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year.
, _thTIee+te-ene majorities, and nominated over three— .
- quarters—of its candidates for the legislature. A
- similar victory in November Will give the farm-
era the balance of power in the legislature, if ,

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-:' WESTERN horizon is lighted by the fire

.01: a tremendous conflict of Opinion over an
*‘I' organization called ‘the Nonpartisan League.
’8 mighty is the fight raging in the west over this
, ion that its echo is being heard in the
1.331. the papers and magazines are devoting
columns to it, mostly one-sided comment that
has 1eiied to set: ferth many of the facts and has
suppressed absolutely the position of the mem-
hers, and ir1ends of this great movement to or-
ganize American farmers politically. It is the
"frank purpose of this article to give the League' 8‘
side of the matter. The side of the oppOsition

 

[has been only too well represented in the big
’p‘r‘ess ‘

The Nanpartisan League was born in North
Dakota, whose state government and legislature
it now controls. Two years ago. after the League’ 5
initial victory at the polls in that state, it began
to spread into adjoining states, until now it is at

”Work in 13. states and has a total membership,
~ ‘Wall'farmers, or over 200,000, and'a voting strength
-' f'Ioi "probably well over 1, 000, 000.

Before telling of the origin and growth of this

‘ Liarmers’ “révalt.” 1151415 state what it is today

and what it proposes to do in this year’s elec-

.‘ tioiis. . ;,

League antrols Politics of North Dakota

With 40. 000 members in North Dakota, the
Iieague easily controls the politics or that state.
It ‘sWept the North Dakota primaries last June
yI majorities far in excess of what it obtained
:in the 1916 primary. and has nominated a com-

plete et'ate, legislz- tive and congressional ticket

tor the November election, at which its success
is sheared beyond a doubt. Its candidates are

. unoppdsed in two North Dakota congressional
~.d:isfricts, and it will send to Washington D. 0..
all three congressmen the state is entitled to.
[The June (1918) primary election victory of the
» League in this state came after the people had
[tried for tv’ro yea-rs a state administration and
legislature elec ed by the farmers through the
; League. ‘

In Minnesota a state only half agricultural,

. With 50, 000 members, the League rolled up an

astonishing total vote in the June primaries this
It carried 31 counties, some by two- and

not an actual majority. The League’s candidates
for estate office in Minnesota, however, were de—
Un-
(taunted by this, the organization expects to en-
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ates in South Dakota are running.
, ratio nominees, and in this three-

”Dakota, the League ticket
access this fall.

‘ the state—in the eastern part,

ants, " Qageinst the regular Republi- , ..
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Written especially for Michigan Business
Farming by Oliver S. Morris, editor of
The Non-Partisan Leader

didates to withdraw: Should this proposed com-
bination of the two old parties go through, the
League might be defeated in South, Dakota this
year, but there is every chance of its winning in
the three-cornered fight now in prospect.

In Idaho, with something like 15,000 members,
the League already holds the political balance of
power. It has a full state. congressional and
legislative ticket in the field and will attempt
to nominate its candidates in the September pri-
maries and put them over in the November elec-
tion.- Here too, the Leaguehas the co-operation

-of organized labor. Idaho is a small state. much
smaller than North Dakota. Equal suffrage pre-
vails. If the rule in past elections in which the
League has participated holds—that is“,~ three or
tour, or even five votes to every League member—-
the Idaho League will sweep the state this fall.

ILeague members and their wives make 30,000

votes. Multiplying this by threeand it gives
the League a big majority of the Idaho vote.

Expects Balance of Power in Montana

In Montana, only seats in the legislature and
some other minor offices are to be filled this year.
Here the League has 25,000 members. In almost
every county it has candidates for the legisla-
ture whom it expects to nominate in the Septem-
ber primaries and elect in November. The
League is certain to carry half the counties of
where agricul-
ture is the principal pursuit." Montana Leaguers
are confident of a majority, or at least the balance
of power in the Montana legislature.

In Colorado and Nebraska the League this-year
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FOREWORD‘

HAT is the Non-Partisan League?

What has it accomplished for

the farmers in the states where it oper-
ates? Is its program practical? Is it
fair? Is it enduring? These and scores
of other questions have arisen in the
minds of farmers who have heard of the
League, but have not read its story. In
keeping with its policy of Wide open
discussion of all matters of interest to
farmers, ‘Michigan Business Farming
sought and obtained a story of the
League from Oliver 8. Morris, editor
of the Non—Partisan Leader. We do
not assume to know whether all the
’ ‘ statements made in this article are true
or “whether the inferences made by the

author are justified. It is merely the
story of the League written by a mem-
' ,ber of the League. We present the
story here for informative purposes
_ only 4,3111 a later article we will discuss
the general objects of the League, the

' efiprts to establish the organization in
’ ii: stdt‘e the» influences that are work-5
hem, and the reasons why
' will find it difficult if not
' to organize the farmers and.
anguish of Michigan

  
  
  
   

 

 

 

  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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only, and expects to elect a strong minority in
the legislature from these districts. The main
fight in these states will be ian920, by which
time the League expects to be thoroughly enough
organized to put up state and congressional tick-
ets with a chance of winning.

The League maintains headquarters and is or-
ganizing also in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma. Texas,
Washinton and Wisconsin, but in these states
the organization is not strong-enough to take any
formal part in this year’s campaign, but is or-
ganizing for the 1920 elections. ’

What makes the league "a formidable political
power? Why have efforts to crush or cripple it
failed to date? Many reasons can be given in aus-
wer to these questions, but the two chief rea-
sons are these:

How the League is Financed

First, the League is adequately financed, under
a plan never tried heretofore. Past liberal or
radical movements of the people, especially of
the farmers, have suffered from lack of money.
The League, however, is financed by its members
with dues sufficiently large to carry on the work '
of organizing, spreading its propaganda and suc-‘
cessfully conducting its campaigns. League mem-
bers pay $16 for every election period of two years,
or $8 per year. The League receives no outside
contributions. It is dependent entirely on its
members for money. This $8 per member per
year is spent partly to keep several hundred
paid organizers, each with a Ford autbmobile, in
the field, getting new members and re-enrolling
old ones as their membership expires. League
organizers in the field have at times numbered
400 to 500, mostly farmers who, have become in-
terested in the NVOI‘k and are anxious to carry
the message to other farmers, rather than make
any profit out of the organization work. The ,
League maintains a school at national headquar-
ters at St. Paul, to instruct in organization meth- '
ods any farmers who desire to take up organizing
work. ‘

The rest of the funds of the League are spent .
to maintain a lecture bureau, Which holds hund-~
reds of meetings a month throughout territory
where the League is organizing or organized; to
send official publications of the League to all mem-
bers; to maintain state headquarters in each
state where it is at work and‘to maintain na-
tional headquarters at St. Paul, and finally to
promote the candidacy of the men whom the
League members in convention indorse for public '
ofl‘ice.

League Controls IMany Newspapers

The second chief reason fer the formidable
and growing strength of this organization is the “'
fact that the League does not depend on the pub— ,
lic press, necessarily hostile to fundamental re—
forms, to carry its message, keep its members
informed and interested and defeat the attempts "
to block er break up the organization. There, is
published at St. Paul the Nonpartisan Leader, 3
weekly magazine, the “national voice ”75 so to .
speak, of the movement. This publication 3083
to every member of the Le ue in all states and. “
to a large independent sub tion list In , . ,
of Ifive states there is published an official eta a
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e League farmers and published mostly, ,
county seats throughout League territory There

are nearly .100 such country newspapes scattered ;

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9. League bureau at St. Paul and are furnished
with a news and picture service.’ This bureau is
{constantly engaged‘in promoting new papers of
this kind, in towns where existing publications

areslhostile/ to the movement, which is usually the _

'case. ‘

.. In North Dakota the League has promoted daily
f'papers to carry the message of the League as well
as publish all the world’s news. The morning
daily' paper at Fargo is one of these “Nonpartis—
an” papers. It has the largest circulation of
any daily in'the state and gives the full Associ-
,ated preSs news. A similar daily paper wil com-
mence publication at Grand Forks, N. D., Septem-
ber 1. In other states the League proposes
eventually to promote daily papers.

Because it is well financed and because» it has
a friendly press the League is a power that to
date has been able to withstand the terrific on-
slaughts of the politicians, and of the big inter-
ests which are menaced by the League’s radical
political and economic program

The League originated, as stated, in North Da—
kota. North Dakota is primarily an ag1icultura1
state. Farmers pay 80 per cent of the taxes and
cast 80 per cent of the votes. Yet the state had
always been run by a group of politicians repre-
senting the banking and commercial interests.
North Dakota’s principal crop, wheat, was mar-
keted and milled outside the state. The grain
business was controlled by what was known as
the “grain combine,” the units of which were
the Chamber of Commerce, Boards of Trade, ter-
minal elevator companies- also owning strings of
“line” elevators at local points throughout the
state, the big mills, etc.

Evidence too complex and extensive to go into
here, years ago convinced the farmers of North
Dakota and they were being robbed by the grain
trust. They sought a remedy from the legisla-
ture, which, dominated by the commercial inter-
ests and subservient to the big interests outside
the state profiting from the trade in grain. re<
'fused to take any action. The farmers wanted
a vote on a referendum providing for the erection
toward correcting the abuses in the grain trade
from which farmers suffered. They'twice forced
a vote on a referendum providing for the section
of a state-owned terminal elevator. The propo-
sition carried at the polls by huge majorities
both times, but the legislature steadfastly re-
g fused to build the elevator ordered by the peo.

ple.

This situation came to a climax at the 1915
-legislature. A convention of farmers who went
to Bismark, the state capitol, to lobby for the
elevator bill, was told by the legislature “to go
home and slop the hogs.” Some of therleading
spirits‘at this farmers’ convention did not go
home, as ordered. They tarried awhile and or-
'ganized the Nonpartisan League, a political or-
ganizatidn intended to capture the legislature
and state offices and put through the legislation
the farmers had been voting for and demanding
for years. w
, The new league drew up a formal program of
demands, which remains today the principal de-
mands of the organization. This program, brief-
ly, demands the state ownership and control of
all the machinery for marketing, transporting and
manufacturing. products of the farm—that is,
state-owned»- elevators. warehouses, cold-storage

lants’ ,packing plants, mills, etc. Inaddition
.sthe program demands state crop insurance and
state rural credit banks operated at cost. Each

. ‘League state has its own program, but these de-
'mands are included in the program everywhere,»
together with such other planks as desired by

he farmers in their particular state. For in-

, tance, the League in Montana and Idaho and
Washington is demanding state or national own.

rsh-ip and development- of natural resources,
hell as water power.- In Minnesota there is a
and for a tonnage tax on the iron are being

_‘ from the northern part of the state by the ‘
t‘ st, which resource the people are 'losing

’without adequate return:

' war aims.

'thrOugh League territory, aiding the movement
ides fulfillingfilf the functions of a regular, >
. ountry; weekly. These" papers are, supervised [by ,

, ination.

has backed up eel-dent Wilson’s statement of

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ties and other political organizations formed to
fight it, would take a volume The principal
fight made on the League since the‘war has’been
on the ground that it is "disloyal.” But there

“has never been a prosecution of a’leader or of-

ficer of the League by the federal gOVernment, or
even a remote suggestion of any such prosecution.
The League’s publications and literature .have

- had the, freedom of the mails unm'olested, and some

of its papers have even been admitted to the mails
since the war started.

However, several of the League’s officers and

organizers were arrested and prosecuted for dis-

loyalty‘ in Minnesota and other states by county

officials, under state laws. The two chi‘éf prose-
cutions were against‘President A. C. Townley of
the League and Joseph Gilbert, formerly the
League’s organization manager. The charge was
that League pamphlets, containing resolutions
passed at farmers’ meetings and demanding high
excess profits taxes, the regulation of the price of
things farmers have to buy and denouncing war
profiteering, “discouraged enlistments.”

Townley and Gilbert were arrested and prose-
Cuted for circulating these farmers’ resolutions
The supreme court of Minnesota threw the cases
out of court as ridiculous and they never even

went to trial, though much was made over it in.

the press. A few League organizers were tried in
Minnesota for disloyalty, on trumped-up charges
of political enemies of the League, which cases
county authorities consented to bring. Only two
of these organizers‘have been convicted, one dur-
ing open rioting in the town where the trial was
held, brought about to intimidate the jury and
secure the ra'ierading of the League men. These
cases are still in‘the'supreme court. As many as
a dozen trumped-up disloyalty charges against
League workers have been thrown out of court
by juries or judges.

The League has held scores of conventions in
various states where it is organizing, since the
war started, and without exception these conven-
tions have adopted strong resolutions backing
up the government in the prosecution of the war
and approving without qualification the war aims
of America as stated by President Wilson.

The war record of the farmers’ government of
North Dakota, elected by the League, ought to be

It has also attempted to force a more » .
liberal plan of government financing for farmers;
as an echnomic necessity «at this time.

detailed story of the Leagues campaigns?
and battles with; the bigmewspapers. the old par- .

has provided or 1 , .
and finance their crops as war measured

TWO Greek missions are in Paris on their way
to the United States.

' Since March 21. the British have taken 14, 600
prisoners on the west front.

The Soviet government at Moscow has issued a
decree against anthSemitic.

The American Red Cross has opened its seventh
hospital six miles from Paris. ‘

The army casualty liSt contained 194 names
and the marine list 18 names.

Four allied food controllers have constituted
themselves an Allied Food Counlcil. .

Shipping in Montevideo, Uraguay is paralyzed
as the result of the strike of 8 ,0th workers.

The War Labor board announced that no min-
imum wage would be established now.

As.a means of reviving British trade after the
war preferential tariffs are being discussed.

The French military mission sent to train the
Guatemalian army has arrived in Guatemala City.’

British casualties for the month of July showed
a decrease.
291 officers and men.

The cost of making bread in Canada showed a
decrease of one- sixteenth of a cent for the month
of May.

A decision of how and when to end the major
baseball season will be reached Saturday at Cleve-
land. ‘

Tin imports for the fiscal year ended June 30,
1918, were 69 731 long tons, compared with 67,529
tons in 1916.

Austrian Food Minister Paul announced that
the food question is almost overcome and will not
recur ' fl ~ '
Every doctor in Stockholm is reported to be
hurrying from house to house in an endeavor to
check the Spanish grip.

The French government has bestowed the Chev.
alier of the Legion of Honor decoration on Otto
H Kahn. ,

Two aviators are reported to have made a flight
from Paris to St Namaire and back, a total dis-
tance of 475 miles, in five hours and fifty min-

' utes.

In the Light, of the Newberry Disclosures, Henry V
F ord’s Candidacy Assumes a New Significance

Throughout“ the primary campaign V MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING kept silent. . No principle was
involved; no issue was at stake which in our

judgment could not be as well carried out by my ,

candidate as another, and we adhered strictly

. our policy of showing no preference as between

the several aspirants to the same political office.

Truman H. Newberry received the Republican
nomination for senator.. Many farmels voted for
him. His campaign committee presented telling
and unrefuted arguments showing why the people
of the state‘ should vote for Mr. Newberry in pre-
ference to either Mr. Ford or Mr. Gsborn. After
the ‘election, it was discovered that while not a
single penny had been spent in behalf of Mr.
Ford’s candidacy, not even to challenge the many
direct and veiled charges against his character
and his patriotism, the Newberry committee had
spent over $150, 000.

This expenditure was in itself a violation of
the law.“ ,It was in effect, the price which Mr.
Newberry’s friends paid for Mr. Newberry’s .nom-
It violated every principle which gave
birth to the primary law. It corrupted men’s
Opinions, as money has a habit of doing, and it

insulted the very intelligence of the great body .

politic of the state of Michigan.
These disclosures most certainly justify every

citizen of [Michigan no matter what his party

leanings or his ,pre-eleétion' preferences, in view?

ing“ the respective candidacies of ‘Mr. Ford and.

looking to the recently uncovered principles
which they represent and which would undoubt~
1y guide their thought and action in the United
States senate.

If the farmers -who publicly endorsed Mr. New-
berry made a mistake they should be big enough
men to admit it. If the farmers who voted for
Mr. Newberry as a result of that endorsement
and as a result of what Mr. NeWberry’ s committee
told them, they too should be big enough men to
admit it. Surely, had any of these farmers known
that Mr. Newberry was violating ’a law to fur~
ther his political ambitions, they would not have
voted for him. Nor can we believe that any far-
mer who loves righteousness and obedience to
law will make the same mistake again. ‘ .. ,

Every good thing that could be said about Mr.
Newberry has been said. Every evil thing that

‘ could be said about Mr. Ford has been said, and ye

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there are many things about both candidates that
as intelligent voters we ought to know. \

Henry Film! is Michigan’ s foremost citizen.

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entire United States, it not the world. But his?

name has been dragged in the mud, and news
papers and people ought to have a better cen-

Mr. Newberry in an altogether new light We no .3; .-

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ehcies’i Board, Provost Marshal General, See.
rotary of Wax: Secretary of Agriculture, and Sec-

5111111 persons in the new draft as are necessary in
agriculture, industry and other occupations.
,;Th"ree advisers are to be- associated with each dis-
trict draft board to present facts relative to the
supply (it neéess’xarwworkers'in these three occu-
pational groups. The Agriculture advisers will
nominated by the Secretary of Agriculture
'1‘hey will gather accurate facts regarding the
requirements of agriculture for the various classes
of workers in their own districts. They should
have facts also as to the requirements for such
classes in other districts in order that workers not
sufficiently necessary in one district to entitle
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.The Department of Agriculture has sent a
questionnaire to each county agent asking him to
furniSh reliable information at once'relative to
theefarm-labor needs. in his county. The question-
naire is to be duplicated, one copy going to the
State farm-help specialist and one returned to
the Department. The Department of Agriculture
will undertake, both directly and through the
State farm- help specialist, to keep each district
adviser informed as to the needs of necessary
farm workers in various parts of the country.

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assist the district draft boardan keeping in 11g
riculture the (a) “necessary skilled farm laborer
in necessary agricultural enterprise" (deferred
Class 11); (b) “necessary assistant, associate,
'or hired manager of- necessary agricultural enter-
prise? (Deferred Class 111); (c) “necessary sole

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What the draft boards desire are the facts as
to necessary skilled workers. The unskilled

(Deferred Class

deferred classification: they are regarded as more
important for the Army than for agriculture and
industry. Necessary skilled farm laborers should
" not be confused with inexperienced help that,
with a little training, can do fairly well some
kinds of farm work

A “skilled farm laborer” has been defined by
one authority as “one who has the strength in-
telligence and experience to perform acceptably
the ordinary farm operations of the district,
community or farm concerned, whether in fields
ranches, orchards or barns” This definition is
merely suggested as a guide. The draft boards
may still have other standards

A further suggestion may be made with refer-
enceto “necessary” as applied to skilled laborers.
Presumably the amount of skilled labor that may
be» regarded as “neceSsarv” is to be determined
by~,tho requirements of 'the present agricultural
war prégram—somethin’g 11: are than a no mal
production of most farm products. Pertinent
“Questions in this connection therefore are such
113': “Are there suflicient skilled ’workers to pro-
duce the live stock, cereals, fruits, etc., required
by this program? Do these workers toil harder
and longer hours? Do some children, especial-
ly underlfourteen years of age. work regularly
eight hours or more? Are the burdens of farm
ivom'en increased? In'other words, do the farm

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make, as compared to other occupational groups,
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g'lfGtM‘Y 01: 1321th to put into deferred: classification -

tunity to go to other di'stricts in which they are .

The purpose of the information called for is to .

managing, controlling or directing head of nee»

workers apparently are not to be considered for x

.pers fair to very good.

‘ plants growing and blooming again

'mher 4 in Southern portion...
increased acreage of w‘inter wheat —

be de rived. of their animals.
comm ttees have been instructed also to take on-
l‘y a certain proportion of the animals of others,
and most (if the horses selected are not to be re-
moved from farms until after the crops are
gathered ' .

The rapidly- decreasing animal power of France
will demand still greater human efforts of the
war— —weary populations, and especially of the
women and crippled men who are now operating
most of the farms“. Such conditions emphasize

the need for throwing the full military and agri- "

cultural strength of America into the war to win
it as quickly as possible.

 

' RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN

FOREIGN AGRICULTURE

A recent Italiandecree directs that sugar beets
must be used only for sugar production and not
for any other industrial purposes or for distillat-
ion. [Italyis using evey possible means to main-

‘tain the present sugar ration of one lb. per person

per month, which is only half the monthly allow-
ance in the United States.
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To restrict the exportation of its food products
and to control prices and distribution, the Bra-
zilian Government has authorized the creation of
a food administration.

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The French Government has already made ar-
rangements for bringing back. into cultivation the
desolated and war-torn areas from which the
enemy has been driven. The dense population of
France makes prompt agricultural restoration
necessary to relieve the rfood situation. Preference
will be given to farmers who originally lived in
the invaded regions. -

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Shortage of animal feeds in France, though fre-
quently announced in the foreign crop reports,
is perhaps most clearly neflected by the prices pre-
vailing in the forage markets There are three
qualities of fodder. The prices quoted prevailed
in mid summer and are for second or medium-
qual'ity. Firstqualityfodder averages from $2 to
$3 more per ton and third—quality the same a-
mount less:

Wheat sraw

Hay \ ,'
\Lucerne (alfalfa)

$78.00 per ton
84.00
88.00

National Crop Reports For Week Ending September *3rd

New England. ——Boston: Showers beneficial. Ex‘
cellent harvesting conditions prevailed. Early pota-
toes being dug. Corn coming along well. Tobacco

being harvested in good condition and earlier than
usual. Oats and wheat. hamested; yield good. Beans
being pulled; promise well.

New York. —Ithaca; Favorable har1est weather;
dry conditions have hastened maturity of late crops.
Recent showers very beneficial to corn. buckwheat,
and potatoes. Some beans pulled in western counties.
Ensilage corn almost ready; crop fair to good; bulk
of corn Crop will be safe as follows:. Long Island and
lower Hudson, 10th to 14th; upper Hudson central
and westein counties, 15th to 20th; northern counties
25th to October 1.. " "

New Jersey.——Trenton: Good showers greatly re-
lieved drouth, and improved crops. Apples, peaches.
melons, grapes, sweet corn, sweet potatoes and pep-

poor. Corn is in poor condition in the northwest, but
was impxoved by heavy rains; cutting and some silos
filled; it made fair advance in central and southwest
portions. ,
Oklahoma.—Oklahoma: Modeiate to heavy. rains in
east and central portions, but still very dry in much
of west portion Kaffir, milo, cane sweet potatoes,
peanuts and‘ late broom— —corn mostly poor prospects,
but improving Corn mostly matured: harvesting be-
gun. Cotton picking progresses rapidly, light yield;
where moisture
sufficient. Pastures improving rapidly and plowing
for wheat progressing favorably, except in dry west-
ern localities. Condition of corn \ely poor. l‘he rain
caused satisfactory advance in cotton during the week

. but the crop continues generally in poor condition on
'account of previous drouth

0h10.—Columbus:Moist1Ire conditions greatly im-
proved late garden truck and pastures. Soil
cellent condition .for fall plowing; ,Threshing winter
wheat practically completed; increased acreage com-

ing year indicated. Late Corn was considerably bene-
fltted by rain and more moderate temperature;

cut-
ting was begun in- many sections and will become
quite general this week, bulk of crop safe from frost

‘~ by the 10th

”Illinois.-'——Springfield: Good show em IWeadows a
much improved. Corn made fair progress as a res 1t

’ of rain. but where earlier drouth prevailed it will be

ohly a partial crop; considerable damage by wind and
hid] in Champaign, Piatt, and Vermillion Counties.

, Corn will be beyond danger of damage by frost about

September 16 in northern, Zith in central, and Octo-
Preparation 11f ground for

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Tomatoes and white potatoes-

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Shortage of transport makes deliveries of all. _
feeds uncertain and in some markets there is
practically no business '
t it all .
A decline in production of milk and dairy pro-
ducts in Norway has resulted in rationing skim
milk since June 17th. Children under five years ,
old may have an amount equivalent in United':
States measure to about 1 1-5 pints. Persons over .
15 years old are limited to slightly more than 143 ‘: 1
pint, daily. ‘

     
      
    
   

    
         
  
 

  
 
           

SAY, MR. MILLER, AINT THESE
FARMERS UNREASONABLE CHAPS?

  
  
 
 

      

. 11:22

Mr. Allewelt representing the Food Administra-
tion and government was in Kansas City mak-
ing an investigation as to the grading of Kaw
Valley potatoes. Most of the stock has been ship‘
ped from this section ungraded. as has been men-
tioned in The Packer, and two or three weeks
ago various shippers received letters from the'
Food Administration asking why gradi"g rules
were not complied with. Following a meeting .
of- shippers here, when protests were made;
against grading because of the existing condi- "
tions shipping was allowed ungraded providing
the potatoes were merchantable, and Mr. Alle-
welt’s visit was the result of the controversy, if
it could be called that. He was present at a meet-
ing of the Potato Shippers Tuesday. The Kaw
Valley deal is about over and following a trip
through the valley he said that grading rules
would not be enforced on the few remaining cars,
but that from now on all shippers in other sec;
tions must grade their stock in conformity with
the rules laid down by the government. The ship-
pers promised their co—operation and those who
operate in the Northern states said they wool;
buy only graded stock. Telegrams from Nebras-
ka say that some buyerscin that state are now
buying potatoes field run without regard to the
grading rules. This practice must stop, accord-
ing to Mr. Allewelt, and he left here for a trip
through the Dakotas, Nebraska and other North- .
ern states, before returning to Washington—Tho
Chicago Packer.

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to government reports. The planting has been
done in Cuba, Porto Rico, Haiti, San Domingo and
throughout the United States. mainly in the south
and in California. The average acre will produce
20 gallons of oil and ,the acreage will bring a to-
tal of 2,000.000 gallons of oil.

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Threshing advanced rap— ' . j
idly; yields of barley, oats. and rye continue good to
excellent. Potato yield continues good. Quality and
yield of spring wheat excellent. Corn made fair
growth in north and excellent in south; considerable
out of danger now in south; bulk beyond fro<t dan-
ger in South and central portions September. 10, and
in north" l5th. , . . '

                         

 

 

 
 

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Iowa.——Dcs Moines: Pastures and gardens improv-
ing. Cutting wild hay and third crop of alfalfa. A
large acreage of winter wheat assured by heavy rains
in southeast, where soil is working in excellent con-
dition. Corn made excellent progress; 75 per cent
will be safe from frost by September 20, ranging
from 83 per cent in northwest to 62 per cent in eas‘t-
central portion; 88 per cent will be safe by the lilth.
and 95 pm cent by Octobei 10.

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of outdoor work.

 
    
   
     

    

               

Dakota.—Bismarck: Favorable for progress
Harvesting completed, except flax-
which is well advanced. Threshing made good prog—
ress with satisfactory yields. Pastures and stock in
good condition. Light frosts in southern to killing in
northern third: extent of damage undetermined. Corn , _:
made poor growth generally on account of low tem- _)
perature. Yields of spring wheat poor to fair in _ , 1‘
western, good to excellent in eastern portion. :-

Montana.—Helena: Fair and warm weather first
part of week favorable for farm work and ripening of
late grain; cool latter part, with frost at several
places but no serious damage. Grain harvest con-
tinues; nearly completed in some sections. ’Fall plow-
ing and seeding in progress; some fall-sown wheat up
and looking well. Potatoes being dug. .

Selenium—Denver: Rain needed in localities in
east central counties. Excellent progress in threshing -'
fall plowing, and seeding. Potatoes fine quality; early
\arieties mostly dug. Sugar beets recovering fiom
attacks of web worms and making good growth. Cut—
ting third crop of alfalfa begun in localities. Cabbage
tomatoes and melo‘ns fine. Beans generally very
good. ' : =.

California .—San Francisco: Cornn sugar beet a
hop harvests general; all good. High temperatures
injured beans somewhat; yield uneven; on RQOGQfit
of large acreage crop will be greater than lagt you?
Rice heading nicely; ducks have damaged thigc

        
      
        
     
      
          
         
        
  

 

 
   

 

 
   
        
    

   
   
   
   
 
  

 
 

     
 
 
 
  

 
   

 
    
 
  
 

     

   
   

considerably. Grapes, canteloupe-‘P and sweet 1;
toes excellent Large quantities of apricots, pea, _
pears, plums prunes apples, and tomatoes .1131

  
  

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lent. Oranges and lemons made rapid growth. 39g:
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“Why can’t the farmers of Northern Michigan
raise-turkeys," asked W. P. Hartman, agricul-

  

  
   
     
    
    
 
    
 
    
    
       
        
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
   
  
   
  
    
       
     
 
 

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in the north central part of the state who hatched
twelve turkeys last spring and has ten of them
yet, with good chances of rounding out the whole
bunch by Thanksgiving time. This farmer had

  
  

 
 

turkeys, such as frequently causes great losses
to flocks in some Sections and makes the industry
a far from profitable one. ,

FeW turkeys are raised in Michigan. Thanks
giving prices have induced many at various times
to tempt the uncertainties of turkey raising, but
usually with disastrous results. The chill dews
of the early fall in the lower sections of the state
have invariably given the birds the fatal “rheu-
matism” that causes them to mope and usually
die. But not many attempts have been made in
the higher and drier counties of the state Which
lie in the northern section to engage in this high-
ly profitable, if successful, industry. A few farm-
Vers here and there have experimented, like my
friend, but the most are skeptical and afraid of
the cars. V

We repeat our friend Hartman’ s inquiry, “Why
can’t turkeys be raised in Northern Michigan?”
If any of our good readers know why they can’t;
if any of them have tried it, either with or with-
out success we’d be pleased to hear from them.
And in the meantime, we shall dig into the depths
of turkey-raising lore and endeavor to provide
such adventuresome readers as desire to try a
.fling at turkey-raising, with the necessary infor-
mation to guide them in their experiment.

   

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CENTERVILLE TO STAGE A BIG
TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION

 

The St. Joseph County Farm Bureau is staging
a tractor demonstration this fall which should
'be of. more than passing interest to all of the
farmers in Southern Michigan. The big show is
planned for Thursday. September 26 at Center-
ville, St. Joseph county, and promises to bevthe
biggest event of its kind ever put on in Michigan
and in the central statesduring 1918.

Ten of the leading companies manufacturing
“tractors suited to middle western fa1ms have
definitely promised to be on the demonstration
“field in time to exhibit and a number of others

be more.

There will be private demonstrations in the
morning from 8. 00 o’clock until 12:00 o’,clock
and 'then in the afternoon a tract of 30 acres will
be plowed and fitted ready for a crop of rye So
farmers will have an pportunity to see the ma;
chines operating sevexal different machines. A

 

".machine. The size of the plot depending upon

ble of pulling.

. An efficient field manager will be on the job all
Army long to see that each company obeys the rules
. and regulations and has a square deal.
to have charge will be 0. E Robey of the Farm
V'Mechanics department, M. A. C J M. Wendt
county agricultural agent for St. Joseph county
has charge of the ge1 eral arrangements.

' This demonstration is being widely advertised
and should attract an enormous crowd of interest-

. ed farmers. . . _

  

  

 
 

      
     
    
   
   
   
 
   
    
     
 
 
 
      

 

f‘finrHE RECENT GASOLINE BAN
1 MAY sooN .BE REMOVED

 

 
 

  

"from the Fuel
~‘ ."z-Lteliegram protesting against the motofless Sunday
“equestr‘
VV hange will be made in the mother! adopted for
V 1'13 the supply, but 409,5 intimate that the
this against Sunday driving Will

  
 
 

    

   

‘tural agent of the G. R. & I. Ry., of the M. B. F.
“The altitude is high, the
climate is dry, and there seem to be plenty of

Which immediately called to my mind a friend '

experienced no trouble whatever in raising the ‘

are very much interested, so there probably will

definite plot of ground will be allotted to each'

the number of plows which the tractor is capa- ~

.3!
The man

It does not hold out any hope that a; ,

he entirely

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-.The following letter has just been received »
Administration in anSwer to our.
1113011 and his cowork-

jL_ stupendous and magni-
ficent exposition 20 93111 ,

' every particular

requeSt Was made that peep a lay up their cars. ".571 VV
It is believed that in a very few Sundays eumy
cient stocks will have been accumulated to meet

the need, and then if conservation is practiced
in the handling of gaSoline fiend motorists W111
shut off their engines when the car is not in mo-

tion, there will he enough gasoline for ailmeeds"
—-—U. S. Fuel Administration, Oilerz‘vision; Bureau .

of Oil Conservation, by‘0."‘0. ~WiMnghdm‘, Chief,
Gasoline Séotion._ » , .

 

MICHIGAN FARMERS SECURE $88st ‘ V

FEDERAL FARM LOANS IN JULY

 

During'gthe month. of July four hundred VVand'
twenty-two farmers of this state applied for loans.

aggregating $847, 590. One hundred and eighty-

five of these applications amounting to $270, 200;

were approved and 63, amounting to $82, 800 were
closed. Since the federal land bank at St. Paul
opened for business Michigan farmers have a1?»

«plied for over seven and one- half million dollars

and have actually received $2 361, 000.

MAY BUILD POTATO FLOUR MILLS
AT CADILLAC AND GREENVILLE

What may usher in a new and important in-
dustry for Michigan are the efforts that are being
made to establish potato flour mills at Greenville,
Reed City and Cadillac. The Cadillac proposition
is almost sure to go through, we understand, it
having the backing of Cadillac’s leading business
men, and the big mill and warehouse of the
Williams Bros, former lumber manufacturers,
being available for the purpose.

Potato flour has been successfully manufac-
tured in Maine and Wisconsin. and a definite de»
mand has been created for the product a; a sub-
stitute in ,wheat flour. It is claimed that a small
percentage of potato flour makes bread much more
loathsome and nourishing and enables It to re-
tain its moisture for a much longer period of
time. The U. S. government has for some time
been conducting experiments in potato flour mak-
ing and reports that the industry can be made a
commercial success. If the Cadillac deal goes

 

Vthru and proves a success, other mills will un- .-

doubtedly spring up thruout the state and the
large crop of small and cull potatoes which have
hitherto gone to waste will be utilized for human
food.

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STATE FAIR COMES TO A
GRAND AND GLORIOUS CLOSE

The state fair for 1918 that has just passed "into
history was undoubtedly one of the most success-
ful ever held in Michigan. Exhibit-s Of all kinds
were fine and p1entif1‘11;the free attractions were
the very best of their kind; the horse races, the
automobile races. and the auto polo contests were
most exciting; the mid-
way was particularly al-
luring; and the fireworks
the most magnificent ev-
er seen at the state fair
grounds. It would re-
quire volumes to des-
cribe in detail the exhib-
its and the events which
contributed to the suc-
cess of the fair, but
those who attended got
their money's worth .in
and
will 'be boosters for. next
year’s exposition when .
it comes around. Des-v
pite the urge of the fall
farm‘ work, thousands of
farmers were in evi-
dence and apparently—en-
joyed every moment of
their visit We con- -'
gratulate Manager Dick- ' '

 

one on the success 01.5.;
the cent-rat What’s most

. not intend to go Vintf"

. .1 by a delegate

'will be able to dominate practically every action

. by-laWs, the members of the exchange were ban-

»-Bella1re E. J. Smith, Cheboygan; H. A. Arnold, "

lac where offices are now being Opened, and every-
thing put in readiness for the marketing season

V isfactory farm help. -'

"Cross.

Cook at Owosso. _ 1

 
 

Section of every article V/

The strength of this now organfihflon undo,

 

     

the cehtrol of the members Meal associatwns‘,
of the central exchange and should the conduct
of the central exchange be» not in eacordance with
the wishes of the local associations, they will have
the privilege of making their displeasure know
and foreing a diflierent course. ~~
Following the meeting and the adoption V'ofV the

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queted at the McKinnon hotel by the Cadilla
Chamber of Commerce V .

Following are the oflicers and directors, of the
central exchange. Dorr D Buell, Cadillac, pres“)
ident; H. Curtis Jennings, Vice President:1A.P.
Large, secretary-treasurer. . Directors—4E. H.
Wilce, Empire, C. A. “food, Kingsley; A. B. Gage,

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Boyne City A - —.
President Buell has- already leased his big farm
at Elmira and located with his family at Cadil-

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which will open within another fortnight.

There are considerable number of conceien"
tious objectors at Camp Custer that are available.
for farm work, writes A. B. Cook, federal labor
administrator for Michigan to MICHIGAN BUSINESSVV
FARMING. “While these Vmen are opposed to ..
fighting, on other subjects they seem normal. ex-
cept that many of them are vegetarians, which,
would help some in these times of high prices of
meats. I believe many of them would make sat-"

They will cost $45.00 per month, $37; 50 or this ,
goes to the objector and $7. 50 to the local Red
Anyone wishing some of this .help will.
write a request and secure the endorsement 011‘
the same or their county agriCuitural agent or
the chairman of their county war board if they ..
have no county. agent, and will send the same to
me I will gIVe them an order and they can go
to Custer and get their man. These furloughs
are good until Nov. 15. They may be terminated
anytime if the help proves unsatisfactory fj

Mr. Cook advises us that farmers Who have tried j
these men have been very Well pleased with them,
and consider them the best help available for,
the wages. Farmers in need of additional help
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' And Say, dad, when the tihie comes that your
book can no longer stand the strain and you. must ‘
we: the fa'i‘hi work over to Lyour. son, what kind
,. of provision are you.0 sing to make for his im— '
1119;} ’ e Welfare? ’_t be niggardly. Bear in
mind that. your son Di: growing up in a different -
Page than the. one in which yen had Your yOuth.
For the sake of your own happiness for the balance
of your life’ s lease, be generous with the boy and
make it an. object for him to take up the work
where you left off. _

Wéf have had a number of interesting letters
from readers on this subject, but we have never
seen the matter quite so justly covered as Mr,L
C. Gardner of Isabella county covers it in a recent '
letter to. the editor .Mr. Gardner writes:

Mr; Editdrz—I am interested/in that father and
"son deal because I am in. the same boat myself,
tea badly crippled up to .vvbrk the farm and alto-
gethe‘r too grouchy to get along with such help as
you can hire. teday, and I have no desire to leave
the 1d farmwhere I have put in the best years
of my life. I began here. when this was a wilder-

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
 
     

 

 

 

 

This modern structure is a far cry from the rough,
improvised sheds that used to house the Gardner live-
stock. It is a silent symbol of the success that came
to Mr. Gardner and that has come to thousands of
others after years of toll and privation.

 

ness, and this old leg but was my home. Little
by little the land was cleared; my good wife and I
working early and late with hopes that some day
’. we would have a better house and a better barn,
1 better cattle, horses, sheep and hogs. Slowly the
years; dragged by, and slowly, but surely, we real-
ized our hopes, and now when ‘we are too old and .
cannbt work the farm any more, the boy takes up
the load and carries it on, and in these days of
interest, profit and rent, the question arises, what
share shall this boy have? It is no easy question
. to ansWer, but if that father has the interest of
his boy at heart they will make it go all right,
but. let the say, old man, don’t grind the oy down
to a starvation wage you, like myself ust be
nearly toady to shuffle off this mortal coil, and of
what good is this money when you' re gone? Bet-
ter, far better, that you figure with the boy and
help him to a home of. his own, or make arrange-
ments. so the boy will know that ’the old farm
.will c®e to him when father and mother are
done with it. Here is my plan for the future, as
. my boy will be 21 his next birthday: I give him
$500 cash. We hare 120 acres of land, 9 head of
horses, .15 head of cattle, 1.4 head of hogs and all .
tools necessary to work with.- We go ahead and
plan Tend work together the same as in the past,
‘ pay Lall taxes, insurance and make needed repairs
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home ’-’

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aid in: hut was my
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county seed beans.

from 5 2‘3 bags of beans bought.

- unlike the sample.

   

 

 

.‘FARMERS SERVICE BUREAU

(A clearing department for farmers’ everyday ironb-
le. Prompt and careful attention given to all com-
paints or requests for information addressed to this
department. We are here to serve you. Call upon us.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can.) I Recover Money Paid for Poor Seed?

 

I will very much appreciate it if you will give
me an early reply to the question herein. Last
spring I bought from a, farmer in a northern
The county agent had 4 a
sample of them in his office and recommended
them as A1 seed beans. I went to the man’ s place
and saw the same beans in bags, and bought them
with the understanding that beans sent me should

.all be like those I saw in bags, which were like

the sample I saw in county agent’s office, and paid
him $135 for fifteen bushels. He sent them by
freight as agreed, b"t when they came they were
most inferior, all sizes, many culls, and contained
large kidney beans. We took a sample of them
to the elevator here and they told us not to plant
them for they wOuld not buy such beans. We
next hadthe Agricultural college test them. They
sent us a most damaging report. We then asked
the man we bought them of to return our money
and we would pay freight back, but he refuses.
We have them yet and altho he guaranteed them
as; hand-picked beans and true to sample we
have picked them and obtained a bag of culls
Also the beans
sentw‘ere full of moisture, many culls and utterly
The county agent is indignant
and says he told him that when he used his
name hisbeans must-«be like sample. Now I
have the county agent’s and state Agricultural
college’s report on these beans, also elevator men

, ,here and. neighbors who have seen the beans adn
know I am stating the case absolutely correct

Now, what can I do with such a dishonest man?—
Subscribev, Pigeon.
Seed scld for planting and especially by sample

' is warranted to be equal to the sample and I be
- lieve also it is warranted to be fit for seed Fail-
are in that regard makes the seller liable for dam-

s to be recovered in a suit at law. There would

3... money voluntli‘ily.
'be the difference between the

 

General or w,"

_, argument being that, the need for men was so
great that the new registrants should be called"

'ernment will not feel the same financial benefits

and successful offensive two months ago.

.The damage? -

neighbors to organize an association

    

_ ne‘what congress refused?
to do. congress defeated an amendment to the.
draft bill previding for just, such distinction, the

    

    
   
   
 

in the quickest possible time without regard to
their ages. Crowder’s order does not mean that
any will be exempt from immediate registration.
Every man who is not in serviceor who didnot
register under the first draft law is subject to
registration, but we are told that those of 18 years ,
and over 36 will not receive their questionnaires

nor be called into service until the men of the

other ages have been exhausted. In making his

decision, General «’Crowder announces that his
plan will take the best men first and that more

time will be given to the training of the youths

and the older. men. Registrants are urged by the

provost marshal general to enter claims for de-

ferred classification if they conscientiously be-'
lieve they are entitled to it. In cases where reg-

istrants hesitate to do this lest they be called

slackers, draft boards are urged to use their own

discretion in offering deferred classification.

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Rep. Longworth, son-in-law of Theodore Roose-
velt, is lamenting the impending loss of taxes as
a result of prohibition. He claims that prohibi-
tion will cost the nation nearly two billion dol-
lars, and proposes a tax upon foodstuffs to make
up the deficiency. Not all of congress is so thor-
oly alarmed over this apparent loss in revenue
from prohibition, for those who have made a
study of the effects of state-wide prohibition know
right well, that the economies effected by prohibi-
tion more than offset the loss in revenue to the
government. Whether this will be true of national
prohibition no one presumes to say. While the
government has enjoyed large revenue from the g
manufacture and select booze, the cost of caring .
for its victims has fallen largely upon states and ' . -
local communities, so that it is probable the gov- '

    
     
       
     
 

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Emboldened by Congress’ attitude toward na-
tional prohibition, the Food Administration ' an-
nounces that'it will not permit the use of food
materials in the manufacture of beer or near-
beer after Jan. 1st, which means that the country
will be practically if not literally dry long before
the prohibition act gees into effect.

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“We all honestly want peace,” is the keynote
of a peace feeler recently put out by Austria’s
foreign minister. Yes, strangely enough, Ger-
many and Austria do want peace, and have want?
ed it badly ever since the Allies began their great
When:
‘German arms are successful, German hope runs
high and the dream of world mastery assumes
definite and more alluring shape. But when Ger?
man arms fail, the German morale fails and the
air castle tumbles to earth. An “exchange of
views" without being actual peace negotiations
might be 21 Wis move in the interest of peace,
providing the Allied armies never rest a gun
while the “exchange” is going on. Germany is
playing her last game of bluff. She wants peace,
almost at any price,.but she deludes herself into
thinking that the Allies are not Wise to the fact.

 

 

 

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Will you send me the address of the secret ser-
vice department in Detroit and Washington'P—I
J. M., Yale, Michigan.

A letter to the U. S. secret service or any de-
partment of government does not require a,
street address to insure its prompt delivery.

    
     
   
   
     
   
   
 

   

Can you or any of the readers of M. B. F. tell
me where I could buy a carload of cedar posts.
I would like to get the address of some one who
has them for sale—A. Z., Anch‘orm‘lle.

      
   
  
   
       
      

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Will you kindly. let me know how one can get
in touch with the Farmers‘ Federal Loan Asso-.
ciation? There are others in this vicinity who
are interested. We are situated six miles east of
Hart, the county seat of Oceania county. Would
be so thankful for the information asked-1"
0. 0., Hart, Michigan.

 
    
   

  

    
  

  
  

    
   
 
 
 
 

 
 

Whether there is a farm loan- association in
Vicinity which you muld join, and if not,. to : _
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The Value of Farm Lands After the War

Will you please tell me thru the columns of your
paper what you believe would be the prospects
for farmers after the war, and if you think farm
land will be high or not. Thanking you in advanée
and assuring you of our appreciation of your pa-
per, the M. B. F.—F. B; 0., Hart.

FTER THE WAR—then what? Great-

er minds than ours have faltered be-
fore this question.- The scope of the present
. conflict, its effect upon the industrial and ag-
ricultural life of the entire world is unlike
anything recorded in history. It is an excep-
tional war, causing exceptional economic-
disturbances ,which are bound to present ex-
ceptional problems of readjustment when the
struggle comes to an end. And because there
is nothing in history to compare with the
present upheaval, so there is nothing in his-'
tory upon which to base a worth—while opin-
ion as to‘the after effects.

But one man’s guess is as good as an-
- other’s.

The value of farm lands after the war will
depend as always upon the demand for and
value of farm products. And these will
depend very largely upon how much longer
the war continues and how quickly the peo-
ple of the allied nations recover from the ef-
fects of war. '

Uuquestionably the great export markets
of the American farmer after the war will
be Europe. For several harvesting seasons
at least there should be a vigorous demand
from over-seas for American-grown products.
But as”the devastated countries revive their
ruined agricultural enterprises, the demand
for American products will naturally grow
less.‘ When the war closes and possibly be-
fore, millions of bushels of non—perishable
foodstuffs that have "been accumulating in"
Australia and other far-distant countries be-
cause of lack of shipping facilities will be re-
leased and will enter into active competition
with American-grown products. For one or.
two years, this augmentation of the food
supply is bound to be felt in lower prices,
but how much 10wer no one can say.

History shows us that war is usually fol—
. lowed by a great back-to-the-land movement.
For some reason not easily understoodsgov-
ernments encourage returning soldiers who
are unfit for other occupations to engage in
farming. Secretary Lane, of the Department
of the Interior, has already'addressed a letter
xto the President'and to Congress urging that
‘the government take up immediately the pros
ject of reclaiming swamp and other land
,‘unfit for cultivation; for the uSe of returning
Soldiers. - This may be the only solution-to
(the great problem of providing honorable and
(“lucrative employment to the men who have
fought the nation’s battles but it does not on
the face of it appear fair toseither the city-
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tries, will resumevits nOrmal‘ pace.

Yes, It’s a Wgnderful Country ~

“S AY, MA,” writes a, Soldier buy. in:
France to his American mother, “you
folks back home don’t appreciate the Unit,

ed States. "You have to get, a different

perspective like we get" way oif here to -
really know that-the United States is the,

most wonderful country in all the world.”
Aye, soldier boy, you’re right. Weare for

the most part an ungrateful set of ,mongrels

who growl and grumble and stir up trouble

because we think our ‘inalienable rights’“

have been trod upon and our pride humbled
in the dust, when as a matter of fact we live
in a golden paradise a little short of heaven

compared to the realms in whichmany of the '

people of the old world have their being.

We don’t appreciate our country or love it
so much that we would willingly give our
lives to protect its honor and its institutipns
of liberty. ‘If we did, there wouldn’t be so
many draft dodgers, or slickers and slackers
staying at home ‘praying'that the war may
end” but helping not a whit to bring it to a
speedy close. Nor would there be SO'/many
grafters and profiteers filling their pockets
at the expense of American blood; nor so
many politicians making capital out of pat-
riotism for their own selfish ends.

But eyes that have not seen are getting the
vision, and not all good Americans will have
to go to France to get the right perspective.
Faces that. once were inscrutable now“ light
up with the joy of appreciation and under-
standing when old Glory is flung to thebreeze.
Hearts that once beat
thrill with gladness at the faintest echoes of
the Star Spangled Banner. Patriotism is
not altogether dead, and devotion/to country
still lives. «We abide in hopes that some day
every American citizen\will see the light and

like our soldier boy in France will come to.

know that the United States,—5God bless and
protect her,———is the most wonderful, wonder-
ful country in all the world. -

Lock the Barn; the Horse Has Been Stolen

IXTEEN MONTHS .after the United
States declared war against Germany,
the United States Department of Agricul-
ture bestirs itself to find how the war is af-
fecting the farmers. It asks these questions:
“Are there sufficient skilled workers to produce

the livestock, cereals, fruits, etc., required by the

agricultural program? Do these workers toil
harder or longer hours?‘ Do some childen, espec-
ially under fourteen years of age, work regularly
eight hours or more? Are the burdens of farm
women inceased? in other words, do the farm
people responding to many patriotic appeals,
make, as compared to other occupational groups,
a very heavy draft upon their reserve stength
and upon their children?"

Has our great department of agriculture

been asleep the last sixteen months that it '

does not know the correct answer to every
one of these questions? Farm papers, agri-
cultural field men, farm organizations,—~
" every agency that knows anything about rur-
al conditions, has been answering these ques-
tions from the? very ’moment the draft law
began to drain the farming communities of;
their skilled farm, hands. There is no excuse
at this late date for the department of agri-
culture lto be ignprant of labor conditions
among the farmers, or to ask, “Do agricul—

gtural'irwwkers ”tpil harder or longer hours as
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' Illinois to back. us up. But the Way the Presi~
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crisis, even tho- we: had _ such {nonpartisan}
authorities as“ Congressman . ‘_‘;J_o‘e” Fordney

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. , _ price?
fixing legislation arouses our- suSpicions. ‘ _
southern senators and congressmen, to- x
gather with the president and his. close ad-_’
visers, have consistently and ' repeatedlyde-
feated all attempts of northern legislators to.~
increase the fixed price on wheat. At the
same time they have violently opposed the
suggested extension of the price-fixing pring~
ciple to’ cotton, the south ’s ‘greatci'Op. And‘
while price-fixing legislation forced the price.
of wheat from $3.10 per bushel in the spring
of 1917 down to $2.20 per bushel a few months
later, the price of cotton has arose unmol-
ested from 7 cents in 1914 to 33 cents in 1918. "
Government estimates of a bumper cotton
crop,'and the fear of low prices, caused many
southern growers to gush pell‘ mell to their
congressmen and demand a fixed minimum'
price on cotton. Later as the prospects ‘for
a bumper crop waned,,the almost certainty
that high prices would again prevail changed
the minds of these southern growers and all
agitationfor fixed prices suddenly ceased.
But the northern legislators were determined
that since‘their southern, brothers had de-
manded it, they would give them a dose of
their own price-fixing medicine. Panic ac-
cordingly reigns in the cotton-growing states,
and the planters are ferventlybeseeching the
President to “ protect their rights.” They
don’t like the medicine ”they have prepared,
‘for their northern brothers." And will. they
have to take it? Oh, no. As laterasSept.
7th, President Wilson. sent a; personal tele-
gram to a cotton broker in Atlanta, Georgia,
assuring him that there was ‘no cause for
concern about fixing the price of cotton-”

A Pat On the Back

RAND-DAD was a man of ‘few words.

.' He ’d, work all day long without saying
more than a dozen Words except to give'or;
ders to the men. If he found fault, it hurt;
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west and we all turned out to get the hay
under cover. Oh, well, you know how it is.
Every man and boy of us worked and sweated
as we had never worked and sweated before. '
I worked right along side of grand-dad and
showed him I could pitch as much hay as a
man. He never said a. word until the last-
wisp of hay was under cover and then he gave
me a slap on the back and said, “Well done,
young man.” Gosh! My chest swelled up
till I busted two buttons of my shirt and I
thot the band on my hat was r’sure going to
break. Well,» whenever I have a job before
me that I' dislike'and am inclined to Shirk I
remember grandfather’s “Well done, ‘young
man,” andWI. make things fly forthwith.
Grandfather’s “pat on the backg”'came_ back
to me’ the other day when we received the-
follOwing letter: , , ~ ,
I think M; B.‘ E. is doing a splendid work. It
is the only farm paper I unfamiliar-[with .thatis
got lime enough in its backbone to come ah i.

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Will have .‘to get into that
.rmigcle instead of their"

In fact, the time is '
now here when every mother’s son cf us willl be
asked to jump in an’ do a. real man’s Work.

For many of us it will come a litle hard, to
have to buckle right down to Work jest like a
common man, but it’s goin’ to be good for most
f us, an so We might as well make the best of
an’ take whatever comes an’ jest keep sweet an’

joyful, knowin’ that it will help’ to put old
aiSer Bill into the‘list of the has- beens and to
ing. the right kind of peace to the whole world.
ow, when I commenced readin’ about this work
or fight business, I jest natcherly done a little
mite of thinkin, J-which was quite new to me—an’
I made up my mind—which was a short job ,
.’cause there was ’nt much of it to make up'—-that
inasmuch as I had been fightin’ most all of my'
life, I’d try workin’Ufor awhile, and see how I
liked it.

Bein’ a little past the draft age, an’ not fearin’

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that, but ha'vin' lied about my age for so long an’

not wantin’ to be found out, I took advantage of
circumstances an’ went an’ got a job with one of
the largest an’ best- food factories in the world,
The Poatum Cereal 00., of Battle Creek, an’ there

'is where I am to be found most any time betWeen
' six1p.» m. and 7 a. m., an’ say, I like it jest fine,

too-

Well, here’s what I» started out to say: No
matter where we happen to be nor what the job
is, let’ buckle down. to business an’ jest make up
our minds to do 'whatever comes an’ not grum-
ble Why, do you. know I have no more use for
a chronic grumbler than I have for the measles,

an’ when I hear a feller grumblin’ about his work
or about his wages, b'gosh I feel jest like handin‘
him one on the jaw an’ puttin him out of business

entirely. "

In this factory men are bein’ hired all the time,
for like 'dll other industries, there is a shortage

of help, an’ by ginger, I see v-fellers go to wOrk
he ere that never had a good job in their lives, our
prob ly never got more'n two dollars a day an’
fnly earned half that. They will come here an’
tease around for a job, 'kn‘owin’ what the work,
hours an’ pay are, an' then before they have been
on the job a week they’ll begin to grumble, an’
find fault with the work; they don’t like the boss;
the pay is toosmall “(twice or three times as

much as they- ever had before) an’ so they go on
makin’ a darned nuisance of themselves an’ a lot
of tellers miserable that has to werk with ’.em

An’ of coursev' such tellers always find someon’e
jest as" big a tool as themselves, who will listen
totheir darned growlin’ an’ that’s the way dis-
satisfaction creeps into our industrial institu-
tions on strikes, walkouts an’ a lot 0} other
things happen, jest because there happens to be
a few’chronic grumblers that the fool-killer haint
happened to meet up with yet.

Now, jest take it from me, it don’t pay to grum-
ble nor find fault With your job. If you don’ t like

it get something else, but while we stay on the‘job -

let us take what comes an’ make the best of it—
it pays best to do that way always. ~
An’ .then,, these, darn simps that are alWays
,findin’ fault with the boss never stop 'to think,
or may be don’t know, that the foreman is re-
sponsible for the mistakes made by careless work-
men, an' if the foreman gets a little peeved some-
times an’ seems a little out of sorts it’s ’cause
he has to carry his own load an' the loads eta,
lot of half-baked kickers who don’t care a tinker’ s
Idarn ffwli'éther they do their work right or not.
SO teller patriots, let’s don’t grumble If our
' lot seems to be cast in hard places let’s look pleas-
font smile a little, silently kuss. the Kaiser an’
’member we ’re here in one of the greatest

  
  

‘ Where the buildings are good.
' could help’us? ‘
anything else, and he would like it as near here

renting farms, so I thought I
' - . We are living on a rented farm
as from Vassar; have lived here for six
one farm is 200 acres in size and there

are thr‘ee of us working; I, a girl of 16 years,
4' my father and a brother, who will soon’ be 19
{Years old. We have been getting along fine until
m ~ "who: have ma (1 a nice 80ft 115‘an my brother feels as if his duty is to join the
job wit”! be asked to Step out and let some feeji's
g we om'an have their places, and they will be “
put at something harder

navy. We are Willing he should go, and therefore
haVe got to [go on a smaller farm. 1 think that
between me and father, also a brother 12 years
old, {we can handle about 120 acres, or a little
less. We would like some nice home, for altho
I don't have much time to be in the home I love
a nicehome, and father would like some place
Do you think you
Father would rather rent than

as possible. I would like very much to hear from
you and see what you think We have taken the
M. B. F. for nearly 5 years and like it fine, espec-
ially enjoy Uncle Rube Spinach’s talks. —V. B.,
Vassar, Michigan ,

Who Can Give Us This Poem Complete? '

I
I would like some information on where to get a
good reading or recitation book. I take part in”
‘social evenings in Gleaner and Grange lodges a

~ good deal along the line of' recitations, and thot

perhaps you could help me along that line. I had
a splendid recitation but-have forgotten the lat-
ter part of it,‘and if ydu know it or know where
I could get it I would be very grateful to you. I
will quote the verses I. remember:

The Sabbath day was ended in the village by the

sea,

The uttered benediction touched the people ten-
derly.

But they rose to face the sunset in the glowing
tinted west,

/And then hastened to their dwellings for God‘s
blest boon of rest.

But they looked across Die waters—a storm Was
brewing there

A fierce strom shook the billows—o wild storm
in the air.

It shock ’and lashed and tore them ’tlll it thun-
dered, groancd and boomed.

Alas, for any vessel in their yawning gulfs en-
tombcd.

Very anxious were the people on that rocky coast

of Wales,

Lest the dawn of coming morrow should be tell-
ing awful tales,

And should cost upon the short bits of wreck and
swollen victims,

As it had done heretofore.

Then it goes on to téll how they saw a wrecked
ship with one man clinging to the mast. They
could think of no way they could help him, so
sent a message, just a few words of comfort, to
him, and in reply they could hear him singing
far. out at sea the words of “Jesus Lover of My
Soul.” It was certainly a splendid recitation and
I would like so much to have it. I got it in a
“little cheap recitation book Which I got from New
York one time but mislaid it and the address is
lost. I would be glad of any help you can give
me.~—Mrs. G. G., Morley, Michigan.

Silo Kept Farmer From Disposing of Herd

In the summer of 1915 I built a 12x40 hollow
clay block silo, with Michigan hip roof, covered
with asphalt shingles. With this style of roof I
can fill some four feet above top of silo, as it set-
tles down in a few days. This silo is plastered in-
side one-half inch thick with rich cement mortar,
which makes. it air-tight. I have used this silo
three seasons and know it to be a splendid in-
vestment. Last season I was very short on hay
and my”corn crop was frozen very badly; would
have been poor stuff had it not been for the silo;
but as it was it made fairly good silage by adding
a grain ration. Cattle came through in splendid
condition and kept me from having to dispose of
my stOck last fall at low prices on account of high
'priced feed, and I will say I have no fault to find

with it, and do not know how I would get along.

without it with the‘high‘ price of feed and un-
‘certain Seasons, and believe anyone feeding cattle
or milch cows will be more than pleased with one,
and they will wonder why they waited so long be-
fore buying one —— Charles Lanphicrd Midland,

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I’rofiteers Trimming Their Sails

, Percy Miller, he of the potato division of the
Food Administration, and a brother of the potato
speculato’r, Albert Miller, informed the potato
growers “that there would be no car shortage to
ship potatoes this winter. You bet there won't,
Mr. Milieu for the rawness of last winter’s deal

has been uncovered and any attempt to repeat it/

would land «the offender on a gallows as high as
Haman’s. No, you will have to find some new
scheme to get the potato growers again, Mr Mil-
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THETMITOR V» »
home and his

E hangs out a flag from his
ofl‘iCe,

He always stands up at “The Star Spangled Ban—
ner; 4’

In talks and discussions he rails at the Prussians
And handles the Kaiser in virulent manner; '
He always is present at loyalty meetings.

And up on the platform he pays for a seat—
(The price doesn’t matter, his profits are fatter
Since war gave him chances for cornering wheat.)

He talks with emotion of “brave soldier laddlcs."

0r “noble young 'jackies who sail on the foam."

Then shoots up the price on potatoes and rice.

And other things needed abroad and at home:

He praises brave mothers who give their sons
freely

Then soaks those same mothers for clothing and
food——

But if you cry “traitor” this smooth speculator

Will think you are one of the lunatic brood.

Yet Benedict Arnold was only a p'ikcr.

Compared to the man who amid all rho strife

Will seize on the chances to force huge advances—
In things that a nation depends on for life:

He did his. foul work in the war of secession.
He poisoned our boys in the conflict with, Spain——
High up‘ on the gibbct we ought to exhibit

This traitor who holds up a nation for gain.
—By Berton Braley in American Marine Engineer.

“Peace on earth. good will to men.” but I can’t
say exactly when.

 

GOING 171‘
He—“I feel like thirty cents.”

She—“How things have gone up since the war.”
SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED
Mrs. Youngbride—“Our cook says those eggs

you sent yesterday were quite old.”
Grocer—“Very sorry, ma’am. They were the
best we could get. You see all the young chickens
were killed off for the holiday trade so the old
hens are the only ones left to do the laying.”

Mrs. Youngbride—“Oh, to‘be sure! I hadn’t
thought of that.”
UNINTENTION‘AL HOOVERITE

Wife (returned from overnight visit)—”Did
you get yourself a good dinner last evening. dear?”
Hub. —“Yes, there was a bit of steak in the ice-
box and I cooked it with a few onions I found in
the cellar"
Wife—“Onions? Jack, you’ve eaten my bulbs.”
ENDED THE GOOD TIME
“A general good time was had by all until abOut

eleven o’clock when fruit salad and cake ,were
served by the B. B. E. Club.”—Prc.s-cott, Iowa.
paper. .

When will they teach cooking in the public

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SHERMAN SAID 11‘
“What are these?”
“War biscuits. What about ’em?”
“Sherman said it. That’s all.” 1
windows open and

Health hint: Keep your

your mouth shut.
PREMATURE Ql‘Es'rmx

Tommy had been playing truant from school,
and had spent a long. beautiful day fishing. On
his way back he met one of his young cronies.
who accosted him with the usual question,
“Catch anything?”

At this, Tommy in all consciousness of guilt.
quickly responded: “Ain’t been home yet.”

GETTING His NUMBER
Edith—“Dick, dear, your office is in State street.
isn’t it?" .
Dickey—A—“Yes, why?”
Edith—“That’s what I told papa.
such a funny mistake about you yesterday.
said he’d been looking you up in Bradstreet.”

He made
He

FULL INSTRUCTIONS ,

Mrs. Casey—“Me sister writes me that every
bottle in that box we sent her was broken. rAre
ye sure yez printed ‘This side up with care’ on it?"
Casey—“0i am. An’ for fear they shouldn’t see
it on top, Oi printed it on the bottom as well. ’*

   

It must have cost Mr. MethuSelah an awful
for life insurance. ‘

. BY HIS LETTERS
“Where’s your uncle, Tommy?” ‘ _ ' :1‘
“In France” .
“What is he doing?”

' “I think he has charge of the war.” .‘

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ber Show Decrease of Over 1
Six Million Bushels in
Estimated Yield '

, Washington. Sept. 9.—Heavy loss in
.~ the prospective corn crop, but a con-
siderable increase in the forecast of
springi'wheat production featured the
September crop report and further de
'crease of potatoes featured the Sep-
tember crop report issued Monday by
the Department of Agriculture.

 

principal producing sections of the
corn belt caused a reduction of 317,-
000,000 bushels in the cropforecast,
. bringing the loss in prospective pro-
‘g‘duction since July 1 to 487,000,000
bushels, representing more than $800,—
000,000.

A corn crop of 2,672,000,000 bushels
this year was forecast today from
- , Sept 1 conditions. This would be a1-

mOst a half million bushels less than
last year’s crop and slightly smaller
than the average crop of the five years
from 1912 to 1916.

The spring wheat crop showed im-
provement and there was an increase
of 21,000,000 bushels in the forecast
‘of production, bringing the prospec-
tive crop to 343,000,000 bushels. With
the winter wheat crop of 556,000,000
bushels previously announced. this

> p year’s total wheat crop will be 899,-

;x' 0.00.000 bushels. This is almost 250,-
000,000 bushels more than was har-
vested last year and 90,000,000 bush-
els more than the 1912-1916 average.

Estimates of production of other
.7 crops compared with those made a
"month ago showed various changes.
i Oats had a 49,000.000 bushels increase;

tobacco a 20,000,000 pound loss; hay

a 13,000,000 tons loss and white pota-
’? toes 3. 6,000,000 bushels loss.

‘Other changes were: Barley, 4,-

000,000 bushels increase; sweet pota-

toes, 3,500,000 bushels decrease; flax,

1,100,000 bushels increase. and rye a
700,000 bushels decrease. '
" , Heaviest reduction in the corn pro-
,duction forecast came from Kansas
. .- .vflth a loss‘of 62,000,000 bushels; Ne—
V‘vubraska with 60,000,000 bushels; Mis-
~"90uri with 57,000,000 bushels; Illinois
with 3,000,000 bushels and Iowa with
32,000,000 bushels.

 

  

 

 

 

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; leJRed 2.21 2.19 2. 2 1-2

ails. 2 Win. 2.24 2.2 2.35 1-2
1“. 2 Mind 2.23 2.72 2.35

   
 
 
  
  
 
 
   
 
 

 

.0 cient to absorb the enormous (-ron of
--'.900,000,000 bushels until well along
in the year 1919. The estimated yield
for 1918 as above stated is nearly
150:000,000 bushels in excess of the '
,1017 crop. The new regulations doing
away with wheatless days and increas
ing the Wheat flour content of baked
goods will, of course, tend to increase
‘72 domestic. consumption, altho little
V [stimulation in, sales as a result ofthe
‘ :f‘inew regulations hasxyetbeen, noticed. '
1.,‘Wh‘ten’the public is oncefeducated to ,
beer-re certain "reconomiesr- it does
not readily depart from. the- habit.
Winter wheat prices continue irregu—
larrat ti‘miesf‘dealersin needj_of grain
f0 1111 contracts offering quite ‘~~a sub-

 

   
 
  
   
  
  

 
 

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Ni); matter what = price,” 1,34
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supplies inadeduate to' .meet' demands.

Strong'hfienfang far exceeds supply for an ethical?" _ . . , 5, 1 _ ‘.
cnrcnoo.-.-no¢ ,rooeiptsiiq-ht and prices rulint‘drnr Endjl’iiglivp'ggoorn and
Outs weaker. Beans steady but limited demand. Potatoeghichernay"1§fery"

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cess of the fixed "price it does, not ben-
efit the grower at 'all. He isforced to
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The corn market does not exhibit
the strengththat should be expected
as a result of the bullish crop news
showing the enormous decrease in the
total estimated production. The corn
yield this year will be far below the
average for the past five years and
barely suiiicient to meetall‘ needs:
There is still a‘large' quantity of the
old crop in growers' and elevators’
hands ,of a rather uncertain quality. '
The movement of this corn to market
is now quite general and owing to its
rather poor condition the demand is
slow and price naturally not up to av-
erage. Buyers prefer to hold off for
the new crop even at slightly higher
prices than to stock, up with the old.
When the market is finally rid of the
old corn and the new cemes on, it is
believed that trading "will be more ac-
tive, reserve stock orders will be large,
and prices will be stimulated. If you .
have any old- corn for sale better get
rid of it now, for it will not he wanted'
at anv price later on.

 

 

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Sta-den! “ [-2 .7. .8!
No. 3 White 69 .5, 1-2 .80
No. 4 White I .38 .38 I-Z .7“

 

 

There will be an enormous orOp of
oats this year, and lower prices seem

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inevitable. Private «crop. authorities -.

predict the final cro‘p will, be at least
72,000,000 bushels larger than the gov-
ernment iorecast'"or August.
market the past week has shown .many- '
fluctuations, advancing as high» as
four cents per bushel and as rapidly
declining. Without apparent reason.
There is a lack of stability'to the mar-'

‘et due undoubtedly _to the increasing ‘

receipts and the: promise of a huge

crop. The loss in the corn crop will -

force many feeders before the ‘winter
is over to turn to oats and it .is prob-
able that the increased demand for
-this purpose will do much to utilize
the surplus and maintain ‘fair prices.

      
 

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The apprehension ‘of the Brewers’
National Association’s secretary. that
‘there will be no use for barley if
maltin-g and the usre of barley for beer
is prohibited, is largely unfounded
and is a largely ex parte view of the
place of barley in the world’s food
economy. Farmers’ Bulletin 965 of
the Agricultural Department, on the
“Cultivation and Utilization of Bar~
ley," is quite informing, and it leads
to the suggestion that barley that the
brewers are compelled to reject can
be used with greater profit. by call cat-
tle and, horse owners as feed, As a
stock feed barley has the highest val-
ue for cows, calves and hogs, and is
extensively used on our Pacific coast
and throughout the Rocky Mountain
country fer the feeding of-hOrses. It
is almost universally usedin-north-
ern Europe for dairy cows, and the
Danes sow barley and oats together
in the‘ proportion/oi one ofpbarley to
two of oats, this ‘fmixed grain being
regarded as the best available feed
for cows and. other stock. For horses

(Continued on. following page)

 

  

Foster’s Wetter Clan. for ID]!

Dangerous.
Stern V

suds

Washington, D. C., Sept. ~14th—.
Last bulletin gave forecasts of diS—
turbances to cross continent Sept 12 to
10 and 17 to 21, warm waves 11 to
16 and 16 to 20, cool waves 14 to 18
and 19 to 23. These will cover the
period of very dangerous storms caus-
ing heavy showers in many places and
followed by.killing frosts that.will
go 'further south than usual. These.
storms will cause r us in a number
of places in thebcst winter. wheat sec-
tions and will put the soil in condi—
tion for sowing Winter wheat. There—
in many mistakes will be made be-
cause a~large part of the best winter
wheat country will fail to make a.
goodwwheat crop for 1919. One 0;.
—~ the .big questions ,the winter grain
farmers‘must decide is whether to
4 sow winter grain or sell the seed and
rely on Spring crops. I am advising
the latter for-[large sections, . '
Next- warm-"wave will reach Vane
couver about Sept. 21 andgtemper- ~
sutures ,wiil a-se 1:911 iallrth‘e Pacific
slope. .It wil crossi'cr t ,of Rockies
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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK 2 '

As forecasted bv W. '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN

~ cessive evaporation

The hurricanes

,m‘ight be easily Worked out if" "e U:
S. Weather Bureau would get busy.

med, 3 month-7 in advance, about _ the '
‘ Great Drouth. Theshowel'sthat come“:
With severe st‘ormswill produce‘most
stain, east of», Rockies in, the‘jmid l
northwest“ decreasing southward

BUSINESS FARM ER

foundland about Sept, 26. ‘ Storm
wave will follow about one day behind
warm "wave, cool wave about one day
behind storm wave.

,Drouth conditions will continue ov-
er about the same sectionsas here-
tofore at least for a month, or to
about middle of October. I find that
very few people, not-even U. S. Wea—
ther Bureau scientists. understand the
most simple features of a drouth, Ex-
causes drouth.
Less than usual rain does not make a
drouth because, evaporation being ab—
sent, the moisture remains in the soil
and crops will not fail, but merely
nfit make big yields. Drouths are
predicted on the forces that produce
excessive evaporation. The same
amounts of rain sometimes produce
fair crops, at other times c'rops fail.

When there are no drouth condi-

_ tions the amount of rain depends on ,

two distinct and “separate causes;
thc‘location of the evaporation of sea
water and the force of the storms that
cross the continent from west to east.
constitute a third .-
cause not yet well understood ”but . -

   
 
    
    

 

 

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‘ to the bettergrain a substantial bang”

also more or less ‘of a patrioticl.dutyr__‘_,j]

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have I: advocated ' the
stacking of Wheat on tne‘iarm in pretg
erence‘vto immediate threshing "and.

* clogging ‘of country; eleVatidrs. during,

smug. dealers-

the us'uagtharVestiiig‘ 82332115 , The
. smoking" process and i‘ts:eP§ect upon.
the wheat has been. studied by‘ agri-fl
'cultfiralists for Z a " great'-‘many years»
and {the general conclusflo‘n :is' that'
the wheat fis" benefi'tted by stacking.
Iii a bulletinjby Leslie'AfiFit'z, pub-
lished in .1910 by thefoflice of’Grainv
Standardization, the conclusion the
Writer reaches is that grainflvwhich
has ’stood exposed in the shock to uh-q
favorable weather for a considerable,
time has suffered a great. deal of
damage, the grain. being bleached in, ‘
color, its moisture conte’ntincr’eased
with a. proportional decrease in’test'
weight per measured bushel, for, and
it may appear to some paradoxical,
the increased moisture ~-_content 9t
grain-causes a decrease in test .Weight
per bushel, and this «decrease is not
entirely regained when the sample of
~ grain is again dried out. _ ,7-
Again,"sWeat in wheat is probably
due to biological action which takes
place when the wheat is assembled in
bulk after the wheat ~is_ out. "Mr.
Fitz says that when this sweating
takes“ place properly in the staek'im;
provement in the color of the,- grain
and in the test weight and cOndition
generally results. , Milling and :bak-s’
ing qualities are also mimprovedgwhen
this sweating process takes place in
,thgstack, . q , .. p
‘ W. L. Nelson, assistant secretary
of the Missouri State Board t-of Ag-fl
riculture in 1915, giving some reasons
for stacking grain, says that had the
Missouri wheat crOp of 1914, amount-3‘
.ing to some-'40,000,000 buss-Ibsen
stacked and thus held until the ads, ,

. vance in’market price, it wbuld‘have'

meant a net gain to Missouri farmers
of not less than $10,000,000._- This,
however, was purely incidental, »'~ or
perhaps, accidental.‘ It is not true as ,
a rule, that in normal'l'times, when .
the price of grain is adjusted byihe
machinery of thegrain exchanges, the
'farmer can secure any‘material bene-
fit by holding his grain forhhig‘her-
prices, but asshown by reference toil;
Mr. Fitz’s report» hé oughttojfbela’ble ‘
to secure thebenefit of a premium~ “
on the price of grain that has been"
properly cured in the stack. 1 This
year the margin between the minimum
and themaximum price is not going
to be very large .at any ,t-im‘e,'but..f
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eflt, and stacking may reliable the ,
farmer, to“proc_ure thatiben‘efitg Itiéis -.

   

 
 
  
 
  

for the farmer, to put‘ his grain“'finft'
the stack and threShgit later _Qn',so"§g,:

 
  
  
  
 
 
 

    
   
   
 
 
 
 
  
 

not". to disturb the . movement" 0
necessary ior'ithreshing‘,” bu «spew ggul‘d"

exigild. the threshing opera , . ner-
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1 gram...

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8.“ ' ' 9.50 ' 11.50
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vy,.COuhty,reporters tell ,us that local
elevators are offering from $7.50 to
.38-rper’cwt. for new beans and slightly'
’leSs‘iior, old ones. Of course, few new
' .beiansfhave-been t‘hreshed, 'altho it is
Expected that. threshing will -take

‘ place-much earlier; this year than last
‘as‘jfarmers do .not care "to have a rep-
etition of their last year’s experience
when they left their beans 'in the
field until the fall raihscame and mac
tically ruined many of them. Farmers
will pun their beans‘and get them un-
der-c'otver early this year, so we may
'ekpect a crop of much better quality
”than that of a Year ago. Very few of
the'_' 01d beans 'are left in the growers’
hands? Same "growers, convinced
t’liatt'hé bean market wilr' “look up’f
later- in the year are holding and we
ftruét their judgment may prove good.
Bean, threshing ,will not. have proceed-
ed,fa-r enough before.0ctober 1st~to
"permn,_ our. making any predictions
upon""—either the'yield 'ot the quality,
but Within-’another three or four weeks
at‘the outside. it should not be diifi-
cniltfxto "formulate some kind of an
opinion as to what the future of the
market ,is _to' be. Remember our
.. warning? that .- opening prices will be
40??» and, :Zd'on‘t 'get caught, Intelli-
gent-marketing Fof ,your_1918 crop will

, .help-Lvronderfully to. steady the/mar-
ketiiand keep prices up. ,

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' p The —-hay"sitnation:§is'very satisfac‘ -
tory ntthe’vpreSent time. Little hay is
~._ eingepflered by farmers who are in -
the: ‘tss; ctfharvesttng. The bulk of
eytliatds gettingto market is of.
trial; quality, "harass and is rap-
' en bygbuyers. gAll'the big
‘ rs andJ’ittsburgh

    

1 . rimore'econom-‘g
_,W‘el"fe ground; This ap¥-
as to oatsmnd- corn as well as to;

prices on the Chicago market were
higher last week than The preceding,

.13 ,tee,_;that;;tiresameresults' ,ashigh as $2.50..Very few Wisconsin

ed by assigns per cent less\
the ordinary ration of unground,‘

‘ ile‘there liasjbeen no. appreciable .

  
  
 
 
    
   
   

 

' Q‘Despite dncreased receipts potato

Minnesota ungraded late stock bring-
ing $2.30 to $2.40 per hundred, and
sacked stock on Wednesday bringing

or Michigan potatoes have reached
the Chicago market, the bulk of the
supplies coming from Minnesota and
the Dakotas. Another week or ten
days Wisconsin late varieties will be-

, ‘ a." sows effect , h”
n es,_'and*wemay.have so e?

kind of fin-formation "as to "how prices
willlr'ule thruout’ the marketingsea
son, A Comparison of last year’s po-
tato. deal with the present year’s. lsr
reasSuring. . The Bureau of Markets
tells us that. the early potato season
start/ed‘at $9 to $10 per barrel.
clined to $3” to 4.25 in May, advanced
to $7 the last of June, then followed
an irregular but generally downward
trend. ruling $4 to $5.50 the last of
August.
of 1917, prices started nearly as high
but declined much faster this year.
After low points were reached, recov-
eries were better sustained than dur-
ing the preceding season, and at the
close prices were fully as high as in
1917.
on opened in northern markets at $9
to $11 per barrel, held around $9 thru-
out ~May, but declined rapidly with

do

Compared with the season

In 1917, the early potato seas-

  

 

to“$3.25 per cwt., which is about $1
higher than at the. corresponding date
in, 1917, and about double the prices
ruling at the corresponding date in.
1916.‘ _ i "

 

Indications are that this will be a
banner year for the creamery indus~ -
try. From all reports, the federal,
government which has been supplying
our-. soldiers with, oleomargarine in
greater quantities than butter is en-
deavoring to reverse the situation
with the result that butter is in very
strong demand and will continue 30'

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, R PENELOPE 7—1 just wonder why it is
that when a person’s heart aches to tell
another eases the pain? As my parents

  

' I am all alone except a brother who is many

 
  

1. any thru my letter. This new draft will get
”my husband, and how I dread it.
go an illness ate up all of. our savings. On the
doctor did a bad job of sewing it up, so“? must
debts were awful ,but we kept at it and now
If my husband is called there is
not one cent in the world to take care of our four
children. As I was married young I didn’ t learn
any trade of any kind Now at the age of 29 I
face the world with four childien and no way of
, earning a living. In canning four years ago I
’- cut my wrist badly on a can. In plain words the
‘ doctor did a bad job of sewing it up, so I must
go thru life with my right hand very weak Now

 

ygfto keep a roof over their heads fuel and enough

food for the kiddies, please teh me I cant tell
my worries to my husband as he too, is worrying.
I cannot do heavy work on account of my w11st

d the doubt and dread are making me ill.

_ ust a few words more.
and find an answer to my letter. There are many
-'»-'others in the same condition, so perhaps you may
be able to help them ——M1~s. L. R W., Sommchere
in Michigan .
1k at: ‘ *

Y DEAR worried reader, you are unnec~
essarily alarmed. Simply because your
husband will be called to register under the
”new. draft law as every citizen of the’ United
States between the ages of 18 and 45 will be re-
quired to do, is no reason for believing that he
will soon or ever be called into active service.
Do you not understand that it is really for his own
protection that he is ordered to register and per-
mitted to claim the exemption from military ser-
vice to which. as head of a family, he is entitled
’under the provisions of‘the law? This is a “se-
lective" draft which means that single men- are
taken to do the fighting while those who have fam-
ily ties a1e left to help in the great home trenches
of civilian relief and welfare work. Just keep in
mind that out of over ten million men who reg-
: istered under the first draft law less than three
million have been taken. The others have all
been placed in a deferred class and may never
.be called. -

So, my dear reader you ieallv have nothing to
worry about yet. This great country of ours can-
,.not afford and does not intend to impose such
burdens as would fall upon your shoulders with-
out the help of your husband. until the last dire
extremity.

Go about your home-making and planning as
..usual. This is what the nation wants you to do.
erlie people who are left behind must not fret and
worry about what the future may hold for them.
— uItis my duty and your duty and the duty of every
man and woman to be cheerful and confident and
hope for the best. The strength of a nation does
a. not always lie in its fighting men. It.lies in the
7% "spirit of the folks “back home.” When the wom-
g ' on of Germany give up the struggle and cry out
in their suffering the war will end. Men cannot
fight and will not fight when ..the spirit of their
loved ones fail and the plea comes out to them
to give up the and war and return to their
homes. So we women of America must feel in
, this most righteous of wars, that we have a very
,vital part to play and that we must not fail.

But should it please God that the time shall
come when cur husbands,——the father‘s of our
children—must go to fill the thinning ranks. may
we have the courage to make the sacrifice without
faltering. Before me now I have a vision of
France and Belgium. streaked with the red of
lemen’s and children’s blood and I wonder what
‘i'feri-ng the women of America can 'be. called up-

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lev front that is comparable to the sacrifices of
'r‘ur sisters across the sea. .Oh I am sure, that
if the terrible day should come when the fathers
of our children are summoned to sevice that you,
dear Mrs W. and you, and you, and I and every
oya American woman will stand erect and brave-
or "so ,1”Thy will, oh God, not mine, be done.”
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A Remedy for Poison Ivy
r Penelope. —In answer to your request for
ren1édy for ivy poisoning I am sending you

 

es away. Just now, dear friend, you can help’

Five years .

if there is any way a person could get work enough'

I am sure you will try,

1011 to brake three thousand miles from the bat- ‘

.‘ crispness and 'cOlor‘. .

 

Communications 1&3 this page should b
Penelope,Fa1-m Home Department, Mt
twenty yearns d have known it

‘ all other rem ies have failed.
country where poison ivy grows in great profusi

_ion, and keep the above remedy on hand all the
time If used at once after being around ivy it
checks it almost immediately, but after it has
broken out in a rash it will take several appli

.catiOns.

your vacation, and hope that yOu will soon be

well again I enjoy reading your page in M. B.

  

F. very much, and would like to have you publish 1

the above remedy for ivy poisoning in hopes that
someone else may be benefitted thereby. —Mrs. E.
W. Hartford, Michigan”

Sub. nitrate of bismuth, 1 drachm;
zinc, 1 drachm; carbolic acid, 10 drops; glycer-
ine. 2 ounces. Mix. Always shake before using
as it settles. Apply frequently. .

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Many thanks, my dear Mrs. W. for your kind-
ness in offeiing me this valuable information. I _

have tried so many home remedies and have had
doctors prescribe for me, but they all tell me I
must wait for the poison to work out of my sys-
tem, as nothing will check it to any extent, and

novw to hear of someone having thoroly tested'

this remedy and proven a cure, I feel sure it will
help me.

and kept on hand in the future.

 

 

The Mothers of Men

. The bravest battle that ever was fought!
Shall I tell you where or ”when?

011 the maps of the world you will find it not
’Tis fought by the mothers of men.

Nay.,,not with cannon or bottle shot,
With sword or noblcr pen.

Nay. not with eloquent words or thought
From the mouths of wonderful men.

But deep in the walled-up woman’s heart-—
0] a woman thatvwould not yield

But bravely, silently. bore her part—~ -
Lo. there is the battle field.

No marshalling troop. no bivouac song,
No banner to gleam and wave;

But oh their battles they last
From babyhood to the grave.

Yet as faithful as the bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town,

Fights on and on, in endless wars.
Then silent, 'unseen, goes down. \

Oh ye,’with banners and battle shot
And soldiers to shout and praise.

I tell you the kingliest victories fought
Were fought in those silent ways.

 

 

 

 

 

Reader Would Like Fancy Work and Story

EAR PENELOPE. —We all slike the M. B.
D F. and wish for its success in every way.

You ask, for suggestions. Here are two: I
think some fancy work would be nice Some like
continued stories. I think perhaps that. so few
respond to your request proves that they are pret-
ty well satisfied with the paper as it is. As far
as I am concerned I would be glad to send in any
recipe or new crochet pattern I have if you want
them. I am sending two recipes with this, as
follows:

 

CORN SALAD ,

One head of cabbage, shredded; two red and two
green peppers. shredded; three cups of Karo, two
quarts of vinegar. two quarts of corn, out on the cob.
To be well cooked and canned While hot.

(HLLIUSE SAUCE

()ne peek of g1 can 01 ripe tomatoes, se\ en 1ed and
green peppe1s, two cups of celery, six large onions,
half ”cut of salt, teaspoonful of cinnamon and clmes
each three or four cups of Karo. Chop fine and (00k
“ell Can while hot ~

I have used the Karo syrup all thru my fall
pickling and it has been very satisfactory.——Mrs_
B. G. (I'.. Vanderbilt, Michigan.

Salt ’Down the Surplus

HERE THERE is a big family to be fed
‘1» through. the winter and a rush’of summer

work, the surplus of vegetables might well
be salted down.. The process isexceedingly sim-
ple and the only equipment’needed is good water-
tight 'kegs. ‘While salted vegetables may not
equal fresh in quality, they help materially
build up the‘ food reserves and, when they are
well cooked and seasoned, the flavor, though dif-
ferent from that of fresh vegetables, is good.
vegetables put up as directed will keep their

. manor-ions I ‘ '9
Gather vegetables when in the best condition

to cure where, 1
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Cover the surface of' the brine with" cottonseed

Am very glad to know you have enjoyed .

oxide of 1

I can assure you I shall have it filled —and pack in Salt solution

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oil or melted parafln. Store in a cool place and
examine once or twice a Week {Or a month. 7-. ,_

For the brine allow 1 2-3 cups, of salt toljgal») ' .1
lon 01? water. This is a 10 per’centlsalt solution. . ,2."
For a salt and vinegar solution allow 3-4 cup of: * ‘
vinegar to 1 gallon of above solution.

   
        
     
    
 
 
  
 
    
 
    
    
   
  
  
 
  
 
   
   
   
 
  
  
   
 
    
   
    
     
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
    
   
   
   
 
  
  
 
   
  
   
  
  
   
 
   
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
 
  
 
    
   
 
  
  
 
 
 

 

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- Select medium’ large, plump, green peppers" ‘
Remove Stem and enough of the tops to remove ”
seeds. Follow directions above using the salt.
and vinegar solution. When taken from the brine
peppers. should be firm and crisp andfiof good colfi
or, and spicy to astringent in taste.

 

GREEN TOMATOES

Salted green tomatoes may be made into to-
111310 stew, stuffed tomatoes, breaded tomatoes, _
salad and pie, or converted into mincemeat and ,
chutney. Choose well- developed green tomatoes \“~
Green tomatoes packed '
in salt and vinegar solution are good for salads
and relishes. When taken from the brine the
green tomatoes will be slightly' discolored but
firm and of good quality. Soak in cold water for
two hours before using.

 

RIPE TOMATOES

Select medium- sized ripe tOmatoes free from
cracks .or bruises and pack in brine solution. Fol-
low directions and your mgatoes will be firm
and of good color when re ved from either the
brine or the salt and vinegar solution.

Ripe tomatoes preserved in the salt solution
generally require soaking for two hours before
using. ‘After this‘soaking the skins slip off eas-
ily, and the tomatoes can be used as though fresh.
For soups, or scalloped or casserole dishes, soaks
ing for one hour is usually sufficient, for the ex-
cess salt seasons the other ingredients. Ripe to-
matoes preserved in the salt and vinegar'solution
require soaking far only about thirty minutes.
When-used in combination with fresh vegetables
they need not be soaked at all. The skins slip
off easily, and the flesh is firm. The color and the
flavor of the tomatoes are practically no differ-
ent from those of fresh tomatoes. Slices of the
tomatoes may be served on lettuce With sliced
cucumbers.

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STUFFED GREEN TOMATOEs

Soak salted green tomatoes for two-hours. Re-
move a thin slice from the top of each, take out
the seeds. and fill, the cavity with a mixture of
boiled rice. well seasoned‘with onion, paprika. ‘
and ground peanuts. Place the tomatoes in a-
baking dish, and add sufficient stock to almost
cover them. Cover the dish and bake it slow]:
until the tomatoes are tender, about an hour.

 

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Use tomatoes that have been preserved in salt
and vinegar solution. Soak them for thirty min-
utes. Peel them, and remove the stem ends and
the seeds. Fill the cavities with minced green
pepper that has been preserved in salt and vine-
gar solution and rinsed but not soaked, and with
celery moistened with salad dressing. Placefa’
spoonful of the dressing on for. and serve the
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Two cups salted green tomatoes, two- thirds cup -.
syrup, two tablespoons cornstarch, two tablespoons
butter one teaspoon grated is on rind, two ,-
teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegf. Soak the to-

    

and cook until tender. Add the other ingredié .
entS/ and cook the mixture until it is thick and ,L ',
clear. It may be used for a two~trust pie-011111 . ‘
may be placed in. a. lower crust and covered with

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Three pOunds salted green tomatoes, 2 pen" 3
apples, I cup chopped suet, 2 cups ‘ ‘
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'e Sailing offtWo or more slips as-
t Is very hard to dress .8- baby
. he to two years. ,Many mothbrs:
» .1 ' y. . bp. dresses on them,.'but, it is._.
"almost "impossible. to keep . them looking

- nefit- in suits"when they neédfdiapers.
Bf.
wornwith diapers or bloomers, and

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'I‘ vs .30 “oftenvr-notic‘ed- that the very
best udresSed baby boy: will be wearing
dr es until they'are a year and a half
. years- old}, ,

' . l ,
ttvl’e- ”girl’s. dress.T Cut in
j , ,,._.8, 10 and 12 years. 'Isn’t this"
' tt_ Vctiverrnodel for'the little lady’s
- formal dress for. winter? The jacket part

ottbe dress facut with {our deep scal-
lops which button’onto the skirt-leaving
eyelets: thru 'which run a;belt.¥ The collar _,
'~ is~ scalloped ,in- the back togmatch - the
jacket effect and brought down to a U-
shaped neck in front. and finished with a
smallgtle. < The skirt is flaring around the
bottom;-~ but gored to fit smoothly onto
the jacket? Long or short sleeves are
provided. The Jacket and down the front
might: be piped with the same material
as that used for the 'collar‘and cuffs; also
'one, may make very pretty buttons by
coveringrbutton molds with the material

 
  

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used. The patent leather belt is shown
a great deal—on young girls’ clothes this
year. ' » ‘

, No:j8426.-——-Ladies’ shirt waist. Cut in
sizes 32, 34, 36', 38 and 40 bust measure.
Just.a simple shirt waist style, with
rather full Sleeves. gathered onto a deep
out The collar with the graduated ruf:
, ,1 'fles down the front make the waist a
- . very idressy model and one most popular .
this season. If one is able to do hem-
stitching. a beautiful waist may be made
very. economically; if not, try finishing
the one—inch hem around the collar and
ruffles with the chain stitch or by plain
machine'or hand stitching and- edge with
a narrow venetian lace. A bias fold
finishes the neck and down the front on
which‘fancy buttons may be sewed. Such
a' blouse is beautiful it made up in a
soft‘ shade 1oi.’ georgette. and if one se-
cures a godd ,quality of the crepe. it is
surprising to ‘see how long it will wear.
B‘eadtfimmingcontinuea to be’ shown” on
many of theelabOrate blouses. of georg-
ette or crepe de chine.

No: .8'428.—-Work apron. Isn’t this a
sensible work'apron? It covers one from
head‘ to foot, with its fullness in place by
the wide belt. The apron extends over

. ' the shouldersand forms a small waist
' section. to- which the belt is ‘attached.
‘ The skirt sectiorf’fits ardund the hips and
buttonsaln the back. The pattern comes
in sizes 34. 38, and 42 inch' bust measure. _
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Dear Aunt Penelope: I

 

 

 

 

 

 

' :éManY '

   

’;- storiesand suggested. that We have

,s'om-e on our, children's page. .

to the conclusion ”that. you would all
f'vbe more interested in ,these' stories it
they were told by you, as many of
‘them might be true stories. Now I
g have planned that next~ weekI will tell
you a story, a favorite with my kid-
. d'ies,'and then I am going to ask each
of you, to tell us your own best story.
We will have ,a contest with 3. Thrift
Stamp as. a prize for the best story
told in the best manner received. I
have a great'many good ones and am
sure we will find some very inter-
esting tales. " ‘
-I_. am anxiously waiting to hear
your report of your trip to the fair,
and also about your school work,
your new; teacher and playmates. I
hope you have each determined to
study harder this year than ever be-
fore. With love,_ from AUNT PENE-
LOPE. .

Dear Aunt Penelope: I thot I would
write you a letter to tell you how I am
going to earn money for Thrift Stamps.
I have about a half ‘a ton of iron to sell
‘and I am going to sell it and take the
moneyfl; get and buy Thrift Stamps. I
have one acre of potatoes out and this
fall I am going to take five bushels of
potatoes and sell them and get Thrift
Stamps. This winter I am going to hunt
rabbits and sell them to buy,thrift stamps.
Anything to help Uncle Sam out so he
will win the war. I hoe corn, beans,
pickles and potatoes and gather potato
bugs and do other farm work to help win
the war. I have some watermelons and
muskmelons out in bloom. I wish you
could come up here this fall and help
me eat them. Are there any beech nuts
down there? If not tell me and I will
send you some this fall. I have some pets.
I have five cats and one good dog; his
name is Buster; we call him Buss. I
like to hunt. rabbits and catch fish quite
well. We have two mules, their names
are Pete and Jack. We have new po-
tatoes large as English walnuts. We
have in four acres of buckwhest, 11 acres
of rye and 8 acres of potatoes and 4
acres of corn. We eat brown bread so
the soldiers can have the wheat. I like
brown bread. quite well. We have over
one acre in orchard. I try to kill every
mouse and rat I see, because they eat
the grain. We are saving all we can so
Uncle Sam will win the war. We wash.
dishes [without soap so we can give the
dishwater to the hogs and feed the pota-
to parings to the hogs. Good bye, From
iElmer LeRoy Wellmer, Buckley, Mich-
gan.

P. S.—-I liked the D00 Dads and would
like to see them again.

No, dear child, your Aunt PeneIOpe
hasn’t any beech nuts around her
horfie and she certainly would appre-
ciate a little box from so patriotic a
little worker as you must be.

Dear Aunt Penelope: I saw in the
B. F. that you think that we boys
are not as patriotic as the girls because
we have not written before this. But
I‘ will say in defense of the boys, they
may have been busy as I have been. I
am 12 years old and rak‘cd hay, then
drove the team while hauling in the hay.
and helped mow it away. Besides hoe-
ing potatoes, beans, and working in the
garden. I also picked up old iron to
sell. So don’t you think I am doing my
bit for patriotism? I think the D00
Dads 'are nice, but think puzzles. riddles.
‘and drawings would be nicer. I think a
nice name for the girl’s colt would be
Caper. I have three cows, one yearling.
three Calves, two horses, 30 sheep and
24 lambs. We children are just as glad
to read the M. “B. as mamma and
papa are. Since you gave us a page. I
guess this will do for this time.——Merritt
Wickersham, Harrisbn, Michigan.

Yes, Merritt, no dOubt you boys
have all been very busy‘and I only
hope most"'of my boys have done as
much' for their fathers and mothers
as you have. Iam sure When the other
boys read your letter, they'will try
to spare» time to write- and tell us,

what they too,\_are‘doing.

 

Dear Aunt 'Pelrelope: My folks take
t e M: B. F. and think it is a grand paper.-
he part ,vI like :best» 'is‘ the Children's
,page. I read the letters of the. . ther
children. .I. think I. would like sto ies. .
puzzles and poems about Uncle Sam.
have cut_;.the‘ cowoutr'hnd think a ,nice
'naineiojr her would ,be’Daisygi We have
ten cows. eight (piss-and eight horses, on
'12‘0acree «inland that-we are working to
nice Yoga for U: , . ' *Iiam- saving

in? to burl - . Stamps so;
Jean.“ t’ . I
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"I.hav_e thot‘this over and have come .

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, ka, Mich.

go
.,,,1 . _
r H‘would like storieslettera. 3 lies . and
poems for our page. -We have one cow." «
' Horse named Flory.

  

mother is' dead. I. have lived with my
hunt .for five years. I take water to the
men in the field so they. will have more
time to raise food for Uncle ‘Sam. I am
eleven years old and in the sixth grade.
I have seven sisters and one brother and
he is married, I would like to see the
D00 Dads again. Your niece—Bertha
Barr, Bayport, Michigan.

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Dear Aunt Penelope: I thought I
would write to you and tell you what I
have been doing this summer. I helped
my papa and brother in the hay field.
I wore overalls and drove the horses on
the load. ‘_We put up fifty acres of hay.
I have one War Savings Stamp_ and
eleven Thrifit Stamps. . I got a kodak for
Christmas and I take lots of pictures
.with it. I develop and print my films
and pictures; it is lots of fun and easy.
too, only one has to be careful.
a brother who- is eleven years old. He
can plow and" cultivate beans." He cut
part of the rye and oats. He has a small
flock of sheep. I like to work cross-
stitch designs and to crochet. I take
music lessons on a piano. I am in the
eighth grade at school. I will close for
this time.——Dorothy Manning, Eaton Rap-
ids, Michigan.

Dear Aunt Penelope:—I suppose you
think I am not interested in the boys
and girls’ page in the M. B. F.. but I am,
although I have not written you before.
I am eleven years old and ii. the eighth
grade. I'live on an 80—acre farm. I have
a pet, his name is Buster. It is a Shet-
land pony. I am very interested in the
adventures of the Doc Dads. May be
you would like to know what I am doing
to help win the war. I am the president
of a garden club called the “Junior
Workers.” of our district, and for my
war garden I have eleven rows of wat-
ei‘melons. I like to help my father on
our farm. My father’s crops this year
are oats, potatoes and corn. We have
three horses; their names are Dan, Tom
and Dick. I am anxious for :1 Thrift
Stamp, so I am sending a poem:

Help “’in the \Var
This war is a terrible thing.
And our boys are marching away
To fight ”somewhere in France"
For the good old U. S. A.

Somebody’s. heart is yearning
For a soldier across the sea,

For he is fighting for freedom.
Liberty, you and me.

When he is in the trenches,
Fighting with all his heart.

Will you help by buying Liberty bonds
And in that way do your part?

The soldier leaves home and country.
Mother, sweetheart and all. I

And goes to fight the Kaiser.
Answering his country’s call.

Now, {vhen they get the Kaiser.
They will make him step right smart
And when this war is ended
You’ll be glad you did your part.
“Pauline Bigelow, Kalamazoo.

Penelope:—I have written once
My

Dear
before but did not see it in print.
school begins in eight more days. There
was a Booster Day at Concord; the
County Red Cross made a quilt. They
sold tickets on it. I bought ticket No.
33. When they did. the drawing they
said the 13th ticket drawn would be the
one that would get the quilt. The 13th
ticket out was 33 and I drew the quilt.
I did not get down to Concord until in
the evening and I did not know I had
drawn the quilt until they gave it to me.
—Lucille Loretta Lockwood. Concord,
Michigan.

Dear Aunt Penelope: I am a little girl
8 years old. I am in the 4th grade. I
have two miles to go to-school. I live
on a farm of 120 acres. I have two
brothers and one sister. My sister’s name
is Eileen. She is 12 years old and is
in the 6th grade. My oldest brother’s
name is ~Cornelius. He is 5 years old
and in the 1st grade. My youngest
brother’s name is Bernard he is three
years old. My sister and I had some
money saved. so papa bought us each at
Liberty Bond. Now we are saving our
money to buy Thrift Stamps. I cut out
the cow but neglected to send it. I think
Black Bess would be a nice name. I
think Maud would be a nice name for
the colt. We have 27 head of cattle, 14
are milkers; their names are Minnie,
Black Basstaby Bess, Judie, Spot,
Jane, June. Crane. Nellie, Rosie, Pansy,
Star, Louise and Loucile. I was very in-
terested in the Doc Dads. I wish they
would visit us again. I like. stories and
poems best. I help mother in the house
and in the garden. My sister helps in
the field. —Ka:therine Devine, Kalkas—

Dear Aunt Penelope: I am a. girl nine -
years old and I have not written to you '
before’ so thought I would try. I am
very' interested in the D00 Dads and
would like them very often. I think 9.
od. name for our corner ~wouldi be
‘he Little Children’s Social ’rner.” I

  

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, am a‘girl’lig,
years of age and I am in the fifth .gr ‘
at school and I am in the second 313%
of music. My parents are taking)‘ th
, M. B. F. and we like it very well. > __ (_
live on a 120-. acre farm and I have tw

brothers. My oldest is eight years 9; ~
my youngest is five years. We ha ..
five cows and ,four horses and their.
names are John, Sandy, Prince and.;Doll:
We have four pigs and lots of chickens
five cats. three little ones and tw‘o“ol
ones. and one. black and white dog." .
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com. I help my mama hoe in the‘gar‘érh'
dens I have one uncle in war he 153 a

camp Gordon. I planted a little. game. _
this year. I was in Detroit last year, .

  

  

for two weeks and this year I cant go , _
because my mother went. We own axbi .
orchard of apples, pears, grapes an
plums. I will close for this time and I'
will write again—Sabina D. Strawskar
Ruth, Mich. R. F D. No 2. ».

  

 
 

  

 
   
 

  

 
  
   

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DearLAunt Penelope: I have read'thé,‘ >
letters from other children in the state.‘
so now I am going to write. The little.‘
D00 Dads were very interesting, I enjoy-
ed them very much. You asked tho~
children to write and tell you about our
thrift stamps. My two sisters 'and 'I"
trap for woodchucks and buy stamps;
with them. When papa got' through
with his red raspberry patch this year
he let us have the berries that were left .
to buy stamps with. We have 22 thrift
stamps. My parent and brothers and sis—
ters call me Bob. I wear over-alls all
the time. We live by a river Where we
go in bathing every day. I am 9 years
old and am in the 6th grade. at school. ‘
Lucille Loretta Lockwood. Concord Mich. " "

       
  

   

  
  
 

   
    

 

  
    
    
   
     
        
   
 
    
   
  
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
    
   
   
     
   
  
  
   
 
   
   
   
     
 
    
    
  
    

 

Dear Penelopez—This is the first time
I have written for the boys' and girls'
page. I think “Uncle Sam’s Helpers"
would be a good name for our page. I
am eleven years old and in the 5th grade.
We have an 80—acre farm and have two _
horses, three cows, two calves. Our
cows‘ names are Bessie, Blossom and
Lizzie. Our calvcs' names are Martha
and Edith. We have 80 chickens and
seven little ducks. l have 12 traps and
a pet chipmunk, which I caught in a
trap. We have a Chevrolet car. I have
a sister 9 years old; she is goin to
write. too—Wilford Crouse, St. Ch rles,
Michigan. '

Dear Aunt I’enelopet—I am a girl 12
years old. I live on a farm of 80 acres.
We have seven cows and a bossy named
Nigger. 1 have two little kittens and
call them Bright Eyes and Tiger. We
haVe four horses. their names are
Prince, Charles, Queen and Jennie.
Prince and Charlie are work horses. We
have over a hundred chickens. I am
learning to drive the horse on the hay
fork and I think a good name for the
page Would be “The Children's War Time

Stories.” Hoping to See this letter in
print, with love, from—Catherine E. V.
Cotcher, Pontiac. Michigan.

Dear Aunt I’enclopez—I am 11 years.
old and live on a farm. I have been reads '
ing your .letters every week and enjoy; .
them very much. I am helping Unclew '
Sam all i can. I have been to Red.
Cross meeting a few times. We children
wind the yarn.
knit five sweaters. Mamma pays me for

  
   
      
 
   
 

  
 

   
 
    
     

Thrift Stamps. A good name or out?)
page would be "One Hour with ‘Uncle-
Sam’s Boys and Girls." From your little
friend—Marion Beeman, Empire, Mich., ‘

 
     
     
     
    
 

Dear Aunt Penelope2—This is my first
letter. I am a girl 11 years old. I live
on a ten acre farm and we have got 50
little chicks and 3 ducks. My pets are a.
*duck, Duffy; a banty hen. Polly. and two
little chickens. I have a mile and a half ' ,
to go to school. I am in the seventh grade"
at the Wilson school. I raised a garden ' ‘
this summer. My name is Hazel May
Smith. Chesaning, Mich. ' ~ .

 
     
         
  
    
   
     
   
   
  

Dear Aunt Penelope: I have? been 1.
reading the M. B. F. and enjoy it Very" “3
much. This is the first time'that ’I D
have written. We live on a. farm of‘Wloo-
acres and are milking 3 cows and have
7 calves. We take the M. B. F. and,like
it very much. I am a girl 12 years of ,.
age. My birthday was August,4th—;-'
Erma Stoddard, Comstock Park, Mich. '

   
           
         
     
     
    
     
     
      
     
  

        
   

Dear Aunt Penelope: I read ,‘the'
children’s page every week in the M. B.
F. I live on a farm of sixty acres and:
have 5 pets. My chicken's name is Candgr
and the cats names are TabbY. Tommie;
Teddy and Pinky. I live three quarto
of a mile from school. I am 11 yearsol
and am in the sixth grade. '
er’s name is Rose Murray..——Ruth‘ Smel
enberger, Elwell, Michigan. ‘

     
       
      
   

 

  

 
 

  

 
  

  

  

  

  

  
 
   
     
   
 
   
 
 
 

  

Dear Aunt Penelope: I ‘am a.
girl ten years old. .I.have one sis »
years old. For pets 'I have two;
dog and nine big rabbits and
little rabbits. We have tour-h
their names are Daisy. Bil
Barney,'and two colts whose
Bess and Ned. I have a. war
which I have radishsri cam?
cabbage,v beans. beats, and .
watermelon, celery, lithe.
cumbers. I. have some, mo
bank and papa is going to
buy thrift stampszfor. inc"

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OSEN RYE

prove'ment Association.
Be sure and get pure Rosen as ry
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and inspected, approved and regis-
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Seeds for Fall sowing, etc.8eau1
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3New Purity Freesia, 3 Bablana. 3 Dou- .
ble Rosebud, 3 Buttercup and lOGrand w

Duchess Oxalis; will bloom all winter. HOLBALE PRICE
The 22 Bulbs, Booklet on Bulb Culture
and Catalog, All Mailed for 10 czm‘r.

Lilies. lriscs, Phloxes, Hardy Plants,
, Shrubs, Vines. Berries, in great variety.
‘ Also splendid window plants for winter.

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$2. 25 per bu.,
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10 bu.‘ or over,

less than 10 bu. $2. 50 go
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products: '
Sisal upcbuilding,
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tor for eXpOrt trade High quality is

an essential for such trade add. should
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New York, Sept. 7th .———The consumps
tive demand for eggs continues ex-

average. The high price of meats is
principally responsible. Whether the
demand will keep up at its present
proportion when the trade gets On to
storage eggs is an interesting ques-
tion, but dealers are confident that
storage eggs will easily sell at the
permitted profits. Receipts here so
far this season are about 600, 000 caises
larger than the same time last year,
which should mean an earlier decline
in the current supply.

Market closed steady wit quiet
Itrading. Receipts five days th1s week
were 74,074 cases, against 76, 874 cas-
es the same time last year.

Fresh extras, 51 to 520; extra firsts,
48 to 50c; firsts, 44 to 470; seconds,
~38 to 430; poor to fair, 30 to 37c; 'No.
1 dirties, 37 to 38c; undergrades, 28
to 360; choice checks, 32 to 34c; un-
dergrades, 35 to 41c; refrigerator
specials, 43%,\to 44c; firsts, 421/2 to
43c; seconds, 38 to 42c; nearby whites
prime to fancy, 60 to 670; brown” 52
to 560; Pacific coast whites, 61 to 63c.

Detroit, Sept. 10th. ——'Demand for
eggs unusually brisk, and all Offerings
are quickly taken up at current prices.
Michigan candled cui'rent receipts,
430; Michigan candled firsts in new
cases, 45 to 460; candied western
firsts, 40c; storage packed firsts, April
and early May, 42c per doz.

 

Chicago, Sept. 7th .———Despite the
largest receipts for weeks there was

advanced lc, at which practically ev-
erything cleaned up. There was still
another advance of 1-2 cent Wednes-
day. Express runs have been light,
but this has been made up by the in‘
crease in cars. There are quite a few
broilers going into storage and quite
a premium'is paid for broiler chick-
ens. The coupling of the big specu-
lative demand for storage and the
Jewish holiday demand for heavy
fowls has pushed the market ahead.
Heavy fowls are worth 300; general
run, 27 to 28c; light weight, 260;
spring chickens unless selected are
firmer sale, but the market was out
1-2 cent Thursday to stimulate de-
mand, closing 29,.c; cocks, 221/2c;
turkeys, 320; ducks, 29 to 310; geese,
20c There is a good demand for iced
poultry and. receipts are pretty closely
cleaned; fowls, 30 to 310; cocks, 233/20
ducks, 28 to 30c; turkeys, 37 to 38c

Detroit Sept. 10th .——The Detroit
poultry market is in good shape; re-
ceipts only moderate and demand good
at prices which should pay farmers a
fair profit. Broilers, 30 to 32c per
.11) for small and 33 to 34c for large;
hens, 32 to 330; small hens and Leg-

.geese,19.. to 20c; young geese, 19 1:0,:
21c; ducks. 29 to 310-; turkeys, 24 to
.1250 per. pound.

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oiled up!

cellent and away ahead of the summer

such a big demand that heavy fowis .

- matter.

. conditions throughOut the state and
ministration. Certain sections '

.l'horns, 30 to 31c; roostérs, 19 to mo; «and grading-lie

   
 

  

-. Receipts of cattle? sday‘ 6:13am
“he market was 25c hrwer 011' 11111211
cattle and cowssold steady .

Receipts er; hogs Monday we}:
9600 head. The- market was 10 to 15

 

 

lower, with the bulk 91th hogs seli

Heavy.’ hogs» sold from '-

$20 75 to $20 90; pigs generally $29. 75, ,3

roughs, $17. 75 to $18»; stage; $11 to I
09

ing at $210;().

$15.-

at $21.10: pigs, $20. 50.;

day, 3600 head. The general market
on best lambs was $17.75, while a .few

bunches consisting of. strictly ewe and‘ _
Wether lambs, sold up to $18 Gulls,‘ : ‘
$14 to $15, and where the bucks were
taken out, the ewe and weflher lambs;
sold for 25 to 50c ~per cwt. more. ,
wethers, -613
ewes, $11 to $12.50, as to; - -
weight and quality. 'Buyers .are dis- -

Yearlings, A $14 to $15 ;‘
to $13.75;

criminating' on big,- coarSe bucks.

Receipts of sheep and lambs Tues-.; -

day, 800 head. The market was steady
with Monday. Choice lambs, $17. 75
to $18; culls, $14 to $15; yearlings,
$14 to $15; wethers, $13 to $13. 75;
ewes, $11 to $12.50..

Choice to prime

steers,» $16 50 to $17; plain and coarse

weight steers, $14 50 to $15; fair toi ,_
to prime handy weight and mediumfl;

weight steers,‘$1450 to $15; fair-to

good handy weight "and medium wt.
Steers, $13. 50 to $14; choice to primeII‘
yearlings, $15 to $15. 50; fair to good, ;

yearlings, $14 to $14. 50;;medium to
.good butcher steers, $11.50 to :.$12-;..

fair to medium butcher steers, $10.50 - '
' to $11;
to $12; fair to medium butcher heirs”.
am, $10 to $10. 50; good to choice tat , ~‘

good butcher heifers, $11. 50.

cows, $10. 50 to $11; medium togood,

fat cows, $9.50 to $10; fair to .good
medium fat cows, $8.50, to $9; cutters, ;
and common butcher cows, $7tos$7.50; ,. .
canners, $6.25 to $6.50; .good to choice , .
fat bulls, $11Ito $11.50; medium to.
good fat bulls, $10 to $10.50; good-

weight sausage bulls, $9 to $9.50;
light and thin bulls, $7.50't0 $8;ng
to-best stock and feeding steers, $10
to $10.50; medium grades of stock
and feeding Steers, $9 to $9.50; com-

mon to fair stock and teedingsteers, ..j

$8 to $8. 50; good to choice fresh cows

and springers, $90 to $120; medium.
to good fresh cows and springers, I375 -_I

to $90 00.

 

“’NOTHER ARGUMENT .61...

U.. S. TATER GRADES“

 

New York, Sept.
the non-grading of potatoes at ship-

'ping stations at New Jersey points,a

communication was sent to Alexish
Clark, the Federal Food Administra-

:tor foi' the state. in regard to this 7
’ Mr. Clark wired the New. ..i

as follows:
. "Federal inspectors and state, .m.
vestigators have studied their; grading

 
  

reports have been sent to the Food

  

and dealers 9g
Ibut the scare!

  
  
  
   

 

Receipts of hogs Tuesday totaled
about 4,000 and the :market opened
‘ active «and 10c higher on the mixed, -
medium and yorkers and 526‘. lower
on pigs”, with the heavy ,hogsselling"
frOm $20 75 to $2100; mixed and
yerkers, $21. 00 to $21.10; bulk selling '5’
roughs, $18.
Receipts of sheep and lambs Mon!

. weighty steersfl.“ .
$17. 50 to $18; medium to good weighty .‘ .

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‘ 13 becoming quite ac-
lig eastern Shipping points and
values have been reaching a more
'unilform' basis. At Benton Harbor,
Mich; {an varieties were quoted at
$5.10, to 55.75 per 11111.11. bulk f. o. b.
and sales of winter varieties for fu-
ture deliveries ranged $5- $5 50 per
barrel At Rochester, N Y., sales of
winter“ winches, A grade for future
delivery ran-god $4. 50-35. In consum-
ing Markets New York state Olden-
burgs and other fall varieties ranged
generally $4. 50- $5. 50 per bbl, and $1-
$145 per bug. basket. During the cor-

 

wealthies 8old* in consuming markets
at $4. 50456 per bbl, and Oldenburg-'8
at $3.50.? Shipments for the week
were 617 cars, a gain of 100 cars over
last Week. .

, The moderate declines of last week
continued. a few days, after which
improvement occurred and values re-
Covered: At the close of the 7-day
peribd the markets were irregular.
Minnesota early white stock ranging
$2,. 40-52. 45 per cwt. carlots in Chicago.
an inerease of 15 cents above last
week’s Tciose, and similar advances
New Jersey Giants ranged generally
about steady at $2. 50- $3 per cwt. but
strengthened slightly in Philadelphia
. and southern markets California s«
5 , and closing range was $2— $2. 25 per

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but.
ed in cabbage, ap-v

‘basket,- wagons, trackside. In

.gCalitornia Malaga grapes again

responding week last year New York ,

~ eta-l shipment for the
57. cars compared with
1,7 7 the preceding week; the move-
* men: was chiefly from westem ship-
’ oints, falling off rapidly from
erse'y and most otiher eastern”
shipping sections.

Grapes

Declines continued at shipping
,points and Champions were quoted at
2c lower at Benton Harbor, Mich"
closing at 20c- -per-—4-qt.‘ basket fob
Iow‘a shipping paints quoted Concorde-
lowei", closing ’at 28 to 30c per 4-qt.
con-
suming’markets, Michigan Champions
ranged-23 to 25ew-per 4-qt. basket.
de-
clined moderately ranging generally
$1. 40 to $1. 65 per 4-basket Crate. T04
tal shipments were very heavy with
1520, cars for the week compared
with 1,071 last week and 901 for the
corresponding .week of last year. The
great bulk of movement was from
California but Michigan shipped 116
cars and New York 65.

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5 County Crop Reports 5;:

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Sam‘lac (06ntml)——The oat har-
vest is over and some farmers are
threshing. They seem to be turning
out, pretty good, from 30 to 80 bushels
to the arce, and are good weight. A
little hay is being sold and pressed;
the price is good. Are having some-
rain at present which will help the
soil for wheat sowing; the ground has
been pretty dry. There has been some
spring wheat threshed and it seems
to be a good crop, some pieces are
turning out from 20 to 25 bushels to
the acre. There are some good fields
of corn but not much“ grain on the
stalks, but lots of fodder- for silos.—
A B., Sandusky. -

Wewford (West)—-—We have had a
few rains which revived things in
good shape. Grasshoppers are still 011

.ar- ‘cwt f o. b Sacked Downings at ~earth Crops look fair and things be-

, ' Colorado shipping points ranged
7:“: Steady at 51290-2 per cwt f. o. b. Dur-
. ing the corresponding week of last
year new Jersey Giants were selling
on a basis of; around $2 per cwt. :. o.
b. Shipments the past week again
declined 711% total of 2,559 cars com-
pared with 2,859 last week and 2.474
for tho corresponding week last year.
Maine and Wisconsin shipments in-
creased sharply the last week while
the recent leading shipping sections
of Maihe and New Jersey declined.

 

 

The price changes_/ Were generally
in a downward directioh the past week
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aged ,iairly steady. Eastern yellow
01110118 ranged— generally about as

"d Very, weak in New
Western
on 'heId firm in, Chicago

   

_N Y., yellow
ing the week

 
   

' this year.
~idly from the farmers’

, 80. but ranged weaker .
,ty and Pittsburgh and“ ripen.

. acres of wheat. "

gin to brighten up. Plowing fer fall
grain in order.—S. H. 8., Harrietta.

‘ Montcalm (Southeast) —— Farmers
are busier at this time than last week,
as many are’preparing _soil for the
fall sown crops. A large acreage of
beans have been pulled and -many
have been drawn although there are
a large amount left in the fields on
account of the heavy rain received
Wednesday. A large acreage of plow-
ing has been done in the last'week
and much more is expected to be plow—
ed in the next week, as the soil is in
a muCh better-condition. The filling
of silos has begun and it is taking a
large acreage of corn and a number

of, 51103 are being builtr—thinking that

Jack Frost wilL'not get their corn
Grain is moving quite rap
except oats,
and a higher price is expected for
this gralnH—W L. Green'ville

Clare (GentraZ)-—Crops here . are
generally pretty poor on account of
July and August drouth but rain the
last three weeks has revived them
some. Corn, is growing fast now, but
will not much of it ripen. Béans are
coming good and some beginning to
Potatoes will be small Wheat
and. rye are being sown, ground in
good condition now. Five trachtors on
Ford farm are putting in one hundred
., Harrison

  

 

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co destioy bushels of it. Rain and snow
i‘ve in and keep it damp and moulttig.
And. there is always danger of fire and e
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,USE MORE FERTILIZER TO
KEEP MORE LIVESTOCK

Ask almost any livestock man why
he keeps livestock and he wil be pret-
ty sure to give as one of his main
reasons: “Livestock keepb the soil
rich " And in almo‘st any community

 

than others because the fertility is
usually better maintained.

This reason satisfied the livestock
man of the. past but the modern busi-
ness stockman and dairyman is begin-
ning to look closer into the matter.
He is asking: “Is there anything

even more profitable?”-
vital question.

Poor, worn-out farms near eastern
cities have been developed into prof-
itable dairy farms through the use
of commercial fertilizers. The land
was broken up and planted the first
year to potatoes, millet, soy beans,
corn and a combination of oats and
peas. "These crops were all thorough-
ly fertilized with quickly-available
plant food. The potatoes brought in
some ready money; the corn and fod-
der crops wintered the livestock. The
manure was returned to the soil to
furnish humus for the next crop and

‘That is the

 

Red Rock

Tho Hardlost and Hoavloat Yielding

Winter Wheat

For Michigan and the northern states.
He: yielded 37 bushels average per
acre at the Michigan Experimental
Station. Record yield of nearly fifty
bushels per acre.

Rosen Rye

Is a new variety that 1will pay you well to grow. Out-
oielt‘ll common Re 0to 20 bushels per acre. Nice
beads well lled with large kernels. O;dinary

yie 30to40 bush he s.

Clown. Timothy. Votch. and all dependable needs for
fol] planting.

' Writ. for In. SIII‘IPIOS and fair price list.

Fall Bulbs

Beautiful new Dar win Tulips Hyacinths, Narcissus,
[Lil liu. Crocus, etc. Plant these bulbs this fall for
winter and sprmg blooming.

lsboll's Fall Catalog Free gives full information:
Write for it today.

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float 11 Jackson, Mlch.

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1 Produce your own cheap feed this \ ear—-
avoid buying feed at high prices. You can
get Silver' 5 famous‘ ‘Ohio” in a variety of
sizes. 4 horse- -power up. 40 to 300 tons
-}‘ .day.'1‘Si1verized" Silage—cut even.
packs airtight-makes better feed.

  

   
       
  

  
 

  
   
   
    
 

 
  
 

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CAN SELL YOUR FAIL.“ Di-
the buyer without paying com-
through .my co-operative plan,
. free to sell -to anyone, through
anywheie, any time, for any
price ‘or teims. Write for circular.
JAMES SLOCUM, Holly, Michigan.

 

~to our Allies.

was reinforced with commercial fer-
tilizer. Year by year, the crops grew
bigger and the soil more fertile. The

was increased many fold.

Before the great war our exports
of meats were steadily declining.
Nearly all the meat that we could pro-
duce was needed to feed the folks at
home. But during the past two years
we have sent huge quantities of meat
,Since the herds and
flocks of Europe have been all but
ruined, our meat will be needed “over
there” for years to come. To supply
this demand and still feed our ever-
increasing millions at home, we must
produce more meat." We must not
only save barnyard manure. but we
must also reinforce it with commer-
cial fertilizer, especially rich in phos-
phorus. and we should not forget
that manure is now Especially valu-

contains.

It works out this way: Use more
commercial fertilizer to grow larger
and more profitable crops which will
enable you to keep or raise more stock,
which will give you more manure to
use in growing more profitable and

\ abundant farm crops for market. It

is a spiral that makes your farm worth
more and leads to steadily increasing
profits.

MORE MILK WANTED FROM
SAME AMOUNT OF FEED

We are milking 22 Holstein~Fries~
ian cows (weighing from 10,00 to
1350 lbs.) in various stages of fresh-
ening, but feel that we should get
larger quantity of milk per cow from
the feed we are giving. Have 'good
native grass pasture. Cows seem to
get all the grass needed.’ In addition
we feed daily the following grain ra-
tion:

1 lb. cottonseed meal,
4 lb. cold pressed cotton cake, 23 per
cent protein.

41bs. cow chow, 24 per cent protein.

The later is composed of alfalfa
meal, brewers grain, gluten meal,
linseed meal, and is manufactured as
a balanced ration.

Feed is hard to get here~wheat
products almost off the market.

\We pay $2.25 per cwt. for mill runs

 

 

LAND SUITABLE FOP stock farms
for sale in Ogemaw Co .. on easy tonne
“Yer productive and well located. Hany

mghemon. Alger Mich. ,

B BALE—My 80-acre farm. Good

 

 

 

13 per cent protein; corn chop, $3. 60;

alfalfa. molawsses $2, 40—-per cent pro-
tein. «
The cow chow seems to be a good

food, but is awfully high—s3, 30 per

 

bindings; on reasonable terms. J. A.
.Autterson, R. 2 Whittemore, Michigan.

 

cwt.

 

the livestock farms will sell for more/

else that I can do to make my'farm ‘

livestock carrying capacity of the land .

able because of the potash which it

We are wondenng where we are 1
going to 1111111 before gI‘aSS comes again against
next springhhay is high here; afltal»

ta, $34 ‘per ton.

Some .131 Our cows are almost due to

calve and are glvit: only 8 to 12 lbs

per milking; others, just fresh, giving

30 to 35 lbs. per day.

In June the 22 head gave 12, 580 lbs.
Can you advise me whether we are
feeding right, and how I can, improve?

After reareful study of your prob:

lems, I. am able only to give you what
I 'would call an experimental ration,
owing to the fact that in your letter
you did not give me any ideaof what
kinds of grains'you are able to get 011
your market. You do say that What
’ feeds are practically unobtainable.
Also, although you speak cf corn fod-
der, you do not say whether you have
or have not any silage. If not, you
are certainly in a predicament as to
feeding for any profitable product-
ion. If you have no silage, butcan ‘get
dried beet pulp or even molasses,
either or both would be a sort of sub-
"stitute for silage, the beet pulp of
course being the better of the two.
So, in the absence of any more de-
finite information as to what is on
your market, I would suggest the fol-

lowing ration, not as an ideal one by

 

 

Get' Full Value for Your
Ensilage Corn

 

Cutting corn for the silo be.
fore it is ready is too general a 1
practice, warns the United States
Department of Agriculture. The
full feeding value of the crop
can not be obtained until the soft
dough stage is reached.‘ The
lower leaves will then be dead,
some of the bus-ks will have
turned brown, and the ears will
be hard, but the stalks and up-
per leaves ofthe plants will still
be green and succulent. Cut-
ting before this time is like
marketing cattle or hogs befoe
they are finished.

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any means, but as a working ration
under the ‘ present' conditions:

% Protein Carbs.
10 lbs alfalfa hay .1.100‘ 4.230
10 lbs. corn fodder.m.....250 3.730
1/2 lb. cottonseed meal 186 ‘ 222 ‘
2 lbs. linseed meal....586 970
4 lbs. corn chop ...... 176 2.6698
2 lbs. beet pulp ........ 082 1.298

Ratio: 1: 5. 6

 

State that the feed you are using
24 per cent protein. That is; of
course, the crude protein, of which
there is a certain percentage digest-
ible, and it is that percentage (which
you do not know) with which you
must deal in making the ration. As-
suming that 50 per cent is digestible,
you are,.so far as I can tell, giving
cows, with pasture,_ the mixed feed

(and the co/ttoniseed feeds, over 3 lbs.

of protein a day. That is far too
.much, except for a heavy milking cow
‘just fresh, and she would be giving
you 50 lbs. a day, in all probability,
for a time. Taking it another way:
If you were feeding 1 lb. of grain to
3‘ lbs. milk you should be getting'27v
lbs. on the average, aside from your
roughage. If you can get the makers
of this feed to give you 'the digestible
protein and carbohydrates (including
fats (in 100 lbs. of their mixture, it
will be an easy matter to balance you
a ration which will do“ good work for 4
you; but no feeder can make a. ration
that will be what the cow requires to.
make her milk, keep her body and '
grow her calf, without wasting feed
(which is Wasting money) unless he

 

knows the digestible nutrients in the _

 

feeds he is using

 

. of growth of the tree,

Anoth

I};

to dry a cow, take 51w -
eluding roughages, and give her noth
ing but water foi- 48 hours, then feed

her sparingly for a few days until she"
is out of danger of digestive “cable. _,

I think you will find she will come

pretty close to stopping her milk. If.

after you feed her, she starts to milk

again, repeat the process, but not long— -

er than 48 haurs at any time. If her
bedding is such that she can eat that,

take it away when you {are keeping,
Do not let her lack'

her feedback.

. for’ water, either. A cow should be
dry tWo~months at least —V. E. Fuller
in Holstein- Friesian Register.

 

FEED CATTLE FOR ,
SMALL, QUICK GAINS

 

' Stodkmen who feed beef cattle this.

season will find the greatest profit in
_starting feeders at 880 to 1000 pounds
and marketing them at 1150 to 1250
pounds. This is not a sufficient gain
th make prime beef, but the corn crop
is short and it is possible to make this
gain without extensive use of grain.
At the same time, feeding for small,
rapid gains will supply a. grade of
beef needed by our army and navy
and our allies as well as by industrial
~ centers, Putting a high finish\ on
cattle is expensive for the fatter an
animal becomes the higher is the cost
of gain and the larger must be the
proportion of grain in the ration,
The extensive use of corn silage for
fattening beef cattle is encouraged.
Give the animals all they can eat,
and in addition to the silage feed
three pounds old process lin'seedoil-

cake or high-grade cottonseed meal.-

A dry roughage consisting of clover
or alfalfa hay should be available, if
not, oats straw will do. It ispossible
‘that the premium paid for finish and
weight may justify the use of corn

for the last thirty or forty day's in-

the feeding period. 1 ~

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PLANT BLACK WALNUT,
URGES UNCLE SAM

As the result of cutting to meet the
almost world wide demand for gun-
stock material the supply of black
walnut trees is lapidly diminishing
over practically the entire range of
the tree in the United States. Coup-
led with this warning, the Ferest Ser-
vice of the United States Department
of Agriculture announces that the
crop of walnuts is, particularly heavy
this year, so that there is a splendid
chance to gather or buy seed fer
planting. .

The very high lasting qualities of:
the wood, and the fairly rapid rate,
in good loca-
tions, make black walnut one 'of the'
most desirable trees to plant on the
farm. Furthermore, its 1s admirably.
fitted to make unused portions of the
farm prodhctive; for small patches of
rough gullied, or other waste land, it
the soil is good and not too thin or '
dry, are ideal planting places. ,
' The method of planting black wal-
nut is simple, and the 1111111313 liké—.
1y to be considerable. There i pro
ability of the timber’s retainng ‘
best value on the market. Morho vet
in case it is not sold for lumbar
tree yields durable wood, Wilt '
be used :0:- posts and to
ioty of purposes about the farm.
reason it. is so prize or "
because it work " -

   

 

    
 
  
  

   

 
  
   

  
 
   
   
 
    
    

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months old, grandsongo‘f Hengerveld
De Kol, sired by Johan
Lad who\.has 81 A. R. 0. daughters.

Beaming... nonsrnis 1mm; 6

Dam is an 18 1b.. 3 yrnold granddaughter,

of Kin Se is ‘who has a sister that re-
cently grades 33 lbs: butter in 7 days as a.
4 .yr.’ old; This calf is light in color,
well- town and .a splendid individual.
Price $1.00. Write for photo and pedigree.
L. C.. Ketzl‘er,v- Flint, Michigan.

MUSOLFF BROS} HOLSTEINS
We are “now )o'king' orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons‘170506. - All from A. R. O. dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. . Write for pric-
es and further information. .
Musollf 13:09., South Lyons, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

1. ..

HICKORY GROVE STOCIC FARM
Offers for immediate sale 12 daughters of
King HengerveldPalmyra Fayne bred to
Mutual Pontiac Lad. All of the cows_ in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and Pontiac Aggie Kerndyke. We
can always furnish carloads of pure bred
' rade 'cows.

E‘dov‘ven Taft, Route 1. Oak Grove, Mich.
FOR SA Eleven head of Holstein

cows and heifers. Three
yearlings not bred. therest to freshen
this fall and winter. A good start reas-
onable for some one. Write, _ -
W. C. Hendee '8; Son, Pinckney, Michigan.

HOLSTEINCOWS AND HEIFERB; 12
.head; high class registered
stock for sale.‘ Address, . \

E. P. Kinney, Lapsmg, Michigan.

 

Wolverine Stock Farm
Offers two sons about 1 yr. old, sired
by Judge Walker Pietertje. _These
calves are nicely marked and light _'in
color and are fine individuals. Write
for prices and pedigrees. Pattie Creek,
Mich., R , '

 

 

HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES
Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but
ter 7 (19.3. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing
5.52% fat; Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows 0/4 white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.

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

 

 

 

‘ qunein Heifers

The cows and bulls advertised have
been sold. have 6 or 8 registered
Holstein heifers from heavy produc-
ing.dams, 3 mos. to 2 years old at
$125 apiece. ' .

ROBIN CARR

FOWLEBVILLE, MICHIGANV

 

 

 

 

Holstein-Fries!“ Cattle
Under the present labor conditions

I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd. Would sell a few bred females
or'a. few to freshen this spring. These
cows are all with calf to a 30-pound
bull. J. .Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

SUNNY PLAINS HOISTEINS

A few young Bulls 'left. Also a young
pair heavy draft horses. Phone 58F15.
ARWIN' KILLINGER,
,- Fowlerville, Michigan.

 

 

 

FOB SALE—Registered Holstein Show

Bull, service age: Pontiac Korndyke
breeding. Price right, John A. Rinks,
Warren." Michigan. , .

one carded Mama Hams-s

.. earlihg‘i’r‘e'ired by 30 pound bull and

from heavy-produfieing cows. Also some
silt

‘. choice Dance ope

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J. , rtho , B , hi .
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. . He rvald De, Kl
Hengerveld d n3 - o

" lbs. \Dam—Young Hazel De K01,

and keep on sending.
‘I ever read in my life—Otto J. Schoman,

think it a fine

 

Mystics

"will "mortally be
meson. ’_

 

.' .s.‘ .':5, ~/ ‘

neg. Holfltoln milk-1°
. .. menths old for 53-15.
19.37 .lb.._-;dan.- college bred sire, thrifty.
well grown. ’Pricesso. Crated with
papers. Also Resen Rye- seed from col-
lege 1917. ,Price $2.50 per bushel, yield-
ed 45 bushels per acre.

' C.” L. Hulett)‘: Son, Okemos,‘Michigan.

BABL’ING . DAUGHTER 0f Maplecrest
6 K01 Hortoy whOSe dam is a 30-lb.
cow, 30-. days, 120 lbs; ‘3. son of Friend
'Butter Boy, four
vters with year records over 1,300
ay
necprd 494.8 lbs. milk, 19.67 lbs. butter.
Heifer well marked, 00d individual,~.price
1{120%. . Howbert >St'0c Farm, Eau Claire,
1c ,

i ' ' shanrnomv

0R SALE, pure bred Shorthorns and
O. I. C. gigs. Five young bulls, 7
to 9 mont s. $125 to $150 each. Ray
Warner, R. No. 3, Almont, Michigan.

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

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£1, line- Titlediepinyed to‘best advantage.

[Elinor-sleet for fills to run 13 issues or moxie we will make
" sent on applioition to the Advertising Dept»

Send in ‘copy‘ and

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HORSES

 

PERCHEBON #
ERCHERON STALLION; 4 years old.
all black_ line style and high breeding.

Price right if taken soon. E. P. Kinney,
Lansing, Michigan.

SHETLA NI) PoNnis

SHETLAND PONIES For Sale. Write

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

HOGS

o. I. c.’

Bred dGilts

l Serviceable Bears
C J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11;}, .14 y] '
.1pou d Will ':_.tarrew,1n
pt. IWilLf’mso'as: 11 step
. F311 sale Nov. .29. -' . .

Wm} J. plarke,HR. No: '7,>'Mason,'Mich _ ~‘

 
  

 
 

 

 

Bro “mine. 5011138, all ages, theft-“'47
rajkind that make good. Meet meat the
PS.

REGISTERED m; type Poland. China'
So‘ws and Gilts, bred for Sept. and

Oct. farrow. Best strains represented.
Lone Cedar Farm, R. 2.. Pontiac, M19“-

nAmsnmm

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

SHEEP

SHBOPSHIRES

 

 

SRBOPSHIRE RAMS For quality. One

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

 

FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30.
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual-
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
C. Lemen, Dexter, Michigan.
SHROPSHIRE RAMS

REGISTERED of quality. One im-

ported three—year-old Ram. Priced right.» .
Harry Potter & Son, Davison, Michigan.

 

 

. HOBTHORNS and POLAND CHINAS.
Bulls, heifers and spring pigs, either

sex, for sale, at farmers' prices. F. M.

Piggott & Son, Fowler, Michigan.

BRED SHORTHORNS. A
Bates

few cows for sale. J. B.
Hummel,’ Mason, Michigan.

 

 

HOICE Registered Jersey bull calves

nearly ready for -service. Sired by

Oxford’s Flying Fox, Champion at
Kalamazoo Fair. Register of Merit rec-
ord of dam 13792 lbs. milk 788 lbs. but—
tern Dams of these calves are high pro-
ducmg prize winners. . Bassett,
Drexel Place, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

GUERNSEY
GUERNSEYS High “A? céwsF‘EXZ

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

 

HEREFORD '
8 bull calves Prince

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

 

 

 

LARGE TYPE 0. I. C.

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

 

 

DUROC
FOR SALE REE? JE’SSKS’ i’mflirféi’v‘:

long, big bone, large litters. Price right.
Close out males cheap. All purebred, fine
individuals. Am in market for registered
Holstein bull, 6 to 12 months old. . E.
Kies, Hillsdale, Mich. ‘

tall,

DUROC BOARS 3...,
thy males that will
add size and growth to your herd. Big-
gest March farrowed pigs in the coun-
try. 200 lbs. and not fat.
Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Michigan.
S W [X It). To make

DUROC'JERSE room for my fall lit-

ters I have priced for quick sale 15
spring boars by Brookwater TipDY Orion
No. 55421 out of dams by the Principal
4th and Brookwater Cherry King. Every
one a real boar with plenty of bone-and
stretch and are guaranteed to please or
money back. First choice $75,.second,
65. This offer good till Sept. 25. Home
Farm, Thos. Under-hill & Son, Props,
Salem, Michigan.

 

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OXFORD

 

. For Sale Our Oxford herd ram, register-
ed, bred from imported stock, a. beauty.
A few yearling rams and ram lambs while
they last. Write your wants and mention
this paper. Geo. 'l.‘. Abbott, Palms, Mich.

 

HAIVIPSHIRE

 

Registered Hampshire Ram Lambs

For Sale. Weighing up to 130 lbs. Aug.
10th, at $25.00 and up. Also a few year—
ling rams. Clarke. llziii'c, West Branch,
Michigan.

 

VON IIOM'E’YER BARIBOUILLET‘

 

on SALE Registered Pure Von Ho-
meyer Rambouillet Barn 3 years old. A
sure breeder, and a good individual. Also

Pure ltoscn Rye $2.25 per bu.
Ira B. Baldwin, Hastings, Michigan.

 

 

 

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Improved Black Top Delaine Merino.
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FOR SALE PURE BRED and regis-
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GHICKS varieties, booklet and

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