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MILK PRODUCER? ABS’N

_ ACTIVITIES
IN all large milk distributing cent-
ers there are times in the year
when there is a scarcity of milk,
and it becomes necessary to bring
in milk from great distances. At
other times of the year more milk
comes to the city than can be utilised
economically. In order to be as-
sured of a suﬁlcient quantity of milk
during the periods of scarcity, the
milk distributors have been com-
pelled to buy more milk than they
have needed during the surplus sca-
sons. This milk, called surplus. has
been largely wasted, because it has
been unproﬁtable to manufacture it
into dairy products. Such manufac-
ture entails great expense for equip-
ment that must be" idle a portion of
the year, the employment of expert
labor, always difﬁcult to secure. and

unohtainable except by the year, and ‘

the development of a proﬁtable out-
let for the periodical supply. Thus
far no city milk distributor has been
able to overcome these obstacles.

This condition is a hardship both
for the consumer and the producer.
The consumer is compelled to pay
higher prices in order that these
losses may be met, and the producer
is forced to take less for his milk
than it costs to produce it, a condi-
tion which discourages“ production
and which, unless remedied, even-
tually will result in much higher
prices for the consumer.

Dairy authorities have for years
looked for a solution to this knotty
problem, but so far none of the sug-
gested remedies have proved success-
ful. The Michigan Milk Producers
Association in consultation with
government and state authorities
have evolved a plan, which bids fair

' not only to solve the vexatious sur-

plus problem, but also insure a
stable, dependable supply of‘ milk at
all times of the year. This plan iri-
volves. the establishing of complete
dairy plants at strategic distances
from Detroit, equipped to utilise the
milk in the most proﬁtable manu-
factured product, and at times when
the scarcity of milk occurs in the
city, a portion of the milk supply
of these plants can be shipped to
the city. Enough of these plants
are contemplated to care for more
than twice the amount of the sur-
plus, thus enabling them to continue
in operation even during times of
milk scarcity. Butter, condensed
milk, milk powder, casein, albumen,
fancy varieties of domestic and for-
eign cheese and many other dairy
products will be manufactured. The
plants will be patterned after the
complete dairy plant sponsored by
the government at Grove City, Penn-
sylvania, and which has acquired
national renown for (the prices it
has been able to pay the farmer for
his milk.

The ﬁrst of these plants will be
located at Adrian, and meetngs are
being held by farmers and dairymen
in the Detroit ai-eu‘to consider means
for the ﬁnamcing of this plant, which
is to cost $120,000. It is to be a
stock company, the mock earning a
guaranteed dividend of 7 per cent.—
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HOW FARM PRODUCTS PRICES
HAVE GONE UP

INCE the ﬁrst of the year hogs,
lambs, wool and wheat have ad-
vanced substantially in price and
cattle. corn, oats, rye. beans, apples,
onions and a number of lesser pro-
ducts have shown on upward trend.

Most signiﬁcant of recent changes
has been the advance in the price
of hogs which averaged $8.02 at
Chicago during the month of Janu-
ary, which is $1 higher than trade

cy. The top again reached
$10.05 on February 8th and the
average is‘nearly $9.50.

The hog population according to
unoﬁicial estimates is smaller at this
time than it was a year ago. Both
domestic consumers and the export
trade have been taking more hog
meats and lard than normal so that
the advance is on a sound founda-
tion. For months hogs have been
furnishing a market tor corn Much
better than, the elevator, ho vever,

 

and production has‘been eliminated
‘ this a year or "a little more.

    

L  ratio of corn and. hog priecs'may

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become unfavorable again,

Lambs advanced nearly $2 per 100
pounds in they last month and are
05 per- cent higher than at the low-
est point last, fall. Mature sites)
have advanced proportionately more.
Receipts ofshecp and hubs at the
leading markets have been large
enough so'ths-t a great many pro-
ducers are receiving the beneﬁt at
higher prices.

Wool has advanced about 25 per
eentinthelsstmonthontopot
previous upturns during the tall as
that prices are around 65 per cent
higher than midsummer. No huge
stocks are overhanging the market
in this country and buyers are scour-
ing the west trying to contract the
new clip. ,

Wheat is back again to the price
level around which values hovered
most of the time in the harvest
period and the first few weeks there-
after. Quotations are about 20
cents a bushel higher than at the
beginning of January. . The quantity
of wheat in farmers’ hands still to
be sold is not large so that the bene-
ﬁts of the advance will not be so
widely distributed as in the case of
hogs. A great deal of the crop was
moved, however, before the slump
starting in September had gotten
under way. Unfortunately, new wint-
er wheat in the southwest is in bad
condition and unless the drouth is
broken, many farmers in that 'sec-
tion will not have an abundant crop
to sell during the coming year.

Corn prices, although still very
low are the highest since the middle
of September. The season of ship-
ments from the farm is at its height,
the quantity reaching primary mm
kets during the last three weeks ma-
terially exceeding any like period on
record. .

0n the other side of the account
must be recorded a decline of about
BSpcrcentlneggpr-icesandzo per
edit in butter since December.

 

RADIO NEWS SERVICE EN-
LARGED

ARKET news reports on live
stock, fruits, vegetables. grain
and dairy products are now be-

ing broadcasted daily from the Post
Oﬁicc Department‘s wireless station
at Washington, D. 0., and can be
received within all the states east 01
the Mississippi river. It is reported
also that the messages have been
heard in Texas.

At 12:30 p. m. a report is broad-
casted giving the day's receipts of
cattle, calves, hogs and sheep at the
ten principal livestock mafets
throughout the country, and also a
brief message pertaining to the op-

ening of the Chicago and St. Louis -

hog markets. A complete report of
conditions and prices in the Chicago
and St. Louis livestock markets is
sent at 2:30 p. m., and the prices
of fruits and vegetables in the ten
principal consuming markets, at
3:30. A dairy products report of the
New York City and Chicago markets
is sent at 6:00 p. m., and at 5:30,
a press dispatch on the Chicago grain
market. At 7 :30 in the evening a

' complete report on the Chicago grain

market giving closing, Ifuture and
cash grain prices, and also a sum-
mary of the Chicago livestock mar-
ket and Eastern wholesalers' fresh
meat market. is broadcasted. A
8:00 p. m. a report is sent giving
complete quotations on fruits and
vegetables in the leading consuming
markets.

 

CONTINUED INCREASE SHOWN
IN TENANT FARMING

farming in the United

: States is growing, faster than
census ﬁgures on the number of
farms would indicate, according to
a statement issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture. It
is pointed out that the increase in
acres rented, since 1910, has been
20 per cent ,as compared with an
increase of 14 per cent for the pre-
ceding decade, and that the increase
in value of land rented has been 111
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- How the Farmers Won Their Biggest F ighi' '

Adoption of 'Co-operative Marketing Bill Signal Victory for American Agriculture

MERICAN farmers have won their biggest

legislative ﬁght. After nearly four years, a
bill to legalize co-operative marketing has passed
both houses of the congress. The senate, on
February 8, by a vote of 68 to 1, passed the
Capper-Volstead 13111, H. R. 2373, in substantially
the form as it passed the house. The only
changes made were those agreed to in confer-
ence between representatives of the National
Milk Ptoducers’ Federation, other farm leaders
and the senators leading the ﬁght for the bill.

As the bill passed the senate it authorized in
part, . .

That persons engaged in the production of
agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranch-
men, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act to-
gether in associtions, corporate or otherwise,
with or without capital stock, in collectively pro-
cessing, preparing for market, handling and
marketing in interstate and foreign commerce,
such products of persons so engaged. Such asso-
ciations may have marketing agencies in com-
mon; and such associations and their members
may make the necessary contracts and agree-
ments :to effect such purposes:' PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that such associations are operated
for the mutual beneﬁt of the members thereof, as
such producers, and conform to one or both of
the following requirements:

First. That no member of the association is
allowed more than one vote because of the
amount of stock or membership capital he may
own therein, or,

Second. That the association does not pay
dividends on stock membership capital in excess
of 8 per cent per annum; and in any case that
the association shall not deal in the products of
non—members to an amount greater in value than
such as are handled by it for members.

.Farmers of the nation are greatly indebted to
Representative Volstead and his associates in the
house and to Senators Kellogg of Minnesota, Cap-
per of Kansas, Lenroot of Wisconsin, Sterling of
South Dakota, Norris and Hitchcock of Nebraska
and Kenyon of Iowa and others for their gallant
efforts in passing the bill.

The debate was exceedingly bitter, although
highly technical. The efforts of the opposition
to the house bill, led by Senator Walsh, of Mon—
tana, and supported in debate by Senators Bran-
degree, of Connecticut; King, of Utah, and Nei—
son, of Minnesota, were directed primarily
against milk producers associations around large
cities and against some of the California co-oper-,
atives. In such localities, ‘these senators claimed
that it would be possible for farmers to form
oppressive, monopolies. It was pointed out by
the friends of the house bill that milk producers

. Cox Explains Feeding Value oi Leading Grains and Fodder

What is the food value of the following: Oats, corn,
barley. wheat, rye; clover hay; corn fodder? Are
pumpkins or squashes of any value as a food for milch
cows? Are ground oats, fed dry, good for pigs?—-G,
N_, Oilvet, Michigan,

ORN leads the list in the total amount of di-
gestible nutrients, closely followed by rye,
wheat and barley. In fact, the last three men-
tioned grains are nearly the same in total nu-
trient content. Oats are considerably below any
of the others. In addition to the nutrient con-
tent, however, there are other considerations in
comparing the value of these grains. Neither
ground rye or ground wheat being quite as pala-
table as either ground oats or barley. Further-
more they sometimes form a thick pasty mass
in the animal’s‘stomach which interferes with
digestion and should only be fed in combination
with some more bulky grain such as oats or
bran. Furthermore, rye often contains ergot or
elongated crescent kernels which are dangerous
when 'fed to pregnant animals 'or fed in large
amounts to any animal.'Rye and wheat both have
thei; greatest value as a hog feed. The wheat
being slightly superior to corn for hogs, and
rye about 10 percent less value than corn. Wheat
at .31 per bushel'and'brap at $1.25 per hundred
’ " digestible nutrients at practically.

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CWBELL REJOICEG OVER VICTORY 0"
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Business Farmer: I m aware that the form-
ers of the country have all heard of the passage
by the senate of the (Jo—operative Marketing
BilL I doubt if many of them realize what it
means, or will mean to the country,

For ﬁve years I have been ﬁghting for this
relief from the tyranny of the middle men and
interests that fatten upon both producer and
consumer.

When John D. Miller and I dnfted the ﬁrst
bill introduced into congress four years ago, it
stopped in committee, Two years ago, we sue.-
ceeded in getting a bill through the house only
to be referred to the Judiciary Committee and
there in the senate met its death, by poisonous
amendments, Again last year we got a. 171“
through the house and again it was referred to
the some Judiciary committee in the senate,

For nearly a year we have held hearings, and
have received the insults of certain members of
that committee. The whole Judiciary comJnittee
reported against us. For ﬁve days the battle
waged in the senate, ending on Thursday evening,

The farmers never won such a victory in con-
gross as this one, The farm organizations were
united, They pulled together, From every
state came the demand for congress to vote for
the bill. Upon amendments where no record
vote was made, many of the senators tried to
kill it. But when a. roll call] was demanded.
they sought cover,

I want to especially call attention, however,
to the splendid service rendered by Senator
Townsend, At every step of th road he was
with us, and made a very strong speech in its
favor. Senator Newborry voted for the bill and
with the farmers upon every amendment offered,

The ﬁnal vote showed what even United States
senators will do when exposed to the lime light
of public sentiment. There was but one vote
against it.

There was never
obedience to the voice
country before,

The law is just, and will open the way to yet
better days ahead, for both producers and con-

umerl. .
. MILO I), CAMPBELL,

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associations must of necessity control the major
part of the product required by metropolitan
cities in order to enable the farmers to deal on
terms of equality with the highly organized dis—
tributors of bottle milk and the highly organized
corporations who own strings of condensaries
throughout the nation.

The history leading up to this legislation is
interesting. Desire for a bill of this character
began with the member associations comprising
the National Milk Producers’ Federation. The
difﬁculties that these associations were having in
various'parts of the county where indictments

 

 

Analysis of Foods and Corn Fodder

Total Dry Digestlble Nutrients In 100 Ibo.
Matter rude c o-
100 lbs Protein hydrates Fat Total

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Oats _.90.8 9.7 52.1 3.8 70.4
Corn m-.89.5 7.5 67.8 4.6 84.2
Barley .__._--...90.7 9.0 66.8 1.6 79.4
Wheat" .... ... ..... ..89.8 9.2 67.5 1.5 80.1
Rye ...................... _.90.6 9.9 68.4 1.2 81.0
Clover, red .... ..87.1 7.6 39.3 1.8 50.9
Corn fodder .... _.81.7 3.0 47.3 1.5 53.7

 

 

the same cost. In fact, there is a slight differ-
ente in favor of the wheat. This would be more
than offset, however, by the cost of grinding the
wheat. If one is doing his own grinding and did
not have to haul the wheat off to be ground. I‘
would not advise making a change of wheat for
bran.

From ,the analyses of clover hay and corn fod-'
(161', you willnote that the corn fodder contains

-slightly more digestible nutrients per 100 pounds

than does the clover hay. Nevertheless the nu-
trients in the corn fodder are bound up with a

had been brought agains them charging viola-
tions of state anti-trust acts, threatened to un-
dermine the progress of co-operative milk mark- '
eting. The leaders of the National Milk Pro-
ducers' Federation brought the matter up before
the National Board of Farm Organizzations at
a meeting in 1918. A committee was appointed
by the National Board of Farm Organizations,
consisting of President Milo D. Campbell of the
National Milk Producers’ Federation and John
D. Miller, vice-president of the Dairymen’s'
League. These gentlemen prepared a bill and had

it introduced by Senator Capper in the senate and . '

Representative Hersman of California in the low-
er house.

This bill, introduced early in 1919, was re- '
ferred by both senate and house to the commit-
tees on the judiciary. Notwithstanding the fact
that it had the endorsement of most farm orga-
nizations then in existence and the later endorse-
ment at ofﬁcers of the American Farm Bureau
Federation after it was formed, no efforts could
induce a report.

Conferences, however, with Chairman Volstead
of the house committee, resulted in the agree-
ment by the various farm organizations to a sub-
stitute bill which embodied in almost every par-
ticular the bones bill which passed the senate.
This bill passed the lower house in the sixty-sixth
congress by an overwhelming vote. But it was
macerated by the senate committee on the Ju-
diciary and the senate in that congress sustained
the committee. The bill died in conference, but
was reintroduced early in the special session of
the present congress by Representative Volstead.
Again it passed the lower house by a great ma-
jority. '

Senator Capper introduced the identical bill in
the senate and it was referred to the committee a
on agriculture. That committee was occupied
with consideration of packer legislation and un-
able to give it consideration. The house there-
upon acted upon the bill and the house bill on
reaching the senate was referred to the commit-
tee on the judiciary. An extended series of
hearings were held by this committee last sum—
mer with the result that the committee reported
a substitute bill nullifying the purposes of the
house bill.

When the matter was ﬁnally threshed out, the
senator by a vote of 56 to 5 reversed its position
of a year ago and turned down one of its most
important committees. This constituted one of
the greatest victories ever won by farmers.

large amount of fodder and coarse material
which makes it much less valuable. than the
clover hay. Furthermore, at this season of the
year the corn stalks are becoming very dry and
harsh and do not have nearly the value that they
did earlier in the season, whereas the clover hay
has not deteriorated any. In speaking of corn
fodder, I have been taking it for granted that
you mean corn which was sown thick for forage
purposes and contained some nubbins.

Squash and pumpkins are of value for either
cattle or sheep or hogs. They have about 1—3
the value of silage per ton. If you do not have
a silo, I believe, it would be best to sow some
mangel wertzels or golden tankard beets upon
this ground rather than depending upon pump-
kins and squash which arer very bulky and dif-
ﬁcult to store, nor will they keep as well as the.
roots do; . ,

Dry cats are a very good feed to spread in
straw or other litter for brood sows and thus
make them work some for their feed. They are
also a good feed, for young growing pigs.- I
would not, however, advise their use for fatten-V".
ing pigs as they are far more expensive thancorn,
——J. F. Cox, Professor Farm Crops, M.  O.

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‘ I is necessary.

   

- HALL the farmers of Michigan be denied
credit when the farmers of every other

,.-.Iimportant agricultural state in the Union are
I” :being supplied?
. ‘be necessary to ask such a question in a 'state

It is strange that it should

use favored agriculturally as Michigan. But it
Much as we deplore the fact,
much as we would like to hide and cover it up,
we are forced to confess to the world that
v“ thousands of farmers of Michigan are today in
- urgent need of credit and ’t get it. They

7 need credit to pay taxes; they need credit to

,..meet payments on contracts, buy seeds, fer-

tilizer, implements, stock and many other es-
. sential things with which to carry on the com—
.ing season’s operations; they need credit even
to pay interest on their mortgages and borrowed
money, for many a farmer caught in the slump
ﬁnds himself absolutely stripped of cash and liquid
assets _with which to meet the most pressing ne-
cessities. The situation is not nearly so bad in this
state as it has been in others, but nevertheless it
exists. In other states it is being met, but in
Michigan it is not.

Take a map of lower Michigan and draw a line
'straight west from Saginaw. Above that line,
according to the 1920 census, there lives today
_»47,000 farmers. From information in posses-
sion of the Business Farmer and to the best of
our knowledge and belief two-thirds of these
farmers have legitimate uses for money which
their local banks will not or cannot loan them.
One—third of these farmers are being pressed for
the immediate liquidation of loans and are being
denied all further credit. But don’t stop there.
Let your pencil run down into Muskegon, Mont-
calm, Gratiot, Saginaw and the upper three
counties of the Thumb. One-half of these farm-
ers will not be adequately ﬁnanced this coming
spring and one—fourth of them will be obliged to
curtail their farming operations or go out of busi-
ness unless those who have control of the credit
loosen up and help them out. Will that be
something for the state of Michigan to be proud
of?

As an example of the seriousness of the situa-
tion the Business Farmer reproduces the follow-
ing letters which are some of the many from the
sections described:

“I own an 80—acre farm and a good one. During
the last year of the war I went in debt for machinery
and stock and then the slump came and all this paper
was sold to the bank . Now they want their
money. I have paid 12 per cent interest since this
paper became due, and can't pay anything on it unless
I sell everything and quit the farm. The banks here
refuse to help me nut through the War Finance Cob-
poration. If I could get help or time for two years at
7 per cent interest. I could clear myself. I have some
good cattle.
horses. A great many farmers in this locality are
the same ﬁx."

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"I applied to
some time ago
the money for me,

our local bank for a loan on my farm

and the banker said he would try to get

but he hasn't succeeded. The other
bank also claims it can't get the money to loan us
farmers. You cannot borrow of either bank' here, I
need a loan but cannot afford to pay the interest which
they charge They charge at present 5 per cent bonus
and 7 per cent interest. So if you get at $1.000 loan,
they only give you $950, but you pay interest on $1,000.
I need $1.500 to carry on my farming, that is to take

‘ up my mortgage and hold over my live stock until
prices advance. The bank that holds my mortgage
threatens to foreclose my place. I have paid as high
as $35 on a note of $200 for ninety days”

 

. “I have not paid my taxes yet and the banks are
pressing me hard to pay my loan. They renew my note
only from month to month. The bankers say there are
no funds in the bank. Constant withdrawal of deposits.
money to pay their taxes but
banks will not loan. Every time I renew they charge
me one per cent more interest. There are many farm-
ers in our county who make voluntary sales in order to
save themselves from sheriff sales. If the legal rate
of interest is 7 per cent why are the bankers allowed
to charge 12 and 15 per cent? I hope the banking de-
partment will do something to stop this abuse.

We could quote scores of other letters telling
the same story of coercion and usury, but these
are enough to show that the banks in the sections
referred to are either hard pressed for funds or

are following a merciless policy of liquidation.-

ARE FARMERS ENTITLED TO CREDIT?

In the territory wehave described there are
180 state and national banks and about 125
private banks. The total footings of these banks
in 1920, representing mostly the savings of farm-
ers, were approximately $175,000,000, their total

 _ loans and discounts on \Sept. 8th, 1920, were in

       

 a tire-thirds of the loans wereto farmers, an aver-

round numbers $100,000I000, or, ‘assuming «that
age of about $1,000 to each farm.

The total value of the land comprising the
farmsin this area in 1920 cap approximately
,0.~‘000,-.-thevaluejof the improvements was
’ 00,;}and‘\the T181116 of the chattels (farm

«3..
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 Millions Locined in Other States, but Natal

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good implements and high grade Belgian .

i There has not been a bank failure in Michigan
A l _

,Wefdare not let out any more money.

MICHIGAN ‘AND THE WAR FINANCE
CORPORATION ‘

0M August 24, 1921, to February 4. -
1922, inclusive, the War Finance, \
Coropation loaned to banks and co-
operative associations in total of $202,-
825,866.28, for purely agricultural pur-
poses. Every important agricultural state-
has received some beneﬁt from this source
except Michigan, which has not recieved a
dollar. The ﬁgures for each state, as just

received by the Business Farmer from Eu- ~

gene Meyer, Jr., Managing Director of the
War Finance Corporation, are as follows:

(1) To banking and ﬁnancing institu-
for agricultural purposes; .

 

 

Alabama __.____..__._.__.__..$ 66,300.00
Arizona m... 2,433,000.00
Arkansas ............. _....___.... 116,000.00
California ..................... .-___ 1 ,536,01 1 .56
Colorado  4,531,476.81
Florida. __ ....................... _. 645,000.00
Georgia .f .................................... .-_ 4,439,500.00
Idaho ................................... ..._ 2,047,618.00
Illinois __... ............................. w 3,943,000.00
Indiana. _ ........................  ............... .. 596,000.00»
Iowa ______ ................................. .._ 19.591.389.37-
Kansas _ ................ .. _ ........ .._. 3,895,988.15
Kentucky __ ........................ --.__ 346,388.56 ,
Louisiana #1....W.".-..w_f_ 1,399,399.77
Michigan ..-.~___m. NONE
Minnesota .___.._ .... __.___ _____ -_ 7,800,558.90
Mississippi _.. ............................. .._ 867,838.19
Missouri .._.__._ .................... _;....._ 6,702,710.44
Montana _._..- .......................... .m 6,522,952.50
Nebraska .................................. .. 8,699,473.77
Nevada 4 ................................ M 248,000.00
New Mexico ._._n .................... .... 3,561,359.50
New York _ ............................... .._ 600,000.00
North Carolina ...................... .._ 3,562,500.00
North Dakota _ .......................... .. 12,460,456.16
Ohio ............ .____ ..................... .. 734,806.00
Oklahoma _..__._..-._.-.._._;...._ 1,785,244.96
Oregon _ .......... n... ............. a.” 2,902,012.06
South Carolina;__..._.-...._____ 7,006,678.46 /
South Dakota __ ................ ..\...._ 10,587,649.50
Tennessee _.....~-.~__»..f...._ 1,094,500.00
Texas __;.___.__. ....................... .. 12,313,493.14
Utah “Wm”... ............................ .._ 10,099,225.00
Virginia w.“ .......................... .._ 1,727,700.00
Washington - ......................... _._ 331,955.00
Wisconsin ___x ..................... m. 3,235,500.00
Wyoming ._...____~___\ 6,006,364.38

 

 

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implements and live stock), $82,000,000, to say
nothing of the value of the crops in storage on
the farms as of that date. So then we have ag-
gregate loans to farmers of less than $7 6,000,000
against a total farm value of over $370,000,000,
or about 1 to 6.

Do these ﬁgures show that the farmers of these.
sections are insolvent and have not adequate se-
curity to offer for additional loans? On the con-
trary the proportion between loans and available
security shows a very healthy condition particul-
arly when it is considered that many of these
farmers started on a “shoe—string," and what they
have accumulated they have wrested from the soil
by the hardest kind of labor and in the face of
the most meagre credit facilities for which they
have had to pay a veritable “pound of ﬂesh”.
Yet despite these hardships the farmers have
prospered in their way and central and northern
Michigan are coming into their own as agricul-
tural communities. Upon the broad shoulders of
these farmers rests ninety-ﬁve per cent of the
prosperity of the section. And when we deny the
farmers the credit which they need at this criti-
cal period at reasonable rates of interest we not
only wreck the hopes of these farmers and crush
them to the wall, but we place the prosperity of a
large section of the state in the balance.

WHERE LIES THE TROUBLE?

Why is it that most of the farmers in southern
Michigan are being taken care of while ’so many
in'the more northern sections are denied credit?
Thirty days ago, the banking commissioner
said: “These are critical times. W'e‘must curtail
borrowing. It is to the best interests of all that
there be no further expansion of loans just. now.

yet and we;donft want any." . g k _ V
The Vbankssay: “we are, loaned to the limit.
,Wo’ mus ‘

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' wonderful change.

   

   

0.21.... Wartoipordtioii Panels  to,  v.  ~ 1

keep cur» reserves unimpaired so that when our ‘
depositors call upon us for their money they “in -
Set it.” , . ' v I
The farmer says: “The banks are using short-
age of funds as an excuse for charging us 13 per
cent interest. Because of poor, crops and low
prices we couldn't make both ends meet last
year. We must. have on; loans extended. We
must borrow more, to pay taxes and other ex-
penses. If the banks refuse us, we must sell out."
A state senator: “Of course'the banks will use
depression as an excuse for “scarcity of money so .
that they can keep interest rates up. If you in-
crease the supply ofvmoney by bringing in a. few
million more dollars from the War Finance Cor-
poration you would have an easier money market
and lower interest and discount rates which is
precisely the condition which the bankers do not
want." ‘ , '
These are serious charges which if true are
certainly a. reﬂection upon the banking fraternity.
They may be true in isolated instances but we
prefer to take the more charitable view that
bankers are shutting down on loans for no other
reason than that they have reached or are ap-
proaching the limit of their deposit liabilities.
This is a situation which ought never to exist
in this great and prosperous country. The fact
that it is present new indicates a ﬂagrant weak-'-
ness in our banking system It is when you are
sick that you need a doctor. It is when you are
stuck that you need a boost. It is when you are
“broke” that you need credit. There has not
been a time insthe last quarter of a century when
the farmers of the United States needed credit
so badly as they have the past year and still do.
In large sections of the United States, including
some in Michigan, the banks have not been able
to supply this need.

Late last summer congress recognized the
sentences of the situation and the inability of
the banks to ﬁnance the farmers during the slow
process of reconstruction. lit, therefore, revived
the War_Finance Corporation which ﬁrst came
into being during the war to provide credit to

.those wishing to engage in initernatiOnal trade.

It provided a revolving fund of one billion dol-
lars to be loaned to banks and farmers' co-o’pera~
tive associatidns for strictly agricultural purposes
and to ﬁrms engaged in the’exporting of (farm
products.

One objection voiced to this law was that it
made no provision for direct loaning to, farmers.
A farmer desiring a loan must apply to his local
bank. If the loan is made the bank may turn
around and borrow the amount of the loan from
the War Finance Corporation. . If the bank does
not care to make the loan, nothing further can
be done. The farmer mustgo without hismoney.
Congress undoubtedly realized this weakness of
the plan, but at the same time did not wish to
arouse the antagonism ,of the banks of the coun-
try by ignoring them altogether. I

In many states the banks entered whole-
heartedly into this plan to help relieve the farm-
ers. As the table on this page shows every im-
portant agricultural state of the union, with the
exception of Michigan, has borrowed-heavily from
the War Finance Corporation. The inﬂux of all
this fresh money into the agricultural communi-
ties of these states, has, we are told, wrought a
Despair has given away to
hope, gloom to’ optimism, debt to liquidation,
depression to prosperity. ‘

“The result is already evident,” says Daut
Pierce, publisher of the Iowa Homestead in his
Nov. 3rd issue. “Pressing obligations have been
postponed from one to {three years; the market

. for practically all necessaries and many ‘near lux-
iuries' has been stimulated, buying has

begun
again; the prices for farm products are already
beginning to rise, because of the fact that ﬁnanc-
cial relief has come and there is no longer the
necessity of dumping 'farm products on an al-
ready glutted market, with corresponding decline
in price. The sun is cbming up bright again at
the end of the corn-rows and ever the feed-lots
and“ pastures of Iowa." ,

And the same ﬁnancial improvement is re-
corded in 35 other states which have availed
themselves of‘ the funds of the ‘War Finance
Corporation. But not in! Michigan. '

And why/not inmohigan?‘ V 3
-That is the.question«whichlovery.close studeht -*
of agricultural affairs in  _~ -
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4  I .  . kinsrdavmn‘ie’nt.
Mr; Hugh a: ‘T'dc’Pherson', of Howell,‘

      

Ears who‘ at least tw1ce a year must make an ex-

amination of the books of every bank within the

j'urisdiction‘of the department. ' The banking
commissioner has the authority to order a bank
to call in any loan which may be standing upon
its books. It cannot say what loans a bank shall
make, but it can and often does’say what loans
a bank shall not make.

There is a limit to the loaning power of any
ﬁnancial institution ‘which is' determined by the
bank’s reserves and the amount of its deposits.
A bank must always be in a position to return
to any depOsitor within a certain speciﬁed time
upon application the money which he has en-
trusted to its keeping,- so that a certain ratio must
always exist between the loans and the deposits
of a bank. When a bank reaches this limit of
deposit liability it must curtail lending and per-
haps call in loans. , ’

Now suppose some Michigan bank had reached
this-limit (in fact, we are advised that many have
done so) and Farmer John Doe called to secure
a loan for an absolutely essential purpose. He
has security to offer and the bank perhaps would
like to grant the loan, but cannot for the reason
above described. John suggests the bank goto
the War Finance Corporation. So the bank
wires the banking commissioner for permission
to do this. All depends upon the decision of the
commissioner. If he approves Farmer Doe will
get his loan; if he does not approve he may as
well climb back into his ﬂivver and turn sadly
homeward, for there is no help for him through
the banks which ought to serve him.

Instances having come to, the attention of the
Business Farmer of the commissioner refusing
banks' permission to turn to the War Finance
Corporation, the writer secured an audience with
Mr. McPherson, the Commissioner, and ' Gov.
Groesbeck and diacussed the situation with him.
Mr McPherson took the position that the banks
of the state were quite able to ﬁnance the farm—
ers without turning to the War Finance Corpora-
tion, and frankly admitted that he was‘opposed
to the,banks borrowing from that source, as-
serting that it was contrary to the state law for
banks to habitually borrow for the purpose of
re—lending. ‘

The Business Farmer wishes to be entirely fair
with Mr. McPherson. He had notinvestigaxted
the situation and was in total ignorance of the

    
 

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"sonar. '"Thi'sfdepartment has a corps of examin- f

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 So, it"plainlyzbehoovedius to'produoe the
evidence that such; was the case. .
’ COUNTY AGENTS PRESENT FACES
Therefore, taking advantage of the meeting of
county agents held at East Lansing during
Farmers' Week, the Business Farmer wrote to
each county agent requesting that he come to
that meeting prepared to describe the condition
existing in his particular county. Mr. R. L.
Baldwin, head of the extension department at
the M. A. 0., also wrote the county agents mak-
ing the same request. The writer invited Bank-
ing Commissioner McPherson and Deputy Com-
missioner Mohrmann to be present at the meet-
ing and hear what the county agents had to say.
They came and listened. County agent after
agent arose in the meeting and told of speciﬁc
instances that had come to his attention of
worthy farmers being denied credit. One county

 

  

agent said that npon the basis of’an investiga-

tion which he made he concluded that the farm-
ers of his county alone needed $2,000,000 to
ﬁnance them through the coming season. Some
of the county agents reported that their farmers
were being taken care of; others, had made no
investigation and were not familiar with the
farmers' credit requirements, but about a third
of them agreed that the banks of their county
were not meeting the farmers' requirements.

Both Mr. McPherson and Mr. Mohrmann were
impressed with the evidence submitted and art
a. later conference with them the editor was able
to' present numerous letters from farmers in
widely scattered areas describing in detail the
treatment they were receiving from the banks.
At all these conferences we urged Mr. McPher-
son,to dispatch a communication to all his banks
suggesting that they be as liberal as possible
toward farmer borrowers, and if they were un-
able to ﬁnance the farmers through the coming
crop season to turn to the War Finance Cor-
poration. When Mr. McPherson became thor-
oughly convinced that the situation justiﬁed such
measures he agreed to do so, and accordingly all
national banks in Michigan last
Week received the following letter:

“Recently numerous cemplaints from various sources
have been lodged with this department alleging that
the banks in the rural communities in Michigan were
working a severe hardship on the farming industry
by refusing to grant reasonable credit accommodations
to deserving farmers and by charging usurious interest
rates on loans which were granted. We all appreciate
that Michigan is primarily an agricultural state and
that the farming industry is the life blood of our com-
monwealth, and any undue or unreasonable stifling of
this industry is bound to have a detrimental eﬂfect on
et’ery class of business within the state and delay the
necessary adjustment of conditions now in progress.

    

  

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" 3"We' am“.  in 
the industry has ensign badly 

wto asstnne’a-_,larger-Jiroportionate loss thanfany


class of business. an unfortunately this in} many cases
has resulted in more or less ﬁnancial em ‘ .
It is ordinarily customary and necessary for the 
ers to negotiate loans, in ,the spring of the year to
ﬁnance the planting, growing and . g of their ,.
crops for that year. and it is a proper  of a}
ﬁnancial institution to assume this ﬁnancing within
reasonable bounds and at reasonable rates of 
and assist in promoting the welfare'of the oommunit '. ..

The time will soon be at hand when the banks'ln exi-

rural communities in this state will undobutedly 
demands of this nature made, upon them. ” of
these banks have already incurred liabilities for bor-
rowed money in the nature of bills payable and» re- _
discounts, and for the purpose of obtaining information ,
relative to the situation in yo-ur.oommunlty and a.- ,
certaining the ability of your bank to assume any ad-' '
ditional ﬁnancing of the nature outlined above without .‘
jeopardizing the interests of your institution and your
depositors, the following questionnaire is submitted. M
Kindly ﬁll in this blank and return to the Commission-
er of the Banking Department at the earliest possible ‘
moment in order that this subject may be given careful
consideration by this ofﬁce. Yours very truly,
' H. A McPHE’RSON. Commissioner.

It should be noted that Mr. McPherson made
no mention of the War Finance Corporation. It
is his belief, so he tells us, that banks can se-
cure what money they need through the regular
banking channels, but he assures us that if uch
be not the case, he will permirt them to go to the
government agency for their money.

Although scarcely a week has passed since Mr.
McPherson sent out his letter we are gratiﬁed
to learn that the banks are already adopting a
more lenient policy, and we believe that farmers

' will ﬁnd they will have less difﬁculty in getting

their loans extended and securing additional
credit, if they have the security to offer.‘ It is
suggested that every farmer who has any trouble
lay his case before the county agricultural agent,
who, we are sure, will be glad to counsel with
him and suggest a way out of the difﬁculty. And
as announced in last week’s M. B. F., the editor
wants to know of every case in which a. farmer
entitled to credit has been refused.

The Business Farmer knows of no greater ser-
vice which the banks and \the State Banking
Department can render the commonwealth at this
time than by pursuing such a wise policy as is
suggested below by the president of the Ameri-
can Bankers’ Association. To shut down on th0
farmers now, would spell disaster to many rural
communities. Our banks should strain every fa-
cility at this time to help the farmers through
to the end of the next crop season so they may
not have to sacriﬁce their crops, cattle, or farms
to liquidate present obligations or meet rthe ex-
penses incident to the planting'of another crop,
In so doing, the banks will be following a course
which can only redound to the beneﬁt of all
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business-like way; * * *

lion?

ﬁrm foundation of new wealth created?

can never be regained. * * *

period of high cost of production.

places.

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God in His bounty has given us the land and the water.

World movements indicate a gradual clearing up of

plus temporarily and prevent demoralization in values.

Help the farmers of his neighborhood to a
TION T0 .SUCCEED. Put new hope in their hearts—through
v Many of them are discouraged and disconsolat
‘look FORWARD not BACKWARD and the banker

“The Banker Must Help the Farmer" says President American Bankers’ Association

VERYWHERE one hears the query “What is the outlook for business?” Never before have we faced so many great problems
. clamoring for intelligent solution. To America is the world looking for far-seeing and constructiVe leadership and upon us
largely depend the conditions- which shall prevail here and abroad on the day after tomorrow—the day after we shall have passed
through the period of readjustment and revitalization and be once more actively engaged in producing and consuming in an orderly

Who; is our ﬁrst step? What is our most important task at this hour? What needs our most careful—yes, prayerful—atten-
T ere is a real challenge in the answer—AGRICULTURE.
The fundamental wealth of America is the productivity of her soil.
chandizmg—labor—all take on new life when the farmer prospers—all suffer when his purchasing power is materially curtailed.
. ’ We have the man-power—we have the machinery—we have the gold—
shall we put them all actively to work that the world may be clothed and fed and America’s new era of prosperity built upon the

A crop that can be made and is.for any reason not planted or harvested is an opportunity forever lost—time and money that
,\ -

They  need the banker’s ACTIVE SUPPORT—he needs their energy and ability to create new wealth if his loans to
‘merchant and lawyer, doctor and school teacher, manufacturer and the farmer himself, are to be liquidated. . ' .
As 1n the immediate past, display conﬁdence in those who have shown their willingness to work and their ability to create—-
once more asmst them in ﬁnancing their need for seed, fertilizer, iinplements.
must not be allowed to become demoralized. * * * ,
V ‘1 . Put the.Amer1can farmer on his feet. * * * Again on his feet, he will stand unsupported and as he stands will American business
” “i be ﬁnmd m_ strength  acuvitv and‘American labor ﬁnd, new ﬁelds for employment. * * * '

Transportation—manufacturing—j obbing—banking—mer—

, , , . . . the foreign ﬁnancial skies. If the series of international conferences being
‘ he1d_ result 1n rezestabllshmg the buying power of Europe the fall may ﬁnd us facing an active demand for our. fundamental com-
modities. It Will then be too late to plant the necessary crops.
*xShoum the foreign Situation “013 improve materially then ﬁnancial America must provide the machinery for carrying the sur-

. The demand cannot be long delayed if the needs of the world are to be prop-
erly supplied. Today crops may be both planted and ﬁnanced on a materially different basis of risk than was incurred during the

pproach this planting season with CHEERFULNESS and a rugged DETERMINAJ
continued sympathy and co-operation assist them over the rough

e as they review the losses of the last two years- They must be stimulated to
must help bridge the gulf between the disheartening past and the promising

If we are to press forward successfully, agriculture

President American Bankers Association , .'

« THOMAS B. McADAMS

 

 

 

 

  
   
  
     
     
   
 

    
   
      


 

  
  
   
  
   
  

 

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, thought 180 acres of out-«war land last
‘. December, and commenced clearing and
f planting April 1st. Have cleared 20

acres, built a barn in July and a house
and then moved on September lat.
Wouldi come under the law of tax ex-
emptionon somofcut—overlandthis
year. 1821 taxes also} I am a veteran
ish-m war and draw

‘ Replying to the ﬁrst part of your
inquiry, we respectfully direct your
attention to Section 4192 of the
Compiled Laws of 1915 providing
for exemption of certain cut-over
and wild lands from taxation in cer-
‘tain cases and provides, in sub-
stance, that if cut-over or wild lands,
as described in the statute, are ac-
tually purchased by any person for
the purpose of making a home they
shall be exempt from the payment
of all taxes for a period of ﬁve years
thereafter, provided the purchasél‘
actuailly resides upon and improves
sit least 2 acres of the land each and
every year for the said ﬁve years in
- a manner to subject the same to cul-
tivation. The exemption is limited

in extent to 80 acres purchased by

any one person.

Answering your second inquiry,
we would direct your attention to
Act 331 of the Public Acts of 1919,
Section 11 thereof which provides:

“The following real property shall
be exempt from taxation ‘ ‘ ' ‘
All real estate to the value of one
thousand dollars used and owned as
a homestead by any soldier or sailor
of the federal government who
served thre months or more during
the Spanish—American, Civil or Mex-
' ican war, and all real estate to the
value of one thousand dollars used
and owned as a homestead by any
wife or widow of such soldier or
sailor, provided, however, that
should such homestead exceed in
value the sum of one thousand dol-
lars, it shall be exempt only to the
amount! of such sum ‘ * ‘ Provid—
ed further, that this exemption shall
not operate to relieve from the pay-
ment of taxes any of the persons
hereinbefore enumerated who are
the owners of taxable property of
greater value than three thousand
dollars."

In each case the statute provides
how the application for such ex-
emption be made. In the ﬁrst case
'the statute requires that the party
claiming the exemption shall actual-
ly reside upon the property, and in
the .lamter case it provides that the
property must be “used and owned

as a homestead” by the person
claiming the exemption. As you
actually reside upon the cut-

-over land and claim exemption und-
er that statute, there would be no
occasion to claim exemption under
the soldiers’ exemption statute—A.
B. Doughing, Deputy Attorney Gen-
‘ eral.

ALFALFA ON GRAVEL LAND

I have purchased a farm, the soil of
which is gravel. It is very stony and
there are some large hills, No fertilizer
has been applied for the past two years.
I wish to know if I can raise alfalfa
on this land. also how long may the al-
falfa be. cut for hay before it needs re-
planting. Would there be danger of it
freezing out during the winter? Would
it be advisable to plant clover?———H, M.
Posen. Mich.

Excellent stands of alfalfa can be
secured on gravel land of hilly or
rolling topography. It is usually
necessary to apply ground limestone
.- at the rate of two tons per acre or
' from three to ﬁve cubic yards of
Northern grown seed should

" be planted. Th5 Grimm variety in

particular is best suited to Michigan.~

, Seed should be made on a well ﬁtted,
. thoroughly ﬁrmed seed bed.
1 1!. land is fairly free of grass the

flight seeding of barley, not move
 in a bushel per acre, wi V
 ndtoﬁplfalfs. 11 land is mm
' ' ' r’i'shouldbesummerhl-

  
  
 

    
 

lasting may be made this spring
in? late April or early May with a

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most as owl ﬁxed
sot sperm sheath

(A clearing
all com lalnts or
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Department for fannen' everw deg troubles.  careful attention elven to
requests for Information .14“ is this _ are
by full name and address. Name not used \If as

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Culture for inoculation may be
secured from the, Department at
Bacteriology, East Lansing, Mich.
The price is 25¢ per bottle and one
bottle contains suﬁcient material to
inoculate a bushel of seed.

Once establshed' a good stand of
alfalfa can be cut for many years.
June grass usually come in in from
four to eight years, after which the
alfalfa stand thins rapidly and can
be best used for pasture purposes.

Under conditions such as you de-
scribe alfalfa is more dependable
than clover.—-—J. ll". Cox, Professor of
Farm Crops, M. A. 0.

MAY CANCEL ORDER
Some time ago I ordered a set of books
costing about ﬁfty dollars from a certain

company through traveling agents. Two _

days later. through the advice of a law-
yer. I sent a registered letter telling them
to cancel my order. A few weeks latci
the books arrived but I did not accept
them. I am still receiving letters de-
manding payment but as they were put
to no expense an they collect‘l—E. 0.,
Charlevoix. Mlch_
The supreme court held as follows
concerning the following order:
“You will plane send me galva-
nized lightning rod for my house
so days for which I will give
you 3545 per foot, due when work is
completed.”

The supreme court held that this

was an order which the maker, until "

notiﬁed of its acceptance, could
withdraw and which bound neither
party until accepted. I am there-
fore of the opinion that the order
for the books from the company
was subject to countermand until he
had received notice of acceptance;
and that a countermand to the pub-
lishers, if before an acceptance in
writing of an order was. a with-
drawal of the order itself, and the
company cannot collect for the books
delivered thereunder.——Legai Editor.

 

CONSUMERS POWER CO.

Will you please inform me if the stock
offered by Consumers Power 00,, and
claimed to my 7.37 per cent, is a safe
investment for one, of moderate means
who Wishes to place a little money Where
it will pay more than 4 per. cent paid by
banks?—E. W., Perry. Mich.

The M. B. F. cannot positively re-
commend any stock outside of its
own, because it is next to impossible
to know everything connected with a
business upon which to base an
opinion. So far as we know the
stock of this company is perhaps as
safe as any stock on the market. The
company has a monopoly of certain
water power rights in Michigan, and
as long as it is protected in this mo-
nopoly it is safe. Some there are
who predict that private control of
water rights will come to an end,
but this is a long time away.—
Editor.

COVERT ROAD ASSESSMENT

I am enclosing sketch of the road just
built by my farm under the Covert act.
I am not at all satisfied with the assess-
ment and would like to know if I have
any way of getting itvreassessed. Four
forties in the same line are all assessed
diiferently. Proposed M-27 goes right by
my door and will be cement and I will
have to pay heavily on that. Can I pay
this tax under protest and how would
I go about it‘l—F. N., Stmilac County.
Mich.

You should have protested against
the assessment in the manner pro-
vided by law before the amount was
spread upon the tax rolls. The law
requires that after apportioning the
assessments for building a Covert
act road the county road commis-
sioners shall hold a review and list-
en. to objections against the appor-
tionment. If the taxpayer is still
not satisﬁed with the assessment he
may ﬁle through the judge of pro-

bate an application fora second re- ‘

view. To do this, however, he must
ﬁle with ‘the probate 'iudge a bond
of $200 out of which the costs of the

review are taken providing the re?

viewing body, approvesﬁhe assess:

 

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view must be borne by the county.
The Judge of probate appoints the
board of review from resident tax-
payers of the county. If the taxpayer

is still dissatisﬁed with his assess-.

ment he may pay his taxes under
protest as provided in the general
law. You should consult your prose-
cuting attorney or some other law-
yer as to the method of procedure
in this case—Editor.

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WHO SHOULD, PAY TUITION?

I have at my home a boy who should
so to school but our district is broken
up and send the children to the other
district. 'I‘hhboystartedto schoolinthe
fall but the director stopped
saying he was not enrolled. He has b

living in this district one year. Shou
the district pay his tuition or. should If
He is 14 and n the eighth c.’—-Sub—

scriber, Montcalm County, M ch.

The whole question depends on
the actual residence of the boy. The
school in any distrct shall be free to
all residents of the district ﬁve years
of age and over. If the only and
actual home of the boy is in the dis-
trict, he shall be entitled to “ all
school advantages, otherwise the
board can require that he pay tui-
tion—T. E. Johnson, Supt. Public
Instruction.

 

TENANT MUS]? MOVE
I rented a farm and the tenant who
has possession refuses to move. His time
expired the ﬁrst of November, He says
can hold possession because it is

cold weather and that he was not notiﬁed '

toanove out. What legal steps must we
take to get possession of the farm l—M.
B... Silverwood, Mich.

If the time of the tenant ex-
pired November ﬁrst, immediate pro-
ceedings may be taken against him
to oust him from possession. It is
not necessary to serve notice. Cold
weather is no excuse for his refusal
to give up possession. Complaint
should be made to a just‘"e
of the peace of the township where
the land is located, or to a circuit
court commissioner of the county in
which the land is situated—Legal
Editor.

SUDAN GRASS

is Sudan grass a good hay crOp for
this part of Michigan? Does it improve
the ground any? Will it inoculate the
ground for other things?—-M. S. 13.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Sudan grass makes a very good
emergency hay crop when clover or
alfalfa seedings fail. It should not
be used in the rotation in place of
clovers or alfalfa and it is not a
soil improver. Sudan makes a large
growth in a short time and is com-
paratively hard on the soil. It is
not a legume and cannot be inocu-
lated nor does it inoculate the soil
for any other crop.

Here at the Experiment Station at
East Lansing, Sudan has a yield of
3.33 tons of air dry hay per acre,
as an average over a period of three
years. This yield is higher [than that
secured from millets, soybeans or
cats and peas—C. R. Megee, Re-

search'Associate in Farm Crops, M.

A.C.

RIGHTS OF DIVORCEE

In case of husband and wife parting
without divorce, she signing away all
rights to property and he in return pay-
ing her a certain sum of money, would
she be entitled to her share in the pro-
perty in case of his death. if they had
gone to living together again as man
and wife?—Subscriber, Cheboygan” Mich.

If the contract signed by the hus-
band and wife was .for the purpose
of barring her dower and the int—
erests in the estate of her husband
in case of death and she received
the consideration therefore the mere
fact of her going-back and living
with him would not restore her
property right that she had con-
tracted away. But if there was

nothing’in the contract except that

each might live apart. and the order
not being liable in any way, then
she would be entitled to her ﬂower

and also to her right or inheritance '1: .,

   

in her “husband’s 
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him by

'nanciaIIy by accepting

. 4 ‘4...

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?
Will you help me, locate my
ﬁatherl He has been gone since 1007. /
He was in Oregon in 1908, he was
in the" lumbering district , at that.
time. His name is Seymore' Peters.

. He is so years old. He left Guam

county, Mich... in 1907. I would be
more than pleased for any informa-
tionthatwouldleadtoatraceof
him since that time—Clarence
Peters, Millersburg, Mich

 

SAVE YOUR MONEY
Some time ago my son received a cir-
cular from a music house. the Broad-
737 (30111an Studios. Inc. New York. _
which sussostee that he try to write a

-- song poem for then; offering to revise

andsettomusioandpublish, givinng
author a royalty of 8 cents per copy- I

I sent in 'a poem and have received a letter

them stating the poem was suitable
foruseinasongandenclosedacontract
which provided that’the song should be
revised and set to music by Geo. Grad,
Jr. to be completed within four weeks
and subject to approval of author. The
studio agrees to secure its publication by
a New York music publisher on a royalty
basis, Author is to pay studio $80.
when completed to be sole property 0
author the pubishecr to copyright it in
author‘s name, etc. '

I am absolutely ignorant of such mat-
ters and wish to know of the standing
of this company and the musical repu-
tation of their lyric editor. Geo. Graft,
Jr. The circular letter did not mention
a cornmission and hence I suppose they
intend to take chances \on the selling
and get a part of the balance above
cents per com.

I have other productions I
to submit if I were experienced .
aganent of such matters. Can you put
me in touch with some one who could
instruct me. Farming has not been pro-
ﬁtable in this county lately and I would
be glad to develop new sources of in-
comer-Reader.

My dear madam, I deeply sympa-
thise with you in your need, but I
am sure that the clot of the Broad-
way Composing Studios is nothing
but a snare and a delusion. I am
not surprised that the company ad-
vised you your poem was suitable
to set to music, because every per-
son whom they can hook means $60
in their pockets. You need not wor-
ry, about their “commission.” Don’t
you see that the $60 you are asked
to pay them will reimburse them for
all their trouble in “revising” your,
song and set-ting it to “music” and
paying the $1 copyright fee, and
leaving them a handsome proﬁt be—
sides. They take no chance on the
sale of your product. But you take
them all. Don’t you read that little
“joker” at the bottom of their Con-
tract? It says: "We never guarantee
that any certain number of songs
will be sold. We never attempt to
predict What a song will accomplish
after it has been published. _
Submission of our contract is not an
indication of belief on our part that
the author of a song will” proﬁt ﬁ-
our offer.”
We wrote these people in your be-
half. They furnished us with a copy
of their contract and ﬁnancial refer-
ences, but 'when we wrote back and
asked them if it wasn’t a fact that
the very large majority of those who
sent them songs lost their money
and received nothing in return, they
failed to reply. No, dear madam.
save your $60 to help pay the int—
erest on the mortgage. You may
have ability as a song writer, but
the Broadway Composing Studio is
not an unbiased judge. Submit
your writings to some friend, your
local newspaper editor, for instance.
He’ll tell you the truth. Mebbe you
won’t like it and mebbe you will,
Anyway, it’s better to have the truth
than lose your $60.—Editor.

 

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M. VB. F. “FINDS” RELATIVES
FOB SUBSCRIBER '

I wish to thank you for publish-
ing my notice in Business
Earner of Nov. 28, in" the columns
of the Farmed Service Bureau, 1
inquired fer the whereabouts at
Mrs. Sherman Shippy (my mother),
build ' , my father and my
three brothers. Earl, Ernest and
Fred. I havaiseerrd from all but
' _ Ernestis‘dead. 1; sh
‘ Ville-long subscriber, to ' t ‘

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STANDARD WAGE LEVEL
DO not deny the desira-

bility of foreign markets,’ or

that lack of them may “influ-
ence” home markets, or that persist-
ent overproduction may create an un-
manageable surplus, or that the
problem of regulating production is
less simple for us than for other pro-
ducers. Nevertheless I repeat that
if the American people continue to
let export prices “govern” the home
market they are more stupid than I
think;

The ultimate solution, as I said,
lies in co-operatlou with other in-
dustries by which all agree to pay
standard wages and salaries and
such standard prices for each others
products as will make such wages
and salaries possible. With a pro-
per relation established between
wages and prices every citizen can
buy all he or she can use and work-
ers can change from one industry
to another. according to public need,
without fear of ﬁnancial loss. No
industry will then lack workers, and
much of the temptation to expand
faster than demand increases will
be gone.

The “back to the land” propa-
ganda is one of the silliest of fads.
Equally silly is the craze for "de-
veloping" other resources regardless
of the public need. True, we are
now suffering from under-consump-
tion rather than over-production,
but our present acreage of produc-
tive land will, under good manage-
ment, supply any probable demand
for many years to come. Just now
farmers should sit down hard on any
proposition to increase the acreage
of farm lands, by irrigation or other-
wise, at public expense. As for our
ex—soldiers, give each a paying job at
the kind of work he likes best.

The weakest point in our present
governmental system is representa-
tion by districts. “No man can serve
two masters."
serve all the conflicting business
interests get what they want, a few
others get fair service and the great
majority no service at all. No com-
mission, court or congress is compe-
tent to govern industry unless it
fully and fairly represents all the
interests involved. That is to say
each member should represent a
group of industrial workers—wheth-
er laborers or managersmwhose in—
terests harmonize. One representa—
tive is enough for any one interest,
large or small, but every separate
interest, however small, should have
its own.

We can change the character of
our present congress only by amend-
ing the constitution—a slow and
tedious process. But a national ad-
ministration elected on that issue
can create such a body as I suggest
and delegate certain powers to it
as easily as to create an industrial
court to suppress strikes. The tariﬂ
may be necessary for, a time and
should certainly be controlled by the
industrial congress, but to maintain
prices ﬁxed by mutual agreement is
a very different proposition from
trying to enforce high protect—Ion
under our present system, With each
suspecting everyone else of trying
to proﬁteer.—Stacy Brown, Iowa
County, Mich; »

Sakes alive, Stacy, we no sooner get
one of your propositions digested than
along you come with anot er. We want
a change in diet. but we’ll get the gout
sure if we gorge too much on strange
fodder. Let's sample a little at a time.
Seriously, though, you have a lot of won-
derfully good ideas and you know how
to tell them.‘ But it’s going to take a
long, long time, my boy, to convince the
rest of mankind that they will stand the
acid test of the ages. Your universal
(so—operation scheme might work so long

'as all industry runs on an even keel,

but let any branch of industry be dis-
turbed by such ‘ an economic upheaval
as we have recently witnessed and are
still struggling with and you 11 ﬁnd it
‘Just as impossible, I’m thinking, to keep
your wage and price standard from tot-
tering. Really, now, as long as a] few
men control the money and the credit
of the world and wars visit their devas-
tating ravages upon us is it: Within the
power of human kind to maintain that
economic balance between all industries
which we would like to see? Men
curious, isn't i , , my last week’s edi-
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came? Have you hated how sank-ably
We agree in that particular? As to the
method you propose for a change in the
basis of representation. we may yet come
to it. Representation by geographical
location is hypothecatcd upon the theory
’that human nature is intrinsically un-
selﬁsh. We know it isn't. Few men
know enough about the needs of every
vocation of their districts to represent
each with absolute wisdom and fairness
in the making of the laws. Although
we do not vote by classes or vocations
for our representatives we actually get
class legislation. Why? Because' de-
spite all your ﬁne theories about equal
representation men are still men even
after they are invested with the toga of
ofﬁce. and under our present system
sciously, it matters not which, vote to
favor the occupation or class with which
they are the most familiar or to .which
they themselves belong. We find a
large number of men of one class seeking
cities, and under our present system
they get the votes of all classes; Con-
' sequently they predominate in our legis-
lative bodies. While representing the
smallest class they may actually rule
the largest classes. 80- as long as we
get class legislation anyway, why not
throw our beautiful theories to the wind
and elect our representatives, as you sug-
gest, upon a class basis. Some day. we
may do it, but both of us will be cradled
in the arms of Father Gabriel ere that
time arrives.-——Editor_

THE GRAIN MONOPOLY _
OW many times have we been
told during the last two years
that the price of wheat was
tumbling down because there was no
export market. No export demand
——people in other countries could not
buy—too much wheat—mo place to
sell. Farmers have had thatstuff
dipped into their ears until most
of them have come to believe it.
Now look what we ﬁnd from oﬁi-
cial ﬁggures of the reports of the
United States Department of Com-
merce: , V
Average number of bushels of
wheat for the ﬁrst ten months of
pre—war years (1910, 11, 12, 13, 14),
60,588,884. Number of bushels ex-
ported ﬁrst ten months of 1920,
166,348,814. Number of bushels ex-
ported ﬁrst ten months of 1921,
255,806,737. For the ﬁrst ten
months of 1921 over four times more
of our wheat sold to foreign coun-
tries than the average for the cor-
responding period for ﬁve years be-
fore the war, and ninety million
bushels more in 1921 than in 1920,
more than 50 per cent increase in
1921 over 1920. ,

Wheat went up . during' the war
and would have gone higher if the
government corporation had not
kept it down. We understand that
the war price advance was caused
by the great- foreign demand result-
ing in heavy exports to feed the
warring nations. But here are the
government ﬁgures:

The average yearly exports of
wheat and ﬂour during 1915, 16, 17,
and 18, the war years, were 227,-
998,600 bushels. For the year 1920
there was exported wheat-and flour
to the extent of 307,394,000 bushels.

If wheat and ﬂour continued to

MUSIIIGS OF A PLAII FABIER

T’S a beautiful winter day, and it
I has been some time since I was
back on this forty. Our little
grove is stripped of its foliage, ﬁelds
look barren; vegitation is asleep.

The bars are down just as I left
them. I am careless about my work.
And here is a post broken off.

There will be the usual amount of
repairs this spring, and they take
money. Where, on where, is It com-
ing from? I wbnder how the clover
is wintering. The weeds 'won’t
winter-kill. .

What shall I plant this spring?
Have to get an ouija board, I must
put in some kind of crop or take the
oust.

Somehow I always get up on this
little hill and stand and gaze. Then
I get romantic. It’s very quiet here.
No rtraﬁic laws are needed at this
spot. No human hordes passing to
struggle and 'mesh. I am alone
with nature and, the world, and the
dog. Yes! I like it.

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bereaported at‘ the same rate during
November and December, as for the
ﬁrst ten months, there was exported
during 1921 more than-350,000,000
bushels. This is 122,000,000 bush-
els mm of wheat and wheat ﬂour
exported in 1921 than the average
for the war years, and over 40,000,-
000 more in 1921 than in 1920.
Does this look as if the price of
wheat is low because it cannot be
sold in foreign countries?

Now note this: According to the
U. 8. Department of Agriculture
bulletin 999, page 18, for the ﬁve
pro-war years, 1910 to 1914, the dif-
ference between the average price
paid the farmers and the average
wholesale export price at New York
was” 14 cents a bushel. But in June,
1921, the difference between the
average price paid the farmer for
wheat and the average ' wholesale
price at New York was 55 cents a
bushel, or 400 per cent increase!

The ocean freight rates from New
York to Liverpool were raised from
3 cents per bushel in 1920. to 36.5
cents in 1918, an increase of 1,200
per cent. ' '

C. H. Gustafson, head of the U.
8. Grain Growers, Inc., says: "It has
been a matter of common statement
among Chicago grain men and on
the ﬂoor of the Chicago Board of
Trade for the last several months
that the present market is a one-
man market, and that in the present
market is a large operator, who, Iii
addition to being a buyer, is also an
elevator, ware-house man, a shipper,
a manufacturer of grain food pro-
ducts, a miller and an exponter.”

In short, milling and marketing of
grain and grain products is a com-
plete private monopoly, and the
abuses of this monopoly ‘ have
reached the limit—Sherman Bye,
Cass County, Mich.

We are glad you have given us these
facts. Although many of them have-sl-
ready been published in' the Business
Farmer, including the comparison be-
tween war and post-war exports and the
remarks of Mr. Gustafson you have given
us some ﬁgures with whidi both as and
undoubtedly many of our subscribers
were not familiar. Some explanatbn
of the declining. wheat prices in face of
the great export demand is given in the
ﬁrst report of the congressional committee
which was named some months ago to
investigate agricultural conditions. The
principal reason given in report for this
unusual situation is the world-wide "de-
flation." Deﬂation is usually associated
with lack of demand, and this has been
the cause of lower prices on most com-
modities, but how it can‘be the cause of

lower wheat prices is more than the
average man can understand—Editor.

COMMISSION GOVERNMENT

N your issue of Jan. 7, you invite
opinions on commission form of
government. My opinion on

‘ this subject is this: Our forefathers

gave us the ballot which they got
through their blood and tea‘ and
now we are asked to give it aw y.

I have seen some ,of its workings
in Traverse City. When graft got
pretty rampant in our little town
and the people began to be uneasy
and talked change, the Associated
Press and a few of the old politi-
cians commenced to “holler” “Com-
mission form of governmen " The
press hammered the people long
enough to get them all stirred up,
then they sent speakers around to
all the voting precincts telling the
people what a ﬁne thing this new
form of government really was.

Now I would rather handle a plow ‘

than a pen so will tell. you just one
instance of how it panned out.

You know how we read in the As-
sociated Press "Vote for the man
who ha made a success of his own
business. He is the man to look
after the public business.” The vot-
ers of Traverse City had that down
pat so they voted men into ofﬁce

who had stock in' all the different

stock companies. Traverse City had
a municipal electric light plant.
There wd's also the “Boardman Elec~
tric Light and Power 00., owned by
men in Traverse City who had made
a success of their own business. A
new public building was put up . in
the city and one day‘ in. cinemas,
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VARIETIES OF PEACHES T0

 , ‘ PLANT ‘
IRS'I.‘ in importance in selecting»
peach varieties is the hardiness
of the bud. Many good varie—
ties have been discarded because the
buds would come on too early in the

spring, so were liable Ito injury from 1

late frosts. The buds of others are
too tender for the northern winters.
The Early Crawford is an example.
The blossoms are out a little too
early. Istlong ago came into dis-
favor among commercial growers in
Michigan, but the demand for it has
caused dealers to sell any- ﬁne yellow
peach for aCrawford, regardless of
the real name. ..

Another consideration of import-
ance is succession. A commercial
apple orchard may be of two or
three varieties, but not so the peach.
This fruit must be marketed prompt-
ly, so there‘should be several varie-
ties,- ripening in succession. A doz—
en varieties, properly selected, will
cover the season about two months.

First among the varieties comes
the Mayﬂower. It is a white peach
and is good because it is early. The
quality is not equal to later kinds,
but the consumer, does not discrimi-
nate carefully at that time of the
year. .

The Alexander is early, a heavy
and regular bearer, for a peach. The
ﬂesh is of good ﬂavor, as much of it
as can be gotten off the pit, for it is
an aggrevating cling.

Next comes the Admiral Dewey,
the ﬁrst large yellow peach. It is
good for a near'market, but is too
easily injured for shipping. It has
proved hardy. .

Following this is |the South Haven,
a new peach that has proved good.

Then comes the St. John; Fitz-
gerald, which is taking the place of
the Early Crawford and is more re-
,liable; the New Proliﬁc, an improve-
ment over the old Kalamazoo.

If a white peach is wanted, the
Champion comes in turn. It is of
superior ﬂavor and in demand
among those who want fruit for
quality rather than col-or. It does
not_sta'nd shipping well, which is
true of white varieties in general,
but is a good fruit if the market is
at the orchard. ,

The J. H. Hale comes next. This
peach is larger, as good a shipper
and a few days earlier than the El~
berta. It is also better in quality,
but not enough so to secure it a
place among the best. The tree is
too small for producing a large crop.

Following closely upon the J. H.
Hale is the Elberta, which has to its
credit size, color, productivity. It
ships well—so do rubber balls. As
to quality, it will pass for a peach.
But it must be grown because it

“stands up” after a long journey,
when fruit of quality would be
spoiled. Then, too, it is good for

canning. The Elberta has a place
that no other peach ﬁlls at present,
though .the man who grows it will
,hardly tolerate it on his own table.

Engelfs Mammoth is liable to
prove a dissappointment at ﬁrst, as
«the fruit may be small, but it im-
proves with age. In quality the
fruit is one of the best.

Just -a little later comes the Late
Crawford. In quality there is little
to choose between this and Eng-el’s,
but the‘tree is an uncertain bearer
and the buds are a little tender,
though hardier than the Early Craw-
ford.

After these comes the Banner,
which will bear more fruit than any
of them. Ifany tree has fruit it
is the Banmer; and two or three
times as much as it ought. Unless ,
severely thinned the fruit will be
small and even then it will- not be
large. The ﬂesh is rather dry, but
coming when the choicerkinds are
gone it is usually in demand and is
proﬁtable. -

Smock Free is about as late as it
is safe to trust the weather. It is
an excellent canning peach.

The season may be extended with
the Solway, butvthe man who plants
'1 .mustexpect tq play the game with

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uallly proﬁtable, coming as it does,
so late in the season. ' ‘

These are a few only of the varie-
ties to choose from, but they give
a succession and have proved satis-
factory in eastern Michigan. A few
others might be mentioned. The
Crosby, is the hardest and earliest
bearing treerof all, but it loads it—
self so heavily that the fruit must
be mercilessly thinned in order to
obtain even a fair size. The Early
Barnard is a favorite for canning,
among those who know' it, though
not as attractive o-n the outside as
some others. Then there are the
white peaches, the Mountain Rose
for early, the Oldmixon for mid-
season and the Stump for late. In
quality the white varieties are su-
perior to the yellow, but can not be
handled as we'll. They are appre-
ciated in the family orchard and by
those who want the best.

But it should be kept in mind that
the peach is the m0st ﬁckle of fruits.
Trees of the same variety may differ
considerably in hardiness, vigor,
productivity and, season of ripening
fruit. These things are to be con—
sidered by the one who plants an
orchard. But there is good proﬁt in
the fruit for those who get into the
game to stay.

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In the Business Farmer. January 21.
the Fruit and Orchard column has this
remarkable bit of information: “It
seems as though $10 a ton, for grapes
has made people crazy." Sure it ought
to. If I could get no more than that
I would let the fruit rot on the vines.
In 1920 we had more than ten times as
much from the juice factories. Last fall
when the factories offered us $85 we
thought it too little. When grapes get
down to $10 a, ton you may expect to
buy eggs for 50 a dozen, wheat 15c a
bushel and other things in proportion.
It is time for you folks to wake up.—
H. N_ C., Paw Paw, Mich,

It was all due to a typographical
error. The copy said “$100 a ton,”
the proofreader overlooked it. We
were certainly glad to have attention

called to the error.

ENGLISH WALNUTS

Will English walnuts bear in Michi-
gan? I have seen trees 30 or 40 years
old, but never any nuts—J. H, N._ Ben-
ton Harbor, Mich. '

There are English walnut trees in
different parts of Michigan that
have been bearing for many years.
The tree is hardy enough and easily
grown from the nut if this can be
obtained before it is too dry. As a
commercial Venture the growing of
this nut is not to be advised, though
some nurserymen have made extra-
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STRAWBERRY CULTURE

Please tell me where I can get some
reliable information on strawberry cul-
ture—E. L. D,_ Germfask, Mich,

Write to Director of Experiment

Station, East Lansing, Mich. Ask
for ’Bulletin 84.
CHERRY GRAFTS
I read in the Business Farmer for

January 21 that you have yet to ﬁnd
the man who has made cherry grafts
grow. Come to'Monroe and I will show
him to you and some of the top-worked
trees. Cherries can be grafted just like
apples. Graft sour on sour and sweet
on sweet, but don’t try sour on sweet
3);. 1sweet on SO‘ur.—H_ M. 0., Monroe,
1c .

Glad to hear from you and to
learn that cherries can be grafted.
However, to, let ourselves dowu
easily, we still contend that top-
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Cow: “Can you beat it? There’s so
much system around here now that they
ﬁle men in the barn under the letter C.”

Hen: “Yes, I have my troubles with
efficiency too. They've put a rubber
stamp in my nest so I can date my eggs
two weeks ahead.” .

SPEAK N0 EVIL or THEA DEAD

“Well, Bill," asked a. neighbor.
“Hear the boss has had a fever. How’s
his temperature today?”

The hired man scratched his head and
decidled1 ngtfto comnriit himself.
- ‘ ’ an’ er me 0 say,” he re lied.
“He died last night.” p

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a muscle, Thus much» he: had
learned of his hard lessons in the
wilderness—to wait, and watch, and
use his cunning. He was ﬂat on his
belly, his nose between his forepaws.
His lips were drawn back a little,
just\a little; but he made no sound,
and his eyes were as steady as two
points of ﬂame. Le Beau started.
He felt suddenly a new thrill, and it
was not the thrill of his desire for
vengence. Never had he see-n a
lynx or a fox or a wolf in ,a trap
like that. Never had he seem a dog
with eyes like the eyes that were on
Netah. For a moment he held his
breath. .

Foot by foot, and then almost
inch by inch, The Killer crept in.
Ten feelt, eight, six-land all that
time Miki mad-e ho move,. never
winked an eye. With a snarl like
that of a tiger, Netah came at him.

What happened then was the most
marvelous thing «that Jacques Le

« (Cpntinued from last week)

T was in this kekek that Miki had
~killed the ﬁshercat the previous
morning.“Ilt was empty now. Even
the bait-peg was gone, ‘and there
was no signof a trap. A quarter of
a mile further on he came .to a sec-
ond trap—house, and tihs also was
empty. He was a bit puzzled. And
then he went on to the third house.
He stood for several minutes, sniff;
ing the air still more suspiciously,
before he drew close to it. The man—
tracks were thicker here. The snow
was beaten down with them, and
the scent of Le Beau was so streng
in the air that for a space Miki be—
lieved he was near. Thhen he ad-
vanced so that he got a look into
the door of. the trap—house. Squat-
ted there, staring at him with big
round eyes, was a huge snowshoe
rabbit. A premonition of danger
held Miki back. It was something
in the attitude 0f Wapoose, the 01d

     

 

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rabbit. He was not like the others Beau had ever seen. SO.SWift1Y
he had caught along Le Beau’s line. that his _ eyes could scarcely, follow.
He was not struggling in a trap; he the movement, Miki had Passed

like a ﬂash under the belly of Netah,
and turning then at the end of his
ltrap chain he was at The Killer’s
throatbefore Le Beau could have
counted ten. They were down, and
The Brute gripped the club in his
hand and stared like one fascinated.
He heard the grinding clunch of
jaws, and he knew they were "t 'e
Wild Dog’s jaws; he heard a snarl
choking slowly into a wheezing sob

was‘not stretched out, half frozen,
and he was not dangling at the end
of a snare. He was all furred up
into a warm and comfortable look-
ing ball. As a matter of fact, Le
Beau had caught him with his hands
in a hollow log, and" had tied -him
to the bait peg with a piece of buck
skin string; and after that, just
out of Wapoos’s reach, he had set a
nest of traps and covered them with

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snow. of agony, and he knew lthat the
Nearer and nearer to this menace sound came from The Killer. The
drew Miki, in spite of the unaccount— blood rose into his face. The red

able impulse that warned him to ﬁre in his eyes grew livid-1a blaze ‘

. . For February and March keep back. Wapoos, fascinated by of exultation, of triumph.
, his slow and deadly advance, made “Tonnerre de Dieu! he is chok-
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into stone. , Then Miki was at him.
His powerful jaws closed with a
crunch. In the same instant there
came the angry snap of steel and a
ﬁsher-trap closed on one of his hind
feet. With a snarl he dropped Wa—
poos and turned upon it. Snap-—
snap—snap went three more of Jac-
ques’s nest of traps. Two of-them
missing. The third caught him by
a front paw. As he had , caught
Wapoos, and as he had killed the

gasped. “Non, I have never seen
a dog like that. I will keep him
alive; and he shall ﬁght Durantfs
poos over at Post Fort 0’ God! ,By
the belly of Saint Gris, I say ' ”

The Killer was as good as dead if
left another minute. Wi’th'upraised
club Le Beau advanced. As he sank
his fangs deeper into Netah’s lthroat
Miki saw the new danger out "of the
corner of his eye. He loosed his
jaws and swung himself free of The

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and stain-ed the snow red. Madly
he tw-iSted himself to get at his hind
foot. On this foot the ﬁsher-trap
had secured a hold that was un-
breakable. He ground it between
his jaws until the blood ran from
his mouth. He was ﬁghting it
when Le Beau came out from behind
a clump of spruce twenty yards
away with The, Killer at his heels.
The Brute stopped. He was pant—
ing, and his eyes were aﬂame. Two
hundred yards away he had heard
the clinking of the trap-Chain.
“OW! he is there,” he gasped,
tightening his hold on The Killer’s
lead thong. “He is there, Netah, you
Red Eye! That is the robber devil
you are to kill—almost. I will un-
fasten you, and then—Go to!”
Miki, no longer ﬁghting the trap,
was eyeing them as they advanced.
In this moment of peril’he felt no
fear 0f the man. In his veins the
hot blood raged with a killing mad—
ness. The truth lept upon him in
a ﬂash of instinctive awakening.

. These two were his enemies instead

of the thing on his foot—the man-
beast, and Netah, The‘ Killer. He
remembered—as if it were yester-
day. This,was not the ﬁrst time he

had seen a main with a club in his
hand. And Le Beau held a club. Butg

His steady eyes-
Unleashed by. his _’
master, The Killer stood ‘on [stiff legs

he was not afraid.
watched Netah. '

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and had lunged at Le Beau. The
Frenchman was a master with the
club. All his life he had used it,
and he brought it around in a sud-
den side~swing that landed with
terriﬁc force against Miki’s head.
The blood spurted from his mouth
and nostrils. He was “dazed and
half blinded. He'leapt again, and
the club caught him once more. He
heard Le Beau’s ferocious cry of
joy. A third, a fourth, and a ﬁfth '
time he went dOWn under the club,
and Le Beau no longer laughed, but
swung his Weapon with a look that
was half fear in his eyes. The sixth
time the club missed, and Miki's
jaws closed against The Brute’s
chest, ripping away the thick coat
and shirt as if they had been of
paper, and leaving on Le Beau’s
skin a bleeding gash. Ten inches
more—a little better vision in his '
blood-dimmed eyesﬂand he would "
have reached the man’s throat.‘ A
great cry rose out of Le' Beau. For 3
_an instant he felt the appalling 
nearness of death.

“Netah! Netah!” he cried,
swung the club wildly. .
Netah did not respond. It may
be that in this moment he sensed
the fact .that it was his master who
had made hm into a monster.- About
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black. He no longer had the power
to move. Lying as if dead he still
heard over him the panting, exultant
voice of the man-beast. .For Le
Beau, black though his .heart was, ’
could not keep back a prayerful cry
of thankfulness that he was victor— .
and had missed death, though by' a
space no wider than the link of a
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

ANETTE, «the woman, saw,Jac-
ques come out of the edge of
the timber late in the afternoon,

dragging something on the snow be-
hind him. In her heart, ever since '-
her husband had begun to talk
about him, she'had kept secret to
herself a pity for the wild dog. Long
before the last baby had come she
had loved a dog. It was this dog
that had given her the only real af-
fection she_ had known in the com-
pany of The Brute, and with bar-
barous crulty Le Beau had driven
it from her. Nanette herself had
encouraged it to seek freedom in the
wilderness, as Netah had at last
Sought his. Therefore she (had
prayed that the wild dog of the trap-
line might escape.

As Le Beau came nearer she saw
that what he drew after him upon
the snow was a sledge-drag made of
four lengths of sapling, and when, a
moment later, she looked down at
its burden, she gave a little cry of
horror.

Miki’s four feet were tied so ﬁrmly

to the pieces of sapling that he
could not move. A cord about his
neck was fastened to one of the

crossbars, and over his jaws Le Beau
had improvised a muzzle of un-
breakable babiche thong. He had
done all this before Miki regained
consciousness after the clubbing.
The woman stared, and there was a
sudden catch in her breath after
the little cry that had fallen from
her lips. Many times she had seen
Jacques club his dogs, but never had
she seen one clubbed like this.
Miki’s head and shoulders were a
mass of frozen blood. And then she
Saw his eyes. They were looking
straight at her. She turned, fearing
that Jacques might see what was in"
her face.

Le Beau dragged his burden
straight imto the cabin, and then
stood back and rubbed his hands as
he looked at Miki on the ﬂoor. Na-
nette saw that he was in a strangely
good humOur, and waited.‘

“By the Blessed .Saints, but you
should have seen him kill Nettah—
almost,” he exulted. “Oui; he had
him down by the throat quicker than
you could ﬂash your eye, and twice
he was within an inch of my life
when I fought him with the club.
Dieu! I say, what will_happen to
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disappeared It‘hrnugh the cabin door.
Then he looked swiftly back to Na-
nette. She had drawn nearer. Her
eyes were shining as she bent over
him.
and died there. For the ﬁrst time
he was looking upon woman. He
sensed, all at once, a difference as
vast as the world itself. In his
bruised and broken body his heart
stood still. Nanette spoke to him.
Never in his life had he heard a
voice like hers—soft and gentle,
with a breakng sob in- it; and then
-—-miracle of miracles—she had
dropped on her knees and her hands
were at his head!.

In that instant his spirit leapt
back through the generations—back
beyond his father, and his father’s
father; back to that far day when
the blood in the veins of his race
was “just dog,” and he romped with
children, and listened to the call. of
woman, and worshipped at g the
shrine of human-kind. And now the
woman had run quickly to the stove,
and was back again with a dish of
warm water and a soft cloth, and
was bathing his head, talking to him
all the time in that gentle, half-sob-
bing voice of pity and of love. He
closed his eyes—no longer afraid. A
great sigh heaved ‘out of his body.
He wanted to put out his tongue
and lick the slim white hands that
were bringing his peace and comfort.
And then the strangest thing of all
happened. In the crib the baby sat
up and began to prattle. It was a
new note to Miki, a new song of
Life's springtide to him, but it
thrilled him as ‘nothing else in all
the world had ever thrilled him be;
fore. He opened his eyes wide—and
whined. '

A laugh of joy—new and strange
even to herself—came into the wo-
man’s voice, and she ran to the crib
and returned with the baby in her
arms. She knelt down beside him
again, and the baby, at sight of this
strange plaything on the ﬂoor, thrust
out its little arms, and kicked its
tiny moccasined feet, and cooed and
laughed and squirmed until Miki
strained at his thongs to get a little
nearer with his nose. 'He forgot his
pain. He no longer sensed the
agony of his bruised and beaten
jaws. He did not feel the numbness
of his tightly bound and frozen legs.
Every instinct in him was centered ‘
in these two.

And the woman, now, was beau-
tiful. She understood; and the
gentle heart throbbed in her bosom,
forgetful of The Brute. Her eyes
glowedgwith the soft radince of
stars. ‘Into her pale cheek ame a
sweet ﬂush. She sat the baby d‘bwn,
and with the'cloth and warm water
continued to bathe Miki’s head. Le
Beau, had he been human, must have
worshipped her then as she knelt
there, all that was pure and beau—
tiful in motherhood, an angel of

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it comes and the frosty night air rings with
the melody. It is the voice of a grand opera
singer carried by mysterious messengers of
the other from Pittsburg‘ or Detroit, to those
remote Arctic regions. , The singer ﬁnishes; a
band elm-in up; The lonely explorers listen
rapturoust to a, wonderful concert. The
darkness slips away. The lights of the these
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and the messages of great orators. On the
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markets. Farmers have installed receiving
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which will receive messages from a consider-
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hear from any of its readers who have install-
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See-Saw

HE prices of farm products have passed
through several swiftly changing cycles
since the blow was struck which precipitated
the great war. They dropped, they went up,
they dropped agaimand now they are swing-
ing upward again, just like the teeter-totter

we used to ride when we were kids, Prices

of things the farmers buy followed about the
same cycle, only they didn’t go down so far
and stayed up longer. Deflation wouldn’t be
such a painful process if it were universal and
uniform in its scope. ’ But it isn’t. It takes
a fall out of one man and leaves another un-
scathed. It knocks the bottom out of some
prices and leave others suspended high in the
air. And the fellows Who are hit, as the farm-
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power gone.and the prices of their wants no
lower.

For some seven or eight months now the
farmers haVe been passing. through a most un-
pleasant deflation process. The prices of
crops produced at the highest cost in the
history of the present generation dropped
ﬁfty and sixty per cent. That wouldn’t haVe
been so bad but the prices of other things
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last sixty days that they have shown any in-
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are dropping and as they fall, prices of farm
products are starting up again. Nearly every
manufacturer of farm machinery and imple-
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cuts aﬁecting his entire line. HeLry Ford
and the International Harvester Company are
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' statement by a politician about the disin-
terested benevolence *of-t‘hi's attitude on the
'soldiersi-rbonnsgwould

     

 

- utter.

" anything from their -war experiencesi If

AFA'I‘ bank account is a nice thing but it

7 Farmers were slow

' by discharging

     

himself or'n'ot. "‘ "'" i’ ' Here is a thought 
Sexism-Tapper:  ' p» s '
a ﬂame"? gmifnﬁhhwimms a?
am out??? garichMm Tgonngtww
army " n m
for meet and win.noptqcone:t to more "5
taken. Nobody would educate. e bonus to
emueommeneement anyboom hiatu-
the hemightheveenmedithehunotbeen
settle: munsz * ,
Rot! The service men have become accus-
tomed to having salt rubbed into their
wounds. This little dash of Pepper will make
them smart anew. Does any reactionary pol-
itician from Pennsylvania or anybody else
really‘believe that the service men ‘ gained

three million of the nation ’s ﬁnest men. re-
ceived a beneﬁt, from the last war let’s have
a war every year. If one 'war will give them
a modicum of energy and courage and know- ,
[edge a flock of wars should make veritable ' o»
Samsons and Solomons out of "am.

What did our boys bring home from that
wari‘ Here’s the list Look it over, Mr
Pepper: Rotted lungs, diseased organs, gun- -
shot wounds, sightless . eyes, broken morals,
shattered ideals, wrecked careers, discontent,
restlessness, instability, and a brain horribly
distorted by the terrible ordeals through
which they passed. Experience! Aye! But
an experience that ﬁts a man for death and
not for life.

They should sentence Mr. Pepper to be shot
at sunrise. The experience will do him good.

 

The Farm Bureau Economizes

usually encourages extravagance. Thai

is the main objection to bond issues and large
cash resources. Nearly every new corporation
or institution which starts out with a good-
sized bank roll spends money lavishly and un-
wisely, and in no time an over-head is created
which sooner or later becomes top-heavy and
threatens to crush the institution.

The Farm Bureau was no exception to this
rule. Its money came easily; it went easily.
During the ﬁrst year jobs were created " under
the impressi0n that they were useful. Ex-
perience soon showed they _were useless.
Fancy salaries were paid all out of proportion
to the service rendered. Investments were
made which should not have been made and
economy was an unthought of thing. But the
Farm Bureau learned its lesson. ,
_ At the beginning of 1921 the» Bureau was
$80000 in debt. The overhead expenses were
$18,000 per month. Money was scarce.
in paying their dues.
Something had to be done. So the Bureau -
cleaned house as even Henry Ford found V it ‘
necessary to do at about the same time
$17,300 were cut off from the yearly payroll
unnecessary employee and ' ;
merging departments. Additional economics \3
were effected until the overhead was reduced ‘
from $18,000 to $6,334 per month, and Audit
or J. Lee 'Morford reported to the annual
meeting that a net deﬁcit of $15215 had been
changed to a net worth of $111,545 in the
single year of 1920. The State Farm Bureau
has been put upon a thorough business basis
and no member can longer charge that it is
wasting the farmers’ money.

 

 

Isn’t it about time for you weather prophets
to get you} alibis ready?

 

When asked about his defense of Newberryism.
Sen. Townsend is understood to have replied:
"This is beautiful February weather you are hav-
ing, isn’t It?" - . ' .

 

A bill appropriating $25,000 for the develop-
ment of nun culture has been introduced in con»
gross. Competition for some'ot our'congreeemen.
eh? - . . . ‘ . ‘

        
 

 

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kicked up so. much dust the . 91-day 'yh
drove over tosLansinr he» co ‘_ f , 7
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-- OME little“ :time ago,

’them.

 *' IN'ilAD AG'IN ‘ v
or there
abouts, I wrote an article on the
unfaithfulneSs of men. The

I ‘ cause for it, or the prevailin' cause,

as I saw it, an’ thereby I got in
d‘eeper’n a pig in a mud puddle an'
many of my friends of the she sex
took exception to what‘I said an’ I
have been receivin' letters ever
since. There has been letters from
"An observer,” from "Mother of
ef'ght,”“‘8ubscriber," an’ from sev’ral
more. Interestin' letters they 'are/
an’ I feel that they realy come from
the hearts of the ones that wrote
Real heart throbs so to
speak, an’, while I am not denyiri'
the truth of what they say, still an’
all not one of the writers of the let-
ters attempt to deny the truth of
what I said in the article I wrote on
the subject.

0n the other hand the
kinda seek to justify themselves an'
other women for doin’ the things I
mentioned. The thing that causes
more men to be unfaithful than any
other thing I know of except the
pure an’ unadulterated cussedness of
the men themselves.

Women, with true love in, their
hearts, can not live without bein'
loved, petted an' made much of. Men.
with the same kind of love.in their
hearts require the same treatment.
Without this, life is dull an‘ sooner
or later either the one or the other
ﬁnds consolation in the love of
another an’ so there the old love
story ends an’ a new an’ unholy
story begins. A story not always of
love—in the new story passion quite
often plays the most important part
and passion—the baser passion, is
as far removed from true love as
Wm. Jennin's Bryan is removed
from the presidency.

An observer says “men too get
tired of the honey business an’ re—
fuse to .take the wife to church an’
such"—“are very negl'ectful of their
duties in the home" an’ speaks as
though she might have gathered in a
useless commodity when she tied up.
to the man—if she did—all of which
is only too true—she did not say the
man had been unfaithful—I do not
say so, but I do say that by neglect
an’ carelessness, an’ unthoughful-
ness, men lose the love of good true
wives an' very often, lose the wife
also. Every man should remember
this—if a good wife is Worth any-

thing she is worth everything! An' ~

this also can be said of the husband
—-—if he is not worth everything he
isn't worth anything.

“Sincere Subscriber" takes the we-
man's side of the question—in other
words she gives several good rea»
sons why women go wrong—why
they are‘unfaithful an' chief among
the reasons given by her is the one
just mentioned an’ that other an'
most pernicious one-—-too tight a
hitch in 'the strings on the pocket
book! Lack of love, and money
doled 'out grudgingly—like as if
the man was payin’ an' 01' debt an’
hated to do it, has driven many a
good woman to go to the bad, an’,
God help them! Who among us can
say they are to blame? An’ yet I-
say again that the same thing drives
men—not exactly the same—but the
lack of love—drives them where love
awaits them. Yes “Sincere Subscrib—
er," it sure takes a heap of lovin' to
make a home a home an’ some time
it takes so little to make the hap-
piest home a hell! ,

An’ to “Mother of eight," I jest
want to say this—you have not de-
scribed to me the average man at all

7 -——-in fact the things you have‘ de-

scribed is not a man, if what you say
is true, for only an animal—4 bein’
without sense. a thing to be-despised
——could  so enslave any woman—
’specially the mother of his children.
Iamsorryifinmywritin’lhave
not come‘up to your expectations—
I’ll freely admit that I am only jest
a man, with all the love, passion,

‘ respect for womanhood an’ mother-

hood, .law abidin’, .home-lo'vin’, ar-

 gumentative,j,contrary, dull an' stu—
 toadicies of-the‘ordinary man—- ,

9"?”

writers '

    

W

he died: im-the Kalamazoo State Hos-
pital “although I’ll freely admit he
should have been shot. '
However, dear “Mother of eight,"
your letter only proves my former

statements—that a woman, if she

sees fit an’ tries, can hold a man
against the world, but don’t you ever
think for a minute that I claim that
all men are worth the eii‘ort it takes
to hold them. Why half of ’em ain’t
worth their salt an’, by the same
token, the other half could be con-
siderably improved.

Which leads me to remark that
love alone . is supreme—passion
alone, never has and never will hold
a man or woman. Mutual love with
all that love implies—that’s my hob-
by an' with that in the home there
will be no unfaithful men an' no un-
faithful women. Cordially yours. —
UNCLE RUBE.

FABMER GIVES FEDERAL RE-
SERVE A “CALLING”

‘ MOS WELCH, a. prominent farm-

er of lonia county, has written

a comprehensive discussion of

the federal reserve system as it af-

fects the Michigan farmer and also

discusses in his article the results
of high freight rates, discrimination

 the, . , . .

goth-fer phasesof the production, mar--'
keting and ﬁnancing features of the '
Charges ’

  

     
  
  
  
  

agriculturist’s business.
were made at the American Farm
Bureau Federation convention at At-
lanta to the effect that congress had
surrendered to the Federal Reserve
banks the right to inﬂate and de-
ﬂate currency at will, and that the
power is being used to enrich the
big bankers at the expense of the
farmer and the general public.
These charges led to the introduc-
ing, by George Mansﬁeld, of Oregon,
of the following‘resolution, consid-
ered to be one of the most import-
ant adopted by the delegation.

“We ask the appointment of I. commit-
tee to carefully prepare and present to
congress as the views of our membership
a bill which will so amend existing laws
as to secure to every American citizen
au’admuate and proper system of ﬁ-
nancing which shall be truly national in
its character, safe, sound and administ-
ered under the direction of an independ-
ent and representative board of directors
representing every phase of our national
life, so that congress shall not only coin
money sand regulate the value thereof,
but will carry out the true spirit of the
constitution in regulating the expansion
and reduction of credit. not with a view
of private gain but in such a way as to
protect the interests of all our citizens
an: secure and promote the public wel-

e‘n .

Mr. -Welch's article which follows
was written in reply to a question—
naire with Which was a bulletin on
“business conditions" sent out by
Frank B. Hinton of the Federal Re-

  

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serve bank at" ; icago, asking
person to xwh *  _- the'questi'
was sent would likejtoihave .
bulletins sent to him. Mr. W 
answer is characteristic of 

takes opportunity to tell Mr. Won
a few things which arelwrong 
the ﬁnancing system of the nation
and at the same time adds some
constructive criticism which appears
to be of vital interest to the farmers
and others of Ionia' county.

Mr. Welch's letter follows:

“I received your card and letter of
December 2, and will say that I am
much interested in your report of- A .,,
ness conditions’ and would like to; 13%
it continued. 

“I am very much interested In 
ture, especially stock raising, feeding aw
stock shipping, having stock from ‘ ‘
states of Montana, Idaho and W‘
to Chicago and to our ranch hol , In
northern Michigan by the thousands and
to our farms in Ionia county where 1‘
have always carried on a feeding propo-
sition. But the raising of frei ht 
an'! n‘hmr changes have entir y
nated us from the business, let our
ranches lie practically idle and our ams-'
empty,

The price of sheep today would scar-
cely pay the freight from the’west to our
northern ranches where are located some 
of the ﬁnest' stock propositions in this ]
country. The freight rate from .v
to Ionia county for 25 years was 13 csnts '
per hundred pounds, now it is 31 1-!
cents. The rate from Ionia, Michigan to-
Taft. Iosco county, '
for a double deck of sheep, later tamed
to $33 and at the present time $70.25 
car and no service. ' "

“We never used to hear of such a thing! '*
as unloading and feeding between Ionia
and Chicago or between our northern

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HE Titan is not a stripped tractor, pared
down to make a price, but complete with all
essential equipment—friction clutch pul-
ley, fenders, platform, throttle governor,
adjustable drawbar, angle lugs, brakes.
.This equipment, worth more than $1 00 and
necessary on any tractor to make it serviceable

and safe, is included in the new $700 price.

CHICAGO I

h in Titan Price

, .. Now $700
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Harvester Company’s
Exceptional Offer
Effective Feb. 3, to May 1, 1922

The Harvester Company
makes this special offer to
apply on all new lntemational
8-l6 and Titan 10-20 tractors
purchased by its dealers on
I922 account:
purchasing one of these Titan
tractors, for delivery on or
before May I next, will be
given by the Company abso-
lutely free, f. o. b. Chicago,
a 3-furrow P &O plow. On the
same terms, each farmer who
purchases an lnternational
8-l6 will be given a 2-furrow
P 8: O plow.

     
     
     
      
      
    
    
      

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reserve power.

I $230 Cut in International 8-16

The International 8-l6 tractor now sells for $670, f. o. b. Chicago.
. act of an International 8 --l 6 covered by the Special Offer will be
given a P 6: O Llarrow plow ﬂee. If the purchaser of either tractor now
owns a suitable ‘plow we will Substitute a tractor disk barrow.
Greatest farm power values ever offered. Neither horses
nor any other tractor can equal them: '

' 3-.INTERNA'I'IONAL HARVESTER COMPANY

OF AMERICA

The Titan is a real 3-plow tractor and has
belt power in proportion. It has enormous

labor cost on every ﬁeld operation—a big item
in farm operating expense. Titan is famous for
long life. It has proved in eight years of use
that it outlast: two or three small inferior trac- ‘
tors. Docs best work on cheap kerosene. Low
repair and upkeep expense. Always on the job.

    
 

  

 
   
    

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7 , ffr‘he  _, i
, Unable-with the heart'eyes or

from
teeth? _ ~

It you have pains in your knees,
ﬁlong the siatic nerve, even a tired
f‘fee‘ling in the pit of your stomach

  

‘ - of an innocent looking m'olar may be

at the “real root" of the trouble.

 ,I . The fifth nerve which supplies our
' teeth with sensation is a fearful and
wonderful thing, it stands like a
policeman, club in hand, and gives
warning telling us in plain language
(a pain some where)‘ that something
has gone wrong. This fifth nerve

-»gives sensation to all the motor

: nerves of the head and it tells you
then things db not taste good, it

r . tells you when you find something
‘l-jrg'ritty in your food to spit it out

for it might scratch the enamel of
your teeth. There are times when

one would give a good deal to take

*it's own club and give it a tempor-

ary sleeping potion and that is what

 the dentist does for us occasionally
but it would not be safe to do so for
long.

The health of the whole body and

certainly it’s efﬁciency depends upon .

a good clean mouth, with a full
equipment of grinding surfaces. Do
you know that\we bite with seventy
pounds pressure? It gives one a
wholesome respect for one‘s own
jaws. No wonder the bible gives us
many injunctions as to what should
come out of the mouth, as well as
some as to what should go in.

There has been a theory that ex-
pectant mothers should not have
Work done upon the teeth, more
harm is done by neglect at such a
time than possibly could be by any
ordinary dental work. At such a
time every woman's right and duty
is to be as comfortable and free from
any disturbing pain or annoyance as
possible. Let me repeat any ordin-
ary work can be done with entire
safety. I spent one year studying
‘mechanical dentistry with much
practical experience with men high
up in the profession and that is the
consensus of opinion. I will be glad
to answer any questions sent to me
along this line. If you ask me some-
thing that I camnot answer I will
make no guesses but will go to head-
quarters for information and give it
to you.

In the meantime take the advice
of one who knows and see that the
wash—stands are well supplied with
tooth—brushes, tooth—soaps or powd-
ers and a good. antiseptic mouth-
wash.

Also let us not forget our good
.triend Dental Floss; in the course
of his wanderings he digs up many
an unsuspected lodger which in time
would decay and be all ready to
start a big hole in some white ivory
only to be made whole by our other
friend in need, the dentist.

FROM THE HEART
HAVE been interested in the ar~
ticles 'of unfaithful husbands and
as a woman who has had the ex-

; S ‘  perience I would like to say for both

~unfaithful women and men, it is a
thing that should be looked into. I
was married early in my teens to
please my parents before they died.
My husband, a man I could not learn
to love, because he did not believe
in God, Heaven or hell, he then do-
serted me, a mother of four children,
and one of them in a hospital. I was
wealthy. He went to the bank, drew
all my money except _sixty dollars
and went away. He, after weeks of
' time, came back and begged forgive—
ness and as a Christian I forgave
ﬁand started life again, when in a
short time he went again,
me with not even anything to call:
Relatives came, found us slowly
starving, my children and I, and
they took us to their homes where
I slowly got well again. I then
worked and sued for divorce.
came in count and accused me, an
honest Christian, of ' unfaithfulness
but Could not prove it. I worked
and saved, and kept my children and
never “got help from him four long
years, then they granted me my di-
vorce. 'I 'felt that I had been
wronged'by man alone. I met many
who seam d to love and honor but

  

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hich. the. ﬂesh is heir, ‘may arise,‘
infected gums and decaying I

alone unsuspected abscess at the root.

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I met a man and worked for him
one year. ’ I found faith in him and
love him now dearly as I’ve been
his ,wife for some months now, but
dear readers, I am not even now in
a happy home, I

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ed down. They walk away disgust-

ed when I tell them how many Lib-'
arty Bonds I have got, with money

to get a “Henry” this spring.

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am a step-moth-
er and maybe
some of you
know what it is
when the child is
15 years old.
Let me tell
you that . some
women are do-
ing wrong too.
If he is unfaith-
ful, don't turn to
another w hile

ﬂutter,

The breath _ of

.. ST. VALENTINE‘S DAY

Apollo has peeked thrn the shutter
And awakenfd the witty and fair;
The boarding-school belle’s in‘ a

The two penny post’s  despair. ‘

the morning is

ﬂinging
A magic on blossom, on spray,
And coclmeys and

sparrows are

In chorus on Valentine’s Day.

—Pearl

 

 

singing
or you are just
as bad as he.
The bible must
be our teacher
in all things.

Never marry the second after the
first is proved unfaithful. I would
give werld’s to be happy but will
never be.—A Friend.

THE FARM DOES PAY

AM a constant reader of your ex-

cellent paper and I enjoy read-

ing the Farm Home department.
I would like to write a few lines
about an article that was in your
paper Dec. 17th issue, signed Z. B.
M.. Ohio. I think she is a girl above
the average city girl, who would not
think of even washing the dishes,
for fear her pretty hands might get
soiled. There is not a single farmer
in our fair state who can wear a
white collar, and make his farm pay.
They would still be on their “forty”
as Miss Z. B. M. said.

I have stayed on the old farm
with dad while the other boys have
gone to the city to make their pile.
Now they are boarding on. pa until
times are better. I asked them how
many thousands they have got salt-

___‘_AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING—-———

 

As
22 years old and
stand six foot

from the ground.
I would like to
meet areal girl'
like Miss Z. B.
M. some time.—

0

But to be fair I.
H. I will have to.
add a post-script
of my own to your
letter and say that
I know a hundred
city girls righ, t
around me who
hesitate at no work
that is honest. and
will wash, iron,
cook and make
garden. also make
pretty clothes ,for
themselves. Th

11 and coming

. be p
or they would be left entirely out of the

procession.

CORRESPONDENT‘S 0014M

Mrs. Leona

Rosenb‘erger, R. a,
Box 6, Alto, Mich.,

would very much

like to have the pattern for the baby

moccasins.

Mathenton, Mich.,

She will ﬁnd a letter“
from Mrs. S. A. Thuma,

Box 31.
in this issue.

Mrs. R. W. and Mr. C. J.———The
goitre cure was nothing more or less
than the use of fresh grape-fruit. A
bit rubbed on externally every day
and a part of the pulp eaten four

times a day.

In several cases it

has seem-ed to effect a cure, so our
correspondent informed us.

Can any reader send us the poem
entitled “The Skeptic’s Daughter?”

Mrs. F. E.-——I will give several
cake recipes in the next issue.

Table oil cloth
enough for ﬂoors,
well.

For Simplicity, Service and Style
CATALOGUE Nona]:
Send 15c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING and

SUMMER 1922 CATALOGUE,
designs of Ladles', ‘Misscs'

showing color plates and
and Children’s Patterns,

is not heavy,
it will not wear

 

containing 500

a CONCISE AND

COMPREHENSIVE ARTICLE 0N DBESSMAKING, ALSO SOME POINTS '
FOR THE NEEDLE (Illustrating 80 of the various, simple stitches) all

valuable hints to the home dressmakor.

All patterns

120.

Send pattern

and catalogue orders to Mrs. Jenney, care of Pattern Dept.._

A Popular One Piece
Dress
3895. Here is a
splendid style for re-
modeling or for com-
bining two materials.
-The lines are
and youthful, and
new style features are
seen in collar and
sleeve. Sabin or taf-
feta would be “attrac-
tive for this design
with soutsche braid or
embroidery for trim-
ming. It would also be
nice in black ‘velvet
with braiding, or in
taupe moire with a
touch of coral.
is cut
18 and

T pattern
in 3 sizes: 16,
20 years. A 16 year
size requires 4 1-4
yards of 36 inch ma-
terial. The width of
the skirt at the foot
' is about 2 yards

 

A Simple Serviceable

. pron
3896. This apron
‘has a very practical
pocket. It is a one
iece model, with
e back shaped to
form belt extensions
that hold the fulness
of the front in place.
Dotted per-sale is
here shown, with
ck rack braid for

trimming.
The pattern is cut
4 _ sizes:

 um size will require
3 3-4 yards of 38.
inch material.

 
 
 
   

An Up-to—Date and

Simple Frock

3870. This distinct-
ly youthful frock
has the latest fash-
ion “wrinkles.” The
new sleeve and col-
late. A choice of
high neck or girlish
round neck for which
the collars are 'pro-
vided_ Duvetyn with
matched flat braid
is here shown. One

may have velvet, or»

taffeta, or serge
with braiding. For
the round collar, em—
broidered b r o a d
cloth or suede, crepe
or organdy is attrac-
tive.

The pattern is cut
in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38,
40, 42 and 44 inches
bust measure. A 38
inch size requires 4
yards of 44 inch ma-
terial. The width of

the skirt at the foot F“

is about 2 yards   

A Stylish Wren

3890. Simple and
attractive and suit—
able for silk, velvet

' cloth or fur fabrics.

The pattern for

this design is cut in '

4 sizes!
86; medium,
large, 42-44:
large, 46—48 inches
bust measur- e. A
medium size will

small, 34-
38-40:

require 4 3-4 yards.

of 44 inch
The collar
worn ' high
as shown
small view.

material.
may 'r be
or rolled

extra ‘

in the

   

 
 
    
  
 
 
  
      
  
   
   
  

 

 
 
  
 
     
  
 
 
  

 
   
 
 

  
 
  
   
 
   
 
  

  
  
  
 
    
  
  
 
   

  
  
  
 
     
    

 

 
 

   
    
  

 

 
 

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as
sets of pattern‘foii-éloth? There a
a. large center-piece, and a number of
doilies. You can choose. one (with
decorations that harmonize with
your dining-room color scheme. A
set will save you much laundry
work and they are “quite‘ the
thing." I will be glad to quote you
prices and also purchase them for
you if you wish.

. Little napkins made of all linen, -

barred glass towling

will save our
ﬁne linen. One yard y

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To m (igloo Cake
eonewowantedcoﬂeecak
Dutch_cake, this is ﬁne: 0 a
Two cups of light bread 1—4
to 1-2 cupful of sugar 2 to 4 tablespoons
of softened butter, 1 or 2 eggs and 1-3
poon cinnamon; beat all ' either
very thoroughly and flour enough is
added gradually to make a dough that
can Just be handled with a spoon. Should
be well beaten after every addition of
flour so that a smooth dough is formed.
This may be spread in two shallow but-
tered tins and allowed to rise until
double in height. The top should then
be brushed with melted butter or egg
and milk beaten together.‘ The cakel
are then sprinkl'e‘d liberally with a mix.-
ture of 1-: cup of flour, 1-2 cup sugar.
1-2 teaspoon .of cinnamon. blended with
2 tablespoons of melted butter, rub these
ingredients together with the hands so
that a meal or crumb-like mixture is
formed. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in mod-
erately hot oven, Does anyone know
good way to clean nickel on a stove:
——-Mrs. Glenn Polt. Clare, R. 6,

Another Coffee Cake

In the January 21, 1922 issue, Mrs.
K. B. ask for a recipe to make coffee
cake from bread dough. The following
recipe is one my mother has used for
years: Take bread dough when ready to
put into loaves, add 1 tablespoon lard,
1-2 cup granulated sugar, pinch of soda
dissolved in a little hot water, mix in
bread dough, add enough flour to take
up the added moisture and let this rise.
Then roll and put in tins and let rise
again, cover the top with sweet cream
sprinkle with cinnamon and brOWn on"
white sugar. Bake until a nice brown.
Bread dough the size of an ordinary loaf
of bread will make three or four round
coﬂee cakeSr—Mrs. A

Mich.

Surely, Come Again!

As I am a most interested reader of
this valuable paper and especially the
Home Department. I would like to help a
little if I may. Am sending a recipe for
Dutch cake or coffee cake as per' request-

K ed in paper Jan. let.

Take a pint of bread sponge, one o
two tablespoons shortening, same ggf
mix well together in a hard loaf.
Let raise then put in tin and raise again
then bake. Just before putting in the
oven with the bowl of a tablespoon, make
little holes in the top and put in the fol-
lowing: 1-3 cup brown sugar, 1-2 tea-
spoon cinnamon moistened with a little
3:111; cream_ This is lovely eaten with
so.

Carley Peters‘br Drop Cakes

One heaping cup brown sugar, 1 egg.
8 tablespoons molasses. 1-2 cup shorten-
ing, 2—3 cup sour milk, 1 rounding tea-
spoon soda, 1-2 teasnoon each of cinna» -
mon, salt. cloves and nutmeg, 1 cup
raisins or may use part
desired. Stir stiff enough
drop by, half spoonfuls on buttered tins.
Bake in moderate oven.

May I come again ?—Mrs, F. L., Vas-
sar, Mich
Decorating; (lake

I would like to ask some helps of the
sisters. I saw in the paper about decor-
ating the top of a cake with powdered
sugar through’ a. paper doily. Now
didn't understand. Do you frost your
cake ﬁrst or put the sugar on the cake?
W'ill the lady please write again and ex-
plain the method more plainly. I Would
like a recipe for a cake to be made either
layers or loaf, made with brown sugar,
no molasses: something nice to use with >
camel and using the yolks of eggs as
one hardly knows what to do with them
when making white cake. I would like
a recipe for chilli con came. Has any-
one had any experience using table oil-
floor and varnishing in place

of linoleum? Will smocks be much worn
. E.

. this summer ?—-Mrs. F

Sends Patterns

In regard to the letters of Mrs. Alex
Smith, Le Roy, Mich., and‘Mrs, Katie
Lilly, Shepherd, will reply for the benefit
of others Who have hesitated sending
for the baby moccasin pattern because

.of only the initials being affixed to the

letter. Am sending the pattern to the
show; ladies, but have already received
several, one coming from Tennessee with
only the address or initials. ‘

I am very thankful for all the ‘helps
I receive, and am also glad to be of any
help to others. As my time is nearly
always employed, being the mother of 8 ,
sons and 4 daughters, I appreciate the
many helps the ~M. B. F. contains. Will
close with my; recipe for pork“ cake:.

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namemnnrc-EN; I do not'feel
’like. writing. this week. It is
 because”: one who is near and
dear to”, hie-is very ill and I cannot

concentrate my thoughts upon my,

work; And if I do not write a long.

letter there will be more space for'

your letters, and there are some ex-
tremely interesting ones. What do
you think of the poem Ruby Slack
sends in? She does not say whether
she is the author ’of it but I believe
she is. . ~
I received a very pretty valentine
this morning from Edna McIntyre,
Kawkawlin. She also wrote me a
letter which will appear next week.
Next,’week- contains the birthday
of George Washington, the ﬁrst man
ever elected to the presidency of the
United States, doesn’t it. How many
of you know (without looking in
your history) what year he was
elected—UNCLE NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Dear Uncle Ned—Having read the merry
letters from the rest of the boys and
girls I ask! leave to add my name to the
rest. We like the M. B. F. just ﬁne My
mother takes your  I am enclosing
a poem. ' -
I 'am a little farmerettc.
Just sixteen years of age,
I like the Business Farmer ﬁne;
Especially the children's page.

We have an eighty-acre farm.
Some stock and chickens too.

I always read the M. B. F.
When my Dad gets through.

Talk about your favorites.
I vote for Uncle Ned,
d I am sure you will agree:
In your favor he has led.

‘When you want a real paper,
No use to hesitate
Write down the Business Farmer-
Opportunity is at your gate.
——Ruby Slack, R1, Ellsworth. Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned—I would like to join
your merry circle. I am 10 years old.
My birthday is the 31st of January. Am
in the fourth grade at school. I live on
a' 126-acre farm. have a saving ac-
count now in the bank of 31 dollars. My
father started it by giving me one dollar
every birthday and then I caved my pen-
nies and earned some by helping on the
farm. picking up potatoes, and apples.
driving the horse 0n the hay fork, and
picking berries. And during the war 1
saved my pennies to buy thrift stamps
so I also have ten dollars in war savings

stamps. I have 3 pets: a hen, dog and
a cat. My dog can sit up and shake
hands. I can hitch him up and he will

draw my wagon and sled. Good by to all.
EPguline Kingsbury, R. 4, Imlay City,
10 . '

Dear Uncle Ned—My father takes the
M. B. F. and I read every page in it—
even to admertisements when I have
nothing else to do or have no ‘other read-
ing. My father is away to camp now and
my mother and I do all the chores. I
am fourteen years old July 20. Have I
a twin? I go to school every day and I
aminththhgrade. Iamgoingto
Harrisville high school next year, provid-

ing I get my credits. I live on an 60-

acre farm. We have 5 horses, 6 milch

cows and 8 pigs. My brothers-are away
with my father now. We have a Ford
ﬁr and a power washing machine. It
saves my mother a lot of hard labor. My
mother raises geese and chickens. When

I was 11 years old I went with my aunt

to her home at Marine City. While I

was there I_went to Mt. Clemens, St.

Marys, St. Claire, Port Huron and Detroit.

I had a' good time ,whiie I was there.

When I was coming back I was sick on

the'hoat. It was so stormy they did not

stop at Oscoda and I went to Mackinac in
care of a nice lady named Mrs. Wells.

A man bought .me a nice dolly while I

was there. I got 01! the boat at Alpena
. and a garage man named Mr. La Grosse

brought me home. We have a nice road
our farm and hundreds of touring
cars go by. I have driven our car quite

a bit but I would not trust myself alone

with it. What is the diﬂerence betwoen

a piano. bank and beehive? When are
the Doc Dads coming back.  are
very merry little fellows. Well on I

go to Mt. Clemens again I come to
’ visit you. Then I will describe you to my
cousins. M little sisters imagine you an
old baldh ed man with long white whis-
kers. Hal-Hal Love to you and all the
cousinsu—Ines Goddard, ‘Mikado, Box 94.
Mich. _ _
‘ ‘ﬁ——-

Hello Uncle Ned—How, are you and
all the rest of this mg merry circle?
I Just discovered this , c In. the M, B.
F. and havofallen in love with it already.
Have I a twin sister or brother: My
birthday comes on,the 32nd of December.
lemnowflﬂteenyearsofage. Canw.
, write more than one letter after‘this one.
I mean can we keep writing them?
‘ we can bectguse lots of times

  

  

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disgusted with my name. 'I can’t» help
it because I, was given that name. It
really isn’t so hard to pronounce (it you
know how.) ‘But almost everyone calls me
-"Cetea" so I wish you would call me that
 I’m no". sure whether it’s all right
to write letters in pencil to Uncle Ned
but my fountain pen is dry and I know

Uncle Ned doesn’t like green ink so I _

won't write with ink at all. I forgot to
tell you that I live on a farm which con-
tains forty acres. four cats, one dog, two

cows. two horses, and about a hundred

chickens.
one of the members. With love to all of
the folks, I remains—Miss Halcetea Cur-
rier, Algonac.

 

’ Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins—My
father takes the M, B. F. and I am very
interested in the Chidren's Bout. It
makes me laugh every time when I read
that a child has a cat for a pet. It makes
me think of the time when I was 4 or
6 years old. My mother never wanted
me to pay with cats but one day I
played with cats and she caught me at it,
and she said to me: "Aren’t you afraid
of getting cat hairs in your stomach ?"
I said: “Oh, mamma, I don’t put the cats
I hold them in my
arms." Nowdays I have different pets.
They are not only pets but moneymak-
ers. I have canary birds. Last year
I raised 9’ singers and 4 females. I sell
the singers for $4.00 before they are 4
months old and after that I get $5.00.
so you can see there is money in them.
And you ought to hear them sing when
the music starts. I live on an 80-acre
farm. I don't have far to go to school.
There is just the garden between the
school and our house. »I wish some of
my cousins would write to me. I will
answer all letters that I receive—Clara
Eichinger, R. 2, Box 18, Standish. Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—This is the “Triplets”
writing. We “Triplets” are three girls
who go to the same school and are all
about the same age. Now cousins, we
want you all to guess our ﬁrst names
and write to us. We will answer each
letter received. Our ﬁrst initials, last
names and addresses are: E, Strieter,
ﬂichSmith and A. Conlin, Bay City, RA,

 

Dear Uncle Ned—We received the M.
B.'F. today. I was reading the Children’s
Hour and enjoyed it very much, It made
me think I would like to write a letter.
I have three sisters. We all go to school
except my sister Opal who has very poor
health. We have little over a mile to go
to school_ We scholars have lots of fun
sliding down hill. We have been,_having
some pretty cold weather. I am a girl
nine years. old and in the fourth grade.
I live on a 120-acre farm. We have 10
milch cows. 8 head of young cattle, 2
horses, 24 hogs, about 75 hens, 5 turkeys
and four geese. For a pet we have a dog.
He is a good dog. He gets the cows alone.
Uncle Ned, did you ever play checkers?
We generally spend the evening in play-
ing checkers, We think it is lots of fun.
I am ever your friend—Marian Dick,
R. 2, Muir, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—May I Join Your
merry circle? My father takes the M.
B, F. and I always read the children's
page. I am a girl 13 years old and am
in the seventh grade at school. My
birthday is the 18th of January. Have
I a twin? '1 live on a 100 acre farm, We
have three horses, two pigs. four cows
and six young (Settle. For pets I have

cats and one dog. We live three
miles from town. We live near the Mus-
kegon river, We have a cottage there
where we go to ﬁsh in the summer. There
are 18 ﬁpils in our school. We are go—
ing vs a valentine party this year.
We are having nice weather here, Yes-
terday it rained and then it froze so I
have been sliding on the ice. I wish some
of the cousins would write to me as I
will answer all the letters. I will close
with lots of love to Uncle Ned.—Hazel
Compton, R, 2, Big Rapids, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am a boy 10 years
old and. would like to join your merry
circle, .My mother takes the M. B. F.
and likes it very well. My birthday is
the 15th of this month. I will be 11 years
old. I live on the shore of Lake Michi-
so jigs Meal;th on now. I see 40 or

rmen ere every day. They

get 40 or 50 pounds of fish every day.
have inst learned to skate. I think it
is lots of fun. I am in the sixth grade
t school. I like to go to school. I have
petgtwocats,adog,acoltanda
calf. Tell some of- the other boys and
girlstowritetome. HaveIatwin.
go sliding down hill quite often-‘—
ﬁcrgld Cole, Box 883, Cross Village.

 

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Memphis: June Mawdsley, May-ville:
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dgrslcription. H. S. Brown. Wilming-

Every few days we received from
Wisconsin, Iowa or some other farm
land boom state where the real es-
tate men who lived off the fat of the
land are now starving to death, an
advertisement word-ed
like the above.

It is what we call a "blind ad”
and it is about as helpful to human-
ity as a “blind pig!"

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far away state who is really inter-
ested in a farm and wants to move
to Michigan, but actually it is from
a. real estate grafter who wants to
get $5 or; $10 from you for a prom-
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farm for sale in his “listing book"
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cular matter. In the meantime
watch for this class of “blind ad-
vertising” in a lot of so-called farm
and mail-order papers, country pa—
pers are also accepting this adver-
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alize what the real “game” is.

There is one way to get real buy-
ers for your farm if it is for sale
and that is to advertise it in a good
state farm paper which you know
reaches the kind of farmers who
would be possible buyers. The cost
of this advertising is very small in-
deed in comparison with the possi-
ble commission of 3 to 10 per cent
which a real estate agent would
probably charge you.

STARTING THE CALVES RIGHT -
By 0. ii}. Reed, Professor of Dairy Hus-
bandry, l\I, A, 0,

(Continued from last week)

T the time the calf is changed
from whole milk to skim milk it
will begin to eat grain. The best

way to get the calf started eating
grain is by placing a little grain in its
mouth after it has consumed its
milk. It will like the taste of grain,
and will soon out without assistance
if the grain is placed within its
reach. A great many feeders prac-
tice the feeding of grain with the
milk. This is a serious mistake, es-
pecially if the grain consists of corn
or other starchy feed. Such feed as
corn must be acted upon by the sa—
liva of the mouth in order to insure
its proper digestion. When the
grain is fed with the milk the calf
simply gulps it dowu and does not
masticate it in the least. In such
cases indigestion often follows.
v’hen the calf begins to eat grain
readily, only such an amount should
be given it as will be cleared up at
each meal. Here again the appe-
tite of the calf is the best guide as
to the amount of grain to feed. Us-
ually the calf will not eat over a
half pound of grain per day for the
first two months. From this time
until it is six months old a pound of
grain per day will be sufﬁcient.

It has been shown that skim milk
is deﬁcient in fat, and in supplement-
ing it one must make good this de-
ficiency. Grains which contain a
high percentage of carbohydrates
may be substituted for the butter
fat. Corn contains a high per cent
of this substance, and on account of
their low cost in the, corn belt they
are the logical grains to feed with
the skim milk. Linseed oil meal is
valuable for feeding on account of
the high content of protein. It does
not contain a very high per cent of
oil. Oil meal may be fed in connec-
tion with corn, but this is not entire-
ly necessary, and it is very expensive.
The corn has invariably given the
best results? as a supplement to skim
milk. When teaching thelcalf to eat
grain it is better to use corn chop.
When the calf gets a. little older
shelled corn may be fed.

Hay should be kept, before the call!
after_ it is two weeks old. At this
age the calf will begin to nibble at
the hay, and will soon consume quite
a little h of it. The eating of hay

  

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and will eat a great deal more of it
than of the mixed hays. If r alfalfa
can not be had at this time, good
clover or cow pea hay should be fed.
If the calf is on pasture it will not
be necessary to feed any hay.

Clean fresh water should be pro-
vided for the calf at alltimes. Many
feeders assume that the calf does
not need water on account of drink-
ing milk. It will consume a large
ampunrt of water on account of drink-
ing fifteen or twenty pounds of skim
milk per day.

After the calf is weaned from milk
the grain ration should be semewhat
changed. The obiect Informing a
grain ration for any growing anima‘
is to feed it bone—and muscle——
forming feeds. The grain ration at
this time will depend upon the kind
of roughage fed. If alfalfa hay is
used the calves will do well on a. ra—

tion of corn alone, or mixed corn’

and cats, or corn and bran. ' If
mixed or prairie hay, cane or corn
fodder is fed, the grain ration should
be changed somewhat. More nitro—
genous foods, such as bran, linseed-
oil meal and cotton-seed-oll meal
should make up the grain ration. If
the calves are stunted by lack of
proper food at this time they will
usually develop into undersized cows.
(To be continued)

FMMER GIVES FEDERAL RE-
SERVE A “CALLING”

(Continued from page 13)
ranch and Ionia. New it is seldom that
we get a shipment Without a charge for
unloading. loading and a feed bill at-
tached, holding the stock over 24 hours
and damaging them three 'times the
amount of the extra charges.

“Then talk about a ten per cent re-
duction in rates; which I see you men-
tion in your report as being a. great help
to the livestock interests. Taking ten
per cent from $70.25 leaves $62.87 to
pay for what we used to get for .822. and
then we got some ‘service.’ The air line
distance for the haul is only 164 miles.

“I recently saw a freight receipt for
hauling a m of wheat ﬁfty miles straight
line, of $98. Do you wonder that the
farmers,are going into bankruptcy and
are so discouraged that they are going
out of business?

“Now in regard to the Federal Reserve
Bank. When inaugurated it was not in-
tended as a money making institution, but
it was intended that it would make our
money system more elastic, so that the
crops of the country could be marketed
without being obliged to call on Wall S
which at that time had complete contro
of our money system,

“I see by your report of November
that in Iowa and Illinois landlords. are
making concessions to, the tenants be-
cause they have not been able to make
their expenses and are 10 their
rent to try and induce the tenants to
remain.

“The whole country. I think. is willing
to admit that the Federal Reserve sys—
tem of ﬁnance together with the Ameri-
can farmer feeding our own and the 'el-
lied armies. won the war. But when the
war was over the ‘moneyed interests}
with the help of the federal system.
turned their guns on the producing
classes and have forced them to sell
their products below the cost of pro-
duction. v

"At our state agricultural college last
year where 4,200 farmers were congre-
gated. a representative of your branch
ofﬁce at Detroit delivered an address
and in the course of his remarks said:
We are going to force you farmers to
put your products on the market to lower
the cost of living, because we are not
going to loan the farmer any more
money.’ . .

"Your representative surely knew what
he was talking about and you kept your
promise. You raised the rate of interest
so high that the banks could not afford
to handle any loans to the farmers and
the result has been that the farmers by
the thousands have been forced into
bankruptcy.

"I see by your report that you man-
tion the ' . Pler‘pOnt. Morgan ' Pool’ of
fifty million dollars that the great philan-
thropist was willing to come to the stock-
mans rescue and loan to them at ‘eight'
per cent interest when their ‘eecurity' ‘was
ample. He was alarmed about the
shortage of beef in this country and may-
be was afraid that the price of, his sirloin
steaks would be advanced. Before the
war he was glad t_o loan money at 4 1-4
to 5 per cent.

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GENESEE—«Our county is mostly
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mote better breeding. and thus make
better markets for stock of quality, Many
who have never owned pure—bred Hol-
steins are now starting herds, Very
spring-like today, A. R, Graham, Feb, 10,

WASHTENAW—Very little snow, not
very cold, Auction sales» in full swing,
Everything cheap, Wheat and rye not
coking good. Few farmers holding pota-
toes for better prices, but 75 per cent
sold—H, C, Ringle, Feb, 10,

ELIMETT —— Enjoying mild winter
weather at present. Ice cutting, log haul-
ing and woud cutting keeps the farmers
busy. Spring seems to be nearer and
everyone is anxious for it to come.
Grange and farmers clubs active along
social lines, Schools Well attended con-
sidering the deep snow and bad roads.—
Mrs, G. P, C. Feb, 10,

MIDLAND—Have had some snow, but
it is thawing today, The roads are in
pretty good condition, Farmers are
hauling wood and hay, Hay ballads
didn’t get around until the price had
dropped a gollgar on the ton. I.~

Haefka, Fe _ , .
SHIAWASSEE (S) —- Mild, thawing
Weather, The ground has frozen to a

depth of over 3 feet in local cemetery,
With so much frost in ground reed beds
will be badly rutted. Later wheat. rye
and clover may be damaged, but to date
no harm. Not many farm auctions,
Cannot dispose of notes of sales, Cutting
wood and hauling fertilizer, Not many
renting farms yet,-——V. G, W., Feb, 9,

SH'IAWASSEE (E)—’I‘ho past three
days of this week have been like spring,
Telephone line men report only from four
to six inches of frost in the ground There
has not been snow enough for sleighing
at any one time in this county this winter,
Prices on farm produce are slightly on
the advance lately but not enough to
create a panic among the farmers,—-D.
H, M,, Feb, 10_

EATON—Warm and pleasant Snow
nearly all gone and ground thawing out
fast, Farmers getting up summers wood,
drawing manure and getting ready for
spring work, February milk price 31,45
for 3,5 milk, Plenty of farms for rent and
no renters. At this time from what they
say farmers will not plant or seed the
usual acreage—C, F, L,, Feb, 10.

COMMISSION GOVERNMENT
(Continued from page 8)
ing or he must bid so high that the
Boardman Co. would get the con-
tract. The Boardman 00. gm the
contract.

Now the voters of Michigan can
dodge the issue, fool around three
or four years and let the other fel—
lows skin them.

Mr. W. P. Lovett says the legisla-
tors of 1923 will have to act on it,
then the’ counties will have to vote
on it so you see in: will be three or
four years that we will spend our
time, money and talent on some-
thing that will do us no good while
all the time the same old crew is
skinning us farmers to a frazzle.

The ﬁrst, best and only remedy is
for the farmers and working men in
Michigan to do just what the M. B.
F. told them just before our last
national election: “Vote your own
class into oiiice." Say! That was the
best thing I ever read in any paper
published in Michigan.

I believe that if a man starts in
life without capital or help and ever
gets very high ﬁnancially under Our
present system of government, he
gets it by skinning some other fel-
lows, and that is the kind at! men
the Associated Press tells us to vote
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opinion the M. B. F.’told
truth when it said taxes are not go-
ing to be less.
yen something else, and I suppose
you will go right up in the air. Our
taxes are none too high but the

Why? We voted for these improve-
ments when farm produce was the
highest in history. In 1918-19 I
never. heard any complaint of high
taxes but when the prices went ﬂat
then the' wail went up, “Taxes too
high!” The taxes are just what we
voted for, but if we voted some farm-
ers into omce it might help some,
for I notice that when we voted
$50,000,000 on our public highway
the ﬁrst money they spent was to
raise the state highway commission-
er's salary—J. J. Palmer, Grandﬂ
Traverse County, Mich.

We are slowly learning that men who
make a success of their own business
do not always or usually make a success
of the public business. Why this is so,
no one has yet taken the trouble to point
out. To have good government we must
have good men to run it. The form is
not so important if'the men who admin-
ister it are honest and capable. Funda-
mentally commission form of government
ought to be a better form than the more
complicated systems, all other things be—
ing equsL It gives greater opportunity
for efﬁciency, economy and the ﬁxing of
responsibility. So, too, it opens the door
.to dishonesty and the assumption of ar-
bitrary and harmful power. As a gen-
eral‘ rule commission form of gOVeTn-
input is to be preferred to other forms
provided the right kind of men can be
secured and that proper checks can be
placed upon them. But whether or not
commission government is the thing for
counties to embrace we are not yet pre-
pared to say—Editor.

NOMADS OF THE NORTH
(Continued from page 11)
mercy, radiant for a moment in her
forgetfulness of him. And Le Beau
did enter—and see her———so quietly
that for a. space she did not realize
his presence; and with him staring
down on her she continued 'to talk
and laugh and half sob, and the baby
kicked and prattled and ﬂung out
its little arms wildly in the joy of

these exciting moments.

Le Bean’s thick lips drew back in
an ugly leer, and he gave a savage
curse. Nanette ﬁinched‘as if struck
a blow.

“Get up, you fool!” he snarled.

She obeyed, shrinking back with
the baby in her arms. Miki saw the
change, and the greenish ﬁre re
turned into his eyes when he caught
sight of Le Beau. A deep and wol—
ﬂsh snarl rose in his throat.

Le Beau turned on Nanette. The
glow and the ﬂush had not quite
gone from her eyes and checks as
she stood with the baby hugged up
to her breast, and her big shining
braid had fallen over her shoulder,
glistening with a velvety ﬁre in the
light that came through the western
window. But Le Beau saw nothing
of this.

“If you make a poose (a house
kitten) of that dog—a thing like
you made of Minoo, the breed—bitch.
I will "

He did not ﬁnish, but his huge
hands were clinched, and there was
an ugly passion in his eyes, Nanette
needed no more than that. She
understood. She had received many
blows, but there was the memory
of one that never left her, night or
day. Some day, if she could ever
get to Post Fort. 0' God, and had
the courage, she wouldtell le Fac-
teur of that blow—how Jacques Le
Beau, her husband, struck it at the
nursing time, and her bosom was so
hurt that the baby of two years ago
had died. She would tell it, when
she knew she and» the baby would be
safe from the vengeance of othe
Brute. And only is Facteur the
Big Men at Post Fort 0' God a
hundred miles away—was powerful
enough to save her.

It was well that Le Beau did not
read this thought in her mind new.
With his warning he turned to Miki
and dragged him out of the cabin to
a, cage made of saplings in which
the winter before he had kept two
live feted. A small chain ten feet
in length he fastened around Miki’s
neck and tlFen to one of the sapling
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PI|JIREc fIInEIDoLa'EE 8E n s ?uht€:_d1;rigm:r1i5.00 l. e. b. mt.Write Pedigreeew‘ o. JEWARS' Benign. Mloh- images in goth of algae classes. Raﬁ“ ﬁg In
0' “ b" “ ' MW . ‘ ﬂ pumse 0 those. 0 are dim y
warn: "- T “"33: l" c' "Tum m" p m SHORTHORNS change of that part of the exhibition 013‘
mime... Mlch_ Mimi‘s. ,‘ﬁg'  which ls devoted to meat-bearing anhnale. Th!
on the block. , mm" 5nd mi 1    SHORTHORN own-u; no. to ultimately provide for e carcass con- um
We make u specialty of eeJinthnd Chins.- end End by sag-13 Knmdyke De Nijlnnder. e 32  mo Jersey Hogs and Percheron test for II] winners in fat classes so that and
cm» Pohhd Chm”- Spomd P: .d_ We sell 7‘, 1.0,, o: . twice Michlznn ribbon wlnner .218! Home Quality at the ﬁght price. I sweepstakes prizes can be awarded and
Dam alum?“ 3"? ,gggey’mwﬁnir. avert 30¢ dim. 29 1.: lbs. 7131?“ m {dallclglgwrsnug Egg CHASLEN reams. Nonhvllle. Ileb. the competition can-led thru to the last Til?
'cm on '9 ‘ ht now or Sega. Ponme. . 3 . son 9 i— an-.lysis
be king dates r12 , g mu value. . - p
1922 p.12“ wt: volgl’gthlikef tom-e13 “3013:? “1—131: aﬁoﬁnm Ffdeigbmm5“?gm‘ 10. Write SHOBTHDRISI 5mg: Baggage; ,sngﬁ Whenmnd 136 remambergil mg; laugh: the
0 ' ' ewt. ovem e l
wooctorourpﬁieztmdon’t put it on: nit- Wv “33%;”. a, WADE, White Pigeon. lllch. FRANK ROHRABACHER, Lelamburu. Mlch. (fauna h3ogspegam gain? mm than W113
Addresl 0mm“ 0‘ ‘m ' ' $3 per art... in the same length of time. an
‘ OME GOOD YOUNG REGISTERED "0"    it becomes immediately apparent that If t
stein cows. Fair size. good color, bred to Registered stock of an a!” “1d both “L Herd these two varieties of 'domsﬂc annual! l .
  zood bulls and due from July to December. Most- headed by the imported bun. Kahuna“ V} have done more to save the Ameﬂm y t
’ “GHOHEEH 1’ mm A- R‘ 0' mck- pm” “mmw‘m‘”: count 25th, 648.563. Prices reasonable. me, me going broke than anything ‘ is I
 A com 33.1.0!” mmnteed to be ﬂuidly u m . LUNDV BROS., R4. Davlson. llloh. 9188 on the list of agricultural producfts. 80m
. m .

h “N fAzcla":$‘ :ho an an ufncgleynggn. SHORTHORN eA'rrLs AND oxronn Down g‘geghil’oomge. mill]: attack 1%.;m mom-tug a: not
cumbﬁlhyn 1 pm- ln keepinz with I'm-111M ' "mp 4B3” Sifapfa'm3h5ulr men. 36m ‘11“ “mg a” 133* 9° ‘1‘" “0" 89‘“
mm" mm " mmwﬂr sow AGAII w ' ’ ' ' 3W? “Emmet? PS: “mm-y“ any

GU ‘ ‘ - ' ALvss e t, mm m o e . -
ns&mn W ‘50‘00 ﬁnd and m3:- 3 11 ed' ‘ut ndvertiud sold but he" 2 more '   glasq°ﬁTg°g"o-3”;‘anf m in payment for. the hogs: alternation, I 1631‘
W per Isle. The same 9 co “mum nag, white. They m nice rtnlrbt iel- Inspection mm. ‘ about so important a subject is certs.me com
to ONTO“ d I)qu end lam. sired by n son of m 0'“- 0'" " m SONLEY snos. 8t Leulx. Mlch_ cheap at any price- AII that will be mil]

edallu in "11‘"! PM“ " ' 17 lb 2 yr. old dun ml the other in from A . . n ded m the opinion of the mm Wm
(hinge. Let no reserve I 1922 an. tor you. 30 lb. 'Jr. a yr. old dun, Ih. in la n :3: 2; / I beeea mm to the pm mine; be_ and
writ. or "in.  E?“ 5.33133.” D. x0] mm" L    fore the question of classiﬁcatlon is on 1
 ‘1  Jigs. H0§ION JR“ Oman. llleh- I 3' oﬂerl 4 ﬁne Reg Shel-thorn Bulls from 10 to :3 W with read 1 th M B. F ﬂna

, llllnoh ‘ ld t ha ‘l prices. 0 e era 0 e .

Dam on? OLVERIIIE s‘rocx new: nun-own econ "oi-Hosanna“ “almanac. Maternal-e. Mlch. whAonym interested in the subject dis: "0“
” wulel from til-1r herd- We '1“ "°“ 93“”: 11'". “ cussed in the above article. will do the as X
“I P  Ole culvee from our Junior Herd Sire Kin! 0“; EXTRA Goon BULL O‘Lvas FOR 3‘“ 1m stock editor of this paper; favor it in C

Jo ' Land- Koﬂldyh sat" "5° " ‘ '0" o l“ th Ms. 1 Bid“ herd of 3““ 55"" will d letter to the market de-
LWE  AUGTIOIEEB ‘ q‘xfins ol 1::- Santana-0] gngon‘ueengg‘tfkggfgg $32113. aslveg l!ng tum“; 13am” Eggnmt _e;;rl’.e;mg their opinion on the line:
Ann": "753 Egtgﬁ 1.]: Clioawl’: 8pc , n a. Battle area. m J. :. nusw . subject. I alien
ADDREss 118 . - ' ‘ .
“"“"‘°' mcﬂ‘ . l ‘ IIHEHITED snowman" QUALITY um BOBNOB AUCTION SALE mills
. —  .r Faulawn Herd—Ho stem‘soson % m .213; . ilgialtgun bmlxtmwgutg- An auction sale hgidLar-gep Type Pﬁgl‘f torn

\ .99“.- cham Ion 119' 0'11 ° "’3‘,- Chm was at am ~-

I‘   “"ﬁ‘nsﬁa‘m Cohgmtmglh‘u Johgnns. world's Joml Lsssrrsn's sous, on ﬁngggy’ m‘wj' by me Boﬁ , mg
« em 35 lb. m ml world's um 1,200,111. cow. Christen. Mloh. r. the offering consisted of 40 head, an “on
. The cum that as!  m'grg:  a? {hem very close to the ideal Poland extej
HOIBTEIN-FRIESIAN necrng om d3)“ a; um.-m., me dun FOB POLLEB  China cm Thirty—one bred sows. 312 art
m Hebe n. Kol No. 93710. "3' m1§11x5°lnlbt Shropshire. Soutbdown end Cheviot ram write to June guts aniit 13311111; $1 Diﬂnezergymtﬁo. r ﬁlm
gwom Eggglz‘hm mtiIk Gregg; v33 L. o. KELLY a. son. Plymouth. such. yr-I£°mwa°:' the young breeder Elinomwon ﬁnd

' mum lute record 0‘ ﬂ (3 gan
snow Bu”- :g'ﬁglan m wlth hither ﬁnk "°°'d “a” State 13.33% {1310 riot]: mtgejunlor yeab- ture
“1 man” mmmazmmtwm "cruel .... .. 1.32.32 FHAIOISGO FARM SHORTHOBIS 1mg be”, 3.8 Claim“, The salwew“ be“

M the h ' - ""‘III .... ..28. - d u was the on

.u 31:5 {:3 im- - 31253;: g; ggfmﬁ-gg-M'Me L R 0. am will All) BIG TYPE POLAND GHIIAS 33g, $313,418,318 mama,” the m- be 1

eew. l‘lﬂt '11. mm“ c; ' Mmmn' “m M" to your hard end no“! ‘0 ’0‘" low damn—#1111. buns ready {or Jeni: mals oﬂered Were the W317 last word in milk
"20. mm in color ‘1‘ {"6125 b I“. ' mm“ Chm‘“ Em‘ndmt" bmdm' bmeamg type and general condition. The
Gem .1310an “‘- m m J. F-  ‘m' bmd for mm mm" S“ than. foundation animals for the Bornor herd tram
n rd £53 “'1'” “mm‘h‘ Owner    were purchased .of W lam Livingston,
. Flint. Mich. m. Plenum. Michigan of Pal-mo. the breeder who has done more
  naals'rEnED DURHAM gymg?umu to“£1ht.?leth;la.p"

- FOUR _ Type 0 n8. ‘

execs men. [330" WIIHE vow“  SALE bulls from .s to 10 month. old. Mlchlsun' several of the sows in this eale‘ It ‘

JIM-coders Since 1.0. A  n .t N “1.3:”; 10' Also some ﬁne female Durham; ' ware also, purchased of Mr. Livingston mm

mm .on the 33310,“:1? 21ml? 0 muddmzhm of _ HENRY J. LYNCH. Imllh. m0“- when they ware pigs, 1 been

P 33» xnrndykn .1 The sale was well attended by the lead- cam,

All ornnmo Llelrr COLORED sol- °smd 3, our ammo}; Ig‘now BULL Mod sﬂonﬂmnls cows. HEIFER3- IN. ,ing Poland China breeders of the state. I. an,

stein-5“ 11:. '5‘.” slixyteirgsltd dune 3:513}? Kinny  o F “for. “mu” nut mat. grttzgtgehggo- mmmsdomm gaﬁgnmrthem' Mgmdns Aégg‘g 3.2g] 1
ﬁlm bland”. Bard under mu end tedenl ’13" GM NGEK Owner wm' "' "u" m” °-""' "W'- ' kamp. of Manchester: ﬁbre“ Hum“ "91 - char?
mom ' "‘“'"‘- ""‘°"'""' W 00] '1' gm 7 ch. Hillsdale: Wlulnm lelngston. of Farm a. -, and l:
cecal- mama. Mmln _ 111 E. Mam Street, Jackson. MI   and many others whose names are 221- two‘

 , \ Hm, under sum and Federal Supervision. ‘ l a n m “I yarn“ Bun. ‘mmm- to the owners at Poland Chums. there
'/ » PURE-BRED BULL nun mnoogrmoend sired by 111?. Newton the my "9"- Th 13"“; I h . oi; 1°” “
. HOLSTEII FBIESIA" calves; mbezculin cumulon- \ » thank
   tested bead. Price- ero rlxht- ‘ ' .deo seven] [other real Bull Dustin. Ina-1

EAROI'I FARM. Box A North End. norm outlook than hm!!!- I
LARRO Rio pm". New.“ V & son. Un
Breeders of Registered Holstein . a . - I Q [-L Pram“ ‘ “ma
cattle and Berkshire H083. ' . FOR “Wm “‘u‘oughlfhdf Ills: Tamas City, Michfxll fattel

. ha Durham u M ._ _ '

Everything guaranteed, write manna” t  Rotten-urea. use . ‘ L 7' V L j I   “up 4

In. your wants or come end see .ﬁgnegwgm nun; ammo. Ill-n. . M an  Ads

BOY 1“  liliSTEﬁEl.  "mm" m 4 x. n. Ede-aw 
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is sale were as
Burlingto
imax; Howa
Nelson, Pitts.
Angus“:
H. Price Jones-
ﬁlake. A
Albion;

   

 

 
 
 
 
 

Son, Byron ; P, Alexander,-

R.
Leo Taft, Leslie: W. S.

Wood a Son.
Rives Junction; E. S Lewis, East Leroy;

  

Elmer Halstead, Adrian; D. He?
Ceresco; A. W. Knapp, ' H- .
Sanford, Springport: Rog Cuff, Charles
Hicks. Ch rles Southwort , William Bris-
‘ham, Art ur Wilkinson, L. H. Godfrey.
Homer Chapel, W, L. Burris,‘ Fred Hart-
ung and Ernest Jackson, all of Parma.

VETERINARY __
DEPARTMENT

DR. W. AUSTIN EWALT. EDITOR

     

     

 

   
 

   

  

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I Sher-thorn ull, 14 mos. $75.0

aroma. “it”  .*°°.-°9... 
. , m .

O. Rigorous”?! all?“  Oreonvllle. Michigan

, AND
   Heif:UL(!r-ilves and
Scotch. 113'

elders—ones. Bates and Wanted SD

m or rye for seed. ~
FRANK 'BARTLE‘I'T. Dryden, Mich. ‘

N CALE—REOIOTERED CHORTHORNI
snd Duroc Jersey spring pigs. either sex: two
red bulls. one 11 months and one 5 months old.
33%“ 1!. menu ‘33:; “usim‘ialiﬁ ’ an
on an es .
GEORGE W. ARNOLD OP JARED ARNOLD
Willlsmsburo. R 1. Michigan

Amman suomonu suvrns

Ar mans

If want A real herd bull or some
helix?!“ bred to Perfection Heir. write me
Satisfaction guannteed_

B. H PANGBORN A CON
8 ml_'esst. Bed Axe, Mich.

 

 

VARIOLA OR COW POX

During the past six months I have had
some trouble with my cows' udders. Small
lumps would appear on them. which
would later form ulcers, then a scab
which would fall off. It seems to effect
the whole herd.—A Subscriber, Blooming-
dale, Mich. /
I This disease in cattle, runs a mild.
course in nearly. every instance and,
in this country, may be looked upon
as being conﬁned almost wholly to
the udder. Now and thus case
occurs in which the animal shows
slight systemic derangement. The
disease affects sometimes only s few
animals in a herd; at other times
none escape the infection. This fea-
ture probably inﬂuenced to a great
extent'by the sanitary or insanitary
methods of milking in vogue on dif-
ferent farms. The ﬁrst symptom is
soreness, or tenderness, evidenced
when the cow is milked. The test
or teats feel hot and slightly swol-
len. SDon after this, nodules de-
velop on the teats and on the udder
of about the size of peas. usually.
In a day or two these become vesi-
cles of a bluih or purplish color.
The vesicles break down. leaving
under them the characteristic pox
and “Pit,” showing granulations.
The tissues immediately around the
pit are infected and tender. Soon
the pit becomes covered with a scab,
which drops off in four or ﬁve days,
and the disease has run its course.
If the milking is not done in a clean-
ly and gentle manner while the pit
is yet uncovered, extensive ulcers
sometimes form. The vesicles do
not all appear at the same time and
several weeks may elapse before
any one cow is entirely free from
lesions. The infection frequently is
contracted by the persons doing the
milking. Pimples, which break down
and end in scabs formation appear
on the hands and wrists. They heal
ﬁnally and usually cause no other
trouble. The most important point
as regards the treatment of variola
in cows is the observation of clean-
liness and gentle manipulation of
the teat in milking. If the teat con-
tains a great number of vesicles a
milking tube should be used. Scab
formation can be hastened by touch-
ing the pits with a saturated solu-
tion of potassium permanganate, if
extensive ulceration occurs, the
parts are to be painted after each
milking with a mixture of one part
tincture iodine and three parts tinc-
ture benzoin compound. The num-
ber of cases in an outbreak can often
be limited if cows affected are
milked last, thus avoiding direct
transmission of the disease.

 

LUIIIPY J AW

I have a ﬁve-year-oid Holstein cow
that has a large bunch just back of .her
jawbone on the right hand side. It has
been there for the past two years, but
came gradually. and seemed better for
a time but now has grown larger again
and is about the site of a man's two
ﬁsts, It has brpken open and is dis-
charging s. whitepus. She seems healthy
and is in good flesh. Is this disease con-
tagious? Is her milk ﬁt for. use d is'
there a cure? Would her meat fit
for use if I fattened her? Would be
thankful for any advice you could give
me.-—H. IL. Newport. Mich.‘ ,

Unless this is an exceptionally
valuable cow. 1 would advise you
fatten her, andas the germ causing
this disease. remains at the seat of
infection. remove theth and the
- , .‘sindor;. ’

t. game :m at tor. 

 

 

DUROOD AND AHORTHORNS. BRED GILTO.
yearlings and two year olds, few good boars.
bull calf 8 weeks old. good cow with heifer calf,
Several bred heifers.

P_ B, LUDLOW, Rolling Prairie. Ind.

MILK-HIE SHOHTHOHIIS «0354" .31“ as

vice. tuberculin tested and at bargain Dﬁcel
W. 8. HUBER. Gladwin. Mich.

4TH ANNUAL

UY SHORTHORNB NO‘V.
Some bargain!

herd test without a reactor.
in hulls. . 
JOHN SCHMIDT A SON. Reed City. Mich.

Two REAL snonrnon "m 

FOR SALE'
‘5 me. old and sire“l by Imp. Dainty Prince.
W.. KNAPP. Howell. Mich.

 

 

GUERNSEYS

ausnnsrr BULL & nun" cum

from dams making large A. R 0. Records.
Accredited herd. Write for particular

A. u. smru . Lhasa
EUEBIISEYS

OF MAY ROSE AND OLENWOOO BREEDING.
No abortion, clean federal Their
sires dam made 19,480.20 milk. 909.05 fat.
Their mother’s sire's dam made 15,109.10 milk
778.80 fat. Can spare 8 cows, 2 heifers and s
handful lot of young bulls.

 

 

 

' .~ ' find one an. « . > .
- Pricedf'to more. V‘Inspecti um
.suseeu. secs; HIT-m, 33mm

     

  

 

 

. . BIITYPE romntmns.‘ ' .-
hprlns pigs all. sold. For7fall pigs. write I,
W. CALDWELL A SON. Springport. Mid.

 

AYRSEIRE‘ s

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYROHIHE
Mills and bull calves. heifers and heifer cslvss.
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS" R 5. Vsusr. Mich.

RED POLLED

HREE YOUNG RED POLLED BULLB FOR
ale. Si.de by Cosy Elle Laddie. He took
the prize at six State

PIERCE BR08., Eaton Rapids. Mlohq R 1

25 RED POLLED CATTLE

Registered. All. ages.
E. s.

CARR. Homer. Mich.

BROWN SWISS

FIVE REGISTERED BROWN
  Swiss cows and one yearling bull.

 

T. IL LOVE
Howell. lion. R. F. D. 8

WINE  ._

POLAND CHINA

wnmuﬁurv

Bis Type Poland Uhinas. l have a few more of
those big boned. high backed, smooth sided
boars left. The kind that» makes good at on.-
half their value. Come or write and let me
tell you what I will do.

GREGORY,

 

 

 

ionla. .Jyllchlgan.

 

FOR SALE, LARGE TYPE—‘—

POLAHD GHIHA

{Par-pigs; Sued by F’s Clansman 391211,
hlchlgans 1920 Gr. Champion boat. and
y Smooth Buster 395823, Michigan
1920 1st Jr. Yearling Boar. Immune by
‘loubie treatment. Priced to eelL Write
or see them. Free lirery to visitors.
A.R FELDKAMP

Manchester, R. No. 2

 

Mloh.

 

-‘ use: 1er PDLAIID cums '

For sale, boats and gilts sired by B's Clans-
man, grand champion at 192] Mich.- Ste
and by F’s Clansman 1920

Prices reasonable.
Correspondence oh

livery fdrom Purina.
snswere .
F. BORNER. R 1. Farms. Mich.

 

L. r. POLAND chAs.‘
gilts and weanling pigs. Write
HAROLD LEONARD, Alma, Mich.

 

 

H A MPSHIRES

 

An Opportunity To Buy
Hampshires Right

We are offering some good sows and glib.
for March and April farrowing. Also a fsi
choice fail pigs, either sex. Write or call

OUR THOMAS. New Lothros. Mich.

HAMPSHIRES snso GILTS ONLY son
JOHN w. sIIVDss‘Hlf‘n A. St. Johns. Mich.

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\ DUROCS
  EXTRA FINE SEPT AND 001'
pigs, either sex. priced right_
HARLEY FOOR A SONS,
Gladwln, Mich" R 1.

 

BOAR ready for
Giant Seuss

$35 00 gets
Leonard. Mlch_ R 1.

1 FINE DUROC SPRING

service. sired by Big bone

Brookwater Dam_ Registered.
SCHAFFER BROSJ

 

DUROC bred sows all
high clam fall piss.
JESSE BLISS a

PEAGH HILL FARM

TRIED sows and gilts bred to or sired by Feed
Hill Orion King 152489. Satisfaction gnarl
snteed. Come look ’em over.
Also a few open gilts.
INWOOD BROTHERS
Romeo. Mich.

SON. Henderson. Mich.

 

 

 

 

EONARDt'S BIG TYPE P. C. BOAR Pl“
n “10:11] ng time. from Mich. Cha i ll

825 'w1th pedigree. Satisfaction msnTiptooion Call.“l
or wrlte E. R. LEONARD. R 3. St. Louil. mob.

 

 

T. V. HICKSPR .1. Battle Creek. Mich. L. T P C 
‘OIST‘RID autnuszv BULL OALF We are offering our 1921 fall crop of pigs at the
for .30 00- my Rose bnedm‘ above prices. They are sired by Hart‘s Black
PINE HILL F RM Price and Right Kind Clan. ‘
H any. "Iowa-n. ’ F' T HART. St. Louis. Mich.
JERSEYS BIG TYPE POLAIID GHIIIAS

 

NE OF OUR MAJESTY BULLS WOULD IM.
prrre vnnr herd.
FRANK P. NORMINGTON. lonls. Mich.

slamming

BEEF
PRODUCERS!

Michigan Produces the World‘s
Best Beef at the Lowest Cost.
Raise far bette feeding
than you can buy. Grow Baby
Beef when gains cost least in
feed and labor_ Avoid costly rsll hauls with
"'9" Chain". bruises and loss.

SOTHAM’S EARLIRIPE I
BEEF CONTRACT

Solves your problem—insures your success, A

fair Intelligent, satisfying system evolved from

1 years consolentlous service to American Oat-

tle Industry by three generations of Sothams.

GET THE FACTS Write now or wire. Address
1‘. F. B. SOTHAM & SON

(Cattle Business Established 1835)
Phone 250_ SAINT CLAIR. MICHIGAN

 

   
  

 

 

 

 

 

BRED
IN THE
PURPLE

 

 

IAGHIEVEIAEIT

The reward of pure breeding: the se-
oompllshmont of quality. Success has
again contributed more laurels to the
already remarkable record of

THE sins surname

At the Internstlenel Live Stock Exposi-
tion, where gathers. each year the elite
of North American Osttledom to com-
pote for the oovetoue swords. ﬁve more
honors have been bestowed upon the "get"
of Edgar of Dolmenv.

You too may share these honors. A’ ball
by this world famous sire will prove .
vmoumusblesesstteyourheed‘.
erte decodes,

NILDNIIIID FAIIIS

» ORION, IIOHIOAII.
vvv I. Mops. Prop. Oldney Smith, Mgr,

 

 

 
  

 

    
 

  

       
   
 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Spring pigs of both sex for sale at reasonable
prices. Sired by Orange Clansmen 2nd.. litter
prﬁtheir towhrr'filtchigan 1920 Gr. Champion. Also
3 pgs. e or ri s. Im uh].
"ﬁtment. p ce muned by do
MOSE BR08., St. Charles. Mich.

 

LADWIN COUNTY PURE BRED LIVESTOCK
G ASSOCIATION. Hereford. Shorthorn, Jersey
and Holstein cattle; Duroc-Jersey. Poland China
and lljmpshirc hogs; Oxford, Shropshire and
Hampshire sheer).

A place to buy good breeding stock at reason-

ble prices.
FRED B. SWINEHART O. E. ATWATER
Pnesldent Secretary
G'adwin. Mich.

 

BRED GILTS now ready to ship. bred to boars of
Bob Clansman, Defender and Joe breeding at
farmers prices. H. 0. Swartz. Schoolcraft, Mich.

M “L T P c BRED mus
With the timgiy bps; ﬁr Liberator Pride. Primd
M. M. PATRICK, Grand Ledge, Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND GHIIIAS

Bred gilts for sale to farmw in April; also fall
pigs either sex, one great litter by Orange
Clansman 2nd. Write for prices_

HIMM BROS., Chesanlng, Mioh_

 

BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS EITHER SEX
from large growthy dams and sired by choice
herd boars. lame and see our stock, prices
reasonable.

L. W. BARNES a SON. Byron, Mich.

BOAHS AT HALF PHIG Poland cm...

bred in the purple, sired by Mich. Buster,
A Giant and Butler’s Big Bob. No better
breeding. A big rugged, big-boned boar resdy
for service, registered, for $25.00—$30.00.

J O 0. BUTLER, Portland, Mich.

 

BIG TYPE

 

POLAIID OHIHA .BHED (i.LTS

Bred to Hillcresi Liberator by Liberator Leader
the 1920 Grand Champion and to Big Proo-
pect by Liberator Buster the Grand
Champion. They will start you right in the
breeding industry. Exoeptional bargains. Write

for prices.
HILLCREST FA RKMS

F. B. LAY, alamszoo. MMJ

SELLING A GREAT OFFERING OF

AM
DUROC BRED SOWS AND GILTS

March 4th, mostly mated to Orion Giant Col.
a eon of Ohio Grand Champion Get on maili-
ing list for catalog.

‘ W. c. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich

UROO JERSEY BOARS. learn of the lam
heavy-boned type. at reasonable when Writq,
or better come and see.
F. J DRODT. R 1. Monroe. Mich.

 

 

We usually have good boars and sows of

ages for sale. Reasonable prices.

LARRO RESEARCH FARM. Bel A m Inc
Detroit. Michigan.

PURE-BRED nunoc Jrnsrv Iioqg

 

DUROC SOWS AND BRED GILTB, $35 and
$50. Fall pigs $12.50 and $17.50. Unrelated.
Send for circular and price list.

Mlchlgana Farm. Pavilion. Kalamazoo County.

 

uroo Jersey Bred Stock all Sold. Orders to”.
for wentling pigs. 1.000 pound herd boar.
J08. SCHUELLER. Weidman. Mich.

OAKLAHDS PREMIER GHIEF
Herd Roar—Reference only—No. 12921.

1919 Chicago International
4th Prize .Ir. Yearling

BOOKING ORDERS FALL PIGS AT ‘35
LANK A POTTER
Pottervllle. Mich.

 

 

run SALE .SJ‘Bsﬁoﬁf‘g. Enrmﬂliﬁi

Prices right.
H. E. LIVERMORE A SON, Romeo. Mich.

 

E OFFER A FEW WELL°IRED B‘Llc're
ed spring Dumc Boers. else I)?“ 00'. III
Gilts in season. Cell or write
McNAUGHTUN ‘ FORDYOL .1. LOU... MI“

 

Ired and open coll
spring pigs. 100 head.
8. of Middleton, Mich.
Blank. Peninton. Mich.

urocs. Hill Crest Farms.
and gilts. Hours and
rm 4 miles straight
Gratiot 00. Newton &

 

uroc sows Ina elite Jred te Welt's King .2949
who has sired more prise winning pigs at the
state fairs in the last 2 years than any other Duo
roe boar. Newton Bernharl. St. Johns. Mich.

 

OR SALE: ONE DUROO BOAR FROM
Brookwater breeding stock. Choice spring pigs.
JOHN CRONENWETT. Carleton. Mich.

 

 

on SALE: HERD some» A MODEL ORION
Ringo: line bred and son of Jackson's Orion

m. H or write
OHA8. F.. RICHARDSON, Blanchard. Mich.

 

 

 

Dundee.

 

DUROC BRED SOW SALE

Friday, March 3, at 12:30 p. m.

At farm on Stone Road, 8 miles west of Monroe and 6 miles east of

Four tried sows. four spring year-Hugs, 10 {all yearling. “d 26 j. -
spring gilts; also Orion Master King, boar. 2 years old. ' .
Write for Catalog.

Auctioneer, H. L. gleheart, Elizabethtown, Ky.
HeldmamEEMwhnLnF. 4'

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I» Hood Ii o! the most noted herd

' Write Dr

 

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., 'Welg'll -e‘round 250'pounds e‘t 840,00.
 ME." I VAN ETTEN. GIMM- MIMI:

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et hmer’s prices.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. ‘MIOIL.

 

D. I. O. SWINE—MY HERD CONTAINS TI'II
. . Cell furnish
m stock 1: “live and let live" prices.
A. J. CORDEN. Derr. Mleh.. R D.

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; @ SHEEP -_ E

 IUYS S REC. SHROPSHIRE EWE
tube that have both quality and

b . Just the thing to start e flock with.

DARL TOPLIFF. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE SHEEP

Alew good yearling runs end some rem
lambs left to offer. 25 ewes all ages for sale
for fell delivery. Everything guaranteed ss
represented.

 

ICLARKE U. HAIRE. West Branch, Mich.

PET STOCK  ;.

0R SALE, FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS dose

breeding age, 86. Three months old pair. 35.

Registered. does 812 each Stock pedigreed Qua].

ty guaranteed 1
E. HIMEBAUGH. Goldwater. Mich.

 MALE GOAT, 8AANEN BREED,
for breeding purposes. White pre-

ferred. Address.
H. DEVERS. Inkster. Mich.

SHETLAIID POIIIES V
We have a few good Shetland [’onies for sale;

prices ranging from $75.00 to $100. Write
JOHN FARMER, R 2. Stockbridge. Mich.

COLLIE PUPPIES

_ W. Austin Ewalt, Mt_ Clemens,
Mich. for thoroughbred, pedigreed Collie pup-
pies; bred from farm trained stock that are nat-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ural heelers with picnty of grit, All Puppies

guaranteed.

  THOROUGHBRED WHITE COL~
LIE PUPPIES.

CHARLES KEPNER, Carson City, Mich.

 

 

BRFEDERS’ ATTENTION
‘ If you are planning on a. sale
this year, write us now and

Claim The Date!

This service is free to the live
stock industry in Michigan to
avoid conflicting sale dates.
LET “THE BUSINESS FARMER"

CLAIM YOUR DATE!

 

 

 

 

HOMES

   

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1879 -

B E L L S ’
PEHBHEHUNI BELBIAN§

The most complete selectiOn
America of these popular breeds. In-
ternational and state fair winners.

STALLIONS AND MARES
Waite today.

BELL 330‘s. Wooster, 0.

 

 

 

 

  THE BLACK PERCHERON

Stallion, Sampson, No. 110945,

weighing close ii) a lion. _8 Mrs old. and a

miendid producer, 1922 License, price 8500. s

also have on hand a splendid lot of young

Aberdeen Angus bulls ready for service at bar-
gain prices, sired by Imported bulls. Address
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla, Mich.

EGISTERED BELGIAN STALLION weighing

1800 lbs. Sound, 6 years old. Sure Foal
getter.

D. F. HOPKINS. Milford, Mlch.. R. F. D. 5

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I have any hens that have been moult- ..

 

ing ever since September lat. Most are
through now but some have just started.
Is there any laying signiﬁcance connect—
ed with this, They have had like treat-
ment, had bran and milk and meat
scraps. They have drank regular-Ix 1 1.:
gallon of milk daily. Some of the earlier
moulters are laying now. Please answer
through paper for beneﬁt of othersa—M.
B. K., Traverse City, Mich.

In regard to your inquiry of hens
moul-ting, would say that after Sep-
tember the yearling and ‘- the older
birds will naturally moult. Very
few birds will lay during this period.
We note that some of these birds.
have just commenced moulting. We
would suggest that these birds be
marked and retained as good breed-
ing propositions, as late moulting
birds are always the best layers.lThe
feeding of skimmed milkhas the ben-
eﬁcial effect of detaining moult. We
would suggest that a little more
variety be added-to the mash. The
mash we would recommend can be
prepared of equal parts bran, mid-
dlings, ground oats, ground corn and
meat scraps. Where milk is avail-
able we wOuld advise reducing the
meat scrap one-half.—C. M. Fergu-
son, Extension Specialist in Poultry
Husbandry, M. A. C.

 

DISCHARGE FROM- HEAD

My hens’ eyes seem to be mattery and
there is a discharge from their heads.

What is the trouble? -—-Mrs. A. M.,‘

Wheeler, Mich_

We presume this discharge is from
the nasal organs. We would diag—
nose the disease to be a form of
cold, 3. very-common disease where
the birds are in damp or unsanitary
quarters. We would recommend
ventilating the pen and making
every'effor't to keep it dry. If the

_ birds are not too badly affected I

would suggest the general treatment
of one pound of Epsom salts to one
hundred birds once every week or
ten days. The individual case if
badly affected, should be isolated
and a dose of salts, about a table-
sp‘oonful should be administered.—
C. M. Ferguson, Extension Specia—
list in Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C.

 

The Experience Pool

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

CURE FOR CRIBBING

I read in the Business Farmer -—where
a party wants to know of a cure for a.
cribbing ho‘rse. I know of a good remedy.
I bought a team of horses some years
ago and they would bite the manger and
bite the neck-yoke and wagon tongue.
I tried everything I thought of or heard
of to prevent that biting. I wrapped the
neck—yoke and tongue with tin and I put
tin on the manger but it did no good.
Then I tried axle grease and it proved
very successful. I put it ‘on everything the
horses had been in the habit ofbiting
and they stopped right away—L. F. W.,
Sterling. Mich.

 

1  A wens 
h .- m not eeeepted some“

mus tor-m Id. In this ,dep'tﬁlnoﬁt. 
Count is one word e'aeh, initial-ml each 
nil-address. Copymuetbeinmhln‘
knowing week. ,The Business runner Adv. Dept. Mt. Clemens, Elohim.

. , body e .
 Saturday ,for use. 

   

 

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"Jo-ACRE MICHIGAN FARM WITH HORS-
ear-Poultry. 16 Down and Young Stock. cream
amino? blacksmith outfit, full modern imple-

ments. eed for stick, vegetables for winter in-
edzmglonvenient RB etetion. stores. .tc; 60

euros loam tillage, springmatersd pasture
fruit; ' 2-way doom house. 50;“. born
win To close out all $5500 lea than lull

ash new terms.» Details We 7t .Illus. o.‘
1100 Domino. Faun. moor. rm
AGENCY 314 ‘B in Ford Bldg, Dela-nit, Mich.

 

19-Ac_R. FARM FOR SALE. GOOD SOIL.
good buildings, plenty well watered. Tim-
ber for building purposes. Stock and tools. Write
or so. A. BRANT. Contra] Lake. Mich. .

FARM FOR SALE. 180 ACRES OF LEVEL
hnd, good buildings and good soil near R. R.
town, 00. mt Write J. M. OSWALT, Hersey.
Michigan. . 1- .

 

BIG BARGAIN: 90 ACRES, GOOD BUILD:
ings, an slats mad and nice lake, only $2000.
DeCOUDRES, Bloomingdale, Mich.

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FOR SALE. 60 ACRE FARM. 5 ACRES

timber, black loam soil. two ﬂowing wells;
room house and collar; barn, cow stable, hog~

use, corn crib, garage and hen house. 1%
miles from cement road, 20 miles from Detroit.
ED THIERRY, R 3, Plymouth, Mich.

 

FOR SALE: 1"O,ACRE8, STOCK FARM:
drained, two springs of water, orchard. wind-
mill, gravel pit. Fences, fair buildings. Address
BOX 6, Otisv‘llle. Mich. '

 

FOR SALE: 40 ACRE FARM 1-2 MILE
from Onsway. Mich. Good buildings, well'fenced
Write owner, CHAS. McINTOSH, Onaway. Mich.

 

FOR SALE: 108 ACRES, 3 MILES FROM
city; 9 room house, modern. Barn 2x64, good
soil. For full information write to F. ANTONY.
Traverse City. Mich, 242 E. 10 8t.

 

FOR SALE. EIGHTY ACRE FARM ONE
mile north of Coral. Montcalm County, all
cleared. tile drained; lays level; orchard: new
buildings. Clay loam. Stock and tools. Tenn;
runs PIFKWN. Howard City, Mich.

 

114 ACRES FOR SALE Va MILE EAST
and 1,5 mile south of Gagetown. Good land, good
gravel road and buildings. Near

school and
town. Easy terms. Write JASPER DURES,
Cass City, Mich.

 

~ELMWOOD FARM. 40 ACRES. VERY PRO-
ductive. Stock and tools, good buildings, line
location. Close to town. Write me for portion
hrs. JOHN RYAN. Prescott, Mich.

 

80 ACRE FARM IN FRUIT BELT. SMALL
orchard, use, born, Silo and outbiuldings in‘
No. 1 condition. Well drained, clay loam soil,
% mills from Mich. Pike, 6 miles from good
market terms. Write ROBERT WIT‘I‘E,
B 1, Dudingborn. Mich. ,

 

FOR SALE, 40 A. IMPROVED LAND, FINE
location. For particulars write 0. J. LAMB
Frankfort, Mich. '

 

FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR SMALLER
farm, 120 acres 2% mi. from market. Excellent
buildings, soil and roads. Care BOX L,'Michlgan
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

FOR SALE 160 ACRES IN OCEANA COUN-
ty, Michigan, 2% miles from Hespsria. A splen-
did dairy farm, or will sell the two. 80 acres sep‘
state as there are two sets of buildings. Good
soil, good water, good buildings. 30 acres in
wheat, 8 in rye, all seeded. On good gavel road.
near schoolhouse. Lots of pasture and some m-
ber. A ﬁne orchard of all kinds of- fruit. Also
berries'. For prices write owner. G. INNIGER.
Hesperia, Mich. R 3, Box 16.

 

FOR SALE: 120 ACRES. NOT A FOOT OF
waste, never rented. Eleven. acres young orchard
bearing. Near school, good road, good bdgs.
Well fenced. Reamn for selling, poor health.
For particulars write L. BECKER, * 745
Maple Ave, Plymouth. Mich.

 

180-ACR‘E FOR SA E OR TRADE FOR A
mailer farm. All tillab e. 90 acres under cultii-
vatllon. Good buildings 35 mile from town and
railroad. lays level, no stone. GEORGE MAT-
TINSON, Turner, Mich.

ORE FARM FOR SALE. MOSTLY ALL
clegrsed.A Fair frame house, new barn built last
year, 32x46: frame granary 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 it wanted.
MARTIN SMITH. R 1, Rhodes, Mich.

 

lower the cost of production.

 

oWosso SUGAR coxs 
PRAIRIE FARM

More of the better kind of Draft Horses used on the farm would
Heavy Draft Horses on short hauls are
economy and‘will lower the high cost of. transportation.

Buy Heavy Draft Mares and raise your own' power on the Farm.
We have ﬁfty mares in foal to select from.
blood that Belgium has ever produced. " t
‘ Belgian Draft Horses are‘ getting. more popular.
as workers cannot be excelled by any other breed.

Before buying see the sires and dams and also'see the largest breed-
ing establishment 0LBelgian Drangm-‘ses in the world. Located at

A L l c 13.“, Saginaw openly, My;  5N: . _   

They passess the best

. Their qualities

 

  

 

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, TOBACCO

 

TOBACCO. men GRADE. HOME onowu,
Chewing 10 lbs, $3.00; Smoking 10 lbe $2.50;
0 lbs. $4.00 PRODUCERS EXCHANGE.
ayﬂeld, Ky. .

usuruoxv LEAF 'Tosscco.
old, nature cured.

 

3 YEARS
Don't send a. pen , pay for

tobacco and postage on arrival. ﬁne
“it” “My. °’ “it? 118 h iii?
me um .quaiy smo . ' . .
FARMERS' UNION. D57.  Ky.

 

TOBACCO: " HOMESPUN’ mun“ suoxmo,
10 lbs 2.00; .20 lbs ,. i , , 10 _
2.75. FARMERS CLUB. Mn. K1.  , _

LEAF rossoco. a venue on. PAY F37!
tobacco and. 7 . IV“- V 7

when race
11'; 4:60;“  .6   '
Galilean; OmWyﬂIe‘ 

 

 

.nmnmu slums. Salim. K

  

 

~ NURSERY spoon AND SEED

WHY PAY' eoe PER POI!

famousP 12104) to 1 pee ban ‘whenuo' » renunrhgut
them or per pound. . B Frm . .
D'rlg‘i‘zé'ciiﬁcs ' 1‘53 "from B

_ :V. ODUCI '
most beautiful and mde Rose in the wig.
Climb Am an Beauty. we oﬂer for s limit-
ed time only. special sine iants at She
paid. Each , purcha to enter eon
prim are cut glass, silvarware and solid 1
rings. Contest closes Mch 1st, 1922. Send $050
-ln coin and receive rose and rticulars. OBI-
CHARD LODGE NURSERY. lesburg. Mich.

NORTHERN GROWN WHITE BLOSSO-
Sweet Clover Seed, reclaimed, $6.00 gill)! bus
Vetch 12c lb! Samples mailed. OLA
TR‘RWRY Hale. “M3011.

GRIMM ALFALFA $15.00 BUSHEL: RED
l‘lover 810; White sweet clover 85.00; Alalis
$6.0 : Timothy $2.50: Sudan 2.00: Orchard
Gmss ‘ 815.00 hundred: Blue ram $25.00.
ansas.

 

 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS

 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR SALE. SEN-
ebothlgrlelﬁp. $3 00 n amtdho Ursa-Bum 40s
par un . . per use ngrmsive
Ever-bearers $1.00 per hundred, 810.0 per
thonan ROR'I' DE GURSE. , Inch.

STRAWBERRY PLANTS: SENATOR DUN-
hp and Wnrﬁeld at $4 per thousand and Guan-
rnteed strictly first class or money n ed.
Our 16 years experience costs you nothing. You
get it with every purchase you make of us Our
free mtalogue illustrates and describes ten
varieties. including the three best everbearers. A
valuable book for the grower. HAMPTON &
SONS. R 20. Bangor, Mich

FILM DEVELOPING

 

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KODAK ,FILMS DEVELOPED SAND SIX
prints. 25c. MODERN PHOTO \VORKS, BO!
M. B. F., La Crosse.

 

KODAK FINISHING! NOT THE CHEAP
way, hut’the neat, at a reasonable price. Mail 11!
e, trial order and prove to yourself that it is not
only what you pay but what you get for what
you pay: Our aim always has been and always
will be, "the very best prints from every new
tivs.” MOEN PHOTO SERVICE. Quality Ko-
dak Finishing. Box \1 R ll‘.. Is Crosse. Wis.

 

HONEY

 

HONEY. DIRECT FROM THE PRODUCER

delivered by parcel anywhere in Michi n at
$1.25 per  J... DELAMAEI‘ER,

Oheboygan,

 

PURE CLOVER HONEY, 10 lbs. $2.00; 60
lbs. $10.00, prepaid by mail or express. BLOOM-
F'IFILD APIARIES. Ed Stewart, Port Hope.’

 

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GENERAL

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-
eet. All kinds. Delivered prices. Address "M.
u,”  Michigs Business Farmer. Mt. Clem-
ens. ic - ,

 

 

GOVERNMENT NEEDS RAILWAY MAIL

Clerks, 8133 to 8192 month. Write for free
en questiom. COLULLBUS INSTITUTE.

—4. Gilumbus. Ohio ,

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WANTED POSITION, ON DAIRY FARM BY
young man with wife and two children. Thor-
oughly fnmiliar with up-to-date methods on

mish best of references. Address BO

 

able to fu
, n Businea Farmer. Mt. Clemens,
ichigan. . r
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WANTED. SINGLE EXPERIENCED FARM

homer. No ciurette user. Give experience and
using gunted. L. J. MITCHELL. Holly, Mich_,

 

FOR SALE; RgUNthcEDﬁI} an TAlgA.
rack fence pos . rec r"m a. user. ry
or green stock. 8—4-5-6-inch-post, 7 and 8 ft.
Write for prices F: WWW dz 00., Rogers, Mich.

LL MEN. WOMEN. BOYS. GIRLS OVER

 

11.“ willing to accept Government Positions

$135, (stationary or traveling) r.

Oment, Dept. 855, St. Louis. » Mo., immed‘
tel!

 

WE PAV $200 MONTHLY SALARY, FUR-
nish rig and expenses to all who qualify intro.
duclng guaranteed poultry and stock powders.
BIGTJCR COMPANY. X882 Springﬁeld, Ill.

LEATHER FOR REPAIR WORK. HARNESS,
or sole 30c per pound. Hides tanned for flu-1m
ere. COCHRAN TANNING 00.. Greenville. Mich.

 

 

12x30 USED SAGINAW SILO WITH POOP
F’. O. B. Cor here at $125.00. ROY S. FINCH,
Fife Lake. Mich.

CEDAR POSTS FOR SALE IN CAR L073,
0. A. VOWELLS, Alger, Mich.

 

WANTED, CAR LOAD OF GOOD MIXED
hm, state price loaded at your station. FRANK
HNKE. R 1, Bensonia. Mich. - ‘

IS YOIIB FARM FOR SALE?
Write out a plain description and
ﬁgure 100 for each word, initial or
group of figures for three insertions...

,There‘is n‘o cheaper or better way of

selling a farmd‘n Michigan andyou}
dealudirect with ,- the. buyer.._ 3qu

do your term... and

agents or commissions, en; you Vary;

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LESIIIIRHS

We sre issulhc a. Built“!
that describes the
low! the tar-mar now in"

8 ml for ﬂail
miner o.ur Pure Breed Preo-

    
    
   
 

- 31's"? 53"“ ch- vr-cﬂa, ,‘
.‘3 stock Ill!I w u  now
‘ “m “tiring:- of other states.
Wen like WW- 3”“
an End Leghom of this breeding: the! 11"
“glued White Roch. Bod- W!“

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deﬁes. 0 ‘Anconu.
Br'giAD'ghEomF’ARMS ASSOCIATION
B 2 Kalamazoo. Michigan

ORPINGTONS AND LEGHORNS

Two (rest breeds for prom. Write today (or
g art‘hg'k °‘ “textile our. baby chicks and
res ng . ‘
CYCLE HATCHIR COMPANY. 149 Phil. Ildj.
. Elmira. II. V.

inoLs COMB BROWN wurrz'sub BU"
shoebox-us. s. 1. Beds. 'wmta Wyundnm' "‘4
Eg . stock snd chicks

eon. Write f
r
Codei- Lawn gwltgﬁ-‘m. Dansvllle. W0"- “1

FOR SALE—SILVER SPANOLED HAMBURG
Eu! 0

2.00 per setting. ROSEDALE FARE.
Port Huron. Mich. R1. J. o. Phlipott.

MUD WAY AIISH-KA FARM

#113“ young stock end a few msture breeders in ‘

ite Chinese Geese, White Runner Ducks end

White Wyandottes. Also 0. I. ‘0. sprlnl tilts.
Write today for prices on what you need.
DIKE c. MILLER. Dryden. Mich.

TOP Guam Chicks. Spanish. Mlnorcss, Rocks.
Reds, ysndottes' end 0 ns.

TYRONE POULTRY FARM, Fenton. Mich.
CHINESE GEESE. PEKIN DUCKS. R. 0.

- Br. .
MR8. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdaie, Mich.

‘PLYMOUTI‘I ROCK

 

 

FOR SALE.
narrow

ARRED ROCK OOCKERELS

Bred from a laying strain. Deep
herring. Price 83 each. . _

MRS. ERNEST BELLEN. Whittemore. Mich.

 

HEIMBACH’S White Wyandottes

wondlmcupiorbstdisplsyste Rapids
OoliseumSho. “a ‘

enteredzwin'1.2.8.5.0. 5bens
sndwin2 6.1cockandwin1stieeckerels.
wint'ihilyoungpenwinningmleldpen

nd.

Hove s few utili eookerels snd yearling hens
for sale. Baby chic end he eggs. Abe
1mm Rose Comb Rhoda lshnd Beds 0! good
M. Bend for catalog. ~

0. W. HEIMBACH. Big Rapids, Mich.

EGGS FOR HATOHINO. from wine winnllu
Whi Wysndottes at 83 and 85 par
ANTHONY WARELE. Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

"HilaﬁAKER’S RED CHICK; "biota 
bod listed for white a 00s.

inn’l greatest color and en sirsin. 08h!“
tree. Inter-lakes Fem Box 4. hmnce. .

 

 

CHOICE. SINGLE AND ROSE COMB RHODE
Ishnd White Oockerels for sale. $4.00 esch.
JOHN J. COLBERG. Munoer. Mich.

RHODE ISLAND RED TOMPKINS STRAIN
our end baby chicks eggs. Feb. $12.00;
Ml"- III-IIg 810.00: May. June. July. 38.00.
Chicks twic the rice of eggs. Both combs.
W". H. FRO" . New Baltimore. Mich“ R ‘I

ORPINGTONS
OBPIHGTOHS :YTQKWHITI

HATCHING EGGS IN SEASON.

GRABOWSKE BROS.

Merrill. Mloh.. R 4.

AN GONAS

 

 

INOLE COMB ANCONA COCKERELS. Direct

descendants from pens started with the Worlds
Gimmpdon Layers' sons. Beauties. Prices right.

E. W. McEMBER. Pentwater, MIch., R 1.

3000 EARLY APRIL HATGHED

FULLY MATURED ANCONAS.

BUCKEYE AIIOOIIA FARM

NEW LONDON. OHIO.

, Heavy lsyers end show birds, none better. Res-
sonsble prices and quality stock is our motto.
Can furnish winners for any show. Ask for our
late winnings st Columbus. 0.. Inuisvilie,. Ky.,
Cleveland. 0., Pittsuburg. Pa... Hegerstcwn and
Cumberland, Md. Cks. Hens, Ckls, .Pul. snd

ted Pens always for sale. Eggs and Baby
Chicks in season. 100.000 Incubator capacity.
Write us and get the best -~

 

 

A FEW CHOICE PARTRIDOE ROCK COCK-
ereh for sale at 4 each.
MR8. JAY OAMBER. Linden, Mich.

 

HITE ROCK COOKERELS,
l2 pullers and s cockerel, $36.00.
IFOA RET AIK ENS. lmlay City. Michigan

ARRED: ROCK COOKERELS AND PULLETS
from Amerlm‘s best prize-winning heavy-laying
Winners Detroit National Show Dec.
1921.'of ﬁve First prizes, Low prices
rouse ones. a 10, 81.. Johns, Mich.

$3.00 EACH.

 

BARRED ROCK zoockereis from the famous
Norman strain, winners in the Illinois egg by-
1 contest over all breeds. large, ﬁnely barred

. Is lows at isrmers’ prices.

MRS. JESSIE B. DEAN. R 1, Mason, Mich.

 

ARRED ROCK, Hatching eggs from Psi-lie
200-egg strain from stock direct from Perks
beet pedigreed pens. $2 per 15. 86 per 60, 12
100. Prepaid by perceel post. No eh cks

or sole. R_ O Kirby. H 1. Eat Lansing. Mich.

 

BIRRED ROCKS—MILES heavy-laying. oprizer
in. ' ' $9

. :2, so. 5. 1
LUCLAN min. 'l‘ehcnah‘s. madam

LEGHORNB

SINGLE COMB BUFE LEOHORN BABY
CHICKS. Order now for spring deivery_
Send for circular,

J. W. WEBSTER. R 2. Beth, Mich.

  R. 0. BR. LEOHORN COOKER-
els. the big kind, um sired b, .
Madison Square Winner. ﬂame good ones st
82.50 each. Quality mnnteed.
E. HIMEBAUGH, Goldwater, Mich.-

SINGLE COMB BUFF LEGHORN COCKERELS

Greet laying strain. $2.50 each.
THELO GIT-"FORD, Winn. Mich.

LEGII‘IIRIIS

single Comb Bui! [Asher-n Oockerels 3 to
$5 00 each, Hens snd pallets 82.50 to $85 00
each Will curt 011mm! _ Baby Chicks ' in

rch v
m LAPHAM FARMS. Pinoliney. Michigan.

Gassowsus's .s. o..‘wHi'rE LEGHORNS,
oockerels and eogks for sole. - _
L. o. enseow. KE. Men-iii. mm. H s

WYANDOTI‘E

0. W. GASE
RO0HESTER HIGH.
WHITE YIYAIIDIITTE SPEOIALIST

it re strictly. high-grade young and 1 m
:gcpopnlsr prices. Correspondence soligltid. .

ITE WYANDOTI’ES. KEELER'S
.WIWorid's greatest. best layers. Won six 315
“d ran, Pl outb 1922 show. Good cooker-
$1133“! 00 STMemuzsoW
.  .

NICK ’I'LEOK. Plymouth. Indiana.

mm;
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commons, msnco'r'rss. A FEW 'oiioioa
>. each. Also

Decker-01a from choice ﬂock. 05.00,
x hound...»de to American to:
taken soon- .

 

 
 

 

LANGSHAN

DR. SIMPSON'S LANOSHANS OF QUALITY
Bred for type and color since 1912_. Winter
hying strsin of both Black end White. Have
some eockerels {or sale. Eggs in season.
HAS. W. SIMPSON
Webbervllie. Mich.

TURKEYS

0R SALE. MY THOROUGHBRED WHITE

Holland tom esrs (gilt.5 650 line large bird
to heed ur . rice . .

Fred Pyrusnsugh. R 5, Chesaning. Michigan

GOLLIN‘GS BEST: PURE BRED WHITE HOL-
land Turkeys. Hens. $8. $10 to $12,
MRS. ED. COLLING. Mich.

MIGHIGAII’S BEST °'%¥1.§&“"n§"’§25
birds. Great in size; line in color.
N. EVALYN RAMSDELL. Ionls. Mich.

 

 

 

Toms,
Msyviile.

 

 

FOR BALE—MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
Write for prices. \
MR8. H. D. HORTON, Fliion. Mich.

 

 

 

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Prices for  and April delzigrery:
er

. p 50 100 50.

5. C. American White Leghorns. . . "a . . . $3.50 87.00 $14.00 887-50

3. C Brown Leghorns ...............‘-..... 3.76 1.50 15.00 71.50

8.0.Mottled Amonas..................... 4.00 8.00 18.00 ".50
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I OEOUn‘ARE GOl‘I'lr? TO BUY CHICKS TH:
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punbmdSCWleghomSOBmwlipAncon-
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1932 delivery. Our price are reasonable. We

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QUEEN HATCHERY. Iceland, Mich
D J Van Der Ken], I

BABY CHIX. MARCH AND APRIL'DELIVERY
: Bsnod P nth ks R. I. R

to or Bro’wn Le horns 2
for 35.50' 50 tor $10.00. or 100 {gr Sl'l.00.
parcel post pix-Rid. 100 per cent delivery (USP
mteed. Our 1 a! producing the kind of
chi: tint rhea.  our rises on 600 or 1000
bu. Gnen Lawn Poultry rm. Rs. Wanton. Mich

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I on stem Prices greatly reduced for
 1922 Satisfaction and delivery
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Box 50. Auburn. Ind

 

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PUGKA EGGS...“ P37“ WHITE PEKIN

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8_ O_ M Leghorns one of the largest
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500,000 CHICKS

st very reasonable prices
form our heavy Laying
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hon“. Brown Leghorns
end Anconas. Shipped
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Day Old Chicks_ Standard varieties_ Malia your
selections. Catalogue and price list now ready
H. H. PIERCE. Jerome, Mich,

IIAY OLD 0HIOKS

From the heart of Michigan’s Baby Chick
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aisles.

JAMESTOWII HATGHERY

JAMESTOWN. MICHIGAN

 

 

 

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.4

 TRADEAND MARKET REVIEW
 GRADUAL but steady improve-
' ment is noted in connection

with ﬁ‘ade conditions, both,at
home and abroad and forthe ﬁrst
time in many months 'the clrronic
pessimist is willing to qualify to
some extent, his dismal forbodings
of coming gloom and disaster. One
of the most important indications
of improvement in current trade
conditions is the recent persistenst
rise in the rate of foreign exchange,
especially in connection with ster-l
ling and the franc piece. More than
one valid reason can be assigned for
the improvement in foreign ex-
change values but, probably, the
most potent inﬂuence is the fact that
both England and France are grad-
ually attaining to a more stable and
dependable business footing; these
countries are producing more than
formerly making it necessary to im-
port less from other countries and
making it possible to pay for neces-
sary imports by tendering commodi-
ties of their own production.

That the splendid work accom-
plished by the Armament conference
is having a salutary effect, both upon
the rates of foreign exchange and
upon business in general, whether
domestic or foreign, cannot be de—
nied. In the.main, the questions
which were deﬁnitely decided by the
conference, were settled in a way
that is decidedly favorable to Ameri-
can business interests and as a di-
rect result, a feeling of increased,
conﬁdence is everywhere apparent.
The step, however, which has done

most to restore a workable business '

equilibrium, between America and
the nations on the other side of the
'ocean, is the enactment of legisla-
tion by congress that will change
the debts owed to us by foreign coun-
tries from demand obligations to
long—term securities which can be
liquidated without unnecessarily em-
barrassing business in the debtor
countries.

The situation, in connection with
manufacturing, has shown marked
improvement during the past week.
The demand for structural steel and
pig iron is much more active than
it was on this day last month. While
the business revival is still some-
what spotted, dealers who are too
conservative to give orders of the
same volume as in other years, are
making certain preparations which
are not entirely hard to express.
The tendenCy to “loosen up” ﬁnan-
cially, which is decidedly noticable
in some parts of our own state, is
believed to ‘ * the result of the adop-

tion of a more liberal policy
than the 'ogue earlier in the
season 1)) anks in their deal-

ings with larniers and the business
men in the smaller cities and vi]—
lages of Michigan.

Reports from some of the most
important agricultural sections of
state indicate a much better feeling
than existed at the beginning of the
year; the products of the farm are
increasing, rapidly, in value and the
commodities, that the farmer is
obliged to buy, are gradually work-
ing lower. The above facts, com-
bined with the “easing up" on the
part of the banks, are slowly paint-
ing a silver lining on the dark cloud
that has been hanging over the
American farmer during the past
year.

Reports from the stock exchanges
and the’general security markets of
the country indicate conditions
somewhat mixed but all dividend-
paying securities have, since the turn
of the year, shown independent
strength that augurs well for the fu-
ture; there is good reason to believe
that the time is near at hand, when
men with money to invest, will enter
the market in anticipation of a rise
in values which they are convinced
cannot be far away. ' ,

The dark side of the picture, in
connectiomwith the great speculative
xmarkets of the country, comes with
reéent astounding revelations con-
cerning bucket-shopping methods in
brokerage houses, the country over.

 

months ago, the Michigan"

   

   

Edited by n_ n. MACK

 

MARKET SUMMARY

A11 grains have strong tone and prices are higher. Rye up
to $1.05 on Detroit market and $1.03 at Chicago. Beans ﬁrm and

in demand. Potatoes steady. Hogs and cattle higher.

Butter

shows strength. Increasing rec‘eipts'weaken eggs. Live poultry

improves some.

I

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(Note: The above summarized Information was received AFTER the

“themes-

balance
let page was set In type. It contains last minute Information up to within one-half hour of

going to prese_——Edltor.)

 

If

Business Farmer published a series
of articles explaining the business
methods in vogue in many of the
leading concernswhich buy and sell
stocks and grain on margins; recent
exposures not only completely es-
tablish the accuracy and reliability
of the facts contained in the' articles
referred to but also emphasize the
need for rigid government super-
vision of all brokerage business.

 

\VHEAT

There has,been no let-up in the
advancing trend of the wheat mar-

 

WHEAT PRICES PER BU» FEB. 15, 1922
Grade M. Ch -- qc N 7:.—
1.42 1.86% 141

1 .89
1.39 A13:

Pmcss one YEAR Aeo
INo.2 mains; White! No.2 ’

Detroit .| 1.89 i 1.37 —|'"‘ 1.e1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ket which began about three weeks
ago. Export takings have been large
both from American and Argentine
points. Despite Europe’s poverty
she seems to be able to ﬁnance her
purchases and is a persistent buyer.-
The high prices prevailing the fore
part of last week were expected to
bring out a good deal of the grain,
but either the holders were conﬁdent
of further advances or else the grain
was simply not to be had, for re-
ceipts were disappointing and prices
advanced accordingly. The best
crop authorities agree that the pros-
pects for wheat are the poorest on
record. A large part of the south-
western crop will be well nigh a
total failure. The world’s reserves
have been heavily drawn ~n, and it
is not hard to imagine a condition
when they will be exhausted and all
requirements must be filled from
the curre‘. car’s crops. The Busi-
ness Farms. has persistently believ-

ed in higher wheat values. We have
stated our conviction that wheat
would be back to $1.50 by the ﬁrst
of April. From present indications
it will reach that point earlier, and
how much higher it will go is a
matter of conjecture with most
guesses ranging anywth from
$1.60 to $2 per bushel. ‘

 

CORN
Saturday, February 11, marked
the closmg of the second Week of

-07R7N PRICES PER 30., FEB. 15, 1922

 

heads lgroitwl—Chicagol N. V
‘10.“2‘Veuow .. "36"" “.58! “’
Yo. a Yellow .58 .58'//: .12”
No. 4 Yellow

 

 

PnicKon—E'An‘iseo —

mo. 2 Vourluiws'veﬂné. e Yell

Damn—"I | .70 i .67—

continuous strength in the corn mar,
get. It has been some time since.
such a thing has ocCured. Advances
made last week were not large but
when the prices did go higher there
was no hesitancy and advances held.
Domestic demand in general was
good but the buying by houses with
eastern connections attracted partic—
ular attention. Exporters also were
very active and appeared in the mar-
ket daily. Clearances were again
heavy. According to ofﬁcial reports
exports of corn so far this season
aggregates four times the amount
in-the same period last year. Re-
ceipts continued large amounting to
3,491 cars at Chicago last week, oom-
pared With 1,766 last year. Domes-
tic shipping sales at this point were
30,000 bushels and foreigners took
125,000 bushels. Resorts received
in this country the latter part of
the week she vine; the Argentine crop
to be damaged to the extent or 30
per cent proved a very strong argu-
ment on the null side of the market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

Foster’s Weather Cheri for  I f
‘ Tu'n 1 l IAII.'17'.-.'. .- L-nV—Tn'_y'.ln -'
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Above chart is for meridian 90. 2 inc extend'ng north
and south from St. Louis. Weather chansgee move from
extreme northwest to that line in about days and from
that line toAtianLIc west in about 2 days. Straight
line avers e temperatures; crooked line above warmer,
below cooIir; heavy line severe storm and most pre-
cipitetion.

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb_ 16,
1922.——The week centering on Feb_ 24
will average about normal tempera-
tures on meridian 90 from Gulf of

'Mexico to the far north. The high
temperature of that disturbance will
be in northwestern Canada about Feb,
22, in Michigan Feb. 25, and in east-
ern sections Feb, 26, A cool wave
will be in northwestern Canada near
Feb, 24, in Michigan Feb, 27, eastern
sections Feb, 28.

Great extremes of temperature are
not expected and the weather will be
moderate, Last warm wave of the,
month is expected to be in northwest—
ern Canada near Feb, 26, in Michigan
Feb. 29, in eastern sections March 2.
Cool wave in northwestern Canada
March 1, in Michigan March 3, east-
ern sections March 5. My weather
map, showing all the locations I use
in these weather bulletins, will be sent
free to subscribers of any newspaper
authorized to pubish my weather bul-
letins, ‘

i am expecting the weather of
March to average" near the‘ average
of Oct; Nov., Dec,, 1921 and Jan,;

 

THE .W.EATHER FOR NEXT WEEK
As Forecasted‘ by W. '1‘. Foster for '1‘ he Michigan Business Farmer

_ lief is expected

,other buildings in the District of Co-

weather will occur during ApriL
March has a reputation for bad
weather and will at least be equal to
its average this year. Its most severe
storms will occur during the weeks
centering on Feb. 28, March 16 and
27. The shortage of rain in the
American winter wheat section will
continue thru the month, but some re—
from the severe
storms

I make a distinction between a
shortage of rain and a drouth, The
latter has excessive evaporation, takes
more than usual moisture out of the
soil. The cause of this difference is
very easily understood and the knowl-
edge of it is very important_ Ameri-
can winter wheat is being damaged
by a shortage of moisture and not by
a drouth. If excessive evaporation
had been added the American winter

wheat crop would now be a total
failure.

An unusual num‘ver of building
wrecks occurred within tw or three
days of the greatest ear quakes of
recent times, which is said to have
temporarily changed the earth’s axis,
Jan_ 31, 1922, At that time a notable
astronomical event occurred, The Sun,
Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Sa-
turn were in relative positions that
would cause a great electro-magnetic
explosion if electro-dynamo magnets
were. placed in similar relative posi-
tions, I suggest'the question: Did .
the causes 'of that great earthquake
have anything to do with wrecking
the Knickerbocker Theater and two 

lumbia ? .

 

 

 

Feb., 1222, but a’great change in crop-

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I { OATS 7
Visible supply of oats is still large
but the spread between this year’s

 

0AT_PRIOE§ PER eg... ran. 15. 1e22 .

 

 

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No. 2 WIN“ ... .43. .83 4 “V4
'0. a Will“ . e_.e AW]: .86
Not! wulu . . .

 

PjiOES ONE YEAR A00
' [No.2 White! No.8 White! No.4 Whiz.
Detroit . I A. I “V: I .48 '/2

suppllies and' last is rapidly dwind-
ling. Export trade is on the ,. n,
and a general tone of ﬁrmness per-
vaded the market last week. Ex-
ports to date are nearly a million

'bushels over experts for the same
period last year. It is taking the oat
market some time to get on its feet,
but we believe that it, too, will ﬁnd
its stride and follow sooner or later
the course recently taken by the
wheat. market.

 

 

 

 

 

RYE

Rye was very active on the Detroit
market last week and at the close
last Saturday the total advance in
price for the week amounted to 10c.
The market at Chicago was not so
strong or active and ﬁnished the
week easy in tone. Cash No. 2 is
$1 at Detroit and present indications
are that it will continue to go still
higher. We believe the farmer who
has been kicking himself because he
did not sell his rye last. fall will be
patting himself on the back before
long.

BARLEY
Prices in the Chicago barley mar-

‘ ket continue to advance, but at De-

troit they have again come to a
standstill. The tone of the market
is quiet. Prices are 58@64c per
bushel on the Chicago market and
$1.15@$1.26 ’per cwt. at Detroit. ’

BEANS

Eastern points report. an exceed-
ingly dull bean market, but at both

 

JEAN PRICES PER CWT" FEﬁgijs. 1922
Grace Deiroxl Ch 0 \go 4 ’

5.50 5.8" .55
I I 8.75 I

:. H. P. 
ted»_|(ridneye A. . .
_ PRipEs ONE YEAR AGO
___,  L°- H
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..| 8.90

Chicago and Detroit the tone last
week was very strong with several
important advances on the lamer
market. Saturday's market closed
at $5.30 and the current week open-
ed with the tone still strong and
prices higher. We still expect to
see a temporary sag in this mar-
ket, providing other large markets
of the country do not very soon
register proportionate advances

Detroit"

 

 

 

POTATOES
There is little change in the pota—
to market. Some sections report a

 

 

 

 

ePuns PER cwr.. FEB. 15. 1922

_ v Soakedl Bull

Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.20

chic.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.95

New York . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.25

Pltuburg . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.15 M

 PRICES one vssngoo
Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .| 2.00 |

 

 

 

slightly better tone, while others a
lower one. Prices in the New York
district stiffened up somewhat the
ﬁrst of last week but slumped again
toward the close of_the week. The
Detroit market which has been very

'sluggish for some weeks back show— ‘

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end of the week. Eastern farmers

.. are still getting from $1 to $1.10 per

bushel and few of them show any'
inclination to sell below that price.

In view of the material-improvement

in the prices of nearly all other

farm products we look for an early

recovery of the potato market.

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The high prices which have lately
been paid for onions have brought
out considerable supplies and the

market has taken a turn and prices,

are some lower at eastern points.
Yellow and 'red onions were selling
at New York the first of the week
at $7 to $8.50 per cwt., and some
western white onions brought as
high as $10, but the majority of the
sales were between $8 and $9. At
Michigan points prices on onions
rule ﬁrm to higher. ’

APPLES ‘

England is buying large quantitie
of American apples, weekly exports
averaging around 100,000 boxes and
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In spite of the facts that there is
a rather bearish undertone to the

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not active buyers the wool market
shows no signs of weakening. De-
mand has slackened some but stocks
are low at most points. Eastern
markets appear more inclined to
take on a bearish appearance than
western markets but it is very
doubtful if prices will turn- lower,
in the near future at least.

The Commercial Bulletin of Bos-
ton gives prices as follows: Domes-
tio——Ohio and Pennsylvania ﬂeeces:
Delaine unwashed, 48@50c; ﬁne un-
washed, 38@39c; 1-2 blood camb-
ings, 4204“; 3—8 blood combiugs,
Michigan and New York
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ﬁne unwashed, 34@36c: 1-2 blood
unwashed, 39@41c; 3-8 blood un-
washed, 39@41c; 1-4 blood un-
washed, 37039c. Wisconsin, Mis-
souri and average New England: 1-2
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS

No improvement in the cattle
market is visible at this writing and
feeders are well nigh hopeless con-
cerning the future. Chicago got
700 less cattle, last week than dur-
ing the week before; t e quality
was poor, all week and top prices
were the lowest since June, 1921
The Chicago top for prime steers,
last week, was $8.90; no extra qual-
ity yearling steers came to hand but
a good load of yearling heifers sold
for $8.75 per cwt. Eastern dressed
beef markets were ’dull and slow all
the week but order buyers were the
life of’the Chicago cattle trade; to-

_ ward the middle of the week, the

scarcity of choice steers caused some,
of the medium kind to sell higher,
relatively speaking, than for a long
time. Feeding steers are fairly ac-
tive but the demand is comparative-

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' Common stockers

Receipts of: sheep and lambs fell
off sharply at Chicago, last week,
the loss from the showing of the
week before, being more than 26,-
000. Prices were higher in all
branches of the trade, the gain on
both sheep and lambs being fully

, 50 cents per cwt. for the week.- Year-

lings that were so dull, week before
last, came back like a quarter-horse,
last week, selling at new record
prices for the year. The top for year-
lings was $13; mature wethers sold
for $9 and aged ewes for $8.90. The
top for fat lambs was $14.75 and for
feeding lambs, $12.75. An extra
band of shearling lambs sold for
$13.60. Colorado lambs are coming

‘and selling for $14 to $14.25.

Chicago got 7 600 fewer hogs last
week than during the week before.
Shippers took 65,000 hogs from Chi-
cago, last week, making the competi-
tion stronger than at any preceding
date, this year. The big packers
were out of the market until near
the dlose of the week when they led
a strong upturn, securing their share
of the hogs. In a recent issue the
Chicago Breeders Gazette published
the following:

“Stocks of cut meats at the prin-
cipal western packing points, Chi-
cago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis,
Milwaukee and St. Joseph increased
only 17,873,000 pounds during Janu-
ary, compared with 35,916,000 last
year, 60,059,000 in 1920 and 98,-
087,000 in 1919. On Feb. 1 the
total stock at these points was but
172,848,000 pounds, against 239,-
458,000 last year. The stock of lard
on the same date was 27,790,000
pounds, compared with 48,023,000 in
1921. Allowance must be made,
however, for the phenomenally
heavy buying 'by eastern killers all
through the winter, the logical con-
clusion being that they are carrying
a larger accumulation than hereto-
fore. No doubt exists that the en-
tire stock, visible and otherwise, is
light and in strong hands, this be-
ing reﬂected by increasing specula-
tive interest in provisions and high-
er prices. Exports of lard continued
of seasonal volume, and domestic de—
mand for all kinds of hog product
is insistent. So far the expected
heavy February hog run has failed
to materialize, creating a prospect
that this month's accumulation of
lard and cured meats will be below
normal."

WEEKLY MARKETGRAM
U. 8. Bureau of Markets & Crop Estimates

WASHINGTON, D, C,, For the week
ending Feb, 11, 1922,

FEED—Market inactive, Traders
have no difﬁculty in ﬁlling orders; coun-
try buyers hesitant at current levels,
Advance in corn has been helpful but
moderate weather in . rincipal feeding
sections has created s ghtly easier feel-
ing, Offerings of wheat feeds by mills
light for February but good for March
and April shipments, Cottonseed meal
steady, sales of small ‘ volume. Lin
meal ﬂrm, Gluten feed and Hominy feed
quiet, prices unchanged? stocks good
movement fair, Quoted ch, 9: Bran.
$23.50; middin 823,60: flour middlings,
$25.50, Mlnnea is,

GRAIN—A better feeling existed in
the trade throughout the week and prices
advan Chicago May wheat up eight
casts closing at 81,23. Chicago May corn
up cents at 59 cents, Principal
market factors were: World wheat situa-
tion higher foreign markets and decreases
in visible supply and improved milling
demand, Carlot receipts at Chicago dur-
ing week ending Feb, 10: 204
8,491 corn, 644 cam, as compared with
100 wheat, 1,750 339 oats same
period last year. Closing prices in Chi-

msh market: No, 2 red winter
wheat. $1,“; No 2 hard winter wheat.
81,28; No, 2 mixed corn 54c; No. 2 yellow
com 540', No, 3 white oats 370: average
farm prices No, 2 mixed corn in central
Iowa about 410' No 1 dark northern

t in central 'Norcﬁ Dakota 31.27 1-2;
No, 2 Hard winter wheat in central Kan—-
sas $1.12,

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steady, g somewhat irregular with
active fan

 

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New York 37 1-2: engage 30 1-2: Phila-
delphia 87: Boston 361—2: cheese mare
keis showed a little steadier tone.- Trad-
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general demand excegt in extreme east
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yearling! 26c to 500 per 100
pounds, Feb-11. Chicago prices: he s
top $10.25; bulk of sales saw-$10.15:
medium and good beef steers $7-$9;
cows and heifers “Jo—$4.75;

  

   

butcher
feeder steers $5,15-$7,10; light and medi-

um weight veal calves $7-$11; fat lambs
$12,75-$14.85; feeding lambs $11.25-
$13,25; yearlings $10-$1325; fat ewos

  

$7.75-$8.25: stacker and feeder Shipments
from 12 important markets during the
week ending February 4 were: cattle and
calves 45,010; hogs 5,485; sh 28,651.
The trend of eastern whol e fresh
meat prices was down. Veal ranged from
81-33 lower: mutton down $1-$2; lamb
down 81; beef weak to 50¢ lower: pork
loins practically unchanged, Feb, 10
prices good grade meats: beef $11.50-
$13: veal $16-$19; lamb $24-$26; mutton
$12-$14; light pork loins $16-$18: heavy
loins $11-$14,

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—Chica-
go potato market stronger, most other
cities weaker. New York sacked round
whites down 25c to 30¢ in New York Citv
at $205-$215 per 100 pounds: weaker in
Philadelphia at $215-$240: Maine sack-
ed Green Mountains down loo-15c in
eastern markets at $215-$225: northern
round whites up 15c in Chicago at $1,70-
$1,95; Colorado and Idaho rurals steady
in Chicago at $2.25: Maine Green Mount-
ains, in bulk down 10c f, o, b, northern
Maine points at $1,46-$1,56;
sacked round whites weaker f. o, b, at
$1,88@1,92, Northern stock slightly
weaker f, o, b. at $1,50@1,75, Apple
markets steady for barreled stock. ﬁrm
for boxed stock, New York Baldwins
sold at $7,50@8 per barrel in city whole-
sale markets, Wire orders at shipping
points $7@7,25, Michigan stock ﬁrm in
Chicago at $8608.50, Auction sales in
New York and Chicago $2,50@2,85, Cab-
bage markets irregular. Many showing
weaker tone, Northern stock firm in St.
Louis at s40@45,

REVIEW OF THE BUTTER MARKETS
. WEEK ENDING FEB, 11th
Markets Irregular and Unsettled

Unsettled conditions with markets un-
balanced and working at cross purposes
was the notable feature of the butter
markets ,during the week ending Feb,
11th. All markets ’opened unsettled but
the price tendency on the Eastern mar-
kets was lower while at Chicago it was
higher, As a result, prices at Chicago all
week were relatively the highest, At
New York, Boston and Philadelphia ac-
cmnulations were carried over from the
previous week and all week trading was
hardly active enough to prevent further
accumulations, Practically the only
sustaining inﬂuence was the dim position
of the Chicago market where supplies
were barely sufficient to satisfy buyer's
demands and at times sellers found it
necessary to reduce customer’s orders in
order to give some to each buyer, East-
ern markets had a bearish influence on
Chicago corresponding to the steadying
effect of Chicago on the east.

Among the more important factors con-
tributing to this difference between the
markets were the heavier receipts at New
York and further arrivals of foreign
butter. Receipts for the four cities dur-
ing the ﬁrst half of the week were about
1,600 tubs heavier than during the same
period of the previous week, At Chicago
they were about the same, Boston and
Philadelphia showed a large increase, and
at New York there was an increase
amounting approximately to 6,000 tubs,

, Besides this. New York reports the at»

rival of 1,300 boxes of Australian butter
by rail from the west, About 5,000
boxes of Argentine is also expected dur—
ing the week,. This increase in arrival
of fresh goods was found hard to absorb.
especially when many of the buyers are
still using storage butter.
Markets Steadler Toward Close
At the close of the week the markets
appeared to be working toward a more
normal position. This is only natural
since the market relatively highest draws
the most butter from the shippers and the
one lowest develops the best demand,
New York gradually became firmer and
Chicago, while probably no weaker, was
ined from markets generally
for the week. there was a fair movement
of recipts into consuming channels, Due
to poor quality because of winter condi-
tions, ﬁne butter was well cleaned up.
Medium and undergrades were in more
liberal supply and somewhat in excess
of the demand but the accumulations
were not large, There was a fair de-
mand for storage goods. Storage prices
were held about steady all week,

MARKET NOTES
Traverse City is making a bid, for a
potato flake factory which would use a
tug. part of the potato crop in the Grand
Traverse region.
markets continue weak, some
recent sales being made as low as $25

r ton,

Indications are that the California
acreage of small white beans will be re-
duced and the acreage of limas increased,

Eighty percent of the 1921 pinto bean
crop of Colorado and New Mexico have
been marketed and offerings from grow-
ers are practically nil,

Connecticut farmers are going in
strong for standardization attracive
packaging and advertising of their farm
products

A table of food costs in Berlin Dec~
91 received at Washington, D. C, shows
the following price averages in marks,

exchange rate on that date being
18! marks to the dollar: Bread 7 marks
per pound; flour, 6.50 per pound; pot.»
toes. 1,50; rice, 7; sugar, 8: beef, 23°
pork. 24; veal, 2:; coffee, 50; evaporated
mﬁkb,24 per pound can; eggs, 49, A note
said there was little sugar available at-
the price given.

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FARM I EXPORTS, 13081921
; X PORTS of agricultural
products last year —- the
largest total volume in the
country’s history -—-' exceeded
those of 1920 by nearly 4,000,-
000 tons, and were almost
twice as large as the prewar
volume in 1918, according to
a statement issued February 8
by the Department of Com-
merce. During the last year,
agricultural exports totaled
more than 20,000,000 tons, for
which $2,000,000,000 was re-
ceived, compared with 16,500,-
000 tons worth.$3,000,000,000
in 1920, and 10,500,000 tons,
valued at $1,000,000.000 in
1918.

 

 

 

THE FELDKAMP HOG SALE

N Saturday, February 11, a sale, of

Large Type Poland China hogs was

held on a farm about ﬁve miles
northwest of Manchester, The name of
the breeder who made the sale was A,
A, Feldkamp and the quality of the ot-
ering was about the best of the year, so
far. Associated with Mr, Feldkamp, in
making the sale, was Amos C. Curtis
and G, N, Smyth, both of Manchester,,
The tremendous crowd that attended this
sale must be regarded as a testimonial
to the high character and reputation for
square dealing enjoyed by Mr, Feldkamp
and his associates,

One of the sensational features of the'
sale was a group of ﬁve gilts, two months
less than a year old, that sold for a total
of $417, The dam of the gilts mentioned
above was sold to A,_ G, Curtis by Mr,
Feldkamp a short time before farrow-
ing tune and the pigs were developed by:
Mr, Curtis and placed in this sale; there
were two splendid boars in the litter which
are said to be worth $40 each. Mr. Feld—
kamp has a. reputation for coaxing young
men into hog-breeding undertakings of
which the above is a. fair sample,

Nearly all of the leading Poland China
breeders in lower Michigan were present
at the Feldkamp auction, and boosted the
game for all they were worth, The auc-
tioneers were Cot, Ed Bowers, South
Whitley, 1nd,: 001. John Hoffman, Hud-
son, Mich, and Col, F, D, Merithew, of
Manchester. The Michigan Business
Farmer was represented at the sale by
H, H, Mack,

The following is a partial list of the
buyers at the Feldkamp sale: 8, W.
Detwiler, Charles Spo Russell and C.
P, Smith, of Britten; on Jacobs and
Samuel Hazelschwardt, of Grass Lake;
IL B, Dresserhouse, Clarence Curtis,
William Athens, Lamb Brothers, J, W,
Knapp and D. L Lewis of Manchester;
John Hoffman a Son, Hudson; H, C,
Needham & Son, Saline: William Choate,
Ida; Bert McCornish, Riga; Peter Alex-
ander, Albion; H, A, Lohn, Azalia; John
Lucht and Charles H ,Buss, of Chelsea;
A. J, Peek & Son, Jackson; W, H, Eis-
man, Chelsea ; William F, Cheats, Cement
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