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Farmer’s Weekly Owned and

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MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1921

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,fifty-six bushels of Red Rock

 

 

  

 

  
  
  
  
  
    
   
    
   
    
  
  

   

 

 

 

 

Business Farmer Raises Record Wheat Crop

Threshes Five Hundred Bushels of Red Rock from a Little Over Nine Acres

HAT IS believed to be the record
crop of wheat produced in Michigan
this year is reported by Harry Seddon &
Son, Business Farmer readers, of Mayville,
Sanilac county
From nine and one- fourth acres Seddon
thrashed 503 bushels of Red Rock wheat,
and has the afﬁdavits of the thresherman
and nine reputable farmers to prove it.
_ Can anyone beat it?
Mr. J F. Cox, professor of farm crops

' at M A. 0., believes this to be the record

1921 yield for the state.

“Within the past three years several yields
of over fifty bushels per acre have come to
my knowledge. Mr. E. K. Warren of Ber-
rien county, on a fifty acre field, secured
fifty-five bushels of Red Rock; Leonardson
and Sprei‘tzer of Allegan Oounty, nifty-two
bushels. Mr. J. W. Vietengruber of Frank-
enmuth secured over forty bushels on sev-
eral occasions.”

How it was Done

The ﬁeld from which this crop was har-
vested, advises Mr. Seddon, was sown to
barley in 1919, seeded to June clover and

pastured the following summer. Later it
was summer-fallowed and last fall sown to
the pure Red Rock wheat at the rate of
one and one-half bushels per acre. Mr.
Seddon also sowed 130 pounds to the acre
of 16 per cent acid phosphate which was
purchased through the county farm bur—
eau. “We usually go 011 the three-year ro-
tation,” says Mr. Seddon, “clover, corn,

oats and wheat.”
The Seddon farm is located six miles
south and west of the village

 

Asked to express his opinion
upon the matter Prof. Cox
said:

“The reported yields of your
Mayville subscriber of 500
bushels of Red Rock wheat
from nine acres, is the highest
of the season for Michigan. In
fact, the yield of practically

per acreon a field scale, is the
largest yield I have ever heard
of for any season.

“This year’s crop is below
average and no yields com-

 

of Mayville and is one of the
oldest and best farms in the
region.

If other readers of the Bus-
iness Farmer haVe succeeded
in securing yields 0f wheat or
other crops as good or nearly
as good as that reported by
Mr. Seddon, the Business
Farmer should like to hear of
it. Reports should include
full details, such as soil prep-
aration, rotation, fertilizer
used, date of sewing, and if

 

 

parable to this one have been
reported.

Home of Harry Seddon & Son, business far.n1ers

possible a picture of the farm
on which grown.

Making the Federal Farm Loan System of More Value to Farmers

(Continued from last week)
HE ACUTE ﬁnancial condition in
which the farmers have found them-
selves during last year, since the price of
agricultural commodities declined out of
all proportion to the sales price of manu-
factured and other commodities, has called
for relief from many sources. In Federal
legislation it has taken the form of in-_
creasing the rate of interest to 5 1—2 per
cent on Federal Farm Loan bonds which
also are tax-free. The Federal Farm Loan
Board found it so difﬁcult to float their
last issue of $40,000,000 of bonds that it
was necessary to raise the interest rate at
least 1- 2 of 1 per cent However, this
does not mean that the money derived from
these bonds will be lent at a higher rate
than heretofore, 6 per cent
In order further to facilitate the func-
tioning of the 'Federal Farm Loan System
a revolving fund of $25,000,000 was creat-
ed in the Treasury Department which will
be used as working capital by the Federal
Farm Loan Board and will enable it to
ﬂoat larger“; issues of bonds and to continue
lending money While the bonds are being
ﬂoated.
Under the present law the Federal Farm'
Loan System cannot place a mertgage of

- more than $10, 000 on any farm. An ef—

fort is being made, through a bill intro-
duced- by Representative M O. McLaughlin

 

 

 
 

Oi Nebraska’lo” increase this amount to

By EDWY B. REID

$25,000. The reason for this is that in the
middle west particularly where farms are
very valuable and the price is high, a small
ﬁrst mortgage is more of a deterrent than
an assistance in the ﬁnancing of the farm,
for it necessitates the placing of a larger
second mortgage,——frequently difﬁcult to
accomplish,-—at a higher rate of interest.

At the beginning of the present session
a whole flock of bills were introduced for
the avowed purpose of assisting in the
ﬁnancing of agriculture Almost every
scheme which could be devised by the in-
genuity of the human mind was represent-
ed in the methods of ﬁnancing the farmers,
advocated by congressmen or accomodate-
ingly introduced by him for some con-
stituent. When one or two of these bills
advanced so far, or the sentiment became
so keen that it was plain to everybody that
some legislation would have to be enacted,
the bankers were tipped off to the fact that
if they did not Wish the government to
function to the relief of the livestock pro-
ducers of the west that the banking inter-
ests would have to come to their rescue.

As usual, interest rates in the far west
were exceedingly high and yet currency
continued to gravitate to the eastern banks.
Conferences between bankers and govern-

,ment oﬂicials In; Washington were followed
”later by similar meetings among bankers

 

in New York and Chicago, With the result
that a $50, 000, 000 pool was formed, much
of the capital being contributed from the
east. Its function has been to purchase
cattle paper from banks which were con-
gested with this sort of credit and thus as-
sist them to carry credit of the cattle men
and possibly to extend further credit. To
date a few million dollars have been lent
from this pool The move on the part of
the bankers successfully checked the pro-
posed legislation and assisted in a small
measure of relief to the “cow men” of the
west

The farming interests however, do not
consider the present method of Oﬁnancing
loans running from 6 months to‘) u years to
be adequate and a move undoubtedly will
be made by the Agricultural Blocs in the
Senate and House directly after recess to
erect a new form of machinery based some-
what upon the plan of the Federal Farm
Loan System which will give farmers a
longer term credit than seems to be possible
under the present method of banking where
the money is taken from the commercial
pool formed largely from short time . de-
posits.

The disruption of the ordinary channels
of export trade due to the ﬁnancial condi-
tion of many European countries, their re-
duced buying power, the diiferential in
money exchange and the altered position of
the United States in (Continued on page 10)

 

    

 

 

 

 


    
  
 
 
 
 

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' STATE FARM BUREAU SEED
DEPARTMENT ENLARGED
EED HANDLING capacity of the
state farm bureau seed depart-
ment is to be increased five
times from a seed-cleaning stand-
point and twenty times from a re-
ceiving and storage standpoint over
what it was one year ago, says J . W.
Nicolson, manager of the department
in stating how his organization is
preparing for a great fall and win-
ter of co-operative seed marketing.
Storage, insurance charges on seed
and the exchange on drafts are to
be absorbed by the state farm bur-
eau hereafter, said Mr. Nicolson.
The commission on seed sales is to
remain at 75 cents a bushel. Clean—
ing charge on seed free from buck-
horn is to be 35 cents for the first
time through the cleaning machine
and 20 cents for each consecutive
cleaning. Two cleanings are usual-
ly enough. When necessary to put
seed over the buckhorn mill the
cleaningrcharge will be $1.05 per
bushel, which includes the forego-
ing cleanings. These charges the
farm bureau declares it has found

to be fair and equitable in hand-
ling seed.
Seed cleaning capacity at the

farm bureau headquarters has been
enlarged through the installation of
a third and fourth seed cleaning ma—
chine. Ground has been broken for
a. new seed storage and receiving
building. A hulling machine will
take Hubam and ordinary sweet
clover direct from a threshing ma.-
chine and clean and scarify it at a
considerable economy over the old
clover hulling machine method.
Supply bins have been installed so
that the machines will be supplied
with seed almost automatically and
will be able to prepare for market
about two carloads of seed daily.
The department is preparing for an
immense volume of business this
winter, according to Mr. Nicolson.

A. F. B. F. SEEKS EARLY SETTLE-
MENT OF NITRATE PROJECT
RMERS are seeking an early
settlement of the Muscle Shoals
nitrate project says the state
farm bureau. The special commit-
tee of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, including J. R. Howard,
President, and Gray Silver, Wash-
ington representative, appointed at
the recent Executive Committee
meeting held in Springfield, Mass,
has been in Washington studying
the Wilson Dam and nitrate project
at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the
efforts which have been made to the
government for its operation. They
have urged the government officials
to make some decision by the time
congress reconvenes.
Following is the report made by
the committee on September 1:
“We find the cabinet carefully
considering the tender made by Mr.
Ford for the Muscle Shoals project.
A committee of the Cabinet is con-
ducting investigations so that the
government may be fully prepared
to enter into the negotiations that
have been proposed by Mr. Ford.
Secretary Weeks, of the War De-
partment is expected to ask Mr. Ford
to come to Washington so that a
contract mutually satisfactory to

This matter has been presented to
President Harding and to Secretary
Hoover by the American Farm Bur-
eau Federation Legislative Commit-
tee to impress upon them the at-
titude of the American Farm Bureau
Federation relative to Muscle Shoals
and its active interest in seeing
that the fertilizer manuﬂacturllng
end of this projectris not jeopardiz-

ed. Q,

“Your committee thinks both
parties to these negotiations—name-
ly the United States government and
Mr. Ford—will have had ample time
upon the reconvening of congress
to come to an agreement on this
~proposition, which contains items of
great natiOnal interest to all our
citizens. . *

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both parties may be agreed upon.»

the ”hydro-electric development at
Muscle Shoals and the operation of
the nitrate plants at that place so
that the producers and consumers of
the United States may benefit by the
lessened cost of fertilizers which
may be manufactﬁred there, and so
more nearly guarantee the preserva-
tion of the soil resources of our no-
tion, and the continuation of our
food supply.”

LOWDEN ENDORSES FARM
BUREAU ’
A RECENT address before the

Waukesha 00., Wis., Farm Bill‘-
. eau, Frank 0. Lowden, former
governor of Illinois and now Presi-
dent of the Holstein-Friesian Asso-
ciation of America said:

“The most helpful movement of
modern times in agriculture is the
county farm bureau. It is going to
help us [bring agriculture up more
rapidly than any other agency we
have had in the past, and that is be-
cause it gets the farmers to co—oper-
ating with one another along the
most practical and successful lines.
I know that is true in Illinois and I

am quite sure it is equally true
elsewhere.”
DENIES EQUITY EXCHANGE

LOSES $150,000

LAT DENIAL that the Equity

Co-operfltive Exchange of St.

Paul last year lost $150,000

which is the gist of a rumor now be—

ing circulated in the middle West,

is contained in a statement issued

here today by J. M. Anderson-,Y’pr‘es-
ident.

“We presume the only object for
circulating statements of this kind,"
says Mr. Anderson, “is to cast a re-
ﬂection on the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc., by virtue of my dual connec-
tion with the Equity Co-operative
Exchange and the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers.’l .

Mr. Anderson is general manager
as well as president of the St. Paul
institution, and vice-president and
chairman of the sales committee of
the U. S. Grain Growers.

Discussing the affairs, of his con-
cern at length, Mr. Anderson says:
“Our financial statement of Dec. 31,
1920, clearly shows the year’s bus—
iness. We have a net worth of
nearly $2,000,000, and are doing
an annual business turnover of
about $40,000,000. Our business
has grown from nothing to its pres-
ent, size in th face of the severest
competition at the hands of the or-
ganized grain trade.
determine the financial stability of
this institution by consulting any
Dun’s or Bradstreet’s financial re-
view which include the state of Min-
nesota.”

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FARM BUREAU NOTES

ISPLAY OF state farm bureau
D virgin wool fabrics at various
county fairs has developed con-
siderable interest in the farm bur-
eau project, says the wool depart—
ment. Last week orders for fabrics
received in one day and traceable to
the fair exhibits totalled more than
$3,000. The department had an ex-
hibit. at the State Fair in Detroit
and will have another important
display at‘the Grand Rapids fair,

beginning September 19.

Some 1921 wool is moving from
the farm bureau pool to eastern
mills. Last week a. carioad of fine
wool sold an eastern mill. brought
30 cents a. pound, net Michigan ship-
ping point.

Changes in the. express classifi-
cations, effective September 15.
state that hereafter all trays and
dividing boards for egg shipments
must be of hard calendared straw-
board and shall not weigh less than
3 1-2 pounds instead of three pounds
as formerly. Future egg shipments
must be noted on the express re-
ceipt as hatching eggs or market

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Number 3

BUSINESS FARM ER

September 17 i

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Milk Combines Force the Farmers to Organize

Many Producers’ Organizations Are Going into the Marketing and Distributing of Milk

(C HAVE NOTED” writes a department
of agriculture ofﬁcial to the Business
Farmer, “that the Michigan Milk Producers’
Association is perfecting plans for establish-
ing a plant at Adrian, Michigan. Personally
I consider the establishing of a single plant a
very small beginning for such an organization
as the Michigan Milk Producers’ Associa-
tion.” _

This is the opinion of a man who is in con-
stant touch with the work of farmers’ dairy-
ing organization throughout the entire United
States, and has observed What splendid re—
sults other organizations have obtained for its
members through co operative manufacture
and marketing.

Virtually the same opinion prevails among
most of the members of the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Ass’ n, who are ve1y much dis-
couraged over the present outlook and greatly
disappointed because the Association has been
so slow to take steps to improve marketing
conditions within this area Efforts to estab-
lish a cheese factory meets with the united
approval of the producers, although there is
some difference of Opinion regarding the pro-
posed location of such a plant On the other
hand there 1s a well deﬁned feeling that this is
but a. minor step in What should be a compre—
hensive program looking to the eventual man—
ufacture and marketing of all milk products
by the members of the Association.

At a meeting of farmers held at Howell,
September 3rd, much interest was shown in
the plan of G. T. Bryce of Romeo to organize
the Eastern Michigan Farmers’ Dairy and
Produce Company, through which it is planned
to establish a central milk receiving station
and several produce distributing points in the
city of Detroit. Some objection was offered
to the plan by one individual present because
it did not have the approval of the Association,
and, presumably, of the Farm Bureau. While.
it is true that the Farm Bureau is taking no

active partin the formation of the new com~

pany, both county farm bureau ofﬁcers and
county agents within the territory affected are
enthusiastic over the potential results.

'As has been stated previously in these col-

umns other dairy organizations are proceed-

ing with great rapidity and success in the
solving of their marketing problems. The
ﬁeld is not new by any means. Among the
more conspicuous examples of successful co-
operative milk marketing may be cited the
following:

New York Dairymen’s League, Utica, New
York; Twin City Milk Producers’ Association,
Minneapolis, Minn.; Oregon Dairymen’s Co-
Operative League, Corbett Bldg, Portland,
Ore.; Fraser Valley Dairy, Ltd., Vancouver,
British Columbia; Queen City Dairy, Cum-
berland, Md.; Pittsﬁeld Milk Exchange, Pitts-
ﬁeld, Mass.

The ﬁrst three named organizations 'operate
on a rather large scale and own and operate
country plants at which surplus is manufac-
tured and the net returns from all products
are pooled and the producers paipi‘the pooling
price less the cost of maintaining and operat-
ing the association. The latter three organi-
zations are primarily producers’ co—operative
milk distributing plants.

Some arguments in favor of farmers se_ ng
their own milk are given in a recent state cut
by the All American Co—operative Commission
of Washington, D. C. which says:
“Following the allegation at Email J. Poole,
Chicago’ 3 high cost of living expert, that the
ﬂustof. that city- has been pouring sur-

 

 

‘ Rise of Wheat

EVIVAL OF' the cotton market in the
South and a rising stock market seems
to have assisted wheat in getting to

its feet again with an increase in price of
more than 20 cents a bushel early in Sep-
tember after a previous slump. Export de-
mand for wheat in July and August result~
ed in record shipments for those months.
Despite the money stringenCy in Europe.
buyers over there had the money to pay
according to the Michigan Elevator Ex-
change.—Michigan State Farm Bureau.

 

 

 

 

 

 

plus milk into the sewers in order to keep up
the price, Assistant State’s Attorney Nicholas
Michels makes the revelation that the Chicago
milk combine has been robbing the farmers
as well as the consumers. Michels charges
that the city’s milk distributors have organ-
ized a boycotte to compel all farmers to ac-
cept from 1 2-3c to 30 a quart for their milk,
for which the trust demands 140 a quart from
the consumers. The milk combine in Indian—
apolis follows the same tactics, having beaten
the farmers down from Go to 4c per quart, and
at the same time raising the price of milk to
the public from 110 to 12c. The generous
milk trust which controls the milk supply of
Duluth, Minnesota, has been paying the farm-
ers as much as 5 1-2c a quart, which they
permit the public to buy for 14c.

“It may take an X-ray to see through a
bottle of milk, but it requires only a very

 

 

Over 1,000 Head of Cattle
Exhibited at State Fair

HE MICHIGAN State Fair, which has

just closed, brought to the View of those
who elected to attend the exhibition, the larg-
est display of improved live stock ever shown
within a single enclosure in this state. In re-
spect to numbers, the cattle division exceeded
all other departments, the number of animals

entered being in excess of 1,000 head. In .

point of numbers of animals entered in the
beef department the Shorthorns had the best
of it but when average quality was taken into
consideration, the three great beef breeds, the
Aberdeen-Angus, the (Continued on page 13)

little horse sense to fathom the proﬁteering of
the milk combines which have secured a mon-
opoly on the distribution of milk in almost
every large ‘city in the country. On the one
hand, the [consumer has to pay the price for
milk which they exact, or else his children
will sicken and die for lack of an essential
item of their diet. On the other hand, the
farmers, who raise the cows, feed them and
do the dirty work around the dairy, get only
a bit of skimmed milk after the milk trust has
taken oil the cream——ﬁnancial as well as
lacteal. _

“The only possible escape from this shame—
less exploitation is to do away with proﬁteer-
ing middlemen by means of co-opcrative milk
distributing agencies, through which the dairy-
ing farmers can deal directly with the city
milk consumers \Vherevcr this has been tried,
the response of both the public and the farm-
ers has been almost remarkable. The Frank-
lin Co—operative Creamery Association, which
was organized in lslinncapolis less than four
months ago to handle the output of the Twin
Cities’ Co—operative Dairymen’s Association,
is now supplying milk daily to more than 15,-
000 homes throughout the city. Its business
has more than doubled during the past two
months, and it will add to the 52 routes it
now runs as fast as suitable equipment can
be secured. The Franklin Cooperative
Creamery, instead of pouring the farmers’
surplus milk into the sewers to boost the price,
manufactures it into butter, of which it sells
1,200 pounds daily, along with 800 gallons of
buttermilk.

“The past week brings the news that two
other cities, Spokane and Duluth, are organ-
izing co-operative creamcries to bring togeth—
er the farmer—producer and the city consumer.
The Inland Empire Dairy Products of Spo—
kane already haVe 9 milk wagons and trucks
in operation, and report that the ﬁrst ten days
of business surpassed all expectations. The
manager of this co-operative enterprise states
that every quart of milk and cream received
from the farmers is now being marketed, the
price for a pint of cream being the same as
for a quart of milk-

“Co—operative creameries and cooperative
bakeries have long been successfully estab-
lished in European countries. It is only a
question of. how much longer the patient
American public will permit private monop-
olies to proﬁteer in these necessities of life.”

West Michigan Fair Opens September 19th

N POINT of attendance, extent of exhibits,

quality of entertainment, the West Mich—
igan Fair has long since attained state—wide
proportions, and the 1921 exposition which
will be held in Grand Rapids Sept. ']9th to
23rd is declared to be the “last word in in—
dustrial exposition eﬁforts and greatest agri-
cultural fair in the state, or this part of the
west for that matter.”

The program includes a score or more of
free vaudeville and circus acts, such as gym—
nastic stunts, educated pigs, the crazy comedy
mule, white Arabian horses, famous 1ifle
shots, the high- -jumping equine, Nathan Dan-
iels, the Michigan giant, wild west exhibitions,
spectacular ﬁreworks such as the “Siege of
the Dardanelles”' “the Great Chicago Fire”
and “Pioneer Days”, Ruth Law and her fly-
ing circus, and one of the ﬁnest automobile
racing events ever staged in Western Mich-
lgan. ‘ >

Says the management:

“Every day and night will be feature pro-
grams that are calculated to give visitors their
money’s worth and send them home with many
pleasant recollections for days to follow of how
dear old Ma took a thrilling ride on the merry-
go—round, and Pa, the reckless old scout, sneak—
ed off and ‘took in’ the diving mermaid show, and
son Elmer, only lately returned from foreign
trenches took the ‘dare’ of the wild west show
and tackled the most unruly beast ever out of
Vly'oming and got thrown nearly back home and
many other pleasant experiences which the fam-
ily always enjoys when it takes in the fair.”

Grand Rapids being the heart of western
Michigan and the hub of a ﬁne system of "
highways and railways, invites farmers from
a hundred miles or so around. The West.
Michigan State Fair provides the annual va-
cation for thousands of farm folks and others
living within that radius, and unless all signs
fail, every county in the wheel will be well
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I A Scotchman and a Sailor, a Photbgrapher and a Hiu'doo Merchant Anidng Interesting Pagerigers

“When you come to the end of a perfect day
And sit alone with your thoughts,

And the chimes ring out with a carol gay
For the j0y that the day has brought;

Do you think what the end of a perfect day
Can mean to a tired heart,

And the sun goes down with a flaming ray
And the dear friends have to part.”

ID-OCEAN,—rolling waves, setting sun,
pink—tinted clouds, a boat basking in

, the reflected glory upon the sea! It is the
end of a perfect day. To look upon the
splendOr of an ocean sunset is to commune
with nature. She will take you by the arm
and in her varied language whisper to you
of friends, of home, of God. She will charm
you into forgetfullness of all those about you,
she will gather you to her bosom and trans-

, port you beyond the ocean, beyond the clouds,
to inﬁniteregions above where you may stand

for a moment upon the borderland tw1xt
earth and heaven. 7
You do not have to possess the sens1t1ve
soul of a poet to feel the breath of God upon
you as you stand within His presence upon a
ship in mid-ocean. There is something about
9,» p the ocean, whether it be a storm, a sunset, or
a distant ship, that turns one’s thoughts to
God. A friend of mine, who was formerly
American consul to Florence, Italy, has ex-
pressed this feeling in the following beautiful
description which he employs in one of his
lectures and gave to me before I left for
Europe:
“I know of no place where one is more fully
3'3 awakened to a consciousness of his own insigniﬁ-
‘ cance in the sight of God than in mid-ocean. It
is a realm of wild abandon. The world of care
and trouble, the noisy contentious world, the
world of greed and selﬁshness, the world of
bigots,~—-has faded from the view. The foul
tongue of slander and the voice of calumny are
. silent. Here man is a lone isle in the sea of
' *9 creation, a mere plaything of the tempest, a
toy in the hand of the Infinite. Stripped and
,shorn of all worldly foibles, he stands alone in
the presence of his Creator. '

“How deep, how wide, how high, the expanse,—
this throne of God. How small, 110w frail, is the
shrine of worship built by man. What does it

. matter where we kneel if the sunlight of the
divine truth but breaks through the latticed
windows of our soul.

“It comes not of’t to man but surely, I think,
e’re he dies, that strange emotion, that weird
sensation, the soul’s consciousness that God is
nigh. It comes not in the crowded marts of
trade, the Whirlpools of busy traffic; it comes
not always on bended knee before the chapel’s
consecrated shrine, but rather in the majestic

 
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
   
 
   
  
   
    
  
 
 
  

“0n the mountain’s lof‘tiest peak,———irn the
'pathless jungle of the wood,—in the trackless
waste of ocean,——-look, and you will find the
altar of your God.”

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NE ENOOUNTERS many interesting
folk on board ship. And it not infre-
quently happens that the most interesting are
found among the steerage passengers. I
spent some time on the lower decks taking
pictures of chubby, but, oh, so dirty-faced
liftle urchins, and engaging in conversation
with some of the passengers. One of these
was a ﬁne-looking old Scotchman from Los
Angeles. His old mother in the north of
Scotland is ailing, she is nigh on to ninety
years of age—and he must see her before she
dies.
proudly acknowledges that the farm of his
fathers has been handed down for more than
three hundred years. Most of his ancestry,
; he says, lived to a ripe old age, his grand-
father dying at 93. “Those who stayed on
the farm live-d longer than those who went to
the city,” he says, “city life has a demoraliz-
' g4 effect on both body and character.”

“ ong the half dozen ﬁrst-class passen—
gegswho are not members of the Rotary del-
‘is‘ion is a Hindoo exporter, his wife and
he son, of Calcutta, India. He is well edu-
ated, and speaks fluent English. The only
h ”g heknows about Detroit is that it is the
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wife is reputed to be an Indian princess, and

her gowns and jewels are the envy of all
other ladies on board the boat. * * ’“‘ "" *

Sailor J ack,——I wonder if all sailors are
named Jacki—is not exactly an Apollo but
he is at least a hero. He has blue eyes and a
nose that crooks in the middle and runs 01f
in a so’easterly direction. His eyes are blue
and his mouth is big, and some of his teeth
are missing, and he stutters something ﬁerce.
Nevertheless, he. saved sixty lives when the
Lusitania went down, and shook hands with
King George. ‘

“I was down in the hold of the ship,” he
related to me one day on the boat deck, “when
something hit the boat and she shook just like
that”, jerking his hands back and forth to
imitate a shuddering movement. “I got on
deck and we lowered a boat but the davits
caught and the boat turned over. Another
sailor and myself righted the boat and started
to pick up the peeple in the water. I caught
one w-w-woman by the hair and d-d-dragged
her aboard. She c-c-called me a h-h—heartless
wretch. The water was full of people kick-
ing and screaming, but I picked up about sev-
enty. Some of them died later. The King
p-p-personally t-t-thanked me, and gave me a
meda . ” "

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In the city of Washington there is a'cer-
tain noted photographer by the name of
George Harris. He is called the “White
House” photographer because he has done all
the work of the Presidents and their families
since the time of President Roosevelt. He
has sat in cabinet meetings and heard discus-
sions denied to all others except cabinet mem-
bers. Among his lists of acquaintances he

Use of Picric Acid as an Agricultural Explosive

By THOS. H. MacDONALD, Chief, Bureau of Public Roads

I read in your paper about picric acid for
blasting. There are several farmers here that
would litho\know all about it. Where can we
get it and how much can each farmer get?—
J. A. D., Ogemaw County, Michigan.

ICRIC ACID is a high explosive which
was used in large quantities by this and
other countries during the world war. Be-
cause of its high cost of .manufacture, its in-
sensitivencss, and its rapidity of detonation
it cannot be classed as an agricultural explos~
ive; but as a salvaged war material its use is
recommended to those farmers who can ob-
tain it at a cost less than that of commercial.
explosives. Some 12,500,000 pounds of sal-
vaged picric acid is to be distributed to land-
owners, by the U. S. Deparment of Agricul-
ture for the purpose of stimulating land
clearing activities. {[t has been prepared for
distribution by drying and packing in double-
dipped paraffined cartridges weighing six
ounces. Michigan“! share amounts to 624,000
pounds and is to be distributed through the
Michigan Agricultural College.
Picric acid is a comparatively safe high ex-
plosive. _It.is more insensitive to shock or
impact and to friction than are the commerc-

ial explosives, but it is slightly more sensitive.

 

numbered Pres. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and _' !

.Harding, to say nothing of lesser lights like

the Prince of Wales, Paul Hymen, president
of the League of Nations, Lord Balfour, Lloyd
George, etc., etc. Harris is sergeant-at-arms
of International Rotary and was on board the
Caronia. I became well acquainted with him.
One of the best talks given on board the boat
was Harris’ description of his experiences at
the Peace conference, and with Prominent in-
dividuals. He told us that Lloyd George had
said to him that Pres. Wilson was the great-
est diplomat in the world. He gave us some
interesting sidelights on the character of ,
Pres. Wilson with whom he was more closely I _i
associated than with any other president. :
Ill 1* #9 # it

, One day as I walked the promenade deck
there stared up in my face from the seat of a
deck chair the title of a book, “Denmark”.
A day or two later another book lay in the
same chair, entitled, “Co-operation”. I
looked up the owner and found him to be one
Howard Selby secretary of the Eastern States’
Farmers’ Exchange, a co-operative buying
and selling agency, located at Springﬁeld,
Mass. He also is intending to visit European
countries to inspect the co-operative methods
employed. His organiZation is of recent orig?
in. It is backed by certain powerful ﬁnan-
ciers of the 'east, among them such men as r ">
Wood of the American Woolen Mills 00., and

Fisk of the Fisk Tire Co. The same men are

back of the Eastern States’ Agricultural Ex-
position at Springﬁeld, which was recently .
visited by Chairman Halladay and Secretary
Dickinson of the Michigan State Fair for the
purpose of inspecting the giant coliseum said

to be the largest in the United States.

I questioned Selby upon the sincerity of
the motives of these men who were ﬁnancing
his organization. “How far will they go”,
I asked, “in encouraging farmers to engage
in co-operative manufacture and buying
which will compete with their own interests?”
I told him of the wool manufacturing project
of the Michigan State Farm Bureau and
asked him how Mr. Wood could reconcile him-
self to such a project. Selby admitted the -
possibility of a conflicg of interests, but said
that in such case his rganization would lose
the support of Wood rather than be influ-
enced by Wood from engaging in an enter-f
prise of beneﬁt to the farmers.

Selby recited instances of where the co-op—
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danger will be involved in using picric acid ‘ p:
in soils containing lime or iron. However, i it

picric acid is a high explosive and as such '

should be treated with great respect. It '
should not be exposed to ﬁre or flame and no
metals should be allowed to come in contact g
with it. ’- '-
So far at ordinary handling is concerned, “1
picric acid has no toxic effects. It can be , . ﬂ:
used in any open air blasting'operations and is"
will not cause headaches or other ill effects. ' g
A cartridge of picric acid, as it has been i ‘1
pr ared‘for distribution; weighs about . six - d i 9"
ou’f ees and is about equal in strength to an: i 1“
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mites used for agricultural blasting. That is, in;
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of tuition. Sec. 5835, of the Com-
pdled Laws of 1915 provides that
the school board of your home dis-
trict may, out of the general fund
pay the tuition of any pupil who at—
tends a nearer school in another dis-
trict; and section 5686 provides:
“When non-resident pupils, their
parents or guardians, pay a school
tax in said district such pupils shall
be admitted to the schools of th‘e
district and the amount of such
school tax shall be credited on their
tuition a sum not to exwed the
amount of their tuition and they
shall be required to pay tuition for
the difference therein."——-Legal Ed~
itor.

PEPPERMINT OIL MARKET

Why is there such a standstill in'the

peppermint oil marketT—L. A. D.. Gnu-
tiot County, Michigan.

We believe there is only one ens—
we: to this question and that is that
the demand has not been sufﬁcient-
ly great to cause firmness in the
market; there are apparently ample
stocks of both domestic and Japan-
ese oils available and in consequence
the war price of 310' per pound for
domestic oil has dropped to about
$2 per pound—Parke Davis a 00.,
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MUST PAY BALANCE ON ‘POTA-
TOES AS AGREED

Having great faith in you and your
opinions I am coming to you with a
question which worries me greatly. 0n
the fourth day of last November, I sold
to Weghner Bron, of Cooks. 500 bushels
of potatoes. They gave us a check for
385 and on back of the check they wrote
"I'his check in payment on 500 bushels
ofpotatoceattlperbusheltobede-
livered at Delta Junction when we have
a car at Junction.” The price of pota-
toes depreciated right away and we
heerdnothingtromthem untilwewrote
and asked them what they were going to
do about it and they wrote and hold
us it we would send them back the ched
we could sell our potatoes elsewhere. A!
the time of selling them they promised to
haveacarattheJunctioninh-omate
Edays. Theyneverput a car thee
and take that ground to avoid taking
thg potatoes. We still have the check
as evidence and would appreciate your
opinion as to our chances of winning
tlbsuititwesuethemaswehaveabout
decided to do. I will greatly appreci—
ate your advice at once as we intend
to start action right away it you advise
us to do 8014. M. Y” Thompson, Mich.

Having paid part of the purchase
price and the same having been ac-
cepted as a part payment the pur-
chaser is liable for the full sale
price as agreed upon—Legal Ed-
itor.

PRUNING GRAPES

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and way to prune grapes?—-Mrs. P. E.,
Midland County. Michigan.

Grapes- should be pruned during
the winter or early spring before
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,or‘tour-arm system of training is

commonly used in this state. A
two-wire trellis with the wires 20 to

' 56 inches from the ground and posts
with three vines between them is »

necessary for this
ing. . .

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"list of the selection of tour canes of
the pest season's growth, so lo-
cated sleuth. main trunk of the

system of train-"

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abouthornhudseachhenumw
ber depending upon the general vig-
orottheplant. Itiscustomaryto
leavethreeortourcanes spurred
backtotwohudseachalong the
meintrunktoprovidearmsorcanes
abstainedalongthewiresayear
later. .
Eachotthetruitbudsmun-
dertawnhbcondiﬂonawﬂlsend
outshootsbearinganaverags of

The dog law of 1919 provides
thatanyonemay killemr dog
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0.11 city or village unaccompanied by
owner or agent. I do not recall any
testotthis lawinthecourtshut
would be of the opinion that one
would not be justified in killing a
dog merely because of, a casual tres-
pass by the dog without doing any
damage. The law would not permit
them to be outside any incorporated
city or village unless in the com-
ftaony of owner or agent—Legal Eld—
. r.

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butlwouldbeottheopiniontrom
thestatementthatAhasnoclsjm
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mwn'rr, KIGEDOW & BROOKE

What do you think about being a
stockholder in the Jewett, Bigelow and
Brooks C031 (10., of Detroit?——-VV. B. K.
Van Bum County. Michigan.

We investigated this concern last
fall and found its published state-
ment not entirely correct. From
what we learn it produces a rather
poor grade of coal instead of. the
“highest grade," which it advertis-
es. We would not invest in it.»—
Managing Editor.

FIRST PAPERS DO NOT QUALIFY
Can a. foreigner with ﬁrst papers vote
in ofﬁcers and school board. My neigh-
bor claims I can on local mattersFA.
A... Pentwater, Mich.
First papers are not sufﬁcient to
qualiiyyouasavoteronanyquee—

tion in a school meeting. You mpnt ”

he a citizen.——Legal Editor.

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Any Farm/er Anywhere May Now
Own The IntérnatiOnal 8- 1 6 Tractor

(Sale formerly limited to certain sections of the country)

N those states where International
8-16 Tractors have been well known
for several seasons they need no

introduction. New owners are buying
on the recommendation ‘
and on thousands of ﬁrms the popular
8-16 maybe seenworking eﬁciently‘con-
verting cheap kerosene into economical

If yours is new country for the
International 8-16. let the International
Dealer show you this adaptable small

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orchards. hauling heavy loads on road
and farm, pulling stumps. dragging
roads. drawing mowers. hay loaders.
grain harvestin; machines; threshing

baling hay. cutting ensﬂage, saw-
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where dependable power is required
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Sixteen years of tractor building
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1921

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Mt. Clemens, Michigan

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Cutting Production

THE SOUTH has tried limiting produc-
tion and has found it pays. Back in
1910 the cotton growers produced eleven and
a half million bales which on Dec. 1st was
worth fourteen cents per pound, or 820 million
dollars. The next year they produced over
ﬁfteen million bales worth On Dec. 1st less
than nine cents a pound or 688 million dol-
lars. ‘The same thing happened in successive
years and the growers ﬁnally awoke to the
£361; that the more they produced the less the
total crop was worth. So they tried a cam-
paign of education to induce planters to cut
their acreage. All went lovely until planting
tune When everyone went ahead and planted
Just a little more than the year before on the
theory that with everyone else cutting his
acreage the crop Would be short and prices
high. When the harvest came it was found
that the crop* was larger than any of the ﬁve
precocdingycars. The result was the cheapest
cotton in ﬁve years, and virtual bankruptcy
for many planters.

But in the fall of 1920 a new campaign for
cutting the acreage was undertaken. It had
the united backing of the planters, the busi-

 

ness men, the banks, and the press of the en-
tire south. Wall Street scoffed and said that
the south was infringing upon moral law by
attempting to organize against over-produc~
tion. But the south went serenely On with its
campaign. The acreage was cut. Then the
boll weevil got in its work, and the estimate is
for a crop of only a little over seven million
bales which will be the smallest in twenty-ﬁve
years.

Result: Sixty days ago cotton was quoted
eta little over 11 cents a pound. Since then
it has advanced to over 19 cents a pound and
going strong. Which means that out of the
destitution which faced the south after the
crash in prices last year will arise a new
prosperity. Prosperity for the south means
prosperity for the north, for the southern
states are still the biggest customers of the
agricultural and industrial north. -

Incidentally, the experience of the south
contains a lesson for the farmers of the north.

1 time will follow in the wake of a rehabili-

tated Europe when many foreign markets
will be closed to our doors. A surplus of a
few hundred million bushels of foodstuffs
will be a drug upon our domestic markets.
It is well for us to be forewarned and consider

. hr early season .what steps we are to take to

avoid this troublesome surplus.

_ The Next State Fair
- VEN BEFORE the 1921 state fair had
closed its doors, the Board of Managers
were looking forward to the next fair ~ and
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tions thecxhibits_were the ﬁnest and most
complete over staged in the' state. The at-
tendance was not as large as last year owing
to the farm'ers' poorer ﬁnancial condition and
counter attractions on Labor day. Neverthe-
less, it was up to expectations.

The plans for the current year ’s fair were
virtually all made before the present Board
of Managers assumed ofﬁce. The plans for
next year will all be subject to the review and
revision of the Board. While it is not likely
that any important changes will be made in
the fair policy because the policy in the past
has proven very satisfactory, there are bound
to be some minor changes eﬁected which will
make for a better exposition and, it is hoped,
an increased attendance. 0

For one thing the price of admission will
probably be reduced. Considerable criticism
was directed at the admission charged this
year, many overlooking the fact that no other
place in Michigan offers so much good enter—
tainment at so low a price. But it is felt
that a lower price will attract more people,
and the Board is quite strongly in favor of
a return to the former 50 cent admission.

The agricultural members of the Board are
also strogly desirous of a policy which
will attract more farmers to the State Fair.
It is recognized that one of the difﬁculties to
be solved in this connection is that of housing
outrof-town people after they come. But it is
behaved that this difﬁculty can be overcome,
and that the State Fair can be made so at-
tractive to the farm folks that they can be in-
duced 'to come from all parts of the state to
attend.

Certain it is that as this year’s fair was
better than last’s next year’s fair will be bet-
ter still. And there seems to be no good
reason why, with the new Board working har-
moniously with the best fair manager in the
country, the State Fair should not attain to
a position of excellency unsurpassed by any
other institution of its kind in America,

Pinchot and muscle Shoals

GIFFORD PINCHloT has
lengthy criticism . of Henry Ford’s
Muscle Shoals offer. He objects to it on the
grounds that it does not nearly compensate
the government for What has already been ex-
panded, that it requires of the government
further additional expenditures on which Mr.
Ford offers to pay only a nominal interest
rate, that the value of the property for the
production of fertilizer 'is secondary to its
value for the production of water power,
which it is charged, is the real plum Mr.
Ford is after. Furthermore, “I should" be
glad to see Mr Ford make money, and plenty
of money, out of taking over the property of
the people as he proposes to do, but not such
perpetual and gigantic proﬁts as his offer
would assure".

To Mr. Pinchot’s letter the Business Farm-
er has replied as follows: '

“It does not make one whit of difference to
us whether Mr. Ford .or John D. Rockefeller or
Gifford Pinchot takes over the government prop-
erty at Muscle Shoals so long as it is put to a
useful purpose. We do not really know enough
about the details of the proposition to take issue
with your statements, so will have to assume
that you have investigated the situation and
know what you are talking about.

“But why do you assume that Mr. Ford’s of-
.fer will insure him ‘perpctual and gigantic prof-
.its’? If there are such enormous profits in the
development of this property why has not the
government received more lucrative offers from
other sources”?

To which question Mr. Pinchot has made no
reply.

Another Idol Shattered

‘( ATTY” ARBUCKLE, beloved of movie

fans the world over, lies in a common
prison cell at San Francisco, charged with
the murder of an actress. And millions of

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Arbuclde protests his innocegcgof the crime

and despite the damaging evidence against

him, a charitable world will , hold him inno-
cent until his guilt has been passed upon by
a jury of his peers. But innocent or guilty
of the crime of destroying life, he has al-
ready been convicted of destroying the faith

and respect of the ,men, women and children '

to whom his familiar face was a welcome as
a friend. One could not sit through an Ar-
bucklc performance without feeling that here
was is man who was by nature clean, whole-
some, sweet-tempered—a men of even habits

and generous impulses,——-a man at peace with.

the world. But the smiling mask has been
stripped away and the real Arbuckle stands
revealed, a man of vicious nature and low
habits, to whom little is sacred except that
which caters to his desires.

Day by day we learn again that all men,
both grcat and small, are possessed of human
frailties which at unsuspected moments be-
come the masters of their better selves and
drag them from their pedestals of public es—
teem into the mire of repugnance. We build
idols today only to see them laid in the dust
tomorrow. There is nothing enduring; noth-
ing perfect this side of eternity. So has it
been decreed by the immutable laws of the
universe. But after all it is a sad thing to
destroy ono’s faith in any member of the
human family.

The Disarmament Committee

1TH ONE exception, Pres. Harding has

shown wise judgment in picking the
committee to represent the United States at
the coming disarmament conference. The
exception is Sen. Lodge, whose record the
past four years shows him to haVe a one-
track mind, incapable of listening to the
counsel of others, no matter how reasonable
and wise. As one of the “bitter-enders” in
the previous Congress. he made no attempt to
conceal his willingness to sacriﬁce the good
of his country for the sake of partisan ad-
vantage. Morc recently he has shown his
incapacity to grasp the needs of agriculture
by his persistent opposition to almost every
measure presented on the floor of the Senate
for the farmers’ relief. If Sen. Lodge" has
his way at the coming conference it will take
no cognizance of the rights of other nations,
and if he doesn’t have his way it is likely to
end in a, row.

How About Your Seed Oats?!

CARCELY a week goes by that the State

Farm BBureau does not admonish the
farmers to husband their seed oats. This
warning should not go unheedcd. The crop
this year, as all farmers know, was the poor-
est both in yield and quality that we have
seen for many years. In some sections the
crop was a total failure, and in others of such
inferior quality that farmers will hesitate to
use their own oats for seed. Consequently,
there is bound to be a spirited demand for
seed oats when spring approaches. "Why
wait until the bulk of the seed oats have gone
into the hands bf .. speculators and a fancy
price put upon them before, makingarrange—
ments for your supply? Every farmer in-
tending to plant oats next spring should lose
no time in arranging for his seed require-
ments. ~ '

There are so many unemployed because, for
one reason, employers can not aﬂord to pay the
price that ldlers can afford to accept for their
services—Nashville Banner.

Bryan says that forty years in politics have
made him an optimist. What he really means is
that his optimism kept him in politics for forty
years—Charleston Gazette. ' ,

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cleaner money. What it should do is see that we

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’ BERNARD.BABUCK
mow Resumes FAnMnn
ll for August 27th carries an in-
quiry, from a subscriber with
reference to Barney Baruch’s con-
nection with the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers, Inc.
that “If this is the same undertak-
ing to which we are asked to con-
tribute $10, let’s all quit.”

Mr. Baruch is connected with the
U. S. Grain Growers—not in an of-
ficial'capacity and not on a salary
basis—but pursuant to request of
our executive committee he accept-
ed the post of financial advisor to
the Farmers Finance Corporation,
the financing subsidiary of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc.

The executive committee made
this request of Mr. Baruch because
of his outstanding ability in the fin-
ancial field and because they were
convinced of his sincere interest in
iarmers’ financial problems and un-
selfish desire to e of service in
working out those problems. There
are two kinds of Jewish people——
there are Jews and there are ‘Jewish
philanthropists who wish to be of
service and give themselves un—
stintedly with no selfish motive in-
volved. Mr. Baruch falls in the
latter classification. He has made
millions because of his almost in»
fallible analysis of financial situa-
tions.

Mr. Baruch has expressed himself
in this way, “I have all the money
that I need—I intend to devote the
rest of my life to doing the things
that I have always wanted to do."
He started out by assisting the cot-
ton growers of his own states, the
Carolinas and I understand that he
loaned them' something over 8. mil-
lion dollars to assist them in get—
ting their warehouse venture started.

For your further information I
am enclosing a copy of a news let-
ter issued some time ago which gives
further information with reference
to Barney Baruch. I hold no brief
for Mr. Baruch but I am thoroughly
convinced that his motives are sin-
cere and that there is a desire to he
of real service to farmers in financ—
ing their problems on a business-like
basis. Even if the opposite should
prove to be true, it would have no
bearing on the Farmers Finance
Corporation, inasmuch as Mr. Ba-
ruch has no official connection and
therefore no vote in deciding what
policy shall be pursued. In the
meantime, he is giving his time and
personal expenses to give such as—
sistance and advice as is requested
of him and steadily insists that it is
work that he' wants to do and re-

' fuses remuneration. .
man with a big experience offers his
services to the farmers and stands
four—square to all the winds that
blow, should we accept those ser-
vices or should we insult him by re—
peating questionable statements con—
cerning his business career, that
have been made by his enemies and
never been proved.

Mr. Baruch’s own statement is
that if he were guilty of accusations
that have been made against him,
he should be shot; if not guilty his
accusers should be hushed. When
he insisted upon a congressional in-
vestigation of himself, the latter
was accomplished—Leo. C. Moser,
‘Director Department of Informa-
tion. U. 8. Grain Growers, Inc.

       

  

Personally. we think Bernard Baruch
is a big man, and we are glad to know
that he thinks well enough of the U. S.
Grain Growers to stake his reputation
with it. That). S. Grain Growers needs
more than anything else Just now the
counsel and help of men who have been
successful in the management of big
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METHUSELAH AND THE COUNTY
NURSE
THINK it is fine that the editor
lot the M. B. Runes a pagan:
. his. valued paper on which to dis-
cuss the things that m the
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having mall—pox or dying with the
small-pox. Some people will
you that you will have small-pox in

a mild form but if you die with it.

will you have a mild death?

The county nurse has been thrust
upon us. The people haven’t had a
chance to say if they wanted her or
not and she is an insult to every
mother in this state. They call the
children “kids” and our uplifters
think the mothers dont’t know any
more than a goat; don’t know enough
nowadays (according to the uplift-
ers) when their children are ailing
to send for their family physician
who has a. license to practice in this
state and to prescribe the treatment
his patient should receive. He is
not a bunco—steerer for all the hos-
pitals and specialists in the state of
Michigan. All a county nurse
can do is send the child to some hos-
pital whether you want it to go or
not. If the child dies on the operat-
ing table it will be a legal death the
same as if it had been executed for
a crime as she has the backing of
our uplifters.

Will some one please rise up and
tell us why people lived so many
years in ye olden times, years be—
fore they even knew that the blood
in their bodies circulated through
their veins? Abraham was one
hundred and twenty~eight years old
when he was about to offer up his
son Isaac as an offering of faith to
his God but God in his infinite wis-
dom provided a county nurse in the
shape of a ram to save the lad from
a horrible death. That is about the
picture that Mrs. J. C. of. Emmet
county draWs around the county
nurse. She must surely be a martyr
but the martyr stuff doesn’t appeal to
the most of them.

Now about being well born. Was
Methuselah well born that he should
live nearly one thousand years and
not even have the help of a trained
nurse to guide him in the path of
health and-steer him clear of the
crazy house. Oh you uplifters, you
haven’t got anything on those old
patriarchs yet for we only live a
190 years now at best. Bosh, we
need a county nurse about as bad as
a. gosling needs a nursing bottle. It
is simply a duplication of work with
our local doctors and that is the
course of our government affairs
with salaries going up when every—
thing else is coming down. Regard-
ing the children of the cities being
so much healthier than country
children, the movement of the city
people belie the statement for they
flock out into the country in the
summer time and stake their tent on
the bank of some lake containing
water that has never been polluted
by city sewage and they do it to get
fresh air to breathe and pure water
to drink—0. A. Lintz, Lapeer Coun-
ty, Michigan.

Perhaps, friend Lintz, we wouldn't
need the county nurse, the doctor or the
hospital if people of the present day
lived as simply as our ancient ancestor,
Methuselah. But please remember that
conditions of living were altogether dif-
ferent in Methuselah’s time than what
they are now. When Methusela‘h was a
boy he didn’t tramp a mile or two thrn
the snow to school a couple hundred
days out of the year or sit hunched up
over a. modern type of school desk or
feel the shivers run up his back when
thg ﬁre in the stove went out. He didn't
cripple his feet by wearing tight shoes
or ru his teeth by eating sweet-meats.
So far as biblical information goes ade—
noids, diseased tonsils, catarrh and corns
were unknown. And when he grew to
be a. man Methuselah didn’t cook his
stomach in alcohol or drug his brain
withiobaoco, or work like a slave or
worry about the high cost of living or
marry a woman deformed by tight cor-
sets. He took life easily, raised a. large
family of healthy children. and grew to
a ripe Old age, as he should have done
and as anyone can do nowadays if he
wants to go into the mountains, shed all
his cares and subsist upon what nature
has to oﬂer. There was no more reason
why they should have had a county nurse
3 Hethuselah’s time than that they
have had railway tracks for an
that was not to be discovered
menial thousand years later.
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0 YOU KNOW how 'it would

.feel, dear farmer friends, to
awake some bright spring
m‘orning and not realize,_, in the real
. way, by the smell of freshly turned

'soil, the scent of growing things,
the song of a bird, or the flitting
about of bees and butterflies, each
doing its work in a busy world, that
spring-time was here in full dress?
Only to guess at it by noticing the
pitiful endeavor of an old, discour-
aged and forsaken fruit tree, in the
dingy back yard of a city lot, trying
to send out a “few leaves from its
top-most branches, because they
only are in view of the blue sky, or,
perhaps, by espying a few blades of
grass trying to reach the light thru
cracks in a damp brick walk. How
would you feel not to see and hear
the soft, gentle rain falling from the
heavens upon the trees, bushes and
grass, and how they revel in the
pure, life-giving water.

Dear tillers of the soil, you have
God’s best gifts, light, fresh air,
and wholesome food. These are the
essential things of living. You have
the companionship of that wonder—
rful health-giver, Mother Nature, and
the 10y of possession, the posses-
sion of land that is your very own,
and all that grows thereon. Are
not these worth striving for? By
keeping close to the land Mother
Earth will give you generously, of
all she has. It is in the country
that we appreciate most of the
truth of the following lines from
Robert Browning’s “Pippa Passes”:

The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the mom;
Morning's at seven;

The hillside’s dew—pended;
The lark's on the wing;
The snall’s on the them;
God’s in his heaven—-
All's right with the world!

It was my good fortune to spend
a couple of days in the month of
August, at the country place of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank E. Blair, whose es-
tate, one of nature’s beauty spots,
comprises more than 600 acres in
the beautiful hill country, near Or-
ion, Michigan. '

The ride out there was
teresting to one bred in the city.
Going out by trolley as far as Orion,
and the rest of the way by auto thru
cross country roads, we arrived at
the lodge, a very quaint, and pictur-
esque building, designed by a De-
troit architect, which looks as tho
it might have been transplanted
from some old Europeansuburb. We
were just in time for lunch-eon,
which was served on an outdoor
porch, and consisted of an abund-
ance of the fresh and wholesome
food one likes.

'From the porch a wonder world
opened before us. Three sides of it
were surrounded by forest trees,
oaks, maples, elms, and tall pines, a
row of the latter on one side of the
porch with their natural under-
growth, all in nature’s keeping. Wide
steps made of logs filled in between
with earth, grass growu land, wind
their way to the lowlands where the
flower gardens are. Here a gor—
geous profusion of all the old-fash-
ioned flowers in the world greet the
eye, beds and beds of them, laid out
with cover paths between as soft to
the feet as a Persian rug. Quanti-
ties of these flowers are frequently
sent to the hospitals within reach.
Adjoining the gardens is a large
water lily pond, with boat house
and boat, where an hour can be hap-
pily spent among the lillies.

From the gardens, looking up and
beyond on the hill the gardener’s
house is in view with the green
house and farther on the farm hous-
es w-ith handsome cement barns
near by for the horses and cattle.
We were so fascinated with the
ﬂowers there was no time for the
vegetable gardens.

The owner plans in the near fu-
ture, to build a fine cottage at a dis-
tance from the lodge, and on the
highest point‘ which overlooks
Boulder Lake. The latter is com-
pletely surrounded by forest trees,
all of which belongs to the estate.
There are a number of walks among
the trees with attractive places to
rest; And, oh, the quiet and the
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read' and rest, and, perchance, to
contemplate.

A beautiful auto ride back to the
city was a fitting climax to two
beautiful days.

Mr. and Mrs. Blair dispense a
fine hospitality by inviting their
friends out for a few days of real
enjoyment.

HOPE FOR EVERYONE
ERE IS another comment on
the “Bird With the Broken
Wing." I have been much in-
terested in the opinions upon it.
Many times I have accidentally

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spoon salt. 2 teaspoons soda. 2 teaming
cinnamon. 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 cup

raisins, 1 cup citron, 8 tablespoons vin-
egar. Creamthesugarandlardine
large mixing bowl. then add molasau
and sour milk. If you do not like mo-
lasses use only 1-2 on and 1 1-: cups
sour milk. Now sift a the dry ingredi-
ents together and mix the fruit with the

flour. This it from settling. This
makes a very thick and it must
be stirred well. After it there

stirred put in 3 tablespoons vinegar an
stiryourcakeuntilitisanthesame
color. This makes a very large

and should be baked in a medium oven
about an hour and a quarter, but if you
leave out the fruit it will bake in 1 hour
or less.

Ripe Cucumber or Citron Pickles

One bushel large ripe or near-u
ripe cucumbers. Wash. peel. quart-

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A Favorite Poem

WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That ﬂoats on high o’er vales
and hills,
When all at once I saw a. crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Flattering and dancing in the
breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance.

The waves beside them danced, but
they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company.
I gazed and gazed but little thought
What wealth that show to me had
brought.

For often when on my couch I lie,

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

\Vhich is the bliss of solitude.

And then my heart with pleasure ﬁlls,

And dances with the daffodils.
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turned to the song in the Pentecost-

] hymns and passed it by. Why?
' ecause there was something about
it depressing to my spirit. The
words: The life that sin had strick—
en never soared as high again, 'seem-
ed full of despair. Just across on
the next page is the beautiful song,
“What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus
my Word. He cleansed my heart
from all its sin. And now he reigns
and rules within.” All have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God.
There is only one perfect One. And
He has opened the way to all sin-
ners. Though your sins be as scar-
et or like crimson they shall be as
white as wool. Numberless are the
promises of God that through His
blood we shall be made white as
snow.

I think that song should be
stricken from the pages of our gos-
pel hymns. How much more in-
spiring are the words, “I am glad
that the Saviour has caller me from

out the dark valley of sin, so glad ‘

that He purchased my pardon, and
welcomed the wanderer in.”—Mrs.
F. H.

itEOIP‘ES SENT BY MRS. COPE-
LAND, ON REQUEST
Fruit Cake

1 cup lard, 1 cup-sugar, 1 cup molas-
ses, 1 cup sour_milk, 4 cups flour, 1 tea-

 

er_ and scrape out the seeds. Cover
With alum water allowing 2 teaspoons
powdered alum to each quart of wa-
ter. Heat gradually to the boiling
point. then let stand on the back of the
stove 2 hours. Rinse or: the alum water
in several cool waters. Make a thick
syrup. using these proportions: 3 cups
sugar, 1 cup vinegar, 2 tablespoons each
cloves and cinnamon tied in a. piece of
muslin. Add the cucumbers and cook
ten minutes or longer if preferred. The
longer you cook them the darker they
will be. Be sure to make plenty of syn
up to cover your cucumbers while you
cook them in it.» They will shrink. and
the syrup will become thin because there
is a large amount of water in them. Af-
ter they are cooked enough, remove
them to a. stone jar and boil the syrup
down to its first thickness, then pour it
over the pickles. Tie a cloth over the
jar and your pickles will keep indefin-
itely, keep the spice bag in the jar with
them. When you want them for fruit
cake take out with a fork four or five
pieces enough to make a cupful when
chopped. Chop and with flour
the same as citron and I'll eat your cake
if you don't like it. ‘

Grape Juice

Select grapes. stem and put into ket-
tle with water just covering the bottom‘
to prevent scorching. Bring slowly to a
boil, as soon as they begin to bubble
Strain bag in the morning, add sugar
to taste, not very sweet. Bring to a
boil, skim and bottle, seal with sealing
wax. 2 tablespoons of sugar to 1 quart
of juice is about right.

A Subscriber—Look up Dunn's or
Bradstreet’s report on the company—
you may depend on the rating they give
them.

 

 

 

 

Aids to Good Dressing

for
Comfort, Appearance and Economy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is small brother in a dear
little suit. It recommends itself be-
cause it is so neat and becoming. To
be sure ther are a good many but-
ton holes to make but that very
fact makes the suit desirable, the.
but-tons form a trimming and make
it very secure and neat.

f t ble Suit for the Small Boy
A Com or a» Pattern 3711 is
shown in this illus-
tration. It is cut in
4 sizes: 3. 4, 5 and 6
years. A 6 year size
requires 3 3-8 yards
of 27 inch material.
If made as r‘illustrat—
ed trousers and col-
lar will require 1
, 7-8 yards of.material
and blouse 1 1-2
yards.
this illustration mail-
ed to any address on
receipt of 120 in sil-
ver or stamps. Ad-
dress Pattern De-
partment. M. B. F"
Mt. Clements. men.

 

A pattern of '

Pretty Frock for Little Girl

A number of materials will sug-
gest themselves for the development
of this pretty frock.

I have seen black sateen used
with good effect. The little designs
may be put in with aulittle hand-
work in bright colors. Yellow is
very pretty. If you do \not wish the
ruffle, go around the edge with s
feat-her stitch, darning stitCh or
chain stitch. Of course black sat-
een loomers' should be worn with
the dress. Black steen “should be
washed alone and no starch used,
Iron on wrong side. - - '
Small butter chips
may be used to
mark the design.
A Pretty Frock for

the Growing Girl

Pattern 3702 was
used to make this
style. It is cut in 4
sizes: 8, 10, 12 and
14 years. A 10 year
size will require 3
1-4 yards of 40 inch
material. Paittern
120 in stamps or
silver. Address Pat-
tern Department, M.
B. F., Mt. Clemens,
Michigan.

 

   

 

  
  
 
 
 
 
   

   

I will how to think over your request- ”
for information about the latest fad '
m way would be to see or write
to the head of the fancy work depart-
ment of
like J. L. Hudson 00.. Detroit and ask
for information.

.~ Painted weeds will be sold this com-
ing winter and it may be the readers of
this paper would like directions for do—
in; them. If so I will publishthem.

 

 

I would like very much to publish the .. N

article on immigration, dear read-
er. t you know there are many for-’
signers among us who either are or are
becoming good Americans and ‘I feared
Enn- letter might hurt them—although
need not. I believe with you that
there is one flag, one country and one
language for us who live in the very best
country in the world. Canada coming
next, and We should appreciate our own
good fortlme and be loyal, patriotic cit-
izens. And furthermore that there it
no more room among us for poverty—
stricken and diseased immigrants of
Europe, eastern, central or southern.

-*

Thoughts of Heaven -
I have been thinking of the heaven
Mrs. Irene Bonner speaks about, I can
easily imagine her a woman without
creed perhaps, but the kind that helps
the world along. It is hard for. me to
lelfprfoss th'e fkiniing of heaven fI am "hop-
g see' ear perhaps 0 being mis-
understood. First, is not the world
growing better, and more livable each
day? Now I expect some one to speak
about hard times but there are few whc
have it as hard as the pioneer. Most
of us who have saved for the rainy day
are gomg to come out with our body
and soul still united. Of course there
are “gamblers 'of fate" who were will-
ing to pay high . prices, that will lose
out, and some who have had sickness
and disaster, also those who wasted
much they might have saved when wages
Were high just as they have in times
gone by. "The poor ye will always have
with you." The farmer will survive if
he sticks and has faith. His sons and
daughters may be clothed simply, but
what are clothes beside a clean heart
mind and body. I think it takes "hard
times” to bring out the best within us.
Now lets look the world over. We
have our books, magazines, and tele-
phone to make us happy. Modern ma-
chinery to make work easier, and elec-
trlcity is just in its infancy for the farm-
er. I read in a western paper of an an-
to that gathered its power from the air
as it went along. Two brothers were
wotrking on it but, haven’t it patented
ye .

When we have a few more men like
Henry Ford, yes he makes mistakes, but
he has applied Christ's teachings to our
modern life, as many others have done.
A farmer employs only a few, and con-
sequently is not heard from but, “not
even hi: sparrogv falleth." So be true
even a sma wa .-—Yours
Charity. y with faith.

 

There is a theory among present-day
scientists that we might, if we had the
knowledge of how to proceed, draw from
the air itself, light, power and heat, that
they are therefore for our use. We are
truly making use of the atmosphere or
the ether in it in ways not dreamed of a
generation passed. As for me, I am no
doubter, too many wonderful and mir—
aculous things have already been ‘ac—
complished. '

 

I find your department for
very helpful. I am rather green
business as it is out of‘my line
not want to be so selfish as to
all the good from my friendly
and not do a little in return.

If the lady who wanted to know a
good way to foot stockings will send
her address I will send her the pattern
for two ways that will make thg stock-
ing good as new. I never throw away a
stocking that is worth footing.

When filling gem pans with batter
leave one, of the small sections empty
and fill it with water, the gems will never
scorch. Sprinkle salt in your oven to
keep bread or cake from burning on th.
bottom.

women
at this
but do
receive
friends

A Pop Corn Secret

When popping corn put in enough corn
to cover the bottom 0f wire popper; then
drench with water just before placing
over the fire.

To keep the top of bread from bum-
ing when it is brown enough place a
dripping pan over it.

1: cake. does not come out of tin eas-
ily wring a cloth out of water and set
the cake on it for just a few minutes.
Note results.

Minute Cake

Break two eggs in mixing bowl. Add

one cup sugar, one cup sweet cream, 2

cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder.
1-3 teaspoon salt and flavoring liked
Beat until it is a smooth batter: bake '
in layers or bar tin. One egg white can
be saved out for frosting. If the cream
is a little on the sour side and thick "
use 8-4 cup and finish filling with water
‘ CaramOI Frosting
2 cups brown sugar, 1-2 cup cream
size of hickory "nut. cook until
it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold
water. Beat until cool enough to
:Flavor with vanilla. .
mass-berries for Pies . _

9 pounds elderberries. 8 pounds brown 4
sugar, 1 pint vinegar,- Cook two hours“
I can sending these with best While-40
myfriends :5? M3. ‘

 
      

 

some large department store, ,

      
 
 

 
  
 


        

   

.the coming"! air. It istthe‘

"of morning that makes one
glad that. they are alive and can en-
joy the beauties of Mother Nature.

Today is the second day of school
here and asthere is a large school-
house just across the street from
our offices I can look out one of the
windows near my desk and see the
children, some of them playing and
running about, others grouped to-
gether apparently talking about
their new studies and here and there
I can see two or three together
watching the others; they are new

scholars and strangers at .. present
shut within a few days they will
have many friends. And their

voices all blend together like the
hum of bees. Now the bell is ring-
ing and they are all running to the
schoolhouse eager to show their
teacher how well they/have learned
their lessons in their’new books.
The scene that has just passed be-
fore my eyes makes me wish I was
a child again and back at school.
Many times when I was attending
school I would get discouraged and
want to stop going but I didn’t un-
til I was forced to do so by poor
health. I know many of you boys
and girls feel the same way at times,
you think you are behind in your
grades or our lessons seem too hard
but do not give up. You will be
very sorry some day if you do. The
liar-mers to tomorrow are going to be
college graduates.——-UNCLE NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—How are you getting
along in Mt. Clemens? I just finished
reading the Children’s Hour in the M.
B. F. and enjoyed the letters so much
that I think I ought to write too and let
the other children enjoy my letter. We
had a nice rain here and we sure needed
It. We have some company at our
house. My uncle is here. He lives in Ill-

‘ Ii ‘
.. I 5‘ _‘ ﬂ ’ \s

inois but he would rather live in Mich-
igan and I don't blame him. do you? We
haVe our threshing all done. Our oats
average 50 bushels per acre; pretty good
don't you think? I bet if we didn't 'live
in Michigan we wouldn’t have got that.
I am going to go for'a trip to New
York next week and I think I’ll stay 4
weeks. I was camping for 3 days last
week and believe me. we had a time of
our life. Can't you imagine? Bedtlmc
for little girls so good night, Uncle,
sweet dreams—Lillian Mary Smith, Bay
City, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am 16 years old
and in the 8thA grade at schooL I am
a deaf girl. We live on a farm of 125
acres and have 3 horses, 2 large pigs,
10 little pigs. 5 cows. 2 calves, z rab-
bits and 5 little kittens and a black and
brown dog. We have 60 young chick-
ens, 50 hens and 4 ducks with a big one

love to read the Children's Hour. I
wish some of the girls and some boys
would write to me. I have two broth—
ers and one little sister. I can make
clothing and cook anything. I would
love to hear from some of the girls and
boys. I like the Doc Dads very much.
My chum is Hazel Morton and she is a
deaf girl 10 years old.—Bernice Kimball,
R 2, Linden, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 13 years
old. Our school starts today. I am
the eighth grade. We have a man
teacher this year. As some of the boys
and girls like to hear about picnics, I
will tell them about one we had. It
was the Fourth of July and my brother
Clifford came home from Detroit and we
went to Day's Lake. outside of Linden.
We took along some things to eat and
stayed all night. In the vmorning we
went out on the lake and fished. We
caught a few calico bass and bullheads.
We went home at noon the next day.
Wishing some of the boys and girls
would write to me.—-Daisy R. Brown,
R 3, Burt, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl of ten
years and live on a 117 acre farm. My
father takes the M. B. F. so I have a
chance to read it. I like the D00 Dads
very much. We have 15 nice, 4
horses. 6 cows and 6 head of cattle. I
will be glad when school starts. 1 will

' .9 ‘ " -
Children‘s Hour a

o

-__.q
be in the 6th grade. I am going to try
to get Thelma Ransom’s picture. I
think maybe she is 14 years old and
her middle name is Louise. I like to
guess things like that. I think it is lots
of fun. I think it is right about those
boys not writing. We like boys letters
too, don't we girls? I think those stor-
ies are real interesting that the editor
is putting in.-—Christine Ross, Columbia-
ville. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 10 years
old. I like to read the letters but most
of all I like to read the stories about the
D00 Dads. They are such funny littlr
people. I am four feet nine inches in
height and weigh 72 pounds. I have a
mile and a half to go to school. We
live on an eighty acre farm. For pets
I have 4 kittens and 3 rabbits. I ex—
pect to go to the State Fair this fall
Would you like to have me tell you about
what I see? We are going to have.t
threshers soon. That will be lots of
fun for me for I like to get in the oat bin
and cover up with oats—Lucille Sher-
man, R 2, Marlette. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a farmer boy
14 years of age and in the 7th grade at
school. I have two sisters and one
brother. My oldest sister is 16 years of
age. My other sister and brother are
twins. We live on an 80 acre farm. \Ve
have 6 cows, 3 yearlings and 1 calf. We
also have 4 horses and 11 hogs. For
pets we have two old cats and two kit-
tens. My mother has 18 old hens and
about 75 young chickens. I have brown
hair. blue eyes. weigh 103 pounds an'
am 5 ft. 4 in. tall.——Clifford Deming, R
1, Millbrook, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 8 years
old and in the third grade. I live on a
sixty acre farm. My father takes the
M. B. F. and likes it very much. I like
the D00 Dads and I like to read what
the other boys and girls write. I would
like to join your merry circle. For pets
I have three cats. I have a sister 5
years old. I am going to spent two
weeks at Grandma’s house in Reading.
——Mac Keeney, Box 24, Erie, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 15
years old and will be a. junior in the
high school next year. I like to go to

dog and two cats—Margaret Cook. R 4
Homer, Michigan. '

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 12 ears
old and in the 7th grade at school. i
am 5 foot high.
acres. My father takes the M. B.
and likes it fine. I like to read the Doc
Dads. Thelma L. Ransom I guess you
are 12 years old and your middle namr
is Lucile. My middle name begins with

L, those who guess it will receive a.

  

letter. I wish some of the boys anti!

girls would write to me.—-—Doris L. Glee?

son, R 1, Box 38, Bitely, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I correspond with
six M. B. F. cousins and I hope to hav:
six more.
receive. I wonder what mischief th‘
Doo Dads will be into this week. I hop
the won’t have to be dipped into tht
water, don’t you? I am going to higi
school next year and I am going to take
French—Gladys Marie Bishop, Hender~
son, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 12 years
old and in the 6th grade at school. Wt
own 200 acres. We live on 40 acres and
my brother lives on the other 160 acres
We raise peppermint on both farms. 1

have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. We have
two cows and 75 chickens. For pets I
have 2 cats and 4 kittens. I weigh 5‘
pounds—Clarence Huston, Potter-ville.

Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I think it is very
nice to have the Children’s Hour for
the children, don’t you? My eyes are
blue and hair is brown. I weigh 130
lbs. My height is 5 ft. 1-2 inch tall.—
H. J. Van Kleek, Lapeer, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—«I am a farmer boy
12 years old. I am in the seventh grade
at school. I live on a 120 acre. farm
My father takes the M. B. F. We have
12 cowsx, 4 calves, 7 horSes and 36
hogs. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister
For pets I have 1 cat and 3 rabbits.—
Frank Francisco. R 2. Doster, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—We have 96 chick-
ens, 2 cows, 2 horses, 6 little pigs and
mother pig. I am 12 years old and in
the 5th grade. I have a brother that is
4 years old but he cannot go to schoo
yet. I can read and write—Edward M
Rodmsn, Williamston, Michigan.

 

 

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i“ E CAN mist Doe Sawbones for

thinking new things to try out.
. Doc’s pet claimant is a

tient and agreeable old tellew. Doe
. vented a new kind of a carry-ail
on which many of the little Door Dads
. could go fora ride at once. 0! course
. Doe lends-lye and looks so proud as

 

 

   

A New Kind of aiCarry-All V

Punch of this turnout. Roly and Pol-y
with their tandem are trying to keep
up with the others and R\oly who has
the advantage of the back seat is
making- Poly do the hard peddling;

 

The little fellow taking the baby out
for an airing is so interested and de-
lighted with watching the elephant
that he is not aware that he has run

into Percy Haw Haw nearly upset- ..

 

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I live on a farm of 160,

 

  
   

 

I will answer every letter 1

 

    

    


 
   
     

RATES oldor m. loam so lotion buodoro'
‘ W nm write out what you hove to offer.
you s proof ond’toli you who: It Will cost for 1s, 28 or 52 times.
» on. or copy so otter: as you wish. 009! Or oneness must be roo‘olvod one
' Auction Soles advortl
DIRECTORY .THE M

  

oed hero oi. would low
IOHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt.

  
  
 
 
   
     
  

 

CLAIM YOUR.
SALE DATE

‘ 1’. mold conflicting doteo we will without
no the d ”we stock solo in

If you oro considering o solo

Io At once and we will claim the do“

_ m Livo Stock Editor,

,1?" Mt. Oiomons.

 

“"5-I’%l.snd Chime. F. E. Humor.
16

s. Mich. State Gner
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2 .
and Sons, Ithaca, Mich.
'I’oland Chinss. F‘.

M1 .11.
Ifolsnd Chinss. E. IL Leonard,
Poland Chinss. P.

v. Mich
Nov. 9—Willism Rsmsdell, 111.11%

 

 
  

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchlleld, Mich.
South Whitley, lnd
Porter Colestock. Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman, Hudson, Mich.
Perry. Columbus,

. E. Ruppert. Perry,
Harry Robinson,

 
  
 

 

 

 

  

 

CATTLE

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

 

 

 

SHOW BULL

Shed by s. Pontiac Augie Korndyke-Henger-
void DeKol bull from s nearly 10 lb. show
First prize junior csii‘. Jsckson Felt,
Light in color ond good individusl
Covon months od.

Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOABDMAII FARMS

JACKSON. MIOH.

 

 

 

 

BULL GALVE

average records

SIRED BY SEGIS FLINT
Le .

of his four nearest (isms

. dams representing the lead-

1112 families of the breed with records up to 29
pounds in seven days.

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS
lllos from their herd. We are well pleased with
'the colvco from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pon-
t‘loc Lunde Korndylre Segis” who is s
' of tho Pontiscs" from 1 daughter of Pon-
A i’ew bull calves Io:
Battle Creek. Mich.

nook m m
rues: on for thorn. Write my!)

Clemons. Michioon.

nEmernEn IIOLSTEIIIS

Bulls heifers end cows. Fine stock at
{hot Will move them gulch. Herd held by
Eng Sells Lakeside Do 01 105372, sire cg 15
A. R. 0. daughters, Including Mabel Begin on-
bke with record 31.77 lbs. butter 7 do
MAPLE CITY FARM, O. Winnie, PNP
Adrian, Mich. .

CHOICE YOUNG BULL
READY FOR SERVICE

Biro 35.8!) lb. son of King Korndyke Bodie
Vale. Dnm 31.40. 3 nearest dams overuse
over 36 lbs. Good individual. P1109 $500.

BRANDONHILL
Ortonville, Michigan
JOHN P. HEEL
1205 Griswold St., Detroit, Michigan

 

GLADWIN COUNTY PURE BRED LIVESTOCK
ASSOCIATION. Hereford, Sher-thorn. Jersey
and Holstein cattle; Duroc—Jersey, Poland China
and Hampshire hogs; Oxford. Shropshire end»
Hampshire sheep. ‘

A n‘mn to buy good breeding stock at reason-

blo prices.
FRED ls. SWINEHART C. E. ATINATER
President Secretory
Gladwln, Mich.

 

‘ Fairlawn Herd—Holsteins

Hire Sire, Emblaggaerd Lilith Champion 10807?
Ilis sire’s dam Colenths 4th’s Johanna, worlds
ﬁrst 35 lb. cow, and world's ﬁrst 1.200 lb. com
The only cow that ever hold all world’s butter
records from one day to one year. and the _worlds
yearly milk record st the some time. His dam
Lilith Piebe Do Kol No. 93710, over 1,150 lbs.
of butter from 20.5004 pounds of milk in o.
your. World’s 2nd highest milk record when
made and Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan (EoVSaWith higher milk record today.
His two nesres ms average:
Butter, one year .............. 1,199.22
Milk ........................ 28.5150
(lhamp‘s sons from choice A. R. 0. dams ml]
odd prestige to your herd and money to you:

.I. F. airman

Ow e.
Fllnt. Mich.

A PROVEN BLOOD LINE

KING SEGlS tmnmitted to his sons the power
to transmit to their daughters the reatest of
production over long periods. It is he offspring
that has recently made the greatest yearly pro-
duction ever dreamed of. 37381.4 pounds of

k in a year. .
milWe have for sale at moderate prices beautlful
individuals of show type KING SEGIS bu s.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS
111 E Main Corey J. Spencer, Owner
Jackson. Mich.
Under State and Federal

 

Supervision

 

OR SALE—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL-

teln and Durham sbont 3 months old. Both
hove heavy milking dome. Not registered. 350
ouch if taken st once.

CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mlch

 

 

HEREFORDS

 

EGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE —- KING
REPEATER 713041, and Bean Perfection
327890 head our herd. Bulls are sold; have
some very ﬁne heifers for sale, but} or opened,
bred to our herd bulls. Come end see them; they
wil please you.
Tony 8. Fox, Prop., Henry Gehrholz,

Herdsman.
MARION STOCK FARM. Mat-ion

Michigan

 

AM OFFERING LIGHT

' lbsin—Frlesien bull 1 year old from 21.5l lb.

dam Ind sire whose six nesrcst dams are 33.34:
Herd under state and federal sup—

ervisioa.
Oscar Wallln. Wlscocln Farm, Unlcnvllle. Mich.

REGISTERED HGLSTEIN BULL

Bired by a. son from King One end from a 22
$90 delivered your station.

ARL PETERS, North Bradley. Mich.

 

HEsEEcsn CATTLE .zngs. ...........

We can furnish registered bulls from 12
months end older, best of breeding and gt g
very low price. hevo 1150 some extra. good
Ilerd headers, We have also A lorgo ling
of registered Hampshire Hon, Gilts. Sowo
And Boats.

Write us. tell us whet you wont ond get
our prices.

Lo FAYETTE STOCK FARM. Lo Fayette. In;
J. Crouch A Son. Prop.

 

 

 

'TUEBOH STOCK FARM

Breeder of Registered Holstein
cattle and Berkshire Hogs.

Everything guaranteed, write"
me your wants or come and see

ROY F'. FICKIES
Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED

nly to December. Most-
prices reasonable end
exactly as repre-

 

zood bulls and due from J
R. 0.

 

751 YEAHLIIIG BULL BARGAINS

wice Michigan ribbon winner .
Dams ore daughter; of K

     
  
  
 

1h! touted Juno 10.
ohm- e- woes. was. Pigeon. Itch. -

     

LAKEwoon HEnEEonns...;'.":l...TV".§

Tl ey are good ones. High class femoleo,
egos. Best of blood. Come and see.
E. J. TAYLOR, Fremont. Mich.

IIIVEIIVIEW HEIIEFOIIDS 5.1“...1“:

o grandson of the $9,500 Bullion 4th. Aka o
tow lemoles.
Wm. C. DICKEN. Smyrna. Mich.

 

‘.

SHORTHORN

SHOBTHOIIIIS F OR SALE

As [have sold my Cattle Ranch nee Rood
Michigan, I am offering for sole mry herd

 

Us in the Ste. Mute
Model 576147. This herd of cattlete'sro min:
anally roans. Terms can be arranged. Time
will be given on approved notes.

E. M. PARKNURST. Reed City. Mich.

OR BALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORNS

dong] Duroc Jlolrsey nailing gigs, edging sex; two
re am. one men s an one
Several boilers from 6 months to 2 months Old'
Scotch Top end Bates bred. Address

GEORGE W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD

Williamsburo. R 1. Michigan
snonmonls ...... “Wm mu
offered n ottroctlvo pric.

bolero Jonuory ﬁrst. Will trode for good load.

> Wm. J. IELL. Iooo City. Mich.

 

 

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you IUREN co. enonruonu lasso.“

u’ Widen hove stock for sole. both mill

boot I:
I"m- oﬂea.
olesy. mums. Mich.

 

FRANK
EXTRA IOBD IULL CAIIIIES FOR SALE.
line he Ridge herd of Betas Show
has. in S ember 1920. \
J- ~I. SWELL. More». Michigan.

 

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Dollars. Milwaukee and Minneapolis;

(M m nasal.)

the United States very intricate. In
the ease of cotton, for instance, it
has dammed up a great supply of
that product in this county and the
(inferential in exchange has caused
the European spinners and buyers
to desire to buy on a hand-to-mouth
basis from stocks of cotton owned
by American exporters but held at

concentration points in various
parts of the world. Strange as it
may seem therefore, the export

problem is becoming more and more

one of domestic finance. Recogniz-
ing this situation Congress recent-
ly passed the McNary substitute to
the Norris bill which will greatly
extend the powers of the War Fin-
ance Corporation. It may sell de-
bentures to the extent of three times
its capitalization of $500,000,000
and use this money for the exten-
sive financing of banks and‘bank-
ing institutions and co-operative or-
ganization for the holding of do-
mestic products prior toiexportation
and advancing money on' them while
they are being exported. It may
also advance money upon proper
collateral to alien individuals or
concerns who would spend the mon-
ey on the United States for supplies
which they would export.
(Continued next week)

FARM BUREAU NOTES

(Continued from page 2)
rates which would give Michigan
shippers a better deal on southern
shipments to such points as Cincin—
nati will have .to wait awhile. The
Interstate Commerce Commission
has suspended the tariff until De-
cember 23, 1921,‘ says the farm
bureau traffic department. It was
to have gone into effect August 25.
In the meantime a hearing will be
held. The farm bureau traffic com-
missioner will attend that meeting
to protect Michigan interests.

 

f 011 October 12 the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation will begin a
drive for 150,000 members. Every
county in Ohio has a Farm Bureau
organized on a $10 membership
basis. The Ohio Farm Bureau Fed-
eration has a total of nearly 100,000

members.

Secretary J. W. Coverdale, Di-
rector of the Organization Depart-
ment of the American Farm Bureau
Federation reports that only 3
states—Pennsyl‘lvania, Mississippi
and South Carolina—do not have
State Farm Bureau Federations.
The federation of the County Farm
Bureaus in Mississippi will be ef-
fective about November 1.

 

President Warren G. Harding has
been requested by the American
Farm Bureau Federation to provide
proper representation for American
farmers in the disarmament confer-
ence of the nations to be held in
Washington beginning November 11.

Farm Bureau leaders believe that
' it is essential that the farmer view-
point be given due consideration by .

the‘ conference.

 

CHANGES IN RETAIL PRICES OF

' FOOD
HE U. S. Department of Labor,
through the Bureau of Labor
‘ Statistics has completed the com-
pilations showing changes in the re-
tail cost of food in August, in 15
principal cities of the United States.

During the month from July 15
to August 14, 1921, there was an
increase in all of these cities: In
Rochester there was an increase of
8 per cent; in Buffalo, 7 per cent;
in Baltimore and New York, 6 per
cent; in Milwaukee, Newark and
Norfolk, 5 per cent; in Charleston,
S. ‘0, Louisville, Manchester and
Portland, Me., 4 per cent; in Hous-
ton, 3 per cent in Butte and Dayan,
2 per cent; and “in Minneapolis, 1
perrcent. .- ‘

For the yearkperiod August 1;,
1920, to August 15, 1921,1111“ was
a decrease of 30 per ‘ccnt in mm;
28 per cent in Louisville; to per
cent in Baltimore, Charleston. 8. 0.,

 

  

 
   

"3156“ to the great powers at nub" York.
0170 makes the export problem of

knitter.

and We sent for it.

name 01 one so I went to his lady.

  

  

Re i. .
Rochester, end, 2,3 per denial“!
’As compared with the- ow
cost in the year41913, the retail one!
of food on August 15, 1921, showd
an increase of .62 per cent in Man-
chester; 60 per cent in Buffalo and
Milwaukee; 69. per cent in New
York; 68 perment in Baltimore and
Ch-arlestong-EHS. 0.; 50 per cent in
Minneapolis and Newark; 47 per
cent in Dallas; and 43 per cent in
Louisville. Prices were not obtain-
ed from Butte, Houston, Norfolk,
Portland, Me., or Rochester in 1914,
hence no comparison for the 8-year
period can be given for these cities.
U. S. G. G. MEMBERSHIP REACH-
ES 8,115 and 338 ELEVATORS
RELIMINAR/Y steps in organiza-
,tion work are practically com-
pleted in nine states. Grain
growers generally are becoming ae-
quainted with the aims and purposes
of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc, and
the farmer solicitors are feeling
more sure of their ground. Frothy
optimism has been replaced with a
practical and serious brand of on-
thusiasm.‘ “Never before have we
been so sure ‘of the ultimate succu
of this national co-operative grain
marketing movement as we or!
now,” is the universal sentiment ex-
pressed by the directors who are
supervising organization work so
the field.

With incomplete returns from m
cf the nine states where active or
ganization work for membership in
the U. S. Grain Growers was con-
ducted last week, an increase h
shown of 20 elevator affiliations and
1,466 grain growers. North‘ I‘Da»
kota maintains first place with A
membership of 3,844 grain grow
ere—an increase of 306 for the
week, while Illinois is second m
a. total of 1,279 contracts with no
official reports from DeKalb end
McLean counties where organiza-
tion work is progressing successful-
ly.

 

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0H! BOY, WHAT MELONS!

A crate from Three Rivers, all-
dressed to the Busnvsss FARMEB, woe
found to. contain 8. dozen and a ho]!
of the ﬁnest flavored calntaloupa
we have ever tasted. To one of the
melons was attached the little slip
we mailed out some time last year,
which if you will remember said:
“Friends are like melons, shall I
tell you why? To fine one good
you must a hundred try!” Evident.-
ly our reader, C. D. Thayer, who I.
kindly sent them, muSt have expect-
ed the quality of his melons to a-
press his regard for this weekly, I!
so, he must be one of the but
friends on our list!

 

 

 

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Bring your everyday problems In and
the experience or other farmers. Que=“ons :
dressed to this department are publlﬁid hero
and answered by you, our readers, who on
graduates of the School of Hard Knocks end
who have tholr diplomas from the College 0!
Experience. If you don'tl wont our editor'o
advice or on expert’s advice, but luot plain.
everyday buolnooo farmxs' advice. send h

e wlii publish 0
each wool. If you on answer the cu:
foliow’s question, Noose do so, he may eno-
snooty” 1.)! yoursngne doy! Address Expoh

. core Business r

Clemons. Mich. Fa mor, MI.

 

 

 

I AUTO-KNITTER

law in the Business For

lady from Hillsdale county, ﬁfcrhfhgtana.

to know of some one who has oh auto-
We got one last spring and I.

did not have any success with it.

wrote to us and told us how nice they

worked—how eaSy it was to make M

ey, so I thought that would be just fine
As soon as the but

through his

spring. I wont back and '
the o i asked hlm who
chines.

parties were that

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_ ONORABLE
‘ of Minnesota; chairman of the

Joint Commission of Agricul-
tural Inquiry has prepared a state-
ment anticipating the results of the
"committee's investigation as to
what is the matter with the farm-
,u's’ business. Michigan county farm
bureaus last July held community
headings on local conditions and iii-
ed the returns with the American
farm, Bureau Federation for pres-
utation before the Commission of-
Agricultural Inquiry. Farm Bur»
nu members throughout the na-
tions participated in the community
hearings.

Mr. Anderson’s statement is de-
clared to be an unbiased judicial
statement, made after months of
hard work and intensive study and
is said to coincide very closely with
points developed by the county farm

an community hearings. Mr.
Anderson's summary of the causes
which brought about the slump in
uriculture are as, follows:
~ “The causes which brought about
the“ recent agricultural crisis, the
principal phenomena of which was
the almost perpendicular drop of
farm prices, can be reduced to four
(actors. These factors, in the order
in which I believe they affected the
situation are as follows:

"let. The falling oi! of exports,
particularly in beef and beef pro-
ducts, pork and pork products, and

on.

“2nd. The very marked decline
in domestic consumption, in which
tho so-called buyers’ strike was a
hot-or as was also the general in-
dustrial depression.

  

"3rd. The inorease in freight
rates.
"4th. The pressure of limita-

tions of credit and discount rates."

Mr. Anderson then comments at
length on the cause for the decreas-
d airports and the decreased con-
sumption at home. He points out
the disastrous eﬂect oi' the credit
situation and particularly emphasiz-

 

Bydne‘y Anderson

 

 

es the fact that agriculture could

not protect itself" by a curtailment
of production as did organized in-
dustry. _ Y

He continues, “the general situa-
tion of the farmers can be best ex-
pressed in terms of the purchasing
power of his dollar. During the
first six months of this year as com-
pared with 1913, the purchasing
power of the farmers’ dollar stood
at 69 per cent and was slightly
higher than this for the entire year
of 1980.”

The relief of the recent situation,
Mr. Anderson believes, lies in the
improvement of the export situa-
tion, the return of the industrial sit-
uation to normal and the extension

of liberal credit to agriculture. Mr.‘

Anderson declared his belief that
the farmers’ situation has reached a
turning and is improving.

 

11,000 HEAD OF LIVE STOCK EX-
EIBITED AT STATE FAIR
(Continued from. page 3) _

Herefords and the Shorthorns were
evenly balanced. The most import-
ant and impressive exhibit, in the
beef cattle division of the fair, was
made by C. H. Prescott a Sons who
came down from Tawas City with a
herd of more than 80 cattle which
included three carloads of the fin-
est Shorthorn yearling steers that
were ever seen in the Detroit man
ket. The Lessiters from Clarkston.
Carr Bros. & Clark from Bad Axe
and the Bidwell Stock Farm from
Tecumseh also represented Michigan
in the Shorthorn division. In the
Angus division the Wildwood Farm
of Orion, Mich., captured the lion’s
share of the prizes, second in im-
portance being the Woodcote Herd
of Ionia. Martin of Croswell, Perry
of Davison and the M. A. C. made
very creditable exhibits in the
"doddie" classes. In the Hereford
division of the show two Michigan
breeders, F. H. Saunders,- Eaton
Rapids and Calhoun Bros., Bronson.
competed for prizes. In next week’s
issue a complete summary of the
prizes awarded will be given, to-
gether with comment on exhibits.

Farmers Are Busy Filling Silos

I

Oscodne—'-Fs.rmers are cutting corn and
filling silos. Potatoes improving.
II needed—O. C. K

Midland—Oat threshing in this com—
munity is finished. The yield was from
six to twenty—two bushels per acre. Some
corn has been out. It is hoped that the
host will hold off until the balance is
ready to cut—C. L. H.

Ionic—Corn is being cut, Isilos filled.

and wheat ground fitted. Potatoes look

3 little more encouraging. Had a hard

ruin last Sunday night, lightning burn.

ed two big barns Just north of Saranao.

Everything seems in good condition.—
E. L.

Preﬂque Isle—Not much doing just
now. Corn cutting nearly done. Farm-
ers busy putting in rye. Second cutting
of clover good; much better than the
first. Not much going to market ex-
cept eggs and butter and a few early po-
tatoes—Mrs. F. E.

Washtenaw—The farmers are filling
silos and working wheat ground. The
weather is much cooler this week and the
rain has done a great deal of good to
the potatoes but will not be more than
half a ’crop. Mr. Chas. VanSickle had

a shot at some chicken thieves last
week—H. C. Ringle. °

St. Joseph-v—Corn nearly all cut in
Sherman township. Silos nearly all
filled. Some farmers are ready to drill
rye. Buckwheat looks fine, will be a

good crop if frost only holds off. Beans
are getting ripe. School started Tues-
day morning with fair attendance and
brand new teacher.-—Mrs. H. C. H.

Montcalm (N.)—-'I‘he farmers are
filling silos. putting in grain, cutting
corn and hauling lime. beans. The
weather is cloudy and cool to-day. The
condition of soil is good. The tanner:
are selling grain and early poutoes.
ome of the farmers are holding gmln
r higher prices—Geo. B. Wilson.
Kinsmen—Silo filling in progress."
Seed beds for wheat about finished.
Coolounnydsysandcoolnightswithno
frosts as yet. Sell in fine tillable con-
dition. There has been a good Quantity
of corn out during the past week. The
lost cutting of alfalfa. has been made
and it was a good drop—Reno J. Fast. .
Game—Every one attending State
Fair this week. some seeding bcln
done. - Next week
ﬁnished on early
this county.

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“no.

Late Potatoes Looking Better; Bean Harvest 0n

, being plowed and

are having nice Weather for those lucky
enough to have a stand. I received a
letter from Mecosta county farmer. His
26 acres of potatoes are fine and will
make a good crop if frost holds om—V.

Livingston (C.)~Weather

has been
hot and sultry.

Wheat and rye ground
fitted; some wheat in.
33m cuttingdand silo filling in progress.

In goo crop. Early beans bei g
harvested. Threshing is about finishgd
in this section. Some late potatoes have
been hit by blight while others are fine
and growing. County fair held here last
week with large attendance and good
,exhibits.——-Geo. Coleman.

Wext‘hd—Corn nearly all cut.
filling is the order of the day. Not
much being sold but pickles, $3 per cwt.
for No. 1 and $1 per cwt. for 2nds. Late
potatoes are growing nicely. Buckwheat
is filling good. Grading on the road is
about completed. Prices for farm pro-
ducts remain about the same. Autumn
apples scarce; winter apples in some
places. Wheat and rye coming fine also
seeding—W. A. J.

Livingston (E.)——Silo ﬁlling and bean
harvest is under full swing. s are
a fairly good crop this year, considering
the dry weather they have had to grow
in. Into potatoes doing fine and will
be much better than expected if frost
holds of! long enough. Alfalfa doing
fine and the farmers will get 3 cuttings
fromunost fields. Grain threshing about
done—J. W. C.

Bay (8. Fla—«Fine
The rain helped pasture and late pota-
toes. Farmers have finished threshing
grain. Wheat yielded about 25 bu. per
acre. some more. and cats from 40 to 60.
Everybody busy preparing wheat ground.
filling silos and harvesting
Is good. Beans less than
average. not filled well Sugar beets
coming fine since the showers in Au-
gust. Corn badly broken down and hard
to harvest. The ground getting ’ hard
again. Grain prices remain lam—4. C...
Armour.

Knlkasknr—We are very much in need
of rain at present. Famers are busy
filling silos and cutting corn and
ting in full. grain.
been marketed. great many are mil,
scabby and wormy. Stock on all kind
is bringing a very small price‘on the
market and there is but a small amount
changing hands. Grade work has been
finished on, the state trunk line number
13 in the village of Kalkasks. and-also,
south and north of town; outside or the

ml! will bopccveted with six

end then with

Silo

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Auction Solos advertised

HIGHLAND SHORTHORNS

Bord bulb for quick ode. Fair Acres Goo.
and 001.1ch Culln 5th. roan ﬂ yo-
“..smsri .... .. ”h a... "

nes ow to.

Both quiet to handle.

A real bargain.

Write for particulars.

C. H. Prescott & Sons
Tawas City, Michigan

GIITRAL MICHIGAN .HORTHORH IRII’I
on’ Association offer for sale 76 head; Al
51:, both milk and boot brooding. Send for mu

I. I. MILLER. Coo’y. arsenvlllo. Mich.
UY SHORTHORNS

NOW. 4TH ANNUAL

 

 

 

 

under this heedlns'to honest breeders of live stoop end '
. stIII write out what you have to offer, let us out It In
”I" You a proof and tell you what It will cost for 13, 20 or 32 times. You 0“ "WW
c! has.“ n. lroeders' c"! 0" ohansu rr'mst be ”I": one manager- at).

, hero at special cw ram: as or them. WI
Alnllblns DIRECTORY .‘rHE MICHIGAN ousmsss FARMER, Mt. Clemens. Michlluh

   
 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL GAL
Prince 11

Lonmtsr

 

7 MONTHS

: Lawton’s Indy
A. A. (farmers class)
In. fat D. D. W to
. MORGAN BROS"
Allocan, R 1. Michigan
FOR SALE GUERNSEY BULLS. SERVICE.
able age, and calves. Duns now
on test making splendid A. 1}. records. I
what you want in type breeding and

Have never had abortion nor tuber
federally accredited. Prices $100 up.

culs
for A. A: SMITH. Lake City. Mich.
FOR SALE--

GIIEIINSEY BULL 1 two-year old; i

yearling; 1 ﬁve months old; 1 three men
Rose strain advanced registry. rib
“1 u" M3? 1'. snvoa’. Romeo. Mlchu

.AB.
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herd test without a reactor. Some bargain
ln bulls.
somv scamm- n sou. Reed City. Mlch.
ANGUS
The Home of
Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny
Probably

The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

Blue Boll, Supreme
Bnlthtleld Show, 191’.
bun Show, 1920, is A
of Dalmeny.

The Junior Champion Bull. Junior
Champion Female, Champion Calf Herd
and Fiat Prise Junior Heifer Calf, Mich-
ignn State Fair, 1930. were also the got
of Ednr Dalmeny.

A very choice lot at young bulls—~slre
by Edgar of Dalmeny are, at this time?
oﬂ'ered for sale.

send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOD FARMS
Orion, Mich.

w. E. Scrlpps. Prop. Bldney Smith, Sup;

Champion at the
and the Birming-
daughter of Edgar

 

 

 

 

BARTI ETTS’PURE IRED ABERDEII-
ANGUS CATTLE AND 0.I.0~

Swine no right and are priced right. Com.
spondsnco solicited and Invocation vitecL
OARL BARTLETT. Lawton. Mlch.

EOISTERED ABERDEEN - Minus—sum
Pigifers and cows for sale.

to move. Inspection invited.
RUSSELL BROS" Mon-III. Michigan

JERSEYS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Young Man
A-Hoy!

What is it?

STOP breeding those scrubs.
GET 9. pure bred sire.

JERSEY BULLS are noted for

their prepotency.

JERSEY cows For their early
maturity,‘ long

life, economical production.

Write Secretary Hendrickson of
Shelby, Mich., for free Jersey
literature. Do it now.

 

 

 

 

EADOWVIEW JERSEY FARM—REGISTEL

ed Jersey cattle.

J. E. MORRIS a SOII. Farmlngton, Mich.
HEIFERS 1 YR.

IIEB‘ JERSEYS Young cows in milk sired

Macs s Oxford Shylock 156,692 also young
all: ninety, by Frollc'l Master Pogis 177683. A
mindse- of Pogis 99th and Sophie 19th‘s Top
mics. two great bulls cf the breed. Write he
[does and pedigree.

GUY .0. WILBUR. R 1. Boldlnl. Mlch.

 

 

IF THE BULL ls HALF THE HERD. HM
would a son of Post 99th's Duke 8th
0 per cent blood of Sophie 19th. he

8
ur h dl .,
Edmund era. m ond prices on bu]
from this bull and Sophie Tormentor 00‘.
FRED HAYW , ‘

ARI)
Scout. Mlch.

 

on: or con MAJESTY BULLS WOULD IL
D

our herd.
IEPF'IGAIII'K P. NORMINGTON. lonla. Mlch.

 

FO I: ONE VERY NICE LARGE REG-
R SAL ISTERED JERSEY BULL
About 1400 lbs.

'htineveryrt-
old. OIRI‘ exchange"

1 his would
11 r o
y‘mEfeO. FERRIS. R4. Aims. Mloh.

REGISTERED JERSEYS, FRESH COWS.
springers and heifer calves.
L. R. KUNEY. Adriaanlch.

ﬂ . AYBSEIRES
Iron SALE—REGISTER! AYRSHIRI
and calves. More 9 hello:

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GALLOWAY

REGISTEREI?ad aggl‘OWAYS.
d robe bre .
”JAMES FRANTZ A soNs,

’l SWINE My).
POLAND CHINA
”iii-736m. spams Plea omen

by Jumbo Lad. an 800 lb. boar.

One line
bard boar by Big Bob Mastodon.
DeWITT C. PIER, Evert. Mich.

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST II. TYPE P. 0. [N HIGH.
Got o bigger and better bred boar pic from my
lord, at a reasonable price. Come and no then.
Expenses paid if not as represented. These be“.
In service: L's Big Orange, Lord Cleanup,
Orange Price and Us Long Prospect.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Forms. Mlch.

 

The beat. drum
of all ages for sale.
Bluﬂton, OHIO "‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

ER! l8 SOMETHING GOOD. BIG TYPE
Poland Chinas. One extra good loft. lonl
biz boned smooth gilt bred tn Howleyl Clans“

£33,800 Price 8100. Also younger gilt: $30 to
5 . .
HOWLEY BROS.. Mel‘fIII. Mich.

FABWELL LAKE FARM em rvrs P.

0. Have A
ﬁne lot of spring pigs. Come and see them. Boers
in service. Clansman's Image 2nd. W. B. Out-
post and Smooth Wonder. Don't .forch the
November sale.
W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover. Mich.

 

 

 

FOR SALE, LARGE TYPE————-v-

POLAND GIIINA

b0“ pisa Sired by F’s Clansmun 391211,
Michigan's 1920 Gr. Champion boar. and
by Smooth Buster 395823, Michigans
1920 lst Jr. Yearling Boar. Immune by
double treatment. Priced in Bell. \‘Vrlte
or see them. Free livery to visitors.
A. A. FELDKAMP
Manchester. R. R. No. 2

as BOB MASTODON

Is sired by Caldwell Bi Bob. champion of
the world. His dam’s are is A’s Mastodon,
grand champion at Iowa State Fair. some breed-
ing. I have 3 sows bred for Sept. A full bear
and spring beers that are corkers. Write for
prices. Everything guaranteed to please.

0. E. GARNANT

Eaton Rapids. Mlch.

Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

B.T. P. O. A FEW TOP GILTS BRED To
Highland Giant, the $500 boar. Others bred
to Wilcy’s Perfection. Weight, 700 st 18 monthl.
JOHN D. WILEY, Schooicraft. Mlch.

 

. T. P. 0. DOES YOUR NERVE SAY BUY
Lhoss? Vote yes and order A good one. Fell
gilts $30 to $50: spn'ns boars. $15 to $25. "wo

Prospect ﬂankt gilt; bred to Hart's Block Price
11 241‘. a 5 each.
mm F. . HART. St. Louis. won.

 

EONARD'S BIG TYPE P. C. BOAR PIG.‘

at weaning time, from Mich. Champion herd
$25 with pedigree. Satisfaction guaran Call ,
or Write E. II. LEONARD. R 3. St. Lou“. Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Fall pigs for’
sale sired by the 1200 lb. boar Monster Big
Bob 327,623 and of Ulnnsman, Giant Buster
and Yankee breeding. Ready to ship new. All
hogs double treated. Priced right for quick sale.

Write or come and see om.
SONS, Ithaca. Mich.

WALNUT ALLEY ,

 

 

 

Big Type. l'olsud Chime. boars and slits now
ready. The kind that has made good for the
you too years

A. II. GREGORY

lonla. Michigan

L s P —4 BOAR! BY OLANSIAN'S IM-

AGE and Big Defender. that an
extra Bred giln all sold.

good.
H. 0. SWARTZ. Schocloraft. Michigan.

BIG ms mums—m :2: sin

wthy. Best of blood lines more-om Write
or call W. Onidwoll a Son. and

BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING :2ng SEX
from large growthy dams ~ C out
herd bgrrs. Come and see our stock. prices.-
easona e.

r L. w. BARNES A SON, BM Mich.

E c o cmﬁ.
IT ms matings“ egg was
R‘s? $71 133': ruling is; vast m _ W
"'1 10° yid‘bfiou an. Prep. ‘ ‘
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IRIEDERS' DIRECTORY

BIG TYPE POLAND GHINAS AND REG. 0X-

FORD SHEEP. To start with will
a male pig born March 26th, 1921I weight};
over 200 lbs. for t0:40. sows of the same

litter from 820
GEORGE MIDDLETON, Wheeler. Mlch.

Large Type Spotted Poland China:
Some lg?“ pigsBa at

$15 and
Pride of tisfacti tion gu:rn,l:?tee$n(l 2H

papers vv'ith pigs. Phone or wri
J.I . FULLER, R 2. Reed tcity, Mich.

“LARGE TYPE dPOLAIIO OHIIIAS

32.3%”:
and by F’s Clansman 1920 grand pier
Pric Visitors welcome. Free
livery from Par-ma. Correspondence oily
answered.

N. F. nonnon. n 1. Farms. Mich.
DUROCS

OR SALE—FINE MARCH AND APRIL PIGS
Sired by Gledwin Col. 188995. Write us

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

 

 

 

FOR SALE Eff-£13338. Oren onu,
GEO. H. SHANKLIN, Redford, mm

 

TO MIGHIGANA ORION SEN-
e great son of Great Orion‘s
Sfensetlon) and blame Demonstrator (one

knot been in state) for sale at conserva-
tive prices. Also his, growthy spring bears and

MICHIGANA FARM, Pavilion, Mich
Kalamazoo County

Dunne BDAIISO SPRING FARROW,

Mostly Colonel. Long
Wonder end Sense bre .
OHASLEN FAORMS, eNorthvlile, Mich.
UROO JERSEY IOARS. loan of the long
hoevy-boned type, et reasonable prices. Write,

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

sows-“:0 BRED

 

 

 

uro Jersey Bred Stock ell Sold. Orders taken
for wentlins pigs. 1. 000 pound herd boar.
JOS. SOHUELLER. Weldmsn. Mich.

OR SALE—DUROO FALL GILTS AND BRED

sows. A. One Duroc Boar from Brookwater
breeding. spring p
Louie R. Eloentraaer. R 1, Linden, Mich.

 

PEAOH HILL FARM

TRIED sows end slits bred to or sired by Peach
Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction guar-
foed. Come look 'em over.
nAlso a few open gilts.
INW OORD BROTHERS

Romeo. Mich.

 

EADOWVIEW CHOICE
spring female

J. E.
AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRIIIO OUROO BOARS

et reasonable prices . A few giits bred for Sex»
umber ferrovv et bargain prices.
W. e. TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.

FARM—A FEW
Dis! for sale.
MORRIS A SON. Farmlnoton, Mich.

 

 
 

Iv, stool: end
out what you have to offer. lot III not It In
out for 18. 2.0? 52 times. Y

Go o
‘Irood re' Auction 8"“ “v“.“ngn chanson moot he received one week Hero date

rom1ukforthom.wrltetodul)

topoolel low
,THE MIOHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Olomono. Iiohioen.

CHESTER WHITES

FOR JUNE FA ROW. ONE
BRED ”ﬁll-IV rite smerviee beer 9 [Enoshcold Allo
RALPH OOSENS. anyol'lf mill? Mlegh.

HAMPSHIRES

HAMPSHIRE RRED GILTSd NOW READY TO
shinAbergaininfellen d-eprinsboer pin.
JOHN W. SNYDER,R S, St. Johns. Mich.

An Opportunity To Buy

 

 

 

 

 

Hampshires Right '

We ere oﬂoring some good sows end (lite, bred
for March end April femwing. Also e in
choice fall pies, either sex, Write or cell

SUS THOMAS. New Lothrop. Mich.

m: SHEEP

WILLOW SHADE SHROPSHIRES

and rams of the
ensemble.

 

 

 

O. W.

Fowlervlllse, BMich.
EGISTERED SHROPSHIRE EWES FOR
sale at prices will move them

SUMNER SIMPSON. Webbol'ﬂﬂo. .MIOI'I.

snnorsmnrs mung; .13.:

Evert. MloI'l.

 

 

SHROPSHIRES “233‘30 "31118

DAN BOOHER. R 4,, Evert. MIcI'I.

oxronns- 20 ms. annulus

from the best blood lines. Both sexes for sale.
One choice 2 yr old Herdo Header register tered
and delivered to your stnti

WM. VAN SICKLE. Doctorvllle, Mich.

 

 

FOR SHROPSHIRE YEARLINO RAMS THAT
have sire and type. Cell
R.R. No. S. Mich.

or to.
Armstrong Bros" Fowlervllie.

 

GOOD BIGc
Mloh.

“ERINO RAMS FOR SALE.
boned. heavy shearere.
HOUSEMAN BROS. R 4,

BETTER BREEOIIIO STOOK

For the best in SHROPSHIRE and HAMP-
SHIRE mms write or

<\' KOPE-KOII FARMS

‘. S. L. WING, Prop.. Goldwater, Mic h.
Boo tng r exhibit at the Ohio and Michigan

State

60 Head Registered Shropshle Em and Ram
lambs, also yearling rams of a quality

that have given satisfaction since 1890. Priced

to sell.
0. LEMEN, Dexter, Mich.

Alblon.

 

 

 

Fan SAL —REG. DUROC-JERSEY SPRING
ts bred to Rambler of Semantic
1st. The boar t sired our winners at Michizw

State Fair and National Swine Show
F. HEIMS C SON, Davlson,

oAKLAIIOS PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Basra—Reference only—No. 12921.

1919 Chicago International

Mlch.

 

 

 

 

TO IIIOREASE YOUR RETURIIS

from sheep, breed Registered Bambouillets.
For sale by
P. c. FREEMAN A SON
Phone 64-8 or 24 Lowell,

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Mlol'l.

 

 

 

 

 

' ° A few good yeeriing rune end some rem
4th Pme 11" Yearhn‘ lambs left to oﬂor. 25 owes ell ages for sale
BOOKING ORDERS FALL PI'GS AT ‘25 (or fall delivery. Everything guaranteed AI
ANK e POTTE represen
'LPottorvlllo. Mich.I
' CLARKE U. HAIRE. West Drench. Mich.
Dunno ANYTHING YOU WANT AT.
Farmer’s prices.
9' L' ”WP-3' "°"°'“°' "°"- EGISTERED HAMPSHIRE RAMS... an
FOR SALE REG. ounoc srnmo soens, 1| ““1 ﬁﬁdam and ”we“ “‘1“ A)” W‘
Egg“ Bbffg‘g“: 80"“? w. w. OASLER, Ovid, Mich.
Henderson. Mich.
HAMPSHIHES BUCK LAMBS AND
REGISTERED BOAR ! YEARLINGS ‘
DHHOO JERSEYpIgg by Defenders Chem Maggot: (airbags now for later shipment.
' 21.5 EFcAIPIIIiH‘SafuRHnIHT-bor, mm. J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adamo. Mich.
R SALE. ONE DUROC BOAR FROM MAPLE LAWN FARM, Shropshll'ﬂ, rams end

Breakwater breeding stock. Choice spring plge
JOHN ORONENWETT. Oerloton. Mloh.

nureo oowe one elite cred to Welt'o Kine 8294.
who has sired more prise winning pigs at tho
statofeininthelutayoersthenen otherne-
Newton Bernhart. 8t. Jo . Mich.

mm lambs of choice breeding. Wooled from

nose to tomA. Bacon & Son. Sheridan. Mich.

_@ PET STOCK

 

 

 

uroeo. Hill Oroot Perms. Irod end ”On coll
100 heed.

straight s. 1 Middleto Mich
Newton e Bifnk. Perrintgn. Mich:

TYP:;° QUAﬂLL‘TV
and 13th n ere
dine.

hm
' Gretiot Oo.

OUROO BOAR PIGS

R SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RAIII‘I’S. DOES,
brooding age. 8.6 Three months old pair. 85.
Registered does 612 each. Stock pedigreed. Que]-

tygue renteed.
NE. HIMERAUGH. Ooldweter. Mich.
ILVEROREST KENNELS OFFER FOR SALE

 

 

 

 

chop ammugli‘d Prggd Colonel bree dudgige'lhiiﬂée of Reg. Scotch Collie Puppies.
ﬁcﬂgﬂ‘ROGER‘u GRUBER,AWI::, Mlohlcen I'MI. _S. HUBER. Ghdwin. MchI.
IO‘l‘o
1:11.1111: * gums-cs 1.1... .. . Eve
, aoNAUGH “I O FORDYOI. St. Lotus. IIOI. r) ‘
r. . 0- 1- 0- Breeder—hr
O I O AIII OHESTEII WHITE 0” “8° M. 3- 1m

Sninsboersettob. .t8_

soot.
i t Bloodlines. Write
333* v. WHEEL. Sam moo.
j p n {on some. value race
on! 'n' “13' om:"x~ FARM. Monroe. Mich.
. owns—ow neon CONTAIN
, .11.... was]. -

  

 

Breeder-8’ Directory
to good advantage.
Run your ad. and
watch the returns
come in

WHAT HAVE YOU
TO OFFER?

 

 

 

 

' graph of the “town clock" in the

 

I (Continued from page 4) ..

the farmers had come into conflict

with the interests of men giving fin-
ancial support to the movement. The
Boston Board of Trade, for instance,
served notice upon a certain great
bank that if its president did not re-
sign from the committee which was
studying and aiding the co-operative
movement, all its members would
withdraw their accounts. Accord-
ingly the president sent in his resig-
nation. A manufacturer of auto-
mobile tires took the letter when it
was read before the Committee and
upon his next visit to Boston called
upon the bank president and inquir-
ed the reason for his resignation.
Upon being told, he said: “Very
well, you may take your choice be-
tween losing the accounts of the
Board of Trade or the accounts of
my own and affiliated companies.”
The President chose,.—-he remained
on the committee.
0 O O

The day before we landed at
Liverpool a vote was taken in the
dining saloon on whether we would
travel from Liverpool to Edinburg
first-class at a cost of about §25 or
second-class at a cost of about $6.
Having read that no one travels
first-class in England except no-
bility, darn fools and American miI‘-'
lionaires, and not wishing to be
classed with such, I was perfectly
willing to travel third-class, ' but
was quite certain that the majority
would vote for first-class accommo-
dations, as there were a number of
well-'to—do people on, board the boat.

It was quite evident that the
ship’s committee had decided we
should travel first-class, and when

the chairman of the committee so
announced, cries of “no,” “no,”
went up from all parts of the din-
ing room. The chairman said, “we
will take a vote and all travel the
way the majority decides. The Oh-
jection to travelling third-class is
that the London newspapers might
get hold of it, and—” He got no
further. The crowd simply howled
and all insisted on talking at once.
One speaker announced that any
person who insisted on
ﬁrst—class was a “darn poor Ameri-
can,” and the crowd yelled its ap-
proval. The chairman saw that it
was all up and when he asked for a
rising vote, the diners rose as one
in favor of third—class accommoda-
tions. and so we alh went to Edin-
burgh like true Americans and not
like the such who shuns everything
except the best that money can buy.
There was very little difference, so
far as I could see, between first and
third-class accommodations, and it
was only after we had been in Scot-
land a few days that we learned
what a tragic blunder it would have
been for us to have traveled first-
class.

I cite this instance merely to show
the democratic and representative
type of American citizen who com-
prised the delegation which, went "to
Edinburgh.

S t O O

Thirty-six hours before we land-
ed at Liverpool we began to sight
land. First, the low lying shore of
South Wales poked its nose through
the haze, and a little later the higher
levels which mounted eventually
into graceful bills at the feet of
which nestled neat little towns,
came into view. Then to the north
we got a glimpse of the Iiish coast,
barren and uninviting at that par-
ticular point and showing no sign of
vegetation which gives the country
its name of “emerald isle." We
were just too late to catch the high
evening tide into Liverpool and were
obliged to anchor seventy-ﬁve miles
off the harbor-over night to await
the morning tide, which increases
the depth of the water at Liverpool
thirty feet above the level at low
tide, and enables the largest ships
to negotiate the harbor channel in

safety. But at about three o’clock

the next morning the Carpal: was
under motion again and at metly-
ten minutes to seven as my photo.

1 Liver '

e V
' our ocean journey was at an end.

traveling

 

(Our next article will take as th
the «atom house, put so on
the tram, whirl us 250 miles not-Uh
ward and land as in Edinburgh.)

 

CAN FARM BANKS 0F RIVER
(Continued tram page 6)
persons may go on the river for any
lawful purpose. He can stop the
hunting .but not the fishing from
boats as navigable waters are pub-
lic waters and where they can be
entered without trespass any per-
son has the right to fish therein. As
your detail is not very complete it
will be better for you to consult lo-
cal counsel as to your righta—Lo-

gal Editor.

 

HAVING WOOL MADE INTO
FABRICS

We have a quantity of wool which we
would like to have made up. you
kindly advise us as to how toga about
it, to have it made up through the fam
bureau? Can we get it made up into
anything We wish. including suits and
coats. both men and womens. yarn.
blankets, both double and single.
Ifso,ce.nyouteliuswhere-towrltobr

full particulars, prices. seni-
Dles, etc. g you I ens—Hrs.
Z. 0.. Harrison, Michigan. —

We are not in position to take
the individual consignor’s wool and
have it made into yarn or fabrics.
That is like the old custom of tak-
ing toll—it is a thing of the post.

We are always willing to take
farmers wool and allow it to go
into the pool and we will sail to
them, direct, the yarn, fabrics or

other materials, at wholesale prin- _

es. As a matter of fact, we have
Fleischer’s yarns to dispose of not
this particular purpose. Those who

are acquainted with the yarn trade .

know there is none better "then
Fleischer's. The same rule appliu
to our method of blankets and otha
fabrics.

We would not have you think can
this was an exception made, but it
does not apply at assembling sta-
tions, simply from the standpoint of

bookkeeping. We prefer to mat:
the advance, as it simplifies our
bookkeeping. >

Where wool is sent here direct we
can handle the situation very nice-
ly by issuing a check covering this
ﬁrst payment and you can turn this
check over to our fabrics depart-

ment in payment of whatever feb- .

rics desired, if you desire to pub
chase—A. J. Hankins, Wool Dept.

Michigan State Farm Bureau.

LIABLE FOR HALF ACRE
A buys 15 acres of land, keepsaalne
for seven years, then sclisbo 1:08.
a year after the sale B writes A
he had the land surveyed and ﬂiers
only 14 1-3 acres. That the man
has his fence over on B’s land to
amount of 1— 2 acre and won’t move
or let B move it. B saw his in. am
he said the fence had been thereao
he didn't have to move it but told B
could prosecute A for selling it
for 15 acres. B wroteA that he
days to settle or otherwise he“
er face criminal prosecution.
have to pay B for that 1-2 more

E8
§:E§:EEIEE:I;3-

I

, he bought the land for 15 acres and use

taxes for seven years on 16 acres
has all the tax receipts?—!1‘. B..

in

ells, Michigan.

If A gave B a. warranty deed of
15 acres then he is liable for dun-
ages from his warranty for the,”
ference. There is no criminal ao-
ti-on in that kind of a case—Len)
Editor.

 

TAX SALE LAWS

Will you give to the readers of your
valuable paper the tax sales laws of
Michigan 7—8. H. G. Mancelone, mob.

The tax sales laws are too long to
publish in full. You may be able
to get a copy of the tax laws con-
taining the part concerning the
sales from the Secretary of State.
Lansing. Michig'am—ngal Editor.

WRITE BOARD OF m

Our county is ing to vote to band

the county for $1 0.000to build I. m.-
proof hosiptsl and said hospital to be
of ,

according to
state. Will t1you please. print then
end tions of-the status at the
eteteesto Momma—~13”

 

     

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STUCCOING an old building, re-

gardleSs ‘of whether the plaster

is applied over old siding or the

siding is first to be removed,
it is necessary to prepare the sur-
ﬁace by nailing furring strips so
that a ground can be built to receive
and hold the stucco. Over these
strips wood or metal lath is ap-
plied for the ground work.

Best practice no longer favors
the use of wood lath. There are
now on the market a number of
types of so-called metal lath .or
fabric which in reality are not lath
but thin steel plates so deformed

that many openings, are formed in
them, thus providing entrance for
stucco, enabling it to clinch with

the surface as applied. Wood lath,
of course, may be used, but as a rule
dissatisfaction, due to cracking of
stucco surface, may generally be
traced to the fact that wood instead
of_ metal lath formed the ground
work.

As a rule two or more coats of
stucco are applied, the first being
roughened when it has partly hard-
ened by scratching with some saw-
toothed tool so as to provide a bet-
ter bond for the next coat. To a
wood structure the first or scratch
coat should be applied about one-
half inch thick and pressed partly
through the openings in the lath.
the surface is then moderately
smoothed off and afterward rough-
ened by scratching as above men-
tioned. At least five hours or more
should elapse before the second
coat is applied. As a rule two coats
are used for plain surface but if a
more plastic effect is desired three
coats are necessary.

' Portland cement stucco may also
be colored. Coloring matter should
be thoroughly mixed with dry sand
until a uniform color results, be-
fore cement is added. While all
colors will fade in time, blacks are
generally classified as safe, the car-
bon blacks being preferable to lamp-
black. Ultra—marine blue possesses
the virtue' of facing evenly when
it does finally lose its emery—but it
cannot be classed with the more
nearly permanent colors such as
black, brown or ochre. Green is
unsatisfactory and there is no green
cement color on the market that will
not fade when exposed to the light
and weather. Red oxide or iron
produce a dull, brick red, while a
brighter red may be obtained by
using the higher priced mineral tur—
key red. The better grades of
ochres, either American or French.
may be used to produce buff and
yellow.

One of the desirable features of
stucco is that practice combined
with ingenuity of the individual
worker, permits the securing of
quite a. number of very desirable
surface finishes. Of course, a
smooth finish is readily obtained by
proper troweling, although troweling
with a steel trowel is not recom-
mended as the tendency is to over—
trowel, thus bringing too much fine
sand and cement to the surface,
which ultimately results in the form-
ation of many hair-like cracks. A
wood ﬂoat finish is smooth enough.
Next to this, a pleasing finish can be
secured by covering the wood float
or trowel with a piece of old burlap
or carpet and working with a circu‘L
lar or irregular motion.

The slap—dash finish is another
final coat, and is secured by throw-
ing the last application of stucco
paste or mortar against the surface.
To secure desired effects this re-
quires s-ome practice. Another fin-
ish is known as the pebbledash and
consists of throwing clean washed
pebbles of uniform size into the last
plaster coat while it is still soft, in
fact immediately after it has‘been
applied. 'r The pebbles should be
thoroughly wet when thrown against
the surface and will be‘ more likely
to adhere firmly if they are mixed
with thin, creamy-like solution of
cement and water immediately be-
fore being thrown against the wall
surface-
01d buildings usually give more
2 {intisfaetory results under the stuc-

setti i the ”
Is like}. to have ended, the timbers
in the framework are well seasoned
and with careful work there is
nothing likely to cause cracking of
the finished surface.

To incure maximum success,
which means watertightness of the
stucco and permanence, it is neces-
sary to protect the freshly plaster-
ed surface from too rapid drying out.
This may be done by hanging wet
burlap or canvas a few inches away
from the wall and keeping this cov-
erin‘g wet by frequent sprinklings
for two or three days. Such treat-
ment is particularly necessary on
the sides of a building exposed to
the sun and likewise when exposed
to strong drying winds.

Stucco is more expensive than
paint but less expensive than ren-
ovating an old building with new
weather boarding and the regular
painting that will be necessary year
after year to keep it in good condi-
tion. Stucco requires no mainten-
ance and is more nearly“ penmanent
than the structure on which placed
when this is of frame.

  

USE OF PICRIO ACID AS AN AG-
RICULTURAL EXPLOSIVE
(Continued from page 4)
Picric acid is not affected by the

 
 
    

ordinary temperatures which will'

be encountered in agricultural blast-
ing. In the tests made c‘o—opera-
tively by the agencies mentioned
above cartridges of picric acid were
placed in a freezing mixture of ice
and salt. The cartridges were left
in this mixture for about six hours,
at the end of which time a thermom—
eter in the mixture registered six
degrees Fahr. These cartridges
were then immediately fired, and
were apparently as completely de-
tonated with a No. 8 detonator as
was the case at normal temperature.

The sensitiveness of picric acid
decreases with increased moisture
content, so that care should be tak-
en to store the picric acid in a dry
place,- However, the cartridges of
picric acid as prepared for distri-
bution can be left in moist earth for
several hours, without loss of sensi-
tiveness or strength. It can be stor—
ed for long periods in dry places
without deterioration.

Picric acid should be detonated
with what is known as a “No. 8”
detonator or cap. Dynamites and
farm powders are usually fired by
“No. 6" caps, but because of its in-
sensitiveness the stronger No. 8
caps should be used with picric acid.
There are two kinds of caps, one fir-
ed by a safety fuse and the other by
an electric current. The No. 8 size
of both kinds are of the same
strength and either may be used
with picric acid. The caps are
placed in the picric acid cartridges
and ﬁred in the same way as in the
case of dynamite. Both types of
caps are loaded with a charge of a
highly sensitive and violent explos-
ive. The caps must be handled
carefully and should not be stored
or carried with picric acid or any
other high explosive.

For stump and rock blasting pic-
ric acid can be used in exactly the
same way as dynamite is used. The
charges should be placed in the
same manner, and the same number
of cartridges should be used in the
charge as in the case of dynamite.
As has been said, a No. 8 instead of
a No. 6 cap should be used with
picric acid.

For blasting ditches, the electric
method of firing must be used be-
cause the picric acid is so insensi-
tive that it will not propagate.

This explosive will be distributed
among farmers of Michigan at the
cost of putting up in cartridge form
or 7c per pound, plus the freight
charges from Sparta, Wisconsin to
car's destination. The explosive is
put up in 100 pound cases which
will contain approximately 270
Sticks. One hundred pounds is the
minimum amount that may be or-
dered and 500 pounds is the max-
imum allotment to one farmer.
County Agents are getting upship-
menbs to be ordered through the M.
A. C. If you are interested see
your agent at once or if you have
no agricultural agent in your coun-
ty write the M. A. 0.

 

 

FPOULTRYWESDERS’, ”DIRECTORY '

 

 

Advertisements inserted under this heading at‘ 80,cente per line,
sue. Special rates for 13 times or longer.
and send it in, we will put it in type, lend proof and quote

per Is-
erte out what you have to oﬂer
rates by return

 

 

 

 

 

 

mail. Address The Michigan Basilio” Farmer, Advertising Department, Mt.
Clemens, Michigan. ‘
POULTRY LANGSHAN
YEABLING HEIIS on. smrsou'e LANGSHANI or QUALITY
White Bred for type and color since 1912. Win

and Brown Leghorns, Anconas,

Wyandottes; also 8 weeks Leghorn and Rhode

Island Red Pulleta. First class practical stock.

Cocksrels~White Wyandottes and Rocks; B.

Brown Leghorns. Pair two year old Gray Ton-

louss Geese.

s will send you description and prices.
TATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

Desk 2. Kalamazoo. Mlchlaan

MUD WAY AUSH- KA FARM

Offers young stock and a few mature breeders In

White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and

White Wyandottes. Also 0. I. C. spring KIRI-
rite today for prices on what you need.
IKE C. MILLER. Dryden. Mlch.

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for proﬁt. Write today for
free catalogue of hatching ens, baby chicks All
breeding stock
CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 149 Phllo Bldg.

Elmlra. N.

 

 

OP QUALITY COCKERELS—MINORCAS-
IIoudans, Rocks, Reds, Orpingbons, Spanish—
TYRONE POULTRY FARM, Fenton. Mlch.

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

HITTAKER’S R. I. REDS. Mlohlgan’l

Greatest Color and Egg Strain. Both Rose
and Smgle Combs. Get our cockcrels early
and save money Write or free catalog.

 

 

 

 

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INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4, Lawrence, Mlch.
ORPINGTONS
"RPHNGTON COCKERELS AND PULLET;

for sale. Buﬂ', White,
Black Cookerels at $7, $8, and $10. Pullete at
$3 and 35.1130 yearling hens S3 and 54.
Hair) 1m: earns $6 per setting of 15.
GRABOWSKE BROS.. R 4. MGH‘III, Mlch.

 

hyinz strain of both Black and White; Hen

lone cockcrele for sale. Em eeuo
CHAS. W. gSI'IMPSON
Wobbervllle. Mlch.

WHITE WYAIIDOTTES

rtin Foundation. A few good breeders for

 

 

 

 

sale. No more baby chicks this year. Order
cockerels now for early fall delivery. Prlcu
reasonable.
0. W. HEDIBACH
Big Rapids, Mich.
LEGHORNS
rabowske’s 8. C. White Leghorm, Cookerelq
cocks and yearling hens for sale.
LEO GRABOWSKE. R 4. Merrill, Iloh.

 

 

BREEDERS a

We have a ﬁne lot of English and Amer-
ican Leglidrn Uockerels for sale at reason-
able prices. Let us know your wants. “’6
ship on approval and guarantee satisfaction.

LORING & MARTIN C0.

East Saugatuck, Mlch.

 

 

 

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INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN COOKER-
013, April 11nd May hatched. Heavy laylnﬂ'
strain.
Mich.

W. WEBSTER. Bath,

 

 

\VYANDOTTE

SILVER LACED GOLDEN AND WHITE WY-
andotwtes I‘ggs $2. 50 per 15; $4 50 for 30.
W. BROWNING, R 2. Portland. Mich.

 

 

COLE-lil‘lltl'lLS. Parks 200—
egg strain. From stock
best pedigreed pens. $3

BAHRED HOOK

din-ct from Parks
each.

R. G. KIRBY,
Route 1, East Lanslng, Mlch.

 

 

MATCHING EGGS

 

CHINESE GEESE, PEKIN DUCKS, R. 0.

IKI'. I.1‘:’l=rll‘:'.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS,

Hillsdale, Mlch.

 

ILL HAVE A FEW CHOICE COCKS AND

lions, CUI‘I(()I‘L‘IS 11nd pullets for sale. Must
act quickly if \'-'llllti‘rl.

Wm. H. FROHM, New Baltimore, R1, Mlch.

 

 

BUSINESS FARMERS’ EXCHANGE

50 A IVORI) PER lSSUF:—3 innertions for 100 per word.

not accepted for less than 3 times.
in this department.
Count as one word each initial and each group of figures,
Copy must be in our hands
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ads.
accepted for any ad.

and in address.

following week. The

 

 

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Twenty words is the minimum
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both in body of ad
Saturday for issue dated
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350-ACRE FARM WITH CROPS, HORSES,
Poultry, 20 Cows and Yearlings,
arator, full equipment; close
cream taken at door, 100 acres tractor worked,
50 cow pasture, lots woods, apple on hard;
good 10 room house. spring Water, 40—00111
ham, 2 other barns big granary. Owner
called away all $5500 only $2000 down, easy
terms Full details pa 6 17 our big New
Illus. Catalog. Just out. opy FREE. STROUT
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interest in stock and tools and work farm on
shares or Would rent a farm all furnished by
an experienced stock farmer and can give any
kind of references you Would want. Address
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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW
USINESS is still stumbling a lit-
tle, but is on the sure road to
’ recovery. From north and
south and east and west comes re-
ports of increased employment, and
visions of bread-lines the coming
‘ winter are rapidly vanishing. Si-
multaneously, however, comes an
.eﬂort on the part of the unemploy-
ed to focus public attention upon
their condition in hopes that steps
will be taken to put them to work.
In Boston Common last week men
mounted a block as did Garrison
over fifty years ago, and pleaded to
be allowed to work for their board
and clothes. While undoubtedly
this demonstration was a little far-
fetched and intended to be sensa-
tional, it has had the effect of
awakening public conscience, and
both the government and many lead-
ing employers are seriously consid-
ering how the many idle hands may
be put to work.

The demand for steel and iron
products is on the gain, and more
hands are constantly being added to
the steel mill forces. The certain-
ty that congress will give the rail-
ways financial relief immediately
upon reconvening has revived con-
fidence in the railway situation and
in the industries which supply the
roads with their raw material.

Simultaneously, or perhaps as a
contributing factor, general improve-
ment is noted in the markets for ag-
ricultural products. The gain in
cotton prices insures an improve-
ment in the southerner’s purchasing
power which is reﬂected in a strong-
er demand for grains and manufact-
ured products of the north. The
prospect of an early functioning of
the finance corporation presages a
continued improvement in foreign
demand, although the recent decline
in the German mark has caused
some uneasiness over
financial situation. The mark is now
down to loss than a cent, the lowest
it has ever been quoted.

Stocks and bonds responded to the
general confidence displayed a week
ago, but are again showing some
wealmess as we go to press. Fund-
ing of the railway debt is expected
to do more than anything else to
stimulate the demand for and the
price of rail securities which would
in turn have a salutary effect upon
other leading stocks and bonds.

It would appear that a general
improvement is in order all along
the line, and that this improvement
will be maintained with perhaps
some set-backs throughout the win-
ter. If so, we may reasonably look
forward to a spring of renewed pros-
perity and a confidence which will
take us over the hill of doubt into
the valley of security.

   
  
   
 
 
  
  
   
    
   
   
   
   
    
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
  
  
     
  
   
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
    
     
    
    
    
      
   
   
  
   
   
   
     
    
   
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT
WHEAT PRICES PER BIL. SEP. 18. 1921
Grade matron thlcagol N. V.
‘o. 2 DH 1.82 130V 1899’
No. 2 Whlte 1.29 l ’1 ‘
8 Mixed 1.29 1.81%

 

 

rmcas one YEAR Aoo
M2 Rod; No.2 White] No.2 Mixed
Detroit 1 ? "K I 2.62 l 2.62

 

 

_ The wheat market showed sur-
prising strength last week and clos-
ed at $1.38 for No. 2 Red on the
Detroit market. This was 21 cents
over the low of several weeks pre-
~ceeding. The principal causes for
this spurt in the market include the
government's September forecast
which was three million bushels be-
‘ low the August estimate, drought in
‘Argentina and a sustained export
demand. The Argentina situation
as been a surprise to the bears who
have looked upon the crop to supply
some of the foreign wants. But
"hen foreigners who ordinarily go
Argentina. for theirsupplies turn-
tathc American market, dealers
anSto realize that all was not well
that South American republic.
cry little. wheat is coming out of
ntina strthis .timc and the

 
  
  
 

   
 
 
 
  

the foreign ‘

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corn steady.

DETROIT—~Wheat easy owing to large receipts. Oats and
Beans firm. Potatoes easy. Hay active.

CHICAGO—4111 grains easy.
higher and demand good. Hay and cattle steady to lower.

Beans steady. Potatoes

 

 

 

 

ml no to press—Edltor.

(Note: The above summarlud Information was received AFTER the balance of the man‘
last page Is set In type. It contains last min ute Information up to within one-half hour of

 

 

(

eral weeks ago acts as if it was go-
ing to stay a spell, in which case an-
other bullish factor will be added to
an already bullish situation.

The opening of the current week
finds wheat somewhat easier with
prices lower all along the line. A
number of bearish influences have
been at work which added to a per—
fectly natural reaction from a too
rapidlv advancing tendency brought
about'the decline. Bears are making
much over the decline of the Ger-
man mark pointing to it as an evi-
dence of European financial situa-
tion, although such facts as are ob-
tainable seem to show that the
mark’s decline was due to pure spec-
ulation by German bankers and
nothing else. While it is true that
export orders have shown a slight
falling off, it is hardly to be expected
that the export movement can con—
tinue week in and week out at the
rate it has been going the last few
weeks.

As we have stated repeatedly in
these columns we expect the wheat
market for the balance of the year
at least to be an up and down af-
fair because of the strong specu-
lative forces at work on both sides,
the unsettled financial condition and
the heavy movement. But we still
maintain that all this wheat will be
needed before another crop at con—
siderably higher prices than are now
being offered. The position of the
market as we go to press is not
strong and further declines may be
in order, after which the market
should firm up and advance, not
quite so rapidly perhaps~~but more
surely.

CORN

Corn prices paid little attention
to the several advances in the
wheat market last week up to Fri-
day when at Detroit there was an
advance of 1 cent which only hold
until the following day when prices

 

dropped that amount. Commission
houses were good sellers but there
were plenty of buyers and this held
the market from declining from the
level at which the week opened and
there was a quiet tone to the trad-

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORN PRICES PER BU., SEPT. 18. 1821
Grade lDatrolt lChloagol N. V.
o 2 YMMV .F‘G I .53 .71'/-
No 8 Yellow .59 l
r 4 Yellow .56
P "19FL9,!.51,§,LLE9£’__
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Detroit ..! 1.55 I I

 

 

 

ing all week. The government crop
estimate of September 1 placed the
amount of the 1921 crop at. 3,186,—
000 bushels or 56,000 bushels more
than the yield last year which makes
it the second largest crop on record.
This fact alone gives the market a
decidedly bearish outlook but when
you stop to consider that this year’s
yield of Wheat is not sufficient, ac-
cording to authorities, to cover our
needs until a. new harvest and corn
is going to be needed to fill the gap
it does not look so bearish. And
another thing that works on the
bullish side of the market is the
fact that the greater part of this
bumper yield will find its way to
market on four legs. Corn will
also be needed for feed in the place
of oats‘that crop being small and of
poor quality.

The Chicago market opened, high—
er the first day of the current week
but before the close of the day there
was a sag in prices. At Detroit the
market acted about the same and at
the close of the day prices were at
Saturday’s level. We ’cannot see a
drop of any consequence in corn
prices because there are too many
bullish elements at work in the mar-
ket for any present bearish influ-
ences to cause a sudden drop.

 

OATS
True to our prediction the gov-
ernment estimate for September

 

 

 

Foster'- Wonthcr Chart for OCT. 1921

 

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WASHINGTON, D. C., Septembei
17, 1921.——The coldest cold wave and
the greatest killing frosts of Sep-
tember are expected near Michigan in
Canada not far from September 18.
Frosts were predicted for near Sept.
4 in that section but not so severe
as for near Sept. 17. My prediction
for Sept. 4 and that no great frosts
would occur in August for middle
Canada this year were important
successes for the forecasts.

Very high temperatures. much like
those of last Week in August, are
expected for last week in September:
Less rain is expected last half of Sep-
tember than came during first half.

October will bring the beginning of
a. great change in the location of
evaporation and that will break the
great drouth of 1921. Dry weather
sometimes is cauSed by a lack of se—
vere storms. but real drouth that
takes the moisture out of the soil is
caused by“evapora.tion and this evap-
oration ls caused by a special plane-
tary magnetization of a large spot on
the earth. If that magnetism strikes
a large body of water the latter is»

 

 

 

.M

THE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK. {
As Forecasted by W- T- Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

evaporated by the severe storms and
the moisture carried to the moving
lows where it is precipitated in rain
or snow.

October temperatures are expected
to average below normal, rain about
the average of the past four months,
located similar to that of the past
ﬁve months. Most severe stems dur—
ing first and last week; coldest near ,
middle of month. Most severe storms
and most rain during weeks center-
ing on Oct. 3 and 24. No drouth fol-
lowing October, but precipitation will
be less than usual. The old evapora-
tion forces will die slowly because
there will be no new evaporation field
established near this continent. The
atmosphere will contain less than the
usual amount of moisture but the
moisture will disappear slowly. The
winter storms will be less severe than
otherwise they would be on account of
a. lack of moisture in the atmosphere.
The greatest evaporation will be in
the Atlantic, south of the equator.
The drouth in Oceanica. on land will
begin in April and the moisture of the
atmosphere of that section will be
excessive but drouth conditions will
not permit that moisture to precipi-
tate rain. Ask aboy who has carried
a magnetized pocket knife; he knows
the magnetism slowly disappears.
The earth’s magnetism acts in a. aim-
ilar way.

 

 

 

 

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shows a further reduction in the
cat yield. ”We expected the fore»
cast to show a crop of less than a
billion bushels, but the decline was
only 47 million bushels or a total of
1,090,000,000 bushels. But thresh-

OAT PRICES (new) BIL. SEP. 13, 1921

 

 

 

and. lDotrolt Ohio-col I. Y.
No. 2 White . . . .42” .88 V2 .51
No. 8 White .. . .40 .31
H. 4 White .87

 

 

 

 

 

Pmcss ONE YEAR AGO
[No.2 White! No.3 White! No.4 Whit.
Detroit l .68 l .86 '/2 l .64

 

 

 

 

ing is not all completed yet and there
is plenty of time in which to revise
the estimate to even lower levels.
Nevertheless the present estimate is
436 million bushels below last
year’s, which indicates a shortage of
the crop and suggests materially
higherprices. That the trade and
the purchaser of oats is beginning to
appreciate what prices are in store
on this crop is shown by recent ad-
vances, the Detroit market quoting
42 1-2 cents for best oats as against
37 cents three weeks ago. We have
said that we expect to see oats go to
fifty cents before the turn of the
year. We still believe it. And by
,the way, farmer friends, better not
wait any longer to lay in your cats.

 

RYE

There was considerable strength
in the rye market last week caused
by increasing buying and prices re-
sponded by advances almost daily.
Chicago quotes rye at 1.09 3-4 and
the market firmer. At Detroit the
same tone prevails and No. 2 is
worth $1.06 or 2c above last week.

 

BABLEX
The barley market is steady at
both Detroit and Chicago and trad—
ing is fairly good. At the former
market barley is $1.25@1.40 per
cwt., and at the latter 52@60c per
bushel.

 

.BEANS
BEAN PRIQES PER OWT" SEP. 18, 1921

Grade {Detroit IOhlcagol N. V.
l 4.15 ‘1550 l 5.50
0.50

 

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Pmcss ONE YEAR AGO

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The bean market is acting beau-
tifully. Seems to have quite recov-
ered from its long spree and stands-
firm and strong upon its feet once
more. There have been no import-
ant price changes in this market the
last few days. Last week opened
with prices at $4.65 on the Detroit
market, which quickly advanced to
$4.75 where they have since re-
mained. The market is in good con-
dition, however, supplies being light
and demand uniformly good. Beans
are rapidly coming back into public
favor. The big canning companies
are once more advertising “pork
and beans," and not for several
years have grocers shown the inter-
est they are today. , We expect the
next change in this market to be
upward providing it takes place be-
fore the harvesting of the new crop.
If it does not then temporarily low-
er prices may be expected. By judi-
cious marketing of the new crop
farmers can keep the‘ bean market
in its present healthy condition and
prevent a. return to the low prices
prevailing some months back.

 

POTATOES

Contrary to our expectations the
government’s forecast for September
shows a. slight increase in potatoes
over the August lst estimate. Au-
gust. rains benefitted many potatoes,
but some were too far gone to' be
helped. We still believe that the
forecast of 323 million bushels is
above the mark, but digging time
will tell the tale. No change can
possibly take place in, the potato
situation which. can prevent
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completion of the early potato deal
and the beginning of the late has
brought about lower prices, jobbing
prices in’Detroit now ranging a lit-
tle better than three cents per pound.
We do not expect to see higher pric-
es for another sixty days at least.
Within a few weeks late potatoes
will be on the market and upward
price trends are very rare during
the opening of the late potato sea-
son deal.. We cannot see how deal-
ers or co-operatives can, in view of
prevailing prices, offer more than
from 75 cents to $1.25 per bushel
depending upon distance from mar-
ket for the first of the new crop. or
course, no farmer will think of sell-
ing more than he absolutely has to
at these prices, and barring an un-
foreseen movement from field to
market, prices should begin to show
improvement upon the first sign of
winter.

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Ohlcago . .22.00@2521.00@2220.00@21
New York 26.00@80 00@23
Pittsburg . 20.50@21 19 00@20 17. 00@18
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I No. 1 No. 1 I No. 1
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“Eastern markets are reported to

be choked with hay, but prospects
are believed to be good for a bet-
ter future in that commodity. Re-
vival of business in the South and
the clearing away of the present
surplus in the East are expected to
strengthen the demand for hay
soon,” says the Michigan State Farm
Bureau.
_‘ Receipts are lighter at Western
markets and Detroit and Chicago
markets are firm and demand of a
good volume.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

The supply of butter and eggs is
more than sufficient to fill the de-
mands of the consumers and the
market is steady and quiet. Quo-
tations are the same as last week.
Fresh current receipts of eggs, 31¢
a dozen and No. 1 creamery butter
35 1-2c per lb.

Apples are in liberal supply and
the market is easy with prices from
$2.25 to $2.75 a bushel. Peaches
are firm and there is a good demand
for this fruit. The price per bushel
ranges from $3.75 to $4.25. Plums
are ‘32.50@2.75 per bushel and
pears are $2@4. Grapes, 60 per

pound. .

There is very little trading in
poultry and receipts are small.
Spring ckens are 26@28c: Legs.

15, 22@24c; large hens,

  
 
   
 
 

Ismail hens, 18020:: old

-There is good reason to

 
  

Drones! ‘ '
much activity but. dealers expected
cooler weather will revive the de-
mand. The best is 16@18c per
pound, and medium 13c.

Dressed hogs have been in large
demand to warrant higher prices
and at present light hogs are worth
11@13c per pound, while heavy are
9@10c.

 

VEGETABLE MARET
The New York market is well sup-

plied with vegetables of all kinds,
and the demand is good. Onions
are worth from $3.50@3.75 for

reds to $4@$4.25 for whites per 100
pounds. Carrots are $1@1.50 per
bushel hamper. Cabbage in crates
is from $2 to $3. Cabbage is in
fair demand at Chicago and is quot-
ed at $20 a ton. Onions are steady
and in demand. Prices are from
$1.25 to $2.75 per crate and from
50 to 90c per bushel.
1-—.-————-
LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Live stock markets, the country
over, seem to be in a pivotal posi-
tion, comparatively light daily ar-
rivals in all markets of live animals.
suitable for slaughter, tends to hold
selling values fairly steady, while
the abundance of forage and grain,
in immediate'prospect, is .an argu-
ment which those who believe in
lower prices are not overlooking
believe,
however, that the supply of good
killing stock, still in farmer’s hands
is not large; the season has been
ahead of time, throughout the year.
so far, and growers have kept their
stock marketed much “closer up”
than has usually been the case.
There are many men, well versed in
market lore, who expect to see the

tax—paying period show a reversal
in form this year; they do not look
for the headlong slump in values

which usually characterizes the mar-
kets of early December, simply be-
cause prices are already far below
the actual cost of production.

The cattle run in Chicago, last
week, was smaller by 3, 000 head
than that of the week before but it
was 11,000 under the record for the
corresponding week, last year. The
demand was far from active and all
prices showed a decline from the
price range of the week before
Prime yearling steers came nearest
to holding their own and light
steers, of more mature age, ranged
next in demand. The warm and un-
seasonable weather made heavy
steers extremely dull and hard to
sell and prices for this kind scored

a sharp decline during the week.
Butchers cattle and canners were
lower. Stockers and feeders were

dull and about steady; a more act-
,ive trade is expected in this divi—
sion, toward the close of the cur—
rent month.

The sheep and lamb trade scored»

a sharp upturn, last week, as a di-
rect result of a material falling off

in arrivals; the holiday on Monday, ~

probably, had much to do with the
decline of 22,000 head from the
showing of the week before. In all
divisions of the trade, packer buy-
ers had sharp competition from
feeders and prices were bid up from
75 cents to $1 per cwt. for anything
that looked like a good feeding
prospect. Killers, from. interior
points, took a fair share of the of-
ferings and packers had to be satis-
fied with feeder quality in order to
meet their pressing needs for kill»
ing stock. More than “50,000 feed
ing lambs went out into the coun—
try from Chicago last week, being
a gain of 12,000 head over the show—
ing of the week before. The wool
market shows improvement and the
entire sheep-growing industry seems
to be heading into better times.
The live hog market took a head-
er, last week, the week’s average,
showing a decline of 35 cents, in
cost, from the showing of the week
before. The spread betWeen handy
butchers hogs and packing weights
was larger than usual, last week.
simply because the supply of heavy
hogs‘ was excessive. Barring
same week in 1915, last week’s price
average was lower than that of any
corresponding week since 1.911 Chi-
mgo’e receipts, last week, were
10, 000 smaller than those of the
oak more ‘ of 0‘ and

lag. markets only equaled 4515.000
' huge. The recent “spell" of warm
weather has kept down the demand
for fresh pork but the call for cured
meat products is still very impera-
tive. With the early advent of cool-
or weather an» improved demand for
fresh pork and sausage is looked
for and somewhat higher prices for
live hogs. ,1

WOOL NOTES

The wool market at Eastern
points has shown a decrease in the
volume of business since the last is-
sue of Wool Notes on August 25.
Underlying conditions are consider-
ed healthy however, 1920 wooldis-
appearing rapidly. Choice wools
are reported scarce and in demand.
On September 1 Territory wools
were quoted on the Boston market
as-Jollows: Choice fine and fine me-
dium clothing 65c; clean, similar
wools of the French combing type
650 to 70¢; 1-2 blood staple 60c to
65c; Texas grades 65 to 700, clean.
Montana wools consigned to Chicago
firms, sold on August 29 at a range
of 19c to 210, flat basis.

The following are quotations on

     

; fleece wanis’current on the Boston

market September 1: Ohio fine un-
washed Delaine 34c to 350; fine
unwashed clothing 280 to 290; 1-2
blood combing 28c to 290; 3—8
blood combing 25c to 260; 1-4 blood
combing 23c. The finer grades re-
main quiet.

A total of 87,000 lbs. of wool or
practically 1-5 of the entire holdingsr
of one large wool pool in the middle
west were sold on August 24. The
larger portion of this wool was
bought by an Eastern firm on a bid
submitted by wire, based on the
United States Department of Agri-
culture tentative Wool grades. The
following prices were received f. o.
b. country points: fine combing, 25c;
fine French combing, 22 1—5c; fine
clothing, 19 1-10c; fine feeder, 15
4—5c; half blood combing, 24c; half
blood French combing, 230; half
blood clothing, 19 1- 5c; 3- 8 comb
ing, 22c; 3-8 baby combing, 190;
fine hurry, 15c.

The entire holdings of this pool
have been graded in accordance with
the United States Department of
Agriculture tentative W001 grades
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