
 

 An Independent.

Farmer’s Weekly Owned and.

Edited in Michigan

MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1921

 
  

  
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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AS THE 1920 wool pool a mistake,
 and were the managers of these pools
in the several states responsible for the
crash in prices and the recent unsettled
cnoditions in the market? These questions
have naturally arisen as a result of the
bottom, dropping out of the wool market
almost simultaneously with the opening of
the Farm Bureau wool pool in eleven states
and the subsequent difﬁculty encountered
by the Bureaus in selling their pool and
their delay in making the ﬁnal payments to
the farmers.

I Whatever the theory may be as to the
cause, the fact is that twool prices did not
decline in much greater proportion than the
prices of other farm products. The crash
came at about the same time and hit all
farm products nearly alike. And whatever
the theory may be as to the farmers’ reac-
tion as a result. of the manner in'~which the
1920 pool was conducted, the fact is that
‘the 1921 pool is more than double the 1920
pool and that nine states which did not pool
last year haVe done so this year. Last year
the Michigan wool pool had in it 3,500,000
pounds. This year the total exceeds four
million pounds. There is no evidence so far
as Michigan is concerned that very many
farmers are dissatisled with the 1920 ex-
periment.‘
In 1920 a total of 14,750,000 pounds of
wool were pooled. This year the total is
27,093,466. The states in the wool pool for

each year, with the amounts pooled by each
are:

1920 1921
Pounds Pounds
Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,000,000 500,000
Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 1,200,000

Cost of Preducing Winter Wheat Placed at $1.50 to

HE COST of producing winter Wheat

' I in 1920 showed about as high an av-
erage as in 1919, according to a prelimin-
ary report on farms surveyed in 10 counties
in the winter wheat belt just issued by the
United States Department of Agriculture.
The range in cost for the bulk of the crop
(80 per cent of production) on 216 owner
farms surveyed in 1920 was found to be
$1.20 to $2.50 per bushel as compared with
$1.30 to $2.50 for the bulk of the crop pro-
duced on the 284 farms surveyed in 1919.
V In 1920 about 46 per cent of the operat-
ors held their costs down to the average
($1.80) or lower; in 1919, with an average
cost of $1.87, 47 per cent of the operators
kept their costs within that limit.

7 With costs almost as high as those of the
previous year, and with a declining mar-
ket, many of these farmers sustained heavy
losses on their wheat. In eight of the, 10
‘cjounties surveyed only 10 . to 20 per cent
'oi the Wheat was hauled direct from the
achine to the elevator. On that part of

   

. Eet operating ex. per acre.

, Net cost per acre, includ-

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Kansas . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . .. 500,000 508.931
Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9,536
Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 500,000
Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000,000 2,000,000

 

 

Brody Stays with Bureau

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLARK BRODY
Retained as General Mgr.
Farm Bureau After Ap- man, who takes Brady’s
pointmcnt to College Bd. place as Secretary.

J. ROGERS
Farm Bureau Committee-

TO CONFORM with the requirements of the
Michigan State Farm Bureau constitution

which states that no ofﬁcer of the state
organization shall hold elective or appointive
public office, Secretary Clark W. Brody, upon
receiving the appointment to the State Board
of Agriculture, resigned his position and was
immediately engaged by the executive com—
mittee as general manager of the State Farm
Bureau. In this position Mr. Brody is author-
ized as in the past to have general supervision
over the state farm bureau business depart—
ments and organization work, according to the
executive committee action.

Mr. A. J. Rogers, of Beulah, an executive
committeeman, was appointed secretary to look
after the nominal duties of that. ofﬁce, without
any increase in compensation. Mr. Rogers is
a successful farmer and has been connected
with the State Farm Bureau since its incep-
tion. '

 

Acre Cost of Growing Wheat

] MissirlLri lNebraska.
Item I 1 Car- l l
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]"Co. ] Co. 1 Co. ] Co.
Avg. yield per acre (but-1).. [13.5 ]17.6 ]21.5 ]l3.1
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Labor (prepare land, seed)] ] ] ]
blan labor cost . . . . . . . . . ] 1.99] 1.94] 1.7 ] 1.57
Horse labor cost . . . _ . . .. ] 3.69] 393] 3.30] 8.08
Contract labor . . . . . . . .. ] .33 ] .06

Labor (harvest and market) ] ]
Man labor cost . . . . . . . .. 354] 4.81 4.83] 3.83

Horse labor cost . . . . . .. 1,64] 1.91] 1.82] 1.45

Contract labor . . . . . . . . . .08] .08 .06

Seed . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 2.86] 2.65 2.73] 2.57

Binder twine . . . . , . . . .. .30] .32 .41] .38

Manure and straw . . . . .. .95] .39] .36] .20

Fertilizer . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.65] l

Threshing _ . . . . . . . .. 1.61] 2.80I 2.28] 1.75
Taxes and insurance .51] .54 .96] .73
Special crop insurance .. .09l .16 .20] .27
Use cost of machine  2.87 3.00 2.52] 1.51
Loss on abandoned acre“, .69 .08] 1.33
Overhead   . . . . .. 1.93 1.92 1.76] 1.49

Total expense per acre.... 25.40 24.78]23.08|20.22

Credits ... . . . . . . . . , . . ..l 1.09] .71] .48] .19

 

I24.31]24.07I22.60]20.03
]‘1.8l] 1.38l 1.05] 1.54
. ] 8.25]11.30]14.64]13.57

Net operating ex. per bu...
Interest on investment

1 l I
ing interest . , . . . . . . ]32.56]35.37l37.24]33.60
N at cost - per bushel, in-

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...] 2.42] 2.01] 1.731 2.57

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‘ Michigan Ranks Second in Largest Wool Pool

Over 2 7 Million Pounds Placed in 1921 Pool 1)

y Farmers in Tw‘enty-on‘é States

Michigan ... . . . . . . . . . 3,500,000 4,006,850
California . . . . . . .130,218
Minnesota . . . . .. 200,000 122,274
Missouri . . . . .. 1,000,000
Montana .. . . . .4 . 3,500,000
North Dakota 500,000 500,000
New York . ... . . . . . .. 500,000 500,000

Ohio ... .... . . . . . . . . . .. 3,000,000 6,000,000

South Dakota . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 500,000

Texas . .. . . . . . . . . .. 800,000

Utah .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000
W‘ashington and Oregon . . .. 2,040,657
Wisconsin ... . . . . . . . . . .. 250,000 200,000
Wyoming .. ... . . . . .. 2,000,000
West Virginia 75,000

According to C. A. Fawcett, director of
the cooperative department of the A. F. B.
F., market value on domestic wools of bright
character are as follows: Dclaine, 32@35cts. ;
ﬁne clothing, 25@27 cts; half blood staple,

26 to 28 cents; half blood clothing, 25 to 27

cents;'thrcc-eighths staple, 24 to 26 cents;
quarter blood staple, 21 to 24 cents; quarter
blood clothing, 20 to 22 cents; three-eighths
blood clothing, 21 to 23 cents; low’quarter,
17 to 19 cents; comnﬂon and braid, 15 to 16.

The wool market has had a more healthy
appearance for the last tWo weeks. Last
week about 1,750,000 pounds of pooled wool
were moved and the week before 2,000,000
pounds. Most of these wools were of the
1920 clip, the range of values being about
steady. The market of the medium grades
appears to be slightly higher. Mills are run-
ning at a high percentage of capacity, con-
suming at the rate of 500,000,000 pounds an-
nually. The cloth market seems to be at
about pre-war volume. With the importa-
tion of foreign clothing wools reduced to a
minimum by reason of the 15 cents per
grease pound duty imposed by the emerg:
ency tariff, and domestic consumption in-
creasing, surplus stocks will be reduced.

$2.50 per Bu.

this wheat which was sold immediately the
operators got the beneﬁt of the prices that
prevailed before the slump soon after the
1920 crop began to come on the market.

The survey in question, conducted by
the Ofﬁce of Farm Management and Farm
Economics, yielded ﬁgures on labor and
material requirements that should be of
vital interest to the winter wheat grower,
as indicative of what may be expected un—
der conditions approximating those that,
prevail in the counties surveyed. The ac-'
com’panying table shows the average net
cost per bushel and per acre for two of the
several counties surveyed.

’The results of the survey serve to stress
the importance of yield per acre as a fac-
tor influencing the cost per bushel. It
was found that the operators having costs
of $1.20 or under per bushel could boast
yields ranging from 12 to 31 bushels per
acre, While those so unfortunate as to have
Wheat costing $4 or more per bushel had
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IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE?

“' Write out a plain description and
figure 100 for each word, initial or
group of ﬁgures fo rthree insertions.
There is no cheaper or better way of
selling a. farm in Michigan and you

deal direct with the buyer. No
agents or commissions. If you want
to sell or trade your farm, send in
Don't just talk
about it. Our‘ Business Far‘mers’
 hange gets results. '

 the Michigan Business
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NEAR EAST GRAIN CALIPAIGN
UNDER WAY
0RD FROM nearly every coun-
ty in”"’Michigan in which the
county grain campaign has
been organized tells of the desire of
the farmers to give of their grain
and money to help feed the starving
children of the Near East. A large
number of letters have been received
by the Business Farmer fro-m its
readers asking to whom donations
can be made.

The plan of local organization
which has been followed is this: In
each county there has been or is be-
ing organized, avcommittee of repre-
sentative farmers. consisting usually
of the county agent, a representa-
tive from each of the local farm or-
ganizations, and a representative
from each township. Each township
has its own committee which is sup-
posed to visit every farmer in the
township and solicit a gift of grain
or money, for which a receipt is
given upon delivery to the receiving
station. The receiving station dele-
gated is usually some central ele-
vator where grain can be handled.
In cases where the total amount of
grain received at any such station
does not make a full carload, the
state committee suggests that the
elevator purchase the grain at the
current market price and the money
be sent to the headquarters in De-
troit, where grain will be purchased
in carload lots. This is done in or-
der to save freight and handling ex-
pense. In cases, however, Where the
local committee insists that the
grain itself shall be moved the state
committee will comply, but prefers
to follow the previous plan in order
to save expense.

Some farmers have asked, if, after
they have given the grain. the ele-
vators, mills, railroads, etc, are go-
ing to be willing to do their part
gratis. The answer in most cases
is “yes.” Every elevator thus far
has agreed to handle the grain With-
out charge and a number of mills
have agreed to mill it without
charge. The Grand Trunk railway
has agreed to haul Michigan’s en-
tire quota. from Detroit to seaboard
absolutely free of charge, and Di-
rector Spillane of the State Commit-
tee has been trying for weeks to get
the local Michigan roads to trans-
port grain from up-state points to
Detroit without charge.

A number of counties have already
returned their quota, Otsego being
the ﬁrst. Some have reported much
above their quota, and it is apparent
that with continued co-operation on
the part of the farmers Michigan’s
entire quota will be subscribed with-
out diﬂiculty. In case any farmer
has not yet been given an opportun-
ity to help he should get in touch
at once with the county agent who
will advise him as to the disposition
of his gift.

In talking with the editor of the
Business Farmer, Director Spillane
voiced his deep thankfulness for the
spontaneous and generous manner
in which the farmers are meeting
with the appeal. He feels that if
every state in the union can do as
well as Michigan that the campaign
will be a tremendous success and
that the thousands of little child-
ren in the Near East may be fed
without difﬁculty the coming winter.

.DEPARTMTE NT OF AGRICULTURE

DEFENDS CORN FIGURES
HE U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture has entered a general de-

' nial to the charges recently pub—
lished in a series of advertisements
by an eastern paper that its statis—
tics on corn acreage were overesti-
mated and that as a result corn pric-
es were being unfairly depressed.
The basis of this assumption was in
a. comparison of the Department's
ﬁgures with the census ﬁgures for
the year 1919, the census figures
showing an apparent difference of
about 13 million acres below the
acreage estimath by the Department.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

     

C. W. Pugsley, explains the apparent
discrepancy by pointing out that
the Department’s estimate covered
corn planted for ALL purposes,
while the Census ﬁgures were only
for corn “harvested for grain.” Had
the acreage planted to corn for other
purposes, such as silage, forage,
hogging down. eta, been added,
says Mr. Pugsley, the census ﬁgures
would probably have been higher
than the Department’s, but taking
into consideration the different in-
terpretations placed upon the census
questions by enumerators and
farmers, “it‘is probable that the two
sets of ﬁgures would be almost
identical."

BOYS MAKE GOOD PROFIT BAIS~
ING LAMBS
R. GEORGE H. KIMBALL, Jr.,
secretary of the Boys ’ and
Girls' Clubs of Oakland county,
relates a very interesting experi-
ence of the boys of that county who
belong to the clubs. He states ten
boys from one club each purchased a
ewe from a breeder of thoroughbred
Shropshires and gave his note for
the price, the amount ranging from
$28 to $48. A bank at Fenton band-
led the paper for the youngsters.
An agreement was made by the
breeder that he would buy back from
the boys all lambs they raised, pro-

vided they reached 100 or more lbs.

in weight, paying 20 cents a. pound
up—which is said by Mr. Kimball to
be the usual price for thoroughbred
Shropshires.

Of the ten boys one lost an ewe
by improper care. One single lamb
and a. pair of twin lambs died from
improper feeding. Four pairs of
twin lambs and ﬁve single lambs sur-
vived, however, and were sold back
to the breeder. One boy who gave
his note for $28 for an ewe sold two
lambs which weighed over 100 lbs.
each and received $80 on his invest-
ment, still retaining the ewe. Only
one boy failed to qualify his lamb for
sale.

Proﬁts on this club's activities, Mr.
Kimball said, are proving encourag-
ing to other clubs of boys Who are
entering raising of sheep or pigs.

 

FARMERS’ VIEWS WANTED AT
A. F. B. F. ANNUAL CONVENTION
N ACCORDANCE with a request
from Secretary J. W. Coverdale
of American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation, the Michigan State Farm Bu-
reau, through its general manager,
Clark L. Brody, is asking Michigan
county far-m bureaus to get sugges-
tions from their membership as to
what they want done at the third an-
nual A. F. B. F. convention at At»
lanta, Ga., November 21-23, where
the national program for 1922 will
be outlined. Mr. Brody is asking
county farm bureaus to have their
suggestions into the State ofﬁce
not later than November 1.
Secretary Coverdale makes it plain
that suggestions from any member
of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration will be welcomed. Through
the county and state meetings the

 

 

. U. S. SETTLES WOOL DEAL

I desire to thank you for
leading the ﬁght in the wool
deal. Just received check from
Washington for $16.86, bal-
ance on 1918 clip. Was hOp-
ing 1919 might be in it, too.
Iwishtodonatemymite to
those worthy Armenians. Who
shall I send it too?——Draton
Summons, Lapeer 00., Mich.

(Editor‘s Nata—Tho Business
Farmer was probably not entirely
responsible for those refunds being
made on the 1918 wool deal, al-
though it was the only farm paper
which followed the matter and in-
sistod that the government should
abide by its original agreement
and force wool dealers to return a
part of their excess proﬁts. The
Business Former received and for-
warded to Washington a largo
number of ololms from Michigan
wool growers who believed them-

 

 

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voting delegates to .l the annual
meeting should be carefully instruc-
ted as to acting in a representative
capacity in the annual convention.
the national secretary advises. The
Resolutions Committee of the con-
vention has stated that it would be
glad to have suggestions on what
should be Written into the resolutions.

“The Farm Bureau is a represen-
tative, democratic organization,"
Secretary Coverdale said: “The of-
ﬁcials, state and national, will do
what the individual members want
done. As rapidly as possible we
are providing means so that the
mind of every individual member
will register in making up the mass
mind of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. We are prevented from
conducting a referendum to the .
membership previous to our third
annual meeting by the expense in-
volved; eventually we hope that our
budget will provide for at least four
referenda or questionnaires each
year, reaching every member of the
organization. That ideal is obvi-
ously impossible of accomplishment
at this time, but we are working to-
ward it as rapidly as ﬁnances per-
mit. We now do the next best thing,
and through the states ask the coun«
ty farm bureaus to send us their or~
ders concerning the American Farm
Bureau Federation program for
work for 1922.”

Through the 45 state farm bureau
federations more than 1,500 county
farm bureaus are aﬁiliated with the
national federation.

FARM BUREAU NOTES
AMES NICOL, president of the
Michigan State Farm.Bureau, is
to preside at the ﬁrst meeting of
the National Fruit Marketing Com-
mittee of 21 at Atlanta, Ga... Novem-
ber 19, just preceding the annual
convention of the A. F. B. F. The
fruit marketing committee was ap-
pointed by President J. R. Howard
of the A. F. B. F. to develop a na-
tional co-operative marketing plan
for fruit. ‘

Mrs. John C. Ketcham of Hast-
ings, Michigan, has been appointed
by President J. R. Howard of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
to the Woman’s Committee of the
Federation which will meet in Chi-
cago October 26, to determine what
position women shall occupy in the
farm bureau and to outline a pro.
gram for their activities. The rec-
ommendations of the committee will
be presented to the annual farm bur-
eau convention at Atlanta, November
21-23. Other members of the Wom-
an’s committee are: Mrs. A. E. Brig-
den, of New York. Mrs. Izetta Brown
of West Virginia, and Mrs. Vera Bu-
siek Schuttler of Missouri. The com-
mittee was originally scheduled to
meet October 21 but a conflict of
dates made necessary a postpone-
ment.

MORE LOANS BY U. S. FINANCE
CORPORATION

The War Finance Corporation an-
nounces that it has recently approv-
ed, under Sections 21, 22v and 24 of
the Act, the following advances:

To co-operative association of
fruit growers in California, $1,250,-
000; to a South Carolina bank for
the purpose of ﬁnancing cotton,
$300,000; to another South Carolina
bank for the purpose of ﬁnancing
cotton for export, $100,000; to a
bank in Indiana which had made
loans for agricultural, purposes,
$30,000; to two ﬁnancial institutions
in Kansas which had made loans for

live stock purposes, $77,000 and
$25,000.
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WEB WORMS MAKE THEIR Arm
* PEARANCE

Several farmers of Cass county res
port the appearance of the web worm
in newly-sown alfalfa ﬁelds. Many
ﬁelds have been entirely destroyed
so far by this pest. It is said that
by going over the ﬁeld with ar-roller
while the worms are at work this
post can be destroyed as the roller ",

crushes the worms and doesno'lhsrm; _ i 

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Little Chance of Paying Oil Wells in Michigan >

‘ Geological Survey and Experimental Wells Show Possibilities Are Limited

OR MORE than ﬁfty years Michigan has
been the object of attention at the hands
of the oil operator but thus far the State can-
not boast of a single commercial well. This
has not been due to lack of drilling enterpris-
es nor to wholly unfavorable geological condi-
tions. The consistent failure of drilling en-
terprises has been largely due to the haphaz-
ard unintelligent or misguided efforts. Most
of the enterprises have been started as stock
jobbing propositions, on false promises and
without regard to geolOgical conditions. A few
oil projects have been carried through with
intelligence and with some results although
unsatisfactory from a commercial standpoint.
Stock jobbing enterprises formerly were
common in Michigan but for some years these
nefarious schemes have been practically ab-
sent from the State. Generally the enterpris-
es are now started in good faith but unfortun-
ately most of them on false notions as to the
manner of occurrence of oil and in ignorance
of local geological conditions. The State Gre-
ological Survey is constantly in receipt of the
reports of the discovery of surface signs of oil
and gas such as rainbow colored ﬁlms, bubbles
of gas, topographis or surface features, pecul-
iarly colored waters, presence of certain min-
erals, etc. In nearly every case these reports
prove to be Without foundation. Therainbow
ﬁlms are generally due to iron oxide and the
gas is merely marsh gas, or at best surface gas.
Such signs are of little signiﬁcance in Michi-
gan so far as indicating the presence of com-
mercial quantities of oil in any particular 10-
cality.

The major structure of the rock strata or
layers in Michigan is unfavorable for the oc-
currence of extensive ﬁelds of oil and gas.
Local structures in the rock, however, are
known to occur in Michigan and it appears
more than probable that some of these struc-
tures will be found to contain oil in commerc-
ial if not large quantities. There are a num-
her of oil formations in Michigan, chief of

which are the Dundee and Trenton limestone

formations, but there are other formations
which a 0 appear to have possibilities, such as
the Trave formation. All of these forma-
tions have yielded small quantities of oil 0r
gas, or both. At Port Huron oil was produced
for many years but at barely commercial
quantities. Recently the land in this city on
which the oil properties were situated became
so valuable for building purposes that pro-
duction of oil ceased. In 1914 oil was dis—
covered at Saginaw in no less than four hori-
zons, but the quantities did not prove to be
suﬁicient for commercial operation. Similar
quantities were discovered many years ago in
a number of wells at Allegan. Small show-
ings have been encountered in wells in the
vicinity of Niles, and Muskegon. In 1920 oil
was struck in a well northeast of Deerﬁeld in
Monroe county but as yet drilling has not
resulted in commercial production in this 10-
cality. At the present time there are several
wells contemplated or in progress. Some of
them have deﬁnite possibilities for the dis-
covery of oil or gas.

In Sanilac county the oil formations are
known to be present at comparatively shal-
low depth. It is probable that in southern
Sanilac county the Dundee limestone could
be tested out «at depths between 1,000 and
1,500 feet, depending upon the locality. The
depth, however, increases to the north and
west. The bed rocks in th'm part of the
county v are entirely concealed and nothing is
known as to the presence or absence of folds

 

 

By R. A. SMITH
State Geologist

 

 

 

have been approached by representa-

tives of oil-drilling companies and ask-
ed to sign a lease of the rights to the gas
and oil which may be found upon their
farms. At the present oil companies are
signing up leases in the vicinity of BrOwn
City, Sanilac county, and in other sections
drilling is actually being done. Copies of
these leases have been sent to us with the
request that we examine them and advise
Whether or not they should be signed. Ex-
amination has shown that all such leases
are the standard oil and gas lcasn used in
such state as Oklahoma, and‘ providing the
farmer can stand the annoyance of having
his farm dug up there is no reason why we
should not Sign the lease and take the
chance of oil being found in paying quan-
tities. That there is oil beneath the Mich-
igan sod no one doubts, but Whether it ex-
ists in paying quantities is another matter.
“70 have, therefore, asde Mr. R. A. Smith,
the State Geologist, to prepare for us an ar-
ticle upon the subject, which he has kindly
done. If you have the “oil” bee in your
bonnet, read his article.—Editor.

FROM TIDIE to time farmers in this state

 

 

 

 

 

 

or structures suitable for trapping and re—
taining oil and gas. A number of deep wells
have been drilled in the county but these
furnish very little deﬁnite information. The
region is what may be terme< “rank wildcat”,
and there is nothing to guide the prospector
in determining where the more favorable lo-
calities occur. Contrary to the common pop-
ular notion, the surface features in this part
of the State are in no way related to struc-
tures in the underlying rocks and are there-

 

 

Our “Guess” on the Future
of the Potato Market ‘

OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. MAR APR. MAY JUNE JULY

 

HE ABOVE chart shows how the Bus-

iness Farmer thinks the potato market
will act for the next ten months. The line in—
dicating the upward trend was not placed
there entirely by guess-work, however. It is
based partly on the law of averages and partly
upon pure speculation. By going back over
the potato production for the last twenty years
and taking years in which the production was
comparable with the current year’s, it was
discovered that prices for those years followed
the same general trend. Factors which pre-
vent the laying down of an absolute rule are
changes in the population, business depression
and severity of the Winter. A sudden change
in business conditions or weather might, for
instance, cause the market to fluctuate more
rapidly at these particular periods than shown
by the chart. The estimated trend is based on
thexDepartment of Agriculture’s October 1st
estimate of 345 million bushels and upon the
average price to farmers of 90 cents a bushel
the ﬁrst week in October. ‘

fore of no signiﬁcance so far as oil and gas
are concerned.

As a consequence a single hole would have
little chance of striking a pool of oil should it
exist in Sanilac county. Several wells, how-
ever, properly located would have much larg-
er chances, but these on the basis of present
evidence are not sufﬁcient to raise such an 011
project out of the class of a pure speculation
or gamble. Only those who can afford to
take the inherent high risks should invest
money in such enterprises.

Michigan Takes Third Place
in Collegiate Judging

IN SOME respects Michigan was “out of
luck” at the National Dairy Show held in
St. Paul, Minn, last week, while in others she
did not fare so badly. ’In the boys’ club
stock judging contest she was accorded
thirteenth place among sixteen aspiring states.
North Dakota won ﬁrst honors and Nebraska
second. Wm Peters, of Homer, a member of
the Michigan judging team, was given fifth
honors in individual scoring. In the colleg-
iate judging contest, Michigan fared better,
her team consisting of Thomas and Sweet-
man of East Lansing, Harper of Middleville
and Carter of Elsie, won third honors. This
same team won ﬁrst place at the Dairy Cattle
Congress at Waterloo, Iowa. The team was
coached by H. E. Dennison of the M. A. C.

Competition in both events was very strong
and while the poor showing made in the club
contest was naturally a disappointment, the
club leaders are not discouraged by any
means. The decision has simply given them
new incentive to work harder for the honors
at the International and a better showing at
next year’s contests.

The Dairy Show, advises Mr. R. A. Turner,

 

state boys’ and girls’ club leader who
was present, in a special dispatch to the
Business Farmer was one of the best ever ‘

held, the exhibits of dairy cattle having come
from the four corners of the United States,
denoting a sustained interest in the dairy
business despite the discouragements of the
time. One of the most striking exhibits was
staged by the greatest dairy state of them all,
\Visconsin, showing the progress that hail
been made in ﬁfty years of dairying.

Michigan was represented at the She v by
II. II. Halladay, commissioner of agriculture.
Geo. W. Dickinson, secretary-manage" of the
Michigan State Fair, Milo D. Campbell of
Goldwater, Mr. Wigman, H. W. Norton and
E. E. Kellogg of Lansing, and Prof. Reed, Mr.
Balzer, H. E. Dennison and 1». A. Turner, all
of the College, in addition to the judging
teams.

Yes, All Are Welcome

N ANSWER to the many who are asking the
I contest manager if the entire family, their
whole school, Ladies’ Aid or other farmers’ or-
ganization can compete in our $500 “S”
puzzle contest, we say “YES”.

Any number can help make up the list
which must be sent in one person’s name

and the same rules and regulations apply as '

to the individual contestant.

We are reprinting the picture again on the
back cover of this issue, so if any of you
have not had the fun of making up your list

of objects which begin with “8”, now is the 

time to try.

   

 
    
  
   
    
     
  
  
  
  
     
 
  
   
   
 
   
   
   
  
   
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
   
  
 
  
 
    
   
    
  
   
    
   
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
  
 

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1921

 

Published every Saturday by

THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc.

Mt. Clemens, Michigan '

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That Wool Pool

HE FINAL payments which have just
been made to the 16,000 farmers who
consigned their wool to the 1920 W001 p001
marks the conclusion of the first attempt to
pool farm producs On a large scale in this
state. The venture is worthy of some study
to ascertain in what dcgrcc if any it was in-
strumental ill stabilizing the market and re-
turnjng to the farmer ll, larger price than he
might otherwise have, received. In certain rc-
spccfs the outcome of the 1920 pool is hardly
a fair criterion to follow. The pool was cs-
tablished in what, as was soon discovered, was
the most unsatisfactory period of recent times.
It is hard to conceive of a. set of conditions
more dbcouraging to vcnlzurcs of this kind
than those which obtained from within a short
time after the pool was started. Yet for all
that the wool was successfully graded and
stored, and ﬁnally sold or manufactured, and
ﬁnal returns made to the consignors on a high-
er basis, it is claimed, than the farmer would
have received had he sold to the trust.
Naturally, not all the farmers who pooled
their wool are pleased with the manner in
which the pool was conducted or the returns
received. A number of communications have
been received by the Business Farmer upon
the subject indicating a certain amount of
dissatisfaction. Typical of these complaints
was one received from Mr. J. S., a prominent
farmer of Van Buren county, who is a mem-
ber of the Grange, the Gleaners and Farm
Bureau. Writing in answer to the editor’s
query in a recent issue, “by what line of reas—
oning can the Farm Bureau be held in anyway
responsible for the farmers’ losses on wool,”
he says:

"The managers of the wool department are responsi-
ble for getting the 1920 wool into high-pricod storage
which was bound to eat up the value in a short time.
They paid about four times the commission necessary
to handle the wool after it was assembled, and they
did not, as has been claimed. ‘rclicvc the market by
holding the pool,’ because they did not hold it. They
were seized with a panic and began to try to force the
wool on the market as soon as they got possession of
it, and ﬁnally dumped it for what they could get at a
time that was sure to ruin the market for the 1921
crop. I am not criticizing the principle of pooling or
co-operation or farm organization but I am criticizing
the high-paid ofﬁcers who managed the pool.”

This criticism was referred to the Farm
Bureau with the request that ’the charges be
citll'er denied or conﬁrmed, to which Mr. A.
J. Hankins, manager of the wool department,
replies as follows:

“The Michigan State Farm Bureau at the time of
starting the wool pool only anticipated getting a. small
lot of wool, possibly not to exceed a million pounds.
It was ﬁgured that the warehouse at 221 North Cedar
St... would be available and would take care of all the
wool that was brought in. We stored here over a.
million pounds and the wool still kept coming in as
you realize the buyers in Michigan stopped buying and
this threw the wool all into the pool. The result was
that we had to avail ourselves of any storage we could
set. We do not admit paying extremely high prices,
but we had to pay the price asked as suitable wool
storage was very hard to get. It was either a. case of
renting storage or refusing .to buy wool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Statistics show that it cost the farmers usually 7d

per pound to get their wool from the farm to the mill,
and even though we carried the wool fourteen months
ourextrelne charge is only .04650. \ Further. our woois

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fARMER

as: not start '

the fact that there, Wasjno. market from June 1920 until.

February 1921-. .- Oto‘ourse, we have gained considerable
knowledge from last year's experience, and it is esti-
mated now,that the cost of handling wool this year
will be, out down close to 60 per cent from last year.
This is due to a better system. better facilities for
handling, etc." .

To the average person, who knows nothing
about the intricacies and consequent cost of
receiving, assembling, grading, and otherwise
handling and storing three and a half mil-
lion pounds of wool for fourteen months the
aggregate of nearly $150,000 for this service
looks high, and the criticism of J. S., in this
respect seems justiﬁed. However, there
seems to be no argument about it. Mr. Han-

. kins admits it is high and estimates that the

cost can be cut ﬁfty per cent on the 1921 pool.

It would, therefore, seem both wise and fair
for all farmers to withhold their judgment on
the poolng idea until it has been given a more
thorough trial under conditions more nearly
normal. The government has sold most of its
surplus stocks accumulated during the war;
the emergency tariff bill is discouraging im-
ports; there is a. pronounced revival in the
clothing business; and low prices have driven
many farmers out of the sheep business which
means a lower production. The current
season promises to be much more favorable to
the pooling of wool and the several State
Farm Bureaus ought to have no difﬁculty in
producing concrete cvidenccrthat this method
of marketing the American wool crop is far
superior to the old.

 

England a Friend.

0 NOT the ficnd'sh propagandists ever

rest? "\thn they have tired of paint-
ing Mexico in the blackcst colors of their art,
they spread a flame—red picture of the Jap-
anese menace upon the canvas and as soon as
that has done its devilish. work they turn
again to their ncwer pastime of poisoning
the American mind against the British. The
incident of General Pcrshing’s huff against
the British government because of an alleged
slight was played to the limit by American
anti—British papers, and when the smoke of
distrust had cleared away it was discovered
that the hitch in the program which was to
take Pershing to London was entirely the
fault of the American authorities.

The day the editor left Copenhagcn'for Ber-
lin, the English people unveiled a statue to
George “Washington in Trafalgar Square,
London. All the Rotarians in England in-
cluding myself had been invited by the British
government to attend the ceremonies but I
was unable to do so. But I am sure that I
could not have been more greatly impressed
with the friendly and magnanimous spirit
shown by this mark of respect had I been
present in person and witnessed the placing
of the tribute. It was an unheard of proced-
ure, this erection of a monument among Brit-
ish national heroes to a man who, in the words
of President Henry Louis Smith of the Wash-
ington and Lee University, “had forsaken
Great Britain’s flag, rejected her sovereignty
and fought against her King”.

In accepting the statue, Lord Curzon paid
a high trbutc to Washington ’9 (love of liberty,
his independence, his nobility  of character.
He voiced the wistful hope that America and
Great Britain might always be friends. “We
can never ﬁght again,” he said. “We ought
never to quarrel again. “If anybody got up
on a platform and suggested it in this country
he would be booted from the place”.

Such is the spirit of England today. May
it also become the spirit of America.

 

Interest Rates

IN FIXING the rate of interest to apply
on loans to banks for agricultural pur-
poses, the U. ’S. Finance Corporation appar-
ently overlooked the fact that 1nterest rates
are due for a fall. Bankers are charged ﬁve
and one-half per cent and are allowed a
commission of two per cent, making the cost
to the farmer seven and one-half per cent,
which is a half of one per cent above the
average rate charged by most banks,“ in the
lower half of Michigan, but less than the
prevailing rate in more sparsely settled sec-

" " ‘a,;--j..govemment ‘  u

   

agenCy cannot loan money , t i as low " an in-

terest ‘rate as banks is “something we cannot -

understand. Cooperative associations
which are still able to borrow their require-
ments from their local bankers will hardly
ﬁnd it to their advantage to borrow through
the ﬁnance corporation. \

 

The Agricultural Bloc

ALL STREET doesn’t like the agri-
~~ cultural bloc. It is contrary to a repre-
sentative form of government. It substitutes
rule by class for rule by party. It emphasiz-
es class distinction, and so forth and so on.
But the most nefarious thing it has done has
been to wrest control of legislation from the
hands of Wall Street, where it has reposed for
10, these many years.
Wall Street knows no code of honor unless
it ,be the honor traditionally supposed to ex-
ist among thieves so long as she is in complete

control of the situation. With her hands on

the nation’s purse-strings and her mighty
power dictating the laws of the country, she
cares not what her enemies may say about
her. She is safe. But when her power is
broken, as it has been broken in Washing-
ton by the agricultural bloc, she raises her
bleary eyes to heaven and babbles piously
about the Constitution, the Golden Rule, and
the evil consequences that are sure to follow
this disregard for party lines.

The “bloc” is nothing new either in Con-
gress or state legislatures. If it is not deﬁn-
itely organized it exists by tacit understand-
ing in nearly every session of our law-making
bodies. Any number of times during and
following the war, party lines were entirely
disregarded and a certain group of men com-
posed of both republicans and democrats voted
solidly together to defeat or assist proposed
legislation. The only difference between the,
agricultural bloc and other blocs is that the
farmer legislators operate publicly, while
those who act under orders and in the interest
of the “malefactors of great wealth,” work
in secret harmony. The ﬁrst is a visible gov-
ernment; the second is an invisible govern-
ment. Which does the public prefer?

Attention is called to the menace of the
“labor bloc” which was active during the
war and succeeded in putting across some leg-
islation of a nature alleged to be harmful. As
a warning to the agriculturists stress is laid
upOn the untimely end which came to the
labor legislators and the power of their .con-
stituency. To that comparison one can only
reply that if the agricultural legislators make
the mistake of embracing unfair and vicious
legislation they should and they will meet de-
feat. Otherwise their insistence that agricul-
ture must have a square deal and their or-
ganized efforts to insure it must meet with
the approval of those who recognize the im-
portance of the agricultural industry in its
relation to the nation’s welfare.

 

The Governor and the Farmers

ll‘ GOVERNOR Groesbeck has left anything

undone to please the farmers of the state
we do not know what it is. During the last
session of the legislature his door was always
open to the farmer legislators and» they got
his support for almost everything they want-
ed. True, his approval of the proposed in—
come tax was a little belated but it ﬁnally
came. In the reorganization of the Michigan
State Fair, the Governor gave agriculturally-
minded men a majority on the Board. In his
appointments to the State Board of Agricul-
ture he has recognized the principle that a
farm college should be run by farmers and
has been so guided in his choice. His ap-
pointment of Brody is a notable example of
his desire to give the farmers the recognition
which is their due in the management of state
affairs. It has been along time since Michi-
gan has had a Governor who has taken so keen
an interest in the farm population. We can;

not, therefore, refrain from joining with the,
H Governor  '

Farm Bureau ‘in thanking
beck for th‘srecognition;

      
  

    
     

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(continued from last week)

HALLONER, who was a newly
appointed factor of the Hudson’s

Bay 00., had pitched his camp

at the edge of the lake close to the
mouth of the creek. There\\was not
much to it—a battered tent, a still
more battered canoe, and a small pile
of dunnage. But in the last glow of
the sunset it would have spoken vol-
umes to a man with an eye trained
to the wear and the turmoil of the
forests. It was the outﬁt of a man
who had gone unfearing to the rough
edge of the world And now what
was left of it was returning with
him. To Ghalloner there was some-
thing of human comradeship in these
remnants of things that had gone
through the greater part of a year’s
fight with him. The canoe was warp-
ed and battered and patched; ‘smoke
and storm had blackened his tent
until it was the colour of rusty char.
and his grub sacks were next to emp-

ty.

Over a small fire the contents of
a pan and a pot were brewing when
he returned with Miki at his heels,
and close to the heat was a battered
and mended reflector in which a
bannock of flour and water was be-
ginning to brown. In one of the pots
was coffee, in the other boiling fish.

Miki sat down on his angular
haunches so that the odour of the
fish filled his nostrils. This, he had
discovered, was the next thing to eat-
ing. His eyes, as they followed Chal-
loner’s final preparatory movements,
were as bright as garnets, and every
third or fourth breath he licked his
chops and swallowed hungrily. That
in fact, was why Miki had got his
name- He was always hungry, and
apparently always empty( no matter
how much he ate. Therefore his
name. Mild, “The drum."

It was not until they had eaten
the fish and the bannock, and Chal-
loner had lighted his pipe, that he
spoke what was in his mind.

“To—marrow I'm going after that
bear," he said.

Miki, curled up near the dying em-
bers, gave his tail a club-like thump
in evidence of the fact that he was
listening.

“I'm going to pair you up with
the cub, and tickle the Girl to death.”

Miki thumped his tail harder than
before-

“F‘ine,” he seemed to say.

“Just think of it," said Challoner,
looking over Miki's head a thousand
miles away, "Fourteen mon~ths——and
at last we’re going. home. I’m going
to train you and the cub for that
sister of mine. Eh, won’t you like
that? You don't know what she’s
like. you homely little devil, or you
wouldn't sit there staring at me
like a totem-pole pup! And it isn't
in your stupid head to imagine how
pretty she is. You saw that sunset to—
night? Well, she’s prettier than that
if she is my sister. Got anything to
add to that, Miki? If not, let’s say
our prayers and go to bed!”

Challoner rose and stretched him-
self. His muscles cracked. He felt
life surging like a giant within him.

And Mi‘ki, thumping his tail until
this moment, rose on his overgrown
legs and followed his master into
their shelter. .

O O O 0

It was in the gray light of the ear- -
Ry summer dawn when Challoner
came forth again, and rekindled the
fire. Miki followed a few moments
K later, and his master fastened the
' end of a worn tent-rope around his
neck and tied the rope to a sapling.
Another rope of similar length Chal<
loner tied to the corners, of a grub
sack so that it could be carried over
his shoulder like a game bag. With
the first nose-flush of the sun he was
ready for the trail of Neewa and
his mother-Mm set up a melanchol
wailing when he --fonnd himself leg

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129 JAMES OLIVER CURWOO
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Wild UFO Romance

ersaultinrg at the eﬁE of his rope like
a jumping-jack. For a quarter of a
mile up the creek he could hear
Miki’s entreating protest.

To Challoner the business of the
day was not a matter of personal
pleasure, nor was it inspired alone
by his desire to possess a cub along
with Miki. He needed meat, and
bear pork thus early in the seas-on
would be exceedingly good; and
above all else he needed a supply of
fat. If he bagged this bear, time
would (be saved all the rest of the
way down to civilization.

It was eight o'clock when he struck
the first unmistakably fresh signs of
Noozak and News. It was at the
point where Noozak had fished four
or five days previously. and where
they had returned yesterday to feast
on the "ripened" catch. Challoner
was elated. He was sure that he
would find the pair along the creek,
and not far distant- The wind was
in his favour, and he began to ad-
vance with greater caution, his rifle
ready for the anticipated moment.
For an hour he travelled steadily and
quietly, marking every sound and
movement ahead of him, and wet-
ting his finger now and then to see
if the wind had shifted. After all, it
was not so much a matter of human
cunning. Everything was in Chal—
loner’s favour.

In a wide, flat part of the valley
where the creek split itself into a
dozen little channels, and the water
rippled between sandy bars and over
pebbly shallows, Neewa and his moth-
er were nosing about lazily for a
breakfast of crawfish. The world had
never looked more beautiful to Nee-
wa- The sun made the soft hair on his
back fluff up like that of a purring
cat. He liked the splash of wet sand
under his feet and the singing gush
of water against his legs. He liked
the sound that was all about him,
the breath of the wind. the whispers
that came out of the spruce—tops and
the cedars, the murmur of water,
the twit-twit of the rock rabbits, the
call of birds; and more than all else
the low, grunting talk of his mother.

It was in this suanather sweep of
the valley that Noozak caught the
first whiff of danger. It came to her
in a sudden twist of the wind—the
smell of man!

Instantly she was turned into
rock. There was still the deep scar
in her shoulder which had come,
years before, with that same smell
of the one enemy she feared. For
three summers she had not caught
the taint in her nostrils and she had
almost forgotten its existence. Now,
so suddenly that it paralyzed her, it

,was warm and terrible in the breath

of the wind.

In this moment, too, Neewa seem-
ed to sense the nearness of an ap-
palling danger. Two hundred yards
from Challoner he stood a motion—
less blotch of jet against the white
of the sand about him, his eyes on
his mother. and his sensitive little
nose trying to catch the meaning of
the menace in the air.

Then came a thing he had never
heard before—a splitting, cracking
roar—something that was almost
like thunder and yet unlike it; and
he saw his mother lurch where she
stood and crumple down all at once
on her fore legs.

The next moment she was up, with
a wild whoof in her voice that was
new to him—a warning for him to
fly for his life.

Like all mothers who have known
the comradeship and love of a child,
Noozak's first thought was of him.
Reaching out a paw she gave him a
sudden shove, and Neewa legged it

'Jildly for the near-by shelter of the

timber. Noozak followed. A second
shot came, and close over her head
there sped a purring, terrible sound.
But Noonkdid not hurry. She kept

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This Trade—mark identiﬁes

genuine Boss Work Glovesq

Be sure it is on every 9111
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Hand Helpers on the Farm

Every farmer will ﬁnd a dozen? jobs a day,
fwhere Boss Work Gloves will come in might“
handy. For instance:

On the ensilage cutter, driving thEtractor;
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Mix with Lily White Flour until stiﬁ’, or from
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CLOVER SEED CONTAINS
BUCKHORN

Can buckhorn be successfully removed
from clover seed? Is clover seed used
for any other purpose than seeding down?
—T. G.. Melvin, Michigan.

The seed department of the State
Farm Bureau, Lansing, Mich., and
the leading seed companies of the
state have special equipment that
succesfully removes buckhorn from
clover seed. To our knowledge clo-
ver seed is not used for any other
purpose than seeding down. Reports
that it is being used for the manu-
facture of dyes are not well found-
ed.-—C. R. Megee, Associate in Farm
Crops. M. A. C.

RAG WEED ALONG HIGHWAY

Rag weed is growing in our county. In
many places thickly along the highways.
Is there no law to protect the country
from this pest! Our commissioners pay
no attention to it. In what way can we
take action to have the weeds destroyed?
—J. D.. Williamsburg, Michigan.

Follow the method pointed out in
Act 66 of the Public Acts of 1919,
as amended in section 1, by Act 73
of the Public Acts of 1921. With
reference to the refusal of the com-
missioner to act in the matter I call
your attention to section 8 of Act
66 of the Public Acts of 1919, where
it provides that such neglect is a
misdeameanor; and, upon convic-
tion, subjects him to the liability of
a fine or imprisonment in the coun-
ty jail. If you had some justice of
the peace that wanted the duty at-
tended to the commissioner might
find himself in jail for neglect of
such duty—Legal Editor.

 

SOLDIER BONUS BONDS

Why did the state make the soldier
bonus bonds of so high a denomination,
(1.000)? Thousands of farmers could
have bought these bonds if the denom-
ination had been lower, but as it is only
banks and rich men can afford to buy
them.-T. J,, Wayne County, Michigan.

The offering of the Highway and
Soldier Bonus bonds have been so
large that the Administrative Board
have not felt they could be sold to
individuals even though the denom-

   

(A Olearlne Department for farmers' every day troubles. Prompt, oat-eful attention elven b
all complalnts or requests for lnformatlon addre nod to tnll department. We are here
you. All lnqulrloa must be accompanled by full n ame and address. Name not used If so requested.)

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inations might be smaller than
$1,000.

In October ‘of last year a part of
an issue was reserved to be sold to
the individual investor and we still
have some of these bonds on hand
which we have been unable to sell.
It has been the opinion of the Board
that it is much better to ask for
bids on the total amount of the is-
sue to be oﬂered—Hoyt Woodman.

Deputy State Treasurer.

 

SHOULD HAE AGREEMENT
IN WRITING

Am the owner of a Wisconsin farm on
which a mortgage is about to become due.
Have asked the agent thru whom the
mortgage was negotiated about renew-
ing it He advised against renewal, say-
ing it will be alright with his client and
suggests that I merely continue paying
interest as before it became due.

This advice seems unsound to me and
I am relying upon you to advise me in
the matter.——Subscriber. Whllaee, Mich.

As a. business proposition you
should have an agreement in writ—
ing from the mortgagee extending
the time or he may commence fore—
closure any time. If they have ‘a
foreclosure by advertisement you
may not know of it and lose the
title to the farm. You should have
a written extension.——Legal Editor.

 

HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
PRACTICES

1. Has the county a legal right in
building a trunk line and county roads
to fill up a natural water course out of a
ﬁeld and thereby spoil crops?

2, Have they a legal right to let 80
rods of water in your field and spoil
crops?

3. Have they a right to dig a. ditch
three feet deep where you drive into
your barnyard and not put tile in?——A
Subscriber. Howell, Mich.

As to the first you are advised that
it is the duty of the municipality
constructing the road, when it be-

comes necessary to grade 32,076 the ‘

contour of the soil, to take care of
the surface water by the use of
culverts so that the natural water
course will not be interferred with.

In reply to your second inquiry,
you are advised that it‘ would not be

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Furniture Mllklno Machine Thresher
Feed Gutter Mantel Lamp Truck
Furnace Nursery Stock Tractor
Gas Englno Oils and Lubrleolm Tank Hector:
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Harrow: Flown Washlno Maohlno
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1. Financial stringency.

line.

ties arranging credits.

they are now.
cial situation.

sell are marketing their crop.
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The Bean Situation at a Glance

“BULL” FAGI‘ORS

The total U. 8. old is laced at 8,890,000
bushels, including all varieties. yi p

2. Decline in production and imports of Japanese “kotenashis”, which
have been a. depressing factor for last two years. The report

is “very few kotenashis grown this year.”

Emergency tariﬂ' of $2 per cwt., which virtually prohibits impor-
tation at present low level of prices.

Unemployment and business depression, resulting in

Increased consumption. Restaurants, hotels, canners, retail and
wholesale grocers, Jobbers, elevators,—all concerned in distri-
bution of beans and bean products agree that the public has
returned to the lowly been as a. favorite article of food.

Lose harmful speculation and a greater desire on the part of the
Jobbers and elevators to secure a good price for the farmer to
encourage a larger acreage. Michigan elevators are feeling
keenly the falling 01! of production in this state.

“BEAR” FAQTOBS
Many farmers are obliged to sell in order
to meet banking obligations.

There is. constant danger that the flood of supplies may
over-burden and‘ demoraljze the market. ‘

2. Lack of export demand and credits. France. Italy and Great
Britain have formerly importh considerable quantiﬁes of
American-grown beans. This year they have bought very few.
Spain is the only European country which increased its purch-
ases here this year. It is said that Germany will require large
quantities of beans this year, but is having the usual diﬂcul-

CONCLUSIONS:
The chances are about ten to one that beans will be higher than
How much higher will depend largely upon the ﬁnan-
_ It seems improbable that the price can advance very
- rapidly within the next thirty days while farmers who are forced to

They will probably not reach‘anywhere near the
war level One man’s guessisas goodas mother's.- Our guessis that
the “high” on the 1921 crop will be somewhere between $5 and $6
percwh,withchancesbﬂght6fitreachlngthelawerﬂgum Thatwill
bringthepriceto9or100entsperpound ‘

probably be willing to pay that price with. potatoa around $2 
bushﬁandﬂourstﬂldOperWMpro—w. _ " 

This is the smallest crop in

The same is true all down the

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REPUBLICANS DENOUNCE FORD-
NEY TARIFF BILL.

HE ABOVE heading, conspicuous
in M. B. F. Oct. 8, attracted our
attention. and gives rise to a

few questions and thoughts in re-
view.

I judge this article is an open
statement, in which M. B. F. is not
committed for or against. I quote
sketch sentences from the article as
items of review. “The source of the
opposition to the Fordney bill is of
singular weight." Please explain
“singular.” They are Chicago As-
sociation of Commerce, Chicago Tri-
bune, New York Journal of Com-
merce, importers of foreign prod-
ucts in general.

Did anyone ever hear of one of
these “sources” manifesting any de—
sire for good of the farmer, except
to cling to his back in proper para—
sitical form? v

“It is prophesied the importer
would stop importing." Quite a
calamity to the importer; but seem—
ingly not so bad‘ for the American
laborer who might then be enabled
to produce all these articles needed,
and receive for them a living price
at home, and pass the price along to
the farmer who produced his food.

“Our only market for surplus is
abroad.” Who gets the profit off
that exported surplus? The farmer
gets less than it cost him, all proﬁts
of any nature and kind go to the
transporter, the exporter and im-
porter. Might it be better for the
farmer if a home market was creat-
ed for this surplus. rather than ship
someuof it abroad to be converted
and sending the rest of it abroad as
a gift to feed the poor devil abroad.
who converts it and ships it back to
us; the transporter, the exporter and
the importer levying toll upon the
American farmer, going and com-
ing?

To my mind this attack upon the
For-dney bill is more largely a per-
sonal matter than an economic sense
of importance. In black and white,
disrobed of all its-tariff connections
it is the question of shall the Amer-
ican laborer at loom and forge, and
the American farmer of the ﬁeld be
longer held as pawns to Win castles
for international importers and ex-
porters?

Before any American laborer or
farmer writes his representatives an
endorsement of this Chicago-New
York ﬁasco he better think twice.

Some none too honest in their gen—
eralities are speciﬁcally honest in not
caring to publish a freak and not
name it in truth. It would not be
elegant to entitle something as false
doctrine the name by which we once
knew deceit, so “propaganda” has
been coined; it is much more mysti-
fying and briefer than deceitful doc-
trine. Some factions of metropoli-
tan interests are not above propa-
ganda—J. E. Taylor, Ionia County.

 

'I am inclined to disagree with you.
friend Taylor. The United States can-
not possibly consume the surplus crops
which our farmers are now raising. We
must elther,have an export market or a
fourth of our farmers must quit produc-
ing. What would we do this year with
our 200 million bushels of surplus wheat.
our half billion bushels of surplus corn,
our billion or so pounds of surplus cot—
ton, our surplusages of live stock, dairy
products, etc., were it not for our for-
eign markets? Our farmers would sim-
ply go into bankruptcy, that’s all. 1!!
1919 the total value of exported farm

 

    

products was nearly TWO BILL! Y
DOLLARS. We need a protective turn,
but we don’t need a tariff so high that
the domestic manufacturer can put his
price so high on the things the farmer
buys that the farmer can no longer of-
ford to buy. We cannot shut our gates
entirely to foreign goods. We must im-
port some commodities for two reasons.
The ﬁrst, is to prevent monopoly by
American manufacturers, The second is
to help foreign countries pay their debts
to us, which now number into the bil-
lions. They have paid us most of their
gold. Now they must pay in goods. And
when they pay in goods they not only
reduce their debt but they increase their
ability to buy American food products.
Probably the motives of the importers
are as selfish as you claim. But regard-
less of their motives. their argument is
Sound. It is to the farmer's interest to
see that the tariff bill now pending does
not entirely destroy foreign competition.
A reasonable tariff which eq-ualizes the
cost of production abroad with our own
Will protect the American standard of liv-
ing and give employment to all at a fair
wage, An excessive tariff will place the
great consuming public. and the farmivr
in particular, at the complete mercy of
the American manufacturer and destroy
the farmer’s export market. You don‘t
want that to happen, do you?——Editor.

A WORD FROM IDAHO

N YESTERDAY’S mail we sent

you a copy of the Idaho Leader,

which featured the real facts
about Wm. Bouck’s dismisml. In
reading your last edition we stumb-
led onto a little note by the ediitor
saying he thought perhaps they
would get him finally. They got
Bouck all right.

I used to be state master of North
Dakota Grange. I agree with the
late 0. B. Kegley that the National
Grange management is the best
oiled, greased, slipperiest, smoothest,
cheapest political Republican ma-
chine at the head of any farmers’
organization in America. I take off
my hat to the Michigan State Orange
in its rebuke to the reactionary pol-
icies of the National Grange man—
agement—Ray McKaig, National
Non—Partisan League, Boise, Idaho.

 

The copy has been gratefully received.
it may be of help to us in our discus-
sions of the National Grange convention
which meets in Portland, Oregon, next
month, and which will ofﬁcially decide
the fate of Master Bouck.—Edit0r.

 

AN ERROR IN FIGURES

A printer’s error occurred on the
“What the Neighbors Say". page of
Oct. 8th, in the editor’s comment to
a communication on road building
policies. It was stated in the com—
ment that the assessed valuation of
the state was “$4,500.00.” As the
reader probably understands the
last 3 ciphers were emitted by mis-
take. The amount should have read
$4,500.000,000.

 

HEY THERE, YOU FORD OWNERS

N0 car like a “Henry” for everyday,
get—there-and-back use, is there? Well
then, why not give Lizzie a new bonnet
to keep out the rain and snow this win-
ter? “A new top costs too much!” you
say. Look on page 2-"of this issue and
see for yourself what $5.65 will do. We
know the Jansen folks. When they say
"money back if not thoroughly satisﬁed”
you are taking no chance in ordering
direct from their ad_, and we guarantee
the deal if you just say “I read your ad.
in my Business Farmer.”

GOOD WORDS FROM OUR FRIENDS

Please send me your paper for one
year more, as my subscription has just
run out. Enclosed find one dollar to
help the good work along that you have
done for the sake of the farmers.—-Bert
White, Iosco County, Michigan.

Your paper is the best paper that was
ever printed for the farmers—T. S. Tun-
ison, Charlevoix County. Michigan.

 

 

Musings of a

 

 

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HE FIRST cold, rainy night in
T the fall brings up the problem
of stabling the yearlings. It
might be termed the farmer’s baby-
lon, and here at home brings out all
the available talent on the place.
The force usually consists of Mrs. B.,
the children, myself and the dog.

For weapons we use whips, clubs,

.stones, pitchforks. or anything else

that happens to be at hand.

During the heat of battle this ove-
ning I became so incensed that I at-
tempted to throw the manure spread-
er at one of our pedigreed Holstein.

I was supposed to be the captain of
the squad, but on checking up after
the conflict I found my confidential
lieutenant, Mrs. B., had snapped
every stanchion, and she did it with
bait and kindness. A parental pat
on the nose, a wisp of hay or a little
silage, and the deed was over.

The animals are resting peaceful-
ly in their’stalls without any lascer-
ated hides.

Perhaps there is a. place in the sun
where a man can succeed without his
wife. But let me slip you this tip:
It isn't on the farm where calves are
“150d. \'

 

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A PECULIAR EXPERIENCE

He had Just purchased his Buick.
vestigated and secured a U.
Safe.”—

LJcky for him that he so protected his machine because, in turn-
ing around on the avenue, he not only skidded on the
ment and demolished his front wheel,

accident.

The damage to his machine was nominal but one of the men struck
ﬁled suit for serious
farmer having to pay a $1,500 Liability Claim.
bile Policy covered ALL.

ARE YOU SO PROTECTED

If not. don’t wait to learn
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Fire, Theft, Collision, Property Damage and Liability.

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he in« ‘ '« 1
“play x”

Along with his license.
S. Mutual Five Point policy to

wet pave-
but injured two pedestrians

‘Won to the extent of the
But—bis Automo-

injury—and won.

all about U. S. 5 Point Full Coverage,

Colonel A. H. Gansser

 

 

 

Grand Rapids,

Home Ofﬁce, Bay City, Michigan
F. F. McGinnis, Sec’y and Treas.
Col. A. H. Gansscr, Director and Gen. Mgr.

   
 
  
 
   
     
  
   
    

 

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mix with water and apply with brush or
No waiting or

  
  

spray pump —— that's all.

straining. N o clogging sprayer. N o peeling
off. 'One gallon covers 200 square feet.

Carbola is used on thousands of farms to
help put the buildings in that clean, sani-
tarycondition that is such a help in avoid-
losses caused by lice, mites and
many of the contagious diseases that affect
poultry and livestock. The dry Carbola is

in: the

an excellent louse powder.

Your hardware, paint, seed or drug dealer
has Cnrbola or can get it. If not, order
direct. Satisfaction, or your money back.

10"». (10 gals.
201i». $20 gull.
gals.

50 lbs.

50
20015:. (200 uh.
Trial package and booklet 30c.

Add 26% for Texas and Rocky Mt. States.

CARBQLA CHEMICAL (30., Inc.
Long Island City. N. Y.

Dept, Ix

   

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$1 .25 & potion

ﬁnalizes    l per
$18.00 delivered
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Ennw runs

Shipped to us will net you more, because
of correct grading and prompt payment.
A good outlet for all kinds of raw furs
enable us to quote fair prices and our
ﬁfty-three years' successful business ex-n
perience prompts us to treat you right.
Write to-day for price list by return mail.
JOE HOWE’S TRADING POST,
Established 1868 Bichwood, Ohio.

 

 

 

 
  

 

  

 

 

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guarantee quality. We pay the
freight.

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M. B. F‘.’s Business Farmer-8’

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advertise in The Michigan Business '_
Farmer. It will be worth your while
to read the livestock advertisement.
in every issue to keep posted on whit;
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is near."--Dryden.

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.wild in the attic?

ﬁnial: look not like the inhabitants of
the earth and yet on’t.——Shakes-
pear-e.

THE North of England Hal-
low Even is known as Nutcrack
Night; in Scotland the ceremon—

ies of the eve were formerly regard-
ed in a highly superstitious light.
Popular belief ascribed to children
born on that night the faculty of
perceiving and of holding converse
with supernatural beings.

Hallowe'en is really the vigil of
all Hallows or the festival of All
Saints, which falls on November 1st.

The most beautiful Hallowe’en
party I ever attended, and there
have been many, had for its decora-
tions, corn stalks tied in sheaves,
autumn branches and the Winter
fruits and vegetables. The lights
were dim and big pumpkin faces
grinned at you from every corner.
Crepe paper fancies fall far short of
the real thing, are expensive and not
always easy to obtain.

If I were giving a Hallowe’en par-
ty this year I would go right out in-
to the ﬁelds and woods and procure
my decorations.

Your Window curtains may have
witches and elves cut from black pa-
per pinned upon them. It is a good
plan to remove the unnecessary fur—
niture from the rooms to make more
effectiva your decorations.

A masquerade is perhaps the most
fun for amusement. Witches and
ghosts and goblins can be represent-
ed, also a few characters from fic-
tion, which will suggest themselves
as Rip VanWinkle, the Spectre
Bridegroom. Ichabod Crane, etc from
Washington Irving.

Next week I will publish a list. of
Hallowe’en games which can be play—
ed and enjoyed by both old and
young.

For Supper

Cider, fruit cakes, cheese, coffee,
sandwiches, nuts and fruits. Other
eatables along the same line will
suggest themselves. Grape juice
may be used also and wafers of dif-
ferent kinds.

“TRUTH SEEKER”

“ RUTH SEEKER" asks for chap-
ter and verse where Jesus even
hints that His cruciﬁxion was

necessary for our salvation. In the

ﬁrst place we must know why His
death was necessary for our salva-
tion. "Christ is the lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.” “Sin
is the transgression of the law.” This
is God’s deﬁnition of sin—and “the
wages of sin is death.” The law of

God is as sacred as Himself. It is

a revelation of His will, a transcript

of His character, the expression 0f

divine love and wisdom.

The harmony of creation depends
upon the perfect conformity of all
beings—of everything. animate and
inanimate, to the law of the Creator.
Everything is under ﬁxed laws which
cannot be disregarded. But while
everything in nature is governed by
natural laws, man alone is amenable
to moral law. To man, the crown-
ing work of creation, God has given
power to understand His require—
ments to comprehend the justice and
beneﬁcence of His law and its sacred
claims upon him, and of man un-
swerving obedience is required.

Like the angels, the dwelers in
Eden had been placed on probation.
Their happy estate could be retained
only on condition of ﬁdelity to the
Creator’s law. The intellectual pow-
er of Adam and Eve was but little
less than that of the angels. The
tide of woe that flowed from the
transgression of our ﬁrst parents is
regarded by many as too awful a
consequence for so small a sin; but
lf'they would look more deeply into

' the question they might discern their

error. God created man after His
own likeness, free from sin. The
earth was to be peopled with beings
only a little lower than the angels;
but their obedience must be tested,
:for God would not permit the world
to be ﬁlled with those who would not

    

   
   
  

 

to the subject.
the interest taken.

—Edjtor.

 

3! A Department for the Women  
Edited by nus. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY

HERE HAVE BEEN many replies to “Truth Seeker” and E. H. B.
In fact so many that I can not publish them all.
for they are good and the writers have given much time and thot

I have carefully read them all and appreciate fully

We will publish two short ones this week and! more

later, taking those that came ﬁrst.

address I will forward the other letters. They are most interesting.

  
  
  

I Wish I could.

If “Truth Seeker” will send his

 

 

mercy He appointed Adam no severe
test. And the very lightness of the
prohibition made the sin exceedingly
great. list none deceive themselves,
“the wages of sin is death.” The
law of God can no more be trans-
gressed with impunity now than
when sentence was pronounced upon
the father of mankinds

Behold the love of God! He gave
His beloved son to die in the trans-
gressors' stead that, “they should
not perish, but have everlasting
life.” The penalty of sin is death.
and Christ was to stand between the
sinner and the penalty of sin. The
broken law of God demanded the
life of the sinner. Since the divine
law is as sacred as God Himself,
only one equal with God could make
atonement for its transgression.
None but Christ could redeem man
fro-m the curse of the law. Without
the shedding of blood there is no
remission of sins. That it was nec-
essary for Christ to give His life for
the fallen race proves that the law
of God will not release the sinner
from its claims upon him. The very
fact that Christ bore the penalty of
man’s transgressions is a mighty ar-
gument to all created intelligencies
that the law of God is immutable and
will stand forever.

When man fell by transgression
the law was not changed, but a rem-
edial system was established to bring
him back to obedience, the promise
of a Saviour was given. The sacri-
ﬁcial offerings pointing forward to
the death of Christ as the great sin-
oﬁering were established; but had
the law of God never been transgres-
sed there would have been no death
and no need of a Saviour. When
the Lamb of God was cruciﬁed upon
the cross He brought to an end the
system of types and ceremonies that
for four thousand years had pointed
to His death. As He ate the pass—
over with His disciples He institut-

ed in its place the service that was to
be the memorial of His great sacri—
ﬂce.’ “And as they were eating
Jesus took bread and blessed it, and
brake it, and gave it to His disciples
and said ‘this is my body.’ And he
took the cup and gave thanks and
gave it to them, saying, ‘drink ye all
of it, for this iS‘my blood of the
New Testament which is shed for
many for the remision of sins.’ "—
Matt. 26: 26-28.

Again we read 1 Cor. 11: 23-26.
“For as often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup ye do show the
Lord’s death till He comes.” Again
in John 10: 11, we read, “I am the
Good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd
giveth His life for the sheep.” Again
in Luke 24: 44—48, Jesus said unto
the disciples, “These are the words
which I spake unto you, while I was
yet with you that all things must be
fulﬁlled which were written in the
law of Moses and in the prophets
and in the Psalms concerning me."
Thus it is written and thus it be-
hooves Christ to suﬁer and rise from
the dead on the third day, that re-
pentence and remission of sins
should be preached in His name to
all nations—A Reade-r, Dowagiac,
Michigan.

 

ANSWER TO E. H. B.

F WE READ the 19th verse of
Revelations 22, we ﬁnd it says,
“If any man shall take away

from the words of the book of Proph-
ecy God shall take away his part out
of the book of life and out of the
holy city and from the things which
are written in this book.” And we
cannot take our Bible and pick out
a verse here and there to suit our
own taste, but I think we should
take it as it is and believe all or give
it up. How can we keep on teach-
ing our children the Bible for truth
if we say Jesus is not the son of God?

We know there is life for us be-

yond this, for Jesus said, “In my

 

 

 

 

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you that where! am there may my
servant be also.” ' '  "

If we start in the beginning we
ﬁnd prophecy fulﬁlled, so why not
believe the prophecy which says that
Christ shall come again in the clouds
of glory in the same manner he left
earth to judge every one according
to their deeds.

We have no reason to think of
God as unjust, cruel, or a God of
wrath and vengeance. but one of
love and mercy for all who keep his
commands. Christ did give refer-
ence to His being the son of God in
many places. John 14: 13-14, "And
whatsoever ye shall ask in my name
that will I do, that the Father may
be glorified in the Son. If ye shall
ask anything in my name I will do
it." Matt. 10: 32-33, “Whoever,
therefore shall confess me before
men him will I confess also before
my father which is in Heaven. But
whosoever shall deny me before men
him will I also deny before my
Father which is in Heaven.” John
3-18, “He that believeth on him is
not condemned, but he that believ-
eth not is condemned already be-
cause he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of
God."

Yes, we should have faith to be-
lieve all Jesus told us for He never
lies. Remember too, that faith with-
out works is dead. and the more we
use our talents the more we have.—
M. E. 0., Bay City, Michigan.

CORRESPONDENTS' COLUMN

Replying to inquiry of M. A. S. in
Sept. 24 issue about preparing horse-
radish for winter use. I wish to say I
have had good luck for several winters
by storing it as follows: Simply dig the
roots any time before the ground freez-
es. store them in a box or basket, cov-
er with moist earth, shaking it down
among the roots, and keep in cellar or
some such place. Then when wanted it
is easily obtained and prepared in de-
sired quantitles, and will be found to
be as strong as when dug from the
ground. Our friend might carry the
roots in a sack and store them in earth
after moving. Water will revive them
if they become wilted.——Mrs. W. J. M.

Mrs. P. 8. would like some real good
recipe for home-made mince meat and
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I have been much interested in the
discussion about the bird with the brok-
en pinion. I agree with Mrs. R. O.
with regard to paying the penalty in
this world. Not only the one that sins,
but others, often innocent people, have
to suffer for the sins of others. The
saying is too true, — the sins of the
fathers is visited on the children,—
sometim-es for two or three generations,
but on the other hand if they truly re-
pent and confess their sins, God is will-
ing to forgive and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. God's grace is won-
derful, He that is forgiven much, lov-
eth much and I think he will be more
humble and have more sympathy for
others. we all need something to keep
us from being so engrossed with our
own goodness that we forget what Christ
has done for us. God giveth grace to
the humble so he can rise spiritually.
which is far more important, and more
lasting. Everything is so changeable
here. Worldly honors do not last long.
—qA Farmer’s Wife.

 

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The cost of the paper per year is more
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tablespoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon all-
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About 10 minutes before removing from
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nieces and nephews are going to
try and win the prize money in the
puzzle contest that M. B. F. started
two weeks ago. So far three girls
and one b0y have sent in lists of the
objects and others write that the-y
are working on the “S” puzzle. All
of you try it. The contest has just
begun and you will have lots of fun
as well as have a chance of winning
some money.

You all remember little Levi Gu—
gel, 'who died nearly a year ago. I
received a letter from his mother
last week and she wrote that she
thought my suggestion of publishing
the pictures of my nieces and neph—
ews was nice. “I want very much
to see the faces of seven girls and
boys,” she writes. “Those seven that
wrote such nice letters to Levi and
I last year at Christmas and New
Years time. Not only so I can see
them, but so all of the little readers
of the Children’s Hour can see them,
too, and know that they were the
means of making a lonely, sickly
boy happy.” I have a picture of
Eathel Fay Sharp, but none of any
of the others. Won’t the other six
write to me enclosing their picture
so we can do as Mrs. Gugel would
like to have us do? I haven’t a list
of the names, so will you please men-
tion in your letter that you wrote
Levi? One of the girls lives at Rose-
bush, Mrs. C-ugel tells me, but she
lost her letter and cannot tell her
name.

Only a little over a week until
Ha110we’en. Remember what I told
you last year. If you wish to play
tricks that evening do things that
will benefit people instead of injur—
ing and annoying them.——-UNCLE
NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins:-—-We
take the M B. F. and like it very much.
I live on a farm of 160 acres. I have a
little brother two and one-half years old.
I am 11 years old and would have been
in the eighth grade if I could have gone
to school this year. I was sick this sum-
mer with infantile paralysis. but am bet-
ter now. I can walk alone, Everyone
thought I would have to go in a wheel
chair. I will be out of school all year.
I raised six canary birds this year. We
have sold them all. It seems kind of
lonesome not to hear them singing. For
other pets I have a dog and four kittens.
We have six little CalVPS and twenty
little pigs. I will close with some riddles.
If a white stone was thrown into the
Red Sea what would it become? Answer,
wet. If I saw you riding on a donkey
what kind of fruit would I he reminded
of? Answer, a pear.

I would be glad if some of the boys
and girls would write to me. I will an-
swer all letters received, as I have noth-
ing to do but write letters, crochet and
read books. The one who guesses my
second name will receive a letter from me.
-—BemiCe M. Klein, Box 50, R.F.D., Fow-
lcrville, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well, here goes!
Now, Cousins, and readers, don't you
think Uncle Ned has a birthday once in
a. year, or perhaps once every four years,
if it is on the 29th of February? Well,
let’s pretend Uncle Ned’s birthday is the
12th of October. Of course, we don’t
know when it is, but wouldn’t it be nice
if every little reader of the Children’s
Hour would send Uncle Ned a birthday
card, so it would be received the 12th of

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October? Uncle Ned must tell us in his
letter how many birthday cards he re-
ceived. Now every little boy or girl who
sees this letter please send Uncle Ned
a birthday card. Oh, yes, I have some-
thing else to tell. Will someone write to
me or in their letters to Uncle Ned, tell
which my name is, Francis, a boy‘s_or
Frances, a girl’s name? Something like
“Bob of Michigan's” plan. I think may-
be “Bob of Michigan” is a girl, don’t you?
————Francis or Frances, which is it cous—
ins? Imlay City, Michigan.

This issue of M. B. F. will not ar-
rive at any of my nieces’ or neph-
ews’ homes until over a week after
October 12. But my really and truly
birthday wil be November 27th and
I always did like to receive birthday

cards.

Dear Uncle Ned :——I am a girl twelve
years old and weigh 75 pounds. I have
dark brown eyes. I go to the Court
school. which is a mile away. I like
my teacher. We have thirteen scholars,
ten boys and three girls, I am in the
seventh grade and spelling and reading
are my favorite studies. We have a nice
school ground to play on. I live in the
country seven miles north of Battle
Creek, and on 160 acres of land. I have
a. mother and father, three brothers and
two sisters. I have one pot kitten that
I named Tipp. I go to Sunday school and
my mother is my teacher. I want other
children to write to me. I like to read
the Children’s Hour. I give my love to
you and my cousins—Anna Case, Bat-
tle Creek, Michigan. R. 7.

Dear Uncle Ned:—I have been read—
ing the Children’s Hour and I .think it
is rather nice for the young children. I
am a girl 13 years old and am in the
seventh grade at school. We have a
great time at school playing volley ball,
We live on an 80—acre farm. We have
350 White Leghorn chickens. For pets
I have 3 little white kittens. They are
pretty little things. I have ﬁve brothers
and six sisters. What has four eyes but
connot see? Those who guess it will re-
coive a letter. Ina Anderson, Rosebush,
Michigan, Route No. 1.

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——We are two little
boys, aged 9 and 6 years, who wish to
join with the cousins in guessing about
“Bob,” When mamma read the letter
we laughed and said, “We know who that
ls.’ . That's a girl, and she’s not a farm-
er girl, but a baker, and we’d like to ask
“Bob” how’s Bobby? Now, here is another
guess for someone: We say we are ﬁfty-
centers, but our grandpa is a whole dol-
lar. What is his name? We are ﬁrst
and second-graders so mother is help-
ing us to write. My name is pronounced
by saying two letters of the alphabet,
number 18 and 26; and my brother’s
name is who a poultry—keeper keeps his
hens. Can anyone guess our names?—-
Two brothers, Roly and Poly.

Dear Uncle Ned :—How are you and all
the cousins? I wrote to 23 of the M. B.
F. cousins, but I couldn’t keep writing
to so many, so I thought I would write
to the M. B. F. instead, so that all the
cousrns could hear from me thru our own
page. I think that scheme that “Bob of
Michigan" has told us about is a ﬁne
plan. I think that “Bob of Michigan” is
a girl. If I am right, “Bob,” write me a
card or a. letter. I am also wondering
if I have a twin. My birthday is June
19th, and I Will be 14 my next birthday,
If I have a twin I would be very glad to
hear from you.—Dorothy Crouterﬂeld,
Boye City, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am sure you will
give some room to another farmer‘s
daughter I live on a 100-acre farm
With my mother, father and two broth—
ers. I go to high school and like it ﬁne.
We have 12 cows, 3 horses and 7 pigs.
we have a Perfection milking machine,
which helps out very much. I am glad
winter is coming because I like to skate
and slide down hill My father takes the
M, B. F. and we all like it ﬁne. For pets
I have seven cats and one dog. I wish
Uncle Ned good luck, and I hope some
of the boys and girls will write to me.—
Anna Watson, Imlay City, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—Hello, eve bod !
Will you kindly move over and ge all-
other farmer girl room? I am 14 years
old and in the 8th grade at school, There
are thirty-four pupils in our school. I
live on a 40~acre farm. We have 5 head
of cattle, 2 horses, 1 pig and about 30
chickens. I have three sisters and no
brothers. We have taken the M. B. F.
for a. long time and like it ﬁne. I like
to read the letters from the girls and
boys. The Doc Dads are funny little
folk, aren’t they? We had a real hard
snow storm this morning (October 8th.)
I wish Uncle Ned and the cousins good
luck—Lethe Penhall. Kingsley, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned :———I am a girl 12 years
old. I am in the seventh grade. I go to
school every day. we take the M. B. F.
For pets I have twa rabbits, six guinea
pigs, a dog, two kittens and one dove.
I live on a farm of 280 acres. We have
two silos, thirteen cows and six horses.
I have four sisters and two brothers.—
Irene Zurich, Tyre, Box 63. Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-We are having some
very funny weather. It is snowing to-
day (October 8.) I am trying to ﬁnd
how many words begin with “S.” ' I
think that Madge Shangle’s middle name
is Faulkner—Thelma Elofson, Reed City.
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Oct. 28. Poland China; 1?. 13. Put.
It Louis. Mich.

“WM 27 _Polsnd Chime. E. It. Leonard.

Oct 28. Poland (mines. P. P. Pope.
IL Phesant, Mich.

lot. 2—Poland Chins; Wesley H119,
m. Mich.

Nov. B—Poiand Chinae. W. Brewbsker
‘ 80m, Elsie, Mich.

Nov. 9—Poland China. William Rans-

ddl. Hanover, Mich.

Nov. 10———Poland Chin-.3. Young Bron,
mob. Begins. V lie H1
1. 16. Holstein w e. y o-
etego Freisian Breeders Sole Ass’n. Saginaw

Omty Fair Grounds, Saginaw, Mich.
Nov. 19—Holsteins. Southern Michigan
Mers' Ass‘n, Fair Grounds. Jackson, Mich.

Feb. 2 —— Hampshire Swine, Lenawee
County Hampshire Swine Breeders' Assn,
Adrien. Mich.

 

 

 

 

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LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adams, Litchileld, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoffman. Hudson, Mich.
John P. Hutton. busing, Mich.
August Miller, St. Johns, Mich.
W. Lovewell, So. Lyons, Mich.
. L. Perry, Columbus, Ohio.
J. I. Post, Hillsdeie, Mich.
0. A. Rasmussen, Greenville. Mich.
J. E. Ruppert, Perry, Mich.
Berry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.
\Vm. \Vaﬂ'le, Goldwater, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

SHOW BULL

lived by e Pontiac Anggie Korudyke-Henger-
void DeKol bull from e nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior cell, Jackson Fair,

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

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Herd under Federal Supervision.

BOARDMAN FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.

Bole'tetn Breeders Since 1908

 

 

 

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the celvee from our Junior Herd Sire “King Pon-
tho Lunde Korndyke Segis” who is e son of
‘King of the Pontlncs" from e daughter of Pon-
Iae Clothilrie De Kol 2nd. A few bull calves fol
ele T W “uremic. R 2 Battle Creek. Mich

 

SOME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED HOL-
etein cowa. Fair size, good color, bred to
bulk and due from July to December. Most-
0. stock, prices reasonable and

every one, guaranteed to be exactly as repre-

“m J M. J. ROOHE

Pinckney. Mich.

 

TUEBOR 'STOOK FARM

Breeders of Registered Holstein
cattle and Berkshire, Hogs.

Everything guaranteed, wnite
me your wants or come and see
them.

ROY F. FICKIES
Uhesaning, Mich.

 

 

 

 

SOLD AGAIN

Bull eel! int advertised sold but have 2 more
t are mostly white. They are nice straight fei-
sired by e son of Kim One is from

. 2 yr. old den and the other is from a

0 lb. Jr. I yr. old dun. eho by a son 0
'end lengerveld De Kol Butter Boy, one o

In greet bulls.
.JAMEO HOPSON JR.. Oweeeo. Mien. R 2.

Tsmsrrnrn HOLSTEiil BATTLE

for sale. ' From calves to full-aged cows.
F. E. GOODAR, Richmond. Mioh.

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS

irod b a son of King One. and from good
groducinyg cows. Write for photos and prices.
EARL PETERS, North Bradley, Mich.

OR SALE—TWO BULL OALVES. A HOL-
F and Durham about 8 months old. Both
In. e heavy mit Not “doused. S“
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gggACI. 8700K FARM. In!“ MIOII.

IN OOUNTY PURE IRID LI'm

lklng done.

  

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Fairlawn Herd—Holsteins

“if. SIM. Embieggeerd Lilith Champion 10801?
His site’s darn Colantha 4th’s Johanna. world!
ﬁrst 85 1b. cow, and world's ﬁrst 1,200 lb. cow.
The only cow that ever held all world’s butter
records from one day to one year, and the worlds
yearly milk record at the same time. His dam
Idlith Piebe De Kol No. 93710. over 1,150 lbs.
of butter from 20.5994 pounds of milk in e
yur. ' milk record when
undo and Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher mill: record today.
His two nearest dams average:

. 0 ..............1.199.22
8m"..T‘?.??T€...............2s.515.9
Champ's soul from choice A. R. 0. dams

edd prestige to your herd and money to your

pm .i. F. RIEMAN

Owner
Flint. Mich.

 

AM OFFERING LIGHT COLORED HOL-
etein-Friesien bull 1 year old from 21.51 1h.
dam and sire whose six nearest dams are 38.34
lbs. butter. Herd under state and federal sup-

ision.
37w Weiiin. Wiscogin Farm, Unionvliie. Mich.

'I YEARLING BULL BARGAINS

Hired by Begin Korndyke De Nijlander, e 32
lb. son of a t ce Michigan ribbon winner .her
Dams are daughters of King

ords 18 lbs. to 30 lbs. Priced .1; half value.-
sioo up. Federally tested June 10. Write

for list.
ALBERT G. WADE. White Pigeon, Mich.

GHOIOE YOUNG BULL
READY FOR SERVICE

Sire 35.89 lb. sun of King Korndyke Sadie

Vale. Dam 31.40. 3 nearest dams average

over 36 lbs. (‘roml individual. Price $o00.
V .

BRANDONHILL
Ortonville, Michigan
JOHN P. HEHL
1205 Griswold St... Detroit, Michigan
vouno

A BLUE RIBBON WINNE BULL

on the 1921 Show Circuit. For sale at a low
price. Out of an 0 granddaughter of
Pontiac Korndyke.

Sired by our SENIOR SHOW BULL Model
King Segls Glista 32.37 lbs.

GRAND RIVER STOOK FARMS
COREY J. SPENCER. Owner
111 E. Main Street, Jackson, Mich.
Herd under Suite and Federal Supervision.

SIRED BY

Bu  liengerveki

average records of his four nearest dams are
33.12 lbs. butter and 730 lbs. milk in seven
days from A. R. O. dams representing the lead-
ing families of the breed with records up to 29
pounds in seven days. Priced to sell.

L. C. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

 

 

 

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Lad. The

 

BREEDING

if your locality needs a registered hoiatcin
bull, for neighborhood service I can fumisl
one for grade cows or the best pure bred,
up to 32 pound test; no cash required;

wnte
A. R. GRAHAM

Flint, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEIN FRIESIA Funeraﬁ

grade heifers; tuberculin tested herd. Prices are

right.
LARRO RESEARCH FARM, Box A North End,
Detroit. Michigan.

SHORTHORN

SNORTNORNS

We are now offering two splendid bulls, ten
months old. the kind that is hard to find. out of
our great breeding bull Perfection Heir; also a
few heifers. some of them well along in calf.
Will be priced worth the money. Write your
wants or better come and pick them out. W11]

guarantee breeders.
S. N. PANGBORN I: SON

8 Miles East. Bad Axe, Mich.

SNORTHORNS FOR SALE

As I_have sold my Cattle Ranch near Reed
City, Michigan, I em offering for sale my herd
of 50 registered Shorthorns headed by one of
the boot Scotch bulls in the State, Master
Model 576147. This herd of cattle are pv-‘w—
gipnlly roens. Terms can be amused Time
.111 be given on approved notes.

E. M. PARKHURST. Reed City, Mich.

OR BALE—REGISTERED SHORTHORNS
and Duroc Jersey spring pigs. either sex; two
red bulls. one 11 months and one 5 months old.
Several heifers from 8 months to 2 yo."
Scotch Top and Bates bred. Address
GEORGE W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD
Williameburg. R 1. Michigan

 cows' "EIFEne. lunu

offered at attractive prio-
hetore January ﬁrst. Will trade for good lend.
Wm. J. IELL. Rose Gitl. Mloh.

 

 

 

 

 

podimee ow a judicious m _

beet blood lines known to the breed. Wnte t

JOHN LESSITER’S SONS.
Ciel-listen, Mich.

FOR POLLEO suomnonnsg

Shropshire, Southdown and Cheviot rams write to
L. O. KELLY & SON, Plymouth, Mich.

GENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ers’ Association after for sale 75 heed; all
Send for new

INNERITED SHORTHORN QUALITY
0111' sh ixture of the

 

ages. both milk and beef breeding.

M. E. MILLER. SOO’Y. Greenville. Mich.

MILKING STRAIN SHORTHORNIS

Registered stock of all ages and both sex.
heeded by the imported bull, Kehnecott VII-
oount 25th, 648,663. Prices reasonable.
LUNDY RR08., R4, Devison, Mich.

MILKING SHORTHORNS “33".? eer-

vico, tuberculin tested and at bargain prices.
W. S. HUBER. Gladwin. Mich.

 

 

 

RIONLAND SNORTHORNS

Herd bulls {or quick sale. Fair Acres 6001!
and Collynie Cullen 5th. Both roan ﬁve year
olds and tried sires. ‘

Best of blood lines and show prospects.

Both quiet to handle.

A real bargain.

Write for particulars.

C. H. Prescott & Sons

Tawas City, Michigan

 

UY SHORTHORNS NOW.

4TH ANNUAL
herd test without a reactor. Some bargains
in bulls.

JOHN SCHMIDT & SON. Reed CItY. Mioh.

TWO REAL SHORTHORN “53:233ka

‘5 mo. old and sired by Imp. Dainty Prince.
W. W.

 

 

 

 

KNAPP, Howell, Mich.
GUERNSEYS
  GUERNSEY BULLS, SERVICE-
able age, and calves. Dams now
on test making splendid A records. I have
what you want in type breeding and reduction.
Have never had abortion nor tuber sis. Herd
federally accredited. Prices $100 up. Write

for particulars.
‘ A. M. SMITH. Lake City. Mich.

GUERNSEY BULLS T150537 old: 1

yearling; 1 ﬁve months old; 1 three months old,
all the May Rose strain, advanced registry. Write
G. '1'. BRYCE. Romeo, Mich.

GUERNSEY BULL GAL

Lsngwaler Frince Charmante. .
R. daughters average 416 lbs. fat 2 1-2 yrs.
Dam: Lawton’s Lady Lu. A. R. 416 lb. fat class
A. A. (farmers class) A. R. daughter. 409
lbs. fat D. D. Write

MORGAN BROS..
Ailegan. R 1, Michigan

GUERNSEYS

OF MAY ROSE AND GLENWOOD BREEDING.
No abortion, clean federal inspected. Their
sires dam made 19,460.20 milk, 909.05 fat.
Their mother's sire’s dam made 15,109.10 milk
778.80 fat. Onn spare 3 cows, 2 heifers and a
beautiful lot of young bulls.

T. V. HICKS, R 1, Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

7 MONTHS
OLD. SIRE,
R. 4: A.

 

 

0R SALE, GUERNSEY BULL, 1 YEAR OLD.
Write for particulars to
ECHO LODGE FAR

M
R. F. D. 2, Waterviiet, Mich.

 

REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIFER CALVES
for $125 each delivered. Bull calves for $50.
Sires 5, nearest dams average 725 lbs. fat.

PINE HILL FARM. R3, Howard City, Mich.

JERSEYS

JERSEY BULL CALVEs. Show typo. From pro-
ducers. $50 and up recording to ego. MILO
H. EDISON a SON,.R2, Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

NE OF OUR MAJESTY BULLS WOULD IM.

prove your herd.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. Ionia. Mich.

  HEIFERS 1 YR. OLD—-

I Young cows in milk sired
by Manet ’3 Oxford Shyioek 166.692 eiso ung
bulls sire by Frolio’s Master Peril 1776 3. a
grandson of Pogin 99th and Sophie 19th’s Tor-
mentor, two great bulls of the breed. Write for
prices end pedigree.

GUY C. WILBUR. R 1. Beidinl. Mich.

 

 

 BULLS AND BULL CALVES sired
by a son of Sophie 19th Tormentor.
J. E. MORRIS A SON, Farminoton. Mich.

|F THE IULL I8 HALF THE HERD, HOW
much would e son of Pods 99th's Duh 8th.
who bee 60 per cent blood of Sophie 19th. be
worth to your herd?
Let me send ou pedigrees and prices on bail
calves from this ull and Sophie Tormentor cowl.
, FRED HAYWAR

D
Scotte. Mich.
HEREFORDS

NEREFORDS & DUROOS
Donald

Yearling bulls and bull calves, Beau
breeding. Also Dumc bears and gil
J. O. THOMSON A SON, Perms, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HI‘VAN IgRELCO. 8:0:ITHORN BREED-
en Anode
“d b o:- ve etoc or eele. both mill
Write the secretory.
FRANK IAILIY. Hartford. Mieh.
Km .00!) BULL OALVE FOR SAL
3m to KeniemBidgo herd «angst. “or?

home. had Benton .
J. I. TANOWELL. Muesli. Miohigen-

 

REGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE -- KINI
EPEATEB 713941. and Been Perfection
827 99 heed our herd. Bulls ere sold: here
some very ﬁne heifers for eels. bred or opened,
bred to our herd bulls. Come and see them: thy
wii phone you. ‘

Tera . Fox, Prom, Henry Gem-hols. Rel-demon.

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I. J. TAYLOR. Mir Isl.

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' ml) * Reports -r '

autumn. hawking has begun.
Late potatoes are nearly all dug, of good
size and a. fair crop. Another meeting 01
the Farm Bureau was held at North Ad-
ams last week to introduce the testing
of livestock for tuberculosis. Cool weath-
er the ﬂrst of this week and gradually
getting warmer toward the last of the
week. We had our ﬁrst killing frost
Wednesday night. October 12.——R. J. F.

St. Joseph——Lots of rain the last few
days; frost last night (Oct, 13.) Farm-
ers are digging potatoes and shredding
corn. Everybody busy. Several sales
in this vicinity. Rye is 7 0c per bushel
at Burr Oak. They say potatoes are
yielding "several" bushels per acre and
not good quality at that. Potatoes will
be quite a luxury before spring—Mrs.
H. C. H.

Wexford—Old Jack Frost came along
and ripened our spuds at last. Corn is
turning out about 75 to 80 bushels per
acre, Late potatoes about 70 to 80 on
old ground and on new ground about 80
to 100 bushels. Apples about all picked.
Pastures are holding up well. Some
farmers are plowing. Too much wet
XeaJther for threshing buckwheat,—-—W.

Midland—Beans are nearly all thresh-
ed. There was a. fairly good yield. Boots
are starting to town now. Not all o!
them are ready for harvest yet—C, L. E.

Sumac—Farmers are still thr
beans, and they are going from 10 to 1
bushels per acre. The silos seem to all
be ﬁlled around here. Potatoes are be:
ing dug, some of the late ones are turn-
ing out better than was expected. Havi-
ing quite a lot of rain at present but
not any more than is needed to make the;
fal plowing good. Some plowing being
done at present—A. B.

Kentucky—We are having lovely fall
weather here and wheat and rye are
looking ﬁne. Nearly all seeding is don.
and potato digging is well under way,
with not more than sixty per cent of n
crop on the average. Buckwheat thresh-
ing has begun and the yield is very good:
the late-sowed buckwheat is yielding the
best. We have plenty of pasture
cattle and horses are looking exception:-
ally good. One of the best—known farms
in the county changed hands last week
when 801 Losier purchased the Darwin
Lewis farm in Excelsior township. The
Percheron stallion Pom-p No. 161693, m
purchased by Wm. Burnham and will be
kept at his farm in Excelsior township.
A great many potatoes are being hauled
tAo nﬁarket as soon as dug this fall.—W.

 

 

Saginaw (S.W.)—We are having plan-n
ty of rain. A heavy frost on the night
of Oct. 12. Bean threshing about done.
Most of them have gone to market right
from the machine. Corn husking and
potato digging is the business of the day
n0W.—G. L.

Leelannu—First frost October 12 in
low places. Potato crop showing much
shorter than expected, 50 per cent of an

average. Beans fair. Weather unfavor-
able—V. C. V, -
Montcalm (NJ—Farmers are busy

harvesting beans and digging potatoes
Work has been delayed on account of
much damp weather. We have had 3
kinds of weath r, winds, rain, hail, snow,
with thunder a1 lightning, and cleared
Up with a, heavy rost Wednesday night.
which froze the grc nd some. The soil I!
very w t with wa.er standing on 10'
' ltlrny of the farmers are selling
. A fev. are holding them
for higher prices. 1\ building be?
done now, farmers too busy.——-G. B, / .
Genesek—Three heavy rains have filled
the ground with water so that we will
have a. supply for crops, wells and oil-I
terns. Some late beans still out; about
spoiled in ﬁeld. Growing wheat look!
good. Everything as near ready for win-
ter as could ever hope to have it.—A. 3.
Graham.

   

   

A CORRECTION

N LAST week’s issue of" M. B. F. It

was stated that Malcolm MacPherm
, was a member of the State Board d
Agriculture. This was an error, Mr.
MacPherson does not. take ofﬁce until
January let, at which time the term 01
Mr. I. R. Waterbury who is now I.
member. expires. Otherwise the list e!
the members was correct as given.

 

It is the ideal paper for the farmers e!
today. Hoping for continued success of
the paper, I am a subscriber for at least
one more year.—-—W. E. Lyons, Hillsdale
County, Michigan.

 

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AGEMEII . CIRCULATION, ETOH REQUIRED
BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS 0F AUGUST M
1912, of the Michigan Business Farmer, pu

ed weekly atdﬁount Clemens, Michigan; for 00¢.-
her 1, 1921. 1. That the names and
addresses of the publisher, editor,

lug editor ‘end businem managers are:

ﬁsher. George M. Slocum, Mt. Clemens. R. F. D.
No. 4, Mich. Ediwr, Forrest A. Lord, Mt. Glen-
ens, Mich. Managing WI, Milan GrinnelL IL

Mt. Clemens,
(Give namm end addresses of individual owns:
or. it a corporation, give its name and the rum.
an'll addresses of stockholdrrs owning or holding
lpercentormoreolﬂiototaiemountolstock
The Rural Publishing Company. Incorporated,
George M. Slocum, Mabel 1L Slocum, Forrut
lord. Mt. Clemens; August H. and Emma Am“,
Owosso; Nollie G. Powell, Oden; L. Edna Elk
- m Rogers: Chas. J.
Pratt, Charlemix; Fred Yoet, Bridgeport; Cod
. Wolf. ltiggsville, Michiﬁ
m

t older-s, mo , '
other sacrum owning or 0
cent or more of to” amount 0
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Slocum Publisher. 8m to end subscribed
fore me this 80th by W 1921. but
15241.“ - 3' weaken not.

 

 

     
     


 

 

 

 

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MACK S NOTES

A CALL TO, DIMUNIZATION

ROM MANY points in Michigan
F comes the information that hog

cholera is again raging and hog
raisers who have young hogs that are
still healthy should lose no time in
haVing them double treated. There
is reason to believe that the present
outbreak is the direct result of rank
carelessness on the part of certain
hog feeders who have purchased an-
imals flom infected districts and
have neglected'to have them immun-
ized, thus scattering the infection
and making of no eﬁect much or the
good work which has been done to
rid the state of this dangerous dis—
ease.

Nmriy all of the pure-bred herds
in the state have been treated, but
there are many districts in which
the breeders ,01 common grade hogs
who have had their hogs vaccinat-
ed. are the exception rather than the
rule. The Business Farmer has in
the past devoted a large amount of
space to warning its readers of the
risk incurred by those who neglect
immunization. Again the warning
is sounded and to the wise the sug-
gestion will be all that is necessary.
Withbut doubt there will be those
who will learn the lesson at much
greater cost than is necessary; al—
ready this season we have reports of
losses which range from 30 to 50
hogs, the property of one feeder.
The money lost in a single outbreak
of hog cholera will often be large
enough to pay the vaccination ex-

 

 

 

. panes of a lifetime.

Argonant. the thick, low-set Short-
orn bull that won ﬁrst in the aged
all class for M. & .T. Schaﬁiner at
the Michigan State Fair, turned the
name trick at the Eastern States Expo—
sition in Springﬁeld, Mass. Again, as in
Detroit, the senior and grand champion
of the breed was a two-year—old bull,
Shown by Carpenter & Ross, Mansfield,
Ohio, Buckland Hall, Nokesville, Vir-

ginia. showed the senior and grand cham-

 
 

  

bidding was"

glen cow in Pleasant Roseleaf. Miss
newbird Sultan, ﬁrst in the aged cow
class at Detroit, stood in the same place
at Springﬁeld. When It came to the class
for junior bulls, the great bull Argonant
showed his supremacy by furnishing the
calves that won ﬁrst, second and third
prizes in the hottest kind of company.

The showing in the Hereford division
of the Springﬁeld fair was much the
same as at Detroit, but in some of the
classes the decisions were decidedly dif-
terent: there, as in Detroit, Pickerings
Harlequin was made senior and grand
champion bull. Donna Woodford 5th,
the property of N. E. Parish, Reading,
Pa... was made senior and grand cham—
pion cow. This decision being the same
as at Detroit. Mr. Parish won ﬁrst and
second in Detroit with his calf herds,
but the bat he could do at Springﬁeld
was second and fourth, ﬁrst going to
Warren T. McGray, Kentland, Ind” on
young Fairfaxes. Pickering’s choice,
the grand champion fat steer at Detroit.
was given the same place in Springﬁeld,
Pickering's herd entry in the fat steer
division was also given the gran cham-
pion herd prize, a classiﬁcation at was
not made in Detroit.

In the Shorthom division of the New
York State Fair Buckland Hall made an-
other great killing: again as in Detroit,
this firm furnished the junior grand
champion. male and female. The Vir-
ginia herd also landed ﬁrst-prize for
aged and young herds, aged cow, on
Pleasant Roseleaf, senior yearling, jun-
tor yearling, junior calf and produce of

The Schai'fner bull Argonant,
again won ﬁrst in the aged bull class,
but again lost the championship, the Car-
penter & Ross two—year-old entry. Calves
from the bull Argonant, won everything
in sight at Syracuse.

In the Hereford classes at Syracuse,
much of the judging was in reverse or-
der from all of the preceding shows. The
Pickering bull Harlequin was again
grand champion but the Pickering cow
Princess 11.. which has been placed sec-
ond all along the line was made grand
champion, and the Parish entry. Donna
Woodford, grand champion two-year-old
last fall at the International and grand
champion everywhere else this year, was

you third prize. The McGray herd of

tlnnd, Ind. won a large number of

ﬁrst prizes at Syracuse.
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At the pure-bred ram sales held in con-
nection with the recent States
Exposition in Springﬁeld. Mass. the av-
erage for Shropshires was $31, and for
9 Southdowns 326, Two Dorsets aver-
aged $17.50, and two Hampshire ewes
$21. The top price for Shropshires was
$56, paid by D. B. Roberts, Haddan,
Conn.. and the highest price for South-
down was $40, at which J. Cheney, Bol-
ton, Conn.. and A. B. Harris. Shelburne
Falls, Mesa. each made a purchase. The
top price for Hampshires was 845, paid
by B. B. Patterson. Huntington, Mass.
There was plenty of interest. and the
' ’brisk.‘ In the boys’ and
ale on tat lambs’the top price

to a pound. and the range 11

   

 

 

 

 

 

MASTER

JONES,
1917 grand champion.)

service will be provided.

Write Hillcrest Farm,

 

at the farm, two miles southwest of HOPKINS,
and eight miles northeast of ALLEGAN, MICH.
The offering consists of tried sown, fall yearlings, 35 Spring Kﬂtl
and a few choice boars that will make extra large herd sires.
As a special attraction, we are listing for sale the
OLD FASHION by HILLCBEST BOB by BIG BOB (one of the
greatest progenitors of the big
(the ﬁrst hour shown actually weighing over 1100
lbs.) and the grandsire of a $50,000 hour, and a $17,.000 sow.
We will also sell a few choice fall yearlings by BIG
out of dams by MLASTODON

To accomodate thoso coming by train or internrban,

Kai amaze o,

HILLCREST FARM WILL SELL

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS
Tuesday, Nov. lst, 1921

MICE.

great

type breed) ;

WONDER

free

PUT DOWN THE DATE, AND BE SURE TO BE AT THE SALE.
Mich. for free catalog.

F. B. LAY, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Den BIeyker Bros., Allegan, Mich.

dam by GRAND

SMOOTH
(sire of the

HEAD

now

auto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANGUS

BARTLETT’SPURE IRED unencum-

ANGUS CATTLE AND O.I.0.

Swine are right and are priced right. corn-

Ipondence Iolicited and inspection invited
CARL BARTLETT. Lawton, Mlch.

PREMIUM BEEF PHODUOERS

Sired by Black Rosegay, third at Mich. State
Fair and grand champion at Bay City. 1921..
Young stock {or sale.
ANGUS HOME FARM
Davlson. Mlch.

 

 

The Home of

Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny

Probably

The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL

Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the
Bmli'hﬂeld Show. 1919, and the Birming-
ham Show. 1920, is a daughter cl Edgar
of Dalmany.

The Junior Champion Bull. Junior
Champion Female, Champion Call Hard
and First Prize Junior Heifer Calf, Mich-
Iun State Fair. 1920. were she the at
of Edgar of Dolmeny.

A very choice lot 0! young bulls—sired
by Edgar of Dalmcny are. at this time,
oﬂered for ulo.

Send (or Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOD FARMS
Orion, Mich.

w. E. Sol-lope, Prop" Sidney Smith, sum.

 

 

 

 

DODDIE FARMS ANGUS of both sex for sale.
Herd headed by Bardell 31913, 1920 Inter
national Jr. Champion.

Dr. G. R. Martln a Son. North street. Mloh.

 

REGISTERED AlERDEEN - ANOUHULLS,
Heifers and cows for sale.

Priced to move. Inspection invited.
BR08.. Merrill. Mlchlgan

 

RUOSELL
  TWO REGISTERED ABERDEEN-
ANGUS BULLS, one six months
old and the other 3 years. They are from the
best herds in the country. Address
GEORGE D. STUCK, Otsego, Mlch.

RED POLLED

 

is now offering to
a few splendid young
$65 each.
ninhed in purchaser’s name.
W. B. SHEPPARD,
West Branch, R 1,

some ready for service.

RAVENSWOOD STOOK FARM

deliver anywhere in
lied Pulled bull calves for

Mlchi gan
Papers fur—

Prop.
Mich.

 

 

AYRSHIRES

 

bulls and bull calves,
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS.. R 5.

Vassar.

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
heifers and heifer calvn.

Mlch.

 

GALLOWAY

REGISTERED GALLOWAYS.

JAMES FRANTZ & SONS.

The beef, cream
and rolls breed. Stock of all ages for as.)

B.
Bluffton, Ohlo

 

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 SWINE 

 

POLAND CHINA

 

 

FOR SALE, LARGE

boar pigs.
Michigan’s
by Smooth
1920 lot
double

192 0 Gr.
Buster

Jr. Yearling Boa

 

IPOLAND OHINA

Sir-ed by F’s Clansman 391211,
Champion boar,
395823.

treatment. Priced in eon. Write

or see them. Free livery to visitors.
A. A. FELDKAMP
Manchester, R. R. No. 2 Mich.

TYPE—-

and
Michigan's
r. Immune by

 

 

 

herd, at a reasonable price.
Expenses paid if not so represen
In service: L's Big Orange,
Orange I'rice

W. E. LIVING8TON.

HERE'S SOMETHING GOOD

THE LARGEST BIG TYPE P. c. IN MIOH.
Got a bigger and better bred boar pix from my
Come and In them.

ted.

Th.“ boa
rd Chums:

and L’s Long Prospect.
Parma.

Mlch.

 

 

Big ’l‘ypv Poland (‘vhinna
ready. The ‘

past ten years.

WALNUT ALLE

boars
hand that has made good for

vvilu now

the

nml

A. D. GREGORY

Ionic. Mlehlgan

 

LEONARD'S BIG TYPE P.
at weaning time,
825 with pedigree. Satisfaction
or write E R. LEONARD. R 8

O. BOAR PIGI

from Mich. Champion herd
Call

guaranteed.
. St. Louis. Mich.

 

 

 

 

Central Michigan Sale Circuit

 

CHECKERS.

Sale at farm- Cholera-immune.

logue write P. P. Pope.

before advertised.

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 26th

HART, FULCHER and CLINE sell 40 head at the feed barn at St.
Louis, Mich. sired by Harts Black Price, Right Kind Clan, Mich.
Yank, Cline’s Bob and Leonard’s Big Bob.

Write for

Friday, October 28th

Pope,Bros., at Francisco Farm, Mt. Pleasant, sell 50 head sired by
MICH. MASTODON, MICH. CLANSMAN, Orange Clansman, Hill Den
Clan and out of dams by Moors Great Giant, Gersdale Timm, Black ,
Jumbo Lad, Harrisons Gersdale, Hill Den Clan. Smooth Halt Ton,
Mich. Mastodon, Harts Black Price and Leonardo Giant.

NOTICE

Chas. Wetzel and Sons will not hold their sale in this circuit as

war. Wm. AUCTIONEER.

A June gilt sired by
For catalogue write F. T. Hart, St. Louis, Mich.

Thursday, October 27th

E. R. Leonard. at his farm near St. Louis, Mich., sells 50 head sired

> mostly by Orange Clansman, Grand Champion at Bay City Fair 1921,
lst at West Mich. State Fair and 2nd at Detroit. Many of these gilts
sell with breeding privilege to LEONARD’S LIBERATOR, the tallest,
longest and heaviest boned pig in Michigan.

 

catalogue.

For Cata-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

t.

LTP’OSISZO 25

We are offering our 1921 fall crop of pigs at
51’0" prices. They am sired Ho.
Price and Right Kind Clan. '

F T HART. 8L LOUIS, MIGI‘L

L. 8. P. C. BOARS AT FARMERS’ PRIOEC»
H. O. SWARTZ

Schoolcmft, Mich.

LARGE TYPE POLAND OHINA

For sale, boars and gilts sired by B's Clans-
mnn. grand champion at 1921 Mich. State Fair,
End by F‘s Clansman 1920 grand champ!

 

Prices reasonable. Visitors welcome. Free
livery from Pal-ma. Uormspondm
answered.

N. F. BORNOR. R 1. Farms. Mich.

 

BIG BOB MASTODON

Is sired by Caldwell Biz Bob. champion 0!
the world. .Hls dam's sire is A's Mastodon,
mud champion at Iowa State Fair. some
ing. Peter A Fan is my new boar sired by Peta;
Pan, he by Peter the Great, Glover & Frank D.
Winn herd, Kansas City, Mo. Bone

been left sired by Big Bob. Priced low I
guaranteed. 30 choice fall pigs, either sex.
0. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mlch.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. M “I M
sale sired by the 1200 lb. boar Mm 818
Bob 327,623 and of Clansmsn. Giant B
and Yankee breeding. Ready to ship now.
hogs double treated. Priced right for quick n10.

Write or come and see them.
CHAS. WETZEL a SONS. ithaca. MIMI.

FARWELL LAKE FARM “"3 7'" P'
_ 0. Have 8

line Iohof spring pigs. Come and see them. Been

in servme. Clansman’s Image 2nd, W. B. Ont-

post and Smooth Wonder. Don’t forget the

November sale.

W. B. RAMSDELL
Hanover. Mlch.

BIG TYPE POLANOS‘SPQEE, $33 and

HTOWIIW. Host of bInmI lines represent/3d. Write
or call. W. Caldwell 8. Son. Springport. Mlch.

 

 

both

 

IG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS EITHER SEX
from large growthy dams and sired by choice
herd boars. Come and see our stock, prices
reasonable.
L. W. BARNES & SON, Byron, Mlch.

 

BIG TYPE
Poland Chlnu

BOARS AT HALF PRIO

bred in the purple. sired by ,
A Giant and Butler's Big Bob. No better
breeding. A big rugged, big-boned boar
for service, registered, for $25.00*330.00.

c. BUTLER, Portland, Mich.

FRANOISOO FARM POLAND OHINAS

Size—Quality——Popular Breeding. THAT’S 08.
A square deal—satisfaction. THAT‘8 YOURS.
PubIIo Sale—£0 Head—Oct. 28, 1921

POPE BROS- 00..

 

 

Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
  FIVE CHOICE BIG TYPE POL
and China spring boars, Sire Mr.
Jones No. 134557. Dam Miss Bob Buster No.
289442. They are priced to sell. Inquire of
F. J. STING. Bach, Mlch.

 

L TYPE P. 0. TWO SPRING BOARS, ONE COW
$25.00 each. Registered if sold this month.
PLEASANT HILL FARM
Evert, Mloh., Route 3, Box 89.

 

ERE l8 SOMETHING GOOD. BIO TYPI
Poland Chime. One extra good large Ion.
big boned smooth gilt bred to Howley'e Clans-
man. Price 3100. Also younger cilia $30 to

$50.00. .
HOWLEY BR08.. Merrill, Mloh.

 

 

SPO'ITED POLAND CHINAS

l Am Odorlng Large Type Poland Chlno Iowa.
bred to F’s Orange at realonabls prices.
(all pigs. Write or call.

CLYDE FISHER, R 3. St. Louls, Mlch.

Large Type Spotted PoIand China:

Some spring pigs at $15 and $20. SAME
Pride of Mecosta. Satisfaction guaranteed.
papers with pigs. Phone or write

J. B. FULLER, R 2. Reed Glty, Mich.

DUROCS

DUROG BOARS at $20 to $40. These are good
and guaranteed satisfactory. Inspection invitl
ed. sired by Michigan Orion Sensation and by

Michigan Demonstrator.
Mlohlgana Farm Ltd.. Pavlllon Mich.
Kalamazoo County.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE—FINE MARCH AND APRIL PIG.
Sired by Gladwin Col. 185995. “Hits us
your wants.

HARLEY FOOR 8. SONS. R 1. Gladwln.

PEAGH HILL FARM

TRIED sows and gilts bred to or sired by Peach
I'll Orion Kins 152489. Satisfaction mﬁ‘

MIMI.

 

anteed. Come look ’em over.
Also a few open gilts.
INWOOD BROTHERS
Romeo. Mlch.

 

AM OFFERING 80MB HIGH OLA”

SPRING DUROO BOARS

at reasonable prices . A few gilt: bred for Sep-
tember inrrow at bargain prices.
W. o. TAYLOR
Mllan. Mlch.

 

FOR SALE —-— DUROC FIGS, 2 1~2 to A
month: old, either sex, big bone. proliﬁc
strain, superior individuals and breeding. 0
re; 12 to 15 dollars. A few March slits. Sat-
isfaction or money back.

WEST VIEW FARM. Hlllsdale, Mlch.
Klee. Prop.

 

runs-am nunoc JERSEY Hoes}

We usually have good boars and sows .0! my

ages for sale. Reasonable prices.
LARRO RESEARCH FARM. Box A North Enc
Data-alt, Mlchlgan. a

 

IIIIROO JERSEY BOARS-BIG ONES! .

to mono them quick.
DAVIS, Ashley. Mloh.

  SPRING. FARROW. ‘
Wonder and Sensation hr];I “I, ,cdmm.‘ ; ‘ ,_,
OHASLEN FARMS. MINING. ﬂip]!-
a it» a? ,r  ’ I ‘I w

Priced
VIRGIL

 

 

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ROG JERSEY IOARI. Boers of the II!“
heavy-boned type, at reasonable prices. Write.
better, come and see.

KP. J. DROD‘I’. R 1. Monroe. Mich.

   

 

 

FOR BALE:—-—REG. DUROO JERSEY SWINE.
A few real bear and sow pigs by Michigan
Grand Champion Boar and from prize winning
dams. Also a. few {all pigs either sex, sired by
5th aged boar Detroit and 2nd at Saginaw.
All stock double immuned exoept fall pigs.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
F. HEIMS s SON, Davisen, Mich.

 

uroo Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders taken
for wentling pigs. 1,000 pound herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER. Weidman, Mich.

.FOR BALE—DUROC FALL GILTS AND BRED
sowsﬁ One Duroc Boar from Brookwatass
breeding. Choice spring pigs.

Louis R. Elsentrsger, R 1, Linden. Mich.

assures PREMIER cmrr

> Herd Boer—Reference only—No. 129210
' 1919 Chicago International
4th Prize in Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT ‘25
BLANK A POTTER
Fotterviiie. Mich.

  DUROO JERSEY BOAR, 1 YR.
old. Rd. West Michigan. Price
$60. Several good spring boars and gill: after
prise winning stock at reasonable prices.
FREY BROS., R 1, Caledonia, Mich.

 

 

 

FOR SALE—BROOKWATER PRINCIPAL 83rd
2239 ymrs old, right in every way.
J. E. MORRIS a. SON, Farmington, Mich.

 

lCHLY-BRED DUROCS. YOUNG BOARS

and gilts sired by Brookwater Demonstrator
27, 2nd prize aged boar, State Fair 1921.

H. E. LIVERMORE a. SON. Romeo. Mich.

 

DUiiilcs gigggngmrou wear at
0- L. rowan, Jerome. Mich.

  REG. DUROC SPRING BOARS,
good breeding, prices right.
JESSE BLISS a SON
Henderson. Mich.

 

 

uroe sows sno gilts "'0‘! to Walt's King 8294.
who has sired more prise winning pigs at the
gtate fairs in the last 2 years than any other DI-
goc boar. Newton Barnhsrt. Rt. Johns. Mich.

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open row!
and gilts. Boers and spring pigs. 100 head.
rm 4 miles straight 8. of Middleton, Mich“,
Grstiot 00. Newton A: Blank, Perrintcn. Mich.

E OFFER A FEW WILL-BRIO IELEOT.
.ed spring Duroc Boers, siso bred sows ell
Glits in season. Call or write
McNAUGHTON O FORDVOE. It. Leuls. MI“!-

3 FIIIE SPRIIIG BDARS

BROOKWATER BREEDING
will go 150 lbs. $25.00 each. Registered.
SCHAFFER BR08., R1, Leonard, Mich.

 

 

 

OR SALE: ONE OUROO IOAR FROM
Breakwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton. Mich.

o. I. o.
D I 0 AIID DHESTER WHITE

swine. Spring boars at reasonable prices.

Choice Aug. & Sept. Pigs to be shipped at 8-

10 weeks old. Prominent Bloodlines. Write
CLARE V. DORMAN, Snorer. Mich.

 

 

 

 

. I. C.'s. SERVICE IOARS, SPRING PIGS
st Farmer's prices.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.

 

O. I. C. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS THE
blood lines of the most noted herd. Cal Innis!
his stock at "livo and let live" prices.

A. J. GORDEN. Del-r. Mieh.. R I.

 

 

HAMPSHIRES

r60 Head Registered Shropshie Ewe m Rem
lambs.

   

 

else yearling rams of nail

e
gist RAYS given satisfaction since 1890.
.e O. LEMEN, Dexter. Mich.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yearling rams and some rem
Ismbe left to offer. 26 ewes all use for Isle
for fall delivery. Everything guaranteed es
unscented.

ICLARKE u. HAIRE. West Drench, Mich.

 

 

$2 FOR GOOD YEARLING DELAINE
sums. Write or come and see them.
CALHOON BROS.. Bronson. Mich.

REGISTERED RAMBDUILLET RAM

Breeding and Individuality. Ranging from one
to four y rs old.
ROBER J. NOON, Jackson, Mich., R 9.

 

 

mos. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

offers for sale rams and ewes of the Shropshire,
Hampshire. Oxford and Rambouiilet breeds
sheep. For informaﬁon write
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY,
East Lansing, Michigan.

REGISTERED B & I) TYPE

American Delaine Sheep both sexes for sale, at
farmers' prices.
F. H. CONLEV A SON
Maple Rapids. Mich.

 

 

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE RAMS. All lies.
Bred and priced right. Also registered ewe

all um
W. W. CABLER. Ovid, Mich.

 

T BARGAINS, REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE
lambs. yearlings, two-year—old rams, ewes
egm. Suckling, two«year-old Shetland ponies.
HARRY GARMAN a. SONS
Route 8, Mendon. Michigan.

FDR SALE

BLACK TOP DELAINE RAMS.
FRANK ROHRABACHER. Lalngsburg, Mich.

TD IIIDREASE TOUR RETURIIS

sheep, breed Registered Rambouillets.

F r sal b
o a P.’1 c. FREEMAN .e SON
Phone 54-8 or 240 Lowell, Mich.

HAMPSHIBES, ,ggggmnggss 

Make your selection now for later shipment.

re few good ewes.
mefp’M. WILLIAMS. North Adams, Mich.

 

APLE LAWN FARM, Shergpshireswrenla fand
is be t choice bre ng. ooe rem
postman bug‘s. A? E. Bacon 8: Son, Sheridan, Mich.

FOR SALE - HAMPSHIRE EWES
WIFE @ﬁ?”§anéﬁiﬁmpﬂ'ﬂ
Wt“. ’33:“? KELLEY, Elsie, Mich.

 STOCK A .

on SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOEI,
breeding age, . Three months old pair, 35.
Registered does 312 each. Stock pedigreed. Qnsi‘

renteed.
v mi. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—FEMALE HOUND, PART FOX
Ho part Beagle, two years old. Fine
hunter, splendid mo

 

AMPBHIRE H008 ARE THE MOST POPU-

lsr hogs of today. Spring and fall boar pigs.
at a bargain. A fewcpen gilts. 9th year.
JOHN W. SNYDER, R 4, St. Johns, Mich.

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows and gilts, bred
for March and April (mowing. Also a Is!
choice Isl] pigs, either sex, Write or call

GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop. Mich.

 

 

BERKSHIRES

 

EVERY’S BERKSHIRES

Winners at the International 1920, State Fair
1920-21. Choice large type spring piss, eithe
sex. Satisfaction guaranteed.

W. H. EVERY. Manchester. Mich.

WSHEEI’

SHROPSHIRES °§m°”£;§i.‘.'. L193?
DEWITT . PIER

Evan. Mich.

 A FEW WOOLY RAM
LAMBS PRICED TO SELL
DAN BOOMER. R 4. Evan. Mich.
0R SALE REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE
ewes bred to lamb in March or April.
ARMSTRONG BROS., R8, Fowlerville, Mich.

WILLOW SHADE SHRDPSHIRE

Ewes and rams ot the best breeding. Prices
reasonable.

 

 

O. W. SOBER

Fowlervlile. Mich.

GRAND VIEW FARM MERIN08._ B A 0
two-

Prices right. R1, McConnellsville. 0.
H. H. A: J. E. RICHARDSON,

 

 

 

ther.
RIVERVIEW FARM, Vassar, Mich:
lg.

Our Best Offer

We will renew your subscrip-
tion for 5 years for only $3.00.

This is not only a substantial
saving of money but also saves
you the annoyance of renewing
frequently and the possibility of
missing a copy.

Better send your renewal order
today before you forget it.

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Michigan

87 —1f your money 18
0 bringing less write
ggz—the publisher for full partic-
ulars regarding the 8 per
cent preferred stock in The
Rural Publishing Company,
which pays 4 per cent twice-
a-year. You can invest as
little as $100 for ten shares!
If you have some spare
money earning less than 8
per cent write, Publisher,
Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens Mich.

 

 

 

 

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BREEDERS ATTENTION!

Ifyousreplanningonaselethisyear, writensnow slid
i,‘ CLAIM THE DATE!
his service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
to avoid conﬂicting sale dates

LET “THE BUSINESS FAR-HER” CLAIM EOUR DATE!

 

 

 

, +5 V as“
HIGHWAY ~00NSTRUCTION ’

PRACTICES ‘
(Continued from page 6)
Proper to let 80 rods of water or
any'other quantity of water into an
adjoining field and spoil crops. It
is the duty of the municipalities
when constructing highways, to see
that surface water is taken care of
and the law makes provision for
the highway commissioner or the
board of county road commissioners
or the state highway commissioner
to petition the county drain com-
missioner for an outlet for surplus
water which cannot be taken care
of by the gutters along the high-
way.

In reply to your third inquiry,
you are advised that the law does
not impose any obligation upon the
municipality constructing the high-
way adjacent to any farmer’s prem-
ises to put in tile or culverts in
front _of driveways. You are fur-
ther advised that it has always been
the pol-icy of this department and
of most county road com-m‘isioners
to supply abutting property owners
with driveway culverts, where re-
quired. but as above stated it is not
mandatory. — State Highway Com—
missioner. ~

 

DIVISION OF PROPERTY

The deed of our farm is in my hus-
bands name. We have one child. In case
of the death of both husband and child
what share would I hold and who would
get the remainder? Also what would be
my share of personal property?—A Mich-
igan Subscriber, Fowlerville, Michigan.

If the child should die first you
would inherit one-half of your hus-
band's real estate; and his parents
if living, the other half. If the par.
cuts are not living then his broth-
ers and sisters would inherit the
other half. You would be entitled
to all of the personal after paying
debts and funeral expenses if the
amount did not exceed $3,000, you
would also inherit, in addition to
the $3,000, one—half of the excess.
The other half of the excess would go
to his parents if living; and if not,
then to his brothers and sisters. If
the child should die after the fath-
er you would inherit one third of,
the real estate and the child two-
xhirds. The personal w0uld go one
half to you and one-half to the
child. Then, if the child should die
without children or widow, you
would inherit the whole of it from
the child, both real and personal.—
Legal Editor.

 

MARRIED WOlIIEN MAY TEACH

Will you please publish in your paper
the school law of married women teach-
ing school? In my county there are
many married women with families who
are teaching and lots of unmarried wom-
en are not able to teach school because
the schools are all taken up.—M. A., San-
Ilao County, Michigan.

There is no restriction upon mar-
ried women teaching school.—-T. E.
Johnson, Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

 

STEP-FATHER VS. SON

A widow has a. house and lot and mon-
ey in the bank. and has one son. She
marries again. They buy a farm on a
Joint deed. They sell the house and in-
vest the money in the farm, son of the
mother working on the farm to the age
of 20 years, then working out. Step-
father writes letters to him for him to
come home to help him on the farm, mak-
ing promises to him of property on the
farm for his labor. Son comes home and
works on those conditions for some years,
then they sell the farm on a. contract.
buying a house and lot in town on a
joint deed and move to town. Mother,
on her death bed asks for son to some
to her bedside to make a will. Step-
father refuses to get son. Neighbors
telephone for son. Mother dead when
son gets there. Step-fataher refuses to
give son any money or make any of his
promises good. Son has no papers to
show for promises, labor or what mother
wanted him to hasve. What could son do
or what Stan should eon take?—A. N.,
Gladwin, Mi lgan.

The first step is for the son to
consult a good attorney and state all
the facts to him. The agreement of
the mother to have i deed taken
in the joint names will probably con-
vey the full title of the real estate
to the stepfather upon the death of
the mother. If the contract was
taken in their joint names it Is
probable that the son inherits one-
half of the contract. I would also
be of the opinion that the request
of the stepfng for the son to come

 

 
 

pay him will make him liablevfor the
value of such labor, especially if he
has saved any “of theletters writ-
ten him or can prova their contents.
-——Legal Editor.

 

REBUILDING TRUNK LINE

What part of the tax does the farms!
have to pay who owns farms along what
is called a. state trunk line, when such
road has to be rebuilt?—-Mrs. A. R... Riv-i
erdaJe, Michigan,

 

There is no law at the present
time which specifies the amount of
tax which any farmer shall pay who
owns property adjacent to a trunk
line which might require rebuilding.
It might be possible to rebuild the
trunk line under the road assessment
plan taxing for benefits or it might
be possible for the road to be con-
structed under the county road sys~
term, the state paying their propor
tion of the expense therefor, in which
event the farm owner would only
pay his proportion of the tax which
goes into the highway taxes—State
Highway Commissioner.

 

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Fur Department

Edited by A R. Harding, America’s
foremost author and trapper.

Questions Invited.

 

 

 

 

 

BEAR KILLING SHEEP

Have lost twenty-ﬁve head of sheep by
bears. have traps set but do not seem
to be able to catch any. Can any expern
fenced bear hunter give me any informa-
tion as to how to set the traps. I will
board and lodge free any experienced
beg./tsrapper who ‘will come at once and
trap these bears—A. F. Longpie, Oecoda
County, Michigan.

Bears go into winter quarters in
Northern Michigan usually shortly
after November lst, depending upon
the weather. The ﬁrst heavy snow
and severe freezing is usually suf-
ﬁcient for them to don up. The time
therefore, is very short to get into
communication with experienc
bear—trappers, but a common method
of trapping is as follows:

Make a sort of Mosure of old
logs, brush, etc.. in the form of a
V, about eight feet long and two or
three feet wide at the entrance. It
should be three feet high, behind,
but it is not necessary to have it so
high in front. The bait should be
fastened In the back of the pen, and
the trap set in theentrance.

Take a small, springy stick, about
eight inches long, stick one and ﬁrm-
ly in the ground, and bend the other
down and under the pan. This is
to prevent small animals from being
caught.

Always turn the loose jaw up.
and work from in under, fur the salts
of safety. Now drive down a couple
of stakes on each side of the trap, so
as to leave only a narrow passage;
cover the trap with leaves or moss.
It is a good idea to put a good-sized
piece of moss over the pan. To
cause the bear to step in the center
of the trap. some trappers put sharp
sticks around the outside of the jaws,
others lay a stick across the mouth
of the pan, about six or eight inches
high and close up to the laws. In
stepping over it the bear is more
likely to put his foot in the trap.
The trap should be fastened to a

VheaVy clog of hardwood. Clog should

be about six or seven feet long, and
just small enough to go through the
ring on the chain. The ring should
he slipped on to the middle and fax-4
toned with a spike or two.

This is the best method, but if
you nip a bear once, you will have
to try some other method, and even
then you may not catch him. as they
become very cunning. Do not. set
the trap at the same place, but find
his trail, and make a blind set; pref-
erably where the trail leads through
a pool of water. Of course you must
be sure that no person wil travel on
the trail. Some trappers prefer to
hang a bait about six feet above the
trap and do not use any pen.

If you have several traps bait one
or more with ﬁsh and use mutton at
the others. Nos. 5, 15, 50 and 150
of the Newhouse pattern are all suit-
able for black hear. The No. A 1-8
is sometimes usedhut larger lili

      

  
 
 
  

  

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behind Neewa, urging him on even
as that pain of a red-hot iron in her
groin filled her with agony. They
came to the edge of the timber as
Challoner’s third shot bit under Noo-
zak’s fe’et.

-. A moment more and they were
within the barricade of the timber.
Instinct guided Neewa into the thiCk-
est part of IE, and close behind him
Noozak fought with the last of her
dying strength to urge him on. In
her old brain there was growing a
deep and appalling shadow, some-
thing that was beginning to cloud
her vision so that she could not see,
and she knew that at last she had
come to the uttermost end of her
trail. With twenty years of life be-
hind her, she struggled now for a
last few seconds. She stopped Nee~

we. close to a thick cedar. and as
she had done many times before
she commanded him to climb it.

Just once her hot tongue touched
his face in a final caress. Then she
turned to fight her last great fight.

Straight into the face of Challon-
er she dragged herself, and fifty
feet from the spruce she stopped
and waited for him, her head dr00p-
ed be-twen her shoulders, her eyes
dimming more and more, until at
last she sank down with a great
sigh, barring the trail of their ene-
my. For a space, it may be, she saw
,once more the golden moons and
the blazing suns of those twenty
years that were gone; it may be
that the soft, sweet music of spring
came to her again. filled with the
old, old song of life, and that Some-
thing gracious and painless descend-
ed upon her as a final reward for a
glorious motherhood on earth.

When Challoner came up she was
dead.

From his hiding place in a crotch
of the spruce Neewa looked down
on the very ﬁrst great tragedy of
his life, and the advent of man. The
two-legged beast made him cringe
deeper into his refuge, and his lit-
tle heart was nearbreaking with
the terror that had seized upon him.
He did not reason. It was by no
miracle of mental process that he
knew something terrible had hap—
pened, and that this tall, two—leg-
ged creature was the cause of it.
His little eyes were blazing, just over
the level of the crotch. He wonder-
ed why his mother did not get up
and fight when this new enemy
came. Frightened as he was he was
ready to snarl if she would only
wake up—ready to hurry down the
tree and help her as he‘had helped
her in the defeat of Makoos, the
old he-bear. But not a muscle of N00-
zak's huge body moved as Challoner
bent over her. She was stone dead.

Challoner’s face was flushed with
exultation. Necessity had made of
him a killer. He saw in Noozak a
splendid pelt, and a provision of
meat that would carry him all the
rest of the way to the southland. He
leaned his rifle against a tree and
began looking about for the cub.
Knowledge of the wild told him it
would not be far from its mother.
and he began looking into the trees
and the near-by thickets.

In the shelter of his crotch,
screened by the thick branches,
Neewa made himself as small as
possible during the search. At the
end of half an hour Challoner dis-
appointedly gave up his quest, and
went back to the creek for a drink
before setting himself to the task
of skinning Noozak.

No sooner was he gone than Ne-
wa’s little head shot up alertly. For
a few minutes he Watched, and then
slipped backward ’ddwm the trunk
of the cedar to the ground. He gave
his squealing call, but his mother
did not move. He went to her and
stood beside her motionless head,
sniffing the man-tainted aii'. Then
he muzzled her jﬁwl, bu-tted his nose
under her neck, and at last nipped
her ear—always his last resort in
the awakening process. Into his
whine there came a strange note,
and the. out of his throat there rose
_a whimpering cry that was like the
cry; of a child.

 (Continued next week)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS FARMERS’ EXCHANGE,

 

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A “'ORD PER ISSUE—3 Insertions for 100 per word.
Twenty words is the minimum accepted for any ad. in this department.
- as one word each initial and each group of figures, both in body of ad. and in address.
fore Saturday for issue dated following week. The Business Former Adv. Dept., Mt. Clemens,

Farm for sale ads. not accepted

for less than 8 times.
Cash should accompany all orders. Count
Copy must be in our hands bo-

Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msuvs & smug

$1000 SECURES 127-ACRE FARM WITH
horses, poultry, cows, hay, grain, full imple-
ments, etc; convenient R R town. advantages;
rich loam tillage, 20-cow spring-watered pasture,
lots Wood, timber, fruit, good B—room house, 60—
ft barn, poultry house. To settle affairs oan
$2000, $1000 down, easy terms. Full details
page 33 Illus. Catalog 1100 Bargains. Flinn.
STROUT FARM AGENCY, 814 B E Ford
Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

 

FOR SALE, RAVENSWOOD STOCK FARM
in Ogemaw county. Mlch., on trunk line 70,
220 acres, all good soil, no waste land, 140 a
under cultivation, 60 a pasture, balance tim-
ber. 2 spring creeks, 4 good _wells; 12 room
house, cellar under all. Basement barn 40x60
80x40. Natco tile silo 16135, 6 other build-
ings, 2 corn cribs, large bearing orchard. Have
lived on farm over 35 years. Will sell on con-
tract, unable to work it on account of age.
Price $65 per acre. “7. B. SHEPPARD, West
Branch, R-l, Michigan.

 

68 ACRE FARM FOR SALE, MOSTLY ALL
cleared. Fair frame house, new bum built last
year, 32x46; frame granary 14x20, good well
280 feet deep; well drained, good ditches and
fences; clay and black loam land; good road,
mail route, schools and churches. Located in
Bay county, Garﬁeld township, Section six.
With horses, cattle and implements it wanted.
MARTIN Slifl'l‘li, R 1, Rhodes, Mich.

 

 

 

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80 ACRES, so TO 80 ACRES CLEARED,
clay loam soil. good young orchard, 8 miles to
good town, 1-2 mile to ﬁne lake, 5 room frame
house, good well, barn 32x40, good granary.
1 1-2 miles to good school. Price $3000 With

8500 down and $100 or more year until
paid for. Write owner, W. F. UMPHRLI.
Evart, Michlv'tn.

 

22 ACRES FOR SALE. ALL WORK LANDI
2 miles from Lancer, Mich. County seat,
buildings. Price $1850 with easy terms. Write
or inquire of owner. NORMAN STRUBLE.
Orion, Mlch., R. F. D. 3.

 

HIGHLY IMPROVED WELL LOCATED 11.
acre farm. Good buildings, tiled; 15 miles from

 

Detroit City Hall near Royal Oak. Addrul
BOX K, Mich. Business ﬁrmer, Mt. Clemens.
Michigan.

FOR SALE, 22V: ACRE FARM '/2 MILE

from town. Good land, niice large house, barn
and other buildings. A nice homo. MISS LUELLA
MESSENGER, Chase, Mich.

 

BIG BARGAIN; 100 ACRES, GOOD HOUSE,

SAMSON MODEL M. TRACTOR WITH
heavy duty 14 inch plows. Never used. 8700.
One Samson demonstrator complete $650.00.

L. E. CONNER, W. Franklin St, Jackson, Mlch.

 

$20 DAILY SELLING WONDERFUL NEW
low—priced Ford bumper. Oiitsclls all others. Ev-
ery Ford owner eager buyer. Act quick. WAL-
LACE MCCORMICK, Streetor, Illinois.

 

 

TOBACCO

TOBACCO: KENTUCKY'S PRIDE, MILD AND
mellow. Best chewmg or smoking, 10 lb. $3.00;
20 as $5.00. FARMERS CLUB, Msyﬂeld, Ky.

 

NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO, KENTUCKY'S
ﬁnest, 3 years old. Specially picked chewing,
2 pounds $1.00; 10 pounds 54.00. Smokin
ﬁrst grade, 3 pounds $1.00; Second grade,
pounds 81.00; postmiii. HANCOCK LEAF T0-
BACCO ASSOCIATION, Department 36, stes-
ville, Kentucky.

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO 10 LBS. $2.50, 20
lbs $4.00, collect on delivery. FORD TOBACCO
COMPANY, Mayﬂeld, Kentucky. ,

 

large burn, nice creek, on‘y $1500 "
W rite for pictures. DeCOUDRES, Blooming-
dale, Mich.

 

FOR SALE, 40 ACRES SMALL OAK TIM-
BER LAND. Price $500. Newang County.
JOHN DAVIDHIZAR, White Cloud, Michigan.

 

160 ACRES GOOD LAND, FAIRLY LEVEL,
some hardwood timber, new buildings, goo

 

 

 

FOR SALE—120 ACREs_ NUMEn ONE crops. $2.000 takes all. BOX I.., Care of Mich-
13nd and best of bui1(ﬁng5_ fruth timhen One igau Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich.
mile to Dixie Highway, station, church and
school. 30 miles from Detroit. Want good 256 ACRES. DO YOU WANT TO OWN ONE
cvncrienced livestock farmer. R. W. ANDER- of the bust grain and stock farms in Jackson
SON, Cinrkstnn, Michigan. county. Long time given, write for terms and

full description of farm. E. A. CROMAN,

v, MI. SOUTH AND V2 MI. EAST OF WIS-I Luke. Mich-

Etlenville, 80 acrcs good sandy and clay loam

farm. All good buildings and fences. Clear of FOR SALE, 80 ACRES TILL'ABLE SUGAR
noxious weeds. For full particulars write or boot land. Hood buildings. Buy county on
come. FRANK CHILDS, Edenville, Mlch., Dixie Highway. OIVNICII, 3727 24th Street,
Midland county. llctroit. Michiczm.

.509 SALE 15 3“? GRA'." ELEVPTORv SOUTH AMERICA. REPUBLIC orr CHILE,
with 4 “Unis 0f mud m the “mice 0f (hll‘mjn’ 50.000 Acrcs of l'crljlc \‘ullcylanil open for b‘l‘t’
Mlch., on the Ann Arbo‘r1 It. . Attractive “My”, «Hpqmmm unmutﬂ “riﬂe, ‘V‘ V
prlco and terms. May coins. or farm lll exchange. Spry-NH“. Mum“. “halt

A. J. MCI lOUGA LL,
Mich.

Addrms owner, 1535 Dime

Ba pk, Detroit,

 

120 ACRES GOOD LAND, GOOD BUILD-

 

ings, 2 Burns, silo, 7~room house, 2 Wells, tools
and stock is desired. I’rioe right. ERNEST
\'.1\l.l“..\"T‘l.\’l<I, (‘hcsaning, Mich.

FOR SALE, 160 ACRES LAND, GOOD
buildings, good fence Complete set new farm
tools, tractor plows. Price very low till Nov.
15th. C. E. PRATT, hlnrion. Mich.

 

40 ACRES CLAY LOAM, 6 ROOM Ht) .
good barn, orchard. Neantown. $3200. $1200
cash, balance on time. BOX 45, Sheridan,
Michigan.

SQE’ARE 120 SANILAC COUNTY, A BAR-
gain $10,000. Will accept Port Huron property
or cash, $4000, terms to suit. Write or see
BYRON KELLY, Applegate, Mich.

FOR SALE—FARM OF 80 ACRES. PRO-
ductive soil, good location. For price and par—
ticulars write to Geo. Buehler, Caledonia, Mich.

 

 

 

 

FARMS FOR SALE—(33 ACRES ONE MILE

north of llcrscy. (,lounly seat of Osceola county.
(Loorl frame house. ha rn, 150 iii‘;tl’lll‘,{ fruit
trees. Price $1,250. llzilf down. The house is
worth all. we ask for the farm.

H0 ilcrcs, 60 clcnrml, small house, good barn,
wcll fi‘ﬁll‘é‘ii, 15 nt‘l‘OS of :I‘l':vl‘.'a. ll of 191“ ill)‘
and clover. Spring brook. (loorl soil. $3,000.00.
small payment, balancc time to suit.

'70 acrcs, 40 cleared, fill timbcr. two miles
from ll'cspcrin. $30 rml‘ :H-I‘c, ’l‘his is my
i-mri uni I .u. rrw'n'r I. w" I“ ‘0 um f~r

v 1
full particulars. M. A. PRESTON, Hesperia, Mich.



 

espQISCELLANEou.

   

 

 

MACHINEHI
SAW MILL MACHINERY. PORTABLE
mills for farmers’ use. Make your own lumbcr,

Send for new catalog. Illl.l.~1‘UR’l‘IS 00.,
No l’iichcr St. Kalamazoo. Mich.

1507

 

 

GENERAL

IUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
sst. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M.
M," care Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clom<
ens. Mich.

THE WOLVERINE OO-OPERATIVE CREAM:
qry of Wolverine, Mlch., will be sold at auction
Saturday, October 2!), 1921, at 2 p. m.

TRUNKS, BAGS, SUITCASES. WHY PAY
two middlemen proﬁts? Buy from factory di-
rect. Send for free catalog. Gl-ZM TRUNK d:
BAG FACTORY, Spring Valley, 111.

FILMS DEVELOPED FIVE CENTS. PRINTS
regular sizes, three cents each. GUMSER ART
STORE. llolnml, Mich.

 

 

 

 

GOVERNMENT CLERKS NEEDED—(MEN-
woincn) ; .8 l 4007311000; pcrnnmcnt; fcw to
travel; expense allowance. Write Mr. ()mncnt,
Formcr IT. S. Government Examiner, 3.35 St.
Louis, Mo. llc girl-s rclhiblc i1:l.>I'nml.loII.

 

FERRETS FOR SALE. PRICE LIST FREE.
[look on i‘crrcls, 10c. l~'crrct iziuzzlcs 250 each.
lll'lli'l‘ lil\\'l“.l.l., \Vcllinzion, ()hio.

BEANS VilAl‘ITED——-WE WISH TO BUY RED
\‘iilcniJnc, liountilul, :lllfl (Lililcn Wax Beans.
Mail mnlplcs to b'. M. lSBI'ZIJ. & (20., Jackson.
Michigan.

 

BUY YOUR TIRES BY MAIL, 30x3 [/2
alumni/cod non Skid tire, FASHW: tubes, $1.39.
Order ioluy. (I. A. liASMl'SSIJN, Mail Order

Dept... Greenville, Mich.

 

WANTED MEN TO LEARN AUTOMOBILE

 

  

 

 

 

business. \Vrite for frcc (analog, DAVENPORT
All'l‘HMH'l‘IYE Si‘llOUL, Davenport, Iowa.
...

TYPEWRITERS:—~—ALL MAKES SLIGHTLY
used, 9520 up. Fey psych-Hts. "rcc trial.
(iiutraiitccd two years. PAYNE COMPANY.
liosetlale station, Kansas ('ily. Kansas.

HAVE YOUR HIDES TANNED IN THREE
Weeks, into Chrome Solo Leather. (‘hrom
Harness, Chronic Lace, hcst and strongest
leather made. By MANIS’I‘EI‘} TANNING (0.,

Manistm, Mich.

 

POULTRY BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

 

Advertisements inserted under this heading at 30 cents per line, per issue. Special rates for 13 times or longer. Write
out what you have to offer and send it In we will put it in type, send proof and quote rates by return mail. Address The

Michigan Business Farmer,

 

Advertising Department,

Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

 

POULTRY

LEGHOHIIS
and Anconas

Yearling Hens and Pullets—Jl‘his stock is all se-
lected Pure Breed Practical Poultry, lute monit-
ers and good layers. 3000 Ycarlings'; limited
number Pulets. Guaranteed good practical qual-
ltY- We will send you description of {owls and
egc‘ records. If you want ﬁrst class paying Leg-
horns. write to us.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Desk 2. Kalamazoo. Michigan

MUD WAY AUSH-KA FARM

Dﬂ'el'l you“: stuck and a few mature breeders in
White Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks and
\Vhite Wyandottes. Also 0. I. C. shrine Bilia-
Writo today for prices on what you need.
DIKE C. MILLER. Dryden, Mlch.

 

 

 

OP QUALITY COCKERELS—MINORCAS,
Houdans, Rocks, Reds, Orpingtons, Spanish.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM, Fenton, Mlch.

 

w CHINESE GEESE. PEKIN DUCKS, R. C.
Br. I I .t.
MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsdalo, Mich.

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCK

  COCKERELS- Parks 200.

egg strain. From stock
digit from Parks best pedigreed pens. $3
ea

KIRBY.
Lansing,

 

R. 0.
Route 1, East Mlch.

 

 

LEGHORNS

INGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN COOKER-
trgiil, April and May hatched. Heavy laying
n.

J. W. WEBSTER, Bath, Mlch.

 

 

GRABOWSKE'S .s. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS,
oockerels and cocks for sale.
L. G. GRABOWSKE, Merrie”, Mlch. R. 4

 

a. 0. WHITE LEGHORN COOKERELS, M. A.

o. bred, $1 to $1.40. From 265 to 285 strain.

Guaranteed. Write. '
JOHN BUOHNER. Morley, Mich.

\

 

* BREEDERS

 

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

LORING & MARTIN C0.

East Saugatuck. Mlch.

 

 

\VYANDOTTE
WER—ATYTWAHITEWWYANDOTTE cocx-
erels, bred from prize winners at Battli
Creek and M. A. L'. ltound-up Show. Good

birds at $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 each.
C. W BROWNING, R2, Portland, Mlch.

 

PURE BRED W. WYANDOTTE PULLET8 M
$2.00 each. Fishel strain.
M Mlch.

RS. TRACY RUSH,

WHITE WYAIIDOI'TES

Martin Foundation. A few good breeders for

Ithaca.

 

sale. No more baby chicks midyear. Order
cockerels now for early fall delivery. Prices
reasonable.

0. W. HEIMBACH
Big Rapids, Mich.

 

PUREBRED WHITE WYANDOTTE PULLETS,
at $2.00 each. Fishel strain.
No. 7,

MRS. TRACY RUSH, Ithaca, Mlch.

 

 

RHODE lb'LAND REDS

HITTAKER’S R. I. REDS. Michigan’s great-
est color and egg strain. Both combs. Writ.
for free catalog and our new proposition in re-
gnrd to good breeding cockerels.
INTERLAKES FARM, Box 4, Mlch.

 

Lawrence,

 

ILL HAVE A FEW CHOICE PURE BRED
R. 1. Red Cocks, hens and cookers for sale.
Must act quickly if wanted.

_MINORCAS
S & B 0 BLACK MINDIIOA
Cookercls, l’sp’s Strain. 4 months old $2.50
and $3.00 each.

MAPLE VIEW POULTRY FARII'.
E. Sylvandec, Coloma. Michigan.

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912. Wintoﬂ
hying strain of both Blank and White. Han
some aockerels for sale. Eggs In season.
DR CHAS. W. SIMPSON
Wehbsrville, Mlch.

OHPINGTONS

umncious AND LEGHORNS

Two great breeds for profit. Write today {on
free catalogue of hatching eggs. baby chicks and
breeding stock.

CYCLE HATCHER COMPANY, 148 Phllo Ildj.

OﬂPlIIGTOIIS

 

COCKERELS AND PULLETO.

> for sale. Buﬂ, VVhi
Black puckerels at $7, $8, and $10. Pullets a
$3 and to. Llso yearling hens $3 and $4.

Hatching eggs, $6 per setting of 15.
RABOWSKE EROS.. R 4, Merrill. Mlch.

DUCKS

ron SALE, MAMMOTH IMPERIAL WHITE

Pekin Ducks, males or females, $21.00; three
or more $1.75 each. Bull Ducks, $2.50 each.
Also have a fine lot of English—American S. C.
White Leghorn cockerefs at $1.50 each. S. 0.
Brown Leghorn (‘Mtkerels $1.50; nice ones.

MAPLE WOOD POULTRY FARM

 

 

 

 

 

Wm. H. FROHM. New Isltlmoro. R1. Mlch.

Benjamin Scott, R 1, Bannister, Mlch.
TURKEYS
TUBKEYS FOR SALE
early hatched

A few purebred Bourbon Red,
Toms. Write for prices,

etc.
R. W. ROBOTHAM. Hesperls. Mlch.

 

OR SALE: A LIMITED NUMBER OF PURE
Bourbon Red Turkeys, six months old.
MR8. JOSEPH TAYLOR, Bentley. Mlch.

  
   

 
          
  
  
    
  
   
  
    
     
    
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
 
  
   
   
    
  
      
    
    
  
     
       
   
   
   
  
     
    
     
     
    
   
      
    
    
   
   
  
   
   
   
 
   
  
     
   
    
   
  
   
    
    
    
     
  
    
    
    
  
   
   
    
   
   
  
  
      


     

  

TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW

ENERAL business conditions the
country over continue to show
' improvement, the following de-
Velopments indicating the general
trend and, Withal, making a sound
basis upon which to build for the fu-
ture: 1. The movement of crops to
market. 2. The increase in steel and
coal production. 3. Decrease in un-
employment. 4. The stabilization of
wholesale and retail prices and the
nearer approach to a proper balance
in selling value between various
groups of commodities. 5. The de-
cline in commercial paper rates at
this season of the year when advanc-
es are the general rule. 6, The rise
in Liberty and corporation bonds
which reflects the accumulation of
funds seeking investment. 7. The
recent material advance in stock
prices in the various markets of the
country.

Not nearly as much money is need-
ed to ﬁnance the business of the coun-
try when commodities are moving on
present levels; on the other hand,
our gold supply is 21 per cent great-
er than when the war closed and our
reserve ratio is 50 per cent higher.
E. E. McCrone 00., in their review of
business conditions for the week end-
ing October 14, print the following
interesting statistics:

Nov. Now

1919 1921
Federal Reserve ratio ..46,9% 69.0%
Stock of money gold... .52873 $3467
Commercial paper rate.. 8% (Si/2%
Commodity prices(Dun’s)238.5%, 161.8%,
Stock prices (average '20)$119.62 $71.17

Of course, the facts given above
do not indicate unusual business ac-
tivity but they do show the existence
of certain basic conditions that did
not exist at this time last year.

Certain products of the steel niills
of the country have been advanced
$5 per ton, and in connection with
these particular lines the demand is

.far ahead of the production. The
iron market is hardly so active as at
the beginning of the current month;
the recent reduction on freight rates
for iron ore has exerted an adverse
influence on production in this, one
of the country’s most important
branches of manufacturing. As not-
ed‘ in this column last week, coke is
accumulating as a result of increased
'production but the sales of this pro-
duct have fallen off somewhat re-
cently.

The strongest element in the ma-
terial situation is the greatly improv-
ed demand for lumber and the num-
erous increases in prices at which
the various grades are selling. South-
ern pine flooring is $20 per thous-
and, higher than on August 1, 1921.
The demand for hardwood lumber
is greatly improved and prices are
sharply higher on all grades; the
supply of select hardwood ﬁnishing
lumber is said to be very low. Plas:
ter lath have advanced sharply in
price of late, dealers and manufac-
turers ﬁnding it very difﬁcult to
meet the needs of their trade. The
Paciﬁc coast is leading in the demand
for certain grades of lumber and the
prices current there are higher than
anywhere else in the country. For

V the week ending Oct. 1 the manu-
facturers of ﬂr booked more orders
than for any other week in two years.
A large amount of lumber, produced
on the Paciﬁc coast is being sold in
eastern markets but the major part
of this supply reaches the east by the
water route.

 

WHEAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT PRICES PER 30., 001'. 18, 1921
Grade lDotrolt [chloagol N. Y.
No 2 Rod ....|121 l1.1s |1.1o
No; 2 WM.  {.24
No. 8 Mind .. 1,24 1.01
PRICES ONE VIII AGO
lNo.2 Rodi No.2 wmul No.2 Mlxod
Fetle .l 2.24 | 2,22 l 1.22

 

Substantial gains were made in
the price of wheat in .t week and the
tone of the market was the strongest
"t. has been for over a month. How-
! v , the market was for from being

Edited by H. H. MACK

markets.

tic cut in prices.

 

STRIKE WILL AFFECT MARKETS.

The threat of a railway strike which will tie up the entire
transportation of the country has already had its effect upon the
Should the strike materialize farmers may expect tem-
porarily lower prices on all farm products.
may approach complete demoralization.
farmers not to be stampeded into a marketing panic by any dras-
The strike cannot last forever and when it is
over prices will again go up. Anyway, it may never take place.

In fact, the condition
A warning isissued to

 

 

 

 

    

in a settled condition and price
changes were sharp. Early in the
week the market was helped by the
bullish government crop report and
later receipts were found to be drop-
ping off at an alarming rate and it
was learned the reserves in the coun-
try were small. European conditions
also showed an improvement and
hard winter wheat was in good de—
mand for export business. Export
trading was 'good most of the week
but domestic demand, with the ex-
ception of the millers, was easily
satisﬁed. Millers desired only the
best grades which were hard to pro-
cure. Receipts at Chicago last week
aggregated 238 cars, compared with
125 the same period one year ago.
The latest crop report of Michigan
estimates the total production of
spring wheat in this state at 348,000
bushels, or an average to the acre
of 12 bushels, which is one bushel
more than last year's average. The
marketing of all wheat shows a con-
siderable advance over last year ac-
cording to the State Department of
Agriculture.

All markets were ﬁrm at the close
last Saturday and Detroit prices had
advanced 10c for the week. The
opening of the current week saw
lower prices owing to the threat of
the railroads to strike and before
the day was over the Detroit market
had lost 4c and the tone was weak.
Our special crop correspondents ad—
vise us that fall wheat in Michigan
is coming along ﬁne and they believe
it will be in excellent condition be—
fore snow falls. Reports from other
sections of the United States do not
show the crop in as good condition,
some parts of the Wheat country
complaining that the seed is not ger-
minating, as the ground is too dry.

CORN

Prices in the corn market last
week were not inclined to follow the
trend of wheat and at Detroit there
was a. decline of 1c during the time
wheat was going higher. The Chi—-
cago market, however, staged sev-
eral slight advances during the week
owing to urgent short covering. The

 

bullish reports of the crop and large
receipts have put the market in such
a condition that it will take some
time for it to get back on its feet.
And if farmers continue to send

OORN PRICES PER BU_. OCT. 18. 1921

 

 

 

 

 

the country over. Prices advanced -

some but nowhere near as much as
those of wheat. Export demand con-
tinued light and trading in general
was slow. Receipts at Chicago
amounted to 672 cars, against 654
a year ago. Shipping sales were
670,000 bushels.

in price with other grains and the
market was easy. Regarding the
1921 cat crop the joint federal and
state crop report reads: “The aver-
age yiel-d of 18.2 bushels per acre
is the smallest yield on record for
the state, and the total production
of 25,680,000 bushels is the small-
est crop the state has produced
since 1897, when the acreage was
about 60 per cent of the present."
The quality of the grain is consider-
ably below the ten-year average and
Very little of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grade lDatrolt. ldhlcagol N. Y.v or low feeding value'

Non 2 Veuow  .50 4a .32 the crop is ﬁt for seed, it is said.

No” 8 Yellow .. . .49'/2 ' '

No. 4 Yellow  .46

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their surplus to market as they have c. H. P.   4-50 l 530 l 5.25
been the market is not liable to take R°d mane”  9'00 l '
on a healthier outlook until the pmcas on: YEAR nco
greater portion of the country’s en- 10:1,"- L
tire supply is in the hands of the Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l 4_ea

speculators. Shipping demand was
fair last week, amounting to about
1,400,000 bushels, but receipts were
so large that the demand did not
cause substantial upward turns of
prices. Chicago received 3,356 cars
last week, or over three times the
amount received last year during the
same week. The joint federal and
state crop report forecasts a. total
production of 64,097,000 bushels for
Michigan this year. This is about
the same quantity produced the
past two years. According to the
M. A. C. experts the European corn
borer, which has been causing con-
siderable trouble throughout the
country this year has at last reach-
ed this state, having bee-n found re-
cently in Monroe county. The De-
troit market closed weak last Satur-
day and opened 1—2c lower on Mon-
day, Oct. 17th. Chicago was also
weak and lower.

 

 

 

 

 

OATS
OAT PRICES (new) BU.. OCT. 18. 192
GEES TbéiroiETohlcqcFl NT'Y‘.“
No, 2 White  .38 1 .34I/2
No. 3 White  .35 l .308/4l _42’/:
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Oats were dull last week, buying
being mostly conﬁned to speculators
who believed there was some money
to be made with oats at their pres-
ent prices considering the small crop

 

 

The bean market was ﬁrm all last
week and the tendency has been to
slightly higher levels. But the move-
ment is still very heavy and there
are some bears, both among the iob~
hers, whole-sale grocers and canners
who are loo-king for lower prices and
will do all they can to make them.
Be prepared at any time now during
the next couple of weeks for 3 tom-
porary slump in this market. In the
long run beans will be materially
higher, but don’t look for fancy
prices until the fall marketing move-
ment has run its course and supplies
on hand have been cleaned up.

We have had some inquiry as re-
gards the future of red kidney beans.
The price offered is at present be-
tween $6 and $7 per cwt. Our ad-
vice to our readers is to sell at this
ﬁgure. The market is weakening
and inclined to lower levels. The
production of red kidneys was higher
this year than in ten years’ time, and
Cuba, which takes better than 50 per
cent of the red beans produced in
the United States, is in no position
to pay fanCy prices this year. Red
kidney beans may possibly be some
higher before another planting, but
the question is whether the gain will
be large enough to pay farmers for
holding. The opening on Monday of
this week saw C. H. P. advance 5c at
Detroit and the market is ﬁrm.

 

POTATOES

SPUDS PER OMIT_. OCT_ 18, 1921

 

 

Foster’s Wuﬁor Chart for OCT. 1921

 

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WASHINGTON, D. C.. October 20,
1821.———My general and local crop-
. weather forecasts for Sept. 15 to Oct,
10 were practically good enough, The
forecasts for cold din near 3 and 8,
severe storms 2 to 7 and rains ﬁrst
week of October were remarkably cor-
rect. Now we will change the pro-
gram and give you an unusually
warm spell of we'ather for about nine
days centering on Oct. 27, with a cold
dip following it. Not much precipita-
tion from Oct. 20 to 30; increased
precipitation for a few days following
30. The middle of this weather period
is expected to reach Michigan at
near Nov. 28, western sections a. little
earlier, eastern sections later. These
weather periods with all their varia-
tions. usually cross the continent from‘
the Paciﬁc to the Atlantic ocean. at
this season. in about ﬁve days.

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK
AS Forecasmd by We To FOSWP for The Michigan Business Farmer

An entirely different spell of weath-
er has been expected to prevail on
the continent during the nine days
centering on Oct. 18. Severe storms
and most precipitation at the begin-
ning of the period, a cold dip following,
a. little rise in temperature following
that, and then another cold dip. alto-
gether much similar to the ﬁrst 12
days of this month. The center part
of the warm wave ,tbf this period is
expected to reach Michigan near
October 19. other features following
as usual, Not much precipitation last
half of October and not much may be
expected before middle of November.

The most severe storms of Novem-
ber and most precipitation is expected
during the weeks centering on 14 and
28. The most severe frosts of that
month will immediately follow the
warm waves of these storms. One
of the most severe cold waves of the
fall is expected during the week cen-
tering on Nov. 14. Less than usual
precipitation is expected during Nov-
ember. Large sections of winter grain

 

 

will get less than usual precipitation
during that month. Precipitation in-
cludes rain, hail. snow and sleet.

 

 

 

 

 

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Chicago . . . . . . . . . . l 1.86

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . .l l 2 00
Pittsburg  . . . . . . . . . .l l 2.84

 

 

 

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Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l 2.11

 

 

It is surprising that the steady
tone remained in the Detroit pota-
to market last week in the face of
huge receipts. At Chicago the mar-
ket opened steady but before many
days the tone had changed to dull
and dealers experienced considerable
difﬁculty in disposing of their sup-
plies. Chicago has been receiving
on an average of from 60 to 80 cars
of potatoes 3. day. Receipts are
somewhat lighter throughout the
east and the market is steady with
advances made in some places. The
total production for Michigan is fore-
cast at 27,193,000 bushels, or ﬁve
million bushels over the estimatae of
one month ago. The entire crop for
the United States is estimated to ho
25,000,000 bushels less than the nor-
mal consumption of the country. Our
crop correspondents advise us that
farm‘ers of this state are rapidly mar
keting'their surpluses soon as it II
out of theground. On Monday, 
17th, the Detroit
and prices

 

 

 

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Markets in general are:  this r

week for the ﬁt in some. time.
Eastern ‘farmers have again started
to flood the markets of the east. But
the greater portion of the hay ship-
ped is a poor grade and it is this
kind of hay that lower prices are
quoted on. Good, hay is worth as
much as it has been at any time this
tall. Standard timothy continues to
be worth $19@$20 per ton at De-
troit. with the best grade $1 higher.
No. 1 clover also remains at’ $14@
$15 and No. 1 clover mixed at $15@
$16 per ton. Markets outside the
state are from $1 to $7 higher.

 

RYE

The prices in the rye market last
week made several changes and on
Saturday No. 2 was 2c higher at
both Detroit and Chicago than it was
on Monday. On Monday of the pres-
ent week the Detroit price dropped
to 90¢ again, and at Chicago advanc-
ed to 88@89c.

 

BARLEY

Barley continues to trail wheat.
At Detroit feeding is $1.10@$1.30
per cwt., and the Chicago market
quotes it at 50@55c per bu. There
are no indications at present that
this grain will develop any bullish
tendency that will cause substantial
advances.

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WOOL

The wool market continues active
and appears to be some ﬁrmer All
grades are selling with the medium
kinds in the lead. Reports come in
that new business among the mills
has slac‘kened some but it is hoped
that the opening of spring lines of
manufactured clothing will be well
received by the clothing trade and so
react favorably upon the manufac-
turers and dealers in the raw mater-

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LIVE STOCK MARKETS

A marked scarcity of corn-fed cat-
tle and an over-supply of grassy cat-
tle are the dominent features of the
current cattle trade; as a result of
ﬁle conditions noted above, prime
grain-tied dressed beef is selling at
the season’s extreme high point,
completely verifying the predictions
of a strong October market made fre--
quently in this paper during the
months of August and September.
Chicago got 7,000 more cattle last
week than for the week before, but
at that the run was 13,000 under the
ﬁgures for the same week last year.
The extremely small supply of fat
and tidy killing cattle leaves dealers
without supplies of high-grade beef

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is growing increasingly hard to sell
common beef as the market is glut-
rbed with animals of this description.
High—grade yearling bullocks have
recently sold in Chicago at $12.15
per cwt. All grades of fat steers are
in great request and competition re-
sulting from reduced supplies is
helping to elevate values and is giv-.
ing shippers a chance to play even
on a few old scores.

The west is full of grass cattle, the
owners preparing for an early shut-
tn for winter, are rushing them for‘
ward onto the market without regard
to conditions of supply and demand,
so eager are they to get separated
trom them before snow ﬂies in the
air. The feeding cattle business has
been picking up of late and prices
we 25% 500 higher than at the close
of week before last.

Only a few range lambs are show-
tug up in Chicago these days and
many of them are too thin to be de-
Iirable as feeders or killers. Last
week’s arivals in the windy city were
nearly 4,000 smaller than for the
week before and values saw a bulge
early, only to decline later, closing at
the week’s low point. Handy weight
sheep were scarce all the week, and
averaged 25 to 50 cents higher than
for the week before; all other grades
of mature killing stock were only
barely steady with the week before.
Breeding ewes lacked much of the
activity which has features this
branch of the trade for several weeks
wt, the-best going ;to southern
points for $5.50 per cwt.. when‘buy-

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fat lambs topped the week at $9 and
prime westerns at $9.35 per cwt.
Feeding lambs were strong and high~
er with a $7.85 top.

The packinghouse gang has been
doing everything in their power of
late to break the hog market, but
just when they get it well started
downward the market supply of live
animals dwindles and selling prices
recover again. The general opinion
in live stock market circles seems to
be discounting a sharp break in val-
ues before long. Arrivals at Chicago
last week showed a preponderance of
heavy hogs, a condition which re-
sulted in an extremely active demand
for all pigs and light weights, pro-
vided they were healthy and thrifty
in appearance. On Saturday last
Swift & Co. bought a drove of 1,368
hogs averaging 375 pounds, for
which they paid an average of $6.68
per cwt. Exports of lard continue
heavy but the outgo of cut meats has
fallen off greatly of late.

DETROIT PRODUCE MARKET

Butter is in good demand and steady
at 33@38c per pound for the best cream-
ery. Eggs are firm and fresh candied
and graded are worth 37@47c per doz.

The market for live poultry is inac-
tive and unchanged. Prices are) Best
spring chickens, 23@24c Leghorns, springs
18c; large hens, 25@260; medium hens,
23@24c; small hens, 15c; old roosters,
15c; ducks, 24c; geese, 18@20c; turkeys,
300 per pound.

Dressed hogs and calves are steady.
Prices for calves are: Choice,‘ 15@16c;
medium, 13c, and old. 61/2100 per pound.
Hogs are worth: Small to medium, 11@
13c; heavy, 9@10c per pound,

There is not much change in the fruit
market and trading is quiet, Pears are
worth from $2@2.25 for Keifers to $4@
4.50 for Bartletts. Greening apples are
$2.50@2.75; Baldwins, $2.25@2.50; Spy,
$2.50@$3: Jonathans, $3.25@3.50; Snow,
$3.50@4 Der bushel,

BUREAU OF MARKETS’ MONTHLY
REPORT

Shipments of produce from the middle
of September to the middle of October
covered the most active period of the
season with a weekly movement of over
23,000 cars. Shipments reached high
point a week er. rlier than last season and
the volume was somewhat less than for
the four corresponding weeks last season.
However, on account of the earliness and
active movement of many important
crops, the season’s total shipments until
October 1 showed an excess of 34,000
cars over the preceding season, and had
exceeded the movement of the 1919—20
season by about the same amount.

Potatoes Lower

Potato prices have continued the down-
ward trend noted last month, ranging
$1.10 to $2 per 100 lbs. at shipping points
and $2 to $2.50 in the cities, which is
about the same as the prevailing range
a. year ago. In mid-September the ranges
were $1.50 to $2.25 and $2 to $3.25, re-
spectively. The corresponding ranges in

wAugust were $2.25 to $3.10 f.o.b. ship-

ping polnts and $3 to $4 in the cities.
Lowest points were reached during the
ﬁrst ten days of October and there were
recoveries of 100 to 50c toward the middle
of the month.

The estimated yield of 178.9 bushels
per acre for onions and 4.7 tons for cab-
bage suggests a light supply of these
lines, The excess of small sized onions
in the crop places a. premium on the large
sizes and prices have advanced an aver-
age of about $1.75 since the beginning of
the season in August. The average in
consuming markets advancing sharpily
the middle of October was then close to
$5 per 100 lbs. Stock from storage sold
as high as $4.75 at Connecticut Valley
shipping points. A year ago sales at Con-
necticut Valley shipping points ranged
$1.15 to $1.35 f.o.b.

Cabbage touched low point, $20 per ten,
for domestic stock early in October, but

     

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53 MARKET EDITORS
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Have t8.me M. B. F. for years and
always ﬁnd good advice for farmers, the
best there is. I should like your advice
on the bean question. Do you think best
to sell at the present price or will they
advance?—R. V. 3., Bad Axe, Michigan.

You are asking for advice. I’ll
give it to you providing you will not
hold me responsible if it turns out
to be wrong. I don't KNOW what
the bean market will do. Neither
does anyone else. If I KNEW pos-
itively that beans would advance I
would buy beans at today’s prices
and be a rich man six months hence.
But I find out all I can about the
factors which influence the price
and my honest conviction is that
bean prices will be higher than they
are now. Whether you should sell
now or hold is a question you must
decide for yourself. If you need
your money badly, sell. Don’t spec-
ulate. A poor men can't afford to.
If you don't need your money right
now, my advice would be to hold.
my advice. You can take it
two  I"! ‘ ' ‘

    
    

showed some recovery later in the month.
Most of present upply is Danish Seed
stock1 which sells in Eastern city markets
at $32 to $40. Wisconsin late keeping
stock ranges $25 to $30 in producing sec-
tions and $40 to $50 in several middle-
western consuming markets,

{Prices of barreled apples range about
50c higher in October. Choice grades of
standard seasonabale red kind ranged $6
to $9.50 per bbl. in consuming markets in
July, August and September, but the pre-
vailing range in mid-October was $6.50
to $9.50. Boxed apples on the other hand
have been in heavy and increasing sup—
ply. Extra fancy boxed Jonathans in the
eastern markets have a range of from
$2.50 to $3.50 per box.

  

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MISCELLANEOUS MARKET NOTES
Potatoes are going to market out
of Aroostock county, 'Maine, at the rate

 

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‘of 150 to 200 cars a day, and are being

distributed generally over the New York
and New England territory. Digging is
about over and inquiry for the new crop
is reported to be good.

 

California reports bean harvest near-
ing completion and a heavy yield is ex—
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.ng the judges award you First
Prize and you have sent in two $1
subscriptions to the Michigan Busi-
ness Farmer, you Will receive $300
instead of $20;' Second Prize $150,

 

 

     

 

  

Ex-Gov. Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.;
A. B. Cook, Pres. Michigan State Grange and
George W. Dickinson, Sed’y-Mgri, Michigan
State Fair, have been asked to act as Judges
and decide the winners.

' SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$1.00 PER YEAR
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

\ JUDGES:

Rules of the Contest-Observe Them

etc. (See second column of ﬁgures
in prize list.) But, if you are
awarded First Prize and have
sent in ﬁve $1.00 subscriptions

to the Michigan Business Farmer you
will receive $500 instead of $20; Sec-
ond Prize $250, etc. (See third column
of figures in prize list.) It is easy to
get subscriptions for the Michigan Bus—
iness Farmer, all of your friends and
neighbors want it; they are only wait-
ing to be asked to subscribe or renew
at $1 a year. Your own subscription
or renewal will count for one and all

you have to do is to get the additional sub-

The answer having the largest and nearest

1. Any man, woman, boy or girl who is not an 7. ., .
employee of the Michigan Business Farmer, or a correct list of names of visible objects shown in scriptlons° The ~5ubscmpti°n3 can Start at
member of employee‘s family, may submit an the picture that begin with the letter “S” will be any time. When sending subscriptions,

answer. It costs nothing to try.

2. All answers must be mailed by November
19th, 1921 and sent to Contest Manager, The
Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

3. All lists of names should be written on one
side of the paper only and numbered consecutive-
ly, 1 2, 3, etc. Write your full name and address
on each page in the upper right-hand corner. Do
not write subscribers names or anything else on
same paper with list of words; use separate sheet.

4. Only words found in the English Dictionary
will be counted. Do Not use obsolete words. Use
either the singular or plural, but where the plural
is used the singular can not be counted, and vice
versa.

5. Words of the same spelling can be used only
once, even though used to designate different ob-
jects. An object can be named only once; how-
ever, any part of the object may also be named.

6. Do not use hyphenated or compound words.
or any word formed by the combination or two or
more complete English words. where each word in
itself is a separate object. -

Address All
Communications to

or
the

awarded First Pnize, etc. Neatness, style
handwriting have no bearing upon decimug
winners.

8. Candidates ‘may co-operate in answeug the
puzzle, but only one prize will be awarded to more
than one of any group outside of the family where
two or more have been working together.

9. In the event of a tie for any prize offered,
the full amount of such prize will be paid to each
tied participant.

10. All answers will receive the same consid-
eration regardless of whether or not subscriptions
for the Michigan Business Farmer are sent in.

11. Ex-Gov. Fred M. Warner, Farmington,
Mien; A. B. Cook, Pres. Michigan State Grange
and George W. Dickinson, Sec'y-Mgr., Michigan
State Fair have been asked to act as judges and
decide the winners. They will use Webster’s Dic—
tionary as reference and participants agree to
accept the decision of the judges as final and con-
clusive. . ~

12. The judges will meet directly following
close of the contest and announcement and correct
list of wordsvwill be published in the Michigan
Business Farmer just as quickly thereafter as
possible.- .

‘ CONTEST MANAGER

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,

MT. CLEMENS. MIC H. ‘

  

write instructions on a separate sheet from
your puzzle answer.

   

 

 

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[he Prizes:
Winning Answers Will Receive Cash
Prizes as Follows
15 Grand ' Pﬂlzfosﬂgtiven llﬂifs'vgwcoi' l’tﬂﬁvngi'
’ Prizes Subscrlptlons Subscriptlonl Subscriptions
are sent. are sent. ~ are sent.
lst Prize $20.00 $300.00 $500.00
2nd Prize 10.00 150.00 250.00
8rd Prize 5.00 75.00 125.00
4th Prize 5.00 50.00 75.00
5th Prize 5.00 80.00 50.00
6th Prize 3.00 .2o.oo 40.00
71:11 Prize 8.00 15.00 30.00
8th Prize 8.00 10.00
9th 'Prize 2.00 10.00

   

 

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