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" . WHE FINAL estimates of thecrons
'1 produced in Michigan and the
f United- States in, 1920 are now
available. They should command
the careful study of every farmer for
they ’reveal certain information
- , ”which should be helpful in guiding
‘ him in the marketing of the crops

' still in his hands. .
A summary of the estimates is
published in the boxing on this page.
. Let us take each cr0p’ separate-l7.
. .- compare the production for 1920
with the previous year, the known
and prospective demands, etc, and

 

5 - seek to arrive at seme deﬁnite con-.

_clusions regarding the future prices
of these commodities.

Let us take wheat ﬁrst. Reference
to the table shows that Michigan pro-
duced. less wheat last year than the
yearbefore. and that the total pro,-

, du-ction of all wheat in the U. S. was

‘ nearly 150 million bushels less than

g . in 1919. The United State-s 18‘ the

~ largest wheat producing country in

2 the entire world. Moreover, wheat

7 is a world crop, the prices in every

country depending to a very large ex—

tent upon the prices obtaining in the

United States. An increase; or de—

crease in the size of the wheat crop

Wof’ this country has an effect upon

the world price. In view of the large

decrease of 1920 over 1919, and in

the absence of no material increase

.. ~ , in all the other countries combined

' f - to make up the loss, we may reason-

ably expect that the price of wheat

will advance and possibly equal] the

highest price offered- for this com-
modity during 1919.

 

Michigan Still Short of Quota 1n Hoover European Relief Campaign

AST WEEK I made a second ap—

peal to our readers for suscrip-

1 tions to the Hoover Relief fund.

‘ I thought it would be the last. But
' ‘ the state has lagged in the campaign
‘ 7 ' audis short nearly a hundred thous—
, anddollars of her quota. So there—
fore, I am obliged to appeal once.
more to our readers to heed the cries

of the suffering children and send in,

their mite to help feed them.

Folks, do you realize that out of
nearly 250.000 actual readers of THE
‘Bilsmnss FARMER, less than ONE
j HUNDRED have responded to this
appeal! I cann-otdaccount for this.
I knew that many of our readers
have no doubt already subscribed to
. their local committee or send in their
-‘subscriptions direct. I know that
some of them cannot spare a single
cent for even so great and worthy a
cause as this, but I know there must
be thousands of our readers who can

aitprd to give something and have

given nothing, probaby because they
have not been sufﬁciently impressed
with the gravity of the situation. I

= wish I had the words to arouse my
' _ readers to a full appreciation of the

~ suffering in Europe, of the ',cripp1ed
emaciated and diseased bodies 0f
three and a half million children who
‘are slowly starving to death. It does
not seem possible that there could
be a human soul that could stand un-
moved before so heart—rending a
spectacle. _But_I have not been in
Europe. I have not looked upon

1' on the words of one who has, Capt.
’H. Bailey, 1111 American who serv—
Polish army asainst the

pants to $10.

.they could not send more.

3861 scenes myself; but I can quote.

  

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and PotatOes

'FinhlEs’timates Show Large Crop Shortage

eWheat, Rye, Beans and Sugar Beets Below 1919 Production, but Oats, Corn

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REVISED ESTIMATES OF PRODUQTION, MICHIGAN AND UNITED STATES, 1920_ AND_ 1919 I

.I . Michigan , United State—15

Crop I I Yieldl Total production . Total production

I Acres I 10201020 I 1919 1920 1919

l 1920 . I Bushelsl Bushels I___ Bushels Bushels Bushels
(‘orn .I1,675,,000 I 40.0 67, 000, 000 63. 375, 000 3, 232. 307 000 II 2, 858, 509‘, 0.00
W. Wheat I 890,000 I 15.5 13,795,000 19, 28" 1, 000 580,513,000 729, 503, 000
S. \1 heat I 48,000 I 10.0 480,000 952,000 209, 365 000 204 782, 000
All Wheat I 938,000 I' 15.2 I 14,275,000 20,237,000 | 780, 878. 000 034, 265, 000
Rye . .I 90,000 I 14.7 I 10,143,000 13,500,000 60 ,318, 000 I 88, 909, 000
Oats . .| 1 425,000 I 30.6 56,430,000 35,625,000 1,524, 055,000 1, 231,1 ".54 000
Barley ' I 240,000 I 26.0 6, 240. 000 5,320,000 202,024,000 161,, 345, 000
Buckwheat 42.000 14.5 700,000 621,000 1‘3. 789, 000 15,244,000
Potatoes .I 340,000 I 105.0 35,700,000 27,900,000 430, 458, 000 I 35’ 1,'7 542, 000
Beans 275,000 13.0 3,575,000 4,140,000 '9, 075 00110 I '11. 935. 000
01' yr Seed I 101,000 1.5 152,000 86,000 1, 760 000 I 1..341, 000
Hay, tame;i I 2,624,000 11.20] I3,140,000 I3,180,000 I 191, 193. 000 I ”11,883, 000
Hay. 50, 000 11.28I ‘I 4,000 56,000 I "17, 040, 000 I 117,, 209 000
Hay, Alld 2,674,000 I1.20 13,213,000 13,236,000 I 1108, 233, 000 I 1100 12.1000
Apples, all I 16,500,000 6,484,000 I 2401. 646, 000 I 1.1 3.238, 000
Ap'pl Com §3,167.000 §1.109.000 l §3n. 272, 000 I §26,2213 onto
Peaches ,I . I 1,500,000 480,000 I 43, 097, 000 49, 578. 000
Pears . . _ 1,100,000 420,000 I 7, 279, 000,‘| 15 .472, 000
S. Beetsi 129,400 I 18.5 11, 106. 000 11,205,000 I IS, 545 000 16 421 478
*Six leading states. TTons. iPreliminary estimate, beet slicing not completed.
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The United States is also the larg-
est single producer of cats in the
world. Its 1920 crops exceeded the
former year’s crop by 200 million
bushels. This fact alone is suﬂ’icient
to warrant our believing that cats
will not advance in the same degree
as wheat,-or ,that .any material bet-
terment of the price cannot long be
sustained. Oat prices probably will
go higher, but the dumping of the

crop on the market will undoubted—,

ly prevent values such as were com-
mon during the early part of last
year from being long sustained.
With rye the situation is exactly
the contrary.
wise a large producer pf rye, and
Michigan is among the leading rye
states. The 1920 production shows

This country is like—V

some decrease from the 1919, which
however, is not enough alone to en—
‘ert a very large influence upon the
price. But there is a more important
factor than this which should be tak—
en into consideration and that is the
demand for this breadstuff in certain
European countries. The revival of
the war ﬁnance corporation should
open the way for Germany and Aus—
tria to increase their purchases of
rye, in' this country, and holders of
this grain are almost certain to be
repaid by materially higher prices
than now prevail.
Potatoes Show Big Yield

The 1920 'crop of potatoes has
been exceeded only once. 'It is great—
er by nearly 75' million bushels than
the 1919 crop. Potatoes are not an

By THE EDITOR

Niemen, cold, lousy hungry Icy winds
were sweeping across the flat, Polish
plains The sky was gray’ and frowning.
I was thinking what a rotten, senseless
thing war is, with its blood, its mud,
and its stench Suddenly I heard a fee—
ble cry behind me, It was the inarticu—
late pleading of a child She stumbled
toward me, empt pail outstretched
Hunger! That tra ic little face tear-
stained, ghastly white, absolutely un-
narvcd me. I ﬁnally located a loaf of
bread, or what was called bread at
least, I had weathered many soul-sick-
ening moments in Poland, but I was not
strong enough to watch that baby eat,
Look at the thin little dress ii the pho-
tographs I enclose, And I with boots
and gloves and a great-coat,. was shiv-
ermg."

The Honor Roll

Up to‘ Tuesday noon, last, a
total of $19.6. 75 had been received

.at our ofﬁce fer the Hoover Relief.

Fund The amounts ranged from 10
Many big-hearted
farmers voiced their regrets that
Why,
bless you, no sum is too small to be
appreciated. Don’t hesitate to send
what you can afford to send just
because it is not as much as you
would like to send. Several readers
advised us that they had already sub-
scribed to the fund through other
channels. Of ,course, .we don't ex-

"‘ — \ Clip This Coupon and Help

EDITOR BUSINESS EARLIER,
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH.

Enclosed ﬁnd $...........
European Relief Fund.

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pect them to duplicate their subscrip—
tions. One woman who lives up in

the Thumb writes:

“I am sending only a dollar. I wish it
could be more but this is all I have now.
Husband is working oh the road to pay
taxes and we don’ t know how much they
are going to be. We have nine in the
family so it is not selﬁshness that keeps
us back, I thought perhaps I might
have more after the taxes are paid if you
will take contributions then, I would
like to know how long a time we have
and could money be sent any time if we
can't give just now,”

Another writes:

“Received my last copy of M B F. in
which you appeal to the readers to help
the starving children or Europe I be-
lieve you are delivering a God- -given mes—
sage. Will say that our church paper
has been making appeals and I contrib—
uted to it, I thought I’d let you know
so you won d not take me for a slacker
I like the I. B F. ﬁne and wish you
success and a Happy New Year

“Is Your Name Written There?”
Subscriptions received up to Jan.

11th are as follows:
$10 each——R Sa-uber, New Baltimore;
Fred Fai ting, Charlevoix; Hugh Taylor,
Ortonville;.Forrcst Lord Mt Clemens;
Myrtle Lamb, Mt Clemens,
$7—Har1‘3 Lee, Leonidas.
$6-——H. Stinchcombc, IIaIrisville

. $5 e9ch—«M1s.Joh'n Schoof, lmlay
City; Fied S'chuster, Warren; E, J,
Bell, Curtisvillc: 1V. K Straw Char? c-

voix; Mr and Mrs, O. E I‘erman, Flush-

Save a Child From Starvation -— —-—‘

.as my contribution to the Hoover

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export crop. few hundred thous-‘
and bushels are shipped to immedi—.
ately adjoining countries but the
great bulk of the tuber prohibits long
distance shipments. All but a neg—
ligible portion of this crop must be
consumed at home, hence on is led

to wonder how these extra 80 mil—
lion bushels can be consumed with-
out loss to the farmer. The logical
answer is, “they can’t.” And a study

of the prices and the size of the
crops the, last ,four years strength-
ens that conclusion. In 1917 the
production was 442 million bushels;

the highest price received by the
farmer for this crop was $1.45 in
November and the lowest price 50
cents in June. The 1918 crop was
400 million bushels, and the high-

est price received by the farmer was
$1.38 in April and May and the low-

est $1.02 in March. The 1919 crop
was 357 million bushels; the farmer
received $1.38 pei bushel in Novem—
ber and $5.60 in June. Last year’s
crop was 430 million bushels. The
highest price that has been paid to
the farmer on this year‘s crop was
$2.25 per bushel. since which time
prices have steadily declined, with a _
few Sligh't upward fluctuations. The ' '
only conclusion that is warranted
from the above facts is that the crop
remaining in the farmer’s hands is

so large that there can be little hopesw

of very much higher prices.

Boots ~31

The government’s estimate of the
tonnage of sugar beets produced in
this state last year does not exactly
jibe with the claims of the manufact-

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ing; Mrs. Dan Snyder, Wheeler; Wm.
Koster, Butterﬁeld,

$4,25———Chas, M. Weber,

$4.00 cache—John Buchingcr,
John Roberts. Wilmot.

33,00 each———Rollie Blair, Middleto‘n;'
Mr. and Mrs, H, A, Blair, Middleton;
Frank Scaton and family, Fcnton.

$2.00 each—Mr, and Mrs, Martin
Schmidt. Rhodes; Myron Vincent, Cros-
well; Sylvia. Peterson, Kinde; Wm, Ken-
dall, St, Charles; Lewis and S, M, M01-
ler, Beaverton; Frank Martin, Marquette:
Mrs. Fred Hutchinson, Caro; Mrs Henry
Fulton. Mayville.

$l. 25—«Mrs John Philpbt, Snover,

$1. 00 each—Frank Debbmt, Albion;
Harry Smith, White Cloud; Geo, Meg-
gison, Charlevoix; A C ’Wilder, Millers-
burg; Mrs McArthur, Clarkcsville; Mrs.
W, W. Stuart, Clarksville; C. Houghta-
lin, Cadillac; Gustave Kepsel. Sandusky;
Chas. Thumm Ypsilanti, Mrs, Arthur
Snyder and children, White Cloud; Wm,
Bossack Manton; Lewis Martin. Har—
bor Springs; Frank Adams. Marion; H,
D. Mahler, Jonesville; Andrew Bradd,
Bay Port; Herman Streubuhr, Leonard;
J. C. Heil, Flint; Mrs. ﬁtmuel Roe,
Spruce; Aumst Enger, Posen; lSeely
Arnsburg Elwell; Godfrey Sa,hn Ann
Arbor: Steve Scott, Davison; J, K Sig-
ler. Coleman; Mrs. Peter McCormick,
Bad Axe; Chas, 'I‘, Carpon, Marion; E. .
A. Botsford, Petoskeyz Chris Harvey,"
Carsonville; Ole Larsen. Ludington;
Chris Miller, Onaway; Orin L._ Spider,

Owosso
Reese ; -

Beaverton; Mr, and Mrs, Edgar Ander—
son, Ithaca ; Mrs, Georgia Corothers,
Fife Lake: Mr and Mrs. Lyman Dur-

Gilbert F, Angus. Pe—

phy, Coopersville;
Davis, Tustin;

to: key; Mrs Theodore
Julia Meeker, St.‘ Johns; Mr. and Mrs, '-
Ray Breiner, Osseo; Mrs Frank Bur- 1.
hank, Quincy: Marion Essex and family, "
Reed City; Jas .1" Laval], Manistique'
T10 H11her.Climox;Wm Ager,
lmnix; Minnie L, Haken, Lachine; Ge
Cronsey. Marcellus; Simon Farber. "
poria; Axel Nas, Muskegon: ,Pete

c'-"'hwartz, Turner; Frank Schalck, Mt
C‘emens: Kate Nichols. Wolverine; B
Cline Alma; B N. Bricker, Chnsanin
Bert Smith, Montrose; Wm. Wa’rWieA
Melvin: Henry Myers Saginaw; Geo.
Huyd Tustin

Loss than $1 each—Lewis Schoemaker,
Carleton: Fred Zahn. Ann Arbor; Mug.
tin Beals. Manton; Wm Burger. v'
dusky; Wallace Perry and C L Wen“
Lindon: E, A Barber. Lincoln; 1'
chettn. Seven Lake; Chas. Brag
ers City: Anonymous. Eaton ’
and McMillan; Mrs. E. Tessmen
Bryant Borton, K311118115;- Alex,

     
  
 

 
  
  
  

   
 
  

  
  

     
 
 
  
 
   
 
 
 
 

  
  
  

 
      
  
 
   
 
 
  
  
   
  
   
 
 
    
 

     
  


   

  
   

slon Again the Governor re-
, views the needs of the state and
’makes his rccommeuddtions. Again
g'ythis great business organization, the
State of Michigan, is face to face with
certain deﬂnile problems which must
'be grappled with and solved ‘ if the
state is to continue to pay “dividends 9'
in the shape of equitable taxation, ec~
chemical administration of The laws,
and other beneﬁts which make Ior a
' 1 contented citizenship. 7 r.
' ’llre question naturally arises. “Will.
the new legislature and the new Gov-
ernor have any greater vision. desire
and ability to cope with these prob-‘
lems than were exhibited by the last
legislature and the retiring G0vern~
or?" if they have not then nothing
has been gained by last November’s
election. We might as well have per--
petuated the old legislature and gov-
ernor in ofﬁce and be spared the'ex-
pense of further elections. But if the
new Governor has a ‘someWhathigh-
or conception of the duties of. his 015'
ﬁce than the mere signing of bills and
proclamations; if the added two
years of experience and contact with
the folks “back home” have increas-
ed the respect of the returning legis-
lators for the Wishes of their con-
stituents: and ii' the new members
have steeled themselves against inim-
ical influences which assert them—
selves at the opening of each session
of the legislature,—then, indeed. we
may have hope that the next two
or four years will show a decided im'
provement over the last in the con-
duct of the public business.

8 n GAIN THE legisla‘- .ure is in ses-

       
   
 
   
    
    
   
  
    
  
   
      
  
    
    
   
   
     
     
       
        
       

The Go vernor’s Message

A most encouraging sign" that a
new order of things is in the ofﬁng,
is the message of Gov. Groes‘beck to
the legislature. In language it is
.most unbeautifnl. It is devoid of

flowery idealism, of flattering
',1 references to the past accomplish--
‘2 .. ,ments of the party, and con-
tains no loose or meaningless
promises. it is a most homely but
practical document, written in .the

simplest language and presenting

facts and ﬁgures with a refreshing

frankness. It may be said that the

' Governor’s message has been received

' . with approval by the large majority
of the legislature and the people of the
State. In the legislature there is al-
ready an 1111der—cu1‘rent at work to
bring about opposition to the reforms
suggested by the Governor, but be-'
cause of the overwhelming sentiment
in favor of thse reforms it is not like“
ly that the reactionaries will get very
far.

In a brief and pointed introduction
Gov. Groesbeck said:

_ “While we do not assume that legis la-
tion will remove all of 1111 ditlivulths and
uncertainties incid1-11t to :1 proper re—ad-
.justment of our social and industrial
.affail'S, vet ih1 soliousucss oi lll‘tsuht

     
    
   
    
    
     
     
          
        
     
      
   
      
     
     
        
    
      

  
   
 

 

, conditions must impress 11s ulth t‘m fact
«J that we 1111\0 been sent here in 1‘1spouse
to a. 1na111l:--111 from the ]1e01111-. \1l1icl1

‘rarries \lith it. 11 compo‘ling obligation to
"-1 Agulate and 1l1r1 C-t o-ul legislathe and ad—
ministratixc 11%1111v'l1i11c1y so that as far as
an efﬁcient state government. 1:111 influ-
ence it we, will have contributed some-
thing worth “bile to the restoration of
nonnal and pmspcrous conditions.

“Time has proud that we hale a form
of government which if properly con
ducted can assure our citizens the high-
est degree of happiness and justice If.
h0\\’0\7‘.(’l there is discord and strife,
rathm than co— operation in our 00- -ordinu
ate branches—if the welfare of the poo,—
ple is not at all times Our paramount
obligation and unchangeable purpose,
we shall not only be faithless to gun eon-
Stituents but apostates to the canse of
good govemment at a time when the in-
terest of State and nation require the
“highest patriotic s01 v1ce from its ofﬁcials.

State Budget; 1921-22, $72, 000, 000

“In 1919, the asseSsed value of all tax-
able property in the state Was $4, 503,—
980, 981 The state tax (levy was $17,—
432, 51204 The rate per thousand dol-
tars of assessed valuation- was $3. 87
“In 1920 the assessed value Will be
approximately $4, 800, 000, 000, and the
.~ state tax has been apportioned at $17, -

.378, 328 35.‘ The approximate2 rate per
" ‘thousand of valuation is $3. 62

'7 “The taxes for each of these two years
'Were almost double the highest amount
var previously collected for state pur-
poses; and it was thought that“ the limit
of taxation had nearly been reached But
is does not seem to be the ca'sa
7 “The requests and estimates of 0111' de—
, “rt-ments, boards, and»; n‘stlt'htions sub-
,- "mitt to the budget commissimi for the

ibiémlial period of 1921 and 1922 show for

       
        
     
   
     
       

      
       
      
   
      
      
   
     
      
    
   
      
             
        
 
   
      
    
 

 

    

   

 
 
 
  
   
   
 
 
  
 
     
 
 

 
 

   
 
  

    

 
  
  
  

   

 
 

  

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Message to Legislature Acknowledges Grosslnequaltty :76, Present'Tax System and?

Prevalence of Extravagance

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. Below are some of the high lights in Gov. Groesbeck’ 5 message
- to the legislature:

Reduction of taxes and adoption of new tax methods.

Creation of Depa1tment of Agriculture to take over duties of an-
imal industry, state veterinary board state apiary inspector, commis-
sioner of immigration, geological survey, Michigan Agricultural Fair
Commission. inspection of nurseries and orchards. agricultural division
of the state department, inspection of seeds and fertilizers.

State ownership and control of the Michitran State Fair.

1 A. more rigid conservation policy with respect to natural resourc- .
cs. including reforestation. increased protection of forests, ﬁsh, and
i game. ‘

State ownership and development of water power.

Creation of State Industrial Department to t' 1k_e over all duties of
cemmissions whose work relates in any way to labor and industry. .

Naming of an administrative anrd, to consist of at least ﬁve
elective state officers in addition to the Governor, which should have
general Supervision over all state business. ._

Revisement and reformation of State Budget system to make it
a thoroughly useful and responsible body.

Better educational facilities for rural children.

'1' of all state business and expenditures,
with the veto :power in

Groesbeck’s “Economy” Program 8' p' , U

' ued

' . tion except as applied to public

.and agents are made subjects to its con

1 of a state income tax

 

lée year of 19,22 the s , .173174,- _ .

Revision of corporation laws.

physical defectives.

pendents.

 

 

More human treatment of prisoners and treatment of mental and

Repeal. of law creating Michigan Community Council Commission. '
State Aid fer disabled veterans of the world war and their de-

 

 

 

 

the highway improvement bonds, togeth—
er with interest On the war loan, and the
amount nccessary to complete the state
ofﬁce building and general purpose

irements. will amount to $7. 875. 0:00
3;} a total for the year 1922 of $40. 048. -
174 28.

“For the year 1923 the sums request—
ed in the tentative budget total $26,140 -

928. 83' and the mill tax for the unhel—
sity. the Agricultural college. highway
impr0\'ernen‘., and other fund require-

$625. 000 or a total f01 the
year of 1923 of $32, 765.92 883;:11111 a
grand total for the biennial period of
$72, 814. 103 11. a

“These ﬁgures do not. include any ex—
penditures of the highway department for.
these two years The estimate of this de-
partment for the year 1922 is $3, 357, 050;
and for 1923, $3, 550 750

‘Estimating ‘the state revenues from
sources other than general taxation,
such as fees, licenses etc., applicable to
budget requirements. based upon the es~
timates of the different departments
bonds and institutions, the state should
receive 0,93 398, 615 for the year 1922; and
for 1923 $3, 447, 353

“Deducting these amounts from the
total asked for these respective years,
we should have the sum of $36, 649, 559. —
28 raised by general taxation for me
year 1922; and 929. 318.575 83, raised in
like manner for the year 1923.

'Upon this basis the tax rate for 1922,
using an estimate of $5. 000 000, 000 as
the assessed value of. taxable property
will be $7 33; and $5 86 for the year
1923, '

ments total

$7. 33 Tax Rate Possible
These ﬁgmes y no means complete

the story. The ditor general informs
me that there is a deﬁcit in the. state
treasury of approximately 96.006000

with a stiong likelihood that it will be

. considerably augmented by the close of

1111111'1u1rt11t fiscal year, namely June 30.,
192

"A compilation of the budget requests
for 1922 discloses that an appropriation
of 317.059.54154 is asked for capital out-
lay including purchase of lands. new
buildings and equipment. This sum does

not include anything for the completion
of H11" state otlicu building, uhich. it is
(‘Stll’llé’li_1'd‘\\'lil cost in excess of $1 000-
009, it thus appears that the (apital
out‘ay'requests for 1922 alone 11111 ex-

tax for the. year

m-nd the total state
1 2 .

“Again by act 25 of the last special
session there \xill be levied one- -half
mill tax on the assessed valuation for
10’]..'111(1 each ye:1 r thu‘caftcr to be used
in paymrnt of interest on road bonds
and in reduction of the yearly bond is-
sue of $5 000. 000 If bonds are issued
to the limit allowable under this law by
1.923 we will have outstanding a total
issue of $15. 067 000, carrying an interest
charge of $753,350 with nothing in sight
to retire maturities excepting the power
of taxation”

Recommends New Tax Methods
While Mr. Greesbeck did not com-

mit himself to- a' deﬁnite change in‘

the present'method of levying taxes,
it is quite apparent from what he
had'to say upon the matter that he
has some particular change in mind.
There ‘ is some
whether Gov. Groesbeck is in favor

has undbubtedly been converted to
the income .tax at a comparatively

recent date for if we remember core
' in the press-7.

only a few month _ ago as saying that",
he was opposed to that ferm ‘of taxg‘.
b an d at-

 

'rect‘ly he was 1111311.

I‘G- '

' do so

. consisting of the governor and

conjecture as ' to.

If he is, he.

formed upon the advantages and
justice of the income tax and is now
prepared to sponsor such a tax in
this state; We know, of no other
method of taxation which he could
have had in mind when he wrote the
following:

“About 89 per cent of our total taxes
now falls upon real estate and 20 per
cent on personalty. It is a settled prop-
osition, not only that personalty does not
bear its just share of taxation, but that
'11: 1s practicalJy impossible to make it
Experience evelywhere has dem—
onstrated this

“It is my judgement after a careful
survey of these matters. that the burden
of taxation cannot be much increased,
so far as realty is concerned; and that
if the legitimate requirements of the
state On account of its more extended
activity in' numerous lines~are such as
tomake addi‘donal revenues. necessary,
then it becomes a question of providing
them from other and different sources.
Various methods of securing a more
equitable distribution of the tax burden
have been recommended by the state tax
commission_ All of them have in some
form been adopted in other states and so
far ascertainable are giving. general sat-

isfaction. Our endeavor should be to
solve the problem in an equitable man-
ner,

“It may, however, not be lmpertinent
for me to hazard the opinion that the
burdens of taxation are becoming all too
onerous. It seems to be the practice to
constantly increase them, The reasons
for this are, not always conﬁned to act—
ual necessities or to an extension of the
functions of government A" consider-
able portion is attributable to extrava—
gance and waste , -

“Therefore. before it is determined
that more taxes should be levied. we
should make a studious effort to elimin-
ate the last vcstige of wastefulness in
connectiouwith administrative affairs."

Administrative Board

Mr. Groesbeck would centralize
authority} eliminate duplication and
ﬁx responsibility through the ap-
pointment of an administrative board
not

less than ﬁve other elective state of—

ﬂoors.
which the Governor makes .to the
plan that has been adopted in Illi-
nois and which was the leading plank
in Milo Campbell’s platterm. Upon
this subject he voice-s himself as
vfollows:

“In some states they have abolished
all their institutional b0 ds. and named
a central salaried boar, or director in
their stead The advocates of the sin-
gle board or ofﬁcer with pay, point out
that by so centralizing responélbility the
executive can be held to direct account-
ability to the ”people
extent may be true. on the other hand
there is a middle ground which it seems
can be taken without uprooting all of
our non-salaried boards, many of which
have been and are rendering splendid
service.

“The experience one obtains from closle
contact with state affairs brings home

the realization that the most glaring de—'
feet of our present system is the failure“

  
   
   
     
   
    
    
  
   

to previde responsible supervis on of
state expenditures subsequent to appro-

 

lack pf an

one time he was opposed to the or-~
! ganization.

- lice.

gentlemen of that ilk will be kept

This is the nearest approach.

'slight to real ability and leadership

While this to some "

. his views have not changed

f-i'have elected him to the legislat
pri'ation by the legislature and the utt‘eg_1 ‘

 
   

the gown-1'1
Through such an agency, ﬁrst ban re
sponsi ility of the constitutional unless:
of the state to- the people. could be
cured, and the old and discredited ,pr
tics of creating new boards and comm
sions on the slightest pretext diabonti'n.

 
  
     
   
       
    
    
     
     
     
    

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tress Every successful private cor-pm". -»
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“There is nothing new in this su

    
  
 

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Better Rural Education ‘ J

It is' gratifying to note that Mr,

Groesbeck has given some thought
to the disparity between the educa-'
tional advantages enjoyed by the
children of the city and th'e'country,
He acknowledges. that the children —-_‘
of the farming community do not . , _
have the opportunities for an ﬁedn'... 1 ’ .‘-
cation which are enjoyed by the ‘
children of the .urban centers. He
says: “In a democracy all should re-
ceive the beneﬁt of the best educa-
tion obtainable; and while we- are ' - . 7
proud of our higher institutions 01" i}. - ,'
learning. we muSt not forget that '31- f.
tar all the cemmon school is the col- - 7
lege of the average man and Woman. '
It is such schools, and partiCularly ' , .
thoSe in rural districts, ,whléh
should receive the attention of the
legislature at this time.”

 

 

 

 

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LEGISLATIVE
.‘ Frank Vandenboom,

NOTES -' .. '1 ','i
upper penin- . '

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sula farmer, heads important com-
mittee on taxation. , \- ~ ~ 1

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Some surprise is felt that Gov;""" "
Groesbeck made no reference to the
state constabulary in his message to- '
the legislature. It is said that at

but has since been con- .~
verted. It is rumored that he will
make recommendations at a future
date relative to the work of the po-

‘7—._.. ~..
I .

111 111 a 111 - '1

Fred L. Warner, speaker of the ,1, 7
House, acts as if he was going to V' _ ' l
“deliver the goods.” ~He has already
smashed one precedent “as old as ,
the legisla'ure itself.” in refusing ' . .,
chairmanships to any member of the ' '
important ways and means commit-
tee. He also cautioned the members
of the House that the fact that the
House was solidly Republican did ‘ﬁ
n’ot give themlicen'se to disregard}
the wishes of the people of the state, -
but really increased the responsibil-‘ '
ity placed, on them by the lackof,‘a-'
minerity 'check. Speaker Warner
has no use for the professional lob:
byist and if he has his Way about it

 

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out of the legislative chambers.
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The friends of

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been: disabling-9 gauche: z-m 13

Sen. ’ Herbert F.-

Baker are slightly resentful of the
treatment which be received when '
the committee appointments were ’

handed out by Lieut Gov. Read Bak—
er, a. thorough progressive, friend of .'
agriculture, veteran legislator, form
er speaker of the House. and a lead
er in the last session, was given. the
chailmanship of probably the most
unimportant committee in the Sens 7
ate——the Nmni‘al Schools This

  

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all times agree with “Herb’s ” 8.8-; Ti 1:
gressive views. . - ' ' : V
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In the person of Hon. GeOrg. 1 ~17
Lord, former state tax commission? ' Q:
er, the House has a member of great -. 1.
ability and wide experience especial- 1‘s

ly as a student of tax problems. Pri r1
to his election Mr; Lord was. an
ponent of the income tax We 1. ‘

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’ .1zation of Colorado farmers chal-
‘ 1611ng the big coal interests by
buying a mine of their own, of how
for. nearly the last quarter of a cent-
dry the Colorado beekeepers have
set their own honey price and have
had their own marketing organiza-
tion’, and of how this fall the Bright-
. on cabbage producers for once buck-

 

;_ Denverjcommiesion houses and die-
.ta-ted their own marketing policy.
-' Altogether it is a story of as re-
,, sourceful and vigorous work on the
- part Of farmer's’ organizations as
f Can be found anywhere. It would be
~ 7 ~ possible to tell also of the work of
3 or." 1 a half-dozen or so other Colorado
‘ ”indium marketing plans, but for the
most part this article will conﬁne

,‘ f itself to those features which make
,> Colorado. rather unique in these
lines. "

When I walked into the ofﬁces of
the Equity Union in Denver I noticed

 

that. the. door also bore the inscrip- .
.head-»

tion;stating that it was the

quarters of a coal company. As a

, general. thing, I had understood that »

farmers? organizations did not have
ofﬁces in the same room with big
“2. corporations which operate ,coal

mines and the like, but I soon found ,-

that the Jewell Coal Company was
nothing moreor less than a com-
pany owned. by the , EquityUnion.
Arch Bean, a young business man
who has made the coal business his
, , life work, was in charge of the of—
“! " Q - ‘ﬁce. Like many other co- operative
' ' ' organizations, the Equity Union sup-
plies its own coal 'yards with coal.
But this association has gone a step
further and gone into the actual min-

ing business.

,1 . ‘ Coal Supply Cut 011'
“The Equity Union had succeeded

I the map, and then when we had just

3’ got well started, they cut us off ”

," said Mr. Bean. “One company cut

f'~ off our supply of coal without warn-

} ’ 5’ ing, while another began to let us

‘ 3 down easy and shipped only
'1 cars when it Should have been 500
cars. 'I have been in the coal bus-
1 'ines‘s long enough to know most of
the'coal men in Colorado from A'to
Z, and I began to see what they were
up to. It was going to be'neces—
sary for us to have a regular supply
-of coal. Of course as you know the

. , demand for coal the last few years

, ' has been such that no one needed a

" - jo‘b‘ber to sell it. The buyers have

* been waiting.

5']— ‘ “For some time I had had my eye
on a mine down near Walsenburg,
south of Pueblo. I had been study-

‘ ing the proposition for a couple of
years and ﬁnally early this year suc-
ceeded in getting an option. It pro-

'1 ‘vided that we must pay $2, 000 Jan—

' nary 28; $10, 000 February 15, and

.7. _ the balance of $65, 000 March 15,

L,‘ The ﬁrst thing we knew we had the

' coal mine on our hands and $63, 000

to pay. A letter was sent to every

. Eduity Union with which we trans-

, aced coal business. Meetings were

held. at "various places in eastern
Colorado. Fiva thousand dollars was
raised at Yuma; in fact, the ﬁrst
two and a half days we had raised
«$17, 000 and we raised $18, 000 the .
next week.

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, “The idea was to raise just enough

 

money to ﬁnish paying for the mine.

’ We shall not try to Sell coal cheaper
than the market price, but we shall
pro-rate the proﬁts back to the lo-
cal's which invested it. Eventually-
it is our plan for each local to have
$1, 000 worth of stock and reduce the
large amount held by the few. Our
idea is also to lay up a surplus U11-
der the plan of operation folloWed

xyby mos; coal companies of building

'urplf_ s, .we shall have 0113 money
- " ,1! seven years, even if we do
H in ‘ a dollar’s proﬁt in ‘divi~

   

" ed up against the power of the big '

in putting three coal companies on“

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Farmers Buy Coal Mme and” also Learn How to Sell Their Own Products to Make a Proﬁt

_ ~ ' .By R. P. CRAWFORD

. a coal company hasii‘been “purchased

for approximately $30,.0.00.' The
mine in southern Colorado turns out
approximately 160 tons a day, and
this possibly can .be greatly increas-
ed, The. Routt cOunty mine turns ‘out
650 tons a day. It will probably sur-
prise‘most people, however, to know
that this branch of the Equity Union
in Denver handles 2,000 cars, or

about 800,000 tons of coal a year.

At the present time it will be neces-
sary to buy coal from two other
min'es, but the union
again be‘in the position where it
can be starved out by the big com-
panies. In the territories served by

will never ,

Producers" Association is a story of
one of the .oldest co-operative organ-
izations .-in that state. In fact, 22
years ago there was no established
honey market in Colorado. The com-
mission men. bought whenever the
spirit moved them, paid whatever
they wanted to, and the producer
had nothing to say about it. At
that time it was estimated that it
cost $2.25 to produce a ‘case of hon-
ey, 'con’taining approximately twenty-
four sections and weighing around
twenty-tWo pounds. The. commis-
sion men were offering only $1. 65
and $1.75 a case. The beekeepers
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Market Street, Denver, where prices of Colorado

the Denver oﬂice are.140 elevators,
stores, and coal yards. Business is
transacted with locals as far east as
Bloomington, Nebraska, and Dres—
den, Kansas, and as far south as Dal-
hart, Texas. In fact, business is
transacted in the states of Kansas,
Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colo—
rado and even in'the Dakotas. Last
year $6,700 was pro-rated 'back to
the local of the coal business, before
the Equity Union had even engaged
in the mining business.

Mr. Bean, however, believes that
the biggest opportunity in co- opera-
tive buying lies in the ibrokerage bus—
iness. He does the buying for ap-

~ proximately ten? lumber yards in that

district. “It is needless to suppose
that a manufacturer will not listen to
co-operative enterprises when they
have ordered nearly a million pounds
of binder twine," said Mr. Bean.
“That appears to 'be a most satisfact-
ory way of handling things in the

' mercantile line instead of trying to

carry a 'big stock of goods on hand.”
There is more and more tendency

I for co-operative enterprises'to pay

better salaries. Mr. Bean cited the
instanceof one elevator which now
pays its manager $300 a month and
house rent free. However, a single

“elevator run by the Equity Union

paid $49,000 proﬁt in one year and
another elevator $64,000, the latter
being at St. Francis, Kansas.

The story of the Colorado Honey

I
farmers’

~rado.

- with us.”

products have heretofore been “fixed."

that something should be done. They
did not know exactly what, 'but each
one present put in 25 cents to start
OK the co-operative marketing of
Colorado honey. ,

As Frank Rauchfuss, secretary and
manager of the association, told the
story, a buyer was found for one
carload of honey at $2.40. Soon an-
other car was ordered, and the hon-
ey producers ‘had to hustle around to
get‘up enough to ﬁll it. They had
no place of business and when the
car was set on the sidetrack all the
beekeepers would bring in their hon-
ey“ Today 400 producers are mem—
bers of the association, some in Wy-
oming and Montana—as far north as
Billings—besides members in Colo—
The plan of organization is
to have enough members‘in any 10—
cality to make possible carload ship—
ments of honey from a single point.
Wherever the honey isshipped, some
one from the, Denver ofﬁce usually
isdelegated to inspect the honey.
The association stands back of any
shipment it makes.

"‘We are not soliciting members,”
said Mr. Rauchfuss. / “If any pro-
ducer thinks they can get along
without the association, it is all right
Formerlymembers were
charged 10 per cent for marketing,
but that has since been reduced to
5 per cent plus some small addition-
al charges, depending on how much

 

 

ClBlllllE Bunsimn

IN THE FIELDS

Thousands of dollars "Worth of cabbage could have been ship-
ped at forty cents. Many poor growers who are renters need

the mono

badly to meet their obligations.

WHY D N’T SOME OF THESE FELLOWS, WHO SAY
f CABBAGE IS WORTH SIXTY CENTS,

Buy a few cars at this price, if they are the
farmers’ friend.

Talk 18 cheap

MONEY IS WHAT COUNTS

What will the Renter do When his notes fall due.

30 his security for renewals.

Will :11. sixty cent mun

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work the association does for the

producer. For instance, in Denver
there is a warehouse on Market. St.
where producers may avail
selves of storage facilities for 3.2
cents a case. If there has to be spec-
‘ial work done in. grading honey an-
other small fee is charged. The plan
has always been to pay 8 per cent
dividends on the stock, the balance
of the money being pro-rated accord-
ing to the business done. At the

~present time 4 per cent dividends

are paid and the other 4 per cent on
the stock is credited to the building
fund, thereby

italized for $100, 000, and so far,
$37, 000 worth of stock has been
sold.

There are both contract and non-
contract members. A contract mem-
ber agrees to deliver'90 per cent of
his product to the association and to
buy his supplies of the association.
He puts up a bond to guarantee his
fulfillment of the contract. Contract
members always receive preference
in the selling of honey, that is, their
honey will be sold ﬁrst, other things
being equal. The association thought
it a somewhat radical procedure to
force all members to turn over all
of their output to the association,
since many of them can supply a.
local market to very good advant-
age.

The association always sets a.
price on the honey and then it is a.
question of whether the market will
stand it. Of course no eﬁort is made
to boost the price out of reason. A
careful study is made of all market
reports, and a fair price is determin-
ed for the year. The association is
also endeavoring to popularize the
honey business by conducting a
mail order campaign.

Cabbage Growers Organize

The summer of 1920 saw a big
awakening along co-operative mar-
keting lines in Colorado. Last sum-
mer the Northern Colorado Cabbage
Growers’ Co—operative Association
was formed at Brighton, as well as
the Colorado Cabbage Exchange at
the same place, while the Colorado
Vegetable Growers’ Co operative As-
sociation was organized in the city
of Denver. All of these organiza-
tions are for the purpose of co- -oper-
ative marketing.

Probably no vegetable marketing
organization has had such an excit-
ing time as has the Colorado Cab-
bage Exchange this fall. It has ap-
proximately 800 members, practical-
1y all of them living fairly close to
Brighton in the cabbage district
north of Denver. Cabbage was sell—
ing from 30 to 40 cents a hundred
pounds late last summer. At this
price the growers practically refus-
ed to move it. A group of them got

busy at Brighton, foxmed an ex-
change, and raised the price to 60
cents. At the time cabbage was at
its low mark, only about 200 out of

approximately 3,000 cars had mov- ‘
ed from the cabbage district. It ‘

was explained that it costs 50 cents
a hundred pounds to produce the
cabbage. A farmers’ and merchants’
association called a meeting at the
little town of Brighton, W. 0 Hood,
Jr., the president of the association,
almost automatically became sales
manager of the exchange. The pre‘
liminary ﬁnances were taken care
of Ifrom contributions from farmers
. and business men of the cabbage dis-
trict Since 3,000 acres had been
planted to cabbage in this district
the past year it meant a big thing to
both country and town people. The
latter part of August a mass meet-.
ing was called at which~350 growers
were. in attendance. A committee of
seven were appointed to meet every
afternoon at Brighton and offer all
of the cabbage of the district for
sale, also ﬁxing the prices for the
next day. This committee was au-
thorized by, eaCh grower 10 act as
agent in shipping cabbage. '

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HE CHICAGO Board of. -Trade is
inseparably associated with the

live stock and general commod-y

ity markets of the country and the
Chicago packing house outﬁts, com-
monly known as the.» Big Five, are
the connecting links. The connec-'
-tion between the Chicago Board of
Trade and the.Chicago live stock
marketing system, is intimate and
vital, price fluctuations in one being
‘ promptly felt in the other. For more
than '60 years, the big Chicago pack-
ers have exerted an important influ-
' ence over the live stock and provision
trade of this country but for the last
20 years they have been complete
masters of the situation; one of the
most important and effective aids,
which the packers have utilized in
securing control of the American
live stock and commodity situation,
has been the listing of mess pork,
lard and ribs in the option division
of the Board of Trade.

In no other country in the known
world has the packing house business
been brought up to such wonderful
efficiency. The achievements, in
connection with the complete utiliza-
tion and saving of all by-products
developed in the slaughter of domes-
tic animals, reads like a fairy tale.
All the details of organization and
operation, of killing and curing
plants and systems of storage and
distribution have been brought up
to a standing of absolute efﬁciency
that has never been attained by any
other line of business in this or any
other country. The Chicago packers
have located branch packing plants
and distributing depots all over the
western hemisphere and throughout
Europe. Another tremendous
achievement. the credit for which
must be given to the big packers, has
been the bringing about of a uni-
formity in packing house products.
It cannot be denied, then, that the
modern packing house methods are
vthorough and efﬁcient and that they
are‘up to the minute in everything

that stands for perfection in the
realm of manufacturing, scientiﬁc
refrigeration and prompt distribu-

tion.

In placing an estimate upon the
value of the modern packing. house
business. the important of having 10,—
catedhat the Chicago stock yards,
packing plants that will purchase,
slaughter and properly care for a
million hogs in a month should not
be overlooked. An institution is
very useful and important that will
cure and preserve the meat from
such a tremendous crop of hogs,
making a uniform ﬁnished product
that will satisfy the most fastidious
taste. It was during the late war
that Americans learned what it
meant to belong to a country which
had at its command so wonderful 3
thing as the modern packing house.

The fact of the matter is, however,
that the average Anier'ican regards
the big packer with a mixed feeling.
He really don’t know whether to be
proud of him or ashamed of him, he
has heard so much about the under-

, ways lose?

“Big Five” Have Hand m Great Bear Raid Staged Against Farmers Markets

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slow.

other supplies.

tion.

Other prices but
able of adjusting

 

N CONNECTION with the situation confronting the farmers and live-
stock producers of the country, Thos, E. Wilson of Chicago. presi-
dent of the Institute of American Meat. Packers, states:

. “Consumers are not fully consciOus either of the hardships of the
farmers or of the inﬂuence misfortunes affecting the farmers have on
the prosperity of the country as a whole.

“Rapidly declining values are a severe trial in any business but
particularly so in agriculture, since the farmers’ turnover is so very
By the time he markets his products the level of prices can
have fallen tremenduously since the time he purchased his feed and

“It is estimated that if present farm prices should be the ﬁnal ‘
prices, the farmers would actually get. for the four crops, oats, wheat,
corn and cotton, $2, 057, 000, 000 less than the actual cost of produc-

“We are all affected at the present. time by the same eoOnomic
forces, but the general downward trend of prices has fallen on the
farmer with greater severity than on any other group, not so much
because prices for farm products have fallen more in proportion than
ause farming. with its slow turnover, is loss cap-
lf to rapid and great declines in values. _
fortunate that this readjustment could not have been extended over a
longer period of time, so that it would have been effected by gradua-
tion and not by a perpendicular drop—Wall Street Journal.

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handed tricks that
guilty of in building up his wonder-
ful business.

Both Ends Against the. Middle

The statement above, that the live
stock market is linked with the grain
market by the options of mess pork,
lard and ribs is, of course, true but
in actual practice, the live stock
market is in the middle, between
the “upper and the nether mill-
stones" as it were and it sometimes
happens, during the season of plen-
tiful supplies, that prices are ground
down, far below the actual cost of
production. In his study of market
quotations, the reader has, without
doubt, often noted the apparent in-
fluence of a weak speculative pro-
vision market 'upon the selling price
of live hogs. Live hog prices are
also very sensitive to fluctuations in
the selling price of grain futures.
Unde1 normal conditions, it is well-
nigh impossible for both grain and
provisions to go down, on the Board
of Trade, without producing a slump
in live hog prices. It will be seen,
then, that the packer-speculator has
two chances to produce a break in
the live hog market if, by any means
he can succeed in manipulating eith-
er the grain or the provision market.

Quite naturally, the question may
be asked: What does it mean to man-
ipulate the market? Another ques-
tion is quite often asked by those not
familiar with Board of Trade prac-
tices: Why is it that insiders nearly
always win and outsiders nearly al-
In order to properly un-
derstand the option deal, it will be
necessary for the reader to remember
that a record is kept of every trans-
action made on the Chicago Board of
Trade; in this record are two col-
umns, one for purchases and oneifor
sales. 'The insider, having access to
the record, foots up the two columns
and plays the market for a sure
winner. If the market is over-sold
he buys and slips out with a profit
while the shorts are evening up. If

hehas been.

the market is over bought, he sells
and again slips out with a
while the long holders are running
to cover.
crop damage or great over supplies

is another method of market manip- -

ulation. The modern option operat-
or is an adept in “slap-stick” meth—
ods and all of the other buncombe
that can be utilized to frighten the
inexperienced speculator and induce
him to let go of his tholdlngs at the
wrong time.

The Bureau of Statistics

The big packer organizations have
developed the most complete and ef-
fective system of crop reporting and
’news gathering that has ever been
known; their agents are stationed
throughout the‘corn and hog-grow—
ing districts of the West and the facts
that they furnish make it possible

for their employers to estimate, very‘

closely, the number of hogs, cattle
and sheep that will be available, far
ahead of the time they actually ar-
rive in the market. It should be re-
membered, however, that the facts
that are collected by the packer bu-
reau of statistics, are for the private
use of the packers and the fact, that
they completely control and domin-
ate the live stock and commodity
markets of the country, shows how
effectively they use them.

As has been stated before in this
series of articles, a comparatively
small coterie of brokers and pit trad-
ers completely control Board of
Trade operations; the Big 6 are the
recognized leaders of the steering
committee referred .to. They are the
power behind the throne and theirs
the master minds that plan and di-
rect» the great slaughter parties that
are'pulled off in the grain and pro-
vision pits of the Chicago Board of

‘ Trade.

Packer's Buying Methods
Under existing conditions, the Am-
erican live stock groWer is complete-
ly at the mercy of the big packer out-

. to make, a. dollar for himself unti.

proﬁt '

Starting fake rumors of ~

ﬁts and he will never be permitted;

  

these “gentlemen of the road” are?
made to release their strangle grip“
on his throat. In the live stock mar—
kets of the country, therepresenta— ‘ 1
tives of the packers employ every-'.

known artiﬁce to pound down values "

so that they can secure the stock at .
prices. that to the producer, netza7n.

amount that is far below the cost" of; 5
'01th ' '

production. For , example,
when big runs appear in the market;
all of the packer buyers, by previous ';
arrangement, stay away from the
yards until late in the afternoon,
when they do make an appearance,

they pound down prices far below.

the prevailing scale of values;

Whenever shippers have been free _;-*

buyers in the Chicago market. hog
owners have received fair prices but '
whenever they have dropped out;
values have taken a dizzy slump of
from $1 to $2 per cwt. ,

- “A Perpendicular Drop" _

In the boxing on this page we print
an interview given outr'by Thomas
E. Wilson, president of the Insti—
tute of American Meat Packers. the «
organization Which, by the way, furs .
nishes, on short notice, the particu-
lar brand of “statistics" which is
needed for any emergency in con-
nection with live stock or speculat-
ive provision markets; these are cer—
tainly honeyed words and they,
should go a long way toward heal-

» ing the gaping wounds left by a, re—

cent loss of more than two billions
of dollars on four of the farmers
staple crops. It is not a. trifle
strange that Mr. Wilson says noth-
ing about the ‘sluimp‘ in livestock
prices? When he speaks ,of “a per-
pendicular drop” no explanation or
foot notes will be needed to make
the American farmer understand
what he means. Thegrower or ship-
per who has had a shipment of live
stock in the Chicago market on one

of those days, when all of the-pack— -‘

er buyers by preVious arrangement
stayed out of the ’market, knows
very well what is meant by .the
words, “a perpendicular drop.” -

In the opinion‘of the writer, no
more insincere and. hypocritical
words. than thope used by Mr- Wil-
son to express his deep- solicitude
for the American farmer in hisrtime
of great need, were ever spoken.
Those who understand the situation
best know perfectly well that the
sudden break, in the price of farm
products, was deliberately planned
by the men who manufacture and
merchandise the products of
farm; they could have “graduated"

. the drop had they seen ﬁt but, as us-'

ual, they were out after the farmers’

scalp and they got it. The stage
was set. everything was put in order
to suit the purposes of the “steerr
ing committee,” the trap was sprung
and chaos reigned If the Commit-
tee of 17 or any other organization
wish to reach the men who. control ,
the destinies of the Chicago Board
of Trade and, incidentally, ‘the live.

stock market, as well, let them train
their guns on the Chicago packing
house gang.

 

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‘ HEN the centemplated
bridge spans the waters
the Great Lakes where these

of

   

‘St Clair and Lake Erie, for the sec-
end time in history will the shores of
V America and Canada be thus inti-
~mately connected.
_ The necessity. for the construction
of a Detroit-Windsor, O,ntar,io bridge
is paramount with the industrial

-VV. ritory in activities commercial and
' industrial The present plan con-
1templates the building of a suspen-
sion bridge similar to that of Brook-
lyn, with a 1770 foot span, and to cost
approximately $28, 000, 000. 00.
_ The plans under contem-
f” plation call for
two 28-foot
1t g] ' V roadways, ,..two
1; "187-1foot side-
lf . V walk, two tram
' cartracks, and
four railw a‘yIV.
,1. ‘ tracks. Th e
,‘S ' L span will of ne-
i- ' cessi-ty be over
a . V one hundr e d
p. ,- ~‘ feet high for
1- . : the Great Lakes
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{ﬂow through the straits betweencLake '

7 needs of this rapidly advancing fer-V

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weather, heavy snows, moving ice
ﬂoes and lake storms, the navigable,
season in this territory necessarily
closes With th‘e’nrst approach of Win-
ter, and' remains closed. until all of
the ice from thei'Uppe'r Lakes, as Su-
perior and Huron are locally known,
passes into the southern lake region,
there to evaporate beneath the walm

breath of a Lake Erie spring- t..ime
As late as 1825 a. horse power ferry
handled the interchange .Qf trafﬁc,
freight and passenger, between De~
troit and the Border Towns of Can-
ada. Propelled by six over-
worked hOrses, this

   
 
  
   
   
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
   

“*"Manleeasons ’Why a Detrmt- Wmdsor, Ontario Bridge Will be a Benefit to Michigan

By EMMY MATT RUSH

not established until 1834, and in 1841
approximately 50 steamboats and
sailing vessels were operating upon
these waters.

These ﬁgures compared with pres-
ent day operations the growth indus-
trially and commercially of Great
Lakes navigation seems almost in-
credible. -

Some of the largest ship building
plants of the Great Lakes territory
are located upon the water front be-
tween Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
Before the war Ithese specialized in
passenger steamers and lake freight—
ers During the duration of the war
these yards turned their
. entire output, force and

ernment and upon the
Fourth of July, 1918, one
of these plants launched
FOUR 260 foot vessels .as
a ﬁtting Fourth of July
celebration and contribu-
tion to Uncle Sam’s :fleet!

The Detroit lake yards
taken as a Whole, launch-

capital over to the gov--

  

ed eleven vessels that day, and in ’
the year that witnessed the signing
of the armistice, one of these plants
had launched THIRTY ships!

-Even before Detroit’s recent and
furious expansion it was found nes-
essary to relieve the congestion upon
the water highway at its front door,
for with one freighter passing every
nine minutes, and huge transports
carrying entire train loads of freight
and passenger between the Canadian
and American shores of the Detroit
river at this point, the congested con-
dition of the water front forcibly re- '-
tarded the propitious handling 'of the
ever-increasing traﬁic.

This resulted in the constructiOn of
a tunnel under the waters of the earth
for the handling of a large percent-
age of the freight and passenger
trafﬁc.

A trench was excavated out of, the
rock bottom of the river bed, and
and huge steel tubes in sections of
2 0 feet were sunk therein and cov-
ered with a. concrete enclosure. Each
of these separated by a concrete wall
the full height of tube, tubes contains
two tracks, creating fundamentally
‘ two separate I»

      
      

    
  

  
    
     
  

    
     
 
       
       
     
   
         
     
     
   
       
      
   
        
   
  
  
   
   
   
    
    

 

 

 

_~; ‘ . 110 feet at the

w ‘ center . of the

[_' ,,Detroit’ river to cover every ’e'mer-

,_ ’ gency, and the necessity of require-

ments for wireless masts!

- t,_ . With this 'height .in view it was
necessary to consider carefully the
length of the highway approaches to
the bridge. These will be approxi—
mately 2,000 feet long, with a four

\per cent. grade. The railway ap-

, proaches upon the other hand will

': be about one mile :in length with one
and one-half per cent. grades.

1 A bridge to cross the waters of the
Straits at this point has been long a

, Subject of serious oonSideration, the

' main hindranCe in the past having

' been the great depth of the bed rock
in the river bottom at this point. It
now seems feasible to span the river
with avsuspension bridge erected un-
der the pneumatic process.

The lowest estimate of passengers.
carried annually between Detroit and
the Border Cities of Walkerville,
(home of Canadian Club Whiskey)
Winsor and Sandwich, Ontario, is
10,585,000 persons. ‘ Approximately
521950 automobiles cross the river

, annually 73, 000 automdbile trucks
' and 1, 000 teams. c

With» the increasing industrial ac-
tivities and consequent population of
VthisV’vicinity, due to automobiles, it
has been considered safe to eStimate
a one hundred per cent increase in
these ﬁgures before many years.

Although considered an important
commercial factor under British con-
trol and possession, navigation and
the commerical utilization of these
waters, like unto everything else per-
taining to American advancement
made but. little progress until AFTER
American possession

When the American colonists from
the east and the south after the close‘
,_ of the Revolutionary War, entered
l the‘ Great Lakes territory, this his-
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' toric and beautiful, stretch of laugh-
ing waters known as "The Straits Of
Detroit” began to breathe
anew.

the life

As late as 1796 under English pos- .

session, the largest vessel built by the
English'was the sailing .‘veSSel, Gen-
. eral Gage; with a carrying "capacity of
(164 tons. The General Gagemade its
. maiden trip'upon the water highways
'i of the Great Lakes in the year 1771.
_ ' Compared with this, let us note the
wifi average freighter now plying these
waters. These modern American-
aide vessels carry an average cargo

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" to the tonnage of approximately
,V hundred freight cars. :

   
  
    

  

  
  
 

note that one vessel
troit every nine.

    

Tracks leading to Detrolt’s Sub-Aqua tunnel

,travel between Detroit

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little conveyance meas-
ured but ﬁfty feet in
length.

In 1835 there were
82 Detroit-owned ves-
selsp'lying the waters
of the Great Lakes,
with an aggregate
tonnage of 4,013 tons!
The ﬁrst regular line
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tunnels, alt'ho
built as one.

The work on i
this tunne-li
commenced in
October, 1906,
and the tunnel
was completed
and ready for
use in October,
1910.

The tubes are
lighted w i t h
electricity thru—
out, and the
trains are car-
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of
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and “Chicago,
“miracle” town's

. Water
the last century,

nghway of Detroit,
With a 1,770-foot Suspension Bridge. -

——Courtesy of the Detroit Board of Commerce:

showing the 0 anadlan

Death by Gas Accumulating in Silo

E HAVE spoken several times
1 of the great danger which

comes from gas accumulating
in the bottom of silos. Word now
comes of a sad accident in Maryland
which should be a warning to all our
readers. In Harford county, Mary—
land, Mr. Samuel Poplin had two
large stone and concrete siIOs on his
farm. 1 They were built together,
with division walls betWeen, each
about 10 x 15 feet and 30 feet high.
Only one silo 'was to be ﬁlled this
year, and this was partly ﬁlled up."
The lower entrance into the silo- No.
2 was Closed and this cut off the bot-
tom circulation of air. Mr. Poplins

.two boys, 10 and 15 years old, were

playing about-the silo and dropped
one o-f't'heir shoes down into it. This
silo had been ﬁlled the day before
up and above the lower entrance.
The boy begged his father for per-
mission to go down into the silo and
get the shoe. After some hesitation
Mr. Poplin put a rope down into the
Silo and promised to hold it while
the boy went down after the shoe. A
short distance down the rope the
boy suddenly shouted that he was
blinded. Mr. Poplin thought that
the youth had been confused in the
darkness and told him to come back
at once. The child was apparently
unconscious bythis time, for his

gfath‘ervcalled him repeatedly, but re-

ceivedno answer“ The other boy.
Iii—years old then asked to go down
and ﬁnd out what the trouble was.
The father hesitated, but thought

that the ﬁrst boy had bumped his .

head on the sides of the silo and was
dazed at the bottom, so he let the

other boy so down. in search. The :

second boy disappeared in the dark-
-ness of the silo, and silence fell upon
them;
top and called repeatedly to his boys _

but received no ansWer. Thoroughly f

alarmed he ran to a “neighboring
19.er and obtained help from his
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about the dangerous gas but with
great courage tied a handkerchief
over his face and a rope under his
arms and was lowered into the silo.
A little more than half way down
he began to feel the effects of the
.gas, and creeping about he found
the bodies of the two boys. One of
them Was still breathing but the
man fell unconscious before he could
bring the boy out. Mr. Poplin ﬁnal-
ly succeeded in pulling his neigh—
bor from the silo and then telephon—
ed for aid. Neighbors, including two
doctors rushed to the farm at once.
One of them brought a gas mask
with him, but even with this it was
found impossible for anyone to live
in the silo. The neighbor in the
meantime was revived. They ﬁnally
thought of the corn blower which
had been used in blowing the silage
into the pit. This was started down
into the silo and after half an hour’s
use several men Went down through
the lower door. The two lifeless
bodies of the little boys were found
on the silage and the doctors said
they had been dead for more than
two hours.

The gas which caused this tragedy
was carbon dioxide which is always
formed by fermentation in the silo
when the doors are closed and there
is no escape for the gas. It is heav-
ier than air and remains at the bot-
tom. A lightedlantern was lowered
into this silo and immediately the
light went out, a sure indication
that human life. cannot endure in
such a place. This sad accident

. should be a warning to all who have

anything to do with silos. The
danger comes after the closed .silo

‘ has remained unopened for several.
. hours.
The father. {leaned over the ,

If the lower deems are left
open the gas will generally leak

away, and 110 one should' ever dream '
of entering such a silo in the morn- ’

ing until the blower has been work-
ed into it for at lea-st half an hour.
“Rural ENcw Yorker

  
   

Border Cities beyond, soon to be crossed

, chain.

'with the completion of the contem-

Alright upon What was yesterady a

  
   
  
 
  
   
  
   
  
  
    
     
 
   
   
     

pelled engines». _

The sub- -aqua l
length of the
' tunnel is 2,665
feet. The Canadian approach and
open cut measures 6,449 feet and
the American or Detroit approach
and open cut measures 3,658 feet,
total Ilength of tunnel measuring
12,772 feet!

The old-fashioned ferry boats, huge
river transports, and the sub—aqua
tunnel, faithful enough in their turn,
are today insufﬁcient to carry the ev-
er-increasing commerical demands
made of them, and for the second .
time in the history of America its
soil will be linked with that of Can-
ada by an international span cross-'
ing the waters of 'the Great Lakes
The ﬁrst international bridge
between the States and Canada is the ~
cantilever or jack- -knife bridge at the
800.

Many Detroit industrial plants al-
ready have branches located in the
Border Cities across the waters and'
along the Canadian shores of the De-
troit river. The 'new Steel Town of
Ojibway will soon open its doors,
adding to the already over-crowded
conditions of this automotive center.
It is here that the United States Steel
Corporation’s 'Canadian project is
nearing completion under the aus-
pices of the Canadian Steel Corpora-
tion, Limited, incorporated under the
laws of Canada.

The new bridge across the Detroit
river will pierce a territory complac-
ent and peaceful where life ﬂows-
along in an Eden of contentment and
pastoral environment. Cress-lug the
Detroit river in one of Detroit’s fer-
ry boats, within the short space of _
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, future fulfillment;

' provement in the general busi-

-. ness. outlook, is already some-
thing more than a fair promise for
it is already. an
actuality. It need no longer be said
that there are encouraging signs of
a coming business revival for the re-
vival is already an accomplished fact.
Laboring men are being called back
to their work by the thousand; in
some cases, at lower wages, it is
true, but they are to be given an
opportunity to help in bringing back
the full measure of industrial pros-
perity to the undertakings of which
they have comelto be regarded as an
integral part. That the resumption
of manufacturing, in a small way,
must be regarded as an experiment,
is universally conceded and the suc-
cess, of this experimental test, will
depend very much upon the attitude
of labor; if the men, who are called
back at this time, speed up produc-
tion and give an honest day's work
for an honest day's pay, it will, in
many cases, mean an early restora-
tion of the former wage scale, but
with much more satisfactory records
of average daily production.

There have been many business
developments, since the beginning of
the new year, that are encouraging to
those, who for many weary weeks,
have been looking for indications of
returning prosperity, the most im-
portant of which are perhaps the ap-
pearance Of a dependable market
demand for many staple commodi-
ties which, for many months have

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' Oats ﬁrm. Beans in demand.

and provisions oii.

DETROIT—Wheat shows considerable strength.

CHICAGO~Wheat market active. Other grains weak. Hogs

Corn easy.

 

 

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been positively without a deﬁnite
market value. An increased demand
for all grades of leather is noted and,
based directly upon this fact, is a
marked improvement in the hide.
market which has been on the down
grade for the past six months. Spot
cotton and cotton futures have re-
sponded, promptly, to the resump-
tion of manufacturing on the part
Of many of the cotton mills of the
country. Information, given out by
some of the leading manufacturers
of clothing, indicates that a marked
resumption of buying operations is
taking place in this department of
the trade; that stocks, now in the
hands of retailers, are down very
close to the “empty shelf" basis is a
fact of common knowledge, Inaking
it certain, that when once the buy-
ing of goods for spring trade, gets
fairly under way, the volume of bus-
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year, a marked revival in the de-
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uring enterprises and related indus-
tries such as steel, pig iron, and rub-
ber, has been noted; during all last
weekr on the New York Stock Ex-
change motors and other industrial.
securities showed a steady gain, evi-
dently. in anticipation of a partial
resumption of manufacturing oper-
ations and a large increase in bona
fide orders for many of the leading
articles Of manufacture for early
spring delivery. Among the com-
panies that are mentioned Sis ready
to begin manufacturing cars -on a
limited scale are the Oakland, the
Studebaker Corporation, Piercerﬁr-
row and the Packard Motor Co. 6
Continental Motors are, also slated
to resume" operations next week; the
discouraging feature, 'in connection
with the local situation, is the lack
of information concerning the. prOb-
able future of the Ford Motor (30..
of Highland Park. It is evident that
no immediate resumption of manu-
facturing operations is co‘ntcmplatp
cd by Mr. Ford, who, it is definitely
stated, has cancelled all orders for
“material that enter Into the 'manu-
facture of the Ford motor cars and
trucks. ‘ ' o‘

The recent announcement of Pres-
ident Harding, of the Federal Re-
serve banking system, that all dang-
er of an acute ﬁnancial crisis is past
is surely reassuring but nimultan-
eously with this ' announcement,
comes the information that the cred-
it situation in many foreign coun-
tries is rapidly approaching the crit-
ical stage. The recent rise in the
value of the English pound sterling
is partly accounted for by the fact
that arrangements have been prac-
tically made by which the loans due
this country from the British gov-
ernment, will be exchanged for se-
curities bearing deferred dates of
payment.

One of the most disquieting rum-
ors that has gained currency, of late

, in Michigan agricultural circles, has

to do with the interest rates “that
farmers, in some parts Of'the state,
are asked to pay on renewals and
new loans, undertaken in connec-

~tion with live stock feeding opera-

tions and much-needed farm im-
provements; it appears that the big
Chicago packers have sent notices to
all of, the banks in the state, that
they will pay 8 per cent interest on
all surplus funds which these insti-
tutions may have to spare and farm-
accommoda—
tions, are asked to meet this compe-
tition.

WHEAT

WHEAT PRICES PER BIL, JAN. 11, 192_1_

Grade lDotrolt 1 Chicago! "ml;

Rod 1.99 ‘1.81‘/; 2.06%
1.06

Whit.
Mixed 1 .95 l 2.02 1%

‘PRIOEB ONE YEAR AGO

No.2 Real No.2 Whltol No.2 mm
2.40. 1 2.44 1 2.44

 

 

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No. 2
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Nearly all the reports we can gath-
er this week on wheat are to the
effect that the tone is “very, decided-
ly, unusually" bullish. A large
number of factors are held account-
able for the strength of this market.
or foremost importance, in our”
judgment. is the falling 0!! of sup-
plies. Wheat .is simply ‘not coming
to market in the quantities needed.
The hears have tried to fool. them;

selves in believing , that tax-paying. ' '

time and a tight -m0ncy inﬂation.

would force the farmer's tou’uload. ‘
- but the farmers have deceived them! . ‘-
- Exports are picking up ”every (1 ,

— India, and the practical

‘ million dollars

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”Ia-r213.”
The bears have been brand:
the superior inducements altered to '

exporters by Argentine,~ but the lat?
est news from that country» is to the

effect that a tax on exports. imv'ake's,
American wheat the most desirable

purchase. Other factors which have , 1
in—- .-

affec‘ted wheat advantageously
clude a decided improvement in ex—
change, conﬁrmation of famine in
. . certainty
that the Fordney tariff bill will be- ~-

come a. law, if not during the" short ’ '-

session, then early at the opening of
the special session. Still another
factor which heretofore has received
little attention is the probability Of,
a large abandoned acreage owing to
injurious weather conditions, a fact-
or which should have a large in-
fluence on next year’scrop and pric-
es. The Secretary or State reports
that only about 5,000,000 bushels or

less than a third of Michigan's 1920 ' '

crop or wheat has been marketed. .
This means that the farmer-3' of this
state are going to receivé several
more than they
would have had for their wheat had
they sold it at any time during the
past three months.

,_ ... CORN

00!" PER OWE, JAN. 11, 1021- _
tirade IDetrolt thlcagol II. V;
No. 2 Vollow,_old | I .72 .93
No.3 Yellow, new.| .15 I _
No. 4 IVollow. new I .72 | |
snuggggugvuamao

No.2 Vein 'NbTé Volt! No.4 Yell.
Dotmlt ..l | 1.50 | 1.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opinions diﬂer as to the future
trend of the, corn market;
dealers are inclined to feel bearish
owing to the large receipts while
others believe the market has reach-
ed the bottom and should start
climbing upward. In spite of large .
receipts the market received sup—
port from some heavy interests every ,
time the price shows signs of weak—
ening which indicates theremust 'be
some large ﬁnancial interests who
are as anxious as the farmer to see
prices go to higher levels. The dos-
ing of. the tax-paying season will be
undoubted-1y marked soon by a de-
crease‘ in receipts as the urgent
need of funds will be lessened con-
considerable and then, it is believed,
corn prices will move upward. Un-
til then we do not look for much
higher prices. Rumors have it that
Germany will be in the market for
4,000,000 bushels of corn as soon as
credit can be arranged; if'this‘ be
truQ we may see higher prices in the
immediate future. However this
news has not affected the markets
yet and corn at Detroit is easy with
prices the same as last week’s close.

OATS

OAT PRICES PEH BU., JAN/11, ‘22:]

 

 

 

0738‘s lb'éc'rliiﬁ—oilc-nl N. VT" _
No. 2 White ...| .61 .47I/.l .60
No. 3 White ...1- .48'/: 46%!
10. 4 White ...| .4eI/a

 

 

 

PRICES o'N’E__rEAR AGO
lNo.2 Whltel No.3‘Whltol No.4 White ,
Detnolt l .89 l .88 _ l .87

 

 

 

 

Corn and oats have parted.com-
pany on the Detroit market and
while corn lost 3c last week oats
held their own andpadvanced 1-2c
Monday. There is not much do.
ing in this branch of trading; noth-
ing new has developed in the line of

export trade and farmers ‘are in-

aimed to hold on to their oats.
Mightbetter ﬂatten the horses with
them. than give them away. the fann-

ersappear to think. Oats should see! ’

higher prices within the next three
months. ‘

 

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m floomn Whigs-l 31.7.
(W . r- 4.00 I450 '
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.. has been strong, the demand good,
and while prices have shown no ad-
vance,

es 511611111 not be higher

This

also be construed as a desire to have
the associations keep their beans off
the market so the independent deal-

\ers Would have a better chance. How-
'. ever,

-it is gratifying to note that
there is real life once more in the
For a week past the tone

they must respond 'soon to
the, laws of supply and demand. We
st-ill expect to see beans at better
than a dollar a bushel over their

, present level.

RYE

- - . Rye is higher in sympathy with
~ . .whea't.

There are reasons for as-

suming that this cereal will follow

‘have been reached I am afraid there -

clOsely every advance made by
Wheat up to a certain point. $2.50
-rye_is not altogether improbable.

 

 

POTATOES
SPUDS PER 0WT., V_JAN.11>,~1921
__ _ i _Ssckedl Bulk
Detroit ............... —I 2.15 I
Chicago ............... I I 1 4
._Now York ........ ....I2 I
Pl'ttsburg ............. I 1 .gd-o I 1.14
'.__.. _PR'GEJLBNFJEPR 46.9
‘ Detroit ..... ......... I 4.00 l 3. 50

 

 

I can offer no encouragement at
this time to holders of potatoes.
While the bottom in this market may

will be but slight recovery in higher
values. The. reasons for this *con—
clusion may be found in the article
published on page three of this is—
one New York farmers are unable
to get more than 60 cents per bush-
el, which is less than some sections
in this state are offering. The De—
troit market was “slightly stronger
at the opening of the week due to
decrease in supplies. Farmers dis-
like to sell at present prices and We
don't blame them in the least. How—
ever, they should keep their eyes on
the track and look out for the cars

 

 

 

HAY
- 1 m 1 Tlm. 1 Stan. Tim. 1 No. ZTIm
. Dem-m? .126.ob@27i25.00@26125 00@2n
Chicago .1211. 002127124. 0041251 22. oooze
New Vork' 133. 00 no 371 1110.00 m an
_Plttsburg .129. so @ 29127. so @ 21125. 00 a 26
I No. 1 No. 1 In.

1 "Join Mix. {mover Mix. I clover '
Detroit .1211. on «124123.011 o 234122.110 @ 23
"Mango 124. 00 (a 25122. on @2
New rev-11' 132. on a 351211. on as 331
911111111119 .!26. so or 23125. oo 9 26I

 

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.I29tl) @ 3_OI28. 59 @ 29128. 50 Q 29

 

 

Detroit

 

The activeness expected in the hay
market the past week failed to ar-
rive and the market held steady with
continued light receipts and de-

' . mand.

, for cattle

 
 
  
  
  
 

qfalrly active demand for
"(beef but the warm, open weather is
“against the fresh meat deal in all of ,. '
its branches and no activity can be

[age last Week), Weighed only a little.

. LIVE STOCK MARKETS - -
‘ ‘There are many indications of im-
provement in general business con—

*ditions but as yet the live stock mar-
_ket has not felt this improvement to
' any appreciable extent.

The top in
the. cattle department in . Chicago,
early last week was $11.50 per cwt.
that sold
months ago for $18 per cwt.

als continue fairly liberal but re-

. '-.ceipts would not be considered bur-

densome if business conditions, in
Other lines were normal The lead-
ing cities of the country report a
dressed

looked for until daily consumption
shows a gain which almg's results

j'trom cold Steady Weather.

The highest priced, steers in Chi~

pounds. Very few

- .110
as those or the week before

 

e e is no reason why been.
11, and‘ ‘1
‘ claims they would be higher if these
“ associations would boost their quo-
_1ta‘tions up a. notch or two.
' sounds like good logic, but it might

readily 313;.
Arriv— ‘

 

’ no nearlywas large
but
slackness of the demand made it
possible to stretch the supply until
it reached around.
Sheep and Lamb Trade '
The' sheep and lamb trade, like
every other branch of the business,
is dull and slow in spite of the fact
that oﬂerings'are unusually light'in
all markets. Never before in the
history of the meat business, in this
country, have buyers been so hard
to suit; lambs-are coming to market
as well ﬁnished as were ever seen

but with their fat they have gained _
weight and buyers are discriminat—

ing, sharply, paying top prices for
only a comparative few in the
rivals of each day. Aged wethers
in Chicago go atw$5 per cwt., and
yearlings have to be just the right
weight to beat $9 per cwt.. The div—
iding ine for weight, in both lambs
and 'y arlings, is 85 pounds.
Live Hog Trade

The estimate for Chisago hog re-
ceipts for last week was
hogs but the actual count wit-l not
show more than 160,000, with 10,-
000‘ less hogs on sale on Monday than
the trade looked for, prices made a
trifle better showing than on the
close of the preceding week but 1}

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Markets, outside of Chicago, all
got light runs on theﬁrst two days

of last week, twenty points receiving ‘

fully,200,000 hogs less than for the
same period the week before. With
the big packers in any other than
the most conservative moods” these
light‘arrivals would have ‘put up
prices 50 cents per cwt. Very few
times in the past have theBig 5
fought the hog- market harder than
they did early this week; this must
be taken as an indication that they
have decreed that live hog prices
must go lower. The warm, unsea—
sonable weather and the aggravated
conditions of unemployment, which
still exists in many American cities,
are the conditions that are holding
down consumption of fresh meat .and
causing live-stock of all kinds to
sell right around the bottom for the
season.

Much cooler weather is in prbspect
and the en: ly resumption of. man
facturin-é operations by many oft
leading industrial enterprises?
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and shipped out 667 cars.

The estimated live stock receipts
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000 hogs,
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000 cattle and 37,000 sheep and
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Detroit Market Conditions

The local cattle trade has been
just about the worst, ever, since the
beginning of the new year. Monday
of this week, opened with small re—
ceipts and a trifle more activity to
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mand let up and the close was dull
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with a $16 top, good lambs brought
$11 and hogs brought $9. 50 with a
low a trifle higher.

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Farmer, Adv. I)t.,,

  

'of Millersburg, Presque Isle

’ﬁre the pompa '1'

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Business

.LAND IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN

I have been corresponding with both
Thad Preston o’f Ionia and JohnCG Krath

0, - con-
cer’n‘ing land which they own there (in
Preequg Isle Co. near Onaway and M11-
lersburg) I am thinking of buying some
of this cut—over land it it is desirable
and make my home there. They have
both informed me that these lands are of
productive soil and will raise crops equal

to those raised here in lower Michigan ‘

excepting corn Can you give me any
information about these cut- -over lands in
Presdque Isle C.o ? If you can I will ap-

preciate it—G C, Lake Odessa, Mich.

There’s a lot of good land and a
lot of . “'bum” land“ in Presque Isle
county. Mr. Krauth has sold a good
many thousand acres in’that couna
ty, and we have yet to receive a com-'
plaint against the quality of the soil.
Do not, by any means. purchase land
there or elsewhere on my say-so, or
anybody else’s. The only thing for
you to do is to visit the section your-
self and make a. personal inspection.
—Ed1‘lor.

KEEPING ‘ BULL CONFINED

My neighbm. Mr_ F., has an old
breachy bull, which no fence can con-
ﬁne The lack of feed causes the bull
to jump and destroy my fences and lets
ﬁfteen head of cattle into my corn ﬁeld
and destroys mv crops I have request-
ed Mr. F to conﬁne the bull but he per-
sists in letting him out to roam over the
neighboring farms and public road. What
can I do to stop this public nuisance and
get pay for my crops the cattle has de-
stroyed?—~It. E, S., Climax Mich

__._.-—.._¢

If you have a legal fence and the
animals break through then the own-
erwould be liable for all damage.
‘You’ have the right to impound all
the animals trespassing upon your
premises, collect for the damage
done under the method prescribed 111'
the statute, or you can bring suit
against him for the damage. Im—
pounding and suit for damage is
about themost effective way to abate
such nuisances—W. E. Brown. legal
Editor.

 

 

POULTRY V KILLED BY DOGS

Will you kindly advise me if there is
any provision made for poultry killed by

dogs? I have lost several turkeys every
year in this way ———Mrs E R.. Hanover, .

Mich.

#113 the turkeys were on your prem-
ises and were killed by a trespassing

dog the owner of the dog would be.

liable for the damage; but if the
turkeys were trespassing and the
dog defended the premises you would
have a hard time collecting, although
I believe the owner of the dog would
have no right to kill the trespassing
turkeys to protect the premises. The
owner of the turkeys would be li—
able for whatever damage the tur-
keys did—:li". E. Brown. legal editor.

 

\VOOD FOR SALE ‘
(‘ an you tell me where 1 can ﬁnd a re-
liible uood dealer in Milwaukee or Chi-
man? I haxe a carload of wood for ship-
m.ei1t —-‘A Reader, V an Buren County,
Michigan.

I doubt very much if it would pay
Von in chin wood out. of the state as
the inter- state freight rates are now
so-high as to make shipment of such
a, commodity almost prohibitive, My
advice would“ be to seek a wood deal-
er in some Michigan city nearest to
your Sliln-Ull'l“ point. A letter ad-
dressed to the clerk of any city
should bring you a list of the re-
sponsib‘c wood dealers.——Editor.

 

PAYMENT OF INSURANCE
I notice in M B F or Oct 2nd your

answer to payment of insurance question ~

m interested somewhat in this way
$138 ixsplalning matters, I will say that
when person takes out a policy in a
mutuala company he pays for policy and
bus assessm’p‘nt in advance, and contin-
ues to do 50 11mg as he wishes to be
a member id compaﬁm Should he

by' non- payment

. ' be 1:51de for 111a e1?-
.; ave a 055 y
suing ye Stunt pay him one

  
  

  

     
  

  
 
   

     
 
 
  
 

      
   
   
  

red cent It 1.5-.- that won ’t
work both rm; 'lrke’to see the
matter brim _-,,re a. of -12 men,
I know tl'i ' ies t‘h eaten to sue,
but 1-11ev 1’ their“. doing so Let“ s

is man takes out a
stated,fa1}d at a certain
“it lie-sens out and

  
   
 

policy

  
  
  
   

once through the negligence of a clerk
1'1'1- notifyin the secretary to cancel part
the pol cy, "

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arson househ 1d goods

' price there.

- dark and says he sold it

’ deal and pay the comm1s81on‘?_

had a auction 811111;"

1 was notiﬁed in the annual notice of an-
other years does that I owed so much,
when I had sold. out 9 months previous.
—-F. H ,Otsego, Mich.

Usually the by-laws provide for
the payrhents of assessments and for
the manner of terminating liability.
The application for membership then,
with the aCceptanCe of the applica;
tion', makes a contract, with the by-
laws as the designation of the fights
of the company and member.’
companies have 'one kind of’la 'by'-

, law and other companies have a. diff

ferent one. The members make
their own by laWs and are bOund by

'them.—-—W. E. Brown, legal editor,

FARM RENTALS IN “THULIB”
. COUNTIES

I have been reading the Michigan Bus-
iness Farmer for the past few months
and as I am planning on locating in
Michigan next spring I would like some
information concerning the land and the
Is the land in Lapee‘r, Tus-
0013 and Genesee counties adapted to
general faming? What is land selling
for in those counties? I want to rent a
small farm of about 40 or 60 acres and
buy in the fall as 1 could tell better Just
where I would rather locate What do
farms of that size rent for by paying
cash rent?—-—O Tumbleson, West Frank-
fort Illinois

I wOnder if some friends of the M.
B. F. living on route No. 1 out of,
Caro, Lapeer and ‘Flint will be kind

enough to write this subscriber giv—'

ing him the information desired?—
Edltor. 1

COLLECTING COMMISSION

We listed our farm or 40 acres with
an agent. I signed the contract of
course without reading it not being pres-
et while it was being made The agent
hustled it up just as fast as words and
pen could write. But in a few days I
took the contract and read it and I
found it was not at all as I thought. We
weﬁnot getting as much for the place as
I- thought and payments were very un-
satisfactory We wrote him immediate-
ly not to Sell the place and explained our
reasons. In about a week we wrote him
again, My husband saw him and told
him not to sell it In about three weeks
he brought a man on the place just at
Now he says
he is going to prosecute us if we don't
pay him his commission. He charged
us 8250 on a nineteen hundred dollar
deal. Now what we want to know is
do we have to let him have the place or
in other words. do we have to close the

 

Turner, Mich.

 

— As I do not have a copy of the
contract you signed I do not know
whether the contract would bind you
to transfer the property and pay
commission or not. I censider the
charge of 10 percent an unusual
charge but if people are willing to
pay it _I know of no law that will
make_such- a contract void. People
signing papers without knowing the

con-tents pay dearly for the contract .

privilege. You have the right' to
know and understand the terms of a.
contract you are asked to sign if it
takes you‘a week to ﬁnd out. You
are presumed to know the .contents
of what you sign. If your signature
was secured by fraud or misrepre-
sentation you may have some rem-‘
edy. It is agrnatter for local counsel
to' pass on after a7full statement of
facts.——W. 1"}. Brown. legal editor.
COVE MOTOR COMPANY
What can you telifme about the Gove
Motor Company of Idaho? Agents are
selling stock in this locality—Reader_

This company made. application to
the Michigan Securities CommisSion
for permission to sell stock early last
June, but was disapproved. Supple-

mental application was ﬁled and was -
approved on June 24th, 1920, per-

mission being given for the sale of
$100,000 worth of preferred stock
and 2,500 shares of common stock
were validated to be given as bonus
with the preferred. Authorized com-
mon stock is 5 000 shares, preferred
stock, $500 000 Par value of pre-
ferred. $1.01). Common, nogpar. The
total of assets and liabilities
shown to be $15, 000. The company

Twas formerly located in Idaho, but
As long.

_ now has oﬁ‘ices' in Detroit.
as there are so many proven motor

stocks on the market at Way below.
par I certainly could not advise you 1: '
to invest your money 111' this can.»
to bet"-
hard on automobile companies that __

corn. The future is going

 

are in the experimentaljsta'

Some -

are '

  
 

Last spring I quit
cided to stay on the farm
ested in the rabbit business and as I

school

had some money which I wanted to invest "

I decided to buy some rabbits from ,a.
111-111 where I could return my young
stock Soon after I got in touch ‘wtth
the Standard Food and Fur Ass’n‘ -
New .York City, whose offer- looked good.
to me. In March I ordered 3 rabbits: 0
the 5buy—back plan~ fer which I pal
$27.5 They also sent me a contract--
with othe rabbits to assure me a lace
to sell my young stock They tol

that immediately upon receipt
rabbits my check would go forward to;
me. In November I sent them a. pair
for which I was to receive $9 50 plus ex-
Dressage which was $1 74 '
ter I sent the rabbits I received a letter
from them stating that they received the
rabbits and that I should send them the
contract so they could send my check-
together with renewal of contract, but I
refused to do so They have sent me
several letters asking for the contract.
but I stuck to the contract so far They
also state they are an 'mcorporated ﬁrm
and need the contract to issue my check.

I cannot understand how they can ex-
pect me to send them the contract be-

fore I received any pay. Will I have to
send them this contract before they can

issue my check or not. 9—W. J. ., Pe-. "

wamo, Mich

 

. There is nothing in your contract

that requires you to’ return it and
you exercise level headed judgment
in retaining it.
write for a renewal of the contract.
You do—not state in your letter wheth-
er you wrote them for shipping ine‘
structions before you shipped the
pair you sent them.

or the:

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A week af—‘. 2'

_- It requiresyou to' , .

that these-called contract is subject '

to the order contract. Was there
anything in that vorder affecting
your rights in this shipment. —W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

 

GRAVEL FOR ' SALE

We have a hill ‘of No. 1 gravel cover-"'

ing about twenty acres and it is about
forty feet in height. We are four miles
from the village of Kingston and one
and one- -half miles from the railway;
Could you tell me of ﬁrms liable to be
interested in buying or of someone who
would sell on commission for us. About
how much would it_ sell for?-—L D..
Kingston Mich "

~ A good grade of gravel from 50 to
75 cents a wagon-load. ,Yohr county
or the state ought to be interested.
See your county road commissioner

or write to the Highway Department.

Lansing. They should be able to
ﬁnd you a market for the gravel.—
Editor

 

OWNERSHIP OF UNUSED‘ FENCE

Last spring we purchased a farm of
those who were heirs to this-property,
the widow and mother of these heirs hav-
ing died last year. leaving the household
goods in the house At the time of pur-
chase May 20th, the heirs asked for the
privilege of leaving the goods in the
house until such time as would be‘ con-
venient for them to divide and remove
them. In due time the goods were re<

, moved, also a roll of. woven wire fence
As there was

which lay out in the yard,
nothing mentioned about the Ifence, we

supposed that it went with the place, the '. , ' ’

surviving owner having bought the fence
some three or foumyears ago and never-
put it up. Now who did the fence be:
long to?——H, L, R, Van Buren Co,, Mich.

 

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If the fence had never been used ,

on the farm 1. would be or the opin-

' iOn that it belonged to the heirs and

did not go with a conveyance of the
farm. —W. E. Brown, legal editor.

HUSKING OVVNER’S SHARE OF
CORN

Would like to know if it is customary
for a tenant to husk lz 1diord's share of

 

corn on moving from faim in fall when

same is not mentioned in contract.
corn being cut and in the shock ﬁW. S.,
Benzie County, Mich . .

 

I am of the opinion that the agree?“

the _' ’

ment to do all the work on‘the‘ farm "

in the usual lease from owner to
tenant would contemplate the husk-

‘ing of the corn of the owner and.

drawing and Storing or delivery 6:”:
the share of owner at agreed place.
—lV. E. 37017211, legal editor. ff

 

  
  
 
 
 
   

 

PLOWING PUBLIC 111cm ..

After E‘BW road has b1 , aded’ ,
not finishes ft with very course gray
and not _ ked, ‘has anyone a. law.
-right- to plow from the center of
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eleven SEED IN NORTHERN
MICHIGAN

  
  
 

,as Alcona, Butters through et-

  
 
    
  

n'y. rate, for large yields,‘ year after
car, we find them in- Alpena, Mont-

  
   
   

  

oygan counties.

    

tection _ Just the same, Michigan
{‘3 has a “clever seed bel ” you will see,
, pin a very few years, large quantities
of hardy altaua seed grown here for
ff} the market for it also yields abund-
' ':_ antly. 1
2 Farmers in the vicinity oi! Millers-
burg harvested 4, 000 bushels of
.clover seed this ”year mostly alsike,
a—nd believe me, the proﬁtable returns
. ; from this Crop thus far marketed, in
' 1" this neversto-zbe-torgotten slump,
; __prjoved most welcome. Michigan
farmers‘are not alive to the value of

      
 

 

 

   

 

sWeet clover for feed, fertility and

seedx
9f: 7 ' Mr. M. T. one of our prominent
1 " farmers, after, a ﬁve years trial with
sweet clover, has this to say: “I se-’
‘ . "cure an abundant hay crop from ﬁrst
,. ' a cutting, the second cutting the same
' - year, is my seed crop, all the way
from 9 to 14 bushels per acre The
chaffeor hullings and hay are greed-
, iiy devoured by the stock. Sheep.
' (cows and horses if given- their choice
will leave alfafta and june clover for
WsWeet clover hay, and 'the calves
bafwl for it. rMy cows showimmedi-
~ . , ate gains in milk, flow, .when sweet
" clover hay is substituted for either
14 "-_ .alfalrta or June clover. As a fertility
‘ crop, sweet clover” is second to
j -i . none ”—John G; Krauth, ‘Millersburg,
" 1 L . Mich. 1 V 1

 

 

 

-I have heard before of the wonderful

_ success. you Northeastern Michigan farm-
‘ - ers have been having with clover seed
" We’d dike to have any further informa-
tion you have to offer regarding the
crop—nature of soil, seeding, marketing.
‘ __ etc '—-Editor, - _ 1 ,

 

 

, . _ BRoPORTIONAL REPRESENTA-
j . , TION PLAN
.;- 'YOUR EDITORIAL in the issue

 

‘ of November 20, 1920, on “A
. County Commission”
‘ ' me; - - .
1 Personally I cannot see why we
‘ a - should change a representative sys-*
! ' tem howeVer cumbersome for a sys-
.> tem somewhat more efficient perhaps
I ' but not so representative.
I - If the commissioncould be chosen
.by the Proportional Representation
an: -. Plan as iused in various parts of the.
'v'vo’rld, e.-, Belgium, Transvaal,
.‘Canada, Ohio—sit would 'be even
'mOre representative than the pres-
ent system and we would have a
real improvement.

I would like to see the plan in
use in the United States and think
that a geod start could be.made in

the smaller units-of government.

 

1. anmnss FARMER open up the dis'
caseion of Proportional Representa-
tion at an opportune time. l—Air1diew
P. Campbell, Ann Arbor ' 1 .

 

am glad to have your suggestions
ThIe Proportional Representation League
‘ hes sent me a fund of literature upon.
' -this subject which I have not as yet had
3 the time to thoroughly digest A cas~
‘1ual reading rather impnesses One that,
’the system is slightly complex. Yet, 1
~»_;_1e1_;ceive certain deﬁnite merits to- -the

nan and will be glad to give it my
-.'fnrther consideration and later discus-
-'sion in these columns. —-—-Editor.

  
  

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ABCUT GAMBLING

does not take the gambling situ4
"Hat-ion in hand Take the Liberty

   
 

dollap‘for these bonds, and now

 
 
  

 

, “TSLOVER sEED yields, as far south '
N :jtec'ts of the clover weevils—and,

Retina county are in the same boat. At '

. I also believe.
,-:tha‘;t we get just enough snow pro--

 

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think, $16. 48 discount on $100. Why
aren’t they worth as much today as
when we bought them. I think it
the government would get 'after the
gamblers and make them live up to

the law we would have better times. '

If they Catch a poor devil playing
cards or shaking dice they pinch him.

'35 to $50 and 5 to,90 days. And yet

they think it is all right for the rich
to gamble on our money, and if yOu
say anything they reply,- “Sell or
starve. -We are running this end to
suit ourselves.”——0. 0. M., Flint, Mich;

 

Well, my friend, I dont know as I
blame you for feeling the way you do
Hard times are ﬁerce on poor men. but
are ”pie" for the rich Now so far as
your Liberty bonds are concerned [ feel
exactly the way you do that there ought
to be a way to prevent their slumping
in value, and yet I can ’t for the life of
me see how it could be done except by

the government redeeming them at par »

value whenever you wanted. to sell But
the present state of the treasury would
never permit the redemption of the mil—
lions that would be oi‘tered. Have you

not stopped to think that the only rea-,

son there is a market for Liberty bonds
is because they can be purchased at less
than par. If the'government should pass
a.” law' forbidding anyone to sell Liberty
bonds for less than par what would hap~
pen? Why nobody would buy them, and
those who needed the money they have
tied up in these bonds would be ten times
worse off thanthey are now. The only
way that the government could prevent
fluctuations in the market value of Lib-
erty bondswould be to redeem them at
face value, which I repeat, could not be
done at the present time, It doesn’t
seem just right, I’ll admit, but Wind 1.1111:
we going to do about it?—Editoi-.

AerMoBrLEs AND ROADS

WOULD XUU not in your paper give
a discussion of the methods pro-

posed and in effect for tax rais- >

ing to improve and build roads. Ac-
cording to my observation automo-
biles are responsible for approxi-
mately nine tenths of the destructive
wear on roads.
that proportion of the taxes by a
special automobile tax graduated to
tonnage, horsepower and speed de-
veloped. Certainly We know there

are now automobile taxes but either .

they are not sufﬁcient for necessary
road "building expenses or we need
more effective methods of road re-
pairing—S. V. L.,’Jones, »Mich.

Any proposal to place a higher direct
tax upon automobiles for road building
purposes would, I am sure most with do—
feat. 1 am not saying whether this
should or should not be the case, but am
merely stating what I believe to be a
fact. It'cannot be disputed that the
major number of the people who travel
the public highways are owners of auto—
mobiles and hence are in a position to
dictate road ﬁnancing policies. You
might be interested in Knowing that the
state's share of the 1921 auto license
fund is large enough to pay all of the
state’s share in the maintenance of trunk
line roads and bridges, as well as the ad—
ministrative expenses of the Highway
.l)cp:‘1r1111o11t. The counties’ share of the
auto tax is not large enough to pay an
appreciable share of the cost of main-
taining roads under the county system,

'so that a large amount of road tax must

be raised by direct levy on all property
owners, Personally I feel that there is
a strong possibility under present road
law‘- 111‘ il1-- road tax becoming too bur-

'u workable substitute

Why not raise about '

_repaid for our

densome to rural communities. though I
must confess that I do 110;. as yet see
This is a subject
in which 1 am greatly interested hrm-
over, and upon which I intend to confer
with the road building authorities of the
state and members of the legislature——
Editor, .

 

A BOQUET AMONG THE
BRICKBATS

NCLOSEQﬁnd my renewal. Keep
Ethe M. B. 1‘. coming. The know-

ledge and advice it contains to
farmers of my calibre or old settlers
is worth many times its yearly sub-
scription price. I; ﬁrmly. believe it
has no equal as a’t‘arm journal 'and
should be in every farm home in the
state. I am also convinced that if
those who do get it could convince
others of the policies it advocates the

 

farmers in general would be on :1
better footing ﬁnancially.~—Ph1i11'p J.
'Ma-chek, Ottawa County, Mich. ..

We agree with you, only we are too

modest to say '.so if, my loyal £111 11r1

- you alone have found help and inspiiaiion

from tthe columns We have bean “oil
effmts The (irculation
of the Business Farmer is rapidly spread—
ing into every county of Michigan We
never expect to have all the farmers maul
ing this paper, but if we can secure min-
half of the two hundred thousand as per--
mancnt friends and readers, we are g0-
ing to be in a position to do some really
tangible and practical things for Michi-
gan agriculture. Editor.

 

1 want to say that i surely appreciate
loading your paper 1011' mmh—J S.
W., Lapeei, Mich

 

interests '

1It- would be a-pleasure to see THE’

DO NOT see why the government.
from; working classes and .. .

,ng slack, except in Walli '
has of Trade, we '-
' ”bonds tar below. .

 

 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 

   

Mylnutations Prove Its Superiority

How Much Milk Will it
Produce?

That’s what'counts in buying your feed.
Nothow much it costs but how much milk it produces.

How much proﬁt it‘puts in the bank.

You will ﬁnd that the extra milk you get from Larro pays
not only the extra ﬁrst cost, but makes you a nice proﬁt
besides. You can afford to pay three or four cents more.
to feed a cow when you get a quart or two more milk.

Remember, that no matter how much milk your cows
are now giving, you are assured that with Larro they

Vmust give more—or you get your money back.

' ‘1 ' - Write for the names of successful dairymen in your
neighborhood who use Larro year after year for just
one reason—because it makes more money for them.

. _’ _ The Larrowe Milling Company
2104 hanowe Bldg” Detroit, Mich.

 

   

        
    
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
 

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Mich.

Disarmament

HERE 1s something deeply sinister in the

neck and neck race between the United

States, Great Britain and Japan toward naval

supremacy. Has the war taught 11s nothing?

Have our sons died for naught after alllHave

we fought the bloodiest conflict of all history

Without learning that military preparedness

. invites hostility and yet is impotent to repel
it?

naval armament is a desire of the devil. Our
wildest imaginings cannot conjecture the ex-
tent to which ‘such a Godless ambition may
lead us. Distrust, hate, war, bankruptcy and
ruin hover like evil spirits in the air and grin
with malicious joy for every nail that is driven
4 ., and every bolt that is riven in these destroy-
ers of the deep. The most superb navy that
ever floated at anchor and the ﬁnest standing
army that ever wore uniform cannot prevent
war. Indeed, they encourage war, precipitate
war. , _

The proof? The pages of every history of
every country on the face of the. globe. Oh,
why are” we so headless, so blind, so over!
poweringly egostistical and proud that we
cannot realize that even the great United
States is not so invincible that it can avoid
the consequencecs of military pomp and pow-
cr? 011, why in the name of God and human-
ity do we not seek a less 'deadly route to
peace!

England has long proclaimed herself mis-
tress of the seas. No nation was ever more
Jealous of her military power than England
of her acknowledged supremacy 011 the water.
Yet even this traditional builder of navies has

lessons of the great war burned deeply into
her conscience she stands for the ﬁrst time
in her history, hesitant, doubtful and even
fearful of the ultimate'outcome of the present
frenzied naval building. rivalry, Britain
would call a halt in her navy-building pro-
gram—~if Japan and the United States- would
follow suit. Japan is sorely tempted to fol-
low England’s example, ——but will the United
States fall in line? And what about the
United States? God pity her! In her su-
preme ego that she can do no wrong and can
manage her own affairs in absolute deﬁance of
the- rest of the world, she turns a deaf ear to
such proposals, and proceeds without a halt
upon what is planned to be
ly the greatest navy in the world.”

We are a long suffering peeple. To a mere
like ourselves to err in judgment, -——we dole

again lead us into useless wars

 
  
 
 

, Takes to pay the cost of old wars and prepare.
"for new ones continue to form the major part5

' of our national budget. National improve-
. While We pay for dead horses

' The people are sovereign.

The desire of the great nations to excel in

come to the parting of the ways, and with the.

“incomparab— ,

, handful of beings, human like ourselves, liable. ..
a mistake on Mr. Dickinson 8 ’part in not im-

gate powers whose abuse have led and may
The national. ‘,-
. , debt grows ever larger and more burdensomen;

 

lacking. Isn’t it tinie fur the people, with the
memory of the last great war still fresh in

their minds, to call a halt on all military prep.-
‘arations and to insist that their diplomats take.

the' initiative at once in bringing about a
world-wide movement toward disarmament!
Let them Speak
now before it is too late.

The Governor’s Message

OV. GROESBECK’S message to the leg-

islature, coming as it did in the midst
of a riot of waste, extravagance and inefﬁc-
iency in nearly every state department, is "like
a tonic to the harassed and tax-ridden citizen-
ship. It renews their conﬁdence'in popular
government and the integrity of public oﬂic-
13.18 and gives them hope that a brighter fu-
ture is ahead. The Groesbeck message re-
veals a crystal-clear vision of the needs bof the
state, and sets forth in a. practical, straight-
forward and concrete manner how many of
these needs may be administered to. It de-
serves to rank‘ among the state’s docments.
The heads of certain state departments and
spokesmen for the legislature have already
assured Mr. Groesbeck of their hearty co-op-
eration in carrying out the' reforms he has
suggested. Let 11s fervently hope that there
may be no hitch in the program.

Get Behind the.College
NLESS the agricultural interests of the
state get actively behind the M. A. C.
the appropriations which ,the college have

asked for are quite likely to be cut, and cerf

tain extension work planned by the college
will either have to be curtailed or discontinued
altogether. The College has its friends and
enemies. The friends are like many friends,
passive, while its enemies are forever on the
alert. Slow as have been the college authori-
tis-to recognize its duties in the ﬁeld of mar-
keting, the strides it has taken along this line
have been fairly rapid since the awakening.
There is no doubt but what certain privat~
interests of the state would put an end to the
M. A. C. ’s 1 rlreting activities through the
extension department and it is not surprising
to ﬁnd them. covertly attacking the college’s
estimates of the funds needed to” carry onOLhis
work. Great as has been the ‘disappolntmcnt
over the college’s early failure to respond to
the more urgent needs of the state’s agricul-
ture, and well- founded as recent crlticism may
be of the institution.’s shortcomings, the farm-
ers of the state should take note of the fact
that changes have been made and more chang-

es are to follow in the personnel of the College ’

Board which should make the institution more
responsive to the farmers and consequently a
much greater power for the good ofMichigan
agriculture. This college was founded by
farmers 'for farmers. It has done a great
work in promoting scientiﬁc agricultural pro-
duction. It is destined to do an ever greater
work in promoting scientiﬁc marketing of
farm products. It therefore behooves every
farmer to use such influence as he may have
to impress the legislature with the importance
of allowing the appropriations asked for by
:he College. ‘

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The State Fair Squabble

GOOD deal 'of fuss has been made over

the bonus of $10,000 which the'directors
of the Michigan State Fair unanimously voted
to Secretary- Manager Geo. M. Dickinson, in,
appreciation of his services. In view of the
fact that Mr. Dickinson’ 8 salary is $15,000
which ought to be a fair recompense for even
his capable services, it was probably a mistake
for the directors to have voted the bonus and

   
  

‘ mediatel'y rejecting it At the same time Mr.

the Fair’ a remarkable attendance and Enema
strides is due to Mr. Dickinson’ a seal and and
tiring e‘iforts. He has led: the-«1M. moot 1111

 

not be fought if the instruments .3 of War are . '
._ or Mr. D1ck1n80n 8 management I!

' predicament.

-. all other virtues combined.

.ﬁlls the possessor with an all- pervading some

m ., seemed at perfect rest With man and not:
Dickinson’ 8 excellent record as manager of the g.
Fair shOuld not be Wei-lacked or minimized,
, It 1stundoubtedly true that. the major part 0

 
  
   
    
  

ed that the state take over the State Fau-
run it for service instead of proﬁt. In ' is
message to the legislature Gov. Groeebeck
recommends this step. Mr. Dickinson is re- ‘ ,
purted as saying that he will oppOse this move, "
which if true, is a very foolish attitude far '.

him to assume. ' We believe the state Fairy.“ " , v_ g.
should be under the control 0f the state and , 5 3' I
that every penny of revenue should be turned 3
back into 1mprovements. No eifort or expense" ' ’
that can be borne by the institution itself

should be spared to make this great exposition
fully reflect the agriculture and industry of

the state. Care shOuld be taken, however,
that the institution be made self sustaining,

and not become an additional burden upon the -
taxpayers. This eculd be virtually assured .
providing the state would retain the services . _
of the present manager, Mr. Geo. W. Dick-
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Mr: Harding’s Cabinet ‘- f
R. HARDING has probably discovered" 3‘
by- this time that being elected presi; -
dent is a lead-pipe cinch'compared with the . -
job of naming the President’s cabinet. .No .~ 4?
truly sympathetic soul could help but have . x '
compassion upon Mr. Harding in his present, ‘
He is the victim of too many
friends. From north and south and east and "
west, in person, by special emissary, mail, tel-
ephone and telegraph they come to tell Mr. .
Harding whom they would prefer to have sit ' '
in hiscabinet. And remarkable as it may
seem they do not all agree.“ To some Mr. 1
I’Ioover‘is acceptable in any capacity; to 7
ot‘,he1s in none. One set of friends argue in
favor of Root for Secretary of the State,
while in the eyes of other friends Root is an
arch enemy of the state. So it goes. And
Harding, poor man, is fair distraught with all
the conflicting advice, opinions and Wishes
that envelop him like the waves the island
rocks. Incidentally Mr. Harding’s reaction
to these advances will be the true test of the
man ’5; character. ’Tis well to listen to coun- .
scl, but too much counsel is worse than none. .
The manner in which Mr. Harding Sifts the
mass of opinion presented to himb and pro- . f
cecds without fear or favoritism to select the ‘
men whom he honestly believes the best ﬁtted ~ ,3
to head the several departments of state will '
1n a very large measure serve as a guage to
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The Power of Love

RUMMOND, the great preacher-author, , 3
says that love is the “greatest thing in ‘
the Worl. It transcends faith, charity and ‘
“If you have love
in your heart,”, says Drummond, “all things l
else will be added unto you.’ The heart that 3
is in attune with God is a heart running over ,
with love. ‘ . 1
To most folks love is an ephemeral sort of
thing, best if inelogantly described by the ,. '

. courting sWain as an “itchy feeling in the‘

region of the heart which cannot beb scratch- ~
ed.” Lives there a .man or 11 oman of mature , '
years Who has net felt that stlange “itching”
and longed to “scratch it.” “ The better to
have loved and lost, ” quoth the philosophic.
lover, “than never to have loved at all.” Ay,_,»{"1

‘ pity the mortal Who in the cold, grey evening

of decrepit years looks back upon a life dcvoidrf’d
of love.

LOVe makes the heart to sing and the pulse'_‘.;‘.“
to th1ob with a strange delight. Leve dispels '7,
the clouds, transforms the rain to sunbeamsﬂ-L
and paints all nature in smiling colors. Luve

     
     
       
       
       
          
 

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ness. Have you never. Walked down the; r
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g ‘. Ifsight‘ 'of 'a‘little child may ‘for no apparent

" g greasOn at all, bring happy tears to your eyes.

" and you positively beam on, both man and
' beast as they pass you by. ‘ .

It is toye, my friend, responding to the mag-

ic tOuch M of spring that ﬁlls you with such ‘ a

delicious sense, of well-being on thismorning

, 1 have. just described. The world loses its

sordidness, itsselﬁshness and all unlove’liness'

and becomes for the time being a thing of
matchless beauty. Everything is pleasing to

the senses, It were as if the sighing of the “

winds, the scughing of the boughs, the songs
of the‘birds, talking of men, the laughter of
children andall the other sounds of the air
_, were a part of some great melody which yes-
terday was a discord but today is a perfect
harmony, with your heart in tune. ,.

These moments are rare in the lives of most
men and women, yet there is no reason why
they should be.‘ Every heart has the capac-
ity to love, but in many cases the owner per-
.mits the iron bands of selﬁshness and indit’feré

_ ence to fasten themselves across the doors of
~- , the heart im-prisoning whatever virtues it may
contain:- The keys to unlock the treasures of
love are completeforgetfulness of self and
perpetual thoughtfulness for others. Try
these keys when you get up tomorrow morn-
ing. Forget-for the time being your little dis-
comforts and worries. Turn your attention
to those about you. Do something kind,—
speak a good word, .shed a smile, turn your
hand to .help another. No. matter how trivial
tne servme may be you will shortly begin to
feel that itching sen-ition around the region
of your heart. It will glow there like an en:-
hen-warming that cold interior like a beam of
sunlight in a chilly -room.' Keep 'it alive, fan
1t and some day it will burst into a great
flame of passionate love for all human-kind.
‘ Again my thoughts go back ’to Quaker
Benn’s famous homily: “I shall pass through
tins world but once; any good thing, therefore,
that Ican do and any kindness that I can show
to any human being, let me do it now;’let me
not deferor neglect it, for I shall not pass
this way again.” Make that philosophy an
integral part of yourdaily existence, and life
.mll forvermore be one grand sweet song.

 

A Chance To Earn Money

THE CIRCULATION manager has asked ~
me_to call the attention of our readers to '

his advertisement on page eight .in which he
offers to pay liberal commissions to farmers
who Will take subscriptions ‘to the Business
,7} arme'r: I am glad to do this: I know there
must be hundreds of our readers who are feel-
mg‘the pmch of hard times and would be only
, too glad to have this opportunity to earn .a
little Spare money. Another reason way 1
am anxmus to have our readers take up this
work is tospread the gospel of business farm-
. mg into. every nook and corner of the land.
The maJor part of our circulation has come
» from those kind friends who have gone out of
their wayto‘ do a good turn for the Business
Farmer, believing that eVery new member add-
ggag the (Emily is like one more link in the
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in every dire? a mu WWI is reaching out

  

orﬁins”.-as you pass their ‘ a , , _
. ' . HIE-farmer has been called. the goat, but

Fleecing the Farmer ' ‘

. he is also 'a sheep in the sense that he is
continually being “fleeced.” A good deal of
this .fleecing he .cannot escape, but in certain
instances he walks straight into the shearing
pen and stands patiently by while he is shoru
of a substantial share ef'his worldly goods:
We have repeatedly cautiOned‘ our readers
against the innumerabfe worthless‘ stocks that
are'being promoted by dishonest salesmen.

Yet, it seems as if our warning had fallen up- i

on a legion of deaf ears, for hundreds contin—
ue tobe “fleeced” and complain to us atfer
the operation is over. ' Again we say “Listen
not to the Serpent-tongued salesman who ped-
dles “bargains” or “guarantees” you a'hun-
dred percent dividend on your investment.
He is sure to prove a siren to lead you to your
(ruin. Remember always, that “bonanzas”
do not have to be peddled out in job lots, and
they never are. For one “lucky strike” a
hundred 'poor suckers are hooked. Sign no
note or agreement for the purchase of any
stock until \you have thoroughly investigated
it and ascertained its value. If in doubt write
the Business Farmer which maintains a de-
partment for the purpose of looking up such
matters as these. But do not by any means
trust your savings to a smooth-talking sales-
man or a fly-by-night stock company merely
upon the promise of huge dividends.

 

4 Musings of a Plain Farmer
Up before dawn and milking the cows, 12 in num—

,. her. My faithful wife assisting me.

It t it
It’s feeding time new. I am getting weary of
this eternal grind! ,
It i l
I meet the milk man who has his sleigh'for the
ﬁrst time this winter. , A cheerful fellow.
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To breakfast of coffee, toast and doughnuts.
t II: III
To the stable again. Watering stock‘and clean~
ing stables. I wish I had (i, litter-carrier, this
wheel-barrow is getting wobbley!
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My wife is breaking a young calf to the paih He
is stubborn and she calls for my assistance. I am
vexed and strike him vigorously with my ﬁst. He
drinks, she is petting him. It takes a woman to
raise a calf! How those yearlings grow. They'll
soon be cows. And then I’ll have to him them,
top! I wonder what the price of milk will be next
'wlntcrf Someone knows, but not the producer!
It 3 II

Well, these stables are cleaned again. I must
feed and go to dinner.
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A short hour with the daily paper. They are

having quite a time in Wa‘ehinaton with the tartﬂ'.
Let’s all stretch! '
l t i
I must go andﬂgroom the cows and then to the
evening chores.
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To supper.
at t t

I am taking inventory this evening of our person-
al stock and a present -prices it looks bad. Farewell
to all my greatness. The Old year is over and I
still have my shirt. But not a silk one!

It It If
To bed tired and despondent.
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' Hoping you are the same;
-—A. P. B., Huron OOunty.

     

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, . ho has'notcome acres old poems".
they ” loved to read" in‘ ,dayé‘gone by? Ana
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fashion and lost one ’s self in a prolonged re--;
reading of'the familiar. verses. Nearly everya ;
one has a favorite song or story. Occasionally“
there comes flitting through my mind frag:
ments of the songs my mother used to sing to
me, but strive as I may I cannot recall more
than a few words.’ One, in particular, I re-T,
member, ﬁred my youthful imagination yet I
now bring to mind only the title, “The Texas
Rangers.” I wonder if any reader recalls
this old song-story of the thrilling lives led by
the cattle rangers of the great southwest, and
if so, if they will. send me the song complete? .
Would it not be a good idea to sendme copies -
of your favorite songs or poems and let0 me
publish them as space permits? If you can
tell us something about the author so much the . ,
better.

Looking back through the ﬁles of St. Nich-
olas, for the year 1888, I came across the quaint
rhyme below and thought my readers might be
pleased to read it. It is by H. Maud Merrill.

TWO LITTLE OLD LADIES

Two little old ladies, one grave, one gay,

In the self-same cottage lived day by day.

One could not be happy, “because,” she said,
“So many children were hungry for bread;”
And she really had not the heart .to smile,
When the world was so wicked all the while. .

        
       
  

 
  

     
 
 

    

   
 

  

 
     
        
    
       
        
     
         
      
    
 
  
 
  
   
  
   
   
 
 
  
     
  
    
 
 
   
   
  
   
   
  
  
    
   
   
  
   
   
   
    

The other old lady smiled all day long,

As she knitted, or sewed, or crooned a song.
She had not time to be sad. she said,

When hungry children were crying for bread.
So she baked, and knitted, and gave away,
And declared the world grew better each day.

Two little old ladies, one grave, one gay;
Now which do you think chose the wiser way?

Ezra Levin, muck land- specialist of the M. A.
0., gives the Business Farmer a “na-wful" calling <'
for daring to question the wisdom of some of the
muck land policies of the College. Moreover, ,
with the charaéteristic nerve of his race, he asks '
us to hit ourselves with this brick-bat which he
has prepared. Well, we like to be accommodate
ing, so next week the readers of THE BUSINESS
Fumes will be able to read in these columns the
goshawfullest dressing that any farm paper ever.
did get. '

f/ if,

Mr. Harding’s decision to forego the usual
pomp attending presidential inauguration cereé
monies will receive the commendation o! the en,-
tire world. The president-elect shows a clear ap-
preciation of proportion when he refuses to par-
ade in gilt and tinsel during an era of hard time
and suffering. ,

The farmers who have stood pat while the
prices on their crops tumbled, will not regret .
their action. The trend of nearly all farm pro.
ducts right now is unmistakably upwards. ‘

 

The dairy interests of the state will hold a
meeting to discuss their problems. It seems as
if we have had enough cussing and discussing,
and that it is now time for a little action.

Sheriff Jack Hornet, sat in a corner

While the law was being deﬁed;

He said: “I should worry; there’s no cause to
hurry .

The state troopers will soon herd-abide.”

 

 
 

Thousands of men and women, both old and
young, have deserted the cities for the farms the
last few months. Wonder how manyof ’em will 1
stick when industrial prosperity revives? , -

      
     
     
   

 

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the farmers into
a circle of com-

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and action, I
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f’FIEET MRS. JENNEY, THE NEW
1. EDITOR OF THE FARM
HOME DEPARTMENT
By the Editor 1

T IS WITH a great deal of pleas-
ure that I introduce to the read-
.'ers of THE BUSINESS FARMER, Mrs.
Grace Nellie Jenney, who on Janu-
ary lst became the editor of the
1Farm Home Department. Mrs. Jen-
ney is a resident of Mount Clemens.
130th her training and experience
have been varied and have given her
that broad, sympathetic vieWpoint of
klife which is the prime essential of
7 editorship. As a public school teacha
.er, a teacher of music, a writer, a
housewife and mother, Mrs. Jenney
has acquired a fund of practical
knowledge-which I am sure will
make her future work on the editor-
ial staff of THE BUSINESS FARMER
~1nos't acceptable to our readers. I ask
our readers to welcome her to this
department and to assure Iher of
their friendship and co-oper-ation.

Although born in MIchiIgan, Mrs.
Jenney comes of an old Canadian
family of .editors and publishers.
Much of her life has been spent in
and near rural communities where
she has been brought into intimate
rontact with the every— day problems
if the neighboring country folk. Her
ﬁrst contribution to the realm of lit-
erature was made at the tender age
of nine when she 'burst into print
with an article on “Books, and the
Reading of Them.” This was pub-
lished in the school paper. Since
Ihat time, however, she has not felt
:hat‘she‘could handle so pretentious
:1 subject and has consequently con—
élned \her literary efforts to more
simple themes. The next subject to
.vhich- she set her pen was, “How‘ to
Plan a "Chicken Coop,” which singu-
larly enoug‘h took ‘ﬁrst prize in a
poultry magazine. The information
conveyed, Mrs. Jenney tells us, was
drawn both from practical experi—
ence and observation. Notwith—
standing this mark o-f recognition
the youthful progeny of the pen for-
bore to give further instuction in
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ed musical talent which of later
years she developed to a large de-
gree, becoming a member of the De-
troit Institute of Musical Art, teach-
ing both in Detroit and Mount Clem-
ens. 'She has taught in the public
schools specializing in pedagogy and
kindergarten work.

some years ago Mrs. Jenney spent
some time in the European countries,
visiting the histonical places of Scot-
land and England, more particular-
.ply the art galleries and cathedral
towns. We will ask her some time
- to write an article on European trav—
els, as I am sure there is not a read-
er who has not at some time or other
longed to be transported to the an-
cient ruins and historical sites of
the old countries.

I: think you are going to like Mrs.
Jenney. I think you are going to ﬁnd
that she is entirely in sympathy with

rows, yourgio-ys, your hopes. I want
you to feel free to lay your most in-
timate, problems before Mrs. Jenney,
for she has assured me that what-
.ever advice she cannot give through
these columns she will 'be glad to
give personally through the mails.
Problems pertaining to the home, to
the children, to health, happiness,
etc., should be brought to Mrs. Jen—
vney’s‘attention, for she is here to
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GREETINGS

TR WOMEN readers: It is new
iii-- privilege to edit— this page

  
 

  

 
 

. things that you

Early in life Mrs. Jenney display-1

your needs, your problems, your sor—,

interest and sympathy your letters.
I want to hear from the girls. on the
farms, perhaps We might with proﬁt
occasionally, mention the subject of
clothes, '1 amusements, books and

music. ’
When you write letters for these
short.

columns, please make them
There are at
least eight” let-
ters now, good
ones too, in my
drawer, begging
to be puiblished
and we have not
room.
If you

that there-

ﬁn d
are

want that must
be purchased in
a big ‘city and it

is not conveni-
ent for you to
get in, I will

gladly be of ser-
vice to you as I
am in Detroit al-
most every week,
and will make it
convenie n t t 0
shop for you.

It is my very
sincere desire that the new name on
this page may become in time more
than a mere name to you.—-Grace N.
Jennei, editor.

OUR REPRESENTATIVE
ISS ALICE Robertson, who is
the only woman elected to sit
in the next congress, is a Re~
publican, always opposed to suffrage.
She should be perfectly'safe. She.
grew up in Oklahoma and is an au-

thority on Indian education. and
western conditions. Judging from
her pictureVI venture. to say that

there will be no hysterics, that she
will take her seat with dignity and
win the esteem of her fellow-cong-
ressmen.

WOOL LACE FOR AFGHANS

NEW IDEA in robes for baby
carriages is being shown in
them,

some of the stores. For making

use double-faced eiderdown,
instead of binding the edge with rib—
bon, buttonho-le, all around with
Germantown wool, not too ﬁne, and

”then crochet a wool lace a‘bout six

inches wide all around catching your
crochet hook in the buttonholing
They may be decorated with a

' wool flower in one corner.

Eiderdown ‘batih robes may also
be ﬁnished with a narrow wool la-ce
around the cuffs and collar.

I recently made one of rose—pink~

 

MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY

A Department for ’ the Women _... ﬂ

tableSpoon'ful of salt, 3 of sugar and
salt-petre the size of a pea. Let this
stand 48 to 62 hours, then put the
beef on to cook in lthe same brine.
Let it cook gently until tender or put
in your tireless cooker and leave over
night. ,
separately as the
brine would spoil
them.

Cooking t h e
meat i n t h e
brine after ' 48

hours covers it

sufficiently and
it is delicious.
.1 11 ~

I serve it With

boiled cabbage,

white turn i p s,

toes.

Tapioca Pudding
Place '1 , quart

of milk in an
aluminum ket-
tle, put on your
fire and stir in
' while cold 3
tablespoons of
tapioca. Stir con-
stantly until the
tapioca cooks clear, then ~add the
yolks of 2 eggs beaten with 1-2 cup
scant, of sugar and a 1—4 teaspoon
of. salt, add to hot milk and stir
gently until it thickens a little. Then
remove from the ﬁre, ‘bea-t your 2
whites very stiﬁ and beat into the
custard, add a- little nutmeg and a

few drops of bitter almond or van-

illa if you prefergit.

Serve with cream and a spoonful

of tart jelly.
It looks pretty and is as good as
ice cream.

It stiffens a good’ deal as it gets

cold. Use minute tapioca.
Hashed Brown Potatoes

1.pinlt cold boiled potatoes chop-

ped; 6 taiblespoons cream; 1 tea-
spoon salt, a little pepper, mix to-
gether with a fork. Put 2 table-

spoons butter in frying pan, when

hot, put in the potatoes, flatten down '

and cook slowly, until golden brown,
turn out on hot dish and eat.

Johnny Cake

11- 2 cups white corn meal;
cup white flour (or 1 cup yellow
corn meal and 1 cup flour); 1-2 cup
sugar scan-t. Stir well together; 1
1—2 cup thick sour cream; 1 level
teaspoon soda. Stir- into meal, a
pinch of baking powder. Add one
egg well bea‘ten. Beat well and
back, this makes a soft, rich bread.

Nut Bread
Mix together 3 good cups flour, 4

 

 

eiderdown and trimmed it with light teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 cup
2: r e y w o o 1. sugar, add 11
Cords and tas- cup nutmeats.
sels also grey ' ' Beat one egg
are u n d t h e To My Son .well and add 2

neck and waist
comple t e d a
very attractive

Do you know that your soul is of my all
soul such part,

cups milk. Stir
together,
- add 1-2 cup of

The vegetables have to be cooked'

carrots and pota-

. until I was becomring'a wreck. When

1-2,

garment. That you seem to be fiber and core raisins, cut up.
'l" Th e w o o] of my heart? ' Put in 2 pans,
wears bet t e r None other can pain me as you dear. let ﬁtand 20
than ri b b o n can do. minutes. Bake
and is really None other can please or praise me in a. moderate -
prettier. as you. over 3-4 of an
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with it's blame, _;__.___.._
Iggcgsﬁnsnke If shodow or Stain ever darken your TABLE LINEN
corn beef 1.1111211311331211 like son is a saying OW that the
with vege- so true ' ’ pric e of
tables —. a real ’ ' d a m a ‘831

oldufashi o n e d
boiled dinner?
Then try this:
Buy a center
cut of dump,

- about 5 pounds.

Place in a. con-
.tainer and‘ad’d
3 quartsof wa-
ter in
has 'been dis‘
solved, .1- large

 

' which-

 

 

The world will judge
mother by you.

Be this then your task, if‘ task it
shall be.

To force this proud world to do
homage to me. ‘

largely of

"Be sure it will say, when it‘s ver-

dict you've won,

She reops as she sowed. .149! This
man is her Son. 1

---Your Mother.

 

 

 

table linen is
almost prohib-
itive very good
an (1
table
may be had by
buying
crash resisornq
ably. ’ 11:31:;
forty-ﬁve“ inch-

es wide.’ thirtyw
inches will cut .

p r e t t y ~
napkins , ~hard that I might reSt.
.WOrk took him near the wood
line 11‘ '_

visited with him, enjoyed the:
--_air in God’ s out of doors}:

  
         

six napkins. ﬁfteen” inches square, "
Roll the edges and sew over and ,_ 1.
over with wool of one color going 1 1..
back with wool, of another color;
bl ’ d rown make a pretty com-
bination also, 'blue and 'black. These
napkins are found in the Arts and
Crafts stores in the cities also in
stores where ﬁne fancy articles are
on display. They bring a" good'
price being “quite the tad of the
moment” and one may be glad_ to
own a set or give them to a friend.

 

HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS, 1 1.1.;
(Editor’s note:
oﬁered a prize for the best article on
“Home Improvements.” Among/the
several contributions that came to
hand was the following gem. Read
it. It contains some lestons for all of .
UR R“HOUSE Improvement" is at ’ ,
O a decided standstill and it need- '
' ed so much, but our “Home Im-
provement” is something I am proud
of. We have two little daughters one-
seven years past and one nearly six.
Since the birth. of the youngest one , 7
my health has been gradually failing .1

I think of the past two years I, blush i ‘1‘
withshame. My nerves were in1 , ‘ "
such a state that 1 was becoming a
regular scold and at the same time
was ruining the dispOsition of my
little family. '
~ This spring I gave out and on con-
sulting Dr. N—- in a'nearby city,
found what my trouble was. I was,
one blue, despondent' woman for a. . p .
time. My health was in such shape ‘
that in order to save myself for my
husband and little ones I must rest,

stop worrying and be. out in the
fresh air and sunshine as much as
possible. This was indeed a prob-.
lem and one which would not seem,

to add to the peace and comfort of "
our' home. Our income .was .very "
limited and our dream not soon i'm-m
proving our little house faded aWay.

But husband, like the noble man he

is, said, “Anything to 'save our
‘mother girl.’ ’.’ I had always done _
my own house work, sewing and .
found time for garden work and . ., -
even helped in the ﬁelds duringvery 1 ~' 1 .
busy times. But while doing 'all
this I had gotten into such a state 1
that when meal, time or evening
came I could hardly muster- a pleas- ~
ant word and the noise of the child- - .i ,
ren at their play almost drove me to
distraction. Husband at once found ' "
a neighbor to do our laundry and a
young girl to come to theghouse two
or three days a week to help with
the work. And he too stood a share
of the work. All summer long he got
up early and got breakfast, alone,
or helped me to. I tried to have the
noon meal ready when he came in,
but he often helped to get the meal
at night and wiped the dishes arfter . ‘
his chores were done. Meantime my
nerves calmed down. The rest has
done wonders for them. I often
think of the remark of a friend.
that she guessed a man rather come _ 1 ,
in a night to 1a wife a little tired.11“/
and crossand the house clean and, , "
meals on the table than to a pleasant
cheery wife and no work done. It
was hard to learn to let the Work go
but really it paid, for we have been , -
happier this summer trying tore: --
gain my health than we had been " "
for some time. It- has taken 'quite a ,
bit of our hard earned savings to
send me to a specialist every two
weeks and to pay for the help in th
house and husband has worked.

 

 

       

 
  
 
 

  
  
   
     
  
     
  
    
       
   
   
    
     

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Trusting that this may help some
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IF HENs coULn’ TALK

 

THE LAYER.

,I can sing and I can lay,

I like to scratch and work all day,

If you'll feed me right and clean my coop
I’ll pay my board and—some to boot,

The city may not like my looks,

I'm too ragged and dirty to suit the cooks
My feathers I keep for my Winter's bed,
For you know I haven’t the time to shed_

01' mOl'e persons With ODCOf the most ' I know I get pale and'loose in behind,

But this, everyone knows, is a very' good
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My eyes are clear and my comb always
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~When my time is up in the laying pen,

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THE NON—LAYER

I can squawk but I can’t lay,

So my board you’ll have to pay.

My legs are yellow, my eyes are dull,
Yes, I am What they call a cull_

VI shed my feathers every one,

While loafing under the Summer sun,
You can see that this is so,
For I'm yellow from head to toe,

That I am 'fat there is no doubt,

Just feel of my abdomen and‘ ﬁnd it out.
On me I know you’ll have no pity,

No doubt you’ll ship me to the city.

Hens that go there and that are able,
Have tabIgOOd place on the. rich man’s
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and their own kind.
» a dog saving the life of a horse and
anotherof a Collie dog who saved'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently a
magazine titled, “Our Dumb
Animals” came to our ofﬁce. I

glanced hurriedly through it and as

it seemed’v‘ery interesting I laid it
one side to read when I" had mere
time. I forgot all about it but when

going through some papers today I

discovered it and took time to read

several articles in it. It was pub-
lished by a society for the preven—
tion of cruelty to animals and con-
tained photos of many differentkind
of animals and stories about animals
who had saved the lives of humans
One was about

the lives of 30 people in a burning
tenement house in New York City.

‘These stories brought to my

mind pictures of the several dogs I. -

owned when a boy on the farm. ”I
always had a dog of some kind who
was my greatest chum. Most farm
boys have a dog whom they think
lots of. Girls, I think, prefer to
have a kitten to play with but noth—
ing suits a boy more than a. romp
W'izh his dog, I also, thought how
many times my dog had not under—
stood what I wished him to do and
when he had done something I did
not want him to do I was often
mean to him and many times I
whipped him making him cry but as
seen as I showed ”him -I was ready
for another romp he forgave me in—
stantly, barking and jumping around
to show me all was well. , Now when
I think how I 'mistreated the several
dogs I had I feel ashamed.

Do not. mistreait your pets. When
one of them do anything you do
not wish them to do talk ,to it.
no: whip, especially your dog. Al-
though a dog cannot talk like you
can it is surprising how much he
understands of what you say to him.
Whipping, in time, makes him both
hate you and afraid of you and an
ugly dog ‘of him, but if you talk to
him he will obey and love you and
ﬁght for your life at any time. Cats
are smart too. The horse is anoth-
er animal who understands you.
Treat all the dumb animals about
you with kindness. The farmer who
treats his livestock with kind words
instead of beating or cursing them
is one of the most respected men in
his neighborhood. Ask your “Dad-
dy” if he isn’t. , ‘ '

The poem that I am publishing this
week is about something that really
happened on the farm of one of
our readers and the lady made up
the poem and sent it to me for our
page. They ate the meat from the
bear, she says, and mode doughnuts
in the grease from the meat. M—u-m!
who doesn" l‘ke nice fat doughnuts?
—UNCLE Nl-JD.

THE FARMER AND THE RAVEN

A Farmer, who had neglected to
shoe his horse, started to market
carrying a basket of eggs on his
arm. He had not ridden far before
he saw a Raven sitting on an oak.

”Ah,” said the Farmer, “I don’t
like that bird! His presence surely
bodes me ill~fortune.” ‘

He had hardly said

the words

'when- the horse stumbled and threw

him, bruising him severely and
breaking all the eggs. As he rose, he
shook his ﬁrst at the Raven:

“Fool,” said the Raven. “you
swear at me because you. were
thrown from your horse, but the

fault was that you were too careless
to, look \after having him shod.”

, Many people will blame any scir—
onmstance’ to avoid admitting their
Wu faults.———R. W. " -

3.0UR BOYS AND GIRLS

Bear Uncle Ned:-‘-—We take the M. B,
“1 00 and we think it ﬁne.
nm’e- is Mrs. Sawall, Her sister
BILBichardson is teaching the fourth
' '{Eﬂfth ' es. Thejourth, ﬁfth, sixth
“ is ‘ ,1 an in one room, They have.

    
   
  

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My teach- ‘

 

 

 

' How to Make, an Eskimo Lamp -_

 

 

 

AKE AN ordinary tin can. With
the scissors, _cut the ragged edge
of the top off evenly. Then, . at
equal distances, cut slits for half the
depth of the can, ‘

and into the cork, holding the tin
firm. ' Punch 3 hole in the tin, cor-
responding to the hole in the cork.
Ydu will thus have a tin-covered
cork float, which
will slide easily

 

these slits about
an inch apart.
Trim the sides of
the slits V—shap-
ed,- as shown in
the illustration,
with a pair of
pi i e r s, b e n d
these strips at a
ri g h t a n g l e.
Three' quarters
of an inch from
the bend, make
a second bend._

 

will \form a sec-

 

up and down the
inner surface of
the tin. Take a
small lamp wick,
shred it out and
form through the
.hole, so that the
little fuzz stand
» up above the tin.
Fill the tin with
a slow burning
oil, cottonsee d
or olive oil will
do, drop your
float into the oil

 

 

end can, inside
the larger one, but the sides not
coming quite to the‘ bottom. Solder

on a wire to hang it by.

Now take a flat cork'—such as is

found in a pickle—bottle. Make a
hole through it with a gimlet. Cut
a piece of tin slightly larger than the
work, lay it ,on the cork, out little
pointed tongues of the projecting

» ‘ .- and the Eskimo
lamp is made and is ready to use.
In the far north, such lamps are
made of soapstone, and the oil that
is burned is whale oil, or seal oil, or
even ﬁsh oil. In their igloos the
Eskimos use this tiny flame for heat—,
ing and cooking, as well as for light-
mg.

It is safe practical, and easy to

 

 

portion of the tin and bend down make.
built a new building and we are upstairs. hardly any. I have a. very large tiger
The high school is downstairs. I am 12 cat. 'He weighs about twelve pounds.

years of age and in seventh grade,
live on a hundred acre farm. We have
twenty head of cattle. We have two
colts and three horses and their . ames
are Fanny, Ginger, Dan, Ted and ennie,
We have a Shepherd dog and his name
is Bounce. He is black and white, My
oldest sister is married and has two boys,
one two years old and one thirteen days
old. Their names are Gerald and Rich—
ard. I like to go to school quite well.
only I don’t like grammar very well, and
arithmetic at present. I like to read the
children’s page. I would like very much
to have my letter in print, Wish some
of the boys and girls would write to me.
-Edna Baughn, Breckenridge, Mich,,
R, 14‘. D, 1. , .

 

DearUncle Nedz—I am a girl thirteen

years old. I am in the eighth grade and
we have a, junior high school in 'our
town so I am in high school. I have

seen that all others tell about their pets
but I live in town and so do not have

We‘
.Mickey wore out,

    

The Song Dad Sings When He Puts Baby to Sleep,

For a while I called him Mickey, but
the song and every-
thing, so I call him just plain Mike, I
envy him these cool days, he is getting
so fat, for I am very tall and thin for
my age, I am about 5 feet, 3 in; and I
weigh ninety pounds. I live in Genesee
county and this is where the county fair
is held. They had a, very fine fair this
year,‘ I love basket ball md hope to
play on the regular team next year. I
usually play jumping center being quite
tall. I hope to go to college some day,
I think I would like to learn to become
a bookkeeper or a stenographer; I think
college is a place long to be remembered,
——Evelyn Berry, Davison, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl 12 years
old, I am in the 7th grade. I go to the
McLellan school. I have 3 brothers and
1 sister, My brothers’ names are Gil—
bert, age 17, Melvin, 15,? and John, 7.
My sister’s name is Loretta. I am just
getting over the mumps, My teacher’s

(filth,
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Mrs. C. A._Byers, Hiawatha, Mid]. ‘

One bright day away last full
I wondered among the trees
Until I come upon some sign
That looked like boars, by goo,
I called the who and kiddies too
To come ’und see my ﬁnd,
And then beneath the skies so blue
I just made up my mind
To catch his bear-ship in a. trap,
For eating my apples sweet; » . .
And he would not think he had a snap
When held so tight and neat. .
We set one trap in' the edge, of the wood
With bait from, on old douid cow, . ~
And know we'd catch him with» the good;
For stealing apples woopuldn‘t allow,
The next day when we wont to look
His bearehlp was not thou
And no we guessed that [wind took
A rest with!!! I!!! ,lolr.'~ ,. .1
But then It I!“ too ooll'y yet
Forhhht‘ostoy asleep, 1,. -
And we will set hill, in, yer-bot,
, When he comes for "other pm. .,

   

   

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He stuck his nose on the piece of meat
And his foot was on the trap,

It o'oeod upon his leg so neat _
That it made his Jaws go snap,

He dragged the toggle on the ground
And bit at-tho iron chain. ,

But it' only wound him round and round
Tho he tried with might and main.

Until at last all tired out,
He curled him up to rest,

Then wondered what ’twas a‘l about
And wished for his leafy nest,

\Vhen Dad went out in the early morn
Aml saw. his bearship there,

. He looked so sad and very forlorn,

Dad called‘ the kids from everywhere,
Mo came out with the babe in her arms

And Bub come up with the gun,
While. ﬁle was yelling out alums

To tho others on the run, -,
11".. soon all over for Mr, Bout,

We made a run; of his chin; _ ‘
And the neighbors came from hero And

then - , . ,
To taste the steaks so thin.

 

'MiCh., R. 5.

-- grade in school.

' years old and urn-tn tho

 
  
     

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name is Alpha. Loftis. I like her. line,
She 18 very kind to us. My father takes
the M. B. F. I enjoy reading The Child-
ren’s Hour, My father works on the
P. M. railroad, There are 34 pupils in
our school, We live on an 80 acre farm,‘
2 1-2 miles from school. > We keep 4
horses, 6 cows, 2 pigs and about, 50 rab-

bits. For pets I.‘have 4, kittens whose
na s are Snowball. \ Tag-a-long, Spot
a d eauty.—Alice Venett, Custer, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Nam—As I have to stay
home from school today on accOunt of a
sore throat, and having nothing else to
do I thought I would write to. letter to
you, I just got throught feeding my
pets, which are four doves. .' For other
pets we have a big shepherd dog whose
name is Shep.
him for a. hundred dollars. My father
is threshing beans at the neighbors .r'to-
day, We haven't Ithreshed yet not ex—
pect to tomorrow. 'We killed a big pig
yesterday, It weighed about 259 pounds,
I would like to receive letters from the
other boys and girls who belong to this
happy circle—‘Your little friend, Fred
Troge, Standish, Mich, R. 3,

Dear Uncle Ned :-—-I have been spend—-
ing a. few. moments this evening read-
ing The Children’s Hour page. I thought»
I would like to join by sending you
'a. letter. I am a boy twelveyears old.
I live on a farm of 120 acres, located on
the good road. Besides my father and
mother, I have one little brother thir—
teen months old, We keep three horses
and one cow, I go to school most every
day.. I am in the slxtn grade. I have
a very nice teacher.
Alger, For pets I have a Shetland
pony. two dogs, one lamb and one hen,
I hope I have not made my letter too
long. Your friend, Clair Field, High-
land, Mich., Box 47.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——I am a. girl 9 years
old and in the 5th grade at school. . My
teacher’s name is Mrs. Green and I like
her very much. I, have 2 miles to go to
school, My brother takes the M, B. F.
We dike it very much and I like to read
The Children’s Hour. , I wish that some
of the girls and boys worf'd write to me.
For pets I have 3 cats and 7 rabbits. We
live on an 80 acre farm, My father has
4 horses, 2 pigs, '10 head of cattle and'85

chickens. We had 920 bushels of pota-
toes this year. I have 3 sisters and 2.
brothers. They are all older than I am.

I only have one brother at homers—Mild-
red Sundquist, LeRoy, Mich,, R, F. D. 1

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am 12 years old
and I am in the 6th grade in school. ,My
eyes are blue and my hair is light. I
take music lessons.
book, I have 1 sister and 2 brothers.
My sister’s name is Mildred» and my
'brothers' names are'Earl and Harvey, I
live on a 160 acre farm. We have 13
cows. 6 horses and a lot of sheep, For
pets we have a dog named Tip and, two
cats named Toots and Daisy. I wish
some of the girls would write to me.—
Ethel Schneider, Turner, Mich, ‘R. 1.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a girl twelve
years old. I am in. ‘tbe sixth grade at
school. My father takes the M. B. I“:
and likes it ﬁne, I read The Children's
Hour every week, I go to Maple Valley
school. I have only missed two days of

school this year and have not been late ’

I have three brothers and one
'Brown City,

at all.
sister.—Born-ice ' Bowers,

 

Dear Ilnc‘e Nedz—I am a. boy twelve
years old, My father takes the M. B.
F, We live on a 120 acre farm.
have three horses and four cows. For
pols I have a cat and dove. I have one
brother whose name is Ellis. He is,1.8
and helps my father farm, I also have
one sister. Gladys. who is 16. She goes
to high shcool. Morris Mumby,
view, Mich, »

 

 

\
Dear Unc‘e Nedr—I‘am a girl 9 years ‘

old and live on a. 120 acre farm.
the children’s page and enjoy it very
much, I go to a consolidated school at
Haslett. Mich.
at school. For pots I have a little yel-
va kitten and a rabbit, I wishhome of
the girls would write to mew—(Had)?!
‘Gulick, Shaftsburg, Mich.

I read

Dear Uncle .‘Iedt—I am a boy» twelve
years old-and in the 7th grade at school.
I live on a fnrm of 160‘ acres, For pets
I have a. dog and two kittens. My dog
will pull memn my sled and chase cat-
ile, I have a now brother a wee-k old.
I go hunting with my, father
goes—Clark Whiteside, Lupton, Mich,

 

I would not part with‘

His name is Min

I am in the second '

I am in the fourth grade'

when he 't

Wee,

Lake- '

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy 9 years .

of age and. am in the fdurth grade at
school, My teacher’s name is-~-Mr. Hill-
samia. He is a. good teacher. For pets
I have ‘3 cats’.’.We have 2 cows and we

live on a 40 acre farm.—-Ervin »Wells;

z

Copemis, Mich. . -

Dear Ilncle Nedz—l am a. boy Eton
‘years old, My fathers-takes the. M.;.B. “ ,;
'and likes 'it very much. - I am in the 5,

_ For-”pets.~ I have we:
cats undone calf. I will answer
ietter.—-:Abram Leeﬁrakez Moscow Mich,

 

Dear,Uncie Ned :é—I' am 1dim°w
school. I' have 2 shrotpo ' and '
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' ‘~ WOOL shownns 'ro Hem) son
‘ , HIGHER PRICES

.IFTY COUNTIES sent represen-
F. tativestoa meeting of wool

.growers atfthe state farm bu—
reau last Friday. More than twice
that many wOoi growers attended.
Most of the repreSentatives came in-
structed ,by their county farm bu-
reaus. ~ The meeting was character-
ized by. a determination to stick to

the present plan of pooling and a
faith in the management of the pool

‘ by the state farm bureau. '
The delegates passed a motion

that‘the meeting go on record com-
mending the State Farm Bureau in
the management of the WOOl pool
and that there be another pool of
the 1921 clip. Upon request of the
State Farm Bureau the, delegates
passed a. second motion providing for
the appointment by the chairman of
two experienced woo'l growers to act

in an advisory capacity with the
Wool Department. A. E. Illenden of
the Executive Committee of the

State Farm Bureau and Chairman of
the meeting stated that he would
announce the appointments. a little
later since he wanted to give a good
deal of thought to 'the question.

The conference went on record in
a resolution favoring the passage of
the Natio‘nal Truth-in—Fabrics Bill.
Another motion was passed which
provided for sending a statement of
the results of the meeting and of
the‘condition of the wool market to
all wool growers of Whom there were
eighteen thousand.

The State Farm Bureau has al-
ready begun the preparation of this
report but it will 'be at least two
weeks before it can be issued. To
send a letter to eighteen thousand
wool grewers incurs a cost of $360
for postage alone. Because of this
expense the State Farm Bureau has
been unable to keep the membership
posted at all times as it would like
to have done. Mr. A. J. Hankins,
marketing director, and Mr. Illen-
den made a detailed report of the
ﬁnancial situation’with regard to the
wool pool. , ‘

None of the representatives re—'
ported that they had come with in—
structions to sell. Some 'had been
instructed‘to hold their wool for a
year; most of -.them said they had
been told to leave the matter entire—
ly to the management of the wool
pool and the ﬁnal action of the
meeting included this provision.

MARKETING COMMITTEE AD-
JOURNS MEETING UNTIL FEB.

I-IE FARMERS’ Marketing Com-
, mittee of Seventeen,- which [met
' recent-1y in Chicago, adjourned
until February 14 to await reports of
a number- of experts and economists
who are digging out fundamental
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. iiRS. CLUBS

Ten of the Michigan Maple

‘ Agricultural College, East

grain. The next meeting will ‘be

'held in Kansas City.

The co—o-perative plan of market-
iug‘ upon. which the committee has
been working since October was put
in semi-ﬁnal shape during this week’s
meeting. and; the committee reached
an agreement on a number of the
fundamental principles involved. It
refused’ to -make any statement for
publication. It is generally believed

' that .an agreement has been reached

on every principle except the method
of ﬁnancing grain marketing, be-
cause the experts employed by the
committee are all engaged in gath-
ering information relative to crop
movement stabilizing the flow of
grain to market, possibility of price
stabilization and other questions all
of which are closely related to the
matter of ﬁnancing a new marketing
system.

“We anticipated being able to
complete our work 'and present our
ﬁnal plan for co-operative grain mar-
keting at this time,” said C. H. Gus—
tafson of Nebraska, chairman of the
committee. “we ﬁnd that we still

'need some important information to

make sure of our position, and be-
causeof the opposition of present or—
ganized grain ,handlers we cannot
make public the details of the parts
of the plan to which “we have
agreed.”

FARM BUREAU NOTES
ANAGER Nicholson of the Seed
Department of the State Farm
. Bureau is on a western trip
for a few days. He appears on the
program of Iowa Farmers’ Week at
Ames and addresses the Idaho Grain
Growers’ Association at Blackfoot
Idaho. The alfalfa growers of that
section have asked the assistance of
the Michigan Seed Department in
helping them organize. Michigan’s
personal representative was in the
western ﬁeld for two months last fall
arranging for the purchase "of alfalfa
on the orders of farmers all over

this state. Arrangements are now
being made for similar purchases
next year.

***

The Forestry Department began
its work January 3 with F. H. San-
ford in charge. The initial project
is fence post marketing. The names
of all farm bureau members, who
have fence post timber to cut or who
are now cutting posts, should be
turned in to the county agent at
once. Any other information such
as speciﬁcations used, length and top
diameter of post3> and percentage

straight, whether green peeled or
not, etc., should be included.
i t *
A meeting of the Committee of

Syrup
Makers" Association is cal-led for Fri—
day, January 14 to complete ar-
rangements for better marketing of
maple products. One of the import-
ant projects before the committee is
the action t‘aken by the membership
through a ballot by mail .in which
72 per cent of the members favored
a central canning and marketing ar~
rangement. whereby the product
w‘ould be standardized and sold un-
der registered» label and according to
grade. 20 per cent of the meinbers
voting directly opposed such a move.

8 per cent refused to express them-

selves. ‘
O t t

A special conference of elevator
managers has been arranged for by
the Board of Control of the Elevator
Exchange to be held at the'Michigan
Lansing
on Tuesday, January 18 at 1 p. m.
The object of this meeting is to dis-
cuss problems of- elevator. manage-
ment. organization ﬁnancing, sales
service and other matters of equal
importance and in which all mem-
bers are‘vitally interested. Special
invitation.is extended tonal] Eleoator

' Managers, Presidents and Secretar-

ies‘of Associations.
_t .' t '
The purchase of binder twine is
being made the subject oflnvestiga-
tion by‘ the , Purchasing Department.
Business in‘the various commodities

is developing beyond all onwtatlons.

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BEET GROWERS 'TO LEEET
" FEBRUARY 2ND

John C, Ketcham, president, and
R. P. Reavey, secretary of the Mich-
igan Sugar Beet Growers' Ass’n
have issued the following statement:

“In view of an unauthorized state-
ment which has been given wide pub-
licity throughout the state suggest-
ing that individual beet growers
make contracts With the sugar fact-
ories on their 1921 acreage, the
the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers'
Ass’n make the following announce-
ment: _ .

“The executive committee of the
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers’ Ass’n
has called a mass meeting of all
members of the association to be
held at East Lansing on Feb. 2, dur—
ing Farmers’ Week. In view of the
unsettled condition of the sugar in—
dustry we advise growers to defer
consideration of any contracts until
after this meeting. All growers are
invited to be present at this meet—
ing, and every local is particularly
requested to send a representative.”

Announcement has also been re-
cently made that Jas. N. McBride
and T. C. Price have bé’en appoint-
ed as delegates to attend th'e nation-
al conference of sugar beet growers
which meets in Chicago on Monday,
January 17th.

FARM BUREAUS OF OTHER
STATES

HE LIVESTOCK Marketing De-
; partment of the Illinois Agricul-
‘ tural Association is planning a
series of meetings for the managers
and members of Co-operative Live
Stock Shipping Associations in each
county. The purposes is to give the
managers the results of a study
which has been made of best meth-
ods for efﬁcient operation and man-
agement of these associations. The
Finance Department announces it
is ready to answer any speciﬁc ques—
tions in regard to income taxes for
members.

* it It

The American Farm Bureau Fed—

'eration has called a conference of

sugar beet growers for January 17.
* :1: *

_. Illinois Agricultural Association’s
contract for the output of two large
rock phosphate mills has been ful-
ﬁlled and arrangements are being
made for next year’s contract. Seven

hundred cars of rock phosphate were

delivered this year, on .which they
made a saving of more than $25,000.
an :1: a: '

Kansas State Farm Bureau has
adopted the same method of Michi-
gan and is sending questionnaires
among county farm bureau ofﬁcers
to ascertain the opinion of members
on legislative matters.

* II t

At a meeting at Manhattan, Kan-
sas, representatives of.county sheep
and wool growers’ associations or-
ganized an association with a view to
marketing the Kansas wool clip co-
operatively. Because wool buyers
refused to bid on wool in the various
farmers’ wool pools last spring, the
sheep men of the state appointed a
committee of three to decide the dis-
position of the 1920 clip. The com-
mittee recommended that the Kansas
State Farm Bureau take over and
store the 1920 clip to be marketed
and to call a meeting for the forma-
tion of a state wool growers’ organ-
ization.

I t It:

Nebraska, like Michigan, is per-

fecting a sugar beet grolwers’ as—

sociation.
at II: III

The legislative committee in the

.——.

state farm bureau of California has

reviewed the work of the College of
Agriculture. The committee’s report

contains commendation for much of p

the work of the College but deplores
the lack of ﬁnance and the shortage
of men. The Engineering Division
Was found in a sad state of. affairs;
the Irrigation Divisionwas declared

(Continued on page 23)

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these w-ordS—‘I‘Can‘ you imagine a '

reau happy, laughin’ Christmas with-
out children?” "Well now I don’t
know jest how it is with you but I

 

surecan gay right oﬁ quick that I

can’t» imagine any such thing.
Christ-mas was made most ’s-pecially
for children; it’s one of their days,
but only one—every single day wuz
made for children—made for them
to behappy' in an’ seems to me, it’s
only jest when we olde11_ ones kinda
fergets about the little tellers—the
boys an’ girls that were given to us
to make us happyan’ to be made
happy by us, that we think of Christ-
mas as the only time when we must
do somethin’ special'to let ’emknow
we love ‘em an 'that they have a
right to be happy jest f01 that one
day.

Surely Christmas day would be a
rather tame affair if there were no
children—the day would mean noth¥
in’ at all to most of 11s. but let’s go
farther than that an’ ask what any
day would be Without the kiddies?
What would the whole 01 WOrld be
if there were no little folks to make
it glad? It would be a kinda dreary
world wouldn’t it now?

An’ yet I see many men an’ I’m
sorry to say it, some women, who act
jest as though children wuz in the
way—as though they were sort 0’

forced onto us an’ should be handled“

like Small pox or measles or some-
thin’ like that—kinda isolated you
knowe—consider ’em in the way,
think they have no rights—not even
a right to be healthy an’. happy—you
know thekind 0’ folks. I mean—the
ones that holds their. heads up so
awful high they can’t see the little
fellers—all kiddies ’are little tellers
to me—makes no difference whether
they’re boys, girls or Jest kids, they
are allus little tellers to Uncle Rube
you know—an’ women—some of ’em
anyway—that ruther carry a poodle
dog ’round in their arms than to
carry a child——r.uther have a green
headed parrot in the house than one
of God’s Own little‘ ones—:they’re‘the
kind 0’ folks I ain’t got no more use
fer than I have fer a yeller pup or
a pump ’thout a handle or anything
that’s jet as useless as a bachelor
’thout a sweetheart or an o’ maid
’thout a. hot water bottle.

Yes siree, this 01’ world was made
fer the little tellers an’ every day is
their day! _When we begin to get
along in yyea'rs we think we own the
earth amaeverything that’s in or on
it. Bait "we’don’t, We’ve had our day
at it an’ new it b’longs to the little
tellers. We are the dreamers now
while they live the real life. 'I. don’t
b’lieve in bein’ to all ﬁred abitrary
with children nor in mouldin’ ’em
’round jest because we’re bigger an’
stronger an’ able: to do it.

Little tellers ain’t natcherly bad——
they may do bad things—mebbe they
need to be corrected but they
don’t need no beatin’ up ’cause that
ain’t the proper way to correct kid-
dies. If you want your boy or girl to
be deceitful an’ revengeful—if you
want ’em to lie to you an’ to fear
you an’ hate you, jest beat ’em up.

  

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Short of Type
Our readers may be amused at this
unique spelling, said to have been
employed by a Western printer:
1 “We began the publication ov the
Roccay Mountain Cyclone with a
phew diphphlculties in the way. The

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type phounderds phrom whom we.
bought out outphit phor this print-

ing opphice phailed to supply us with
any ephs or clays, and it will be phour
or phive weeques bepihore we can
get any. The mistake was not phound
out till a. day or two ago. We. have
ordered the missing 19th,. and we
will have to get along without them

  

  
 

  

Every time they do any little thing,

that’s wrong Jest take this from
me——-—if.-you1ca.n’t govern your little
tellers by lovean'kindness, all, the
maulin ithls'slde 0’ Germany won’t

    

an kindness jest try it for a while
an’ see how it works out.

Somehow, I allus look with sus-
picion on a man or woman .thatvdon’t

like the little’tellers—they’re bound»

to _be1s-omethi'n’. wrong with ' such

folks an’ I don’t like to deal with

’em 911’ I don’t it I can help it.
Children are all that makes life

1 worth while an we are only children

older grown, but sometimes folks
forgets they wuz ever little tellers——

' they have ’bout’s much patience with

the kiddies as a-hornet’s got when
you put your hand onto him, an’
they’re jest about as pleasant too.
Children’s noise upsets such folks~
something turrible—they musu’t

play out loud you know ’cause it‘ ‘

annoys grandma, or' grandpa can’t
be bothered an’ the little tellers are
afraid to move in the house or. out
for fear of bein’ called to account
an’-all the'time they ain’t to blame
for bein’ into the world, but now they
are here, seems'to me they’ve got
just as many rights as old folks, or
any other kind of folks for that mat-
tei, an’ a little noise more Or less
won’t hurt if we only think right an’
keep our hearts young an’ in the
right place. An’ say! The nicest way
there is to do this is jest to love the

little tellers an’ make every day like

Christmas day for them. .
When I ﬁrst come to Battle Creek
there wuz a Vacant lot down on
West Main street an’ it wuz’a play
ground for little fellers—a merry-go-
round wuz there an’ swings an’ ev-
erything to make the little tellers
glad. I loved to go down there when
I could, an’ watch the kiddies, they
wuz so happy an’ had such
times it took the tired ~l’eelin’ all out
of me jest to watch ’em an’ some-
times there’d be a little feller. with-
out a nickle an’ he couldn’t ride an’
I’d give him the money jest to see
him git happy an after a While I got
to‘leavin’ a dollar or two every week
with the man that owned the wheel
an’ other things so’s little tellers
could ride even if I wasn’t there, an’
I got more pleasure out of that man-
ey than you can imagine. I wuz
havin’ a good time, by proxy so to
speak, an’ I thought it wuz great an’
so did the little tellers—you see they
lived in the busy part of the town an’
play grounds wuz scarce an’ now

this one’S‘ gone—they’re putting up

a big buildin’ there an’ its goin’ to
be a Ford home—a'place to sell Mr.
Ford’s cars an’ such—well mebbe its
all right, somebody’ll make some mon-

ey probably, but money ain’t all there -

is in the worldw—it wuz the little fel-
lers’ play ground an’ all the Ford
cars in the world couldn’t give! as
much pleasure to the little tellers as
jest this one 01’ piece used to do, an’
if I hadijest one of Mr. Ford’s many
millions, I’d give more ,pleasure to
thekiddies of this land than all the
cars ever made or to be made, can
do. An’ so I say Christmas without
children would be the same as any
other day ’thout ’em. But who
wants such days. Cordially—UNC'LE
RUBE.

Sense and Nonsense @111

loox ov this cariety 0v spelings any
better than our readers, but mixtaix

.will happen in the best ov phamilies,

and iph the ph’s and c’s and x’s and
q’s hold out weshall ceep (sound the
0 hard) the'Cyclone whirling aphter
a phasion till the sorts arrive.» It is
no joke to us—it is a serious aph-
phalr.”

Related
The husband,.who .had a' great
habit of teasing his Wife, was but
driving in the‘ country with her,
When they met a farmer driving a
span or mules.

about to pass the tarmer’s gel; the

  

  

do it an’ if you’ve never tried love
house door.

1 Co., New York City, N Y

'01] Co., Indianapolis, Ind

good '

‘not receive the twine.

_they hadn' t the engine 111

see that if

"-Mrs. P; 13., Pethkey,

marriage.

> Didn't Improve It V
“Got any property abOut here?"
asked the tax collectm' at the 1am... ~-

   

   

“Yes, I got a small lot " replied _ 1 1
the buxom woman, with the gins» ,1
ham apron, who answered the knock. "

“Where is it?” -' ,

“Abdul: two miles down the road
from here. ”

“Is it improved?’.’

“Well, I got a husband buried
there, but I can’t say it improves it
any !!

Via the Belle System ‘ ' - ,f’ ‘

Bill: Have you ever done any pub- . 7’ .

lic speaking? ~ ' ’

‘ Joe: I once proposed to a girl oVer
the telephone in my home town.

GOODS RECEIVED

Would you please help me in collecting
ablll from the National Cloak and Suit
About the 1'
ﬁrst. of July I sent them an order for!» 1,1
yards of white satin out of their sale M 1
book, price $2. 77 a. yard. They wrote . ,
saying they couldnt send the‘ order for. . , , .
nearly two weeks So I wrote for them
to send my money back, but they didn’t
do that They sent the satin just the 1
same. .ThenI sent the satin 1back and
wanted it. exchanged for , some other,
goods. They wrote me they couldn’t
send my last order because I hadn’t sent
any money.———Miss I, B_, Washington,
Mich. .

This company received one letter
from us. Miss B’s goods arrived

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SUBSCRIBER GETS DISHES ‘ 1
Quite a number of months ago I read
an adv. in the Farm Life of the Kibler
If I would .
sell 30 bottles of oil and return $15. 00 to . 1
them I Was to get a set of dishes or '
$4. 00 commission. I sold the oil and re—
turned their money and have written to
them seyeral times for my dishes or
else my n1on‘,ey I see they are still ad'-
Vertlsing for people to sell their oil Now
I wish. you would please try and either-
make them send my dishes or my com-
mission. ——Mrs. C. P. Grand Haven,
Mich
0111' subscriber received her dish~

es within two weeks after we wrote
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SPIEGEL, MAY, STERNS 00. RE—
. TURNS GOODS -
I sent for a. ring to Spiegel May'
Stern Co., Chicago, 111, Which was $3.
It was too large so I returned it by in-
sured mail. » They wrote and told me to ‘ 1
send the receipt I did so but never ‘

heard from them, —Mrs. 11. C. H. Bailey, \,

Mich

This firm promptly adjusted this
matter it appears as we received a
letter from Mrs. H. C. H. in which

_she stated her money had been re—

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SHIPMENT LOST IN TRANSIT-

I would like to have your help in col-
lectlng $43.10 from Sears, Roebuck &.
Co. On July 5th I Sent Sears, Roebuck
& Co. an order for some binder
twine In a few days they wrote and
thanked me for the order I received.
anoth'er letter dated July 21. They said
the twine was shipped on the same day.
July 21. 11 waited a. few days and did
I have written
them twice and they will not answer.—
T. McC_, Capac, Michigan.

We asked Sears, Roebuck 8; Com—
pany to look this matter up which
they did advising shipment had
been .lost in transit and a short time
later our subscriber received a re.-

tund of his. money.

 

RETURNS CHECK INSTEAD OF
CASHING
Last August my little son, 12 years
old, sent to Montgomery, Ward & Co. of
Chicago, 111., for a. small engine, and he
sent $4.7 4, the cost price, and parcel
post to Biay View, that was the address
at that tl me. In a. few days Montgom-
ery Ward & Co sent a. letter saying that:
stock and
sent him a check of $4. 94 ' The .‘
boy signed the check and sent ~1t
back saying please send my money End
in a. few days Mon mery Ward a Co.
said We sent a choc and you signed it
showing that you had got your money.
I then wrote Montgomery Ward &.Co
and said it was a. mistake The boy did
not understand business but they could
he had tthe check cashed
he would not have the (max; to- have .
mailed to Montgome e’ryIW Ce.-;-- .
ichm1 1:,"

Replying t0. our letter this“ come

     
   
    
 
     
   
       
     
 
 
  
  

     
 

      
  

 
  

   

  

     
     
     
   
 
  

 
 

    
     

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so they agreed to buy at the price

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\ low price.

set if they purchased at all. These
that did so wereknbwn as accredits
ed buyers. Actually, at first, there‘

—’vvere mighty few accredited buyers,

since the big commission companies
did not like the idea of a few grow:
ers trying to fix the'price of cabbage.
Then, too. the growers at the ﬁrst
meeting raised the ,price of cabbage
from 30 centsto 60 cents a hundred.
A certain clique of commission mer-
chants in Denver agreed to become
members of the exchange if they

could be sales agents for all of the .

cabbage of this exchange, thereby se-
curing a monopoly. This was turn-
ed down, however. and only a few

independent buyers at ﬁrst purchas-

l

ed any cabbage.

For a few days there was move
ment of cabbage greater at 60 cents
a hundred than there had been at 30
cents. ' But just at this time the big
commission men ﬁlled the markets
in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma with
lower quotations than those smaller

commission houseS'could offer for',

bona ﬁde business. These big com-
mission houses were offering cabbage
down south at 50 cents a hundred at
the terminal markets, in an effort
to discredit those who were doing
business with the Exchange. But
in most cases they did not have any
cabbage to sell so they could not ﬁll
the orders that they received at the
The big commission
houses in a few cases did succeed in
buying cabbage at outlying points at
ﬁgures far below the price set by
the exchange. An eﬂort was made
to convert the growers of cabbage
who were selling at the lower price.
and bring them into the exchange,

with fair results. All loading sta-
tions were' picketed. After about

two weeks of organization there was
practically no movement of cabbage.

Cars were everywhere, placed there
by the big commission houses, but no'
‘one would sell cabbage below the
price set by the exchange. By the
third week conditions became worse
and more mass meetinghad to be
held. But by the middle of that
week the Denver shippers had been
practically defeated. There were a

numbr of accredited buyers, but they
did not represent ,any large commis—
sion houses. Then two bankers Vis-

ited Denver and took the matter up

with the commission houses. These

big shippers agreed to come in, pro—
viding certain members of the grow-
ers’ committee resigned These did

so at considerable sacriﬁce to them-
selves. In reality, this was merely
an excuse on the part of the com-
mission houses, for not doing bus-
iness with the exchange

At the same time the- exchange
sent a representative to Kansas to
look up business among cabbage buy-
ers there. He explored most of the
markets and found that the situation
was not entirely hopeless. Shortly
after this the principal shippers came
in, ﬁlling such orders as they receiv-
ed. Several orders were also receiv-
ed fiom the representative sent out
by the eirchange The ﬁrst three
days after the big shippers came in
there was a great movement of cab—
bage. Then the big shippers de-
cided that they wanted to get out of
the association, claiming that it was
not satisfactciry. However, this was
not permitted. It was found that in

. many commission houses in Kansas

cabbage was selling for $1. 75 to $2
a hundredweight, showing the big
proﬁt that the jobbers and big ship-
pers were making. The Brighton
growers were very fortunate in that
the Colorado cabbage was practical-

_, ly the only cabbage on the market at
the time

Iowa had practically ceas-
ed shipping, and Wisconsin was Just
about ready to begin. This past year
the cabbage crop was approximately a

. third larger than usual, and it is

sold.

probable that all of it will not be
It‘is said, however,rthat there
was more cabbage than the market
could absorb and at all events no
more could have been sold than was

sold 111' spite of the light between the

  

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,andof buying breeding hogs,

"Washington.

zombie marketing “ associa-
tion in Denver has picked one com-‘
mission house to handle its business.
This house pays to each grower 75
per cent cash and 25 per cent in 30
daysat the regulargoing price for
vegetables on the Denver * market.
Then the price that it secures at the
other end, minus the amount paid in
Denver, and the regular brokerage
charge, is credited to the association.
In that way the association simply
pays the brokerage fee for selling its
products
Other Organizations

It is estimated that Colorado each
year ships about 20,000 carloads of
perishable vegetables, so it can be
appreciated what preper marketing
facilities mean to the growers. W.
F. Hepps. agent in marketing at
Denver, has aided in the formation
of ' numerous - marketing associations
over the state. There are now 30

'livestock association's, not including

the marketing-association managed
through the Farmers’ Union. At
times fruit growers’ associations
have been formed in the state which
aimed to be strictly co-operative
ventures. In some' cases, however,
these have slipped back into pract—
ically private control. There are
still a few examples of co-Operative
organizations over the state which
handle fruit and cabbage. There is
a co—operative fruit growers' asso-
ciation at Canon City.

The Farmers’ Union has taken a
great part in helping out the co-op—

erative marketing of fruit. This is
handled through the exchange at
Denver. During the month of Sep-

tember the exchange which also sells
mercantile goods did a business of
a little over $200, 000. Over 60 per
cent of the peach crop on the west-
ern slope was handled through this
organization on a brokerage basis.
$25 per car being the charge. The
peaches were shipped into Nebraska,
Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma and
Louisiana. -
-Eventually the Farmers' Union
will have a big produce business de-
veloped. In Colorado'there are 104

‘Farmers’ Union stores, selling direct

to the farmers. The Farmers' Union
Exchange in Denver has only been in
existence about a year andla half,
according to O. T. Vinsonhaler, the
manager of the exchange.

The Colorado Farmers’ Union
now has 15,000 members. An in-
surance company sponsored by the

union now carries $12,000,000 worth'

of farmers fire insurance, according
to Louis Roether, secretary of the
State Farmers’ Union. The Farm—
ers' Union also has a commission
company at the stockyards in Den-
ver," similar to those in operation in
the Missouri Valley.

 

AMERICAN BRED HOGS WANTED

The attention of swine breeders 'is
being directed more and more fre-
quently to the growing imporance of
the export trade, and its possibilities
are demonstrated'almost" daily by in-
quiries and buying orders from
abroad. Following the record average
price of $1,040.00 in American gold
per head paid this fall in Buenos
Aires, Argentine, for eight Poland
China boars and sows shipped under
the auspices of the National Swine
Growers’ 'Ass’n‘" for exhibition pur-
poses, is a. more recent shipment of
20 head to Italy. These hogs were
bought by Marquis Idelfonso Stanga‘,
Crotta d’Adda, Prov. of Cremona, It-
aly, who with Madam Stanga came to
this country lately for the purpose of
studying agricultural conditions here
Mar-
quis Stanga represented the Depart-
ment of Agriculture of the Italian

.Government and came with creden—

tials from the Italian Ambassador at
The twenty head he
purchased here have reached Italy
safely and constitute the ﬁrst impor-

tation of Poland China swine every.

brought into Italy, according to Mar-
quis Stanga, who predicts a- great
future business for us in this line
with his country.

Correspondence from Mexico and,
our border states indicates a more
stable condition of affairs in the
neighbor Republic, and points to a
strong and increasing interest there

in swine bros

_MAYER8 PLANT NURSERY. Merrill,

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rtEEDERS’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN B USINEss FARMER.

 

 

 

 

To aveld eonnlotlne dates We will wlthellt. ,*
can. "at the date of any the stock sale '-‘I
Mlchlgen. If you
VI. us at once and we wll

are oonslderIng a tale -
claim the date

 

. for you. Adm-cu. lee Stoc Editor. M. I.
. Mt. Clemens.
Feb. 1. Poland China; Witt Bros" Ju-
Oer. Mich. -

 

 

 

'LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litcliﬁeld, Mich. ‘
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Ilofl’man, Hudson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perry (‘olumhus Ohio.
J. I. Post, Hillsdale, Mich._ ' ,-
J. 1111111111..” 1'e1'r1y 3111.11. ‘1 ‘5
Harry Robinson, l’lymouthp MioI1.
‘Wm. “1111111., (Jolduattr, Mich.
CATTLE
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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

 

MR. DAIRYMAN!

Are you using a ﬁrst class herd
sire? _

You can’t afford to use a poor
one.

We have good ones of all ages
listed at reasonable prices.

Let us know your needs.
MICHIGAN HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN
ASSOCIATION
H. W. N orton. Jr., Field Secretary
Old State Block, LanSing, Mich.

 

 

 

SHOW BULL

Sired by a Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke Henger—
veld DeKol bull from a nearly 19 lb. show
cow. 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.

BOARDMAH FARMS
JACKSON. MICH.

Holstein Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEIll FRIESIANS FOR SALE

A bull calf ready for service. Combines show
type and production.

Herd sire, Model Kig Segis Glista, whose
granddam is Glista Ernestine, the only cow of
the breed that has six times made better than
30 l,‘ butter.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
Corey J. Spencer, Owner.
111 E. Main St. Jackson,

BRANDOIIHILL FARM

(FORMERLV HILLOREST)
Ortonvllle. Michigan
-.Mr Dairyrnan: Space will not allow full des-
cription of my young bull born March 29th,
1920, except to say he is a perfect individual,
light color, and well grown If you can ﬁnd an
'animal to compare with him for 5300'1 will
make you a piesent of him. -———My price $200——
for a limited time only.
JOHN P. HEHL ‘
1205 Grlswold Street, Detrolt. Mlchlgan

Mlch.

 

 

OR SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS
ready for service from 19 1- 2 and 24 1-2 lb.
dams. lrice $100 and $12.1. Herd on ac-
credited list.

-Wm. GRIFFIN, Howell, Mlch.‘

PRIOEO TO SELL

SIX HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

Two yearling heifers, bred to grandson of
Traverse Princess \1 eg. Price $150 each.

Three heifer calves, ages 5, 4 and 2 months
old. Price $125 each.

One bull 8 months old, dam has 7 day A. R O.

 

'18 77 butter 427 8 milk. Next dam 15:11
butter, 387.7 milk. Sire’s dam 22. 43 butter.
, 508.2 milk. Price $125.

Pedigrees sent promptly on request.
This stock is all nicely grown.
E. BROWN. Bre'edsvllle. Mloh.
WHEN YOU CAN BUV BETTER ’liED HOL-
stein bulls for less money, we will sell them.
Write for list. 42 lb. sire in service. A. R_. 0

dams. Federal tested herd. ~ -
VOEPEL FARM, Sebewalng, Mich.

 

 

5 Three 2 year olds fresh in Sept. with the

_ old dam

,A Real Foundation Herd

 

" following records. No.1 made 13.126 lbs.
of butter from 355. 2 milk at 21 months. No.
‘2 made 16 85 of butter from 362 lbs. milk
It 21 months. No. 3 made 16. 28 of buttm
from 363. 5 milk at 29 months. Sire to so
with them is a 20 lb. grandson of King of
the I'ontiacs ﬁrst a year 'old. From an ac-
credilc'l herd and only 51.050.00.11” the
herd F. 0.

JOHN BAZLEY
319 Atkinson Ave. .
DETROIT - MICH.

 

 

 

MR MILK PRODUCER

Your problem is more MILK. more BUTTER

.more PROFIT, per cow

A son of Maplrcresl Application Pontiacm
132052—1'rom our heavy—yenrly-milking-g'ood-buf
tern-«curd dam will she it.

Muplecrest Application Pontiac's dam
85,103 lbs. butter in 7 days;1344.3 lbs.
e111i;3421.2 lbs. milk in 335 days

He is one of the greatest long distance sires

111,-; daughters and sons will prove it.

VI rite us for pedigree and prices on his sons.

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

Pedigrees and prices on application.

R Bruce McPherson. Howell. Mich.

Yearling Bull For Sale

Bull born Sept 28,1919, evenly
marked and a ﬁne individual. Sir-
ed by my 30 1b. bull and from a
20 ‘lb. daughter of Johan Heng,

made
butter

 

 

Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow.

Dam will start on yearly test

Nov. 15. ‘
.- ROY F. FIUKIES

Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Sow 1111111

Bull calf last advertised sold but have 2 more
that.are mostly white. They are nice straight fel-
lows, sired by a son 0g King Ona One is from
e 17 lb. 2 yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, sh is by a son of
Friend Hengerveld De Kol Buetter Boy. one of
the great bulls

JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. Mlchi. R 2.

Howbert Mmlta Ormsby

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFER.

APRIL 18. 1919 .

well marked, good condition. Sired by a 27

pound bull. Dam a well bred Qmsby cow. Herd

Tuberculin tested under State and Federal Sup-
erviswn.

 

BORN

H. T. EVANS
Eau Claire. Mloh.

 

ULVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

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

TWO BULL OALVES

Regieured Holstein-Friesian, sired by 39.8? lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. These
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap 1!

sold Icon. ,
HARRY T. TUIBS. Elwell. Mloh.

BULL cALF BORN MARCH 21, 1920, VERY
nice, straight and well grown,
sired by a son of Flint Hengerveld Lad whose two
nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
731'» lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam is a 20.61 lb.
Jr. 2 year old daughter of Johan Hengerceld Lad
68 A. It. 0. daughters. Prics‘$150. F. O. 13.
Flint. Pedigree on application. » .
, L. C. KETZLER. Fllnt. Mloh.

 

 

OR SALEe—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL-
tein and Durham about 8 months old. Both
ave heavy milking dams. Not registered $50
ach if taken at once
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mlch

FOR SALE

LARGE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COIN
ﬁve year old, well marked and a good milker, also
her bull calf born Oct] 27. sired by a son of
Johan Hengerveld Lad, one a 22 lb. two year
Price 8250 for the peni
R. H. BARNHART, R 1. St. pallharles. Mloh.

OR SALE—REGISTERER HOLSTEIN COW.
F ThreeR heifer calves. 1 1.1111ch
BANE'FLD' Wlxom, Mloh~

Marlette.

T0 SETTLE A'N ESTATE

7 registered Holstein cows, 5 yét to freshen,
bred to a 30 lb. _bull. $1, 200 takes them.
BERT SLOCUM, Byron. Mloh.

 

of milk.
priced from 8100 .1000 3‘20
11:51.. SAI...-BCRY_

From a state and Federal Acoredlted “My Slred I)! . . .
174771- ‘ ’ ,
whose twenty nearest dams have records averaging 30 11 pounds or butter from 592 pounds

These bulls are from dams with records up to 263 as Jr. four year olds and are
0.00. Age. 9 months _

i7 HOLSTElN FRIESIAN BULLS 7

WALKER [lYONE

  

s W” SHEPHERD MICE

 

    

 

Mt. Clemens,

 

 

 

You can change
Imderr' Auction Sales advertised

Mlohlgab-

 

ONE-HALF INTEREOS‘I' ell. A PROVE" SIRE
RBALE

Flint Maplecrest FNomia De Kol 157613 has
two tested daughters. One a 25 1b. Jr. 3 yr.
old. The other a 12 111. Jr. 3yr. old made four
months after ireshening.

He is ﬁve years old and gentle. We have over
thirty of his daughters. twenty of which will
freshen next fall.

is out of e 27 lb. cow. sired by Homestead
Hengerveld Crown De K01. sire of 82 A. R. 0.
cows including a 34 pounder and one with a
year record of over 1,100 pounds. He is sire of
two other cows which lave yearly record: of over
878 lbs.

The sire of Homestead Hengerveld Crown De
K01 is De Kol 2d’s Butter Boy, 3rd sire of 118
A. R. 0. daughters.

The sire of this bull is a 30 lb. bull whose
dam made over 1, 200 lb. butter from more than
25,000 lb. mlik and whose sire is Friend Hen-
gerveld De Kol Butter Boy whose 47 A. R.‘ 0.
daughters include six above 30 lbs.
1, 000 pounders.

“ill sell one— —half interest in him for $250,
the purchaser to have exclusive use of him for

one year.
KNOWLES BROS, Azalla, Mloh.

 

 

snon'rHORN “ ._

 

scial Shortliorn Offer!

11‘ or the next 30 days we will make
attractive prices on females with
calves by side, bred and open heif—
ers. Bred to our great imported
herd sire Imp. Scottish Emblem 680,-
312. Also a few choice roan Scotch
bulls of serviceable age by Imp.
Scottish Emblem. A great opportun-
ity to secure the blood of this great
bull. Come and see them or write

H. B. PETERS & SON
Elsie, Mich.

RIOHLANO SHORTHORNS

Why buy Bulls that come from Herds you know
nothing about?

For the next thirty days we. are going to offer
the best lot of Bulls ever sold in Mich. Prices
mnging from $200 to $500.

, C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS
Herd at Prescott. Mich. Tawas City,

SOOTOH SHORTHORHS 1‘2 ‘30??? .13.";3

Priced right, also my herd bull.
THEODORE NICKLAS. Metamora.

 

Mich. .

 

Mich.

 

HILKING SHORTHORNS. BULLS FROM COWS
making records. Priced reasonable.
0. M. YORK. MIIIlncton, Mloh.

BUY SHOHTHOHN FROM AN seem-:11.

ited herd, that are
right at readjustment prices
JOHN SCHMIDT £1 SON. Reed Olty, Mloh.

 

 

HAT DO YOU WANT?- I represent 41

IHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls a1!
ages. Some females. . Crum, President
Central Michigan Shorthorn Association. Moi
Brides, Michigan. .

HORTHORN BULL GALVES FOR
Milking and Scotch Top. $100 and up
W. HUBER, Gladwln. Mich.

SALE.

 

I SHORTHORIS

' Villager breeding.

SHORTHORHS '

5 bulls, 4 to 8 mos. old. all roans, pail fed.
Dams good milkers. the farmers’ kind, at term-
ers’ prices.

F. M. PIOGOTT,‘ SON. Fowler. Mloh.

HE VAN RUREN CO. SHORTI-TORN IKEED-
ere' Association" have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding. \

the secre reryta
FRANK BAILEY. Mumford. Mich.
HElFERS, BULLS

COWS,
offered a‘t attractive prices
before January ﬁrst. Will trade {or good land.

Wm. J. BELL, Rose Clty‘, Mloh.

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all
ages. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.
A E. RAAB. Seo’y. Caledonla,‘ Mloh.

aple Rldae Herd of Bates Shorthorns 0f-
l'ers for sale a roan bull calf 9 mos. old. Also 8
younger ones I E. TANSWELL. Masoh, Mich.

0R SALE—JOLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

Oxford Down Rams. .
J DeOARMO. Mulr. Mloh.

 

 

 

 

OHESTHUT RIDGE STOOK FARM

oifers eight Scotch Topped Shorthorn Heifers from

seven to twenty- two months old and one roan

bull nine months old. Also two younger bulls
RALPH STIMSON, Oxford, Mich.

FOR SALE

 

 

FOUR REGISTERED ROAN
bulls from 8 to 10 months old.

RV J. LYNCH.

HEREFORDS

MalVlllo. Mich.

 

 

 

3. "EHEFMD OATH-£11811": HAMPSHIRE

 

>La FAYETTE eve
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We“ can furnish registered bulls from 12 .
months and older. best of breeding and at a
very .Jow price. have also some extra good

~Herd headers We have also (a large
.‘ofd relifered Hampshire Hogs. Gill's. Saws
tn rgears. - ' ’

Write us. tell us what you want and get-
onr prices.

.51.. still. ‘ 1‘,

and four '

sing Which already exists and press

has ~ j

 

 

111111.; a. few questions to ask you in
regard to diseases of stock What caus-
es so many horses torhave trouble with

and hoof? I have heard people express

Otheir opinions and some think it is kid-

ney trouble, others think it is caused
from feeding,o hers think it just nature
and I would 101 e to have your. opinion
What can be used to stop it?
- What will rid a horse of WorniS?
What will give horses and cows. :an
appétl to?
What is the trouble with a. cow when

about the size of a pea up to one inch in
diameter and after a little while they get

appear. These spots make their 11.11--
pearance all over the body. After a.
time the seem to get larger as they ap-
pear an disappear That is, the longer
the disease lingers the larger they are-
when they appear. I have used iodine
without any results and‘I am now want-
ing to know if this trouble could be a
blood disease. and if it is what will cure
it? I never saw ring worm but others
who have had them say they don’ t look
like ring worms but I tried iodine and
didn't get any results and went to a
veterinary and he give me a salve that
he claimed would kill a. ring worm and I
used all of it without any results. If
this is a. blood disease 11 hat will cure it?
—M, H_ S. Fremont, Mich

Persistent stocking in the hind
legs from the hock down is a some-
what common condition. Closeob~
servation will disclose the fact that
geldings are most. often- affected.
Stocking affects mares as -. well in
conjunction with various skin’dis-
eases. such as scratchesfor- instance.‘
It is ‘chiefly. in geldings that stock-'
ing occurs without apparent lesions
of any kind on the extremeties in-
volved.

jority of cases of stocking in geld-.
ings, the primitive cause. is improp-
er castration; to‘ prove this, where
stocking is .present, a close examina-
tion willreveal either a condition
"known as sci-rrhus cord, or an ex-
cessive amount of soar tissue. In
the later case, I would recommend
giving one dram of potassium iodid

cases the results Will be surprising.
In cases Where enlargements has
been formed, to a very great extent.

‘ surgical removal is the only recourse“

For stomachworms give three
raw linseed .011. For pin, 'worms
nothing better can, be, given than a.
douche consisting of
about one tablespoonful to a quart
of warm water. This should be inject—
ed well up in the back bowel as this
is the lOcation of pin worms in the
horse.

Powdered nux vomica, two ounces
powdered capsicum, one ounce, bi»
carbonate of soda thirteen ounces.
Mix thoroughly and give one table-
spoonrful three times a day for ap-
petite.

little tumors in the skin along the
back and loins of cattle, which con-
tain a grub deposited by the ga'dfly.
The larva. of this fly, when young,

»is smooth, white and transparent;

as it enlarges, it becomes browner,
and about the time it is full grown
is of a deep brown color. The larva
having attained i-tsfull growth and
size, affects its escape from the ab.
scess in the back of the affected an—
imal, and falls to the ground; it
then seeks a. retreat in which to pu-
pate.‘ The! puparium is of a dark
brown celor, narrower at one end
than at the other, flat on one side,
and very round and convex on the
other. They remain in this state for
about six weeks, when the ﬂy ap-:
pears. The grubs usually escape
during the months of May and June,
occasion-ally as late as September;
sometimes these grubs are very num-
erous and cause a great deal of un-
easiness in the animal, which be-
comes thin in flesh, hidebound, and -‘

they do no ha-rm, except to the
hides. Whenever cattle have these.
tumors along the back in the winter,“ .
it is advisable to enlarge the open-
out the grub and paint the tumor
with alcohol » ,

‘—-r--——-'--
RHEUMATISM
. A 'ow. 51'; about 7 thumbs (116
came so lame th she will no
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their hind legs SWelling between the hook -

there are yellowish spots on the body 5

gray, in appearance and eventually dls- ._

It is my opinion, that in the Ina-u

twice daily, and in the majority of."

ounces of turpentine in one pint 013,.

turpentine, _ ‘

These grubs are characterized by.

feverish;' more frequently however; '

  

  
    
    
     
   
   
  
 

   
  
    
     
  
   
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  
  
   

      
     
  
  
 

 
  
 
 
    
  
  

        


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“ undue exposure predisposes the an- . BRESDERS' nmscronv. m; IIOHIGANTnusmsss ”amen, m. 01mm“ momm-
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while articular rheumatism affects 150 "Engronn "areas. ALSO KNow -- , ‘, _

 
   

  
    
     

 

      
    

     
 

 

 
    

 

 

   

 

 

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cular term; the affected joints be- °-- -’

712.113.1135; 3.1.1.11:racism: ngpsggggn.15151919...9&111.E. Big Type Poland Chimes

. es pain. . If more than one leg is af— A zr‘ndson of 1.11113 éé'b‘thmi‘v Grin}! $331132:
. .. . . _ . 6 rue
ﬁected the-anIm-al remains lylng down {$331123 :36 fgd also 351;”. 110111-111 1111211 1 u...

arising only after considerable urg— renter. Ten 13. lmx prumiewr.
“T'mg There is usually some rise of T'I'HE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon. Mlch. ,.

temperature and a diminished de- LAKEWOOD HEREFORD :2ng TbV'l’TETi Geo. MCKim, Albion, MiCh'
' 0 711.1 (ire ‘ ‘

sire for food. The disease runs a

young bulls, 12 months old for sale 0 1gh .
variable course, the attack being ll'lb class females any age Inspectiont ingitccgl. J . . . T
termittenut An attack usually con- , , E. J. TAYLOR. Firemen. . T anuary , ..

 

    
 

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tinues for abouttwo weeks, then the . ‘ JFRSFYS‘ _ - .
animal apparently recovers,T but soon- ' “ ‘ Consisting of 9 tried sows, 7 fall yearlings, 31 spring gilts, 3
or or later the attacks recur.- The EADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM, nae. JERSEY Spnng boars- .

 

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articular rheumatism in swine is .5. MORRIS a1 SON Farmlngton, Mich. Sale under cover. Conveyances from Albion, a. m. of sale.
~. praetically the same. This consists 7 . _ GEO_ McKIM
~ _ of provid-ing‘good quarters. keeping ‘ Do YOU WANT PRODUCTION. Anet‘o'we's' . . 1111111111 ’
".. 1 ”he bowel 1.0089 and iVlng thirty ‘ The grandﬁun of Dogs 99th of 110m] harm Ed. BOVVCI'S, South ‘Vhltley, V 1
.S .- ' g " and Sophie .19ths Tormcntor two of the great- “"1“ Inman Albion E. ‘V. LAX DENBERGER.
. grains of salicylate of soda. three -est sires ever known fheads tour lherd. 1131331111? M B F Fi‘eldmnn A. D Gregory Ionic I’arma
.1 " ‘. _ _ strain is more noted 0r pas am muse 1n - - - - . . - . .
..'. g - times daily This is beat ad'miniSter tion. Bull calves and bred 11eife1s for sale at Write for Catalog _

 

 

 

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perience, the outcome of. rheuma— 1'1“” "“VW‘Ro' sum" “'

' tism in swine is very. uncertain, in EAL BARGAINS IN{HIGTH CLASS JERSEY
._ cases or complete recovery, and cows. Herd tubvrtnl 11 item-1LT 1
P. NORMINGTON. lonla, M1ch.gan
where the animal is in butcher com “um" SWINE

 

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of Big Type 1’11l_1md (31111111 hogs. which represents
the work of 2.1 years of constructive Meeting.

 

 

 

 

.-.~ dition it should be disposed of. on SALE—THREE PUREBRED JERSEY Evervtlilnr . . _ . .. . .
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. GUERINSEYS . ut Wlljl'lqoyoll want. (1111‘ 111-11w.~ “1‘9 right“

My lest spring lambs- have had what
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‘2’ the local veterinarian calls just diarrhoea ,__.,.-_ .
» ' ’ and they have all had it by ones and tw os NSEYS TSiI‘e “:33 _Champion 01: the “01:111. .
all summer and this fall Have l0 1 six REGISTERED GUER HIS dam s Ser was grand champmn . .
so far They jw‘t seem to run at 11111- 11111” 11111111 1; months 11111—11200. at Iowa State Fair 8 choice-spring I. S P FOUR °"°"‘E 8PM” M"? ”F'-
v n .0 1 1 t___ 100. boars left. A few extra moo nib
the bn1.cl"'nd 11 n , get wcn.<. and line bull calves 6 to 8 months 1111 $ gilts bred that t d b left bred for A ril f rrow
some die, others get over it I feed com All papers transferred. are INC 111'981 s1re y 'H 0' slAmn‘Iz S-choolcmn Mich
fodder and clover hay WouldTT you Iplierﬁxe J. M WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich. him. Also some sows bred to him ' ' ’
advise through yourTcolumns. . . . _, . for March and April Priced 10W
Brooklyn. Mich. . - . ' BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
, H . GUERNSEY BULL CALVES and guaranteed 1n every way. Get Early 1111 1111.1 for 1.11 1111191 511 These .1.
This disease is caused by a special 'T From tested and untested dams. my prices. “‘1” ““1“", ““311;ég’sT1‘11gg’ys1gnl1r’g1 [1311;00:-
Organism: other germs may assist in 'Satisfaction guaranteed 0- .E- Garnant, Eaton Rapids, MiCh- ' .‘
the infection. The" usual symptom-s Write for prices and breeding to . 1311: TYPE POLAND chAs
are. the lamb becomesdull, loses its MORGAN BROS., Allegan, 311011.. 1:]. HERE" SOMETHIHE GOOD “IlAlfhll‘v chloirxnspring bloom 11111fl gilts sired by
_ appetlte, and the feces passed at the 7* ‘ T1111“ (‘11:11'1111u '. 11‘ -"”‘-"._ 50-" “1 15"")‘1t-h .H‘Uf
. THE LARGEST BIG Type p c IN M10". 1 1 1111 (fT.I1cl111..1n 111 Lilo. (nits W111
ﬁrst are a light yellow, later, a foamy REGISTERED GUERNSEYS h Gdet it: bigger 1mg better bred boar pie from my gebmi‘ld tt”1 Jmfnh" :1 )I1lrsiodolp 21”." 5”“ 0f Big
. - _ . -s 1 . . ‘1 . ‘1
greyish White. The wool is matted, One bred 11eire1,.o11e 7 1111111111 11111 111-11111. 11nd Eirpengesapall1ﬂﬂn’l111?ﬁri$511.9§.?1’€.$1.“"5}1f§:.13:3, U “31211161537 8310‘s..dlher?lllfllr.1f12r11rf’w'
and streaks 0f mucus ,are found Ol’l 2. 4 months old bull calves. Prices reasonable. in service: L’s Bii'. Orange, Lord (31110111111111,
H. F: NELSON. Most-Ides, MIGN- 4 Orange Price and l.‘ 11 1.11113 lwrospcct
it. In a short time the lamb becomes w. E. lemes-rom. Parma. Mich. BIG TYPE 1*.
. ~, very weak; 'the,eyes grow glassy, AYRSHIRES ALNUT ALLEy 3 1“" ”"f’
. T ‘ . . . 1 . ;;S 1; r11 11(-
311': and the VT'lCtlm drops to the ground FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE FABWELL LAKE FARM (1.111'i1ters 1‘11Ttl1e $131111” (.rz1111l (illnunpion sow of .'
'l and dles In a Stupor- The tempﬂrﬂ" bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer calves. .1, '1' p C b 1 , - ., . l.letr1)1t,T 1" 0- 51- 50 “(h 1“” bro“ K1153 .
1 - 4 . Also some choice c1ws. . - it .1 fears 111 sold. A few sprm. hours and prlccd right
. . 1 1 s . 7“ - .: ' .. ' ‘ 11 ' . .
pure IS. about normal' and” as death FINDLAY BROS.. R 5- V5533“ MICh- Booms; gillsscfvitce: ‘1‘,lalngfilzl11lxs‘tl11ngzied‘lllll haulage; A' 0' GREGORY' loma. M1ch.
approaches, drops to subnormal 011111031111111 3111110111 111.11 :.1. 111.1111; 11"c1co111e.‘
. T Treatment: This is not a common RED POLLED whon RAMlaPELL Am 0111111119 Large Type Poland Chlna eom.
— —-——-——-— __.,.,.- -~ —~—————A ._ a 0V8". IC bred to l1 51 Orange at roaropable pri'ces A150
disease 0f the range b1“ is usuallv ED POLLED oA‘r'rLE, YORKSHIRE sme fall 111gs.\Vrite or (all 5
found in low, marshy pastures. or 111110111 and Tunis 11mm HE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR- CDLV DE F|5HER- R3 St- Lows. Michw
E. S. CARR. Homer, Mich. ed by Big Bob Mastodon at tl1elow1-st price.
sheds which contain the infection . _ DeWI‘TT c. PIER. Eva M1ch1
- The logical treatment-is to separate ANGUS . BIG TYPE POLAND GHIEA BQAIIS
2‘. aTl the apparently healthy ]ames_ and . 7W .. » _. .-. -——--—~~———~— ‘ THE THUMB HERD 1.111111. 111-1111‘ 111111111 spring 1111.115. Simi 11y
glve the Sle ones intestinal antisep— _ B' T I‘ . (‘l' , T . . T . lirewlmker 1% Son‘s grout l1er1l 1111111“. (‘ririsrlulo
I. __ f ‘ . .v T — ‘1g ypo ”11““ 3‘1“” ['11‘111‘5' 11"” ”1 {\11rt11- ’1‘1111111. Stock all (iambic immupml.
.105 a ew drops of founahn 111 a , c.151er11 Mien. Bears 111111 151115 for sale. ~ 1
. 1 1 Tﬂe I—Iome of E M 0RDWAV Milli i. M' h H. C. OVEN, OVId. M1Ch.
. little mllk, or Abbotts sulphocarho-. - - . "9 0'1» 1c.
1 . .lates These can be obtained thru' ‘ T P c A FEW TOP “”3 “1“” T0
~ »» 1' -. - I 11 Ed er of Daimen . . : r. »- w” .
Tc} YOUI‘ drugg1st or you can send direct l “1' g y My, Oh My. “Ihat 3“ Opportunity! 1.. K131“fluid11111-11111311..111f"\\‘1\-{:r‘1)1‘1) 171111111, (1‘1111‘1'11111111111:
to the Abbott Alkalcidal Company ‘ PrObab'ly '\\'e are new HITI‘I‘E‘H; :1 f1-w choice big type ‘ JOHN 0‘ W'LEV' Schoocraf1., Mich.
' ‘ Preventi . i1 . l‘Ulilel China lilo-.1211, fr» 11‘» 11;; Sr 1 1,1 .111“ S. ' 1, _’—’—“"""‘"" ""
on is the best method to pm- The ‘IQJOI‘IUS, GI'C inst of the breed's best slrm, 1111111 11111113111. 5111.11:a 111113181 1
v sue and the most satisfactory to all sires as 111111111 \1.s111-111:1.u1..1 111.1111“, 11.11111. 1 DUROCS

Ir _ cqncerned -, T VB R E E DIN G BTUL L uilli’11ll-fn‘f‘lfl1lvt 211:;th ”1:53;“ I1:1”:1‘11111" individual! _W‘—'” 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

’ the, Will 11.111111 31111. l’rlm 7510.
T .. _ . ‘ . HILLCREST FARM, Ka- amazoo, Mich. DUROC-
-'.' TI; BERCULOSIS ‘ 11311112 Bull. Supreme Champion at the 3.3% B§W&Q P? “
. You advise having my CO\VT examined. ‘ SlnitllﬁL-ld‘ Shoo, 11.119. 111111 the Bll'll‘lilllw" IG TYPE POLRNDS. HERD HEADED BY J3: ‘W “Y8
T for‘ tuberculos15.P1easg tell me \‘1‘10 10 .. himllslillxr 1.1.20. is 11. daughter of Luger ‘.\-‘5 Hyilor 111111 Spring pigs, both sex for sale. BOARS—READY Fol? SERVICE
T ,. write to and does the owner how; to u T 1 y.T . . . . _ w CALDWELL & SON. Sprmgport. Mich. _ . BRED SOWS AND GILTS
:1 bear. the expense or does the stﬁin at- The Jum‘" (mmmm‘ T111111. 5111"" ' ‘ ' ‘ 1 ' ’ '
‘ tend to that—I H. Casevine M‘ h . Champion Female. 111111111111011 111111 111.111 . > 113 TVPE POLAND CHINA BARGAIN. 575 “ 1'11“ l“ 1“” 51'1““ 11“” 1611131993
, 1 _ TT , lc . and First 1.1.5.1“. T111323 ”9”.” CillI‘WMiCli- 111138 a 1,111.; gill and 11 330 lb. spring: 1).)“, Mail orders .1 s;»w‘1:1lt,\'. Siltisﬂli‘ilull guaranteed.
, . - ' . 1;: I St to I’lir. I. , wer also t1e"tct .\l.‘n I-l r“ .‘ . .' l 1 '1 .1 .111 ‘ - ' '
. .' . . - 1 Y? mlghl‘. take the matter up W ”1’ ‘ of“ lildgaar of l)alme11y. e 3 7 & faotimnmue guts brul for 1340' ( 11.11111t11 “D BROOK“ ATER .FARI‘I ’
. 9;. tle (apartment of Animal Industry . A very choice lot of young bulls—sired DORUS ”OVER ”"0“ MW" 1“? w Mumforg'1'5w’lﬁor' M13hlgBanAndr M
T, .T whose address is Lansing Michigan by Edgar of Dalmeny are, 111 this time, ' ' ' ' ”3' gm
. ‘3 . . ! . ‘. uttered ‘fm sale. . IG TYPE P. C. 11113: r1514... Uv.b«1- «do..-

if you are're‘asonably sure you have boars we are closing out 111 a bargain, .1.
tuber-animals affecting your catne ‘ 31.11111: extr? sows bred to furrow in Apr‘nuilu
' — , , ’ _ ' am growt 1. '

- . and ask for a state test.- I think the . ' WILDWOOD FARMS 1.f w. BARNES a. son. Byron. Mch.

same will be granted. As for the e‘1' . - . 91:10“. Mich- _. -- -

1' '- pensee, if. you should have a eew die “w E sci-1 N. P 8‘11 8 1 BIG‘TYPE ' " ”1,177+? 83:1:va . “111119 "11.93 by, Wan.a

”With tuberculosis, 01‘ slaughter one 'T 1T9 ' top" 1 no" mth, 5“”: Nine fall giits 11111 of 11mm of eleven and . 01‘!on. First SNVORI‘HNJ

' 5 / - thirteen. for sale. Detroit. Jackson. Gd. Raplds and Saginaw. 191.

for beef, and she should be feund 1 1 , E MVGRANT... St 1011.11 MIC“

tuberoular. then the state would he , . . , ' ' o . . .
runl _ . P . ,

under obligation to test your herd: BARILEIIS “on, $2$3LE11§§3°§E1 BIG TIP 'T.?L.,’?.'.‘.P.3.“l‘T‘.‘f11f’..i“l‘.f..§3.‘S1§ llllllps Bros, nga7 MICh

“ithout any expense to y0u; in any SM," I." and (in. my!“ “‘1“- 00'1'“ prices. Registered in buyer‘s name.
- d nee go ted 3- impact! in tad, 1.
case the state will furnish the tuber- 31011 0 % 111111 S119“ 1“ 111-“"13 “01’-

1...... “‘11“ "' , I ,1... 5‘ 11111 11111151511511 nunocirnsr‘r

$111111 for illustrated Catalogue.

          

 

       

        
      

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

   
 
   

  

 

    

 

   
   
   

 

       
 

 
  
  
  

  

    
      
 

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' " 1 L Tt P C b03131 gills. 11ml 1'11ll pigs for sale ~ llcnl headed

“. ~ . . by BIN-knot” 111'211rxrxstr11t111‘ 2371,11 No. 157.1217.

1 have 11 ﬁne lot of spring pigs Hirer} by 11111:. ’. "H~._'E. .LIVEBMORE a. SONE‘TRomco Micln

.Bltck Price a good can of1 Flack Prices" 3111an T . . .- _

of It mine a 1' :rlmmpion of the world i119.18 Also mm A '7. OR SALE—«,DUROC JEF‘SEYS. BOTH SEX.'
from {mkwpcper 6% . [3.223; 0: {v "1’55, 5 SOWSf 3351 231601380 3“?”ng ‘ 8111711111 and fall 1111's. lime scum-11 extra good'F

‘ ‘. . ; or an a son 0 e . (fa ee. 1,1 1,1 1” s1“; “rite 11s a 'r

ducen to include pure W 13an 111111 0‘ the - that are sure Humdinzers. '[ ‘ 9 53:1": 1"“ 5 1‘1 lv Dr W l u

 

       
   

F- T- ”A 1"" 5‘ LOUIS» M16111; ‘ ‘ HARLEY FOOR a. son R 1. Gfadwln. Mich. T

BIG Y? P. c.~'s ‘1 w: HAVE soul: ax;
5131;111:1111 and the 11:31:: Dunno JERSETEStm good bred sons. toy

state Come and See or unity- sulc 'mit‘rtl 1-19. ..
R 3 St. noun, Mini. .. c. c. DAwls '1. son. Ashiey. M11111. ,.

   

angst efrtreme. beef T‘r’ypoTT for- c‘ mhlmtion beet ﬁnd

      
  
 
    

 

 
  

  

 

 

 
 
  


 
 
 
  

  

  
  

‘ Hill.- - s » 1524
111nm. Come look on over. ,, _
Also 1'1.“ch “open guts. ' .
000 3808.,Ro1nom Mlch. '

   
 

 

' “woo sows one qilu ma to Welt’s King 82949
rho has sired more prize winning pigs at the
state fin rs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc board. Newton Bunk-.11.. St. Johns.- Mlch.

'cLovzn LEAF STOCK r

 

II 1. 0. 9111111 «L13 Iron sis-cu Al‘o
April farrow. Also a few choice service boars.
ARM. Mom-cs. moh-

 

BERKSI‘IIRES

 

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Sep‘
ber (arrow subunit: prices.
0

 

6°04 bred Berkshlre Gllts for April farrow fo
' 350. One Shorthorn bull $125. r1111 Bork-
nhire piss 110 and $15 each.
Down ram lamb -$35. All above stock ellglble
for registry

 

 

. TAYLOR _ M“.
.. Milan. Mich PRIMEVAL FARM, Osseo. 1
“snoowvmw- FARM nemomssv 11063., DEAL TYPE REG. aznxlsmnzs. WE 0"-
-'hOl<‘0 boar pigs for sale. ' ' ‘ for choice pigs all ages. either sex. be“
J- E. MORRIS a. SON ,Farmlngton, Mlch. breeding. Satisfaction mmrantccvl.
. H. WHITNEY, Merrill, Mlch.

For Salk—Reg. Duroc Jersey Weanllng Pigs of
good quality and breeding Either sex. Am
offming spring gllfs also.

VERN. N. TOWNS. R 6. Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

””3063 5 Fa" Boar; of Last Sept. Farrow.

200 lb. big stretcmy kind, 4 good.

wring boars also tilts of same litters. sired by
liberty Defender 3rd. Col. bred dams. 'if you
want good boars order at once. Prices $75 to $35.

G. KEESLER. Cassopolls, Mlch.

 

UROCS, ANTTHING YOU-WANT FROM: A

spring gilt to a. herd boar, at prices you can
Afford to pay. Cholera lmmune' Satisfaction cuar‘
sntccd. > C. L. POWER. Jerome, Mich.

UROC- JERSEY BOARS. Boar-sot the large.
heavy-boned type. at reasonable prices. Write,
or better, come and see.
F. J. DRODT, R 1, .Monroo, Mlch.

REGISTERED DUROG JERSEY

September pigs for sale. Prices reasonable.
E. E. CALKINS, R8. Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

 

0111111111115 [1111511111511 3111131:

llerd Boar—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT 325
BLANK 8: POTTER

Pottervi He. Mlch.

 

OR SALE—REG. DUROO-JERSEY SPRING
ailts bred to Rambler of Sangamo 1st. The
boar that siredmur winners at Michigan State
Fair and National Swine Show.
HEIMS & SON
Davlson, Mich.

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open sows

and gilts. Boers and spring pigs. 100 head.
‘l-‘nrm 4 miles straight s. of Middleton, Mlch.,
Gratiot 00. Newton 6; Blank, Perrinton, Mich.

DUROC ' BOARS ‘ F305? P R I Z E

umsmd s'rocx
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith. Addiq
son. Mlch. '

 

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Ilroolmater breeding stock. (hoice spring DIES.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton, Mlch.

Dunes-JERSEY SERVICE BOARS. $50. 00
line 99.1 3 lel pigs 1,000 lb. herd
108. S“ lll III I I: ll, Mich.

 

boar. \\ eidman,
FOR SALE DUHOC SPRING BOARS. SOWS
11111 gilts of all ages. Write us
your wants. EntJre ln-rd double immune.
JESSE BLISS & SON. Henderson. Mich.

'WE OFFER A FEW WELL-BEE!) SELECT-
etl spr 11g Dun:- lloxrs. talso bred lo“ and

Film in Imsn'l. all or wri
McNAUGHTON a FORDYCE. 81.. Louis. Mlch.
MICHIGAN ounocs. WE CAN FILL vopﬂ
wmts. Several lines of breeihng

represented including The Great Sensation. Ssh..-
fnction guaranteed. 0. I”. Foster, Pavilion, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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11156 11111115111111:

 

 

 

 

scans 115on FOR

 

5:11111c.i1lc service, also
Pigs. both 'sn-x.
RUSSELL BRO$.. R 3. Merrlll. Mich
ARE QUALITY HOGS.

BEBKSH'RES “39115.11 11'- ;:5 of the very

best blood lines of the breed is our specialty We
guarantee to plmm- or nothing stiring.
ARIA A. WEAVER Chesanlng. Mlch..

GREGOR.‘ FAR.“ BERKSHIRES FOB
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W S. Corsa. White Hall. Ill.

 

CHESTER WIIITES '
REGISTERE

vicc. Prices right.
LYLE V. JONES. Flint. Mlch., R. F. D. No. 5

 

CHESTER WHITE SWINE.
either sex. Bears ready for ser-

 

 

HAMPSHIRES

 

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE GILTS ARE NOW
ready to ship. Spring boars and fall pigs at 9-
bargain. '

JOHN W. SNVDER, H 4, St. Johns, Mlch-

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8 Weeks Old
W. A. EASTWOOD. Chosanlng, Mlch.

 

An Opportunity To Buy
ampshires Right

We are offering some good sows and gilts bred
for March and April farrowing. Also a few
choice fall pigs, either sex, “'rite or (all

GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop, Mich.

SHEEP

Put your faith in

BETTER BREEDING STOGK

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rams
write or visit
KOPE-KON FARMS. s. L. Wino, Prop.
Goldwater. Mlch.
exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan

 

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See our
State Fairs.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some ram
lambs left to offer. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed as
represented.

 

CLARKE 'u. HAIRE. West. branch. Mich

 

 

ANT A SHEEP? Let American Hampshlro
Sheep Association send you :1 landv booklet
with list of breeders. \\ rite COMFORT A.
TYLER, Soc'y. 10 Woodland Ave" Detroit. Mlch.

 

0. I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE. ONE
choice hour of Prince Big Bone breeding. A
big type fellow, priced to sell. Some fall piss
left. llro-l~sows nn'l gilts. '

CLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich.

3O HEAD 1*1111‘19‘11111211 o. I. c. HOGS

vair l 1
gm; 1J6 hcnj of f' ll pi”. e mars and ired
R

 

l’“pms~1 furnished free.
VAN ETTEN. Clifford Mlch.

0. I. C.’s

June and July boars and open gilts each one

s. guaranteed breeder. Recorded and express paid
in full for the next thirty days.

. BURGESS. Mason, Mlch.

 

 

o. I. 0. ALL AGES FROM BIG BOAR8,,AGED
sous to ﬁll pins. 35 spring gilts, wt
200 to 285. Service boars, none better in the
state. \‘1 rite and get acquainted. Registered
free. l—2 mile west of depot.
TTO‘ B. sCHULZE, Nashville, Mlch.

 

0R BHROPSHIRE EWES BRED T0 LAMB
in March, write or call on .
ARMSTRONG BROS., R 3, Fowlarvlllo, Mlch.

 

EdERlNO RAMS FOR SALE.v GOOD BIG-
b‘nerl. heavy shearers. -
HOUSEMAN BROS . R 4. Albion. Mlch.

 

OR SALE—REGISTERED OXFORD DOWN
Rams 21ml liwvs. l‘ricvs to sell.

JOE MURRAY 0. SON. Brown City. Mlch_, R 2

 

PET STOCK

FOR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES,
breeding age, $6 Three months old pair, $5.
Registered does 312 each. Stock pedigreed. Qual-
ty guaranteed.

E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mlch.

1111511111: rurs TW°‘ mm °L
from registered stock
Pedigrees furnished. Maze ﬂne watch dogs to
homes and poultry. Males 815. Females $10
R. G. Kl REY, R 1, East Lanslng, M'nh.

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name.

J. CARL Jawsrr,

O. I. C.BOARS

Choice individuals; shipped to you c.,o. d. express paid and guaran—
teed right or your money refunded.

  

 
 

All stock registered in buyer’s -

MASON, MICH-

 
 

 

 

 
 
 

“SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES”
SPECIAL'HOLIDAY SALE
Two months old, Sable and White
pedigreed Collies, also a few Shep—

herd puppieshall bred- from farm
traine‘d stock that are natural heel

~drivers; ﬁfteen dollars ($15. 00) to?

quick sale; send check in ﬁrst let-
ter, all stock guaranteed.
BATH CITY KENNELS
Dr. W. Austin Ewalt
11101»me

   

SIM Bax'rsu's right leg ' waits in
temporary retirement under 'a_

One Iiampﬁhil'd ,

Tfrom the use of

 

   

layer of arnica-sdak'ed bandages.
He regarded the injured member
with a. glint of rueful humor and
spake thus to a. neighbor who had

dropped in for a chat with the cheer-
ful invalid.

‘ “Bert, tell me somethin’. How can .

a tailor tell when a, mean while mule
named Anarchy is goin’
mean, how can he tell in time to do
him any good?”

“Human knowledge goes no furth-
er than to say that a white mule is
ALWAYS goin’ to kick. Is that the
answer? Then let me ask you a.
question: How do you know wheth-

er to buy your ‘feeder’ steers in the
fall or in the spring?_ Do you make
anything by feeding the: in the

winter, and will you make more if
you let the other feller fee'l 'em thru?
They cost more in the spring than in
the fall. Is there any way to be
certain?” ’ -

Sim admitted that the thing was
past his comprehension and confess—
ed that he sometimes did the thing
one way and sometimes the other,
but that he never knew just how he
was Coming out.

No Hard and Fast Rule

In reality, 'as to the time to buy
stockers or feeders, there is no, hard‘
and fast rule. The usual time is in
the fall when they must leave the
grazing areas and go where feeds
have been harvested or stored for
cattle feeding, In the spring when
everyone with grass for grazing
wants them, cattle are higher than
in the fall, usually enough’higher to
pay for the wintering. HOwever,
with a falling market, which no one
can foretellwith any degree of cer-
tainty, the cattle may not be worth
enough more in the spring to pay for
the Winter feeding. Yet they have
been kept largely on feed for which
there is no other market;

Consequently, what, Sim and his
neighbor should know is how much,
it costs to keep stockersthrough the
winter on various rations, how they
lose or gain weight, and how they
gain through the. summer as a result
of the way they have been wintered.
Being in a better position to carry on
feeding experiments to answer these
questions than the cattlemen, the

tion work by the University of
Missouri College of Agriculture
has shown:

That the proper use of supplement-
ary foods like tankage, linseed oil
meal or Wheat middlings increase
proﬁts derived from swine feeding.
With corn worth $1.20 per bushel,
a ton of tonkase saved corn to the
value of $203,64—1ikewise, a ton
of linseed oil meal was worth $113.80
and wheat middlings $45 80

That fattening hogs gained—

23 per cent faster on a ration of
corn and middlings than on ,corn;
32 per cent faster on a .ration of
corn and linseed oil meal on corn’
alone; 32.6 per cent faster on a ra-
tion of corn and tankage than on
corn alone; 38.5 per cent faster on
a ration of corn and soybeans than
on corn alone; 17.6 per cent faster
on a ration of corn and germ oil meal
than on corn alone.

That fattening swine
cent faster when 'Self f'e
hand fed the same ration.

That self fed' hogs require no more
feed to produce a given amount of
gain than when hand fed. Hence
the practice can be recommended as
a. method of decreasing labor.

That when each. feed is placed in
a separate .self feeder. the hogs will
Choose the different feeds so 'that

EXPERIMENTAL and demonstra-

ain 7.4‘per
than when

“the gain Will be both rapid and eco-
nomical

That the saving of grain resulting
pasture crops is
from 20 to 50 per cent.
The kind of, forage crops best
adapted for hos pastures by show»
but

to kick? I '

_ the United States gorernmen

Bureau of Animal Industry, co—o

ating with the West Virginia Exnoﬂ’,‘

111th Station, conducted a series ,1:
feeding tests in Greenbrier Count;
West Virginia.
gan December 22, 1914, and covered

a period of fOur years, the resultsif
now being published in Department 1"

Bulletin 870..
Details of the Tests

In brief, 30' yearling steer-Q were",
selected each year and divided into,

3 lots of 10 steers each.- When the
lots were carefully equalized, the
average weight of the animals was
663 pounds each. The steers were

on winter rations an average of 1303’

days, and on pasture an average of
158 days each year. _
The tests proved that an average
daily ration of 19.8 pounds of silage,
5 pounds of mixed hay, ‘ and 2.5

pounds of wheat straw during the,

winter would maintain these steers
without: loss of weight. . ,
An averagedaily ration of 23.1

pounds of corn silage, 4.9 pounds of ‘

wheat straw and 1 pound of cotton-
seed meal would give each steer an
average gain of 62 pounds.

A daily ration of 11.9 pounds of

mixed hay and 4.1 pounds of wheat
straw fed throughout the winter Will
not keep the animal in good condi-
tion. This ration was responsible for
.a loss of 35 pounds per steer. Corn
silage gave better results than dry
roughage alone, and the steers that
had silage as a part of their winter
ration made greater total gains than
those fed on.ha,y and straw.

The cost of feed averaged through-
out the four years was as follows:

Corn silage ......... . .$6.00
Mixed hay .............. .18.00
Rye hay ..... . . . ...... 18.00
Soy bean hay . ............ 17.00
\that straw ............... 7.00
Cottonseed meal ........... 50.00

The bulletin records feeding tests

that will be extremely valuable to
the fa rmers of Pennsylvania, Ohio,

\Vest Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Tennessee and the
adjacent states, and for them, it"

does much to answer the question
that puzzled Sim and his friends. The
bulletin may be had on application
to the United States Department of
Agriculture, at Washington, D. C.\

'SOme Facts for the Pork Producer

Bluegrass produced 324. 6 pounds
of pork per acre.

Clover produced 567. 7 pounds of
pork per acre,

Rape and out forage produced
414.6 pounds of pork per acre.

Sorghum forage produced 275
pounds of pork per acre.

Cowpea forage produced 275 lbs.
of pork per acre. ’

Soybean forage produced 117.6.
pounds of pork per aerc.

Rye grain forage produced 211.7 ,

pounds of pork per acre.

PUREBRED BREEDERS DISCUSS
' TRADE -WITII SO. AMERICA

Representatives of 29 horse, cattle,
hog and sheep breeding associations
attended a conference called by George
M. Rommell of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture at Chicago,
Jan. 4th, to promote eXport trade in
purebred live stock with Latin Amer-
ica.

The conference listened to reports

by E. Z Russell and L. B. Burk of,
the federal bureau of markets, re- ,1:

cently‘ returned frOm a trip to Brazil,

Argentina, Uruguay and Chile,.where “ -

they. made an exhaustive survey for
the United States government.
stated that all the Latin American
countries could absorb considerable
numbers of North American purebred

stock especially hogs, and gave a (le-'

tailed account of the prospects in each
country. .

D. S. Bullock of Wiscbns'in, recon 1y
appointed live stock commissioner. flit

  

Buenos Aires, made a lengthy
ment shawm'g that Lani

   

  

 
   
 

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:prlcés paid- the farmers during . week

cndl Jan. 8th as follows: EAT:
Lyerﬁofge 31.57 ; hi host. Battle Creek,
3.76;.West, Ca lilac. 9144. C. RN.
ye» ,‘shelled. 74 8—40; in est. Cad-
illac. 4c: lowest, Midlan‘ c c. OATS:
Ayerage. 46120;,hi heat, _ lilac, Lake,-

«, View and ‘Williams urg. 505:; lowest,
rFowlerr: 88c- RYE: Average. 81.82 1-2c,
. highest. Fowler. $1.5 lowest, $1.20,
:“BEAN : Average'ger owt., $3.33 8-4c;
highes Cadillac, '.50' lowest... Lake—
vlew. 8.25,’ POTATOES: Average, per
bu.. 60' hi host. Cadillac, 61c: lowest.
Fr sic. HAY: Average, baled,
825,75; highest, Cadillac and Battle
Creek $27: lowest. Williamsburg, $24.
: Average, 16 Z—ucyhighest, Fowler

21c: lowest, Cadillac, 14c. BUTTER:
Average. 43c; highest, Cadillac. 47c; low-
est. Frederick and Midland, 40c. EGGS:
Average, 67c; highest. Battle Creek and
Cadillac, 65c; lowest, Lakeview. 50c,
BEEF STEERS rAverage 7 1-10c; high-
est Fowler, 8 1-2c, lowest. Lakeview. 6c.

EEF COWS: Average, 4 3-4c' highest,

Fowler and Battle Creek, 50; lowest at
Lakeview, 3c, HOGS. Average, live
,welght, 8 1-2c; highest, Battle Creek

I I Foivler, and Lakeview, 9c; lowest, Mid-

 

 

 

 

  
  
 
  
   
  
 

 
 
 
  
   

 
 
 
   

- the hospital—C. L.

and some, buyers have closed up,

, 'Meview are to ,
‘ .a day because ‘the Intel-urban is hurting.
. - their trader—G. B. W.,~Lakeview, Jan. 7.

land. 7c.

CLINTON—At the 'Clintcn Co, Wool
Growers’ meeting. called by the farm
bureau it .was resolved that the lower
grades of our wool at Lansing should be
worked up into blankets. robes and
sweaters and nearly all' members pres-
ent favored to pool_ again this year.
Quite an open winter out..here_ Farmers

 

- are selling live stock but only very little

wheat and oats is marketed at present.
Not. much building done last year but
there will be more this year as prices
of lumber, cement and other materials
will be considerably lower, Wheat acre-
age is lOWer thah last year and stand. not
‘nearly 'so good. There was much, fall
plowing done ——T. B_. Fowler. Jan, 10.

GRAND TRAVERSE—Weather is ﬁne;
had a little flurry of snow but it is quite
awrm again. now. Farmers are cutting
wood and doing chores; Nothing much
being sold here. There was a. ﬁre in
Traverse City last night: it burned part
of the Wilhelm b‘cck_ The cause of' the
ﬁre being the explosion of the furnace.
There were two deaths ,one a young girl
of Rapid City, Miss Leona Aye, and the
other an old resident of the country,
Mrs. -Patrick Dockery. She lived in the
building with her daughter, Three fire-
men were seriously hurt, They are in
13., Williamsburg,
Jan, 7. .

MIDLAND (El—Farmers are cutting
and hauling wood. [We have had rain
but. it is colder now. The snow has al-
most entirely disappeared. It is hoped
that the weather will remain as it is for
some time. The soil is in such a state
that it would not be impossible to plow.
Farmers are flooding the market with
beans at $3_35 per cwt, There is no
market for either hay or potatoes, Dur-
ing this warm period everyone appears
to be laying in a supply of wood for -fut-
use use—«C, L, H.. Midland, Jan_ 6.
-~.’ALCONA—Nothing much doing on
farms just now; some are getting wood
and quite a few are working on the road_
Weather is ﬁne. Prices of all farm pro-
ducts are low but if the prices of, other
things were down accordingly we would
be quite happy. Some farmers are suf-
fering at the present time with the after
results of too much credit in the past.
Nothing much being sold off the farm
but everybody has plenty to eat and I'
guess are all right—D. 0., Lincoln,
Jan, ,

CRAWFORD—.Farmers are busy cut-
ting wood and doing chores_ As the wea-
ther has been warm for the past week it
means cold weather soon. There is no
sale for anything the farmer has to sell
at present, only eggs and butter, There
are some farmers who have lots of po—
tatoes to sell but they can’t get an offer
on them, Some got returns a, week ago
for a carload that brought them 350 per
bushel—A, H,, Frederic, Jan. 5.

CALHOUN—Farmers are busy cutting
wood, ﬁxing fences and doing odd jobs,
The weather is warm. Soil is in' ﬁne
,shape' and grain is looking good. There
is no building going on. Some hay and
oats going to market. Holding potatoes
for more money and they are going down
every day. The milk producers are hav-
ing a time with the T, B. test, They
are throwi out lots .that are no’t af-

fected—0,}. 3., Battle Creek, Jan, 7,
WEXFO‘RD—Snow‘ has gone down to
such an extent that sleighlng is bad.

The hills are bare, Good .time for wood
cutting and a number of farmers are im-
proving the time, Our prophet, Mr, Axln
Morgan of Cherry Grove twp, says an
open winter and two weeks’ sleighing is
all We would have, so the rumor goes,
Mr. Morgan hits it pretty close—S, H.
8., Harrietta, Jan, 7,
. MIDLAND—~A few 01 ,the farmers are
shredding corn and baling hay. The-
wreatber is certainly ﬁne for the month
of January_ ~Not much snow on the
ground. Some of the farmers were plow-
mg. 'Some oats and beans going to mar-
ket; Some of the farmers are holding
beans for higher prices, Not much build-
ing isbeing done. A few sales are being
auctidned.-—-J_ H. M, Hemlock. Jan, 8
. MONTCALM-ﬁ-The farmers are cutting
wood and clearing land, The weather is
fine; the frost in out and farmers can
‘stnm 1). Farmers are holding potalttoes
is
reported that the four trains a day to
be dropped down to two

 

     

  

, ALM‘—-FaMers are hauling

warm and pleasant, Lots

. _ g sold-at a‘very low

. c holdingvpotatoes
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Jan.

 

Special crop mot-respondents report that.“

. ties.

cod: and hauling potatoes. .

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so (ate and th
f’Ari‘i'mal Husbandry. Division are
deficient. -’ ,. _ '

eon}

Missouri is pushing a farmers' co-

operative elevator campaign.
at O' O'

A Utilities Department; carrying
on work similar to that of the Mich-
igan Traﬁlc Department, has been
organized in California.

It 0 *

Because of a slack market and

’ prevailing low prices the Illinois Ag-

ricultural AssOciation is seriously
contemplating having blankets and
woolen goods made from wool in
their pool for distribution to farm~
ers. Illinois has .asked Michigan
Farm Bureau for the results 0.: ex-
periments which have been made in
this state along the same line.
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Seven counties in Ohio have or-
ganized on the county wide basis for
the marketing of livestock. The
Farm Bureau Federation Marketing
Department has organized livestock
shipping associations in ﬁfteen coun-
Work is reported to be pro-
gressing successfully. The executive
committee has authorized the placing
of a man upon the Cleveland, Cin-
cinnati and Pittsburgh yards to rep-
resent the interests of the livestock
marketing “companies at these mar—
kets. '

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Four thousand farmers in north-
western Ohio are now organized with
a view to getting a square deal for
sugar beet growers. Fifteen coun-
ties were represented at a recent
meeting at which state ofﬁcers were
elected. :

t t C

A Georgia Farm Bureau is getting
started. Its slogan is “Safe Farm-
ing” and they are taking up the eco—
nomic as well as the educational side
of agriculture.

O O t

The co-opera‘tive livestock ship-
pers of Iowa and the Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation have formed a deﬁn-
ite aﬂiliation. All other cooperative
shipping associations are to be in-
vited to'join. A secretary is to be
employed who will be working under
the Secretary of the Farm Bureau
Federation. The management of
this department of work was vested
in a joint committee of three men
from each association.

O t it
“Ours will not be a speaking con-
vention” announces the Missouri

Farm Bureau, speaking of its annual
meeting on January 19. Michigan
State Farm Bureau has also an-.
nounced a similar purpose. Solu~
tion of problems was considered
bigger than listening to Verbose or—
ators. Missouri is planning to
raise its membership dues.

FINAL ESTIMATES SHOW LARGE
CROP SHORTAGE

(Continued from page 3)

urers who have loudly proclaimed
that their 1920 tonnage would ex-
ceed the 1919 tonnage. The ofﬁcial
estimate for 1920 is 1,106,000 com—
pared with.1,205,000 tons in 1919,
or a decrease of about 100 thousand
tons. We look for a still further re—
duction in this estimate -when the
beet slicing campaign is concluded.
It will be noted that allthough the
Michigan production is less than a
year ago, the total for the entire
country is considerably larger, due
primarily to the fact that in the great
sugar beet producing sections of the
west the manufacturers paid the
farmers enough to make it proﬁtable
for them to grow the crop. In near-
ly all instances western farmers will
receive a minimum of $12 per ton
for their 1920 crop, but there is‘ no
possibilitythat’f the farmers of this

. state will receivamore‘ than their
guaranteed minimum of $10. > . "

 

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MUD-WAY—AUBH-KA FARM
offers young stock and a few mature. breeders in
White Chinese Geese. White Runner Ducks and
“bite Wyandottes. Also 0 I. 0. spring alltl.
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ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching one, baby chicks and
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CYCLE HATCH-ER COMPANY. 1‘8 Phllo Bldg.
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Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons, \Vyandottes‘.

TVRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton, Michigan.

 

 

 

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LADY DID 317 EGGS INmONn—vEAR

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PURITAS SPRINGS POULTRY FARM
Box E111, Berea, Ohio

 

s. . WHITE LEGHORN COGKRELS. FEHHIS

strain. Fine big sturdy fellows. ’l‘li
best breeders that money will buy. Only $3, IH
$5 and $6 each. Guaranteed to please. That‘
the way I do business. Unrelated blood for old

customers.
A. F. STEGENGA, Portland, Mich.

 

RABOWSKE 8. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCK-
erels for sale. only $2.50 each and up.
LEO GRABOWSKE. Merrill, Mlch., R. 4

 

0R SALE—R. C. B. L. COCKERELS, SIRED

by Madison Sq. winner. Bred for size and

layers, Weighing 5 lbs $2.50 each. Flemish
Giant rabbits.
E. HIMEBAUGH.

Goldwater, Mich.

 

s B. LEGHORN COCKERELS FROM EX-
. cellent laying strain. Prize winners at Sug—
lnaw Fair, $1.50. A. McKeage, R4, Hemlock, Mich

C. BUFF COCKERELS. EXCELLENT LAY-
ing stock, $3.00 each.
WILLARD LINDSEY, Otscgo, Mich.

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liver Laced Golden and White Wyandottes.

Choice breeding stock our specialty. Let us

furnish your-good cunkercls. ’
BROWNING. R

 

2. Portland. Mich.

 

HITE WYANDOTTES.
200 egg hens or better.
$5 to $8. Eggs $2 per 15.
FRANK DELONG. R 3.

'PLYMOUTH

Fox SALE—45 BARRED ROCK Fungi-s
$2.50 each. One cockerel, $5.
Miss MARGARET wuom. Remus,

COOKERELS FROM
May and June hatch.

Three Rlvcrs. Mich.

ROCKS

 

 

 

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ROCK COCKERELI

PARTBIDGE sale at 83 and 84 70“

Wm. cmsmoas, n z, Middleton. Mich.

 

UnN's‘ BIO BEAUTIFUL BANNED ROOKI

are hen hatched, grow quick, good layers. [Sold

an approval, 84 to $8 each. Circulars. Photos.
. JOHN NORTHON, Clare, Mich.

COCKERELB AND PUL-
BAHHED nocxslcu bred from Detroit and
Boston winners. Low . So action guar-
anteed.
TOLLEB BR08., R 10, St. Johns, Mich.

 

 

HIGH

BARRED ROCK COCKERELB FROM
strung

producing strain. These will make
breeders next year. 33.00 each.
MR8 PERRY STEBBINS, Smnac, Mich.

 

ARRED ROCK COCKERELB and a few Pul-
lets $8.00 apiece. ' ~
Mrs. W. A. Eastwood, Chmnlno, Mich..'R. 2

 

BARHED ROCK COCKERELB, BRED FROM
great layers. Bargain prices now.
W. C. COFFMAN, R 3, Benton, Harbor, Mich.

' IIIIED ROCK CCCKEHELSJTK

nested proven breeding stock, book your chick
- and egg orders new. Large illustrated catalogue
25c. Stumps {or circular.

NORMAN POULTRY PLANT. Chatsworth, Ill.

 

 

OR ALE—BARRED ROCK COCKERELS.
Thompson's Imperial Binglet strain, best early

 

hatobgd, $3. Beet later hatched, $2.50. Oth-
ers s .
A. D. NELSON, Wheeler, Mich.
PULLETS. HENS. COOKER-

WHITE ROCKS.

els. Flock culled and approved by E. C. For-

man, poultry extension specialist of M. A. C.
ROBT. E. KNIGHT, New Baltimore, Mich.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

 

 

HITTAKER'B R. I. REDS. MICHIGAN'S
Color and Egg Strain. Both combs. Cock-
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INTERLAKES FARM
Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

 

 

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY

 

 

 

 

Bred for type and color since 1912. Winter
laying strain of both Black and White. llave
some cockerels for sale. as in season.

DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Wobbcrvlllc. Mich.
BRABJHAS
UREBRED LIGHT BRAHMA COCKERELS

Write for prices and description.
MRS. E. B. WILLETS, R 1. Deadlng, Mich.

 

 

TURKEYS

IANT BRONZE TURKEVS. STRONG, VIOOR-
ous birds. Write at once for {all prices
MR8. PERRY STEBBINS. Saranac. Mich.

 

 

0R SALE. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS
Write for prices. Forest View Farm.
MRS. H. D. HORTON, Fillon. Mlch.

 

0R SALE—BOURBON RED TURKEYS.
Write for prices

MR3. GEO. HULLIBERGER. Saranac, Mich.

IFOH SALE BOURBON RED TURKEYS.

THOS. G. GALLAGHAN, Fenton, Mich.

 

 

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS

WHITE AFRICAN GUINEAS

80 acres of them. Reference (3/ ll.

Professor Poultry, Mich. Agricultural
Farm for sale.

Whltcomb Turkey Farm,

Burgess,
College.

Byron Center, Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS
BABY CHICKS

350,000 for 1921
Our 17th season. Chicks sent
prepaid. Safe delivery guaran-
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Utility and Exhibiting quality at
very reasonable prices. Catalog
and price list free.
20th Century Hatchery, Box 5
New Washington. Ohio

 

   

 

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Chicks. Order now for spring delivery. Prices
reasonable. Safe delivery guaranteed.
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9 trusses for 100-fl. barn like this requires % Which is the s
6354 board feet. At $60 per M—$381.24

Mistakes on paper are easily rectiﬁed and build-
ings on paper are readily moved. Once built, changes .

can be made only at great expense.
It pays to plan a remodeling job or a new dairy

barn, on paper, before the foundation is dug, before
the carpenters come, before actual work is begun.
The dairy barn is your factory, your workshop in use al—
most daily throughout the year.
If it is not built right, if it is not correctly planned, it may

lose you money every day.

Wrong location of posts, inconvenient arrangement of feed
bins and feed rooms, incorrect arrangement of carrier track- :

ing or stalls or pens, or the wrong designing of the hay loft,

may compel you to take more steps, do more work and pay
out more money for help each day during the life of the barn.

Save Work Daily —

A silo or a
door in the
wrong place,
poor arrange-
mentofequip—
ment, venti-
lating intakes
or outtakes
i m pro‘p e rl y
installed, mis-
takes in size
.in stall ﬂoors,
gutters, pas-
sages and alleys—even these smal-
ler errors may be a source of ,
daily expense and annoyance.

A barn correctly designed
and built right in every detail
is a constant money maker
because it is a constant
money saver.

If rightly planned, cow

 

A chain is no atronzer
than its weakest link. ‘
timber is no stranger than
its tenon.

  

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liness may be assured; plenty of
light, abundant ventilation and easy
disposal of litter will be provided;
ﬂoor space will be used to best ad-
vantage; and all the chores made
easy. In many a case, careful plan-
ning has cut barn work squarely in
half.

What a barn will cost depends
in no small degree on the care with
which it is planned in advance.

It is no uncommon thing to see
a man with the “Know how” build
a barnat 20% to 30% less cost than

be tter way?

Tv‘rIcAL TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION

another, although the barn accom-
modates the same number of cows.
And the man with the “Know

. how" gets a handsomer building,
’ more convenient and better.

How to Get the
Low Bid ,

Regardless of who designs the
barn it is well to submit the ﬁnal
plans to several contractors, getting
bids from each. '

By having as many sets of blue
prints and speciﬁcations as there
are contractors ﬁguring on the barn,

‘. you can safely let the contract to

the lowest bidder.

You get the low price, and the
successful bidder binds himself to
give you the same workmanship,
construction and materials as those
who bid higher. You hold him to
the blue prints and speciﬁcations.

National Clearing House
of the Best ‘Barn Ideas

To help our customers and others
get the best barns possible, we,
years ago, established the James-
way Barn Plan Service under direct
supervision of Mr. W. D. James,
known as. the leading dairy barn
authority in the U. S.

Associated with him in this de-
partment is an architect and engi-

James Wenu/c'zetuﬁng 00mpany. cj‘orzr.//t}ez'rz.son.‘lesc’onsz'n

7n

  
   

9 trusses like this requires 11,394 board feet at
$80 per M--$91 1 .52. A difference of $530.29

neer of unusual experience in ven-
tilation, reinforced“ concrete, steel
work and structuraldesign.

Another architect with many
yeah; . of. experience in planning,
building and remodelling of dairy
barns, a large; force of skilled barn
designers and draftsmen, and ham
experts in charge 'of divisions of th -
ﬁeld force, complete-the ofﬁce staﬁ.

In the ﬁeld, are Emore than sixty
men who practically every day are
consulted by farmers on remodeling
and other barn problems, drawing
preliminary ' plans and reporting
new ideas and unusual conditions.

For years, Mr. James and these associ-
ates, have studied dairy barns—how to
best remodel; construction, lighting, ven-
tilation, drainage; how barns should be
arranged for labor-saving. Every year
they plan or help to plan thousands of
dairy barns. ‘

The experience and help of these men
is yours for the asking. No charge is made
excepting when complete plans and speci-
ﬁcations are ordered.

Barn Book Free

Much of their experience and the best
of their ideas are contained in a 320-page
book which will be sent postpaid on request.

In addition to 28 pages of blue prints, 62
pages of pictures of barns in all sections of
the country and many pages on barn plan-
ning, ventilation, remodeling, etc., this

'book tells all about James inventions that

save so much of labor, prevent spread
of disease, promote better cow
health, make simpler the care
of calves and sick cows, pro-
tect against dangerous bulls,
and increase milk yields.
Write us now. Tell us what
barn problems are bothering

  

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