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Our reasons for taking in this additional cap-

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our friends who have followed this weekly and the
work it hasrset out to accomplish for the farming
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NEW BUILDING—The building at 54—58 North
Avenue, Mt. Clemens, which we have occupied in
part since 1916, became the property of this om—
pany through purchase on contract covering a per-
iod of seven years, in May, 1920. This will give
us facilities for the storage of roll paper stock in
several months advance of our needs, allow ample
and light work rooms for our printing departments
and ample office space for editorial, advertising
and circulation departments. It will allow us to
develop, if we so desire, an extensive job printing
department in connection with our publication
work for which we already have the necessary mar
chinery.

PAPER CONTRACT—We are extremely for-
tunate in having closed at the beginning of this
year with the largest paper makers in America.
from whom we have purchased for several years
our roll stock in car-load lots, an advantageous
contract which will guarantee us an adequate sup—
ply of this precious material. We have on hand
at this writing a very large quantity of good qual~
ity paper stock none of which cost within 50 per
cent of what it is worth on the market to-day. This
paper has tied up an amount of our capital and
credit which we must secure from some other
source if we are to continue to take advantage of
the contract we have.

RAPID PROGRESS—You are familiar with the
rapid progress which this weekly has made since
its founding, as an independent weekly in 1917.
The strength of a publication is measured exactly
by the number of its loyal friends and we will
leave it for you to judge the present circulation
or “good-will" value of THE Mrcnman anmnss
Fm It has not been easy sledding over these
war years with a new paper, but our advertising
receipts for the first six months of 1920, were just
50 per cent in advance of last year, while our cir-
culatiou receipts for the same period showed a
gain of 26 per cent, or a net gain from all sources
over 1919, of 34 per cent. The net earnings for
this period amounting to more than the total net
earnings from the ﬁrst issue in 1917 to the end of
December, 1919. ,

A DOUBLE INVESTMENT—While we know
that your investigation of our balance sheet
and your knowledge of the growth _ of our
business. will justify your conﬁdence» in this pre-
ferred stock issue which we offer at this time, we
want you to feel too, that you are makng a double-
investment. Tm: 110mm Business Faun: is
more than a business without a soul or a purpose,
it is an institution which we dedicated from its
ﬁrst issue to “the needs of ALL the farmers of
Michigan !" It has no creed. nor politics, sponsors
no single farmers' organization but believes in ALL
that are working for his welfare. Particularly
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we hope you will know that you are not onlymsk-
ing a good investment for your money, but giving
a boost to a Michigan imtltution working a service
for this state, the value of which you are best able
to judge. \

TEE’PBESENT- OFFERING—From all the
above you might take it that we had sev‘eral hund-
red thousand dollars to raise. As a matter of fact,
we need just TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL-
LARS ($26,000), which we have decided to issue
as a Preferred Stock, paying Eight per cent (8%)
semi-annually or cumulative if any dividend is
passed. «The preferred stock is a prior claim to
all dividends and to the business and property it—
self, over the common stock and the dividends of
8 per cent per annum MUST be paid in full on the
preferred stock before the common stockholders
can secure one penny in dividends. It must be re-
deemed by the company on June 2nd, 1940 at par.
The company, however, believing that it will de-
sire to retire this preferred stock after a few years.
reserves the right to buy it back at a premium« of
50¢ per share or 5 per cent premium on a share
of :10 par value, after three years from date of
issue. This means that if the company at the end
of even live years should decide to buy back this
preferred stock. they would have to Day you $10
per share, plus accumulated dividends at the rate
of 8 per cent per annum, plus 5 per cent or 50¢
per share, which would, if bought back within a
live your period amount to 9 per cent per annum
on your investment.

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and paper stock of the company is to-day appraised
in value at $45,000. or nearly double the entire
amount of this preferred stock issue. This does
not take into consideration nor attach any value
to the circulation and good will of the publication,-
Tns Missions BUSINESS Fumes, its franchises
branch oilices and advertising contracts, which, as
you can imagine are very valuable and would sell
as a going-business at a high ﬁgure. It is on all
the property of the companythat this $25,000 has
a prior lien over the common stock and when it is
understood that the common stock is owned by the
publisher, editor and those actively interested in
the direction of the company’s business, it is ob—
vious that the management will always be so con-
ducted that neither the preferred nor common
stock will be in jeopardy.

A CIOSING WORD—We hope to have only
friends and readers of long-standing among those
fortunate enough to get a block of this stock issue.
We hope that it will be scattered into every county
in Michigan. For this reason we will sell it in
blocks of ten shares or more at $10 per share, while
it lasts. Payment to be arranged for on a. mutual-
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Aug. 17-20—~Cass City . . . . . Tuscola
Aug. 17-20—Ionia . . . . . . . . . .Ionia
Aug. 23-2 7——Caro . . . . . . . .‘Tuscola

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Aug. 31-80;). 3—Bad Axe. . .Huron
Aug. 31-Sep. 3—Howell, Livingston
Aug. ill-Sep. 3—Ithaca . . . .Gratiot
Sep. 1-3——1Montrose . . . . . . Genese‘e
1-3—_——West Branch . . .Ogemaw
3-6—Norway . . . .Diclrinson
2-4—Pickford . . . . .Chippewa
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. 7-10—Petoskey
. 7-9—-Sault Ste-Marie Chippewa-

Sep 13-18—Bay “City . . . . . . . .Bay ..
Sep. 14-17-—Cadiliac . . . . . .Wexford
sop. 1‘4-18——-‘Croswell . . .  .Sanilu
Sep. 14-17—Davison . . . . .f . Geneseo
Sep 14417—East Jordan Charlevoix
Sep.14-17-——Evart . . . . . -. l. -Osceoln.
Sep. 14-17—Holland . . . . . . Ottawa
Sep. 13¢18-Jackson- .‘ . . . . . Jackson ,:
Sep. 15-18—Milford . . . . . . Oakland
Sep. 14-16—Newberry . . . . . ..Luce
Sep. 14-17—0nekama . . . . Manistee
Sep. 15-17——Iron River . . . . . . Iron
Sep 15-17—Ludington . . . . . Mason
Sep. 14-17—Wa1verine . .Cheboygan
Sep. 14-17—St. Johns . . . . . .Clinton
Sep._, 14—17—Stephenson Menominee
Sep. 15-18—Wolverine . .Cheboygan
Sep. 17—0tia . . . . . . . . . . .Newaygo
Sep. 20-25—Adrian . . . . .Lenaweo
Sep. 20-24—Camden . . . . . Hillsdale
Sep. 21-24—Big Rapids . . .Mecosta
Sep. 20-24——Centerv_ilie . .St J oseph
Sep. 21-2 4—Escanaba . . . . . . Delta
Sep| 21—24—Harrison . . . . . . . Clare
Sep. 21-25—Hart . . . . . . . . . Oceans.
Sep. 21-24—Manistique Schoolcraft
Sep. 21-24—Marshall . . . . .Calhoun
Sep. 21-24—North Branch . .Lapeer
Sep. 21-25-—Ann Arbor Washtenaw
Sep. 20-24—Traverse City, Gd Trav.
Sep. 28-Oct. l—Bellslre . . .Antrim
Sep. 28-Oct. l—Berlin  . . .Ovttawn
Sep. 28-Oct. 1—-Charlotte . . ...Eaton
Sep. 28-30—Geylord . . . . . . . Otsego
Sep. 28-Oct 1.—-—Hartford Van ,Buren
* Sep. 27-Oct. 2-—Hiilsdsl‘e % Hillsdale r‘
Sep. 28-Oct. 2—Houghton Houghton
Sep. 28—Oct. l—Imlay City_. .Lapeer
Sep. 29-Oct. z—Northville . . .Wayne
Sep. 27-Oct. 2—Saginaw . . Saginaw
Oct. 5-8—Armada . . . . . . . .Macomb
Oct. 5-8—Fowlerville . . .Livingston

MICHIGAN JERSEY cams CLUB *"

‘ The annual summer meeting of
the Michigan Jersey Cattle Club will
b9 held at the Agricultural College,
East Lansing, on August 11, 1920.

This will be a big day for all lov-
ers of the “Fame.” The program
promises to be one of the liveliest

and most enthusiastic ever. “pulled: 
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oi!" by the Club. . Fellow
Breeders ! August 11th will-be your
day. If you any at home. it will do
you very little good. By spending
it at East Lansing you will help
yourself and every other Jersey breed-
er, because you will thereby boost
the Jersey cow; and “boasting” the
Jersey cow is one of the most hon-
orable works that man has 'ever been
endowed with the privilege of doing.
Doing good deeds is the essence ol
life. Do not miss this opportunity.
Come and enjoy a whole day of J er.
sey enthusiasm. It will lengthen
your life and make the balance of
your days more worth while. Check
the date, August 11th. on your cal-
endar.~AlTrcd Ream, Sec"
Treat, Nicklaus Jersey Cattle Club.

FARHBBS' CLUBS PICNIC
' The m hrmers' Clubs picnic
willheheldAag.1thsttheM.A.0.
last Inning in connection with the
meeting given by the College on that
date. Program will be furnished by
the College and will be along educa-
tional lines to the farmer. Everyone
is invited. p
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EPRESENTATIVES of farm bu-

reaus of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,

.. Minnesota, Nebraska, South Da-
kota. Kansas, Missouri and Iowa
rubbed elbows with the Michigan
State Farm Bureau officers last week
at Lansing and discussed a. program
of action which if carried out will
revolutionize the marketing of all
farm products..

The conference was aroused to
great enthusiasm by Aaron Sapiro,
attorney for a dozen or more cooper-
ative organizations in California,
and who according to an agricultural
writer, “is so saturated with co—op-
oration that if you stick a pin in him
a certain amount of co—operation
oozes out.” Sapiro was the gentle-
man Who spoke in behalf of the bean
growers' committee who went to
Washington last fall to ask for a
special tariff on beans. At that time
he made a presentation of the bean
growers’ case which Claud Kitchin,
former Democratic minority leader,
said was the best of any that had
been made before the committee.
Sapiro has spent his years studying
co—operative law, organizing co-op-
erative associations and defending
them in the courts.

At both the Chicago and Lansing
meetings of farm bureau men Sapiro
revealed some of his views on a na-
tional marketing organization con—
trolled by farmers. He said:

“The big speculative grain com—
panies have representatives in every
grain producing country in the
world. They gather information for
their own use. They give out only
such portions as may help them win
the particular gambling operation in
hand. You county elevator manag-
ers sell on this colored information
that the speculators give you."

“In the 226 pages of testimony be-
fore the congressional hearings on
the price of wheat there is not a
word from any grain grower. Here
is a statement by J. Ralph Pickell,
saying that Australia has 250,000,—
000 bushels for export. President
Gates of the California Board of
Trade, in his inﬁnite superior wis-
dom guesses that Australia has 210,-
000.000 bushels to export. Con-
gressman Haugen has ﬁgures to show
that it will be 45,000,000 and along
comes Julius Barnes and says they
are all too high. Mr. Gates poses as
a prophet. statistician and economist
all at once, but if his reputation is
to be estimated from these state-
ments he is~not worth two cents on
the dollar.

“The Board of Trade is absolute-
lv unnecessary. Ye gods, why should
a“ co-operative elevator assomation
r'rint a seat on a gambling exchange?
We do not need to ﬁght the board
of trade. We can just quietly take
away its customers.

“Here is the way to do it, based
on our successful California experi-
ence- "In the first place, We must. co-
operate on the American plan and
no“ on the English Rochdale plan.
We must organize by commodity and
not by locality. We must have a
grain marketing association in every
1min producing state, organized
W"h0ut capital stock, because no cap-
“:il stock is necessary. The local and
terminal elevators should be owned
lw a separate corporation, organized
on the co—operative principle and
w'th both common and preferred
stock. The common stock should be
held'by the marketing company, so
as togive it the voting power in the
elevator company; The preferred
szock‘ will, have no voting power; and
can be,,sold,toanyone. ‘ ~

“The elevator company will'do no
marketing. It will simply depths
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tract with at least 51 per cent of the
grain growers in the state, turning

over to it for five years all the sur-,

plus grain grown by these farmers.
The marketing company is then
ready to do business.

The Same Price to All

i “All grain should be pooled by
grade and variety, and all growers
should share equally in the proceeds.
For instance, when. all the 'No. 1
Northern’spring wheat is sold and
the expenses paid, each farmer who
furnished wheat of that grade will
be paid his share of the proceeds.
The, price per hushed will be exact-

ly the same to each grower. That
is true co—operation. As it is now,
one grower gets $2.20, one $2.30,

and one $2.40. When the co-opera-
tive elevator completes its year's
business it declares a pro rata divi-
dend, but the man who sold at $2.40
gets just as much as the one who
sold at $2.20. That is the English
Rochdale plan, but it is not true Am-
erican co—operation.

“The grower will be given a cer-
tain agreed advance onihis grain as
soon as it is delivered to the elevat-
or. In all probability, this advance
will be greater than the entire price
he receives now. The elevator com-
pany will issue warehouse receipts to
the marketing company, and with
these warehouse receipts, which will
be bankable all over the world, all
the money necessary to ﬁnance the
advances can be obtained.

“If possible, the plan should be
carried a step farther. A national
marketing company should be form-
ed. Each state company should have
one man on the board of directors of

‘ the national company and one addi-

tional for each 50.000 bushels of
grain upder contract. The state
companies will then contract to fur—
nish their grain to the national com-
pany, which will do the actual mar-
keting.

“I would have the national com-
pany set the price of grain, taking
into consideration. the cost of'produc-
tion and world supply and demand.
It will control enough grain so that
it can make its price effective. I would
have the interests of the public pro-
tected by including on the board of
directors with full voting power,
representatives of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the Federal
Trade Commission. You never heard
of the Armour Grain Company or the
United States Steel Corporation do-
ing that, -did you?

“But the farmers will have abso-

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lutely nothingto cover up. They,

want only a "fair honest profit and a"

stable market. The public can’t ob-
ject to that. There are no legal ob—
jections to the plan I have suggested
cod no laws need be changed to put
it into operation.

“In case ,of overproduction in any
year. it will be necessary to storo
some and perhaps to cut the acre-
age the following year. much can
be done in founding new markets.
China, India and Japan hardly know
what wheat is. An advertising ex-
pert told me that .by spending half
a million dollars in advertising, he
could increase the world consumption
of wheat 100,000,000 bushels a year.

"The national marketing company
will need to have departments of
transportation, statistics, grading
and warehousing, each in charge of
the best expert that can be hired. The
collection of statistics is especially
important. The directors of our
fruit exchanges on the Paciﬁc coast,
for instance. know more about all
conditions affecting the supply and
demand of their commodities than
any other group of human beings in
the world.”

What California Did

Sapiro drives home his grain mar-
keting plan by quoting the experi-
ence of the California fruit growers.
The raisin industry was in a bad way
in 1909, when there were more fore—
closures- than in the entire period
from 1911 to 1920. They organized
along the line suggested for the
grain growers and now the directors
meet, says Sapiro, not to accept a.
price from the board of trade, but
to ﬁx their own price. They
their marketing director $30,000 a
year, and he has run the raisin spec-
ulators out of California.

“The 1911 raisin crop was sold at
about 2 1—2 cents a pound—~less than
the cost of production. The associ-
ation sold the entire 1912 crop and
20,000 pounds carryover from the
preceding year at 3 1—2 cents, and in
one year changed the raisin industry
from the sickest to the most pros-
perous in the United States.

"This and the other co—operatlve
marketing associations in California
have brought unheard-of prosperity
to the farmers of California,” says
Sapiro. “They have made the Uni-
versity of California the second larg-
est in the United States. They have
made possible splendid farm homes,
and farm living on the 1920 scale.
Bankers and business men are all
back of the farmers’ companies, for

“Get Into Politics” Urges State Farm Bureau

LTHOUGH the Michigan State Farm Bureau is not in panties. it
has something to say on the subject, and it is something that .is
of much interest to the urban population of the state as it is to

the 75,000 farmers. who are members of the bureau.

The state has

been circulaer and the farmers urged not to neglect voting at the
August primaries. The advice follows:

“Presidential, congressional and general state .olectiou is "just
aheadoquaudtheresultsofitarebouudtohaveaﬂtaliuﬂuonee

on national and state policies for sometime to come.

Numerous candi-

dates are in the ﬂeld——some worthwhile and some not so good. It is
not the purpose of the farm bureau, with its thousands of members, to
interest itself especially in drawing lines between these candidates, as
their own constituents, if they exercise their privilege of the ballot. aud
with a knowledge of their personalities and qualiﬁcations, can do this
better than the farm bureau or any other organization.

, “But unless those aforesaid constituents are keenly alive to their
duty, the farm bureau will be seriously handicapped in its attempts,
along whatever lines they may be, to secure enaament of mandatory
or new legislation that will be of agricultural beneﬁt or worthwhile
from the viewpoint of the common weal.

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handle the crop of 19224-40 machau?
dise grain instead of dumping. it.
Give this plan one year and good :
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National \Vool Pool

President Howard of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation an-
nounced that deveIOpment of a wool
pooling system, similar to the cen—
tralized system established in Michi-
gan and a few other mid-Western
states this year, on a scale that will
embrace practically all of the large
wool producing states another“ year
would be pushed vigorously as part I
of the national organization’s pro- :
gram. Unity in extensive advocation
of the merits of the “truth in fabric”- "
bill now before congress, which pro- '
vides for the compulsory labeling by i
manufacturers of the percentage of
shoddy in cloth was agreed upon.

I The seed department of the Mich—
igan Bureau, with its features of pro-
tection for individual farmers in
guaranteeing quality goods was look~
ed upon with favor and representa- ‘
tives'of several states went home de-
termined to establish machinery that
would operate similarly in their ter-
ritories. The Michigan department
handles no seeds that are not guar-
anteed as to quality, and arrange-
ments are effective in the majority
of the organized counties in the state
whereby each county takes care of
the home demand with home grown
seeds, calling upon the state depart-
ment only for extra supplies. The
plan also provides for the marketing
of each county’s surplusage of seed
through the state department. In
the purchase of west alfalfa and
clover, considerable of which is be-
ingdone this year the original grow-
er is called upon .to guarantee the
quality of his product by afﬁdavit

Tidewater Project . '

That the mid-west, agriculturally at
least, is solidly in back of the proposed l
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence to the sea '
waterway movement was indicated by "I
the reception given the description of ~
the plan by Charles P, Craig of Du-
luth, secretary of the national associ- '4
ation, which is urging this develop- 3'
ment Craig pointed out how millions 
or dollars may be saved farmers of 0‘ .
the mid-west in handling of grain if 5 ‘
the commodity may be loaded in ocean ‘
carriers at Great Lakes ports and
moved directly to foreign matte, elimv
inaﬁng the present long and expens-
lye railroad haul from the midwiest
to the ports on the Atlantic seaboard. '
He predicted that the favorable senti-
ment prevailing in his county End in
Canada. will make possible the scour;
ing of appropriations that will 
mit the starting of the development:‘
work on the waterway in 1922. .1 -

“Upon motion 9f President Leouand
of the Illinois Agricultural 
tion the meeting endorsed the action
taken at the recent grain produ‘ 
conference held in Chicago and voted
to support President Howard in his
selection so! a committee represent}?
tire of all grain producing sect!"
that will study conditions with a v
to working out,ways and meals?!
the uniﬁcation of grain mark ‘ "
methods in vogue in different 

n was with interest that thou
ing learned from Mr. Howard that-{K5,

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,took me to the very top story of a
my ofﬁce building in Washington.
, I Wanted to see this warrior—this
man who fought the battle of the
farm boy and farm girl, the -farm
 woman, and the .farmer himself.
Quite naturally, I expected to ﬁnd
2a. typical ﬁghter, a man lean
 ’- frame and strong of jaw; a man of
 steady eye and brief, curt address.
' 'But when a door opened and I step-
. pedinto the ofﬁce of Dr. A. C. True,
Director of the States Relations Ser-
vlice, United States Department of
Agriculture, I met a man who had
none of those marks which' denote
the warrior—excepting, perhaps, the
eyes, which were steady and direct in
their gaze. The man looked more
like a scholar than a ﬁghter; yet I
had another’s word for it that he
was a winner of battles.

But was that all that my inform-

ant had said on the subject?,Wasn’t
there another phrase? Oh, yes! “He
wins the battles ‘without ﬁghting
them!" That was the rest of the
sentence} the qualifying statement
that, helped me to reconcile this
scholarly appearing man with his
reputation of accomplishment. “Win—
ning battles without lighting them i”
Strategy instead of force of arms.
Didn’t a great general say that more
battles are won by marching than
ﬁghting? Haven’t history's greatest
soldiers been scholarly men? ,I be-
gan to understand.

Dr. True is not a ﬁghter in the
sense of plunging against obstacles;
rather he is a diplomat
and wins his point by
clearing away the trouble-
making barriers. He has
great faith in common
counsel, mutual under-
standing, and broad—mind-
ed co—operation. In the
days W Dr. True was
beginning the task that
was to be his life work he
was often met by strong,
sincere opposition from
men or from organiza-
tions. When this occur-
red, did ‘he rave and rant
‘and antagonize? Indeed,
he did not! He gave his
opponent credit for a sin-
cerity equalling his own,
and then set about to ﬁnd
why their “minds did not
meet," as the lawyers
would put it. Nine times
out of ten he found the
obstacle, nine times out of
ten it was only the confus-
ion of two minds striv-
ing for the same worthy
goal, ’but approaching
along different paths, and
nine times out of ten he
succeeded in clearing the
misunderstanding away
and enlisting the support
of his one-time opponent
.In the great cause for
which he worked—the el-
evation of agriculture to
its true rank as a profes-
sion, and the enlisting of
effective co-operation of
all worthy forces to this
end. .

Dr. True was educated at Wesle-
’ yan University, graduating from that
institution in 1873. He attended
Harvard University from 1882 to
1884. His education was classical
and scientiﬁc, though it proved to be
admirably adapted for the service he
was to perform. Hris interestin ag-
riculture came later, when the es-
;tablishment of agricultural experi-
ment stations and the development of
e land-grant. colleges opened the
our to professional training in ag—
tz-riculture. Dr. True’s,wo-rk, after he
;left college, was that of teaching, but
,he was soon called to Washington to
{organize and' edit the Experiment
'-‘Station Record, whichis now,recog-
nixed as the most complete review of
scientiﬁc investigation in agriculture
in the'worldt This was in 1889, and
in that-time on Dr. True's .eifort
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 organizer of: a Nation-I'Wide-‘Spstemiy‘ » p ‘ h g ‘_ A v: - - .   a
Economics is Dr. A. C. True, Director'tjf“_the Slates?   '

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' HIS is the second of a  of articles this publication is  v
in co-operation 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 rdandering and stands ready to
render our readers that these not now availing themselves .of these

services may _do so.—rEditor.

 

 

establishing agricultural research on
a sound scientiﬁc basis, putting agri-
cultural subjects in pedagogical form
—shaping the science of agriculture
so that it could be more effectively
taught in American colleges and
schools—and making agriculture a
recognized, honored, and useful pro-
fession.

“Judge a carpenter by his chips"
is a homely way of stating the great
truth that a man must be judged by
the work he has done. 'Dr True has
heaped his bench with the right sort
of chips. His tool has been the
Ofﬁce of Experiment Stations and its
enlarged successor, the States Rela-
tions Service of the Department of
Agriculture, and here are some of
the ﬁnished products turned out by
this bureau under his direction.

It has helped greatly to bring
about the present system of agricul—
tural experiment stations, which is
“unsurpassed in the world for its
efficiency and practical usefulness to
agric‘ulture." '

It has been influential in putting
the subject matter of agriculture and
home economics in teachable form for

Guam and the Virgin Islands—is also
being developed and made more
nearly self-sustaining by the 'work of
the service.

It has made important contribu-
tions to the scientiﬁc and practical
knowledge of the economical and ef-
ﬁcient use of the products of agri-
culture and to the subject of home
economics in general through its in-
vestigations relating to foods, diet,
clot-hing and household equipment,
work and management:

To the inquiring person, Dr. True
will probably emphasize especially
the contribution of the States Rela-
tions Service toward making: the
science of agriculvturelan accepted
course in American educational in-
stitutions, but you will ﬁnd many
men high up in farming affairs who
hold this accomplishment second to
that of organizing and developing
station work under the Hatch and
Adams Acts, or the co-operative ex~
tension work in agriculture and
home economics under the Smith-
Lever Act. In the latter case there
was a new idea in agricultural ed-
ucation to be tried out on a. bread

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~ The ‘ideagof' service" to
 - the farmer isithemutive »
[back of‘every projects of the 90f '
.‘Agri'c‘nlture is ' expressed by V the
.rz‘Stat'es Relations service, .mcstly. in
terms of agricultural and home dem;
onstrationr agents—‘fm‘en and Women
county agents.” The department
aims to have one each of—these-use-

"fulicitizens in everycounty in the

United States. At present, the score
shows one-third of the total number
,of'countiestsup-plied with both, one-
third with men agents only, and one-
third 'w-ith none at all. ‘ The battle is
not yet won—there is still much to
be done in the way of organizing the
co-o-perative ' forces throughout. the
country, and training men and we-
‘men for the very exacting work of
the profession, but the Doctor is.
steadily scoring his quiet victbries,
and he will win for his idea, if there
is any virtue in, straight thinking,
clear vision and unwavering faith in
the cause he advocates.

Dr. True’s relations and recre-
ations are what one might suppose
,them to be—travel, trout ﬁshing and
botanizing. He loves
vacation in the beautiful Cham-
plain country ovaermont, where he
ﬁnds ample opportunity to indulge in
his pastimes. His Vermont neigh-
bors remember instances when, with
the hay out, and a summer storm ap-
proaching, they have welcomed the
appearance of the scholarly volun-
teer‘and his pitchf'ork. In these
tasks as well as in the greater work
of the office he holds in the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Dr. True has
been as loyal in nature as he is True
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Dr. A. 0. True. Dlreoter, sum Relatlons' Service. 0. 8. Department of Aorlculture. In his ofﬁce Itwuhlnaton,

the use of agricultural colleges and
lower schools. -

It has helped the masses of farm.
people, who could not go to college,
through the educational extension
work in agriculture and home eco-
nomics carried out by the county ag-
ricultural agents, home demonstra-
tion agents, club leaders, Specialists,
farm bureaus, and publications.

A widespread revival of the pro-
ductio'n‘and conservation, 'by can-
ning and‘other means, of fruits and
vegetables for home-consumption is
a notable achievement of the exten-

, sion workers of the service:

Alaska owes its agricultural awak-
ening to the service, and hardy cer—
eals and vegetables are now groWn
within a comparatively short dis-
tance of the Arctic Circle; ‘

“The agriculture «of _- our
posseSsions—Ha‘waii, Porto

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LATIONS SERVICE
HE States Relations
; Service represents the
Secretary of Agricul-
ture in his relations with
the State agricultural col-
leges and experiment sta-
tions, under the acts of
Congress granting funds
to these institutions for
agricultural experiment
stations and co-operative
extension Work in agri-
culture and home eco-
nomics; in carrying out
the provisions of acts of
Congress making appro—
priations to the depart-
ment for farmers’ co-op-
erative demonstration
work, investigations re-
lating to agricultural
schools, farmers’ insti—
tutes, and home econom-
ics, and the maintenance
of agricultural "experi-
ment stationsin Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam
and the Virgin Islands.
The service is divided
into ﬁve main ofﬁces: (1)
The Ofﬁce of the Direct-‘-
or, (2) Ofﬁce of Experi-
ment Stations, (3) Ofﬁce
of Extension Work in the
South, (4) Ofﬁce of Ex-
tension Work in the North
and West, and (5) Ofﬁce
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scale. If it should prove sudcessful
the extension system promised to be
the most intimate and effective
means for carrying precise andspec;
iﬁc information to the farm people. v

Thanks to the efﬁcient organiza-

tion 'which was built up, the exten-

sion system did work, and it worked
so well that in the years since the
ﬁrst county agent went out» to his
work the number of county agents,
home demonstration agents,» club'.
leaders and extension specialists 911-. I
gaged in extension Work has-"increas-
ed to about 5,000 specially trained
men and women—the infantry of the
Department of Agriculture and the
state agricultural colleges;.,.t~he live,
intimate, friendly personalities .‘wh‘d 
help the" funnier a-ndrths .jarmer's
wife, as .well' as thaz‘bQYS‘.i,and girls

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Office of the Director

The Ofﬁce of the Direct-
or handles all administra-
tive matters relating to personnel,
ﬁnances and other executive business.
It also includes the Editorial Divi—
sion, and sect-ions dealing with inves-
tigations on agricultural instruction
in schools, and farmers' institutes
and movable schools.

The section dealing ,with, agricul-

-.tural instruction in schools studies
the methods and subject matter 7 of
~ school instruction in agriculture

I ~ I in
this and other countries,- furnishing
schoolswith up-to-date and .prOperly
organized subject matter andlillus-
trative material. ' ‘» 5

"The section dealing with farmers'

. institutes and movable schools stud-

ies and '_ the. methods used/and pres”
 » publications and  illustrative . .
material especiailx;_:-adapted to these.

   

 

 

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~ T THE meeting of agricultural
3- ., editor's in Chicago a committee
' was appointed to study the Mc-
— Fadden bill which provides for the
establishment of a co-operative sys-
tem of farm credit based on personal
’ security, as distinguished from land-
mortgage security.

It is a well known fact that under
existing credit conditions the farmer
.who is in greatest need of money has,
as a rule, ‘the hardest time to get it.
Th. is because our credit system ig-
nores the personal equation and the
large majority of loans are made on
real estate security. This does very
well for the farmer who has no or
little encumbrance upon his farm,
but it does not take care of the farm-
er who is carrying a large mortgage,
the renter or the settler upon new
land.

In recent years the federal govern-
ment has enacted laws which amply
provide for the extension of credit to
commercial interests and to farmers
who are in a position to give a real
estate mortgage. The ﬁrst of these
laws is the federal reserve law and

> the second is the federal farm loan
law. Both of these are excellent
measures and have been of inesti—
mable valu in keeping the whels of

industry and agriculture going at
full speed during the war. But there
are a very considerable number of

people owning or renting farms in
the United States who receive no
beneﬁt whatever from the farm loan
system. And yet it is of the utmost
importance to the nation that they
shall have credit facilities which
will enable them to expand their op-
erations and produce a portion of
the nation’s food supply. The Mc-
Fadden bill which is now before
congress seems to provide this re-
lief and is well worth the study of all
who are interested in the develop-
ment of American agriculture.
Based on European Idea
The fundamentals of the bill are
adopted from the personal credit
systems of Europe which have been
in successful operation for centuries.
The organization for operating the
system consists of three units, a cent-
ral bank, a branch bank in each state
and a local association. Because of
the complexity of the measure it will
not be possible .to discuss more than
the most important features in this
article.
We will start with the local associ-
ation. This in some respects re—
.sembles the local association of the
farm loan system. In other respects
it is radically different. ,Seven farm-
ers may organize a community as-
sociation, as the bill calls it, a “com-
mune.” Each member must “buy
stock in the branch bank for the
state in which the commune is locat-
ed. This stock will bear interest, but
no dividends can be paid upon it un-
til the branch bank has accumulated

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pointed by the American Agricultural Editors’ Ass’n, to examine '

THE EDITOR of 1110 Business Farmer is one .1 the  up.

and make report on the McFadden . Personal. Credit bill. Other "
members of thiscommittee are Dr. M. J. Spillman, former chief of the
otllce of Farm Management and now associate editor of the Farm ,
Journal; Carl Williams, editor-Oklahoma Farmer and Stockman; John
Thompson, editor Iowa Homestead, and C. A. Pugsley, editor Nebraska-
Furmer andpresident of the A. A. E. A. At the Washington meeting
of this Ass'n. the majority of this committee expressed themselves
as in favor of the McFadden bill, but out of deference to other members

 

 

of the committee who, while they approved the main points- of the
bill did not want to openly endorse the measure. the committee simply
reported favorably. the fundamental features of the bill, and recom- ‘
mended that the next congress be requested to conduct hearings on the
need of personal credits along the lines embodied in the McFadden
bill. It is not true as stated in a recent issue of a Michigan farm paper
that the majority of the editors were against the bill.
trary, they were very much in favor of a personal credit measure and .1
were willing to accept the recommendations ' of the committee.
seems certain that the next congress will be asked to pass the McFad-
den bill or one somewhat similar.. The accompanying. article is a very .
brief and incomplete summary 01' the bill.
fore congress, we shall go more into its details—Editor,

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a safe surplus. There are three
classes of communes, in each of
whichthe extent of the liability of
each member for the debts of the
other members is different than in
the other classes. The amount
credit of each member of a commune
of the ﬁrst class shall be limited to
twenty times his paid-up stock: in
the second class to twenty times his
paid-up stock, and in the third class
to five times his paid—up stock.
Applications for loans are made
to the proper ofﬁcers of the local
commune. As under the farm loan
system loans can only be made for
productive agricultural purposes
such as the purchase of animals, ma-
_chinery, seed, feed, fertilizer, etc.
Where the article to be purchased is
not to be consumed or used up, a
chattel mortgage is given, and" such
other security as the officers of the
commune may see ﬁt to demand. The
applicant then draws up a number of
“bills of exchange” against the com-
mune. These bills are similar in
some respects to a promissory note,
except that they show upon their
face that they are drawn for a pro-
ductive transaction, and may freely
be used as mediums of barter and
exchange. In Europe millions of
dollars worth of business is trans-
acted through bills of exchange
drawn by merchants and farmers.
These bills are drawn in denomina-
tions and are for a period of time
suitable to the convenience and de—
sires of the borrower, subject to the
approval of the local commune. They
are sent, together with the chattel
mortgage, to the branch for' the state
which issues a check against its de-
posits and forwards to the borrow-
er. These bills are then endorsed by
the branch bank and sent to

U. S. Supreme Court to Determine

(Note: To several letters that have
recently been received asking for in-
. formatioa on how to secure a loan un-
der the federal farm loan act, the ac-
(‘Ompanying article is an answer. The
farm loarn banks have made no loans
for over three months and Will make
none until the Supreme Court deter‘
mines whether or not the loan is con-
stitutional. This may be a matter of
several or more months.)-—-Editor.

(1) In July, 1919, representa-

'tives of the Farm Mortgage Banks
brought suit in the Federal Court at
Kansas City, challenging the valid—
ity of the act. ' The court dismissed
the complaint and the constitution-
ality of the act October 31st.

(2) The case was appealed to
'the Supreme Court of the United
' tates and heard January 6th. On
I '1 26th the Supreme Court or-
dered a reargument of the case to
be taken some time during its next
term in October.

(3) The Federal

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Farm Loan‘

I . Board has offered no bonds for sale

' ‘since the litigation was begun and
does not intend to offer any for sale
while the litigation is pending. (See

1 Lobd-ell’s letter to Platt.)
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Banking and Currency Committee
of the House introduced a resolu-
tion which would have given the
Secretary of the Treasury authority
to purchase farm loan bonds to the
amount of $64,000,000, this sum be-
ing the amount available to the Sec—
retary of the Treasury from the
$200,000,000 appropriation provid-
ed by congress January 18, 1918, at
the request of the Secretary of the
Treasury, McAdoo, to be used for the
purchase of farm loan bonds, in or-
der to avoid having these bonds on
the investment market in opposition
with Liberty Bonds. Of this $200,—
000,000 about $136,000,000 had been
used in the purchase of bonds, leav-
ing a balance of $64,000,000.

In his letter to Mr. Platt; Secre-
tary Houston said, "I would urge
that the congress limit the amount
which the Treasury may use to pur-
chase bonds to the actual commit-
tants of,the Farm Loan Banks,
which as I understand it, Will not
exceed $32,000,000."

(6) The Federal Farm Loan
Board through Commissioner Lob-
dell took the same position as the
Secretary of the Treasury.

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central bank which in turn endorses
them and places them on the mar-
ket where they are bought and sold
in much the same manner as are
Liberty bonds and other securities.
Bills Are a Good Investment

The question will be immediately
raised that these bills are not at-
tractive investments because they
are given by persons who are not
known to the purchasers of the bills
and whose credit rating as judged
by the usual standards is not of the
best. It is not the maker but the
endorser of these bills which guar-
antees their safety and makes them
one of the best investments for peo-
ple of moderate means. The bills
will pay six per cent interest and
are readily liquidated.

What is the Central Bank?

The whole stability of this system
rests in the central bank. In Eur-
ope the capital of this and branch
banks is originally furnished by the
government and the merchants, but
the McFadden bill would designate
some insurance company having at
least $400,000,000 of approved as-
sets to bear the principal burden of
underwriting and carrying the risks
of this system. To inaugurate the
system the bill would appropriate
$25,000,000 from the National Treas-
ury, this guaranty fund to be repaid
in instalments from the sinking fund
of the central bank. The insurance
company would also provide the cap-
ital of $50,000 for each of the 48
branch banks, this capital to earn 6
per cent interest.

There is no more- substantial tin-
ancial institution in the United States
than the old line life insurance com-
pany. The mere knowledge that
such a concern was endorsing to the
limit of its ﬁnancial resources the

7 bills of exchange of the rural credit
society would naturally, instill great
_ conﬁdence in that class of paper as”
an investment, and it is believed that
no difﬁculty would be encountered-tin
ﬁnding a market for the bills. '
‘ ‘ », Advantages of System
.L'l‘he principal advantages of this

system- in additimr to those already ‘

discussed is that .of giving every
farmer a flexible credit system which
would take ,care of both 311011 and
long time credit needs. Discussing
the need for such a system the auth-
or of the bill says: ' 7

“To illustrate the inadequacy of
our present banking or credit system.
let us take the cattle~breeding indus-
try. It is 9 months before a cow
calves, and 16 to 21 menths more
before that calf may be converted
into beef. Altogether it requires
about, the same time for credit used
to build a'sllo to reproduce itself
that is not safe business for a deposi-
tion banker, whose borrowed cap-
ital l spayable principally on demand.
But this business is done with per—
fect safety by European rural-credit
systems doing open—market opera-
tions. Our beef production is not
keeping gpace with the increase in
our population or industrial activi-
ties, and unless we provide adequate
credit machinery to meet the require-
ments of that industry we may expect
even higher beef prices than w now
have."

Farmer Control

Speaking before the House in be-
half er the McFadden bill, Congress-
man Goodwin of Arkansas said:

“Let us examine the responsibility
of this control for the rural credit
society. It will be observed 'that the
directors, executive com-mitteemen.
and advisory councilman must be
members 'of communes of the ﬁrst
or second class—that ls communes
whose members are unlimitediy li-
able for the payment of the obliga-
tions of their respective communes.
The farmer who cannot go out and
ﬁnd six farmer neighbors whom he
is willing to trust, and who are will-
ing to trust him, should not ask the
privilege of legislating by enacting
hy—laws for farmers throughout the
country who are willing to trust
their neighbors. The communes of
the ﬁrst and second classes are noth-
ing but partnerships, and the twen-
tieth century corporation is but the
evolution of the ﬁrst century civil
law partnership; And the only jus-.
tiilcation for the twentieth century
corporation limiting the liability of
its stockholders to their stock sub-
scriptions is to raise capital from
strangers,-——strangers to those who
control the corporation. But we do
not .want strangers in these com-
munes. Only farmers who are close
neighbors, so that each may see that
the others do nothing wrong, should
form a commune."

Constitutionality ‘of Farm Loan Act

Committee amended its original res-
olution and limited the authority to
sell bonds in an amount only sufﬁ—
cient to cover loans approved prior
to March 1, 1920—in round num-
bers, 832,000,000.

(7) The Federal Farm Loan
Board .on June 2nd adopted a resolu-‘
tion providing that the ofﬁce of Sec-
retary of the Board, held by Mr. W.
W. Flannaghan, be declared vacant,
and 'for the removal of clerks and
stenographers and other assistants
to the number of. sixteen.

To those who are familiar with
Mr. Houston’s record as Secretary of
Agriculture and his lack of insight
and sympathy for farmers' problems
it will not be surprising that now as
Secretary of the Treasury he will
welcome the dismissal of Secretary
Flannagan. Mr. Flannagan has deep—
seated convictions'with reference to
the questions of money and credits,
which are believed to be not'at all to

“ the liking of Secretary Houston. For -

instance Mr. Flannagan in a pre-
amble to a plan which he has sub-
mitted states: ‘

(1) The _’ nil-hue ,1 supplies  ' the;

   

 

credit which enables the substitutes
for coin to circulate as money.

(2) Such substitutes bear no in-
terest and the public is entitled to the
beneﬁt arising from the use of such
substitute.

(3) The National Currency Act
gave to the banks the beneﬁt arising
from. the public use of such substi-
tutes and the Federal Reserve Act
continues this beneﬁt, except as to
excess proﬁts by the twelve Federal
Rserve Banks over 6 per cent.

(4) The exclusive right to bene-
ﬁt. from the use of this substitute is
class legislation in favor of—the bus-
iness of banking.

From the above position with ref—
erence to the commercial banks of
the country Mr. Flannagan argues
that Farm Loan Bonds should be
made convertible at any interest pe'r-
iod into non-taxable, non-interest
bearing certiﬁcates in the same form

' and'denoinlnations . as. circulating
notes, "and reconvertible into 'farm

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call “easy,” credit can be secured by
those who grow, manufacture or
- handle necessities; that is credit to
a certain limit at undoubtedly a
fairly high 'price for the ’accommo-
dation. Bankers say there will be
plenty of money to help the farmer
move his crops. This movement calls
for money from the middle of July
to around the last of October or the
ﬁrst of November and one of the
main reasons of the campaign by the
Federal Reserve Banks to curtail
non-essential loans was to meet this
demand. The extent of the demand
will depend largely on the efﬁciency,
or otherwise. of the transportation
system, but it is fully believed that
it will be considerable greater than
last year.

Last Saturday the Interstate Coni-
merce Commission named the increas-
ed rates which the railroads will be
allowed to charge in order to absorb
the 600 million dollar wage increase
granted to railroad employes by the
commission. Passenger fares were
increased 20 per cent. Freight rates
were increased 40‘ per cent in the
East, 25 per cent in the South, 85
per cent in the West and 25 per cent
in the Mountain-Paciﬁc territory.
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DETROIT—Grsin market bullish. Wheat, corn and rye ad-
vance. Beam take drop of 25c and market remains dull.
toes  Cattle and hogs lower. Oats unchanged.

CHICAGO—Enlarged demand sends wheat up. Corn and
as also advance. Hogs Wyn—lower. Csttlcmketslew.

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putinsneﬂectbyimyhlm.
butitisthoughtthatﬂteywillbe
putintoforcebyﬁeptemherﬁrst.”
the gmrmnent guaranty to the roads
expires at that time. Shippers oi
milk will have a 20 per cent increase
in rates to bear. If we can get bet-
ter service and transport the crops
to the' market when we wish, thus
enabling the farmer to sell his pro-
ducts when the price is right, the in-
crease in rates will not seem so bad;
in fact, better service will more than
make up the diner-once in rates.
Crops in general are in favorable
condition with excellent growing
weather. Reports from the West and
South show winter wheat all harvest—

ed and threshing well advanced. (Phe v

harvesting in the East has been held
up the past week by rains. The con-
dition of spring wheat varies; some
states report it to be ready to bar-
vest and others that it is in the
dough, but the general opinion is the
yield willnotbens largoasthe
winter wheat. There is some dam-
age done to corn in my states by
cutworms, cinch. hugs and army
worms, but the outlook in general
promises a big yield. It looks like
there will be plenty of cats this year.
Threshing has started in many see-
tions while others expected in har-
vest this week. Rye is ova-aging
fairly good. Prospects of a bumper
fruit crop is very favorable.
Condition of crops as a whole looks

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sentative, Senator and
took great interest in

relation. of

MARTINDALE

STATE OF MICHIGAN
He was born on a farm and
has lived on one most of his
life.
He owns and. operates under
his personal supervision a h
large well—equipped farm in

Oakland County and is a mem-

3. He advocates the providing of certain'facilities by the
State for the better handling and marketing of farm

4. He favors lake to ocean route as an outlet to Mich-
igan products and agateway for Michigan necessi-

5. “He believes in generous treatment of service-men and

He has had broad experiane in State mm as Room-l

pure 100d laws. health laws. laws rolating to good
roads and the betterment of farm conditions.

7. He has at stir: the highest good of the. State, the car.

in varied utivitiu and the fullest de-
wlepment of its bureau, social and religious lite.

MARTTNDALE
FOR ’ GOVERNOR
, comm - ‘

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plenty, doesn’t it? It makes me
thinkotaeartoon.liawlnnfm1n
paper the other day. The-tile was
“Driven From Home.” and it showed
thofarmerandhistunilyontin the
road, the barn bulging because it
was so full of grain and hay, and his
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this crop is- not entirely out of ding-
,er yet. Indications now are that we

may be
ruined by on early trout. They also
say they think prices are about as

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of the year, owing to
thotliquidntion of livestock, thus'les-
son the demand from that quar-

held ‘for some time,-and, if you re-
member, we have expreSsed in these
columns. The government estimate
of July ﬁrst was aroundﬁ‘3 billion but
with the present outlook it‘is thought
that the estimate for August ﬁrst will
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was" PRICES PER no- son. a. 1.20 more than that 7
Grade "Detroit lcmmo I. Y. . '
:0. : aﬁ‘ . . .  2.3 {2.23 ﬁg OATS FOLLOW THE DOWNWARD
N3: 2 Ilse: :33! 2:23 2:10 TREND OF OTHER GRAINS
PRICES ONE YEAR :00 our, sauces pen su.. suousr 3. 1920
and. wagons Ichka'ol N. v. or“. matron [change] N. v.
No. 2 an  ant/1:2." 2.34 so, 2 wm.  .35 .74 I .95
In. 2 who.  2.11 2.17 l
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. Pnlcss on: vans AGO
Drastic liquidation has been the and. lDetrolt [Chicasol N. v.
feature of the wheat market the past 9“"0‘” - - - - - - - ~92
week. At the beginning of the week ‘71: .: mm. 111‘ '"V', '89”,
the market was weak and lower pric-

es were in sight but about the mid.-
dle of the week an attempt was made
by some dealers to cause an advance.
They succeeded in causing the mar-
ket to halt and it looked like it
might turn and advance but the
strength only lasted a short time and
then the market waswesker than it
has been at any time since liquida—
tion has set in; in fact, at one time
on the Detroit market it appeared
that prices could not decline fast
enough.
attributed to a wire received by op-
erators from a, Chicago dealer, who
advised selling wheat and lose no
time in doing it. There is no mill-
ing demand for wheat at present.
The country is oversupplied with
flour and many mills have shut down.
Export buying has also dropped off
considerable. A few foreigners
bought during the declines of the
current week. The British are out
of the market for a week. Reports
of damage to spring wheat by the
black rust continue to come trom
the Northwest, but there is nothing
to, indicate that the damage is sum-
cient to bring the crop much below
the government estimate of July
ﬁrst. Threshing returns show
the winter wheat yield to be better
than was expected. Returns from
Kansas indicate the yield of that
state will be around 147,000,000
bushels. Nearly all states where
threshing has begun report yields
satistactory or higher than expected._
Michigan has suﬂered some from the
Hessian fly. One report from Alle-
gan county shows a yield of 23.5
bushels paracre. 0t counties, ow-
ing to fly damage, show yields of
only 6 bushels per acre. Markets
are well supplied with old wheat and
farmers are rushing their 1920 crop
to market, thus keeping'tbe markets
over-stocked. . There is nothing to in-
dicate that prices will not go still
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It 1601:: like a general liquidation
had set in with oats as well as other
grains. The price dropped 30 on the
Detroit market last Saturday. How
low the prices will go depends large-
ly on how big a yield we are going to
have. Threshing returns from such
states as have started threshing are
very good. Some states report ab-
normal yields, but the biggest share
of the cat crop hasnot been harvest-
ed yet. Reports by government ﬁeld
agent’s give the standing grain to be
excellent and a yield beyond expec-
tations is promised. Some damage
has been done by smut and dry
weather in a few states, but not
enough to lower the yield to any
great extent. Chicago is receiving
new oats from her own state. The
crop is expected to move freely as
soon as more cars are available.
Farmers are not expected to like
prices" but, as the Rosenbaum Review
expresses it, “it must be re-
membered. that the present decline
is only natural, and that grains are
readjusting to a new crop basis, in
addition to seeking a. post-war level.”

BYE SLUMPS.

Rye was caught in the downward
sweep of the grain prices during the
current week and dropped 25c on
the‘Detroit market, which brings the
price down to 81.76 for No. 2. The
market is quiet and easy. Reports
from the country” say the crop is
yielding very good. The condition
of this grain in foreign countrks ap-
pears to be good. Harvest began in
France, Belgium, Holland and sev-

eral manor countries about the ﬁrst

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(Potato markets in general are
weaker than last week. The De-

troit market declined around a do]-
lar per cwt.; the New York market
around 50c and at Chicago over one
dollar. Potatoes at Detroit are very
weak owing to‘ an overstocked mar-
ket caused by the railroads inability
to deliver cars as per schedule for 8
days last week and then the roads
brought in the 3. days’ receipts all
in one. day. The result was, 117
cars arrived at the yards that day
and the bottom dropped out of the
price. One company reports a loss
of $400 per car on 41 cars. Another
claims to have lost 81,372 on two
cars. Receipts on the Pittsburg
market are about normal with prices
much lower. Most of the markets
report the consumer is not buying
very many "spade," as they are wait-
ing for the prices to work lower.
New York dealers say that the only
thing that keeps the prices from de-
clining faster is some demand for ex-
port. The crop appears to be in ex-
cellent condition throughout the
country. Late potatoes in Michigan
are reported'to be coming along ﬁne
and an average yield expected.

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Detroit . .135.00 @86184.00 @ 35138.00 @ 34

Chicago . .185.00 @ 88182.00 @ 34128.00 @ 80

New York 141 .00 @ 391 31 .00 @ 40

Pittsburg . 134.00 @ 35182.00 @ 88130.00 @ 31 V
1‘ No.1 1 No.1 I No.1

Light Mix. [Clover Mix. 1 clover

Detroit . .184.00 @ 351 130.00 @ 31

Chicago . . 82.00 @ 34125.00 @ 281

New York 34.00 @ 40127.00 Q 32

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Chicago . .35.00@37188.00@34181.00@32
New York 39.00 @ 40135.00 @ 38129.00 @ 31
Pituburg . 88.50 @ 38134.00 @ 36126.00 @ 29
No.1 1 No.1 1 No.1
Light Mix. 10lovor Mix. 1 Clover

Detroit . . 127.00 @ 28124.00 @ 261

Chicago . . 131 .00 @ 32123.00 @ 25115.00 @ 22
New York 135.00 @ 38180.00 @ 82‘

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The demand for hay is at a very
low point as pasturage is excellent
and the consuming trade has been
well supplied. Markets are congest—
ed and supplies that were loaded for-
ward during the high value period
continue to arrive. New invoices are
small, owever, but most markets re-
port su cient hay in sight to supply
the demand fonthe next thirty days.

DROP IN WOOL CONSUMPTION

A drop in wool consumption of
nearly 17,000,000 pounds from the
average for the six months of 1920
is seen in ﬁgures for June, 1920,
just released bythe Bureau of Mar-
kets, United States Department of
Agriculture. According to the re-
port, 48,000,000 pounds of wool,
grease wool equivalent, entered into
manufacture during that month,
compared with 65,000,000 pounds
for the corresponding month last
year. Summaries for preceding
months of 1920 have shown the fol-
lowing amounts used: January, 72,-
700,000 pounds; February, 63,700,-
000 pounds; March, 67,900,000
pounds; April, 60,900,000 pounds;
May, 58,600,000 pounds.‘

The sharp decrease in wool con-
sumption is a result of the curtail—
ment of operations which began in
the textile manufacturing industry in
May and became more extensive in
June. Many mills have been run-
ning on a short-week schedule, 'while
some have suspended operations en-
tirely, the suspensions in many cases
being for an indeﬁnite period. Lack
of orders, cancellations and deferred
shipments are given as primary
causes for; the unstable situation. p

A comparison of the relative con-
sumption of the different grades with
ﬁgures for preceding months shows
that ﬁne 'wools not only continuelto
hold ﬁrst place in demand, but ap-
pear to be‘recovering the points lost
a few . months ago- The percent-

s for June are}; Fine, ’31.t5~ gs;
c "f; 1+2«'b1¢ou,,_15.;_ persona,-
 gum ,. a cent} 141"-bl§ed""20.§

  

  

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1 per cent.” The per-
Iy were: Fine, 80.5
,1-2 blood, 10.! per cent;
841310064107 percent; 1-4 blood,
20.8 per cent: low, 8.2 per cent;
carpet, 12 per cent.

0f the total reported, the amounts
by conditions were: Grease wool, 33,-
940,086 pounds; scoured wool, 5,-
477,628' pounds; pulled wool, 1,-
262,206 pounds. Arranged accord-
ing to states the figures show Massa-
chusetts leading with a total of 14,-
'- 668,380 pounds, with other states in
the following order: Pennsylvania,
8,981,973 pounds; Rhode Island, 4,-
922,651 pounds; New Jersey, 4,075,-
587 pounds; New York, 3,352,566
pounds; Connecticut, Ohio, New
Hampshire and Maine approximately

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~ 1,000,000 pounds each. .

BOSTON WOOL MARKET

The Camera-lot BM: says:
“Uncertainty still reigns in the wool
market and values are hardly more
than nominal. Everyone is watching
the course of the goods market, which
is revealing little at the moment.
Sales of wool have been few and
small. The foreign primary markets

  
  

ted;

newisreporteid; v  ‘ ,
tinny an business being 
men-ts. Mohair is dull and nominal.-
- Ohio and Pensyivania fieeces.—.
Deiaine unwashed; 70012:; ﬁne
unwashed, 60062c; 1-2 blood comb-
ing, 6_8@72c; 3-8 blood combing,
50@ 53c.

Michigan and New York ﬂeeces.—
Fine unwashed, 58@60c; delaine, un—
washed, 68; 1-2 blood, unwashed,
g;@68c; 3-8 blood, unwashed, 50@

c.

Wisconsin, Missouri, and average
New England—~14 blood, 60@68c;
3-8 blood, 48@50c; 3-4' blood, 40@
430.

Kentucky, West Virginia and sim-
ilar—~3-8 blood, unwashed, 53 @58c;
1-4 blood, unwashed. 48@50c.

Scoured basis—Texas, ﬁne 12
months, 81.506130; ﬁne 8 months,
51.256130. ‘

California, northern—$1.55 @ 1.60
middle county, $1.50; southern,

$1.25@1.30.
Oregon—Eastern, $1.45 0 1.50;
$1.65@

valley No. 1. $1.50.
Territory—Fine staple,
1.70; 1-2 blood combing, $1.50; 3-8
blood combing. 9‘5c@ $1.
Palled—Delaine, $1.60@1.65; AA

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The week opened with high graded
beef cattle selling fairly well in all: i
markets but all grade of grass-fed ‘~'
cattle were dull and lower with some
of the poorer kinds almost 111183.183)ng ._.
In Chicago, on Monday, prime kill?
ing steers and the better grades of .
heavy cattle were in active demand 4.
and about steady in price but in‘ all 1"
other kinds were dull and lowers

Buffalo, on Monday, showed the same, 

symptoms as Chicago, the demand for
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they clutched
Torres by collar .
and trousers and started in a pro-
pulsivevrush for the door.

All others in the room ran to
the windows to behold Torres’ exit;
but Enrico, quickest of all, gained
a window ﬁrst. And, afterward,
into the middle of the room- the
Queen scooped the gems from the
table into both her hands. and gave
the double handful to Leoncia, say-
ing: .

"From Francis and me to you and
Henry——your wedding present."

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Yi Poon, having left the crone by
the beach and crept back to peer at
the house from the bushes, chuckled
gratifiedly to himself when he saw
the rich caballéro thrown off the
steps with such a willas to be sent
sprawling far out into the gravel.
But Yi Poon was too clever to let
on that he had seen. Hurrying
away. he was half down the hill ere
overtaken by Torres on his horse.

The celestial addressed him'humb-

lifted his riding whip savagely to
slash him across the face. But Y-i
Poon did not quail.

“The Senorita Leoncia,” he
quickly, and arrested the blow. “I
have great secret.” Torres waited,
the whip still lifted as a threat. “You
like ’m some other man marry that
very nice Senorita Leoncia?”

Torres dropped the whip to
side.

“Go on,” he commanded harshly.
“What lb the secret?" .

“You no want ’m other man mar-
ry that Senorita Leoncia?"

“Suppose I don’t?”

“Then, suppose you have secret,
you can stop other man."

“Well, what is it? Spit it out."

“But ﬁrst," Yi Poon shook his
head, “you pay me six hundred dol-
lars gold. Then I tell you secret.”

“I’ll pay you,” Torres said readily
although without the slightest
thought of keeping his word. “You
tell me ﬁrst, then if no lie, I’ll pay
you—See !”

From his breast pocket he drew a.
wallet bulging with paper bills; and
Yi Poon, uneasily acquiescing- led
him down the road to the crone on
the beach;

“This old woman.” he explained,
“she no lie. She sick woman. Pret—
ty soon she die. She is afraid. She
talk to priest along Colon. Priest
say she must tell secret, or die and
So she no lie.”

“Well, if she doesn’t lie, what is
it she.must tell?”

“You pay me?”

“Sure. Six hundred gold."

“Well, she born Cadiz in old coun-
try. She number one servant, num-
ber one baby nurse. One time she
take job with English family that
come traveling in her country. Long
time she work with that family. She
go back along England. Then bime
by—you know Spanish blood very
hot—she get very mad. That family
have one little baby girl. She steal
little baby girl and run away to Pan-
,ama. That little baby girl Senor
Solano he adopt just the same his
own aughter. He have plenty sons
and r.) daughter. So that little baby
girl he make his daughter. But that
old woman she no tell what name be-
long little girl’s family. That fam-
ily very high blood, very rich, every-
body in England know that family.
That family’s name ‘Morgan.’ You
know that name? In Colon comes
San Antonio men who say Senor
Solano’s daughter marry English
Gringo namedMorgan. That Gringo
Morgan the Senorita Leoncia's
brother."

“Ah !” said Torres
ﬂcent delight. '

“You pay me now six hundred
gold,” said. Yi_Poon. .

“Thank you for the fool you are,"
said Torres with untold mockery in
his voice. “You will learn better
perhaps some day the business of
selling secrets. Secrets are not shoes-
or mahogany timber. A secret is no
more than a whisper in the hair. It

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ghost. Who. has seenit? Youcan
claim back shoes or mahogany timb-
er. You can never claim back a
secret when you have told it.”
“We talk of ghosts, you and I,"
said Yi Poon calmly. “And the
ghosts are gone. ‘I have told you
no secret. You have dreamed a
dream. [When you tell men they will
ask yOu what told you. And you will
say, ‘Yi Poon.’
say, ‘No.’ And they will
‘Ghosts:' and laugh at you." 1
Y1 Poon feeling the old yield to
his superior subtelty of thought, de-
liberately paused. ~ ‘
“We have talked whispers,” he
resumed after a few seconds. “You
speak true when you say whispers
are ghosts. When I sell secrets I do
not sell ghosts. I sell shoes. I sell
mahogany timber. My proofs are
what I sell. They are solid. On the
scales they will weigh weight. You
can tear the paper of them. which

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they are written. Some of them, not
paper, you can bite with your teeth
and break your teeth upon. For the
whispers are already gone like morn-
ing mists. I have proofs. You will
pay me six hundred gold for the
proofs, or men will laugh at you for
lending your ears to ghosts.”

“All right," Torres capitulated,
convinced. “Show me the proofs
that I can tear and bite."

“Pay me the six hundred gold."

“When you have shown me the
proofs.”

“The proofs you can tear and bits
are yours after you have put the six
hundred gold into my hand. You
promise. 'A promise is a whisper, a.
ghost. I do not do business with
ghost money. You pay me real mon—
ey I~can tear or bite.”

And in the and Torres surrendered
paying in advance for what did sat-
isfy him when he had examined the
documents, the old letters, the baby
locket and the baby trinkets. And
Torres not only assured Yi Poon that
he was satisﬁed, but paid him in ad-
vance, on the latter’s insistence, an
additional hundred gold to execute
a commission for him.

Meanwhile, in the bathroom which
connected their bedrooms, clad in
fresh underlinen and shaving with
safety razors, Henry and Francis
were singing:

“Back to back against the mainmast,

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Held at bay the entire crew .

In her charming quarters- aided
and abetted by a couple of Indian
seamstresses, Leoncia, half in mirth
and half in sadness, and in all sweet-
ness and wholesomeness of generos-
ity, was initiating the Queen into
the charmingness of civilized woman’s
dress. The Queen, a true woman to
her heart’s core, was wild with de-
light in the countless pretties of text-
ure and adornment with which Leon-
cia’s wardrobe was stored. It was
a maiden frolic for the pair of them,
and a stitch here and a take—up there
modiﬁed certain of Leoncia’s gowns
to the Queen’s slenderness. . .

“No,” ‘  .Leoncia judicially.
“You will not need a. corset.
arethe one woman in a, hundred for
whom‘,a corset isnot necessary. You
have the roundest lines for a thin
woman that I ever saw. You . . .i"
Leoncia paused, apparently deflect-
ed by her need for a“ pin from her
dressing table, for which she turn-
ed; but at the same time she swal-
lowed the swelling that choked in
her throat, so that she .was able to
continue: “You are a beautiful bride
and.Francis can only, grow prouder
of you.” _ -
shaving ﬁrst, broke off the song to
respond to the knock at his bedroom
door and received a--telegram from
Fernando, the next to the youngest,

   
  
  
 

     
   
 

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_  ' In the living
room the two Morgans found Enrico --
and his sons opening wine. ,~

> “Having but had my daughter re--
stored' to me,” Enrico said, “I now
lose' heragaim But it is an easier
loss, Henry. Tomorrow shall be the
wedding. It cannot take place too
quickly. "It is sure, right now, that
that scoundrel Torres is whispering
all over San Antonio Leoncia's latest
unprotected escapade' with you."

Ere Henry could express his grat-
iﬁcation, Leoncia, and the Queen en-
tered. He held up his glass and.
toasted»:

“To the bride l”

Leoncia, not understanding, raised
a. glass from the table and glanced ‘
to the Queen.

“No, no,” said Henry, taking her
glass with the intention of passing, it
to the Queen. .

“No. no," said Enrico. “Neither
shall drink the toast which is incom-
plete. Let me make it:

“To the brides !”

“You and, Henry are to be married
tomorrow,” Alesandro exDlained to
Leoncia.

Unexpected and bitter though the
news was, Leoncia controlled her-
self. and dared with assumed jollity
to look Francis in the eyes while she
cried: '

“Another toast!
grooms !”

Difﬁcult as _Francis had found it
to marry the Queen and maintain
equanimity, he now found equani-
mity impossible at the announcement
of the immediate marriage of Leon-
cia. Nor did Leoncia fail to observe
how hard he struggled to-control
himself. His suffering gave her see-
ret joy, and with a feeling almost
of triumph she watched him take ad-
vantage of the ﬁrst opportunity to
leave the room.

Showing them his telegram and
assuring 'them that his fortune was
at stake, he said he must get off an
answer and asked Fernando to ar-
range'for a rider to carry it to the
government wireless at San Antonio.

Nor was Leoncia long in follow-
ing him. In the library she came
upon him, seated at the reading table
his telegram unwritten, while his
gaze was ﬁxed upon a large photo-
graph of her-which he had taken
from its place on top the low book-
shelves.- All of which was too much
for her. Her inv‘Oluntary gasping
sob brought him to his feet in time
to catch her as she swayed into his
arms. And before either knew it
their lips were together in fervent
expression.

Leoncia struggled and tore herself
away, gazing upon-her lover with
horror.

“This must stop, Francis!" she
cried. “More: you cannot remain
here for my wedding. If you do, I
shall not be responsible for my ac-
tions. There is a steamer leaves San .
Antonio for Colon. You and your wife x
must sail on it. You can easily
catch passage on the fruit boats to
New. Orleans and take train to New
York. I love you leyou know it."

“The‘Queen and I are not mar-
ried !” Francis pleaded, beside. him-
self, overcome by, what had taken
place. “That heathen marriage before
the Altar of the Sun was no marriage.
In neither .deed nor ceremony are
we married. ,I assure you -of that
It is not too late—4” ,,

"‘Tha't heathen. marriage has last-
ed you thus far," she interrupted
him' with 'quiet' ﬁrmness. “Let it
last you, to New York, or, at least to
. . . . COlon." ’ _

“The Queen will not have any
further marriage after“ our forms."
Francis said. “She insists that all
her female line before her 'has“be'en

To the bride-

so married and that the Sun 'Altar 

ceremony is “sacredly binding.“
Leoncia shrugged her shoulders
non-committally, althOugh her face
was stern with resolution; _‘ .
“Marriage or no,” she replie .'
you must gore-toni.ght_—}the- pan; ‘2

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Queen, as I know you do love me.” 1

She caught his hand and pressed

‘ it against her heart.

“There ! For the last time ! Now
go 1”

But his arms were around her, and
she could not help but yield her
lips. Again she tore herself away,
this time fleeing to the doorway.
Francis bowed his head to her de-
cision, then picked up her picture.

“I shall keep this,” he announced.

“You oughn’t to,” she flashed a

  

‘last fond smile at him. “You may,”
she added. as she turned and was

gone.

Yet Yi Poon had a commission to
execute, for which Terres had paid
him one hundred gold in advance.
Next morning, with Francis and the
Queen hour departed on their way
to Colon, Poon arrived at the
Solano hacienda. Enrico smoking a
cigar on the veranda and very much
pleased with himself and all the
world the way the world was going,
recognized and welcomed Yi Poon
as his visitor of the day before. Even
are they talked, Leoncia's father had
dispatched Alesandro for the ﬁve
hundred pesos agreed upon. And Yi
Poon, whose profession was trafﬁck—
ing in secrets,_and not averse to sell-
ing his secret the second time. Yet
was he true to his salt, in so far as
he obeyed‘Torres’ instructions in re—
fusing to tell the. secret save in the
presence of Leoncia and Henry.

“That secret has the sering on it,”
Yi Poon apologized, after the couple
had been summoned, as he began un-
wrapping the parcel of proofs. “The
Senorita Leoncia and the man she is
going to marry must first, before
anybody else, looks at these things.
Afterward, all can look.”

‘ “Which is fair, since they are more
interested than any of us," Enrico
conceded grandly, although at -the
same time he betrayed his eagerness
by the impatience with which he
motioned his daughter and Henry to
take the evidence to one side for ex—
amination.

He tried to appear uninterested.
but his side-glances missed nothing
of'what they did. To his amazement
he saw Leoncia suddenly cast down
a legal appearing document, which
she and Henry had read through.
and throw her arms, whole-heartedly
and freely about his neck, and whole-
heartedly and freely kiss him on the
lips. Next, Enrico saw Henry step
back and exclaim in a dazed, heart-
broken way: _ .

“But my God, Leoncia! This is
the end‘ﬂ everything. Never can we
be husband and wife l"

"Eh?" Enrico snorted. “When
everything was arranged. What do
you mean, sir? This is an insult!
Marry you shall, and marry today !"

Henry, almost in stupefaction,
looked to Leoncia to speak for him.

"It is against God’s law and
man's,” she said, “for a man to mar-
ry his sister. Now I understand my
strange love for Henry. He is my
brother. We are full brother and
sister, unless these documents lie."

And Yi Poon 'knew that he could
take. report to Torres that the mar-
riage would not take place and would
never take place.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ATCHING a United Fruit Com-
pany boat at Colon within ﬂf-
- teen minutes after landing from
the small coaster, the Queen’s prog-
ress with Francis to New York had
been a swift rush of fortunate con-
nections. At New Orleans a taxi
fr 111 the wharf to the station and a
1 racing of porters.with hand luggage
had barely got them aboard the train
Just as ‘it started. Arrived at New
 York- Francis had been met by Bas-
“  » com, in Francis’ .private machine- and
 ’ the rush had continued to the rather
ornate rpalace R. H. M. himself,
Francis father, had built out of his
millions on Riverside Drive. ., ‘
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cepting such civilization as an offer-
ing from her royal spouse. Royal he
was, served by many'slaves. Had she
not, on steamer and train, observed
it? And here, arrived at his palace,
she took as a matter of course the
showing of house servants that greet-
ed- them. The chauffer opened the
door of the limousine. Other ser-
vants carried in the hand baggage.
Francis touched his hand to nothing,
save to her arm to, assist her to
alight. Even Bascom—a man she di—
vined was no servitor—she also di-
vined as one who served Francis.
And she could not but observe Bas-
com depart in Francis' limousine,
under instruction and command of
Francis.

She had been a queen, in an iso-
lated valley, over a handful of sav-
ages. Yet here. in this mighty land
of kings. her husband ruled kings.
It was all. very wonderful, and she
was deliciously aware thalt her
queenship had suffered no diminish-
ing by her alliance with Francis.

Her delight in the interior of the
mansion was naive and childlike.
Forgetting the servants, or, rather
ignoring them as she ignored her
own attendants in her lake dwelling,
she clapped her hands in the great
entrance hall, glancing at the marble

a tie], ac- .

  

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ioned in them
ﬁrst time sh-e""say Francis. And the

vision realized itself, for Francis en-

tered with her into the great room ’

of books, his arm about her, just as
she had seen him on the fluid-metal
surface of her golden bowl. The tel-
ephones, and the stock ticker. too,
she remembered; and, just as she had
foreseen herlself do, she crossed over
to the ticker curiously to examine,

and Francis, his arm still about her. 7

stood by her side.

Hardly had he begun an attempt-
ed explanation of the instrument,
and just as he realized the impossi-
bility of teaching her in several min-
utes all the intricacies of the stock
market institution, when his eyes
noted on the tape that Frisco Con-
solidated was down twenty points—
a thing unprecedented in that little
Iowa railroad which R. H. M. had
financed and builded and to the day
of his death maintained ppudly as
so legitimate a creation that, though
half the banks and all of Wall Street

‘ crashed, it would weather any storm.

The Queen view with alarm the
alarm that grew on Francis’ face.

“It is magic—like my Mirror of
the World?" she half queried, half-
stated.

Francis nodded.

“It tells you secrets, I know," she
continued. "Like my golden how], it

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ship lines, of teeming terminals and,
noisy decks; of miners toiling _
Alaska, in Montana, in Death Val-
ley; ofbridled rivers and harnessed
waterfalls, and of power lines s»tilt-;
ing across lowlands; and of all the
mechanics and economics and ﬁnane- 
es of the twentieth century civiliza- :
tion. '

“It brings you trouble,” she re-
peated. “And also ! I cannot help
you. My golden bowl is no more.
Never again shall I see the world in
it. I am no longer a ruler of the fu-
ture. I am a woman merely, and
helpless in this strange colossal world
to which you have brought me. I am
a woman merely, and your wife,
Francis, your proud wife.”

Almost did he love her, as, drop-
ping the tape. he pressed her closely
for a moment, ere going over to the
battery of telephone. She is delight-
ful was his thought. There‘is'neith-
er guile nor malice in her, only‘wo-
man. all woman, lovely and lovable

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Rural Population

HE UNITED States Census Department

has veriﬁed the oft-repeated assertion
that rural populatiOn is on the decline. The
tabulation of census returns from four of
Michigan’s best agricultural counties shows
that their population is much less today than it.
was ten years: ago. . 1

Does this signify that the people of the
rural communities are no longer begetting
children? Is this situation a counterpart of
that which prevails in some parts of France
where people die at a greater rate than they are
born? Not at all. While it be true that the
people of the citicqs are not as proliﬁc of child-
ren as in days of yore there seems to have been
no dimunition of child-bearing and rearing in
the strictly rural communities. Judging from
the birth columns in the local papers farmers
are still producing future citizens in much the
same old-fashioned way.

What then has happened to this multiplied
rural population? For an answer examine the
census returns from some of the large cities.
In 1910 Detroit had a population of 466,000,
which it took over 200 years. to acquire. T04
day the city has close to a million. In other
words Detroit’s growth from 1910 to 1920 al-
most exactly equals hcr growth from 1710 to
. 1910. The city of Flint affords another strik-
ing example of the tremendous growth of cities
at the expense of the rural communities.

To the cold eye of the census enumerator
there is nothing startling about these facts.‘
But to those who have an eye on the social and
economic progress of the race they contain
dcop signiﬁcance. He is apt to ponder upon
the question, “How much longer can the drift
of population from country to city continue
without disturbing wth various elfeCts the bal~
once that ought to be maintained between the
populations of the two environments?”

The population of the world is increasing
rapidly and consequently the need for more
food becomes daily greater. Manifestly we
cannot meet this increased demand for food
products’ if the food producers leave their
farms and go to the cities. It, would seem that
the very safety of the world depended upon
stemming tho-migration cilyward and encour-
ag'ng men who are ﬁtted for farming to go on
with their job of producing food. There may
or may not be a man-made solution to this
problem. It is easy to theorize on how to keep
folks on the farm but to actually keep them
there is another matter. It is unlikely, except
. in possible ‘cascs'of wide-spread crop failure,

that the people of this country will ever suffer
starvation. The abandonment of farms might
so reduce the food supply as to require ration-
ing for a period of a year or tivo, but in the
last extremity self-preservation will force peo—
ple back to the land and the crisis will have
been averted. Over-production and under-
production always act as automatic checks
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 and Send thé workers-into the 11
duce crops, or we may..import Mexican and
Japanese labor, but how shall we repair the
break in our social andmoral fabric caused by
the shifting of population from farm to city?
The rural community has often and correctly
been called the “foundation of the democ-
racy.“ In its obscurity the world’s greatest
men have been born. In its crude and poor en'-
virons genius is a daily discovery. The rural
community has for ages pact been the crucible
where science, invention, art and religion have
had their rude beginnings. We do not at-
tempt to explain in this editorial why this is
true. We only know that it is true. History
furnishes the proof. We also know that this
foundry Where the instruments of progress
are forged must be strengthened if we are to
gain new and greater achievements. The mi-
gration cityward must be stemmed. The com-
munity spirit must be developed. Rural com-
munities must be brightened and enlivened to
attract the younger folks and keep them there.
The children of the country must, be impress-
cd with the fact that the glamour of the city is
like the ,pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Its glitter can never bring contentment. Life
in the country can be made as attractive as
life. in the city, and when that is done the mi-
gration to the city will be halted.

, The Candidates
*llVES got the best of Sam Seeds in a
horse trade some years ago and Sam never
got over it. Now Jim is a candidate for sher-
iff of Podunk county, and he’d make a right
smart sheriff too, but Sam, who is some pump-

kins in his community doesn’t intend to let’

Jim get the nomination if he can help it. So
he’s out working for that good for nothing Ed.
Edwards who never earned an honest dollar. in
his whole life and who if he got his just deserts
ought to be jailed instead of jailer.

Sam also has it in for the independent cand-
idate for Governor. Seems that once upon a
time this gentleman defeated one of Sam’s
fourth cousins for town constable and the
Seeds family never quite forgave him for thus
robbing them of the chance to acquire ofﬁcial
honors.‘ And so while the independent candi-
date for Governor is the only real man in the
bunch of candidates he’ll have to struggle
along without the support of the Seeds family.

Every community has its Sam Seeds. That
may not be his real name, but you can spot
him when he talks and reveals his narrow
prejudices. He is the same type of individual
who a few years ago voted for Bob Boozer be-
cause Bob was a friend of the saloon, and in
Sam’s eyes that was the all important issue
upon which the country must survive or per-
ish. Or mebbe he is the same fellow who
didn’t believe in war, or who painted his
neighbor’s barn yellow because he didn’t be—
lieve in‘ war, or who spanked his wife for at-
tending a woman suffrage meeting. Anyway
he’s the type of American citizen who believes
that a man must be all good or no good; who
cannot understand why all people do not think
alike with him, and has no use for anyone who
differs with him in the smallest detail.

Some months ago a man came to my ofﬁce to
remonstratc against a criticism that had been
published against a. man holding a position of
influence in a farm organization. He said, “I
have no use for that man personally. We have
been enemies for some years. But I do think
that he is the best man obtainable for the’job
he is holding and I am willing to forget my
personal grievances in order ‘ to keep him
there.” Naturally we admired that gentleman
for his broad-mindedness and outspokenness,
and we wished that all might be able to put
aside their petty personal grudges for the.
common good. '

We are approaching another primary elec-
tion. Nearly every man who takes an interest
in political affairs will have some objection to
offer to some of the candidates who ' . present
themselves to the voters. It is right that the
voters should scrutinize these candidates. It
is' right that they should weigh their previous

_ acts and "public, recOrds if they havoany. It

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.conal prejudices are too- often permitted to
warp a voter’s judgment. The» average Voter

' ictoo prone to consider his own individual wel-

fare instead of the welfare of his neighbors and
the state in general. A certain" amountof self-
ishness in choosing public servants is excusable
but it should not be the dominating. factor.
The man who gives promise of best serving the

interests of his constituents as a whole is gent

erally speaking the safest man to vote for.

Trading at Home

OES IT PAY to trade with mail order
houses? Does.it pay to send money hun-
dreds of miles to ﬁrms whom you do not know
- to purchase an article you have never seen, and
take the chance that your money may be lost

in the mail, the goods be delayed in transit, or-

not be what you expected? Examination of
scores of complaints over mail order transac-
tions that have been brought to our attention
convinces us that it does not pay to buy of a
Chicago or New York .mail order house whcn
the merchant of your home .town can furnish
the goods at a reasonable price.

We have complaints covering almost every
conceivable kind of purchase. Shoes, clothing,
paints, roofing, incubators, books}, plows, fur-
niture, pumps, cream separators, etc. The
purchases represent in the aggregate several
thousand dollars. Of course, we are scouring
a,» satisfactory settlement in most instances
and are mighty glad to be of service in
this respect, but we cannot help but think that
in the majority of cases our subscribers would
have been much better off had they gone to
their local merchants where the goods are on
display, where credit can usually be bad if
needed and where if not satisfactory the good
can be returned the next day\ and the money
refunded.

The price tags in the catalogue books are al-
luring. The pictiircs, done up in attractive col-
ors are attractive, but after all does it pay to
patronize them? Occasionally you get a pur-
chase with which you’ are satisﬁed,.but obser-
vation convinces us that the average‘ trance--
tion between the farmer and the mail order
house entails a dispute or a grievance of some
sort which costs the farmer time, money and
patience. ‘

A good deal could be said about the failure
of the local merchants to live up to their re-
sponsibilities in meeting the needs of the farm-
ers with satisfactory goods at satisfactory pric-
es. Many merchants are merchants in name
only. They do not try to attract the farmer’s
trade. They make no eﬁ'ort to give good ser-
vice and conduct their business sons to be able
to sell at a reasonable margin over the cost of
the goods. We hold no brief for this type of
merchant, but the average country merchant
who will go half way in meeting the farmer,

is we believe entitled to the trade of the farm-
_ers in preference to mail order concerns who

pay no taxes and have no interest whatever in
the local communities. ' ’

The country merchants are absolutely de-
‘pendent upon the farmers. The farmers, in a
lesser degree perhaps, are dependent upon the
merchants. It ought, thnx fore, to be .to their
mutual interests to co-operatc with each other.
Just as no merchantcould exist in a commun-
ity deprived of its farmers, no farmer would
care to live in a community depriced of its
merchants. The farther farms are located
from trading centers the less desirable thoy
are. The farming cdmmunities would be in a

. sad way if the people who inhabit them should

suddenly divert all their trade to. mail order
concerns and force the merchants of the vilQ'
lages to close their duors. This argument may

, not deter. farmers from buying their supplies , ,_
from mailorder concerns, but, .it is, nchr-1tth “
lam one‘that is A   

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minor; mountains on: "or. more hills; ‘A.  ,
‘ .ing objection to .onecandidatje‘oftonleads them
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AUTHOR OF AMENDMENT RE-
PLIES TO FERRIS

The statement of ex-Governor Fer-
ris demands an answer owing to his
high position as an educator, states-
man and lecturer.

We want to be very clearly under-
stood on this subject—that our sole
Jim in this movement is complete
separation of church and state. We
eharge the opposition with stirring
up religious hatred by constantly
and consistently crying "religion"
“religion” "religion" and nothing
but "religion" when it is not religion
lit all that is at stake. We have nev-
er attacked the Roman Catholic or
any other religion as a religion. Our
explanations of them, have been call-
ed forth by their interference in Am-
erican politics. Our interest in the
public school lies in the fact that
they are the very ,cradle of Democ-
racy, and upon the proper upbring-
ing of our youth rests the salvation
of our institutions.

Prof. Ferris says that the propos-
ed amendment has for its object the
closing of various denominational
schools. This we admit is true, in-
so-far as it refers to ﬁve hours a day,
for 160 to 180 days in the year——
during which the children will be
required to attend public school.

Surely, Prof. Ferris, neither you
nor your allies will deny the state
the right of compelling attendance
in a school which was organized for
the sole purpose of making Ameri-
cans, and to teach its future citizens
to learn to live together. The Pro-
fessor says “Why should quarrels
among churches be kept up any
more than quarrels amongst na-
tions?” What church is is that
claims temporal power as well as
spiritual and when checked in its
pursuit of temporal and financial
gain, begs to be relieved from "re-
ligious" persecutions? Had Mr.
Droulard and Mr. Gildray of Erie,
been raised in a public school they
could never have been induced to
join a party to go to another com-
munity, eight miles away, for the
purpose of breaking up of a religious
meeting. They would not have lost
their lives, nor would' they have been
a never—dying blot on their families,
to say nothing of the heartaches
caused the community as a whole.

Prof. Ferris also speaks of the su-
preme loyalty of the parochial school
adherents. Until this time, we have
refrained from entering into this
phase of the controversy, but when
such a learned gentleman as the ex-
governor advances that as an argu-
ment, we must present to him a few
of the facts.

Religious organizations conducting
parochial schools and having for
their cardinal loyalty to the flag
which‘gives them bread and protec-
tion, should function the same the
world over, under any and all flags.

We regret exceedingly being forc-
ed to say these unkind and unpleas-
ant things. During the‘ world war
there were many priests in Italy shot
for their conspiracy on the Piave
(which all but cost the Allies the
war) and for sinking of two Italian
battleships, Benedetto Erin and
Leonardo Da Vinci, in which 248
men lost their lives; the Pope’s cham-
berlain, Monsignor Berlach, is now
a fugitive from justice from Italy.
The parochial school in parts of‘Ire-
land, Quebec and Australia are the
only parts of the British Empire that
produced traitors to that flag during
the World War; and if they were,
as they have‘often boasted, fighting
a war for Democracy, the same prln-
ciple was at stake in Great Britain
and Italy as, in the United States.

The German Lutherans have fur-
nished more ministers that have been
convicted for disloyal acts than all
other denominations in the land, and
they-are the only religious denomin-
ation conducting foreign parochial
schools that have taken the question
into court to ﬁght a legislative act
when the legislature of Nebraska
passed a law, compelling elementary
instruction to be in English.

Prof. Ferris says the parochial
schools teach all their subjects in

Catholic school here in
where not a word of English is spok-
en. -

Our Civil War is not entirely for-
gotten, and the ﬁgures of the pension
ofﬁcers of the U. S. is just about com-
plete, and it shows that practically
90 per cent of the desertions from
the Union Army were Irish Roman
Catholics, after the Pepe recognized
the Confederate states and gave his
beloved child, Jefferson Davis, his
papal blessing.

Out of 144,000 Irish enlisted or
drafted in the Union Army during
the Civil War, 104,000 deserted.

The names of tens of thousands of
people who signed the petitions for
the school amendment were printed
in lists, tacked up on the walls of
churches, read out from the pulpits
and' instructions were given to the
congregations to boycott those peo-

_ple. Is this the kind of Christian ed-

ucation Prof.
to defend?

Err-governor Ferris infers that oth-
er denominations are a party to the
objections to this Americanization
amendment. Let us hear who they
are. Name them and let them ad-
vance their reasons for s?) believing.

The distinguished gentlemen is
the only one who has come out
against the amendment, who has of-
fered to “go forth and show his
friends that this amendment is cow-
ardly and un-American."

To Prof. Ferris, Father Command,
Rev. Cochran, Bishop Gallagher, Dr.
Vance, Charles McKenny, Frederick
C. Martindale, Dr. Hall, and all oth-
er parochial school proponents, we
make the following proposal, which
we recommend they accept. Inas-
much as Prof. Ferris says this amend-
ment is cowardly and un-American.
we will let the reader supply the
proper term to be applied to Mr. Fer-
ris, if he does not accept the follow-
ing offer to give all the people both
sides of the question and let the peo-
ple decide for themselves. Our of~
for is as follows:

1st.——Each side writes 1,500 words
of declaration of principles.

2nd.—Exchange briefs.

3rd.—Each write 1,500 words in
rebuttal.

4th.—Publish them together, each
paying half of the expense and re-
ceiving one—half of the copies.

We believe the whole problem
could be settled by people reading
both sides of this question.

If Mr. Ferris and the others were
sincere when they made their respect—
ive statements, they will unquestion-
ably accept our offer.

The gentlemen mentioned above
are rather distinguished; while the
writer. not even an eight grader, will
undertake to present our side of the

Ferris is going forth

Detroit.

question, in the firm belief that the A TEACHERS ‘rm‘ws 0N“,

superior justice of our cause. will
more than offset the ﬁne rhetoric
and sophistry of the above mentioned
distinguished gentlemen and scholars.

:as. Hamilton.

RIGHT TO EDUCATE CHILDREN
IN PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS

Having just read the letter of J.
B., of Kent county abbut “Abolish
Parochial Schools” must say that he
is either narrow-minded or has just
looked at one side of the question.

This country fought once for free-
dom of right and religion and it is
our right to educate our children in
a parochial school if we wish. About
things being taught behind closed
doors, that is not so, at least in the
Catholic parochial schools. I am of
the opinion that the other parochial
schools are the same. You do not
have to go to the parochial schools
of any sect to ﬁnd the pro-Germans.
Right in our own country our worst
pro-Germans are people educated in
public schools. I do not think that
any school has any influence on any
child’s patriotic opinion if the par-
ents are true Americans so are the
children no matter what they are
taught in school.

In our parochial school at Vernon
you will ﬁnd as many non-Catholics
as Catholics and our friend J. B.
would be welcome to visit that school
at any time. I think you will ﬁnd
the scholars of these schools farther
advanced than in our rural schools
and our children are taught music.
cooking and can take up any branch
or subject they wish. Of course they
are taught our religion, but that is
our right. We do not compel non-
Catholics in our schools to accept
our faith but they must respect it
while in school. Our children are
also taught to defend our country
and our boys were the first to take
part in this late war. So do you
think when we know that all these
reports are false about our schools
that we would stand by and see our
schools abolished. I say no, nor
could you expect us to. So let us
look at both sides instead of read-
ing some 'books or papers that tell
these false stories about our paro-
chial schools. "

Our public schools we must have
and will give our help to maintain
them. But we want our parochial
schools, too. Every child should be
in regular attendance at some school
In our school at Vernon the scholars
must be there every day as the Sis-
tors are very strict about a child be—
ing absent without a good excuse.
Hope to see more express themselves
on this matter. We like the M. B.
F. as it is the only paper for us.—
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COX MAKES A PROMISE
The promise made by Governor
Cox that if elected he will appoint a
“dirt farmer” to be secretary of ag-
riculture was made in part, of course
for its value in the campaign.

Secretary Houston, who recently
vacated the ofﬁce, is an educator who
specialized in economics and college
administration. In' one aspect that
is not bad preparation for a secre-
tary of agriculture, for the depart-
ment is an educational establish-
ment among other things. Segretary
Wilson, who held the ofﬁce for so
many years, was a farmer part of
the time. Before him came Nor-
man Coleman, the ﬁrst of all, and
he was a farmer before he was sec-‘
retary 'and for many years after-
ward, though he probably gave more
time to his farm paper than to his
farm. All of these men had exper-
ience that was valuable in office and
some of the experience that they did
not get in farming was as valuable
as any that was acquired while they
were next to the land.

The fact is that the secretary of ag-

riculture oughtto be an all around ‘

 

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man and an administrator. He
ought to have the kind of mind that
will understand farm problems and
if he has had direct experience with
farm problems so much the better.
If he has had no other kind of exper-
ience he may find that taking charge
of a department that numbers its em-
ployes by the thousand is not the
kind of a job he is cut out for.

The problem of ﬁnding a good sec-
retary of agriculture is like that
which every great corporation faces
when it is looking for a president.
Technical men of every grade and
kind, whether they be dirt farmers,

  

. bell will support the man that I hop
~will be president.

steel experts, automobile engineers, I

ac-tuaries or what not can be found,
but the man who can take all of the
experts and all of the men who are
not expert and make them work to-
gether to some useful purpose is rare
and precious. Such a man should be
secretary of agriculture, and if he is

.a practical farmer actually engaged

in farming so much the better, but

the possibilities are that any man.

whois big enough for the job will
have a variety of interests, of which
farming will be only one.'——Detroit

  

. fundamentals of Americanism, name- .'

‘or girl an education.

rwill not appear on the ballot in Nov-

   

    

, n SCHOOL AMENDMDENT'  "

Speaking of the school amend
ment, no, you are not “lined
the wrong side of this question;
Mr. Lamb says you are. ‘But 
have he is the one who is sadl'ygz‘iit
informed. You need not consult. 
priest in any one ‘of the Cathol
faith on this question but onlyfo‘ls
low the dictates of an unprqdjudiced,
conscience, and it will tell any true,
American follower of Washington
and Lincoln which side to choose‘h
the controversy.

Mr. Lamb need not worryabout
the Pope forcing himself on any one.
much less, bigots. He is only zeal?
one that Catholics in America receive
the inalienable right to life, liberty :
and the pursuit of happiness.

Catholics have no fault to ﬁnd with 7
the public schools. They are excel-4
lent and our nation could not en-
dure without them. In fact I am a
teacher in one of them. I am also
a graduate of the hated parochial ‘-
schools. And in view of that fact ‘
I am still a true blue American. I
do not feel that my education has 1
been impaired by my attendance at ‘
the parochial school.

Parochial teachers are efﬁcient in
every respect. They teach the very

   
      
 
 
   
 
  
 
 
 
   
   
  
   
   
   
     
  
   
     
   
 
    
     
  
  
   
   
  
  
     
   
   
    
   
  
   
   
    
  
  
  
    
    
  
   
  
 
  
   
   
   
 
  
    
    
  
    
 
    
  
    
   
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
   
   
 
   
   
 
   
  
 
 
   
   
 

 

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love. They do not teach the latest
fads in dancing, sex study, etc., but.
they do teach religion. And that is"
the only thing that bigots really see
wrong with the parochial schools.
My farmer friends. this amend-
ment spoken of is a strict violation
of the constitution, also of the North
West Ordinance of 1787, which pro-
vides that “schools and the means
of education shall forever be encour-
aged." Parochial schools as well as _.
public are "schools and the means
of education” and who has the right
to abolish them? I should say “No
one has.” We haven't too many
schools that we can afford to close 1
any. Let us be fair-minded! We
need public schools, parochial schools
and every school that can give a boy

It was only a few months ago that
our boys went overseas to rid’for-'
eign countries of autocracy. And
while our boys were enduring the
horrors of war the very seeds of an-
tocracy were sown here in Michigan.
The falling heroes in the great war
have thrown the torch of education,
religious liberty and rights of prop- -
erty to us to hold high, and if we
break faith with them who die they
shall not sleep though poppies grow
in Flander's ﬁelds. '

Lastly, it has been officially an-
nounced by Secretary of State
Vaughan. that the school amendment
is unconstitutional and therefore,

ember. Now I do not know what
Mr. Lamb will do for his “happy
time" he is planning on having in
November. But I know of twoau- .
thentic dates in November for every,

American to celebrate—Armistice
Day and Thanksgiving Day.-—S. M.”
Mt. Pleasant. Mick.

 

WANTS CAMPBELL NOMINAme
I do not know that Milo D. Campvr

I do not know that he could have:
prevented the grasshopper plague in
Michigan. .
I do know that I like some of h
views. ' I

I do know that I think he wi
make_Michigan a good Governor.

I do know that I havea email
fruit farm in Benzie county,
gan. ‘ 

I do know that I have not so
vote in Michigan. .

I do know that I want to s 
Milo D. ,Campbell, therefore it "~
closed $10 tomgB. Cook tor
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I How I Made Threshing
Day Work Lighter

Write and tell me how you
did it. Threshing day is one of
the busiest days in the year for'
the farm wife if she has the
men to a meal and if any of
our readers have found a way
to lighten “the work on that day
would like to pass it on to oth-
ers. Maybe you do certain
things the day before or you
may have certain menus or
some other way that reduces
the work. Just write me .a :5
common letter telling how you - ‘-
do it. For the best letter re-
ceived on this question I will
pay $2, and the second best
letter (BL—CLARE NORRIS.

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- HE FACT that the bankers are
tightening up on their loans does
' not necessarily mean a panic—-
in fact they are very optimistic about
it—they say, and it certainly sounds
reasonable—that no more money will
be lent to ﬁrms or corporations for
the buying of luxuries—unless they
V have sufﬁcient capital to advance the
price or pay when it is due—they will
have Mto stop buying. This applies
to high priced articles of clothing,
toilet articles, etc.

In the past two years the stores
have loaded up—prices have soared
——the people have paid the price, and
the stores were able to meet all their
obligations with few failures. Now
the tide has turned—the stores which
are stocked with high priced silks,
etc., are all advertising sales. Oh,
don’t let their advertisements delude
you—it isn't that they want to re-
duce the high cost of living, but that
the banks are calling for their mon-
ey—and they must meet their obli—
gations—credit will not be longer
extended and at last they are will-
ing to unload these goods for about
what they cost them—and as time
goes on we will have more and more
sales of this kind.

The staple articles will not be
much reduced in prices, so say the
bankers, for it costs too much to pro-
duce them in these days of the high
cost of labor—but the luxuries are
bound to be curbed. It may be a
stiff dose of medicine for some of
the proﬁteers, but we will be better
off without those gougers.

If you want to build a home for
yourself, and have the land all paid
for and about thirty per cent of the
amount needed to build and you are
responsible—but builders who have
been building to speculate—to sell
at inflated prices have found that
they can’t get a dollar of credit at
the banks, and private individuals
who used to be able to borrow 50
per cent of the valuation of their
building after the place was-all clear,
have found that they cannot get
such a high loan now. This is 
ing felt in the building world, and
is doubtless responsible for some of
the shortage of houses, but not whol-
ly, for while materials are as high
as now, unless one has unlimited
means, can do the building themselv-
es. or are driven to it, they will not
build while labor and mateiial re-
. main so high.

And it is the women of the house-
hold to whom this problem of hous-
ing their families satisfactorily—of
“strongly, therefore we shall watch

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FPOLITICAL CALENDAR FOR THE
_ ‘ -BALANCE OF 1920

“Women get into the parties!"

, “August—Primary election, last
Tuesday (31st). To nominate can-
jid to for the ethos of governor, lieu-
‘ ’t governor, state senators and
,ressntatives, congressmen. -
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~ A D epartment fer  the We’men

EDITED BY CLARE NORRIS

county commissioner of school. To
choose delegates to county conven-
tion.

September and October—Re—reg-
istration of all qualiﬁed voters in
townships and cities with\a popula-
tion of 10,000 or over; in others if
so ordered by local legislative au-
thority. This re-registration must
be completed on the third Saturday
preceding the next general November
election (October 16, 1920.)

October—County convention, at
the call of the
county committee

To chose dele—
gates to the
state convention.
State convention
at the call of the
state committees.

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Weekly Cheer

Sing and the world’s harmonious,
Grumble and things go wrong;
And all the time
You’re out of rhyme
\Vlth the busy. bustling throng.

jams syrup can be used in place of

sugar with good results. And in can- ‘

ning there are a number of fruits
that can be put up without sugar,
such as peaches, plums, cherries and
Ferries of all kinds except strawber-
ries and red raspbernies. The can
should be opened a short time before
serving and the sugar added and in
many cases I have found the fruit
has a more natural flavor, and it
doesn’t take as much sugar.
In using syrup (in jelly-you must
. be very careful
because it is apt
g to get waxy'but
g in conserves and
g jams it works
E very nicely. '
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provided for in the August primary
election.

To nominate presidential electors.

November—~General election, ﬁrst
Tuesday after the ﬁrst Monday, 2nd.

To choose——

Presidential electors.

Congressmen.

State ofﬁcers.

State senators and representatives.

County ofﬁcers.

(Arranged by Bertha C. Buell, of
Citizenship Committee, League of
Women Voters, Headquarters 106
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HOME COOKING
(Contributed by Miss Mathes'on)
HE MOST common ways of pre-

Tserving foods are canning, dry-
‘- ing, preserving, pickling and jelly
making. Fruits for a good many
years have been put away for wint—
er use, using one of these methods
for a number of years. But vege-
tables that could not be stored in
the cellar has had to be either sold
or thrown away. The great demand
for food, for the last few years, has
taught us many things and the can-
ning of vegetables has taken a de-
cided increase.

The cold pack canning has been
taught throughout the country and
if the directions are carried out care-
fully there is no reason why any one
couldn’t make a success of it. Just
in selecting your vege-
tables never using them if they have
stood over a day. And one thing,
don't be frightened if the can is not
full of water after you remove if
from the clanner. The vegetables
will keep; never ﬁll the can with
water. let it remain as it is.

The question that we are facing as
we come to the canning season is the
high cost and shortage of sugar. and
it certainly is a serious one. For the
use of fruits in our diet is very nec-
essary for they contain acids and

juice.)

1 Cup dates, cut in small pieces.

1-4 lb. walnut meats.

1 1-2 cups syru-p‘ (commercial.)

1-2 cup seeded raisins.

Remove skins from» peaches, stone
and cut in pieces. Add syrup, rais-
ins, ﬁnely chopped oranges and dates
and water to cover. Cook slowly
for about one hour until thick. Add
nuts ﬁve minutes before removing
from the ﬁre. The dates may be
omitted. .- Put in jelly glasses and
seal with paraffin.

Ginger Pear

1-2 lb. ginger root.

4 oranges, 3 lemons,
rind.

8 lbs. sugar.

1 pint water.

8 lbs. pears, weighed after, pared
andcored. ‘ _ . . . .

Cook the ginger, orange and lem-
on peel with the water until tender
then add the sugar, orange and lem-
on juice and cook until the sugar is
dissolved then add the pears chop-
ped coarse and cook slowly for two.
hours. Seal in cans or jelly glasses.

juice and

BUTTONS AND MATCH BOXES
GREAT TOYS FOR KIDDIES
By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

0 YOU remember that long ago

day when you put the dolls and

dishes up in the attic, because
you had outgrown them, and how you
shed a tear of two because you had?
Never mind; I know a young lady
who earns a lot of pin money mak—
ing toys that sell. There are always
the kiddies at home or next door for
whom you can make play materials.

Button Dolls

Get those white bone buttons that
have two large holes for sewing them
on; they are the heads of these quaint
paper dolls. Glue a button to a body
that you cut from rather heavy card-
board. The holes ingthe button, with
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and build up
the bony tis-
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In the kitchen,

Most bewitchln’: t
There are fruits, out into slices
That Just set the palate ltchin';
There’. the sound of spoon on plotter
And the rattle and the clatter;
And a bunch of kids are hutin'
To the splendid Joy of tutlu’:
It's the fragrant time of year
When fruit cannin’ days are here.

There’s a good wife gnyly smilln’
And perspirin’

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of most ex-
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01' the k°ttles that are steamin"

And the cares that have been troublin’
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As the oannin’ time of your.

Lord, I’m sorry for the fell°r
- That‘i. missln'
All this hissln'
0f the Juices, red and yoller,
And can never sit and listen
To the rattle and theolottor
Of the sound of spoo on platter.
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What are the 0 Women
Asking? I g V

We want to know what the
farm women of _Michigan are
thinking about—what‘questions
they are asking—about house,
farm, their husbands or their
children problems.. Let's get -
this big family of 60,000 wo-
men readers talking it over.

In order to give you an idea
to start on I am suggesting
“How I Made Threshing Day
Work Lighter.” To get live.
questions which women want
discussed on this page I will I“
pay $1 for each question I use
for a future prize letter contest.

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character using other scraps or some
crepe paper. They lend them-
selves to all sorts of different

characterization, such as babies, ke'w-
pies, soldiers, clowns, fairy tale he-
roes and heroines, old folks.

Match Box Furniture

The small boxes, lined with thin '

wood, that hold matches will make
the foundation for delightful d'ol'ls'
house furniture. Glue, scraps of
cretonne and'chintz in a small flow-
ered pattern and hand silk are all
that you need.

Glue together three or four match
boxes so that the boxes will pul) out
like drawers; finish with a cretonne
ruffle and a piece glued to the top,
and you have a bureau. .

One of the boxes with the cover
glued upright to the end makes the
dolls’ bed. Make diminutive bedding
for it, a valance of cretonne, and a
curtain of the same for the head.

Cut one of the boxes in half, glue
it, inverted inside the cover and you
have a high backed chair that you
will be able to uph-olster in silk or
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FOOD FOR GROWTH
ROM A bulletin issued by the de-
Fpartment of interior the follow-
ing suggestions have been select-
ed as important to consider in the
selection of food best suited for the
growth of the child.

- The child is the adult of tomorrow.
The kind of food a child has today
determines, to a considerable extent,
the ﬁtness of the future citizen.

Good food habits should be estab-
Meals should
be taken at regular times; plenty of
water should be taken between the
meals; a child should be taught to
like things that are good for him;
plenty of time Should be allowed for
meals; a child should not be allow
to eat when angry or cross. ‘

A child should not be allowed to
make his entire meal from one or
two articles. He needs a variety of
foods to supply all kinds of groWing
material. > v

Milk shouldform an important
part of the food. for the growing
child. No other; food can takg its
place.
age should have at least three cups
a day. Milk slightly warm is more
easily digested than cold. If a child
rebels against taking milk alone, it

 be given in the form of cocoa. *

milk soups, custards, etc. Tea and
coffee should not be given to' child-
ren at all.~ '- ,
Very little meat need be given be-
fore the seventh year where plenty
of milk and. an egg 9. day'are. in-
cluded in the diet of the child. [Do
not allow more than two‘ ounces
daily for a child from seven to ten

“years; three ounces dailyfor a child

from ten to fourteen years..

When ‘ meat and eggs .cannot - be,
used because of scarcity or ‘cost, the
should contain a . quart. or milk - *

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“More magic," the
miured, as Francis,
emce, said:

 I _“Mr. Bascom will undoubtedly ar-

' rive back in half an hour. This is
Morgan talking—Francis Morgan.

‘ Mr. Bascom left for his ofﬁce not ﬁve
minutes ago. When he arrives, tell
him thatI have started for his of-
.ﬂce and shall not be more than ﬁve
minutes behind him. This is import-
ant. Tell him I am on the way.
Thank you. Good bye.” ‘
. Very naturally, with all the wond-
ers of the great house yet to be show
her, the Queen betrayed her disap-
pointment when Francis told her he
must immediately depart for a place
called Wall Street.

“What is it?" she asked, with a
pout of displeasure, “that drags you
away from me like a slave?"

“It is business—and very import-
ant,” he told her with a smile and a
kiss.

‘And what is Business that 'it
should have power over you who are
a king? Is business the name of
your god whom all of you worship
as, the Sun God is worshipped by my
people?"

He smiled at the almost perfect
appositeness of her idea saying.

: Queen mur-
getting“ Bascom's

“It is the great American god.
Also, is it a very terrible god. and
when it slays it slays terrible and

swiftly.”

“And you have incurred its dis-
pleasure?" she queried. _

"Alas. yeS, though I know not
how. I must go to Wall Street "

“Which is its altar?" she broke in
to ask. '

“Which is the altar,” he answer-
ed. “and where I must ﬁnd out
wherein I have offended and where-
in I may placate and make amends.”

His hurried attempt to explain to
her the virtues and functions of the
maid he had wired for from Colon,
scarcely interested her, and she
broke him off by saying that evident—
ly the maid was similar to the Indi-
an. women who had attended her in
the Valley of Lost Souls, and that
she had been accustomed to person-
al service 'ever since she was a little
girl learning English and Spanish
from her mother in the house on the
lake.

But when Francis caught up his
hat and kissed her, she relented and
wished him luck before the altar.

After several hours of amazing ad-
ventures in her own quarters, where
the maid, a Spanish-speaking French
woman, acted as guide and mentor,
and after being variously measured
and gloated over by a gorgeous wo-
man who seemed herself a queen,
and who was attended by two young
women, and who, in the Queen’s
mind was without doubt summoned
to serve her and Francis, she came
back down the grand stairway to in-
vestigate the library with its myster-
i‘Ous telephones and ticker.

Long she gazed at the ticker and
listened to its irregular chatter. But
she, who could read and write Eng-
lish and Spanish, could make nothing
of the strange hieroglyphics that
grew miraculously on the tape. Next,
she explored the ﬁrst of the tele-
phones.- Remembering how Francis
had listened, she put her ear to the
transmitter. Then, recollec-ting his
use of the receiver, she took it off its
hook ‘and placed it to her ear. The
voice, unmistakably a womans
sounded so near to her that in her
startled surprise she dropped the re-
ceiver and recoiled. At this moment
Parker, Francis'cld valet, chanced
toenter the room. ‘She had not ob-
served his carriage, and, so immac-
ulate was his-dress, so digniﬁed his
carriage, that she mistook him for
a friend of Francis rather than a
servitor—a friend similar to Bas«
com who had met them at the sta-
tion with Francis’ machine, ridden
‘ inside with them as an equal,»yet
departed with Francis’ commands in
his ears which it was patent he was

obe . '
to At syight of Parker's solemn face
she laughed with embarrassment and
“‘ointed inquirineg to the telephone.
golemnly he picked upthe receiver,
urmured “a mistake,” into the
“smitten: andlhung up. Inthose
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nd' herself whom

‘Parker merely stiffened up more
stiffly, assumed a s'olemner expres-
sion and boWed. ‘

"There is a woman concealed in
the house,” she charged with quick
words. “Her voice speaks there in
that thing. She must be in the next
room—"

“It was central," Parker attempt-
ed to stem-the flood of her utter—
ance.

"I care not what her name is,"
the Queen dashed on. “I shall have
no other woman but myself in my
house. Bid her begone. I am very
angry."

Parker was even stiﬂer and sol-
emner and a new mood came over
her. Perhaps this digniﬁed gentle-
man was higher than she had sus-
pected in the hierachy of the lesser
kings, she thought. 'Almost might
be an equal king with Francis, and
she had treated him peremptorin as
less, as much less.

She caught him by the hand in her
impetuousness noting his reluctance,
drew him over to the sofa, and made
him sit beside her. To add to Park-
er's discomﬂture, she dipped into a
box of candy and began to feed him
chocolates, closing his mouth with
the sweets every time he opened it
to protest.

“Come,” she said, when she had
almost choked him, “is it the cus-
tom of the men of this country to be
polygamous?” ,

I Parker was aghast at such raw-
ness of frankness.

“Oh, I know the meaning of the
word," she assured him. “So I re—
peat: is it» the custom of the men of
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3;: lie man’aged to enun-
“Th’at'voice you heard is not
the voice of..a woman in this house,
but the voice of a'woman miles away
who is your.servant, or is anybody’s
servant who desires to talk over the
telephone."

“She is a slave of the mystery?"
the Queen questioned, beginning to
get a glimmer of the actuality of the
matter.

“Yes,” he husband’s valet admit-
ted. “She is a slave of the tele-
phone.”

“0f,the flying speech?"

“Yes, madam, call it that, of the
flying speech.” He was desperate to
escape from a situation unprecedent-
ed in his entire career. "Come I will
show you, madam. This slave of the
flying speech is yours to command
both by night and day. If you wish,
the slave will enable you to talk with
your husband, Mr. Morgan—"

“Now?”

Parker nodded, arose, and led her
to the telephone.

“First of all," he instructed, “you
will speak to the slave. The instant
you take this down and put it to
your ear, the slave will respond. It
is the slave‘s invariable way of say—
ing ‘number?’ Sometimes she says
it, ‘Number? Number?’ And some-
times she is ve‘ry irritable."

“When the slave has said 'Number’
then do you say ‘Edystone 1292,’
whereupon the slave will say ‘Eddy-
stone 1292?’ and then you will say,
‘Yes, please—’ ”

“To a slave I shall say ‘please’?
she interrupted.

“Yes, madam, for these slaves of
the flying speech are peculiar slaves
that one never sees. I am not a

  

 

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Morgan will begin to talk to‘

“From miles and miles awra

“Yes, madam—just as if 
in the next room. And when 
Morgan says ‘Goodbye,’ you will. 
‘Goodbye' and hang up as you 11%;;
seen me do." ‘ "

And all that Parker had told her:
came to pass as she carried out hi
instructions. The two different slav
es obeyed the magic of the numbing
she gave them, and Francis talked?
and laughed with her, begged hen?
not to be lonely ,and promised to b6
home not later than ﬁve that aftera
noon. - ‘

   
 
 
 
 
   
  

    
  
   
 
  
     
    
  
   
  
   
   
   
    
    
    
   
   
   
 
  
 
  
    
   
  
 
 
 
    
   
  
  
    
  
    
   
      

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day, Francis was a very busy an ;
perturbed man.

“What secret enemy have you?”
Bascom again and again demanded._ 
while Francis shook his head in 1114
tility of conjecture. :

(Continued next week)

()HEERING WORDS

I have been a reader of the M. B.
F. for several years. I consider its
valuable paper as it stands for the
interests of the farmer and not the
millionaire. It is always a welcome, 
visitor in our home—B. 0., Lapeer '
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 _ EAR CHILDREN: Only a law
more weeks and then school be-
‘ gins. Are you sorry or are you
glad! When I was little and lived
on the farm it seemed as it the
months during the vacation time was
the shortest months in the you.
,.Does it seem that way to you, boys
and girls? ~
Boys. do you remember the story
and pictures of Raymond Buckman
and the cup which he as Junior
Waylon Corn Grower at Michigan
(or 1919 that we printed in the front
part oi! M. B. F. last May? He lived
in Macomb county and raised one
“hundred and sixteen bushels of corn
on an acre otground, and was only
twelve years old. Remember it?
Well, I would like to have you boys
write to me and tell me if you have
a corn club in your neighborhood
and if you belong to it, how your
corn is» growing and everything. If
you don’t have a corn club in your
neighborhood tell me about what you
have planted on the farm this year
and what you are going to do with
the money when you sell it.
Now girls, do you remember that
in the story I just ask the boys

the girl's canning club? How one
girl canned over twelve hundred
quarts in one year. If you have a
canning club I would like to have
you write me about it. If you haven’t
any such club but have canned

it, will you?

If you don’t remember the story I
speak about ask papa or mama, or
ﬁnd the May ﬁrst issue of the M. B.
F. and look on page 4. Affe-ct‘ionate-
ly yours—‘—AUNT CLARE.

. EARNING MONEY
(c O-O-HO—O-O, Skin-n-a— a~ y !
YDid you know that us boys,
and the girls too, can win
some of the money in the M. B. F.’s
Bdg Gold Contest?” '

' Yes girls and boys,.you can win
the money as well as your mama or
papa or your big brother or sister.
Maybe you haven’t read about it yet.
In case you haven’t I’m going to tell
you something about it. We want
to get a lot of new subscribers this
month and are going to pay our read-
ers, both children and grown-ups
some money to get these subscribers
for us. We have taken $100 and
are going to divide it up into six
prizes. The ﬁrst prize is to be $50;
the second prize, $25;,-the third, $10;
, fourth, $5; the ﬁfth, $5 and the sixth
'1‘. $5. Now as to what you have to do
“ to earn this money. First, the sub-

scribers you are to get for us must
.be people that do not take M. B. F.
now. Second, they are to give you
$25 for which they are to receive
this paper irom‘now until January
1, 1921. Third, you must send the

*money you get and the names and

addresses or the people who gave you

the money to us every Saturday. And
the last names you send us must

(reach. us by the ﬁrst day or Septem-

ber. I'l‘hen we add the names up
and the one that sent in the most.
'-names and money gets $50 and“‘ths'

.next One gets $25, and so on.

“$100 in prizes! Gee, let's get
busy.’r'

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Dear Aunt Clare—This is the ﬁrst

time I have written to you. My father

takes the M. B, F. and likes it ﬁne. I

have sewn brothers and one sister. I

:[m heleven years old, Lucy Max. Alger,
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Dear Aunt Clare—t1 am a girl ten
years of age. I.will be in the sixth
ade, This is the second letter I have

5" ﬁltten to you.

  
  

I would like to see my
Miss Grace Groh, Pin-

  

.ter in print.
conning Mich.

 

* ,Dear Aunt Clare—I have never writ.
ten to you before. I am a girl 9 cars
gold. I will be in the sixth gra Q at
001 next year. For pets I have two
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Muskrat Champion

OW WOULD you like to live in

a house that is washed away
every spring so that you would
have to build a new » ‘ *"
one for the next
winter? 'That is ',.
what the muskrat' ‘
_ does. ’

He has two hous—
. es, though- In. the
summer he and Mrs.
Muskrat live in a
house dug out of
the bank .0 i a
stream. He starts‘
the entrance to his
housebeiow the wa-
ter and digs up into
the bank until he is
above high water
line. Then he starts
making a sort or a
chamber or room in
which he and his
mate can live. Some-
times these holes cause a lot of troub-
le. No end of dams and levees have
been washed out because the Water
got to seeping through the holes
leading to Mr. Muskrat's home and
soon grew into a hole which wiped
out the dam.

When winter comes, Muskrat and
his mate travel to some swampy‘place
where they and several of their rel-
atives build another sort of a house,
a little conical affair made !" reeds
and clay and looking much like the
beaver’s house only smaller. The

 

of March. We have 5 cows and

horses and 3 calves, For pets we have

a dog and three cats. Will close for this

ﬁtneh. Mildred Wheeler Fife Lake,
10 .

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Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl 12 years
old and am in the‘eigh‘h grade next
year. I am sending a picture of a little
overall boy. I live on an 80 acre farm.
We have 3 head of horses and 6 milk
cows and 6 caIVes. For a pet I have a
dog named Buster. Leota Lamb, Lake
City. Mich., R 2.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—J like the Child--
ren's page the best of all. I will be i
the 4th grade at school next car,
have two brothers and one sister. I live
on a farm of 70 acres. An aeroplane
slit on my father’s ﬁeld about two weeks
ago, I hope my letter will be in print.
Adaline Alice Zylman, Vicksburg, Mich.

Dear Aunt Clare—I have never writ-
ten to you. I am a girl ten years old.
I have ﬁve brothers and three sisters. I
will be in the ﬁfth grade next year. My
father takes the M. B, F, and likes it
very well. I like to read the Children’s
page. I live on a 100 acre farm. As my

    
     
 

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root to this home too is underground.

In one of these houses several tami-

lies of muskrats spend the winter.

, In the springlthis
house is washed
away by the ﬂoods,
and Mr. Muskrat is
too, it he doesn’t
get out in time. He
then moves some-

bank or the stream
and builds or rath-
er digs his summer
home. _

He is oi brown-
ish color, shading
from a black brown
on his back to a
chestnut brown on
his sides. His tail
is ‘black, almost blue
on the under side.
This tail is a very
interesting aﬁair. It
is flattened sideways into the shape
of a paddle and fringed with still
hairs. Mr. Muskrat uses it as a tool
with which to swim. This tail takes
up more than a third of Mr. Musk-
rat's length. He is usually about
twenty-one inc-hes long, so you see,
his tail is something over seven inch-
es in length. He needs it, too, for
the greatest portion of his existence
is passed in the water and f9r that
reason he needs a good strong swim-
ming instrument.

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to see my letter in print. Paulina
Weber, Freeland, Mich.

Dear Aunt Clare--This is the ﬁrst
time I have written to you. We take the

M. B. F. and like it very much. We live
on an 80 acre farm. For my pets I have
a calf and a pig. I hope to “(tin a. prize
for my horse and see my lette in rint.
I am a boy 12 years of age. Igarry
Madzelna, Mesick, Mich., R I.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—I have never writ-
ten to on before. My father takes the
M. . I like to read the Children’s
page, I am a girl 12 years old. I go
to school nearly every day. I will be
in the seventh grade next year. For
pets I have three cats. I will close hop-
ing to see my letter in print. Clara
Weber, Freeland, Mich.

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Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl 15
years old and am I too old to join in
with the rest of you? I hope to be a
school teacher when I grow up. I am
in the tenth grade and like to go to
school very much. I can tat and crochet
and do some plain knitting.
like to exchange some tating patterns

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with some of the We and I'll send them
some of mine. a live on a 40 acre
farm. For pets I have sales. and tour

We have a car and my brother
has a motorcycle _with a side car and
sometimes he takes me to ride with him.
My father takes the M. B. F. and likes

it very mu . W111 some of the girls
write to ,me I will be yery sin. to
hear from them. Will close with best
wishes to all. Fern Rosella Harrington.
Dorr, Mich. v

 

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—-Iis.sel Johnson. Newam. Mich-

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Dear Aunt (Haze—I am a girl 9 years
old, lellbe la-shsmurthgrade next
year. My father takes the M. B. F. and
lites it v much. ,1 live on a farm of
99,, acres. e have 8 and 6 cows
and 16 pigs. This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you. I hope to see my
letter in rint. Bernice Sartwell. Hes-
perio. Mi igan, R 1.

Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl nine
years old and .I live on a farm of 120
acres. I read the letters in the M. B.
F. and enioy reading them ve much.
I live with my grandma. I hep all I
I am learning to make cake and
We have seventy little chick-
ens. I help talae care 0% tliem.I  all): it:
th fourth gra e at so 00. o
e: my letter in print. Gladys Gulick.
Shaftsburg, -Mich.

Dear Aunt Clare—I am a girl eleven
years old and I like to read the M .
F. especially the Childrens Page. My
father takes the M. B. F, and likes it
very much. I do not live On a farm. I
live in town_ I will be in the sixth
grade next year. I hope to see my let-
ter in print. This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to ou. I will have to close
to leave room or others. Elsie Wells,
Midland, Mich.

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to iron,

 

 

Dear Aunt Clare—I have just been
reading the boys and girls letters and
am very interested in the Childrens
I-Iour. I wrote once before but my let-
ter was not in print. I'am a girl nine
years old and in the 5th grade, For
pets I have three rabbits and two cats
I have one brother and one sister.

 

will close, hoping to see my letter . in
print. Lydia Mae Osborne, Mason.
Mich. .

Dear 'Aunt Clare—This i the ﬁrst

I have written you.’ I am eeven years
old and will be in-the sixth grade next
year. We take the M. B. F. I read the
Children’s Hour and enjoy it very much,
We girls went in swimming the other
da and the.pony went in with us. He
on eye swimming as much as we do. I
am sending a picture of him and we
three girls in the cart. Virginia Sutton,
Bancroft, Mich., R 1.

Dear Aunt Clare—This is the. ﬁrst
time I hava written to you. My father
takes the M, F. and likes it ﬁne. I
am eleven years old and weigh 108
pounds, I help my father with the hay-
ing. We own a farm of 250 acres. I
have two sisters and two brothers. We
have an Overland car. For pets we
have ﬁve kittens and a dog. I hope to
see this letter in print. Olive Fraleigh.
Jeddo, Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Clare—This is my ﬁrst
letter to you. I am in the third grade
’and I am 8 years old. I have one milb
and a half to go to school. My father
takes the M. B. F, and likes it ﬁne. We
have 200 acres of land,‘6 horses and 18
cows. 4 calves and 44 sheep. We keep
one hired man, We live 18 miles from
Muskegon. Will close, hoping'to ‘see my
letter in kpilot. Mildred Pierson, Mus-

‘kegon. M
Dear Aunt Clare—Ibis is the ﬁrst
time I have written to you. I like to

read the boys and girls letters very
much. I live on a 120 acre farm in
Fraser township, Bay county. I
the following little venue *
the other day and I
send it in. Perhapg some.
like to read it. If this escapes the
waste basket I will. write again and send
in another one. Beatrice McKeon, Pint
conning. Mich.,, 2.

Twas midnight on the ocean

Net. a street car was in sight

The forest ﬁre burned dimly bright

It rained all day that night.
‘T’was a winter’s day in August

The. snow was sleet!ng"fast.

When. a barefoot boy with shoes on

Stood sitting in the grass.

Dear Aunt Clare—I am a. girl 11 years
old and in the 6th grade_- For pets I
have a dog and a cat. We live on a 20
acre tarm and We also have. 3, horses

read
:1 a .naper
I would

 

and 2 news. I am going to write a
true story 045 my. wren. Will close. .hoo-

ing to see my letter _in.print.
Stanley Bangor, 'Michi,’ It ~
- My Wren and I .

Once I. heard a wren out by the gar-
den and it was trying to ﬁnd a place to
build her nest. so I ‘went and made ' a
little.an house. and out a pan -on the

Miss. Douise

‘ post near by- and nailed the house to the

post and went back and sat ,down to.
watch. and soon‘she'had “built her nest
and layer] her and than it didn‘t '

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. agood steers in Chicago last week Was
$14.50; this price was'35 Cents low-
or than the week before (and $1.75
lower than for the same week‘ last
year. Detroit got a liberal‘run' ‘of
cattle on Monday of the, current
week- and the outlook favors further
price recessions locally in this de-
partment. The demand fer yearling
cattle of good quality is strong in
all markets and current receipts are
far short of the' demand of this kind.

The demand for dressed beef show-
ed. a marked improvement last week
over the week before which contain-
ed a string of Jewish holidays. On
Friday of last week, carcasses of
beef which carried good quality,
were from $1 to $2.50 per cwt. high-
er in casterncitlee than on the‘same
day of the week before. Kosher beef
took, a big jump all around the mar-
ket circle; these conditions had a
marked effect upon the sale of cat—
tle. Beginning a week ago last
Monday and continuing.,up to the
present, the spread between high
grade killing cattle has steadily in-
creased until it is a fact that some
of the poorer grades of canning cattle
will little more than pay freight and
shipping expenses. In Chicago and
western markets the dividing line in
the steer division is at about $14.50
per cwt, Kansas City is about the
only market that is getting grass cat-
tle that yield satisfactory dressing
percentages. The chief drawback,
connected with .the purchase of the
grass cattle just at this time, is the
uneven quality which they show;
killers ﬁnd it very hard to estimate
the “yield” of these cattle so they
Eloy safe by buying them very low.

or some weeks to come, prime kill-
tng cattle will gain in value and the
kind that invoice only hide and bones
will continue to work lower. Veal
calves are ﬁne under moderate re-
ceipts. Stock cattle are sharply
lower.

The outlook for the sheep and
lamb trade is decidedly bad at this
writing and nothing but lower prices
can be safely predicted. The larg-
est run of the season, at the week
end in Chicago and western markets,
made a bad finish of a week that
had shown a'trend toward lower
prices from the opening on Monday
0 the close on Saturday night. The
average price for fat lambs in Chi-
cago last week was $15.20. Bo-th
native and western range lambs
showed a loss in Chicago, from the

eginning to the end of last week, of

5 cents to $1.00 per cwt. Mature
sheep made‘a better showing, prices

aining about 25 cents per cwt. from
he close of the week before. The
top in Detroit. on Monday of this
week was $14 forlambs, a (11‘!) of
$2 per cwt. in two weeks. The wool
market is still in a comatose condi-
tion but there is a fair prospect of an
early revival in demand. Feeding
lambsare lower and slow sale at the
decline. ,

The hog market of last week
While it was rather disappointing to
the men who had hogs to sell, was
considered a decidedly healthy trade;

 

   

or: {115.36% artists “at “

a decidedly active call? .for

ﬁnished hogs, than on Monday of last
week. The speculative trade in pro-
visions has had a hard road to travel
of late, but better things are looked
for in the near future. The writer
expects to see higher prices for both
live hogs and hog products before
the close of next month.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET
‘Potatoes are a little lower and“ in
ample supply. Cahbages are easy
and there is a steady tone'in other

 of the vegetable deal. Berries»

are-’hflarse? supply and there, is not
mach doing. Butter easy and ahead-
.ant. ‘ Receipts are holding up well
“and consumers are not specially act-
ive as purchasers. With eggs the
tone,“ is ﬁrm and all receipts that-are
in. good condition ﬁnd competition
among consumers. In the poultry
deal. there is an oversupply of small
broilers and consumers are not tak-
ing that kind freely. The price is a
little lower, but other lines hold
steady and there are plenty of buy-
ers for the best hens and broilers.
Dressed calves and hogs are steady.
Blackberries—$9 @10 per bu.
Huckleberries—$9 @10 per bu.
Black Currants—$11@12 per bu.
Apples—~New, Michigan, $2@
2.50 per bu.
Gooseberries—$1@1.25 per 6 qt.
basket.
Raspberries—Red, $11 @ 12; black
$9@10 per bu.
Cherries—$2.75@3 per 16 quart
case for sour and $3@3.25 per 16-
quart case for sweet.
Cabbage—4@5c per lb.
Popcorn—Shelled, 100 per lb.
Green Corn—50@600 per dos.
Celery—Michigan, 25 @ 40c
dozen.

per

Dressed Hogs——Light, 1 8 @ 206;
heavy, 16@17c per lb. .
Dressed Calves—Best, 26 @ 26c;

ordinary, 20@23c per 1b.

Tomatoes—Home grown, $6 @ 6.50
per bu.; hothouse, $1.25 per 7-pound
basket.

Cantaloupes—$5@6 per standard
crate; $2.25@2.50 for flats and $4
@5 for pony crates.

Live Poultry—Broilers, 48@52c;
Leghorn broilers, 38@40c; hens, 36
@37c; small hens, 34@35c; roost-
ers, 20@22c; geese, ,18@20c; ducks,
36@38c; turkeys, 4-0@44c per 1b.

Hides—No. ‘1 cured calf, 28c; No.
1 green calf, 25c; No. 1 cured kip,
20c; No. 1 green kip, 18c; No. 1 cur-
ed hides, 16c; No. 1 green hides, 130;
No. 1 green bulls, 10c; No. 1 cured
bulls, 13c; No. 1 horsehides, $7; No.
2 horsehides, $6. Tallow: No. 1, 80;
No. 2, 6c. Sheep pelts, 25c@2.50;
No. 2 hides, 10 and No. 2 kip and
calf 1 1—2c off. ’

 

 

 

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.. THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer
CbaﬂfovAw 192°

east quadrant The northeast and
southwest quadrants will average
about same temperatures as the cent-
er of the storm. Big storms have a
clear or partially cloudy center with
dense clouds all around that center.
Most precipitation falls ‘on that side
of the atom which is in the direction
from its center toward that part of
the ocean waters from which
moisture comes, Some moisture
new still coming from the Gulf
Mexico but most of Rooms: from 
Bailing Bay. Beans Ba» moisture
will increase for several months and
that from the Gulf of Mexico decrease.
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threat will better than
average Some great destruction
?!” will I (rein terms-am
his
will cover comparatively nan eso-
tions. My m of storms
for e' .v on July 23
was certain atoll August



as
weather: it‘zviil he radical.

a re-
” , break in values was regain-
; edwh’ut the market cleaned up Well

every day and the week ended with
york
weights and medium hogs but rather
a slack *demand'for the heavy kinds.
Chicago took a little off on Monday
of this week and Detroit was higher
for pigs and about 15 cents lower for

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_‘ year. becauseof this and others given no
«attention.- Is there any law or way to
  compel the Highway Commissioner to
 see-that these are cut?5He notiﬁes me,
with others every year to cut all foul
stuff on my premises, but these vacant
‘ farms are let go and a menace to the
», entire country. There must be some-
1 thing done at once, as the seed balls are
“grits-ed now.———Subscriber, Thompsonville

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in Sections 4603, 4604, 4606, 4606,
and 4607 of the C. L. of 1915 pro-
vide that it shall be unlawful to al.
- e l low such weeds to grow. If the own-

' er d'bes not cut them then the high-
. way commissioner, overseer, or some

one employed by them shall cut them
1 and the cost shall be levied as a tax.

To collect the tax strict compliance
,- with the law laid down will be neces-
sary. The law provides that the
highway commissioner neglecting his
duty may be ﬁ=nedr.——W. E. Brown, 16-
agl‘eclitor.

 

.f SOWIN G ALFALFA
Will alfalfa sown this August make hay
i next summer? My land is sandy. Will
it do Well on sandy soil? I have heard it
i is hard on the land.. Is it?—J, M. W.
Gratiot County.

“As a general rule, plantings
i made in early August in lower Mich-
‘ igan secure a good start before wint-
j er, and furnish two cuttings of hay
( the following year. Should extraor-
dinarily dry weather occur soon af-
i ter planting, or 'in case of an early
‘ winter, the start made in summer and
{fall may be retarded and a light
stand secured. During the present
season, however, we have had a good
i supply of summer rain and alfalfa
. seedings made in early August should
I do well. Seed beds free of weeds
can be prepared'at this time.
Sandy land is well adapted to al-
‘ falfa if properly handled. The ap-
plication of two tons of ground lime—
stone or several cubic yards of marl
should be made. It is important
that light land be ﬁrmly packed with
1 roller or cultipacker at the time of
.’ seeding. Several rollings just before
: seeding, or use of the cultipacker,
both before and after seeding, is ad-
f vised. A light top dressing of ma-
‘ nure worked into the seed bed at the
time of planting or applied in late
fall, should aid in giving alfalfa a
good start.

Culture for inoculation of alfalfa
may be secured from the Department
of Bacteriology of the Michigan Avg-
ricultural College, East Lansing,
Mich. The price is 25c per bottle
and one bottle contains sufﬁcient
material to inoculate a bushel of
seed.

Land is greatly beneﬁtted by
growing alfalfa and crops of corn,
potatoes and following crops of small
grains after a stand of alfalfa, are
usually considerably larger than
when grown in ordinary rotation.

Circular No. 97 from the Michi-
gan Agricultural College gives de-
tailed information in regard to al-

I ' falfa growing—J. F. 00w, Professor
' Farm Crops, M. A. 0'.

 

SAND VETCH

When is the right time to sow sand
vetch and how much to the acre? Are
the roots as good as clover'sod for the
ground? As for hay, can horses be fed
on sand vetch in winter time? Where
can the seed be bought?———E. L. M,, Bailey.

 

Sand vetch for best results, should
be planted during August or early
September. Seedings made during
the middle or latter part of August
have a much better chance for a
good start, before winter, than plant-
ings made in the latter part of Sep-
tember. We would advise planting
20 pounds of vetch with one bushel
of rye. The seed bed should be pre—
pared as is usual for rye with par-
ticular attention given to packing
ﬁrmly with roller or cultipackcr be-
fore planting.

. Applications of ﬁnely ground lime-
, stone and marl are usually necessary
I on lands needing lime.

Culture for. the inoculation of
vetch may be secured-from the De-
partment of Bacteriology of the
, inhlsan «Agricultural College. East
Mich. Therpri'ce 13254: per,

  
  
    
  
  
 
 
   

 
 

 
  
 
 

  
 
   
  
 
  
 
  

 

   

  

 

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(A ole-rm Department for fli‘l‘ﬂﬂ‘t' every day troubles. 
um department. 0 are here to serve you. Subscribers duh-m s jpemm

of seed. Directions for application
accompany the .material. ‘

The vetch and rye mixture makes,

an excellent hay and the vetch alone
is comparable to alfalfa in feeding
value. The mixture of rye and vetch
can be fed safelyto horses, but vetch
alone should be fed with a mixture
of other hay, as alfalfa isfed.

Sand vetch may be secured through
the Farm Bureau Seed Department,
Lansing, Mich” or from the S. M.
Isbell Company of Jackson or the
A. J. Brown Company of Grand Rap-
ids—J. F. 00:12, Professor of Farm
Crops, M. A. 0.

EVICTED; NOT PAYING RENT

Is it possible to evict a tenant _who is
behind in paying his rent, even though
he has a garden planted? I will look
for an answer in the M. B. F.-—J. M. A,.
Gould City, Mich.

 

Tenants who fail to pay rent ac-
cording to contract may be evicted.
Upon his eviction his rights in the
garden are terminated. To protect
his garden rights he must pay rent
as agreed—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

TRANSPLANTING PEONIES
Will you please inform we through the
columns of your paper, when it is best
to transplant. peony mots—A Subscriber,
Caro, Mich,

We would advise that the plants .

be dug either in the fall or very early
spring. Since the peony start to
grow so early in the spring it is bet-
ter to transplant in the fall after
growth is completed.

The peony plants desire a moder-
ately rich, well-drained soil. Fresh
manure should not be used near the
roots. If old plants are dug for
transplanting the crowns can be di-
vided, but it is usually two or three

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FIRM SETTLES AFTER NEARLY
' A YEAR

“I sent for a hat, waist and coat.
I received the hat and waist. The
whole order amounted to $28.25;
The part they sent amounted to $7.96
and I have never received the coat
I have written twice to them and
have had no reply. The coat and
parcel post amounted to $20.29. I
put it in the Justic of the Peace’s
hand. He wrote to them and had no

reply. Then he made draft on our '

home bank and they would not send
it in. The ﬁrm sent me a card that
if the rest of my goods did not come
in a few days to send it back and I
did so and I had no reply. My order
was sent Sept. 27, 1919. I got the
card about the middle of November,
before I put it in the Justice of the
Peace hands. The order was sent to
Bellas, Hess & Co., New York, N. Y.
—Miss M. 11., Twining, Mich, June
30th. -

On July 15th the Bellas Hess Co.
acknowledged receipt of the com-
plaint and enclosed copy of letter
written to our subscriber as follows:

“We are in receipt of a. communca-
tion from THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMEB, relative to an order placed
with us for which you have failed to
resolve a satisfactory adjustment.
Enclosed herewith is our check for
$20.29 the amount due you. We
realize that you have sufficient cause
for complaint, but we want to as-
sure you that we are glad you have
given us an opportunity -to adjust
matters satisfactorily.”—-Bellos, Hess
& 00. . , M

 

LAWYER FAILS TO COLLECT; M.
' B. F. SUGGEEDS

“The 31st day of March last / I
sent to the Home Tire 3:; Rubber
Corp., of Grand Rapids for two 30 x
8 tires they sent me a circular ad-
vertising then» for $10.45 each.’ I
sent them a check for 320.90. In
about 8 days I received one tire. I
wrote, to them twice and could not
get any reply so I had a lawyer in
town write and he‘ . (1063115; get any
so .I zthcy: are sign
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years after-trhnsplanting before such would but} or‘a inch
aplents become: thoroughly .re—estabc gageagﬁg 31°91?
dished and~pnoduce.the'beetdilmmsﬁ‘a two‘horsétc iti‘veto‘r‘
The plants should be setrat the not out wide snout
same depth» as they were previously aﬁﬂ‘f tlﬁﬂ‘g“ “ﬂag? W 5”“
growing, deep planting. or shallow, Subscriber,: Marlon,

planting both being common errors

   

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wide. , The, objection.
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in setting any plants. The crown of. ’ "I knew 0‘ '16 Iatméhme‘lt’ [#é',‘
the'plant should be slightly MIMI manufactured which will meet the

the s 1 amer planting_ Plants may needs as you describe them. _‘I called~
glhted over winter with leaves Ft the JOhn Deere HOW (JO-branch
or straw—0. P. Hallegan, Prefessor at Lansing. recently _9~nd Mr- Hum
informed me that to his knowledge
there is no such implement except
as it is found on the two-horse cule '
tivator. He suggested that ‘

be pr
of Horticulture, M. A. 0.

 

PURCHASED BEANS AT OWN RISK

In the ﬁrst part ofGMay We:ng1d 601110 over the land with a double disc har-‘

beans to say John De mate. ,0 was at

one placo and looked at the beans that in ‘row wohld be an efﬁcient means of
he looked at 2 b885- We told him to destroying the thjsﬂes

look at all the bags but he. ,at that time

said that he did not have time to look '433" Professor
at all the bags, He asked my brother chanlcs, M. A. 0

how the other bags were. H told him
that he did not know as ey were
threshed at the time he was in athe
army, but he was buying the beans just

as they Were then. He and my, brother ernment loan.
went to my other brother who was in the a, new farm in the woods,
ﬁeld workinx- This brother asked him office or bank in this part of the state?
if he had seen all the beans. He said -—Subscriber, ~Cheboy

“yes I do not bu a cat in the bag,” then ——_.___,
they started tal ing about the price,
Then my brothers told him that if we

would not sell them for less than :3 a
bushel, but ﬁnally they agreed on 2.75

when received he said that the beans

beans and bought them as they were.

Can he new force us to return him the writing metham-
price that he payed for the beans. He to have an abstract of title, to be Bible

has returned the beans, that is, he has to Show a clear title in the applicant
to have their own appraisers
praise the land and to loan only one
half of the appraised
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

thrown them on the road after we re-
fused to accept the beans._—G, R
Zeeland, Mich. ‘ .

' You'are not liable upon your state-
ment of facts. He bought the beans
at his own risk.~—W. A. Brown, legal

editor. RID-REGISTRATION
Understand-that in order to vote on
the parochial school amendment eve
voter has to re-register before Aug. 1
1920. Please let us know if that is con-

E.’ 0. Sauce.
,‘Dept. of Farm Ho- ..

 

GOVERNMENT LOAN

Please give me the facts of the go
I am just starting in on-

I have understood that the Land
couldn’t get over $4 a hundred they Banks have not been making recent
would feed them to the hogs but the}r loans on account of the ﬁnancial con-
dition of the country and also be-
a bushel. He payed 350. Then we were cause of legal contests involving the
to send the beans which we had but banks thermaelves. lithink ether-e “1.
were mouldy and that he wanted .a re- no bank “eater to you that the Fed‘

bate on the same which we refused to oral Land Bank of St. Paul, Minn.
do on ‘the grounds that he hadseen the You could obtain

It is their method '

valuation.--i '

I

A re—registration is required 

5 THE COLLECTION 39x   ._   

Mich. ‘
This complaint was promptly tak-

follows: .

“Three cheers for your paper.” ' I
received a check in full'frOm that ’
Grand Rapids .Tires 00., you wrote

Fowlervllle, Mich.

 

COMMISSION COLLECTED

my neighbor. I received a letter

ter some time ago and received no

Mich, July 8th. ‘
On July 15th, the Babson Com-

. gal editor.

pany sent us a copy of a letter they WHEAT‘ 0N BARLEY GEO

I have a piece of barley ground sown
on corn stubble. Imdisced the ground in
u , ﬁtting for the barley. '

I just received a. letter ' from was sod turned under for the corn, Th
gall istclay loalm, lwell duraineg. Wguld a
. _ etsae n_powng..a er arves .an

"I depend 8: great deal on my Old top_ dressing-.withstable manure? What

customers in recommending the Me- -' WOUId‘You “Vise .me to ﬂow with tim-

lotte Separator and making sales fer $33154 ‘gfkglﬁcggg‘icglfg’g °r

had written to our subscriber, as fol-
lows: -

Tim MICHIGAN BUSINESS Fumes.

 

me. It is of course, my desire and in- '
ten-tion to ‘send every — commission

 

 

you the commission duo on'the sale ' the seed bed
to Mr. Will 'Prichard promptly when.
due. This, however, was forwarded

 

 
 

   
 
  

ceivcd. «I appreciate. the“ interest you . ' lowed _
in the, M .-tc,1and'wlll

have 

townships and cities having a popula-
_ , tion of ten thousand or more, while
81's '50 know-n—O- 17- We Fowler’v’illei in cities and townships of less than

‘ ten thousand a re-registration will'
be had in any township or city where
an up with the ﬁrm in uestion. No the council or other legislative body
reply was received fron‘llthem, but declares, by resolution, that it
under date of July 9th, two -weeks desirable to have a re-registration

later, our in Such city or
subscriber wrate ‘u-B as 0: Vaughan, Secretary of State.

township—Coleman

PAYMENT OF LEGACY
lin bJamllianl my fafthﬁl ill I to
t e erm o s w was
to' You certainly brought them" to l‘igve 33:1 money can hand at time of hi.
time in a hurry. I would be willing deceas the prgpeigiy‘goshbggal and per-
to pay you but I see in your paper 30m“ W“ to e V 8 W99“
. ‘ ~ two sisters and a deceased sister's chi!
you make no Charge so many thanks There is a 70 acre fruit farm valued at
to you and here is a check for $2 $100 peir actre aﬁdbtciols andt stock.me
to extend my subscription I think are try ng 0 so u as ye ave oun
 i ' ..N hatI . ..t ask on
the legal advice is worth many times  3.1ngIrioe‘s'pgiewmoneywwl‘ilcho was
the price of your paper."—0. F. W., to me (it amounts to $410) have to
. here in this bank until the estate is set—
tled? The administrator is the bank
here, and of course he wants the use
that money as long as possible at a per V
H . cent while we have to pay 7 per cent
Several months ago I sold a an a mortgage on ‘our farm at a neigh-

cream separator, for H. B. Bavbson to ’ 1’01""3‘ bank—x Y' z“ mnkmrt' MM"

If the debts and expenses of ad-
from Babson acknowledging same but ministration have been
posed to receive. I wrote him a let- .401. the payment,“ your legacy. Th.

administrator may otherwise with-
“P‘y- Win 3'0“ kindly help me 001- hold distribution until ﬁnal

1"“ my c0mﬂi33103"'TG-M'r Wheeler. ment of the estate—W. E. Brown, lo-

 

I think the land

4 .Whilo you do not, state that you
promptly as .it falls due. 111 your : . desire to sow wheat this fall, under
own position you undoubtedly rea- (the conditions you mention this is
1126 It Present the help‘ situation. probably, advisable}? and ' Wei Wauld
Through oversight on the part of one recommend 91511115 3.3100117 ’31“?
of our bookkeepers, I failed  llama: 9930.139 I  ,V
_ bio. monument! , '
working this into the. soil.-
the. then: iii-sown
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 W p  omce ’is broadly organized to
' ’me the supervision provided by
’ _ an over the funds and operations of
the State agricultural experiment
stations under Federal appropriations
andwto aﬂord such advice and assist-
access will best promote their edi-
cieucy. r
. , This omce also collects and dis-
’ nominates, through the Experiment
Station Record and otherwise, in-
formation rdlng similar institu-
tions and work hroughout the world.
To this oilice is assigned the general
direction of the work of the insular
experiment stations in Alaska, Ha-
- wail, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Vir-
gin Islands, which carry on investF
gations and experiments with refer—
ence to native and introduced crops,
plant and insect pests, and improve-
ment of live stock, with a view to the
diversiﬁcation and general improve-
‘ ment of the agriculture of these out-
i lying possessions of the United

States. .

Ofﬁces of Extension Work
The two oﬂices of extension work,
one for the South 'and the other for
the North’and West, undertake, in
co-operation with the State agricul-
tural colleges and local organizations
to carry directly to the iarm,and the
farm home the‘lnformatlon regard-

ing agriculture and home economics_

collected by the department and the
State agricultural colleges and ex-
periment stations.

\At the present time the department
eo-operates with the state agricultur-
al colleges in employing 3,800 ex—
tension agents, of whom 2,340 are
engaged in county-agent work, 1,040
in home demonstration work, and
410 in club work. Approximately
2,000 counties have men agents and
800 have women agents. Altogether

' there are over 2,800 counties that
have suﬂicient agriculture to demand
the employment of an agent, but
only about two-thirds of these coun-
ties have men. agents and not quite
one-thh‘d have women agents. The
ideal to be attained is to have a man
and a woman agent in every agricul—
tural county.
_ Appropriations

During the present year there is
available $14,250,000 to carry on
this work. or this amount 35,7 00,000
is provided by the Federal govern—
ment under the provisions of the
Smith-Lever Act and the direct ap-
propriation to the department for
farmers’. co-operative demonstration
work and for demonstration work to
be carried on by the investigating
bureaus of the department. or the
88,470,000 available from within the
states, $4,640,000 was contributed
through sources within the respect-
ive counties, the remainder being
contributed by direct appropriation
of the State legislature or from funds
under the control of the state col-
leges. Of this fund, $7,872,000 is
being used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of agents employed in coun-
ty agent work, $3,560,000 for home.
demonstration work, and over $1,—
000,000 for the employment of coun-
ty club agents and leaders. At pres—
ent it is dlﬂlcult to maintain a sufﬁ-
cient force of suitably equipped ex-
tension agents, on account of high
prices and the competition of outside
agencies for the type of men and we—
men that make successful extension
agents.

Oﬂice of Home Economics

The Office of Home Economics in-
vestigates, both from the scientiﬁc
and from the practical standpoint,
the nature and uses or agricultan
products utilised in the home for
food, clothing, and equipment, and
the methods of houSehold work and
management. I

The publications of the Ofﬁce of
Home Economics make avalia‘ble to
housekeepers, teachers, students, and
extension workers the results of
such studies. This oli‘ice conducts
investigations with the respiration
calorimeter, an instrument that
measures energy in terms of heat and‘
the exchange of gases due to respir-
ation. The investigations include
studies or the emciency of foods,
clothing and household equipment
and various methods. of work. . This

‘ omoe'ls’  omens in, the governs,

 
   
  

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to" farm women. v x
“ Panoanrk ’ H
A The publication work of the States
Relations Service is handled through
'its Editorial Division, which also has
charge of lantern slides and other il-
lustrative material for service use,
and the duplicating and publicity
work of the service. '
In all matters of printing and dis-
tributing publications and dissemi-
nation ot publicity matter the ser-
vice works through or in co-opcra-
tion with the Division of Publications
of the Department. The States Re-
lations Service makes an annual re-
port to Congress on the work and ex-
penditures of the agricultural exper-
iment stations under the Hatch and
Adams acts, and on mpemtive ex—
tension work in agriculture and home
economics under the Smith-Leve‘r set.

It publishes the Experiment Sta-
tion Record, a technical review of
the world’s scie‘ntiﬂc literature' per-
taining to agriculture, the distribu-
tion of which is restricted to persons
connected with the agricultural col-
leges, experiment stations, and sim—
ilar institutions, and to libraries and
exchanges. The Record is issued in
two volumes of ten numbers each an-
nually.

It publishes the results of the work
of the experiment stations in Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and Guam in re-
ports and bulletins.

It publishes the results of the Of-
ﬁce of Home Economics on food,
clothing, shelter and householdman—
agement, in the form of technical
bulletins and through the Farmers'
Bulletins of the department.

It issues professional bulletins and
leaflets based on the work of the Di—
vision or Agricultural instruction in
Schools.

It also prepares reports on studies
of problems in agricultural education
in co-operation with the Federal
Board for Vocational Education and
the Association of Land Grant Col-
leges which are published by the
Board or the Association.

The co-operative extension work is

  

 

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material, prepared by the, service in
-co-operation with the other bureau‘s
of the department and the state, ex-
tension services.

The service makes contributigus to -

the Fa‘rmers' Bulletin series of the
department, especially on subjects in,
home economics; it prepares articles
for outside publication in technical
journals, and supplies a considerable
amount of material relating to the
more popular features or its work
for the use of the Oﬂice ot Informa-
tion of the Division of Publications
oi? the department.

 

REPORT SHOWS PRODUCTION OF
LIVESTOCK DEGLINES

The Institute of American Meat
Packers' recently issued the fol-
lowing statement: Meat produc-
tion in the United States during
the halt-year just closed, as compar-
ed with the flrst halt or 1919, shows
a decrease of about ﬁve per cent,
which amounts to several hundred
million pounds, according to omcial
figures of slaughter at the sixty-nine
principal stockyards.

At these sixty-nine markets com-
bined, slaughter of cattle, hogs and
sheep for the ﬁrst six months of the
year shows a falling- oil? of more
than two and a half million animals
as compared with the ﬁrst six months
of 1919. This indicates a probable
decrease at the sixty-nine markets of
more than 400,000,000 pounds in
meat production for the first six
months of 192,0 as compared with
the same period in 1919. If this
rate of increase should continue the
same for the rest of this year, meat
production in the United States in
1920 at these markets probably
would be nearly a billion pounds less
than in 1919. Such a decrease would
be just under ﬁve per cent of the
1.919 production. So far as domestic
supplies are concerned, it is possible
that this decrease would be counter—
acted to some extent by the decrease
in exports.

During nearly every month of

  
  
 

  
   
 
 
 

es on best.-  ‘ er ,
products aresubs sunny. _ 0
than at this'tlme‘ last year,  is 
ly to diminished exports, '1‘th
crease in slaughter indicates the 
a result or these losses, some“me
ducers have out down their hot
and may restrict production. Sn »
a situation would be an econoni oi:
misfortune for both the livesmp'k
producer and for the public. 
experience has been normally that“
higher prices for meat animals, and"
hence for meat, have rollovved 
stricted production, after which the;
consumer again restricted consump-
tion. The ratio of livestock to pop-
ulation tor the last twenty years,
with the exception of one or two of
the war years, has been constantly
decreasing.

In some quarters world crop COR? ‘ ‘*
dltlons and the price trend in corn .
and hay are interpreted favorably to 
producers of livestock. Those hold-
ing this view point out that lower
prices for grain obviously would re—
duce the cost of raising livestock.

Fluctuations in receipts during
May and June brought the price of-
beet cattle in May down near the
level prevailing when the United
States entered the war, and then, in
June, sent it up again so that the
average poles at Chicago for native
beef steers—$14.95—was, with the
exception of June, 1918, the highest
June average on record. At seven
leading markets the receipts for the.
ﬁrst two weeks of June were less by
more than 100,000 than the receipts
during the ﬁrst two weeks of May.

 
  
 
 

        
 
    
 
 

 
 

 
  
   
  
  
 
    
 
 
 
   
 
   
   
   
 
  
  
    
    
   
 
 
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
    
 
  
    
   
  
   
 
   
   
   
   
    
  
    
  
     
   
 

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by Sudan grass was being » Slice ‘
cessfully grown in nearly—ail parts
of the United States. It does not
[serve well either as a “money crop".

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mhwmh order. or 10 per ,
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alums Prev9n..‘r§u°°e”_m‘th ‘31”. gr?“ ' thesameE-time 'loweré" t "e"- iii
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,  I  ﬁnd a permanent place in regular Central and Southern States,-how- chance ‘to ferment and decay.‘ For 
. crop‘rotations. It has, nevertheless, ever, climatic and soil conditions are , ~ ' -. "_., w
. , . these reasons it is best to leave ma a1
 & LANDS/ﬁr} a yery important place in the farm- favorable to Sudan grass. _ mfre undisturbed where produced, so or
‘ s “A; S ,  2;: 382101": “’19 “defense as a camh Although Sudan grass is best far as possible, until it can be 'haul- f:
» 2 cows . f ptw c eta” be planted to give “at” adapted by nature to use as- a. hay ed to the ﬁeld, says F. L. 'Dule'y of ‘ ; ur—
r0513? 5:23.1(‘1'3'31032’333' togvn, close: if ac obry re urns When conditions crop, it is also used with great suc- the University of Missouri College of " "-""
creliimeryie bamd plachine-wtgrked ligelds, lag-ﬁrm 0:31:38 Fggght. failure (tit: tother hay cess as a soiling and pasture crop for Agriculture.- ' 5 ’ p ‘  
p apnng-wa re pas ure; 2-3 ry, ~room 0 se, . S is e ver 0 pronounc- . . M 
ta 1 ha , bi t lr be. , ill. . summer pastures. Its use as a silage . . . , .
33$ .J'Spn’, {ﬁll-£11035... ogngrohnablgnooolrpy ed by the united States Department material is limited by' the fact that “33218;: 23.1.3.2]: fgfdingmygﬁ‘: “it; t 1“
gigghwisnglny notiﬁes;3 chs,d%ay:ar;lrrég;ing2  0:323. Cf Agriculturedn Farmer's Bulletin it is easily made into hay and fed as manure may be allowed to accunin- v.1 u}
then $30319 acre for everything, erlls terms. of: 1126 reqently lssued- _ . such with very little waste, and also late for several months and be ham- 'i'b‘
giggutt'): ill]? Illggtrglggithgatzsggsihln? rl’t‘r‘é’oons Sudan.grass is replacmg millet as because 00"] “‘1 sorghum bow out' ed out only once or twice a year, 5' ea
33 states, copy free. srRoin FARM AGENCY. {£116 Dremlel‘ catch crop in many local- yieldsit and are generally available with a comparatively small 108‘s. of ? in
814 BE. Ford Bide. Detrmt. Micb- . lties because of its ability to pro- throughout the region where Suda plant food. If plentymf bedding is m
180 ACRES FOR SALE 90 ACRES m- déicle a fair Yield and a high Quality grass is grown. ' used it will absorb the liquid manure \ i;
proved Good buildings. n'owlng well and Or- :3) 1 ,a.y under conditions or low rain' In the smi-arid districts the high- and the trampling of the animals will t
:33"? n’ffgut mem- CASHUS BAILEY' 321’ ins rather Short gmng season; est yields are obtained when the keep this compact and moist so as :8
mm' 1” agngetzfagggti to thrive 0“ 19' Wide grass is sown in rows so as to allow to prevent much or the aerobic ter-
STRIPPED HARDWOOD LAND, me" Sudan Pass gpes'bt ling: yeids Of , of cultivation. The advantage in mentation and consequent loss of pm
clay loam—easy terms, $12.50 to $15.00 an g “3 0 a “6 on y on yield of the row over the drilled seed- nitrogen. If manure is left in the it
,, $12}. rﬁﬁ‘thﬂ'ﬁm‘Q’Sr‘g' $333? {513:5 “c1032? gfeiglsoélsi but maidgra” fans com‘ ings is so small, however, that most stall or feed yard where it will be Bi.
‘ gﬁdA 3&1 my byour Mﬁlyments OHN G and y n 3' on 0° ’ 9091'15’ dramed farmers prefer to avoid the necessity kept moist and thoroughly tramped, ‘ Wf
' m “m' C' Su'dan ms d h n of cultivation by drilling or broad- so as to exclude the air, there is no  be
 WANTED_FARM NEAR SOME GOOD Californiagung prio lice; 93" y' In casting the seed. A common grain better method of storing. Since 3 60-
:n‘ town, must have running Water. good buildings. d er rnga 0“ it has drill handles well-cleansed Sudan there is no leaching under these con- :
v. A. BARGAIN, n 1, Box 23. Clarion. Mich. {111: eagiegg: 0’ 91:3 to“): ‘1; ﬁeld cured grass seed without trouble and the ditions there‘will be practically no 3
g: FOR SALE—c 'c "IMPROVED "RM bu: 8 3 tones; 3711;; aiikae 2033331133? hay from drilled seedings is ﬁner loss of phosphorus or potash. The i
' H0 E u - _ ; ' ' I .
lands in Thumb Dmitri“ of Michigan. Near my it ordinarily yields about the same stemmed and matures more evenly covered feed yard is extenswely used 9,
roads and good markets. Buy direct troglmggﬁerlg as alfalfa under irrigation in the than row plantings. in some parts of the country. , . at
ﬁgkﬁl, bﬁhtfllorhggrihih. lalcdllzzrﬁy' Southwest, but Sudan grass gives its The feeding value of Sudan grass This method. of handling manure 2,?
' full crop in three cuttings against is equal to timothy hay. In locali- is advisable mainly where well-bed- be
CALIFORNIA rmms FOR SALE. WRITE the four or ﬁve re ulred to If If ties where soy beans or cowpeas do ded stalls are provided for horses, ‘1‘
i '0’ “9’; 1‘3- R- WAITE' Shawnee' Oklahoma: It is the only grass? yet fougdawiicaﬁ well these legumes may be grown in and in cattle sheds or mule barns ‘—
, 1 mi t f mixtures with the Sudan grass. Such where the animals run loose and the
r}? 122 non: FARM MUST BE SOLD sv FALL n 3 par 0 the United States f h h a
very productive, all plow land, good buildings. 40 ranks as equal of alfalfa in point of a mixture produces a hay «0 higher trampling is very t oroug . rte
;?{;S\11l.:)1'5(3]ll'0i);, a; r3333 rﬁﬂhmnolng, Mich. s. yield and quality of the hay. ms feeding value than the grass alone, v . y ,1),
n ’ ‘ ' ‘a g' ' record in this respect has led to its because 0f the high pro‘tem content ‘ 7 m
. - u -» n of the legumes. DAIRY CATTLE CONGRESS AND .
r; GREAT FARM BARGAINS—IF YOU HAVE use In DatChmg Old alfalfa ﬂelds , NV.
{5.1, not alreadyrent for our booklet telling you about when the Stand of alfalfa has been Sudan grass hybridlzes freely Wlth INTERNATIONAL BELGIAN p1
 $3,; ggﬁﬁafé‘fthgggg‘f:‘2cﬁﬁf‘hﬁug‘i‘ie? :éw'mfﬁg gestroyedl. Inththe iSoutlhern Greﬁt ngesoiiéggulugs.seg‘ti iissnegizsdaggégherg , HORSE SHOW :2
 9 cum“ '3 8“- e‘me” ““ °°'° e” Elms W ere ere S a 0W rain 3 . ' . ' Premium lists for both the Dairy
 , it tell , -
 giﬂ"‘ill°E§}3‘t:ilf’"l§o€:rfi§:§giﬁzncggaﬁéilhﬁ: tSudan“emerald strewn witthoglht irrtlga— gigging?fﬁggaznﬁfagrgﬁfmmoigﬁe Cattle Congress and International :1:
i» or yourse. sceo a V ion w yle rom one 0 rec ons ' i ' 1 i H e how to held at
; ifffv’ir’”%.f“n‘é§§"on§‘%éifnm 3‘ CARROW of hay to the acre. v' wise, it will result in a mongrel crop 13356:?00, oigwa? Septemggr 274k, ’ .{a
There are certain parts of the Unit- the fOIlOWHIg .year- tober 3, are off the press and are be; i 01
FOR SALE—40 acnss or tAND. PRICE ed States where the Department of The Department of Agriculture’s mg sent out to breeders in all states ; .1"
ggigggmn Faowg‘fscggg’g“ 85$: Cogggfm” .Agrlculture considers it unwise to new bulletin goes very thoroughly of the Union and Canada. I
’ ' " depend on Sudan grass for hay. This into the details of cropping, plant- The 1920 Belgian Horse Show’is  '
FOR SALE_102 ACRE FARM, PART” ,M_ is true of the strip of territory 200 ing, harvesting—~both for hay and the second annual event of its kind t
proved. For description and price write to 8. miles along the northern boundary; for seed—as well as the best'meth- The premium list this year ism-sub .‘ 3 2H.
4' DOUGLAS- T‘““‘“" M‘Ch- the regions of high altitudes in the ads of feeding the hay to live stock. Manna“), larger than that Offered  re
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est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M. Importers and Breeders of Belgian It“

 

  

 

M." care Michigan Business Farming. Mt. Clem-
ens, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—BUTCHER FOLDING BUSHEL
crates. Practically new. Delivered anywhere ill
Mich. 25c each. Cash with order. Special
price to County Agents in cariots. A. M. TODD
COMPANY, Mentha, Mich.

 

FOR RENT—MODERN 180 ACRE DAIRY
farm, 2 miles from Lansing. Equipped with two
silos, 40 head dairy barn and milk house. Rent
one year with privilege. H. T. LORENZ, East
Lansing, Mich.

FOR SALE—HERCULES STUMP FULLER
and grub plow complete. Clears three acres at

NCREASED production of good

horses is the great need at pres-

ent. Fiss, Do"err & Carroll Horse
Company, New York, one of the larg-
est ﬁrms dealing in horses in the,
East, state that they sold more draft
horses for city use in the ﬁrSt six
months of 1920 than in any other
similals period for many years, and
could have disposed of many more
had the supply been available. A.
M. Ernst, general manager of the
company, when interviewed on Fri~

Dakota and Nebraska,—produce nine-
ty per cent of all the good draft
horses that eventually find their way
into city use, but our buyers in the
Mississippi Valley report that farm-
ers haven’t bred their mares during
the last four years and but few are
in a position to sell any heavy draft
animals.

“In the past, good farms had, young

stock coming on, and could and did

sell their mature mares and geldings
hardened and suitable for city use.

Draft Horses has voted to increase
the offer $1,500 in cash premiums;
The total cash premiums offered this
year is $6,500. ~ v

The premium list has been prepar— '

ed by a committee after special study
of conditions and is intended "to
develop the Belgian horse industry
in the best possible way; to encour-
age the smallybreeder to show; to
make the show of the greatest edu—
cational value to the breeders and

one setting. 200 ft. One incll cable. First class the general public
CU'M‘lUOq- 33139;“ 13:23:55,133,Cregq‘od‘iemlﬁﬁ day, July 16th, said of the situation Today, on account of the fact that ' ' _
01‘, Hill 0 l , . . ‘1 “ ‘ Y o —
.. .. n r '~')N80N 5, SONS_ Hm Crest Farm, in the east: no young horses are coming on to The Show commlttee for .the In

Munson. Mich.

How IS THE TIME TO BUY IF YOU NEED
9. tcaism engine or separator. I have a dandy
Stcvclls’ 113 ii. p. steam engine traction. Set
your ow time to pay. and I have a. dandy little
Sterling 20 inch cylinder new separator and a.
drive belt that is just the thing for a small com—
pany or where jobs are-small. Now is the time
to make money threshing by and on your own
terms. Write we. LEVERN FYAN. East Jor-
dan, Mich, R 5.

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on nus con BEARS THE
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and we will greatly appreciate a
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please adwi'se us when and how
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correct our error.

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‘when any error occurs.

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K The Michigan Business Farmer,

Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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“We have enjoyed an usually
good trade this year. City users of
transportation are swinging back to
big draft horses as the cheapest, most
reliable and most efﬁcient. motive
power for all heavy transportation
within the working radius of a horse,
despite the increase in the cost of
feed, which has been formidable dur-
ing the last year. -

“City users are also coming to rea-
lize that for all hauls,_ no matter
what distance, where frequent stops
are involved, as in delivering groc-
eries, ice, milk or other supplies fur-
nished to customers on regular rout-
es, hourses are the only practical
economical hauling power. The trade
is gaining. Our great problem today
is to supply that trade. Good horses

are becoming increasinglyscme and

prices have been higher this season
than we have ever known. Heavy
draft teams have been bringing from
eight to twelve hundred dollars per
pair, but if they go much higher,‘the
balance of favor will be liable to
swing over to motor trucks. There
is a good profit to farmers in raising
draft geldings to bring $325 to' $400
on the farm, yet we cannot get
enough of that.

"The market is here and will con-
tinue as long as the supplyis any-
where near adequate. I know that
about ten central west states._—-—0hio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. Missoue

ri, Kansas, Iowa, North and South

‘plant food from manure are

take the place of these older ones,
they cannot spare the horses seven
and eight years old. It. is a great
handicap to our trade.

Advises Buying Range Horses

“The practical thing to do to
meet the immediate situation, is to
follow the suggestion onyayneDins-
more, Secretary of the Horse Asso-

ciation -of America, who advises-all I

centra1.'west farmers to buy good;

grade...western horses three or four
yearswold this fall an sell the older
farm stock. ‘These estern horses,

raised in Colorado," Wyoming, Mon- '
tana and western states, carry three 2

or four. crosses of draft blood, and

fourteen and ﬁfteen hundred pounds.
However, Zif shipped: Ltoju corn belt

,fh’rms and .workedwh'ers during their

fourthmnd ﬁfth years, withlib'eral

- feed. they mature ,at- sixteen 'to‘seven-

teen. hundred pounds. The corn belt
farms Will benefit doubly because
they will be able to sell their old
horse's" before any ~matér‘ial depreci-
ation' sets in, and they will? also“ gain
in the- increase in value of the young
western horses purchased as 3 or 4

year olds and grown out to increased

size and usefulness.” _' _ ‘

STORING BARNIIA'RD‘ 

' mature in the range states between -’

'ful breeders: Dr.

ternational Belgian Horse Show is
composed of the following success;
T. U. McManus,
Waterloo; Chas. Irvine, Ankeny,’
Iowa; and J. W. Van Nice, Garrison,
Iowa. Judges for Belgians will be
Prof. Donald J. Kays, Columbus,

Ohio; Charles Brown, Marcus, Iowa; ._

and George Rupp, rLampman, Sash...
Canada. ‘~ .

Especially attractive are the prem-
iums oﬂered by the Dairy Cattle

Congress management and various

breed associationsrfor classes and in- 
dividual animals of the five dairy "

breeds—Guernsey, Holstein, J ersey,»

f Ayrshire and-.‘Bmwn Swiss. The to- .
substantially»

larger than last year due to the ad-1 
dition or some special premiums‘aiid: ~

tal premium lists are

3 increases made by'tjhe breed associ-

. ations. »..one.doportment...is, devoted. .

3 the 19.19 . show.-

to state. association Holstein herds
such as-was shown by-Minnesota at

 ' ’ ~With‘ increased premium 'l'lstsf’for'

 bothfshows'the management antici—

 

pates a. greater showing ‘ or 

«dairy cattle and Belgian horses than  f .  ,»
last year and indications point to {the  1. .r '

greatest success-in historyf

The ‘» principal sounds ..of‘ loss . ivin 

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v  “ya a 5 year old gray mare that
smash? about 1,100 pounds that while
out in ,pasture hurt herself. The

she appeared stiff and

,a swelling came on top of the with-

ers. ’It was about the size ofa walnut
. ‘We operated' on it and found
puss, What would you advise?
M. 0., Midland County.

Your ‘horse has Fistula of the
Withers, caused in my opinion by a
bruiseI‘While rolling in the pasture.
Until recent years this has always
been onset the most dreaded diseas-

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ment, together with proper drainage
is very satisfactory in majority of
cases. This consisted of the subcut-
tanious injection of mixed infection
vaccine every three to ﬁve days.

A In the chronic form surgical treat-
ment is the most reliable resort and

if properly done usually brings de-

sirable results. These are cases in
which a gradua‘te‘veterinarian should
be employed—W. A. Ewalt, veterinary
editor.

LUMI’ ON. HORSE’S HEAD
I have a horse that has a lump on top
'of its head, just back of the car. It is
about half as large as a hen’s egg, It
has been there about two months. What
will take it away? I thought it might
be a poll evil coming on. The lump is

quite hard._—R. G., Newaygo County.

This has no doubt resulted from
a bruise and will in all probability
{terminate in either an abscess or a
.Poll Evil. Shave the entire enlarge-
ment, and after washing thoroughly
,with a good antiseptic solution, ap-
ply a blister consisti _ of one part
red iod. mercury to parts of
lard. This will soften the enlarge-
ment in from three to ﬁve days when
it should ’be lanced and probed by

 

a competent veterinarian to find out

and remove the cause—W. A. Ewalt,
peteﬁnary editor.

CURING COLLAR BOILS
Having seen the request of W.
H. S., Newaygo county in M. B. F.
regarding the removing of collar

5 balls by surgical operation I wish

to say that no operation is necessary
and he can work 'his horse every day
if he will apply the following mix-

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5M intimate or 'u no anyo. eee
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Elgagaﬁe'bheaof '3» big feature“: of the‘talr‘gand. according to G. W. Dickinson.
" his year. are such that this year's show will prove no excep-
peot. 12. 'Durlng that_tlme hundreds orbahiee will be pre-

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of turpentine and 2 tablespoonsful of
powdered blue vitriol. Shake and
apply twice a day. Keep the collar
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COW GIVES LESS MILK

We had a cow that blew up two weeks
after she had a calf but is better now.
Last year she gave 14 quarts of milk and
now she gives only. 2 quarts, Let me
know what to do as soon as you can."—
P., Bitely, Mich.

Your cow has indigestion. Give
her a good cathartic consisting of
epsom salts lbs. two; powdered gen-
tion and ginger equal parts one oz.
capsicum one dram; dissolve in two
quarts of hot water, let cool and give
slowly at one dose. After this works
oﬂ give the following tonic. Powder-
ed Nux Vomic‘a, oz. two; powdered
gention, ounces five and add Sodium
Bicarg to make one lb. Give one
tablespoonful three times a day.—
W. A. Ewalt, veterinary editor.

CURING WARTS ON COW’S TEATS
If F. J. S. of Berrien County will
apply good castor oil to warts on his
cow’s teats, the warts will soon dis-
appear. Apply once a week or more,
after milking. Castor oil is very
good for cow’s teats that are nursing
calves. The writer had a heifer that
was troubled with warts around her
eyes and jaw and a few applications
entirely removed them with no bad
results—D; H. M., Shiawassee Co.

VALUE OF EXHIBITS AT WEST
MICH. FAIR WILL EXCEED
$3,000,000

The total value of the exhibits at
the West Michigan State Fair, Sep-
tember 20-24 will exceed $3,000,000
making the Grand Rapids exposition
one of the largest in the central
states. The automobiles, tractors,
farm machinery, implements, electri-
cal devices shown will .exceed $2.00,-
000 while the agricultural, horticul-
tural and forestry diSplays together
with the thoroughbred livestock will
be worth well over $1,000,000. The
displays in all departments will be
greater than ever before. Many
new educational features have been
added this year including boys and
girls livestock judging contests, egg
laying contests, tractor contests

d more attention than this
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NE OF Michigan's best-known farmers and live stock men and prominent in public :2:

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O affairs. Born and trained in agriculture on the huge farm he now owns and op-
erates at Manchester and upon which his father lived for 85 years.

L. Whitney Watkins started his education in the district school. Graduated from
Michigan Agricultural College in 1893 and Went straight back to the farm. Appointed
to the State Board of Agriculture in 1899. Chosen by Governor \Varner as Michigan’s
representative Farmers’ National Congress, 1906. Served two terms as senator from
the tenth ll'liohigan district. “'33 twice president State Association of Farmers' Clubs
and twice president Michigan Live Stock Breeders and Feeders Assocation.

Was Progressive candidate for Governor upon the Theodore Roosevelt-Hiram John-
son ticket in 1912.

Was selected by the U. S. Department of Animal Industry and the Michigan Live
Stock Sanitary Commission to appraise the live stock condemned and slaughtered during
the Foot and Mouth epidemic in Michigan during 1914.

Was elected in 1918 to his second term upon the State Board of Agriculture and
upon which he now serves.

Mr. Watkins is a very enthusiastic member of the Michigan State Farm Bureau
and one of its staunchcst advocates. He is a. member of the board of control of the
Michigan (Jo-Operative Elevator Exchange, a department of the Farm Bureau, is 8. Di—
rector of the Manchester (Jo-Operative Live Stock Shippers Association and was the ﬁrst
president of the Jackson County Farm Bureau. He has served upon the executive
boards of both the West Michigan State Fair at Grand Rapids and the Michigan State
State Fair at Detroit. He is now president of the Michigan Crop Impronnent Ass’n.

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L. D. WATKINS
L. WHITNEY WATKINS
Bank References:
Bank. Mam-Jim. Michigan
euonel Bank. Jackson, Michigan
BELL PHONE 76 F4!

\XIA‘TKINS FARMS

Fancy Apples
Live Stock :: Pedigrecd Grains

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People-

     

Pos 1' OFFICE

Detroit Packing Company, MANCHESTER. MICH- Nay 39: 19300

Det roi t ,Michigan.

Gentleme :-

   

Replying to yours of the 27th inst, . I hereby
hand you my subscription for a. block of stock and agree to
accept a position on your Board of Directors, acting in the
capacity of Special Live Stock Advisor, and hereinafter
state my views for so doing,

         
  

  

First, I know as every live stock producer knowe'
that at present we have entirely inadequate and unsatisfac-
tory marketing facilities in Michigan. Our Cattle, hogs
and sheep are forced to market outside our state at greatly
increased freight and shrinkage cost, which are paid for
by the live stock producer and the consumer of meats.

    

Second. I believe Detroit an especially well
adapted center for the develOpment of a. large packing enter—-
price which will foster and encourage Michigan agriculture
along the lines of live stock husbandry.

Third. I believe the Detroit Packing Company if

     
 
   
 
    
 

to the st interest of our peeple.

   

Fourth. The Detroit Packing Company, which is in
no sense a cooperative institution will give preferential
and special attention to the farmers’ business, because its
officers realize that the farmers are now for the first time
interested in carrying their business of marketing to the
direct sale of finished products to the consumer, and invite
and encourage their participation in the affairs of the .
Detroit Packing Company, through the purchase of stock and
the direct marketing of their live stock in their own~stato and
through.their own business concern.

    
 
     
 
   
   
   
   
    

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The Detroit Packing Company.’ w

Prea'and (Ion. Mgr. ‘Speolal Live Stock Advlaor

. Plant and Yards:
Spnnzwelle. Ave. and Michigan Central 3. R.

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Michigan. ’If you are oonsid
vise us at once and we will
for you. Address. lee steel
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27,'Poland Chi—t Ina-m a.
Blanchard. Mich.
* Oct. 28. Poland Chi-a.
E. R. Leonard. St. Loni
Oct. 29. Poland China. (h: "d I
Sons, Ithaca. Mich.
Oct. 30. Poland Wm m &‘
Sons, Elsie, Mich.

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BAOKE KRAST ORMSBV
M born March 6. 1919, a double grandson
at Rhinghurst Johanna Ormsby Hope 121985
(2 A. R. 0. daughters) who is from a BO-ib.
82. 4—yr.-old with 1164 lbs. in 365 days. He
be. three times to Johanna Concordia Cham-
xﬂn (30 A. R. 0. daughters, 2 above 30 lbs.)
Bk hm is from an 18.93 lb. 2-yr.-old. A ﬁne
. 8—4 white, nicely marked, ready for
nurses and a bargain at $200. Dam and Grand
dam an on tut as soon as they freshen this fan.
Writs fer m. ‘
norm I. BENSON a SONS
Ill]! Oren Farms, Munson, Mich.

BAIT BULLS

your can next herd sire. We have
W youngsters—straight as a line.
W- ruled fellows. They are all by
KING KORNDYKE
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lines.
Write- for our sale list.

WA! PARIS.

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Wit-FRIES!“ Bel-ssh lire-duel same. 1906
message me assume? 36 pound son of KING OF THE
‘ °‘ W” PONTIAC’S Heads our Herd
 HERD 5m) 30 pound cows all under Federal Sun-
by “ﬁne a «vision. good bull cairn and a few bred heifers

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE
We Ian Bulls a! all. waif-ted ct
reasonable prices.

Also nude and pure“ corn
and beliefs
MICHIGAN
HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION
Old State Building Lansing. Mich.

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NICE STRAIGHT LIGHT COLORED BULL
calf born February 131:. Sired by Flint Hon-
whose two nearest dams average
.66 lbs. butter and 735.45 lbs. milk in 7 days.
in, a 24 lb. daughter of a son of Pontiac De

Nijlandcr 35.43 lbs. butter and 750 lbs. milk in

days. Write for prices and extended pedigree

L. c. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

 

 

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that will be ready for service
whose own Sister has just made over 221m.
min

has made over 20 lbs.
them 11nd they are due to freshen again hr
Tannery and will be tested.
is well grown and a top line that could not
be beat. his Dam's 1-2 sister has just made.

DE TROIT.

A GHANDSON OF
KING OF THE PONTIAOS

in September

f butter as 9. Jr. 3 year old and

and we own both of
This young bull

ver 30 lbs.
llis price is only $150.00..
From a fully accredited Herd.

BAZLEV STOCK FARM, Vpsllantf. Mich.
Address all correspondence to

JOHI BAILEY

319 Atkinson Ave.
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For sale; $3500.00 will take enﬁre

herd of Registered Holsteins‘

11 mars 3—9 yr._ 5 heifers three of which are

yearling-s, most cows fresh, 4 bred to. a 43 lb.
$8,000 hull. Heifers from a 33 lb. bulL Or
will sail si-ptirate. Also have a few bull calves

and l‘lmplrv milking machine in No. l conditi .
1 1-2 miles south of Bay Port 01 5 mike Inf,
of l'ignzn. Mich. Address

JOHN F. VOLI. J1!" an: Inn. Mich.

 

 

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I w» am» now booing end-n In
‘a , ynung hulls; from King Pieter 502‘;
l l..y«m~' noses. All from A. R. o e

’ ' w ivh credihle records.

We teats-nun-
l’nr tuberculosis. Write for pric-
mI further information.

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REGISTERED HOLSTEIIS

WM. GRIFFIN. R. 5..

.Yenr'zing Bull by
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WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS 0000
aims {rum their herd. Wears well pleased with

calves from our Junior Herd Sire “Kits; Buy.
Lunle Knmdﬂm Segis" win In a BI!

"King of the l‘ontuics" from a haghter of Pon-

Clothiidle De Knl 2nd.
_ W- Savanna. It 2

A hw hull calves for
‘. Fam- Greek. Mich.

OF BOTH

Sea for Sale
Michigan

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

a brother of the

Howell.

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sister to MAPLECREST PONTIAC DE KOL
BANOSTINE, yearly record 1263.45 lbs.
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SOLD AGAIII

all last advertised sold but has. 8 more
are mostly white. They are nice stra hi: to-
. sired bye son og King Ona. ne Iran
on a
. old dam. she is by a son of

‘ 'iend Hengerveld Da K01 Butter ‘ Boy. an e!

great ‘ . 4. ’
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{or are.
HILL CREST
or wait.

John P. run. 131 Oclueeld 8L. Detroit, Mich.

TWO BULL OALVES

Registered Holstein-Friedan. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from hoary producing you-g corn. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap Li

anon.
HARM T. TUBES. Elm". Mich.

Dill Mill PRODUCER

Your problem is more mm. more BUTTER,
more PROFIT, per mu.

A son of Maplrereat Application Pontiac—
IB2052—from our heavy-yearly-milking-good-but-
tar-record dam will solve it.

Maplecrest Application Ponti-ac's dam made
35,103 lbs. butter in 7 days; 1344.3 lbs. butter
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

He is one of the greatest long distance sires.

Ills daughters and. sum .will prove it.

Write us {or pedigm on Ms'sene.

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

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Itch.

FIVE PUREBRED KOLSTEI'K FEMALE!

ranging in age {ram seven months to four
Years. Priced to sell.

STUART SPHAGUE

Vennentvllle. Illicit.

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DIRK Hm SIRE
MODEL KIIO SEOIS OLISTA

His sire a 30 1b son of Lakeside King Seals
Alban De KM.
Hie dam. Gusts. Panelist. 32.3? lb.
Her dam. Ghats. Ermatirze, 35.” 5.
His three nearest dame average mar
and his forty II! nearest tested tektites average
over 80 bar in seven days. We on one
his sons ready for sex-vice.
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARM.
Corey J. w. Owner. Eaten Rapids. Mich.

sums rev nosm mm:

257572. herd sire. son of King Ona. His sire
I that nub

.. 28 pounds.

1 younger ones. J. E. TWIN). Ham,

ion-r «Tl. write out
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Kol Lad 236554

a. son of Flint 'Hen‘ge’ryeld Lind
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
so’lb. cow and ‘dam of Panline
DeNmander» (was. Champion
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H. 9.. VOEPEL. We. 'Iich.

SHOR'I'HORN

We Wish to Announce

to the farmers of Michigan that we,
are now ready to supply them with
Canadian bred Shorthorn temalm
either straight Scotch or Scotch
topped milieu at reasonable prices.

It your community needs the serv-
ices or a high-clue Shorthorn hull,
write as for. our Community Club
Breeding plan.

PALIEI BROTHERS

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HORTHORNS FROM AN AOGREDITED HERD

grandma and granddaughters. of
Maxwalton Jupiter 754183 lide our herd

JOHN SOHMIDT a SON, Heed city. Mich.

Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices

FOUR BOOTO" TOPPED BULL GKLVE'B
under one'year at! These are an roans m
choice individuals.

FRIRVI'EW FARM
F. E. Boyd ‘ Alli... Elohim

SHOETIIOBIS

5 bulls, 4 to 8 non old. all roan. pended.
Dams good miners. the farmers” kind, at farm-
ers' prices.

F. M. PIGOOTT & SON. Fowler. Mich.

H! V“ BUR“ 00. SHOWN-ION. IREEIP
iers' Association h" stock for uh. hath um:
and beef breeding. .
Write the secretary.

FRANK BALLEY. Hartford. Mich.

HE. BARRY COUNTY sworn-Home III”-
' era Association announce their {all rush.
for distribution. Scotch. Scotch Pop and
Shorthorns listed. Address

I. L. nerve. In. .h. u.

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tell Sultan, sire Longwa r
(18714) 4. A. 3'. laughter-s, 410 in. {at at 2 1—2
years old- Dan. Dagna of Hillhnrat (35969) A.
R. 548 h. fat at. 2 1-2 yrs. old. } calf.
old of ' in he

nos. similar Breeding; Also a .

heifers of the above bull. It will pay you to
Prices and pedigree on a cation.

MORGAN BROS». B 1'

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t. with 18 and 20 lb. seven day records. Fly.
with good proﬁtable cow testing records. Writ.
for no and prices.
Herd free from disease.
WN B svule, Mich.
Breeder of hog. stock only

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“I heroine ﬁne lot of spring igs 'sireri b ' Hart’s
Black Price. a good son of' Hack Price): grand
c of the world in 1918. Also have s
litter of 7' pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by
Prospect lank. a son of the $40,000 Yankee,
that are sure Hunuiingers. v

Mich.

HART. St. Louis.
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THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN Mic".

Got anbiggcr and better bredwoar pig from my
bend. at a reasonable price. Come and Ice them.
Expo-en paid if not as merited. These boars
in mice: L's Big o, bed Uismman,
Orange, Price and L's Lou ProsmL

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I. TYPE P. 0. cm OF cm CREE.-
lsls. bred to Big Bone-Bone Boulder No. “126.-
673 for! Sept. (arrow. Spring pigs either sex.
Halley .nnd granny... Prices reasonable. I '
L. W. BARNES A. SON. Byron. Mich.

 

Bl. “PE POLAND CHINA BRED GILn-f‘
one fell boar, spring pigs both sex. and triodf

:owl whlle’ they list.
HOWLEV one... Ion-Ill. Mich.

 ALSO SOWS AND PIGS. ANITHINO
want. Poland China- ol the
e Inn bred them big for more the
our 1 head on hand. All» registered
cloud, olstems and Oxfords. Eva'ything IOU It
I mnb'e price. and 3 equal! bl.
NHN C. BUTLER. Poul-ad. Mich.

 

 

FAREWELL LAKE FARM

lull type 1’. 0. Have a ﬁne lot of spring pigs
by Chmman’s Image 2nd. The. (lutpust and
King'n‘Giant. i will sell King's Giant No. 327,-

749. He is a real sire. lIe was ﬁrst prize year-
ling but at Jackson ()0. fair, 1919.
W. B. RAMSDELL, Hanover, Mich.

BIG TYPE POLARDS

In introducing our herd we offer choice pics
by W's Sailor Bob and out of dams by Buster
Boy. [mm Superba. Smooth Wonder 3rd, and
Ounce DesMoinos. Priced to sell.

W. CALDWELL a. SON. Springport. Mich.

'- s P 0 beers left. A few extra nice gilt
left.bred for April furrow.
 II. 0. SWARTZ, Schoolcran, Mich.

 

FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL

 

BRED 80W SALE.
For particulars write
Auguste. Mich.

TH ANNUAL P. C.
March 13. 1920.
W. J. HAGELSHAW.

I A. Offering Large Type Poland Chino Saws.
End to ("3 Orange at reasonable prices. Also

[all pip. Write or call.
CLYDE FISHER. R3. 8t. Lou“. Mich.

0. FOR SALE. SPRIIO PICS OF

Sired by Wiley’s King Bob the BI.
Smooth kind.

JOHN D. WILEY. Schoolcraft.

T. P. C. SOWS ALL SOLD. ORDERS
booked for boar pigs at weaning time {mu

Midi. champion herd. Visitors always micomo.
E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis. Itch.

Mich.

NE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS “Rm
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
BeWITT C.

PIER. Evert, Mich.

  

‘Spring pigs by Wall's
Orion. First Sr. Yearling

Devon. Jackson. Gd. Rapids and suim..19‘li
PIIIIIIpS Bros, Riga, MICII

FALL BOARS, WEIGHT
200 lbs. each. sired by a 800 lb. boar.
Priced reasonable.

0. E. DAVIS Ii SON. Ashley. Mich.

 

DUBOC JERSEYS,

use we and gilt; bred to Wall's. KIMSZBIO .

who has aired more prize 'winninrphl ‘nt' are"
state hire in the last 2 years than any other Dn-
ruc . Newton Barnhart. St. Johns. Mich.

PEACH HILL FARM

i‘hmy spring boars sired by Peach iIill Qrion
King. a splendid grandson of Orion Cherry hing.
Write. or better still. come ad select your own.
i’r‘ii'efi reasonable. lnwood Bros, Mich.

APLE LAWN FARM REG. DUROC JERSEY
 Sows bred to Model Cherry King 10th
for Aug. and Sept. farro‘w. Write me your wants.
ERN I. TOWNSV R 6. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

“We BOAR FIGS. A FEW Gm 

left. [a me send
you 'uue on approval. .
. E. CALKINO. R 0. Ann Arbor. Midi.

Romeo,

 BOOBS. 'OIL‘I‘I AND IBOOD m

of all nges. Bows beer! or open. Iow-
ton A Blank. Hill Crest Fin-ms, Muton. Mich.
Farm 4 mil. W mth of mum.

m ind cows silo-ML. Have
“mm  an n“ r;- seal:
Lib Defender r . rom re a I
will be Ined to an Orion beer (or its“.

II. C. KEESLER. CM

355 euros Jrnsrr “my”

EITHER SEX
Can furnish stock not akin. Also yearl-

 

lng non Will [graced for early fall litters. Set-
.” gun rte . . ‘
m I. HEIRS A SON. Dorian. Mich.
FROM 1’ It I Z E

DUROC BOARS WINNING am“
ready hr service. Geo. B. Smith. Addi-
son, m

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biggest lave. ' I
n 25 : .

 

hogs. Spring pics for sale.
J. E. _MORRIS. Farmlnqton. MIGI‘I-

@AK'LAIIDS PREMIER GHIEF

Herd Boar—Reference only—~No. 129219

1919 Chicago International .
4th Prize‘Jr. Yearling

A for spring pigs left at 825
BLANK “ POTTER
PMIIO. Mkhr

 

FOR SALE: ONE DUROG BOAR FROM
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice sprina pigs.
JOHN osmium. n. M—

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'EA‘ocw‘iIiew FARM nee: obnoc JERSEY

rat-4t .. "
ARMSTRONG. EROS.
AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling eWes and

rams. . .Flock establis ed 1890. .
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Fen SALE. FLEMISH army has

breeding age, $6. Threé:months‘ a
Registered does $12 eac11.- Stock peg}
ity guaranteed. ~ - ‘ , L ' ,’

E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mean.

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R SALE: Duel purpose Red Pulled Balls. 5'

L. H. WALKER, Reed City, Web.

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

Porter Coleetock. Eaton iispids, Mich.
I. E. Rupert. Perry, Mich. «1
Mr. Harry Robinson. Plymouth, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Dunws‘or antloluo SIIE on.
c.  Jerome. ulna.

uroc Jenny Sow: and .m- bred for Ace. Ind
"  Ia'rrow. 1.000 1!). herd bolt.
.  M‘I‘OOHUELL‘K. Weldon. .IGII.‘
  ins!) rename? un-
ibw {.3 Ill: pigs either sex.
. 80.. lenders... Mich.
WE or!" A "W “LI...” .‘LIOT-
I n i [%er¢ﬂ&b sows and
li a a lesson. or
MCNAUWTON ‘ "ROYCE. “- Louis. Mien.

BERKSHIRES

LARGE ENGLISH RECORDED BERKSHIRES.
iircd grills and spring pigs for Sela." h
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PRIMEVAL FARM. 03300,

 ONE SOW TWO YEARS OLD
due July 7th. one boar Jan—
uary furrow and four sows March furrow for sale.
Best blood lines of the breed.
ARZA A. WEAVER. Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

GREGORY FARM BERKSIIIBES F08
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. 11!.

 

 

CHESTER wms .
GHESTER WRITES SW"! Pigs in m... ..

trios from A-l mature
stock at reasonable prices. Also a few bred Qilts
for May farrow F. W. Alexander. Vassar. Mich.

 

 

EGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS FOR
sale arts prices tint will intemt you. Either

oex. be today.
RALPH 005E... Levering, lick.

 cuss-ran wmr: swmn.

either sex. Bears ready for ser-
rice. I‘rica right.
LYLE I. JONES. I’ll-L Mich" R. F. D. No. I

 

 

HAMPSHIRES
BOARS READY FOR SERVIGE

Also 1 Ind Sow
.W. A. EASTWOOD. Clues-Mug. Mldl.

“upsumEs A FEW once on.“ Lan-

nnd loll boar pigs (m new
blood linen.
JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns. Ila- I A

HAMPSHIRES

Am all sold out on sows and gilts bred for
spring farrowing. Have a few sows and gilts bred
for June and July isrrowing that are good and
priced right. Spring boar pigs at $15 ea. at 8

3 old. Satisfaction gurus Call or will.
BUS THOMAS. New Low. Mich.

0.1.0.

I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE

Choice sow pigs of March furrow. Bloodlines

of the Grand Champions Prince Big Bone and
C. C. Svhoohnaster. Write your wants to
CLARE V. DORMAN. Snover. Mich.

II I II GILTS

DRED 'FOII‘ OMEN FA
Everyone guaranteed safe in dem
choice spring pigs. either sex.

F I: BURGESS

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also I few

0. I. C.'s—8 Choice young been, March and
April pigs at weaning time.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Mcnroo,

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
offers 0. l. 0. spring pigs, also special summer
prices on breeding stock in \Vhite \Vy'sudottes,
Barred Rocks. White Chinese Geese and White
Runner Ducks. No more eggs this season.

DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

O. I. c. SWINE—MY NERD CONTAIN. THE
bhod lines of the most no'od herd. Cu furnish
you stock at "live and let live" prices.

‘ . J. GORDEN. Dorr. “In. R 3.

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SHEEP :5]
A low cood year-line ren- net! up ram
lambs left to. after. ,25 else- elm for sale
for (all delivery: Everything guaranteed as

represented.
CLARKE II. HAIRI. Woo: Drench. Mich.

Mich.

 

 

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AN'I' A SIIEIP? Lot honour
Sheep Association end you n dandy booklet
with list oi’ breeders. Write comm A.
' TYLER. 'Soe'y- 10 Headland An"

 

 

 

  

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.  I; C. SOWS FOR
3 rm: 86w incite tom In We”. spent hm may for ailment. Choice ldlvld-
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axons-rand register in

huur’s mm.“-
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Advmuemonu- Inserted under this
am for 1 or longer. Write out
cm».

Advertising Don-mm, Mt.

handing at ‘80 .m In"
. III! III have b eﬂer end and it In. we r.
"r I" "In. MM and and commute: Immune nil. Adm

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ORPINGTONS AND IEGIIORNS

Two nut breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
free «cologne of hatching cue. baby chick and
breeding Itock.

'cYOLE IIA‘I'Ol-IER COMPANY. 149 PhIIo Ildg.
Elmira. N Y. .

 

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Early hatched. free range cockerela from sland-

srd-bred heavy winter layers. Liberal discount
on orders booked now for fall delivery.
VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.. R 6

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEVS.
Toulouse Geese. White Pekin
e94 web at once. Uld ducks

Mich.

FOR SAL

ducks, either sex,
weigh 10 pounds.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette.

 

 

LEGHORNS

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGNORNS, EARLY
hatched Cockerels. Farm range from excel-
lent laying stock.

J. W. WEBSTER. Bath. Mich.

 

 

RABOWSKE'S 8. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS.
Young and old stock for sale.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill.

Mich" a c.

 

 

WYANMTTE

llnr. Golden and White Wyandouu. Bagel»
in. surplus yen-ling stock to mah TOOII for
growing birds“ Chi-once Browning. 82, Portland.

 

LANGSHA

BLACK LANOSHANS O
Bred for type and color sings olg‘lléfTYStnrted
Iro- pen headed by thk ﬁrst :2an cock
at Inhrutiom! show at Buffalo. Jan. 1912. Egg-
Winter laying strain.
I lien

83.50 per setting of 15.

08. OH“. W. SIMPSON. Webbonilo.
BABY CHICKS

ROSE AND SINGLE COMB II. I.

 Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks, $18

per 100, $9 per 50, $4.75 per 2? '
safe delivery guaranteed. h Frreééfmd [fanslf

 

 

 

U
hatch July 27th. “tame
INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence. Mich.

 

der today or you will be too late.

COLLIE PUPPY SALE

For ten days only I will sell thoroughbred Collie puppies
$15, either males or spayed females; natural heel drivers, bred from
trained stock. .Send check in ﬁrst letter; all puppies guaranteed. Or-

l)r. EWALT’S COLLIE FARMS, b
Mt. Clemens. .Michigan

  From record laying mus
stock. White Leghorn,

Brown Leghorn, $16 per 100. :8
Postpaid. Lire arrival guaranteed.
SUPERIOR HATOHERY. Clinton. It.

 

hicks. Leghorm, Mime. Spanish. Hoodoo.
Campinas. Reds. Rocks. Orpingtons, Brahmas.
Wyanduttes. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton. Mich.

 

‘ CHICKS—CHICKS

5,000 chicks every Tuesday in July. Grand
laying strain S. C. White Leghorns at $13 per
100; $7 for 50, full count, lively chicks at
your door. Also Anconas at $15 per 100;. $8
for 50. Satisfaction guaranteed. Eleventh sea.-
son. Order direct. Catalog free

HOLLAND HATCHERY. R 7. Holland. MIMI.

 

 

HATCHING EGGS

Fun SALE HATGHIIIG tees

. FROM A HEAVY LAY-
nig strain of S. U. R. l. Reds at $2.00 per set-
ting of 15 eggs, $10.00 per 100.

Stock of excellent type and quality at all
times

 

Satisfaction guaranteed.

F. HEIMS & SON. Davlson. Mich.

 

. 0. BROWN LEGHORN COOKERELS.
~ench. White i’ekin Ducks, $2 each.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdnie. Mich.

$1

 

08E COMB BROWN LEGHORN E0“ FOR
ale. One ﬂfty per ﬁfteen eggs.
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. 0nth
guaranteed.
E. Mich.

HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater,

 

EGGS FOR “ATOM-
32 per 15. nil-mid.

Mich.

RITE WYANDOTTES;
ing from selected layers,
Penn. $161.0 $25.

FRANK DeLONO. R3. Three Rivers.

 

  Eggs from vigorous only

maturing stock from heavy
laying strain. 3:: per 15. $5 per 45 by pn‘pnid
parcel post. It. (l. Kirby. R1. East billing, Mich.

 

THE LICE AND MITE'PROOF ROOS'I' THAT
so many hundreds of poultry people are tiling;
prices and poultry booklet free. Agents wanted.
.A\i.ll.l().\' VEIIMIN PROOF PERCII (30., Dexter,
Mir liL’llii.

 

for

 

 

 

Clyde R. Austin. Proprietor.

lackson.

They will all make Iierd Headers. Firs l.
back. We hays purchased a son of Scissors,

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'I'IiE AUSTIN STOCK FARM . '-

‘ enzaosns or THE
\Vorid 8 Greatest Strain of Registered Dur-oc Hogs.

' Offers for sale 6 choice 3 months old boar pins, picked from 3 litters of 11 and 1 '
lured by 900 lb. Ypsilnml 0. C. King by C. 0. C. King by 0. Orion Cherry King bred  3::
lie has 1 C (‘hcrry Chief Dam Pig's Dem 400 lb. yearling by Snperba boar, $40.00

by Brookwater Cherry King, 2

’ach. 4 sired by 700 lb. Mumford boar by Principal
war is a half-brother to Iirnokwnter Demonstrator the
Fair. Her (lam Cherry .lvwvll King

Mumford dam and 2 by 400 lb. Superha ll.m.

chefhgets ﬁrst choice.
the ﬁctional Grand Champion beer of the \Vorid.

 

Bloomingdale, Mich.

6th, by Principal 4th. This Mumford
lrand (‘hampion boar at Detroit State
have 400 lb. yearling
Pedigree furnished.

Satisfaction or money

$3 0 each.

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Dormfeﬁon 7th. whose brother lei for $7.5
Hood Farm Pogis 9th. Interested PM E‘ox

COL. o. L. rsn’nv. kuoz.
OoImbus. Ohio..

 

V JERSEY CATTLE AT AUCTION

May, Aug. 19, 1920,

(on Quad Trunk By.) 95 mils wt 0! Port Huron ' V
The entire herd OISophIO’n’ Tor-lento:- Jerseys, owned by Bloss Rm.

rich in the blood of Cbsmpion ButtrCows. Several daughters of the herd sire Chunﬂon 
1nd sired 20-11.. of M, .‘cgn_ 0th.":  It: 

’ Write for catalog.

at Swath Creek, Mick,

11's Jubilee and Rioters Jenny 14d breeding.

J. -V. OOTTA Solo M r.
Crawfordulllo'. Inelan'a,

 

 

   

  
 

 
  
  
 
  

  
 
   

 

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