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, WOOL POOL GROWS
ISBU‘RSEMENTS or the State
Farm Bureau's 1920 wool, pool
checlt‘s in. final settlement to
18.000. Michigan wool growers on

the returns from that . pool had

readied a total of about $125,000.
October 26, the Farm Bureau said at
the close of last week. Chocks con-
tinue to go out at an average rate oi
400 a day, the Farm Bureau said.‘

Since the close of the local pool-
lng and grading campaign'Septem-
her 1,,the 1921 pool has Increased
250,000
pounds of wool. Calls have been
numerous tor graders to make addi-
tional trips to localities where wool
was graded last summer. Several
of these late gradings have brought
several thousand pounds of wool
each into the pool, said the Farm
Bureau. At one point the grader
found 30,000 pounds awaiting him.

Wool growers continue to ship
mailer lots into the central grading
ware-house at Lansing where the wool
is graded and the grower receives
the same ﬁfty per cent cash advance
on the value of his graded wool that
was a feature of the summer grad-
ing campaign.

Bast week the wool department
took a slice off the remaining half of
the 1921 pool when 100,000 pounds
of short wool was sold to a Michigan
mill at what was said to be a very
satisfactory price;

ELEVATOR EXCHANGE REPORTS

PROGRESS
TTAINMENT of a position of
recognized standing in the

~ grain trade, expansion from 75
to 97 elevators, assurance of power-
ful credit resources from the banks
and changing the dumping of goods
by locals into direct sales to whole-
salers, millers and exporters on 97
per cent of its entire business were
features of the Michigan Elevator
Exchange‘s report of progress for
the past six months, delivered to the
board of directors at their quarterly
meeting, held at State Farm Bureau
headquarters in Lansing, October 25.

Resignation of Jacon Landis oi
Freesoil as a member of the Elevat-
or Exchange board of directors was
accepted and L. C. Kamaioski of
Washington was named to succeed
him. Mr. Landis said that he ex-
pects to spend the winter in the
south and preferred to be represent
ed by an active director. ~

Delegates from member elevators
interested in beans and members of
the state board of directors who are
also interested in beans will meet at
Saginaw, November 7 to discuss

methods‘ior handling picking stock.

ALFALFA SEED AND POTATO
SEED
LACKFO-OT, Idaho, is to become
an important place to Michigan
Iarmers who grow Grimm al-
falfa says the State Farm Bureau
seed department in announcing dis-
tributing connections with the Idaho
Grimm ‘Growers’ Association, which
will give Michigan farmers a direct
line on the tiny spot which produces
most or the world’s supply of genu-
ine Grimm Alialta seed.

The connection, says the Farm
Bureau, practically assures Michigan
farmers of a constant supply or
adapted genuine Grimm aliens...
Most of Michigan’s Gﬁmm' allelic.
seed comes from the northwest. ‘

A patch of lidsho about ﬁve 
long and 25 miles wide embraces the
Idaho Grimm Growers' Association
and is the section where the great
volume of the "world’s supply of
game Grimm is grown. it in mid.
R. V. Tanner, of East naming.

' M161..- is representing Associa-

tion east of the Emmy}, with

l' . fill‘oﬂioes in 

is new assisting members of the

 Michigan Potato Producers' Associ-

ation who grow certified seed pots-
toes "in disposing of their stocks in
and out ‘01! the state. ' '

Pennsylvania farmers” are also par-r I

tial to Michigan certiﬁed seed pota-
toes it is~claimed. Experiment sta-
tion work there is declared to haw
shown that Michigan certified seed}
potatoes of certain varieties are right
for Pennsylvania and are superior
to New York, Maine and iv'vestern
seed stock. ,

Michigan Crop Improvement As-
sociation growers of Hubam clover
seed at their meeting at the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, October
18, voted to dispose of their 1921
crop through the State Farm Bureau
seed department and the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association.

HUBAM CLOVER GBOWERS MET
MEETING of 150 growers of
Hubam sweet clover was held
at the Michigan Agricultural

College on Tuesday, October 25, for

the purpose of discussing the-best

methods for selling their seed pro-
duced this year. Hubam is the
wonderful annual sweet clover de-
veloped by the Farm Crops Depart-

ment at M. A. C. This year much 1111‘

terest has been shown in it and con-

siderable has been grown for seed.

The growers have not been organize

ed to handle their seed and the meet-

ing was held to decide on the best
methods for disposing of the, seed.—

C. E. Johnson, M. A. C. Correspond-

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NATIONAL LIVE STOCK MARKET-
ING REPORT o
RGANIZATION of a great na-
tional livestock producers asso—
elation builded around an eiti-'
cient livestock marketing will be one
of the measures that the Farmers’
Livestock Committee of 15 will rec-
ommend to the national livestock
producers ratification conference
on the committee’s marketing plan.

,- The Ratification Conference is called

to meet in the LaSalle Hotel, Chica-
go, November 10.

The Committee of 15 completed
its report on the livestock industry,
October 22, at the end of its seventh
session, which lasted five days. The

" state are "Bureau seed department “command was ' 7 T  - v ..
men-t an. ﬂower of the Am . I
harm Bureau Federation, ~  "i
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 great livestock producers asspd- .,

   
 
    
         
    

     

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In "addition ' to the organisation

~atlon, Ethe'committee urged!   ~
"ta-bmhment, at terminals of pro-j_  '7

‘ ducers “livesth commission as

tion with allied stacker and feeder

companies; the strengthening of the

local cooperative. livestock shipping

association movement; the working

out of an orderly marketingprogram
by the board of directorsot the na-
tional livestock producers- associa-,-
tion; the establishment by the same

agency of a transportation deputaf
.ment to co-operate with the Amerlr. ‘ '

can Farm Bureau Federation and the
state farm bureaus; the interpreta»
tion at livestock statistics. and 00-09-
eration with the American Farm Bur-
eau Federation, in extending the mar-
ket for meat. ‘ ’

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ASKS MORE MONEY FOR TUBEBe‘
CULOSIS ERADICATION ,

,HE FEDERAL allotment of the
Tappropriation made for cattle tu-
berculosis eradication this year
already is exhausted in Illinois,
Iowa, New York, North'- Carolina,
Maryland, . Texas, Vermont and Vir-
ginia and bids fair to be gone in
Michigan in another tow months.
The state federations in these states

together with the American Farm

Bureau Federation, are seeking to
have congress appropriate more mon-
ey for the continuation of the work.
The Bureau of Animal Industry es-
timates that $900,000 will he neces-
sary to conduct the‘work during the
remainder of the current ﬁscal year.
The federal money is allocated among
the states on the basis of $1 to,th
$3 spent by the states. The total
federal appropriation for indemni-
ties for the year was $1,300,000.
The Bureau 0! Animal Industry re-
ports that there are more than 15,-
000 herds oi cattlewalting to be
tested, and the list would be much
greater had the veterinarians not
discouraged dairy'men from making
applications too far in advance. The
total number of herds tested and de—
clared free. from tuberculosis and
registered as accredited herds is
9,963, representing 230,000 cattle.
The total number of herds tested
long; is 7 2,000, representing 848,000
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Farmers Want Higher Tariff on Peas I 

T‘THE instance of Mr. Edw. E.
Evans of West Branch, Michi-
gan, who is said to be one of the

largest producers of seed peas in the
United States, the Business Farmer
has been instrumental in arousing

g the interest of both Michigan sena-

headquarters [at  mulls:- ~ ,

tors in an effort to secure a higher
tariff than provided" in the original
tariff bill. Mr. Evans complains that
the bean growers, through organized
effort, were able to secure a tax-ii! of
$1.75 per cwt., while that on peas
was put at 75 cents. Mr. Evans
claims, and investigation bears out
his statements, that the pea growers‘
are in need of as high a tariir as
the bean growers, alleging that the
competition of the Orient has raised
havoc with the domestic market and
price. ~

The following _ communications
tram our Senators indicate that they
 try to secure a higher tel-iii:

“I have your courteous favor of the
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enue Bill is disposed at, but you may rest
assured that I shall bring your sugges-
tions to the attention of the Committee.
With the request that they be given every
consideration, and I sincerely hope my

efforts may be helpful in the direction ‘

indicated by you."-—JI‘ruman H.
berry.

Later both Senators sent copies of
letters received from Sen. Pent-one,

New~

chairman of the ﬁnance committee, '

in which assurances were given that
thematter would be called to the at-
tention or his committee, and sug—
gesting that someone appear beiore
the committee and present the case
of the pea growers. In forwarding
this letter Sen. Townsend said:

  
  
 
   
   
  
   
 

 
  

    
  
 
 
  
     
     
   
 
      
 

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- tion to attend the meeting in ‘the

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nummmmw.f "a; __ a “is ,
The-program or __o,meetlng__  , . 7
coer  am. . 
slithe' ‘  imblsms‘ofproduc-_

den and" mar" W,  Which ..

 the trait graves; today. ; artisan. -
~ be '* discussed are orchard   mall.

r

. assumes  dusting.
and the control of inset peso and
The ofﬁcers of the society recom- ,
mend that a low standard varieties
be selected to:- planting'and the rest I
or the growers standardize on these
few varieties. v '_ _ 
A reduction in rates for  at-l
tending the meeting will probably 7 i
beﬁgrsntedrby the railroadsa—«C. E.
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moraines mam  g
" ‘GHIGAN potatoes-haves again

' demonstrated their superiority

so yielders in a {So-operative

,teat'carriedon hyagronpottsrm: ,.

ers in Pulaski county, my. mom: .
i n grown potato seed 1
lights-grown seed were pm
eleven representative  under
the direction of County Agent 1. J. V
Matthews. The weights of  M3» -
are produced team a hundred bills
were compared  were
computed 1mm ﬂiers ﬁgures. the

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rotary o! the   ‘
ers’  ' ‘

Michigan  seed produce
from 8 to 114 bushels more per..me
than the Indiana the V average
of the plantings being 88.8 bushels
more, per acre in favor of the Mich-
igan potatoes. 1 .. »

In Writing to Mr. Moore, County
Agent Matthews says: f‘Tvo things
have been proven to my satisfaction.
Ono-0t them is that Michigan grow-
.»ers are   '
stock. and the other is!“ «our r
folks can. increase their yield ‘mm
65 to 70 bushels per also by the
simple expedient oi  We . '
seed."—-—.C'. :E. Johnson, --  C. g

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OMEN delegates  term
W bureau states are to decide ,at
was  Farm ,Bnreau,
Federation laceration   .91“ ,
ganizetion oi  women is to '
be enacted, according to the W04
man’s .Qommittee otjthe ‘ “ American

« Farm’Bnresn Federation, which held.

as first meeting at Chicago, Octob-
er 2’1. x Mars. John C._Ketchani ‘ ' oi »
Hastings. Mlohlganjil a menisci-for ~

the woman’s-committee.“ Each ﬁrm

 assessors; and ‘ ”

a. Winth Home. delegate  to

~  on one or the tin-ea, " 
‘ atternoonssotithe mm ,_ ‘ the
‘  will bovootruidoto 

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 discusses. ‘f'the. probable trend of inter-
 ,   that we are seen to
  ‘witnéés*'a_dee1im~'in__.them ’- .. ' 2 . '
-.        hbnclusion Dr. Friday .
 ;; 3‘»; ._.onters‘7.extensivelyr into the ﬁeld of; ﬁnancial '
'    $51684 briei‘ history anaemia
    .-.“::id€V-€Iolilﬁis.tlt ewes? 'sﬁéstsl .nPdn. interest-
?“ ‘  1 in; '.,detai1l,_ the forces.
 l- i r.” ~_.Opel.‘~fiiei.on.-feapitalwmarkeﬁg”.
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_ Dr Friday shows that  is but the
"price Which'people pay-fertile use of money.
  And asthe pricefvofgone”'cominodity sooner or .
 . ‘hte‘r  the. price of another, so are the
g  prices charged for money ' aﬂected' by the
  ‘fiﬂuctuations in other prices, .Supply and de—
  regulate. the'prices of all commodities,
j mega-ﬁn order to  v the probable
. trend  interest rates, we~ must ferecast the. '
U probable course- of "the demand for capital
I '  and“.,the probable Supply of capital at diﬂ’er—
 ' of inter, ".1 " y " -1 -
. ' ~ I y .  While anample supply’ofj money tends for
 a. "time to depress interest, rates it does not.
f.  insure a long} period of low in-
~  Example: When in 1915 and 1916 4
 sent America almost one billion dol—
1m, in gold, which was, added to the bank
   of, the; country. - This increase kept
"ﬁle low for .a‘ period of two "Years ,
 _. a despitefthc‘  demand for loans “But”,
’ .‘."-continues.the author,;   " ' ,
' p "  world has never had halfthe moneyiand
* ,cre’dit'ebetore'ithat-it has now: and has not for a

 

  .7:  why an increase.- in - the quantity at “money
 «cannotlong keep‘interest rates low is that it is
 7 falWays accompanied. by’an incréasd'lh' the level
"  of,.pr-ices.~ Since-stile j-b'orrowers desire not mon-
’ cabal: goods, they must borrow a larger quan-.
, my. at money funds than "before in Order to "buy
, .. _ ' 3, it'thev'same’amount oi capital 300113., As soon, v
f I j'  p-  therefore, as thexincrease-ln money'Thasyenocted ~
"  ; an increaso'ingprlce, the demand for money funds
a.   as prapiklyms' the “prim-and interest ,
 rates are as sigma: before." ,   < 
‘ I 7 heauthor then,;reviews the period of «low
demand 'ior‘moncy  rates .on' same ‘

 g“ thed'ocade 'endm' ﬁg 19:» ~ 'when;_'the ~ ’1

* choicest investhxents yielded-i less  ,8f‘~per
‘7 per. cent-and when four per cent  ' the

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‘ 2 g  (50 doesfand 10 been) at 175 bucks.
stead. “Therein arrive here-some ﬁre in
Febmydirwt  Norway is  oi.
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 “not ~
"sexy -

* was, Rates ‘ Are Due for Fall ,

 IntereStRates and Predicts Decline in Near F uture

highest goal of the investor. There was little
industrial development during this period.
There Were no wars, except at the very. last
off’the period, to ,devour accumulated savmgs.
Money Was ample for all. legitimate purposes,
demand moderate, and interest rates con-
sequently low. ~But the next ten years saw a
veritable revolution in the staid money mar-
kets. We began to feel the effects of the
SpanishiAmwcan war. . Than came the costly.
Balkan, wars, the Russo—Japanese war, - the

 ,Warand minor struggles, all of which

,cost the combatants enormous sums oi. money

3 and put a big dent in the world’s supply of

, capital. In the same period came an astound-
ing industrial development in this country.
Billions were spent in extending railWay hues,
telephone and telegraph lines, to say nothing
of the new ‘mdustlies which sprang up,
among them the automobile, and petroleum
industries VWhich soon reached a development
hitherto undreamed of. And then, the great
war Which absorbed “practically the entire
excess of production over consumption while
it» was going on”, and in the case of Euro-
pean nations, also‘ “encroached upon the
previously created capital as we ”. “All, of
these forces working together to increase the
demand for capita ”, says Dr.'Friday, “had
raised the rate of interest by almost one-half
between 1904 and 1914.
, What of the Future?

:What_ is the outlook loathe immediate
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,Michigon Traffic League Seeks

V Rate Adjustments

I BE ORDER of the Interstate commerce
, - Commission reducing western freight
’ g y _. rates has given Michigan shippers heart
to demand rate adjustments in this state.
The Michigan Trafﬁc League, it is said, has
ﬁled a complaint with the Interstate Com-
merce Cohmission and the Michigan Public
l Utilities Commission charging that rates in
 this  moist ofﬂine with those in oth-

.  that they are too high and that
 system is Wait. The Traffic league
thanked by the Michigan State Farm Bu-
 its petition for lower rates, and will
«ghavb its :mpresentatives present with a 1
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 théselcreatures. Michigan swamps and woods

,.have anliab'u’ndant mpply‘of the kind of food they

thrive on; they will have plenty 'o-f care and at-
tention, shelter and protection. The most seri-
ous menace to their well—being will be the hot

‘ men the idea of securing reindeer tor Mich-
iSan  first advanced; an attempt was made
to" secure a small hard from Alaska. This, how-
ever, did not succeed. Not only are the federal
authorities anxious to keepevery reindeer be-
longing to the-immense herd of the north con-
ﬁned to Alaska.;bu't such animals as they could
 altered {at the prohibitive price of
men. and then\it would have been neces-
to Mean equal number or does and bucks.
 ‘ on“ this . new, routine, James
stilesedai says; ' -
 “war purchase price, the Nor-
>--=tsja cums-ted and will eat hay
‘ id ‘ 'estlcihbi‘se:._whilo exports
    ' ’states from Alas-
; ., their a?! plyio'ff’tundrs moss
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means the bank rate for short-dime loans, it has
fallen even now and seems due to fall further in
the near future. Here the demand is for money,
and the banker’s lending power is determined
primarily by the state of banking reserves. One
year ago the ratio of the reserves of the Federal
Reserve Banks to the deposit and Federal Re—
. In such
a situation the additional lending power of the

'member banks Was rapidly approaching extinc-

tion. On. June 29, 1921, the reserve ratio stood
at 60,8. It bids fair to memoirs tn the immedi-
ate future. In part, this increase in reserve ra-
tio has been brought about by a decrease in loans
of member banks followed by a decrease indo-
posits, which in turn led to reduced reserve re-
quirements with the Federal Reserve Banks, and
to a decrease or approximately twenty per cent
in the volume of Federal Reserve notes outstand-
ing since the high point of last December.”

It is the belief of the author that the de-

  
 
    

     

mand for capital to be used in the promotion .

of new business enterprises Will be compara-
tively light during the next two years. He
also warns us that we must distinguish be-
tween the desire for capital and the effective
demand. For, ,
“The hungry boy outside the candy shop has
an enormous desire for the shopkeeper's product,
but his wants do not constitute effective demand.
So there will be many promoters of business ven-
tures who‘desire the capital of the investing pub-
lic, who will not be able to present an. argument
attractive enough to convert their want into an

n eﬁective demand."

Europe is another case of the small boy.
Europe will need a great deal of capital but
there is a question of her ability to satisfy
the American investor as to the value of her
security. . Building and bonds will demand
a certain amount of capital as previously, but
this demand Will be nothing but a drop in the
bucket to the six or eight billion dollars which
the American people save nearly every annum.
Therefore,

“Taking-the situation as a whole the outlook
is for a demand, both for bank loans and for long
time investment capital, much below that which
we have witnessed during the last five years.”

“Upon the whole, it is most likely that the sup-
ply of capital for well-seasoned securities will
equal the demand by a rate of interest decidedly
lower than that which now prevails. We will
not return for a long time to the low interest
rates of twenty years ago, but it seems entirely
likely that we will work well dbwn to the level of
1913. Liberty bonds, unless some unforeseen
event arises, should be at par within three years;
and all high-grade investment securities of long
maturities should rise accordingly.”

 to Import Reindeer from Norway

killed with a peck of oats after he has been
brought to the corral with a. lariat. My opinion
is that this animal will ﬂourish here as it has in
Norway, where it. Is used as domestic beef, a
beast of burden, speeder, etc., as well-as being a
game animal to the woods. It should be quite a
fpod help in time." ._ .

Predicts Failure for Venture

“Directly contradictory to Mr. McGlllivary’s
opinion'is that received in a letter from E. W.
Nelson, chic! oi! the Bureau of Biological Sur-
vey, which has charge of the reindeer service in
Alaska. Mr. Nelson says:

" ‘In summer reindeer feed on a great variety

of grasses and herbage, including willow browse. .

In the winter, in the north, they feed mainly on
lichen, commonly known as reindeer moss, with
a certain amountof willows and other available
plants.
different, from..those in which the reindeervlives

in Scandinavia that I' am inclined to doubt their
thriving here.

Michigan'is not 'well adapted to
these animals.
northern
hare-b '

  
  

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The conditions in Michigan ,are so very '

Formerly. there were caribou in ' i "
Maineand northern.  but they, 
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. HE 'p or-
" gani z e d
farmers of Al-
berta won a_
sweeping vic-
’tory - in. t h e
provincial el-'
ection l a s t
July when 39
o f their 44
candidates
were‘ elected.
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in the pro-y-
vince. T h e
farmers have

' a working ma-‘
jority, a, 11 (1
Alberta ‘today
has a farmers’

.‘government. The contest brought out two
signiﬁcant facts—the loyalty of the farmers

« and conﬁdence of the electors in the U. F. A;

' , and the splendideorganizatiOn of the associa-
tion. -

' In Order to understand the political organ-

ization, a brief history of the parent associa-

, Q-tion—the United Farmers of Alberta—is de-

._”'sirable. ' ,

_ In 1909 two farmers’ associations were in

‘ existence in the province; one known as the
.Alberta Farmers’ Association, the other as

‘7‘ the Canadian Society of Equity. Their aims

7 and objects were similar. Both were working

. ‘to improve rural life. Many problems faced
_ the associations. Questions of markets, trans-

“ portation problems, roads, and more branch

 railwaysr All these matters and many more

 ‘were taken up with varying results. The

 two associations often overlapped in their cf”

1 “ forts, and misunderstanding and friction re-

"  sulted. It was scon apparent that much more
 could be accomplished if they united. After

 much discussion and many meetings the two

associations amalgamated and became the

,. United Farmers of Alberta, taking “Equity”
'_ as their motto. This was in 1909. .

Self-Governing Locals 

IThe plan of organization is to have a num—

',.ber of locals scattered throughout the rural

districts and a central executive. Each local

W is self-governing. It consists of ten or more
" farmers who agree to meet together at least

once every month to discussways and means

to overcome rural problems. Any farmer can

' join a local. The local becomes the community

, center of the district. Once a year, in the
~ month of J anuany, a convention is called at a
central place in the province. Each local is

.entitled to send one delegate for every ten
members. This convention elects a central ex-
ecutive, and agrees on the

-W0rk ,of the association. The locals deal with
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HERBERT GREENFIELD"
. .- Alberta’s Farmer Premier

 OME FARMERS think they have the

legal right to market their products co-
Operatively, but they haven’t. True, they.
are doing it right along in some states, but if
sonic pin-headed politician or
middleman wanted to make a complain he
'could stir up all kinds of trouble. Witness
the persecution of milk producers in Chicago
and elsewhere. They. sought to defend a right
which they believed they enjOyed underthe
“Constitution, but which they soon. discovered
iter ‘they had been hailed into jail and be-

  

 

   
  
  
 
  
  
  

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far reaching problems. The locals“ pass resolu-

_,tions "on matters ‘which they want discussed,
, at the conVention.) The convention lasts ﬁve

days and has become
Parliament. I ,V

The U. F. A. has made, such rapid progress
that today it consists of, over eight hundred

‘iknovVn "as the Farmers’

' locals having a. meinberShip of more ; than;

thirty thOusand.
As the U. F. A. grew, its influence became

a power in the land., In pursuing its policy"

of making the farm a better place on which
to live, the. association found itself lined up

against the railways, the banks, the elevator
companies, and manyother "fortiﬁed institu- ‘

tions. Delegates were “sent - to Edmonton

and Ottawa asking for legislation to give the,

farmers their alleged: , rights. These ‘, dele-
gations were usually politely received. . A
banquet was given in their honor and the

delegates sent home with gushing promises
that rarely materialized.

Farmers Decide to Enter Politics

It was soon realized that if permanent re-
forms Were to be made the farmers would
have to enter the political ﬁeld.

The history of all farmers’ associations
show that  whenever the farmers entered
polictics their organizatiOn fell to pieces. It
was therefore decided to take no risks.
Politics would be kept separate from busi-
ness. The U. F. A. Political Association
should be a separate organization from the
parent 'U. F. A., made as democratic as pos-
sible. ‘

This was the plan that was followed.
When twenty per cent of the locals in a cdn
stituency petitioned the central ofﬁce, a con-
vention was called .of representatives of,all
the‘locals in that particular constituency.
,Representatio/n was allowed at the rate of one
delegate for every “ten members. ‘This polit-
ical convention made up entirely of the dele-

 

 

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HAT IS the U. F. A? Farmers’ organ;
ization solﬁng farmer-5' problems and
battles; 800 locals; self governing;
annual convention; Canadian Council of
Agriculture. _
- Objects: Moral, intellectual and finan
cial improvement of rural life. ~
How Attained: Entertainments, concerts.
socials, picnics, lectures, etc: developing
local talent; studying and preparing legisla-
tion; making the schoolhouse the commun-
ity center; libraries, short papers, debates;
developing public spirit and power of ex-
,pressron. ~ \ 1
Financial: Co-opcrative trading, buying
and selling. V
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gantic corporations/in their efforts to secure
ll'llOIlOply and restrain trade. But the law-
yers tell us that its provisions reach outand

- Wi‘ E 1 i'l‘r' n Bsi ' ‘P ‘ ".l‘ga‘tésdéc‘idf-d’  _ .
( r tten xc us ve y . or t e u iness :Farmer) a :political action-01,111,325 If it wasfdecided_.,m I: p

,' the ailirmative anplatform was_‘Ad1:gyvn’ up, an

. tions i'nSteadof the old autocrptic party‘- con—

‘Bonnyville; One local received notice of the 

. wished to wage the conflict.

Another Fiéht'l’endiné on Bill ‘to Legaliie (lo-operative Marketing ' "v 

touch the farmers and that farmers must be I

careful about “getting together” to get a.
[living price for the thiggs they raise. ’ )g
To overcome this situation the Volstead—

Capper bill was written. It'clearlyv deﬁnes

the right of farmers to engage in cooperative

gmarketing. At the last sessiOn ~of‘ Congress
the. House passed» the bill, but its usefulness

 

merits.

Was Tdestroyed by senate committee am'end-_
.The bill? was: reintroduced f at ‘- the

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' ' An announcement appeared_,ip7 the I press . V ._ 
that the election would notitake. place until; » ' ; l
the fall. . A few daysdaterthe-@roclamation _ .x

appointed delegate saddled a hbrse and started

ater arise competition from production'jn that

.the “yield varies as [mucn as 17 ‘per cent, and ail-5',  4'

 
    
  
 

   

ethe iii the are; into   

executive appointed, and a—candidate, nomin-

ated to c’onwst the election. The): nventi'ons
acted, entirely on their ow‘h .initia,-ive?.',.,2jThpy
financed and Organized their. own‘eetepaign.
Therefore, in‘the recent "election, [Whereqfortys 
four~ U. A. candidates .Weref'plabed _in_'the g: /
ﬁeld, there would be forty-four“ separate ,,,j‘U.-’ ' V
F. A. Political Associations Supporting them , " ;~   v
—Offspring of the parent U. F. A. g The big -' ‘
point here is that the candidates were n‘om-
inated by the farmers at .farmers’ conven-

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ventions controlled by; 'politica1¢,-boss.‘ , . , _
‘ .Farmers. Outwitfl’joliﬁcali-Enemies   —  3

was, issued calling'the, election :on'July7 19th. H
The farmers were takehj'by surprise. (111633?" i " ‘
meetings were called.’ The plow Was left in
the furrow to prepare for“ the contest. , h

We will take the St. Paulde Metjs’ constit-

uency ’as an example to show how the election f r ,, ,

was fought. "As soon. as the proclamation ap- ‘-
peared the farmers 'TCalled a convention ‘at,

convention late" on Saturday night. Sunday
morning saw the farmers of they district
breaking the Sabbath by holding a. meeting to
appoint.the delegate. In the afternoon'the ‘ ' A

 

on a sixty-mile ride to be at the convention
the following. day. Fifteen locals were rep-
resented at this meeting. Laudas 'Joly was -
nominated to contest the election as U. F. A.
Candidate. Mr. Joly gave his written res-3"
ignation to the meeting as evidence of good
faith. __ His campaign fund consistcd’ Of. a
cheque'for one hundred dollars, being ~ his
month’s salary as secretary-treasurer to the
rural municipality. His opponent, a mem-
ber of the late Liberal Government Was said
to have a fund of over‘thirty-ﬁvc thousand ’
dollars. When Mr.rJoly ﬁnished his tour of
the constituency he still had the hundred dole
lar cheque .uncashed. Why? U‘Bccause the)
farmers would take nothing for their work.'
He. was "their candidate and they considered
it to be their privilege and duty to workfor,
board and transport Mr. Joly wherever he ,,

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[The Liberals put up a hard ﬁght against ,
the farmers’ candidate.’ They used every _V
tactic known to them. Road gangs were set l
at work all over the constituency; polling di-
visions were overlapped; the names of elec-
tors appearing on twO or more voters’ - lists-
and camouflaged polls were advertised to be
held in bush regions far’from settlers.

But the day of reckoning " came, the day
when the people cast their votes which‘, re;
sulted in a sweeping ‘1 (Oonttnued’on page 17»)

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make a stateine’nt which shows ignorance of con-
ditions surrounding preduction. of ’co-operation,’
and .the economists of marketing including the
almost infallible law of demand and supply. It
the farmers should endeavor to form a. monopoly
of any particular product there would immedi-

rb ts Fae-ash” saw-u.

section or some other part ,ofthe country or
some foreign country. for that matter. An
equally as? strong factor is.the wider fluctuation
of yields dueyto the vagaries of weather. For
instance the-acreage of potatoes one'year and-
another only, "varies two to three, per cent, but

mestial‘l of this “fluctuation of yield can: beat- 
tributetl to. weathereorn the ravage- of l.1nsiéct',or'. 1
disease; . ,   , g      -,

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HAT IS declared to be the most in—

tensive drive against bovine tubercu-
losis evere attempted in this country is being
carried on in Hillsdale county by the U. S.
Bureau of Animal Industry, in co-operation
with the state and county authorities. The
work is being done by twenty—eight federal
veterinarians who have been Called in from
other states, under the joint direction of Dr.
'J. A. Kiernan, chief of the division of tuber-
culosis eradica-

oulity Wars on Bovine T1113

Twenty-Eight Federal Veterinarians Sweep County to Wipe Out Last Vestige of Dread Disease

it wasn’t fast enough to suit some of the
farmers on the, “waiting list”. Accordingly,

it was proposed that the federal government
be asked to send in enough veterinarians to
do the job up within a couple of weeks, and
that is what has been done.

When the twenty- eight veterinarians ﬁnisji
their work the last of this week or the ﬁrst 0f
next Hillsdale county will have the proud dis-
tinction of being the only county in the United

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erculosis ;

for the week, the 'balance of the week being
spent in examining the cattle. Prcv10us tests
in this county show only 2 per cent reactors ’
which is considered very low. ‘

Under the law the appraisal limit on grade
cattle is placed at $70 and on pure-breds, at
3200. The state pays 50 per cent of the ap—
praised value, and the fcdc’al government
pays one-third of the difference between the
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p e 1' animal.
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gan, and Dr. B. t h c drive in
J. Killham, state Hillsdalc coun-
vcterinarian. t y are being

The question watched W i t h
may be asked, interest by dairy
“Why pick on and sanitary au—
Hillsdale? Is it thorities all over
because Hillsdale the country. It:
has ‘more tuber- is generally be-
culosis cattle lieved that what-
than other coun— ever the cost has
ties?” On the ' been to the coun-

contrary the per—
centage of tuber-
culosis in this county is lower“ than the aver-
age county of the country. The real secret
is a progressive live stock breeders’ associa—
tion, a live county agent, Mr. J. M. Sims, and
a broad—minded board of supervisors. Last
spring the Hillsdale County Breeders’ Ass’n
joined hands with the Farm Bureau and dc»
clared for a county clean-up. ,The anrd of
Supervisors was favorable and ap}:)i'op1"iat:ed
$3,500 to hire a veterinarian who could give
his entire attention to the work of eradica~
tion. Sinee then practically all the dairy and
breeding cattle in four townships have been
tested. But rapidly as the work was done,

Groups of Federal Veterinarians. their chiefs. and live stock men who are wiping

Bovine Tuberculosis in liillsdule County.

t-ltatcs which can say to purchasers of breeding
cattle: “(lonie here. Visit any herd you like.
liuy any cattle you l'ancy. You take no
chances for our herds are free of tuberculos—
is”. And the same assurance can be given to
those who drink the milk of ilillsdalc’s dairy
herds.
Two Per Cent Reactors

The work of testing was begun promptly on
Monday morning of last week, and by night
2,500 cattle had been injected with the tuber—
culin. Tuesday 3.000 rattle, were. treated.
\Vednesday completed the work of inJcctio'i

out the lust vcstige of tV 01. to individ_ ‘

ual farmers it
will be more than made up by a better demand

for cattle andbv the higher prices which
tuberculosis—l'rce cattle should bring. If the

iesults in the llillsdale clean-up come up to
expectations, similar methods may be follow-
cd elsewhere. It: would be a. fine thing, now
that the Wedge has been so effectively entered
in this state, if all the other counties could
band together and secure a, state—wide clean-
up. Michigan would then hold a position
unique among Ell the states of the Union, and
buyers would come, from the four corners of
the country to buy her breeding ‘attle.

Howard, Farm Bureau President, Opposes Tariff Valuation Plan

HARGES have come from some quarters
J that the attack which has been made by
Chambers of Commerce and Republican news-
papers upOn the American valuatiou principle
embodied in the Fordney tarit‘l‘.’ bill, is in
reality a veiled thrust at the schedules on
:l'arni products. This, however, is vigorously
ldenicd by those who are seeking to destroy
ithis feature of the bill and substitute the for—
‘JYICI' method of basing the tariff.
t The aim of all previous tariff bills has, been
to devise a'tarilt' which would equalize the
cost of production abroad with the cost of pro-
,duction in the United States. Under he
(American valuation plan, however, the tarit’
is not placed upon the cost of producing the
article, but upon the domestic selling price of
other articles of like nature the day the im-
this country. In
other words, the higher the price of the do-
mestic article, the higher will be the tariff
and consequent selling price of the imported
It is claimed that this feature of the.
bill wipes out competition and leaves the
American consumer at the mercy of domestic
manufacturers who are at liberty to put
their prices where they please without fear—
ing foreign competition. It is asserted that
this will destroy our commerce with other
nations, by making it impossible for them to
either sell to us or buy from us.

The motives of importing ﬁrms who are
opposing this plan have been brought into
question. Probably, these men are ﬁghting
this bill for their own selﬁsh interests and not
because they care a straw what happens to the
farmer, but the arguments, they raise seem
sound. Solong as the farmer produces a sur-
plus he must have an export outlet, and he
cannot have this 'Outlet‘ unless those who

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's an axiom of commerce which the Forncy

bill cannot abrogate.

J. R. lloward, president. of the American

Farm Bureau ltlederation. has been asked to
express his views upon the subject, which he

has done in the, 'l’ollowing letter to \V. G.

Campbell, eXecutive sccl'ctary of the Agricul-
tural l’ublishers’ :‘xss‘n:

“I have your letter this morning inquiring re-

garding the attitude of the American Farm 3111'—
eau on the American valuation
Fordney tariff bill.

feature of the

“As you know this American Valuation plan

was new to most, of us when it. was sprung out.
of the House Committee.

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for some weeks a corps of four to five specialists
at \Vashington working for us 011 this tariff
bill, and last week I went. over with them very
carefully the American Valuation features. The
general feeling of these men was that: it would
be very detrimental to the agricultural interests
of the country. Our danger, as farmers. is in get—
ting duties so high as to much more than offset
any possible advantages we may get from any
agricultural schedules, by making us pay higher
for the things which we buy. Thus, while we
are insistent- on agricultural schedules, we are
forcing objections to any features of the bill
which will not create a, balance between agri;
cultural industry and producer and consumer.

“The American Valuation clause Would bring
about an uncertainty on the part of the import-
er, in that, prices might. materially change be-
tween his purchase of his commidity in Europe
or elsewhere and its delivery here. He would
have to buy or sell on a sufficient, margin
to guarantee him protection. It is somewhat
comparable to the claims which business men
make regarding the excess profits tax, that
not knowing how much their tax would be they
put their price inordinately high in order to make
sure, it was covered. Understand, I said this is
what: they claimed they did rather than what I
actually believe they did do.

“I pointed out yesterday to Arthur M. Evans,
of the, Tribune that, we must have at, this time a
free exchange of commodities; that the farm
market. is the large market; that the farmer must
have building materials, lumber, food and cloth-
ing it he produces, ‘and his ability to buy those
depends upon his market.

“The American Valuation featurewill make
tariff walls higher under the same schedule than
they would be under the old valuation plans, and V.
the higher the tariff, the less the farmer will be
able to buy of the commodity. Imports will be
limited because of it, and if imports are. too much
restricted, the market, on our surpluses of our
agricultural products is badly hampered; for
Europe, while needing our agricultural surpluses.
can only pay for them in goods, and we must
help make a market for those goods in order that
world readjustments may‘be brought about.”—
American Farm Bureau Federation, J’. R. How-'

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American Farm Bureau F ederation Seeks Petitionsfro‘m   t   i.  7 i ‘i 

HE FARMERS are to be given a

chance to express their views upon dis-
armament and permanent peace, according
to the American Farm Bureau Federation
which is seeldng the signatures of 2,000,000
farmers to a petition upon the subject. Each
state farm bureau and farm paper in the
country has been asked to co-operate in se—
curing the signatures.

Representatives of the four leading for-
eign nations are coming together at \Vashing-
ton to discuss with representatives of the
United States government this universal
problem of war. It is the hope of the world
that this conference will be able to agree upon
8 practical prog 'am of disarmament.

Never before has such a thing been at-
tempted. Heretofore nations have looked

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This is Where the Money Goes.

A digest of national expenditures for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1920, the latest
available reveals the following situation:
Expenditures arising from

recent and previous .

wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,855,482,570.60
War and Navy Depts. 1,424,138,676.57
Primary government func-

tions, executive, legisla-

tive, judicial, etc . . . . 181,087,222.41
Public Works . . . . . . . . . 186.203.557.46
Research, educational and

development ._ . . . . . . .

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upon huge armaments as necessary insurance

against war. They have ﬁnally discovered
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does not, guarantee peacebut actually  '
war. - -' ‘

So they are going "to try another plan to
prevent war. Many military authorities say
that it is impossible; that disarmament is a
dream. Others say that: it canjbe done. " '

. We are interested in the viewsofvour dip:
lomats and our men of War. But we are in-
ﬁnitely more interested in the views of the
people who ﬁght the battles and pasr the
costs of war. V ' i ’

Diplomats. the world over have shown that
they know how to make war, but they are
bunglers when it comes to making and insur-
ing peace. This. is to be" a “peace” confer-
ence. It is necessary to delegate the author-
ity,,to negotiate to a~ few men in Whom we
have conﬁdence. But it is not necessary to
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TO PEACEFUL PURPOSES

{ WHAT THE MONEY SPENT ’ON

our thinking.
What do the farmers think about dis-
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It would cuss-cross the continent
Nth boulevards.

It would irrigate and reclaim all
our and spaces.

It would supply free education of
the highest and most modern type.

lay in soldiers’ graves think about it?

What do the young men of war age in
the nation think .about it? i

It is the opinion of THESE
own and every other country which
should direct the conference.

Already there comes from Washing—
t0n the word, “do not expect too much
from this conference”. Is that to pre
pare us for the failure which is doomed
to follow any disarmament program ex-
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the United States and of their repre-
sentatives that this conference he a dis-
armament conference in fact as well as
in name the decision will be for actual
disarmament. Nations will cease spend-
ing their billions on dreadnaughts and
the maintenance of hugestanding armies.

Whatever is the WILL of the confer—
once to do, that it will do.

And it will be the WILL of the con-
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nnot be independent. body.

    

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the Gulf of Mexico to the Great and give them the speed of the mod- program if the people of the United
em interurban systems. States so order_

All eyes are turned to Washington.

Men are praying that the conference

may be successful in ridding the earth

m of the fearful burdens of armament and

" . I the terrible consequences that follow.

K  : 3316 It is well to look toward Washington

' {lllmgg- gal . ’ {g 51,; A To" and it is well to pray, but the most pow—

‘49‘3  '~"':}.4é»§";'-f" crful influence that the American _ peo—

ple can bring to bear upon that confer-
ence is the influence of their spoken con-
victions and their written orders.

It is for this reason, that you are
asked, dear reader, to make your wishes
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"‘1‘ FOR DISARMAMENT

(Note: The reader is requested to do one of
two things. The ﬁrst is get up a petition of hll
own on foolscap paper, using the form printed
below and secure the signatures of his neigh-

hoped that he will at least have the coupon [in-
ed out. Both coupon and petition should be
mailed at the earliest possible moment to the
Business Farmer. The petitions will be pre-
sented to Pres. Harding on Nov. 11th, so do not
delay. D0 11‘ NOW.) -

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citizens of . . . . . . . . . (state) approve
your action in calling the world dis-
armament conference. The repre-
sentative's appointed by you have our
full confidence and Support.

We request our own nation thru its __
representatives to take the lead in dish”
armament {glut permanent World-wide
peace may be established. ’ , ‘
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Panoramic view of Bergen, Norway, which lies‘ln same altitude as southern Alaska.

 To the4~lLand ofﬂle Hardy Norse

\ Forty-Eight Hours of Pitching and Tossing in the '
‘ ' ' . ‘ [Midst of the North Sea "

(Being the 6th of a series of articles. on'

the Editor’s European Travels).

ROM THE day I learned in my

history book of the heroic ex-

ploit of Eric the Red, who set
forth from the-shores of Norway in
the year 985 and in the course of his
daring journey across unknown wa-
ters discovered Greenland, ‘the out-
lying post of the western hemisphere,

- I. have had an unbounded admiration

for “these Vikings of the North and
a. determination to some day ‘visit
them in their native haunts. That
was one of the reasons why Inturned'
my back against the pleasures of
London in-the month of June last
and my face north and eastward to
the land of the “midnight sun."

I had traveled 3,000 miles across
the Atlantic without 'the slightest
feeling of seasickness. -By the time

I, reached Edinburgh I‘prided myself “

that I was a seasoned traveller. Noth-
ing could daunt my spirit." I was
prepared to gowherever the foot-
steps of man had trod pr upon what-
ever waters he had set his bark. It
was, therefore, with a feeling of the

utmost assurance that I arrived at,
Newcastle-on-the-Tyne on Saturday
afternoon, June 18th, to embark upon

the steamer Irma for Bergen, Nor-
way. I sauntered down to the dock

labout an hour before sailing date.

There were two‘boats at. the dock,
the size of which made me think of
the old nursery jingle, “rub-a~dub-
dub, three men in a tub,” g I con-
cluded that the Irma hadn’t come .in'
yet, so ,I impatiently pace-d up“ and

 down the dock hoping she wouldn’t

delay too long as I was anxious to
reach Bergen the following night.
But no heat came in, and as passen-
gers began to board one of the little
boats at the dock I got suspicious
and Walked over and took a squint
at her how. My heart Sank. “I-r-m-a”
was the word painted there. Was it
'possible that this tiny vessel, which
was not more than one—fifteenth the
size of theboat I had rode upon in
such comfort across the Atlantic,
rcould weather a five hundred mile
journey across the most turbulent
nose in the world? I made inquiry.
My ,worst‘fears were justified.» It
was the boat upon which Iliad en-‘
gaged passage and she would leave
invone hour. I may as Well confess
that my courage suﬁered a _shock
right then. I wasn’t quite so sure
as I had been a few moments earlier
that I was a reckless globe-trotter
who could go through any experience
without flicking an eyezlashn

I went aboard, The steward lug? ‘

ged my’bagstoa Corner of therdin-
ing,saloon. .“But. where's my state-
room?" I asked.““This it," he said

.in bfekaniEnslishL *‘1295“You->m9sn in, 1 ,
say 1. smite, sleep herein the (11111113.. 

  

dining salon. But how I envied my
fellow‘lpassengers the smug privacy
and convenience of their state-rooms.
I did not realize until some hours
later that the trick fate had played
me was a kind one after all. For
that night nine out of ‘ten passen—
gers who were confined to six by

    

 tha'blsto  . .
~  Wing. ‘dﬁy- “3112‘, Ir' '-Wh9§9
lumbers" Were refreshed all night

, long by the invigorating atmosphere
’ of the roomy dining salon, arose the
next morning as chipper asa bird

and tripped heartlessly to the bath—
room to dress, passing on my way
many state-rooms in which I vision-
ed pajdmined persOns rolling in the
agony of seasickness.

I neglected to state that the in-
stant we left the mouth of the River
Tyne that little bbat set up a mo—
tion exactly like that of a rocking
horse in thevhands of a seven-year-
old boy. At'times I thought it was
going to keel over backwards
like a rocking horse some times
doe-s. One second it stood on its
nose and the next it reared up on
its tail. It never stood still or even

deviated from that motion during ‘

the nearly forty—eight hour journey
from the Tyne to the mouth of the
Bergen fiord.

But to return to the bath-room. I
had put on some of my more inti—
mate garments and was about to pull
on one of my shoes when suddenly
I felt a feeling in the region 0 my
stomach which was a total stranger
to me. I can’t describe it. It was
something like that strange uneasi-
ness which follows a boy’s first
smoke. Then it slowly began to rise.
I was dumfounded. :Was it possible
that after all I was to finally suc-

  

come to meals»;

\ where I had spent such a peaceI-h

    
 
  
  

  

 419- 3.; id nausea.

.seasiﬂeness.,.1 ic' ’uldn’t beli‘ev ,
.- and _ fumbled“ again (with myg’, ‘sh'
But it was “no use. That too n
kept tickling at the )ase ofp. '
throat and although I swallow 
desperately hard it refuse-d to'

down. I took no more chances. Lik,
John, -I. “beat it”, back to my din  55
ing salon, with “one shoe off and on

shoe on,” clothes dangling fro 
every part of my person. By this
time my chamber was in the ban.

of some buxom Norwegian 
who were busily engaged in Benin:
the breakfast tables. But I car),
not. I fell onto mynarr‘ow couch“

   

    
       
  
 
  

  
 
 
  

     
  
  

 
 
 
  

   
     
   
    
 
 
 

  

  
 
 
 

 
 

  
  
 

  

 
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
  

night. stretched myself out at ’11:le
length and felt better. a *

In the course of time I succeeded
in quieting the disturbance in my;
l’gastric regions, finished my dress-.,, ,
ing, shaved and sat down to breaks-5‘
fast. Some of my old pride and as-
surance came back to me when I-
observed that I was one of only
eight passengers out of about eighty :
who ate breakfast that morning. The
others consisted of six Norwegians
who had probably spent the major};
part of their lives on rocking horsesﬁ‘
and two Englishmen who had- beer:
around the world several times. Af-
ter breakfast I went up on deék,-
wrapped myself in a rug and spent“
most of the day examining the cold
grey clouds which scurried incess-

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In determining these prices, the Com-
pany has made a careful study of mar-
ket and labor conditions and has based
the price reductions on the loweSt pos-
sible raw material and production costs
that can, under most favorable condi— v

L tions, be forecast for the season of I922.

At the new prices, a grain binder can
be bought for $50 to, $60 less than the
price of Ian. lst, l92l ; and other reduc-
tions are in-proportion.

At these prices no farmer can afford to

postpone the purchase of needed ma-

, chines, especially if his present equip-

ment will not‘stand up under the work
of} another planting and harvest.

\ ' An old corn planter may crack enough
4 kernels and miss enough hills to make
x its use mighty‘expensiye. A new planter
'fWiH save much of its cost the ﬁrst sea-

I  . json. . The same is true of a drill, Your
Old binder may lose grain enough in one

‘  If - ; ‘ f If you are at present interested in
” [new prices, or in looking over any individual machine, the
International “Dealer in your vicinity is at your service.

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1 Implement Prices Down

OUR I922 reduced prices on farm machines have just
' ‘ ' been issued and are effective immediately. They apply
' on practically our entire line of International Harvester grain,
hay, and corn harvesting machines, plows, tillage implements,
seeding machines, etc.

worn-out.

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harvest to make a substantial payment
on a new machine.
will go on for many years, saving a large
amount for you each year.

1 \Economy consists not in getting along
with worn-out machines but in farming
with eﬂicient machines.

You will of course continue With that
part of your present equipment which
is in good order and satisfactory. But
it is good judgment now as always to
abandon those machines which are really
Where repairs have been
made again and again, beyond the point
of serviceability, waste and loss are
pretty sure to follow.
will enable. you to replace the old
with efﬁcient, modern machines.
J. R. HoWard, President of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, has said. “The
farmer who needs additional machinery
and equipment pays for it whether he

learning some of the '

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RAMS MUST BE SIGNED

EFORE M'E lies an inquiry

from n farmer asking advice

in s controversy he has had
over "a. crop of beans raised on
shares. He wants an immediate
reply by mail, and signs his name
"reader." We have all the inform-
ation he needs ready to send to
him, but though we have rapped
on wood as hard as we could in
hopes the spirits would reveal his
identity to us. his name remains as
much of a secret as ever. He is
worrying because he hasn’t heard
from us. and we are worrying be-
cause we know he is worrying.
And all because he failed to sign
his name. All communications to
the Business Farmer, no matter
what deputment intended for
should be signed by the writer's
full name and address. Otherwise,
we cannot render them the prompt
and efficient service we would
like to. Beaders’ requests not to
print full name and address are
always respected. So sign your
name and spare both yourselves
and us needless worry.———Edit0r.

 

 

 

 

 

OVERSEER NEED NOT GIVE
RECEIPT
I would like to know if I have a lawful
right to do my road work on the high—
way in front of my farm, and if I do
this work will the overseer be obliged to

i give me a recoipt for the same?

This refers only to the amount of labor
which each farmer has the privilege of
working out upon the road.——C. S., Re-
m Michigan.

 

The law provides that the overseer
of highways is liable in case of ne-
glect or refusal to keep the road in
reasonable repair. It would logical-
ly follow therefore that the highway
commissioner and overseers would
have authority to designate the
place where the labor was to be per-
formed, in fact under section 18 of
chapter 25 of the General Highway
law it specifically provides that’ it
shall be the duty of the overseer to
give notice to all persons who work

i on the highways in his district of

the time and the place where they

L are to appear for that purpose and

 

with what implements they shall ap—
pear for the purpose of working on
the highway.

You are therefore advised that it
would not be compulsory upon an
overseer of highways to give a re-
ceipt for labor performed or an or-
der for pay for the same where the
taxpayer did not follow the instruc-
tions of the overseer or commission-
et.-—State Highway Commissioner.

 

DESTROYED \VILL

Mother makes a will to her children, to
be paid after youngest child is 21. Will
made out by justice of the peace and
signed by father and two other witnesses.
Father did not record it. Mother died
two weeks after will was made. Father
said be destroyed Um will. We can get
the witnesses any time. The youngest,
child is now 21. Can we collect it, and
what must we do?——C_ E. E, New Port,
Michigan.

 

If you can prove the contents of
the will by competent Witnesses and
the will was lawfully drawn you can
establish it as a lost will. The
father had no business to destroy it
without authority of the mother.
The children inherit their mother's
property and can have the estate
probated. The administrator can
then search out the property. Ap-
ply to the Judge of Probate of your
county—Legal Editor.

 

CRACKING OFF OF CEMENT
PLASTEB

I have a cement porch, wall and floor.
The wall I plastered inside and out with
cement plaster, cement sand and water,
8 and 3. They say the plaster will crack
end fall off under winter freezing. Is
there anything I can do to prevent the
plaster from falling? I am planning to
give it a coat of pure cement washI—O,
W. D., Lawrence, Michigan.

If the plaster on a concrete sur-
face is properly applied there is no
reason Why it should not prove a.
permanent job and little difficulty
of cracking or peeling off encount-
ered. At the outset it should be
stated that cement plaster adheres
best, of course, to fresh clean con‘
crete. If the plaster has been ap-
plied to anold surface, the old sur-

   

face should be properly prepared by .

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sisting of one part of muriatic acid
and nine part of water after which
the surface is again washed with
pure water. This will remove all
the surface accumulations of dust
and dirt which prevent a bond be-
tween the plaster and concrete.

Before the plaster is put on the
well should be thoroughly wet and
kept wet for some time so that the
moisture will not be taken Gut. of
the cement plaster as it is applied.
The suction of the capillary action
of a wall which is thoroughly dry is
such as to take up water rapidly and
this property should be satisfied be—
fore a new coat of plaster is applied.
If the plaster has already been ap-
plied it is, of course, difficult to say
Whether this trouble may be en-
countered. If reasonable care has
been taken it is unlikely that trouble
will occur. Probably no better treat-
ment can be given than to coat the
wall with a pure cement wash made
up of cement and water mixed to
about the consistency of cream. A
waterproof paint over the surface
could be applied but would, of course
add to the expense. A pure asphalt-
um paint which is black would also
assist but probably not be desired
on a porch floor. It seems that the
cement wash is about the only thing
which can be used to safeguard
against a large amount of moisture
getting into the concrete and caus-
ing difficulty by cracking—H. H.
Musselman, Professor of Farm Me-
chanics, M. A. 0.

 

PUBLIC MAY USE SCHOOL HOUSE

Can a school board prevent taxpayers
from using the school house for socials
and entertainments providing no damage
is doue'I—A. 13.. Wilson. Mich.

No. 318 of the Public Acts of
1917 provides that the school board
of any school district upon the writ-
ten application of any responsible
organization located in said district
or a group of at least seven citizens
of said school district, grant the
use of all schoolhouses as community
or recreation centers for the enter-
tainment and education of the peo-
ple, for the discussion of all topics

   

 
 

e. Collection 130

tending to the development of per-
sonel character and of civic welfare.
Such occupation. however, shall not
seriously infringe upon the original
and necessary uses of ml: proper
ties. The school board shall pre-
scribe such rules and regulations as
will secure a fair. reasonable. and
impartial use of the building. The
organization or group of citizens
shal”be responsible for any damages
done over and above ordinary wear,
and shall, if required pay the actual
expense incurred for janitor service,
light and heat—G. N. Otwell, Assist-
ant Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, Lansing, Mich. b

 

DRAIN ovnrmmws AND DAM-
AGES CROPS

Across the back of my place runs e
watercourse that was dredged out some
ten or fifteen years ago. Five years ago
they commenced dredging two miles west
of me and that has never overflowed
since, but across my place and a. mile and
a half east has overflowed at every high
Water time. Now they are digging a, ditch
that brings water here and never came
this way. The ditch is to cost $15,000,
and is being dug this fall. I farm clear
up to the creek. I don't care how much
water runs through here if they will take
care of it. I want to know if they have
any right to put that. water across my
land if it will do me damage, without
taking care of iL——-Sub8crlber, St. Johns.
Michigan.

They would have no rightto bring
water from another course and in
unusual quantities and allow to flow
unto you to your damage. It. will
be a hard matter to determine
whether it will overflow you or not
until it has been tried—Legal Ed-
itor.

 

TALK TITLES
I live in the village and would like two
or three more lots, and there are some
lots near me that. there ,is a. tax title
against. I would like to know the law
about tax titles, 50 as to know and not
make a. mistakeF-J. E. Evart, Michigan.

The law of tax title is too com-
plicated for even good lawyers to
always understand without a thor-
ough review of the facts and ex-
amination of the records. Do not
trust yourself but consult your at-
torney.-—-Legal Editor.

 

FOR THE ’STEENTH TIME

VERY WEEK or so a complaint
bobs up against the Chicago
Portrait Company. Here is the

latest:

“Three men representing the Chicago
Portrait Company came to my house and
offered to give away free an enlarged
picture. We were asked to draw a cou-
pon. One of the men raised his hand
and swore that no other picture would
be enlarged and no charges would be
made, lie handed me what he called a
receipt and asked me to Sign my name,
then he took it and made it out for $15,
holding it in his hands all the time. When
he got ready to go. he handed it to me
and fled, and come to find out it was a
contract. I sent it to the company the
next day but they failed to do anything
about it. and today another agent came
and brought two enlarged pictures for
which he wanted $15. I told him I had
given no such order. Have I got to pay
it? The agent said he would force me to.
Can they? Can’t you put a. stop to this
kind of work?’——Reader, Kawkawlin.

Michigan.

Dear reader, why do you not fol-
low the columns of the Business
Farmer more closely? Had you
been a rpgular reader of this de-
partment you have been warned
against this concern and when its
agents came to your door you would
have kicked them out. If the facts
are exactly as you have stated, 11
the order was obtained through mis-
representation, don’t take the pic-
tures and don't pay the agent a cent.
He is playing a pure fraud and my
prediction is he does. not; dare take
his case into the courts. If they
make any trouble for you let us
know. We have been aching for a
long time to go to the mat with these
people and we would like nothing
better than to put the courts and
the” postoffice department 'on their
trail. . In fact. I have a letter from

 
     

ing for copies of contracts, corres-
pondence, etc., bearing this firm's
name. Will all readers who have
been stung by this company send in
the facts, together with all corres-
pondence?——Editor.

 

INFORMATION WANTED

HE FRANKLIN Tire & Rubber

Company of Chicago are sending

out circular letters all over the
country marked "personal," in which
wonderful bargains in automobile
tires are offered. One of these let-
ters has been sent to us by a sub-
scriber who wants to know if the
firm is “all right." It is not. We
don’t have to know anything about
the men behind it We don’t have
to examine one of the tires. We
don't have to put one on our car and
run it; 15,000 miles to know that the
firm is deliberately misrepresenting
its goods and that it cannot manu-
facture a tire for $9.95 which it can
guarantee to give 12,000 miles ser-
vice. Their “personal” letter is a.
fraud and deception from start to
finish. ”‘ .

But. these people are going to fool
hundreds of farmers ‘by their plaus-
ible letters, and we can’t stop them.
But Uncle Sam can. So we want
every reader who has bought any
tires from this concern to tell us
about them. How much did they
cost? How far have they run?
Have they given good service? Did
the company put a mileage guaran-
tee on them? If this information
shows that the company has used the
United States mail for the dissem-
ination of false and misleading
statements we will put the postal
authorities on their trail... Help, us.

Jinyost -,  ’

 
  

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will examine your herd or forum the
tuberculin. It. 11 not do either.
winterlfnttedseonorbeeLkiliedm
it was full of tubercuis. I bus-hi! it
went to the state veterinary deport-
with my story, and a'eiip out from
Business Farmer. how the state
nkecareofseme. Theygaveme
deretsnd than. was nothing to it.
idhavetogettbelocslveterlnary
care of same. and he ventral
for from one to ten h .
. Merle Beach, Mich.

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The state does conduct. tests of
herds and furnishes tuberculin thru
the Federal Bureau of Animal Indus-
try under certain conditions. There
are eight counties in the state at the
present time, in which co-operative
testing is being done. The expense
of such testing is borne by'the fed-
eral government,"the state and the
counties in which the work is being
conducted.

There are also a large number of

pure—bred herds in the state, which '

are accredited or undergoing the
process of accreditation. The tests
upon these herds have been conduct-
ed by federaland state veterinarians.
Any owner of a pure bred herd can
have his name placed on the waiting
list for such work by making appli-
cation to the federal inspector in
charge.

The federal bureauis furnishing
all the tuberculin used in the comp-
arative testing work in the state, and
is also willing to furnish tuberculin,
in so far as the supply permits, for
tests made to cover interstate ship-
ments of cattle, or tests conducted
upon herds which are supplying milk
to cities having milk ordinances.

The reason you received no in-
demnity from the state for the
tubercular animal which you kill-
ed and buried, was because the re-
quirements of the law were not met.
The law requires that before any
state indemnity can be paid for s
tubercular animal, It representative
of this department shall be present
to examine and appraise the animal
at the time of slaughter. If
you are the owner of a grade herd
and not in one of the counties
in which co-operative work is being
conducted as the result of appropri-
ations having been made by the
board of supervisors, it will be neces-
sary for you to employ a local vet-
erinarian to conduct a test.

The price you mention for a. sub—
cutaneous test is not unreasonable,
when we consider the fact that such
a. test requires at least twenty-two
hours for completion. .

We hope in a very short time to
be in a position to permit qualified
local veterinarians to use the lrﬁra—
dermic test. With this test the cost
will be lower, for it requires only a

fraction of the time that is necessary _

with the, subcutaneous test, and is
not nearly so expensive to conduct.—
B. J. Killham, _
State Department of Agriculture.

 

CAN’T TAKE DOW‘N OWN ‘WIRE

Would like to know the law about
fences. I rented s. farm for a year and
asked the owner if I could move a ‘hog
house on it and put; up a. fence. and he
said I could. Now I have moved the hog
house and want to take down the fence.
and they have stopped me from taking
it down. It was my own wire that I
put up. If there is such a law, please
explain as soon so you cam—G. LL, Co.
ve

The fence and beg house that be-
longed to you when you moved them
on the place are still yours if you
have not agreed in same lawful way
that they should belong to the own-
er. You mey remove them at will if
you do so before your time empires.
——Legal Editor. ‘

SIGNATURE" s NEEDED 0N
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A mu replevtued some bay of mine...

'mie replevy was not signed by the man
whotook the hay orby the‘iudge’ that is-

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sued it. but'the one they get is sign? ‘
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'tofore-the same minimum weights

for, livestock have prevailed_on cars
87 feet .6 inches up to and includ-
ing 40 feet and 3 Inches, but the 40
feetvﬁ inch car has taken a higher
minimum weight. This extra min-
imum weight made it necessary for
the shipper to pay for 2,000 extra
pounds for three inches added to the
length of his car.‘ The exception

noted includes the 40 feet 6 inch car-

in the general minimum Weight
classificatibn. One Michigan rail-
road has 629» such overlength live-
stock cars, said the Farm Bureau in
pointing out the savings which are
possible to Michigan shippers.

LOANS TO LIVE STOCK COM-
PANIES '

" NEW LIVE stock loan company
was formed last week, with
$500,000 subscribed capital,

$250,000 to be immediately paid in,

eta meeting of liVe stock interests,
bankers and other business men in

Albuquerque,» New Mexico. This

company will receive advances from

the War Finance Corporation, and is
expected to be helpful to the live-
stock industry in the New Mexico
territory. -
Robert E. Goree of Houston, Tex-
as, has presented t-o.-the Board of

Directors of the War Finance Cor-

poration a proposition to farm a

new live stock loan company with a

capital of not less than $500,000 to

assist in taking care of the financing
of the live stock industry in Texas.

The War Finance Corporation agreed

to make advances to this company as

soon as its organization is completed,
which will be carried out promptly.

The total amount of new banking
capital for live stock financing is
being rapidly increased, especially
in co-operation with the War Fin-
ance Corporation.

PURE-BRED SWINE ON FARMS ‘

N January 1st, 1921, there were
2,049,900 pure-bred h0g5 in the
United States, according to De-

partment of Commerce. The sever-
al breeds among which this number
was distributed are as follows: Du-
roc Jersey,“810 117; Poland China,
726,503; Chester White, 191,207;
Hampshire, 106,960; Berkshire, 86,-
676; Spotted Poland China, 47,512;
Yorkshire, 6,170; Tamworth, 5,503;
Essex, 3,313; and all other breeds,
including animals reported as pure-
bred with breed not speciﬁed, 56,-
,939. On the above given date there
were 33,527 pure-bred hogs in Mich-
igan. Classified according to breeds
they were: Berkshire, 1,618; Chest-
er White, 7,869; Duroc Jersey, 12,-
842; Hampshire, 1,023; Poland
China, 8,739; Spotted Poland China,
249; Tamworth, 135; Yorkshire,
376; all other breeds, 6762

PLANNING FOR MICIIIGAN’B BIG-
GEST DAIRY SHOW

LENN OVERTON, president of
the Michigan Allied Dairy As-
sociation, will confer with
Washington officials with a view to
securing for the annual dairy show
and convention in Saginaw the com-
ing February, the wonderful exhibit
which was staged by the Department
of Agriculture at the National Dairy
Show. The cost of this exhibit, was
in excess of $25,000. If it can be
secured for Michigan it will easily
be one of the most instructive dairy
exhibits ever shown in the state. In
addition, exhibits will be shown by
the State Department of Agriculture,
the E. A. C. and manufacturers of
various dairy machinery and . sup-
plies. It was voted to undertake a
program to speed up dairy produc-
tion and marketing economics, and
the executive committee was instruct-
.“ to submit a program for ~ such
work. Easy on the production ped-
dle, gentlemen! ‘ Just now we have
more mﬁk than we know what to do

, _ H. D. Wendt, until recently in
charge at the bureau or, deli-yin: of
the State Department, of Agriculture,
has consented to continue, on a full-.

 with;   Association as

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MICHIGAN COPS PRIZES IN BIG
POTATO SHOW
ORTHERN Michigan potato
growers took lion's share of
. prizes at international potato
exposition at Duluth, Minn., accord-
ing to D. L. Hagerman, Agr'l Agent
of the Penn. railroad. The prize for
the best international display was
taken by Michigan men who exhibit-
ed Petoskey and Golden Russet po-
tatoes, and the $250 in cash and the
cup is now held by the Wolverine
Co-operative Marketing Association
of Cheboygan. Lee E. Sneathen of
Charlevoix; J. Fred Brudy, of Wol-
verine and E. Sutton of Central Lake
took first, second. and third prizes
respectively for exhibits of Petoskey
Golden Russets. Sneathens exhibit
also took the sweepstakes honor in
this class.

 

AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS

-A Reports come from Canada show-
ing that shippers are expecting in-
creasing business with, and large
shipments of grain and flour to the
Orient in the near future. China and
Japan are asking for cargo space for
these commodities, while good in-
quiry from India is reported.

The oﬂerings at wool auction sales
held in London, England, on Octob-
er 25th, amounted to 10,871 bales.
Attendance was large and competi-
tion of a keen nature on all grades.
Prices recently established held up
well. ..

President Harding turned a deaf
ear to the petitions of nearly every
farmers' organization in Washington
and nominated “the husband of Mrs.
Geo. W. Upton” to fill the expired

1‘. I  r. M t  '  E—‘Et'k;

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mission instead of Milo D. Camp-
bell of ‘Coidwater. Up to the very
day of the appointment it was be-
lieved by farm organization repre-
sentatives that Mr. Campbell would
be named.

The wheat crop of India for the
1920-21 season totaled about 6,800,-
000 tons, including the estimated
production of those areas from which
specific reports were not obtained,
according to the final general Wheat
memorandum of the Department of
Statistics, India, for this period. The
corresponding total production of the
1919-20 wheat crop was 10,200,000
tons, and of the 1918-19 crop about
7,600,000 tons.

Northern Michigan potato fields
are yielding much better than ex-
pected. Many fields which were
practically given up earlier in the
season are, it is said, returning as
fine a crop of spnds as they ever pro-
duced.

England sugar refiners which have
been out of the market for some
time have recently placed an order
for 30,000 tons of Cuban sugar.
This is believed to be the forerunner
of a considerable purchase of Cuban
sugars, and is also taken as an indi-
cation that the English believe su—
gar prices have about reached their
lowest levels. Japan, it is said, is
also anxious to buy Cuban sugar.

Exports of wool from Argentina
during the first seven months of
1921 reached 189,209 bales of 925
pounds each, according to figures
published by the Review of the
River Plate. During the same rer-
iod of 1920 the wool exports totaled
151,599 bales. The United States
furnished the chief market, having
taken 63,869 bales. Germany took
54,216 bales and the United King-
dom 33,146 bales.

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ANOTHE’R FIGHT PENDING ON
BILL TO IEGALIZE CO—OP-
ERATIVE W0
(Untamed from page 4)
co—operatively is granted by many
other countries, and outside of a
few members of the Senate Judici~
ary Committee, I know of very few
people who are adverse to recogniz-
ing the value of co—operative mar—
keting and the passage of the prop-

er laws.

“When we get down to bedrock
arguments there is very little, if
any, difference between a corpora—
tion with its hundred and thousands
of stockholder members, and the co-
operative marketing association with
its members. The Sherman Anti-
Trust Law recognizes the corpora-
tion but according to certain inter-
pretations of the Clayton amendment
does not recognize co-operative mar‘
keting associations, give them the
legal standing which is necessary
for them to have if they are not to
be hailed into the courts and pay for
expensive and tedious proceedings
whenever they cross the path of oth-
er business.

“If the purpose of this bill are
not again to be defeated its language
should be restored to the same as
was used by the House when it pass-
ed the bill. A word to your Sen-
ator may do wonders in helping the
cause of co—operative marketing."

This clearly defines the exact
truth of the situation. Farmers
who believe in the principle of co—
operative marketing ought to help
get this bill through. Why not
write a little letter to Senators Town‘
send and Newberry, saying: “I am
in favor of the Capper—Volstead bill.
Will you please do What you can to
secure its passage.” A few thous-
and letters of that sort might do
wonders.

 

I think your paper is the best farm
paper in the State Hf Michigan. My hat
is oiT to the man who dares print facts,
and not fancies and phraselogy to suit
the middlemen. May your paper forever
f10urish.——-C. H. Irwin, Tuscola County,
Michigan.

 

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SYNOPSIS

T IS SPRING and in the northland Necwa. a 2dnonths-old black bear-cub
I and his mother, Noozak, who has just-completed a 4-month winternap,

are starting on a journey to their feeding grounds.
He begins to feel he is a grown-up bear
and one evening after his mother is asleep he wanders through the woods by
He sees a. black paw protruding from behind a large rock, and, think-
ing that he has come back to the. place he started from and that the paw
belongs to his mother, he decides to awaken her.
into the paw only to ﬁnd that it belongs, not to his mother, but to a very ugly
His mother comes to his rescue, and, although

citing adventures along the way.

himself.

old he-bear who pursues him.

she drives the old lie—bear off, she receives a severe beating.
Challoner, a Hudson Bay (‘onipany factor,
He has a pup, Miki, with him, winch he IS

he would like to secure the cub to give to
}Ie is unable to find the cub. Ncewa, who is securely

Challoner walks some distance away and Neewa
happened to his mother, comes down, and his little bear
when he finds his mother is dead.
e suececds in capturing Neewa.
Neewa and Miki become friends and spend that
der :1 large root.
his first attempt to win Neewa's friendship.

bears and shoots Noozak.
hidden in the crotch of a tree.
anxious over what has
heart is overcome with grief
turns and after a five-minute battl
the cub to his camp where
night together in a hollow un

Neewa has many ex—

IIe,playfully sinks his teeth‘

In the meantime
discovers the tracks of the bears.
taking to his sister, and he decides
her also. Challoner meets up with the

Challoner re-
Ile carries

Next morning Challoner makes

 

 

 

 

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EAVING the cub to squirm in pro—
test, Challoner went about the
business of getting breakfast.
Miki found a proceeding more
interesting than that operation, and
he hovered about Ncewa as he

‘struggled and bawled, trying vainly

to offer him some assistance in the
matter of sympathy. Finally Ncewa
lay still, and Miki sat down close
beside him and eyed his master
with serious questioning if not ac.
tu'al disapprobation.

The gray sky was breaking with
the promise of the sun when Chal—
loner was ready to renew his long
journey into the southland. He pack—
ed his canoe. leaving Neowa and
Miki until the last. In the bow of
the canoe he made a soft nest of
the skin taken from the Cub’s moth-
er. Then he called Miki and tied the
end of a worn rope around his neck,
after which he fastened the other
end of this rope. around the neck of
Neewa. This he had the cub and the
pup on the same yard-long halter.
Taking each of the twain by the
scruff of the neck he carried them
to the canoe and placed them‘ in the
nest he had made of Noozak’s hide.

“Now you youngsters be good,”
he warned. “\Ve’re going to aim at
forty miles today to make up for
the time we, lost yesterday.”

As the canoe shot out a shaft of
sunlight broke through the sky low
in the east.

 

CHAPTER FIVE
URING the first few moments
D in which the canoe" moved

* swiftly over the surface of the
Jake an amazing change had taken
place in Neewa. Challoner did not
see it, and Miki was unconscious of
it. But every fibre in Neewa’s body
was atremble, and his heart was
thumping as it had pounded on that
glorious day of the fight between
his mother and the old lie—bear. It
seemed to him that everything that
he had lost. was coming back to
him, and that all would be well
very soon—for he smellcd his moth-
er! And then he discovered that the
scent of her was warm and strong
in the furry black mass under his
feet, and he smothered himself down
in it, flat on his plump little belly,
and peered at Challoner over his
paws.

It was hard for him to under-
stand—the man—beast back there,
sending the canoe through the Water,
and under him his mother, warm
and soft, but so deadly still! He
could not keep the whimper out of
his low and grief—filled
call for her. And there was no ans-
.wer, except Miki’s responsive whine.
the crying of one child for another.
Neewa’s mother did not move. She

 

‘made no sound. And he could see

nothing of her but her black and
furry skin—without head, without

: ‘feet, Without the big, bald paws he
'Jitad loved to tickle, and the ears he
"had loved to nip. There was noth-

Jing.. of her but the patch of black
"kin—and the smell. ,
But a. great comfort warmed, his

 

frightened little soul. He felt the
protecting nearness of an uncon—
querable and abiding force and in
the first of the warm sunshine his
back fluffed up, and he thrust his
brown nose between his paWS and
into his mothers fur. Miki, as if
vainly striving to salve the mystery
of his new-found chum, was watch-
ing him closely from between his
own fore—paws. In his comical head
ﬁadorned with its one good ear
and its one bad one, and further-
more beautified by the outstanding
whiskers inherited from his Aire-
dale ancestor—he was trying to
come to some sort of an understand-
ing. At the outset he had accepted
Nccwa as a friend and a comrade—
and Neewa had thanklessly given
him a good mauling for .his trouble.
That much Miki could forgive and
forget. What he could not forgive
was the utter lack of regard which
Neewa seemed to possess for him.
His playful antics had gained no
recognition from the cub. When he
had barked and hopped about, flat—
tening and contorting himself in
warm invitation for him to join in
a game of tag or a wrestling match,
Neewa had simply stared at him
like an idiot. lie was wondering, per-
haps, if Neewa would enjoy any-
thing besides a fight. It was a long
time before he decided to make an-
other experiment. ‘

It was, as a matter of fact, half-
way between breakfast and noon. In
all that time Neewa had scarcely
moved, and Miki was finding him—
self bored to death. The discomfort
of last night’s storm was only a
memory, and overhead there was a
sun unshadowed by~ cloud. More
than an hour before C-halloner’s
canoe had left the lake. and was
now in the Clear-running water of
a stream that was making its way
down the southward slope of the (li-
vide between Jackson’s Knee and the
Shamattawa. It was a new' stream
to Challoner, fed by the large lake
above, and guarding himself against
the treachery of waterfall and rapid
he kept a keen lookout ahead. For
a matter of half an hour the water
had been growing steadily swifter,
and Challoner was satisfied that be—
fore very long he would be compelled
to make a portage. A little later he
heard ahead of him the low and
steady murmur which told him he
was approaching a danger zone. As
he shot around the next bend hug—
ging fairly ,close to shore, he saw
four or five hundred yards below
him a rock—frothed and boiling mael-
strom of water.

Swiftly his eyes measured the sit-
uation. The rapids ran between an
almost precipitous shore on one side
and a deep forest on the other. He
saw at a glance that it was the for—
est side over which he must make

the portage, and this was the shore

opposite him and farthest away.
Swinging his canoe at a 45-degree
angle he put all the strength of his
body and arms into the sweep of his
paddle. There would be just time
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It as at this unfortunate moment;

that Miki decided to venture one 

more experiment with Neewa. With
a friendly yip- he swung out one of
his paws. Now Miki’s paw, for a pup,
was monstrously big, and his fore-
leg as long and lanky, so that when
the paw landed squarely on the end
of Ne-ewa’s nose it was like the
swing of a priZe-fighter’s glove. The
unexpectedness of it was a further
decisive feature in the situation;
and, on top of this, Miki swung his 1
other paw around like a club and
caught Nee‘wa a jolt in the eye. This
was too much, even from a friend,
and with a sudden snarl Neewa
bounced out of his nest and clinch-
ed with the pup.

Now the fact was that Miki, who
had so ingloriously begged for merCy
in their first scrimmage, came of
fighting stock himself. Mix ‘the
blood of a Mackenzie hound—which
is the biggest-footed, biggest-shoul-
dered, most powerful dog in the
northland—with the blood of a Spitz
and an Airedale and something is
While the
Mackenzie dog, with his ox-like
strength, is peaceable and good-hu-
moured in all sorts of weather, there
is a. good deal of the devil in" the
northern Spitz and Airedale and it
is a question which likes a fight the
best. And all at once good—humour-
ed little Miki felt the devil rising in
him. This time he did not yap for
mercy. He met Neewa’s jaws, and
in two seconds they were staging a
first—class fight on the bit of pre-
carious footing in the prow of the
canoe.

Vainly Challoner yelled at them as
he paddled desperately to beat out
the danger of the rapids. Neewa
and Miki were too absorbed to hear
him. Miki’s four paws were paddling
the air again, but this time his.
sharp teeth were firmly fixed in the
loose hide under Neewa’s neck, and
with his paws he continued to kick
and bat in a way that promised elf—

'fectively to pummel the wind out

of Neewa had not the thing happen—
ed which Challoner feared. Still in
a clinch they rolled off. the prow of
the canoe into the swirling current
of the stream.

For ten seconds or so‘they utter-
ly disappeared. Then they bobbed up,
a good fifty feet below him, their
heads close 0
together as
they 5 p e d
swiftly toward
the doom that
awaited them,
and a choking
«cry b r o k e
from Challon-
er’s lips. He
was powerless
to save them,
and in his cry
was the an-
guish of real

grief. F o r
many weeks
Mik i _h a (1

been his only

c 11 u m a n d
comrade.
Held to-

gether by the
yard—long rope
to which they
were fastened
Miki and Nee-
wa swept into
the frothing
turmoil of the
rapids. For
Miki it was
the kindness
of fate / that
had inspired
his master to
fasten him to
the same J‘ope
With Neewa.
Miki, at three
,months 0 f
age, weight.
14 pounds,—
was about 80
per cen’ ‘ne
and only a
half of 1 per
c e'nt fat;
while Neewa,
weight thir-
teen pounds,
was about 90

jolt in the‘ eye. .

:chor, While .Neowa. was

; 110.311.;th an; ‘
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»' waterfall below. ‘ .

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there a yellow streak. Both were
-of fighting stock, and, though Miki
was under water most of the time
during ,. their first hundred-yard
dash [through the rapids, never for
an instant did he give up the- strug-
gle to keep his nose in the air.
Sometimes he was on his back and
sometimes on his belly; butrno mat-
ter what his position, he.kept his
four overgrown paws goingJike pad-
helped
Neewa in the heroic fight he was
making to keep from shipping too
much water himself. Had he been
alone his ten or eleVen pounds of
fat would have carried him down-
stream like a toy balloon covered
with fur, but, with the fourteen-
pound drag around his neck, the
problem of not going under com-
pletely was a‘ serious one. Half a.
dozen times he did disappear for. an
instant when some undertow caught
Miki and dragged him down, head
tail, legs, and all. But Neewa al-
ways rose again, his four fat legs
working for dear life.

Then came the waterfall. By this
time Miki had become accustomed
to travelling under water, and the
full horor of the new cataclysm in-
to which they were plunged was
mercifully lost to him. His paws
had almost ceaged their motion. He
was still unconscious of the roar in
his ears, but- the affair was less un-
pleasant than it was at the begin—
ning. In fact, he ,was drowning.
To Nee'wa, the pleasant sensations of
a painless death were denied. No
cub in the world was wider awake
than he when the final catastrophe
came. His head was well above water
and he was clearly possessed of all
his senses. Then the river itself
dropped out from under him and he
shot down in an avalanche of water,
feeling no longer the drag of Miki’s
weight at his neck.

How deep the pool‘was at the
bottom of the water-fall Challoner
might have guessed quite accurate-
ly. Could Neewa have expressed an
opinion of his own, hepwould have

'sworn that it was a mile. Miki was

past the stage of making estimates
or of caring whether it was two feet
or two leagues. His paws had ceased

(Continued on page, 21)

 

“ Miki swung, his other paw around and caught N eewa 

This was too much, even from a friend, and i  
with a. sudden "snarl Neewa~ bouﬁced out of his nest 

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DON’T GIT SCARED

HAT AN awful howlin', ravin’
. an’ roarin’ the grain an’ pro-

duce dealers are puttin’ up
nowadays about the Farm Bureau
an’ what it’s doin’ fer the farmers.
Not only are they shoutin'~ them-
selves hoarse, individually an’ col-
lectively, but they’re buyin’ space in
newspapers to tell what an' awful
thing the Farm Bureau is. An’
they’re willin"to pay good prices
fer space too, ’cause the Farm Bur-

eau, through its sellin’ an’ buyin’
departments, is cutﬂn’ into these
tellers business somethin’ scand’lus

-——the farmers are gittin’ some of
the profits that have been comin'
into their hands an’ jest natcherly
they don’t like it.

You know if‘you’ve got a nice
big corn on your toe an’ somebody
steps on it, you’re quite apt to hol-
ler right out so’s folks'll know you
are hurt. Well, the Farm Bureau
is the corn that's hurtin’ the produce
dealers an' it’s gittin’ so it hurts
real bad, too.

Where any business can’t live on
honest competition—when the bus-
iness has to go to the newspapers
an' pay for the space it takes to tell
the people how honest an’ fair that
business is, there’s somethin’ wrong
with the methods—there’s a good
big nigger in the woodpile some-
where ’cause when any business is
conducted on the square, people
know it an’ the newspapers don‘t
charge fer space to tell about it—
they’re glad to print such stuff as
an interestin’ piece of news.

‘The grain an’ produce dealers
have raised a fund of over a quarter
million dollars to pay fer space in
newspapers to spread propaganda
that is intended to put the Farm
Bureau out of business. Where did
this quarter of a million dollars
come from an’ why are these tellers
tryin’ to kill the Farm Bureau?

Well, the quarter million is a
small part of the money that has
been squeezed an’ pilfered from the
farmers. Remember that under the
very benevolent manipulations of
the grain an’ produce dealers, 35
cents out of each dollar the con-
sumer pays fer farm products, is
handed back to the farmer that pro—
,duced it. Jest think of it! Thirty-
five cents in real money comes to
you an’ the poor down—trodden
commission men an’ the retailers
get only sixty—five cents fer sellin’
the stud you raise. Of courseevery
body should ort to know that it
costs a good deal' more to sell the
stuff than it does to raise it—why,
farmers. you have all summer an’
sometimes all the year, to raise your
stuff an’ all you have to do is work
an' furnish the land an‘ seed an’
everything a'n' plenty of time to do
it in.

The poor commission men have to
git up at nine o’clock in the morn-
in’ an’ hustle ’round till nearly
three o’clock in the afternoon an'
answer teephone calls an’ chat with
their stenographers an’ smoke good
cigars an’ dress nice an’ book or-
ders at big profits for the stuff you
work only 16 hours a day to raise,
an’ they only git sixty-five cents out
of each dollar your stuff brings.

An' now the Farn‘1 Bureau pro-
poses to do their own sellin' an’
buyin' an’ relieve These tellers of
some of the burdens they’ve been
carryin’so long, an' the unreason-
able guys don’t seem to take‘ kindly
to the schemee-they see their easy
money slippin' away from 'em an',
goin’ into the farmers' pockets—
where it rightfully belongs an’ this
is the reason they’re willin' to spend
a quarter of a million of yourdol-
lars to kill the thing that is hurtin'
their business.

They will tell you all kinds or

things in the able an’ masterly art-
icles that will be printed in all the
leadin’ papers for you to read. These
articles will be "written by highly
paid writers of that son at stat
They. will tell you of. the big salar-

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season where the trapper realized
.equare mile. 01 course there are
. ﬁnals.
,where the catch of mtiskrat, mink or

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won't mention the big profits they
hava been makin’ nor the prices
they will pay the newspapers fer
space nor what they pay the writers
of the stuff that will be printed. It
is not a part of their plan to give
any .insight into their methods of
graft nor large profits, but they
will set themselves up as philan-
thropists whose only aim is to aid
the far_mer.

Wise farmers will take no stock
in the piffle that is bein' printed
’cause they know beforehand
why an’ by whom this stuff is print-
ed. The Farm Bureau may make
some mistakes—it would be very
unreasonable to suppose it would
not—but the Farm Bureau is work—
in' for the farmer an’ is a good
thing an’ no matter how much it
hurts the fellers that have been
fattenin’ off’n the farmers fer many
years, its the thing fer the farmers
to stand by an' work fer until they
get the sellin' an’ the buyin’ partv‘
of the farmers business, where the
farmers themselves will' have some-
thin’ to say about the price of the
stuff they raise or have to buy.

Remembr this, paid propaganda
that you read in the newspapers, is
printed an’ circulated in the inter-
ests of those who pay fer the space.
It is put out as a money maker for
them, else it wouldn’t be printed.
Nobody pays for Space in newspa—
pers unless they expect to gain by
it. Its expensive business but
brings big returns an' if these fel—
lers can kill your Farm Bureau,
which is now their greatest menace,
a quarter of a million dollars will be
a small amount to pay fer the ser—
vice an’ its your money that’s pay—
in’ fer it anyway. Cordially yours.
—UNCLE RUBE.

 

 

Fur Department
Edited by A. R. Harding, America’s

foremost author and trapper.

Questions Invited.

 

 

THE TRAPP] NG INDUSTRY

ICHIGAN HAS long been known
as one of the best fur produc—
ing states both as to quality

and quantity. Forts or trading posts
were established in various parts of
the state nearly two centuries ago
and in most instances are the sites
of flourishing cities today. The fur
trade, however, did not pass with
the growth of cities and the cutting
of the forests. True, beaver, otter.
bear, fisher, marten and Wolverine
are found in limited numbers com-
pared with the early day. It is the
skins of muskrat, mink, coon, skunk
and fox that bring in most of the
money for these animals are much
more numerous and have been for
years, than those first named. More
than three-fourths of the value of
Michigan's fur catch is now includ-
ed in the five articles named above.

Suppose the average catch for a
number of years is only worth $20
a season for each square mile, the
total would be $1,100,000. This es-
timate is made on 55,000 square
miles as 2,430 is deducted for De-
troit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Bay
City, Muskegon, Lansing, Flint, Cad—
illac, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jack-
son, Mount Clemens and a few other
of the larger places. Neither is the
1,485 square miles of water includ-
ed where tens of thousands of musk-
rat and hundreds of mink are caught.
il‘his estimate is probably much too
ow.

When fairly good coon pelts bring
$4.50, mink $7, skunk $2.75, musk-
rat $1.75, red fox $8 it does not take
many furs to bring $20. In fact
there were many catches made last

$60 to $100 and even more for each
various localities, even outside cit-
Res, where there are very few fur an-
Agnin there are localities

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People of every walk of life, in every state in the
Union, are represented in the ownership of the Bell
People from every class of telephone

users, members of every trade, profession and business,
as well as thousands of trust funds, are partners in this
greatest investment democracy which is made up of
the more than 175,000 stockholders of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company.

If this great body of people clasped hands they would ‘
form a line more than I50 miles long.
your door, it would take more than 48 hours of ceaseless

‘ tramping for the line to pass.

This democracy of Bell telephone owners is greater in
number than the entire population of one of our states;
and more than half of its owners are women.

There is one Bell telephone shareholder for every 34

Marching by

other great industry has so

democratic a distribution of its shares; no other industry
is so completely owned by the people it serves.
 truest sense, the Bell System is an organization "of the
people, by the people, for the people."
It is, therefore, not surprising that the Bell System
gives the best and cheapest telephone service to be found

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Our Illustrated catalog gives a. lot of
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Food in Storage

' ISIBLE supply of any product, we are
told, has an important beating on the
market. A large visible supply means, as a
rule, a depressed market; a small visible sup-
ply an active market. If this be true, and to
a certain extent it sounds logical, it might
pay the farmers well to keep themselves in-
formed as to the changes which take place
from time to time in this supply. Visible
supply is that supply which is stored in
country elevators, warehouses, terminal ele-
vators, warehouses, terminal elevators, cold
storage plants, etc, upon which an account is
periodically rendered to the U. S. Depart-

ment of Agriculture.

Visible supplies of grain are reported al-
most daily by many newspapers. But little
is said and consequently little is known by
large numbers of farmers of the visible sup-
ply of other products such as frozen meats,
poultry, lard, apples, butter, cheese, eggs,
etc. Yet, undoubtedly the size of these hold-
ings has a material effect upon the market,
particularly if they are very much out of line
with the normal holdings.

At present the visible supply of all kinds
of frozen meats is less than it has been for
some years. On Oct. lst the supply of frozen
and cured beef, was ‘ the smallest ever re—
corded. On the samc date stocks of frozen
lamb and mutton were the smallest of any
corresponding date since 1918, stocks of dry
salt pork were the smallest since 1917, and of
pickled pork were under the ﬁve-year aver-
age. The decrease of lard stocks during the
September was the largest ever recorded in
any single month. Stocks of creamery but-
ter, cheese and poultry all show a substantial
following off both from last year and the ﬁve-
year average.

There is food for thought in this situation
and the only conclusion that can be drawn
from it is thatpmore active markets and bet-
ter prices are to result from the inroads that
have been made upon our reserve food stocks.

 

Save the Eyes
TWO IRISHMEN had pa’rtak'en a little
too freely of Scotch whiskey and were
debating with each other whether they were
drunk or sober. Pat proposed that he should
walk ahead and Mike should report if he
failed to walk straight. So Pat started off
and called back to Mike, “Be I walkin’
shtraight?” “Yez are,” said Mike, “but

who ’s the guy Wit you 1” _.

Intoxicated people are not the Only ones
who do not see straight. 'A large percentage.
of sober pecple, including both children and
adults, see crooked all the time and don’t
know it. ’
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children in the public-chock. Very mogul;
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turity their eyes am ﬂy
pled and they are obgﬁled
rest of 'lhcir lives; ‘ '

forever of troublesome glasses? Defectiye
eyes in children can often be corrected with-
out the use of glasses. Sc, fathers and moth-
crs, look to your children’s eyes, have them
tested occasionally by someone you know is
competent and spare them the headaches and
the. spectacle nuisance of later years.

 

“It Can’t Be Done, But He Did It”

HEN HENRY Ford introduced indus-

trial democracy into his plant, his en-
emies cried, “It can’t be done”. When,he
announced that he would smelt his own ore
and make his own steel, the steél magnatcs
said, “It can’t be done”. When he spurned
Wall Street ’3 offer of a seventy-ﬁve million
dollar loan at a ruinous interest rate and told
the ﬁnanciers that he would work out his own
salvation, they said, ,“It can’t be done”. His
offer to buy Muscle Shoals and develop it was
met with incredulity. uBut the crowning ev-
idence of his impracticality was his purchase
of a railroad, and when he announced that he
would increase wages and still make money,
the railway magnatcs shook their heads and
said, “It can’t be done”.

But what couldn’t be done, he did it. Ev-
erything of a business nature to which he has
set his hand has succeeded, and many and
amusing have been the excuses of those who
said, “it couldn’t be done”. The reason
Henry Ford succeeds whcre other’s fail is be-
cause be totally disregards business traditions
and follows the most obvious course. He has
no strikes and no loafing on the job because
he treats his men in a way to make them want
to work for him. Because he is a child when
it comes to questionable ﬁnancing he has no
such worries as do many concerns of having
to earn dividends on watered stock. He em-
ploys no staff of high-salaried attorneys to
keep him out of the courts because he does
nothing that would take him into the courts.
His crccd is simple. “Our faith is that ser-
vice will pay”, he says. “Finance does not
come ﬁrst. Work comes ﬁrst”.

A good many people have reached the
point where they believe Henry Ford will ac—
complish any job he tackles. If there’s some
big job in this period of readjustment which
can’t be done, give it to Henry Ford. He’ll
do it. '

 

Live Stock Loans

IT IS a wonder that some live banker,
farmer or farm organization in this state
doesn’t get busy and organize a live stock
loan company to help use some 'of the funds
of the War Finance Corporation. There is
scarcely an important western live stock state
in which one or more live stock loan compan—
ics with a. capital of from a half to a million
dollars has not been formed. The War Fin-
ance Corporation encourages the formation
of such companies and has millions of dollars
to loan through them to feeders and breeders
of live stock. We are not informed as to
whether our livestock farmers are meeting
with any unusual difﬁculty in securing loans
but it would be most surprising if they are
not. The War Finance Corporation offers an
easy method of ﬁnancing this class of loans.
Why not take advantage of it? .

 

“The Truth About the Railroads”

(C EAD THIS”, says the railroad mag-

nate. “It is the truth about the
railroads”. “Read this”, says the labor of-
ﬁcial, “it is the truth about the railroads”.
You read. The statements don ’t jibe. Some—
body has lied. The public has learned that it
can place no credence in the claims of either
the railroad. employer or his employe. And
it is useless to go to the Interstate Commerce

Commission. The principal truth about. the
c raikbads i8. and We don’t have to go to any,

 the information, they are in 

bad.” ﬁnd if somebody don'tﬂjdo  , 

 about it pretty soon we’ll have e

um ‘   'i
Who wouldn’t give half he Possesses. to be rid;

   
   

  

    

new era of extension wor ”. The secrétary

then explained how he thought the extenSion.

work Which, is now conducted in many counties
by three distinct leaders working among the
men, the, women, and the boys and girls re-

pcctively would eventually be done under a ‘
Lsingle head.

The Secretary is right. A change is coming
soon in the extensi0n policy, but it will prob-
ably not be conﬁned to the lines suggested
by Mr. Pugsley. We look for a radical
change in the duties of the county agent and
the method of paying him. We need the
county agent, but we need him less as a. pro-
duction expert and more as a marketing ex-
pert. The farmer can when necessary se-
cure all the information he needs on production

from the agricultural colleges and the depart- *

ment of agriculture, but no government bul-
letin or long-distance advice can point him
the way to economic freedom. This requires
sympathetic, and intelligent leadership by men
who know the A B C of economics and are
willing to consecrate themselves to serving the
farmers. These men should be paid by farm-
ers and the farmers can afford to pay them.
They will take no orders from Washington‘or
the seats of the agricultural colleges. They
will be entirely representative of and respon-
sive to the wishes of the farmers who employ
them. When they meet together in county,
state or national assembly they will re resent
the composite views of the farmers nd no,
one else. And if they are as bright and keen
and eager to do as the average county agent
of today they will ﬁnd the key to the complex
problems of agriculture.

 

Harding and the Black Race

T MUST have taken some powerful con-

victions and a heap of courage for Pres-
ident Harding to stand before a southern
audience as ho did recently and declare for
racial equality. Few people Of the north who
have little if any prejudice against the color-
ed race have any conception of the deep-seat-
ed antagonisms of the white south against the
cnfranchiscd negro. It is no wonder that as
the President spoke twothirds of his audi-
ence “sat in silence”. What the President
urged was not social 1, equality. He recog-
nizes that, the blood of the two people must
nexer mix and that there can be no common
social bond between them. Forever and inex-
orably must the two races be kept apart in
these respects. But hatreds must be softened
and destroyed, and the black man, brought to
these shores by the ancestors of the people
who even now would consign him to eternal
bondage, must be extended the same political
and economic opportunities as the White peo-
ple enjoy. Lincoln freed the black man from
physical bondage but he is still oppressed by
the prejudices of the south. We know of no
ﬁner thing that President Harding has done
than to utter this second “proclamation” up-
on the rights of the colored race. _

 

A Lot of Money

IN TWO years the state highway department

has spent over twenty'million of the state ’3
ﬁfty million dollar bond issue. u In addition
to this huge sum it has also expended in large
part the» money derived from automobile li-
ccnses, and the various townshipsand countid
have spent many millions more. And still it

seems that we are as far as ever from realit- '

ing our dream of a complete highway system.
Most of the trunk line roads are still uncom-
pleted; and it seems that very little has been
done-ion the great majority of “farm-to-mr—'
ket”-roads. This is no criticism of the high-
way department. It has probably spcntf'the
money as wisely and Wellies could be done.

   

   
 

  
    
 

     

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‘ A‘ WORD TO THE POTATO
'.  ' GROWER

E HAVE watched‘the potato sit—
‘L nation ever since planting time

.. and. although the crop has im-
proved some with the September
rains in some instances the hot
weather or the leaf hoppers have
caused thousands of acres to wither
and die in early september. We
also know that many low ground
ﬁelds have lost 80 per cent of their
crop by rot during the past six weeks
and although' the October report
showed a. gain we believe that when
the potatoes are all harvested and
the Noyember'report comes in it will
not show any gain over. October, but
rather a considerable falling off.

It is true that Maine has fed the

market too heavily and caused a
thing off in prices owing to certain
localities 'of 'that section being
obliged to sell‘early on account of
poor storage facilities but the re—-
maining ones are sitting tight for a
price that will be fair to the produc-
er. Michigan also has dumped a
large amount of green stuff from
their low grounds onto the market
to keep from losing them by rotting
thus helping to put the price to the
present low mark but those who have
none of these conditions to worry
about are also holding firm for a fair
Moe and it is our belief that it will
be only a matter of a short time un-
tﬂ the potato market shall be read-
justed and the remaining spuds will
bring a price of which no one will
need be ashamed—Dan Richards,
Osceola County, Michigan.

 

Agree with you. Dan. Do not look for
any increase over October estimate.
_ Think prices too low now, and expect

, higher levels soon.——Editor.

EDUCATION FOR FARMING
Y LETTER published in the
Michigan Business Farmer of
October lst was too concise to
be clear. This postscript is respect-
fully submitted. '

If" the high school were in the
country, remote from the city, the
city would not be content with this
provision for high school education.
Few city boys and girls could leave
home for four years to have the ad-
vantages of the school. The city
would not use the school.

No b0y from my neighborhood is -

in high schbol. Consequently no
boy will be prepared even to begin
the typical course in agriculture
maintained by the state. Observa—
tion of almost any farm neighbor—
hood will indicate that typically Am—
erican farming is done by men with-
out higher schooling and that change
in this condition for the next gener—
ation is not in sight. Farming and
our standardized higher education
do not connect.

Building high schools in the coun-
try will not remedy the situation.
At best, their remoteness from most
arms will preclude attendance. If
I standard high school could be main-
tained near every farm, connection
with farming would still not be
made; for typically our high schools
.lead toward the white collar class.

The war revealed to us that a
tourth of the young men of Ameri-
03 can not read. The Bureau of Ed-
ucation says "that the city child's
chance to enter a high school is six
tunes the chance of the country
child. _ If farmers accept poverty
and ignorance as their lot, they be-
come a peasantry, a. sertdom. The
Farm Bureau and other organiza-
tions are. trying to keep farming
from leading inevitably toward pov-
erty. Our compatriots of cities give
u the good counsel that farmers
must solve their own problems. If
, on: educational system is for the
 and leads toward thofcity. farm~
.. us, have here also aprohlem“. ~

 ‘ 'g'he‘New’ Republic’saysthat “The
negate“ problem’ot education today

 of- brtn‘gingutho outside world
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into the outside world: on the farm,
the theory of. books may be tied up
with the reality of actual events.
When John Smith's father buys
a tractor a competent tractor man
comes out to the Smith farm and
shows John how to run the tractor.
It takes a day or two. It is not nec-
essary to build and equip an expen-
sive building for the process, to pay
anything for examining John Smith
or his teacher, or to pay anything for
keeping John Smith orderly and at
work. There are many tractors in
my region; all are run by men who
began in some such way. They do
not learn everything in a day or
two. The field supplies “actual
events" that could never be brought
into a. class room. John Smith gets
experience. He studies his book of
instructions and other books. He
is getting some education, but no

school is giving him any help what-
ever. He would like to have help
from a school, but the school is too
far away.

if the school could send a man
here for a fortnight, John Smith and
a few like him could work with a
dozen tractors on a dozen farms.
The boys would enjOy it, they would
learn, and their learning would go
straight on afterward through life.
Judged by ability to run and repair
tractors, John Smith and his class-
mates would not be inferior to those
who had studied tractors in class
rooms. Boys who wish to learn
steam engineering for farm purpos-
es can learn in the same way, where
steam engines are running thresh-
ing machines, silo fillers, and p0rt~
able sawmills. Boys’ clubs and
girls’ clubs have proved sufficiently
that the way works, that education

- by those who can not leave it.

 
 

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and farming may be connected by
building the education not on stand-

ardized high schools but on the

foundation of farm life. A
Tractors and steam engines are

practical, sordid things. Those who

like country life are not seeking es-
cape from what is practical and sor-
did; t-hat is one reason why country
life is wholesome for bodies and
souls. But if the practical and sor-'
did is to be all of country life, Am‘
erican farming will be done solely
When
good bulletins on landscape garderb
ing have been published, they have
found response. This indicates that
farm folk seek spiritual things as
other people do. We ought to make
our countryside the most beautiful
in the world. It is where we live;
what it expresses is our life. Farm
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WISE AND OTHERWISE
v, 'HEREAS, the population of St.
l, Petersburg before the war was
‘1 \ 1,000,000 people, today it has
.~b.ut.790,000. ~
. ,[Wan murder, suicide and death
brought about by lack of common
' comforts are responsible. So much
for Bolshevism.

 

 An advertisement for a patent
medicine, none other than Lydia
Pinkham’s, peace to her ashes,

shows a middle—aged woman of forty-
‘ five years, sitting in an arm chair,
2' feet on a foot stool, shawl on her
shoulders, amusing herself by do-
ing a pink poppy on a white doily.

_ As the man said who saw a six-
legged calf at a fair, “There ain’t no
such animal." The woman of forty-
five today is forty—five years young,
not old, and bears a substantial load
of responsibility on her shoulders,
instead of a shawl and for amuse—
ment drives a car or addresses a
meeting. Th need a new artist.
Once in a whie we hear in the dis-
tance a long, low rumble of fore-
boding that woman’s right to vote
and interest in the activities of the
day, otherwise than mending and
cooking, is going to disrupt home
life and rob the children of a moth-
er. I have been watching with in-
terest the women I know personal—
ly and through our department and
read about and I have yet to change
my opinion that we are still just
modern Eve’s. Liking most of all
to make some one man happy, re-
joicing in our homes and finding the
voices of our children the sweetest
-- music in the world.

 

A shoe advertisement reads, “The
new trend of fashion toward com-
fortﬁ’
it has not always been true. We
for a time journeyed far away from
the Greek idea which was a free and
untrammeled body. \Ve pinched our
feet andgirdled in our waist lines
until to feel comfortable and act
natural was not the mark of a lady
and as far as owning up to having
two legs! Impossible. 1 well re-
member when to use the word leg in
polite conversation was considered
very coarse. These are false stand-
ards and there is nothing so false as
false modesty. Above all let us be
natural and comfortable.

 

’ SOME NEW IDEAS‘

TURN WITH much interest each

week to “Our Department," and

only wish we might have two en-
tire pages. literally crammed with
letters and helps from the many
readers. If our editor was deluged
, with mail each week. perhaps extra
,/ space would be provided us.
 Have been watching for letters on
“Eliminating Drudgery from House-
work” but from the small number
of letters decided that, like myself,
not many have succeeded.

It seems to me, one must be able
to have all the labor—saving devices
and conveniences possible or leave
many things undone, not being able
to have the former. I choose the
latter, deciding a little dust in one’s
house, might be preferable to cob-
webs in one’s brain.

I have no washing machine but
use a washing powder. which I have
found a wonderful help. I never
rub my white clothes only the loose
dirt in the men’s underwear and the
towels they use. I always boil my
clothes and usually have my wash-
ing on the line by 9:30 in the warm
weather: I am able to do this by
putting the white clothes to soak,
and having my boiler, filled with
water on the back of the range the
night before. .

In the morning I wring out my
first boiler of clothes and get them
on before breakfast. It is not dif-
ficult to plan your work this way,
after getting accustomed to- it.

Whep my clothes are dry, I fold
the sheets towels, underwear (gauze
and evepéhing I possibly can) off
. the line, [a d lay them away.

I'bake very little pastry in sum-
mérj Or any other time for that mat-
ter. We have‘strawberries and red
a'spb’erries for our own use; when
they are gone a melon patch is lib;
raisin furniShing dessert.
rustarch, tapioca and gelatin
.a foundation for many taste-
’ hick “may be prepared

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EAR FRIENDS: This is letter

thus furnishes. food for her mind
ment for our bodies.

books.

Edited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENNEY

will enjoy hearing from each other, so the page is yours with an

' exception or two and I will take time to answer the many per-
sonal inquiries that lie upon my desk.

First you will find the letter of S. 0. 8. not a. danger call either;

as might be judged from the initials, but a. letter from a reader not

only of Our Page, but of many pages.

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to discuss the new
I wonder what S. 0. S. thinks of Main Street? How many of
you have read it? . Many 0f us live upon it.
not consist only of cleaning, clothing and Cooking—Editor?

 

week on On;- Page. I belive you

She reads as she works and
which is as necessary as nourish-

You know life should

 

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some time before serving. A pie—
shell made beforehand may be eas—
ily filled if unexpected guests arrive.

Date tapioca is delicious. Make a
plain pearl tapioca pudding, cooking
in the double boiler or removing
from the fire, let partly cool. Add a
cup of chopped dates, turn into a
baking dish, cover with a meringue
made from the whites of two eggs,
sweetened slightly, brown in a hot
oven. Has anyone ever tried a
chocolate pie, making the filling
without eggs? Then cover the top
with marshmallows cut ‘in halves,
sprinkle with cocoanut and set in
oven until marshmallows puff up
and are slightly browned.

I for one should greatly enjoy art-
icles on home decoration by our ed-
itor and others. My bedroom floor
being without a covering, this spring
I finished it with a coat of ground
color and a coat of dark oak stain.
It is certainly the easiest and cheap-
est way possible to care for bedroom
floors.

Have enjoyed the discussion on
“The Bird with the Broken Pinion”
but as that subject must be nearly
exhausted, wouldn’t it be interest—
ing to discuss some of the late books
concerning small town and country
life and people—for instance, how
many have read “Main Street,” by
Sinclair Lewis; “Alice Adams,” by
Booth .Tarkington or “The Brimming
Cup” by Dorothy Cansfield? Or is
this going too far from the real pur—
pose of our department? My read—
ing and housework are intermingled.
I could not live without books. I
enjoy so much the poem published
each week. Will close with some
favorite verses of mine. I wonder
if the editor knows them—they are
by Kingsley:

See, how the autumn leaves float by
decaying,

Down the wild swirls of the rain-swol-
len stream.

So fleet the works of men, back to
their earth again

Ancient and holy things, fade. like a
dream.

Nay See the spring blossoms stel
forth zthaying, I a

Clolhmg ‘with tender hues, orchard

and glen;
So, the old forms pass by, ne’er shall
their spirits die,

 

Look! England’s bare boughs show
green leaf again—S. O, S.
CORRESPONDENTS’ COLUMN

Keeping House Plants in Winter

We have been readers of the M. B. F.
for a long time and it is the only farm
paper I really enjoy, especially our page.
I have never written before. but since I
have had so much help from it, I feel
like giving a little, too.

If a lady from Hesperia could come in
my k1tchen she would think herself in
her own, as I have USed so many of her
plans in helping me in my work. I
never used to seem to get through
with my work and after I took her meth-
od I have lots of time for my babies and
hubby.

, A young girl wrote in a recent issue
about keeping house plants. Well, I
would say to just keep them in a warm
room if you have stoves, and in any room

e

if you have a furnace,‘as the must not
011111, If they are to be re-pgtted go to
the woods and get some nice leaf mold
for the pots, as ground like that has
plenty of fibre and they do better in it.
If you haven't that take barnyard man-
ure, well rotted, and put just a little in
the bottom of each pot and some good
ground on top, and with plenty of water,
rainwater is best, you will have fine luck,
Most plants with the exception of ferns,
do best in a sunny window on‘the south
or west s1de.‘ Ferns do not need much
sunlight, and do not chill as easily either.
We only have heaters but I have never
had a plant chili yet, and I have a great

many plants, and of all kinds. I have
painted benches the length of each
Window. I have some plants on brack-

ets and I have so many blossoms people
tell me they are equal to hot house plants
and my babies have never bothered them
any. Then I have two lovely canaries,
and a big Edison, and I never mind the
blizzards coming or cars put away,

. Well, my letter, is getting long. I will
just send in a raised doughnut recipe as
I have never seen one printed.

First, take two compressed yeast cakes
and soak them in a cup of warm milk
with a tablespoon of sugar, let raise to
top and then take 1 qt. warm milk, 1-2
cup shortening, 1 cun sugar, 1 teaspoon
salt. Then add yeast and flour enough
to make stiff. When it rises work to soft
dough and not as stiff as bread dough,
Let riSe again, then roll out thin L'and
cut with cutter, let rise again till light,
then fry in deep, hot fat, roll in sugar,
and I think you will agree with me that
they are line. I have other 'things that
I make out of same dough. If anypne
cares to, know I will tell them. And how
much is your pattern catalog, Mrs. Jen-
ney? I love the Styles. They are just
what we busy women need—simple and
lovely.

“Mother of Mine,” I made your soft
molasses cookies. They are fine. I al-
ways like to try new things—Mrs. F.
A. W

 

We certainly enjoy the M. B. F., its
cleanliness, generosity regarding others
opinions, reliability and variety of up-
to—date subject matter. I have read and
re-read your editorial, “The Natural and
the Spiritual," and I mean to secure the
books you mention. Thank you for writ-
ing it. I love it all except I do not like
to think of my soul as really enclosed in
mortal body. It does not seem clean
enough, You see I am floundering—«like
many others. Welll'We will all' know
some time, and won’t it be wonderful?
About the “Drudgery in Work,” isn’t it
quite largely our state of mind and body?
As a public health nurse I have seen
mothers under conditions which to me
would be unbearable: seemingly uncon—
scious of any heroismand with a cour-
age and cheerfulness I could revere. I
have also seen the reverse side, or what
seemed like it.——Mrs. F. K. P.

The “Old Trusty”
recommended but great care should be
taken in selecting the eggs. It is far
better not to save any eggs until after
the hens have been out on grass about
3 or 4 weeks, A brooder should be pro-
vided for the chicks and be sure you do
not overcrowd chicks.——A Reader.

I am always glad when the M. B. F.
comes for I like the woman’s page. I
tried the soft molasses cookie recipe and
thought they were fine and also the san-
itarium cake recipts and it was good also.

Chocolate Cake

1 cup of sugar, 1-2 cup of butter, 1-2
cup of sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups 0f flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder, vanilla.
Cook the following and add to the above
while hot 1-2 cup of sugar, 1-2 cup of
grated chocolate, 1-2 cup of milk, yolk
of egg. Bake in layers,

Double Fudge
2 cups of granulated sugar, 1—2 cup

 

 

, REVEREND Sir, I do declare

It drives me most to frenzy,

To think of you a lyin' there
Down sick with influenzy, v

A body'd thought it was enough
To mourn your wife’s departure,
Without sick trouble as this 'ere '
To come a follerin' arter.

nut sickness and affliction

Are sent by a wise creation,
And always should he underwent
By patience and resignation.

 

 

Widow Bedott to Elder SnifHes

And do my best to cheer 'yon up—
If’t wouldn't cause surprise. ‘

It's‘a world of trouble wetarry in.)

0' could I to your bedside le. '
And wipe your weepin’ eyes.

But, Elder don't despair;
That you may soon be movin’again
Is constantly my prayer,

Both sick and well you may depend
You’ll never be forgot. I _ _
By younfaithful and. aﬂectlonato/frlend, V

‘ Priscilla Pool Bedott. -

  

 

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" of  s," ’blespoons‘ of hm
doable” , on ofggitter. Boll, seven m
then g at. Spread in ygbuttered-‘

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cool. 2 cups of brown "sugar, 1-:2
of'cream, '1 teaspoon of vanilla. 1 cups,
walnut meats out fine, butter- the size
of a walnut. ‘Boil ten minutes. then
beatvand pour on top of fudge already in
£11m (pan. When cool out in squares,—

   
  
  

Will you ask some reader tosend to
“Our Page” a recipe for Spanish Rice
also Chop Suey? I will give two cake ‘
recipes, they are be h very good and in-
expensive. ' '

Plain White Cake

Break 1 egg in cup, beat with egg beat-
er and add 2 tablespoons melted butter,
till cup with sweet milk and pour over,
1 1-2 cups*flour, 2 -teaspoons baking
powder, 1 cup sugar, sifted all together.
Mix well, add seasoning and a little salt.
bake slowly.

Spice Cake

Chen together 1 cup sugar, about 1-3
cup raisins. 1-4 cup shortening, 1 egg
yolk. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, cloves and
other spices if liked, 1 cup buttermilk,
soda, about 1 teaspoon according to sour-
ness of milk, 1 2-3 cups flour.

Icing

1-2 cup sugar, pinch cream of tartar.

water to cover. Boil until it spins a

thread.
Pour over - white of eggs beaten
until dry. Will send Mrs, R. H. W. the

address of the “Old Trusty"‘“lncubator be—
low. I never have used one but my sis-
ter, also my husband's cousin, both,
neighbors, have had very good success.
Don’t know as they are the very best but
are not as expensive as some. They are
covered outside with metal and the tem-
perature of room seems to effect temper-
ature of incubator. Neither one ever run
it in cellar. They might find the tem-
perature would keep more even
cellar, but from experience, I know it is
very much more work. I cannot resist
telling of my hatch last spring. Set 140
eggs (white Leghorns) tested out 9 and
hatched 121. -I killed one and the last
one out died, I only lost three, beside
those of course the hawks have gotten
We enjoy the M, B. F. throughout. I
always look first for your page. Some
how you do not seem like a stranger. I
feel I know you a little. Address is:
M. Johnson C0,, Mfgrs. of Incubators and
Brooders, Clay Center, Nebraska.——Mrs.
L. A. B.

 

Mrs. C. I. S,: A canton crepe dress can
be made very simply and be in excellent
style. The skirt should have a tunic of
some sort. Plaitings are often used on
hips or back and front but require some

care to keep them from becoming mussy. ~

The lines of the coat dresses in the issue
of Oct. 15th are good but if used stop the
waist at belt line and use asaft. broad.
low girdle with long ends which may
form part of the skirt trimming. De—
signs 3498, 3255, 3536 and 3489 in cat-
alog would also be good, Long fringes
are the most popular trimming for dressy
gowns and may be put on waist sleeves
or skirt, ‘

Black lace has come back again and
is used extensively on waists and for en-
tire waists with tunics that fall over the
skirt which must then be of soft silky
crepe or satin. If you have a black lace
scarf of your grandmother’s, cherish it.

 

Mrs. John Weber of Minden City, B.
F. D. 2 would‘ like to have a picture of
yokes and camisoles done in filet as she
wishes to purchase some. Will, some
reader who makes these articles write to

. her? '

Does Not Like “Old Trusty”

In your last paper I see some lady asks
about the “Old Trusty" incubator, I
have two of the~165-egg variety, Have
used them 2 years and don‘t like them.
Neither do any of my neighbors. No-
body has much success here. I consider
their ventilation very bad and that the
moisture conserved by them drowns the
chicks in the shell.

I have another 65—egg size of the name
of Triumph, manufactured by Neubert
of Mankato, Minn., which hatches as well
again as the “Old Trusty” with eggs
from the same lot.

Little Brown Hen and Cyphers. are
favorites here. My experience with “Old
Trusty” averages about as follows: Set
165 eggs, test out from 15 to 30, hatched
from 65 to 75. of which from 15 to 20
die in 2 or 3 days in spite of everything
I can do,——Mrs, B. E.

RECIPES FROM OUR READERS

I enjoy this page very much and wish
we might have more space for sugges-
tions and recipes. I will enclose a. few
recipes and hope the housekeepers will
like them.

Dutch Cabbage
« Cut cabbage rather fine and cook un-
til tender. Add salt, pepper, a. little but-
ter and- a cup of cream. 1-2 cup vine-
gar and a large spoonful of flour. If
sour cream is used it improves the
flavor
Mock Sauer Kraut

1 head of cabbage, out fine. Into a
spider put 2 tablespoons of lard or drip«
pings and 1 large onion, out fine. Add
cabbage and let fry, being careful if
doesn’t scorch. Let fry a little while
and add 1-2 cup vinegar and 1 cup of
water. Let cook until tender. This should:
not be too sour, just tart.
pink when done.

Salmon Loaf , '

1 can salmon. 2 eggs, 1~2 cup milk, 1

tablespoonful melted butter. “Season

1 vim Minis:  “.s renew:
spoons 01.. baking noWder, :- v ,,

  

  

   
 

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Unless you see the name “Bayer” on
tablets, you are not getting genuine
Aspirin prescribed by physicians for
12 years and proved safe by millions.
Directions in package.

Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Man-u-
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show but a sample of what
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‘ Raisin Cake

namon 1-2 cup shortening
spoon of salt.

teaspoon of vanilla,
Lemon Pudding

ing ingredients:

8 portions.
Chinese Dumplings

sof

mix the other ingredients and put in.

sour Cream Frosting

minutes.
added.
Sugar Cookies

2 cups sugar (1 brown, 1 White), 1 cup
shortening, 2 eggs. 1-2 cup sour cream,
'1 teaspoon soda, ﬂavoring and flour.

These are all tested recipes that I
have good luck with. Won’t some one
send in recipes for making things for
school lunches? I am sure others will
like to see them tom—Mrs. R.

 

Green Tomato Mince Meat

One peck of green tomatoes, chopped
ﬁne: drain 011 through strainer, then
scald three times and drain off. Three
pounds of white sugar, 2 tablespoons of
salt, 2 lbs. raisins, 2 tablespoons cinnas
mon, 1 1—2 tablespoons cloves, 1 table—
spoon nutmeg, 3 cups chopped apples,
100 worth of mixed peel, 1-2 1b, suet.
Boil one hour.

When making bread grease your bread
pan. It will help save time.

A teaspoonful of soda added to cream

butter quicker. Try it, I have.

 

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Aids to Good Dressing

for
Comfort, Appearance and Economy

 

 

 

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“In clothes clean and fresh there
is a'kind of youth with which age
should surround itself.”

A Smart Business Costume
Combining Waist '
3395, and skirt 3759.
Plaid suiting was
used for the skirt,
Crepe do chine fm
the waist. Screw.
satin, taffeta, twill,
tricotinc, and heath-
er mixtures are good
also, for the skirt,
and linen, madras,
crepe, satin or flan—

nel for the waist.
The skirt is
in 6 sizes: 24,
28, 30, 32 and 34
inches waist meas-
ure. The waist in
7 sizes: 34, 36,
40, 42, 44 and 46
inches bust meas~
ure. The waist re-
quires 3 yards of
27 inch material.
The skirt requires 2
1-2 yards of 54 inch
material, It is a
little more than 2 3-4 yards Wide at the
foot with plaits extended. This illustra-
tion calls fer T’WO Separate patterns,
which will be mailed to any address on
receipt of 120 FOR EACH pattern in
silver on stamps.

 

A Comfortable \Vork
Dress

Patterns 3750 is
here portrayed. It is
cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36,
38, 40, 42, 44 and 46
inches bust measure.

A 38—inch size re-
quires 6 yards of 36
inch material.

Repp, linen, calico,
lawn, gingham, flan—
nclette, poplin and
gabardine may be
used for this style_

Width of skirt at the
lower edge is 2 yards.

Patterns 120 in
coin or stamps.

Address all
to Pattern Dep't.,
The Michigan Business
Farmer, Mt. Clemens,
Michigan.

 

 

RECORDS LEAD THE SINGING

New interest in music has become
community wide in many sections of
the country. The entering wedge

 

,for this development usually

 

has
been the community singing held in

1 the living room of some home. If
j a family has a piano, an organ, a

talking machine or a player piano,

4 4 \

nan ~no
_ 18 inches. When baked
turn out onto. damp cloth: Spread quick-

1 0119 each of raisins, sugar and cof~
fee, ,1 tablespoon" each of cocoa and cin—
1-2 tea-
Bring to a. boil and cool,
then add 2 cups flour, sifted with 1 tea-
spoon each of baking powder and soda, 1

Into your pudding pan put the follow
Grated rind and juice
of 1 lemon, 2—3 cup sugar, 2 eggs well
beaten, 1-3 cup butter, 3 cups hot water.
This will make a thin pudding sauce.
Into this sauce pour a batter which has
been stirred up in a. separate dish as
follows: 1 well beaten egg, 1—2 cup wa-
ter, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons.
of baking powder and flour to make as
thick as cake dough. This makes 6 or

1 egg, 1 1—2 cups milk, 3 cups flour, 3
baking powder, 1 teaspoon
salt. 1 pound sausage, 1 can tomatoes, 8
onions. Cook tomatoes and onions and

1 cup sugar, 2-3 cup sour cream, Cook
Nut meats may be

before churning will help to bring the '

 

   
 
 

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-—light, perfectly raised,

inferior leavener.

Have the same assurance that
the majority of other housewives have.

A pound can of Calumet contains full 16 ounces. Some

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baking powders come  13 ounce instead of Eonnce

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appomtments
Milli0ns of housewives use

Calumet Bakmg Powder because of Its de-
pendability—because when they, place their baking
in the oven, they know it will “turn out” all right.
They are conﬁdent of results because they know

that no matter what they bake—pies, cakes,
. biscuits, mufﬁns—the resultswill be the same

wholesome foods.

CALUMET

BAKING POWDER

never disappoints. Don’tprepare
bakings with expensive ingredients and
then have them spoiled because of an

 

 

 

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orders a

the accompaniment is provided eas—
ily.

Some of the talking machine com-
panies have prepared special records
of standard community songs ar-
ranged in medium keys for group
singing, with a band providing the
accompaniment. The player piano
makers also have certain piznt rolls
that are suitable for accomlmnying
community singing. A guitar, ban-
jo or ukelele may suffice as accom-
paniment for a small group.

These parlor songs held in .rota—
tion thruout the community with the
different families taking turn in act-
ing as host provide pleasant and
profitable amusement for everyone,
young and old. From such smaller
groups the singing idea will soon
spread. That will mean shelter for
larger crowds, and the opening of the
neighborhood church
the community center.

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to send a lamp on 10 days' FREE
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the first user in each locality who
will help him introduce; it. Write
him today for full particulars. Also
ask him to explain how you can get
the agenCy and without experience
or money, make. $250 to $500 per
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UNCLE NED.
MT. CLEMENS.

Care of
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.birds are not such pests as

EAR CHILDREN: Did you know
that the sparrow, with the ex-
ception of the English breed, is

a beneficial bird instead of a pest?
The U. S. Department of Agriculture
declares it is. The Department finds
that while the sparrow consumes
considerable quantities of your fath-
er’s seed, it more than pays for the
seed by the amount of harmful in-
sects it eats. It eats injurious beet-
les, weevels and grasshoppers. There
are over 40 different kinds of spar-
rows in the United States but the
most common breed is the tree spar-
The greater portion of the
food consumed by the sparrows is
insects and weed seed with a small
amount of oat seed, so you see these
many

people belieVe. Would you like to

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has four ma but can’t see?"

“Sworn pontoon. Thom-omega mines

iul to the farmer?

More and more letters come to me
telling that their writers are trying
to Win some of the money offered in
our “S” picture puzzle contest. I
am glad to know so many of you are
interested in it and I hope some of
you will win the largest prizes. If
any more of you are thinking about
trying do not forget that your list
ﬁucllgi rFeach the contest manager of

. . . not later tha l
19th. 11 hovember

I am publishing a letter on our
page this week from Orville True-
blood of Pewamo. I wish all of
you that can would write to him as
he is a poor, lonesome, invalid boy
and your letters will give him con—
Siderable pleasure. Remember how
the letters sent by some of my nieces
and nephews to little Le-vi Gugel
brought happiness to him when he
was ill.——-UNCLE NED.

—__

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned
Knock ! Knock !
in but there w

 

and Cousins—~Knoek‘.
lbs gxcusehme for walking
I . . muc excitement *0-
asst 0111) thlS'WOCk I thought I woulriﬁn’t
h ur you. I thought maybe you had
tlegrdwreig‘vs o‘l'vtlie Doo Dads being back

. . 8., school is mine“ ' .
frost and we are all trying éur Tiegtmttg
get through our grades. " am in the
seventh grade this year, I would like to
go to Ferris Institute when I am thru the
eighth grade, but don't know if I can
or not. It won't be long until Christ—
mas is here and I am planning on get—
ting both my mother and father a pres—
ent. This Christmas will be a whole lot
different than last Christmas because last
Christmas I Went to Wisconsin for my
two—weeks vacation. I went to 1er
River, Michigan and then the mail car—
rier.took us 18 miles out to Nelma. Wis-
consin, in his car, I enjoyed myself very
much when I was not homesick. It was
the first time I had been away from
home for such a long time, and so far
away. New Year‘s day We started home
and reached here about four o’clock in
the afternoon. At Channey we waited
for the freight train a very long time.
When we got on the freight train it
seemed as if it stopped at every pile of
ties. About the first thing I, s w out of
the window when the train wa coming
into Sidnaw was a bunch of girls and
boys skiing down the hill called Mount
Pricket, When I saw them I then knew
En were pulliitigkilnto Sidnaw, believe me.

was some ic ed irl.—-Alma
Sidnaw, Michigan. 3 Powell.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I saw a letter from
one of my friends in the paper. I am 14
years old and in the eighth grade, I am
in the same room as my friend Alma
Powell. I like the Doc Dads and will be
very glad when they appear in the paper
again. I never did read the letters very
much but now I think I will see how
many times letters from my friend, Alma
Powell, are in. One Sunday 8 of us went
out on a picnic. We went on a motor
car about 7 or 8 miles,
along as if it should rain we could a
inside. The ice cream we took was all
melted by the time we got there. And
then we girls would try to lay down with
their sweaters or coats for pillows and
the boys would pull them out from under
our heads and once they put them almost
to the top of a high .poplar tree and we
had a hard time getting them. I will
end by saying goodbye to all and hop-
ing some Of my cousins will write to
Ina—Myrtle Prodell. Box 17. Sidnaw.
mammal. ‘

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I seldom see any let-
ter! in from girls of’my age, but I that
I would join the circle of boys and girls
that write so many letters. I an 15

can old. My birthday is on June 8th.
; volatwinanywnercthatukolthe
1!. B. F. I just read thermal. “What
The am-

 

 

 

 

' gallons.'

We took a tent‘

without fear undiready to helps:

  

IND A” five-gallon automobile ens”
gine ‘oil can or some other can
which will hold at least three
Cut off the entire top in-
side the rim by using a can opener.

‘If the can has contained oil, fill it

with hot water and add a cupful of
washing soda or lye. Allow this
mixture to stand in the can for about
an hour and then wash the can with
more warm water and soap.

Punch a hole in each side of the
can about an inch below the rim,
and then use a strong wire to make
a handle, as shown in Fig. 1.

Cut a strip of tin

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- How to Make a Shower Bath, '

By  Thatcher

 

 

point to be soldered [enough to heat
bottom of can. Find a shoe pasta box.
wash, remove the cover, lay this on
a board and use a sharply pointed
nail to punch a series of small holes
to make a sp'ray nozzle.

Roll up another tin tube like the
first, punch a hole in the bottom of
the shoe paste box, place one end in
the tube and solderin place. Press
back the lid in place and there is
your spray nozzle. (Fig. 2.)

Buy about four feet of rubber hose
with aninside diameter of 8—8 inch.
Fit one end of this hose over the

tube attached to

 

about two inches
wide and roll it
around a lead pen—
cil to make a tube,
then, solder it to-
gether. Punch a
hole in the bottom
of the pail just
large enough to
admit the end of
this tin tube and
solder the tube to
the pail. Be sure
you hold the solder—
ing iron to the

 

 

the pail and secure
the other end over
the tube attached
to the spray nozzle.

Bend a stout
piece of wire into
the hook shape as
shown in Figure 3
so that the spray
may be hooked in
it when not in use.
Your shower bath
is now complete
and, is ready to be
painted.

 

 

 

 

are Anza and Henry. I have a brother
6 years old and one 1 year old and one
sister who is 19, My father works on a
880 acre farm. I wish Old Doc Saw-
bones and Old Man Grouch would stop
punishing Rely and Poly and come back
pretty soon. I am in the B—lOth grade.
l, and I think the rest of the cousins.
feel sorry that Bernice M, Klein will
have to miss her school this year. I have
been trying to find words that begin with
the letter S and have 120 now and still
haven’t all of tliem,—Helen R. Dick, Ion-
ia, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle i‘ed—I have written before
and I promised to send in my picture tO'
print in the M. B. F, so all the cousins
who wrote me may get one. I hope it
doesn’t scare you, Uncle Ned, so you
won’t put it in. We just come back from
a long trip and I look it too. This was
taken beside our houSe in some of my
flowers and bushes. You also will get a
glimpse of a chicken. I didn't know he
was there so you havo two live objects
anyway. My pencil lead has broken so I

' very well,

J

Dear Uncle Ned—Here is another
farmer girl that would like to join your
merry circle. I am 12 years of age and
am In the 8th grade at school, Regard-
ing that riddle Ina Anderson put in:
“What has four eyes and cannot see?" I
think the answer is Mississippi. My
father takes the M. B. F. and likes it
The Doc Dads are unny lit-
tle people, aren't they? I like to read
the Children’s Hour. I will close with
some riddles: What goes up when the
rain comes down? Ans.: Umbrella. When
was beef the highest? Ans.: When the
cow jumped over the moon—Ella Weil—
er, R 1, Essexville, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am 10 years old
and take up 5th and 6th grade studies.
For pets I have a dog named Bennie

and a little cat named Buster. Also‘

other farm pets like doves and chickens.
I live on a l60-acre farm. We have lots
of stock and a large orchard. My fath-
er takes the M. B. F. and I like to read
the letters and the Doc Dads when I
have time. I can play anything I Wish

 

 

must stop.—-—Gladys Miller, Shepherd, R4, to..play on an organ—Viola. Johnson,
Michigan. Hersey, Michigan,
The First Month of Winter
HERE. was a time when Novem- friend or fellbw in distress. You

her was the ninth and not the

eleventh month of the year, and
then it was that it was given its
name by the Romans.
comes from the latin word which
means "nine." "‘Wind'monath” or
wind month is the name that the

old Saxons gave to it, for the'win-,

try winds first begin to show their
strength during the November days.
The top'az is November’s birthstone
and it stands for friendship and

faithfulness. An old verse about it
says:

"Who first comes to this world
below _

With dread‘November’s fog and
» snow

Should prize the topaz’s amber
hue;

Emblem of friends and lovers
true.”

Is your birthday in November?

During what part of the month does
it come? There are some old super-
stitions and tell us- that it your birth-
day falls between the first and the
twenty-second of the month you will
be thrifty, always careful to save,
and have very high ambitions. Have
you? You should also have great
strength Bf purpose and powers of
endurance. Long walks in the
country will not tire you, and the
coldest winds will leave you un-
chilled and as vigorous as you could
ever hope to be. You should be a
leader among your classmates, and
know how to show them all the way,
when playing games or undertaking
any new, work. ‘

Should your birthday come after
the twonty-second of November, the
belief is that you should be earnest,

   

November ’

 
    

should share alike, sorrow and joys
that come‘to your friends and you
should be ever ready to give of your
loVe and sympathy. You should be
fair in all your dealings and honest
in thought and deed. Sometimes you
may! act quickly and repent later,
your temper may flare up easily and
you may not carefully guard your
words, but after reflection you will
be sorry for hasty speech and you
will be openminded enough to ask
forgiveness when you know yourself
to be in the wrong. You should be
able to make up your mind quickly.
You will enjOy a good joke and you
will be able to say as well as do
clever things. Every one‘will be
glad to talk with you, for your con-
versation should be sparkling and
bright.

Are these things true in your case?

The flower for the month is the
Chrysanthemum and ‘the diﬂerent col-
ors stand for different things. The
white flower stands for truth; love
is symbolized by the red or pink,
and the yellow blossom denotes de-
jection. .

November is .a month or famous
,deeds and illustrious births. The
'day most universally known in the
month is Thanksgiving Day. which
is usually set aside by the President
of the United States in his Thanks-
giving Proclamation. , The last
Thursday of the month has become
the day devoted by the nation to
prayers of‘ thanksgiving, family

- gatherings and turkey-dinners. When

you gather about your Thanksgiv-
ing dinner table this year, add to
your prayers 01 thanks, a prenatal-

,tho continuance of peace and ended,
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,b a ‘ l
tifthfjgrade w‘For'pets I“

an old‘cat anda dog.
and 2'brothers. - wish
would write to me. It
would gladly answer.
a. riddle

_ WD' .
I'will close -- u
What turns without ---.-.
Answer: ~Mi1k.—Miss Margaret Packa'.
R 3, Battle Creek. Michigan.

 

day is November
to have a postcard shower to ace _
many cards I would receive. I can

say how many he answered. no,
will say thank you in advance, I

the answer to Ina Aéldgrsltgrr’i's rid (lie ‘
Mississippi, Rely an o s gran
name is Greenback. Poly’s must belief.
But I. am not sure
I guess I'd better close so as to lee.”

room for other lettm.—-Orville H. True-w
higan. ‘

blood. It 1. Pewamo, Mic

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your mm-
rycircle? Iamagirltenyearsof
I go to school. «My mother is my
er. I go ‘to Sunday school. I am in
ﬁfth grade at school. I live on a 15
acre farm. We take the M. B. F.
think it is very nice. I am trying to wk
some meney in the S puzzle contest.
pets I have 2 rabbits, one kitten, one
and a dog, I have no sisters or bro
I think the one who wrote that ion.
was Frances. The boys names are Harry
and Ariana—Joy Cuoles. R 3, Sand Lo.“
Michigan. ' .

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a. girl 13 m
old and in the eighth grade at school. I
like to go to school very much. F33
night we are going to have a. box
and some Hallowe’en~ exercises. _Dotn‘t
you think that will be fun? We live on
an eighty-acre farm. We have 4 harem,
10 cows, 100 chickens, 12 pigs, a whim
Collie dog and three cats. Our dog-l
name is Bonnie and every night whm
she sees us coming down the road she
comes to meet us.——-Charlotte M.
Homer, Michigan.

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned—‘May another fa.er

girl enter your merry circle? We tab
the M. B. .F. and like it fine. I go to
school every’ day I can, I am in the :11

grade. My birthday is the 8th. of, 00-
tober. If any of the cousin’s birthday is
on the same day, write me a. letter and
tell me, will you please? I have I
brothers and 2 sisters. Wish Uncle Ned
and the cousins all success—Emma

R 1, Fountain, Michigan,

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 11 year]
of age. I am in the 6th grade at schooL
I am in the Sunshine class at sunday
school. I live on an 80~acre farm,
folks take the M. B. F. and like it real
Well, For pets I have one cat and about
12 rabbits. I have four sisters and one
brother. I will close with a riddle: What
are all the people in Paris doing today?
AnSWer: Growing olden—Violet Marlo
Olin, stanwood, Michigan.

 

'Dear Uncle Ned—I am eleven year!
old and' in the sixth' grade. I live very
close to the school house so I come harm
every noon and get a hot.dlnner. I have
a bird with a broken leg, I wish sum.
of the boys and girls would write to me.
I am trying to see how many objects I
can get that start with S. I have four

brothers and no sisters—Alice Dowd
Box 89, Durand, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your mob
ry circle? I am a girl 8 years old. I
am in the 4th grade. I have one sister
and two brothers. We live on 8. 120a
acre farm. We have 11_ head of cattle.
For pets I lian 4 cats. We take the M.
B. F. and like it very much,——Neva Web!
ster, R 3, Charlevoix, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—Well, how are all my
cousins and my Uncle Ned? I am thir-
teen years old and in the eighth grade
school. I also go to Sunday school,
have four brothers‘and five sisters. Wish-i
ing Uncle Ned, all my cousins and the
readers good luck—Louisa A. Marwede.

 

Uncle Ned—May I join your man-
ryDgiai-lcle? I am fourteen the 19th at
February. I am the twin of "Bob
Michigan." I guess it must be a girl.
wish I had or address so I could write
to hen—Adri Rivers, R 1, Burt. Mich.‘

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a girl 13 yum
old and in the 8th grade at school. I
live on a 120-acre farm, 2 miles from the
city limits. Will close with the answer
to the riddle which Ina. Anderson, Rose-
bush wrote, I think it is Mississippi.—
Helen M. Smith. R 4, Bay City, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your mer-
ry circle? I am 14 years of age and an
in ,the eighth grade. I have tw0 broth
ers and two sisters and a father. I nan
no special pet although we have 9. her.
that is a great pet. I wish some of the
girls and boys would write to me.--Beash
M Wurstcr. Box I4, Turner, Michigan.

 

 

 

OTHER LETTERS RECEIVED
W'llma Smith. Durand: Louis Girl‘st
Abbottoford: Delorls Stine. R 8: On-
City; Maxine MoGgWan. Climax; Jam.
McIntyre. Kawkawlin; Elsie Pet

 
 

 

   
    
     
      

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his vets. I
. “Even .the‘ ranksof Tuscany
.  for-bear to. cheer."
 anuwould hays done
:4 there notheen’ "‘a slight. lump. in some
their-throats“ the sight. ‘ .
 got hisballot, but he said,
to the D. R." .. “I ‘can’t get to the cur-
"nldndnor stand up alone to vo "
‘ so» the  two; each putting an
under the old man’sjhoulder, help—
.jhimlito ﬁt"b‘ehhid,, the curtain. and
M Medium frame while the
» .hatbnllotr*Ca.rriodhomewiththe
l-ne care and tenderness. he id “be
he had done whathe 1d."

jgis the- spirit that ‘ won the
election, a spirit against which noth-

 
   

‘  -  com prevail. »

h After the election the U. ,F. A.

-"Mber§ held a.meeting to select

 leader. ., - President Woods of

 declined the. honor. Her-
“ _ Greenﬁeld was finally selected.

“attenuating” :13 the personnel of

iGi-eenﬁeld’s“ cabinet:

 '1 337-.  : Greenﬁeld. premier ' and

treasurer: 1:3. Brownies, at-

, turner;- era]; Perrin Baker, min-
‘ tier of education: George ’Hoadley,
'mtniater of “agriculture; F. G. Reid,

'minister or municipal affairs, and
health; Vernon W. Smith,“ minister
Alex
Ross, acting minister Of public
works; Mrs. Irene Paolby, minister

to

“without portfolio. . A

 amgﬂlfaolby has the ” honor to.be
 woman who has been a cab-

 were. "‘She has
.heen‘president of the women'sjsec-

: .-  “F. After many years. -
 ,g'ﬁhe  liederal serum is
 to take place in Novem-

-ber. The organized farmers are pron

   

  “Is the: following formula, ford'dry
’  to teed

prominent it indicates that the hen

_ as a result is taken up and deposited
: Consequently the shanks fade. The

   Elevator  Flour Mill _

 "   n" in A for
  winter for egg
' 5"“- mu‘oom, millet and
3.. Capes. men.-

 

 

Leghorn pullets during
thelwinterﬁMash should be kept be-

‘ fore the birds at all times: 200 lbs-
corn meal, 100 lbs. ground oats, 100

lbs...bran,10'0' lbs. middlings, 100 lbs.
meat scraps. ‘

In the case of larger breeds of
fowls where there —is a tendency .for
them to B'ecome over-fat. I would put
’iust .100 pounds of corn meal to-
gether ' with the (above mentioned his
gradientsto form a dry mash—W.
E. :NewtontjActing Head of Poultry
Husbandry ‘Dep’t., M. A. C. .

 

HIGHER PRICES FOR EGGS

To all appearances eggs are going
to be very .‘scarce and high this com-
ing winter. Right now' it is almost
impossible in some sections of the
country to secure fresh eggs at any
price. Detroit market authorities
are warning the consumer that he
may expect to see eggs reach the dol-
lar—a-dozen mark before spring. It
is doubtful if even the retail price
of eggs’ can go that high, but it is
almost certain that prices are going
to "be much higher— than they were
last year. It, therefore, behooves
every poultry breeder to use extra-
ordinary care this year in feeding.
housing and caring for his egg pro-
ducers. For there will be a good
market for' every egg which he can
produce. ’ . 4

The; poultryman who has a breed
that naturally has yellow shanks has
an excellent guide as to the previous
egg-laying record. of his hens. It is
generally safe to say that the absence
ofthis yellow color in the legs of
the yellow-legged varieties indicates
that the hen has been a gobd layer.
0n the other hand, if this color is

 

has not been laying for a number of
weeks immediately previously.

This yellow color is due to a color-
ing matter in the fat. When a hen
lays, this coloring matter tends to
move into the blood circulation and

with the fat in the yolk of the egg.

more eggs laid the greater will be
the iading.—-—Wa_shington Farmer.

 

 

     
   
   
   
   
    
    
   

 
  

Your animals are coming off summer pastures
and going on dry feed. It’s a big change. Out in
the" succulent pastures, Nature supplies the tonics
and laxatives to keep animals in condition.

-—But unless you supply these tonics and laxa-
tives to your stock on dry feed, you are not going
to get full returns from your hay, grain and fodder.
Besides, your animals are apt to get “off feed” and
out of fix.

 Dr. Hess Stock Tonic
’ Supplies the Tonics—Laxaﬂves—Diureﬁcs

Itkeeps animals free from worms.

It keeps their bowels open and regular.

It keeps the appetite and digestion good.

It, conditions cows for calving.

It helps to keep up the milk ﬂow.

It keeps feeding cattle right up on their appetﬂe;

Itlcecm hogs healthy, thrifty, free from worms.

It means health and lhriftfar all anbnals.
Always buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic according to the size

of your herd. Tell your dealer how many animals you
have. He hasapackage to suit. Goodresults guaranteed.

PRICES REDUCED—26 lb. pail now $2.25; 100 “lb, Drum
now $8.00; 800 package now 60c; $1.25 package now $1.00.
Except in the Far West, South and made"

WHY PAY THE PEDDLER TWICE MY PRICE?

DR. HESS & CLARK AShland, Ohio

   
   

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HAW FUBS

Shipped to us will not you more, bemuse
of correct grading and prompt payment.
A good outlet for all kinds of raw furl
enable us to quote fair prices and our
ﬁfty—three years' successful business ex«
perience prompts us to, treat you right,
Write to—day for price list by return mail.
JOE IIOWE’S TRADING POST,
Established 1868 Bichwood. Ohio.

       
 

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Michigan. If you are considering I solo eds
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Nov. 9—Polsnd Chime.
dam. Hanover, Mich.

Nov. 9~Angue—Mr.
Mich.

William Runs-
E. A. Clark. St.

Nov. lo—Pohnd Chums. Young Bm,
Niles, Mich.

Nov. 16—Poland Chime. Howley BIOS--
Merrill, Mich.

Nov. 19—Holsteins. Southern Michigan
Breeders' Ass'n, Fair Grounds, Jackson, Mich.

Jam 13—Horses—Mich. Horse Breeders’
Aes‘n, M. A. 0., East Lansing. Mich. ,

Feb. 2 —- Hampshire Swine, Lenawee
County Hampshire Swine Breedere‘ Assn.
Adrian, Mich.

 

 

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS
Andy Adamo. Litchﬂeld, Mich.
Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind
Porter Colestock, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
John Hoﬂmsn. Hudson. Mich._

 

Lovewell, So. Lyons, Mich.
D. L. Perry. Columbus, Ohio.

J. 1. Post, Hillsdsle, Mich.

0. A. Rasmussen, Greenville, Mich.

Guy 0_ Rutherford, Decatur, Mich.
I Harry Robinson, Plymouth, Mich.
~ Wm. Waffle, Goldwater, Mich.

 

 

 

 

CATTLE 

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HOLSTEIN-FRTESIAN

SHOW BULL

Sired by e Pontiac Asggie Korndyke-Henger-
veld DeKol bull from o nearly 19 lb. show
cow. First prize junior calf, Jackson Fsir,
1920. Light in color end good individual
Seven months old. Price $125 to make
room. Hurry!

Herd under Federnl Supervision.

BOARDMAN FARMS

JACKSON. MICH.
Holstein Breeders Since 190.

 

 

 

 

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AM OFFERING LIGHT COLORED HOL-
stein-ll‘riesian bull 1 your old from 21.51 1b.
dam and sire' whose six nearest dams ere 33.34
V lbs. butter. Herd under state and federal sup-
ervision.
Oscar Waiiln, Wiscogin Farm. Unlonvilie. Mich.

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TUEBOR STOGK FARM

Breeders of Registered Holstein
cattle and Berkshire Hogs.

Everything guaranteed, write
me your wan-ts or come and see
them.

ROY F. FICKIES
Chesaning, Mich.

 

 

Write today!)
enesosns' DIRECTORY. THE memos" ousmsss names. I“: Mom. Michigan.

OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED HOL-
etein cows. F‘eir size, good color. bred
good bulls and due from July to December. Most-
}! from A. R. 0. stock, prices reasonable end
every one guaranteed to be exactly on repro-

m M. J. ROOHE

Plnckney. Mich.

SOLD AGAIN

Bull eel! int edvertlsed sold but hove 2 more
lint ore mostly white. They ore nice straight fol-
lowl,llredbyosonofKinxOnn. Onoisf
e 17 lb. 2 yr. old dun end the other is from o!
29 lb. Jr. 3 yr. old dem, she is by e oon oI
I‘riond Hengerveld Do Kol Butter Boy, ono 0

root bulls.
u“.IA‘MES HOPSON JR.. Owoeoo. Mloh.. R 2.

 

 

0R SALE—TWO BULL CALVES, A HOL-
Ftoin and Durham sbout 8 months old. Boga
hove heavy milking demo. Not registered. 8
nch if token at once.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette. Mich.

Fairiawn Herd—Holsteins

HIP. SIM. Emblsggaard Lilith Champion 1080']?
His iire’s clam Golsnths 4th's Johanna. worlds
ﬁrst 35 lb. cow, and World’s ﬁrst 1.200’lb. cog.
The 0111! cow that ever held ell worlds butld’r
records from one day to one year, and theron I
yearly milk record at the some time. 118 1:3:
Lilith Piebe De Kol No. 93710, over 1,_150
of butter from 20,599.4 pounds of milk in 3
year. World’s 2nd highest milk record when
made and Michigan state record for 6 years. Only
one Michigan cow with higher milk record today.
His two nearest dams average:
Butter, one year

Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
Champ's sons from choice A. R. O. dams Will
edd prestige to your herd and money to your

W J. r. RIEMAN

Owner
Flint. Mich.

OHOIOE YOUNG BULL
READY FOR SERVICE m
r l 7' ,, 'U . S
Riff. 30‘i3’...“"3?‘:’l‘o.°f Risen}; FINN? win:
over 36 lbs. Hmwl inllli'l’lllill. I'l'll‘P $0)
BRANDONHILL FARM
Ortonville, Michigan--
JOHN P. HEHL

1205 Griswold St., Detroit, Michigan
vouno

A BLUE RIBBON WINNE BULL

l 1021 Show Circuit. For sale at a low
iiﬁcgw Out of an O granddaughter of

’ t'. . K rnd kc.
“Isiah b; oh’r SENIOR SHOW BULL Model

King Segis Glista 32.37 lbs.

GRAND RIVER STOOK FARMS
COREY J. SPENCER. Owner
111 E. Main Street, Jackson, llllch.

lIerd under State and Federal Supervision.

T YEARLING BULL BARGAINS

Sired by Segis Korndyke De Nijlandcr, a. 32
lb. son of u twice Michigan ribbon w1nner ,her
dam, 29 1-2 lbs. Dams are daughters of King
Segis Pontiac, 3 37 lb. son of King Segis. Rec-
ords 16 lbs. to 30 lbs. Priced at half value.
$100 up. Federally tested June 10. Write

is .
{OTALBtERT G. WADE. Whlte Pigeon. Mich.

HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN PUREE’EFEBOB‘JM

grade heifers; tuberculin tested herd. Prices are

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

 

 

 

OLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS GOOD

nice from their herd. We ore well pleased with
tho calvos from our Junior Herd Sire "King Pork
Noe Lunde Korndyke Sogis" who is e ID! of
Tina ogmthe Pentium; lfir-onusf deughltler (if-Pomp;

e Clo lde Do Kol n ow u as -
.IITO- T. W. Snrotuo. R 2. Bettie Creek. Mush.

poultry will be sent on requoot.
(1 tell you what It will cost for 18, 28 or

pounds in sevenI-dsys.

 

50 head

making kind all through.

Be sure to attend this sale.
col. D. L. Perry, Auctioneer

 

The Southern Michigan Breeders Sale
AT THE FAIR GROUNDS, JACKSON, MICH.

Friday, Nov. 18, 1921, at 12:00 o’clock

of Registered and A.R.O.
HOLSTEIN CATTLE

This sales includes a carefully selected lot of cattle from some of
the best breeders and they are selling them with all possible guaran—
tees, such as 60—90 day retest, guaranteed breeders, and besides this

they are giving a year‘s time to responsible parties.

"‘ The females include twenty nine pound cows, 25 lb. cow, a 25 1b.
three year old, a 22 lb. 3 yr. old daughter of a 28 lb. cow and many
others with good records and bred to good bulls. They are the money—

The bulls are all fit to go out and head good herds.
two with 30 and 31 lb. dams, one with a. 25 lb. three year old dam and
all with the best of sires such as sons of 38 lb. cows.

For Catalog Address

The Michigan “Holstein-Frieda Ass’n, Sale Mgr

_Old State Block, Lansing, Mich.

There are

Albert E. Jenkins, in the Bat:

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Brooders’ Auction Seleo edvortlood

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  SIRED’IY BEGIS FLINT
Hengerveld Led. The
usage records of his four neorest dome ere
83.12 Ibo. butter and 780 lbs. milk in seven
dtnfmmARO.domsrgreoonﬂn¢thllnd-‘
inshmlliesofthebreedwéedtrgcordswto29

Prl
C. KETZLER
Flint. Mich.

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULLS

Bired by a son of King One. end from good
producing cows. Write for photos and prices
EARL PETERS, North Bradley, Mich.

 

 

 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL. 2 YRS.
10 months old.
wm. v. cuss-r, Vassar, Mich,” n 2, Box 19

 

 

S HORTHORN

 

LADWIN COUNTY PURE BRED LIVESTOCK

ASSOCIATION. Hereford. Shorthorn. Jersey

and Holstein cattle; Duroc-Jersey, Poland China

end Hampshire hogs; Oxford, Shropshire and
Hampshire sheep. .

m A place to buy good breedmg stock at reason-

e prices.

FRED B. SWINEHART 0. E. ATWATER

President Secretary

Gladwln, Mich.

I

SHORTHORNS

We are now offering two splendid bulls, ten
months old, the kind that is hard to find, out of
our great breeding bull Perfection Ilcir; 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. Will
gimmntoo breeders.

S. H. PANGBORN & SON

8 Miles East. Bad Axe, Mich.

 

 

OR SALE-REGISTERED SHORTHORNS
and Duroc Jersey spring pigs. either sex; two
red bulls. one 11 months and one 5 months old.
Several heifers from 6 months to 2 years old.
Scott-h Top and Bates bred. Address
GEORGE W. ARNOLD or JARED ARNOLD
Williamsburo, R 1. Michigan

 offered at sttractive prices

before January ﬁrst. Will trade for good land.
Wm. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.

 

COWS, HEIFERS. BULL.

 

THE VAN BUREN CO.. SHORTHORN BREED-
erl’ Association have stock for sole, both milk
end beef breeding.
Write the secretary.
FRANK BAILEY. Hartford. Mich.

 

From the Maple Ridge herd of Bates Short-
horns. Calved in September 1920.

3EXTRA GOOD BULL GALVES FOR SALE.
E. TANSWELL. Mason, Michigan.

 

HORTHORN CATTLE AND OXFORD DOWN
sheep. Both sex for sale.
J. A. DeGARIYIO, Mulr. Mich.

INHERITED SHORTHORN QUALIT

Our puiigreos show u judicious mixture oi the
best blood lines known to the brood. Write 1
JOHN LESSITER’S SONS,

Ciarkston, Mich.

run mm SHORTHORNS

Shropshire, Southdown and Cheviot rilllls write
L KELLY a. SON, Plymouth, Much.

 

ENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTHORN BREED-
ors' Association oﬂ'er for sole '75 heed: l“

gee, both milk end beef breeding. Send for now
t.

MILKING STRAIN SHORTHORNS

Registered stock of all ages and both sex. Herd
heeded by the imported bull, Kelmscott Vib-
' . , 648,563. Prices reasonable.
LUNDY BROS., Rd, Davison, MICh.

MILKING SHORTHORNS mm" .31" m.

vice, tuberculin tested and at bargain mica.
W. S. HUBER. Gladwln, Mich.

RIOHLAND SHORTHORNS

Herd bulls for quick sale. Fair Acres Gooth
Ind Collynie Cullen 5th. Both roan five year
olds end tried sires.

Best of blood lines end show prospects.

Both quiet to handle.

A real bargain.

Write for particulars.

C. H. Prescott & Sons

Towns City, Michigan

or s‘nonrnonns now. 4TH ANNUAL
herd test without e reactor. Some bargain!

.i’diih ecnmor a. son. Reed City. Mlch.
L8
TWO REAL SHORTHORN "Eign'i’ha

15 mo. old and sired by Imp. Dainty P
W. W. KNAPP, Howell, Mich.

MILLER. Seo'y. Groenvllio. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS

G ERNSEY BULLS SERVICE-
  sliie of . end calves. Dame now
on test msldng splendd A. R. records. I have

 

what you went in type breeding end roductlon.
Have never had abortion nor tube sis. Herd
federally accredited. Prices 8100 Write
for particulars /.

A. M. SMITH. Lake City. Mich.

eunusn sun. son 8...-

1 two-year old ; 1

yoernng' 1 five months old; 1 three months old.

ell the ay Rose strain odvanced registry. Write
- G. 'r. BRYC . Romeo. Mich.

REGISTERED GUERNSEY
“Ii-- “59' westerns"
m. Adamo. Blob...

 

 
 

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The Howell Holstein Sale ,\
HOWELL Sales Company. at
Livingston county, held its eighth
l annual consignment sale of register“
ed Holstein-Friesian cattle on Friqu.
October 21. in the sale pavilion at the
Howell fair grounds. There were 90
head in the offering, all except three be—
Ins females. The auctioneer was 001.
J. E. Mack. F0 Atkinson, Wis, and S.
T. Wood, Live , Ohio, was in the box.
The cattle were nearly all from well-
known producing families and,» for the
most part, good individuals; some of
them were in fairly good condition but
many were thin, some almost to the point
of emanciation and, because of this poor
condition, did not sell for nearly as much
as they weredntrinslcally worth. The
highest priced cow in the sale was con—
signed by W. L, Meyer, Fewlervllle and
was purchased by J. R, Monroe,‘ Owosso,
for $365. Burr Allen, Fowlerville, fur-
nished the second highest riced cow
which was purchased by W. U... Hoffman,
Superintendent of the School for the
Deaf at Flint, for $330.

Besides those mentioned above, ﬂee
following breeders consigned cattle to
the sale: George Barnes, Tracy Crandall,
Henry Gehringer, W. I. Griffin, McPher-
son Farms 00.. R. B, McPherson, W. E.
Miller, Albin Pfau, Alfred Pfau. Vin
Keuren & Durfee, Chas. H. White end
S. M. Yerkes of Howell; Guy W
and Malachy Roche, Fowlerville; W. C.
Hendee & Son, Pinckney; Fred Pleas.
Brighton and Musolff Brothers, South
Lyons.

Those who pur based cattle at the sale
are as follows:
Alfred Pfau, Howell; Raymond Allen,
Fowlerville: A, S. Cobb, Stockbridge; J.
R. Monroe, Owosso; J. W. Perkins, Mul-

ester; 0. B. Elliott, Fowlerville; Lisle

mi‘th, Williamston; Arthur Bullis.
Pinckney; W. L, Hoffman, Flint; Frank
Renshaw, Pontiac; Frank Wellings, How-
ell: John W. Worthington, Howell; R. B.
Waltrous, Chelsea; W. . & F. Sexton,
Durand; Earl Mead, Webberville: A. M.
Glover, Fowlerville: John A, Rinke, War-
ren; A. ,L_ Smith, Howell; H. E. Spauld-
ing, Chelsea; A. R. Eastman, Howell;
C. W Raddatz, Fowlerville; A. L, Spil-
lane 3. Son, Clio; M. H. Piper, 1mm:
Allen Ficther, Howell; J, L. Roche &
Son, Pinckney; A. ’L, Glover, Livingston
County Infirmary; L. D. Wheeler, Fow-
lerviile: Mrs» M. W. Dix. Laingsburg; R.
B, McPherson, Howell; E_ M. Stark;-
weathcr, Northville; A. W. Copland, Bir-
mingham; Milton Hartman, Northville;
R. J. Robb, Fowlerville; Peter Lawson.
Howell; Robert McCrory dz Son, South
Lyons; E. P. Iﬁnney, Okemos; Wm. Gei-
ger & Son, Rushton; Baldwin & Nowlin.
Bennington; George Griffin, Howell:
Walker Gordon Farms, Plainsboro, N, J,

One of the most commendable feature.
of the sale and one that all cattle sales
organizations can well afford to copy
was the comfortable dining room and the
splendid dinner served for those who ab-
tended the sale; for many years, tho
dining room service at the Howell sales.
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W. Worthington, of Howell. The air,

tendance was estimated at about 400
people, many of them ladies.

Fine Exhibit at Mucomb County Fair

The Macomb County Fair, which wt.
hold at Armada, the second Week in 00-
tober, was, from the standpoint of it)
live stock exhibits, one of the best coun-
ty fairs held in this part of the state. Tho
weather was cold and' a. biting wind W
the attendance down. The Show at
fancy work and manufactured articla.
tools and farm equipment was not large
but it made up in quality what It lacked
in quantity. All of the classes in II“
stock were judged by Prof. Edwards with
the Animal Husbandry Department. M.
A C

The competition was strong In the
Shorthorn, Duroc and Shropshire do:
partments; in all of these classes the em-
hibits were of a. quality that would have
done credit to a state or district £811.
The Shorthorn exhibitors were W. A.
Jeffrey & Son, Armada; C. H, Parkman.
Armada; W, A. Kaiser and Hebblewhlto
Bros, Armada. L. C. Kelly & Son, Ply-
mouth, showed Polled Shorthorns, Souths
down, Cheviot, Horned-Dorset, Hm-

shire and Shropshire sheep and several ‘

breeds of poultry. F, E. Simpson, Ypsi-
lanti, showed Oxford, Lincoln and Tunis
sheep. Mark Richardson, Pontiac, show-
ed Ramboulette and fine wooled sheep.
Harvey Hebblewhite also showed Shrop-
shire sheep. ‘

In the Duroc hog department. 'threo

herds competed for prizes; they were In—
wood Brothers, Rush Brothers and H. E.
Livermore & Son all of Romeo. Horses
were exhibited by John Townsend Ind
Harlan Townsend of Armada.
Perry, Davidson, was without competh
tion with his splendid herd of Aberdeen;
Angus cattle, Frank Goodar, Richmond
showed Holstein cattle.

The Southern Michl‘m Holstein Brood-
ers' First Sale

The first sale of the Southern Mich!-
gan Holstein Breeders will be held at
Jackson, Michigan on Friday, Nov. 18.
1921, In this sale will be oﬂered o.
class of cattle that anyone W18 to
buy is alWays looking for. All of
from herds under federal» supervision.
the most of them fully accredited and
sold with a. 60-90 day retest pr!
and guaranteed breeders as well.
management has’full established the ole.
mint of safety for the buyer at the out-
so

The kind of cattle as regards
and records are indicated by W
that a select corn-gunman of 311th _'
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, em .81;   'In‘ the“ central
 ﬂ  (Auction Sale Circuit were held
gm asthma 271211. 3111.; first sale
'" L..- s: “a ‘* camel. is: it
.9 r  Y . e m ‘ o -
,_   the,average"~'was a’trii'le lin-
., -  fngth best-priced. animal
‘ -~ .  , in ».little  ’ Checkers Lady
H  widen.  at 4 month'so‘ld: the
 R: {canard , Innis. Be-
, , mam. Leonard, the forming tarm-
   ‘and breeders». purchased hogs": Cleo
.'  Breckenridge':ljF1-ank McClain, St.
Innis:  ‘Feﬁ'by.’ St? ‘Louis: John
We Merrill; .Arthor Iles, Ithaca;
Frank 'O‘bertz, Breckenridge; Fred Mar~

  
   

    

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’ tin.» St. Louis; M. Williams, Shepherd;
Fred Mailman, Breckenridge; W. H,
Wescott. Sty-Louis; B.‘ F. Jackson,‘ St.

. Louis; W." N. Ward, Breckenridge; 8. A.
- , St. Louis; I. M. Williams, St.

.Louls‘; "Bert Barnes.‘ North sun‘Susan
Ber-17.81:. Louis; J, Colb , St. Louis;
Elmer Wertz. Wheeler; . en'ry Suell,
_ I .. Hogs were consigned to this
‘ sale in AT.-.T.‘:Hart, RayFulcher .andv‘Geo.

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, ' The Leonard auction 'sale was held,on
I V ’ Oct. 27th, on the term not far
‘ . “St. Louis; there were 50 animals
-»  sale and the average was a triﬂe
.. m 5302* About 300 men amended this.
._  them many of the leading
l 1' .  'L. '1‘. P. , C. breeding circles.
,‘ . ' ‘ﬁeldcamp, William. Livingston.
. 1 ‘ JV-;I"_..B.onor._;the Brewbakerﬁroa. Arthur
iv  a » KB. .Itamsdell, Clyde Fisher
~ ‘ .  On“.ha.nd"to 'boost‘ tor their‘ tayorite
- :  of phenomena 
  highestnrica; '80. ,was- paid' by
*  ,' tor Queen of Walnut
 games- semi; w. B. Banisdell
 ,   -»~Pm3pect,”a  sow
.  +3!!-  . uvmsstom . 
manger-y. Ionia. bought two beau-
: , Lomrof Lanme and Al'-
 p's fmdus F’s, Clansman.
0‘ each. Besides those mentioned
. the following breeders bought
the Leonard sale}: ' Doris Hover.
; E. A, =Sta.hi, Louis; Geo. W...
, Alma; Char-legwwazel, Ithaca; R.
Vroman, Ithaca: Floyd Street, Ithaca;
.; ,1 .. Gay, St. Innis; 19., --Fenby.
l- _ , ,sz. E. Holman. Ithaca: W, B.
‘ . - so. ﬂhe herd; William Travis, St.

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-- ,eQI-lnimslsdo housed as thereundan
 ‘- it tons herd 01,,Abe'rdeen-Angus cattle or
‘v ..  G‘Type. Poland-China hogs will ﬁnd
7’  in: their interest to .be, pr ' . at the
, . :’  sale to  held on the rm of
i- r- ‘ .mdred; A. ‘Clali‘k‘ﬁlocated one unite w'
"  and  miles north or St. Louis, Mich,
m. : Clark, furnished 4 the grand “champion
_ mammals at this‘lyeai’s Jackson fair,
   firston‘ union yearling bull,
.5 g‘Iagthcwnnd-‘rdunior ,bu 1 calf.“ Mr. Clark
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.  yet seen  teacher of either
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not necessarily interior. Trains and
.steamships can not be trusted to en-
gineers who do not learn at the en-

gines). .-The term is. the best'place to.

learn farming. the best. and the
cheapest place to educate for country
life.“ Freebel. "one of the greatest of
educators, long ago said that the
school is an'imperiect substitute for

“the home... .Possiblyfwe may yet

haveﬂsome schooling at home. The
most of'us never will go away for
it. The educator" who builds farm
education. on'iarm life will not lack
response, support, or results.

A school is not a building. Socra—
tes, Plato and Jesus the greatest
teachers the world has known, had
110 buildings and were not expensive
teachers. They were not standard-
ized, and they ,could not have done

.their work with standardized pupils

in standardized schools. Without
examinations, diplomas or any other
distractions, Denmark gives higher
education to farmers. The Piney
Woods county Lifé School at Brax-
ton, Mississippi, shows that unstand—
ardized education can make negroes
an asset to our country; standardiz-
ed schools are not doing it. Boys’
clubs and girls' clubs prove that the
farm itself is no bad Bless room and

. laboratory- More use must be made
. or it, for no other class room or lab-'"

oratory is accessible to American
farm boys and girls. Farm educa—
tion, her farming does not'fa-il 01! .con-
tact with its problems. ~When it

' reaches-cyst}? farm home effectively,

the bestbountry families will no
longer move to the. city to educate
their children. Farm life has ob‘
vious relations with many'arts and
sciences. Schooling is none the
worse for including and utilizing
farm life., The parables .of Jesus
show how it has been done—Farm-

er, Michigan. ‘ «

 

. The days or the itinerant preacher are

past. whether for the better or worse we

cannot say. ',Is it possible that we are
homing to’ the eraaggt itinerant school-
. rem farm to farm

 and girls and men and
omen in the homely tasks o! the day?

1’ ‘ When the rudiments of the three “R's”
_ are leade the fundamentals of an edu-

cation one laid. Upon "these , as

foundath an education. the

complete. so

131' 88,1311 practical purposes are con“

corned, can be built—Editor.

users can u u' Isms—Ll» camp ‘3 *

' dun. Quickly mlicvc Headaches. ub-
_'.let?r;."ho my to war over.
- ‘ x a Ir. Hill' ‘
.. “Maﬁa” 1’ rhg 1W ‘
M Alfbrmhn-Jo an.»
an mu. comm. 

 

 

 

 
   

 

 

 
 

  

Aries-u, a . Michigan"  .

 

OF MAY R08! 3H0 assumes BREEDING.
No abortion, clean. tededlv inspected. Their
sires dam mdo.‘19.460.20 milk, 909.05 int.
Their mother’s ﬁlm’s dam mule 15,109.10 milk
778.80. (at. Get you a com. 2 heifers and a.
beautiful lot. of _ young bulls. _

‘I'. V. "IDES, R 1, But“. My mo“-

 

FQR SALE. 'GumlCEy Bud-Ly} YEAR OLD.
Writ! {617, articular-[to '

‘ “$1.00.! 7".

R. P. o. 2, Wm mt. Mlch.

REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIFER GALVEB
for $125‘eech delivered. Ball at)“ for $50-
Sires 5, nearest dams average ‘725 lbs. fat.“

-'JNE HILL FARM, 638, Howard Oi“. Iloh.

JERSEY

 

ducers. $50 and up according age. MILO
H. EDISON AVSON. R2. Grand Rapids. Mich.

us or can uussrv euLLs WOULD m.
prove your herd.
FRANK'I’. NORMINGTON. lonle. >Mlch.
. . HEIFERs 1 VR. 0 0——
  Young cows In' milk Lllred

by Majesty’s Oxford Shylock 156,692 also young
bulls sired by Frolic's Master Pogls 177683. a
grandson of Pogis 99th and Sophie 19th's Tor-
mentor, two great bulls oi’ the breed. Write for

prices and pedigree.
BUY 0. WILBUR. R 1. Beldlng, Mich.

 

 

 BULLS AND BULL OALVES slred
by a son of Sophie 19th Tormentor.
J. E. MORRIS J; SON. Farmlngton, Mlch.

F THE BULL l8 HALF THE HERD, HOW
much would a. son of Pozis 99th's Duke 8th,
who has 60 per cent blood of Sophia 19th, be
Worth to your herd?
Let me send you pedigrees and prices on bull
calves from ,thisFlaulLund SopgieDTormentor cows.

Scotts. Mlch.

 

 

HEREFORDS

HEBEFOBDS & DUHGGS

Yearling bulls and bull calves, Beau Donald

 

 

breeding. Also Dumc boars and edits.
J. c. THOMSON s. 80H, Parma, Mlch.
;.
EGISTERED HEREFORD CATTLE —— KING

REPEATER 713941. and Beau Perfection
327‘899' heed our herd. Bulls are sold; have
some very ﬁne heifers for sale, bred or opened,
bred to "our herd bulls. Gome and see them;

,wil please you. .
Tony I. Fox. Prop» Henry Gehrholz. He-‘ ‘,

 

   Prop-

IARIOI BTOOK FARM. Marlon Mlchlgln

I ma
LAKEWCOD HEREFOBDSmfﬁfm. left.

Tley are good ones. High class females, all

 

 

 

 

 

sacs. Best of blood Come andrsee.
 E. J. TAYLOR. Fremont. Mlch.
ANGUS '
The Home of
Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny
Probably

_ - The Worlds’ Greatest
BREEDING BULL.

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

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

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

Semi for Illustrated Catalogue. _

W ILDWOOD FARMS
Orion, Mich.

w. E. Mops. Pro... Bldnoy leth, my”,

Public; Auction Sale
Wed, Nov. 9,‘ .1921

of Aberdeen Angus' cattle and Po—
land Chinas, 4 bulls, 12 females.
Some prize winners and champions
this year, included in the sale. .1
herd boar, 3 spring boars, 3 sows, 7
gilts, 6 Aug. pigs. Come and look
them over. The L. A. S. will serve
dinner at‘ noon, 1 mile west, Smiles
north of St. Louis, Mich. y
W. H. Zimmerman, Auctioneer

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 .

locust: both so: tor sale. ,
Burden 31910, 1920 Interv
n" , , .

m, is"! ".19"-

 

JERSEY BULL OALVES. Show type. From p'ro-,

PREMIUM BEEF PRODUCERS
Fair; and grand champion- at Bey City. 1021.
Young stock for sale. "

AHOUO 7-HOME PARK
unison. Mich.

Slred .by Black Rosana}. third at Mich. 'Stato

 

AYRSHIRES

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE

bulls and bull calves. heifers and holler

Also some choice cows. ‘ , .
FllDLA’V BRO... R I. le‘. Itch.

 

RED POLLED 
25 RED ROLLED GATTLE' »

Registered. All ages.
E. S. CARR, Homer, Mlch.

 

 

BROWlV SWISS

  REGISTERED BROWN 8W!“

Yearling Bull of famous breed-
ing. Great grand-dam World’s Champion; grand
dam 14,6472 milk, 616.45 fat; dam 12,132
$3132 538.8 fat at four years (Cow Testing

11.
HERMAN HALE, Mich.

GALLOWAY

REGISTERED GALLOWAVS, The beet. cream
and robe breed. Stock of all ages for sale;
.mmas FRAn'rz a SONS, alumon, o lo

SWINE

hm POLAND CHINA
——'——FOR SALE. LARGE TYPE—-——-—

POLAND GHINA

Sircd by F’s Clnnsmzm 391211,
1920 Gr. Champion boat, and
by Smooth Blister 395823, Michigan’s
1920 lst Jr. Yearling Roar. Immune by
double treatment. Priced to sell. Write
or see them. Free livery to visitors.
A. A. FELDKAMP
Manchester, R. No. 2

‘ WALNUT ALLEY

Bic Typo Poln_ml (minus. bu:er curl rrllis now
ready. e kind that has made good for the
past ten years.

A. D. GREGORY

lonla. Mlchlgan

" L. T. P. C. $15-$20-$25.

We are offering our 1921 fall crop of pigs at the
above prices. They are sired by Hart‘s Black
Price and Right Kind Clan.

T HART. St. Louis,

Caledonla.

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

boar pigs.
Michigan’s

 

Mich.

 

 

 

Mich.

 

 

EONARD’S BIG TYPE P. G. BOAR PIG.
ut weaning time. from Mich. Champion herd

$25 with pedigree. Satisfaction guaranteed. 0%

or write E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louis. Mic

BIG BOB MASTODON

Is sired by Caldwell Big Bnb, champion of
the world. Ills dam’s sire is A's Mastodon,
grand champion at Iowa State “Fain. some breed-
ing. Peter A You is my new boar sired by Peter
Pan, he by Peter the Grant, Glover &: Frank D.
Winn herd, Kansas City, Mo. Some choice
hours left sired by Big Bob. Price-d 10W ﬁnd
guaranteed. 30 clinics full pigs, either sex.

0. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

Mama POLAND cHINAs

Bred gilts all sold. April furrowed boars and
gilts now ready. The kind that suits at farm-
srs‘ prices. Satisfaction guaranteed, if not tell
me, if so tell another.
M. M. PATRICK. Grand Ledge, Mich.
both

BIG TYPE POLAHDSTSTXQE. 2333’ and

growthy. Best‘ of blood lines represented. Write
or call. W. Caldwell & Son. Springpprt. Mich.

BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS EITHER SEX
from large growtliy dams and sired by choice
herd boars. Come and see our stock, prior
reasonable.

L. W. BARNES a; SON, Byron, Mlch.

 

 

 

 

 

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

School'cran. Mich.

EBANGISGG FARM POLAND GHlHAS

Sizev—Quaiity—Popular Breeding. THAT'S US.

A square deal—satisfaction. THAT'S YOUR.»

Pubilc Sale—50 Head—Dot. 28, 1921
POPE BROS. CO»

‘ Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

 

 

JG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Fall 1R“ to!
sale sired by the 1200 lb. boar Monster Bit
ob 327,623 and of (,llansmau, Giant Busts:
aid Yankee breeding. lieady to ship now. All
hogs double treated. Priced right for quick Milo.

Write or come and see them. _
C SONS. Ithaca. Mloh.

HA8. WETZEL &
BOARS AT HALF mm: m "PE

. I Poland Chino
bred m the purple, sired by Mich. Buster,
A Giant, and Butler’s Big Bob. No better
breeding. A biz mused. biz-boned bear res
for servxce, registered. for $25.00—330.00.

MO 0. BUTLER, Portland. Mich.

Elia" 25.791.33.25"? “m “if”
. no ‘ coldthis men .
‘ PLEASANT HILL rm

_Ewt. Mich0 Route 8. Box 89.,

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' Pride of Mecostzi. Satisfaction guaranteed.
I papers with pigs. ‘

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twin .
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'01! to F": Group. It rulonblq prices.
u bin. Write or cell.
CLYDE FISHER, H 3, St. LOUIS,' Mloh.
{rm

SPOTTED POLAND CHINAS

 

 

 

ilafge Type Spotted Poland Chinas

Sonic spring pigs at right prices. Sired Abﬁ

Phone or write
FULLER, R 2, Reed City, Mich.

DUROCS

J. B.

 

 

 

' nunoc nouns at $20 to 540. These are good

Inspection invitl
Orion Sensation and by
Demonstrator.

Michigana Farm Ltd.. Pavilion Mich.
Kalamazoo County.

and guaranteed satisfactory.
ed. Sired by Michigan

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o. I. o. MINE—MY HERD a

blood mm o! the nest noted herd.
you stock It "liv- und let live" prices.
A. J. OORDEN. Barr. Mloh.. I I.

‘ HAMPSHIRES

 

 

~HAMPSHIRE H068 ARE THE MOST POPU-

lnr hogs of today. Spring and fle boar piss.
et a bargain. A few open gilts. 9th year.

JOHN w. suvoen, n 4, St. Johns. Mich.

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshir'es Right

We ure gifering some good sows and Elite, bred

for Mnrch and April farrowing., A few

choice full pigs, either sex, Write or call
GUS THOMAS, New Lothrop. Mich.

 

 

BERKsmﬁEs

 

OR BALE—FINE MARCH AND APRIL PIGS
Sired by Gladwin Col. 188995. VVriba Ill

your nuts.
HARLEY FOOR £5,80NS. R 1. Gladwln. Mich.

PEAIIH HILL FARM

TRIED cows and gilts bred to or sired by Peach
Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction guar‘
Inteed. Come look 'em over.
Also I few open gilts.
INWOOD BRWOILHERS
lc .

 

Romeo.

 

AM OFFERING SOME HIGH CLASS

SPRING DUROG BOARS

pt reasonable prices . A few gilts bred for Ssp<

 

 

 

 

 

umber furrow at bargain prices.
W. . TAYLOR
Milan. Mich.
OR SALE —— DUROC PIGS, 2 1-2 to 4
months old, either sex, big bone, proliﬁc
strain, superior individuals and breeding. l'rico
reg 12 to 15 dollars. A few March gilts. Sat-
isfaction or money back.
WEST VIEW FARM, Hillsdalc, Mich.
B. E. Kics. Prop.
.-

PlIRE-BRED DURCIG JERSEY HUGS

\Ve usuully have good hours and sows of all

ages for sole. llousonublo prices.

LARRO RESEARCH FARM, 'Box A North Enc

Detroit, Michigan.

DUROG JERSEY BOARS-BIG ONES!
Priced to more thorn quirk.
VIRGIL DAVIS, Ashley, Mich.

  SPRING FARROW,

Mostly Colonel, Long

“Wilder rind Konsntion bra-ding.

ORASLEN FARMS, Northville, Mich.

 

UROC JERSEY BOARS. Bears of the large.

heavyboned type, at reasonable prices. \Vnto.
or better, come and see.
F. DRODT, R 1. Monroe, Mich.

 

FOR SALE:——REG. DUROC JERSEY SWINE.
A few real bonr nnd sow pigs by Michigan
Gmnd Champion Boar and from prizo
dams. Also a few full pigs eitbcr sex.
5th aged boar Detroit and 2nd at
All stock donblo immuncd CXCL‘Dt
Satisfaction gnu rnntord.

F. HEIMS & SON, Davison.

winning
sired by
Saginaw.
full pigs.

Mich.

EVERY’S BERKSHIRES

Winner: at the International 1920. State Fair

 

 

 

1920-21. Choice large type spring pills. 81th“
sex. Satisfaction guaranteed.
W. H. EVERY, Manchester, Mich.
TAMVVORTH
offers Tamworth Boers and Sows for sale at
right prices. A low of all egos from best blood
lines in the U.

S.
FRANK KINCH, Grindstone Cy, Mich.

 

 

CHL‘STER \VHITES
6‘ pigs, 3 hours {lllll 3 sows
Sired by Mnnger Monarch No,
No. 144030. GIIIXSIA'I‘ \Vhito. Rcfcronce

Mungcr, Mnnger, Mich.
H. RADEMAGHER, Mungcr, Mich.

SHEEP

AMERICAN MERINO and B.ack

flirrowed Sept. 6.
TSHII l llzini (lily
Ilnnk of

 

   

FOR SAL

Top Deilninc ruins. l‘urebred
Berkshire boars, true to typo and ready for
BI‘I‘III'I‘.
JOHN W. WORTHINGTON, Howell, Mich.‘

 

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE
EWES AND RAMS.

FOR SAL

 

GLEN STACKHOUSE, Corunna, Indiana.
0 I MBS
5W5"In.s...5n§s.s 
Evart, Mich. ~o

 

SI-IROPSHIRES LAM'RISV‘ER‘Ilggé-YTORS'EILL

 

DAN BOOHFR. R 4. Evart. Mich.
OR SALE . REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE
mvr‘s broil to bunb in March or April.

ARMSTRONG BROS., Mich.

WILLOW SHADE SHRDPSHIRES

ICwos and rnms of the best breeding. l'rices
reasonable.

R3, Fowlervllle,

 

0. W. SOBER,
Fowler-ville, Mich.

 

uroe Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders taken

for \vcntlim: Digs. 1,000 pound herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER, Weidman, Mich.

ﬂAKLANDS PREMIER EHIEF
Herd Folr_neference only No. 129219
1919 Chicago International
4th Prize Jr. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS F‘ALI. I’IGS A’I‘ $25
BLANK a. POTTER
Potterville. Mich.

 

 

 

  DUROC JERSEY BOAR, 1 YR.
‘ old. 3d. \Vcst Michig‘an. Price
$60. Several good spring boars and gilts from
prize winning stock at reasonable prices.

FREY BROS., R 1, Caledonia, Mich.

 

OR SALE—BROOKWATER PRINCIPAL 33rd
2% yours old. right in every way.
J E

 

MORRIS & SON, Farmington, Mich.
ICHLYqBRED ounocs. YOUNG BOARS
and dilis sirod by liroosziter licmmuirutor

State Fair 1053 l.
Mlch.

27, 2nd prize .‘IL‘IWI boar,
H. E. LIVERMORE & SON. Romeo.
ANYTHING

 1“” rmrr's prices.

0. L. POWER, Jerome. Mich.

FOR SALE

 

YOU WANT AT

 

REG. DUROC SPRING BOARS,

good brooding. prices right.
JESSE BLISS & SON
Henderson. Mich.

 

uroo sow: anu slits )red to Wait's King 8294’
who has sired more prize winning pigs at the
late fair: In the last 2 years than any other Du-
roc boar. Newton Barnlmrt. St. Johns. Mich.

 

5 DUROC JERSEY PIGS, 10 to 12 weeks old,
weight 35 to 110 lbs, either sex, nil registered.
$10 each. \Vo are crowded for room send check
with order. Money book If they do not plmso you.
SCHAFFER BROS., Leonard, MIch., R 1

    PIGS sired by

Unedu Model Orion. Grandson of $20,000 hour,
'Defendcr. Jack Orion, and Taxpayer Orion dams.
Those pigs are making.y of rail boars. Will ship
for inspection bnfnre you pay.

LIDGARD, Hesperla, Mich.

 

DUROC BOAR

 

urocs. Hill Crest Farms. Bred and open sows
end gilts. liners and spring pizrs. 100 head.
Farm 4 miles straight S. of Middleton, Mich,,
Gratiot 00. Newton & Blank, I’crrinton, Mich.
E OFFER

A FEW WILL-BRED SELECT.
‘ ed spring Durnc Boers,

lilo bred cowl nd
Gilts In season. Cull or write
McNAUGHTON J FORDYOE. Ct. LOUII. Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE: ONE DUROO BOAR . FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.

JOHN CRONENWETT. enrlcton. Mhh.

0. I. C.

o I 0 Ann IIIIEerII IIIIIIE

0 Spring boars at reasonable prtlcesl.
. .
Write

 

 

 

Pigs to be shipped
weeks old. Prominent Bloodlines.
‘ OL‘ARE V. DORMAN, 8nover. Mich.

on. seamen: nouns, SPRING no.

 

  

 

 

 

Head Registered Shropshle Ewe and Ram

60

liunbs,_ also yearling rums of a quality
that have given sutlsfnction since 1800. Priced
to Sci.
0. LEMEN. Dexter, Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

A few good yeerling rsms and some run
Inmbs left to offer. 25 (Me! all ages for sale
for full delivery. Everything guaranteed II
represented.

Mich.

lGLARKE U. HAIRE. West Branch,

REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAN!

,irccding nnd individuality. Ranging from one
to four yours Olll.
’ ROBERT J. NOON. Jackson, Mlch., R 9.

 

 

 

 

HEGISTERED HAMPSHIRE RAMS. All ages.
lin’d and priced right. Also registered ewe
ull ngcs.
W. CASLER, Ovid, Mich.
BLACK TOP DELAINE RAMS.
FRANK ROHRABACHER, Lalngsburg, Mich.

 

TO INCREASE YOUR RETURNS

from sheep, breed Registered Ilnmbouillcls.
li‘dr so I o b y

P. C. FREEMAN & SON

Phone 54-3 or 240 Lowell,

FOR SALE

011 min colt 4 months old. Good size, heavy
horn, will III‘IIU‘, .1 large
L. IRISH, Owosso,
~x‘

mule when grown.
Mich., R. F. D, 5
A
PET ‘ STOCK  
OR SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS. DOES.
V breeding age, SR. "Three months old pair, :55.
Registered does $12 each. Stock pedigreed. Qunb

U guaranteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater.'Mlch.

Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNDRED HUNTING ROUNDS. TRIAL AND
photos. (i. O l)
KASKASKUP KENNELS, Herrick, Ill.

EVERY
BREEDER

Can use M. B. E’s
Breeders’ Directory
to good advantage.
Run your ad. and
watch the returns

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

come in
What Have, You to Offer?

 

' IN. 'NII:
ou‘lfgl fur-Iii

 

     

 ou’rrnn‘ my.
(Continued from page .7) ’
antly across the sky from out of the
Arctic regions. At intervals one of‘
the afore-mentioned Englishmen, a.
consoling old soul who puffed con-
tinually upon a short clay,pipe, came
my way and asked if I was still not
“happy with the sea.” This old,
gentleman had spent a. life time trav-
eling. He had crossed thousands of
miles of ice and snow on~dog sledg-
ers and at other times had basked in
the sunshine of the South Sea Is-
lands. He could talk entertainingly
upon almost every subject brought up
for discussion. .

Among other passengers on board
the Irma, all of Whom were confined
to their state-rooms on this particu-
lar day were a Brazilian merchant
with his little dark-eyed daughter
who were trying to drown their sor-
row over the recent death of a wife
and mother by losing themselves in
those far northern regions; an.Am-
erican from Seattle, bound for
Christiania on some business in con-
nection with an estate of which he
was administrator; on American girl
and ,her mother hailing from San
Francisco and bound for the North
Cape inside the Arctic circle Where
from the 12th of May to the 29th of
July the sun shines twenty—four
hours a day, and where from the
last of November until the middle
of January the sun never rises above
the horizon. Another passenger with
whom I became quite well acquaint—
ed was a young Dane, representing a
firm of egg exporters in the city of
Christiania. He was very attentive
to me and gave me many valuable
po' .ters concerning both Norwegian
an Danish manners and customs. I
learned from him for instance, that
a guest upon arising from a meal in
a Norwegian home will always, if he
is polite, murmur, “tak fir maelde,"
or “thanks for the meal.”

My deck chair was quite too com-
fortable for me to leave when the
tom—tom beat the hour of the Sun-
day noon meal. For the time being
I preferred the smell of the salt—sea.
air even though laden at times with
a cold mist, to the smell of steaming
food. But by evening I found my
sea—legs steadylenough to guide me
down the steep and narrow stairway
to the dining salon where with the
previously mentioned rocking horse
experts I was able to do justice to a
bountiful meal, not the least of
which were some of the most deli-
cious strawberries I had ever eaten,
and served in extra—generous por—
tions to each guest on this particu-
lar occasion because of the absence
of so many. I verily believe that
some of those Vikings around me
consumed at least two quarts of
these berries apiece. But I ate with
discretion. The spirit was willing,
but the flesh was weak. These par—
ticular berries of which I speak were
grown in England, but after I reach-
ed Norway I saw growing, in a lati—
tude equal to that of southern Alas-
ka. and ate just as fine and liiSéiOus
berries as I have ever seen.

Another; night of profound sleep
in the dining saloon, a few more
hours of pitching and tossing and
then we sighted the western coves of
Norway and came into calmer wa-
tcrs. What a relief it was! The
rocking of the boat over, the passen-
gers soon began to appear again in
better health and spirit. Norway’s
shore is none too inviting but upon
that cold, grey morning it looked
like the Promised Land to the weary
travelers. And as we entered the
mouth of the fiord the sun broke
through the clouds. smiled at us a
few minutes and then disappeared.
And in a few minutes more it was
raining. They say that it rains
every day of the year in Bergen. I
was later told that this yas a slight
exaggeration, though it is true that
there are between 70 and 80 inches
of rainfall in that region a year.

From the mouth of the fiord to
the city of. Bergen was about a two
hours run which gave us a fine op-
portunity to study at close hand the
character of the Norwegian
scape. For a time all that could be
seen on eitlier side were slate-grey
hills of stone, rounded off as though
beaten for centuries by the waves.
In a little while we began to see
signs of habitation and vegitatlon.

mm‘

 

land— '

Along theshore splotches of bring'ht, ' "

.s‘reén ere-1811

~ fishermen’s'. cottages ‘ bbgcn ‘
pear._: ' As we proceeded ” th
huts became more numerous and-the
sides of the hills revealed garden

spots and grazing "goats. All about
these premises was neat and clean ‘

and fresh. The little houses were
without exception neatly painted and
bespoke a quiet, peaceful home life.
Nothing could afford a more strik-
ing contrast than these stretches of
green alternating with grey reaches
and giant boulders which nose out
into_ the fiord or crowned the crests
of the hills. ‘

Finally, after many twistings and

'turnings to avoid dangerous hidden

rocks we rounded at little: peninsula
and- the city of Bergen burst full
upon our‘sight. \

 

NOMADS OF THE NORTH

(Continued from page 10)
to operate and he had given him-
self up entirely to his fate.‘But Nee-
wa came up again, and Mikl follow-
‘ed, like a bobber. He was about to
gasp his last gasp when the force
of the current, as it ~swung out of
the whirlpool, flung Neewa. upon a
bit of partly submerged driftage,
and in‘a wild and strenuous effort
to make himself safe Neewa dragged
Miki’s head out of water so that
the pup hung at the edge of the
driftage like a hangm-an’s victim at
the end of his rope.

(Continued next week)

 

 

The Experience Pool

 

 

Bring your everyday problems In and I“
the experience or other farmers. Questions ad-
dressed co this department are published here
and answered by you, our readers. who are
graduates of the School of Hard Knocks end
who have their diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don’t want our editor’s
advice or. an expert's advice. but Just plain.
everyday business farmers’ advice, send In
your question here. We will publish one
each week. If you can answer the other
fellow’s question, please do so, he may ans-
wer one of yours some day! Address Expoh’
lence Pool. care The Business Farmer. Mt.
Clemens. Mich.

 

 

 

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

Have any of the readers of M. B. F.
ever heard of an internal combustion en—

' gine of the 4 cylinder type, without any

ignition system, that will start on crude
oil or anything in the line of oil or refuse
of oil? I have one and would like to see
other farmch use an engine that will
start as easily in cold weather as in
warm_ Last winter I would go out to
mine, clean the snow and ice from the
gears, turn the engine over once and it
would start right off. With my Thermoil
engine I can pull a generat0r_as steady
as it can be done with a steam engine.
This engine uses only about one—half as
much fuel as a. gasoline engine. And
then look at the difference in the price of
crude oil and gasoline per gallon. This
type of engine is very easy to operate;—
M. G., Muskegon, Michigan.

MAPLE SAP FOR VINEGAB

Saw in Oct. 8th issue of M, B. F. Where
J. G., of Mnnton, Micl1,, wanted to know
about his maple sap making vinegar. In
reply I would say, the sap was boiled
too sweet. Add water and keep in a.
warm place—M. C. S., Hubbard Lake,
Michigan. '

WHO O‘VNS A PHELPS LIGHTING
PLANT?

Can/you give me any information
about'the Phelp’s Lighting Plant made
in Indiana (I think -Richmond) and
handled by Morley Bros.) Saginaw? Are
they 4a serviceable plant and considered
as’good as any?——~N. E. G., Muir, Mich.

Veterinary Dep’t

Dr. W. Austin Ewalt, editor

 

 

 

 

BREAKS OUT ALL OVER BODY
WITH DRY SCAB

Will you please advise me about my
cow? She was 3 years old last spring,
She had a c'lf about 7 weeks ago and
seemed to be all right until about three
weeks ago. She did give 11 quarts of
milk and now gives only about 3 quarts.
She is broke out all over her body with
It dry scab. She seems to have no life.
She eats good but still she is as poor as
can be.——J, S., Remus, Mich.

Give her Fowler’s Solution, table-
spoonful 3 times a day on feed. Wash
all oVer with Kreso dip according to
directions on can. Do this once a
day for .e. while.

 

SHEEP HAVE BAD COUGH : . r

We have taken your paper for over .a. >

year“ and think‘ it is a, fine paper.'Could

you please tell me what to do with sheep}

that have a. bad cough—Reader, .
County. _‘ . ‘ _

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udsns Rocks, Beds. 0 In 113? - s nish.
. .nggnoné POULTRY rand? «item/£12...
. ‘  ouinz‘s‘sl asses, PEKIN‘ DUCKS, a- of
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~lite. CLAUDIA nan-s. Hlllsdaio, Mich.

» . r PLYMOUTH' ROCK
\ \. _unﬂED Hoax COCKERELS. 'Pai'ks, 200;

, 'egg "strain. From 'sto k
y-frpxn liar-ks best pedigreed -pens. :3

R. KIR‘BV,‘ ' ' -
.Routel‘l. Ens La'nsing, Mich.

’ ' . ,  LEGHORNs

SINGLE coma RUFF LEGI-IORN COOKER-
OII.‘ 1'11 and, May hatched. Heavy laying

J. W. WEBSTER. Bath, -Mich.

Ii HUSKY VIGOIIOUS

, Rock» Cockerels from world's heaviest
 Parks direct. Age 6 months,~ weight
8 - price $3. Vigor a specialty. Money
Correspondence a pleasure.
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If not . satisﬁed.
Winner HALL,

 

    

Cookers]: for sale at reasou-
Let us know your wants.
on approval and guarantee satisfaction.

 """'I~.oRING & MARTIN co.

East Sauntuck. Mich.

 

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cockerels and cooks for

GRAIOWSKE'S .S.,"  'WHITE LEGHORNS,
A sale.
: L,-G.‘,‘GRABOWSKE, Merrlail. Mich. R. 4

 

 

, WYANDOTTE'
SILVER -AND WHITE WYANDOTTE COCK-
mh, . bred from prize winners at ‘Battle
_ O  M. A., G. Round-up show. Good
. 1rd; ate..$3.00,v 84.0 and $5.00 each.
- 0.. W. ‘BROWNIN , R2. Fenland, Mich.

'4 J  Immense  .
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otters strictly high-grade young and old stock
It .mhr prices. Correspondence solicited. '

; WHITE WYAIIDOTTES

 

 

Martin Foundation._ A few good breeders for‘

.10. . No more baby chicks this. year.

cookers): now for early fall delivery:
moons - '

o. W. .HEIMBACH
_ _Big Rapids, Mich. '

v Order
Prices

 

PUREERED WHITE WYANQOTTE. PULLETS,
at $2.00 each. Fiche strain. ‘
MR8, TRACY} RUSH, thaoa, No. 7, Mich.

 

 

' RHODE ISLAND REDS-

ITTAKER'S R'. I. REDS..Miohigan’s great-
' est color and egg strain. Both combs. Write
for‘trne" catalogand our new proposition in for

» 9 88'!!! to gwd breeding cockerels. '
ﬂ llTERL-A ES FARM, Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

; " Incl. n. [Lat-:0 COCKERE’LS FROM LAYING
i strain.  :‘ 0w Expre 5 NOT. prepaid.
E» J. ,‘OOODR‘IO, , _Ovid,, Mich. V,"

 

 

  

 

  
   
 

 

 

  

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.. . e es, on and. k ‘7! ’l.

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I v .  II. noun, New Baltimore. .31. Mich. 
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‘ ever,.grewn.  Corn-is

. maturing, so

. task
-house‘ the ere-p will be a difficult,

,'building, useful not~only for corn

 

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~'IIonablc prices and quality stock

-Ohicks in season.

 

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, ga'hot
plant and4th‘e se‘asonjwas warm. We
had no early froststo interefere 'vfith
we have today through-
out this couhtrya fine crop ‘of corn
well matured and the time forgath-
ering andhousing ishere. V

" It is' wise ,to pick the corn‘ early,
’and as it is welleatured there will
be no danger from‘heating. Husk-
ing ‘is a disagreeable job when it is 7
cold, and rain or“ snow, makes the
still harder. To properly

task this'year, as. storagesmi‘ce for,
corn is limited. A gooddeal of the
old corn was carried over and is still
on hand. ' Besides this, many of the.
"buildings are‘badly out of repair.
Old wooden cribs are fast deteriorat-
ing through decay and attacks by
rats and mica, and are becoming un-
fitrfor the proper storing of corn.

What. is the use "of going to the ‘-
trouble and expensaof‘ growing a I
crop, of gathering i‘t.‘-'and then los‘-‘
ing a, large part by poor "storage?
Yet" this isvjust ‘what'is taking place
on thousands of our farms through-
out' this country. The waste and.
destructionfrom’ this source runs
into a vast sum; sufficient beyond
'question to provide every farm with}
a good storage for, corn.

The'metal corn crib is one _which
can, be quickly constructed, and is
theretore at this time of the year
the principal crib to consider. Good
metal cribs are on the market and
are made in all sizes. They have
the advantage of being fireproof, ab-
solutely mouse and rat proof and
amply provided with ventilation so
that the coin: is kept in thetinest
condition. They Can easily be mov-
ed from place to place, and'on this
account are especially valuable for
the renter. They are strong, and
being of metal boltedaOn the inside
and having a metal doOr, they are
theft proof. The heavy galvanizing-
prevents rust, and when the crib is »
constructed on a cement floor and
foundationhit becomes Ia permanent

storage but for the housing of many
Eager valuable crops and commodi-

The metal corn crib is not an ex-
periment. It ‘has "been thoroughly
tested out- during the past five
'or six years and has‘proven to be a
splendid method for storing corn. It
‘is not high in price, and when its
many advantages are taken into ac-
good investment—A. L.
Haecker. A ~ - ' "

MINORCAS
~‘ 8 a Ii c Bucxnmonci _.

Cockerels. Pap's Strain. 4 m

and $9.00 each. onths old $2.50
MAPLE VIEW .POULTRY‘ FARM
E. Sylvander, Coloma, Michigan.

. ANOONAS
3000 EARLY APRIL HATGHED

FIILLY 'MATURED AN NA

Bucmr Inconihﬁn

‘ N‘EW—~LONDON, 'OI-IIO. '
Heavy layers and show birds, none better. Rea-
. is our motto.
~Can furnish Winners for any show. Ask for our
late Winnings at Columbus, 0., Louisville, Ky.,

 

Cleveland, 0.. ‘ Pittsuburg, Pa., gerstown and
Cumberland, Md. Cks. Hens, Ckls, Pu]. and
Mate. Pens always for mle. Eggs and Baby

100,000 Incubator cit .
Write us and get the best. » (am y

,, LANGSHAN I

DR. SIMPSONQS LANGSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type‘ and color since 1-91-2. Winter
laying strain of both lack and White. Hen
dbme cockerels for sale. 'Egg ‘ , '
OHAS. W. 'SIMPSO

Webbervllle, Mich.

' DUCKS .

FOR SALE,’ MAMMOTH IMPERIAL WHITE
Pekin Ducks, males or females, $2.00; three

or more $1.75 each. Butt ’Ducks,._ $2.50 each.

Also, have a ﬁne lot of English-Amerimn S. C.

White, Leghorn oockerels at 81.50 each. S. ‘.

Brown, Leghorn Cgcgerels $1.50: nice ones; >
_. V'MAPLE‘-W p POULTRY» EARH

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A. won'n min, Issue—s Insertions for 10¢ per word. Form for use
’ for less than 8 $11,305. ,
‘ wanted for ‘any ad. in this department. Cash should accompany all, orders
Count as one word each initial and each group of. figures, both in body of ad. ,
Copy must be in our hands before Saturday for; issue dated
following woek.’ The Business Farmer Adv. Dept., Mt. Clemens, Michigan. _

 

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P A I R
cream
etc. included

'110 ACRES ON IMPROVED ROAD,
horses, hay, , cows, fodder, potatoes.
separator, full tools, implements,

quick buyer; ‘short walk village;
kets. dark loamy ﬁelds, Iii-cow posture, wood,
good 8 room house. big barn, stable, garage
Owner unable to farm, $2800 part cash, easy
terms. Details and picture page 16 Catalog 1100
Bargains. ‘ FREE. 'STROUT FARM AGENCY.
814 B}: Ebrd Bldg, Detroit, Midi.

good man

 

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$900 SECURES ’40-ACRE FARM, FURNI-
ture, horse, cow, poultry, pigs, bail. potatoes,
in: good' income, security
await you here; on improved road; short walk
RR, close high school town; fertile loamy til-
age; 8—cow, wire-fenced pasture,_woodland: fruit:
attractive 5-room house, piazza, close river and
bay; substantial barn. For immediate sale, $1850
takes all, only $900 needed, easy tonne. Real
home providing living, security. Quick action
necessary. Catalog free. ROYAL D. ROOD, B.
No. 3 (Marks) Tawas City, Mich.

TYPEWRlT—E‘RSk-ALL MAKES SLIGHTLY
used, $20 up. Easy payments. Free trial.
Guaranteed two Years. PAYNE COMPANY,
Rosedale station, Kansas City, Kansas.

 

2-14 bottom plow and tandem disc. Used - 2 V
seasons. All for $650. 0. G. HUNTLY, Eaton
Rapids, Mich., R 8. .

 

 

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CERTIFIED IRISH COBBLER SEED POTAQ
for sale. The only ﬁeld of certiﬁed Irish
Cobblers in Michigan this year. You'll have to
hurry_ $2.00 per bushel, sacks free. aMORLEY
E. OSBORNE,I Sun Haven Farm, Standish, Mich.

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GUARANTEED RED CLOVER $9.00 EU;

 

 

 

68 ACRE, FARM FOR SALE, MOSTLY ALL
cleared. Fair frame house, new barn built last
year, 32x46:,frame grenary 14x20, good well
280 feet deep; well drained, good ditches and
fences; clay and black loam land: good read,
mail route, schools and churches. Located in
Bay county, Garﬁeld "township, Section six.
With horses. cattle and implements if wanted.
MARTIN SMITH, R 1. Rhodes, ' Mich.

 

MI. SOUTH AND V2 MI. EAST OF
80 acres good sandy and clay loam
form. All good buildings and fences. Clear of
noxious weeds. For full particulars write or
come. FRANK CHILDS, Edenville, Mich,

Midland county.

Va

 

FOR SALE: 114 ACRE STOCK AND GRAIN
farm, 95 acres in cultivation, 30 acres grain, clay
sell, good buildings, 1—2 mile from good mar-
ket town, gravel road, milk route. Stock and im-
plements i! wanted. For A1 stock and grain
fairm write the owner. 0. C. GATES, Fountain,
Mch. ‘

 

FOR SALE: 46' A. TERMS.’ SIX-ROOM
house, good buildings, .rich soil. Fruit, spring
pasture. Equipment if wanted. School across

street. Gravel road, 2 miles railroad. Electric.

 

Alfaﬂ‘a $6.00; Sweet Clover $5.00; Grimm
alfalfa $15.00; Sudan $1.75; Sacks free.
zMARIE G. MEIER, Saline, Kansas.
GENERAL
BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
est. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address “M.
M.” care Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clem-

ens. Mich.

 

.200 GOOD, BRIGHT, HONEST FARM BOYS
wanted to work for me. Earn money at home,
after school and on Saturdays Send stamp for
particulars. H_ T. ENDERSBE, Bad‘ Axe, Mich.

 

FERRETS FOR SALE. PRICE LIST FREE.
Book on ferrets, 10c. Ferret muzzles 250 each.

 

BERT EWELL, Wellington, Ohio.

 

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

 

HAVE YOUR HIDES TANNED

’ IN TH RIE E
weeks, Into Chrome Sole Leather. Chrom
Harness, Chrome Lace, best and strongest

leather made.
Manistee, Mich.

By MANISTIGI‘.‘ TANNING (10.,

 

CRUDE OIL FOR SALE___NATURE'S OWN
remedy. Write or wire. 0. l). ARNOLD, Bry-

 

W. H. SCHULTZ, Imlay City, Mich. “It: 1nd.

FARM LANDS WITH BUILDINGS. $20 PER . THE OLD RELIABLE JOSEPH D-SEK
acre up. Small payment down, easy terms. 0. 'Compa“,Y: 726 W. Randfllph St. Chicago. Farm
H. HOUSE, M Pleasant, Mich. and dairy Produce. Write. me. or phone.

 

40 ACRES CLAY LOAM, 6 ROOM HOUSE
good barn, orchard. Near town. $3200. $1200
cash, balance on time. BOX 45, Sheridan,
Michigan.

SQUARE 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-
durtive soil, good location. For price and par-
ticulan write to Geo. Buehlcr, Caledonia, Mich.

 

FOR SALE: 20 ACRES APPLE ORCHARD
23 years old, to anyyone buying this at $200
per acre will make presedt- of 00 acres good
farm land,, house and burns. CHAS. PARKER,
Traverse City, Mich, R 7, Box 8

 

22 ACRES FOR SALE. ALL WORK LAND,
2 miles from 'Iap’eer, Mich. County seat, fair
buildings. Pubs $1850 with easy terms. Write
or inquire of owner. NORMAN STRUBLE,
Orion, Mich, R. F. D. 3.

 

FOR SALE,
from town. Good
and other buildings. A nice
MESSENGER, Chase, Mich

22 '/2 ACRE FARM l/2 MILE
Land, nice large house, barn
home. MISS LUELLA

 

BIG BARGAIN; 1’00 ACRES, GOOD HOUSE,
large barn, nice creek, on'y $1500 needed
Write for pictures. DeCOUDRES, Blooming--
dale, Mich.

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

 

 

FOR EXCHANGE—WELL IMPROVED 160
acres near \Vebb, Ia: equity $15,000.00, bal-
Want cheap land for equity.

 

 

anco long time.
BOX 121, Peterson, Iowa.

.160 A. BLACK SANDY LOAM. FINE
buildings, 2 .1-2 miles from Vestaburg. $10,000
part cash, bal, easy terms A. C. DIAMOND,
Vestaburg, Mich. I

«80 ACRES, 3-4 MILE TO ELEVATOR,
postoﬂice, stores on R. F. .. Ben g orchard
good water, easy terms. ETHEL JACKSON.

Rhodes, Mich.

. BARGAINS IN NON-IRRIGATED FARMS. IN
rain belt of eastern Colorado. VVrito for prices.
GUST \VESTDIAN, FIEQ‘IPI‘. Cn‘nrndﬂ.

IDEAL DAIRY FARM WITH ESTAB-
Iished milk trade in town of 500 population.
Good 11 room house, barn 28x38 full buse-
ment, cow barn 20x50 full basement“ tile 5110.
Electric lights in buildings and running 'wate
on farm. Can be bought for less than buxldin
are' worth.‘ Write for price and terms. N.
PETER, \Volverine, Mich.

ggISCELLANEOIgﬁ

MApmNEnx

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FOR SALE—REiO SPogEg WAGgoN lgNrf A:
' ' . b , res, mo r_ e ec
condition stake o y go or roadster. M

50 A.

 

 

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Q'WE-r'snLL' v‘NEEDLES' A o REPAIR‘ ALL
makes of sewing machines. at us is ow your

' troubles. We,can_.hel '_you. THE do, TEIGER
jMUSIC-VCO‘”  C “‘ens.”Mlch. I

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15.9.7, ; 39-“:- 4} '.

 

'HOGS EATING CHICKENS. THE DOUBLE
painted Poultry Protector attached to the
nose is guaranteed to prevent it or‘money back.
Four Protectors with printed instructions for
$1.00. Send no money, Just write to THOMAS
LYNCH, Jefferson, Iowa, and the Protectors
Will be mmled you at once. When they arrive
pay the postman $1.00.

 

GOVERNMENT CLERKS NEEDED—(MEN-

women) : 31400452000; permanent; few to
travel; expense allowance. Write Mr. Ozment,
Former U. S. Government Examiner. 355 St.

Louis, Mo. He gives reliable information.

 

 

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

 

MORE_ MONEY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY LIVE
poultry. Get our quotation before
selling. GLENN AND ANDERSON CO., 40
years at 26 Fulton St, Chicago, Illinois.

 

HONEY, HONEY, HONEY, $1.35 FOF 5
pound pail Postpaid. The best spread for your
panchakes. JOHN D. DIETRICH, Middleville,

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HIDES TANNED OR LEATHER SOLD DI-
root. Harness tanned 35c, sole 400 pound ﬁn-
ished weight. Send hides or getprices. COCH—
IIIAN TANNERY, Greenville, Michigan.

 

PURE COUNTRY SORGHUM MOLASSES,
extra good. Five gal. can S 5. 00. Sample 100
CHAS: TOBIAS, Mnfg :, Crotbersvile, Ind.

 

MR. CATTLE FEEDER,
the market for feeding cattle on shares,
at once. .lOI'lN ENGLEIIEART, Curran,

IF YOU ARE IN
write
Mich.-

 

FULL BARREL LOTS DISHES, SLIGHTLY
damaged crockery. Shipped any address direct'
from Pottery, Ohio, for $6.00. Lots are well
assorted and still sorviceable; plates. platters,
cups and saucers, bowls, pitchers, bakers, mugs,
nappies, etc... a little of each. Send, cash with
order. Write us. E. SWASEY & 00.. Center
Street, Portland, Maine. ‘

TOBACCO

ﬁmc K v 's FRﬁEle—ITD—A—ND
mellow. Best chewing or smoking, 10 lb. $3.00;
20 lb. $5.00. FARMERS CLUB, Muyﬁnld, Ky.

 

 

 

 

TOBACCO, 1919 LEAF BEST CHEWING,
3 pounds $1; ten $3_ Chewing and smoking 10
S .50; Smoking 10 $1_50. luaranteed. PRO-
DUCERS & DISTRIBUTORS, Murray, Ky.&

 

TOBACCO, KENTUCKY’S NATURAL LEAF
Smoking 10~lbs. $1.75. Hand selected chewing
3 lbs. $1.00. Free coceipt for preparing. WAL-
DROP BROTHERS. Murray, Ky. j

 

NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO, KENTUCKY'8
ﬁnest, 8 years old. Specially picked chewing,
2 pounds $1.00; 10 pounds $4.00 Smoking.
ﬁrst grade, 3 pounds $1.00: second gmde, 5
pounds $1.00; postpaid. HANCOCK LEAF TO-p
BACCO ASSOCIATION, Department 36. Haves/7f“
ville, Kentucky. , ‘ , ‘

KENTUCKY'S FINE CHEWING AND SMOKJ"
ing.tobacco. Aged in bulk. three years old. Rich
and mellow. Long all lead 0 pounds, $3.00
postpaid' ADAMS BR THERS. Bel-dwell.  4.

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TRADE AND MARKET REVIEW
HE GENERAL domestic trade
I and business situation is said‘ to
be improving rapidly and men
of large business experience are pre-
dicting. a marked revival, next spring
all along the line. The most dis-
couraging feature of the present sit-
uation is the bad financial condition
of nearly all foreign countries, re-
sulting from reckless inflation of

the currency and many other loose_

ﬁnancial methods that have been
growing steadily worse ever since
the signing of the armistice.

The market for the various staple
commodities of trade is steadily
gaining in dependability and general
firmness. The recovery in the de-
mand for structural steel and iron is
one of the wonders of the season;
selling prices are steadily increasing
‘ in the departments referred to and,
in spite of the advance in prices the
demand‘ is increasing. Reviewing
the situation, it now develops that
the low price for steel was registered
last July and that since that time
market conditions and the general
demand have been steadily growing
stronger. In this country, steel may
be taken as the business barometer;
when it pmspers other staple com-
modities soon begin to show signs
of improvement. The talk of a mer-
ger of several independent steel
manufacturers into an organization,
similar to the U. S. Steel Corpora-
tion, proves that the “independents”
have been fighting: a losing battle
with their OVer-g'rown competitor
and are considering: seriously 3.
plan through which they hope to get
a larger share of the business.

The calling 0111’ of the railroad
strike is productive of an easier feel-
ing in business circles and Will, with-
out doubt result in the placing of
commitments that have been held
up, pending a settlement of the labor
controvnrsy. Stock market opera-
tions have been largely professional
of late giving very little or no indi-
cation of the general trend of the
market. Call money has ruled
around 5 1-2 per cent; short and
long time accommodation paper is

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_7V_Grarde__ {pen-on. Icnlcagoj‘in. v.
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No. 2 White  1.22
No. sinned”, 1.22” H N .99
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There has been very little activity
in the grain markets following the
adjustment of the strike which fail-
ed to bring the improvement expect-
ed. It was apparent that the trade
came to the conclusion some days
,before the date set for the strike

that it. would not materialize, and
discounted the effect accordingly.
Export business is lifeless. The

the

only factors which are holding
market up in face of the drop in ex-
ports are the rapidly decreasing vis-
ible supplies and the known short-
ness of the crop. At that, however,
visible supplies are very large and
‘ farmers are still selling freely. A
change to colder weather and the
subsequent breaking up‘of country
roads thereby hindering the farm—tm
market movement would it is felt,
greatly improve the chances for
higher prices. The bears are using
as an argument against higher prices
the nearness of the Argentine and
Australian harvests, but it is likely
that the trade has already discount»,-
ed the effect which these supplies
would have upon the market, and
while prices may temporarily sag
following the movement in quantity

of southern hemisphere wheat, it is-

believed that this influence can keep
the market long depressed. Statis-
tically the wheat situation is as bull-
ish as it can be, and nearly the en-
tire trade so concedes it. Other
factors will likely-keep prices to their
present level or thereabouts for' some
period. of time, but the time. is com-

  
 

Edited by H. H.‘ MACK

 

 

Potatoes lower than a. week ago.
good demand and scarce.
with advent of holidays.

Ass’n. Outcome uncertain.

 

 

MARKET SUMMARY

Wheat strikes new low level in Chicago.
and lower than a week ago. Immediately higher prices expected
but market likely to ease up again when southern hemisphere
movement begins in about three weeks. I
Hay easy. Poultry and eggs in
Much higher prices expected on these,

SPECIAL: As we go to press the  of the 
Milk. Producers’ Ass’n are making a last effort to agree with the
Detroit distributors on November milk price.
$2.31 with surplus clause which was rejected. They came back
with $2.31 with-out surplus clause; also rejected. Producers ask- 1
ing $2.51 without surplus clause, but distributes. refuse to pay‘it. 1
Attitude of distributors indicates a desire to break with Producers’ '

Other grains weak

Beans lower but ﬁrm.

Distributors oﬂ’ered ,

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this year.

ing when there will not be enough
wheat to supply the demand, and
prices are bound to rise. We are
prices are bound to rise.

 

CORN

Corn was not active last week but
was firm however and prices showed
some grain. On the Detroit market
last Friday the price was up to 550
for No. 2 yellow but on Saturday the
market weakened and there was a
decline of 1—20 in price. Chicago re—
ported that very few dealers were
free sellers last week and any drop
in price brought out the speculators.
Farmers were not inclined to mar—
ket their surplus and receipts were
the lightest at Chicago they have
been for some time. Receipts at
that point amounted to 2,241,000
bushels, compared with 1,911,000

 

"COWRN PRI‘QES‘PER BU., NOV. 2. 1921

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No. 3 Yellow  .63
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 I  No.2 Yoll.l No.3 Voil.l No.4__Yo_ll.
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bushels last year during the same
week. Shipping demand was poor
on that market/and only 1,904,000
bushels were shipped out. Specu-
lative interests came out on any drop
in prices as they believe Europe will
be in need of considerable of our
crop owing to her poor root crops
It was rumored last week
that there was some export business
being done at the gulf as New 0r-
leans was bidding quite heavily for
corn. In general, though, the coun-
try over, demand was of a local na—
ture. .At the end of the week this
coarse grain was weak at the— ma-
jority of the leading markets of this
country and prices were off. We

would not be surprised to see this
weakness continue during the pres-

,ent week and prices go some lower.

Light offerings will hold the market
from going to pieces but as long as
demand does not increase prices will
not show much of an advance. _

\ OATS

Oats are a trifle higher and the
tone is firm. Export demand is
practically nil, and the domestic is

 

OAT PRICES (new) BU.,VNOV. 2, 1921

 

 

 

 

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No. 2 Whlto  .39 34% .45 ’
No. 3 wum  .39. ,.31
No. 4 wma  .33

 

 

 

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not much better. It will be well
along toward the close of the year
we think before the oat market will

show any material improvement.

 

 

 

RYE

Like com the rye market was de-
void of attractive features last week
but the price advanced, only to later
decline. The, price today at Detroit
is 860 for Cash No. 2.. Apparently ex-
port business is not as good now as it
was during the month of September
when 3,712,635 bushels went out of
this country, against" 2,464,422
bushels the same week a. year ago. A
review‘ of the export business done
shows that from Jan. lst of this year
until Oct. 1st over 25,000,000 bush-
els were shipped from the United
States. During the same period last
year nearly 44,000,000 bushels went
to foreign ports. The exports for
this period in 1919 were only'a lit-
tle over 2,000,000 more this year
while the shipments during the 9-
month period in 1918 were only
about one-fourth of those of 1921.

 

 

Footer“ Weather Chart for HOV. 1'21

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WASHINGTON, D, 0., Nov. 3, 1921.
“A moderate cool wave is expected
in the northern parts of Michigan
near Nov. 6, a. warm wave near 8, a
cool wave and blizzard near 11. Near
these dates these weather features
will cover all the northern Rockies,
Pacific‘slope. western Canada. and
northwestern America. Beginning with
high temperatures and moderate storm
forces, in the far northwest, the usual
weather that proceeds a great conti-
nental storm disturbance will affect
the whole continent.

That great November storm, with
its varying Weather features will move
toward New Orleans and then, grad-
ually tum, moving over and along
the Alleganles and doWn the St.
Lawrence river. then out along the
European steamer Hue towards Great
Britain. Of course the last and of
this great stormihe blizzard mt..-

 

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THE WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEK
As Forecasted by W. T. Foster for The Blichigan Business Farmer'

will interest you most. I expect the
central part of the cold wave to
reach Missouri not far from Nov.. 13. 1
Texas 14, Ohio 15-, Quebec and Maine
16. It will be a big cold wave and
will effect the whole continent. V I
have given only its central portions
and they are usually the mildest part
of it: the, fiercest port of these bad
weather storms usually occm' northeast
of the emtral parts. .
But you must know something
about the weather signs that are hung
out above you I can not give the
exact path the central parts of storms
will take, but the weather signs above
will indicate how the storm is moving.
If you can see a. daily U. S. Weather
Bureau map about that time the in‘
formation will be valuable to you, The
U, 3. Weather Bureau is a success in 1
showing what the weather has been
and then, having my forecasts you
will be prepared for coming weather
events.
. This storm and that expected near
Nev. 28 will bring the principal pre-
cipitations of the month. But I am
expecting the total precipitation of
the month to be less than usual.

 

 

 

 

   

. ’ ~ my _
The barley market continues on
its way, qui‘et~ with . only slight

changes in prices, and few know thin.

grain is going out of the country
at a great‘rate, ,shfpments forge!”
tember aggregating over 5,000,000

bushels, against over 2,000,000 busha

els last year during the corre‘SpOnd-4
ing week.’ Exports for this year up
to Oct. 1st amounted to 20,410,870
bushels, or nearly 3,000,000 bush-
els more than was sold to foreigners
during the entire twelve months of
1920. Taking the past 3-year av-
erage into consideration export? of
barley should show a decline rom
now until the first of the year but
present indications are that when
the’to-tal of the year’s shipments is
compiled it will show that the only
year to lead 192]. will be 1919 when
37,611,840 bushels were sentto for-
sign countries. Detroit quotes feed-
ing at $1.10@1.30 percwt. while
at Chicago it 13‘48@54c‘ per bushel.

 

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Grade 1mm" IGﬂlnngol n. v.

cT'H.,P. . . . .  4.40 ‘ 5.33 ‘ 5.1:

Red Kidneys . . . . a 8.63

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Hetrolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..I too

For three weeks we have been
telling you that beans would decline.
They have done so. Last week they
dropped 15 cents at Detroit, While
the market at other points was weak
and showed a tendency to go down.
New York growers have been selling
their crop as fast as they could get
it to market which is a. good thing
for the farmer. As we go to press
the market is steady. ,We look for
the market to remain at about its
present level for some eeks. There

may be further declines and there ,
may be further advances, but we-

don’t believe these will be of much
consequence. An easing up in the
movement, together with Colder
weather will strengthen up the mar-
ket again. 7 The demand is light and
the supply plentiful and few look for
the market to come back to the price
levels of even a few weeks ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POTATOES
SPUDS PER CWT" Roll. 2, 1‘8_21_-
I Sacked l BuiL
03ml: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.12
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 1.73 1.18 _
.New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.08 .
Pillsbury . . . . .M. . . . . . . . 2.§4ﬁ_
PRICES ONE YEAR AGO
Dotrolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 2.06

 

 

Our chart published in the ’Oct.
22nd issue indicated our belief in
lower prices for the week ending
Oct. 29th. This belief was justi-
fied. Prices declined last. week in
nearly every important market.
Simultaneously, however, the move«
ment slacked up and the chances
seem good for the November ad-
vance which was also predicted on
the chart. Digging cqntlnues to
show material improvement in crop
prospects particularly in Michigan,
but reports from the east tell of ‘tho
prevalency of rot. The movement
Into primary markets shows some
falling off, the total cariot move-
ment last week Tuesday dropping for
the first time in several weeks be-
low 1,500 cars. Large quantities of
potatoes have gone into store and
private cellars and the demand has
consequently become I“less active.
With colder weather in the '
and tens of thousands of bushels in
transit in unfired box cars, fear is
expressed of a good deal of. damage
by freezing. The first sign of cold
of weather and the slightest falling
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tations were $5'@5.25 for good stor-

age stock; Prices on- the New. York

 are-also higher and the tone.
of. the market is steady. Receipts
one fair on the majority of the larg-
er‘ markets. ,

Onion growers of this state btel-
es -
mate of the 1921 crop is too high.
The government estimated the crop

at 85 per cent of normal but grow-

ers declare it will be about 50 per
cent. ’The Michigan market is firm
and buying for storage is going on
freely.

 

»_ APPLES

Apples are easy at Chicago and
offerings are greatly exceeding the
' the
market is heavily stocked with a
poor quality of fruit. Barreled stock
moved slowly at Chicago last week
and while on a few choice varieties,
prices advanced over the week be-
fore quotations in general were eas-
ier. Offerings of Michigan bushel
packed stock were somewhat small-
er and where quotations were made,
they were principally for bushels as
a whole, with no distinction made as
to variety. “A” grade, two and one-
half inch apples sold for $1.75@2
per bushel, while under-grades rang-
ed from 75c to $1.25.

Quotations on the different barreled
varieties in Chicago at the close of last
w were: Jonathans, $8@9; Greenings,
89.5 @10; Kings $8@8.50; Spies, $8@
8.50; Baldwins, $6@7; Grimes Golden
$9-@10; Tolman Sweets $6@6.50; McIn-

tosh $8@8.60; .Spitzenbergs $8; Hubbard-
. stuns $7 @150; unclassified, $2.75@4,:50.

 

IIAY
The tone of the hay market has

‘not shown much of a change since

last week. The market is somewhat
easier at many points owing to the
calling 01! for the present of the
threatened railroad strike and at
Detroit prices are down $1 but at
New York receipts have not increas-
ed and prices for geodgrades are
higher. Demand is good in the east
and oﬂerings are immediately'snap-
ped up. The Chicago market rules
steady but demandis less active. The
decline of last ‘week at Detroit
brings standard timothy down to $18
@19 per ton with the best grade $1
higher. No. 1 clover mixed closed
the wee-k at $15 @ 16 per ton and No.
1 clover was $14@ 15 per ton. Man'-
kets outside the state were from $1
to $10 higher. I

 

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

There is very little-information
that can be gained by the student of
markets, from recent daily price
fluctuations. In the beginning, the
apparent certainty of a strike of rail-
way employee that 'Would completely
tie up the lines of transportation,
throughout the country, caused a
rush of cattle and other live stock to
market and a :big break in market
values followed. Then came a fall—
ing off in arrivals and a feeling, on
the part of killers and distributors,
that perhaps a meat famine might
eventually result from a prolonged
strike, as a natural result of these
cenditions values hardened, some-
what. Then came the announcement
that the strike was all off and both
kilmrs and distributors found them-
selves over-stocked, with an extreme-
Lv quiet trade in immediate prospect.
no, net result of the whole strike
episode is a big decline in. live stock
values that places some kinds at the
 market value of the year, so

In the Chicago cwtle trade, the
done last Week was again rmrly
down to the accent low levels in
whee but this was considered a
temporary condition resulting from
the strike ﬂurry. The cattle mar-
kets of'th'e countrym, Mannie

,e'ycritical" condition, it is true and

    
  
 
 
    
  

 need "nursing"a with moderate”

yemlies of native cattle—until “the.
 m end ofthe range run‘is market-

-. t-Far too my went steers and
representing, that with 30 days

 ,pohm‘ﬁe'falrly we‘ll 'rip-

danger. of

  
 

gnocchi  past. the;
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. t

. in the division devoted to
Light-weight kill- .

: ~, '- demand."~   settlement

~ook the Wind out of that market as
it did in all other branches of the
trade. ' When the smoke of the look-
ed for strike clears nway it is. believ-
ed that the cattle market will again
give a better account of itself.
Aside «from the temporary break
in values resulting from the strike
settlement, the sheep and lamb mar-
ket seems to be in much better shape
than at any preceding date this year.
That the number of animals in the
hands of feeders is much smaller
than usual is universally conceded
and experts in this market depart-
ment are predicting much higher
prices than those which prevail at
present for fat lambs of handy
weights. A Buffalo buyer has been
visiting Michigan lamb feeders, of
late, offering ,39 per cwt. for lambs
on December delivery but with very
few takers. It should be remember—
ed that there will be no supply ,of
frozen New Zealand mutton to clut-

. ter up this winter’s sheep and lamb

market. Another good omen, for'
the sheep trade of the coming year,
is the recent marked improvement
in the demand for the cheaper grades
of wool. .

Burdensome receipts of live hogs,
of late, have had a depressing ef-
fect on prices and, for the present,
the $8 quotation has been erased
mixed
butchers weights.
ers have felt the break most because

the supply of this grade has been ex-'

cessive. Very few good healthy pigs
are coming making it possible to
place all arrivals in this department
at higher prices than can be obtain-
ed for any other grade on the list.

The greatest problem facing the
hog grower at the present time is
how to find an adequate outlet for
the surplus lard that will be produc-
ed during the coming year. Amer-
ican packers refuse .to accept any—
thing but cash from Germany until
something develops to improve the
condition of that country’s finances.
It is to be hoped .that some arrange-
ment will be made .so that our Ger-
man friends, on the other side of the
ocean, can have all of our lard that
they want.

Live Stock Prices
The following prices were paid at the
Detroit Stockyard Tuesday, Nov. 1
Cattle
Best heavy steers . . . . . . . . . ..6.50@6.75
Best handy wt. butchers steers 6.25@7.50

  

Mixed steers and heifers . . . . . .5.50@ﬂ.25
Handy light butchers . . . .  . . .4,75@5.25
Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.0.0@4.50

Best cows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50 ((175.25

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3.00@4.00

Cutters . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.50@2.75

Canners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,00((D2_25

Choice bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50@5.00

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..4.00@4.50

Stock bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00@3.75

Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . .5.25@6.00

Stockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..4.00@5.25

Milkers and springers . . . . . .$45@100.00
Calves
Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.50@13.00
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.00@11.50
Sheep and Lambs
Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8,25@$.50

Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.00@7,75

Light to common lambs . . . . . . .5.00ci>6.00

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 ((03.75

Culls and common . . . . . . . . ..1.00@2.00
Hogs
Mixed hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .835

Extreme heavy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7_50

Roughs . . . . . . . . ............. . . . . ..6.50

Stags . . . . . . . ..........., . . . . . . . ..5.00

Boats .....................~. . . . . ..3.00
 MARKET EDITORS
‘ MAIL BOX

 

What do you think of the prices of
beef after the holidays? Would you ad-
vise me to hold cattle or sell them soon?
-—A Michigan Business Farmer Subscrib-
er, Norwalk. Mich.

Your letter asking advice about
marketing cattle is before me and I
will undertake the rather difficult
Job of making reply to it. The cur-
rent beef cattle market seems to
haven strong upward trend, just
now and my belief is that  holi-
day trade will be decidedly active.

 

 

Coolers are practically bare .ofigpod '

,beef and, in my opinion. not many

cattle now on full‘ feed, will be ready ,

for the December market. Corn is
plentiful and the prospective crop of
fat low“ '~ bids fair ‘ to about equal

the demand which will hardly be .

  es in, other years.

 

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to. mar.-. cum: a: cattle.

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The  fer woOl  ‘m'reguisi-
hat week and the goods market rather
slow but " conditions in general were

_ healthy. .

'lWool quotations: Domestic—Ohio and
Pennsylvania fleeces—Delaine, unwashed
34627350: fine unwashed, 28@29c; 1-2
blood combing, 29@30c; 3-8 blood comb-
ing, '26@27c.

Michigan and New York fleeces—“De-
lalne unwashed, 31@33c; fine unwashed,
26@27c; 1-2 blood, unwashed, 28@29c;
3-8 blood. unwashed 2%: 1-4 blood un-
washed, '23 1-2@24c.

Wisconsin, Missouri and average New
England—L2 blood, 2369240: 3-8 blood,
2f3@24c; l-d blood. 22@23c.

Kentucky, West Virginia and similar—-
3-8 blood, unwashed, 27@280; 1—4 blood
unwashed, 25c,

Secured basis: Texas—Fine 12 months
65@750; fine eight months, 50@55c.

California———Northern, 70@75c; middle
county, 65@68¢; southern, 50@55c

MISCELLANEOUS _MABKET
QUOTATIONS
Detroit, November lst
ButterwBest creamery, in tubs, 27@
40¢ per pound_
Eggs—Fresh, candled and graded, 46
@510; storage, 33@350 per dozen.

AppleMreening, $2.50@3 ; Baldwins,
$2.25@2.50; Spy, 2,50@3; Jonathan,
$3.25@3.50; Snow, $3.50@4 per bushel;

westernu boxes, $3.25@3.75.

Cabbage—~50@70c per bushel,

Celery—Michigan, 25@30c per doz.;
$1 per box. /

Onions—Eastern, $5.50@6; Indiana. $5
@6 per 100 lbs.

Dressed hogs—Small to medium, 116:1
13c; heavy, 9@10c per lb.

Dressed Calves—Choice, “@150: me-
dium, 11@130; large, coarse, 5@100 per

pound.
Live Poultry-Best spring chickens,
20 @210; Leghorns, springs, 17@180;

large fat hens, 23@24c; medium hens, 20
@22c; small hens, 140; old roosters, 1.4
@150; ducks, 24c; geese, 21((0220; tur—
keys, 30c per pound.

Hides—No. 1 cured, 6c; No. 1 green,
5c; No. 1 cured bulls, 4c; No, 1 green
bulls, 30: No, 1 cured calf, 14c: No. 1
green calf, 13c; No. 1 cured kip, Do: No
1 green kip, 80; N0. 1 horsehides. $2.60;
No. 2 horsehidcs, $1.50; sheep pelts. 35c
@31; grubby hides, 20 under N0. 2; No.
2 hides lo and No, 2 calf and kip 1 1—2c
under N0. 1.

Feed—Bran, $20.50; standard mid-
dlings, $22; fine mlddlings, $25; cracked

corn, $27; coarse cornmeal, $24; chop,
$21 per ton in 100-1b. sacks_
CROP REPORTS
Saginaw—Fine fall weather. Husking
corn is the order of the day, Potatoes

are all dug and were better than expect-
ed. A.uction sale nearly every day:
cows that are tuberculosis tested bring
a fairly good price, others selling cheap.
A lot of fall plowing being done. The
ground is in fine condition for that work.
—G. L., Oct. 28.

Aﬂegan (E,)——Potatoes dug; yield
heavier than expected but not so good as
last year. Farmers husking and hauling
corn and stalks to cribs and barns. Quite
a few auction sales in community. Ear
worm has done considerable damage to
corn field. Weather fine; but one hard
frost—L. B. M., Oct, 28.

Hillﬁdule—Buckwhcat all threshed and
the yield fair. Quite dry for corn husk-
ing this week although we have had one
rain during the week. There are several
public sales advertised to be held this
Week or the first of next_ The tubercu—
losis testing is about finished in this
county and the veterinarians expect to
test the cattle in the city of Hillsdale
lash—Reno J , Fast, Oct. 28.

Genetics—Ideal fall weather. Corn
dry enough so that what was not put in
silo is being shredded and fodder put in
barns. Some farmers making a few ex-
tra dollars drawing gravel on roads. A
great deal of fall plowing done and all
work well in hand—A. R. Graham, Oct.
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19th. 1921 and sent to Contest Manager, The
Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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side of the paper only and numbered consecutive—
13’. 1 2. 3, etc. .Write your full name and address
on each page in the upper right-hand corner. Do
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handwriting have no bearing upon deciding the
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puzzle, but only one prize will be awarded to more
than one of any group outside of the family where
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