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z _ y - SATURDAyJUNEsm, 1918

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>th in? ffgort enemas; Bean market I i.

Slowly Dymg Fromm Effects

_ _, ff; of“the~.PintO-,Wirus

. . Br GnAN'rESiocUMLV
The old adage, “better late than never,” force-

L'full; applies to the present‘activity’on‘ the part
f, of," a Food Administration to relieve the bean
' gwsituatioh. in‘this'state.’ Two .prominent men have
‘, been sent; here from Washington and they are
‘17,;gath'erihg first-hand information, which will be

,‘placed befOre Mr.gHoover, with recommendations

7 as to the best plans“ for Immediately relieving the

"eituation. This extort? on the part Of the Food Ad-
ministration is appreciated, but it comes too late
to materially help the one vital question—in-

aclreased ‘acreagex UWe have had splendid spring

Weather, farmers have planted heavily in all

spring crops, and right now our information shows

. that the‘b'ean acreage in Michigan thisyear will

not exceed "sixty per cent of "last year’s totals.

"lems Of no: mean proportion.
Paradoxical as it may appear, the market fer

that, 'too,"_at a time when we are cautioned to
“save food," to conserve every ounce of the staple
products. There’ is no demand 'for the "‘white
bean,” scarcely an inquiry from the wholesale
grocers; and.mark you, this information does not
come from the buyers of beans, it comes direct
through actual touch with the market. If you
ask for the reason for present conditions, who
is respOnsible fer destroying the demand, and
thus. spilling the. life=bl_ood of the market, my an-
swer wOuld be: “The bean divisibn of the Food
Administration.” Naturally your next question
would be: “How, when. _ «

, This is to. be regretted, for in the writer’s opinion
'_ the coming winter} is going to bring food prob-

this excellent food product, is 'lifeless,'dead; and '

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[him We Are trying to Help!-
' .WEs'rEnN' UNION TELEGRAPH

Theodore Whitmore, National Food Admin-

istration, Washington, D. 0.

Bean situation “in this state should have
immediate attention. Growers appeal to
'Food Administration to extend some help to

Michigan as has been extended to C‘alifor.

nia‘growers. Not only must valuable food

products become .total loss but planting is
being discouraged. A little government
help right now will relieve situation—Grant

Slocum. '

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POSTAL TELEGRAPH
, , Washington, D. 0., June 1
Grant Slocum, 1207 Woodward Ave, Detroit.

Food Adm. realizes seriousness situation.
Would be glad your personal recommenda-
tions we are. deluged complaints musty
shipments from Mich. and buyers asking
relief against shippers. Could Mich. offer
any quantity strictly handpicked and guar—
antee stock to keep good condition» forthree
months during rail and water shipments?—
Food Adm. Kimball.

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
National Food» Administrator Kimball,

Washington, D. C.

I estimate more than 200 cars handpicked
guaranteed dry beans ready for shipment
out of this state. Many beans in farmers’
hands, some damp could be saved. Hope
government will take immediate steps to
relieve serious situation here—Grant Slo-
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tion: “I have been handling beans for nearly a
quarter of a century, and never have I seen so lit-
tle demand; it has always been possible to sell
beans at some price until this spring.” “In your
opinion Who 'killed'the market?” This was the
answer} “I say without hesitation that it is my
’Opinion thatthe bean market was killed by the
Food Administration placing Soy beans and near-
ly every other commodity (Continued on page 6)

MR. sPun REACHES
MARKEl TOO LATE

Much-Abused Individual Puts in Belated Ap-
pearance After Numerous Adventures
Which Handicapped his Progress
and Destroyed His Welcome

“If you have tears, prepare to shed» them now.”
Mr. Irish Spud, of 1917 parentage, well known to
the, farmers of Michigan, is about to make his final
bow and depart hence. His whiskers have be-
come long and antique, his eyes are beginning to
water, and many wrinkles line his noble counten-
ance.

No spud family ever rowed a harder row than
the 1917 generation. From the cradle to the grave,
now yawning to receive the last of his tribe, his
lot has been a hard and sad one. Once he was
welcomed at the tables of the best families of the
land; but on so many occasions he failed to keep
his appointments that he has now been outcasted
and his brother from the south is rapidly taking
his place in the graces of the people. ’Tis a sad
story. Bring out the smelling salts and the ’ker.
chief.

The story is an old one. Every potato grower
in Michigan is familiar with portions of it. But
a review will do no harm. You all know What
difficulties were encountered in raising last year’s
crop. high seed cost, labor shortage, unseasonable
weather, early frost, and wet harvesting weather.
We have every reason to believe that the majority
of Michigan farmers were expecting to market
their potatoes as soon as dug at the then pre—
vailing prices of 90 cents to $1.25. This statement
is, of course, disputed by those upon whose shoul-
ders the direct responsibility for the later devel-
opments properly rest. We know that thousands
of farmers know that they absolutely COULD NOT
AFFORD to sell their potatoes at the prevailing
prices, after they had been passed over the gov-
ernment grading screens. The
farmers were thunderstruck

 

where?” These’ questions
-will be answered in a later
issue of_ this publication;
right now we are most inter-
ested in the present and
future of. the bean market.-
'However, this suggestion will
not be out.of place: Could
you expect any food product . l
to survive after going thru
t' the trials and tribulations
which have beset- the little
white bean, from the time it
poked its head above the
wet, cold earth last spring; _
Was harvested between cold
fall showers, and finally plac-
ed upon the market labeledas
a “luxury, selling, at a fancy
price, and not equal to the
Pinto bean selling at a much
‘less price.” Could any com-
. modity have stood the on-"
slaught from every corner,—:
the pitiless' campaign of.
publitlty, the fluncalled>for
and unfair -ooinnetition and.

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'WHY DID'NT YOU
cons-r0 TOWN EARLIER?
, PAID SEVENTY
CENTS A PECK FOR
your: KlND.

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ed for the first time, on the
very eve of potato marketing
that a grading rule was in
effect which would force them
to keep from 30 to 50 per cent
of their entire prop. _ .
For the time being the po-
tato movement was practical-
ly paralyzed because the
farmers could not figure out
how they are going to sell
their potatoes under those
rules and come clear of their
investment. At this time, be
it remembered, cars were com-
paratively plentiful. All dur-
ing the month of October and
early November, dealers ex—
perienced little difficulty in
securing all the, cars they
needed. Those -. were the
months when the potatoes
should normally be marketed,
and unquestionably would
have been marketed last year:
were it not for the grading
rules. We want someone tO'
dispute this statement. 'We‘
want to produce the facts and
figures to PROVE that theirs;
ands upon thousands of bush¥;'*', :

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»- the next three-months fer campaigning, there has
fibeen little grumbling 'over ther'President’s request.
= The spirit, has been that it is the commander in
. chief of the army and navy who speaks and that
. his wishes must be respected. The principalob-
I jections to continuing the present session and pass-
ing a revenue bill at this time is the fact that the
treasury does not really need the money at this
time, and also that a- heavy tax bill right now
might have a disastrous psychological effect upon
the voters, so far as the political aspirations of
lcongressionall aspirants are concerned. Senator
Sherman" 'of Illinois has been loud. spoken in his
. criticism of the President’s decision. He believes
that inasmuch as the treasury will need no addi-
' tional funds until next spring the duty to provide
these funds should devolve ‘upon the incoming
congress. But the President wisely argues that
the people have a right to know far in advance
what additional taxes they must pay and that the
“political aspect should be of secondary nature. And
so before congress adjourns a bill will be passed
to raise four billion dollars thru taxation before
next spring. The new taxes will levy lightly
against the necessaries of life,“ it is believed, the
President having laid special emphasis upon the
need of higher taxes on war profits, from which
the bulk of the revenue will be obtained.
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Latest advices from congressional circles are
to the effect that determined efforts will be made
by certain senators, led by Borah of Idaho, to put
the bulk of additional taxes that must be raised
upon war profits. Specifically, it is the intention
of this group of anti-war profiteers to give the
government authority to take all war profits in
excess of 20 per cent. The average war profits
tax at the present time is 31 per cent. Western
senators believe the time has come when profit-
eering should be checked, and those who are
making money out of the war be compelled to
bear a larger proportion of its costs. The Eng-
lish rate which is much higher, is being held up
as an argument in this connection. Efforts to in-
crease the taxes against war profits when the
first revenue bill was passed, did not have the
sanction of President Wilson, who apparently
felt that the active co-operation of capital was re-
quired at. all costs at that time in order to rush
the early war preparations. The President is now
convinced, however, that certain capitalists and
manufacturers of war supplies are waxing fat
from war profits, and must be curbed in some mam-
ner or other. The proposal to take all but 20
per cent of war profits seems fair enough when it
is considered that war profits are construed to
mean profits in excess of normal pre—war profits,
which are taxed very lightly. In his speech be-
fore congress, urging that the session be contin-
ued until the new revenue law was brought into
being, the President emphasizes the need of higher
taxes against war profits, and with his support,
it is believed that the new taxes will be levied
accordingly.

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An additional 280,000 men will be called into
service during the month of June. The majority
of these men will be recruited from the new list
of registrants who have reached the age of 21
years since the draft bill was passed. Increased
training camp facilities and the more rapid move-
ment of troops overseas are given as the reasons
for the increased demand for raw recuits. Pro-
viding the shipping facilities continue to increase,
the nation will be able to supply men in almost
any quantity that can be handled to advantage at
the front. When this time comes, the Kaiser will
feel the full force of American strength, and the
tide of battle will begin to turn.

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The government has taken over the express
business. Four companies, the American, Adams,
Wells-Fargo, and Southern, have been consolidated
into one company under the name of the Federal
Express Company, with a capital of $30,000,000.
Mr. McAdoo, the directing genius of the railroads
and the treasury, effected the amalgamation and
will have direct supervision‘over the’express bus-
iness for the remainder of the war“. To eliminate

   
  
      
      
     
      
     
   
     
 
   
   
    
 

 
  

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fortunes are at stake and that they" should use, "

was a record for that type of vessel, Plans are be-
ing made to launch 16‘ héwjvésaels'on thePacific'
coast July 4th. Under the supervision 'of Chan,
M. 'Schawb the shipbuilding program is going fob,
ward by leapsfind- bounds, andf‘if f‘mips will ’win
‘the war’.’ the United States ought to havesome-
thing to say about the event next. year. ‘ '
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Final'computations by, the Red Cross "war coun-f
cil indicating total subscriptions to‘ the- second.
Red Cross drive of $170,000,000. .-Nanny.47,000,ooo
people ‘or about one-half the' population of the

’ country contributed to the cause. -Michigan tri-

pled its quota and Was the first state in the‘union
to go over the top... The result of the campaign
gives everyone concerned in the, winning of the
war cause for the utmost satisfaction.

 

Ttlanta, Ga, federal 'prison is to have arcotton. fab-
rics factory.

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Wyoming has a prohibition campaign in c6al camps
as a war-time measure, _ ' ~

BButte, Mont., is paved with ore once regarded as
practically worthless, now valued at $32.0 09. .ton.‘

New Orleans school pupils are to be given intensive
military training. '

Soldiers are required to wear their uniforms on
duty, and in time of war they are on duty all the time..

A Russian inventor claims to have perfected a motor
tiliatdcan safely utilize electricity drawn from storm
0 cu s. ‘

Michigan claims the distinction
state to pass its Red Cross quota.
oversubscribed by a huge margin.

Engineers in Sweden are experimenting with per-
forating the webs of street car rails to increase their
resiliency and increase their life when laid on rigid
foundations. '

North Dakota, following the lead of several eastern
states now has a statute making it a- misdemeanor
forban able—bodied man between the age of 18 and 50
to e idle.

There never was any legislation making the eagle
an American emblem, but it was placed on the great
seal of the United States as adopted in 1782, and was
placed on the first coins issued by the new government
and by common consent, it has been accepted as the
national emblem.

The government owned railways and telegraphic
service in China showed profits during 1917' of $13,-
500,000 and $3,800,000, respectively. The deficiency
in the postal service for the same period was only
$110,000. This leaves a net profit in the three depart-
ments of $17,190,000 for the year. ,v

General John B. Castleman. Louisville, Ky., one of
Morgan’s raiders, who was captured and condemned
g? a spy during the Civil war, recently died. His

ost treasured possession was the original reprieve
signed by President Lincoln, which saved him from
a firing squad. He served in the Spanish-American
war.

The giant 50,000,000 candle power light installed
at Niagara Falls is one of the largest in the world
and makes of its vicinity an exceedingly brilliant spot,
but it has been demonstrated that it would take 32,-
500,000,000,00‘0 of them to do the illuminating of the
sun. The figures are not guessed, but scientific calcu-
lations based on long and elaborate experiments.

The boundary line between the United States and

of being thefirst
The quota. Will be

Canada runs through the center of each of the four ,

border lakes that lie along or between the two coun-
tries and jurisdiction over the lakes is shared. There
is a permanent international waterways commission,
consisting of three Americans and three Canadians,
that has control of the use of the waters of the lakes
for power and other purposes.

Exports employed .in the department of biological
studies of Mexico have reported that after careful 'in—
vestigation of the lands reclaimed by the drainage of
Lake Texcoco, in the vicinity of Mexico City, there
have been rendered available some 80,000,000 tons of
mineral salts, including common ‘-salt, caustic soda.
bicarbonate of soda, etc., ‘ for all of which there is a
large demand in the republic in various industries.

_Benja.min Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette was the
first American newspaper to print a cartoon. There
were rumors of a possible war 'With- the French, which
resulted in a call for a meeting at Albany of the repre-
sentatives of the British colonies. .Franklin was one
of the commissioners, and to increase the force of an
appeal for united action, on May 9, 17 54, printed at car-
toon representing a snake cut into eight parts, the
head representing New England and the other seven
parts the colonies outside of New England. The leg-
end read: “Join or die."

Gas for street lighting was first used in Pall Mall,
London, 111 years ago. The first attemptto introduce
the use of gas in America was in Baltimore in 1816.
The project was unsuccessful. In 1822 it was intro-
duced in Boston, and in the following year New York
streets were lighted by gas. The-system did not prove
successful, however, until 1827. 7- The uSe of gas spread
rapidly in other cities iii the United States and Can—
ada. Rosin and oil were used for producing gas in.
America in the early days 01' the industry, but later
Newcastle coal and the Albert coal of Nova Scotia
were employed. , .

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‘ one of thebig, German liners interned in an American

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fii'cting enormous losses, iret fig
Many mar,
engaged on the. various fronts; ,. .. _ y , ,_
Germans numerous lessons: about their} . , .,
"pep" of our sea. fightersr'aflhe Germans‘ha gag-teamed
that {the ‘A‘merica'ne are-highly trained, ,andfthat fwhen
it comes toghand-to-hand contests,- Fritljis badlughand ‘ .
capped. The Germanispldier,,while.~.weiltrained an at,
partf'of an, OrsahIB-tm7 lesee alt ”lg-control when.
thrmvn on his ownresources. " ' .fl *5. .
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The United States transport President .fijhincoln,» ens}
routefrom a European port to' an American port, and-' .
presumably with little 'cargo and few, if, any passen-~ "
gene, was torpedoed andpsunk “late this .week. A; far;
as knovm, there: were nocasua‘dties, ails the crewman}
ample time to take. to -the befits in the hour fin which,
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port at the outbreak of the war in 1914. On this
country’s‘entra‘nce. intO‘ the conflict, this and the. other
interned craft 'wer' eized, after nearly all had. been“
damaged by the German crews which had been per-
mitted to remain with their ships. The .boats were
repaired, re-chrlstened, and put in the transport ser-
vice. Practically all of the great ships of the Ger
man marine were planned originally as transports“
American ‘ofliciais on seizing theboats were surprised
to find hidden gun mountings, and every facility for
making great transports of the craft on short notice.
Germany's plans have worked to the advantage of this
country, and' nearly all of the seized craft are ‘now.
carrying troops, it is thought.

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The German offensive has again reached high tide.
considerable success has attended the .great thrust, al-
though as before, the Huns have paid a. terrible price
in human life. The allied flanks arerholding, although
the line has been badly bent backward in the center
toward Paris. The 'Hun hordes were but ashort dis-
tance from the Marne Saturday, although all-led re—
serves had all but checked them. :Vast'quantities'of
booty have fallen to, the lot of the Germans in this
drive, probably more than they have secured in any
other offensive other than that on the Italian front.
So overpowering and rapid was the German thrust
that the heavy artillery could not be moved, and in
some cases even field artillery had to be abandoned.
Immense ammunition dumps and stores of supplies
were also given up, although the allies made every
attempt to destroy them. Great fleets of tanks were
used by the Germans in some quarters to ‘carry on the
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The populace of Germany is becoming very nervous
because of the many Allied air raids. The people seem
to have a particular fear of American aviators, as ac-
counts of this country’s air program have been pub-
lished in German papers in a spirit of derision. The
common people evidently dread the air attacks, and
many times when the alarms are sounded indicating
that hostile aviators have beensighted, they raise the
cry “The Americans are coming." In Mannheim, a
small German city, eighteen women and “children were
trampled to death in a stampede caused by a. false,
aerial raid alarm, The alarm was sounded when Ger-
man aviators were sighted and mistaken for Allied

birdmen. /

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The German general staff continues to feed the
people “back home" on highly colored accounts of what
is being accomplished. Berlin reports mention the cap-
ture of American prisoners although only two Amer-
icans were reported missing during the time to which
the dispatch refers. Potsdam’s inspired reports in
the German press tell of the accomplishments of Ger-
man airmen, although as a matter of fact the Ger—
man military “eyes” have been almost put out. Few
Hun aviators venture over the allied lines, and «the
occasional bombing of hospitals seems to .. be the
greatest feat of‘German birdmen.

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The Huns are 'using gas in their attacks on hostile
Russian peasants. The simple country people of Uk-
raine, missled into a belief that an alliance with the
Central Powers was to their interests, rebelled when
the Germans and Austrians commandeered all of
their grain and in many instances forgot to pay for,
it. In reprisal for peasant disorders, the Germans
have released poisoned gas in the village: which has
killed hundreds and terrorized the populace.

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American artillerists are earning a reputation for
accuracy and efficiency on many of the fronts in
France, Practically all of the heavy guns now used
by the American army were made available by the
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A number of French children were killed in a Hun
airplane attack on hospitals behind the American lines
in Picardy. The wounded soldiers were transferred
safely to nearby basements, the Boche airmen’s only
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The British transport ’Leasowe Castle was tor-
pedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on May. -26,~with‘
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‘ x The neighbor smiled, but as he was in easy cir-

commences himself and unaccustomed to a penny-

“ saving custoni, he seed-naturedly and halt-pity-'
11‘1"eg agreed to the proposition. , -

, Threshing started and for three meeks the man
fellowed the crew He had‘ only one team and a

"tanning millv—nobody to help him and many to

laugh at him. He worked so persistently, how-

~ ., ”ever. that one evening the friend came around, ‘
“ _ curious to find out what the result had wbeén

"Well. in the three weeks' time ” he said, I

., averaged exactly $27. 77 per day for myself and
' fteam.

I sold that wheat which would have been

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your county grain threshing committee?

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511: was actual savings like this which suggested

2 the work of the Grain Threshing Division of the

Food Administration Grain Corporation. Hund-
reds Of cases were studied, showing losses which
in 14 southern states were estimated at more than
seven and a half million bushels last year. But

the financial loss, though’large, is lees important

than the loss of food. Waste of wheat means that
the war will be prolonged and may even endanger

. victory.

If you raise wheat, won’t you get in touch with
They
have worked to perfect methods for reducing
waste of grain during threshing to a minimum.

'They want to discourage the threshing of grain

that is tough (unripe or damp), to avoid‘irreg-
ular and careless feeding of the bundles into the
machine and to encourage running the cylinders
of the separator up to speed as well as keeping
the entire outfit in proper adjustment.

At the suggestiokot the U. S. Food Adminis-
tration, they encourage tight—bottom bundle wag-

ons so as to reduce shattering in handling the ,_

grain from the field, to reduce the loss because of
failure to rake the shock rows and carelessness
in making a thorough clean-up before the machine
is moved. This means a’ saving to you as well as
being a help toward victory in the war. The in-
formation costs nothing. Go today and. see your

- local county grain. threshing committee.

FACTS ABOUT EUROPEAN
LIVE STOCK LOSSES

Comparative losses in hwy-eStOCk by the warring
and neutral nations of Europe and the general ef-
fect on their meat supply may be judged frOm
figures announced by the U. S. Fobd Administra-
tion. As regards meat the Central Powers Were
much better prepa. ed for the war than the Allies.
Although the Allies possessed a greater total num—
ber of meat animals, .the Central Powers had 42
per cent more per capita. This advantage then
amounted to 33 animals of all classes per 100
population.

Due apparently toacquisition of animals by con- -.

quest, Geimany has not slaughtered her home
supply of live stock as rapidly as otherwise would
have been necessary. There is now a practical
exhaustion of; animals- in Belgium, Serbia .and
Ru nia as a ,result of invasion, according to
information in L very reliable sources. In to—
tal animals the Allies have decreased their herds
and flecks 45.787000 head while Gerniany has

‘ reduced hers about 18 000, 000 head—only slightly
‘ more than a third as many. The figures include

cattle, sheep, -.h0gs Neutral nations Show a total

net reduction amounting to 1, 412, 000 Of these an-.

imals. The European loss thus exceeds 65,000,000
head without taking into consideration Austria,
Turkey and Russia which would, undoubtedly
bring the total to over 100, 000, 000. ,, -

A somewhat » earer view of the European meat
situation at present is secured by reducing the
number of ani1 als to the actual amount of dress—

ed meat they will yield. Rating cattle as equiva--
lent to 500 pound: of dressed meat apiece; sheep,
at 40 pounds, hogs at 150 pounds, it appears that

the various countries have suffered losses in their

total meat assets to the following extent:

Nation . Per cent of loss on meat basis
Allies as a group .2 .7.
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alive and the reported reduction in live weight, --

the posSible meat resources or Europe are obvious-

H‘ly still further reduced.

The total number of cattle, sheep and hogs now
in the United States is about 187, 000, 000, according
to best estimates, which makes .. striking compar-
isOn with the European depletion of 100, 000, 000
animals. Briefly, it appears that Europe has al-
ready‘ lost considerably over half as many animals

/ as there are in the United States today.

INTERESTING FOOD FACTS ‘ -
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES

‘ Horse flesh is included among the meats now
rationed in England under the card system.

.- Moderate shipments of wheat and fllour-are be-
ing made from Australia to the Pacific coast of
the United States.

In spite 'of scarcity of implements and shortage

of. farm labor, England, Scotland and Wales have
all increased their agreage of wheat.

The maximum price at which farmers may sell
cattle for slaughter in Switzerland has been fixed
at 23 cents per pound on the farm. Maximum
prices ’for meats have also been established.

All private stocks of Olive oil in Italy in excess
Of actual family needs have been requisitioned
by the government.

Shipments of rice from China to the United
States increased greatly during 1917 and accord~
ing to present‘indications will break all records
this year.

Shipments of sugar from Cuba to the United
States are scarcely 5 per cent below last year’s
shipments for the corresponding time in spite of
the serious shortage of ships. About three-fourths
of our sugar imports this year have been from
Cuba.

During; the first year of the war, the United
States consumed more than four million tons of
sugar. The wholesale price of refined sugar in
this country at the present time is $7.30 per hund-
red pounds, ‘as compared with $9.15 last August.
The regulated wholesale price Of sugar in var-
ious foreign countries makes an interesting com-
parison: United Kingdom, $12. 59 per hundred
pounds; France, $12. 28; Italy, $26.30; Canada,
$8.07; United 'States, $7.30. An increase of one
cent per pound in the price Of sugar in the United
/States would take at least $82,185,820 out of the
pockets of the American consumers in one year.

PRODUCER GIVES FACTS ON ONE
DAY’S MILK PRODUCTION COSTS

Editor Register: ‘ Following is my estimate of

‘ ,cost of producing milk from a herd of ten cows

,for one day:
Hay . . . . . . .
Silage . . .
Bedding (straw))~.18 per ton
Concentrates 55 per ton
These are the prices I am paving now and have
been for the last. four months, and I have scoured
the markets for better prices.
Hay at 20 lbs. per cow, 30c for 10 cows
Silage at 35 lbs. per cow, 171/20; for 10 c0Ws‘
Bedding (straw) at 5 lbs. per cow, 41,130; for
cows .
Concentrates at (1 to 3 on
_for a year) 9 lbs. at

$30 per ton
10 per ton

.$3.00
1.75

26 lbs. per cow daily
30., 27c, ten cows.... 2.70

...................... $7 90
per ”COW) ........ $9.00

Total . . .
30 gallons milk at 300 (3 gal.
Cost of feed without labor . .

Difference between cost of» feed and income
(profit) .
Cost of labor, one man,

.............. 1.
including board ....... $2.
Less profit as above . ,.

Loss on each day's production, (3.3c per gallon) $1.6

NOW these are the actual costs to me and other
dairymen with whom I have talked within the
last few days. There are very few cows in the
state that will average 8000 lbs. per year, and that
is the production basis on which the above calcula-
tion is made. Cows producing over 8000 lbs. per
year, of course have to be fed much'higher, prin-
cipally with concentrates.——H. M. Rowe, in Hol-

, stein-Friesian Register.

UMINNESOTA, FARMERS MAKE USE
OF CREAMERY ORGANIZATIONS

During the past year members of several Min-
nesota co—Operative creameries introduced the idea
of th'e‘co-operative buying of mill and other feed,
also of flour and flour substitutes.
repo‘rtsa total of one hundred thousand dollars in

. f purchases for its members for the year, these feeds

being pmhased in large quantities, stored in a
warehouse built for the purpose and distributed
“ " lied ter by the patrons. The plan has proved

- ar atlrLa great saying has been possible

‘ orally injured garden and field truck.

One creamery'

particularly in mill feeds.

able to dispose of their cream and obtain their
supplies in the Shortest possible time.

N. .E. Chapman of the extension division of the -

Minnesota College of Agriculture has brought to

the attention of many of the creameries the pos- '

sibility of handling of eggs for the farmers, there
being no reason why eggs should not be shipped

in this way in large quantities and in the proper
Several creameries have already iv ..

kind of cars.
demonstrated the ieasibleness of this plan and
will do well to consider the development of these
patrons and at the same time doing a great deal
to develop the poultry industry in their commun~f
ity. Farmers’ co-operative creameries elsewhere
are saving considerable time andmoney for their
important side lines. —M. B. F. Reporter, Minn.

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WEEKLY CROP SUMMARY

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New England.—Boston: Favorable conditions con—
tinue; showers beneficial. Potatoes nearly all plant-
ed. Tobacco being set. Garden truck domg well. Win-
ter apple blossoms set fairly well, except Baldwins,
which were severely winter killed in north portion.
Help scarce.

New York—Ithaca: Weather generally favorable
and vegetation and farm work progressed rapidly in
all districts. Fruits selling well. Corn and potato
planting continues. Spring grains, grasses, gardens,
and all vegetation doing well. Some destructive
thunder-storms in some localities.

Iowa.——-Des Moines: Corn planting and cultivation
delayed by frequent and in central sections exec sive
rains; remarkably good stand resulting from diligent
seed testing, but unusually wide spread damage by
cut—worms. Small grains and pastures making good
progress. Winter wheat heading in southeast; shooting
in central portion.

Colorado.-~Denver: Unfavorable. much drying wind,
rain badly needed. Winter wheat beginning to burn
in eastern counties. Barley fair to good. Seeding
oats nearly done. Spring wheat fair condition. Corn
and potato planting nearly done. Sugar beets mostly
seeded; thinning progressing in localities. Favorable
for fruits. Ranges fair tO good but drying.

Wisconsin. —Milwaukce: TOO much rain in many
central counties delayed farm work and caused con—
siderable damage by floods and washouts Some crops
damaged by tornado on the 22d. Spring wheat oats,
barley, corn, and potatoes good to excellent. Rye,
fair. Hay prospects rather poor. Fruit prospects
good, though some apples and cranberries were winter—
killed. ,

0hio.—Columbus: Weather continues highly favor-
able and all crops making rapid growth. Cultivation
delayed some sections account of lack of labor. Vthat
heading generally southwestern counties; crop excel—
lent condition. Considerable corn replanting many
counties account Of poor seed; cultivation progiessing
western counties; crop generally satisfactory condi-
ton. Oats, meadows, and gardens fine. Fruit con—
tinues improving.

Indiana.—Indianapolis: Excellent gr wing weather.
All crops, including com that is up, ma e good growth
and advancement. Rye mostly headed and wheat
beginning heading. A few in southeast report blasted
heads in wheat. Corn planting nearly finished in cen.
tral and north, but much delayed in south; numerous
localities indicate germination below normal account
of untested seed or planting during cold and wet, but
will be mostly replanted.

Washington. Seattle:
cold nights retarded growth;

Tnadequatc sunshine and
several hard frosts gen—
W’hcnt, barley,
and cats are growing slowly but rooting deeply and
arc. promising. (Torn and late. beans are. coming up.
Early potatoes look wcll; somc late planted ones rot-
ted in ground. Beans are yellow and sickly looking
from lack of warm sunshine. Peas growing well, (Eut-
worms and aphis have damngcd gardens.

(‘aliforni . .1 Francisco: Barley,
oats much improved by cool weather.
corn. potatoes, and truck crops continues; gcimlnation
slow; plants thrifty. Hood (101) of alfalfa being
secured. (‘attlc excellent. Ranges getting short: :1.
number Of owners are selling part of holds in antici-
pation of insufficient food lutcr. Cotton and rice acre—
age increased; plants up and doing nicely. Deciduous
and citrus fruits promising. Cherry shipments in-
creasing. Many complaints of scarcity of farm labor.

Illinois.-——Springfie1d: W'eathcr is ideal for plant
growth. but corn planting delayed in parts Of north
and south by wet soil, and in lattcr section some has
been replanted. In central counties cultivation begun
and planting finished in many places. Condition of
grasses and small grains good to excellent. Wheat
heading central portion; in south oats beginning to
head and cutting alfalfa begun. Strawbciries ripen-
ing. Harvest will bégin rye in Effingham and winter
wheat in Williamson and St. Clair counties, June 10.

Kansas.——-Topeka: Outlook greatly improved by
heavy rains in north central and northeast and mod~
crate rains in south—central portion. Western third in
grip of damaging drouth, but elsewhere wheat is re-
covering in a satisfactory condition, except in a few
important counties in south—central portion; harvest

whczlt, and
Planting beans,

begins in Chautauqua county June 12 and Marion and,

‘Sedgwick June 20; cats a few days later. Corn being
cultivated in many places and generally healthy, but
considerable replanting necessary, due to poor seed
and cut- worms. ,

Texas—Houston: ~Warm, sunshiny weather favor-
able for harvesting potatoes and winter grains and
cultivation of row crops. Oat and wheat harvest under
way, with yields pOOr to good. Planting peanuts and
sweet potato slips continues. Cotton

west; normally advanced in south and central por—
tions; late elsewhere
fair growth, but need rain.
peaches
large quantities. Amarillo.
stock north pdrtion of Panhandle good.

Rice has fine start. Truck

The advantage of, con _
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improving and
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of. line, are that htis price shOuld be fixed att-

52.15 per cwt. to the farmers and one cent per
‘cwt. to the Michigan Milk Producers’ Association.
The price for the month of July is fixed. at $2. 55

'lo the farmer‘and one cent to the Association.

These prices apply to milk testing 3.5 per cent
buttér fat, with four cents for each point above
or below that test; These prices apply to milk
in the.15 cent zone and are for the entire supply.
: The retail price is fixed at 12 cents per quart
and 7 cents per pint for June and 13 cents per
quart and 7 cents per pint for July. No change
is'made in the price of bulk milk sold at whole—

. sale.

It is very apparent that the Milk Commission

' is doing all in their power to protect the producer

Of this most vital food product. It is also very
apparent that. the Detroit milk price is today the
backbone of the milk market of Michigan. It is
well understood that it is of the utmost impor-
tance to every milk producer that the Detroit mar-
ket be kept inviolate and every safeguard thrown
around the industry in the Detroit Area to keep
and perpetuate its present standing.

While this price is not all that the producer
should receive, yet it is from 20 cents to 45 cents
more per cwt. than is being paid for the same
quality of milk in other localities in Michigan and
adjacent states.

We wish to call the attention of our member-
ship at this time to the very extensive campaign
that is now in progress in the city of Detroit to
educate the people to the value of this food pro-
duct.

As we look at the changed conditions of the last
few months we are greatly surprised at the evo-
lution Of public sentiment in favor of the milk
producer. This has come about largely thru our
educational propaganda,.and the people are com-
ing to know now, as they have never known be-
fore, the food value of this product. We are hop-
ing and expecting that this campaign that start-
ed today, June 1st, will be one of the most poten-
tial factors that was ever instigated in the United
States in assisting the people to know the food
required for the proper development and growth
of the human body.

In connection with this we must understand
also that a greater responsibility is upon the pro-
ducer in regard to the quality as well as the
quantity of milk that they are to put out. We can-

not expect the public to consume our product and .

pay a remunerative priCe for it, unless we can
give them the assurance that we put around this
product every necessary protection to make it of
the greatest possible value.

I have before me the reports of tests of several
samples of milk that was placed upon the market
by our patrons within the last few days. The sale
of each and every one Of these samples was a vio-
lation of the state law.
producers Of this milk had either skimmed 0r
watered the same, but I am informing you that
there was much evidence that some of it had been
tampered with to such an extent that ”it violates
the law and makes such a product a real menace
to the welfare of this great industry that we are
trying to establish. Consequently we are calling
on you to do everything in your power—in your
own herd and in your community—to protect the
standard as prescribed by the State and Milk Com-
mission—R. 0. Reed.

’ PATRIOTISM THE KEYNOTE OF

THE MICHIGAN STATE FAIR

Patriotism will be the keynote of the 1918
Michigan State Fair. Assistance to the nation
through the education of the people in conducting
the great war will constitute the fundamental
Object of every exhibitor. That particular phase
of each exhibit which may be especially adapted

to the awakening of the latent forces of the cltl- ..

zenry of Michigan will be extolled before the pub-
lic. This idea has been predominate in the mind
of G; W. Dickinson, secretary manager of thee Fair
throughout the preparation of the plans for the

,, coming exhibition. .
The management of the Fair has been spurred

911 in this werk through the active interest taken

?-by the U. S Government which will ship a 111,011-
strong exhibit to the Fair for the purpose at in-

I am not saying that the,

" stitute th‘

rendered by s

largest arid finest and’some‘ '01 the ,
musical o'rganizatitms in the country. Old Glory

will be in evidence On every. hand and each after- ‘
noon a patriotic concert ending with a military
salute to the .flag, will be given. The army and,

the Navy will be represented by batalllons of

troops and. military drills and'manoeuvers will . ‘

be a feature of the program,- afternoons and eve-
nings. Liberty Bonds and War Savings stamps

will be used in paying a—portion Of the premiums ..

to the winners in the boys ’and girls’ classes. ’ _
“The Nation-is at war and the Michigan State

’Fair is utilizing every facility it has in assisting."
Opening .

Mr. Dickinson asserted.» "“F'rom g the
morning on- Friday, August!» 30, to the closing

night on sunday, September 8, every" minute will

be used in an effort topromotev- additional in;
tensity in the fighting spirit of Michigan. There
is no question that Fairs are among the most
promising agencies through which the seriousness

of the present conflict can be impressed upon the'

minds of the people ‘0vor here,’ and where they
can be shown the ways in which they can be of
the greatest assistance in backing up the boys
‘over there.’ "

In conformity with this idea, the most elabor-
ate patriotic pageant ever‘ staged in the state will
be represented the opening night-of the Fair.
Hundred-s of people and thousands of dollars

worth of fireworks will. be used in this spacious 5
display which will consume nearly two hours and

will close with one of the most elaborate and: spec-
tacular patriotic tableaux presented in America.

MICHIGAN FARMERS ARE HAVING :-
THEIR TELEPHONE TROUBLES-

Durin'g the past month several instances of dis-
satisfaction among the farmers over the treat-
ment they had received from the local telephone
companies, have come to our 'attention.

Several months ago, the Michigan State Tele-
phone Company of Lapeer sent out a notice to all
its rural patrons announcing an increasein the
rates, in utter disregard of existing contracts.

Many farmers, fearing the loss of the telephone‘

service, paid the increased rate, but others pro-
tested. Lead by E. C. Mallory, editor of the La-
pcer Clarion, who had found thru a quiet investi-
gation that the company could not legally raise
its rates without the permission of the
Railroad Commission, held a mass meeting and
petitioned the Commission for a hearing. This
was granted and the farm-ers' committee and the
representatives of the telephOne company, togeth-
er with representatives of the agricultural *press
and farmers’ organizations, will‘meet with the
railroad-commission on June. 14th. It is believed
that the outcome of this hearing will effect the
rights of all rural telephone patrons in Michigan.

The farmers of VanBuren county have likewise
been having troubles. At a mass meeting of over
250 delegates from nine arbors of the county, held
on May 25th, the following resolution was adopted:

Whereas, The existence of two unconnected tel-
ephone systems in this and other counties of the
state is longer unbearable, and

Whereas, After six years’ trial the present tel-
ephone laws and the Railway Commission have
failed to bring any relief, therefore be it

Resolved. That we favor the abolition of the
Railroad Commission and the repeal of the Bay-
liss telephone law. Be it also

Resolved, That we work for the election of memo
bers of the legislature who will work to carry
this resolution into effect.

THE GOVERNMENT IS 1N THE
MARKET FOR BLACK WALNUT

Farmers who have any black walnut in their

,WOodlots are requested to notify the Federal Gov-

ernment at once Black walnut is the only suit-

able and available wood for making airplane pro?
It is also used largely in the manufac-i _
Four or five propellers are»,

pellers
ture of gun stocks.
required fer each airplane, and because Of the
scarcity of the wood and the large number of
machines that will be turned out this :year, it is

and 514.10 per cwt. net.

beets.

State ,

~70c cwt.;

, 98, .
, flocks wiped on
'gle night. -

is taken on the part of dog owners it may be

essary to take more radical actiOn."

‘ more discouraging to a ma; interested-111 sheen

raising than to find a part of his seat torn to pieces '3'
by dogs. This has made many a Michigan mm

give up Wool raising. Unless dog owners will take

more responsibility in the matter, radical action? ' :1

may be justified as a war measure. _
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Wayne—At the Rebert R. Pointer 11 Son diaper?

sion sale held at their farm a mile east of Wayne.

' Mich" Monday, June 3, 1918, fiftyJfiVe head of Hols -

stein-Friesia-n cattle sold for 518, 335 .00, and aver—7

age of more than 53.33 00 a. head. ConSidering the
fact that a large number of calves and heifers

were included in the sale it is the most successful -
one held in the state during the spring sale' sear '

son.
next week's M. B. F.

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St. Johns—Since'March 11th of'this year-the"

Grange _Co-operative_Sh.ipping Association of, Clin-
ton county have shipped- nine carloads of» live stock
containing the following: 26 Sheep, 2290 lbs; 58
veal calves, 9,680 lbs; 76 cattle,,77,620 lbs; and 516
hogs, 88,050 lbs; In all a total or 676 head, weigh-v
ing 177,640 lbs. for which.$24,084.59' was received.
Veal calves shipped on May 20 brought $13. 90
Hogs brought $16 80 and
$17.10 net according to weight.
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OwossO—A mass meeting ‘will- be held here Wed-
nesday night to obtain volunteers to weed sugar

clare unless beets are weeded and thinned at once
it will be necessary to plow them under. 7 The ten-
tative plan is to ask employers to release their
male employes one day a'week for this work.

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M illington—George Veitingreuber was the «high-

Farmers are unable to get help and de---

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White House to be auctioned.’ in his state. He will
be sent the wool, his bid bei $75 per pound.
Adolph Zeehender, also of Millington was the next
highest bidder, 550 per pound. The money, when
received, will be turned into a special fund known
as the President’s Red Cross Fund.

I! if It

South Lyons—Musolff Bros, of‘this place, who

recently consigned 12 head of their Holstein herd
to the Howell sale, realized $3250, from the sale
of these individuals. . Buyers from Wisconsin,
Delaware, Ohio and Kansas as well- as Michigan
were present and purchased such of these as suit—
ed their fancy.

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Belding—As a step toward securing Ionia coun-

ty as a member Of the West Michigan Development "

bureau, John I. Gibson, secretary of the bureau,
addressed farmers and business men here and out-
lined the aims and achievements of the bureau.

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A‘lbion—«The residents Of Marengo a village be.

tween Albion and Marshall, have organized. a Com-
munity Betterment League.

LATE COUNTY CROP REPORTS

MONTCALM—Farmers, are planting beans and p0-
tatOes, also are plowing yet. Not. much to sell now
Soil is in good condition; wheat and rye are very poor
hay about half a. crop. Not much complaint about
seed oorn. ‘

The farmers are forming a co—operative store at Six '

Prices offered at Lakes on June 4. Wheat, 52.03... '
oats, 68:11:55“. timothy, $30:
hens, 20; butt ter, 40; butterfat,..430_ ~: ggs
28'; hogs, 16', veal calves, 12, wool, 50@. Bil—C G. E...
Six. Lakes, Junetl ; .

, and buying feed.

Fric'e's offered
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Lakes: also a. co-operatiVe potato buying association ~
through the Clear-lg? House of Detroit.
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: I would-like tofhsv'e, you give me 'what interma-
yogcan,:nn,,the wool situatibn. Has the gov-
| : zsétgaprice on wOol and whatprice should
buyerskh'érefatifflarion? I was offered 67 cents

lastiaw’eekjandnow -I understand they have dropped

£6365 cents. Please let me know soon—R. 8..

.~. It is truethat the Government has fixed a price
"Con" wool.” This price is equivalent to that prevail-
_in’g-on__:l’nly730th, 1917. The prices quoted below

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send their ,impoices" of. middlingsa purchas-
ed‘ and which-,therhave‘been retailingat the rate

‘ striatioperitont. As soon as I'get these invoices I
1 ;will ,‘writeyou again ‘as-fltofwhat I find.“ ' ‘

-,f think ,‘the'inills, generally in thisest‘at‘e, are

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. ”prices for the sale of their wheat mill feeds. We

find thatgretailers are' in’somecases 'still. taking

finore'than, tihe10% profit permitted” by the regu-
lations, but I will say in this connection that there

are some things which _;the consumers do not

"seem to takeinto censideration as.- to the prices

at which" these feeds are being sold. For instance,
the feeds are ordinarily sold in sacks, which at
the present time cost from $5.50 to' $6.00, per ton,

; and usually also there are freight charges, be-

cause in»most of these small places, there are no
mills and thefeeds are shipped‘in either from
points within or without the state;

‘ Last week We closed down for thirty days the
' Milling Company located at ——‘———-—
1 for taking too high' prices for bran and
Imid‘dlingsi- We are getting after these 'people
just as'fast as we can, but are- handicapped by the
fact that so far. we have been'able to employ but,
one inspector. and. of course he can’t cover only a
fraction of the territor'yr-Geo. A. Prescott, Fed-
eral Food “Administrator. '

SUBSCRIBER SEEKS MARKET AD-,
VICE—N0 ADRESS IS GIVEN

A few days ago we received the following letter:
“In our county agent’s work I have been put on
the committee on markets. Now I am at a loss
to know how to go about doing anything in this
line.‘ Can you suggest a way by which I might
start something?” There was headdress given
to this letter, and we have been unable to give
our correspondent the information by mail.

Can we suggest a Way by which you can start
something? We can, but we are a little afraid
lest you might start something that you couldn’t
stop, or something that might not meet with the
approval! of approval of our state marketing de—
partment and its daddy, the board of agriculture.
We never knew before that the county farm bu-
reaus boasted Of a marketing committee. Pray
tell us what are its functions? Does it buy farm
products? Does it seek to eliminate the middle-
man? Doos it give marketing advice? Does it
promote farmer-owned elevators, warehouses,
and creameries? We think we see how a committee
of farmers vested with the duty of helping farm-
ers market-their produce, could be of real assis-
tance. It is a subject that we will endeavor to
take up in a later issue and if our correspondent
will send his. address we will be very glad indeed
to give him personal advice on the subject. M V

WORKING DAYS
“ARE THERE. IN. A MONTH

We have a boy who started to work for ‘us the
first of’May. This is, the 313tand he says his
time was up on the 30th :33: he" claims there are
only 26 working days in‘ thembn‘th—notcntyzthis‘ ’-

.:-montl:; butsan‘y'rmonuh. He claims:if-a..monthihas’
27;.workins-:;days he 'on1y*'::has;_t01*w0rkfl’26r riwe .

HOW MANY

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1gb“! 1; however. the _ ‘. Common braid or Angora goat . . .

Fine Clothing ..... / .- . ..... .'

. ‘1~2 ”Blood staple . . . . . . .

'1-2 Blond clothing ..... ». 4 ............. .

To figure out what prices your local dealers
should pay, allow 3 per cent commission to both
your local dealer and the city. com-mission ‘house,

- plus freight charges. We are under the impression
' that your local dealer should pay around 65 to 67

C8133; for a fair grade-of wool.

.KALAMAZOO FARMER PLEAASED

,WITH BOYS WORKING RESERVE

, The following letter is typical of many that are
being received by Chas. A. Parcells, state director
of. the U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve and shows
how generally satisfactory boy power is proving
on Michigan farms: ‘ .
Mr. C. A. Purcells, Detroit, Mich. .
Dear Sir:——At the request of Mr. A. L. Hymes
of this city, I am writing you relative to my ex-

? perience in the use of student help from the Boys’

Working Reserve. I have had considerable exper-
ience in the employment of this class of help, most
ly in orchard work but some in general farming.

- While I have had some unfavorable experiences

with student help, on the whole my experience
has been very satisfactory as compared with the
hiring of older help as we have opportunity. I
have, however, found the management of such help
to be very diffei ent, though no more difficult prob-
lem than the management of ordinary farm help.

It goes without saying: There is a difference
in boys as well as older people. Boys are not men.
They must be treated as boys—as boys who have
the making of the men of the future in them. The
farmer who is not Willing to put conscience into
their management better let them alone. He
should consider that he has no right to ask a
boy to work for boy wages then expect him to fill
a man’s place. Neither should the boys expect
the pay of a man until they are sure they can fill
a man’s place.

Personally, I had much rather hire a boy at a
little less than he is really worth, then be sure
and remember to drop him some extra change on
Saturday night, if he has earned it, than to under-
take to pay him a price that keeps me feeling
that I must crowd him hard to get the worth of
my money.

I believe a good work is being done in getting
a lot of city boys out on the farms in this time of
pressing need and would not hesitateto encourage
farniers—especially gardeners and fruit growers,
to embrace the opportunity to secure student help.
—L. H. Stoddard, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

FARMERS IN ALL SECTIONS TO
our THEIR POTATO ACREAGE

Bitter disappointment to growers following the
last crop campaign, will probably bring about a

' considerable reduction in potato area“; too soon to
, know definitely, says Farm and Home.

Growers
in all the northern potato states from Minnesota
to Maine take just one view, a disposition to cut
last year’s acreage anywhere from 5 per cent to
20" per cent or more. In fact, numerous farmers
-Wlh0 last year went into market potatoes largely
for the first time, are this spring reducing their
: planting a quarter to a half.

Efforts of the Food Administration to material-
ly'stimula‘te‘consumption-of old potatoes during

1Mare-h'; April and May have not brought desired

.re‘sults;,sfor.sone thing, the middlemen are slow

to} ooioperate, exacting about the same tolls as

usual’..,MEanwhile sound table stock in the north-

w:eat,,de¢lined"35- cents a bushel at loading points,

-while the consumer in theeastern city paid about
_ .1 d“ that price byrt‘he peck or bushel.

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. been on in a long time.

ROADS-EeMichigan’s gravel roads are in-' better";A
_ yearsjhan «any of- ~ the mfiwfifi
raids .i-n gthe,_three.,statesrcOVered. ,These stone
ro
lack of regular attention, which probably is ham;
pered, this war-year by the available labor. At any
rate, thegroads are filled with sharp holes,

‘ds 'hav'e‘a‘v‘ery unpleasant way of showing any '

which“,

are wearing larger with each passing vehicle, "

The concrete roads which Illinois has been build-

ing, following the good example of Wayne county
‘ (which by the way has more miles of concrete:
roads than any similar area in the world), have .

been patched here and there, simply with hot .tar
or tarvia, and are of course the ibest roads for‘
both horse and auto travel.

Road building, which had tak-ena great impetus '

during the past few years in every. part of the“
United States, will of course, suffer greatly during
the term. of. the war, except as on the Detroit-To-
ledoerou-te, 'where the passage of war-trucks on
their way to the Atlantic sea-board, the state W'ar
Board authorized some fifteen or twenty miles of
concrete laid last fall, to link the good roads
north of Toledo with the Wayne county line.

UNSETTLED BUSINESS—-Like the farmer, ev-
ery other manufacturer has his problems these
days and- it is interesting as one goes about among
them to listen to their tales of woe—sometimes
it makes even a publisher forget the rising cost of
'white paper and the new .postoflice regulation
which makes a heavy additional cost of second—
class postage cn periodicals; depending 'on the

zone system the same as parcelspost. But as I was '

saying, business is unsettled, not stagnant or pessi-
mistic, far from it, for almost every conceivable
manufacturing plant is working on some sort of
army or navy need, just as you are when you plant
any farm product this year. The machinery man-
ufacturer faces the most irritating embargoes on
small parts which are necessary to complete his
product, often a thirty cent part may hold up a
thousand dollar product. Of course, the manu-
facturer has the advantage of selling his producct
for “cost plus 10%.” but President Wilson is hold-
ing congress in session particularly to tax the
war-profiteer out of all his winnings so perhaps.
after all, the manufacturer will be made to suffer
as much from war conditions before the end, as
has the farmer already. One thing is assured, few
farmers will be affected by the excess profit laws!

BUYING AT HOME—I stopped in Lenawee coun—
ty to talk with an old friend of mine who is opera-
ting one of the best-equipped dairy farms I have
Out under the maples
in front of his almost city-like bungalow he told
me of his experience in ordering a manure spread-
er by mail from a western concern, which I cannot
help but pass along to our readers at this time. It
seems he had been looking for a good spreader,
but as the mail order catalog showed some fea-
tures which a good standard spreader [handled by
his local dealer did not have, he sent his order in
early in March expecting to have it for use in
April. I was at his placce just last week, but the
spreader had not yet arrived, although they have
had his hundred dollars or thereabouts, for four
months. We figured up what he would have had '
to pay the local dealer, for a standard make of
machine, and compared it with the price of the
mail-order spreader, adding freight, cartage, set-
ting up and» interest charges on the money for
the four months they had had it. He was $9.60
ahead! But we did not figure what he was out for
not having a spreader during the four months
lost nor did I worry him with the problem of get-
ting reparirs some future time when in a hurry for
them. But, I did say that the only excuse a good
Michigan business farmer had for buying needed
machinery or other material from a far-away mail-
order house these days was because the local deal-
er or agent would not give him a square deal, in
which case he could go to some other nearby town
or city and compare prices and service. The local
merchant who sells the machinery and neceSSities
of the farmer today has Within his grasp an oppor-
tunity to absol"t"y prove to every farmer in his
trade zone, that he can actually sell bctter goods
for less money azd give a service with it which no‘
mail-order house can ever match. He must get the
big idea of small profits on many sles, instead of
trying to get all he can out of the friendly farmer
who comes to his store, then when the machine is
sold he must bacck it up with real thoughtful ser-
vice—the kind that goes to the phone and says,
“Good morning, John, how’s the spreader I sold
you last week working?” There was no logic to
the moss-backed merchant’s whine, “trade at home,
the mail-order house don’t pay taxes. help build
schools or contribute to your church,” because bus-
iness is business and trade will go where it gets,
the best service, just as water' will seek a loWer'

level and no amount of persuasion can change itfiz‘i
but the live wide-awake merchant who stocks whati!

the farmers need, in a building attractive fer
both the farmer and his wife, with conveniences;

for both and who performs a real service at only
a reasonable profit. can smile at the mail-order".

bugaboo in the; future. _ .

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Germany is destined to rule the world, or at least ‘

a great part of it. The German people are so

) much human material for building the German

state, other people do not count. All is for the
glory'and might of the German state; The liv'es
of human beings are to be conserved only if it
makes for the state’s advancement,- their lives
are to be sacrificed if it is to the state’s advantage.
The state is all, one people are nothing.

Conquered people signify little in the German
, Life, liberty, happiness, human senti-.
ment, family ties, grace and generous impulse,

these have no place beside the one concern, the

,greatness' of the German state.

Starvation must excite no pity; sympathy must

not be allowed, if it hampers the main design of

promoting Germany's ends.

“Starvation is here,” said General Von Kries.
“Candidly, we would like to see it relieved; we
fear our soldiers may be unfavorably affected by
the things they see. cBut since it is here, starva-
tion must serve our purpose.
for Germany. By starvation we can accomplish
in two or three years in East Poland more" than
we have in West Poland, which is East Prussia,
in the last hundred years. With that in view, we
propose to turn this force to our advantage.”

“This counti'y was meant for Germany,” con-
tinued the keeper of starving Poland. -“It is a
rich alluvial country which Germany has needed
for some generations. We propose to remove the
able-bodied Poles from this country. It leaves it
open for the inflow of German working people as
fast as we can spare them. They will occupy it
and work it.”

Then with a cunning smile, “Can't you see how
it works out? By and by we shall give back free

dam to Poland. When that happeh‘s Poland will

appear automatically as a German province.”

in Belgium, General Von Bissing told me exact-
ly the same thing. “If the relief of Belgium
breaks down we can force the industrial popula—
tion into Germany through starvation and colon—
ize other Belgians in Mesopotamia where we have
planned large irrigation works; Germans will then
overrun Belgium. Then when the war is over
and freedom is given back to Belgium, it will be a
German Belgium that is restored. Belgium will
be a German province and'we have Antwerp—~—
which is what we are after." ’

In Poland the ablebodied men are being re-
moved to relieve the German workmen and make
the land vacant for the Germans. In Belgium,
the men are deported that the country may be a
German colony. In serbia where three-fourths
of a million people out of three millions have per-
ished miserably in the last three years, Germany
hardens its heart, shuts its eyes to the suffering,
thinks only of Germany’s gain. In Armenia, six
hundred thousand people were slain in Cold blood
by Kurds and Turks under the domination and
leadership of German offic-ers———Germany looking
on. indifferent to the horror and woe, intent only
on seizing the opportunity thus given. War, fam-
ine, pestilence—these bring to the German mind
no appeal for human effort, only the resolution
to profit from them to the utmost that the Ger-
man state may be powerful and great.

That is not all. Removing the men, that the
land may be vacant for German occupation, that
German stock may replace Belgians, Poles, Serv-
ians, Armenians, and now Roumanians, Germany
does more. Women left captive are enslaved.
Germany makes all manner of lust its instrumen-
1211 ity.

The other day a friend of mine told me of a
man just returned from Northern France. “I
cannot tell you the details,” he said, “man to man,
I don’t want to repeat what I heard.” Some of
the things he did tell—shocking mutilation and
moral murder. He told of women,» by the score,
in occupied territory of Northern France, prisoned
in underground dungeons, tethered for the use of
their bodies by German officers and men.

If this is not a piece of the Prussian system. it
is the logical product of disregard of the rights

' of others.

Such is the German mind as it was disclosed,
to me in several, weeks’ contact with oflieers of

the staff. Treaties are scraps of paper ,if they

 

so we set it to work.

ng in Belgium I hear of it in selfish; ' ‘
For weeks it was always before,
0939973 talked, freely, '
llf’frankly, directly All” the staff officers have they ”
'1 same view , .
I. Let me try to tell it as General Von Kries told.
mehin Poland, in the midst Of a dying nation.

' permeated by:

is deliberately, officers-got the German tern.

Germany 3 account »,. ~

In- all the warm such a thing has never. been. “

' The human mind “has never conceived the like.

\

Even among barbarians, the thing would be ilk.
The mind can scarcely grasp the fact

that these things are proposed and (hue by a- modw‘ '
_ We do advise extreme caution at: it time how- 1
* ever fer a rush on your. part righ .

credible.

,ern government professedly a Christian govern-
ment in the family of civilized nations. ,' ‘
. This system has get to be rooted out. If it
takes everything in the world, if it takes every
one of us, this abominatiOn \must be overthrown.
It must be ended or 'the' world is not worth living
in. No matter how long it takes, no matter how

much it costs, we must endure to the end with -»

agonized France. with imperiled Britain, with
shattered Belgium with shaken Russia.

We must hope that Germany will have a new
birth as Russia is being reborn , We must pray.
as we fight against the evil "that is in Germany,
that the good which is in Germany may somehow
prevail. We must trust“ that in the end a Germany

. really great with the strength of .a wonderful

race may find its place as one of the brotherhood
of nations in the new world that is to be.

The responsibility of success or failure rests
now upon our shoulders; the eyes of the world
are anxiously watching us. Are we going to be
able to rise to the emergencyythrow off our in-
efficiency, and prove that Democracy is safe for
the world?

PUTTING LIFE INTO

 

(Continued from page 1)
on the subStitute list; except the northern bean,
and the purchase of the pinto bean crop, and the
campaign. of publicity carried on by the Food
Administration which was wholly directed against
the white navy bean.” '

With the addition of a few contributing elements
the reader will soon form his opinion of what
happened to the Michigan bean. On account of
excess moisture beans could not be quickly hand-
led by. the elevators, and transportation problems
interfered with prompt shipments; the profits to
wholesale grocers were limited and speculation
prevented by the Government—thus without doing
a single thing to stabilize every prop. was kicked

from under the market, and its collapse was only

a question of time.‘ And there you are; no de-
mand, no market; country elevators unable to
move beans on hand, banks have loanedall they
will loan to buy beans; many beans in' farmers’
hands, and he needs money to finance putting in
crops; many damp beans which will be a total

loss, and all for the want. not “of a horse-shoe

nail,” but for the lack of intelligent action at the
proper time.

We have raked the country with a fine-tooth -

comb for information as to the supply of beans on
hand, and the result furnishes the first encour-
agement we have been able to unearth. It will be
remembered that the government took over the
California crop, and they cleaned up the situa-
tion there in good shape. Sixteen thousand bags
of white beans, and these rejected by the Govern-
ment, will cover the available supply of white
beans in that state. Beans are selling in Califor-
nia at $12.25 per hundred, and we predict that
they Will be shipping in white beans before an—
other crop is harvested. It is estimated that
there are two hundred thousand bags of pink
beans; 7.000 bags of Limas and 4,000 bags cf other
holdings in Calif ‘nia, and the Lima Bean Grow-
ers' Association reports that these figures are far
below normal in ordinary times. Information
gathered from Colorado, New Mexico, Montana,
and Nebraska shows stocks well cleaned up. ‘Wis-
cousin and Minnesota will ship in some beans, not
a large quantity, while New York is ‘ ithin ten

. thousand bushels of empty bins.

The 'Michiganvsituation is somewhat complex
on account of kick of reliable ngures as .to the
quantity of beans in the farmers’ hands, but a-
careful estimate places a total of abOut 600,000-
bushels, all told. Now if we take out 150.000,
bushels for seed, and discount wet beans the avail-
able supply will not be far from 400,000 bushels.
If this estimate is anywhere near right, it Will
require the good beans to fill the order for the
American Army which is to be awarded this week

of nations, the undoing atom": civilizations, we“.

' stabilize the market
to bring order out of chaos and you must do your ’ '

-This is no time for speculating; times are too 1111- ‘

‘year, and the yield anywhere within reason, you

' Feed the ,market carefully; co-operate with every

THE BEAN MARKET

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part. We know that the elevator men can, 110:- hi- ’-
d'ul’ge in any profiteering, the Government is going
to attend to that end of- the situation. , “ 1 .

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certain; Conditions are far from" normal— no one. -'
knOWS today what to- -m'orrow will bring forth. You
ought to know by this time what it cost to raise
your crop of beans last year. If conditions were. -
adverse all along the line, possibly you can not .
expect to receive a profit, but if conditions were

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will yet be ableto sell yourbeans at a price “which
‘will net yOua fair profit. And when .yOu get a fair
pro-fit be satisfied. Btu; rem’ember,’ don't get'ex- .,
cited and hurry every bean to the market; condiQ . “

tions are going'to improve slowly; the market has
been, sick, very sick, and recovery is always slo‘w.

   

        
 
     
    
    
 
  
   
  
    
  
   
  
  
    
    
    
   
    
   
    
   
   
    
    
     
     
    
   
    
   
    
   
   
  

buyer whois cooperating with the Food Admin- ,
istration; follow our market reports carefully. ' *4 ~_. 4
and we will bring Mr. Navy Bean back to normal "

see that he gets at least a square deal. , .e ’1
There is yet time to revise your planting sched- '
ule. Beans will bring profitable prices until the
close of the war; regardless of your last year’s ex-
perience, plant every available acre to navy beans.
The acreage will be limited anyway; and the writer
believes that you will take as few chances on
beans this year,_as upon any crop you can possi-
bly raise. Let us never for a moment forget our
boys across the seas; we can stand a whole lot of
discouragement; we can take a lot ofchances; we
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MR. SPUD REACHES
MARKET TOO LATE

(Continued from page 1)
els of potatoes were necessarily withheld from the
markets during the fall months because of the
Miller grading“ rule.

Then came the car shortage.
needed money had to sell.
up in country warehouses. Few moved to mar-
ket from Michigan. Prices in Detroit began to
soar because of the scarcity. For several 'days in
midwinter, no potatoes were to be had in that city
at any price. Eastern demand was partially sup-
plied by the UNGRADED' potatoes of New York , . _,
and Pennsylvania. Markets that had formerly de- ‘- 1 if}.
pended upon the Michigan potato were obliged‘ ' '
to turn elsewhere, and all winter long and all
spring long, even after the cars become more
plentiful, the price went down, down because the
big markets had been supplied.

And those who had urged'the planting of a
big crop of potatoes on both farm and backyard
lot; and those who had paralyzed the movement
by discriminatory grading rules, sat with hands
folded and did nothing whatever to save the ruin.

There was no surplus of potatoes on American
farms last year. True, millions of bushels were
fed to the hogs. but this was more than offset by
the supplies that were grown on vacant lots in the
cities, and the decreased consumption resulting
from high retail prices. .

The responsibility for the ruinously low prices
that have been paid for. potatoes since cars were
providedjor moving them belongs to those who
put the grading rules into effect, to those who
controlled the car situation, and to those who
urged the people of the cities as a. patriotic meas-
ure, to plant their back yards to spuds. Let 118‘
get rid of- the idea that the farmer was in any
way to blame for the situation; Hefis not. He
has suffered encugh; he sh 11d be; vindicatedand ,,
the blame placed Squarelyw ere it belongs, .

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Tile *nowt; sheet ’. crop ‘ is 1' "-prdssing
, «mg toward unusual stages of devel-
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i' Editions apd‘“un1ess'- the I unforeseen
. shouldrwctifiithe crisis of» the 'food sit-
~ “audition; as. it affects. our. Allies,,_wil_l
‘ f - 5:19:15 be~-over. Present indications
.. ‘-‘ xpoint‘to av y'ieldof around 600,000,000
bdishels of. swinver‘wheatiand‘cmse to

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iety. "General, rains are reported eyer

- entire wheat jbelt, followed,,by‘war_m
,.suns_h1ne, just the kind of weather, the
growers "would'h’av-e provided had they
been. able to centrol themsituation," .It

’ ; is generallybelieved. that the central

. . states of the Wheat belt have received

' .1; 5 sufficient rain to insure the crop. This
' is the district where drouth usually
affects the yield, the more northern
states being more favorably located so
far'as moisture is concerned.
vesting has already startedin the ex-
treme southern ‘portion of the belt,
but the'Texas crop was somewhat af-
fected by the dry weather during the
3' _ early part of the season. _
€31; , ~ There is still a certain period of
.3 time which must elapse before the new
,- ' crop will come on the. market in any
..4 g ‘ quantity and until that time comes it
' ’ will be necessary for us to get every
pound of wheat on the market. Every
little bit helps and We make this final

* appeal to our friends to market at this
“time any residue which they may still

, ' have left, be it ever so small a quanti~
‘ “*1: _ ty, providing it can be spared. It is
an easy matter now to judge just about
the Quantity needed to keep the home
supplied until the new crOp. To feed

. least. .-What matters it if other feeds
are more expensive, as-one of Our
friends has said; there ,is more» than
money at stake right now, so let each

. . do his part, that there may be no re-
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.GRADE Detroit Chicuo New York,
” , Standard 15 .74 ’ .so‘1-2
No.3Wltile 75 1-2 .73 1-2 .78 1-2

No. 4 White .74 1-2 .72 .77

 

 

.' . , Under the most favorable crop con-
~ ditions and flattering prospects for an
exceptionally satisfactory yield. the

cat deal is inclined to become very

;. . ‘ bearish. It is expected that the Gov-
ernment report will show the largest
{W acrege ever recorded and there is
.-. ~ ‘ nothing in sight at‘t'ds time to pre-
vent a bumper crop. Domestic and ex-
port <‘emand is dull, although'the is
still a chance of considerable foreign
buying before the new crop moves.
" The market has declined around 5c
during the past week and without in-

creased buying- there will undoubtedly

be a further drop in the quotations.

We cannot help but feel that exporters

are about due

not going to load: up' to any extent
- .- _ with the market working under such
< t " conditions as exist at the present time.

 
   
       
     
     
 
 
  
    
 

  
  
  
 
  
     

 

, }‘ ' . MCRADE Detroit Chic-no, New York ‘
—' » iNo. 21911,... 1.55 1.56 » 1.55 '
No. 3 Yollow 1.50 1.54 1,53
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the most-favorable .cOn-'

000,000,000'bushels of thef'spring yeti ' . _
' the Government will soon award large

Har- ,

wheat now is, unpatriotic, to say the

. of which are limited.

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Under a very slow demand-the corn
market has registered another decline
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contracts for alcohol and as distillers
can éuse only the lower grades for this
purpose a bettermarket for such of-
ferings is impending.

Heavy rains have been delaying the
planting to some extent but a few more
days will see this task completed, and

. under more favorable conditions gen-

erally than existed a year ago. Much
of the early planting ‘is now up and
some of it, in the southern portion of
the belt, has been cultivated. One of
the'surprises has been the excellent
germination of what was considered
none too good seed in. the first place,
and the amount of replanting neces-
sary is found to be. much less than
was expected.

   

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We mentioned in our last article
that in our opinion rye was about due
for another drop and the same has
been recorded during the past week,, .
the Detroit market showing a decline
of 10 cents for the cash No. 1 article.

Reports from the rye districts of
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and states far-
ther west indicate a very satisfactory
condition of the new crop and the pres-
ent indications point to an early har-
vest and a very satisfactory one. After
considering all the factors in the deal
we cannot but look for a further de-
cline in the market. It should be re-
membered, however, that each time the

'market has declined there has been
a small buyingspurt following, and
should history repeat itself the market
may show renewed firmness during the
coming week.‘

Barley

Our Milwaukee correspondent re-
ports that barley prices have been on
the down grade. the demand being lim-
lted to only the choicer kinds, receipts
. Choice malting
barley 1s quoted there at $1.30@1.44

for the light to fancy offerings.

unseen‘sr,mciAL.1t...1pa-'ot Michigan strawberries
‘tho present time' but dealers are expecting a heavy increase in the near. future.
The market is strong for all firstoclass fruit and the demand promises to be

~P112TSBURGH \VlRE—Market for old potatoes is very slow and unless the,
stock is figst-olnss in every respect it finds a, very unsatisfactory sale.
~mnnket continuesnuiet with arrivals plentiful.

.HEW‘ YORK "WIRE-finnttor coming in increasing quantities and market
showing indications of a. decline. Hay market cleaning up and conditions be-

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year, .- if present indications count"

    

tors. The amount of stock still to b
merchandised is not so great. but-what
it will be readily assimilated before
another crop comes on the‘ mark.
and for this reason it would seem to,
be on the part of good judgment to
hold the market where it is at present,

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Chicago reports a somewhat better
market with a firmer ton’ela-nd con-
siderable buying on the part of mal-
sters. The brewing trade will proba-
bly be out of the market before many
days in view of the fact that under
the Government ruling it is not per-
missable to carry any after July 1.
Ma-lting barley is quoted on the Chica-
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Toledo reports a steady seed market
during the week with crop reports in-
dicating a larger acreage than a year

ago. Growing conditions are very fav-
orably although it is too early to say
what the yield may beeither in quali-
ty or quantity. Reports from Wiscon-
sin and other western states. however,
are not so satisfactory and some of
them would indicate a reduction and
some sections claim that 50% of the
crop was winter-killed.

Detroit quotations for the week are:
Prime red clover, $18.25; October, $14.-
25; alsike, $14.75; timothy, $3.80.

 
   

 

 

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Detroit Chicuo ‘ New York
C. H’J’. 10.00 12.50 13.50
time 9.75 12.25 l 13.25
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There is nothing new to report on
the bean situation. The market con-
tinues in a slow draggy" condition.
and we are very glad to note that no
further reduction has been made in
the Detroit quotations. We cannot
help but feel that there will be a re-
newed interest making itself manifest
before many days have elapsed. but at
the same time we do not advocate hold-
ing of stock now in the hands of grow-
ers. Generally speaking. the greater
portion of the old crop has now mov—
ed out of first hands and no doubt the
coming of considerable quantities of
slightly off-grade stork has been one
of the factors in causing the present
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letin gave'forecasts of disturbance to
cross continent June 10 to 16, warm
wave 9 to‘ 13, coolwave 12 to Hi.
This W111 be one of the two most severe
storms of -June.' It will-be preceded
and followed by very low temperatures
that Will cause frosts in‘ northern sec-
tions and the warm wave, in front of
the (storm, will cause,unusually ‘high
temperatures. On east side of the
storm heavier than usual ains are
expects over large parts of e States
and Canada“ This storm will cause
more rain south of latitude 37 than the
greater storm "last week of June but
the latter storm will cause more'r'ain
in‘ Canada-than in the States.

The great eclipse of the sun will oc-
cur afternoon of June ~8. Near a line
drawn. from; Portland} Oregon} to
northeastern” Florida. the ~eclip9e will
- be.-total anybthe sun“, darkened.- There

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meridian time (5:38 advanced clock
time), an eclipse of the moon will oc-
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visible in nearly all of North America, '—

all the Pacific Ocean and Australia..~
and moon will set eclipsed at all sta—
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the Americas.

Next warm wave will reach Van-
couver about June 16 and temperature
will rise on all the Pacific Slope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close
of June 17. plains secctions June 18.
meridian 90, great lakes and Ohio
Tennessee valleys 19, eastern section
20, reaching vicinity of Newfoundland
about June 21. Storm wave will fol-
low about one day behind warm wow

,..and cool wave about one day behind
storm wave.

This will bring another hot spell.
but the storms will no be severe be-
fore they reach the eastern sections.
Rains will occur in Canada but not
much rain in the States. Near June
19 'will be a good time for harvesting
particularly alfalfa, southern oats and
the early grasses. Bad time for har—
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‘ . Timothy Ti-othy Timothy .
Detroit 20 oo 20 so 19 oo 19 so 18 so, is 50,-;
Chic-go 22 oo 24 oo 20 oo 21 on 17 oo 13 90‘
Cid-us 22 75 24 oo 21 oo 22 so 11 to 20 to
Piitohni 24 on 24 so 21 so 22 501650 18 so _,\
NewYork 2800 so 902400 21091990 2200 .
Rich-om! 25 oo 27 on 23 on 24 sous so 19 no
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Cincinnati 120 on 20 50119 no 20 no 15 on 17 00
Pittsburgh .29 oo 21 calls 00 15 so 14 on 16 00

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But very little change has occurred
in the hay market, at any point, during
the past week. Prices have remained
about stationary and while the mar-
ket has shown very little activity

tone at most points. Lighter receipts '3

are reported at a number of terminal ~ -’
markets and a general cleaning up of
the overload of off-grade stock which
has been causing trouble for some
time.

The Detroit market has held' firm
and receipts not so heavy as those
of several weeks preceding. Demand
is only fair, however, and it would
not take much of an increase in arri-
vals to depress the market.

Chicago has experienced a heavy de-
cline in receipts but the market re-.
mains comparatively inactive and the
demand is very light. Dealers there
are advising shippers to hold back for
a few days longer until the accumula—
tion is further depleted. No further
decline in price has taken place since
last week.

The Cincinnatti market does not
show any renewed activity and ship-
ments to that market are still by spe-
(-131 permit. Deliveries have been
greatly delayed and there is consider-.
able hay in transit- Prices about sta-
tionary at, last week’s quotations.

A letter has just come from our
Pittsburgh correspondent, under date
of June 1. advises us that lower prices
are expected there, owing to the pres-
ent condition of the market. Demand
is slow and .the l'ecoip‘ls are more than -
ample to supply it. Slo~ks in'tl'ansit’
are of considerable volume and any
material inr'rcasc will congcst the mar—
ket.

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Chicago 1.00 " .70
Cincinnati ’ 1.25 5 1.00

New York ‘1 .25 I 1.05
Pittsburgh l 1.00 .80
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Old potatoes, at a great many points,
are almost forced out’ of the market by , .
arrivals of new stock and the prefer-
ence being given the fresh article by ’
consumers generally. Detroit is one‘
exception to this, the market there be g
ing firmer on old stock and having,-
shown some advance during the past I
week. Arrivals of 'new stocli there *
have not been so heavy as at other~
markets and the supply of old stock"
arriving has not been so great. H.221

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ply of old stock and as the new is_a so.
arriving there in good quantitles:
the old stock is finding rather hard...
going. The fact of the matter is that
unless old stock is clean and sound‘in,
every way it will not sell at all.» Then,
is no shipping demand for old: stoc -
and it will be 1‘11. 3. short time'un ' 1
old tubers will be off themarket‘, ~
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The Hairy Industry and'thez' U. S. Food Ad- ,

ministration

ITHER THRU 1gnorance or careleSSness,
the Food Administration has created an
impression among people generally that it is
patriotic to conserve dairy products and eat

substitutes made from ve *etable oils in their

stead Manufacturers of substitutes have been
quick to take advantage 5' this impression,
and as a result thousands of people who for-
merly used only butter are now serving oleo-

margerine on their tables and using vegetable
oils for cooking.

Notwithstanding the impression to the c011-
trary, tle Food Administration denies that
it ever encouraged decreased consumption of
dairy products. Commenting upon this dec-
laration Successful Farming says;

“The request of the Food- Administration to con-
serve fats has in many cases been misinterpreted
to include butterfats, as well as animal fats.
Patriotically complying with the supposed need
for saving dairy products, the consumption of
butter, cheese, and milk has been of late consid-
erably diminished. The Food Administration is
opposed to any such decrease in the use of dairy
products in the home.

“ * * * * The April first report of the bureau
of markets shows that we have on hand 108.3
per cent more creamery butter than was avail-
able a year ago, 188.9 per cent more packing
stock butter and 225.6 per cent more Ameriéan
cheese.”

On page 16 of a little booklet published by

entitled, “Food
Questions Anseret, which reached our desk
on June 4th, are the following questions and
answers:

158. What ale the animal fats?

Cream buttei, lard and fats of all animals.

159. What are vegetable fats?

Olive oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, and oil from
nuts. -

160. Why may vegetable fats be used more
freely than animal fats?

Because the animal fats are needed for the Al-
lies, and we have larger stocks of vegetable fats.

161. Is there any difference in the value of.
animal and vegetable fats in cooking?

No; vegetable fats are just as good as animal
fats.

164.
fats?

By frying less; by saving meat drippings; by us-
ing butter ONLY on the table; by using substi-

77

How can we save fats, especially animal

‘-tutes for lard; by wasting no soap.

Again the Food Administration fails V to
make a proper distinction between butterfats
and animal fats. As a matter’of ‘fact, it
classes cream and butter among the animal
fats that are needed for the Allies, and is

‘ therefore encouraging a decreasein the con-
‘sumption of these products. 1
' Domestic consump—V

This» is the situation:
tion of dairy products has decreased owing

itc'the conservation campaign of the Food Ad—
j.ministration; export demand cannot be taken
Vcare of because of the ship shortage; manu-
'facturers of butter" substitutes are capitaliz-

ing upon the plea of the Food Administration
use vegetable fats instead of animal fats;

a statement, ”we believe,
1 overcome. the growing- popularity of. sum

for dairy products. The demands 0

'dairy‘men along this line are reasonable, and 1:11
, we confidently expect that Mr. Hoover will ,

, toV'buy these tractors on contract.
We couldn’t quite fathom'

.- farmers.

it may not .
a: tractor that will stand 1119 V
> a 1 1d

. sh Wins
of butter and its regs

bet;
”would do. mu h to

tutes and materially strengthen the demand. A

."the "

shdw himself broad- minded enough to act 11p: :

On their suggestions. ~ :;

Ungrateful Illinois

HEN VMR. HENRY Ford agreed to re-

lease 1,000 tractors for the use of the

farmers of Michigan, and the :War Prepared-

ness Board agreed to subsidize their purchase,
both actions were heralded far and wide as
patriotic moves to help the. farmers. We

thought so, too, until we learned that no mo , 1

vision was to be made _to enable the farmers
Then we
became skeptical.
the depths of Mr. Ford’ .s patriotism, nor the

wisdom of the War Preparedness board in ,
buying, advertising and selling his particu-v

lar, make of tractor, so longas there were so
many other dependable makes upon. the mar—
ket. We asked a friend for an explanation.

“You see, Mr. Ford doesn’t really w int to

place his tractor 011 the market at the pres. .

.ent time. He’s too busy with war contracts
to build up a sales. organization rightnow.’
But he has been induced for patriotic reas-
ons to part With an even thousand tractors
just for the farmers of his" native State;
with the understanding that the state Willguar—
antee the purchase price and attend to the
distribution of the machines. These tractors
can be delivered at once, and will help out
the farm labor situation.’

A glimmer of light broke in upon. us. Mr.
Ford wasn’t q11ite1ready,——almost.but not
quite,——ready to place these machines on the
market. To do so, required a sales organiza—
tion which he didn’t have; it required news-
paper advertising which he didn’t believe in.
Happy thought! Why not let the War Pre-
paredness Board be his Sales organization
and do the advertising for him

The tractors were bought. Less than 500
were sold. Mr. Ford released the War Pre-
paredness Board from their contract. It had
done its work well. Immediately war boards
in other states caught up the idea and im—
plored Mr. Ford to let them, too, ‘sell his trac-
tors. Mr. Ford suddenly discovered that he
had a surplus of tractors and he consented
to part with them, not because he had any
special interest in the welfare of the farmers
of the respective states, but because he was
a ~tractor manufacturer and was making a
profit from the sale of every machine handled
by the war boards.

The Prairie Farmer givesthe‘following ac-

count of efforts to give the Ford tractor an'

official introduction into the state of Illinois. -

“Henry Ford has received more free advertising
than any oth’er' man in the United States. He has

come to regard free advertising as a constitution-V

alright, and objects to getting it in any other way.
“He has recently had some of his high- priced
salesmen in Illinois trying to get the governor and

the State Council for Defense to help him intro— '

duce his new tractor into the state.

This help has
very properly been refused. '

“We have a number of. tractor manufacturers in '

Illinois and adjoining states who have spent years
of time and millions of dollars in developing and
introducing their machines. They have never

asked state officials or county advisors to give them .

free advertising or to helplthem sell tractors to
Their machines have been developed
through years of field tests, and have been per»-
fected to meet the conditions under which they

' must work.
“Henry Ford’s tractor has not received these 6111- V
-It may be a good tractor and

tensive farm trials.
It. is certain tho

articles and his lectures bring him.

gtlie pinto bean deal.
“ their c911fidence in the mtegri‘t of

“pepét ”'1 .
Mr. VHearsthValls themare Valli ‘

his distrust of the present administr- tie
for the financial returns that his copyrigh e
He seeks

bigger game. The more he can diScredit the

“ Wilson admmlstratlon, thereby Widening the;

breach of confidence already in evidence, the
easier Will Mr. Roosevelt bring down his

prey in 1920. As a matter of fact, it is ex»

tremely necessary for the success of Mr. Roose-

'velt-’ s political fortunes that the present mor-
ale of the American people be destroyed or at

least disrhpted. And in the characteristic
Rooseveltian style, he is bringing into play

all the romance of his picturesque career, all '

the shrewdness of hispolitical experience and.
all the power of his oratory to arouse sus-

picion in the minds of the people and destroy --

their confidence in the present administration,-
and in all things Democratic.

. Can Mr. Roosevelt come back? There is no
denying that he is still extremely popular in
certain capitalistic centers of the country; the
New York republican club has" taken him'rback

_ into the folds- Detroit recently henored him

as it might have honOred t e president him-

self, millionaires are flocking to him like sheep,

to the fold

And a subscriber 'recently' warned us to

remember that Mr. Roosevelt stOod Well with
the farmers of Michigan!

Mr. Reosevelt’ s friends must greatly res
gret that political issues are for the time be—.‘

ing in the diseard. The pewer for political

fireworks is dampened for the period of the

war. There isonly one issue——Americanism,
and that ‘isn' ’t an issue'at all, Mr. Roosevelt’s
efforts to make it one/ notwithstanding, for all
of the political parties subscribe to it and will

make it their leading plank 1n the 1920 plat- ,

form. . .- .

The American peopledo not need to be re—
minded. three hundred and sixty-five days in
the year of what they should have done ’two
years, five years ago, or even ten years ago

authority to put his preparedness policies into"
effect. They are out now to win the war;
such unconstructive critics and obstruction—

' ists as Mr. RoOsevelt will be swept aside and

with renewed confidence in the integrity and
ability of the men now vested with the powers

of government, the nation will go unitedly

forward to victory. 1

Charity Begins at Home

VDTURNING from the bean meeting at ,
Saginaw several _weeks ago, the Writer.

became an unw1tt1ng listener to a conversation

‘betWeen three men, Who later disclosed their

identity as dealers" in beans. The subject Wo V1
They were expreVVV '

“Who it is generally believed hi}?

across, and Were sympathettca y. HQlllflEfl to

pardon his “1111th la

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patriotlsm and then proceed to render the

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What do you think about it, Mr.,

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Fargnerl

The Detroit Milk Price

E ASK our readers to turn to page 3 of'

this 1ssue and read the article by R. C.

V_ Reed, Secretary of the milk producers’ associ- ,
nation.

Please note that the milk commission
has fixed the pride for June milk at- $2. 15, and
the retail selling price at 12 cents per quart
for the same period.

It should be gratifying to members of
that ass0ciation that this price is ab0ve the

average June price for Other sections of. the .

country The dairymen’ s league of New York
for instance, has been obliged to aCcept $1 80
for 3 per cent milk during the month of
June, a drop of 66 cents from the May rates.
This was due to the fact that the federal
milk commission refused to set a price for
June, knoWing that it Could not determine
upon a price that would be satisfactory to
both producer and- cOnsumer.

The Detroit milk commission, it may be
said, has the confidence of all parties of the
milk triangle; its decisions have been based
upon reliable cost figures; and both farmers
and consumers as a rule, have been satisfied
With its findings.

The producers should not, however, delude
themselves that the milk question is settled
It IS decidedly not. No
industry rests secure which
such Waste and inefi‘iciency as is found in the

system of milk diStribution employed in De-'
Federal influ— '
‘ ence Which has wiped out duplication

troit and other large cities.

wiasteful competitive practices among the
railroads, express companies, etc., will sooner
or later swoop down upon the distribution
systems of food products, including milk, and
cOnsign every useless bit of impedimenta to
the garbage can. '

Save Wheath .

ESPITE the fact that farm famlhes are

r . _V not allowed a larger ration than. fam-
ilies engaged in sedentary occupations farm-

ers generally are accepting the situation With. _
good grace. Farm women are takings great /
._ interest in substitute-113mg recipes, and seem
to pride themselves» on their ability to, make
‘ Vpetizmg and satisfymg’eatables from these .

i do not believe that the Food A

' tratio should appeal to farmers to» still rm;

their Wheat, rations.

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-.‘Mineral Journal of Billings, Mont.,
' -tising in some of the Michigan weeklics that
‘~he will give straight tips

; man suckers.
, hewill get caught, and we’d like to'be on hand
. toljhelp skin him.

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‘ry forethe allied arms" may
‘e mite of wheat that the
le Jean save from their press

' (3, between now and another har-V .
cars, hotels, restaurants, and

private Tamiliés have eliminated wheat
entirely from their meals. The other day the

‘editor’ s family gathered sorrowfully about
(the remains of the last wheat biscuit,
[made asolemn vow to eat no more wheat un-

and

til the present situation is relieved by the
1918 crop . - _
We hope that you folks on the farm will

1'_ just keep this matter in mind and seize every
"opportunity that comes along to

SAVE
WHEAT, no matter how Small the portion.
Let father and the hired hands have their
wheat ration, but give the children corn
bread With lots of milk., They’ll grow 011
that and be satisfied.

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A jury acquitted the eleven men who were
accused of hanging Robert Pragcr because
In-
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'In Flanders Fields

HE FOLLOWlNG pathetic, yet inspir-
l ing verse was penned by Mr. John
McCrae, an

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Irish private, during
'the early part ' of the Flanders cam-
paign. The fact that its author was
recently killed in battle gives the poem a
touch of sentiment that will place it among
the immortal verses which the war has given
birth to. To really appreciate the spirit
that lies hidden between the lines, one
should hear the poem recited, by John Gib-
son, secretary of the Western Michigan De-
velopment Bureau. whose Irish accent al-
ways makes you sit up and take very care-
ful notice of what he is saying. Take our
advice; If you can ever get to a meeting
at which John Gibson is scheduled to speak.
go, and' ask him to recite “In Flanders’
Field.”

In Flanders fields, where poppies blow
Between the crosses 'row on row.

That mark our place, and in the slag,
The larlcs still bravely singing, fly.
«Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead! Short days ago

. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe,

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch—be yours to hold it high!

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields!

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oners, their attorney endeavored to show that
Prager was a German sympathizm, but the
judge ruled that even had 1’1 ragcr been .1 (Ici-
man spy, to lyndh him was murder So say
we all. The hot-headed, rambunctious, ego—
tistical, law-defying hyperpatriot, who sticks
a'knife in between his neighbor’s ribs just
because'they were “made in Germany” is a
murderer and deserves the limit of the law.
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“Old Man Harris]? editor of the Oil and

is ad vcr-

on investments
which may pay the investor 400 percent div—
idends. Any farmer that will nibble such
bait is the biggest sucker in the pond of hu—
’ He ought to get caught, and

. . o‘ a: as",
Mr Roosevelt has told us where he stands

. on compulsory military service for farmers’
boys ”
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it we can’t recall that he ever argued

Labor Problems at Threshing Time.

I wrote totho executive oflice at Lansing to get
ta (slaw

back my fireman and engineer for this

threshing and below is what they said about gee":

ting back help. I cannot use any kind of help-,1“

must have experienced help for threshing. ., we .

have to work from twelve to fifteen hours a days:
and sometimes half of the night, and where is 3,;
boy or man from the city who will do for such”?

work. This man whom I want is Mr. C. J. Gold‘ ~
en at Camp Custer, base hospital heating unit. I.

am a thresher and need the man to fire my on-
gine. ——J. H. E. Carleton. Michigan.

The Executive office advised.

“There is no doubt a great shorage of this kind
of labor, due to several causes which need not here
be discussed. There are two sources from which
you may be able to obtain help. The Boys’ Work-
ing Reserve is enrolling a large number of boys
who are willing to go to the farms to work. This,
of course, does not constitute experienced farm
help, but will probably be of some value. The free
employment bureaus usually have a number of
men who are willing to go to farms and some of
them I understand are valuable men.
bureau at Flint and there is one at Lansing, and
if you make application to either one of these
bureaus I have no doubt that they will be able
to send you a man, or two men it you desire
them.”~—Ralph Duff, Secretary.

‘ The Evil of High Prices

The evil of high prices is a fundamental con-
dition in our economic system. We produce waste~
fully; we distribute unscientifically; we aim to
give little to the producer and to give small value
for high prices to the consumer. We permit mid-
dlemen to reap profits; we tolerate private m0—
uopoly and therein lies an obvious cause for
high prices because we permit a few profiteers to
tell us what we shall pay for the things we must
have. If we would have reasonable prices we
must dig down deep 11110 the social order. We

must eliminate private monopoly and supplant it .'

with collective ownership—~21 form of public mono-
poly. We must not permit individuals to own
vast stretches of land and hold it out, of use to the
detriment of those who would work. When We’
throw the land open and when we own the means
of production and distribution, then prices will
become normal; until then we must be satisfied
with paying ridiculous prices. Meanwhile if you
feel like it blame it on the war. but that will nev-
er make an evil right. It’s fight to 1‘. finish and end
it for all time. There will be a time. in our mind,
when cannon and other war material will be put
in museums to look at, and some will wonder What
they are for, 21s wars will be no 11101'e.~—S. H. 8.,
Cass ('ilg. Michigan.
Should Play No Favorites

I am a farmer’s wife and we are trying to
Hoov-erize in every way we can to help win this
war. We are also Red Cross workers and mem—
bers. But I would like to see things a little more
even. We have people here who get 25 pounds
of sugar and because they don’t like the way it
looks take it and feed it to their horses. Now,
then there are poor people here who try .to
get ten pounds at a time once a week and they
can’t get it at the same grocery, when his neighbor

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who has six in his family gets ten pounds and"

then of course the grocer denies he ever gave";

him 10 pounds. This same grocer is always

preaching to the farmers that they must buy .

moxe substitutes so they can help win the war

Then why does oat meal or rolled oats go up,"

every little while, when you can’t get no more,
for your cats?
have fat pocketbooks when this war is over. .

Lots of people get discouraged trying to con-
serve when someone else who has money don’t
try.

We take your paper and like the way you ta!
Would like you to print this if it meets with
your approval. —Mrs. E. B., West Branch.

Wool Price Too Low

The wool buyers say that the government
the price on wool 80 that they got to buy 14: .
650 per pound. We farmers should have $1 pe
pound if. we want to get paid for our feed
bor. which is high and then it is hard to get '
man for chores. If we don't get more for 1) W991
and wheat We. have got to quit and raiso
else. If you can help us fiarmers

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’ ~1‘5.'Uommnmtim us this

in Michigan is a tired woman whOse very life
is a tragedy.
—a long pitiful letter that has set me to thinking

strange things and has stirred up a great yearn-

ing in my heart to help her. ,She needs advice

«from some farm woman who has gone thru the
same experience of disappointment and unhappi-'

ness, and has finally ceme out into the light of

better understanding and appreciation of the good- "

ness of God and nature. This poor woman has
brooded so long over the seeming injustice of her
lot that she has formed an unconscious habit of

- picking out the husks and chaff instead of the ker-

“nel's and the wheat. The farm is her prison, from
which there is no escape. She writes:

- . “Day after 'day I stand in my kitchen doorway

and, look out across the fields. What do I see?
Nothing, but'the same things that I saw yesterday,

" f—the same trees, the same fences, the same road,

the same sky, everything the same. The sun rises
and sets day after day but it does not change the
scene from my kitchen doorway.‘ Will it ever
change? That is the question I have asked my-
self over and over again. Will there ever come a
morning when I may look out and see something
else in my life besides fields, and fences, and
barns and trees, and a. horizon that, distant as it
appears, seems to surround the farm and shut me
into this eternal monotony. God pity the farm wo-
man.
Her lifetime is a round of cooking, scrubbing,
seWing, washing, always the same day after day
and year after year. What am I to do? Can you
help me, Penelope? Tell me how to break out of
my prison and be free to enjoy life as do others.
Am I wrong or is everyone else wrong? ,Are there
farm women who can truthfully say that they en-
joy their work and who can yet see the “resplend-
ent beauties of nature” as the women’s maga-
zines usually put it? If they can perhaps there
is hope for me. Ask them how they survive the
endless days of drudgery and drabness that have
been my lot for the last twenty years.”

That is only a part of her letter but it is enough
to show you what a desperate state of mind this
woman is in. Personally, I cannot understand her
viewpoint. I have lived on a farm, not all my life,
but enough of it to know both the trials and bless-
ings that go with farm life. I, too, have looked
out of the kitchen window day after day, and if
my mind were upon“ the scene before me, I have
never failed to find something new and. interesting
to please the eye. I have never tired, either in the
heat of the day or the cool of the evening, to stand
at rest for a few moments and let my glance wan-
der off across the rolling fields of grain and hay.
the berry bushes that hugged the fences as far as
the eye could see, the clumps of maples with their
tops touching the skies, and the roads winding in
and out between the little hills and thru the little
valleys, like grey ribbons laid across the green-
sward.

Oh, yes, I’ll confess there used to be monoton-
ous days when I became a trifle discontented and
built air castles in which other people lived in per—
petual happiness. But those days‘were few and
far between and since I have lived in the city I
have come to know positively that there's nothing
so drab and common and tiresome on the face
of the earth as paved city streets with tall build-
ings on either side, as changeless and immovable
asthe granite in the graveyard.

A millions could be preached upon this subject.
But the present occasion is one for friendly advice
instead of sermonizing, and I really believe that

‘between us all we can give this farm woman some

suggestions that will help overcome her prejudice

against the farm, and show her that even in work.

there may be pleasure and that. even the busiest
of farm women have time to play and enjoy them-
selves. You must help do this. Either your own
experience or the experience of a friend may fur-
nish the lesson which will teach every dischntented
woman how to be happy even tho living on a farm.
Affectionately, Penelope.

An Even Dozen Helpful Hints

Dear Penelopez—Reading so many interesting

‘ letters in the M. B. F. enticed. me to send: a few

“of my helpful hints.

.-:inuch useful knowledge.
will be time-savers for someone:

My husband and I enjoy
reading your paper very much, for we both obtain
-The following. I hope,

She wrote me the other day, ‘

Her realm is the four walls of her kitchen'.’

‘. aAmuw .
1 (reunions, Berni Home ”1me13:11: Mt. Clemens. Mich)

EAR READERS On a: little farm somewhere To open a _oan of fruit place' a warm iron on
' cover for a few minutes V“

To keep eggs whole when poaching, add tea-g

'spoon vinegar. . f , -’

When making flour thickening for gravy use the.

Qg beater) and see how smooth it ,will be. ,1 A

To‘ keep cheese moist wring cloth out ‘of vine-
, gar and wrap around cheese.

Vinegar will clean stain from water pitcher”

caused from lime in water

When you burn your finger hold in vinegar for-

a few minutes.

When y '
off hand an

children’s bloomers Wear out out
put away to use on new pair—saves

. making button- holes.

To set color in wash goods, let stand over night
in solution of one tablespoon of sugar of lead. to
one gallon of water..
waists and children’s gingham dresses.

When you want a change in your Waists

soap of any desired shade and dye them. It is
very simple. Just wash them in “Rit” and rinSe
in two watersan’d you have a new garment. ‘

I have made the followin "from cast-off shirts,
fine or work shirts: Waist for myself, dress for
my five-year-old girl, bloomers for the baby._ .In
making a child’s dress use the front of the shirt
for the button-holes in the back, use the back of
the shirt for the front of dress; out sleeves outof

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\ The Apple Bloom
HEN warmth of the sunlight and wealth
of, the earth
Reveal in great beauty the glory of birth,
No joy of the spring, nor fruit of the Zoom
Gan give more delight than appletree bloom.
HE flash of bright colors of birds on the
wing.
Who warble with gladness the sangs that
they sing,
These all could not turn my heart from its
gloom
As sure as the burst of appletree bloom.
HE perfume of flowers may laden the air
'And the landscape o’erflow with beauty
most rare,
Yet these cannot heal my sorrow and gloom
Like beauty revealed in a/ppletree bloom.
HEN summer is past and autumn draws
. nigh,
And spring in its beauty has come from on
high,
My heart will be sad unless there is room
For the queen of my joys, dear appletrce
bloom
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sleeves, put pockets, collar and belt on and you
have acute sclicol dress or

Ilse No. 40 crochet cotton to make button holes
in common sewing—~saves time.

After washing stove, when washing dishes, rub
stove with a cloth saturated with boiled linseed
oil; it makes it black.

Here are some of my war-time recipes:

CAKE
One cup brown sugar, half cup lard. one cup raisins,
one cup water, half. teaspoon cinnamon, cloves, salt.
Let this come to-Iboil, remove from fire, let cool; add
one teaspoon soda, one and one-half cups flour.

hIOLASSES CAKE
Half cup sugar, one egg, half cup molasses, two
tablespoons lard, half cup sour milk (buttermilk), one
cup raisins. teaspoon nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, tea-
spoon soda, one and one-half cups flour.

OATMEAL COOKIES .,

One cup granulated sugar, half teaspoon salt, half

cup lard, three-quarters cup buttermilk, two cups

ground oatmeal, one and one-half cups white flour,

teaspoon soda Drop on
greased pan.

teaspoon baking powder.
OATIVIEAL BREAD

Two cups oatmeal,
lard, three cups boiling water;
add 1 cup light yeast stiffen with white flour.

let stand- until cool,
Set

at night, ready for tins eaily in morning—Mrs. L.

..,E Vassar.

Six Children and Still Has Time to-Write ~'

It willl‘set color in dainty

' or '
children’s faded light dresses, buya bar of “Rit” _

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half cup sugar, two tablespoons ,1
then built along tableand set it in the center of

' We have a- large back porch;- the outside cellar
way is on the porch, Opening by a trap, door by

ceiling. a small rope fastened to

dew runs thin pulley then fastens , 1 -- ’
nor on Well With tyre nails to wind it on, bringing.
I like them\
for they are out of the Way and there is no Bang.
Anather one I have is in the din-‘
ing room is long and narrow. one sash slips;

the window up may from our heads.-
ing of windows.

back against the other, so it {is not in the way.

means of a pulley in the ceiling. with rope fasten-

ed. in door at one end and a weight“ on the other,»
so there is no strain on the back when the heavy

door is lifted. -. ’

Another hot weather convenience is the top to
an old box stove set over a hole in the grOund, or
over a wall made, of stene to make it higher, near '
~_the,porch, so that cooking and washing, etc,

can
be done out of doors where we .can watch the
works of our. great'Creator. 0n the east side of
the porch is a long shelf, where we prepare Vege-
tables, wash dishes, do baking, etc.; right’in .front
of it is a porch box filled with nasturtiums and
ipomla, and back of that, is an ivy vine for shade.
We have a table there to use at meal time and
expect to make an iceless ice box to put victuals
in to” save running up and down cellar. Hereto-
fore fer keeping butter cool, I sank a crock in

‘ sand, pour cold water into it and keep the Sand

large enough to slip through the hands

Dear. Penelopez—I have been very much inte_r~. .

ested in your page in the M. B. F. and thought I
would add my mite. I am a busy‘mother on a
new farm of 240 acres, with six children, , the
youngest born May 15. We have a. very small

house so I welt ome all cenvenie'nces that tend to f

around the crock damp, then set dish of butter in

a small clock or ‘bowl into the larger crock.» It I

keeps very nicely.

I have a bread mixer, rotary biscuit and cooky
cutter, food chopper, pie and cake tins, with the
patent knife for removing contents, which makes
work easier. .4

A baking powder can with a spring top punched
full of holes, makes a very good clothes sprinkler,

"also for watering plants, and smalllseeds.

I have a washing machine but there is always
some elbow lubricator needed, so I take a scrub
brush for neck and wrist bands, overalls, bedding.
' For cleaning sticky dishes, I have a rubber plate
cleaner, a galvanized iron kettle scraper, which
can be cut out at any tinshop; there are two
rounded corners and One pointed one for conven-
ience, with hOle in one end to hang up by; a magic
dish cloth made of copper wire coiled and fastened
on strong twine.

Before Irwas married I was a dressmaker,'and
a few little things to help along that line were a
sleeve, or pressing board made of walnut. Being
made of walnut no dampening of Scams or wrink-
les is needed. A' sleeve board on a standard is
very nice on which to iron baby’s little dresses too.
A skirt hanger and a tailor’s cushion, a small flat.

rounded cushion for pressing rounding seams like -
elbows, hips, etc.‘

Hoping this is not too long and may be of some
service, I am.~Mrs. C. E. P. Hespcria.

A Substitute Ice Box

Dear Penelopez— I wish to tell you of our subu'

stitutes for an ice box. For baby’s sake we had
to keep the milk cold, and it is sometimes hard
to get ice. I had my husband‘fix a wire to ’the
side of a bucket then to 'the handle to make it
solid; he then tied a rcpe to the handle and it is
nicely.
This bucket will hold my butter/and other things
as well. I pack everything in fruit jars and then
lower it into the well where it keeps as cold as any

'ice box could keep it.

I Want to tell you also of myr‘kitchen, as I had

to use one room ‘as kitchen and dinihg room, and

thecupboard was at one end, I decided to put a
cupboard in the center, where it could be reashed
from both sides-and would save many steps. I

the kitchen and in front of the stove. That made
my work more compact and it saves me many

. steps

We are planning on a new home and I shall

adopt the dumb waiter which Mrs. J. G. 8:, “South.
-'Haven 'spoke about.

I think this is a fine work
and hope to see many more helpful articles.

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.Price of patterns ten cents each. Ad-
dress. Farm /Home Dept, Michigan
Business Farming, Mt. Clemens. Mich.

school and afternoon dresses. Th..-

'side ”closing in the waist‘is very popé

ular this year, with the shawl collar
and loose tie. The skirt is one piece
with straight lower edge and _,gather-
ed all around to the waist line. ".Soft
ginghams or linens are the most suit-
able for such a drets, or if for more
dressy occasions the embroidered
flouncing is greatly used, especially
for the skirts and combined with a
muslin or lawn waist.

N0. 8802.—-Girls’ Dress. What a
smart spring outfit for misses 14 or

16 years. in a plaidor plain silk ging- ‘

ham, or perhaps a new ioulard with
the light background and a delicately
shaded flower or figure. This straight
waist is cut in Empire effect with
waist line out higher in front. The
shawl collar could well be omitted and
the neck finished in a lace edge‘ or
narrow bias ruffles. These ruffles may
also serve as trimming around the

~waste line, giving the jacket effecr.

The skirt is one-piece, with straight
lower edge and gathered all around
to ti.) waist. .The pattern is cut in
sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. ‘

No. 8775.——Ladies’ and misses’ blouse.
A plaited smock effect which may be
open or closed in the front. These
sport waists are more popular than
ever this year, and are the most com-
fortable blouses any one can wear.

\The bright colored voiles with white

collar and cuffs are shown in abund-
ance, but those made of white Indian
Head or ratine are moredesirable to
many. and if one wishes a little color,
the embroidered motifs or colored col-
lar, cuffs and belt make up attractive-
ly. In place of the plaits at the shoul-
der seam, why not use smacking or
shirring as shown in‘ ready made
smocks? This pattern is cut in sizes
16 and 18 years, and '36, 38, 40, 42 and
44 inch bust measure. .

No. 8774.—.—Ladies’ one-piece house.

dress. .Cut in sizes 36, 40 and 44.
Slips on just like ‘

inch bust measure.
a coat, and hangs straight from the
shoulders. These apron effect dress-
es areso easily ironed. 'No trimming
is required except as one" uses differ-
en material for the c'ollar. cuffs, belt

Jan pockets. .lThe-kimona‘ st le’ 0'!
" waist lsalwas’ts'cool andcom ortable,‘

a f as sh [1... always .‘consider

. ‘ one, which: are“ nothing more
efedges’ ‘ot the gores faced with
contrasting, ., matem " The" ershion-
,1b“elt;_is alsoguied on this

,j sit rt. \LThis’patternis cut in sizes 24

26,728, .30 and 32 inch waist measure.

, ; -‘No unanswered. ‘For the .
tall, slender girl, this girlish one-piece

frock mid be ever so becoming._'l‘he.
skirt is cut in two. sections, large
‘pockets on the side and gathered all
around to a slightly raised waist line.
This plain semi shirt waist style is to
be used a great deal for the warm
months. The fitted sleeves may be
opened,.mak;i‘ng. them more convenient
for home Wear. The wool or cotton
jerseys make most desirable street
dresses when made up in these simple
' Sem-i-fitteddresses, and those soft
French ginghams, either'in the large
plaids or stripes, are growing- in favor
daily. ' . '

Try These Recipes and Tell Me
HOW‘You Like Them

fBelow~ are some particularly good
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To the Boys and Girls

, EAR CHIDREN: I had decid-
ed to start a little department in
this issue Just for the little folks,
but some of my material did not
arrive in time, and so I am oblig-
ed to wait another week or two.
In order to find out Just what the
children on the form like to read
best I’m gong to give a prize to
the boy andh girl who writes me
the best letter giving suggestions
, for the kind of page to print. Do
you like stories, poems”, pictures,
puzzles, experience letters or what?
I want every one of you to write
me a nice long friendly letter,
Just as if I was “teacher,” and
you my scholars. Tell me how you
are going to help mama and‘papa
this summer. There are so many
things you can do, and will do, I
know. Tell me about them, please.
You can ask your .mothers to help
you write this letter if you wish.
Just address it “Aunt Penelope,”
care M. B. F., Mount Clemens,
Mich.,” and I’ll get it all right. If
you have any original stories or
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your convenience you would try some
of these and let me know what luck
you have with them. If any of my
readers are using recipes which they
think other readers would like to
have, I would like to have you send
them in. ‘

: tender-but not brown;
m the milk-~and work into. the cheese;
mix all other dry ingredients thoroughly '

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sage; haltyte‘aispeon‘f thyme;‘- one table-
' Simon milk, one «teaspoon: salt, quarter

: teaspoon pepper, ,third,tea5poon soda, one

tablespoon finely Chopped . onion. .

K The bread crumbs mayirbe made from V

left-over corn, ‘barley or other quick
breads. Cook the onion in ‘the‘rat until
Dissolve thesoda

with the bread crumbs. Blend peanut
butter and onion with the cheese. and
mix with them the bread crumbs. Form
mto flat cakes. dust with bread crumbs
or cornmeal, and try. a delicate brown
in a little fat in a hot frying pan.

COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD

Two cups cottage cheese, one cup pick-
led beets cut up, one tablespoon chopped
onion, one teaspoon chopped parsley.

Serve on lettuce leaves with French
or mayonnaise dressing. -

COTTAGE CHEESI TAB'I‘S

One and one-third cups cottage cheese.
whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, third cup
heavy cream, whipped, third cup sugar.
two teaspoons lemon juice, few gratings
of lemon rind, two or three tablespoons
sweet milk.

Soften the cheese with the milk. Add
part of the whipped cream and the flav—
oring, which should be very delicate. Fold
in last the beaten egg whites. Heap
lightly into ready cooked, delicately
browned pastry cases, made by baking
pie crust in mufl‘ln tins or on the bottom
of inverted pie tins. Use potato, rice,
oatmeal or barley pastry. Garnish the
top of the tart with the rest of the
whipped cream. and with fresh or canned
fruit if desired. This makes a large one-
crust pie or tart.

“’HEY HONEY

One cup whey, half cup corn syrup.

Mix whey and syrup and boil the mix-
ture till it is of the consistency of strain-
ed honey. This syrup will keep indefi-
nitely if properly bottled and is delicious
on wafl‘les or pancakes. Used 21 little
thinner it makes an excellent pudding
sauce. Since it requires no thickening,
it is the easiest possible sauce to make.

WHEY PUNCH

One quart whey, 6 tablespoons corn syr-
up, juice of 2 lemons, slices of lemon or a
little grated or diced rind, nutmeg or
cinnamon.

Mix. chill and s~rve as a beverage.

Variations.—~Reduce the amount of lem-
on juice and of sugar and add other fruit
juices and a little fruit cut in small piec-
es. This transforms whey lemonade into
whey punch. Set the whey away to chill
and ripen. and serve with crushed ice if
desired. Rhubarb, pineapple. grape, cur—
rant and cherry juices lend themselves
well to whey punch. A sprig of freshly
crushed mint is sometimes added. Nut—
meg or cinnamon will overcome any
characteristic whey flavor.

We think M. B. F. hits the mark about
the farmers getting rich. We have farmed
here on eighty acres for the last twenty
years and have not got money enough
to renew our subscription on time with—
out working out for it. But thanks for
high—priced labor so we can take your
valuable paper.—L. Cruhers, Saginaw
county. -

Best Even—B. G. Westfall, Livingston
county.

I like your permit—Archie Scott, Eaton
county.

 

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BY WALTER. WELLMAN

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Here’s a cut-out puzzle that I want you to put together and mail to me with your
letter. Follow the lines carefully when you out it out, and paste the different pieces
together as neatly as possible upon a sheet of paper to form a cow. The average city
boy 01'. girl wouldn’t have any idea what this queer looking animal is supposed to be.
Mil-fly of them never saw a cow, and I suppose they’d have a hard time piecing this

. puzzle so that it‘ would lookdike a real live bossy. But you’ll find it, easy, I know.

After 39!! have put the cow together, I want you to give her a nice name, and then tel]
'11” how in!!! cows you have on your farm, what breed they are, whether your
daddy 1138 3 milking machine,’_and' everything you can ‘think of about your own

   

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ducts are concerned, will, soon”.
tablished by the Food Commissib
revtlsiOn 'being downward. . Cu,
quotations are as follows: ,Flouree
196 lbs, in eighth paper sacks, strafi ,
Winter, $11.25; straight spring, $1,
@1175; rye flour, $12.50 in jobb 11’;
lots. '- ,
Feed—in 100 lb. sacks, jobbing- lots
bran, $37; standard middlings, $39
fine middlings, $45; cracked corn. $65
coarse cornmeal, $64; chop, 356 pa
ton. " " . ‘
, Milwaukee, May 25.——-Rye and hem
iny feeds and- brewers’ dried .grai'j _
declined about $1 per tOn during th
past week, due to an increasing sup:

ply and only ’a moderate demand.
Bran and middlings continue strong;
with little available and a brisk def",
mand. Others rule about steady and.’
unchanged. Buying continues stricti.
1y of a hand. to mouth character. the“
grass season being close at hand.
Current quotations are::

Sacked bran, $35@37 ; standard mid"
dlings $37 to 39; red dog $53; rye feed
$49.50; cottonseed meal, $52.50@55;
oil meal, $54; gluten feed, $49.80 Chi-
cago; all in 100 lb. sacks.

    
   
 
   

   
 

  

 
      

  

          
 

  

        
 
      
  

 
 
 

      
 
  

 
  
 
 

    
   
    
 
 
 

   

 
    
 
      
      
     
 

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There is plenty of butter coming on
the Detroit market to supply the de-
mand and leave a considerable sur-
plus. The _rice has remained steady
throughout e week; dealers are
not anticipating further drop in quo-
tations unless the supply should show
considerable increase. Fresh creamery
firsts are quoted at 40 to 401/20; fresh
creamery extras 410 per lb.

Our New York letter under date“of
June 1, advises as follows: While
the quotations do not indicate the
general weakness of the market this
week the fact is the market has been
as weak as any time this spring. The
causes of the marked weakness are,
the increase in make, the desire of
butter jobbers and retailers to buy
only for their immediate‘needs, and
a scarcity of out of town buyers. But-
ter is accumulating in considerable
quantity, however many of the dealers
have not begun to lay in their usual
supply. It is expected, however, that
with the coming of full grass stock,
speculative demand will soon be in’
full swing and a gradual strengthen-
ing of the market will result. The
Federal government will purchase con.
siderable quantities of butter during
the coming months which will also
act as a prop to the market.

Considering the weakness of the
market it is remarkable that there,
has been a decline in quotations of.
only about one—quarter cent during
the week. On Monday extras were.
quoted at 43 1—4c; on Tuesday, 430;”
Wednesday 42 3—4 to 43c; and on Fri-
day 42113 to 43c. Buying has been
rather limited throughout the Week
and with accumulation of stocks there
is a strong possibility that there Willi,"
be a further decline during the com<.'
ing week. Additional quotations cull
Friday were: Higher scoring than:
extras, 431.4 to 44c; firsts, 401/: to 42%” .,
and seconds, 37 to 400. Unsalted buta.
ter is not in great demand but is
quoted at a differential of one to one
and a half cents over corresponding
grades of salted butter.

Cheese

New York, June 1.—The market is
holding steady on better grades of
fresh cheese with a firmer undertone"
due chiefly to advances in Western
New York primary markets on Wed
nesday. Our receipts of fresh air
gradually inceasing, but trade also
on the increase, the larger part of t,
demand now being for new. Qualiti
are improving and the movement'm’ .
storage has started at primary point ' ‘

   

      

 
 
   
   
   
   
  

  

   
    
   
     
 
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
    
  
    
   
      
   
  
    
  
  
  
 
   
  
 
 

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' age or husking 84 bu. bags free. Spec—

 

 

 

 

SEED BEANS

60 bushels Dry Hand- Picked, tested by
., A. sing. Strong Germination,
> 86% 88 00 per bushel, bags extra.

Charles Lanphierd, Midland, Mich, R. 8.‘

 

 

300:]!68. WHITE STAR SEED CORN.
. Early maturing, good yielder for sil-

ial price on the lot. Sample for stamp.
. Express only. Harry Vail, Warwick,
Orange County, N. Y.

 

 

 

 

Co-operative Buying $383832;
saves Money. 2:2;1131 carlot quotations
GRAIN GROWERS GRAIN C0. Minneapolis, Minn

 

h‘Pit'ice 846,: 00 tor;a delivered 'Michigsn

oi ts, sacks inclu'
p T‘hmhea est and best feed you can buy
order 1 y before stocks gen e'xh hausted
Port Huron torage d: _
. - 1.?ort uronrMich.

FARMS A31) FARM LANI)S~
FOB SALE—vA large tract of good land

for farming1 when cleared. Sufficient for"

be purchased in

. Can
a. small co any Price and

tracts to suit the purchaser.
terms favorable. . Also improved
with good buildings thereon. All situ-

ated on main leading line of road, to the
. city of Cheboygan.

h Nottoririia‘doeshfloods
or asshoppers ere 0 arm to or
propggrty. For further description, if in~
terested, write me. J. . MacArthur, 680
Duncan avenue. Cheboygan Michigan.

MISCELLANEOUS '

FORDS CAN BURN HALF COAL 01L
or Cheapest Gasoline, using our 1918'
Carburetor; 34 miles per gallon guaran-
teed. Easy starting. Great power in-A
crease. Attach it yourself. Big profit
selling for us. 30 days trial. Money back
Guarantee. Styles to fit any automobile.
Air-Friction Carburetor Company, 559
Madison Street Dayton, Ohio

 

 

 

beans,

 

apples, potatoes, hay,
sonal representatives

we have the facilities and know how.

WE SELL FARMERS AT WHOLESALE PRICES

Frtiiizer, Binder Twine Paris Green Spraying Materials, Grass Seed, Fence
Posts, Auto Tires, Gleaner Brand Paints, Purina Dairy Horse, Chicken, Calf
and Hog Feed Bran, Middlings, (Torn, Oats, Nursery Stock, Brooms, Canned
Goods, Soap and other staple lines used on the farm.

BINDER TWINE—We have reserved a supply large enough to take care of
the farmers’ requirements if they will order early in the season.
guaranteed and our price will save you money.

Write us today for prices and further information.

CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION

Telephone Cherry 2021 323-327 Russell St., Detroit

N. F. SIMPSON, Gen. Mgr.

Direct from the Farm to Consuming Markets

We handle poultry, eggs, butter, veal calves, dressed hogs maple syrup, onions,
or anything raised on the farm. On car lot
shipments we reach all the leading market centers through our chain of per-
We get shippers the very outside market price because

Quality fully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1908—Peaccand
prosperity! Ameri-
ca's battleship fleet,
“Ready for a fight
or s frolic," as Ad-
miral “Bob" Evans
remarked, gone on
11- 45,000-milc,
around-the-world
cruise, pointing out
to all nations the fact
that we had become
a power to be reck-
oned with, and s
cruiss which Euro-
pean experts said
could not he Completed. But
it was!

1918~America in the Great
War, throwing its every energy
into the combat to make the
world a decent place to live in.

In 1898, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY, one of the organ-
izers of the Michigan Naval
Reserves, served through the
Spanish war as a lieutenant on
the “Yosemite," which was
manned by Michigan’s Reserves.

In 1908, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY prepared ths

cruise and from assistant

AJTmplsm,GsnorCqu1'r-m
leH. ng, Executive 671mm»

 

 

1898—1908—1918

Three Signal Years in American History

1898—War with Spain! Humanity and liberty
brought by America to oppressed Cuba and Philippines,
the United States taking its firm place as a world power.

Truman H. Newbsrry

. voter can support his nomination

battleship fleet for its ‘fsmous .

NEWBERRY

f 07’

United States Senator

Mitch“! by Thu Newbcniy Senatorial Committee

secretary became
Secretary of the
Navy in the Roose-
velt cabinet.

In1918,TRUMAN
H. N E W B E R R Y,
again a volunteer, a
Commander in the
Third Naval District,
including New York
City and Brooklyn
navy yard, the most
important naval di-
vision in the country.

A man of national
distinction, of unfiagging devo-
tion to his country, of sblc ser-
vice in peace and war, of high
charactsr, genial, approachable
and sympathetic, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY is a man on whom
not only all Republicans but all
the people of Michigan and units.

In this crisis, the office de-
mands the ablcst and most
experienced man available to
help conduct the nation’s affairs.
TRUMAN H. NEAWBERRY is
such a man. Every Michigan

and election with confidence in _
his record, his ability and his
100 per cent Americanism.

 

 

 

 

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higher‘ than last week;

 

The Detroit market is somewhat?
A firmer and prices just a shade higher. .-

Receipts during the past week have

not been quite so heavy as those of a'

week ago. Current receipts are quot-

ed at 32c; Michigan firsts, 3314c. . 2
Chicago reports the egg deal as

dead quiet and the market is in about

' the moist unsatisfactory condition ex?-

perienced so far this season. ' Quite a.
few cars have arrived and gone into
storage owing to the inability, of

shippers to find satisfactory sale Cur-'

rent receipts are quoted at 311,4:c.

 

Ducks
u
Springer:
e111

 

 

 

 

 

No. 2 Crude 2 to 3 Cents Loss ,
\Business continues quiet in the
poultry line on all markets. There
is very little stock arriving and

while the demand is not at all heavy»

still it is sufficient to keep the price
firm and steady under the present vol-
ume of receipts. Both Detroit 'and
Chicago report similar conditions so
far as the supply is concerned. Some
effort has been madeat~ Chicago to
force the price lower but all such
attempts have: failed of their purpose,
the small supplies forcing the price up
again almost as soon as it is lowered.
Dealers inform us they are expecting

increased shipments after the middle

of the present month as many fowls
will then be about through laying and
will be disposed of without delay on
account of the high cost of feed. '

Dressed Calves

The veal market is firm with re-
ceipt light. Market rather inactive
owing to small volume of arrivals.
Fancy offerings are quoted at 21' to
220; choice, 19 to 200; common, 17
to 180. *

Wool

As time goes on the Government
plan for handling the current wool
crop is being worked out more fully
in detail but there is still a great deal
of work to be done. Manufacturers
are anxious to get W001 supplies" and
especially those needed for govern-
ment contract work, the medium
grades. Chicago quotations for the
current week on Michigan wools are

. as follows:

Tubs, washed, 55 to 600; medium;
unwashed, 45 to 53c; coarse,~unwash~
ed, 45 to 53; light, fine, bright, 33 to
35c;
and dingy, medium, unwashed, 40 to
55c; taggy fleeces, hurry, and black
wool, 5c per lb. discount.

Live Stock Letters

East Bufialo, N. Y. June 4—Receipts
of cattle Monday, 150 cars, including

30 cars of Canadians and 15 cars left”-

from last Week’s trade - Trade open;-

ed 25c higher on medium weight and:
weighty steer cattle Which were in 1'

moderate supply; butcher Steam and
handy weight steers sold 15 to 25c
higher than last week; fit cows and

heifers sold steady; bulls of all classes

sold 25c higher; canners and cutters
were in light supply, sold 25 to 50c

and springers were in very light sup-

heavy, fine, unwashed, 300; dark

fresh cows .

it was steady 911 pigs and stead

~ strong on medium and new cg.

and a. quarter highermn rofighs. Med!

11mm heavy hogs sold from 8173257
:to .817 50; 'héavy mixed hogs, 817 .757

light mixed and yorker’s, 818 to 818. 25;
as to weight and quality; pigs and
lights; generally 818.50,; roughs, 817.5. 50l,,_

" vand stage. 811 to 812.’

The receipts of sheep and lambs;

‘ Monday totaled 11110111: 6400 head The“. .
. market on choice, handy weight lambs, .1 -;

Opened 600 to 81 per cwt. lower than
Saturday’s close.

the big decline on winter lambs was
due to the run in Jersey City. Best

handy weight lambs sold from 817 to ..

817. 25. There were three loads of '
handy weight lambs sold up to 817 40.
The market was slow On all grades
after the first round, heaVy lambs be-r'
ing very hard sellers. Anything over
85 lbs. was called heavy. Throwouts
sold from 813.50 to $14.50; yearlings,
813 to 814.50; and there was ‘one'lit-
tle bunch of 83 pound yearlings sold
up to 815.50 early in the morning;
wethers, 813 to 814; ewes, 812 to 813
as to weight and- qnality.’ There were
about 1000 lambs went over unsold.
Tuesday with about 1400 sheep and
lambs on sale, best handy weight
lambs sold 10 to 25c higher than on
Monday, while all other grades were .
about steady. Best lambs sold from *
$17.50 down; throwouts, 813.50 to
$14. 50; yearlings, 813 to 814. 50; weth-
ers. 813 to 814; ewes, $12 to 813 as to
weight and quality. '
Choice to prime weighty steers.
817.50 to $18.25; medium to good
weighty steers, $16.50 to 817.25; plain ‘*
and coarse weighty steers, $15.50 to
8116; choice to prime handy weight
and medium weight steers, $15.50 to
816; fair to good lhandy weight and
medium weight steers, $14.50 to $15;
choice to prime yearlings, 815. 50 to
$1.6; fair to good yearlings, 814. 50 to
815; medium to good butcher steers,
$13. 50 to 814; fair to medium butcher
steers, 812.50 to 813; good butcher
heifers $12.50 to 813; fair to medium
butcher heifers, $11.50 to 812; good
to choice fat cows, $12 to $12.50; med-

' ium to good fat cows, 810.50 to.1811;

fair to good medium fat cows, 89 to
$9.50; cutters and common butcher
cows, 88 to $8.50; canners, $6.50 to
$7.50; good: to choice fat bulls, $11.50
to 812; medium to good fat bulls,
$10.50 to 811; good weight sausage
bulls, $10.00 to $10.50; light. and thin
bulls, $8 to 88.50; good to 'beststock
and feeding steers, 810.50 to 811; med-
ium grades of stock and feeding steers,
$9.50 to 810; common .‘0 fair stock
and feeding steers, 88.50 to 89; good
to choice fresh cows and springers,
890 to 8120; medium to good fresh
cows and springers, $75 to 885.
Chicago, J1me 4.———-Hogs: Receipts,
14,000; higher; heaVy butchers, 816
to1$16.70; light butchers, $16.45 to
$16.95;" prime heaVy, 816.45 to $16.60;
heavy packing, 816.10 to 816.40; rough
heavy, 815. 50 to 816; selected light,
816. 85 to 817.10; medium and light

“mixed, $16 60 to $16.;so1mpigs $1625

to 817.; bulk, 8,16. 50 to $16. 80; Cattle.
Ecceipts. 16.000;
iguhty cattle,

steady 011' good and
weak to lower on

We.
’2-1-others, choice to prime, 81.7 to 817. 75;

medium to good, 814. 50 to 816. 90; com- ,
man and plain, 812 to 814. 40; cows

and heifers, steady; calves strong, 25c- , :
.. higher best, 815; stop-11ers; and... feed- .1
Sheep and iambs~f ;
Receipts, 9,000 higher; ehsrn lambs... ‘-

ers unchanged.

good to choice, 817 to $17. 50; sprin
d t shit? 0 t ’

1313'. $0111 810. 00 per head higher than it.
7

, . last week smokers and leaders Were"

 

There-were d5'cars 1 3-
of southern spring lambs leported in ,, "
.Jersey City on Monday. morning and


  
  
 
  

  
   
    
    
   
     
 
 
 
  
  
   
   
   
 
    
  
     
   
    
    
   
  

  

hosts and profits
‘Rgs _1ts:.1rom Chickens? resolves

poultry is a. matter recerv“
little consideration in this
at. compared with egg laying
(”yet the average American hen,

 

  

 

haired; lays only. 85 eggs yer year and
tune rate” it has been estimated poul-
utr'y raisers are suffering an aggregate
annual loss of $20, 000, 0000 under pres-
‘ on prices. on the other hand heavy
laying poultry is making more money

 

ever before. Between six and seven

  

, her “annual feed cost,.
irmore she laid helped pay the other
, expenses and the profit to the keep-
: er. Now it takes at least eight, or
mg“; _. nine dozen eggs to pay for the feed
4,. and most of the other expenses have
increased also. What does all this
-n1e'an? Simply that the egg yield
must be increased to make poultry
raising profitable and a real pleasure
as it ought to be. and we speak from
the standpoint 'of‘ the poultryman or
the farmer himseif and those powers
which are directly within his control.
Discussion of market prices on eggs or

 

article. But it is a self—evident fact
that if the poultry keeper can get more
eggs from this same number of hens
with the same expense or cost of pro—
;duction and with little or no more
labor he is‘sure‘to reap rewards pro-
portionate to the increase. .

Egg production in poultry is influ-
enced by three essential factors; breed-
ing, feeding and management. We
name them in the order of their rela-
tive importance; breeding is the foun-
dation factor,——of prime importance.
Recently published educational matter
from the feed manufacturers’ associa-

__ . tion has carried this bold headline:
'1 . “There is more in the feed than there
is in the breed.” This is misleading
to say the least. Why is the emphasis

 

 

" (rding' to. our government census ‘

for their ov'v'ners over feed costs than ‘

"on feed is not contemplated in this- best hens lay.

BEE‘F moat/(770m
., BREED/1V6 mos/.5”:

 

  

re. «1 one:
mam owners pay
“record coats, and for. bulls from

‘"‘ductive quality because the supreme
impertance of good breeding is un-

questioned. _Wit~'h other live stock it

" is the same.

You can’t “feed out"'eggs that are
not “bred into" a bird. All manner

of good feed and good feeding'won’t

make a‘he‘n lay if she hasn’t the nat-
ural ability to do so under favorable
conditions.
ply because they are not bred to lay—
they have not the ability—and to ex-

, pect feed to “do the trick” is as sensi-

bio and to try and squeeze blood out

.~ of a turnip. -

Feeding is important, but we must

_quit- feeding good feed to unprofitable-
- birds.

It is quite as unpatriotlc as it
is unprofitable to do so. It is a shame
and a disgrace to keep unprofitable

,f0wlsaround, and with what we know
about accurately selecting the good.

layers and the loafers there is no ex-
cuse for it ionger. Insult is added to
injury by the fact that the poorer
layers lay when eggs are cheapest and

rest when egg prices are highest.

The Selection of good feeds and

7 their proper use cannot be underrated

in importance. Given a flock of hens
possessing high productive qualities

' and provide wrong feed and reckless

feeding practices is akin to starving a
herd of fine heavy milking Holsteins.

About 85 per cent of the total amount
of feed required for a. laying hen is
used for body maintenance. the other
15 per cent is that which goes into
eggs~thatvwhich enables the hen to
develop the egg cells. If only the 85
per cent is fed, hens do not lay. If
only 90 per. Cent is fed just the very
Again if the full
amount is fed—«as much as birds will

eat without waste—the maximum egg .

yield is obtained, assuming, of course,
that egg—bred stock is selected to begin
with.

The comb of a good layer is pliable
and warm, usually well colored and of
a soft velvety texture. When a hen
is not laying her comb shrivels and
shows white scales on its surface
when closely examined. The yellow
shanks and beak in white birds and
sometimes in. others will be pale, of-
ten white, in the layer. This is be-
causethe yellow pigment from the
body goes to make up the coloring
matter of theegg and the color fades
in the legs and beak as this takes
place. These points and the typical

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

111153;. Pontiac Lass 238652 is the 33rd purebred Holstein cow to puma“
«mire than forty pounds of butter in a. week. Her omclal record for newer
day‘s stiiids at 1-15. 5 lbs. of milk, yielding 42 48 lbs. of butter. ‘
fin W completed a thirty day record 0’ 23.11 lbs. 0* milk 110111111: 141. 08
111 Pontiacs 390-37 and is she is his tum
din to: to yield over 40 lbs of butter in a wcék ho is again in 5 class by
fill of the routines was the first bull
his an honor which lie was forced to
:gHo is now the only pull

"‘ nutter.- He'r sire is King or the

She their con--

    
   
 
 

£g§“:;1m”£.n one 40 ,
o s wt wit. h h
with 6hr, . " b is '

 

 

 

. ry industry
and acumen urged to can out

see for high milk or butter- .

some hens do not lay sim- .

the”

' the "following

oval-shaped body” make it'oeasy for null-

one to select layers in a flock without

handling a single bird. ‘-

By examining the abdomen of a
hen another sign of laying can be de-
tected. For three weeks before laying
the oviduct increases in length from
five or six inches to about eighteen
inches. The body becomes full and
changing in shape and the pelvic
bones spread to permit the pasSage
of the eggs. The great width between
pelvic bones will enable anyone to dis-
tinguish a layer.

A “star boarder” or non-layer has
yellow shanks, yellowish feathers (in
white varieties), yellow beak and a
shriveled comb. She moul'ts early,
has narrow pelvic measurement and
carries her body up ight. It is claim-
ed further that in the yellow legged
breeds, such as Rocks, Reds and Wyan-
dottes, whether or not the hen has
been laying can be told by the pig-
ment of the red ring around the eye.
The red color fades if the hen has
been laying. If the ring is a rosy red
the hen is probably a non—layer. es-
pecially'if her comb is also shriveled.

The season is at hand or fast ap-
proaching when the flocks should be
culled. The one shame of the past is
that so many poultry keepe1s have let
the wrong hens go to market. The rag-
ged looking individuals have been
marketed in the fall—«the late moult-
ers and layers—and the “nice- looking"
non-producers which had finished
moult early were kept in the
flock. Cull your flock with ccxtain-
ty and keep only the birds whi<h can
at least pay for their board.

The next move is the improvement
of the inherent qualities of luh flock
by introducing blood from some re-
putable pioducers strain of egg— —bred
stock. This is commonly done by the
purchase of male birds for the bleed-
ing season or by buying eggs or baby
chicks and raising the males lrom
them. One well-known breeder uses
illustration to empha-
size the value of a good bale: “An
egg—bred male in your flock will in-
crease your egg yield. Ma1.y authorit-
ies claim an increase .f as high as 50
eggs per hen in the off—spring the
first year. Suppose we figure only
25 eggs and that’s very conservative.
100 to 150 well— selected layers should
be the product of one mal and his
mates the first year, depending on the
breed. Increased p' oducl1on of 25
eggs per biid .or 125 (we’ll take the
average figure) is over 3000 eggs which
at only 3 cents an egg means practi-
cally $100. And the male is good for
at least two 01 three years.’

However this may bear out in actu-
al experience lhe fact remains that in-
vestment in eggs chicks 01 male biids
of good egg biccling is a decidedly
Wise and profitable move if you can t
afford to buy the very best buy the

very best you can aliord to buy. Buy-
ing cheap poultry for brooding to save
money is like stoppi the clock to
save time.

CAUSES OF VARIATION

IN CREAM TEST'

The farmer who sells cream is some-
times surprised at the variation in the
test reported at the creamery. In the
early part of the summer the tests
tend downward. The farmer should
not assume that a variation in the test
means either carelessness or dishon-
esty on the part of the cream buyer.
L. W. Morley of the University of
Missouri College of Agriculture men-
tions several factors which affect the
the Iichness of cream, and which make
a variation in the test from time to
time.

First of all the richness of the cream
varies with the richness of the milk.
“In early spring and summer the; ,- are
more fresh COWS which results in a
lower testing milk and as a result of

thisthe cream goes down in propor«

tion. A herd of COWS may produce
milk averaging 4 per cent in the fall
and in the early spring and summer
the average will run as. low as 3.6 per
cent. This much difference in the rich-

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riation is the speed ,of. theseparator. 7"

er uni proportion of skim milk and

t osmaller the prOpontion of cream.
. consequently the high, speed yields a
If a machine that is

, richer cream.
supposed to be turned 60 revolutions a
: minute is reduced to 40 the cream
; will be considerably lower in test.
' Another important cause of varia-
tion in cream tests, and sometimes the
most important, is the amount of wat~
or or skim milk ‘used in flushing out
the bowl. The difference of a pint used
'will make a noticeable difference in
the test of the cream. A difference in
the temperature of the milk separated
. will also have some effect. Some sep-
arators are more sensitive to tempera-
ture than others. With some a dif-
ference of 20 degrees in the tempera-
ture of the milk when separated will
make a diflerence of several per cent
in the test without affecting the ther—
oughness of the separation to any
marked extent It should be under-
stood that these variations occur not
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In substituting skmrmilk for: whole”, -

milk in.ca_lf feeding, the change shOu'ld

be made gradual ly,’ and at”, about the

same time a small quantity of grain

can be placed before the calf to offset
the loss of nutriment contained inthe

butterfat of whole milk. The substis.

tution of skim milk for whole 'milk
may be started after the calf is three
weeks old, depending upon the size
and vigbr of the animal, and the tran-
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two. I L

For the average farmer or dairy-
man, perhaps the moat convenient

grain to feed is ground corn, and this,

serves as a_very good supplement to
the skim milk. At first small ndful
is all the‘cal'f will take, but the amount
can be increased gradually. Corn is
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fng calves is made :up of. 5do pounds
ground com. 305 poimds— ground or
whole oats, and 100 pounds linseed
oil meal. Where oats are high in
price or off tha market, the amount
can be reduced orrvoats may be left out
entirely. .However, they make this
mixture more bulky and also add to its
palatability.

To assist in the development of the

digestive organs the young animals
should have 30111 hay. Nothing fills
this requirement quite so well as al-
falfa hay, which is not only palata-
ble, but high in protein, and a carrier
of grthh essentials.
again required in feeding this hay as
calves may eat to much. Clover hay
may be substitutedvfor alfalfa, but is
not desirable. In the absence of eith-
er, a small amount of good clean tim-
othy could be fed. - ’

There are- a number Of calf feeds
and calf mixtures on the market, some
of which are very good, but for sup-
-plementing skim milk, a simple home
mixture as suggeSted along with al-
falfa hay will furnish a good growing
feed for the calf.

cow ON PASTURE
MAY NEED GRAIN

Does it pay to feed grain to cows on
pasture? The results Obtained at the
University of Missouri Agricultural
Experiment Station indicate that it
depends largely upon how much milk

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butter daily should have about five
pounds daily and giving two ponds
of butter, should have seven 01' eight

pounds of grain When not more than

four or five pOunds of grain are fed it
If more than this is ,
needed, some bran or a small ‘amouiit
of cott vtseed meal should be (added.
These recommendations hold good on-
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flooded all
The weather has cleared now
Corn com-
Cut worms are

SHIA“’ASSEE (Vi est Central) -—— The
farmers are getting along fine with their
work Corn is nearly all planted and
lots of- it up. Beets are looking fine.
nearly everyone has a good stand and
some are blocking. The weather is fine
for all kinds of crops. The following
quotations Were made at Owosso this
week: Hay, $14; milk, $1.85; butter,
40; 5',l7utte1fat 41; eggs, 34; veal calves,
$12. 50..—.] E. ., Owosso, May

JACKSON (Soutl1)—-—Weather warm
with frequent showers. Corn planting
the order of the day. The rains have
improved wheat and rye, which were
damaged by, the severe winter. Rye
sown late is looking hard. Potato mar-
ket is somewhat improved, stores paying
500 a bushel. Many farmers refused $1
in the fall. Farmers who kept their
beans will be liable to have them on
their hands, as elevators are not buying
them. Help is scarce; the farmers are
learning to get along with less help than
they once thought possible, since their
boys and hired men were taken
draft. Peach trees were nearly all killed
by the hard winter. and the few left are
not in a thrifty condition—G. S., Han—
over, May 2

EMMET (Soutlicast)——Three (lays of
lain has so washed out the grain crops
as to damage them fully 30 per cent. All
planting has been held up on account of
the rains. Oats on low land has not
been put in yet and will now ‘be too late
to make a crop.—-—W. C., AIanson,
May 26. ‘ _

MISSAITKEE (North Central)——Plant-
ing corn and plowing for late potatoes
and beans. Not many beans. and 60 per
cent of last year’s potatoes being planted.
The weather for the week has been cold
and dry until this morning, when_we are
having a fine warm rain. Condition of
soil is good. Farmers are not selling
anything; are giving some potatoes away.
——II. E N..—-.Cutcheon May 25

G ENESEE (South)—Farmers are un—
able to do much at this time on account
of wet weather. They were plowing and
fitting ground for beans and potatoes un-
til the rains made the ground too wet, for
working. We have had lots of rain this
week and most everything is growing fine.
Most of the fields of corn are coming_good
but in some cases it is poor. - Soil w1ll be
in fine shape for working as soon as it
dries up. Farmers are not selling much
at this time. Some are selling wool.
eral farmers are sowing alfalfa. The fol-
lowing quotations were made at Flint
this week. Wheat $2.10: corn $1 75;
cats, 80; rye, $1. 90; $16 to $20; $9:
red kidney $11; potatoeS, $1 per cwt.;
cabbage, e per lb; poultry, hens; 17c;
broilers, 20c; creamery butter, 43c; dairy
butter, 35c; sheep. $9 to $10;1arnbs§$10
«to $15 hogs- $16. 50; beef steers
$10 beef cows, $4 50 to $8; ve
$9 to $11;
3 t -'

calves,

in. the-

Sev- .

- seed.

wool; 65 --.C. 8:, Fen on May,»

the season, everything was
the week

and 0101318 are growing fine.
ing up good as a rule.
working in some fields, cant tell how
much damage is done as yet Some
farmers selling oats, some hay to be sold
yet with the price lower. The following
prices were quoted at Imlay City this
week. Wheat, $2; rorn, $1.75; oats, 65C;
hay, $15; beans $9 to $10; hens,720c;
springers, 220; butterfat, 40c; eggs, 31c;
sheep $7 to $8; lambs $13; hogs, $113
to $16. 50; beef steers, $10 to $12; beef
cows, $6 to $8; veal cahes $10 to $12;
wool, 61-0. A. B, Imlay City Jun 1.

ARENAL (EMU—This neck has put
the farmers back considerably, as it has
1ained nearly eveiy day. ()11 low ground
it has simply stopped operations entire-
ly. Corn and barley me not all in yet.
Some sugar beets up and doing well, but
there a1e hundreds of acres yet to sow.—
M. ..,R Twining, May 31.

SANIL.H‘—Had quite a heavy rain‘
storm and lots of water fell. Did not seem
to have done mu(h damage in our town-
ship (Custe1) but in some other 'parts of
the county it (lid some harm to the grow—
ing crops Hay and oats are doing fine.
"I‘he1e has been some (Ol'll plunhd and
some of it was up before the 1':1in.. It
seems to be all 1ight but that which
was planted just befme the 121111 there is
a little doubt about. Some potatoes are
planted and some of them are up out of

the ground; also some of the gardens are / ,

is still
some

up and looking fine. Some hay
being pressed. There have been
buildings struck by lightning

These prices were offered at Sandusky
on Friday, May 31: Wheat. red $2.;05
white, $2.03; oats 71' rye $2. 30; barley,
$3 75, timothy, $14; light mixed hay, $12;
beans, $10.50 cwt.; butter. 35; butterfat
40; eggs. 30; beef steers' 8 to 11; beef
cows, 8to 10' veal calves 11; wool, 65.-———-
A. B.. Sandusky June 1.

OCEANA (North)—~Corn planting is

all done except a few pieces for fodder.

Some farmers have their beans planted.
Wheat and rye look good. that is what
was not winter killed Oats are doing
well in this part of the county. Peas
are fine, blossoms are showing up on some
pieces. Butter, 38; butterfat, 42; eggs.
2..8-—W A., Crystal Valley. June 1 »

IOSCO (Southeast)—Far_mers are busy
putting in beans potatoes and some corn
is still being planted. Quite a bit of
spring wheat was
and it is looking good. Hay and oats are
headed toward a bumper crop, but rye
an fall wheat are very poor seme fields
look as though they would hardly return
Bean acreage will .be less thaw
last year; potatoes about the Same. Sum
cucumbers are, 'éing pl armed as
nag station will» ego: agar,

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OR SALE-8 Beg. Shel-thorn Bulls
from 9 to 17 Mo. By Maxwalton
Monarch a. son of the noted Avon-

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have won the Grand Championship at
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Breeder of purebred,
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Young bulls for sale from A. D.
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YOU!!! bulls from King Pieter Segis
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Fairfleld, Iowa.
8 bull calves Prince

Herefords Donald and Farmer
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HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES
'Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
' 552% fat. Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows ‘54 white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.

Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Boardman Farms, Jackson. Michigan“

 

 

 

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

Breeders of Holstein-Friesian Cattle,
Battle Creek, Mic igan. Senior Herd'.
Sire. Judge Wal er Pieterje whose
first five dams are 30 lb. cows. Young
bulls for sale, from daughters of King
Korndyke Hengerveld Oronsby.

 

 

 

 

sired by a son .of
BHII calves Friend Hengerveld
De Kol ’ Butter
Boy and by a son of King Segis De-Kol
Korndyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec-

'ords of 18.25 as Jr.‘ two year old to 28.25
‘at full age. Prices reasonable breeding

considered.
WA’LNUT GROVE STOCK FARM_
' Napoleon, Mich.

EGISTEBED HOLSTEIN BULL 6

-months old. grandson of Hengerveld

De K01, sired by Johan Hengerveld
Lad who has 61' A. R. 0. daughters.
Dam is an 18 lb. 3gyr. old granddaughter
of King Segis who has a sister that re-
cently made“ 33 lbs. butter in 7 days as ,a.
4 yr. old. This calf is light in color,
individual.
Price $100. Write for photo and pedigree.
L. C. Ketzler. Flint, Michigan. .

 

We want these Registered Holstein
Bulls to head Grade Herds

Korndyko Clothilde of Serridolo,
Born June 24, 1917. Price $100
Korndyke Ormsby of Sorridella.
Born Sept. 19,. 1917. Price 385
Prices 1‘. o. b. Oscoda, Mich.
‘ SERBIDELLA FARMS
Oscodn, - - - Michigan

 

 

 

WASHTENAW FARM HOLSTEINS

30 lb. bull in service. Nostock for
sale at present. Carl F. and Ben N.
Braun, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

-._0ne Car-load Registered Holsteins
'Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy-producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open gilts.

J. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

. HOLSTEIN F RIESIAN CATTLE

FOB SALE—Young Holstein bulls from
good A. R. O. dams and sired by 30 lb.
bull. few females whose dams have good
A. R. 0. records. bred to a 30 1b, bull.
Howbert Stock Farm. Eau Claire, Mich.

CATTLE FOR SALE‘

2Loads feeders and two loads yearling
steers. Also can show you any number
1. 2 and 3 years old from 500 to 900 lbs.
Isaac Shanstum, Fairfleld, Iowa, R-8.

 

 

Holstem-Fnesian Cattle
Under the present labor conditions

I feel the necessity of reducing my

, h‘erd. Would sell a few bred females ,
or a few to freshen this spring. These
cows are all with .calf to a 30-pound
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 

 

 

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Bull, service age; Pontiac .Korndyke
Price right. John A. Rinlfe.
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King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne bred to
Mutual Pontiac Lad. All of the cows in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and PontiacAggie Korndyke. We
can always furnish carloads of pure bred
and grade cows. '

D. Owen Taft, Route 1. Oak Grove. Mich.

Offers for immediate sale 12 daughters of ’

GUERNSEY

FOR SALE

Two Registered Guernsey Bulls,
7 months old.
R. B. JACKSON
"RUDGATE F ARM"
BIRMINGHAM. - MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS He‘ivfelgi‘s IIz‘i‘n‘dE cO‘wsF’idi:

sale, also a number of well bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake. Michigan.

HORSES

PERCII ERON

 

 

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OR SALE, Percheron Stallion 121705.‘

Black, Heavy bone feliow—foaled
_ June 23rd, 1915. J. F. Cindy. Vassar.
Michigan, Route No. 7.

‘ SHETLAND PONIICS"

 

 

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

Purebred Holstein bulls, 7 months old
and younger. Korndyke and Canary
breeding. From . R. . dams with
good records. Choice individuals. Also
a. few females for sale. Right prices.
Arwm Killinger, Fowlcrville, Michigan,
Phone, 58F15.

 

JERSEY

FOR. SALE or Exchange. One thorough-

 

bred, unregistered Jerse Bull
Solid color. Black points. y calf.
David E. Burns, Beulah. Michigan.
SHORTHORN ,

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? I re resen
w SHORTHORN breeders. Canxput yoii iii
touch with best milk or beef strains Bulls
all ages. , Some females. C. . .Crum
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorri
Assocxation, McBrides. Michigan.

 

SHETLAND PONI For Sale. Write

. for description &
prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell. Mich.

HOGS

O. I. C.

' Bred dGilts

C Serviceable Boar's
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LARGE TYPE 0. l. C.
Spring pigs pairs and trios. (lilts bred
for fall farrow, at prices that will please.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FAR.“
Monroe, Mich.

 

 

    

L's‘uaiiiyl‘

‘ Production

families.

    
   

Fair 1917.

 
 

100 REGISTERED IIOLSTICINS

A herd of high producing females from the bi'eed‘s best
Herd headed by DutClliillld (Ioianthzt \Viiutna Lad
114067. Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
,_ Junior sire
132652 a 35.16 son of Friend iicng‘ei‘vcld [)0 K01 Butter Boy
and Whose dam and
yearly butter records.
months old for sale.
R. BRUCE McI’HERSON, llOlVl'ILL, AIICII.

100

Mania-rest Application Pontiac
1}; sister hold 0th and 7th highest

Sons of these. great sun-s up to 1:3
Prices and pedigrees on application.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMONG THE BREEDERS

By W. MILTON KELLY, Field Editor

Home Address: Howell.» Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

,Michigan farmers who are depending
on seed corn purchased from other 10-
calities cannot afford to be without silos
to provide storage facilities for the im-
mature corn which is sure to result from
the use of seed that is not adapted to
conditions in Michigan. Every farm
where corn is grown to any considerable
extent/should have a silo and right now
is the' time to make-plans for building
it.’ Fortunate is the stock farmer who
has a silo full of palatable, succulent and
nourishing feed, especially when hay is
likely to command frOm $20 to $30 per
ton ’and grain feeds from $40 per ton
upward. In these rather unsettled times
‘ the silo has stood betwe‘en more than one
farmer and bankruptcy.
mism, bu a realization of» the fact that
we are facing the problem of handling a
‘crop .‘of, immature corn that causes me to
appeal to every farmer who keeps cattle
or sheep to study the matter in an unpre:
judicedmanner and plan to erect one or
more' silos this summer. Never have I
become .so fully convinced of the value
of the 3119 to Michigan farmers as I have
in, traveli; g. thru, the state this spring.
Men who ave had plenty of silage have
been able to. bring their animals thru the

 

thntet_' in,’good condition with, a , very

It is not pessi--

small quantity of grain feeds, while those
without a silo or with only 2L small
amount of silage, have had great diiil-
only in keeping their stock alive until
pastures were lit for grazing. At pros—
cnt prices for feeding materials the farm—
er who grows both hay and silage corn
can well afford to sell enough huy to pay
for his silo and he will then be in a bet-
ter position to carry his stock thru the
Winter than he would with his hay and
dry cornfodder for his stock. This may
appear to be rather a sweeping state-
ment, but in many instances facts and
figures will prove its validity. Hund-
reds Of Silos are now being purchased by
those who know that “a bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush.‘ Hundreds of
other farmers are likely to delay their
purchasing until it is too late, for unless
all signs fail there is going to be a tre~
mendous drive for more siibs in Michi-
gan as soon as farmers begin to real-
ize that it is going to be difficult to pre-
serve the 1918 corn crop in any other
manner that will possess so much feed-
ing value.
It: I! t

, Howard D. Seeiy, promictor of Maple
Knoll Farm, on the Goshen—Chester State
Road, has sent to John D. Rockefeller,
for his Tarrytown, New York, estate,
three pure-bred Holstein cows. This is

Mr. Rockefeller‘s first venture into pure»

bred Holsteins. Each of these cows has
a good official butter record and at the
time of leaving Mr. Seeiy’s place the
Ehree cows were making two cans of milk
aily.. ‘

5 'fall litters bred to’»

- PEACH HILL FARM—Registered Du

 

 

  

 

T f. ”ca. , “.-
DUROC SEOWS‘V'
rioh'

King 8385?, the biggest pi

age ever shown at the Internist, .
1 mile northeast of .town, 'Vis

  

welcome 7 days inaWeek ’-
N’ewton Barnhart, St.

Johns, Michigan.-

 

oc Jersey Swine. We are booking
ders for weanling ,boar pigs $20 each.
weaning time.
viduals.

Excellent growthy iiifli
Inwood BrOs.. 'lomeo, Michigan ~

 

once JEnsEYs Bred Sows all sold."
1 yearling boar sired to Breakwater.
Tippy Orion and out of a Brookwlzéter’
est
individuals. ‘ '

Cherry King dam, also spring pigs.
of blood lines and splendid

L. J. UNDERI-IILL. Salem, Michigan;

 

POLAND CHINA

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CIIINAS.
sows all sold. Have a few fall pigs.
Prices right. L. W. Barnes &

Byron, Michigan.

 

iG TYPE I’. 0. FALL sows bred for "
Weigh 250.»,

July and August farrow.
lbs. Spring pigs. Call or write E. R.
Leonard, St. Louis, Michigan. .

Big Type Poland China bred
Recorded sows and gilts. for sale.

 

Leading blood lines of the breed, at our

herd's head.

Boone, Blanchard."
Michigan. . -.

 

IIAMI’SIIIRE
i'ZGISTI‘IRI‘JI) HAMPSHIRE PIGS now

ready. A bargain in boar pigs. John
“V; Snl’dei'. it. No. 4. St. Johns, Mich.

SHEEP

 

 

OR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Regisfe'fa .

ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual-
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter. Michigan.

POULTRY

“’YANDOTTE

 

 

 

lliVER, GOLDEN and “'HITE Wyan-
dottes of quality. fine large cockerels,
$3.00 each. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. Clarence
Browning. R .No. ‘3. Portland, Michigan.

 

 

LEG HORN

30 000 STRONG, VIGOROUS CHICKS
y for June. White Leghorns, 5H;
Anconas, $13 per 100; Finest stock in the
country. Prompt shipment by mail. Ar-
rival and satisfaction guaranteed. Order
direct. Catalogue. Holland Hatchery,
R. NO. 7. Holland, Michigan.

 

WE HAVE THEM
If you want Leghorns that will pay
for their feed a dozen times over, write
us. We have eggs for Hatching and
Breeding Stock. hens and pullets on’iy.
IIILL CREST POULTRY FARDI,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

 

PROFITABLE lilTll‘l“ LEUIIORNS—«We
have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all. for prof-
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable price. Our list will interest you
—please ask for it. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

CHICKS

BABY CHICKS

Young's Heavy Laying Strain Sin-
gle Comb White Leghorns. Delivered
direct to your door by mail prepaid.
Immediate shipments.

 

 

 

25 chicks, $3.50.
50 chicks, $6.50
100 chicks. “12.75.

Chicks from Highest quality and
Specially mated stock. Order direct
from this ad. Safe delivery guaran-
teed.

\VOLVERINE (‘HICKE Y r
711 Delaware St. SE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand ltnpids. )Iicli.
We ship thousands
CHICKS each season, different
- varieties, booklet and
testimonials. stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10. Frevpoi't. Michigan,

' from our Bred-to—La
Day Old CllleS \Vhite Leghorns, Fer}:-
ris and Youngs strain. $12 per 100; from
our Thompson strain of Barred Rocks. $18
per 100.
3.ussell Poultry Ranch. lf’etorsburg, Mich.

HATCHING EGGS

PLYMOUTH ROCK

 

 

 

ATCHING EGGS' From Prize-“fin-
H ning Barred Rocks. Thompson strain,
$6.00 Hundred; $3.25 Fifty;
Thirty. Special mating $1.50 per 15,
Sam Stadel, Chelsea, Michigan

 

Barred Rock Eggs 3:53,, “$311,150 With,

eggs

Brood

Son. _

$2.00, '.

 

 

per year. $2.00 per 15 Prepaid by pair,”
cel post. Circular rec. Fred Astlin-g’,
Constantine;Michigan, , t .
ORPINGTON ‘ 1'

IIADIPION Black and Buff 0’ n s ‘
C tons. Stock and hatchingeggs:D i 1331'.)

sale. James A. Daley, Mohawk, Mich.‘

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That’s the day we Sign up.

That’s the day We tell UDCIC‘ 531“ JuSt hoW hard we want to wm this“

War.
War Savings Stamps.

That’ s the day our government has officially set for us to purchase

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On June 28th every man, woman and child 1n the United States Will be
called upon to pledge his or her full quOta of War Savings Stamp purchases

for 1918.

You will be eXpected to pledge the full amount that you can afford-
no more—but by the same token, no less.

In every state, county, city, town and vi}
lage the War Savings Committees are prepar-
ing for this big patriotic rally of June 28th.
Unless you have already bonght War Savings
Stamps to the $51,000 limit, get busy with
paper and pencil and figure out the utmost
you can do.

Remember this. You take no chances when
you go the limit on War Savings Stamps. They
are the best and. safest investment in the world.

They pay you 4% interest compounded quar-
terly. They can ’t go below par. You can get:
back every dollar you pUt into War ~Saving's
Stamps any time you need it. You can turn
them 1n at the Post Office any time for their
full value plus interest

Uncle Sam is asking hundreds of thousands
of men to give their lives to their country. He
is asking you only to lend yom‘ money.

What are you lending?

National War Savings Committee, Washington

 

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