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The bean growers of Michigan are right
in the harvesting season; very soon their at-

téntion will be directed toward marketing,

the crop. General conditiOns are not encour-
aging, to say the least, and unless extreme
care is taken matters will be made worse in—
( stead of. better. We have, after censiderable
"investigation, prepared a review of the bean
., situation and feel that every bean grower
* should hold the facts here stated in mind
and very carefully plan for the sale of his
" present crop. To get the facts well before
7you, we must necessarily thresh over some
«old straw,er the simple reason that last
year ’s unusual conditions still hang over,
and right now very seriously interfere
with the opening market. In the history of been
1” growing in Michigan last year’s experience has
never been dupIicated; let us hope that it will
The "hang-over" conditions
which affect the present opening market may be
’quickly summarized-z

Firstzf Beans grown in Michigan and New
r York last year did not maturewat least 60 per
w‘cent of the crop contained a moisture content far
above the highest average of any previous year.
"In fact the extremely Wet season and cold fall
. . in o it quite impossible to reduce the moisture
’ to safe percentage and maintain it.

second: The 1917 market opened brisk; there
was no restriction on speculation, and the growers
fisold from the machines. The high prices caused
elevator men to dispose of the beans as quickly
as possible, and hundreds of cars of immature
beans were speedily dumped upon 9. Waiting mar-
‘11s: ,

Third: Within ninety days two-thirds of all
beans marketed were in the hands of wholesale
grocers and the larger distributors, were heating
and spoiling on their hands. In most cases these
beans had been inspected and accepted on' ar-
rival, and the loss was up to the wholesaler.
~Where acceptances were refused the cars were
returned and the loss fell upon the elevator men.

Fourth: Now, couple with the above the un-
‘warranted and uncalled- for purchase and public-
ity given the pinto bean by the Bean Division of
,the Food Administration and you have a big
enough scare to make a bull—dog throw a fit.

And the bottom fell out of the market with a
thud. Many elevator men had bought all or the

libeans their Elevators would hOId and borrowed,’

. . A w . , \ _ . r. Bean Grower

who Lost Money last Year will Toke no Chances this Fall; They’ll “Bear” the Market and
ing Prices will be Low, but Growers who Wait for Market to Readjust Itself will be

Money Ahead of the Fellow who Rushes in his Beans

By GRANT SLOCUM

heavily from the banks to pay for them. With
beans selling around seven dollars per bushel,
it did not take long to tie up a big sum of money,
and'the wholesale grocers, sore at the treatment
they have received from the elevator men, posi-
tively refused to 'buy a bag of Michigan beans.
No one will ever know how many bean buyers
lost their all last year; neither will anyone learn
how many banks had ”their entire surplus funds
in high-priced beans—true, they were safe, but
the chances taken gave them the scare of their
lives. And now let us add to the facts above

'presented something of recent date:

Last month one of the largest bean buyers in
the United States took from the hands of the
wholesale grocers seven hundred thousand dollars
worth of damaged beans, had them shipped to
canneries where they were prepared under gov-
ernment regulations and canned. This transac-
tion actually took place and the Government re-
leased tin enough to save this portion of last
year’s crop. A very careful estimate of last year’s
crop in. the hands of buyers and growers is es-
timated at two hundred and ten cars. These

' beans for the greater part are in good condition,

and most of them will go to the canners before
the new crop is really upon the market. Thus we
have a very unusual condition for the opening
of the bean. market for the 1918 crop.

.Don’t imagine for a moment that the Michigan
bean has been tabooed, for such is not the case.
The demand for the navy bea'n was never greater,

in fact the forcing upon the market of the pinto _

and other substitutes has already set the people

' to looking around for the good old white navy
But the people can’t get the white bean\
if the wholesale grocers are afraid to handle‘

bean. ‘

it—and they will not touch that 1918 crop until
they are fully'satisfied that the bean will keep.
For example,lthe Food Administration asked for
bids on one hundred cars of beans for export
shipment last March, stipulating that the person
who sold them should guarantee them suf-
ficiently dry to warrant shipment to foreign mar—
kets. The Food Administration received one bid
tor thirty cars. with a conditional guarantee
which could not be accepted. So you see, Mr.
Bean Grower, just what you are up against.
Now let us consider for a moment the question
of supply and demand. The crop of New York and
Michigan beans will be less than lastyear, re-
ports to the contrary notwithstanding. The ac-
tual acreage of beans is less than last year, and

on a Declining Market

the extreme dry weather is going to cutthe yield
away below the average. Pods which“? dinarily .
contain from five to seven beans, this season
contain three to five, and should the weather in-_
terfere with the harvest the crop will be hundreds
of thousands of bushels short. The demand for
beans will be greater than last year. This nation '
has more men in the field, the Allies have more
men in the field; the crop in California will not
exceed last year’s and the Michigan crop will
fall far short of last year.

It is under these conditions that the grower
approaches the opening market. What is going
to be the result? Put this down, and see how
near we hit the nail on the head: The opening
price will be low, very low. Buyers have already
agreed to an opening price low enough to play
safe, and with conditions as presented, it is fool-
ish to expect anything else. The ban on specu-
lation is off; just off. Beans have already been
solo by speculators at a price which would scare
you, Mr. Grower. 'And these fellows, mark you,
are not going to sell themselves short if they can
help it. This means a bear market, a big‘ bear
market right from the start. And, Mr. Grower, ,
you are going to put two and two together, and
if you don’t look out you will get caught with
your fore feet in the trap. You are going to argue
that the price was at its highest point at the open-
ing last season, that the market went to pieces
in December, that the market never did come back
———and you will take no chances this year. That’s
the way you are going to figurey—the buyers ex-
pect it, and that is why they are selling beans on
the speculative market right now at prices less
than they are actually worth.

Naturally you will now ask: “What are you
going to do about it?" Wait for the market to «
adjust itself, that’s all. Can’t you see that there
is nothing definite for groWer and buyer to tie:
to right now? Can’t you see that everything is
in the air, and that the slogan is sure to be, "Buy
low and sell quick; take no chances?" Now the
quality of beans this year will be far above the
average; white. dry and sound———they have ma- .
tured. This being true. all that is necessary is
to prove to the wholesalers that Michigan beansfi
will carry through the year; that they are safe
for export sale, and the price will regulate it8e1f.
Until this assurance is given the price is going
to bump along on the bottom.

The bean growers of California are organized,
and while we are not permitted at this time to
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The Navy Bean Yield 1n Michigan, New York and California will Determine the 1918 Price

Michigan has only two real competitors in the
. duction of navy beans They are New York
- “ ’ 'T The yield and quality of beans

_ , :; going to determine to a. ,
e extent th‘ pricedhat Mishigan growers Will

18 (1er ..Reports as to the
. th ._

mates. says that Qal-
3,000,000 bushels ”$16!.

beans, pinks and
ot be considered

bean. More- ,_
is. are to the ‘
. «1,125 to 75

states are cenflict~ _,
‘x larger than in 1917.b1t the (dry weather in many see-

vised, the middle of August drouth stopped the
bean growth entirely and the yield will accord-
ingly be much less than predicted in the govern-

ment’s August forecast.

BEAN SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA ,
San Francisco. -—-According to George A. Turner,
president of the California Bean Growers' Association,
the acreage planted to beans this year is slightly

.tioas has materially interfered with the crop. Many
groWer-s report almost a total failure because of lack
of moisture. Large tes show an average condi-
tioan the counties of Joaquin, Yuba and Colusa,
in Sa wento; .18 anislaus and Y010 they are
reported is w normal While. the outlook {or pinks
i3“ stating in most districts where they aré grown,
. . arising from 75 per cent down to 25g):
«:11 is reported from xisome git the dry sections. d
Re’d Mexi cans hioh are grown angely

Mega is much less than last year and subnormal

411311;)

in Stanislaus county are reported to be about 75 per- 1 '

cent of normal Blackeyes and Teparies which are
planted usually in the dry districts and are not so

_ easily affected by drouth, range from 75 per cent to

100 per cent of normal.
NEW YORK CROP OUTLOOK POOB !

Rochester, N. Y.—-Dealers and growers here are at
'a losa to understand why beans are embargoed to
Cuba despite the big glut in the markets and at Ethe
same time Manchurian beans are being shipped ; in
there freely. the report being that 75, 000 bags were

unloaded there from a single cargo a few days ago.

Francis G. Fen-in secretary of the New York Bifate
Bean Shippers’ Association, has sent out a large num-
ber of questionaires on condition of making the best-
showing in the late planted fields with a prospect ,o
eightto tenbushelsto tho acre. The range in sti
mates is from three to arts. 11 bushels
very tow holds promising above 12 hashelo.
is now past any beneiit from rain and fie.

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13m, use the long fight of the anti-
iota temperance advocates and, military

  

par- came to an end. The chief provisions of

’endment are:

rohibition of the sale of any kind of alcoholic

rage after June 30,1919.

Prohibition of the manufacture of beer and

«gutter May 1,1919.

uthority to the President to prescribe pro-
mos around munition plants and coal

,. s lmfiediately.

nator Kirby of Arkansas discussed pointedly

e avoritism shown by the federal government

e liquor interests, as evidenced by the failure

th the food and fuel administrations to act

the authority granted them to stop the use

,ereals in the manufacture of beer and the use

coal in the distilleries and breweries. He

  

  
  
 
 
   
   
  
  
   
   
 
 
 
   
   

on industrial plants east of the Mississippi
fiver were closed temporarily, not a brewery in
tea was closed, and when a limits-
(1 on the use of flour in bread, a
man could buy all the beer he wanted. The sen-

shlpping board who said if beer and wine were
ken away from shipyard employee, production
would be reduced 25 per cent, “talked like an
agent of theliquor industry.”

“The Sheppard-Jones amendment continues in
1 (sheet only until the demobilization of the army
5 by which time prohibition leaders predict the
Sheppard constitutional amendment will have
been adopted by the required number of states
and the entire country will have come under full

  

  

count. on Thursday adopted the Sheppark-

. is t In 1:
promtien amendment to the outwit-uni . ‘ 1‘ ado ye”

While the hill does not levy as heavily against .

for s ,drr nation during the period of

tor also declared that Bainbridge Colby of the'

 

i111 I es'he'f the

incomes- all wet profits as many would like to
have it, it will take a much heavier ton irom
wealth than any. previous tax measure.

per cent and running as high as 79 percent, and
is expected to yield a revenue in
3,,000 000 000 Increased taxes upon incomes, lux-
uries and railroad transportation will provide the
bulk of the balance. The minimum income tax is
6 per cent as agaihst 4 percent under the present
law. The‘exemptions allowed are the same as at
present, namely, $1,000 for single persons, $2.000
for married persons and $200 foreach child.
Agricultura1~- interests have been particularly
active in lobbyingfor increased taxes against war
profiteers. Washington representatives of farm
organizations having beseiged the committee with.
arguments and appeals for a more equitable dis-
tribution of the tax burden, and it is due in no

small measure to their efforts that those who

are making money from the war are now called
upon to pay the taxes which must otherwise have
come from table necessities. Of course,'there_are
those who tremble with fear lest the financial in-
terests balk at the heavy tax 'and cause an econ-
omic disturbance as a retaliatory measure-«but if '
such is the measure of their-patriotism, it is high
time that they be shown up: With the“ extension
of military obligation to praCtically every physi-
cally qualified man in the country, and the result-
ing sacrifices of careers, loved ones, health and
in many instances life itself, the additional sacri-

“flce placed upon wealth by the tax revenue bill

in comparison, sinks into insignificance.

.The war '« I I
profit section provides for a minimum tax of 35 ;

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are engaged in essential enterprises and have
To determine the draft status of,
these men, according to. the many prouds upon
which they are permitted to claim e/xemption,
will be one of the hardest problems with which
the draft boards have been called upon to face.
In all the discussion in congress upon thebill
extending the age limits «there has been a very
noticeable desire upon the part of both the war

department officials and members of congress to

make it as easy and humble as possible for the

.new registrants to claim the exemption to which

many of thém will be entitled. one senator tried
to amend the bill to require draft boards to de-
termine t e status of registered men. Without
compelling them to claim exemption. Another
wanted to give every. honorably enempted man a
badge or- button, Both proposals were defeated.

General Crowder has announced, how'ever, that
it is the purpose of the war department to create
a special advisory board in each draft district to
assist the local board on determining the status
of registrants, especially with regard to claims
for deferred classification. ’I These boards Will
consist of three members, one appointed by the
labor department, another by the agricultural do
partment, and a third by'the local district board.

111 states like Michigan where farming is a
leading occupation, . (Continued on page 13)

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i DST A YEAR ago the wheelsof our big rotary printing press started

on the first issue of the weekly you now hold in your hands—a year

A ~two issues have elapsed and like the colored preacher we have come
the time when we must “ketch a ’nudder hol’ on ’de debil’ s tail.”

I We were not new to the farming business in Michigan, we who
-. (1 Michigan Business Farming out of the safe harbor into the sea
troubled waterg that we knew lay just outside—every man in the

   

.. We simply saw it as our duty to publish for the farming interests
; this state a weekly farm newspaper; honest, aggressive, fearless of
T M11 interests and absolutely independent!

' I ' We said plainly to as many of the real business farmers of Mich-
. as we could reach—~if 5000 of you will back such a publication
Ifll your interest and your support we will found and dedicate it for
I time to the farming business of Michigan.

, And you responded, you thinking business farmers of the state,
more than three thousand of you before the first issue of Michigan
., usiness Farming was put to press, and with each succeeding issue
you approved what we were actually doing, by passing the good word

-And not one of you have been induced by tawdry premiums or
tongued agents to add your name to our list;‘you/,came to this

better farming conditions in Michigan which you knew was right
I because as a business man or woman you wanted to keep abreast
he things which concerned your business.

At fiist you thought we might be biased, that perhaps independent

  
  

h (if commercial activity should be organized locally, by state and
on, so that the multiplied voice of all may be heard when it is

shiterests that have ever threatenedvthis state sumo even cloaked

  

know always that Michigan Business Farmmg has only one interest to
[serve and that is the best mterests :of the businuss farmers their 1171111311,,
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TO YOU WHO STOOD BY US THE FIRST YEAR!

It is your letters and your words of encouragement or criticism
which’ have guided Michigan Busihess Farming, and so we hope it will
always be, for this paper was dedicated not as the mouth- -piece of one
man or one idea, but as an institution where all of the farming inter-

ests of one of America’ s greatest farming states might meet together

on common ground and discuss and solve their daily problems.

When we set sail one year ago wiseacres, experienced men too,
who knew the vicissitudes of the publishing business shook their heads
in doubt, “it can’t be done,” they said, “least of all in war times!”
nor did we stop to argue with them for our faces were fixed on the goal
and we knew you business farmers of our home state well enough to
know what you wanted' 1n a publication and what you were not getting,
nopuould you ever, until some Michigan men set to the task, who looked
not to the profit but to the service they could render. , '

They gave our weekly six months to live, but at the end of six
months we were adding twice as many new names to our list each week
as we did the first month! They said “your paper may be all right,
but farmers won’t stop to learn whether it is or. not.” Yet, today in
our files am more than 3000 letters from the best business farmers in
Michigan who not only “stopped” but took the time to sit down and
write us cheermg words of commendation on what our weekly was ac—
complishing.

So, YOU, the real friends who have stood back of Michigan Busi-
ness Farming during the first year are to be given the credit and not
we who merely stood in the wheel -house and piloted Where you said
to go—it is YOU who can point with the most pride when our weekly
reaches every farm home in Michigan, as it some day surely W111, to the
pait you played in founding this real institution fer the advancement
of your home state’s agriculture.

Michigan Busineses Farming enters the battle of the second year,
girded with the strength you have given it! Confident from the skir-
mishes it has already won! Eager to test its new armor against the
enemies of the farmers’ best interests, and certain that we can count

on you yeterans cf the first year to stand by your guns and with each -‘

new month multiply our strength by the recruits you bring to our
banner!

We feel a deep obligation to the farmers. of this state, we appreci-
ate the rospOnsibility that rests with us in the pilot house, We ask you
to furnish the charts, come often" to." advise and ecunsel with us and

 

May we add our deep and umble prayer to the/One abng-
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‘Aug; 30 ~Thlsu"jtown is filled
nd the email-eat roads in the

are kept olive with Tastes visiting the,

’forchard‘s, packing plants and shipping
‘ , DucheSs are nearly all; gone. The Weal-
yement will be under way in about.a week
Pick-
fig of this last v'ar’iety, the most important apple

, "in western New York, Will not start until early in
. 'gOEther. '\

.‘V‘two deals are made on the same basis.
the dific‘uity of getting labor, growers are reluc-
tent to agree to face the barrels and many have

-All sorts of prioes haVe been paid and hardly
Owing to

tried to get offer for their apples in the orchard

.-"T~he range has been from $2. 50 to $4. 00, the lower

:briee being for tree run and the higher being
obtained by growers who have exceptionally good
fruit and who are known to pack carefully and
properly. Growers who have not sold are bold
ing for $4 as they know a few deals have been
made’at that price. but buyers are holding of! and
few transactions have been made this week. '
Storage space is not plentiful but it will prob-
ably be enough to meet demands as the crop, tho

. much larger than last year, is not much more

than half of a full yield.
"The crop in western New York this season will

The the finest in quality since 1016,” says J L.

Branch, who ought to know for he is credited
with having bought 20,000 to 30,000 bbls. in this
section. “The fruit will be of‘large size and the
coloring will be better than usual for this region.
I have never seen finer fruit in Western New
York and I think that when the quality is gen-
erally known the prices will not be considered
too high.”

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' TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS CAN

AND MUST BE ERADICATED

‘_ That tuberculosis among cattle may be eradi-
cated is not a theory. but a fact demonstrated for
a number of years by the Bureau in the work
accomplished among herds in Virginia, Maryland,
the District of Columbia, and elsewhere In the
District during 1910 all of the cattle were tested

were found to be tuberculous, by the tuberculine
tests The diseased animals were slaughtered and
the premises cleaned and disinfected. Each suc-
ceeding'year since 1910 all of the cattle have been
tuberculine tested with the result that during
the fiscal year terminating June 30, 1918, less

7 than one per cent ._of the animals were found-tu-

berculous. ..The financial losses from tuberculosis
of livestock each year. is at least $25,000,000, but
far greater than the loss in dollars and cents is
the curtailment of our supply of meats, fats and
dairy products. During the fiscal year terminat-

~,ed June 30, 1918, there were slaughtered at offi-

’ sum of 25 875, 200 pounds

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cial abattoirs in the United States 10,938,287 cat-
tle and 35.449.247 swine; there were 222,787 cat-
tle and 3, 493.188 swine found affected with tuber-
culosis which resulted in the condemnation of
meat products to the extent of the stupendous
It is for the purpose
of preventing such appalling lossesthat the cam-
paign againstJuberculoais was inaugdrated. The
fact that it has ‘been demonstrated over a consid-

X erable area that the disease can be eradicated is

sufficient encouragement to take up the work in

. every state in the United States in co-operation

_with the livastock sanitary officials, with the own-
ers of livestock and others interested in the wel~
fare, the preservation and the stimulation of the

"livestock industry.

_ The eradication ofwtuberculosis is a question
of national impertance The livestock industry
or "each state is but at part of the agricultural

;_rmeurees of the nation. The greater the produc-

ty or the cattle industry of one commonwealth
’ will be the resources of our country;
other .‘slisease preys upon our cattle,

daily favorable to that section.

consisting of 1701 head; of the total 18.87 per cent ,

.1 threaten to become serious;

' by moderate temperature.

_ practically completed 111 many sections.
yielding well.

In order libnt the campaign for the eradication
of, tuberculosis from livestock may achieve the

success it may deserves the full cooperation

and assistance of all those who are interested
must be obtained. The Bureau cannot expect to

, accomplish satistctory; results without the aid

and full assistance of the livestock owners If

each agency will assume its full responsibility it
is only reasonable to expect that within a few

years there will be a noticeable reduction in the
amount of tuberculosis among livestock. Other
diseases which gained widespread distribution
throughout the country have been controlled and
eradicated, not by reason of the'.efforts put forth
‘by the rBureau only, but through a determination
upon the part of the livestock producers to stamp
out the animal financial drain caused by those
diseases—J. R. Mahler. Chief of Bureau of Ani-
mal Industry

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11.411111. Pour-‘0 CROP REPORTED

TO BE unison.” Lionr'

Perham, Ma, Aug. 30. _—Potatoes bring $3 to
$3. 50 per barrel.
light as drouth has cut down the yield.
ten
without rain.’ Butter sells 501: 1b., eggs.
Hay was a good crop, and brought $10 to $15.

Not in

45c.

WISCONSIN POTATO YIELDS RE-
PORTED TO BE VERY LIGHT

Fall Creek. Wis, Aug. 30.——The early potato
crop. was disappointing on account of dry weath-
er.
are small.
by blight and green leaf bugs.
also be light.

The late crop was struck more or less
Late potatoes will

National Crop Conditions

The week ending August 24th was gcne1aily
unfavorable to all crops in practically every sec-
tion of the United States. Except in a few isol-

ated localities the rainfall was deficient and the -

period added to the serious droughty condition
that has prevailed all summer long. Although
Michigan has had her share of drouth she has not
suffered as heavily as many other states. The

extreme northern counties of the lower penin-

sula have received ample rainfall all summer
long and the week ending August 24th was espec-
Counties lying
north of a linerdrawn‘from Grand Traverse bay
to the northern part of Saginaw bay received
from one to two inches of rajnfallduring the

‘week and a limited section south of that line and

extending as far southeast as the northern part
of Macomb county received rain in excess of one—
half inches. Fullygthree-fourt’hs of the territory
of the United States received less than one-half

‘ inch of rainfall or none at all.

The August drouth has raised havoc with the
corn crop in many states and has cut deeply into
the potato yield of the principal states. Basing
our opinion upon the conclusions drawn from
the weekly summary of crop conditions issued by
the department of agriculture, we do not hesitate
to say that in our judgment the drouth has cut
the estimated potato yield at least 15 per cent be-
low the August estimate which if true will re-
duce the 1918 production to less than the 5-year
average.

California is already harvesting beans and
from the present indications the own will easily
reach the government estimate of 9,000,000 bush-
els. If it does, and other states harvest their
estimated yields we shall have another year of
uncertainty in the bean market.

While it is ‘still too early to predict with any
degree of accuracy the final yield of potatoes and
the price that will obtain, buyers and farmers in
this state are of the almost unanimous opinion
that the yield will be light and the price high.
We do know that the acreage planted was much
less than a year ago, that spring frosts, blight
and drouth has injured the crop in every section.
and Mr. Foster predicts a killing frost about the
middle of September for all the northern states.

We shall endeavor to keep our readers advised
of the weekly developments in the crop condi-
tionsand believe it will pay them to follow our
reports. “

New England.——Boston: Rain needed. Corn dping
Well, except where too dry; canning sweet corn will
begin soon in Maine. Hafvesting wheat and oats un-
der way; some threshing done; yield good.

{New York.———’Ithaca: Ideal weather. and harvest of
grains about completed; secured in‘ good condition and
threshing progressed favorably. Drouth conditions

some. districts report the
Buckwheat appears to be
the

driest August on record.
doing well; but corn, beans and potatoes sho“

'results of dry weather likewise pastures and ranges.

lowing progressed slowly because of my soil.R.1ins

needed in all sections.
Oklahoma .—-Oklahoma: Drouth relieved by moder-
ate to heavy general rains middle of week followed
Rains too late for corn
but will help late sorghum grains, sweet potatoes
peanuts, and alfalfa and will start pastures”

Gum—Columbus: Late cropsr gardens, pastures,
and fall plowing adversely affected by weather con~
ditions. Threshing mogré’ss‘ed rapidly and .is now
Oats an d rye
Tobacco being saved in good condition.

Corn deteriorated on account of light rain and high
temperature.

Indiana. ——India11apolis: Most of w-eek unl'avozable.
Pastures, meadows, truck, potatoes and young clmel
showed further deterioration; past recmeiy in some
localities, but generally much benefit affmded by good
rains in south at close and lighter showers in noxth-
west during week. Drouth in Northwest unrelieved.
The growth of corn was very poor most of the week
but is now making fair advance in northwestexn and
southeln portions on account of 1ecent rains. The
condition is generally poor in the northeast and the
extieme southeast but is good in the nmthwest, and
is poor to fair elsewhere; umipe (-0111 is being harvest—
ed in localities.

lllinois.—-Springfieldz Heavy rains in parts of south,
but amounts generally light in central and north por-
tions. Meadows, pastures. and gardens improved by
recent rains, but generally good only in nonh. Grass-
hoppers still causing trouble. Ont threshing contin-
ues in ‘north. Plowing for winter wheat made fair
progress. Corn made excellent growth in the north
and good growth in central counties. as a result of
recent rain: some will be. saved in the south by the
moderate to heavy rainfall.

Wisconsin—Milwaukee: Beneficial
northern half 01‘ :latc, but rain needed in
vesting small grains practically completed; stacking,
threshing, and plowing progressing favorably. To-
bacco harvest continues; crop exceptionally large. Po-
tatoes poor to good. Cranberries, sugar beets.‘ beans,
and truck crops continue good. Pastures and ranges
improved in north, but short and dry in south. Prog-
ress and condition of corn excellent generally; some
cutting in southwest. ' ~~

Minnesotns—Minneapolis: Threshing in progress,
but retarded considerably by wet weather. Barley,
oat and rye yield and quality generally good to ex-
cellent, but considerable damage in south, due to
sprouting in shock. Hay crop short. Potatoes being
dug; yield good. Corn made fair growth in north;
excellent in south. Spring wheat yield is excellent
generally.

Iowa.——Des Moines: Heavy rains Monroe and
adjacent counties improved pastures, potatoes, gar-
dens. supply of stock water, and appearance of corn;

sh 11w ers in
womb. Har—

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but previous damage to commercial crop of cOrn ir—.
southwest portions.

reparahle in south-central and
Corn made excellent growth during the week in the
north and east, and some is already saved. Fodder
and silage cutting in the south about one month ear-
lier than usual.
the past two weeks by rain in the north.
ward close 01’ week. Oats sprouting and
in shock.

Kansas.—Topeka: Innvuth broken middle week mm"
most eastern third and south—central counties, follow-
ed by more moderate temperatures. which relieved
l’fi'ndltlons‘ generally. Pastures reviving and stock
water situation, which was the worst known in many
eastern counties, improved in many places. Fall'plovtu
ing one-half to three-fourths finished in caStern part
of state. Some wheat sown in west. 'I‘hmshing still
in full swing in northwest. Corn continued in navy
poor condition in the greater part of thestate and in
some places is too far gone to be helped by rains;
from one—fourth to three-fourths cut in eastern por-
tion.

North bukota.—~—Bismarrk;
wind storms interfered with
damaged crops early portion of wevk. Herve tin':
practically completed in eastern and well
in central and western portions. Some
cut: late ripening fast. Pastures and live>
excellent condition. Condition of corn medium. The
yield of spring wheat excellent in 111 101-11 portion:
yields generally above expectations.) '

Colorado.~——Denver: Favorable for barre *‘ner'
threshing and other outdoor wo1k. honoraly
yield of small grains reported. 200d yield :
ity of potatoes being marketed. Sugar lw t: genara])y
good. Corn filling well, except in localizws 1n south-
eastern counties: where rain is 119.1(le 1’ "king of“
good crop of Filberta peaches. ' ~ '

New Mexico.~—Santa Fe:
tinue, mostly light, but few beaxw down- ~pvurs and
some damage. Range and stock condition generaiy
good. Late harvested oats and hmlcv contmues‘ 1n
plateau and mountain valleys Early corn and beam
ripening and late setting well.

resumed to-
moulding

Severc‘ rain; hall and
farm work and greatly

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The crop will be unusfl'ally"

years has there been such a long period

There are not many to the hill and bile tubers-

the '

Threshing, which has been delayed for ~

a‘lvn Head :

.‘tm:k in ‘

am‘ .

Local thundrr stmms cone I

Plowing fairly gener- .

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California .—-—San Francisco: Barley, wheat, and oat
harvests practically coinpleted; yields fair to good
Corn good especially sorghums. Potatoes and t it
good to excellent where irri ed. * Ranges my
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excellent; raisin making begun Bean,

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8111111113,: -—Wheat Loss Would
Supply Army Division With
Bread for a _Year

  
  
  

“East Lansing, Michs—A very tiny thing called
ffsmut spore"——so tiny that several dozens of them
. *can perch upon the point of a pin without en-
: dange‘ring each other's comfort—fllched a grand
" total of $1, 526, 106. 38 from the pockets of the
:iiiMiohigan farmer in the summer of 1918 This
figure, which by the way is not a haphazard
”guess. but is instead an estimate based on in-
spection of fields of wheat and oats in almost
every county in the state, is what the farmers of
I; Mich1gan had to pay out this year because they
omitted making use of a certain chemical com-
pound called formaldehyde, which compound, the
- pla’nt pathologists tell us, is the mortal fee of
the aforementioned smut'spore. The same path-
OIOgists—who can well be charged with being a
gloomylot—are forecasting that a toll at least
equally heavy will be exacted of the Michigan
farmer in 1919 if he forgets to deal with the smut
spore before he plants his wheat this fall and
his oats next spring.

The above listed items of information represent
the work of a half dozen men who have been
touring the state for the Michigan Agricultural
college and the United States department of Ag-
riculture during the past two months for the pur—
pose of learning what diseases are most troub-
ling the cereal crops of Michigan.

A short time ago these young men reported
back to the college. In the case of wheat they
found that the damage suflfered by the crop from
stinking smut amounted to 3.77 percent, while
with eats the loss from loose smut was 214 per-
cent.

Take that “measly” little item of the 3.77 per-
cent loss sustained by the wheat crop as a re-
sult of infection by stinking smut. This year,
according to the estimates of the federal crop
reporter for Michigan, the state’s wheat harvest
amounted to 9,295,000 bushels. Of this, 3.77 per
cent or 350,421 bushels was destroyed by smut—
350,421 bushels which if stored in the grain bins
‘ of Uncle Sam wouldhave supplied 18 ounces of

bread daily for a year to every man in a division
‘ of 40,000 men.

This loss was caused for the most part through
the failure of grain growers to treat their seed
wheat with formaldehyde before planting— an
operation which does not exceed a cost of two
cents a bushel. Of course not every farmer lost
3.77 percent of his wheat from smut. Those who
used either the wet or dry formaldehyde method
last fall harvested crops this summer which were
almost entirely free from the smut disease. The
average loss of 3.77 percent represents the good
and bad all lumped up together. The man who
treated lost none.~the man who took a chance
and failed to treat was the man who paid. the
smut bill, a bill which added up to $788.448.38.

0f the oat crop, 21,4 percent was ruined by loose
I smut“ This, of course, looks like another incon-
sequential item—inconsequential, that is, until
‘fit is turned over a few times and inspected both
dorsally and ventrally. This 21/4 per cent when
Q‘expressed as money, is equivalent to a loss of
,229 ,7130 bushels of oats, which at t‘1e recent pride
of 60 cents a bushel would be worth $737 658.

In the course of their tour through the state,-
.the fieldmen inspected 3.0.47 acres of oats. Of
these 1,008 acres were in fields which had been
planted to treated oats. In these fields the loss
flwas practically nil. Something like 2,037 acres of
cats visited were crops that had been raised from

  

 

 
  

  

   
  
  
   
  
   
 
   
  
 
  
    
  
  
     
    
  
   
  
   
 
 
   
   
     
   
  
   
   
  
  
    
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
     
    
    
  
   
   
   
  
  

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5.801% was found, ut these fields were the excep-
tion. ’It was almoSt invariably true that wher-
ever the men inspected a crop raised from treated
1.,seed the oats were clean; While in those fields _
raised from untreated seed the losses from smut,
ran all the Way from one to forty percent of the
cm «

‘ Among the counties, St. Joseph probably came
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~ for threshing this year‘s harvest
farmers are not the only ones to express their (155- ~ '

‘ , many other localities have Organihed assbciations, H
' and {will henceforth be free from the threshermaus
' monopoly - ._ .. " .

  

, " ‘ ‘iagents, or by
of Botany, Michigan

It happened'last fall that a few users of the Wet,
as well as of the dry method complained that:
the formaldehyde damaged their wheat. 1mm.
gation proved, however, that. in practically every
case trduble arose because of failure to fol-

low directions exactly. Wherever directions are

followed in detail smut is controlled by the prop-
er treatments . ‘v'

The general adoption of these safety measures,
it has been brought out, will stop a leak through
which there has annually been pouring hereto-
fore somewhere between- $1, 500, 1100 and $3,000, 000
of Michigan farmers’ hard-earned income.

DORR D. BUELL, PRES. MICH. PO- .
TOTO GROWERS’ EXCHANGE

 

T IS UPON the broad and capable shoulders of
Mr. Dorr D. Buell, successful farmer and
banker of Elmira. Otsego county, that the

over 5 000 members of the Michigan Petato Grow-
ers’ Exchange have placed the responsibility of
guiding their central organization. Mr. Buell
knows potatoes. For years he has grown them,
and “breeded” them and perfected a variety that’s
got anything
this side of
Maine beat for
virility, _ free-
dom from dis-
ease, blight-re-
sisting, and
quality. Nat-
urally, he has
-been a close
student of the
' potato market
and can make
as good a guess
as any and
better’n most
on the annual
ups and downs'
of the market.
Mr. Buell does
not confine his
farming ef-
forts to pota-
toes. He owns
.and farms the
.better part—’01
a section of
land, and rais-
es bumper
crops of‘wheat,
, oats, rye and
alfalfa. What
“spare" time
he' has he de-
votes to his
Perch erons,
Holsteins, Ab-
erdeen - Angus,
.Shrropshires
and TDurocs.

1'11 accept.-

ing the presi-
dency of the
Michigan Po-
tato Growers’
Exchange, Mr. Buell assumes a task that is no
less gigantic in its proportions than/it is prom-
ising in its possibilities All friends of organ-
izpd co- -0perative marketing will watch the prog-
ress of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange
and its subsidiary Organizations with keen in-
terest, for if successful the plan will no doubt be
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Eaton Rapids—Farmers are orgamzmg co—opcias
t1ve threshing associations as a protest against the
alleged exorbitant prices asked by the thi eshermen
Eaton county

satisfaction with the ,new prices, :as fa; mars in

working to bring about the movement across the
water of the condensed milk product that has been
piled up in this oeuntry during the past months
and which was such a menace to us last winter
We are happy new to announce that, from the most
thorough inventigatton we have been able to make
at Washington, We believe the surplus of con-
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great industry on a commerci’

mend and recompense me in a reasonable way.
“The officers of this association have received

the most hearty co-operation of the broad-mind-

ed men composing the Michigan Milk Commission,
as well as others who have given without stint
or recompense far this great constructive ser.
viCe, and as we stand today to take a general sur-
vey of the situation, we feel that we are entitled
to your attention and your support in this at-
tempt to bring your business to a profitable
basis.

This plea is not directed as much to the milk
producers of the Detroit area—Who are better or-
ganized, more energetic, and giving more freely
of their time and that to this proposition than are
the up- -state milk producers. Cbnsequently, we
make this appeal more directly and definitely to
those up-state individuals who. have given this
great, movement but little thot. time or money.
It is to yen that we wish we could talk directly,
to impress upon you the gravity of the situation
and the importance of the hearty co-ordination
of every part of this great commonwealth.

THE WIsnoM 0F ORGANIZATION

Your secretary‘has just. returned from Wash-
ington, where, during the last week, with repre:
sentatives from every state in the dairy district
of this nation, we have counselled and planned
to make our effort enduring. We find that prac-
tically every other industry is organized and has
a representative at the seat of our national gov-
ernment. The blacksmiths, the barbers, the man-
ufacturers of gum and locomotives; every indus-
try all along the line has a national organization
and headquarters at Washington. Where they may
be in touch at all times with every influence that

might arise to have a bearing upon their busi—
ness

THE MILK' Pnonvcnns' 5.530131”on
While we have a national organization, with a

president who has given his time since a year ago
.last March, without pay: who has paid a large
portion of his own expenses in the interests of
your business;
headquarters at the seat of government, no rep-
resentatives there, only as they are called in from
time to time to express the wish of the milk pro-
ducers of the country.

One of the questions that is uppermost before 1
us at this time, and must command our immed-
ate attention,
ton of an office and headquarters, and we must
give some compensation to a man who represents
,our interests;
Congress, the Food Administratorl and the Pres!
ident of the United States, to°bring proper recog-
nition to the demands of this industry. Not only
this; but we must have our organization solidi-
fied.
by earnest work of the men in each locality. and
we make this direct appeal to you— at this time
because:
tunity the Condensary districts of the United
States have ever had to stabilize this industry

yet this great business has no

is the establishment at Washing-

who is competent to go before

This can be greatly stimulated and helped

This we believe 1's the greatest Oppor-

We, with the other dairy interests, have been

, lists, the same
as all other commercial industrifisrpre. For this
service and this work I have left my home, my
private business, and interests that Would com-

 

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{on to tame the elevators
at the tarmers eXpense to

practically every section of Illinois, yet
rned that those are the popular prices

offered ‘ Elevators corned by“ farmers are paying
$2.10 or better ;for wheat and making a profit, too.

Last 12111 M. B. F. learned that many elevators

i111. Michigan‘were payingiees'. than the government
price. for Wheat, and with the assistance and ad-

use or the Grain Corporation we compiled a
table showing what prices elevators should pay-
in the various counties of the state. Farmers
‘were thus able to check up on the local prices
and it Was soon discovered that most of the ele-
Vators were profiteering to the tune of 3 to 8
cents per bushel, which, .in addition to the profit
authorised by the Grain Corporation, yielded
them very handsOme dividends. Many such cas-
es of profiteering were referred to the Grain
Corporation which lost no time in taking the mat-
ter 11p with the offending elevators and ordered
them to increase the1r mquotations Thus the
farmers received several thousand dollars more
for their 1917 wheat crop than they would other-
one have received had we not interceded in their
behalf “

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. ontmued on Sundays P‘l’"

., » gtilI dark Week days and have
“only Sunday for recreation. , Your

--_dwelIer, oW11mg high-powered large.
gasoline-cons ing cars from touring
Week days if e desires thereby defeat-
ing purpOse of regulation We have no
5 wish to obstruct any measure you find
necessary for conserving fuel supply,
but respectfully urge you adopt some
other method which calls for more equal
sacrifice. Farmers laboring under most
discouraging conditions of years. No
other class “putting in such long hours
‘at such hard work to help win war.
» Farmers’ morale has, suffered some
staggering blows. DoCnot destroy it al-
together. Either deprive all auto own-
ers of gasoline for pleasure riding or
apportion to needs, and let owners de-
cide upon which days and for what
purposes they desire to use their share.
“Farmers will patriotically comply with
letter of your Sunday gasoline ban but
believe other more eifective and less
discriminatory methods could be adopt-

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order that farmers may know what prices they
should receive, we are republishing herewith
our wheat price table. While the prices suggest-
ed in the table may in some instances be one or

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be considered equivalent thereto in the judgment
of the fence viewers within whose, jurisdiction

"commits To THE sTAf rs

.. ‘ , Compiled LaWs,1915 Sec 2206, provides. as.
1 _ follows.
4 and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber.
_ ; boards, wire or stone walls, or any combination

thereof, and all brooks, rivers, ponds,
. ditches and hedges, or other things which shall

creeks, ‘

the same may beshall be deemed legal and sui-g

ficlent .fences." The courts have heldthat a
f'worm or stump fence" built in accordance with
the common practice of a country or locality and
meeting the approval of the fence viewers may
be lawfully built without a neighbor having
ground tor‘complaint that the fence was not with-
in the statute.——W. E. Brown, Legal Editor.

LOOK OUT FOR THE.’ “BEARS”
MR. MICHIGAN BEAN GROWER

 

(Continued from page 1) had a personal inter-
view with the officers of that organization and ‘we
know that the price they will demand and re-
ceive will be far above the opening price in Mich-
igan. We are not going to name a price; it would
be absolutely foolish to do so, but we say this,
without fear of getting the growers in wrong,
“Don’t you rush your beansto market on the
opening price; if you do you will everlastingly
regret it.” Beans will not be lower than the op-
ening price at any time during the season; those
best informed on markets and the demand make a
safe bet on this statement. Get your beans into
marketable condition. See that they are matured
before harvesting and then watch them until the
moisture content is no longer a hazard. Do this.
and then wait for the market to settle on some
kind of a basis. Don’t throw your crOp on a
demoralized opening market. If you accept this
advice and act upon it you will prevent a further
depression of a market which was born very weak
and with “wobbly legs.”

 

 

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‘ . Bentom'Harbor ..... 10.5 13.5 2.105 Laingsburg ........ 10.5 13. 5 2.105 Rhodes ............ ’13 16 2.08
g a“, ...... .. Dowagiac .......... 10.5 13.5 2 105 01mm, ....... Bath ..... _. . . . . . . .. 10.5 13.5 2.105 Arenac ....... Standish .......... 113 _16 2.08
' " Qassopolis ..... . . . . . 10.5 13.5 2.105 Eagle ............. 10.5 13.5 2.105 Alger .............. 13 16 2.08
“3; Josz Three Rivers . ..... 10.5 13.5 2.105 mm _________ Ioiiia .............. 10.5 13.5 2.105 10500 ........ - AuSable ........... 12.5 15.5 2.085
Sturgis . . . . . . . . . . ., 10.5 13.5 2.105 “ ' Balding ............ 10.5 13.5 2.105 Tawas City ........ 12 15 2.09 t
. -. Branch '1 _ . . ‘ , Bronsbn ............. 1035 13. 5 2.105 Kent ......... Grand Rapids . . . . . . 10.5 18.5 2.105 0gema10 ...... West Branch ...... 13 16 2.08 _
Goldwater ...... 3. . 10:5 13. 5 2.105 Sparta ............. 10.5 13.5 2.1‘ ‘ Greenwood ........ 13 16 2.08
Hillsdale 1 . . Joneéville . . ........ 10, 13 2.11 Ottaw‘a- ______ ‘. Holland . .2. . ...... 10.5 13.5 2.105 Missoukee. . . . Lake City ......... 12.5 15.5 2.085
,Hillsda‘le ........ .. 10 13 2.11 Grand Haven ...... 10.5 13.5 2.1 Stratiord .......... 13 16 2.08
Wee. . . Tecumseh ........ . . 9.5 13 2.11 Muskeaon. . . . Muskegon .......... 10.5 '13.5 2.105 Wexford ...... Cadillac ........... 12.5 15.5 2.085
. ‘1 311123111 ............ 3.: 13 2.3. White Hall ........ 11 14 2.10 ' Manton ............ 12.5 15.5 2.085
* . '.'. .... an as . ......... ,. , 1 2. . _ . Greenville ......... 10.5 13.5 2.105 Manatee ..... Manistee .......... 11 14 2.10
5°35“ < Monroe» .......... .. 8.5 11.5 2.125 “meal“ Edmore ............ 10513.5 2.1 Kaleva ............. 12.5 15.5 2.055
.. woihtcnaw... Ann Arbor ........ 9.5 12.5 2.115 61mm, ....... Alma .............. 10.5 1352.105 3mm ........ Thompsonville ...... 13 15 2.08
' , . 1 Manchester ..... .. . 9.5 12.5 2.115 St. Louis .......... 10.5 13.5 2 105 Bendon ........... [13 16 2.08
Jackson. . _ .L _ Jackson ‘ ............ 10 13 2.11 Sam-flaw ...... Saginaw ............ 10 13 2.11 gd‘ Traverse... Traverse City .' ..... |13 10 2.08
" . ’ Hanover ............. 10 1.3 2.11 ' Chesaning ......... 10.5 13.5 2.105 Williamsburg ...... '13 16 2.08
Calhoun ...... Baa-.16 Greek ..... 5‘.”- 10.5 13.5 2.115 Tuscolagg. - . . Vassar ............ 10 13 2.11 Kalkaska _____ Kalkaska .......... 13 16 2.08
. "a" AlbiOn ...... ’ ...... 1 10.5 13. 5 2.115 ‘ _ Caro" .............. 10 13 2.1 Sharon ............ 13 16 2.08
Kalamazoo -Knlamazoo ...... i. 10.5 13. 5 2.115 gang“; ...... Brown City ........ 10 113 2.11 Crawford ..... Grayling .......... 13 16 2.08
y'_ . Schgolcliaft ........... :05 13.5 2.115 Minden City ...... 10 13 21 ' . Frederic .......... 13 16 2.08
’- ,- Sou h 'aven ....... 0.5 13.5 2. 15 uron ........ Bad Axe ........... 10.5 13.5 2.105 ....... Comins ............ 12.5 15.5 2.085
yam; 6" Lawton ... ......... 10,5 13.5 2.115 E . Port Austin ........ 10.5 13.5 2.105 080°“ Mccouum ......... 12.5 15.5 2.085
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‘ 13.5 2.115 Midland” ,,,,, Coleman ............ 11 [14 2.10 Alpena ....... Alpena ............ 12.5 15.5 2.085
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. OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS
We respectfully ask our readers to favor our adver-
tisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices are
cheerfully sent free, and we guarantee you against loss
providing you say when writing or ordering from them,
"I saw your ad in my Michigan Business Farming."

'- filtered as second-class matter, at Mt. Clemens, Mich

Does Wall Street Foot the Bills?

-ies of Truman H. Newberry’ s nomination as
. United States senator might have read as fol—

lows: . ‘-
"‘New York City, August 28th.—-Commander

Truman H. Newberry was most agreeably sur-

gift from his admiring and patriotic Michigan
. friends in the shape of the Republican nomina.
tion to the United States senate. The present
still bore its cost tag marked $150, 000, but un-
fortunately was not accompanied by a list of the
donors. Mr. Newberry is reported as saying that
a friend of his read in a Detroit newspaper sev-
eral months ago that an effort waspbeing made
to place his, Mr. Newberry's name, before the
patriotic citizens of the.Wolverine state as the
only 100 per cent American qualified to repre—
sent the peninsula state in the- nation’s highest
legislative body. Mr. Newberry put the stair
down as newspaper talk and promptly forgot it
until appraised of his nomination this morning.
“The only regrettable feature of the election
was the polling of some 50,000 Republican votes
by Henry Ford,.whom as everyone knows is
VPresident Wilson’s political tool in Michigan and
who is probably doing more than any other man
in the United States to hamper the government’s
war program. Instead of threatening to disin-
herit his son Edsel if he did not leave his family
as every other married man in the United States
.has done and fight in the trenches, this notorious
pacifist has been content to rest.his claim to
patriotism upon the millions of dollars’ worth of
War work he is turning out for the government
’at cost. a mere picayune compared to the sacri-
ficial services of the sterling Americans who op-
posed his insatiable greed for political honors.
“While we rejoice with Michigan republicans
.in the choice they have made to represent the
grand old party at the November electionl native
pride should restrain our sister commonwealth

nnummhnmimmmutm

ment for it could only serve to emphasize the
shameful fact that one-third of her voters showed
their un-American and pro-German characters
when they voted for the auto king. And now
V’these renegades have the audacity to accuse our
patriotic Mr. Newberry and his patriotic friends
of violating an Obsolete law in spending a sixth
of a million dollars to enlighten the patriotic
people of Michigan upon the sterling patriotism
of Mr. Newberry and the unpatriotic tactics of
his chief opponent.”

Yes, indeed, the people Who voted for Mr.
Ford and the people Who voted for Mr. Os-
borne; yes, and the people who voted for Mr.
‘ Newberry will want an accounting of the

$150,000 that was spent to nominate Mr.
Newberry. Not even their high regard for
Mr. Newberry’s unquestioned patriotism or
- his sterling Americanism will blind them’ to
‘the bare fact that Mr. Newberry’s friends if

I.“ laws and traversed the very principles of
.. Americanism, of right and equality, upon
~ which Mr. Newberry’ s campaign was made.

- ”ed Mr. Newberry? Mr. Newberry affirmed
" under oath that he didn’t spend a cent. But
who did supply the money? That 1s the ques-
..'tion thevot‘ers will Want answered. Surely not
the working men of Detroit, nor the farmers of

Twenty cents per agate linen

special low rates to reputable breeders of live stock

Ct ONDENSED and interpreted accordingl-
to the popular thought, the news stor- .

rprised. this morning when he received a little.

from laying too much stress upon the achieve?

not Mr Newberry himself have violated the ,

Who contributed the.$150,00 that nominat-"

the state. No The individuals who gave that 7 ‘

   
   
    
   

of Wall street to
’keep their exponents ‘
quite mysterious channels
from place to place corru
turning them against their

against the cemmon cause.“ Arid it is time A

that Wall street thrives and 2“that baffles
against the autocracies of organized greed
and special privilege within our own gates
are lost to the common people. ’ -

Representation or Misrepresentation

‘ I “HE COMMITTEE which had charge of
the third Liberty loan campaign in the

.chenth federal reserve district Was composed

wholly of men who were bred of the city. It
devolved upon this committee to sell several

million dollars’ worth of” bonds to farmers.

Saturated with themsame distrust of the farm-

ers’- patriotism which early in the War quite f
unaccountably spread like an epidemic among .

the people of the city, the committee felt that
it must present some particularlyfistrong ar-
guments to stir the farmers from their alleg-
ed apathy into buying bonds. But instead
of turning to someone who knew the farmers
and knew what arguments would best appeal
to them, the committee turned to one of their
own kind, one Louis Lamb, who “lambasted”
the farmers right and left, insulted them, rid-
iculed them, libeled them, held them up to
public scorn, impunged their patriotism,~—
and then asked them to buy bonds! .

A howl .went up over the. dastardly, tho
veiled attack. Michigan Business Farming
was the first paper in the country to see the
danger in Lamb’s Lurid Lies, and sent a tel-
egram to the headquarters at Chicago to re-
call the bulletin if they wanted to sell any
bonds to farmers. The next few days the
loan committee was deluged with telegrams
and letters from farmers and farmer’s organ-
izations, assailing Lamb and demanding a

retraction of his infamous misrepresentations.

As a result thousands of the bulletins were
kept from the mails and the Liberty loan
saved from failure in the rural districts.

Immediately at the close of that campaign,
We wrote Secretary McAdoo, urging the ad-
visabilitr'of putting farmers on the district
committees. We” were told that it was the
policy of the treasury department to have
farmers on the LOCAL'committees. We re-
plied that this was .an evasion of the issue
and after some delay were advised by the
gentleman in charge of the Liberty loan at
Washington that our suggestion would be
“taken under advisement.”

The fourth Liberty loan committee for the
seventh federal reserve district has been
named. There’s not a farmer on it.
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2,;We want the American farmer to" m;

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' only the imageries of fairyswriters.

‘ ever

of having both

tees. We don’t want anyone to m up,
is over and say fie,

after the campaign
farmer who d1dn’t buy bonds because another
Mr. Lam’b passed his way, was a slacker. Give
the. fariner representation on the district

committees; and there ’11 be no occasion fer .

misrepresenting him when the returns are in.

Motorless sunday

HE TELEGRAM dispatched by Michi-

gan Business Farming to the Fuel Ad-
ministration, .acopy of which appears on page
five of this lasue, gives briefly the principal
reasons why farmers and other folks who
have to work on week days should and will
protest against. the motorless Sdnday re-
quest of the Fuel Administration.

If there were no other practical method of“
conserving the gasoline supply, there would
not be a murmur from the American peo-
ple.

hire a taxi on Sunday, or perchance rub el-

bows with the rabble on the electric care. -

Farmers who are not so fortunately locatmi
with respect to taxicabs and street cars, Would

and will continue to work six days a Week.

and use shank’ s horses on the Sabbath. ‘For
what is the inconvenience Of a. m‘otorless Sun.
day compared with the life- and- death need
of the precious fuel upon the battlefields of
France!

It is apparent that the action of the Fuel
Administration was born of a .very sudden
emergency, . as was evidenced by the
brief notice given to the public. In emergen-
cy cases it is not always possible to hit upon
the remedy that may prove the best in the
long run. The important thing is to choose
the remedy that acts quickly, even tho harsh-
ly. We confidently expect“ that when the

.Fuel Administration has had time to com-

pare the respective merits of other conserva-
tion measures it will withdraw its motor-
less Sunday request and present some other
plan that is at once more effective and less
partial.

I When the Casualty Lists Come in

HE WAR is no longer three thousand
miles away. It is at. our very‘shores,—

our very thresholds—for jnow, today, hun-

dreds of American youths are giving up
their life’s blood in the" struggle for world
democracy. A few months ago this 'war was

~ a remote thing 'in the lives of many American

people. They went about their daily tasks
unmoved it seemed, as the the tales of trag-
edy that blackened the newspaper page Were
But now
an is changed. The; casualty llst gI‘OWS
larger. Among the dead and
wounded we see the familiar name of a friend

or relative whom (“not so very many months .

ago We saw in the living flesh, never dream-
ing that today he would lie in a nameless

human ZW Wake as if from 3. Ion
" UR war after all.- Its cruel
' ' 51,130 Michi

Gentlemen of leisure Would do their.
motoring week days ’as they will“ continue to
do under the motorless Sunday order and;

     
      
      

        
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
   
 
   
  
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
   
  
    
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
   
  
 
  

  

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. en. let each and all of he

‘ 1111 be thankful.

, . City Man gets his two pounds, and Mr.
arm er gets his They 60th find that if they use

5 little for their coffee or porridge and fruit they
"have very little left So it Mr City Man wants
,a doughnut for his breakfast some pie or ice
EST-cam for his dinner, or maybe a cocky for his

-isuppér, he ‘just calls up the bake shop or ice-

‘ cream maker and his wants are promptly looked

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Village Was the tax Money to come from? ,
We just?

liter. Mr. Farmer lives four. six, ten miles from,

the baker, the ice cream and candy shop, so‘ what
does he do? He goes without it.

Again, we have been asked to save gasoline
by stopping all pleasure riding on Sundays Mr.
City Man works six or eight hours, six days of
the week the remainder of each day he is free
to joy ride if he so chooses (and most of. them
”do) Mr. Farmer works from four imihe morn-
ing until eight or nine at night six days in the
week and several hours on Sunday, fifty- two

weeks of the year almost without exception so if ,

he gets any pleasure rides they must be taken 8n
sunday in the great majority of cases. So there
you have it again—everybddy through the same
knot- hole ‘

' I suppose that should any of us faimers ven-
ture out of a Sunday, even tho we do not burn a
drop of gasoline through the week for pleasure,
‘ we shall come home with the “pro- German” and
“dis-loyal" tags on us. Consistency, thou art a
jewel.”

If it is necessary for the farmer to do without

sugar he can—vii he can’t have gasoline for his
car because Uncle Sam needs it, he can stay at.
home seven days in the week. instead of six. But
why is it that these apparently necessary regula-
tlons always catch the farmer on all sides and
at the same time leave more or less leeway for
the man in town—why? '

The farmers of this country.» stand ready and
”i‘vllling to .do thei/part in every way all we ask
is a square deal. Why cant we get it? It the
men of our government can’t see the injustice to

‘ us of many of these regulations why don’t they
call in a few farmers or come out and follow us

around a few 11 eeks and learn something of our 3

needs? Most certainly the farmer who work?
sixteen hours a day, day in and day out, at work
that is just as important as any line of war work.
have a right to expect and demand the same con-
sideration, all along the line, as the men who
work eight hours a day in the cltyl but do we get
lt?—-G. A. W.. Ann Arbor.

Just One Thing After- Another

About this auto tax question. It sure is a
I don’t see what the farmers will do if
the War lasts much longer, as I know of several
who could not meet their taxes last year, and if
the government puts it on us much heavier there
will be some farms left idle, I am afraid. The
auto is sure no luxury in these parts as the gen-
eral run of farmers around here can only afford
gasoline to do necessary work with them where if
they did not have a car to go to town with it would
mean a day off of the farm each week with the
team and man. Last year feed was so scheme that

We sold stock down as cloaply as possible; we-

could not afford to buy such high- priced feed. If
‘ we did not haVe autos to drive to town With our
-cr‘eam and truck we simply coma not get it there.
Our best farmers have gone to war and what few
are left here haven’t time to go for pleasure
trips. ‘I do not think the farme1s are dealt with
In a fair way.

Why, farmers could «not get rid of their
What: happened after the crop wnsrnut

'iyeavr.
potatoes
of the farmers hands?
high on potatoes of course. The same deal in re-
.gard to beans. Some of the farmers fed their
entire crop of potatoes and beans to their 3%.

e
everything la 1%. Oh yes!
gar to sit up the crops, a whole
'0!- drouth to dry crops up, and a contort-

“111st?
_, arms, and there
ingflhot because
keep up Wit'

But how does it work '

,too much.

I" ‘ ' ‘ , sure doing his
. dost to help the government; Why not vice
‘r‘sa?

f-Another Profiteering Seed Dealer
I take "your valuable paper and like it very
much. I have been reading with interest the

,com'plalnt. of J. B.‘ of Blanchard, who paid $2.70 ~-

per hundred for wheat mld-dlijigs. Now is $2.70
(I am surely paying too much then.
for 1am paying $3.00per cwt. Now, this fellow
is also a good accommodating fellow but I see
no reason why that should be any excuse for
him to charge such prices, because farmers have
to pay whatever price he names. I would like
to have " is looked'into. I am also of the same
mind as J. B. about joining the dinner pail bri-
gade, which I surely must do, as I will have a
sale this fall to square accounts. and will then
work out for a living. ,

Thanking you‘ for helpingr the farmers thmugh
the tight places I will close—~12. Marion

 

Now; for instance, think (if the,
deal we got put over 11s on the potato crop la-t“

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In the'Name of Patriotism

1 \l EVERY LOCALITY we have a con-
I temptible set of cowardly partisan pol-
iticianswho cry “treason, sedition. an-
archy and proGerman‘" against men who
differ with them politically. The claims of
“Americanism” and loyalty put forth by
these narro\v bigots are nothing mere than
false faces worn by traitors. Such charges
convey to the German agent the information
that the country is swarming with kaiser
worshippers, and is more dangerous prop-
aganda than open Opposition. In many cas-
es our courts are being imposed upon by
low-brewed politicians who are taking atl-
vantage of the spirit ofloyalty in this land
to wreak vengeance on those whom they
cannot meet honestly upon a political issue.
The man who aids Germany now is a.
traitor who merits death, and the man who
is yelling “sedition” to land party politics.
above all others is aiding our enemies. —-
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Thresher Gets $32.75 Profit Per Day

FULTON, Aug. 23 .—-—Several people have eommenc
ed threshing and the season is at its height. One
day recently Lyman Harrison threshed 3. 419 bushels
of grain .During the week 12408 bushels “me
threshed. 1 -

Prescott’s article on “no price fixed on thresh-
ing," is of some interest to me, not as athresher
but as a farmer. It is the opinion of the writer
t at if the Food Administration would investi-
g to conditions as. they exist they would find
that the farmer is exploited, as usual. I have
it from the thresher who did my thre=hing that
his expenses were $32 per day. He charges 5c for
cats, 6 cents for wheat and To for rye. He
thrashed 927 bushels of grain. for me in one-half
day, which came to $48.75, which leaves him
$32.75 profit. The increase wages to his men is
approximately 20 per cent and the. increase in
threshing—charges approximately 60 per cent. 111-
closed find clipping from Kalamazoo Gazcflc. If
you can use this in the interest of the farmers
you are at liberty to do so.,—‘E. E. 13.. Vicksburg.
Michigan.

Shall We Ban Ice Cream and Candy?

I would like to write you in regard to this
sugar proposition. as I see by the M. B. F. that
people write you and inquire about difierent mat-
ters. Now, don’t you think. too, that if the sugar
is;so scarce that we could get along without ice
and let the housewives have
the sugar to preserve fruits, such as tomatoes,
grapes and apples. We have lots of these this

, year. Now we are limited to 75 lbs. for canning
.ahd preserving and one-half lb. per head per-
'week forhousehold use. If the ice cream and candy

were cut out and the sugar used to put up fruit
tor whiten, I think it would be more useful.——

. Mrs. 17.3., Mariette Michigan.

“Md every. month- that makes the old man'e~._j ,
don and Now, what else can a titration,"~ .
'pluet to stand by the old/“H,

‘ same there have .

wBeg Your Pardon

‘ I 3111' issue of August 24th you state thatI
‘ ”the management of the South Bend

here Now this is not so, and an— ,,
The /

, very deal is hurting me
Juth Bend Creamery Co. man came

to' me and hired my man away.»

l‘pened a station. ——H. A. Goodrich,

, If.- they don’t stand by him I am afraid,
.gg‘the'y‘ will be paying taxes on lots of idle land
"after the war is over.—+K. G. M., Nessen City.

freaking, to associate with cows!
I'm going to he a Summer and raise thing: for
folks to eat;

to sell;
be doing well. »
I shall love to get up early and go out to feed

the stock (I suppose the proper hour would be ,
if I woke them up mo‘early,
it might make them mad, you know; I‘m rfit‘real-‘xj 5,

nine or ten o’clock);

1y up on such things, so at first I must goslow. .

I'll have to get the hang of things a little at a
time, but that will not be hard to do; i’ve purch-
ased for a dime. a book that tells just how to
farm—and do it with your head—J s’posc the
lady cows should have their breakfast served in

IN BAD (‘0\ll’.\.\'\'

A negro who had an injured head entered a
doctor’s 'ofllce.

“Hello. Sam! Got out again. I see.”

“Yes, sah! I done got carved up with a razor,
Doc." . '

“Why don’t. you keep out
said the physician. after
wound.

“Deed I’d like to. Doc.
money to get a divorce.”

of bad company?”
he had dressed the

but I ain’t got ’nuff

“'HERE 1'1' HELPS
‘Do you think early rising is good
health?” asked the languid city visitor.
“I don’t know about my health." replied Farm-
er (‘obbles “but next to sun. rain and fertilizer,
it's the best thing there is for crops.”

for your

11' 1s Nn'r nmwn's EASY
apologize.

begin over.

To take advice.

To be unselfish.

To admit error.

To face a sneer.

To be charitable.

To be considerate.

To avoid mistakes.

To endure sumess.

To keep on trying.

,To forgive and forget.

’I‘o profit by mistakes.

To think and then act.

To keep out of the rut.

To make the best of little.
To shoulder deserved blame.
To subdue an unruly temper.
To maintain a high standard.
To recognize the silver lining.
To be a true Christian always.
——B11t.\ it pays.

To
To

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I'll produce rolled oats, and such-ls '

things, and of course I'll raise puffed wheat; and:

I’ll sow a lot of egg plant; so I’ll have fresh eggs .
I am sure that as a fa1mer,I shhll soon ‘- '

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quite an ambitious little boy ” ,

“Yes Sir; I wants to fly Over Jimmie Mack’s
yard and drop. bricks on him.”

111570111011. Loss

Grlmlw‘WNhat did you do with the cuffs I left
on the table last night?”

Rounder
the laundry.

Grindw Ye gods, the entire history of England
was on them.

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MUSIC TO HIS EARS
HusbantlmWIary. stop the pianola! Great Scott
woman. where is your appreciation? Don‘t you
hear our lmlHon of coal rattling down the chute?"

SIGHT-HICI‘IIVH

Lady (asking for the third
reached No. 234 yet?”

Conducto1'H‘Yes, mum

’bus. ) .

Lady—"Oh. I didn’t want to get out. I only

wanted to show little Fido where he was born.”

timer—“Have we

Here you are." (Stops

musox's Ammrmx ,

mWhat is your highest ambition in life?” said

a woman visitor of the soulful kind to Thomas
A. Edison. one day.

“Ill tell you if you won’t tell anyone, returned’ 6'

the inventor.
“I certainly promise " was the quick
eager to be the holder of such a secret.

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Dmti-‘st (to patient who is opening 11
*“We, don’t. bother to pay me in advance m-
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on Same Price for 1919
Wheat as Obtains for
' 1918 Cr0p

0n the eve 'of another planting of fall
wheat President Wilson has set the
'ii-minimum price for the 1919 crop at
092.20 per bushel. the same price at
which’the 1918 crop is being sold. The
President has set this price despite
the protests of hundreds of thousands
. of farmers that they cannot grow

"wheat at any such price owing to
’ the enormous increase in the cost of
"production. Yet these same farmers
'will patriotically plant their fall acre-
' age as before for they have been as-

sured that the government must have
the wheat in order to win the war.

It is altogether inconsistent that
the President should lay special
stress upon the fact that the govern-

* ment is laying itself liable to a
huge loss in thus guaranteeing a min-
,imum price on wheat, for he says,
“If there should be peace or increased
shipping'available before the middle
of 1920, Europe wil naturally sup-
ply herself from the large stores of
.cheaper wheat now in the Southern
hemisphere. Therefore the govern-
ment is undertaking a risk which
might in such 7. event result in a na-
tional loss of as much as $500,000,000
thru an unsalable surplus.” And we
are led to wonder if our executive
'3‘ has forgotten the billions of dollars’
' worth of guns and other war material
.dhat will be worthless junk when the
war ends. Again. we ask, why does
agriculture have to crawl on its knees
3 and beg for the favors that are so
- freely given to other industries. Of
course, the government chances a loss
on its wheat guarantee, but it must
_ absolutely face a far greater loss in
" practically every other department
of its War activities.

Yes, the farmers will grow wheat
at $2.00 a bushel, the highest price
many of them will receive. and they
should. Those at light that is given
them, and if they do not see arlght,
the nation and its allies should not
be made to suffer. Furthermore, we
are assured by Mr.‘ Wilson that when
spring comes a disinterested commis-
' sion wil be appointed to thoroly in-
3vestigate the cost of growing wheat
Hand if it. is shown that the farmer
.18 losing money at the established
--price, it will be changed accordingly.

   
  

 
 
 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3, Wheat prices continue practically
‘the‘osame at all terminal markets. 0c-
casionally a sudden demand from some
particular source sends the price up
a: cent a two a bushel but that is all.
-;The movement of winter wheat which
3 etartedoif briskly at the opening 41f
, the market has fallen off, and it is
jestimated that fully 75 per cent of
the crop remains in growers’ hands
The hope that congress might force
a higher price has been the principal
cause 'of the withholding, but now that
1911191219!) along that line has practi-
393139.119 teased the balance of the crop
will move steadily to market
. e'r's dictum that 20 pcr.‘ cent; of. sub
latitutes would have to be used. with
wheat flour33 3._wiil dimi h " '

 
 

  

 

   
   
 
 
  

  
  
   
  
   
   
 

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HoOv—. ' '3

'. stock firm at recent «advances.- .
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coming in freely. any demand '1':de and first grade- in'nmitedv‘annply.

NEW. YORK—Very little strictly No.
demand for first grade storage. 9:39.; greatly,
excéeds snppiyn Loni Island potatoes coining In freely, lowering market. anst

3 higher. Not enon
tifiothy. , '

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tic requirements by: about 50,000,000'
bushels, but members 0 the 'trade
believe that after all threshing re?
ports are in from Canada, South Amen.
ice. and other sections exporting wheat
to Europe. that all restrictions Will

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GRADE Detroit Chicalo New York
No. ZYQHOW‘ L70 L70 L89
No. 3 Yellow L65 LOO 1.74
No. 4 Yellow I50 1.50 1.70

 

 

 

 

 

Latest corn reports reveal beyond,
much doubt that the 1918 crop will
be nearly a half billion bushels less
than the 1917 crop. ‘This decrease in
the yield is due to the terrible drouths
in the southwest; which completely ru~
ined many fields. Kansas reports the
poorest prospect with two exceptions
in 40 years, and estimates its aver-
age yieldat only 9.35 bushels per
acre. For some reason the bullish
character of these reports has not yet
been reflected in the market quota-
tiofls, offerings on the big markets
like Chicago being fairly liberal.
When the flush of the season’s first
marketing is over, however the mar-
ket may be expected to stiffen and
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GRADE Detroit Chicuu Nev Yul
Sllndlrd 59 [-2 70 .31
No. 3 While 69 .59 1-2 .80
NC. 4 White 51.68 I- 2 .79

 

 

The cat market is somewhat easier
this week than last, and the price is
off from a half cent to a cent a bushel.

This is no doubt occasioned to some
extent by the threshing reports which
disclose the yield to be excellent in
practically all sections, premiering a
crop in excess even of the govern-
ment’s August forecast of 1,423,000
- bushels. What the future of the mar-
‘ket will be no one; can‘ say. -On ac-

count of the exceptionally large yield

no spectacular advances in the price
-. is looked for and farmers should feel

safe in marketing their crop or .a'

part of‘ it at least at prevailing prices
unless the market should take a sud-
den downward turn.

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There is little to report in the rye
market. Trading is not active, due
to the difficulty or private dealers in
securing export permits. The, crap
thiswear will be nearly a fourth lar-
ger- than last year, and in case substi—
tute restrictions are removed from
wheat'flour as many believe will be

the case and wheat flour is to be had'

in abundance, the demand for rye
products will naturally weaken. which
cannot help but have a lowering ef-
'fect upon the price, Michigan’s rye
rcrop this year is ‘esti-mated at over
5,000,000 bushels and stands fourth
among the states in production of that
cereal. Cash rye Wednesday morn-
ing, Sept. 4th, was quoted at $1.65 on
the Detroit market, a decline of one
cent per bushel from the previous day.

The demand for barley as a feed is

expected to be larger this year than

last, but it is not expected to more

than offset the diminished -d§.1nand_

resulting from the decreased use of
barley as substitute for wheat. The
crop this year is a big one, and prices
should range about normal thruout
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THE WEATHER

As forecasted by W. T. Foster

Foster's Weather Chart 3 1918,

Dangerous

3 Stem
Hot.

WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 7.-——
Last bulletin gave forecasts of distur-
_ bances 'to cross continent Sept. 1 to
4 and 6 to 10, warm waves Aug. 31
to Sept. 3 and Sept. 5 to 9, cool waves,
Sept. 3 to 7 and 8 to 12. Tempera-
tures of this period were expected to
average cooler than usual, rainfall
below normal south of latitude 37
and about normal north of .that' line.
Storms were expected to be of less,
than usual force.

Farmers have had excellent suc—
cess with winter grain for some years
past except in southwestern
east of Rockies and a few other les-
ser sections. But a disaster is ahead
for a considerable s'ection of the
winter grain ‘eountry and if I could

3 talk personall to thef‘farmers or

  

vise many of them to soll their seed
and rely on spring crops. For those
sections where I expect axfailtfi'e oi."

  
 

 

 

   
  
   
 

.,.will have very bad eropweather and-
unless the spring crops are put, in at
‘ the right time they will fa .
Next warm waves? will reac
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parts .

the winter g7ra 11 sections I would ad- '

winter grain .the winter and spring

FOR THE WEEK
for MrcmoAN. Busmns's FARMEB

temperatures will rise on all the Pa—
ciflc slope. They will cross crest of ..
Rockies by close of 12 and 17, plains
sections 13 and 18, meridian 90, great
lakes and Ohio-Tennessee valleys 14
and 139, eastern sections 15 and 20,
reaching vicinity of Newfoundland
about Sept; 16 and 21. Storm waves
will ftfllow about one day behind
warm-waves and cool waves about
one day behind storm waves.

This will" be the king of all storm
periods of recent years, and I have
several times given warning of it.
These storms will be exceedingly dan-
gerous over unusually large parts of
the earth They are not based‘ on
the old idea of equinoxial Storms ~1 .
which has some influence on, but.
does not organize the storms. Equin-;..
oxial storms soocalled, may occur at
any time from two weeks before or
two Weeks after the equinoxes. Put
your affairs
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killing frosts north of 37 3
act dates can not be give
locality but the stems are
to develop their greed: '1:
far from Sept. 9, f1:4.
most dangerous f—
nea'r Sept. 93 and 27

   

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feed. situation. 9 asked for some
plan whereby there could be assured
a wider distribution of millfeeds at
the present time, as some sections
particularly New England; . were 111.12..»
crying need of these feeds. With the
diminished output of flour it Was not
possible for any one to suggest a plan
which would relieve the situation.
The Northwestern Miller report says:
“Some advocated higher prices fer
millfeeds, bringing them more in line
with other feeds, but this did not
seem to present a real solution of the
difficulty. It did net’seem to be prac~
ticable for mills to set aside a certain '
percentage Of their millfeed, although
it was suggested that if the Govern- ’
ment would buy flour, the mills would .
be willing to set aside the feed from 53
its manufacture. ' '
“Millers said that frequently they
could only sell flour by promising
millfeed with it, and they were having
demands for feed from sections which
they had never served" before. They (
said further that they could not agree
to ship the same quantity of millfeed
to vari0us sections as shipped 33last._ _.
year, because they ‘d-idnot have the."

  
   
 

  
   
   
 

       
         
 
   
    
   
   
  
   
    
 
 
    
  
   
  
   
     
     
  
  
    
  
     
   
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
 
   
  
    
    
    
  
   
  
  
    
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
   
   
   
   
 
 
  
 
  
  
   

feed. Last year feed did not follow? " .
flour; this year it must follow the ‘ V
flour. The total production. of 'inili-

feed at the present time Was estimated 7
not to exceed 50 per cent of the de—‘
mand. " .

WHAT s GOING TO‘ HAP-
PEN: IQ 3ALFA3LFA HAY? ,

 

“What's going'to happen to alfalfa
hay?” asks the Price Current Grain .
Reporter. 3‘ Apparently, most of ..-.the
Kansas City hay dealers have anait
‘yzed the probable course "of prices of
alfalfa hay‘ in the next" few ~ months,
for when questioned a comni‘on at» ' j.:.--..:. .
swer was received. The opinion was
almo'st unanimous that alfalfa hay
would reach a top price of 940 within
a few months or before the hay of?
the 1919 cuttings begins moving man

ketward. J. H. Dougan, of the Don-
__gan a. and Grain 00., announced
that e Wa- \\ il'rng to make a friendly

wager that a. -fafl a would reach a top.
cf 940 before May of- 1919. So far ..
ihexe have ‘09:. In “takers.” "‘Feed

crOp conditions averthe entire country 7"
are favorable :c- $40 alfalfa hay,” (le-
clarerl Mr. reason “The recent re-
port of the Kansas State Board of
Agricultuxe hows a probable. corn
yield thr fcuxth smallest in histbry,.' -
slightly more than a 000 ,000 bus. .Ai— '
fall's. production is short over the en-
tire Southwest and other feed-c1: me

will produce yields far below the av-
erage . In addition to this, there is ,
an acute scarcity of bran the byprod.3 4‘
act of the flour mills which feed can ‘**
be replaced only by alfalfa. ;~An alr‘
thermal demand for. alfalfa, will pres
vaii..’—’ ~. y .. b. 3

       

  
 
 

 
     
 
    

 
      
  
    
   
  
  
   
    
     
   
  
   
    
  
  
  
   
   
 
   

 


a, ‘LAt a- meeting in Milwaukee,” says
*the Chicago Packer, “there Was some

flo’f grading and a minority element
atopposititm to the ar raised objections to the grades as
"1%; {firé 9 M Potato D2318", recommended by the Bureau Of Mar-
$119 3191““ 0; grading kets and made effective last fall by
, 0 "'which' limits out in Miehi- the Fo‘od Administration The com-
. iaSt year, has spread to other mittee on resolutions recommended
.‘ states. Buféau- of markets “sud food that a resolution be-adopted favoring
administration men are again ‘Wilt- the grades now effective but towards
, ing- down their linen .coilars in des- the last of the {fleeting after many
. ’1 eddy potat6és perate and DerSpil‘ing 850118 to force had left a resolution 'was passed rec-
«the Detroit their grading measure upon obstin- ommending to the Bureau of Markets
nght caus— ‘ ate growers and Shippers The bulk that there be but one grade of commer-
t3?- ”5‘10?“ View and many ‘ of potatoes shipped into the Chicago , cial potatoes and this grade called
at usually ship out a few market this month have been UN- t ‘ ' '
.0505 had only Suficieht for local or round white varietles to pay. over
demands Jersey potatoes are still GRADED Indignation meetings Sim~ a one and three-quarters inch screen.
...Bunplyi§g the bulk of the Detroit 1181' to the one that was held last No provision was made for NO. 2_
trade -_ spring at East Lansing are the order-4 E. percy Miller of the Food Ad-
It will be all or two weeks and prob- of the day in Minnesota and Wiscon- ministration was one of the speakers
ably longeLb'efore many of Michigan’ 3 sin and Mr. Miller is finding it a hard and during the course of his talk
late crop of potatoes will be ready for job to hang onto the poker which made clear that while the present
the market and by that time much of is becoming almighty hot. And he grades were established by the Food
Egaufigggmfid cigfiegigflhfg: 32:}? ' certainly hates. to let go. Administration their establishments
‘1‘”: . Last week saw the first sharp‘ break ‘. In a recent Interview Mr. Miller is ‘ was the result of the recommenda-
quoted as admitting that the Food tion of the Bureau of Markets, and if
Administration had no authority or the bureau now had other recommen-

 

 
 
  
 
 

    

  
  

 

  

   

 
 
 

,in prices since early summer. On
' Monday of last week 122 cars were re-

 

' .cei’ved on. the Chicago market- from machinery for ehforcing its grading ' dations the Food Administration
Minnesota, Tuesday. 80 cars. and the measure which is precisely what this would be glad to take them up."
Shipments continued heavy 3“ the IIllllllllllllllllllllllillll HllllHlllllmllilllllllllllllllllll/Illllllllll

 

week. Other cars straggled in dur r-
, ing the Week from Iowa, South Da-
"rl ‘ ' ’kota, WiSconsin, Illinois and Ohio,

36,780 acres planted against 41,100
last year.

  
  

   

ey and had their effect in flushing the '

1g, ; ‘ ~m'arket and easing the prices. 'Be- ‘5 " "fl

1g . ' cause of the unusually large receipts ; , ..

3 buyers were naturally cautious and " BUTTER
down- Apples are finding ready sale at < > + ,

prices kept steadily on the
grade all the week, winding up at
$1. -95 to $2. 05. for UNGRADED stock.
We do not look for higher potato pric-
air until after the bulk of the late crap
has been harvested” There have been

so many conflinting reports on the

‘ -;:yleld that buyers are in a quandray
' and no one will think of laying in
hir Winter supplies until they can

.bé fairly well assured that the price
«is not going very much lower. Farm-

; ers‘ who held potatoes last year and
;,:-' 'lost money on them, will" foolishly
a. rush their crop to market this fall
amL we may expect a brief period at

$1. 25 to $1. 50 per bushel. The crop is
undeniably short this year, and prices
may be a little higher later on.

APPLE SITUATION IN
‘NORTHWESTERN STATES

The apple situation is full of inter-
est right at this time, says the weekly
bulletin of the Northwestern Fruit
Exchange. Principally reports indi-
cate that apples are growing exceed-
ingly well, and the season is easily
half-a-month ahead of last year. Some
Winter Bananas, not full cars, were

New York—On Thursday all re-
ceivers and handlers of storage but-
ter received instructions by wire from
the U. S. Food Administration re-
questing them to reserve 60 per cent
of all grades held in storage August
1 for government use. The order had
the immediate effect of further stren-
gthening the market which at that
time showed marked symptoms of in-
creased strength. As a result, all
grades of butter advanced one—half
cent in price. On Friday the quota-
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7‘7“" ‘\ 'Ieast 0‘ Low prices The crop this ,shipped during the past week and cent and all indications are that the
n. - «year is much less th last and prices Jonathans 'will begin rolling this 50c mark for extras will be reached
'9‘ f f. ‘ i (should afieel‘ a time recover and 0011- week from the earliest districts As in the near future. Previously there
1": - tinue at least normal for the balance to the volume of crop there is no new had been an advance of a half cent
”f " ' ' Of the 3994309» We have a feeling report to make; that is to say as over the quotations of last week, the

 

 

   
     

 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

5": I V that when the crap is all dug, it iS closely as can be judged at this time market having advanced a quarter
“‘1' L‘ ' ' 301.113 to bé found that the yield iS the Northwest crop will stand around cent on Monday and another quarter
53‘ 7 vayWagy beIOW. the EOYSI'nment’S 651503000 cars short compared with last on Tuesday. Receipts have been very
yr” - ,. a more which means profitable prices year It is still, however, some dis moderate during the week and prac-
n»..--»-. ~10 the grow“ who watches his step tapes to harvest time and there still tically all butter that has been ac-
!" "and doesn‘t ,stampede‘ the market may be a reduction in this estimate; cumulating has been cleaned up Un-
L' . i" the Windstorm at Wenatchee a few salted butter continues in strong de-
" ‘ days ago was so violent that it up- mand with an insufficient supply to
i ; . , 5,;- . ' ‘ rooted trees in good numbers. is an il- fill all orders. Butter as yet shows
V ‘ :0 " .- .» .Tz' . lustration inpoint. This stormfurth- the effects of hot Weather and the av-
,3. 4. ' . ' " or reduced the Delicious and Spitz es~ erage quality is not up to normal.
"-5 I. timates and Winesaps also suffered Quotations at the close on Friday
1, ; . -- ’, in the Wenatchee district. Hood River were as follows: Ema34814/80t; high-
’ ’_. ,. , re ortsv now indicate a crop 20 per er scoring than extras. ,._. o c;
' Quinn 23%, $33: 213'“: celIit below normal. Idaho confirms firsts 451/; to 4714c; and seconds
.~ , ‘ 9 1‘ g: 35' only a fifth of a crop. Yakima’s lat- 43 to 45c. Quotations on unsalted but-
E ; _ '- 35.. 3:: est estimate is 20 per cent below the ter are at a differential above cor-

MI ‘- 1“. 250.0. earlier estimate. The Wenatchee dis~ responding grades of salted butter of
n“? - ‘ -. _. . L 55:: 31:3 trict still maintains approximately a about one and one-half cents.
' ' » ,_ é _~ ~ N .1- ~- crop eQUal last year.
' ' If“ , Li t ixgd Clo"! Hanoi“ 2° (031003?” ‘-'_"7—‘"
‘ :. W 3:31.: ":3 1.3:: 33 7}; 3: COMMERCIAL ONION CROP

{5: :3. 2,; :3 330,, m, _ snows INCREASE OVER 17
, » 3:! g: 3'; $2322“: 3°»: There -will be 15 376 900 bushels of - ' -
' late commercial onions this season Despite the large receipts on the

No.41 hay is scarce on all markets,
‘huyers are. plenty in New York
‘wOuld pay as high as $32 for the
.ighl: l‘kind of, smith Receipts of the

‘ grade v been fairly lib-

against t2, 539, 300 bushels harvested
last year, according to a Special re-
port made this week by the Bureau
of Crop Estimates. New York leads
with 3,8221000‘bushels against 2,,724-
,. 00:31 94 09011118 05 ’000 bushels last year. '_ California
”this hurihsir this The promises 2,511. (500 bushels compared
he minke however. with 3.427800 in 1917; 0 10 is esti-
mated at 23490 000.» shes compared

with i 7920 800 . Massachus-
4 7.600 in The very best grades, however, are
fishinst - selling as high as 43 and 45 cents a-
' dozen and they are hard to get at the
, price: The range of prices on the

principal markets, egg prices contin-
ue good and the rumor that the Brit-
ish government would purchase a
large quantity of eggs for storage has
lent a marked stability to the prices
and accentuated the demand The de-
mand now is unquestionably for high
grade stock, so much of the stuff be-
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as follows: . Fresh extras, 51 to 52c;
extra finite, 48 to 506; firsts, 44 to

   
 
 

difference of opinion both among the
shippers and growers on the matter

Cattle Hogs Sheep ,

Chicago ...... 18,000 17,000 ; 8,000 ,
Kansas City . .26 000 10, 00-0 '15 .000 V' ‘
Omaha . . . 1.9 000 5, 500 15 000'
St. Louis Holiday Holiday Holiday, .
St. ,Joseph 6000 5, 00 3 0.004. ."
Sioux City .. . . .. 6, 000 3, 500 3. 000 ;
St. Paul . ..... 15, 000 2.000 5000'
Total . . . . . 90,000 40, 000 61,000

« Week ago ...... 104,000 60,000 84,000
Last year .. .. . . 96,000 37, 000 53,000
Two years ago. . 23,000 25. 000 32, 000

,39. 50; stockers, $6. 50 to- $8, 5.0,
as low in some instances as 20 cents. .
New York market last week averaged .5

7c; seconds, 38 to 43¢; poor to-‘ifair, 3.
t .3 c;’,No': *1 duties, 35" to'_ 7c; "
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The New York market was amply ,,
supplied with all kinds of poultry but . ‘
receipts on the Chicago market were
very light. ;_
On the New York market heavy
fowls sold up to 35c. with average qual-
ities 320 and light stock 310. Broilers
sold at 34c. Express stock colored,
36 t0'37c; white leghorn, 33 to n35c..
Other descriptions of poultry were
steady; roosters, 250; turkeys, 28 to
30c; Long Island spring ducks, 25 to
260; western ducks, 28 to 32c; geese,
20 to 220; guineas, per pair. 85c to " . _.
$1; old pigeons, 500 pair; young, 40
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Live Stock

Chicago, Sept. 3rd—Chicago and St.
Louis livestock markets were closed
yesterday, but those at most of the
other points were open for business as
usual and had a good supply of stock
to trade in. At Kansas City hogs
were 10c to 150 higher, with bulk of .-
sales at $19.50 to $20.15. Cattle and 1
sheep values were little changed, with.
supply ample. Cattle at Buffalo sold
well, the market. being strong. Hogs
easier with $21.15 the top. Sheep
market steady.

Omaha hogs unchanged, with bulk
of sales $19.15 to $19.50. Cattle lower.
Top, $17.75. Sheep steady. St. Jos—
eph hogs steady to 15c higher. with
top $20.20, and bulk of sales $19.40
to $20.10. Cattle steady to lower.
Steers, $9 to $18.25. Cows and heif-
ers, $6 to $16.50. Sheep steady. $5 to
$12. Lambs, $11 to $17.75.

Estimate of Receipts

Estimate receipts at Chicago:
tle, 18,000; hogs, 17,000, and sheep,
8,000. With these figures included
estimated arrivals for today will be:
Cattle, 28,000; hogs, 80,000, and sheep,
27,000. The six leading markets had
90,000 cattle, 43,000 hogs, and 61,000
sheep. These compared with seven
markets a week ago, wereas follows:

       
     
     
     
     
    
   
    
   
  
    
 
  
 
  
    
  
 
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
    
   
  
 
  
  
   

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Receipts of Hogs .

Hog receipts at eleven markets yes-
terday were 50,000, against 57,000 a
week ago, 50,000 last year, and 42,000
two years ago.

Buffalo receipts yesterday were:
Cattle, 3,500; hogs, 7,000: sheep, 4.000;
Pittsburgh had: Cattle, 3,800; calves,
1,500; hogs, 5,500; sheep. 5,000.

Oklahoma receipts were: Cattle,
7,000; hogs, 1,400; sheep, 300. - Fort
Worth: Cattle, 5,000; hogs. 2,000;
sheep, 200. Denver: Cattle, 3,000;
calves, 1,000; hogs, 300; sheep, 13,500.

Detroit. Sept. 3.-—Cattle, receipts,
416; market steady; best heavy steers ,
$12 to $15.50; best handy weight,;but-T.
cher steers and heifers, $9 to $10;'
handy light butchers, $8 to $8. 50; light-
butchers, $7 to $7. 50; best cows, $8.75 ,
to $9. 50; butcher cows, $7. 50 to.’$8. 50;.
cutters, $6. 75 to $7; can-nets; '
$6.75; best heavy bulls, $8.50"
bologna bulls,
bulls, $6. 75 to $7;

        
   
       
    
     
      

      
 
  

    
    
   
    
  

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m woman’s ibui‘dens, she has created, a! charac-

  
    

lmagine the average woman giving up the
What; and pleasures of city life to toil twelve
tojl‘ourteen hours a day in a farm house!{ Im-
agine, too, the city-bred woman, eSpec-ially with
‘money, having enough knowledge of farm house
duties to be anything more than a hindrance to
7 the farm wife. However, the story is Well writ-
]ten and it appealed to me. I would be interest-
‘/ed in knowing your ’opinion of the story, the
E,» author, or the hel‘Olne.——PF..\'l~Il.OI’E. .

ll It >ll

When we went into the war last spring, old

Mrs. Hastings on Elm street, who has been bed-
ridden for years, astonished her family by get-
ting up and planting a war garden. ‘* * * *
- Vida Hollanden went straight to New York. I
had a feeling she would keep on to Paris. for
Vida has money and can do a lot of things the
rest of us can’t. We were all surprised when she
came back in June. 4.
. I ran right over, expecting to see her in some
sort of a uniform. but she was out on the porch
in her last summer’s voile and‘a floppy hat with
cornflowers round the brim.

“I thought sure you’d get over to France,” I
told her. “Tom’s still there. isn’t he?"

Tom is her cousinvva doctor. He went across
for a two months’ vacation in 1914, and has stayed
‘there ever since, working. _

“Yes, he’s working his head off.” she told me.
"I'd have gone. but he says that Europe is over-
run with women who are just underfoot. They
don’t‘know how to do any one thingwany more
than I do.”

I could see Vida was terribly in earnestw—she’s
that. kind—Aand she looked sort of pale and worn
out.

“I volunteered for every
cauld think of,” she went on.

  
 
 
 
 
 

   

sort of service I
“But, oh. I don’t

The sickening part of it all is I never had any
training to fit me to do any real work.”

Before I went home she asked me to go motor-
ing with her the next day.

'We made an early start and Vida seemed more
”like her old self. She was awfully interested in
the farms we passed.

»Forty miles or so up the river we came to one
. of those places where there are barns and barns
' and more barns. with a barelooking house that
needed to be painted.

, Vida stopped the car and said she was going to
' "try and buy some milk. p

I got out with her and we went around the
side of the house to the back door. There was a
woman on a little porch washing in two wooden
tubs. and a two-yeur-old baby was playing with a
puppy on the steps.

The woman had a towel hound around her head
and she was an awful. green. sick-headache color.

“Oh. my dear." Vida burst out, just like that.
‘I know you don't want to be bothered. I just
_ stopped to see if we could buy some milk."

There was a lot of clothes wrung out in a tin
pan. and Vida began pulling off her gloves.

“Can’t. I hang these out, for you?" she offered.
’y‘-‘Y0u look so sick.” .

The woman just, stared at her a moment, and
two big tears ran down her cheeks. They were
the biggest tears i ever saw. Then she began to
nob. terrible sobs that shook her clear through.
RW‘nen he saw his mother start in. the baby puck-
ered up and cried. too; and, with the suds from
the tubs leshed on the floor, that porch was the
"attest place for a, while!

‘Vida was wonderful. She put her arms right
around that poor thing, and asked her what. the
"matter was: and couldn’t we help.

It seemed as if. once she began. she couldnt’ stop
crying.

- “I’ve had such an awful day,” she shook out
finally. “I got up with a splitting headache and
fiverything has gone wrong. I' canlt get help.
J’ve tried everywhere—«advertised and telephoned
and written, but it’s no use; no girl will touch
farm work with a tenIfoot pole. I had to Wash
ftd-d‘ay and the breakfast dishes are still in the
sink. and there’s the baking to do. and the men
coming to dinner in an hour, and a sick child."
"‘Vida looked at me. I saw what she meant and
n ‘ tied.»
,-We are going to stay and help,” ‘she insisted.
It innit fair for things to be heaped on you this
a . . ,
«be __woman acted as if she couldn’t believe-
rs, lint Yidamwas in the kitchen in no time,
and had ax‘gingham apron off a nail and round her
an a. , ~ .

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it‘oLbowrin article, reprintsaftrsaiitthe “
safflower. is pure fiction. Whitelthegai‘ith‘or
has a very accurate conception‘of‘ many a‘p'.

in the heroine somewhat’too unselfish to be‘

know—~l just couldn’t feel it was getting anywhere. '-

‘meed. and play with the.,Ehildran..'bsl.'.mn mite ‘

  

       

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sstsskszrqfw them, th-e'lvall
oodlthitctinsfiand hots" 33'
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W' 0“. full-and

‘ bad- getung rim help outdoors as it is in. . The.
three hired "hands my husband‘s got don’t do any
more thangone ought toétheydrink and lay off—-

but théy’are awfgi‘leat’érs. Seems as if I couldn’t
do much-”but bake.” «r ~ , .

‘ ‘We had to pump all the water we used.

. The name of the family was Rice, and there
were four ,children-—two. in schbol and the little
boy that Was ’sick and the tWo-year-old.

feeding nine people wasn’t all——she had to mix
stuil‘ for the bone, and two pigs, and a calf twins
8 day. And it all had to be'carried out to them.

While the men were at the t
upstairs and swept the chambers and made six
beds. By the time Mrs. Rice called-us to tome
and eat samething, my legs ached so I thought
they would dr0p right off. "

."Can’t “you lie down awhile?"
urging Mrs. Rice.
noon?”

“Do!" Mrs. Rice broke out.

do? My 0621'
things to do!

Vida commenced
“What is there to do this after-

, ”What is there to
girl, there’s ne'er-any let-up in
You’ve helped a sight, but I’ve got
to .keep going every‘minute till bedtime. There’s
ironing, the things the children have for tomor-
row, and the floor to mop up, and the lamps to

 

 

 

/ 'When the Apple. Re’ddens

WHEN the apple’s cheek shows its first
faint blush,

There's a lazy peace in the noomlay‘shush,

And. the swirls of dust in the road die
down—-

But there is no roar of the noisy town,

And ,there is no clang of the busy street,

But bthe good world rests to its low pulse-
eat

When the blush creeps on in a winestained
streak '

As the red comcs into the apple‘s cheek.

‘Thcrc's a dappling shade on the.orchard

grass
And a shadowed tough as the breezes pass;
And the work-world seems to be leagues

away

In a place we knew in some other day.

For the flowers had as we walk along.
And the crystal air is a breathedpin song—V
{111d the ymr’s best time is the wonder-week
When the red comes into the apple’s cheek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

clean, and, the children will come home half
starved from school. Then there’s supper to get
and the milk to attend to ”

Vida held up both hands.

“And it’s just like this every day?” she wanted
to know. ' V g '

“It’ll be worse before long,” Mrs. Rice said.‘
with a kind of a.‘ grim smile. “There’s stuff to be
put up, and haying, and hot weather.”

“What can we do next?” I put in. ’ _

At four o‘clock the two older children came
home from school, and a little girl came tearing
out to the kitchen.

“I gotta have my pink dress ironed for tomor-
row.” she shouted. “My class is going to have a.
picture taken.” . .

“It’s out on the line,” Mrs. Rice was telling the
youngster, with a real proud mother-look. I’ll
sprinkle it and doit up by the lamplight. You’ll
have it all right.”

I did’the sprinkling myself. and the minute it
was damp enough, heated the irons and pressed
all the, little ruffles out. When I was finished I

 

found Vida out on the grass under a syringafiiush .58"!

with 'her shoes off. ‘ .
"My feet are just killingme.” she confided. "I
bet I’ve walked ten miles around that house—,

'and my back! "

“When are we going to crank up the car?” I
asked her. I was pretty tired myself, and the
yellow road down the hill looked good to me.

“I _’was just looking up trains," she said.)
"There’s a 7:35 that will get you home at 9:30."
I'm going to drive you to the depot. Iwan-t you
to stop in and tell mother I’ve found something
to do—real work—war work—4+" , _

”Why, Vida Hollanden, you don’t mean to stay
here?” ' . , ,. -

“I do mean to stay here/{she shot back. . “3’11 -
tell you frankly that-"I‘m not euprtofitheywashing,
and the baking and the lifting pailsof Water,
even if I” doé weigh “fifty pounds more than. she '
does. . But I can keep the .house‘xiit-.,Q!148It*end.
Minnie to the} 'den'tiSt and Bennygto’fi the .doCtoTii's
oflcet lean-helpe—‘T”, »_ " f; ‘ ‘

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afisifical ' . ’. '
‘shé middle. “It is as ‘

But.

able at noon We went ’

ered. 1.

”interrupted ,. . .
“would you likentq. ,
fall“ and help' with "the {c
Work? I've been 'lookin
and ,I don‘t believe anybody
whole war needs help metro-fits- .
farm on your hands.” t ' , , . .
Mrs. Rice didn’t say a word, but; the tears-came
—-those awful big tears. Vida 'took’sine look at her
face. Then she turned to me! “Go on home,”
she ordered, “I’ve got a. job."-—By Beinette Love-
well, in the Designer; , ' , '
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about . this.

Do You Know...How to Cook? ~

HE AVERAGE woman” would iee‘l highly in-

, suited if you asked her such a question. A
.few women are born cooks. Some acquire

the art of cooking after many discouraging trials
and tearful.apologies‘.-to hubby. “Hard-tack” ’biss

cuits and pastypastry are food for theiun-mak- ‘

ers, but to many a wife they are fuel for house-
hold tragedies. “The road to a man’s heart is
thru his stomach,” is a trite old saying and more
than half truth, and many's the woman who has
missed, the road simply because-she could NOT
cook. It’s a delight tosit at some women’s tables.
But to sit at others and partake, of the food that
is placed before you requires a resolute mind and
a strong stomach. ‘ ‘

Thank goodness, most farm women~ CAN cook,
——good enough at least to keep husband’s liver out
of trouble and his digestion working well. Yet. I
think the most of us who have followed in moth-
er’s and grandmother's footsteps about the old
kitchen range can yet find room for pa little im-
provement, and there’s nothing that the house-
wife who has the time delights more to do than
to try new dishes 'orenew methods of preparing
the old ones. ‘ ‘

Take Vegetables, for instance. Oh, yes,» we all
know how to cook vegetables. Simply washthem.

put them in the water, and boil, boil, \boil till V

dinner is ready. But the U. 8. Food Administrav
tion declares there’s only one way‘ to cook Vege-
tables and that’s the right way, and that very few
people know how to do it to. get‘ the best" results.
In a bulletin upon the subject, the Food Adminis-

' tration says: .

Vegetables just. out of the garden taste best
when simply cooked—steamed boiled or baked——
and served with a little salt. butter, milk or cream.
Often a heavily-seasoned sauce covers up the more
desirable vegetable flavor. ‘

Overcooking of vegetables impairs their flavor.
Very delicate flavors are destroyed. while vege—
tables with strong flavors, such as cabbage or
onions, become disagreeably strong it cooked too
long. Over-cooking.also destroys the attractive
color of some vegetables. ’
‘ Lat wilted vegetables soak
freshen them. If vegetables must stand after
paring. covering with cold water will prevent
wilting and discoloration;

Before cooking put head vegetables and greens

in [cold water to

in cold water —for an hour. with one tablespoon“ =

of ‘vinegar. ‘to remove insects, then wash very
carefully.

Drain all boiIEd vegetables as soon as tender~
they become soggy if they are allowed to stand
undrained after cooking. The water drained of!
may be saved for soup stock. ~ '

Most vegetables should becooked in a small
amount of water, because a part of the mineral
dissolves out into the water. and is lost if
the water is thrown- away. Cook whole when pm-
sible. .

Tender spinach or lettuce leaves require no ad-
ded water for cooking. If thoroly washed. enough
water will cling to the leaves to prevent their
burning. .

Delicately-flavored vegetables should be steam-
ed or cooked slowly in asmall amount of boiling
water until tender and thewater boils away. "

Strong-flavored» vegetables may be cooked un- ‘
covered In a large amount of rapidlbeoiung water
and the Water changed several timesflduring the
cooking. ' ,

Starchy vegetablershould be
in a snmciently large amount of
cover them.. _-Boil gently,

put on to cook I
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'a” “9.0th stitch. . . . _, r
7 No“. 8560.—A_oae-piece dress for the
,iycurlg girl which is sure to appeal to
.mother for its girliehness and simplicity.
’ The", is on straight lines, hanging
from ”the shoulder scam with a loosely-
fitbud belt. The‘p'rettily-shaped collar is
the distinctive feature of this little frock
, and together with' the cuffs and pock~
eta. form all the. trimming necessary.
This style? would be, most- attractively
made. up in» a soft wool material ~ with
113' collar and cults ifia shade-of putty
'0: bit! as it is» now commonly called,
~with a harmonizing shade of tan’torthe
collar * and cuffs. Nile green and tan,
' 'old robe and cream or black; black vel-
, v‘ot with whiteutrimming, blue and red
are some ’of the most popular combines
done in fall-wear ”for young girls. This
pattern‘ is cut in sizes 6N8, 10, 12‘ and
14 years. -

'No. 8577.——Ladies’ high' neck military
blouse._ The military effect whiéh pre—
dominates miiady’s fall outfit. is pleas-

‘ lnglyvshown in blouses. Such a blouse

“show," would be very simple to make.
The wet. t’ is a. plain .shirtwaist, having
the closing on left side front and shoul-
der seam. No fullness is seen except
that about thewaistline. The plain fitted
coat sleeve is finished with a military
out to match the straight-high collar.
and notice the smart slit pocket on the
right side front. The fancy w sh silks
, plain silks to match one’s uit make
’t e most attractive, military blouses.
This attem is cut in sizes 34, 86. 38, 40
and 2 inches bust measure.

Np. 8562.-—Mieaes’ tall coat.

‘ thing for. cool. fail days. or equally as
appropriate for the large .winter coat.
These loose-fitting coats are really not
bard'to make‘ if one is willing to take
time and use a. great deal of patience.
They require very little fitting or pad-
ding: tho one should be sure to use
Much haircioth or tailors canvas in
the, front fastenings, cum: and collar. If
any shoulder padding isneeded' use shirt
wading and new it firmly to an inter~
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bye. loose belt which may button, or if'

desired. it may be made long official: to
tie in front The deep shawl or is of
the some material. as are also the turn-
black cults. No trimming is required ex-
cept the large buttons. This pattern is
out in sizes 16, 18 and 29 years, also

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to tho‘lelr last Saturday otter-
-,,noon_ and saw all the sights.
On theway our machine passed three
trucks which were
just loaded with school children and
I couldn’t help but wonder it \per4

taps seine oi my own boys and girls

were among them. They were having
agreat time, I can tell, yelling and
singing and shouting to passersby.
And when we reached the grounds I
saw more children, oil, such a lot of
them with big shining eyes and hap-
py faces. I just wished that every
M. B. F. boy and girl could have been

there, and ,I- hope that the day will

come, when. you will have the chance
to see the many pretty and wonderful
things that are displayed at the state
fair. _

I had almost forgotten that this
week you all start to school again.

*but I hope you‘don't all feel as bad

about it as the boy whose protest we
print in the little poem on this page.
I know it's hard to give up the pleas-
ant vacation time, with its play and
fun, but remember, my dears, that we
can't always play. There's a time for
fun and a time for work, and I am
sure that we would all become tired
of playing if we had to do it all the
time, just the same as we become
tired of too much work. You’ve had
a long, pleasant vacation. Now I
hope you’ll dig into your school work
with a vim and show your teachers
and your parents what bright boys
and girls you are. I want you‘all to
write to me and tell me about your
school, your school “work and your
With love from Aunt Pene‘
lope.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I read in the
M. B. F. that you would give a Thrift
Stamp to the boy or girl who wrote you
the best letter telling you which they
like best. I, like stories, puzzles, riddles
and drawings. '1 am a little girl nine
years old. I am in the fifth grade at
school. My teacher’s name is Mabel Mc—
Cormick. I like her real well. I have
one brother whose name is Gerald, and
three sisters; their names are Sybie
Thelma, Beatrice Nina and Virgie Ema,
gene; the last is 10 months old. Beat-
rice is 6 years old and Syble is 7 years
old. We have two cows, their names are
Spot and Belle. We have 6 horses, and
their names are Frank, Pine, Don, Tom.
I live on a 108 acre
farm. I have a strawberry bed and a
whole lot of flowers. I help‘ mamma in
the garden and in the house. I help
I pull weeds in the
corn and potatoes. I think a good name
for our page would be “Do Your Bit”. I.
have a War Sayings Stamp and am work-
ing to earn money to get more. I am
my grandpa’s nurse when he is'sick and
he is sick most of the time, so you see
I am pretty busy.—Marbelle Detwiler,
R.F.D. No. 2, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I saw in your
paper how you wanted us to write and
oil how we like the D00 Dads. I like
them fine and hope they come again. I
am 13 years old and will be in the 7th
and 8th grades when school begins. I
have a mile and three-quarters to walk
to school. I have four sisters and one
brother. My youngest sister is ten
months old and my brother is eighteen
years old. He is working out now so I
have to be pa’s boy. We live on a forty—
acre farm and have about fifteen acres
cleared but not all stumped. Pa has a.
Kirstine stump puller and this spring I
helped-- pull stumps and build fence. I
helped hoe thecorn, weed two acres of
chicory and take care of the garden.
We girls out in and are taking care of
an acre of contract cucumbers for which
we will get the money. We plan on get-
ting W. 'S. 8. this fall. We have two
horses, 9. . cow, 9; heifer. a yearling and
a' calf, the sheep and five lambs. Our
horses names are ,Prlnoo’ and, Floss; the
enttb’s names are Broil. Beauty, Loki
and Thundertoot, and the. sheep's names
are Bylie, Cripple, Afraidie, reliance and
Jay. Brownie, and.~Wtie~ are Belle’s
lambs, not and Bdndieare Crippie’s
lambs. and Mike 16 mfimk’s lamb. I

go after the. cows sights and r’milk when '

is . We have a‘édo’gmuned N ,
m minim“ ‘ 1‘

    

‘éHIIJDIlEN: "m, I went '

. , Akitteuwewl ,
‘-'Qrevcv,.5..,‘,l3}flfnt_ swab .. , ~ . »
I -, I don't won’tu‘h no tub. school!

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Farmers of the Future." very much. We
have seventeen cattle, besides eleven
calves. We are milking eleven cowe. ln
the winter I ‘milk two or three cows at
night. I have tWO cats and one dog.
and a pony that I ri o to school. I
ahave to go three miles .to school. I
have a little ’baby sister six weeks
old, and I think she is very sweet. She
has a little kitten, so We have three cats

y trim-

i ‘ 1 .V bushes along thy-shore where some‘t

oiJR Bots AND GIRLS

‘ the river forming sort oil a. bridge.

 
      
  
  
 
  
    
   

a. large tree has fallen and‘lays aci-

our: place the river flows in such
that 'it forms a bow. which is call,
“Fiddler's Elbow." There is a very/nice
swimming place; as it is deep. We have
a boat which affords~ much amusement,
when we go in bathing. Near this" riveth
is aNIarge maple grove; in the middle of
which and on the highest spot is“ a sap
house, where maple sap is boiled down
to maple syrup. ‘ In the spring you can.‘
see pails hanging 'on most every tree _
and the men around collecting the sap. '
Some times in the spring the river cornea -.
up and covers the flats and, ground].
around the maple trees, later the flowers:

   
  
  
    
   
 

 

 

 

   
 
    
  

  
    
   
  
   
 
 
 
 
     
 
    
 
  
   
  
  
   
   
    
  
 

 

 

I am really very proud to tell you that the above cartoon was drawn by one ‘01
Ralph is only 16 years old, and I think
has done wonderfully well in not only his choice of subject for his cartoon but t
clever manner in which he has illustrated his idea.
talent for drawing and I presume some day he'll be drawing cartoons for some his
daily paper. Send us some more of your drawings, Ralph.

our readers, Ralph Dittmer, of Dundee.

 

altogether. 1 am eleven years old, and
I will go into the seventh grade at
school this fan—Beatrice Morton, Je-
rome. Michigan.

Dear Penelopez—I am a little girl 9

years old. I think “Aunt Penelope’s Help-
ers” would be a nice name for our page.
We have a Blue Bell separator and we
have two pigs. which my brother didn’t
mention. I have a. large doll cab and
two dolls. their names are Henrietta and
Christena, named after my grandmas.
We moved here five years ago from De—
troit. We have two miles to go to school
I wOuld like to correspond with a little
girl. I am always anxious for the M.
B .F. Mother likes the useful helps. Can
you spell candy in two letters? You.
C and Y.—-Eloise Grouse, St. Charles,
Michigan. '

 

The Annual Protest
Huh? What? Vacation’s over with!
I got to find my books?

W’y, mw—vw’y, me an‘ Willie Smith
Just got some more fish hooks!
W’y, we’d make up to catch that bass

Down in the willer pool!
I don’t care who will head my class——
Alw,
Pshaw.
Ma!
I don’t wan‘ tuh go tuh school!

I’ll bet th‘ teacher will be mean;
I know just what she’ll (lo—~—
Hhe’ll my my han’s an’ face ain’t clean

An’ make me wash ’em too.’
I’d a heap rather not go.
I’ll not grow up a fool!
Aw. shacks} A boy don't have no show
w Aw,
Pshaw,
Ha! , .
I don’t wan’ tuh go tub school!

What? Got to carry all them books!

They’re» awful heavy. ma.

I’m sick! You’d know itby my looks.
I don’t care! Jew} tell po!

1 don’t want to ‘bcPresident—i
Ain't stubborn “as a mule!

You’ll whipjme.’ ‘ .I don’t care .a cent.

» . f. . . fellow, y. j,

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i am certain that Ralph has a

form a carpet for the ground. In the
winter many merry skaters are seen
skating up and down Pine River; and
as the Summer, Fall and Winter go by,
it seems that each scene is more beauti-
ful than the one before it.—-—Mary Ken-
nedy, RFD. No. I, St. Clair, ’Michigan.

Dear Aunt i’enelopez—I have been
reading your page just lately and- think \ ‘
it is very nice. 1 am a little girl 9 '
years old. I live on a farm of 120 acres. \-
I am helping my mother pick bgrries ,
and tend the garden. I have a garden
or my own. 1 help my papa. in every.
way I can. - ,.

I read in the llast issue ofthe M. B
F. that the contest would be open for' ",
another week. I think the "Little Farm. ‘ 1
erettes Page" would be a nice name.
We have six cows. five horses and about
fifty hens and live guineas. I have a,‘

    
     
       
    

      
           
       
     
      
 
    

buy thrift stamps. I amrgoing to save
the money from what I sell out of my
garden to buy Thrift Stamps—Evelyn
Eldridge, Caro, Michigan.

  
 
           
       
   
 

I am a girl 11 years old. 'I live on a ,
fruit farm of forty acres. We have two
horses, one dog, three kittens and two
pet skunks. Their names are Doll and
Bess; Sport is the dog’s name and the V‘»
kittens and skunks’ names ’are Spot.
Tiger, Fluff, Dick and Betsey. I help.
my mother in the house, I wash the dish~ .
es, peel potatoes and' help get the meals.’
Sometimes I help my father Toad the
horses. I have two brothers, Herman
and Harold; Herman is sixteen and Ear—
old is fifteen. I live two miles from
Lake Michigan. I think “wa Theta"
would be a good name for our page.—
Bertha L. Sievert, Colors, Michigan.

     
 
    
 
     

 
 

     
      
 
       
 

 

      
 
      
         
   
   
     
   
    

 

     

Dear Aunt Penelopoz—I was so glad
that the Doc Dads came. When I so
what you said in your paper that in, our
next letter to tell how we are -
Uncle Sam. I have five dollars to - ‘ '
Thrift Stamps. 1 help mamzna . ..
hoe beans; we have ten acres. in one
and we hoed them in five days and
A Windstorm took the leaves~cni or; i
but they are “very nice now.: P’
going to give my the money .110. bu
Stamps with. I‘ hoe in the}: '
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703 - 704 Chamber of Commerce

Write, call on or phone

  
  

McCANDLESS BROTHERS

DETROIT, MICH.

Please mention Michigan Business Farming when writing

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O O ‘ O , 4' ‘ .
An Organization for Michigan Farmers
More than 31, 000, 000. 00 of business written the first year
demand for our compa ny.
More than 3120, 000. 00 of first real estate mortgages on deposit with the
state treasurer which proves our responsibility

Your liability can be protected by our reliability

This is no time to take long chances. In these critical times
should be the watchword.

Co— operate with us and insure your live stock against death from accident
and disease and thus save more than 33, 000, 000. 00 annually to the farmers of
Michigan and to society .

Consult our local agent in your vicinity.

Michigan Live Stock Insurance, Co.

Colon C.

Lillie, President Harmon J. Wells," See.

This proves the

“safety first”

. and Tress.
319 Widdloomb Bldg" Grand Rapids, Mich. Graebner Bldg., Saginaw. W.S., Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Phone Main 4880

FLEECE WOOL

 

Will buy wooloutright or handleon commission
We are authorized government wool agents, if you
have any fleece wool write us giving full particulars.

TRAUGGOTT SCHMIDT SONS,

136 to 164 Monroe Ave.,

Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

 

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CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

“CLAY, ROBINSON & CO.

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

Chicago South St. Paul _ South Omaha Denver Kansas City
East Buffalo Fort Worth East St. Louis Sioux City
El Paso South St. Joseph

 

 

 

 

 

VOOKS, “341 State St., Marshall, Midi.

BROOKS’ APPLIANCE for

the odern scientific
inventio the wonder-
ful new discovery
1 that relieves rupture
will be sent on trial.
No obnoxious springs
or pads. Has auto-
matic Air Cushions.
Binds and draws the
broken parts togeth-
er as you would a broken
limb. No solves. No lies.
Durable cheap.
trial to prove it.
by U. S. patents. Oat-lo
and measureblanks mall
free Send name and ad-

 

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It 1’21th 5 ave Lambs
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dress today

FOR SALE:

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. ir-Fe‘rrilhtion Carburetor Company,
nelson fit‘reet, Dayton; Ohio.

  

 
 

LAX!) SUITABLE
sale in Ogemaw

  

 

ldon, Alger Mich

£03138 oAN BURN nAtr COAL OIL,
heapest Gasoline,

C buretor: 34 miles per gallon guaran-

“011x36 ~» Em

 

in excellent com! ion:

using our 1918 Mason, R. , R. No. 3

hauled; bargain for quick 83.16.31
, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Second-hand 9- 18 gas

bottom gangs '

thoroughly over-

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Styles to tit any automobile. Autterson: R-

starting. Great er in- _
n SALE—My 80-110"! farm. Good
Atmchgétdgsugng méfiypgggl: Flbuilding‘s; on reasonable terms. .1. A.

'2, Whittemore, Michigan._

 

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We and well located.

mTY CARS hard woody ,
B. Tee; ; 3008 Woodward Bdtrot,

' grain.

to stalks. ,
year, but lots of snag

turning to ripen, only a7 faif‘ crop-
Potatoes are going to be a poor yield? v
good vines but potatoes are Small A =

number of our farmers put in spring
wheat and it is yielding very good,
some of it unusually well for. this
part of the country. Some fruit this
nyea‘r, mostly appres,»
of a good quality. We are having, a

hard time to get a threshing crew,
as the young men have all gone to ~

War. Farming another year will be
a diflicult problem with our men, all
gone. Some of this year’s grain has
been neglected on account 0f,/ the
shortage of help—A. B. L., Tamas
City

Arenac (East)—‘-Well, Mr. Editor,
and farmer friends, now that the A1-
lied forces are knocking the stufling
out of the Kaiser and/his Hun hordes
we ought to put more vim in our

work and get the war finished “up _'
We believe Arenac county

quickly.
will go over the top on the crop prop-
osition, as the crops are espeCially
good in East Arenac. Sugar beets
are extra fine and the standgthey
have looks like a bumper crop.‘ 'We
are also glad to state that corn
also making a fine showing at the
present—M. B. R., Twining.

Oheboygan (South)~—Threshing has
started, grain turning out good. Some
late cats to out yet. Grasshoppers‘
have injured some pieces greatly, al-
so garden truck in some localities.
Corn doing nicely—a little late, needs
about two weeks to mature. Early p0.
tatoes few in hill; late ones some bet-
ter, but some pieces badly hit with
tip-burn and blight. Pastures very
good for Septembei‘ first. Plenty of
moisture here. Farmers are doing
fall plowing quite extensively, which
they~ know is a "paying proposition.
Farm labor .very scarce. Everyone
doing their mite to down the Hun.
Here’s hoping that the war may end
before Christmas. ,

Missmflcce, (North Cantrell—+Some
farmers aregetting readyto sow fall

a recent rain will help corn and late
potatoes some, which suffered for the
lack of moisture. Farmers are sell“-
ing cattle so as to not winter them as
feed will be scarce. —-H. E. N., C'utch-
eon, Michigan

Calhoun (Southwest)—It is very dry
here for late potatoes and they will
be a short crop Corn cutting com-
menced, most of it good, as good a
crop as we have had tor the last four
years. Early sown beans about half
a crop. Getting dry for fall plow-
ing but the farmers are getting on
very well. Clover seed cutting com-
menced, what the grasshoppers have
left seems to be well filled. —E. B
11., Athens.

Montcalm (Southwestb—A small
acreage of beans has been pulled in
the last week and there is a large
acreage to be taken care of, which is
not expected to yield heavily. Farm-

ers continue to draw grain, which is -

quoted a few cents lower than last
week. The slim are being prepared

for filling and many are building new

ones, and they consist mostly of tile
and cement
dry but it is the main work for th
farmer at' the present time, althop .-
'a light rain was received Wednésday
.. here which wet the soil to the do ‘

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some VERY HIGH-PRICED
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As indicated in last woolt’o issue of
the Live Stock Report, says Clay, Rob-
inson & (30., We sold for Senator John .,
B. Kendrick of wyoming;_ nineteen
head of his range beeves on Wednes-
day, the Bist *at 17 cents per lb... the
average weight being 1314 lbs This "5
figure established a new record for .
Wyoming range cattle and it. indicat- .1
es at the same time to what a wonder-

mi height the general cattle market
has advanced during the .past twO _
years.‘ , r

On this page appears an article ,,
written by out Mr. Clay, entitled “Un-
even Ma kets,” .in which he harks
back to be old days of the range in- ,,
dustry when good Wyoming range
cattle sold as low at 32. 65. Mr. Clay
refers.._,to two telegrams sent to Mr.
Frank Bloom and this recalls anoth-
er instance in connection with that
“’gentleman s cattle when on July 30,
1902, he Was astounded to hear of a
sale of his beeves that Mr. Robinson .-.
had just made at 36. 90. A very good i
price for those Kendrick cattle a year '
ago would have been 14 cents. An- ~
other sale to which we made brief,
mention last week was that of some~
200 head of 720-lb. heifers for George
B. Kirby of Billings, Montana, at 12,,
cents per pound. Think of those lit-._
tle heifers actually grossing 386. 40
per head.- Another lot Weighing only
546 lbs. brought $11. 75. 'Bhink also ’
of those little cattle grossing $64. 03.
That Would have been a very respects»
ble- figure tor a mature range steer
ten years ago.- .~

And while going into figures we
might cite at the same time, the tact
that the 720 head of Matadore Mon-~ - ‘
~tanas which we sold in Chicago on the- _ '
213: inst largely at $15 50 per _cwt- ,1..-
netted $129, 458. 54, or in other words
3.179 30 per head.

BELGIUM GOVERNMENT
TO BUY HORSES

That Belgidin is looking to Canada '
to assist her in the effort to rehabilf
itate herself after the plundering Ger- '
mans are driven from her soil, is 111-,
dicated by the Hon.,T. A. Crerar, min-
ister of agriculturaywho' states: "A!
few days ago I met ‘two Belgium gen-
tlemen, Who‘are new in Canada, on a
mission for their government Their
object, is to find out where in Canada .
and the United States they can secure ’ ‘
pureabred Belgian her-See and H61:
fs’tein cattle, which will be taken back
.to Belgium when the war is over, to
lay the foundation for again building
up the country’s stock. Belgium. be». .
fore the War; was justly proud of her 2" '-
magniflcent breed of horses, and I am
told that there are only a very; few or
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plied, chrs. But here-1s another prob-
lematfiring as in the face There is
in 111191113111 at the present time only
a 1imfied supply of animal foodstuffs.
Your secretary. has been traveling
over Michigan for the past fourteen
" ‘ '11 "different capacities, and we

  

has. the condition of the livestock :0:
the state of Michigan been as poOr’
at this season 01' the year as it is
today. "

With ethese. two problems—a very ’

limited; supply of feed and cattle in
poor physical condition—Tthe natur-
al ‘question comes before ‘us, “What
shall We do?" In our estimatiOn the'
most reasonable actidn would be to
keep such- animals only as we are
able to feed, and feed. well, on the
crops that we have in sight at the
present time. There is no economy
in keeping more animals than we can
feed well. We believe that unless
some radical steps are taken. many
of the animals in Michigan nOW”W111"
dwindle and die for a lack of. proper
food this winter. We believe it is'
not only the part of patriotism but'
of good judgment to eliminate from
our herds all unprofitable animals
and in this way you will not only
be able to carry along your own
stock, but Will be able to provide your
neighbor with food to carry his prof.-
itable cows thru the winter. This
we conceiv‘e not to be the lack of
patriotism but the essence of patri-
otism‘.

PROFITS THUS FAB FROM ORGAN-
.IZED. MOVEMENT

Itis conceded by conservative men,

who are in a position to know best
about this problem, that there has
been at least a ten per cent increase
in the price of dairy products in the
State of Michigan, as a nresult of. the
organized movement the state.
Youtvsecrotaryholds in nhis hands at
they present "time contracts with : the.
Detroit , distributors ‘ that amount to
practically nine millions of dollars for
the .year 1918. [A ten per cent profit
on this means nine hundred thous-

_and dollars to'the milk producers of

the. Detroit area; When we consider
the production according to the re-
cent census figures, which gives us, in
the State 01 Michigan 928, 980 cows
and a monthly income of $9 289, 800,

this _wou1d make the grand- total of
dairy products for the year $111,477,-
600‘ and_ ten per cent on this would,
be $11,147,760. You can get some-
thing of an idea of the magnitude of
this business, and the advantage of
this organized mavement, by compar-
ing these figures. You can also get

an idea of the benefit of this move-

ment to. yourself if y0u allow $10

mom for each cow you own, which is

a very safe ”and conservative esti-
mate. '

With. these facts before us we can-
not feel that the milk producers of
Michigan are slackers to that extent
that they want to shirk their share

‘ "ii?
‘ 31m

are’safe to say that never in that time .

forget

cities industrial plants

engago the services of lawyers to pre-
‘gsent written argument tor the deter-

ment of their skimlled hands, but the
farmers of the state have had no
such concerted effort made in their

- behalf. DoWn in Illinois, the agricul-

tural college early realized the un-
heympathetic attitude of the draft
boards toward farmers’ exemption

claims and sought and secured thru
the marshal general additional mem-
bers to the district boards, having.

some knowledge of the farmers’ needs '

who either were or had been engaged
in farming, thus having/ acme knowl-
edge of the farmers needs and an
understanding of their numerous
problems

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FAltMING sought
to have Governor Sleeper secure such
additional appointments to Michigan
district draft boards, but without re-
sult. The governor referred the mat-
ter to the adjutant general, and the
adjutant general advised that he hada
no instruction from .Washington to
increase the personnel of the district
boards, nor any inference that their
work was not satisfactory.

It is possible that the special advis-
ory board suggested by General Crowd-
er may lend a more sympathetic ear
to farmers’ claims for exemption, but
under the method named by Gener-
al Crowder for the appointment of
its members, that is hardly likely.
The local district board will naturally
appoint as the third member of the
board a man from town, which will
give the advisory board a majority
membership of men living in tOWn
and having the town man's viewpoint
exactly the same as the other boards,
both local and district.

GOVERNMENT APPRAISES
THE 1918 WOOL CLIP

 

Under the government plan of‘hand-
ling the wool clip most of the early
wools have already been appraised
and the owner notified of the prices
that have been allotted to him. As a
rule, these appraisments have been
satisfactory and we have heard little
kicking except when one man got
more than his neighbor. Practically
all western sheepmen measure the
value of their own w001 by what their
neighbor receives. At one statiOn in
Utah the wools have been appraised
all the Way from 51 cents up to 661,4.
centsper pound. Yet as a rule these
wools have all been bought at the
same price in past years. This leads
the man who has his wool appraised
at .51 cents to feel that he has not had
a square deal when his neighbor gets
661/; cents. W001 growers should not
that under the old system it
was impossible {ci- a buyer to give
each man,,what his wool was actually
worth and still continue to buy wool.
Wool grOwers knew very' little about
the value of their wool and. unless
each man received as much as his nei.
ghbor, he would not. sell The dealer
could not pay the full value of the
good clip, for if he did the man with
the poor clip would demand the same
price. That {creed the‘dealer to buy

,wool on a basis of. averages—pay all

men in the “same section about the
same price for their. wool. The grow-
er was just as much to blame as was

the dealer for this situation.

Now comes the government buying
Wool on a certain area pfice- and ap.

. praising each clip on?» its merits Nat-
“ urally the low man is going to kick
. ‘ l

Roaehyqd in a flu
hours halt?”
31...; *1.

Ciro
Toledo or Sammy.
Milt- dischar- ,
gutCm' Poin inlahko ‘

600 Room-
31. 504 day and up.
Special rates by

tho frock.
Semi for rm map
and folder also Ray
McNamra‘ I ton to
book for automo-
bill.”-

, The
Victory Hotel
Put-In Boy lshnd

Ohio

Bay.

 

 

 

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" paper and you will find enclosed

 

 

 

 

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at 111.911.1011 11073:. IN 111:” mourn

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Cool lak breezes, bathing, dancing,
.3 music, tennis, boating, fishing, out
‘ door Sports—

The Victory Hotel is one of the
largest and best equipped summer
- hotels' in the United States, situated
on the highest point of one of Lake
Eric’s most beautiful islands—Putin-

Plon to spend your summer
vacation or week and: at this

“Floridg Hotel in the North.”

   

     
 

 

 

     
   
   
 
      
    
 

  

   
  
    
   
   
 
     
 
   
   

  
  

    
       
    

 
   
  
    
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
    
   
 
 
 
  
  

Pipe-
less Furnace

Cut the wholesale price direct
from manufacturers. Save money
—burn any fuel—heat your entire
home with a circulation of warm air
through one big register—cool air goes
back through separate cold air flues.
Easy to install. —.

Kalamazoo Pipe Fumaceswhere desired.

A Kolomeo """"‘

Plano
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TODAY No Waiting. '
Big stocks in
our warehouse insure quick ship— *
. ment. Get our catalog showing ea‘sy
‘-, installation and quoting money sav-
, ing prices. Cash or easy payments.

1 We pay freight and guarantee safe de-
livery. Write today-live in comfort
at lowest cost this winter.

Auk for Catalog No. 1033

. Kaunazoo ‘srovz co.
‘ ‘ . ,‘ Manufacturers Kalamazoo. Mleh.

  
  
  
 
  

    
   
 
 
  
 
   

   
   
  
   
 

   

 

for it, and“ the poor wool oughtto be
penalized just as will be done.

We believe that our wools are being
honestly appraised—that when doubt
exists as to the value of a clip. the
grower will receive the benefit of
that doubt. The appraisment that we
have heard of seems to be as high
as justified on the basis that the gov-
ernment has fixed, After our wools
have been appraised this way for two
or three years, as will probably be
done. it will be much easier to break
up the old system of selling wool on
averages.——National Wool Grower.

SHORTHORN CATTLE SELL
HIGHER IN AMERICA

The following figures taken from the
“Shorthor-n in. America." giving the
prices for Shorthorns sold by auction
in 1917, and Jan. 1 to July 1, 1918, 1 -
dicate a keen demand for this popu-
lar breed of beef cattle.

In 1917 there were 2,254 bulls sold
for $746,619. an average Of $339723,
and 4,471 females for a total of $2,-
073,746, an average of $434.65
Total number of cattle sold Was 9.739
for $3,578,663, an average of $867.50.

The four top sales reported. in 1917
Anok-a. Farms, Wauke~_
sha, Wis, on December 1, sold 45
head at an average of $1,551. On June
7, Carpenter and Ross, Mansfield, 0..
disposed of 107 head averaging $1,364
each. 'Jarpentel and Ross, the fol-‘

lowing November, at the same place’

averaged $1,185 on 80 head.
On June 14, Bellows Bros, at Mary-

, ville, Mo., sold 51 head at an average

of $1 134. 30 The average price in
1917 was 22. 9 per cent above the av-
erage price in 1915. -

From January 1 to July 1 191.8

‘ 1939 bulls averaged $352. 30, and 8,541
'head of- females averaged $552; 05

 

I would not like to be~without the

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WANTED—Married Man for general
farm work. Must be a good man with
horses. State salary with usual privil-
eges. Addless, Box F, Michigan Busi-
ness Farming Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

Seed Rye "aid Wheat

Sample for stamp. $5. 00 bu., sacks free.
Harry Vail, New Milford, Orange 00., N. Y.

OR HALE “Mich Winter Barley certl- \

 

fied by Mich. Crop Improvement Asso-

ciation. Young Bros, Niles, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Agents Wanted . '1’ .
for M. B. F. ,7

We ‘can make a proposition \E‘
to any man or woman, boy
or girl who can devote all
or part time to'taking sub-
scriptions for this weekly
that farmers all over Michi-
gan are anxious and waiting
to get. ' J

Any man or woman who
has a means of conveyance
can easily make $40 a week.
clear money and get our bon-
us at the end of the month
besides. Many boys and girls
are earning a $5 war savings
stamp every week and men
1” and women Who can only do-

vote a few hours each week

are making a tidy nest egg
at work which everyone says.
is easy.

Whether you have ever acted
as an agent/for anything before,
or not does not matter—some '
of our agents do not solicit it» ‘ ‘
all, they simply pass out sam—
ples one week and go back then-1
next to take the name ,_ Our
weekly sells itself! ‘

If you have a few spare hours
or all your time, that you wan '
to turn into cash, write -
right away. I send ev
you need without a 5.1%....
and help you all I can to meaty;
good at your job. 121111111 '0
about yourself, how much tim ,

. ,you think you can give ..etc i '

    
   

       
       
  
 

 
 

 

 

   
 

  

 

 
 
    
 
 
  

 
   
  

      
 

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get started. Address Oil-cuts.
tion Manager, Michigan Bum
ines's Farming,- Mt. Clemon‘
Michigan. w -= - .-

   
 

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“I new variety: tht‘wifl so" wdlh w. Out:-
‘ e10 1:91:31, bushels ”fie. Nice

inland kernels. Ordinary
toil!“ busbe

#1111101». Votch, and all dependable need. for

Hitter fr“ samples and fair price list.

Fall Bulbs

' ‘ Beautiful new Darwin PTulips Hyacinthsam Nuciss
Lillian, Crocus, etc. intend: ffall “5'

winta" and spring blooming.

, ls“: Full Catalog Free gives full information.

Write for it today.

15.. M. ISBELL 8; CO.—

hckso'n. Mich.

 
 
  

  

  
 
   
 

 

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EGISTERED
ED ROCK WHEAT
OSEN RYE

Pedigreed varieties developed at
the Michigan Agricultural College
and inspected, approved. and regis-
tered by the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association.

Be sure and get pure Rosen as rye
fcross fertilizes readily

For list of growers write to Sec’y
‘ of the Association.

 

 

1W. Nicolson, East Lansing“, Mich.

   
     
    
   
   
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
   
  
 
      
   
   
  
   
  
   

 

 

3Ncw Putin Frecsia 3 Babiana 3 Don-
ble Rosebud, 3 Buttercup and 1a Gland
Duchess ()xalis; will bloomall winter.
ll1c22 Bulbs Booklet on Buthulture

11d Catalog. All Alax/rdfur 10 (01:1.

llvn’inths. Tulips. Narcissus. Pennies,
Lilim, lrises. Phlaxes, Hardy Plains,
Shrubs. Vines. Berries. in great variety.
Also splendid window plams for winter.
Seeds for Full boning, etc. Beautiful
catalog free.

John Lewis Childn, lnc., Floral Park. N21.

 

 

[1‘1 [1611’ with salt the
maps-widow's year around
omnibus keelal flock

h a ll 1 b y and
free from stomach worms and ticks
A $5 00 box make: 560 00 worth
of medicated ult~saves you big
money. A31. Mnialbomof‘flx-vTON MIX

parcel [not will lllidml barrel of
ISL Write for club oEer-booklet on' 'Nlturo tndCar-olsheeo'

PARSONS TIX- TON CO” Grand Ledge, Michiga-

 

 

 

On SALE— 1200 bu Rosen Rye grown

from certified seed. 10 bu 01' o1er,
32 25 per b11., less than 10 bu., 523' .10 per
11111., subject to prior vale New hagg 30¢

each, or send your own bags.
GOODVVIN '& MOORE,
R F. D. No 2, 1011119., Michigan.
—Flou1 Mill.

jCo-operative BuyingFee a. Gm

Saves Money. guergggggfhnff Quotadong
£11111! mowers GRAIN co "Minn. m...

Seed Rye and Wheat

Sample for stamp. $5 00 bu., sacks free
*Harry Vail, New Milford, Orange Co., N Y
03 SALE-Mich. Winter Barley certi-
fied by Mich. Crop Improvement Asso-
caution Young Bras, Niles,‘ Michigan

 

  

 

 

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 

  

 
 

ROSES BYE—Tho only Ruben Rye
raised in Barry 00. this year that passed
impaction by the: Michigan Crop Im-
movement Association E;- F. Nichols,.

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‘- more livestock

tops and pulp—and increase
grower‘s profits, but there is anOther
reason—the nation needs more meat
as well as sugar. The combination
of stock- -raising and sugar beet grow-
ing, While beneficial to farmers Will
also benefit the nation. Livestock on
the sugar beet farm‘constitutes an
important factor in success of beet
growing from two standpoints: (1)
The utilization of beet tops and pulp
to the best ""advantage, and (,2) the
production of stable or barnyard man-
are which can be used to enrich the
soil. The feeding operations should
be located on the farms where the
best tops are produced. When practi-
cable the pulp should be handled
with frame and fed. There should
be available labor for handling the
stock, and other feeding stuffs used
in combination with the pulp and
tops should be obtainable.

Sugar beet tops and pulp are good
feed for many kinds of live stock in-
cluding chickens. hogs, sheep, cattle,
and to some extent horses. Generally
the tops and pulp are fed to sheep and
cattle. They may be pastured off, a
process which consists in turning
the livestock into the beet field after
the beets have been harvested and
the roots removed. The tops are left
scattered over the ground, and this
method of feeding results in the
ground being more or less trampled.
Sheep especially are inclined to trav-
el more generally in paths, thereby
trampling the ground unevenly. In
no case should the posturing of the
tops be permitted when the ground is
wet, since the ground itself would be
seriously injured by trampling in that

be wasted by being trampled into the
ground. While livestock thrives on
beet tops and pulp. other feed must
be used in finishing the animals for
market. Beet tops, especially the

 

 

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‘or pulp “ch day.

crowns, contain considerable mineral
matter which is beneficial to livestock
but it should not be fed in too large
quantities

Aside from pasturing the tops they ‘

are sometimes allowed to cure partly
and are then gathered into piles, and
hauled to the feed yard, and fed in
racks. This is a much more econom-
ical method than pasturing. but it in-
volves the additional expense of gath-
ering and hauling. The tops may also
be used as ensilage. When chopped
with straw, cornsta’lks, or other rough-
age excellent silage is produced. Both
the tops and the pulp are excellent
for dairy 'cows, since they act as a
tonic upon the animals as well as a
food and inc1ease the flow of milk.
Pulp is used either fresh or dried. It
is dried artificially, either by itself or
in combination with molasses. The
object in drying the pulp is to make
it easier to handle. About 80 per
cent of they weightiris lost in drying.
The dried pulp should be soaked for
several hours before it ishfed to stock.
Animals cannot be finished for mar-
ket on the beet by-products alone,
and unlesgx other feed is availableit
will not be advisable to purchase an~
imals for feeding purposes with a. ,
view to turning them on the market
later.
dairy cows, it is adviéable to furnish
them with one ‘or two feeds of tops
The tops When
cured or pitted; will keep for several
months; the pulp; when left in a large
pile will not spoil for feeding p:1r--~
poaae except in thin ajyor on 1.11,

‘condition and many of the tops would '

If the farmer is provided with ,

fifth there hung the blah of
film had sued those: _
"been sl'ughtered‘b .7

Sugar beet. growers should raise": "
The stock utilize by! ‘
'. products of sugar beet growing—aha
the

feed is discontinued
ter to continue the feeding over a

- longer period, giving a. smaller amount
to each- of the animals daily.

TRIM, THE BUCK RAMS

 

ANOTHER YEAI?‘

 

To one unacquainted with the lack
of quality, or more correctly speak-
lug withfiie lack of condition of the
- native lambs coming to ‘market this
summer, reasons for the wide dispar-
ity in prices that exists between them
and the cream of the range lamb sup-
ply would be dilficult to fathom. Sel-

dom indeed has a summer market "

yielded as few good native lambs,
.judged by killing standards as that
of the current season. ‘Parched pas-
tures in many sections have played a
part in creating this condition but
there have been other and potent fac-
tors contributing toward this end
that must be charged either to negli-
gence or to a lack 01' knowledge of
the industry on the part of the pro-
ducers, rather than to Providence. It
is conservatively estimated that less
than 15 percent of the male native
lambs that have reached Chicago this
season had. been castrated, and as
there has been a tendency on the part
of producers to hold back ewe lambs
for future breeding operations, the per-
centage of ram lambs among the na-
tive offerings has been heavier than
before. Like Topsy, these ram lambs
appear to have “just growed.” When
they are marketed young and in milk-
fat condition in the spring buyers do
not find them particularly objection-
able, but when they are permitted to
stay on the farm until this time of the
year they not only prevent ewe lambs
with which they "graze from fatten-
ing. but come to market usually in
poor flesh condition themselves, and
converted into meat, make coarse, 1m-
attractive carcasses that killers find
difficult to clear even at a price which
makes them dear on the hooks com-
pared wlth choice eWe and wether
lambs that cost their killers $3.00 per .
cwt.~more on foot. The money lost
by native flockma'sters in their failure
trim their buck lambs would. if 'it
e e possible to compute, make a
staggering total.

FOUR COWS AND A TEN
THOUSAND DOLLAR HIDE

There’s a farmer in Ohio whose
name happens to be Peter Small. Pete
Small made a mighty big mistake
a few years ago. The mistake cost
him over $10,000! And all he has
to show for it is a bump of experi-
ence and a lifeless hide.

Peter Small will never
same mistake again.

Peter Small did not swallow his.

 

make the

- loss. and selfishly keep his story to

himself. He was big enough to tell
the dairy world-so that you and I
and Others would not 'lose as he had
lost. '

He took his hide to the National
Dairy Show last year and told the
story of. his mistake.

In the Peter Small exhibit there‘
were five stalls, Four contained costs
plaéidly‘ chewing their ends. {ii-fill?

 

     
 
 
 
  
 

 

If the supply.
of top: and pblp’ is limited. it is bet- .

   

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out too late k.» -

 

It was a lesson in cow-testing that

cost Peter smart 1110,0110. . ,

But the Natiohli Dairy Show site -

it to the thousands of wide-awake
farmers, who attended the showfiiat
Columbus last year, for nothing.

There were many farmers at me
show last year who took the lesson.
-of $10,000 the hide to heart, and ma.
ny a'good hull was saved to the dairy
world. It may be that there’ll be
something equally as valuable for you
at the show this year. You won’t
get it unless you come. .

Most men'learn best by "experience.
But the school of experience‘is a long
school and a dear school. So if you can
learn at someone’s else ekpense 0!:
time and money, you’ll be that much,
ahead, won’t you? ‘

The National Dairyg‘Show this year “
will be brimfull of the thousand—dol-
lar experiences of earnest men in
the dairy industry. Why should you
go over the same costly ground over
which they have plodded in order to
arrive at the same result? Why ah-
ould it be necessary for you to make
the same costly mistakes that they
have made? Why not profit by their
experiences? . ,

Why not? October 10 to 19th the
dates of the show—will find ”you with
your corn in the silo, and with noth-
ing pressing to keep you on the farm.
Take a week off. You’ll become the
possessor of a veritable gold mine of
valuable information, and you’ll come
back to your farm work with a stock
of stored-up energy and enthusiasm
that you'll draw on every day next
year.

   

\lctcrmay Department

Will you please answer thru the
paper what is the best cure for swee-
hey I have a horse coming 5, kicked
in the shoulder— a couple of weeks
ago (no shoes on horse) and sweenoy ~
resulted. Local veterinary wants to'
blister, but I want to be sure. Please
answer and state best cure. Will
state I have been using a liniment on ‘
same compasedf of 4 oz acqua am-
monia fast 4 oz turpentine. 4 on.
sweet oil How is it for a cure? I
see no results yet, but of course, time
is short. ~C J Cadillac

The treatment or cure of, sweeuey

 

, is far more successful under the more

modern methods than in the days
gone by, the old ideas, such as insert-
ing a seton and applying strong cam-
tics are fast being done away with,
today the more modern treatment
consists of the subcutaneous injec-
tion (with {hypodermic syringe), of
a solution known as Etheral-iodln.
This is composed of equal parts of
sulphuric ether and Iodin. About 15
drape at each place is sufficient; in the
average case several injections are

._necessary and no further treatment
.‘ is needed This produces considerable ‘
irritation and the animal may pawV'
fimore or less for six‘ or eight hours. . ,é -.

 

 
  
 

swelling may and usually does 041
after this subsides the shoulder 1‘.
turns to its normal cowltio‘n. #1

   
   
 
 

 
 

  
   
 
  
   

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Price 100 Write mm photo and pedigree.
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flw Palmyra. Fans bred to
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3. Owen Taft. Route 11 Oak Grove. Mich.

lbven
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W. C. Hendee & Son, Pinckney. Michigan.

mutual-um
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stock for sale. “Adm-ell.
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11"! -mb:gco:g.mllso some
choice Duroe open gilts.

I. Hubert Brown. Byron Michigan-

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Breeding. m ”06., Pa: PW. “-

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large Type Poland China Sumo
LARGE TYPE P. C. tall gilts, broil ‘ *

and ready to ship Will weigh in.
to 365 pounds. Will Earmw in Aug.
and Sept. Will also 3 l! a few spring
boars. FIJI sale Nov. 29.

Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7, Mason, itch;-

 

 

 

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EABWOOD HEREFOIDS
Yearling bulls and a few heifers~

from choice bred cows

Jay Harwood. R. No. 3, Ionia. Mich.

 

 

 

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EARLIEG DAUGHTER of Maplecrest
beKolHoi-toy vlmdamisaM—lb
cow, so days. 120 lbs, 5 son of Fr1end

Hormel-weld De Kol Butter Boy, faur
iiauxhters with year to s over 1,000
lab ‘10 Hazel De Kol, 7 day

mug
record 494.8 lbs milk, 19. 67 lbs. butter.
Heifer well marked good individual, price

15% Howbert Stock Farm E311 Claire,

 

BIG TYPE P. C. BOARS, all ages, the,
kind that make good Meet me at t e
, fairs E. R Leonard St. Louis, Mich.

 

» _ HAMPSHIRE

 

REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE PIGS now

 

 

 

 

r836)? A bargain in boar pigs John
HORSES W Snyder R. No 4. 31. Johns Inch.
PERCHEROV
L J SHEEP
EBCHERON STALLION; 4 years Old. ‘
all black line style and high breeding- 5113012331333

Price right if taken soon E. P Kinney,

Lansing, Michigan.

 

broccling. Price right.
Warren. Michigan.

F0). SALE—Elem Holstein Show

Bull, Pontiac Korndyke

service age;
John A. Rinko.

 

whens

 

oi bubsex.

For Sale Registered Jersey Cattle
58! Ill and Parker. I. 4. Hawaii, Mich

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one”... man .

 

Warner, R.

Fgfi SALE, pure bred Shorthnrhs and

I. C. igs. Five young bulls, 7
$125 to $150 each.
No.» 3. Almont, Michigan.

tononta Ray

 

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Secretary Central
Association. McBrides. Michigan.

WHAT DO IOU WANT? 1 represent 41

SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in

touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls

Some females. C. W. Crum,
lichigan Shorthorn

 

. Bulls, heifers. and spring pigs,
’ sex, for sale. at farmers’ prices.
Piggott & Son. Fowler, Michigan.

HOBTHGRNS ”d POLAND CHINAS.
either
F. M.

 

can: said. are fine individuals.
for prices and pedigrees.

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Battle Creek, 3

com an!

 

GUERNSEYS "E “m A m.
Heifers and cows for
sale, also a number of well bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Vlll
Grass Lake. Mich

age Farms.

,VSHE’I’LAND PbNIEs

; prices Mark B. Curdy . Howell.

. Holstein bull
' Kies, Hillside. Mich.

 

SHE’I‘LA N I) PONIES

 

For Sale. Write
r .r deqorintion &
Mich.

 

 

HROPSHIRE RAMS For quality. One

4- --year -old: some yearlings; 10 ewes
and ram lambs. 'Dan Booker, R.F.D. No.
4, Evaigt Michigan

 

OR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Reglmel'~
ed Shropshire. Yearling ewes and
Registered Yearli mg Ram: 01' extra qual-

 

ity and breedEng. Flock established [890.
EGGS C. Lemen. Dexter Michigan.
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Bred dGilts

I Serviceaple Boats
C .3. Carl Jewell, Mason, mall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LARGE TYPE 0. I. C.

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

 

 

DUBOC
: FOR Duroe Jet-oh, both sex.
Man" 5 'and 8 farrow.
long, big hone, large litters. Price right.

, Close out males cheap. All purebred, fine

individnah Am in market for registered
6 to 12 months old. B. E.

 

 

 

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m over-age 37. 76 lbs but-
7’ dae. 145 93 lbs. 3:. duesbteatin:
I.“ int. Muted ac 1n .
01h?“ nice Wt fellows % white.
,Prlee' 01! each while the: hat.
Horde bested. many
Bo-rdmn Forum, Janina... Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Holstein Heifers
The cows and bulls advertised have
been sold. I have 6 or ‘8
B heaters from heavy produc-
3 mos. to 2 years old at

 

 

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Under the present labor conditions 1
I led the necessity of reducing my
hard. Would; sell a few bred ferrules
ordinwtotreshsathlssprhg.1‘heu
«we are all cal! to a Ila-pound
bull. J. m mt, Byron. Miehlgsi

 

 

 

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young bull (old enough
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old 22.4.8 butter

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put. at large ,
grads Poncho m 3.15 years
old. Rhone Ems. Arwin winger.

 

 

 

 

make every

your dollar now or later.

coupon count

- You want this weekly to succeed because
it means better profits, and thus better living for

every man or woman who farms in Michigan! ~

This is a year of cooperation—we must all help each other—-
down the road in the next home to yours is a neighbor who does
not receive our weekly. Ask him‘tonight to sign this coupon and
send it in. He can give you the dollar now or after harvest; but he
ought to have 0111 weekly and every name you help us add mal {98
our paper just so much better and stronger.

IF YOU ARE NOT A SUBSCRIBER—«8e [this coupon NOW,
you’ll need'our weekly more than ever the next few months.

Send

 

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MlCHIElAN BUSINESS FARMING,

MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Send your weekly for one year for which I

Enclose; dollar bill hereWith Or (
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Michigan.

; sure breeder, and a good individual.

' ed for exhibition but, above all

 

For Sale On: Oxford herd ram register—

‘ ed bred from imported stock a beauty.

A few yearling ram and ram lambs while

 

. they last. Write your wants and mention
this paper. Geo 'i‘. Abbott Palnis.M1ch.
HAMPSHIRE '

 

‘ ‘ Registered Hampshire Ram Lambs

\For Sale. Weighing up to 130 lbs.
10th, at $25.00 and up.
ling rams.

Aug.
Also a new year-
Clurke Haire, We1~t Branch,

 

VON HOME’YEB BAMBOUILLET

 

‘ FOB SALE—Registered Pure Von Ho<

meyer Bambouillet Ram 3 years old. A
Also
Pure Rosen Rye $2.25 per ha.

Ira. B. Baldwin, Hastings, Michigan.

R SALE—Registered Pure Von Ho-

meyer Rambouillet ram three years

old. Sure breeder. Also pure Rosen
.ryn $3.25 per bu. Ira 8. Baldwin, Hast-
ings, Michigan.

 

LINCOLN
coon LINCOLN RAE

W and Ram lambs, also a few

good ewes gred if desired, for sale.
Knight Gagetown, Michigan.

DELAINE 7

 

 

R SALE—Registeied yearling Rams.
Improved Black Top Delaine Merino.
Frank Rohrabacher Imingshurg, Mich.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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clutter. of quality. Breeding stock after

 

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‘ Browning, R. 2. Portland Mich.
LEGHORN

uUEF AEGHORNS—swe
have twenty pans of especially- mated
Single Comb Butts that are not only mat-
for pro:-
itable egg pioductron Eggs fit very peas-
enable price Our list will interest you
—please ask fox it Village Farms
Grass Lake. Michigan

 

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We Ship thousands
each season More!“

varieties booklet and
testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport
m, , Box 19 Preemrt Mielrl‘gm

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