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I TEIS JUST 3 yeanago'last' weekthat prep-
arations for the beginning of the Michi-
gan State Farm3 Bureau membership cam-
paign, which has extended'into sixtycoun-
ties of the'state to date, Were‘c‘ompleted. Six
solicitors were ready to go to Work in Oak-

vassed there was Addison, on the border of
Macomb and Lapeer counties. 'Ninetytwo
per cent of the farmers solicited were sign-
ed up. This rate of response from the farm-
ers of the state has continued throughout the
year. ~ -

Skeptics of the success 'of the move to
build a co-operative organization of the farm—
ers. of the state, with county and community
subordinate organizations, were, numerous.
Only two other counties at that ,time beside
Oakland 'were willing to gamble .on the suc-
cess of the venture. They were Barry and
“It can’t be done“ was the
thought on. the subject‘most general.

The state farm bureau. has grown so fast
since then that many people have failed to
realizethe rapidity and extensiveness of the
development. ' The folldWing comparisons
are illustrative: , '

The active personnel of the state farm bu-
reau a year ago this week included just 0. A.
Bingham, the present secretary, 'J. P..Pow-
ers, the present assistant secretary and one
stenografpher. Approximately 90 people to-
day are at work forthe state farm bureau.

. _ Organization ResultsE ,

The headquarters of the state farm bu-
reau a year ago were‘t‘woi small l'reoms rented
over a. bank in Birmingham. ' fToday the
state. farm bureau owns its-own bﬂice build-
ing and warehouse combined in-Iiansing and
has three other warehouses leased for the
handling of wool. ~ ' i '

There were no $10 members of the 'farm
bureau a year ago and no organized 'coun—
tiesf Today there are 84,398 members: and
59 organized counties, .with preparations
made for completion of the workéin the oth-
er 24 counties of the state" probably-by. the
ﬁrst of the year, when the total membership
is expected to be in excess of 100,000.

Six's'olicitors started the state membership
canvass. Of these six only two are still at
work. rTheyv are George Smith of Ousted,
Mich”, and ‘James‘_Matthews of Hastings,
Mich. Bert A. Holden, Who has had charge
of the campaigns over the state, was the ﬁrst
county campaign -manager, "being in supervi-
sion of the work "in Oakland county. At the
present time, there are approximately thirty-
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of. the‘ farm bureau beyond the expectation
,of a. year ago, Which was just organization,

.,  be .saidjthat' a big 'jOb has; been done.

But while the organization workghas come up
to full? expectations, other things, have; been,

 by the  bureau;

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State Farm Bureau Membership
to Date

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Sanilac a .‘ . . . .3220 Mecosta . . . . . 1421
’Huron  . . . .8047 Mason . . . . . .11420
Berrien .‘ . . . . 2953 Livingston . . 1400

..Sa.ginawu .  .2650 ~ Ottawa . . . . . .1350
Oakland . . . .2400 “7ayne . . . . . .1338
Allegan . . . . .2350 Chippewa . . .1250
Lenawee . . . .2300 Menominee '. . 1150
Calhoun . .2282 Midland . . 11.50
St. Clair . . . .2250 Manistee . . 1040
Washtenaw . .2200 Delta . . . 1002
Clinton . . . . .2160 , Alpena . . . . . . 912
Tuscola . . . . .2160 Gd. Traverse . 885
Monroe . . . . .2150 Gladwin .. . . . 750
Lapeer . .2100 \Vexford . . 734
Kent . . . . . . .2050 Ogemaw . . 675
St. Joseph .. . 1836 Emmet . . . . . 666
,Hillsdale . .1820 Loelanau . 646
Genesee . . . . . 1785 Benzie . . . . . . 634
Branch . . . . . 1761 Clare . .. . .. 614
Oceana . .1740 Cheboygan . . 588
Shiawassee . .1700 I’resque Isle . 575
Jackson .. . . .1700 Antrim . . . . . 554
Van Buren . . 1675 Charlevoix . . 540
Kalamazoo . .1673 Marquette . . . 505
Iom‘a . . . . . . . 1610 Otsego . . . . . . 390
Eaton  .1600 Montmorency . 356
Macomb . . . . 1532 Luce . . . . . . . 288
Montcalm .. . .1500 Schoolcraft . 264
Cass . . . . 1482 Crawford . . 135
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co-operative pool in the United States that
contains anywhere near the volume of wool
that Michigan’s contains. There is more
than 4,000,000 pounds in the pool. ,
The purchasing department has function—
ied largely to‘date as a service organization
rather than as a business institution. This
was necessary, according to the farm bureau,
as itawaslargely experimental and a solid
foundation was necessary for it to endure.
However, approximately 12,000 tons of fer—
tilizer were laid down on Michigan farms by
this department and close to 20,000 tons of
coal purchased. Three carloads of’arsenic
‘ were purchased for northern farmers,
"plagued by grasshoppers, when they were
unable to get deliveries.
Elevator Exchange Nearly Ready

The elevator exchange department ’s found-
ation is laid. Twelve elevators have affiliat-

ed and it is expected that within thirty days _

it .will be operating as a sales agent for these
elevators’ grain and “beans.

The seed department to date has possibly
given more service to the farmers of the
state than any other of the farm bureau, with
the possible exception of the wool. Thous-
ands of dollars of pure seed has been handled

If nothing had been done in the building w for members of the farm,bureau, both in pur-

chase and sales. Seed cleaning machinery
has been installed at Lansing to give further
protection of quality in seeds. When seeds
from outside of the state are handled, the
original g‘roWers’ aﬁidavit‘ as to quality: is
secured for‘ the Michigan buyer.

Other departments of the farm bureau in-

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The State Farm Bureau Makes Good Record

-'  Activities Shoui irst_ Year of Michigan Organization Fruitful ofiMany Achievements

ing and records, and publicity and education.

Members of the state farm bureau with
claims against railroads on account of un-
just “rates, fares, charges,
regulations, or practices” are being told to
ﬁle claims with the Interstate Commerce
Hommission prior to March 1, 1921, through
the trafﬁc department.

The American Farm Bureau Federation is
negotiating with the U. S. War Department
to secure large amounts of material intended
for use during the war but which is admir-
ably adopted for farm use. The method of
disposing of war material would be for the
American federation to send samples to the
state farm bureau which would collect orders
through the county agents. The Michigan
farm bureau has assured the A. F. B. F. that
it will co-operatc in the distributiou of this
material.

As a result of the ﬁght by the state farm
bureau and other agencies last summer to
make the telegraph companies responsible
for losses to senders occasioned by mistakes
in transmitting, examiner Patterson of the
Interstate Commerce Commission has recom-
mended that telegraph‘ companies should be
liable for damages to the extent of $500 on
re-
peated messages. To cover the liability send-
ers will pay 1-10 of 1 per cent of the value of
their messages if they wish to make use of
this insurance.

_ Future Work

It will be seen from the foregoing that the
Farm Bureau has made rapid strides during
its comparatively short period of existence.
As to what. its future plans may be the Bu-
reau has not announced. The Bureau is
quite familiar, however, with the many needs
that confront the farmers of Michigan, both
general and‘ speciﬁed and as time goes on we
may expect that the Bureau will interest it-
self in them.

I The Bureau has already expressed itself in
favor of farmer-owned sugar factories. It
took an active part in the campaign to secure
for the fanner a fairer share of the beet
proﬁts, and has publicly announced that it
sees no reason why farmers should not own
the factories and thereby settle the price con-
troversy forever. But the Bureau feels quite
properly that it should not at this time take
up a proposition of such magnitude which
would involve the investment of a good many
million .dollars.‘

Another situation in which the Bureau
should and undoubtedly will interest itself
in due season is the marketing of milk. Pro—
ducers of milk' ﬁnd themselves facing a re-
stricted market and a lower price for their
product. largely because of the uneconomic

- methdds that have been fellowed in3 the past
,-in adjusting the differences between produc-

er and distributor. There is much to be done
along this line, and unless existing milk pro-
ducers’ associations take the step, the duty
will logically devolve upon the Farm Bure_au..

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AGENCY FOR WOOL

, Farm Bureau Federations of thir-

teen middle west states have asked

the American Farm Bureau Federa—
ties to create a national wool selling

agency tor their state wool pools.
This action was taken at a meeting
of presidents and seeretarleset Man-
hattan. Kansas. last week. These
states have wool pools' totaling 30
million pounds now in storage. Ferm-
ers from .87 Illinois counties have
wool in the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation pool of 1,600,000 pounds
stored in Chicago.

This further step at co-operative
marketing is intended to get the full
market price based on worlds sup-
..ply and demand; Growers say that
, each-of the state panic selling separ-
ately are competing against each
other-and buyers have taken the ad-
vantage of that by hammering pric-
es. A member from each wool grow-
ing state will be added to the pres-
ent wool committee of the American
Farm Bureau, and the wool pools of
the western states will be asked to
take part. '

   

“No matter what price this wool
brings. the principal of wool pooling
is economically sound,” said J. F.
Walker, chairman of the committee.
“Farmers have done their own pur-
chasing and grading. and wﬁl sell

direct to ‘manuieotnrers:  Last: year"

they have proﬁted from 10 to 15
cents a pound over the old way of
selling to the "country buyer at the
front gate. ‘lhis has not made the
consumer payrnore but has encour-
aged production."

Chadd, and Virgin‘Weol

Mr. Walker said the practice of
chopping up old woolens and re-
working them into cloth has inter-
tered with the wool market. “Vir-
gin woolens have advanced 250 per
cent since 1914 while shoddy has
advanced from 400 to 800 per cent.
I visited a middle west woolen mill
recently. when not a pound of vir-
gin wool was being used. This mill
sold six-pound blankets made of
woolen rags for $18.00 each whole—
sale.
in Chicago for $35 to .342. This
practice compels the sheep grower
to compete with the rag man and

Those blankets sold in retail'

gives the consumer a product that
will not wear one fourth as long as
virgin wool."

_ mm man in Fabric Bill

To overcome thb- trouble the
Farmsjhrea’u Federation; will favor
 f‘trlth in tnbric" bill recently in-
troduced, into Congress. This bill

v requires manufactures to label their

goods, stating exactly the amount of
shoddy. tarll Question was

discussed and it was brought out their

there is a duty-o: as per egot- ea
woolen cloth to protect 'Amerlcan
manufacturers, but not a cent on tun-
manufactured wools to protect the
wool growers.

Not only the farmers of Illinois"
but of the whole middle west are
now working out a system of market-
ing live stock co-opera’tivelyintend-
ed to stabilise markets. At a meet-
ing of presidents “and. secretaries go!
Middle West State Farm Bureaus at
Manhattan, Kansas, ,Wednesday, it
was decided‘that the oo-operative
live stock shipping association is the
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Your Fall Program—

 

    
 

HAT arrangements have you-

made to take care of the big fall
jobs that are now in line for
preferred attention? There’s the mat-
ter of threshing, or possibly corn husk-
ing and shredding, and shelling; prob-
ably you have a silo to ﬁll; or it may be
that you have a big tonnage of hay or
straw to bale. And always, of course.
there is the important '0!) of getting
your fall plowing done ore the ground
freezes, notIto mention dishing and per-
haps seedigf a winter grain crop.
Individu eﬂort in the majority of
cases is insuﬂicient to handle pm crly
these jobs and, the general farm abor
shortage has made customeerviee on-
certain iu many localities; you cannot
place your deﬁnite dependence lu‘the

. your a horhood.

outﬁt that you may engage to handle
some certain. operation.

Foresighted farmers eve I here are
preparing to handle theirf programs
on time and economical! b investing
in individual outﬁts wit d’ependable
low-cost Titan 10-20 or Internatie
15-30 Kerosene Power on the business
end. There are, no doubt, a number
of these tractors in active operation in
Investigate the
service t ey are giving their owners—
aud the service rendered by
the International local dealer and the
not-distant International Harvester
Branch which is one of 92 in
the United States.

Talk with your International dealer
and wrlte for illustrated catalog.

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The county type oi! organization,
with one manager-and shipping points
oven the county was recommended.
A committee or three, consisting of
Howard" Leonard, President or the
Illinois Agricultural Association, H.
D. Lute. Secretary of the Nebraska
Farm Bureau and E. G. Ketner,
Marketing Director oi, the Ohio Farm
Bureau, was appointed to draft a uni-
form plan of organisation. Illinois
has some 200 such associations, most
of them on the community basis rath-
er than county.  _ v

The State Farm: Bureaus recom—'
mended to their ,iﬁlational Organiza—
tion. a thorough investigation oi ‘the
advisability of establishing live stock
commission -iirms' at stock yards in

I thermiddlewvleet.  ago the Il-

linois recirculation. alter. an [investi—
gatien,. meoanmended...the . establish-
ment oi‘».commission'.'mgatv£1hicago
and» St. minded!
tigation proved similar: to their ﬁnd—
ings. President Leonard said that
the primary idea in establishing ship-
ping associations and commission
firms is not to save the commission
but to be in a position to better reg—
ulate supply so that heavy gluts and
sharp fluctuations can be avoided.

Marketing Holds. Farmers Attention

At the Kansas meeting of presi—
dents and secretaries 0! State Farm
Bureaus, the marketing of dairy
products was discussed and a recom— a
menda-tion made to the National Ae-
sociation to call a conference of all
organizations (lo-operative Market-
ing seems to (hold the center of at-
tention of middle western farmers.
At the national grain marketing con-
ference called by the American Farm
Bureau Federation in July, 3 sim-
ilar conference for livestock mar-
keting was asked for. This confer-
ence will be called the fore part of
October and all farm organizations
will be rep-resented. The fruit and
vegetable growers have asked for a
national conference which will be
held soon. ‘

The next meeting of presidents and
secretaries of middle west State
Farm Bureaus will be held at Colum-
bus, Ohio, Nov. 9 and 10.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES TO PA!
7 FOR MISTAKES

“There is no reason why the tele-
graph companies should longer be
permitted to avoid responsibility or
to limit their liability to a nominal
amount,” says Examiner Patterson
of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion.

After listening to testimony by
the Michigan state Farm Bureau, 00-
operative shippers and business men
of the country, Patterson has recom-
mended that telegraph companies
should be liable for damages to the
extent of $500 for losses occasioned
the senders through mistakes on uu— '
repeated valued messages and on re-
peated valued messages the liability

_ should not exceed $6,000.

Serious losses to shippers have oc-
curred through mistakes in price
quotations in telegraph messages for
many years but the senders of these
messages had only nominal recourse.
The attempt to make the telegraph
companies responsible in this mat-
ter was began last summer.

ELEVATOR EXCHANGE NEARL!
’ PERFECTED

»Fllteen cooperative elevators of
Michigan have afﬁliated with the el-
evator exchange department of the
state farm bureau. When twenty

V have signed the exehange will begin

business. The head omce will he at
Lansing and Thomas B. Buell of.
Union City will be the manager.
The elevator exchange is a non-
prcﬂt organization and the only men-
ey made by it is a commissioner!!-
iicient to cover actual operating en-
penses, according to the stats bu-
reau. It has been slow in getting on-
ganized but this has been due to the

v eel-lens nature of such an undertak-

. There are more than a hund-
re co-operative elevators in the
state and most at these. we state
farm bureau believes. will join.

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' - 1 Ontario Farmers Retail Peaches to Consumer
Canadian (fa-Operators Succeed in Eliminating Middleman Altogether in a
 of 1920 Peach Crop

‘By L. D. BIRDSALL
Special correspondent Mrcnnm Bosr nss Funn-

. HE TRUTH of that old “tom,
 “In Unity there is Strength.”
was never more clearly evident:-
 than it is at the present time in
the province of Ontario, Canada,
where the United Farmers hold. away.
not only asapewerfnlorganization
of. many social, wellness  politir

cal branches, butvirtually as the ‘

"government of the province. itself;
for Premier E. C. Drury is a United
Farmer as well as the majority of
his cabinet ministers. , .

The value of, ctr-operative effort
on the part of the lat-mere is to be
seen everywhere in Ontario. The
movement is a popular one, growing
every day. Ontario farmers new
organize and co-operate for every
purpose. They market their grain
oo-operatively.- They purchase the
necessities of life in their own co-
operative stores and lately they have
extended their scope and have dem-
onstrated the economic advantages
of co-operative shipping and market-
ing of fruit, a phase of development
that particularly appeals to many
fruit growers in the United States
where heavy losses have been sus-
tained this year on account of car
shortages \and other unforseen dif-
ficulties arising-

The fruit growers in the great Ni-
agara fruit district of Ontario were
faced by- similar problems this yar.
_ The peach crop was one, of the heav-
iest on record and the marketing out-
look one of the gloomiest. Refrig»
orator cars seemed to be unobtain-
able. There was a serious shortage

' These are Troublous Times for the Farmer—Don’t

MAN ONCE asked John‘Wesley
what he would do if he suddenly
discovered that he had to die
on the marrow. Wesley calmly took

a little note book out of his pocket
and read the program he had already
mapped out. “That is what I
should do,” he replied.

It is an unusual man who in the
face of unexpected calamity keeps
his head and proceeds about his bus-
iness as usuall. The man who can do
so invariably weathers the storm and
reaches port safely.
rocks the boat is lost.

These are troublous times for
everyone. From the humblest work-
er to the wealthiest plutocrat we are
nearly all confronted with new and
annoying problems which rob us of
our peace of mind and our fancied
security. Six months ago the wage
earner reveled in the power which
he held over the employer by virtue
of the scarcity of labor. Today there
are more men than there are jobs.
The wage earner trem'bles with well-
founded fear that he may lose his
high wages and have to go begging
for a job. Six months ago industry
was prospering as never before. It
seemed impossible to meet the de-
mand for manufactured products,
and the future looked rosier than
over. Then something happened.
Today many small manufacturers
are ruined and scores of the largest
concerns have closed their plants.
Last spring the farmers of the Unit-
ed States had every reason to be-
lieve that the prices then prevailing
would continue with but slight fluc-
tuations for a, period of several years.
They “could not foresee the crash
which has sent grain prices tumb-
ling to close to their pro—war level.
Truly, it is a time to try the enur-
age of men. _

, Present grain, been and potato
prices spell disaster to thousands,“
farmers. The day has goneby when
farmers can afford to sell, beans at
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A  for Michigan Growers

,OKE- MONTHS ago the peach growers of western Michigan con-
tracfod their; crop, as was their custom, to commission men.
emits-act called for delivery of peaches on board cars. With. the

approach of the harvesting season the market slumped below the con- h

tract price and the commission men stood to face a loss. But for.-

tunately for them the growers could not. secure cars, and Was unable. H

to comply with the terms of the contract. Some of the growers charg-

ed that the commission men were in connivance with the transports.-
. lion authorities and that cars were purposely withheld from the grow-

ers In order to protect the commission ﬁrms from loss.
And yet,—in a conversation I had a few daysago with a
railroad man from Illinois, he made this workable statement, “There
was no reason why the mm; growers of Michigan should not have bad
“But,” I argued, “if the commission ﬁrms
were respondble for withholding the cars the railroads must have been
He smiled, “Well, doesn’t it look as if they
And there you are—Editor.

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of‘ baskets and distribution facilities
were most inadequate. Everything
lacked organization and dozens of

fruit growers were in despair when '

the. United Farmers Co—operative
Company, operating through the U.
F. '0. clubs‘in the district, stepped in
and relieved the situation. The dark
clouds were lifted from the horizon,
at least for the members of the
United Farmers organization.
First and foremost the U. F. O.

40 cents and corn at very much less
than a dollar. But the harvest sea-
son is here and those are the prices.
What should the farmer A. do? We
alone are not asking this question.
From east to west and north to south
the farmer is asking himself, “Shall
I sell today or wait.” Of course,
there are many who have no choice.
They have borrowed heavily against
this crop. The banks, pressed by
the federal reserve banks and by
the lowering of deposits are calling
for these loans. Many of them will
have to be met. Loss or no loss a
good many farmers will be obliged
to sell their crops at current prices.
Nor does he suffer alone as a result

district buyers went among' the
fruit growers and obtained accurate
estimates of the amount of peaches
for distribution. Then arrangements
were made with the thirty or more
U. F. 0. retail stores and the-com-
mission houses in various parts of
the province for receiving and dis-
posing of the fruit. Next baskets
and refrigerator ears were obtained,
over three hundred of the latter, and
the merry harvest started.

of this condition. Every carload of
grain and beans that is dumped on
a stagnant market increases the stag-
nency and defers the readjustment
which would soon take place were
all supplies kept from the market.
But with a few 'thousand farmers
here and a few there dumping their
products on the market it may be
some time before things right them—
selves.

The Speculator’s Opportunity

Today as never before is the spec—
ulator’s opportunity. Knowing that
the world is short of food; that the
farmer is in no position to hold his
crops for any extended period; he

Beware the Michigan Produce Company

WARN our readers against
having anything to do with the

‘ Michigan Produce Company,
246 Napoleon street, Detroit. From
the number and character of com-
plaints that have been ﬁled with us
against this firm we are forced to
conclude that they are either dishon—
est or woefully lax in their business
methods.

Subscriber F. V., of Paw Paw,
shipped a veal calf ‘ weighing 123
pounds to this ﬁrm. Failing to re—
ceive his returns he wrote to them.
Up to six weeks after shipping the
veal he had been unable to even get
a reply to his letters. On Sept. 16th
our service department took the mat-
ter up with the company, but is still
waiting for a reply. .

. J. 8., cf Twining shipped them a
box of spring chickens weighing 47
pounds. Both Mr. S. and our ser-
vice. department have written the
company several letters, none of

‘ which have been acknowledged.

D. IL, of .Whlte Cloud made a
donation of 90 pounds of chickens.
At least he has been unable to get
any returns and the company has
failed to answer his letters. J

C. C. of Cedar Springs is out 98
pounds of chickens which he ship-
ped to the Michigan Produce Com-
pany the last of August. E. S., of
Turner contributed 90 pounds of fat
hens, E. W., of Fenwick, 100 pounds
and H. N., of Turner 100 pounds.
Subscriber F. D., of Nassau City
shipped two ﬁne veals on neither of
which has he been able to get his
returns.

Subscriber G. T., of
Creek was more fortunate. He re—
ceived a check for $27.05 in pay-
ment of some chickens, He deposit-
ed it in his bank and a week later
the check was returned. He still
has the check.

It is a shame that crooks are per-
mitted to masquerade as honest
men and rob farmers of their hard-
earned dollars. We do not know
whether we can secure a settlement
for any of our subscribers but we
have placed the matter in the hands
of the postal authorities who will
use every short to either make these
people pay for the goods they have
received from farmers, or put them
where they cannot prey upon the

Hunter’s

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The peaches were brought to cent-
ral points in the fruit district and
shipped out by the U. F. 0. agents,
who were closely in touch with the
situation. Every point, in Ontario
was supplied with peaches but not
over-supplied. There was not the
customary glutting of the: market in
one place and a shortage in another.
The distribution was. carefully con—
trolled.

The outstanding feature of the
mperative system howevm; was
the elimination of the costly com-
missioners. and middlemen. The
farmers—that is the United Farm-
ers—shipped and marketed their
fruit as a unit, under the direction
of the. United Farmers Co-operative
Company, of which they are. both
members and stockholders.

In this way the fruit went direct
from producer to consumer with
monetary advantages for both part—
ies. The producer received more
than he had been receiving and the
consumer obtained his peaches at
greatly reduced prices.

(lo-operative shipping and distrib—
uting fruit, as practiced in Ontario
this year by the United Farmers, is
certainly a. solution for the most of
the fruit grower’s problems“. _It is
true that there was some fruit spoil-
ed for lack of transportation means,
but it was largely among the-4 inde-
pendent fruit growers that this oc-
curred. (lo-operation certainly sav-
ed the day for the United Farmer
fruit growers.

Rock the Boat

will bear prices down to the lowest
possible notch. His scheme will be
aided by the general depression.
When the bottom has been reached
he will gather in the cheap supplies
from here and there, and hide the
time when he knows that the old law
of supply and demand will break the
artiﬁcial bonds that he has placed
around it, and prices will soar again.
Then he will cash in, and his proﬁts
will be large.

Don’t play the speculator’s game
this year unless you have to. Don’t
sell your crops for less than they are
worth unless you need the money. If
your bank is a member of the fed-
him and have a conﬁdential talk. Ex-
plain the situation to him clearly.
Let him know that you know that
prices are unusually and artiﬁcially
low. If he cannot extend your loans
because his bank is short of funds.
take the matter up with your farm
organization or THE Bosmsss FARM-
ER. Banks that are members of the
Federal Reserve system are depend-
ing upon the reserve banks to dis-
count their agricultural paper. The
reserve banks have already been
greatly stressed by demands for loans
but now that industry is languishing
a bit more funds should be avail-
able for loaning to farmers. If
your bank is a member of the fed-
eral reserve system and cannot ﬁn-
ance the farmers for another three
to six months we want to know about
it, and pressure will be brought to
bear upon the reserve banks. The
policy of these banks with respect-to
loaning money for agricultural needs

has already been under scrutiny and , I)

we see more of a disposition on their
part to discount agricultural paper

in larger quantities than in the past. .. '

 

There can be no doubt about i.t,+«
prices on farm products will be high-7'
er shortly after the ﬁrst of the year. ,'
The ﬁrmer who will make every’efL
fort to hold his crops until such time

  

has nothing to lose and everything it

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,8 THE Detroit Creamery Company
:;'plannlng to secure a monopoly of
. ‘  the Detroit milk market? And is

' the Detroit Creamery Company look-
ing to the time when it may become
‘virtually independent of the milk
producers by supplying its custom—
ers with milk from its own farms?
These questions naturally arise in
one’s‘ mind as a result of recent ac—
quirements of milk plants and farms
by that corporation.

About ﬁve _or six months ago the
- Detroit Creamery Company purchas-
ed _the stock of Towar's Wayne
County Creamery. Prior to the ac-
quisition of the Towar plants the
Detroit Creamery Company was the
largest distributor of milk in the
city of Detroit. Now, after taking
on'the routes of the second largest
creamery it has assumed proportions
which make it a poWerful factor to
be reckoned with in the making of
contracts and the establishment of a
milk'marketing policy by the farm-
ers who supply Detroit with raw
milk. '

The stockholders of the Detroit
Creamery Company include some of
the most influential ﬁgures in De-
troit industrial circles. It’s banking
connections are amply protected by

its banker stockholders; its relations ,

with the public are protected from
critici’sm through the watchful ef-
forts of stockholders who control the
editorial policies of certain Detroit
newspapers; it keeps on good terms
with the Board of Health by reason
of the political influence of certain
of its stockholders. Its position in
the Detroit milk distributing busi-

ness is dominant and all but im-
pregnable.
Thus entrenched, and tearing

neither ‘competition, criticism or the
temper .of farmers, the Detroit
Creamery Company is in an admir-
able position to withstand any pres-
sure the farmers might bring to
bear upon them for a better milk
contract. As a matter of fact, it
was the Detroit Creamery Cempany,
through its spokesman, Mr. W. J.
Kennedy, which convinced the Detroit
milk commission at its last session
that the price to the farmer should
be reduced 30 cents per hundred and
added to the revenue of the cream—
ery companies. In passing it is well
to call attention to the fact that this
thirty cents represents a loss to
farmers and a gain to the creamery
companies of about $2,000 per day.

Buys Farms

The Detroit Creamery
does not conﬁne its absorption pol-

’ Shall Farmers Handle Their Own

OME MONTHS ago agitation was
started to establish a farmers'

s co—operative live stock commis—
sion at Detroit. The plan, of course,
met with the determined opposition
of the Detroit live stock men. and
viewed with disfavor among certain
live stock producers, or rather men
holding ofﬁces in live stock associa-
tions. Men who have spent the bet-
ter part of their lives in close touch
with the live stock commission busi-
ness assert that farmers cannot suc—
cessfully engage in the business. They
state that the selling of live stock on
commission is a business all by itself
and that the men who are now en—
gaged in that business in Detroit
are rendering the very best service
at minimum cost. The argument is
.that nothing would be gained by
farmers going into the commission
business. ‘
On the other hand there are some
existing facts which disprove these
statements. It
the Farmers’ Educational and 'Co-
operative Union of Nebraska has
been in the live stock commission
business for several years, and ac-
cording to their statement [their
branch, at Omaha now handles six-
ty-ﬁve per cent of the live steel! com-
ing into the Omaha yards; Branches
have also been established at‘ , St.
_Jcseph, Mo., Kansas City, Sio'us City,
".19..." and Denver, Col.
"learn morﬁ, about these enterprises
We quote Mr.~ Chas. H. Watts, gen-

 

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2 Best Interests of Individual Producers ' "

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'Dairy. Industry I'd-Bad Shape

' ILK PRODUCERS are facing one of .the greatest crises in their history.”-
 Cognizant of this« fact the National Milk' Producers' Federation will
hold a'vconference of dairy interests at the Dairy Show in Chicago

next week to determine what steps. if any, can be taken to avert the losses
which are ahead. Milo D. Campbell, president of the Federation, will give
the principal address and make recommendations for aleviating the situa»

tion.
Business Farmer.—Editor. ‘

His address will be published

complete in next week's issue of The

 

 

icy to the purchase of additional
plants, for the distribution of milk
but it is branching out rapidly in
the production end. A short dis-
tance from the limits of the city of
Mount Clemens the farms of the De-
troit Creamery! Company have their
northern boundary. Thereere four
distinct farms having a two—mile
frontage on both sides of the Gra-
tiat road extending toward Detroit
and with a depth of a half mile or
more comprising upwards of 2,000
acres. In land, buildings and equip-

ment, to say nothing of dairy cows
the company must have an invest-
ment of upwards of 'a half, million
dollars. Another quarter of a mil-
lion [is undoubtedly represented in
the several hundred pure-bred Jer-
seys and Holsteins owned by the cor,-
poration. As recently as two weeks
ago the Detroit Creamery Company
increased its holdings 'in this vicin-
ity by the purchase of another tract
of land adjoining their other farms
and consisting of a hundred or so
acres. This is to say nothing of the

To Investigate Farmer-Owned Milk Plants

HE MICHIGAN Milk Producers’

Ass’n will investigate the farm-

‘ereowned distributing plants
which are in successful operation in
a number of cities throughout the
United States. If-satisﬁed that milk
can be distributed more economical-
ly and satisfactorily by farmers than
by independent dealers the Associa-
tion will probably -recommend to
its membership the adoption of some
plan to that end. It may be said
that the Association’s recent interest
in the possibilities of farmer-con-
trolled distributing plants has been
aroused by the Electropure Com-
pany, manufacturers of the electro—
pure pasteurizing process which has
been trying to induce the AsSocia-
tion to purchase one of its machines
and go into business in Detroit.
Pres. Hull has appointed as a. com:
mittee to act with himself in an in-
vestigation the following: R. C.
Reed, secretary of the Association:
R. G. Potts, of Washington, and J.
C. Near of Flat Rock. This com-
mittee will leave in the near future
for St. Paul, Minnesota, and other
points where the farmers are known
to either have established central

distributing stations or actually
gone into the milk distributing bus-
iness itself.

We cannot but feel that the As-
sociation is advancing along the

eral manager of the Farmers’ Union
Live Stock Commission at Omaha,
who describes the venture in detail
as follows: .
“Early in the spring of 1917 the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-oper-
ative Union of Nebraska decided the
time was right for a commission
house at Omaha run in a strictly co-
operative. plan. In April of . that
year a House was. opened at Omaha,
an application was made to become
members of the Live Stock Exchange,
but on account of a certain rule
which prohibits a refund to custom-
ers we were unable to secure a mem-
bership. This made us an independ-
ent ﬁrm and as such we suffered no
inconvenience as the Stock Yards
Company and the packers have a1—

wayslshown us- the same courtesies

that they do any other ﬁrm.

“The ﬁrst seven months in busi—
ness was up-hill work and a money
loser on account of our membership
not being educated to handle their
own business at the terminal mar-
kets. But at the end of the ﬁrst
year we were able to -. convince
enough 'of our members that they
were business man and competent to
handle their own live stock at the
terminal market to the extent that
our less was 'made. up and 38 per
cent: of the commissionsicollected re-
turned ‘to 'our,“pa-tro'ns'. ‘» The second
year" we “returned 46 percent,
ﬁrst nine months of the'th‘irdﬁ year,
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lines which will lead ultimately to
the solution of the milk distributing
problem. If the committee proceeds
in its investigation in an open-mind-
ed and impartial manner it must
discover that the problems of milk
distribution are nearly identical the
country over and that the only rem-
edy is farmer control. We believe
they will ﬁnd that the same plan
which works successfully in Cum-
berland, Md., Mansﬁeld, Ohio, and
Indianapolis, Indiana,‘ will work
equally as well in Detroit, Flint,
Lansing and other Michigan cities.
THE BUSINESS FARMER rejoices that
the Milk Producers’ Ass’n is think-
ing at last along these lines. We
have always'contended that it- is
logical and right for milk produc-
ers to distribute their raw milk and
to manufacture their surplus into
by—produces. We have always con—
tended that this is the view of the
majority of producers. And we now
predict that the reBult of the com—
mittee’s investigation will be favor-
able to such plans and that the pro-
ducers will be ready to adopt them.
To any and all efforts that the As-
sociation may employ to give the
milk producer a greater control of
his market, THE BUSINESS FARMEE
pledges its vigorous sup-port.

 
     
 

 Conclusive to;

extensive dairy holdings in other
counties ‘in’ the southeastern part of
- the state.‘ ' , I;

‘ _It would be absurdvto, claim that
the Detroit Creamery Company could
ever hope to produce every quart of
milk which it can sell through ‘ its
present plants in Detroit. And still-
that i not altogether. an impossibil~
ity. .But the point is that every step
in that direction removes the _com-
pany a step further from its depend-
ence upon the individual" producer.
If we take the average dairy herd in
the Detroit area as consisting of
eight high producing cows, mani—
festlyevery eight cows which the
Detroit Creamery Company purchas-
es‘would enable the company to drop
one farmer from its list, and so on.
That,the ability to produce a large.
quantity of milk independently of
the farmer would be a decided ad-
vantage to a creamery company in
case of a strike no one can deny. The
greatest public clamor in cases of
controversies between producer and
distributor is aimed at the depriva—
tion of infants and the sick. The
Detroit Creamery Company must be
producing today a very large pro-
portion of the high—grade milk, which
is needed for the hospitals and to
feed the bottle babies of Detroit.
Hence, it is in a position to_ quiet
much of the public complaint that
would naturally arise if farmers
were obliged to shut off the milk
supply rather than lose money un—
der a distributor-dictated contract.

There is no present need for
alarm over the growing power of the
Detroit Creamery. But it must be
conceded that the creamery compan-
ies of Detroit have watched with in-
creasing concern the strengthening
of the producers’ organization, and
it must be like gall to them to have
to submit their buying and selling
prices to the review of a commission
albeit that it has seemed to many that
they were securing the lion’s share
of the proﬁts at that. It would be
only natural if they were looking to
' the day when they could again s‘trike
off all interfering and regulating in-'
fluences and become again their own
arbiters.

The more impregnable the Detroit
Creamery Company makes" its posi-
tion‘in the Detroit milk market, the
greater difﬁculty the farmers will
have to secure a satisfactory price
for their milk. And the greater
diiﬁculty they will also have to es-
tablish their own plant in Detroit,
if they ever deem it advisable to'
take that step.

Live Stock at Terminal Markets? '

1920 to October lst, we have been ‘

able to save 65 per cent ef-the com—
missions collected. We~ show .a
steady increase each year and feel
very proud’ of our 12 per cent in-‘
crease in business in 1920, especial-
ly when the tot-a1 yard receipts have
decreased 25 per cent or more.

“During the ﬁrst two years we
opened houses at four other mar-
kets all of them doing a. good busi—
ness from the start. The Farm .Or-
ganizations are asking for our co-op-
eration in starting business at other
markets, which we are very glad to
give them. We believe that coeoper—
ative marketing at the terminal mar-
kets solves a great many problems
and will in time regulate prices to a
certain extent, but we must educate
our farmers and shippers that they
are competent to handle this busi-
ness and in turn they must co—oper-
ate withthe men that they have em-
ployed to handle their business at
the terminal markets.

“We do not wish to carry the idea
to our Farmers, Feeders and, Stock
Shippers, that a co-operative com-
mission house can 'be run at any of
the terminal markets by simply put-
ting out their ‘shingle’ and saying
that they are in the commission bus-
iness. If they take this view the)”

.will find the read very rough and

many stumbling blocks in their way,
They must ﬁrst know that their mem-
bership tributary to the live stock

market is large enough to support a -

commission house. They must fur-
nish ample ﬁnances and above all
other qualiﬁcations, for making their
house a success, they must employ
men that are strictly co-operators,
experienced in the live stock com-
mission business, good judges of
live stock, and honest in. every way.

“In closing I simply want to cau-
tion all Farm Organizations against
picking up men that are not co—oper-
ators, but simply hiring them be-
cause they have been in the commis-
sion business and know a little about
live stock, to handle _the commission
business. I believe that the farm
organizations are in a position at the
present time to cement this Live
Stock Terminal Marketing proposi-
tion together in one sound and solid
‘organization. If we allow, small,
commission ﬁrms to spring up like
mushrooms we are bound to see fail-
«ures along that line. some large
losses have been made in the past
through the failure of live_ stock
com-mission ﬁrms, but I still, claim
that it is impossible for a strictly,
co-operative organization,
anced and run by men who have the,
co-operative movement- at heart, to
make a. failurevin this line of busi-
ness, and the Farmers’ Union Live.

fact. , e 7 

"I. will be’glad‘ to answer any in‘n- ~‘
formation or any inquiries.\at.e n,
time.” ‘ ’ ‘ r * . ?. 

 

 

 

 

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Stock Commissionlhas proven this 

  

 


 

 

, BEING NEIGHBORLY: .
. WAS READING THE , WCHIGM
,BUsINEss .FAaMEn’s “What the
!Neighbor’s Say," page and came
across this item:‘ “We live way out

 

. in the-tall timber where we raise
- snowbanks in winter and grasshop-
pers in summer, and don’t have any ,

neighbors, telephone, R. F. D. or
roads, but I am enclosing a small
‘bOost.’ R’s the best. I can do, and
perhaps is more at that than a lot
of: them who have neighbors, etc.
Keep M. B. F. coming.
farm paper in the U. S.

_ Here’s
wishing us both success.” ' “ '

I must say that part of his’ state—y

ment is true in regard toaour snow,
some few grasshoppers in summer,
and of course we have no telephone
etc.,' but it is _not far to the beaut-
iful little village of Alba, where all
those conveniences are to be had.
Our country is new, but for the most
partwehave ﬁne reads. Michigan is'
noted for its ﬁne reads and beautiful
scenery, and as for ’neighbors, ‘ one
always has neighbors if he does the
fair thing and is deserving. It is
true that some have no' neighbors.
They hold themselves aloof consider-
ing. themselves the moguls of their
neighborhood.

If we have friends we must show
ourselves friendly. Do unto others
as' we would have them do unto you.

He said he was enclosing a small-

“boost.” It is very evident it was
not for the country or for his neigh-
bors. I like the M. B. F. very much.

It’s market reports, the department'

for the women, etc. And I' shall
make my wishes somewhat broader
than the one who has written in that
most deplorable of all conditions, the
man without friends or neighbors.
Here is wishing all Michigan farm-
ers together with the M. B. F. the
greatest possible success—~11 Sub-
scriber, Alba, Mich. . '

Let’s not be too hard on our “Neigh-l
borless Neighbor.” Mebbe he wants to
be neighborly and doesn’t know how.
That’s often the case. Have you heard
the story of the two men who lived in a
small city and frequently passed each
other going to and from work? Each

 

secretly wished to' speak to each other, '

' but each thought he'd better let the
other break the ice first. You know
what happened? Day after day they

passed each other in silence, and ﬁnally
each resolved that the other didn’t wish
to be friendly. Then one day something
happened. they spoke to each other, and
now, of course, are the best of neigh-
bors, I have known many people who
Wished devoutly to make friends, but
they were too timid to take the initiative.
consequently they are all but friendless.
Give your neighbor every openin .to be-
come neighborly and he’ll proba ly re-
spond. If he doesn’t, he deserves your
sympathy. for he~ must be lacking in
some of the, essentials that make up a
well—rounded ‘ human being—Editor.-

EX-SOLDIER. EXPREssns VIEWS ,

ON SCHOOL AMENDMENT
AM satisﬁed and” thousands of
I other fair—minded American citi-
zens of Michigan that this so-call-
ed school amendment is no other
than an attack on certain religions.
It’s auther says, “They say, ‘re-
‘ligioni religion! religion!’ when it’s
not religion at all,” and before he
closeshis month he breaks theI eighth
commandment. If Mr. Hamilton is
so interested in the schools and ed-
ucation in this state, it seems queer
that he had not been a professor in-
stead of a bricklayer. Nine out of
every ten that express their views
on the so~cailed amendment and are
in favor of it brings in patriotism
and 'Americanism, then before they
have their views expressed, they
prove, themselves to be true follow-
ers of Lenine and Trotsky.‘ Why?'
Because their sole aim is to arouse
religious bigotry and hatred and dis-
content among ~the law-abiding! citi-
zens of Michigan. -
What is Bolshevism, if it is' any
other than this. Hamilton says,
“Show me one other minister out-
side of the church or the parochial

. schools, that is against the amend--
,.ment.” Just last week the Advent-

i

 
  

=ists closed their-conference, and un-

animously passed a‘ motion against-
the‘amendment' as un-American.

 ‘ . Although the war ~~~ ended with
3 Germany almost two years ago, they
still- would have the ,. public-

_ . . 190k .
momma: descendants. ‘ I.
1  ,in I

 

It’s the best .

sce‘s'sfnlvbusiness; man, which  a

want to say a few words in regard
to the American boys of German de-
scent in the world war. For instance
the32nd division, made up mostly

of Michigan and Wisconsin men, 'a ‘

larger percentage of these men ‘were
of German parentage than any oth-
or division that fought in France. So
many, in fact that Kaiser Bill watch-
ed them very carefully and told
his people'that they would not ﬁght
against the fatherland. Did they
ﬁght? Ask Bill. Did you watch
them when they paraded the streets
of Grand Rapids and Detroit upon
theirreturn? Did you notice the
Red Arrow emblem on their sleeve
and do you realize what it repre-
sents? ,My brother was with this
division and we meet German de-
scent. The only boy that was kill—
ed insbattle from this township was
a member of the Red Arrow divi:
sion and he also was of German. car--
entage. ,Where was,.Hamilton and
his gang at-that, timer.
"A~'Gladwin,_county subscriber of
- the M. B. F. and also a subscriber
of the “Menace,” once more throws
his Slurs toWard the 'jnunnery and
the nuns. He asks, “What is a‘ nun-
nery and what is theirbusiness?” Go

to'any Mercy hospital and you
will -ﬁnd out some of their
business — administering to the
suffering. They also teach in the

parochial schools for less than half
the compensation received by public
school teachers. How are their pu-
pils as Compared with those of pub-
lic schools? They ranked highest in
the army essay contest for the num-
ber that =wrote. Ask France I and
Belgium what part the nuns perform-
ed in the world war. Why should he
and the “Menace” worry? They are
our sisters and daughters. We lose
no‘ sleep over his. a

I thank the editor in advance, for
the space used in your valuable lit-
tle paper and also for the stand you
have taken on this question, am also
renewing my subscription—E. F. 8.,
Newaygo County.

MR. AT‘VOOD’S RECORD
NCLOSED ﬁnd dodger of state-
ment of Mr. Atwood. What I
want is the facts about matter
which you placed in your valued pa—
per before the primary. He has by
the enclosed dodger made out that
I or you were ashamed to sign our
name. You know I did sign my
name so now we want you to hand
out to the farmers the true facts of
the case, which we believe you have
in store. . ,
Willsay Mr.—O. E. Atwood was
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not a bit satisﬁed. But had they
turned out he would have been de-
feated. Now as he has in person
told me a lot of dope around here
that this whole matter is a lie from
start to finish and that the editor 'of
M. B. F. is all a joke about the term—
inal warehouse. It is up to you to
inform the public where he stands.——-
R. A. Sla’ughter,‘Fremont, Mich.

tfi

Mr. Atwood’s Dodger

“Malicious propaganda is being
circulated under the caption, ‘Mr.
Atwood’s Record.’ Those issuing
this slander are apparently ashamed
to disclose their identity, as the cir~
cuiar is unsigned.

“Reference is made to the num-
ber of days that I have been absent
from legislative sessions.

“As is the custom of nearly all
legislators, -I came home each week
end. The return tram to Lansing
reached the city just too late for
roll call but record will show that
I entered and took my seat about
twenty minutes late on each return
day.

.‘.‘I was absent’one week when
committee on College of Mines, of
which I was a member, made trip
to the Upper Peninsula. Three oth-
er days I was detained and missed
roll call but was present for the bus-
iness session.

“This makes a'total of 24 days
out of the 28 that I was present for
the session but missed roll call
ONLY. Therefore I was absent only
four days. I was in my seat and
voted on as many bills as any mem-
ber of the house. I solicit an in-
vestigation of my record.

“I voted against putting the state
in the warehouse business, just as I
would vote against putting the state
in any business.

“The state should. not in my judg-
ment enter any private, competitive
business. This is a start toward so-
cialism and contrary to the Repub-
lican form of government. Think it
over.”——Orville E. Atwood.-

Mr. Atwood is right. Somebody lied,
Let’s see who it is. The statement pub-
lished in the August 21st issue of The
Business Farmer that Mr. Atwood was
absent from the House on 28 days of
the session is correct. It is true that
he was absent one week with leave, and
that'distinctiOn was made in the states
ment referred to. But the official record
shows that he was absent without
leave and took no part in any of the
proceedings on the following ﬁfteen
days: Jan.'8th. 9th, 27th, 31st; Feb,
3rd, 11th, 17, 24th; March 10th, 11th,
17th; April 14th, let, 22nd; June 16th.
On two days Mr. Atwood entered the
House a short time after the session
convened. On March 4th he appeared
about noon. On Feb. 26th. March 18th,
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HE remarkable growth of the

Michigan Milk Producers’ associ—

‘ation and the results that have
been securedjhrough its successful
career is a very conclusive illustra-
tion of what maybe accomplished
by farmers’ organizations, which has
placed thousands of extra dollars in
the.’p'ockets of its members during
the past'three yearsyéspecially in
securing*for the producers a reason-
able price for their production, a
condition ,that could never have ob—
tained' otherwise; Not only has-the
price secured for the productibeen
largely beyond that of other states
and'other markets, but all friction
and loss through strikes and other
disastrous conditions have been ,

"avoided which has also been of great

ﬁnancial beneﬁt to all its members,
and-yet;~ strange as it may seem,
there .is a comparatively small num-
ber, of. its members who entirely fail

vto'.g'r'asp what. has been accomplish-

ed or to appreciate its, ,beneﬁts.

The generaljsuccess of any organ-
ization depends largely upon its of-
ﬁcial management and this organi-
zation has been extremelyiortunate
along that line.‘ The president, 7Mr.
N. P. ‘Huil attesting. is not only a
farmer, but.‘al‘so a-_Shr‘e'wd and (suc-

    

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combination that means only suc-
cess.

The secretary and sales manager
of the product, Mr. R. C. Reed of
Howell, has perhaps had more to do
with the success of the organization
than, any other one member and is
the one man to completely ﬁll the
position he occupies. His methods
of working entirely along the line
of construction, has at times met
with some criticism, and yet even
his critics have.come to acknowledge
its success. His experience of years
of successful farming and at the
same time indulging in a few suc—
cessful business ventures on the side
which has brought him in touch with
other business men of large capa-
city has also broadened him and en-

larged his capacity and conception

of large business interests that few
men naturally possess, which, with
the suggestions and hearty support of
a splendid visioned board of direct--
ore and the careful handling of its
ﬁnances by one of our successful
Livingston county-farmers, Mr. Hor-
ace ~Ndnton,..Who-has the conﬁdence

of everyonewho knows him, all of

which makes the farmers’ organiza-
tions. remarkable succes' .——The Fow-
Wle Review. ‘

too.’

the noon recess that Mr. Atwood put in
an appearance, and consequently miss-
ed his vote on a number of important
measures, Mr. Atwood says he voted
against putting the state in the ware—
house business. He did nothing of the
kind. He did vote, however. against
trusting the people which was the only
issue so far as the legislature was con-
cerned.-—Editor.

NATIVE OF IRELAND FOR Tim
SCHOOL AMENDMENT

HAVE read letters in your paper
Iabout parochial schools. I was
‘ born and educated in Ireland,
(southern part of Ulster) was raised
on a farm and attended the model
school in Bailieboro, our nearest

town. Besides the usual subjects
we studied vocal music, drawing,
freehand, models, geometry. also

knitting. sewing and dressmaking.

After school hours the head pro-
fessor of the boys’ school taught to
the higher ‘classes one subject each
year, such as geology, zoology, mag-
netism and electricity, etc.

We also had religious instruction
from 9:30 until' 10 o’clock each
morning except Saturday and one
hour on Fridays for review.

We, read the Scriptures every
morning besides learning the shorter
catechism including the “Lord’s
Prayer” and the ten commandments,
and I look back to those as the best
spent hours in my life.

There was about fourteen teach-
ers in the girls’ and infants’ school

‘ and about ten in the boys’ school.

Each denomination had teachers of
their’ own persuasion at religious in-
struction and separate apartments,
but notwithstanding all this in 1885
the priest had a parochial school
built one half mile out of town be—
side the Roman Catholic chapel and
orders all Roman Catholics togeth—
er. Many of the children’s parents
would prefer the old school, but
those who are bound must obey the
“priest.”

That was about thirty—ﬁve years
ago and all the present R. C. Irish
Sinn Feiners have been brought up
in parochial schools. These subjects
of the priests and parochial schools
are making all the trouble in Ire-
land without the ghost of a reason.
They say we want our freedom. They
are as free there are we are here. A
Roman'Catholic Irishman in a Flint
auto factory said to a nephew of
mine (thinking he was a R. C.)
“When we get our freedom in Ire—
land we will soon get rid of the Pro-
testants.” (This nephew of mine,
was a volunteer who served with the
ﬁeld artillery with the A. E. F.
in France.)

I wish all Protestant Americans
could read this letter. Another cous-
in of mine wrote from Ireland. “I
saw a sergeant of police shot by Sinn
Feiners; his wife and eight children
crying over his mangled body.” That
was but one case of many and some
people think MacSwineyought to be
released. If he had 20 lives he has
forfeited them all. I do not object
to Protestant parochial schools for
they teach religion according to the

Scriptures which would not interfere
with any government, but the R. C.
parochial schools have been the
scourge of Ireland and will be of
this country, and I am not the only
one t.‘ at realizes this. I am pleased
to know, and the sooner millions rea—
lize this same thing the better for
America. I hope you read this, Mr.
James Hamilton. I am with you an
the parochial school question. In
the time to come when everything
seemed to be advantageous they
would conclude to- get rid of the
Protest-ants here too. I am con-
vinced. that those taught in a public
schOol will make better citizens than
those educated in a Roman Catholic
parochial school. I heard a R. C.
say' he would as soon go to hell as to
a Protestant church. They must not
go if they are obedient to the priest,
for they might hear enough of the:
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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1920

Published every Satin-day by the
RURAL PUBLISHIIG own". In.
H " It. Gleam Michigan
‘ embers uncultured Publishers Association
Mutated in New rota 0 st. Louis and ‘lﬂnnesvolil by
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LORD

manner . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .nmron
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has It Weber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Plant Superintendent

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Entered u second-class matter, at Monies. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Who Will Win?

. SPEAKING from the impartial viewpoint

of a mugwump (having voted the Repub»
lican, Progressive and Democrat tickets re-
spectively the last three presidential years) I
predict the election of Sen. Harding. I shall
not vote for Harding myself. He is a reaction-
ist. I believe in progress,—-going ahead,——cast-
ing off the old that has been found wanting
and trying something new that gives promise
of better things. Instead of restoring the old
reactionary spirit to life and clothing it with
power I believe we ought to dump another
spadeful of dirt upon its grave. But the ma-
jority of the voters will not feel that way.
Harding will be elected.

We doubt if the vote will be influenced very
much by any of the issues which the two lead-
ing party candidates and their followers have
injected into the compaign. All the other
" things being equal Cox would win on his
League of Nations platform. You cannot make
this publication believe that the people of the
United States are not willing to try some plan
looking to the establishment of world-wide and
permanent peace. For political reasons Hard-
ing must oppose the League of Nations, but he
is too evasive to suit most people upon a substi-
tute for the League. But other things being
far from equal as we shall later show, Cox will
not get enough votes from‘ the League advo-
cates to put him across.

Prohibition will play little if any part in
the election. True, wet Tammany is support-
ing Cox and the distillch have urged the wet
element to fall in behind him, but McAdoo, a
pronounced dry, is a leading Cox lieutenant
and Harding once upon a time owned brewery
stock. The legislative records of both men
show neither to have been conspicuously
friendly to prohibition nor strongly in sym-
pathy with the liquor traﬁic.

The tariff is not an issue. The Democrats
want a tariff for revenue only, and so the high
protection crowd will support the Republican
ticket as usual, but in' face of the nationwide
proﬁteering that has taken place the last four
years it would be positively fimny to talk
about a higher tariff for the “protection” of

 

American industry. A tariﬂ that will equal-‘

ize the cost of imported goods at seaboard
with American-made, is as high a tariﬂ as we
should want or ought, to have. .A tariﬁ that
would entirely close American markets to for-
eigngoodswouldbcataxonthemanyforthe

beneﬁt of a few. There ’13 very little diﬂerenoe .
between the tariﬂ views and the term per- .

formances of the two leading parties.

Both parties are wondering how the women
will vote, but sulfrage is'not an issue. It is
true that a Democratic state gave the decid-
ing vote on the suﬁrage amendment, and some
women will be influenced by that feet. 011
,the other hand twenty-six of the states which
. ratiﬁed the amendment are Republican states
' _ and only eight are Democratic. , v 7, .  I
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WWD 86.050:  there ocnfibe no 

ate relief. The war has been feught; the 'ex- ‘
-. has been incurred;

. the debt mustybe
paid. Taxes will be high for many years to
come. Levy them as you may the consumer

. will'foot the bill. ' -

Sen. Harding will not be elected because of
his, stand on any. of these issues. He will not
be elected because of any \special qualities of
character, personality- or statesmanship. He
will be elected because he. is the choice of the

Republican party leaders and anyone. whom-

these loaders might have placed before the
people this year, would. win hands'dov'm.‘

The truth is that most. of us have tired of
the Democratic administration. Quite. in lmepa
ing‘with human nature we want to place the
blame somewhere for all our troubles. High
taxes, high cost of living, strikes, transporta-'
tion troubles, proﬁtcering, ' lawlessness,—-—the
origin of all can be blamed primarily to the
war. ~ But how- futile. to ventour diapleasure
upon a condition that no longer exists! No,
we must wreak our Vengeance upon something
else,——-something that can be made to feel, the
edge of our temper. ﬁAnd so, logically,— enough
we damn the Democratic administration. Its
shortcomings are so glaring that they blind us
to its achievements. ’ It i patent that no mat-
ter what party might have been in control
during the war; no matter what great and
good things it might have done; what obstacles
it might have overcome; what prosperity it
might have witnessed,-—the people would have
been ready for a change this year. Whether
or no the Democratic administration is at
fault, the people feel conditions could not be
worse. They might be a lot better. Whether
or no the Republican party can improve them,
the people are willing that [it should try. Had
the war left us none of its evil offspring, then
issues and men would have decided the race
this year and it would have been close. As it
is, Sen. Harding will be elected- on a grudge.

Fall Is Here ‘

JACK FROST has been a little late upon

his visit to most parts of Michigan this
year but fell arrived on schedule time. Leaves
are falling everywhere. In every woodlot and
forest the trees are shedding their summer gar-
ments. Some of them are still green, depend-
ing upon variety and vitality, and will bid
deﬁance to the season until Jack Frost turns
his icy breath upon them. Then, alas, they,
too, will lay aside their foliage and prepare for
winter. -

The frost is not yet upon the pumpkin but
the silage corn has been cut and now stands
in noble shocks or is being fed to the hungry
knives of the silo filler. From across the
ﬁelds you can hear the whirr of the knives.
They sound for all the world like the motor of
an aeroplane. By the way have you seen pict-
ures of the new corn binder which cuts the
corn and shreds it in a single operation! Also
the grain combine which harvests and thresh-
es the Wheat? Some machines, aren’t they.
Think for a moment the labor they save. They
are using these machines in the corn belt and
in western wheat ﬁelds. We continue to make
progress. .

Some people think this is going to be a cold
Winter, and the coal dealer hopes it is. But
we think some people have another think com-
ing and the coal dealer is doomed to disap-
pointment. We have the weather for the com-
winter all doped out, but don’t bet any money
on our forecast. This is the way we ﬁgure it:
During the course of a year we are bound to
have about so much warm weather and about
so much cold weather. We’ve had an abnormal-
ly cool summer. The warmth that we should
have had in the summer i stored up some place
and will make itself manifest some time during
the year. Hence, we will have a mild Winter.
Well, you don’t have to believe it. But think
what a conifert it would be with cool so scarce
and high, to be able to believe it. We have look-
ed up the weather ferecast for the next three
months. In one or two predictions it makes
us shiveIr—ceeld,:_sleet, snow—rend other har-
bingers of old [King Winter. But in several

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.,  " r fmrinh' “in?

warmdays "intervening twi'xt new andaiﬂieh; '
November ' Comes in with cold:,hands..and feet ‘

I but before departing he thaws out. "‘Fine,

genial weather in all sections,” says the fore-
cast. 'We are promised snow for Christmas
which is a good thing. Green Christmaeses
help ﬁll the graveyards.- ' i

We shall defer cur forecast for January,’
February and March until after the presiden-
tial election.

 

To Vote on School Amendment
,- HE SUPREME court quite proper-
ly ruled that the parochialimhool amend-
mentzshould' be placed before the voters " at
the November election. Weihave felt all the
thus that Attorney General Grocsbeck was

usuzging powers that-belonged to the Supreme
hen '

‘wiienf he  ’ upon the constitution.
ality,of the propQSed‘measure. And’ Secretary

[of State: Vaughan was no less exceeding the

limits of his ofﬁce when he refused to put the

"amendment on the ballot. Thedecision of the

Supreme court is a vindication of the refer-
endum and initiative and a rebuke to. those
who would for political or personal reasons
seek to nullify the wishes of the people thus —
expressed.

Approval of the submission of this amend-
ment does not necessarily mean approval of
the amendment itself. The case is a counter-
part to the proposed warehouse amendment.
Many men who would ﬁght it tooth and nail
at the" election nevertheless felt that the peo-
ple had a right to vote upon it, and were in
favor of submitting it. If it was in keeping
with the tenets of democracy to submit the
warehouse amendment which originated in the
legislature, there is all the more reason for sub-
mitting the parochial school amendment which
originated with the people. The amendment
was presented to the secretary of state in due
conformity to the law. An even greater num-
ber of petitions than are required by the law
were ﬁled. In all such cases the law intends
and the makers of the law intended that the
constitutional changes desired should be sub-
mitted to a vote'of the peeple.

Fears that a vote upon this. matter will
arouse religious prejudices and turn neighbor
against neighbor are not well founded. Those
who are now swayed by religious bias will, of
course, be the slaves of their prejudice at the
polls. Catholics who despise Protestants and
Protestants who despise Catholics (God forbid
that there should,be such) will have no great-
er enmity, each for the other, after election

than they have now. They are blind today to

the good in each other. There is no such a
thing as being more blind.

On the contrary the frank discussion about
religions and parochial schools will bear good
results. It will show the Catholics that there
are some broad-minded Protestants and it will

show the Protestants that not all Catholics are

the bigots they have been pictured. It will
give the Catholics a good opportunity to deny
the lies that have been spread about them and
the conduct of their parochial schools. It will
also reveal to the Catholic mind the basis of
much Protestant prejudice and open the way
for Catholics to remove that prejudice if they
so desire. Finally, the agitation against pa-
rochial schools . should lead all denomin-
ations which maintain private schools to
look closely into the system and if they
ﬁnd any instruction being given which is out
of harmony with the teachings of the best Ami
erican citizenship, to remove it from the cur-
riculum. .

That the amendment will be defeated there
is no-doubt- Moreover, it will be defeated so
decisively that its proponents will not have
the heart to resurrectit. ‘

 

Michigan sells her potatoes to Pennsylvan.
inﬂict-meet to 01110980; 1191' sugar allover the
world. She buys potatoes from Pennsylvania;
meat from Chicago and sugar .wherever
can get it. Andyct some say there’s
wrong with our system i of. distributloh.  /

     
 

 

 

 

 
    


 
    

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JACKSON DAIRY CONCERN IS
FOUND TO BE UNSOUND
. The Jersey Farm Dairy 00., of Jack-
son are canvassing the state to get
tanner: to send their cream to them,
claiming to pay from 8. to 8 cents. per
pound more for butter fat than many
small .creamerles can possibly WY. They
agree to pay the same prices as the
Blue Vaney at Detroit and Grand Rap-
ids. If tau investigate you will ﬁnd
I think i: the butter made in these
places goes to Swift d: 00., and Armour’s

to freeze mall creameriese out. It
sure bee. how big business etes the
(must. ow it this is as I think it is

the sooner the tamer ﬁnds it out the
better for all concerned, Am enclosing tag

u: Farm . Who.
“on Wheat thembﬂ.clg. 1)., Gill;ng
burg, , inch.

' Your inquiry was referred to 'a
prominent milk producer of Jackson
county who-advises as tollows: “This
company is not considered as being
reliable or square in their dealings
Recently some
stock has been sold and the proper
permission from the state was not
secured and the solicitor and money
is said to be in Ohio. The prosecut-
ing attorney is or has taken some
steps in the case. J. Martin Rhiver
of- Grass Lake is the largest loser.
The Jackson Farm Produce Co., of
Jackson are 0. K., and cutting in on
the Jersey Farm Dairy 00., which
by the way do not own a cow or
iarm.”

. I have no doubt but what‘s. good
deal oi the butter manufactured in
the privately and corporater owned
creameries oi the state eventually
ﬁnds its way into the hands of the
packers. In the light at the disclos-
ures that have been made of the
methods employed the packers I
cannot believe that they would ever-
look any opportunity to make such a

 

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Are hardenths 16m 3. What
lathe mammofsufubeetﬁ? 4.
Whats“ beetroot: ordairy cat-
tle? 8. many pounds of beets
m4 tame-.413 to can swing from
once I milk perils? a.

ration. mixedhayanlbeets,
would waamzoomuoats
‘andr cotton mealbergood
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1. Yes, When ted in moderate
quantities with liberal amounts of
grain and dry roughage. 2. Sugar
boots will not affect the kidneys un-
less ted too heavily. The tops do sf-
toct the kidneys and should be fed
in moderate quantities. 3.”

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to‘ one pound oi dry matter in mixed
grains. Corn contains 87.5 per cent
dry matter While sugar been con-
tain 16.4 per cent dry matter. 4.
 or boots are very good {or
dairy cows. ()0th turnips are
also very good but are a northern
crop. 6. From 25 to 50 pounds oi
boots can be led daily to cows giv-
ing a good {low oi milk. The cows
will scour it ted too, large quanti-
ties. 6. It is difﬁcult to answer this
inns-try without knowing more
about the cows, amount of milk and
per cent of lot. However, a ration.
composed oi the ioilowing should
prove satisfactory. Food per cow
)0! My mind My, 12 lbs» boats,
35 lbs. end one pound of the 1 How-
ing mixture to every 3 or 3 1» lbs.
oi milk produced per day: corn meal,
4001b»: ground oats, 400 lbs; cot-
tonseed meal. 200 Tbsp-F. T. Ridden,
Research 455': in Dairying, M. A. 0.

. mum‘s” 303138;, “non swoon.

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stock ll ill 5 loamy ﬂﬁdwtngg.

at par val . Would

turning in fl‘l hon tor com
girl‘s—H, a, x31“ Conant» was?

We could advise you better had
you given us the some at the. com-
peny soiling stack. As a general
preposition motor stocks are not con-
sidered s good investment at this
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count. It is really an admission on
the part of the stock seller that his
stock is not worth 100 cents on the
dollar. Recently a subscriber asked
us to take Liberty bonds at face
value in exchange for preferred stock
in our company. Much as we would
have liked to accommodate this farm-
er we couldn’t do it. Stock that we
are selling at 810 a share is Worth
310 a share. When we redeem it we
must pay 810 per share. The money
that We are receiving from the sale
of this preferred stock is to be used
in the improvement of the M. B. F.,
and it would be neither fair to our-

selves nor our "readers, nor to those,
who have-paid full par value for our .

stock to exchange any of it for Lib-
erty bonds at par. We do not rec-
ommend any farmer to sell his lib—
erty bonds. They are the safest in-
vestment in the world. But it he
insists on disposing of them and in-
vesting in a security which pays
higher dividends, he will make no
mistake to buy the preferred stock
of the M. B. F. which pays 8 per
cent semi-annually and is protected
by ample assets—Editor.

 

O
FEEDING MILLE'I.‘ HAY
Is millet hay good for sheep? In what

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quantities should it be fed to cows, to
freshen in the spring, a a winter feed?
How should rye straw 9 prepared for
horse feed in the winter? What should
be put with it to make it a lit feed? How
should cornstalkg be fed to horses and
dry cows to obtain the best results when
not put into silo'I—A New Reader and
Friend of M. B. F., Lake City, Mich.

Millet hay is not a satisfactory feed
for sheep and I would not advise its
use except in very small quantities
once a day. Bean pods, pea vines, or
good bright cornstalks would prove
superior to millet for sheep.

For cows, I would not feed millet
to the extent of more than about one
half the roughage fed and even then
it Will only give satisfactory results
when it is sown thickly so that it
will not grow coarse and harvested
before the seed iorms.‘

I would not advise the use of rye
straw for horse feeding as it is al-
together too coarse and woody.

If cornstaiks get dry enough this
fall so that they can be shredded or
blown through a cutter into the mow,
it will be the best way to feed them.
In two years out of three, it is
doubtful if cornstalks get dry
enough to be cut into a mow and
have them keep without molding.
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enough to cut or shred into the barn,
it should be stacked or set up in
large shocks and fed in the ﬁeld dur-
ing the day—Geo. A. Brown, Profes-
sor of Animal Husbandry, M. A. 0'.

VALUE OF CORN

What is the estimated value per acre
of corn which is a. very good yield, be-
ing 6 or 7 ft. high and well cared for
silage fodder?—-—J. A, H.. Oscoda, Mich.

An acre of silage corn, such as you
describe may range in yield from 8
to 12 tons per acre and in value ac-
cording to its condition, from $5 to
$8 per ton. An average acre of corn
should be worth about $80 for silage
purposes—J. F. Cow, Professor 0/
Farm Crops, M. A. 0.

 

 

PEACHES WANTED

Do you know where we might get a
car of good peaches at a right price. If

.. you do, we would appreciate your telling

us very much.——-—Shepherd Co-Operative

Ass’n, Shepherd, Mich.

 

The South Haven Fruit Exchange
composed of peach growers are the
largest dealers of peaches in Mich—
igan. On Sept. 27th, they quoted
Elbertas at $2.50, Kalamazoos and
Prolifics at $1.50, f. o. 1). South
Haven.—-Ed'itor.

 

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THUBAN COMPOUND «A»

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There is nothing that taken the
joy out of motoring as quickly
as an engine that overheats—
sud then blocks and sputtcro.
Improper lubrication may re-
sult in these symptoms, in
which one they indicate that a
hard sticky Carbon in interfer-
ing with correct ﬁring.

With the proper grade of'l‘sx-
ACO Moron On. in the crank
cusc,and the proper fuel mix-
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More». On. won’t form hard Ira ‘

destructive carbon.

It in a cucﬁilly manufactured.
clean oil with splendid lubricat-
ing body that effectively holds
compression. Taxmo More:
OH. is made in (our
gradeo.—a range that
will adequately meet the needs
ofauy kind of motor. You may
know that you are getting’I‘sx-
ace Moron. On. by the Red
Star and GrccuTon every can.

" 1-H: TEXAS COMPANY. Wmmrem
General Oﬂceu Houstonﬂms. once. in Nuclpul Cities.

  
 
  
   
 
   
 
  
  
  
 
 
  

 

 

 

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS
N A questionnaire which Mr. Lord
the editor, is conducting among
readers of THE BUSINESS FARMER
the wish is often expressed by the
women of the farm household that

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more attention be given in these
columns to the improvement and
beautifying of the home. It is in

keeping with those suggestions that
I am asking for letters upon home
improvement subjects, to be pub-

lished on my page in the Oct. 31st

issue.

In. thousands of Michigan farm
homes the work is made lighter by
simple devices and modern improve-
ments such as running water, bath
room, power machinery, electric
lighting, sanitary toilets; etc.

Where is there a farm woman who
doesn’t wish for the time to come
when she may have some of the
more  inexpensive improvements
which make farm life easier and
more contented. Possibly many of
them feel that these improvements
are out of‘reach and I suppose they
would be surprised to learn how eas~
ily and cheaply some of them could
be purchased or made and installed.
There are several thousand women
into whose home this paper goes
who knows the joys of hot and cold
running water, of a big, roomy bath—
tub for the children to splash in, of
electric current which lights the
house and runs the churn and the
washing machine, of a furnace which
robs the winter of its discomfort, and
of a. dozen or so other things which
changes the farm homefrom a place
in which to eat and sleep to a place
in which to live and enjoy it.

I think it is a little selfish for
these women to enjoy these comforts
without telling the rest of our read-
ers about them. Who knows but
what there are some who are con—

" templating right now making the
improvements which to others are al-
ready realities. If there are such,
they will surely appreciate a letter
telling them‘in plain, simple lang-
uage in just what manner such home
conveniences as have been suggested

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Edited by MRS.

were installed and what they have
done to make work lighter and liv-
ing more enjoyable
home.

I suggest as topics to write upon,
“Rescued from the Wash-tub:” that
is funny, when you come to think
about it, but it’s not funny to the
woman who is a slave to her tub.

The old complaint, ,“how I dreadiwash '

day," changes to y‘.‘ho'w I enjoy wash
day" when the Woman‘of the. house
scraps the old tub fora. modern
washing vmachine. Here areother

subjects: “When ~We>~DisCai=ded the -‘

Kerosene :Lamp,” “Advantages of
Hot and ColdRunninguWater," “My
Experience? with a
you can think of a score of things
to write about. Remember the'priz-
es and get your letter in early.

SEWING HINTS

ELOW are a .few of theideas I

have gleaned while sewing for

my little ones:
‘While sorting overpthe cast oﬂl
clothing of the family each spring
and fall, I utilize everything avail—
able of each garment for further
wear.
always pays to buy durable material
for the whole family. ‘ '

The little nightgowns when quite
worn may be easily converted_into
little underskirts by trimming out
the necks and facing or hemming,
and cutting out the sleeves and hem-

    

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in the farm.

Furn'ace,"—oh, '

But ﬁrst let me whisper—it .

      
  

   

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Department for the Wotneu f

CLARE NORRIS
ming- the bottom of the gown to the
required length. If the “back” is
worn in front considerable wear can
be given the garment.

When my son outgrows his waists
I put skirts on them and little sis-
ter‘ has some new dresses. I some-

times use the backs of myown dress-
- es for the needed renovations, some—

times new sleeves like the skirt be-
ing necessary. “ - a

My, husband's winter
adds amazingly to the children’s
wardrobe. , It used to furnish all
the needed shirts and‘drawers, but
since the children are older the
new drawers are more‘satisfactory.

The‘bottoms’of the. shirts make
nice warm petticoats"of which the

underwear

girlsrare very proud when an edging "
or feather-stitching of bright¢colored ‘
_ yarn or san silk is added.

Theﬂtops
of the shirts make little shirts for
the youngest. I use snap fasteners
on ghe home-made underwear as they
stay' fastened better than buttons.

I use them also on little leggings
which I make from the unworn por-
tions of their papa’s trousers.

If little trousers are made from
cast off coats or trousers I always
line them with gingham, thick- mus—
lin or something durable, though not
necessarily new.

The bands for trousers or drawers
should be made. plenty wide and of
heavy ticking, denim, etc, so they
may be used several times, thus sav-
ing time and labor. I also save the

 

 

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Mother

To you who watched our infancy.
And never forgot your care;

To you who bathed our fevered brow,
And thought not of your share.

To you who called us from our play,
And after prayers were said,

Kissed our eyes and tucked us in
Before you sought your bed;

To you who solved our problems
And taught us not to cry;

_.,._. --.'....-,..-.. .
, u.‘A-- ~--.- -... - .u up

To you who answered every plea
And wish and whim and sigh,-

To you we give in gratitude ‘

-For that your love has given

Not wealth of gold, but wealth untold
In love sent straight from heaven.

God bless our mother, who for us
Has sacriﬁced and won,
And may she live to see the man
She prayed for in her son.
——8. L., in Organized Farmer.

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o'e‘o‘
strips Of buttonsan‘d buttonholes to
match, as they can often be stitched
to an undergarment’ and serves the
purpose as well as new ones. When
stitching sleeves into a garment, I
place the eleeve in from the other
edge about three-eights of an inch.
and hem the ,outer edge over the
sleeve‘edge. It saves binding and
makes a nice ﬁnish. , .,

6‘0 get a skirt even all around i
from" the floor I ﬁnish it all except
I put the skirt on as I
wish to‘wear it and stand near the
edge of a table keepipg myself per-
fectly straight.~ I then mark or place

pins around the skirt where the edge

of the table came. After removing

v the skirt it is an easy matter to ,meas—

ure from the pins to the desired
length: r

Hoping these hints may help some
one, I am.—-Beatrice Nedry, His- '

saukee County.

ANOTHER UNOULTURED HUS-
. BAND LETTER
N RESPONSE to question in Au-
gust 21st issue, will say that if
any one has the “Personal Ex-
periences" that were published ‘ in
The Ladies Home Journal several
years ago, they could ﬁnd one ans-
wering her question. \ ,

I will give a few points which
remember from the article.

The writer bore these three things
in mind:

First—Be careful that all food set
before him be very dainty and at-
tractive, also everything about the
dining room.

Second—To mention beauties, in
nature in an enthusiastic manner
and read interesting books to him
along that line. Sometimes only
reading portions of the books she
was supposed to be reading for
children’s beneﬁt to him. .

Third—-—-Continually thought of_her
husband as growing more reﬁned.

The writer wrote the article ﬁve

 ‘years later, I believe and stated there

was a wonderful change in her hus-
band although the process was slow
but also none the less sure.—
Mrs. B. D., Branch County.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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EAR CHILDREN: I

 

not
been receiving very many let-
ters since I began writing to you

have

and I have wondered why. Of course
the boys never did write very often
but Aunt Clare used to gets lots and
lots of letters from the girls. Now
why won’t you girls write to me just
as you used to to Aunt Clare? I
like to get them just as well as she
did. Maybe it is because school
has begun and you are busy. But
I want you all, both girls and boys,
to write to me as I want to make our
department bigger and better than
ever and to do this I want to pub-
lish more letters. The editor has
promised me that we can have more
than one page some of the time. Isn’t
that good news?

What do you think of “Our Puzzle
Corner” which I started a couple of
weeks ago? I believe you will like
this department and I want all of
you to send me some good conun-
drums and I will print them in this
department and sign your name to
them. We have so‘ little space this
week that'I—Wili have to say good-bye.
v———UNCLE NED. ‘

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS '
Dear Uncle Ned—I was '12 m tall:

A Blst. Will be i the, 7th ,
one", I, live on a 300 acre farm We
.v. 4 horses, 19 head‘of cattla'l'i pissé
over 209‘ chickens and 23 geese. I spen
my.,,vmtion in Owosso, -hesaning, De-
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troit and Lansing. I have two married
sisters and one baby brother 8 months

 

old Sept. 10th.——Dorothy Chalker, Ban-
croft, Michigan. .
Dear Uncle Ned—I am a. girl 13

years old. I am in the seventh grade.
My teachers name is Miss Wanink. I
am sending a picture that I drew. I
read the children’s page and like it

 

very much. I remain as ever, your
friend—Inez King, Stanton, Mich,, R 1.
Dear Uncle Ned—We have two

hundred acres of land and we rent aw

hundred and twenty acres of it.- I have
0e sister younger than myself.‘ I am
1.3 years old and in the sixth grade in
school. We take the M. B. F. and are
well pleased with it, My sister and I
have a pony which we call Jack. We
like him fine.—--Belle.Erb, Yale", Mien.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—~I have written
twice to you but didn't see my letter in
print. I am a girl 1‘1 years old and in
the ﬁfth grade at school. My teacher‘s
name is Mr. Daenzer. I take music les-
sons and I am in the second book, My
father takes the M. B F. and likes it
ﬁne. I have four sisters and two broth-
ers. We live on a 47 acre farm. For
pets I have a bunny.—~—Eleanora Wegen-
er, Freeland, Mich,

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a. boy 13 years
old and I am in the 6th grade. ' My
teacher is Miss Duluth. We take the
M. B. F, I like it very muoh. We live
on a stock 'farmbt 200 acres. .We have
a. Buick car, a. Ford tractor, 25 pigs, 35
cows, 3 rabbits, 100 chickens, '
and 30 ducks. I have two [brothers and
three sisters. Hoping to see my letter
in print—Arthur Hugo, Essexville, R 1.

 

_ DO "NORA, v Donora.

"Bangor; ‘EAT‘ON, Easton; LEWIS
25 geeSe ..

 

 

 

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Dear Uncle Ned—I am a. girl,16 years
old. I have Written to you, before but
never saw my letter,in print so tn0ug3t‘
I would write again. We take the M. .
B. F. and like it ve much, I wish
some of the boys an girls about my
age would write to me. .1 have seven
brothers and one sister. I passed the
eighth grade last year so I don't think
I will go to school this year. Four of
my brothers go to school.

Francis B.
Koons, Homer, Mich. "

 

‘ 'Answer to. Last; Week's Puzzle
WILL I AM SPORT, Williamsport.
a BANG 0R,

TON, Lewiston. DUN MORE,’Dun-
more. RANK IN, Rankin. '

 

 

Farmer and Emperor

And the Memory Man said:

Once, in China, the emissaries of
a noble ordered a'Farmer to work
for the noble. ’

“I work for a bigger man than
he,” said the Farmer.

They told the noble, who in turn
told a Mandarin, who. ordered ,the
Farmer 'brought‘ to him. u

“I work fora bigger man than the
Mandarin,” said the Farmer.

80 the Mandarin told the Emper-
or, who sent a command to the
Farmer. _ i

“I work for a bigger than than. the
Emperor,” said ’th'e'll’armer'. ‘

The Emperor went himself to see
the Farmer.

“Whois this that is bigger than
I?” he asked. , .

The Farmer took a grain of rice
fromtthe ground. ‘

“‘This is what governs the noble,
the Mandarin and the Emperor,” he
answered. "Without this, all would
be nothing."
. “He is right,” said the Emperor.
“While I reign, this Farmer shall
hold his land free of tax, for he has
taught his Emperor a lesson." '

Real worth lies in simple things.

i the same letters.)

the ﬁrst 11 in chemise?!»

   

 

 

 

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Many miles across the seas,
My rich uncle deals in . . . . . . .;
In this land of the far, far . . . . . . _'
He sometimes makes a very ﬁne
feast; ‘
Each guest takes a
floor. » V I . 4~
. . . . .with chop sticks, ’er asks for. '
more. .
(The four missing words

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WOMEN’S atoms 5N, EV’RYTHING

T I‘VER SINCE Eve; accepted 01'
' Adam as her runnin' mate an’

, found him a little inclined to
*be boss of the roost so to speak, wo-
' men have been sort 0’ clamorin’ for
equal rights With men—the right to
have a say in what shouldcbe or not
be, as‘it were, an’ they have put up
a long an' continuous ﬁght to accom-
plish this much desired ends-

I ‘might say the struggle com—
menced when Eve got her dander up
an' raised Cain an’ made 01' Adam
take to the tall timber for a spell——
or since Cleopatra stabbed ,Mark
Hanna, or wheever it was she stab-
beds-with her hat pin or .whatever
she used to stab him with—well any—
way. since way back in the forgotten
times frail women have been ﬁghtin'
for the right to go with the men to
town'meetin’s an’ such an’ vote—
cast their ballots jes like men don’t
cha know, an’ have some say about
who should make the laws an' what
said laws should be.

You know how its been—women
I paradin’ the streets, makin’ speeches
in various an’ divers places, picketin'
the White House, landin’ .in jail,
coaxin’ and’ threatenin’ the men an'
them in high places—doin’ every-
thing to gain the one thing—the
right to vote. - -

Remember years ago when Susie
Anthony got right up in meetin’ an'
sez: “We’re goin’ to vote an’ be
equal to men—we’re goin’ to have
our rights given~ to us or we’ll mar-
ry you poor shiftless men an' take
'em any way.” Well, 'for quite a
spell men didn’t pay much attention
to the question—called it a woman's
whim or something and said woman’s
place was to home cookin’ meals,
washin’ dishes and tendin’ babies——
oh, the men wuz plenty brave an’
outspoken in them days, but the wo-
men kept hammerin’ away--—~tliey
cooked the meals an’ tended the

babies all right an’ a whole lot of ~

them babies happened to be of the
female sex an’ as they grew up they
took up the ﬁght an’ every genera-
tion (if ’em got a little stronger an'
concocted new argiments until at
last they covered the earth purty
night an’ men began to open their
eyes an’ seemed to git afraid—«so
many of ’em bein’ married an’
knowin' the commandin’ power of
women—an’ so at last in the year
A. D. 1920 the great question has
been settled—for evermore from now
to the end of time, nothin' preventin’
——-women will have the same right to
-vote that men have enjoyed for so
many years.

An’ now that the dear women have
this right what are they a-goin' to
do with it? -

 

 

ADJUSTED

On October 23, 1929. I sent an order
to Bellas Hess & Co., amounting'to $12
and some cents. ,, I received part of the
goods and a letter from them stating
that the balance would follow, soon. I
waited a reasonable length of time and
as they did not come I wrote them ask-
ing them to refund my money. The .bal-
ance ‘due me was $5.12, To they they
asked me to send‘ them the catalog num-
ber, style number and name ,of‘ articles
that I ‘had ordered and did not receive.
*I‘ did this. After waiting again I wrote
them once more.. They replied that their
books showed‘that the account had been
closed and I would-receive my goods in
due time. So far I haVe received no
goods—Mrs. H. M. H., Marshall, Mich.,
August 9th. _
‘ Upon receipt of the above we
wrote Bellas Hess & Co." They re-
plied and enclosed a copy of their
letter to Mrs. H. in which they stat—
ed that they were enclosing a check
tothe amount of $5.12. On Septem-
ber 1st, we received a letter from

' Mrs. H. that read as follows:

I received communication today from
Bellas‘ liess &tt§30 Itéaim vrctry irateii‘iil
toyou, 'ge n so eme -rs. .
M. H.. ingrshall, inch. , ' .

[CASH cemnssioN SENT

A-ye'ar ago the -Wils4osi ﬂood 00.. 1:;

 

f'Tyrone, ~Pa.,- sent me

' «garden seeds to sell‘for a. p um.

 

    
 

 sold the seeds and sent the money
V to them, for a, set of dish 81
*dgthey sent"me- Word t he? .

 , dishes“ d “to wait six weeks

 

e. Collection Bo 

    
   

 

At our recent ":primary election,
when theica'ndydates for all themost
important ofﬁces Vof our state" an’
counties wuz to be nominated—when
it was expected that a large female
vote would be polled, ‘What happen-
ed? Women who had fought an'

labored so many years for this one

great privilege wuz conspicuous by
their absence—in many country dis-
tricts no women voted—in the en-
tire state the women’s vote wuz so
light as not to- be noticeable at all—
in fact, so far as results go they
might ’bout as weil've not had the
right, theywuz numbered among the
stay—at-homes prob’ly washin’ dishes
an’ tendin’. babies“

An’ so the question jest natcherly
arises what did they want enual
rights for? Was it for the same rea—
son that a girl, after she gits too big
to play with dolls, wants a big doll
that she can dress up an’ lay away
jest so she can have it to say “I’ve
got abig-doll, it's my very own an’
I’ve laid it away 'cause I don’t never
expect to useit any more, but I’ve
always wanted, one an’ now I’ve got
it, I’m perfectly satisﬁed and happy."

It’s kinda hard to believe that the
good an' noble women of this coun-
try have worked so hard all these
years to obtain something which they
don’t intend to use—don’t seem pos—
sible they’d do it does it? And yet
what can we, of the male sex, think
when we remember the last primary
election—the ﬁrst chance the “down—
trodden” sex had to use their newly
gained freedom—their equal rights
———their supreme right to cast their
ballot for whomsoever they chose.

An’ now dear friends of the 'gent-
ler sex, please remember that many
men have been workin’ with you for
years—workin’ hard an’ faithful to
help you gain the thing that wuz
rightfully yours from the beginnin’
and they have helped you ﬁght the
great ﬁght, believin' that you really
wanted this right—that the country
would be better governed if you
were allowed to help choose the men
that are to govern it an' so I am
askin’ you point blank—what are
you agoin' to do about the matter?
Are you g-oin’ to let the old political
ringers run things jest as they al—
ways have? or are you goin’ to make
up an’ take an' active part in what
so vitally conCerns you an’ the entire
nation?

A veryrimportant election takes
place in November an’ great inter-
ests are at stake an’ where are you
agoin’ to be on that date, Tuesday,

‘November 2 ?

Now sisters of the female sex, you
have the right to vote an’ here's one
who would like to have you make
the most of it. Cordially yours.—
UNCLE RUBE.

 
   

          

and if I did not hear from them in that
length of time to write them, So I
waited six or seven weeks and wrote
them that I had not received the dishes
am .i got a card from them to wait 10
days or two weeks and if I did not hear
irom thP dishes by that time they would
get a tracer after them. I sent the
card back in the time speciﬁed and they
wrote back they had sent a tracer after
it and towait-a certain length of time
and if I did not hear from them to
write them. I wrote several times and
they claimed they had sent- the socmnl
tracer after them. Then last winter
they wrote me and said I was honest and
wanted me to sell some more seeds. I
wrote back that I would, not sell any
mu“! seeds until I got my first pro-n-
izim and if they had shipped the dishes
as they Claimed they had I would of re-
ceived a shipping bill and if they had
not to ship them by express and I never
heard from them any more—Mrs. W. H.
H., Ashley, MiclL, July 26th,

This matter was taken up with
the Wilson Seed Go. About two
weeks later Mrs. H. wrote as follows
to us:

I am sending you a letter I received
from the Wilson Seed Co., with $1.60.
Accept my thanks for getting a seme-
Ecnl: with them.——Mrs. W. H. H., Ashley,

0 ,

GOODS SENT BUT RETURNED UN-
CLAIMED

Nearly four menths ago my wife sent

an order for some rugs to the Hartman

00.. of Chicago, and sent a $6 money

order. Said company acknowledged re-

 

ceipt of the .order and money but never

 

 

 

ads and did not return-the
e "have written them [several
turn themoney or send the

 

. .~  s-
‘ frugs' but they do not answer at all. The

rugs 'were to be sent on the installment
plan. F., Fayette, Mich, Aug. , .
‘We wrote the Hartman Furniture
and Carpet Co., regarding our sub-
scriber’s complaint. Shortly after J.
F. received a letter from this com-
pany stating as follows: I

We are enclosing our check for 56
which refunds to you the deposit you
made with us for rugs.

We ﬁnd that the rugs were shipped
out to you but were returned to us by
the railroad company as being unclaim-
ed. Trusting that this check closes the
matter satisfactorily to you, we are.—
Hartman Furniture & Corpet Co.

That the check was received is
shown by a. letter received from Mrs.

J. F.

I received the money from the Hart-
man Co., and am writing to thank you
for your trouble. Please excuse our de-

lay—Mrs. J, F., Fayette, Mich., Sept. 7.

 

 

‘ omcaeo COMPANY ADJUSTS no: ‘

V . COUNT TWO YEARS OLD

* I have a complaint 'to make against-
,Bhilipsborn's.

In 1918, in. the fall, I
sentfor a dress and hat, amount $15.77.
I asked that they send me 2 dresses to
chooSe from and I would return the one
I did not want. They wrote that they lost
my papers and asked me to help them
locate my order which I did for the
whole year of 1919. I wrote them and
never got settlement. Finally they re-
fused to answar any of my letters.—
Mrs. B. W., Cadillac, Mich_, July 26th...

Upon receipt of a letter from us
this company advised us that they
were taking the matter up direct
with our subscriber, and a few days
later we received the following let-
ter from" her:

I am writing to let you know Phillips-
born's sent me my check for $15.77. I
thank you for it.——Mrs, B. W., Cadillac,
Mich., Aug. 15th.

 

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25% TO 40%

N o matter where you buy
your stove, some one must
send the order to the factory.
 Why not send your order to
the factory yourself and save
from 25 to 40 per cent? That’s
exactly what you do
when you get “A- 
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Save your own grain; thresh when
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We can ship from stock same day
order is received. Write us for cat-
alogue, or, if in a hurry, wire us at
our expense.

 

 

 

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new 0 AWA. Get your own fuel ntleso
' than 2c a cord, then supply big de‘mand

for ﬁre wood at $20 a cord up. the
Cool Shortage!

O__ATTAW Lee saw;

Over 4 H—P. 310 strokes a minute. Wheel-
mounted. Easy to move. cheap and easy to run.
Engine runs other machinery when not sawin .
New clutch lever starts and stops saw wh 9
engine runs. Cash or Easy Payments. 30
Dlyo' Trial. Io-Yoor Guarantee. Soml for

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Velvet Grip Hope Supporter-o ‘
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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW
Bankers and- others connected
with the ﬁnancing of the leading en-

' 'terprises‘ of the country, are taking

a very optimistic view of existing
conditions; they are heard frequent-
ly remarking, these fine autumn
days, that all danger of a lack of
money with which to move the crops
is past and some of them have even
been heard to hint that some of the
been held
down so closely of late, may be eas-
ed up a triﬂe before long. Repre-
sentatives oi the member banks in
the Federal Reserve banking system
use to convene soon and the follow-
ing week the American Bankers‘
association will. hold a convention;
to these two great ﬁnancial conclav-
es will come delegates from all over
the country and with them they‘will

1

bring reports which will give an ac- '

curate idea of ﬁnancial conditions as
they now exist. It is very general-
ly believed, that after , these men
have compared notes, very encourag-
ing reports will be given out to the
country at large; those who claim
to have advance information con-
cerning facts that will be included
in these reports, intimate that they
will say, for one thing, v that the
country has safely passed through
one of the most trying ﬁnancial
stringemdes ever known and that
from now on no apprehension need
be felt concerning anything in the
nature of a ﬁnancial panic in this
country.

According to a compilation of data
Just completed by the National City
Bank of New York, the foreign trade
of the United States, for 1920 will
approximate $14,000,000. This
total compares with 811,000,000,-
000 in 1919, $9,0000,000,000 in
1918 and 1917, slightly less than
88,000,000,000 in 1916, slightly
more than $5,000,000,000 in 1915
and $4,277,000,000 in 1913, the
the year preceding the beginning of
the war. Relative to the wonderful
growth of the country's foreign
commerce the bank’s statement has
the following to say:

“The expectation that we should
witness a fall off in our foreign
trade after the termination of the
war has not been realized. Both 1m-
ports and exports continue to grow
and the total on both sides of the
ledger will be bigger in the calen-
dar year of 1920 than in any year
since the beginning of the war and
several times as much as in the
year prior to the war. The biggest
imports in any calendar year prior
to the war were a little less than
two billions and will total six; billion
in the calendar year 1920, while ex-
ports which never exceeded two and
a half billion dollars prior to the
war will be over eight billion dol-
lars in 1920. In certain details,
howchr, the trade record during
and since the war shows remarkable
changes. “79 have become large
importers of certain manufacturing
materials and very large exporters
of manufactured. We have also
increased our importations of cer-
tain ioodstuil’s, but on the other
hand have greatly reduced our ex-

ports of food; though in that other ‘

agricultural product, manufacturing
material, our exports show material
increases."

The statement concludes with the
opinion that the “favorable trade
balance," namely excess of exports
over imports, will be smaller this
year than at any time since 1915,
and will probably approximate $2,-
000,000,000 as against 84,000,000,-
‘000,000 in 1919 and a little more
than $3,000,000,000 in each of the
three preceding years.

Our imports from Europe contin-
ued to increase during August while
shipments acroSs the Atlantic de-
creased. A Department of Com-
merce trade summary, recon 5-
mod, showed that import from
opean countries during m
tailed $114,000,000, M

 

 

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, GENERAL MARKET _ SUMMARXL

 

 

 

DETROITe—Grains all lower. Beans ’weak. Hogs loWer.’
Prime steers Steady. Canners and cow stud dull' and slow.

CHICAGO—Grains demoralized.‘ Choice yearlings steady, ﬂ
all other cattle lower. Hogs lbwer. Provisions weak and lower.

 

 

 

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While money for gamers! credit
purposes seems to be more plenti-
ful than heretofore rates for call
money are averaging higher, fluctu-
ating between 7 and 9 per cent. Re-
mst are largely at 7 per cent. No
change in time money, for use in
connection with stock exchange bus-
iness, is noted; brokers are bidding
8 per cent for 60 and 90 day paper
but only small loans are being made
on these terms.— Brokers. are bid-
ding 7 3-4 per cent for long time so-
commodations but lenders decline to
extend loans on anything but an 8
per cent basis. The business men-
ey market is unchanged at 8 per
cent but the apply of paper from
this source is not nearly as lame as
formerly; country banks. are the
principal buyers of business paper.
Experience hns’shown that as com-
modities go down an improved de-
mand develops for bonds; all class-
es of bonds, including Liberties, are
in active demand.

Referring to the foreign trade of
the country, mentioned above, it
now develops that fully $3,000,000,-
000 of the money owing to this
country from foreign buyers is still
in what is termed suspended settle-
ment; in other words, Europe still
owes us $3,000,000,000 for goods
she has purchased of us this year,
for which no terms or date of pay-
ment has been arranged. ‘

Reports from recent' stock ex-
change operations show sharp do-
clines in a1 industrial stocks and
corresponding gains in favor of rail-
road securities; the latter develop-
ment is, of course, the result of the
increases allowed in freight and
passenger rates. There are those
among us who do not regard the
huge lift given the railroads as an
unmixed blessing, even to the rail-
roads themselves. For example, the
railroads have been given the privi-
lege of greatly increasing freight
rates upon farm products; will this
fact tend to increase or decrease the
tonnage of agricultural products in
the districts remote from the great
centers of consumption?

A.

Only one amwer can be given to
the above question. Farmers who
only barely wane out even alter
paying former ﬁxed charges, will
abandon the uneven struggle, and
the annual tonnage of farm products
will decrease, rapidly, as long as the
present freight schedule is main-
tained. Already a slowing down in
transportation demands is noted
along somevlines. The price-cutting
mania which is sweeping the coun-
try, is causing trade to slacken along
all lines, buyers evidently waiting
for further concessions. Dullness
in trade always means a marked de-
crease in freight receipts.

This is the time of year when
much talk is heard about bumper
crops, over-supply of food, etc;
some of this talk is market propa-
ganda, disseminated for the purpose
of helping out the bear program of
falling prices for cereals and provi-
sions. A large share of the talk re-
ferred to is, however, little more
than the optimistic twitter of de-
lighted consumers, congratulating
each other on an abundant supply of
food at prices so low that they mean
demoralizaﬂon and ruin to the
producing classes. Is it in line with
the great counomic order of things
that such conditions shall continue
for very long in a country like ours?

 

WHEAT TENDING LOWER
' wuss? rmu rm au.. cor. e. 1020

 

 

 

 

and. Woman some... I V.
No. 2 mi  2.16 2.18 2.08
No. 2 walt-  2.14 2.23
No. 2 In“  2.14 2.19

 

 

'i'ﬁls ONE YEAR AGO‘
Rodi No.2 White! No.2 Mixed

Dctrolt .l 2.28 I 2.21 I 2.21

 

 

 

On Monday oi the current week,

wheat took a headlong plunge tow-
ard lower market levels; the break
went so far that the bull slique in
the grain and provision pits were
completely routed and the bears had
everything their own way. One of
the main features, in connection
with recent declines in wheat prices,
has been the reaching oi stop-loss
orders which resulted in the dump-

 

 

Folier't Weather Chart for October 1920

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Crooked line

.WASHINGTON, D. 0.. October 9,
1920.-Warm wave will reach Van-
couver, B. 0.; about Oct. 9 and tem-
peratures will rise on all the Pacific
slope and the American and Canadi-
an Rockies. Its center will pass
southeastward near Salt Lake, St.
Louis and Nashville, then northeast-
ward into the New England States
and eastern Canada. occupying about
five days in crossing the continent.
Two or three days behind this warm
wave a cold wave Will follow and
carry frosts southward about the av-
erage distance for the season.

P ecipitation from this storm will

coated about the same as for the
t. tines- months and, together with
oprecedin storm, will brin the

pal in sture of this man . I
not expecting any radical change
the location or moisture until in

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE 'WEEK
As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

    

temperatures: above straight line mm. below colder

Principal rains come with
the severe storms and there is one
more severe storm period for this
month; it will cross the continent
during the ﬁve days centering on Oct.
27th.

I advise to sow winter grain where
the soil is now in good condition. Of
Course, 00 Mon; are neVer favor-
able on all parts of the continent and
while the crops of 1921 will be much
better in some sections than others,
the general average for Canada,
Mexico and America will be better
than usual and I believe the demand
will' be all that producers can rea-
on b1 .

s Piogucers should not be discourag-
ed by futurevrprospects. Bad man-
agement, of these higher up has caus-
ed unnecessary losses,.but for 1921
all values will be reduced and there-
fore the e uses of the farm, the
mine and e factory will be less,
Normal market values cannot go back
to the low points that prevailed be-
fore the word war. Increases in the
cost of labor will be compensated by
increased values of products as com-
pared with beforedhe—war values.

November.

 

 

 

 

 

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in; of large” linesof long wheat on
a weary market. It isrvésry hard to
ﬁnd anyone who is friendly to what"!
now, the majority, or yard timers
and market experts expressing the
opinion that "the decline in corn no
so far weakened the general sites:
tion, in connection with breadZstuifl’,
that the only logical outcome will’b'o
lower wheat. ' a ‘ ‘ ‘
Large quantities of .Cauadj 
wheat are being marketed on 3th
side these days and Canadian mill-
ers'are offering flour $1 perm
lower than our current prices. 
ing the big break, ‘last' Monday.
ﬁrms with seaboard connection with

iree‘buyors of wheat but this mm;

once failed to stem the current ct
violently fluctuating market. India
shipper 112,000 bushels of wheat on
Monday, the ﬁrst sent from there in
a long time.

CASH CORN ’1 PER BUBHEIA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ooaN raters rsn um. car. I. 1020
Grade Ibtmlt Ionic“. N. v. ‘
no. 5 3:“?! 1.06 l u 1.80
o. W . . . .
V0. 4 Yellow . . . I 9‘
Phil!!! on: was no
mo.2 VnIIJ No.3 mm No.4 you.
Dotrolt ..l 1.53 | a

 

 

All last week and up until Mon-
day night, the corn market contin-
ued to swing toward lower price lev-
els. Daily quotations for cash corn
were revised to keep pace with the
falling optiOn market until on Mon-
day No. 2 cash corn was quoted in
the Detroit market at 31 per bush-
el. It is commonly understood that
recently the speculative trade in
corn was freely discounting the com-
ing government report issued on Fri-
day, October 8. The conviction
seems to be general that the farm-
on of this country have produced a
tremendous crop and that the major
part of it will be merchantable corn.
The largest crop of corn ever raised
in this country with the exception of
this year was 3,125,000,000 bush-
els in 1912 and 85 per cent of this
crop was merchantable. Last year‘s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

crop or 2,917,000,000 bushels was
86.9 per cent merchantable.
CASH OATS FIRM
err pmcss PER 30.. act. 5. 1920
Grade lDetrolt [Chicago N. V.
No. 2 Whlto  .co .BBV: .65
No. 3 Whlte  53% 38%
No. 4 White  .55V2
names on: YEAR aoo
[N02 Whltol No.3 wnnol No.4 wmu
comm .14 I .18- I .12

 

 

 

Oats have followed the lead of
other grains in sharp declines as tar
as the option market is concerned
but current selling prices for the
grain have not followed suit. The
market for cash oats is a supply and
demand affair in many markets.
Farmers, busy with their (all work,
have not brought oats enough to
many markets, including Detroit, to
meet the current needs of’users.

_ RYE
The rye market is fluctuating up
and down in sympathy with other
grains with little prospect of inde-
pendent action in the near future.
No. 2 rye is quoted at $1.71 on the
Detroit market.

 

 

BEANS BULL AND WEAK '

 

WEAN PﬁlcEs PER OWT.. 001'. B. 1920

Grade [Daron IOhInuol II. V.
3. H. P. . . . . ..I 4.55 _
Rod Kidneys . . . .l
PRICES ONE YEAR I00

no. H. P4 Prlmo |Rod Kidneys
. . . .l 1.80 l i

 

 

Detroit

 

 

The bean market is dull and fast-
ureless, market prices showing a
declining tendency. From the stand-
point at many or the elevator own-
ers of the state, the recent decline
in bean prices. is little less than a
cola , 3 many dealers are loaded
to the unit with stock that has been
Willem for a long time all

which to continue buying is not urol-
s e. V . ' e _

    

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The potato market is dull and un1

 

changed, market conditions'and cur-
rent prices at Detroit not differing.
much from those that maintained *
when this paper went to press last .

week. All of the leading market

report large; arrivals; of..stoek,. very ,
little of it in ﬁrst class marketable ;
condition. . Potatoes that were dug -
and shipped fresh from the field, 5

during recent warm weather, have

in 'bad condition, making it necessary
to out prices to move them. New

York reports a glut, Chicago is in :

somewhat better shape but about the
best that can be done in that mar-
ket for extra stock is $1.25 per bush-
el. The United States government
recently purchased the. potatoes
needed by the navy for $2.10 per
cwt.; only uniform sized, round. po-
tatoes are accepted by the govern-
ment. The general opinion among
those who understand the potato
market best, is that the market will
improve with the advent of cooler
weather. .

 

HAY

i m. 1 11m.l Stan. vaJ No. a 11:9.

0m" . . I81 .00 O 82I30.00 Q 81 I29.00 G 80
0h! ,I83.00@88I81.00@88|28.00 @ 30
New crk [88.00 C 4 34.00 @ 38
Plttsburg [88.50 @ 88I81 .50 O 31I29.00 @ 30

 

 

 

I! "0.1 I No.1 l No.1
Light Mix. louver Mix. I Glover
Detroit . . I80.00 G 31I29.00 Q 80l28.00 @ 29
Chicago . I81.00038I20.00028 20.00 6 30
New York l33.00@81i80.00@84
Pittsbum I80.00 @ 31I80.00 Q 81
HAY PRIOES A YEAR A00

- I No. 1 Tim.l Stan. Til-ml No. 2 Tim.

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No.1 II No.1 I No.1
Light Mix. Clover Mimi Glover

emu ..| n '4
No change in« the hay market

worth noting has occurred during
the past week except that supplies

 

 

 

have been accumulating in nearly,

all. markets and demand has been
uniformly weak and undependable.
In a recent interview with the ad-
itor of the market department of
this paper, a prominent Detroit hay
dealer had the following to say: "I
would not advise sending hay to
Detroit at this.time. Our market
is rather over-supplied with all
grades and this fact taken in con-
nection with the large amount which
is known_ to be in transit and head-
ed this way, makes it practicaligr cer-
tain that we are due for a ‘over—
load’ before an adequate clearance
can be made. The trouble with the
situation, from the standpoint of the
salesman, is that he finds all of his
customers inclined to hold off for
lower prices. We have customers,
that under normal conditions fre-
quently order ﬁve cars of hey at
once, to whom we can now only sell
one car at a time; these men are out
of hay but they are buying irom
hand to mouth and jockeying for
lower prices.”

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

With the single exception of
steers selling above $17.50 per cwt.,
the entire cattle market is practical-
ly demoralized by recent excessive
receipts of western range cattle and
lack of demand for dressed beef.
Wholesale prices for dressed beef
are being rapidly revised downward
but the purchaser in a retail way,
has as yet heard very little about
the decline. Carcass cost of beef in
eastern markets has declined .from

 

$3 to $5 since this date last week. -
Orders received» at Chicago from the :

east for carloads of cattle were con-
fined to high-grade steers and only
a limited number of them were tak-
en. Last week's arrivals, in the
Chicago market were 3,000 less than

for the week before but, in‘spite of.

this tact, enough cattle went over
Sunday unslod to make a market on
(Monday had no fresh receipts come
to hand.

A new top price was made for
yearling steers in Chicago, last week
when a load of 881-pound Herefords
sold for $18.86 per cwt., Strictly
prime yearling cattle have been

scarce ‘of late and all of this kind

that have come to hand have been
promptly taken at good prices.

  
 
   

 

use: other grad‘es'l'of steer cattle

'1 werezfrom. .75 cents to 81 per cwt. 
lower than last week’s average. Can-

ner, ,cowseand steers-;were sharply
lower and bulls lostwfrom 50: cents
to 81 per cwt. One of the price re-
ductions that deserves special men-
tion is a cut of fully $2.50. per cwt.
in the value of good at cows within
the last two weeks. . ,
Stock Cattle Sharply Lower
A glut of stockers and feeders in
the Chicago market has resulted in
practical demoralization at all of
the leading market points. Western
markets have been gintted with light

3 common cattle all this week and
in many cases arrived in the market ‘

thousands have been sent on to Chl—
cage, there to go out the bargain
counter and stick there without bids.
Arrivals. in Chicago, last week, of
western range cattle equaled 27,800
head, the largest'week's run in this
department since 1911. On the close
last Saturday range cattle had lost
fromsl to $1.50 per cwt. in market
value tram the close of the week
before. '

Sheep and lambs closed the week.
last Saturday, in Chicago, in the
worst price slump of the season, so
far. Native lambs had been higher
early in the week with a top of $14
but all of the gain was lost and the
close was 75 cents to 81 .per cwt.
lower than the strong close of the
week before. All through the early
week's trading, aged western ewes
and wethers were scarce and com-
paratively firm but late last Saturday
heavy receipts of western wethers
came to hand and prices slumped
with the remainder of the list. '

Western lambs were ﬁrm, early in
the week, but on Thursday a heavy
run of rangers showed up and mat-
ters went from bad to worse until
the close on Saturday night when
values showed a loss of 75 cents to
$1 per cwt. for the week. The ar-
rival, in New York harbor, of an-
other load of frozen mutton and lamb
from New Zealand has been one of
the contributing causes to the gen-
eral weakness of sheep and lambs in
all markets during the past week.

Break In Live Hog Prices

Hogs showed a decline of $1.65
last week from the top paid on Sat—‘
urday of the week before; the aver-
age in Chicago for the week was
$1.35 per cwt. lower than that of
the week before. Daily receipts
were light at all points and the qual-
ity decidedly poor, arrivals running
quite largely to pigs and under-
weights, almost entirely devoid of
the finish that makes a hog give sat-
isfaction when sold from the block.
Other markets than Ch 0 were
relatively lower than the ig mar-
ket, eﬂectually shutting of! shipping
demand. Shipments of cured meats
from Chicago last week to foreign
points were 10,000,000 pounds larg-
er than for the previous week and
500,000 larger than for the corres-
ponding week the year before.

In August, last year, live hogs
sold for $23 per cwt. this price be—
ing the treme top for the season,
was only paid for a few hogs; for
more than a month, including a
part of July and August, prices rang-
ed between $19 and 828 per cwt.
During the last half of September,
1919, a decline in hog prices started
that culminated early in December
when the top price dropped, for a
short time, to $12 per cwt.

Detroit had a dull and draggy cat-
tle market all last week and no
change was noted on Monday of this
week. The average quality of local
arrivals is about the poorest of the
season and salesmen are obliged to
do a peddling business in order to
close out consignments. Connors
and good fat cowswent oi! 50 cents
in Detroit on Monday of this week,
the out being in the nature of an
evening up with other markets that
took it on late last week.

Veal calves were in moderate sup-
ply in the Detroit market on Monday
with a 819 top. The trade in sheep
and lambs was fairly active at bet-
ter prices than were looked tor after
the. had close in Chicago last Satur-
day. In sympathy with other mar-
kets hogs declined sharply in De-
troit during'the past week but pric-
es paid from day to d have been
more nearly in line wi.
other markets, similarly located,
than for a long time.

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HIDI'I GRADE LANDS

A large acreage of high class, heavily
grassed and ea cleared lands is now
available for pure as and settlement in
Presque Isle County’s recognizad champion
clover seed belt, traversed by Detroit ltd
Mackinac R. R. and East Mich. Dixie
r! Lands surround the thriving man
actnring city of Onaway (population 3,000
and are the choice selections of the

lands. Timber was removed scans
years ago.

These are heavy and medium soils &
s real bottom and under-laid with lime
rivaling the famous blue grass regions
Kentucky but more FAVORED BY 0L! '1‘-
IO CONDITIONS and the natural hours or
clover, alfalfa, vetoh peas. etc., to
the home grown fertility {or unrivaled with
can. barley and sugar beet crops. Live
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exorbitant price and they came to no on
on indebtedness. I have other mum tob-
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tract and on any terms. There are oval

20,000 acres.
Mr. A. V. Hinkley Pres. Onswsy Bank
has charge of them or write me.

THAD B. PRESTON

Pres. Ionia State Savings Bank
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cistern. llnnk barn 40 x 00 and other outbuild-
ings. Good flowing well. Running creek in
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school and churches. Price right if taken at
once. H. J. MORLEY, It 2, Turner, Mich.
FOR SALE—92 ACRES 0F BEACH AND
Innplc timber land, 70 acres under cultivation,

 

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10~room house, barn 34 x 44, silo and other
outbuildings, good wntcr. Price $7,800. Easy
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Mich., .I. ll. Andrews. Mgr.
TOSACCO—KENTUCKY’S BEST LEAF,

chewng and smoking, all tobacco, no dope. “Di-
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“Love is the Dream of Ages," seini-classls, 80
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cents These four numbers, 60 cents, postpaid,

ﬁrst class. F. ll. LOVETT, Publisher, 169
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THE LIOE AND MITE PROOF BOOST THAT
so many hundreds of. poultry people are using;
prices and poultry booklet free. Agents wanted.
ALLION YERMINPRDOF‘ PIERCE 00., Dexter.
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. (Continued from last'week).

N THE Polled Shorthorn division
Michigan was represented by L.
C. and B. D.‘ Kelley of Plymouth.

0. E. Simons and Son, Geneva, 1nd,,
made a strong. bid for a share of the
honors in this class. L. C. Kelley
showed a. well-balanced herd of an—
imals that conform closely to the
generally accepted type for
Mr.

share, of, the prizes” offered.

Kelley‘won ﬁrst of aged bull, junior .

yearling bull, junior. bull calf, jun-
ior yearling heifer, two-year—old cow
and two animals the produce of one
Mr. Kelley’s two-year-old.
Strawberry Lady, was made senior
and junior champion cow of the
breed. '

In the Holstein division, C. T. Hu— 5 Stock Farm, Lexington’. Ky” and F.

f s. Kites, St; Paris, Md.
] conceded to be a great honor to be
i able to win the “purple” when com-

E' M. Bayne, Home”, Wood_  peting with such wonderful herds ‘of

lett & Son, of Okemos, Mich., made
some very creditable exhibits, win-
ning ﬁrst prize on two-year-old bull,
senior bull calf and three-year-old
cow.
crest Farm, Plymouth and John P.
Hehl, of Detroit, also had small
herds of worthy individuals on ex-
hibit in this class. Mr. Hehl, whose
farm is located near Ortonville, has
not been very long in the business
and the'majority of his entries were
yearlings or calves.

A meritorious exhibit of Galloway
cattle was made With'only one Mich—
igan exhibitor, W. M. Vines, of How-
ell, in the competition. ,Mr. Vines
won ﬁrst prize on two-year-old bull
and the remainder of the ribbons
were won by James Frantz,
ton, Ohio. There were two Michi—
gan exhibitors in the Red Polled
class, W. W. Kennedy, Grass Lake
and Herbison Bros, of Birmingham.
A. S. Bolen & Son, Fremont, 0., and
Stump and Etzler, Convoy, 0., were
the other exhibitors in this class.
Bolen furnished the senior champion
bull and the remainder of the prizes
were won by Stump & Etzler with a
herd that certainly deserved to win.
In the Ayrshire classes, H. W. Mur-
phy of Birmingham and Shuttleworth
Bros., of Ypsilanti, divided the hon-
ors. Murphy won ﬁrst on senior bull
and furnished the senior grand cham-
pion female of the breed. The Shut-
tleworth cattle won the remainder of
the ribbons.

H. W. Wigmsn, Lansing, Mich.‘,
made a ﬁne showing in the Guernsey
classes, winning ﬁrst on senior year-
ling bull, junior yearling bull, sen—
ior bull calf, junior yearling heifer,
young herd, calf herd and get of
sire. Mr. Wigman also won ﬁrst
and second on senior heifer calf and
junior heifer calf, third on aged bull,
aged cow and senior yearling heifer;
he won second prize on three—year—
old cow and produce of cow. John

_Ebels, Holland, Mich., made a very

creditable exhibit in this class, win-
ning ﬁrst prize on two-year—old bull
and produce of cow; he won second
on two-year—old cow, junior yearling
heifer and junior yearling bull; he
won third on three-year-old cow,
junior bull calf, graded herd, young
herd and get of sire. '

In the Hog Department

In the short space of three years
the hog exhibit at the Michigan State
Fair has grown from an entry list
of 200 to the tremendous showing
at the late fair which numbered more
than 700 hogs. The entries in this
department were quite. largely from
Michigan and the animals that faced
the judges in every class were so
closely matched in breeding, type
and general merit that it was ex-
tremely diﬁicult to make awards all
of which would escape criticism from
some of the (master, mechanics, in
pork production, that surrounded the
show rings. The judges .in the hog

department proved themselves equal

to the difficult task set before them
however and very little fault-ﬁnding
with awards was heard. Breeders
and care-takers, who make a busi-
ness of following the fair circuit,
nearly always become expert judges
of standard quality in domestic an-
imals; we are growing a race of live
stock judges and it is to the faithful
work done by our live stock judges,
at our fairs and expositions that we
are indebted for the wonderful in-
crease in knowledge and judgment
among our breeders and herdsmen.
There are probably many who do-

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“baby .
beef” production and won the lion’s, '

j Bros.

Bluff— _

Serveicredlt for 'the',outs.tandi;1g 5116;

cess in the hog department ‘of‘, the

State Fair, this year, but everyone

connected with the exhibit will agree
that the superintendent, E. N. Ball,
of Hamburg, had more,_to do with
rounding out the ,exhibitla‘nd' with
making everybody who came happy

and contented with their lot than
any other agency. , '
In the Berkshire division, the

Michigan colors Were carried by Park-
er Bros., Niles; this ﬁrm was award-
ed ﬁrst on aged boar,-. senior yearling
boar, senior boar pig, junior yearl-
ing ‘boar pig. -' The grand ‘cha'mpio‘n
boar and the senior champion sow
weer both from the herd ofParkor
The other exhibitors in the
Berkshire classwere Mt. Brilliant

It must be

show animals as those mentioned
above and Parker Bros. are to be

'congratulated on the showing their

hogs made in suchfashcompany;
One of the most impressive ex-
hibits ever made in an American
show ring was put an in the Poland
China division; if there was ever any

doubt that Michigan is breeding the.

biggest and the ﬁnest Poland China

. hogs in this country, it was all' die-

pelled at the State Fair this year.
The Allen Bros. of Paw Paw do not
conﬁne their breeding operations to
Hereford cattle but are also breeders

of Big Poland China hogs. The herd

that this ﬁrm showed at the State
Fair would be a. credit to any breed-
er; .they won ﬁrst on their aged boar
Good Defender and on aged herd.
The senior champion boar of the
breed was also shown .by the Aliens.

The senior boar pig shown by A.

i A. Feldkamp, Manchester, Mich., was

one of the ﬁnest animals the writer
has ever seen and it was evident that
the judges agreed with this estimate
for they made him both junior and
grand champion of the breed. Mr.
Feldkamp also won ﬁrst prize on
junior yearling boar, third on pro-
duce of sow and second on junior
boar pig, junior yearling sow, aged
bear and get of sire.

A.-E. Leonard, St. Louis, Mich.,
came to the fair with ten head of Big
Poland's, everyone a star; seven in
the herd were sired by Leonard’s
Big Bob, without doubt, one of the
greatest sires the breed has ever
known. Mr. Leonard won ﬁrst on
aged sow, senior boar pig, breeder’s
herd, exhibitor's herd, get of sire
and pro-duce of sow; he also won
ﬁrst, second and third prize on jun-
ior sow pig, second on senior year]-
ing boar and senior boar pig; he also
wonvthird and fourth‘on‘junior boar
pig. The Leonard exhibitjfurnished
the grand champion sow, the senior
champion sow the junior champion
sow of the breed. Mr. Leonard has
claimed October 28 as the date for
an auction of Poland Chinas. _

W. B. Ramsdell, Hanover, Mich.,
had the honor of showing the heavi-
est hog at the show, an aged boar
weighing 1,060 pounds. Mr. Rams-
dell had twelve hogs in his string
and he won 13 prizes; he won ﬁrst
prize on junior boar pig; second on
senor yearling boar, senior sowypig,
breeders young herd and get of sire;
he also furnished the senior reserve
grand champion of the breed. Mr.
Ramsdell has claimed Nov. 10 as a
date for an auctionsale of Poland
Chinas. '

J. R. Hawkins, of Hudsdn, Mich.,
showed 13 hogs in the Poland China
classes, winning on ﬁrst, one third,
two fourths and one ﬁfth. Mr. Hawka
ins furnished the reserve grand cham—
pion of the breed and the senior
champion sow. ,

Stokes & Hile, Greenville, Mich.,
put upa good ﬁght f0r the honors of
the day in the Poland China show
ring, capturing two ﬁrst and several
seconds and thirds. E. W. Ordway,‘
Millington, Mich., made a. splendid
display of useful Polands but. the
competition was a trifle too strong
and he ‘did not win very many prizes.
. Comments on the remainder of the

~- live stock exhibits at,the State Fair
..will appear in next Week’s issue of

Tris Busmss Fssmm/

   

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Name “Bayer” means genuine
Say “Bayer;’_’_——lnsistl

 

Say “Bayer”, when buying 3 .As
Then you are sure of getting true f yo?
Tablets of Aspirin”—genuine As 'ith,
proved safe by millions and prescribes 
physicians for over twenty years. An-
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which contains proper directions to relieve
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgls.
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Hand tin
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Enlt
gists also sell larger "Bayer packageu
Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer'Manufu-

ture Monoacéticacidester of Salinvlicacld.

 

99 SHOE BARGAINS

Here is one of ninety-nine real bargains shown
in the

new Rambler Catalog, A good dunblo
, comforts. b l a“ 

work shoe -
Locally they would
cost- not less than 87.
perhaps more. Even
in our cbnin atom
the sollinl 00-:
brings price to 8 .
Buying by mail doc.
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pensivo selling forc-
es, high rents s“
all other unnee-
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barnyard acids. Heavy soles of oak tanned leath-
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them all the ﬁrst day and you won’t notice than.
Brown only. You take no risk, simply send tho
coupon. Shoes are shipped, pay the postman
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shoes are not satisfactory I can return than:
you will return money, including pom“.
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$3.35 per Bu.

Red Rock Wheat
$4.00 per Bu,

(sacks 60c extra)
F. O. B. Ypsilanti, Mich.
Cash with order.
Only small amount left.

MARTIN DAWSON COMPANY
Ypsilanti, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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SALE DATE ‘.

10 mole huﬂ‘nlcullu a...“ "r. will without
cost. list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us a: once and we will claim the date
'0' You. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens. ;

Oct. 19. Holsteins. f Michigan
Friesinn Ass'n, Jackson,’ Mich.

Oct. 22. IInIsteins. Howell Sales Company
if Livingston 00., IIowell, Mich.

Oct. :26, Poland (lhinas. Wesley I'Iile.
Ionin. Mich. ‘

(lot. 27. I‘o'and Chinas. Boone-Hill Co..
Blanchard. Mich.

Oct. ZS. Poland (minim. Clyde Fisher and '
E. Ii.‘Lcnnard, St.- Louis, Mich.
Oct. 25), Poland Chlnss.
Sons, It‘liacanMich. .

Oct. 30. Poland Cbinas.
Sons, Elsie, Mich.

Dec. 4. llolsteins.
well. Mich. ' . Jr“

Feb. 1. Poland Chinas. Witt Bros, Jas-
per. Michu ' . '.

 

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Ilarry T. Tubbs, El-

 

 

 

'LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

Porter Colrstock, Eaton Itnpids, Mich.
J. E. lluppcrt, Perry. Mich.

 

 

Hurry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.

 

 

  CATTLE 

‘IJOLSTEINILFRIESIAN

 

 

 

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Grow your own next herd sire. We have
three beautiful youngsters—~straight as a line.
big-boned rugged fellows. ’l‘he'y. are all by
our 38 lb. senior sire, KING KOIINIH'KE
()ltlSKANY PONTIAC from spendld' indi-
vidual dams of A. It. backing and the best
.of blood lines. ,  '

Write for our sole list.

BOARDMAII FARM
JACKSON. MICH.
Holstein Breeders Since 1906

 

 

"low you a proof and tell you what It will cost for 13, 26 or 52 times‘.’
Brecders' Auction Sales advertised here at special iowrates: ask for~them. Write today i)

Chas. Wetzel & E
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Brewbaker &

 

F

OR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS
nearly rrildy for service from good A. It. 0

dams. also bull calves. Wnn Griffin, Howell. Mich.

 

   
   

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‘ You ’can change size of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy or changes must berecelved one week before date of Issue-

enzeosns' DIRECTORY, THE MICIIICAMMBUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 
 
 

Holstein-Fri‘esian Cows
Produce Most Milk
Produce Most Butter

They hold all World’s Records for

production.
record, 1,506 lbs.
milk record, 33,425 lbs.

Ask for Freevlllustrated Booklets.

THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

295 . Hudson Street
Brattleboro. Vermont

 

 

Champion yearly butter
Champion yearly

 

 

I A GRANDSON or
KING or THE Pouniics

that will be ready for service in September
whose own Sister has just made over 22lbs.
of butter as 3 Jr. 3 year old and whose Dam
‘ms made over 20 lbs. and We own both of
iliem and they are due to freshen again in
ianuury and will be tested. This young bul'
is well grown and a top line that could not
he beat. his Dam's 1-2 sister has just made
over 31) lbs.

'His price is only $150.00.

From a fully accredited lierd.

BAILEY STOCK FARM. Ypsilanti, Mich.

Address all correspondence to

JOHH BAZLEY
319 Atkinson Ave. 1
DETROIT. MICHIGA‘T

 

 

 

 

SOLD AGAIN

Bull calf lest advertised sold but have 2 more
that are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired by a son og King Ona. One is from
a 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam nnd the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, she is by a son of
Friend Ilengcrveld De Kol Butter Boy, one of

the great bulls.
JAMES HOPSON JR., Owosso. Mlch.. R 2.

 

AN INTRODUCTION

Mr. Dairy Farmer, Mr. Holstein Breeder meet King Flint

ALL THREE are working to a common purpose—to increase the pro-
duction of Michigan Dairy herds.

We believe all three should work together. 4

We feel sure that no Michigan bull has ever been better equipped 101‘
the work.

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 month for a full lactation period with an av-
erage of 3.8% fat. '

His dam is one of Michigan’s greatest family—three full sisters that
have produced over 30 lbs. butter in seven days, two of them pro—
ducing over 700 lbs. milk, and two of them producing more than

, 1,000 lbs. butter and 21,000 lbs. milk in ten months.

His sire is the direct descendant of three generations of 30 1b. 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. butter and 17,000 lbs. milk as heifers.

Let KING FLINT Help You Improve 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 Genesee County and we want
them all to stay in Michigan.

Write us about your herd, tell us what you need and what you feel
you can afford to pay and let us help you find just what you want
in Genesee County, the center of Michigan’s long distance dairy
cattle.

GEIIBIDA FARM
\Valter T. Hill,
Davison, Mich.

ELMGREST STOGK FARM
G. L. Spillane & Son CO.
Clio, Mich.

 

 

 

BUSINESS FARDIER.

 

\VHEN ‘VRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION THE
IT “’ILL HELP YOU TO HELP US.

 

 

 

   

 

Three Great Holstein Days l
E _ OCtober 19th, 20th, 215i

Dairymen Of Michigan!

I— This is your opportunity to select
healthy Holstein cattle to improve your herds

225

BHUIEE REGISTERED HﬂlSiEINS

SOLD “71TH 60-90 DAY RETEST PRIVILEGE

225

Second Michigan State Holstein Sale

JacksOn, Tuesday, October 19th

70 head of Michigan’s best Holsteins, selected from herds that
have passed at least one clean test under state and federal super-

vision.-- - v

All high-class individuals with good records.

CoWS with records to 32.92.

Daughters of cows with records to 34.53.
Bulls from 31, 32 and 33 pound dams.

Third Central Michigan Holstein Sale

 East Lansing, Wednesday, October 20th _ '

. =75 carefullyseleCted individuals, including 14 daughters of
Sunshine Clothild‘e Pontiac Lad. rich in Pontiac Korndyke and De-
Kol 2nd’s Butter Boy 3rd bloodlines.

King . Segis.

a

7 cows in calf to Model Glista King Segis, a 35-lb. grandson of

I Shiawassee County Holstein Breeders’ Sale

 ‘OWosso, Thursday, October let

‘80 choice coin; and heifers, including 10 daughters of Johan
.Hengeryeld La'd and 14 cows in 538.113 to this great son of Hengerveld

rDeKol, , ,. .

Cows withrecords to 31 pounds.

Sales Managed By

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The Michigan Holsteianriesian' Association
.11. “7. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary ‘
Old State ‘Block, Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

West Michigan’s Great Sale of

REGISTERED

Holstein Cattle

114 Head of High-Class Cattle at the
West Michigan State Fair Grounds,
Grand Rapids, Mich, on

Monday, October 18, 1920

A splendid lot of carefully selected cattle to choose from, where the buyer can select any-
thing he wants from a choice heifer calf to an unusually good 32-lb. YOUNG HERD SIRE.

Among our offerings will be about a car load of very desirable yearlings and two-year~old
heifers from the noted Traverse City State Hospital Herd. Most of these Traverse City heifers
are safe in calf to an $8,000 Grandson of MAY ECHO SYLVIA.

H. A. Washburn will disperse his entire Government and State Accredited Herd of 25 head
of.oholce cattle, including a 29-lb. cow and her 6-months-old bull calf.

Monroe & Lewis will also disperse their entire Government and State Accredited herd of
15 good females including two splendid daughters of a, 284b, cow.

Clarence Bisbee will disperse his little herd of five females. including a. 20-lb daughter
of a 34«lb. sirc,‘and a 24-lb. daughter of a 30-lb. cow safe in calf to a 33-lb. bull.

\Ve will also have a. car load or two of good fresh milch cows of good type, and a. our lead
of springers due to freshen in November and December.

We will offer a car load or more'of good cows due to freshen during the Winter or early
spring; also about a car load of good yearling heifers, and a car load of choice heifer calves.
These yearling heifers and heifer calves are good individuals; most of them are out of high
record sires and it number of them are from good A. R. 0. dams

There will be two 29-1b. cows in the sale, a. 25-lb. cow,. a 24—lb. daughter of a 30-lb
cow and other good A. R. 0. cows that space does not permit us to mention.

The 32-1b. bull cell is sired by_a .30-lb. son of King of the Pontiacs and is one of the
best young bulls ever offered in a Michigan sale rIng. We also have a 31-lb. 2~year~old bull
In the sale, two desirable 29—lb. bull calves, a. splendid yearling bull out of a 26.88 lb. cow
and a 81-lb_ sire and several other good bull calves out, of high-class sires and .good A. R. O.
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Nearly all the cattle In the. West Michigan Sale at Grand Rapids come from herds that
are tuberculin tested regularly under the Government and State Accredited Herd plan, and a
number of these herds are "Fully Accredited.

If interested in the cattle offered at the West Michigan Sale, WRITE FOR A SALE

CATALOG.

Sales Catalogs will in out October 1st.

W, R. HARPER, Sales Manager
a. susrm BACKUZEO,.'I;I.P_1-edlfgreeo gin-grog  'P‘Ié'".   "mediums, Miciin

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HOWELL SALES C0.
of Livingston County

The oIdest sales company of Livingston County will hold their
7th  SALE OF I

v 80 Head of Reg. Helstein Cattle
at the sales pavilion on the Fair Grounds at Howell, Michigan
Catalog October 10th '

 

 Grim. My, Howell, 

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as" our rm

Your problem is more. MILK... man BUTTER.
more 1’30ng per cog. A m
son 0 re police a Pontiac-—
13f852—hom cure huvaesrly-mﬂkintlood-m.
tar-record dam will solve
Ms lecrcst Application

He is one of the greatest Ring distance sires;

His daughters and soul will prove it.

Write III for on .011.-

Prices right and not too for the sues-en
dry farmer.

Pedigrees and prices on

B. Bruce McPherson,

BIO BOOK NOLSTEINS '

Herd Headed by Johan Pauline De
Kol Lad 236554 6
a son of Flint Hengervel‘d Lad
and Johan Pauline DeKol twice
30* 1b. cow and dam of Pauline
DeN‘ijlander (Mich. Champion
two years old.)
Bull calves from dams up to
r28 pounds.
Roy E. Fickies, Chesaning. Mich. F

' OONSIONED TO JAOKSON SALE.

Two of our young bulls have been. selected by
theStatolmtarto;be mammal»-
igan Holstein-Frieaien Association Sale at Jack-
son, October 19th; one sired by a. 42 pound bull
out of s 30 pound: dam: the other. by s 86
pound bnll, out of a. 32 pound dam.

Attend this Isle and get cm of these. prim

bulls.
HILLCREST FARM
Ortonvllle. Michigan
John F Holst. 181 Griswold. 8L.

‘MUSOLFF BROS.’ mum.

We are now booking orders for.
young bulls from King Pieter Seals
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. 0, dams
with credible records. We test annu— -
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Musolﬁ Bros., South Lyons.

A FOUNDATION

TWO. REGQSTERED HOLSTEIN‘ HEIPERS
16 and 10 mos. old, sired by s 29 1b. and 27
lb. bull. Dam of older one s 14 1b. nior two
year old, well bred, good individuals. Also s has
male calf from s. son of the great King of the
Pontiacs. Calf’s dam a 20 1b. cow.
For particulars address
H. T. EVANS
Eau Claire. Mich.

OUR HERB SIRE

MODEL KIND. SEGIS OLISTA

His sire a 30 lb. Ion of Lakeside King Begin

Albsn De K01.
His. dam. list: Eenells. 32.3? lb.
Her darn. Ghsta Ernestine. 35.96 lb.
His three nearest dams average over 88 lbs.

Hem
owell. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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and his forty six nearest tasted relatives average ’

over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. is oler one

of his‘sans ready for service.
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARM.-

COrey J. Spencer. Owner. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

or Sale: A Dandy Straight wen luau-lieuc and

well‘ grown bull calf“ born March 27, 1920.
Sire is a son of Flint Hengeer Ind whose two
nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
785 lbs. milk in seven days. Dam a 28 11)..
granddaughter of King Segis. Price $300. For
extended pedigree write

‘ . C. KETZILER
rum, Mich.

TWO DOLL. cams

R. d  Egg.“- ducmk‘yombgegg'am
n r m 7, ps0

gauge: are very n12: and will. be priced cheap. it
“Wham 'r. vusss. Elweil'. mos.
WOhV‘Eﬁl-NE 31:0ch m m 6000-

sales from their herd. We are Well pleased. with
the calves from our Junior . Sire King: Pom
tiac Lunde Eomd‘yke " who is a: son» of
"King of the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clatbllde De ' but A. few bull. alveo- br
sale. T. W. Sprsguo, R 2. Battle Creek, Mich.

0R SALE—TWO BULL OALVBC.A HOL-
bout months Both
tein and Durham a ﬁat “‘0’

h": il’ﬁl s as
n .
“‘c “1’ “ ° Inn-lone. Mich

CHASE STOOK FARM.

 Registered Holstein 0%

as Pontisc's dam made V
.531 lbs. butter in 1‘ -: 1844.8 lbs. hatter
In 28_421.2 lbs. milk in- {05 den ‘

Helm
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Come and see.

1 . no h  calvlcs for sale:
rom ‘ . . esc .

‘ under one year old.

   .‘Lﬂvihgr’éﬁﬁii‘m 

‘ younger; ones. J‘. E.

 

Holstein-Emotes). Bulls

I have three Holstein-Mn bull calves

in". dam exam More at

De nor, we are. just PuntTing on test with sood
prospects. These. cows are a! beautiful type
and I. cxnect to retain them. in. the hard and
make great producers of them.

'Iihese mm are sired by a high-clans
bull and are remarkably ﬁne individuals.
,Iwillsellthe .Oeschiitaken
.st once. but would ureter to- term them out
letting a person take them who would give
them ﬁrst-class care, keep them until they
were those. years old and then return them.
If the dams make as good as they ought I .
would very much prefer the bulls three cars
of age tho 8150‘ new. risk of (loath
Irons retinal ounces of course would be mine

D. D. AITKEN,
FLINT. men.

 

 

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

 

We Wish to Announce;

. to the tarmers of Michigan that. we
I are now ready to supply them with
" Canadian bred: Shorthorn females
. either straight, Scotch or
‘ topped milkers at reasonable prices.

Scotch

It your community needs the serv—

ices ot a high-class Shorthorn bull, '
write us for our- Community Club .

Breeding plan.
PALMER BROTHERS

Established In 1898 Balding,

 

SHORTHORNS FROM AN ACCREDITED HERD ,
Avondale E

grandsons and granddaughters of
Maxwalton Jupiter 754193 heads our hard.
JO‘HN SCHMIDT a SON. Reed: City,. Mich.

 

HAT DO YOU WANTl‘.
SHORTHORN breeders.

touch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls all: 3
ages. Some females. 0. W. Crum, President
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association. Mc- V
Brides, Michigan.

 

Shorthorns at Farmers’ Prices

FOUR SCOTCH TOPPED BULL GALVES
These are all roans and
choice individuals.

FAIRVIEW FARM

I represent 41 I
Can put you in I

7 .——I

‘ years old. Dem Do at are

i at Iowa State Fair.

‘ Bob Mastodon.

‘7 bulls. and bull calves. heifers. ,
Mich. }

 

 

r' ‘- .r‘ r. r. " -

“’"  ' 'I'.
. , ,4.‘  V

. ode. be: “at

for bred boilers. ct popular breed-

ing for sale. _. a
Also bulls not related.

 ‘ ALLEI BlilllilEiis

raw: PAW. ;

     

MIC“.

 

 

 

we

the: neurons) saunas. ‘ use
mu to or» “load. M 
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 10 0 lbs.
Owners anxbus tg'sel’i. Will hel
commission. 0.  Fairlie d.

MEADOW BROOK HEIEFOM»
Double Disturhe-r Bull at. head of hard. Some.
choice new: Iemalss to! ssh also bulls any
use. Come and. look them over. -
IANIL O. MARTY; I“ Axe. Mich.

REGISTERED HEREFORD (BATTLE

Repeater Ito. 1181M} heads our herd.
oi the Undehated Grand Champion.
. 389806. We have some ﬁne
bulls for sale and she some more bred to Re-
ﬁster. Too 3. Fox. Proprietor.
' III R enca- EARH. Mel-ha. Mich.

ANGUS

 

 

 

 

‘ II N I’ll”.
.mnmsa...na..mm 

am an and on. m "é
m

CARL. I TLETT. Eamon. Mich. '

i The Most: Proﬁtable Kind '
‘r’r'oé‘ﬁghi'n? on rrr'ss'Fivim
ggﬁrtxtngbr combination es en

t ﬁning.
Gs: .ht shimscntl essentch at GLENWOOD
. ‘ c. , “
Methadsﬂh nod. in SMITHS PROMABMB
STOCK F INC}. 400. pages i hated.
GEO. B. SMITH. Addison. Mich.

 

GUERNSEYS

UERNSEYS FOR SALE. to1 ggnLL. 83;. ~08;
tel] Sultan. sire Iangws 1: co arman
(18714) 4 A. R. d]. to 4.18 lb. fat at 2 1-2
m t cross» A.
. 1 colt. s
- I similar breeding. Also a few nne
heifers oi the she ’ It will Day you W
investigate. Prices and acdigreo on application.
MORGAN. EROS... .. Ali-can. Mich.

 

IERSEYS

OR SALE—THREE PUBEBRED JERSEY’
bulls ready for service. 'Buberculiu tested.
4». L. CA RTE}. R 6. Lake Odessa. Mich.

ONE YEAR OLD. THOROUGHBRED JERSEY
ball for sale. Price reasonable.
GEO. KELLER. Remus. Mich,

MPBOVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE

of our Majesty bulls. _
FRANK P. NORMMGTOM. labia. Mich.

ﬁ AYRSHIRES

 

 

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYISHIGE
and heater calves

Also. some choice can 4 .
FINDLAY-BROS» £23, ‘thﬂl’; Mien,

SWINE

POLAND CHINA

BIG BOB MASTODON

Sire was champion oi! the world.

 

 

 

 

' His Dam’s Sire was grand'champion

I have 6 choice
spring boar pigs. left. that will make
herd boars. Will price them at. $50
apiece if taken soon. Siredt by Big

 

 

 

HE. VAN IUREN 00. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers.’ Association have stock for sale. both milk
sud beef breeding.
Write the secretary.
FRANK lAlhEY’. Hartford. Mich.

SHOBTHODNS °""" “ “w

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

 

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HUBER. Oladwln. Mlol‘lt

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
Ass’n are altering bulls and heifers: for sale, all
ages. Sell. the scrub and buy a purebred.
A. E. RARE. Sea'y. Caledonia. Mich.

apls Ridge Herd of Bates Shot-thorns Of-
“fern £Or salsa roan bull“ calf 9 mos. old. Also, 2
TANSWELL. Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

OR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS: All:
Oxford Down Rams. ,
J‘. It. DeMm. new. Mich.

can '

7m... .

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: WALNUT ALLE

‘ homes.
' going to price them ri

     

3cm 

bu 50s"

wruainted. Mich. is recognized,

’ ‘ higher!

 

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«t a
      C 
leases, Wesley  , . 
Oct. 27. Boone-Hill OIL, Blanchard-
,Oct. 28. Leonard & Fisher. St- Louis
pm. as, m,-Wemt a sane. misca-
'00:. so, w. Browbaker a enamele-

 

These ﬁrms. members at the. Cent-
' rel Michigan Poland Chins. Broeders'
: Ass’n, will oﬂer to the public on of-
;«i'ering of such Poland China. boss» 38
have never been offered ini-the State
. before. At these. sales, held at the
above named places. the farmer will
ﬁnd Poland Chinaﬂcgs that will ﬁt
his exact needs, to produce more D0331!
for the same amount of food can’-
sumed. This is an opportunity at
which time. these ﬁrms will sell to
the highest: bidder sows and boars.“
such class as are certain to maize
breeding stock of the highest merit.

Col. Harry A. Enkhsrdt, Dallas
City, 111., and Col. Ed. Bowers ct
Ind. will do the selling. These men
are the real articles as live stock»
sales-men, and it will do the breeder
and farmer of our good state and um-
told amount of good to. be at these
sales, if for nothing more than edu-
cational standpoint and to get as-
as
never before. as a state, that produc-

- union. It is up to. the farmer to pro-
duce hose 0!. better and more quality.
Quality brings the top price on the
open market.

Write. for catalogs to the above
ﬁrms or-the Sec’y of the Association.

Mr. A. D. Gregory, Ionia, Mich,
will represent Michigan Businws
Farmer as fieldman. and will take
care. all all mail bids: which readers of
this. paper place with him. Be at the
sales in person, it. possible.

Central Michigan Poland Chins
Breeders” Ace’s.
E. n. LEONARD. Pies... so. Louis.
0. A. BOONE. Sec-Tread, Blanchard

(Poland Chins Breeders are urged to bin his
association. Write the Secretary.

 

LARGE TYPE P. O.

A low. choice. brad gilts for sale. Also {all 5511

r" “M as so as. -. “mass:
r . -

. ““tm W's norm. no boss

«by the BIG .
_ sag-us CHOICE by ORANGE BUD. by Bid
0 GE A. _ _
' Fave liver, to; villus.
Wu. J. “AWE.
Eaton Rapids. Mob-

IEBE'S SOETHINO OOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.‘
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
harm, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These boer
. in service: L31 Big Draw. Lord Clansman,
Orange Price and L's Long Prospect. V.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma. Mich.

 

 

HE BEST BBED- POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR—
od’ by Big Bob Mastoan at the lowest price.
WITT C. PIER. Evan. Mich.

Big Type Poland Chinas
we? $33.: “$3113? “31:” .3331]? its”? 13$“???

tuaranlmr saﬂstaction.
HILLOREST FARM Mich.

 

Kalamazoo,

 

F. E. Boyd Alma. Michigan 0. E. Garnant, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
  ROLAND. CHINAS
SHORTHORNS wmu ousmv

5 bum, 4 to 3 mos. 01¢ ‘11 mum, pan («1, Nine igll ﬁlls out of litters of. eleven and

mm . ' - ' thirteen, or sac.
; 2:93.13? "8' a” “mm “‘1' “t “m .1. E. mvonsnvs. St. Johns. Mich.
F. M. HGGOTT A SON. Fowler, Mich. '_

EGISTEBED sun smvnonn ‘ B   Y P  
cows and heifers for sale, 575 to $200. Noting to can at present. c H'NAs
HEIER- BROS" Byron. Mich. MOSE BROS" s" mﬂum MM.

 

BIO. TYPE P.
0. Bears now
ready: for now?
Get your orderhitn on full pigs for I am
g .
. . GREGORY
Ionja, Mich.

OLOSINO DDT SALE

 

of Big 'llypc Poland Chiba hugs, which represents.

the work 0! 25. years 01 constructh breeding-

' Everything goes including our three great. herd'

boars, Mich. Buster by Grant Buster, A. Giant,
Butler's Bic Bob. Two of; the best yearling
respects- in Mich. M’odern- type, hrgh arched"
geeks, great length, big bone. Come and pick
Our prices are right.

ut what you want.
0 JNO. Portland. Mich.

c. BUTLER,

 

. LARGE TYPE P. G. SPRING BOARS, MARCH

and April farrom Also one Sept; yearling.

The big bone and big Jitter hind. For pnices gm!

breedEing write

W. LANDENBERGER, Parma, Mich. -

 

I. II. BALL.
: , ccth
, banner.

tithe; will represent any reader of this
kt hr. can at: this- 

 

LlVE STOCK. FIELD MEN

sense...OIODQOI’OIIIInee-«causeoeleoeeases

one.eeeaycclzleeeoloooleelloose-ass

Que or the other of the above welli-kncw'n experts will visit all live-stock sales of
n, northern Ohio and Indiana, as the exclusive Field lien d_ The Michigan.

They are both honest and Competent men of standing in their lines in Michigan

was
'Ilheis: service is free to you. They, >
I m your sale, etc. l‘hey work exclusively;r in the interests 02 Michigan'th li

Cattle and Sheep.
Horses and

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making hills m m

at any sale, In hm
Willis - e m.
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weekly!   

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I have a line lot of spring igs sired Hart's
Price by

' ' ,a sandman of lack Price, grand
i champion ol the world in 191s. Also have a
litter cl 7 pigs. 5, sows sud 2- boars, sired by

{Prospect Yank a son of the 340,000 Yankee.
arevsm umdingers.
F. 1. MRI, 8!... Louis. Mich.

IO TYPE P. C. SOWS OF CHOICE BREED-
“ing, bred. to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726,-
.672 for Sept. furrow: Spring pigs either sex.
Healthysnd growthy. Prices reasonable.
W. BARNES. A SON. Byron, Mlch.

‘Blc TYPE‘ POLAND cums snap OILTB.
,. one full. boa-r, spring pigs. both sex, and trhd
lows while; they last.

: nowsev ones, Merrill. Mich.

B. '1‘. P. G. bears and gilts< by Cla en’s Image
2nd. the Outpost Orphan Superior and 'ng Giant.
,. Also 8 fall boars by Glansman's Image. A few
,tried sows all. with: Meding privilege. v Boats in
se_rv1ce: Clansmﬁn’s Image 2nd. Smooth Wonder.
King Glhnt' and W. B.'s Outpost. Visitors wel-

’ come. ,
‘ ‘ W. B. RAMSD'ELL, Hanover, Mich.

E icon-N's. 3.. T:. P; C.-

=Stata~ Fair: All stock double immune. Pub-

lic sale Oct‘. 28‘. Get your name on mailing list.
E. R. LEONARD, R 3, 8t. lotus; lich.

 

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ay’ _ b, out of Grand D hto
‘nnhe mint. All immun‘ed with a“ " °’
merit. John D. Wiley, Sohoolcrsft. Mich.

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4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT 825
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PET STOCK

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does 812 not. Shock Weed. Qual-

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RAOOWSKE’B ‘8. C.
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LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, MM!” R 4

WHITE LEGHORNS.

SINGLE 00MB MOE ISLAND REDS
Early hatched, free range cockerels from stand-
ard—bred heavy winter layers. Liberal discount
on order: booked now for fall delivery.
VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM
- Mt. Pleasant. Mich" R 6

WHITTAKER’S RED GOGKERELS

Both combs. Special discount on early orders.
Wnte for price list.
INTERLAKES FARM
Box 4 Lawrence,

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

ARRED Rocks. PARKS zoo—see STRAIN
eockerell which will produce ﬁne hyen next

year 33 each.
East Lanslng, Mlch.

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BLACK LANOSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Shrted
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We will accept the coupon below the same as
cash for full ﬁrst payment of $2 on any 1920

model New Butterﬂy Cream arator. Don’t
More send a single penny in advance. Just lout the coupon
Th an telling us which size machine you want (see list below) 1
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ream Separa- ' and make for you. You can see for yourself before
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ﬂow the In this way you won’t

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If you Select the $56 machine you will have only $54 left to
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You have 30 days in which to - ., . here. CapaCity up .to 500 *
try the New Butterﬂywesend lbs. or 250 qts. of milk I
you before you decide to keep  .. .. per hour. Price, $65
it. Every machine we build  Terms} Free 52 cou—
carries a written Lifetime Guaran-  _ K pon With order. Bal-
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Workmanship. , - month“

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Gentlemen: Please shi me on 30 days’ FREE TRIAL. '
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a month for 12_montho. ; with order. Balance, $6.40

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It Is Always Best— ~ ‘ , _ ,-
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