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SATURDAY, JUNE 29th,1918

 

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OWN MILK

Plan of Mroducers to Sell Thru Retail Stores,
.If Successful, Will~ Cut Retail Price“
’ 4,to Sicents per Quart

  

‘ Scores of theories have been advanced as to how
fluid milk could be marketed direct from “farm
- consumer,” without paying a tell to the milk--
nusts which have so long dictated both the buy-
ing and selling prices of the product, but it has
* remained for the dairymen in the New York dis-
trict to strike out in bold defiance of the trusts
1 and seek a cheaper way to the ‘door of the con-
sumer.

, .‘ f “The promoters of the project,” says the New
> , York Sun, “are N. A. Van Son and John J. Dillon,
former State Commissioner of Foods and Markets.
For three years or more Mr. Dillon has cherished
_‘ ‘ ‘ a. plan‘ for bringing milk direct from the farm
'~ ‘ _ , to the consumer and the formation of the com-
ir' pany marks the first important step in the realize-
‘ ' ‘ . tion of that scheme.
7 "The milk is shipped from the country at 4
o’clock in the morning, and upon its arrival in
the cityis carried directly to the retail stores. In
distributing the milk to the stores it is their plan
to use some», of the independent milk dealers,
who, according to Mr. DillOn. were driven out of
~ I . - business by the operations of the “trust.” The
1 company will sell its milk and cream at the car
to the small dealer, and the latter, in turn, will
work up a trade by selling it to the retail stores.
“The new scale 'of prices fixed by the company
" will go into effect this morning. _Grade B milk,
- which contains 3.5 per cent of butterfat, will be
- . sold at the cars to the distributors for $2.30 per
" , can, or 5% cents per quart, and delivered to the
., ‘ retail stores for 6% cents per quart, which, the
company figures, will allow the storekeeper to re-
tail it to the consumer at 7 cents per quart and
still make the same profit that he makes for hand-
ling milk for the big‘ companies.
‘ "Grade A milk will be sold at the cars at $2.50
a can of 40 quarts and deliyered‘at the stores at
$2.80. Sweet cream containing 40 per cent butter—
fat for which the big dealers are charging 78 cents
a quart, will be delivered to stores, hotels and
factories at 54 cents per quart.
“Cream of a lighter grade, containing 20 per
cent butterfat. for which the big companies are
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ness and deliver milk to the city customers cheap-
_ er than the milk trust dealers have ever attempt-
ed to do.

‘ “At this price it will be the cheapest food in the
city. It is the best food and every child in the
in the city ’of New York may now have a full sup-
ply of milk' at reasonable edst.

“Mr. Van Son represents the farmers, and Mr.
,Dillon has donated his services during June in
order to put into effect his plan for giving the

1 public cheap milk and to inccrease the output of

milk from the farms.”
No agricultural paper has pleaded more persis-

tently for reform inthe system of milk distribu—
tion in“ Detroit and other cities than MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING._ Time and again, upon the
occasions of the numerous clashes between pro-
ducers and distributors, we have advocated that
the producers bold-1y take over the machinery of
distribution and free themselves for all time
from‘the bonds that held them to the profiteering
milk trust‘ In the Dec. 15th issue last, we had the
following to say:

“The matter of distribution of so important an
article of food as milk, if left to independent con-
cerns is one to be controlled and regulated by
civil authority. As soon as the producers deem
the time expedient, the Michigan association
should invoke the legal aid of state or municipal-

ity to simplify and co-ordinate the distribution
of milk in the principal cities that the present
wasteful and costly methods may be eliminated.
If this cannot be done, then the only alternative
is for the producers to take over the machinery
of distribution themselves,, which, after all else
is said and done, will be the eventual solution of
the entire problem.”

But the officers of the milk producers’ associa-
tion preferred to compromise with those having
control of the regular channels of milk distribu-
tion instead of plunging the association into a
farmer—controlled marketing venture which might
prove to be a longgcostly and impractical exper-
iment. And we are not prepared to say that this
was not the sensible thing to do considering the ab-
normality of the times. Nevertheless, we can’t help
expressing a regret that the milk producers of
Michigan have taken no step toward investigat-
ing the possibilities of “producer to consumer”
marketing so that they would be prepared at any
time the milk trust refused to be good, to step
right in and perform as satisfactorily and much
more cheaply the function of milk distribution.

In conclusion, it were well to quote so eminent
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TELEPHONE ISSUE

Railway Commission Renders Important De-
cision on Right of Telephone Companies
To Arbitrarily Increase Their Rates L

Rural telephone patrons won a distinct victory
before the Michigan Railway Commission last
week when the Michigan State Telephone Company
was ordered to restore its old rates in Lapeer coun-
ty, which it had raised arbitrarily and without
due notice to subscribers.

The hearing on the right of a telephone com-
.pany to increase its rates at will arose out of the
action of the Michigan State Telephone Company
in advancing the rental and service charges in
Lapeer county, a story of which appeared in the
June 8th issue of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.
Thru the efforts of E. C. Mallory, editor of the
Lapeer County Clarion, a hearing was granted
for the purpose of letting the farmers present
their claims. At the request of the Lapeer coun—
ty farmers, Mr. W. E. Brown, legal editor for M. .
B. F., presented the farmers’ claims, and we are
pleased to announce that the Commission accept-
ed Mr. Brown’s interpretation of the law and
ordered the old rates to be restored.

It appeared from the testimony that the Lapeer
branch of the Michigan State Telephone Com-
pany had been under contract with patrons of
the rural lines to furnish telephones at an annual
rental of $3, and service at an annual charge of
$4. In January the company advanced its service
charge to $5 ignoring the old contracts altogether.
The farmers protested. Some paid the increased
rate rather than have their service cut off which the
company threatened to do. Others put up a fight
which culminated in a victory for the rural pa-
trons at the hearing at Lansing.

The statement was made at the hearing that
one hundred thousand farmers of Michigan are
using the rural telephone system, and that the
policy of the company in raising its rates as it
pleased affected the rights of a vast number of
people. It also developed that the rural telephone
lines receive no benefit ffrom the toll service in-
coming or outgoing and that if they obtain any as—
sistance from the Michigan State Telephone Com—
pany they are obliged to pay for whatever time i

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« V ‘ ' ' " Quart, will be sold
' ’ at the cars for
$10 a can and de-
livered at p the
, 4 stores at 28 cents
'35 . a quart. Con-
‘ i ‘ densed milk, con-
; , , I taining fr‘om 9 to
'i "' “ 10 per cent butter
, fat, will sell at $9
‘a can at the cars
and will be deliv-
. ered at the stores
for 26 cents a qt.
, “Farmers ‘ar 6
selling milk this
month at 4 cents
x a quart. The,
” ~ price is less than
the cost of produc-
tion The deals
are sell it for 13 to
15 cents in bottles
and bulk milk at
10 to 11 cents in .
.-the stores. ram- ;
, ers have decided;
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w a s employed.
T h e Michigan
State Telephone

Company. howev—
er, has the use of
the rural phones
without g i v i n g
any compensation
whatsoever. Mr.
Brown pointed
out that the tele-
phone company
would be making
a net income of
several hundred
thousand dollars,
providing each
rural telephone
patron in the state
was compelled to
pay the same rate
as fixed at Lapeer,
viz: $7 per year.
He showed that
this amount was
practically clear
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. committees- over'the proposed "increase in the'price.

$23.20 price, and as a result the agricultural approJ

’rai‘sedito $2.60; the house

The. senate has demand“. the maximum' bribebe

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Presidents wishes for the continuance of. the

priation bill has been held up. ' A second reason

for the president’s concession, has been the in- ’

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Under what‘conditions the Grain
Corporation may increase the wheat price is not
clearly set forth, and in fact, there is really very
little assurance in the President’s proclamation
that the price will be increased at all. While
some believe that the President’s action may
cause the? senate to recede from its amendment
for a fixed price of $2.50, others better acquainted
with the temper of that body are of the opinion
that it will stand on its demand and that the
lower house and the President will eventually
have to give over to the Senate.
ural appropriation bill, providing ways and means
for increasing the nation’s food production, is the
President’s special concern, and rather than im-
peril the pasage of the bill it is thought that he
will concede the single point asked by the senate.
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In all probabilities the present draft age limits
of 21 to 31. will be extended to 18 and 45 years
of age. Provost Marshal General Crowder favors
the extension and Secretary of War Baker who has

shied clear of the proposal indicates that he will -

fall in line if the matter is put up for his 0. K.
The immediate object of extending the age limits
is to raise aditional men for the army. Class 1
will be exhausted by the end of the year, and it
is not desired to take men from the other classes
until absolutely imperative. The extensiou of
the age limits would admit many thousands of
more men of good soldier stock into the national
army. Another object for such a move is to
facilitate the working out of Crowder’s “work
or fight” order, which at the present time is
applicable to only a comparatively few of the
country’s male population. Lowering the min-
imum age limit to 18 and raising the maximum
45 would bring millions of others under the im-
mediate control of the government and increase
the nation’s available supply of workers who can
be, if necessary, transferred from non-essential
occupations.
l O I

Despite the fact that the
the express companies which are under fed-
eral control was calculated to effect large econo-
mies, plans are already under way for an increase
in rates. Application for an increase was made
to the interstate commerce commission last fall
by the several companies but no decision was ever
made. Now that the government, as operator
of the express companies, asks for the increase
it will no doubt be granted. The earlier applica-
tion for a flat increase of ten percent, will prob
ably not be granted, tho it is expected that an
increase of that amount will be permitted on cer-
tain classes of express in certain localities.

I! t O

The Senate is preparing to take actiOn on the
Susan B. Anthony resolution to submit a consti-
tutional amendment for nation wide women’s
suffrage to the states. The sentiment of the sen-
ate is pretty well divided over the suffrage ques-
tion, and the inability of Sen. Townsend of Mich-
igan to be present on the day planned for a vote
on the resolution, June 27th, may imperil its
passage. Sen. Townsend has been one of the
strongest supporters of woman suffrage and his
presence and influence is quite essentian. Among

'the strongest endorsements equal suffrage has yet

received came last week from the American Fed-
eration of Labor strongly supporting the Susan
B. Anthony resolution.

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President Wilson does not look with favor upon
the Sen. Jones “bone dry” amendment to the ag-
ricultural extlention bill. He is afraid that dis-
cussion of the amendment would overshadow the
more salient features of the bill and thus delay
its passage. If assured that such would not be
the case, the President will not interfere. The
shipping board, however, has sprung a surprise
upon the prohibitionists by coming out fiat-footed
against the Jones amendment, uponthe old, stale
theory that to take the beer ration away from
the ship-workers would decrease their “efficiency
25 percent. ,. -

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" The. action ofvthe" .. hm?“ confidence“ 0“,!ch

has. refused to go ,over.

The agricult- _

consolidation of I

4 me. . 1 Feeds
.itah'is full :ofAmel-jcgns ’
thévfllied earners with? when my

Paris is to have an underground theatre.

Jacob Halsh inventOr of
at 92 in DeKalb 'Ill. and is wortha million.

Ohio farmers have been plowing with tractors
b'y moonlight. , _ -
‘Spain is discussing a project to tunnel under
Gibraltar strait. '

North Dakota will farm
idents. .

North Dakota bans public use of the German
language. _ ’ . ,

England is producing standardized clothing for
men at $20 per suit. » '

New York City has banned German in the
schools for the period of the *war.

The United States banana supply isrestricted
by ship shortage. -

Colorado has been found adapted for peanut
growing. . -

land owned by non-res-

fields.

In Mexico City flour is now $50 a barrel in Am-
erican gold. '

Only about 1 per cent of the area of Ireland
contains marketable timber. ‘ .

Montana farmers are fighting grasshoppers with
poisoned bran.

Seventy-five per cent of the wealth of the country
is in the hands of families receiving incomes of
$9,500 and less???

The Oregon State Grange rescinded its action
of a year ago and will have no further dealings
with the Nonpartisan League.

One of the best grades of Italian cheese is sold
only after it has been seasoned for at least four
years.

It is estimated that Australia has cows enough
to give to each man, woman and chilld in the is-
land continent three each, while Argentina can
do even better. There are five cattle to each in-
habitant in the big South Americnrepublic.

What is claimed to be the world’s record produc-
tion of marketable potatoes \on one acre, 43.531
pounds, 825 bushels, has been, made on an acre
tract near Kanab in the southeastern section of
Utah, just a few miles from the Arizona state
line.

Bermuda by proclamation issued under martial
law has forbidden exports of potatoes as a measure
to insure the food supply of her people, a report
received here said. A maximum retail price for
potatoes of '3 cents a pound and a minimum price
of $3.75 a barrel of approximately 160 pounds for
sales in quantities have been fixed.

Officials in Washington have just received word
that the process of making paper from sawdust,
which was begun in 1810 and dropped because of
certain difliculties, has been again revived and that
these difficulties have been overcome, and as the
supply of available sawdust is practically unlimit-
ed the problem of paper may shortly be solved.

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-—-Kirby' in the New York World.

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action extracts:

,- mm saints“

‘ .‘tzfiherlnliimé’ 0% .

, glassware: ai-w, , . ,p , , .
. itilts army appropriation bill" authorizing the Drills

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barbed wire is living . ., ,
’ war ,on Germany

Ohio is to have Mexican laborers in the beet ‘

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_ . . train; transport and maintain the“ forces
of any nation at was; with a nation with which

“the United/Stateriset wan , Thisqis to be done-
, with «the-v consent sof each,

nation in ‘ questidm.

This action Was..asked by the Administration for .

the‘nurpos'e of making it posiblefor the six Latin .'

American Republics which already ‘hnl'é defilamd

publics as may declare war on Germany to, con-
tribute their man power to .the common _ cause
against‘the-en‘emvf “ , .1, . ‘ '
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Michigan boys aregfull ‘of- spirit. -' Soldiering over .
seas is not all hardships, writes Chaplain William
A. Atkinson. American‘humor‘ finds frequent op-
portunity to enliven life Overseas. “In England,"
says the chaplain, “the boys had an‘ opportunity
to see rural England in her spring dress. In spite
of the evidence of poverty on every hand due to
the war, the countryside withits hill and valley,
its running streams, its little villages dotted here
and there. was a uniqde sight to the Americans.
One expressed it that rural England looks like
the front yard of Belle Isle." ‘ '

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FrOm Montello to the sea, the Austrians are re-
treating in disorder. ‘ The retreat is on a front
almost 50 miles long and from the confusion
which reigns in the enemy’s ranks l6sses have,
been large. Austrians who succeeded in the in-
itial rush in reaching the western bank of the
river were thrown into panic when they saw their
lines of communication and their food supplies

«cut off. The food had been brought by aeroplanes

and the Allied aviators, including American, con-_
centrated successfully in cutting the line.
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“United States alone could defeat GermanyJ?
Northcliffe says blockade is slowly strangling the
enemy. “I have lived in both Germany and the
United States and I believe that America could
alone beat the Germans.” Lord Northcliffe made
this statement in an article in the Petit Parisien.
“I have also absolute confidence in President

Wilson.”

O I I

Secretary Baker announces Michigan troops on
German soil. Thirty-Second division now fighting
in Alsace. The Thirty~second is composed of
Michigan and Wisconsin troops who left this
country commanded by Major General William
G. Haan. It was a soldier of this division who
had the distinctiOn of being the first man of the
American forces to be killed on German soil.

t O O

More than.100,000 persons have gone on strike
in the Vulcan arsenal. and Warschalowski aero-
plane works in Vienna, according to a dispatch
from Zurich to the Exchange Telegraph. The
dispatch adds that riots have occured at Favoriten,
Margerethen. Ottakring, and Brigittenay, suburbs
of Vienna. ‘

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A cablegram from the commanding general of.
the American Expeditionary Forces to the Secre-.
tary of War reports the success of trench-fever
investigation, which was made possible through
the willingness of 66 American soldiers to risk
their lives. The message contains the names
and home addresses of the 66 men who submitted
to inoculation. All of them are now either cured
or convalescent.

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A prominent editorial writer in one of our
leading national publications states the following
facts after a very careful investigation as to their
correctness. “With only 35,000,000,000 man power
to start on, with 18,000,000,000 of that diverted
to war work, 12,000,000.000 engaged in farming,
with 2,225,000,000 engaged in transportation and
more needed—under these conditions the idea of
business as usual is out of the question.”

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Mr. McAdoo recently announced our estimated
exptnditures for the year ending in June, 1918, as
$24,000,000,000. We may assume that the war
bill for the fiscal year just ended aggregates pretty
close to half that amount so that in making com-
parisons it is clear that after two years of war the
United States will have spent as much as Great
Britain after four years of war.

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The transport Santa Anna, bound‘from Bizerts
to Malta, carrying a large number of native
troops, was torpedoed and .sunk'during the night
from June 10th to, June 11th. Out of a total of

2.150 on board, only 1,513 were saved, makings...
ploss’Of 637. '51. ‘. '-,. " ._

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the ' Editing of farmers "thatvwaé held on June'lth
in pronto}! for '_ the purpose of formulating
a?“ protst‘ against the conscription of ram

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among the farmers of the Qominion with condi-

tifionsgn general. Over 2500>farmers from all parts
,910'ntario, attended this meeting. _ Thegovernmer-t

was freely criticized, one farmer from Mlddlesex
milking the, statement that “90»per cent of the. far-
mers of. his county were opposed to the government
and the call'fiig out’of men from the farm." The
{general spirit of the meeting, however, was one or

lOyalty/andx'a determination "to wage the war»

to a finish, but it was the unalterable sentiment
that the gavernment must be more lenient in its
treatment of farm registrants.

. Mr.- Roderick‘MacKenzie. secretary of the Can-
adian Council of Agriculture, said that in the
.past the farmers had not paid enough attention
.to organization. The urban population of Canada
was the governing part of the population, but
- they ‘had little to say in the government. There
were two classes of farmers: the one that farms
farms and- the one that farms farmers. The latter
class usually found its way into politics. Farmers
could do nothing without organization.

'The following resolutions were adopted:

That, following British precedent. which at as
late date as the Royal prOclamation of April of
this year, recognizes the need of maintaining suf-
ficient skilled agricultural labor to efficiently cul-
tivate the farms, and which has since the begin-
ning of the war consulted the representatives of
the farms as to the needs of agriculture, we would
ask our government: ~~

(a) To create an Advisory Board in each Prov-
ince, said board to be constituted of men actually
engaged in agriculture, and' nominated by what-
ever general farmers’ organizations may exist in
that Province, with whom the whole situation,
both from the standpoint of military and produc-
tive needs, may be taken up, and who may make
such recommendations from time to time as the
needs of the whole situation may dictate.

(b) That whereas under the most recent Order-
in-Council, given to the press on May 24, officers
have been specially detailed to deal with applica-
tions for leave of absence. we recommend that,
again/following British precedents, Appeal Trib-
unals shall be created to deal with extreme cases

as developed under the recent Order-in-Councih

and that practical agriculture be represented on
the personnel of these tribunals.

That the food producing operations of our coun-
try to be accorded the same consideration by our
government as is given by the government of the
United States to food production in that country.

The meeting approved a suggestion by Mr. H. B.
Cowan of Peterbor. that a proposal be hid before
President Woodof the National Council of Farmers
to cable Premier Lloyd George, asking that a state-
ment of the exact conditions as to the need of men,
and expressing the loyalty of the farmers of Out-
ario. The delegates believed this the only practi-
cal means of 'btaining first-hand knowledge as
to what may be expected by the Motherland in the
matter of foodstuffs,

CHICAGO DAIRYMEN FIX NEW
., AND HIGHER PRICES FOR MILK

The dairy situation in the Chicago district is
still in more or less of a-~turmoil. The attempts
of the federal commission to determine on a price

satisfactory for allparties do not seem to have
met with any degree of success, and altho sev-

eral months have been occupied with hearings
and investigations, the dairymen are right back
in the same old place where they started from.
At a secret conference held last week at Elgin, 300
delegates representing locals of Illinois, southern
Wisconsin and nothern Indiana drew up a price
ultimatum as follows: '
_ July, $2.75; August, $3.00; September, $3.25.
On condition that the distributors of Chicago
will agree not to raise their July price above 12
centsa quart,~, the produCers will accept $2.50 per
[hundred for their July milk. “These figures are

the best the farmers are willing to submit,” sa1~d._‘_

the Chairman of the association. "and they are
. goingto stand pat on the proposition to a finish
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WEEKLY CROP SUMMARY H

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, New England—Boston: Crops growing Well but too
cool for corn. Rain‘needed in central and south por-
tions. Potatoes inner-them Maine show good germin-
ation; they are up and growing well. Tobacco start-
ing well. “ Some smut on onions.
under way; fair crops.

Pennsylvania—ePhiladelphla: Heavy local rains
delayed cultivation and some fields are weedy; some
places need! rain.
for wheat an rye which are filling well; rye beginnin
to ripen. Buckwheat seeding begun. Truck crops an
vegetables good to excellent and yield will be very
large. Potatoes looking fine. Cutworms damaging to-
bacco considerably.

Narrator—Lincoln: Excessive heat, with dry wea~
ther, caused winter wheat to ripen too rapidly for
good of crop: harvest will begin next week in south-
east and by July 1 north to\Platte river. Spring wheat
oats, barley rye,. and potatoes injured. Pastures short.
Alfalfa and grass in meadows not growing well. Corn
has grown rapidly; in fine condition; cultivation pro-
gressed well. ' .

'Oklahom—Oklahoma: Clear, hot and dry; ideal
for harvesting wheat and oats, which is progressing
rapidly; rust in wheat in some localities; threshing be—
gun in Southern portions. Corn tassling; fine prospect
but will need rain soon. Cotton mostly chopped out,
grains and broom corn In de good growth. Second cut-
ting of alfalfa good quality and yield. Pastures good.
Sweet potatoes and peanuts doing fine.

New York.;1thaca: Frequent thunder showers.
Light frost in places; but no damage done. Favorable
for farm work. grain, grasses, but too cool for corn.
Cultivation of crops progressing rapidly. Early pota-
toes looking good; late planting nearly completed.
Strawberries are excellent; picking general. Peas for
canning in full bloom; podding heavily. Cherry pick-
irgg tbeig‘un; fair yield. Alfalfa and clover harvesting
5 ar e . , -

Ransom—Topeka: Hot, dry weather in all parts of
state. Wheat ripening rapidly and shriveling badly
in north-central and northwest and to some extent
in northeast: harvest in full blast in southeast and be-
gun in central portion and to Nebraska line in eastern
counties; will begin July 1 in Finney, Thomas and I‘hil—
lips counties. Oats and barley being badly damaged;
their harvest will follow wheat closely. Corn stanl-
ing drouth well so far.

Callfornia.—San Francisco: Barley and oat harvests
well advanced; yields good. Wheat harvest general;
crop better than expected. Corn, truck crops and po-'
tatoes growing rapidly. Third cutting of alfalfa be-
gun; crop good. Pastures very dry; feed and water
getting scarce in a few localities; more cattle than
usual being sold. Rice, sugarbeets, beans, cotton and
deciduous fruit making excellent progress. High tem-
peratures caused heavy drop of newly set or anges.

Illinois.——Springfield: Warm week, with little or no
rain, highly favorable for work but oats and pastures
need rain. Crops one week early. Corn growing fast;
fields clean. Some oats heading low in central por
tion, but good to excellent generally; harvest in Cham—
paign county July 5. Wheat harvest general in south
and west-central portions; Fulton county July 1,- in
Grundy July 4. Haying general. Rye cutting in south
and elsewhere during next two weeks. Early apples
ready in extreme south.

Indiana.——Indianapolls: Becoming very dry south
half, where lack of good rains since middle of May
beginning to affect pastures, potatoes, oats, truclc can—
nery crops and some corn; elsewhere conditions con-
tinue very satisfactory. Wheat now cutting in cen-
tral parts, expected in Miami county by June 25. and
to boundary by July; some damage by joint worm and
fly reported extreme north. Clover cutting well all-
vanced, with good yields and good quality. Oats head-
ing most localities, but short in some places.

Farm “Work well up; all crops
developing excellently, except where too dry. Most
crops ten days in advance of normal season. Harvest-
ing wheat begun in *Pickawny county; will begin pres-
ent week in Auglaize county, and following week in
Ashland and Crawford counties. Oats heading in
northern counties; harvesting begins in Marion coun—
ty July 4. Rye harvesting progressing in Miami and
Montgomery counties. Corn adversely affected by
insufficient rainfall and cool nights; some replanting.

Washington.—Seattle: Ample sunshine has favored
corn and vegetables: showers infrequent, scaturcd.
and inadequate; good rains urgently needed for all
crops. especially wheat and other small grains. Hot,
dry winds have badly injured winter and spring wheat,
decreasing prospects materially. Winter when.- filling
and late spring wheat in very poor condition; in grain
heading short except rye which is generally good and
tall in favorable locations. Aphis doing much damage
in fields. Meadows, gardens and pastures drying up
rapidly.

Texas.——-Houston: Generally favorable for vegeta-
tion, except locally in central and southwestern coun-
ties, where drouth, coupled with high temperatures,
caused deterioration. Corn nearly a failure in dry
scctions; fair to excellent elsewhere. Cotton improv-
ing but mostly late; planting still going on in north—
west; crop well cultivated. Wheat harvest starting
in Panhandle; elsewhere about complcted. Threshing
wheat and oats begun; yield poor to good. Rice has
fine start. Peanuts, sweet potatoes, feed crops and
ranges growing well except in dry sections. Amarillo:
The condition of the range and stock is good.

HAVE YOU BEEN APPROACHED
BY THIS AGENT OF THE KAISER?

Ohio.—Columbus ;

Signs are multiplying in the Middle Western
states indicating that an organized propaganda
has been started by someone to hinder the logical
and reasonable development of America’s beet
sugar industry. Farmers in Michigan and Wiscon-

’ sin have been approached by seemingly well in-

formed strangers,vadvising them not to plant» too

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great an acreage of sugar beets, and not to spend
an-ymoney in taking care of the crop, as ‘fprices
of sugar are liable to be unsettled throughout the
fall and winter."

This is" nothing but a malicious and insidious
falsehood, and is spread broadcast for no other
reason than to reduce the productiveness of the
beetfields and prevent the future loss of trade in
beet sugar, from Germany. Sugar manufacturers
should do all in their power to inform the daily
papers in their , .ctions of the real facts; weeklies
circulating among farmers should at once warn the
farmers against this alarmist propaganda. The
man who listens to it only h .rts himself the most.

- There is a great demand for all the sugar which
this country can possibly raise, and every ton pro.
d-uced on our western beet fields releases a ton
of shipping needed for something else. Sugar
prices are not likely to drop to the former low level
for a long time to come, and now that sugar man-
ufacturers are guaranteeing a satisfactory and
profitable price for beets delivered at the plant,
farmers in the sugar belt cannot possibly go wrong
and they ought to be protected against malicious
interference from sources hostile to the best in-
terests of the country—Sugar)".

OLEO PROFITS LOOK LIKE RE-
TURNS FROM A MUNITION FACTORY

We have grown accustomed to hearing it said
by the packers that there is no profit in the meat

business, that it is the “by-products” where they

make any money, if at all. Granting that all this
is true, it probably explains why the sale ‘of oleo-
margerine is pushed so hard and has in the past
been the center around which so much fraud and
deceit has practised in its sale.

After three years of investigation by competent
and trustworthy investigators, it has been found
that the net profits received on the wholesale or
jobbers’ prices on medium grade “oleo” amounts
to 39.6 per cent, while during the same period the
manufacturers’ net profit on a pound of butter
has been only 2.2 per cent. Comparative figures
gathered during the same time, show that the cost
of raw material was, for the manufacture of "a
pound of butter, 84.3 per cent, while the raw ma-
terial in oleomargerine cost 51.1 per cent; the
costs of manufacture were, for oleo margerine. 8.3
per. cent and for butter 13.5 per cent. From the
foregoing figures of profits, it is to wonder why the
price of the poor man’s spread is not lower than
it is in comparison with butter.

SILAGE MAKES BEEF AND
OREGON MAN SUBMITS PROOF

The sale of 30 head of 3-year—old steers at Union
Junction recently, their average weight being 1300
pounds and the sale price 12 cents a pound, is a
good evidence submitted by W. J. Townley of
Union, Ore. to prove the value of silage as a feed
for beef cattle.

Mr. Townley reports that the cattle were fed
about 30 pounds of silage a day per head in addi-
tion to a ration of dry hay and a little cot .on seed
and soy bean meal. As a result they made an av-
erage gain per head during a, lOO-day period of 200
pounds or more. A-iolhel‘ feature of the report is
the statement that the silage was made very larg-
ly of weedy grain and grasses from along ditches
and other waste places on the farm that would
very largely have been a total waste had it not been
converted into feed of this form.

MILLIONS FOR FARMERS
IN LOWER SISAL COST

Mexican sisal growers have entered into an
agreement with the Food Administration to sell
in this country 500,000 bales of this year’s crop of
sisal at three cents per pound below that received
last year. Food Administrator Hoover estimtated
the agreement will save American farmers approx-
imately $6,000,000 on binder twine next year.

WIDE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN
SELLING AND BUYING PRICES

With potatoes selling at 30 cents a bushel in
rural Minnesota at the same time they are selling
at 45 cents a peck in Kansas, the editor of the
1010 Regit‘tcr arises to remark that it is time to
hunt up something, besides the war, on which to
lay the blame for high prices. Another discrepan-
cy which “war conditions” do not explain is the
sale of fresh mackerel at 18 cents a. pound in Bos-
ton. on the same day that this fish sold for 5 cents
a pound in Gloucester, only thirty miles away—-
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eye fixed on the goal of victory ahead even that
vague memory 01‘ tuber troubles may pass avvay
and be forgotten.

' It would seem that the lessen has been learned,
and that We shall not eXperience another such uni-
versal shortage of refrigerator ears and box cars
with 'which to move thetuber crop to market. It
can be said that the Wisconsin surplus potato‘crop
did not last long when cars were provided and a
way out assured to growers and shippers. Barren

and Chippewa counties, wherekthe largest surplus '

was said to be, are now cleaned out. Warehouses
in Wild Rose and Wautoma were the last toreport
a surplus still on hand. The movement to the
consumer has been pretty steady, and until the
summer crop from the south arrived, the demand
was even. Through the efforts of the State De-
partment of Agriculture and the State Council for
Defense, potatoes were marketed in the thirty
days ending May 3lst. Some of this went to the
army cantonments. Starch factories in certain
favored districts help to eat up the over-supply,
but warm weather will close the starch makers
out.

It is gratifying to learn through reliable sources
that almost if not quite a normal acreage of pota-
toes will go in and be cultivated and sprayed by
Wisconsin farmers. This shOWs that our farmers
here are “dead game sports" and that they are not
afraid to “hunt for the ball where they lost it.”
The matter of attending to transportation rests
partly with the Agricultural Advisory Board of
the State Council of Defense. We urge these gen-
tlemen to give the necessary “hunch” to those in
power, for the sake of preventing the sorrows and
losses of 1917 potato history.

MICHIGAN AND ADJOINING STATES
ARE HARD HIT BY BIG FROST

 

Western Michigan and Northern Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois were visited by frost last Saturday
night which did thousands, if not millions, of
dollars’ worth of damage to growing crops. Corn,
beans, potatoes, cucumbers, celery and fruit trees
were hardest hit. With but one exception the tem-
perature of 38 degrees was the lowest recorded
in the weather bureau offices of the various regions
in 20 years. Northern and eastern sections of
Michigan did not suffer so badly as the western
and southwestern sections.

The week preceding the frost had been one of
low temperatures, with cold winds from the north
and northwest, and followed by a long period of
dry weather. In man-y sections. it seemed cold
enough to snow and all week farmers had been
fearing the frost. Saturday night the weather
cleared; Sunday morning dawned [bright and clear
and the sun completed the work that Jack Frost
had begun. A slight breeze throughout the eastern
sections of the state is all that saved them.

Despite the discouraging reports that are receiv-
ed from practically every county of the south—
western part of the state, it is not believed that
the damage will be as great as feared. This is
usually the case. Local rains Monday night and
Tuesday have helped out the situation to some
extent and most of the beans and potatoes will re—
.cover. At the best, however, the frost was a cal-
amity to some sections and discouraged many
farmers whose hopes had been raised high by
the remarkably good growing weather that had
prevailed earlier in the season.

We would be glad to have our readers living in
the afflicted sections to report the extent of the
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NEWS NOTES FROM THE M.A.C.

The question “How much can I afford to pay
for skimmilk?" which is enjoying Wider circula—
tion among Michigan farmers than the old saw,
“How old is Ann?" has been answered by an in-
vestigator connected with the experiment station
of M. A. C.

“When the price of grain per 100 pounds is $1,
100 pounds of skimmilk as a supplement to cer-
eal grains (for pigs), considered from the point
of food value is worth 28 cents,” H» W. Norton,
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7 $125 a hundred. skimmilk is worth 35 cents; if _

, In the midst of June potato planting time 4111*
.WiSconjsin there is only a memory left of the sér- .«2'
-'ious fetato‘ worries of last winter." With every _' ’

_. of middlings, and the. '1

   

failure of the supplglrom Europe;

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pounds at 3111111111.

  

, pounds ofsk mmilk ref
equivalent to one pou‘hd of Oil meal .I
, “Translated into money values, this means that “

if 100 pounds of tankage is worth $2. 00, skimmilk. 9

is worth 22 cents a hundred, and upWard in pro--
portion as the price of tankage increases. It 100
pounds of middlings are worth $1. 00, skimmilk is
worth 27 cents a hundred and upwards in propor-

~~ tion as the price of middlings increases, and if

100 pounds of oil meahar-e Worth $1 50, a hundred
pounds of skimmilk is worth 16 cents and upWard
in proportion as the price of oil meal .rises "

This table is intended to enable the feeder to.

determine which of the nitrdgenous supplements :

commonly used with farm grown grains is most
profitable to employ at prevailing prices. A more
detailed report is being published in bulletin form
by the experiment station of the college.

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~War work along many lines will occupy much
of the time of‘the faculty and students of M. A. C.
during the summer session of the college, which
will commence on Monday of the coming week;
Ordinarily the warm weather months on the cam"
pus are the dullest of the year but between the
training of auto truck and signal units for the
army, and the conducting of special schools and
conferences. the coming term promises to be one
of the most active in the history of the college.

' The routine summer school work will begin on

June 24, but at the same time women from every

corner of Michigan will assemble .to attend the

special school of canning to be conducted for th-er‘.

by the home economics department of the college.

This school, which will also be a food conservation

congress, will be divided into two sections. The

first section, which will be for women who have

had at least two years of college training in do-

mestic science, will report on June 24 and will

continue in session until June 28, while the second

section will be open to all women; irrespective of

what their educational qualifications may be.—
This section will convene on July 1 and attend'
lectures and demonstrations until July 4.

Other features of the summer sessions will be
a short course for country clergymen, from July
8 to 20, and a country life conference, which will
be attended by pastors and laymen of all denomin-
ations, on July 8 to 15.

During the week of July 9 to 13 leaders of the
many boys and girlsclubs in every county in‘the
state will assemble on the campus, to attend a.
week’s training school and conference.

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A man whose business it will be to give assist-
ance to. the dairy manufacturies of Michigan will
be employed by the dairy department and exten-
sion division of M. A C. after July 1. The particu-
lar function of this new member of the extension"
staff, so it has been given out, will be to travel
about the state visiting creameries and co-operat-
ing with the managers of them just as the physi-
cian might make his rounds to prescribe for his
patients—though the dairy industry of Michigan,
as it happens, is far from being a, “sick man."

The official ann‘Ouncement by the college of the
plans for the new work sets forth that the object
of it will be to assist “Michigan dairy manufac-
turing plants to become more eflicient and to im-
prove the quality of their products. A study of
the conditions surrounding the making of dairy
products in these plants will be made to the end
that assistance can be given where help is needed.
Personal acquaintance will be built up with but—
ter makers and others in plants in order that they
may know to whom to turn when troubles develop
or questions of factory policy come up.

“Assistance will also be given to producers and
to county agents in the organization and establish-
ment of new co- operative plants and improvement
of conditions in the old ones if such be called for. ”

0. T. Goodwin, formerly associate professor of
dairying in the Georgia Agricultural 'college, is
the man to whom the new commission will be en-
trusted. He will begin his work in Michigan July
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~ Michigan gardeners who would like to be sure
of a supply of seed in 1919 had best begin to pre-

pare to raise enough this summer for their future,
needs is the opinion of the department of horti-
culture of the Michigan Agricultural college.

This precaution must be taken, the department de-
clares, because the seed upon which the country
would normally depend will not be forthcoming
in 1919.

“The reserve supply of seed usually carried by
the seed housesghas never been so low in thehis-
tory of the business," a bulletin from the horti-
culturists says: “This is 2.111111111111112 to a number
of causes, among which ay be mentioned the
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tiou, East La 111g, with a request for “Circula
No. 35." .: , . ‘ _, .,
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Evidence of the continued presence of fire blight
on Michigan pears and apples has been coming
to the Michigan Agricultural College within the
last few days in the tom of diseased specimen
from fruit trees in several sections of the state.
Fruit growers should take no chances with
early cases of tWig blight on young, rapidly grow.
ing trees, in the opinion cf the experiment station
pathologists “These twig blights, relatively un-
important in themselves, quickly develop into im-
portant limb cankers which endanger the whole
tree. Furthermore they become sources of infec-
tion to neighboring healthy trees ”
Information of measures by which this disease
can be controlled can be obtained by writing to 1
the department of botany, M. A. C. ' -

    

 
   
 
 

  

 
        
    
     
 
 
 

  
  

  
        
   
     
   
    
       
      
  

  
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
   
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
    
  
 
 
  
   
 
  
 
 
   
 
  
   
 
  
   
  
  
   
 
  
 
 
  
   
    
  
   
   
   
   
 
  
  
 
   
  
   

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East Jordan—At , a rousing, meeting attended
by over 200 farmers the East Jordan Cooperative ‘
Association was organized here with a charter
membership of about 75. This is one of the first
local organizations to be formed under the new
marketing plan being tried out under the direction
of Mr. Hale Tenant; federal field agent in market-
ing. The followingwere elected members of the
board of directors: Samuel E. Rogers, Jos. Troe
janeck, Ira Bradshaw, Samuel Richardson, Chas.
e-Knop, John Severance, E. S. Brintnall, Stephen
Shepard.

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Sholb‘y’HFarmers of this locality met last week
and organized a cow testing association. Officers
elected are as follows: Pres, W. F. Taylor; Vice-
Pres., Chas. Krause; Sec’y-Treas., Mr. lLindsay;
Directors, Simon Rager and Herman Demmon
Clement McLouth has been hired as official tester,
This is the eighth cow~testing association to be or-
ganized in Michigan, and is an important step to-
ward eliminating the unprofitoble cows from the
farm herds of Oceana county.

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Gassopolis—What is believed to have been one
of the largest crops of wheat harvested in Michi—
gan last year W18 grown on the Newman Farm by .
SupervisOr Chas. A. Jones. The total crop amount- '
ed to slightly more than 4,000 bushels and the last -
lot of 1800 bushels has just been sold to the Col-
by Milling Co., at Dowagiac. Mr. Jones delivered
the wheat with his tractor,"m;aking two trips a
day and hauling two loaded wagons, each carrying
70 bushels of Wheat.

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Clio—The local condensary, in common with
other plants of this state, is having a great deal
of trouble with sour milk. The losses have been
so large from this cause that the condensary has
given "notice that it will not buy any more milk
that is not in good condition. Farmers are urged
to use a little more care in cooling their milk. as
soon as drawn, keeping the cans surrounded with

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St. Louis—The Gratiot County Beekeepers Ass'n
held a meeting at the farm of J. N. Harris Thurs-
day when Prof. Kindig of the M. A. C., and a num- ‘
ber of other prominent beekeepers gave some in-
teresting talks and demonstrations.

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last‘i‘year and-brought out a larger crop of~beans
shamaever befOre. ~ AccOrding to the figures of the
, f partmentof Agriculture, the last-crop Of beans
,Was'a’bout 15,000,000 bushels, an increase ofover
5,000,000 bushels over the normal crop. Consider-
.‘i’n'g the: extraordinary demand for beans by the
_ my and Navy, this crOp‘ was riot too large, and
.‘only unusual circumstances explain the fact that
any'beans are left over ‘-

. .. 7 ‘fIASt year there was a Substantial increase in

‘the ‘ colored bean crop—”~pinto beans, California
' pinks and soy beans—in the south and southwest.
This accession of new beans from unaccustomed
"Quarters .not only provided new stocks but requir-
ed a partial rearrangement of the market. Beans
have long beena staple food in the Army and Navy.
On account of their high nutritive value they enter
largely into the diet of the men in the field. Know-
ing. this, Americans have for some time felt it
was the part. Of patriotism to leave their white
beans for the soldiers. But the Food Administra-
‘ tion _now urges the use’of all beans. Beans are to
--.be counted as “a substitute for meat rather than
for the cereals. They can well take the place of
a meat dish on many Occasions. Certainly with
”them in the‘diet there is less need for meat.
5‘As with everything else in the food line,
he prices Of beans have advanced materially
ince the beginning of the ‘war. Americans who
ave have been accustomed to look' upon beans as
“.cheap‘fo‘od were somewhat discouraged by the
uncrease inprice. Lately the price of beans has
ended to fall from the high point of last winter.
ven at the high-price beans are among the cheap-
est foods in nutritive value. In caloric value one
pound of beans is equal to. over five pounds of
potatoes,,11/§ pounds of sirloin steak, 2 pounds of
round steak, 1% dozen eggs, 5 pounds or 5 pints of
milk.-‘ The protein value of beans runs in the
neighborhood of 22 per cent. With beans at 20
- cents'a pound, one cup of bean soup costs about a
‘fifth of a cent and provides 184.76' calories.”
The Wholesale Grocers met in annual session
’ at Cleveland recently, and the “navy bean” question
. was generally discussed and Very thoroughly
“cussed.” And this brings out a new angle in
the bean deal, Which has heretofore been hidden
deep in the minds of the fellows who got soaked.
' We had supposed that every angle of the situation
had been discuSSed, but when the Wholesale Gro-
cers brought home the charge that they had been
sold “dry stock, which within 30 days contained
jenough moisture to 'flOat a small sized ship, and
supplemented this information with the further
charge that the jobber who [sold the beans, re-
?‘fused to make the loss good, one could readily
find reason for the “cussing.” . '
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in two instances the shipments were tested both
at the loading station and before payment was
made, and pronounced all right. Within twenty
days these tWO shipments wererin such shape that
they had‘ to be reloaded and sent to the driers.
’Aucanvass-made among 3a number Of grOceries in
Detroit, proved the, statement that buyers have

I been shy of Michigan beans, for' in every single

iinstanceit was found that these retailers purchased
,nly a weeks suplet a time; many stating that

fthe'y'had been‘buying from-day to day rather than ‘

__ta,ke theichanceuof excess 'mOisture. ,
_Theiilheans—edidgnot- fully, ‘ripenlast fall, and So

'lojigiasfthe Weather wascgld'aand dry. the beans
V (ilybutfwith the firstsigns of-rspring they-
Jerated by the United States government. (lo-op-

' crate with yourrgovernment by ordering your fer-
’ ’-'—tilizer early. It will relieve the car shortage. '

‘ WOuld you please answer through your column,
how many pounds of corn Lflour does a miller grind
frqm‘ 100 pounds of corn?——T. S. 8’.” Cheboygan.

, As to the number of pounds of corn flour that is
ground from' 100% corn, the best information I
can _get is that somewhere from 45 or 50 to 70
pounds is gotten, depending to considerable extent
on the quality of the corn and to a greater ex-
tent on the mill that does the grinding. The mills
that are properly equipped get considerably more
corn flour out Of a bushel than those'that are not.
—Ge_o. A. Prescott, Federal Food Administrator.

Referring to the production of corn flour, we
would say thatvery much depends upon the con-
dition of the corn and the grade of corn flour

' that you desire to produce. With corn such as we

are using this year, we obtain only a little more
than 33% of white corn flour-in making the high-
est type of goods. It would be possible for a miller
to go down to 60%if he was indifferent as to the
quality. When 33% is used two types Of by-product
may be taken off. Feed corn, unfit for human con-
sumption, will run from 15 to 35% depending on
corn condition, the remainder is a thoroughly
wholesome human food, but will be invariably sold
at a cconsiderable discount under corn flour price.
——Oommercial Milling 00., W. B. Campbell, Vice
President.

_MEMBERS OF LOCAL _EXAMIN IN G
BOARD ALLOWED $2.50 PER DAY

Some time ago I noticed a mention in M. B. F.
about the compensation given to members of local
boards. At that time I believe nothing definite
had been decided upon. DO you know whether
boards are now receiving pay for their services?
——H. G., Kalamazoo County.

Each member of local boards is entitled to $2.50
per day when actually engaged on the board. As
all will agree this is a very nominal compensation
for such services. Moreover. we understand that
a number Of local boards are giving their services
free of charge. This, in our judgment, is a highly
patriotic sacrifice as the work requires consider-
able time and attention. '

Information Wanted!

Have any of the readers Of MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING succeeded in preventing damage by the
grasshoppers thru the use of any ‘of the’ methods
which have been suggested by the government and
the experiment stations and which have been pub-
lished in these columns? We would like to have
experience on this line.

Order Your Fertilizers Now

The U. S. Department of Agriculture is urging
farmers to make known their fertilizer needs for
the fall planting at the earliest possible date. It
points out that this will enable dealers to com~
bine their orders into full capacity carload lots.

This step is made necessary by the difficulties
in handling freight at this time. The railway sys-
tems of the country are taXed to the utmost to
move the tremendous volume Of supplies for our
troops. ' Many farmers who ordered their spring
fertilizers late did not receive them until after
planting time. Some failed to get them at all.

, Prompt action will tend to avoid disappointment

this fall and enable every farmer to start his
crop right.

The intelligent use Of ferilizers _is one way by
which farmers» Can increase crop'production and
at the same time make the labor expended produce
more than formerly. Therewas never a time when
the? use of fertilizers was so profitable as now
with crop prices high and labor scarce. . .

The railroads of the country are now being Op-

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13.1? figures before will he sometime before one Of the best state. fairs
’ flingA'meric'a catches up with its genial‘general,
Just to—d-ay we ,sat .~
in his office and heard him enthuse over the 1918
‘f'airTJbi'gger and better?
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.as 40%.

. _ _ . . WESTA'I‘EF ,
. , its .injthisfvrorld never get ’veryv’m .
than. the men behind them and in our opinion,

manager; Geo. W. Dickinson.

Why , we never} had

then he‘went on". to tell me Of the. added features .,

‘ Which are atracting the real men and women of

the farms of Michigan who come to school in this
way once each year. The kind that are crowding

_ out the tawdy mid-way, with its cheap clap-tap and
faith and interesting enough so that hours can be

spent in fascinating study of real farm problems.

The entire second floor Of the automobile building, »

a space of some 15,000 square feet, will be given
over to a U. 8. government exposition, which was
personally arranged for by Mr. Dickinson early

this spring in Washington. The idea was his own‘

and yet so popular was it with the government
Officials that they have prepared a wonderful ex-
hibit which will go from the Michigan to the Illi-
nois and other big fairs. Another typically Dick-
inson idea which he has brought out this year is
the extra bonuses for premiums given farmers and
their wives living in Michigan, which run as high
These bonuses are in addition‘to the
regular premiums offered all exhibitors and are of
course, to encourage Michigan exhibitors and keep
this big exposition a real Michigan state fair, as
he has always wanted to see it.

SO I might go on and on, for he told me about
more features for this year’s fair than I could men-
tion in a dozen columns, but one thing is certain,

' if ever a man has found his job, Geo. W. Dickinson

is that man and when the Michigan State Fair
gets bigger than its present manager, it will be a
whole lot larger than the best state fair in Amer-
ica today! Let’s all plan ahead to get things out
of the way so we can do justice to this big expo-
sition this year! By the way, if any Of you are not
on the list to get one Of the Michigan State Fair
premium books, drop me a postal card and I will
see that one is sent you.
* * *

SEED COMPLAINTS—More than the usual num-
ber of complaints regarding poor seeds and poor
service from those who sell seeds have reached
this desk of late. What is the trouble? Are we
to believe that an European war can so influence
the market here that it is going to be imposible
for us to get good seeds, without buying wigh them
from 10 percent to 90 percent weeds or other var-
ieties. Luckily for us in Michigan we have some
mighty good seed laws on our books, which ap-
parently a lot Of out-of-state seed houses are not
familiar with, and it has been our pleasure during
the past few weeks to read» a little of this interest-
ting law to several seedmen who should have
known they would exist in our state. In every case

they have made-good to our subscriber. when we

turned the spot-light on them. The gist Of the
Michigan law is: that packages, bags or contain-
ers Of seed must specify what they contain and be
subject to inspection as such. Any man who
knowingly sold poor seed to American farmers
this year is a traitor of the stripe that would not
be at to lie down with a yellow cur!
all t :0:

STATE SEED CORN—Last Saturday I stopped
at the home of a farmer who tenants a farm just
outside Of Pontiac owned by a friend Of mine. In
talking over his corn prospects I asked him where
he had bought his seed, and he named the store.
He told me that he wanted tO-buy state seed corn
at $5 per bushel. but the seedman advised him to
buy an $8 .seed- which he guarnteed to test over 70,
because the state seed corn would not run over 40
percent. Inasmuch as the state allowed the local
distributor Of seed corn this year a profit of 50
cents per bushel, we are wondering just how much
this Pontiac skin-flint consideres a “fair profit”
on "handli' g” a bushel of seed corn? We have an
idea that he made $3 or more on every bushel of
corn he sold at $8, what is your guess?
* * *

AUTO KNITTERS ARE NIT—Let all Of our good
friends and readers profit by the experience we
have had with the Auto Knitter Company Of Buff-
alo who promised F. P., that he could have his $50
or more back if the machine was not absolutely
satisfactory and if he were not entirely pleased
with it. For over a year now we have been trying
co get his money back for him. Never before in
hundreds Of cases where complaints Of this kind
were registered with us have we been unable to
make come sort of a mutually fair settlement, but
not ‘here. We have advised F. P. what we would
do if we were in his shoes and We can only use
this means of advising others that this company do

not. apparently, live up to the guarantees which -

they print in their circular matter. If its so easy
for them to say “no," perhaps you can easily say
“hit” when they fish for any more money in Mich-
igan.

We, have to put every ounce of effort behindth
men behind the guns. , .

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of eedsrlabor, the large summit of initi'a game
(men: and other factors, has «used many cattle- -‘
green to discontinue production of’ beef. - ‘

Many of the men who are still in the beef busts

'tion costs were estimated,“ many cattle feeders:
would have little profit, Only the advent of the

sin: and intelligent use of corn silage have exerted

a price reducing factor that still enables cattle-_
men, who use corn silage, to stay in the business

. and make fair profits at the same time and under

present conditiOns. The cattleman with corn si-

‘ lage is like the old-time manufacturer who receiv- .

ed a secret .rebate on freight shipments. The

' competitors of the manufacturer were driven out

of business through the lowered prices that the

'rebated manufacturer could receive and still make

money. The farmer using silage in producing
beef cattle is in the same advantageous position.
For the corn fed to ten steers which received a
ration of corn, cottonseed meal and clover hay.
fed from December, 1916, to May, 1917, at the
Purdue Experiment Station, a price of $1.37 per
bushel was realized. For the corn fed to ten other
steers, living under the same shed, drinking the
same water but eating corn silage in addition to
the corn, cottonseed meal and clover hay, $1.85
was received. Forty-eight cents more per bushel
for corn fed to a carload of steers represents the
'secret rebate that the silage using cattle feeder
has. This makes him willing and able to stay
in the cattle feeding business. ‘

At the Pudue Experiment Station for some
years lots of cattle have been fed to determine the
value of corn silage for fattenng cattle. For the
last eight years, corn silage has been added to a
ration of shelled corn, cottonseed meal and clover
hay. The following table gives the feed required
for a pound of gain and the average daily gain of
the steers.

Value of Silage in Feeding Two—Year-Old Steers

Average steer Without silage With silage
Feed per pound of gain——

Corn 7.03 lbs. ‘
1.18 lbs.
4.93 lbs.

5.57 lbs.
1.19 lbs.
Clover hay . 1,34 lbs.

Silage 11.65 lbs.
Daily gain 2.42 lbs. 2.38 lbs.

The cattle gained about "he same on the two
different rations but in making 100 pounds of beef
1,165 pounds of cheap corn silage replaced 145
pounds of shelled corn and 359 pounds of hay. The
average prices received for the cattle were approx-
imately the same. Increased profits resulted from
decreased cost of the gains.

From the above replacement value of corn silage
in fattening two-yearcld steers. the following table
gives the worth of a ton- of corn silage at varying
prices of corn and clover hay. The first table is
with the hay fixed at $15.00 per ton and the corn
price varying. ‘

Value of a ton of Silage with Corn at Varying Prices
Corn per bushel A ton of silage s worth
8 .56 $7.12

.90 ' 8.64
1.00 9.22
1.25 10.21
1.50 11.30
1.75 12.50

The somewhat prevalent idea that corn silage
at $1.00, $1.25, $1.75 per bushel is too high to use
as silage is mistaken. The higher the price of corn
per bushel, the higher climbs the value of a-ton
of silage.‘

The average net profit per steer including pork
in the lots receiving corn silage for the last eight
years at the Purdue Experiment Station has been
$15.24.

A silo and livestock is a partnership that en-
riches the soil of the farm and makes for enrich-
ment of the bank account of the farmer. ‘

NEW YORK FARMERS NOW
MARKET THEIR OWN MILK

(Continued from page 1) 0. Hoover, the federal
food administrator, who, speaking before the Na-
tional Milk and Dairy Exposition at New York
City, said: '

“One difficulty to both our producers and con-
sumers is that our marketing system in dairy
products is inherently a wasteful and expensive
system. Our consumers need relief from the pres-
ent high price levels of milk. This relief may
come through cheapei feeds but it appears to me

If the real prelim», _ .
inspiration of- such reorganization must ' come

It mlxht be said that the cons»,
He should be, .

but I am despaired of any consumers’ organics-g1

. ’ from the producer

sumer should be joined in this.

tion getting results. The producers’ whole interest

is milk, while it is but one of many interests of‘

the consumer. 7
“That something can be. done is evidenced by
the wOrk of Professor King and his associates at

Philadelphia where the producer today receives
about the same price as at New York yet the con-

sumer secures his milk for from one to two cents "

per quart less.

“The distribution of milk to our city population
is just as vital as the distribution of water. To

have ten independent water systems Cumbering
our streets would be no more chaotic than our
present milk distribution.”

GOVERNMENT DENIES IT QUES- .
TIONS PATRIOTISM OF FARMERS

Much has been written about the alleged dis-
loyalty of the farmers of the nation, and partic-
ularly those who have affiliated themselves with
the Non-Partisan League. In the following words:
the Committee on Pubic Information denies that

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What Cow-Testing Ass’n Cannot Do

T CANNOT compel a dairyman to dispose
Iof his poor cows if he is determined to

keep them. It cannot make him feed ac-
cording to production nor practice economy
in the management! of his dairy herd. It
cannot require him to dispose of\ his scrub
bull and buy a better one. It has never yet
demanded the planting of legumes and the
building of silos. It never will compel, but
it will always encourage, economical im-
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the federal government suspects the farmers of

being other than sterling patriots:

“ Along with this campaign to set the farmer
against the government’s war measures, there
has been proceeding a‘twin campaign to arouse
feeling against him by accusing his western
farmers’ leagues of disloyalty. THAT IS
EQUALLY A WORK IN AID OF THE ENEMY.
The western farmers have contributed their
quotas to enlistments and to the drafts as loy-
ally as any citizens. They have subscribed to
the liberty loans “and contributed to the war re-
lief work with unfailing patriotism. They have

’had their quarrels with the men whom they

suspected of exploiting them, just as labor has
had its quarrels with its employers. But it is an
economic quarrel, and as long as it is conducted
without interfering with the nation’s war work
THE CHARGE OF DISLOYALTY IS ITSELF
TRAITOROUS. In all these disputes it is certain
the enemy agents will be found on both sides.
They at once preach violence among I. W. W.’s
and lead mobs to attack workmen accused of
being I. W. W.’s. They play the same game in
every quarrel. Beware. Mr. Citizen,of any at‘
tempt to make you believe that any class of
American citizens, as a class, are disloyal. IT
IS A GERMAN LIE!"

MICHIGAN FARMERS WIN ,
THE TELEPHONE ISSUE

(Continued from page 1) gain as the rural
subscribers had built their own lines and were
renting phones from the telephone company at a
rate of 50 per Cent of the purchase price of the
telephone.

While it is believed that the telephone company
will now proceed in a legal manner to present its
claims for increased rates and seek to obtain per-
mission from the commission to raise tnem, farmer
patrons in every section should insist that they
get good service in proportion to the value that
they are furnishing to the telephone company,
and demand that their rights in such cases be re-
spected at all times. Rural telephone patrons

who are having their troubles with the company
should advise M. B. F., so that the attention of the
Commission may be called to whatever irregular-
ities that may exist.

' contagious abortion

meat showed what is generally true of such. 1)

erti’es, i. 9:, no consistent and constructive crop; .

ping and livestock- system which can be followed

year after year and decade after decade irrespec- 2
tive of tenancy, for it is needless to say that sup» :
erintendents of county infirmarles change all too
frequently since their job is usually a political
hand-out, and such being the‘ case. little momma!
be expected of them than the least efficient of crepe

renters, viz, the -one year crop renter-who tries
to harvest all he can now- with no thought of the
future.‘

"An inventory of soil, crops and livestoCk on

the farm showed a sand and clay loam soil in veiy ,

bad physical condition as a result of wet plowing
and cultivation, lack of lithe and organic matter
and continuous grain cropping. There were four
fields ranging from 14 to 20 acres and one field oI.
eight acres.

“The crops actually growing on the farm were
limited to 5 acres of rather indifferent alfalfa.
The remaining acres had all been plowed the pre-
vious season for corn, oats and potatoes, all of
which crops did not pay for the labor. For ex«
ample, one field of corn did not yield over 15
bushels per acre and fully one half of the potatoes
were never dug.

“The dairy herd composed largely of scrub and
grade Holsteins was found to be badly infected by
The breeding stock of hogs
was in like cendition with three pigs from five
sow in the spring farrow.

t is needless to go into further detail because
any person with a grain of horse sense must real~
ize that no profit can result from such a project.

“The farm was taken first and planned for the
future, with the following rotation which was in
full operation in 1918, viz., clover, potatoes and
corn (one year), and oats with a seeding of
clover. Soybeans were used to fill in the rotation
as a starter and rye was used as a winter cover
crop and crop in, which to seed clover in 1915, the
rye having been seeded following soybeans re-
moved for hay. ‘

“The most depleted field was plowed, limed
and seeded to clover without a nurse crop in'1914
with excellent results. All the other fields have
been limed since. The manure has been applied
lightly and evenly in order to make the best pos-
sible use of manure during each rotation. Follow-
ing the use of lime. each field will now receive an
application of phosphate during each rotation.

“With the dairy herd and premises badly in-
fected with contagious abortion, it was deemed in-
expedient to bring a clean herd—hence breeding
was stopped for three months, all cows were kept
clean and all excretions were daily washed from
tails and bodies with a cresol solution. At the
end of three manths, breeding was resumed, two
cows were found to be barren and these were sent
to the block. No abortive trouble has shown up
since. A pure bred bull has been used each year
and today the herd is shaping us in fine dairy type
condition.

“The hogs were all sold and replaced with new

"stock good grade sowa and a pure bxed male.

This was the first good-sized bunch of hogs ever
butchered on the farm, and as evidence that they
produced sufficient lard for the official family
which generally numbers around 125 inmates,
there were 1500 pounds of lard on hand just be-
fore the fall butchering time in 1916.

“A field of 18 acres that produced less than 20
bushels of oats per acre in 1913. fair crop of soy~
beans in 1914, a cover crop of rye and cost of
manure produced better than 60 bushels of corn
in 1915 and 1165 bushels of oats in 1916.

“A concrete manure pit, ten additional feet on
the Monolithic black silo, portable hog houses and
model fool-proof general hog house have also been
built to make possible the practical management
of the farm. .

”As will be noted no fancy farming has been
attempted. Our purpose has been to grow crops
and feed good grade live stock with this feed.
The results have been so encouraging, that the
County Commissioners have seen fit to appropri-
ate funds to purchase another 120 acres of land
adjoining the present farm, which will make pos-
sible a more efficient utilization of horse and man
labor on the farm. The results of consistent and
constructive work has also helped to overcome
the constant shifting of superintendents and the
superintendent and his most excellent wife have
been retained continuously. The additional acre-
age will make possible the growmg of wheat, soy-
beans and alfalfa. And the rotation is being ad-
justed to this end. Nothing has been said about

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ocehusheis harvested last year. With
Iayorable harvesting conditions. the

‘onvecordfi ' ‘ ~ . .
~ ‘ lHeryebting of wheat is well under
way had it is reperted that the new

"’-.°'1‘011'is now finding its way into the

market. . Memphis claims to have re-

delved the billing or the first car of

'No. 2 red tram” Mississippi. With a few
tweaked! hot ripening weather a big

. movement will be on its way by“ July

«15. t.
" The price of wheat for the season
of 1918 is a subject of considerable dis-
“cussion. ‘ . .
cial price of wheat will be for 1918.

, . The present price, to the farmer is
’ ’ $2.00, as per statute and $2.20 Chicago

basis on “contract.”

It’s been said fixing prices by the gov.-
j_ernment is. like getting out of a stup-
id lie—“some job.” Unless this fixed

price is made known soon the govern-

ment will have a bumper crop on its
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With old crop practically cleaned
up there is very little trading going on.
Buyers are simply adding to their
stock enough to carry them from day
to day. They are not bidding on in.
tures and will not until this year’s
oat harvest is nearer at hand. Present
indications are for a bumper crop and
when the new crop starts to move
then we look forwards to the price
working lower followed by active buy-
ing.

Cash oats are selling at premiums.

, Domestic shipment has shown some
improvement and with the continued
export demands the chances are good
for a still higher market before new
oats are ready to ship.

The Chicago Board of Trade will not
permit any wild speculation. They are
backed up by the government, with the
food administration and the agricul-
tural department. This‘ ruling will not
permit any would-be plunger to force
up prices and then dispose of stocks
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The corn market has played even with
.the board. There were market fluc-
tuations and advances but averaging
tip the weeks business we find quota-
tions have been well maintained. The
' movement of old corn to terminal mar-

,, kets has been disappointing and trad-

ers do not look for a big run until
after harvest. The arrivals have been
grading 10w and it is estimated that 75

” _. percent of the Chicago graded below.

No. 6.. Many buyers contemplate a
buying freely in order to carry them
through. With“ the presentshortage
‘0‘! corn as well ”as oats, we can see no

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No. l Stead-rd 2
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Detroit 17 oo 11 5o 15 oo 1.7,» 1400 14 so
Chicago 19 oo 21 one oo 19 oo looe M oo
Cine'ueoli 19 75 210016 no 0501300 1500
Pittsburgh 23 oo 21 so 11 so 20 so use 15 5o
NewYork 25 no 27 no 20 oo 25 oo 15 oo 13 oo
Lid-4nd 21 oo .24 oo 1! on 22 com an is on
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Detroit 15 oo 15 5o 11 oo 12 u 10 e9 10 5
Chicago 16 oo 15 so 900 11 to 8 oo 9 oo
Cincinnati 16 oo 16 so 13 on 14 co 9 oo 11 oo
Pitublrgh 16 oo 17 oo 9 oo 10 so o oo 1o to
New York o oo 22 oo 17 00 I7 so 17 oo 17 50
Richmond 19 oo 20 ee 5 oo 16 on 13 ee 14 00
Nothing encouraging can be said

about the hay market. In many of the
largest hay producing states, dealers
and farmers have large supplies in
storage and with prospects for a full
crop this season—how can the market
show an early improvement? The only
possible chance for improvement is on
the best grades of hay. Keep out of
the markets hay grading lower than
No. 2; also heavy clover mixed. It
hay isshipped that is not wanted by
city buyers. it must be sold at a low
price. . ‘
Farmers who have shipped have been
disappointed because of the decline
in the market and have scored hand-
lers severely. The decline in the mar.
ket came on unexpectedly which was
due to the government not being able
to take care of the hay contracted for.
There were thousands of cars in tran-
sit at the time and every one of these
cars were thrown on the open market
and——you know the rest. ‘
New York.t—The trade has been very
dull. Arrivals show a falling off but
even at that the tone of the market is
easy and unsettled. Considerable hay
is coming by boat and this hay and
and sales of such are made at lower
prices. Only the best timothy in large
bales is sold quickly. all other grades
are draggy and shippers better stay
out of this market if the grade is off.
Pittsburg.——All buyers are overstock—
ed and the problem handlers are facing
is a place to unload the hay upon ar-
rival. Don’t ship to this market unless
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but tone to situation been considerable firmness.
DETROIT—011nm market unusually firm with light receipts.
Poultry situation trifle earlier although receipts eon-

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car. It a car is allowed to remain on
track, the demurrage and track stor4
age Will exceed the value of the hay.
Cars of hay‘must be sold and unloaded
even though it is done at a loss to the
owner. ' .

Chicago—This market quiet, but the
arrivals of the best hay are sold daily
which has avoided an accumulation of
stock. Understand buyers fully real-
ize the condition of other markets and
will take advantage of same, therefore
sales are sometimes made at prices that

“moves the hay even though below quo-
tations.

Detroit—The demand is fair for the
best quality of hay. Off grades are un.
salable and such arrivals have to be
worked off at the buyer's owu figure.
Of course. good salesmanship and per—
sonal acquaintance always has its in-
fluence in fixing the price. But to any
one thinking it an easy job to sell off
grade hay is invited to try it out.
Experience is the hem teacher.

er want every reader of M. B. F. to
fully realize that it is difficult for any
salesman or distributor to follow close—
ly to daily paper quotations because
there are conditions that are brought
on daily that they will have to cope
with. Sometimes a market will work
lower or higher in a. few hours time—
all depending on daily arrivals, stocks
in storage. and the general tone to bus.
iness conditions. Shipments arriving
on a declining market must be sold at
a price that is in line with the markekt
regardless of any offer a. shipper may
have had locally at the time shipment
was made. On the other hand if ship-
ment in time to arrive on an advancing
market then the sale will be made at
the advanced price. It is a trading
or marketing condition that works both
ways. This not only applies to hay

but on any other commodity where
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Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbance to' cross continent July 1 to
5, warm wave June 30 to July 4, cool
wave July 3 to 7. This will be about
an average storm on the Pacific slope
and 1n the high lands of the Rockies.
Near meridian 90 its force will in-
crease, in eastern sections and on the
Atlantic it will be a severe storm.
North of a line drawn from Raleigh.
North Carolina, to Helena,»Montana.
and west of the Great Lakes about nor-
mal rains are expected from this
storm, south of that line rainfall will
be from thunder storms, irregular in
amount. Preceding the storm a ten—
dency to hot winds will develop in

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probably less than usual. West of the
Rocky ridge more than usual rain is
expected.

Next warm wave will reach Van-
couver about July 6 and temperatures
will rise on all the Pacific slope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close of
July 7, plains sections 8. meridian 90,
Great Lakes and Ohio-Tennessee val—

leys 9, eastern sections .10, reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about July
11. Storm wave will follow about one

day behind warm wave and cool wave
about one day behind storm wave.
This will be a severe storm through-
out its passage across the continent.
Rainfall will be as indicated in first
paragraph above. A hurricane is ex-
pected on the Carribcan sea not far
from July 11., while the transconti-
nental storm is in eastern sections.
One of these storms will increase in
force about July 10 or 11, I cannot
determine which. If the hurricane
increases the other storm will die and
some heavy rains occur in the cotton
states. The reverse of this may

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there is no discounting the tactthat
the situation is clearing up, and before
thirty days elapse there will be a suf-
ficient demand to inject a little life
into the market.
by a news item in another column the

Food Administration has started a

campaign to increase the consumption

of beans, and thereby save the meat.

To the average market man this looks

like applying the last remedy—an in-

jection to stimulate the heart’s action.

It will have a beneficial effect, and

both growers and buyers will appreci9
ate this belated action on thepart of

the bean division of the Food Admin-

istration. This kind of a campaign

inaugurated last winter, when the

little “Pinto" was being exploited,

would have borne fruit; right now

the effect will not be marked. However

there is no surplus of navy beans—

the growers are holding as many beans

as the elevator men and both for the

same reason—they can’t be moved at .
a profit. The high price of beans early

in the season brought many beans of

many kinds from all parts of the world

and the Wise bean growers of Michi-

gan will stick a pin at the top notch

level, and-remember that when the

price goes over that figure something

is liable to happen. An encouraging

report comes from the Wholesale

Grocers. “Very small stock on hand; .
inquiries coming in, and with present

stock safe from further moisture. an

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The markets continue firm and act-
ive on old stock. Arrivals have been
clean-ed up daily and sales have been
satisfactory to the shipper. However.
stock should be moved quickly because
southern shipments will be coming in
more freely.

All shipments should be traced thru
to destination in order to\insure quick
delivery. It must be reniembered that
just as soon as new potatoes come in
more freely the bottom will drop out.

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Creamery, Extra 421330.; Firsts, 411/20
The quality has been averaging up
good and arriving in first class condi~
tion. Choice dairy butter in cartins
selling around 40c to 420.

Elgin, Ill. The markets have ad—
vanced on about all descriptions. The
demand came from home business or-
ders~storage~Government and the Al—
lied Commissions. Bureau Markets
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Hen! 29-30 : 27-29 I 28-30

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Receipts are a trifle heavier with no
change in quotations with the excep-
tion of broilers. In fact the broilag
market has been very uneven due to
the large percentage of the stock run- 4
ning light and thin. Well fed plump
broilers are bringing from 420 t0'46c
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Independence Day

EXT WEEK the American people will
observe the one hundred and forty-

third anniversary» of their independence.
That is to say that a few million people will
crank up their automobiles, attend ball games,

' picnics, horseraces and noisy demonstrations.

A few will go to church. Following the
remarks of the silver-tongued orators, the
audience will sing America and the" Star
Spangled Banner, as a matter of‘course, and
the day willconclude with fire works and ice
cream.

But that isn’t observing Independence day;
that’s desecrating it.
tary upon the patriotism of the American
people and their indifference to the precious
traditions of the American nation that for one
hundred and forty-two anniversaries they
have commemorated the day that gave them
liberty in such a loose and perfunctory man;
ner. \Ve have drunk so long from freedom 's
golden cup that the precious liquid has lost
its power to thrill. We have looked upon it
as an everlasting fountain that would never
cease to flow. Why prostrate ourselves in
annual appreciation of something that has
become as much a part of our lives as the sun
and the moon and the stars?

But every American citizen, no matter
what his attitude has been in the past to-
"ard the Fourth of July, knows without any
instruction that there are vital reasons why
this coming Independence day shall be observ-
ed with solemnity and purposeful reverance.
The foundations upon which rest the world’s
institutions of freedom are not as secure as
they used to be. The democracy which we
and other peoples have enjoyed for a varying
period of years is being assailed by the might-
iest military power that the evil genius of man
ever conceived. Our liberty is in danger.
Our property is in danger. Our families are
in danger. Our perSOns are in danger. Of
course, many of you do not believe it. But
that only increases the danger.

The first duty that every American citizen
owes to himself and country on this coming-
Independence day is to find an answer to
this question, “what does thisigreat inter-
national struggle mean to me and the future
of my country?” If in the darkness of your.
mind you can’t find a light upon this ques-
tion you have a mighty poor appreciation of
the blessings of democracy. On this coming
Independence day there must be a rebirth of
the spirit of Americanism. The minds of
everyone should dwell upon the great prin-
ciples of which our opportunities for self-gov-
ernment, for freedom of thought, speech and
worship have been born. If ,We are to win
this war, every American citizen must have a.
clear conception Of what his duty is to his
country, and a definite plan for performing
that duty. Though he may not have a chance
to join in singing the national anthem on this
coming day of days, he who takes advantage

   
  

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tender-e l H ._
and «federa gaufllurities are

both the sea
seratchfiig "than . _ 7 . ,
out how theymgeoins payCady fer-his

wheat that has sarcasm long. ‘since’ I, ’ gone ,

into the baker’s ovengff _. .
Let’s review unease; Congressipassed: a
law giving the PreSidénttheprerqto sétk'a
price on wheat. When the law, was passed
everyone, including many “cf? the jegiSlators
who voted for it, believedthat—Whatevér price

was fixed would be a minimum, pmceBut

it proved to be both aminimum ands maxi?

mum. Under that law, the‘P-resident’was ail-i

thorized at his discretion to requisition wheat
in farmers’ hands, with the proviso that the
owner of any wheat so requisitioned‘might,

, in the event of his being dissatisfied with the

price paid, sue in the courts for what amount
he believed himself entitled to.

And so Cady’s Wheat was taken. Maybe
it should have been. For all we know he may
be a German, a pro-German, a pacifist or all
three combined. 3 But if his heart is with the
enemy, his case is for the secret service instead
of the food administrator—which Would be
be another story.

We’ve just been wondering lately, though,

whether those who took‘ Cady’s.._wheat asked-

him how much it cost to grow it. We won-
der if anybody even thought of whether the
check that was handed to Mr. Cady was
sufficient to pay him a profit on his wheat.
If it was, well and good. Cady has no kick
coming. If it wasn’t—4well, that’s a matter
for the courts.

BUT—what other than farm commodities

on the face of the earth would be thus com-
mandeered without due regard for the owner’s
profits? We know of no manufacturer of
war supplies who is asked to sell or being forc~
ed to sell his product at a price possibly less
than the cost cf making it.

If any farmer has been forced to sell his
wheat at less than it cost him to grow'it—and
there are many farmers who will lose money
on wheat at $2 per bilshel—éhe‘should sue for
the amount he believes his wheat is worth.
In no other way except by civil action and
court decision will the exact cost of growing
a given lot of wheat be brought to light and
the constitutionality of the law be tested.

Over in Kansas, under ideal wheat condi—
tions, Jones may be able to grow wheat at $2.
But Smith, back east, while just as good a
farmer as Jones, may not be able to grow
wheat at $2. Question: Shall the wheat of
both Jones and Smith be seized and paid for
on the same basis?

Seed that is Bearing Fruit

OR SEVERAL YEARS the Western
Michigan, the Northeastern Michigan and
the Upper Peninsula Development Bureaus
have been—persistently advertising the truly
remarkable agricultural resources of the re-

' spective sections which they represent.
Thousands of dollars have been spent in

printed matter, in state fair exhibits, in trav-
eling demonstrations. The gospel of northern

Michigan agriculture has been spread over,

many states in the middle west and the eyes of
hundreds of tenant farmers who had despair'ed
of ever owning a farm of thehigh priced lands
of their native states, have been'turndd toward
the northern sections of Michigan. .The nat-
ural grazing advantagesof cutout-Over- lands
have been preached‘thruout the entire west. ,

The seed thus planted has begun to bear
fruit. During the pas

a... hundred .thbusand’ a man northern jMich-i

_ -althohe may “add in
. lever lands ,or Michigan-x

    

4. ing the milk surplus; ‘ButLice cream reqiing

t {couple of weeks ' oyer ,

med Vietnam 'gr'aziag;

of the community; Th . _ y f .
, , as; been going :on
' ‘slpwlylbut steadily. . ‘ ' ‘ ' -

» ““The, increasing demand forffoodi; the wear
‘ ingou‘t of the onCe‘fertile soils of the east "
, and middle Weste‘rn'states ; the returning '3,

' diers seeking agriculturali OccupatiOn—will
all Nbe’facétors in the mere rapid] develbpment ,_

of these lands. . . ,

~The good ,work» of the development bureaus

Should"receiYe encouragement "from every, ‘cité
izen intereSted. in the s15ate’s growth. , ".The

state, too, thru itsPubli’c’Domain Commission, .,

should lend a hand in spreading broadcast

the truth about the millions of acresof fertile-V
lands now lying dormant and» useless. Speed,

the day when these vast tracts of idle“,,unten-
anted acres, shall give- up their virgin garb
and in the hands of intelligent husbandmen
yield uptheir richness in growing crops.

The statements made by Chairman Hurley
of the shipping board in opposition 'to the
“dry” amendment now pending, to the effect

a that the taking away of beer ‘would cause dis-

content among the ship workers and decrease
their efficiency, are not to go unchallenged.

Detroit manufacturers who have operated?

their plants for sixty days under dry condi—
tions and have observed their beneficial ef—
fects claim that prohibition has greatly in-
creased the efficiency of ”industrial workers,
produced greater unity and in every Way ac-
celerated the production of war material. A
delegation of some of Detroit ’s leading_inanu-,

facturers, including Henry Ferd, will appearw

before the senate agricultural'committee and
urge that the Jones amendment- be passed.
Tlfiis do the old, old arguments against pro-
hibition vanish before the light of experience
and common sense.

The banking fraternityi'of Michigan-is being ‘

warned against the approach of the Non-Part-

isan League movement, and anyyefl’ort of the

League to establish itself in this state will be
vigorously Opposed. The rights of the farmers
to organize politically for the purpose of bet‘
tering their economic conditions will ”be de~

nied. Well, ,well, gentlemen, we appreciate ..

your interest in prOtecting us from the “in-.

sidious influences” of the Non-Partisan

League, and you. need not fear that we will '
p ‘ But a stitchin ‘1;
time saves nine, s0rbetter get busy now and».

kick over the. traces-«Lyet.

help the farmers to solve some of their finanj
cial and marketing problems before they be-
gin to suspect that your sudden interest ,in'
warning them of the dangers of Non-Partisan
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BY RUBE SPINACH »
Having Hooverized, liv. erized, scrfinperized, star.
. verized (nearly) jeopardized, (ourselves) until

our'body we can’t tell whether its stomach ache:
or backache, all because Mr. Food Administrators
have told us We should, we are wondering what its
all about anyway. .

Gosh all Friday! -We’ve been. told that we must
‘eat- substitutes and save the food—the real stuff

’- ~~;..“~1 ,- - . you know, for our soldier boys and our allies and
1 ~ 1 . we’ve done it; we’ve used oleomargerine on barley

x- f I. . bread, peanut‘ butter on Jonnycake,...castor oil on

1 R our .pancakes and a lot of other stuff equally as

bad, on— potatoes and things like that, just ’cause
-. we have been told—oh so many times, that food
1. 2.. , _* , ' would Win the war—arid all this time the sharks.
the manufacturers of substitutes, have been work-
ing overtime to supply the demand for this darned
stuff, While the good wholesome products of the
farms have gone begging for a market. Now your
Uncle Rube is just as patriotic as Mr Hoover or
. _ any other man—is just. as anxious to see old Kais—
. * _. .. , er’s scalp and Germany whipped as anybody, but
’ - we can't see Why the farmer should always be made
fl j. . 2 the goat; The first thing our soldiers need after
fl ' 1 1 entering the service is food and the man 'Who pro—
duces the necessary material from which the food
is prepared, should receive first consideration.
What good are guns, ammunition, ships or sol-
diers if there is no food? And yet the Food Ad-
ministration fixes a price on many farm products
way below the cost of production, while manu-
facturers of almost every conceivable thing are
untrammeled and can fix any price they choose
and are waxing rich—are now rolling in Wealth
and still want more of the filthyglucre, while the
farmers are called profiteers, money- Wgrabbers rob-
ers and a lot of other choice names, when they are
:9 up against business propositions never dreamed
of by any other class of" business and have no
voice in fixing the price on what they raise to
sell or what they have t6 buy. What gets my goat
and riles my inside workings is to read items like,
the following:
his opposition to further prohibition legislation
until the Food Administration decides it is nec-
essary to conserve foodstuffs."_We11 by'Goshl!
. .. “Decides its, necessary to conserve foodstuffs!!!”
*' ' . , and here we’ ve been eating a lot of things that
‘ ' should have been saved for the hogs, and our
Food Administrator has not as yet decided it is
necessary to conserve foodstuffs. Well, wouldn’t
that get ye? Why such a hullaballoo about sub-
stitutes? Is it to aid the makers of oleomargerine
and other margerines? Are the food administra-
tors trying to help'out the makers of substitutes?
~Are they working for or against the farmers who
are the hope of this or any other nation in times
like these or at any other time for that matter?
.‘If this gbvernment wants food and really wants the
farmers to do their best, then let the food dicta-
. tors, by their works, shOW that they .are interested
. in the farmer‘s business and. instead of trying to
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T sine—daylight saving only affects him in one way.‘
{The hired help,- especially during haying and har-
' vesting, Will be idle in the morning and quit at

night just at the best time of day to work. But the

*' farmer always works every hour of- daylight and
‘ does his chores night and morning by lantern

light. The farmers of Michigan can be depended

_.on to do their darndest to help the government
,,.and W‘lll eat substitutes When substitutes are nec-

essary; they will work every acre possible and are
not asking that their boys be exempted from ser—
vice, provided they can get other help, have bought
bonds and subscribed liberally to all other funds——
but,.by ginger! they do ask for a square deal and

as they are entitled to it, they should- have what -

they ask for.

Our fOod dictators, not being farmers, know
but little of farm conditions, and yet they fix a
price on most everything raised on a farm and
then advocate the use of substitutes to kill the mar-
ket even at the fixed prices—mo prices fixed on sub-
stitutes you know.

Now, to balance things up a little. just let a
few good level headed farmers get together who
know nothing about manufacturing. and fix a. price

'on all manufactured goods—it would be just as

reasonableas the prices fixed by the Food Admin-
Oh, well, thank the Lord,
there is, as yet, no known substitute for dandelion
greens nor blue gills, so we are still living anyway
——Rube:

II EDITORIALS BY OUR READERS

(This is an open forum where our readers may ex-
press their views on topics of general interest. State—
ments appearing in this column will not necessarily
indicate our own editorial opinion. Farmers are invited
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“Not Enough Land to Make a Farm!”
I notice‘with pleasure the letter in last week's

, issue inviting the discussion of the action of the

directors of the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul
in rejecting a loan (which had been favorably
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How Are You Saving to Buy War Sav-
. ings Stamps?

We were very much pleased to receive the
following letter from an Alma subscriber
telling how he raised some extra money
for War Savings Stamps. It suggests a
valuable idea which we hipe our readers
will be quick to grasp. Even the most fru-
gal soni‘etimes waste. If there’s a single
thing about the farm that is going to waste
or does not fill a useful place and it has a
marketable value, sell it, or let the children.
and invest the receipts instamps. We urge
every reader to write and tell us what he
or she is doing to raise or Save money for
War Savings Stamps. investment.

AM a reader of M. B. F. and could not
get along without it. Am writing this ‘
to tell how I raised money for thrift

stamps. You can print it if you like.

I was in my 'tool house today and seeing
plow points laying in a pile wondered how
much they would bring. Phoncd down to
our junk dealer to learn that iron is 60c per
cwt. I loaded on. a lot of old iron and it
brought $6.00. which I put into thrift stamps.
I know of several farmers who have $10
to $15 worth of old i’ro'il. Now is the time
to sell it and help Uncle Sam. The farmers
don’t miss the money but have alot more
room to store tools—0. E. Burton, Alma.
Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

passed by their own,special examiners), on the
groiind that there was “not enough land to make
a farm. "

That ruling wasscertainly a poser for our asso-

' elation. After we had spent our time in appraisal

and called a meeting of the association board to
vote him in and he had paid $6. 00 for transporta-

'tion of appraiser and other necessary expenses,

to have the loan (which was a very desirable one)

turned down because there was “not enough land

to make ‘a farm,” when as a matter of fact. it was

_.~8. neat little farm of 16 acres with house, barn,
,chicken house, garden and fruit.-

The land was of

1- j able money into the larger loans where tractor

'- power during the war? ,
larger farms ranging from 400 to 1200 acres a d
": to us is terrible thing to contemplate. for we a » -
ways dread the factory farm. After the war is;’
over and the associations begin to elect directors “
to the Federal Farm Lean Banks and the bends
"have reached the investing people to an extent

 

’ people age 1111:1111: w .
the bank directors have decided to put all the a 2.1

and man-power saving can be used for the pm) $1
tion of 'cere'als at the least possible expense or i
This -of. course 111“

  

that them will be plenty of money at a ‘o'v rate.
for agricultural development, then we will Worlr

tooth and nail to make the turning down of such
loans as V. C. S.’ s impossible.

We think the Federal Farm Loan System is a
fine thing and We regret that instances of in net-

ice like the one referred to are bound to creep in. ~

This is the second one our association has exper» ‘

ienced although the other was different—J. 0. S.
Lawrcncc Farm Loan Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GROWING WEATHER

Oh, why repinle? The crops are fine. the cats,
the prunes, the barley; our hay, we trust, will
surely bust the kaisers. Bill and Charley, The
wind that whoops and icons the loops is multi-
plying rations, the rain and sun will can the Hun
and save the Allied nations Where’ er I gaze I

see men raise fine beets and peas and taters. and .

that will make the kaiser quake and jar a lot of
traitors. The night (l-ews wash the growing
squash, refresh the yarbs and grasses; the sor-
ghum vine is doing fine and we shall have c‘o‘as«
ses. The farmers say: “We work all day, and keep
our plows a-humming. and raise the fruit 'hat
jolt the Tents and victory is coming We will not
stand for idle land, we '11 till each perch and acre.
and put a crimp in that big simp old Bill the war
lord faker We’ 11 sow and reap. while idlers sleep.
we’ll waste no time in preaching: well ply our
tools and push our mules until they bust their
breeching." Our wheat and oats will get the
goats of kaisers Carl and Billy; the beans we raise,
the rape the maize, will drive those kaisers silly.
Our wheat is great, its green and straight the
stand is most surprising. and it will chill both
Carl and Bill, and make them sick of. kaising—
by Walt Mason in Canadian Countryman.

 

THE MAN ALWAYS “JUST GOING TO."

He was just going to help a neighbor when he
died.

He was just going to pay a note when it went
to protest.

He meant to insure his house, but it burned
before he got around to it.

He was just going to reduce his debt when his
creditors “shut down” on him.

He was just going to stop drinking and dissi-
pating when his health became wrecked.

He was just going to introduce a better system
into his business when it went to smash.

He was just going to quit work for awhile and
take a vacation when nervous prostration came.

He was just going to provide proper protection
for his wife and family when his fortune was
swept away.

He was just going to call on a customer to close
a deal when he found his competitor got there first
and secured the order ——Dr Orisou Swett Maiden
in The Now Success for May

SHE WAS summon”)

She glided into the office and approached the
publisher’s desk.

“I have a poem.” she began.

“Well?” queried the publisher, with a look in-
tended to annihilate. -'

“I have written a poem,"
“on ‘Mv Father’s Barn,’ am#—

“Oh,” interrupted the publisher, “you don’t
know how greatly I am relieved. A poem writ-
ten on your father's barn? I was afraid it was
written on paper and you wanted me to publish it.
if I ever drive by your father’s barn l’ll stop and
and read it.”

she. calmly repeated,

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POOR. THING!

She laid the still white form beside those
which had gone before Neither sob nor sigh
forced its way from her heart throbbing as tho
it would burst. Suddenly a cry pierced the air—a
heart-rending shriek! Then silence prevailed.

Presently another cry, more terrible than the first '
Then all was still save for a low gurg-.
-- ling which seemed to well up from her very _
She _

arose

soul. Quietly she rose and walked away.
will lay another egg tomorrow.

 

A PHILOSOPHER
“Before we were married, Henry,"
young wife reproachfully, “you always gave me

the most beautiful Christmas presents. Do you

remember?”

“Sure," said Henry cheerfully, “but my (lea
did you ever hear of a fisherman giving bait ,to
fish after he had caught it?"

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Letters That Help

‘ much I appreciate the friendly;. helpful
letters that I have received from you
I tOok this department. Den’t you think
__ have made us feel better acquainted with

j_,.- other? I know they have made me feel- that
{W Y. anyway. We all like to read other people’s
does and experiences. Each of us is prone to think
that her thoughts are different from the thoughts
,. or Other people. It is hard to believe that anyone
else in the world can be so utterly miserable or so
completely happy, as we ourselves. We cannot
as individuals conceive how anyone else could
" think the same thoughts or have the same daily
\ experiences, yet they do; and the letters we are
, publishing in these columns reveal the great bond
“of sympathy that joins us one to another. After
a discouraging day, it is sort of refreshing, isn’ t it,
to read about someone else who has had a discour-
aging day? Somehow or other., we don’t feel
quite so sorry for ourselves.
‘ My one great hope is that not a single reader of
this page will neglect the opportunity to tell our
_ other readers something of her daily experiences
and her views on the big, vital subjects of life.
Remember, I am going to give a dish drainer to
every woman who tells about her household con-
veniences, while writers upon other subjects will
receive a most cordial “thank you."
Affectionately,

PENELOPE.

  
  

  

  

    

  
  
   
    
   
    
    
   
  
   
  
  
  
      
  
  
   
   
    
  
   
  
   
    
  
   
  
     
    
    
    
  
   
  
  
      
   
          
    
    
      
      
  
       
   
  

Many Conveniences Make Light Work

EAR PENELOPE:——I saw in M. B. F. that
D you wished that each one would write and

tell how to make housework easier. I will
tell you about my house.

In the first place a woman must have a good
husband, not necessarily an angel. but just a com—
mon good man. We have lived on Gramble Cor-
ners most of our married life until two years ago
when we moved on Thanksgiving street. First
he had it all and I had nothing. Now we divide.
We has a small house, five rooms and five of us.
I will commence up stairs and come down. We
have no closets, so John procured some boxes
from the store one‘the length of my skirts, one
the length of our two boys’ suits and the little
girls’ dresses; covers were made for these and
hinges were put on and the outside was covered
with cretonne and inside lined with heavy white
paper. After ironing, clothes are laid out full
length in boxes and so are the family clothes all
laid away in each box and are never dusty or
mussed up. My boys always attend to their own
suits, and my girl the same. Blankets are used
for Sheets 011 the children's 'eds. My parlor is
just an ordinary room with :1 common (arpet that
is not spoiled if you walk on it; we do not use
it much but Sunday, as we are busy all week, so
that requires little work. The dining room is
l..rge, used as a living room; white curtains to
the windows, always some flowers, linoleum 011 the
floor, so boys have all the fun on it they want
to. We do not eat in the dining room only when
we have company. so not much work there. Thn
last is the kitchen——a large room. We eat there
most of the time. Dining table has castors on;
when :1 meal is to be gotten this table is pushed
to cupboard where it. is set ready to eat from.
lhnn put back IO lllfil‘e until vict..als are ready
to 1111: on table when it is pushed to a place by

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the smvo and vii-1112115 put on; then we put it
back and all is ready. and I am not too tired by
running bark and forth to eat. A high stool is
llfliltl when \l‘urilllllg dishes also to iron. ’ A low

rocker is used sit in to peel vegetables. High
w’ndows are 111.1th so i can have all the wall space
i need and it is «color as heat goes up and the
windows being about shoulder high your head is
always ksp'. cool. which is very important in house
Mark. Lino‘euni on the llonr also so I have little
or no s1;1‘11l,>§1ins:. My cabinet is close to stove.
also dish (able 11121: has, custors also and is Wheel-

 

l ed to where l need it. We have no sink so a
'aommode that was bought at a sale for 50c was
, painted and- uscd us a wash stand. The bottom
was used to put kettles and other articles more or
ess sightly. A roller towel near by is used. Cup-
boai d shelves and tables are all covered with oil
10th so there are no dirty papers to change, so
iless work Wood work is all painted a deep
air so no finger marks LhOW. Walls are kal-
nined a buff once a year.

  

  

 

 

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‘EAR .FRIEEDS: I can't begin to tell you. how . ’

  

home nay- mother would. we halt the night 'I
hope she may nor-er 8611 Ski!" letter; Clothes are

all changed Saturday or Sunday; washed Monday."

ironed Tuesday and mended Dbe a good washing
powder. Soak clothes in water until dSshes are
washed. Don’ 1 let anyone 1.1ake you believe you

can wash without boiling, for you can't unless

your clothes are not dirty. My ciothesline is
double and a pulley at each end, so I can stand in
one place and hang up or take down without
walking so far. I never 'iron sheets or towels
of any kind Children's clothes for every-day
wear are a.. hung by the shoulders and are not
ironed. It very seldom takeb over two hours to
'do my ironing so leSS work on wash day. I1 al-
ways prepare my dinner while getting breakfast;
usually a kettle of beans or some good soup so
it takes but a few minutes to get dirner on: Bak-
ing day is Saturday. In making cookies always
make a double batch as they last a week. Also
bread cake is made the same as .ookles using
different fillingsbr plain.
pudding for pics as it is easier and I am real lazy
on work. This baking lasts nearly a week'; 'if not
we go without until next Saturday comes again.

0 yes, my cellar and ice box! We n‘ever have
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Beauty and Time

HE rose 1'11 the garden slipped her bu‘d, -

And she laughed 1'11 the pride of her youth-
ful blood.

As she thought of the Gardnm .s-lmding by—

“He is old~so, old! And soon he must d1e !"

THE full Rose waxed 1'11 the warm J1me air.

And she spread and spread till her heart
lay bare;

And she laughed once more as she heard
his t1 cad—-

“He is older now—he will soon be dead!"

,BUT the breeze of the morning blow, and

found

That the leaves of the blown Rose strewed
the ground;

And he came at noon, that Gardner old.

And raked them gently under the mould.

AND I wove the thing to a random 1h1/me;
For the Rose 18 Beauty, tho 01111111121,
Time.

——AUSTIN Dons01v in Chicago Tribune

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on all four sides of curbing. Some shelves are
made next to bottom and there you are VVi h a trap
door at the top. Butter in the summer will be so
hard that Van will lime to melt it. MV cellar is
an out- doox affair with two doors so it is easv to
go into even in a storm. This is a letter for poor
farmers wives only they will ask how did you get
so many things Mostly from cream checks and
eggs and some from dressmaking

Last year I helpedpmy husband harvest 15 acres of
hay, 10 acres of beans, and 15 acres of grain be-
cause I did not have to spend all my time in the
house, so saved a man’s wages and board. Did I
get the saved money? It was put in the bank to
help buy a car.

Could give you some choice Hoover recipes also
sewing and making over things, as my sister says,
out of nothing. If this letter is not thrown in the
waste basket 1 may come again—Mrs. E. 0., Hes—
perm.

Material Things Cairn/0t Satisfy.

EAR PENELOPE:——I am interested in the
D seeming predicament of our “self-imprison-

ed” sister. In dealing with and handling ,
the goods of this world so much, we are apt to for—
get. the spiritual Father who requires us to be
as little children in our humility, our love, our
faith in his promises. Let us not forget that all

.real life is spiritual and the quickening of the.

spirit alone renews us and gives us wisdom and
light to see and feel the beauties and realities of‘
life, putting interest into the seeming common-
place. Emerson says, “the1e is no horizon that
is not full of beauty, and no horiZon looks the
same from day to day.”

It is the walls of belief and faith in material
things which imprisons us. When physically im~
prisoned by his country, Bunyan’s spirit could

those ironing: I. ban member When aixirl 11,-:

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- , . -- , ' Rollins-x ‘
BY Ernst. W puma ~
I pondered long m prayed to understand
' The deeper meaning 6] humility; . ~
Asked that its presence might enrich my. life
And from vain pride and boosting set are" free.

And soon I stood beside a window where .
‘ The Sunlight stream like banners ffi'. and
bright, - -
And as I gazed with heart aglow, tilere come
A tiny wrote that floated into light. ‘ .

When lo! a miracle was brought to pass,—
No longer dull and colorless, it shone

As thOugh it were a living fire, . -
Transfigured with a radiance not its own.

But even as I watphed,1'.t floated‘on
Leaving of all its brilliant hues no trace
Like myriads of its kind,1‘uvisible,
Robbed of the glorifying light’s embrace.

I thank Thee, Father. for the lesson clear,—
I have no power under'loed from Thee;
And glorious companion—truth, —I can
Do all things through the Chmst which streng-
theneth me.
—J. 8., Birch Run, Michigan.

- Mother

HE story of mother has never yet been told.

To me she is the miracle of creation. No man

could standwhat the average mother will-
ingly goes thru for her children. He is too selfish,
too bound up in his own interests to make such sac-
rifices as she does. And then, after all the years
of patient drudgery, self-denial, anxiety and wait-
ing. the sons in whom all her hopes are centered
will often go away from mother and very soon
utterly forget her. Oh, the pity of it all, the crime
of it all, the cruelty of it all! . It is impossible to
account for such heartlessness, such ingratitu-de,
for the infliction of so much pain where so much
love is due— Dr. Orison Swett Marden in The
New Success for May.

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Food Administration Recipes

 

 

 

 

 

OATlVIEAL bIUFFIN S

One cup milk, tablespoon fat, two tablespoons" syrup,
one egg, one teaspoon .salt, four teaspoons baking
1)o\\",del half cup wheat flour, one and one-quarter
(ups oatmeal.

Sift the salt baking powder and the flour together,
mix in the oatmeal. Add to the cup of milk, the
melted fat syrup and beaten egg Combine these two
mixtures stirring lightly without beating. Bake
about 30 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Use
granulated oatmeal or put rolled oats through food
chopper

TURKISH RICE

One cup of well Washed rice. two tablespoons but-
ter half an onion two cups tomato pulp, teaspoon salt,
half cup grated cheese, a little red pepper, 8. half cup
hot water.

Mix liquids and season in top of double boiler; add
rice, steam until liquid is absorbed; add cheese and
butter and put in hot serving dish Sprinkle with
chopped parsley. Serve very hot.

liIILK-VEGE’I‘ABLE SOUP

Ono quart milk (skim milk may be used), 31,2
tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons hu ier or margarine
01' other fat. 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups thoroughly cook-
ed Vegetable finely chopped mashed or put through a
slew. Spinach peas, beans, potatoes, celery, or oar:
pmngus make good soups. Stir flour into melted fat
and mix with cold milk. Add the cooked vegetable
and stir mer the fire until thickened. if soup is too
thick, add a.lit‘tle “atcr or milk.

- RICE PUDDING

Ont- qn'ut milk, third cup rice, third cup suga1,half
cup raisins 01 chopped dates, half teaspoon salt eighth
teaspoon ground nutmeg or cinnamon. Wash the rice
and mix all togethel, and bake three lrours in a very
slou oVen, stirring now and then at first This may
he made on top of the stove. in a double boiler or in
a fiicless cooker Any coarse cereal may be used in
place of rice.

OAT AND CORN FLOUR BREAD

(50 per cent ground rolled oats; 50 per cent corn flour)
-. One cup liquid 2 to 4 tablespoons fat, 4 tablespoons
Sirup, 2 eggs, 6 teaspoons baking pouder,1 teaspoon
salt, 11A cups (5 ounces) corn flour,11,§ cups (5
ounces) ground rolled oats.

summer Styles

No. 8859—Boy’ s blouse, cut in sizes 6 8, 10, L2
and 14 Vears. For the popular khaki blouse all the
boys are wearing this style is just what one needs.

It. is easily made as it is the simple shirtwaist » ‘—

style, being gathered with a tape at the lower
edge. There is a simple closing at center front
turned back cuffs and a roll collar of same mater—
ial.

No. 8856—Child’ s apron. These little slip-on ap-‘
rons serve either as a dress or an apron. For hot

 

 
 

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No. '8853.—¥Ladies house dress. Cut
ln'sihes‘36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and-46, inches.

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women as the more slender forms. The
simple shirtwaist style is used in the
Waist, with side closing, forming a
square neck. The skirt, is six gored ,,
with panel front and pockets are

stitched at each side of the front panel.

By making the pockets. collar, cuffs
and belt of contrasting material, the
plainest o'f calicoes or percales make
very attractive house'dre'sses. Ging-
ham is no longer considered house
dress material, but is used for street
wear, in fact one of the most popular
materials seen in the summer frocks: 1:"
No. 8883.—'Ladies two gored skirt.
For one or twodollars the person who
can make'her owu skirts may have a
very good looking afternoon or street

skirt. I have one which cost me 85c,

and I wear it more than any other
dress. I used a‘two gored pattern sim-
ilar to 8883, which front gore is fitted
and back gore is gathered onto a slight.
ly raised waist line. My skirts are 36
inches long, so I bought two and one-
half yards and turned a three inch
hem. which left me oneJthird of a.
yard for pockets and belt. My material
was white ratine, 250 a yard. One may
buy lineen for .25c a yard also. one
yard wide. 0n the pockets I used fine
pearl buttons—ten cents a dozen—23nd
paid 120 for my belting. The pockets
inthe illustration are lined with a dif.
ferent material and slashed and turn-
ed back to show thye other color. This
idea is very pretty used on a skirt of
heavy suiting of silk, but I do not con-
sider it practical for wash material.
This pattern is cut in sizes 16 and 18
years and 26. 28, 30 and 32 inch waist
measure.

No. 8867.——Misses or small womens
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’ " Items of Intercity to Women"

The French Union for Woman- Suf-
trage sent a memorifil to President
Wilson expressing the hope that' he
woulddo his utmost to bring about
the vote for the'women in this Repub-
lic. - The President’s reply was most
emphatic. He said in part, “The full
and sincere democratic " recenstruc-
tion of the world for which we are
striving, and which we are determin-
ed to bring about at any cost, Will not

have been "completely or adequately,

attained until women are admitted
to the suffrage.” No endorsement
could be stronger than those words of.
the President.~

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Captain, Helen Bastedo, head of the
,Motor Corps of. America, took with
her from New York eight squads of
her command to give a corps infantry
drill in Montreal. ‘ The Motor COrps
has 300 members and 16 ambulances.
The women in the various squads ac—
quitted themselves with signal credit
when received by the‘Duke and Duch-
ess of Devonshire. Women voters in
New York were elated over the show-
ing made by members of their sex
who are literally “carrying on” in
patriotic spirit and appliCation.

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Port Huron, Mich, will have a wo-
men’s department of the Chamber of
Commerce. This department will be
represented in the Member’s Council
by a Committee headed by a vice
chairman. All the work of direct in-
terest to the women of the city will be
handled by the women’s department.

 
      

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the ‘ Missouri
. Shefis
tlieflrst woman "td‘hold this presiden-
tial office in any state. She is an in-
structor in the Kansas City College of
Pharmacy. '

elected president: for

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Hundreds of women of the British
army auxiliary corps are working in
France, some in the bases and others
in country quarters near the base
towns. .They are paid in addition to
their salaries a bonus for time or ser-

vice.
I C t

Miss Gladys Barnett, just out of
school and still in her teens, has been
appointed a deputy sheriff in Washing-
ton county, Ind. She is an expert
rifle shot and handles an automobile
with skill.

t t t

'A' report of the United States De—
partment ovaabor says that the wages
offered women are less than those paid
men and are not high enough to at-
tract women except in favorable lo-
cations. _

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The United States has but one wom-
an in congress, Denmark has five in
its upper house and four in the lower
house of its parliament.

What the Neighbors Say!

I like the paper very much—John M.
Bennett, Arenac county.

 

We think well of your paper.——J. H.
Stoops, Benzie county.

I am ever for M. B. F.—Harry Free-
man, Allegan county.

 

I am interested in your paper and will
renew again—Albert Kolbe Oceana Co.

I like your paper and think it a boon
to Michigan farmers—Wm. Frede, New—
aygo county.

Wishing all success to M. B. F. and
its worthy supporters—JR. L. Severes, Os-
ceola county.

 

 

 

 

‘ WITH oun BOYS AND ”GIRLS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Dear Boys and Girls: Once more
I must disappoint you. The Doc Dads
whom I told you about in the last is-
sue left Canada last week for Mount
Clemens and promised to be here sure
to make their bow in this week’s M.
B. F., but they have not arrived here
yet. I don’t know what could

I am sorry that I haven’t the space to
publish them all in this issue, but they
will be printed some time. I hope all
of you who haven’t written me yet will
do so. And don’t forget to suggest a
name for our page.

With love lrom AUNT PENELOPE

 

have happened to them. Of,
course it is a. long, hard jour-
ney and maybe some of them
got sick on the way. It so, old
Doc. Sawbones’ medicine will
fix them up and they will be
coming along soon.

I suppose all boys and girls

like to draw. Some of you are —THEN New

regular little artists, I’ll bet. ADD some use:

It’s easy to draw birds and 9gb THY-
memos- E‘EA~<~

trees and chickens and things
like that, if you only'know how
to go about it. Look at the owl
on this page and see if you can
draw one like him. 'Practice
up on this owl. and then draw
some kind of a. picture of your
own and send to me. For the
best picture drawn by a boy or
girl under 15 years of age, I
will give a. thrift stamp. I ,
would prefer to have you draw _>/
pictures of the animals or the
scenery on your farm. Try it,
'won"t you?

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letters from my boy and girls.

"HMMIHIIWHWIHHWIMWWNlllllllflllflllflflflllllfllflyfll"IlllllllllllllllillllllllllllfllllllilllmllllllllllllllllllllllflllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIll[llllllllllllllllllllIflfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillm

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I am *very glad
that you are going to have a department
in the M. B. F. for the boys and girls.
I will enjoy writing to you and also read-
ing the letters from others. I am 14 years
old. Will I be “barred out?” I hope not.

I think puzzles are fine for children’s
department. They are something to en-
tertain and usually to think about. I

think a puzzle or two would make an in-..

teresting page. Poems are alright'but I
do noLlike them as well as I do the other
things: Another thing we could do would
be to write a story about a picture that
was 'printeddn our department. I like
riddles and picture illustrated puzzles bet-
ter than "cut-outs,” they are generally
simple. Jokes would be good too. After
it/was nicely started fun might represent
our department.

I’will (and do) help ’my mother with

the housework and in the garden and ,

take care of the little chickens. We like
the M. B. F. very much. I passed the 8th
grade this year. We have 6 cows and
when another has a calf I shall name it
Tessibel or Tess for short. We have a
cream separator. Our cows are all Jer:
seys. We like them better than any other
breed because they are great cream pro-
ducers. Our cows are gentle and I like
them very much. Their names are Molly,
Fawny, Peggy, Pinkie, Rosie and Jessie.

There are many little things that I
would. like to tell you about but not this

time. _Please say in your next letter the
aMg'eh. limit.—Ethelyn Wheaten, Shiloh,
1c

 

Dear Aunt Penelope:—I saw your let-
ter to the boys and girls asking them to
write you a letter.

I like stories about children and ani-

r \

   
   

~ workand .with' her garden. , I wash disthd/v

going‘to-belp our morning; with
for mamnia and help her cook WW

We have six cows, two yearling»..th
and two calves. I m‘ilk- two cows'eaeh
night and .two cows each mom 3“.
breed of our cattle are Jersey 3 ,
ham and one. of our cows is part Harlot

I lead one of our horses to tho-M3198;
most every morning and go and get him
at night. I think that we ought to do a
that we can to help the Allies to Win 'th
war. We can help by giving to the Red
Cross and buying war savings stamps.

 

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Clark, Walkerville, Mich.

We can also help by raising food—Mary

 

 
 
 
  
 
   
 
  
    
   
   
 
   
   
  
  
  
  
      

Dear Penelope:—I am going to write

you a letter as you wished for.

My papa and mamma have been taking
the M. B. F for a long time. I named my
cow Daisy. Don’t you think that is a.
good name?

We have four cows, one is a new cow.
and we have two calves. One I named
Betsy and the other Boliver. The
of our cows is Holstein. I like the stories
and puzzles best of all.
help with the crops and garden and in the
house. I suppose lots of other little chil—
dren and big children will write. to you
too. I goes I will have to close for. this
time—Marion Kellogg, North Star, Mich.

Dear Miss I’enelopez—I live on a. farm
of one hundred and sixty acres. We have
five cows, three Holsteins, one Jersey and
one red cow. I do not know what breed
she is. Their names are Jersey, Muley,
Queen, Jenny and Mary,
four horses, two colts and about thirty
hens, thirteen little chickens and have four
hens setting. Have one old hog with three
little pigs. We had ten but she killed
seven of them.

I will not do very much till fall, but
I am looking over beans to plant. In the
fall I will pull beans and help get the hay
in the barn. My father owns quite a. his
farm. We sell cream to the resorters
every other night. The name of the re-
sort is the Fisherman‘s Paradise. I have
nine brothers and sisters besides myself;
My father rents another lot besides ours.
I would like short stories or puzzles.
The name of the cow is Belle—Nora. Wil-
son, Bellaire, Mich.

Dear Aunt Penelope2—I like stories
about children and animals and puzzles.
I like pictures of children and animals.
My sister and I wash dishes for mamma.
I bring in wood every night. I am ten
years old and I and my sister Blanche,
who is five years old, gather the eggs
every night and we are to have a rooster
this fall to sell for pay for gathering the
eggs. I intend to use the money to buy
Christmas presents. I bring the cows
from the pasture every evening and help
take them out in the morning. I help
mamma about the garden work. I and
my sister Mary have a quarter of an acre
of potatoes of our own to care ton—Ber-
nice Clark.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I saw the cow
puzzle in the M. B. F. last week.
on a. farm and have 80 acres.
3 cows and 4 calves. I herd the cows
night and morning.
of sugar beets and I work in them. I help
mamma make her garden. We have 15
tomato plants planted. About 6 acres of
beans planted and have three hogs.
help tend the chickens.

I go to school and am in the 5th grade.
I am eleven years old. I like to go to
school. So will close for this time—Ma-
ble Adams, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I have got the
cow put together. I will name her Pet.
We have five cows and six calves. We
get between $8 and $9 a week for cream.
I am going to help my father and mother
in the garden and help win the war, pick
raspberries, blackberries, lml-l'lflvwrries,
feed the chickensf feed the C'dl‘ft'.‘ .md ga-
ther the eggs and milk the cows. We
get 280 a dozen for eggs. I love to read
stories and look at pictures. I live on
the farm about four and one-half miles
southwest of Schoolcraft. I will close.—
Viola Granger, Schoolcraft, Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Penelope:——I am a little girl
10 years old. I live in a rented house. I
have one sister and two brothers. We
have a garden and a large front yard.
We have a gray Jersey cow. I have a
heifer calf and my brother has one too.
We pasture them in the front yard. We
have an incubator setting With 153 eggs
in it. I help mamma turn the eggs. We
have 73 little chicks. 'We have only 12 old
hens and a rooster. We have Leghorn
chickens. Papa is farming 40 acres on
shares and gets one—third.——-Mablé N.
Peak, Hopkins_ Mich.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I will give the
cow 3. nice name which is Rosie. We
have four cows, their names are Lily, Ella,
Freckles and Whitefoot. My papa does not
run the farm. My brother—in—law rents.
He has a Butterfly separator. I will
have to stop and wash
Keigery, Coloma, Mich.

 

Dear Penelope:——I saw the cut-outcow
Shat you had in the M. B. F. and thought”.
I would put it together. I gave herntgrf,‘

name of Bess. We have six cows on o .
farm and two calves. They are the Dun.
ham breed—Hilda R. Shafer, St.~ Glai

Mich.

 

Dear Penelopez—I have put that [co
together for you. We have screaming
and have a. DeLaval separator. Our b_
of cows is Durham and Jersey.—_—Lorj;.'
Vanderburg, Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

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and we have .

We live ‘
We have i

We have two acres .

d ishes.—-Vesfa .

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, ,. , of the year. Buyers who have
an e a practice of contracting- for

net want to be loaded up with a lot of
,high priced contract feed.
. However. a campaign will soon be
started which will be worked in con-
_, nection With the Food Administration
to inaugurate an educational campaign
,4 among farmers to induce them to pur-
i; chase their winter’s supply of feed-
stuffs now when freight conditions are
, not so congested and avoid the confus-
1611 that existed last year.
We are of the opinion that the price
-‘ Will be properly gaged by the time
. feedstuffs are on the market and when
“that time comes every farmer should
be prepared to buy at least part of
his requirements. We know of many
cases where orders were placed last
- January and February that are on the
. books as unfilled orders.

Wool

Because of the fact that it has come
to our attention that some of the local
dealers in the Middle West have been
confused by the publication of both the
basic prices established by the govern-
ment on wool, as of July 30,1917,
clean, scoured basis, and the price
of issue to manufacturers, which are
some 714% higher than the July 30
prices, generally speaking, We reprint
in full herewith the basis prices, clean
scoured basis, established by the gov-

movement is ver slof‘w at this” i ‘

y . deducted ftOm the greasy value of
the wnol ~ .bu
a 11's: early in the season are not do; ' ‘
- so this season. This is due to} the
,t that the government is liable to”
st the prices for feed and they do

‘ Ohio 111111 ‘
‘Elngliin‘d “States New York, Pennsylva-'

 
    
 
 
  
 

 

  

611 as of July 30,1917,
similar, including New

 

xnia, West Virginia. Kentucky, Virginia
Michigan New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland.

Basic Clean Scoured

. Choice Average
Fine delaine ........1 . $1.85
Fine clothing . . .$1.75 L70-
Half-blood staple . . . 1. 68

Half~blood clothing .

Three-eighths staple "1. 45
Three-eighths clothing 1.42
Quarter-blood staple. . 1.32
Quarter-blood clothing 1.30
Low quarter-blood . . ~1.17
Common and braid . 1.07

Live Stock Letters.

Detroit-Cattle receipts have been
running larger than they have for some
time. Prices have. averaged lower.
Country buyers bought freely and a
large unmber of feeders were taken

back to the country. Now is the time ’

to buy feeders as the picking is good.
Dry feed cattle are in good demand
and the only kind in the cattle line
that sold without any reduction in the
prices. Good milch cows are also in
fair demand and sold at the old prices.
Best heavy steers averaged $15@16;
handy weight butcher steers, $11. 50@
13; mixed steers and heiffers, $11. 00@
13, handy weight and light butchers.
$7.50@8.50; butcher cows, $8.00@9.00;
canners and cutters, $6.50@7.00; feed-

 

 

 

 

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satisfied. l

ing season.

 

 

 

 

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this live, independent farmers weekly
We want you to join hands with the thinking business farmers of

We ask you to add your name to our rapidly growing list of the
real men and women on the farms of Michigan who are through
this aggressive medium standing for their rights to a fair profit
. on every farm product and a fair chance at the market place!
' We believe that any man or woman who farms in this state can by
reading Michigan Business Farming each week, follow every de-
velopment which concerns the farmers of this state and through the
medium of our market section, sell every pound or bushel of what
you produce this year at a higher price than would be possible if
'you depended on market quotations, etc.,
from the-farmer ’s-side-of-the-fence !
Already, as you doubtless know, thousands of farmers in Michigan
swear by M. B. F. and would not be without its weekly counsel and
advice for many times the $1- per- -year which we ask fer it.

We do not offer premiums, club with other papers or devise special
schemes to induce you to subscribe—nor do we need to!

We stop your subscription the day it expires and offer to return the
amount of your unexpired term at any time if you are not more than

We need the help and support of every thinking farmer who believes
in what we are fighting for AND WE ASK YOU TO LEND A
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You can send your dollar now or later- after- harvest, but the im-
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of. Canadians and 46 cars. left
wéek' s tradef. '

7-10.... .
. on medium weight and weighty steer ‘

Monday. 805. cars. including 5 gm -’~

   
   

   

  

 

cattle which. were in very light supply; . imTeta

  

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sold $1. 50 to $2. 00 per cwt lower

last Week; fat cows and heifers old;
$1. 50 to $2. 00 per cwt lower than last,
week; bulls of all classes sold from 50

to$1. 00 lower; canners and cutters

1 60- 1 62/ were in moderate supply, sold 50c U
lower than last week; fresh cows and~

springers were in very light supply,
sold $10. 00 to $15. 00 per head lower;

stockers and feeders were in moderate: :
supply. sold from $1. 00 to $1. 60 lower.
than last week, yearlings were in ,

moderate supply, sold $2. 00 lower. At

the close of the market about 75 cars

of cattle went over unsold. -

With 35 cars of fresh cattle and 40
~ cars of hold overs on sale Tuesday, the
market was at a standstill.

The receipts of hogs Monday were'

40 cars or 6400 head. The market
was steady to strong with the bulk of
the. hogs selling at $17.40; yorkers,
$17.40@17.50; pigs, ‘ $17.75@ 18.00;
roughs, $15.00@15.25.

The receipts of hogs Tuesday were
4000 head, and the market opened 10

to 15c lower on the yorkers and mixed ,

hogs which sold from $17.25@17.40;
and 25 to .40c lower on pigs and lights
which seld from $17.50@17.75; heavy
hogs sold all the way from $17.25@
17. 30; roughs, $15.00@15.25; stags,
$10. 00@12. 00.

The receipts of sheep and lambs on
Monday were called 1400 head.

market was very slow and spring

lambs and yearling lambs suffered a 3

heavy decline of $2.00 to $3.00 per cwt.
Spring lambs sold from $18.00@19.00;
and one little bunch sold for $20.00;
yearling lambs sold from $14@15.50;
and one little bunch sold at $16.50 and
one bunch at $17.00 early in the morn-
ing; cull yearling lambs sold from $12
@1350; ewes sold from $11.00@12.00.
There were several bunches that went
over unsold.

The receipts of sheep and 13.111st 011
Tuesday were about 600 head. The
lamb market opened 50c lower. Spring
lambs sold from $17. 50@18. 50; year-
ling lambs, $15. 00@16. 00; wethers
were quoted from $12.50@13. 0; ewes
sold from $11.00@12.00.

We quote: Choice to prime weighty
steers, $17.00@17.75; medium to good
weighty steers, 16.00@16.50; plain

15.00;choi'ce to prime handy weight
and medium weight steers, 13@13.50;
fair to good handy weight and me-
dium weight steers, 11. 50@12. 00;
choice to prime yearlings, 14@14. 50;
fair to good yearlings, 13. 00@13. 50;
medium to good butcher steers, 11.00
11.50; fair to medium butcher steers,
$10. 00@10. 50; good butcher heifers,
10. 00@10 50; fair to medium butcher
heifers, $9. 00@9. 50; good to choice
fat cows, $9. 50@10. 00; medium to good
fat c ws, $8. 50@9. 00; fair to good me-
dium fat cows, $8. 00@8. 50; cutters
and common butcher cows, $7.00@
7.50;canners, $6.25@6.75; good to
choice fat bulls, $10.00@10.50; medium
to good fat bulls. $9.00@9.56; good
light and thin bulls, $7.50@8.00;
good to best stock and feeding steers,
$10.00@1.0.50; medium grades of. stock
and feeding- steers, $9. 00@9. 50; com-
mon to fair stock and feeding steers,
$8. 00@8. 50; good to choice fresh cows,
and springers, $80. 00@100. 00; medium
to good fresh cows and springers, $65
@75. 00. ' ..
LIVE STOCK MOVEMENT FOB MAY'
Decreased receipts of cattle and in-
creased receipts of hogs and sheep at

'60 markets during May feature the 1

monthly stockyard report just issued
by the Bureau of Markets, United
States Department of Agriculture Cat-

' ,.._‘.__300 350 Shipments of stockists an

914,554-464,275.

The -

$14.50@ ~

.to one! of the best cow families, but

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lid sheep. 61

    
  

feeders at 59! markets were: Weatt
448,573-—402;776. legs at 25 markets. ,
631,532—328,624; and sheep at 26 mar--
' kale. 141,611—417,145. ' »
Receipts and Shipments of horses
and mules 41.47 markets decreased
in MaY. 1918, compared to May, 1917,-
the figures being, 1918 figures first,
“receipts. 35, 520—63 ,953; shipments,

 
   
  
 
 

    
 

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WILL MORE NEW WnEA'r

Following the return of the Federal
FoodAdministration inNew York from. -
the conference in Washington, the Fed- ,
eral Food Board annotih'cced on June 1 - ~.
for the Food Administration that it is
the intention of Administrator Hoover
to store away every grain of the new
.wheat crop that can possibly be saved
against lean crops in the future.

“With the arrival Of a large harvest, "
said Mr. Hoover, in a message to the _
New York Food Board, “some of the
most inconvenient restrictions can no
doubt be‘modified. But if we are hon-
est with ourselves We will maintain re-
strictions requiring the use of some
substitutes, both domestic and corn -
mercial; we will continue the require- , . ' £-
ment of high millingextraction and" _ 3

  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
   
    
   
  
  
      
  

the elimination of. the non-essential
use of and waste in flour and bread. ‘
“’Tis worth remembering the famine a, , _

in Egypt and that a little governmental ’. - V: , &

foresight does not require any illumi- ‘ 1

nating dream to anticipate that so i

long as the war lasts, with its increas- . ' } ..

ing- drafts for soldiers and- munitions ' ' ‘ ‘,

workers, the world will steadily pro- '

‘duce less food. If we are wise, a great . 3

harvest will mean the willing building '~ 1;, ;

up'of a great national reserve.” . , g "i, ‘ l
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BETTER DAIRYING METH-
ons HELP THE FARMER

High prices of feed have led dairy.
farmers to give more consideration to _
the kind of cows they keep. We take
the follov‘ving paragraphs from the
Year Book of the U. S‘. Department of
Agriculture for 1917: ’

. “The profitable dairy cOw helps to
feed our armed forces and will help
us win the war,.but the low produc-
ing, unprofitable scrub is little better
than a slacker. The unprofitable cow ,
may enjoy perfect health and have a
large appetite; she may even belong

 

 

if she is not an economical producer, .
she should be converted into meat. ' . ,3

“The present, however, is not the "
time to diSpose of dairy herds; rather .
it is the time to enlarge and improve 3 ‘ -,
them. ‘ '~ '

“The city, the country, and the
army need more dairy products; thew
dairy cow also assists greatly in mama
taining permanent soil fertility; and
the carefully selected, well~bred,_ Well
fed dairy'cow may. still be kept at a r
prefit’. Let our slogan, therefore, be:
Careful selection, intelligent breeding
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hope u will continue it. -—-Grant Strat-
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Fenton, June, 20. ,-

’ plaints oi grasS being short.

2 on us up their ground

can too hot and dry

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past. week Prices offered at '

June 19: Wheat, $2.10; corn,

,3160 cats, 80, rye. 1.60;- hay, 316@'
20; beans, 8 50 lowls;
‘ $11; potatoes, 50c bu, - cabbage‘ 20.11);

none, 17; springers, 20; dairy butter,
35; creamery, 42; eggs, 35@3,6 sheep,
9@10; lambs, 14@15, hogs, 16; beet
steers. 9@10; beef cows, 4.5;0@8 veal
calves”, 9@11; wool, 65—0. W. S.,

(Central )—:Farmers, are
cultivating corn

‘ rat'scoza '
sowing buckwheat,

' and beans and getting ready for hay.

Hay will be a light crop/here. Beans
are looking good; corn very poor. The
weather is too cold and dry for crops
to do well Soil very hard and dry.
Some hogs were taken to market
this week but no cattle. We are bold-
ing nothing we can sell Help is in

‘ big demand just, now in the beets at

$2.50 a day. We can get'no! one but
boys at that. Some farmers are re
building and, reshingling their barns.
Shortage in beef results in drastic
order 'irom' County Food Administra-
tor not to eat beet more than four
times a week and only one meal a day
at that Frost hit beans and corn in
some parts night of June 20 but can’t

say how bad at this writing. Prices-

offered at Caro, June 20: Wheat, $2.00;
corn. 1.75; oats,‘70; 'rye, 1.50; hay,
14@16; barley, 2.50 cwt; straw, 7.00;
beans, 7.00 cwt; potatoes, 40; hens, 22;
old roosters, 15@18; butter, 33; but-
terfat 42; eggs 30;‘sheep, 6@8; lambs,
9@11; hogs, 13@15; beef steers, 8;
beef cows, 4; veal calves, 10@13;
wool, 65@67.~—-R. B. C.. Caro, June 21.

Oakland (N. C'.)—Farmers are busy
plantingvpotatoes and beans. Most of
it is finished. Cultivating corn is now
in order. Corn is a fair stand here.
About the usual amount of potatoes
and beans are being planted. Wheat
is showing up better than was thought
possible in the spring. Oats and bar-
ley are coming along fine. I hear com-
It has
been a good spring for clover seeding.
A fair show for apples but nmcherries
or peaches. Potatoes have about all
gone to market. There was no kick

here on the sorting. we will have to .

go to haying in a short time. Most
of the milk around here is shipped out.
Prices offered at Clarkston June 15:
Hay. 31863320; beans, 36; potatdes, 40
@60; butterfat, 44; eggs, 30; Wool,
55@67.—’E. F., Clarkston, June 17.

Ogemaw ( North ) -——— Potatoes are

about all planted in this part of the

3; week they paid $1 90 ——w. w. A. Cry—
, stal Valley, June 15 ’ .

City, June 21:

county: Beans and corn look a little
sick sincexthe wind-blow Tuesday and
Wednesday, It was a regular sand
storm. Peas are looking fine; with a

little more rain we have prospects of '

a heavy yield of green peas for the
canning factory. The potato market
has, raised some‘rthis week. The buy-
ersat Hart are paying 90 cents a bush.
el for potatoes at this writing. The
report was that on two days of this

. Lapcer (Southcasth-Weather; very
cool, showers have all gone around us
the pastu week. Farmers are selling
what hay they have to spare at a low-
ered price; wool also going to market
freely. Some cattle moving With the
price good.

Wheat, $L95@2. 05;

‘ ' oats, 65@7;0 hay, $10@12; rye straw,

1 $6-

beans, 36. 50@8. 50;
18 @20, , springers,
III; butter'iat, 43, *

potatoes, 50;
20 @ 22;
eggs,

’3‘ .5791?
1o! rain.
‘ a hopper pest will

red kidney beans, *

Prices offered at Imlay‘

- last year.

33;-
b _ Iooésso home, 13.-

1 . are in need

It is tea-red that the grass-
». very serious one
this year as the-:yOnng hoppers are
present in greater numbers than have
ever been seen beioreL E. 13., ConWay,
June 17. - ' -,

Arcnac (Ea8t}—-—Very dry but was

_ , somewhat relieved today by a nice

“shower. Ear paSt week we had warm
' days and’frosty nights. Hay locks poor
, being toopdry. Corn backward;

sugar-

beets" fair; wheat and rye poor Good

“acreage of beans planted; some culti-

vated, others finishing planting this

..Vw'eek. Draft continues to take farm

boys;——W. B.,R., Twining, June 21.

-.Monroe (West Central)——We’re hav-
ing beautiful weather here, a little
rain would help the corn and oats.
Oats have started to head out but the
straw is short and some fields look a
little yellow, The early planted corn
is looking fine; the late fields; are very

uneven and much in need of rain. The

meadows are looking good but the
hay is short. The alfalfa is all 'cut
and a large part of it in the barn—W.
H. L.,Dundee, June 17.

‘ Ant-rim , (Northeast )-—Good crop
weather and crops looking good. Some
potatoes and buckwheat to be put in
yet. Corn and beans being, cultivated
now. Not much road work being done
because of the scarcityjof men and
teams. Wages are high. Some build—
ding being done No rains for about
three weeks. ———G. A. D., Charievoix

June 19

Calhoun (Northeast)——Haying well
started. It is a- very light crop and
will soon be made with this dry wca-
ther to aid in curing. Wheat and rye
a fair crop; oats will be light. Corn
and beans starting well; just a flew late
potatoes being planted Frost on the
22 was bad on the low ground. Fruit
prospects not very good. Cattle, hogs
and wool about all the farmers are
selling. Most ofvthe farmers in this
locality take in Camp Custer for their
outing.———C. T. V., Albion, June 24.

Branch (North)———Farmers tending
corn, planting beans, making hay,
drawing gravel. Weather dry and
cold. Soil too dry for corn.
selling wool, some stock, still holding
some beans. Farmers rebuilding some.
Prices offered at Union City, June 21:
Wheat, $2.10; oats, 65: hay $10@15;
beans, 6.60; potatoes, 60; butter, 35;
butteriat, 40; eggs. 31; beef steers. 9;
beef cows, 6; veal calves,‘15%; wool.
67.—F. S., Union City,,June 22.

lngham (Central)———Very dry; no
rain for several weeks. Corn is doing
very well as 'it can be cultivated and

the moisture held. but oats on most ‘
fields are at a standstill or going back.’

Much of the hay is very light. Early
planted beans are up nice but some

. have laid in the ground for two weeks

andnot sprouted—too dry. Seme hay-
ing is done; m'ost‘will be done by the
Fourth. Farmers are not selling much
of anything at present. Help scarce
and wages high. Prices offered at
Mason, June 20: Wheat, $2.00@2.05;
corn, 1.80; oats, 75; rye. 1.50; timothy,
16; beans, 8; potatoes, 50; hens, 20;
springers. 20; ducks, 20; butter, 40;
eggs, 31; lambs. 16%; hogs, 16%;
beef steers, 10@12; veal calves, 13.—
C. I. M.. Mason, June.22.

Calhoun (North Central)—~Farmers
are haying; hay is not mature but is
dried up; very short. Corn is excel.-
lent. Barley never was better but I
fear oats and beans will be a very
short crop. Very dry and cold; we
need rain badly; soil in corn fields

" in good conditions because farmers _
[have done a: lot 01 cultivating. There

has been a very noticeable decrease in
the supply of good horses and an in-

crease in cattle in this locality in the ,
Sheep and hogs about nor-

mal. I cannot see what farmers have
got to grm'nbl‘e about now. Prices at
Bellevue, June 15: Wheat. 2. 05; cats,

-‘ 70 , gimfothy, .12; beans, 8 cW;t hogs.

A Worker
UMAN H.NE WBERRY

' is a worker,——-'always has
been and always will be,—bc-
cause he loves work.

As a lad he went out and
joined a railroad construction
gang and worked up to be
passenger and freight agent of
the road.

Later, he mlod the Lakes
and worked his waytq a pilot's
license, which he holds to-day
as one of his proudest poa-
sessions.

Afterward, he went into
business life, where,- by hard
work, he made a name and
place for himself.

wander in the Third Naval
District Is,winning wide-
spread approval.

A8 a worker, he knows
about other workers, under-
stands them and their prob-
lems. He was one of the first
business leaders to declare
publicly in favor of the rights
of the laboring man, and his
reputation for fairness and
straig‘tiorward dealing attrac-
ted wide and favorable atten-
tion in industrial circles.

While Secretary ofthe Navy
he made it possible for the men
In the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
have an organization for mu-
tual benefit and sought their
suggestions on the work they
had In charge, gave them an
opportunity to examine and
approve the wage scale and
put the working force Into such
a frame of mind an to secure
their fullest co—operation. The
men were with him and he
got results.

His Record Speaks for Itself

AI 3 workinl Unitod States Senator, Truman H. N b '1] In“
the job" for tho workou of Michigan and the whole cant??? m on

As Assistant Secretary of
the Navy under President
Roosevelt, he gave the closest
attention to his duties and his
good work advanced him to
the position of Secretary of
the Navy and a member of
Roosevelt’ I Cabinet.

To-day his work an :1 Com-

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.utoes are drying- up; late ones look good
Tye‘t -—~W "H. L. Dundee, June 2'54

Mtssaukee (Central)—Farmers are
sowing buckwheat, cultivating corn
and beans. Beans are a poor stand.
Weather is cold and dry. Corn is do-
ing well but small. Barley, oats and
meadows are drying up. Rain is need.
ed badly. What late potatoes are up
look good. Farmers are holding their
cattle until about August to get them
in better condition. Nothing being
sold but cream. Butter is 32c; butter-
iat 41c and eggs 3OC.——H. E. N., Cutch-
eon.,June 22.

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. -The object of fitting cattle for the r

show ringis to have them appear be-
fore the judge to the best advantage
possible.
to hide, as much as possible, objec-
tionable features of the animal. and
at the same time have the good' qual-
itiesstand out conspicuously by proper
trimming, grooming, etc. An animal
worthy of the show ring will get a
better consideration if properly groom-
ed than if it is shown in the rough.
Another important factor in showing
cattle is to have them well halter-
broken so that they will lead and stand
well in the show ring. Prizes and
even proper consideration may some-
times be lost by not having the animal
so well trained that it can be handled
with ease.

or course, animals intended for the
show ring would be kept. reasonably
clean all the time, but special prepara-
tion should begin at least a month or
six weeks before entering the show
circuit.

For trimming the feet of cattle
the following tools are necessary: A
chisel. pinchers, jack-knife. farrier’s
knife and a rasp. The feet should be
kept trimmed, the soles carefully par-
ed out, so the animal can walk na-
turally and stand squarely on them.
Occasionally cattle come into the show
ring with feet having a sled runner
shape. Nothing looks worse. Animals
that are accustomed to being handled
do not object to having their feet
trimmed. When the rough edges are
being cut off with the chisel or pin-
chers great care should be exercised
not to cut off too much at a time. If
you cut too deep you may reach the
sensitive part of the foot and the ani—
mal may go lame. Use the rasp to
smoothen the horn of the foot and give

' it the proper shape or balance. By

means of the farrier’s knife trim out
the loose, scraggly portions of the sole,
always with great care.
TRIMMINu THE FEET .
A chute is sometimes necessary in
which to put the animals that object to
having their feet trimmed. To trim the
hind feet of cattle buckle a strap with
a rope attached by means of a ring.
around the leg, at a suitable place.
raise it about the level of the knee
and work rapidly. Have all tools with-
in easy reach. For trimming the front
feet simply raise up the foot. or if the
animal will not hold well, provide a
padded block upon which the bended
knee can rest then proceed. Care
should be taken not to trim the foot too
closely. Take off enough and no more.
If the animal has horns. the rough.
scaly portions can'be partly removed

with a sharp knife. Don’t cut too
deep. Take off a small portion at a
time. A fine rasp is a handy tool to

take off the ridges. and give the horn
its natural shape. A piece of glass
gives excellent results for scraping the
horn. Be careful to see that the horn
is uniformly smooth. To put on this
smooth surface use a fine grade of
emery paper. After the horn has been
pared down uniformly smooth. ..it
should be’polished by applying linseed
oil. Use a woolen rag about four
drawing the ends back and-forth. A‘
high polish can be secured this way.
The work of trimming and polishing
the horns does not have much to do
with the animal’s abiliity to Win in
the show ring, but it adds greatly to
the appearance of the head, which far-
for is recognized as becoming more
and more desirable.
GROOM EVERY DAY

Animals intended for the show cir-
cuit should receive some grooming
every day. Grooming alone will not
put on :1 nice mellow skin. Most of it
must be done through the feed box
but to get the skin just right a good
deal of elbow force must be. applied.
At about four or five weeks before
showing begin toincrcase the groom-

ing. Effective work can not be done '

without good $0015. A heavy hair
comb, stiff back curry comb, spring
curry comb and a couple of good

brushes are required. We aim to

keep the skin clean and free from

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,perature of the pater lei-most agree;
able to the animal. * g "
rnon‘ouon CLEANHQ‘G Essnn'nn.
Scrub ,the skin thoroughly with
plenty of water and tar'soap. After
scrubbing be sure to wash the hair
free from soap. Soapy hair when dry
appears lifeless and harsh. The en-'
tire body of the animal should be thor-
oughly washed, no part being'neglect-j
ed. The skin of the animal should be
cleaned- dilly with great care. Groom, ,
iug can be accomplished more easny
effectively if the bed is
carefully made each night. This is
very important. ' _
In showing some breeds the hair, is
sometimes clipped about 'the head,
ears, legs and feet. To do a good job
one must be an expert with the clip—
pers and the shears. For the best
appearance the hair. should be clipped
so that the surface will be uniformly
smooth and entirely free from un-
sightly depressions, nicks, etc. A new
hand should practice ou;~severa.l ani-
mals not intended for show before at-
tempting to work on a show animal.
Then before clipping 'the head, ears
or legs. study the animal carefully to
ascertain just how much work should
be done to bring out the best appear-
ance possible. The coats of show ani-
mals are often curled, but the kind of
finish required depends on the indiv-
idual. Some coats look better’ curled
and some do not. The very best judg-
ment of the showman should be exer-
cised in this respect. Thecurling of
the hair must be well done; if it is not
properly done the hair will look better
if left smooth. Curling the hair may
partially cover up some of the minor
defects seen upon the surface of the
animal. This helps to a considerable
extent to improve the general appear-
ance of some animals. If the animal
smoothly and uniformly covered with
flesh it is best to leave the hair smooth.
After the animal has been fitted it
is a good practice to stand away about
the distance the judge usually takes,
to scrutinize it carefully from every
possible angle to ascertain if any im-
provement can be made. g
The man who is going to show an
animal in the ring can always do bet-
ter by studying its nature and indiv-
idual characteristics for several weeks
before the time of showing. Among
a carload of show cattle which the
writer assisted in fitting and showing
at the 1913 International there was
one steer that would not allow a stran-
ger to attend it. By skillfully work-
ing with this animal four weeks be-
fore the show we were able to have it
moved from the tenth up to the third
place in the ring.—~J. W. Schwab. Pur-
due Experiment Station.

SCOURS IN CALVES TO BE
CONTROLLED IN FEEDING

 

The practice of allowing calves to
remain with their dams until large
enough for weaning has been proved
unprofitable where there is a market
for milk or butterfat. Consequently
most farmers who sell the product of
their cows have adopted hand feeding
for raising calves. The economy of
this practice goes unchallenged, but
there~is constant danger of causing di‘
gestive troubles in the calf.

The digestive organs of the young
calf are adjusted to receive warm-
milk direct from the udder in small
quantities at short intervals: Of
course, it is impractical to imitate
such conditions when feeding by hand
but they should be duplicated as near.
1y as possible to avoid scours. Preven-
tion, says M. H. Fohrman of the Uni-
versity of Missouri College of Agricul-
ture, is the best means of control.
Overfeeding, irregular feeding, dirty
pails cold milk, sour milk or old milk
will cause trouble. These, however“
can be avoided.

constant vigilance is the price of
healthy calves, and the feeder must

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._ from" the'pail, it is my foic..the: feeder
to‘ watch tails. and backs fat; indies-j
tfons of scouring, As soon as ffipuble .
is. detepted, the feed of the calf should ~ - .
be reduced at least one-half. Adminis- -

tar/ya dose of castor oil in. warm milk

' by means of a small drenching bottle.
This «will tend to remove all irritating
substances from the bowels. Feed
should. then be gradually restored to
the normal amount, and-formaldehyde
solution should be added to the‘milk'
at the rate .of one teaspoonful per
'pound .9: milk fed. This formdlde‘
hyde solution should bemade up as
follows:
cent solution of formaldehyde) to thir-
ty-one parts of water. \If prompt im-
provement does not follow this treat-
ment, repeat the dose of castor oil,
and accompany it with another reduc-
tion of feed. ,

The most critical periods in'the life
of,t-.he young calf are at the age of
four to six weeks, ‘when the feed is
changed from whole to skim milk,
and six to ten weeks, when the calf
is beginning to eat hay and grain.

Calves are always greedy and for
this reason over—feeding should be
avoided. This is true particularly
when alfalfa hay is being fed, as it is
exceedingly palatable, and the animal
is apt to gorge itself beyond the cap-
acity of its digestive ability.

PRODUCED 150RK FOR $11
PER HUNDRED POUNDS

 

Luther Dawson. a Johnson county,
Missouri farmer and stock raiser, con-
ducted a feeding test on his farm
last winter to determine the cost of
pork production under farm condi-
tions. He has a sow which farrowed
a litter of ten pigs August 26, 1917.
Six were males. Three of the females
were selected for breeding. Mr. Daw-
son weighed the sevenpigs January
15, 1918, and placed them in a closed
pen. The seven pigs were fed for mar-
ket. F. A. Gougler, county agent, and “
W. H. Rusk, specialist in animal hus-
bandry for the University of Missouri
College of Agriculture, visited Mr.
Dawson’s farm April 2 and weighed the
pigs. According to Mr. Dawson’s fig—
ures, the pigs had consumed 5260 cars
of No. 2 corn during the 77 days in
which they were on feed. The pigs
received‘60 ears of corn a day during
the first 30 days, 70 a day during the
next 30, and 80 a day during the next
17 days. The total amount of corn is
estimated at 62.2 bushels. Tankage
was supplied from a self feeder, and
the pigs consumed 160 pounds. In
addition to the corn and tankage they
received 41/2 pounds of shorts mixed
with 2 gallons skim milk- and water
each day.

The total amount of feed consumed,
at market prices, was worth. according
to Mr. Dawson’s figures, $125.45 This
amount was distributed among the
different feeds as follows: 62.2 bushels
No.2 corn at $1.50 per bushel, $93.30;
160 pounds tankage at $100 per ton,
$8.00; 350 pounds shorts at $2.50 a
hundred, $8.75; 150 gallons skim milk
at 10 cents a gallon,c$15.40. The
initial weight of the 7 pigs 510 pounds,
and the final weight was 1650. ' The

total gain‘of the 7 head was 11‘40

pounds. The barrows made an average
daily gain of 2.23 pounds, and the
sow 1.43 pounds. ‘

These figures indicate that Mr.
Dawson, even at these high prices of
feed, produced pork at a cost of $11 a":
hundred, under dry lot conditions...
huhdred ‘andtheywe‘ighe'd .1640
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Holstein Heifers .
The cows and bullsadvertised have
been scld. I have is ‘or registered
I-Iolstein heifers from heavy DPOGUC"
mg dams, 3 mos. to 2 years .Old at
$125 . apiece.

ROBIN CARR

 

FOR SALE

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

 

“Bloomingdale, Michigan

 

HOLSTEINS

\ » The young bulls; 'we have for sale
are backbd up by many generations
of large producers. Buy 011’s of these
bulls, and give your herd a push.
Full descriptions, prices, 'etc. on re-
quest. i -

. McPhersOn Farms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 

F0 WLERVILLE, MICHIGAN

masons BROS.’ HOISl‘ElNS

We are now ' aoking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
LYons 170506. All from A. R. 0. dams
.with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric‘
es and further information.

Musoiil' Bros., South Lyons, Michigan.

 

 

 

HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES
Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but»
ter 7 (13.5. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
5.52% fat. Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows 64 white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.

Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Bonrdman Farms, Jackson, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

E. L. SALISBURY
SHEPHERD. MICH.
Breeder ot purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young «bulls for sale from A. I‘..
0."Cows with -’reditable records.

 

 

 

 

sired by a son of
Bull 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.
considered.

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM.

W. W. Wyckonf, Napoleon, Mich.

 

EGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 6

months old, grandson of Hengerveld

De Kol, sired by Johan Hengerveld
Lad who has 61 A. R 0. daughters.
Dam is an 18 lb. 3 yr. old granddaughter
of King Segis who has a sister that re-
cently made 33 lbs. butter in '2 days as a.
4 yr. old. This calf is light in color,
well grown and a splendid individual.
Price $100. \Vrite for photo and pedigree.
L. C. Ketzler, Flint, Michigan.

 

 

We want these Registered Holstein
Bulls to head Grade Herd:

' Korndyke Clothlldo of Serridale,
Born June 24, 1917. Price $100
Korndyke Ormsby 'of Serridelln
Born Sept. 19, 1917. Price 385
Prices f. o. b. O coda, Mich.
SERRIDELLA VFAR’MS
Oscoda, - — - Michigan

 

 

 

 

One Car-load Registered Holstein:
Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy—producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open gilts.
J. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

EARLING DAUGHTER of Maplecr‘cvt
De Kol Hortoy whose dam is a 30-lb.
cow, 30 days, 120 lbs., a son of Friend
Hengervald De Kol Butter Boy, four
daughters with "year records over 1,000
lbs. Dam~—Young Hazel De Kol, 7 day
record 494.8 lbs. milk, 19.67 lbs. butter.
Heifer well marked, good individual, price
£12.00]. Howbert Stock Farm, Eau Claire,
1c .

HICKORY GROVE STOCK FARM
Offers for immediate sale. 12 daughters- of
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 Pontiac Aggie Korndyke. We
can always furnish carloads of pure bred
and grade cows.

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

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

Breeders of Hoistein-Friesian Cattle,
Battle Creek, Michigan. Senior Herd
Sire, Judge Walker Pieterje whose
first five dams are 30 lb. cows. Young
bulls for sale. from daughters of King
' Korndyke Hengerveld Oransby.

 

 

 

 

 

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PERCHERONS, .
/ HOLSTEINS, _
snnorsnmss, .

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. DUROCS.

 

mi, men.

Prices reasonable breeding.

 

Holstein-Fries!“ Cattle ‘
Under the present labor conditions l
I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd: 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

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

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

 

 

 

EGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL, eight
months old for sale. M. A. C. bred
, sire. Dam has junior 3 yr. record “ of
407 lbs. of milk; butter 16.64 lbs. Per-
fect udder. Fine individual. Better than
12,000 lbs. of milk yearly. Price $85 at
once.

C. L. HULETT & SONS. Okemos. Mich.

 

 

 

 

‘ FEW
GUERNSEYS He'iggl‘s Haéi‘dE cgws for
sale, also a number of well bred young

bulls—write for breeding. Villager Farms,
Grass Lake. ‘Michigan.

 

HEREFORD

250 STEERS FOR SALE'

Ones, twos, threes, Herefords, Angus
and Shorthorns. 600 to 1200 lbs. Ch01ce
quality sorted to size, age and breed. , In
car lots. Write your wants. C. F. Ball,
Fair-field, Iowa.

 

 

 

8 bull calves Prince
Herefords Donald and Farmer

 

Breeding. ALLEN BROS, Paw Paw, Mich.

 

 

 

HARWOOD HEBEFORDS .
Yearling bulls and a few heifers

from choice bred cows. ' _
Jay Harwood, R. No. 3, Ionia, Mich.

 

 

 

JERSEY

 

OR SALE or Exchange. One thorough-

bred, unregistered _Jersey Bull calf.
Solid color. Black paints. . ‘

David E. Burns, Beulah. Michigan.

HORSES
SHETLAND PONIES

SHETLAND PONIES girafffi'mlm?

prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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. ' ‘ 'h “1 .‘i‘iii‘i th biggei."
. _ ~ . , ., e _. , S, ‘. __ _.
. “Ego ever? shown At ithe ‘Internat‘io
3 1 mile northeast 'of town; Vie!
.' welcome ..7 days in week.
Newton ,Ba‘rnhart, St. JohnsL

PEACH HILL FARM. Registered/bi”:
roe Jersey bred gilts. spring pigs an

- SeI‘VICe boars.‘ ,9 " , _- :' "
. ~, 9.1",1Nwoon.nnos.,- ‘ .9

- .Rom‘eofMlchtgnn.‘ .4 -~

' cnooisnasi‘érs Bred jVSd'vvs: one“; "
1 yearling boar sired :"to Brookwater‘.

Cherry ins. m. alSO-sprin assured
of blood linegannd ‘splemiitdg individuals.
L. J. UNDERHILL, Salem, Michigan.‘

POLAND CHINA 7'

BIG TYPE I‘. C. FALL SO\\‘S bz‘ed for,

July and August farrow. “Weigh-250
lbs. Spring pigs. Call or write E. R.
Leonard, St. Louis, Michigan.

HADIPSHIRE
'EGISTEREI) IIA'MI’SHIRE PIGS now

ready. Abargain in boar pigs. John
W. Snyder. R. No. 4, St. Johns, Mich.

SHEEP

SHROPSHIRES

SHROPSHIRES.-——Some tine yearling
Rams and Ram Lambs, one 3 yr. old.

Farmers’ price, Dan Booher, R. No. 4,

Evart, Michigan. ’

 

FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and
Registered Yearling Rams of extra quail-
lty and breeding. Flock established 1890.

C. Lemen, Dexter. Michigan.

DELAINE
SMALL flock of choice recorded Delaine

ewes for sale. Will sell in lots to suit.
John Brown, R. l. Blanchard. Mich.

POULTRY

WYANDOTTE

 

ILVER, GOLDEN and \VHITE Wyan-
dottes of quality. fine large cockerels,
$3.00 each. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. Clarence
Browning. R .No. 2, Portland, Michigan.

LEGIIOBN

30000E‘ine, strong, vigorous chicks for

) June and July delivery. White
Leghorns now at $10 a 100; $5 for 50.
Finest; stock in the country. Prompt ship-
ment by mail. We guarantee safe arrival
and satisfaction. Order direct. Catalog.
Holland Hatchery. Holland, Mich, R. 7.

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WE HAVE THEM

 

HOGS

0. I. C.

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE—Registered Holstein Show

Bull, service age; Pontiac Korndyke
breeding. Price right. John A. Rinke,
Warren. Michigan. .

 

SHORTHORN

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
,SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. . W. Crum,
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michigan.

FOR SALE—Pure Bred Shorthorns and

O. I. C. pigs. Young bulls $100 to
$125 each; pigs $12 at weaning time.
Ray Warner, R. No. 3, Box 52, Almont,
Michigan.

GUERNSEY

GUERNSEYS for sale.——One registered
Yearling Guernsey Bull, also one Bull

‘ for fall farrow, at prices that will please.

 

calf for sale. H. F. Nelson, R. No. 1,
McBrides, Michigan.

0 Bred dGilts

Serviceable Boats
.I. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LARGE TYPE 0.]. C.

Spring pigs pairs and trios. Gilts bred

CLOVER LEAF ST‘OCK FARM
Monroe, Mich.

 

OUNG 0. I. C. sows of fine quality.
Boars and bred sows all sold. Floyd H.
Banister. Springport. Michigan.

CHOICE O. I.${39.8 Off (1

S ring pigs, either sex, ... er goo

for ptwo weeks. M. Vodden, Swartz
Creek. Michigan.

 

 

families.
Fair 1 9 17.

yearly butter records.
months old for sale.

 

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100 ,
A herd of high producing females from the breeds best
Herd headed by Dutchland Colantha _\Vinana Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at. Michigan State
' Junior sire Maplecrest Application Pont1ac
132652 a 35.16 son of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy
and whose dam and =54, sister hold 6th and 7th highest

R. BRUCE MePHERSON, HO‘VELL, IMICH.

Sons of these great sires up to 15
Prices and pedigrees on apphcation.

 

 

 

 

 

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ROFITABIJC RUFF LEGHORNS-W8
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BARRED ROCKS'I‘he farmer’s kind.

Eight years of care-
ful breeding, large, heavy-laying towls.
Eggs $5 for 50; $10 for 120. Chas. I.
Cook, Fowlerville, Michigan.

 

CHICKS

BABY CHICKS

YOUNG’S Strain Heavy Laying Single
Comb White Leghorns.

 

 

5O chicks ............ $4.95
100 Chicks ............ 9.85

By m ail prepaid.

Order direct from ad.
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WOLVERINE CHICKE RY

711 Delaware St. SE.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Immediate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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our Thompson strain “of Barred Rocks, $15
per 100. .

Russell Poultry Ranch. Petersburg, Mich’.

We ship thousands
CHI K each season, different

varieties booklet and

testimonials. stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport. Michigan.

Day Old Chicks fmm 0‘” Bred-tO-Lay

White Leghorns, Fer-

HATCHING EGGS

 

PLYMOUTH ROCK

From strain ‘
Barred Rock Eggs records to With
pelr yeatr.
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ansrtantine. Michigan.

290 eggs ‘
$2.00 per 15 Prepaid by r- }_
Circular free. Fred Astfifig. ,

OBPINGTON

HAMPION Black and Butt 01-pin;

 

 

 

tons. Stock and hatching 6 31:0,.
sale/James A. Daley, Mohawggum

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OF HOWELL

An Important Message from the Secretary - * I v. A 7 5

 

 

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, of automobile accidents.

From Detroit News
of June 6th, 1918

ONE AUTO IN SIX IS IN-
SURED AGAINST ACCIDENT-
AL INJURY TO OTHER CARS

 

The automobile owners of the United States,
says the Journal of Commerce, are experienc—
ing steadily increasing losses through the own—
ership and operation of their cars. The amount
of this loss in the year 1917 has been tabulated,
and reaches the astounding figure of $116,000,—
000. This is an astonishing figure and, it is
regrettable to state, is largely due to careless-
ness of both the automobilist and the general
public. These ,figures are extremely interesting
as to the analysis of the causes which produce
such waste. The figures compiled for ,1917
show the following salient facts:

No. autos in use Dec. 31, 1917.... 5,000,500

'No. insured for public liability ...... 800.000

Losses paid under liability policies $14,000,000
Estimated liability losses of uninsured

owners ........................ $50.000,000
Property damage and collision losses
on insured automobiles .......... $50,200,000

Estimated property damage and col-
lision losses on uninsured automo-

biles ........................... $20,000,000
Fire and theft losses on insured auto-

mobiles ....................... $13, 700, 000
Estimated fire and theft losses on un-

insured automobiles ............. $13,700,000
Total insured losses in 1917 ....... $32,000,000
Total uninsured losses in 1917, esti-

mated .......................... $83,700,000

WASTE IS EXCESSIVE

Recognizing that the above losses represent
too great a waste, there has been a movement,
inaugurated to bring about a reduction of these
losses, a considerable percentage of which are
held to be preventable.

The waste represented in the above figures
is held by some to be preventable possibly to the
extent of 70 per cent if proper precautions. are
taken. It is astonishing to note that only about
one—sixth of the cars in operation are insured
against liability on account of injury to others.
This is explained on the theory that while cars
in the eastern centers are generally insured, in
the west and in the rural sections that is not the
practice.

RATES HAVE ADVANCED

It is also regrettably stated that in caScs
where the owner of a car has little or no pro-
perty which might be attached if judgment were
rendered against him, he rarely goes to the ex-
pense of insuring that liability. This phase of
the automobile loss, which is one of the most
important ones, the risk of life and limb of
others through recklessness or indifference, has
already been brought to the attention of legis-
latures in the suggestion that licenses to 01)—
erate an automobile only be granted where the
owner has taken out liability insurance to pro—
tect the public

The property damage and collision losses, both
insured and uninsured, are to a very great ex-
tent preventable by following out the ordinary
rules of caution and observance of the rights of
others

Brokers, agents and their clients have been
prone to complain of the sharp adval'ne in auto-
mobile insurance rates, but this advance appears
to have been justified by the 1917 loss figures.

A notional campaign of safety education safety-

for both the motoring and non-motoring public,
which will do much toward reducing the number»

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

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EMBERS of a mutual company save many thousand dollars each year, as “they'll;
are assessed once each year and by paying promptly to the treasurer, it saves" i"?
many thousand dollars that would otherwise be paid Out for collection fees. ”

A mutual company is safe because under the law passed by the last legislature, assess-,0 A
ments are a lien upon the property insured. A mane!-
wh01s responsible 13 therefore not held for the parts:

which should be paid by his neigthr.

The policy provides that if the assessments are not paid within six—f
ty days, the insurance becomes suspended and the member entitled.

to no benefit until after date of payment.

The total loss to the uninsured in the United States in 1917
was $83, 700, 000.

The wise man will pay his insurance promptly and keep his policy
in good standing.

The policy is not transferable from one man to another, as the
Company will not insure those engaged in the livery business or
those who live in the City of Detroit or Grand Rapids. The

Vmembcr can have his policy transferred upon the sale of the car to

a new car. In case the new car is of greater horScpower, the pol-
icy should bc sent in and the extra horsepower paid for.

The Company being mutual, the policy is continuous during the life of the
corporation. Each member is called upon to pay an assessment twelve
months from the date of application or the last assessment.

The Company 18 run in a conservative manner.

The liability claims take time to settle, and the law provides for a reasonable

sur lus. “
p - w. E. ROBB,

Howell, Mich., June 20, 1918

 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
     
 
   
   
 
      
   
 
  

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