Prwent at One of Biggest Pure-Bred
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Remember a few years ago when you used to

Fattend the auction sales and somebody bid as high'

as.3 hundred dollars for a grade Jersey or Holstein
cow, and everybody muttered f‘He' 5 crazy?”
Well, he, wes, n0t because he offered a hundred
dollars fer a cow, but because he spent his money

got a grade instead of a pure-bred. . At the Milwau-

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kee sale a few Weeks ago the Carnation Farms

- {Company bid and paid $106, 000 for a seven months

'old bull calf. An' everybody shook their heads
and said “They’ re crazy.” No, not everybody.
A few who have watched the trend of the dairy
business and the mounting value of pure-bred
stock. are ready to prove that that bull calf will
lreturn to its owners more than the price they
paid for it. .
Which leads us "in a roundabout way over the
"winding and picturesque roads skirting Orchard
Leke to the Flanders Farms, where on Wednesday,

, June 26th, the largest attended pure-bred live stock

sale ever chronicled in Michigan was held
The day was ideal and the novelty of a sale of

'7 $50,000 worth of live stock attracted not only hun-
. dreds of prospective buyers, but many more hun-.

dreds of curious farm folk who came from all
over a wide radius to bid on the cattle and feast

:- their eyes on the many twenty to thirty pound pro-
‘ ducers offered for sale.

The writer had fully expected there would be

.~ ,at least two hundred people at the sale, consisting
. largely of “gentlmen farmers” like Mr. Flanders
- himself who farms for the IOv‘e of it rather than
for the money. But long before we reached the

stables we knew we would have to revise our
early concluSions. For it would have been a phys-

‘ ical impossibility for 200 people to have driven

the automobiles that lined both sides of the road

, as far as the eye could see, .and eyerflowed four

and five deep in a large field across from the farm

' proper. We were, told that Over~ seven hundred

automobiles, by actual count, were parked along
that _noadway, which meant that easily 2,000 peo-
ple, if not more. were on the grounds, tho no one

eSsayed to. count them 1 .

The first person we ran into was Thomas Cle-
ment, superintendent of the farm's, a bright, ener-
getic young man who has proven his ability to

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In anather minute we Were shaking hands with
D. D. Aitkenmthe Holstein industry’s grand old
~ man, who has more dairy facts inside his cranium
than any dairy volume ever published. We talked
» —-—or rather he talked—for a few minutes in his
,U"punohy” convincing way and presented a whole
army of facts and ideas about the past, the present
and the future of the dairy .industry.

E. Leroy Pelletier, the Detroit advertising man,
who owns a big far-min theOrchard Lake section
and who bids fair to become as successful a breed-
er as he is an advertising expert. told us all
about the wonderful pure-breds that are the foun-

‘ dation of his splendid herd.

In the crowd we caught sight of R. C. Reed.
secretary of the milk producersi'ass’n, and var-
ious. other individuals of more or less note in the
dairying and breeding-,world.

And last,'but not least, we rubbed elbows with

hundreds of honest-to-God farmers, who had
left the mower and the cultivator just for the day
to bring the folks over to the sale. I never ming-
led with a larger crowd of more prosperous look-
ing farmers and contented farm women than that
which congregated at the Flanders sale.
V The sale did not start until after one o’,clock
the auctioneers having been delayed by an auto-
mobile accident and did not arrive until the mid-
dle of the afternoon. But with the assistance of
Mr. Pelletier, Robert R. Pointer of Dearborn,
himself a big breeder, mounted the box and cried
the sale for nearly an hour The bidding was
spirited from the start, and nearly every animal
brought the top notch figure.

Flanders Pontiac Segis Burke, 3. two months’
old heifer calf was the first offering. Mr.F1an-
ders had patriotically offered to donate the pro-
ceeds of this calf to the Red Cross It was pur-
chased by Mr Pelletier for $525, which amount was
added to a collection that was taken and the pro-
ceeds of the dinner enriched the funds of the West

' Bloomfield division of the Oakland county chapter

by mere than $1500. _ «

During the next three hours between forty and
fifty head of pure-breds were sold at an average
price of better than $500 a head Below is the list
of purchasers. the names and prices of. the females
sold:

John Hehl, Detroit: Johanna De K01 Hartog of
Sparta, $600. '

John Hehl, Detroit: Creamelle Taurus Greben $325.
R S. Park, St. Claire. Adriannt je Korndyke, 3380.

E. W. McNitt, Grand Rapids: Gerben of Taurus.

Creamelle $550

R3 F225 Johnson, Decatur, 111.: Phyllis De K01 Johan-
na 1
‘ R. F. Johnson, Decatur, 111.: Luzette Pietertje Neth-
erland “11,51,410. .

M. W. Weaver, 5Burr Oak, Mich; Superba Rag Ap-
ple Luzette, $2,0
$ gghn Hehl, Detroit. Moonlight Pietertje Rosewood,
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John Diselord, Washington: Flanders Ogden Hazel
Posch $285.
John Schlaff, Mt. Clemenst‘landers Pietje Alcartra,
$550. '

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SUPPLY FOR FARMERS

Federal Food Administrator Prescott Believes
' Farmers Entitled to Sixty Day Supply
at One Time and So Recommends
to Mr. Hoover.

Several weeks ago we commented editorially
upon the subject of flour regulations as they affect
the farmer. Readers will recall that we advocated
a change in the present ruling which permits the
farmers to have enough flour on hand to last
them thirty days, that would increase the allotment
to a sixty days’ supply. This was in line with a.
recommendation presented to George A. Prescott,
federal food administrator for this state, and we
are pleased to announce that Mr. Prescott has
written to the U. S. Fo‘od Administration, and urg-
ed that such a change be made. Thru the courtesy
and by permission of Mr. Prescott, we produce a
copy of his letter upon the subject:

“Referring to one of the questions up for discus-
sion at the recent meeting of Administrators in
Washington, viz: the sale or delivery of flour to
farmers and the exchange of wheat by farmers for
flour, I desire to submit the following:

“First, I think that if this exchange privilege is
agreed upon it should be extended to elevators as
well as to mills. The larger proportion of farm-
ers do not live near a flouring mill where they
can do business with them but all of them live
where they can do business with elevators. In
our opinion it would be unfair to extend an ex-
change privilege to the few farmers who happen
to live near mills and decline to extend it to the
large number of farmers who are necessarily com-
pelled to do business with elevators. In addition
to that plan being unfair as between farmers. we
think in many instances it is unfair to elevators.
Where there is a mill and .an elevator in a town
the mill gets all the flour business and the ele-
vators none of it.

“In the second place, we advise that mills and
(Al-eyators be allowed to exchange with farmers
for wheat grown on their own farms 0n the basis

We do not deem it advisable to limit all farmers'
supply to thirty days because in many cases it
would compel the farmer to leave his work and
make an extra trip to town and we see no objection
whatever to the farmer having a sixty days’ supply

“In the third place, we think that the farmers
should take the substitutes in the same proportion
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3 'Jones' in that it would bring prohibition on grad-
”pally instead of abruptly.
_' the dry leaders that a mere moderate bill would
have a better chance or passing.

It was believed by

The new amendment provides, in part:

“That from and after June 30, 1919,. after the ap-
proval of this act, and during the continuance of
the present War, for the purpose of— conserving
the man power of the nation. and to increase the

Vefliciency in the production of arms,.war muni-

tions, food and clothing for. the army, it shall be
unlawful to sell,, for beverage. purposes, except for
export, any distilled spirits. and no. distill-ed spir-
its, held in bond at the date of the approval of
this act, shall be removed therefrom for beverage
purposes. ,

“From and after three months after the approval
of this act, and during the continuance of the pres-
ent war, no grain. cereal, of other food products
shall be used in the manufacture or production of
beer or other intoxicating malt liquors.

“From and after June 30, 1919, after the ap-
proval of this act and during the continuance of
the present war. no food or fruits shall be used
in the manufacture or production of vinous in-
toxicating liquors, except for export.

“Any person who violates any of the foregoing
provisions or any of said rules and regulations
made to carry the same into effect, shall be deem-
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding

$5,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding two years ,

or both.”

Nothing can stem the growing Sentiment for
national prohibition, is the belief of the dry lead-
ers. Even the defeat of the Norris amendment
would be but- a temporary set-back. Thirteen
states have already ratified the constitutional a—
mendment. Only one has defeated it. Senators
and congressmen who in the past have sat on the
fence or flirted with the friends of booze have
seen the handwriting on the wall, and are ready
to support a rational prohibition measure. The
support of the president and Mr. Hoover would
help things along. but the measure can be passed
without their help, if necessary, providing the
former does. not veto the measure. Secretary
Daniels, the only man who has made Good, with
a big “G" right from the beginning of the war, is
heart and soul with anti-liquor movement and his
endorsement of the Norris measure is going to be
a big factor in securing its passage.

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That all who preach patriotism do not necessark
ly practice one concludes from reading of a report
just made public by the Federal Trade Commission
showing the exorbitant profits derived from the
War by meat packers, millers, steel manufacturers,
etc. The report is a startling document. It sub-
stantiates the suspicions that have existed in the
minds of thousands, and proves the charges that
have been made on the floor of congress that
many,. if not the majority, of war supplies manu-
facturers were profiteering. The charges of dis-
loyalty and profiteeriug that have been launched
against the farmer from time to time, pale into
insignificance when compared with the gigantic
revenues derived by these barons of industry. The
products investigated and which the report covers
are steel, copper, zinc, nickel, sulphur, lumber.
flour. canned milk, and canned salmon. Salaries
and bonus paid high officials were also the subject
of inquiry.

Price fixing by the government, the report says,
has tended to prevent the market from running
away but at the same time it strengthens the
stronger factors in indusry in heir position and
enriches them by profits “which are without pre-
cedent.”

Everybody’s been feeling'sorry for the poor
millers whose profits have been so “rigidly con-
trolled” by the federal government. Yet, while
the price of flour has been stabilized by fixing a
price for wheat and a maximum profit for flour,
profits increased from. an average of 12 per cent
on the investment for the four years ending June
30, 1916, to nearly 38 per cent in the year ending
June 30,1917. “These profits,” it stated “are in-
defensible considering that an average profit of

8-. . one mill for six months in the year shows as high

as $2 00 a barrel. ” Many millers exceeded the gov-

, ' ernment maximum for profits and to that extent
‘-‘.the profits were larger and in general were-

very great. ” °

N cies essential for the public welfare.

the market embrace fevery device that is
them without regard .to law. . ' ,3
“Their reward. expressed in terms of profit,
reveals that four of these concerns have pocketed
However deiicate a 4' .
‘profiteering’ these pack; _
‘ ers have preyed upon the people uncenscionably" ‘ .
Investigation in the coal mining industry re?

in 1915- 16 17, $140 000, 000.
definition is framed fer

veals, in the opinion of the commisSion. that de-
spite government price fixing large margins. of
profit have been made.

In the oil industry large profits are now being
made in fuel oil and gasoline, the_\industry being
one where the law of supply and demand still op-
crates.
part responsible for the heavy profits but a portion
of the blame is laid to the spreading of false re:
ports regarding supplies.

Steel companies made abnormal profits before .

the government fixed a price for the product and
it is shown that some have since made some un-
usual returns.
corporation are estimated at 24. 9 per cent in 1917
as compared with 15. 6 per cent in 1916 and 5_. 2 in
1915.

In practically every one of the other industries
covered by the report it is shown unusually heavy
profits have been made in the last few years. Ab—
normal salaries are also shown to have been paid
executive officers. ’

Illustrating high remunerations charged ofi ex-
pense accounts, the report cites the following

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—‘01ubh 1n the Rochester Herald.

tal company, of New York, which deals chiefly in
zinc: B. Hochchild, chairman of theboard, $170,-
663; C. M. Loeb, president, $364,326: Otto Suss-
man, vice president, $221,596; J. Loeb, vice presi-
dent, $147,930; Sol R. Ross, manager. St. Louis,
$148,530; M. Schott, manager, Denver, $136,538.

In the steel industry, the report says. profits
increased from 4.7 per cent in 1912 to more than 25
per cent in 1917. One of the smaller mills showed
a profit of more than 300 per cent.

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The senate has defeated the prOposition to ex-
tend the draft age limits. This is not because
the senate does not want to agument the military
strength as much as possible and as, soon’as,poss-
ible, but because the enactment, of such a law at
this time might seriously cripple essential civilian
activities. It has been the contention of Secre-
tary of War Baker that the age limits should not
be changed until the contemplated survey of. the
nation’s man power to be inagurated this summer.
When congress meets again in September, it will
have actual~ figures showing the number of able
bodied men of all ages, a railable for military and
civilian duty. ....,
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Senator Lewis of Illinois, a close friend of the
President, declares that the time has come when
the government shouldvflx the prices of every nec-
essity. “The time hasfi‘c‘ome,” he said, “when,
whether it wishes to or not, the government must
control the instrumentalities ~of business and agen-
It may not

be wise, so far as the constitution goes. But under

war conditions. the republic is justified in exer-

cising new powers."

placed is relatively unimportant

The operation of this law‘ is held to be-

“ing in Italy has produced an encouraging effect

Profits of the United States Steel '

, nounced that the army is five months ahead of

ready been shipped abroad. During the debate in

" of 220, 000 white draft registrants qualified for mili-

card. in the country—e Were
‘..‘bowl and the harsher: recorded
r The3 dramatic i

11y ,
n 1, order of service of 10. 000, 000 registra”

= was almost wholly lacking in‘iast week’ a pressed-
.in'gs . aSince men placed in class I are certain _
to be Icalled to the colors within a few months at: '

most, the 9rder in which new registrants a

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American troops .will be in Italy probably early
in July, accordi to notification given to the
Italian uthorities by State Senator S. A. Com-1e
of New ork, who is in Rome On an official mis-
sion. This announcement of direct participatiOn ‘
of American units alongside the forces now fight—

“If we only had American troops With us now we
would do still better work" was the remark heard
by the correspondent on all sides today :Italy’s
victory has been one of science over blind courage.
The Italians from the start had more artillery
against them. but their fire Was accurate and
quick while the Austrian fire was infussed. The
Italian infantry at times was opposed by five
times its number, yet the Austrian troops were
driven back despite their splendid courage. which \
the Italian Commander in Chief, General Diaz,
has called “unfortunate valor.”
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Grand Rapids family on Norwegian liner reaches
U. S port from Germany. Germany, war weary
and ill-fed, is in a state of unrest so acute that
talk of revolt against the Imperial government
is common among both the military and civil pop-
ulations according to Americcans who arrived, here
safely'on June 23 on a Norwegian liner after a
long residence in Germany or adjacent neutral
countries. “You see I wear the coat of he Kaiser.
I only wish that you could know the feeling
that lies underneath it, for we are not oing to
stand this forever, ” a German major told iSS Olga
Wirzburg‘of Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to
her story on coming ashore.
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>‘Russia is in a state indescribable. “It is a fre-
quent sight,” says a Petrograd despatch, “to see
people fall dead in the streets from starvation.
Hundreds are digging for food In the, rubbish
heads, while others lick paste from, the street
p0sters.” Armed clashes, killings and burglaries
are the order of the day. Everything political
and military pales before the famine. A small
lump of sugar sells for 50c.
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The table shows a total strength in Class 1 of
2,362, 082 deduction-s of 334, 634 for delinquents 36.-
770 for the emergency fleet list, 215,539 for limit-
ed service classification and 50,268 for remedial
defectives leaving 1, 724,871 fighting men of those
originally placed in class 1. To that number it
is estimated 200, 000 will be added by the reclassi-
fication process now going on, and 400, 000 from the
class of .1918
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Beyond the Piave. Emperor Charles told his
troops, “glory awaits you and also honor, good food
abundant, spoils and final peace." Many Austrian
soldiers with this Royal promise in their pockets
found at least peace and food in Italian prison
camps and told their captors that the Austrian
drive which began June 15th might best be describ-

ed as a “hunger offensive.”
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General March, chief ofstaff, already has an-
.schedule in troop movements, 900,000 having al-

the senate several days ago, it was disclosedthat
if the highest hopesare realized 1,450,000 men will
have reached France sometime in August and that
there will ’be a total force under arms of approxi-
mately 3, 500.000.

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President Wilson», it was Learned from an author-
ative source, is preparing to advocate universal
military training as a War measure. The tenta-r
tive plan of the administration is to submit" to
congress at an early date a bill extending the draft
age and also esablishing universal military train-
ing for American youths below the draft age. ,

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“Don’t look for the end of the war‘ until it
comes," Major General Wood warned the Univer-
sity of Michigan alumni at the patriotic exercises
held on June 26th. “No man living can tell how
long that will be. The end must not come until
we have won.’ . _

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states for the mobilizatiOn between July 22 and 25

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haust the number or on now. in class one avail»
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» fitment nsretrigerating system nowheing establish-

. farmefiké 11.1199 , ,
, _ . , 1 thanstliat planted last, spring
‘ " morogjtawrable Weather cbndit‘ions than
valed fnitfi’e early part or the 1917' Season,
mmpentslthat Michigan-1nd Ohio will do their
share ’tov‘va’rdf maintainingr‘ domestic sugar produc-
tion: this year are-'V'most encouraging. Not only
has the acreagejn‘ these statesibeen greatly .m-
cifeased over, the last season’s,ubut the crop. is in
much. better. shape“ thanltywas a year ago.

The total acreage planted in those states this.
._‘Tyear."according to reports receiVed from‘ all‘the

companies operating in this” territory,is 168.148,
1: at which 122,167 acres are in Michigan and 343,376
. increase over last year is thus nearly 50ypercent.
There will, be twenty-one factOries operating in the
tWo states this fall, one more than last season.
The increase is due to the re-opening this year, un-
. der new ownership, ”the Marine City, Mich, factory.

Blocking and thinning has been aboutifinished
”in practically 'all sections. .Very little replanting
hasibeen required and stands are reported excel-
,en't, The only doubtful factor in the situation at
present is that of labor, and some anxiety is felt
as to the possibility of obtaining sufficient hands
“to care for the heavy crop in prospect.

For the work of blocking and thinning the com-
panies are drawing upon all available sources of
supply. Experienced hands are at a premium, ,it\
being impossible to obtain them in anything like
sufficient number, although recruiting has been
carried- on in all the larger cities of the Middle
West where regular seasonal beet workers find
employment. To fill their places the companies
are relying largely upon such home labor as is

.. available in the different localities and upon the

high School pupils who have enrolled‘in large

numbers in the Boys’ Working Reserve. The edu-'

cational authorities are generally co—‘oper-ating
in the movement of the boys, and schools in the
beet growingdistricts are closing early to enable
the pupils to go to work in the fields.

The experiment of bringing in Mexican field
workers is also being tried by some of the com-
panies. 'This is ,the first time that Mexican labor

~has been introduced into the beet fields of the
Eastern States—Facts About Sugar.

GOVERNMENT.LOANS 91/. MILLION
DOLLARS, T0 FARMERS IN MAY

' ~ During themonth of May $9,530,791 were loaned

to farmers of the United States by the Federal
Land Banks on long time first mortgages, accord-
ing to the monthly statement of the Farm Loan
Board. The Federal Land Bank of Spokane leads
in amount of loans closed, $1,511,470. The other
Banks closed loans. in May as follows: St. Louis,
$1,209,650; Houston, $1,138,716; Omaha, $1.020,-
800; Columbia, $916,905; . New Orleans, $753,500;
Wichiti. $639,100; Louisville, $560,600; Baltimore,
$508,800; Springfield, $465,150; Berkeley, 436,600;
and St. Paul, $369,700.

On June lst the total amount of mortgage loans
placed since the establishment of the Federal Land
Banks. Was $101,376,378 covering 44,765 loans
closed as against $91,951,886 on April .1st, covering
40,451 loans closed. During April 4,969 appli-
cations were received, asking for $14,001,733. Dur-
ing the same period 5,260 loans were approved
amounting to $12,019,137. Altogether 131.599 have
applied for loans under this system, aggregating
$313,947,568.

‘ The grand total of loans closed is distributed
by Federal. Land Bank districts as follows:
' St. Paul . .$15.798,600 St. Louis ...$ 6,339,585
Spokane 15,737,755 Berkeley 6,230,200
. Omaha ..... 12,459,190 * Louisville 5,968,200
'Wichiti 11,726,300 Columbia 4,109,680
Houston 8,894,508 Baltimore 3,916,350
4 New Orleans 6,844,815 “Springfield . 3,351,195

The total number of loans applied for by Mich-
igan farmers were 190, amounting to $361,400.

I Ninety-nine loans aggregating $197,700 were ap-‘
fl "proved, during the month. and 26 loans “were closed.

_ [WORLD’S BIGGEST MEAT/COOLER

ISTO pa LOCATED IN CHICAGO

to insure a. fresh supply of meats to
‘ in“ F ' e the government willv'snpple-

beets

{acres are in .OhiOTThe figures'ror last year were: .
g, Michiganplosfifio acres; Ohio, 30,575O'rlacres. Ohio’s

ed in: Francesjwithga domestic refrigerating plant,
plann’ed gtoszfejthe largest in the world? It will be
builtinflmcago‘adjacent to the stock yards '

The combined facilities of the-private packing;

plants aronot' sufficient to care for the enormous

amount of meat predu‘cts required for the soldiers "

in. France; The government will purchase its re-
quirements from the packing houses and will store
them in its Chicago plant ready for shipment over-
seas as fast‘as ships are available. Upon the ar-
rival of these products 'in France they will be kept

in storage in‘five different refrigerating plants

now being conStructed for that purpose. Eachof
theseplants will have a capacity for 5,000 tons 'of
beef and an icemaking plant with a capacity of
5,000 tons daily. _ By this system the government
insures against a possible shortage of fresh meat
supplies; ' - ‘

NEWTORK‘S BEAN AND-POTATO, ’
‘ CROP IS CUT DOWN-25 PER CENT

The oflicial estimate of the acreage of potatoes
plantedin Monroe, Steuben and other potato
counties of New York state now appears in the
shape of a report issued from the office of the
State Department of Agriculture. It is estimated
that the aoreage has been cut 20 per cent from last
year when a total of about 290,000 were planted
in the state. Unsatisfactory prices and scarcity
of labor were the two principal adverse factors.

Despite the fact that the bean market contin-
ues at a. Standstill there, dealers and growers are
steadily bringing pressure to bear to have beans
made a wheat substitute under the Federal Food
Administration. Various meeting local and gen-
eral are being held in the interests of the growers
and all concerned. These meetings have to do not
only with the marketing of the big reserve of
the 1917 crop. but as well deal with the disease
and other problems which the grower has to
overcome in producing the 1918 crop.

According to a report just issued by the State
Board of Agriculture, following a survey of the
Western New York bean section the bean acreage
has been decreased this season by fully a quarter.
The report explains that small yields, due to ex-
cessive rains and disease for the past two years
are largely responsible for this coupled with a
slow market this spring. The 1917 acreage was
about 192,000.

NO WHEAT TO BURN THIS YEAR IN
GOLDEN STATE, SAY FARMERS

Farmers are wearing large red fire extinguishers
on their harvesters this season, advance style notes
from the wheat fields say.

A lot of good wheat was burned during harved
last year, whether by enemy aliens or friendly
corn cobs is not known, but the farmers are not
going to let it happen again. Not only are the
machines carrying extinguishers. but farm fire
departments have been formed, with a. regular
chief. and ten men in each company.

Smoking in and about the fields in many places
is forbidden, and a harvest hand caught with
matches in his pockets is likely to be escorted
to the highway before being discharged.

GREAT LAKES STATES ARE NOT
ONLY ONES T0 SUFFER A FROST

The Great Lakes states are not the only ones to
suffer from the frost of June 22nd. Practically

- all states lying eastward and in the same latitude

were visited, with great damage to all growing
crops. Reports from Pennsylvania: New York
and all the states of the New England group
show that the frost was quite general. In the vic—
inity of Cohocton. N. Y., the temperature dropped
to 30 degrees, While at l’resque Isle, Maine dis-
trict, practically all early potatoes were cut to the
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New England—Boston: Weather cool; unusually
late frost- On .20th and 21st caused much damage in
northern and eastern portion to corn, beans, tomatoes,
and cranberries in dry h0g9: much replanting neces-
sary. 'Copious rainfall beneficial. Much‘ haying being
done; crop rather light. .

North Dakota.—~'Bismarck: Unfavorable weather for
crops, generally prevailed; min necded badly in all sec-

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Kittens. Wheat, oats and barley suflered considerable",
and late sown flax not germinating ac~ ,

from drought ,
count of dryness. Corn showed rapid‘growth. Rye and
early‘sown barley filling. Pastures and live stock in
'oxoéllent conditio . ..

Ponn‘sylvanla.~—-Philadelphia:Cool nights with frost
«in many places on the 20th and 22nd; some damage to
, gardens in central and northern counties. Corn grow-

ing osloyvly; early fields laid by; some replantings
not yet up. First crop of hay good and nearly all cut.
Oats heading and good to excellent. Rye harvest be~
gun. Wheat ripening. ‘Some early potatoes being used.

Washington.—-Seattlez Most unfavorable week of the
season, all unirrigated crops suffering greatly from
continuous drought. heat and drying winds. Much
spring‘ sown barley and wheat badly burned and will
hardly recuperate even with rain soon. Small grains are
generally headed out short and many fields are thin.
Pastures are drying up. Cherries are ripening, but
yield is below'average. -/

New, York—Ithaca: Beneficial rains on the fllst
and 23rd. Light frost in exposed places several
nights, and heavy frost on the 20th; some damage
to 0pm, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and tender
,crops in valleys and in low places; damage probably
25 per cent in affected areas, elsewhere little or none.

Beans and corn growing slowly. Wheat, rye, oats and.

potatoes doing well.

Minnesota.—Minneapolis: Barley, rye and oats head-
ing. Oat,_ rye and barley harvests begin July‘ 10 in
south to August 1 in north portion; two weeks earlier
than usual. Corn retarded by cold weather, but stand
generally good. Spring wheat and oats good to excel~
lent. Rye only fair and stand generally thin. Potatoes
good; early planted beginning to bloom. Pastures fair.
No damage from frosts.

MontaIm.——Hclcmt: Northern half of state still suf-
fering from drought, and winter wheat ruined; spring
wheat on fallowed land still holding out, but, rain nood—
ed soon to save crop. Range beginning to fire. Showers
in southern section have helped greatly, and crops now
good in that section; winter wheat beginning to head.
Plowing being done where not too dry. Some haying
being done.‘

Illinois.—Spring‘licld: Cool weather favorable for
harvesting; rainfall heavy in places, butxneeded in
others. Corn clean; condition in south only fair. Oats
heading short in some localities, but average good.
Wheat harvest general central, but in southern almost
completed and threshing begun; harvest in days early.
Rye harvest well along. Potatoes hurt by dry wca-
‘ther and tubers undeveloped. Fruits fair. No frost
in Illinois.

Missouri.——— Columbia:lt‘avoruhlo farm Work and lo-
cal shoWers have given temporary relief; general soak-
ing rain needed for corn, truck and all grasscs, Cor-u
still satisfactory but is beginning to roll in some lu—
calities. Wheat harvest about completed in south and
central; full swing in the north; exceptionally tine
yield. Oats fair; harvest under way in south. will be—
gin north next week. Apples two—thirds crop. Potatoes
one-half crop. ,

0hio.——Columbus: Crop development somewhat re-
tarded account of dry weather; rain now needed in
most sections. 'Wheat harvest progressing in Licking
and Union counties. Oats heading short some counties
account of dry weather; crop as a whole is satisfac—
tory. Corn beginning to suffer for lack of rain. Frost
caused some injury to corn and tender garden truck
over low areas in lowlands, but total damage apparent-
ly small.

0k]nhoma.—l')lclzihoma: Intense heat seriously dam-
aged much corn in silk and tassel and milk stages.
burning badly on uplands where moisture is insulh‘ci-
ent. Late corn, sorghum grains and broom corn rc—
tarded but not seriously injured. Cotton growing
nicely; setting square and early planting beginning to
bloom. Pastures and gardens deteriorating rapidly.
\Vheat and oats mostly cut and shocked, except in ex—
trcme northwest where harvest is well under way.

Iowa. Des Moinesr Poul. cloudy \vculhcv chucked
premature ripening of small grains; now heading and
filling nicely. Winter wlwat harvest lit-gun in southern
tier. will begin Dubuquc .lu’y -l; outs, Mnrsluill and
Mills counties ‘011 10: spring \vhczll. .lcl‘hrsou NH 29.
Grundy ll); rye Mitchell 10; barley. Story 10. (torn
\vcll cultivated; excellent condition. l'ol;ttm»<. Huck
and pastures damaged by previous drought and hunt in
wool ; benefited by showers Monday.

(‘ulil‘ornia_—Snn Francisco: Barley, wheat. znul out
harvests in progress; some llill'll’y throslicd; yield; zin-
good. Lowland pastures very poor; local ruins im-
proved mountain pastures; stock generally good. lr—
I‘igatcd meadows and alfalfa good: dry land poor.
’l‘rucl: crops, sugar beets, rice and cotton growing nice-—
ly. Corn and beans excellent; both being cultivator].
Grapes promising. Good apricots; fair crop )wul'hvs
being picked. Oranges dropping, but enough left for a
good crop. .

Kunsas.—~Topeka: Extremely hot and dry. except
the closing days when showers relieved the situation
over approximately one—third of the state. Corn stand—
ing the drought well. but beginning to tassel in the
east and must have rain soon. Wheat ripening prema-
turely in north—central and west where grain is shrivel-
ing; harvest in southeast, full blast in northeast and
central, and beginning in west. Threshing begun in
southeast. Oat harvest begun in southeast. Oats and
barley are seriously damaged in north and west and
potatoes cut short.

Texas.—Houston: Dry. hot weather with excessive
sunshine unfavorably affected vegetation but favored
threshing wheat and oats. Cotton stood heat well,
but deteriorated on account of drought in much of cen—
tral Texas; elsewhere good to excellent and fruiting
well; first bale marketed from Hidalgo county June
20; boll weevil reported from a few scattered localities.
Corn deteriorated rapidly; total failure in some cen~

" tral localities; elsewhere fair topgood. Pastures, pea—
nuts, sweet potatoes, and feed crops deteriorating in
drier sections. Rice continues promising. Rain badly
needed in all sections. Amarillo: The condition of
range and stock is good.

Indiana—Indianapolis: Frost night of 22nd damag-
ed much corn, potatoes and truck on low and muck
lands in northern half; estimates run from 25 to 40
per cent; only slight damage in a few places to upland
crops; believe heart of much of frosted corn is alive,
and will grow, maturing a crop later by. one or two
weeks; too early for complete accurate information.‘
Generous rains Monday night in south of immenSe
benefit to corn, oats, potatoes, pasture, cannery crops,
melons, tobacco and truck, which had deteriorated con—
siderably from drought. Lack of moisture less acute
in north, where unfrosted crops still generally good,
but rain is needed there also.
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SPLENDID OPENING PROGRAM
7} FOR MICHIGAN STATE FAIR

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The effort, time and money which has been

. spent lavishly in arranging and financing the spec—

tacle is another step towards the primary aspira-
tion of G. W. Dickinson, Secretary-Manager of
the Fair Association, to make the coming exposi-
tion a gigantic and forceful war agent.
grand opening of the Fair, on Friday evening.

August 30, the most stupendous patrioticpagent‘
ever attempted in Detroit willbe produced. Theus- ,

ands of soldiers, sailors, Boy Scouts, Red Cross
Nurses,Bmembers of fraternal societies and Mount-
ed Police will be in the marching line. ‘

Governor Sleeper and his escort will review the
pageant from, a stand in front of the grand stand.
At the close of the parade the mammoth spectacle
“The World’s War” and “Our Boys Over There”
will be shown in fireworks. Hundreds of sol-
diers, sailor and supers will be used in ‘thispre-
sentation. It will open with a display and bomb-
ardment, “Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue”.
Facing the spectators appears three huge columns
offire, one red, one white and one blue. Simul-
taneously from twenty shells three hundred‘feet
high. national colored fiery pennants are released.
Suddenly with a mighty roar, one hundred national
colored star rockets will rise into the air from
three points, blazing deep into the sky the colors
of the United States to the accompaniment of
furious volleys of aerial detonations.

“The World’ s War” is a masterpiece of spectac-
ular ingenuity, depicting in a most realistic man-
ner modern warfare with all its horrors together
with th; arrival of the United States troops in
France; receptions by the natives and troops of
the allied powers; bombardment of a city; blow-
ing up of forts; destruction of historic bridges;
spectacular attacks on the trenches of the enemy;
modern engines of war; huge siege guns, tanks,
aeroplanes and barrage fires and the troops of all

nations, correctly costumed, in grand review and,

in battle action. These features will reproduce,
in a most& realistic manner, many scenes that are
being enacted today in Europe.

The scenic arrangement is far superior to that
used in “Last Days of Pompeii” which. has been
one of the most beautiful displays exhibited in
America for a number of years.
canvas painting in oil nearly 450 feet long showing
a city “Somewhere in France” forms the back—
ground. On this are portrayed the market
places, taverns, government buildings. palaces,
houses of worship and all the familiar spots in
The scenes begin before the war. with
France at peace with the world, and end with the
ruins of a little village after being pillaged by
the Huns. The entertainment is concluded by
a gorgeous tableau depicting a fitting patriotic
scene. Seventy-three numbers are presented dur-
ing the evening.

MICHIGAN APPLE PROSPECTS_
HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE

Present apple prospects for Michigan are excell-
ent. In its June report, the Department of Agri-
culture gives only one important apple growing
state, New York, a better condition than Michigan.
On June lst, the condition of Michigan’s

tion. Milton Burk

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and Clifton Bowkerwsecretary and treasurer.

MUCH BELOW THE AVERAGE

Mr. Farmer, if you want a real hard nut to crack
try to figure out why Michigan potato prices week

anywhere from 10 to 20 per cent less than prices
paid in any other state in the union. We have fre’»
quently noticed this difference in prices jand as
frequently commented on it in these coiumns.
Our information gathered from crop reports of
other states is always borne out by the bureau of
crop statistics in its monthly report.

On June 1st the average, price for potatoes in
Michigan was 45c a bushel.- In only TWO states
in the union, Idaho and Utah, was the price less.
On June 1st, Maine growers were receiving 750,
per bushel; New York, 74c; Pennsylvania, 72;
Wisconsin, 51; Minnesota. 50:

Why is it? , ' 7 ‘ ,

Of course, the organized shippers will lay the
blame to the higher freight rate. Well, let us see
if that is a good alibi.

On June let, the average price for cats in Mich-
igan was 800; in Minnesota, 680; Ohio, 77; Indi—
ana, 72; Illinois, 71. Strange, isn’t it that the
freight rate which makes Michigan potatoes so
much lower than in other potato states has the op-
posite effect, seemingly, upon the cat price.’ And
Michigan grows a lot of oats, too, almost as much
as Ohio.

The comparison might be followed out with
other lines of farm products. Despite the slightly
higher freight rate from Michigan to primary
points. the prices on most of its products. with the
almost single exception of poatoes, range as high
or slightly higher than those in the principal com-
peting states.

Considering the super quality of the Michigan
potato, it should have no difficulty in finding as
profitable a market as the potato of other states.
But the trouble has been of too much organiza-
tion—not among the farmers, but among the ship-
pers. Michigan and Wisconsin are notoriously
organized in the interests of the shippers; and
Michigan and Wisconsin prices are notoriously
the lowest of any states in the union. We view
with satisfactibn the abundant evidence of the or-
ganization spirit among Michigan potato growers.
But not until every county in the state is organized
and affiliated with some central distributing agency
will the Michigan potato seek a market upon its
own merits and ate price commensurate with the
product of other states. '

FARMERS SEEK FOR IMPROVE-
MENT OF THE DRAINAGE LAWS
According to O. E. Robey, specialist in drainage '

work at the M. A. C., petitions asking the coming
legislature to enact laws which will make the in-

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_ others.

.{by week, month by month, and year by yeah run : -

[ghave nevertheless lo1’1g‘ complained .of the mats“
" With the expense distributed over a long period.

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MICHIGAN POT ATO PRICES ARE ’ L 1... spreading of th‘eeXpense over a series of yes

Michigan has many thousand acres? an
should be drains} and madame" ‘ . ':

u‘the present system the initial

in some sections. and. extremely ',burdenso
Farmers, while realizing the; no

of time, the drainagé -.'of the state's iow-lyi
lands would. preceed ,more rapidly ‘ '

URGES LARGER SUPPLY OF

FLOUR FOR THE FARMERS-

(continued from page 1)exception that a fare

mer in making an exchange of wheat grown by,

himself for flour, should bezpermitted, in lieu of

taking substitutes on hand eith’er gi‘oWn by him-_

self or purchased, against which there has been

no purchase of flour.

Before making these recommendations we have

consulted with editors of the leading farm jour- ;

nals of Michigan and they have endorsed a policy
along the lines of these recommendations. —-Fed-
eral Food Administration.

It will be noticed that Mr; Prescott suggests that ‘

the present consumption allowance of 11/; pounds

of flour per person per week be continued as at _

present. While we still believe that the farmer
is entitled to and actually needs a larger flour ra-
tion than the city dweller, it is perhaps best to

show no discrimination in this respect at the‘,
' present tme.

Regardless» ofxthe justice of such
a change. it would be most difficult to convince
the average city person that the farmer should be
treated any differently, and now is certainly no
time to do anything that would widen further the

breach between producer andlconsumer. ‘
Remember that the increasein flour- supply men-
tioned above is ONLY A RECOMMEDATION. Get
that clearly. Mr. Prescott has no power to make-
a change in the present ruling. He merely offers
his suggestions and advice upon the request of
the national headquarters, as does each of the
food administrators of the forty- eight states. All
have been asked to submit their recommendations
and Mr. Prescott’s letter merely explains his own’
personal views. The suggested change may er
may not be made. We think it will be.
strong demand from sparsely settled western states
for such a change, and Canada’s action in increas-
ing the farmer’s flour allotment will no doubt have
its effect upon our own administration ..
Anyway, the farmeis of Michigan will be glad
that Mr. Prescott has seen the justice of such‘a ~
change in the flour ruling, and has been friendly
enough in their interests to recommend it Dur-
ing these irksome days when we are all beset with
more or less doubtas to what our exact duties are
to our country and ,our fellowmen, and particu—
larly when so many obn0xious regu-I

 

appleswas 82; New York's 83; Wiscon-
sin's 85; with one or two southern. unim-
portant states a slightly higher condition.
The majority of the crop ranges much
lower in condition.

Reports received from New York state
that apples are dropping very heavily,
which will decrease the prospects mater-
ially. S. J. Bush, president of the New
York State Horticultural Society now es-
timates that the crop in many sections
will not average better than 65 per cent.
The unusually cold weather of the past
winter is given as the principal cause of
the heavy dropping of the fruit.

V Frost damage in the western states of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Men-
tana have cut the yield to about ten

This year it is estimated that’about
twenty thousand cars of apples will
be shipped out of these four states, as
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minded enough to deal with these prob-
lems in an intelligent and equitable man-
ner. . ,
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Allegan.—Perhaps n10“ region in the
county met such ,a great- loss by frost as
the lowlands south of Fennville,, the for-

the extensive farms of Messrs. Todd and?
Severens. It is reported that not only is‘
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ing of hemp, an unusual crop fer Micki»

gen, and his manufacture of it‘ into rope
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we will take the 116;.
:n rthcentral states
land: in these states
harvest labors $1. 84 per

had advanced 1:0. 2" [per ‘cen-t

_ labor 171 :per cen4; and fiber factors

, fly so that 111 1917 the cost of producing an
of potatoes was 196 per cent of the 1897-1906

‘_ teI1 ‘base years an acre 01 potatoes in these
“twelve nOrth-central states sold for an ayerage of
531335. 910 We assume that $35. 90 covered the cost of

production plus a slight profit during these years.
#1114901 and 1903, potatoes maLhave sold consid-
-erably above cost of production, and in 1902 they
7.1311y have sold below, but as an average of a ten-
“year. period they have probably sold for just about
‘, cost of production. ‘
., If $36 .90 Was cost of production in the base years,
"local: in 1917 Was 196 per cent of $35. 90, or $70.40.
Actual selling price in 1917 Was $107, or a profit
of- $36; 60. All this is on the basis of December 1st
, . farm values; which ordinarily are a fair guide. The
K191.7 crop, however, decreased in ,price after Dec-
ember 1st, until it eventually sold at the rate of
" about $85 an acre, or an acre profit of only $15 in-
stead of $36. 40. _

Every farmer knows that in Spite of the large
facre profit at present in potatoes, the crop is not
' attractive. . It takes about three times as many

man hours to care for potatoes as it dees fer corn.
‘ On 8.1} hour basis, potatoes returned last year
about 75 cent an hour, compared with 90 cents for
. corn and wheat and 95 cents for oats. Most corn
belt farmers are right 111' refusing to grow potatoes
.131 soil adapted to corn, wheat or cats.
" The chart indicates the hazardous nature of po-
tato growing .-Larg'e profits alternate with large
.losses. Years of unusua’lly large yields, like 1869,
.1875, 1902, 1904, and 1912, are generally years of

., re'oi potatoes in 1918
" fairly good~yield about”

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SERVICE BUREAU

department for farmer-5’ everyday troub-

and careful attention given to all com- '

or requ6sts to» information addressed to this
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SUGAR CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED
, oats 269 per bush- . '

WHERE QUANTITY IS PURCHASED

I read in your issue of June 22 that the food ad-
1min1Strator or Michigan had nothing to do with

the sugar Cards. I am enclosing a card which
states that they shall be filed with the food admin-

. istrator at Lansing. Would yOu kindly explain?

I do not Oppose the sugar card. but thru an argu-
ment your paper was criticised—J. E. 0., Mantstee.
‘ The‘article to which you refer applied to normal
sugar purchases for table'use-.. As has been pre-
viously stated'in these columns,.householders re-
quiring additional Supplies for canning or pre-
serving "purposes/would be obliged to filea cer-
tiflcate Stating the amount desired and the'pur-
poses for which intended. This is not in the strict
sense of the term a “sugar card ” Since grocers
are prevented from selling more than five pounds
to a rural customer at one time it was found nec-
essary to provide a way for householders to get
sufficient sugar for canning purposes. hence this
certificate.

Since our previous article was published, addi-
tional and more stringent regulations have been
put into effect in this state, and you will no doubt
read the statement many times that the “state
has been put on sugar cards.” This is not liter-
ally true. Even now, the private consumer does
not have to buy his ordinary want by card of cer-
tificate. The.new regulations apply only to those

who use sugar for manufacturing and commercial '

purposes, and to hotels and dealers. Sales to
town customers are limited to two pounds, and
country customers to five pounds. The retailer is
admonished not to sell more than three pounds
per person per month to householders... “whose co-

ant aiming purposes If yeti want»
.1111}; pounds tor canntng‘ you can [get it‘ with as;
permission of your county 100d administrator ‘21},
Limiting to three pounds per person is a matter 0151,
henor only. If you want to perjure youiself and '
take a. chance on getting caught as a slacker, you

. will no deubt have no difficulty in buying more"; '
i than three pounds of sugar per month per person,

but mest of us can get along niCely on that amount ‘
and most of 118 will. The information that is giv-
en from'tfme to time in these columnisoncernihg
food. regulations come direct from Mr. Prescott at
Lan'sing and is authentic.

NINETEEN POUNDS or ROLLED
OATS FROM A BUSH’EL '01? OATS

- How many pounds of‘ rolled oats do the'mills
get from a bushel of oats?——T. S. 5., Gheboygan.
The number of pounds of rolled oats we .get
from a bushel of oats varies, of course, with the
1 quality of the grain, out of every bushel we buy
we get from 14 to 15 pounds. but before milling
thegrain we screen out the large and small oats
to the extent of about 30%, so that from the cats
we actually mill we get 18 to "19 pounds of rolled
oats per bushel—The Quaker Oats Company, 0e-
real department.

OVER 102,000 BOYS ENROLLED EOR
FARM SERVICE IN SIX STATES

The enrollment of more than 102,000 boys be-
tween 16 and 21 years of age for farm work this
season in the boys’ working reserve of the United
States Employment Service has been made by Six
states, according to an announcement by the De-
partment of Labor. The states first reporting were:
California, 22,000; Indiana, 18,845; Illinois, 25,000;
Ohio, 18,000; Tennessee, 4,200; Wisconsin, 14,000.
In Rhode Island, high school boys are being en-
rolled in the reserve, trained in handling farm
machinery, and sent in groups by automobile to
farmers to demonstrate their ability. Men’s col-
leges and universities are making prompt response
to the request of Secretary“ of Labor Wilson that
their students be enrolled in the Public Reserve
and placed on farms this summer to‘assist in food
production. They will be placed with farmers
through the United States Employment Service
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fed silage to their cattle have given such convincing
testimony of its value as a feed that the silo is
now considered a necessary part of the dairy equip-
ment. All this because the dairy cow has been able
to demonstrate the value and economy of silage
through her increased production when it is in-
cluded in her ration. This. increase in the milk
flow was :noticed when silage was add-ed to the ra-
tion in the fall and the high average production
of the Winter mOnths was, not only notice but de-
cidedly appreciated because of the higher price of
dairy products at that time. Again, when the silo
was emptied in the spring before the pasture sea-
son arrived, as oftened, the falling Off in the pro
duction emphasized its value in the ration. It
has remained, however. for the dairymen who
keep records of the production of theircows to
show that silage is not only a good feed that will
materially increase the milk flow, but that it is
an economical feed from‘ a'financial standpoint.
Their records enable them to measure the increased
production and they find that it is more than
encugh to pay for the silage that is consumed

ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION DEMANDS s1LOs
Why, then, if the silo has always been so closely

associated with profitable dairy production. should
dairy farmers not use silage more extensively in
their feeding operations? Certainly the securing
of good economical feeds for our dairy cows is be—
coming more of a problem each year. The increas-
ed demand for commercial grain and by-product
feeds is causing them to sell for higher prices
and the cost of producing milk is being ma-
terially increased when they are used This sit-
uation should emphasize the need of providing
more home grown feeds for our COWS if the most
economical production is to be secured. With their
silos full of good silage the farmer’s anxiety over
the winter feed situation "will undoubtedly be
greatly reduced.
of a considerable portion of the hay and grain in

the ration, but it will result in an increased pro-

duction and a comparatively lower cost.

The putting up of more silage also means a better
.and more economical utilizatiOn of the corn crop.
With the quite common method of husking corn
standing and making no use of the stalks over 30
per cent of the food value of the corn plant is left
on the field and wasted as far as food is concerned.

With a silo the entire plant can be saved and
used to the best advantage.

Another important advantage Of the silo is real-
ized during years when. the corn crop is too late to
properly mature before frost. Such corn will make
good silage and can be used to the best advantage-
in this way. Without a silo all that can be se-
cured from the crop is some fodder or a low yield
of soft corn that is not a marketable product
and has only a comparatively low feeding value.

SILAGE AS A FEED FOR CATTLE
Briefly stated. the value of Silage for dairy cattle

is due to its succulence, its palatability and its feed-
ing value Its succulence keeps the cow in good
health, her system in good physical condition/and
thus makes it possible for her to digest her feed
most conomically. This makes it an especially
valuable feed for the dairymen for of all animals
the dairy cow if fed on a heavy ration for the long-
est period 01' time. Instead of being fattened in one
season and then sold or carried on a light bulky
ration as is usually done with breeding animals
she must be able to stand heavy feeding for several
years. She will do well during the spring and early
summer months when her feed is succulent pasture
and her enormous production at this time indicates
‘the value of such feed in the ration. She will not,
however, do so well during the winter unless a suc-
culent feed of some kind is added to her dry grain
and. hay rations. The cheapest and best substitute
for pasture, during the fall (Continued on page 12)

YOU MUST "GET THOSE CANADA
THISTLES BEFORE THEY GET YOU

- A butternut subscriber writes us: “I am trying
to get rid of Canada thistles. My neigthrs let
theirs go to seed year after year, while I. don’t

It will not only take the place ,

or C'arduus arvensis as his Iatin .
It’s one at the most pestifer‘ous, cantankv' .’
» erous, stubborn and injurious weeds lin'own to man.

him.

It will overspread a: careless man’s entire farm

- in a few short years and will drive almost any crap '

out of the fields. It spreads bOth by it‘s seeds and

its creeping root Stock, every fragment of which
is capable of sending up new plants, which in turn ,

give off creeping. stocks . A single plant, will pro.
duce several thOusaanseedsyif permitted to mature.

Since the plant is propagatedthru two different ',
agencies. both of these must be ‘destroyed‘if the 4
" plant is to be exterminator!

It is not enough to
mow down the thistles before they go to seed.
That will, of course, prevent aditional seedings,
but. will not destroy the'.original'plant.; By all
means, every Canada thistle within reaching dis-
tance should be cut to the ground before it goes

to seed, and as time permits the roots should be.

thoroly and persistently cultivated.

The Canada thistle is a noxious weed and as
such comes under the Michigan law requiring
road and street commissioners to cut thistles on

public streets and highways and individuals to-

exterminatethem from their premises. If there
are" Canada thistles growing on the highway in
the vicinity of your farm, notify the highway
commissioner. It is his business ‘to cut' them
down and he is not doing his duty unless he does.
If he refuses to take any action, notify the state
officials. '

 

 

 

AVOID DELAYS IN THRESHING‘

Every hour is valuable in farm work this
year Every hour that a threshing ma,-
chine is kept idle. because of breakage or
bad adjustment means time lost in the work
of getting.foood for the soldiers fighting to
preserve American principles and America.
. To tell ways of preventing such delays the
United States Department of Agriculture
has issued Formers’ Bulletin 991. “The
Efficient Operation of Threshing Machines.”
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HOME-MADE BORDEAUX MIXTURE
CHEAPER AND BETTER ’TIS SAID

Michigan potato growers can lessen the drain
on their pocketbooks and more effectively control
the diseases which attack their crop if they will
make up their own bordeaux mixture, the M. A. C.
office of plant pathology declares.

“No patent bordeaux mixture, ready mixed, has
the potency of the homemade article which the
farmer can prepare for himself in a jiffy,” a bul-
letin issued by the college declares. ‘

“Commercial bordeaux mixtures are more ex-
pensive, less eflicient and certainly not great time
savers. They give a false sense of protection—
but probably will continue to be made and offered
for sale as long as the farmer is foolish enough
tO‘demand them.”

Instructions for making up the home-made
mixture, with methods. for most effectively apply-
ing it have been published by M. A. C. in bulletin
form. The bulletin can be obtained by addressing
the college.

MILK .A CHEAP AND IMPORTANT
PART IN THE RATION FOR HOGS

In order to raise and finish all the extra pigs
that will be farrowed this year as a. result of the
campaign for increased production, it will be nec-
essary to exercise the utmost economy in the use
of concentrated foods. Pig raisers who have ac-

cess to dairy products have a great advantage over"

others. Experiments have proven that when meal
is worth $40 a ton, milk is worthmore than $8 for

' an equal weight, that is provided it is fed economi-

cally. Experiments carried on at the experiment
stations show that for growing hogs. 60 pounds or
over, 400 pounds of skimmilk produced results
equal to one hundred pounds of mixed meal. But-
termilk fed fresh is equal to skimmilk. Whey is
not 'so valuable: One hundred pounds of whey was

proved equal to 19. 2 pounds of quantities and be—

fore it has soured.
Authorities agree that it does not do to change

the diet from sweet to sour milk. For young pigs .
the sweet milk is much to be preferred. For the'

larger pigs it seems to make little difference wheth-
er or not is fed sweet or moderately sour, provided
whatever condition is favored , is uniformly kept
up, that is to say, if the milk cannot be obtained al-
ways sweet, then it should be the rule to feed it
sour.

’Gerben, I $500.

a 11:: ranking _ °
$200, chemo worth errand

. organized a- rat: killingma cru

one Of the slogans of t ui 116‘ ram one!
farmers. known as the New York State Federation
of Agriculture, will be “Fifty farmers in the Les
islature. " - -

The warden of Michigan’ 5 state prison is said to 3
be in a quandary as to what industry he will be ,

able to establish at the prison in place (if the

chairmaking’ and stonecutting planter as: it is re»
ported that under the new government regulations
these are non-essential industries.
tory at the prison has been operating a great many

years and in the stone shops a large variety of all --
' types of monuments and grave markers havé been
» made.

The chair tac- _

~ What is set down as the greatest cataract in”,

the world is on. the Iguazu river, which partly
separates Brazil and Argentina.
over which the river plunges is 210 feet, high, that
of Niagara being 167 feet. The cataract is 13,123
feet wide,.or about two and a half times as wide
as Niagara.
of water passes Over Niagara in an hour

“tons. _
Eight hundred cases Of alcoholism have been
cured during our camp experience. This is a con-

dition that c thee to us from civil life when they
These men. may backslide at ,

men are draftedu
some future time, when they are released from
military supervision, but for the time being at
least, 800 lives have been rendered normal and tem-
perate. ——William 0'. Gorgon in Collier’s Weekly. .

FLANDERS FARMS DISPERSION
SALE A WONDERFUL SUCCESS

(Continued from page 1)

Hardy and Bayne, Rochester. Fairmont Pietje Al—
cartra, 31,22 .

Dr. Lenfesty,
cartra, .3560.

John Schlafll,
tra, $500.

John Schlaff,
hee, $700.

John Schlaff,
Teehee, $425.

John Schlaff,
AlCartra $500.

R. R Pointer,

Mt. Clemens: Fairmont Mercedes Al-

. Clemens: Fairmont Teehee Alcar<

. Clemens: Fairmont Alcartra Tee—

. Clemens: Flanders Pontiac Segis

Mt. Segis

Clemens: Flanders Pontiac

Dearborn: Flanders Pontiac Segis

John McClure, Royal Oak: Flanders Pontiac Segis

Aaggie, 3450.
F. Johnson, Decatur, Ill.-:
Janet, $320.
R. R. Pointer,
Princess, $800.
State HOSpital

ac Se is Pauline,

J McClure, Royal Oak: Flanders Pontiac Segis De
Viola, 300

State5 Hospital Morgantown, N. C.: Flanders Pon-
tiac Se IS Korndyke, $36

JohngMcClure Royal Oak. Flanders Mercede§ Alcat-
tra, $300.

A. VanDen Branden, Rochester:
Se is Stella. $330.

1%. L. McLaughton: Flanders Pontiac- Segis Marion,
760.
$ E. LeRoy Pelletier, Pontiac. Flanders Pontiac Segis
B k 52

‘fIr Mc$Clu1e. Royal Oak: Flanders Pontiac Segis De
Haan,F $610.

R Johnson, Decatur, 111.:
Viola F$300.

R. Pointer,
Mollie $350.
F. Johnson, Decatur Ill.

Minita. $325.

J. McClure, Royal Oak:

K0], 9 3 7 5. .
Hardy, Roche:

A. E.
$350.

R. R. Pointer, Dearborn:
ert'e 500.

S1513 Hospital Morgantown, N. C.:
hamm ( lothilde Rue $430.

Several females were sold which were not listed

above. One of them, a week old calf born since

Flanders Pontiac Segis

Dearborn: Flanders Pontiac Segis

Morgantown, \I...VC ' Flanders Ponti—

Flanders Pontiac

Flanders Pontiac Segis
Dearborn: Flanders King Pontiac
Flanders Pontiac Segis
Flanders Pontiac Segis De
Flanders Burke Lyons,

Colantha Piet—

er:
Flanders

Flanders Jo-

I the catalogs of the sale were published, brought

$190.

The sale was highly satisfactmy in every way,
much of the credit for the remarkable attendance
being given to the advertising and news stories

\’ appearing in the M. B. F. The presence‘of so

many farmers 'can be taken only to mean that their

eyes are turning more and more to blooded, even ,

though high- priced, cattle to take the place of the

low producing grades still in evidence on many,

Michigan farms.

SOME NEW EULLETINS FOR " '
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 918, issued by the Depart-

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A i
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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
Sun-dud . 13 1-2 . .19 .38
No. 3 “it. 7! .78 1-2 .87 1-2
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OATS. —'The market a little u‘nsettled
due to inactive trading. Country eleva—
tors are cleaning out the bins and mak—
Much will
depend upon the movement of wheat
and government regularizations. It is
the opinion of a number of prominent
handlers that there will be little doing

0‘ and much scarcity.

.I

Crop- reports are showing excellent
crop conditions and with favorable har-
vesting weather there will be a bumper
crop.

The market will no doubt continue

‘firm and active because of the general

clean—up of last year’s crop and with
the enormous demand for feed and food
lines there is very'little chance of the
market falling off to any extent.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago l New York
No. 211.11... 1.65 1.70 1 1. as
11.. 3 1.11.1. 1.60 1.65‘ 1.67
113.411.1161. 1.511 - 1.55 l 1.61)

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‘ CORN. —During the past week con—
siderable strength has developed 011 the
corn m'.arket Receipts have been run—
ning light, hardly suflicient to take care
of local current demand Recent reports
show public stores do not contain
enough corn to carry them through the
season, consequently there has been con—
siderable skirmishing around both in
cash and future buying which has
brought on a steady advance in the

- market.

No. 1 Standard No.2 -
Market! Timothy , Timothy Timothy
nokoi! 17 00 17 50 15 00 17 5014 14 50
Glenn 19 00 '21 00 1‘ 00 19 0° 13 :0 14 00
anal-I6 .19 75 21 00 15,00 20 50 13 00 16 00
MID-r31! 23 00 21 50 17 50 2. 50 12 50 15 50
Nisork 25 00 27 00 20 M 25 00‘ 15 00‘ 18 00
Milo“ 21 .0 24 W19 0.“ 7.2 00 H "a. 1‘; 00
.No. 1 ' No. l ‘ No.1
. 1h“! 1.1.11 Mixed 121...: Mixed c1".
“Ciro“ 15 .0 15 5° 11 99 12 09 1:17:50
melt. 16 00 1G 50 9 00 11 110 8:: 9 90
Cindi-I11 16 00 15 50 13 0° 14 00 9 .0 1L 0‘
, ”Moral 16 00 17 00 9 00 10 50 8 00 10 00'
new York 2000 22 001700 17 591700,A1150
’ fithmmrl 19 00 20 00 5 00 16 00 1300 1‘ 00

 

favorable
Harvesting conditions this country will

one of the main' issues today is the

or
p’oration is in conference with the Ad-
yisory Committee of the Grain Trade
‘ market price for

There are many big problems to discuss
i’before
~ roached.

be
It will probably take several
days before plans can be completed for
the approval of President Wilson and

 

 

1 HICAGOi.

‘ good hay come for-Ward.

N o. l timothy is gradually increasing.

DETROIT.
easier.

BUFFALO. _,
market. Sheep and lambs steady.

2—)"

this Season we. do not anticipate a very
high hay market {Or thfis coming sea-

son. We believe hay will ‘sell- at a fair
price providing shippers are able to get
cars“ for loading.

During the past year the most promi—
nent market advances and fluctuations
was due to uneven distribution of'cars
For several months it was practically
impossible to ,get cars for loading, con-
sequently when a loader had a car for

I ”shipment he was able to get almost any

price.‘ These high priced cars stirred up
idea's covering hay values and a great
many got the idea that hay was going
toybe very scarce and refused reasonable
offers. ‘
Now the market has 1eached a 10w
basis brought on by flooded markets
We must necessarily wait until stocks
are worked off. create a demand and
then watch market developments very
closely. '
PITTSBURG.——~Receipts light.
timothy in demand and quotations well
maintained. Plenty of low grade hay
on the market.
NEW YORK.—Market draggy and
no improvement during the past week.
CINCINNATI.—~Showing considera-
ble improvement and‘ gains have ranged
on the best timothy from $2.00 to $3.00
The quality of the hay has been run-

ning better and the best grades are
what the buyers want.
CHICAGO. ——'Market active and

prices have been well maintained 011
all the best grades. The steady outside
demand helped out the situation,

DETROITc—Market active although
hard to maintain quotations due to far-
mers drawing hay in wagon load lots
and also coming from car load ship—
pers from nearby» points. The
grades of timothy and No. 1 light mixed
meet With fair demand. Off grades are
best used at home.

Barley

BARLEY.—The market is at a stand-
still. The malsters have secured their

' supplies suflicient 'to carry them until

the new crop is ready for the market
The mills are not buying heavy for feed
on account of the movement of feed be—
ing slow and market uncertain. How—
ever those wishing tcr purchase barley
are experiencing some difl‘iculty on ac—
count of receipts running very light

Chicago is quoting a range from $1. 30
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GRADE ,' Detroit Chic-to l New York
c.11.1>. l 9.75 2 11.25 : 12.25
Prime 9.50 j 11.00 12.00
11.1 Kid-m l ins 12.25 12.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAY. ~—Markets continue draggy al—
hough the situation is brightening up a
l

d receipts are showing a decided
“high will give the markets a
, at ready afo1i a,

buyers

' Farmers are now busy cutting.
- ' have its bearingn

,- proposition to hold on to No. 1 beans,

BEANS—Market unsettled, due to
the bad condition of the stock yet in the
hands of farmers and elevators, and
Eastern buyers hesitate to take on large
supplies. It will be necessary to dry

amany large lots in orde1 to put them in

a merchantable condition. When this
is done we believe jobbers and other
will buy more f1eely which
should stimulate the’ market. Accord-
ing to crop reports about the same acre-
age is planted this season. Of course
there are a hundred and one things that
can happen to the crop before haryest
and the result of this year’s crop will
market developments
until the new crop 5 ready to move.
Whether Or not it is a good business

 

   

  
  

for :a better market 1 feature _tth
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Him market 3 owly reoove-rlng its normal activity.'
No. 1 hay falling off and mar et showing substantial strength.

PITTSBURG. Hay situation ,showlng some impro‘ emont.

RICHMOND. 'Murkét continues 5'. 'uxglsh and d n t look for early improvement
Eggs. berries, .trults, potatoes very scarce; butter firm; poultry
Hay situation more active and a trifle firmer.

Best grades cattle and hogs selling higher with firm tone to

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of the individual. In our opinion we

doubt if the market will work much
lower but there is an equal chance of
the market going higher and especially
with adverse bean growing and harvest-
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Choice round Medium Round

Markets 7 l white-tacked ‘ white-ache:

Detroit 1.80 cm. ’ 1.65 wt.
Chicago 1.70 1.45
Cincinnati 1.85 1.65
New lork 1.85 1.70
Pittsburgh 1.70 1.45
Baltimore. Md. 2.011 1.811

 

 

POTATOES—Both new and old po—
tatoes are scarce and in good demand.
Southern shipments are not coming in
as fast as expected. The Government
is taking large supplies for the various
camps which cuts down the supply go-
ing to the regular markets.

The demand for old potatoes will con—
tinue until such time as the markets are
better supplied with new stock. How—
,ever the disposition of the average con-
sumer will be to purchase new potatoes
leaving the main source of outlet on
the old stock among restaurant and h0-
tel trade If you have old potatoes get
them 011 the market just as soon as you

. Old stock sold on June 30 at $3.75
a asack of 150 pounds in lots of 5 or
more bags, car lots in bulk at $2.00 per
hundred pounds.

Berries
BERRlES.—Strawberries
tically cleaned up. Cherry receipts run~
ning light, sales ranging $4.50 bushel.
lxcd Cu11ants $5.00 to $6. 00 Red Rasp—
bcriies and Black langing from $8.00
to $0 00 per 24 quart case.

are prac—

 

llUTTlCR—Jlarket
and demand g’Ood.
eries have Government contracts to fill
which absorbs the usual amount of sur—
plus that is usually thrown on the mar»

continues lirm
Many 01 the cream-

ket at this season of the year. Detroit
quoting creamery extras 43c, firsts 42c.
Good dairy butter in fair demand sell-
ing around 42c.

junc 29, 1918.—Quotations at the
close on Friday were as follows:
EXTRAS, 44%@45c; HIGHER SCOR-
lNG THAN Extras 45/46c; l‘lRSTS
4.3@4-lf/_1c. and SECONDS 40(a>42'/’_§c.
At the close last week them was a
slightly easier feeling on the market but
011 Monday the market strengthened and
extras were strong at 441/3c. For the
next two or three days the market con-
tinued to gain strength and on \Vednes-
day the quotation on extras advanced a
quarter cent. 011 Thursday the quota—
tion advanced to 45c but on Friday there
was a slightly easier feeling but with
no change in quotation, except to place
the inside quotation on extlas at 44%c.
Centralized butter has been in quite de-
mand during the week several cars of
90 score selling at 44C. The general
price on centralized buttc1 has ranged
from 43/ to 443/1c

Receipts indicate that tl‘ ‘ flush is now
on. New York receipts this week in—
creased about 10% over those of last
week. Large quantities of butter have
been 1eceived on government contracts
to be packed into tins. Buying during
the greater part of the week has been
active especially with the higher grades
Considerable butter has been

 

secured several cars for army use
There has been no export trade.

EGGS—The market continues
and active. Receipts are not 1n excess

to the current demand. .. Current re—q

ceipts are selling from 351/2 to 36c, se-
lect fresh country eggs sell at 1 to 2c
higher“ _ \
Chicken Coops
CHICKEN COOPS ~—Shippers should
arrange to have on hand chicken coops
and we would advise purchasing ‘One

Way Coops.” On account\of the ex-
p1ess companies having a large number

I

of shipments to handle it makes it
practically impossible for them to re—
turn empty chicken crates promptly.

Very‘often coops lay in the yards for
weeks and months before they are re—
turned. .One way coops can be pur—
chased around 40 to 50c each all de-
pending on the quantity purchased at a
time. These coops are used only once.
A shipper can have on hand a supply of
these coops and then make ~hipment
whenever the poultry is ready for the
marke: and will not have to wait for :1
return of a coop or call on his neighbor
to borrow a coop and then get in wrong
with his neighbor on account of not
being able to get the coops back by the
time his neighbor is ready to ship.

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

1‘ _, we... :21:
MW P( )U LTRY
l i. ‘: f"; '--‘f
L1VE WT. : Detroit Chicago New York
Turkey 24-25 1742 19-21)
Duck: 30-32 21-25 J 29.30
Geese 15-16 13-15 17 18
Springer: 27‘28 27-28 27-29
Hem 29-30 27-29 28:30 _
No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Less
POULTRY.—-Receipts are a trifle

heavier but not enough to lower the

market. This especially applies to No.
l l1ens——light and thin stock of course
are not desirable and sales 011 such
stock will vary as to price. Broilers are
coming in more freely and market will
work lower in proportion increased re—
ceipts. Sales are ranging from 35 to
40c. It is not advisable neither is it
profitable to ship thin underweight stock.
Young ducks are now coming in and dc—

mand is good~—sellingr around 301‘. Old
ducks moving slowly. \u demand for
geese or turkeys.
Wool
:\ general order has been issued by
the liederul \Vool Administrator to the

cliect that hereafter all wool clips con~

mining ten per cent. of llu‘cc-elghths
wool must be graded. This rulingr is
considered by the trade as smncwhat

sweeping and likely to cause some delay
more than would ordinarily be the case
in getting wool to the. mills {or manu—
facture. since many clips in the ordinary
course of trade which would contain
much more than that proportion of
three—cighths wool would not be. graded
at all but would be sent direct to the
mill which might consume it in the orig
inal bags.

There is quite likely a reason for this
ruling, however. on the part of the Gov—
ernment and that is the need for this
grade of wool in the manufacture of
certain Government goods. so that there
is an especial need 101 the mills manu—
facturing Goveinment military cloths to
secure a large p10p01tion of this giade
of wool. if this be the leasnn, and such
is generally accepted to be the care. the
dealers will be glad to accede to the re—
quest of the Government, although it
means more work and more delay and
consequently more expense to the deal-
ers, especially. perhaps, in the dispos’al
of some other grades which are taken
out in the grading process. _

in this connection. it seems fair to
add that if the Government requires
more of the dealers in the way of grad-
ing and of handling of the clips, so that

the- trade is put to more expense than ' IV .1

contemplated in the original
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Can the Canner

HE GROWTH of the dairy industrv

in this state the past decade reads like a
romance. It has been so rapid that some of us
have boastingly proclaimed we are running
neck and neck with Wisconsin and New York
state. But D D. Aitken says not so, and D.
D. ought to know. Mr Aitken believes that
Michigan ranks about fifth in the total value
of its dairy products. But even this distinc-
tion is not to be sneezed at. T0 stand fifth
among forty- eight states in the production of
a commodity, the total annual value of which
runs into seveial billion dollars, is enough to
warrant throwing out one’s chest and thumb-
ing one ’s nose at his neighbors.

But mark my words, if farmers will con-
tinue to turn out by the the thousands to buy
pure-bred livestock, as they did at the Flan-
ders sale, Michigan will be well on its way to
the head of the class before another five years
have passed into history.

When a farmer—a man who makes his liv-
ing by the sweat of his brow—~steps up before
the auction block and pays $500 to $1 000 in
cold cash for a little black and white heifer
or bull calf, he means business, doesn’t he?
He’s not buying that calf for a pet. He ’9 mak-
ing an investment that he intends shall pro-
duce a good return, and the man who has
enough business judgment to make that kind

.of an investment, has enough business ability
to make it pay dividends.

Can the canner. The cow that can’t pro-
duce over eight or. ten quarts of milk pygr day,
and the bull that sires such a critter, are worth
more dead than alive. It’s like feeding straw
to a bonfire to feed high-priced grain to such
animals. Our boys in France need beef.
Why have perfectly good beef running around
the farm under the disguise of dairy cattle
when beef is high, and pure-breds are still
comparatively cheap._

Peace to Their Ashes

OUNT CLEMENS, .the home of Mich-
igan Business Farming, is a merry
little town wheie several thousand people
annually gather from the four quarters of
the globe to reSt,, take mineral baths and to
enjoy themselves. Three miles from Mount
Clemens is Selfridge aviation field, and every
day the sky is speckled with the flashing
planes and the air reSounds with the throb
of their motors. One day a score of planes
will fly 1n battle formation, looking for al'l the
world like a flock of wild geese nosing home-
ward. The next day, two or three aviators
will have the heavens to themselves and those
who have the time, and many who do not, to
watch the maneuvers, are always thrilled with
the daring acrobatics.

A strong tie of afiection has sprung up be-
tween the people of Mount Clemens and the
brave lads who are taking their first lessons
in flying at Selfridge field, and we have all

A ~- felt grateful that the fatal accidents which

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was taken from the mm, more dead than
alive. He Will recover. -The accident threw a
pall~ of gloom’ over the community. It seemed

. as if a member of the family had been taken.

The next afternoon another machine crash-
ed to earth, and alriiost simultaneously caught
fire. Both occupants met with a terrible death.
their bodies being burned beyond recogmtion
And the glacm deepened over the Community;
the first tragedies of the war three thousand

miles across the seas had come home to us. . '

A few days later there came thru my office
Window the muffled tones of the funeral (1mm,
and the measured» tread of marchin‘gSoldiers.“
The body ‘of a Selfridge hero'Was on its w 1y
to'the last repose. Overhead the great planes
circled protectingly about the line of march
swooping almost to the tree tops to drop their
floral tributes. -

Thus do the yOuth of the land give up their
lives in the struggle for‘democracy. Peace
be to their ashes. The soldier who dies in
preparation for‘a justifiable war is as much a
here as the soldier who dies in the front line
trenches, and every youth who meets death
in the training camp is as surely the victim
of Prussianism as the he had been shot dead

by a German soldier.

Not an American life that is lost in battle
or in preparatibn for'battl’e that does not lay

— another Crime against Germany’s door, and

strengthens the determination of 'every good

citizen to see the war thru to its bitter close.

Sixty Days of Prohibition

HE SECOND month of prohibition has
proven even more satisfactory than the
first. Except for the violations of the law. in
Monroe county thru which the Detroit-Toledo
road runs, the law hasbeemgenerally observ-

ed., and the prosecuting attorneys of all the '

other counties announce a remarkable decrease
in crime and drunkeness. Some jails haven ’t
had an occupant since the saloons closed on
May Ist. and many towns have become quite
accustomed to even the town drunkard who has
reformed and gone to work. —

Despite the general satisfaction that per-
vades the entire state over the effects of pro«
hibition, the saloon gang is vigorously push-
ing its amendment to permit the sale' of light
wines and beer, and there is a grave dangei
that it may receive a favorable vote at tic
hands of the people, unless those who want to
give prohibition a more thoro trial bestir them-
The old cryeof “personal liberty” is.
as strong as ever, and it goes-a long way with
some people who voted against the whiskey but
shed tears over the remains of beer and light
wines.

We all know that the legalizing of beer and
light wines would bring back the same old cor-
ner saloon; the same old temptations to the
boys and girls, and the same old corrupt pol-
itics. We don’t want them. We ve just east
o‘ii' the shackles.
back again? But between the German brew-
ers, and the German saloonkeepers, and the
German bartenders, and the pro German
slackers, .the shackles Will be welded on Our
ankles “if we den’t watch out.”

Keep Your Receipts .‘ ~~ ‘- .
N LISTING the several hundred subscripv.

What sane man Wants them ,

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or destrOyed or tucked away into me
ten place that you Want to refer to a“

Eat Olen—Feed Your Milk to the Pigs
NEVER could understand why

lido.

It’ 1: tea much bother you know for a
man that’s selling his milk to the city trade

"to make butter and o'leo je-a little cheaper to

buy. Besides he can get a trifle more money
tent of his milk by selling it Whole, instead oD
Using a few pounds for butter. '-

But Whole milk dairymen Would soon find. _
their market in ruins if every city consumer ‘
turned from butter to ole‘omargerine. The
manufacture of vast quantities of milk into .
butter relieves the sdrplus and stabilizes the
whole milk trade. . \A
. A campaign is now on to increase the use ‘
of dairy products. But we farmers should
practice what we preach, or we can’t expect

, very good co- operation from the city consum-

tibns that were received daily at this Office }

during the past winter and spring, it Was inev-
it‘a that a few miStakes should have been ’

111“)? With one exception these have W144 ‘

. head.

er. Butter should be served 011 the farm table
and used in the farm cooking, even if you do
have to buy it and it costs more than oleo

The campaign for equal suffrage 1n the state . « ' ' L

of Michigan is soOn to be launched. That it
will carry by allarge majority is a foregone
conclusion. That it will not carry without
the farmer vote is pretty'well conceded: So ‘
then,»the ladies who want to vote, need to first
be assured that they can depend upon the far-
mers’ support. Farmers will vote for equal
sufirage'because they believe in equal rights’
to all, and can see no reason why the women"
who preside over their households and give;
birth to their children should not have a'voice.
in making the laws and electing the mien Who
administer those laws. It matters not that
YOUR 'wife'may, not want to vote. Some-
body else ’swife does. ‘For the part that ivo-
men are playing in this world war, the ballot
should be gratefully extended to them.

.The effect of the propaganda that the Kai-
ser and his surviving autocratic kin and/sym-
pathizers in Russia are handingout to the peo.
ple, thru the Detroit Free Press and other
American newspapers against the Bolsheviki
has been considerably weakened by the news
stories that the Bolsheviki have won their re-
cent elections by large majoritigs. The Bolt
sheviki is by far the strongest power in Russia
today, and with help from the Allies to restore
some kind of order in their domestic affairs, ‘
would give them back RuSsia’ s military sup—
port. 7 -

Cengress is going to take'a vacation soo’n.
House and senate leaders have agreed upon a.
thirty or forty day recess as soon as pending .
appropriations are out Of the way. All work
and no play, you knew, makes Jack a dull boy;
and many months have already passed sine, '
congress Was dubbed. a dullard and a; block
A visit back home , sWim’f, n": the 91‘

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shun shes sometimes) and when

fie engagefhe “Jest natcherly

Ierabi‘e,

7. 1 “he sez, l7“but howin’li I’m geing
‘toiget it up is mor’i‘l I kill tell“

-‘-‘The women will have to help, " I suggested,

.Irecalling what I had heard advocated in the city
'while attgitding a -woman’ s club meeting and lie-"
telling to; advice given by certain society women
so! tIie wealthy class.

- "wen,” he sez. “they do help What they can,
but by thunder, when a woman has 8 or 10 kids
to look after, do the coekin’ washin,’
bakln,’ look after the chickens, feed the calves,
grow the garden stuff and a few. hundred things
like that they have but little tlme to Work in the
hay fields and you know it tee, " he sez.

“Why,” look4a here, Rube,” Sez he, “fa'rmers’
wives raise-children an’ are proud of it an’ callate

\ to take some kind of care 'Of ’em, an’ when them

danged society damespwho’d rather run around
with a poodledog tied to a string than be seen
w‘heelin’a baby cab, sezz the Women of the farm
has plenty of time to work in the fields—éby gosh.
they don’t know what they are talkin’ about an’
are-jest spoutin’ hot‘ air? What in thunder do
they know about work anyway? Jerusalem

Crickets! More'invhalf of 'em don’t even tie their.

own shoes! Have a servant to do it for ’em, an’
yet the think they know all about farm conditions
and tell What the farmers’ wives ort to do an’
how extravagant they are an’ wasteful an’ every-
thing, when they might a darn sight better raise
a few children an" make themselves useful and
sort 0’ help pay for their keep."

"0, well,”I said, “Uncle Amos, conditions will
soon be changed—they're going to draft loafers,
'pool room loungers and a lot ofother
fel-lowsnot producin’ and you may be
able to get help fromrthis source.”

’ “Help! Hell!" he snorted “A loafer .
in;the'city_,,,WOuld be a. loafer in the -
country an’ who’n th’ devil wants a

man taggin’ round that will take two I
men to keep agoin.?”

“If them fellars- can be made useful
why don’t the government put them in ’
the army where they have officers a-
purpose to keep ‘em gem” and leave
some of the boys who know how to ‘
farm an’ are willin’ to do it, where {“1
they can. do the most good?” H

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”take farm boysé—some Of them must

go, an’ I didn’t when they took my
two boys either, but I’m dinged if I
want any loafers nor bar hangers

have .'em, you can bet your [boots on ,
that]! — . . .
“Th" great trouble now is—"—city folks

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konw so darn much more'n we do

about farmin' an’ give so danged much
advice, that we get alf mixed up an’ I
’Ldon'tjest know what to do} ourselves.”
_ “Why, Rube," he sez, “the folks in
town "some‘of’them at least, think any-
thing is good enough for farm work—
if a fellar don’t know enough to pump
water out oil a. perfectly good pump,
jest send him out—to Work on the farm.
cause there they 11st windmills, .
b'go'sll, and they never seem to know
that the town has windmills, too—s .
.hot air wind bagawould be more pro-
3 so it goes; anything good
“tor the farmer; 311’ yet w \‘
will Win the ,War,’5 '

A Gosh, they aint
no help to. be‘ had since they took the! two boys
tho war an? I don‘t know just what to do.”

mendin.' .

‘report to the regional director."

“I“ H“ In tn 1mm 1“

country," said the- Missioul'ian

“City pe'

._ rub up against their neighbors. but merel

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can afford to pay. they get all the men
while all? we go without.

for nfien an’. 70c an hour for .men an“ team. Well,

_. they :get the men ’cause Vfarmers cant pay any

Judd on the shelf till after. the war an’ let these

“Well I must be going " I said. “Glad to get

your views of things, Uncle Amos, and what do

you think of conditions and who is to blame for
”them?" »

- “Damn the Kaiser,” he shouted, and I left him,
still smokin’ his corncob pipe and running his

fingers thoughtfully through his whiskers much
to the annoyance of some of the tenants of the

aforesaid hirsute appendage.

‘WERE DEPOSED RAIL HEADS

SABOTAGING ON UNCLE SAM?

S. H. S. of Cass City submits the following from
The New Appears Washington Bureau.

Washington—There is a good deal of speculation
in government circles over the inner meaning of

_ Secretary McAdOO’ 5 action in deposing all the rail-
way presidents.

He has made the statement that
“he has been unable to escape the conclusion that
it will be advisable to place in direct charge of

_ each property for operating purposes a representa-

tive to be known as the federal manager who is to
There can only
be two reasons for this move One is that these
presidents were sabotaging on the government;
that they did their utmost to discredit government
control. with a view to combating the inevitable
government ownership of the railroads. The other
reason is that there were “superior brains.” These
men who are drawing exorbitant salaries are but
a hindrance to the ultimate welfare of the compan-
ies they are supposed to direct. The present gov-
ernment control of the railroads is but a test. “If
successful we may see real government ownership
of almost every big industry imthe country. If a
failure the course of government ownership will
be set baCk fifty years. That is why Secretary
McAdoo, as Director— General of the railroads is
doing his utmost to make the railroads the efficient
servants of the people.

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Now jest see.
his" road being built past my mare; 40c an hour

’em as they pass by. They are too thoi‘ou

.r 1, starChed with their own importance to be
“to unbend and enter the other Viellar's joys .

sorrows. .
“But in the old home town or the friendly can

‘try, Mizzus Waddles, although she weighs mighty
thinks nothing o’ffi

nigh three hundred pbunds,
coming over in the ferenoon bringing her work:

' all the bad news of the neighborhood, her asthma, ,

and her five greasy children and staying all day.

She talks until its a mercy she d"oesnt wheeze
herself to death, pausing only for food and drink},
'at the usual times, or to declare, when little John: '
berry or St Elmo upsiets the center table, breaks am
window or sets the house on fire, that the child .

takes after his father

“She sighs over the departed, and hopes tlsllely '
e

haven't gone where she is afraid they have.
tells the ailing that she knew of a Similar ease
that had become reduced to skin and bones», and
presently died in awful agony. She wrecks the
reputations of her absent acquaintances. She final—

ly wheezes herself away, followed by her tribe and,

there is nothing for you to do but wonder why

there is no insurance against the all day visit—~'

John _P. Morgan in Judge.

PICKLES on PUPPIES
A man put a bundle in the rack of the railroad
car above a man sitting next to the window and
sat down in the unoccupied part of the seat. says
the Ladies Home Jomnal. It was a warm day
and the man under the rack had his hat in his
hand. Suddenly a gentle little trickle came down
from the bundle 011 the man’s head. Wiping the
top of his head with a. handkerchief he turned to
his neighbor and said. “Something in your bun-
dle seems to be leaking. Pickles?"
“No,” said the other man. “Puppies."

BEWARE THE BATH TUB
A farm paper, speaking of a certain bulletin
upon the subject, sa3s that washing of the soil
is one of the most wearisome problems With which
many farmers have to contend. “We believe,” says
the author, “every faImer who is losing any of his

soil from washing should get a copy of this bulls-p

tin.” The patient should also avoid all contact
with soap and watel, as they are known to have
a vely deleterious effect upon the soil.

9

SPEAKING 0F SUBMARINES
“Father, what kind of beasts were the rams
used so much in the Civil War?"
“They were probably the ancestors of the ewe
boats of today, my boy.”

OLD FASHIONED

“Why doesn't Mr. Cobbles use a
tractor on his falm?”

“He says he hasspent forty years
studying the temperament of mules
and he isn’t going 'to throw away the
knowledge gained in that time for ev-
ery new tangled contrivance that

 

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PETER PL()“' SAYS: ..
Some folks are too busy laying by
treasures here on earth to store any
up in heaven.

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Maria’s boy has been visitin’ us.
He watched us shear the sheep. The
next day the pigs set up an awful
squealin' and I went to see what was
the trouble. Here was that young
gran’son of mine trying to shglr, or
skin. one of the little pigs w1th his
gran’ma’s scissors.

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Jim Peters, who launched his boat

on the sea of matrimony a few weeks,

ago, tells me that the white caps have
begun to show already. “These here
women," says Jim, “git some of the pe-
culiarest idees in their head. Cynthia
has her mind set on. a rug for the par-
lor, but I says no, we’re goin’ to use
that carpet which grandmother wove.
What’s good enough for my folks is
good enough for you. But Cynthia
says she is going to use her parlor for

something besides funerals and the-

minister and she won’t have folks
walkin’ on her carpet that’s got Noah's

feet prints on, alludin’ to :that special»
design that only grandmother knew
With all the ‘work Cyni.
thia’ s got to do in the kitchen and .help- "
ing in the field, I don’t see where she a

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"0F the best sermons I have read 1011
Sonia time is Dr. Frank Crane' s “The Art of

Getting along with Folks”. How many of ,
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and? How many of you “get along" with ev--
erybody you meet?, How do you do it? What ,
rules .of life do you follow that you tread on no
toes. arouse no jealousy-among your. friends, or
are able to conform your own' opinion to theirs?

We all admire people who have outstanding
principles; who follow the straight and narrow
path at all times and expect everyone else to do
thefsame. .Bpt We don’t like to have them toreVer
“finding fault with' our friends and ourselves, do
'We? '.I know a Woman in a little country commun-

ity who hasn’t a mite of use for anyone who doesn’t
fido things exactly as she Would have them done.
At heart she is a good woman, but the habit of.
,fault-finding has fastened itself on her so securely
that she has become a querulous, garrulous old
woman whom everybody dreads to have come into
their house. She used to call on me. And my.
how her tongue would wag! “I just told Mrs.
So-andso that if she was going to have any friends
left in this community, she’d better, etc, etc."
“Those Smith Kids are the worst lot I ever‘saw.
‘ Yesterday I caught ’em swinging 011 the new gate
Jim just bought. I took them by the ear, marched
them right straight home, and told Mrs. Smith that
she didn’t catch my youngsters romping all over
the neighborhood. and that, she’d better teach her
own some manners”—— '

But I have another friend, a broadgminded, soft—
‘spoken women upon whose face the cares of life
show only faintly. How I do love to have hcr
shadow darken my doorway. She is always
welcome. Her words are of cheer and hopeful-
ness. She speaks well of everyone whom she dis—
cusses at all. She always remembers the good
things that her neighbors do. She has the knack of
“getting along with folks.” I never knew a woman
who was better liked by her neighbors. She is a
leader in all community activities, not because she
. forces herself in. but because she is the unanimous
choice. At the picnics and the little social “doin’s”
of the locality, she is always surrounded by a little
knot of folks who love her and like to be near her.
You have a woman like this in your community.
haven’t you? And you like to have her drop in for
a call, don’t. you? Have you ever wondered why
it is that you always welcome her coming. even
on your busiest days, or why you always feel glad
when you see her at a public gathering? I’ll tell
you why. Because the woman who thinks well and
speaks well of others, will think well and speak
well of you, and its a pronounced trait of human
nature that we like to be well thought of. This
subconscious feeling instinctively draws us clos-
er to the sower of kindly words and deeds.

While this art of “getting along with folks”
seems to be bred in the bone of most fblks, I am
.quite sure that it can be cultivated if one only tries.
A firm resolve to speak no word of evil against
anyone will form the foundation upon which the
habits of right thinking and right Speaking may
be built. Be charitable in your judgment of your
fellow men and women. 1f you can say nothing
good about them, say nothing at all. But as you
travel along your journey. try to pick out the good
qualities of your friends, and store them up in your
memory so that the next time you feel likeytalking
about them it will be easy to discuss their virtues
instead of their sins and omissions. It isn’t hard
, to “get along with folks" and there’s a lot of satis-
faction in it. Take my advice, and try it.

Affectionately, PENELOPE.

  

  

    
    
    
   
   
     
     
   
   
    
    
    
     
      
     
     
   
    
      
    
      
        
           
       
     
     
    
    
   
  
 
   
 
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
 
 
   
   
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
   
   
  
 
  
   
     
 

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Cheerful Letter from a Happy Farm Woman
DEAR PENELOPE2-Having read in your

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.department the letter of that other woman

who Was so discouraged and despondent
over her farm home, I want to say I know how to
sympathize with her. for I used to be as bad or
worse
, How or when the change came I do not know,
’C'but I think it was when I opened the door and
let love into my heart. First a husband who loved
me, then my two boys and next the dumb brutes
and animals. Not one of them but loves me. The
horses and cows that come to be petted the lambs
'whose mothers disowned them and I raised by
hand, though grown and have lambs of their own,
(will separate from the rest of the flock and
some racing to meet me if they but hear me calling
m;.the chickens which fly into my lap if I but

      
      
      
      
 
   
   
  
  
   

 
 

  

  

  

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is on my head or shoulders. ‘Qt‘r. .' '
How can a person be unhlappy With friends like
these? And then my plants and flowers are beau-

tiful. When we moved to our home the years ago ,_

all it boasted of was a fine row‘ of maple trees

and a lilac bush. Now I have peonie‘s, roses, nar- -

cissus, iris and flowering currant. In the fruit
tree line I have set out rhubarb, asparagus, cur-
rants, strawberries, blackberries,»
peaches - .

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For France .

HE had been strikcn sorely, ere this came
And now they urote that he, her boy,
was dead——

Her only one!
she read.

Trying to see what followed his dear name.
He had died “gloriously" the letter said.

“Guarding the Tricolor from touch of shame

Where raged the battle furious and wild.”
Catching her breath, she stayed despair’s

advance.
She was a mother; and besides—~61, child
Of. France !

Through blinding tears

ND after, lho remembrance of past years
Dulled'not to her fond vision nor grew
dim; ‘
Tho every slightest incident of him
Was treasured in her breast, she shed no
fears.
Hcr cup was full now. even to the brim.
And for herself she knew not hopes or fears.
So, toiling patiently, with noble pride '
.lnd lifted head she met each pitying
glance, . ‘
She was the mother of a son who died——
For France!

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In conclusion, I am gOing to copy a poem of.
Ella Wheeler Cox’s:
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
[.0076 for the places that are smooth and clear,
And speak of those to rest the weary car
()f earth, so hurt by one continuous strain
Of human discontent and grief and pain.
Talk. faith. The world is better off without
Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
If you have faith in God. or man. or self
Say so; if not. push back upon lhc Shelf
()f silence all your lhought till faith shall come;
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
Talk health. The dreary never Changing tale
4 0f "mortal maladies is worn and stole.
You "cannot charm or interest or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well. or all is well with you,
And God will hear your words and make them
truer—Mrs. H. E. 0., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

A Few More Helpful Hints

EAR PENELOPEt—I was quite busy before

but as the time is extended I would be glad

to enter my home kitchen conveniences as

it is the room most occupied by the good house-
keeper. These things are only little ones but the
the little things are what helps. I have a spoon
for stirring different things while cooking. .It al-
ways slipped back in the kettle and I burned my
fingers so often that I just bent the handle over
to form a hook and hang it on the side of kettle.
I icok two baking powder cans, one smaller than
the other, punched holes in the top and keep them
On top of the stove for salt and pepper. One uses
these seasonings more than any other and it is so
handy. I have a stool about fOur inches higher
than a chair which I keep under the_ pantry
shelf to use When baking pancakes, washing dishes
and» ironing or anything that has to be watched
continually on the stove. I also have four holders
made about 6116' and keep them handy near the
stove. They can be made of cloth and will save
many burned fingers. Well, I think I have given
my best.
can be made by most ~anyoue.

cherries and ’

‘ and I. cup milk.
K (Jorn\l<‘lour 11nd Buckwheat Biscuit

These are practical, useful, handy and

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ANY of us my; extra syrup pails which can! -'

be made usefulby pounding down. the edge.

so it is flat on inside of pail The cOver Will“ I

no longer fit but it makes a nice pail to run cream
into from the separator to cool before putting in
the cream can. Many other uses will suggest
themselves, and it is easier to wash than the old
way. 2 ’

Turn a potato crate upside down and place a
stone on top; put chickfeed and water in this and
it makes a sort of self feeder, at least the older.
ones can’t get the feed '

Fasten a stiff wire to the back of your stove at/
the top of the warming oven. Bend it so it will.
be about four inches away from» the stoVe. This
makes a good place to dry dish towelspchildren’s.
stockings, etc.. in cold- weather.

Use the men ’s stockings to make children’ s:
stockings and color them black. They last longer
than some we buy, and are alright for everyday.

A Serviceable towel rack can be made by cutting
a discarded shade roller the right length and plac-
ing the brackets to correspond to this length

'Nail to the door 01: where you find it most con-.

venient. ——Mrs.’ P. D.
Big Things Women Have Done in World War

Yesterday it was only the men who went forth
to war, while the women remained behind to keep
up the home and cultivate the fields

Today, the women still keep up the home and cul-
tivate the fields, but they also do their partr—a

splendid part—in the actual work of carrying on '

the war.

Thousands of these women are scattered about
the United Kingdom and in France: many of them
very close to the actual battlefront, risking their
lives and giving themselves as freely, as unselfish-
ly and courageously as their men do, to drive

.from the earth all fear of the iron heel of Prussian-
ism. They are in the base and field hospitals
and canteens and dressing stations, in the Y M.
C. A. huts—everywhere. and are an indispensable
factor in carrying on the war.—~—From June New
Success.

New Flour in 0111. Recipes
ANY housewives have experimented with
M substitute cereals and know just how to
use them in muffins and other breads.
These flours and brans absorb the same amount of
moisture and require the same measure of baking
.powder to raise them as wheat flour. You can
use the new flours in old receipes if you substitute

equal weights for the wheat flour called for; A '

cup of wheat flour sifted and measured lightly
weighs four ounces; the table below gives the
equivalent of four ounces of substitutes expressed

in cups.
.VVEIGHT EQUIVALENTS
One cup ( 4 oz.) wheat flour equals:
1

Barley fiou1 1 —13 cup, ,
Corn flour 1 cup
Fine Corn meal 1 cup
Coarse corn meal 4— 5 cup
Buckwheat 4-5' cup
lice flour 4 5 cup
Hominy grits 4-5 cup

Rolled oats (ground) 2-3 cup

Corn Flour and “'heat biscuit
2 cups corn flour, 3—4 cup wheat flour, 6 teaspoons
baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons fat

1 l-:; cups c01n 110111, 1 1-4 (311305 buckwheat, 6 tea—
spoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons
int and 1 cup milk.‘ '

. (11111 Flour and Rolled Oats Biscuit

1 1—3 (ups c01n flour 1 cup ground oatS, 6 teaspoons
baking ponder 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons fat and
1 cup milk. .

Sift dry materials together. Work in fat well.
Combine liquid and drv material, handling lightly.
Roll or pat one- -half inch thick and cut as biscuit.
Bake in hot oven. The ground oats in the last recipe
are prepared by putting rolled oats through the food
chopper All measures are level. In measuring the
baking powder, level the spoons with a. knife. . Drop
biscuit requires less baking powder than rolled his-
cuit.

Corn Flour and Oat Bread

Three- fourths cup liquid, 4 tablespoons fat, 4 table-
spoons syrup, 2 eggs, 6 tea spoons baking powder 1
teaspoon salt, 1 13 cups corn flour, 1 cup ground roll-
ed oats

» Corn and Buckwheat Bread

One cup liquid 4 tablespoons fat 4 tablespoons sy-
rup, 2 eggs, 6 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon
salt, 1 1— 3 cups corn flour, 1 cup buckwheat.

' Barley and Out Bread ,

One cup liquid, 4 tablespoons fat 4 tablespoons sy-
rup, 2 eggs, 6 teaspoons baking powder, 2 cups barley
flour, 1 cup“ ground rolled oats, 1 teaspoon salt.

Mix the melted fat, liquid, syrup and eggs. Com-
bine the liquid and well n’lixed dry in' redi‘ents. Bake
as a loaf in a moderately hot oven one hour or
until thoroughly baled ‘

Nuts, raisins or dates may be added if desired.

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ribbons by the bolt at 100 which

makes very pretty lacings. ,
No 8870. ——-.A simple slip or play

dress, hangs straight from the neck

but has a front and back panel both of
. which curve; forming the large flare

peckets.

blue gingham make such a dress suit-.
able for‘many occasions.

A simple roll collar and
, cuffs of white linen on an, ordinary

In place of

using ties I often put“pearl buttons
on both sides of the panel;
cially for the little girl wearing hair
the small ties give a very-
This pattern is also
cut in sizes 4, 6,‘ 8 and 10 years.

No. 8869.—‘~Ladies shirtwaist'flcut in

ribbons,

dressy effect.

sizes36 38, '40, 42 and 44 inches bust-
measure.

is used on 8869.

ferent material;-
in the back and the part which is tied

but. espe-

Just a plain shirtwaist may
be“ made a dainty afternoon blouse
with the.addition of such a collar as
This, pattern ‘is the
simple shirtwaist, plain back and front
slightly gathered on at the shoulders.
The collar and cuffs are made of a dif-
the collar is rounded

is attached at the shoulders to the
little turnovers'finish the cuffs.

No. 8872.——Ladies dress.1

This dress

is rather extreme in style altholhe
combination of material is
much these styles are becoming quite
popular. But by the misses and young-
er women they are greatly favored.
The upper part of the dress is all one
piece frOm shoulder to where the skirt
The two piece skirt
has large hip pockets at the front
and is gathered across the back. A
figured veile for the waist with plain
for the lower part, also using plain
material for collar and cuffs make

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Price of patterns ten cents each. Ad-
. F H Dept, . Michigan

Mt Clemens, Mich.

' measure.

,. you a “nest-egg.”

row be! whichniaybs omitted if de- 1
s This pat-. ‘1
.--tern is cut in sizes 36'. 38 40 and 42.
,‘bust measure;

8871 ——Three piéce gathered

,adds a tailored effect.

 

skirt; out in sizes 24, 26, V28, 30 and 32

. V inches waist measure A simple panel .
A cotton or no, eitherflowered or plain
if new material is used. when very
girlish dresses combined with a dim-
ity or organdy. One- can. boy lingerie

front with two backxgores, gathered
all round to a slightly raised waistline.

The cloelng is under a side plait and/
‘ 'a cruSh belt ties in a loose knot over

the closing. A most practical pattern

'V for wash skirts.

N9. 8864. ahadies dress, cut in lsizes
.,36 38, 40. 42 and 44 inches bust mea-
sure. .A semi-suplice effect is shown
in this. simple afternoon costume.
The fronts of the waist are gathered
at the shoulder and then crossed over
and formed into a straight belt, fast-
ening in the back. I consider such
styles very impractical for light wash
material,.a1tho they are shown in ready
to wear clothes a great deal. . The
skirt is a straight line two piece model.

Don’t Want Dead Man’s Vote

The French Chamber of Deputies
is now cons'dering a bill to give the
vote to the omen of France. A'bill
proposed was known as “Suffrage de
la morte.” This meant that every man
dying on the battle field coul 1 transfer
his ballot to a woman he might desig-
nate. In other words, he could will
his ballot to a woman. The French
women, we are told, have drawn back
in horror from such a parliamentary
They said “We don’t want
a dead man’s vote. We want only our
own.” A nd French women have earn-
.ed their own.

Women Take Places in War' Plants

It is a common sight in the manu-
facturing districts of Detroit to see
women going in and out of the plants,
clad in overalls,,with their arms and
hands grimy with the dirt of machines.
Women are rapidly replacing men at
the lathe and machines, and they are
making good. too. At the present time
one of the biggest automobile plants
in the city is conducting an exhaustive
labor survey of its several thousand
employes, with the view of replacing
man power with woman power.

It is estimated that after the war
there will be 1,100 women for every
1,000 men in Germany.

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More than 10,000 women are'now
employed by the Pennsylvania railroad
in various capacities.

  
 
    
  
  
 

 
 
 
    
  
 

   
    
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
   
  
  

 
 
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

 
 

   
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
  
 
  
    
 

   

    
  
 
  
   
 
 
  
   
  
  
 
   
  
  

 

     
  
  
  
   
   

  
  

 

 

     
  

 

 

 

 

                  

Miss 'l‘ottcn is the first police
woman police reserve captain to be
appointed in New York and has for-
saken frocks and frills for her new
duties. She says she is exceedingly
proud to be able to do her hit for
her country in this capacity and is
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had lots of suggestions for -.1
name for this page, but 'I haven’t
decided yet which I am going to use.
I believe we’ll keep the name contest
open until July 13th, and the name

DEAR CHILDREN: Well, I’ve

‘ chosen Will be announced in the July

20th issue'whemthe Doo Dads will
positively be on hand. Remember, the
boy or girl who suggests the best name
is going to get a thrift stamp.

I am pleasedto know that so many
of you are thinking of ways in which
to help Win the war. That should be
the duty of everyone right now. When
our brothers and cousins and uncles

and even fathers are going across the.

wide dangerous seas to free Belgium,
France and Poland from the hand of
the Kaiser—«putting their very lives
in danger—we Who stay at home
should surely be willing to work a 1it~
tle harder and save a little more care-
fully. I wish you would all tell me

. how you are earning and saving money

to buy thrift stamps. Every boy and

girl reader of this page ought to start .

right in now and buy all the thrift
stamps they can. If you will do this,
you will soon form a habit of saving
and when you grow up, could easily
have a nice little sum of money to
help you get a start in life.

Mother, you know. sometimes puts

a “nest-egg” under old Biddy to induce

her to lay more. In order to encour-
age youto save more Ifm going to give

To-the five boys or ,

girls who write me the best letter
sholeng how they are‘ earning and
sav1ng,, or planning to earn or save,
money to buy Thrift Stamps, I will
send a certificate with one Thrift
stamp. That will be your nest egg,
and when you get the certificate filled
out, you will have enough Thrift
stamps to buy a War Saving stamp. I
W111 give you until'July 13th to write
these letters.
F10m AU '1‘ Pumcrworr
¥ . It

Dear Aunt Penelope:——I am a girl 12
years old. e take the M B. F. and think
it is a. fine paper. I am the next to the
youngest in. our family There are three
girls and threeboys My little sister Vera
who is 7 years old and I have a. war gar-
den. We are helping to work a few beets.
Our school closed June 14th. I gather
eggs and takke care of the little chickens.
We get the cows from pasture and get in
wood and water and water some plants
in the garden and help mother in the
house. We are going td help hoe the cosn
soon. I think a good name for our page
would be “The Twilight Hours " I am
sending in a poem

HELPING MR. HOOVER

I’m helping Mr. Hoover when I spread
the butter thin,

I’m also doing likewise when I shun the
sugar bin,

I’m helping Mr. Hoover when I pass the
candy store

And when \I eat corn muffins, I am help—
ing him some more.

I’m helping Mr. Hoover when towards
oats and rye I lean, '\

And mother says I help him when I lick
the platter clean.

I like tl11s“-Ilelping Hoover" for he’s Uncle
Sam’ friend

And I shall keep on helping till this war is
at .an end

recs ed the 16
And I know- without mucn.’ .
feel better every way
For obi‘serving very promptly every
ed“ Hoover Day.
——Sylvia McCarron, Gagetowfi

. This is an inspiring. and helpful
poem, Sylvia, only I don’t think it

should spread the butter thin. But

is plentiful and should be used in place.
I hope all farm he s‘

of other fats.
and girls will eat all the butter th
want.
wasted but if everybody begins to

ecrimp their use of butter. I am afraidf
your daddies would have no market,

for their milkkk.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I read in the M.

to the one who gives the best name for
the children’s page.
dren’ s Hour" would be a nice name for it,
My name is Wilma Clark. I am 12 years
old and in the 8th grade. I have two
miles to walk to school. I go to a. dis-
trict school and my teacher’s name is
Miss. Letty Johnson. Our school is out
for this year, but she is going to teach
again next term. I drive the cows (1an
to the woods every morning and get them
again at night.

Papa is having a new barn built. “’9.
had it raised the 15th of June. The car-
penter work is nearly all done now, but
there is lots more work to be done yet.

I can tat quite a lot and I can crochet
a little bit. .1 think that it would be nice
if you would have patterns for crochet-
ing, or tatting. That would be nice wo.k
for the older girls, for the little ones and
for the big ones too.
experience letters. I have two brothers,
both of them grown up. Elmer is mar—
ried and Leo stays at home and helps pa—
pa. My sister is seven ycurs old. She
wanted to write too but I told her to Wait
until next week—“I’Vilmu Clark, Lake-
view, Mich.

  

Dear Aunt Penelope:——I road in the M.
B. F. that you wele going to give a prize
to the boy 01 girl who wxote you the best
letter sending a name [<11 our page. So
I think I will try. 1 like the name “Idle
Moments.” 1 have one brother whose
name is Raymond. lie is 17 years old. He
does not go to school. He unit to go to
work on the 1.11111. 1 have one sister
named Dorothy .\1\ .1(l.1 She is 8 necks
old. I am ll yeaxs old and in the sixth
grade at school. The 11.111111 is \.1ndali.1.
I live on a farm of 330 acres. We have
five cows, six horses, twenty head of sheep
and ten ambs, four puppies, three kittens,
two chickens, twenty-six pigs, and thirty-
thiec ducks. I have not lived on this place
v1ry long. We take the Michigan Bum-
ness Farming and like it f1ne.I read the
stories 01 letters they had on our page
last week.- I sure enjoyed them very
much. \Ve are making hay now.—Laura.
Mallow, Cassopolis.

Dear Aunt I’en.elope:~—I am a girl 12
yeals old I live on a farm and like it
fine. I read the poem and the letters
that the boys and girls wrote and enjoy-
ed them very much. I cut out the cow
and put it togethe1 but neglected sending
it. I help my mother in the house and
sometimes help my father in the field.
I have one brother and two sisters. We
have eight ames of sugar beets. We hired
some people to thin them and two of the
girls wore overalls. As you spoke about
letting the children choose a name for
our page in your letter I will «hoose one.
I think “The Happy Hour’ would be a
nice name for it. I can hardly wait un-
til we get the next papex to read the
stories, puzzle pictures and the funny
Doo Dads you said would be printed.
Well I will close because it is time to
help with the supper.——Lonise Kimball
Beaverton.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I am very glad
the children are going to have a page in
the M. B. F. We take it and like it very
much. I think 1 like stories best. ,We
have three cows, three calves and three
horses. We call our cows Jennie Pansy
and Flossie. Jennie is a Durham and is
red. Pansy is a. Holstein and is black and
white. (I help mamma in the house and
papa out of doors
two days and a half. I am going to have
some little chickens in a little while. I
could not think of anything that we could
call our page unless it is “Little Farmer’s
Page.” We call our horses Queen, Topsy
and Colonel. I have found four ground
bird’s nests. I am 11 years old.——-Ina
Daphne Lackey, Williamsburg.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I am a. little boy'
8 years old. I have a little brother and
a sister. We live on a farm. I help my
mamma in the garden. .1 feed the calve
and chickens. Our calves names are May
and Niger. “’0 have a cow and her name
is Brokie. We have 8 acres of oats, 6
acres of corn. 14 acres of beans, one acre
of potatoes, 8 acres of hay. I have to
bug the potatoes every day. I have some
potatoes as large as hens eggs. I think
we will have them for Foulth of July
dinner. I gather my mammas eggs for
her. I will close as I (2.111 t think of any
more. —I. L. B, Chesaning.

My Dear Aunt Penelopc:—My parents
take the M. B. F. and I like to read the
letters and stories. I live on a farm in,
Enterprise township, Missaukee county.
We have six cows and five calves. We
have 10 horses. Sometimes I milk one
cow at night. I think “Win the War"

would be a good name for our page. I. ._

fun ten years old and in the sixth grade.
I.take music lessons. HVelma Sunderlan’d,
Star City.

 

Dear Aunt Penelope: ——I ought to wrote

sooner. But I have been putting it OE...
I saw in the M. B.
should give a name for the page. I think

   

 

“Aunt Penelope’s Amusing Page". would .

Ruah Wise, Chesanixfg.

be You 111(8

0! course. it should not be

B. F. that you are going to give a prize ‘V
I think “The Chil-V

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F. that we children '

  
  
  
 
   
     
  
     
       
  
  
  
 

  
 
  
    
 
    
    
     
    
  
   
    
  
     
    
    
       
       
       
   
  
   
    
  
  
    
        

 
 
     

    

 
 

 

 

   
    
 
   
  
   
   
    
   
  
     
       
       
     
       
          
 
       
     
    


 

  
  

   

Truman H. Newberry is no new convert to Preparedness.
He has preached it for twenty years,-.—he has practised'what
he preached. ' . ‘ ' . . x ‘

He stood for preparedness 'away back in 1895, when he
helped organize the Michigan Naval Brigade. ‘

As Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt he
urged preparedness. Speaking in New Orleansin_1907,-he said:

   
    

“You can put it in the biggest type you have that we
must have a bigger navy, and I hope such enlargement
will come soon. It is for you people here to use your in-
fluence for more appropriations for the building of battle-
ships and cruisers. There is no doubt that we shall
need them and the sooner they are built the better.”

While Secretary of the Navy, Newberry contended for a
Merchant Marine as a preparedness measure.

“A large number of merchant vessels will be required
in the event of a serious war," he pleaded. ‘

He not only talked preparedness, but he prepared.

He put the Navy on a sure foundation. On our entry into
the war it was the one branch of our national defense which
was prepared.

0

He backs up his belief in preparedness by being in the ser-
vice himself. His sons are in the service. His whole family is
serving. /

Newberry and Preparedness tn'ean the same thing.

i Truman H. Newberry is prepared to give Michigan and the'
’ nation wonderfully able service in the United States Senate.

NEWssRRY '

United States Senator

“killed by Newborn Senatorial Committee
A. A. Trmplam. Central Chairman
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not want. to miss a single copy. jyIt hits is Just what \we need to help the farm-

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reat help to the farmers—L Snyder.
aJhoun county. .

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,. G Maflcet active withV-Sliight
. advance in quotations.

pfesent stocks, sold out. There. are
some lines. of corn and oat feeds moTv-t

dl'ing iceds out in small lots.
In a few weeksjthere will be practi-
cally all lines “of feed on "the market

their requirements soon as‘ possible:
5 Coal

COAL.~,~,—T_here is very little change
to the situation. Nearly all bituminous
operators are sold up for about 30 days
and hard coal‘is practically impossible
to get.‘ ' » ' ' ‘

The total tonnage of. hard coal
and this amount will not equal 50 per
cent of the coal required for heating for
domestic use. It Will be, necessary,
therefore, for a great many citizens to
use all bituminous, or all the citizens
use part bituminous coal.

 

FARMERS ARE GROWING
MANY HOGS THIS, YEAR

It is generally felt in Wlive stock cir-
cles that thehog supplies will keep lib-
eral all summer. 'A leading hog buyer
who travels through the pig belt fre-
quently says it is remarkable the way

sows this year for fall pigs. The suc—
cessful experience they had last .fall
has encouraged them to increase their
efforts this year, last fall’s pigs, about
ten months’ old, coming to market now.
are bringing at least $35 apiece. This
is based on a ho weighing'around 220
lbs. This wouldg make’ a carload of
hogs bring the farmer more than $2,500.
That looks mighty good to a farmerlfor
ten months’ time'on a load of hogs.
and it is no wondef that hog raising is
going on at the high rate that it is;
and we do not consider that our esti-
mate of 80 million hogs on the farms on
Jan. 1, 1919, when the Government
makes its report, is at all an extravagant
estimate. All that is required now is a
good corn crop, which seems likely, to
give us the biggest supply of hogs this
country has ever known.—.—W. G. Press
6' Co., Chicago.

THE HOARDING RULE

'IS TO BE AMENDED

 

Information has just been given out
to the effect that, “The Food Adminis—
tration will issue immediately a rule
amending the sixty—day rule, so that
licensee may‘ accumulate between May
1 and October 1, 120 days' supply of all
feedstufis. But the Food Administra-
tion feels that the licensee must on Oct.

.1 again reduce to a Sixty-day basis. The

above amendments provide that goods.
may be under control for 120 days from,
date of contract are permitted. Dealers
are urged to stock heavily during the

summer and fall, in order to as far as

possible relieve congested railroad"’con~

' ditions of late fall and winter months.”

 

CO-OPERATIYE NATIONAL ~ ,
» ~COUNCIL IN CHICAGO

The National Council of Farmers’
Elevator Associations 'inet in Chicago,

 

_.on,Tuesday, June 18. J. W‘. Shorthill, a f 1

member of the Grain Corporation, 9911-.

 

circulation today.-~Ja.mes H. Payne, Em~ ' , . . . . . , ,, .
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Pigs” ' selling

FEED.-'-The situation remains quiet“
and ‘very little moving on account of ,

ing but that. is all.._ Local mills are ped-

and with the anticipated demand for,
feed we would advise farmers to cover"

allotted for Michigan is 1,200,000 tons ,

the farmers are taking to breeding back -

 

ferredi with his ’.‘former associates ;- and?” '

  
   
 

lambs $15. ”to $16.00, good sheepy; ' "
$10.00 to $12.00, culls $5.00 to $2.00., 3.; ‘
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.DhYSicalV tang of ,

and, assimilated. _r17h1§‘g’reater eflici-'
ency 18111199111“: only_t0 the digestibil—

ity of'the Silage itself, butt-also to the '

more efficient use, ofallflother feeds
included in the ration. It‘accounts‘.

are sec‘ured- from feeding of .‘silage
and it’should be a‘ big. indtieement to
farmers to use silage especially when
other feeds are comparatively high in
price.’ _' ' ' i

The results of experimental work on
the feeding of silage to dairy cattle

shows its superiority in every compar— .

ison that has been made. At the Ver-
mont station comparison of the feeding
value of corn silage and corn fodder,
which included the grain showed
that a given acreage of corn produced
11 per cent more milk, when fed as sil-
age than when fed as dry fodder. ,A
number of feeding trials in which corn
silage and ,‘hay were compared show
that one pound of alfalfa boy can be
fully replaced by 3.2 pounds of silage
and that when 3.5 pounds of silage
were substituted for‘mixed hay the
milk flow was increased 7 per cent. At
the Ohio station the possibility of sub-
stituting a considerable portion of the
grain ration» with silage has been dem-
onstrated. Two rations each contain-
ing practically the same amount of
dry matter and nutrients, but one
made up of a large amount of silage
and a small amount of grain: the other.

' containing a. large amount, of gr‘ain and

no silage were compared. The grains -
used in the ration were oil meal, bran,
and corn meal. The silage was a. mix-
ed silage containing sofne cow peas‘and
soy beans, but because of an unfavor-
able season was no better than ordin~
ary corn silage. Mixed hay'is'fed to
both lots. The following table shows
the amount ‘of feed required to produce '
100 pounds of milk with each;of the
two rations. ' '

FEED CONSUMED PER HUNDRED
£013an 0F MILK PRODUCED
Cows receiving Grain Silage Stover Hay
Grain. ration. . .80 28- 37
Silage rati‘on...20.5 298 34
One would conclude from these re-
sults that the 298 pounds of silage in
the silage ration would replace the ex?
tra 59.5 pounds of grain, 3 poundS‘of
hay and 28 pounds of stover in the
heavy‘grain ration- At this rate 100
pounds of silage would more than re-
‘place 20 pounds of grain and its value
as a feed would have a direct relation
to the market. price of grain feeds

as shown in the following table:

Comparative Values of Grain dud Silage
When grain costs— “Silage is worth——

 

per ton \ ‘pcr tun ’ , '
$25.00 ., s 5.00, ., -
30,00 _, ‘ 0.00
35.00 ‘. 7.00 :
40.00 ., ,_ 3,00 . 7, 3
45.00 9.00
- 50.00‘

55.00,

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so imer’ved' that ginger amount-“
' the rotatiood- nutrients" .are__-dise§fféd :

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lyfoxcept the earliest peas
as. d‘, hat they can be used

the same cause Farmers, are either re
planting oer-11.51131 beans or putting in

361130! wheat were killed and rasp-
berries and huekleberrios were also
troaen. In some instances" strawberries
were frozen to 3. 11111311 Many farmers

are preparing for auction sales im- "

mediately. The soil is 30 dry that
the outlook for crops planted now is

[anything but reassuring. Farmers are?‘

generally- feeling pretty blue, but here
is hoping that our next report will be
more encouraging .—--B. M. Ludington,

. June 29.

Saunas (Southeast)—Weather is hot

_ and dry; ground is in fair condition;

crops are looking fair except hay

Which is short. 2 Cutworm has hurt}.

the corn badly in most places. also
sOme grain crops. Farmers are begin-
ing to haul peas to the canning fac-
tory. being a‘ fair crop. Plenty of old
hay in the country with not much

W sale for ftp Last Saturday the hay-

sheds _, at Carsonville and Applegate
were burned with a big loss to the
owners, burning nearly 3,000 tone of
hay. Cause is unknoWn. The con-

densary at sandusky has not proven a L
- very big success, as all the farmers in

this vicinity have stopped sending.
Prices offered at Groswell, June 29:

Wheat, $2.07@2.09; oats, 71;, hayk

$14.50; light mixed, $12.50; beans,
$7.50; potatoes, $1.75; hens," 20; ducks,
20; turkeys, 18; butter, 32; butterfat,
41; eggs, 32. ——N. J. V C., Croswell,
June 29.

Ogemaw (Southwest)-——Weather is
dry with cold nights; haven’t had a
rain for over a month. Hay is ready
to cut; will be light. Oats promised
a good. crop. but drouthds cutting
them short. The frost of June 22 did
not tOuch us. Beans are looking good.

Butter is 3515; butterfat, 42c; eggs,‘

30,—W. N. West Branch, June 29.
Huron (Wcstern)—Crops are in
great need of rain. Pastures are going
down very fast. Corn is growing slow.
Wheat at Pigeon is $2. 05; oats, 70;
rye, 1.40 beans, $7. 50; butter, 37;
eggs. 31.‘——A. F. C., Pigeon, June 28.

St. Joseph (Easternl—Farmers are
making hay, spraying potatoes, and
cultivating. Weather cooler. had a
lovely rain the 27th, much needed as
it had got awful dry. We had a killing
frost the 22nd, killing corn, potatoes
and beans and hurting gardens. Sell-
ing wool; not much use holding any-
thing for higher price as government
sets price on most everything the
farmer sells or knocks him in some
way. Potatoes‘are 50c at Colon; but--
ter,‘ 34; butterfat, 42; eggs, 32; wool,
67 ——«W. W., Colon, June 28.

Misaa/ukee (S. E.)—-—Weather condi-
tions very dry with a sharp frost on
June 22. Many bean fields destroyed
and potatoes cut to the ground. Hay

* crop very light, oats and barley hold-

in‘g out good so far. Fall apples are
set and are looking good. Huckle-
berries here are a gory light crop. In
the way of improvements we have as.
large new bath on the farm of Ivan
Warren and a shanty on a state tax
homestead. —-W. S Moddersville‘, June
27 ' a g»;
Genesee (South)—Farmers are very
busy at this time cultivating corn and
beans, and several are haying already
the hay being quite heavy on most

‘ farms this year. The Weather haebeen

Lwith the exception of

When it was quite

most one night That ,
beans

 
 

,, , 'Westem l—stz-mers are
"an some are hauling peas to -
boy or pasture. All other";

late, "tatoes, buckWheat. etc. Man? 5

_ say that old meadows are very light;

is the
magi}: damage We“ have not had any,

  

thing is beginning t how she enacts
bt-tliis dry weather.
' he set crop Will be

 

little rain. A. few cattle and hogs are
being marketed and also a few beans.
Some new barns and slide are being
erected—C: W S.‘, Fenton, June 27. .

Oceana (North)--The from June
2223 did- many hundreds of dollars

worth of damage here; corn is an al- '
. most entire loss; beans are being re-

planted. Some are dragging up the
.fields of cern‘ and planting beans. If
we don’t get rain soon the oats r-rop
will be very short. Pastures are all
dried up as though it were August——
W. W. A., Crystal Valley, June 29.

aheboygon (scum—The frost oi‘L

the 23rd did much damage to beans
but most of the farmers immediately
replanted and still have hopes of a
crop The heavy rain of the 29th im-
proved- the looks of crops and makes
the farmer wear a smile again. Grass-
hoppers are very thick in some local-

ities and are doing'severe damage. We _
are patiently waiting for a remedy',

for the posts. Oats are looking good;
corn small but making a good growth
now. Potatoes doing fine. Farmers
are cutting hay, which is very light.
—Wolverine, July 1.

St. Clair (E. 0.)—’—Farmers cultivat-
ing; some have started haying. It is
very green and still growing but if
weather conditions continue as dry
as they have been for the past two
weeks the hay crop will mature very
rapidly. The ground is getting very
dry. We had a nice shower Sunday,
which was very welcome. I forgot to

but clover never looked better. The
bloom is so dense that whole fields
look like one solid bed of flowers. The
weather has been cool and dry. Corn
and beans are doing fine where they
arenot infested with grubs. Lots of
old pressed hay in the farmers hands.
Prices offered at Smiths Creel: July
lst: Wheat, $2.10; oats, 72; rye, 1.70;
timothy hay, 13; light mixed, $11@12;
beans, 6; potatoes, $1.00; hens, 25;
springers. 25; ducks, 25@27; geese, 12;
turkeys, 22; butter, 40; eggs, 34;
hogs, 16; beef steers, $7@8; veal calves
20.——I. J., Smiths Creek, July 1.

Allegan (S. E.)——Farmers are busy

 

ran: with tor a long time and every ' L‘ Buy your bags nOW’ as
If it continues ’ L
fly shortened. - :
. m and beans are led enlisting c0114
siderably, especially the early planted '
“beans So '9 beans are not planted ,
~~,‘Wét but will be‘ soon if we can have a

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there will be a great scarci-
ty this fall and Winter.

We have in stock at this
time and offer subject to
same being unsold, as,
follows:

20,000 chcellcnt — quality second
shand 165—lb. bean and grain
bags at 35c each;

» 10,000 new 165—lb. grain and

bean bags at 50c each;
30,000 100—to lSO—lb. burlap; fccd

bags at 22 to 30c each;

15,000 L150elb. burlap potato bags
at 22 to 27c each.

Lewellyn Bean Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

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A B O U T O I L S !
OUR COUNTRY, calls for increased production

——food and more food—America has literally the
whole world to feed.

 

haying some having already finished.
Hay very thin in. most cases. A heavy
frost a week ago did much damage,
freezing to the ground many acres of
corn, beans and potatoes and quite a
lot of cats and Wheat were also 1r02en.

Wheat, $2.12; oats, 80; rye, 1.80; hay,
butter, 38; butterfat 40@42; eggs, 30;

a heavy rain and we needed it badly

22 did more damage to corn and pota-
toes than was expected at the time. At
Petersburg the following prices were
offered June 29. Wheat, $208@210;
corn, 175; oas, 72; rye, 1.75 hay, 15;
buckwheat, cwt, 4.00; barley, cwt $2;
hens. 20c;~springers, 20; ducks, 25;
geese, 22; turkeys, 25, dairy butter,
38; butterfat, 43; eggs, 33, hogs, 17;
Dundee July 1.

 

glad we farmers have a stiong - '

Am
helping ghand—«not only the hand, but the
strong arm helping us. I am with you
soul, body and breaches—F. W. Bedell,
Tuscola county.

 

I like year paper very much (011: pa-
-per,~ I should’ have said). for I feel that it
is a part of us. It is helping us to help
ourselves:+~A J. Smith, St. Clair county.

I am sending you $1 to apply on M. B.
njo hungry much. «Wm. Hughes,
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h ailevoixi

this call. we place at your command nature’s liquid
energy—sparkling Kerosene. teeming with a giant’s
strength—friction reducing lubricants, smooth as
velvet.

Your farm machinery represents a heavy capital
A good rain Sunday, June 30, did much investment and getting the maximum efficiency out.
good as the soil was very dry. Every- of your machinery is absolutely essential. For
thing was suffering. many oats being thls reason it Will pay you—yes, pay you well to
so far gone that they were cut for hay. Investigate the advantages of placing your oil proh-
Prices offered at Allegan. June 29: 191113 in 0111' hands.

The men and methods, refining equipment, stoxage and
15; beans 8; potatoes 100- hens 20; shipping facilities—in the highest (lchce, we have them 2.111
The success we have won—the confidence we enjoy, is
sheep, 10; 121111153 10@15; veal Calves based on the liberal treatment we have always accorded

L _ our customers.

10@12’ WOOL 65' W' F" Otsego, JUIy oils shipped you you decide they am not s ited to

1. . your requirements, you may return the unused 1mi—

Monroe (West Central)~—Weather xt'ieiliindzduisn fitnour expense and your money will Pw
has been hot and dry July 1 we had sole judge.

If after using one tenth of any of the

Upon receipt of your first order

for potatoes and corn The hay crop large or small.
is light this year. Eaily potatoes are "JOhHSORS Farm RCCOId BOQkL

23.31.1232 15,12 ii’éiillhé‘éitti‘flfii JOHNSON 01L REFINING COMPANY

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Gives on 12 h. 'ne for less than the coat of
. IL: 19111111131151 e best engine in the world—
it will outlast the car —- and you might as well save
your money and use it to do all your farm work.
No won on tlroo or tron-mloolon. Hooks up in 8
.minutee. No permanent attachment to car. Cannot
injure car or engine.

Friction Clutch Pulley on end of shaft. Ward Gover-
nonfunb ton belt, gives perfect control. Morley book
If not on oflod. Ask for circular and special price. .

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HOG FEED
CHEAPER ‘

Kiln Dried Mahogany Corn

is being used extensively by hog feed-
ers with very satisfactory results It
can be bought app1oximate1y 60c
cheaper than No. 2 Yellow, and the
feeding value compares \ery11‘z1vo1ably.
Our corn is very dry, around 12%
moisture, so there is pr-zutically no
(langcr of it getting out of condition
even in warm weather

We have a special grade 01: kiln
dried corn that we can Offer as low as
$1.25 b’ushcl ($46.40 ton) F. O. B.
Jackson in any quantity desired. Bags
charged cxt1a 201'. 611111 11i1h same re-
fund whcn returned (11111 guaranteed
satisfactory 111' money refunded. Mail
check for your summer supply.
J. E. Bartlett Co. 210 Mill St. Jackson. Mich.

Michigan’s Largest Shippers oi Feed and Grain

  

 

 

 
 
   
  
  
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
   
    
  
 
 
   
  
 
   
  
  
   
 
 
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
 
   
  
   
     
  
       
      
    
    
    
      
      
     
       
   
    
     
      
      
       
  

 

 

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FARMS WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOB
DETROIT PROPERTY

We have a number of desirable Detroit
residences and flats to exchange for farms.
If you will exchange give me this: SiZe of
farm, section, township, Co., work, Waste,
and woodland. soil, hilly. rolling, level
buildipgs. fruit. schools. 111211'kct. 1110.,
price. WALTER C. PIPER, Holden
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FEEDING COWS AT

-Of cattle. but it is also understood:

' ' THE CORRECT TIME.

 

When one of the high record cows
was led into the ring at the annual
Holstein sale in! Milwaukee, and the
bidding had gone into the thousands,
we- heard a man remark: “There are

lots of 40-pound cows, but very few ‘

40-pound men.” To us this statement
was full of meaning not'only for the
moneyed breeder, but for the every-
day dairyman as well. _. Of course what
this man meant was that a cow must
have a highly skilled. thoughtful feed-
er and caretaker back of her if she is
going to do her best work. A man
who is really capable, of learning her
individual wants to the finest detail;
a man who knows how to get her in
prime condition for the heavy drain
on her system connected with record

.making, and one who recognizes that

as much of the record is made before
calving as after. These are some of
the qualifications of a first class feeder
and they can readily be translated in-
to the work of the average layman
dairyman.

It would be ridiculous to assume
that the everyday dairy farmer could
give to every animal in his herd the
care and attention required to make
world’s records, but it is good farming
sense to assume that more thoughtful
attention could be profitably paid to
feeding cows in all herds,
and indifferent. _

The statement has many times been
made that only one-third of all the
cows in the United States are profit-
able producers, but would you agree
that, for the good of our dairy indus-
try. the other two-thirds should be
sent to the shambles? Of course, you
wouldn’t, because you know as well
as anyone that if these cows were
given the right kind of a Chance they
would give a creditable account of
themselves and the poor ones would
be few and far between.

What it all amounts to when re-
duced to its lowest terms is that we
have :1 lot to learn about feeding be-
fore herds can he expected to produce
near their economical best.

We have too long operated under the
delusion 111211: the cow needs no more
attention after she is dry until she
calves again. Put, an untrained trot-
ting horse on the track and he stands
11 small 1-1111111-12 with those that have
gone through rigorous training and
it is the same with a cow. She has to
be fed and put into strong. healthy
condition with a small amount of sur-
plus fat. to nourish the rapidly grow—
ing foetus. to stand the strain of calv-
ing time and to prod111"e milk and but-
terfnt to the best advantage

ADVISES AGAINST HEAVY
FEEDING OF BEEF CATTLE

In view of the. unfortunate experi-
ence last winter of some feeders of
heavy cattle, the continued high price
Of grain and the 11111-e1'tainty of the
continuation of the good prices well-
finiS'hed heavy carcasses recently com-
mand, the United States Department
of Agriculture believes that feeders
should concentrate their efforts on
the production of economically short-
fed cattle. Of course. this statement
does not refer to baby beef production
which is a specialty in itself.

There is no qquestion that for the
last several years cattle feeders have
been making beef too fat, that is, they
have put more finish upon the ani—
mals than economy would justify.
This idea was evidently in the minds
of the Advisory Committee of Agri-
cultural and Live Stock Producers
appointed by the Department of Agri-
culture when that committee recently
made the following recommendation:

“We feel that cattle marketed at
the present time in class 4 (long-fed
or export and highly finished cattle)
and, known as ‘exports,’
high costs pf labor and feed, are not
an economical product, and their pro-
duction should not be encouraged.”

Not only has the advisory commit-
tee thus warned against heavyfeeding

 

 

good, bad _

owing to the »

nitrogenous concentrates
' tion with” silage and some other cheap

that the gOvern‘ment Officials directing

Recent _ experiments
ted States Department Of Agriculture
have borne out the fact that good
beef can be prOduCed by using a re1a~
tlvely small amount of grain, or with
in 'connec-

roughage in the form of. hay- . -
The principle that should beavoid-
ed in future feeding foperatiofis. ac-

cording to the'advic'e'pf the Depart;
*ment of Agriculture, is to reduce to_9._

. minimum the amountof high priced

"913%,? any existing association, born.

The use of cottonseed meal,

feed and make judicious use of cheap
roughages. In other werds, instead of
feeding from 40 to 60 bushels of dry
corn per steer in a long feeding period,
as was the custom in the past,
quantity shOuld be, and may be pro-

fitably, reduced to 15 to 20 bushels in'

a shorter feeding period, or thedry
corn can be eliminated‘ualtogether, as

the liberal use of,good quality of sil-'

age will furnish an excellent ration.
linseed
meal, or other protein-rich feed, even
though high in price, is to be highly
recommended,'because the higher-other
feeds are, the more prOfitable is the
use of a protein supplement. Expen—
sive hay may be completed eliminated
in the ration by the use of cheaper
dry roughage. '

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'the buying policies of the government ' i
will not consider themselves munch-3»-
! sible for the prices of very tat 112111111. ‘
by yeti-bus "
State experiment stations’and the Uulz'»

  

,trlhute largely to the great cause of
- apparent for all branches of the indus-
' with Uncle Sam until WE DO WIN

~ pose of the Federation to cement our ' .g
. big industry into one common whole ' ' -

the '

' 1371111 this encrmoue in _
‘ that the value of the commercial poul-

[annually—one twelfth the value ‘6! all '

,_the Federation seeks to render a two- . , ' iv".

   
   
 
     
    
     
  
  

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Instr-y, The t 1

  

  

try and egg crop. Exceeds $1, 000 £011,900

  
   
      
  
     
 
     
       
      
     
    
    
     
     
   
        
        
     
           
      
             
         
        
       
      
  
        
      
        
  
  

agricultural. products-44111111 that gov-. ’
er‘hment authorities new declare that . ,
the poultry industry is sure to' con: . \V

winning the war, make the need more , j
try to get together and to pull together , . LL.

THE WAR! It will be the ,Chief par».

for this patriotic purpose. In short,
fold service: (1) to help our Country 1,; ,. '-
and our Allies in 'every way possible; ; '
and _(2) to 'prOmote and protect- the " '
poultry industry during these trying
war times and in the reconstruction
period after the war when it will be
necessary to restock Europe and prac-
tically all the balance of the civilized -. .,
world with poultry for. commercial ' -«"
and breeding purposes.‘ _. , ' *

ROBERT R. POINTER WILL
HAVE ’NOTHER SALE

Robert R. Pointer. who held what he 1
supposed would be a complete dis- ,

 

 

.persion sale of his fine Holstein herd . 1

r["he department believes that by a- '

voiding too heavy feeding and too high
finish and by following the suggestions
given .above, feeders should be able
to feed cattle at a profit in spite of the
high prices of feed and labor. . The
recent statement of the United States
Food Administrator, and the/availa-
ble reports from foreign countries,
indicate that there may be a great in-
crease in the demand for beef, which is
encouraging ' to the cattle feeder in
this country and especially those who
suffered losses during the past feed-
ing season. '

POULTRY FEDERATION ,
MAKES GOOD BY-LAWS

At a meeting of the Advisory Coun-j

oil of the National War Emergency
Poultry Federation held in Chicago
June 1011 by-laws to govern the Fed-
eration were completed and adopted,
thus assuring a nation-wide and com-
plete poultry organization during the
war which has been created for the
purpose indicated by its name. This
Federation mo1en1ent grows out of
the big conference of poultry interests
held in Chicago March 29-30, reports
of which were Widely circulated.
Officers of the federationhave been
chosen to serve until the July meet-
ing of the Advisory Council which will
be held in Chicago beginning the. third

Wednesday, at which time therewill

be at least a two-day session with an
interesting program bearing on the
work already in hand and to follow.
Preparation of this program is under
direction of Prof. Jas. Rice, Ithaca, N.
Y., who expects to have his old friend
Dr. McCollum, the famous food re-
search Chemist, attend the meeting
and deliver an address.

The plan of the Federation con-
templates taking in all national and
state Oiganizations having to do with
the production and distributon of poul-
try products and supplies. and as the
name implies the Federation will be
an organization of organization‘s—pro-
bably a. hundred or more. But the

by-laws are framed 011 such broad

and liberal lines that any individual
may become a’ member through his
local, state or national organization.
A strong effort will be made to enlist
the support of every person. firm'and
corporation having to do with poultry,
poultry products or- supplies.

on June 3rd, finds himself with $10,000
worth of cattle still on his hands, and . . ‘ - 1 -
advises M. B. F. that he will hold
another sale some time in August.
Inasmuch as it was announced that
Mr. Pointer disposeduof his entire herd .
at the previous Sale which was con- r:
sidered one of the most successful of ‘
the'year, an explanation is due as 'to
the reasons for the second sale.
Among the active bidders was a ,1
Lansing man, who ' made successful
bids _on over $10,000 worth of cattle. '
When it came time to settle under the
terms of the sale. the buyer was un-
able to produce either the money,
bankable paper or security It devel-
oped that he was not sufficienty re-
sponsible financially tohandle any » *
reasonable deal which Mr. Pointer
was willing to make, and as a result.-
some‘of Mr. Pointer’s choicest animals
were thrown back on his 'hands.
Hence the second sale. _
We supposed that theliman who at- .- K.
tended an auction sale just for the ' §
fun of bidding had long since passed
along with the professional and crook.
ed horse-trader. At a large sale at-
tendet by men from all over the coun-,
try, it is practically impossible to
know the financial responsibility of
the bidders. This is a risk that ev-
every owner takes. Likewise many
men thought responsible cannot al-

'ways bear out their reputations, and

\.

But it is distinctly understood that.

the Federation is not intended to sup-

 

every breeder should lend a hand in
discouraging such as these from par- , ,
ticipating at auction sales » , .

SOME REASONS WHY BUT— . Z 1
TER WILL ,NOT GATHER '

/A great many butter makers on
farms are troubled with not being able
to collect the butter in particles large
enough to handle—such as the size of
wheat or corn grains. -Thisris nearly
always caused by having too much
buttermilk which prevents the butter
massing. The remedy is to draw off , _,
part of the buttermilk. straining it ‘
through a fine strainer to catch any ' ‘ '
particles of. butter which may come
out with the buttermilk, then continue.
churning. If the'butter does not maSS
in—a few minutes, draw off more 'ofthe
liquid and churn again. In this way , 1
the butter becomes so concentrated
that the small particles are bound to ‘
stick together, and 'when they are of ‘ '
preper size, the remainder of the ‘but- '
termllk is draWn, the butter washed
in the usual way and the difficulty is
overcome. Sometlmes the trouble

caused 11y cold creep' 11111 '

      
       
     
      
     
      
      
     
    
      
    
     
     
    
     
  
  
 
  

 

    

    
   

 
  
     
    
 
 
  

 


 
  
     
 

 
  

 
 

  

   

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7 r. Aleai‘t _
gfandsi‘ Adages PontiaefA
gthe :_.$501.M' Nun's ,, Dani. Br!

" amine Rufine“ 2nd. This earl-
. romises‘ to be’cne of the’ nest;
f My bullshit! the state». ,lf'yo'u are
niterested,'.wni you please write for.
debcription' and ,hotogreph" " Also
is its ems his . m...

4*. re’CQW'an, ,, n. .

_ -fro{n"""herd§ot;5o .hi 11 class Holstems.
' - ,‘ will send-group etc: and descrip~
,, ,‘tlb, .' .“Wh‘iéh will-present ~these animals
’ ; :3 c ratei'y. Leif you- Want Holsteins,

   
  
     

      
 
   

  

    

,1! y§u~.please Write us? , .. fl ,
' 11!“be Jersey: and Hampshiree.
, We offer a . numberx'ct fine young“
spring boars and sow pigs, both Duroc
Jerseys anduHam-pshires, from». partic-
ularly well «bred stock. Write to us
for descr ption ,and prices. . Each
animal is guaranteed.
BLOOMINGDADE FARMS
Bloomingdale, j‘Mlchigan

  

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, _ ' .Holste'iln' Heifers

 

 

 

‘TOp-,N.otCh’
HOLSTEINS

Thel“young bulls we'have for' sale
,are backed up by many generations
of large producers; Buy one of these

bulls, and give your herd a “push."
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on re-

quest. , , _
,McPhersOn Farms Co.
\ Howell, Mich. '

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E. L. SALISBURY
. SHEPHERD. MICH.

, Breeder or purebred
Hols‘teirr-Friesian Cattle
thng bulls for sale from A. D.

0. COWS with'creditable records.

 

 

 

 

. » sired by a son of

Bull calves Friend Hengerveld

De Kol Butter

Boy and by a. son of King Segis De K01

Korndyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec—

ords of 18.25 as' Jr. two year old to 28.25

at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.

_WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wyckoff,

 

EGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 6

months old, grandson of Hengerveid

De K01, sired by Johan Hengerveid
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 7 days as a
4 yr. old. This call is light in color,
well grown and a splendid individual.
Price 3100. Write for photo and pedigree.
L. C. Ketzler, Flint, Michigan;

Napoleon, M‘ich..

 

  
 

  

a J": fifteen cents per ‘lln
12 ”wt!

   

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I ' reed . ever.

 

BATE’S‘w-TJp ‘to 14 fine 'or’onef'inéh‘ andutor less than 13.,inoartione under this
7"” Title displayed to best advantage, _
I quote rates.- For larger-ads or for admto run.13 issues or more we )nll .make
‘ Tlpeflfilfrates which Mr“! cheerfully he‘sent on application to the Advertising Dept..
_ 'IIGToH St., West..Detrplt. { .. ‘ , ’ _ ‘
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Send in copy and

 

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The co'ws and bullsa‘dv‘ertised have
been sold. I have 6 'or 8- registered
Holstein heifers from heavy produc-
ing dams, 3 mos. to 2 years old at
$125 apiece. , , '
ROBIN CARR

FOWLERVILJJL‘, MICHIGAN

 

i ‘ ‘GURRNSEY

 

 

~ FOR SALE
Two Registered Guernsey Bulls.
7 months old. _
R. B. JACKSON
“RUDGATE FARM”
BIRMINGHAM, - MICHIGAN

 

 

 

MUSOLFF’ BROS! HOLSTEINS

We are now “coking 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.

Musolfl Bros., South Lyons, Michigan.
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HOLSTEIN BoLL CALVES
Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
5.52% fat. Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows 1%, white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.

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

 

 

 

Holstein-Friesian Cattle

Under the present labor conditions
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

 

 

bu l. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

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

 

 

months old for sale'. M. . bred
sire. Dam has junior 3 yr. record of
407 lbs. ofnmilk; butter 16.64 lbs. Per-
fect udder. .Flne individual. Better than
12,000 lbs. of milk yearly. Price $85 at
once.
C. L. HULETT & SONS. Okemos, Mich.

FOR SALE—Registered Holstein Show

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

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL, eight
A C.

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SHORTHORN

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

 

We want these Registered Holstein
Bulls to head Grade Herds'
Korndyke Clothlldo of Serridale,.
Born June 24, 1917." Price $100
Korndyko Ormsby of Serridella
Born Sept. 19,, 1917. Price $85

Pricesf. o. b. Oscoda, Mich.
SERRIDELLA FARMS
Oscoda, - - - Michigan

 

 

 

 

EARLING DAUGHTER of Maplecrest
De K01 Hortoy whose dam is a 30-1b.
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 K0], 7 day
record 494.8 lbs. milk, 19.67 lbs. butter.
Heifer well marked, good individual, price
£2001. 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 Holstein-Frieslan 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 Oron‘sby.

 

 

 

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED ‘smcir

 

MIRA, MICK. ,7

g "961:;

FOR SALE—Pure Bred Shorthorns and

O. I. C. pigs. Young bulls $100 to
$125 each; p‘igs $1; at weaning time.
Ray Warner, R. No. 3, Box 52, Almont,
Michigan. *

 

One Car-load Registered Holsteins

Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy-producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open giits. ,
J. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS He‘illell‘s Hign‘dE co‘ws Filowr
sale, also a number of well bred young

bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms.
Grass Lake. Michigan.

UERNSEYS for sale—One registered
Yearling Guernsey Bull, also one Bull

 

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

 

 

8 bull calves Prince

Herefords Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HAR‘VOOI) HEREFORDS .
Yearling bulls and a few heifers

from choice bred cows. ' .
Jay HarWQod. R. No. 3. Ionla, Mich.

 

 

‘ swim“ at t‘

. mile northeast ot’ ' town.
welcome 7» days in week. j ._ .,
Newton,,Barnhart«, St. John-‘1. Might“

unoo JERSEYS Brod Bows 311780.
‘ - 1 y‘earlin .boar sired to Brookwat

 

Cherry King d‘am, also spring pigr
of blood lines and splendid in
.. J. UNDERHILL. Salem,

POLAND CHINA

Michiga

July and August farrow.
lbs. Spring pigs.‘
Leonard, St. Louis, Michigan.
HAMPSHIRE

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE PIGS now
ready. A bargain in boar pigs. John
W. Snider, R. No. 4, St. Johns, Mich.

SHEEP

SH ROPSHIRES_

SllROPSIlIRES.—-Some fine yearling

.Rams and Ram Lambs, one 3 yr. old.
Farmers’ price, Dan Booher, R. No. 4.
ldvart. Michigan.

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FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register

ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual-
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter. Michigan. '

DELAINE
SMALL flock of choice recorded Delaine'

. r-wos for sale. Will sell in lots to suit.
John Brown, R. 1. Blanchard. Mich.

POULTRY

‘VYA NDO’I‘TE o

 

 

 

ILVER, GOLDEN and \VHITE Wyan-
dottcs of quality. lino large cockerels,
$3.00 each. lilggs. $2.50 ywr l5. Clarence
Browning, P. .No. 2 Portland, Michigan.

 

 

 

HORSES

S H E’I‘LA N 1) PO N I ES

SHETLAND PONIE Ffi‘wt

prices. Mark B, Curdy, T—Towell. Mich.

HOGS

O. l. C.

0 Bred ’dGilts

Serviceable Boars
C J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LARGE TYPE 0. l. C.

Spring pigs pairs and trios. Gilts bred
for fall farrow. at prices that w1ll please.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM
Monroe, Mich.

 

CHOICE O. I. 0.3
Spring pigs, either sex, $12. Offer good
for two weeks. M. L. Vodden, Swartz
Creek. Michigan.

 

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

 

DUROC

 

EACH HILL FARM. tegistcred Du—
roc Jersey bred gilts. spring pigs and
service boars.
INW’OOI) BROS,
Romeo, Michigan.

 

 

 

families.

Fair 1917'.

months old for sale.

 

100 REGISTERED IIOLSTEINS 100

A herd of high producing females from the brccd's best
Herd headed by Dutcliland Colantha VVlnana Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire
132652 a 35.16 son of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter Boy
and whose dam and 1%
yearly butter records.

R. BRUCE McPHERSON, IIO‘VELL, DIICII.

Maplecrest Application Pontiac
sister hold 0th and 7th highest
Sons of these great sires up to 15
Prices and pedigrees on application.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LICUHORN

 

30 00 Fine. strong, vigorous chicks for

7 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.

 

 

WE HAVE THEM
if you want Leghorns that will pay
for their feed a dozen times over, write
us. We have eggs for Hatching and
Breeding Stock, hens and pullets only.
HILL CREST POULTRY FARM,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

 

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

 

" ful breeding,

PLYMOUTH ROCK

BARRED ROCKS Elthi“;';‘.f:foi“::ge-
large, heavy—laying fowls.

Eggs $5 for 50; $10 for 120. Chas. I.
Cook. Fowlerville, Michigan.

 

 

CHICKS

 

 

 

BABY CHICKS

YOUNG’S Strain llcuvy 'Iiaying'Single
(Tomb White Leghorns.

50 chicks
100 chicks

By mail prepaid.

............ $1.95

Order direct from ad.
shipments.

WOLVERINE CHICKERY

711 Delaware St. SE.
(irand Rapids, Mich.

Immediate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

Watch this paper for
Announcement of
‘obert R. Pointer & Son

' “-SALEr—l,

 

 

 

 

We ship thousands
CHICKS each season, different
varieties_ booklet and
testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport

Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport. Michigan.

- from our Bred-to—Lay
Day Old CthkS White Leghorns, Fer-
ris and Youngs strain, $10 per 100; from
our Thompson strain of Barred Rocks, $15
per 100.
Russell Poultry Ranch. Petersburg, Mich.

, HATCHING EGGS

PLYMOUTH ROCK

 

 

 

 

 

‘ From strain with
Barred ROCk Eggs records to 290 egg.
per year. $2.00 per 16 Prepaid by par.
cel post Circular free.
Constantine, Michigan.

 

onPING'rON

One pen Sumatras. Ten. birds
For sale $20. Chicago Coliseum Win-
ners. Some fine.» females in black and

 

 

 

 

 

Buff Orpingtons at $5 each. James 1A.-'
Daley, Mohawk, Mich. ‘ , .

s. . Best
ividtinah;

BIG TYPE P. 0. FALL sows bred for] K
Weigh 250“
Call or write E. R“

Fred Astling. "

  
      
   
 
  

  
  
  
    
  
 
 
      
   

 

 
   
  
   
    
 
 
 
 
  
      

 
  
   
   
 
     
     

   
  

 

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EVER before has-there been such a crying
need for a successful Fair as thereis in 1918.
Our Country is calling upon us for every
atom of assistance in bringing to apsuccessful cul-
mination the gigantic world’s struggle. The Mich-
igan State Fair is one of the greatest agencies in the

State toward a perfect understanding among all.

Wolverines.

Michigan stands out among the states of the union as a
leader in furnishing supplies for the boys at the front. Our
great industries, mineral deposits, fisheries, forests and agri-
cultural products are indispensible to the country in its hour
of trouble. '

It is the Michigan State Fair which is the common gather-
ing ground for all. It is there we may learn what our neigh-
bor is doing and he may come to know what we are doing, So
that we may all work together. We are doing everything in
our power to make the 1918 Fair the greatest in the history of
Michigan exhibitions. The Federal and State governments
have come to a realization of the importance of fairs during
the war, and are not only sending exhibits but are lending
their experts for the benefit of the people. With this interest
shown by State and Nation, it is the express duty

of the Fair Management to work incessantly for a
wonderful, successful exhibition. We are doing all
we can, and we are asking the people of the state
to accept our invitation to join forces with us in stag-
ing the premier of all Fairs.

Mr. Exhibitor, a word with you. It is your duty—~but
we know you will consider it a privilege—to place your
successes before the eyes of the people. Give your neigh«
bor an opportunity of learning from you. He wishes to
help win the war. In order that there may be an added incentive to
you, we are offering additional premiums, and never before in the his-
tory of the Michigan State Fair has the exhibitor been more richly
’rewarded for meritorious entries than in 1918. Premiums for every
walk in life are offered. No matter What your vocation may be, there
is a premium for you. We need your assistance. We know you will
respond, and we await you With open arms, with greater facil-
ities for your comfort and pleasure than ever before. '

Democmy must be preserved. Let us . .
all put our shoulder to the task. 6- W- DlelnSOfl
SECRETARY—MANAGER

 

J. S. H aggerty,

PRESIDENT

  

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