Michigan
people who attended the meeting and
sale follows: D. D. Aitken, Flint; G.
L. Spillane, Flint; Walter Hill, Flint;
W. L. Hoffman, Flint; H. G. Spill-
ane, Clio; E. M. Bayne, Detroit; Mrs.
E. M. Bayne, Detroit; Dudley E. Wa-
ters, Grand Rapids; Thomas Waters,
Grand Rapids; Martin Buth, Grand
Rapids; .John Buth, Grand Rapids;
E. W. McNitt, Grand Rapids; M. W.
Willard, Grand Rapids; J. Neal Lam-
oreaux, Comstock Park; John Bull-
endyk, Sparta; Peter Terpstra, Ber-
lin; John Tobin, Allegan; F. D. Cut-
ler, Wayland; H. H. Buckhout, Kal-
amazoo; H. E. Rising, Woodland; B.
Rising, Woodland; G. A. Weed, Lake
Odessa; E. M. Ruehs, Lake Odessa:
Charles Lepard, Lake Odessa; Dr. R.
W. Chivers, Jackson; H. D. Board—
man, Jackson; John Boardman, Jack—
son; Corey J. Spender, Jackson; E.
H. Halsey, Pontiac; J. Wilder, Bay
City; G. B. Pike, Traverse City; L.
Kelsey, Three Oaks; Oscar Wallin,
Unionville; Mrs. O. VVaallin, Union—
ville; S. H. Munsell, Howell; Mrs. S.
H. Munsell, Howell; Frank Witlvtz,
Howell; Frank Wiltz, Jr., Howen;
D. H. Hoover, Howell; A. L. Smith,

 

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‘OOW’S EYES SW'ELL

Would appreciate it if you could tell
me what is the matter with my cows.
Their eyes swell up, get all white mat-
ter and their nostrils run strings of mat-
ter. Just one cow had it in one eye
about two weeks ago and I supposed she
had been hurt in the eye. It all went
away and now all three have it. The
ﬁrst time the cow’s nose did not run.
They are pasturing on a place that has
been used as pasture for years and there
has never been anything like that notic-
ed t~Lfore.—R. M., Saginaw County.

 

Your cows have Epizootic Kerati-
tis; this is a disease aﬁecting the eyes
of cattle from time to time in cer—

tain localities. It is seen usually
during the summer months when the
cattle are on grass. Almost without
exception it attacks every animal in
a herd of cattle which it invades; in
rare instances a few animals may es-
cape the infection. The one ﬁrst at-
tacked in an outbreak usually devel—
ops the disease in a most severe form,
and towards the latter part of the
epiz-ootic the cases become milder
and usually recover spontaneously.
The disease affects cattle only; horses
in the same pasture with the affected
cattle'do not develop the disease,
nor are other animals on the farm af-
fected. In the mild or sub-acute
form the symptoms are conﬁned to
the eyes; in the severe form the an-
imal will show less of appetite and
considerable interference with the
milk secretion; the eyes are only
partly open and the lids appear slight-
ly swollen; sometimes within twenty-
four to forty-eight hours nearly
every animal in the herd is aﬂected.
The treatment of this disease is en-
tirely local, consisting of one per
cent yellow oxide of mercury oint-
ment. A small lump of this ointment
of about the size of a pea is placed
within the lower eyelid and the lids
pressed together a few moments un—
til the ointment becomes warm. It
is then distributed over the interior
surface of the eye ball by gentle
massaging of the lids and the move-
ments of the eye. The animal should
be kept indoors and the stable dark-
ened for a few days. In three to
ﬁve days recovery is complete. In
the more severe form in which the

in character, a solution of zinc sul-
phate of about/a three or four per
cent strength is to; be used; It is

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discharges from the eyes are thick.

ninjas-24 asthma»: um:

Howell; H. D. Box, Lansing; Fred
E. Shubel, Lansing; E. T. Janisee,
East Lansing: H. W. Norton, Jr.,
East Lansing.

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with the owner or an attendant hold—
ing the cow’s head, the person giving
the treatment draws the lower eye-
lid away from the globe, by pulling
on the lashes. About a teaspoonful
of the zinc sulphate solution is then
squirted into the pocket or cup thus
formed, and the lid allowed to return
to its position. This is repeated
three times daily until the symptoms
have disappeared, then follow this
treatment up with daily applications
of the oxide of mercury ointment.—
W. A. Ewalt, veterinary editor.

 

BLOODY MILK

I would like to know how to treat a
cow that has not come around for nine
months after calving. I also have a heif-
er that came in three weeks ago and

she gives bloody milk.-——M. D., Huron
County.
No. 1. I cannot very well ans-

wer this question without having'
some history of the case; did the af-
terhirth come away properly after
calving the last time? I suggest you
have this cow examined by a quali-
ﬁed veterinarian, one who is able to
determine whether or not this cow’s
ovaries are normal. No . 2. Give
this cow We drains Potassium Iodide,
dissolved in about a teacupful of
warm water morning and night.—
W; A; Ewalt, veterinary editor.

 

GET COW WITH CALF

I bought a four year old pedigreed
cow last fall; She was bred when ‘I got
her. She came in heat the 7th of Feb-
ruary May 23rd and'June 12th. I don't
know if me is in calf now. What can
i do for her to get her in cam—H. 8,,
M10, Mich.

 

She may have previously had a
modiﬁed form of contagious abortion
or may have cystic ovaries; a qual-
iﬂed veterinarian, by making a. care«
ful examination, should be able to
determine the cause, and should, by
the use of proper instruments, be
able to treat hen—W. A. Ewalt, vet-
erinary editor.

 

WARTS ON COW'S TEATS

What swill kill the warts on a cow's
teats?—-F. S., Berrien County.

 

Apply Fowlers’ solution of ar-
senic. once a day; also give, animal
one tablespoonful in a little water

 

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Then you are sure of getting true “ aye!
Tablets of Aspirin”—genuine Aspirin
proved safe by millions and prescribed by
physicians for over twenty years. Ac-
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which contains ro er directions to relieve
Headache, Toot ac e, Earache, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand tin
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. g-
gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.”
Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufac-

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Garters and ask your wife to
examine them. She will recog-
nize the superior grade of ma-
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ate the careful, painstaking
workmanship and will under-
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Sheep, Dogs and Poultry, mailed.
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Milan. Mich.

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Selling Purebred Holstein
Cattle is Profitable

Do you realize that purebred Hol-

stein calves bring a very liberal
price? Every day this breed is be-
coming more and more 'known.
Breeders are telling the public about
the value of the milk. The demand
today for purebred Holsteins is
greater than the supply. Here is
opportunity for you to get rich.

Hundreds of calves every year are
sold from $100 to $200 apiece. With
plenty of food and ordinary care

these cattle will average from 350
to 500 lbs. of butter per year. Can
you see opportunity here? Remem-

Aber, “Holsteins are the most proﬁt-
able cattle.’ .
Send for Free Illustrated Booklets.

THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

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OFFERS YOURG SIRES

Yearlings and younger, out
of choice advanced registry
dams and King Korndyke Ar-
tis Vale. Own dam 84.16 lbs.
butter in 7 days; average 2
nearest dams 37. 61, 6 ' near-
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Bulls From an Accredited Herd

HILL CREST FARMS, MUNCON, MICHIGAN
RISINGHURS'I‘ JOHANNA ORMSBY DIMPLE
195068
born Nov 25. 1915.11 offered for sale. His sirf
is by Johanna Concordia Champion 60575 (29
A R. 0. daughters, two 80 lbs. 9 above 20 lbs)
who is by Colanth Johanna Champion 45674
60 A. R. 0. daughters) a son of Colantha 4th's
Johanna, 35. 22. the only cow to ever hold at one
time 11 world's records in every division from
one day to a y.esr His dam, Lindenwood “Dimple
2nd 189424. 27. 33 lbs. butter. 465.30111. milk,
average per cent fat 4. 70. isA by Duke bOrmsby
Pietertjo Do Kol 44764 (10A 0- daughters,
2 above 30 lbs.) and out of Lindenwood Dimple
104 4.601 She has 75 per cent the some breed-
ing as Lindenwood Hope, 30. 61 Write for price

and other information
ED WARD B. BENSON A SONS, Munson. Mich.
A NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL
calf born February lst. Sired b Flint Henv
gerveld Lad. whose two nearest (Isms 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 in
7 days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

 

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L. C. KITILER
Flint. Mloh.

A ORAHDSOR OF
KIIIB OF THE PORTIAOS

that will be ready for service in September
whose own Sister has just made o1er 221113. 1
rzf butter as a Jr. 3 year old and whose Darn
has made over 20 lbs. and we own both of
them and they are due to freshen again in
January and will be bested. This young hull
is well group and a top line that could not
be beat. his Dani's 1 2 sister has just made
"her 30 lbs .

His price is only $150 00.

From a fully accredited Herd.

RAZLEY STOCK FARM. Ypsilanti. Mich.

Address all correspondence to

JOHII BAZLEY
819 Atkinson Ave.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY

of your

DAIRY HERD
by using a

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE

We ha 11 bulls of all ages listed at
reasonable prices.

Also grade and purebred cows
and heifers

MICHIGAN
' HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION
Old State Building Lansing, Mlci1.

MR MI! K PRODUOER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
more PROFIT. pcr cow.

A son of Maplrcrest Application Pontiac——
132652~4rom our hes1'y—yesrly-milking-good-but-
her-record dam will solve t

Msplerrost Application Pontiac's dam mode
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk In 365 days.

a is one of the greatest longy distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove it.

\\ rite 11s for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy farmer.

Pedigrees 11.1141 prim-s on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

BABY BULLS

_ Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsters—~5traight as a line.
big- 1,03de brugged fellows.
senior sire.

ORISKANY PONTIAC
ndual dams of
of blood lines.
Write for our sale list.

BOARDHAII FARMS
JACKSON. MIOH.
Holstein Breeders Since

 

 

 

 

 

 

1906

 

 

 

 

'. , TAKES« A HOLSTEIN IULL
125'00 calf born Nov. 23,1919.

2an marked. Two nearest dams average 22.5
bl! I. see of Alums Pontiac Butter

In. Yaﬂ’lln Oehewelno. Mich.

 

 
 

 

 

36 pound son of KING OF THE

TWO BULL ‘OALVES

bull‘a'dliuled Hholsteln- Fmshn. sired by 80.87 lb.
a role es no one The”
calves are "17 1113.114 9 wm‘bo ’ paced“ cheap it

.0011.
HARRY 'I'. 70.... [MIL Mich.

BUTTER BOT ROSKIIA PRINCE“ .11.

257672. herd sire. son of]! gOna.
In from ,o 80 lb
one you and dun. Butter Boy Bosiria 2nd 200
640. made 29 lbs. and almost 800 lb. in
months. she has I. 83 and 36 1b. sister. Have
some ﬁne young bulls and heifers and some hoif~
ere bred to h fro A. 0. cows with
records from 22 to 80 lbs. Write for {prices
Hemps hire hon {all been. read: reunion
ilts. wheelers for 111T pics.
11 and Pete stallion use lens. In.

.Ame‘Id American bred.
om URLLIV .790! I'll.
III Counsel-.8001. Frees. Calm W. 8.. Mich

FOR SALE

8 NEWER CALVKC.
cue from a to 8 months
8 BULL CALVI8
one ready for heavy service
COW

two with 18 and 20 lb. seven day records. Five
with good proﬁtable cow testing records. Wri
for pedigrees and prices.Be

Herd free from discs
. E. BROWN aelroeclsvlllo, Mich.
Breeder of he]. stock only

11

and
Bo

mwﬂteoutwhst I
mugumheveoteoﬂer“

 
  

WM

Maple Rldce Herd of Bates channel-m
for. for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. all?“ 8
E. TANSW ELL. mu.

For Cole. Mllklng Bhorthol-n Bulls from two to
16 mo. old. Dams civic 40 and 50 lba pol
day. Yearly records kept. ordlintubercu tested
' J‘s." .EWER.R R‘IO, Butt-IO Creek. “loll.

KENTn counrv .1110an launch!
are storing bulls and both!!! for 8910 In

'nSell the scrub and mom
A mus. Sos’y. gallons. 1111.11.
was

’1' DO YOU WANT? .
ORTHORN breeders.
tan with best milk or beef m
ages. Some females. . C. W. Cram.
Central Michigan Sher-thorn Association.
Brides Michigan.
FREEDOM

IIEBEFOIIIIS
Cows with calves at side, open
or bred heifers of popular breed-
ing for sale.
Also bulls not related.

ALLEII BROTHERS

PAW PAW.

younger ones. J.

 

 

 

I represent 41
tﬁou‘n
Poseidon

t
H.-

 

 

 

MIOH.

 

 

 

SOLD ABAIII

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows.s1'red by a son og King One. One is from

17 b. 2 yr. old dam and the other Is from a.
20111. Jr. 8 yr. old dam. she is by a son of
Friend Hengervcld De K01 Butter Boy. one of
the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR" Owoseo, Mich. R 2.

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS 0000

sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyhe Segis” who is a son of
“King of the Pontiscs" from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. W. Sprague, R 2, Battle Creek, Mich.

FIVE HOLSTEIN sbLLs up To 39 Les.
breeding. Good producing dams. Priced to
ell. L. PRITOHARD A SON. Elwell, Mich.

MUSOLFI' BROS.’ HOLSTEIN1

We are now booking orders for
{oung bulls from King Pieter 802's
one 170506. All from A. R. 0 dams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford:

BERNARD FAIRFAX 824819 HEAD OF HERD

20 this year's calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10
heifers.

JOHN MeoGRlOOR. Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

KING IRIPIATER HEADS OUR HERD
We still have eight good bulls and some hen.
ore for sale. Come and see them.
MARION STOCK FARM
Tony B. Fox, Prop.
Marlon. Mich.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Bob Fairfax 495027 .at head of herd. Regis-
tered stock, either sex. polled or horned. mostly
any age. Come and look them or.ve
..EARL C. MoCARTY. Bad Axe.

Nonlsvllle.

 

 

Mlohlosn . .

120 HEREFORD sauna. ALDO
know of 10 or 15 load: flue! Quality
Shorthom and Angus steers 6 to 1000 lbs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to the farmers of Michigan that we
are now ready to supply them with
Canadian bred Shorthorn females
either straight Scotch or Scotch
topped mllkers at reasonable prices.

If your community needs the serv-
ices of a high-class Shorthorn bull,
write us for our Community Club
Breeding plan.

 

PONTIAC’S Heads ohrIIerd

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

HILL CREST FARM.
or write
John P. Hehl.

Ortonvllle, Mich.

181 Griswold 8L. Detroit. Mich.
OUR HERD SIR

MODEL KIIIB SEGIS GLISTA

His sire a 30 lb son of Lakeside King Sula

Alban De K0!
His dam, Ghats Fenella 32.37 lb.
Her darn, Glista Eincstine 35. 96 lb.
His three nearest dams average over 33 1b.
and his forty six nearest tested reia ves average
over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. of!" one
of his sons ready forse
GRAND RIVER SOTOOK FARMS
Corey J. Spencer, Owner. lston Rapids, Mich.

 

REGISTERED H'OLSTEIIIS .2: 1.312.": 1
WM. GRIFFIN. R. 5.. Howell. Michigan

 

 

‘ Established

PALMER BROTHERS .

In 1898 Balding. Mich.

SHORTHORNS FROM AN ACCREDITED HERD

grandsons and granddaughters of Avondale

Maxwalton Jupiter 754193 heads our herd.
JOHN SCHMIDT & SON. Reed CIIY. mob.

SHORTHORIS

5 bulls. 4 to 8 mos. old, all roans, pail fed.
Dams good milkers, the farmers' kind, at farm-

ers‘ prices.
F. M. PIGGOTT & SON. Mich.

 

Fowler.

 

THE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN DRIED-
ers Association announce their fall catalo read!
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and duties
Shorthorns listed. Address

w. L. Thorpe. Gem. Milo. Illoh.

w th credible records We test annu- Owners anxious to sell. Will he] buy ”0
ally for tuberculosis. Write for prlo- commission. C. F Ball. Fairﬂed. Iowa.
on and further Information. ‘ 4
Musloﬂ Bros.. South Lyons. Michigan ANGUS
. SHORTHORN ' . .
W W‘ h A I The Most Profitable Iona
e 15 t0 nnounce of farming. a car load of grade dairy heifers

from LENAWEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro.
ducsrs to include a pure bred ANGUS hull of the
most extreme beef type for combination beef and
dairy farming.

Car lot shipments assembled at GLENWOOD
FARM for prom t shipment.

Methods cxpla nod in SMITH'S P‘ROFII’ABLE
STOCK FEED! ING . 400 pages illustrated.

GEO 8M! TH. Addison. Mich.

BARTLETTS’v-una one session".

ANOUI CATTLE AND 0. LC.

Swine are right and are priced

qpondence solicited and impaction Invitath0
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton, Mich.

 

 

GUERNSEYS
1 BULL, sr. nus.

 

UERNSEYS FOR SALE.
tell Sultan sire Longwater Prince Cliagmant
(18714) 411 R. daughters. 4161b. fat at 1-2
years old. Dan1.Dsgna of llillhurst (35989) A.
R. 548 lb. fat at 2 1- 2 yrs. old. 1 bull calf. 6
mos. old of similar breeding. Also a few fine
heifers of the above bull. It will pay you to
investigate. Prices and edigree on application.
ORGAN BROS., 1, Allcqan. Mich.

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS

ORDER YOUR BULL OALF NOW

for later shipment. Let me send you a real ped-
igree of better bre‘eding.

J. M. WILLIAMS, North Adams. Mich.

 

 

HI VAN DURIN DO. SHORTHORN IREKD-

ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.

Write the score

RANK BAILyEY. Hartford. Mich.

 

 

BIO BOOK 11111er1113

Herd Headed by Johan Pauline Dc
K01 Lad 286554

a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
30 lb. cow and dam of Pauline
DeNijlander (Mich. Champion
two years old.)

Bull calves from dams up to
28 pounds.
Roy E. Fickies, Chesaning. Mich.

'F.

IULLs AND
Mich.

FOR BALE—POLLID DURHAM
Oxford‘l 'Down Roms.
A. DeOARMO. Muir.

 

Shorthorns of Farmers’ Prices

FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL CALVES
under one year old. These are all roam and
choice individuals.

FAIRVIEW FARM
E. Boyd Alma, Michigan
ONLY FEW . LEFT
AT OLD PRICE
BELL. Rose City. Mich. .

Wm. J.
Clay Ired shorthorn bu1T

 

SHORTHORIIS

 

calf

 

 

 

LIVE STOCK

‘s. u. IALL.
FILIX‘WITT

eve-oo- nnnnn one. so. oooooo

Business Farmer.
3:1,], are b0? honest and competent

 

 

we

0

011 no or the other of the above well-known experts will visit all llvo~stock sales of
Importance in Michigan.__ northern Ohio and Indians. as the

oudtbu tornado! of this weskbat sprung“ . purchases.
rite the; in paper. Their serviceis ‘mterrsts also helpsiyou ‘
errangle your Isle. etc. t3." work exclusively thtbe WN 11ch

FOR ﬁALE from a heavy producing dam.

W 8. HUIIR. Olldwin. Mich.

  
 
 

FIELD MEN

.. ..\.

  
   
     
 

Cattle and L Sheep
Horses and swine

on...

exclusive Field Men of The Michigan.
men of standing in their lines“? in Michigan

    
 
  

  

JERSEYS

Highland F arm-Jerseys

Ofi‘egis: Bulls of serviceable age. of 11.0.
Sire and Dam’s with high production records.
Also bull calfs. Write for printed list of prices
and description.

HIGHLAND FARM, Shelby, Mloh.. R 2.

 

 

or Sole—Jersey bull calves.» Oxford and la-
jesty breeding. Dams are heav producers.
J. L. CARTER. R4, Lake 0 out. Mich.

 

MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE
of our Majesty bulls.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. Ionic, Mich.

 

 

~-—eVery
breeder

Can use M. B. E's
Breeder-3’ Directory
to good advantage

”was: have? You

 

 
 

 

 

  

 

   
  
  
 


    
 

 

 

       

  

e magnum IIItIiJIor‘BO days we will an
bulls 'tor service for $100. .Bull calves and
heifer calyes ’for $50. -

FIIIIILAY BROS

' ' SWINE.

POLAND-CHINA

IG BOB MASTODON

Sire was champion of the world, his Dani's
site was arsnd_champion at Iowa State 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 Disli-

 

   
   

sr's 'Giant. 8 boars and 7 sows. Will sell open
or bred or best. “grow, to BIG BOB. ,
c. . as NAN , Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

. LARGE TYPE P. C. » '

A. few choice Dﬂd glib'iornnlo. Also {all glib
and rs, some very'good prospects of excellent

reading. Gilts bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR
ho bf; BIG ORPHAN‘S EQUAL by ID BONE
03? AN by 1316 ORPHA . v Dali
sgaurr's CHOICE by ORANGE sun. by incl
0 ANGIE. A.

Free livery to visitors.
. Wm. J. CLARKE
Eaton Raolds; MioII.
BIG TYPE PO-
land (Ilhinas.

WALIIII'I' VALLEY ..

My 1920 crops will be sired by Giant Clansman
No. 324731, sired by,Giant Clansman and Art's
Progress No. 877041. ‘

A. D. GREGORY, Ionia, Mich.
L. T. P. C.

I have a fine lot of spring pigs sired by Hart's
Black Price, s. good son of Black ‘
champion of the world in 1918.
litter of 7 'pigs, sows and 2 boars,
Prospect Yank, a son of the $40,000
that are sure Humdingers.

F. T. HART. St. Mich.
THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. 0. 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. Perms. Mich.

BIG TYPE

 

sired by
Yankee,

Louis.

 

 

POLAND CHINA!
WITH QUALITY

Nine fall gilts out of litters of eleven and

t rteeii, for sale.
J. E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich.

BIG TYPE P. C. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED-
ing, bred to Big 'Bcno Bone Boulder No. 728.-
672 for Sept. farrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Healthy and growth . Prices reasonable.
L. W. IARN s A SON, Byron. Mich.

BIO TYPE POLAND CHINA BREO GILTS.
one fall boar, spring pigs both sex, and tried
lows while they last.

HOWLEY IR08.. Merrill, Mich.

OARS ALSO SOWS AND PIOG. ANYTHING
you want. Poland Chinas ol the biggest type.
We have brod them big (or more than 25 can:
our 100 head on hand. Also registered urch-
ercns, linlsteins and yxicrds. Everything sold at
a reasonable price. “1‘ a sguars deal.
JOHN c. BUTLER. ortiand. Mich.

‘ FAREWELL LAKE FARM

large type P. 0. Have a ﬁne lot of spring pigs
Clansmsn’s Image 2nd. he ntpost. and
ing's Giant.» I will sell King’s Giant No. 327.-
149. He is '-a real sire. He was ﬁrst prize year-
ling boar at Jackson Co. fair, 1910.
W. B. RAMSDELL. Hanover. Mich.

’ BIG , TYPE POLAIIDS

In introducing our herd we offer choice p123
by W’s Sailor Bob and out of dams by BUS“;
Boy. Long Superba, Smooth Wonder 3rd, an
Orange DesMoiiies. ,I’riced to sell.

W. CALDWELL a SON. Springport, Mich.

L. s P c roun cuoma srnmo sun nu.

boars left. A few extra nica slits

loft bred for April Iarrow
H. O. SWARTZ.

TH ANNUAL P. C.
March 13. 1920.
L‘.'. J. HAGELSHAW.

 

 

 

 

hhooicrsn, Mich.

BRED 80W SALE,
For particulars write
Augusta. Mich.

lg Type Poland Chinas. Am offering three boar

Bpig's at weaning time at reasonable price. Reg-

letered in buyers named Siired by Big Long Bob.
f r edi recs an pr ces.

Write ‘MogE Hence" St. Charles. Mich.

Am Offering Large Type Poland China Saws,

I bred to F’s Orange at reasonable prices. Also
{all ‘ s. Write or call.
SEYDI FISHER. ‘ns. St. Louis. Mich.

 

 

  

8min "vi-p ' by Walt’av
‘Orlol‘i. Flrst'li'.‘ Yoarlldl
Detroit. Jackson, as. 'Rapids and easinaw. 1919
' Phill' B "R" I M’ h
ips ros, iga, IC
PIAOH HILL FARM Duroo sows and gllts sired
by Proud Principal. Romeo Cheri-y King Brook-
water Gold Stamp 7th an Rajah oiit’OI’ dams
by Limited Repair and the Principal IV. Bred to

Peach Hill Orion King and Ba ah Cherry Col-
mwooc snos.. Ron'loo. Mich.

AM SELLIIG DUROGS
August 4th.

Get on mailing list for catalog.

W. C. Taylor, Milan Mich.

nuroc Jersey Souls and Ollts bred for Aug. and
Sept. farmw. 1.000 lb. herd boar.
J08. SOHUELLER. Weldman, Mich.

ounces CzéstIDINO. All! AND
. o. 2. movie. Jonmo. was.

nunocs EXTRA GOOD MARCH BOAR PIGS
b Detander's Cherry King from
BmIWltﬂﬁbf sows. 825' to' 35. red.
a. It. osakmo.‘ Ann Arbor

Dunno BOIARHS. GILES AigbedBROOD sows

o a ages. ows r or open. Now-
ton A Blank. Hill Crest Farms. Perrington. Mich.
Farm 4 miles straight south of Middleton.

OR SALE: ONE DUROC
Brookwater breeding stock.
JOHN CRONENWETT.

 

 

 

 

BOAR FROM
Choice spring pigs.
Carleton, Mich.

D FROM PRIZE
UROC BOARS WINNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-
son, Mich.

M EA DOWV I EW
liogs. Spring
J. E

FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY
Digs for sale.
. MORRIS. Farmlngton, Mich.

OAKLARDS PREMIER GHIEF

llerd Roar~Reference only——-No. 120219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

A few spring pigs left at $25
BLANK A POTTER
Potterville. Mich.

Spring bred sows all sold. Have

nunocs good Sept. pigs, both sex, sired by

Liberty Defender 3rd. from Col. bred dams. Gilts
will be bred to an Orion boar for Sept. furrow.

 
   

~

, or: " does
. 0.. ,
a M'Lmﬂwlﬁ- an

‘14s“

 

“Id at 'm w t . . _
sex. ‘gl‘llteprlloday, ‘ Will inﬁrm you. Eltller

LPH OOSENS. LOVQI‘INQ. Mlﬂhy
HAMi'sm‘iziss ’
BOARS READY FOR SERYIIIE
A 1 red 8

loo 8 ow
w. A. EASTWOOD. Chesaning. Mich.

HAMPSHIHES A rzw ones oILrs LEFT

nd f
blood lines. a all boar pin from new
JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Mlch.. R 4

O. I. C.

o i c mm

BRED FOR SEPTEMBER FARROW
yone guaranteed safe in darn also a few
choice spring pigs. either sex.

F ll BURGESS

Mason, MIch., R 3

,I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE

Choice sow pigs of March furrow. Bloodlines

of the Grand Champions Prince Big Bone and
C. C. Schoolmnster. Write your wants to
CLARE V. DORMAN. Snover‘ Mich.

 

Flno lot of registered 0. I. c. Bred Saws of good
blood lines. Schoolmaster breeding. weighing
250 to 400 lbs. at $60 to $90.
JOHN ODOERFER, Mariette. Mich.

o. I. 033—8 Gholco young boars, March and

April pigs at Weaning time.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe, Mich.

MUD-WA Y-AUSH-KA FARM

offers 0. I. 0. .spring pigs, also special summer
prices on breeding stock in White Wyaiidottes
Barred Rocks. White Chinese Geese and White.
Runner Ducks. No more eggs this season.

DIKE C. MILLER, Dryden. Mich.

sort-reuse chemo sum: rice real

 

   

 

KIDS tensor ' SELL You any Mona
ewes until next ]fall. 'l‘o :nkrne ‘Irl’wneggs'
I can ofl’ r 10 very gom young - ropsire
that willelsmb in April for 8400. Their lambs
contracted tolme should not "1.0“ thanppurchaas
rice next fal .. ., .
p Also. 10 mighty nice ews lambs for 8860.‘
in mi see them.
00.2(3PE‘KON FARMS. Goldwater, Mich.

I AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire
Flock established 1800.

O. LEMEN. Dexter.

. Fan ano‘PSH'BEthaYEhzceI-lslioa and-{1g

write or call on
ARMSTRONG BR08.. R 3, Fowlerville, MIDI.

rams.
Mich.

 

Everything sold out. both ewes and ram

I' am breeding 50 owes to "Stroman 209" an
excellent bi. boned type ram lamb that ‘1
weighed 11 lbs. October 1. Booking orders g,

for 1020 rains. I
OLARK U. HAIRE. West Branch. Mich. l'

 

‘ arr A sues" Lot Amoriosn dilampsm's'
Shoe Association sand on a on y

with “all or breeders. lvme oomronr a.

TYLIR, Ioc'y. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit, Mich.

      
 

' ' I .7
PARSONS ”1",, grmmga
[loll and ship overywbo and no our.

. l
Ems. hmxi'ﬂsiuhi’a:
PABSONS,GrandLodgo.Mich. ml

 

 

 

 

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PET STOCK

BELGIAN HARES-—-YOUNG AND OLD STOCK,
all high bred. Send for prices.
SHERIDAN RABIITRY, Sheridan. Mlch.

l FLEMISI’I GIANTS STEELs AND bLAcKe‘r
from 6 weeks old up.
Also bred does and does with litters. All pedi-
greed and some registered. Must sell to make
room for coming young stock. Write your wants.
F. C. BENNETT. Box 66. Willi-Hilton. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rates for 18 times or longer.
It In type. send proof and quote

rates by return
Advertising Department, Mt.

Oiemens,

 

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Advertisements Inserted under this heading at 30 cents per line, per issue.
Write out what you have to offer and sand

Michigan.

Special
it In. we will put

mail. Address The Michigan Business Farmer.

 

 

 

 

 

H. O. KIEILER. Oassonoils. Mich.
SPRING PIG.

REG Dunno JEnsr

Can furnish stock not akin. Also yearl-
ing sons. Will breed {or early fall litters. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed.

F. HEIMS A SON. Davlson. Mich.

MAPLE LAWN FARM RIO. DUROC JERSEY
Swine. Sows bred to Model Cherry King 10th
{cg Aug. and Sept. farrow. Write me your wants.
ERN N. TOWNB, R 9. Eaton Rapids. Mich-

 

 

! OFFER A FEW WILL-IRID CIA-IOT-
F.X&djlnrlns Duraanoarsthlsc bred 00'! IN
,1 n season. ‘ w
McNAUOHTON a‘ro‘llovcs. as. Louis. Mich.
Dunno GILTS BRED FOR AUGUST FAR-

rnw. Spring pigs either sex.

JESSE BLISS A SON. Henderson. MIGH-

MICHIGANA FARM

Sells Quality Durocs
Friday August 6th.

Bred soWs, boars and open gilts.

All immunized.

Now is the time to start with pure
breds when the hog market is bad
and few are investing. Sell grades
and buy good pure breds at a low in-
itial cost in this our ﬁrst public sale.
Pavilion is in Kalamazoo County
on the main line of the Grand Trunk
R. R. at junction of Kalamazoo
branch.

 

All are invited.
Write for catalog.

0. F. F OSTER. Manager
Pavilion, Mich.

BERKSHIRES

 

 

 

. 1'. P. c. FOR SALE. orniuo rice or
both sex. Sired by Wiley's King Bob the Big
Smooth hind.
JOHN D. WILEY. thOOIoPA“. Mloh.

. . 0. soul! ALL COLD. ORDERS
lights: for boar pigs at weaning time from
Mich. champion herd. visitors always welcome.
E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis. Mich.

DUROCS

DUROO JERSEYS. FALL IOARI.

200 lbs. eagh. Sirod by a 800 lb.
easons. l .

memo: E. DAIIIO A CON. Ashby. Mich.

uroc sows and elite bred to Walt's King 32040
B who has sired more prise winning Dill at the
sate fairs in the last 2 years than any other Dn-

WIIOH‘I’
boar.

LARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRII.
Bred gills and spring pigs for sale.

Osseo, Mich.

 

PRIMEVAL FARM,

ONI 30W TWO YEAR. OLD
BERKSHERE due July 7th, one boar Jan-
uary farrow and (our sows March ‘iarrow for sale.
Best blood lines o! the breed.

ARIA A. WEAVER. Chesaning. Mich.

cnnconr ranu nmnxsumm Iron

tit. Choice stock 201- sale. Write your
err:nts. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.

CHESTER WHITES
GHESTEH “ﬂlTEs ‘9'“. Pill in Pain or

trlos from A-l mature
stock at reasonable prices. Also a few b

 

 

roc board. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns. lush.

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and tall nukes;-
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o. l. c. sows FOR SALE“

ONE OF THE NEST HERD: IN MICHIGAN ‘
mmwlsum. Isidro. 0.1!. m
mamp'ﬁ" want a BIG YPB sow. guaranteed rig‘t rs

. red Gilts
(or May (arrow. F. W. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

‘ 82.00, 50
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POULTRY

ORPINGTONS AND LEGI'IORNS

Two great breeds (or proﬁt. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching eggs, baby chicks and
breeding stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANz. 149 Phllo Bldg.

FOR SAL

 

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.

Toulouse Geese. White Pekin
ducks. either sex. 34 each at once. Old ducks
welsh 10 pounds

cuss: sro'cu FARM. Marietta. Mich.

 

 

LEGHORNS

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS.
hatched Cookerels. Farm i‘unge from

lent laying stock.

J. W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

GRABOWSKE’S s. 6. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Young and old stock for sale.

 

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LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, Mich.. R 4.
WYANDOTTE

liver, Golden and White Wyandottes. Bargains

in surplus yearling stock to make room for

growing birds; Clarence Browning, R2. Portland.

chicks, Lsghorns,
Camplnes, Beds,
Wyandottes. Tyrone

Minoroaa, spanish, Houdans
Rooks, Orpingtons, Brahmas.
Poultry Farm. Kenton. Mich.

B‘BY cﬂlcxs FTgﬂroOla’hligIng PM“

Leghorns,
Brown Lefhnms, $16 per 100. Anoonas, $18
Postpaid. an arrival ranteed. Catalog free.

SUPERIOR HAT HERY. Clinton. Mo.

cchKs ROSE AND SINGLE COM. R. I.

Rods, Barred Plymouth Rocks, $18
per 100.. $0 per 50. $4.75 per 25, prepaid and-
Sflfi‘ delivery guaranteed. Catalog free. last
batch July 27th.

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4, Lawrence. Mich.

 

 

HATCHIN G EGGS

FOR SAL HATllHlllB Elias

FROM A HEAVY LAYt
nig strain of S. C. It. 1. Beds at $2.00 per set-
ting of 15 eggs. $10.00 per 100.
’stook of excellent type and

 

quality at all
es. ,
Satisésction guaran

teed.
HEIMO A SON. Davison. Mich.

 

. 0. BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS.
each. White Pekin Ducks. $2 each.
MR3. CLAUDIA BETTS, HIIIsdan. MIch.

$1

 

white Wyandottes, Dustin’s Strain, culled by ex-
perts for utility, size and color. Eggs 15 for
or more 10c each. by mail prepaid.

ANO‘FARM. Hartford. Mich.

LANGSHAN

BLACK LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. F‘irst priz‘e cool
at International show at Buffalo, Jan. 1912. Eggs
$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DR. CHAS. W. SIMPSON. Webbervliie. Mich.
BABY CHICKS
CHICKS—CHICKS

5,000 chicks every Tuesday in July. Grand

laying strain S. C. White Legliorns at $13 per

100; 87 for 50, full count, lively chicks at
your door. Also Anconss at $15 per 100; 88
for 50. Satisfaction guaranteed. Eleventh sea-

son. Order direct. Cam
Y.

long free.
HOLLAND HATCHER 7, Holland. Mich.

A New Book on

PRACTICAL SHEEP. HUSBANDRY
.--BY-- ’ I
Wm. A. BURNS

A nicely illustrated book on prac-
tical methods of producing, feeding

and fattening sheep and lambs for
market.

Sent postpaid on gecoipt oi! price,
0

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BOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN EGGS FOR
sale. One fifty per ﬁfteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality

guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUOH. Goldwater. Mich.

zoos ron‘ HATOH-
ing from selected layers, 82 per 15. prepaid.
Pens. $16 to 2

S 5.
FRANK OoLONG. R3. Three Rivers. Mich.

BABBED nocK maturing stock from heavy

laying strain. 32 per 15. 5 per 45 by prepaid "
parcel post. It. (1. Kirby. R1. East Lansing. Mich.

“ATCHING EGGS—PLYMOUTH ROCKS (ALI.
varieties) White Wyandotte, Ancona and Ron-
en Rucks. Catalog 2c.

SHERIDAN POULTRY YARDS, Sheridan, Mich.

s. . AND R. 0. BROWN LEOHORN £00.
for hatching winter layers, 81.00 for 18.
EVA TRYON. Jerome. Mloh.

 

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yearling ewes and

HAMPSHIRE SHEER:

     
  
    
    
   
   
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    
 
  
      
      
     
    
  
     
      
  
      
  
       
  
   
   
    
     
   
    
  
   
  
  
   
    
    
   
        
  
      
    
   
 
   
 
 
     
   
   
  
   
  
 
 

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