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‘ FRENCH "AGRICULTURE -; ‘ a
* [THIN two years after the arm; 3
‘ .5 l . ,istice France has practically re-V

. - 5 .made the, vast area. oi! her agri-
cultural soil which was pitted "ﬁend“

,, scarred beyond usefulness, by the

ravagesot the war. Figures receiv-

, ed by the French Commission, in .
New, York, show that out or 7.000;-

000 acres whichwere rendered “11-.

, ﬂt-tor cultivation by the effects of
battleirom 1914 to 1918, only 280,-.-

000 acres will not be in a condition .

to permit oi! soWing next spring.
The rest of the agricultural area
has been restored, or will be restor-
ed, by the end of the current year.)
The reports to the Commission show
that 4,000,000 acres, or more than
half of the devastated farm land are
already under cultivation. The bar-
vest has been so good that 'the
French government has been enabled
to cancel contracts for the import of
South American wheat into France.
”The French Department of Agri-
culture has compiled the following
ﬁgures giving the progress of Frances
efforts to feed herself. '
1920 1919
-. ’ ths. ths.
Wheat ....62,7_06,270 49,653,700
Mixed Grain 1,076,140 967,940
Rye 8,426,600 7,299,370

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. . . . 42,228‘,01i0‘-~ 24,935,840

Considering that rye and barley ‘
are used for bread making in' France
it p is reckoned that the crop situa«
tion practically insures complete suc-
cess in feeding the nation with home
grown cereals. Last year it was
necessary to import {41,000,000 cwt.
of wheat. The improvement means -
a national saving in money and an
agricultural restorationxwhich brings
a measure of. prosperity to a large
proportion of the population, which
had previously been deprived of the '
means of livelihood.

CANADIAN SIP INDUSTRY

Sheep in Canada today number
266,447 more than in 1871. This
startingly Small increase in almbst
halt a century reflects the crisis
through which the sheep industry
passed twenty-ﬁve years ago when
the bo-ttom' dropped out of the wool
market. It also shows the industry
has recovered from the blow and is
assuming its old importance.

There were 3,155,509 sheep 'in
Canada in 1871. When the great
slum-p in wool occurred, many great
western range herds were sold off.
In 1911 only 2,160,000 sheep were
left in Canada. Today there are 3,-

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‘censusﬂot the government; “Their-”es-

timated value is $50,402,000.

The sheep industry .in the, United
States buttered even more. ‘The sheep
population of-tlre United States, ac-
cordingrtb- government estimates, has

tallen 0! 4,000,000 in the.last dec-
ads. Proportion/ate. decreases have :‘

taken place in‘ Australia, Argentina.
and British South America. Millions
of sheep were slaughtered in Europe
during the war. , , ,
In Canada, the war started sheep
. Wool prices sky-
rocketed. The peak was reached
last year when wool soldaround 62
cents a pound. Despite a bad situ-
ation in the market th’is'year, sheep
men declare world conditions are
bound to maintain wool prices at a
high level for at least ten years.
The increase in sheep in‘ Canada
has been due chiefly to the interest

of farmers. The whole tendency of
agriculture is toward diversiﬁed
farming.” Small ﬂocks of‘ small

farmers have more than made hp
tor the loss of the big range herds.

Farmers Grain Dealers to Consider
Collective Selling and Buying
Steps to unite the selling and buy-

ing agencies oi! the Farmem’ Ele-

    

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grain annually for. their, 500,000
farmer stockholders and purchasing. ,
pliers worth of" . 1

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farm supplies. ‘These'i‘elevatorsv rep-__
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FARM BUREAU NOTES
Upper Peninsula membership cama-
paigns are concluding witl'; 6,462
members to date and possibility 0‘!
7,500 when completed entirely,.O-n'~

tonagon county has asked as; a'

membership campaign next summer.
The percentages of' farmers joining
as compared With the number visit-
ed _is higher in the upper. peninsula
than in the lov‘ver part or the state.
The Elevator Exchange Depart-
ment is no'w'composed of 31 associ-
ations, four which joined this ‘week
are the Port Hope Go—operative ASSP'.
ciation, the Farmers’ Co-operative
Co., of Harbor Beach, the. Elkton
Farm Elevator 00., and the Chip-
pewa County Farm Bureau.
Thirty-one counties have oﬂicially
signed the seed contract with the
seed deportment. The last 6 coun-
ties to sign are Otsego, Marquette,
Huron, Leelanau, Benzie and Emmet.
The seed and purchasing depart-
ments did a $100,000 worth of bus-
iness this week; Hall! of which was
in a sale of clover seed by‘the seed
department: the other half was
made up of purchases of‘ bran, mid-

dlings, (coal and flour by the ' pur-

chasing department.

The Traﬂic department is. ﬂooded
with requests for refrigerator cars.
It reports that there are very few
available refrigerators in the coungs
try but that the state farm bureau is
getting its share. It is going to be
necessary that a number 01 shippers
use box cars. ‘ '

STATE AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS

Pontiac—Latest reports indicate that
t. rearrangement“:
ant an no
ramp , ﬁnish-eds ot_ herds have be
ted at a cost ranging from 50
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Bureau, and farmers should continue to
watch their hogs and immunize them
tram the malady.

Mount Pleasure-The Borden Company
has closed its local plant until January
1st. owing to the unsettled conditions in
the milk trade. The company has
announced that it will separate cream
for «farmers at cost of . operation and
without charge for the use of the Bor-
d equi ment. This is a ‘l‘safety ﬁrs "
po icy w ieh all the big condensaries are

closed?mM hire"
membership drive has n us egon
county with an approximate membership
of one thousand. O, F. Marv or Hol-
ton been elected preeiden ‘; B. D.
Pendell,‘ of Cesnovla. vice- esident- E.
Cookers“. White River;
Norton; 8,, N. McNutt, Moorland ;. Abner
Bel-son, ’Fruitport, member. executive
committee; delegates to state meet ,
R. R. Emens. Holton. and Warren Bla
tland. city tend t 1 its
Omen—— s s o ose
min industrmisit the threat of the presi-
dent of the Owes-o Sugar
means . The company has been
enjoined b the state game and ﬁsh do.
m emptying refuse water
tron: its plant into the river on the
grounds. that the character and tempera-
ture of the water kills the ﬁsh, Rather

than submit to the edict the sugarcom-i j' '

parry declares it will move' its plant to
another city. .

N'rth Branch—The north Branch Pro-
duce Ass’n. has been organized- for the
m 0 buying out either the North

G in Go». or the Harper Elev:-
tor 09.. or in case neither desire to sell.
to build a separate elevator. The fol-

omcers have been

lowing
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HE DEGREE clas. which took the
Seventh degree at the 5th annual
session of The National Grange

degree classwhich was ever ieceiv-
ed 'at one-time into any secret frater-
nity of any kind in the world. It
numbered 9,860 persons representa-
tive in large rt of the agricultural
population of he New England states
but numbering candidates from every
state in which there are State
Granges. '

Twenty nine states were repre—
sented by voting members at'this
session of The National 'Grange.
Twenty thousand people were in at-
tendance at the largest day’s session
Friday, Nov. 18, ~when the degree
was conferred. No such gathering of
farmers was ever before held in any
place, at any time, by any organiza-
tion.

National Master Lowell in his ad-
dress touched a new advanced point
in the progress American farmers are
making toward their proper place in
industrial and national life. He
Said in part:

‘.‘We are certainly glad to came
to this great historic city of Boston,
on the 300th anniversary of our Am-
ericanism,” and we are willing that

'1 Massachusetts should have the glory

of the occasion, if she will admit that
we helped a little ”

“There is but one equitable form
of taxation," he said in discussing
the Nolan Bill (the one percent land
tax proposals,
".and that is when , every form .of
wealth pays its 'just proportion of
taxes. Another equally 'erroneous
idea is that of a heavy tax on‘ all

unimproved land holdings, for if.

this were done‘and they were all
forced on the market by reason of
such tax (which is the intent) it
would cause the depreciation of
farm lands ﬁfty per cent There is

' no more just tax than an income -,tax

for it is never a charge against any-

one who has not the means to pay.
-“Since the war,” he said, discuss-

ing‘ the condition, of

the disadvantage of agriculture. We
could 'name many laws and rulings
of our NatiOnal government (not to
mention state enactments) that have
proven of injury “to us. We have
searched faithfully to ﬁnd one such
law or ruling to our advantage and

_have failed to ﬁnd it.

“We have rejoiced that labor has

I ' been enabled’to secure a much high-

er. rate of wage, but we little expect-

- ed that they would turn and demand

cheaper food from us without ﬁrst
ascertaining'the cost of production
and ‘discovering that we were not

taking too large a margin of proﬁt.

As your spokesman, we feel the
Grange should be still liberal, and
notify all interests that we are will—
in: to sit down and have a fair un-

‘ derstanding of values; the farmer
receiving the same pay for the same .

hours’wWOrk as others receive, no
more, no less, but THAT THIS IS
THE LAST CALL. If no attention .is
paid- to this by bankers, manufact-
urers, railroad and labor organiza-
sons, and the government continues
to use its great power to import raw
material free of duty to reduce costs

[as a possible expedient the Grange

will be forced to join other organi-
satio'hs in the movement to organise
selling organizations
hick will ﬁx the price of foods.
no threat in this, WE WILL
EE WEN

tional Grange

_ agriculture, -
"great changes have taken place to

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By A. M.

“ Press Correspondent, National Grange

largest ._ ing been granted charters during the

year. .Extension work Was reported
in nearly every Grange state.

A splendid program of entertain-
ment was put on by theMassachu-
setts Grangers, including an exhibit
of New England Agricultural pro-
ducts in which all New England state
Granges participated, highly educa-
tional, and showing agricultural pos-
sibilities and achievements of high
order. Trips to Plymouth and .Con—
cord, a New England turkey dinner

by Sommerville Grange near Boston,’

an inspection .of Boston Harbor by
boat, addresses by Vice—President
elect Coolidge, Lieutenant—Governor
Cox, and Mayor Andrew J. Peters,
splendid music, ﬂne degree work _and
real New England hospitality marked
the sessions.- '

Michigan was well represented,
and special honors were given -to
their ofﬁcial delegates, State Master
John C. Ketcham and Mrs. Cora E.
Ketcham." Their pictures were print-
ed in all the Boston newspapers as
the new farmer congressman from
Michigan, and considerable space

given his .views on farm problems...

and legislative measures.

State Master Ketcham reported the
Michigan Grange in good growing
condition, and especially active in
co-operative work, especially in sup-

plying iarm'ers throughout the state

with supplies through their co—op-
erative buying organizations.

The report of the legislative repre-
sentative, Prof. T. C. Atkeson, of
Washington, indicated that action on
a number of matters of legislation
on agricultural and other matters of
general interest to farmers would
be taken up during the second week
session. His report was made pub-
lic a week ago, but in it he suggest-
ed to the Grange that a number of
matters needed consideration, and a
clear statement of Grange position.
Among these he enumerated the No-
lan Bill, to impose a one per cent
tax on all land held in excess of ten
thousand dollars value in one own-
ership, the MendellLand Settlement
bill, ‘or the Smoot bill, which is very
similar, both of which he has op-
posed before Congress, but on which

,there is no deﬁnite Grange action.

He also mentioned several others

.which he .had. favored, but on which
.he=-w.anted.:deﬁnite Grange action, in-

Stato Crop Report for November

ember 1, issued by Coleman C.

Vaughan, Secretary of State and
Verne _H. Church, Agricultural Stat—
istician, U. S. Bureau of Crop Esti—
‘mates indicates an increase over ear-
lier estimates in the volume of the
corn crop, and a slight decrease in
the potato, clover seed and buck-
wheat crops. The month of October
was exceptionally favorable fer har-
vesting the lwte fall crops, and the
greater part of the work is complet-
‘ed. There is‘ considerable corn yet
to be husked and some fall plowing
and threshing to be done. Recent
rains are aiding the growth of fall-
sown wheat and rye, pastures and
seeding.

The estimated yield of corn is 40
bushels per acre. This is one of the
largest yields on record and one

THE JOINT crop report for Nov-v
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bushel more than last year. The to-

tal crop for the state‘is 66, 000,000
bushels, and for the United States,
3,199,126,000 bushels. Thirty—four
per cent of the state’s acreage went
into silos, the average yield being

' 7.8 tons of silage per acre. The
. quality is unusually geod being 92

per cent, or/15 per cent better than
the average of the last ten years. 85
per cent of\the crop is estimated to
be of merchantable ' quality. The
amount of last year's crop remain-
ing on farms is 3.5 per cent.

The estimated amount of wheat
marketed at mills and elevators in
the state during October is 1,270,-
000 bushels" and the total amount
since AugustII, 4,999,000 bushels.

The yield of potatoes is found to
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vmarked falling off in the

largest yield per acre since 1914 but,
owing to a considerably less acre-
age, the production is about 10,000,-
000 bushels less than in that year.
The yield is variable. Some coun-
ties in the western half of the state
reported as low as 80 bushels per
acre, while some eastern and Upper
Peninsula counties averaged as high
as 150 and 175 bushels per acre.
The quality is generally good, the
average being 94 per cent against a
ten year average of 87 per cent. The
United States crop is placed at 421,-
252,000 bushels, the largest crop on
record with one exception.

The yield of buckwheat is46 bush-
els per acre making a total crop of
672,000 bushels or. slightly ‘more
than was produced in 1919. The
quality is 92 per cent, four per cent
above the ten-year average.

The clover seed crop amounts to
122,000 bushels, a reduction from
last month’s estimate of 20,000 bush—
els. Late‘r threshing returns show a
_ average
yield. The quality is very good.

The harvesting of sugar beets is
nearly completed. The lifting and
hauling‘ of the beets was done with

’unusual speed because of the favor-

able weather conditions that pre-
vailed during the time. The condi-
tion of the crop at time of harvest
was 93 per cent as compared with
a ten year average of 86 per cent.

A Special inquiry relative to the
quality of the bean crop shows the
average to be 96 per cent, and that
the average pick is 3.5 per cent,
which is equivalent to 2.- pounds per
bushel._

 
  
  
  

losos Annual Session at Boston

Roberts Indicate Wide-Spread Cronge‘ Interest, Activity and Membership Growth ’ .

LOOMIIS

cluding the Kahn-Wadstrth meas-
ure for the government operation by
an operating corporation of the
.Muscle Shoals air nitrate plant, the
law for-the truthful labeling of wool-
en fabrics, the necessity of pure feed,
fertilizer and insecticide laws, a
standard basket law, and a law for
the increase of the usefulness. of
the postal savings system. '

The state report of State Master
McSparran, was well received. In
it he outlined the growth of the
Grange in Pennsylvania during the
year commenting ‘on a revival of
Grange spirit and of community
work unprecedented in recent years.
He also devoted a part of his report
to a discussion of the relationship ex-
isting between the Grange and the
Farm Bureau work in Pennsylvania,
expressing his conviction that Tye
Grange should fill the functions of
State wide activities in legislative
and other lines of work, while the
Farm Bureaus should work along
the lines laid down in the laws un-
der which they are organized to do
extension and educational work. His
report was the‘only state report
which discussed this problem of
Grange policy, and attracted much
attention.

The greatest growth of any state
grange during the past year was re—
ported by State Master L. J. Taber of
Ohio. He also reported on the work
done in Ohio in co-operation with
other farmers’ organizations, espec-
ially the success of the campaign
against classiﬁcation, the work of the
Home Protective League, the wool
mol and the co-operative buying of
farm supplies.

Reports of specially
character were made by the Masters
of the Oregon, Washington and Ida—
ho state Granges. W. W. Deal of
Idaho and C. E. Spence of Oregon
told of the growth of their organ-
izat'ons. State Master Spence in-
vite the National Grange to meet in
1921 in Oregon, and was warmly re-

. ceived. State Master Bouck of Wash-

ington made a characteristic report,
showing great growth in Granges,
and in Grange growth especially in
co-operative enterprises, noted their
assistance in organizing banks, and
expressed the anticipation of seeing
the workers of their state soon re~
lieved from the “ﬁnancial regime of
the present time.” He said his state
grange was urging the land value
tax. This is not the position of the
National Grange. He said this was
the agreed upon policy of the afﬁli-
ated organizations, and in closing he
expressed this sentiment, “We look
forward conﬁdently to the near fu-
ture when the workers who produce
all the usefullhings in the world
shall come into complete control of
the state and nation.”

The Grange adjourned Saturday
noon, for secret wbrk ,and entertain—
ment until Tuesday, when consider-
ation of national legislation, and
grange business will be resumed.

The report of the legislative rep-" ’

resentative, Prof. T. C. Atkeson, of
Washington, D. 0. made public Sat-
urday, indicated that action would
be taken the folowing week reafﬁrm-
ing the position of the Grange for
private ownership and operation of
the railroads and merchant marine,
to strengthen the land bank laws,‘
for the improvement of'rural deliv-
ery and the extension of the postal
savings system to rural patrons, the
necessity of legislation to legalize?
co-operative marketing, better tariﬂ;

protection for farm products, and,_ .7
the government operation of the ' '-

Muscle Shoals sir nitrate plant to
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HE BEAN market is in the
' . strongest statistical position today
”that it has been in six years,r The

production of edible beans in this,
country during 1920 was lees than»
and , -,
31918,.a11d nearly two and a half

half the production in 1917

314111011 bushels less than last year.

The accompanying table gives the
On top of that, the
importation, of Japanese beans which
have been the bane of the navy been I

"exact ﬁgures.

'market' the- last tWo years has drop-
pod to one- -half or one-third their
former proportions The available
ﬁgures of supply do not take into

consideratiOn the hold over of prev- .

ions crops in the hands of the or-
ganized bean growers of California
- and of the elevators oerichigan and
New‘York. The amount of these
supplies cannot be even estimated,
but it stands to reason that they
cannot anywhere nearly equal an
amount that would increase the vis-
ible supply to that of any recent year.
The bean bear will seek to dis—
~ count these ﬁgures by pointing to
Japanese competition. In fact, one
of the largest operators in Michigan
says, “there’s no hope for better
bean prices so long as the Kotenashi
bean is allowed to compete with the
domestic product." But. we wonder
if this operator has secured any ﬁg—
ures on the 1920‘production of Kot-
enashi beans?
Japan growers have suffered along
with domestic growers by the drop
in price and have followed suit in
reducing acreage? Such reports
as have been secured show that the
Japanese have reduced their produc-
tion of Kotenashi beans by over ﬁfty
per cent from last year. and other
varieties of beans in varying propor-
tions. The U. S. Department of
Commerce supplies us with the fol—
lowing information concerning the
reduction of Japan’s bean acreage.
The article is taken from the World’s
Market. .
“Importers of Japanese and Man-

“Study Market if You W0uld sell at Best Advantage,” Advice to Farmers:

Does he realize that-

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1918 ~17 397,000 ._4,145_;02'5 1 3.4947198 21,542,025 5. 4c
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churian ppas and beans are daily ex:
pecting the opening prices to be .

cabled from- Japan for Kot-enashi.

Naga Uzura. Chunaga Uzura, Dalfue '
ku, Muroingen, Kumamoto and oth-'-‘

er varieties of beans. The growers
in Japan suffered heavy losses last
year, due to the general decline thru-
out the world in prices for all varié
eties of beans. as well aSjthe ﬁnan-
cial upheaval in Japan. As a. result,
the farmers have not ’plante-d‘ as
much as they did last year, nor is, it
expected that from the acreage which
has been planted there will be a nor—

'mal yield, the reason for this being-

that the proper fertilizer was not
purchased in order to produce a
greater yield. inasmuch as money in
Japan was d‘fﬁcult to obtain, and
when obtainable was only secured at
high interest. rates.

“An unofﬁcial, tentative report
was recently received from Japan,
showing to what extent the acreage
.of the different varieties of beans
had decreased. It is noticed that in
only one variety, namely, the Shire—
maru Azura, is there any increase
over last year. This is due to
fact that the domestic variety of
white narrow beans, to which the
Shiromaru Azura is similar, has
been rather scarce. and it is hoped
by the Japanese shippers that be—
cause of this scarcity they will be

able to realize the correspondingly‘

higher price.

“The following is a list of the

the-

different varieties with the percent
age of decrease and increase of
acreage in per. cent. '

. Increase

Decrease
Daifuku . .48
Kumamoto ..‘. . . . .‘42'
Muroin'gen . . . 28
Kotenashi . . . . . . . 69 '
Naga Uzura ..... 14 . .
Maru Uzura ...... 10' ’
Shiromaru Azura . . 110
Chunaga Uzura . . .23 ,
Kintoki ....... -'. .15
Green Peas ...... 52

“It is expected that the importa-
tion of all kinds of foreign beans
will be very much restricted this
year on account of the heavy accu-
mutation and the lack of demand on
the pait of the consumers. Domes-
tic g1 owers are rather anxious about
the coming croppsince they do not
expect to realize as high prices as
they consider they should get, com-
paring the price of beans with the
[vice of other staple food commodi-
ties.’

The smaller «yield is strikingly il-
lustrated by a comparison of import
ﬁgures for this year and last. In
1919 a total of 3,635,965 bushels of
beans and lentils were imported
from Japan. Importations from
other countries of beans, many of
which came originally from Japan,
brought the total to almost ﬁve
million bushels. Total import ﬁgures

for «the ﬁrst ten months of th toss
out year are not yet availae bu

portions or them are and they 911917
' a great falling off in imparts.
instance, we are advised by a' spoon}, " .
report from San Francisco that thew

.4111port‘s of beans received at "this

2:139:99 or San.Francisco and Seattle;
from Jan112t.1920.t0 October 347th, ‘ ‘ ,

1920 were 989. 593 busiléis; Ninety

~pér cent of these were KotenashisL-f
Japanese.
into competition'

which is] the: principal
beans that come
with the navy been

During the

month of October the imports at”, '3

these two ports amounted to 26, 000

bushels," indicating a progressive de— -

crease as the year comes to a close.
Our correspondent says:

be imported from Japan within the
next few months but it is probable

that the importation will continue
at about the same rate. ” ' \
So much for the sunoly. Now

what about the demand? The de-
mand is Improving. Men, are'belug
'thrown out of employment. all over
the country/ It is becoming a mat-
ter of necessity for people who have
disdained to eat beans the last three

years to make them their chief art- .

icle of diet. Slowly but surely con-

sumption of beans is picking up. As-

the winter advances and pocket
books become leaner'improvement
should be more rapid. Says J.
Ralph‘ Pickell f‘Beansv doing ‘bet-

ter. Inquiries large, but buyers hes—
ltate.
should continue. ”

We lost our reputagion once for"

predicting the bean market wrong.
We vowed then and there that we’d
never do it again. But we can’t
help it. ’Tis bred in the'bone. We
s'take‘ our reputation a second time
upon a prediction that bean valhes
.will increase and 'that farmers will

get a dollar or better a bushel more;

for beans three months hence than
they can get now.

Farmers ’Losses and Proﬁts are Determined More by Marketing Than by Production Practices

HE FAILURE of farmers to study

marketing has cost them, indi-

vidually, a total of many, many
millions of dollars.

It is not when the farmer reaps his
harvest that he makes money. Neith-
er does he make it through econnom-
ical and efﬁcient methods of produc-
tion. He makes or loses his money
when he sells.

The live stock man does not make
his money in the feedlot. Eiﬁciency
in the feedlot often amounts to
nothing to him in the end. He
makes or loses his money when he
sells.

The exercise of good judgment and
the practice of efﬁciency in the bus-
iness of farming and live stock feed-
ing is very necessary. It is indispen-
able. Neither of these businesses
will succeed accidentally. Their
successful conduct depends on the
high degree of skill and the great
amount of the most painstaking ap-
plication, those essentials that make
of any business a success insofar as
the details of its 7conduct contribute
to its success But the advantages
gained through the most efﬁcient
conduct are frequently lost entirely
through failure to exercise an equal
degree of efﬁciency in marketing.

This is exactly what the average
farmer or feeder is doing todav. He
is operating with thought and care;
'he is marketing thoughtleSsly and
recklessly. The farmer prepares his
coil with the greatest of care, pays a
class. , seed,
scientiﬁc
,""omoliency, and then sells his entire
7 ion by chance. The feeder selects
49 live stock with care, feeds them
. 'entlﬂcelly balanced fpods with
painstaking regulaiity, protects,
' atches them grow With an affec-
almost paternal and then sells
' Vésy llke‘. y- he gets

By .1 M.

into the game in the same way. He

'buys by chance.

These men think a lot about mar—
keting: they Worry a lot more; but
they study marketing very little.
They have in their
their experience. volumes on produc-
tion. They sfudy them'all. But if
they have anything at all on mar—
keting it is a little. o‘ut-of—date vest
pocket edition, and even if they did
study marketing it would be useless
to study an edition of that sort.
Marketing knowledge,
value must be studied and it must
be right up-to—date. Information 30
days old won’t do; it must be new
to be of any value in reading the
future and that’s the thing these
men don't study. It’s mostly be-
cause they don’t have the informa—
tion to study. information that will
help them.
tiﬂcally, get their inspiration from
hope. and take theirchance .011 the
markets.

These men do not study abouT the
future of markets vvery much-«real-
ly study about it—but_they guess
about it a'lot. They are the great-
est speculatorsinthe world. today.

3 They are also the-most unsuccessful

speculators. They simply try to guess

  
   
 

    
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

libraries, or in‘

to‘be of any '

But they produce scie11-. ,his'own guess.

SHORTHILL, in Roscnb :ulm Review

the high'market. To begin with, the
average farmer or feeder does not
know what the minimum price is
that he ought—to sell his product for.
The thing uppermost in his mind is
to try to sell at the highest point of
the market. He guesses at that. Tie
loses oftener than he wins, and the
re.n son is easily found.

The reason is that there is one‘
chance to win and two chances to,
lose. The chance to win is that the
market Will go up, An equal chance

'to lose is‘ that it willg'o down. It

is an axiom that .“What goes up
must. come down,” and it is also
true that what goes up must have

‘ﬁrst gene done. .so thatresults based

on these two chances alone would av-'
erage very nearly even and guess-
ing would be largely eliminated. The
second chance against the guesser is
It is the chance that
he will not sell at the right time.
The average human fears (not be-
lieves. but FEARS) when markets
are advancing that they will go high-
er, and he-fears when-they are de--
clining that theywill go lower, so
he hesitates to sell on the advancing
market and later sells on the decliu:
ing one because he is alarmed. He

is disappointed but he losesebecause ‘=

there is one chance for him and two

against him.

"purely ' academic.

\"cut loose” and when to “hang a

3 right. mare times“ 11

A return to the original proposi-
tion will avoid getting into something
Farmers produce.
they market stupidly. In
in mar-

skillfully;
production they are expert;
keting they are green.

What the farmer needs to do is to._ 1 1
learn markets and marketing by per-.

sonal study and then be guided by
knowledge and not by fear. .
traryto common belief, it is theelim-
ination of this very natural human
tendency to fear ’the future, by ' a
substitution of a knowledge of mar-
kets and the use of th’atvknowledge
that constitutes in business in gen-
eral the main I
success and failure. _
too, needs more knowledge of mar-
kets and less fear of them.

" Our farmer ’may belong to some
farmers’ organization. If he does
not he ought to. The organiZation
may help him with his problems of
marketing; It can if it will. But no
farmers’ organizatiOn, although it be
a specialized marketing organization.

can ever remove the necessity for
the farmer hTfnself to know markets
and marketing. That is, if 0111' Am-
erican standard of agriculture is to
he maintained. It’s/just as neces-
sary for the individual farmer t0'
study marketing
have some idea about. when to act
and when not to act. He .must

know when to go in and when to

stay out. He must know when to

Despite What a lot of folks say. 1
possible for him to do this and

I? The failure

-Ft1r ‘1

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not estimate the quantity which will 3

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mer”——a period of belated
frost which, natives declare, has
notwbeen equalled in a decade or
more, has created a veritable revela-
tion to the few who are actually in-
terested‘in fruit. It has proven that,
under favorable conditions, the re—
—.gi-on “north of the Straits” is not
only particularly adapted to ,fruit
raising, but that, in the more pro—
tected regions, a grade of fruit—ap-
- ples, peaches, phims andpears, par-
ticularly—equal to the best the coun—
try produces, will thrive.
From the cultivated orchard to the

neglected, backyard variety of tree

come reports of unheard of results
with fruit this year. And the varied
results, Secured throughout the pen—
insula more than ever veriﬁes the
fact that fruit, assa “temperament-
al”" crop, is deeply sensitive to condi-
tions of soil, climate, and, yes, even
. the. very currents of air.
A recent survey of the fruit situ-
, ation in Baraga county, upper Mich-
igan——-parti-cu1arly in and around
L’Anse, Michigan, "a region widely
knpw for its excellent fruit possibil-
ities, convinces the horticulturist
that here. possibly is offered unlim‘
ited possibility for the cultivation of
fruit.

The Von Zellen orchard, at Skan- )

ee, a short distance from L’Anse, is
a. splendid example of what fruit will
do in northern Michigan under fav—
orable conditions. Apples, plums
and pears, set out over ﬁfteen years
ago, came forth in such quantity this
year that the owners, for a time,
questioned the likelihood of dispos—
ing of the mammoth crop.
particularly, displayed a tendency to
produce in such volume that it was
found necessary to prop the lower
branches of the greater number of
trees to save the limbs from fracture.

The ‘Wealt-hy predominates at the

' - Von Zellen farm, although various

other types showed up exceedingly
well, 'Of the. 150 or more trees set
'out, the Wealthy displayed the best
type of fruit—fruit not only pleasing
to look upon, but of the kind which

made famous the expression “like
mother used to make. ” .
Wealthy Apples
The operations 'at the Northern
Orchard preperty, located in Mar-

duette county, are, perhaps, typical
of the kind of management necessary
to produce the best results. The
trees, 4, 300 in all, were set out ﬁve
years ago by Leo. M. Geismar, at

present agricultural agent for the "

county of Houghton. There are
3,000:a-p.ples trees, 1,000 cherry'an-d -
300 plum. In selecting the site Mr.
Geismar displayed his knowledge of .
the possibilities for fruit in upper
ichigan, for the orchard is located
on a plateau of about seven square
miles in area, at an elevation of 160
feet above the surrhunding country,
thus affording excellent air drains:
ase On all: sides. -
Although the Northern Orchard
egu primarily as an experi-
Vt in; out the est» in fruit,

Apples, .

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WA Young Orchard In Marquette County.

"PPER'Michigan’s “Indian Sum—i to the next year or two for the es

tablishment of: a proﬁtable enter-
prise. During the past two .years
the orchardohas more than paid for
itself, much of the product—cher-
ries, plums and apples—going to the
local market.

The light sandy soil and the. free-
dom of this site from most of the
disadvantages Which beset the fruit
grower in, the cooler latitudes.
brought an almost unlocked for de-
gree of Success to the operators this
year. Though the fruit was permit—
ted to remain on the trees until
thorOughly ripe, not once was any
.part of the orchard touched by frost,
and more than that, potatoes and
other truck crops planted in the val-
ley were green and healthy long af-
ter the same crops, in othersections,
had 'been harvested to avoid a pos-

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Can You Beat These Burbank >Plums§71~

Garden peninsula is but the exten-
sion of the now famous Door coun-
ty section, in Wisconsin, long noted
for its big fruit crops, particularly
cherries. «

Three islands—~Washington, Sum—
mer and Little Summer—separate
the Garden Peninsula from Door
county, Wisconsin, with but a com—
paratively slight expanse of water
intervening. A study of conditions
in both peninsulas has brought out
the fact that the soil construction,
geographic features and climatic con—
ditions of both the Garden Peninsula
and Door county are similar. Wild
fruit and berries of various kinds
abound throughout the Garden Pen-
insula. More than that, this penin—
sula enjoys the distinction of being
the only section of northern Michi—
gan where butternuts may be found

 

How Wealthy Apples Grow In Northern ‘Mlchlgan

sible early frost. It is merely an ex—
ample of the wise selection of land,
and the proper, intelligent manage-
ment of tree and crop that has stamp-
ed the Northern Orchard as one of
the most worthy horticultural enter-

prises'now maintaining in upper
Michigan. Lack of efﬁcient help
curtailed, somewhat, the program

outlined by the ofﬁcials of the com-
pany this year, but in spite of the
fact the trees continued to thrive
and the crop to increase.

The Garden peninsula, that neck
of land jutting almost directly north
from Delta county, into Lake Mich—
igan, is another splendid type of a
section particularly adapted to fruit.

And it is a Signiﬁcant fact that the

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growing wild. This region has also
made rapid steps in agricultural de—
velopment, although located from
twenty to thirty miles from a rail—
road.

Another revelation which the pres—
ent season has brought about is the
possibility of upper Michigan for
peaches. Experimentation with
peaches has been in progress in var—
ious sections of northern Michigan
for many years with mediocre suc—
cess. A number of varieties have
been tried out, but until this year no
one could report deﬁnite success
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yThis fall, however, Robert Blem-
huber, of Marquette, brought to light
a type of peach which, experts de-
clare, even surpass the famous Cal-
ifornia and far—western product. And
the feat was accomplished in,the
back yard of the Blemhuber home.

This type of peach originated from
the pit of a California peach planted
some ten years ago in the rear of' the
Selander home at Marquette, and, 1n
respect to that fact, Mr. Blemhuber
has named his product the Mar-
quette peach. Although the tree in
question bore only a half dozen of
the fruit, the peaches were of such
size, flavor and texture, generally, as
to cause wide-spread comment.

Mr. Blemhuber is rated among the
leading farmer— citizens of upper
Michigan, and it is his conviction
that, under the right kind of soil and
climatic conditions, the Marquette
peach can be made one of the most
proﬁtable enterprises, agricultural—
ly, in the peninsula. ‘A hardy type
of tree which has repeatedly proven
'its resistance to frost, heavy rains
and other unfavorable conditions,
there exists, in the discovery of this
type of peach, a possibility hitherto
unheard of. In his experimental
work Mr. Blemhuber has pitted the
Marquette peach against various
other types, and invariably the form—
er has outlived every. other type.
This type of peach has been found
to thrive more successfully in the
light, sandy soil—a surface forma-
tion which permits of the straight
down- -shooting of the roots, result-
ing in a strong, healthy tree. Given
these conditions, Mr. Blemhuber de-
clares, the success of the Marquette
peach is assured.

The Marquette peach has not, as
yet, been tried out extensively. The
mere fact that Mr. Blemhuber was
one of but a few who were permit—
ted to transplant the specie from the
mother tree has limited the experi-
mental work.

Fruit Nursery

And right here enters the function
of a fruit nursery for upper Michi-
gan Repeated statements that up-
per Michigan is particularly adapted
to fruit, and subsequent successes in
small measure experimental ‘ work
have created an urgent demand for
some means whereby the more hardy
type of tree may be selected’from the
others, and determined as distinctive—
ly suited to the northern Michigan
region.

Consequently Mr. Blemhuber, as
one of upper Michigan’s most ener—
getic fruit enthusiasts, is hard at
work with the=state farm bureau,
and. the state agricultural depart-
ment, in an effort to establish afruit
nursery for upper Michigan. “If we
could get into this thing on a big
scale, set out various types of trees
and then satisfy ourselves, from- re- 1
suits achieved, of the best type of

tree to produce, I am sure that the
upper Michigan farmer Waui'd: soon

come to reali2e the great possibility

of this region for fruit ”~ declares»
Mr; Blemhuber. ‘ '

 

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or 00.. of Port Huron a good-in

I bought $500 worth of stock in the con?

cern last May and gave 810 and $16 a
share for it. It has gone up to $80. What
is the stock worth today? Why is it not

per like other motor stocksl— ‘

W. V., mﬁpeer. Michigan
The Michigan Securities Commis-
also advises us as follows: -

, "r11. Chief Motors Corporation of Port
Huron has been twice approved by this
Commission. On May 8th,1919,pennis-
sion was given for the sale of $400, 000
of common and preferred stock, upon con-
dition that 40. 000 shares of common stock
issued to H. J. Martin in consideration of
transfer to the Company of all the assets
of the Chief Motors Corporation of Can-
ado. be deposited in escrow with the State
Treasurer until the Company is earning
6, per cent net On all of its outstanding
stock and that all over $100 000.00 of
stock sales be applied to liquidate the
mortgages against the property of the
Company. On May 28th,1920,pemis-
sion was given for the sale of $45,000 of
bonds upon condition that the previous
mortgage indebtedness of $73, 000 be
liquidated At the time of the last ap-
proval the Commssion had assets and lia-
bilities totaling $1, 118, 258. 56. "

It appears from. the above that a
good deal of money derived from the
- sale of the stock has been applied
against old indebtedness. Personally
we know nothing about this concern.
If it was promoted in the same man-
ner as the majority of motor con-
cerns in small cities, it is probably
doomed to the same end——failure. The
Only stocks quoted in the newspapers
are those listed for that purpose with
the Detroit Stock Exchange. In the
absence of public trading and listing
of this stock we have no way of.
knowing what.its present market val-
ue may be. Market value of any
stock depends in a large measure up-
on/what the holder thinks it is worth
and what the investor is willing to
pay for it—Editor.

OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE

If a young man or woman becomes of
age, one day before election or primary
some here claim they can not vote be-
cause they were not old enough to regis-
ter I claim that they are twenty- -one
arm entitled to register and vote on eloo.
tion day, by consent of the election
board.

In your answer to E J M. of Stan-
wood Mich. you say that tht township
board have. the right to set the highway
commissioner’s compensation. I was
under the impression that his wages
were set by law at three dollars a day.
If they have a right to set them where
in the Public Acts can it be found?—S.
R, W.. Sterling, Mich.

One who becomes 21 the day be—
fore election or primary may vote
by applying to the election board,
taking the oath of qualiﬁcation if
required, being regV'tered, and cast—
ing his vote. Sec. 48 of the High-
way Compilation Laws, Sec. 4331, of
C. L. 1915 provides as follows: “The
township highway commissioner and
the overseer of highways shall be
entitled to such compensation as the
township board shall decide. The
compensation of the Highway Com-
missioner shall be paid from the
general fund of the township, in the
same manner as other township oili-~
cers are paid. The compensation of
the overseer of highways shall be
paid from the road repair fund, on
approval of the township board.”

l" tion it the following rates for each
. day actually and necessarily devoted
by them» to the service of the town-
ship in the duties of their respective
ofﬁces to be 'verriiied by aﬂldavit,
whenever required by the township
boards: First, the oﬁicers compos-
ing the township hoards, boards of
registration. board of health, clerks
of the poll and commissioners of
highways, three dollars per day and
at the same rate for parts of days."

As the last is the latest act» upon.’

the subject I would be of the opin-
ion that the highway commissioner
must be allowed $3 per day for the
least, but, by the former statute the

board may allow additional compen- '

cation—W. E. Brown, legal editor.
WHO INTRODUCED DOG LAW

Can you tell me thrdugh the columns
of your paper who it was that introduced
the dog law—the dog tax? We under-
stand that it was Mr. Orville E. Atwood.
But he says not—IL A., Fremont, Mich.

 

Rep. Reed, of Kalamazoo county, is.

the author of the dog law—Editor. ’

 

AUTO HIT ON R. B. CROSSING

While crossing the P. M. track at
Sears with our car, the afternoon of
Sept 8th we were struck by the motor
Work car. The main srreet of Sears
runs parallel to the railroad. Between
the street and track is a coal shed, ware-

so: shall be entitled to compensa-l

— were scratched . and

house. dope and
shed is about 70 feet

guleon themain‘smetwehadlooked»

therightforatrainandsawno
Aswedroveupbu thetraclt

we looked to the left for a train.- The
motor car came out from behind the line
of buildings. They saw us ﬁrst and yell-
ed We looked back toward towh think-

ing there was something doi n: then,

Whenwesawummtheremno

chance
»forustostop.wewerealmostlnfront

of them. They put on their brake and
killed their engine, but struck us square-
ly on center of the right side of3 our car.
shoving us some distance down the
track. Car was damaged about forty-
iive dollars worth a dc from labor. We
uised, not thrown
from car. They were running rapidly
thru town. They had no siren on their
car. The work car was thrown from the
track. We have heard nothing from the
company can we expect to get any
damages?— H. W. 1)., Sears. Mich.

You will be obliged to make claim
for damages or you won’t get any.

Yours is a case that Wpuld require,

a detailed statement to what occur-
red. -If they did not give any
warning by whistle or hell or some
equally good noisemaker and you
could not see them if you looked as
you drove onto the track I would
be of the opinion that the company
would not only be liable for the
damage to the car but to the occu-
pants for what damage was done to
each one. You should consult a
good attorney—W. E. Brown, legal
editor.

 

COMPLAINTS AGAINST REBUILT
(AND USED TIRE CONCERNS
One of the most numerous types of
complaints in our Collection Box De—
partment is against ﬁrmswho sell re—
treaded, rebuilt or used tires, making
extravagant guarantees, which usual-

ly are, however, merely
paper.”

Tires bought from this type of con~
cern are almost certain to- lead to dis-
astrous experiences and Tm: BUSINESS
FABMER has made it a strict custom
not to accept any adverting of this
nature, and wishes at this time to
warn its readers against dealing with
these concerns. Buy standard makes
of tires from reputable dealers. You
will save money in the end.

“scraps of

FARMERS’ PRODUCE COMPANY

I wrote you some time ago about a.
, sack of popcorn which I had shipped to
the Farmers’ Produce 00.. Reopelle St,
Detroit. and you answered sa’ying that
if I did not hear from them to write you
again. I have not heard from them. If
you could do something to stir them up
I would be very glad. There was about
60 pounds of the corn at about. 10c per
pound in a new grain bag.—-R. L. N.,
Conemish. Michigan

I am afraid you will never re—

cover your money. Upon our failure
to secures. refund from the Farm-
ers’ Produce 00.. and the Michigan
Produce Co., for subscribers who had
shipped goods to them and hoping to

prevent other farmers from being'

victimized, we urged the postal a11—
thorities to take action against these
concerns, which they promptly did.
Under date of Oct. 27th we received

vise you that I have submitted the
case (of the Michigan Produce 00.,
and the Farmers’ Produce Co.,) to
the United States Attorney and the
case will be presented to the grand
jury which will convene at Detroit
next week. I will try to have it pre—
sented early in the term so that we
can get prompt action. This course
was considered best as I have been
advised that several warrants have
been “issued and I did not wish to do
anything which would interfere with
civil action. In the meantime please
continue to have complaints sent to
me D

 

CHICAGO PORTRAIT CO.

I noticed in your last issue Mrs. J

S., Otsego county, complains of the Chi-
cago Portrait Company. Several of my
neighbors and friends were taken in by
the same method. Here is the way they
treated us. This Was last year, and they
sold us the pictures for $10 and charged

37. 4.0 each for the frames. Wehad only
ordered the pictures, not frames, and did
not like to take them. but the agent was
bound we should and finally told us he
would take our note for part if we paid
cash for the rest. Finally I paid him
$17 40 and gave my note for $7. 40. When
he had gone We found out that he sold
the very same kind of pictures and
frames to our neighbor for 815 and some
odd cents. When our note was due we
wrote to the company and asked them
about this. They ignored the letter we
wrote waited a couple of months and
sent us a dun. I wrote again asking for
an explanation at least, and again they
igored out letter and sent a dun a. while
later. Our friends advised us not to pay
it so we did not heed their dun. Then
they put the matter into the hands of a
collection agency. We did not know what
they might do so we sent the money.
They did not send any receipt but of

elevator. The coal
from thecr crossing

BEET COMPANY DOES NOT FILE

, CONTRACT
Thissummerlputinlﬂacrenofm
beetsonshnres.
theoontraot. Theco was
thohandworkandlwnag mmdothetgssg:
work. Now I can prove “that I cumul-
edbeetsas agreement. The
beat company failed to clean beets out
untilweed; “ﬁtteavcrylargesiaeinthe

theﬁeld telkthe

' M everyth
did. 1- have about $100 worth of work

on the ﬁeld. ICan I hold either party for
my work? have been posturing my
cow on my hallo! boots but the ownet
orders the to take her oi! claiming I
haven't any hold on land now. How
about it? My land and his lie in the
village.- He claims he doesn’ t have to
put in line fence between us. Can

e him put in his half if I have mine
upf—A Subscriber, Farewell. Mich.

If the beet company contracted to
do the hand work in propel-season
and workman'like manner or similar
provision and you arranged to- take
over the owner’s work by team I am'
of the opinion that the ,company is

liable to you for 'failure to do the '

work. You do not have any right of
pasture unless that was a part of
the agreement with the owner. The

,village authorities have not provid-

ed for line fences, etc., I would be
of the opinion, that you could com-
pel- the building of line fences under
the general lava—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. '

 

C
DAMAGE FOR BURNING FENCE
last fall or late summer I bought 40
acres of land. As the south portion of
my line fence is in a low spot of ground
while it was dry I went and reset my
posts and ﬁxed the fence in good shape.
In the late fall my adjoining neighbor
set fire on his part and let it burn 10 or
12 of my posts off and let my fence
down, He neither replaced them or has
offered to. This spring I turned 3 heifo
Prq out on«my land. One I bought is
full blood Durham, two are grades. This

summer his scrub bull got in and served ,

them. Am I entitled to damage on
fence, also the difference between a scrub
and a thoroughbred bull?——W. R... Otter
Lake, Mich

You would be entitled to damage
for the burning of the fence but not
for "scrub bull."
bound to maintain your. line fence
and to make the damages just as
small as possible. If' he failed to re-
build the fence it would be your duty
to rebuild your part of the fence and
charge it up to him and sue him for
it if he failed to pay.’ You could
collect no damage from him. if your
part of the fence was down, for
trespassing cattle. '— W. E. "Brown,
legal editor.

 

TENANT‘S RIGHTS
I am working a. farm on shares. I own
a flock of.sheep and some time ago I
wanted to pasture these sheep on a
piece of unfenced wild land on this farm.
The owner has sonic woven wire fence

and told me to put it up. I did so Now

the sheep have started to jump over this
fence. I home thought of putting barb-
wire of my own on top of this {once but
neighbors tell me that if I do I cannot
take it off when I move. Would I be
obliged to leave this wire up or not?——R
W. E. Stanwood, Mich.

.Tenant has the right to remove
temporary fence or wire unless agree-
ment to contrary if the wire is re—
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“The big Goodyear Cord Tires make a motor truck a real farm tool. I use mine to pull a hay
cutter, ora rake, or an automatic loader, as well as to haul grain to the threshing machine and
then to the barns for storage. The pneumatics roll through our peat bogs,14 feet deep in places,
which we use for fuel supply; teams can ’t go into them after rains, pneumatics can. I haul

pure-bred Holstein stock to St. Paul, 80

miles, without appreciable shrinkage. Others take

days to do the harvesting thatI do in hours—because of my truck on pneumatics.”—-E. H.
Kuchenbecker, Owner, Oakcraft Grain and Dairy Farm, Owatonna, Minnesota, R. F. D. No. 1

«I

HROUGHOUT agricultural America
today there is many a farmer who can
make a report similar to the one given
above, regarding the all-round utility and
value of a truck on Goodyear Cord Tires.

Just as the application of motor power
quickens plowing, pumping, spraying,
grinding and other farm operations, so
does truck po’wer aided by the active pneu-
matics quicken farm work in a large variety
of ways.

All those tons of produce, stock and
supplies that otherwise require such tedious
toil in handling and hauling, are rapidly
loaded and whisked between farm and

town on the big, smooth—going Goodyear
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Farm products formerly limited to selling
points only a few miles away,~now have
ready access by means of trucks on Good—
year Cord Tires, to markets sometimes 50
to 100 miles distant.

In the most strenuous of such duty these
pneumatics demonstrate the rugged stren gth
of their Goodyear Cord construction
which makes possible that exceptional
reliability with which they serve.

Farmers’ reports of savings and advantages
obtained with pneumatic—tired trucks and
other motorized equipment, will be mailed
on request by The Goodyear Tire& Rubber
Company, from Akron, Ohio, or Los
A-nge‘les, California.

 

 
  

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Onthefloorofthestockex-
changeandinWall Streetallldnds

‘. business houses and manufacturing

enterprises in the country; organiz-
ed short selling and bargain hunting
were the chief activities of the week
and the usual nasty smudge of in-
nuendo, insinuation and blackmail

followed in the. wake of the dirty-

gang of thieves that always hovm'
around the market on such occasions.
A conviction is gaining ground,
among both interested and disinter-
ested observers of recent Stock Ex-
change operations, that some mean-
nres of control must be adopted to

‘ check and regulate the activities of

the gang of bear raiders who are
doing their level best to throw the
country into a. destructive ﬁnancial
panic; these ghouls, disguised as hu-
man bongo, belong to the same
chss as the man who commits mur-
der, or burns buildings for the ex-

ables. There is at the present time a
deﬁnite movement on foot which has
for its object the incorporation of
the New York Stock Exchange. It
is the opinion of the writer of this
article that the parasites that live
by market. raiding must be sum
ily dealt with by the governors of
the Exchange in order to save the

country from a ﬁnancial upheaval

and the far-reaching disaster which

always follows; if incorporation will,

turn the trick, let the Stock Ex-
change be incorporated, if not and

‘l there is no other effectual remedy,
I let it be wiped off the map.

The recent pronounced weakness
of foreign exchange exerted a dc-
prcssing inﬂuence over the stock
market all last week and as there
is apparently no remedy for this
weakness, the outlook for the imme-

' .diate future has very little of en-
. couragement in it.

One of the con-

tributing causes of the increasing

- weakness of foreign exchange is the

fact that there u, just now, so much
of it for sale in this country. Since
the signing of the armistice, Euro-
pean countries have been buying our
commodities without paying for
them until, at. the present moment,
them is a credit in our favor of more
than $4 nonwoooooo Just as long
as this trade balance is permitted to
mcumulatc foreign exchange will
continue to grow weaker.

Another phase of a disagreeable
situation is the shortage of money
wi‘h which to pay the ﬁnal install-
ment of the annual income tax. Re—
ceni'ly, when all classes were mak-
in" plenty of money it was compar-
atively easy for men to meet the tax
levy, but now that. incomes are cut
in two in the middle they ﬁnd them;
selves with not nearly enough mou-

ey tom til-demos; many of theses

ﬁrms had enough money not aside
for ﬁre liquidation of the ohliptlons

referred to above but recently, when ‘

they found it impossible to burrow
moleythey have drawnohﬂtdr

urgency fund all now. Ind the- ‘
,oelves without the necessary funds

to make the December income pay-
ment, the result is that many of

' these ﬁrms are begging the govenr:
uncut to defer the com cine» .
camber taxes until some tum time

when money is more plentiful.
f‘All of the staple We: of

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Hogs steady , Cattle weak.

DETROIT—Wheat active, temling higher. Corn and 70am
dulland-weak. Cattlcdullandweakﬂogssteady. -

CHICAGO—Wheat scarce and higher other grain week.

    

 

 

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Minimum» upon security
markets. Cottonhasledthevvay
downwardandvvheahasfollowed
aclosesecondintheheadlongrace
tothebottomofthelist.

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WHEAT/PRICE. PER 30.. low. 18, 1920

 

 

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lo.‘ 2 Bad . . I . -2.05 1.88 2.08
In; 2 mm. . . . 2.00

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PRICES ONE YEAR ACO
No.2 ﬂail No.2 White! “0.2 Iliad
Milt I 2.27 I '2 as l 2.25

The bears in the Chicago wheat
pit had a busy day on Monday trying
to cover up and get even without at-
tracting too much attention. The
entire situation seems to have un-
dergone a radical change and the
bulls seem to be in command of the
ship for the present. The effect of
the holding back of wheat by the
farmers is beginning to be felt in
good earnest, receipts at Chicago
showing a rapid decrease, of late, 9.}
though the primary movement seems
to be holding up fairly well. Ex-
porters are buying freely and the
news from foreign sources is all of
a bullish tone. Russian advices
seem to indicate that no more
wheat will come out of that unfor-
tunate country fo’r some months.

 

 

 

' There is another important fact that

the bears In the market are begin-
ning to think about, namely, the
fact that the recent decline in grain
values is the most severe which has
been .known since the period imme-'
diately after the Civil War: the sea-
soned trader has long ago learned
that markets do not goal] the time
the same way. The prolonged busi-
ness depression is acting as a brake
on the wheels of speculative invest-
ment and is really the leading bear
market in the present situation.

CORN

coal PRICE! PER .01. NOV. 16. 1020
Grade matron IChlcagol N. Y.

la. 2 ram ”.3 .9: r .B'Il/zl Mali;
No. 3 Yellow ...l l
No. 4 Yellow ...l l l

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no.2 no.3 no.3 Volu rec-.4 Yell
Detroit ..p 1.50 I 1.53 I 1.54

 

 

 

 

 

 

The corn market being under se-
vere selling pressure did not share
the prosperity enjoyed by wheat

    
   
    
    
   
 
  
  

21:13:; tlhe earlliy market session and
w ow p cc tor futures was
registered; when the wave of selling
orders has spent its force, however,
the market rallied sharply and on
the close Hay corn was one cent
above the opening quotation. The
general opinion among impartial ob-
servers of recent mutations in corn
market quotations, is that a shrink.
gigs of 86 cents per bushel, in the
selling of this cereal, )3 about enough
fur the present; shorts in the market

are extremely sensitive evidently an-w

ticipating an early change in market
trend.

 

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of high-class stock; The trade is
well supplied with law-grade; unripe
fruit, which is very hard to dispose
of at any price. The general-opinion,

among those who are familiar with '
the habits of the potato market is ‘

that, with the advent of permanent-
ly colder weather, householders the

Zeountry over, will move to ﬁll their

collars and prices will harden some-
what. .

y The November estimate shows an
increase over October, indicating a
total crop of over 420 million bush-
els, the second largest on record. This
fact should be carefully considered.
In an early issue comparative potato
crops and prices will be given.

 

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December oats droppal below 47
cents on Monday, as a result of the
strong selling pressure but like corn
this cereal rallied, late in the day,
and the close was at the extreme
high point of the day’s trading

 

BYE
The rye market is dull and quiet
showing some strength when wheat
starts up the line but quickly weak-
ening in sympathy with a. dip in
wheat and corn. No. 2 rye is selling
for $1. 62 per bushel.

 

BEANS

 

BEA‘NS PER CWT., NOV. 61, 1920

 

 

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G. H. P. ...... l $.00 5.00 I 0.00
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Ic. H. PJ Prime lRe‘d Kldneys
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The current demand for beams is
much improved from that which rul-
ed at the beginning of'the month:
the movement has not, as yet, gained.
headway enough to warrant any
great change in prices. Bean ex—
perts are looking for better prices
for this commodity before long.

POTATOES
The potato market shows more
strength at all points, probably, as
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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. ’1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer
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cast of Rockies
durhlgzlaat day. of November and
ﬁrst yu of December. A general
assortment of Weather events is ex-
pected. more than usual precipitation,
a. norther, or blizzard, followed by
cold weather that will continue to
near middle of December, the coldest
art of it being on meridian 90 near
mber 8. Another set of severe -
storms are expected to approach from

extreme northwest not nu- from
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condition. witha

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continent one-third from fair- to
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hip-than. low-'1‘“ '“Mi
Detroit ”mean
The hay market is holding its
own fairly well in all parts of the
country; supplies are not burden-
some and the demand just about
equal to the task of absorbing cur-
rent arrivals without permitting an
accumulation. New York‘and the
upper-Atlantic coast district is fair-
ly well supplied in spite of the em-
bargo against this commodity which
has been maintained by the New
York Central railroad for several
weeks past. At Boston, supplies of
hay are not equal to the demand and
quotations have been advanced from
$1 to $2 per ton. The Detroit mar-
ket reports a steady trade at the
scale of prices which has prevailed
for several weeks past.

 

 

 

 

 

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

'There is little that can be said
about the recent trade in live cattle,
except to note a continued downward
trend in. prices» for everything, ex-
cept yearlings, which just about hold
their own from week to 'week, with
$17.50 top in Chicago. The direct
cause of the slump in cattle values,
during the last week, has been the

” arrival of excessive supplies in near-

ly all markets. ' ,
Chicago got a big run of cattle

Monday and the receipts for the ﬁrst .

two days of the week were 17,500
head larger than tor the correspond-
ing period of the week before. Trade
in some parts of the Chicago stock.
yards was almost at a standstill on
the mid-week days. the only thing
that was asked for being gilt-edged
yearling: and good bologna bulls.
The hull trade weakened toward the
end of the week and the close was,
on a par with that of last week.
Stockers and feeders are yielding

under strain of declining cattle val- »

1195 for mature cattle. Eastern do—

- mend. for Wade (ire-ad boot is,

decidedly sluggish. relieving

ofnearly all of her shipping do-

we and causing 3 mg

on trade. A substantial W in”
the also at the American only of
the unemployed inf having M to
do with the decreased demands for

all kinds of meat products and deal-VI";

or: are looking for a revival in (i
ﬁnd as the weather become perm;

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Joining states. In view of the wide distribution of the infection. Sale—
” tr Firstshould be the Watchword and every 1103 should be given the
double. met-neat, immediately. Owners of pure-bred stock should
1mist that the veterinary surgeon who treats their hogs shall furnish
. them with a certiﬁcate of immunization for each hog, bearing his sig'na- -
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in Chicago showing a lone trom Mou-
; day until Saturday of 75 cents to $1
1' *- per cwt. The average in this do-
‘ > . pertinent was $6. 30 for the week.
Aged Wethers were bad sellers in Chi-
cago 111111113: week. the loss tram the
close of the week before being '75
cents per cwt. on the elder grades
and 50 cents on year-lines. Thin
1.. western wethers tor feeding purposes
1' said 50 cents higher than ﬁnished
stock at $7.50 per cwt.

Last week’s Chicago lamb trade
featured the lowest price since Nov:
ember,‘ 19.18, the low point being
touched on Tuesday and the trade
ﬁrming up, somewhat, toward the
close or the week as a result of im-
proved weather conditions. The
closing trade was 16 to 26 cents
higher than that of the week before.

- The top last week in Chicago for fat
lambs was 812.65 and for feeding
lambs $12. 90 per cwt.

Live Hogs and Provisions .
«Hogs have been coming freely, of
1 late and packers have been pounding
' the market until it is hitting right

.«‘I' it" b ‘35}5'1.’ 5“? 5'“

GFLWTNH~

, around- the low point for the present
' season. The speculative provision
‘ market has been weak and unstable
in sympathy with the weakness in
both hogs and grain. The general
opinion is that receipts will continue
to be large for the next 30 days and
that values will continue to decline
until a new ”low" for the last four
years is uncovered. The continued
depression in business circles is also
having a discouraging influence over
the hog and provision markets and

 

no recovery is looked for until after
the holiday season is past. .
The Detroit cattle market has been
extremely dull and slew of_ late, ar-
rivals being larger than the trade
needed and the quality of the ‘oﬂ’er-
lugs extremely common. Veal calves
have been selling well at higher prica

., es than any other market- in the
. country, similarly located. Sheep
' ﬁend lambs were dull early in the
.-Week, but the close was active .a‘t
"the best values that have prevailed
since the close of the month. As us-
ual. of late, Detroit has had an un-
. satisfactory live hog trade; prices
l have been out of line with other

, markets and the packers have £re—'
[ uuently declined to. enter the mar-
ket. leaving sellers to send their
hogs east. or to hold them'orer as
they seemed to think \besti.

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SIN 1A R

Sugar prices are off again. De—
.clinne in Cuhun raws the ﬁrst of the
week were followed by n‘drop in re-
, . ﬁned 10 10c wholesale. it looks as
if the market was again going to play
into the li-nnds ofhthe manufacturers
and enable them to settle for their
boots on a. low basis. .afler whlch we
may expect. another advance, .We
look for materially higher sugar
prices with the coming of'spring and
suggest to our'reeders who have to
buy sugar to lay in a pound or two
extra at current retail prices.

 

 

’on'rnorr PRODUCE MARKET-

-"l‘l1e Detroit produce market'is (sir;
Iv active along nearly all lines, the
steady cold weather giving to the
market an activity and dependable
ﬁrmness, which it has not known at
-ady preceding date this tall. . There

' is on active demand for all dairy pro-
' ducts. The. better grades of butter
are selling well but the consuming
public is tired of common butter and
butter substitutes Fresh eggs are
very scarce and tending toward higha

‘ or price levels; demand [or mtorage
‘ ' 1a Apples are in ample
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calves are in light supply and prices '

are ﬁrm. The poultry market is
suffering from an over-supply and
prices are tending lower.

Wholesale Prices 4

Butter
Fresh Creamery, print ..... . . . . 53-54c
Fresh Creamery, tub ...... . . . . . 51-531:
, Eggs

Strictly Fresh ............. . . . . . 69-73c
Storage Eggs ........ ....;. 51-53c

Provision! ’
Family Pork, per bbl . .. . . . 42—45c
Clear Back, per bbl. ...... . 32- 37c
Hams .............. .. . . . ....... 32-3413
Picnic Hero-s . ...................-. 260
Shoulders ...... ........... ....... 27c
Bacon .......................... 30-380
d ......................... 22-24c

Dressed Hog-

' Under 150 pounds ........... .. . . 19- 200
Over 150 pounds ............... 16-181;

 

U '9: EMARKET eEDITOR5
”1“ ,J ‘ MAIL BOX
“:3

NUMBER OF HOGS IN U. S.

If you have in your ofﬁce or can get
the number of bugs in the United States
this year and in 1919, will you please
publish it with anything else in the way
of statistics that have a. bearing on the
future of the hog market in this coun-
try?—J. J. P, Hillsdale, Michigan. .

In answering the above query, we
would most respectfully refer the
writer to the last issue of the Busi-
ness Farmer, on page 20. where is
given many facts concerning the live
stock industry. The U. S. Bureau
of crop estimates ﬁgures the number
of hogs that will appear in our mar-
kets this year at 56,534.000; in 1919
the number was 62,073,000. Dur-
ing the ﬁscal year which closed on
June 30, 1920, the number of hogs
slaughtered under government in-
spection 111 the United States equaled
38,981,000. ’

The outlook for hogs and hog
products is considered fairly good at
this writing; of course, -much wﬂl
depend upon the general trend of
busines during the next 60 days. It
price~cutting andgenera] liquidation
continues, hogs will sell consider-
ably lower, but should .a general
business revival follow the presiden-
tial election, the hog market will
probably continue dull and steady
during the next fortnightand after—
ward, gradually seeking higher price
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A CORRECTION

N THE Oct. 9th issue a statement

was published which discredited

the Jersey Farm Dairy 00.. of
Jackson. The information upon
upon which this statement was: lum—
ed was furnished, the Rusrrmss FARM-
m by a prominent Hackson county
milk producer. Investigation shows
that our informanthad confused the
Jersey Farm Dairy 00., with another
dairy concern which was trying to
get a foothold in the Jackson terri-
tory. We ﬁnd that the statements
,made against the Jersey Farm Dairy
company were incorrect in every de-
that the company is trust—
worthy in every respect and that its
patrons are well satisﬁed with the
treatment. given them by this com—
pany. The Boslm‘ss Fumes does not
wish to injure any reputable indi—
vidual or concern and gladly makes
this unqualiﬁed retraction of the
statement referred to —Edltor.

 

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in care of T111: Busm‘nss FARMER. Mt.
Clemens, 1111511.. and let him entér
your name. The work is easy, re-
quiring only a little of your spare

time and. the prizes will all be dis-

tributed December 31,le less than
strives“ from today. The race has~
mum and we
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HOUQAISEDS of dollars will be
spent next year to control the
'_ grasshOpper pest. Tons of poison
will be shipped to Mich. to be distrib-
uted by the farmers overtheir lands.
This poison will be eaten by others
than grasshoppers. Birds. our best
. ‘will die by the thousands,
for- o’hopper full of arsenic is just as
fatal to a bird as the clear poison.

Live stock or all kinds are in danger, '

and the question arises—does it pay?
Isn't there a better and safér way to
con-trot the hopper pest. Prof; Bur-
gess of the M. A. C. thinks as does the
writer that there is. If every farmer
when the hoppers abound would raise
a ﬂock of turkeys and guineas the
problem would be solved, and instead
of providing a source of danger and
destruction besides —a larger outlay of

money thrown away, we would be sup- _

plying the market with birds and
bring in a larger income to the [arm--
or. 'I know from experience that. 25
turkeys will rid any 80 of grasshop-
pers. They will fatten on them and
I know we need the turkeys. Michi-
gan is the best turkey state in the U.
S. and the natural feed (hoppers) are

being allowed to be a source of annoy- .

ance when they
source of proﬁt.

This is a question which should be
looked into by 0111- state this- fall.
There are plenty of turkeys to be had
now to supply every farm in the
grasshopper infested region with a
trio or a. pair. Next spring, it will he

could be made a.

too late so I say to the officers of the .

state urged it to the- farmer and stop
buymg poison to destroy all Our own
wild life as WF‘ll as their own stock. —
A. A. Whitccmb, Kent County, Mich.

Sound argument! The wise man is‘he
who turns his misfortune to his advan-
tage if it can be done. Tu1keys will con-
sumo an commons number of hoppch
in a season. Turn the Terrible Turk
loose. Let him turn the grasshopper
from an instrument of destruction to an

                                 

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_ LOSES 0N SPUDS
WAS just reading in the M. B. F.
of the potato farmers; cutting their
throats by selling their potatoes
at digging time or when the price is

low and by not putting them in the

cellar and holding them until the price
is right. I would like to ask right here

‘ what is a man going to do when he

owes a debt and the ﬁrm comes and
demands its money? I suppose you

wvouid tell him to wait until the price

it: right then you will pay this ﬁrm?
They will not do that. They know you
have the potatoes and they are _going
to get their money whether you lose
or not. They don’ t care for your loss.
We have to sell in 010611 to pay our
debts when the ﬁrm calls for it. I was
just ﬁguring what my potatoes cost
me per acre. Just $99 per acre. I
got 40 bushels of good salable pota-
toes per ac1e due to hail and droutb
and light soil. Iget $1. 25 and $100
per bushel.— Subscriber, Penﬁcld,

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I know right well that what you say
is true of thousands of farmers in the.
potato belt. It is the rule instead of the
exception. I think howc vcr that our

correspondent was not criticizing farmers

who Po‘fi rbr‘lr potatoes in the fall from
necosclty but the farmer who can afford
to hold and inwnnd of storing the: pota-
toes himself put them in the collar of
the local dealer. Potatoes or other farm
products should he kept out of the hands
of.inﬂf-n'1"ent dealers as long as p03-
Bible—Editor.

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STAYING lN T1111“ 01.11 111111
VERY farmer who has ever kept'
E chickens have noticed that the
springers after a time. Will 111-;
dulge in the luxury of rotisting in the
trees. it there are any. The more they;
indulge the more they get conﬁrmed.

 

«in the habit to keep on roosting there-

Beioré Winter sets In the farmer ﬁnds
it almost impossible to make? the

chickens roost where" he wants themv ‘

tos robst. He experiénces all this and
knows it; but it rarely occurs to him

I that he himself may be. like the chick-i"

ens. The“ chickem act out of their
nature, and be 1171‘s.: The chickens are
arbitrary and egotistic in their mind

7 .They think that there is . no other
i:

Y‘l'mc as good as their
are all in‘clincd -

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, body else would know it. ,
__ not.- know it they would soon ﬁnd it

, by the lawa and public opinion to pay

  
   
  
 
   

ﬁn to“ cultivate recs-ion," the highest

. gift to man by nature, and about the

only thing that separates us iron) the
lower animals. In the absence of rea-
son or high enough degree or it, we
would be like the chickens, we would
think that we are right and every
If they did

0111,1011 we are going to stick to the

’ old roosts in spite of all opposition.
‘ Ninety- ﬁve per cent of. the people of
> the world rank in this class, especially
‘ so in their religious. .

What is reason?
together in- mind'all previous infor-
mation of all sorts from everywhere,
comparing them with each other,
making deductions from them and ﬂu-
ally reaching conclusions; The con'-_
clusions‘may be right or wrong ac-
cording with the information back of
it. One who gets much information.
from nature direct has the advantage
over all others who get mostly misin-
fmmation and know absolutely noth
ing about nature or- their Creator. He
is enabled to measure men, animals
and plants by the rule of nature Which

. is the most, accurate rule there is.—

0. F. G., Webberm‘lle. Mich.

 

The enemy of reason is prejudice The
hon is prejudiced in favor of her native
roost and refuses to be convinced that an
artiﬁcial most is more to be desired
Moms prejudices warp their reason and
they are frequently led into taking the
“'1'an course Nature is logical in her
n‘mnrt'netioms She has no moods, plays

no favorites knows no prejudice. Her
mm a i~ ordered by logic pure and
.ulvrmlo. Yes let's take some lessons

From nature and learn how to take right
0""r"es When all our prejudices point the

                    

 

\VHY THIS; INJU'STICE?

T IS in woman’s nature to desire

to be loved, and this attributevis

God- -given, yet, in the exercise
of this attribute, much caution and
the exercise of good judgement. is ab-
solutely necessary in order that good
and desirable results, only, shall be
secured.

It is the nature of woman to trust
and confide and, if due caution is not
observed, sad results may obtain and
public sentiment condemns, without
me1cy, the woman who has strayed
from the bath of viltue _while cen-
soring, but lightly, the man who has
been perhaps the chief cause of this
most regrettable condition.

Is there any sufﬁcient“ reason for
ccnsuv‘iu'r the woman more severely
than the man when both have left the
path of virtue? It would seem that
man. being the stronger in will power,
by nature“ and while cont-rolled less
by his aﬁections should bear the lar-
vcr pmlion of? the responsibility and
the accompanying censure when both
have erred by the immoral act.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox has treated in
her trenchant poem, “Two Sinners”—
this subject in such manner as to Show
very fm'cefully the injustice done by
curing public sentimentto the woman
who has been a. partner in animmoral
act and she has suffered the inmstice
of severe censure, while but light cen-
sure is cast upon the man, the more
responsible party.

There is, however, this conSolation,
that human. unjust judgement will not
be permitted to determine the ﬁnal
settlement of this regrettable trans-
gression of God’s 111w.—-—'J._ T. Daniella,
Clinton County. Mich. 7
w——-——.'~—‘

If comment is necessary upon this deii- ,

‘. cafe subject we can only, of course fully

agree with you. TllQI‘a should be no
double standards of morality. The condit-
ion of which you speak is perhaps natur-
al. It is a heritage handed down from
the centuries uhen‘woman was consid4
ered to be no better than a chattel Even
in the biblical clay~ the double standard
\1 as recognized It was pcrmissable in
the éYes of God for men to .ba've many
wives and concnbines, but dual. marriag-
nu for mecn were not allowed Now,
however, the entire civilized world rec-
omizes the essentiallty 0! monbgamous
marriage as the only safa and Sure foun-
nation for a happyI sons life and an up-
right citizenship. In .1}, lesser de so
perhaps it lgé‘zisxtsr‘t upon the single £11-
dam of mar 11y 111 though We have a
long wa'yj yet to go béfbre the -
morality- will be visited up
.10 the some extent that the .-
the warmth. If the map were in bi

  

the same penalties for his e‘rr‘l
omhp there 1176117
and . i

wanted. from
silky~ 7t! it,

" CHEAPER MONEY FOR EARME‘
WOULD like to say a. few words;
although do not suppose you Will .. .
humble?
I new:
had a. chance to go to college. If the
‘Republican party would put .
James A. Garﬁeld or _a.n A. Liﬁooin

I would deposit my savings 11111111111»
puny more argument, but when they -
want us‘ to vote for Rockpleller and

It is the bringing ;

.bos, Sheriﬁ' Ottawa County.

  

in :Miqhisa km 1-; -

print it. Excuse the
thought of a simple farmer“

up-a

Morgan, Wall Street & Co.) earn them

$10 a day and pay you off at 50 cents

and a. swift kick in- the pants”, then it

you strike you are a red, I say" get up ~
i

and: do .11 little thinking. 7 7..

They Will go over to the Phllllpino ’

Islands, take a. brass band along to
droWn- the cries of our own people
who are starving at the wharf in N.

City, hunt some nigger out of the
jungle, send him to college for 20
years and when they get thru with
him he is a nigger still. ,
their swamps, build boulevards and
marble palaces, loan them billions of

dollars that American farmers and

laborers have worked to get at 50
cents a day and then if we farmers
and commOu folks at home want a
loan on our farms and a decent wage
we are not in it Would like to voice
my opinion right here. It Uncle Sam
wants to help the farmers, let him
loan them money at 4 per cent, 110
bonus nor other extra charges, ‘the
same way they do ’in Denmark and
other European countries.

his general department, industry’nnd
general behavior.
rion. America for Americans and a
little more honesty. To the voters
ol‘ the state of Michigan don‘t let
them put it. over you. —-B. W. B. Fer-
{ms Mich.

There have been many abuses no doubt .

in the distribution oi‘ government fundn.
11 does seem as though the government
should show a little more sympathy to
the farmer. and help him in getting the
credit and the money wh'ch he so bad‘y
needs at this stage. Evcrvthing is top-
r7v turvy just now Mcbfm .‘heyfll right
themselves after awhile. ——Editor_

 

CATTLE RUNNING AT LARGE
HE last issue of your paper con-
tains an article by C. E. R. in re~
gard to pasturing idle land in

northern Michigan. I have lived

here some 34 years, where cattle are,

allowed 'to roam at will by a good
many fmmers Can say from exper-
ience that fence or no fence the prac-
tice is a damnable nuisance. In the
ﬁrst place no young growth would
over get much chance if cattle had a.
free'cha‘nce at it. In the second place
it costs a. good bit of money these
days to. fence in a new farm, and new
farmers are what these cut-over lands
mod the most. $11 will cost enough
to'gct started anyway without being
forced to build fence before one is
ready and able to do so. It is als_o a,

fact that a good many cattle have no ‘

respect for a three wire fence or hard-
ly any other fence and prefers. raid
on crops to pasture knee deep outside.
I have traveled many a. mile and
swore many an oath after the stray

cattle disputing my claim to a crop.—— .

0. D. S., Cheboygan County, Mich.

Well. you ought to know. At the same
time there ought to be a way provided for
utilizing the thousands of tons of grasses
that go to waste every year on the
plains and cut- -over lands of the state
You are speaking of isolated cases. 1

Clean up‘ '

Not lndls- .
' criminately but every man subject to

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am referring to the tho‘usands of contigw I

uous acres that lie in many parts
settler, which grow much vegétation that
should, if possible, be ‘used
your opinion about that?—.—Editor.

 

SHERIFF HITS CONSTABULARY— 8
DON’T think we need the State

Constabulary. It is only an extra
burden on the taxpayers. It I had,

my say it would be done away with.
If the sheriffs and police get the prom-

er support I think they can do‘ the
work without any trouble. -C'. Dem

 

  

' Ottawa is another fruit spewing cm‘
which, according tot-‘hthe constaibulary .

pogandists“. needs

_State Police.
to combat the mospersxe.

bandits before the Consmbu

into. existence; is not recordé‘d.
glad to ssyn that There air-asp. o

What is ‘ .

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Michigan untouched by the hand of tho,

     
        
     
     
    
 
    
  
  
      
  
  
  
 
 
  
   
    
     
  
   

   

   

      
 

  

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. vote d1f1’ren't than the 01’ man an’

' so it kinda looked to me’s if/I might
,‘be able to control quite a few votes,
. my family numberin’ several——-s_ome

‘ more" I reckon that’s

- ' daughters disagreed—an yet
4 . .an’ Every one of’ em could give good
‘ an' sufﬁcient reasons for their views

 

‘ . has elapsed

   

fly argudd“ that if women
{get the ﬁght to vote it_ would’ nt

Tehw‘ge 1:119 political outcome in the

5' least; Women, it was said, would
volts“.
.f'vefedmn' so the gen ’rl results would
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as their husbands or fathers

of em female women; but goodness!

I ,I found that a man with full grown
1.:dja-ughters can’t hardly control his
. oy‘vn vote—not only have I learned

this little lesson but there’s a lot
learned the
same lesson—take it right from
your pore o’ Unk, the dear little

Women his got minds of their own,

, an’ they’ re turrib‘ly sot in them
too . — . ,

Th1nk1n that mebbe my girls
would like a little advice an’ like

enufl’ a little instruction an’ this be-
in’. a vacation time with me, I went
out to the farm where the daugh-

' ter an. her husband lives an’ started

ingto give advice but I didn’t git far
with it—.—n'o ‘I didn’t git a great way.
’_cuz she had more insight into the
political situation than her dad ever

» hopes to attain an’ we didn’t agree

on any partic’lar—anot on one ’cep-
in’ dinner—her dinners most allus
agrees-.wivth me an’ so I overlook
some of 'her shortcomin’s on political
questions—but jest the same I wuz
oonsider’bly s’prized to see how much
she know an’ by a little inquirin’ I
found that the majority of women
who intended to vote, wuz equally

’well_ posted an’ they wa ’ant no guess

work abdut how they intended ‘to
vote neither—each wuz. sot in their
views an’ some times sisters differed
with each other an’ even mothers an’
each

an’ that’s a geod sight more’n lots of
men can do \an’ the men’s been ﬁg-
urin’ the game for years too.

An’ ’nother thing I’ve learned—-

- contrary to all past predictions, wo~
, men ,don’t care a mite wh-at‘color

a man’s eyes are,“ what church
he goes to, whether he’s married or
single her what party he belongs to
.-—-it’ 5 what he stands for that counts

'With them an’ let me tell you that
- .1 most of the. dear women has jeSt

about .got the diffrunt candydates
calibre ﬂggered dowuto a ﬁne point
as they themselves look‘at it or, as
the teller sez, from their own view-
point. _
One thing that stands out very
plainly an’ wuz a surprise to me is
this: Women, .in the-short time‘ that
since suffrage wuz
granted them, has sure been studyin’
conditions an’ they’ ve. done it on
a broader basis than men usually do
-—‘—-they studied both sides an’ they
ain’t a (bit of sentiment con-
nected with‘ their political views——
if-any of my friends think there is,

" .jtlst start an argument with some of

'em ~a‘n’ see—you won’t last longbut
you’ll be a sight ‘wiser when
you git through for. “trail'little wo-
men.”,; whose place is .111; the home

4 tendin babies, as the ward heelers

t/ell us, has not only ’tended babies
when babies needed ’tending an’ tak-
on care of the homes an’ made good
wives an’ ’mothers, but they titted
themselves for thething that has
been granted to them an’ right

. thinkin’ men everywhere resneot our

women more an’ honor them more

‘ 2 than ever before in the history .0:
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’Course there’s the political wire

a; great eye opener to your Uncle but
I’m‘ glad to learn jest how little =1,
, ever knew aboutupolitics ‘an’ the su—

perioi; intelligence of our American
mothers; wives an’ daughters. —-—Cor-
dially. —Umcle Rube. ‘

 

Learn its cost.
of a few more acres of land.

the actual added proﬁts.

advanced type, scientiﬁc machine.

against breakage or defects.

COLDWA'TER, . _ .

. Indianapolis, Ind.
Peoria, Ill.
Jackson. Mich.

Harrisburg. PI.
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Unproductive land is no asset.

owned never fattened ' a bank account.
acre alone that swells income to the high tide.

Your Dealer Who Sells
New idea Spreader

Then compare this with the cost

And compare the ﬁnal results that land or
spreader will give, the increase in bushels harvested,

More than one hundred thousand high pro-
duction, big value farms owe success to the regular
spreading of manure with a New Idea.
twenty percent of them yearly crops are due to this

strated increase-met bankable, added incomenmade possible
only by greater fertilizing efﬁciency which the New Idea gives.

You can get other spreaders cheaper.
then, why change from the old wagon and pitchfork method at
all, unless you want, and aim to get, the best?

Our Gold Seal Guarantee absolutely protects you

The New Idea Spreader Company

“Spreader Specialists”

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Chicago, Ill.

Syracuse, N. Y.
Waterloo, Iowa

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beets delivered .at the factmy ac-_
coxding. to the Westminister Gazette.
The announcement is made by the
directois of the company, Which Will
manufacture beet sugar. at Kelham,

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TERRORIZL PEANUT GROWERS

The? peanut growers of Alabama
are 111‘ for terror now ; Gov. K1131;
:has received rep01 ts that“‘n1ght r1116
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get'ari’y peanuts out o *the ground

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‘ Edited to Michigan

ssmnsr, NOVEMBER so, 1920

Published every ﬁaturday by the
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Another Thanksgiving
COMES ANOTHER Thanksgiving. What
have I to be thankful for? is the thought
that forces itself upon the common mind as
this day approaches. The individual who
feels his utter dependence upon God and ac-
knowledges God as the source of all material
and spiritual blessings, always ﬁnds something
to be thankful for. He may be clothed in rags,
and thanks God that he is not naked. His food
may be a crust, but before he eats he offers up
a simple prayer of thanks that he need not go
hungry. His house may be a hovel, his pillow
a stone, his covering a sackcloth, but if he be
ﬁlled with the true spirit of God, he will be

thankful for even this poor shelter.

This is an age of grumbling. Few men are
so healthy, few so wealthy, few so blessed with

 

‘ the comforts and pleasures which make life

easy, happy and satisfying, that they do not
ﬁnd something to grumble about. Indeed, it
seems that the more we have the louder we
grumble. Some of the most contented people
I have known are' those who possessed but lit-
tle of the world ’s goods. All of which gobs to
show that half the joy of living is in striving
and not in having; in anticipation and not
participation; in work and not in play.

I am not one of those who believes. in “let- '

ting well enough alone.” Such a theory as
that never contributed one dot to the sum total

.of the world’s knowledge, righteousness and
‘ happiness. I' believe that oppressron should

be overthrown and inequality righted. I be-

, licve that all human eﬁort should be directed

toward making it harder for the 'rich to ac-
quire morc wealth than they need and easier
for the poor to earn the comforts of which

, they. are now deprived. This may be social—

ism. Call it what you may. Another name
for it ’is justice. For the sake of justice to all
who work honestly for a living I shall forever
complain and strive against the forces of in-

‘ justice.

In the furtherance of this ideal we should
never lose sight of the fact that all classes and
conditions of people who dwell in these United
States are in inﬁnitely better circumstances
than any other people of any other age and
any other, country in the history of the world.
The Thanksgiving day which we are soon' to
observe will be the 299th anniversary of the
ﬁrst Thanksgiving day observed by the Pi1-'

. grim fathers. , Itwis impossible to refrain from
, striking a comparison between the conditions

surrounding that brave band of men and wom~

' : on and the conditions which surround their

posterity today. Driven from their native
homes, toesed upon Atlantic’s wild bosom,
thrown upon the forbidding shores ~of anim-
known‘ land whose western boundary was a

limitless forest inhabited by beasts and Ind. '
.Nisescand £30ng a. ,. intuit? :thcatenirgg :. with

 

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,, bleak November day and thanked God for his
mercies! Our crumbs wduid have been as man-'

no. to them; our comfortable homes as palatial ,

mansions; our conditione- of life as a Utopia
to be dreamed of but never realized. »

Is there not a lesson .to us all in this reﬂec-
tion? Have we not in spite of the inequalities
and discouragements' that come the wayof each
and every one of us a great many things to be
thankful for? God pity the man who has ninth-
ing to be thankful for.
raiment, no children, no future! He does not
exist. There is something, always something
to be thankful for.
Sc'otchman, “if your meat be spare, think of
those who have no meat; if your clothes be out
of season, think of those who are in tatters; if

your only credit is a sound body, be content.

for there are many who suffer; if you be sick,
think of those who die; if you are about to die,
think of all the misery and suffering around
you, and be glad on it.”

 

Protecting The Constitution

DURING these trying days when class seems
pitted against class in a silentstruggle for
special privilege the Constitution forms a con-
veient refuge for those who desire to see no
changes effected constitutionally nor statuta-
bly which would in the slightest degree disturb
the complexion of our present economic fabric.
Referring to the Constitution as the “pallad-
dium of our liberties” has become as hackney-
ed a practice as boasting of one ’8 “American-
ism.” And it means just about as much.

 

 

If We Had the Time '

By Richard Burton

If I had the time to ﬁnd a place

And sit me down full face to face
“71th my better self. that can not show
In my daily life that rushes so;

It might be then I would see my soul

XVas stumbling toward the shining goal.
I might be nerved by the thought sublime,

If I had the time!

IfIhadthetimetolet-myheart I
Speak out and take in my life apart,
To look about and to stretch a hand
To a. comrade quartered in no-luck land;
Ah, God! If I might but just sit still ‘
And hear the note of the whippoorwi II,
I think that my wish with God’s would
ryme.—- -
If I had the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

There may be in this country of over a hun- ‘

dred million souls a few thousand who are not
good Americans andwho do not revere, the
Constitution as the fountain head of political
wisdom, justice and liberty. Those who would
destroy the Constitution are. fanatics, few in
number and little to he feared. The special
interests have appointed themselves as guard-
ians of the Constitution and are frantically
appealing for help to protect it from an enemy
which exists only in their guilty imaginations.
The greattruths pxpressed by the Constitu-
tion are fundamental. They will not be de-
stroyed. But as the striving for riches and

power increases; as wealth becomes centralized; .

as new problems arise and intrude themselves
in the Constitutional tenor of our ways, we
ﬁnd itnecessary to make changes in the Gong
stitution' to protect its sacred principles frOm

the forces of evil which inevitably accompany ‘

those changing conditions. , The patriots who
drafted our Constitution nearly a hundred and
ﬁfty years ago, wise and fer—seeing though
they were,- could not have looked forward to
this, day and its peculiar problems. It there-
fore becomes necessary to occasionally. bring
the Constitution up to‘ date. There is no need
of any radical change in the Censﬁtution, but.
our reverence for that 33%;.th shoem-
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7. re ,ryboﬁdy else! Whiie‘ir'iis true in many
specie that'he'is a'ﬁsh..a "poor ﬁsh” fastheyf
Barr-411° huge-kt sucker in the pom—415.18 un-
kind to keep remindinghim of the fact; " Ger»
tain prescribed rules of conduct, businem, 3th; ,
ice and rules of every other kind are expected "

to rule the affairs. of every class of peoplcﬂbut,’

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the farmer. As for him, he is expected to con— 5 '
form to a. special code-oftmorals which are as ’ "
changeable as the wants and the whims of all '
the other classes. - ‘

For instance, out in the corn belt the farm- .‘
era are burning corn for fuel. Itis simply a.
matter of business prudence. Why sell ﬁfty,
cent corn to buy eighteen dollar coal when

cérn is the cheaper fuel of the two? . Common 1 '

sense echoes “why?” But not so the fellow
who sees in everything, the farmer does or says
a vicious conspiracy to starve the world or ex-
act an exhorbitant price for his products from
the poor. He ﬁnds the burningof corn even
under such circumstances an inexcusable Waste
of food. - “An economic and a moral crime]?
he raves. Throw him in the padded" cell! In
his wake comes an apologist of the Department . ,
of Agriculture, who acknowledges the farmer’s '

“moral responsibility” to the rest of mankind j

and points out with great care the economic .

reasons for burning corn.

Shades of Solomon! “Has reason forsaken
this people? Whose business- is it. whethwths -
farmer sells his corn, burns it, or makes it into
pone? He bought the-seed, he planted it, be
worried and sweated orer it till it had reached
the harvest. It belongs to him to do with it as
he sees ﬁt. The world is rolling in com. You
could pave the milky way with the coho of this
season’s crop. If in the face of the downward
sweep of corn prices the farmer ﬁnds it cheap-‘ '
er to burn corn than to enrich the coal. barons, .
.why explain it, why apologize for it, why even
mention it! , "‘ ' '

Our magniﬁcent forests have been stripped .
of their vegetation. Ruthless and complete

has been the devastation. - Our streams have , ' 1

been robbed of their ﬁsh, our woods of their
game: Our mines have been wastefully de-
prived 9f their ores. Our railroads have been ‘
wrecked. Our natural lakes and rivers have
been desecratc'd and capitalized for private
beneﬁt, All this is excusable, permissible—-
pure business. But if the famier burns his
corn, well, that’s another matter. “Fish of-

. the farmer and fowl of everybody else.”

A County €ommission

E NEXT- legislaturc will be asked to
adopt legislation that will permit couri-
ties. to change their form of government. There
are those who believe that the present method
of handling county affairs is cumbersome, in-
efﬁcient and unnecessarily expensive. . They
believe that by a commission form of govern—A
ment the taxpayers will be better and cheaper
served. The commission idea. for county gov-
ernment is merely an application of the ci-y
commission idea. Formerly all town and art-
1‘33 were governed by a board of trustees or al—
dermen elected at large or by wards. In the
majority of cases these men were Wholly unﬁt
to administer the affairs of the municipality
and as a result there was graft and waste for
which the taxpayer paid dearly. Hundreds
of municipalities have now discarded that eye-
tom and have erected in its stead a commission
form of government under which the entire 111'? '
fairs of the. city are administered by a board" '
of three to twelve men, elected at large ‘accord- ' "
ing to their ability and experience. In the .ma- ;.
Jority of cases this system of government has?
given the utmost satisfaction. '
There is no absolute certainty that the coun-
ty would receive the Same beneﬁts from a com.
mission form 'of'governmont as the‘c'ity, but 7,
IS assayed, that it would. Anyway there win

    

  

  

  

  
      
     
       
      
  
 
     


   
   
   
    

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j Salary Amendment Defeated.
.| V ' HERE . is much sorrowing War at the
, State capitol these" days. The boys are

- weeping over the remains of the salary .amend- .

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ment which was pretty badly mangled in the
V last election. The three "state oﬁicials hit
hardest .by‘th'e failure of this amendment to
' receive the required number of votes are the
‘ Auditor General, the Secretary of State and
the State Treasurer. . . _ '

Auditor General Fuller has served the state
of Michigan for many years at the nlggardly
salary of $2,500 a year. The same abilities
which he gives to the «state of Michigan ex-
pended along some other line would no doubt

' bring him triple the ﬁnancial rewards he re-

The Auditor General
is the watch-dog of the state treasury. It is
he. who keeps an eye on the appropriations and
warns the state legislature when in its occasion-
orgy of spending it bids fair to exceed the
limits. With the eye of an eagle he delves 1n-
to the estimates submitted by the various in-
stitutions and does not hesitate for a minute
to condemn the items which he thinks might
be omitted or abbreviated. Auditor General
Fuller is entitled to receive larger pay from the
state of Michigan. Perhaps the services of
the State Treasurer and Secretary. of State
entitle those worthies to slightly higher com-
pensation than they are now receiving. '

' Be that as it may, none of. the state ofﬁcials
'will receive or deserve to receive higher pay
so long. as they resort to subterfuge and decep-
tion to wrest it from the voters. Instead of
\coming out openly to the voters and telling
them in plain English just 110w much of a
salary increase they thought they were entit-
led to, they cunningly contrived an amend-

' ment to take the power of ﬁxing state salaries
out of the hands of the people and delegate it
to the hands of the legislature. Not one in a
thousand voters would have understood the

. true meaning of the salary amendment had it

-~ not been explained to them. The legislature
tried the same game a year ago when it sub-
mitted the amendment to increase the salary

_ of circuit judges.

The people are not penurious. They believe

. that public oﬁicials should be adequately corn-
pensated for their services. At the same time
they do not intend tofmake the public job car-
ry so high a salary that it will become a. polit—
ical plum. We believe the people of Michigan
are sufﬁciently intelligent and fair-minded to
understand the necessity for increased pay in
certain state positions, but they properly re-
sent any attempt to pull the wcol over their
eyes. . They are perfectly capable of determ-

y-ining the size of the salary to be paid state

,ofﬁcials, and they don’t careto have the job
delegated to the legislature. Whoever was re-
sponsible for the wording of the salary amend-
ment is responsible-for its defeat.

g Capital 'And Labor.

UBLIC opinion has not been kind to labor.
Organized labor is partially to blame for
this, but not 'wholly. During the war certain

- branches of organized labor were inclined (to
. be pretty nasty, about some things, and the
public resented it. But in the main, labor has
not been any too well treated, and labor knows
it. Labor has brains and intelligence, facts
. which some employers deny or overlook. . La-

‘bor’s intelligence told ”labor during the war .

that Opportunity was knocking atits door,
and. if labor did not seize that Opportunity to
secure an insurance against the future, it
'would be forced to return to its old , position
of humility ”and. helplessnesswhen there should
"again be more men than jobs. “’

: Wh ,tever; revulsion of feeling we may have.

A ‘ _ . «1 experienced toward the man who toilsbecause

9i hwarranted‘ strikes and impossible ;, 4e.
5 ’ , gatedby professional labor union-
.ow-“look. upon labor 2-in a more:

  

   
   

  
      

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_ be Labor is absolutely atrthe mercy of the
employer. ~ Hundreds of thousands of men are
‘ out of employment. When there is no work
'to be had, no fobd for the larder and no coal
for-the hearth, men do not quibble over wages
or working conditions. They take what is of-
fered them. The employer is now in a posi-
tion to pay labor almost any wage he sees ﬁt
and labor can only submit. Some employers
are already taking advantage of laber’s posi-
. tion by reducing wages without regard to the
cost of living. Let it be said to the credit of
the great majority of employers that they are
taking a very sane and charitable view of the
situation and show no inclination to arbitrar-
ily reduce wages unless a lower cost of living
should clearly warrant it. This attitude will
’ pay in the long run. To take advantage of
labor now when labor is in no position to pro-
tect itself would be to sow the seed for future
trouble. , .

There have been no reduction of wages in
the shop of .the Business Farmer. There will
probably not be any. The men and women
who perform the clerical and mechanical work
necessary in the publishing of this paper are
partners in the business. They are entitled
to a fair wage and a share of the proﬁts which
they help to create._ They are entitled to live
comfortably, enjoy life and toasave against a
rainy day. It is our aim to help them do that.
If the ecst of living comes, down we shall con-
sider that to be their advantage and not ours.
This policy pursued everywhere would make
for better feelings between employer. and em-
ployed and spare the public from the- annoy—
ance and costliiiess of the periodical clashes
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Julius H. Barnes, former director—general of
the United States Grain Corporation, is acting
in the role of an apologist for the gamblers in
food products. Why should we expect anything
else from the man who was mainly responsible
for permltlng the resumption of option trading in
wheat during the re-adjustment period. It is
rumored that Mr. Barnes is to head a 60 million
dollar’ corporation for the exportation of grain to
foreign countries.

The, sugar manufacturers haven't yet decided
what they will pay the farmers for their beets
next year. As soon as they do they will let the
farmers know.

ll THE WEEK’S EDITORIAL [I

THE DISAPPEARING FARlVIER
TEN YEARS ago the cities of the United

 

 

 

 

States had nearly seven million fewer peo—

ple than the country. Today the inhabi-

. tants of the cities outnumber the country people
by four million. This is one of the danger sig-
nals chalked up on the census boards by the fed-
eral Bureau on urban and rural population.‘Prof.
Hobson of Columbia University makes this drift
to the cities an even sterner contemplation with
his demonstration that 100 years ago 87 per cent
of all Americans lived directly off the soil, where-
as today less than 33 per cent are engaged in‘
agriculture. No matter how great, how rich, how
mighty America’s cltles become, life annot be
sustained without food ,and food cannot be rais-
ed on asphalt pavements of factory floors. The
bone and slnew of A‘merlca is on the farm; and
the drift of Americans away from the farm is as
serious a matter as would be the drying up of“
any other well springs upon which communal life.
depends. , Such a problem cannot be met by hom-
ilies or proclamations. It can only be met by
making agriculture relatively as proﬁtable as
other‘lndustry, and by providing country areas
relatively with as many advantages as. cities
have. "What the farmers need,” observes The
New York Herald, “ls not more land but more
men; they will get themwhen the working hours,
pay and conveniences _of the farm overbalance
urban attractions.” Not only do the farmers need
“more men,” they also need greater business
facilities. When their spokesmen appeal to Wash—
ington, as they did this week, for federal assist-
ance in “obtainingloans’? necessary to their fun-
ctioning, their appeal-discloses that despite all
the new agencies ”for ﬁscal expansion in time of
stress, the needs of agriculture are not yet met.
_-Tl_I‘e. thing for us‘ all to get into our heads is that
the. farmer’s ‘preblem‘ today is not the farmer’s
problem alone. It is the cities’ problem as well. -

Tjheiithing for In, to realize—awarned, once more,

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~ . ., HE" MOUNT Clamens high school is;
" " across the street from my oﬂi‘ce. F
quently I stand for a moment at my wind, .
watching the boys at their games! or listening
to the. strains of Annie Laurie or sonic of the
good old school songs which ﬂit across the way 1
from the open windows of the high school. 0n .
such occasions my thoughts are carried away
on the wings. of memory to the days when I.
was a carefree, freckled~faced, snub-nosed lad,
with patches on my pants, and sang the good
old songs with a nasal twang that robbed the "
music of whatever harmony it might possess. .
A few days ago the superintendent invited
me to come over andgive a talk to the high
school students. I went, but believe me it was ~
some job. One minute I was talking to the _' '
scholars, the next I was back in the dear old
school room of my high school days listening
to some worthy citizen of the town expound
the lessons of life and secretly hoping that he
Would soon bring his remarks to an end. I
wondered how many of the boys and girls I
was talking to were wishing the same thing.
As I talked a lot of little details of my own
school'days kept bobbing up in mind and I told
the young folks about them. Remember the
ﬁrst pair of long trousers you wore? Remem-
ber how everybody you met that ﬁrst day
glued their eyes upon them and refused to look'
at anything else? And, oh, what an awful
moment it was when you entered the school
room that ﬁrst day. To make a bad matter
worse the ﬁrst day I. wore long trousers to
school a mischievous young lady in my class
observing me intently when I sat down as the
last bell ceased its clanging, exclaimed aloud,
so that all might hear, “Oh, he forgot to pull
up his knees,” Yep, I blushed clear around
back of my ears. Ah, yes, those were the hap-
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On the face if Incomplete returns it appears
that all ﬁve amendments submitted at the last
election have been defeated. A large percentage
of the "no" votes cast against such worthy meas-
ures as the “excess condemnation” amendment
and the “absent voters” amendment may be trac-
ed to those who went to the polls for no other
reason than to vote against the school amend,
ment, and in order to play safe voted “no" on all"
the amendments. Another reason why amend-
ments that should have been adopted were de-
feated was because few voters had the chance
prior to election day to study the amendments,
and .had neither time nor patience In the voting
booth to discover their import. As a general
thing voters who do not understand an amend~
ment vote “no.” It is the duty of the Secretary
of State to make clear to the voters the purposes
of amendments proposed to the Constitution.
But the amendments as submitted are usually
about as clear as mud. If the present Secretary
of State does not have a sufﬁcient grasp of the
English language to explain proposed amend?
ments so that the average voter can understand
what he is voting for, the legislature would bet-
ter give him explicit directions to follow.

 

We know of no reason why the women of
Saginaw should object to the “beer and sauer-
kraut” inducement held out to men to enlist in
the army of occupation. For a long time we
have been wondering what to do with that troub-
lesome minority whose only joy In life is to eat,
drink and be merry and who persistently violate
our prohibition laws to indulge their appetites.
The beer enlistment poster suggests a solution
to the problem. Conscript them for service ov-
erseas. The sooner we are rid of them the bet-
ter.

For a long time past we have been at a loss
to understand the real purpose of that very au-
gust and digniﬁed body, The Institute of Ame
ican Meat Packers. It must cost a large amount.
of money to finance an organization which A.
supposed to deal with so many difﬁcult and (1'61-
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of the leading members of the Institute, after
pleading guilty to the systematic adulteratlon 0
grain, over a period of years, was let off wit
paltry one-thousand'dollar ﬁne. , ..

 
 
 
 

    
 
  
 

  

If ‘a group of clothing manufacturers withf
their goods from a declining market, that's 39
business. If a group of farmers withholdj_
crop’s from a declining market, that’s a strike.

 
  
  

     

 

 
    
 

 
 

Twenty-four boards of'supervisors have"
for the abolishment of the state constah
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YEAR . ,. ,
By Emma IGIary Wallace -
T IS SO customary for us to re-

  

we are apt to grow somewhat cal-
loused as the years pass, and to feel
much as the old lady did when she
prayed on Thanksgiving Day.

“I am thankful, Lord, for all the
. things I have been thankful for oth-
I er years. There’s no use taking your
. time. or mine to repeat them. You
«know. what they are as well as I do.
Amen. ”

True thankfulness does not get
rid of the obligationof expression
A ‘quiteuso easily. It rejoices in the

‘Nevidence of watchful care and the
working out of the Divine Plan. It
I is a deep, soul- satisfying

makes us desireearnestly to be more
worthy ’of our blessings.

All of which brings me to some of
the reasonswhyI am thankful this
year. I migh't'say in the beginning,
that during the twelve months which
are past, the ﬁnger of deep sorrow

‘ has come nigh and touched me. And

enables me to see and to know that
g time'is fleeting and that the griefs
of this life are not necessarily, as I

ment for what has gone before, near-
ly so often as a preparation for what
is yet to come. We do not grieve be-
cause examination day hasarrived
and severe tests are put to us, be—
cause we know that if we meet the
test, it will entitle us to advance—
.,ment to something which we have
anticipated as possessing or enjoy—
ing.

I am thankful that the teirible
\war is over and the nations have set

up earnestly those reconstruction
tasks which will make peaceful
homes and happy childhoods and

abundance,'available once more.

-I am thankful too that time is
passing so that those who have suf—
fered deeply because of it, are be-
ginning to feel the mellowing of it
all, and to look up and beyond the
ﬁrst kcenncss of the anguish which
it brought. '

I am thankful that the solving of
the many acute problems facing the
world today, is in wiser and more ex-
. perienced hands than mine, and that
' all I have to do is to do that part of
the world’s work which faces me
with such efﬁciency and thorough—
' ness and earnestness as I may com—
mand. _

, I am thankful for the increasing
'ﬁndings of‘ science, and for the pos—
.‘sibilities which these are opening up
‘for greater human service. I am
”thankful for the long hours of study

'4 couragement, and the unusual abil-
ity brought to bear by scientiﬁc
w'orkers upon the secrets of Nature.
: How much we owe these good friends
often without realizing it, when‘ we
send a cable or pick up a telephone,
; orrstep into a swiftly moving vehicle.
0r again,’ when we call a physician
’ or read of a terrible plague which
. has visited some far land but spar-
‘ ed us—because of our scientists.
' I am thankful for sunshine and
,fresh air and material gifts and the
printing press and education oppor—

.. ,rich and full. To whom much is
‘5 iven, surely it is right that of them
uch shall be required‘

{--.I am thankful for stable govern-
“,znonh—one in which there is enough
gltatlon and ceaseless surging

  
 
  
 

stagnation. Yes, I am thank-
to the ideals of democracy and
undations of our

 

  

  

  
  

'perSOnal sacrifice. ‘I am
ml for the opportunity to up-

  
 

View our causes for Thanksgiving ,I
in a purely perfunctory way, that“

emotion »
which lifts usout of ourSelves and ,

. words,

yet I am thankful for the faith which ‘

g once mistakenly thought, a punish- ‘

and persistence'in the face of dis- .

'tunities which make life happy and!

desire, and achievement to pre—‘

, Republic
four forefathers laid at such

a. standards and to car” 1011:. :,

 

 

For all that God, in mercy, sends,

For health" and children,
and friends;

For comfort in the time of need,

For every kindly .word and deed,

For happy thoughts and holy talk,

For guidance in our daily walk—
For everything give thanks!

IFor beauty in this world of ours,
For verdant grass and lovely

ﬂowers, -- ' ’ -
For song of birds, for hum of bees,
For the refreshing summer breeze

 

 

Give Thanks

home _

, For these, and everything we see,

For hill and plain, for stream and
wood,
For the great ocean’s ‘ mighty
- ﬂOod— ~
In everything give thanks!
For the sweet sleep which comes

at night, _

For the returning morning’s
light,

For the bright sun that shines on.
high,

For the stars glittering in the sky

0 Lord, our hearts we lift to Thee
For everything give thanks!

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ward their blessings for the coming
generations.

I am thankful for a Christian
land and the great stirring of the

public consciousness which voices itI-_,

self everywhere in the thought and
“How can I serve my fel-_
lows? How can I save the babies?
How can I make conditions safe for
youth? How can I prevent misguid-
ed older people from doing them-
selves and othersharm?
I make the present count for a
stronger and ﬁner citizenship in the
future?" _

I am thankful for the new world
conception of motherhood——the con-
sciousness that it is not our own
children alone for whom we must

care, but all the children of the
race.
I am thankful for time. Some

people say that Time is Opportuni-
ty; and others have declared that
Time is Money. It is 0n1y~0ppor—
tunity and it is only Money and it
is only Privilege if we make it so.

I am thankful for the vision and, ,.

the desire and the determination to
make Time Count!

How can'

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE .‘.‘NEW
FARMER’S WIFE”

HAVE found that method or sys-'

tem helps a great deal, while
there are“ times when one cannot

carry out the program to the letter .

yet it helps in the long run.

When you rise, throw the bed open
to air, and comb your hair. I know a
great many womenwho never comb
their hair until the morning work is

done, and some, it— is; sad to say, let -»

it go' all day. Then'dress and you
are ready .for the day and feel ready
for anything,_ even an early caller.

As soon as breakfast is over stack
the dishes and put 'the fgod away
and tidy the (table. Then sweep the
floor, make the beds and tidy] the
sitting room. Then you can wash
your dishes and wash the stove and
your kitchen as well as the rest of
the house is in order. .A_way I
have to help in dish Washing is to
have a piece of. old blanket (say a
quarter) fold it and lay on the table
at the back, then have your pan of
hot suds to wash dishes and a pan of
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2967. A set of Toy Animals. Cut in
1 size, .The Cow requires 57% yard of
27—inch material and the Horse, 7-8
yard of 36-inch material. Price ‘10
cents.

2937. Set of Toys. Cut in one size.

It will require 5-8 yard ‘of 24-inch
material for either itoy.
cents.

Price 10

 

Dow-3061 ' '

3061', Doll’s Set. Cut in 5
dolls, 16,18, 22 and 24 inches in
heighth
“Yard of 40 inch material fer- the cape,

the’ bonnet. Price 10 cents.

22. 24 and 26 inches in km

 

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. 10 cents.

      

sizes. For

Size 18 will require 5- 8 yard.
. I. of 36- inch material for the dress. 5- -8
and 1- 2 yard of 20- inch material for" ‘and 5- 8 yard for the hat.

2273. A Dainty Set for Dolly. ‘ The"

pattern includes all styles illustrated. "
Is cut in 6 sizes. For dolls: 96,. 18, 29.’

1113-.sizes.‘ or dolls s,
41101133 in length.
T5he ,ygrdsr 61% 279111011 material
dress requires 1 1- 4 yard 01:27-inch 5.
material, the pettlcoat 1-2 yard, and

1:21; the Wrapperan
the combination ‘5- 8 yard forI an 18~.- .

  
  

 

2970. A Set of Pleasing Toys for the
Children. Cut in 1 Size. ‘ Either
style requires 3—4 yard of 27-inch .ma-
terlal. Price 10 cents, .

2300. An attractive Set of Toy Ani-
mals. ‘ The patterns are cut in one
size only. I It will require 1-2 yard of
ﬂannel for the sheep, 3-4 yard for the
dog, and 3-8 yard for the pig, Price,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- {902 1
New‘ Dress and Hat for.

2275 A
Miss Dolly. Cut in 6 sizes. For dolls
16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26 inches in

length: Size 24 will require 1 1- 2 "
yard of 27- inch material for the dress,
Price 10

Long Clothes Set. dCut '
18, and 20
It .will6 require 2 1- 8.
178 d 15-24411thr td‘i
. ~ yer o c mater ,.
and 2 1- -8 yards of 24-“ ‘-
uch material for the coat. for an 18
(1911-. Price 300 x .

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then: turn them on the
standing, the plates as straight up
.as' possible so all the water .can
drain 011.01 course you will have
to Wipe the silver and glass ware.
Then spread a. clean cloth Over the
rest and leave'them until you are all

' done with the tins and pans or iron

ware. Or if you are very busy just
let them alone till Wanted for the
next meal and they will be dry and
. shine as much as, the polished. One
can wash a large ‘tableful in short
order in this way and it saves the
dish towels.’
Another thing that I ﬁnd helps me

- is to buy the bleached toweling and

make tray cloths as long as needed
for one side of the table.
be pinned on and save the
cloth a great deal. Then if any-
thing gets spilled you can change
the tray cloth and its alllright and
tidy again and they are easier to
launder than so many tablecloths.
If there are children, ‘a piece of. »
white Oil cloth pinked around
edge saves a lot of spots from the
table cloth as well as a lot of work..
If one is handy with a paint brush
they can make there oil tray cloths
pretty, but the plain white always
looks better to me than a soiled table ;
cloth and they keep the cloth clean
where the men sit if their work is

blanket. ‘

They can ”
table ..

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the, "

very diity as is often the case 0113

the farm.

A Quick Cake

One egg beaten, add and beat in .
one cup (scant) of- sugar, 1 cup"
cream, (either sweet or sour; if
sweet use 2 teaspoonsof s

powder in the flour, if sour use 1

scant teaspoon of soda in a. little.
hot water), 2 cups flour, flavor to
taste, teaspoonful salt. By adding

baking" ‘

1-2 cup of molasses and 1 more egg, ..

also spices, it makes ﬁne, ginger

bread. Raisins may be added. Drop?

cookies held out when one is busy.‘
If this sounds good to use, will send
recipes. for some other things, like

corn bread and others that helped "

me. Yours‘for useful“ thoughts—v
Mrs. L. D., Lake Odessa, Mich: ‘

HAND VACUUM CLEANER

N REPLY to Mrs. H. 0., OX Bow,

Lake, I wish to say, I have a hand

vacuum sweeper "call'ed Sweeper '
Vac, made by the Pneuvac Sweeper
00., Boston, Mass, which gives splen-
did service. There is an air tight
bag Which collects the dust and a.
carpet sWeeper which gathers any of
the coarse dirt that any carpet
Isw'eeper gathers. Ten years ago this
Sweeper cost $15.00‘Ibut I dare say
it might be bought for less thanthat
price today. It weighs 12 pounds.‘

‘ Apple Butter Recipe

I was glad to see the recipe for
candied citron and wish to say. to
those who make apple butter the »
old tedious method that Ilhave a
way I like much better. I run ,my
sweet apples thru the meat grinder
after pealing and coring, and put
them over in‘twoJlarge graniteket-

‘ ties to cook in sweet cider enough to ‘ '

cover. Then with my-puddin-g stick 5 '
I stir every few minutes as they
boil and they soon get soft and

smooth as apple butter should be In;

another kettle or boiler I put' the
extra amount of sweet cider and hen

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until thick, then when the apples are

cooked enough—about three hours- _I
I put the two together and in a very
short time have as nice apple butter

as I used to make—“like mother’s"

——and without that an day’ s stirring.- ;

Some of it- I sweeten and add c1114 '1 ~ 5'

» namon as some of our family like '
,«it best '

       
    
      

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man" and started out.- Now my

. courage ‘would not alloW me to try
, any business with so little prepara-'

tion. Of course I could cook and
bake so his digestion was not spoil
Then the baby came and was
another experiment. But she grew
up, as also have the other ﬁve, at
least the- littlest is ‘ten months old

‘ andhealthy with ﬁve teeth.

And all, this time my‘experience

. has increased as well as my Weight.

One of "my favorite time savers is
to fold my washing as I take it from
the line in the same creases as it
will be’ folded when ironed. Then I
do not iron lots of garments, sheets
dish towels, baby’s napkins and ‘in
summer, towels, pillow casos and

most of the underwear is aired and'

folded for we like lots ‘ of clean
things and like the smell of the
fresh sunned clothes.

Another thing I have learned late-

ly, from a raisin box recipe is to

make pie crust with hot water in-
stead of cold. I never could make
good crusts before. -

Dissolve the lard

in the same

' amount of hot water as you w0uld

cold and s-tir_in' flour‘and salt. No
pinching in is» necessary Land“ at this
time of~y‘ear, crust made this way
and put in an earthen bowl, greased
'wilh lard and covered will keep three
or four days and be sweet. This is
a saving of tigne to me for I_often
1want to make pies quickly. '

,1 The other night I was invited to
supper at. my sister—in-law.’s ‘house.
Among other good things were beans
baked with onions. Now possibly
everyone else \has eaten them cook--
ed this way but if not, try it.

' I read the letters on “Thresher’s
Dinners.” and» “Uncultured Hus-
bands” with interest. I do not think

there are as many uncultured folks f
. now— —a- days as in the past, for near-

ly every American has' a small
amount of education and that helps
to broaden people. Also a good
lodge where-men meet helps, espec-
ially for farmers. Whom, we all
know, have the most humdrum lives
unless they make great- efforts to
lighten them. Of course with'the
telephones and daily papers we- are,
not-cut off entirely from the outside
world. .

‘ Making Work easier on the farm”
is a subject ever dear to we house-
keeper’s heart and it seems to me,
has been neglected more
home than it. has out of doors.
Very few menstry to do their work
Without proper machinery, either

.. owned or boriowed, while very few

Women even have bread mixers. My
b1e1d mner is another labor saver
which I Sli’lllo never try to do without.

And nowhoping that this will on—
courage some better--house-keeper to
lo ter Writing, even ‘if it does not
hep the little lady from St. Charles,
I will sign myself—~00 Clinton Co.

 

GRANDMA CAPS r»
T HAVEfan old‘question or req‘u’es‘.

— to place before. the readers .of

our department Where can a
person get help to fashion the little
Grandma caps which five see nothing
of nowadays, but Which I have

' heard several grandma' s wish for?

The changeable weather causes
them to catch cold, where if they had

1 a lace cap, it would be suﬂ‘lcient pro-

tec .ion to do away with colds to a
great extent. I would like the name

1‘ 0f mate ‘ial used, amount of ribbon
, and perhaps a few. violets, also the

smut cf lace. Are there any
colts to be. purchaSed to help one in -
shionin'g bowie, rosettes and mak-'

“man felk’

organ and did .

’ ken-ll other girls I was certain I,’
could keep 1101139 for the one “best

«ored this fall.

in the _

 

 

a .
ow many years ago was a
-reat'd with any respect? One
said he w0uld like to
know, how long these salads had to

. be cooked after they were made. But ,
’now salads are made’in hundreds of
’ ways, but I know, if it had not been

for'our good papers, some of us
would not have known so many
ways to utilize the left o‘vers, thereby
giving us the saving idea. Where
We save in one way, we can see a
way or an idea forms itself that we
can have something to please one of
Our children perhaps— an idea—-
something they see with the min’d s
eye. —L. 8., Pierson, Mich.

 

 

Household Helps

 

 

 

 

 

»DYEING WOOL AND SILK CREPE

I‘have a. tan dress of wool and small
part silk crepe that I would like to make
into a. waist or two for winter Which
of the new shades would be suitable for
a fair complexion, hair medium biown?
Where can I get the dye?——-Mrs P. D.,
Brown City. Michigan

 

1 Diamond Dyes are by far the most
reliable. Get the kind purpose for
wool and silk.

.If you have a fair complexion and

"medium,brown hair the best color

w0uld be the rich, dark brown so fav-
A_nd a tan would take
brown better than most any other
color excepting black.‘Then if you
will use a tiny bit 0': cream lace for a
V neck yoke, or a c1eam lace collar—
or a tiny touch of embioidery in gold
can be, most effectively used. I am
sure you will be pleased with the ef-
fect. Brown “IS very good this fall..

 

Look for the
ROWENA

' trade-mark
on the sack

 

 

 

for three
sack of LI

E

'o‘lor‘ chosen—4f you’haye a.

Vb’r'o'wn skirt or can buy one to wean
With it, you will have a complete and -

stylish costu$ie, while if you only
hare a black skirt and do not wish to
purchase a new one. I would certain-
ly not advise wearing a brown waist

with a black shirt, but in that case ,
would color the material black, using

a‘sa trim for that color a very little
of the burnt orange—400 much col-

,. or is worse than none however.

INSECT 0N FERNS

Will some one please tell me What to

do with a. Boston Fern that has lice on --

it or something of the sort? The leaVes
seem to getsticky and little brown hard
scales settle on them. The fern is grow-
ing good but the l’eaves wilt and drop off.
——-Mrs. F T. P. Coral, Mich

The insect infesting yOur ‘fern is
without doubt (the soft brown scale)
Lecanium hemisphericum. They can
best be controlled by washing the
plant in luke warm soap suds to
which has been added nicotine.
While this nicotine is not absolutely
essential still it does a great deal to
the efﬁciency of the application. After
thoroughly washing the plant in this
way it should be rinsed oi! in a
stream of cool, clear water. The
fronds which are most heavily infest—

' ed should be removed from the plant.

——Eugem‘a McDaniel, Research Assist-
ant in Entomology, M. A. 0.

THE AMAZING OUTCOME OF A
SORE FINGER

AD IT‘NOT been for a sore ﬁng—

er the famous Liberty Loan

drives which produced the sin-

ews that had so much to do with

winning the big war might not have
been possible.

Wearing at Liberty Loan button

.

o . conversely,

  

purchaser o. a bond,
not :wearing one “sh w.
had

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ed up” the slacker who
bought his bond ‘ i, ,1
Unduestionably theibuttons had
much to do with the success of the
drives, but what had a sore ﬁnger
to do with either bonds or buttons?
Just this: the buttons are made of
the same base material as collodion.
Collodion is “liquid cuticle! The
printer cut'his ﬁnger. Going for his
bottle of collodion he found it has
tipped over and the contents run~
nin-g out had hardened on the shelf.

This started the printer to experis
menting; ’Pyroxyli‘n was 'the'result,_
and Liberty Loan buttons are made
of Pyroxlin Plastic.

So are the Campaign Buttons.
And buttons are by no means the
only useful articles of commerce re-
sulting from the printerfs sore ﬁng- .
er. Thousands of things, familiar to
us all, are made of pyroxylin; things-1
we never associate with sore ﬁngers;
nor, for that matter with cotton,
which is the base material from
which perXylin is made.

Among these articles are combs,
“ivory” brush and mirror backs and
numerous toilet accessories, umbrel-
la handles, dice, collars, automobile
windows, clock _ and photo. frames,
advertising and toy novelties and
many other useful and ornamental
things one never thinks of in con-
nection with sore ﬁngers.’

‘

EPSOM SALTS TAKE OUT IODINE

Iodine spots may be removed from
linen without damaging the fabric,
with Epsom salts. Dissolve 1 table-
spoon of salts in 2 tablespoons of hot
water, and when cool, pour over the
spot. Let It remain until the stain
can we washed out in clear water.
Then wash the article in soap and
water, and dry in the sun.

 

 

711: 81014 or , QUALITY

Let Us Be Thankful

Even as the Puritans offered thanks for bountiful
crops and prosperity so should we be thankful for ’
Wheat—the soil’ 8 greatest gift to mankind. ~

And so should we be thankful for

Lily White ‘ .

“The Flour the Best Cooks Use’

because LILY WHITE is scientiﬁcally milled from the finest
hard and soft wheats grown in America. Every process that
enters into the manufacture of LILY WHITE is the result of
years of experience, extraordinary skill and unﬂagging desire
to produce the best.

LILY WHITE IS milled to a state of uniform granulation that
is perfection. Only the nutritious wheat kernels are used. It
is positiVely supreme in color, texture, volume andxwholesome-
ness, and is guaranteed to be the best ﬂour you ever used.

The Thanksgiving Feast ‘

Bread, biscuits and rolls made from LILY WHITE are light
and tender; blessed with remarkable ﬂavor, enticingly appe-
tizing and wholly digestible.
' Thanksgiving Dinner. It is the one great item of food for
Awhich all should ever be thankful.
Good baking results are assuredvith LILY WHITE. It has been a favorite
encrations with women who take pride' in their baking. One
Y WHITE will convince you of its many superior qualities, and
you will be surprised at the ease with which you can produce really won-
, . ' V _' . - ' _ derful baking results.

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.
‘ damn wins, mould-1m ‘ ”

“Millers F0, Sixty Years”

Don’t forget bread at the

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\H‘Ovember frost is in the air

harvest hay is moum; .

.tn the ﬁelds lay ripened grain

Where seeds last sprint were sown. ’

The; leaves have turned to brown and

' gold ’ - , ‘

And many trees are bare ,-

The blrcls have flown to warmer
dimes.

' Where sunshine floods the’ air, .

..And all without is bleak and drear

The grass is scared and brown;

And. all the ground is littered with

Dead leaves that have blown down.

But in the home the fires glow

And near its cheerful blaze

The children plan for wtnterw

And dream of summer’s 118.

AM to each mind there ome the
thought

01‘ all the things that bless

Our lives, and there is offered up

A prayer of thankfulness. "

 

IVE MORE days, and 9 then—
Thanksgiving. ‘And what a lot

we "have to be thankful for.
Some of us may think, “I haven’t
anything to be thankful for,” but

we all have something that we can
feel glad over. Those of us which
can run and'jump and read can be
. thankful that we are not crippled
like many boys and girls are. If we
have our papas and mamas with us
we can thank God on this day of
thanksgiving __for that. Even if you
are crippled or have no mother or

V 'father' there are many things when

\you stop to think that help to make
this world a pleasant place to live in.

f - ‘One little. boy wrote me. his mother

was dead. He says he has lived at
many places since she went to
. heaven and now he is living on a
farm. The people he lives with are
.good to him and he calls them papa
and mama. If this boy was asked
what he had to be thankful for I
think he would answer, “I am thank-
ful for having a good home and that
the people are kind to me.” I am
printing his letter on our page this
week and I wish some of my nephews
and nieces would write him a letter.
Will you do this to please me? I

feel sure you will make him happy.

if you do.

I suppose you are planning on go-
ing some place or having a lot of
company at your home and eating
so many good things Thanksgiving
Day that you will be sick the next
day. I know I used to do that when
I was small and lived on the farm.
What are your mama and papa plan—
ning on having that day, turkey,
duck, chicken or rabbit? Uncle
Ned’s folks are going to have chick-
"en. We all like that best. I Wish
we could all have a big dinner to-
gether on Thanksgiving. Wouldn't
it take a great, great big table if we
all sat down at once? And what.
'~lots and lots of good things it would
take to feed us. .

After you have eaten your dinner
“ sit down and try and think of the
things you have tobe thankful for.
At‘ least be as thankful as the little
.boy who ate so much that he had the
stomach ache. When asked what he
Was thankful for he said, “I am glad

I haven’t as many stomachs as a cow '

because my one aches hard enough."
I hope yen all have a good time.—
UNOLE' NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 13 years
'old and am in the 7th grade at school.
My. teacher‘s name is ebster Hastings.

I. like my school and teacher. It is
raining today and I was reading the M,
. and got so interested in the let-

,tfers that other children wrote that I
thOught [would write. I think that all
children ought to write to interest‘those
that'do not write 'and make them an):-
' to write too: I live on an 80 acre
, My mother died . with' appemn-
. When I was 5 yearsold and left 5
3’ children, two. boy

got out of it?

xi, ‘ :What Does College Mean?

~ . By New 5. Carey (Francis w. Parker School)

RE YOU planning to go to col-
lege‘!' If so, what are you go-
ing tor? \What do you want to

What“; attracting'yon

there? . .

Maybe you're interested in the
Sporting Page of . .
the nev‘vspaper. So
you ought to be. It
is a poor sort. of
boy or girl who
has no interest in
athletics and in
the great national
games and sports
of his or her coun-
try.

Perhaps you're
thinking that the
best paid positions
are more easily se-
cured by .the well-
trained man or
woman. That is
true. As a gener-
al rule, you'll ﬁnd that the richest
members of any community contain
a high proportion of college folk.

Or, it may be, you’re a ‘grind’ and
like learning for its own sake. That’s
good, too. Nothing, not even money,
can give the amount of satisfaction
in life that comes from being-well
posted on many subjects, and lube-
ing interested inall. ,

At the same time, neither Sports
Dollars, nor Scholarship arethe rea-
sons for‘going to college. They are

 

all incidental. The real value-of col-
lege lies in the fact that it opens life
in the best way. It turns a boy into
a man and a girl into a. woman by its
personal contacts on the
ﬁeld, in the class room and .by friend-
ships, and it giv-
es a fair chance
to ﬁnd out where
your chief interest
lies, and in what
line of work you
are likely to do
best. It teaches
how to meet peo-
ple, how to adjust
your’Selt to new
surroundln g 8.
wh‘at competition
means, how to ac-
cept an honest de-
feat wlthout
whimpering and a
, honest victory
without boasting. Of course what
You get out of college will depend
on what you try to get. If Sports,
Dollars, or Book Learning is all you
want, that is all you'll ﬁnd. But it
doesn’t follow that being able to do
the 100-yd. dash under ten seconds,
or being able to scheme a little slick—
er than the other fello‘w, or. know-

athletic '

 

ing Sanscrit roots, is going to make ‘

  

a full and worthy citizenship. Col-
‘ ...to..,teach Maniliness and W0-
' ass in "t‘he biggest sense.
.ng »

 

 

have lived at many places since my moth
er died and now live on a farm. The folks
where I stay are good to me and I like
them very much. When i came here 3
years ago they told me that they did
not care if I called them papa and
mama So I do. I have a hundred dol-
lars in the Delton State Bank. ’For pets
I have a coolie dog, a yellow and white
kitten and 17 rabbits. We 'have 100
chickens, 3 horses, 3 cows. 3. little calf a.
week old, and 6 young cattle—Leslie R.
Whittemore. Delton, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-I am a. farmer’s
daughter. I~go to the Miller school and
am in the sixth grade. I have'three sis-
ters and three brothers. We have» 3
acre farm.‘ I go to school eyery da .
We have six cows and two horses. y
teacher’s name is Minnie Rinehart, There
is 44 scholars in our school—Mary Plis-
ka, Pinconning, Mich, R. 3.

My Dear Uncle 'Nedz—I am a. girl 11
years old. I have one sister 7 years old'

-: her very much.

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and she is in the 2nd grade at school. .

For pets we have a little white kitten and
his name is Snowball. We have some
little banmms the. We take the M. B, F.

and »I.like to read ‘The Children’s Hour”
page. I did not attend any fair this year
but enjoy reading tht letters of the girls
and boys that did attend—Your friend,
Marian E. Ellison, Belding, Mich.. R, 1.

 

Dear Ucle Nedz—I am nine years old.
I am in the sixth grade, My birthday
is the 28th of November. My papa and
mama have 2 work horses and one
little colt. Her name is Jessie. I like
I have two brothers

and two sisters. Their names are Clar-

ence, age- 3, Walter, age 1, Mary, age 17,

and Nellie, age 15. For pets I have two
chickens, three cats,_a d g and a, pig.—
Pearl Robinson Barton C ty. Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl ten
years old and in the ﬁfth grade at school,
My teacher’s name is Miss Harris. We
own a farm of two hundred and ﬁfty
acres of land, We have seVen cows,
eight youn‘g cattle, about _one hundred
sheep and seven hogs. For pets 1 have
a-dog, two rabbits, two cats and a lamb.
When I pass the eighth grade I am go-
ing on to high, school—Rose Thayer,
Perry, Mich. ‘ ' . .

 

 

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Jeﬂry. I have one sister and. twa broth- 7
wo ,

ers. We .have about 40 rabbits,
horses. four pigs}, five cats. and one dot.
——Adeline Zylman, Vicksburg, MiohJ

 

Dear Uncle Ned :-—I am ten years old. -

spelling and .

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My birthday is on December 13th. I' am
in the ﬁfth grade at scnool. I have one
mile and a half to walk. I love my .

school and my teacher. I also like house,
work and do quite a bit of it. I have'b
brothers and 3' sisters, Goodbye—Pan-
ina Weber, Freeland, Mich.. R. F. D. No.
3, Box No. 62',

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—-I am a girl twelve

I am in the seventh grade at.

years old,
is Miss

school. My- teacher's name
Minnie Rinhart. She is a. very. good
teacher, I .go‘ to the Miller school. I
liVe on-a farm of 100 aces. We have six
cows and. four horses. For pets I‘ have-
three rabbits—M183 Beatrice Meyette.

Pinconning, Mich. -

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 11 years
old and mine 4th grade at school. I
'see you wanted the boys to write so I
thought I would do so. Did any of the
boys and girls raiSe any chickens this
Summer? I set three hens and-raised 19
chickens. I raised a big patch of pota—
toes thls summer, too—Dick Hewlett.
'Alanson, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:-——I wonder if you al-
low children of my size and age to share
in this department? Perhaps I am old
in years, being nineteen, but I am young
at heart as I feel no older than when
I was ten, only in that I feel more ex-

perienced. There being a. department-
for "grown-ups” and children but none
for we “in-betweens." We have to

sit back and look On or elsatake part in
one or the other,-if We. are allowed to.
Maybe you'll say that I belong in the
other Admrnncnt, . ifr aux- :but I ﬁnd .the
children’s letters interesting and thought
I'd like to write to them. There’s a.
bumper crop of nuts here this year: We
have ﬁve bushels of butternuts gathered
and about the same of shucked walnuts,
and some hickory nuts, but they are not
so plentiful as the two kinds first hen:-
tioned, We live on a rented farm. There
are. fourteen head of cattle, four of hor-
ses and seven of hogs here. e also

have a .very pretty kitten and my young— ,

brother, who is eighteen, has a couple of
bunnies. I have two brothers and a. sis-
ter who are married and have children
and two brothers and a. little Sister at
home. She is six next month and lots
younger than any of the rest who are
living. I went to the state fair this fall
and, if Uncle Ned admits me to the cir-
cle perhaps I’ll write and tell you. about
my trip, sometime. Good-bye for now,
Best wishes to all—Framces Monroe.
Hudson, Mich.

You are rather old, Francis, to
write to this “department, but what
you~say is true. We haven’t any
department for the “in-betweens." I
talked-with the editor and he said
we didn't have the space now but
when we published a larger paper he
would be glad to have such a. de-
partment. So you see how it is. Un-
til that time you may send a letter
to “The Children’s Hour” once in
a while if you wish, but no one over
16 years of. age can compete for
prizes.

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Then try them on. I! not pleased return at
our expense; your money returned at once.
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gray or blue. Only two shirts to a customer
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us. but it youmvlrlill on it may

\prevent some other farmer from making

the same mistake. -—A. W. B. Charlevoix,
Michigan.

Next! Let’ s hear from other read-

are who have been roped in by this

concern .-——Edi.tor.

  
  

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SPECTAGLE FIRM MAKES GOOD
, I sent to a Chicago spectacle house for
a pair of spectacles last February. They
came all right but the bows were so stiff
they hurt my ears. _,The company sent a
notice with the spectacles stating that
if I wanted better frames to retﬁrn them
with $4. I returned them on ebruary
27th, at 2the same tirne sending a. money
order for the $4. 20. The company sent
me a card stating they had received my
order but I have never received the glas-
ses. I have written them several times
and only received one reply from them
and at that time they s'ated that my
glasses must have been lost in the mail
and they would look the matter up—
Mrs. J. E. H_, MonrOe County.

It required two letters from us be-
fore this company replied. Then
they informed us that in spite of the
fact that their records failed to show
that they had-received any order from
Mrs. J. E. H. they were writing her
and enclosing their check. Our sub-
scriber advised us nearly two weeks
later that she had not received her
money'yet. We again got in touch
with this company. Mrs. H. receiv-
ed her money on the 4th of October.

DELAYED COOPS

EDITOR BUSINESS FABMER: Again
referring to your letter of October 15,
in reference to returning of poultry
coops from Detroit:

Our Terminal agent has made a.
personal investigation of this com-
plain-t and advises that at only one
terminal did he ﬁnd there had been
any trouble experienced in prompt
return of poultry coopsand it seems
that this trouble was due to sortie
misunderstanding of routing sched-
dule. This matter has all been
straightened out however, by Term-
inal agent Newark and no further
trouble is expected at this 'point. At
the other terminal in this city the
coops have been handled promptly
and without delay.

I feel safe in saying that you -can
advise your subscribers that every
effort possible is being and will be
made at Detroit to see that these
empty coops are not delayed after
they are turned over to us.—H. B.
White, General Agent, American
Railway Express Co.

 

FIRM PAYS STORAGE CHARGES

I would like to have some assistance
in straightening out a shipment: of roof-

ing paper I ordered from the Manufac-'

turers Outlet Co. It was shipped March
27th to Pinconning. They were supposed
to have notified me at Bentley, The bill
of lading the Outlet Co. sent me had my
Bentley address on but the bill of lading
came to Pinconning with the goods, had
no other address on only Pinconning. Now
I happened to be in Pinconning about July
lst and called to see if my paper was
there and it had been there about 30
days and had me charged with $8 stor-
age which I refused to pay. Now it is
still there. I wrote to the company
about it and they advised me to leave the
shipment and place claim against the
railroad company Now then, the error
was made by the Buffalo agent. I am- not
at fault in any way as I was not notiﬁed
at all.———O, R., Bentley, Mich.

The above complaint was received
the latter part of July, and we immed-

iately wrote the Manufacturers Out-'

let Company asking them to pay the
storage charges and have the goods

released to our subscriber. The Com-

pany advised us that they were in no
fault in the matter, havlnlr complied
with our subscriber's shipping instruc-
tions, to which we. replied that they
had falled’to notify him of shipment
of goods. Noting their own error
they returned that. they would have
the railway company cancel the charg-
es on the grounds that the agent at
Plnconning should have notiﬁed our
subscriber at Bentley of the receipt of
the goods. They tailed, however, to
convince the company that it should
stand the cbarges and. so they wrote
our number altering to pay half the
storage charges if he would pay the
otha' half and the freight. This our
subscriber properly refused to do, and

we again wrote the company in his '

behilit asking that the storage charges
be paid and the goods released to our.

. subscriber. This was done, the com-

pan? paying 1:110:11“:th Central
$34.16. Our subscriber paid the
freight amounting to $3. 21 and got
his goods. sewn months sitter the

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Exchange Pennies for Dollars
It pays to invest in cow health. The cost
of a package of Kow-Kare, the great cow
medicine, is measured in cents; the increased
milk' income from a. healthy cow is reckoned
in dollars.
Kow Kare enjoys a quarter-century record
of leadership in the prevention and
successful treatment of all cow aﬂments
due to weakened digestive or genital
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Bunches and Abortion. The Kow-Knre
treatment is inexpensive but produces
prompt and visable results. One trial will
convince you.

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stores or ts.

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gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.”
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At 3; Their True Value

20,000 paid genu-
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slightly worn but neatly

Trench repaired and repoliﬁhed

Shoe wherever necessary Equal
new in wearing value.
' Heaviest of high grade
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studded with hob nails, and
heels with metal horseshoes;
worth $18.00, our price, $4.90.

   
    

 

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. mail us a deposit of $1. 00 for
each pair of shoes ordered,
stating style shoe desired Balance on delivery.

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JOHN c. BUTLER
Presldent lonla County Farm Bureau.

IONIA FARMERS ORGANllZE

_ By R. C. Carr
Secretary and Manager of Ioma
County Farm Bureau.

OST of the people in Ionia.

County‘ must have come from

Missouri for they had to be
shown pretty thoroughly before they
would agree to put on the member-
ship drive in their County for the
Farm Bureau.

Ionia is one of the rich southern
counties which has _never had a
County Agricultural Agent. The
farmers here have contended that
increased production without im-
provement in marketing conditions
which would give the farmer pro-
tection, simply worked to the detri-
ment of the farmer. Their theory
was that if marketing conditions
could be" improved whereby the far-
mer would-be sure of a reasonable
return for his work and investment,
that then they would be interested
in more efﬁcient methods of produc-
tion.

This is the same cry well known
by students of political economy,
that theiunorganized 'maSses have
been making ever since improved
machinery and methods have speed-
ed u
the resent high standard of living.

The Ionia Farmers further said,
that the farmer, being unorganized,
up to the present decade, in a com-
mercial way, has been the last class
in the United States to-have their
standard of living raised. He had
to keep up the system of working
from early morning until after dark,
while other classes have reduced
their work day to six or eight hours,
because, as his production increased
through improved methods and
machinery, the speculator made use

1 of a small surplus and would force

the price of farm products down
when the farmer had to sell and
force them up when the producer
came to buy. The speculator also,
in a very subtle way, managed to
convey the impression to the con-
sumer that of course the farmer was
to blame and was rolling in wealth.

Therefore, the farmer in order
to have. some of the good things of
life found it necessary to keep up
the same old grind.

.These things the farmers of Ionia
saw, so when the State Farm
eau, which is “organized for Bus-
iness, ” was explained to them, they
said, “at last we are going at. the
right end of the farm problem, let’s
get on board,” and they did. The
result is that Ionia Cbunty now has

1, 600 members with over 2 000 in,
is com-'

view when the ~recanvass
plated.

Every township is." organized with" y-_
President, Vice-rPreSident Secretaryéy
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kin, Nathan Greene, Leon (intend.
' W. Stewart, Geo. WoOldridge. Rep-_-

resents-ﬁves to State Farm Bureau,
H. E. Powell, A. M. Welch and Wm
Toan. Harry L Carr who has been
with the State Farm Bureau in or-
ganization work for the last ten
months has been employed as Coun-
ty Manager and Secretary On Oc-
tober 22nd, the county board of deleo
gates9met at Ionia and formulated
policies under which the farm bureau
will be Operated in this county.

Questionaires-have been sent to
all' members in the county asking
them where they wished to have an
incorporated community unit or-
ganized. These units will have a
board of 8 directors, the ﬁrst direc-
tors elected being also delegates to
the county board of
the proportion of one delegate to
every ﬁfty members, this will bind
all the local units together through
the county board of delegates.
Monthly meetings of the countyex-
ecutive committee will be held to
which all the managers of local
units Will be invited for c0uncil and
advice.

Managers of local units will be
required to submit trial balances
to the county executive committee
monthly. In this way we hope to
standardize practices and promote
eﬁiciency. Besides local incorpor-
a-ted units we are also going to or-
ganize local branches of the county
farm bureau. These branches
will be simply for educational and
social purposes and will be at
points which are not trading cen—
ters. Local branches will be gov-
erned by an executive committee
consisting of the Pres, Vice-Pres,
Sec’y & Treasurer, elected annually
and by the members.

Each local branch will be entit-
led to one delegate on the county

board of delegates. When the
county is fully organized {into in-
corporated community units and

local branches, the township system
of units will probably be done away
with.

The farmers of Ionia County are
sure that the Farm Bureau is on
the right track and they intend to
do all in their power to keep it so
and are desirous of co—operating
with any organizations which tend
to improve living Conditions.

They are ,watching with interest
the effort of their brother farmers
in the great wheat states to hold
back their wheat in Order to obtain
a. just price for it. Farmers here
are incensed at the action of the
speculators in calling this movement
a strike and are also beginning to

wonder at the action of some of the:

ofﬁcers of the State and National
Farm Bureau in not supporting this
movement. '

Do these ofﬁcers realize that the.

Farm Bureau is organized .for bus-
iness and that here in Michigan we
are doing with woolrwhat the west-
ern farmer is trying to do with
wheat, hold it out of the specula-

 
  

  
 

  
  
  
 

 
  

  

 
 
 

 
 
  

  

 
 
 
 

   

 

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H08. B. BUELL
Manager Mlohldrsn State Farm Bureau Elevator
Exchange.

 

tor’s hands, get it to the consumer,
more directly and obtain the cost of
production and a reasonable proﬁt
for ourselves? ’

The next few months are to be
the critical ones for the County.
State and National Farm Bureau
and many people are saying that the
State Board of‘Delegates should be
called together to better outline the

policies under which the Farm Bur,

reau should operate.

HOW TO DESTROY YOUR -
ORGANIZATION

1. Don’t come to the meetings}

2. But if you do come, come late.

3. If the weather doesn’t'suit you,
don’t think of coming. ’

4. If you do attend a. meeting, ﬁnd
fault with the Work of the ofﬁcers and
other members. ~

5. Never accept an ofﬁce, as it is
easier to criticise than to do things.

6. Nevertheless, get sore if you are
not appointed on a committee, but if
you are donot attend the committee
meetings. '

7. If asked by the chairman to give
your opinion regarding some import-
ant matter, tell him- you have nothing
to say. After the meeting’ tell every
one-you meet how things should have
been done.

8. Do nothing more than is absolute-
ly necesisary, but when other mem-
‘bers roll up their sleeves and will-
ingly, unselﬁshly use their ability to
help matters along, howl that the as-
sociation is run by a. clique.

 

ANNUAL MEETING r-FARMERS’
CLUBS

The annual meeting of Michigan
State Association of Farmers" Clubs
will be held in Senate Chamber, Cap+
itol Building, Lansing, on- Tuesday
18mg Wednesday, December 7th and ‘

t .

' Every effort is being put forth by
the executive board to make this a
most helpful and- instructive meet--
ing and every clubsand all persons in-
terested are’invited to'reserve these
days and attend this meeting.

CANADIAN IMARKETIN'G PLAN
The movement on the part of the

' farmers of western Canada to hold*

their wheat awaiting better price:
and the formation of a co-operativo
selling agency has assumed practi--
cal form after a two days’ conference ’
held at Winnipeg, Man. . Plans were
_.com_pleted for the co- operative mar-
keting of Wheat by the united farm-

ers of three provinces, the machinery , .
being similar to the Canadian wheat :
board which goes out of business on} '
Jan. 1 but is pracﬁoallyu. 0ut~oLabnﬁr -?_

iness now.
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business organization Was re-ﬁ

"Mmmws tam: Bureau type or

gsrded by the meeting of mid-
west state farm bureau representa—

ﬂies in Columbus, ohm, 1m week
“as the model for cooperative

live-
stock shipping organizations through
the middle west. The report favor-
do: county, instead of community,

--._,._ livestock shipping units was made
"ray F G. Ketner, of the Ohio Farm

~3nreau Federation; D. O. Thomp-
son, of the Illinois Agricultural as~
satiation and H E. Lute, of the Ne-
,braska Farm Bureau Federation.
The report declared that caunty
‘instead "of community business units
made for greater eﬂciency in oper-
Iatiops by providing for more uni-
formity in shipments, better hand-

gling‘ of claims for losses and damag- ‘

be, more favorable insurance, the hir-
ing of higher grade employees, larg-
or volume of business and ' "better
grading.

Another point especially consid—
ered Was that this larger type of or-
ganizatifon, could exert more of a
'regulartory influence on the flow
‘of livestock to market than is possi-
ble now and that when the plan ex-
tends over the mid west, producers
will be in position to have consider—
ably more voice 'in the prices at Chi-
cago, Detroit, Buffalo, Omaha, East
St. Louis and other large marketing
centers.

Ohio now has six counties operat-
ing on this plan.

While Michigan has not yet en-
deavored to elaborate on livestock
shipping activities through the farm
bureau, it has many counties using
this centralized method of market-

: ting.

St.

There was considerable discussion
at this meeting of model types of
farm bureau organization aiming
for uniformity in the work in all of
the affiliated states. Several of the
state farm bureaus, being without
the great membership and large ﬁn—
ances of the Michigan institution, are
operating along promotional rather
than commercial lines. By this, it
is meant that many states conﬁne
their operations to building up or—
ganizations apart from themselves
for commercial functioning, and
then endeavor to play mother to
them. In the case of the Michigan

I State Farm Bureau, it has been rec-’

ognized that a parent’s influence
oftentimes is disregarded and that
because of this it seems . wise to
bring up a seed department, pur-
chasing department, elevator ex-
change, etc., in the way it is believed
they should go. By organizing these
activities as departments of the,
whole, rather than as separate units.
Michigan believes that all of theii
interests can be correlated efﬁcient-
1y, with successes of one offsetting
the shortcoming of another. By the
other way, each would stand alone.
What friend Aesop once said about
a bundle of sticks might well .be re—
called

Publicity of state farm bureaus
came in for considerable attention
at Columbus. It was the concensus
of opinionpthat ofﬁcial organs were
to be frowned upon, largely in the
belief that there were sufficient pub—
lications in the various states now to
handle news, not selﬁsh propaganda,
of farm bureau activities compre
hensively. The fact that things one
party says about himself are usually

» discounted ,materially was recogniz-

ed. Iowa’s nepresentative declared
that they were satisﬁed that the
publishing of an ofﬁcial organ in
that state has been a mistake and
that its accomplishments have not
been near commensurate with ex-_
pense and grief involved. The gen-

eral method of publicity of the Michv ‘

igan State Farm Bureau seemed to
be proved out by the discussion

When the dairy problem was dis-
cussed, most everybody present threw
up their hands. It is critical the
country over. Groups of producers

are being pitted against others.

For. example, it was brought out
that recently when producers in the
Win, Mo..- district withheld their
milk from the market in exerts to

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erenoc. 'mnamd that .the ﬁnancial situa—
' tion will partially responsible for the

    

northern Ohio and southern Michi-
gan and bought mun, heretofore, go-
ing principally to creameries and
condensarles, and shipped it to St.
Louis.

Secretary Coverdaie of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation said
that Milo D. Campbell, head of the
National Milk Producers" Association
of Goldwater, Michigan, had asked
the American Farm Bureau to in-
terest itself in the dairy problem of
the country, but that before a gen-
eral conference was called milk pro--
ducing interests in all parts of the
country must indicate that such ac-
tion would have their support. The
National Milk Producers' territory
has largely been conﬁned to New
York, New Jersey and parts of
Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvan-
la and Ohio.

Every representative at the meet—
ing indicated that the dairy situation
was acute in his state, and further
admitted ignorance as to how a so-
lution of the problem was to be ob-
tainedx _

President Snyder of the Kansas
Farm Bureau Federation was asked
to outline what success the Wheat

Growers’ Association of America was,

having in its efforts to have farmers
of the country hold wheat from the
market until $3 a bushel might be
offered. The Wheat Growers' Asso-
ciation membership is practically 10‘
cal in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla-
homa.- Mr. Snyder said that while
the holding effort was laudable as
wheat is selling for less than cost of

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failure at the holding elm-t. Loans
are virtually impossible to secure,
and many farmers while desiring to
hold» their wheat for the time, are
compelled to sacriﬁce it to meet
debts. Hundreds of. tenant farmers
in the wheat and particularly" the
corn belt are facing bankruptcy, it
was indicated.

J. .P. Powersand R. V. 'Tanner
were Michigan’s representatives at
this meeting, M. A. Thomas, coun-
ty agent in Monroe county, border-
ing on Ohio, also was present.

 

NEW FARM BUREAU OFFICERS

EGINNING this week R. V.
Tanner becomes the assistant
secretary of the Michigan State

. wFar In B u-
reau and J.
P. Powers
takes charge
of the legis-
lative activi.

.ties of the
organization.

Mr. ' Tan—
ner is famil-
ia r w i t h
farm bureau
work and
knows coun-
ty agen ts
and leading
farmers in
all parts of
the state. He

 

 

 

 

 

was gradu-

n. 1'. Tamm- ated fr 0 m

 

 

in 1909.
he was assistant forest ranger in
Leutinei National Forest, Montana.
In 1912 he was married and farmed
until 1915 when he accepted the po-
sition. of county agricultural agent
for Mason county. The war came
on after he had been two years in
this Work. He" joined the army and

DepartmentofM. LC.

became a captain and served until

1918. Since then he has been coun-
ty agricultural agent for Barry coun—
ty and assistant manager of the
seed department of the state bureau.

Mr. Powers is well known through—
out this state and others for his work
as assistant secretary in helping or—

ganize the state farm bureau. He
has also been director of the
publicity department. He was the
ﬁrst active assistant which Sec-
retary C. A. Bingham had over
a year ago when the organ-
ization of

the farm bu— “'wa

reau began.

His experi-

ence as a
newsp a p e r
m a n i n
Mic h i g a 11,
New Yor k,
a n d N e w
Jersey, and
his farm bu-
reau activi—
tie s h a v e
given him a
familia r i t y
wit h t h 9
work which
he now un-
dertakes.

     
 

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much milk it
themost proﬁts is the cheapest feed they can buy.

Write fornamesofLai-rousen lnyour cighbo 11 name
thedealcrncemutyou. n t oodandthe 0‘

The Larrowe Milling Company
’ Larrowo Bldg.. Detroit, Mich.

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produced that is important.

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ct More M 'lk
' No matter how much milk your cows are producing on their
resent ration—~Larro-Feed must make them produce more
—or your money back.
That‘ 15 exactly what the Larro guarantee means to you—-

‘ more milk or your money back.
The one way to put your dairy on a business basis IS to ﬁnd

out exactly how much you are feeding each cow and exactly
how much milk she is giving.

Weigh Your Feed—
Weigh Your Milk

This has been our advice to dairymen for eleven years—it is the secret of
the success of the men who feed Lerro. They know just what they are
doing and they have learned that it’ not how much a feed cost. but how
That the feed which make.

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la main ponlllctlng units We “w“; without. .,
0031. list the date of any live stock sole In
Michigan If you are canslderlng a sale ad-
vlse us at once and we will claim the dash

 

for you. Address. lee Stock Editor. M. B.
EJI. Clemens.

Nov 23, Durocs. Albert Ebersole, Ply-
mouth, Mich. :‘

Dec. 8, Spotted Poland Chime Franken-
muth Spotted Poland China Ass'n , Alfred
Grueber, Sec'y, Frankenmuth, Mich .

Feb. 1, Poland Obinas. Witt Bros, Jas-
ocr. Mich.

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

 

Porter Cblestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
J. E. Ruppcrt, Perry, Mich.
Harry Robinson, Mich.

 

 

Plymouth,

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- , .H’OLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

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REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SIRE

will increase the production of
your grade herd by 100 per cent.
It can be done in two genera—

 

tions, and we can supply the bulls.
Write us.

Michigan Holstein-Friesian

Association
H. W. Norton, Jr., Field Secretary
Old State Block, Lansing” Mich.

 

 

TWO BllLL OALVES

Registered Holstein- Friesl ll, sired by 3,9. 8.7- III.
bull and ram heavy produ ng young cows. These
.cslizes, a verywnice end will be priced cheap I!

sold soon.
MERRY pauses. IIwell. Mich.

MR MILK PRODUCER

Your Problem is more MILK. more BUTTER.
more PROFIT. per cow

A son of Maplrcrest Applicatism Pontiac—
132652—from our heavy yearly- -milkin¢-BOOd-but'
.Iter~record dam will solve it.

Meplecrest Application Pontiac' 11 dam made
85,103 i . butter in k7 cleysi5 1344. 3 lbs butter
end 2342 lbs. mil In 36

11 Is is one of the greatest 5long" distance sires.

His daughters and sons will prove It.

Write us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

Prices right and not too high for the average
dairy Inrmer

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R. Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

“SPECIAL,
PRICE THIS MONTH

A ﬁne Straight Young bull, born Oc-
tober 27th, sired by a. 35 pound Son of King
of the Pontiacs. First check of $75 takes
him—money refunded if not entailed.
Other bulls in proportion.
HeId under Federal Supervision.

HILLOREST STOOK FARM

 

 

 

 

Ortonvllle, Mlch.
or write ._
John P. Hehl. 181 Griswold St... Detroit, Mich
nor Sale: A Dandy Straight Well Marked and

I well grown bull calf bom March 27 1920.
Sire is a son of Flint Ilengerveld Lad whose two

 

 

 

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SHOW BULL

Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke-Henger-
vcld DeKol bull from a nearly 1!) lb. show
(Iniv, First, prize junior calf, Jackson Fair,
1920. Light in color and good individual
Seven months od. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurry!
Herd under Federal Supervision.
e

BOAROMAH FARMS
JACKSON. MIDI-I.
Holstein Breeders .Since

  
  
    
   
    
       
  
   
 
   

1906

nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
735 lbs milk in seven days. Dam s. 28 lb.
granddaughter of King chis Price $300. For
extended pedigree write
L. . KETZLER
Flint. Mich. a

FOR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES. A HOL-

tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both
ahve heavy milking dams. Not registered. $50
each if taken at once

CHASE STOCK FARM. Marlene, Mich

 

FEDERAL ACCREDITED HERD

BULL FOR SALE

old enough for service. 1113 dam’s 7 day record
20. 85 lbs butter, 467.80 lbs. milk 305 days
161153 lbs. milk, 548 lbs. butter. Two A.
0. daughters. His sire a 24 lb. grandson
oRf Colantha Johnna Lad. Price $200,
VERNON CLOUGH. Perms. Mich.

 

  
   
      
 
 
   
   
   
   
     
     
  
  
 
  
 
 
    
    
  
  
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
    
       
      
      
    
 
 
      
  

 

 

Yearling Bull For Sale

81111 born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly
marked and a ﬁne individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 lb. bull and from a

20 lb. daughter of Johan. Heng.
Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow.
Dam will start 011 yearly test
‘ Nov. 15.
ROY F. FICKIES

Chcsnning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

SOLD AGAIN

Bull call last advertiser] sold but have 2 more
.- that are mostly white They are nice straight fel-
. lows sired by a son og King One. One is from
‘ a 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a

20 lb Jr 3 yr. old dam. she is by a son of
Friend .Hengerveld De Kol Butter Buy, one of
be great bulls.

Mlch.. R 2.

IAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso,

 

 

 

A Real Bull and Nearly White

His Slle is both a Grand Son of
‘Pontiac Keindyke and King of the
Prntiacs. Enough said on the Sire’s
side.

His Dam is a 14.48 lb, 2 year 01
and the Daughter of a 25 lb 3 year ,.
old her Dam is a. 20 lb. Co‘w. gis
Dam is a Grand Daughter of King
Segis Pontiac Howell Only one un-
tested Dam in his pedigree and she
has 2 A. R. O Daughters and one
A R Son and all for $100 00

JOHN BAZLEY _

319'iAtkinson Ave.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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OUR HERD SIRE

MODE! KIIIO SESIS OLISTA

His sire no 80 lb son of Lakeside King Seder,

ban De
‘Alﬂis dam]? oGliste Fenells, $2.78 lb. ,
’ Her derri, Glista Ernestine. 8‘5. 96 lb.
. Hie three nearest dams average over 88 15.,
:end his forty six nearest tested relstives average
’over 30 lbs butter- in ﬁrst; days. We on" one
' I'his so s ready ioree

RAND RIVER: STOCK FARM.

Gorey. J} Spencer. Owner ‘v

  

 
 

  
  
   

 
  

  
  
 
  
 
 
  
   
   

 
  
  
  
 
 
  
 

hell r delves.
Three .3: IAWEWJIEIIm Micki .. . ~

A FOUNDATION

TWO REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
10 and 10 mos. old, sired by a 29 lb. and 27

lb. bull. Dam of older one a 14 lb junior two
year old, well bred. good individuals. Also a ﬁne
male call from a son of the greet King of the
Pontiacs. (Haifa dam a 20 1b. cow.
For particulars address
H. T. EVANS
Eau Olalre. Mlch.

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS G OD
sales from their herd. We are well pleasedw

the calves from' our Junior H rd Sire "King lw‘oi'I-
tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis" ho is a son . of
“King of the Pontiacs” from a daughter of P011-
tiac Cl thilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. Sprsgue, R 2. Battle Creek, Mich.

 

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FOR SALE

23 Registered Holstein Females

11 in calf Good individuals. No damaged udz
ders. Nothing wrong with the co Good
reasons for selling. Will take 33. 000 for the
bunch. Can sell in less numbers The calves
will be worth more than half of my price. in-
vestigate at once.

M. HAUTALA. Mich.

Bruces Crossing.

SHORTHORIIS

Mom-Henna mom AN AcoHEDIrEo Hsno
.iil‘l‘mmautiéi 3.111%?“ if“ "‘

' I- . ends our herd;
one mummiﬁed-.01“. m...-

HAT D0 ~YOU WANT? . -.
SHORTH'ORN breeders. -‘ Can putt: u in
touch wilh best milk or beef strains. ulls_ all
g.es some females ‘ W. - Cr‘u‘m. President
Central Michigan Shortliom Amocistion, Mc-
Brides. Michigan. . .. -

SHORTHORN OPEORTUNITY
15 Cinnamon Bred Shorthorn Females
Owing to the burning of our cow

 

 

barn and" feed we will be forced to.

dispose of our entire herd; ..

9 two year old heifers due to calve
about Jan. 1st.

3 young cows and calves.

They are an attractive lot and we
will make attractive prices. Terms
will be giVen reopensible parties.
Come"; and see them. ._

APLMBER BROS, Balding, Mich.

 

W. S_ HUBER, Oledwln, Mlch., offers or sale
a choice bull calf,, sire, Robert Clay by ashinc-
ton Clay. am, Charlotte's Gem. by Maplelsne
Dan Oxford out of Charlotte B 2nd. -..-

SHORTHORHS

4 to 8 mos. old all terms, pail fed.
the farmers' kind, at farm-

Mich.

 

5 bulls,
Dams good milkers.
ers’ Iprices.

M. PIGGOTT a. SON. Fowler,

 

THE VAN BUREN GO. SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.

rite the secretary,

FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich.

 

ONLY , FEW LEFT
AT OLD PRICE.

Wm. J. BELL, Rose Olty, Mich.

KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS"

Ass’ n are offering bulls andheifers for sale. all
Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.

uses
RAAB. Sec’ y. Caledonia. Mich.

 

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Maple Ridge Herd of Bates Shot-thorns 0f-
fers for sale s roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 2

younger ones. J. E. TANSWELL. Mason, Mich.

 

’ ’ .
l'OR SALE—POLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

Oxfordﬂ Down Reina.
i. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Mich.

 

HEREFOBDS
HEREFORD CATTLE Haggis. HAMPSHIRE

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older best of breeding and at a

1'er low price, have also some extra good
Herd headers, We have also: a large line
of registered Hampshire Hogs. Gilts, Sows
and Roars.

Write us, tell us what you want and get
our prices.

Le FAYETTE STOCK FARM. La Fayette. Ind.

 

.I. Grouch a. Son. Prop.
120 HE EFOFD 81131138., ALSO
know of 1 or 15 loads fancy usury

Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 10 0 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy toe
commission. C. F_ Bell Fairﬂeld Iowa.

MEADOW BROOK HEREFORDS

Double Disturbe'r Bull at head of herd. Some
hoice Fairfax/ females for sale also bulls any
gs. Come and look them over.

EARL c. McGARTYFBsd Axe,

 

Mich,

 

REGISTERED HEREFORD OATTLE'

713 3941 heads our herd.’

King Repeater No
A grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion
Repeater 7th No. 886905. We have Some ﬁne
bulls fd’i' sale ahnd also some heifers bred to Re-

 

 

Eaton Rapid-- . me!)-

‘a eALE—HEoIsTE‘HEn Hose-run 0015.1

nearly ready for service from gnod R 0.
dams also bull calves Wm. Grifﬁn. Howell, Mich.

LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW
ﬁve year old, well marked and a good milker, also
her bull calf, sired by a son of Johan Hengerveld
Lad. once a 22 b'. two year old dam. Price 8250
for the pair

R. H. BARNHART. R 1, 8t. Ohdrles, Mich.

 

 

 

SHORTHORN

 

Why buy Bulls that come from Herd: you know
nothing about?

the best lot.» 6f Bulls ever sold In Mich.
recline from $200,103 $500
0. H. TRESGOTT &_ SONS

Herd at Prescott. Midis". , Tens ,Olty, Mich

 

 
  
 
  
 
 
 

 

IIIoIILAIIn sIIIIIIIIIonIIs'

For the next thirty days we sire going to alter '
Prices ~

I ,~ Tiyour while to read the livestock} _
advertisements in every 138“- .
A to keep 110811811 011 :vvha't they ‘_ 2-11

 

 

ater. Tony B. F 11é K.Proprletor
Ontonagon 0mm” Ii-eHE MARION s FARM. Marlon, Mich.
FOR SALE REGISTERED Hons-runA puns ANGUS

'MUITON Aim worn. om; '

Avondele

I represent 41 I
gWOOI Growers' Association,

ganization that how numbers 20,-

operated under the federal

. now labeled

 

 

l The Most Profitable Kind l '

of farming. e car loiid of grade dairy heifers

from LENA WEE COUNTY’S heaviest milk pro-.
GUS hull of the:
most extreme beef. type for combination beef end.

ducers to include a pure bred AN

dairy farming.

Gar let shipments assembled st GLENWOOD'

FARM for prompt shipmén

Methods exBlIained in SMITHS PROFTI‘ABLE

STOCK FEE NC 400 pages illustrated.
o. s. s‘mrm Iddlsbn. Mich.

I

 

The Best Breeders

advertise in The Michigan Bus-
“‘iness Farmer. It will be worth

“have to sell

 

 

 

 

 

The Wool conferences held-.111 It

cage two weeks ago. Thursdaysend '

Friday was one of the 111034: import-
ant meetings that the wool growers

#01“ this country have ever held. 11319.9.
leading speech of the meeting W
made by Geo. M. Wilber.-: .0!- Marys—I

ville; .0?" Mr Wilber is chairman 01‘:
the executive committee of the. Ohio
Ian 901%-

000 members and will, this .year.
market between six end seven mil-
lion pounds of wool; the Organizer:
tion referred to has recently pur-
chased a wool storage plant valued
at nearly a half million of dollarsiand
Is now in a position to handle the en-
tire wool output of the state The
association will handle, this. year,
abbnt' one-half of the wool produced
in the Buckeye state. Mr. Wilber is
prominently mentioned in ennnec-
tion with the position of Secretary
of Agriculture in President Hard-
ing’s cabinet. In his speech he ad-
voca‘ted a. chain of wool warehouses
which can be operated coordinately
and sufﬁciently large to accommo-

~ date all of the wool in. the United

States. These Warehouses would be
owned by the growers and should be

heuse act There are many valid ar-
guments for the establishment of a.
wool trade system and a list of cred-
its which would save owners of wool
from being gouged by dishonest deal-
ers. Mr. Wilber gave it— as his opi—n'
ion that the American wool grower
should be protected by a, tariff
against the shipment into this count
try of millions of pounds of cheap
wool, flooding the marketrand caus-
ing a break in prices that will make
it impossible f01 the grower to do
business at a proﬁt. . .
0111' “fool-Growing Enterprise
Comparatively few, even‘ among
farming classes, realize the :ir‘nport-t
ance of the sheep growingrundertaky
ing in this country.
present, an investment of: more than

$500,000,000 employed in the busi-

ness of mutton and wool growingin
the—'United States; our annual wool
product, computed at pre-war values
equals $150,000,000 and the yield of
mutton, estimated on the same basis,
represents as much more. More
than half a million people are now
engaged in the business of handling
wool and its substitutes, yet we do
not produce one half of the wool act-
ually used in this country; another
important fact. that ‘might be men-
tioned in this connection, has to do
with the amOunt of wool that should

.be used in this country if the high

priced clothing, which the American-
public buys. were really what it pro-
tends to be. If the clothing, that is
“all wool” were really
true to the label, our annual wool
production would not edual one-
‘fourt‘h of the amount which would
be annually consumed by qur mills.
The crying/shame of our time is the
fact that with wool lower than at
any preceding date in 20 years, the
clothing buyer can’t buy a high-
grade suit of even, so called, all
wool, clothing for less than $100. \

Importation of Frozen, Mutton

One of the greatestinjustices ever
permitted‘ by our government has
been the importation of frozen mut—
ton and lamb; this trash, from other
countries, which they. do not care to’
'eat at home, is dumped into’ V

ing one cent of duty and is sold in
direct competition with * splendidly
bred and carefully fattened Ameri-
can products, The cennivanoe .of
the big packer in the importation and
,sale of this frozen stuff which is

said to have been under low temper... f’

atures for the last three years, is one
of the greatest of the many crimes
’agsinst the American farme1-,that
this bunCh of gougers have ex
been guilty of When the matter
has been. brought to the attentlo -
representatives or the Big Fife
h‘ god the issue by s

 

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their. employee, are 110w under in-.

dictmeut 'Ior selling frozen lamb,

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and

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H.EI’OLAND CHINA SALE .-.

Ebusiness of selling pure-bred Po-
EJ‘LH Iaﬁd China hogs~ at. auction came to
.a. close last week. in the holding of
two. $portant ~sales, one for William J.
at Eaton Rapids. and the other

3311‘ homey Ramadan, at Hanover. near
Jackson. Both of the above sales were
considered fairly successful when the ex-
tended business depression is taken into
Both of the‘ herds, from

 

Which the auction offerings were made,

' the

. catalogue,

'Eaton Rapids; A B,

ice given was
, plant was furnished by the Lalley Light

were composed -of many animals of great
individual merit all carrying in their
vein the richest blood lines known. to

aBig Type Poland China ‘bneed All
of the hogs 'oﬂered wars in ﬁne condition
but nonegof them showed that condition
of ‘ll‘over-.ﬂt11_es's'~' which has come to be
so common in connection with modern
auction sales of pure-bred stock. The
auctioneer at the Clark sale, which was
held on Tuesday. November 9, was the
veteran, Ed: Bowers, South Whiteley,

Ind. Mr. BWerE was ably assisted in»

the ring by Col Jim Post.HIlIsda1e. and
Col Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids. At
the Clark sale, the average for 25 hogs
was a triﬂe less' than $5 0 The Clark
giving the pedigrees 01' the
animals pffered, contained the names of
some of the most famous hogs that are
knoyvn to the breed, such as Smooth
Wonder 36. the I'four-year- old boar bred
by M P Rancher and for e last three
years' at the head of the -~ laik heid.
Many other names or noteli hogs appear
in this list such as Orphan's Superior
The Big Orphan, L's Big. Orphan, L's
Long Prospect, The Clansman, the fam-
ous Des Moines family and .nany others
of —equal note. The highest priced sow
In the sale was W'onder Princess 245460.
The following breeders bought hogs at
the Clarke sale: Thomas P. Clarke, Man-
chester; C. A Hicks, Parma; D. ‘Markle,
Bentley, Eaton
H. L. MayS, Nashville; Peter
Alexander, Rice Creek; A. R. Fisher,
Charlotte; F. M.' Whittaker, Concord;
G. A. Bryant, Charlotte, C U. Persol,
Olivet; Clark Van Vlerah, Eaton Rap-
ids: Wesley Hile, Ionia; Eli Leonard St.
Louis; Dr. E. Stimson, Eaton Rapids;
J. _E. Mygrant, St Johns; and Brubaker
Bros, Elsie. One of the most intereting
exhibits at the Clarke sale was the elec-
tric system by which the sale ring was
lighted. The system was installed, com-,
plate, in less than one hour and the serv-
very satisfactory; the

Rapids ,

Corporation, Detroit, Mich.
. H The Ramsdell Sale. , n
An auction sale of large Type Poland

_China hogs was held on Wednesday, No-

vember 1-0, at FareWell Stock Farm, the
property of W. B_ Ramsdell The farm
is located on Farewell lake, 8. beautiful
body of spring water not far from Han
over, Mich. The sale was snappy from
start to ﬁnish and, while the prices se-
cured looked low when the (an uality of the
animals in the offering is ta on into 0011-
sideration, their average was higher than
on many of the proceeding sales this sea~
3011: Every animal sold was guaranteed
a producer and a certificate of double

~ i'mﬁ'iunization was tarnished with every

 

-did sites: for which this herd

‘ Michigan,

.hog sold. Another privilege granted to

the buyers at the Ramsdell sale hadpin
the opinion of the writer, very much to
do thhqh the ’success of the undertaking;
all ﬁur qhasers 0f sows were given the
priv ege of breeding to one of the splen-
is noted
Col. William Wafﬂe, Goldwater, Mich.
was the auctioneer in charge, and he was
assisted by J L Post, of Hillsdale and
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich From the
first call for bids until the last hog was
sold, the interest never la god. The
highest priced hog in the Ram'sdell offer-
ing was agilt sired by Outpost 124421, a
bear that sold for $10,,000 last .summer

1' The buyer was F. E. Haines, Hillsdale
'_ The next highest price -vtas. $127 paid by
B Butler, Eckford; Mich,

for a litter
mate of the top-notcher described above.
Several hogs sold for above $100 and
the average for 36 bug’s was $72. 50
Besides the great oar, Outpost, de-
scribed above, many great names appear
in the pedigrees of the animals of which
the Hanover offering was composed.
Formerly at the head of the herd and

Still 00611111111! a place of ,honor on the

{arm and in the history of the breed in
is the boar. Smooth Wonder
346539 This wonderful animal was to
haVe been sold at .the emotion but only
1a ‘few days before the sale, he was the
victim 'of an accident that left him pain-
fully lame, Clansman Image 2d, No.
867725 the splendid yearling boar now
aft the head of the Ramsde'll herd,.
grandson of the- famous $50 000 boar,
The Clhnsman 103095.
mls described above, the Ramsd ell off-
g included the descendants of Giant

 

 

  
 

mister, Big

Bob, King’s Giant, Des
Willie: and Reish’s Col. Jack, a noted son

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lac...

Besides the ani- ’ ‘

 

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here at rooclnl low um: «I: for them.

'- (8PEOIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this hoodlna to honest breeder: of lIvo stock and

arm cat who: you 11ch to ol'lo‘r, lot as out It In two. show you I proof ind tell you what It will cost for 18, 2a or 82 tl mos

size of ad. or copy as often (a you wish. Gwyn” flying: must be
I‘ O D R

.EREEDERB’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. OIIIIIIM, Mlohloul.

poultry will be cont on request.

received one week before duo of Issue

m—u—t—u—u—m

"I‘llIIIlIIIIIIIIIll'IIIIIIIIIIIIII‘I'r

 

Better. still,»
You can ohunlo
Iroodors' Auction Sales advertised

 

 

311mm 111:. 1.111.531.1911":

Corro-
Swingers rib and no 9P1 “‘1'".

11d 11cc I lied and
11m ’csn‘l: cBARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

_l " GUERNSEYS

:3 GUERNSEY BULL CALI/ES
From tested and untested dams.
SatiSfaction guaranteed.

Write for prices and breeding to

MORGAN BROS, Allegan, Mi'ch., R1

 

mnsnvs

. Get Your Start in
Registered Jerseys for $500!

5 heifers from 5 mos. to 1 yr.’ will. be sold
at this price If taken at once. Write for breed-
ing and description to

FRED HAYWARD, Scotti, Mich

 

 

MPROVE YOUR JERSEY HERD WITH ONE
of our Majesty bulls.
Flu Mich.

NK P. NORMINGTON. Ionla.

 

on SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY
bulls ready for service. Tuberculin tested.
can-ran. 11 4, Lake Odessa. Mlch.

 

AYRSHIRES

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED Avnsmng
bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves.
Also some choice cows. ‘

FINDLAY BROS" R 5.

Vassar. Mlch.

 

 

BROWN SWISS

 

OF CHAMPION 5 YR.

Two GRANDSON Rosalind B 3905, 16,-

804.4 pounds milk, 727.64 pounds fat. Also
can spare one young cow bred to Sire of above

calves.
Federal accredited herd No. 4453.
R

E WIN H. KRAUSS. Sobewalng,

531% SWINE

POLAND CHINA

Mich.

 

 

 

 

THE THUMB Hanoi

Big Type Poland Chinus. Largrst herd in North-
eastern Mich. Boers and 111115 for sale.
E. M. ORDWAY, MIIIlngtoa, Mich.

 

us 11:31" onto POLAND CHINA PIGS sm-
ed by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest. price.
DoWITT C. PIER. Evert. Mich”

BIG 'BOB MASTODON

* Sire was champion of the’wwld.
His Dam’s Sire .was. grand champion
at Iowa State Fair: I have 6 'chdice
spring boar pigs left that will make
herd boars. Will price'them at $50
apiece if taken soon. Sired by Big
Bob Mastodon.
C. E. Garnant,

 

' boars,

Eaton Rapids, Mich. _

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two miles Ea
12 o ’clock noon.

ALFRED GRUEBER, Secretary,

treatment.

 

. THE F RANKENMUTH
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA BREEDERS ASS’N
of

Fronkenmuth Township, Saginaw County, Mich
Will Sell at

PUBLIC AUCTION

on December 3111,1920

Alfred Grueber’ 5 Farm

two miles North ‘of Frankenmuth Junction, at

40 Head of Registered Spotted Poland China Hogs

The tops of three herds will be sold at this sale.
- Write for Catalog.
Route N 0. 2, Frankenmuth, Mich.

Mall all bids In care of Alfred Oruebor to Follx wm, Floldmnn.

No guarantee: honest

 

BIO, TYPE POLANDS. HERD HEADED av
W's Sailor Bob No.

397305. Spring pigs.
b lh sex for snl
0w CALDWELL a SON, SprIngport, Mich.

 

AROE TYPE P. C. SPRIHa BOARS, MARCH
Land April furrow. Also one Sept. yearling.
The big bone and big litter kind. For prices and

it iin write
)eelE. 8W. LANDENBERGER, Parma, Mlch,

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
A few choice spring boars ready for service won
first premiul.nt Saginaw Co. Fair. All cholera
immuned double treatment. Also fall pigs
at weaning time

HOWLEY BROS" Merrill, Mich.

L.T..PC

l have a fine lot dof spring $330k sired by Hart’s
Black Price 11 good son of Price, grand
champion of the world in 1918. Also have a
litter of 7 pigs, 5 sows and 2 boars, sired by
Prospect Yank, a son of the $40, 000 Yankee,
that are sure Humdingers.

F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mlch.

 

,9

 

GLOSIIIG OUT SALE

of Big Type Poland China hogs, which represents
the work of 25 years of constructive breeding.
Everything goes including our three great herd
Mich. Buster by Grant Buster, A. Grant,
Butler’s Big Bob. Two of the best yearling
prospects in Mich. Modern type. high arched
bucks, great length, bi}; bone. Come and pick
out what you want. .Our prices are right.
JNO. C. BUTLER, Portland. MIch.
C. Roars now

WALNUT ALLEY w... .1...

homes. Get your order in on full pigs for I am

 

BIG TYPE P.

.going to price them right.

. . GREGORY
Ionia, Mich.

 

oonard'a B. T. P. 0. See my Exhlblt at Mloh.

State Fair. All stock double immune. Pub-

lic sale Oct. 28. Get your name on mailing list.
E. /R. LEONARD R 8, St. Louis, Mich.

 

HERE'S SBMETHIIIG GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MIOH.
Get a bigger and bet or bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them
Expenses paid If not as represented. These been
In service. L's Big Orange, Lord Clunmn‘an
Orange Price and L's Long Prospect
W E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma. Mlch.

 

111111111 .1111: 1111113 .

L. T. P. C. BRED 80W SALE NOV. 10

' 5 tried sows and 20 spring gilts, 2 ‘aged boars. '
nre"

3.1'1111 boars and» 5 spring boars. If you
looking for something good, here is where you
can get it.
Write for catalog.’
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mlch.

 

IO TYPE P. O; 80W8 0F CHOICE (BREED-

. bred to Big Bone Bone Boulder No. 726,-

672 for Sept. farrow.
Healthy and urowthy. Prices reasonable.

A L. W. BARNES a SON. Byron. Mich.

 

Mi, ' OI: My, What» asOﬁportunitjv!

We m now oderlnx a few choice big type

_ Poland China. Bears, from ,Blg Smooth Jones, one

3111:3313“ bleed1m s dbet't sites, from Dams by such noted
don Wog‘cttcndt Hglcitqirest Bob. 1
n' 36 r breedin Indi 'd ll
they win mam ou.‘ 5110581 0. z '1 “I
‘III LLCRE , lv'ARMfe Kulamljlgﬂ _Mlch.

 

POI-AND CHINA-8
7: wins QUALITY

 

fall
gLYDE FISHER:

Spring pigs either sex.‘

Match Hillorcst Wonder. Masto-.,,

“of eleven and _'

 

 

T. P. 0. SPRING BOARs. SIRED BY WIL.
ey's King Bob. out of Grand Daughters of
Disher’s Giant. All immuued with double treat-

ment. John D. Wiley, Schoolcraft, Mich.
L s P c FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL
hours left A few extra nice gilt-

left bred foot April furrow
H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcnl’t, Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE
REG. DUROC JERSEY STOCK N'IOOG

ONE
MODEL KING

CRIMSON CHIEF
168151

Farrowed June 16 1519

\Veight about 500 pounds.

Price $75.

C H. STANLEY; R 2, Paw Paw, Mlch.

 

AUSTIN STOCK FAR
Service hours and open gilts, $35. 00 to $40. 00
each. Mumford and Orion (‘herry King blood
These are real hogs. At {our fairs they won 44
ribbons. 10 Champion, 16 blues and 14 red.
Double immune with pedigree:
Satisfaction or money back
Bloomlncdalo, Mlch.

 

~ UROC
Bronkwater'D JERSEYS

Boers—Ready for Service

Big type, large bone and rugged, with plenty
of quality. This is your chance to buy high class
individuals at reasonable prices.

OPEN GILTS

of choice breeding and the right type.
Panama Special. the Principal 4th,
Cherry King and Great Orion families.
Now is the time to buy before the demand
takes all of the good ones.
Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees
Mull orders a specialty.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
BROOK\VATER FARM

Ann Arbor, Mlchlgan
H w. Mumford, Owner J. B. Andrews. Mar.

Orion

  

spring pigs by Walt's
OrIon. First Sr. Yearling
Detrolt Jackson, Gd. Raplds and Saginaw. 1919

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich

REGISTERED DUHOG JERSEY

boars, gilts, and fall pigs for sale. Herd headed
by BTOIlkWuttl" -Demonstrutor 27th, No. 155217.

   

H. E. LIVERMORE 1% SON, Romeo, Mloh.

 

TH ANNUAL P. c. “an sow sALI . ron SALE AT FARM-
6 M"... .3 1920 F... Mm... "1.. - spams Balms
w. J. HAGELSHAW. Auculu. Mlch. The big growtliy kind.
‘ " c 1-:. onvns a son. Ashley. MIch.

 

I Am Offering Largo Typo Poland Chlno Iowa.
bred to E's Orange at reasonable prices. Also
Write or cc.ll

R8. St. Louis. Mich.

' BIG TYPE POLAND cumns

Early fall pigs for sale, either sex. These are
real ones. Write for breeding and price.
HIMM BR08.. Chmnlng, Mlch.

 

 

DUROOS

 

. PLEASANT v1£w ounoos.
spring boats and tilts.
prices before buying.

W. 0. EUR INGAME I SON, Marshall, Mich

CHOICE

Come and see or get our .

 

 

uroc sows and out: bred to Walt'o King 82949
”who but sired more prigc winning pigs at the
state fair: in the Int 2 years than any other Du-
roc board Newton Bunhcrt. St Johns. Mich.

EADOMIIVIEW FARM REG. DUROO JERSEY

hogs. Spring pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS. Farmlnoton, Mich.

PEAIIII HILL FAIlII

8 ring boar pigs by Peach Hill Orion King.
152189. Satisfaction guaranteed. Priced at

5 u
’3 p INWOOD BROS.l Romeo. Mich,

 

 

FOR RESULTS'

% ‘ _ ' rur YouR uvrsrocx AD IN

M B F’s. BREEDERS DIRECTORY

 

 

 

  

 

           


  
 

  
     
 
 

 

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auction

'open sows, gilts and fall pigs.

Orion by Tippy Orion.

long.

Tuesday,

 

 

The Westview Duroc Farm, 2 miles South and 1- 2 mile East of
Nerthville or 1 mile north, 1- 2 mile East of Plymouth, will sell at

. Stock, Tools, and ,
50 Head Of Duroc Jersey Swine

Consisting of two herd boars, seven spring (boars, 3 bred sows,

, Herd bears used in herd, Cherry Premd
ier 2nd, No. 102819, by Pal’s Cherry Orion No. 82089 by Pal Orion.

Home Farm Tippy Orion 3rd N 0. 152141, by Breakwater Tipby

Gibson Taxpayer 2nd ‘No. 156677, by Breakwater Taxpayer by
Taxpayer, a. ﬁne bunch of sows and gilts. A good time for the boys to
start in the best of blood lines. Come to the sale and bring the boys

November 23, 1920

ALBERT EBERSOLE, Prop.
Plymouth, Michigan

 

 

I

or Sale—Reg- Duroe Jersey Weannng Pigs of
breeding Either Am

good quality end sex.
oﬂering spring gilt: also.
VERI. R. IOWNS, R 8. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

nunacs 200 1b. big stretchy kind, 4 good

spring bears, also xilts of some lithium. sired by

Liberty Defender 3rd. Col. bred dams if you

want good boars order at once. Prices $75 to $35.
.«8. KEESLER CAmPNIS. Mich.

 

UROOS, ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM A

spiing gilt to a herd hear at prices you can
afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar-
anteed. C L. POWER Jerome. Mich.

0R0 JERSEY BOARS. Bears of the lame.
heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices. Write.
or "better, come and see.
F. J. DRODT, R 1, Monroe. Mich.
Fall Pigs, either sex, sired by 800—“). 1%«year-
old boar. GLEN GIBSON, Fowiorviils, Michigan

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRIIIG DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few giits bled for Sep-
tember furrow athargaln prices.

 

 

 

 

TAYLOR '

. Milan, Mich. "
nunocs Both Spring and. Fall Boar Pigs from
Breakwater bred ~sire and dams.

Write for what you need

E. OALKINS, R 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.

5 Fall Boon of Last 80“.. Farrow, «

 

01mm pnrmrn - 911111:
Herd Beth—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th PrizeJr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT
BLANK A POTTER
Pottsrviilo. Mich.

525

\

"'00 Jomy Sow: and Gilts bred for Ann. and
Sept. Ingrow. 1.000 herd be at.

lb.
J08. SOHUELLER. Weldmln. Mich.

 

Fan SALE Dunoc spams BOARS. sows
and gilts of all 1898- Write “3
your wants Entire herd double immune
JESSE BLISS a. son. Henderson. Mich.

 

FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-

E OFFER A
bred nov- end

r‘lteudisprinu Dumcnliolr‘s'du all!
I TI 89330"
ﬂounuasron a. resume. 8:. Louis. like.

MIGHIGAIIA DUROBS

Service bears and open gilts at $40 and S50

 

 

 

 

each. These are real hogs, Satisfaction snar-
anteed.
O. F. FOSTER. Favillon. Mich.
o
. BERKSHIRES
REG BEBKSI‘IIIIES Beans READY For:
immediate service. also
Digs both sex

RUSSELL BROS. R 3, Merrill, Mich

 

GREGORT FARM BERKSRIBES FOB
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. ..S Corsa. White Hall Ill.

 

emtsmnss, QUICK mnrumuo. FINE
type Style. size and large litters. Fine lot of
weaned pigs for as
0.11. wmfuev, Merrill, mos.
ARE QUALITY 'Hoos.

BEBKSHEBES Weaned pigs of the Very

best blgeozd Atgnarl of the 1’“:ng g; specialty. We
ran e pesse or no 2 118
m AR A. WEA VER. Oberanlm, Mich"

 

 

CHESTERWHITES

UVE‘MISI“ RATIO nude!" this‘ many. to 111mm bottom of "10' stock and poultry VII
in; it will out “18. (hits. on
«1:. Wren” W? cm tell ”a 00.33“" .
n. , -, I" I"
:1 AGREEDERS" BIRBOTORY. THE MICHIGAN BU8IME88 PARKER. It. atom mush

’ REGISTERED HAMPSHIII

y good herd be

.boonondc

' Will Thu-men, Prop.

- 30 HEAD 5915.131?“

30;;m0ﬂm

 

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8‘ Weeks 01.1 _
w. A. summon. Outgoing. Mich.

HAMPSHIRE 0F WILITI- ‘

Some ercepti onn'g spring beers.I
the .211 em ““153 .mDe."DD°D
. ee . a

i and lose Mm: m. at
:1 notiﬁes .

price Odie :wrlh
GUS THOMAS. N2" .Lotbrop Mich.

 

 

'O.I.O.

O. I. c. and ORESTER WRITE SWINE
Some choice spring gllts which will be sold
open or bred 101' March lam-om. to one of my
are.

piss
OLARE V. bonus, Odour. Mich

no 111: o 1 11.311111:

Am oﬂering for the next 30 do”. Hearliﬁ
yarn»: silt-n. also sprint pin
either .sox. Will make special. price. Ship
(1 0. D. and record!
ELM FRONT eeBTOCK FARM
Dryden. Mich.

 

 

v—V

granoos
boar-3W!

slits. 16 head of fall pigs. Paper! furnished Inc.
J. VAN mil, CHEM, Mich.

0. I. C.’s

June and July boars and open gilts each one
stumnteed feeder. Recorded 11nd express paid
in full for the next ‘Mirty
F. c. BURGESS.

 

Mason, Mloh.

 

. l. 03H Choice young Douro. March and
April pigs at weaning time.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.

 

l. c. SWINHY HERD OORTAIN8 THE
1.1.3.1 lines of the nest ne'er! herd. Can furnish
you stock at "live end let live " pricel-

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

SHEEP
Registered Hampshire Down Sheep

 

   

 

Choice Rum bo—.well woelod- . 335
Choice Ewe Lambs. well wooled . . . . . . . 40
Choice Yearlings or two’s .......... I50
J. M. WILLIAMS. North Mimi. Mich.
REGISTERED TWO YER‘R OLD HAMP-

shire ewes and 20 eswe lambs. $150.00. Beg-
lstered rams prieedt
LONE OEDARO FARM. Pontiac, Mich.

SHROPSIIIRE RAMS

yearlings and one two year old. Field condition
$30 to $40. Will pay express charges both
ways if not as I represent the

O. V. TRACY, Ithaca, Mich.

 

  

runs osur runs use sum or

PARSONS "ﬁrm
[loll-ad sh eve my!“

' nub-re
. 3;. me since-Emmi:
PABSON 8.6m dummies. 2.0

 
   

 

 

 

 

RAMS and
Ewes, all
Priced to close out entire ﬂock.

8368.
~ w. w. omen. om. Mich.

 

Registered Hampshire Down Ram Lamb. Boomer-
ed Shortborn bull calf. Berkshire pigs of
spring and fill] farro

PRI IMEVAL FARM. Mich.

HAMPSHIRE '- SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to eﬂ'er. 25 owes all ages {or sale
for (all delivery. Everything guaranteed in
represented.

CLARKE II.

03300.

 

HAIRE. West Branch. Mloh.

 

 

EG.,DUROC-JERSEY' SPRING AND FALL

pigs, either sex. Have stock not akin. Re-

member our National Swine Show and State Fair
winnings. Get ourxprices.

F. HEIMSJ 80R

Davlson, Mich.

 

moon. Rm Oust Farms. Bred and open com
and gilts. Boers end sprint: Dian.
Farm 4 miles straight of Mldd lebon,
Gratiot 00. Newton & sBlank, Perrlnton. Mich.

DUROC BOARS ensured:

 

 

ready for service. Geo.B. 38mins. Addi-

son. Mich. , -.

Foe .SALE: 8.1ous' ounoc noun ‘rnoh
Brookwatcr breeding stock. Cho and

118
JOHN ORONENWETT.‘ Carleton. Mich.

 

’cIiESTER WHITES “wi'éfiﬂ'é' “‘8

Some good boars ready for service. _
Will ship 0. O. D. and Rec. free.
J. A. A D. G. MILLER, Swartz Creek. Mich.

me Fine OWP Whites garnrdgulyd1‘4.
1920. Will ship 0. 0. D. w on m e or
$13. 50 reg. Try one. Ralph Cessna. Levering. Mich

IIEEISTEIIEDh “ESTER WHITE ewms,

either sex. Boers ready tor ser-
Price

EPQILE V. JONES. Flint. Mich" R. F. D. No.5

HAMPSHIRES ~
HAMPSHIRES ““1"“ ”W“ m: “in m -t -

bargain. book your order now-~
f b d I
or JOeHR‘iW. SNYDER, R 4, St. Johns, Mich.

 

name.

 

.O.'I.C.BOARS

Choice individuals, shipped to you c. o. d. express paid and gua’ran-
teed right or your money refunded. All stock registered in .buyer’s

   
 
 

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‘nms. Flock established

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDING STOGK
For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams

write or visit
KOPE- KON FARMS. 8. L. Wino, Prop.

exhibit At ‘ oi. Ohio end Elohim“

 

See our

State F‘aira .
AM OFFERING FOR FALL OELWERV RICH
class registered ropshire yearling ms and

1890.
o. LE EMER. Dexter. Mich.

 

FOR GALIE REGISTERED' OXFORD DOWN
ages . Form ’Mric

IRVII'G SHANFORD. My. Mich, R. F. D. O

 

0R BALE—REEF YEARLIIG. OXFORD

Down rams. also 1
WHITE.

It Pays Big

/ heavier-unmet
cream-yin
”011.3102! . -‘ _ .
Bret-WW“

 

,liamston and St.

- Aver-allege

' year. —0. C.
G-

.ing held. ——0. In.
12th.

'* cider

* present, but

 

 

Special corre scents"
“gum???“ ‘

 
      
     
 

goﬁheaty?‘
Manist tee

hithest. and and
eat, Manlstee, $3. 00.

erase D‘erow - ow,t.. .312
mm and Menistee.

Jose b
Average, p ' ;

 
      

  

   

  
  

 

best
Trutant, $30333?“ 1094:,

 

 

 

$15.00. HEN s: mnmgeisr 411;
Igormt, 22¢ ”LIQWm.

'30:, 24.4.; lowest.
highest, Flint, 050 spilowestyeraﬁee I 3"”
40c. 3-4c:2‘ hwgoﬂ.
Flint. 70¢: lowest, Trufsnt.
STEERS: Dense

 
 

   
 

$111;th 100.: lemmas4 t.3 ’l‘ru‘1 Illiit'nhs :BF“ 1:,
. - c; g n

Slow“ emf ﬁewport, 3c. m"11068:
ive weight, 11c; highest,
lowest,Mldla;nd,10 1-2c.
HOG Average, dressed.16c; highest,
aJoéeph 17c; lowest Williamston. 14c.

   
   
  

   

- BERRIEN, (W.)--Very cold
stormy; snow rind much wind.

era are hustling new, ‘spremdi-n and
basking com as they are all ufr 'd that
winter has come to stay. Quite a. few
farm. houses are ‘being remodeled this
fall and the cold weather has found the
owners not yet prepared for winter.

«section of Berrien will soon
noted for its ﬁne farm homes; brick ve-
nearing and stucco being used almost ox-
olusively on new as well as old houses
Both methods help to reduce the ruei
cost. Farm sales almost daily and
everything going dirt cheap. No demand
for farm products at pres'ent. Fern»
era are beginning to wonder; where thev
are at. Taxe much higher than last
Y5, Baroda, Nov 11

TRAVERSE.——F Farmers are
doing chores, cuttin wood. hauling and
husking corn. H11. 113 some weather.
About 8 inches of snow on _ ground.
Cold and windy. Not very many pota-
toes being sold A few auction sales bo-
B., Williamsburg, Nov.

BAY (S E. )-——The weather has been
ﬁne to harvest the root crops and beans.
Sugar beets Were good and are piled up
at the weigh stations. They are all out
of the ground. Most farmers have
them . all delivered. Prices of all
farm produce coming down below
cost but other goods about the same.
Potater good. Apples being made into
5 yielding large, corn good.
plot much hooking done yet. All work
on farms Is behind Some plowingbe-
ing done. Sales are frequent and not
good prices being received A number of
farms being sold at good prices. mostly
for lack of help. Not much grain being
sold at present. Hay not moving as
there has not been time yet to market
go prelslg_ it yet. -—J’. C. Manger, Mich,

Farm-

RAND

MANIST E (N. W )-—-—Farmers are
doing odd jobs and getting wood for the

winter. The weather is cold and it is
snowing Looks like wmter. Lots of
corn out in the ﬁeld yet. Some are

aiting for a corn husker, others have
too much to do to get it done in time.
We read or factories shutting down but
it has not made any difference in these
parts. Help is hard to get just the
some but the farmer will be through
with his work soon, then we can look
for men to come along looking for work
or ’a. hand out. There is not much be-
ing sold just now, too cheap is the cry.
C. H 8., Bear Lake, Nov 12 t.b

ANTRIM. —-We are having an " old
fashioned blizzard at this writing. The
ﬁrst show this fall.
in full- leaf as there has been no frost
to cause the leaves to fall Farmers
have their work well near completion.
Potatoes are nearly all dug and tho
tore houses are full of potatoes. Farm-
ers are holding the most of -ofr
higher prices. Rye and wheat are look-
ing ﬁne. Pasture has been good all
along. farmers have not had to
{died much as you—C. F. W.. Alden, Nov

MIDLAND—The tamer; are elm
done with their fall Work. Some c1331t
is being hushed. Chickory is almost done.
The weather'i 3 much colder at this writ-
1.ng Not much produce going to market.
gloss are down very low at present.
ans are down to $4 per cwt A few
buildings are being constructed in this
vicinity, The Chemical plants and the
large factories are at a, standstill at
think they will start .
soonH—J H. M., Hemlock. Nov. 12 .
CALHOUN, (N C )——Fa.rmers are ve
backward with their work. Trying to gel;
their corn up. Help very scares. Cold
weather froze the ground this mornl
and ground is covered with snow on
getting colder. The soil was just ri
to plow but very little being plowed. gt
farmers have been rushing their hogs
market. There is hardly a hog left here.
We are hoping for a. lot of good weath~
er yet—G R, Olivet. Mich... Nov. 11.

MONROE, N E.-—Farmers are.

busy these days. huﬁkins corn. tall in ; '2,

m
7 2-513: lrslgheoty Wil—
W

The fruit trees are _

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s i... .0, t .W- My
with lists-of V’Wd ‘
rundown-11°11 :, . ~1‘ .-

 

. "New hm coco size woou Fan.
“ 'Dﬁm’ [Ericed to' more 'cnick. 'wms nuts to
-’ Joan own. a 1. 81W, mun.

lMPROVED oucx TOP D!'_

Fﬂw lainc Merino Raine.

FM noﬂanancusn. Lnlngeburg, lichllIan'

 

‘ , ' ‘ 0 teams.
F03 SHHOPSHIBEmJi'ilLL'L and type

- hoot. cell 11'
J(allSl'ﬁovwoo goes. a a. Fewimllie. mu.

 

. , ' also gems: ron .sALe.
.. . _b'~nerl.> heavy sheerers.
' . HOUOEMAN 3308. n 4. Albion. Mich-

0000 BIG-

 

xronos: Mlle, 1. 2, or 3 Venus OLD,
at $25. Lambs, $20 to $25. Ewes cheap-
? o.‘ M. vonx, Millington, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN
Rams and Ewes. Prices to eelv

. L . y
» ~ ‘ nos munmw a. son, Brown cny, mom, a 2,

 

 

PET STOCK

 

 

FOR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES,
breeding age.

$6. Three months old pslr. 55.
Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed Quail.

.. t renteed.
': y mmE. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.

GOLLIE, PUPPIES

Write Dr. W. Austin Emit, It. Clemens,
Michigan 101' beautifully bred, Sable and \‘Vlnlae
Scotch Collie puppies; mourn] heel drivers from
trained stock. 1 ll Igloo buy momughbrod

‘ Collie and Airedale pupmee tor training.

I! BALE—YOUNG FOX AND RABBIT

Fohounds. Send two cent stamp for perticulam.
E,' E. DAVISON. Freon“. Mich. .

 

 

. ,i > . r
I amount of cold wea-
mllanﬂng bfeegilehuikints

and lowmg. Must 0 ee 3
5.3133 been Ihauled. Potatoes hre allvdug;
the average yield being about 125 b .
per acre. Beans. are overlain: from 8

to 12 blL per core which is considerable -'

below the expects - average. Apples are
going to waste in tall sections of the
county. Wheat and rya are not looking
very good on the average farms. Farm-
ers are not selling anymore than they
have to; believing the. _prices will be ,a.
little better before spring. Auction sales
are quite plentiful, and prices received
are very low. Several farmers are wait-
ing to see how things look, next spring,
before making up their minds whether to
quit the {arm or not—.43. W. ,S, Fenton,
Nov.

LCONA—~Wewther has, turned cold
theAlast few days and ground is frozen.
Farmers are getting ready for winter.
Some‘ are picking apples and feeding
them to the, hogs and cows while others
are leaving them on the trees. Hay
pressing and hauling hay is the order of
the day. Prices 1 farm produce are
very low but there don't seem to be much
reduction on what'we have to buy but
we still have hopes of better times later
on. Pastures have been good this fall.
Stock looks good, Horses are cheap and
sheep are ‘not worth shooting for fox
bait. Most fermers hove their last
spring clip of woolyet—D ,C., Lincoln,
Nov. 11.

MONTCALM—Farmers are husking
corn. Weather real cold with snow ﬂura
ries. Farmers are selling some grainl an
holding most of the potatoes for highetr
prices. The farmers are getting interes -
ed in the farm bureau which has recent-
ly started up at Trufant.——M. C. 13,, Tru-
fant. Nov. 12. ,

 

 

How To Get Mogmgggg

and save Feed! on 1nd poor
who've-teaspoon «gawk-room

hie
M W; venom» houeel winter: getcood

hicke— 0009.113!
mmnﬁn ﬂicker». Beet-—

. sun—ram”: am'; not doing
-m‘o‘eh right now
' that. «They were

 

 

 

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MUD-WAV-IUSH-KA FARM' ‘ .
olers young stock and a few mature breeders ill
be. . .,.- e Runner Ducts and
W ml: Wandomﬁédleo Chart. 0. gills.

tpde‘ orp sonw ‘younaei;

, - MKE O. MILLER. Dryden, Mich. .

H-ITE CHINESE OEEBE, WHITE PEKIN
ducks. 3. 0.’ Br. Leghorn. Ph'ce ordereeuly.
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. guiliodsle. Mich.

ORPlNGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two greet breeds for, proﬁt. Write today for
tree catalogue of hetciliniz. out. baby chicks and
breeding stock. '

CYOLE HATCHER COMPANY, 140 Phllo Bldg.
_ Elmira. N.'\'.

 

cooker-e13 a. Hens, Leghorns, Mlnoms. Hoddeno.
» Reds, Rocks,‘ Orpingtons, Wyn ‘
TYRONE POULTRY FARM.

Fenton, 'Mlchlcan.

BOURBON BED TUBKEYS

stock not skin if desired. Order early.
0 S. C. R. 1. Red cockerels and pullei‘s. the
dark‘ red kind and bred to lay.
(1)3.” stock will put your poultry on a paying

F. HEIMS a. SON
Davison, Mich.

 

 

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WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS
- WHITE AFRICAN GUINEAS‘

80 acres of them, Reference 0. H. Burgess,
Professor Poultry, Mich. Agricultural College.
Farm for sale.

WHITCOMB TURKEY FARM, Byron Ctr., Mich.

 

 

LEGHORN S

 

FOR _8ALE—Thlrty thoroughbred Rose Comb
Brown Leghorn Roosters. T. L. BACON,
B.F.D. No. 3, Box 109, Davison, Michigan

 

SINGLE COM8 BUFF COOKERELS. FARM
raised from excellent laying stock. Also Rufus
Red Belgian Hares.

J. W. WEBSTER, Bath. Mich.

R BALE—ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN
cockereis, $2.50 for single bird, $2 00 for two
or more. Knlp strain. April hatched.
W. E.‘CUMMINOS, Coleman, Mich.

 

GRAIOWSKE 8. 0. WHITE LEOHORN COOK-
erels for sale, only $2.50 each and up.
LEO GRABOWSKE, Merrill, Mlch., R. 4

 

.,There will be a

~ other. buildings.

Clay and sandy loam soil; level.

 

ln Order to Settle Estate
x PUBLIC LAUCTION

Saturday November 27, 1920
‘et 2:00 p. m.

of a valuable 120-acre farm, 1 mile north and three and three-qnar- '
tors miles east of Shepherd, Mich. Two houses, barn, granary and
Orchard, one ﬂowing: .well and two other wells.
All fenced and under cultivation, nearly all tiled. On gravel road.

TERMB:—10 per cent of one-third of purchase price to be paid on
day of sale, balance at one-third on conﬁrmation by court.
two-thirds on delivery of deed and abstract.

J. D. .HELMAN, Auctioneer

Other

 

 

nrns's AN INTRODUCTORY COUPON—Tear it out and hand it

to a friend or neighbor who is not a subscriber. It is worth just
25¢ to,_him, because we will send The Business Farmer on trial to
any new name for ”six months, for this coupon and a quarter (250)-

This [Coupon is worth twenty-ﬁve cents to any NEW
subscriber introduced by an old subscriber. .. .. ..

 

 

Friends :

.- every week for six in

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The Michigan Business Farmer,/Mt_. Clemens, Mich.

1 want to introduce a. NEW Subscriber and for a quarter
(25c) enclosed in coin or stomps you are to send

1
mnDngrofllam, Eiocutors.
' _ - wall You introduce a- Friend 0r Neighbor?
‘ in coin or stamps.

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OR SALE—R. C. B. L. COCKERELS, SIRED
is by Mdigmhlln Sq5 tygnner$2 {slated for size and
yers, we g 3., . ea 11. F1
Giant rtbblte. c emish
' E. HIM‘EIAUOH, Goldwater, Mich.

 

WYANDOTTE

Sliver, Golden and White Wyendones. Bargains
1n surplus yearling stock to mire room for

growing birds. Clarence Browning. R2. Portland.

WHITE WYANDOTTES. COOKERELS FROM

      

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‘5 ﬁosgggmggnssgrpeiietﬁn May and June hatch. WILD TURKEYS $331 FOR PRICES-
. ' : ' K GUARANTEE D
FRANK DELONG, R 3. Thl'Ol RlYm. Mlch. DONALD HYSLOP. Mllllngton, Mlch

    

‘- Fog. sue—25 WHITE WYANI'IOT-Tl- oooxi _, .

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"x!

erele. Price $3.00. \ -
AUGUST}; BOROK, B 8, Reed City, Mlch.
FOR SALE—rue: Inna. wart: our“
- Gotta oockereh and pallets m hstciuv
£2.50 to 34.00; ~ .- .

MR8. TRACY RUSH. R. 7, Ithaca, “ch.

,RHODE ISLAND REDS - . 6.

WITTAKEH'S BED GOGKEBELS '

Both combs. Special discount on early orders.
‘Wn'te for price list. ’
INTERLAKES FARM
Box 4 Lawrence. Mich.

 

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS ‘ _ . '

WEALTHY APPLE AND" "

BARRED ROCK .POULTRV .FARM

‘leizsg'red ‘Rock -Cockerels if sold “118' month.

F.‘L£ SMITH, Prop. E. W. TURNER. "9'.
- Roscommon, Mich.

'DARRED ROCKS. PARKS ZOO-EGG STRA“

cockerels which will produce line layers next

ear $3 each.

R. G. KIRBY, R 1, Mich.
HIGH

strong

East Lansing,

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS FROM

producing strain. These will make

breeders next yezu‘. $3.00 each. ..
MRS PEPRY STEBBINS, Saranac, Mich.

 

BauRED ROCK COCKERELS and a few Pul-
ieis $3.00 apiece.

Mrs. W. A. Eastwood,
ROCK COCKERELS

PABTBIDGE sale at $3.00 and $4.00. FOR

Wm. CRISMORE, R 2, Middleton, Mich.

Chesanlng, Mlch., R. 2

 

 

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
lit-ed for type and color since 1912. Winter
laying strain of both Block and White. Bare
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
‘Webbervllle, Mich.

 

 

 

TU RKE YS

 

on 8ALE-—BOURBON nso runners. ,
\Vrite for prices. f
MRS. GEO. HULLIBERGER, 8mm, Mich. '

 

 

FOR SALE—MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
Write for price.

MRS. B. B, SMATTS, R. 1. East Jordan. Mien.

 

GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. STRONG, VIGOR-
one birds. Write at once for tall prices
MR8. PERRY STEBBINB,

  
   
 

Serenac, Mich.

on SALE. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY8
Write for prices. Forest View Farm.
MRS. H. D. HORTON, Fillon, Mich.

 

 

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porword when charged.
body of ad. and in address.
The Business Farmer. Adv.

 

Business Farmers’ Exchange

20 words or less, $1 per Issue.
Count as one word each Initial and each group of ﬁgures, both In
Copy must be in our hands Saturday
Depi., Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 
 
   
   

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for issue dated following week.

 

 

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RECORD CROP FARM WITH HORSES,
cattle. tools. produce. 158 sores near -good RR
town ; yell cultivated ﬂelds,- wlrwfenced past-
ure, reliable wood. veriety fruit: new 5-mom
house. new basement barn; making big money. but
owner celled sway. must sell, includes pair mules,

14 nettle, colt. pigs, machinery. potatoes,
min. lily. eta: $8,000 fakes All, pert cash,
bounce any 0. Details page 82 Strout’s

other states. Copy iris. 8
AGENCY, 814 BE, Fod Bldg.,

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FOR RALE—IN CLOVER SEED BELT. 3.-
000 acre tract, 11 miles from Millet-shuts. Send!
clay loam to clay loam. On account of distance
to market I will sell entiretruct for $21,500.00.
No cub peymenl: required—4f responsible P11?-
chaser will apply Red or Sweet Clover seed re-
turn annually from 40 acres—until land is paid
for at 6 per cent. A dandy ranch proposition,
JOHN G. KRAUTH, Millersburg, Mich.

FOR SALE—420 ACRES, BUILDINGS, FENC-
ed. 80 m:- plow. Mlle from school, 8 to
market. June- Fonteile mm. mm.

OUT FARM
Detroit, Mich.

 

 

m . Can urnish good references. ~
ling: still, come and see me.‘ JOHN E. BRAD-

.IEY, Route No. 2. Gem.

uni Saginaw. Re-
Write EDWARD
Detroit. Michiun.

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quires 33.500.00
men, soc cmm- . Avon

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.also 8. Wolverine baler, all complete. Can be
bought on easy terms for helf price. THOS.
CONROY, Washington Ave, Flint, Mlch_

 

 

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. SEND US COMPLETE DESCRIPTION ' . -
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FINE QUALITY OF TABLE HONEY—250 IN
60 lb. cans pitched two in is case or 270 per lb.
in five pound pails, packed 12 to the crate or 60
the barrel. It ‘will please you. Sample for 10c.
0. H. SCHMIDT, R 5, Bay City, Mich.

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LBUY FENCE POSTS DIREOT FROM 'OR-

 
    
    
     
     
  

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WANT THE CHEAPEST. HANDIEST BELT
power? Th u ask me about the LITTLE TWIST-
ER Power ransmitter for Ford and Dodge earl
FRANK R. WEISBERGER. Selina, Kanns.

 

FOR SALE—A HAY BALINO OUTFIT ALL
in good running order. International tractor and

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it in for one. two or three times. There’s
cheaperorliettermd “mucus-m
Mantﬂrmwm'mb bunt.
scanner commission It»! went to sell
New. Inn; mum at that}. Don't
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Inole ﬁrmer. Adv. Dept, Mt. Clemens.

    
      
 

   
     
         
 

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more might appreciate its Value in

the dairy cow’s ration and its import-
ance in the making of milk. .

‘A' cow makes milk from two things:

Feed and water.

Feed costs money, and yet very few
Of our dairy cows are being starved

for want Of it.

It is common knowledge that the
cow that does not get enough to eat
does not produce as much milk as
she could produce, nor produce as

cheaply.

It should be common knowledge,
too, that the cow that does not get
enough water to drink produces too

little milk.

yet many, very,
dairy cows thirst for want of it.

Milk is seven-eighths water.

In order for a cow to make milk most
cheaply it stands to reason that she

must be given plenty of water.

Thousands of dairymen have learned
that they have been getting too little
milk in the past because they gave

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follow.

Herded out twice a day ‘to
shiver through a drink of lay
tank water

It is simply the natural consequenceuof
Just as
too little feed meant too little milk—
lack of enough water means less milk

following out natural laws.

and a higher production cost.

Proven By Milk
Records

An investigation was made in 28 herds:

(759 cows) where milk records were kept.

One herd showed an increase of from 5 up I

to as high as 10 lbs. per cow, per day, just
as a result of giving the cows all the water
they wanted when they wanted it.

Four herds reported an average increase of
4 lbs. per cow, per day; three stated 3 lbs., -
ﬁve showed 2 lbs., three 11/2 lbs. ; one 3/;
lbs.; one reported an increase in milk yield
valued at am. 56 per cow, per year; one av-
eraged $5; one $10, ° one received 3%
increase, one 8%, - two 1070 , one_121/2%;
one 2070 , one 33%% , and only one herd
out. of the 28 found that the increase was
i “not much.” An average increase per cow
per day of 2. _45 lbs.

-. And now you ask yourself the question,
"Csn I' aﬁord James Cups“ Hi my barn-i”
f “Would it not be better to wait until next
1 ‘9’???

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Water costs practically nothing, and
very many of our‘

' T h e y h a v e
_ learned that
when a cow has
all the water she
' wants when she
wants it at any‘
hour of day or
night, remark-
able increases in
m i l k yield 8

Yet there is no
magic about it.

 

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Neither of the questions has anything to do

with the matter.

The real question is “ Can you aﬁord to be
without James Cups? ”

You - Lose By’ Waiting

The plain fact is that if next year some one 3

were to make you a gift cf the James cups, ;'

you would lose money by waiting.

3 Two pounds milk per cow per day, for the
1 200 days the cows are in the barn, means 400

1

lbs. of milk, which at $3 per cwt. is a total I

I of $12 for the season.

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In these days when feed and other costs
are high, can you afford to neglect this
extra proﬁt?

James cups will pay for themselves twice
over during the season. Can you aﬁ'ord to
be without them? ' ' ,
James cups will sa've much" time and Work
~investigation shows that the labor saving
is $2. 50 at least each year. "

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'Can you afford to continue the frost biting

work of chopping open the ice bound tank
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\ Can you afford to continue feeding the
bothersome tank heater through the chilly_‘
winter days. 9

Don't put off this drinking cup proposition
a single day. Write us at once for a deﬁn—
ite price estimate covering a drinking cup.
installation in your barn.

We will quote you a deﬁnite price if you
will tell us the number of stalls, of calf,
pens, of cow pens, of bull pens for which
you want cups and whether the stalls C- ;
pens are Wood or steel.

.If. you are intere‘sted in other labor saving '

equipment for the dairy barn such as cowﬁ - .
. stalls, carriers, steel pens, ven ”f
' ‘ ‘or if you are interested in up to the

-: dam in the planning of the new barn

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also for our

Sig barn bujlding and
equipment book “The James Way N”

 

 

 

  
 
  
  
  
 
 
  

