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“An Independent

Farmer’s Weekly Owned and

Edited in Michigan

MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921

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Detroit Area

MOVEMENT is

well under way
among the dairymen
of 'Wayne, Macomb,
Lapeer, Oakland and
St. Clair counties to
organize a. stock cor-
poration with a mil—
lion dollars capital
to establish a milk
receiving and dis—
tributing plant in
the city of Detroit.
V‘rideon Bryce, well—
known farmer and
president of the Romeo local of the State
Association, is the moving spirit back of
the proposition, and is chairman ‘of the
committee delegated to canvass the term-
tory and formulate plans for putting the
venture into form. It is the hope of the
committee that the organization may be
effected and ready for business by the ﬁrst
of the coming year. ‘ .

The original meeting at which it was de-
cided to take this move was held at Pontiac
several weeks ago at which time leading
dairymen from all over the eastern district
gave their unanimous approval to the plan.
At this time a committee consisting of Gid-
eon Bryce of Macomb county, Elmer My-
trOtt of Oakland county, Anderson Scully
of Lapeer county, Mr. Lee of Wayne coun—
ty and Fred Myers of St. Clair, county was
appointed to carry out the Wishes of the
meeting. \ ‘. '

1 Preliminary meetings have been held at
many points throughout the district and
the sentiment has been almost unanimously
in favor of the plan. At a meeting‘in La—
peer two Weeks ago, every local but one was
represented by the president and secretary,
and not a single vote was cast against the
proposition. The local which was not rep-
resented had already approved the plan.
Meetings held the past week in both Oak-
land and Maeomb counties have Without
exception voted to support the new organ-
ization. At one of these

 

 

 

 

Mr. Gideon Bryce

Company in City of Detroit
By THE EDITOR

the editor of the Business Farmer, “will
own its own distributing plant in Detroit
and will conduct a general wholesale and
retail dairy business. It is the aim of the
producers to control the milk from the cow
to the consumer hoping that by so doing
they may be able to get at least cost. of pr0—
duction and deliver to the consumer a high-
er standard of product. The dairymen
will own at. least sixty per cent of the
stock. It is proposed that each milk pro-
ducer will buy one share of stock of the par
value of $10, for each cow owned. In that
Way the required amount to organize can be
raised with very little effort. We are mak—
ing an appeal to every milk producer in
eastern Michigan to assist in this movement
to the end that their dreams of the last ﬁve
years may be realized. We will not pro—
ceed unless we can control at least 50 per
cent of the milk produced in this area”.
“Let it be understood,” said Mr. Bryce

emphatically, “That the motiVe which has

prompted this movement is not antagonistic
to the Michigan Milk Producers’ Associa—
tion. This company when organized will
co-operate with the Ass’n in the same ca—
pacity as do other creamery companies.
We feel sure that the Michigan Milk Pro-

‘du'cers’ Association will foster this move-

ment inasmuch as they have the welfare of
the dairy industry at heart”.

,As to how far the company will go in
manufacturing and distributing its pro-

ducts Will depend entirely upon the condi—
tions existing at the time the company is
ready to take the ﬁeld. If an agreement
can be entered into with existing distribut—
ing concerns and chain stores to take the
output of the-company, it will probably
not engage in the actual house-to-house dis-
tribution, but will conﬁne itself to receiv—
ing, weighing and testing the milk and
jobbing it out to all who want it. But in-

'ager of a farmers’

Dairymen Seek Market Control

Milk Producers of Five Counties Take Steps to Organize Farmers’ Distributing

asmuch as the big distributing companies
are making‘handsome proﬁts out of the dis-
tributing of milk there seems to be no good
reas0n why the farmers’ company should
not go and do likewise. lndeed, it is prob—
able that, the nature and extent of the activ-
ities in which the company will engage will
be guided somewhat by the experience of
the. successful distributors.

Michigan Behind the Times

It should not be thought that the pro-
posal to organize a farmer-owned creamery
eompany is a new idea. It is not by any
means. While the producers of Michigan
have been submitting weakly to the over—
cautious admonitions of. their ofﬁcers, pro—
dueers in other parts have organized all
kinds of enterprises for handling their milk.
There have been a few failures, it is true,
but the vast majority of these concerns
have succeeded in stabilizing their market
and returning to the producer a larger
price for his milk.

An effort was made last year to interest
the ofﬁcers of the Michigan Milk Producers’
Ass’n in a distributing plant, but without
success. At that time a new process for
pasteurizing milk by electricity, known as
the Electropure process, was offered to the
producers, and \V. J. Kennedy, recognized
as one of the most successful distributors
of milk in the country, who at that time
was executive head of Towar’s Wayne
County Creamery but upon the amalgama-
tion became general manager in charge of
sales for the Detroit Creamery Company,
made known his willingness to become, man-
distributing company
using the Electropurc process. The new
process and the managerial ability of W.
J. Kennedy were factors that would have
virtually guaranteed the success of the
proposition, but after a, half-hearted and
cursory discussion of the matter the ofﬁcers
of the Association decided. that “the time
wasn’t ripe”, so the producers lost both the
Electropure process and Mr. Kennedy. The

meeting which was held last

 

meetings a member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the
State Association appeared
and sought to discourage the
farmers from going into an
enterprise of this kind at this
time. “I believe in it,” he
said, “but now is not the
time to take the step”. Mr. ’
Bryce promptly replied, “If
we held a meeting like this a
hundred years from today,
somebody would be sure to
get up and say, ‘This isn’t
the time; we had betterr
wait.”.’. . .. , . . .1
To Seek Market Control

“This company when or-
ganized,” said Mr. Bryce to

 

Plant of Lewis-Paclﬂc' Dalrymon’s As
to manufacture all klnds of dairy products.
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It ls owned entirely by farmers.

s’n, under oonstructlon at Ghohalll. Wash" equipped
Used by courtesy of

summer to discuss the prop—
osition was called through
the instrumentality of the
Business Farmer, which was
greatly disappoint e d, o f
course, that nothing came of
it as We believed the oppor-
tunity of a. lifetime was of-
ffcred to the producers to
gain control of their Detroit
market. At this meeting were
present Mr. Bryce and Fred
Myers of St. Clair county,
both of whom were strongly
in favor of making the move
at that time. It should be re-
membered that the price of
milk was still high a year
ago and that the Commission
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CANADA CLAIMS SUPREMACY
OVER UNITED STATES IN
CO-OPERATION

ANADIAN co—operators are wond-
ering if the states south of the
‘ border are as progressive as
they are reputed to be. Despite the
remarkable growth of co-operation
in this country during and since the
war, the 40,809 co-operative socie-
ties in Canada surpass by nearly 40
per cent the number of co-operatives
in the United States. Moreover, the
Canadian societies hold the record
for increase in business during the
past year, which exceeds by more
than 50 per cent the sales of the
preceding twelve months. In Que—
bec alone there are 176 local co-op-
erative societies, with a membership
of 60,000, assets of $10,000,000 and
more than
$30,000,000.

CHICAGO PROFITEERS PO U R
MILK IN SEWERS TO KEEP
PRICE HIGH
HICAGO’S cost of living expert,
Russell J. Poole, states that his
investigation into the high

‘ price of milk in that city reveals the

existence of a “combine system”
which not only ﬁxes the price the
farmers must accept for their milk,

but compels the consumers to pay
war prices by pouring large quanti-
ties of milk into the sewers rather
than decrease proﬁts to a point
where poor peoplelcan buy it.

In contrast to this conscienceless
crew, who put proﬁts above the lives
of babies and the, health of poor
people, 3,500 farmers near the cities
of St. Paul and Minneapolis formed
the Twin Cities Milk Producers'
Association for the co—operative dis-
tribution of their milk at fair prices
direct to the city consumers. In
consequence, the people of St. Paul
and Minneapolis are now getting
milk for 11c a quart, which is the
lowest price on record for any large
city in the United States. The farm-
ers are perfectly satisﬁed, because
they are saving through co-operative
marketing more than $100,000 a
month that formerly went to swell
the proﬁts of the large milk dis—
tributors. The efficiency with which
this co-operative organization works
is indicated by the fact that the
total cost of taking the milk from
the producers to the consumers is
but 5.7 per cent of the farmers’
price. ,

Progress in the co-operative dis-
tribution of milk is not conﬁned to

the Minnesota district. One New
England Milk Producers‘ Associa-
tion has 84,000 and another one over
20,000 farmer members. Both of
these associations operate not only
co—operative creameries and conden-
saries, but also retail stores.

To permit a selﬁsh “combine sys-
tem” of proﬁteers to corner the milk
supply of a great city is to give it a
stranglehold on the lives of its cit-
izens. Highway robbery is a gen-
tleman’s occupation compared to the
extortion of monopoly proﬁts by the
threat of withholding the ﬁrst ne-
cessity of a child’s life. Let us not
become bitter against the individual
offenders. Let us rather condemn
the system that makes their plund-
erings possible. And then let us
destroy that system by co-operation
between the producers and the con-
sumers of human necessities.

WORLD‘S SUPPLY OF WHEAT
AND RYE

CCORDING to a cablegram re-

ceived by the U. S. Department

of Agriculture recently from
the International Institute of Agri-
culture, Rome, Italy, the world sup-
ply of wheat and rye is sufficient to
coyer wants until the new harvest,
and will leave aVailable stocks of
these two grains amounting to
around 1,543,000 short tons on Au-
gust 1, 1921.

 

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SPRAYING CONTROLS GRAPE- I

VINE LOOPER

HE GRAPEVINE looper, a green

worm about an inch and a half

‘long, sometimes destructive to
garden and arbor grapes and to Vir-
gina creeper, has been found by
United States Department of Agri-
culture observers doing some dam-
age to vineyards in the Chautauqua
belt along Lake Erie. The worm or-
dinarily feeds from early in June un-
til the middle of July.

It may be killed by spraying. A
solution of 1 1-2 pounds of powder-
ed arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of
liquid has been found effective. The
poison may be used in water or may
be combined with Bordeaux mixture
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spray application directed primarily
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the grape-berry moth, immediately
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NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS TO
OPERATE CO-OP. STORES
ARMERS in North Dakota will
take over almost all of the 37
co-operatively owned stores of
the United States Consumers Stores
company and operate them as inde-
pendent co—operative units, accord-
ing to G. W. Reichert, receiver.
Farmers in 31 of the communities
in which these stores are located
have already organized local co—op-
erative companies and have arrang-
ed to take them over. -
Milk producers living near Minot
hope to continue the United Stores
creamery there as a co-operative
project, as that. creamery has been
paying from 4 to 5 cents a pound
more than privately owned cream-
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COUNTY FARM BUR-
EAU NOTES
DURING THE ’past three years

CALHOUN

variety tests of corn, beans, soy

beans, oats, barley and wheat
have been carried on in Calhoun
county by the county agent and
farmers co—operating with the Mich-
igan Agricultural College. Prom-
ising varieties from our college and
from other states were grown beside
of local varieties. Yields were de—
termined at harvest time and the
date secured was published broad-
cast over the country. The informa-
tion has proved helpful to many
farmers who have tried out the
high yielding varieties and have
been well pleased.

The Calhoun County Farm Bur—
can has promoted several special
farm tours which have proved very
AlfalfaL poultry, bee-
keepers’ and livestock tours have
attracted a great deal of attention
locally. On our alfalfa tours we
visit farms where alfalfa is being
grown successfully and we ask the
farmers to tell us how they secured
their stands. On our beekeepers'
tours we visit the best apiaries and
inspect the bees and perform inter-
esting demonstrations with the col-
onies. Our poultry tours serve as a
school of instruction in poultry man-
agement. Our livestock tours en-
courage better breeding. Assistance
is always gladly given by the Michi-
gan Agricultural College in making
our tours interesting and beneﬁcial.
The extension experts always have
an important part on our programs.

Poultry culling has saved Cal—
houn county probably more than
$10,000 a year during the past three
years. The county agent has held
250 poultry culling demonstrations
before about 2,600 people. Hund—
reds of farmers have learned to do
the job and they are culling their
flocks regularly. During June, July
and August this year a campaign
will be put on to clean up the culls
over the whole county. A big effort
will be made to give every farmer
a chance to learn to cull hens.

The Michigan Agricultural College
drainage expert, Mr. O. E. Robey,
has spent several proﬁtable
with the county agent in Calhoun

county. Twenty drainage systems
have been laid out. Five septic
tanks have been installed. The

drainage system laid out for one
farmer saved him about $1,000. Ho
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Traffic League Attacks Michigan F reight Rates

Will Ash Interstate Commerce Commission and Michigan Public Utilities Commission

HE MICHIGAN Trafﬁc League of which

the trafﬁc department of the State Farm
Bureau is a member, has announced that it
will ask the Interstate COmmerce Commission
for a reductiOn of interstate freight rates and
the Michigan Public Utilities Commission for
a reduction of intrastate rates. It is alleged
by the Commission that both intra and inter-
state rates in this state are discriminatory and
greatly in excess of existing rates in adjoin-
ing states.

The information upon which this statement,

is based is given in a booklet recently issued
by the League. Michigan, it seems, is a large
and important part of what is known as the
Central Freight Association territory with re-
spect to freight rate matters. When in 1914
the Interstate Commerce Commission granted
the. eastern railroads a 5 per cent increase in
freight rates, special reference was made to
the low scale of rates in the C. F. A. territory.
In 1917, the representatives of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, New York Central lines, Pere
Marquette, Grand Trunk and other Michigan
railroads succeeded in convincing the Inter—
state Commerce Commission that most of the
country north of the main line of the Michigan
Central (a line drawn from Detroit westward
through Kalamazoo) was but a desolate waste,
comparable with the bleak and thinly popu—
lated sections of New England.

"It was the contention of the Michigan rail-
roads,” says the Traffic League, “that traffic con-
ditions not only justiﬁed a higher scale of rates
in Michigan but that conditions became more un-
favorable, and the necessity of higher scales of
rates became more urgent, as the distance from
the Michigan-Indiana-Ohio state line increased,
and that rates to, from and between points in the
lower peninsula should be based upon progress—
ively higher scales for each of several zones or
cross-sections of Michigan. The Interstate Com-
merce Commission had very little evidence in
rebuttal of what the railroads claimed. That was
due to the failure of Michigan freight payers to
appear in the case, or to support any effort on
their behalf. The commission ﬁnally approved
the railroad’s plan of ratemaking whereby the
lower peninsula was divided into four zones, each
zone having a progressively higher scale of in-
terstate rates as the distance from the southern
boundary of the state increased.

for Reduction of Rates

 

 

Reducing Freight Rates

WESTERN farm paper makes the
A practical suggestion that the farmers

immediately stage a ﬁght. before
Congress to force the railroads to reduce
their rates 40 per cent. “When farm pro-
duct prices were reduced there were no
long-winded discussions about the high-
priced labor entering into them," says this
paper. “Farm prices were cut in two or
even in three and the farmer at once knew
that he had to make a big cut in labor.”
The suggestion should be carried out. All
farm organizations and newspapers should
unite in demanding an immediate reduction
of rates. The farmer living a few hundred
miles from his market cannot live at pres-
ent prices and stand the present freight
rates. If the roads cannot exist on a forty
per cent cut, let the government take them
over and pay the loss out of the treasury.
No matter what the method, the farmer
must have early relief from high freight
rates—Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The basic scale, known as the "Disque Scale,”
was prescribed for all of C. F. A. territory out-
side of Michigan, and including that part of Mich—
igan on and south of the Michigan Central main
line; that part of C. F. A. territory was estab-
lished as “Zone A." The portion of Michigan 1y—
ing north of the Michigan Central and south of
a line drawn from Muskegon to Bay City was es-
tablished as “Zone B," and its scale of rates was
made substantially higher than the basic or “Zone
A,” scale. The northern half of the lower pen-
insula was divided into two additional zones, “C
and D,” each having progressively and substan-
tially higher rate scales.

“Following that decision by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, the Michigan railroads ap-
peared before the Michigan Railroad Commission
to demand the same adjustment of Michigan in-
trastate rates. Michigan freight payers again
failed to participate in that proceeding with suf-
ﬁcient strength and preparedness to successfully
combat the carriers’ representations and the act-
ivities of those who appeared on behalf of Toledo
and other Ohio and Indiana shippers. The result
of that proceeding was the establishment of two
additional and overlapping zones for intrastate
rates, the intrastate zones being known as “Zones
E and F.” Zone “E” includes the lower half of

the state and zone “F" includes the northern half
of the lower peninsula. The dividing line runs
from Muskegon to Bay City, but the “Thumb”
district is included in the lower zones.

“June 25, 1918, the Michigan rate scales were
increased 25 per cent and that increased the rate
“spreads” between the several zones. A point
in Zone “B” having a rate 4 cents higher than a
competing point in Zone “A” found its rate dis-
advantage increased one cent by the 25 per cent
advance. Not only were the scale or base rates
increased, but the differentials as between
the zones were increased. August 26, 1920,
all rates were increased 40 per cent, and
all rate “spreads” or "differentials" were again
widened. The increase in the rate “spreads”
was important as between competing points in
Michigan, but was vastly more important in that
it greatly increased the advantages over Michi-
gan shippers which the original zone adjustments
gave to competing shippers in other and adjoin-
ing states. l

“As Michigan rates now stand, they are not
only excessive as compared with rates in all other
parts of the United States, but they are most un-
justly discriminatory as against Michigan and in
favor of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin
shippers.

“As between points in the lower peninsula of
Michigan, the disadvantages of the zone system
of mileage scale rates are greatly aggravated by
the carriers’ use of inflated mileages. The mile—
age scale rates are not applied by the direct and
shortest routes. Each railroad endeavors to get
the longest haul possible, and to illustrate that
the rates from Lansing to Muskegon are cited.
Those rateS‘are based on a distance of 122 miles.
The distance from Lansing to Muskegon, via
Grand Rapids, is approximately 9 miles. A
stronger illustration is afforded by the rate ad-
justment as between Cheboygan and Allegan.
Those rates are based on the distance via Michi-
gan Central from Cheboygan through Bay City,
Jackson and Battle Creek, half-circling the lower
peninsula. whereas the distance via the direct
route, Cheboygan to Mackinaw City, Michigan
Central, Mackinaw City to Grand Rapids, Pennsyl-
vania: and Grand Rapids to Allegan. New York
Central, is about 100 miles shorter. The Mich-
igan Traffic League has checked several hund-
red instances of inflated mileages in Michigan.

“It is now the purpose of. the Michigan Traffic
League to ﬁle a complaint against interstate
rates to and from Michigan points with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, and a complaint
against intrastate rates between Michigan points
with the Michigan (Continued On page 11)

Export Figures Show Wheat Pouring Out of Country at Great Rate:

1921 Reports of Wheat, Rye and Corn Far in Excess of Reports for Corresponding Period of Last Year

0U STILL read a good deal about the

great “falling oif” in exports of Ameri-
can food products because of Europe’s inabil-
ity to buy. This propaganda has fooled a lot
of people. It has even fooled us. It is true
that the total exports of all food products for
the ten months ending April, 1921, has fallen
some below the total for the corresponding
period of last year, but it is far from true that
the lessened demand has hit all food products
alike: In fact, the exact opposite is true in
certain cases.

Wheat Exports Show Enormous Increase

ports show a falling off fOr the month
but for the ten month’s period twice
as much rye was exported during the ten
months ending April this year as during the
same period last year. Flour exports show a
decline from a year ago of about ten per cent.
Oats show ”the greatest decline of all the
grains, there being very little export business
in this grain this year.
Meat Exports Pick Up

The meat exports which suffered a serious
decline during the latter months of last year
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show considerable improvement. Although
the total of bacon exports for the ten months’
period 1921 was a fourth less than a year ago,
the exports for April show a gain of 8 million
pounds over April, 1920. A relative gain for
the month is reported in the exports of hams
and shoulders and lard.

Condensed milk exports are still less than
half of what they were a year ago, but the com-
parative reports show a slight improvement
in the exports of this commodity. '

Exports afford a fairly safe guide to the
future stability of‘a market, especially in the

case of grains. Had the exports of food—

The Bureau of Foreign and Dome '
stic
Commerce reports that 17,641,000 bush- stuii’s for the current year actually
els of wheat were exported in A ril of p , shown a decline from the previous year
this Year as against 4,175,000 bushels in U. 8' Exports Of FOOdSthfs During Month Of April there WOUId have been little hOl"? 0f
April of last year. It reports exports and Ten Months Ended April, 1920 and 1921 sustaining this market. But in view
of 242,000,000 bushels of wheat during Exmms ,' its?) 0' 93:53 .‘Tquggwm “@1933 Of the great increase in “For“
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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

Survey Shows Normal Grain Acreage for192

One Hundred and Fifty Correspondents Report About Same Grain but Less Beans and Potatoes I

F ALL GOES well the business farmers of

Michigan will. produce substantially the
same amount of crops this year as last. This
is according to a survey recently completed
by the Business Farmer covering every county
in the lower peninsula. A normal acreage of
Wheat and rye was seeded last fall and some
spring wheat put in this year. The acreage

seeded to oats is slightly less, but the corn
acreage will probably be larger than a year

ago, say our correspondents. \Vhile it is too
early to arrive at even an approximately cor—
rect estimate of the beans and potatoes to be
planted, the almost uniform opinion of our
correspondents is that the acreage of both will
be less. Low prices have done, their work and
farmers are not putting in nearly as large an
acreage of those crops which, require a good
deal of labor. A great many more acres are
being left to pastures than usual. Many
farmers plan to put in only such crops as they
can take care of themselves. Although labor
is much. more, plentiful than a year ago, the
opinion is the wages are still relatively too
high and farmers are a little ehary of hiring.
The reports show a wide range of wages offered
in different localities. Some report wages as
low as $25 per month and board and others as
high as $50 and $60. The average for the
state seems to be between $335 and $40 per
month, depending upon the. quality.
Many Crops Still Held

The survey shows that. from iii to 90 per
cent of last year's crops are still in the farm-
ers’ hands. There as exceptions to this, how-
ever. In some sections the farmers seem to
have sold virtually everything last. fall or
Winter to pay taxes. In other cases. farmers
have sold all of certain crops and are holding a
part of other crops. Nearly every grain-pro-
ducing county reports some wheat in the
hands of the farmers. The estimate of the
percentage being held varies from it) to 75 per
cent. A considerable amount of beans is also
still in the farmers’ hands, though these
holdings are not so large as they have been in
previous years. Very few counties report all

potatoes sold last fall. Thousands of farmers
refused to sell on the declining market and
held this perishable crop until spring with the
result that they are having a hard time to even
ﬁnd a market at any price. In many counties
over 50 per cent of the crop was still in the
t'armers’ hands ninety days ago.

In answer to the question, “Are farmers in—
creasing-their dairy herds,” one hundred and

 

 

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Lot No. 1. These steers were fed normal corn silage. They
showed a greater gain at less expense than the other two lots.

 

 

Lot No. 2. The group shown above was fed corn stover.

 

 

 

The steers in this group were fed corn stover and

Lot. No. 3.
an'amount of corn equal to the amount In the normal corn silage.
This lot ﬁnished second in amount of daily gain.

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thirty reply, no . The reason given is the
low price of dairy products. The majority
are of the opiniou’that dairy herds have been
decreased and that calves are slaughtered for
veal as soon as the law will allow. To the
question, “Is there greater interest in pure—
bred stock, about half answer “yes”, indicat
ing that farmers are beginning to realize the
necessity of increased production per cow
when the price of milk is low. A number re-
port that farmers are changing their dairy
breeds for beef breeds.

Financial Condition of Farmers

The ﬁnancial and credit situatiOn in the
rural districts is revealed by the reports to be.
less serous than is generally believed. Only
one correspondent thought the situation in his
county was normal. The opinion of all others
ranged from “most farmers have a little
money and banks will loan on good securtiy,”
t0 “hardest time we have ever seen to get
money.” Some report" that banks are willing
to loan but farmers unwilling to borrow under
present conditions. Ninety per cent of the re-
ports state that the banks are willing and able
to loan 011 good security. In some sections the
interest rate is high, from 8 to 12 per cent but
in most localities banks are asking only 7 per
cent. A Clinton county correspondent says:
“Banks are very liberal on reasonable amounts
to responsible parties”. Aleona county: “I
do not know of any responsible farmer having
difficulty in getting what credit he needs”.
Lapeer county: “The local banks are doing
everything in their power to help us out”.
«Several correspondents report the credit sit-
uatiOn much improved over the preceeding
months.

Farmers Favor Road Construction

A great variety of opinions was revealed in
answers to the question: “What is the attitude
of the farmers toward state and national
affairs, such as taxes, tariff, the railroads, for-
eign relations, and highway construction?”
No one thought taxes were too low. In nearly
every questionnaire (Continued 0% Page 9)

The Robust Bean, an Excellent Variety Well Adapted to Michigan

Michigan Agricultural College Originates Bean Noted for Vigorous Growth and High Yield

IT IS THE wish of every bean grower that
he might raise a maximum yield of choice
clean beans. Even the best of soil and fer-
tilizer will not give this unless clean high
quality seed be used. Probably there is no
crop grown that is more influenced by the
seed than is the bean crop. Professor Frank
A. Spragg, Plant Breeder of Michigan Ag—
ricultural College, in addition to originating
several improved varieties of grain, has, after
several years of endeavor, brought out a bean
which is high yielding and well adapted to
Michigan conditions.

The Robust gets its name from the fact
that it is such a vigorous growmg bean and
has such tough leaves, and that it is not so

easily injured by such bean diseases as An-
thracnoe and Blight as are other varieties of
beans, and up to date has shown itself to be
immune from the disease known as Mosaic.

Tests were conducted at the College with a
score or more, varieties of beans and over a
period of several years the Robust has shown
itself to be a superior yielding variety. The
College distributed seed of this superior bean
to several farmers and in their hands it has
continued to outyicld the common varieties
and due to its past perfornmnces throughout
the state, the Robust is fast becoming very
popular with bean growers. . .

Mr. E. C. McCarty, Bad Axe, Michigan, one
of the ﬁrst to receive the Robustbean, has for
some time grown certiﬁed seed of this variety
for the Michigan Crop Improvement Associa-
tion. Each year his ﬁeld of beans has been a
pleasure to see, with the result that farmers

By A. L. BIBBINS
Emtension Specialist, M. A. 0.

throughout his territory —have standardized
upon the Robust bean. In fact it is becoming

 

 

Shall I Plant Beans?

CERTAIN BEAN jobber in this state
A whose. judgment. and friendship 1 es-

teem very highly has asked us to im- .
press upon the bean grower the advantage
of planting beans this year. 1 would like
to armonunodate my friend, but I cannot
conscientiously advise the readers of The
Business Farmer to plant beans simply to
please him. I realize well enough that no
matter what the farmer will get for his
beans this year the jobber-s will make about
their usual margin. But after a careful
study of the situation I can honestly say
that I believe it will pay the farmers of
Michigan to plant their usual bean acreage.
I base my judgment upon the fact that in
virtually every bean growing section of the
world it is estimated the bean acreages will
be decreased. I further ﬁnd that the large
carry-over from previous years has been
reduced to a point where it can no longer
be considered a menacing competitor with
the new crop. Moreover, the tariff bill
placing an import duty of 2 cents per pound
on'beans will soon be a law and should help
out the future market. Other states which
have sought. to supplant Michigan in the
production of navy beans have learned their
lesson and it is certain that 'the United
States will continue to look to Michigan in
the future as in the past for choice navy
beans.—Edltor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

so popular in Huron county that it is possible
that soon no other variety of pea beans will
be raised. The farmers of the Thumb area
are very fortunate in that they have E. C.
McCarty, Bad Axe; Chas. Dukelow, Bad Axe;
and Fox Bros, Elkton, who have taken such
good care of their Robust crop that the As-
sociation has certiﬁed their seed, thus making
them excellent sources for the, same.

In Eaton county, one of Michigan’s oldest;
bean growing sections, the Robust is demon-
strating its superiority over other varieties
grown in comparison. This past year there
were many ﬁne ﬁelds of Robust beans, espec—
ially near Delta Center, where a group of
farmers cooI')e,'atively ordered certiﬁed seed
beans from Mr. McCarty of Bad Axe, and last
summer demonstrated to their neighbors the
value of certiﬁed seed stock. ’W. L. Atwood.
II. J. Henderson, and A. P. Hart of Grand
Ledge, Michigan, and George Benjamin,'R. l.
liansing, Michigan, had such excellent results
with the Robust that they are enthusiastic
boosters of this variety. The writer had the
privilege of visiting their ﬁelds and was.par-
ticularly struck with the cleanliness of same,
the uniform heavily podded plants which
were remarkably free of disease. ' Upon anal-
ysis the inspector Of the ”Michigan Crop Im—
provement Association readily passed them for
certiﬁCation, and these parties are now far-
nishing‘to'a’greatfmany farmers of central
Michigan, certiﬁed Robust seed of a high stan-
dard;~ - '1 a ‘ ; , ' ,

Over in Western Michigan, W. A. Chapman,
Bangor, Michigan, last (Continued on page 9)

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Farmers ' SerVice Bureau» '

(A clearing Department for farmers’ every day troubles. Prompt. careful attention given
to all complaints or requests for Information addressed to this department.

 

.THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

We are here to serve

you. All Inquiries mustbe accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If requested.)

COLLECTING DEBT

Has the justice of the peace the right
to collect debts and is it his duty when
requested to do so? B owes me $30 for
goods received two years ago. He
promised to pay in the fall but failed to
do so. Later I have seen B on several oc—
casions. He never seems to have the
money but promises to pay in a month
or so with interest. B has steady work
at $90 per month and it appears to me
that he could easily pay if he were a
mind to. What would you advise me to
do? I have heard that the justice of
.the peace has the right in a case like
that to seize property to cover the
amount, take out his own expenses and
pay me in full. Is this true and can
you quote the law to that effect? Could
I have his wages garnisheed and what
would it cost? Would B have to pay
the cost or would I stand for that?——J.
H., Falmouth, Michigan.

B is liable to garnishment of his
wages for the debt he owes you.
Commence suit by justice summons
and garnishee if you can get service
on the one who owes him. The jus-
tice of the peace would have the
right to collect from the man if he
will voluntarily pay him but he has
no such right as you suggest of seiz—
ing his property, taking out his costs
and paying your claim in full. You
would have to sue him ﬁrst, and take
a judgment. An execution may is
sue after ﬁve days upon the judg—
ment and a constable or sheriff or
one of his deputies may seize his
property, sell it, pay the costs and
pay you in full. Or, you may gar-
nishee him, collect what is owing
him, after allowing him the exemp-
tions, apply the balance ﬁrst to the
payment of costs and the bal-
ance on your judgment. A justice
of the peace could tell you approx-
imately the costs of a suit in gar—
nishment after you told him the
facts and, if you had to have an at-
torney, he would tell you approxi—
mately all the costs including his
own fee and about how much of it
you would be able to add to your
claim.——Legal Editor.

 

MARL
What is that marl that is found in
your state? Do you know anything

about it? Would also like to know
where to purchase it and how much it
costs—R, F., St. Paul, Minn.

Marl deposits are well distributed
”throughout the lower peninsula of
Michigan with the exception of the
Saginaw Valley and the eastern por-
tions of the state that ”were once
covered by lakes.

Marl to be used for agricultural
”purposes should either be purchased

 

locally or where there is only rela-
tively short freight hauls. The
present freight rates on materials.
bearing high water contents, like
marl, soon eliminate its economic
use.

The cost of marl should depend
upon the purity of the product, the
amount of water present and the
amount of labor necessitated in re—
moving the marl from the deposit.
Owners of marl beds usually charge
from 25 to 75 cents per load where
the purchaser takes the marl direct
from the deposit.—~—G. M. Grantham,
Deptgof Soils, M. A. C.

 

EGG SIIELLS TOUGH

Will you kindly tell me the reason
for egg shells being so tough that the
chicks can not hatch? I have had the
second hatching with very poor results.
I have the incubator in the basement.—
A Patron, Freeland, Mich.

Lack of moisture from the 18th
to the 21st days in the machine
would cause this. Also the manage-
ment of the machine during that
period—Prof. C. H. Burgess, Dept.
of Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C.

PAY FOR “WORKING IN GARDEN

I signed a. contract for three acres of
sugar beets last year with the ﬁeld—man
of the Columbia Sugar Beet Co., of Mt.
Pleasant. Mich, but returned the con-
tract as all tho farmers did. Then the
farmers got their contracts back again
and put in beets. So I put in ﬁve acres
but did not get a contract. I had a
good stand of beets, but the ﬁeld—man
condemned them. I also leased him
ground for a. garden and potato patch
and a place to put the house for the
beet weeders. He asked me to plow and
ﬁt the ground for them, which I did, and
he would pay me well. There was near—
ly a half acre of ground. Now I saw
the ﬁeld—man twice about it but can’t.
get a settlement. I asked $35 but he
said the company would not pay it and
they had never paid for a garden spot
yet. I could have made more by putting
in early potatoes as they were $5.00 a.
bushel here. Please advise me what is
best to do. Can I hold the house and
dare I use it?—F, R., Clare, Mich.

I would be of the opinion that the
sugar company would be liable for
the full value of the work on the
garden and the rental value of the
land and that you could have a lien
upon the house for your pay. Le—
gal Editor.

 

GREAT LAKES MUTUAL AUTO
INSURANCE COMPANY

Can you tell me whether or not the .

Great Lakes Mutual Automobile Insur-

Iance Co., of Saginaw, Mich., is a re—

sponsible Co. to do business with and to
insure in? They want me to be agent
for them and I would like

 

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GHILD DERELIOTS IN CHINA

Their baby sister had been sold for 100 small cash (about
three cents) and these two. the oldest of ﬁve children. were tresDaSS for
loundAJuet as they were at the point of death and placed In
a refuge camp In Ohunotlngfu. They later were removed to a
refuge home In Peking. where his photograph was taken.

 

sponsible or not—H. 11..
Bad Axe, Michigan.

The annual statement
issued December 31,
1920 and ﬁled by this
company with the State
Insurance Commission
shows ”their total income
for 1920 was $37,305.84;
disburse m en t s, $55,—
252.15; assets, $1,-
324.02; liabilities, $2.—
440.00; and the number
of certiﬁcates in force
are $2,381.—-Managing
Editor.

LAWYER’S FEES

'If it is necessary to go to
court to obtain one’s rights
and you gain the suit who
pays the lawyer you hire?
Has a game warden any
more right to hunt on ground
that you forbid any other
man from hunting on? Can
he drive his car over fresh
seeded ground? A. Subscrib-
er, Pigeon, Michigan.

The one who ”hires a
lawyer has to pay him.
Among the items of
Vcost that the winner is
allowed to tax against
the loser are certain at-
torney fees, usually not
exceeding $25. The
game warden has no
. more right to hunt on
premises than any" one
else. Driving car over
fresh seeded ground is a
which he
ould be liable at law.—
egal Editor.

 

 

  
  

PASTURE CHARGES

I had some pasture land on which a
man had several head of cattle. As 1
did not live near pasture, I wrote him
and told him to let me know when he
was ready to take his cattle out and i
would meet him there so he could settle
for same, as I made it a rule for each to
pay for pasture when taking cattle out.
This party did not let me know and now
he will not pay for pasture. Could he
be taken for stealing? W. (7., Elk Rap—
ids, Michigan.

He is not liable for stealing. He
would be liable in a civil action for
the value of the "pasture—Legal
Editor.

 

CUTS CONNECTIONS \VIT’H FARM-
ERS’ TELEPHONE COMPANY
Can we collect from a member, tel—

ephone dues and money, for repairing
the line if he has not a certiﬁcate of his
stock? We have raised money to repair
the line, and he has cut his wire and
gone in another company.-—l<‘. (3., Dans—
ville, Michigan.

. Whether one is liable for dues and

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expenses, would depend upon your
by—laws and the agreement he sign-
ed or made when he took a .tele-
phone. His agreement with the
company will control. If you have
no agreement of any kind with him
of course he is not liable and in any
event he is not liable beyond his
agreements—Legal Editor.

KEEP OF STEER

I bought a farm on a contract a d
shortly after the person .I‘ bought it of
died. The estate has a steer which I
have kept nearly a. year. I did not put
in any claim at the final hearing. Can
I collect for the keeping of the steer?——
W. E. S... Shiawassee county, Mich.

I would be of the opinion that you
would be entitled to a lien upon the
animal for its keep and that you
need not ﬁle a claim against the es-
tate for the same. Also that you
can hold the animal until your claim
is paid. Legal Editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Off For Europe

Y THE time this paper reaches the hands
of its readers I Will be somewhere in
mid—ocean bound for the old continent. I will
land at Liverpool and be off immediately by
special train for Edinburgh, Scotland, from
whence I shall depart a week later via the
North Sea for Norway and Denmark. After
as careful a study of the co-operative systems
of these countries as my limited' time will per-
mit I will go to Germany to spend a few days
among the farmers’ co—operative sugar fact-
‘orics. Before my return I expect to also visit
France and Belgium and possibly Holland
and Switzerland. Barring the unforeseen I
Will be back in the good old U. S. A. about the
middle of July.
In making my farewell to the M. B. F. folks
I do not want them to feel that I am shirking
any of my duties to them and the Business
Farmer by my absence. I realize that many
strange sights and adventures are before me
but through them all I intend to keep my mis-
sion clearly in mind and never to forget for a
moment the men and the women on the farms
:‘back. home.” It is my earnest hope that my
investigations and experiences will so enrich
my knowledge and understanding that I will
be far better equipped upon my return to
America to serve the people who read this
paper. Forrest Lord, Editor.

 

“It Must Never Be Again”
“IT MUST never be again. I would wish
a nation so powerful that none would
dare provoke its wrath.”

These were the words of President Harding
as he stood in the presence of the soldier dead
brought back from Europe to their final rest-
ing placc bcncath American sod. We are told
that the President’s eyes were brimming with
tears; that his voice shock with emotion. Aye!
’Twas a sight to make the angels weep! There
before him were the steel encompassed forms
of a thousand young men, their souls gone to
repose in the arms of their Maker, their bod-
ies crumbling into dust. When the shadow’s
of life’s twilight gather around, death comes
with comforting arms and takes the weary
traveler the way of eternal rest. But life’s
morning is radiant with the sunbeams of joy,
hope, love, ambition which make the world
beautiful and ﬁll the heart of youth with
song. Hard to die? Youth thinks so, and
can you blame him? It is youth who gives
himself a living sacriﬁce to Mars. It was
youth who in the last great war bade goodbye
to the sunbeams and turned his face to the
shadows and to death. And for what? The
hills re-echo, “for what”? The winds take up
the cry and moan, “for what.” The mind of
man encircling the globe puzzles in the dark-
n s and mournfully reiterates, “for what.”

c anguished mother clasps to her bosom the

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMERV

pictured likeness of her martyred son and her ,

heart throbs, “Oh, God, for What.”

There is no answer.

“It must never be again.”

There is no doubting the sincerity of those
words, Mr. Harding. You mean what you
say. If by stopping the beating of your heart

.you could simultaneously cause all wars to

ceaSe and know that war would be no more,
you would not hesitate a moment to take the
step. But when you said, “I would Wish a
nation so powerful that now would dare pro~
voke its wrath,” methinks the angels wept
again and God was troubled.

Surely, you do not mean that, President
Harding? Surely you have learned that
might cannot make right. Surely you know
that no nation since the ﬁrst record was made
on the pages of history has been so powerful
that none dared. to provoke its wrath. Arro.
gant size, wealth and power are the very
things which arouse the envy of other nations,
and pave the way inevitably for dissension. A
nation may be supreme in every other respect
but if it be unrighteous it will fall.

“It must never be again.” The war’s dead
sleep on. They gave their lives ﬁghting a na-
tion whose godless ambition was “to become
so powerful that none would dare provoke its
wrath.”

 

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VER SINCE it was founded the Business

Farmer has scrupulously avoided ﬁlling
up its columns with hoary-whiskered articles
that have been the theme of nearly all farm
papers since Noah sailed the Ark. We felt
that inasmuch as some three or four hundred
farm papers were all telling their readers the
same old story, over and over again, of how to
milk the cow, feed the pig, pick the apples,
and mow the hay, we thought we would try
to be a little bit original and tell them how to
sell the milk, the pork, the apples and the hay,
so that they might at least draw day wages for
their work. We felt that better marketing
and not increased production was the farm-
er’s real problem. The fact that in the last
ﬁlm years many of the progressive farm pap-
crs have accepted this view and that the great-
est farmers’ organization ever conceived has
come into existence, pledged to a solution
of this problem. rather vindicates. our p051-
tion upon the matter. The Busmess Farm-
cr modestly takes unto itself some of the
credit for the awakened interest in Michigan
in associations for more economical marketing
of the farmers’ crops. It has partially ac-
complished one of the things it set out to ac-
complish, and it can now afford without in-
juring its prestige to give a little more
thought to the problems of production which
still exist and probably always Will ex1st.
Hence, the publication of articles upon. this
subject which have appeared in recent issues
and will continue to appear in future issues
of the Business Farmer.

During the war inefﬁcient farmers thought
they were making money simply because they
got high prices for their products. But now
they know better. They know that they have
produced at too high a cost, and that if they
are to continue in business they must cut
their costs. Costs cannot be better reduced
than by farming a smaller acreage _and in-
creasing the yield per acre. The articles then
that will appear in these columns from now
on will not try to show how ten acres can be
made to produce as much as ﬁve formerly
produced but how three acres can be made to
take the place of ﬁve. The average yield per
acre of certain crops in this state is. much be-
low the average of other states specializing in
the same Crops. How can the Michigan farm—
cr who'produccs an average of 90 bushels of
potatoes to the acre hope to compete With the

‘ Maine farmer who produces an average of

200 bushels to the acre. Now that we stand
in a fair way to cut the cost of marketing,
will it not be wise to learn how we may cut

the acre cost of producingl

 

. Making Headway
HE FARMERS are making remarkable
headway along legislative and marketing
lines. As a result of the “lobbies” which the

farm organizations have maintained at Wash-_

ington, those who make and execute our laws
are being made acquainted with the farmers’
problems as never before. Up to a few years
ago laws were passed without regard to their
effect upon the agricultural interests. That
was because nearly all other interests were on
the job at Washington to see that their own
welfare was protected. So long as the farmer
stayed at home and did not trouble his, con-
gressman and senator by asking them embar-
rassing questions, they were easily led into
voting for measures which were really harmful
to the farmers. But as has been said that time
has passed. Today Congress votes somewhat
more intelligently upon issues affecting agri-
culture because the farmers make it their bus-
iness to supply Congress with information for
its guidance. It is no uncommon thing nowa-
days for a Congressman to arise 0n the floor of
the house and plead the farmer’s cause. The
debate upon the grain futures bill brought
forth several pleas of this kind. Take the
following extract, for instance, from the speech

of Congressman Ten Eyck of New York:

"I believe that we have got to give the farm-
ers the same consideration in legislative matters
that we accord all other branches of industry. I
further believe in the farmers organizing, and the
complete co—operation and co-ordination of all the
various farm organizations, whereby and through
which they can establish a clearing house and

work collectively for the best interests of the pro—

ducers of the soil.

“It a farmer is prosperous, he will be enabled
to improve his living conditions in the home; he
will be able to build for himself better schools;
be will be able to give his children higher educa—
tion both in relation to farming and the profes-
sions; he will be able to improve his tools and
machinery and thus lessen the cost of produc—
tion; he will be able to hire adequate labor and
thus take away part of the drudgery and the
long hours; he will be able to stand the increas-
ed taxation for improvement of rural highways so
as to connect himself with better transportation
facilities to the markets; he will be enabled to
use up—to-date motor trucks for transportation
purposes,and purchase and raise the best stock
and poultry and other commodities, all of which
will not only be a beneﬁt to himself but to the
world In general and the consumer in particular."

Do the Rich Escape?
T IS THE popular complaint of the poor
that the rich receive special consideration
before the law-making bodies and the courts.
There is ground for this complaint. Too many
rich men have been able to escape the legal

consequences of criminal acts by employing ‘

legal talent to ﬁnd technical flaws in their
case or assail the constitutionality of the law.
But this is not the rule by any means. Rich
men are still going to prison for their misde-
meanors and will continue to do so. A recent
case involving the scion of a well-to-do family
has aroused much interest. A young man by
the name of Harrigan, son of a wealthy
Grosse Pointe resident, was arrested for driv-
ing through a safety zone while drunk and
killing a workman. He was tried on the
charge of involuntary manslaughter and con-
victed. The judge sentenced him from ﬁve to
ﬁfteen years at Jackson state prison. During
the course of the trial it was freely predicted
that he would escape conviction because of his
wealth and social standing . On the contrary
he received the limit of the law and the judge
in pronouncing sentence scored him heavily
for his crime. It is the proud boast of
American citizens that their law is no
respecter of persons. It should be the con—
stant aim of the courts to interpret the law in
this light so that justice may be done to all.

A famous movie star who is an expert at roll-
ing cigarettes with one hand- and displays this
achievement in all pictures in which he appears
is said to be a non-smoker. When asked why
he rolled them if he did not smoke he answered,
‘You would roll them too if you got as much
money as I do for doing it." His salary is mere
cigarette money to him. ‘

Robbers took a man's straw bat as part of their
loot from a Detroit home recently. How foolish
they were. By the time one of them has It clean-
ed and blocked so he can wear It be will and
it has cost him as much as a new one would.

“Wants $3,000 for Dog Bite,” reads a headline
in a Detroit newspaper. The party can keep it
for all we care.
cents for it.

June 4, 1921 '

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BON VOYAGE

OUR ANNOUNCEMENT in the

April 30th issue of the BUSINESS

FAmmn, certainly is important
and very interesting. I want to
express my personal good luck wish-
es along with the good wishes of
multitudes of other farmers here.
I am sure you will learn a great
many things during that trip which
will greatly assist in carrying on the
good work you are now doing for
the co—operation of the farmers.

I know you will have a chance to
learn an immense lot in Denmark
because that is the country where
my father lived and died. You will
see that the farmers there have per-
feet control over the buying and the
selling of their own products: that
the government has perfect control
over the railroads and all other pub-
lic utilities, same as in Germany.
You will also ﬁnd the government
Socialistic, and that they have gone
a little too far in their effort to help
the laboring class, for if a laborer is
unable to get work he can draw on
the government to support him and
his family, and of course there is a
lot of men unable to ﬁnd work be—
cause it is easier to live on other peo-
ple’s taxes. See the point? Good
luck on your trip all the way—An-
gevine Jensen, Montcalm County.

 

I want to thank you for your thought—
fulness in writing me and Wishing me
“bon voyager". I shall think of you when
I am in the land of your forefathers.
Yes, I hope to ﬁnd out many things
which will help me and the M. B. F. to
be of greater service to the farmers of
Michigan. 11' I do not my trip will be a
failure.——~Editor.

 

FEDERAL ROAD AID

EPLYING to your favor of May
17th, regarding the Townsend.

vs. Dowell Highway Bills, now
before Congress, I wish to say that
the principal difference between the
bills is that the Townsend Bill cre—
ates a commission for the purpose of
handling Federal Aid, whereas, the
Dowell bill ,proposed to distribute
federal aid through the Department
of Agriculture and the Bureau of
Public Roads, as now organized. Of
course, there is little doubt that the
expense of distributing the same
would be higher under the Townsend

Bill on account of the extra over-\-
head cost of 'the commission. The
working features are about the

same in both bills.

This department is very anxious
to get further federal aid since we
are using our bond money at a rate
that will probably take it all within‘
the next four years and if federal
aid is to be obtained for us on lines
where it is most needed, it should
be made available in the very near
future.

Michigan’s share of federal aid
under the two appropriations now
available will be about $8,961,000
and will be all taken up or contract—
ed for within the next year—Frank
F. Rogers, State Highway Commis-
sioner.

The above letter was received in reply
to a request to Mr. Rogers that he state
his position on th Dowell and Townsend
federal highway bills. The former bill
has the backing of the American Farm
Bureau Federation which claims that it
opens the way for federal aid in the con-
struction of farm-to—market roads—“Ed-
itor.

TEXAS OIL PRODUCTS ANSWERS
AVERILL

SEVERAL of our stockholders have
called our attention to a com-
munication appearing on page

seven of your issue of April 30,

1921 and headed “Texas Oil Pro-

ducts Company.”

The Texas Oil Products Company
is very sound from an investment
point of view and many of our large
list of stoCkholders have put its
soundness to the severest examina-
tion and have subscribed a second
time and many of them a third and
a fourth time. . , ‘

Facts are so different to the state—
ments in the communication referr-

edto above and signed "Ezra R. I.-

Averill,” that one must conclude

   
 
 

‘ and to those who have

thatr either he was grossly ignorant
or that he had malicious intent. The
latter would appear to be the case
from the correspondence you inspect-
ed, along with other evidence which
proved how far this garbled article
was from the truth.

Averill’s communication deals ex-
clusively with the annual report of
the secretary to the stockholders,
dated March, 8, 1921, to which was
attached a copy of our ﬁnancial
statement as of December 31, 1920,
This annual report was mailed to all
subscribers of record on March 8th,
subscribed
since. (A copy of this report is en—
closed herewith). He calls the trip
to Dallas, Texas, where the annual
meeting was held, a “junket,” using
this word with malicious intent. It
might be interesting for your read—
ers to know that, with the excep-
tion of the Secretary and the Presi-
dent of the company, every individ-
ual member of that party paid all
their own expenses.

In his communication to you, this

This MICHIGAeN BU-S’INE-ss PARKE-R

man makes some absolutely untrue

statements, but in the main uses not:

ual ﬁgures found in our ﬁnancial
statement, only he manipulates the
ﬁgures to suit his own ends. (The
original of this ﬁnancial statement
was prepared and certiﬁed to by a
Certiﬁed Public Accountant of Mich-
igan.)

Referring to our remark that
practically all the old capitalization
of $850,000 “had been subscribed
for," instead of using the ﬁgure
$746,330 as being the ﬁgure for the
total amount of stock subscribed, he
uses the ﬁgure $486,400, which was
the amount of stock actually issued
and his comment that this latter
amount “is not near the whole of.
$850,000” is naturally very mislead-
ing and evidently intentionally so.
The facts are, that between the date
of. the ﬁnancial statement, Decem-
br 31, 1920, and the date of the
secretary’s letter, March 8, 1921,
the balance of the entire $850,000
capitalization was subscribed for.

His comment on deferred charges
to operation of $108,212.06 is simp-
ly a statement that it covers cer-
tain charges, whereas he might have
stated that this represents a total

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overhead 0! approximately 14 1-2
per cent. So far as we can deter-
mine, this shows a lower financing
expense than was ever exhibited by
any other company in Michigan,
selling stock to the general public.

His statement that the officers are
not large stockholders may be re—
futed by the statement that our
Vice—president alone owns $61,250
worth of this stock, for which he
paid actual cash at the full par value
of $10 per share.

Averill tries to insinuate that the
relationship of the Bostaph Engin-
eering Corporation with this com-
pany might not be just proper,
whereas our printed literature covers
this relationship very thoroughly
and naturally it is a subject which
did not need mention in an annual
report to stockholders, inasmuch as
they already knew all about it.

Averill complains that this com—
pany has taken in a certain amount
of money in excess of a certain oth-
er amount of money which he states
built a reﬁnery of 4,000 barrels ca-
pacity, and that we have not yet
completed a 600 barrel unit. If Av-
erill had desired to get proper in-

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LAST OF THE REOOLLECTIONS
, T LAST we arrived at the Tros-

sacks, where we were met by

a great coach drawn by- four
horses and were driven through that
great ravine with wooded hillsides
stretching up almost as far as eye
could see. It was the greenest bit
of greenery I saw in Scotland, where
the soil is too rocky to produce such
an abundance of foliage as we have
here in our own lovely state.

We drove sixteen miles through
the Highlands, catching every now
and then glimpses of great heads
looking over at us, The Cobbler, The
Lovers, occasionally Bern Lomond,
until all were lost in the distance
and we went along at a good pace
over the narrow, winding macadam
road, taking curves at a speed that
made us think with interest of our
accident policies. At last we drew
in at twilight to the little station
called Aberfoyle and there ended
one of the lovliest little journeys any
one could wish to have.

The twilights are remarkably long
in England and Scotland, the dark-
ness comes so gradually that you
scarcely realize that another day
has gone. We came home from a
mountain climb one evening, our
steps lagging and our spirits long--
ing for the cozy ﬁreside and the
cup that cheers, but not inebriates,
which they know so well how to
draw in that country. Nine—thirty
by the clock and day was just going!

Scotland appeals to your heart
and England to your intellect, with
the exception of Edinburg which is
essentially intellectual and quaint
and interesting beyond description.
Your patience may be exhausted,
however and as Edinburg, London,
Stratford and Warwick have been
oft described byai’ar abler pens than
mine you will never miss not having
my description and impressions of
them.

WHERE HOUSE‘VIVES FAIL AS
CONSUMERS?

O HOUSEWIVES buy what they
need and do they get what they
pay for? These are two of the

important questions of the day
which should demand the serious
consideration of every woman. It is
true that women buy 90 per cent of
all the commodities sold, and 99 per
cent of all the clothing. If then, she
is the family purchasing agent, she
should be a most judicious planner
and a very intelligent buyer. When
she attempts at the present time to

THE MI-C'HIG‘AN‘ BUSINESS FARHER

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Gittin’ Inter Shape

BECKON do angel what roliod 'way do stono.
An' lot do Good Shepherd escape,

Somo day’ll fly down to dis prison ob oln

An' ilb'rato all dat's prepared to como In:

Go l'so glttln’ my soul lntor shape,

Glttln' my soul inter shape 10' you soo

Hlt's a mighty big stone dat's a loyln' on mo

Mighty big stone—yes lndoodyl

I hope do good angel will hob lots 0' strength,
Or also bring old Sampson along

Rose the sin on my soul‘s mo'on’fo’ty foot deep,

Yo’ see, I bin one ob dose wandorln' sheep.

An' hlt‘s gwino tor need somebody strong doan
you soo

Hlt's a mighty big wolght dat's o rostln' on mo.

Pow’ful big weight—Yes lndoodyl

l'so glttin' my soul Inter shape fo' do day
When Peter ’glns takln' 'is toll:

Ready tot- lay down my burden an’ root,
Ready to take up do cross ob do blost,
Roady tor ontoh do fol’

Gottin' my soul inter shape, doan yo' soo:
Dam o big load ob sin rostln' on mo.
Ilg load ob slni .Yoo. lndoodyl

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buy cloth, she confronts herself with
these questions:

Why does it cost so much, and if
I do buy, will it wear?

Or, if she attelnpts to buy ready-
made clothing. SIB asks herself:
Why can’t I ﬁnd garments that are
well enough made and so designed
that they will wear and be in style
for more than four months?

These are the questions which oc-
cur to every housewife, but how
many think them through and con-
clude the answers? It is easy, and
requires the least amount of effort
for her to sit back and hope that
Providence will come to the'rescue
and cause prices to drop and better
goods to be produced. But sooner or
later she must realize that her de-
mand regulates the supply. The
manufacturer makes and produces
the goods which he can sell. There-
fore, every individual woman must
share her burden of responsibility in
order to bring cloth and ready-made
clothing back to pre—war standards.
Until she stands ﬁrmly by her con-
victions and refuses to buy except
what she demands, she will continue
to be the ignorant victim of greed
and dishonesty.

Now she asks, just what and how
can she contribute to this cause? It
is easy providing she ﬁrst sees her
duty and conscientiously does it.

First—In order to be an efficient
consumer she should understand the
economic conditions regulating the
supply of raw material as affected
by the war.

Secondly—She should lock the
family purse and open it only when

Thirdly—K‘now deﬁnitely what
the purpose and use of the new gar-
ment is to be; then know the most
desirable cloth for that particular
use and then look until you find just
what you want before buying.

Fourthly—Know how to judge
materials scientiﬁcally. Experience
is a good teacher but sometimes un-
proﬁtable. However, the best qual-
iﬁed and most efﬁcient consumer is
the one who combines scientiﬁc
knowledge and her experience and
then buys judiciously.

Practically all cloth is made from
one of the four principal textile
ﬁbres—wool. silk, cotton or linen.
Zach fibre has particular properties
which in turn makes its woven fab-
ric most desirable for certain things.

These materials have a direct ef-
fect on the laws of health which
should be thoroughly understood by
every housewife. Everyone knows
wool is harder to launder than cot-
ton, but how many know why? Some
silk materials wear well, others do
not. Can the average housewife
apply simple tests which will help
her to judge cloth and thus spend
her money wisely? She much pre-
fers linen dish towels to cotton ones
but can she intelligently account for
her choice? Some materials crock.
Will she take a chance, or should
she know how to test crocking be-
fore she buys questionable material?

Therefore, in this critical period
of reconstruction when prices , are
high, material poor and not reliable,
it is most essential that every wo-
man acting in the capacity of the
family purchasing agent and banker,

June 4, 1921

silk, cotton and linen as brought on
by the war, but she also should
know how to judge, test and care
for materials, and if she does, she
will buy what she wants; will get
what she pays for and thus become
an intelligent consumer.—Filorence
A.» Stoll, Instr. of Home Economics,
M. A. C.

CORRESPONDENTS COLUMN

I have read your many helpful hints
to others, and therefore feel encouraged
to bring you my question.

The house we recently bought, has a
parlor or living room on the north side
of house. It is papered with a brown
oatmeal paper, has one east window and
one north window. The room is very
dark. The casings are natural ., dark
wood varnished. A picture moulding of
white is 12 inches from ceiling. Now I
am planning to paper with light paper.
Shall I use the moulding as it is or
should it be placed next to ceiling?
Should it match casings?

Thanking you in advance, I remain an
interested reader of your page. only
wishing there was more of it. Sincerely
—-Mrs, H. M. M

You will certainly improve your
room very much by putting on a
paper with cheerful, warm ,tin‘ts. A
northeast room needs cream, buff
and old rose shades and a paper
with an all over design, quiet and
digniﬁed, yet warm and capable of
reflecting the light would give the
best result. The picture moulding
should be put at the ceiling and done
in tone to match it. The picture
moulding is considered to be part of
the architecture of the house and
shall be unconspicuous. Would you
consider having your wood work all
done over in white enamel or a soft
ivory white? If not then give it one
coat of varnish, have it rubbed down
well to remove the gloss and have
it rubbed with a coat of Old Eng-
lish Floor Wax. Put ruffled cur-
tains of net or marquisette or even
dotted Swiss at the windows and tie
them back with broad bands of the
same material, starched a little to
keep them smooth. These curtains
may be used at all Windows both up-
stairs and down. They furnish the
window and still let in all the light
possible. I would have the space
directly in front of your windows
clear of furniture or plants so that
the sunlight and air may enter the
room.

I thank you very much for your
words of appreciation, a little praise
makes my work very enjoyable and
I am indeed happy to make sugges-
tions. 1 do not say give advice, for
it has been said that advice is the
very worst of all vices. I would be
much interested to ,know how you
decide to do your room.

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EAR CHILDREN: School has
D closed for many of you and you

are enjoying a vacation. Others
will be out within the next few
weeks. And I know you all have
made plans as to what you are go-
ing to do this summer. When I was
a small boy and went to the little
country school when spring came I
could hardly wait until vacation
time so I could live out—of-doors all
day long with my dog. My dog and
I were great chums and I am sure
we loved each other as much as any
animal and human being can.
About the only thing he and I would
disagree on was the cat. He always
wanted to chase her and I did not
want him to because I liked the cat
very much.

I received another letter during
the past week from the little girl
living in New York state. She says
she likes our page very well now and
thinks the letters and stories most
interesting. As we have just a lit—
tle space this week again I ‘will
close so I can print more of those
interesting letters for her and you
to read—UNCLE NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am ten years old
and live on a farm with my grandpar-
ents. I will tell of our trip to the city
near us recently. We started at 9:30
and stopped and got my aunt. After
we reached the city we ﬁrst tried to get
.in .where they were having a soap sale,
but there were so many people after tho
soap we could not even get in the store.’
Next we wanted to get me a pair of slip-
pers. We tried four shoe stores and in

the fourth they send us to the base-
ment and while trying on my slippers
the lights went out and the clerk had
to light three old fashioned candles to
see to ﬁt me.

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hats in three or four stores before we
found what I liked. Then grandpa
said that the cats was the next thing.
After a good dinner we went to the new
market which covers a block. We met
a cousin and had a visit with him. We
then saw a movie Show and reached
home at ﬁve o'clock—drone G Perry,
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Dear Uncle Nedr—I think you have a
nice job, that of making a garden. I
don‘t blame you for feeling like rolling
in the dirt, of course before things are
planted. If I were there I would like
to go out and help you, just to feel the
cool earth on my bare feet. Yes 1 go
bare-footed even if I am 1‘4 years old.
I am the oldest child in the family and
there are eight besides me. You must
add the third pair of twins to your list.
Norma and Orma are their names and
they are 10 months old. I Went back
to our swamp a while ago and saw for
the ﬁrst time a. red-winged blackbird.
They are very pretty. Do any of the
cousins know a girl by the name of
Gladys Lake If so please tell her to
write to me. Write to me one andiall.
-—Doris E, Brown, Burt Mich., R-3.

 

Dear Uncle Ned: Iam a girl 12 years
old and in the seventh grade. I have
a white Angora rabbit and a cat for
pets. We have three horses, three cows
and three calves. We have about 80
hens besides about 10 hens that want
to set and that have chickens. We have
28 baby chicks and 5 hens setting. In
one week we got 22 dozen eggs besides
what we ate. Our .chickens are full-
blooded Barred Plymouth Rocks.

I read your letter Margaret and am
goin to try to do better than some do.
As t is is the ﬁrst time I have Written
I can think of a. lot to write. Say Mar-
garet will you write something about
New York for the M. B. F.? Please do,
as I have never been there. I would
like to hear about it. I live in a. grove
of trees and every summer we see all

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kinds of birds’ nests. Last summer a.
robin had a nest about a rod from the
house and the babies would call every
time we got near the nest. They thought
it_was their mother coming. A hum-
ming bird had a. nest near the house
and we watched her build it; but some-
tiling; happened to her and we did not
see her again.

I have had a. baby blackbird and a
robin in my hand. This summer I am
going to plant a garden of carrots, peas,
lettuce, radishes, melons and musk-
melons. Most of the things I can feed
to my rabbits.

Say, Uncle Ned, do you print poems
that are sent in? I may send in one
some time. Would you print pictures in
the paper if I sent some of the farm and
ﬁyhrabbits?—Marion Parmalee, Remus,

c .

Yes, Marion, I am glad to print
stories or poems written by my
nephews and nieces. I would be
pleased to receive the picture. I
am sure we can ﬁnd room for at
least some of them and maybe all.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your
merry circle? I am a farmer girl, 13
years old and in the sixth gade at
school. We have four horses and eight
cows. I have a rabbit or a pet. I have
two brothers also one sister. We have‘
a dog named Shop, I like the M. B. F.
very well. I like the Doo Dads, they
are so funny. Well I will close—Anna.
Pospisil, Carland, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned2—Hello. It has been
quite a while sinCe I wrote to you It
has been quite nice weather hasn't it?
There are so many pretty ﬂowers
the woods. I go to the woods every
week. There are violets, boys and girls.
May flowers and a. number of other
flowers, too. I wonder how many of our

little friends remembered to hang May
baskets on some one’s door, last Sun~
day? I did.

I wish you could visit our school the
last day of this month. We are going to
have a Japanese program, a May Queen
3. May pole and a picnic. I am sure you
would enjoy it if you did come. We
would like to have you come, won't you?
Say Uncle Ned I have a subject to bring
before you, which I am sure all of the
children will approve of. Won’t you
please print your picture, or have it put
in the children’s corner, where the
children can all see how you look. I am
sure they have all formed opinions of
you and would like to know if they are
right. Will you?——Haze1 Leitha Harpst,
Alma, R 4, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned: I am a little boy 10
years old and in the 4th grade. For pets
I have 3 doves and 2 robbits. I live on
a 50 acre farm. I have never been tardy
since I have been going to school and I
have missed only 1 and 1-2 days this
winter. This makes the second time I
have written to you—Watson Durham.
R 1, Hemlock, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned: I am a girl 14 years
of age. I have about a mile and a.
quarter to walk to school. I have 2
sisters and 5 brothers. My father takes
the M. B. F. and we like it ﬁne. I wish
some of the boys and girls would write

to me. I would be glad to answer their
letters.—-—Thelma Johnston, McBridcs.
Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a farmer girl
10 years old. I have 3 sisters and no
brothers. I go to school almost every
day and am in the 5th grade. For pets
I have a. dog and a cat. The dog’s
name is Crlo an the cat's name Spotty.
I will close with a. riddle: Three corner
a uare, black as a "bear. Ans—«Flat iron.
C ristine Louise Ross, Columbiaville,

Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am another boy
who wants to join your merry circle,
may I? I am 9 years old and in the
4th grade at school. For pets I have
a. do: and a horse. I like the Child-
ren's Hour; also the D00 Dads. They
are such funny little people—Dean
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. .June 4, 1921'“

DETROIT AREA DAIRYMEN SEEK
MARKET CONTROL
(Continued from page 1)

was still functioning to the satis-

faction of all concerned, so the of-

ﬁcers of the State Ass’n refused to
be worried by what might develop
in the dairy situation.

Western Farmers Take Action

As stated before, the farmers of
other dairy districts have already
engaged in projects of manufactur—
ing and distributing. By putting up
milk of the best quality and making
the surplus into cheese and butter.
they have been able to exert a mark-
ed influence upon their market. This,
may account in partfor the fact
that since the ﬁrst of the year the
producers supplying all other cities
of the United States, with but few
exceptions, have received a material-
ly higher price for their milk than
have the producers of the Detroit

area. During the month of March
for instance, only one important
CitY, viz” Milwaukee, secured milk

from farmers at a cheaper price and
only one other, Chicago, at the same
price as was paid the farmers of the
Detroit area. All other important
dairy areas received from ten to
ﬁfty per cent more for their milk.

As was recorded in the April 9th
issue of the BUSINESS FARMER. the
Producers’ Association supplying the
city of Los Angeles, purchased con-
trol of the leading creamery com-
pany of that city and have met. with
no difficulty in making a success or
the venture and at the same time
paying their members a price uni—
formly higher at all times than
farmers have received in almost any
other part of the country.

The city of Cumberland, Mary—
land, receives the majority of its
milk through a distributing plant
owned by the farmers who produce
the milk. In this case, too, the con-
sumer has received a better quality
of milk and the farmer has received
a. better price.

In the state of Washington a
number of farmer—owned manufact-
uring and distributing plants are
under construction. These will be
the ﬁrst of a chain of plants pro-
moted by the Lewis-Pacific Dairy-
men’s Ass'n.

Speaking of the movement in the
state of Washington, the Washing-
ton Farmer says:

“The‘ world war delayed develop—
ment of the movement, for our
dairymen in common with others.
put aside their personal warfare and
devoted their energies to meeting
their country’s needs. Since its
close, however, they have been tak-
ing part in the work of reconstruc-
tion and have come to the conclu-
sion that it would materially aid in
cutting down the high cost of living
and help them in their industry to
manufacture their own product and
put it directly into the hands of the
consumer. The result is shown in
the operation of milk distributing
plants and cheese factories or
creameries in at least two counties
of western Washington.”

The photograph of the architect’s
plans for the plant at Chehaiis which
will do a general manufacturing and
distributing business, is reproduced
on our front page. Another plant
of-about the same capacity is being
built by the Skagit county produc-
ers. Of this latter plant the Wash-
ington Farmer has the following to
say:

“It is being erected on a ﬁve acre
site, Just south of Burlington, and
covers an area 165 x 240 feet, not
including the boiler house, which
will contain three De Pere boilers
Its capacity will be 200, 000 pounds
of milk daily, which will be handled
by five separators, capable of run-
ning through 20,000 pounds of milk
per hour. The skimmed milk will
be manufactureddnto milk powder.
The machinery and equipment are
most modern in every respect and
absolutely sanitary. At a later date
the plant will be equipped to can
milk. The factory will be approach-
ed by concrete paved roads from the
Paciﬁc highway and from the main
this
work being undertaken by the town
of Burlington. To take care ‘of the
waste from the plant the city re-
cently sold $20,000 worth of bonds

'to dispose. of his crops.

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

and installed a sewage system that
will be fully adequate.

“When completed the project will
represent an outlay of approximate-
ly $250,000. The capital stock of
the association is $100,000, of
which $80,000 has been subscribed.
A bond issue of $300,000 has also
been put on the market for subscrip-
tion by members of the association,
and of this some ”$130,000 has al—
ready been sold. The funds on hand
at this time are hardly enough to
take care of all obligations. for as
elsewhere in the country. money has
been right in Skagi: county on ac-
count of the inability of the farmer
but no anxi-
ety is being felt Within the associa-
tion as. to'the financial issue of the
venture.

“Eighty—ﬁve per cent of the milk
produced in Skagit county has been

pledged to the association. and if
the frequent meetings that have
been held are any indication. there

is the most wholesome interest in
and support for the undertaking.

“The dairymen recognize they
have not the training to handle the
products of the consumer. but they
believe that money will buy trained
help to take care of this important
part of the work and theyare pledg—
ed to spare no expense in securing
the best possible men to look after
marketing."

SURVEY SHO‘VS NORMAL GRAIN’
ACREAGE FOR 1921
(Contiviilrvl from page 4‘1

returned there was voiced hitter op-
position to the enormously high tax~
es and freight rates. though few
suggested a remedy. Several fav-
ored government ownership of the
roads, but one-was certain that “ev-
everything which the government
touches becomes afflicted with creep—
ing paralysis."

The most. surprising result of the
survey was the almost unanimous
approval of good roads, despite the
prevailing high taxes. Less than
twenty per cent of the corre spond—
ents said that, the farmers did not
favor continued expenditures for
road building. The reason usually
given in these cases was that public
improvements should be deferred un—
til the farmers had recovered from
the blow which they have suffered.
Nearly all favor a protective tariff
on farm products. There were ex-
ception to this rule, however.

Some of the opinions are given
below:

Lake county: “All farmers in fav-
or of good roads. They do not ob-
ject to a tax sufﬁcient. to construct
and maintain good roads."

Chippewa: “The attitude of the
farmers apparently is of little use.
as it is evident congress is too busy
engaged in looking after the inter-
ests of big business to think much
of the needs of the farmers."

losco: “Eager for more good
gravel roads."
St. Clair: “Lots of good roads be—

ing built, but we are getting recon-
ciled to the high taxes so there isn’t
much kicking."

Ionia: “Taxes too high: too much
graft going on in our state but think
it’s going to be better because Gov.

Groesbeck will clean house. I think
we got a good Governor. We cer-
tainly need the tariff. Ought to

have had it long ago. Freight alto—
gether too high. Should have peace
by this time. Stop road building un-
til we get better times."

Kent: “This is a Republican town-
ship so most favor protective tariﬂ
and League of Nations with reser-

vations. Hostile toward railroads
because of high freight rates; pat-
ronizing auto busses and trucks

whenever possible. Mostly in favor
of highway construction.”

Oakland: "Highway construction
seems to meet with favor. "

Barry: "Most everybody favors
good roads."
Oscoda: “In favor of tariff and

highway construction. ”

Newaygo: “Not very favorable to
high taxes and freight rates, but are
building more and better roads.”

Sanilac: “Going slow on good
roads construction on account of un-
settled conditions. ”

Ingham: “Favor tariff; think U.
8. allows railroads too much credit;

favor highway construction; believe
in a ‘let—alone’ policy for foreign af-
fairs.”

Genesee: “Favorable toward high-
way construction, protective tariff
and income tax. All are ‘hollering’
for less taxes/’- ‘

Attitude Favorable Toward Organ-
ization

In answer to the question: ”What
is the attitude of farmers toward the
farm bureau and other farm organi-

zations,” a great variety of replies

were received, indicating that al-
though there was some dissatisfac-
tion in nearly every section the great
majority were willing to give their
farm organizations a chance to make
good and would stick together. Such
words as “dissatisﬁed,” “favorable.”
"disappointed," “enthusiastic," “in-
different," “hopeful,” were used to
describe attitude of farmers.
Lengthier opinions were given as
follows:

Genesee county: “A big majority
think the Farm Bureau and other
organizations are a failure. Must
say hard times makes them think
that way more than anything else.
They need the money.”

Lake: “Farm Bureau has organi-
zations in this county. Farmers are
hopeful of real help from the Farm
Bureau. Personally, I am waiting
and watching. Farm organizations
as a rule have been of little help [in-
ancially to farmers."

Chippewa: “The Farm Bureau has
not been in existence here long
enough to be effective. They have
sold much hay, mostly at a loss to
the farmers. but, that of course, is
not the fault of the Bureau."

Livingston: “Farmers are favor-
able to organization as all belong
to some organization.”

Gratiot: “The Farm Bureau is all
right if all farmers will join and
stick together."

Oakland: “Seems to be very good
and meetings seem to have good at—

(867) 9

1y back of Farm Bureau and Beet.
Association.”

Ingham: “The attitude towards
the Farm Bureau, Gleaners. Grange.
is kindly. Nearly every one is a
Farm Bureau member.”

Clare: "I think if the farmer
sticks to it and remains loyal to the
Bureau he will win out in the end."

THE ROBUST BEAN, AN EXCEL-
LENT VARIETY. \VELL
ADAPTED TO MICHIGAN

(Continued from page it)

spring decided to grow beans, al-
though such is not a common prac—
tice in that locality. He obtained
certified Robust and the crop made
a fine start, however, in July and
August, Mr. Chapman dared not
hope for a harvest but to his great
surprise and pleasure he found that
at threshing time he had a very
good crop of A. No. 1 Robust beans.

In Tuscoia county the Early
Wonder pea bean is more popular
than the Robust bean, due to the
fact that it matures somewhat. ear-

lier. Owing to its earliness
of maturity, the Early Wonder
will do better than the R0—

bust when the date of planting is
late; however. variety tests show
the Robust to outyield the Early
Wonder, if the date of planting be
medium early, probably before June
10th.

in that so many farmers at sev—
eral different points throughout the
state have received such good yields
of clean choice beans from the use
of certilied seed stock, many County
Agents, Co~operaiive Managers and
Farm Bureau representatives are
strongly recommending such seed
stock. in fact, the Farm Bureau
Seed Department, Lansing. Miclri—
gan. are making every endeavor to
pick up all the certified Robust, and
Early Wonder beans that are avail-
able in order that their members
may be supplied with seed of proven

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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW

HE PASSING of the last week
Tin the spring season of 1921

sees very little change in the
business and industrial situation, the
country over. Trade experts report
a general improvement along many
lines with certain marked exceptions
such as iron, steel, lumber, builders‘
hardware, ready-made clothing, foot-
wear and haberdashery. \Vith the
single exception of live stock, the
gradual rise, in the value of farm
products continues. Wheat, corn,
oats, hides, wool and cotton are all
on the up-grade greatly improving
the farmers’ outlook for the season
from the standpoint. of selling
values; it must be acknowledged,
however, that a probable crop short-
age has had something to do with
price improvement. So far this
spring, weather conditions have
been far from ideal for agriculture
but recent rains, accompanied with
warm weather, have done much to
remedy the damage that, earlier,
seemed inevitable. The probable
early application of the terms of the
emergency tariff act, to the trade in
farm products, seems to be having a
hardening influence upon the value
of articles included in the list.

The eye of the experienced observ-
er is able, to detect great improve-
ment in the ﬁnancial outlook, both
from a national and international
standpoint. Ever since Germany ac-
cepted the reparation terms offered
by the Allies, the ﬁnancial and busi-
ness equilibrium of the world at
large, has been disturbed by the Si-“
lesian row and the country-wide
strike of the British coal miners;
now that both of these paramount
problems seem to be practically solv-
ed, the beneﬁcial influence of the
war indemnity settlement begins to
be felt. The reinstatement of mnic-
able trade relations, between the
countries recently at War with each
other, has been greatly hindered by
the inﬂuences referred to above and
many others not yet settled but, that
marked progress has at least been
made, is certainly encouraging.

In the great international ﬁnan-
cial ensemble, France, being the
greatest economic sufferer from the
effects of the war, has recently, been
the weakest element in the equation;
the tremendous sums which this
country has borrowed from the Bank
of France since the armistice, have
startled the world and tended to the
universal conviction, that unless this
country could, very soon, arrive at
a settlement with her old arch en-
emy, concerning indemnity pay-
ments, national bankruptcy would
be the only resort. The settlement
has been made, the date for the ﬁrst
payment has been ﬁxed by Germany
and the effect on French credits has
been absolutely electrical. During
the past week, the French govern-
ment has reduced its bank borrow-
ings by 100,000,000 francs making
its total repayments, during the
last three weeks, 500,000,000 francs.
Simultaneously with the above
comes the information that the
French government has removed
limitations from many articles on
its import schedule, including Am-
erican wheat and corn.

One of the most discouraging of
recent developments, in connection
with our export business, is the de-
cline in the value of the English
pound sterling. To offset the cheap-
ening effect of current exchange
rates we have the encouraging ari-
nouneement from our leading bank-
crs that every dollar borrowed here
by foreign governments must remain
here to pay for future purchases of
American products or to be applied
toward the liquidation of obligations
which we held against the govern-
ments borrowing the money of us.

The New York stock market has
been a badly mixed deal. 01 late,
with motors and otlm industrial-
showing a tendency to weaken while
rails tended upward inﬂuenced,
probably, by promised wage cuts.

“THE "‘if'Icn‘rcAN Business

1.

Edited by H. H. MACK

 

 

WGENERAL MARKET SUMMARTW

 

 

DETROIT—Wheat quiet.

and sheep lower.

Corn and oats ﬁrm. Beans inac-
tive. Hay steady. Potatoes dull.

CHICAGO—All grains steady. Provision trade slow. Cattle
Hogs higher.

Potatoes easy.

 

 

ket page Is set. In type.
wing to press—Editor.

 

 

(Note: The above summarized Information was received AFTER the balance of the mar-
It contains last minute Information up to wlthln one-half hour of

 

 

 

 

The passing of regular dividend
disbursements, by many of the lead-
ing market specialties, has tended to
weaken the stragetic position of the
stock market situation. Call money
has been holding around 7 per cent
for some time past.

 

WIIEAT

 

WHEAT PRICES PER 30., MAY 81771921

 

 

 

Grade ioJimzi IChicagoI u. v.
(to. 2‘583 . . . . 1.55W1.cc'/§
No. 2 White 1.50
No. 2 Mixed 1.50

PmcésWoN'i-E‘VEAR Aoo
INo.2 Rodi No.2 Whltci No.2 Mixed

DVJ‘oIt I 3.12 I 3.10 I 3.10

 

 

 

Last week was a period of reac-
tion in the Wheat market and prices
ruled lower on the majority of the
markets; Detroit ﬁnished 10 cents
off for the week. Millers were not
very active when it came to buying
as they say trading in flour is slack.
The mill-feed business is dull. Buy-
ing by houses with seaboard con-
nections continued but no spectac-
ular sales were noted. Reports from
the wheat ﬁelds of the west are bear-
ish as beneﬁcial rains fell the mid—
dle of the week saving the crop in
many sections. If it had not been
for the fact that two holidays were
coming at once it is believed that
wheat prices would have advanced
on the closing day of last week; how—
ever, prices at Chicago did go up
sharply 30 minutes before the close
of the trading. Receipts from
country shipping points were fairly
liberal most of the week. Monday
of the present week, being Decora—
tion Day, there was no trading on
any markets. There is much specu—
lation as to what the opening on
Tuesday will bring forth. It is
thought the market will be favor-
able to higher prices.

 

 

 

help corn as it. will keep out Argen—
tine corn, which has been a bearish
factor for a long time on the mar-
kets of this country.

OATS

OAT PRICES PER BU., MAY 31,1821

 

 

 

Grade iced-6n I Chicaoo IN
No. 2 Whlto . . .I .45 I .4036
No. 8 White . . .l .48 Val .40
No. 4 White ...I .4o'/2|

 

 

PRICES ONE YEAR A00
7' INo.2 WhlIoI No.3iWhItoI No.4 Whit-o
Detrolt I 1 .23 I 1 .22 I 1 .21

 

 

 

 

Oats and corn are back at their
old game and what helps corn also
helps oats. Commission houses were
the main buyers last week. The
tone of the market was steady with
offering moderate. Receipts from
the country were fair. Eastern de-
mand played a large part in the
tone of the market as principal sales
went that direction. Domestic de~
mand was slow.

RYE
‘ The Detroit rye market is dull and
the price is off. No. 2 closed last
Saturday at $1.50 Exporters are
not taking much interest in this
grain at the present time.

BEANS -

 

BEAN PRICES— PER CWT. MAY 31,1921
W Grade W chtroiIWi lChicach N. Y.

c _.H_P.Wf...f”jl31o I450 Imso‘
Red Kidneys ....I

PRICES om: _v_EAR AGO
klcﬁ “* a

...................... I 7.85

 

 

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Reaction appeared in the bean
market also. The market made two
declines, one of 20 cents and one of
10 cents, last week. Trading is only
moderate.

POTATOES

 

SPUDS PER__ CWT., MAY 81,1921

i ISackcIdIl 3qu

 

Detroit ............... I: 1. 00 II

Chicago .50 I .65

New York I 1.15
Pittsburg I 1.93

 

WPRICES ONE YEAR AGO

 

CORN
001311 PRICES PER BU., MAY 81,1921
Grade W; lDatr-oit. Ic_hicago_I‘N. Y.
No. 2— Yellow ...I .67 I .64 l
“I". 3 VF" "W ...I .60
No. 4 Yellow ...I .63 _ _.
*7 PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
.. ,._-._.i,. > ‘ 1 No.3 Yell] No.4 Yell.
Detroit ........... ‘I 2.05 I 2.00

 

 

Corn followed the trend of wheat
the early part of last week but af-
ter the ﬁrst three days of trading
heavy buying by the east worked the
market into a ﬁrm position. It is
believed most of this corn was for
overseas. Foreigners are well sat-
isﬁed with the present level of corn
prices in this country and have done
considerable purchasing the past
few weeks. Farmers are in favor of
higher prices and are not selling
their surplus to allow any stocks to
accumulate on the market. The
emergency tariff bill is expected to

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Potatoes are easy with prices low-
er on some markets. The Detroit
market lost 15 cents last week. Re-
ceipts are about of the same volume
as has been coming onto the mar—
ket but demand is slack. The hot
weather is making old potatoes very
unpopular with consumers. New
stock is coming on the market in
fairly good volume and the prices
are not prohibitive.

 

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The hay market 'is ﬁrm. and, at
Detroit, at last week’s prices. The
demand is light but receipts are
sufficiently small to maintain the

 

 

hogs with cool water.

 

Load Cars of Live Hogs With Care in Hot Weather

HE SEASON for extremely hot weather is at hand and shippers
will do well to take great care in loading cars of live hogs to guard
against losses from smothering.
cold water before loading, bedding with Cinders or sand and loaded
far below their estimated capacity for cool weather.
ice should be scattered over the floor of the car and sacks of crushed
ice should be hung from the ceiling, equal distance from eadi side, so
that they will swing when the car moves and spray the backs of the
Great care should be taken not to lover-heal

hogs while loading. —H. H. Mack.

Cars should be drenched with

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present level of prices. This mar-
ket is holding up surprisingly well
considering the season.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Dressed calves—Choice, 13@15c;
medium, 11@12c; coarse, 9@10c
per lb.

Dressed hogs—Light, 10c; heavy,
6 @ 8c per lb.

Eggs—Fresh current receipts 22
1-2c per doz.

Live poultry—Best broilers, 45@
50c; small, 35c; hens, 24@25c; old
roosters, 15c; staggy young roost—
ers, 16@18c; ducks, 35c; geese,
15c; turkeys, 30¢ per 1b.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

The opening trade, of the last
week of the spring market season
was the Signal for the beginning of
one of the worst slumps, in the mar-
ket for live animals, that the coun-
try‘lias ever experienced. Review-
ingr the situation, now that the
smoke of battle has cleared away,
it is easy to see that the packing
house crowd had Uhe stage care-
fully set for the wholesale slaughter
of prices and succeeded even better
than they expected. From the close
of the week before to Saturday of
last week, cattle and hogs, in nearly
all grades, declined more than $1
per cwt.; the decline In sheep and
lambs,
to, was even greater. On the close
in Chicago, last week, thin greasy
sheep could hardly be given away
and lambs of similar quality were
in about the same position.

Chicago get 5,000 more cattle
last week than during the week be-
fore but it was the general lack of
demand for fresh beef rather that
the burdensome weight of arrivals
that caused prices to sag. One of
the main causes for the application
of a lower list of quotations by cat-
tle buyers, last week was the sea-
sonable advent of hot weather which
caused the animals on sale,to take
on heavy “ﬁlls," a condition which
tends to unusually heavy shrink-
ages as shown by the dressing sheets.
The export demand was almost en-
tirely lacking only 700 being taken
for shipment abroad during the en-
tire week; a drop in the selling pric—
es for dressed beef in the English
markets was the reason given by ex-
porters for dullness of the export
trade.

During the ﬁrst four days of the
week eastern order buyers did little
in Chicago assigning as a reason for
their idleness a dull dressed beet
trade in a] leastern markets. On
Friday and Saturday, shippers were
more active in the Chicago cattle
market and a part of the early loss-
es were regained. The top for ma-
ture steers, in Chicago, last week
was $8.90. The top, for yearling
steers, was $9.50. Butchers cattle,
canners,,cutters and bulls declined
from 75 cents to $1 per cwt. during
the Week and feeding cattle showed
a loss of 25 to 50 cents per cwt.

With‘a total of 76,020 sheep and
lambs on sale for the week, the re-
ceipts at Chicago were 7,000 heav—
ier than during the week before, 22,-
000 more than for the corresponding
week last 'year and 25,000 larger
than two years ago. The average
Quality showed a big decline mak-
ing it apparent that the trade in all
grades of aged sheep is practically
on a grass basis. Texas sheep are
running' freely and their competi-

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June 4, 1921

'tion, with the slightly better grades
of native stock, is keenly felt. The
better grades of aged sheep showed
a decline during the week in the
Chicago market of more than $2 per
cwt., choice native spring lambs de-
clined $1.75 and the common
grades were $2.50 to $3 per cwt.

lower than on the close of the pre- .

ceding week. The slump in com-
mon lambs resulted from an over-
supply and a lack of demand from
feeders; killers are getting more
common lambs than they can handle
to advantage and shippers will do
well to hold this kind of stock back
until it shows more killing quality.
Top for spring lambs on the’close
in Chicago, last Saturday, was $12
and the bottom, 34 per cwt. Choice
clipped yearling lambs were 50
cents lower for the week but culls,
on the close, were almost unsalable,
some going to feeders at $2.75 per
cwt.

In the issue dated May 21, the M.
B. F. expressed the opinion that
hogs would sell considerably lower
before many weeks, nicely calling
the turn on last week's country-wide
decline of more than $1 per cwt. A
sluggish demand for fresh pork and
cured meats of all kinds and burden-
some supplies of live hogs at Chi-
cago, were, evidently, the cause of
the slump in prices. Chicago’s re-
ceipts, last week, at 168,800 were
38,000 larger than the week be-

fore while shipments of live hogs“

out of that market were 85 0
smaller.
A large proportion of light hog
mixed through arrivals reduced the
average weight 4 pounds from that
of the week before. The average
price~paid on Friday, May 27, was
$7.67; the top on the day referred
to was $7.90, these prices being the
lowest paid since January, 1916.
While it is true that the trade in
fresh pork and its products is dull
and sluggish, it is universally con-
ceded that packers are making
plenty of money on current killing
operations and the experts lean to
the opinion that, with moderate ar-
rivals during coming weeks, live
hog values will gradually harden.
Attention is called to the fact that
the big packers still have large sup-
plies of product in their cellars that
cost them much higher prices than
those which rule at present and as
they seldom take a loss without a
struggle, it is believed that they will
offer very little opposition to an ad-
vance in the selling prices of both
live hogs and product when cur—
rent arrivals begin the decrease.
Current export clearances of
meats and lard continue large, the
showing for last week being 17,-
775,000 pounds of meat and 9,068,—
000 pounds of lard, compared with
10,249,000 and 5,813,000 pounds re-
spectively for the corresponding
week, last year. Our frozen sup—
plies of meat are not large and the
excess of lard now in storage, when
compared with last year, is only 28,—
000,000 pounds. While it is con-

ceded that live hogs may score a
further decline on the current
break, the general opinion seems

to be that smaller arrivals during
the summer months, will result in
gradually hardening values as fall
approaches.

TRAFFIC LEAGUE ATPACKS
MICHIGAN FREIGHT RATES
(Continued from page 3)
Public Utilities Commission, at a very
early date, and to petition the two
commissions for a joint hearing un-
der the provisions of the Interstate
Commerce and Transportation Acts.

“It is expected to handle this mat-
ter to a conclusion before the two
commissions within the next six
months. The league members and
committees are now actively can-
vassing the state for such further
support and co-operation as remains
necessary to their plan of action.
Every shipper, every association of
shippers and every commercial or-
ganization in Michigan is invited and
urged to assist the league.”

This move; if successful, should
bring about lower freight rates in
Michigan, and with no relief in sight
from a reduction of the general
rates, the lowering of these special
rates will no matter how slight sf»
ford some relief.

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

CALHOUN 0011er FARM BUR—

EAU NOTES
(Continued from page 2)

had a home-made plan which he
had started on. The plan made by
Mr. Robey was much more econom-
ical in both labor and tile.

35,000 pounds of wool was pool—
ed and graded in Calhoun County
during three days. It looks as
though our pool would be larger
than last year. The clip is being
handled with a minimum of labor
and expense. It is graded from the
farmer’s wagon and stored in ware-
houses where it will remain until
ﬁnally disposed of; then it will be
shipped direct to the mills.

EAST MIICHIIGAN IIOLSTEIN
BREEDERS' ASS’N MEETS
S THE result of several prelim-
inary meetings and plenty of
good active work, an organiza—
tion of dairymen has been formed
with the village of Rochester as
headquarters.

To serve the new association, of-
ﬁcers have been elected as follows:
President, W. E. Wood, secretary;
Charles Melick, treasurer; F. M.
Shinnick, all of Rochester; the vice
president'is A. W. Copland, Birming—
ham. The board of directors con—
sists of the following: E. A. Hardy,
W. E. Wood and F'. M. Shinnick, of
Rochester, John Schlaff, Detroit;
George Nusolnn, South Lyons; John
Rinke, Warren: A. W. Copland, Bir-

mingham; E. M. ‘Bayne, Romeo; Al- '

bert Luchtman, Washing-ton; E. H.
Langworthy, Wayne and Charles
Staff of Detroit.

The organization, which will be
known as the East Michigan Hol-
stein Breeders’ Association, has ﬁled
a copy of its constitution and by-
laws wi-th the Secretary of State and
is all ready to do business.

WOOL POOL NEARS MILLION
MAR-K

HE WOOL POOL is nearing

the million mark according to
‘ the state farm bureau. Since
the ﬁrst day of grading the interest
on the part of the growers is con-
stantly increasing. Out of what
some thought was a mighty blue
prospect there has grown a feeling
of success based on one month of
probably the rapidest disposal of
wool known in the history of Mich-
igan. Just how many times the 1921
pool is larger now than it was on
this date last year the farm bureau
says it is unable to. tell.

Firty thousand pounds of short
staple ﬁne wool was sold this week
to a large mill at 230 f. o. b. Mich—
igan for the ﬁne clothing and 200
for the half blood clothing. These
wools on the open market would not
bring the farmers to exceed 12c per
pound as they are a class of wools
that are usually thrown out as re—
jections from the buyer’s point of
view on account of their being short
staple.

A large order for approximately
25,000 blankets was placed this
week with one of the largest mills,
for the fall and winter business.
These blankets will be manufactur—
ed from Michigan wool. All of
grade wool for which farmers could
not receive over So or 10c per pound
and in some cases less are being
manufactured into horse blankets
and automobile robes.

So far as is known, Michigan is
leading the other states this year
in the amount of wool pooled to
date. The clips have been coming
in so fast that the fourth grader has
been hired who goes-to work next
week. The grading dates for next
week are as follows:

Week of June 6th, crew No. 1:
Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Cass-
OPolis; Thursday, Eau Claire; Fri—
day, Saturday. Buchanan; crew No.
2, Mondav. Lapeer; Tuesday, Wed-
nesday, 111113}? City: Thursday, Fri-
day, North Branch; Saturday, Caro;
crew No. 8: Monday, Tumday,
Montgomery; Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Hillsdale; Saturday, Pratt,-
ville; crew No. 4: Monday, Middle-
ton; Tuesday. Ithaca: Wednesday,
St. Louis; Thursday, Stockbrldge.

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BUY jI‘hree Advantages I

now offered by

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I as from speculative securities.
l 3. A degree of safety which

probably has never been equal-
l led before because of thelarga
increase in asset values of in-
dustrial and railroad corpora-
tions.

“'rito Dept. Mil-20 {or our list
of bond investment suggestions
which we recommend as offer-
ing these unusual advantages.

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OF CAR AND YEAR MADE. I
A*5°_° DEPOSIT MUST ACCOM~
PANY ALL ORDERS.

ALL BATTERIES smppro EXPRESS
c.o.D. SUBJECT TO INSPECTION
A $I29 DISCOUNT WILL BE AI.-
LOWED IF nus ADVERTISEMENT
IS RETURNED WITH ORDER.

Sl'o‘rage Bella)! Service Co.

6432 E. JEFFERSON AVE.
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sizes
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Little Livestock Ads.
in M. B. F.
Do the Trick

Huron Clay Products Co.
Croswcll, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE AUTO- OILED AERMOTOR

A Real Self-Oiling Windmillo, A 3523;311:321 0’

Oil an Aermotor once a year and it is always ‘0'" 4m“ "
oiled. Every moving part' 13 completely and fully
oiled. A constant stream of oil ﬂows on every
beeﬁng. The shaft! run in oil. The double gears run in
oil in a tightly enclosed gar case. Friction and wear
are practically eliminated- 0

Any windmill which does not have the gears running In oilisonly
half oiled. A modern windmill, like a modern automobile, must have
its gears enclosed and run in oil. Dry gears, exposed to dust, wear rapidly. ,,.
Dry bearings and dry gears cause friction and loss of power. The Aermotor
pumps in the lightest breeze because it is correctly designed and well
oiled. To get everlasting windmill satisfaction. buy the Aermotor.

W' M 4*
fa,”c‘§r'cuz‘3. AERMOTOR CO. $E£°w ,m om

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It will Help Both of Us.

   
  
  
   

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to a friend orncighbor who is not a subscriber. It is worth Just

25 ac to him, because we will send The Business Farmer on trial to

any new name for six months, for this coupon and a quarter (250)

in coin or stamps.

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BUSINESS FARMERS
EXCHANGE -

FIVE CENTS PER WORD. PER ISSUE.
20 words or less. $1 per Issue.
cash with order. or 10 per word when
Chlwed Count as one word each initial
Ind each group of ﬁgures, both In body
of ad. and In address. Copy must be In
our hands Saturday for Issue dated fol-
lowing week. The Business Farmer. AdV-

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28 . 1.40 2.80 44 . 2.20 4.40
29 . 1.45 2.90 45 . 2.25 4.50
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lNTERLAKEs FARM, Box 4, Lawrence. Mich.

$2.800 SECURES 820 ACRES WITH 39
cows, horses, crops, machinery, tools harnesses,
vehicles. equipment included; rare opportunity
splendid prosperous section, close RR town, ad-
vantages; productive 1011.111 tillage cuts 80 tons
hay; 40—ww spring—watered pasture; estimated
200,000 ft. timber, vast quantity wood; no or-
cliard 60 apple trees, pears, plums, cherries. ber—
ries; sugar maples, good Ill-room house. spring
Witter, delightful shade, wonderful view. 3 big
barns, garage, etc; quick sale price $7,800.
with 32,800 down, easy terms. Details page 29
Illus. Catalog 1,100 Bargains. FREE STROI‘T
FARM AGENCY, 814 Bill, Ford Bldg, Detroit,
Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—ONE OF THE BEST FARMS
1132 acres. Good buildings, ﬁne location, 3 miles

from Lansing, Mich. Must sell. $18,500;
40 rod to school. 8. W. HEMPY. It 7. Isms-
ing, Mich.

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SENATOR DUNLAPS AT $13.50 PER 1,000.
$2. 00 for 500; $1. 00 per 50. Guaranteed
first-class plants or money rel‘unded. C. H.
ISTAII‘ILNY 2Flower View Farm Paw Paw, Mich.
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FENCE POSTS

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
M." care Michigan Business Farmer Mt. Clem<
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SEED

FOR SALE—IMPROVED RED
sccd beans. Hand picked and graded.
24 bus. per acre, 1920. ROBT. P.
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LIGHTNING RODS. EXCLUSIVE AGENCY
111'] (1ka sales to Live Dealers selling "DID
DIE-BLITZEN RODS " Our copper
99. 96 per cent PURE. Write for Agency. P '
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SAW MILL
mills for farmers’

MACHINERY. PORTABLE
use. Make your own lumber.

 

Bend for new catalog. HILL—CURTIS CO. 1507
No. Pitcher SI... Kalamazoo. Mich.
KENTUCKY TOIACCHIRECT FROM

growers. Save 75 per cent on your tobacco bill.

Rich. mellow leaf. seed in bulk. Chewing and
mo oking. 8 lbs, 81. 00. postpaid. KENTUCKY

TOBACCO ASS' N. D310 Hawesville Ky.

 

ron sue—10-20 TITAN Tnsc-ron AND
20- 32 New Racine Separator. (‘heap if taken
at once. Inquire MARTIN J. HEUSSNER. Mer-
leite, Mich.

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to advertise livestock

 

or poultry in
M. B. F.'s

Breeders Directory

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bringing less write

 

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the publisher for full partic-
ulars regarding the 8 per
cent preferred stock in The
Rural Publishing Company,
which pays 4 per cent twice-
a-year. You can invest as
little as $100 for ten shares!
If you have some spare
money earning less than 8
per cent write, Publisher.
Michigan Business Farmer.
Mt. Clemens Mich.

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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FAR'MER

TEXAS OIL PRODUCTS AN SWERS .

AVERILL
(Continued from page 7)

formation he would discover that a-

very large percentage of the con-
construc-tion work being completed
at Waxahacie at this time covers the
requirements of our ﬁnished reﬁn-
ery of 6,000 barrels capacity.

If his intentions in writing this
communication had been honest and
sincere, he would not insinuate that
money on construction work was
being wasted, because he could eas-
ily learn that a certain type of re-
ﬁnery can be built a great deal
cheaper than certain other types.‘
The reﬁnery that he refers to is
nothing but a “skimming” reﬁnery
and such reﬁneries can be built very
cheaply, and are being built at
many points in Texas very cheaply
owing to the fact that they are be-
ing rushed up in certain 91] produc-
ing sections without any idea of
their being permanent, but are be-
ing built to take advantage of quick
and large proﬁts for the next few
years. If oil production continues
at these certain points, these reﬁn-
eries will have to be completely re-
built, if they continue in business.
The reﬁnery of the Texas Oil Prod-
ucts Company is being built for per-
manency and we are informed that
our construction is of the highest
type in Texas today.

As this company is not a Michi-
gan Corporation, Averill's state-
ment that we have recently asked
the Michigan Securities Commission
for permission to increase our cap-
ital stock is naturally all “rot.” We
do not have to go before Michigan
authorities to increase our capital
stock. We do however have to ask
the Michigan Securities Commission
for permission to sell our stock in
the state of Michigan. This re-
quirement we have complied with.

The Texas Oil Products Company
has absolutely no promotion stock.
Every share of stock issued and out-
standing has been paid for in cash
or bankable paper at its full par
value and this plan of operation will
continue through its entire ﬁnancing
period. This unusual situation
makes this company absolutely a
stockholders company and not one
that is controlled by a few individ-
uals who have obtained their stock
through turning over to the com-
pany some sort of a plan or lease

'or patent—the value of which is

always open to question. In addition
no officer or director of'this com~
pany, with the exception of the Sec-
retary and treasurer, receive one
cent of salary for his services. They
are each and all giving freely 0'!
their time and ability to make this
company the success that it should
and will be.

Believing that your readers are
entitled to this information, in fair-
ness to them, as well as to this com-
pany, we request that you give this
communication a prominence equal
to that given the Averill communi—
cation—Texas Oil Products 00., C
0. Fraser, Secretary.

Upon the request of this company I
have made a personal examination of
their sworn statements and ﬁnd the facts
set forth above to be substantially cor—
rect. In fairness to this company I am
only too glad to offer them the space for
the above explanation—Editor.

TAXES AND NEWBERRY

AM ENCLOSING slip from the

May 7 issue and’will write a

few words on taxes and your
comments on Newberry. I own 80
acres of land, valuation $3,600; tax-
es, $144.40 over 4 per cent. There
is a mortgage on the place that runs
ﬁve years that is tax free except 5
cents per hundred dollars at time
of issue. Why not the man that
holds the mortgage pay the tax on
it? And then corporation bonds, road
bonds and all other property in place
of taxing the man with a few do]-
lars to death. Why not make the
man that has money to loan and to
buy stocks in all kinds of schemes
pay on what he has.

Now to Newberry. You think he
has been punished enough. What
punishment has he had? If some poor
devil would have went and got a
mess of trout out of season and
been caught at it they would have
ﬁned him $10 or 30 days in jail if

he could not pay his ﬁne and. his
family barefooted and hungry. They
would not ask whether it would hu—
miliate him or his family or not,

and in place of this being a. warn?

ing to other crooks, it will just show
them that if they have the money
they don’t need to fear the opinion
of the people, for this only proves

that our supreme judges belong to"

the same class and they will clear
them. I consider the James gang
0. credit to him.———J. E. R., Kingsley,
Mich.

 

It may seem a little strange to those
who are familiar with out views 011 the
Newberry election scandal to see us now
admit our willingness to have him go
free. While I do not approve in any
way of the tactics adopted by Mr. New-
berry and his friends to secure his elec-
tion believing that theirs was a moral
offense if not a legal oﬂense, I am
mindful of the fact that we cannot con-
vict people of crimes against morality
unless they are also crimes under the
civil rode. The law is, after all, only
what we make it. Every day people vi-
olate laws knowingly and think nothing
of it, because they are unable to see
where any other person or thing is in-
jured by such violation. rIt is probable
that Newberry and his aids looked upon
the primary election law in somewhat
the same light. They probably did not
consider the spending of a vast sum of
money to secure an ofﬁce a crime of
much enormity because other ‘peopie had
spent sums in excess of the limitations
of the law for the same purpose. If
Newberry had caught ﬁsh out of season
or of illegal size. he would have been ar-
rested and ﬁned exactly the same as your
poor man. He would have paid his ﬁne
and that is all there would have been to
it. But in view of the fact that his
“crime" of violating the election law was
heralded to the four corners of the na-

tion, and that a stigma has as a result

attached itself to his name which can
never be erased ending for all time his
political career, 1 claim that he has been
punished far more than it he had paid
a fine of a. million dollars, minus the un-
savory publicity—Editor.

HOGS AND CATTLE ON FARMS
' INCREASE IN NUMBER
EPORTS from special live stock
reporters to the Bureau of Crop
Estimates, United States Depart—
ment of Agriculture, indicate the
following changes in supplies of
hogs and cattle in the United States
during the ﬁrst three months. in the
past three years.

The number of hogs increased 1.6
per cent this year (from January 1
to April 1) as compared with a de-
crease of 0.2 per cent in like period
last year. and an increase of 0.9 per
cent two years ago. The births dur-
ing the ﬁrst quarter of 1921 were
1.9 per cent less than in like period
last year and 12.6 per cent less than
two years ago. The net movement
from farms was 3.2 per cent less
than last year and 23.8 per cent less
than two years ago.

Cattle numbers increased 2.38 per

 

cent during the ﬁrst quarter of 1921,

as compared with an increase of
0.25 per cent last year, and an in-
crease of 4.23 per cent two years
ago, during like period. Calves born
this year were 4.8 per cent less than
last year and 25.9 per cent less than
two years ago. The net movement
from farms was 21 per cent less than
last year and 11.3 per cent less than
two years ago.

The Right Place

“I called for a little light on the
ﬁnancial question,” said the man in
the rural editor’s sanctum.

“Well, you’ve struck the right
place," returned the editor. “If
there is anything we are light on, it
is the ﬁnances.”

@119 Collection B0155

The purpose of this department Is to pro-
tect our subscribers from fraudulent dealings
or unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a distance.

In every case we will do our best to make
a satisfactory settlement or force action. for
which no charge {or our services will ever be
made. providing:

1.—-The claim is made by a paid- -up rub-
scrlber to The Business Farmer.

2.—-The claim is not more than 8 mos. old.

3.——-The claim is not local or between peo-
ple within easy distance of one another.
These should be settled at first hand and not
attempted by mail.

Address all letters. giving full particulars,
amounts. dates. am. enclosing also your ad-
dress label from the front cover of any Issue
to cprove that you are a paid- -up subscriber.

oliection Box R ort Ma 80 1821
Total Claims Filed”..1....y....'.. e 0
Amount Involved ........... ‘. . . .S7.178
Total Olaslms Settled ............
Amount eoured ................ 38,825
THE BUSINESS FARMEH. Collection Box,

Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

 

 

June 4, 1921

 

FREE BOOKLETS 0N
FARM SANITATION

 

The following booklets tell hawto pre-
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and give directions for using

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which is specially
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BOOKLETS

No. ISI—FARH SANITATION. Describes and
tells how to prevent diseases common to
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No. l57—DOG BOOKLET. Tells how to rid
the dog of ﬂeas and 'to help prevent
disease.

No. IGO—HOG BOOKLET. Covers the com-
mon hog diseases.

Ne. 135—qu wmows. on... complete
directions for the construction of a con-
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No. I63— POULTRY. How to get rid of lice
and mites. also to prevent disease.

Kreso Dip No. l is sold in original
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BOXES, SMOKERS

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for the bees including Begin—
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Immediate hi ment. Special POSTPAIZD a:
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prices on larger ousntitiea. ‘

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508 Cedar Street North
Lansing, Mich.

 

   

   

l-IAI FASTEST WWI“ I.“ IAI-
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I_m Weed es.

 

-———-Every

 

Breeder

Can use M. B. F.'s
Breeders’ Directory
to good advantage.

Run your ad. and
watch the returns

come in.

WHAT HAVE YOU
TO OFFER? . , :

 

 

 

 

 

Road the Classiﬁed Ads

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THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

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Breedert' Auction Sales advertised here at

 

:‘éa‘g

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‘3.“ , '9

To avoid conflicting dates we will without
00“. list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ed-
vlu us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address Live Stock Editor, M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens. ’

 

June 9th. Aberdeen-Angus. Michigan Ab-
erdeen-Anzus Breeders’ Association, East
Lansing. Michigan.

June 14. Holsteins,
Davison Improved Live
sociation, Davison. Mich.

Slim-thorns, Angus.
Stock Breeders’ As-

 

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Andy Adams. thcnﬂeld, Mich.

Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich.

D. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio.

J. 1. Post, Hillsdale, Mich.

J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich.

Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.
Wm. Vl’cd’le. Goldwater, Mich.

John P. Hutton, Lansing, Mich.
0. A. Rasmussen, Greenvllle, Mich.

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS I

 

 

 

 

-C‘ATTLE

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ‘

 

(SPECIAL ADVERTISING RATES under this. head n: to honest breeders of live stock and poultry will be sent on request.
"WW YOU I proof and tell you what It will coat for 13. 2B or 52 times.

special iow rates: ask Ior them. Write today I)

You can change Silo 0' id- 0‘” COM :3 often as you wish.

IREEDERS’ DIRECTORY. THE MICHIGAN BUSIPIESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, MiChioan.

at Davison-on the Fair Grounds.

1 all ages, both sex.

Both sex.

ity. Both sex.

For catalog write

 

GENESSE COUNTY BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION

lst Sale, June 14th

Davison is located on Main Line Grand Trunk Railway.

30 Head Reg. Holsteins

Good individuals.
15 head Reg. Shorthorns of high quality and excellent breeding.

8 head of Reg. Angus, best of breeding, excellent type and qual-

A few cows with calves at foot.
These cattle all tuberculin tested subject to retest.

W. T. Hill or L. C. Heims

Davison, Michigan

 

 

 

 

USE PURE BRED SIRES

Estimates furnished by the Dairy Division
of the United States Department of Agricul-
ture show that the dairy cows of the country
average only 4,500 lbs. of milk per year.

 

A. good Holstein bull will increase the pro—
duction of the ordinary herd 50 per cent in
the ﬁrst generation.

Let us help you und a good one to use on

your herd. You cannot make a better in-
vestment.
MICE. HOLSTEIN - FRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION
010 State Block Lansing, Mich.

 

 

SOME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED HOL-
stcin cows. Fair size, good color, bred to
good bulls and due from July to Dcccmhcr. Most-
1V from A. . . swck, prices reasonable and
I guaranteed to be exactly as reprg

M. J. ROCHE

Plnckney. Mich.

HERD suns III some:

KING ZlCIiMA ALI‘AR'I‘RA PONTIAC NO.
143461 a son of the $50,000 bull.

SIR ECHO CLYDE NO. 247367 11 double
grandson of MAY EUIIO SYLVIA the champion
cow of Canada. 7.

I am offering it yearling son of lung from :1
cow with a 7 day A. R. O. 0 18.48 liilig‘i‘,
427.3 milk. Next dam 15.11 butter. 3Si,8
' ‘ $150. Also some yearling grand
daughters of KING Price $150 each. I‘edigrci-s
sent on request.

H. E. BROWN. Breedsvllle. Mich.
Registered Stock Only

every one
sented.

 

Breeder of

 

‘1...’_"

r

 

 

smiw BULL

sired by I. Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke—Henger-
veld DeKol bull from a nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fair,

1920. Light in color and good individual
Seven months od. Price, $125 to make
room. Hurr

yi
Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOARDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MIOH.

Hal-tech Breeders Since 1906

 

 

 

BULL 0A“: ”:33... MARCH 27. «1920. VERY

straight and well grown,
sired by a .son of Flint Hengerveld Led whose two
nearest dams average over 32 lbs. butter and
735 lbs! milk in 7 days. Dam is a 20.61 lb.
Jr. 2 year old daughter of Johan Hengerveld ha
68 A. ll. 0. daughters. Price 8150. F. U. is
Flint, Pedigree on application.

L. C. KETZLER. Film. Mich.

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pon-
tiac Lunde Korndyke Segis" who is a son of
'King of .the Pontiacs" from a daughter of Pon-
tiac Clothilde De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for
sale. '1‘. W. Sprague. ll 2, Battle L‘reek. Mich.

 

,J

WO RECISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
past yearliiigs, one bred of excellent breeding.
Photo and pedigrees. Herd federal tested.

HOWARD T. EVANS
Eau Claire, Mich.

I Aiyl OFFERING LIGHT COLORED HOL.
d stein-Fl‘riesnin 1bull 1 year old from 21.51 lb
am ant sire \\'1()Se six nearest darn ..' ‘
lbs. .butbcr. Herd under state and Bfedgials'lniap“:
ervmon.
Oscar WaIIIn, Wiscogin Farm, Unionvlile, Mich.

 

OR SALE—HOLSTEIN COW. MERCENA DE
ROI of anlesidc. No. 137129. due t f b
April 24. Price $250.00. 0 res en
R. J. BANFIELD. Wlxom. Mich.

 

 

Yearling Bull For Sale

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

 

Lad, full sister to a 32 lb. cow.
Dam will start on yearly test
Nov. 15.

i ROY F. FICKIES

i Chesaning, Mich.

 

I SOLD AGAIII

Bull call last advertised sold but have. '2 more
that are mostly white They are nice straight fel-
lows. sired by a son of King Oiia. Ono is from
I 17 lb. _ yr. old dam and the other is from a
20 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dam, she is by a son of
Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy, one of
the great bulls.

JAMES HOPSON JR.. Owouo. MIoh.. R 2.

BRANDONHILL FARM

Ortonville. Michigan
Bull calves sircd by 35 pound son
of King of the Pontiacs—$100.00—
and upwards—good individuals—
from a clean herd.

JOHN P. HEHL

1205 Oriswnld street. Detroit. Michigan

 

 

LADWIN COUNTY PURE BRED LIVESTOCK

Association. Holstein. Jersey. Shortliorn and
Hereford cattle: liuroc—Jersey. Poland China and
Hampshire hogs; Oxford, Shropshire, Hampshire
sheep. 4

A place to buy good breeding stock at reason-
able prices.

FRED B. SWINEHART. C. E. ATWATER.

President. Secretary.

Gladwln. Mich.

Fairlawn Herd——Holsteins

Hire Sire, Emblaggaard Lilith Champion 108013
liis sirc’s dam (‘olaiitlia 4tli's .Ioliiiiina, World‘s
first 35 lb. cow, and world's ﬁrst 1,200 lb. cow.
The only cow that ever hold all world’s butter
yearly milk record at the same time. His duiii
records from one day to one your, and the world‘s
Lilith Piebc De Kol No. 93710. over 1,150 lbs.
of butter from 20599.4 pounds of milk in a
year. \Vorld’s 2nd highest milk record when
made and Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher milk record today.
His tivo nearest dams average:
Butter, one year 1,199.22
Milk ........................ ZSJISJI
Champ’s sons from choice A. It. 0. dams will

 

 

add prestige to your herd and money to your
purse. .
J. F. RIEMAN. Owner
Flint. Mich.
I'OR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL-

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

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich

 

LAKEVIEW DAIRY FARM HOLSTEIN-FRIES-
lens. Herd sire Paul Pieterje Wane Prince.
Two nearest dams average 31.9 lbs. butter. 672
lbs milk in 7 days. Dem milked 117 lbs. in one
day: 3.218 lbs. in 30 days; 122.37 lbs. butter

 

in 30 days. His bull calves for sale. One from
e. 22 lb. two-year-old. Good individuals. Prices
reasonable. Age from 2 to 5 months.
E. E. IUTTERS. Goldwater, MICh.
OLSTEINS FOR SALE—EITHER SEX.

Bulls ready for heavy service from dams with
A. R. 0. records up to 31 lbs. Also bull calves
with same breed. They are all ﬁne individu-
als and nicely marked and priced to sell. Also
a. few well bred females

 

 

n. H HOOVER. Howell. Mich.

 

A PROVEN BLOOD LINE

KING SICCIS iriiiiiiiiiiwi to his sons tho. power
to transmit to their daughters the greatest of
production over long poriods. It is his offspring
that. has i'cccniiy made the greatest yearly pro-
duction ever dreamed of. 31381.4 pounds of
milk in 1!. year.

' We have for sale at modcratc prices beautiful
iiidiViriiials of Show type KING SIGHIS hulls
ORA D RIVER STOCK MS
111 E Main Corey J. Spencer. Owner
Jackson. Mich.
Under State and

Federal Supervision

TWO BULL GALVES

Registered liolsteinfriesian. sired by 39.87 lb.
bull and from heavy producing young cows. Thole
calves are very nice and will be priced cheap LI
sold soon.

HARRY T. TUBBS. EIweII. Mich.

 

0R SALE—HOLSTEIN BULL, READY FOR
St‘I‘Vii'I‘. Ihiiii’s rocord 2.\‘ lbs. buttrr illlil 543
lbs. iiiilk. About 78 white and straight. Write
for pcdigi‘cc. l'rir-c i‘ci'y i‘ciisuiiiiblc.
AUGUST RUTTMAN
Fowlervilie. Mich.

 

0R SALE—2 REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS
rcady for service from 19 1—2 and 24 1-2 lb.
dams. Price $100 and $125. lIerd on ac<
credited list.

l‘lm. GRIFFIN. Howell, Mich.

 

 

HEREFORDS

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE — KING
REPEATER 713941, and Beau Perfection
327899 head our herd. Bulls are sold: have
some very ﬁne heifers for sale, bred or opened,
bred to our herd bulls. Come and see them; they
wil please you.

Tony B. Fox, Prop., Henry Gehrhoiz, Herdsman,

MARION STOCK FARM. Marion Michigan

 

OR SALE—SMALL HEAD OF REG. HERE-
fords, Belvidere 569766, heads the herd.
RALPH S. SMITH. Kewadin. Mich.

HEREFORD CATTLE ”32's.

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months and older, best of breeding and at a
very low price, he"! also some extra good
Iierd headers We have also a large line
of registered Hampshire Hogs, Gilts, Sow:
and Roars.

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

La FAYETTE STOCK FARM, La Fayette, Ind.
J. Crouch & Son. Pron.

 

HAMPSHIRE

 

 

 

 

Better still, write out what you have to offer, let us put it In WI"-
(mm or changes must be received o'nb week before date of Issue

150 HEREFORD HEIFERS. ALSO KNOW
of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality Sliortsliorm and
Angus steers 5 to 1,000 lbs. Owners anxious
to sell. Will help buy 50c Commission.

BALL, Fair-ﬁeld, Iowa

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS...1J,”§.E...TXJ£

’1‘ cy a re good ones. Iligh class females.
iigcs. Ih'St of blood. (fume and sec.
J. TAYLOR, Fremont, Mich.

RIVERVIEW HEREFORDS iffrnhuui‘tif

a grandson of the so 500 Bullion mi. Also a
few females.
Wm. c. DICKEN, Smyrna; Mich.

 

 

 

EREFORDS FOR SALE. WE HAVE BEEN
breeders of IIcrcfords for 50 years. Wyom—
ing 9th, 1920 International prize winner heads
out herd. [Lave 5 choice yearling bulls. ‘l
yearling heifers and a few choice cows for sale.
Let us know your wants.
CRAPO FARM. Swartz Creek. Mich.

 

 

SHORTHORN

SALE—BULLS OLD
also a few rows and

 

HORTHORNS FOR
ciiougli for service;
heifers.
S. HUBER, Gladwin. Mich.

q

COWS, HEIFERS, BULLS

SHORTHOHN od’ered at attractive price.

before January lli‘St. Will trade for good laud.
Wm. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.

_-—.._n..

3EXTRA GOOD BULL CALVES FOR SALE.

 

From the Maple lidgc herd of Rates Short.
(‘aivrd in Scpteiiibi-r 1020.

horns.
Michigan.

J. E. TANSWELL. Mason.

HORTHORN«CATTLE AND OXFORD DOWN
sheep lioth scx for sale.
J. A. DeGARMO. Muir. ich.

ENT COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS'
KAss'n are offering bulls and heifers for sale. all
ages. Sell the scrub and buy a purebred.

A. E. RAAB. Sec'y. Caledonia. Mlch.

MAPLEHURST FARM

Newton Loyalist 2nd in scriicc,
bulls for 3:110. .
G. H. PARKHURST, R 2, Armada, Mich.

short horn

ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ei's' Association offer for sale 75 head; all
ages, both milk and beef breeding. Send for new
list.

M. E. Mich

MILLER. Sec'y, Greenvllle,

0R SALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORNS
illl(l Duioo Jersey spring pigs, L'lllilil' scx: iiio
rcd bulls. one 11 months iiiid one 5 months in. _
SEVI‘rill honors from 6 months to :3 years «iiil.
Scotch 'l‘nii Iiiid Ilziios broil. Address
GEORGE W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD
Williamsburg. R 1. Michigan

RIGHLAIID SHORTHORNS

lli‘l‘il lillilH for quick suli- l’iiii' Acres Hoods
and (lollynic ('ullcii 5th. liotli roan five vi-nr
olds iiiid tricd sires.

Best of blood lines and show prospects.

loth quiet to handle.

A real bargain.

Write for particulars.

C. H. Prescott & Sons

Tawas City, Mich

 

 

Huron (lo. Slim-thorn Breeders’ ﬁss’n
offer for sale Scotch and Scotch top-
ped males and females of. all ages.
300 head to select from. For inform-
ation address
Jas. R. Campbell, Secretary
Bad Axe, Michigan

 

 

HE VAN BUREN CO. SHORTHORN BREED-

ers' Association have stock for sale. both milk
and beef breeding.

\Nrite the secretary.

 

FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich
UY SHORTHORNS NOW, 4TH ANNUAL
herd test without a reactor. Some hummus

i I ll.'.
nJOIHIV SCHMIDT & SON. R060 City. Mich.

 

 

 

 

Daliiieny.
Kaiinka of GWBIIIIIHWI‘,

at foot by Edgar of Dalmeny.
Blackbird Lettie, 184473.
Black china, 31 75
Blackcap Lot.

sale on January 14th, 1921.

 

IMP. EDGAR OF DALMENY
THE SIRE SUPREME

An exceptionally choice offering of members of the famous Wild~
wood I'Iel’d, which is headed by the World Famous Bull, Edgar of

271450,
,Yearling Bull, Michigan State Fair, 1920, and has a splendid bull calf

Bull calf at foot by Edgar of Dalmeny. l‘
A daughter of Edgar of. Dalmeny.

A daughter of Edgar 0f Dalmeny and full sister
to Blackcap Eloqnent which sold for the highest price at the Lansing

Two very choice bulls, Black Laird of Wildwood and Black Hero
of Wildwood, both sired by Edgar of Dalmeny.

AT THE MICHIGAN ANGUS SALE,

Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, June 9th

dam of the First Prize Senior

 

 

     
  
  
   
    
   
   
  
     
   
    
   
  
  
  
    
    
  
   
  
  
   
   
     
     
   
    
      
   
  
   
   
 
   
    
       
   
    
    
       
    
        
   
  
     
    
   
  

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F YOU WANT TO ID? OR SELL I MAY
have lost what you want. I handle from one

animal up to the Ingest consignment sale in the

country.

0. A. Rasmussen Sale 00., Grosnvilis, Mich.

 

ANG US

BARTLETT ”on: Into seasonal-

ANGUS CATTLE AND 0.I.U.

Swine are right and on priced right. Con-r

lpumlence solicited end inspection invited.
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mich.

 

 

REGISTERED ABERDEEN - ANGUS—BULLS,
Heifers and cows for sale.
Inspection invited

Priced to move. ..
Merrill. Michigan

RUSSELL BROS..

 

AYRSHIRES

—FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls and bull calves heliers and boiler cslvu
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS.. R 5. Vassar, Mich.

 

JERSEYS

 

 

 

JERSEY YEARLING BULL( SIRED BY PEN-
lmrst Fern Sultan. II. M. Breeding.
. E. MORRIS I: SON. I'-'.11rm|ngton. Michigan.

 

BEG JERSEYS HEIFERs 1 YR. OLD—-
Young cows in milk sired

by Majesty’s Oxford Shylock 156 692 also young

bulls sired by Frolic's Master Pogis 177683 a

grandson of Pogis 99th and Sophie Ith's Tore

mentor, two great bulls of the breed. Write for

prices 11nd pedigree.

G C. WILDUR. R 1. Ioidino. Mich.

 

IF THE BULL IS HALF THE HERD, HOW
much would 11. son of Pogis 99th's Duke 8th.
who has 60 per cent blood of Sophia 19th. be
worth to your herd?

Let me send you pedigrees and prices on bull
calves from this bull and Sophie Tonnentor con

FR HAYW
Scotts. Mich.

 

ONE OF OUR MAJESTY BULLS WOULD IM-

prove;\ your herd.
AKN P. NORMINGTON.

HIGHLAND FARM JERSEYSAEEQEBH‘.

ed herd. High production. splendid type and

breeding. Write us your wants.

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

lonia. Mich.

 

 

GUERNSEYS

 

GUERNSEY BULL CALF 1 M08. OLD. SIRE.
Langwater Prince Charmante. A. R. A.

daughters average 416 lbs. fat 2 ‘1-24 yrs.
Dam: Lawton's Lady Lu, A. R. 416 113.1111. class
A. A. (Dimmers class) 1 A. R. daughter. 409
lbs. fatD riet

MORGAN BROS..
Allegan, R 1, Michigan

 

FOR SALE—TWO REGISTERED GUERNSEY
cows four years old. Will freshen this fall.
They are right.

CLEM CHALKER. Bancroft, Mich
H

POLAND CHINA
HERES SOMETHING GOOD
THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. C. IN MICH.
Get A bigger and better bred boar Dis from my
herd. It a reasonable price. Come end so.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These hosts
In service: L's Big Orange, Lord Chnsmgn,
Orange Price and L's long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

BIG BOB MASTODON

13 “Rd by Caldwell Big Bob Champion of tho
world. Ills dam Sire is A's Mastodon. Grand
Champion at Iowa State Fair. Enough said.
I have a ﬁne September Boar Pig that will make
3 herd boar sired by Big Bob. and a fine lot 01
normal Dias when weaned Book your order now.
C. E. G RNANT.
Eaton Rapids. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ERE IS SOMETHING GOOD. BIG TYPE
Poland Chinas. One extra good large long
big boned smooth gilt bred to Ilowley's Clans-
man. Price $100. Also younger gills $30 to

$50.00.
HOWLEY BROS” Merrill. Mich.

FARWELL LAKE FARM

L. T. P. 0. hours all sold. A few spring boer snd
some gills left. Will sell with breeding privilege.
Boers in service: Clansmsn's Lmsge 2nd. W. B' s
Outpost and Smooth Wonder. Visitors welcome.
W. R. RAMSDELL
Hanover, Mich.

 

ARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS. SPRING
pigs either sex sired by Wonder Bob. be by
King of (.iunts The big- boned. good— backed
kind. l'rireri to sell
WALTER McCAUGHEY, R 4. Crosweli. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BRED GILTS ALL
sold, but have some fall glitz st reasonabll
price. Will be bred for fall litters.

DORUS HOVER, Akron. Mich.

 

GILTS SIRED BY BIG BOB MASTODON, BRED
.l11n1ho Lad Prire very reasonable
erTT 0. PIER. Evart. Mich.

 

L s F 6—4 BOARS BY CLANSMAN'S IM-
AGE snd Big Defender that u!
sBred gills all sodl.

extra good.
H. O. WARTZ, Schoolcraft.

Michigan.

#

IG TYPE POLANDS. AM OFFERING TWO

good growthy fall gilts, from best sow in our
herd.

W. CALDWELL a. SON. Springport, Mich.

 

IG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS EITHER SEX

irom large growthy dams and sired by choice
111ml hours (‘onw and see our SIAKH, prices
regsniml‘lr‘.

L. W. BARNES l: SON, Byron, Mich.

* ma TYPE 1111mm

b ready for service. 525 ..00
China .13?" c. BUTLER. Pom-rid. Mich.

 

T. P. . A FEW TOP OILTS IRED TO
Bnghlsnd Giant. the $500 boar. Others bred
to Wiley’ 1; Perfection. Weight, 700 at 18 months.

JOHN D. WILEY, Schoolcralt. Mich.

' *JI‘HE MIéEIGAN‘i‘BU'SINESS" TERRIER

L313. P. 0» 00“ YOUR NERVE SAY BUY

i Vote yes and order . good Fall
gilt 3‘) to 350 spring boots. “5 $19325. Two
Prospr-c' Yank -_r ‘ 1red to Hart‘s Block Price

March "but 83' ch,
F. T. HART. St. Louis. Mich.

 

EONARD'S BIG TYPE P. C. BOAR PIGS
at weaning time from Mich. Champion herd
$25 with pedigree. Satisfaction gusrsnte e.d Call
or write E. R. LEONARD. .St. Louis. Mich.

 

I Am onerlng Luge Type Poland Chins Cows.
bred to F“: Orange it reasonable prices.
(all pigs, \Vrlte or call.

CLYDF. FISHER, R 3. St. Louis. Mich.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA RRED GILTS
sold. Some extra good {all pigs of both sex
for sale Wr.te for breeding and price
MOSE BROTHERS. St. Charles. Mich.
C. One gilt for

WALNUT ALLE m. m.

the Grand Champion boar of Detroit, 1920. due

 

RIG TYPE P.

 

 

May 8th. l<irst check for 875 takes her. Gilt
is right. so is the price.
A. D GREGORY
Ionia. Mich.
,___.
DUROCS

 

BUY GOOD HOGS NOVI

from one of the largest herds of registered Durocs
In the state. Open fall gilts at $25. Sows and
gills bred for summer and {all (arrow. Booking
orders for spring pigs. Will accept a few sows
to be bred to good sons of Great Orion Sensation
and Duration. Write or visit us.

Michigan Farm. Pavilion. Mich“ Kalamazoo Co.

 

R SALE—FINE MARCH AND APRIL PIGS
Sired by Gladwin Col. 188995. Write us

your wants
HARLEY FOOR A SONS. R 1. Clsdwin, Mich.

 

Dumc Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders taken
ford wentling pigs. 1,000 pound herd boar.
OS. SCHUELLER, Weidman, Mich.

 

UROC JERSEY BOARS.
heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices.

or better, come and see.
F. J. DRODT, R 1, Monroe. Mich.

Doors of the lane.
Write,

 

PEACH HILL FARM
offers tried sows and gilts bred to or sired by
Peach Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction
lusranteed. Come look 'em over.
Also a. few open gilts.
INWOOD BROS., Romeo. Mich.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilt: bred for Sep-
tember furrow st bargain prices.
W. C. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM REG). “JERSEY H008.
Booking orders for spring
J. E. MORRIS l: SON. Farmlnnton. Mich.

 

OR SALE—RED. DUROc-JERSEY SPRINO
gilts bred to Rambler of Ssngsmo 1st. Th.
boar that sired our winners at Michigan State
Fair and National Swine Show.
F. HEIMS A: SON
stlson. Mich.

“AKLANDS PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Boar—Reference only—No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT $25
ANK A POTTER
BPotter-ville. Mich.

 

 

URocs—SOWS AND GILTS ALL SOLD.
Have a few choice {all boars at reasonable price.
c. I... POWER. Jerome. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—DUROC FALL GILTS. WE ARE
hooking orders for choice spring pigs. $15. 8
to 10 Weeks old.

JESSE BLISS a SON. Henderson. Mich.

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROC BOAR FROM
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWET‘I’. Carleton. Mich.

.8 weeks old.

CHESTER WHITES

/

' . our
BREO GILTS ‘2?,.:.“§§.‘:1§Z“21¢ 11..

me [your we 11.111: Prices right.

young pigs
.Leverlno. Mich.

Wri
RALPH COSENS.

 

 

BERKSHIRES
’ GO.
BERKSHIRES CV25“... $12.”? unﬂovery

best blood lines of the breed is o1i'r specialty. WI

guarantee to please or nothing stirrinz
ARIA A. WEAVER. Chesanins. Mich..

 

 

 

IF YOU WANT SOME MIGHTY FINE

BERKSHIRES

Discs your order NOW for p1gs either sex 6 to
Reg. . transferred and delivered any
place in Mich for $15 or a large bred sow st
$4 40. use have an exceptionally line 400 lb.
boar for sale at $40. He is a dandy and any-
body in the market for him should not pass this
up. You will be mighty Well pleased as he is
11 good one.
C. H. WHITNEY. Merrill. Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRES

 

 

AMPSHIRE IRED OILTS ALL SOLD.

Spring and full hour pigs at a. bargain.
JOHN W. SNYDER, R A, St. Johns. Mich.

 

i
An Opportunity To Buy

Hampshires Right

We "0 offering some good cows and gilts, bred
for Msrch and April farrovn'ng. Also a few
choice fall pigs either sex, Write or call

GUS THOMAS. New Lothrop. Mich.

SHEEP if“

OR SHROPSHIRE EMIES BRED TO LAMB
in March. write or call on
ARMSTRONG BR03.. R 8, Fewlorvilis. Mich.

 

 

 

GOOD BIG-
R 4, Albion. Mich.

ERINO RAMS FOR SALE.
11 neil. hoary shearers.

HOUSEMAN BROS .

 

A FEW EXTRA FINE SHROPSHIRE AND
Hampshire Yearling EWes for $25 each. These
ere extra nice.
J. M. WILLIAMS
North Adams. Michigan

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yesrling rum and some rsm
ismbs left to oﬂer. 25 ewes All ages for ul-
Ior (all delivery. Everything guaranteed u
represented.

 

CLARKE U. HAIRE. WI“ Iranch. Mich.

 

 

BETTER BREEDING STOOK

her the best in Shropshire and Hampshire cams
write or visit
KOPE-KON FARMS, A. L. Wing, Prop.
Goldwater. Mich.
See our exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan
State Fairs.

HORSES

FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR ANYTHING I
can use. Registered Percheron Stud. 3 years
old absolutely right in every way. A high class

colt I have no use {or
JOHN (1. Portland. Mich.

 

 

him
BUTLER.

PET STOCK ﬂ

OR SALE, FLEMICH GIANT RAB-ITS. DOES,
breeding age. 88. Three months old pair, 85.
Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed. Ousi‘
ty Eusrsnteed.
E. HIMEDAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

uroc sow: sno gilu nod to Wsit's King 3294.
who has sired more prise winning pigs at the
state hire in the int 2 you: than any other Du-
roc hour. Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Mich.

 

urocr. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open new:

and gills. Hours and spring pigs. 100 head.
Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton, Mich,.
Gratiot Co. Newton & Blank, Perrinton, Mich.

 

wE OFFER A FEW WELL-IRED SELECT-
cd spring Duroc liosrs, also bred sows old
Gilts in season. Cell or write

McNAUGHTON J FORDYCE. St. Louis. .ICII.

 

 

 

O. I. 0.

0R SALE—O. I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE
Swine. Two good tried sows due to {arrow
in August. Choice March pigs ready for ship-
ment, some excellent boar prospects Prominent
bloodlines, Prince Rig Bone Schoolmaster and
Champion Giant predominate. Get my Driies
before huving Recorded free. .
LARE V. DORMAN, Snover, Mich.

l LAST FALL SERVICE BOARS, 12
o I c 8 last [all gilts. bred for next fall far-
row and this spring pigs not akin. Citizens
phone. i —2 mile west of depot. .
OTTO I. SCHULZE, Nashville. Mich.

0.1..C

GI TS IRED FOR SPRING FARROW
snd on‘i: Shorthorn hull calf eight months old.

Milkin strain, pailfed
T. c. BURGESS, Mason. R 8. Mich.

0. LC .DWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
bu...” ”Les oi we most noted herd. Can furnish

u Ito k at "live and let IiVe" prices.
'0 Ac. J. OORDEN. Dorr. Mich.. R 8.

. I. C.'s. SERVICE BOARS, SPRING PIGS

t Farmers prices.
CLFOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.

 

sAGINAw VALLEY HERD 0F PRIZE WIN
ning 0. I. C’c. Jan. and Feb. pigs ready

priced reasonable. John Gibson, Foster. Mich.

 

 

 

OF! SALE CHEAP. FLEMISH GIANTS AND
New Zealand Reds. All stock pedigreed. Write
your wants. &tistaction guaranteed.
F. J. STING, Bach. Mich.

 

COLLIE. PUPPIES

 

“.4 ..

EWALT'S SIR HECTOR
A. K. C. No. 244685

 

 

Service Fee $16.00

Write Dr. W. Austin Ewnlt. Mt. Clemens.
Michigan, for those beautiful pedigreed sable
and white Collie Puppies bred from ﬁrm
trained stock that are natural heel drivers
with plenty of “it I also have a few Aire-
dale terrier and Shepherd puppies. All stock
guaranteed.

 

 

 

 

 

WANT TO SELL
ANY LIVESTOCK? ..
Try M'. B. F33 Breeders’ Directory

 

 

 

 

 

-' '~‘-‘" _ ' , 3m 4, 1921

COST OF PRODUCING m IN
NORTHERN MARYLAND
ARKE’I‘ milk cost on the aver-

age 32.2 cents per gallon.
$3.86 per 100 pounds, and
$213.13 per cqw per year on 94

northern Maryland farms surveyed
recently by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture in co—opera—
tion with the University of Mary-
land. A preliminary report ot this
survey, just issued by the Office of
Farm Management and Farm Eco-
nomics, shows that, with an average
sale price of 34.2 cents per gallon,
48 of the 84 farmers, or 51 per cent,
failed to make a proﬁt over the book
cost, with all feed and labor charged
at full current rates.

The average number of cows on
the farms surveyed was 18.2, and
the annual production varied from
less than 4,000 pounds to over 8,000
pounds, with an average for all cows
of 6,074. Practically all of the milk
in question was shipped, either to
Washington or Baltimore.

Of the total cost of production,
about one~half ($121.38 per cow)
was for feed, 56.6 per cent of this
being farm growu. Grain feed total-
ed 2,259 pounds per cow per year,
512 pounds of this being grown on
the farm. Hay fed totalled 1,793
pounds, practically all home grown.
Man labor per cow totalled 291
hours, horse labor 29 hours.

These ﬁgures for feed and labor.
expenditures, in pounds and hours,
are considered of greater importance
than the costs as expressed in dol-
lars and cents, since the former do
not fluctuate greatly from year to
year, and may be taken as basic in
estimating the cost of milk produc-
tion in the region surveyed.

A farm business analysis, made in
connection with the cost studies,
brings out in a striking way the re-
lation between cost of milk produc—
tion and farm income. It was found
that the labor incomes of 15 farms
with comparatively low milk costs
averaged $1,448 higher than those
of 15 farms with comparatively
high costs.

Veterinary Dep’ t l

,,W Austin Ewall,ed1tor

 

 

 

 

PARALYSIS

.I have some pigs which are around
snx months old. They seem to be in
good condition but some of them seem
to be paralyzed in their hind parts.
Then they are unable to walk and fall
off in condition. Could you tell me

what is the mattor?——-C. H. B.. Leslie,
Michigan.

This is a form of paralysis. Fluid
Ext. Nnx Vomica, two drams; potas-

sium iodid, two drains and add suf—
ﬁcient water to make eight ounces.
Give each pig one tablespoon morn-
ing and night. This treatment, to—
gether with a complete change of
food should be beneﬁcial.

 

HOOF CRACKS
Have a four year old colt, never been
harnessed. Her feet are very flat. The
boots are full of cracks, some of them
extending full length of hoof. Can any-
thing be done to remedy this matter?—
D., Lake City, Mich.

 

Hoof cracks are very troublesome
and the prognosis will depend upon
the age, kind and locate of the
crack. A low crack is without sig-
niﬁcance unless it is the demnant of
an old crack which has extended
from the top of the hoof down;
these coronary cracks are more ser-
ious because of the lameness which
often accompanies them, and espec-
ially on account of the long duration
of the healing process. The borders
of the crack never grow together,
and healing can only take place
through healthy, unbroken horn
growing down from the coronary
band at the top of the hoof. If the
horse is not being worked allow him
to go barefoot; otherwise, the use
of the bar—shoe for all cracks is ad-
vised, because it will continuously
protect the diseased section of. wall
‘from pressure by the shoe. In all
cracks, and especially coronary
cracks, it is of advantage to assist
healing by fastening of immoboliz-
ing the borders of the crack by place
ing a thin iron plate across the
crack and securing it by the use of
small screws,.s'11ch as are used .in
wood 4— 16 to 546 of an inch in
length, the toe should be kept short.

 

cw, _

 

 


 

  

June 4, 1921

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

1

 

(873) 15

 

 

 

 

- ' POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

 

 

 

 

Ad tlsem nts inserted under this 1108th .9 3° 00““ D0? “11°: I”? 1’930- Special rates for 13 times or longer. Write out what you hove so offer and
lend It illerWe Weill put it in type. send proof and quote rates by return mull. Addrers The Michigan Business Farmer. Adv. Dep’t, Mt Clemens Michigan.
ULTR SHIPPED SAFELY EVERY- CHICKS CHICKS CHICKS
PO Y .-..- A..- , GHIGK where by mail. \Vhlto Leg—
horns. Anconas and Books. The R E D U C E D P R I C E S
great egg machine]; Guaranteed 1{£111 Smut. S C S C A . .t
. .. t turd chc on srnvo yea re- . _. - . . men n 1 e
1 ,0"! i135." digalinz; Price :10 per 100 up v1.1.1- E35115“ Wh1te 11c ca W11 10c
' 1 uabie catalog feet Leghorns Leghorns I}
1:“‘lOMEIH 5mm) FARMS HOLLAND "noun" Anconas each Brown Leghorns 830
All chicks from pure— —bred. tested and culled egg Producers. We have . hatch ﬁes
' . H V0" are “ fax-mu R. 7, Holland. MICI'I. week and con fill any size order from 25 no 5. 000 chicks. Order direct from this oil- ‘1”

  
 

o1.11trymsn you will be in
.cresiod in the Michinn bred
PURE BRED PRACTICAL
POULTRY
A stock of dcmons'rntod ﬁlm
for practical poultry people
stock bred under the pisn‘oi
the Michigan Azri- 1ultuml ((1 ‘
Wheel and distributed of fall

’ 2.000 EIGHTc WEEKS PULLETS
Lezhorns. Anconu and 16 other breeds. Bhnl
We send you our 64-min descriptive Cslllozl
Chicks delivered parcel post prepaid.

STATE FARMS A880CIATIOII

Kolamuoo. Miohmnn

 

MUD-WAY-AUBH- KA FARM
olon young stock ond a. tow moturo broaden il
11 White Rumor Duck and
0 L G uprinl tilts.
Writ- todsy for prioeo on who! you need.
om: c. MILLER. Drama. Mich-

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two crux breed: [or proﬁt. Write todu for
(no oohiozuaot othetddnc ow. boby chicks ud

brooding [too
even HATOHER COMPANY. 1A0 Phlio lids.
Elmira. N. Y.

 

UALITY CHICKS, BLACK MINORGA, LIGHT
Brahma, on'c25c each. Barred Rock. R. 1. Red

18 cents
TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenian. Mich.

 

RUFF. IARRED. COLUMBIAN.
Partridge. Sliver Pencilod. White
Roe Anconos. White Wyondotteo
Rouen Duck. 82 «was. man.

Ontolotz

SHERIDAN POULTRY YARDS
Mn. R 0. Mich.

 

 

WYANDOTI‘E

SILVER LAOED GOLDEN AND WHITE WY-
“dotted En: 82.50 per 15: 84.50 for 80.
O. W. BROWNING, R 8, Mich.

Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs

Koran stroll: Whito Wyondottes. Grand utility
tad exhibition motion. Winuon at W. Mic
Poultry Show of. Huskegon. Chix sold to Mny
15 5th. Order now. Juno st reduced prices.

Bond i
o'er‘ﬂp‘ Rapids. Mich.

r—i

 

Portland.

 

prioo not.
HEIIBAOI'I. BM

 

LEGHORNS

 

RABOWSKE'S I. 0. WHITE LEGHORIS—
Shock. benching em chicks for oaie. _
LEO GRABmKE. R 4. Ion-iii. MICII.

 

 

Ba trod Roch
White Rock!

Anoonu

New

 

White Wnndottos Whit- Iqhorm
Golden Wyondottu

TRIAL OOIIVINOES
Prices rumble. Write {or FREE CATALOG.
NEW WASHINGTON HATOHERY, Dept. B

BABY CHICKS

HIGH STANDARD
QUA L'I'I

BRED RIGHT
HATGHED RIGHT
Shippedto direct from our
Into or door.
BIG. STRONG? FLUFF'Y
fellows botched from one
of good laying strains. ond
under or om «met 'on.
Nine loading nrieties to
select f:rom

RGMoIIinnd‘Reda
admnnmm

Brown Leghorn:
Alixod

Wuhlnaton. Ohio

 

105, do WI 111

lots. Safe 2;.

BABY CHICKS AT

 

special prices on 1,000

WYN GARDEN
Box B.

UCEB PRICES

S. C. White 8:
Brown Leghorns,
$11.50 per 100;
Anconas. $12.50
per 100. Sent by
parcel post pro-
paid. Order di-
rect from this ad.
or send for cata-

rrival guaranteed.

HATCHERY
Zeelond, ‘Mich.

 

 

ThoJ.
C. White

 

LORING AND
E.“

 

PARIS HATOHERV
unborn Chicks. Best Io-
with oopocity for on:

Only THE BEST

MARTIN OOIPANY
oh. well.

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

UALITY IARRED ROOKB, THOIPSON'.
Binzlotl. top crossed by M. AC. cocks. Eser
maturing Vizoro bred

15. S1. 50: 30

stock. E20.
$2. 75: 50. “.84 00: 100. S7. 50. Postpaid. nor
on

feed.
II. J. A R. A. WILSON. R 2. Kingsley. Mich.

 

 

ABY CHICKS, IARRED ROCKS, AHOONAS.
14c ea. for Jun delivery. Safe strive]. Circulars
H. H. PIERCE, Joromo, Mich.

 

BARRED ROCK EGGS OF A LAYING STRAII,
11.1143 well barred. Pens heeded 4with pedigreed
males.- 31. 75 ger 15; 84 501245.

I. AYER A SON. 811vorwood. lllich

 

 

 

ﬁ

RHODE ISLAND REDS

hlnaker’s R. I. Reds. Both Combs. Mich-
igan's greatest color and 0111; strain. We are
offering some unusual bargnirs in chicks and
hatching eggs for June and early July. Write
for free catalog.
INTERLAKES FARM
or 4, Lawrence. Mich.

LANGSHAN

 

 

 

DR. 8|MP80N'8 LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bud [or type and color since 1012. Winter
tying strain of both Block and Whito. BI"
mm. oockorels for solo. Eggs in suuon.
DR 0HA8. W. SIMPOOI
Wobbmiiii. Mich.

ORPINGTONB/

 

 

BABY CHICK

mentions.
Stamps (or circular.

EXTRA

botched Chick!
run,

where. Catalog

Minor-con, White
andottes

nested. bred to lay.
14m

NORMAN POULTRY PLANT. chum III.

Plan now onhmore em next winter

White Leaho
311—100; Anconu. 812—100.

y when mm In?"
0‘" 8M .
811—100; Bro rown Loxhornﬁ
Posipud' ony-

free
MONAROH POULTRY FARMS G HA
loci-Rd. "I”. TCIIERY

  
 

and Orpingtons.
F1111 count. PREPAID. Free Catalogue.
HOLGATE CHICK HATGHERY

Hoiaato.

HATOHIIG EGGS. BARRED
Roch: Norman mm trop-
Expertiy tested tor may
Mutated union» 250.

6000 CHICKS

Chicks with the ‘Pep

Price: Reduced
-. Our bred to lay and ex-
... hibibion chicks will pay
you. and
JUNE
Leghorns. 12c;
lleds. 15c; Anconss. .
Wysndottcs. 16c; Silver.\\1y-
180. Safe dchvery.

Ohio

 

DANGER

etles.
booking avoids

if chlx and eggs are
not shipped richt.
100. 000 best blooded chicks ever produced. A‘-
wsys 2000 on hand 5 to 15
Hatching eggs.
disappointment.
KMAII HATCHER RY

Chix 11c Up

days 0111.20 vari-
Ducklings. Catalog. Early

 

 

 

 

 

28 E. LyiﬁiK 81.. Grand Rapids. Mich.
oochRE '
EEIICTCIIS‘ {3’ ”.5.“ ‘33,”5‘533 KNAPP’S
Cookers o nd 1 ‘
ﬁnds; .15. .1....‘....‘.". 21"".1‘ ‘ ill-GRADE”
mm 0
ouoowo l 37:03.. a o, “m men. , CHICKS .
38 years building up
ANCONAB laying strainsﬁbegin
where we leave off.
0. MOTTLED snoous , snap
strain. Excellent inyers 19321183150 pet”? Day old chicks from
MR8. GILBERT snowu. Wheeler. Mich. 12 leading varieties—
uarrsno's FAMOUS—WEST Ancouss. Safe delivery guaranteed

1' 30. S i ITS)“
or pee I 0
MM

my omens
BABY CHICKS

350, 000 for 1921
:ur 17th moon. Cinch sod
Solo delivery muo-
".Leed Inhorm, Roch, Reds. An-
conos. Wysndottes. Minorcu.
Utility Ind Exhibiting quality o!

Contain blood world champion is
E“: 82 for 15: 83 y"
HERMAN POI“.

 

 

  

 

Send for pr
livery.

BY PREPAID PARCEL POST ‘

Knapp'o “Hi-Grade”

ices and get early do-

Poultry Farm

save tin:

e. We guarantee complete satisfaction All chicks shipped prepaid to your doc!-
ORDER TODAY
SUPERIOR i“OULTRY FARMS & HATOHERY

BOX J. ZEELAno, nucmosu

 

8. 0. White Les.
8. 0. Brown Log.
8. 0. But! Loo.

 

'DEPARTMEIT n. F.

SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES
BABY CHICKS

ommmmzmtmmum.mmnmmmmm
BorrodRocks

3- “Vim”: 18c
13;; Lumbar

“Ix. Wade—1(a)

Give 3 tml order and you will slwnyo cane Incl for more. Get our big chick aﬂer.
Order direct from this ad. Ind uve dell? Circuhr free.

WOLF HATCHING & BREEDING CO..

GIBSOKBU RG. OHIO

 

CHICKS!
- PRICES SMASHED

Send at once for information.

Do not buy until you know our
prices.

Five varieties, quality chicks.
Parcel post prepaid.
97 per cent alive upon arrival.

CITY LIMITS HATCHEBY

Route 5, Box 11

I Holland, Michigan

 

12,000 STANDARD QUALITY
every Tuesday It reduced prices:
Mottled Anoonss English and Amerimn W. Lez-
horns. Brown Leghorns and Barred Rocks; oil
singio comb; safe arrival guaranteed; catalog tron
Know. Hatchery. R 3. Holland. IIch.

BABY CHIX

 

CHICKS $10.00 PER 100

And Get Them at Once

Standard Bred 8. C. White and Brown Lez—
horns, bred to lay for the past twelve years and
are now very good. You WJII be well pleased
to have our stock on 110 1r im'u

The quality at the chicks is of the best. and
guarantee 100 per cent safe arrival. by [areal
post.

Write for catalogue or order direct from this
adv. and get the chicks at once.

WOLVERINE HATCHERY
Zoolund, R 2.. Michigan

 

BUFF LEGHORI BABY
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L RED MATCHING E668. THOIPKIH’S
strain, 310 per 100; baby chicks, 251: each.
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ARRED ROCK E668 FROI GREAT LAY-
:rs with exhibition qualiﬁed

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BAHRED ROCKS Park: 200 ell otroilL Rich

in the blood 0! Park's but pedigreed pens. $2
per 15. 86 per 50, 812 you 100. l’mpoid by
ported poo! in non—breohhio containers.

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. 0. BR. LEGHORI EGGS, $1.50 FOR 15
Pekin duck 81.50 for 8. W. China zoo-c
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BARRED ROCK EGGS FOR MATCHING. BRED
in loy. 81. 75 per 15. 8800 per 30 Other
prices on request. Puree] posture paid.

J. I. Tro-bridoo. R 4. Do: 41. aim-1n. III'ch.

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0. Block Emma. Roi-thrup Strain. Eggs.
15 g)! 81. 75: 50 for 84. 50; 100 for $51.00.
C. J. DEEDRICK.Vassar-.M1ch.

 

'HITE AFRICAN GUINEA EGGS, 15 FOR
$1.50. pnstpuid
MR8. MAGGIE ARNOLD. Coleman. Rich.

 

 

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BREEDERS ATTENTION!

If you are planning on a sale this year, write us now and

CLAIM THE DATE!
to the live stock industry in Michigan
to avoid conﬂicting pale dates

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Herbert H. Knapp. Prop.
Box B F 6 Shelby. Ohio
White Leghorns, 'Engiish Strain

for June at $10 per 100; $5.50 for

 

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M. BRANDT, Zeeland, Mich.

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One Subcrip- ONE YEAR. .
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to all!

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Dear Friends—Keep M. B. F. coming to the address below fur
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and we will ship it for you to try 30 days in your own
home. Then you can ﬁnd out for yourself just how
much a New Butterﬂy Cream Separator will save
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from this advertisement

you save all expense of cata-
logs, postage, letters and time. And we
give you the beneﬁt of this saving if you
send the coupon below. Furthermore, isn’t - "ii ‘
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\ 30 days’ trial, you
are not pleased

Just send the machine
back at our expense
and we will pay the freight
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counts the same as a $2 payment. You take that much

 

 

 

 

 

right off from our factory price on any size Separator you

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select. For example—if you choose a $44 machine'you have
only $42 left to pay in 12 easy payments or only $3.50 a month.
If you select the $56 machine you will have only $54 left to
pay in 12 easy payments of only $4.50 a month—and so on

The Coupon Makes First Payment \.
And the Separator Itself Pays the Rest

You get the benefit of the great saving in time and work while the sepa-

rator is paying for itself. After that the proﬁt is all yours, and you own one

of the best separators made-a steady proﬁt producer the year 'round—ajna-

chine guaranteed a lifetime against all defects in material and workmanship and

you won't feel the cost at all. If you decide to keep the separator we send you,

you can pay by the month, or you can pay in full at any time and get a discount for

cash. The coupon will count as $2 just the same. The important thing to do now 13 to

oond the can on. whether you want to buy for cash or on the easy paymentplan. We, have shipped

§§9“F%2d§i°‘i ew Butterﬂy Cream Separators direct from our factory to other farmers in your State on
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Order Direct From This Advertisement on Thirty Ilays’ Trial. Ilse the coupon. ‘ \

No. 41/2—Machine shown ‘\
here. Capacity up to 500
lbs. or 250 qts. of milk

per hour. Price, $65
Terms: Free $2 cou-

pon with order. Bal-
ance, $5.25 a month for 12

You take no risk whatever.
You have 30 days in which to ~
try the New Butterﬂy we send
you before you decide to keep
it. Every machine we build
carries a written Lifetime Guaran-
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to Clean

The New Butterﬂy is
the easiest cleaned of
allCream Separators. It
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No. 2%-—Machine illustrated at
left. Capacity up to 250 lbs. or 116
qts. of ‘milk per hour.
Price, $44.00
Terms: Free $2.00 coupon
Balance, $3.50
a month for 12 months.
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No. 31/2—Machine shown at
left. Capacity up to 400 lbs.

   
  
  

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machine satisfactory and as represented by you, I will keep It and
you are to accept this coupon as $2 ﬁrst cash ayment for same. If I am
~ not pleased, you agree to accept the return 0 the machine Withoutany
expense to me. and I Will be under no obligation to you.

 

with order. Balance, $6.00
a month for 12 months.

 

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Capacity up to 850

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the less time it will take to do the work.

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