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C A. Bing? Executive Committee Mak
0» ham

1 is ,
i ‘no' longer secretary of the Michigan ‘State
1 Farm Bureau. At a meeting of the new-ex-
f ecutive committee held at Lansing on Tues-
; day of last week ‘his services were dispensed
i with. This action came as a. result of the fric-
 tion which had existed for some time between
, Bingham and members of the: executive com-
! mittee, and which was culminated at the an-
! nual meeting when Bingham was decisively
 beaten for the presidency by Jas. Nicol of
South Haven. _ '

 It is understood that Pres. Nicol will devote

' a good deal of his time to the executive work of
the Bureau and will personally supervise
many of the activities formerly under the di-
rect charge of the Secretary.
Binghamfs'successor has not yet been ap-
pointed.~ A. J. Rogers, who has been a mem-
ber of the executive committee since the or~
ganization of the Bureau, has been authorized
to act, as Secretary pro tem. Mr. Rogers is
a young man of keen business ability, who has

ness.

There is some speculation as to who will
become Bingham’s successor. Whoever it may
‘be, it is held unlikely that he will be given
any such powers as were held by Bingham.
From now on the policies of the organization
are expected to be formulated entirely by the
executivecommittee instead of by a single in-
dividual.

Mr. Fred Van Norsdall of Three
was reappointed treasurer. ‘

The oﬁices of assistant secretary and cam-

Rivers,

/

_ HE TRUTH of the age-old axiom “The
right time to buy anything one needs is
when_ nobody else wants it,” is being fre-
quently demonstrated these days and with no
greater force than in connection with improv-
ed live stock. It is universally conceded that
no modern farm is complete unless there is,
«included in its equipment, as large a. number
of productive domestic animals as the land

’ will support. If animals are to be kept at all .

no onewill dare deny that pure bred stock will
yield much larger returns on the. investment

. than mongrels. Granting that every farmer,

who aims. at making an outstanding success

of his venture, will as soon as practicable be-

come the owner of a registered herd, certainly

no better time to begin could be desired. If,

eventually, why not now? Certainly many

rare. opportunities to secure: some royal blood
‘ for a small outlay are just now being offered
to the ambitious young farmer whose available
funds are limited.

Contrary to the predictions of Henry Ford
there is no immediate danger of farm animals-
bang replaced by a synthetic substitute de-
veloped in the laboratory of the chemist- If

.1 the chemist of the future. ﬁnally discoversthe
 of the elusive vitamine- and by ingen. ‘

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made a ﬁne success of his own farming busi-

on, paid a heavy penalty for

Markets do not goall the time the same
H _ way; present conditions are discouraging
ﬂk.mbntachaugnissmhm Nouylngmsevertrncr-thari
_ ﬂat on  follows another   decimal-Rats. ' ‘

he  of those who will get:

M I ‘ orwreadﬁ " justment, will be
  a harvest.
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1. Bingham Out as Secretary State Farm Bureau

es Many Changes in Personnel of Department Heads he

 

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i The New Farm Biireau Line-Up

RESIDENT Nicol has appointed the fol-
Plowing members of the executive com-
‘_ mittee to act as chairmen of the re-
, spective departments of the Bureau: ‘

Upper Peninsula and Forestry—A. T. De-
pue, Faithorn, Menominee County.

Legislative and Field Work—Fired Smith,
Elk Rapids.

Dalty—Vlce-Presideut M. L. Noon, Jack-
son, Michigan.

Seed—W. E. Phillips, Decatur, Mich.

Publicity and Home Economics—Mrs.
Edith M. Wagar, Carleton, Monroe County.

The elevator exchange, livestock and boot
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paign manager have been abolished and their
duties will be passed to other hands. This
automatically relieves both R‘. V. Tanner and
B. A. Holden, who had charge of those re-
spective oﬁices.' Rpmor has it that Tanner
may be returned to the seed department where

Live Stock Men Favor Co-Op.

Commission House

THE MICHIGAN Live Stock Exchange,
in session at East Lansing last week, de~
clared in favor of sci-operative live stock com-
mission houses on the principal markets of
the state, but were agreed that the time was
not ripe for taking such (00mmqu on page 9)

By B. H. MACK

iously compounding various natural substanc»
es and chemical ingredients develops a food
the equal of meat and milk he will still be
confronted with the plant food'problem. The
weak link in the Ford theory is, the fact that
he sliggests nothing to take the place of barn.
yard manure as a soil builder and renewer.
' Inﬂuence of Hard 'Times

Nothing is more self-evident than that the
influence" of a period of depression upon the
ﬁnancial affairs of the American farmer, is
just. the opposite of what it should be; the
era of low livestock values is not a year old
and yet we hear of many thrifty farmers
who are preparing to get out of the breeding
business. Struggling to get out at a time
when they should be laying plans to get deep~
er in. There are many men living among us
who can remember periods, in the past his-
tory of this country, similar to the one we
are passing through at present. History re-,
peats itself, for they tell us that back ‘in
those evildays of ﬁnancial depression and
low prices for live stock, there were many
farmers who neglected their herds and, later
this neglect.

   

own people, makes a combination thatno‘ market can witlmtand. A way ’
will be found to adjust these conditkms. Unemployment will vanish and v
a busy people will not 'only absorb our  meats and milk but their
physical needs, coupled with the fact that they have the money to do bus-
iness with,,.wﬂl cause than to absorb the commodities which are made
from our wool, hides and other  products. ,

7 The far-seeing farmer and live stock grower will utilize the present
opportunity to strengthen his had, simply because his money Win 80
mm atanyprecedingdateinﬂnlastZOyem-s. Howﬂlkeep up
hisngistry records, continue to advertise and exhibit his MIG herm-
1mﬁndwhcnthedemandagainmterlaﬁzes, hewmbereodytopro—
dzht Enact-cockaudgumermtho  -

ﬁrst began

, his work with
the Farm Bureau. ,The new board has also cut
down on the personnel of the publicity and
legislative departments, which entailed the
dropping of J. P. Powers, formerly in charge
of publicity but more recently engaged in leg-
islative work, and his assistant Stanley Powell.
Powers has been retained in important posi—
tions ‘with the Bureau, much against the 'wishes
of many friends of the Bureau who held that
his previous training had not been such as to
make him in thorough sympathy with the
aims of the farmers. Nevertheless, it can be
truthfully stated that Powers had acquitted
himself much better than anticipated, and
would doubtlessly have been retained had it
not been for a, shift in policies and the need
for greater economy. His successor in the
publicity department, Curtis S. Bill, has
shown himself to be the right man for the
job, and it is understood that he will continue
in that important ﬁeld.

According to members of the executive com-
mittee these changes are largely in the inter—
ests of economy and a. more compact and har-
monious organization.

Before adjourn'mg to meet again at the
farm bureau oﬂice in Lansing, Friday morn-
ing, February 18, the executive committee
voted to advance $500 from an appropriation
voted previously by the delegates at an annu-
al meeting, to the Sugar Beet Growers’ Asso-
ciation for organization purposes. This sum
will be added to the funds of the Growers’
Ass’n to hire an organizer to work ‘among the
beet growers of other states.

Weed Out the Herd Now While .Pure-Breds Can be Bought fora Song

There were others, more foresighted and
courageous than those referred to above, who
kept up their registry records, continued to
exhibit their stock at fairs, renewed their ad-
vertising contracts in farm papers and con-
tinued to order their business just as they
had done during more prosperous times.
When the time came that they needed a sire
to inject new blood into their herd, they did
not purchase a runt because he could be had
for a small amount of money but they bought
the best that the market afforded because
these choice animals were to be had for a.
price no higher than was asked for culls when
conditions were normal.

No further comment upon this subject
should be required to‘ make the young stock
breeder see the point of the argument. Many
of the breeders, who stuck to the game, in
season and out of season, are still with us;
many others, who have passed on, have been
replaced and are being ably represented~ by
gifted sons who are following closely in their
fathers’ footsteps. The herds and ﬂocks,
which were carefully kept up during .the
years of depression and discouragement, are
Winning the prizes in the big fair circuits and
at the International.

  
   
  
  
  

 

 

  
 
 

 
       
             
          
   
          


 

    
   
    
    
   
   
    
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
  
  

  

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Ofﬁcers and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Farm Bureau ' \

Rear Row—Left to rlght: A. J. Rogers, Beulah, Benzle County: Fred smith. Elk Rapids, Antrlm County; w. E. Phllllps,
Front Row—Le". to right: Fred Van Norsdall, Treasurer, Three Rivers. Stpdoseph Go.
dent. South Haven, Berrlen County; M. L. Noon, VIce-Presldent, Jackson. Jackson County.

Howard Answers “Pessimistic Farmer” Charge

[DE publi-
cation has
been given to a statement by Roger W. Babson
to his business clients in which he comments on
the farmer’s “pessimistic state of mind.”
When interviewed regarding Mr. Babson’s

statement, President J. R. Howard of the

American Farm Bureau Federation said:
“Mr. Babson says that the farmer'is much
better off than before the war. The evidence
does not show that the farmer’s position rel-
}ative to the laborer, the capitalist, or the sal—
aried worker is better than before. The price
indices prepared by the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics show that the farmers’ product reached
at their highest point 246 per cent 70f the
1913 level, while the weighted 'total for all
commodities reached 272 per cent of the 1913
average. Up to November, farm product

prices had declined 32 per cent, whereas, the'

decrease over the highest point on all commod-
ities was only 24 per cent. These facts do not
SllOW that the farmer is better off relative to
other members of society than before the war.

“‘Mr. Babson blames the Department of Ag.
riculture, the agricultural colleges, the farm
press, the granges and politicians for uphold-
ing the farmer inwrong ideas on the cost of
production. Undoubtedly the farmers’ idea
upon the cost of production has been wrong
in the past. He has overlooked the deprecia—
tion and other factors of cost and has arrived
at cost of production estimates considerably
lower than they should have been. As a re-
sult he has been willing to pay a higher price
for land than its actual productive capacity
It is well known that the average
return on farm lands before the war was not
over ‘3 or 4 per. cent. Agricultural colleges
are pointing out the proper basis for calculat-

. ing production costs and in few instances do

they endeavor to justify land values based
upon‘the temporarily high earning power of
the last 3 or 4 years. The sound thinking

"farmers deprecate the inflation of farm land
.‘ values:

Farmers were no more responsible
for-the recent land boom than were the local
bankers and the real estate promoters. Sta-
tistics show that 70 per cent of the increase in
value of farms bought and resold during the
boom went to residents of towns and cities.
“It has not been shown that the business
man ﬁgures his capital in a manner entirely
diﬂerent from that of the farmer.
number of stock dividends issued by industri-

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The large '

a1 and mercantile concerns during the last
year or two have represented an effort to
crystalize temporarily high earning power.
Railway executives in endeavoring to ﬁx val-
nation for rate making purposes under the
Government’s guarantee return were unwill~
ing. to base valuation on original cost, but were
determined to have replacement value consid-
ered. .

“The implication in Mr. Babson’s statement
is that if the interest on alleged inflated val-
ues in farm land Were ignored that the_ farm-
ers’ position would be satisfactory. The av-
erage increase in farm land values during the
last 2 or 3 years is probably not over 25 to 35
per eent. In Iowa, where .the land boom was
most pronounced, the increase amounted to
30 to 35 per cent, or about $65 per acre. Pres-
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many cases are sufﬁcient
to pay for the other it-
ems in cost of production
ignoring rent entirely. Ac-
cording t 0 th e Depart-
ment of Ag— ‘riculture, the
price of'c'orn paid to pro~
ducers in my own state on
Dec.1 was 47 , cents. On
Dec. 1, 1913, 20 months
before the /, war broke
out, the price _c. A.‘ BINO'HAM paid to pro-
:lucers was 60 ““°""°‘ 4“ swm" cents.

State Farm Bureau

Helps for Farther in Making
Income ,Tax Return ‘

0 THE THOUSANDS of farmers who

this year are, required to ﬁle an income
tax return and pay, a tax on their net
income for the year:1920, the problem of cor-
rectly making out the forms is less intricate
than in former .‘Years. The income tax law
with respect to the ﬁling of returns is un-
changed. Every single personwthe term in-
cluding widows, widowers and persons not
living with wife or husband—whose net in-

Takes Issue With Babson’s Statement That Farmers Have No Cause to Complain

come was $2,000 or more must ﬁle a return ,

with the collector of internal revenue'for the
district in Which they live; If the aggregate
net iHCome of husband and wife,equalled or
exceeded $2,000 and was less than $5,000 each
may make a separate return or the income of

' each inay be "included in a single joint return.
7111» the‘case of hasband and wife .wh0se com-
Wbined (net. income exceeded $5,000 separate
. returns should be made showing the respective
. . amount of income. I

- of computing correctly the surtaxi'; Which ap-

Thisis for the purpose

mes 'in excess off/$5,000. The
S from. .slaeuaryrfiébg‘zs March

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Decatur. Van Buren County: A. Trbepuo, Falthorn, Monomlneo County. .
; A. E. Illenden,‘ Adrlun, Lonaweo County; Mrs. Edith M. Wager, car-logo", Monro, Goun‘y; James mom, pres].

“It WOuld be
. even more un-
fair to argue that land values should be based .
on present depreciated prices for. farm' pro-
ducts than to "argue that they should be based
on inflated prices. ‘ ‘

“Part of the increase in land values repre- '
sents additional investment in the form’ of
clearing, draining, fencing, etc.

“Mr. Babson says that, the wise farmer
should sell his crops more rapidly and liqui-
date his loans. Board of Trade operators
who are endeavoring to justify their positions,
state that consumptive demand is insuﬂieient
to absorb the grain now coming to market;
that if it were not for the speculators there
would, be an insufﬁcient number of buyers
and prices would go much lower. Mr. Bab~
son, who by the way received most of his in-
come from so-called investment speculators,
would have the farmer sell his crops to the
speculators, who are only willing-to .buy at a
price that gives them a strong chance to re-
scll at a higher price later on. Federal Re-
serve Bank reports show that farmers are
gradually paying their loans. The amount
of interbank borrowing by Federal Reserve
banks in Agricultural sections has decreased
decidedly during the past few weeks. Spec-
ulators operate even more exclusively than
farmers do upon borrowed. money. The
amount of borrowing necessary to carry grain
on farms is less than to carry; it in the hands
of speculators so that 'the total demand for—
credit would not be reduced by following Mr.
Babson’s suggestion. ‘

“Mr. Babson states that th wealth of the

country depends upon’the nu ber of bushels "
'Iaised and not upon the price.

the other classes of society, but it is‘not true
of the farmer, as ithas been repeatedly shown
that the small crop brings a greater monetary
return‘ to the farmer than the large crop. The
truism that the, history of agricultural de-
pression is the history of agricultural abund-
ance is well established. Mr. Babson sug-
gests that the farmer return to feeding cattle.
Cattle feeders who are now disposing of their
holdings at losses of $40 to $75 per head, will
not take kindly to this suggestion.

“The farmers will be glad'to keep out of
speculation except such as that which the ele—
ments force upon them. Hence their interest ~

in-a greater degree of stability in \prices for.”

farm products. ’ ’

 

 

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7 HERE has beentnriuchw

iting

_ d] on... the
subject; of rural communities. [The

, ,coI'Intry, it: is claimed, is, becoming
 decadent through - loss" of - able and
gygcsenterprising people to’ keep it alive.
 It has been pointed out, that the

economic and' educational advantag-
es, and especially those .for amuse-
'm.ent, which are so abundantly pro-
vided; in the city, are gradually
draining the countryside of its most
promising members. The universal
- query, then, is how to provide suf-
ﬁcient attraction in these three

_ ﬁelds, the, economic, educational and _
"recreational, to bring to the farmer and his
family ,opportunities for such a well-rounded
existence that the city will cease to be a gem
of enticement dangled before the eyesi'of un-A

satisﬁed youth.

,To‘ a most encouraging extent, the answer
has been found in many rural districts and
villages in the use of the schoolhouse as a

community center. Wherever ac-
tive participation in recreation in
their schoolhouse has been
by the community, a resultant co-
operation in community‘ affairs
(sometimes even to the extent of the
building of better roads), a growing
persOnalrinterest in the members of

,.the region, a lessened feeling of is-'

olation and a united
'have been achieved.
With the aid of leadership and a
A broad program, the school—commun-
runs small chance of
failure. It is usually the one
available place for meetings and is

community

is usually free from‘sectarian and.

political controversy.
people meet here

The young
for parltes. and

dances; the older people attend lectures, con-
certs and entertainments in the auditorium,
and make proﬁtable use of those facilities for
scientiﬁc study pf agriculture and home econ-
in - agricultural

omics which many schools
regions provide. .

Although the littlelone-room schoolhouse
has served as a meeting place,'these small
buildings which dot the countryside are not
to be..compared for effectiveness, with the
consolidated school of the country which is
attended. by pupils within a radius often .
Many of these consolidat-
ed schools are imposing buildings as well .
equipped for scientiﬁc study and for rec- '
‘ The play— ‘
ground or athletic ﬁeld which is part of
the school recreational equipment is. a rival
attraction tocity amusements and boys and
girls ﬁnd an added incentive to attend the
athletic meets, in the joy of being partici~.
.pants‘ instead of Spectators.

or twelve miles.

reation as city high schools.

doubt that the country school can

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" " _ and. more thought? ' Vftvhe past ‘
 half dozen years {expen

shared.

There is no

should play the great part in every-day . 1‘

  

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High school, Dumngo. Colo. Schools as ﬁne as this can be found right here in Michigan.

life of purveying amusement and entertain-
ment to the populace. Advocacy is based up-
on very practical illustration of its suitable—
ness, for the community school is an accomp—
l‘she'd fact and is becoming a rural ﬁxture.

_ A centralized 0r consolidated school in In-
dian/a may suggest possibilities to other reg-
ions. It was built in a section that formerly

 

An evening scene in the kindergarten room of a school building.

comprised four districts having numerous
one—room schoolhouses. The constructing of
the building itself proved the ﬁrst element of
Interest to unite the community, and On the
day of its dédication three hundred people
attended the exercises and, incidentally, en-

center.

tural

there

rural
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In this way in-
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“ . munlty more
than a city
production be-
cause the char-
acters are of
their own kind
and neighbor-
hood. Who does
not enjoy a
_ “home talent”
1a or a rec-

iiatylon or talk
by a pioneer‘
sett'cr telling
what they used
in the

school."
\ .10an it a bet-
ter W81 “0‘”

and; the result '
‘la‘going to be ~
1 higher plane
v of_ education in
the - "oeuntrv
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sports. agricultural

henna. the gymnasium ls.,transformed into an auditorlw'f on short not .

joyed the dinner provided by the"
women in the school vicinity. Pleas- ’

ant and proﬁtable evenings were
Spent at the school during the year.
Four hundred persons were present
at the ﬁrst entertainment given by
the pupils in the large auditorium.
The domestic science room made an
excellently well-equipped kitchen, in
which the cooking class prepared” and
served the refreshments. Programs
of entertainment were given from
time to time, and lecturers from the
state agricultural college proved
themselves benefactors to the large

community in giving lectures and.
demonstrations in agriculture and
on other subjects of rural interest. Music-

ians and prominent speakers provided further
attraction in this community school.
said of the school: “This consolidated school,
had it done nothing more than supply a social
center for its community, has well been worth
all it cost.” '

Another most interesting example of how a.

It was

school building may preserve intact
the united loyalty of the inhabitants
of the district and may serve the
country so well that the young peo-
ple are not tempted elsewhere by
other attractions, is found in Put-
man County, Illinois. ~This John
Swaney Consolidated School may al-
so serve, as an example of how school

social and recreational, features re-
tained families of the community
who would otherwise have sought

residence in the town for the sake of
the advantage of social intercourse.

The building is provided with lab-
o'atories, a lib ‘ary, manual. training
shops, a. domestic science room, a
basement playroom and a large as-
sembly room. With such social fa-

rilitlt‘s it is not surprising to learn that this
srhool functioned so successfully as a social

Club and literary societies flourished

here. and the plays, concerts, athletics and
conferences, ’ stock and
gain-judgingcontests, lectures on agricul-°
subjects were features the year

round of entertainment and instruction.
The, rural high school constitutes a great-
er factor in the possible success of a com-
munity than any
For it. must not only serve the community
directly as a training school for the occu-
pations of the farm and the home, but ex-
ists as the one source of leadership for rec-
reation, the most vital need of the country
to-day.
greater urgency for
of the schoolbuilding in the country than

other one institution.

For these two reasons there is a
complete equipment
The

is in the city. rural commun-

ity’s schoolhouse must be essentially the

community’s playhouse.

There is still another example in Wheat-
on, Minnesota.

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’ . there were a ‘

  of alfalfagrowers’ associations operat-'

ing as independent, separate organizations in
diﬁerent parts of California. While there was
certain bond of sympathy between then in
that an older association was always glad to
extend advice and information to a group of
growers in some section who were trying to .ur-
gnize, yet there was no systematic worm
agreement between them as a whole.

Since that time however, this condition I.
been changed and eight associations, represent-

ing as many different districts throughout the .

state of California, are now federated under
the maternal wing of one central organization,
known as the “Alfalfa Growers of California
3, Inc,” whose present headquarters are locat-
' ed at 408-10 Paciﬁc Electric building in Los
Angeles.

Prevent: Economic Waste

Here is a sample of the economic waste
that it prevents. ‘ At Fresno, two hundred
and ﬁfty miles north of Los Angeles, it was
found that formerly during the height .of, the
alfalfa producing“ season, there had been in-
stances where some of the growers in order to
get ready money had sold to Los Angeles
dealers at a. time when the price was at its
lowest ebb in summer. This hay was taken
to Los Angeles, then later when a shortage
developed at Fresno, was reshipped from Los
Angeles back to that point, sold to and con-
sumed b‘y dairymen within a short distance
of where it was originally grown.

You can be sure there was a wide differ-
ence between the low summer time price re-
ceived for his hay by the hard—up farmer and
the fancy ﬁgure the dairyman was ﬁnally
compelled to pay the following winter. Who
made the diﬁerence?

In this case the railroads were paid for
hauling the alfalfa ﬁve. hundred needless
miles and there was an expense of loading and
’1 unloading twice on board cars, besides the
;' proﬁt tacked on by the Los Angeles dealer to
cover his enterprise.

 
  

3y.EG.Am

takes care of the temporary ﬁnancial needs
of the grower and holds his hay for a time
when it is more  probable that the demand
right at home will consume the temporary
surplus. . I

In this manner the central organization
with its wider scope of action, performas a
service of crop distribution for’ the collective
associations, that no one of ‘them individually
and alone would be" able to accomplish for
itself.

‘ During the comparatively short time that.
the central association of Alfalfa Growers
has been handling the marketing alfairs of
the scattered federated district 
it has succeeded in stabilizing the market so
that the growers have not had to part with
their hey at less than the cost of production
as have some of the farmers  , other
products. During the past season of 1926
it distributed 100,909 tons of alfalfa for
its members at an average price of $25 per
ton. ‘ .

There are approximately ﬁfteen hundred
growm within the California association at
the present time, representing a little less
thanﬁftypercgntofthoseengagedintheal-
falfa industry Within the state. The great
good accomplished by the federated associa—
tions is now being realized by the farmers
and it is expected that" when the season opens

Mahatma a Highest : 

  

' a ‘ ' it ‘1 V‘
.nextopnn‘ ' g that at 
  .  Seventy-“ﬁre »
per cent of the, gron throughont'tho  i I
will be membem of the   , 
A new member pays two dollars per   .‘
anon entrance featheamounttobededuotod '.
from hisﬁnst alfalfa-ale. Ami-fund is
provided by each farmer signing a note forfb
cumin agreed amount, say ﬁve dollars  
acre. Thesenotesfor thogeneralfund are 
made to run for 'ﬁve years and although, of
course, each farmer ' stands behind his indi-
vidual note, it is understood that it shall run
a suﬁicient length of time to permit the note
being paid off by a sinking fund that is crest
ed by a tax of ﬁfty cents ~on each ton of al—
falfa sold. The notes are used as collateral
and local banks will usually advance nearly
one hundred per cent on them. In this man-
ner the association ﬁnances itself with the
least possible inconvenience .to its members.
Advance Money to Members I
With the aid of this general fund it is pos-
sible for’ the organization to advance money
to some of its members at a period of the year '
when perhaps a few hundred dollars would
enable a grower to tide himself over without
sacriﬁcing his crop at a time when the supply
is possibly greater than the immediate de-

‘mand. This is the season of the year when

the speculator usually gets in his work and
reaps a middleman ’s proﬁt that should belong
 to. the producer and the actual consumer.»
Nor does the said speculator conﬁne his ac-
tivities to alfalfa alone as all of us ’who have
ever engaged in the farming business. can
truthfully testify. ,,
There is a marketing charge of two dollars
a ton if the central association has to ship the
alfalfa out of a district. If a market is found,
locally, a charge of one dollar per ton is made
to cover the expense of general activities.
These amounts are saved to the farmer
many times over by the advantage gained
through having a state-Wide guiding intelli-
gence controlled by himself that v- is always
alert to protect his interests. ‘

 "Should Tax 011 Motor Vehicles Be Raised to Pay for Wear on Highways?

5 THE PI' 6 S 6.11 ’5 Subscriber Raises
v Motor Vehic!

Law was amended at the last session of the leg-
islature so as to increase materially the speciﬁc
tax collected on automobiles and trucks. Said
tax is based on horse power and weight, it
doubtless being the thought of the legislature
that the speed developed would ordinarily be
in proportion to the horse power as rated by
the manufacturer. At the time of this amend-
ment the general sentiment seemed to be that
the burden so placed on automobiles and
trucks was suﬁ'iciently heavy. As is usually the
case with such legislation there was more or
less protesting against the taxes actually ﬁxed
The legislature through its committees went
into the subject quite fully and with much
care. It was recognized on the one hand that
V'motor vehicles increased greatly the burden
of road construction and maintenance and
that it was desirable to secure as large a rev-
enue as possible from this source, for highway
purposes. On the other hand the necessity of
avoiding placing an undilin heavy burden on
the owners of motor vehidel was also recog-
nized. The present law is the nesultof the
legislative invatigation and judgment. A!

to whether such tax should at the prueht.

Litimcbeincreasedn'stoaverylargeextentn
matter of policy, with which the present and
gaucccedinglegﬂntmu limit dell. It‘is the

of »$5.482¢853-45. N ' -

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‘ In so far as commercial trucks are concern-
ed diiferent considerations enter. Many of
such trucks are equipped With hard rubber
tires which do serious damage to the high.
ways, particularly when such trucks are
heavily loaded or are rapidly driven. The
regulation of the commercial truck, with re-
spect tom loading and equipment is one
of the most important problems to be consid-
ered in. connection with highway legislation.
Tint ouch trucks should pay a higher tax

than does the ordinary motor vehicle or truck f '
 but WHY (m the public renditiepat- ~

out; There appears tobe (3ch senti-

'  " fin no: (legitimate   .'
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he «proportionate to the use  of  high:- .K
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does not construct
railroads for the
use ' of carriers transporting freight or pas-
sengers for hire by rail, and that it should
not be be required to provide roads for the

use of commercial carriers by truck without

proper recompense. Undoubtedly a license
Lax of this nature would produce considerable
revenue. _

The proper regulation of the commercial
truck with respect to loading, etc, will have
a very material bearing on the matter of the
upkeep of roads. When the road bed is not
in perfect condition, because of rain, snow, or
the thawing of front, a heavily-loaded truck .
with its hard rubber ﬁres and driven at a
speed of ﬁfteen or twenty miles an hour will
do far more damage than a score of ordinary
automobile: or light pneumatic-tired trucks.

1 The taxation of any particular class of

property, and the imposition of license '13er -
ate investigation Questions of public policy
arealsoinvoivedtoaverygreatextalt. Tho
'factthatchangminthelawhavebmm,
by the legislature at nearly any senior:
‘ past'twelve yearnindieates tho \

     
      
      
 
   

       
       
      
    
 


  
 
 
     
   

   
  

  
    
   
   
  

     
   
    
 

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,: 

I dollars, "for him!

     

-  v - many” a' pedigreed W" to W”

F flocalrbutc‘her for $65, «someone would

. come along‘and.017er;you a thousand
‘ You’d. probably
faint dead away. At v_
what Johh;Barrton did, and after you
read this story ‘yow wan’t blame him.
The author of the story tells us that
the incident which ‘forms the basis
,of his story actually happened. He
’ holds it up as a moral to all stock
breeders to-heep“constant and accur-

' _ ate records of the daughters of their

'pure-bred sires. It’s the record that
counts and may ﬁnd a market for
your ball some day when you have
no longer any use for himl—f-pEditor.
OHN BARTON sat at the kitchen
J table gloomily regarding the pa-
pers before him whose ﬁgures
seemed to portend ﬁnancial disaster.
Three weeks from that day on De-
cember ﬁrst the mortgage which had
Aburdened the :farm for ten years,
would [be due and Barton’s ﬁgures
told him he would be $900 .shOrt.
“The only way he could think of to
,meet the payment was to sell part
of the splendid herd of cattle he had
built up, which would mean a new
start from the bottom, for he had
sold all his surplus stock early in' the
fall. The herd he now had was just
the right size for the farm, and the
future had looked bright until an
unforeseen calamity had come with

the failure of the bank where part .

of- his savings were, and the drop in
market values which had out in halv-
es the expected income from the
farm crops.

It Was Mrs. Barton who (ﬁnally sug-
gested that he make a list-of the
items he might sell and perhaps raise
the money without parting with the
pure bred cattleﬁwhich it sold‘ would
have .t-o go for much less than their
worth. v

“Well, all right,” said John, “here
goes.” And he proceeded to list the
things it occurred to ‘him he coulddo
without. '

_“‘We can let almost anything go
rather than losetthe farm or cattle,”
he remarked. “I wish I could sell
some more heifers like that lot I sold
two years ago. They went East to
some place in Massachusetts,” he
continued, “the buyer was manager
for some rich [man’s estate, butl
don’t remember where it was for he
attended to the shipping himself.”

. g “Perhaps it isn’t so bad after all,

  

 good producers, but three of them ’

Aral!

for I don’t need the bay horses this
winter, and there is that patch of
woodland up the river that Joe Parks
r offered me two hundred dollars for,
ithere is the new harvester and I
could let the black colt go. Then,
too, ,I shan’t needthe old bull any
more and can sell him to the butch-
er, though the beast is rworth for
breeding purposes ten times what he
will bring to kill. . The trou-ble is I
haven’t kept any records of his
daughters, and so can’t give any ﬁg-

ures that would demonstrate his
value and bring a good price for
him.” ‘

“Well,” said Mrs. Barton, “why

don’t you hustle around and see what
you can get for those things and per-
haps there will be nearly enough.
You could sell the sheep, you know.”
Unknown to the Bartons, at the
time they were engaged in their ﬁn-
ancial conference, another conference
intimately concerned with their af‘
fairs was taking place down in Mass-
achusetts Where Edgar Warrington
was talking over business matters
with Harold Norcross, the manager
of his splendid stock farm. - -
‘Well, Nordross, I have been look-
ing over the cattle records and it
seems to melthat those ﬁve heifers
you bought out West two years ago
are" a really remarkable bunch ,of
animals.” - . ‘ ' _.
_.“Yes,” returned the manager, ‘_‘I

was going -to call your attention to _

them. I believe if no accidents hap-
pen theygwill snake records .to' be
proud of. Not only are they extra

‘ an} remember-3’.

seek ',rlbb9¥1s,.jat...the , Expositi‘gn .thls

least _ that’s

I

‘ “Didn’t pay a
great price for
them, did you?"

“No, I bought
them if" or one
hundred ﬁfty dol-
lars apiece which
was cheap consid-
ering what they
have turned out to
be.. Picked them
up in Wisconsin
from a man nam-
ed Barton."

  

By E. L. BIGELOW

     

I

for I believe he is-

-—- worth it, but of
course ’y'Ou can
tell better when
you see him. Use
your judgment but
bring that animal
home if you can.”
At supper time
in the evening of
that same da y,
John Barton came
in fro-m the barn

 

 

“Well, , n o w,”
said Mr. Warring-
ton, “according to
the pedigree their
sire is Spotted Sylvia’s Lad, and not
only do these heifers show him to
be a valuable animal, but his own
ancestry is remarkably strong. It
it is possible, I want to own that ball

or address.

and you had better start out for him,

tomorrow.”
“All right,” replied Norcross,
“what price shall I pay?” '
.“Well, don’t 'pay any more than
you have to but, if necessary, I’ll ex—
change a thousand dollars for him

' O
This .Is not the bull John Berton sold. It Is
the picture of some Michigan breeder-'3 herd sire
which was sent to us unaccompanied by name
Who can Identify him?

 

and said to \his
wife:

“Well, Hender-
son the butcher

has just been here
and will give me sixty-ﬁve dollars for
the bull. I hate to let him go for I

' know, as a herd side, he is worth

more than that, but I can’t use him
much here and I don’t know of any-
one who will buy him for breeding.

I must have the money for that
mortgage anyhow. What do you
think?” '

“Why I don’t know but what it is
all right,” answered Mrs. Barton,

“you know I haven’t so much faith

di “reed: Bull:

 

     " a'  that the Pedigree, was. No Good After the Animal was Dead

'3‘ 0 AT f‘WbULD"_ you do if after.

in this pedigreed stoCk business as.
some anyway. When will he take-
him?”

“Unless I let him know to the con-~ - '

trary he is coming for him Saturday
morning. The price is all right for
meat but I know he is worth moref
for breeding.”

Late Saturday afternoon Mr. Nor-
cross arrived in the little Wisconsin
town from which he had shipped the
cattle two years before. Stepping
over to the garage near the station
he hired an auto to take him out to
the Barton farm, where he found
the owner just commencing the
evening chores.

“Good evening, Mr. Barton,” was.
his greeting. “My name is Norcross.
Perhaps you remember I bought ﬁver
heifers from you two years ago.”

“Glad to see you, Mr. Norcross,”
said Barton shaking hands, “I was
thin-king about those heifers only a
few days ago. How did they turn
out?” ‘

“Fine,” returned Norcross. “They
are ﬁrst class animals and I have
come to see if I can purchase their

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and

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You can buy the Titan 10-20 tractor to-
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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW

wuss-r PRICES PER 110.. FIB. 1t. 1921
and. loomn loom» l. v.
No. Rod 1." :.oo 1.96
No. 2 White 1.s1 .
so. 2 Mixed 1.31 1.01
PRIOI3 on: "an no
INo.2 mafia: .Whltol [unﬁlled
. ; Detroit 2.51 I I.“ I a.” "

ERY LITTLE change in the
trade and market situation has
been” noted during the past
week; the feeling of discouragement
and depression which followed the

v temporary tightening up of money.

early last week, is gradually disap-
pearing and expert judges of business
conditions are inclined to be increas-
ingly optimistic. The purchasing
public is still inclined toward a. non.
oommital conservatism; they are not
talking neither are they buying. The
date is still too early to expect a gen-
eral revival in business, especially
along retail lines.

The volume of the industrial out-
put is still small, compared with

‘ tamer production records and it will

continue to be so for some weeks;

oven in normal years, the Lenten sea».

son is never noted for its activity
along industrial  The commod-
ity markets are dull but decidedly
ﬁrm with little prospect of a change
before April 1. The United States
Steel Corporation’s monthly report
shows a shrinkage of more than a
half-million «tons in the amount of
unﬁlled orders on hand; this is the
sixth successive monthly decrease in
this branch of the business. The un-
ﬁlled orders now on hand, in the
trust‘s order book, mount to 7,573,-
164 tons. The pea-lg of the bookings
of the United States Steel Corpora—
tion was in April, 1917, when the or-

], ders on hand amounted to 12,183,-

083 tons. President Gary is respon-
sible for. the announcement that the
trust has no intention of cutting the
wages which are being paid to its
265,000 employes; he also predicts
a continuance of the present price

schedule for structural steel.

The Association of American Rail-
way Executives, which represents 90
per cent of the trackage of the coun-
try, disclaims any intention of cutting
the present wages of railway em-
ployee, but the public at large, being
familiar with the methods and past
practices of these gentlemen, will
take this statement with a liberal
grain of allowance.

Julius H. Barnes, formerly direct-
or of the U. S. Grain Corporation ex-
plains some of the peculiarities of the
export grain trade of the current sea»
son by noting the fact that the grain
buying for foreign countries is be-
ing done by government agencies and
that an understanding has been
reached, between these various agen-
cies, by which they make their pur-
chases on different market days, thus
avoidng the advance in selling pric-
es which often results from competi-
tive buying. Close students of mar-
ket developments have noted the
fact that during the last three
months, the name of not more thin
one foreign buyer at a. time has ap-
peared in daily reports of export bus-
iness. Mr. Barnes’ statement appar-
ently full explains the “how” of this
choice bit of market phenomena.

The employment situation, in the
Detroit industrial district has been
improved greatly during the past

' week, by the calling back to work of

more than 7,000 men. Of the 240,-
000 men, who were idle at the close

of September, about 80,000 are now

being furnished with employment for
all or part of their time; two-thirds
of those employed are, however, only
working 86 hours per

WHEAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Tuesday to Friday night of

3 last week, when markets closed ow-
" ing to Saturday being a holiday,
‘ wheat prices advanced, with the bull
2 side of he market gaining more sup-
; porters
. * was bearish but many dealers 'con-'
8 tinue to believe we have over-sold
 ' our wheatsnd thotwowill be busy

zch hour. Foreign _news

  

  

Edited by H. H. 

 

 

 

seem mm sew”!

 

ing. Beans inactive.

Cattle steady. Hogs and

 

 

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kei pale in set in typo.
golng to ﬂNSSPn—Edlmf.

 

 

DETROIT :w—Wheat, corn and oats ﬁrm owing to export trad-

Hoy cosy with liberal receipts,

THICAGO :--——Demand for corn puts strength in all grains. '
sheep lowcr. ' .

 

The above summarized inform-clot: in. molten AFTER the balance of my man.- ‘
It 000an hu‘minuil Information up to withln one-half hour of

 

 

 

 

trying to supply domestic needs in-
stead of calling for bids from over.-
seas. Another bullish factor at work
in the market was reported damage
from the green bug. -

Markets opened lower this week
but the strength in corn soon turned
prices upward. Grain market ex-
perts are of the opinion that we are
close to a sustained advance in wheat
prices and the next long turn swing
will be upward.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORN PER 30., FEB. 15, 1921

Grade lDetrolt [Chicagol N. 
No. 2 Yellow . . .61 .8804
No. 8 Yellow . . . .10 -
No. 4 Yellow .. .91

skier? oil‘s—‘1 E] R-Ado—W“ 

[No.2 Yell.l No.3 Yoll.| No.4 Yell;

Detroit ..| | ‘150 l 1.48

 

 

 

 

Corn was in demand by exporters
last week and prices steadily advanc-
ed; export trading took 500,000
bushels out of the Chicago market
last week. Smaller receipts at lead—
ing terminals also assisted this coarse
grain to seek higher levels. Monday
of the current week opened with corn
still in favor with foreigners. Re-
garding the future of this market we
quote the following from the Rosen-
baum Review:

"Market will hardly advance very
materially until after March 1st, un-
less wheat gets stronger. Immense
reduction in acreage this yea'r prob-
able, if scattered reports now coming
in are indicative of what
happens. Corn will register relative-
ly high prices before another crop
is harvested."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OATS
'oA'r PRICES PER ou., FEB. 15, 1eg1_

Grade lDetrolt IOhIcanl N. Y. _
No. 2 White  .43 I 443/. .54
No. 3 White .48'/a .4391
No. 4 WM. . . .48'/2l

PRICES 0111-: YEAR AGO

mo.2 Whitel No.8 wmuI No.4 wmu
omit | .90 i .89 I .83

 

 

 

' Higher prices are noted in the out
market but there is very little activi-
ty and advances were due to the
working higher of other grains. Re—
ceipts are light on all markets. There
is also ,9. feeling that this grain is
too low in price and higher prices
should be seen shortly.

 

- BYE
Rye sympathized with other grains
advancing 5c at Detroit and is now
quoted at $1.57 for Cash No. 2. We

0

actually -

look for" substantial advances in the

prices of this grain within the next
30 days.

 

KEAst
BEANS PER CWT" FEB. 15, 1921

 

 

 

oriao' lDetroli IOhlcagol u. v.
. H. . ..’....‘s.9o Isms '4.”
Red Kidneys . . . . ‘ 9.25

 

PRIOES ONE YEAR AGO
In. H. P.l Prlme Illed Kldnoys
. . . .l 7.00 I

 

 

Dwell.

 

 

 

There has been a. temporary de-
cline of 10c in the Detroit bean mar-
ket since our last writing, and the
market: is quiet. The Rosenbaum
Review remarks that the long pull
outlook is good but no immediate
prospect for sustained price advanc-
es. The editor of this paper is a
market expert and if what he says is
true it is a case ofzsitvting tight for
a'time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPUDS PER CWT., FEB. 15, 1021
l Sacked! Bulk
Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 l
Chloe" ........... 1.13 ‘1.”
New York . . . . . . . . . . ..
Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . .1 I
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
Detrolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l 4.50 [$4.28

 

 

 

Potato markets are weak and have
been for the past week, buying be-
‘ ing of only the hand to mouth kind;
all markets are receiving larger sup-
plies than they can dispose of. Ad-
vances are due within the next sixty
days and large buyers are advising
their friends to purchase at present
levels. ‘

 

HAY

Farmers with considerable hay in
their barns which they intend to
market should take advantage of
present prices because no advances
are in sight. From now on prices
will tend to lower levels instead of
higher. Detroit prices are 03 8 del-
lar but other .markets ‘are at last
week’s level. ;

 

. LIVE STOCK MARKETS

. Receipts of cattle showed a. big
falling off, last week, in all markets
and it is little to be wondered at for
the average price paid in Chicago for
good beef steers for the week before
was $7 .7 0; this was the lowest aver-
age for this grade of cattle since
1915. The average for the corres-
ponding week," one year ago, was
$13.35 and for two years ago, $15.85.
The ten-year average, for the same

 

 

 

mus.

    

Wm“ [or H "21

he”

W N, D. C.. February
19, 1921.—D the early part of
the week center as on March 4th a.
warm wave will cover all the Rock-
ies country and Paciﬁc slope in west-
Aa these weather fea-
tures move elasth around meenm
magnetic po e s warm wav
.m0ve southeastward into , the Mis-
sissippi volleys then turn eastward,
following h I
down the St. Lawrence valley and
' out into the European Atlantic steam-

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecastod by W. '1‘. Foster for The Michigan Business Former

its circle, and ﬁnally pass’

 

of that
cok, The storm wave will follow
ve, Tempura

bout normal during pass-'3 of
cross

average

the ﬁrst three months of 1921. A

and technical mooning. To consti-

M
This 'foll may occur in a few hours
ton on M don Day.

ll

 

 

Phil! mute during last part
w
two or four days he the
cures will ave '
tor than the ave and pre-
1 tion will be above e
ed
0 storm period. The
base “cold wave" has a deﬁnite
must fail twenty degrees or more, to
thin meaty-four hours.
tWenty~four hours. Best weather on
the continent is expected at Washing-
i. Inmxun

 

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m.

 

one or two days and cool wave
eather features, storm f
It! wave is ﬁll out the
tut. a cold wove temperature
or may take upnocrly all of the-

 

wyeck, was $9.60 per cwt. ., p 
weekis average price for good steers ,. ~ ~

 

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mwf‘damff: he a a. u .5.)

Was $8 per cwt. The highest price
paid in the‘cattlo department of the
Chicago market. last week, was
$10.25 tor a load at fancy bullock»
averaging 1,333 pounds and as ﬁne
on grain and core could make them.
It. will readily be seen. then. thct
cattle are selling. lust now. much.
below prorwar 1914315. H
An average on all modes of fat_
steers,’s.old in Chicago market last
week, showed a gain of 26 to 50,
cents per cwt.; as noted above, the
top for aged steers was $10.25 and-
for yearlings, $10. The latter were
scarce, all the week, but, at that,
very few were'sold above $9.50.
Some inferior grades of canner stem
and heifers made a new low price
record, last week.-
cattle were steady to 25 cents high-
er, last week, than the week before
but all other grades of killing cat-
tle were from 25 to 50 cents lower.
Stockers and feeders average 25 to
50 cents higher for the week.
Chicago got 80,000 sheep and
lambs, last week and receipts were,
liberal at nearly all of the leading
markets of the country. The burden
of arrivals was too much for the
market and, the closing trade, last
Saturday, showed a loss, from that
of the preceding week of $1 to $1.50

.per cwt. on lambs and about 25 cents

per cwt. on mature sheep. Yearling -
were '50 cents per cwt. lower for
the week. Very little demand for
feeding sheep and lambs developed
in the Chicago market, last week and
the few that changed hands showed
a. price decline of from 50 to 75
cents per cwt. _
The top in Chicago last Week for
lamb-weight yearling wethers was
$7.75 and the range on“ heavy yearl-
ings was from $5.25 to 6.25; these.
prices are fully $1.75 per cwt.. low-
er than at the beginning of the cur-
rent year. Choice fat ewes went for

$4.7 5 and choice western, aged weth- .
The average, in Chi- '

era for $5.25.
cage, last week, for all aged sheep
was $4.25 per cwt. A few'choice fat
lambs sold in Chicago, early last
week, for $10 per cwt. but at the
close, last Saturday, the best could
be bought for $9.25. Heavy lambs
were hard sellers all the week and
at the close about $6.75 per cwt.. was
the best that could be done. The
range on western feeding lambs was
from $6 to $7.75 per cwt. Breeding
ewes are seldom quoted in live stock
market reports, these days, but at
auction sales in'Lower Michigan they
are bringing from $4 to $5 each.
Chicago received 206,000 hogs last
week, a showing which was 34,000
below the total arrivals of the week

before, in that market; the average ,_

price paid was $9.05, the lowest av-
erage for ﬁve years. The quality of-
the hogs that came to hand was fair-
ly good, the average weight being
231 pounds. On Saturday, all grades
of hogs, except heavy butchers, were
active and 10 to 20 cents higher than

on the preceding day; the week (3106- ‘

ed with top hogs selling at $10.10,
the spread between this price and
the week's average, being 95 cents.
Cattle were very dull and slow on
the Detroit market, all the fore part
of last week, but ﬁrmed up some-
what on Thursday, the last market
day. Less than 500,cattle came to
hand on Monday and the W
grades of killing cattle showed an ad-
vance of about 25 cents per cwt..
Calves sold fairly well, early last
week, at the local stock yards, but
heavy local arrivals of dressed calv-
es had a weakening effect on the
market and Monday’s quotations
showed a. decline at 50¢ per cwt..
Lambs were dull and slow all last.
week, in the Detroit market and
were still lower on Monday, when
the best sold for $8.50 per cwt.. Hots
sold right around the low point for

' the season, 'on the close in. Detrdt—

last week and, with the exceptional .-
pigsy'prlces Were badly out of  _A
\ with 'other mwrkets.‘ '

buyers are bearing down hoovilyz'
all hogs that weigh above 2 ’

Last .1.

Choice butchers .

   
 
   

 
  
      
  
 
 
 
 


 

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-. OARES? l rrn a $73,000,000. 7"“

     

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‘r 'T EACH succeeding budget confronting TH5,Trage-ma
' ' I - . W 1:61 .
a , inauguration and as m a situation sinusulﬁ:itafssonoerveryo;gr

  
  

opening of the less. 3" “""9" “ENE” where- those who ask
islature Lansing is the F' '“ER 1; h f th

, . V . . now w ereo _ ey

 g a - Mecca sought by large groups 01 DO- speak and seem to be inspired with

 . _ lineal pilgrims’trom, every section of a disposition to get all they can while

the state. All of these pllsrlma have the, getting is \good‘, while those who

political axes to grind and many 0‘ ﬁnally pass upon the needs of the

 
   
   
     
     
        

them, are accompanied by other pil-
grims With axes to grind, not .neCes-
sarin political but all of which are
susceptible of being ground on the
political grindstone. While the ob-
jective of these pilgrims may be as
"diversiﬁed as the rainbow tints, the
force of economic determinism makes
g the whole bunch akin. The Downey
House is headquarters of the tribe
and here gather those with ambi-
tions, laudable or otherwise. Here
come the representatives of great in-
terests with privileges to safeguard
or other coveted privileges yet to be
lassoed. At this rested hostelry also
foregather the Hig-hrollers of the leg-
islature; those members to whom the
little $800 salary of a legislator is a
negligible consideration, those whose
economic position and viewpoint are
somewhat removed from that of the
great mass of the people who pay
little attention to their law makers;
going along about their business in
an abstracted sort of manner until

various agencies of government and

the amount of money necessary to
supply them are generally disquali-
ﬁed by want of experience and lack

of information properly to deal with
the matter of appropriation. The
Budget Commission was instituted to
furnish expert, detailed information
upon which intelligent action upon
all appropriation bills might be had,
but as our “hit and run” friend has
so appropriately remarked: “the
Budget Com-mission never budged"
and we are apparently again to go
it blind except for the fragmentary
information picked up in a haphaz-
ard way by the indiscriminate junk-
eteers whose past‘ performances seem
to be responsible for the discredited
position of that ancient if not alto-
gether honorable institution. or
course we make a distinction between
a junket and a trip of investigation
by the ﬁnance committee which pass-
es on"appropriations.- There are,
probably, honest differences of opin-
ion abonb junketing. Certain it is

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  ' "the tax collector comes along With 1    

the  and  going “p.111 the air  there are those here who open-
like a Sky—POOKet in 8 “are Of 1111' ly defend it in its most advanced

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‘ ,  .. potent rage only to settle back into stage of development. But then, that Tho’ Boss Gloves are now worn in every indus-
_(- 1.x the same old rut to permit the same is neither here nor there, ~ try requiring hand work, they were ﬁrst made for l
1: f - upfrﬁnceg a? blgought :01!"th 1'1:- The dear people are not to be left farmers’ use exclusively. They were planned to l
.3,” p°a e y- e “"19? 059 see ‘ facing the bleak winds of adversity 9 -. _.
‘1. ing Privilege; those seeking exu'ava' just because the budget commission * 2:2; tie fairing dniﬁdsi.’ ghey aref Iii-lade extra 5 .3
l "7 '33!” appropriations; those seeking did not budge nor because the junket g 0 W1 8 n e ar wear 0 arm Work' .  1
3, increased salaries: and those pro- produced nbthlng but, junk. No, For plowing, driving, silo ﬁlling and use around -'
l  moting fantastic and costly exDeri‘ sir-ee. We are not to be led forth to the ensilage cutter, for installing new equipment,
ments in government soon recognize execution, without beneﬁt of clergy. ‘

fo’r post-hole digging and fencing, for tiling and
drainage work, and a hundred and one jobs around ,
the farm, Boss Work Gloves protect the hands from ,
dirt, grease, and minor injuries. ' l

Boss Work Gloves are made of the highest
quality, heavy weight canton ﬂannel. They wear - ,
long and well. yet they are so ﬂexible that they ‘
allow a free feel 'of any job. ‘

Look for the Boss trade-mark sewn on the back
'of the gloves. Ask for Boss Work Gloves by name.
.They come in-three styles of wrist—ribbed, band,

 , ' their community of interest and at We are to have “expert” counsel‘and
 ‘l ’ l and from this point go gunning for ~advice in trimming our budget to a
, .‘- T " ' the legislators to put their several point whe're we may hope to escape
ll propoations acrosa- NOT BY BRIB‘ revolution when the time comes for
"s  ' ING but by 02110191? and the creation its collection. The governor has ar-
  of a false sentiment restricted in ranged with David Friday, professor
‘ t territory and numbers supporting of “economics” at tile UniveI‘Sity,

3 but persistent and vociferous in its §Cientiﬁcauy t‘? deteﬁﬁlme £01: the lﬁg‘

~ manifestations. On the other hand' Wat“? What Is the “redumble mfm‘
f the ordinary citizen who goes in the [mum 0f appropriations needed or
I . . the next two years. He has a most
. a” When he pays his taxes promptly important duty to perform. Let us
, I; ~loses interest in the matter and takes hope that like David of Didi he will

g5 up the old problem of making two attack the problem with the simple and gauntlet. Sizes for men and women,‘ boys
if . blades of grass grow where one has weapons of Truth and Honesty of and girls.
, l a. I. '. grown before 01' Spends his Share purpose and that he W111 succeed in THE 3055 MEEDY~best quality, medium weight canton ﬂannel.
' time at pedro, or at the movies or at landing the rock of true economy THE BOSS HEW—ver best quality, heavy wei ht canton ﬂannel.

. - , THE BOSS XTRA HE Y—ﬁnest rade of extra eav canton ﬂannel.
the revwal Where forgetting .the ob- square m.the forehead or the Gonath THE 8088 WALLOPER-—highestg quality, heaviestyweight canton
ligations of today placed upon mm of Mounting Taxes. Few of these so- ﬂannel,

THE 8085 LETHERPOM—heavy canton ﬂannel with tough leather v

called “economists” have sufﬁcient
b Divine Providence he becomes, . . on aim , a e dthumb.
y ' bTGadth Of V1510“ to get With in his , THE 3085 Elﬁn—inﬁdel? a(i‘uallity citton jersey cloth in many
Perhaps, “0t undub’ “Cited over the perspective with the taxeater who al- - colors-
THE 8033 fl'lKMlT—Roomy mittens made of ticking that wears like

ProspeCtS'bf sulphur fumes and gets ways is calling for more money, the "on
intensely interested in securing. a man on the farm and the man in the run sass ELAsro—smng canton ﬂannel. Made by a patented
pairof wings and a robe and crowu shop, who in the end have to dig up Prim“ in one might only.

h rewith to 0 111111591 1 the the money to take care'of all the bud- . I
Ere away um:ng Come?" I;,.11ile gets. Let us hope the professor has i    CO'
the “brother” with the axe to grind 11° glass eyes- ‘ Kewanee, mo
is steadily on the job of "AXE

I l ,, LIVE STOCK MEN FAVOR 00-01). .
: GRINDING- COMMISSION HOUSE  R K
r; How many of the M. B. F. readers (Continued from page 3)
, hang up a “danger” sign before their a step. Delegates at the meeting ex-
' ' senator or representative by writing pressed themselves as satisﬁed with

him a letter concerning extravagant the service of the commission houses
appropriations, increased salaries, at the Datmit yards, but asserted
etc., etc., ‘ln these days when, the their belief that the co-operative n.
farmers and workingmen's incomes commission house was bound to colne
have been “deﬂate‘is. from ﬁfty to just as co-operative shipping assocra-

seventy-ﬁve per cent in the farmers’ tiogiehaﬁicﬁgﬁ Live Stock Ex_

case to one hundred per cent in the change is * the parent organza“
case Of a great PrOPOSition Of the tion for over 100 local co—opera—
“ Workingmen. Don’t be afraid to tive shipping associations in the ,  ,
write a letter! Don't “let George state, nearly all of which were repreé "\VE IVA/{£- [ RYNACW/IYE

do it," go at it yourself! Yourelet- sented at the meeting. Addresses [3500/0153 

 

 

 

 

 

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lug. Because of its stoollng

tors are very much-needed here to were given by Hale Tennant: M- A- - .. . ‘ -  £§Jﬁ§0N73813E§°§11§§ mmlSlM Iced 1
. 4.! affect those daily being piled on the 0' marketing expert' and Pres‘ Nico} ' AT/MBER’INTO LUMBER] 51:33.1“? for ﬁlm prowfflgénhedAﬁtlh
“3.. _ of the Farm Bureau. The election AND ITJ‘ VAR/OU5PRODUCB everygrger.unc‘étnneﬁr°?r'eeblo'oﬁlet'now

   

members’ desks by members of the . . .3-
. . - r res lt d - - . 
Lemme Axe Genders! Union. lowing 1.21.3? a:rr:.s.thsa HILL-CURIS 
Come on now. Put up or shut .up— Beamer, c. J. Miller, E. 'E.’ Comp- '7 o Mlc -
Next week we shall have something son, M. W. Stewart. E. K. Manson, KALAMAZO ’- H

  
   

   

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866d sample. -

A. 3, LVMAN Who Introduced Grimm Alfalfa
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. ing done. by thosegfavoring the State ‘ N - , , _ .
' PoliCe and the indifferencrbeing ex- ’ ' 0 We . MOI! ’ z  ' ,BREEDERS mENTION'
_, V ~ ' 1‘ .. The girl walked briskl' Into th - . _ '
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CLAIM THE DATE! - - .a
This service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
. to u a ' '  ” ' to  conflicting sale dates ’ '
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ning up and down theback—
such are, the conditions 1n most
stove heated homes on a cold
winter’s night.

Cold nights are just when home
comfort should be at its best. Don't
go to bed to keep warm—installa

Cozy Pipeless Furnace and insure
comfort at all times-kill the chill.

  
 
 

 

The Perfect

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can be installed in old houses as well as
new. The installation requires but a few
hours and only requires one hole to be
cut into the ﬂoor directly above the fur-
nace which is placed in cellar, basement

   

Every Cozy Pipe-
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with a full money—
back guarantee that
it must perform to .

our complete sat-



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See It at the room in your house comfortably and at
dealers. a cost in fuel of but % or 175 of what it

would require to heat it with stoves.

i V Get full particulars from your_ dealer
about the Cozy Furnace. or write to us direct.

The Schill Bros. Company
423 Mansfield Street CRESTIJNE, OHIO
MORLEY BROS., Saginaw, Distributors

 

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When you build with tile, you build but once.
First cost is the only post. Looks better. stays
better and keeps better silage. Wnte for our _
catalog telling about the 4

Preston 1
ansin
Vitriﬁed Tile Silo

-—the tile silo with the "ship-lap" blocks and
twisted steel re—enforcing. Extra strong walls.
Blocks all of uniform shade——the silo beautiful
that lasts for ages. Fireproof. frostproof, weather-
roof and vermin-proof. Steel or tile chute. Steel
‘p roof gives more silage space. Write for cat-
alog and prices.

J. M. PRESTON COMPANY m
Dept. 494 Lansing. Mich. . ;
Factories at New Brighton.Pn.: “

Urichsville, 0.! Brazil. lnd.; . a '
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WOLVERINE INSURANCE 
Will. you please (give me information
regarding the Wolverine Insurance Com-
Dany of. Lansing? Would you consider
it. a. good and safe investment in the
buying of some ' of the stock they are
now offering for sale'!--S, D., _Hartford,
Michigan. _ _ . ._ .'
Information supplied by the De-
partment of Insurance shows» that

iness last June. It has a paid in
capital stock of $100,000. The olf-
tﬂcers 'of the company are: Robert K.
Orr, Pres.: Clarence E. Holmes, v'ice
pres.; Bernard V. Smith, Secretary;
Robert Y. Spier, treasurer. .As to
whether or not an investment in this
concern would be safe and proﬁtable
that is a matter which you must de-
cide for yourself. You should con-
sider that this is an entirely new
company and that it must compete
with other companies of long stand-
ing. Should it fail your money
would be lost. On the other hand,
successful insurance concerns usual-
ly make fair proﬁts. I think our
readers should proceed .very careful-
ly just now in investing money in
anything as the next year or two are

number of stock companies are very
likely to go to the wall. Generally
speaking the stocks of old establish-
ed concerns which can now be bought
for much below par, preferred stocks
of going concerns, and Liberty bonds
are rated among the safest and
most attractive investments—Editor.

MOTHER’S PENSION
I have one child and up until my hus—
band’s death be contributed' ten dollars
each month to help« support our child,
We were divorced by the order of the
Common Pleas Court. I resided in Ohio
previous to my removal to Michigan.
Am I 'entitled to a mother’s pension?
Would I be obliged to ﬁle claims in

Ohio?—P, M. 8., Coleman, Mich.

Under the statement given you
would be entitled to a mother’s pen-
sion if you can show that you are
a citizen of Michigan, at proper per-
son to have the care of the child, and
that you can not properly care for the
child Without aid. You would have
to make this showing to the judge of
probate in the county where you and
the child reside. Application should
be made to him—W. E. Brown, legal
editor. '

. CLOSED SCHOOL

We have a. school house about one-
half mile from us. The school board
has closed this school, For two years
they forced us to send 3 miles south to
school and this year they force us to
send 2 miles north. Our school house
is going to pieces and we are paying
school tax, Last fall we petitioned to
open this school. Could you tell me ‘if
we have to send so far or do they have
to open this school?
«school age now and more

small ones.

,“i'l‘here are six families with children.—

M. T.S

Your district must maintain school
for the time required by law to be
held under penalty of loss of the pri-
mary school money. You will not
be able to force the keeping of‘a
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to keep one. Your remedy would be
the election of a school board that
would keep a school in your district.
res-W. E. Brown, legal editor.

HOG MAN FALLS DOWN ON
' GUARANTEE

Some time the ﬁrst part of April last
I bought a pure bred ‘0. I. C. sow of
Crandell of Cass City, for $90. which
they did not ship. but substituted 3. sow
with a. large tumor. I returned her and
they shipped another sow. This sow did
not furrow nor has she up to this date.
About August 15th I was convinced the
sow would ,not farroW, so I called in the
supervisor of~this_ township to see this
sow. He. wrote to Mr, Crandell for me,
notifying him that the sow showed no
signsyof being likely to farrow, asking
them to, take the matter up with him
or myself for adiustment, to which com-
munication‘Crandeli did not reply,‘ .The
.sow would have been satisfactory if» she

litter" of pigs.~ but I could not ascertain
Just-until near-the time .to furrow. I

the sow back and they refund-~my,money

_. dug 1y. an em: adjust;t—his‘_;mat-
E¥er“fw&e‘?+Mrs. J} *R . Leonard; iMich;

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this concern was licensed to do bus-‘

going to be hard ones and a large_

.line in an inland lake?—G. N

There are 11 of’

had'bean'dusxto and had farrowed a“.

~ _. without. nelmlssion , for;

innered’toyadiu'st- the: matter Miami’ng ' ,wou-ld‘bs'..,llobl’e for,

for'Spsyt.;,thern gar-$0 prices for her:  Will

' premises!»

was not satisfactory.
with Crandell.

moral and legal-obligation to provide”
her with one." In A the ﬁrst place
Candell— did not ship the sow which
Mrs. R. bought.
her one with a tumor. She returned
it. He then shipped her a sow which

“ he told her was due to farrow with-

in thirtydays after May 6th.
sow arrived. Mrs.

The
R: accepted it,

7 fed it and took care of it, until the

middle of August expecting that it
would farrow as Crandell had guar-
anteed. It showed no sign of far-
rowing and an examination by an
experienced hog man showed that it
would not farrow. Mrs. R. asked
for a refund of her money which was
refused, Crandall offering to ship
her a fourth sow which under the
circumstances she does not want.
Mrs. R. is out the cost of taking care
of the sow, the pigs which she ex-
pected from the sow, and has $90 in-
vested in live pork which is worth
about $25. We leave it to our read-
ers. Should this woman be obliged
to stand the loss, or should Crandell
return her money?—-—Editor.

NO JOINT DEED

In case husband died could wife sell
farm if there was no joint deed? Could
she sell personal property? If deed is
just in his name what could be done in
said case, with or without a child?'——A
Reader.

A man’s real property goes one

half to his widow and the other half
to other relatives if he leaves *no
children; and if there are no child-
ren all his personal property goes to
his widow if it does not exceed $3,—
000, after the payment of debts. If
there is one child then one-third of
the real estate goes to the widow and
one—half of the personal after paying
the debts. The widow can sell her
interest in both the real and personal

property, but the estate would have.

to be probated to give a good title,
as no one would know What title

she gets from the husband until‘ it.

has been determined what debts are
to be paid and how much property

it will take to pay the debts—W. E. .

Brown, legal editor. ‘

‘ SPEAR-ING PIKE

Will you tell me during what month
wall-eyed pike may be speared through
the ice, and also caught on hook and
,, Grand
Traverse County« 4

Wall-eyed pike may ’be speared
through the icerduring the month of

January, and these ﬁsh may be tak-- .
on with hook and line in «the inland '

waters of the state at any time ex-
cepting from Feb. 1 to May lst. Sec-
tion four of Act 236 of the Public
Acts of 1915 makes a closed season
on wall-eyed pike from the ﬁrst day
of February to the ﬁrst day of May.
—-John Baird, Commissioner Game,
Fish and Fire Department_ Public

Doorwﬂn Commission, Lansing. Michu

 

OWNERSHIP OF , BEES

What is the law in regard to bee
trees or the honey if found on premises?

Who does the honey or bees belong to. ’

the one who ﬁnds them or to the party
that owns te timber and land?‘ Also.
are .the owners of enclosed premises
required to post their premises in order
to prevent hunting on them?—-G. E. J...
Reed City, Michigan. I: s ‘ "

The bees and honey belong to the

owner of the tree. One ,who cuts a L

tree without permission bf the own-
er-is guilty of trespass and liable for,

the damage which. would not uniting ': _

cludsvithsdamags to the trash '
honey... 7 3It would be a trespass-
upon the. enclosed land. of Iago

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should have notiﬁed him within sixty
days after receipt of the sow if it."
We disagree 7 . »
We think that inasr 
much as he accepted Mrs. R’s money -
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deserVe through the pages of the
term papers, but I “still think that

1' ‘ manyfarmers are ‘not aWare of What
_ they are overlooking or there would I

'be more silos than, there are today.

We have 'been,_using One of these

“Scientiﬁc Kraut Barrels” as some
skeptical folks still call them, for a.
littlebver ﬁve years, and there are
many things that I feel we could get
along without better than we could
the silo. We have found it a safe,

convenient and economical method.

of' feeding not only dairy cattle but

almost all farm livestock as well.

It is not my intention to go deep-
ly into the matter of silo construc—
tion,~'for I do not wish to advertise
anyone’s particular make. It is

-suﬂicient— to say that most any of

them are satisfactory if they are
properly put up. I have saw con-
crete and cement block silos cracked
:from top to bottom and utterly use-

less, but this was the fault. of the

man who erected them, and not of
the material used. In every case

,no effort should 1be spared to secure

good workmanship ‘in building. This
is very important in the matter of
the ,foundation. No effort should

~ be spared to have this built strong

and level so that it will support the
weight of the silo without settling.
After the foundation is made the
owner should be in no great hurry
to put up the silo, for the concrete

, work must have time to harden thor-.
‘ - oughly.

JOur silo is a full length stave, 10
by 34 feet in size, and is built en-
tirely above ground, but if we were
to build again I think we would like-
ly consider the pit proposition. In
order to get a good foundation it is
necessary to go to a considerable
depth into the ground, and why not
throw out the rest of the soil after
the foundation has hardened and se-
cure a little more r00m at less ex-
pense than building the silo higher.
’One of our neighbors used this plan
with good results.

As ,to the advantages of feeding
silage: To quote from our own ex—
perience it takes about six acres of
good heavy corn to ﬁll the silo, and
from this 'we feed annually seven or
more dairy cows and from ten to
twenty head'of breeding ewes. We
also feed some to the hogs, for which
purposeit makes a good feed if fed
with other foods to term a balanced
ration, and occasionally ‘feed a little
to horses. I do not advocate feed-
ing much to horses, as it makes them
too soft. .'So far as the expense of
harvesting the corn is concerned
there is but little difference between
putting it in the silo or in harvesting
it in the usual way by the time the
owner |has all his help paid up. The
economic advantage of feeding silage
lies in the fact that every bit of the
crop is eaten up, there being -no waste
whatever. There is no disagreeable
handling of bundled corn fodder in
the barn, as the small amount of
roughages needed can be fed out of
doors.

'Then, too, silage is a succulent

    
     
     
   

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that is very dim-
~ cult to' get during
the winter seals-on by any other
method. It is a’ great milk pro-
ducer and the same acreage of feed
will get much larger, returns if fed as
silage than if fed in the regular way.
It is not necessary to purchase near-
ly so much high priced mill feed or
dairy rations where silage is fed to
dairy cattle, and but. little if any
other grain feed is needed. I‘ have
found corn silage to be of great ben—
eﬂt as feed for breeding ewes as well
as cattle. The lambs are usually
dropped in mid-Jwinter, and before
we had the silo I had the greatest
difﬁculty in getting winter lambs to

thrive, but when silage forms a part

of the rations I have no trouble along
this line at all. It is not to be de—
pended on exclusively for sheep feed,
it being necessary to feed rough feed
and a very little grain in the form
of oats also.

There are occasionally complaints
regarding silage becoming badly
moulded after it is put up. There
are a number of causes for this, the
principal one being that the air is
not properly excluded. This may
be caused by cracks or other air
leaks in-the silo, the corn being too
dry and ripe when the silo is ﬁlled
or the lack of suﬂicient tramping
when the silo is ﬁlled. I have known
'writers to say that they would not
pay hands to tramp silage, but I 'do
not agree with this, provided the
hands keep marking time instead of
loafing on the job. Corn is in best
condition for silage purposes a few
days prior to the time when it would
be safe to put it into the shock. The
grains should be all past the milk
stage and the fodder still green if no
water is to be used. If for any rea-
son the corn gets too ri'pe to pack
well before ﬁlling enough water
should be used so that it will tramp
down solid and exclude all airpock—
In stave silos the felt packing
around the doors ought to be renew—
ed each year, or air will get in at
these places. In order to save a lit-
tle corn it is well to jerk the ears
from the last load that goes in, as
about that amount on top will be
moulded anyhow and the ears might
as well be saved and fed. .

I have several times heard the
the continued use of silage would
rot the teeth of animals to which it
was "fed and that it would ruin the
stomach and digestive organs in the
course of a few years time, but these.
statements always come from persons
who never owned a silo nor fed sil-
age. Silage is no more a dangerous
feed than any other feed that is com-
monly used if the owner will use the
same amount of good‘ sense in feed-
ing that he would expect to use with
other feeds. Because an animal oc-

‘casionally gets into the oat bin and

eats enough oats to cause serious re-
sults and sometimes death rwould be
a poor argument. to use to show that
oats were not a safe feed for ani-
mals. Neither is it to be expected
that animals are to be allowed all
the silage they can eat, at least not
until they are well accustomed to it.

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H. P. . . $107.50
g H. P. . . 175.00
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_We feel that it is up to us as farm
engine manufacturers, to go 'the
limit in attempting to bring prices
and conditions back to normal.
The farmers of America today
need every possible help so that
farm equipment costs Will more
closely meet the lowered return
from products sold.
That the “Z” Engine is _an essen-
tial factor for bettering farm
conditions has been proven. Over
300,000 engines have been bought
by farmers from over 6000 repu-
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After full consideration—with-
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Even present costs of labor and
raw materials have been ignored.
There is a “Z” dealer near you
who will be glad to prove that the
“Z” Engine is supreme as to ma-
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So if you can use one or_ more
engines on your farm to lighten
your labor, to help you get more
work done, this is the time to buy.

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What’s Wrong With the Primary?

VERYONE insists that there’s “some-

thing wrong with the primary,” and
that it ought to be changed, and so forth and
so on. The only thing that’s wrong with the
primary is that it hasn’t been given a thor-
ough trial. The primary laws were enacted
upon the theory that the mass of the people
ought to have a greater voice in the selection
of candidates for political ofﬁces than they had
under the convention system which encouraged
people to stay at home and left the selection
of candidates to a few political bosses. The
theory still holds good. The primary still
gives to millions of people a chance to name
candidates for ofﬁce ’which otherwise they
would not enjoy. The success of the primary
depends upon the manner in which people
turn out and vote and the intelligence they
use in marking the ballot. A good many vot-
ers still stay at home. A good many still
vote for candidates of whom they know little
or nothing. Nevertheless we assert that a
much larger percentage of our people are tak-
ing an interest in elections and government
under the primary system than they ever took
when the conventiOn was in vogue. It takes
time to get an innovation of this kind in per-
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Commodity Marketing

HE EDITOR of a Chicago paper re-

cently confessed that the joke was on
him when after writing a laudatory editorial
about a man who paid one thousand dollars
for ﬁfty dollar Liberty bond, he learned that
the man was later adjudged insane and com-
mitted to an asylum. .
_ In a recent issue of this publication an ed-
‘ itorial was published which created a lot of
misunderstanding, and came mighty . near
getting the merry “ha-ha” for the editor.
The editorial discussed the alleged attempt
of the Coalition Committee to split up the
Farm Bureau by secretely striving to bring
about its reorganization along commodity
lines. It was not the intention of the edit-
orial to discuss the respective merits of the
two plans of organization but to frown upon
the alleged activities of the Coalition Com-
mittee no matter in which direction they were
aimed. But after some investigation in
which it was disclosed that both factions in
the Farm Bureau were trying to pass the

buck to the Coalition Committee, the conclus-.

ion is, that this committee was nothing more
* than an interested bystander so far 'as that
‘ particular fracas was concerned. 7
The arguments presented in behalf of the
commodity plan of organization are convinc-
  That, . the evolution of the or-
13‘ganized farmer movement will: be along that
.  cannot be questioned. ‘ The charge that
 plan will tend to divide the farmer-sup-

   

  

ther eﬁorts at ‘organizatim. ’ ’Tis better to

adopt the plan most Iikely to succeed. Let
y it beshowu that farmers can cooperate suc-
cessfully in the marketing of their‘crops and
‘ it. ought not to be diﬂicult to Weld them to-.
gather fOr  political action, = Whenever
that appears to‘bedesirable.   ' " ‘

how Much Shall. I Plant]?

GAIN THE question, “How many acres

shall I plant next year?” Shall I fol-
low the advice of the bankers and speculators
and plant every available acre? The answer
is no. Shall I follow my inclinations and cut
my acreage below last year’s? Again, the
answer is no. Shall I plant a normal acre-
age? This time the answer is yes. There
will be neither feast nor famine in this coun-
try of ours if farmers will consistently fol-
low diversiﬁed farming wherever they can,
plant crops in rotation, and not be lead astray
by high prices, on one crop and low prices on

 

another. If you have fallen into the one—crop ,

habit, get out of it as quick as you can. Po-
tatoes and beans ought to'be good crops this
year. Sugar beets won’t pay so Well. Rye
is one of Michigan’s old stand—bys and ought
to be good for a normal acreage this year.
Generally speaking there is neither rule nor
rote to follow this year except ordinary horse
sense. Everything is tepsy-turvy. Today’s
apparent surplus and low prices may mean
nothing whatever by the time the new crops
are garnered in. The. thing to do is to go
about our farming this year in pretty much
our accustomed way,_ and leave the rest to
good Dame Nature. v

 

Poor Bossy !
ENRY FORD is, still kicking over the
_ traces of custom, convention, science,
and what not, and declaring that certain

things which we have all been taught can’t
be done, can be done. “Uncle Henry” has just
decided that the cow is a wasteful animal.
While she may some times hit on all four, she
lacks speed andrfﬁciency. It takes her a dis-
couragineg long time to transform grass
into milk, and the daily quantity she gives
considering her size and the time she has been
‘doing business, is nothing to brag about.
Then, too, she occasionally gets with calf
which interferes with the smooth operation of
her milk producing machinery. How much
more in keeping with 20th Century progress
it would be to invent a machine which could

» run day and night and transform straw and
weeds and sawdust, and other things of small
value into a steady flow of luscious milk.
Mr. Ford says it should be done, and do away
with that old relic of primevial days, the. cow.
Poor Bessy!

Where Money is IPlentiful

 

ECENTLY THE papers have been fulll

of “tight credits” and “money shortage.”
Farmers have had a time to borrow what they
have needed to hold their crops and ﬁnance
their business at the same time. Banks have
been calling in loans. There is one place in
the‘ United States, however,_ where there
seems to be plenty of money for every pur-

- pose, and that is VWall Street. When a few
weeks ago W. C. Durant, former'president of
the General Motors, announced that he
would organize a new .company with a ﬁve
million dollar capital, Wall Street ﬁnaneeers
over-subscribed the issue within ﬁfteen min-
utes after the announcement was made. ‘A
few days later .» Belgium asked. Wall Street
, for a loan of thirty million dollars, and got

it within twenty-four hours. Still *a ,' few ,

,.:days later it was rumored, that Henry ‘_Ford
was seeking a lean of seventy-ﬁve million dol-

lars from Wall Street, and that, he would:

have :10" .diﬁcultyin getting it. Instances a of
 kind cenbe‘ multiplied over and . over

 

, ~~ menarche:
 cream}: with, up,»

   

fright“ so long hisL it  But failure-
woulddeetroy all unity and discourage fur: ‘

Wall Street is rolling  ‘ r    "

Big-Hem mam . a

. ceaseless, clash between classes; 
in humanity becomes badly shaken. We. 
prone to wonder of love. and; charityhayeren-

s we READ in the daily papers or the" ;

tirer forsaken God’s people. ’But not  ‘

quently, like the rainbow which heralds a lull

_‘ in the storm, 9. common cause injects itself
into the strife. I
qui'ets-down whilst all people turn their hearts 7

For an instant the turmoil

and their hands to a greater object. We speak
now of the needs of starving Europe which
have cried out to us in a loud voice caning

us to turn and render compassionate aid to _ ,. '-

those whose kin but yesterday faced us upon
the battleﬁeld. We might have plead “hard
times” and gone en about our. business leav-
ing Europe’s dying to their fate. But we
didn’t. We set about to raise thirty-ﬁve mil-
lion dollars, and we haVe neaﬂy succeeded "in
our purpbse. The readers‘ of the Business

Farmer alone have contributed a" thousand.
dollars which they could ill afford to spare. '
The (corn belt farmers came forward with ’

their surplus corn. No sooner was the an-
nouncement published than the \Railway
Brotherhood offered to provide train crews
free of charge to transport this corn in train-
loads to sea-board, providing the
would furnish the cars without charge. Here
we, have three distinct groups of people all
co-operating harmoniously to further a com-
mon cause. And that’s the way it has always
been with the United States of America. She
has never yet failed in a crisis to do her part
E any undertaking for the weal of man-
'nd. .

 

The Farm Bureau Shake-Up

HE SHAKE-UP in the Farm Bureau

organization which resulted in the dis-
missal of C. A. Bingham as secretary and the
abolishment of the ofﬁces of assistant secretary
and campaign manager need cause the mem-
bers of the organization no alarm. Too sud-
den success is. intoxicating and» often turns
men’s heads. The Farm Bureau. has “arriv-
ed” so fast that it has thrown some folks out
of balance and caused them to have an exag-
gerated and extravagant view of things. Also,
the promotion, or prospect of promotion, from
a poorly paying farm job to a high salaried
ofﬁce position, sometimes has a strange effect
upon men’s minds and morals, and cause
them to sacriﬁce the common good to their
own selﬁsh ambitions. Likewise, while no-
body will admit responsibility for failure, all
are ready to take credit for success, which in
the nature of things results in petty jealous-
ies and playing to the galleries. Summed up,
these are the causes for the split in the ex-
ecutive personnel of the State Farm Bureau.

It had to come, and the sooner the better. No ,

machine or organization can work well when
its parts are out of harmony. With its dif-
ferences ironed out the State Farm Bureau
should be able to settle dOWn to real, old-
fashioned hard work and common sense, and
put. its affairs upon a substantial business
8.818. '

 

Chas. Evans. farmer representative in the leg-
islat‘ure, will introduce a bill to abolish them.
mary law. In this undertaking he has the back-
ing 0: the reactionary element of Lenawee coun-
y.
tarmer constituentsshould show him in the next
election how elective the primary'really is.

 

Gov. Groesbeck’s bill to create a State Doparh,

meat of Agriculture calls for the appointment of

a Commissioner of Agriculture, Nominations m ,

in order.

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‘ Lansing has made a bid tort-11038th Fur.  i
she ’

V, ,‘n’t yetsecured Detroit’s com, new at o
the institutions ' .. 7 , ~_ -  

 

 

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who ALWAYS  ms
nuisances ram '-

’ ERE IS THE late’st story. of a
man who is too stingy to take
 hisown paper. A man, who was
Iboo economical to take this magazine
‘ sent his little boyto borrow the copy

‘ 'hkeu byhis neighbors. ‘*In his haste

the boy ran over a four stan of bees
and in ten minutes looked like a
warty summer squash. His cries
reached his father, who ran to his
assistance, and failing to notice a

' _. barbed wire fence, ran into it, break-

ing-it down, and cutting a handful of
ﬂesh from his anatomy, ruining a
tour dollar pair of pants.

The old cow took advantage of the
gap in the fence, and got into the
corn ﬁeld'and killed herself eating
green corn. Hearing the racket the
wife ran, upset a four gallon churn-
ful of rich cream into a basket of
kittens, drowning the. whole flock.
In the hurry"she dropped a seven
dollar_set of false teen . ‘ g

The baby, left alone, crawled thru
the spilled milk and into the parlor

, ruining a new twenty dollar‘carpet.

During the excitement the elder
daughter ran away with the hired
man, the dog broke up eleven setting
hens and the'goat got out and chew-
ed the tails of]? ﬁve ﬁne shirts.

So he signed up for the MICHIGAN

‘ BUSINESS Faulkner—Contributed by O.

R. Amblc, Genesee County, Michigan.

’We always knew that an awful fate ‘was in
store for the man who always borrows his neigh-
'bor’s paper. but didn’t suppose it would be as
had as that. But take warning, all ye borrowers.
“brewsrned is forearmed,”. they say. Our cir-
ailation department will accept your dollar at
anytime in order to spare you from such a pun-
Inhment—Editor.

 

 

THREE BUNG-HOLES THAT CAN
BE STOPPED UP
’ S ONE of the neighbors interest-
ed in keeping taxation within
bounds, it seems to me that we
must spend less money.

First, in township administration.
The reduction oi! fees for collection
of taxes will help here.

Second, save money in County ad—
ministration. The oproposed amend-
ment to the constitution allowing
commission government for counties
will help here and also help ighe
townships save money. The saving
tothe taxpayers by these two prop-
ositions by getting rid of a heard. of
petty politicians and th ir fees and
salaries and wastefulness would be
almost beyond belief. The rub
comes in being able to get rid of this
hoard of petty politicians. We can
do it if we work with patience, in-
telligence-and diligence.

Third,’ there is the horde of state
politicians and their hangers~on at
Lansing that must be left jobless by
consolidation and classiﬁcation. There
is another job for the patriotic citi—
zen where he can use his patience,
perseverance, intelligence and non-
partisanship without limit and with—
out price. Especially Without price
because _I think the people are weary
of that class who seem to be working
for the public good but soon land in
a position where their salary and ex-
penses are added to,the taxpayer’s
burden.

These three ways then seem nee!
essary to save 'money. in administra-
tion. 'lst, abolish the numerous
boards and commissions at Lansing
by consolidation and elimination. 2d,
a commission government of counties

» which should abolish numerous tax
both ‘

esters and fee gathere'rs in
counties and townships. These re-
forms are practical, are being agi-
tated at the present time and there-
fore good neighbors let’s. push and
push hard for their accomplishment.

"If we scoompllsh anything, however,

it will be necessary to‘ keep'a long
ways away from candidates for town
treasurer and county oﬂice and poli-

I ,ticians 'generally.' So, much for re-

luctidn of expenses of administra-

~=rtion of town, county andstate affairs.

[Cg-“But before I quit let messy a word
“r the proposed‘state income tax as
  source of. revenue. ~The

 

   

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'me‘a

Mast-'3 smile

for, it" not because the large major-
ity of us would not have to pay any
income tax but because it is an em-
inently just tax reuniting the person
_ who succeeds in gathering to him~
self the beneﬁts of government, to
bear a just share in the expenses of
government. '
There is another abundant source
of revenue which I am not optimistic
enough to hopewill get much atten-
tion at present owing to the props.-
ganda and prejudice that is contin-
ually cultivated against it by city
holders of land. I refer to taxing
si-te values in holdings larger than
is necessary for a good home—F. J.
Staﬁ‘ord, VanBuren County.
One dimqut of accomplish-
on form of county gov—
ernment will never be named except by a bitter
ﬁght. Sane Will oppose it for in better reason
than that the present plan is entitled to respect
because of its mt age. Already die counties are
e in its adoption. An income tax
we should have, but Gov. Gmesbeck ls lukewarm
about the mposltlon. The hansrs' tedirated
legislative committee should make the income tax

an issue and go to the mat with the legislature
upon iL—Editor.

EXPEGI‘S HIGHER POTATO
PRICE

A good program.
ment, however.

 

TAKE notice you have succeeded I

in stampeding the farmers into

getting out from under their spud
crop so fast they have utterly killed
the market. Spuds are quoted in
Greenville at 30 to 60c per cwt.

In regard to our bumper spud
crop it never existed only in the
'minds of those who get out our gov-
ernment reports. Our crop was just
a little- heavier than normal and
were it fed to the market no faster
than wanted should bring $1 per
bushel to the farmer. Jobless men
have also hurt the market something
ﬁerce but I see that is being remedi-
ed very rapidly. In 30 days most
men will all be back to work. For
the past 20 years our government has
been in sympathy with or for the
farmers? They think the farmers will
worry along some way and don’t
have much to do with'the prosperity
of this nation, but I think they will
ﬁnd out differently inside of 2 yea‘s.
According to Howard, more than one
in four of the U. S. farmers are bank-
rupt and I say 1-2 the remainder are
right on the ragged edge. The pur-
chasing power has been entirely tak-
en away from the farmers except for
thepbarest necessities. Result, the
merchants in all cities and towns
outside of Detroit and Grand Rap-
ids are simply marking time and of
course this has a killing eﬂect On
business all the way up the line to
the manufacturer.

Manufacturing in all lines is go-
ing to start up. There is no doubt
about that .but how long can they
run when the farmers are not buy-
ing? My guess is they will be clos-
ing down again in 60 to 90 days.

’ Before this business depression is
over with I think our government is
going to learn “once for all” that
this nation, or any other nation, can-

    

not be prosperous unless its farmers
have an equal share in. prosperity.
.As things are now farms are {:04
ing to be deserted faster'than ever
before this coming spring. As yet,
factory wages are out only 10 to 25
per cent and wages on the R. R. not
atail which leaves them away up in
the air compare-d to what a farmer
earns. Year in and year out, av-
eraging the fat and lean years the
farmer .never has had cost of pro-
duction, say nothing about a proﬁt,
and has had to work his family with-
out any wages at all, so if food has
ever cost the townspeople too. much
they will have to look for the color-
ed gentleman somewhere else than on
the farm. The biggest factor in H.
C. of L. can be found in the unrea-
sonable wages and salaries paid men
and ofﬁcials who conduct our rail-
roads—A. A. Lambertson, Kent 00.

Friend [amber-teen gives moredit for a good
deal of influence we do not have when he lays
responsibility for falling potato markets at our
door. Michigan does not make the potato price
any more than Kansas makes the wheat price. The
Business ﬁrmer has not even suggested be its
readers that it sell a single bushel of potatoes upon
the shaky market that has exist for the last two
months. And it is a fact that very few potatoes
have left the farmers' hands in that time. It is
not for us to say that we hope Mr.
hmbertson is correct in his predictions but we do
mtthinkhakl’untopdcesamnotlikelytogo
lower for the simple reason that farmers won’t sell
at prevailing prices. For the aims reason they
ought to advance shghtly, regardless the size of
ﬁgt-over crop in the hands of the farmers——

CO-OPERATIVE STORE FAILURES
KNOW you are in favor of co—op-
erative associations and so am I
but we have been robbed of about

ten thousand dollars in a co-opera-

tive store organized by T. W. Mich-
ael of Clare, Mich., under the name
of National Consumers’ Co-operative

Ass’n. He is going all over Michigan

organizing these stores. He charges

members $10 for a life membership.

I wish you would tell the people of

Michigan through your paper that

before they invest any more in Mr.

Michael's stores they would better

come down to Ithaca and look up Mr.

Michael’s ability of running co-oper-

ative stores. Please do not,think

that I am against the movement for

I am not. But this man has hurt the

Farm Bureau and all other organi—

zations by organizing these stores

and letting them fall. We put in

$10,000 here and it is all gone.——0. F.

Gratiot County, Michigan.

Don’t know where you got the idea, friend F.,
that the Business Farmer was in favor ‘of 00-01%
erative shores, owned by farmers. We are not.
Why? Simply because for every one that suc-
ceeds, a score or more fail. We are in favor of
farmers engaging in (re-operative production, man-
ufacturing and selling of farm products and pur-
chasing of the raw material which enters into
their production. It is logical for them to deal
in these products. But when organized farmers
seek to deal in whom, hardware, clothing, shoes,
etc., we think it time to draw the line. We’ll
any the same thing to merchants and professmnal
men if they sought to produce their own sugar,
beef. wheat and potatoes. The thing can't be
successfully done. Farming and its branches con-
stitute a big enough business to keep all the
farmers’ brains and capital busy. Why weaken
our ova-operative odorts along natural lines by
dabbling in side issues which don't amount to
anything? But that's beside the point. Beware
of Michaell—Editor.

 

 

 

Musings of a Plain Farmer

 

 

 

 

 

OW CLOUDS and a winter fog
, I this morning. I have not that

J alabrity nor cheer of mind that
I once had.

Here I go to the stables lame and
careworn. There cemes the miIk man
a'rOund the corner whistling.
wretch. He never sleeps. Breakfast.
Now go to the stables, you human
year. i ‘
- The spreader is loaded and I am
off‘gto the ﬁeld. ~ -. ..

«Experts of the soil say this is nee.-
essary to keep up fertility. ’Well, I
on going according to the’blue print.
-_ I neglected closing that door and
thatyoung calfisout. " I’ll drive him
m. ’36 ’must'jebliud. He can’t see
-the door. Wait .un'tu;,1-‘get aa'c‘zub. I

‘ swear he’ll "drop gifh‘c rune past'me

again. curse; him: j; :«He  foiled
an, goneif undr’ ‘ "

gt ton _ p T  . the—barn
a I am .dfstreseed~_for‘.breeth.. TV
Mrs; B; is.--'comlng-twith’3§3.pail~end .-

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The'

  

the call. is following her into the
stable. I’ll go in and beat him with
this club. No I won’t, she has order-
ed me and the club outside

Perhaps I can get permission. to
walk down the lane and smoke.

Cool 017 a little. That fall plowing
looks nice. How many revolutions
will I have to make with the bar-
rows around that ﬁeld before its
ready for seed. Quite a number. Yes.
quite a number. .. '

That ﬁeld should yield 60- bushels
of cats to the sure. Let’s see, at 30¢
per bu. that would be $18 per acre.
Ye Gods! I am going back to the
stable ,and start a ﬁght with the bull.

Farmers should never carry a pen-

, oil,  It makes them uneasy... Dinner
‘ time' again.

Storming this p. In. I
guess I’ll case my shanks and peruse

the

some good book.

'To bed early after assisting.

mm, ‘Hich.

children‘with [their lemma—P- B. “a.
' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ _ .iapitaL—Edltor.

    

FARM ORGANIZA-
TIONS

* HAVE READ with some interest
» your editorial “Divorce ’Em" in

UNITE‘ALL

the January 29th issue of M. B. F. ,
If I am to understand your article '

it his plea for the Farm Bureau Fed-

eration as the one and only farmers’ -

organization.

Who the Coalition Committe was
or whom or what it represented I
have no means of knowing.

If, as I suspect, it was a committee '

either direct or indirect from the, Na—
tional Board of Farm Organisations
than I could not by any manner of
means lndorse your sentiments as ex-
pressed. '

How the Farm Bureau, organized
and ﬁnanced by public funds and in
most places controlled by Chamber
of Commerce and Boards of Trade,
can become the ofﬁcial outlet of act-
ual farm feeling and sentiment I
cannot comprehend. I think that per-
haps in your state and Iowa and
probably others the organization is
well in the hands of men whose de—
votlon to and appreciation of agri-
cultural problems from the stand-
point of the dirt farmer is unques-
tioned, but the fact remains that
drawing its inspiration from the De-
partment of Agriculture and thence
through our state colleges will be an
enormous handicap to getting ex-
pression of real farm sentiment from
the farm bureau organization.

If the organization were merged

with other farm organizations, fin--

anced wholly by farmers, I can see
where the combined effort might
bring results. But I can see where
the commercial interests would balk
at such a coalition—F. S. Brong,
Soylorsville. Pa.

 

The editorial in question did not intend to con-

, vary the impression gained by our Pennsylvania

subscriber. Some of those whO'were mostly in
favor of the commodity plan of organization were
led to believe by those who opposed it that the
Coalition Committee. representing in

   

heads, were trying to break up the Fan Bureau ‘

and other farm organizations should as a matter
of fact prove a more powerful force than any
single organimtion operating alone. A‘ more
lengthy explanation of this editorial is published
elsewhere in this issue—Edited

 

TERMINAL PLANTS FOR THE
FARDIERS

WANT to see as many farmers

reading your paper as possible. It

has stood and fought for a square
deal for the farmers in the past and
I hope it will continue to use its
heavy artillery in their behalf. I
note with interest and pleasure in
the January 15th issue of M. B._F.
the articles exposing the packers'
methods in juggling live stock prices
and their control- of the Chicagp
Board of Trade. Their methods
leave the farmers absolutely at their
mercy. He must take whatever pric;
es they indicate. Only a few days
ago I sold six nice hogs, and lost
$51.40 to say nothing about trouble
of caring for them. Last year farm-
ers were robbed just as bad, or worse.
It is always so. There is only one
of two ways for the farmers; to than;
oughly organize and put in their own
packing plants, or continue to take
these enormous losses annually. The
farmers should own their plants;
Standard Oil and the packers and all
big businesses own their own plants.
They do not ask or want the state to
erect “terminal” plants for them, and
if the farmers ever come into their
own, they will haveto do the same.
This will stabilize prices. Each farm—
er hol‘ding, say not more than. $100
stock; the loss to them this year
alone on live stock would amply meet
the cost of the plants. Last year,
the same. The greatest good you
can do them, I believe, is to hammer
with your biggest guns along this
had until it is accomplished—D. c.
Erupts, Kent County, Michigan.

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THINK TWICE IF ASKED TO SIGN

tion that was being circulated
among the women of this state
. asking for the removal of Warden
Hurlbut of Jackson and other prison
ofﬁcials on accunt of recent newspa—
per articles concerning flogging at
our state reformatories.

We should guard ourselves against
being carried away by foolish or
thoughtless sentiment in regard to
the criminals of our prisons. Flog-
ging is not pleasant even to
about. It is a pity that it must even
bedone but if and when it is done
at Jackson prison I for one believe
it to be necessary. I met Warden
Hurlbut a short time ago and know
him to be a big, kind-hearted man
whom many of his prisoners have
grown to love.

He came into Detroit last winter
with two lifers, unhandcuffed, and
no other escort and he left them sit-
ting in Grand Circus park while he
attended to-some business! He said,
“The boys will enjoy watching the
trafﬁc,” which no doubt they did.
They were there waiting for him
when he was ready to return.

This little incident shows two out-
standing qualities. A readiness to
give pleasure to those whom he

 UST THIS week I read of a peti- ‘

—thouht deserved it and an unerring’

judgment in human nature. He
knew his men. .
“7OMEN MES‘SENGERS VVOR‘K FOR
BABY BILL '
OLITICAL and social Washing-
Pton, probably for the ﬁrst time in
history, has taken a keen inter—
est in the arrival of the presidential
votes from the state electoral colleges
during the .past week. And, as us-
ual, a woman,——or women,—is the
reason.

Six states designated women to de—
liver in person the presidential votes.
The most conspicuous of the messen—
gers were probably Mrs. H. H.
Wheeler, Lincoln, Nebr., and Mrs.
Draper Smith, Omaha, Nebraska, two
courageous gray—haired ladies who
started out to make the'trip to
Washington by airplane. Climatic
conditions forced them to complete
the journey from Des Moines by train
but when they arrived they were her-
alded as the “Flying Grandmothers.”

Mrs. H. H. McCluer, Kansas City,
Mo., the ﬁrst to arrive, has the dis-
tinction of being the ﬁrst woman ever
to deliver electoral votes.

After performing their ofﬁcial
duties, the messengers have been in
conference with their representatives
in Congress and with ofﬁcers of the
National League of Women Voters in
regard to the passage of the Shep—
pard-Towner Bill. Several of the
rwomen, besides being prominent
members of their respective political
parties, are ofﬁcers of their state
League of Women Voters. Mrs.
Pyle is Chairman of the South Da-
kota League, Mrs. Wheeler is chair-
man of the Nebraska Legislative
Committee, and Miss Hayes is an
active member of the Kentucky
League. Mrs. Dieudonne and Mrs.
Smith, both chairman of the Child
Welfare Committees of their respect-
ive state leagues, are remaining in
Washington particularly to work for
the bill. , '

“The crucial position of the Shep-

,pard—Towner bill was one of the
factors which determined me to take
'this opportunity to make this trip
just now,” said Mrs. Smith. "I felt
that I must do everything in my pow-
er to help with this legislation which
-my state feels is so important. Just
before I, left, a resolution was intro-
";duced in . the Nebraska legislature
urging Congress to pass this bill. I
v am, sure that my state stands ready
. ﬁto co—operate with the federal gov-
‘ ‘ornmenti to put the measure into ef-
‘ feet immediately.” . '
g’i-Y The Sheppard-Towner maternity
and infancy bill-was favorably “re-

read '

Edited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY
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When the Supper Things A re Cooking
' By BERTHA CARMAN HERBST .
In Food and Drug Monthly. v I

_ ‘ BEN A man is nearing ﬁfty, andhas traveled quite a. bit,
' And the clothes he wore at forty prove by far too tight a ﬁt,
When he’s working on a. salary

9.
And he’ll have to keep on working till he’s past his working days,
There’s a time he always welcomes, for it puts his cares to route—’—
When the supper things are cooking, and the evening paper’s out.

Then the family members gather, and a scwffling in the hall ‘
Makes him know the boys are wrestling till the weakest haste fall, -

And his sticky-mouthed sweet youngest lifts a happy, cherub face
With a sigh of satisfaction and a deluge of embrace, ‘

While he mounts the knee that’s ready to be ridden up and down,
Sometimes fractions and unsteady till its rider starts to frown.

Then his wife calls from the kitchen that he’ll like the pie, she knows,
And his daughter, in kid-curlers, answers phone calls from her beans,
Then hurries in to tell him that she loves her dad the best, _
And she knows he’s too hard-working, and should take a needed rest.
Oh, it sets his heart a-thumping that he’s such a lucky scout,
When the supper things are oookin g. and the evening paper’s out.

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ported by the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee of the House,
January 25. . The report was not un-
animous but no roll-call vote was
taken. The bill had already passed
the Senate with amendments which
were practically all accepted by the
House Committee, and prospects for
passage by the- House during this
session are very good.

JUST AMONG OURSELVES

F THERE are any readers of these

columns who WOuld like to order

crocheted yokes for nightgowns
or chemise‘or lace edgings for un-
derwear or curtains, if you will com-
municate with me I will give you ad-
dresses of some of our readers who
are glad to spend their spare time
with such workand thereby add a
little extra money to their incomes.

I wonder if any one has thought of
making potato chips? Everyone likes
them and there is always a demand
for good ones. You are sometimes
able to buy them in the stores, but
when you do ﬁnd them they are of
indifferent quality and mighty few
in a box. K

All one needs to make them is
the potatoes, the lard to fry them in
and a potato cutter to insure their
being cut thin. They should be cool-
ed, salted, packed in oil paper and
then in boxes. Fry them a light
pretty brown and give good measure

and I believe one could get a good
market for'them and make 100 per
cent. ‘ I

They could be handled through a
retail store and orders could be tak—
en for dinners, parties, etc. I

If some of the readers of these
columns can suggestother Ways of
earning money I wish you would
write, for I receive letters almost
every day asking for ideas and you
know if two heads are better than
one, many heads may accomplish
much.

STARTING SOMETHING

OUNG MRS. Astor and her
Y friends giving prizes to children

’ with the best teeth instead of
giving prizes for general prettiness,
have started something worth while.
The usual plan has given the prize to
the fattest baby with the nicest look-
ing ribbons in its hair, and often
with the expression containing the
utmost vacuity, _ ‘

Prizes for good teeth, the tools
that make the blood that feeds the
brain, thus interesting parents in the
teeth of their children, is an intél«
ligent innovation. Later, probably,
prizes will be given for psychological
tests to show how the brain and
nerves of the child work together
and, possibly later still, other prizes
for general symmetry, and balance
of the skull.——Arthur Brisbane, in The
Pittsburgh Press.

Recipe For Making Good Bread

EAR YOUNG Housekeeper: I saw

D your appeal in the M. B. F. and

thought perhaps I might be able

to help you. I have always been told

I .made splendid bread and I am
' willing to pass my recipe along.

In winter it requires about twenty
'four hours and in summer about
twenty—one to make bread from the
time I set my yeast until my bread
is baked. At this time of year I us-
ually have mybread baked When my
dinner work is‘done. For ﬁve loav-
es of bread, when I start dinner I
put a yeast cake to soak in a cup-
ful of warm.waiter. Then I drain
the potato' water into a gallon jar,
and while the‘potatoes are hot, I
run two or three (depending onthe
size) through- a’ pan sieve to do away

with all;ylumps.‘ If you haven’t two.

and one—half quarts; of potato ‘Water
add enough cold; water to make that

amount: ,gWh‘en the water is cool I’
stirin the dissolved yeast cake, sift

a few dashes of flour,‘ over the top,

this 'whén yeast is light'wil-l befa Y

bubbling mass of" dough on top ~.of
the yeast, and set in a warm place.

I'usually place the bread” board‘- on,

the top of the warming closet and
set the jar on that.

Just before retiring I make the
sponge. First melt some shortening
the size of an egg and set it aside
to cool. Then I add two tablespoon-
fuls each of salt and sugar, and stir
in gradually two quarts of sifted
flour. Beat well to remove all the
lumps, then add the warm, melted
shortening. Cover and wrap well in
a heay cloth. Next I sift ,three scant

‘ quarts of flour into my- bread pan,

ready to use in the morning.

About six o’clock I warm the flour
in the bread pan on the back part of
the stove, stirring constantly, to pre-
vent scorching. Remove pan from

stove, make a hole in the center of

  

the flour, pour in the spongeand stir
with a large spoon as long as the
dough- will absorb the flour. Then
I placethe dough in the well floured
mixing-board and knead vigorously,
about, ﬁfteen minutes ’ (adding just
enoughflour,to prevent sticking). 'or
until it is perfectly smooth and 211098

‘ not stick to the hands orboard. And
just let Ina-add, do not be afraid of»
'_ hurting the dough, for the mere vig-

ins '61 blue areas so:

 

crously you knead it, the'more 

oughly you mix in the flour and air. '  .
I put the hard loaf back intomuie . ’

. bread pan, grease well ,with..melte'd
shortening, cover and. set in a warm-I

place to rise. , 7
When hard loaf has raised until

it has doubled in size, I put it onto.

slightly floured mixing board, cut
into ﬁve equal portions, shape .into
loaves and set in a warm place to
raise. ‘ >

When the loaves have doubled in
size, I put them into a warm oven to
bake for one hour. During the ﬁrst
thirty minutes, the bread should
raise and just start to brown, and‘ in
the last thirty minutes it should ﬁnd
ish browning and baking.

Now that the bread is baked I  ”

remove it from the tips onto a large
heavy bread cloth, grease with meat

drippings and cover securely with 1
several thicknesses of cloth, to hold ‘

in steam. The above is the way, I
make my bread in winter. - In sum-
mer, _
the bread chilling in the hard loaf,
I mix» my bread into a hard loaf just
before retiring, shape into loaves
when .I arise in the morning and
bake while I am doing my morning’s
work. In this way I have my bread
out of the way when my morning’s
work is done and before the tem-
perature by the thermometer goes
sky-high. Do not try to do work in
the front part of the house and bake
bread at the same time. If I haven’t
any work to do in _the
bring my mending into the kitchen
to do while I watch my bread bake.
In this way I save time and steps.

Two medium'sized sticks of dry
hardwood or one large lump of coal
with a medium ﬁre to start on, will
bake an oven full of bread in most
ranges. ~

If bread is not stiff enough it will
crumble when you cut it. If too
stiff it will break in cutting.

Never put bread away until it *is
cold. . .

I consider thorough kneading,
careful attention to the temperature
of the bread while raising and care-
ful attention to the amount of ﬁre
while baking the chief principles of
good bread baking.

However if you should not have
the best of luck the ﬁrst time, do
not be discouraged, for experienca is
our best teacher.—Mrs. 0. L. Fesscnr
den, Kalkaska County, Michigan.

The editor wishes to thank Mrs. Fes-
senden for the trouble she has taken in
giving this splendid recipe. ‘

LIO'E 0N HOUSE PLANTS
Please tell me howIcan kill little green
lice and white millers that get on house
plants, as I and some of my neighbors
are troubled with them. - I have tried
powders, but they do not help much.—
Mrs. 0 H, G., Barry County.

I believe for plant lice on house
plants I would use nicotine in some.
form either black leaf 40 or some 40
per cent nicotine used at the rate of
one part to 800' of soap suds or per:
haps rose nicotine used at the rate
of 1 part to 200 of water. This will
kill all lice with which it comes in
contact. As to the mill-ers I would
have to see specimens before say-
ing anything about it because there
are so many different kinds of mill-

ers.that work on house plants and f

greenhouse: plants—R. H.‘ Pettit.
Prof. of Entomology, M. A. 0.- ' '

 

OALLA LIIJES
Will you please tell me how to care
for calla lilies to make them grow fast
and thrifty? Would
woods be suitable?_——,S.nbscriber, Wheeler,
Michigan. - " W ‘ j . '
,.

Tcginsuregvigorous .an'd "healthy‘i I
growth, calla- 111198" should be. re-L
potted every year about the‘dr’st of,

Septe’mber,g removing -=.1nuch ‘ of’
old soil and. using-fresh saunter!
of about" one-third leaf In" i
two-thirds of a compost ’
d1 ithﬁt

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when there is less danger of V

kitchen, I ‘

ground out of the .

       
  
  
 
 
 
   
   
  
 

   
   
  
      
      
    
       
 
      
      
 
 

  

    
 
    

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Leatmold alone is" not ideal,j.be-

C {ling somewhat too loose and friable

'and not containing enough plant
food to keep» the plant thriity. Leai
' mold with potted plants: is used more
for its physical improvement of the
soil than for .its- chemical qualities.
.Ar-soil that is well ﬁlled with decom-
, posed. plant ﬁber as is obtained by
decomposed bluegrass .sod'and mixed
with some well decayed manure, is
most ideal from a chemical and bac-
terial standpoint but it should be
mixed with leatmold or sand to make
it more favorable in ,texture for the
' dtﬂ'erent types of potted plants—0. P.

Halligan. Professor of Horticulture,‘

M.A.0

POLITICAL GUIDE

HE EDITOR wishes to thank Miss

Bina M. West, vice chairman of the

Republican State Central Committee,
for a very well arranged and clearly
stated little pamphlet called “Political
Guide for Republican Women.”

It contains very valuable infdrmation
for women voters and being general in
its character is interesting and enlight-
ening to women 'of all.parties, We will
publish extracts from it' at different
times and today give the political ‘pro-

gram for February and the deﬁnition 0}

the word "caucus."

For February
OWNSHIP and ward caucuses at
.call of township and ward vice-
chairmen to elect. delegates to
county convention. ' '
County convention
county committee.
State convention is called by state
central committee to nominate:
Two justices of the supreme court.
Two Regents of U. of M.
One member State Board of Ed-
, ucation. _ .
Two members. State Board of Ag-
riculture. _
One State Highway Commissioner.
(Eelected every four years.)‘
I One County Commissioner of
Schools. '
A caucus is a meeting of leaders
of a political party to decide on the
_ policiesof candidates for oﬂice. '

is called by

.MENUS FOR FARM GATHERING
_ DINNERS _ '

_ ENUS for Farm Bureau, Gleaner
or Grange dinners, private
parties, dinners or luncheons

will be furnished at any time. Sug-.

gestions for remodeling or decorat-
ing homes will be given immediate

_ attention. In truth, the editor is

here to be of any and all service pos-

sible. _ ‘

If “Young Housekeeper,” who
wanted instructions for bread making
will. send 'me her name and address

Ipwill‘inail her splendid directio’ns

published by the U. S. Dept; of Agri-

culture. It takes up bread-making in
detail. '

USING CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL
AS A SOCIAL CENTER
(Continued from page 5)
,Wheaton School Community Build-
' ing was built by the Board o-i‘Edu-
' cation’at a cost of $36,000. It has
an auditorium, which is also used as
a gymnasium, and a motion picture
machine used both fur
and entertainment purposes. Quart-
ers for the County Farm Bureau, the

0

County Agent’s ofﬁce and farmers"

headquarters, a women’s rest room,
a. library, lockers and shower baths,
rooms for the 'high school depart-
ments of agriculture, home econom-
ics, manual training and others are
provided.
ranged for use of the, building dur'~'
ing the day and evening for pupils

and for community members,__thus ,

averting any confusion. The build-
ing also offers a meeting place _, to

civic, commercial and other organii ‘

zations.

 During the four years since r'its‘
lerection this community school has
"amply demonstrated, its value "as a.

school and as a community house. ‘It

has "centralized the]. litanof the town,
J and that of the surrounding regions, .
par with its library,,~County, Farm«Bu-,

 roan; recreational and , educational
meill't‘l‘eséit lathe center of common
 r to Jommen, Itarmer and

educational -

A. regular schedule is arm

. , , ." Miss Evelyn
Button, 1919 )‘ gives an eloquent

 u" ., , y _ r -‘ V picture of the possibilities for rec-on-
}iood- to‘the lily. liontheico ing ‘ear. .

structing rural community life even

, where the only possible physical cent-

or is the one-room district school-
house, of which she says, there were
in 1915, 200,000 in the United States.
'She tells the story of
School in Missouri, and its transi-
tion from a ramshackle, unsanitary,
badly heated building to an up-to-
date School and community house
combined, in which old and young
alike took the keenest of interest.

It is the simple story of a commun-
ity where “each family had lived iso—
lated—where there were no com-
munity traditions and no community
spirit and pride,” and how it was
“drawn together into a working unit
with a common cause and a method
of expression.” Surely no greater
“democracy’s memorial” could be
built up than a community school-
house which should have the same
spirit animating the reconstructed
Porter School. The memorial com—
mittee in the little village will proﬁt
by reading the account of how it was
brought about. Women’s clubs,
Parents’ and Tealchers' Clubs, a
full community band, a state uni—
versity extension course in agricul-
ture for the men, boys’ pig and corn
clubs, and girls’ social and poultry
clubs were among the well—develop-
ed community activities. A Shakes-
peare reading club, a home econom-
ics evening course, and a library
were among the features which cre-
ated in the young people an enthusi-
asm for staying at home, where be—
fore there had been a marked eager-
ness to get away to larger towns as
soon as possible. There are, unfor—
tunately, many “Porters,” with ex-
actly the same recreation—starved,
apathetic outlook on life. With prop-
er leadership, however, any one of
them'can attain to anvequ‘ally rich
and worth—while community program
when they put forth the same qual-
ity of co-operation as Porter did.

The basis of this co-operation lies
in any small schoolhouse. There are
recognized diﬂiculties, however, in
many districts in the narrow, preju—
diced viewpoint ,of many of the “old
timers” who “have learned the three
R’s in the- district schoolhouse and
believe that be the proper curricu-
lum and the beginning and the end
of the schoolhouse’s functions. This
misconception has been broken down
in many instances through bringing
the teacher and the community to—
gether. ‘

In one small rural school ﬂistrict
in Virginia, the teacher ﬁrst called
upon many of the people in her com-

munity to explain. the nature oi! a.‘

meeting "to which she was inviting
them. “Ye Old Time School Days,"
when explained, proved an interest-
ing subject,- for‘most of the inhabi-

' tants had attended a one-room school . -

house and'were willing to take part
in the program. This resourceful
leader managed to enlistthe inter-
est of the entire community through
this school entertainment, and every

one who took part was over ﬁfty,

years of age.

“The Kind of School I Had” was
the subject of a talk by a man sixty
years of age; “How We Kept Warm”
was told by a man of eighty; a grand-
mother and several citizens gave
pictures of scenes they had experi-
enced in their youth. The type of
entertainment in this schoolhouse is
not ‘signiﬁcant, however, but the
meeting itself is significant as the
beginning of a movement .in this
community for a better school. In
due time defects in school equipment

-'were brought to the attention of the

community. Funds were raised at
‘various “socials” at the schoolhouse,
and at the end of the term pictures
for, the room, a collection of books
for ali'brary, the l. installation of
lights tor the [evening meetings were
ity interest. , ‘   .. -.

.How , 'much 5 greater, accomplish-

v evidences of a‘sympathetic’ commun-

’ment in this ﬁeld {maybe honed-for,
. when en the nonmetal} the school
. as {a social center-"may be based its

function. as a. memorialr+wuts and.

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The finest quality Baking
the most economical
“The Biggest Bargain That
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Pound can of Calumet contains full
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;  is scld. at a mod,-
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EAR CHILDRENS The Doc Dads
are back again! And they are
going to be with us right» along

from now on. Isn’t that good news?
It cost us quite a lot of money to get
them for our boys and girls but so
many have asked about them since
they left and we think nothing is too
good for our young readers so we
told them we would pay what they
ask if they would come back, and
here they are. They all tell me they
are glad to get back as you were all
such good friends of theirs.

Doc Sawbones has bought a goat
ranch since we last saw these funny
little people and in this picture he is
taking a walk with his goats. ' It ap-
pears the other people of the land of
Doo do not think much of Doc’s goats
but he does not care and walks along
without paying attention to any of
them. And the goats are upsetting
everyone.

Last ,week I told you I was going
to publish more of your letters but
the sudden return of these funny lit-
tle folks has changed my plans and
I may not be able to publish as many
letters as I planned. But I will
print all of them that I can. You
are willing that I should spare some
space on our page for our old friends
aren’t, you?

A few more New Year resolution
let-ters this week and a lot more
waiting for space. We are going to

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have a diﬂlcult time choosing the
winner as there are so many good
letters—UNCLE NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a boy ton
years old. I go to school and am in the
third grade. I like my school' very
much. My teacher’s name is Miss W.
Hule, My papa takes the M. B, F. and
he likes it very much. We have twenty-
two chickens and I help feed them and
help do chores. I have a good time
sliding here as we' have plenty of snow.
-—Howard Warren, Wolverine, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned2—I am a farmer girl
9 years old and in the 3rd grade at
school. We have an 80 acre farm. We
have 7 horses and a Shetland pony. Its
name is Beauty, We haVe 7 cows,
calves, 8 pigs and 40 chickens. My
father takes the M. . I have one
brother. I .walk two miles to school
and I haven’t missed a day. I have a
dog and a cat—Gladys Runnell, R. No.
2, Brown City, Michigan,

Dear Uncle Nedz—Here is another
little farmer girl who would like to join
your merry circle. I am 8 years old
and am in the 3rd grade at school. My
teacher’s name is Mrs. Princing and
like her very well, We take the M. B.
F. and we like it real well. My father
owns an 80 acre farm. We have 4'
horses, 9 head of cows, 14 pigs and 60
chickens, I have a few pets, 3. little
dog named Sport and 2 little kittens
whom I call Teddy and Snowball. From
your niece—Ruth Uhlman, R. R. 2, Pin-
conning, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join your
merry circle? I am a girl 13 years old
and in the seventh grade at schoot. My
teacher’s name is Miss Winslow. I have
two sisters and two brothers; their
names are ‘Jeannette, Vesta, Weldon and
Warren, I belonged to a canning club

ildren‘s

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last summer and canned about 125 Jars.

This fall we organized a garment-mak-
ing club of 23 members. We have some
new playthings at school. We have lots
.of fun now. "take music lessons. We
have about 35 head of cattle and six
horses. We have been taking M. B. F.
for several years, We think it is a ﬁne
Paper. I will close for this timer-Anna.
Watson, Hemlock, Michigan.

Dear Uncle. Ned:—I am a boy 9 years
old and am in the fourth grade at school.
My teacher’s name is Miss Lucile Close.
I like to read the Children's Hour. I
find many good letters from our boys and
girls. I wrote a letter some time ago
but did not see it in print.
ZOO-acre farm. We have three horses
and one cow and two calves, We have a
pig that we are going to butcher to-
morrow, an _we also have about 26
chickens. or pets I have two rabbits,
one is a large one and the other a small
one; the large one has its back broken
and the other has but one eye. I guess
the dog bit him; he is a great at.
also have two cats—Kenneth
Halo, Michigan, Box 104.

Dear Uncle Ned :-—Well, here is anoth-
er boy who wants to join your circle. I
am a boy 12 years old and in the eighth
grade at school.
Miss Laura Duddles. I like her very
Well. I hope I can pass this year be-
cause I want to go to high school next
year. I live on a 120-acre farm, We
have 10 head of cattle and 2 horses, For
pets I'have I. Persian cat and Collie dog.
My father takes the M. B. F. and he likes
it very much. We have a Dodge touring
car. I am going to have a piano some
day; I am crazy for music I will now
close and leave room for o ers—Victor
Green, Reed City, Michigan, 11,14.

Dear
the M. B. F. tonight I came across sev~
eral nice letters which the boys an dgirls
have written and I am going to ask if
I may join them. I am a boy 11 years

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I live, on a

My teacher’s name is .

Uncle Ned:-——As I was reading'

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old and am in the fourth grade at school.
We have about a mile ‘ a half to
Walk togschooi and I enjoy, going there
every morning. that is when I am. well,
In starting a-new year I am planning on
working very hard this summer and
also obeying my rmother and father as
all children should, Iand help all animals
that are not harmfu to us. Our teacher’s
name is Rose Duby, and do you know
what she did one day? She gave us
some tooth paste and a brush so I'm
going to promise to clean my teeth any-
way twice a day, so that my teeth will
not decay.-Gustaf Falk, Manistee R. 1,
Box 58, Manistee, Michigan. .

Dear Uncle Ned:——I was reading the
Children’s Hour in the M. about
a prize for the best New Year’s resolu-
tions. 1 am a boy 14 years of age, and
am in the high school. 11 have‘ two sis-
ters but no brothers. We have 143 acres
of land. We have 7 horses, 9 cows,
calves and 1 bull. My boy cousin is.
staying with me now and we are trap-
ping together, I have one rat already.
My New Year resolutions are: To do
my best as a Boy Scout; to do well in
school; to try and mind my parents; to
be a. loyal reader of the “Children’s
Hour.” Give three cheers for Uncle Ned.
~—_R. Everett Dunn, Elwell, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a. boy 11 years
old and am in the 6th grade, We live on
a. 100-acre farm. We have 3 horses, 9
pigs and 1 cow. My New Year’s resolu-
tions are: Minding my parents and be
good to others: to work hard at school
and be kind and helpful to others—Ai-
lan Corbin, Dansville, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am 13 years old
and in the seventh grade. I like to go
to school very well. My father takes
the M. B F I like to read the Child-
ren’s Hour. For Christmas I got a
fountain pen, a. flashlight, a book and a
lot of other things. I have two broth-
ers and two sisters. On the farm we
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easy for them. they are used to that
in their mountain homes. One mis-
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- Dear Uncle Ned:,--,-I am a girl 9 years
sixth grade at
school. My teacher's name is Miss My-
ra. Foster. My father takes the .M. .
F, and likes it verymuch. We have 24;
cattle. I have a sister Ruth and a
brother Frank. I dike the D00 Dads
very »Well.-—Celia Ruttman, Fowlerville,
Mich, Box 105.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-Here's another
farmer irl who would like to Join your
merry crcle. Can I? 1 am ten years
old and in the sixth do at school. I
so to the Lake Ans us school. I have
not missed a. do. so far. this year. I
helm to a. bi club and a hot lunch
club, I am president of both. I have
two brothers and no sisters. The names
and 8,308 of m brothers are Thomas, 14
years old, an Brendan, almost two
years old.-Ione Magulre. Pontiac, Mich,

 

Dear Uncle Nader—I am a farmer girl.
I live on a so acre term. I am 14 years
old and am in the 6th grade. I go to
school everyday. We have \69 pupils in
our school. I have 3 sisters and 5 broth-
ers. We have a 6-passen er Studebaker
‘touring car. ‘We got’ it ast fall, For
pets I have a dog and his name is Tip,
We have 3 horses, 4 cows, 13 ducks and
90 chlckens,—Miss Mable Tackman, R.
F. D. No, 2, Bay City, Michigan,

Dear Uncle Ned:—-—I am a. girl e even
years old and in the 6th grade at so 001,
My teacher’s name is Mlss' Marjorie
Graham. For pets I nave one big rab—
bit and 1’ young ones, and some chick-
ens. I hope to hear from some of the
girls and boys Soon—Helen Lang, Rose-
bush Mich, R. F. D. 2.’

Dear Uncle Nedz—I would like to join
The Children’s Hour, I am a boy eight
years old and am in the second grade.
My teacher’s name is Miss Charlebols,
. She is an ideal teacher and takes a. big
'lnterest in all the children, I have two
brothers whose names are Floyd and
Clayton, We take the M. B. F, I have
two rabbits and an angora cat which
Floyd christened "Lucky." My father
is working forty acres of land, We have
Jersey cows, three horses, at number of
chickens, and last but not least “a tin
lizZY." (Ford)——Howard Miller, R, F, D,
2, Bay City, Mich. ,

Dear Uncle Ned:——1 was reading The
Children's Hour and thought I would
write to you.~ I am a girl ﬁfteen years
old, I go to school ﬁve miles from home
but do not walk. I am in the ninth
grade, We live on a farm of 40 acres,
We have four horses and four cows, We
also have some small calves and two
pct pigs. We are twelve miles from the
nearest town.~Miss Efﬁe Gould, White
Cloud, Mlch_, R. R, 5.

Déar Uncle Ned:—Would you like to
have me join your merry circle? I am a
boy eleven years old and in the sixth
grade at school. My sister wrote a let-
ter to The Children’s Hour but it was
not in print, so I thought I would try
and see if I could do better. My teach-
er’s name is Mr. Earl S, Goodman, I
like him fine. I have one sister and six
brothers. I live on a 120 acre farm,
For pets I have a dog and three cats.
The dog's name is Ned, We have two
cars, a Ford and a Chevrolet, They are
both touring cars, We have 6 horses,
10 cattle, 4 calves and 5 young cattle. I
wish some of the boys and girls would
write to me.—Archie Jerore, Bentley,
Mich,, R. F. D, No: 1, . -

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am 12 years Old
and am in the 7th grade. I live on an
80 acre farm. We have 4 horses, 18
head of cattle, and 1 dog and 2 or 3 cats,
I go to school every day, Have not
missed a day this ear. My teacher is
Miss Zola Dickey. ve to all the boys
and If someone will write to me
I will gladly answer. Your new friend,
gaming Packer, Battle Creek, Mich,, R

 

HELP FOR FARMER IN MAKING
INCOME Tax REPORT
(Continued from page 4)

turn must be made of the total fam—
ily income/of $3,100.

The exemptions and credits also
are the same as those for 1919, $1,-
000 for single persons, $2,000 for
married persons and heads or fam-
ilies and $200 for each person de-
pendent upon the taxpayer it under
18 years of age or incapable of self-
support because mentally or physical-
ly detective. In the above example,
if both sons are under eighteen years
of age, the taxpayerwould be en-
titled =to a total exemption of $2,400.
The tax rate is unchanged; The
normal tax is 4 per cent on the ﬁrst
$4.000 of net income in excess of the
exemptions and 8 per cent on the re-
maining net income. The surtax
rates change from 1 per cent on in-
come between $5,000 and $6,000 to
65 per cent on incomes in excess of
$1,000,000.

As an aid to farmers, the Bureau
of Internal'Revenne has had prepar-
ed e special term—1040F-—40r re-
cording sales-oi live stock, produce
and miscellaneous receiptsz‘ All
farm income from any source 'what-
eilrer must be reported in this sched-
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Clear More cf this Land in 1921

THE whole state, backed by the Legislature,

the University, and scores of locdl organiza-
tions, is back of the “Clear More Land This Year”
movement. Last year was a record-breaker.
This year is going to surpass it. Every one is

out to get bigger crops. Most people use

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because it is generally recognized as a quick,
efficient and economical means of clearing cut-
over land.

Join your neighbors. Clear more acres each year.
Every acre put under cultivation will return a
handsome proﬁt to you.

Your local dealer can supply you with Du Pont
Dynamite and Blasting Accessories. See him now
regarding your spring requirements. And write us
for Farmers’ Handbook of Explosives for complete
information on farming with dynamite. It’s free.

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_ .I have a 400-acrc farm in Saginaw Valley, 18 miles from
Saginaw. This farm is in A1 condition. "Just spent $10.000.00
on buildings. Most modern cow barn in Michigan. Two silos
and can feed and stable all stock including young stock under
one roof. All machinery and tools new, including tractor, feed
grinder, silo ﬁller and buzz saw. A city man owns this farm
and has discovered that he is no farmer. Mr. Farm Seeker, if
you are in the market for a farm of this kind, this is your
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I have cut the price $20,000.00.

If you are interested you must act at once.

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11 cows and calves, poultry, hogs, hay, corn, oats,
beans, potatoes, wagons, harnesses, machinery,
etc; 800 sugar maples, 2,000 cords wood; 8-
room house barn; aged owner’s low price $4,500
includes all, easy payments. Details page 12
FREE .Illus. (hitalog 1,200 bargains. STROUT
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LANDOLOGY SPECIAL NUMBER JUST OUT
containing 1921 facts of clover land in Marin~
ette County, Wisconsin. If for a home or as an
investment you are thinking of buying good farm
lands where farmers grow rich, send at once i
this special number of Landology. It is free on
request. Address SKIDMORE-RIEHLE LAND
00.. 398 Skidmore-Riehle Bids“ Marinette, “.1

 

FIRST CLASS FARM HOME, STATE RE-
ward road, 3-4 mile market. schools. churches.
For particulars address owner, JOEL G. PALM-
ER, Orleans. Mich

 

‘FOR SALE—JTANDING TIMBER. TAM-
srack. spruce and some oak ash and elm. Also
number one 120 acres with good buildings. R. W.
ANDERSON, Clarkston, Mich. .

 

FOR SALE—40 ACRES GOOD FARMING
land. Mostly clay loam. 40 acres under cultiva-
tion, rest wood, timber and pasture, good fences.
4 acres bearing apple orchard; 6 room house,
barn 36 x 50; good well with windmill. 2 miles
to Beulah, near Crystal Lake. CHAS. BUSH.,
Frankfort, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—21 ACRES IMPROVED LAND
in Ray township, Macomb County. Inquire of
owner MRS. O’DELL ARNOLD, Coleman, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—CHOICE HEAVY CLAY LOAM
hardwood land, old cuttings, in live farm set-
tlement near Millersburg and Onaway. Sweet
clover seed crops pay for your land in this wond-
erful clover seed belt. It is doing it for others——
why not for you? JOHN G. KRAUTH, Direct
Dealer, Millersburg, Mich.

118 ACRES IDEALLY LOCATED ON STONE
road, 4 -1-2 miles from live R. R. town, good
markets, R. F. D., two houses, three barns, dark
clay loam soil, eleven acres heavy bearing apple
orchard, eight acres wild with spring water, bal-
orchard will pay far farm in few
settle estate, prim—d very
No agents, deal direct

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ance cleared,
years, must sell to
cheaply at $75 per acre.
with heirs. A. M. KNIGHT, It. 1". l‘.,
Mich.

FOP. SALE—118 ACRESI OF LAND, 65A.
cleared. one big bank barn 40x78 ,one small
burn 30x501and big house, 2 1-2 miles west of
Brimley, Chippewa County. MIKE O’HARA.
Brimley, Mich.

40 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—LOCATED IN
Missaukee (‘0. Price $1,500.. For particulars
address ALVIN ASPY, 401 King St... Saginaw,
Mich.

FREE! DESCRIPTIVE LIS'I' 100 FARMS IN
“Thumb” District. the Garden of MiChigan. REED
REALTY (20., Carsonville, Mich.

mom. Ossh should «company all orders. Count
1 ed. and In address. Copy must
listen Iollowln‘g woo‘. ’ The Business Former Adv. Dept" M}. Clemons, Mloh.

 

.4; Insortltms for~10¢ per Word. Form for sale ads. not
Twenty words Is the mlnlmum' accepted, _for any no.3 In «this
as one word such Inlusl and each IrouP
be In our bonds before Saturday for In“.

   

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FOR SALE—122 ACRES [HIGHLY IMPROVE:
school, 3 'miles

ed. .Good buildings, 40 rods to
from Lansing. $152 per acre if
W. HEMPY. R 7, Lansing, Mich.

sold soon.

S.

 

-FOR SALE—120 ACRE FARM. 50 ACRES .
good pasture. -

under cultivation, 70 in

flowing well, new house, barn, grain shed, hen

house, pig house, granary, corn crib. School 1
mile. Trunk road 1 mile. Terms easy if sold
soon. For particulars write or see 0. A. OLSEN.

Spruce, Mich.

 

 

 

CERTIFIED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. SEN.’

Dunlap and Warﬂeld, $4.0 Oper 1,000:
HAMPTON & SON,

per 500; $1.00 per 250.
Bangor, Mich.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM

sst. All kinds. Delivered prices.
M," care Michiga
ens. Mich.

Address

$2.00

FOR-

“u.

n Business Farmer, Mt. Clem-

-WANT THE CHEAPEST. HANDIEST BELT

power?

Then ask me about the LITTLE TWIST-

ER Power Transmitter for Ford and Dodge cars

FRANK R. WEISBERGER. Sauna.

Kansas.

FOR SALE—CANDEE MAMMOTH INCUBAT-

or. Beef Scraps $5 per 100 lbs.

POULTRY FARM. Fenton. Mich.

TYRONE

 

SENATOR DUNLAP

STRAWBERRIES.

Plants at 84.00 per 1,000, 83.50 per 1,000 in

lots of 3,000 or more.
name. C. H.
Farm, R 2, Paw Paw, Mich.

Certiﬁed
STANLEY, Prop. .

and true to
Flower View

FRANCIS' STRAWBERRY PLANTS, $2.00

per 100, $15 per 1,000,- postpaid.

TINDALL.

the Ever-bearing Strawberry Man, Boyne City,

Mich.

 

CHOICE VIGOROUB SENATOR DUNLAP
and Warﬂeld strawberry plants 50¢ per 100 post-

paid or $4.00 per 1,000 not
BALESKY, Fosters, Mich.

prepaid.

H.

 

CHOICE WISCONSIN PEDIGREED BARLEY

5 bu. or more $1.50 per bu.

with order. B. F.

HELLEM, Morenci,

Bags free.
Mich.

Cash

KENTUCKY TOBACCO—2 YR. OLD LEAF

rich, mellow, nature cured.
ing. Special trial offer,
KENTUCKY TOBACCO ASS'N,
Haweeville, Ky.

SONG HITS DIRECT FROM

Overall Blues. ”

500 brings the 3.
complete. Agents and dealers wanted. everywhere.

Dept.

Chewing and smok-
3 lbs. $1.00 poetpaid.

222,

NEW YORK.
“Her Mother is a Better Pal Than Mary." “That’s
When I’m Pining For You." and "I’ve Got the

BIGGER-HAND MUSIC, 99 Numu St, N.

Words—music ’

VICTOR SEED OATS FOR SALE—MADE
101 bushels an acre, 12 to 25 bushels more than

$1.00

per

others; longer ﬁllers; great stubbers,
bushel. Bags free. White Elephant Oats, 75c
per bushel. A. I). NELSON, Wheeler, Mich.

 

PRICE CUT 1-3, EXTRA GOOD BUILDINGS,
ﬁne location, 148 acres will consider trade, for
pcn'ticulars write ERNEST LaFLEURx Vermont-
ville, Mich. '

FOR SALE—v-GOOD 160 ACRE FARM,
sandy loam, fair buildings, plenty of good fruit,
near 3 good markets. Price right. FRANK
JONES, Mendon, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—JUMBERLAND
berry plants at $8.00 per M.
formation write
rods, Mich.

BLACK RASP-
For further in-

GEORGE W. HARTLINE, Ba-

lAGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY SELLING OUR

Silos. Write today for
mission proposition.

MFG. 00., Nappanee, Ind.

 

Swan Creek,

AUCTION SALE Buﬁfmﬁﬁﬁﬁsm, 1921

catalog and big oom-
NAPPANEE LUMBER &

8 miles from Saginaw. AllMichigan Central trains (except iimiteds)
stop at Swan Creek station on our farm. Full equipment of over 1,000
Implements and machinery. Hol-

steins, horses, swine, 45 h. p. Rumeley “oil pull” tractor and heavy

tools. Buckeye Tractor, tiler.

500 items of farm tools.

Port Huron thresher.

press. Fordson tractor. Many unusual oﬁerings. DON’T MISS IT.

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The Associated Packing and can»
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members, of the Berrien County

RaSpberry’Gr-owers‘ Association, have

began work on the construction of a.

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at ,BentOn mHarbor. This company,
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PEA-CANNING IN NORTHERN
, memes}:

V A dream for the future—yet offer-
Ing unlimited possibilities by reason
of the region’s particular adaptabil-
ity to the crop—is the pea-canning in-
dustry as viewed by agricultural en-

'thusiasts throughout the upper pen-

insula of Michigan. The Develop-
ment Bureau at Marquette, after a
thorough investigation into the pos-
sibilities of the industry, is backing
an effort to give to 'northern Michi-y
gan its ﬁrst pea-canning factory, and
plans are already well'advanced.
The plan, as outlined by the Bu-
reau, covers,
with local farmers, for a speciﬁed
acreage of peas each year, and, sec-
8nd, the establishment or a canning
factory on a site not to exceed 350
acres for a starter. An industrial
concern in Delta county, on the
“sunny side,” of Cloverland, now has
this project up to: consideration, and
it is believed that next spring will

see the beginning of construction on'

upper Michigan’s ﬁrst
plant—L. D. Tucker.

pea-canning

NO CORN BURNED IN THE WEST

From time to time there have ap-
peared in various publications over
the country, notices concerning the
burning of corn (or fuel in the most.
If corn has been burned as fuel eith-
er in Nebraska or anywhere else in
this western section, I do not know
of it. While it is difﬁcult to obtain
the facts regarding such matters, I
have made an effort to ﬁnd them out,

and so far have not located a single.

case. ~

There was a great corn crop har-
vested all through this country, and
it is true that there is a vast amount

0 O

Brief History of
HOSE OF the older generation
well remember the time when the
common impression was that
milk came from two classes of cat-
tle—“Jerseys” ‘ and “just cows”—
and the richness of milk of some

of the old Jersey family cows is still
a by-word in many families.

The average consumer when he -
drinks a. glass of Jersey milk, how- -

ever,’ls not aware of’the fact that
the animal which produced it had
two centuries of ancestors, which
had been developed for the particu-

lar purpose of - producing large
amounts of‘milk of the highest
quality.

Next to the quality and richness
of her product the beauty of the Jer-
sey is probably her best known char-
acteristic. So famous has this be-
come that ice cream manufacturers,

or manufacturers or any commodity .

dealing with ’or containing milk in
any form, use in nine cases out of
ten, as a trade mark or brand, the

head of the Jersey, for with'the word .

“Jersey” has always been associated
“beauty” and ‘fhigh quality.”
Originating about 1734, on the lit-
tle Island of Jersey, one of the Chan-
nel, Islands group of the coast of
England, the Jersey represents today
the live stock breeders’ greatest
abhie've'ment‘in a dairy COW.
- r Jersey Island is only 11 miles long
,by 6 miles yvide. The farms are small

and the land high-priced, frequently-

renting for as much as $60.00 a year
per acre- ‘ '
' In order that a breed of cattle
might be popular on Jersey Island,
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have the ability to pr‘oduce‘th‘e most 

 
 

_ ' grain new i being held-on
i, Market conditions have not  , ti : I,
unfavorable for selling.  With  3;, '

snowmsm . 

ﬁrst, the contracting'

. 

price decline and the sisal-a: Inciin

a-tion of buyers to hold off, the mere, '

Tkethas'been dull.~- , p, ,:::.

There are more ways .to  a

grain. than by burning. Right-{now

all over the country alarge destrflic" 
This is “brought, .. .
proper farm’ .

tion Isin progress.
about by the lack of
storage. Millions of bushels of corn.
are simply piled up on the ground,
exposed to all the destroying”
ments of weather, and, worse yet, to
the ravages of rats, miceand‘othgr
animal pests. The amount ’of gin
that will be destroyed andruined
is hard to estimate. The government
has estimated the destruction *, from‘
rodents alone useless to two hu'ugl=
red million dollars; but this 
with the increased exposure of L”
crap on account of its size, and ' ,

inability to send it to 'market, do»
truction will be even greater. It is
hard to give ﬁgures or even esti-

  

mates along this llne, but it is sate ‘

to say that the waste will be alarm,
ingly large—A. L. Haecker.

WAGES FOR FARM HELP
. Wage rates for hired help on the
farm reached their highest point in
the history of the United States dur-
ing the past year of 1920, as national
averages, according to the Bureau of

Crop Estimates, U. S..Departme_nt (if V ’

Agriculture. The bureau states the

average monthly wage received. by”

hired men was $64.95, with board;
for day labor other than at harvest
time, $2.86, with board, and $3.59
without.

Figures gathered by the bureau
show there has' been a. steady 'in-
crease in the wages paid by the farm-
ers since 1896, at which time hirings
were paid $16.42, Without board.
By' 1902 this rate has increased to
$22.14; in 1914 it was $29.88, and
‘1915 found it to be $30.15. 'The of-

' fec-ts of the war began to show in
1916 and that year'the average rate
was $32.83. From there on the rise
was rapid. In 1917 it was $40.43;
in 1918, $47.07, and in 1919, $56.29.

The rate of gain from 1895 to 1916,
20 years. was 70 per cent; and from
1915 to 1921, 5 years, 197 per cent.

the Jersey'Breed'

‘ , .
milk and butter from the least
amount of feed. The Jersey was

- therefore developed for this ‘particu—
lar purpose. Furthermore, since
most of the milk was converted into
butter, it was necessary that the Jer-
sey produce milk that contained ‘a
large proportion of butterfat, and
she was bred for this particular qual-
ity for 200 years, with the result that
the Jersey today produces more but
ter per 100 lbs. of milk than any
other breed of cattle. ' 7

The Jersey has been bred pure

longer than any other breed of Brit-.
In 1789 a law was pass»

ish origin. V
ed on the Island of Jersey, which pro-
hibited under a penalty of a heavy

ﬁne and imprisonment, the importa— :

tion of cattle for purposes other than
immediate slaughter.
other breeds and'resulted in keeping
the,Jersey pure.

Owing to the scarcity of‘pasturage,
the custom on the island is to tether

the cows separately. Carried on for .

two centuries, this has resulted in

making the breed very docile'snd of 

’a gentle disposition. It was this do-

cility and gentleness which contri~ j '

buted largely to the popularity of the
Jersey, as a. family cow.
with her high production and rich-
ness of product, it has made her luv
valuable in the large commercial
dairy. ' - '

the United States in 1817, when [a

few cows'and a bull were brought.

over by the master of a sailing 7970'
so]. In .1840 a. much larger impure.
station was made into Kentucky“, ‘ ’

and from-5th .

     

 

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Coupled '* '

The Jersey was ﬂrstlmported  I  

       

     
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
   
  

    
  
  
  
 

 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  

 

 
 

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' for fat . lambs mum «to isms iced:

“  -ed1,th'et Colorado lamb feeders will
lose $5,000,000. . The business of

‘ sheep growing hassurei’y got a Jolt.

~ this time, that‘it will be a long time
\g'recovering from.  ’ _

 

 The Institute of American Meat
Packers announces . that current
dressed beet prices shew a decline of
85 to 85 cents 'per cm. since Sept. 1,

1980;,thisiiittle drop is easy to swirl-y

‘ low compared to the dose that the

packers handed the cattle growers
during that period. . ~

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Mr. Tallaierro, vice-president of
Hammond-Standish & 00., Detroit,
. sent a communication down to Wash-
ington in which he alleged that the
packing business of ’the United states

was nearly ruined and that the en-'

actment, by Congress, of the K. and
K. bills Would complete the
Some of the men who produced the
pork, with which the H. & S. cellars
are ﬁlled," could doubtless name oth-
ers whohave gone on the rocks in
the meat business, recently.

 

The call of Europe's starving is be-
ingheard by Wisconsin’s farming in-
terests. Following the course of
farmers of several states in donating
from their surplus of corn and other
products, 'farmers in Wisconsin are
responding to a request of the Wis-
consin Farm Bureau Federation to
give one day’s output of their dairy
products. The slogan is, "Let us
market our surplus in relief and
take our pay in good will."

 

Drafters are slow sale in the Chi-
cago horse market, but demand for
1,200 to 1,400 lb. farm chunks at
$125@175 is healthy. New Eng-
land, New,York and Pennsylvania
have taken the bulk, but near by ter-
ritory is in the market this week,
Michigan taking a number of teams
weighing 2,800 to 3,000 lbs. at $425
@8460, with a few at $475. Indi-
cations pdint to a broad outlet for
farm chunks until spring work be-
gins, eastern operators having no
difficulty in discounting buyers’ pa-
' City trade is comatose all over

per.
the United States, making a. bad
market for big horses. One 1,800 lb.

drafter sold to a Chicago concern
last weekat $350, but it is a $225
@250 trade for the rank and ﬁle of
* 1,700 to 1,800 lb. drafters or $25
@ 50 per head lower than two months
back. A tew'1,250 to 1,300 lb. we.-
gon horSes are wanted at $170@
180, Otherwise city buyers are out
of the market. New York reports
the least demand for drafters since
1907. -

 

The eleven primary markets had
3,500,000 hogs during January, of
which slightly less than a million
reached Chicago, or 25,000 less than
a year ago and 100,000 less than in
January, 1919. The eleven market
run was 320,000 less than last year
and 760,000 less thanrin January,
1919, when the record was made.
This érop was absorbed at an average
cost of $9.40, or 15c lower than De-
.cember, $5.60 lower than January,
' 1920, and $8.20 lower than January,
1919'. Continuance of the heavy
movement is expected during the next
30 days as the crop has acquired
weight and growers are disposed to
cash their holdings beiore March 1.
' Not only is eastern demand strong
at Chicago and St. Louis, but Paciﬁc
coast buyers are operating freely in
Missouri River territory, warranting
expectation oi a substantial advance
the mement the bulk of the winter
crop is in packers? hands. The stock
oteut meats atChicago Feb. 1 was
103,785,222 lbs. against '134,336,-'
849 lbs. the previous month; new
lard 28,473,512, lbs.'against 31,381,-
. 50.8“ last month, and other lard .4,-
. 9010,0005le against 11.674.000 lbs.

The ’  slump in sailing   

Lﬁerlsfprosp’e‘ctivo‘ proﬁts look, rather:
" email at this 'writinZ; .‘It is estimat-

- Ase’n., East Lansing, Mich.

job.‘

iiiiiiil-‘liiiiiiillli

  

’ write eutevhetyoo have to offer. let in
size 0! ed. or 0800

 

 

 

Te evoid conflicting «in we will ,wiihom
eon, s the dete ed, on live stock ale in
Michigan. I! you are con: e ed-

II.

- me III at once and we will clam the date
M  Address. Live Btoeh Editor. M. I.
F" Oiemene.

Feb. 19, P ' . I .
M83111, Mich. oland Chinae Howey Bros.

obi 21, Du . ' .
Paglia”, Mich. too-Jerseys Michigan. Farm

e . 22, Dume. Fum-
Northville, Mich. male“ I

Feb. 24, Hones. Mich. Horse Breeders'

B sash. ’2iu8hornt1liorns. -Mich. Shorthorn

r are 'n, 'ch. A

M Lansing. gricultural College.

ho 101, Shargiorma Central Mich. Short-
ree ers’ ’n, ' '

Gmenvme' Mich. reenvrlle Fair Grounds,

 

 

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LIVE STOCK AUOTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchﬁeld, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestocl, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoﬂman, Hudson, Mich. ‘
D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio. 1
J. I. Post, Hillsdale, Mich.
J. n Ruppert. Perryr Mich.
Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.
Wm. Waﬂ'le. Goldwater, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

HOLSTEm-FRIESIAN
SHOW BULL

Sir-ed by a Pontiac Aeggle Kornd ire-Hen er-
veld DeKol bull from e nearly II) lb. elzrow
cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair
1920. Light in color and good individual.
Seven months od. Price. $125 to make
room. Hurryl ‘

Herd under Federal Supervision

BOARD-All FAIIIIS

.. JAOKBOI.MIOH.
no“ Braden Since 1900

FOR SALE—$450.00

CASH 0R 7'
A show bull from A. R. Eo'fmlgam born De-

 

 

 

 

'cember 15, 1918, sired by our Show Bull

MODEL KING SEOIS GLISTA
3066. grand dam, GLISTA ERNESTINE hes
buttetimes made better than thirty pounds of

Buy now in order to have 1921-22 winter

calves.
GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
an r

111 E Ml Corey J 8 en
_ . oer,
Under State and Federal Sirpervisim9wn"

TWO BULL GALVES

Registered Holltein~Frleeien I! d
bull end from heavy producin'g ygmgbycovsvz's'lzhel:

 very nice and will be priced cheep it

HARRY T. TUBES. EMII. .ich.

¥

copy no as you wie . Copy or ohenoee Inuit
_ here at eoeolel low retee: ask tor them. Write today
‘ .QREEDERO' DIRECTORY. 1'“

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liiillllllllillllllilliliillllliiililliIlllllliliilIlililIllllilliiiIllIiiIlliliiiillllIill-lliilillllllll"Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllii.!:

- (SPEOIRL ADVERTIIIRI RATIO under this heading to honest Ml of um um And “0'0”le ‘be 'eent on requeet. 'Better still, ‘
at it In type,.show you e mot and tell you whet it will out for ‘18, so or
bereeﬂreloeeweetbdoredueof lone.

$100.00 WILL BUY HOLSTEllI-FRIESIAII

, calves, nearly ready for service.
whose‘six poorest demon-rage 33.34 lbs. butter

in ’1 date. »
OSOAR'IWALLIR, Wieooqin Farm
‘Qnionvme. Mich.

‘LAKEVIEW DAIRY FARM IIOLOTEIR-FRIES-
inns. PM Jim Paul Plebl'je Wane Prince.
Two neare‘ dams avenge 31.9 lbe. butter 072
lbemilkin 7dayl. Dengmilkediil'l lbs. one
dll: 3,218 lbe. In‘ 30 days; 122.37 lbs. butter
in 30 days. Ell bull calves for sale. One from
a 22 lb. twe-yeer-old. Good individuals. Prices
reasonable. Age from 2 .to 5 months.
I. :. ear-ram. Goldwater. Mich.

‘ To SETTLE AN ~ESTATE

7 registered Holstein cows, 5 yet to freshen,
bred to e. 80 lb. bull. $1.200 takes them.
BERT SLOOUM, Byron. Mich.
I

Yearling Bull For Sale

Bull born Sept. 28, 1919, evenly
marked and a ﬁne individual. Sir-
edby my 30 lb. bull and from a
20 1b. daughter of Johan Heng.
Lad, full sister to a ’32 lb. cow.
Dam will start on yearly test
Nov. 15.

ROY F‘. FICKJES

Chesam'ng, Mich.

MR MILK PRODUCER

tour problem is more MILK. more BUTTER,
more PROFIT. pet. cow. r
A son of' Mania-crest Application Pontiac—
182052—4rom our bee -ynrly-milhing-goed-but\-
her-record dam will solve t.
Pelthc'e dlebm
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made

Application
butter

Meylecreet
85,108 lbs. butter in 7 do”: 1344.8
and 23421.2 lbs. milk in 365 days.

His daughter: en eons will prove it.
Write us for and prices on his sons.
Prion right end not too high lot the average

dairy tanner.
P and prices on application.
R. Ill-m McPherson. Howell, Mich.

SOLD AGAIN

Bull eel! last advertised sold but have 2 more
lint ere moetly white. hey are nice straight iel-
lo", sired by I ran og King One. One is from
n 17 lb. 2 yr. old dun end the other is from a
201b.Jr.8yr.olddun,sheisbyaeonoi
Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy. one o!
the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owosso. M_loh.. R 2.

HDWBERT HERD

WHERE TYPE, CONSTITUTION AND PRO-
DUCTIVE ABILITY IS ASSURED.

TWO grandsons of King of the
Pontiacs from A. R. O. Dams of ex—
cellent breeding.

H. 'r. EVANS

 

 

Combination Dispersion Sale

 - Registered Holsteins - 40

Eau Claire, Mich.

 

B. E. Smith and H. O. Loomis.

supervision. —

Michigan

Wednes’y, March 2, 1921, at Perry, Mic-II:

Complete dispersion of .the Spalding herd, with censignments by

These herds are headed by
SIR VEEMAN HENGERVEIJ) TRICKSEY

a son of Sir Veeman Hengerveld, from a 28.5 lb. Junior 2-year-old
daughter of King Korndy'ke Sadie Vale, and

MAPLEGREST BANOSTINE APPLICATION

a son of Friend Hengerveld DeKol Butter Boy, out of the highest rec—
ord daughter 01 Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke.

The SDalding and Smith herds have each passed a clean test under

Sold with 60-90 day retest privilege.
’ Write tor Catalogue to

HolsteimFriesian Association,

, V I .H. W. Norton, Jr” Secretary
‘ Old State Block, Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

  t.nronth,_‘e decidedly/bullish chow-
” MI. '  _~».-’ ‘1; .  T

 

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e e ,

7 ‘HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULLS 7
. '-  slate end ml Accredited Herd, Blred by
.. ' WALKER LYONS,174771~ .
:31“. twenrtlyl nearest dams have seconds "emanation-Again; or butter from 592 pounds

min. e- bulk are from dame ~
priced from $100.00  200.00. Age. 9  3p?“

3 n Jr. (our mr elde end are
rears.

 

 

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' SHEPHERD, MICE.

!) J - .
E MIOHIOAIIBUSIREOB FARMER. ll. Oiemeee. Michigan-

from sire.

He is one of the greatest long distance dree.’

52 times. You een chemo '
Auction Sales advertised

 

YOUR CHOICE OF THREE
.REAL sums

1 born Dec. 20th. 1920, 1110er marked
and from a 25 lb. 3 year old dam sired by
a 25 lb. grandson of the $50,000 ball for
$100.00. No. 2 born Dec. 4th, 1920. Nearly
white and fro
Sired by e 38
ter of King Segis Pontiac. Only $75. No.
3 born Feb. 2nd. from a nearly 20 lb dull
and ﬁred by e 25 lb. 3 year old grandson'of
King Segis Pontiac Almrtra. Nicely marked
and yours for $70.00. All papers tree.

JOHN BA-ZLEY
319 Atkinson'Ave.

 

 

 

 

DETROIT M1011.
LARGE REGISTERED HOL 'rsm
  cow, ﬁve years old, well garland

and a good milker. A80 her bull calf born Oct.
27; sired by a son of Johan Hengerveld Ind, and
a 22 lb. two year old dam.

1r.
R. H.-BARNHART. R ‘I. St. Charles. Mich.

 

FOR SALE

'Six head registered Holsteins. ~

Two yearling heifers, bred to e grandson of
Traverse Princess Weg.

Three heifer calves. use 7, 6, and 4 months
old. One bull 10 months old, dam has 7 dey
A. R. O. butter 18.77; 427.8 milk. Next dam
15.11; 887.7 milk. Sire's dam 22.43 butter
503.2 milk. Pedigree and prices sent promptly
on requat. This stock is all nioer grown.

WN

Breeds-ville. Mich.
Breeder of 'Registered Stock Only

BRAIDOIIHILL FARM

Ortonvlile. Michigan
We have cut our'price one-hall:

 

Bull calf. 35 lb. sire . . . . . . . . . . . ..$100
Bull call. 41 lb sire, 30 lb. dam 200
Ball ready for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Bull, 41 lb. sire, 31 lb. dam . . . . . . 500

All individuals from herd having

nosed Third Clean Federal Test.
OHN P. HEHL

 

 

,- J hanne McKinley
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J
1206 Griswold Street. Detroit. Michigan

 

0R SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULL.

ready for service from 19 1—2 and 24 1-2 lb.
dams. Price $100 and $125. Herd on eo-

credlted list.
Wm. GRIFFIN. Mich.

NOTIGE

Having sold one of my farms
I will sell the herd of cows on that
farm, consisting of cows, heifers,
and caLves. My_ herd is under
federal supervision, having pass-
ed one clean test last month. Sev-
eral prize winners, bull calves
from 70 to 80 lb. cows, among
them at the Lenawee and Hills-
dale county fairs. Had Grand
Champion bull at Michigan State
Fair.

0. E. WINNS, Adrian, Mich.

Howell,

 

 

 

 

 

 

BULL READY FOR SERVICE, 10 MONTHS
old. His two grand dams averaging 30 and 81

lbs. butter and his dam 24 lbs. butter and 519 ‘

lbs. milk in 7 days.
WILLIAM SOHWEITIER. R 3, Boy City. Mich.
Bell Phone 6125-.F-14 '

 

FOR SALE—TWO BULL GALVEO. A HOI.
tein and Durham about 3 months old. Both

heavy milking dams. Not registered. 850

VI
'Odl if taken at once.

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich,

 

OR SALE—REGISTERED HOLSTEIN 00".
Three heifer calves. 1 bull call.
R. J. BANFIELD. WIxom. Mloh_

 

chow: HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN IULLe AND
bull calves. Send for price and pedigree.
c. s. pannsorm. Beiielre. Mich.

WORLD’S RECORD BREEDING

Back at Carnation Champion, whose sire is
. . Soda (the only 40 lb. son
King Segﬂ) sire of the world’s champion Jr.
two-yeer-old, *Camaiilnn Pioneer 80:15. 31 lbs.
whose dam is Tietle Queen De K01. 42 lbs. the
dam of the world's champion Sr. two-yr. old, Glen
Alex Queen De Re] 42 lbs. We are now oifering
some of his sons from A. R. dams that are
ten! bet-gains. Herd under federal supervision.
VOEPEL FARM, mm, Mich.

 

 

Pedigree on application.
L. O. KETlLER. Flint. Mlolv.

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS (3000

sales from their herd. We are well gassed with
he calves from our J r Heed Sire III. M
the Lunde Korndyke Beds" who is e eon ‘et
mmdthePontiace”ii-omedenemuren-
use Clothilde De Kol 8nd. A In Wk. A.
eele. '1‘; w. Sprout. n a. shrug,

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‘ write out what you ‘have to offer, let us but it

' me of ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy or changes must be
here at menial low rates: ask (or them. Write today!)

BREEDERS' DIRECTORV- THE MICHIGAN Business FARMER. Mt- Clemens.

SHORTHORN

 

“ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ers' Assoc' tion offer for sale 75 head: all’
ages, both mil and beef breeding. ' Send’for new

M. E. MILLER, Sec’y, Greenvllle, Mlch.

 

-F YOU WANT TO BUY 0R SELL I MAY
have just what you want. I handle from one,
animal up to the largest consﬁznm‘ent sale in the

. country.
0.. A. Rosmusssen Sale Co., Greenvillo, Mich.

scores suanruons’s

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

Have You a Mortgage
on Your Earm?

If so buy Shorthorns. at the Feb. 25th sale
It M. A. C. held at 1 P. M. We are listing
(our females and two show bulls that will hit
your mortgage if they are cared for.

RICHLAND‘ FARMS
c. H. Prescott I: Sons, Tawas City,

 

5 GOOD BULLS
12 to 15 mos. old

 

Mich.

ILKINO SHORTHORNS. BULLS FROM COWS
making records. Priced reasonable. '
O. M. YORK. Mllllnnton. Mich.
FROM AN ACOREm

'BUY SHORTHDRIIS it... herd. that are

right. at readjustment prices,
JOHN SCHMIDT A SON. Reed City, Mich.

 

DO YOU WANT? I represent 41

QHORTHORN breeders. Can'put you in
huch wilh best milk or beef strains. Bulls all
ones. Some females. ’0. VW. ‘Crum. President
Central Michigan Sborthorn Association, Mc-
Brides. Michigan.

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SHORTHORN BULL CALVES FOR SALE.

Milking n'nd Scotch Top, 5100 and up.
W. S. HUBER, Gladwin, Mich.

SHORTHDRIIS

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

Mich.

5 bulls,
Dams good milkers,
ors’ prices.

F.

M. PIGGOTT & SON. Fowler.

THE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BﬁEED-
ers’ 'Association have stock for sale. both milk
onrl beef breeding.

Write the secretary,

' FRANK BAILEY. Hartford.

 offered at attractive prices

before January ﬁrst. Will trade for good-land.
Wm. J. BELL. Rose City,_Mlch.

Mich.

 

COWS, HEIFERS. BULLS

 

FOR SALE—REG. SHORTHORN BULL CALV-
cs rvzvly for service. Also Oxford Down Ewes.
JOE MURRAY 6‘: SON, Brown City, Mich.

 

Maple Ridge Her'd ' of Bates Shorthorm 0f.
fer-s for sale a roan bull call" 9 mos. old. Also 2
younger.ones. J E. TANSWELL. Mason, Mich.

 

SALE—ROLLED DURHAM BULLS AND

Rams.
DeGARNIO. Muir.

OR

Oxford Down
J. A. Mich.

 

GHESTIIUT RIDGE STOGK FARM,

offers eight Scotch Topped Shorthorn Heifers from

seven to twenty-two months old and one man

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

,KENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS’

Ass'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale, all

Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.
E

ues.
RAAB, Sec'y. Caledonia, Mich.

MAPLEHURST FARM

Newton Loyalist 2nd in service, short horn bulls

for sale.
G. H. PARKHUFST. R 2. Armada. Mich.

HEREFORDS
HEREFORD cA'n'LE "gals. HAMPSHIRE

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older, best of breeding and st a
Very low price, have also some extra. good
Herd headers We have also 3 large hne
of registered Hampshire Hogs. Gilts. Sows
and Boars.

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

Lo FAYETTE STOCK FARM, La Fayette, Ind.
J. Crouch a Son. Proo. .

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE

King Repeater No. 713941 heads our herd.
A grandson of the Undefeated Grand Champion
‘Repeater 7th No. 386905. We have some ﬁne
bulls for sale and also some heifers bred to Re-
peater Tony Fox, Proprietor.

THE MARION STOCK FARM. Marlon, Mich.

HEREFORDS FOR SALE

hit-fax and Disturber blood, 150 ,Rez. head in
herd. $35.00 reduction on all sires. Choice.fe-
males for sale. Write me your needs.

' EARL 0. MOGARTY, Bad Axe. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 150 HEREFORD HEIFERB. ALSO KNOW
_d 10 or .15 load: fancy quality Shortshorns and
' ,gus steers 5 to 1,000 lbs_. Ovmcrs anxious
 sell. Will help buy 50c commission.
" » ' 0. F. BALL. Folrﬂold. Iowa

 

 , ' ' GOOD TYPE,
gonna bulls. 12 months oldJor solo. in high

due (omele- eny m. 1 Inspection
E. J. TAYLOR. Fremont. Mich.

(“V‘-

 

In typo. show you a- proof and tell you»wh,at

 

- are you not?

 

.been bred for

for free literature.

I: and poultry".le It; so
it will cost vial-.181. no or
.‘recolved one week bolorodate _of Issue. -.-_r Ergodors’

nron request. anVGItOI'WnIIIﬁ. , _
52 times .4You. can change 1
Auction Sales advertised

Michigan.

 

v FRIDAY,

Show 10 A. M.
45 Females.

About 1-2 Scotch.

25 Mares.
Same Place.

 

S H o  A  E
MIBHIBAN‘ ‘

s’nulinunl insular I
',ASSilﬂjli-lﬂi  I; _

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
East Lansing, Michigan‘

FEBRUARY 25th.
I 55 Head.

Many of the Best Families Represented.
Every Animal Guaranteed, Tested and Sold. subject to 60 days
-retest.

CONSIGNORS: J. L. Lessiters’ Sons, Clarkston; John Schmidt &
Son, Reed City; G. H. Prescott & Sons, Tawas City; H. B. Peters &
Son, Garland; Postal Estate, Evart; L. C. Kelly, Ypsilanti; Whitney
‘Bros., Onondaga; J. M. Hicks & Sons, Williamston; W. B. Kelly, Yp:
silant; A. J.'Adams, Litchﬁeld; S. H. Hicks & Sons, Lansing; W. S.
Adams, Litchﬁeld; R. C. Huckins, Corunna.

‘ If you Want

SHﬂHlHﬂHNS I [ll Hill Mill"
sum 10 THIS SALE

PERCHERON AND BELGIAN HORSE

Sale 1 P. M.
10 Bulls

About "1-2 Scotch Topped.

SALE
3 Stallions.
February 24.

 

 

write for Catalogues.
Auctioneers, Adams & Hutton.
W. E. J. Edwards, Manager, East Lansing, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JERSEYS

MEADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM, REG..JERSEY

cattle for sale.
J. E. MORRIS a. SON, Farmlngton, .Mlch.

DO YOU WANT Pkoouc‘nom

The grandson of Pozls 99th of Hood Farm
and Sophie 19th’s Tormentor, two of _the great-
est sires ever kndwn heads our herd. No other
strain is more noted for past and present produc-
tion. Bull calves and bred heifers for sale at
seasonable prices.

FRED HAYWARD. Mich.

 

 

Scott!-

OR SALE—THREE PUREIRED JERSEY
bulls ready for service. Tubercuiln tested.
J. L. CARTER. R 4. Lake Odessa. Mich.

HIGHLAIID FARM JERSEYSAEEHRSH'.

ed herd. High production, splendid type and

breeding. Write us your wants.

Samuel Odell, Owner. Adolph Heeg, Mgr.
Shelby. Michigan

Mr. Dairy Farmer!

You are keeping cows for what

money you can makeout of them,
You want cows that
will make you the- most .money for
feed consumed, do you not? The
JERSEY will do this. She has prov-
en it in public tests, as, well as .in
private herds. She should; she has
over two hundred
years, for economical production.
This characteristic‘is ﬁxed. The
Jersey bull transmits it to his daugh-
ters. Grade up" your dairy herd by
using a. pure bred' Jersey Sire.
will pay. Ask theman thathas tried
it. He knows.
nomical Production is what
have to succeed-C . _‘
.Write ..  .7» _ f: ‘
SEQY HENDRICKSQX
~ of 8110! y, Mich. "

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Remember-L413)”.
we must

EAL BARGAINS IN HIGH CLASS JERSEY
cows. ~'Herd tuberculin tested.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. Ionla, Michigan

 

 

GUERNSEYS
‘ REGISTERED surnxsrvs

A bull calf, nearly ready for light service—he
is a dandy—we have a price that will sell him.
J. M. WILLIAMS
North: Adams. Mich.

GUERNSEY. BULL cuvss

From tested and untested dams.

Satisfadtion guaranteed.

Write for prices and breeding to
MORGAN BROS., Allegan, Mich.. R1

 

 

 

UERNSEY BULL CALVES—TWO NICE 5
months old bull calves for sole. Cheap. \Vrite
for prices.
H. J. NELSON. R 1, Mom-Ides, Mich.

 

Amsgnnns

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

FINDLAY BR08.. R 5. Vassar, Mich.

ANGUS .

ssnossu-Asiohus CATTLE ron SALE. FIVE
tows, some t cult by side and reb d.
yearling heifers. One heifer calf. re Two
. MARSHALL KELLY, Charlotte, Mich.
‘0
TT nuns IRED sienna: .
 ANGUS CATTLE AND 0J3.
Swine ore - bt and due priced risht. Cone.

nce so cited so inspection um
mm“ cum. BARTLETT. Lawton. Midi:

v ' - V 0 V O ‘
_~|. n... Most Proﬁtable» Irma [.
Hat’mtéiimﬁ’ UggNT%Sﬁg:viud:iw.¥m
‘ 6mm?“ ‘ mu m- “
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swarmed-‘54

l



"system under which agriculture 6

6' country. 1,.

' farmers receive he‘lowe‘st scale" of  '

'es of any. class of cur'population it:
must be admitted that there is saline-
thing fundem‘ent—ally.weak in'ﬂth'ej

_ 113.
operating. '/ r The existing system his. .‘
not only eventuated in the factljujilt
mentioned, but is respOnsibletor'th

 ‘ fact: . ,

“(3) That more than one-third-of
our farm population is tenants. This
means absentee landlordlsm, or 21:0
express it more accurately, inefﬁcient-

 

mar bred ANGU bull; . '
. emblutYon 

farming and.unwhlolesome rural cons.
dltions, ’ ' 
i “(b) That not over tWenty per. 
I cent of our farm homes have in them '
either running water—:the - burden

lifter of the housewife—or artiﬁcial

lights; the average daily labor of the:
average farm, woman is from 12 to ,
13 hours. The isolated life of the 
average farm woman presents the

amazing and indefensible tragedy of

American life. The farm wdman is

the crux or the rural problem. When

she is happy and contented with her

surroundings, you will ﬁnd her boys

and girls likewise to be happy and

contented, but it is the revolt of these
boys and girls against -the life, of

drudgery which their parents lead.
that has resulted in the increasing

drift of the population from country .
to town, resulting as disclosed .by,
the present census for the ﬁrst time

in our history. In there being ;a

larger per cent of people in towns

and cities than there are in the

country. It may sound ridiculous,

and by the unthinking, be called fool-

ish to venture the assertion that

Henry Ford in supplying the world

with a cheap, quick method of trans-
portation is exerting upon rural life

a more profound inﬂuence than has

ever been exerted upon it by the man

living or dead.

“(cl That the farmer is without
effective voice in the determining or '
the price of his products.

“(d) That as a result of this con-
dition, the average farmer of Mis-
souri will not realize from his 192,9 ‘
."crop more than sufficient to pay his
taxes and the interest upon his cape
ital investment.

What Causes Have Led. to Such a
. Situation '

“What have been the underlying
causes resulting in suCh an unwhole-
some condition: ‘

“(3.) The farmer has been taught
to walk the furrow and produce and
per capita he is the best producer
in the world. We have taughth‘im
to become an expert with his hands
and have left him as a child. in “the: '
use of his head in the management
of his affairs vother than production.

“(bl The farmer has never re-
garded himself, nor have the people,
anything but a«producer. He is more
than that. He is a manufacturer and.
a. merchant as well. It would not be
wise in my judgment for him to un-
dertake in himself tobecome a. mer- '
chant. Of course, he can ‘not escape
being a manufacturer. It is wise,
however, not only wise but absolute-
ly essential, to his prosperity that he ,
should organize commodity sales.
agencies with expert salesmen to do
the selling for him and this should
take into account both domestic and
foreign business. i

‘like wheat, corn, cotton, woolhnd
livestock, there is no existing mg:-

farm products. ‘
“ ( d). Agriculture

quate system of credits adapted to
its peculiar needs. '
The System Result 1 . . 
“,(a) The terriﬁc strain upon tho-I-r
ﬂnances of the country. at the cro‘rp ?
moving season. . -~ ’  "
“('b), An inefficient ,and'expens' 3
system of transportation."  3
“('c), 'An uneconomic and
strain upon the-,b.uying, and
*t’lve powers ofgthe puwllai’e a»:
“products. ' r Under ' this ﬁrst
asking- :th‘ei. n‘v " ‘ 

 

 

 

 

.«(c) For the great staple' cm,” I u _. 

chinery for the orderly marketing of . e; ‘

is both under-7,. 5
capitalized and is without any ade-n 


idliThe  forces the

Aisliweive months to prepare £0r~‘-
seed, cultivate and prepare for mars
:ketfwith the resultant autumnal dip
 thesprice of farm products. ,
[The Cost of, Inefﬁcien‘ey ' of System
Always . Charged Against Farmer -
‘ ,5 "ItAmIIS't be understood in this
ﬁ'disbussiOnEt-hat all, coSt-s anywhere
along the line, chargeable to the in-
«Ieﬂ‘icient system under which the
afarmer operates, are always charge-
able against the farmer. If there are
expensive methods of transportation
of fanm‘products from farmto mar—
‘ A hot, the expense falls upon the farm-
* net’s product; if railroad rates are
4' high or if railroad facilities are in-
“ 7 adequate to meet the autumnal crop
r movement,- with the result that
’ 'wheat and. corn lie
the side tracks, these expenses are
charged against the
"oceanic rates are high because of
any , ineﬂiciency or the system, the
difference between such rates and
rates under an eﬂ‘ic’ient system is
charged against the price of
farmer’s products. If there is any
lack of credit facilities which if ex-
isting would enable the farmers not
only. to produce less expensively but
,tO’sell more intelligently and. at a
“larger proﬁt, here again the differ-
ence is chargeable to the farmer.
The Solution

“The matters which we have just__

discussed are not of a temporary
'_character. They are permanent, in-
herent and fundamental and nothing
savo fundamental remedies will
‘reach' them. The remedies which
_ suggest themselves to 'me are:

"‘(a) The elimination of all im-
necessary factors in the present sys-
tem of distribution.

“('11) The organization of

7: modity sales agencies.

“(0) The standardization of farm
products into grades and classes.

“(d) The warehousing of sufﬁ—
cientq-uant'ities oi! products to set up
an even flow of Such products into
the market of the world as the im-

' mediate demands of the world .call
for them. '

“(9) The devising of much credit
machinery as will enable the farmer
to market his products in a sane and
orderly way.

THE DAY JOHN BARTON SOLD
HIS PEDIGREED BULL
(continued from page 7)

, sire. We would like to have him

” v ,in our herd very much.” I

. j “‘Oh, why didn’t you write!" cried

 Barton, “I’ve sold him. He went this

.morning." '

“Sold him!” exclaimed Norcross.

“To whom? Where has he gone?”
, “I sold him to Henderson the
fbubcher for sixty-ﬁve dollars/f re

plied Barton.‘

« "Gone to a butcher for sixty-ﬁve
_ dollars!” shouted Norcross, “why
' ‘man alive he is worth a thousand dol-
*' lars‘. Is he dead yet?”

,2 With one bound Barton was in the

car.

. “Henderson’s market quick, Bill,”

he said to the driver, and the latter.
sensing the situation from the talk,

drove at a furious rate to the town

and ,half the length of Main street

to where the market was located.
Barton and Norcross leaping from

, the machine befOre it had fairly stop.- .
 V 'ped raced for the store closely fol-'
 K, loWed by the" driver.

Henderson himselt was. behind the

“counter and looked up in surprise as

the three men rushed, in the‘ door.
‘FHave you killed the bull?” gasp-
ed Barton, _ . -
“Yes,” replied ’ Henderson, “killed
, him ﬁrst thing after dinner. Want
, me to save you some of the meat?”

-;,The question was unanswered torf

'as'he realized thveﬁtruth of the situ-

9 ati'onTJohn Barton sank to,the tloo’r/

 in 4a ﬁrm- . 

Two . In One

F an’llebeggiadT tosf‘nknow it"s,

. . term“
rs” to.»sell“in tour or. ﬁve MonthSZ‘OIET' I
the year, from seventyeﬂve to, eighty”,

centfotthat which it has taken *'

rating on .

farmer; if r

the.

com-

tcr of fall pigsin the state.

is 

 

here at special low rates: ask I r

l

 

 The Home of >
Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny"

, . Probably
The Worlds’ Greatest
“BREEDING BULL

Blue Bell, Supreme Champion at the
Smithﬂeld Show, 1919, and the Birming-
ham Show, 1920, is a daughter of Edgar
of Dalmeny. . _

The Junior Champion Bull. Junior
Champion Female, Champion Calf Herd
and First Prize Junior Heifer Calf, 'Mich-
igan State Fair, 1920, were also the get
of Edgar of Dalnieny.

A very choice lot of young bulls—~sired
by Edgar of Dalmeny are, at this time,
offered for sale. A

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOI) FARMS
Orion, Mich.

w. E. Sci-ions, Prom. Sidney Smith, eupi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POLAND CHINA

BIG BOB MASTODON

Sire was champion of the, world.
His dam’s sire was grand champion
at Iowa State Fair. 8 choice spring

 

gilts bred that are pictures, sired by

him. Also some sows bred to .him
for March and April. Priced low
and guaranteed in every way. Get
my prices.

0. E. Claimant, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C.'IN MICH.
Get a bigger and better bred boar pig from my
herd, at a reasonable price. Come and see them.
Expenses_ paid if not as represented. These boar-
In aerncc: L's Big Orange, Lord Clansman,
Orange Price and Us Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich.

FARWELL LAKE FARM

L. T. P. C. boars all sold. A few spring boars and
some gilts left. Will sell with breeding privilege.
Bears in service: Clansman’s Image 2nd, W. B.’I
Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome.
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mich.

 

 

 

, HE BEST BRED POLAND CHINA PIGS SIR-
cd by Big Bob Mastodon at the lowest price.
DoWlTT C. PIER. Evan. Mich.

L s  FOUR CHOICE SPRING AND FALL

, boars left. A few extra nice gilt:

left bred for April furrow.
H. 0. SWARTZ. Schoolcran. Mich. '

 

 

IG TYPE POLANDS. AM OFFERING Two
good growthy {all gilts, from best sow in our

herd. »
' W. CALDWELL it SON. Springport, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE P._ C. BRED SOWS ALL SOLD.
Closing out a few choice-boars at a bargain
also some extra. good fall pigs, either sex. From
growthy shoes.

. W. .1 ARNES A SON, Byron.'MIoh.

  WITH QUALITY

Nine fall gilts out of litters of eleven and

thirteen. for sale.
J. E. MYGRANTS. St. Johns. Mich.

BIO TYPE POLAIIIJ OHIIIAS

Three August, boars for sale. Good backs and
good heavy bone. Write for prices.
.HIMM BROS., Chesanlng. Mich.

 

POLAND CHINAS

.T. P. O. A FEW TOP GILTS BRED TO
BHighland Giant, the $500 boar. Others bred
to Wiley’ii Perfection. Weight. 700 at 18 months.
r JOHN D. WILEY, Schoolcraft, Mich.

L. T. EC.

1' have n. tine lot of spring gigs sired'hy Hart's
Black Price. a good son of lack Price, grand
champion of the world in 1918. Also have a
litter or, 7 IRES;- 5 now; and, 2 boars. sired by
Prospect .Yank, a .son of the $40,000 Yankee,
but are sure :Hu’mdingers.

' F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mloh:

‘ '- BIG rvps- P.‘ ' c. stuo
 8 hours, bred cows and the best lit-

 

E. R. LEONARD. ‘R 3’. St. Louis, MIch.

 

‘ Am Ulric-Inc .Lcroifype-"Bol‘ond Chino lows.
bred to Font-an“ at agreeable prices. Also

LYDE , St. Loon, Mich. ‘

 

'. if‘iaie. . rv‘ra ‘EOL
A few choice spring, has
\cu'd-‘f- ' cod

 

0 them. Write today
,BREEDERS' DIRECTORY, TH

Come and see or write ‘

_ mine 9, -

wd~gi1tssired by?

' I . "Smootbrﬁalf'.
9 ' Gilt! will

 

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEIIIIIIiIIiIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlliHlil

’

‘cLoSiiiii our SALE

of Big Type Poland China hogs. which represent.
{the work of 26 years of constructive breeding.
Everything goes including our three great herd
boars, Mich. Buster by Grant Buster, A. Grant,
Butler‘s Big Bob. Two of the best yearling
prospects in Mich. Modern type, lngh arched-
backs, great length, big bone. Come and pick
ut what you want. Our prices are right. -
JNO. O. BUTLER, Portland. Mich.

\

BIG TYPE P.

  C" 3 fan so“
. I pigs grand-
daughters of the Senior Grand Champion sow of
Detroit, 1920, $12.50 each. Also bred gilts

priced right. .
A. D. GREGORY, lonla, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BARGAIN. $15
buys a bred gilt and a 250 1b. spring boar.
Also choice gilts bred for $40. Guarantee saint»

faction.
DORUS HOVER, Akron, Mich.

 

DUROCS

 

Breakwater ?Elijzl§g$s

BOARS—READY FOR SERVICE
BRED SOWS AND GILTS
Write Us For Prices and Pedigrees
Mail orders a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.
BROOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor. Michigan

I w. Mumford, Owner J. B. Andrews, Mgr.

 

spring pigs by Walt's
‘ Orion, First Sr. Yearling
Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapid: and Saglnlw. 1919

Phillips Bros, Riga, Mich.

 

'FOR SALE—DUROO JERSEYS; GILTS BRED

for Aprii furrow to Gladwin 001. 188905. Also
several extra good spring boars ready for service.
HARLEY FOOR A SON, R 1, Gladwin, Mich.

nunoc JERSEYS ‘3;
sale priced reasonable.
C. DAVIS a SON, Ashley, Mich.

 

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM REG. JERSEY HOGS,
‘Ilnir'e hnar pigs for sale.
J. E. MORRIS 8: SON, Farmington, Mich.

 

. PEACH HILL FARM
offers tried sows and gilts bred to or sired by
Peach H111 Orion King 152489. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Come look ’em over.
Also a few open gilts.
INWOOD BROS.,

Romeo. Mich.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH GLASS

SPRING OIIRO'O BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Se
umber furrow at bargain prices. p‘
- W. C. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.

urge slows lined gilts md to Walt': King 82949
w o _ u Ire more prize winning pigs at tho
Itato fairs in the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc boar. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Mich.

 

FOR SALE: REG. SOW PIGS 0F SEPT. FAR-
row. Maple Law’s Pathfinder is the name of
my new herd boar. Nuf sed.

V. N. TOWNS, R 6, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

 

DUROCSMANYTHING YOU WANT FROM A
spring gilt to a herd boar, at prices you can
afford to pay. Cholera immune Satisfaction guar-
anteed. C. L, POWER, Jerome, Mich.

you. what It will cost fonds, 20 or Ii
brood-w

 

 

 

- imam. novsnris‘mo mus nudor ihiu‘ heading io ion"... broaden of iiumo'ii and poultry will In uni on request.
write uot what you have.“ oﬂ'or. lot ul’ out It In type. show you a proof and tell
relic of ad. or copy so otton in you wlsh. copy orrchonuu mun be noolvod one out before as“ of him-

1) . - , . '
El-MIOHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

UROC JERSEY BOARS. Boats of the In...
heavy-boned type, at reasonable.prices. Write.
or better, come and see.
F. J. DRODT, R 1. Monroe, Illch.

 

0R SALE—DUROC BRED GOWS AND GILT8
priced reasonable and double immune. Write
us your wants.
JESSE BLISS A SON, Henderson, Mich.

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROO BOAR FRO-
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs
JOHN CRONENWETT. CuImn. Mich.

OAKLAIDS PREMIER BRIEF
Herd Boar—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT $25
BLANK a POTTER ~
Pottorvlllo. Mich.

 

 

OR SALE—REG. DUROC-JERSEY SPRING.
gilts bred to Rambler of Sangamo let. The
boar that aired our winners at Michigan State
Fair and National Swine Show.
F. HEIMS J: SON
Davlson, Mich.

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Brad and open sown
and gilts. Bears and spring pigs. 100 head.
Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton, Mich,,

Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank, Perrinton, Mich.

DUROC BOARS FROM P B I z in

_ WINNING STOCK
ready for service. Geo. B. Smith, Addi-
son. Mich.

 

 

Dunoc-JERSEY SERVICE BOARS, $50.00
10g Fine early fall pigs. 1,000 lb. herd

boar. SCHIIELLER. \Veidnian, Mich.

 

WE OFFER A FEW WELL-BRED SELECT-
‘.-(l_spr1ng Duroc Boers. also bred com and
Gilts in season. Call or write

McNAUGHTON a FORDYCE. St. Loult. Mlch.

 

DUROC JERSEY BRED SOW SALE FEB.
. 21st. Also sows for sale at private treaty. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. ‘

MICHIGANA FARM LTD., Pavilion, Mich.

O. I. C.

$100.00 for Quick Sale

Michigan Winner 88673 Vol. 28 0. l. C.

Sire, Abe 2nd. Grand sire Post’s No. 3, wt.
700 pounds in breeding flesh. Guaranteed right.
One young boar. Pigs either sex.

RALPH DYE

Petoskoy, Mich.

 

 

 

 

o l. C. AND CHESTER WHITE SWINE. ONE
choice boar of Prince Big Bone breeding. A
big type fellow, priced to selL Some full pigs
left. Bred sows and gilts.

OLARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich.

30  PURE BRED O. I. C. HOGS

ii I' sale. Service boars, and bred

gilts. '16 head of fall pigs. Papers furnished free.
J. R. VAN ETTEN, Clifford, Mich.

 

 

o.   ALL AGES FROM BIG BOARS, AGED
sows to fall pigs. 35 spring gilts, wt.

285. Service boars, none better in the

Write and get acquainted. Registered

1-2 mile west of depot.

OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

‘ 0.1. C.

GILTS BRED FOR SPRING FARROW
and one Shothorn bull calf eight months old.
Milking strain, pail fed.

F. C. BURGESS, Mason. R 8. Mich.

2 00 to
state.
free.

 

 

 

*

pigs.
spring gilts and yearlings.

Special 4th.

V {'Clerk:
L_'. A. BABBITT.

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ence to that effect.-

DUROC JERSEY BRED SOW SALE

On the Chaslen Farms three miles southwest of Northville and three
miles east of Salem on the Salem Road, on Tuesday, February 22nd, at
1:00 o’clock sharp, consisting of 60 Registered Duroc—Jersey sows ,all
cholera immune by the double treatment and all guaranteed to be with
They consist of 8 head of 3 and 4-yr.-old sows and the balance
They are mostly of Colonel Breeding cross-
ed with such breeding as Defenders, Gold Medal, Sensation, Giant In-
vincible, Brookwa'ter, Panama Special and bred to Long Wonder.
sire is Colonel High Model; his dam is Red Sensation and he was junior
champion at the Minnesota State Fair in 1917.
good 500-lb. yearling sows bred to him are good enough to go into
anybody’s herd and help build them up, or one of his daughters bred to
one of our other herd boars which is Chaslens Giant, High Model, Col-
onel Long Wonder, Michigan Special 8th, and Broo‘kwa-ter Panama

CHASLEN FARMS, Northville, Mich.

Don’t forget these are all cholera immune for life.

_ TERMS—Six months" on good bankable notes. Outeo-t-town buy-
ers_-mfust,;give a note that their own banke

His

We believe one of these

_ Auctioneer:
COLONEL M. R. CLARK.

rs will‘tak’e andmust have

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size of no.

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IREEDERS' DIRECTORY ,THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS PARﬂER. Mt. clement, Miohlinn.

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you hove to offer.
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O. I. O. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Csn turn]!!!
you stock at "live sud let live" prices. x

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I. c. BRED GILTS FOR MARCH AND
April farrow.‘ Also a. few choice service boars.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.

 

 

V BERKSHIRES

 

0R SALE: I REG. BERKSHIRE BOAR 2
yrs. old; 5 reg. Berkshire sows born Sep. 4. '20.
Wrn. DEGE. R 1, Lachine, Mich.

 

WE OF-

either sex, best
Satisfaction guaranteed.

0. H. WHITNEY, Merrill, Mich.

use BERKSHIBES r:;.:.i...“§:%:..‘f.§
piss. both sex.
‘ RUSSELL BROS.. R 8. Merrill. Mich
ARE QUALITY H008.

 “leaned pigs of the Very

lost blood lines of the breed is our speciolty. We
mantee to please or nothing stirring.
ARIA A. WEAVER. Ohesanino. Mich..

IDEAL TYPE REG. BERKSHIRES.
for choice pigs all ages,
breedlnz.

 

 

 

 

GBEGOBT FARM BERKSHIRES FOR
profit. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall, Iii.

BRED BERKSHIRE sows, $60 AND UP.
Shorthorn hull 31.25.00.
MESSRS. M. G. MOSHER a. SONS, Prop.
Primeval Farm, Osseo, Mich.

 

YORKSHIRES
YGBKSHIBES “'LJinttE'in‘Qfob‘llé
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Ann Arbor,

HAMPSHIBES

BEOISTEREO HAMPSHIRE GILTS ARE NOW
t’Mrcinxl‘y to ship. Spring boars and fall pigs at o
28.1 .

.JOHN W. SNYDER, R 4, St. Johns, Mich.

BOAR PIGS $15.00

At 8 Weeks Old
W. A. EASTWOOD. Chesanlng. Mich.

 

 

 

 

'An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Righ

We are offering some good sows and gilts, bred
for_March and April fan-owing. Alsn a few
ehoxce fall pigs, either sex, Write or cell

GUS THOMAS, New Lotnrop. M.ch.

SHEEP '

“Ang AASHEhEr? Let American Hampshire
eep ssoc ton send you s dand b kit
with list of breeders. Write COMEORQI? A

 

 

 

BETTER BREEDING srocx

For the best in Shropshire and Hampshire rsml
write or visit . s V
'KOPE-KON FARMS, 8. L. Wino- Prop.
Goldwater, Mich. _
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yenrling rams snd some run
lambs left to offer. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fall delivery. Everything mnnteed gs
represented.

OLARKE U. HAIRE, West Branch, Mich.

 

 

 

R SHROPSHIRE EWES BRED TO LAMB
- in Mnrch. write or call on
ARMSTRONG BROS.. R 3, Fowlerviilo, Mich.

 

ERINO RAMS FOR SALE. GOOD BIO-

boned. heavy shesrers. -
HOUSEMAN BROS, R 4. Albion, Mich.

PET STOCK}???

FOR SALE. FLEMISH GIAN‘I' RABBITS. DOES.
breeding us, 86. Three months old pair, 35.
Registered does 812 each. Stock pedigreed. Qusl‘

ty zunrsnteed. ._
Goldwater. Mich.

HORSES

 

        

 

 

 

Notice To Farmers!

I own more Belgian and Percheron Stallions
then any man in Michigan, including International
and State Fair prize winners, end put them out
on my breeding share plan. Have placed over
one hundred head in this state. If your lo—
cality needs a good draft stallion or Short Horn
bull, let me hear from you.

Fred G. Stevens

Breckenridge, Mich.
Belgian and Percheron Horses and Shoi’t Horn

 

TYLER. soc'y. 10 Woodland Ave.. Detroit. Mich:
Put your faith in

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AUCTION!

Thursday, February .24, 1921

1:00 P. M. v

Stock Judging Pavilion Michigan Agricultural College

 

27 Rigistered

Percheron and Belgian

3 Stallions
A Few Good Grade Work Horses

Mares

 

I (Under. the auspices of
:Michig‘an Horse Bre‘eders’ Association
For Sale List Write R. S. Hudson, Sec’y-Trcas-
East Lansing, Mich. ‘
Short-horn Sale February 25, 1921, same place

 

 

 

 

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Would you kindly tell me what to do
for lies: on cattle and horses?—-J, 8,,
Perry, ‘Michigan. - '
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There are more than thirty spec;
.ies of external parasites- that infest
animals and birds; their economic
importance is very great; fowls heav-
ily infested with any of them are un-
proﬁtable, and many of these para-
sites are so injurious as to “kill the
infested birds. It Is necessary to

these parasites and their habits to
intelligently combat their rapid pro-
duction. The females of lice are
slightly larger than the males. They
lay oval, white or whitish yellow
eggs (nits) and securely cement them
to the hairs and feathers. When the
eggs hatch they break open at the
end, or a small cap is lifted at the
end, in much the same manner that
a chicken escapes from the egg. The
yOung have much the same shape as
the adults and are ordinarily consid-
erably lighter in color. The males
are usually less numerous than the
females. If conditions are favorable
the eggs hatch in from ten days to
three weeks, and the lice live for a
considerable period, several months
under favorable conditions. During
their development they moult fre-
quently, sometimes as often as ten
times, becoming slightly darker with
each m-oult. Lice breed with great
rapidity; it has been computed that
the unhindered reproduction of a
single pair would reach the enor-
mous total of 125,000 individuals in
the third generation, which may ma.-
ture in eight weeks.

Chicks hatched in an incubator are
free from lice and stay so until plac-
ed with lousy hens or chicks, or in
,quarters infested by lice. ‘Lice pro-
duce much irritation; the effect of
large numbers upon birds is quite
marked. The lousy birds scratch,
pick at the feathers, show signs of
being drowsy, may refuse to eat, and
in growing birds, development is re-
tarded. Young chicks infested with
lice often sit around, moping, with
wings hanging down, and in a week
or two may die. For . this 'reason
brooder chicks sometimes thrive bet-
ter, grow faster, and are freer from
certain ~ailments than chicks hatched
by the hen. Ithas been said that
lousy birds show a. greater tendency
to wallow in the dust than those not
infested. The effect of lice upon old-
er ibirds is not so severe as on the
younger ones, but is noted in condi-p
tlons of flesh and in the production
of eggs. The irritation is sometimes
so severe that hens desert their nests.
Their com-be become dark or :black.
Birds unable to rest day or night he:
come emanciated and die. To ﬁnd
the lice, part the feathers and the lice
will be found running over the skin
or base of the feathers. A favorite
location for lice, is around the vent,
where the temperature is warm; but
they may be found on any part of
the body and at all seasons of the
year, but are most common in the
hottest months of the year, July and

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August.

propagation. ' -

A very effective method of treat-‘7

ing young chicks for lice is to grease.
the head and neck, under the wings
and around the vent. Blue ointment,
lard and sulphur, salt and‘butter, and
various other greases are used, but
none is more effective than lard
"alone, which, although tedious’ to-

apply, is justiﬁed by the excellence.

of the results obtained from its ap-
plication. Care must be exercised
in using blue ointment, as there is
some danger accompanying its ex-
cessive use. The same is true to a
large extent to the Other ointments.
For dipping birds, prepare a ﬁve per.
cent solution of creolin, or the same
strength of either Zen-olium or Kreso
Dip.

Cattle and colts are often infested
with lice during the winter months,
and when heavily infested, they will
not thrive as they should; in colts
these parasites greatly interfere with
their development. I would strongly
recommend clipping of the animals,
after which apply Creolln or Kreso
Dip, one part to sixty parts of wa-
ter. It is also advisable to wash ther
stable, with a strong solution of
Kreso Dip. This should be' repeated
at least three times about ﬁve days
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CONTAGIOUS ABORTION

My cows do not come in heat. They,
have milked some 5 or more months
since they came fresh. Both old and
young cows are_affected alike. What is
the matter?—A, N., Montague, Mich,

 

Your cattle are no doubt affected
with some contagious disease, per-
haps contagious abortion; you should
have them examined by a. competent
veterinarian; one who should be
able to determine the cause. In my
opinion, this is a. modiﬁed form of
contagious abortion in which case‘
you are justiﬁed in asking aid from
the Department of Animal Industry,
whose address is Lansing, Michigan.

 

A BSCESS '

I have a mare that has a. swelling on
the outside of her gamble jomt. This
ﬁrst occurred about 2 months ago; it
swelled to about twice as large as the
opposite leg, then broke and ran an od-
orous matter for several weeks. I bath-
ed her twice daily with carbolic acid,
and when dry used peroxide of hydro-
gen_ The ﬂesh all dropped 01! about 4
inches square until one could see the
joints working. It is nearly all healed
up but the swelling does not go down.
Please inform me as to what to do.—
J, S. B., Harrisville, Michigan.

 

This was an abscess, and the.
sloughing of the skin and flesh was
due to infection, or caused by the use
of some preparation you used which
only added to the inflammation al-
ready present at that time. A blist-
er, or strong liniment will often
cause sloughing when used where
there is a. great amount of» inflam—
mation present 'A'pply equal parts
tr. iodine amd grain alcohol thorough:
ly mixed together, twice daily. Cover
the entire joint with absorbent cot-
ton and bandage.

 

 

  

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for collective orders.

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to make sure of getting your supply from
the Michigan State Prison this year. War—
den Hulbert is anxious to supply all the farmers ﬁrst—«but every pound
of twins they do not need can be sold outside of the state at a substan-.

The Gleeners have saved farmers thonmnds of, dollars every year by
pounds of Prison Twine 'on e eta-operative bull end
mmty of ordering NOW so thst none will be disappointed in

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m. 8! 14¢: .highut, sins. 45c; low~
85c. noes: Avenue. 390:
at.» Johns. 20¢.
ﬁends. 26c:
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ABII’NAC Ink—The weather is like sprint—-
The blue birds and crows are hmrd. Not much
excepting paying taxes (which are higher.)
aetting out wood, repairing farm machinery, at-
tending a sale now and then. Prospects for

lding does not leok good. Some putting up

. Some farms changing hands—M. B. R..
Twining, Feb. 11.

MIDLAND—Farmers are cutting and hauling
wood. The Weather is warm but not very agree-
sble. It rained last night and this morning it
“it! Very slippery. There was nearly a half inch
of sleet all over. Not agreat deal going on. No

~suctions and no building being done. Farmers
are s‘elling eggs and butter. A great reduction in
the price of eggs has occurred. They are now
23c per dozen. This drop. it is claimed, was
caused by the cold'storage houses. They refused
to buy eggs until the price was lowerede suﬂi-
eiently to allow them a safe margin—C. L. H..
Midland. eb

BERRIEN (W.)——Weather has been fine:
threatening snow at present. From the present
outlook the ice houses here will all be empty for
next summer. Farmers have been unable to get
any ice this winter. Everyone is getting plenty
of. eggs now .but at 25c per dozen: there is noth-
ing in it for the farmer. Nothing much doing
now but chores and odd jobs about the farm
buildings.-—-O. C. Y., Baroda. Feb. 11.

MONTCALM—Farmers are hauling logs to
mill. putting up ice and doing chores. The
weather is fair. Farmers are selling grain. Farm-
ers are still holding their potatoes. expecting them
to come up the latter part of this month—M. C.
P.. Trufant. Feb. 11.

CHEBOYGAN (N. W.)——The weather is line:
not much snow so far. The roads are good. It
has been mild so far, this winter: the coldest we
had here was four below zero. Farmers are
putting up ice, some hauling wood and loge but
the most are only doing their chores. No farm
produce being sold because the price is too low.-—

. W. B., Biggsville. Feb. 11. ~

CLINTON (NJ—Not much doing on the
farms now. Some are baling hay. cutting wood
and all are wondering what will bathe most pront-
able crops {or next year. But very little grain
being marketed—A. E. J., Bannister, Feb. 12.

INGRAM—We are having ﬁne weather; ranges
from 15 to 46 above. No snow. R03. are
good. 'Farmers doing some farm work. hauling out
manure, getting some wood and ﬁtting out the
sugar bush for tapping. Some grain. hay and
stock going to market.’ Our farmers’ elevator
of this place has voted to go into the farm bu-
reau exchange. Our company has about ﬁve
hundred stock holders: the biggest company in the
state of its kind—C. I. M.. Willismston, Feb. 12.

MANISTEE—Jrhere is not much doing exoept
chores and such as hauling manure. cutting wood
and putting up ice. The weather is tine: thew-
ing a little every day. There is not much selling
at present. The Farm Bureau is doing some buy-
ing and sailing: they make prices on rye and
beans to the farmers and also are furnishing
seeds and hay and lime for the land. but nothing
in-zbeaildo about potatoes—C. H. 8.. Bear Lake,

e . .

GLAQWIN—The weather is nice new and the
ground is nearly bare. Farmers are selling grain
new. There has been three ﬁres in Gladwin City
this month. One house burned to the ground.
The.farmerrsbsriostill hauling gravel—F. A. R,
is . .

TUSCOLA——F‘armers are doing very littlebut
chores; most of them have got the summer Wood
cut and are waiting for spring to open up. The
weather is ﬁne: no snow and not cold but not
good for winter grain. No ice put up yet; it is
not thick enough yet; only about 6 or 8 inches
on Cat lake. We are still holding 0am for m to
money and some rye; but not much rye in e
framers’ hands. Butter and eggs took a big
drop the past week: the last thing the farmers had
to sell that brought anything. Hay not in good
demand; too open winter but grass seed selling

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sell and -was offered only $8 per bn., but I can’t
:aoy‘if it was true or not—R. B. 0., Caro, Feb.

WEXFORDj—Nice weather for winter. Noﬂs-
ing much movmg. Some are feeding potatoes to
their cattle. It is rumored that potatoes are ship-
ped in from the old country in order to subdue
the association—S. E. 8.. Harrietts, Feb. 11.

CHEBOYGAN (S. ——Evorything ve gnu
We are having one o the ﬁnest winters 13v“- wit.
nessed in this section. No zero weather. Just
enough snow tor both sleighlng and wheeling. Au.
toe runnm ._every day- l‘srmers not very
except necessary chores and getting an
summer incl. A few are uling wood to town

ving team 33 to " no!ch for 101m
wood. Some are harvesﬂng ice which is about 12
inches thick and of excellent quality. At 3 meet.
he at the ~Che‘boym County Fair trustees, it was
decided to hold the next his W 27, 28. ‘
29. 80. 1921 at Wolverine. The meeting of di-

ress s good one and Win one
for the but hi: ever. A little country road Josh
“is being done. hauling gravel and getting ready to
push its work early in the wring.

CALHOUN (N. O. m-alihnness are getting out
their season's wood. are are cutting wood, than
usual; uniting ‘ and any old tiring. The
price of coal is so assembly high compared
with the price of bogs. cattle and grain that we
farmers have to sell. Nothing morn than we could
our chief thinkers (and them-
jority of our voters) have .been talking the last
two years. I was running an elevator and coal
business until July. 1920. and as soon as they
got wavmgrsln and tgaikbusigzs away frond Pres-
ident ' 1: er «an con-
‘ did it with all of the old heart and

We her this remark somueh la
u only had more men like President W n." and
byimen thaw“ been forgery oppose
mostly ﬁlm 161101187 8
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. looting oases- ior the
coming season to consider the
quality of m
Pure Iced mum Perm?!
We will kgod gob union
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, slog tells how to brood you!
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scribes our _
High Class Eu Leghorn:
And All Standard Breeds
Both Chicks and Hatching Eggs from all
manned. and delivered post paid.
"ATE FARMD ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo. Michigan

PRIZE WINNERS AT
THE BIG SHOWS
and the greatest of
layers. Eggs for
hatching and Baby
y Chicks from prize
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a“ "I eggs per year per hen.
‘- _ "' ‘Eggs and Baby Chicks.
Also Baby Chicks from selected purebred,
range raised flocks in Reds,- Barred and
White Rocks, Drugs and Bud Leghorns, 0r—
pinstons. Minorcas. Get price: from us be-
fore buying elsewhere. Ail Eggs and Chicks
safely delivered by Prepaidor Parcel Post.
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MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM
oﬂers young stock and a few mature breeders in
Whi binsse Geese, White Runner Ducks and
White Wysndottes. Also 0. 1. spring gilts.
Write today for prices on what you need.
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

 

n. c.' an. LEOHORN secs. $1.50 FOR 15.
Pekin duck $1.50 for 8. W. Chinese goose
0828 40c mob. Mrs. Claudia Bette, Hillsdale, Mich.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
tree catalogue of hatching eggs. baby chicks and
breeding stock. -

OYOLE HATCHIR COMPANY. 148 Phlle lid].
llmlrs. N. Y.

 

eckerels A Hens, Len-urns. Mlnoroas. Heudsns.
Reds. Rocks, 0rpingtons,. Wysndottes.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton. Michigan.

 

 

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SILVER LACED GOLDEN AND_WHITE WY-
ﬁndottes. Choice Cookerels $3, $4 and $5 on.
O. W. BROWNING. R 2, Portland, Mich.

HIRTY WHITE WYANDOTTE PULLETS AND
3 roosters. J. C. F‘ishel strain, direct, $2.50 ea.
MR8. CLARENCE BRISTOL, R 3, Fonton, Mlch.

Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs

Martin stmin White Wyandottes. Grand utility
and exhibition matings. Winners at W. Mich.
Poultry Show at Muskegon. Order early to avoid
disappointment. Some ﬂne cockerels at $3. Send
for descriptive price list. .

O. W. HEIMIACH. Blg Rapids. Mlch.

 

 

 

HITE WVANOOTTEB. COCKERELS FROM
200 egg hens or better. May and-June hatch.
89 to 58. Eggs 32' per 15. . -
FRANK DELONO. R 8. Three Rivers. Mleh.

LEGHORNS

Young's Strain 8. 0. Ir. Leghorn Cockerels, ApI-II
hatched. prize winning laying strain from 
J. Higgins’ pens. M. 8. Ireland, Cassopohs, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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  MATCHING EGGS FROM
_ Parks 200 egg strain. Rich
in the blood of Park’s best pedigreed pens. $2
per 15. 80 per‘IiO. 812 per 1.00.
no in non hble containers.
R. O. KIN-Y. R 1 East Lansing. Mich.

 

 

OHN'I IIO IEAU‘I’IFUL EARNED. ROCKS

are hen hatched. grow quick. good layers. Sold

on approvul. 84 to $8 each. Circulars. Photos.
JOHN NORTHON. Clare. Mich.

 

UALITY BARRED ROCKS. CHOICE M. A.
C. and Homestead Farms cocks bead, range
breed Ringlets. Select cockerels 85 each. Book-
ing egg orders. Ship as required. postpaid. 15
$2: 30. $3.50; 100. :8. Guaranteed.
M. J. A R. A. WILSON. R 2, Kingsley, Mlch.

 

LAYING
Pris-cs

ARRED ROCK COCKERELO.
“Strain Direct. ” From pedigreed males.

$3.50 to 85 until Mar. let.
N. AYREB & 80M. Silverwood. Mlch.

 

11er Rock Chlcks. Guaranteed 100 pct. safe
delivery. Order in advance. Circular and prices
on application. H. H. Pierce, Jerome, Mich.

 

 

RHODE ISLAND BEDS

8. C. R. I. Reds and Whites. Canon“: and Whit-
taker’s strain; ﬁne large dark birds, price from
$3 to 35. Alfred Deichmann, R 3, Pigeon, Mich.

 

 

HITTAKER'S R. I. REDS. MICHIGAN’S

Color and Egg Strain. Both combs. Cock-

erels. Chicks and Eggs. Write {or free catalog.
INTERLAKES FARM

Box 4, Lawnﬁco. Mich.

 

oekerele and Pullets. Pure Rred R. C. R. l.
reds of winter laying strian. $2.50, $3.00 and
$5.00 each. In tries, less.
MR8. JAMES L. WATERS. R 5. Fremont. Mlch.‘

 

 

LANGSHAN
on. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS or QUALITY

 

 

 

 

Bred for type and color since 1912. Winter
laying strain of both Black and White. Have
some cockerels for sale. Eggs in season.

OHAS. W. SIMPSON
Webberville. Mich.
ORPINGTONS
 COCKERELS AND PULLETS
for sale. Buﬁ’, White,
Black Cookerels at $7, $8, and $10. Pullets at
$3 and 85. Also yearling hens $3 and $4.

Hatching eggs. $8 per setting.
GRAIOWSKE EROS" R 4. McrI‘III, Mlch.

' ANCONAS

ANCONA OOCKERELS FROM CECIL SHEP
pard’s ﬁne strain, Aug. hatched. $2 and S

 

 

 

 

 

 

each. You want one.
EVA TRYON, Jerome. Mich.
BABY CHICKS
BABY CHICKS
The fluffy lively
kind. The kind that

live and grow. All
eggs are from
FREE RANGE FARM ,2)
STOCK  ~
Chicks are hatched w
in the most modern incubators built,
and shipped direct from our hatch-
ery to your door by prepaid Parcel
Post.
Catalogue and price list upon re—
quest. '
N ORVVALK CHICK HATCIUBR
Box B, Nonnvalk, Ohio

’ BABY cHIcKs

350,000 for 1921
17th season. Chicks sent
prepaid. Safe delivery guaran-
teed. Leghorns, ltocks,.Reds. An-
cmias, Wyandottcs, Minoms,
Utility and Exhibiting quality at
very reasonable prices. Catalog
and price list free.
20th Century Hatchery,
New Washington,

     

 

Box 5
Ohio

 

HATCHI'NG EGGS, BARRED
I   Rocks; Norman strain. trap-
nested. bred to lay. Expertly tested for many
generation Large illustrated catalogue
' Stamps for circular.

Boston winners. Low prices. Satisfaction guar-

INOLE COM.
Chicks.
reasonable.
4- w-

RUFF LEGRORN BAIY
Order now for spring delivery. Prices ‘
Safe delivery guaranteed.

Mich.

 

Hatchi

 

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DANGER

100. 000 best
selected utility,

disappoin tmen t.

lected stock;
which they DO lay.
Erode.

LORING AND MARTIN COMPANY

WEBSTER, Bath. 3 .2,
500,000 CHICKS
at very reasonabl’e prices
from our heavy laying
strain 01 English and
Amoncus' White Leg-
horns, Brown Leghorns
and Ancones. Shipped
by parcel ’post prepaid.
Special prices on 1,000
lots. Catalogue free.
Wynnrden Hatchery
not I. Zeelsnd. Mich.

Chix 15c Up

blooded chicks enr produced.
trapnested stock. 20 varieties.
Catalog. Early booking avoids

BECKMAN HATCHERY

If chix and eggs u».
not shipped right.

ng 8323.

26 E. Lyon 8!... Grand Rapids, Mich.

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THE J. B. FARMS HATCHERY

C. White Leghorn Chicks. Best se-
large, with capacity for eggs
. Only THE BEST
Write for terms.

East Saugatuck. Mich.

 

 

the he.

 

 

 

css and Leghorns.
Get our catalog and buy your chicks direct from

Chicks wtih the ‘Pep

Our bred—to-lay and exhi-
bition chicks will pay you.
\f'i‘ry them and be convinc-
ed. Safely delivered by
prepaid postman. Rocks,
Reds, Orpingtons, Wyan-
dottes, Anconas, Minor-
I’riCes from 15c and up.

tchery.

HOLGATE CHICK HATCHERY. Box B

Holgate. Ohio

 

  

 
  

Better Produced Day Old Chlx
are the kind you want. Send today
for free cautiog. Springﬁeld Hatch-
eries, Box E, Springﬁeld. 0.

 
 

 

MI

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PRICES
SMASHED

varieties best grade chicks.

lending

100 PAGE POULTRY BOOK FREE.

M.

ALLEN’S FARM, Lewis Station. M0.

 

COCKERELS,

White

Anconas

FOR SALE

PULLETS AND HENS
Orpingtons R. C. R. I.
S. C. and R. C. Brown Leghorn:
Whlte Wyandottee
S. C. Black Mlnorcas

Price Llst Now Ready

Reds

VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY-FARM

B Ioomlngdale, Mich.

 

 

HATCHIN G EGGS

 

Have been breeding for ten
production.

My
eggs.

20

HILLCREST FRUIT AND POULTRY FARM
Breeders of the Laying Kind Single

White

Will have 2,000 or 3.000 chicks above
my own wants.

p
years for egg

business in high class commercial

cents wch delivered at your door.

L. L. Winslow, Prop.

Comb

Leghorns. Day Old Chicks :1 Specialty
Saranac. Mich.

 

 

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RED HATOHING‘ EGGS. THOMPKIN’8
Strain. $12.00 per 100.

Wm. H. FROHM, New Haven, Mich.

 

 

 

TURKEYS
FOR SALE—A FEW GIANT BRONZE HEN
turkeys. Also one yearling tom. All strong
vigorous birds. For price write

 

 

MRS. BERTHA HALLADAY, Ashton, Mloh.
GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. A FEW CHOICE
young toms and pullets.

PERRY H. STEBBINS, Saunas, Mich.

 

OBS

ALE; FOUR EXTRA cuouc: WHITE

Holland toms, $15. Money back if not satisfact-

 

NORMAN POULTRY PLANT. cinnamon,

w. xxr‘. . ..r.,

  
 
  

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ory.

Poultry Advertising - '

\ Is HERE
Don’t depend on your local’markets to sell your hatching eggs,

Putting your offering before the prospective buyers of the en-
tire state means better prices and a better market.
; By placing your ad. In M. B. F.’s poultry, directory you cover

START YOUR AD [N M. B. F. NOW!

JOHN CRAWFORD, R 7. Downsiac, Mich.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

     
    
 
   

 


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