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“ HAT ARE the sugar beet
- groWer's going to do about
L _‘ their “next year’s contract?”
was the. question, propounded to a
representative of THE BUSINESS FARM-
na byvfa «who owns a big block
ofsugar steak. We said we didn’t
know..- He then .vouchsafed this
statement: - “~The manufacturers will
be'in anuanda'ry to know what to
pay the farmers next year because
they will know very little about next
year’s production and prices.” '

There is no doubt but what the
world shortage of sugar and the at-
tendant high prices have been respon-
sible for herculean efforts to increase

_ production. This is noticeable in
all parts of the world where sugar
cane and beets can be grown. For
the time being Europe’s beet ﬁelds
are devastated and forsaken, but an-
other year will see many of them
again under production. Already
capital is being invested and every
effort put forth to encourage the beet
farmers of Europe to again take up
the production of sugar beets. Eur-
ope has starved for sugar for three
long years. Today many countries
in the eastern hemisphere are going

'without, a hardship that is almost
unendurable to those who have be-
come accustomed to the use of sugar.

. Even in Great Britain sugar has been
and still is very hard to get and many,
many people are obliged to go with-
out. ' »

As before stated these conditions

are gradually leading to a stimula-

tion of production and to scientiﬁc
investigations that may lead to the
discovery of sugar substitutes or ad—
ditional sources from which sugar
may be produced. .

ICuba World’s Sugar Bowl

At the present time’Cuba is the
World’s sugar bowl. Sugar can be
produced in that island country more
cheaply and easily than in any other
country on the face of the globe. Be-
fore the war the Cuban planter re—
ceived 2.62 cents per pound for the
sugar in his cane, and made money.
Now he‘receives from-12 to 15 cents
per pound, and is rapidly growing
rich. A natural advantage which the
Cuban planter has over all competi-
tors is the ease with which the cane
is grewn. “To begin with,” the
Geographic informs us,

“after the ﬁrst crop the planter does

not have to bother with seed—time

for about ten years. The soil is so
deep and fertile that one planting
produces ten harvests. Neither does
cultivation bother him after the ﬁrst
season, for the blades stripped from
one-crop form a mulch that keeps
1the weeds "1mm competing with the
next one. Think of the profits that
the American farmer would make
out'of corn if he could get ten crops
from one planting, and did not have
to cultivate nine of them at all to
keep down the weeds.” ,
What conditions. for the Ameri-
can sugar beet grower to compete
against! K
The same thing that is happening
the world over in the sugar indus-
try is happening in Cuba. The
planters are drunk with the Success
they have attained and the enormous
proﬁts they have made and plans
are under way for an unprecedented
"expansion of the industry. Cuba is
already producing nearly twice as
much susar. as before the war and
the ceming year her production will

" be on a still larger scale.

The above. quoted magazine gives
us further light on the Cuban sugar
‘ 'as follows: ..
‘Thsse  . “(demands 1 and

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‘ of Cuba’s fortune;

atol the Future Price and Supply of Sugar

World Shortage Responsible for Development of Sugar Industry ‘on‘ Scale

   

 

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sold last January for $9,500,000. An-
other which was valued at about
$6,000,000 a few years ago, changed
hands at $15,000,000. Numerous
new fcentrals’ are being built and
other projected, on ‘being capitalizé
ed on the basis of this year’s earn-
ings. Thousands of American cap-
italists are investing in these flour-
ishing enterprises.

I “That the famine scale of prices
of this year will not continue,” com-

ments this magazine, “is the opin-'

ion of those who are in a position to
know. Just as soon as the European
sugar beet comes back into cultiva-
tion, price levels are bound to fall.
Many warnings have been sounded
about the singularity of. the source
Economic safe—
ty is opposed to‘having too many of
one’s eggs in a single basket. But
Cuba believes in making hay while
the sun shines, though that hay may
be sugar and that sun the sucrose
hunger of the world.” ‘

England Takes Up Beet Production

That Great Britain does not in—
tend to ever again ﬁnd her sweet
tooth at the complete mercy of the
rest of the world is shown in the
efforts being made by her men of
affairs to encourage the production
of sugar beets within the Empire. A
writer in the Detroit Free Press
gives us the following information
in acopyrighted article:

“Plans for the production of sugar
on this right little, tight little island
and its belligerent and partly unwill-‘
ing side partner, Ireland, are inter-
esting. There are optimistic peo—
ple who actually believe that Britain
can make herself for the future in—
dependent of all outside sources of
supply. Of course the answer is
beet sugar.

“Her sugar enthusiasts argue that
cane sugar must be raised in all
British possessiOns where suitable
conditions exist, and that work im-
mediately must be begun in Eng—
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
toward the introduction of the sugar
beet as a regular crop.

“In order to encourage this rais-
ing of beet sugar within the conﬁnes
of the United Kingdom what is
tantamount to a bonus of about $253
per ton will be granted to home—
grown beet sugar over all sugar im—
ported from foreign countries, and
of nearly,$10 per ton over sugar im-

ported from British dominions and
colonies.’ And the government has
taken half the shares and provided
a guarantee of interest on the other
half to help the company which has
been organized as the beginning of
the movement by the British Sugar
Beet Growers' Society. Its manu-
facturing and producing experiments
will be conducted at Kelham, near

Newark. This is on the banks of the .

Trent.

“Here a fine factory is being built.
Transportation by rail, river, canal
and road is available. An area of
about 6,000 acres for several years
has been under preparation. This,
however, will form only a small part
of the land which will be devoted to
the growing of sugar beets. Every
farmer in the section has been in-
structed and urged toward this cul—
tivation and it is hoped that this
factory may serve as a model for
many co-operative factories to be
erected later for farmers joining
hands for the production of British
sugar.

“The factory will begin operation
in 1921 and it is expected that it
then will produce 8,000 tons. The
total British consumption is about
1,800,000 tons, so this will be but
one small lump in the British sugar
bowl, but it will be a starter.”

Sugar From Corn

Refer-ring again to the National
Geographic our attention is caught
by the following signiﬁcant state—
ment: “One of the strange things

about sugar cane is that the sap of"

the growing plant has little sugar,
while in the mature stalk the juice
is rich in sucrose. The action of the
sun’s rays seems to transform glu-
cose into sucrose,——a transformation
that cannot be accomplished by hu—
man means. If man knew how to
do that, every corn-ﬁeld would be a.
sugar-field.”

Yet a few, days ago comes the in?

teresting announcement that “after
more than three years intensive ef—
fort” a process has been invented
and perfected by’which “white su—
gar of the- best domestic and com-
mercial kinds may be obtained from
corn. * * * * It has all the physical
and chemical characteristics of
honey and in that sense might be
called corn-honey. The new sugar
is white in color, contains all nutri-
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Introducing Our New Market Editor

N PURSUIT of our policy to spare no ox-
pense within reason to make this publi-
cation of the greatest possible service to
the farmers of Michigan the Business Farm-
er has recently added to its editorial staff
Mr. H. H. Mack, of Rochester. Michigan. who
becomes market and live stock editor. Mr.
Mack has had a long‘an d rich experience,
both as a farmer and a market
He was born and raised on a farm and with
the exception of 17 years spent in Detroit
' reporting the live stock markets for local
newspapers, he has spent his whole life in
the country.
the Detroit Free Press at Michigan Central
Stock Yards, and he has been a regular com “
tributor to the Detroit ’I‘imchor more than
' twenty years, writing on agriculture,
stock markets and kindred topics.
will not base his views upon theopinions of .
~ others nordopend for his  upon hearsay.‘ He will [per-
sonally visit each week the Detroit live stock markets and the grain
exchange, and with the assistance of special telegraphic reports will,
we believe, give to the readers of the Business Farmer the most com-
plete. reliable and np-to-date market information and forecasts of
any farm paper in the United States. Our readers are invited to
 markoﬂng"problems'to'Mr.‘Maok, who will be glad to give ' ‘
them the beneﬁt of his experience and investigations.
‘ at his home once, Rochester, Mick, or in care of the Business Farmer;

reporter.

For . ten years he represented

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cent as sweet as sugar cane. At
present. the new sugar is made in
syrup form, is water-white in color
and possesses the unique features of
being crystalizable. As soon as
possible, .the new sugar in crystalized
or granulated form will be placed on
the market so that the people of this
country may be able to cut their
sugar bill in half.”

Further comment upon this new
“sugar” is withheld until the De-
partment of Agriculture makes
known its position or further inform-
ation is available. It is referred to
here merely to indicate some of the
efforts that are being made to pro-
duce sugar more cheaply and in
greater volume.

It is not surprising in view of the
foregoing facts that the sugar fact—
ories may be puzzled to know what
kind of a contract to write next
year that will satisfy the producer
and protect their investments. They
may yet have occasion to regret their
refusal to share this year’s proﬁts
equally with the growers when they
are forced to the point of offering
below—production prices on their next
year’s contracts. \KE we see it right—
ly the beet sugar oncerns are due
for some hard sledding and they'll
need all the sympathy and assist—
ance they can get from the growers.

W'estern Growers in Conference

The Sugar Beet Growers’ Journal
ofﬁcial publication of the Mountain
States Beet Growers’ Ass’n, informs
us that the growers’ committee met
with the ofﬁcers of the Great West-
ern Sugar Company in July, and that
all angles of the business from both
the manufacturer’s and growers’
viewpoints were thoroughly discuss—
ed, and the price for 1921 virtually
agreed upon. The outcome of this
and subsequent conferences are ex-
pected to be announced some time
this month.

The Colorado people believe with
THE BUSINESS FARMER that small fact-
ories for the extraction of crude su-
gar and similar to what were in op-
eration in Europe before the war
could be erected in the sugar beet
states of this country. The ﬁrst sug-
gestion that this might be done was
contained in an issue of THE BUSI-
NESS FARMER early last spring. Im-
mediately thereafter the powers that
be got busy and a number of Michi-
gan papers, including a farm paper
published in Detroit, have carried
stories to the effect that such fact-
ories would not be feasible in this
country. But we have information
to the contrary. Since last spring
we have been investigating this sub-
ject and we expect to have something
very interesting to say about it. in
the not distant future. That the farm-
ers of this state will eventually con-
trol the sugar industry in Michigan
there is little doubt. Whether this will
be accomplished by the construction
of competing factories or by the pur~
chase of existing plants is a qustion.
The suggestion has been made that if
the Farm Bureau is sincere in its ad-
vocacy of farmer-owned sugar plants
the manufacturers be asked to make an
appraisal of their factories for sale
to the farmers. It might not be a bad
idea, at that.

1920 Crop

As the harvesting t-i'me apprOaches
it becomes more and more certain that
Michigan will not have more than a '
normal tonnage, if indeed, that much.
Reports from Isabellacounty tell of
a great deal of damage to beets by
black not. How wide-spread this dis-
ease is or how much: damage it. 
done will not be known until the .
boots are pulled. The crop on the
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-   éﬁa'ﬁoiie‘ or teases-bah

0»  operators in Michigan "and at

. one time.,president of the M10?!—
.igan Bean~Jobbers' Ass’n, predicts
.an: indeﬁnite period of, low bean
prices. In fact, he does not believe
-.t:hat beans . ,_have_'_ yet__ reach-3:1,”. their
lbw level, but expecis'Yurali‘e-r 'de-

-c1ines when the new crop comes on

the market. “I expect to’see beans
‘go to.4 cents 'per pound‘ to -the
producer,” he says. Iii'r.“j'()rr admits
that'about everyt-hing‘ that could

' happen to a markethave conspired

' to keep the bean' market in an‘ Fun-

settled condition-and prices lew'er

'than the food value of theproduct

“put over the

should warrant. .. - , .  . ,
“Your paper and most of the grow-

‘ ers and jobbers have been bulls on

the bean market for the past" two

,years," saier. Orr to 9. represent-
. ative bi THE BuerEss FARMER. “But

you can’t, go againSt the law of sup-
ply and demand. The facts are that
the .war brought on high prices whiCh
stimulated production not only in this
country but in foreign lands as well.
The war also made the masses pros—
perous and they simply quit eating

' beans. _'In‘the face of such a com-

bination, over-produCtion .and, slack-

‘ ened demand, how can you expect

bean prices to maintain their form—
er high level?" ,

“You need notexpect a return of
$6 or $7 beans," said Mr. Orr, “until
a tariff is placed upon imports from
the Orient. Why, do you know that
the Japs are simply flooding this
country with Kotenashi beans, and
the American speculator is helping
them to do it. The same crowd that
pilnto deal during the
war imported Kotenashi beans as fast
as they could get them. A 'few
months ago these fellows made it
known tothe navy bean jobbers that
representatives of French and Italian
buyersqwerejn the market for large
,qurlntitiesgrvOf. American. beans and.
through the'go'ﬂicia‘l organization of

 the Michigan Bean Jobb‘ers' 'A’Ssoci-

'ation the '_elevator interests 0f the

‘St'ats-“gav‘e' options-Mn their st0cks on

"hand 5'in ‘Junepﬁorgettin’g 'a : similar
iieirperximent'f last January. ‘ A.- ;-good
: :ma-ny fell: for. the1statement and while

ethey, were ,holding;,the bag and keep-

. ,L'fa‘nd I .dbuftcair
 I-gknowthere‘a

ing the market up these fellows flood-
ed the market with Kotenashis. That’s
Quenreason: why the bean market has
 .lsuch a tumble lately. 

' “You need- not— expect 7France ‘ or
 or «Austria to take many Amer-

;ﬁgxbeans, They are not bean eat“

  They are rye bread eaters. The
4':"§anrand pin thosei cbuntries is for
‘gfeadstuds-and not for beans”.

.I-gfgﬁprgasgjto:the effect of the Kote-
ﬁstgishif competition. ..A '_ wholeSale
gamer; or Ironton, Shingwas at this
hotel-gthe-other day, (Mr. Orr has
beehi:s'topping at the‘Olympia Hotel,
Mon  Siemens) and he told me the

fhllowing incident 2' - . 

41‘5He’fhad placed an order for_a'.‘car
oi'v-Kotenashi‘ beans at $6 per hundred
 a car “of navy:; beans at, $8 per.
hundred“ The Koten’ashi car came
ﬁrst; and this salesmen 'went. out to
take their orders from retail groc-
ers. ',He"w._as obliged ‘to chargeeight
cents pet". pound; for! the Ketenashis,
and ten” cents forithemaviesh :Do you
suppose he Could getany orders for

- the navy-beans? .Noton youx' life.

The: Kote'nashi was' just as 'r'goo‘d a
been as far as the retail ‘merchant’
was. concerned as the navy andf he
did-h't"ha'v-e'to pay‘so high ag‘prii'ce‘
for. it.) :T’h‘e result 'was. that- he Soon

, disposedsvr'of his entire'c'ar' o‘rKoten:

ashiz 'anﬂs-zh'ad' orders for . more, but

he still “hasbn han‘dfa£”g§;9.d" part"of__.“
mcharload of navy beans: Vlad} this“?

instance _'_.is typicalhgbecausef you can.
go almost-Xanyh-{plaice-_-you please in

'the latest. cities‘ ,.ahd Your will ﬁnd

the Kotenashi" bean_;ﬂn,diu‘g‘ favor fat

its lower price; in 'the eyes: ott‘he‘, -

consumer; ‘ -

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the bean grower.
'been‘ against him. we have tried

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-.  _ f’fTideide'sfto the Bean Question .
ONCE MORE the bean harvest approaches with the market in acou-

 ‘the “future trend of_,the market. Still smarting under his exper-
ienccsiot the past two years when on the face '
dictions to the Vcontraryf‘the market went down, down, down, causing
both growers and elevators alike enormous babes.- The grower stands
between the devil and deep-sea, tempted on the one hand to sell :hiS'

I crop at ruinously. low prices, and on the'other hand to held for a few
"months in hopes that the market will come back. We sympathizewith
FO!‘ two years he- has lost money. 1 Everything has

in view of the circumstances as we know them, there was no help for
Reviewing the bean conditions as they are today. we
' can see little hope for immediawa higher prices, and yet there are fact-
'ors which, MAY so develop as. to change the situation very materially},
for the better. In the accompanying article we havesought to review

subject will ,be,published frOm time to time.—Editor.

the grower in utter darkness as to

of 95 per cent‘of the’pre-l

hard and honestly to help him. but

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hand 'whoﬁare doing the same thing,
but I cant see'it.¥ The Wholesale
carefully

grocer is going mighty

~~about loading up on beans at any

price. For two years he has been
stung on beans and there are might-y
few who haven’t got hit hard en su-.
gar the last sixty days. So they
won’t fall all over themselves to buy
any large stocks of navy beans."

Is 1\Ir. Orr Right?

If all the jobbers of Michigan, Cal-
ifornia and New York talk and be-
lieve as Mr. Orr says he believes that
beans will go lower and they prac—
tice in unison what they preach,
there isn’t a doubt in the world but
what we shall see lower priced beans.
In weighing predictions of this na-
ture, however, it is always well to
consider whether the ~speaker has
an interested motive. It is easy for
anyone 'with an iron in the tire to
think and talk along the lines of the

«,greatest beneﬁt to them. , .
 It must be remembered that there

:are few if any bean‘ jobber-s in Mich:

vi-gan‘ who have ‘not lost money on

beans in the past year. A good

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marketing problems. - «my. 7. :é- g?  

' ERNARD, M. _‘ ABpARUCi-I, (former.
1B chairmamot thed'United‘States:
 Industries, Board, I, New,
4 broker and__'well known in; p~.'
mica gan‘d‘ unsung: circles,; Merger

0555f toidiécbierv iﬁ'..pqssible  the 2

road between producerand consumﬁ
'eri iswso .longnand crooked and,,whe_th-'
sign canfbe Shortene'djand (straightﬁ
é'hed. -_He_‘has.gone' to Kansas tolicon-

threTupon fthfegﬁsubjgéti'il” ~.  -:
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many of them, have on hand from. one
to‘ ﬁve cars of beans purchaseddat
from one to two cents per pound
more than they can get- for them to-
day. -As a St; Johns elevator man

reperted to the Bear» Bag at Lansmg, ' ‘

“The old beans are entirely exhaust-

ed and what beans are " left are in'

the elevator hands,‘ but contrary to
the modern agriculturist's idea this
is one time when the stOcks are out
of the farmers’ hands, and 'controll-
ed by elevators, that the price does
not advance." It would be to' the
decided advantage of every holder

of beans to bull the market in an'ef— '

fort to restore the price to such lev-
els as would enable them to sell' with;
out a loss. ' 

' On the other hand‘those Who have
already sold and pocketed'their loSs
will be ‘just ‘as anxious to bear the
market and to cause the farmers to'
think that pricesma‘y g’o ‘still’ lower
and remain there indeﬁnitely. This
would have the effect 'of inducing
many farmers to sell at the opening
market. With the price of beans at
the lowest possible ﬁgure‘the‘ elevaté
ors would not have so large an 'in<

Farm Problems???

‘ “What are, we herettor?“ they v

asked Mr. Baruch.  w ' 1 ,

‘ “That’s it exactly,”. replied Mr.
Baruch,j“What are we .here fer?" "
.“‘They,. were there for the same

purpose but no one'could deﬁnitely‘

state the object. of the meeting.“ It
was: a mutual affair. . Th'ey ‘nietfto
obtainzintormation: ' ' ‘ 1 ‘

“All of’ them "agreed upon
thing, and that, is ' ' ‘

“There is
where.  . .

“The farmers havenOtbeen able
to. ﬁnd out, What it is or where it is.
Mr. Baruch Was not able to te'll‘them
what it is;~,or‘where it is. - .1

“But ‘Barney' Baruchhas come to
Kansas to ﬁnd 'out::the'-what and :the

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where of the thing that is wrong.'

i The farmers accepted his enlistment.
They said, Go to it,’ and Mr.» Baruch
is .on his way. . . ‘ ‘ .-,

.Will Make a Tour of Statei
“This week he will travel through

‘ :Kansa,s,_golng from ,placeto place in

the wheat belt. ‘xHe will visit Man-
hattan, 'illays, Larned, 'Hutehinson
gand ;othe_r towns. He .does net know
how many_ towns he. Will Hyisitf or
avv’hat downs. ,— He does-~ not know-how
long. he will. stay in Kansas-,Vor‘..vv",hat

he will "and out. :Heds'on the trail
.ofthe greatmystery- ofwhat’s wrong;

“this? followings: ’ r  s. 
 ‘{The‘zthib§§+that viswrong is in Tth‘e’"
,fermfmar'kaing system, “What “the

ferment-want to know is:‘ ‘Who gets",

then-'prbiits? L That is 'what *erfBar-i
» uch wants to know} ,1 The, farinei's'Cbefé~
Heme smartly ‘3 ﬁat somewhere: that
licks 491;. sthegsq’ream and (I'Mtkf Barixéli'

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knowing vdgﬁnitelygtheg;,-hid;inglilécgi‘f' ‘

{charms itheirjlé' "
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vestman' "iii. the? stock "this-y might if

purchase as [formerly and it they
hOnestly (believed. that prices might

go higher: a, few -. months , after .the .

harvest they; would be able, to lay, in...
large, stocks and in; the event
seen that,

losses. It can be easily

there wouidbe a very natural temp? .

tation upon the. part of many elevat~

ors and jobbers: to_ take; this course w, .
although we do not accuseany. of-_.

them ‘of having it infmind. ,
.The Brighter" Side  z -

We will not presentafevv'tactsg

that are given out by the bulls, those
who believe, both from an interest-

ed andiuninterested standpoint that.
beans will advance in price during ,
'm‘st ' ’

the winter months." In the
place as Mr. O‘rr says Mr. J. Ralph
.Pickell of The . Rosenbaum  Review
predicts higher bean prices the lat,-

ter part .of;September.“ "As to,th .

may happen to beans after .that'time .
hejhas not committed himseltu Bab-
son’s crop 'and market-reporting ser-
vice is also bullish on beans. Neither
of these are probably ﬁnancially in—
terested in beans.  
Below. isa report from Tausend &
Maloney,.Inc.‘, of Grand Rapids, who
are jobbers of beans. ‘ We are ad-
vised. that they have some high pric-
ed beans on. hand. It is to their ad-
vantage then to bull the market. -
They say: - . 1 
“We estimate the Michigan crop
as follows: Acreage, 273,000 acres.
Yield, 9 bushels to theacre. Total-
crop, 2,457,000 bushels. (This is .a.
million bushels short of the Secre-
tary of State’s estimate). ' - r
“Japan Kotenashi crop, we are in-
formed, is only about thirty (30 per.
cent) percent -of:last year... ,Total,‘
holdover; of both. domestic and form.
eign- stocks isyfar below, that of the;
pastufewl-y-ears. .   , . . . ..
 :.~Mar.~ket prices;

Years ,zTotalsU; S.

 i - Crops? :lA'ug. 15" 0c't.:~152
1917.”. 414,967,000 $11575 ‘ $15.40.;
1918:. 19,506;000r'3 10.75.» .1050:
1919 ...11,448.,01003:1; 8.60 ‘ 7.50mi
1920'”; 8,879,000 $.50 . . 7.50:1.
Some _, of,  Eactors .‘That, May  '_

. , .thc.mIkct_,  _. ,_ 3. 

If unemsleyment increases to; any?
extent the demand for beans should
increase. Factories are-closing- every
[week - throwing (jarg'e’numbers-g of
mencut of work. ~ Atthensam'e» time

, a._number_ of bigf__ta-cto-ri,es;are 'renevv-
fing‘p‘ope-rations. .,_;It wlille-reguire ari-
_ other sixty-daysi...todetermine wheth-

er runemployme’nti- is to, inorease “er
decrease.  . _,   gt . 
. .Higher “pricesqufm. inroadstui‘ls

' should naturally} make "for ...higher

prices on beans.- ~:.-Ry.'e.~a_n_d\ wheat

have .both advanced latyelys,‘._butv phe-
dictions Tare  that‘ilbﬁér" p “(refs

are. due before the ﬁrs-t, ohms ,
Attire same-time the pr’osp‘e'ct,

  

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glow. potato prices mak'es...;tli;isfi
 table I a .‘keenﬁcOmpetitor with; beans. ,

Should the next congressiminedi-
ately, upon convening, undertake j_ a
tariff bill that _Will. put an, adequate
tariff “on Oriental, beans therewill, be
no question 'butwhatit willhavea
most stimulating effect hpon..‘ the
bean’ market. , The failure ofﬁcong-
ress to enact such legislation would
only still further depress the market.

If the national federation of‘bean
jobbers inaugurate the advertising
campaign discussed"? at-their Chicago
convention it, should, .st‘imhlate;_the
demand for'navy‘bea‘ns. 7'It. had—"been

" ampliﬁedftéf’sﬁéﬁd *‘szoo?o.o.o :oxi'fslaqh
a campaign the cost '_of’ Which woiild 

be Shared by grower,"‘elévatér’fand
jobber‘falik‘e.‘  : ~  a .

; ; i‘srAli‘ot‘ the above factors are yet in

the"mikingvi-‘fbtitisome of 'théin'are
expected to'develop'by th‘efftinie’ the

, farmers are 1"rféa’dy_§;to" market 'i'tliféir
new crop.“ ' '

 

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_ u ,v" o ANSWERTthne'isserti-on that is
V  gotten, made byove'r-icautious lead.-

w g, - era in the milk produceYs’ 'aSBOcif' /  ‘
' ; “ions... "that milk distributing is ‘th

4 co-mplex‘j and risky business mutating
ers to 5 8a '9; in,",one needs only to
refer‘to h experiences of farmers

 in' ct cr state whet haveg‘one sled-

” gin-t0 the“ _

lug-raw: milk and" the manufacturing

     
 
 

is-reccjrdedia failure, butﬂthat is true
amen-2 typ‘e‘s "’ bf ;btisiness,‘,whether in-
dividually; corporater er tie-opera-
tively owned. I
majority of eo-‘opera-tiye mariner-own:

, ed mﬂk'plants..jﬁ}t§e.. 9mm”, my? 
:‘- §0W91ﬁ1Sand-«Mthi‘b'urstew ave-err
‘5 “ﬁlm “ﬁfe‘p'aying th’é‘tarme‘r members,

the-highest prices“ fer: thfeirgpfoducts‘f.

sass for Four Per‘Cent-Milk In.

' ;.  Gumberland, ~_Maryland. .
The‘ New ,Tri-State Sanitary Milk
Company of Cumberland, Maryland,
is a» striking example of what farm-
ers can accomplish in» the milk“ dis-
tributing ﬁeld under proper manage-
ment. Previous to June of last year
a good many. producers in the vicin-
, mi 013' Cumberland’ were" ‘ peddling
their milk from hence to house. Oth-
ers sold their product at whOlesale to
a milk distributing concern: All
recognized that these methods were
wasteful and .costly. There was the
usual trouble that prevails every-
where wbetween producer. and dis—
tributor over the question of test,
price and surplus. .Finally, with the
assistance of Mr. Roy-Potts. of .,the
Bureau of Markets, 3. ' co—operative
milk» distributing association was or—
ganized and the Cumberland milk
plant was purchased... . - ‘ . -
The plant was bought at aninitial
cost-lot $40,000, the amount for which
the :property‘ rwas bonded, and the
bonds used as "collateral for the note
of the company to that: amount.
$30,000 was raised by the’i-ndividual
notes of "the various dairymen, each
ot~whom subscribed amt-he rate of
$30 for each gallon of milk. Which he
proposed to 'put- thrOug-h.~the plant
per," day. This 430,000 Worth 2 of
notes. are being paid io‘t'f by . the, dairy;
men; at the rate of, five cents with-
held for each "gallon of",lnilk delivered
at the plant. In "this way,jn a dairy-
man‘ supplies the milk he subscrib-

ﬁ.‘

     Distributing and 

of dairyl‘produots." '-"'I~l“eréqiand there“

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The Farmers in Action
. . LL OVER. the United States the farmers are going into business,
A —-Big Business, it you please. They are building and buying
milk plants,sugar‘ factories, terminal elevators, packing houses,
fruit drying plants, and every other kind of plant for the ﬁnishing
Michigan has long stood in the front rank of co-op-
- oration—abut shemust give way to more.;progressive states unless the
 and‘wtheir leaders wake up to theopportunities that are pass-
~' ing'their'im‘y.‘ The Business Farmer  secured written accounts of ‘
what the" farmers of other states are doing
- our from time to. Wee-Editor.

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lied” for,._l;is'_.note.,..will be .paid for. in_ :'
»ran-sinttwen‘tykmoashss anwnich time ‘
.1. hisstbck to: that 'alno‘unt will be is-
' sued to i‘h‘im',“ bearinginterést at' th

rate'of six per cent. '

its members 42 cents per gallon. for
four per cent milk, or $4.88 per 100
pounds, with three cents for each
tenth of a point'of butterfat, above
or below four per cent, per hundred
pounds. It is also purchasing milk
from a few non—members, for which
it pays 37 cents per gallon, thus
enabling the member to’get the same
cash price as'the non—member, and
the cost of his stock in addition. The
company retails milk at nine cents
per pint and 17~cents per quart.
Regarding the proﬁts of the con—
cern, the manager, Mr. 'John McGill,

Jr., writes THE BUSINESS FARMER as,

follows:

“After paying all operating ex—
penses incl’uding a liberal reserve for
depreciation, ourvplant shows an
accrued proﬁts of $6,412.44 up to
August :1, 1920, since taking the
plant over on June 20, 1919. We
should say, however, that from June
20,, 131.9, to January 1, 1920, dur—

, ing thertime we Were undergoing re-

modeling. and re-equipping, we had
a .net loss: of $461.06, so‘t‘hat the
$6,000 surplus has been accrued
since .January_‘ lst.”

Cumberland is a thriving manu-
facturing t0wn of about 30,000 pop-
ulation. But there is no reason why
if farmers can successfully own and
operates milk plant in a city of
that size they cannot be equally suc-
ceszul in a city-ten times-as large.-

were built.

  

Farmers Building Con

Wisconsin _
‘ densing .Plant ‘

The illustration shown below is.
~the new condensing and powdered
- milk plant under construction by the

The new TriJState Company pays 7 Mm; Pmducers

I Co-operative Mar-
keting Company of Burlington, Wis—
consin. It is, as it were, being built
right under the nose df'the Nestle
Food Company,- whose arbitrary

_methods of dealing with the farm-

ers drove them to the erection of
their own plant.

“The necessity of this
writes Mr. E. C.,Rockwell,
tary of the Milk Producers’ Ass’n,
of the Chicago Dairy District, “was
brought about by the Nestle Food
Co. refusing to purchase milk from
the members of the Milk Producers’
Co-operative Marketing Co., the early
part of last March. At that time the
Marketing Company was selling the
milk torthe farmers at $2.70 per
hundred pounds.” The Nestle Food
Company posted a. notice that they
would pay to their patrons $2.90 per
hundred,—-their patrons meaning
menrnot members of the co—opera—
tive Marketing Company. Later in
March they notiﬁed the Marketing
Company that they would pay to the
Marketing-Co. members $1.85 per
hundred pounds for their milk, at
the same time offering $2.90 to
‘their patrons.’ The MarketingCoi,
refused‘to accept this price and the
result was that Wtemporary plants
This move on the part
of the Nestle Food '00., strengthened
theorganization one hundred per
cent, and the farmers in the vicinity
of Burlington, who theretoforehad
beenob‘liged to sell to the .Nestle
Company, determined to build . a

plant,”

secre—.

  

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plant or their own and‘become ind:
pendent-Tot the Nestles and all our 1
outside concerns. Consequently the]
formed a company and are now erect
ing a plant at the expense of about
$85,000. The Milk Producers' Mar:
keting ‘00., will equip the plant and
sell the product manufactured there
in.” ‘ ’ v

This plant when completed and

_-equipped will be second to none in
.the handling of milk and milk prof
 ductsin the Chicago dairy district.
UThe,plantris located [on thesoo rail:

road, one of the foremost trunk lines
inthe country and not far fromthé
main business section of the city oi
Burlington. The plant stands on a
lot 234 x 234 and is itself 80 x 224.
The construction of the building is
durable and lasting. The plant will
contain as ﬁne laboratories fortestJ
ing purposes as will be found in the
state.’ All machinery will be opera
ated by electricity. Steam and hot
water will be furnished by four 152
H.VP. boilers. It is estimated that
about twenty-ﬁve men will be employd
ed in the plant. I

. - “We are looking for the men who
say' farmers cannot run their busi-
ness,” says the Milk News of, Chia
cago. Come up to Michigan. we’ve
got ’em here. . ‘ ,

Boston Farmers Get Nearly $5 Per
th. For m1]: '. ‘ ,

Beginning with the 9th ot- this
month the farmers around Boston
received a half cent more per quart
for milk, in accordance with the'ad-
vance to 10 1-2 cents made by ‘the
New England Milk Producers’_ asso‘
ciation, as a result of the increased
freight rates and higher production

costs.

The Producers’ Association su‘D‘
mitted reasons-for the increase to
the commission on'the necessaries oi
life'recently and received the approv-
al of that body. Figures submitted

:showed the. cost ‘of producing a quart

of milk in Septemberfto, be 9.128

“cents as compared with 8._,91.in Aug-

ust. Adding the present cost oi

‘bringing' the milk to, Boston... 1.78

cents per q_uart,brings the cost-to
10.9 cents‘a quart delivered“ in Bus--

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Pancreas GET mes. THAN TWO-
' mos FEDERAL. un-
snavn LOANS

. Mr. ‘ George P. Hampton; -Manag-=-
in!” Director of the --Far.mere' Na—

tional Council, in a statement just
made public' points out that Governor:
Harding of the Federal. Reserve
Board in his speech September 16th
to the Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce, showed that the bills dis—
counted by Reserve Banks in the
south and west directly in support of
agricultural and live stock interests
totaled on September 3rd this year

1 only eleven and four—tenths per cent
, —'-ab'out one—ninth—of the total bills

discounted by the Reserve Banks on
September 10th. The farmers' di-

; rect help from the system is appar—
ently only one and seven-tenths per
' cent‘-——about one-sixtieth —, of the

total loans and investments on Sep-
tember 3rd of reporting member

thanks, including rediscounts with
Federal Reserve Banks. ‘ ‘
“The farmers’ end of the help

from the Federal Reserve Bank sys-
tem," says Mr. Hampton, “is evi-

' dently not only thes'mall end of the

horn, but practically the disappear-
ing end. To make even this show-
ing for the basic industry. agricul-

‘ ture, Governor Harding includes in

the’Chicago district, loans of $142,—
000,000—‘-nearly 'half the amount
loaned to farmers directly—which
he states are ‘made directly or in-
directly to banks in strictly agricul-
tural sections.’

.“Last year," the spokesman for
“the total per-
indebtedness of
farmers was, in round ﬁgures, $2,—
105,000.000, on which interest, com-
missions, bonuses, etc., averaged
nearly 10 per cent. Such charges
constitute a very heavy item in the
cost of pnoduction of farm products,
and they are unnecesary. Farmers
have great difficulty in getting credit
to’day o‘n'the best of security. There
are nearly 20,500,000 depositors in
National Banks, and the total deposits
in- these banks on June 30th this
yeahwere $15,008,000,000. Senator
Owen’s statement that Federal Re-
serve Bank members have loaned
over $500,000,000 at 15 per cent to
30 per cent, nearly $600,000,000 at

. 12 per cent to 15 per cent, and over

$2,500,000.000 at 10 per cent to
12 per cent, though challenged by
the metropolitan press, has been con»
ﬁrmed by the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency. '

“American farmers will not be
able to continue producing bumper
crops such as this year's,” concludes
Mr. Hampton, “unless they can get
short time credits on good security
at reasonable rates, nor can consum-
ers get farm products cheaply un-
der existing credit conditions.

’  “What is the Government doing

with the people's money?"

 

NEW YORK FARMERS FORM
EXCHANGE

At a recent meeting at Ithaca, N.
Y., H. E. Babcock, director of the
Grange League Federation Exchange
explained the object to be attained.
“The immediate purpose of the Ex-
change,” he said, “is the purchase
as a going concern of the present
Grange Exchange at Syracuse, which
was put in the held about two years
ago by the New York State Grange.
The latter's business,” he says, “is
much larger than is generally rea1--
ised. As it is now going it would

.have exceeded $1,000,000 for the

year 1920,. What the new Exchange
proposes to do is simply to provide
capltal and the backing of all fam-
ers’ organisations which it .is taking

 over may be adequately ﬁnanced and

conducted economically.
“Perhaps thaarest statement of the
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of sufficient she to command the re-
spect and meet the competition of
similar traders in these lines. over

whom farmers new exercise no meal-r
are of control and. whose interests ,
are always personal and never coo .

operative." .

Under the certiﬁcate of incorpora-
tion each of the three big farmers’
organizations contributes equally to
its management. Three of the in-
itial directors are named by the
Grange, three by the Dairymen’s
League and three by the Farm Bu—
reau Federations. Future directors
will e nominated by these organiza-
tions and elected by the stockhold-
ers.

MICHIGAN TO BUY KANSAS HAY

Michigan wants to buy Kansas al-
falfa. Ralph Snyder, president of
Kansas State Farm Bureau, has re-
ceived a letter from this state in-
quiring if ’Kansas has may to ship
out. The Kansas State Farm Bureau
will learn how much alfalfa in the
state is ready for shipment, or will
be available by fall. The bureau
will act as an agent in bringing the
buyer and seller together, thereby
eliminating the middleman and re-
ducing the cost to the buyers. It is
expected the amount of hay for sale
will be reduced on account of the
shortage of bale ties.

GO-OPERATIVE CHEESE' FACT-
ORIES OF MINNESOTA UNITE

Organization of Minnesota cheese
producers for the purpose of mar-

Farmers Want Stock

IVE STOCK producers of Blinois
are to further a movement to
control the sale of their cattle,

hogs and sheep until they reach the
manufacturer or packer. The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association through
its Live Stock Marketing Depart-
ment, recommends the establish-
ment of co-operative commission
ﬁrms at the Chicago and St. Louis
Stock Yards, to the American Farm
Bureau, by“ all middle west state
Farm Bureaus and other farm or-
ganizations. The 200 Co-operative
Shipping Associations in the state is
the ﬁrst step to complete the gap be-
tween the producer and manufact-
urer, and live stock men declare com-
mission ﬁrms to handle the business
of these associations, is the next logi-
cal step. This action was taken at
the September Executive Committee
meeting.

The three year old co-operative
commission ﬁrm of the Farmers’ Un—
ion at the Omaha Yards does more
business than any of the 54 ﬁrms
and in the past six months has turn-
ed back 65 per cent of the commis-
sion charge to producers.
the ﬁgures of C. H. Watts, General
Manager. Mr. Watts and J. W. Os-
borne of South St. Paul told the II-
linois producers that it will be a
hard row to bee but the result will
be good.

The aim of the Illinois Agricultur-
al Association in starting commission
ﬁrms is not primarily to save the
cost of commission but to buy and
sell to the best advantage and stabil-
ize markets. H. W. Mumford, Di-
rector of the Live Stock Marketing
Department, says “the aim must be

to secure economic justice for farm:

ers, not economic advantage. Ag-
ricultural co-operators must so or-
(let their activities that they can
meet the consuming public with the
same fair-minded frankness that
they demand.” ~ ,

Live Stock Shipping Associations
and County Farm Bureaus approve
the establishment of commission
Inns. The Union Stock Yards guar-
antees facilities. The Executive Com-
mittee of the American Institute of
“out Packers, meeting at Atlantic"

  
  

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keting. their cheese co-operatively.
has been effected by the formation '

of the Minnesota Cheese Producers'
Association, of which «any cow-opera;-
tive cheese. factory may become a
member. - This l'tstlociationll  {which
has been in process of organisation
for severalimonths, is now fullyor-
gas-nixed and expects to begin handling
the cheese, of member. factories this
fall.

The purposes of this association,
the latest addition to Minnesota’s
growing list of co-operative market-
ing organizations. are to sell their
cheese to best advantage to them-
selves anu to create a market for
Minnesota cheese, using trade-marks
if found advisable.

Twenty-seven co-operative factor-
ies have aﬂlliated with the associ—
tion. The association is incorpor-
ated ,under the new co—operative law.
It is not an organization for proﬁt,
and the only charges it will make
for handling cheese for member
factories is .the actual expense of
providing the sales service. An
amount sufﬁcient to cover this charge
will be levied against each shipment
of cheese.

This charge must include a- sur-
plus reserve until the reserve equals
30 per cent. of the paidv-up capital
stock, 6 per cent on the outstanding
capital stock plus all handling and
operatingexpenses. Any surplus at
the end of each year, should there
be such a surplus, will be pro-rated
to the member factories according
to the amount of cheese shipped.

Yards ~Comm’n Firms

ently refused membership to co~ope/

erative commiSsion companies. This
will work as a temporary handicap.
In an address given before the prob
ducers, J.‘W. Jerrenms, represent-
ing the Chicago Exchange, stated that
the present system of marketing is
the result of sixty years Of experi-
ence. In this system Mr. Jerrenms
stated that the supply, demand and
natural elements of price determin-
ation work unhampered. He be—
lieves it inconceivable that one ﬁrm
could supplant such a system. Mr.
Jerrenms stated that the American
Farm Bureau Federation is flushed
with the temporary success of or-
anization in many directions, none

, of which have been tried or proven.

California (lo-operative Marketing

Co-operative marketing in Califor-
nia is a success because farmers are
intelligently supplying the markets
with quality products in a manner
in which they are appreciated. This
is shown. by increased consumption
and satisfactory prices to producers,
which, in turn, has increased produc-
tion. California co-operatives.have
stabilized their markets'by taking the
place of the in-between men from
the farm to the wholesaler, doing it
in an efﬁcient, business—like way. This
work has made farmers a good prof-
it and has not increased prices to
consumers. “The best proof of this
is the satisfaction of the whole com-
munity,” says Wm. G. Eckhardt, of
the Illinois Agricultural Association,

who has just returned from a four'
weeks study of the far western meth-.

ode to see what part of their exper-
ience might ﬁt into a co-operative
grain marketing system for the mid-
.dle west. California farmers have
been marketing co-operatively for
35 years. The first years were
crowded with many failures. Last
year $§25,000,000 worth of farm
produce was marketed co-operative—
ly. Learning by the experience of
the older organisations, new orggn-

izations are now making a success'

the first year of operation. ' The in-
vestigation made by the Illinois A‘-
ricnltural' Association‘ and other

an puma . -l."°d9nﬂ°n-y«ot., cw-

 

our. mind to give: do, its word ~forniamm;markgm m.

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INTERNATIONAL ms "or ,.
COMMERCE

 

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y, , TOMEET -
 INPARIS

Standard "Oil Company of' New Jer-

sey. will sail, on september- 20th for .'

Paris to attend first. meeting of

the-board of directors of 1 the Inter,

national Chamber ,of Commerce to be
held on October 11th. Mr. Redford.
who is one of the vice presidents of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, was elected vice-pres-
ident of the International Chamber of
Commerce at the organisation meet«
ing last June. . M -
A number of important matters
affecting foreign trade are to come
up at the ﬁrst meeting of the Board.
Reports will be made to the direct-
ors on resolutions adopted at the or-
ganization meeting as follows:

Regarding reconstruction as trans-.

mitted to Secretary of State of the
United States and the Prime Minis-
ters of all countries members of the
League of Nations and those invit-
ed to become members, .duplicate
taxation, governmental expenditures
and personal, Foreign Credit Inter-
change Bureau, credit facilitles, for-
eign banks, unfair competition, cust-
oms and tariffs, export and import
embargoes, creation of a bureau of
international statistics, raw mater-
ials, port facilities, trade terms, pass-
ports, subsidies, maritime laws, in-
demnities, reconstruction, exchange,
banking facilities, reform of calen-
dar, weights and measures, statis-
tics of production, clearing house,
production, co-operation «between
capital and labor, statistics of raw
materials and unfinished products.

Thus do the captains of industry
co-operate for the extension of Am-
erican commerce; A national and
an international chamber of agricul-
ture should similarly promote the in-
terests of the farmers.

GRAIN AND HAY snow
Last year a grain and hay show

was held in connection with the In?

ternational Live Stock Exposition'at
Chicago. This exhibit of' farm pro-
ducts was a revelationand providi-
ed a, valuable diversion in connec-
tion with. the live stock exhibits. An-
nouncement has been made that an-
other grain and hay show will be
held in connection with the Inter-
national this year, Novomber 27th
to December 6th. A premium-list of
$10,000 is offered by the Chicago
Board of Trade. Every farmer in
the United States and Canada is eli-
gible to compete.

The prize is offered, of Course, . to
promote improvement in various
farm crops. Premiums this year will
be given on wheat, corn, oats, rye,
barley, clovers, timothy, sorghum,
kaﬂ‘lr and similar products. The
management is expecting an increase
in both hay and grain entries.

OHIO‘ DAIRYMEN HAVE MAN ON
STATE FARM BUREAU STAFF
Milk producers of Ohio hereafter
will have a representative on the
staff of the Ohio Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. Likewise the interests of
the vegetable growers, fruit grow-
ers and wool men will be looked af-
ter by men specially employed by
the federation. . '
These special men have notxbeen
selected, and will not be untilthe
ﬁeld is carefully gone over. Some
plan of' functioning will be worked
out by a committee of the federation
with the several interests through
their associations. r
Great need of a man for the dairy
interests has been emphasized ~of
late bathe .diﬂcnities in which pro-

»‘ducecs of .the‘ central Ohio 'v'ridistrict

ﬁnd themselves. I They have 
suited to an ply Columbus with}

. per cent fall “78.3.75   f

pounds.  Ohio ram L

    

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I ' Are Michigan Fairs Living Up to Their Educational. Opportunities?

‘ weather man.

fr'  HE 'WHITE man has been re-
 ~—ferre'd. to in speech and in
verse "as having ’one of the
burdens“ of-lifeto bear. This

  

but; to the minds of the grain growers
of ’the. world, - it“ in-' no way ‘ compares

1- ,jWith the accumulated burdens borne

by the farmer in the production of the
‘wheat crop uponlwhich the world de-

. pends for‘its staff-of life.

If the 'crop eSCapes bad weather—-
cold,- ice, 'fl‘ood,,hail,’fr0st, drought,
or hot winds—various insects may be
lurking~ about to‘ feed on -' what"
remains. Plant 'deseases in the form,
of smuts, rusts, and scabs have taken

.1 "varying toll during past years, but, as

a. rule, they have been less fully un-
derstood than the troubles from
Weather or insects. Among these de-
seases are the loose smut, stinking

.' smut of hunt, the black stem rust,

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Deadly Enemy of Wheat

ICHIGAN agriculture and indus-
, ‘ try are represented annually by
_'two great fairs, the Michigan

N State Fair at Detr‘oitand the West

Michigan State7Fair at Grand. Rap-

"' ids. . Because some criticism has been-‘_

directed against the former it is with

the former that this, article is cone

cerned. -. ‘ ~ ,
Fairs are uncertain events. -They
may earn or they may lose a great
deal of money for their" promoters.
If they earn, the proﬁts are suppos—
ed to be;and usually are invested in.
improvements. If they lose, the
deﬁicit must be met by the directors
who authorized the, expenditures
providing the county or state does
not appropriate the money to bear
the loss. It may be‘seen, then, that
those who accept positions as direct-
‘ors or ofﬁcers in fair associations are
placing themselves under a respon-
sibility which pays them little or
nothing and may cost them much.
Every county and district fair, as
well‘as the Michigan State Fair, have
passed through many vicissitudes. It
is not the purpose of this article to
,discuss in detail why fairs

The principal arbiters of the success
of any fair are human nature and the
Some years it is the
nature of some folk to want to go to

‘ the fair. Other years no inducement

can get them there. Some years Old
‘861 «Welcomes the crowds with a
smile as enduring as the length of
the exposition; but another year‘old
Jupiter Pluvius drives them ﬁercely
away- These are two of the greatest
handicaps which‘fair ofﬁcials must
take into consideration, and it re-
quiresnot a little foresight, judg-
mentnnd business ability-to plan

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01‘,qu i‘Wheat Diseases and Insects
By DR. E, E. KEMPTON

make '
money one year and lose the next;

through the outer gates,
,wbrld’s record-Was . established; 

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In Charge of Barberry Eradication, U. S. Department '0)" Agriculture

the leaf rust and the scab or blight.
Of all these the black. stem rust has
taken the. heaviest toll in ‘th-e‘North-
ern‘» States, from year to year, and in.
years of rust epidemics it has caused
appalling losses. Hope isrnow- held
out to the wheat growers of the
northern part of the United States
that the control of black stem rust is
possible by the eradication of common
barberryr ‘ ‘ '

It is important that everyone
should understand that the harmful
barberry is the tall green common
European barberry and its purple
variety, and may be distinguished by
the following characters.’ Usually it
is four to six feet tall, thOugh it. may
reach ’«ten or even fifteen feet- if the

bushes are old. The edges of the rathy

er large leaves are toothed, the teeth
ending in small spiny points. On the

.stems, at the base of each cluster of
‘ leaves, are three or more stout, sharp

spines. The light yellow flowers and,
the red berries are borne in long

‘ clusters like currants‘.‘ 4 ATh'iS‘ibllSh, or

any that resemble it- closely are harm-
ful and,sho’uld be destroyed.

Japanese Variety Harmless

In contrast to this tall bush there is
a low spreading barberry, known as
Japanese barberry, which in some lo~
calities is more widely planted than
the tall or common barberry. The
Japanese barberry is" seldom over
three feet tall and has small leaves
withentire'edges. The spines on the
“ems are only one in a place. The
flowers are borne singly or in twos.
The berries are a dark red in color,
and have athicker skin than those of
the common ,variety. v
is harmless as it does not carry. the

This barber ry'

stem rust and should not be destroyed.

If every property owner in the
northern wheat-growing states of.
Colorado,- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnisota, Montana, Ne-'-—
braska, -North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming co-
operate it will‘be possible to take
this “Old Man of the Sea,” black stem
rust off the shoulders of the wheat
grower. - Every property should be
carefully examined for the. harmful
barberry and all bushes fqind should
be eradicated so that no roots remain
to sprout. No seedlings should be al-
lowed, to grow nearit or under trees
or bushes, along fences or streams,
inbnushy pastures, or in any places
where birds might carry the seeds.
In this way you help to increase the
prosperity of your community by
increasing the production of wheat
and other grains and also help to
supply more food for the 'whole
world.

Further information may be ob-
tained fromthe United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture or your State
Agricultural College. ‘ '

Wide Interest Shown in Work

The wide interest taken in the
work of'eradication has been evi-
denced by the numerous requests re—
ceived by the Department during the
past ﬁscal year for informational
material for use in the infested areas.
Lack of funds has hampered some—
what the De artment’s campaign
against barberry. It was, however,
to supply a large number of posters,
bulletins, circulars and other educa-
tional matter for distribution.

A surveyto locate barberries was
begun in the larger cities because of

By THE EDITOR

ey to,-make the mare go, and as long
as the people-ofthe state prefer their
agricultural and industrial ekposi-
tions to be heldfunder the auspices
of private societies instead of the

county or state, no objection could-

logically beentered against the use
of such practices as are morally and
legally sound for insuring the finan—
cial success of our various" exposi-
tions. .. . 7 , .

Eight years ago the Michigan State
Fair found itself in a most unsat—'
isfactory condition- It was in debt,
to the tune 0f nearly a hundred
thousand dollars. The buildings
were in need of repairs and other
improvements were found necessary"
if the exposition was to continue and
succeed. In their dilemma the fair
directors secured George Dickinson
of Pontiac as secretary and manager.
The first problem confronting the
new secretary was to restore the fair
to a firm ﬁnancial footing. Improve-
ments, permanent buildings and the
development of the fair as an edu-
cational institution would logically
follow. '

During the eight years Mr. Dick-

inson has proven his werth. He has ,

been the making of the state fair.
He lives with it from morning til-l
night. He takes it to bed with him.
He bores, his friendswith it“ He-

discusses it as spontaneouslyéiidiens ‘

thusiastically'. in December as in Au-
gust; Last year was the biggest fair
in point of attendance and interest
ever held by'the society.
thought that the climax of attend-

ance'had been reached. ‘But ‘ this.

year's exposition smashed all prev:
ious records.
a quarter of almillion people surged

you blame the'fair‘society‘for the
confidence it, places in Mr.‘ Dick-in-

_ son? *

‘ h-e‘hnanclal fgoal‘ long sought» for

thus been. reached? 1"Dnrillft,§.t':f:%h' " t’

‘-: years the dept has'bee’n Tpa'idia'nd 

era‘l hundred thousand dollar-shave

   
  

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On Labor Day'nearly"‘ e
j an exposition still ignorethe exhibits

and ,a-
' ingly from

’“iifi‘iiitlfdfut‘thd ; richer: the

r to”. foot the bills: of the'expositio‘n.

1920 exposition puts the society
away over the top, establishes a hand—
some sinking fund and makes
construction of permanent, and arch-
itecturally beautiful
the more rapid development of edu-
cational featureslpossible and assura
ed. Plans have already been—drawn
for one of the ﬁnest exposition stables
in the entire country. This will be
built of concrete‘ along approved
architectural lines. Other perma—
nent buildings will be constructed as
time and resources permit,

‘It is the aim of the State Fair.
Society to make its exposition second
to none in the North American con-
tinent. It already holds ﬁrst rank
among state expositions. The Soci-
ety recognizes as do all like organ-
izations that the possibilities of ag—
ricultural and industrial expositions
have barely been tapped. It is rec~
ognized that the people of the rural
communities are too little conversant
with the modes of manufacture and
mining, of commerce and construc—
tion, and all the many other activi-
ties in which the people of other com-
munities outside their own are en—
gaged. And even ‘more could be said
of the ignorance of the urban people

: ‘ about the nation’s basic industry, ag-

riculture. The original purpose of
fairs was to exhibit the handicraft of
these two groups of people and make
each more familiar with the work
and life of the other. The big prob—
lem always has been and still is, how
to make these educational exhibits
appealing enough to draw the people
who ought to see them. That prob-
lem has not been solved. The great
majority who enter the grounds of

that have been brought so, pa’intak-
great distances, and

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the betteiginigsa‘ns for sp'ri‘egding in-
formations-“It wa's extended~then'to
the towns, so that now nearly all

cities and towns having a population.

of over 300 have been surveyed. An
intensive survey of the entire rural
area outside of the cities and towns
has been begun. Already about 50
counties have been covered,'the sur-
vey reaching every farmstead and
all brushy pastures and woodlands
in the entire area. This, means trav-
eling every Section line, many half

section lines and scouting the wood- _

lands rod by rod.

A very important part of this sur-
vey is ﬁnding the escaped barberries
which have started from seeds drop-
ped by birds in thickets and pastures.
Over 1,674,000 escaped bushes were

found during the past year. A total '

of almost 1,900,000 bushes was found
in rural districts last year. Records
to date show that 3,865,426 bushes
have been located and 3,705,142 bush-
es removed.

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Japanese Barberry is Harmless

It is the nature of the American
people to want action and lots of it.
Displays of fruits, vegetables, grains,
animals, machinery, etc., are inter-
esting enough in their way to some
people. Lose yourself in reverie be—‘
fore these exhibits and you can fol—
low in fascinating sequence the
planting of the seed the care that is
given the crop from the time is
springs from the ground to the gath-
ering of the matured product you
see before you. or, if you have a
good imagination you can picture
the making of a piece of complicated
machinery through all the processes
of mining the ore, making the steel,

forming it into plates and rods and '

castings, and ﬁnally into gears,
wheels, shafts, pinions, etc. But the
average person who attends a fair
doesn’t wish to spend his time or
energy in thinking out the processes
by which the various articles on ex-
hibit became realities. So it may be
that the future fair, if it is to fulfill
its mission as an educational insti-
tution, must show as far as possible
the actual methods by which things
to eat, wear and use were transform-
ed from the crudest beginnings to
the finished product:
the grain will have to be harvested
milled and baked into bread; the
vegetables and fruits sprayed, har.
vested and packed; the wool clipped,
graded and spun; the ore taken from
a minature mine, refined, rolled and
cast; the lumber cut from the log,
ﬁnished and fashioned into a build-
ing; the.‘concrete made ‘and mixed;
every operation necessary to the
production of a cemmodity shown in
minature, by. lecture'and actual dem-
onstration,—-all before. the eyes of

It may be that '

7: the audience. . Model homes, barns, .
; schools, churches, stores, shows, rec— '

flock to the grandstand where there?

'is‘ action and‘ excitement. '
perience has prouen that without
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reation halls could be, shown. in act—~
ual operation. - The possibilities-
along this line are limitless. They
could be made to touch upon almost
every human activityg Mv‘oreover

, there would be interesting,” entertain:- -
. ingand instructiVe. .In this direction 7'
lies opportunity for the biggcrffairs'

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7 TRADE AND MARKET" REVIEW

There has been many encouraging
developments recently in connection
with the general ﬁnancial situation,
the country over. The over-subscrip-
tion of the French, $100,000,000
loan is one of the straws that shows
which way the ﬁnancial breeze» is

blowing md-lncidentdlyvm'the« 1

payment of. the Anglo-French loan
next month. The hard ﬁght that
Europe is making to re-establish her
credit and to get back on a pre-war
basis, seems to appeal to lovers of
fair play in this country and our
monied men seem to be willing and
anxious to help in this great under-
taking whenever the opportunity is
 ‘ ,' .  j

.The credit situation seems to be
improving, the movements of the
stock market and general invest-
ment business reﬂecting an easier
feeling in both .“call” and “time”
money; the former is ranging be-
tween .6 and 7 per cent while time
money can be had on good security
for 8 per cent. Banks all over the
country are in the market for com-
mercial paper, a condition which has
not been known for a long time un-
til the beginning of the present
month. The leading ﬁnancial cent-
ers of the country report an improv-
ed demand for gilt-edge investment
securities; the public in general
seems to regard present stock mar-
ket values as hanging around rock-
bottom and many men of moderate
means are drawing out their savings
for conservative investment.

For many months, commercial
business has been at a standstill and
no marked improvement in this di-
rection has as yet been noticed. Many
retail dealers in the necessities of
life, are still loaded up with geods
which their customers refuse to buy
at prices which will yield a proﬁt on
ﬁrst cost and they absolutely refuse
to place new orders until this stale
stock is out of the way. The stub-
born refusal on. the part of the ulti-
mate consumer, to buy goods that he
considered much too high, has re-
sulted in sweeping reductions in the
selling price of many commodities
\and the belief is quite general that
liquidation is not yet over. \

- For many months, the construe-y
tion of much needed buildings in both
city and country has been postpon-
ed because of the high cost of build-
ing material and labor. Lumber
has been so high that no man of
moderate means dared to ﬁnance a
building campaign even when he was
assured of a prompt sale of every
house that he built at higher prices
then were ever before known in
this country. There are indications
of a cut in building material prices
and contractors are looking forward
to a busy season next summer. Re-
lating to the present lmnber market
the trade journal “Lumber” in a
recent issue, published the fellow-
ing: “Declines and in some ‘cases
sllnnps, that are beginning to ap-
pear in commodities, other than
lumber, that enterinto building may
’vbe regarded as encouraging: These

commodities, notably steel, iron and
brick, have retained very high levels
while lumber has' receded from its
peak prices. Most authorities have
recognized in this one of the princi-
pal retardants of building and belief
on the part of the banks that such '
prices eventually would decline has
been a large factor in the withhold-
ing of credits for any but the most
necessary construction.

' “The lumber market shows a pro- "
neunced declining tendency. = This
in- view of the heavy falling oil in
construction work, is unavoidable.
The influence of declines in other
primary markets is a factor but in
structural woods the building de-
ma is the principal influence. The
outlook is that these declines will '
continue for several weeks—perhaps
months—but that a resumption of
:building' "will follow .the readjust-
}.ments that are occurring in other
ommodities and a reaction in lum-
r prices can then be expected.
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dull but ﬁrm. Hogs easy.

 DETROIT—Wheat and rye steady. Corn and oats lower.
Beans weak. Fat cattle steady. Grass cattle weak. Hogs steady.

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to.  dullness of demand from

industrial consumers. Here, too.

there  indications'ofgreater'star

bility within the next two or three
months. Many lumber indus-
tries are depleting their stores with-
out replacement and a period of buy-
ing is in prospect despite the reduc-
ed consumption. Railroadbuying' of
hardwoods-is ’more .in evidence, but
there is little change otherwise in
the current situation.”

WHEAT FAIRLY STRONG

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While the current wheat market
is statistically strong it is hard to
counteract the depressing influence
of the declining market for coarse
grains; some selling pressure has de-
veloped in the option market lately
but this has been promptly counter-
balanced by a greatly improved de-
mand for milling purposes. Every
dip in selling values has been follow-
ed by a speedy reaction that very
largely repaired the damage done by
the break. ,Experienced operators in
this branch of the market express
the opinion that the rallying power
shown by Wheat, in the face of a
slumping market for corn and cats,
is a good omen for the future when,
in the regular order of events, the
options in corn and cats will become
oversold and reaction toward higher
price levels 'comes as a direct result
of the evening—up process. '

Houses with seaboard connections
show up as active buyers of wheat
for future delivery after every de-
cline in the market. Canada reports
increased country loading but farm-
ers, located here in the states, are
holding back their wheat. An act-
w'vn, dmmnd, for fancy samples of
spring wheat, is reported by all west—
el'n markets but the cheaper grades
of grain are slow sale. Reports from
the leading wheat—growing sections
indicate that there is a large amount
of grown wheat in the country which

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THE WEATHER

Foster‘s Weather Chart for October 1920

Warmer
usual--
. lit
Croolmi for tempernmmzobonstnitlrLWNM '4' "  '
WASHINGTON. D. 0.. September
25, 1920,—-—-This weather chart is for
October. The dates of month are at,
top. Warm waves are expected to
reachyour vicinity near dates where
crooked line goes to tops; cooler than
usual where they go to low pomts.
Storm waves waves .follow warm

waves.

Warm waves will reach Vancouver

B. C. about Sept. 27 and temperatures
will rise on all the'Paciﬂc slope and
northern Rockies. It will pass east-
ward by way of the Great Lakes and
down the St, Lawrence .valley, cross-
ing continent in about ﬁve days.
South of the storm path will be warm-
or than usual and northof it cooler
than usual. Storm wave will follow

    

 

 

 

As Forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

' Its center will

, cool wave period.

above tummarlxod mm are received AFTER the balance of the market In.
contain Ian. mlnuu Information up to within one-belt

hour of golng

must be sold for feeding purposes:
prices for this grade will surely be

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vemlow.»
« CORN 'WEAK
coma Pmcss PER 30.. SEPT. 21, 1920
Grade loam" Ichloagol I. ."I.
. No. 2 Yellow  1.81 1 1.46%
No. a ram  ' 1.22%
No.4 Yellow .4. V]
Palace on: visa noo-
Gndo '_ matron letdown I. V.
I0. 2 Vouow ..1 1.43 i
No. 2 Yellow I I
No. 4 Yellow ...l l
The corn market, during the past

week, has been practically without
friends and the decline in futures
has gone much farther than was ex-
pected by even the bears on the
board. Reports from the growing
ﬁelds indicate a progress toward ma-
turity that practically assures an
80 per cent yield of sound corn. The
only element in the whole coarse
grain situation that makes for in—
crease in selling values is the fact
that practically every dealer in the
country is a bear and the selling is
liable to be very much over-done be-
fore a reaction sets in. Government
reports foreshadow a tremendous
yield of corn in all of the southern
group of states, provided the frost
holds of long enough for the neces-
sary maturing processes to take
place; the crop is backward in the
south and an early frost would
greatly decrease the yield. 0n the
whole, the situation is decidedly
weak and the prospect of anything
like a permanent movement, toward
higher price levels, is considered very
remote at this writing.

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OAT PRICES, BIL, SEPT. 21, 1920
Grade lDetrolt lChlcagol N. Y.
No. 2 White . . .I .64 '/2 .61 V4 .73
No. 8 White . . .l .88 301/41
No. 4 White ' . . .I .60 I
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
Grade luau-on. {Chlmgol N. Y.
Standard . . . . . . . .11 'I
No. 3 White . 1 .69 l I
No. 4 Whlu . . .l .10 l I

 

 

 

Every day, as time goes on, evi—
dences are accumulating that tend to
establish the fact that the farmers
of America have harvested the larg-
est oat. crop ever known; threshing
is progressing rapidly, and tremend-
ous yields are reported from many

FOR THE WEEK

about one day behind warm wave.
This will not be an important storm.
Much needed good crop weather is,
expected during that storm period.
Not much rain anywhere.

Cool wave will reach Vancouver
about Sept. 29 and temperatures will
fall on all the Pacific slope and mall
the American and Canadian. Rockies. V

pass thru Missouri.
North Carolina and on to the Atlantic.
crossing’continent in about five days,
This will not be acold wave but merely
a.~ cool wave with line weather for
outdoor affairs, temperatures not far
from normal as an average of the

to be ideal for all outdoor affairs, par-
ticularly for farm work. In some sec-
tions last half of September is an im-
portant time to:- sowing winter grain.
I advise to sow largely of that kind
’of winter grain best suited to the 10-
cality. Good markets, good prices are
expected for 1921 winter grain.

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cf the leading oat-producing states.
That prices for this grain will ul-
timately seek much lower levels,
seems to be practically assured;
some operators there are who seem
to fancy that the dizzy drop in val-
use should all comeat once but the

probability is that prices are Just.

about due for an early recovery and

that the swing, toward- lover levels. '

will be gradual, the movement of the
market being influenced greatly by
the fluctuation of values for corn
and wheat.
BYE DEOIJNES '

The rye market has been passing
along in comparative obscurity. of!
late, ' being completely ‘ over-shadow-

 

,ed by theactlvity in-thocoorse‘srnir .

trade. The market for spot rye is
declining. every day, in sympathy
with the trade in other grains, the
current selling price being. around
$1.88 per bushel for No. 2 :0n this

date, last year, No. 2 rye sold for.

$1.41. . _ .

BEANS UNs'rEADY

 

 

BEAN PRICES PER CWT" SEPT.«~21. 1920‘

 

 

c. H. P. . . . .  5.88 I I 1.25
Rod Kidneys . . . . 1550 l
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO

 

 

 

 

 

and. loogolt lemme! N. V.
c. H. P. . . . . ..l 1.50  l
Prlmo . . . . . . . . . .
Red Kidneys . . .l I

 

Nothing new has developed in
connection with the bean trade and
prices have shown a disposition to
sag. Rumor has it that elevators
located in the bean—growing districts
of the state, are carrying a heavy
load of beans, bought at higher price
levels. The current tight money mar-
ket is having a direct influence on
the bean market as dealers ﬁnd it
difficult to barrow money with which
to continue their purchasing opera-
tions. Current quotations certainly
look low and anything like a general
buying movement in the market
would probably improve the situa-
tion from the standpoint'of the sell-
er right speedily.

 

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Like everything else on a fresh
vegetable list, potatoes are on 'the
toboggan with much lower prices in
prospect as the season advances and
the crop begins to appear in the mar-
When the Detroit Stewards’
Association declared a boycott on
potatoes, some months ago, potatoes
were selling for $7 for a bag of 150
pounds; the market has been grad-
ually drifting toward lower levels
ever since until on the Detroit mar-
ket on Monday, September 20, car-
lot prices for Michigan stock was
$3.25 to $3.50 per sack or $1.40 per
bushel. Earlier in the season it
was very difﬁcult to purchase Mich-
igan grown potatoes, the only stock
available, coming from Florida and
the Dominion. The recent break is
attributed to the pressure of home-
grown potatoes on the local market.
The present situation is aggravated
by the continuance of warm Weather
which deters the householder from
laying in a stock for winter use he
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~ HAY FIRM

Reports on thevh-ay trade from all
parts of the country quote a ﬁrm mar-
ket with hardening tendencies. In ’
View of the fact that large supplies.
are said to be stored away in the
barns of the state, many cities and
towns in the lower part of Michigan;
are without a supply, of baled hay of
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without avail, and the present .pros-
pect for keeping the hay balers at
Work seems to be very remote.

When asked for an opinion on the

 hay situation by the writer of this ar—'

ticle, on Monday last, John L. Dexter,
of Detroit, one of the leading hay
handlers of lower Michigan, made the
following statement: ‘_‘I do pot look
for lower hay prices for some weeks
yet because of the bad «car situation.
‘ Watere‘wId-that transportation is im-
proving; it may be in some lines but
hey is the last thing to feel this im-
provement and hay handlers are hav-
ing a hard time of it to get cars. It
is too early yet to make statements
concerning the effects of increased
freight rates but the trade in this lat-
itude wil not feel the hardships which
result from increased carrying charg-
es like they will out west where

~ nearly all of the hay grown in one
state is consumed in another, some
distance away.”

LIVESTOCK MARKET

‘p'l‘he cattle trade in all markets,
during the past week, has been a
repetition of the conditions that have
prevailed since the beginning of the
present month. Choice. steer cattle,
both yearling and mature bullocks,_
have been in strong demand, at the
highest prices since early last spring.
The top in Chicago for yearling
steers has been $18 and for the old-
er kinds, $18.25. During the‘early
part of last week, common cattle
sold slow and lower because of the
observance of two Jewish holidays.
The only thing that saved Chicago
from a bad slump in common cattle,
last week, was the small mid-week
arrivals.

While the receipts of western
range cattle have been much more
.liberal, of late, than formerly, the
total arrivals in Chicago to date are
less than one—fourth of the number
that came to hand during the same
period in 1919. Bologna and butch-
ers bulls sold well in Chicago, last
week, but they eased off on Satur~
day and closed very weak. The rap-
id progress toward maturity of the
corn crop is helping out the demand

for the better grades of feeding cat— .

tle but the common kinds are dull
and. slow.

Sheep and Lambs Higher

A part of the recent loss in sheep
and lamb prices has been regained
and the general situation looks much
better than it did on this day last
week. There are several important
conditions which are responsible for
the improvement in the outlook in
the sheep and lamb department, the
leading consideration being a sharp
falling off in arrivals from the west.
Natives, from states in the middle
west, having been “coming in num-
bers, however, that have partly made
up for the loss of westerns, the run
of sheep and lambs for the ﬁrst two
‘days of. last week, in seven western
markets, was 39,000 more than for
the same period the ‘iveek before. To
realize the abnormal smallness of
current sheep and lamb arrivals we
have but to compare them with those
of last year; last year’s arrivals of
\ sheep and lambs in the seven lead—
. ing western markets for the two
' days that corresponded to Monday
and Tuesday of last week were 275,-
090,. head. Theresumption of man-

ufacturing activities, by several cast- .

ern woolen mills, is also a' good omen
for - future sheep markets and, no
do with
_pre‘eent,~prosperity. The fact that
V. prime beef and pork is rapidly ris-
 ii’lvalhcsin allf'markets 'is/boost-
"t demand {for mutton and

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era] views at Atlantic City, the oth-
er day, concerning the imperative ne-
cessity of fostering the American live
stock industry and giving the feeder
a chance to make living proﬁts, his
buyers in the Chicago-market have
been fighting the advance in hog
prices, staying out of the» deal and
permittinglshippers and yard trad-
ers to make the market; an of the
above proves that, with the big pack—
ers, talking for publication is one
thing and buying hogs is quite a dif-
ferent consideration.

The history of the live hog and
provision markets, for the last fort-
night has completely established the
accuracy-of the forecasts for Septem-
ber that have appeared in this col—
umn during the last two months. As
in other branches of the live stock
trade, there are many influences
that are crowding prices rapidly up-
ward, the strongest hull argument
being the extremely small daily ar-
rivals; ‘the average hog grower and
feeder is coming to be rather clever
in reading markets and he is simply
holding back his begs for the higher
prices which he is convinced are not
far away. In spite of the headlong
tumble which .has featured grain
markets, of late, the speculative pro-
vision trade is following the live hog
market and prices are advancing;-
all of the above goes to show that
weakness in foreign exchange is lit-
tle more than a handy bogy man for

   

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igtﬁre sex: -: . ,  -': -  
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'ed to have expressed extremely lib-

     

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1W3“!!! they {611086 to “El  -

er prlc‘és'for' hogs andprovi onsﬁ' 

Decal Market Conditions

For all grades of cattle, except

strictly choice killers and the better

grades of bulls, the Detroit cattle
market during the past week has
been the worst of the season; the
average quality of local offerings
continues to be very common and
the attendance of buyers at the daily
sessions of the market the smallest
that has been known for many years.
Veal calves have been in small sup-
ply this week but in view of the fact
that the Hebrew was missing a part
of that time, arrivals just about met
the needs of the trade.

In sympathy with other markets,
the Detroit. sheep trade has develop-
ed some strength and somewhat
higher prices for choice lambs; cull
lambs and the commoner grades of
sheep are almost unsalable.’ Detroit
hog prices have reflected the Big
gain in other markets but at that
they were, on some occasions, slight—
ly out of line with other points, sim-
ilarly located. The average quality
of Detroit live hog receipts is chang-
ing rapidly as the season advances;
fewer rough hogs are coming to
hand, the bulk of current offerings
consisting of spring pigs, many of
which hays been picked too soon.
With declining corn prices and ris-
ing quotations for provisions and
live hogs, the fallacy of selling
thrifty young breeding hogs in an
unfinished state should be apparent
to the most casual observer.

    

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‘ Ever since the beginning ofg-the'
current- month, liveiii‘jgs have use ..
climbing toward higher price levels.
As has beenexplained above, the.

, cause of this rapid ris'e' has been the

continued small arrivals in all mar-

'kets; now that $2.50 has been add-

ed to the selling price. of tophogs in
three weeks, it would not be surpris-
ing to see somewhat larger daily re-
ceipts in the near future and natural '
reaction to lower price levels. No
permanent decline is looked for,
however, the inference being that a
large share of the young hogs, still
in farmers’ hands, will be held back
to consume the tremendous corn
crop.

(A series of articles commenting on
the live stock exhibits and prizes
won at the recent State Fair are be—
ing prepared by the market editor
and will appear in future issues of
this paper.)

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

The situation, in connection with
the fruit and vegetable markets of
Lower Michigan was hardly ever
known to be worse than it is at this

'writing. Arrivals of home-grown
products, direct from the near-by
gardens and orchards, during the

past yveek, have literally swamped
the Detroit market and dealers, in
all departments of the trade are
struggling with a glut of perishable
stuff, the like of which was never
before known in connection with the
local market for general produce
and fruits. A month ago, the only
place from which peaches could be

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Honor and Proﬁt for Mr. Dayett

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' “BetterSires — Better-Stock”,

We will award a money prize of
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elimlm

Thisprlzc will be awarded under
.' rules provided by the Bureau of
‘ Animal Industry, United States

Department of Agriculture.

   
    

    
 

 

 

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leaders in cow testing associations are

Unicorn users.

J. Irvin Dayett is one of these. He is ‘
a member of the Diamond State Cow
Testing Association of Delaware.

For the year ending August 1, 1920,
his herd stood ﬁrst in average yield of
both milk and fat for less than ten'cows:

Milk....
Fat....

12,271.0 lbs.
. 416.4 lbs.

Averag’ proﬁt per cow, $186.63

His herd contained the champion
producers of both milk and fat:

Milk Fat
COW No.7 . .% 15,101 488.2

Cow No.9 . . 13,691

Mr. Dayett feeds Unicorn and gives
it much credit for his success. Credit
is equally due to his good cows and to

his skill in feeding.

From the annual report of the Asso
ciation we copy the following:

“The question of whether or not it pays
to ﬁaed cows heavily when the price of
grain is so high has been answered
through this year’s work. In every
case where heavy feeding has been
practiced a good proﬁt has results ”

It pays to feed Unicorn to your cows.

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quietly. ~  ‘- “

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waited and Worked for" this day, and
the day»:has come.- :I've got 1? the
whelp where I want him at any rate."
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picture. “And if that don't make
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isn’t .worth‘it."  ' '
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er demanded with swift suspicion. ‘

‘ “Beating you up," was the 'cool
answer. “I could kill you with my
hands in ﬁve minutes. You’re “no
Wolf. .You’re, Just mere. yellow, dog,
skunk. They told me to expect this
of‘you;. but I‘did'n’t believe it-lati‘d
I came to see. They were right.- You
were all that theysaid. Well, I-
must get out of this, it smells like
a den ofvfoxes; It stinks." - »

He paused with his handon the
door knob and looked back. He had
not succeeded in making Regan lose
his temper.

“And what are you going to do
about it?" the latter jeered.

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apeClal  Prlce“ learn,” Francis replied. '
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agyogﬁgfﬁiiii'dQSnlgiﬁt   .gan conceded, then, with a wave of
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“0r ifthe United States would only
declare a moratorium," Bascom hop-
ed equally hopelessly. ,

And Regan at that moment, was
saying to his assembled agents and
minor factory specialists? " ,
Sell all you’ve got -
I see no" bot-ﬂ,

I've sat and waited. And now the

and then‘sell short.
tom to this "market !” i ,4

And Francis on his way yup-town.
buying the iast extra scanned ‘ the
ﬁve inch lettered hea‘d use:

“I SEE NO BOTTOM k TO THIS
MARKETf—THO‘MAS anions."

But Francis was 'not at his house
at eight next morning tomeet Char-
It had been a night in
which ofﬁcial Washington had
slept,‘and the night wires had car-
ried the news ‘out over the "land that
the United States though not a War,
had declared its ‘moratorium.’ Wak-'
en'ed out ofrhis’ ‘bed at seven'by‘Bas-
com in person, who
news, Francis had accompanied him
downtown“ .-The [moratorium had '
e‘, and there was much

Francis rose to his feet and ’re-

ieyv Tippery.

given them hep

Charles Tippery was not the ﬁrst,
however, to arrive at/the Riverside
A few minutes before
Parker was very much dis—
turbed and perturbed when Henry;
and Leoncia, much the worse
sunburn and travel stain brushed past
the second butler who had opened

Drive palace.

- “It’s no use you’re coming in this
Parker assured them.
Morgan is not at home.” ' '

“Where’s he gone?’ Henry demand-
ed, shifting the suitcase he carried
to the other hand.
see him pronto, and I’ll have you-5i
know that pronto means quick. A

' who inhell are you?" -:.
Morgan's conﬂd
Parker answered so
“A'ndeho are you?” ~ ’

“My name’s Morgan," He

weredr shortly,- l‘ookinxg-v about 2'- in
quest of something; striding to. the
library, glancing in, andrzdiscoveri-ngn
“Where's Francis?
n‘iIV-Call him ”

“We've got to

the telephones.
With- what‘ number ca

“Mr. Morgan left express instruc-
tions that nobody -was« to telephone
him except-on important. business."
“Well, my business is
What’s the number?" a
“Mr. ‘Morgan‘is very: busy today,” _‘
Parker reiterated» stubbornly.-
“He's in, a pretty bad way,»
Henryvquizzed. -
The -vaiet's face
pression‘less. ‘ .
“Looks as-vthough he .was.goi~ng.to_ ,
be cleaned out today, eh?"
Parker's ,face
emotion nor intelligence. .
or a second time “I t
is very busy—he began. 
“Hells bells !" Henry interrupted.
“It’s no secret. The market'sgot him
where the} hair is short.
knows that.
morning papers.

Hyacinth. Tu" - N'rc'”  And, after_a_,slltt_le more of similar

 remained v . ex: .-

unknoWn that- had several " times.

Avlot of itvwasin‘ the
V Now come across,
Mr. Conﬁdential Valet. _. Iwant his
number. "I’ve got importantbusiness .
with him myself.
" But Parker remained obdurate.
“What's , his lawyers name?
2the name of his agent?
his ' representatives?’ .. ~
' Parker shook hishead. ~  I
“If you will tell me the ~nature of .
’ ass“; with "lilin','_' 4'the‘vale't

"ﬂ,"- . save me all the trouble,” was Frgﬁ-- ._.
'. "0"”‘"“' pmth cis’ parting shot . 
"um enm‘mpéﬁufg‘t 'nint ‘ “And all the expense,” "Regan

9"" "‘9'. ..You take flung after ‘him. ‘ “It’s going to be 7 w - 1”
' ‘ ' ped the suit case and ._
made as. it about to 'leap‘u’pon the '
other and shake Francis' number out
of him. - But Leoncia interve
“Tell‘him,”.she said." . ,_ V 
““Tell him'!_”,; Henry shouted, ac-
cepting her suggestion. ( _
te'r than that. "I'll show him—+Here,
comeé-on’you." ‘He stroderuntofthe .
library, Ifswu‘ngjthe’ suit *icase-von Lethe
reading." table :and began epnnln‘g. it.
“Listen - to' 'me, Mr. Conﬁdentialﬂfn-q,
.‘létf. :.O.ur 7 business is. the. “#3791135 ..
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strpiiisgcoinr:  him," right i:

2 mail time isn’t going ,tq be any—funeral from'

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v”;  - that ‘ mom ent.‘
while they held him here 'with'
their talk of millions, confederates?’
mightbe ransacking the upper :pa’rt's
of the. house. .As forathe' sui-t-I'case, for;
all he knew it might begﬁlled with
dynamite.‘ - . j   -- 

“Here!” , ..  :-,  : 4
‘ With-a quick- reachrﬁenr-y caught” «
him by the collar as he’ turned - '.=t0“
flee. .With'rhis'. other hand» Henry lift-
ed ‘the Cover,- exposi-ngna. bushel hot?
uncut gems. Parker showed plain-lye
that he- was, overcome, although: Hen-'-
ry failed to guess the nature of his
agitation. .  4 ~   
“Thought I'd convince you," Hen-
ry exalted: “Now be good dog ands;
give me his number." : .1 ..  
.2“Be. Seated sir'e'... .‘ ‘ "and. .rma-"=
dame," Barker. announced with 4 po-s .'
lite‘ bows" and a successful “effortﬂto
contrOl himself. ‘ “B'e sea-ted,‘pleaso.~
I have left the " private 'numher“‘«'in'
Mr. ."Morg‘an's bed'room,’. which  he.-
gave me this morning whenI help-J
ed him,dress.. I shall be gone buta'a
moment to‘ get it. In the meantime»
Please be seated." . ' " ‘
Once outside ‘the‘library, Parker»
became a 1most active clear -=th~i'nkin'g"i
person. Stationing the second foot-'
man at'the front Ido'orp'he placedvvthe'

~ ﬁrst one to watch at the library door.
' Several other servants he sent scout?

ing into the upper regionson the '
chance -of surprising . possible. cone-

‘federates at their nefarious work;

Him'self,.,he addressed via the but-

' ler's telephone, to the nearest police

station. . ..
“Yes. sir}? he repeated to the.
desk sergeant. “They are either a
couple of lunatics or criminals. Send:
a patrol wagon at once, please, sir.

i Even now. I do not know whether-v

rible- crimes are; being commit-teed '1.
underlthishroof   ..'ﬁ  :~;
In the meantime i-n‘response at the"
front door, thetsecond fbotman, "with
visible relief;~'=admi—tted= Charley "'I‘iQT—g,

: pery, :.clad.-i ill-evening dress "at the}; ..
‘ early; hour,-e=as.»aaz-knownr and ‘tried,
friend of-the'=master. The ﬁrst butler" " .

with similar 'lfeli‘effiTO‘Whlell'he ﬁddle"
ed» sundry; winks}-’~an=d war'n'in'gis',»x hd-
mitted.,hinminterline-library. _ ' ‘ 
Expecting- .he : knew 3 not "what-3 ‘hoiﬂ
whom” Charley: r .e’liipfp'ery " advanced 2'
across; the alargeyrooiii‘ to. the strange

. man Landswozmant-i' Unlike.- Parker; '
I their sunburn .anditravel stain caught
his eye not asva‘n insignia suspicious

but: as .-tokens 'worthyi'» or "wider "cep-
sideration . than: .'average‘-'Nevv‘ York

: accords- .its',.:rno_re or flees..§average7vis‘-'
‘ itors.11".‘Leancia's. beauty-Was’like. a.
blow betWeen 'the1eyési‘ and he knew». »‘

she .' was a lady. Henry's ‘7‘bron'ze,'

brazed » upon features: *unmistakiyi'
deminiscent of..Firanois:an_d"of RAH.
.  Mudrew. :hisgadmirwoniandfT-respe'ct: '
betrayed V neither ' ‘ '

“Good morning]? "he " addressed
Henry, although he subtly embraced

: Leon‘cia"with'his greeting,» nFﬁénds
of Francis?" 1 r.  ,-;,v .v _ W

“Oh, sin". Leencia'cri‘ed out. “We
are more: thank-friends. .z-We are here

to save him.“ I have read the morn-’

ing papers; .If..only.it weren’t for"

the stupidity of :the servants . .”

’7 A'nd‘Ch'arley Tippery ’was immedi?

atelyluﬁaWare "of any "slightest doubt.
He extended his hand to Henry.

“I am Charley Tipperyﬂihe said.
“And my name'sMorgan, r-Henry

Morgan.“ .I-Ienry4methim. warmly, ‘

like a drowning. man I» clutching at'a

. life preserver. “And this is Miss 80-

: laHOTth‘Lé: Senorith. Seance; .Mr‘. irui- v

. pery.. .In .factless..Solanolis .my
sister/5 . " 5 ~ r

“I came on the same errand," ’
CharleygTippe‘ry announced, intro-

ductions over." “Thejsavin'g' of Fran-
cis','as I understand“, must consist,
of 'harducash or-of securities indisi
. puta-biy :neg‘otiable.  'I'Z‘haye ~brought,_ ,
.- with 'me: whitt I-have hustled all night
, toget ,and whats-Inam-‘conﬂde‘nt is ;‘
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gﬁtoi'rbharley Tipper'y’s face-“ ~ . I

“The’re. worth miliﬁji's ! millions
millions) !".-:he ~cried.': f‘Wh-at are you
going. to do. with them‘Ij’  ', ‘

"Negotiate them, so, as to help
Francis out,” Henry answered.

“They’re security for any amouiit'iar‘e "

they not?!" - ~ '
s'Close up the suitcase,” Charley

, Tippetymried, "while I telephone—I ‘

‘ ‘ want" toicatch; my father before - he

,, _8ell:th_ese, and sell short.

‘ lieutenant.

v multaneously with Henry, and,
both their hands clutched it, Lieuten- -

, Come on!

his. shoulder, ..while “waiting for
switchg -‘.'.It-.?s .onlygiive mlnutes’ run

«from here.”j - ,  mg  ~.
' ’ exist as he concluded: the; brief.
-w.ords with his- father, Parvlrer;z,jfoll-- . 
y a’poliee-eiieutenant‘ and‘ two

~10va ,

poice‘ih‘en entered,zf , .. ,1  -.
7-  el-vl‘herefsvthe ‘ sans. . ‘ ‘ lieutenant-

you, ofacourse. Only'the other two,
I don’t ‘know What the
charge will be—cra‘zy, anyway, if
not worse, which is more likely.”

“How do you‘do Mr. Tippery," the
lieutenant greeted familiarly.

" ‘.‘You’ll_ arrest , nobody, Lieutenant
Burns,” Charley Tippery smiled to
him. ..“You. can sendthe wagon back

to the station. »I’ll square it with the ~

Inspector. For you’re coming along
with me, and this suit case,_and these
suspicious characters to my house.

‘ You’ll have to be bodyguard—oh, not

for me, but this suit case.:- There are

millions in it, hard, cold millions,‘

beautiful millions. . When 'I open it
before my father, you’ll see a sight
given to few. men in this world to

see—and now, come on, everybody.

Weh'e wasting time”: ~ -' ,
He? made a, grab at the suitcase si-
as

ant-Burns sprang to interfere- - '-
"I fancy I’ll carry it until its no-
gotiated”: Henry" asserted. '
"Surely, surely," .Charley'Tippery
conceded, ,“as' long as we don’t. lose
any~more precious time. " .It‘ will
take time to do the negotiating;
‘ Hustle !”' ~-  
- CHAPTER XXIX

'I‘ELPED tremendously ~-by the '-
1 peremptory stoppage of

moratorium, .the saggingi mar.

 . diet had ceasedasagging; 2., and
some stocks were even beginning to
recover. 5 This ,wasﬁtr‘ue’for practical-
ly eyery.,line-~save those  lines in
which Francis, owned :and which Re-
. gan was hearing. Henontinued bear-
ingland makingthem reluctantly fall
and he noted iwith? - icy-z the huge
blocks of Tainpico Petroleum: which
,wereﬁ. being: ,dumpediobviously > by
noother personthan Francis." x  -
*"Now’s, the time,” Regan inform-
.ed his bear conspiratorsa "Playfher
.- coming, and Joins»
ruff._- Rememberthe listh gave you;

there is._,no“}bot.toiii. ‘ As for all- the
.7 rest buy and buy now, and‘ deliver

allv,,that _you,.sold.v1.~..You« can‘t.» lose, -
._you see, and. by continuing to: ham-

'm'er "the. 511.3“ You’ll make a double
killing;”  '.'_ _ ~ ~  ...-.

hear crowd queried.

“I’ve nothing to buy,” came the
4 answer. ‘ "That. will- show you how
square I have been in my_tip and
how‘conﬁdent I am.. I haven’t sold

"How, aboutjyo'urself?" one of, his

'a share outside the list, so I have-

[nothing to deliver... -I.am still sell-
mg short and hammering down the
lzst, and the list only. There’smy
killing, and you can share in it by as
much as you continue 'to sell short.”

. There you are i” Bascom in des-
pair in his private oﬁice cried"- to
Franms at ten thirty. “Here’s *the
whole market rising except your
lines. Regan’s out- for‘lblood. I

never dreamed he-cc‘iuld showsuch -

strength. We can’t stand this. We
are ﬁnished. We’re smashed now——
you. me, all of ours~everything3i

‘Never. had Francis- been

»: all" 7 . lb? e ‘ . _.
Jayefestfmﬁla  j. 'fohttrexﬂnishédtl’} '
tity, 'put wonder and excitement - ?

,arrest‘v’themﬂi Parker said—i—“Oh, sir, ..
«i r-‘I‘ beg yourpardon Mr. .Tippery. Not

‘of Charley Tippery,
It’sva. doubley

’Forithe'm -

_ v cooler. -
Since all-was 10st,,why :worry?—-‘——wa's v

f his attitude; and a mere layman in
' thelgame, ' hegcaught a glimpse of.

‘ _possibiltiesrthatwere veiled toBas-’
~  com who-too thoroughly knew ‘too '
much about the game.  '  r.

'  "rake it easy,"‘Fra'ncis counseled .
new-vision assuming .torm . and 
 “Mach tick alumnae- '
j smoke gnd.r,,tfalki,it;0‘veti
r ’ ' , g a; ,;..-.watenes and
. H  triv‘ﬁ n I y

   

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“Which means that. we’re busted,
flat busted,”.—Francis went on to the

exposition of his new- ldea. “New

 

‘ it; is perfectly clear, then; to your
mind and mine, that a man can never‘

be worse than a complete, perfect,
hundred per cent entire, total bust.”

“We’re wasting valuable time,”
Bas‘com protested as he nodded afﬁr-
mation.   ‘ . z:
 .f‘N‘dt ; if;.~we?re «busted as compete-

.,.1y.»_as-yo.ufv'e,,agreed.wafers; Spill-led v ‘
Francis. (“Beingfjhoroughly busted,

time,-€ sales,“ purchases, nothing can

‘ be of any gva‘lne'te us.v~ Values have

ceased, don"tgyeul ace."

.“Go on; That is zit??? .B‘asco‘m said;

' with. the:-mementarimessueed Ape-
'5tience.'of~.abject-despair,  ‘fIfrn bust—
ed hi‘gher. than.a kite .now,‘ and, as

yOu say, they c'ani’t'bust me any high-

er.” '

“Now youget the idea !” Francis
jubilated.. “You’re a member of the
Exchange. Then go ahead, sell or
buy, "do anything your and my mer-
ry hearts decide. We' can‘t lose.
Anything from zero always leaves

zero. We’ve shot all we’ve got, and
.more. Let’s shoot what we haven’t
got.” '

Bascom‘ still. struggled feebly to,

protest,- but Francis beat him down
with a ﬁnal:

“Remember,
leaves zero.”. _

And for the next hour, as in, a
nightmare, no longer a free agent,
Bascom yielded to Francis' will in the
maddest stock adventure of his life.

‘th, .well,” Francis‘ laughed at
half-past. eleven, .“we might as well
quit now. But remember we’re no
worse off than we were an hour ago.
We were zero then. We’re zero now.
You can ,hang up the auctioneer’s
flag any time now.”

Bascom, heavily and wearily tak-
ing down .the receiver was about to
transmit the orders that would stop
thebattle by acknowledgment of un-
conditional defeat when the door
opened and through it came the fa-
mii-ar ring of aspirate stave that
made Francis ’flash .his .hand- out in
his broker’s

anything from zero

arm.

“Stop,” Francis cried. "Listenl".

And they listened to the song pre-,

ceding the. singer:

“Back to. back against the-mainmast,
Held athay the entire crew.”

. As Henry swaggered in, carrying
, a huge and different: suit case Fran-
. cis joinedwith him- in the stave;

“What's. doing?” Bascom quieried
who, still ~ in
eyening dress, looked- very jaded and

-worn from his erertions.

-From' his breast pocket he drew-
and passed, over three certified checks
that totaled eighteen hundred thous-

and dollars. - Bascom shook his. head‘

sadly. _ - . =- . ‘
“Too gate,"xhejsai_d. "That’s only
a drop in the bucket.-
throwinghthemuaway."’ ' _
“But wait.” Charley Tipperycried
taking the suit case from his singing
companion and proceeding to open
it. “Maybe that will help.” .

“That” consisted of a great mass of
orderly piles gold "bonds and gilt
edge securities. ~ '

“How much is it?" Bascom gasped
has courage springing up like wild
ﬁre. ' t ’

But Francis overcome by' the “sight
of such plethora of ammunition, ce‘a‘sé
ed. singing to gasp. And bot-h he and
Bascom gasped again when Henry
drew from his inside pocket a bundle
of a dozen certified checks. They
could only. stare at the prodigious
sum, foreach was written for a mil—
lion dollars. ' ‘ ‘

3 “And plenty 'more' where -‘tli‘at'-carme '
_ "All‘
-_ you‘ have to (lo-is say, the word. Expan-

from,” Henry announcedfairily‘.’

cis and well! knockthis bear gangto

pieces. " Now suppose you" get busy.'. I,
The rumors are aroundeverywhere- "

thatuytiu're gone and done for..Pitch
in andffshow them,‘ that’s. all. Bust
every;:._last-"on_e"ot them that jumped

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, Lower Prices _ ,
RICES HAVE been sagging for the last
three months and the end is not yet. The

orgy of extravagance that followed the war has
all but spent itself ;’the public has become
weary of paying three to ﬁve times the pre-
war prices for commodities,and is retrench-
ing all down the line. This curtailment in‘
buying is reflected ‘in the closing of factories,
the increase of commercial failures, and low-
er prices.

Whether or not we shall have a panic re-
mains yet to be seen. Few men of prominence
in ﬁnancial circles will admit they are headed
for a panic. Of course, it would be a psycho-
logical mistake for. anyone whose views upon
the subject are worth anything to confess pub-
licly that a ﬁnancial crash is imminent even
if they thought so. Panics are the result of
fear, and maybe averted by each and every-
individual keeping up his courage and going
about his business as usual.

The best minds concede, however, that the
crest of high prices has been reached and that
prices are due for a toboggan ride. A sud-
den drop in prices caused by dumping goods
on the market might cause a ﬁnancial disaster,
but the Federal Reserve banks have already
prevented such a catastrophe by proving its
willingness and ability to carry borrowers
through the changing period and enable them
to move goods produced at high cost in such
a manner as'to cause them the least possible
loss. ‘

Farmers have probably not felt any effect
as yet of the downward trend in prices, and
it may be several months before they will. .In
the larger cities where there is keen competi.
'rion between the large merchandising houses
the drop in clothing, shoes, and other wearing
apparel is quite noticeable. Other commodi-
ties which have either declined lately or are
due for a drop include automobiles, motor
trucks and building material of all kinds.
Whether agricultural implements will follow
suit is a mooted question. Manufacturers
claim that the cost of manufacturing preclude
any immediate prospect of lower prices; Of
course, not all prices will drop. The great
scarcity of fertilizer makes it improbable that
we shall see lower prices on that much needed

commodity. The same is true of oils, both for
lubrication and fuel. ‘Coal will not be imme—
‘ditely cheaper. Buy it now, and be glad to
get it at any price. . . v . 7 "

' So much for the buying side. Now for the
selling .s‘ide. Lower prices are noted in hay.
These will change for higher prices within the ,
[next thirty days providing the car. situation
:does not .impreve.and...our.. common. sense 
n. as it won’t improve. Corn, barley and possit
bly rye will probably go to new low levelshe-
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 time it must be,reeognized that farmers

.muétgsecureé some cash this fall from some of :

their cropsiand a great deal. {if grain will phob-

. ably be moved for that reason. .:.Butter and .

 naturally due for an increase.  .

- It appears to us. that the farmer not occu~=

pies-ya somewhat more A'advantdgeom'jposition

than those who have money invested injethcr
lines of busineu. For-him the ‘s‘reconstrucs »

lion" period is about over. In. all food lines
prices are materially loWer than during the
wan. .Rock-bottom has been reached. There
will be'exceptions to this rule, of course. But
the farmer has already accustomed himself to
lower prices, whereas others have yet to pass
through the crisis. In this respect he may con-
sider himself comparatively fortunate.

 

Listen to ’em Rave .
V I T IS given as a fact,———yet we ﬁnd it hard
'to believe,—-i:hat a certain Republican
county convention adjourned its session with-
out having said any harsh t hings about the

Democrats. True, resolutions were adopted,———,

for what is a convention without resolutions:—
but they didn't “deplbre,” “view with grave
alarm,” or even “denounce” the Democratic
“administration. Sounds kinda ﬁshy! docsnlt~
it? 

If ever the people of the United States were
in need of a clear vision and a good under-
standing it is now when the Democrats'are
stumping the country damning , the Republi-
cans and the Republicans are spending their
breath and their money to prove that the Dem-
ocrats are the arch enemies of the Republic.
How they must hate each other? We have
yet to read of a speech by Candidate Cox in
which he did not lambast the Republican party
and charge it with every crime in the political
calendar. And should Candidate Harding
give .a speech in which he failed to “flay,”
“excoriateﬂ? “arraign,” “accuse,” “conj
demu,” etc.,_ the Wilson administration and the
Democratic policies we would strongly suspect
that the Marion contender was losing his grip.

Isn’t it a pity thatmen who aspire to the
highest position in the gift of the American
people, should employ .such cheap and sensa-

tional tactics to discredit each other in the eyes ’

of the voters What is the reason for all this
balderdashi Aren’t there enough other things
to talk about except theshortcomings of the
two leading political parties? Must we sus-
pect that both Candidate Cox and Harding
purposely seek refuge behind a blanket of
abuse in order to detract the public attention
from the’real issues at stake? Really, gentle-
man, we are not interested in your indulgence
in 'pérsOnaliti‘es. What We are interested in

are your viewpoints on the huge national prob- v

lems which confront us. Spend a little less
time in talking about each other and a little
more time talking about transportation, mili-
tary training, excess proﬁts, taxes, credits, tar~
’iifs, roads, and the scores of other problems
which affect our daily well-being.

The Melon Robber

LAPEER county farmer shot a man
whom he found in his melon patch. The
young fellow proved to be an err-soldier and
prominent in the community. He stands to
10se his left arm for stooping to cominon thiev-
ery and the farmer faces jail for defending his
property. _ ‘_ \ . V
The melon thief is one of the worst nuisanc-
es with which the farmer has to contend. En-
cduraged by an almost traditional winking of
the legal eye at such‘ depredations the melon

thief boldly enters upon the, property of others .
,Iand. ruthlessly steals and.destroys...He is never
content to.  a single melon within nearest» »

recoli but must needs trample the

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over “the

asperating, but the thought that people will

trespass ‘an‘dtdeetroyfdces‘mot semen 

themﬂdd the' 11911138 Lapecr county  been
shot dead  entering-ethane « the

law would (OWE.  .
 _,‘._j."?when a farmerishom _ item thief in his gar-V
1'. than the law. lays-«its  hing-What's

them" new“; ":2 "

' sand the Primary Law I ‘ 

i F THE scattered remnants of the old, po-
litical gang have their way about it Michi-
gan's primary law stands to suﬁer some very
drasticclmnges at the hands of the next leg-

islature. Ever since the primary law was .,

enacted the fellows who were in the habit of
pulling the strings in the conventions have
been grumbling about the "weaknesses" of
the primary law and praising the convention
system to the skies. The truth of the matter

is thatthey miss the power and standing which "

the convention system gave to them and are
helpless before the masses of voters under th
primary. '
The primary law may have to be changed in
some respects, for it is a' comparatively new

measure and'rcquires time and experience to.

perfect it. All citizens will welcome such

champs will prevent and punish corrupt

practices .in the seeking nominations ‘ and-
elections, ; but ,will resenting. move that will
'make the primary law less representative than
it now is. The suggestion of a praprimary
convention is nothing but a subterfuge'to open
the way for the complete restoration of the
convention system. .

If there is faultto ﬁnd because so few votes
were cast in the last primary the blame should
be laid upon the people who didn”t Vote rath-
cr than upon the systemof voting. ' At that
the election was more representative than
would have been possible under the convention
system. ‘ ‘ " i ‘ ‘ '

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Since Cuba will honor the memory of Theo~

dore Roosevelt, by erectingstatues in his hon-
or in Havana'and San “Juan and byplacing his
picture in the public schools of the country,
we are reminded of the campaign
“Imperialism” was the issue, and Theodore
Roosevelt’s connection With Cuba was public-

ly villified. It may be of, some comfort to the .

devotees of Woodrow Wilson to know that as
time passes his name will, be gloriﬁed in hist-
ory because of the successful things he has
done. History conclusively, proves that the

good which men do lives after them.——Rosen-

baum Review.

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Market information, to be of value to farm-
ers scattered over the state of Michigan, must
be timely and contain as much local color as
pOSSible. It cannot, to be of value, be compiled
in Chicago, for instance, (where much of the
market dope handed out by some farm papers
is compiled) and mailed to a distant address to
be published a week later (which is the kind
of “service” that some farm papers are giv-

‘ing their readers.) The Business Farmer was
founded upon the idea that market service is ‘
the most important kind of service any farm.

paper can give to its readers, and it has been
ever upon the alert‘to develop its market dc-
partment to the highest point of efﬁciency and
value. The naming of H. H. Mack as market
editor is we feel the most important step we
have yet taken along-"that line." "I ' '

 

In View .of the factﬁhat sonic. of our Cath;
alic readers have   our Socialist

whoa.“ 'rmmendmenf .7 Q:  #133516” Win

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_ raids upon their gardens . and resort 
to examine-measures to defend their  u  h
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Jim. WK REPLIES .

In a recent editorial you took oc-

casion to berate me personally for
not saying more about the proposed

» schooLameadmont. Further, ’ you

_ said you were unconvinced as to its

" merit and ’would- therefore not vote
favorably!qu ' '  ' > -

      

 

‘ This-amendment is not anew de-' V

. ; par-turn in state ’oducation. It is

. ' simply ,an alert to enforce the law,

in a spirit of separation of church
and state. When a secular state de-
cides that its children should  ed-
ucated. it, cannot enforce attendance
, at any school dominated by principles
‘ over which the state cannot have an
'opinion.
There has been such an unearthly
'amount of mud slung at this amend-
ment, that it appears well at this
' time to get‘our bearings. The amend-
‘ ment reads as follows:
“All residents of the State of
,Michigan between the ages of five
and sixteen years, shall attend the
public school in their respective dis-
tricts until they have graduated
from the eighth grade; provided that
in districts where the grades do not

” reach the eighth grade, then all per- ,

sons herein described in such district
shall complete the course
therein." -. ., »
Thefollowing obdections have been
raised against this amendment:

1. It will close the schools . for '

physical and mental defectives.

2. It is, inconvenient and will
‘pauperise the state by taxes requir~
.ed for school maintenance.

3. It is “bigotted and cowardly
- and unoAmerican.”

4». It will “‘close all denomination--

a1 schools.

5. It is steeped deep in the mire

of religious intolerance.
- As Luther and Calvin threw down
the challenge in the 16th century,
“prove it by the Bible" so we now
come before the opponents ,of the pro-
posed measure and say “prove it by
the letter or spirit of the proposed
law." . ,

Replying to the ﬁrst charge enum-
erated above,“ we need only -call at-
tention to section 15, Article XI of
our State Constitution, .which pro——
vides that “institutions deaf, dumb,
blind, feeble minded or insane-—shall
always be fostered and supported”.
It is scarcely necessary to add that, so
far as this provision of the proposed
amendment are at all interconnected,
the proposed measure will react to the
benefit _of Section 15, Article XI.
Further, this section cannot be re
pealed or modified save by direct ref-
erence thereto. Into every rule of law
are written common. sense and the

well tried customs of mankind. .'

.xSureiy, by this time the opposition
has heard our challenge that we place
the issue jointly before the people,
each side writthn-g 1500 words to pre-
sent its case and 1500 words in re-
buttal; each side to pay one half of
the expense of printing and receiving
one half of the copies to’be distributed
Perhaps this sounds like a bigots off-
er, or the offer of a coward or an un-
American offer, for the date of our
challenge has not been accepted.

If the theory of a denominational
school is such that it must neccessar-
ily conflict with public school hours,
then indeed, will this amendment re-
quire the children to attend the pub-
lic school. We believe, however, that
denominational schools can be con-
ducted at such hours as not to inter-
fere with public school heurs. We be-
lieve that the function of a denomi-
national school is purely and simply
to teach religion. Public schools
quire attendance only five hours a day
from 180to .180 days a year. Does not
this leave ample time for? any child to
receive sufficient religious instruction
that is not in conflict with democracy.

The question of religion. has waxed
warm around" this amendment. Us.
on intruding into the apparently u‘n—
called for Warmth/of this phase ofth‘e

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it is. There is no valid reason why any
religious denomination should usurp
to itself, right to teach the scientif-
~'ic subjects that make up so large a
proportion of even the elementary
school curriculum today. Let as to

member that the elementary school ed. ‘

ucati0n is, the very ' foundation upon
which. "to build the broader scientiﬁc
 to: be accquired beyond the
public school» age; It should be con-

ducted , With a broader vision. than is.

ponible in any private of sectarian
institution. We want all children to
receive this broader education so that
all may be on an equal footing in the
race of life.

It is noteworthy that when any po-
litical ecclesiastical organization is
checked in is vicious designs, it im-
mediately cries "religious persecu~
tion" to gain sympathy.

These are our views. We trust that
by the decision of the Supreme Court
of this state they will come up for
approval by the people at the Novem-
ber elections—James Hamilton, De-
troit, Michigan. ’

 

You are mistaken, sir, in your state-
ment that we "berated" you personally,
or else you do not know the meaning of
the term. You have answered to your
on satisfaction four out of five objection
that have been against the pro-
posed amendment. New answer the fifth:

all us how much it is going to cost the
state of Michigan to abolish parochial
schools.-—Editor.

 

DREAM 0F GENERAI; STAFF

It is not generally known, except
in oilicial circles, that the War Plans
Division of the General Staff has just
completed for Secretary Baker a
"survey" of the army posts and can-
tonments to ascertain what changes,
if any, would be required to adapt
them

(a) To a system
military training, and

(b) To the care of an army of
7,000,000 men. .

The report will be ready for con—
gress when the latter convenes in
December for the so-calied “short
session."

of universal

‘It is about time, however, that,

somebody injected this little item

into the presidential campaign. What

stand do Messrs. Cox and Harding
take on these two issues so obliging-
ly outlined for them by the General
Staff?

Lord Wolseley, the great British
general, published a handbook some
years ago strickly for soldiers. It is
called the “Soldier's Pocket Book”
and it is used to this day in the Eng-
lish Army. In that book General

'Wolseley sums up the character of

General Staffs the world over: “The
soldier must be taught to believe that

I his duties are the noblest which fall

4—7

matics."-—.l{merioan
ﬂattering ‘Warhingtoa,’ 0.

We are afraid that the General Staff
are duefor a. rudmawakmlng. . We, have
already seen what the German Stud! did
secretly for Germany _  de. forblg-..that
we should suffer tins" same fate; ' ‘No
matter what kind of: militarypnotram
the General Staff has in mind. for the
American people. they will hear from the
E“peomaple long before In: is consummated—’-
. r. '

A DIETHODIST WOMAN TALKS
AGAINST AMENDMENT

In “What the Neighbor’s Say” I
have read with much interest the
controversy over the school amend-
ment to be voted on at our next gen-
eral election this November. I can-
not understand why so much has
been said. If we will just apply the
command to love God with all our
might, mind and strength and our
neighbors as ourselves everything
will come right.

Why not let the Catholics have
their parochial school if they wish.
Just so they are governed by the
state laws and come up to the public
school law requirements and visited
by the officer whose duty it is to
look after the education of our child-
ran.

It is their money. that pay for the

schools not ours, but they pay the
.same per cent taxes into our public
schools as we do. .

Our Catholic neighbors are being
wronged by some Protestants who
are constantly agitating that ques-
tion. Some who think a Catholic

' ought not even hold a county, city
or town oﬂice. Go read the Consti-
tution of the United States. It is of
the people for the people and by the
people. Who are the people? I
shall not vote for the amendment
because I think it takes away some
personal liberties in which I see no
harm, especially from the Catholics.
I have always had Catholic neigh-
bors and have found them law-abid-
ing citizens and excellent neighbors.
Listen. Is someone saying I am a
Catholic. Well I am not nor any of
my ancestry so far as I know. But
I am a staunch member of the M. E.
church. I have been for 25 years
and it is my prayer that God will
give me grace that I may love my
neighbor as myself be he Protestant
or Catholic, which are all our broth—
ers. My friends look on this subject
from a charitable point of view rath-
er than a selﬁsh one. Do‘notallow
yourself to be prejudiced by any
member of an antagonistic society,
but do as you would like to be done
by.——M'rs. E. 8., Gratiot County.

 

 

FARMERS MUST RECEIVE
ADEQUATE PRICES
In spite of generally unsettled con-
ditions, unprecedented difﬁculty in
securing labor and transportation fa-
cilities, high cost of materials and
uncertainty as to future prices for

farm products, the farmers of the
United States have proceeded in good
faith this year to raise a crop better
than «the average. They are repeat-
ing under the difﬁculties of read-
,justment the assurance, given by
their magniﬁcent achievement dur—
ing the war that they are not to be
daunted nor deterred by adverse con-
ditions from contributing their full
share to "the welfare of ~ the whole
country. Looking “upon the record
of American farmers during these
two periods of extreme stress and
strain, the one following the other
so closely that there was no chance
for relaxation. I have absolute? con-
ﬁdence~ that the future efforts.  of
American .farmers will fall nothing
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bushels, a corn crop of two
threenquarter billion bushels, or one
hundred and ﬁfty more than pre-
war average; oats. one and one-third
billion bushels, or one hundred and
ﬁfty million more than pre-war aver—
age barley in excess and rye more
than double pre—wareverage; pota-
toes exceeding ﬁve year average;
record-breaking rice and tobacco
crops, hay and flaxseed exceeding
ﬁve year average; cotton, grain sor—
ghu‘ms and apples better than last
year, and record sugar beet and sorg-
hum crops. ‘ ,

The cost per unit of producing
these crops unquestionably was con-
siderably greater than for any pre-
vious crop in the last half century,
andgbusiness men as well as all other.
elements of population, must real-
ize that, if the record made by the
farmers during the war and the per-
iod 'of readjustment is. to be main-i
tained and the food requirements of
the nation met, producermmst re-
ceive adequate prices tor their pro-‘J
.  to secure- a.” malleable- re.-
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tats-a  idealism. 

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to a man’s lot. He must be taught
' to despise all those of civil life. Sol-
diers, likeamissionaries, must be fa-.
(Islam. . Against”

- . heaven and was made man, to redeem‘ ‘

   

RIGHT, WRONGS NOBODY _ I -
Sacred. history tells us that our
Lord Jesus Christ who is also Lord .
of heaven and earth, came down from '

us sinners from our sins. V

, A year or two before He was cru-,
' ciﬁed‘for us He built a little air-arch .
somewhere near Jerusalem, in iPal- ‘
estine. H'e‘fbuiit it on a solid tonne
dating; (it being “b31111; up a rock) so~
ﬁrm and strongthat the forces V of
call should never prevail against ‘it.
even to the. end of time. He lov-ing-.
iy named this church His Body. He-
being its head and» builder. Some
churches are built of Wood and stone.
and mortar, but our Divine Lord's
church was diﬁerent. He built His
church of living men, created in His
own image and likeness; men, who.
though not college -graduates, were
possessed of ﬁrm faith and good
sound common sense. He chose
them and called‘ them his Apostles,
thus the little church became the liv-
ing body of the living God. He gave
to them power such as He had not
given to other men, power to perform
miracles as He also had performed
them; He also gave them authority,
rights and. duties. He commanded
them saying: “Go ye, into the whole
world and preach the Gospel to every
creature, meaning all the inhabi-
tants thereof, men, women and child-
ren." He also commanded them.
saying: “Go teach all nations."
Meaning our the inhabitamts there-
of "and ,lo, I am with you all days,
even unto the consummation of the
world," meaning always even till the
end of time. He endowed them with
power from on high, to enable them
to understand, and speak the lang-
uages of other nations, to aid them
in their work.

Thus prepared, they went forth,
preaching and teaching. as the Lord
had commanded them; building more
churches wherein to preach the .
Gospel of Christ: building schools,
seminaries, and colleges, wherein to
educate the people; it not being nec-
essary to Americanize them: found-
ing hospitals for the sick. asylum:
for the orphans, the deaf, the lame
and the blind, thus proving their ef-
ﬁciency and charity; not usurping
the authority or duties of any body,
neither of the states, nor the na-
tions, nor even those of the School
Defense League; or the Wayne (‘oun-
ty Civic Federation, but exercising
their own God—given rights and dut-
ies. It has been said that if the
churches had not usurped the author-
ity and duties of state, the school
question would not have been raised.

A usurper is an impostor, a kind
of buttinski, or sneak, who butts in
or sneaks in anyway to get in and
claims rights and duties which be.
long to someone else.

Where will we ﬁnd this butinski?

Surely not among the chosen fol-
lowers of Christ, Whom He had com-
manded to teach all'nations.» Surely
not in our schools: public, private,
parochial or otherwise. They. have
business enough of their own to
mind, and they are minding their
own business despite the busy bod-
ies. Where, then, shall we ﬁnd him?
Echo answers: Where? Whose ox ‘
has been gored? Judge for yourself.

My friend, truly, right is right;
and the right wrongs nobody.—
J. C'. 8., Arcadia.

CATHOLICS FORBIDDEN TO EN-
TER PROTESTANT CHRCHES?
I think your paper is very good
and am always anxious to read it,
but I am not with you on the paro~
chial school amendment. Some years
ago I was in Grand Rapids and pass- ‘
ing by the city rescue mission with
a friend of mine, I proposed that We
visit the mission, but my friend in-
sisted he dare not go in. I asked him
his reason and he told me the priest
did not allow Catholics to enter a
Protestant church. We went on

:down the street, entered a saloon

and spent the "evening there. I sordid 
tell you of several instances ’of 
nature. Hangs the Cat-1101.19. 
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“, T WILL never reopen."‘It had
I‘had its day. " The "large institu-
" tions are eating up the“ small
ones. The buildings will be sold» for
hospital purposes.” Such were the
Comments and theories" concerning
theﬂclosed “college: at the beautiful
littlef‘ﬂiflage of Olivet. Eve‘n‘ the
optimistic _shook their heads and the
most hopeful wondered just what
would_happen. But the drowning
man is rescued; the kidnapped child
has been returned in safety; the col-
lege is saved. .
V The college was founded by Fath-
er' Shipherd in 1844 who was also
the founder of Oberlin College, Ohio.
For-ten years he had watched Ober-.
lin grow from infancy to a flourish-
ing institution of ﬁve hundred stu-
dents, and with the spirit of the truly
great man he longed to go elsewhere
- and’duplicate his work. Far sighted
and "true visioned, he foresaw the
growth and possibilities of that dense
and almost impenetrable wilderness
of Michigan and decided that some—
where within its bounds he would
sow the seed for his next harvest.
It so happened shortly after his
decision that he made a journey to
the vicinity of Grand River in the
interest of lands, then the property
of Oberlin College. He passed thru
what is now the present site of 01-
ivet and when a little south of the
eminence lost his way. After wand-
ering around for hours he found him-
self on the elevation now known as
“College Hill.” In the distance he
discerned a pioneer’s cabin and
made his way thither where he" was
given food and lodging for the night.
With instructions as to the trail he
was to follow he set out on his jour-
ney but, after several hours of ,rid—
ing, found himself on the same hill
and within sight of the same cabin.
Oncemore' he set out, riding leisure-
ly and meditating over the plan of
his future college; a few hours pass-
ed and he was aroused from his rev—

' time, on the summit ofthe
Leaping from his horse he knelt
down in fervent prayerand decided
upon that spot for the building of his
college. '

He then proceeded on his journey,
transacted his business and returned
to Ohio where he began making plans
for his new enterprise. In February,
1844 the little company set out, 39
persons in all, and in true Arabian
style, drove their flocks and herds

gons, drawn by. sure-footed oxen,
a served as diner, parlor—car and sleep-
.‘ er. They reached their destination
- .in safety and were greeted with great
enthusiasm by the settlers, then
numbering less than a dozen families.
Like pygmies battling
giants, they pursued their Herculean
task of winning the land from the
forest primeval. Workman, students
and professors worked shoulder to
shoulder. They felled trees and
built a few dwellings and one school
house, and while they were doing it
they labored with those hardships of
which the early settlers alone could
tell us. But they kept brave and
cheerful until the fatal malaria
struck them. Aibout eight months af-
ter their arrival Father Shipherd was
stricken and died at the early age of
fortydwo. Dismayed, disheartened,
many of them ill, their leader gone,
they decided to abandon their enter—

‘ever, this decision was not adhered

   
 
    

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hill.'

before them, while the covered wa—l

against -

prise and return to civilization. How- .

‘10, for the [spiritrof their dead leader_
j-still' lived and held them fast, while

ame to put his shoulder to the wheel. _

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‘1 years has stood within the very echo-

es of the st-udentsﬂfoot falls-andal-
most ,within thetactual‘ shadowsmf
the large brick, building which "bears
his names-altsis. as if .he,were silent-
ly watching and; directing the foot-
steps of thegreat'work for which he
gave his life. . ’7 -

:cure‘dybut-no onei‘seem'e‘d able" :to_
I cope with the “situation. For several ’
years it"struggled o_n,' merely gasp- '

‘  ‘ n " r Thenl'rem'ove ffromi‘t-he ﬁre ahd add

equipment there began a-ld‘e‘cline in‘
the student body, and with the short- _
age of students there followed as a"

natural-consequence ‘a shortage. of

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Tho Library at Olivet. College

But limited space makes me
hasten. Years sped on, the wilder—
ness was cleared away and the vil-
lages and the college grew. Hard—
ships, struggles, failures and ulti-
mate success followed while (the
builders seemed ever to possess the
same greatspirit, “the same daunt-
less courage that ﬁrst carried the lit-
tle handful of brave souls to their
noble“‘cailing. Building after build—
ing was erected, the students increas-
ed while the ablest professors were
secured to instruct them. 5

One of the great. milestones in the
history of the college was the build—.
ing of the library. The need ,had
long been felt, but there were no
funds for its erection. In 1866, Pro-
fessor Daniels took the chair of
Green and Literature and began
making plans for a ﬁre-proof build—
ing. This was ﬁnally made possible
by the liberal gifts oer. Leonard
Burrage. .Mrs. Luck Tuttle and Mr.
Henry W. Sage and [the beautiful
structure was called the Barrage Li—
brary. There stands upon its shelv—
es 3-5,000 choice volumes offering bp—

portunitys for unlimited study and re-'

search. .

Olivet Copege “has. never .been. rich, _

in funds, but her work and scholar-
ship has ranked with the ﬁrst. "It
has ever been the aim of its leaders
to keep it clean and wholesome and
a place not only where learning is ob-
tained but where character is form;
ed. But despite the high ranks ; of

scholarship, able professors and good.

ing forﬁbreath until the spring of
1919 when it closed altogether. The
great spirit that had carried the
leaders over stormy seas seemed‘dead
or in prison. Weeds and grass grew
up about the buildings. Spiders
made webs in the dark- corners,
while thick layers of dust covered

‘ the 35,000 books in the library. and

everything seemed as dead and'lif’e-
less as the, very apes and monkeys in
the glass cag’ésvobthe museum.

The college hadb‘een the backbone .

of the village and everything suffer-
ed. Stores closedt‘heir doorsr‘atnd
people began moving out until one
was reminded of “The Deserted Vil-
lage” but'a,‘few..months ago the ﬁne

- old spirit.-leaped-from its prison cell

and set the rust-covered wheels ,. in
motion; ,the'same spirit which for

thingbeforeit. Generous endow-

ned to,,return and new ones express;

ed' their. intentions of. locating in ‘.

Olivet. Generous Eendowmehts were

5 made and an able. man.in the‘person

of‘ Paul F; Voelker .placed at the

helm, while .the- number of Ph. D’s on

the faculty .list is»? snﬂvcient »_ proof
that- the same, standard; ofuschola'r-
ship will be'retained. , i ‘
The buildings are"beingrefurnish-
ed, redecorated, rgfloored and reroof—
ed, while the atmosphere is alive with
the spirit of expectancy and allare
waiting with hope and pride that day
now so, fast". approaching that will
bring the crowds of merry students.

 

 

There may be other fairs in the
world, ' r

.Thosc that are great and smallp.

But the one that is held in the old
home town

Is by far the best Fair of all. ‘

'For it is here you will ﬁnd ‘
All your," friends—lam and unwi—
Aud even/L last one‘jwill be mighty
well pleased ‘ . L.  V ‘ 

For a chance to"_shake' hands with

«. you. - v .V 1 . ,
Don't 's’top to ﬁx your ,hairuin a

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The old" Hg... Fair

  as: I ' might about thing's";

-=Just jump in your “H 6M1!” Glﬂdﬂﬁt ,
.agaznems, 016.490..p£edi0u8..»v"t0"k8¢c '

Take a ride on the “merry” aslit
spins around . g ' ,
In its whirligig, whirh’gig way;
‘See the aeroplane stunts with all
" of the thrill——

There is something a-doiug each
day. '
“Hot dogs”. anaconda pink-lem-

 onade.;' . ;-,-~ ~A

.There’ll‘..b.¢ was.  wheeze. 21/024; .r , 5
- nice sairlaketofmsyzith man, ‘ - ~- _—
“Anglﬂamus‘cments, galore "in a lump.  -

_ toibe there, ‘ I , . ,. .
And the sight: that your eyes will
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A‘ RECIPE FOR" MAKING CHOCO-
- LATE ECLAIRS

- LAGE‘ basin containing oneplnt

Pof hot water on Lhestmre. Add

one-halt. cup; or? butter and One—

half} teaspbon of» salt to" the’water.

- Whenlit comes to a boil add-two and
one-half fc‘upfuls ofpastry flair and
stir vigorously until it is ‘thiekimough

to cleave from the .slde" 01:, the dish.

one egg at a time until you have put
in .ﬁve; it is-necessary that the ﬁrst
eggs get scolded in the dough so do
not cool the, dough. Beat wallabe-
tween each addition. PlaceAm‘ix-ture
in a pastry bagand forcesintostrips
one .. inch wide and ._four.. inches long
in' a buttered. bake pan. ._ Bake .for
twenty-ﬁve minutes in a moderate

, oven; they mustnotbe remoued from

'the oven until theyare‘entirely done.
When they are cold make a slit. in
the eclairand ﬁll with ,creamﬁlling
Brush
the top with ‘an icing madeby. mix-
ing two tablespooufuls of ,cocoa with
three-quarters of a cupful ofconfec-
tionery sugar and making a smooth
paste with hot water. .v ,, .

. This recipe will .make about 32
eclairs. . » » v. i

' Home Made Pastry ,Bag .
-.The pastry bag must be made of
some strong closely woven material
of rubberiZed. cloth. I sent away for
the ﬁrst one I had and I got ardoz-
en little tubes and the silver plated
bag” screw to fasten the tubes into.
The; little tubes are to~-use when
filling tarts and frosting cakes.

. With these tubes you can make and

ﬁll eclairs that cannot -.be told from
thoseimade by the'profe‘ssional bak—
ers.» i-With' the heme—made pastry

- bag'you can not ﬁll-:the' eclairs « as

neatly because .it is necessary to cut
a slitthe‘wholelength ofthe eclair
as you ﬁll them with "a spoon. With
the 'bo'ughtien‘-hag‘you“‘can *make an
incision about fthef'siie’fof a pea with
the sender the's’mall tube and the
chocolate will cover it" up’ so no'ope'n‘;
ing can be seen. The’ready-made bag

‘ cost me $1.50. —'The-"-hom‘e"-made bag

canbe made of a sheet ‘bf "rubberized

. cloth that will stand": washing 1 and
{you make the bagfat hom‘eJWhile i-t‘fs
, not quite as "goodjithserv'es' the pur-

pose.——Mrs. ‘Wm. ~Hoﬂ'm‘an, Cheboy-

. ‘ a'C'Ou‘t',
seventy-«ﬁve yearshad carried every- _ g. 7f n y ..  ._  
ments were made,. old students plan-   THE. FARMIH‘F 

 

. ,. .,.1400KING    .. .

NE prime, amenities of‘ the tarni-
er’s dwife. is” keeping gthe" parlor

if and living‘room furniture in or-
der. These . roomsfin,‘ most‘fair'm

“houses show. a_1qt‘_‘ofj turn'ltiureﬂ To":
' several decades: ,ago which hasheen
“handed down tram- prevlhnsjgene’ra-
i tions. -- 1A great-many .-_of'these artiél'e's

are in a :bad state "of repair 7and‘ if

ﬁxed at‘ this'tim‘e,"‘w'ould be able" to
render many more years of service.

Chief among‘the articles needing
some attention are upholstered'loung-
es, chairs and settees which, uphol-
stered many years ago 'ineither clbth
orlea'ther, have n’Owi‘become"worn

‘and torn and faded and detract' a

great deal ‘fron'i‘ the appearance " of
the room” The upholstering of these

articles of furniture is not such" a
difﬁcult task and’can be accomplish-

.ed by the‘ farmer and his
their spare moments. I
A good leather substitute, which

wife in

.on account'of its great durability,

beauty andeconomy isp'roving to~ be
a leading material'LfOr re-uplmlster-

jlng: work, ,somegginip‘, for, binding ‘the
H, gr a,  H3. 1,, edgesgandIsomepgupholstereris tacks
And.peanutslzdtllgmewlashame. .» .-»i“-°9!¥1P1ﬁ‘¢=the'Qﬁﬁwiik’mﬂeﬁsa”; 13“"

‘ " :news-csiyerinspmx-s‘b‘

.stxstghed ‘_‘over j
39de u in * mace;

  

  

th‘é} old] ' Haiti’s stand

  

away from.~ um Edges and the"?l

'u.

Bent-133 8‘ Yeti . neat. <§ppearance. =4

; Leather substitutes are quite. make; 
. era.t.9...in;¢9§taendi sixes! bo‘thﬂ leather 
and cloth " I " sir} " i f"

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' did before.

   

,by'Writin‘g to manufacturers for book-
lets. :A-One such booklet ‘recently not-

ed fan a dealer’s" "counter Jay-called .

“Home. Upholstery." It is "gery' fin:
ter‘e‘sting andex'piains in a"”'s"imple‘

‘ and practical way how_ to repair fur:

nit'nr'e upholstery.
ﬁzrwo _ ansWEns 'I‘O_ . QUESTION
‘ AUGUST 2181‘ ISSUE _
. ~ Difﬁcult Proposition ‘ w
55A mas-«who has neglected to de-
velop 'his seciai nature and has no
time-fer culture" or‘ refinement is .one
of the‘ most difﬁcult propositions “ to
chutend with. v-His finer instincts

haverbeen dwarfed and it is his un-,

developed “intellect that assumes that
he has no‘tlme for culture and reﬁne-
in’entxf I cannot imagine't'a-nylwoman
"6f reﬁnement being contented—real-
lyicou-tented—with a man of this
stamp; but she may by beginning at
the bottom and trying to raise him
to her 'level, stepby» step as ,. (she

' wghld‘s ch_ild,‘;so develop 'his ﬁner

instinctsfand ﬁnd a sortdf ‘content—
ment in seeing him‘slole but surely
gain:a certain dignity most becom-
i‘ng’to a man. When that is attain-

- edisee “that he‘ ,miri‘gles With’people

of good‘taste by inviting them -to
your 'home. Then his social nature
Will soon assert itself, as most men
‘easiily acquire thathy mingling with
people of culture and reﬁnement. He
will soon ascertain how much more
pleaSure there is in a social life and
‘be proud of the fact- that he is one
of them‘a-nd enjoy life as he never
When a wifehas accom-
plished this, With afeeling of tran-
quillity, she can settle. down to en-
joy the remainder other lifevin per-
fect contentment" and happiness, see-
ing ‘the desire or her heart realized
and proud of the fact' that her hus-
band is a man;.among.~.men.and of
the fact thatishe has. beenthe means
-.of accomplishing» it.—-I.-' 0'... :g'Macomb
County,u-Michtgan.‘f  ' .-  

 ‘ 'iCannot_"BQ..01§an,g'ed f. . ,
 Insfanswerins. these Questions , .I
take it for granted‘..that 'the‘ man in
the case has..=neg.lec_ted tom fitﬁhim~
391! Mr marriages-with . .a... woman. .01
shdﬁcatlpp; monument ., and, - onlturg.
not beseusagetoasx ‘lack otpnportun-
:ity,_~,b.nt from  of. inclination;
ﬁnch-4196:1118: the tens . how can. a .-:W0.‘.
mambeécontentad; inﬁuch a .cpmpan-
ionship,’ “and how can, , she change his
habits?     .   
' 'The‘ second‘ question , shQuld,.be
answered ﬁrst; __ ; _,_ V .
.ffIn‘ these days. When it is possible
to: Téie‘fy'iiian'tdifseﬁchre'an education;
and ._.by,_-,rneans -r.o-f_f:hooks [or-"the use
bis-ﬂan, automobile, to choose'the‘best.
in friendships; if‘_ a , man “of ~mature

‘a'g-e’,naf ;_notg_done"so, the probability

 thatihdgdoesﬁnot c'are t_o'_do it; be-
causéf'of this self—satisfaction, any
h‘dﬁﬁntrniasryingf.-him need ,not, ex—
pect. to change his ways. “t. What he
wows-hot do before 'marriage ’he
Willnotxdo- after; she cannot expect
from him moral effort to improve
himself, .when‘, the oppositeis his “fix:

édi-“ﬁmt  v . . .
"31., hens reﬁnedvfand educated wo-.

main ‘n’iE-‘rriea a manL who‘ ha§.3-négiéct4

. ectoineyeiop hi-ni‘self- sociain or has

3' becaus
Which?

   

 

  
  

 
     
   

 tinigjfgr £‘opiture .and' reﬁnement,
5,1197 Haifghdséri. a: 1113159 by more in—

stinct1“"(‘sex lifn‘puis‘e) ,. 'the lower , or
physigal; forminglove, fantd not-at all-
,o .jthe higheryform .o.fy‘._love;
jwitreféggwniio ‘ure “shall: last. '
. heme are: "one? alienating» 91-;
pect enlisting :happinés‘s 0r? contentf

 

vigilant-snowmen of marriage}? if she

stamens-s .icontentm'ent‘it must?» come

._.t1mg_u‘ ~h~' interests." apart -_from .~ the _

man-s a has .mistake‘nly chosen. ‘ 
“Tiler mistake? andwitvis- a common--

error anioiigfuntaiig'ht' . young. woé-

momma; far-“reachingmahd,” tragic,  

 ,Thei‘e" is,noiovsxéghogneoo'gor her“
 to'all‘ewmim $9.11!?! '11-... -. '
- lessshegbe ‘ weak. in c aracter.

sown: .

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express her. higher "womanly nature
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workmay nev

low her highest levels. _ .
For such'contentment t'he drudg-
ery of housework, however well it
be performed-,is insufﬁcient. Seeing
her daughters-and sons grow up will
lessen rather than increase her hap-
piness; there will come a time when
she will be left alone with the man
whom she has._m._arried.~ -

Qf necessity, then, she must be
eﬂicient in her home making, but
this she~carbetter accomplish wh 11
her thoughts may travel in‘ he
heights, centered upon work that de-
mands, the highest expression of her
personality, untrammeled by the sur—
roundings, and when, through sor-
rowand heartaches perhaps, but with
unswerving purpose - and indomitable
will she has achieved the psychic
freedom ‘Whioh spells Contentment—é

les that would tend to-drag her be-

 

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4 ~ (Continued from page 10)

“You found old SirHenry’s treas-
ure after a;ll,”_Francis congratulated.-

 “No,”~ Henry shook his head. “It.

is_ apartpf the old Maya treasure—
abqut .9119. third -9! it- - We’ve got 
other third down'with Enrico Solano
and,,the last-third is safe right here
in theJewelers’ and Traders’ NatiOnai
.Bankaa-y -I've“ got .news for you
when you’re” ready’to listen."
f‘Torres is;d_ead," Henry told him.
“Hurrah i" was Francis’ way of
receiving, it. v - ' 
“Died like a rat in a trap. I "saw

 I, “amine, but in the writing she has

as on on, n “g "freed her woman's sbul mom shack-

: . . . pholstﬁi‘iss‘:vot~diﬁémnt. art- "
icle's of; furniturep may {he W obtained

  
  
 
  

  

g her.

 

' _ “No,
.».'I_‘or,r.es .. shot ..her. deliberately .' shot
I was beside her when she fell.
Now hold on, I’ve get other news.
Leoncia’s right there in that ,.-other
office, and 2339’s,. waiting for. on to

come to here—can’t you waikuntii
I’ve got 'more'news'

I’m through?
that will give {01.1 the right steer be-
fore you go into her. Why, hell's
bells, if I were a certain Ch-inaman
that Ivknow, I’d make youlpay me
a million dollars for all the informa-
tion I’m giving you for nothing.”

“Shoot—“7what is it?" Francis de-
manded impatiently.

“Goodgnews, of course, unadulter-
ated good news. Best news you ever
heard of.
knock my block off—for the good
news is that I’ve got a sister."

“What of it?" was Francis' brus-
que response. “I always knew you
had sisters in England." . r -

‘.‘But you don't get- me," . Henry
dragged on. “This is a perfectly
brand new sister,‘ all grown up, and.
the most beautiful woman you ever
laid eyes on." , 

.“And,what of it?" growed Fran-
cis. “That may be good news :fo'r
you. but- I don't see how. it affects
me,"  . , z.   

“Ah, now we’re coming to it,”
Henry grinned.- ~.“You're going to
marry her. I give you my full per-

-- mission—" V.

“Not'if she wereten times your
sister, nor if she were ten times as
beautiful," Francis brokein. ,“The
woman doesn't exist I’d marry."

“Just the same, Francis boy, you

i’iosi-‘rﬁiiid 73"."

your_ wife, Mrs. yMorg'anZV

' peevis'h.

I—now don't‘laugh, or‘

- “I'll bet you a thousand f ,_

‘V‘Ayv‘ go on , and'fi‘n'ake fit 1: a real :.,be,

w.oii’t'= you-2? ’Hoo‘ry.,,.arawied;._,' ,~'   .
“Airy amount;‘you~-,want."   _ 
“Done, then,’ for a thousandiand’

ﬁfty dollars—Now go right, into‘ the; a .

office there ‘ and take'aulofok at her."
“She’s jwith LelohCiai‘fifﬂ '
“Nope, "she’s by beneﬁt:
“I thought you'said 'Leoncia was

‘ in there.”

“So I did, so I‘Vdi'd. ' 1And so Leon-
cia is in there. And she isn't with
another soul, and she’s waiting to

.talk with you." 

By this time Francis was growing

“What are you stringing _me for?”
he demanded. “I can't make head
nor tale of your fogolery, One mo-
ment it's your brand new sister ‘in
there, and the next moment it’s your
wife.f'_ " ,, 7  I. ‘ ,

f‘.Who said I ever had a wife?"
Henry came back. '

“I give up,'.' he cried. “I’m going
on in and see Leoncia. I'll talk
with you later on when'you’reback .
in'your right mind"; V H ,. I .A

He started for the door but was
stopped by Henry. I ‘ ~ .
‘ f‘Just'a'second more, Francis, and
I'm done," he said'.’ “I want to give
you ’that steer. I am not married.
There is only one‘wo'man waiting for
you in there. That one woman is my -
sister. Also is she Leoncia." '

It required a dazed half minute
for Francis to get it clearly into his
head. Again, and in arush, he-was'
starfing for the door, when Henry
stopped him. ' _

“Do I win?" queried Henry. ‘

But Francis shook him off, dash- _
ed through the door, and slammed

 

 

 

mg 1511635 BtiCking out. It wasn’t are going to marry this one. I know
pretty. And the Jefe’s dead. 'And it. I feel.it in my bones. I’ d bet it after him-
 and s01’mb0d)’ else is dead-——-” on it." The End
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' EAR CHILDREN: Well the State
. Fair is over and I am going to
r _ -‘ tell you about some of the things

‘ r we saw there.

'The ﬁrst place we went to after
we got on the grounds was the live-
“,s'tock barns. The ﬁrst barnswe
‘ came to were where they had the cat-
tle and, my, but there were a lot of
cattle, ' were all the different
kinds that your papas raise;
Hol‘steins, Jerseys, Shorthorns, Here-
fords, Angus, Galloways and Guern-
seys, and they were all so pretty and
clean. We saw the men washing
some of them with the hose. Some
of the cattle did not like their bath
_ and they would stamp their

feet and shake their heads but they

. were tied so they could not get away.
_ After we had seen all of the cattle

we went to the hog barns. We saw
some hogs that weighed 900
pounds—just think 900 pounds.

Don’t you wish your papa had some
thatbig? They were as tall as some
Shetland ponies. There was some
of the cutest little pigs, too. After
going through sever-a1 barns where
there was nothing on exhibit except-
ing pigs, we came to a barn where
there were only sheep. There were all
kinds of sheep, from great big ones
with horns on, to little lambs. I like
sheep about the best of any farm
animals, don’t you? They all look
so kind, I think.
went into the barns where the horses
' were kept and there we saw horses
of nearly all kinds and sizes. There
were the great big horses, the kind
father used to do the farm work with
and then there were driving and rid—
_ ing horses, and they were all very
' pretty. I didn’t see any Shetland
ponies although I looked for them
but I guess there weren’t any. The
Detroit policemen had all of their
horses there and every afternoon
.they drilled with them before the
grandstand.

My, my! I have taken up so much
space to tell you of just a few things
that was at the fair that I will have
to tell you the rest next week.

One of my nieces wishes‘to know
how many subscribers she will have
to get to earn a flash light. Our
circulation man tells me she will
have to get two new subscribers to
take the paper one year each at a
dollar a year. As soon as she sends
us the two dollars he will send her
a flash—light.
my other nieces, and nephews too,
like to earn a flash—light? They are
a real handy thing to. have. It’s

1 very dangerous to carry matches,
and I’ll bet a great many of your
mamas and papas will not let you
carry them, but if you have a flash-
light you can always have a light
in any place or any kind of weather.
Just Start out and see how easy it is

- to get two subscribers for THE Bus-
iNEss FARMER. You will earn a
flashlight in no time if you try.
Goodbye until next week—UNCLE
NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned and Brothers
Sisters—I believe I can see a little open-
ing right here in our merry page for. me
to slip through. Yes, sir, I got ﬁamong
you, didn’t I? And new that I am here
the very first thing I want to as is,
' Hurrah for the M. B. F., and t on I

want next to explain why I am so
strong for this paper. Well, I have
made so many new and true friends
through “The Children’s Hour" that I,

also papa and mama think the whole
world of M. B, F.
I correspond with about sixteen lit-
: tle boys and girls. Each week I choose
'one or two names from among the let-
’ters on our page and write to them. It
i is the most fun to get so many letters,
. and I love them all and I will be very
glad to have other boys and girls write
to me. I will answer all letters, if it
is one or fifty. »
I am ‘a little farmer girl 11 years old.
, am in the ‘sixth grade. I have a very
ice teacher. Her name is Miss Russell,
help «mama very much. I can do all
 s of house work, such as sweeping,
w L .-*moping, making beds and wash-
;dishes. I, always help mama do the
" ‘  1,3th love,th cook and bake. I
“.3. ' ' :9: sugar, cookies, .
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“ ELL, FELLOWS,” the Honor
Guest was speaking, “when I
' saw the bridge go down in the
flood at the very minute the track-
wa-lker was on it, and saw him go
with it, I knew it was up to me. The
Limited Mail was due in "half an
hour. The river, there, is all of two
hundred yards wide and I can't swim
a stroke, but I had to "get over the
flood. . '
“So I got a. plank, and then push-
ed out in the stream a big log that
was half in the water. “ As soon as it
was afloat, I jumped on it. I knew
the river made a sharp turn half a
mile down, and I ﬁgured that I could
just‘manage to get a little sliding
motion forward on that log, maybe
at the turn I could steer it on to the
opposite bank.
“But when I got there, there was
a nasty log jam at the bend. It was
good in a way, because it stopped my
log. When I hit that jam I thought
I was done for sure. I crawled to
shore, somehow, and found I was all

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right except that my head was cut
a bit, and my ankle was sprained.
“Only ﬁfteen. minutes to get up
that half mile with a sprained ankle!
It hurt a lot. I didn’t mind that so
much as the blood from the cuton
my head kept on running into my
eyes. But I got there, somehow.
“I was only just in time, for I
could hear the Limited coming, I’d
kept my matches dry and I set a
light to some old‘papers. It made a
mighty~ poor torch, but it blazed just
the same, .and I waved itacross the
track. The engineer 'saw my sig—
nal right away and put on brakes.
That train sure did stop in a hurry,
and, at that, she. wasn't more than
ﬁfty yards from the bridge. That’s

all I remember until I found afdoct-
or from the train
head.”

- “Here’s something more to remem-
ber it by,” said Pierre, handing him
the Honor Medal, “and you’ve
served it if any one has.”

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course it would probably take him a
day or two. I didn’t mean he would
eat them all at one time—ha! ha!

How many of our; boys and girls like
to drive horses? I do like horses so
well_ I drove papa’s team all through
haying and harvest this summer.

Well I believe I have taken up -about
all the room there is coming to me this
time so I will bid you all goodbye—and
I trust to see my letter in our page for
this is my third attempt. and if this one
is turned down I will be getting dis~
couraged. Please write boys and girls.
Yours for the M. B. F., Ethel Fay Sharp,
Akron, Mich, R 3,

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I hope to become

your faithful niece. I am a. girl ‘13 years
old and I am in the 8th grade at school.
I live in Detroit and I am visiting my
grand parents,
Childrens Hour” page in the .
which my grandfather takes. I have writ
ten to a girl who lives in a small town a-
bout 5 miles from here called Jeddo. I
go to the Novell Jr. High School. I

'am small for my age and I have dark

brown hair and gray eyes. I will close
with love to all your nieCes and your-
self—«Ella Long, Jeddo, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a farmer
girl 15 years old. I am in the 9th grade.
My father takes the M. B. F. and likes it
fine. I will describe myself, I have

 

 

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am rent.

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‘blue eyes, light brown hair, 5 1-2 feet

tall and weigh 100 pounds. I have 1
Sister, 2 brothers and one brother dead.
The names and ages are, Lillian 9, Glenn
11, Ollie 7. Earl 13. I would like to have
Uncle Ned tell me how I can get a pair
of roller skates, I am going to get sub-
scribers for the M. B. F. I am sending
yo__u a. picture of a dressed up pig. I
Will close wishing the M, B. F. good luck.
Pearl Lodholtz. R 3.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am 12 years old
and in the 9th grade. I have 3 sisters
and 4 brothers. We have 8 horses and
11 cows. For pets we have 3 cats. We
have 22 little ducks. Will you please
tell me how many subscriptions I must
have for I. camera and a. wrist-watch.
We have a Ford car. My father takes
the M. B. F. and likes it very much. As
my letter is getting long I will close.
Hoping to see my- letter in print. —rAgnes
W lttenburg. .C‘onklin, M ichigau.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I have never written
to you before and I am going to write ‘to
you for I see so many letters in the M.
B, F: My father takes the M. B. F‘.

'I havetwo brothers, Tommy and Jack,

and one sister, Velma. We have 5 horses
and 1 pony. In the winter time we drive
the ponyto school which is a mile and a
half away. School-will start Sept. .6th.
I am 12 years old and in the 7th grade.
We live on a farm’of‘ 86 acres. For pets
I have a. pony and 4 kitttns, I hope my
letter will not be thrown into the waste
basket. —- Anna Storey

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl eleven
years old, This is the second time that
I have written, I did not see my first
letter in print so I thought that I would
write again. My father takes the M. B.
F. and likes it very mueh. For pets I
have a cat and his name is Tommy, We
have 5 calves and 4 cows, I have three
brothers and two sisters. I will close
with a riddle. Why is a crooked nail
like a balky horses? Ans: Because a wo-
man can drive neglizer one—Alma Irish,

 

THE JUNIOR COOK
Cheese Toast
Grate the 'odds and ends of cheese
that may be left on hand, until there
is one-half cupful. If there is no old
cheese, cut fresh cheese into very

ﬁne pieces—fresh cheese _will not
gate so well.

Toast and butter six pieces of
bread.

With a spoon sprinkle the cheese
over the toast, dividing it so that

each piece gets its fair share.

Put toasit into a warm over until
cheese is melted, which should take
about ﬁve minutes.

Serve at once while very hot.

This toast, served with a dish of'
fruit and a glass of milk or of choco-
late milk, makes a ’perfectlsummer
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ENIGMA ACROSTIC

(The first letter of a certain word
to be found in each line spells the
whole.)

If my ﬁrst ybu would sever

My whole you’d hardly guess, if
ever;

Attempt to guess might turn you

pale;

Continue till you end the tale.

"I‘wis be the simplest thing on
earth-— V
So simple you will laugh with

mirth;
But think my busy little bees
And you will ﬁnd my whole with

6339; ’

The - shortening of the sun's

bright rays
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DOUBLE-BEADED GRAIN
I am a grain, change my head I

am socially agreeable.

I am a grain, change my head I am'

I am a grain, (mange my head I_

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now the ﬁnest home-grown peaches
from Michigan and Catawba Island,
Ohio, cangbe purchased for“ $2 per
bushel. Apples, are selling at such
ridiculously low, prices that it is al-
most impossible to arrange a reli-
able list of quotions. -’A month ago,
apples from the Northwest were
wholesaling in Detroit for $2.35 per

,bushel, the selling. price represent-

ing $1 per bushel test where the
fruit was grown and $1.35 freight
rate; now the best grade of Michigan
apples are to be had tor $1.25 per
bushel in a wholesale way and ‘some
very fair fruit is selling. for $1.

In Detroit, the fresh vegetable list
is practically demoralized, buyers
holding off because of lack of de-
mand'and the immediate prospect of
an over-supply in all lines. Tnn Bos-
mnss Fumes has received many in-

quiries asking for information con-

cerning an adequate outlet for 'car-
lots of cabbage, carrots, rutabagas
and other standard garden products
in large quantities. The”only answer
to these queries is to say that no
developed for

these ' products, except in small

Quantities.

Wholesale Prices
Butter
Fresh Creamery, prints . . . . . . ..56c
Fresh Creamery, tub . . . . . . . . .55c
‘ Eggs . ,
- Strictly Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . 1 @ch
Storage Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . 53 @ 54c
Live Poultry

Broilers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 @ 36c

' Leghorn Broilers . . . . . . . . .30@ 32c

Fat Hens . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..37@380

Medium Hens . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 @ 35c

Small Hens. . . . . . . . .. . . . .32@33c

Roosters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20@ 22c

Geese - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 @ '20c

Ducks ...“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..36@38c

Turkeys .... . . . . . . . . . . ..40@450
Provisions

Family Pork, per bbl. ... . .342@45

Clear Back, per bbl. '.. . .'.$33@37

Briskets  . . . . . . . . . . ..19@21c

Hams . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . ..‘.34@37c

Picnic Hams . . . . . . . . . . . .21 @ 22c

Shoulders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23c

Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . .......28@37c

Lard  . . . . . . ..19@21c
- Dressed Hogs -
Under 150 pounds . . . . . . .20@21c
Over 150 pounds . . . . . . . . .19@20c
Dressed Calves
Fancy County Dressed  .25@26c
Common to Choice .. '. . . . .22@23c
Feed

By the ten to jobbers in 100-1b.
sacks:

Bran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $51

Cracked Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . $63@65

Standard Middlings . . . . . . . . . .$58

Fine Middlings . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$62

Coarse Corn Meal . . . . . . . .$61@62

Corn and Oats Chop . . . . . . . . . .$55
Hides
No. 1 Cured Calf . . . . . . . . . ..220

No. 1- Green Calf . . . . . . . . . . ..200

No. 1 Cured Kip . . . . . . . . . . ..18c

No. 1 Green Kip . . . . . . . . . . ..16c

No. 1 Cured Bulls . . . . . . . . ..13c

No. 1 Green Bulls ‘. . . . . . . . . ..10c

No. 1 Green Hides . . . . . . . . ..13c

No. 1 Cured Hides . . . . . . . . . . . .15c

No. 1 Horsehides . . . . . . . . . . ..$6

No. 2 Horsehides . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$5

WOOL MARKET
The wool market begins to show
some signs of returning activity but
very little actual buying has as yet
developed. The most encouraging
development, to the weary owner of
wool, is the resumption of operations

by the American Woolen Company

in its light goods department. The
woOl-buying contingent is taking
more interest in the general situa-
tionby quietly nosing around, in the
effort to locate holdings which can
be dislodged at prices that have rul-
ed during the last 60 days. A few
scattering sales, of small lots, have
been reported with an extreme upper
limit of 50 cents per pound.

The prices that i are . now being

,mad'e, for spring «woolen goods are

lower than? they have been-for many

the, an;

    
 

_ vagina-"and the;
cost, lhid down, "was $5 per bushel;

for many moons.

     
 
  

for

featuring is robbed of some of its
encouraging ' signiﬁcance, to the
wool grower, by the fact that near-
ly 'all mills seem to have a stock
of wool on hand which will last them
Meanwhile the
managers of the farmers’ wool pool
and the Boston gang of experienced
market manipulators will continue
to jockey for position until the sup—
ply of wool, at present in the hands
of manufacturers, is exhausted, ‘and
not until then, can we look for the
development of a list of market'vai-
use that will'mean something to the
reader of markets.

HARVESTING SOY BEANS

The time to harvest soy beans
depends greatly upon conditions. If
it is real dry and hot days the beans
can be harvested at a much greener
state than if wet and showery. Also
if the beans are wanted for hay they
must be out quite a little before they
would do to cut for seed. The prop-
er time to cut for hay is when the
stock is mature and the lower leav-
es have begun to turn yellow yet not
any have fallen. You will ﬁnd at
this stage the beans are not fully de-
veloped but the stock is still green
and live stock will clean up every
bit of it, while if you leave it longer
the leaves will begin to fall and the
soy bean stock will get “woody” and
the stock do not like it and will
leave some in mangers. To harvest
for hay. a nice way is to use the
bean puller and side delivery rake.
raking about eight rows together.
After they are cured this way a while
owing to weather conditions, they
should be shocked same as alfalfa
and allowed to cure a week or so
when they can be hauled in and eith-
er put in mow or stacked. Accord-
ing to ofﬁcial statements this kind of
hay ranks higher in feeding value
than alfalfa hay. ‘If I am not mis-
taken forty per cent of protein is in
leaves and 60 percent in the beans
of the soy bean plant.

If the beans are wanted for seed
it is just a question if everything
will be eractly right at the same
time. Trusting that they are or will
be the following method with vari-
ance according to each personal con—
dition may prove helpful.

The beans, conditions being favor-
able, are ready to cut for Seed when

.the leaves have, turned yellow and

about half fallen. Could save more
feed by harvesting sooner but beans
are in such a green stage that unless
everything worked right the beans
would must or mould and not be 11L
for seed. There is not much danger

- ' . saropiprmds’m 
r8?  revival in manna ,.

.will do the .thresh.

and if well shocked will turn water
nicely.

The time and conditions of weath-
er determines how quickly the beans
One' can leave
them in shocks and it dry fall can
hull from field, if not could be put
in barn or stacked and after thor-
oughly cured could hull out. Care
should be taken not to pile the hull-
ed beans up in too deep a pile as
they might heat and spoil germina-
tion. I

The hulls should be either blown
in the barn for feed and bedding or
should be stacked well and hauled in
or let stock run around in winter.
In fall of 1918 I hul—led the beans on
October 18, and did not feed a bite
of any other roughness till the ﬁrst
of February and stock looked good.

Have ten acres of beans this year.
They are a little slow about ripen-
ing up but think'by the ﬁrst of Oc-
tober they will do to cut for seed.
The Ito Sans were put out June 15
and June 23 which was later than

  

chithsrh taking wet unless awfully .
Swat faunas they. are stiff - straw'ed ~

   

should have been. I want_'to ' ,
the ﬁeld towheat and by raking them i r
and then sowing up to them andfus- ‘
ing rake to turn beans on sowed:
ground I can sow wheat before I hull
beans—G. P. Phillips. '

FARMERS TAKE ACTION

“We, the undersigned citizens of
Summerﬁeld and vicinity, will com-
ply with the rules adopted by the De—
partment of Agriculture in eradicat-
ing the scrub sire. We have no coun-
ty agent and had to take this matter
up ourselves.” With the foregoing
explanation, 14 livestock owners in

. an Ohio community signed a. letter

applying to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture for enrollment in the
better—sires campaign. The breeder
who transmitted the communication
raises purebred Delaine sheep as a
prominent part-of his livestock op-
erations.

Here is the $3.00. Your paper is' a
panacea. When I get- home it drives
away the blues and makes life worth
living so as to at last to enjoy a farm-
ers life.——L. 0., Elsie, Michigan.

 

HAVE YOU ENTE

 

'ED M. B. F.’S

 

SECOND GOLD CONTEST?

Every reader of M. B. F. has an
equal chance to win one of the 7
gold prizes in the 2nd Gold Contest
ending October 20, 1920.

Here Are the Prizes:

Grand Prize. $100 in Gold,

Second Prize, $50 in Gold.

Third Prize, $25 in Gold.

Fourth Prize, $10 in Gold.

Three consolation prizes of a ﬁve dollar
gold piece each.

In this contest, all kinds of new or
renewal subscriptions to THE BUSI-
NESS FARMER count in points for the
contest as follows:

One 25c Trial 6 months subscription
counts (1); _

One $1 One Year renewal subscription
counts (1).

- MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,
MT. CLEMENS, MUCH.

or 30th, 1920.

ceipt book, samples, etc.

Name  . . . . . . . 

a chance as anyone to win the $200 in Gold Prizes.

One ($1) One Year NEW subscription
counts (2).

One $2 Three Year renewal subscription
counts (2).

One $3 Five Year renewal subscription
counts (2).
Mail the Coupon Today

If you havent already sent in your
entry all that is necessary is to clip
the Coupon below, sign your name
and address to it and we will send
you all necessary supplies and infor-
mation.

It will be an easy matter to get 6
months subscriptions to M. B. F. at
25¢ each. Lets all get in the con-
test.

ry
Second Gold Contest

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I want to joint in the Second Gold Contest, which closes Octob- I
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COMPARE
-——-Then~ Buy

Play safe. Compare several of the leading
makes of cream separators, point for point-—
before you act. Any dairyman can choose
right if he’follows this plan.
comes in accepting claims which do not
“square up” with performance.

If you start in to seriously consider comparisons,
here are some of the v commanding features that
you’ll 'quickly note about the United States—the
separator that holds and sustains the world’s record

for; close separation:

' l—Perfected Disc Bowl a marvel of close skimq'
ming, easy cleaning and assembling.
2—Crank or power can be attached on either side.
3—Fewer revolutions of crank make turning easy.
4—The only practical and reliable Bell Speed In-

dicator. ‘

Be your own judge and jury—«you are the one
who pays. We’ll be glad to send you all of our)

booklets; write ‘

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' ' I ' Bellows Falls, Vt.

New York City
277 Broadway

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Say “Bayer” 'when buying As irin.
Then you are sure of getting true “ ayer
Tablets of Aspirin”—genuine Aspirin
proved safe by millions and prescribed by
physicians for“ over tWenty years. 'Ac4
cept- only an unbroken “Bayer package”
which contains roper directions to relieve
Headache, Toot ache, Earache, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand tin
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Drug-
gists also sell larger "Bayer packages.”
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SHOE run
THE MONEY

ONE LOOK AT THESE SCOUT SHOES WILL
CONVINGE _VOU THAT THEY WERE BUILT
FOR HARD SERVICE.

Get a pair in your own hands—~see the stock,
workmanship, nish. Thousands are wearing
them with entire satisfaction—they must satisfy
you or we refund your money. We want your
whole family aspermanent customers for.Di..tok
standard shoes. We sell you-direct, cut out all
unnecessary expense and handling, save the deal—
er’s proﬁt and deliver to your door; These shoes
must be seen to be appreciated. For men
boys. Men's sizes 6 to 11, $3_ Boys' 2% to
5%. $2.50. This is a proﬁteering period when
everybody should save in every possible way.

Write Instructions on Coupon Below. Send no
, » Money '

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amount of the investment
which pays 4% twice—a-year
available, which will be sold
in lots of $100 or more, to
those who apply for it.

If you have extra money

which is paying you less
than Eight (8%) per an-
num, please inquire of Mr.
Geo. M. Slocum, President,
Rural Publishing Company,
Mt. Clemens, Mich., regard—
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LICENSE FOB. HUNTING
Can an owner hunt ’o‘iiékhisi-iownland
withouti'c'a license?——T. "B: Grand Tra-
verse County. . .

 

1919, provides: “It shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to hunt for, kill
pursue of take in anymannervany
of the wild' animals, or wild birds
found in this state, except deer and
beaver. which are taken under their
own license, without having ﬁrst se-
cured a license to doso in accord-
ance .with the provisions of this act:
Provided that the provisions of this
section shall not apply to residents
of this state and their .minor child-
ren when hunting upon their own
.l-ands upon which they are regular-
ly domiciled, which has not been
posted by the State Game, Fish and
Forest Fire Commissioner as game
refuge against hunting. This would
allow hunting. without liCense on
one’s own land, but only during the
open season for such game or bird.
It does not allow hunting out of sea—
son.—-W. E. Brown. legal editor.

AU’I‘OS KILL CHICKENS

I have Chickens killed by automobiles
nearly every day. Some of the drivers
speed by and are very sassy. What can
I do?—R. P... Maple City. Mich.

As automobiles may lawfully use
the highway and in the exercise of
due care and caution I would be of
the opinion that they would not be
liable for killing a fowl that run
into the car by reason of being fright-
ened by the car. However, if from
speed not allowed by law and with-
out exercise of due caution to avoid
killing them I would think he would
be liable for the dam-age in‘killing
them. While you have the right to
use your side of the highway for your
animals and f~owls while in your im-
mediate charge, yet the right to use
the highway for that purpose is sub-
ject to the ﬁrst right of travel there-
on.~W. E. Brown. legal editor.

DAMAGED GOODS

If one had got credit from the Perry
G. Mason Co. and they sent the goods
and on arriving some were broken and
others were missing and got the station
agent to sign the freight bill, crates
damaged goods and sent the company
all ‘the money 'for the good-‘1‘ that were not
broken or lost and also the freight bill
after it was signed by the agent, can they
collect any- more.» -They guaranteed the
goods to arrive safe. Trusting I may
see the answer in this next weeks paper.
— A. C_ Port, Hope. Michigan.

If they guaranteed the safe ar-
rival of the goods they can collect
only for such as arrived safely. _It
would be their claim against the car-
rier; but, if there was not a guar-
antee of the safe arrival of the goods
and the goods were shipped accord-
ing to your direction then a delivery
to the carrier was a delivery to
.you and you would be liable for the
full price of the goods. You would
have to look to the carrier for the
damage, if they were liable—W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

ROAD BUILDING

They are putting a. state reward road
in front of my house. and they plowed
my cellar drain shut because it was one
foot deeper than their grade called for
the road is being built by the day under
the Highway Commission. I spoke to
the Highway Commissioner and he said
that the Count Commissioner said he
didn't care. T ey might just as well
put the ground the other way and left
my drain ope . Has he got a. right to
closii my dra n or not. I would like to
hear what you think about it and what I
can do 'to get it opened up again—J. W.
Fowler. Michigan. ‘

* Iam of the opinion that the high-
,way commissioner in building a road
has the right to construct it accord-,
ing to the speciﬁcations even though
it may interfere with your private,
convenience. The question of wheth—
er he might do his work in another
way is one of discretion on his part ‘
and so far as I know will not be_in-.
terfered with by the courts.——W. E.
Brown, legal editor. ‘ 1

s .  RELATIONSBI? . '
. IfA’s mother. and B’s" ‘ 4' andmother‘
are sisters, what, relation WI] 3’: dau h-,.
ter's children be to A's children? on

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wedding presents or not? If she buys
goo s and he pays for- same can she
say, “I paid for it, it is. mine," then wait
for a chance and get goods when he is
gone?—-Worried, Rhodes, Mich.

By the method of rcomputation
usedin this state they are related
within the 8th degree of consangun—
ity, very’gii’stant'cousins. ’When hus-
band and wife part neither has the
right to the exclusive possession of
the household goods. The wife~only
has control of her individual proper-
ty but not suchas she“ has bought
with moneyfurnished by the hus-
band—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

COLLECTING FOR PAPER

Some time ago I subscribed for a
weekly newspaper for six months and
paid in advance. After the time had ex-
pired thepaper kept on coming. Now
they have written to me saying that I
owe them for the paper, Can they col-
lect for same?—A Subscriber, Newaygo
County. '

If you only subscribe-d for six
months and paid for the time the
publisher should have stopped send-
ing at the end ‘of the six months:
but if your subscriptions was for six
months “and until notified" you‘
would owe for the time following
'until you notiﬁed not't‘o send, They'
cannot collect for what you are not
legally liable fan—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. ‘

 

MISREPRESENTED

I bought a farm last August. I' had
the man living on the place put out 10
acres of wheat for me. He was to fur-
nish good seed at $2.25 a bushel. I paid
him to treat the seed. Instead ofplant-

ing g00d seed he planted seed full of
smut, He did not even treat it. I har-
vested the crop and got 156 bushels of

smutty wheat. . I received $1.75 a bu.
at the mill for it,. They were paying
$2.20 for good wheat,. Let me know
through the columns of the Michigan
Business Farmer if I can make him pay
my loss?—J, E,., Evart, Mich.

He would be liable for the 'darmw
age caused you from the statement
of facts given, if you can convince a

 

court and jury Of them.—-W. .E.
Brown, legal editor. . .
WEED SEED

Please inform me how to stop my.
neighbor sowing wild seed on my farm,
such as wild coffee, wild mustard, dead-
ly night shade and white cookie and pig»
weed. He has three children which sow
these. weeds and, they are under age.—'

G. M., Charlevoix County.

 

If the facts related can be estab-
li bed I would be of the opinion that
t e guilty person could be arrested;
and injunction might be issued to
restrain further damage of like kind.
-——W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

DIVISION OF LINE FENCE

Two farmers cannot agree on which
end of their line fence to build, Can you
tell me' if ‘there is any law or special
starting point, when they both have two
fronts or one front end a side on the
road?-—-R. S. G., Onaway, Mich.

There is no law designating where
they shall start the division of a line
fence. The fence viewers shall de-
termine where each party shall build
if they can not agree between them.
-—W. E. Brown, legal editor.

SHARE OF STRAW

A rent farm from B for one year and
puts in crop of wheat the fall of that
car on shares. At end of year B sells
and to C with B's half of wheat going
with farm, A is to come back and harvest
wheat: Can A remove or sell any part
of straw if nothing was said about straw
in the writings when B sells farm to C.
C, Eaton, County.

_—

A is entitled to the same share

, of the straw from the crop that he

was to have of the grain and may sell
or remove it from the farm.—-W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

SHARE 01“ HAY CROP

I cut the hay crop for one of my
neighbors for half.-— I am going to leave
the second cutting, of alfalfa. for seed, I
to pay ,thresh bill and all other expenses
connected with it. What share of «the
seed am I entitled fol—G, N. P., Wil-
liamsburg, Mich,

Froprthe brief statement of’facts
it appears. youngreed to do all the \
work . and Wynn expenses for one
half. If that is what you”, intend to
say you. so agreed you would be en-
titled, to one half of hay and seed and
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Being supervisor or ourrtownshin. " i

have been asked on» several occasions,
for information in‘ regard the obliga-
tions of property owners for --the bull. -
ing of partition fences between farms
adjoinin . - 1 ~

My understanding :in? this matter is
that no owner. of -property is obliged.tto
build‘a partition fence unless his’propt-A
erty’is enclosed with ~fence. ~' ’  -*

Will you please inform me on. this-and,
if there has eenany cases settledin the
Supreme Court, will a you learn; infor

me as to that—S. A. D., \an Buren‘ o." ‘

Section 2207, C.‘L. 1915 provides:
“The respective occupants of. lands
enclosed‘with fences shall keep up
and maintain partition fences be-
tween their own and the next ad-
joining enclosure, in equal shares, so
long as both parties continue to im—
prove the same: Provided that» the
occupants of private ways and the
occupants of, next adjoining enclosed
lands shall keep up and maintain
partition fences between such ways
and such next adjoining lands, in
equal shares, so long as such ways
are used and such lands are improved

Very early the supreme court of
Michigan, briefly, decided that “This
section imposes-obligations upon the
respective occupants of adjo"ning
lands, and in consequence sections.
provision is made for enforcing these
obligations; vbutL-until their respect-
iveﬂsh-ares or portions of the fence-
are ascertained, either by assignment
or according to the provisionspf the ,
statute, this statute- remains inopera-
tive. Unless the partition fence on'
the line has been divided by agree-
ment or pursuant to the statute,'
neither «party. is bound to maintain
any part of. it.

The duty of any person to keep up
any portion of a partition fence is
created by statute in favor and for

 

_ the protection of the adjoining pro-

prietor. Before the duty can be—
come ﬁxed so as to require him to
keep' in repair any particular portion
of such partition fence, it must ap-
pear, ﬂrst, that the adjoining propri-
etor imprOVes his land; second, that
either by" consent or by action of the-
fence vieWers a portion of the parti-
tion fence "between them has been as—'
signed to‘ him' to keep in. repair.-

At common law‘tobuild or main—
tain a fence for the convenience or
an adjoining. aronﬁetqr. .exiisttedu
This statute being in deregation of
the common law,=must be strictly
construed. The unifOrm construction
of such statutes has been to limit
their application to enclosed lands.

This does not mean that all the
fences must be up for the supreme.
court, in another case, upheld the,
circuit judge in deciding as follows:
"that these pieces o-f‘land were used‘
as farms, and had been for years;
that there was a. fence starti’ g at the '
point E on the map-that ‘ as been
introduced in Levidence, running
thence east and thence south to D,
in the east and west highway, or the
highway that runs in an easterly
and westerly direction; that the
line fence remained there until, some
time in December prior to the calling.
of the fence viewers, in whatever
condition it was, remained there un-
til December; that about eight years
ago the road fence around this 20~
and one half acres was taken down;"
that the farm of Mr. Henry is en-‘
closed with'line fences on the east
to the north road fence, out-he south.
and the road fence on the west, ex-

, cepting about twenty rods, just north,

of thegland owned by this complain-s
ant. I think that any fair,construc-‘
tion of the proof in this Case shows,
that these were farms, occupied as:
such, and were so enclosed, and‘con-‘
tinned so, within the law; until this;
application was. made .‘tothe fence-
viewers; ‘I think this. 20 1-2~racres
was such an enclosure, as comes with-
in the. statute thai';.pe!:1i.l_it_s the .call—.-.

' ing of the fence yiew'ers Etc-{divide a;

line fence. ,Ithink. the fence view-,
are in this case had. jurisdiction; to:
act and ,to partition this line fence:

  
 

   

  
     

  

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. ’ " shame-“surf  co.
~ ACK m 1917 subscriber J. a,
B of Presque Isle county, “loan-
, ed'f $20 to theSpring Nut Lock
Co... of Chicago. In return for his

kindness he received a. nicely en-

graved-promissory note which prom-
ised to 'r‘etnrn‘R’s $20 one year af—
ter date with interest .at ‘3‘ per~ cent,
payable semi—annually. ’ But the
Spring Nut Lock Company did not
propose to stop there inshowlng its
appreciation of Mr. R's loss. For
the, promissory note expressly read,
‘fAndto deliver to the payee, upon cir-
ecution of this note twenty-live per
cent of the amount of this note in
common stock of the company at par
as a bonus." .Moreover, the payee
was to be given the rare opportunity
of having the option “of accepting
the amount due upon this note in
common stock of the Company at its
par value, (one dollar per year).

Now the only flaw-in this wonder-
fully attractive proposition was that
Mr. R. has never been able to'get
his $20 back either in cash or stock.
On topof that, as it to add insult
to injury, the semi-annual interest
check of seventy cents which Mr. R.
received and duly deposited for col-
lection, was” returned to him with
the notation, “account closed."

Three years have passed. All that
time Mr. R. has wisely kept his “in-
vestment” locked up in the family
skeleton. But encouraged by the
success which THE BUSINESS anunn
has met in collecting claims for its
subscribers he recently turned over
to us his treasures; consisting of the
N. G. check, the N. G. promissory
note and letters from the N. G. Spring
Nut Lock Company. But, alas, too
late! The chickens had flown the
coop. Our representative who vis—
ited the former ofﬁces of the concern
in the Transportation Bldg., was ad-
vised thatthe ﬁrm had moved some
months ago and left no forwarding
address.

.We are sorry that we cannot help
Subscriber R., but Messrs. C. H. Dye,
who signed himself’as “treasurer”
and G. H. Begeman and C. H. Plum-
mer, both'of whom signed themselv-
es at varous times as “president,”
are out of reach of the law's arm.
Subscriber R. has their duly signed
and legal note, but we don’t know
what good it is it he cannot ﬁnd the
parties, who executed it. Subscriber
R. made two mistakes: In the ﬁrst
place he should never loan his mon-
ey to total strangers. In the sec-
ond place, heshould not havewait-
ed three years before looking them
up. Chalk it down to proﬁt and loss
and forgot it.

MONEY SENT FOR RETURNED
v GOODS

About the middle of last December I
sent to Bellas Hess & Co. for a set of
furs. I received the shipment but re-
turned the mui‘t because it was not
satisfactory. They advised that they
had received the muff and wished to
know whether I wanted my money back
or another mutt in exchange. I told
them I would take a muff if they would
give me one that was satisfactory but
if they could not to return my money.
I have heard nothing from them since.
-—W. F., Foster, Mich.. July 10th.

We referred this complaint to
Bellas Hess & Company stating that
we believed there must have been a
misunderstanding. Below is a copy
of a letter received by W. F. since
we wrote this company:

We have received a communication
from the Michigan Business Farmer Co.
advising that you failed to receive ad;-
ﬁ‘miment on -mui‘l returned to us last
December.

We note that we have been holding
the value of same to your credit ($9.95)
as we have been unable to locate cor-
respondence advising disposition desired
made of same.

We are sorry.“ you have been incon-
venienced by not having received this
amountvat an earlier date: but in com-
pliancefivith your request, we are en-
closing herewith this amount. "

Trusting this occurrence will not (lea~

ter you. from, favoring us in the future.
we are—Bellas Hesse: 00., July let.

MONEY PROMPTLY RETURNED

.Sema where {near the leg of April I
sent an order to the Chicago Mall. Or-
for a, dress oi.‘ which the price
I‘ waited nearly three weeks
veil a dress altogether dit-

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retreating my. money, then they
wrote an ask
catalog number of my order. where

t my money order and the number of
t. I answored' them the best I could
but told them it was getting so late I
didn't want the dress, but the money.
I have written them four dimer-ant
times since that and could not any-
t . from. them.-—-Mrs. L. R, ., Sterl-
ing, Mich, Aug. 23rd

We wrote the Chicago Mail Order .

00., asking them to look this matter
up. They answered that they. had
done so, and that, while they could
not locate record; of this transaction
they were sending a check to our
subscriber. -

On the 7th of September I received a
check from the Chicago Mail Order 00.,
for the full amount ‘I sent them, $4.98,—

Mrs. L. R. F,, Sterling, Mich, Sept. 9th. ‘

TIRE I‘NSATISFACTORY

Last March I ordered at 32 in. by 3 1-2
in. tire and‘tube from the Home Tire a:
Rubber Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan
and sent a 'money order for about $17
with the order I received a tire and
tube in about 13 days. The tire was
guaranteed for 6000 miles and the tube
for one year. 1 run the tire and tube
about 150-miles with full pressure and it
began to rim cut end at last blew out.
I wrote to the Company about the tire
and tube but have not received any ans-
wer yet.--C. L., Cadillac. Mich,

This company was advised by us
regarding our subscriber's complaint
and shortly after we received a
letter from C. L. in which he stat-
ed that he had just received a let-
ter from the Home Tire & Rubber
00. He enClosed a copy of the let~
ter. It read as follows:

In regard to the tire and- tube you
state went wrong with you. we wish to
advise that you return them to us parcel
post prepaid for our inspection. and af-
ter examining same we will let you
know what adjustment we can make
you.

Trusting this is satisfactory to you,
we are—Home Tire & Rubber Com,
August 23rd.

SHIPPED TO “7R0NG ADDRESS

Last fall I ordered several items from
Montgomery Ward & (30., Chicago, to be
shipcd to my farm at Newaygo. Mich.
The goods arrived eventually. except the
corn sheller, Upon investigation it was
found that the mail order house had the
shller shipped to Chicago from the
Kenosha. Wis, factory. I notiﬁed the
company about the error and they then
promptly notiﬁed the R. R. Co. to reship
to Newaygo. But the freight charges
were just about double what they should
have been. due to the re—shipment. I
wrote M. W. & Co. enclosing all papers
and taking for an adjustment on the
freight charge, but have never heard
from them. The additional freight was
about $2 and while not a big amount, I
feel the concern could at least do 'me
the courtesy of.a reply, .which they have
failed to do.—M. B., Newaygo, Mich,
Aug. 20th.

Immediately we took this matter
up with this company. We received
the following card from our 'sub-

scriber a few days ago:
I am this day in receipt of check from
Montgomery W‘ard & Co. in full settle-

 

ment of freight claim placed with your ,

collection department. Please accept my
thanks for your prompt and efﬁcient ser-

vice in this matter and oblige—M. B.,

Newaygo, Mich, ,Sept. 4

MAGAZINE CO. FINDS MSTAKE

Last June I sent for the Pictorial Re-
view for one year through the Flint
Daily Journal, but they so far have
failed to send the Pictorial Review or
reply to my letter of two weeks ago ask-
ing if they received the subscription. I
don’t want any back numbers. I have
paid for a. year’s subscription to Pictor-
ial Review and I Want it for a. year
from date of ﬁrst issue. I receive the
Flint Journal all right—Mrs. A. G. M.,
Grand Blanc, Mich, Aug. 9th.

It would appear from the letter
we received from Mrs. M., that she
was getting her magazine now.

I am in receipt of a card from Reg-
inald F. Fennel subscription service,
Jackson, Mich, saying they had receiv-
ed my subscription and so on. Many
thanks to Michigan Business Farmer.—
Mrs. A. ‘G. M., Grand Blanc, Michigan,
Aug. 27th.

.PART OF ORDER RECEIVED

I sent an order the 15th of April for
shoes, hose. waist and undervest. I re-
ceived the shoes and hose 8. week after
I sent. the order and the other I haven't
received yet. I have written to them
several times. The order amounted to
811.60 and they keep telling me if I
didn't receive goods. to write again, but
they don"t answer any more. The .
they did not send‘amounts to 84.97. The

order was sent to Phlllpsborn's,—Misg A.

8.. Hillman, Mich. Aug. 12th
Upon receipt of a letter from us

_e_xpla'ini_ng this complaint. Phiiips» »
here's gave it prompt attention and

refunded our reader's money- We

have tonnd this. company to be very —
prompt to. makeadjnstments. =
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farm 122 acres. Good buildings, 40 .rods to 00., 24 McGraw Bldg, Detroit. Licensed Brok-
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Progressive system for the summer flock. . , ,
v Howto buy and feed western sheep and lambs.
. How to producemore economical sheep feeds.“ '
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v How. to' feed in ﬁeld and dry lot or barn.

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,Hlllﬁoatstandlng feature y ,
~ rabbi situation during August was
. :thﬁ:j%ieat"difference in 7price- be.-
tween’t' 9 different grades of 'meat

  

and the differential between various
cuts Irom the same grade. ‘ '
For. example, the difference be-

ed as high as 20‘ to 25 'cents. 'a
best grade of'fr'esh “beef‘from steers
and‘ fresh beef. from. cows “reached
8 '§9_"130.-.°99t3 a. Pomld- : The-Maw
demand fr‘or; chemo beef “toward " the

sinceflast January.  .  °
difference in the Wholesale p'ricesiof
various cuts, from the same ' animal. ‘

With» a reduced hog supply,= there
has been, a. good demand . for. fresh
pork, which is marketed from current
, production. The prices .of smoked
mentahave been somewhat lower
than during July. .‘ -. - '

Light hogs are still at a premium,
since the people want. chops from
light loins.’ Loins weighing from
fourteen to sixteen pounds, have been
selling at Wholesale six to eight
cents a pound cheaper than loins
weighing from eight to ten pounds.
Experieced pork men insist that
chops from the heaviervloins are just
as good. 'Some even maintain that:
the heavier'hog'is more likely to» be
well ﬁnished. ,

Moreover, fresh pork shoulders
which are‘q_uite,nutritious and pal-
atable, have been selling very cheap-‘
1y as compared with loins “(whence
come pork chops) from‘the same an—
imal. Bellies from heavy hogs have
been selling at wholesale for less than
the dressed carcass cost. The'belly,
the bacon cut, is one of the choice
cuts of the hog, but heavy bellies are
at a disadvantage. " ' ‘-

quite wide in the case
and pork. . ~

The'price of lard shows
change, thei'tonebf the market be-
ing slightly better. September lard

year“ - September ,
$18.45." ‘ I , _ . ,
' September ribs closed on August
.30, 1919 at $21.87; 'on' August‘30,’
1920 at $15.05.‘ ’. -

From the Producer’s “Standpoint

The elements in the August sit-
uation are of‘ particular interest Lto
the live stock-producer. "One " is

lard." .‘closed (at

meat, 'this spread being caused ‘ in
. good part ,by, the decreasedvalue of
,- hides and by-products. «The other is
the- better export-demand ' for pork ,
.prbd-ucts during~'Aiigiis't.' , , .f'
It..is customary. at. this season of
; theayea-rzrto-receive fair exportjo‘rd'ers
, from-EuroDe, but‘ohe revival of these’
3 orders» is especially gratifying at

SPEND A. dayor twoeach year
‘ making suitable nesting places for
' ”_.bu'niblebees........\This confession
imust- sound trivial to- farmers » rw-ho
have given little thought to the _sub-'
ject,‘but there is more sense to, it
than appears on the surface.-. 

A little boy asked his mother: I I

“Does God make the big trees and
horses and elephants?” ’ '
His mother answered “yes.”
The boy thought it over for a few
minutes .then asked, I »

’.fli§s.tt  .
,time .f,‘putteriiji‘g,”f_zbut ‘geh‘grgiry; he :
:ha’s“ n'f'objbct‘ and the h results .will

‘siidwfst'Lth'e proper time. :  . a - .,
- 1 Th‘atis the wa'y_I feel about mak-

ing‘ibu‘nfiblebee nests, so”; will .here ,
{ andhow ,1 do it endutlie re- .
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tween steer loins and cow vloins rang- ‘

pound. The differential between the

, .end '6£'-ft11;§-¥!;0n.th ‘iﬁsﬁtx'thé Price‘..bff.
‘ peg: ‘live ‘ cattle; to_' the highest point .-

‘  '1' f    kinds .01, cash
1.;Si-milarly. tliel'é has .beenj‘a. wide

The spread between “choice” cuts.
and those which are less popular is
of both‘ beef,

little .

on August 30 last year was $27.67
per 100 pounds.“ OnlAugust 30 this.

the substantialspread between the,
‘price of live stock and the price of“

thisti'me on account“ of recentcondi-i’
: tions “lathe export trade: _Many Eur- _

: “Dees Godmake house flies?"
“Yes”. . . .,  . - . V
,. “gun, ' w puttel'in’ . {york  makin’ .-

‘  Ai'larmergispeiids a: deal of 

'maketiiture trouble.  ~

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.  Bp-sblsbéssqsre so}: plennmlsasm‘
‘ '- lililsﬁflssfﬁst sirens;

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‘ smasher seen. origins ﬁrst.

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 oénn maﬁa”  , ._
 y- from "hand to mouth, although
stocks fin-f seine “of, these . .' combines
have been very low; '_ Butter, reams
sc'arc'e abroad, and there has been
more demand for-“American fatsraswa
consequence.  There has. been better
inQulries and orders for lard and dry
salt meats. .On’ the whole, the ex-
port trade during August has been
fair, particularly the trade with‘
Scaridi’navia.- .  w ‘-
‘ There has been more or lees of, a
decline in the contract :price 
pork and lard." This is generally at-
‘tribut'edto. the lower; :prices of
grains.” The seasonal demand for all '
pork products -' has
been good. ‘ - .  .
Producers undoubtedly. 
noted the spread between live stock
and meat prices on account »of“the
decreased va‘lue»of hides and by-_‘
products. These decreases, in the
assent cattle, are equivalent tolap-f
proximately $2.50 per c’wtp on. the
basis of live weights. For example
thebeef which the packer obtains by
dressing range steers‘ weighing 1,150
to 1200 pounds aliveand selling'ln
the present market around .311 to
$11.50per cwt. costs him just 
much as did the beef from similar,
animals forwhieh he paid $13.50 to
$14 per cwt. a year ago. He pays
less for cattle-buth‘e also receives a‘
great deal less for the hides and
fats.“ ~  ' - _ '
I Similarly, in discussing the price
of sheep and‘la-mbs at Chicago, “the
United States Bureau of Markets on
August 19"s'a'idz- ' " i ’
I “Cull natives are helding fairly
steady to $7.50 and $8. mostly. a
big discount from" fat‘lambs but one
not so surprising when the sharpr
lower :valuevs‘for pelts and ‘offal'th‘aii'
we_r‘e._.ciirrent;, 'a ivyea‘r “ago are duly?
taken f'lnto account:- Inqeed; wne’ii;
it is« taken into.‘ consideratiop that“’a£
3 1—2c per lb. decrease in the credit
value .of.pe1ts...and 1c penpou‘nd de-
crease in the credit value of the offal
from this timerlast year makes a
$12.50,le cost,as.much in the 'car-
cas .as‘.a_...lainb; costing $17 at this
time  last .year, gt'lie; depressed ' con’di—l ;
.tion ofhthe sheep1and lamb.ma-r-li'eit~
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“Du-ring. the ﬁrst (three wwe‘eks = of
August the sheep “and lamb trade
.where the bulk~of the meat issold—7
the principal. cities-ﬁbrin. 5
unsatisfactory. This was because the
receipts at' Chicago“‘.;an‘d_ ‘ Missouri:
River markets . We‘re“ Quite" liberal as "‘
compared - - with othe~ previous thirty 1‘
day, period: Moreover, the receipts
were larger at Eastern markets. The
result was an oversupplygof' lamb: .in
the East, with considerably lower-
wholesale'prices. . v .- .. L.   ,
The decline stim_ulatejdﬁ;the trade-3
and this circumstance, "coupled with'

' decreased receipts of. fat lambs/suit;

able for "slaughter, during: 
week of Augustyhasgiven» the: rage .
a healthier-tone'for lambs,both snare“ '
and dressed. ' '  i   p
- Only moderate quantities of frazeii

lamb were on‘the market”?"in’-‘1August.j

 Bambiebeems  

ners of the summer colonies and they-
need protection where they can make; ‘ "
nestsand rear whrk'er-bees to pollin-
ate our colver seed heads in June
and July.

‘ Soon after fall seeding is the time
whengl like to lay thefounda'tion for
my’bumblebe'e "nests! I cut the weeds
and'long grass along the fences and ‘
fork the trash over against thebotr
tom of the fence, then turn a fur- 

‘ row to cover most of thetrash.‘ Then .. .

fill, the furrow, with”
and.

it. i’ ,. _ . .- - 
There is a. double object in using
(the? fence linesffor beenests. Dur-
ing spring plantingtrtim‘e fence ~and;
ditch weeds — are~ neglected. ‘ While

, , some“ at?“
turn another furrow slice. onto

we‘are busy on the land, fence weeds  IV

are growing, to" furnish a harbor fer _« _
many kinds of predacious _, insects" ‘
where. they. breed and multiply to
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dost. list the date or any live stock sale In
MIChlﬂln. ' If you' are considering a sale ad- >
NI“, us at,,on,co and we wlil'clalm the oat;
. Wet-you. "Address. Live Stock Editor, M.’ 8.
- .F-p Mt.-Olemons.. .’ __ﬁ.__<_
Sept. 20. Poland Chime. J. C. Mygrnnts
mdL. C. Pope & Son..St." Johns, Mich.
Oct.‘ 8. Duroc-Jerseys Macomb . County
.Duroc Breeders‘ Ass’n. Armada, Mich.

 

   

 

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?Lauren‘oe P. Otto. Charlotte, Mich_

. 9 19, Ho steins Michigan ' Holstein-
F‘nesian Ass'n. Jackson, Mich

.‘ Oct. aggressions nowen' sine. Company
Jf-leingston 00.. Howell. ich.
" Oct. 26. Poland Chinas. Wesley Hue-

: limit”. Mich .
' Boone—Hill 00..

cs; 27.‘ Poland cums.
Blanchard, Mich. . . . . .
Oct—28. Poland Chinas. Clyde Fisher 'and

Mich.
Chas. Wetzel do

Brewbaker &

E, R. Leonard. St. Louis.
i ~ Oct.729. Poland Chlnas.
,Sonsil'tlgoﬁa. Mich.

c. . Poland China
Sous, Elsie, °Mich. ‘ «
_ Feb.. 1.‘ Poland Chime. Witt Bros. Jas-
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. E. 'Ruppert. Perry. (Mich. 
"Harry Robinson, ' Plymorithh " Mioh.
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coconzo y’ULLI
' August It, '1020‘." The 'sire's ileur'
nearest damsnloneza three. .year' «old:
average overﬁg. lbs. butter and 690
 . .  lbs. milli’ 'in -‘seven days: ' The ' '
is,,;a.'daughter of a 20: lit-Jr.- two yr. .;,old.
. '  Price $199,,F. O ‘3. Flint.
Extended pedigree'iori 'spplicatioli. " '

 

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gyros beautifulvyonngsters—etnisht as a line.
- rgébone'd” rugged fellows. They are all by
ll‘ed-JKING‘ KOIINDYKE

, (but, .8';lb.i senior-
-  , i em, AC from splendid vindi-

A. R. backing and the ,best
of blood lines. ‘ ‘ ' " ' 1'.“
_,.;,Wri.t9 $9.1: 9!.“ sale “at

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V sales from their herd” We are well pleased'with

- ﬁe :calves from our Junior Herd Sire ‘1Kihg,'Pon-
‘ c‘Lunde Korndyke Segis" Vvvho is a. son of
King-mi the, Pontiacs" {rum a daughter of. 'Po’n-
tine Liothllne De Kol 2nd. A ten. bull calves- for,
sale. »T. »W- Sprague.‘ R 2.. Battle'Greek. Mich.

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Mr. Dairy Farmer, Mr. Holstein Breeder meet King Flint

ALL THREE are working to a common  increase the“ pm_ _
auction of Michigan Dairy herds. I - ~ a, 

We believe all three should Workvtogether.
We. feel sure that no Michigan bull has ever been better equipped for

the work.

erage‘ of 3.8% fat;

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them all to stay in Michigan.

Davison, , Mich.

We have it on high authority that there are none better individually.

_. His three nearest dams each averaged to produce 100 lbs. butter and
2,100 lbs. milk per menth for 3.

'His dam‘ is one of Michigan’s greatest family—three tull sisters that
have produced over 30 lbs. butter in seven days, two or them pro—.
ducing over 700 lbs. milk, and two of them producing more than

> 1,000 lbs. butter andv21,000 lbs. milk in ten months.

His sire is the direct descendant of three generations of 30 lb. cows
and two generations of 1,200 lb. yearly record cows.

His ﬁrst three sisters to enter yearly test will each produce more than
"800'lbs‘. but-termand‘I-l'lﬂoo«lbs. milk as heifers.~

Let KING FLINT Help Yonlmprove Your Herd
Through one of His Sons

A son of this great young sire suited to head any herd in Michigan,
grade or purebred, can be secured in Genesec Countyand we want

Write usabout your herd, tell us' what you need and what you feel
you can afford to pay. and let us help you ﬁnd just whatyou want
in Genesee County, the center, of Michigan’s long distance dairy

_ cattle.
OEIIRIOA FARM . "*‘~.“-““rr ‘ ELMOR'EST STOOK FARM
W'altcr T. Hill, ‘ “W ’l _ G. L. Spillane & Son 00.

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::importance in Michigan. northern Ohio and Indians, as the esclnsne Field Men of The Michigan

honest and c'ompetentfmen of standing in their lines in Michigan
1nd they will represent-any reader- of this weekly. at any sale,
Their service ,is free to you.
They work exclusively  the interests of Michigan's OWN live-stock

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Got ﬁrst or secé’nd in 'every class shown at

Michigan State ' Fair beside . capturing Junior
Champion heifer and reserve ribbons. '
for"'type and' as for production, these .young ani-
mals have the records- behindntheni, sired by. 33
lb.‘ nd 36 lb. bulls out or dams up to 32 lbs.
'A few good bulls nearly ready for service.
Herd under Federal Supervision.
. 'HILLCREST STOCK FARM
‘ ' ~'0rtonviiie. Mich;

or write . . I \
John P. Hehl. 181 Orisv'mid 8t,. Detroit, Mich.‘

 

MUSOLFI' BROS.’ HOLSTEI‘N

We are now booking orders tor
{mung bulls from .. King Pieter .5H9.‘
yons 170506. All from A. R. 0, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. erite for pric-
es and further information.
'MusolfI Bros., South Lyons, Michigan
Buttered Holstein-Frieslan. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy' producing young cows. hose
other!“ Terrace and win‘ is. priced cheap it
bldeoon.  '~  ~_-V
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 .- .I    Three Great Days
    .19‘th, Jackson. 
.‘Weaxiésaay, October 20th,'Lansing. Michigan
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that will be ready for service in September
whose own Sister has just made over 22lbs,
of butter as a Jr. 3 year old and whose Dnm
line made over 20 lbs. and we own both of
them and they are due to freshen again in
I‘n'nuary and will be tested. This young buy
is well grOWn and a top line that could not
be beat. his Dam's 1—2 sister has just made
'v'Vel' 30 lbs. ' ‘

HiA price is only $150.00.

From a fully_sccredited Herd.

BAZLEV STOCK FARM. Ypsilanti, Mich.

Address all correspondence to

JOHII BAILEY
319 Atkinson Ave.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

 

 

*Herd‘ Headed by Johan Pauline De
K01 Lad 236554

a son of‘Flint 'Hengervc'ld Mid
and JohahkPauline DeKol twice
'30 lb.'cow and dam of Pauline
DeNijlander (Mich. Champion
two years old.)  -. . .- 7

Bull calves from dams up to
28 pounds. ' -
Roy E. Fickies. Chesaning. Mich.

 

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BAOKE KRAST LINDENWOOD CHAMPION
Bull born March 13. 1019:
Concordia Clmmpion (30 A R. 0. daughters.
above 30 lbs.)
daughter of Johanna «Concordia Champion
above) whose sire,
has 61 A. R. 0. daughters, 6 shots 30 lbs.

between2-3 and 34 white and nicely marked.
at $200 if taken zit Once. Write for pedigree.

EDWARD 8. BENSON A SONS
HiILCrest Harms. Munson.- Mich.

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that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-

lows, sired by a son ‘02 King One. One is from

a 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a

20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam. she is by a son of

Friend Henrzcn'cld De Kol Butter Boy, one of

the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR.. riwosso. Mich.. R 2.

Registered Holstein cows, Heifers

 and Calves for sale. Your choice

from $50 to $1350 each. (Tome and see.
M. HAUTALA, Bruoes Crossing, Mioh.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

We Wish to Announce

to the farmers of Michigan that we
are now ready to supply them with
Canadian bred Shorthorn females
either straight Scotch or Scotch
topped milkers at, reasonable prices.
, If your community needs the serv-
ices ,—.ot? a high-c‘lajssfshorthorn bull,
write us for our Co
Breeding plan. , -

> . PALMERABROTIIAIISM 

Established; in mass. N. .
SHORTI-Iohmsinoln An‘ AconsbITE
growlsims 'allil xgm‘ndllaughte‘rs; Stof
Muxwulton Jupiter Zilgid93' heads our
JOHN SCHMIDT a son. BeedfClty,

 

herd.
Mich.

v HAT DO: "YOU VV'AN'I‘? .
3HORTHORN breeders.,_ “Can.” put you in
touch will) host milk or be'ef strains. Bulls all
ages. Some females. “C. 'W.~ (1mm. President
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, Mc-
Brides, Michigan. ‘

Sho'r'tlmrns a‘t Farmers" Prices
FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL O’ALVES

 

 

 

 

UR HERD SIRE

nonnéxms SEGIS OLISTA

, His“ sire a 30 lb son of Lakeside'King Segla»
Albnn De Kol.
His dam. Glista Fenella. 32.37 lb.

Her (lam, Glista Ernestine, 35.96 lb.
ms three nearest dams average over 33 lbs.
and his forty six nearest tested relatives average
over'30 lbs. butter in seven days. We oﬂer one
of his sons readyxfor service. ‘ e - *
STOCK FARMO.

GRAND RIVER
Gorey J. Spencer, Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

A FOUNDATION

TWO REGISTERED HOLSTEII‘I HEIFERS
16 and 19 mos. old, sired by a 29 lb. and 27
lb. bull. Dam of older one a 14 lb. junior two
year old. well bred, good individuals. Also a ﬁne
male calf from a. son of the great King of the
I’ontiacs. Calf’s dam a '20 lb. cow.“ . -
For particulars address
H. VANS

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Eau Claire. Mich.

FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS
nearly ready for service from good A. R. 0.
Wm. Griﬁln, Howell, Mich.

 

dams, also bull calves.

_ MR MILK PROO’IIOER

:. —!eur ~problem is more MILK. more BUTTER.

more. PROFIT. per cow. 

f A non of Maplecres Application Pontiac—

82052«—from - our heavy-yeariy-milking-tood-but-

_ r- rd dam. will solve it. '_ g

t , ple’creat' Application Pontiac'l dam made

to. 1‘ gm butter in 7 mm 1344.: lbs. butter
2 421.2 lbs. milk lotus am

He la, 'one -of the greatest long distance lites.

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. , mar amen r our sons.

mess-Tight end 'hot‘too  (or the Average -

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under one year old. These are all-roam and
choice individuals.

FAIRVIEW FARM
F.‘ E. Ieyd  ~ . Alma, Michigan

suonrnonus

5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old, all rosns, pail ted."
Dams good milkers, the farmers' kind, at“ tarni-

ers’ prices. . .. s
F. M. PIOGOTT & SON. Fowler, Mich.

EGISTERED AND
cows and heifers for sole, $75 .to- $200.
MEIER BROS.. Byron, Mich.

N BREED-

HE VAN BUREN 00. SHORTHOR‘ .
‘ ‘ hoth' milk

ers' Ass'ociatio'n have 'stock for sale.
and beef breeding. ,

' Write the secretary.
FRANK IAILEV. Haniord. Mich.
SHORTHORIIS °""' “ "-w
. AT OLD PRIQE.-
Wm. J. BELk. Rose City, Mich.
  Olay ‘Bred .Shorthorn bull
from a. heavy producing dun.
W ‘S. HUBER. Gladwin. Mich.
KENT OOUNTY .SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
sgess
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LEFT

' Oil!

Ass'n are otl’ering bulls and heifers for sale, All
Sell the scrub‘ Eﬁll’buy a. purebred. .
E., AAI. Sec'y. Caledonia. Mich.
For SilesnMHking snorthorn Buils‘from two to
1-6 me. old.
day. Yearly records kept.’llerd tuberculin tested.
3A8. 'I'l. EWER. R 10, Battle Oren. Mich.

__every
breeder_

Can use M. B. E's
Breeders’ Directory
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Sire “is a 27.33
lb. son of 9. 30.61 1h. bull, whose sire is Johanna

. 2
Dam is an 18.93 lb..2 year old
(ass -
Colantha Johanna Champion,
He
has big g'rowtliy fellow. ready for heavy service

Guarantecds sure breeder and especially priced

 
  

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more.

mmunity Club ,

._. ..;peldinq. Mich. 

o HERD '
Avonduie _

I. represent 41

GRADE lSHOR‘I‘HOI‘IE .

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REGISTERED HEREFORD DATTLE

.. ~Kinz Repeater No. 718941 heads our herd.
, A grandson ,of the Undefeated Grand Champion
Repeater 7th No. 386005. We have some ﬁne

- bulls for sale and also some heifers bred to Re-
peater. Tony B. Fox. l’roprietnr.

“ THE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon, Mich.

MEADOW BHDDK HEREFOBDS

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’ ’S‘ale Circuit  ‘
Oct. 26, W'esley Hile, Ionla, Mich.
Oct. 27, Boone-Hill‘Coq Blanchard.
Oct..28, Leonard & Fisher, St. Louis.
Oct. 20, Chas. Wetzel & Sons, Ithaca.
Oct. 30, W. Brewbaker & Sons, Elsie.

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These ﬁrms,’members of the Cent-
ral Michigan Poland China Breeders’
Ass’n, will offer to the public an of-
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will offer at public aliction at the farm of J. E. Mygrant’s

    

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to {snow in Sepumbu. ﬁpring,bosr_resdy for 
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tel-ed stock. either sex, polled or horned, mostly west and 3 1-2 miles north Of St. Johns '
any age. Come and look llcm over. have never been oﬂered in the State ~ "
..EARL c. McOARTY. ad Axe. Mlohlsan.. before_ At these sales, held at the . 3
no HEREFORD 3.1mm“. AL“) above named places, the farmer will  H d as F n w °
know or 10 or 16 load! fancy out-Ht! ﬁnd Poland China, Hogs that will ﬁt _ -  o  8'
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 1000 lbs. his exact n d t d ork _ .
Ownexis anxious tg'selgl."vgllihﬁeldbuly so. for the 68 S. 0 Not “C? 1:310? P . 13 Spring Boars, 19 Spring Gilts and 10 Fall Yearling Guts.
comm 58 on. . a . a f e . OWL ' same amoun 0 ea COH-  - . .
. . . ese a e h .
ﬁlmed This Is an Opportumty at r t e tops of 2 herds as good as you will ﬁnd anywnere.
HEREFOHDS which time, these ﬁrms win 3811* to Every hog double immuned and shOuld be safe from cholera.
the highest bidder sows and boars of ' - V
0 (10W:  “alvfespggu‘l‘ge’bfelgn such class as are certain to make Write to} catalog to
1' re 61 GTS O ' T ' ' .
m for sale breeding stock of the highest merit. J. E. MYGRANTS or L. 0. POPE & SON _
i] b n- t l t d .001. Harry A. Eckhardt, Dallas . » .c
so u 5 no tea 6 - City, 111., and 001. Ed. Bowers .ot  St. Johns» Mich- .*
  Ind. will do the selling. These men I
 : nw raw. . one“. are the real articles as live stock Send mail bids to A. D. Gregory, Ionia ,Mich.
salesmen, and it will do the breeder .
' . and farmer of our ood state and 1111.. Dinner at Noon. Will meet pal-Hes at t'rnln until 11:80 sale day.

Hardy Northern Bred Hereford: t m t f g ‘
u-nuann FAIRFAX 0:2:an HEAD or BIRD 0 amoun ° 500d to be at these

_ 8 go this year’s calves for sale. 10 bulls and 10 sailfsl If for Bathing more than edu- Mich o a N

c on. ca 0113. stand oint nd t at ac— oonard's a. 'r. P. 0. See my Exhlblt at . I-' 3 .EE ntuo all: A’ D

.Ionu MuGREOOR. Hart-Irvine. Mich. quainted V M1 cph is gem Saga State Fun A" ma double immum.‘ pub. DUBOGS 9mm", 
' ' g ’ as he sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list. 0- L. POWER. Jerome. Mlch.
ANGUS never before, as a. state that produc- E. n. LEONARD. n a, or. Louis. uloh.

V es as good hogs as any state in the ‘ '  30‘" Sprlng and Fall Boar Plus from
 1:253 'z'lﬁﬁts‘ﬁyéﬁﬁ.‘ “nmn- It is up to the farmer t0 prO- “E 1?ng gals; Patna ‘t’E'ﬂweZt'ismim' Write fox-"willifrggngetgrrl bred 81“ and dam'
Swine m ri hi: and m priced 331%.“; Cour duce'hogs  better and more quality. ed ’po'ﬁrﬁ- c_&sPIE°R,aEvari, Mlch. " E. £.-cALI(ms, R '6. Ann Arbor. Mich.
momma“: gﬁgTinnglffﬁfgm "he". Quallty brings the top price on the ‘ ‘

‘ Open inarke’t. B. 1-I P. c- spnlue BOARS’ SIRED By w"_. "7908- HI" Crest Farms. _Brod and ODD" 30W! ‘
- ‘ Write for catalogs to the above D «ifs Kérilf Bob. out of filming} 1521“??th 52‘ 1.3331“ Elsi-“£02? 133‘: gm“? {3%} t100 131181;} ‘
0 ' - is er’s nt. All immune w on a ma - “ . ‘ ml; . o I e on, in ,,
The Most Proﬁtable K‘nd ﬁrms or the Sec'y of the Ass001ation.- mm John D_ Wiley. Schoolmm Mich. Guinea 00. Newton .9. Blank, Perrlnton, Mich.
Mr. A. D. Gregory, Ionla, Mich., . DUROC BOARS FROM PBIYE
of forming. a car load of grade dairy heifers will. represent Michigan Business ’ -
. ’..T COU‘ITY’S heaviest milk DIO- . - WINNING STOCK
{lifé‘elmltjgbliic‘iufif spur; bred ANGUS hull (Er t3; Farmer as ﬁeldman. and Will take BIG TYPE POLAIDS . ready for service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-
 efgtrﬁlixrrl: beef. type for combination bee I care of all mail bids which readers of by Ir‘lvyintégdﬂ)?ngoguingerélutwgf 0&6]er cgglcimgég: SOD. Mich.
“(gag lfot shipmetntsmasscmtbled at GLENWOOD thls paper place with him. Be at the 30y, LoDng Viquperba,PSmootl% \Vtﬁlder 3rd, and AM OFFERING OM
l or promp s pmen . ' ' ' range’ es. oines. riced 0 se . ~5.3 E HIGH CLASS
Methods explained in SMITII’S PROFII‘ABLE sales In person» If pOSSlble- w. CALDWELL a son. Sprlnuport, Mlch. _  
STOCK FEEDING. 400 pages Illustrated. , , . _ 
°E°' 3' SM'TH' “d'm' M'm' Central Mmhlgan Poland China L s P Foun CHOICE srnma AND FALL ggmﬁ§s°$§ewpﬂce§a£éuin (all gm" bred f" sep‘
. p 088.
. ' , 7 boars left. ‘A few extra nlco lzllts w. c,
GULRNSEYS Breeders Ass n. left bred foor April furrow. l W h Mllan;TIcIl:>l.?R
H. . SWARTZ Schoo craft c .
. AUS¢ . ' ’

ﬁlm's?“ F9“ igT-E- t} :35;- ﬁmmm E. R. LEONARD, .Presq St. Louis. BETT- DUROC OARs Ann ems $25 To $60
(183714§“4WR: ﬁlrflaughnt‘exa (3116 lb. fat at 2 L2 0 A BOONE Sec _Treas Bla ch rd 1:?! AﬁﬂysAl-lql'éo G-F BREE: 180W risbcLE. ouch. Satisfaction guaranteed. Visitors welcome.
Years old. de,lDagna of 'llillhurst (35969) A. ' ' ’ ‘ ‘ '9 n a w‘jrcal HAGE‘LSTHA‘N‘?‘ Rﬁzéggfnmgh. AUSTIN STOCK FARM, Bloomingdale, Mich.
R. 543 lb. fatst 2 1-2 yrs. old. 1 bullf “Kt-.1112 (Roland China Breeders are urged to join this '
mind‘lf °§h§lnill3§§e blgfﬁllmglt {3:1510 paw 033m to assucm‘mm' write the secretary‘) Am Oﬂorlng Large Type Poland China Sows    “name “as
C . . l ‘ I
investllﬁgtéhg’nil‘icessaggd godlzrelfuon allialilggtlon- f1hrte to lamprenge llilt reasonable prices. Also i 7 Can furnish stock‘not akilEl-rglzson ygaErlE

.. . €98". - a plea. no or on . , ' '
S    cum-3 FISHER. R3. St. Loulsu Mich. $33,313 gullylmtelged for em? m} um“ SW
 T ‘ F. HEIMS & 80H Dnvlson Mich
Sire was champion of the world, his Dams \ ' ' ’
  sire was grand‘champiolx at Iowa State Fair. Get DUROCS '

_ ORDER YOUR BULL OALF NOW I} grand champion while the getting is good. Book-  ‘ ‘ '
for later shipment. Let me send you a real Ded- mg orders now. Bred zllts are all sold, but have 0   
te‘tilttfi‘lr .. .. .. M. . 19  .23“  r T was: °i Im- - ' -

. . , 0|" ams. C - 81‘8 inn . BPS an HOWE. 1 so open - _
or bred for Sept. furrow. to BIG BOB. Herd Bo“ inference only—No' 129219
JERSEYS c. I-:. GARNANT. Eaton Raplds. Mlch. 1919 Chicago International
. - POLAND CHINAS . ' -
Nobgmggfngleorx‘ilalsifgd Jurl'lgh’ll‘lﬁgg'sslﬁlchess   . WITH QUALITY 353:? will”: 8%., val-“.139 4th Pme 17- Yeadmg
118536 0mle s158393 thiﬁgg {a}; £11ng 0‘“ 0‘ We“ 0‘ elem and Detrolt, Jackson. ad. Rapldg and Saglnaw. 1919 BOOKING gEREES‘FggngéIgS AT $25
   J, 5- MVGRANTS- 3‘- “hmv Wch-  B ' ' M‘  Pottorvllla. Mich. ‘ -
of capacity, type and beauty.    
. 0R 8 ‘:
Ilih‘ﬁﬁﬁ’ltulmir‘ﬂiﬁ Sher Mich. B I G T Y   POI-“m ' . BrooklAvttgr £315... E.'§3.°°cs.ﬁg‘.§nn:gw
. y. cIIINAs JOHN cnousnwz-n- Carleton Illoh ' ’
Samuel Odell. Owner. Adolph Ileelz, Mgr. Noting to Offer at present. . DEROC JERSEYS, .FALL BOARS, WEIGHT ' T ' u
on SALE—REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE, MOSE BROS" 5" chaﬂe" "M‘- “52? £25033}; Six-ad by a 800 lb‘ boar' Duroc Jersey 80w: and am: bred for Aua. and
130th 80X. ‘ Register of lllOl‘lt testing done.    c' E“  ‘  AIhlﬂyI MIOh-  
‘. .R4.Lk 0ds.M'ch. .. ' ' _
J L CARTER a o c sa I THE LARGEST ale TYPE P. c. IN MIC". Duroc sows and gilt: brad to Walt's King 82949 "ROG 3
NE YEAR OLD THOROUGHBRED JERSEY Get a bigger and better bred b0“. pic from my who has and more prize winning pigs at the Beach 0”” and 9”“ '0' 93'0 at 525' W 350
' bull for sale. Price reasonable hard, at a reasonable price. Come and see In. State fax” in the hat 2 years than any Other Du' "Satisfact‘ mud and regiawred in buyers name' ’
GEO. KELLER. Remus, Mich_ Expenses paid if not 113 represented. These hours we board‘ Newton Bamhaﬁ' st‘ Jam" Mic," shouts. lggitoggarznlteed' These are big brown”
Ill sen-ice: L’s Big Orange, Lord Clansmsnt “neuron”. Fkﬁa°m£+n P m MI h
MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE Oranse Price and Ls Lona Prospect. MEIADOWVIEW FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY . av on. o .
of our Majesty buns. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mlch. 0353 Spring pigs for sale.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. lonla, Mich. L T P C - 5- MORRlsv Fam'ngton. "FOIL ‘
O . O I .
  l!!:.'-.."'l.'l.'l  The Best 
8C “Ce, 8. 00 son 0 c rice, gran _ nu.

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE champion of ‘the‘1 world in 191 , A150 have a King. a splendid grandson of Orion Cherry lng. .

bulls and bull calves, heifers and heifer calves. litter of 7 pigs. 5 sows and 2 hours. sired by Write, or better still, come ad select your own. advertlse in The Michigan Bus-
Aha, some choice cows._ _ Prospect Yank, II son of the $40,000 Yankee, Iriced reasonable. Inwood Bros. Romeo, Mich. . _ -
rmouv anos.. R a. Vmar. Mlch. that m ¥reTHumm¥e%L Lu“ W h "LE “w” "a" um “a” “may iness Farmer. It Will be worth
T - -  r . I. o . » . . , _ r I .
. [G "PE P o sows 0F cum“ 3"“ {Msxina slim? bred to Mod‘giigherry Kim 103. yourwhlle to read the livestock
 . . . - or us. an apt. arrow. me you! wan . ‘ - -
S  E  671,111.} meg t: Bflt Bone Islam: Boulder ﬁg. 726.- vznn N. TOWNS. n a. Eaton molds- Imb- advert’sements 1” every issue
5.. or an arrow. pring pigs e or lax. '
P0 ND CHINA Healthy and growthy. Prices reasonable.  Spring bred saw: all sold. Have to keep . posted on What they
M L. w. BARNES a son. Ixron. Mich. - good Sept. pin. both sex, sired by have to sell.
Liberty Defender 3rd. from Col. bred dams. Gilt:
' BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BRIO cuts, will be bred to on Orion boar for Sept. know.
one fan‘boar’ spring pm bag); “L .nd tried H. o. KEESLEB. Ousonollr. Mmh.
own While they last. Y
LARGE TYPE P. 0. HOWLIY 3308.. Ion-m. mun.
Adtezo choice bree slits [gr sale.  {all  I "Y M b C ‘ F. C _ 5‘1 f
w In. some "1' ‘00 WOW“ 0 ex“ onus ALso sows AND P as. A THING ‘ acorn oun y's lrst onsngnment e o .
breeding. Gilt: bred to ORPHAN'S SUPERIOR ,0“ “at. pound 0mm of m u. "t W '
he by BIG ORPHAN'S EQUAL by BIG BONE - v_ V ﬂu, in an; ' . ‘
sills.   was «llﬁr  mil... Saws-3r so; P U R E B R E D D U R 0 C J E R 5 E Y5
only.an A. _ ’ :ﬂgomm “Fm; . m... To be held at Armada Fair Grounds the last day of the fair, ‘
hreo livery to mltgnbL‘nK. JOHNO. BUTLER. Portland. Mloh. October 8, 1920,
5,335.5.9.“ meg, E FARM To consist of 30 head of open gilts, spring boars and a few
  sows with suckling pigs. '
WALNUT ALLEY  "' ”' omit"? “é” “1 “man's till: - -
‘. oars now 2nd, t a peg rp .n upenor an nu In 9 » . .
h G t d f u windy for! new Also 3 an boon by toga-mugs i1muse.lB A low Macomb County Duroc Jersey Breeders Assocmtlon
omes. e your or er in on a pas or am [' was on with b n p v one. oars n - ~ ‘ ‘ , ,
going to price them right. .g‘iﬁf 01mm”, 1m.” Sud, Smooth Wand", ' For Catalog address J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich.,
. , . GREGORY grin): Giant Imd W. B.II Outpost. Visitors wel—l‘ Robert Jr Chase, Armada. Mich. Auctioneer.
“mini MiCh- vi). a. Human. Hanover. Mich. v ‘ \
BREWERS ATTENTION! o l C sows FOR SA LE
If you am'plxnning on a sale this year, write us now and 0 0 o ’ ‘
CLAIM THE DATE! . " - on: or 1H: agar nun. III' moment ' ~

   

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eiicial- bumblebees] M  .

Bees are attracted to_flowers by

the sweets they ﬁnd there. Clover
(mp! at the'ﬂorets'of 'red clover are
is a‘vhoney producing plant, but the
about three-sights of an inch deep.
and the nectar 'lies in the bottom, so
, that honey bees have difﬁculty in
‘_reaching it. But bumblebees have
longer tongues than other honey
gathering bees and for this reaSOn
they have the advantage in a clover
field. '

Red clover is not self pollinating
so that cross pollination is necessary
in fertilizing the florets to produce
seed. The florets are so nearly clos-
ed that pollen can neither get out
nor in except by some carrying agent
and hence the value of bumble bees
in clover that is being grown for
seed. ,

Bumble bees are big awkward tel-

lows with a lot of hair on their bod-‘
ies. They blunder around the clover
3blossomsgand get pollen. mixed thru
amongst their hairs and" knOck off
some of it which reaching down into
the deep florets for nectar.
I In this way a new seed is started
into life and the bumble bee goes to
the next floret or to the next CIOVer
head, often visiting 50 or 100 heads
before leaving for its nest.

Nature times the development of
the embryo seed to have it in prop-
er condition to receive pollen when
the nectar is the sweetest. When
bumble bees are protected they hatch
in large number and become more
plentiful in June and July than ,at
- any other time which accounts for

  

the formation of more seed in the‘

blossoms that ripen in August and
early September. ' ‘

Clover florets may be cross pollin-
ated by lifting a grain of pollen out
of one floret and depositing it on
the stigma of another floret on an-
other ciOver plant.

Careful judgment is needed to de-
cide when the pollen is ripe enough
to select a stigma that is in a recep-
tive mood.

As for me I would rather putter
around in the fall laying the foun-
dation for several thousand bumble-
bee homes to be occupied neXt
spring. Then I like to walk through
the clover ﬁelds .in summer and to
watch the bumblebees and smaller
insect life busily working, as nature
intended they should.

TACKLES FARM PROBLEMS ,
(Continued from page 7)
grain and the consumer that buys the
ﬁnished product, or, as Mr. Baruch
himself puts it: ‘Between the farm-
er and the mouth of the consumer.’
t'Mr. Baruch became interested in
the subjest of farm marketing while
he was a member of the war indus-
try board during the war. As the
head of that board he made all the
purchases for the United States gov-'
ernment and the allies. He discover-
ed then, he says, that the farmer was
robbed of his proﬁts. The farmer
may receive good prices for his pro—
ducts, but someone else the proﬁts.
Farm prices may mount to the skies
but the mysterious cat continue to

get the cream.

~ “Mr. Baruch came to Kansas in
his private car. He stopped at var—
ious marketing centers. He talked
along the way to farmers and proﬁt—
eers. He suggested to them that
something was wrong, somewhere.
They all admitted it. He told them
that it should be corrected. They all
denied it. They said it couldn’t be
corrected. He said he was on his
way to Kansas to ﬁnd the solution.
They said ‘Barney, it can’t be done.’

“ ‘And that,’ Mr. Baruch told the
farmers in Topeka. ‘is just the kind
of a problem I like to tackle. The
kind that all these gentlemen tell me
cannot be solved. I am out‘here to
help solve it.’

“The ﬁrst study Mr. Baruch will
make is 015 the co-operative plants
in Kansas stores. elevators, organize“
ations and warehouses. He will con-
sult members of the Grange. the
Farmers’ Union, the f county farm
agents, the agricultural college—all
with a view to the possibility ..of
solving the problem by co—operative
methods. He‘will visit farm homes
.',and small towns, Aft-er he makes-
" his trip through Kansas he «will con-
ifer again with the state board of ag—
riculturexandj inform  the . Kansas
' to his“ conclusions and,
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will DuraanI-s. she bred sews

Giltl In
measures. relic es. 9:. Lens. 1min

. BERKSHIRES
LARGE ENOLISH‘ RECOROED BERKSHIREO.

Bred gilts and spring pigs for sale.
PRIMEVAL FARM. Osceo. Mich.

 

 

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(Foe CALI—REGISTERED oxron '  '
‘ s W Prices to sell. - ~

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REGISTER“ ‘iiiilPSiilllEfiiI‘NS'
. -'. ’ouh‘c’isi’iméa‘é’r‘i. ‘xzdﬁfanilﬁt‘

R SALE REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE LAMBS
GWJQQEUE‘ sllgiiuozd 1d Wgﬁl: your wants.
HARRY W. OARMAN. Mendon, Mlch., R 3.

YEARLINO RAMS

 SﬂnopsulnEthat have size and type

 

 

 

 

GOATS - ' ' "
FOR SALE‘GOATS

Bucks and Does. ‘
LONE CEDAR FARM, Pontiac. Michr .

  

 

 
  
  
  
 
 

 

   

 

GBEGOE? FARM.BEEKSHIBE8 FOB
profit. Choice stock fer sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.

BERKSHIBES Ans ouALI-rv noes.

Weaned pigs of the very
best blood lines of the breed is our specialty. We
guarantee to please or nothing stiring.

ARZA A. WEAVER. Ohmning. Mich,

 

 

 

CHESTER warms
CHESTER WRITE: "”"' "" "‘ "'" °'

tries from A4 mam“
stock at reasonable prices. Also a. tow bred Gilt
for May {arrow 3'. W. Alexander. Vault.

 

soms Fine Chester White: rammed July 14..
1920. Will ship 0. O. D. when 2 mos. old {or
813.50 reg. Try one. Ralph Cosens.'Levering. Mich

nemsrsnrn

. Prices

 

CHESTER WHITE SWINE.
either sex. Boers ready for ser-

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r' v. JONES, mm. mm a. r. c. No. 5

 

 

Hamsmnns
BOARS REABY FOR SERYIGE

Also Brod Sow _
W. A. EASTWOOD, Chesaning, Mlch.

 

 

HAMPSHIRES OF QUALITY. SPRING BOAR
pigs only for sale now.

. JOHN W. SNYDER
St. Johns, Mlch.. R 4

IIMIPSIIIRES OF QUALITY

Some exceptionally ﬁne young spring boars.
They are extreme individuals, with best backs,
feet, belts and breeding. They carry the Exalt-

 

 

 

 

ed Approval and Mose Messanger strains, at
a sacriﬁce price. Call or write
OUS THOMAS. New Lothrop. Mlclu‘
0. I. 0.
lo. I. C. a CHESTER WHITE SWINE. BOOK-
ing orders for Aug. and Sept, pigs to be
shipped when 8-10 wk. old. Sired by three of

the best boars of the breed.
CLARE V. DORMAN. Snover, Mich.

. 0 l G GILTS

BRED FOR SEPTEMBER FARROW
Everyone guaranteed safe in dam also a few
choice spring pigs, either sex.

F G BURGESS

Mason, Mich., R S

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
oﬂers 0. I. 0. spring pigs, also special summer
prices on breeding stock in White Wyandottes,
Barred Rocks. White Chinese Geese and White
Runner Ducks. No more can t ' season.

DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden, Mich.

 

 

 

March and

o. I. 039—8 Choice yOuno boars.
April
Mich.

.pigs at weaning time.
*OLOVER .LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe,

0. l. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Can furnish
you stock at "live and let live" prices. '

A. J.’ GORDEN. DCI'I‘. Mlch.. R

' "SHEEP '-

IT PAYS TO BUY PUR‘E BRED SHEEP 01'
Pm 0N5 
avenger- ud'ply express l
‘ Oxford's: Shmmfggl moggom-ﬁamﬁ
‘ PARSONSGrandLedge.Mich. 3-9

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to offer. 25 ewos all ages for sale

 

 

   

 

     

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for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represented.
’ CLARKE U. HAIRE. West Branch, Mlch,

 

 

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDING STOGK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
write or visit '
KOPE-KON FARMS. S. L. Wing,
Coidwater. Mich. ,
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

Prop.

AM OFFERING FOR FALL DELIVERY HIGH
class registered Shropshire yearling ewes and
rams. Flock established 1890.
. LEMEN. Dexter. Mich.

DELAINES

Hill Crest Farms

Black Tops and American Merinos. Fifty rams
for stud or farm trade. Farm 4 mi. straight
south of Middleton, Gratiot Co.‘

Newton & Blank, Pertinton Mich.

DELAINE RAMS. DOOD SIZE. WOOLY FIL-
lows. Priced to move quick. W'rit'e wants to
JOHN BROWN. _R 1, Blanchard, Mich.

DELAIIE SHEEP  

B & 0 type. both sexes.
for sale, ‘
F. H. CONLEY a SON. Maple Rapids, Mich.

  Immerso’sL‘AcK roe pa-

laine Merino Rams. .
FRANK R9HRABACHER. Lalncsburu, 'llom'gan

I ANT A SHEEP?“ Let} American Hampshire

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheep Association send you a dandy booklet
with list of breeders. rite COMFORT A.
TYLER. S'oo‘y. to Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich.

   

 

   

te or call on
ARMSTRONG BROS.. R 8. Fowlervliie, Mich.
  —-NEARLY FULL BLOODED
Shropshire breeding ewes.
Wm. LUCE, Reed City, Mich.. R5
FOR SALE—SMALL FLOCK CHOICE REG.

 ‘srocn 

R SALE: FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS THAT
are pedigreed and are well and healthy stock.
male and females.

  
  
     
   
    
     
    
  
  
 
 
  
  
   
   
    
   
   
   
 
  
   
    
    
    
    
 
  
   
 
   
 
     
   
  
  
  
    
   
 
 
   
   
   
  
     
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
         
  
  
   
   

 

 

 

Hampsllircs. 7 two year old ewes; 6 ewe lambs HOWARD SNYDER. R 2. Marion. Mloh- ‘
and 3 ram lambs. JOE KELLEY, Elsie. Mica.
Chm“ 00- r . 3 SALE. name" GIANT RABBITS. iDog.
reedln age, 86. Three months old pa r. .
likens: Rea. IMPROVED BLACK TOP' Register-eds does 312 each. Stock pedigreed. Olal<
he year 118 rams. The ﬂtabie oarsnteed.
'r. u. LOVE. n a. "MW-u... m u g E. HIMEBAUOH. Goldwater. Mich.

 

For Sale: Psalm-sod Flemish Giant Rabbits.
Blacks and steel greys. Five and six mos. old.
RUSSELL J. COLLINS. R 1. Wolverine. Mich.

sumo, RAMS Fun SALE. 0000 BIO-
honed. heavy shoe-rem.
HOUSEMAN BROS. R l. Albion. Mich.

 

 

 

' POULTRY ‘BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

‘ ml... Special

Advertisements Ills-nod under this Mm at so cents per line. I!” m .

mes . longer. l neat what on have to odor and and it lo. we w W I.

m:   re! ‘ ' Address The Michigan lust-cum Fm
Advertisan Department. Mt. Clemens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHITE WYANDOTTES. COOKERELS FROM
200 egg hens or better. ﬂy and June hatch.
$5 to $8. Eggs $2 per 15.
FRANK BELONG, R 8, Three Rivers. Mich.

rem/ray

  MAMMOTH BRONZE TURK VS.

Toulouse Geese. White ekin

ducks, either sex, $4 each at once. Old ducks
weigh 10 pounds.

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mlchn

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS
Early hatched, free 'range cockerels from stand-
ard-bred heavy winter layers. Liberal discount
on orders booked now for fall delivery.
VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM
Mt. Pleasant. Mlch.. R 6 ,.

wmmxrn's nan enemas 

Both combs. Special discount on early orders. 
Write for price list. 
INTERLAKES FARM .

Lawrence. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—THOROUGHBRED WHITE HOL-
land Turkeys, each $7.25, three for $20. In-
quire of JNO A. IRVINE, Chase, Mich.

0. BROWN LEGHORN COOKERELB,
~esch. ,White Pekin Ducks, $2 each.
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdalc, Mich.

ORPlNGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds (or profit. Write today for
free cataloguek of hatching eggs, baby chicks and‘
b ding stoc .

CYYQOLE HATCHER COMPANY. 149 Philo Bldg.
Elmlra. N. Y.

$1

 

Box 4

 

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

 

ockerels a. Hens, Leghorns, Mlnorcas, Cam-
“ ., k. 0 in tons, Wyandottes,
Brflllxleié. RTFrongof’oilltrynl‘agm, ARRED ROCKS. PARKS ZOO-EGG STRAIN

Fenton, Mich_
cockerels which will produce ﬂue layers next
' year $3 each.
R. G. KIRBY, R 1, East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

LEGHORNS
INGLE coma BUFF LEGHORNS.

 

 

 

“R” LANGsnAN

 

 

hatched Cocksrels. Farm range from excel-
lent hm“ 3”“ BLACK LANOSHANS or QUALITY
J' w' WEBSTER Bath' Mloh' Bred for type and color since 1912. Started
from pen headed by Black Bob. First prize cock
RABOWSKE'S s. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS. It International show at Baﬁalo. Jan. 1912. Eggs

$3.50 per setting of 15. Winter laying strain.

Cockerels and yearling hens only for sale. "upsou.

LEO GRABOWSKE, Merrill, Mich, R 4 DR-

S. C. White Leghorn Pallets

Will sell from ten to two hundred while they
last at $1.50 each. May hatched Well bred,
and from good producers, average weight about
one and one—half pounds each.

VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY FARM

Bloomingdale, Michigan

CHAS. W. Wobborvillo. Mich.

 

 

HATC’IIIN G EGGS

FOR SALE HAVIWEWF‘EIE

nlg strain of S. C. Ii. I. Reds at $2.00 per set:
ting of 15 eggs, $10.00 per 100.
'Stock of excellent type and

mes.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS & SON. Davlson.

 

quality at all

 

Mich.

 

 

WYANDOTTE

llvsr, Golden and White Wyandottes. Bargains
in surplus yearling stock to make room for
growing birds. Clarence Browning, R2, Portland.

4-

OBE COMB BROWN LEGHORN E008 FOR
sale. One'_ﬁfty pcr ﬁfteen eggs. “
Flemish Giant rabbits that are giants. Quality

guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUOH. Goldwater, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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——it is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up!

-———it has always and will continue to ﬁght every battle for
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