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' OST- OFfUS know that Michigan agri;
culture was, confronted with .' grave
liprObleslbefd‘re the --war. In a‘gﬂw sections
these may be‘clouded by the-favorable season
. _~- that has just-passed, ”but the fundamental

ills Which are» threatening the future of the
Srf’a'rming industry are still with us and'appear
- :‘fieisceedingly serious in View of recent nation-
; ali- and international events. . '
g,;,.i,.-j,To prove that a representative body of
:i‘farmcrs in this state must be“formed immedi-
atelyinorder to guide and inform ,our lead-

ere who are concerned with shaping domestic
and international policy of ,the factsof Mich-
igan agriculture is the purpose of this ad—
dress. : ' _

Our war has taught: us the pOWer of-propa-
ganda. You have heard this: “The farmer
is getting rich.” ‘LThe' farmer has no help
because he is too stingy to pay the price.”
‘fThe farmer’is. being petted and pampered,
look at the automobiles.” This vicious prop-
- agenda’is passing among the commercial men

‘ 'of our state, not through purposeful antagon-
ism, butbecause of the tragic ignorance of
thepcity man of the farmers" problems. Our
protests usually, do not leave our hearts, we
; have heard the hiss of that venomous snake
\ “I who‘- cries “Disloy'alty.” -‘ ,

-;?/It is hardly necessary to go’into thedetails
; of our problems. You—have experienced them.
- Your boys and‘girls have left the farm, your
labor income has been less thanxtha-t of thec’
unskilled laborer, 'you have been fooled by
unscrupulons buyers. and commission men;
the fertilizer, feed and seed sharpers havgex-
acted their toll. Our problems are still with
“ . 11s,; as wheat. farmers ”in Michigan, as farmers

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"and sold them for '- less than they paid for
"them, as you. beangrowers who went through
last fall’s and this fall’s experience, andas
the potato growers ”in Michigan can well tes-
tify. IBeneath all our problems, peering at
theffoun‘dation of agriculture, we can see
why the structure isT'm danger of collapse,
FARMINGIS 'NOT A PROFITABLE BUS-
.INESS. Farming does not pay the rewards
for the ”same investment, same risks, saine ed-
ucation as is paid when applied to other lines

farming the farms of Michigan even before
the war Were more than 60% past forty.
The youngercmen were, gone, and they will.
never ,retu’rmiinor' will soldiers or sailors
Whom 'we‘ieontemplate placing on farms. re-
pay. , _ . -

Rest room's, comfort stations and hitching
posts will; :never’ challenge this fundamental

a life’s'ivsr'ork, farming does not pay. ,
. rF rteen' thousand farmers .in the United
anincome tam-2st year. This,
‘ ‘ s "who" growyspecialmcrops‘ or
ttle‘ and 3? seedlifarmersf who
”ins. ‘».the.»'general

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who bought cattle last fall, fed them all winter .

of endeavor. \It is safe -to say that the men .

main "on the farms unless farming 'isﬂpmade' to

' ”More money for our product.”

statement; _, As a business, as'a profession, as

gSAﬁJRDA-Y, Opronaazech, 1918,

Achy] ' arming as a Business Does, Not Pay

 
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FOREWORD

,HE’ AUTHOR of the accompany-
‘ . i‘ng article is Mr. Ezra Levin, ex-
tension specialist of the M.‘ A. C. It was
prepared for and read at the annual
meeting of ' bean growers at Saginaw
where 'it was received with such enthu-
siasm that the editors of Michigan Busi-
. ness Farming immediately secured Mr.
Levin’s permission to publish it. The
article is in two parts. Part one appears
complete in this issue. 'Part two will‘
be published in’a later issue.

Mr. Levin has an unusually compre—
hensive grasp of the problems confront-
ing the farmers, He discusses with a
rare knowledge of facts the conditions
prevailing anon the average American
farm, and declares that the farmer must
take an active part in the new civiliza—
tion that will follow in the wake of the
war, if he and his business is to survive.
We are glad to be able to present Mr.
Levin’s articles to our readers, and we
are heartily in sympathy with their ex-
pressions. They coincide in. many par-
ticulars with the editorial writings that
have appeared in Michigan Business
Farming from time to time upon similar
subjects, and 'do not, we are thankful to '

 
say‘, compromise with the truth or cam-
ouﬂa e none of the ugly defects of the
I natio s agricultural industry.

 
self and family common conveniences
pleasures for a calculated income of less than
$2.00 a day, 12 to 16 hours. The wages which
his wife and children earn he saves, At the
end of ten years after he has paid for the
farm, his children leave him for no other reas-
on. than that farming does not pay. The
farmer. who works his own place-with a hired
man today could allow his implements and
,barns to rot away, leave his land idle, work in
the factory in the city, pay his farm interest
and depreciation and save more money and
be-where his children can have a’ better edu-
cation and' can have the conveniences which
his meager income never allowed him to have

, on the farm, I repeat, it is true today.

We do‘ not have better schools, better recre-
ation, better churches, because we do not get
enough money for our stuff. Let us not dodge
that fact. The economic basis of the future
of “agriculture in this state of Michigan is
‘ That was
true before the war when civilization was
pambling along at slow freight-train speed. As
a farmer looks around him he is impressed

. With the fact thatthe‘ rest of the world is mom

ing along at. express—train speed, while he is
still on the slow freight; A little more looking

. will prove that ,every,.,one else ‘is‘ riding in a
{Pullman and hats pulling the freight. ' _
yjf Wéjliave‘fall.-jreached the realization that

the getaway-means more than the mere ad-

. if tment ﬁiﬂ‘ﬁtory. A tremendous rumble
L 'm find}??? 0113.???“ - the World benQ‘ith' T ‘

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$1 PER YEAR—No Premlunil"

Free List or Clubbing 01!;

 
the roar of cannon, a rumble of the new civ-

. ilization which has in its wake a better world,

a civilization which can never come unless Ger-
many is defeated and the philosophy of the
Hun wiped off the earth.”What part, I ask,
in this new civilization does the farmer take?
Glance over the past year and note the im-
portance and power of labor industries. Their
power has been tremendous; organized, they
have used it constructively and patriotically
for war to the ﬁnish by obliterating this
monstrous enemy to civilization. They have
been assured that the world will be better to
them in the future than it has been in the
past. We see them taking their places in all
the allied countries of the world in the poli-
tics of nations. Industrial labor has come
unto its own; it has beenvrecognized not only
as an integral part of war industries, but has
made its influence felt in international pol-
itics, in the new civilization. I call your at-
tention to the fact that today Gompers, the
leader of the American Federation of Labor,
is on the continent discussing with allied rep-
resentatives the political aspect of the war,
the common basis upon which workmen will
ﬁght this great war. I call your attention
to Arthur Henderson of the British Labor
Party, who has represented labor in the Cab-
inet of England. The upheaval is coming——
Reconstruction—and labor is to exact its
rights.

I wish to point out the presence of the War
Labor Board, War Labor Policies Board, and
the War Industries Board in relation to in-
dustrial labor. The laborer has been urged

:- . to unionize, he has been asked by the admin:
and

istration to bargain collectively. His time
of work has been deﬁned and it is now being
arranged so that wages shall be stabilized thru
the co-operation of these Boards. It has been
arranged that those employers engaged in war
industries shall be guaranteed a substantial
proﬁt, above the interest on the investment,
above the cost of labor ,without consideration
to the price paid. Not only have the owners
of the war industries been assured of a proﬁt,
and labor a high wage and adjustment of con-
ditions during the war, but they have been
given by their recognition in the councils of
state an assurance as to their representation

in the future and a promise of solution of‘

their serious problems to come. These are
facts. Let us ad another fact. We look at
ourselves and see the biggest, most important
basic war industry, the most precarious, the
business of the biggest risk——the farming bus-
iness. It has been conducted by capitalizing

the. patriotism of the farmer of Michigan by

appealing to his loyalty to. raise wheat at less
than production cost, potatoes and beans and
other farm produce at. the'mercy of all the
tragic conditions which confronted us before
the war ex ept with the added most signiﬁ-
cant problem farm labor shortage. r’

The farmer is a farm-laborer, he is not ”a
capitalist. He Works; he is an actual produc~ ,
er; He hires laborers not only for him but tas-t ‘
work with him. What would happen ifgth‘e .
farm laborers and hired men would unionize ,
and demand their rights, demand a place in, I

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open the my me market “All will admit

 
be, but different people ascribe the reason to dif-
ferent inﬂuences. The following causes are usu

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of tone to the navy bean market.

1. The demand for pinto beans in
which always used to buy navy beans.

2. The unsaﬂsiactory condition of the 1917
of op, resulting in much spelling and large losses
to wholesale grocers. --

3. The ﬁxing of a price on Michigan beans by

the Bean Growers’ Assn. ,

’ It is the claim of many that the average cen-
sumer in the city,
“deesn’ t know beans.” In other words, the house-
wife has always phoned her grocer m- jlst “henna"
and he always sent her navy beans because that
was the only kind he carried. \During the past
year,1mwever, magazine, billboard and advertis-
ing columns have focused her attention upon a
particular kind 0! bean. For the ﬁrst time she
learns that Mr. Bean has a ﬁrst name, “Pinto,”
so that now she calls her grocer and instead of
asking for “beans” she asks for “pinto beans,”
because the food administration has admonished
her that it is patriotic to order and eat pinto
beans.

We have heard many arguments over the rela-
tive merits of the pinto and the navy bean, both
as regards their taste and their food content. W.
J. Orr of the Bean Jobbers’ Ass’nt says that plates
are not in it with the navy bean, and in his article
in the current week's issue he claims that a num-
ber of carloads of pintos purchased by the food
administration for domestic consumption were
ﬁnally shunted overseas because there was no mar-
ket for them in this country. A 13. Cook, of the
growers' Ass’n, also speaks slightingly of the
pinto. Just to satisfy Mr. Cook’s curiosity, Mrs.
Cook cooked some pintos. Sumce to say that the
ﬁrst cooking “cooked” the pinto bean in the Cook
family for all time to come.

0n the other hand. no less a connoisseur than
Mrs. ‘W. P. Hartman, whose husband is the aggres-
sive young agricultural and industrial agent for
the G._ R. & I. R. R., prefers the pinto bean to
the navy. According to Mr. Hartman, in a conﬂ-
dential chat with the editor, he took some pinto
beans home and had Mrs. Hartman cook them.
Mrs. Hartman testiﬁed that she liked them better
than the navy beans. Being a booster for Mich-
igan crops, however, Mrs. Hartman’s verdict might
have been different had she known all the cir-
cumstances, which Mr. Hartman Withheld from
her until after the trial meal.

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east has cost the naVy bean may (movers. The

exact extent of this supplanting- cannot be as-

certained for some time to come.

Everyone realizes the serious elect or. the wet,‘

beans upon last year’s market._ It is easy to un-
derstand why a, wholesale grocer, who has «. had
several thousand dollars worth _‘oi navy beans rot

on his hands, is chary of piadng another 'Order.

for equally as questionable stock. But in debat-
ing this inﬂuence we must not overlook the fact
that the wet beans have been of! the market for
at least ninety days, and yet the market continu-
ally grow: weaker.

Inasmuch as Michigan’s 1191‘? crop was hens than
a m o! the entire national crop, it is hard to
ﬁgure out how the ﬁxing of a price by the Mich-

igan bean growers could have affected the entire

market and caused a reduction in consumption.
Because people might not have been able ~to se~
éure the strict Michigan product did not prevent
them from eating beans. The freer ~riaarketiln‘g of
the Michigan crop could have only'added slug-

gishness to the market and brought about an.

earlier decline in prices.

Chatterben .& Son, who are among the biggest
bean handlers in the United States, in the follow-
ing communication to M. B. F., cite their experi-
ence in the trading of pinto beans as proof that
the danger of the western variety supplanting the
navy bean is overestimated:

“You may be interested in knowing that last
year Chatterton & Son sold a good many cars of
Pinto beans for October and November shipment.
This was long before the Government did any
advertising oi the Pinto been. This year, how-

ever, we have sold notover a half dozen cars altho, 4

we have been quoting Pinto beans as well as
Michigan and California in all the big markets
of the United States. It, therefore, looks to us
that Pinto beans, as well as other colored beans,
are not in very strong ﬂavor with the buying
trade but of course the price is the big factor.
As long as Michigan market remains where it is,
we do not anticipate much trading in California
Pinks or Colorado Pintos or imported colored
beans, but we would predict that if the Michigan
market on white beans advances much above
where it is at present, that the Wholesale grocery
trade will turn again to “Pintos and Pinks.”

“Is it not true that one of the reasons why you”

sold so many more Pintos for October an Novem—
ber delivery last year than you have this year was

because of the scarcity and extremely high prices ..

of navy beans prevailing at that time? As, you
say, the price is always a big tactor. Regardless

 
pound less. Hence, it is fair to assume that “the?
placing or the pinto bean before the peop!e (it the f

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- staging of the annual apple

,_ to buy apples all winter at “two for ﬁve.”

     
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my in gain": to assimilate the m «crbp of

domestic and foreign beans that are to be offered
formicwithinthemdewm It mean
believe the market reports from all sections at
thecountry, thereinnotonetoﬂw-bean market
anywhere. ”-Mrénman BUSiNEss Fan‘mno l '

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The Wm whom/used by punission '
at the Detth Free Press, tells: graphic story. -.
To the farmer, the story is an old one; but to the,
consumer, it is new. Since the sad time when the"
'naﬂon’ s present marketing “system” absorbed
the bunctien of distributing the produces 01 the

   
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sum, the\ apple grower has paid the penalty
along with growers of all other food products.
Perhaps, because of theperishable nature or late
crop, he» has paid astlffer penalty. Year in and
year out, his crop has rot-ted upon the ground,‘
while consumers a hundred miles away tabooed
the apple as an expensive luxury.
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Of course, the lack of labor this year has
obliged many farmers to leave their apple picking
for more necessary work Farmers can scarcely
afford to leave off tall plowing or harvesting of
beans, corn, potatoes amd’sugar beets to pick and ,
pack apples at 50. to j cents a bushel which
seem to be about the av ' prevailing commer-
cial price. Therefore, despite. the ~ exceptional
quantity and «quality of the current year's Crop,
not many apples are movingto market. As is so
frequently the case, thousands ofrbushels are rot-
ting up‘on‘the ground or being consumed by hogs.
Could farmers secure one-half the price that'con-
snmers are [forced to pay they could aﬁord to make _
some client to harvest their crop, but at present
prices, none but those "specializing in apple grow-
ing and any money in neglecting other farm
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«ﬁecause' the farmers failed to .take advantage
.oiza ’v-snggostion made by the Times, that resi-
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problems or else they lack intelligence and the

‘" militia“ to take advantage «of, such opportunit-
ies it: are dared” than.” ' ' ‘

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resident of a certain city in. this state a number

viding‘ the. resident would pick, them- of).
bargain 'was closed, and Mr. City Man came for
his. apples Several. bushels oil bend-picked apples
lay in” piles under the trees, and the purchaser
Wag admonished not to touch those, but to pick
Hep-the wind-falls. The farmer, havingother work
to do, unsuspectingly left the city man to his
task. A low hours later he discovered the purch-

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farmer’swife at 25 cents per bushel.

Indignant at this breach oi faith, the farmer
took up the trail. He discovered that the city

--’ per bushel, realizing nearly $20 for his few hours"
work. Altho' the farmer expects to get a return
of this‘ money, it goes without saying_'tbat he
won’t have any more city folks in his orchard.

The. argument. that people of the city can solve
the farmers’ labor problems is beautiful in theory.
Anybody can pick appleu. anybody can dig pota-
tocs, providing they have someone [at their elbow
to prevent them from shaking the apples from the
trees, or puncturing every spud in the hill with
the tines of the potato fork.

One inexperienced man on a farm, no matter
how willing to learn‘and be of service, may in a
single 'day of lineup vised labor, cause more dam-
age. than his entire rvices are worth. ‘ ‘

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twice it, behieen "employing a printer on a farm, .

and a farmer in a print shop. Both make a .mess
oi'their jobs, and sooner or later throw a monkey
wrench i'nto the cm of the business.

We think the farmers have been very patient
over their labor troubles this year, and in most
instances, they have been willing to use such
help as: the Times suggests. We find from a. re-

port. of thesis. Boys?~Workiné Reserve that up- '

wards of £0300 high school boys have» been. placed
on farms the past summer, and this takes no
account of the thousands of boys who have h’elped.
during the special Kharvesting seasons. '

The taking of skilled farm workers in. the draft -

hand the exemption of industrial workers natur-
'\ally caused some bitterness among the farm-ere.
Lack of skilled labor has undoubtedly _ forced
many to curtail their production. The! a mistake
was made early in the draft operations in the
' wholesale drafting of skilled farm harp, we be-
lieve is conceded by,the recent appointment, of
agricultural advisors to the district boards; which
will mean a ‘more liberal deferment oi: skilléd
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The federal“ government never appreciated the
great need of additional storage facilities in this
country suite so-much as the past year when as
.a. huge purchaser or” ioodsnpplies it has found
it necessary to store vam quantities or perishable
13mm; To partially meet this need, the gov—
ernment was obliged” to build several gigantic
cold storage warehouses; which do (not, however,
aﬁerd onéldn‘rth thespace required. The govern-

em purchasing‘agenc’ies have found ' their work
, n the army and saw with a" steady
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preaches he considers} sermon to the furious.

Afarmors.‘ are grossly misrepresenting their labor ’

' A certain farmer generously offered ‘a certain '

of bushels of wind-fall apple's at 25c a bushel; pro- .
The

aser had, vanished with 25 bushels of choice hand- '

mu hadsold the majority of the apples at n'

. mt eXpense to itself, it can appre-
' brats-how much greater the cost. and. inconvenience
months toproduésro and dealers at every year's
hex-yesting season” That this awakened. interest
in and. appreciation otthese problems will cause
the government after the war to encoura the
building at storage warehouses, we have very
’reason to believe. ‘ .

Under preSent conditions, large accumulations
‘of onions, potatoes, or any other important 'per-
ishahle product uponrthe tracks of any city in
the United States means a sluggish market and
lower prices. Lack of storage spaces forces these
products upon‘ the’markets at any old pricesWith
huge warehouses at the option of growers and
dummy, surplus stocks could be easily and cheap—
ly carried over for weeks or months, to be fed out
upon the market during periods when freight
congestion or curtailed shipments decreased the
local supply. In this manner, prices would e
stabilized, and. the consumer lass d of an a;
quote supply of foodstuffs at all es. Storage
warehouses capable of taking care of all surplus
stocks: would be one of the greatest boons that
could come to the farmers.

Attention is' being called by the department of‘

rm crops of M. A. C. to the necessity this fall
for careful storing of seed corn. Much of the
already small supply is likely to be lost if it is
improperly put away, the farm crops men declare.

“In tests conducted by the college,” the farm
crops men point out, “the loss in seed corn stored
in the shock was 86 per cent; in the granary 5,5
percent; in the barn 43 percent; in the furnace
room 33 per cent, and in the attic only 27 percent.”
In other words, it seed corn is stored in a well-
ventilated room, where the temperature does not
drop too low or rise too high, more of it will ger-
minate when planted than, will be the case with
corn stored under less favorable conditions.

GOVERNMENT FINALLY INCLUDES
CHEESE IN ARMY RATIONS

As a result oft—he efforts of the organized dairy
«interests, the, war department has included cheese
as a part of the army ration. Cheese is an‘excel-
lent article of food, but this fact has only recently
been realized as a result of the experiments of Prof.
MeCallum of Wisconsin. People formerly ate
cheese as they did other articles of food because
they liked it, and not because of its exceptional
ibod value. In feeding an army in the ﬁeld it is
necessary to serve only such foods as are high
in concentrates. There can be little waste mater-
ial in army food. That is why beans, containing
as it does, a very high percentage of essential
food elements, is an ideal army food, and similar—
ly, we have just learned, why cheese should be
eaten in larger quantities as a part of every meal.

MAINE POTATO HARVEST NEAR
END; PLAN LARGE ACREAGE 1919

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, The potato harvest in Aroostook is nearing
completion and many of the larger growers in
~ the northern part of the county have already ﬁn~
ished. The yield seems to be on. a par with other
years, averaging 100 to 125 bbls. per acre. While
the quality is superior to former years. The sea-
son of 19918 for growing potatoes was ideal in
everyway. ' _
Thebelp question which, promised to be serious
{was vwelLtaken‘care of by the Federal Community
- Labor boards and. while prices averaged 35 a day
and up, the farmer had to have the help so paid
theprice. p _.
_ Already farmers have commenced plowing. for
amt year’s crop of potatoes and even the high
price of fertilizers seems to have little effect on
the wage for I919.
MinyMsine farmers- plant. as high as. 100 to
200. acres of potatoes each year, involving an in,
vestment in seed, labor, fertilizer, etc., of $10,009“
armors. - ' ‘ '

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IDAHO GETS INTO? BEAN GAME”

.-cThe Section ,a/bout Moscow, Idaho, has just ﬁn—
~ .iehedharveetlng‘ one of the largest bean crops
ever grown. In spite of the enormous yield prices
have been remarkably high. It» is believed the
average.‘yield,_ior the. county will run about 700
‘15:; be; acreqsome e-growiars have 'received as
' .hi‘gh soli’IOG'hn acre iforwth‘eir production. Many
'reISersllwill'stt “more. for their been crop this year
than the landﬁll which the, Cropwas raised is

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‘ _WITI_I ;A LARGE CROP

\, JACKSON MILK snonucsns COURT _

that the farmers“ supplying that city with an:

- compelled to cancel fully 30 per cent 0

‘ the M. B. F'.
‘ ajioni oi that _
_Gladwin. cotfnty, ‘Miehlgan.

INVESTIGATION BY CONSUMERS
In order to convince the people oi Jackson

were not proﬁteers in asking for an- inerease in‘
the price of milk, the Jackson County Milk Pro-
ducers’ Ass’n, invited the JacksonvChamber of «
Commerce to appoint a committee to investigate
the cost of producing and distributing milk.
Jackson farmers have been getting about 6 cents
a.quart for October milk, which they claim is not
enough. Jackson consumers have been paying
from 13 to 14¢: per qt. for the same milk which they
say IS enough. Of course, we farmers all know
‘where the other 7 or 8 cents go to, but the aver—
age Jackson consumer didn’t. The Jackson coun-
ty farmer, however, proposes that Mr. Consumer
SHALL know where they go. I

The dairy situation in Jackson county is quite
similar to that prevailing in most dairy sections.
The farmers are not receiving as good a priceri:
the farmers in the Detroit area, but their costs
are just as high. Jackson farmers want 8 cents
a quart for October milk, and it is believed that
when the committee completes its investigation,
it will ﬁnd that the farmers are entitled to that A
much. °

Ofﬁcers of the Jackson county association have
been elected for the ensuing year as follows:
Pres, M. L. Noon, Leoni; vice pres, Thos. Smith,
Blackman; Sec’y, George Hamp, Jackson.

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The acreage of potatoes is less than last year
and this condition seems to prevail throughout
the southern part of Wisconsin's potato belt. Last
year most of the farmers planted a larger acreage
than normally and this was done for patriotic
reasons as well as the stimulating effect on. the
high prices of the previous winter. The average
yield per acre is something like 1.25 bushels and
the potatoes are of good size and nice clean stock.
Farmers have been selling freely; last week, how-_
ever, there was a greater desire upon their part
to store and the storage houses are filling up.

The beans have never been of better quality than
they are this year and the yield is a good one. :
An average of something like 12 bushels to the 5.
acre is expected. Some‘of the beans that, have
been threshed have gone as high as 20 bushels,
but this is not the rule. Farmers have commenc-
ed to haul this crop and are selling freely.

 
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Scarcity of Jonathan apples is so pronounced in
Eastern Washington that Eastern merchants who
have bought 95 per cent of the yield have been
1' their ship-
ping contracts. '

Seattle jobbers predict that what is now passing
as extra fancy will show still further shrinkage.
basing their forecast on the fact that some Jona~
thans are now arriving soft and wormy. The ex-
act extent offthe worm ravage has not been ac-
curately computed, but is constantly cropping out
on close examination.

Spitzenburg apples are about ready to move.
Winesaps are still some distance off the market,
but Eastern buyers are taking hold of them in
lieu'of the falling down on their Jonathan allot-
ments, and although picking has 'not yet started
numerous trades have been made.

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progress has been slow on account of the ram.
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ting on the lowgronnd’ and will make only about -
ball a crop. Apples have not been picked” and are 3
going to waste on acc6unt of the scarcity of farm
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of the trenches by Christmas" to—day, .

. foot the Militants, turning over to the Government
" all his unparalleled mechanical resources and a1-__
fmost daily conceiving more fOr war ’serVice;- mak-
' 'ing helmets by the million, and tanks by the thous-
' and, building “Eagle” boats, 220 feet long, by the '

_ able—~outlining his position.
I that nothing he could say or write would so force-

” y an henna. go,’ th origin
sums and ﬁnancialb eker of ,- he

score, turning out
Liberty motors for
aircraft by the hun-
dreds, and caissons
for cannon, all neat-
‘ ly camouﬂaged,» in
the great shop
whence the “ﬂiv‘
vers” once emerg-
ed at the rate of
3,700 daily—this is
a brief summary of
' the development of
the Henry Ford
today.
, They are run-
.‘ning him for the
United States sen-
ate out in Michi-
gan—his nomina.
tion being suggest-
ed- ﬁrst by the Dem-
ocrats, a party
with which he has
never afﬁliated.
Without effort he
won the nomina-
tion of that party
in the popular pri.
maries and ran sec-

lican primaries as

well. But shrewd
political observers believe that he will be elected
by not less than seventy~ﬁve per cent of
the total vote, in fact, that it will be so nearly
unanimous that nobody will ever know or care
which party elected him. For himself he seems
to give but little thought to the matter. His
formal announcement of his willingness to serve
made last June was succinct and to the point:

“At President Wilson’s request,” he said, “I
have decided to accept the nomination for Senator
from Michigan if tendered to me. Realizing that
there are exceptional opportunities for service to
our people during the present and coming read-
justment I am ready and willing to do everything
I possibly can to assist our President in this great
work. Every man must expect to make future
sacriﬁces and be prepared to serve wherever the
greatest need exists.”

Note that Mr. Ford looks upon the Senate main-
ly as affording an immediate opportunity for ser-
vice in speeding the war This man who a few
years agoV was ready to give lavishly of his money
and time to end the war by any kind of a negotiat-
ed peace, stands ready today to give his money
and all his time in backing up the endeavors of
the President to end it by force, by military vic-
tory, so that the black shadow of German militar-
ism shall no longer rest up on the earth. .

nothing. He has repeatedly said that he will not
spend any money to secure it. I doubt whether
even the enthusiasm of the campaign will lead

I him to do any active political work.

He thinks badly of his own ability as a speaker.
Some of his friends share this doubt. I have never
heard him in public speech, but in private conver-
sation he is a most electric talker. His manner is
alert, stimulating ,provocative of thought and of-
ten of opposition; his vocabulary large, his
thought, on subjects that interest him, swift, often
overrunning his speech. In this campaign he
holds there is but one issue, namely, the support
of the President in his efforts to win the war in
the speediest possible way. No spoken or written
words could commit Mr Ford more fully to this
policy than have his daily acts. Possibly he may
write a letter of acceptance~—a speech is less prob-
But he rightly holds

fully indicate his conviction as what he has done.

“I had not been ashore in Stockholm two hours,”
he said, in speaking of the failure of the peace
pilgrimmage, “before I saw that I had taken the

was enhanced, not lessened, by what I saw and
heard there. But my eyes were opened to the
fact that a peace which should leave the promot-
ers of war and the practitioners of militariSm still
powerful, controlling great nations and forcing
upon their pe0ples the barbaric ideas and cos-
toms of the militarist, would be a hurtful peace,
a peace that would be spent only in preparing for
further wars. ‘

“I saw then that the Whole neutral world was .,

afraid of Germany, and with {dad cause. For that

I country openly proclaimed that might was right, '
.- and had for ﬁfty years been building up a mighty
I army and navy. Morexthan that, she had been ed-

heating her peOple to the idea of seizing whatever '; ' 1

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ond in the Repub-p

For the senatorial. seat itself Mr. Ford Icares.

wrong course, and was attempting the impossible. -‘
The hatred that I had for war and for militarism .

see it
the industrious... peace-1014.981 .Ifhd eh
zens; jwho formed in. Germany, as e , 2‘

7 the real worth and wealth of the

that there was no 19113111”: a shadow Iota doubt as to _ ,
Germany's responsibility for thervva‘r ,and that

r-lor'ds were perfectly capable of doing to »
other neutrals what they had done to Belgium.‘
It was useless to try to organize an effective non-1‘
Accordinglf I came home convinced ,
. that the way to e'nd the war Was to‘ end militar- ,
ism, and that the way to-.end militarism Was to.

her

tral protest

smash the meet military nation of all me world-
even if in deingI it we had temporarily to develop

to monstrous proportiOns our ov'vn military and.

naval forces.-

“I was certain then that the, United States would
against its will be forced into participation “in
this war. It was apparent that the struggle was
rapidly assuming the character of a war against

future wars, and’ I oculd not see how our great...

peacedoving’ nation could possibly remain neutral
in the face of such an issue. Of course no one
could at that time forsee the precise aggressions,
such as the sinking of the Luéitania and the unre~
stricted submarine campaign. which furnished
the material incidents which led to the. entrance
of the United States upon the conﬂict.
could recognize the great moral issues involved,
the issue of military ambition as opposed to peace-
ful ideals the questgon of the right of nations to
aggrandize themselves by virtue of military power
alone, the problem of protecting the integrity and
existence of small nations unable to cope with
aggressive nations. armed to the teeth and ready
at any moment for a war of conquest.

“Above all it seemed to me that the great prob-

lem of the age was how to protect the people, the

home-keeping, industrious, peaceful people, not of

our own nation alone, but of allvnations, from the.

heavy burden that militarism laid upon them.
The prodigious cost of colossal armaments is in
the end borne by the industrious mechanic, the
farmer whose margin of proﬁt in his work is al-
ways narrow, the small business man and the
clerk whose earnings seldom exceed his bare neces-
sities. They pay the taxes that maintain armies
and navies and keep munitions factories, like

rupps, running full time even in eras of world-
wide peace.

“With all the world at war I could see only too

plainly that one nation stood out most promin-
ently in the completeness of its preparation for
war, and that it was the nation that had prov okod
the war. Its success would in the eyes of the
world justify militarism. To defeat militarism
forever we must crushingly defeat Germany. The
proposition is coldly logical. It works out as.
smoothly and as certainly as the working of a
good motor.
, “This is our job as a nation. When we have
completed it we will ﬁnd plenty of other isSues
to occupy our best endeavors. But while the men-
ace of militarism exists, our minds and our labors
should be concentrated on that alone. 1am glad
to be in a position to aid in this endeavor with my
factories and facilities for pushing war work. I
am proud to co-operate with the Administration
at Washington, and to devote all my energies and
means to the winning of this war. ,

 
DON’T believe in war. It is unbeliev—
able to me that any man with a shad-
ow of 10ve for his fellow beings should
believe in war with its unutterable cruel-
ties and barbarism, but I do believe in
THIS war. I believe in ‘it because it is
a war against all wars. When it is fought
to a victorious end by the United States
and our Allies,as asit surely will be, we
can impose upon the world such terms
as will make impossible forever the re-
newal of any projects of military ag-
gression and world conquest. We can
and will limit armaments, both military
and naval, in all the world, not of Ger-
many alone, but of our own associates-—
and of ourselves as Well, for we must be
on guard lest triumph breed militarism
in our own land. » 1
I was convinced”, as soon as I had an
opportunity to study the war situation
in Europe at ﬁrst hand, that this war
could be ended only by crushing the foes
of peace; Ever since I returned from
the Peace Ship 0 dition I have devot-
ed all my thought, energies and resourc-
‘\ es to this end

 
But I

great armies.

farms and worksho ‘

Pending- this happy censnmmation (if theIworlId'I .

war Mr. Ford is busy with War machines. .
Down near the junction with the Detroit river

. of a little muddy stream, which the early French.
voyageurs, who must have been celo‘r blind," named _'
ﬁve:
I walked
thrOugh an enormous structure of steel, concrete
and glass, 11 third Of a mile leng. 350 feet wide ,

the River Rouge, there has risen within ,
months a new manufacturing center.

over 100 feet high. From end to end ran five
lines of railroad tracks, three of them of rather
more than Standard gauge. On these there were

1 ﬂat cars of prodigious size. mere than 225 feet

long, and each supported by several trucks of 16
Wheels each. Seven of these cars were on each
of the three prinCipal tracks. 0n the ﬁrSt car was
extended a long steel beam resting on some plates

of steel punched as‘ for riveting, and slightly bent I

“The keel of an Eagle,” said my guide. “Dovvn
there at the end of the line you will see a ship
almost ready for launching.” “

Peering the length of the shun one could see
near the great door, a full quarte of a mile away.
the form of a ship readily recognizable, though
still lacking masts, funnels or deck houses. We
strolled along the track. At each of the seven cars
the mass of steel took on more understandable
form. Over every nascent ship men were clain~
bering. The clatter of riveting ﬁlled the air and
echoed from the lofty roof overhead, under which
traveling cranes were busily gliding, carrying
loads of plates to Where they might be needed.‘
But thereewas none of the smoke and heat of the
average metal- working shop. The rivets were heat-
ed in little portable electric . furnaCes easily
wheeled to the point where they Were needed. The
plates, which were deliwered to the factory in the
ﬁnal shape and size, were punched and bent to
shape cold by ponderous machinery designed for
that purpose.

At the seventh car we came upon an Eagle al-
most ready for launching. Her great steel shell
toWered high above the ﬂoor. Viewed from the
bow she looked likea-racer.
dicular prow, scarce half an inch in width where
it cleaves the water, was made to out, down'sub-
marines. Back Of it the steel beams and bulk-
heads crowd upon each other so thickly thatthe
tyro in mechanics can see that theyare there to
re—enforce and support the bow in the mighty
thrusts that will be asked of it. The whole bow
for thirty feet back of the cutwater is in "fact a
mighty ram, a steel-pointed projectile propelled
by turbine engines of about 3,000 horse-power
driven by oil fuel. The boats themselves are mere
steel tanks, no wood in any part; of the construc-
tion or ﬁttings, and to the eye of the landlubber
in their present state suggest the maximum of

discomfort for the boys in blue who have to man '

them. But as swift engines pf death they are ter-
rifying even while thus incomplete.

. When the war is ended these boats will be use-
less. It is impossible to conceive any practical
commercial purpose to which they may be put.
They are war engines only and upon their con-

' struction Henry Ford the paciﬁst, is congentrating

the best efforts of his extraordinary mechanical
genius. He is building them as a paciﬁst now——
but as a paciﬁst who sees the only way to get an
enduring peace is to ﬁght for it today with the
most deadly and terrible weapons that I04“ be
devised.

Any one at all familiar with ship-building
knows that ohdinarily a ‘ship is built on inclined
“ways ” its sides supported by upright beams or
stanchions, its weight resting upon an inclined
plane so that when the blocks which hold it in
place are knocked away it will glide into the
water. One of the problems of shipbuilding on a
large scale is to get sufﬁcient water-front for a
number of these ways. Building twenty-one ships

at a time, as Ford is doing with the Eagles, would .

require at least twenty-one hundred feet of water
front. Ford puts each ship on a car: They practi-
cally sustain themselves upright as they are being

built without ways, joists or props, and stand scl-
" idly on their flat bottoms.

When the vessel is complete. that is withdnt

_ machinery, guns or interior ﬂtitngs, a locomotive;

pushes. the car, boat and all out through the 1601.
foot high door and down to a series of parallét
stinger: tracks? lyin direct right augiés. t

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‘ stopping, here for’vengines, there, for guns, at an-
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‘ f .iplacid'uwater of the lagoon was a .clump of red- -
ﬂ [.7 ‘ “ . fig‘rootedqcéttages. 'IfaSked What it was. ' _ '
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. wen; “There $92000. sailor boys there, brought
from the “Great Lakes Training camp near Chi...
ago, They are being drilled so as'to~ be ready
Zion-Ethe. Eagles When the ships ‘are ready for
them.“ ' ‘. . __ . ‘ .
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‘jment? Well, apparently so, forgthe ﬁrst Eagle,
“ though aﬂoat, was hardly'outﬁtted in the middle
of August. But- when she is ready for her crewv
there will be-others in the water, and the sequence
'of a ship a day‘will be in full, running order. It
”Will not take long to empty the cantonment of its
_ 2,000 men when they'are calledﬂat the rate of
sixty a day, '
‘_ I'have been perhaps a little circumstantial in
describing the, Eagle shipyard, because it ‘is the
greatest contribution ,of Henry Ford to the ar-
~moryu of’the nation at “war." There is a pleasing
Sort of evolution. from the man who conceived and
financed the peace ship to him who is pushing the
building— of these ships-of-war. And in these days
of dominant Americanism “Eagle" is a better name
toconjure withithan wasOscar II. -
‘v The shipyard'is..M-r. "Ford's pet among his many
Workspdf we eXce‘pt the tractor plant—of which
more later. ‘Yet he looks upon it as a fait accom- 1‘
gilt; a thingdone, and needing no more of his at-
‘ tention. According to him this prodigious fac-
tory, a scant; six months in the making, is now
so thoroughlyworg‘anized‘, so completely systemat-
’ ized, that it needs no further attention from him.
Heexpects it tgrgo’ on~ mechanically like one oi."
hisoWn motors. At least, that? is the wayhe ex-
pressed himself _to;'visitors. 'But perhaps he un-
derestimates the amount of personal supervision
' - he-gives to his various plants. The general man-
ager of the shipyard,lf0rl example, said to me:
ﬂy “Oh yes, Mr. Ford is out‘here frequently.
never says when he is coming and seldom goes
through the'plant systematicallm Usually he slips
. in/byﬂa. side d’oorand goesdirect to' thespot where
' '7 " ‘sdmefspecial piece. of workis under way as tho
an‘yidea fer itsimprovement had sudenly occurred
tofhim‘. Not infrequently he dees this atrnight.
Sometimes when I. come'in of a morning I am
told-1‘: ‘MrJ‘F‘ord was here" about two o’clock last
night.’ His'suggestions following these visits are
always practical. He’isa born mechanic can
read the most Complicated blue-print at a glance
, and. has. a. singular. facility in discovering small
'errorso‘f' detailthat can readily beremedied. All
~_the time he keeps steadily ‘in mind the ultimate
end he seeks. ..With- us it is an Eagle 9. day and I.
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Two hundred of— these’ ships ‘are being, asked of
Henry Ford" by~the Government. When; they ap-
proach. cOmpletiOn more Will‘be ordered it the
war still rages and demande'more. What will
they costT‘ He does not know, nor does Secre
tary Daniels. They are being built. upon honor,

and for' patriotism. notproﬁt. The' broad acres-
of land, the colossal buildings, the decks and

;,whaIVQ§. the railroads." furnaces, submerging.
..cradle-—all the. prodigious equipment for the work
,eost'lhe' government not one cent. All this. war
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after year, they are known as "pals."

When a main makes a pal of another man he does
so because he likes the man himself—kilo must have

- the quality of brain—power which attracts and holds.

For years John Burroughs, world-famous naturalist,
Thomas Edison, inventor of e incandescent lamp,
phonograph and'moving picture machine, and Henry
Ford, manufacturing genius, have taken their vacu-
tiouo together and alone far away from haunts-of man.

It has been said here in Michigan during the pres-
ent campaign that Henry Ford’s success in building
the world’s largest manufacturing plant, was only
“luck,” that Henry Ford possessed no genius, not com-

. mon to other men and that he lacked the mental ca-
pacity to be a United States senator!

We submit the above snap-shot of the “three pals"
who have spent weeks together each year as evidence
of Henry Ford's brain power and a positive proof of
the man’s genius which will attract and hold among
his best: friends, two men of world-renowned genius,
each the leader in his line of this generation.

.“Birds of a feather ﬂock together." old, but true to

this day!

The blunder of New York State, which spent over
$150,000,000 on a barge canal and made no effort
to provide the barges is not going to be repeated
in the United States. Secretary McAdoo is repair-
ing that error by having the barges built at na-
tional expense. Now that the railroads have been
brought under government control and are to be
operated for'the public good, we shall see an end
to their ﬁght upon water transportation. It will
be utilized as a complement and feeder to the
rails. Our rivers of which we have scores capa-
ble of canalizati‘on ,will once again become public
assets, public highways. There will be plenty of
business for/my shop in building boats to carry
the good things of life instead of guns and armed
men.”

, I have said that the Eagle ships are being built
upon honor—~that neither the builder nor the
Government knows as yet their precise cost. This
situation is the fruit of the complete conﬁdence
that exists between.Henry Ford and Secretary
Daniels. _

“You want these boats in a hurry." said the
former in substance to the Secretary when the
Navy’s blue-prints were prepared. “We won‘t
kwaste time in ﬁguring costs or haggling over
prices. We will go ahead and build, and when
two or three have been completed we can report
on the cost and complete our contract then.” And
so it is being done.

Henry Ford holds that the citizen should take
no proﬁt from the Government for war work. But
as head of a corporation having other stockhold-
ers he cannot literally live up to this conviction,
for his associates have rights in the matter. Ac-

gether yeﬁr

LAUNCHiNG A 224-FO0T EAGLE EVERY DAY AT
' THE FORD PLANT, DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

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4. ' h'e other-manufacturers fell down on deliveries
stool, newsprint! our boys were going to the front
, hey wirodjor Henry Ford, in thirty days
._ [v.fo'r‘jmuking automob as had turned out
million trenchebelmetsi hen submarines
t‘ouiﬁ oopst and threatened ‘our shipping
in his t . ‘ ',§'ond,;twgo .hgd'..nev‘er-’£guﬂg=avgowébggt
’ '1 _o '_o,_.__y,u _o‘orhor‘n on _e an o, o‘
Wilﬁvoﬁiﬂgugoywhlch lib turned from its natural
order ”‘ vrpu‘st his ship-yardpthey. are launching
slip-every day! “An Eagle 8‘ day: keeps the
’ their 'm‘otto. You’ll b
can cure
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all his ens of the proﬁts accruingffrOmw,
work " done by“ the -. Ford Company... But these
preﬁts are unlikely to reach the ﬁgures whitih
have for years aroused-thewonder and. the 'env
of the ﬁnancial 'World. A - .
Before the war the Ford factories were turning
out from 3,000,to 3,700 cars daily._ Today they.
are reduced to 750 cars. The Government does.
'not‘utilize in full thefacilities thus liberated.
Though Ford is making or has made trucks, amy
bulances, artillery caissons, Liberty,.motor.s, cyl~
inders for other factories making these motors, ,
small tanks, and helmets, the great plant atiHighﬁ
land Park is employed t0‘1ittle more than 60 per
cent .of its capacity. For example, the war Des
partment commissioned Ford to build some small
tanks, operated by two men. Two such were
built and approved. After prolonged delay 1,000 of
the “Whippets” were ordered. But evenat that
the great plant will have ample facilities for
more ' work. _ '

This Seems to be an example of neglect by the
authorities of great mechanical facilities ready
to their hands. Mr: Ford did no‘ himself tell it
to me. The information came from a subordin-
ate. The master builder expresses nothing but
admiration for the way in which the war prepar-
ations are being pushed. and an eagerness to he
himself a Sharer in the great work. There is not
today a more militant American in our landthan
Henry Ford.

When Mr. Ford takes his seat in the Senate,
for his election is reasonably certain. that digni-
ﬁed body will ﬁnd itself harboring a radical of a
new type. He is unlikely to shock the sensibilit-
ies of the Senate as Tillman did in his earlier
days. for he is modcrate in speech and conven-i
tional in manner. But the politicalaideas he nur-'
tures in his ever-active m. rl are not of the’. sort:' _
that have found favor in that body—~—particularly
on the Republican side.

It is one of Ford’s glories that the monumental
business he has built up has been created and
ﬁnanced without aid from the great ﬁnancial ﬁg-
ures of Wall Street—~that is the way the average
man would describe the achievement; “without
getting into the grip of the interests,” would more
probably be Mr. Ford’sexpression. 0n the d‘om>
ination of all industry by high finance he is in;
clined to be bitter in speech. . _-.‘

“I know Mr. Hearst is all right in his opinions,”
he said to me with emphasis more than once.‘
“I don’t know him personally. but as soonas I ~Saw
in the country was at:
tacking him I said to myself, ‘That man must be
all right,’ and I have never had occasion to change .
my opinion.” , ,1 ~

This inveterate distrust of money monopolists.
extends to all other forms of monopoly—~except'
monopoly in the hands of the Government and the
fruits of which go to the people. Patent mOnopJ
oly awakens his ﬁerce resentment, a curious turns?
of mind for one who must himself hold so many ~
patents. __ .

“if I should go to the Senate.” he said, “one bf .'
the ﬁrst things I would do would be to begin an,
agitation for the abolition of all patent laws-0
They don’t protect the inventor or‘ stimulate if».
vention~that is an exploded theory. But they do
’ exploit the consumer. and place a heavy burden-
on productive industry. ' . ,

“In all my business career—and you may im:
ugine that I have had a good deal to do withpat-
entable deviceswl have never ‘spent a dol‘ar‘ de-
fending a patent, or hired a lawyer to undertake
a patent case for me.”

Machinery, after all. is Mr. Ford’s great panaJ
cea for earthly ills~including war. in a brief
contribution to a magazine, signed by him and
published more than a year ago, I encountered
this phrase: ‘ .. - .

"We must think more, about machinery. if this
war is to be won it will be won by the nation
that knows how to use tools and machinery. that
Blows the secret of quantity production through
standardization of one model.” _ "

His latest mechanical essay, his pet of the mo-
ment, is the Fordson farm tractor, .the small gas’
motor adapted for farm usage. This he insists is
a true war machine, for it will do the work of a
dozen men on the farm ,with one~.—or at most two
—to operate it. This constitutes in-his opinion a
real war service, because in a nation which has
undertaken to meet the food shortage in rather
more than twoéthirds of the ciVilized world, any-
thing that will multiply production aids in the
winning of the war. 'Fhuropositioii. is certainly .
logical. Mr. Ford has given it practical effect by ,
farming, with the aid of these m_otors,..the great
farm on the boundary line of Detroit which he is ’ ,._ "
operating. This is a farm, almost composed of ’
city building lots., But for his intervention ‘it
would no doubtlhave been staked off intot‘suﬁbdtg
visions by. the -.en:terprising,-real. estate; oper" "
who haversurrounded: his shipyard .«,smelteg ..
traction/plants with» their speculati 9 en” rises
—_which. he will balk by a system ‘ Leo"
housing. ,Hevihas. taken. from this f in" .
second year-of itsoperation.'som'e..60,,yg0j, 'f’ I,
gave. to thegovetii’mentt .

 
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CREAMERY CAN REFUSE TO AC; . ’
CEPT MILK WITHOUT CONTRACT

We are having some trouble in regard to sell-1
We have been
selling our milk to the Webberville conde’nsmy
About a month ago We dropped
off from the e,ebl lille wagon and set our milk
on a truck which goes to the Towars cream‘eiy
at Fowlerville.
ed to stop sending our milk to the Towars cream-
Q The superintendent of the Webberville
condensary, Mr. Ekhart.‘ went to Detroit and saw
Mr. Kennedy, the superintendent of the Towar
creamery and requested him'm stop taking our
milk as we were patrons of the Webberville con-
vdansary. We never signed a contract with the
Wehbervillecondensary or promised to let them

have our milk for any length of time. During the

summer when the milk supply of Detroit is run-
ning low. the Webberville concern supplies To-
wars with whatevw amount of milk they need at
[special price, and it seems that Mr. Ekhart of
Webberville threatens to stop supplying Towar’s

.with .milk if they take .us on as their patrons.

We have a just reason for wanting to sell our
milk to Towa'r’s. We live about twelve miles

from the Webberville condensary and the milk

would be on the road about. four hours. In the
summer we would have sour milk occasionally
and in the winter time frozen milk. and when
selling to Webberville we have to have two sets
of cans as the hauler does not go home this way
at night. If we could sell to Tower's station at
Fowlervllle our milk would be on the road only
a short time as it would be hauled on a Ford
truck, and a distance of only six miles, half as
far as 'it is to Webberville. We would get our
cans back the same day, thereby we would save
the use of one set of cans, and the price of haul-
ing would be less.

We would like some legal information on this.
Can Tower’s Creamery legally refuse to take our
milk at their station? We are members of the
Michigan Milk Producers' Ass’n. Is Towar’s not.
obliged to take the milk of all members that wish
to sell there? Now. Mr. Kennedy really wants
this milk thru here but refuses on the ground
that. the Webberville concern interiors. Please
give me legal advise on this situation. Has the
Webberville concern a right to inte1fere?—A R,
I‘oulci‘villc Michim

Inasmuch as these pail-ties to whom this refers
had never signed contracts, and had never made
us their selling agent——but were simply the nom-
inal, up-state, dollar members, we had nothing to
Co with the selling of their product. Consequent—
ly, we could not see our way clear to make any
interference in the program of Ekhart and Towar.

I suppose I understand this well because these
parties have brot this to me in several different
ways, and I have clippings from newspapers in
different parts of the country concerning it. The
basic principle is this:
derstanding is between Ekhart and Towar, if the

' Towar people do not want to take this milk’there

is no law to compel them to buy it.

When men make us their selling agent, and
sign an agreement. to that effect. then we have
some authority and exercise it for the stabilizing
of this industry—R. 0'. Reed. Scc'y Michigan Milk
Producers‘ A ”acid/How,

WHICH WI L YOU HAVE, CALI-
FOR IA SA'ND OR MICHIGAN?

‘Being a reader of your paper from which I ﬁt
lots of good advice on marketing my crops, I
want to ask your advice. I received'a letter from
California where I have a lot and some real es-
tate man wr’ote and wanted me to trade it for a
farm in Montmorency county located in the SE14
of NW1
east. Do you happen to know if the soil is clay,
loam or blow sand, or is it a trick to catch me?—
D. 8., Berlin. (Why don’t you change your town’s
name) Michigan.

The majOr part of Montmoren‘cy lies in the
great “sand belt” that stretches diagonally across
the lower peninsula thru the southern half of Al-
pena, Montmorency, Otsego, Kalkaska, Grand Trav-

erse 'and 'Manistee cOunties, and bounds the north—

em portion of Obeana, Newaygo, Osceola, Clare,
Gladwin Ogemaw and Iosco counties Consult
the map of Michigan on page 18 of this issue, and
note the location of Montmorency county with
respect to the other counties in this belt. Not all

N of the land. lying in this “belt” is sand. There are

thousands of acres of fertile patches lying in these
ooimtles like oases in the. desert, ,and the soil in
tﬁese patches is exCeptionally good

norm county there are such “patches." The

least central portions of- the county are very fer,

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In about a week we were request- '

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Q of section 1, township 31 north, 1ange 1 .

In Mont- ,

, jcrlbed is “light. ‘mﬂy aoil, ”
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for grazing purposes 21ml probably be taught
from the statedfor from $2 ”to $8 per. 11cm We do
not 1311anon the value of your California lot
may be. ;7 We do know that many people 111-
vested their money in Galatorniappropcrty without
looking at it By the time they got around to
visit the spot the wind may. have strewn it {or
and wide over the ,Q of the Paciﬁc. If your
lot is located in a good section, and the land is
not too poor, you would better hang onto it But
if it is nothing but blow and, as some of the lots
in California are, you might flip a penny for your
choice of California or Michigan rand. ' '

No LICENSE NECESSARY To
sum CAR or neurons.

re- Liberty bonds upwards. No man can questidn

I have heard that a permit, or license, was
trained for the shipment of a car of potatoes or
produce. Can you advise me it this be true?—
Roy Wickenmhm Oklahoman county.

It is not true that a grower is obliged to have
a permit in o'rder to ship his products.

Enclosed ﬁnd one dollar to renew my subserip-
tion to 'M. B. F. for one year. Please give me,'the
P. 0. address of Mr. Reed of the milk commission.—
0. G. Jackson, Oakland county.

Mr. R. C. Reed's address is Howell,

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INVESTING A LIFE-7 [MES SAVINGS. —~Un-
der date of October eighteenth, I received the fol-
lowing letter from an up- state farmer’s wife and
I will not disclose her identity either by naming
the county or giving her initials for obvious leas-
ons, although I give you my word that the letter
is genuine and lies on my desk as I Write this:

Dear Mr. Slocumz—Inclosed you will ﬁnd
circulars which are being shattered in this vi-
cinity. An agent has visited us three times and
is urging us to buy stock.

On account of ill health and the impossibil-
ity of getting help we have sold our farm and
will have about $10,000 to invest somewhere.
Could you kindly investigate the standing of this
company and report to us? Or would you ad-
vise us of some safe place to invest our money?
My husband and myself are both unable to
work hard like we used to. ‘

Michigan.

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Now let'us consider in order the subject of her

letter because it opens up a broad line of thought ,

and demands careful advice, because we .take it
from her letter the $10,000 will represent the lite

. savings of this couple and we will hope, that in

addition they have a few acres, a warm home and
a place to spend the sunset hours of their lives
with a little of the comfort they have doubtless

well earned, _both of them.

So far so an investment in the stock of the
General Casualty & Suiety Co'., of Detroit, is con-
cerned we cannot deﬁnitely advise until an in-
vestigation of their statement is made. The names
of the ofﬁcers included in the circular sent seem to
show some well and favorably-known Michigan
men are backing the company and it is undoubt-
edly a fact that old- line life companies have been
good and very proﬁtable investments. It is well,‘
however for the investor in any kind of a com-
pany in which stock is offered to the general pub-
lie to learn how much actual cash each of the
prominent omcers mentioned has actually invest-
ed in the company and also, how much commiss-
ion is paid the agent who sells you the stock for
his services. Usually these two facts established
will give :1 pretty good indication of how near you
are “getting- -in-on- -the ground-ﬂoor.”

The important poi t in the case we are consid-
ering newever is t e investment of a life soav-
ings amounting to $10. 000, so that the interest
Will help to support this couple who are already

“both unable to work 1151111 like we used no. ” First
of all, obviously, there must be absolutely no 1131;
of lacing this priocs'pa'l; the interest must'oome,
rain or shine. because it may be needed to keep
the doctor coming and the wolf away mm the.

.‘door/ An investment in any stock no matter how ,

safe it appears still bears a certain claimant of
risk. A farm mortgage made by a good banker

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Today the gorernment Liberty bonds of former

. issues are selling at

317% _'_-; '___.__ _-_; ______ ‘__.‘___.'-;__99 80
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2d .conv. 434s ;_ __ __~_~___. ,______97.30:

343. 41/48 _;;____Q ___________________ 97.24.
and their valuation has increased from month 15.,
I am told that U. 8. bonds sold during'
the Civil war reached a price as high as 116 in,
years following the close of that war, and certain—_ Q
ly our country was in nowhere near the ﬁnancier
position that it is today. The rumors otpence
'andtbe‘ possibility of the present war being brat
to an early close are inﬂuencing the price of

their absolute solidity. If the bond of the United
States g0vernmen2t possesses any element of risk,
then there is no absolutely safe investment in the
world. — _

We are safe in assuming then, that an imme—
men-t of $10,900 in Liberty bonds at the present
market prices, would net this couple from $4400 to
$500 per year or froth $33 to $41 per month. abso-
lutely sure. This is not much to\llve on, not in
these days, but would it not be better to be sure
of this cash coming in ev y month than to have
the-constant attendance o that unwelcome strang-
er .Worry at the table? The garden, a few chick-'-
ens, and a faithful'cow, will keep the larder al-
ways Well supplied and the little work involved in
their care will help to keep both of you in good
health. '

Personally, I believe that no,,.one can look ask-
ance at this couple's buying their bondsat the
best possible market price. The government has
taken no steps, so far as we know, to discourage
the legitimate trading in their bonds, they are
being sold and quoted on all the markets of the
world and if any one were entitled to take advan-
tageof the present prices, surely it would be this
little American couple who have from a lit“ time’s"
toil accumulated a nest- egg which they would be
thus placing all in Uncle Sam’s strong arm's.

No one man’s opinion should guide such an im-
portant. investment. Perhaps some will accuse
me of being ultra- conserVatiVe in my advice to
this couple They should go to a banker in whom
they have absolute conﬁdence and lay their prob-

, lem before him. and if he too, advises them, as I ~ -

have \he will be in a position to secure the bonds
for them at the best maiket price and arrange
the details of the transaction.

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HARRIS BROS MT. PLEASANT. ——Several
readers have recently written my desk asking for
help in adjusting accounts which the Harris Bros.
of Mt. Pleasant, a seed concern. which I hope you
will not confuse with the catalog house of Harris
Bros, who operate the Chicago Hous’e Wrecking
Company, as they have no connection whatever.
The concern at Mt. Pleasant is in the hands of a
retriever and we are trying to get some satisfact-
ion for our readers from that gentleman, who
does not appear to giVe very prompt attention to
the letters of complaint which are written him.
We, will report in this column as soon as we are
able to get some incouragement for you Who are
interested, in the meantime it might be well for
you to place in my hands a breif review and the
amount of your claims, if you‘have not already
done. so. Q - >

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CAN WE HELP you 1—1 am anxious to make .
this column the meeting place between our read-
ers and the men who are making good products
{or yodr use. In the business end of a farm paper
we are constantly in touch with most of the man-

'utacturers of farm machinery and farm-home im- _
provanents this gives a clear idea of the people V 4'

who are building good roads and who, and this is.
important these days, can make

prompt deliVery to you. When y'ou are thinking

‘of installing some piece of machinery, orare plan-"

ning to. build or buy, why not take us into your I

-_couﬂdence and see if we cannot be of assistance Q

to yam-Tum service will at least cost you nothing ,7
and if we are not able to help you or save yam.
money, you will of comm, be free to use Mr own
judgment. The whole slim of this weekly than
cover to cover is to be of genuine serum to; the
farmers of Michigan and I wantqhu":

to use every department at it with this,“

tways in mindlw—G at; 3 "

 
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data and misinformation,

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with"hundreds,.of thousands of fellow-Americans
the past 11133999.“ gradually under-
mined payout-failure to be. loya‘l‘ to any one but

   
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' .Yéllfﬁelf. _ .

“(goth presidents who have foIIOWed YOU in the

myﬁdtion90f [the most onerous ' and responsible

imsitipn i§‘_;the.f_woi"jld.j today have suffered] from
- your‘ajttacks, both in's'iduousand open.

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any old'friﬂend’ and. political comrade; the other, a

'pcl'it—ica‘l mppontnt' l,c‘harged with a task beyond

the- power, of, any-human being .to perform to the
satisfaction 'of a critical and necessarily unin-
fd’rnied countryﬁ-has never received from .you even
al‘suspsnrsion of, comment, a generous that or a
helpful ward. I have reaitygur’ public utterances
faithfully and I cannot re ll one occasion on

which, the winning'ofthe' war-has been ,put be-

fo’re'politics, or any Evidence of loyal support of
your Country inits travail has been shown, or has

called forth that eloquence and force of speech"

which you-have not hesitated to employ’to attack,

. destroy.
The poison ,ryou di-stil is often demonstrated.

Based- upon your irresponsible fulminations mis-

‘gtak’en opinions are formed, doubts are created,

faith shaken. In the household of your friends
and "family who look upon you as an oracle in

rmuchthe same attitudeof mind which inspires

the entourage of the Kaiser, ‘azfair estimate of the

‘ accomplishments 'of the present Administration.

is. impossible to attain.

, ‘ Intemperate langua e,
the result of conclusions g

drawn from insufﬁcient

is‘ all one ever gets.
They reﬂect you, and yourapparently, are not
capablenf a just judgment. Your vision is cloud-
edby partisan prejudice and ignoble jealousy that
abclose successfully
for our arms withoutland even in spite of your
efforts. You are reported in the public press as
having said ina latespeech' at Oyster ‘Bay' that the

"‘President’s diplomacy'was worse than secret di-

plomacy, 'it was almost treacherous diplomacy.”

. All who read these words .must have burned with

rage and shame.

Your sons have gone to. war.
They went like

countless others of our brave
You “gave" them only in
you
g ad

the sense that
were proud and

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. . ehandibeeause "I 'amﬁ'f’étinvinjced that I‘
.r-s‘péak to averyiarge and almost-unanimous con-
y ‘The admiration for y0u’which I, along '

       
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vised. It now‘ is “They Have Net Passed.”
Allied onslaughts and are giving ground
ed homes and with hopes that they shall
shows a wagon loaded »with the eff
realize that millions
under Prussian rule, we
of Prussian troops from

THE "FARMERS, MUST -

SOLVE THE PROBLEM

Mr: Editorz—In the last issue of M. B. F. you
ask the question: “What vﬁllbe the future of

~ the vMichigan Navy Bean Industry?” and my an-

sWer is: “Just what the bean growers choose to
make it." '

For my part I don’t feel that the case is hope-
less; in fact just such meetings as was held at
Saginaw, aids in a diagnosis of the case, and ought
to suggesttto bean growers that the farmers must
solve this problem. Mr. Kimball’s remarks before
the assembled bean growers, was just what might
have been expected, had the growers known Mr.
Kimball. ‘He has been one of the high moguls in
the bean game for years; has made a “swad” of

‘ money; been associated with those who know how

to manipulate markets, and he was put right
where he is by'those interested in handling the
bean situation. I am not saying that Mr. Kimball
manipulated things to his own liking since join-
ing the “dollar-a—year” squad but this I do know:
Kimball'is responsible for the publicity given the
little heckled-faced pinto bean, and when the war
.iswon and the whole history of this deal is writ-
ten, there will be some mighty interesting infor-

‘ mation brought forth for the beneﬁt of Michigan

bean growers;

 
to have them 0

THE ONLY WAY WOODROW 'COULD PLEASE THE COLONEL

 
Theirs was» the gift,
not yours. How many
other parents do you

- think have - done the

~ this last fact lies .per-

 
same thing and said 5
nothing?” ~__- ,. .

‘But’ it is impossible

for you to say noth-

Tﬁg about anything. In

haps the (one ,thing“
which . renders you

rdOVlNGVAN‘
harmless and power‘
loss excepting , per-

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ham, -to» exasperate. I, » ., wg‘/é//

We have been so long , >
and so, persistently »'
inoculated by small

d0ses of your venom,

s o m e t im es fevered

and distressed by it,\‘
that when-ﬂwe are ex-_
posed now',to~the dis- ‘ ”‘i
ease of Rooseveltis
we dd not take it: we '
remain Jenninfecj'ted-
a n d very healthy-
Only we . do , protest ._
that ' such utterances
asth‘e’ one I 'hav'e‘_cita‘ ,
ed are prejudiced, 'igs‘ '
norsn t,“ unpatriotio
and, disloyal, aﬁdgwe-

that Sior our own

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all along the line.
not again have to leave in the face of German advances.
of a peasant family,
of these people are still in exile from
can understand why President Wilson hopes
occupied territory at the earliest possible

‘of thevbetter good, of enhanced prosperity,

 
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Beaten back at every point, the enemy is retreating before the

The French peasants are returning to their ruin-
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their native lands and millions more still suﬂer
to bring about a general withdrawal
moment.

But let’s forget Kimball; we should all know by
this time where he stands. The Bean Division of
the Food Administration allows the local elevator
twelve per cent for picking and handling beans——
call that rake-off No. 1, and add the amount to the
price of the beans. The jobber is allowed ﬁve

per cent—rake-off No. 2, which you may now add. '

The bag will cost about forty cents, and the freight
will average fortyaﬁve cents per hundred~now cast
the total. The wholesale grocer is allowed twelve
per cent on this amount, which you may call rake-
off No. 3 ,and add to the cost of the beans. Now
allow the local grocer, who pays the freight, fur-
nishes the sacks and sells in pound lots, four
cents per pound for his handling. Now you have
a total cost that will surprise you. Just have
wife ﬁgure out the proposition and you will ﬁnd
it costs more to handle the beans than you get
for raising them and placing them on the mar-
ket as choice No. 1 navy beans.

And you will ﬁnd, too, that the total cost almost
places the beans in the luxury class. How can the
grower get more? By cutting off the proﬁtsirom
a half dozen middlemen. How can hedo that? By
handling the beans himself, and you know, and I
know that this is the only way out of the dilemma.

Just a word of criticism, then I am done. You
say that Market Director McBride was "appointed
to get ﬁgures as to the cost of producing beans.
Great Scott, fellows! Did you meet at Saginaw,
ready to talk “beans” and prices, without even
a few ﬁgures to show the cost of producing this
commodity? If your answer is yes, then someone
touched the fuse, and the premature explosion took
place, displacing some hot air, but barren of re-
sults—Levi McCraclcen, Macomb County.

OUR JOB AS ’A NATION,
BY HENRY FORD

(Continued from page 5) so Mr. Ford is indomit’
able in seeking out natural forces which can be
made to serve useful purposes. Waterpower is
just now one of his chief interests, and should he
get into the Senate before the bill on that subject
now pending in CongreSS shall have been enacted
there will be a, rattling of dry bones. * * * *

If Henry Ford had not done the most practical
things in the world if he had not built the car for
the multitude the tractor for the poorest farmer;
if he had not ﬁxed a new liberal and seemingly
Utopian scale of wages in his factories and made
money out of it, the world would call him a
dreamer.

For he does dream dreams,

 
But all are dreams
of
more comfort for his fellow—man. He is himself
the best interpreter of his dreams. Talk with him
and you will _be convinced that they are all capa—
ble of substantiation. He sees a world served by
machinery, with labor reduced to a minimum and
for directing which the workman receives a wage
higher than any maximum of which men have yet
dreamed. His dream of a peace to be accomplished
by moral suasion, it is true, was rudely s attered

by the reception given to Oscar II, but t e dream ,

of peace itself persists, and will he insists, be an
accomplished fact. ‘ _

“Peace? We’ll have it. We’ll get it for the
whole world and for all time. But not by talking
about it.
ing this war through to victory. By putting into
it all-of our men and all.of our wealth if neces-

sagy. Then when we have won we’ll cast all mil- .
itary and navalequipments, and all militaristic --

ambitions—including our own—into the scrap-

,heap. That's how we’ll get peacr,” says Henry

Ford.

   
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Former President Bean Joblprs’ Associatiﬁ "
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. on Essential Points of Navy-
Pinto Controversy

In a recent ‘communicatiqn to the Saginaw -

'News' Courier, Mr. W. J. Orr, formerly president
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someo o»the' statements made by K. P. Kimball of

the b an division, at the growers’ meeting at Sag- '

inaw Oct. 10th and 11th, and interprets the action
of the bean division in exactly the same. light as
viewed by M. B. I".

This publication was the ﬁrst to uncover the
true facts relative to the purchasing and adver-
tising of pinto beans. and the ﬁrst to point out the
dangers of this action to the navy bean industry.
In our early editorial discussions of the subject,
we clearly vindicated the right of the bean divis-
ion to buy pinto beans in preference gto navy beans
for army and navy uses. This has not, in fact, at
at any time been‘a point in the controversy be-
tween the navy beau growers and the bean div-
ision, altho Mr. Kimball at the Saginaw meeting
tried to make it so. What we protested against
and what the bean growersand jobbers protested
against was the unfair publicity methods adopted
by the bean division to popularize the pinto at the
expense of the navy. And when Mr. Kimball ex-
plains elaborately why he'was justiﬁed in buying
pinto beans for the government he evades the
real point at issue.

In his statement to the Saginaw paper, Mr. Orr
merely emphasizes the numerous facts and con-
clusions, set forth in previous issues of this/pub-
lication. To show our readers that we had a cor-
rect and comprehensize grasp of the situation, we
are taking the liberty of reprinting some, of Mr.
0r1’s remarks thereon:

“The question of discrimination raised by the
Michigan jobbers and Michigan bean growers as
well, was the effort made by the Food Administra-
tion to crowd the Colorado beans into the market
of this country. through large shipments to dis-
tributing centers, to be sold by brokers

“When Governor Sleeper and the committee se-
lected at a largely-attended meeting of growers
and dealers, held in this city last spring, went to
Washington and presented the case to Mr. Hoov-
er, in the presence of Mr. Kimball, Mr. Hoover
appeared surprised. He stated his understanding
of the purchase of Colorado beans by the food ad-
ministration was for Belgium and that som' ship-
ments were made into Chicago and New York for
the larger cities

“Mr. Kimball was asked by Mr Hoover about
the advertising of the pinto bean, and his evasive
reply was—“they had not hesitated to sell pinto
beans to anybody wanting them.”

The committee had with them proofs of the ad-
vertising of the pinto bean, especially by the food
administration, but did not show them at the
conference, apparently because Mr.
already objected to such advertising by his de-
partment. Michigan jobbers and growers consid-

er it discrimination of the worst kind for the food .

administration to be pushing the advertising of
the bean product of Colorado to the detriment of
the bean product of our own state. But no fault is
or was found, or criticism made as to the govern-
ment purchasing western beans for its uses.
“The franking privileges of the United States
mails were used to advertise the pinto bean thru

the food administration of Colorado, by stickers

on envelopes. That was taken up with Mr. Hoov-
er and amicably adjusted. It is to be understood
that we are all quite well aware that in his pol-
icies, Mr. Kimball but followed out what he was
used to doing when in business in Colorado, and
when he was the ﬁrst to introduce the pinto bean
into the markets.

“The differential between raising pinto and
Michigan beans is from .3 to 4 cents a pound.
That is it costs that much more to raise the Mich-
igan navy bean, owing to 'higher priced land, the
much more careful and expensive methods of pre-
paring the Michigan bean for market, and other
conditions.

“Taste, ﬂavor, and quality are largely in favor
of the Michigan navy bean. And it is a fact that

the United States food administration was com- ’

pelled to gather up their large consignments of
pintos, distributed over the country, and ship
them oerseas. Mr. E. T. Klum, of Cincinnati,

istated to members of the recent jobbers’ meeting

that a very large quantity of pintos was consigned
to him at Cincinnati, and he was unable to do
anything with them throughout the three states
he covered. Michigan navy beans sold much more
easily though at much higher prices.”

JGAME AND FISH COMMISSION

SELL TROUT IN DETROIT

One of the hardest punches yet handed to 01’ .
Hi Cost of Living was delivered last week in De-

Hoover had ,

beans as}: 31.30 to 3L‘16 per bushel for potatoes
,Theroisnoreasonthatwecanthmk of‘whythe

city of Detroit or why the state of Michigan this
its marketlng buroau', should not sell beans and
potatoes to {the consumer at cost. Undoubtedly, it
the supply were secured direct from the tamer,
beans could be sold at m 12 to 15 cehts a
pound and potatoes at from 31 to 31.25 poi- bushel.-
The idea opens up a wide ﬁeld of pooslbilities any-
way. All it needs is to have someoiie with coinage
and gray matter transform them int‘o possibilit-
ice and ﬁnally realities

PREPAREDNESS IN SEED CORN
HELPS TO GET GOOD .CROP1

The word preparedness is a very preminent
one at the present time. It is broad in meaning
and elastic as to application. In the agricultural
ﬁeld it plays a very prominent part towards pros-
perity. Now is the time to select cars from the
ﬁeld to be used for seed while it will soon be time
to test the seed for the coming year’s requirement,
especially corn as otherwise a perfect stand can
notbe expecta and as it costs .just as much in
time and labor to plant and cultivate a poor
stand as a good one, the farmer should take ad-
vantage of everything possible to minimize the
cost of production and to increase his harvest by

_ producing maximum yields.

There are several ways of testing corn, but
from personal experience with each, the One I
have found best suited to my needs and liking \'
is as follows:

Take a bdxlwit'h bottom, narrow sides and ends,
any size desired that can be equally divided into
about two inch squares. I have ahandy small
testing box which is sixteen by twenty-two inches
inside measurement, with sides and ends four
inches high. All along the top of both sides and
ends I have driven shingle nails, two inches apart,-
leaving about one~half inch of, each nail above the '
board. I took a heavy piece of wrapping cord
and put around each nail, running lengthwise
and then crosswise which divided the box off‘
into 2-inch squares, as shown in the diagram at
the bottom of page

Fill the box about three- fourths full of sand.
When ready to test the corn, shell off ﬁVe grains
from‘dii‘ferent portions of an ear, placing these
grains in square number one. In the butt (and of‘
this car place a small peg on which is written
the corresponding number. These pegs, which are

‘ about the size and shape of accompanying
diagram, are made of any thin ‘wood, are ,/
numbered tozcorrespond with the numbers
of the squares in the box, and will last
indeﬁnitely. Take ﬁve grains from anoth-

'er ear of corn and place in section two,
placing peg number two in the butt end
of this ear, and so on until all sections
are ﬁlled, then cover with about an inch
of sand. ‘

The ears containing these pegs are

carefully put into boxes fOr' comparison

after germination. I prefer pegs for numbering

in preference to any method I have as yet tried,

as they take up no space in storing the ears, are

easily removed are absolutely accurate, and can
be used over and over again.

To be sure no mistake will occur when placing
or removing the corn from the testing box, have
the ﬁgures of notation all along the-sides and
ends of the box. I took numbers from an old
calendar and pasted on to correspond with the
squares, and these ﬁgures were plain and of good
size.

Keep the sand well moistened at all times and
as near germination heat as possible. On top of
an incubator, I ﬁnd, is an ideal place. -

" general use among bean buyers by the assumpt-

best care of corn, quite an increased yield

acre can be secured. Even a few bushels per we "I,

.would help to build up the farmer’s bank account

-—-Rich Loose Home.

MICHIGAN BEAN GROWERS’ CON- » I
VENTION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS

The ‘Michigan Bean Growero’ Convention at
Saginaw, Mich" Oct. 10th, adepted the following
resolution:

“Whereas there exists a trade practice on the
part of elevators handling beans in charging the
grower in the preparation of beans for market
as follows. / The deductions "made for unmarket-
able stock are charged against the grower at the
price paid for hand labor in picking when prob-
ably 50% of the work is 'done at a very nominal
cost by machinery. In addition thereto, the cull
stock, which has a value for feed, is retained by
the buyer. We therefore pray that the Federal
Trade Cbmmission take an early cognizance of
this complaint, and if found inequitable, that
such an order will be issued as will correct this
trade practice.”

We further explain the “Reardon schedule” in

ion of one bushel of beans being offered for sale.
The 60 lbs. is found to have 10 lbs. “pick"; the
price of beans is 100 per pound; the credit then is
$6. 00 with a debt of 10 lbs of beans at 7c per lb;
this latter Jtem being made up of the price of the
beans plus the cost of picking, which is =70, or $6
less 31. 70,‘ or a total return to the grower of $4. 30.
It is alleged that the cost of picking the beans by
mechanical pickers is around 10c, and that then
there is only 5 lbs to be picked by hand labor and
paid for at the rate of 7c per pound and that there /
is still value in the'ten pounds of approximately
20c. The actual service rendered would then be
5 lbs; pick for labor, $.35 plus 10c for machine
work, or a total of.45c; and against this there
should be a credit of 200 for cull stock for feed-
ing purposes, leaving a service cost of 25c for
which is charged 31. 70.

In some places in the United States, the prac-
tice would be for the grower to give the buyer
71.6 lbs. of beans. That is 60 lbs. which contained
the 10 lbs. of rejects. There would be added this
amount plus the rejects in this 10 lbs, or 1.6 lbs.
You will note that in this way the gro 181' would
get $08. 84 per pound; while under the prevailing
practice, he gets $07..14

It is also to be said that there are some over
head costs, some shrinkage, and mechanical loss-
es. However,’the situation demands some satis-
factory determination, and we trust for your
early action—Very truly, A. B. 000k, President.

THE AVERAGE POTATO PRODUC- ‘
TION HERE AND ABROAD

The average potato production" in the United
States is 100 bushels to the acre While the Europ-
ean countries average between 300 and 400 bush-
els to the acre. Bear in mind that is not an oc-
casional case but is the average production in
those countries. 1

You naturally ask, ‘why the difference?” .

There land is no better than our land and the
farmers are not morerintelligent than our farm-
ers. The diﬂerence; is due to more careful farm-
ing, based on specialgpotato fertilizers being-used
and this again is possible because the farmers
there know that they will get a proﬁt on the cost
of production, while here, potato production has
been nothing but -a gamble.

Thus, before the war in a ten-year period, the
selling price of potatoes in Germany had not var-
ied more than 15c a bushel, while in'the United
States it generally ﬂuctuates from 50c to 31.50 in
one season. .

Government authorities and enthus- nets are
urging larger production of potatoes and can’t un-
derstand why the farmers do not ran all over/=

“ themselves to comply with their suggestions

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are merely federations oi

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"as representative of the interests and

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. of these Organizauo‘ns was not greatly ielt
open1ng of the war but mistakes and dis-

rmimtions soon amused them to activity and
legislation at recent months has reﬂected ,.

the power of these federations:

ing the National Board of Farm Organizations,
the following “declaratiOn of principles" was

. adopted. They are worth the careful attention of

every farmer. ’

The National Board of Farm Organizations
and cooperating organizations of American farm
era; representing that part of the American p601
pie which ’dWe‘ll‘s in the country, sends its greeting
to the millions of men, our own and our Allies,
who in the trenches, in the air, and on the sea,
are ﬁghting the battles of the Republic, as well as
to the other millions who at furnace, forge and
bench 'are producing the other necessaries‘ for
war.» To all these, we the organized farmers of

. America, relying on the promise that seedtime

and harvest shall not fail give our pledge that
to the limit of our ﬁnancial and physical strength
they {shall be clothed and fed

- 2. This war must be won The Prussian war
lords must now be made to know how America
can ﬁght, and we denounce that small but per-
sistent faction who are seeking a

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V ’ ws which they did not make, and

the): canhot repeal. Between than two

are powerful agencies whose only interest it is
to. take such tell as they may,‘ as products are
pas-sing from producer to consumer.
cies, by r n of their ﬁnancial strength their
perfect organization and their tar-ﬂung ﬁnancial
connectibns, exercise an inﬂuence far greater than
is warranted by their numbers or the service they
perform. ‘VWthherefore urge upon Congress the
necessity of such an amendment to the anti-trust
laws as will clearly permit tarmers’ organizations

to make collective sales of the farm, ranch and
At a convention of the organizations compris-

daimr products produced by their members. Such
organizations, with liberty of action, can insist

that the agencies engaged in processing and dis- 1
tributing sell such products at prices as low as
may be consistent with the cost of production and,

dietribution.

8. :We demand that» the agricultural affairs of
the nation shall no longer be controlled by the
city man and the city mind, but that in those
things which 0 incern life in the country the farm-
ers of America shall have the sanﬁ chance to be
heard and to control their affairs that commelcial
and ﬁnancial interests have long enjoyed and that
was properly demanded» and lately obtained by
organized labor.

9. We- call attention to the distinction in the
principles applied in regulating the different ill-
dustries of the cqu-ntry. These principles may be
stated generally to be, one a regulation of proﬁts,
the other arbitrary ﬁxing of prices. The latter is

the principle that has, been applied to farm pro—

These agen- .

'of consumers with whom the organizations

railroads, and urge that it be given a fair 1:11.11 "

the end that if found to be advisable it may he'-
come a permanent pelicy of the Givernmen-t.

14. The natural resources of America belong
of right to the people thereof

.We hold that the;
coal and iron, 3the oil and natural gas, and the

water powers still remaining in the public own— ‘

ership ‘should never be allowed to pass into pri-
vate hands, and we believe that the coal, iron,

_copper and phosphate rock not now controlled by

the Government should be acquired and taken-over
with the least placticable delay, and 11 leased toVbe
leased only for a limited period for immediate de-
velopment.

15. . We extend a fraternal greeting to the great
labor organizations of the country and express
our appreciation of their determined stand in the
winning of the war. We, as they, labor with our
hands.
it is to individually cope with the great organiza-
tions of middlemen and employers, and wesug-
gest concerted action and urge the organization
of
producers may meet in conference, believing that
such conference will tend to allay and remove any
feeling of antagonism which may now exist be—-
tween the city and country, and that by the joint
conference of these organizations the monopoly of
the middlemen may be curbed and ﬁnally over-
thrown.

16.
convention appoint a committee of such number
as he thinks best to represent the farmers of the
country in that readjustment of social. economic
and ﬁnallciul conditions that will come after the
war.

17. We send our greetings to the

 
premature peace and voice the con- \-
viction that the industrial as well as
the political freedom of the common
people in all lands demands the ﬁnal
overthrow of the German military
‘autocracy. No, negotiated settlement

permitted. A draw’ means another
ﬁght; This War must be the last
The terms of peace as ﬁnally con-_
cluded must be dictated by the Unit-
de States and its.heroic Allies.

3. We voice the thought that the
plain people, of whom the farmer
forms so lar'gb a part, should at once
prepare for the period of readjust-
ment that Will come after the war.
The world is in the crucible From
it must come from it will come, bet~
ter conditions for the‘ people, or'
from will come worse conditions
than those heretofore existing The
war ,is remaking the world. In the
new order. which is being rough- cast
on the anvil of war, and is to be
shaped agid ﬁnished on‘ the anvil of
peace, the plain people must rise
to new levels, or sink to lower levels than the old.

4. We call upon the farmers of America to re-
member that liberty, after victory on the battle-
ﬁeld, may be defeated at home, and we declare it

 
' to be the duty of the great body of farm and in-

dustrial workers who, patient and resolute wise

U and s'trOng, form the backbone of our nation, so

to guide the reconstruction which will follow the

VV' war’ that justice and equal opportunity shall at

last prevail. The war must be folloWed by a new

" - order in which every man and woman shall be se-

VV cured 1511.. the certain possession of a good educa-
- tion, a chance to work, a fair living when work-
'ing, an equal vote, reasonable leisure, care

in
siéknéss,protect10n in old age and an equaL share
in the Government.
to Vmake. Our country a better place to live in is
Withollt parallel and without prospect of being
repeated. It. must not be lost.

5 We declare that our interests as farmers.
‘ai'e not different tram the interests of the nation

as a whole, and that our efforts to secure an oppbr—
tunity for the greater production needed to win
the war are based not alone open the legitimate

desire to psomote- the welfare of the country peo-

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ducts. So far as regulated by Government, ac-
tual and, in a. sense arbitrary prices are determ-
In other industries, so far as there has been
government action, it has been by a regulation
of proﬁtsor of price based on assured profits,
thus assuming that such industries ﬁrst received
their costs of production, while with agriculture

‘ prices are determined without sufﬁcient consider-

ation given. to the questions of production.
10. We have heard with real interest the rec-

ommendations of the Federal Trade Commission

that the Government acquire the rolling stock,
stock yards, privately-owned refrigeratox cars.
branch houses, cold storage plants, etc., of the
‘meat paCkel-s and that the ownership and opera-
tion of these agencies be declared a Government
1110110130137. to th end that there may no longer be
ﬁrivate mono lies of these vast agencies We

heartily concur in such recommendations\of the

Federal Trade Commission and urge their adop

11. To waste any of the necessaries of life is
now inexcusable; We deplore e waste of man-
power of illél and of food, now committed in the
manufacture of alcoholic beverages. We urge the
immediate prolrerition of the liquor trafﬁc during
the war, and we further urge the ratiﬁcation of

" the amendment” to the Federal Constitution for-

ever prohibiting. the liquor traiﬁc and call upon
forward-looking men in all the States to work and

vaote to the some,

12. V the permanent acquiring and op-
erating be the Government of the telegraph and

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of our Allies, and es-
pecially to the heroic women of
France Italy and England ,w,llo
ubilc (be younger men are holding
the line hale lendexed the most in-
dispensable of all serxices to the
cause of liberty.

food producers

DON’T MARKET ALL
YOUR POTATOES NOW

The potato crop has no carry-over
into the next crop year, except that
a small remnant remains to be mar-
keted when the early potatoes oi? the
next year begin to arrive. it has
been ascertained that the month
when the smallest fraction of the
year’s crop is marketed by farmers
is June, and this is l per cent. in
July the percentage rises to 5.8 and
the gain continues to 8.3' per cent
in August, to 13.7 per cent in .Sep-
tember. and to 23.5 per cent in Oc-
tober. when the maximum is reach-
cd. Thereafter the percentage de-
clines to 11.8 in November. 5.8 in
December .and to 1.1 each in Janu—
uary 21nd February. In the spring the pota-
es move mere freely from farms and the two
tion of the crop that is marketed in March and
April is 6. 7 per cent. followed b1 21 decline to 4.9
pm cent in May and 4 p91 tent igJune. Nearly
one-iourlll of the potato map is sold by farmers
in Octobel and mm onetenth in each of the
months of September and November or nearly
one half in [11190 months in the main harvest sea-
son

Yet this year our Wisconsin farmers are trying
to market all their crop in the month of October
and then are surprised to ﬁnd the market gone
to pieces and the lower it goes the more frantic
do the growers become to rush their potatoes on
to the market. This is worse than folly, is in fact
criminal, as it is playing directly into the hands
of the speculators. They are now ﬁlling their
houses with cheap potatoes and will later on reap
the proﬁts. Even if we should have 'an immediate
peace, potatoes will be high this winter. The crop
is not a normal one and the immense need of the
government alone,will insure good prices if mar-
keting is done gradually, so don' t be in a hurry,
but go slow especially at this time *Organizcd
I“ a) wing.

 
Appreciative Reader of M. B. F.

I have taken your paper almost, one year, and
the only farm paper "

intend to stick to it, for it '
I ever saw. I really think you are on the farm-
er’s side for light I am trying to persuadeggyv
brother farmers to take it —J E
ilac county.

Ainswo’rih, Stm- ,

We, as they, have found how impossible. —

 
We recommend that the Chairman of this

Hiilm‘mliiliiilMint. mi"...

 
BILLION BU

_',,But World Will Need All the
‘ Wheat Farmers Can Raise in.

. the Next Three or

- Four Years

 
The government’s October estimate
placed the total yield of wheat at
919,000,000 bushels and it is believed

1' , that the ﬁnal December, estimate may

. even exceed this ﬁgure. While this
V .118 one of the greatest wheat crops on
~record, it is not by any means in ex-
cess of the world’s needs. Every bush-

_ el of grain that can be grown by the
United States and Canada will be need-
ed the next three 01 four years, regard-
less of' when peace comes. Comment-
ing upon the future market for Amer-
ican wheat, the Price Current-Grain
~ Reporter'says:

“The peace talk should be ignored.
It means little as far as the demand
is concerned, and Herbert Ch. Hoover
is quoted as saying that the effect of
the war will be felt for many years.
It was unpreparedness alone that has
allowed the war to continue so long,
and now that conditions as to food-
stuffs are known, it would be worse
than criminal to be unprepared for
any demands that might be made. The
same logic applies to bog products. The
reserves of foodstuffs of the world
have been greatly reduced. and it
will result in continued heavy de-
mands in order to restore the bal-
ance. The large supplies said to be
held in Australia. Argentina, and In-
dia will have little actual bearing on
the situation, although under normal
conditions they would‘affect prices,
but price is a secondary factor when
nations must be fed. Before the war
Europe took over 500,000,000 bushels
of wheat per year. This was during
periods of normal production, where-
as present crops abroad are still far
short of the pre-war average. 'Russia
is out of the export column fo'r the
time being. The period of readjust-
ment from war to a peace basis must
come, of course, but there is no telling
when peace will be declared. In addi~
tion it will take a long time to demo-
bilize the troops, and they must be
fed until they are sent home.

“Those who believe that the preswar
level of grain values and other com—
modities can be attained overnight
are very likely to be only meagerly
informed as to tie conditions which
have been brough about by the war.
The economic scale of wages and
prices has changed to such an ex
tent that it may be years before they
reach a low level, if they ever do. A
man making $50 per week now is not
going to be satisfied with $15 just be-
cause peace has been declared. It is
not human nature, and farmers would
not be satisﬁed with 500 corn after
having secured $2. There is a broad
path in between pre-war and war pric-
es and wages, and grains should seek
their natural level, which is determ-

in'ed by supply and demand. and will _

probably ‘be somewhere in between
the two extremes. The country as a
whole seems to look upon $1 per bu.
for corn, track loading
about right under peace conditions.
and possibly 50 to 60c for Oats. It may
have been co—incldent but corn futures
started to rally only when the choice
grain reached that level. War mar-
. kets ﬂuctuate. violently, and swings of
j 10c per bu. more or less mean little.
Demand is of a hand to mouth char-
acterduring periods of great Changes

 
DETROIT .——0ats stronger;
‘ Beans Inactive:

in good demand; potatoes lower;

 
ier. No change in been or pet: to deal.

eggs in good demand:

slow; potatoes ﬁrm, market expected to advance 11' light receipts continue
dealers expect Iower prices. ‘-

CHICAGO.——Hogs lower, market dull; cattle and sheep ﬁrm; hay ﬁrm and

dealers think bottom reached

NEW YORK. ——Hay receipts larger and market lover; bitter m'arket stead-

poultry 1111111,; humer‘

 
' ' \
considered when cornxand oat values

are discussed.”

Somewhat ' contradictory to the
above opinion is a letter written by
J. H. Barnes, President of the .Grain
Corporation, to Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska declaring that further ei-
tension of the wheat acreage would be

unwise. Mr. Barnes said that a fair
yield from present large acre, with
peace developments opening new

sources of supply. ,would necessitate
congressional appropriation to make
effective the present price. guarantee.

 
No. ZYdIow
No. 3 Yellow
No. 4 Yellow

 
Rumors that U-boat
were a thing of the past and .that
shipping would be more free, togeth-
er with President Wilson’s uncom-
promising peace declarations, gave
considerable strength to the
market last week. A prominent brok-
erage ﬁrm is quoted as saying: “We
think that corn values are on a basis
which is low enough. If the war is
to continue, there is no reason for a1
further decline. If peace should ceme
at once, there might be further liquid.
ation which would cause a further
break, but in the end the demand for
all feed and food would be greater
with peace than it now is with war.”

OATS

 
GRADE Detroit 9‘." New Yuri
Standard 71 1-4. .09 1-2 .71 11
No. 3 White 71 .09 ‘ .70 ,1-2'
N..4 Willa .70 .91 1.2 .14 1.2

 
\There is no change in the oat mar.
ket. The government continues to be

a heavy purchaser and absorbs the sure '

. I

plus stocks as fast as they accumulate.

‘* A prominent grain trade paper

minds us that the goVermnent prom-
ised some time ago that it would pur-
chase 100, 000.000 bushels ' of feed

grains, and that there. is no reason for,
thinking that the actual needs will be'

any less than estimated The oat crop
is the third largest on record, and
with barley now taking the place of
oats in many instances, it is not be-

lieved that oats will go any higher.

 
depredations -

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2050 30002850 29 002750 2800
32 00 34 00 29 00 3100 29 00 30 50
3400 345033 00 34003200 3300
33 00 34 00 31 00. 33 00 30 00 32 00

 
‘ was quoted at $16315 and on us

, . 41 00 43 00 40 00 41 00 38 00 ’40 00 . ‘
BEN“! 7 Markets Choice round 4. Round White
Markets “I. 1%."1 d Cl N0 0.“: d CNIO. i Wind-“Cid I In
1 1102401011 I. over .- _ _ .
Dunn 23 so 29 o 2450 25 oo 23 so 24 no Detroit 2.10 cwt. mom.
Chitin 11 00 32 50 31 00 32 00 30 00 31 50 Cilﬂu . 1.70 1.65
Cid-uh 31 50 32 00 Ill 00 32 00 28 00 28 50 ,Cilcilntl . 2.50 > 2.3%
Pittsburgh 31 00 32 00 30 00 30 50 21 00 28 00 N." York 2.70 1 2.0 .
:9: York 42 00 44 00 40 00 41 00 39 00 40 00 Pllllblrlll 21K . 2.2-5-V‘
ll: non .. .

onziin ”rye; ‘
very brisk.'1‘uesd’ays market

at $195 to $2.05

Several farmers, noticing our‘quotaug"

tions on barleyjave written as asking

where they could secure a couple par-J =._,
We referr- 4' .

loads at the quoted price
ed the matter to a large Jobber in ’

grains, who after several weeks- 2.1-3"

vised us that bacley was very hard to r

 
get and the best he could secure was,

$47-50 per ton. 1.0.13 Minneapolis.- ~ By]
the time our farmer friends paid the v.
freight it would bring the cost up ,.

nearly to what the local dealers are

charging. There is plenty of barley to

be had, and it ought not to cost mere-
than $1 75 per cwt. at the outside. We .
are making another effort to Monte

ﬁrms having this feed for sale, and

will be glad to give a result of our

efforts in a later issue.

 
The past week was the ﬁrst to show
any signs that farmers are waking up
to the Crying demand for hay. Re
ceipts on the Detroit market were fai

‘ in excess of any, previous week this

summer and tall, tho short of the de-
mand which continues very brisk.
There has been no change of prices on
the Detroit market

The New York market shows a
slump, which so often follows a wave
of abnormally high prices. Some hay
sold in New Yorktwo weeks ago at

"$50 a ton, but more liberal receipts

have sent the price down to about $43
for the best grades. The Chicago‘mar-
ket is still ﬁrm, with no change in
prices.
very brisk. Much of the hay that
comes into the Chicago market is now
being bought by the government. It
is probable that hay receipts will con-
tinue to increase at least until snow
ﬂies, but there is no reason for believ-
ing, that prices will/ go much below
their present levels.

 
station r as” 90

111 "conditions. and ‘speculatlon is not
large on account of the immense risk. 'j ‘
.Wheatiils selling at $2.26."aud must be ‘

 
THE WEATHER

Storms J

3

WASHINGTON, D.
-—Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbance to cross continent Nov. 2 to
6, warm wave 1 to 5, cool Gave 4 to
8. First week in November will av.
erage cooler than usual and not much

C, Oct. 26, 1918

rain. Frost further scuth than usual,
moderate storms.

Next warm wave. will reach Van.
coux er about Nov. 7 and temperatures
. will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope It
will cross crest of Rockies by close
of Nov 8. plains sections 9, meridian
great lakes and Ohio- Ten ssee
valleys 10 eastein Sections 11.8.011-
ing vicinity of Newfoundland n'ear
November 12. Storm wave will follow
~about one day behind warm wave, 001)]
wave about one day behind storm
wave.

The week centering on Nov. 10 will

much rain.
willprevail and storms will be mod“
erate. Balance of Noyember will be
unusually Stormy and the
storms will be described in next bulle-
.tln. More rein last half than ﬁrst
half of November.

 
FOR THE WEEK

As torecasted by W. T. Foster for MICHIGAN Business Fumes

 
average warmer than usual and not ,»

Indian Summer weather , . amount of

severe '.

f Paciﬁc slope, always mentioned in I '-

our weekly forecasts. includes all the
country west of the 'ROcky' moun-
tain top ridge. located on Fosters
weather map I now have the weath-
er maps completed to end of 1921
printed In colors. They give my es- .
timate ofvcrop weather and crops for
North America

There was, no good reason for the
recent panic and great break in the
grain markets and the American pee--
ple Will put an end to the system that,
permits such events. as they put an»
end to the wildcat paper money sys-
tem that preceded the Civil War, and
the banking system that followed that
war and harbored money panics for,
forty years. Our market system
should be radically changed and the
robber system overthrown. -.

Agricultural producers should not
be discouraged. America must feed
Europe and Mexico till the 1919 crops
are marketed and I advise tarmers
not to sell their products during these
market panics. No good reason can
be offered why the farmers should
not receive $2. 50 per bushel for wheat
at the principal markets. We who
live in ~the cities are paying prices
that are equal- to $3 wheat at those
markets I am expecting the coming
winter to‘ be bad for winter grain and
hard on live stock, requiring a large
.. . Everyone ‘ should
prepare for higher prices.

\

 
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Receipts are light and demand .1

“ supply or cars so far, but wit the
giter part of October here Jen _
agar; disguired new we ' ‘

 
The potato market is not acting. any
differently than usual in the fall of
the year. The movement has been ab-
normally heavy and it is.a wander
that prices have stayed as high as they

are. Fully two weeks ago farmers be.
gan to realize the folU of dumping all
the potatoes in the country upon the

market at one time, and sales at":
country warehouses have since fallen .
off. It farmers Will hold off for a fevv“
weeks longer, dealers believe that the
market will recover and prices go
higher. The prices to farmers in.
Michigan this week have - ranged

around 80 cents per bushel, in many
s, and in a few sections
a triﬂe mor. ‘ As usual the G‘reenville
market quotes the highest price of
any in the commercial growingI sec«
tions, dealers paying 90 cents per bu.

on Saturday last

Speaking of the potato situation the‘

Chicago Packer says: '.-,~ - '

‘T-he potato market continued easy
and during the early part of the week
ending October 18 prices were some
what lower than .1 week ago. It was
the general opinion among the carlot"
operators that, prices had reached bot-
tom and that j11st"’:1s soon as the ac-
cumulation in the different markets
had been cleaned up values might be .
expected to advame

“Due to the decline in prices in all
the markets. and the. consequent re-
duction in. paying price atloading sta.
tibns, the growers have not been haul-
ing as freely as heretofore, and the
average daily shipments from all sec-
tions have dropped from approximate-
ly 1000 cars three weeks ago to an
average of 700 cars daily during the
present week.

“This market is undoubtedly typiA
cal of others in that liberal receipts

and light demand of the last two weeks

has caused considerable accumulatitin
of cars on team tracks and in the out-
er railroad yards. It the light shit).
merits continue this accumulation,
should be cleaned up by the middle at
next week. which in all probability will
mean that the market would then taktt’
an upward tendency. ~
“But little difﬁculty has ‘11
perienced in obtaining an ’ '

  
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. .-.No{"cliange in the bean’markeL, The

“ .;V~;eastejmzdeniand" is light and that’s the
_:' ';w.,-.-plac"éj where most _,of the Michigan
".}~;”fbeans"gor.; The condition of the market
is 'decidedlf‘hnsatisfactory,r and. some-
. {thing of. either a bearish or bullish na-

’ ~' tare—must happen in the near future.
,F‘VWhichIkind. of an inﬂuence and et-
ﬁectgzthisfwill be We are .unable to say.
Judging trempres‘ent indications there
*are more. chances! that beans will go
“lawyer than higher. Another months
should tell the story anyway?

    
"V ,Theuutter .market is “off” again. ~v

. Prices aretoo high ~for the storage

. folks}, .’ Fresh creamery ﬁrsts

_1 “quoted at 54% cents; fresh creamery
‘ "iiextras at 55 to 551750. ‘

“New York Butter Letter

._ «(By Special Correspondent)
Ngw'.York; 0ct.,19.—Quot‘ations on
extras-«this week" have been: 'MOnday,

, 61c; Tuesday, 60c; Wednesday, 60c;
1 Thursday, 58c; Friday,, 58c; /

" ‘ Thaliihe butter market is extremely
.nervousis putting it very mildly in-
deed. The slightest change in gen-
.eral conditions has a- marked effect
on butter prices. Perhaps there are
many iadtors “to which can be attrib-
uted the; unusual condition at‘ present
but undoubtedly the controlling fac- .
tor ls the-refusal of people in mod- -

, ate circumstances to consume butter

, ,when'thei'retail price reaches a ﬁgure
,‘ approaching 70q__but without doubt
the ,prevalence of inﬂuenza in this
;-.City is responsible to agreat degree
for the limited consumption of butter

. inst at “present; New York has wit-
nesseda' Considerable inﬂux of butter
during th’epast week and .there are-

some accumulations,“ especially of
under-grades in some stores.

' At the close on Friday additional:
quotations Were as follows: Higher
scoring than ”extras, 58% to 59c; 1sts,
“56m 57%0; and seconds, 531/; to 55%.
Unsaltedbutter'is quoted at the usual

(ifferenﬁial above salted goods but

practically. none isnmoving.

  
' Eds; v‘Buﬁajlo'.;,L_iye;._§5tock Letter .

, .. EastiBziﬁalo, .N. Y.,0'c‘~t.221—-Re-,
CelptBQQ'f cattle. Monday, 200 cars, in-
.,-..cludirngf’25 cars left frbm, last.’week’s
. trade.,,.‘Trade§f opened .15 to 25c high-
er on. medium, weight and weighty
steer "cattle which were in light sup-
ply; butcher: steers- and handy weight
- *Bieer ' 801d steady; ’ tat. .cowsend 'helf't

_ ‘ 3 .-.~de “rate “supply, - sold,

- ' '1’ classes new «in.

steady; 'isanners .
. t .. ..

his media." ‘

‘ ones sold up 10:310.

was slow and

are.

    
i Best; lambs} sold

  
3»to."$13.50, and a few-.,very
_ is. soldu‘p to $13.75; yearlings,
$12 to. $13; weth‘ers, $10.50 to-$11.50;
ewes; $9 -:_to~‘“‘$9.5;0, and some fancy
. , About 12Jcar<
feeds-pf good lambs went over unsold.
Tep’yeals sold from $18.50 to .319,
which was steady with Saturday.

    
With 40;,_cars_of cattle on sale Tues--
“ day, including 20 cars from Monday’s ‘

trade, the market was dulland 15 to
25c loWer on all grades. .

Receipts of hogs Tuesday, 10,400.

The market opened 500 lower.
bulk of the hogs sold at $17.50; pigs
and lights, $15.75 to $16; roughs, $15
to $15.25; stage, $12 to $13.50.
. Receipts. of sheep, and lambs Tues-
day were 4000. The lamb market
25 to» 500 10 . Best
lambs, "$15.25 to $15.50; on Is, $12.50
to $13.50; yearlings, $12 to $12.50;
Wethers, $11 to $11.50; ewes, $9 to
$9.50. Best calves sold at $18, which
was‘50c to $1 per cw}. lower than on
Monday. . ' » . .

Choice to prime weighty steers, $17
to, $17.50; medium to good weighty
steers, $16.50 to $17; plain and coarse

sheep and lambs
'1'Which Was 50c .

The ‘

,, ' .ié‘lisanéi- a
. ! to,.$1-2.50.;- choice t‘ ‘

 
"o butcher-steers, $11 to $11.50;

' [fair to medium butcher steers, $10 to ‘

$10.50; good butchers heifers, $10.50
_ to $11; fair to medium butcher heif~

ers, $9.50 'to $10; good to choice fat
> cows, $9.50 to $10; medium to geod
fat cows, $8.50 to $9; fair to medium.
fat cows, $7.50 to $8;
common butcher cows, $6.50 to $7;
canners, $5.25 to $5.75; good to choice
fatx bulls, $10 to $10.50; medium to
good‘fat bulls, $9 to $9.50; good wt.
sauSage bulls, $8.50 to $9; light and.
thin bulls,~$7,to $7.50; good to best
stock and feeding steers, $9.50 to $10;
medium grades of stock and feeding
steers, $8.50 to $9; common to fair
stock and feeding steers, $7.50 to $8;
good to choice fresh cows and spring
ers, $90 to $120; medium to good fresh
cows‘and springers, $75 to $90.

Detroit Live Stock Market

(By U. S. Bureau of Markets Wire)

Detroit, Oct. 22.—-Cat’tle: Market
for bulls 500 lower; other “grades
steady; best heavy steers, $12-$14.50;
best handy weight butcher steers,
$9.50 to $10; mixed steers and heif-
ers, $8.25 to $8.75; handy light but-
chers, $7.25 to $7.75; light butchers,
$6 to $7; best cows, $8.50 to $8.75;
butcher cows. $6.75 to $7.25; cutters,
$5.75 to $6.25; canners, $5 to $5.50;
best heavy bulls, 8.25 to $8.50; bologna

‘ nngs,~315 to $15.50; fail .tgrgaoeg.
rigs; $14.10 $14.50.; medium to,

cutters and .

 
- . 'SFveancy- , _1_ lhi
offsal‘es 50c.-lovlier;'. (best, pt .50, '
“heap; and lambs: 'Market st'ea. 3',

best lambs, 314 to $14.50;,iair lambs,-
$13.25 to $13.75;. light to common
lambs, $10 to $12.50; fair to'goed...
sheep, $8.75 to $9; culls and command,
3$5 to $7. ,‘ , .

Hogs: Market dull; good many go;
ing over unsold; pigs, $15.25; mixed, .1.
$16.50 to $16.85.; »'

Chicago Live Stock Letter '

Chicago, Oct. 22.——Hogs: Receipts,
30,000; market ﬁrm and good hogs,
dull and mostly 25c lower than Mon"
day on packing grades; butchers, $17
to $17.75; light, $16.50 to $17.70; pack;-
ing, $14.75 to $16.50; rough, $14 t0\-
$14.75 pigs, good to choice, $13.50 to‘

, $15.

Cattle: Receipts, 19,000; native
beef steers and feeders mostly 25c '
higher; western cattle and butcher,
stock "steady to strong; calves strong
to 25c higher; beef cattle, good, choice
'and prime, $15 to $19.50; common . y ;
and medium $9.25 to $15; butcher
stock, cows and heifers, $6.65 to $13; ’ ' ’
canners and cutters, $5.75 to $6265; _
stockers and feeders, good, choice and
fancy, $10 to $12.50; inferior, commdn ~~’
and medium, $7.50 to $10; veal calves,
good and choice, $15.75 to# $16.25; ;
western range, beef steers, $13.50 to g .‘ W
$16.75; cows and heifers, $8.25 to ’ J
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‘ ' SLSATURPAY, Ocrosrn 26,1918

. CLORD

 
EDITOR
' EDITOR
. . EWALT ~ VETERINARY EDITOR
.’ BROWN - - - LEGAL EDITOR

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Entered as second-class matter at "Mt. Clemens Mich

 
, Insidious Propaganda

OME WEEKS ago the story went the

rounds of the press that the farmers had
protested against the exemption of farm
loan bonds from taxation. We scouted the
idea. It was improbable that farmers should
wish to do anything that would lessen the
desirability of farm loan bonds as an invest-
ment. We believed and so stated that the
story was a part of the propaganda carried
on by the enemies of the federal farm loan
system to hamper the sale of bonds and there—
by defeat the purposes of the act.

Now comes the veriﬁcation of these conclu—
sions. It has been known for some time that,”
A certain agencies under the cloak of professed
:17: interest in the farmers’ welfare, lmyfp been
carrying 011 a veiled, insidious attack against
the entire farm loan system. The mouthpiece
of this two-tongued propaganda is a gentle-
man by the name of lngalls of New York
City. One of his pamphlets coming to our
desk so cleverly concealed its actual purposes
that we wmc almost deceived into publishing
it. Before doing so, however. no communi-
7: cated with Sec’y Jennings of the Federal
i Farm Land Bank at St. Paul. Mr. Jennings

had not seen the pamphlet, but upon our
calling the matter to his attention, secured a
copy and immediately pronounced it. harmful
propaganda of the worst kind. And ‘the
shame of it is the known instigator is a man
who stands high in American agriculture and
has received many favors at the hands of the
Administration which gave the nation the
farm loan system. To satisfy imagined griev- .
ances and partisan prejudice, he is spreading
lies and casting suspicion against the only
sound credit system the farmers have ever
had access to. Farmers receiving literature
on the federal farm loan act from one Ingalls
or Myron T. Herrick should watch carefully
for the skull and cross-bones of poison.

The federal farm loan system is not without
defects. but the fact that it has provided the
farmers of America with over $150,000,000
at the cheapest rate of interest they have ever
paid, in less than two years of operation, is
pretty good evidence that the system is not
without its merits. That the land banks have
been able to dispose of their bonds at the

nominal rate of interest. offered when there
are so many other more lucyative investments,
is rather surprising but. it is a further trib-
ute to the soundness of the system. Because
of the low rate of interest, farm loan bonds
should be free from taxation, and the farmer
.who is so prejudiced against the owners of
wealth investing in these bonds to oppose

“ such exemption is only cutting off his nose to
spite his face. 1

There Has Been Unity in War; Let There
be Unity in Peace

”HAT A democratic president should be

riddled by the verbal bullets of republi--

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may have been With the cataracts of partison
hate, the American people cannot and should
not forgive him for his charge of “treacher.
against. their President.

determined, the base, the unpatriotic, efforts

of such men as Roosevelt to destroy the morale

of the nation and hamper the War program,

the great mass of American people have

“stood by their president” and the result of
the loyal co-operation is reﬂected in the great:
est military achievements of all history which
are rocking German militarism to its very
base. We all know what the President has
done. Politically opposed to him, as many of
11s are, as MEN we MUST be FAIR, and give
him the credit for what he has done. ’Our

. allies know What the President has done. They
. ARE FAIR they proclaim him the man of

the hour.

All the great victories of this war for dem-
ocracy have been won DESPITE the Presi-
dent’s political critics and NOT BECAUSE
of them. As a nation we should be proud of
our record, and rise to the defense of those
who have guided the ship of state safely
through the turbulent] waters of war.

There should he unity in peace. There is'
unity so far as the ultimate peace terms are
concerned, a unity of purpose cementing all
the peoples of the allied country into one
powerful, dynamic force which shall hammer
against Prussianism ’until that purpose is ac-

complished. It is the height of absurdity for .

Mr. Roosevelt to insinuate that Mr. Wilson
would be satisfied with a peace that was not
a. “victorious’ ’ peace in the fullest meaning of
that term.

We strongly prefer leaving the determin-
ationpithe peace terms to Mr. Wilson rather
than Mr. Roosevelt or Senator Lodge. And
in so doing we leave it t the American peo-
ple, for the President knows, what the Amer-
ican people want and the people ,know what
the.President wants. Fortunately, also, these
objectives are identical with those of our al-
lies. So while we regret the barbed thrusts
of the President’s political enemies, we do
not think they disturb him. He will talk and
perpetuate peace in the‘ same serene, impar-
tial, unswerving manner that he talked and
waged war. And the American people may
safely feel, as the allied peoples feel, that the
President will not betray America or the
precious principles for which we ﬁght.

What About the Seed Corn Deal?

E UNDERSTAND that a number of
farmers who bought seed corn last
spring from the War Preparedness Board
are very much dissatisﬁed because of its fail-
ure to mature, despite the long growing sea-
son. One farmer, we are told, threatens to
sue the Board, to recover the money he has

lost as a result of planting the seed. .
Governor Sleeper, however, tells us that
the purchasing of this seed cornby the state
was all’that saved the farmers from a feed
famine. He says that much of the corn did
mature, and that which failed toripen has
yielded an exceptionally large crop of silage.
He maintains that had the state not bought

this cOrn the acreage would have been great-'

ly reduced and that farmers would have been
obliged, at a large additional cost, to use
more hay and commercial feeds The Gover-
nor takes considerable pride in the fact that
the War Board saved the farmers of Michigan
several million dollars in this respect alone.

We have not had many complaints from read-
ers upon this subject. The cheaper Michigan-
grown corn that was available for seed last
spring was of very doubtful germinating
qualities This was the reason that the War
Board scoured the country for seed corn and
found it necessary, in order to meet the de-
mand; to buy some corn,- whichcould not be
guaranteed to mature in Michigan latitudes.
We do not? think that “puny farmer would

  
at the polls

    
ers generally are pretty Well satisﬁed With,

the seed corn deal, when all the airbumstanc;
es are taken into consideration.-

Too Much Service

IN COMPARING the prices charged by each
agent in the distribution of farm products,
we ﬁnd invariably that the retailer’ 3 charge
is the highest. In last Week" 3; issue we showed
that the retailer must receive anywheie from
3 to 5 cents per pound for the beans he sells
providing the other agents take no more than
allowed them by the Food Administration.

If the retailer of commodities is obliged,
in order to pay interest on his investment, to
put. an additional charge of from 30 to 40
per cent of the original cost of that commod-
ity into his selling price, we may feel that we
have our ﬁnger on one of the principal reas~
ons Why the spread between producer and
consumer is so great.

Assuming that we have loCated the source
of the trouble, What is to be done? The av-
erage retailer is not a proﬁteer, in the sense
of making huge returns on his investment.
Men in the grocery business do not amass
much wealth. While their charge is high in
comparison With the charges of other agents,
the proﬁt as a rule is very small. That is
because the volume of business is small, and
the overhead expenses large.

The fact is that there are too many gro-
ceI V stores. No sooner do a dozen new houses
spring up in an urban community than a
grocery store puts out a sign, altho there may
be another store two or three blocks away.
The prospective grocer never waits for an in-
vitation from a community; he anticipates
the need and the community pays for his-

‘nose for business.” The number of small

grocery stores 111 cities like Detroit 18 amazing
They could easily be halved business for the
surviving ones doubled, percentage of cost of

operation lowered, ——all of which inﬂuences

would eventually react to bring higher prices
to faimers and lower prices to consumers.

Oh, Well, We’re Used to It.
-‘¢Tnn FARMERS over in South Dako-

ta,” says the Lansing State Journal,

‘ran ofﬁcials of the Non-Partisan League out
of town when these near I. W. W. ’5. attempt-
ed to deliver political speechesﬁ In other
Words while the South Dakota boy is ﬁghting
Huns at the front, the old man is licking
them in the rear.” 1

If there’s one mortal on the face of the
earth that the Lansing State Journal hates
it’s the farmer. We have never known Of a
farmer’s gathering held at Lansing or in the

vicinity at Which an issue of any kind was

raised, that the Journal did 'not cast some
dirty, cowardly slur upon the farmers. It
is the type of newspapers like the Journal
that DRIVES farmers fr ntically into organ-
izations for protection. f farmers can’t get
justice and decent treatment by licking the
boots of the “interests”, they’ll take off their
coats and give them another kind of licking
that’s guaranteed to produce results ~

, Nail That Insult - ,

HOSE WHO desire toiassist the candi-

dacy' of Mr. Ford, should induce their
friends to read Mr. Roosevelt ’s letter to Tru-
man Newberry; which appears on page 20 of
this issue, as a paid adVer‘tiseme'nt. The let-
ter .is nothing but a repetition of distorted
facts; mean, vicious misrepresentations and
ridiculous conclusions. The cheap and/con-
temptible implication in Mr. Rousevclt’ s 801.1?
eluding paragraph is not alone 33 slur upon
Henry Ford;

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2 ward cheating Améi‘iCa out of the? deserved re-

define Of: a} reconstructibn period.» t y

,Wh'erever'fa. peoplefs candidate, such 7 as ,Mr.
Ford, with his world-wide achievements in- the
realm of practical politics is, theré will.” concen-
ﬂ-tr‘a'te‘the forces of'ill-gotten wealth fo ,the pur-

‘measures, in Congress. , _
All the arguments which appeal to those who
trust others to do their thinking for them will
.be ‘ rshalled into convincing array, to mislead
the unwary. Every avenue ”of publicity, and ‘of
. personal, inﬂuence, utilized by the professional
politician, to impress upon the hopeless, the oft-
“ repeatedsophistry “right is_ever on the scaffold,

by the corrupters of Michigan law.‘ I
All".former effortsto deceive the voter are t) be
'ecltpsed,.-and the doctrine ofthe Priresians,'“the
ends Justify the means,” is to be emblazoned by
“dollar patriots? on every political banner, for the
movement in Michigan, as in all the remaining
states, in lessydegree, is non-partisan, and is, de-
signed to‘ defeat alone the reform policies of a free
people. , , . . ‘
' Is it not about time that Michigan, and‘all other

Street? Are we a free people if we submit to
the corruption of our primary law? How do the
people ‘of Michigan stand for the defense of their
political freedom from outside control, directed
against Governmental policy? of world peace and
‘ the after war policies of the President? Let as de-
cide the issueoright, thru casting our votes on
Nov. 5th for Mr. Ford for United States Senator
ljrom Michigan—Cassen E. Parsons, Grand Blanc.
Michigan. ' '
What an Oakland County Farmer 'Thi'nks of
Henry Ford

Here are, afew reasons why \We common people
will Jyote for Henry Ford:

1. He is independent politically, and is a man
s of progressive ideas. -
g 2. Hefwas nominated without the use of money,
g while his Opponent,’ Newberry, was nominated
' . thru the use of money. ‘_ . -

3. He seems to think that the ofﬁce should
seek the man instead of the man seeking the ofﬁce.

4- He was oneof only a few who divided the
proﬁts with 'thr‘inen who helped to make the
proﬁts. ' . - , I .
.5.._He seems to have ideas in favor. of the
ooiﬁmon people instead of the ideas "of .those who
» live eff of the proﬁts earned by the Common peo~
ple, 'which the common people have to let the
men ,of wealth have.

0 6. As a rule, men of stand-pat ideas will vote
for Newberry; while thoSe looking forward with
. advanced ideas will vote for Henry Ford.

7. Some men. of wealth and stand-pat ideas

say Henry Ford can (do more good where he is.
, from the Viewpoint of men of wealth perhaps he
can, because [Henry Ford could not lessen the
proﬁts of‘lthe men of wealth without being elected
U._‘S. sen tor. - '- x» . «
. 8. Seems to me that Henry, Ford would be of
great service to'the masses of people instead of
, only afew, as his opponent Newberry would be.
—L. J. Mitchell, Oakland county. ‘

Old England Keeps Her Head

Detailed reports from London regarding the
great new Education Act which Parliament has
, passed, remodelling from theground up England’s
entire educational system, show one striking
omission, an omission upon which Americans
-may wellponder“. ,The Act contains ntxprovision
whatsoever for compulsory military training.

From one‘point of view it is a magniﬁcent trib-
ute- to the ‘sound English spirit. Even in the
midst ofﬁwar, with Germany a stone's throw
away, England can study her educational prob:
lems;cooly and'decide‘quietly to keep herschools
as training centers for individualism plus ser-
vice, rather than in a panic to sacrifice them to
the Prussian system‘of military drill. '

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tions’ dedicated to the Jobof fastening military
, training upon the school system. They have been

t'rs‘military training; they havehad questions
put’f’in theu'House‘ and, in general, have betrayed
, lie-m on, behalf of their pmagdt . But H.
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‘goyernment-gunderwthelr control, as agstep _to-» »

,. i of placing Wall'Street fa'vdrit‘ee,, y forcible.

v and wrong‘is ever on the throne,” will be“ bid for

states, spurned the political debauchery of Wall _

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‘ well ﬁnanced and have held meetings and distrib—,
gutediiterature showing the horrors of life with-.

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training there is not to be a trace. England
certainly "has. a quality all herownr—C’ontrtbnted
by American Union Against Milttan’sm. '

4: . ' ' Some Generosity.

The Du Pont Magazines pap'er issued by the

big powdeerroﬁteer contains the following state-
ment: ' -
; “When an explosion took place a few years ago,
in which a number of lives were lost, the Messrs,
Duponts gave to each widOw and orphan $100
annual income. In the explosion about a year
ago, thirty-one lives were lost, and these gentle-
men generously pursued the same course. Such ex-
amples are worthy of imitation.”

Holy Smoke, what generosity! Really Messrs.
. Duponts gave the widow $100 when her husband
was killed‘while in their employ, while a railroad
company would offer that much in settlement of
a. pig, of course‘pigs are property while the poor
ignorant men working for the Du Ponts, who dur-
ing‘ the war have not made millions but hundreds
of. millions, war proﬁts, are not property and un-
doubtedly unorganized and so have no rights. Of
course the widow ought to be thankful that she
was not sued for damages for spattering up the
landscape with her husband’s blood. The nerve
of a man who will publish anything like the above
in his own magazine is beyond comprehension
but it is very plain to see why labor is so "un-
reasonably restless.".—0rganized Farming.

Likes Henry Ford

I am a. subscriber to M. B. F. and she is a
blinger. I try nearly every day to get some new
subs, but W. S. 8., Liberty bonds and hard times
makes money pretty short. I have just ﬁnished
reading "Henry Ford, the Man,” and I tell you it
looks like business to me. I am doing all I can to
get Mr. Ford elected this fall. Now. what I would
like for you to do is to get me out about 100
copies in pamphlet form entitled “Henry Ford,
the Man," and send them to me and I will see
that they are properly gotten to the people—D.
B. McD., Benzie county. ‘

A Present for His Preacher

We have .Fred Heinzman of Gladwin to thank
for an original idea. He is going to send the
minister of his church our weeklrm a year with
,-his compliments. That beats a chicken dinner all
hollow. because our weekly comes every week for
a whole year and yet we know that friend Heinz-
man. had another and larger idea in his mind.

\ The country minister ought to know something
of the farmers’ problems. He wields a powerful
inﬂuence in his community and perhaps a thought

' or two that he gathers from the columns of M.
B. F. will go forth some Sunday morning in his
good message to his ﬂock. , ,

Well, What About Tliat Lawsuit?

In your paper this week I see you intend to
. boost for Henry Ford. I, as. a. farmer and not a
politician, am criticising your ideas. I don’t think
we would be safe. with a paciﬁst to help govern
our affairs. : If we had listened to Mr. Ford's talk
of peace and condemning preparedness the
Kaiser's army might be ,on American soil today.
Mr. Ford and Billy Bryan might make a good
pair in their place. but not in Washington. D. C.
“We farmers howl at the meat packers and their
9 per cent proﬁt. but what about Mr. Ford and
his 29 per cent profit which we read of in the
“papers? When you state the facts about Mr.
Ford. please don’t forget to tell us all, as, the,
farmer today—demands the facts. _ -
' ,What about the lawsuit against Mr. Ford for un-
fair dealings in Indiana or Illinois?——A. H. M.,
.Van Buren county. Michigan .

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Politics for Farmers E

. The longer I read the M. B. F. the better I like
it. Farmers have read cords of editorials, listen-
ed. months and years to speakers and politicians.
tellin-g‘them to keep out of politics, and how to
make two blades of grass grow where one grew.
Yet the percent of real owners of farms is stead—
ily growing less, while extremely rich .are fast
increasing. When we farmers realize that we wi 1
never. get what belongs to us until we go-‘into
politics; or cooperate at the ballot box. as big
business always has, then we will get somewhere.
and not until then—E. E. K.. Hillsdalc. mm
11 havesee‘n several copies of your paper and
feel -»Convinced I have found an honest paper with
,.an' honest man, at the head of it. I, like particu-
larly-your article hr- the issue of Sept. 28 on the
' .Non-Partisan'lleagne. I hope you .. will keep puSh-
' . ’ Such a league is our only
'i hbpeborifalr'pla‘y 'to the farmers. ,Enclosed' ﬁnd
:P~..,D._ orderlforgﬂ for subscription to: what I be-
lieve is ,a’ *ttruly valuable paper.——T. G. 11., Mac-
-"kaacm' county. ‘> ' 1 ,' - ..

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assists-N ran-nan rmn, ‘
A Richmond darke called upon an old ‘frie d,
who’ received him in a. rocking chair. The visit~
or at once observed not only that his host did not? .
rise, but that he continued to. rock himself toyafl
fro i a. most curious way, similar to that of .
perso sudering with colic; , . ._ 3
asked th ‘ In

 
“You ain’t sick, is yo’. Harrison?”
caller anxiously. ,

“No, I ain’t sick, Mose,” said Harrison. , .

A moment’s silence, during which the caller
gazed wide-eyed at’ the rocking ﬁgure. “Den,’ cons.
tinned Mose, ”Why in goodness does you roe
yo’se'f dat away all do time?" » ;

Harrison paused not in his oscillations as he
explained: “Yo’ know dat good-fur-nothin’ Bill _
Blotts? Well, he done sold me a silver watch fo’;
ﬁve dollars, an’ ef I stops movin' like dis, dat
watch don’t go!”

   
LAUGH IT OFF
Are you worsted in a ﬁght?
Laugh it off.
Are you cheated of your right?
Laugh it, off.
Don’t make tragedy of triﬂes.
Don’t shoot butterﬂies with riﬂes—4
Laugh it off.

1- Does your work get into kinks?
Laugh it off.
Are you near all sorts of briuks?
Laugh it off.
If it’s sanity you’re after
There’s no recipe like laughter—-
Laugh it off.

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TO THOSE WHO TELEPHONE

Remember that when you are talking over the
’phone, the party to whom you are talking cannot
see you;therefore, have a care to make your voice
“look pleasant.”

Honey catches more ﬁles than vinegar, and you
cannot do business with a man when you are .
“scrubbing” him with pepper sauce and a rattan
brush—Dr. W. 0’. Abbott.

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-~ N0 CAUSE FOR ALARM .
Friend (to professor, whose lecture, “How to -
Stop the War," has just concluded): “Congratu- 5
late you, 01 man—went splendidly. At one time
I was rather anxious for you.” 3;
Professor: “Thanks, but I don’t know why you . ,_
should have been concerned.” '.
Friend: “Well. a rumor went around the room
that the war would be over before your lecture.”

 
A I’REACHMENT , :45;

Be kind; it makes your life like a June day, at—
tracts friends and confounds enemies.

Be just; you never can tell how soon the fellow
to whom you are unjust will have the screws on
you.

Be joyous; there is but one life to live. and to
miss having had any gratiﬁcation out of it is a

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calamity. indeed. .. ‘
Be true; then you may expect others to be true
to you.

 
Be sincere; others noting your sincerity will give
their conﬁdences and be likewise sincere with yen.

Be thoughtful; the iron enters the soul in af-
terlife when we have been neglectful of those who
loved us—BjI/ron. Williams.

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SOME ARTIST -

The little daughter of the house sat down he-
side the visitor and began to draw on her slate.
“What are you doing?” he asked. "I'm making
your picture,” said the child. She worked away
earnestly, then stopped, compared her work with
the original, and shook her head. “I don’t like
it much.” she said. “ ’Tain’t a great deal like
you. I guess I’ll put a tail on it and call it a
dog."

 
- AMPLE REASON ;

Some gentleman in explaining why he had not
married a certain young lady, said in. reply: 5

“He had changed his mind.” .

“But why?” asked the inquirer.

“Well, sir, her father objected.” .

“Well,” rejoined the questioner, “that should not
have turned you down,” fathers often object.”

“But her mother objected,” Was the further re-
sponse. .

“Yes, but the young lady is of age and your
stand well socially and ﬁnancially.”

“That is so,” answered the squirming individ--
ual, “but the young lady herself objected.” "

 
DRINKS LIKE A FISH
“He drinks like ,a ﬁsh." _',H p ._
“You d ’t say. I never thought it of him. ~ . ‘ ,
“Yep; ever-touches a thing but water.”-

  
Small kindnesses, small. courtesies, sin ll dp‘p‘;
siderations, habitually practised in oursocla ,
tercdurse, give a greater charmto the character
than the display of great talents and accompus‘n.
ments.-‘—-M. A. Kelly. ,’ ~

 
When Women Vote

   
readers appreciate the privilege that is to be

  
of Michigan will go to the voting places and by a
simple blue cross upon a slip of pater declare
:that women shall vote.

I am not a suffragette, neither am I an excep-
tionally enthusiastic suffragist. I would never

  
gangue before a crowd of men and women; I
"would never annoy the President in times of war
'by patrolling the White House grounds; I would
' never neglect my house- work, or be late with my
supper in order to attend a suffrage meeting; and
I think I would have to be in a rare good mood
to be induced to march in a suffrage parade. But
I believe that women ought to vote.

_I I have several reasons for this belief. Woman
' has all the rights enjoyed by man excepting polit-
ical. .I want her to have political rights, not
necessarily because she is anxious to have them,
or because she will use them any better than man
has used them, but because she will then be
placed upon the same pedestal with man where
_ she belongs. If the voters of Michigan give to
the women of Michigan the right of suffrage it
‘ will be their admission that woman is at last to
be looked upon as the equal of man.

I have heard the argument that woman is not
man’s equal, particularly because of her physical
. limitations. But that is a foolish argument. Why

not say that man is not woman’s equal because
he has no maternal instincts, and would fail mis-
erably- were the rearing of the children left to
~his hands. I claim that the most vital function
in the world is the raising of children- If a na-
tion’s children are not moulded into noble men
and women the existence of the nation will be
threatened.

I I hope, Michigan 'farm women, that when you
have the ballot you will not ignore it. I hope
you will exercise it to the limit. I hope none of
you will let a single election pass by without your
having had a voice in its affairs. I know that it
is going to be hard for many farm women to get
away from home long enough to vote. As a rule,
they have to travel quite a distance which requires
for someof them the better part of a day.

I If the women of Michigan fail to vote it will
be their admission that they are satisﬁed with the
way in which all public ofﬁces are administered.
Some times the best man wins. Often he does
not. But I am inclined to believe that more/of
the best men will win when women are given the
ballot. I know of several men who have been

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believe would have been elected had the women
of Michigan a voice in their choosing. More than
once I have heard a group of town and farm
women indignantly discuss the election of a man
to a county position and I have concluded from
sbme of the remarks passed that those women
will welcome the day when they can vote and
show their disapproval of some of the candidates
who have the temerity to ask favors at the hands
of the people.

Things are going to run along pretty much
the same after women get the ballot as\they do
now. Probably in the majority of elections the
feminine vote will not be felt. But let some old
politician who 'has nothing to commend himself
but a prosperous air and a generous hand get into
the ring or let some vicious measure of legislation
be placed before the people, and I know pretty
Well what the women will do.

The woman suffrage question opens up a wide
'ﬁeld‘of discussion} and I would like to hear fur-
ther from the readers upon this subject.

.In this issue we are publishing two exception-
ally ﬁne letters, or shall I say, sermons? I think
that “a subscriber” is quite a philosopher. What
do you think? She certainly has some good sensi-

his ideas of the things that we all think about
. more or less. It seems as if her many allusions
would arouse a. train of thoughts in the minds of
most of us. If they do in yours, be sure to get
them down on paper, and send them in. I—PEN-
ELOPE.

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More Home Helps _

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. write things as I think of them they would
Tiiil quite a space. But I am so busy with the

 
' CANNOT believe that the majority of ourI

- conferred upon them-Nov. 5th, when". the ,men _

get up on a soap-box 'on a street corner and har-I

elected to state and county ofﬁces whom I don’t

Y DEAR PENELQPE:—I do take such Ian"
interest in your page, and if' I could‘ only?

ﬁanmunfeuﬂone for t
IPeneIlope, Farm IHIopio Depart rt

ﬁve and one-half years; 'the‘ youngest ﬁre 1110th ii;

his

 
'.so' I get time to think but not to Write much.-

I, and , loosens the dirt.

Work.

read while I am sitting down caring. for baby?

Since the last one came _I am not strong enough,
' to go anywhere to visit, so the letters from“ other

women in the paper do me lots of good.-

My “helps” are not many, but help lots with my
I have a. Bissell carpet sweeper, a high
stool just about three/feet high, a wire window

washer, the kind that opens up‘ in order to put in,

clean cloths, and with this I use Bo-n Ami scour-
ing brick. I wet one cloth so that it is quite
damp, rub on the Bon Ami brick, then go over the
windows, let dry, take a dry cloth, snap in wire
and rub off the white powder and presto! the win-
dows glisten like dew drops in the sunshine.

My washday hint is to soak clothes over night,
and into a boiler. of cold water put three table-
spoons of kerosene oil. This W itens the clothes.
I also use IO Mule Team
borax with soap powder, Gold Dust, and a half
bar of soap in bo‘iler. This way saves soap, and
in saving soap we release morefor war use. I
have a pounder' made of tin on a long handle,
which I use invaashing. It makes a suction and
drives out the dirt. I use the children’s express
wagon to get the clothes to the line.

'I also have an Aladdin mantle lamp that burns
kerosene and gives a beautiful light to read and
sew by, and saves eyesight, being brighter.

For my little tots’ clothes, I make their every-
day dresses of crepe, it needs no ironing. I

 
.crepe for nighties is ﬁne also,

 
The Dead to the Living

YOU that still have rain and sun,
Kisses of children and of wife,
. And the good earth to tread upon,
And the mere sweetness .that is life,
Forget us not, who gave all these
For soﬁtething dearer, and for you!
Think in what cause we crossed the seas."
Remember, he who fails the challenge.
Fails us too.

Now in the hour thatIshows the strong——
The soul no evil powers aﬁray—
Drive straight ago/inst embattled wrongs:
Faith knows but one the hardest, way.
Endure; the end is worth the throe. »
Gwe, give, and dare, and again dare!
On, to that Wrong’s great overthrow!
We are with you, of you; we the pain and
Victory share.
I —~LAWRENCE BINYON.

 
choose a color that will not soil easily. White
For bias seams I
keep the tape on hand all the time.

Tomweeten the air of the house in the close
Winter months I burn pine tar on hot coals or iron
stove. This is ﬁne for colds also. After burning
air the house of smoke. This is the crude tar——
it is black. Use turpentine for all/fresh Cuts and
wounds, man or beast. Boric acid, powder form,
is a ﬁne thing to have on hand, used dry or in
liquid form. I use it for brushing teeth. It
heals the mouth and keeps it pure and clean. Af-
ter eating any kind of fruit I use before retiring
soda water to neutralize the acid. It keeps teeth
from decaying as well as cleansing them.

A powder for baby is made up of corn starch
and boric acid, powder form; it is ﬁne.

" The one great thing I lack is closet room for
clothes and lots of other things. There is only
one closet in a house of eight rooms, and that
one is away up stairs. In canning fruits I4ﬁnd
Stewing down into a. small quantity» of juice makes
the fruitsrich With their own natural sugar, with
a very small amount of Isugar added are nice and
rich. -

I I can honestly say that I have always been sav-
ing of everything, ;clo_thes,.~food, etc. So war does
not make much difference in _my saving thing's. I
can point to people who used from 300 to 500 lbs.
of sugar a year with two or three in the famil.

The most I eVer used for fruit, and cooking was

' 100 pounds in any one year before the war. ’
ByI growing sorghum we—expect to use that as a .

-‘ syrup and in cooking and baking in place of sugar.

I do without sugar in everything almOst, now.
When I can get along without using up my sugar

  
oatmeal.
course.

    
be none the less a gentEWoman by so doing.
would feel that Lwas casting my vote for what I
thought was right. We are in this for the greates
good we can do to make the world better It We
fail to do our part What will Christ Bay to us _.
when we are called to him to give an account of .
our stewr rdship here below? Remember, sorrow- --
ing mothe es, God gave his only begotten son Iup ‘
to die for our sake so that we.m1ght have ever-
lasting life. The star of Bethlehem 11L. the east
was his service star. Christ is always ready to
have us give our hearts to him for He gives
peace, wonderful peace, and a love that will never E
fail. Though earthly friends forsake us Christ g ,
is still withjus and will be unto the end of the :
werld. I can do all things thrti Christ who str‘eng- é
thens me. . ,.. —_—

“It is in loving, not in being loved,
The heart is blessed; -
It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,
We ﬁnd our quest ” . . '
Whatever be thy longing or thy need, -
That do thx give;
So shall thy Soul be fed and thou indeed g
Shall truly live: 3
Love to Penelope. Sincerely, Mrs. H. J. 0. 3

Some Good ”Philosophy

    
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EAR PENELOPEz—In picking‘up the M. B.
F. I turned to theusual page, “The Wom« ,
an’s Department,” and it read, “Mere Man ,

enters“ the sanctuary.” ,Of course; my curiqsity'
was aroused, wonderingywhat he’ could have to
say.» I see he has written some good common
sense, also truth, too. But'I am afraid he has
misjudged us a little. We have no ‘desi'r'e to stir
up discontent, but a little awakening to. a few

facts don’ t hurt any of us. Nevertheless it is the
truth, and if we are brave we ought to bear it
and try to do better. If it doesn’t happen to strike
some of us we can afford to let it passby. I see‘
he is a man of strong ideas and one of a noble
characte1, which we all admire very; ”much The
,most of us have no desire for the city, With its
glaring lights, smoky atmosphere, etc. I am sure
we haven’t. We don’t mind the taking of a day
off and going to the city to do some shopping,
but as far as living there neither one of us would
ever be contented. We have no higher desire
than to own a good farm of our own some day.

What I really meant by “home conveniences,” _ it
wouldn’t be any use for a woman, or a man for
that matter, trying to be “penny Wise and pound
fooi1sh”as»the old saying goes. 'There are ‘just g
as good people in the heart of that great City as E;
any place. We will ﬁnd the rich and- the poor, 3
high and low wherever it may be our lot to be.
The mOSt of us want our sons and daughters. to
grow up in the path of purity, love and honor;
We realize we have a great responsibility before.
us, one which we ourselves must fulﬁll. The most
of us are acquainted with the joys and sorrows
of this life, and we are apt to think sometimes
that “life is one thing afte another from the
nursing bottle to the‘grave.” We all realize these
are strenuous times. It is a time that we must
sacriﬁce, and give up a. lot. But sometimes I II
think we could} conserve a little better and‘also ' ’
help serve our country better by havinga few. 1‘
small conveniences. We enjoy reading the Mi B.

F. just as it is, and we are glad that Penelope

takes our 'part. Of course none of us can eyer

expect a man to see things just as a woman dees.

It is always the money proposition with a man.

Direct and for the present time mostly. III-1e .
doesn’t stop long enough or look «\iar ‘ enough
ahead to see or realiZe thaLhe can stay that mort-
gage on his place just. as quickly 11:11.1 builds or
makes a few conveniences. Or perhaps, pay Out
four times as much for dodtor bills later. some
have learned the bitter lesson by the best teachers
of. us all, which is “experience '-’ But there' 18 one
thing that a man is far- superior to r: woman 9.1),?!

 
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lower in v shape and Misha ' “f" I I
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which .has . the, effect of being a -plaited
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, 1‘ guimpes is done away with in these one-
very pretty made up in a poplin or any
wool and"‘cotton mixture using the plaid
m nize in the blouse. The skirt is one
pi 6, straight lower edge and plaited
j ‘ A‘ soft, crushed, bias strip of the plaid is
.5 la’c‘ed' thru two eyelets in front and two
N9. '9009.¢.—Ladies’ shirtwaist, Cut in
sizes 36, 38, 40 and'42 inches bust meas-
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. Itimay be given a tailOred ﬁnish or seams
noesyadded from the shoulder. The 0165-
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gives the effect of a'waistcoat or-- vest.
Tho,__sleeves are rather full with deep
in’a China silk, wa’sh silk or‘agy..soft,
silky .matcrial in white or colors, with
ﬂip a, little extreme; ‘
No. 90,19.-.—.—Ladies'3 one-piece apron
measure—q A. good cover-all apron cut in
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for thevskirt and .a-plain material to har—
onto the shaped lower edge of the blouse.
in back; giving the appearance of a sash.
w-ure. A most, comfortable model for an
simply French seamed. Thereis .no fulli-
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turn-back cuffs. I‘hese waists made up
plaid collars: are very good style today,
Cut"ln:'3izes‘4-36. 40 and 44 inches bust
‘k‘: ’- . 3&‘3 form rippling slee‘ve caps. ._ The
large patCh pockets and. uelt are of,.con--.
apmns at present so much needed to
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measure, The: attractiveness of this sep~
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9 INCH MEETS ‘ZFOR - ,
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“ ‘ orary measure we have
been asked to' eat less beef, but are
assured that we may ,at present eat
more pork and havenever been told

One calf’s

'le‘t’s adjust home appetites to meet
the shipping program. You can prepare
delightful dishes Without drawing on
the national reserve of canned meats.
It isna good plan; too, to pile up your
reserve of heme-canned meats. .

. , PIGKLED TONGUE

Boil a fresh tongue by placing it in
hot water, let come to boil and boil
gently for 3 hours, or until tender.
When cookedrremov'e from water, skin,
put back into water and let get cold.
Slice in thin slices, put one layer of
sliced tongue in bottom of an earthen-
ware crock, then one layer of sliced
onions, a few thinslices of lem 1t,
pepper, a little sugar and mike _pic-'
es. Repeat until all material is used
up, having the onion and lemon on

with a plate.

liver.

der.

paste.

the mashed

   
hit: I}

I Boil tongue and veal, shank ’tOgeth- -
‘erfor three hours, T'putting it__ on to
boil in “cold"; water.
out all of thegelatin of the veal bone.
When tender,- skin the tongue, out in
slices or put througha coarse meat
Add salt,. pepper, 'c’ayenne
and-cn‘fsjup, put into a. mold and cover
mixture with the liquid in which it
has been boiledfwhengcold, turn out
on a platter, slice. and serve.,

OALF’S ' HEADCHEESE

head,
chopped herbs, pepper, salt.»

. Put calf’s head in enough water to
cover, let come to a boil/and boil it ‘ " ‘
gently until meat leaves,‘ the
Take up with a skimmer, put into an
earthen bowl, season with salt, pepper
and chopped herbs.
colander, put minced meat into
Fol‘d a cloth over the top, weight down
When cold, slice 'and
serve with mustard.

POTTED LIVER

Wash and cut up two pounds of beef
Cover with
come to a boil, and simmer until ten-
Press thru a potato ricer;
one-half cupful of butter. one-half tea-
spoonful of salt, and a dash of pepper.
Beat the above mixture to a smooth
Mince a. good-sized onion and
a. few sprigs of parsley and stir into
liver.

‘ , . 1 .90er th' .
’ pped Onion, onetah .,
‘ ode teaspoon pepper,vone an :3,
teaspobns curry _'powder,u‘ _
spoon sage, one egg, one-third c:
cream; ' .~ " , “
.“Chop'meat and onion andlmi
gether. Add egg-and cream... -.
into loaf and tie in cheesecloth.
mer two and one-half hours, .in

 
This will draw

teaspoon salt and four ”ta“-
. vinegar have been added._,
press and cool. "

Items of Interest to Women

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Female workers in Tennesseegahi‘ega‘if
lowed to work only 57 hoursﬂingagiy

Women workels in the me'rcantilé‘g..
establishments in Kansas are paid- a,

deen employed as machinists-fin
the Westinghouse Electric works 733';
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The queen of Holland supplies from '
her dairy a considerable portion of- _ g
the milk consumed by buyers in the

The morethan 11,000 women works ,
ers in the munition plants at Bridge- _
port, Conn, will vote with the men in.

  
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. . dgii‘lsu—I _s
heart so busy tnis last.

earning money for W. S. 3.,

'e’en has scarcely entered

is, for I haven’ t received any

to, my letter asking for Hal-,
ggestiops. But I know when
Thruway night comes around
“with be many little groups of

' ya and girls gathered for a
line, and‘ I shall be thinking of

' _ 11d wondering what you are do-

nan well remember what great

’ we used to have on that night.

now I am going to tell you about

7tt'le party we once had where we

~a wonderful time and yet weie

. doing any mischief as so many
ﬁlth for Hallowe’ en.

.e used the kitchen for the party,
generating it with big stacks of corn
\l-SKS and autumn leaves, and lighted

' room with candles in jacko-lan-
, Each little boy and girl brot
-7’ extra lantern, and these we plac-
throughout the other rooms in the

 
.The little daughter of Mrs. Albert Mil-
ler of Good Hart taking one of her “gen—
tlemen friends" out for a ride. If any of
my boys and girls have interesting pic—
tures of themselves or companions, I
would be glad to have you send them
to me. .

house, using no other lights. We
placed a large table at one side of the
7 room which we covered with burlap
and here old “Charlie Hallowe’en"
was to serve the refreshments. Now,
how do you suppose we made old
Charlie? Well, we took an old‘shit of
men’s clothes, stuffed the trouser legs
full of paper and stood a large. full
pillow in a chair, slipped the trousers
under this, fixing the legs as tho he
were sitting in the chair, and ﬁtting
them over the tops of a pair of shoes
also stuffed with paper. Over the up
per end of the pillow we buttoned the
Coat and vest, stuffed thesleeves and
then fastened the head, which was a
”black bag ﬁlled with paper and covered
'with amask and a large cap set on
over the back 21nd 10p of the head.
f Of course, since Charlie was only a
“paper man he had to be assisted by
{one of the girls in dishing up the lem-
(made, but he looked as tho he were
.doing it all and we had heap’ of fun

‘1 with him, and gave a prize of 21 large _:

'jacklo-lantern to the little boy or
girl whocould guess his correct name
———Charlie Hallowe'en. After the re-
freshments which were lemonade and
fried cakes and apples. we played all
Sorts of games, such as bobbing for
pples, telling fortunes and the differ-
ent games we learned to play at school.
(:One game that is always fun at such
a party is to tie tw0 people's arms be-
hind them and then let them try to eat
fr1ed cakes which are suspended on
.Lstrings, swinging in the doorway.
I hope you may all have a good'time
and I shall be glad to have you write
e and tell me all about what you
id. Ixovingly, AUNT P1«:N11or1:..

Dear Aunt. Penelope. -I see a chanCe
to get 3. Thrift stamp, and I think I will
try and see what my luck will be. I do
_ know any very funny stories, nor

I tell a true one I go to school
,ry day there is schoolr I am in the
gm 9 this year. I am studying as

' I can so I can pass this fall My
charts name is Miss Cuatt; she has
; are two years, an I think this
her third year. There are ﬁfteen

the school. Here is my story:

the Ocean Come to be Salty

11381?!th
"told him‘ that ”ﬁll

_ ‘still hotter ﬁre.

80
t Millet th m V maﬁa
n’éxt time hei‘c

laid to below. 111 a few ays he “came
back .941th went down an down until

atlasthe some to a little room and there
were {zine little hairy men there who
snatch him up and put him 1'11 a crate
over a big ﬁre After a ’while the chief.
03.1119 around and asked him' how he ilk--
e 1

“I like it just line," he said.

The chief intended he Should say/ 'flet
me out " but he did not, and this made
the chief quite angry, and he told the
helpers to build a‘ hotter ﬁre. They did.
The chief came around again and asked
him how he liked it ,and he said, ‘all
the better.” Then the chief told his help—
ers.to put on more wood and make a
_ The chief came around
again and asked him how he liked it. and
he said “line ﬁne could not be any
better.” This Amatre; the chief so angry
that he said.‘1“vhat will you take and
get out?" The man asked him “what
have you got?” The chief said, ”I will
give you the little mill behind the d901,
You say ‘grind, little mill,’ and it will
grind anything you want it to; and when
it is ﬁnished say the magic word and it
will stop.”

He took the little mill and went home.
and just as he got to the door-step he
said, “grind me a. pretty little house" and
the mill ground and ground until at last
it was done, then he said the magic word
and it stopped. Then he took
barn and there he ground a new barn,
cattle, horses, and when the last curl
was made 011- the last pig's tail he said
the magic word and it stopped. Then he
put it behind his door. Hi»: family had
all the things that they wanted.

When the rich brother found out what
his brother had he wanted to borrow it.
The p001 brother told his brother how
to have the mill start glinding. He told
him to say the magic word and it would
stop grinding. The 1ich brothci took it
home with him. When he got there it
was time to feed the poultry. It: said
they would not have to come from the
ﬁeld, and he called all the Waiters with
the chicken dishes He said “grind. lit-
tle mill and grind quickly,” and it did.
It ground in one dish after another 1111th
they weie all full. Then the 1ioh l"'»1otl1ei
said ',stop stop, little mill'” but it k 111
on grinding. The rich brother got angry
after awhile when the little mill did not
stop. He said “stop! Stop!” again and
again, but it kept on grinding. Then one
of the servants said, “go and got your
brother to stop 1t " The poor brother
laughed but he. went and whispered the
magic word to tho mill and it stopped
grinding and he took it home with him.

0119 time later there was a sea cap—
tain came to visit the r brother and
the brother told him aﬁut the magic
mill. He told him how to work it. One
time when he was out on a voyage going

across the. sea they got hard up for salt .

and he got the 111:1gic mill and started it.
[1 ground and ground until it had g1ound
all .the salt they needed then he said
"stop, little mill. stop!" But. it kept on
grinding Soon it began ﬁlliiﬁ 11p all
the deck and just as the ship was about
rtadv to sink he threw it merboaid and
From all we know it is grinding still.—
horothy Lockwood. Concord, Michigan.

Penelope: I have never
before. so I thought I
would write today. I am ten years old
and in the sixth grade. l have-. wo sis-
ters but no brothers. My sisters names
are Celia. eight years old. and Rosetta.
ﬁve years old; the lat er starting to
schOol this fall. Celia s in the third
grade. We live on a 120—acre farm and
have two horses, whose names are Pet
and Biid. We have two colts and their
names are Ferry and Clinker. Ou'r cows’
names are Cherry, Pet, Jane and Tin ny
We hate one heifer and a calf, the heif-
er’s name is Blossom and the calf’ s name
is Midget.
and four pigs.
think of now, I
tin1e.———Helen Van Pelt,
Michigan.

Dear Aunt
written to you

Well as that is all I can
will write again some
Summit City,

Dear Aunt l’enelopez—This is the ﬁrst
lcttcr I have written'to you. I am 12
years old. I have four sistcrs»and one
brother: their names are Ursula, Theresa,
lose. Elenor, and brother Maryan. «
am going to school and am in the sixth
grade. “’0 live on an 80—;101‘8 farm. we
have a little lake. on our farm. We have
lived on our farm ﬁve years. we
one horse. his name is Dan. and one pony
whose name is Nellie. We have lu'n
cows, two heifers and two calves. We
have 17 pigs and ti hcad of sheep. We
have 232 hens: and one rooster. We
one dog and one cat: the cat’s name is
Jimmy. The g1aip crops are very good
here. W's h2\P four buildings on our
farm and father is building the ﬁfth
one. I think this will be all for this
time.—-—Bcrnice K—orwinski. Poised Mich.
.\u11t l"enelope:——~I was reading
and girls letters in my Aunts’
M. B. P and I thought I would like to
write a letter too. I am a. little girl 8
yea1s\old and go to school 81' ry day I
live in town and go to a graded school.
I am in the 3- -a grade. My Aunt has a
large farm and I like to- go and stay
with her. I have a little sister and her
name is Vivian Agnes. I am earning

Dear
the boys

- thrift stamps by washing dishes and sell—

Hoping this letter will
will close-for this time—-
Onaway, Michigan.

war pictures.
reach you I
Jessie Dubogs,

.. Dear Aunt Penelopezml am in the. 6th
grade at school. I am 12 years old. My
teacher's name is Mrs. Hoyt. I- have
two sisters, one is 8 years 'old and the

'other is a year and two months old: I

have a brother nine ears old. My birth—

day was the 26th of eptember We have

two horses and two cows. We ha ave a.

40-acre farm My father takes the M;,

B. We have ha. car. I
v c o .

it to the

mand.

We have about 80 chickens _

have,

have

1111‘eserve the values in the soil.

I hav half 3.
can’t $3311)! of

:.’_- ' 91611 31 ‘ _
the administration’

Should er
receive the price or Skilled 1511111 live
to ten dollars a day?
skilled laborers in the most essential
war industry? How Guickly could a
‘machintst become a. valuable farm
hand as Compared with the time that
'31 farm laborer can become a machin-
St? \

I’Ve have a farm laborer shortage be-
cause wecannOt compete with other
war industries. Our men, not only
farm help, but farmown s.are leav-
ing their farms to work the/wages
that the war industries are paying on
a basis of so much proﬁt above your
expenses no matter what they pay
their men. Why has there not been
an arrangement With us on that basis?
The farmer will be glad to accept the
price of an impartial commission
which will ﬁx the labor income of the

farmer equal to the wage of a match .

-inist; take in ,consideration interest
and depreciation upon capital invest-
ed; pay him percenta’ge'above his
production costs in the same manner
that muhition makers receiye. More-
over, the farmer would asSume the
risk, a risk which is
than the making of munitions. Why
should we be called upon to subsidize

the rest of the workers of. the United

The fundamental reason for
lab hortage is that we cannot at-
mm to pay the’ price If we are to
pay ourselves and our help the price
they should receive,"we would have
to quit. We'have a labor shortage
because we producers are not getting
enough for our lproduct. We cannot
pay our help enough. That is the reas-
on our boys have left the farm. We
could not pay them enough.

What is the newrivilization going
to do with the farmer? Have we rep-
resentatives, the proper representa-
tives to present our case? We are
also interested in reconstruction, vit-
ally interested. Soldiers and sailors
are to be placed on farms; that con-
cerns us. If changes are to take place
in the labor conditions in the world
what is to happen to farm labor?
Farm laborers must be guaranteed
more than a living. He must be as-
sured an opportunity i‘O' advancement
namely, the accumulation by saving
enough to buy a farm. to guarantee
an education for his children without
starving himself or denying himself
the common pleasures and desires.
This is what industrial labor will do-
The condition of labor will be
better than it has been in the past.
lf we have not been able to compete
with industrial labor in the" past, how
much less will we be able to do so in
the future? It points again to the
fundamental consideration. WE MUST
GET MORE MONEY FOR OUR- PRO-
DUCE. Yet we have nothing to com-
pare to the various- Boards and Com-
mittees which have been appointed for
adjustment of industrial labor difﬁ-
culties and much less have we :1, rep-
resentation of the farmers of this na-
tion to resemble the American Feder-
ation of Labor who are dictating pol-
icy in the ofﬁces of the administration
not only national but international
policy. Secretary Lane 191 ently said,
:‘We do not want peasant class. We
want men of supreme self respect. We
do hot want a tenant class 11on grow-
11g rapidly in this countrx We want
men who work for themselves. who
who
make improvements and who become
a part of the permanent community.”

If we wish to maintain our fanns
as independent units. if we must mw
ourselves and. our help what " they
ought to have. then we must get more
money "fox our produce. If not the
exodus of the ﬁne young men and
women will continue to better ﬁelds—.-
better not spiritually or socially but
better economically. '

Sta

The problem of the reconstruction

in relation to agriculture is here to-
day. How are we to get more money
for our produce?

In view of the facts there are those f

who believe that it is to be accom-
plished. by a better agriculture a bet

ter. system 0f farming and application.

of scientiﬁc facts; there are 1 those

Are they, not 1

even greater '

cooperation 11-11"
give the" tamer a greater
There Entity be 501119 qualifies as to his,

mg the co‘h’sumer pay niore for his '

109211111413: must all be considered
but\ there can be «no question but that
the farther must' get more money for
his pro we in order to pay himself
a deceig'u living wage, which will al-

low him to be a vital active force 11
his community and will be attractive
to his boys and girls, in comparison
to the city opportunities which will he ,
much more attractive after the war
than they have been before
(Continued next week.)

HOW FARM BOYS AND 7
GIRLS CAN HELP WIN WAR.

, _..._.
A boy can do a lot of mighty good

things with 3500,51 lot of wonderful

things that never have been done be- .
fore in this world, particularly by a
boy With that m‘uch money a Vic-

tory Boy, under a pledge to earn and

give $5. 00, can provide his ﬁghter for

ﬁve weeks with daily ho- ly service

of care and helpfulness that will les-

sen the hardships of camp and cams

paign, and make life easier and hap-

pier for the soldier and sailor in var-

ious ways. Think this over. With

$5. 00 you can send comfort. cheer and

entertainment to one American ﬁght-

er for ﬁve weeks. Any sensible per-

son knows that this could net be done

for so little money if only one ﬁve

dollar bill were contributed. It is a

good deal like the clothing store man

who was asked how he could afford

to sell fall suits below cost as he ad-

vertised. “Oh ” he replied, “it; is be-

cause I sell so many of them.’

There are boys on the farms in ev-
ery part of America in nearly every
one of the 3.028 counties, who can
ear-11 and give $5.00 to the United War.
Wort: Campaign. This campaign is
made up of the Young Men's Christian
Association. Young Women’s ris
tia'n Association. National Catholic
War Council, (Knights of Columbus),
Jewish Welfare Boardt War’ Camp
Community/Service, American Library
Association .and the Salvation Army.’
'l‘hese‘organ-izations need at least
$l7ﬂ.500,000 to continue their work
for another year in this “country and.
in the countriesswhere‘ Our men are
fighting. Through them a Victory
Boy. who earns and gives $5;00. will
provide service [or his ﬁghter 011 the
trains and steamships. in strange »
lands and unaccustomed dangers; for
one, or another of these organizations
sends its worker: with the soldiers
to the training camps arid over every
s'tep of the long and wearisome jour-
ney up to the front line trcnches; the
good work of the $5.00 need not end
there. It. may follow the man to rho
hospital, or into the‘ prison camp.

And when . 'e speak jof Victory
Boys, we do n 1. mean to exclude Vic-
tory Girls. There are plenty of things 7
that farm sir” "1111 "o to earn» $5.00

more. There are pohltry‘ clubs.
canning ('.l11l)s tomato cl11b~_—~all sorts
of organizations that city pebple know
nothing about in which the farm
girls of America earn money by good
hard work. Any oneiamiliar‘with the
farm life of America knows that every
one of these girls is just as patriot—
ically inclined, just as, generous as»
the boys or men; indeed in many cas?
.es they are very much more liberal.

There is a Victory Boys ’and Girls'
campaign in your neighborhood, the
teachers will know ,about it You can-
pledge yourself to earn $5. 00, and, pay
the amount in installments just as‘
the men and women pay theirs in the
larger campaigns But even if you
are not a Victory boy or girl, you can
help along the United War Work Cam-
paign just the same, and these are
\times when everyone should be an ,
A erican citizen. To be a citizen”
In ans to support the Army and the._

Navy in every way so that victory _,
' may be assured sooner and more cem- ‘

plet’ely. Get into the war work.,Ysu 1:9

who believe that our distributinig sys- d
tern of farming is all wrong and that ..

 
o

 
. m gm p
_ Sciency in melons, peaches and mes-j
' cellaneon: fruits. iThe heaviest week

 
this season ears. in suchxline‘: have

cit-set the comparative de-

offthe- ~seast‘nuéwas September 24-30.

. x when~18,535."ca‘rs started to- market."
' ' host year the heaviest week was not .

until October ' #22, owing partly _ to
the later-“sin ping season in 1917.
Total pproduce movement which had
been running at 8.000 to 9,000 cars
weekly in 'July- and early August in-
creased to Over 10,000 per. week in
late August. and early September, and
since then has ranged from 12,000
to owner 18,000 cars per week. [ .
Prices have declined thepast month
far: most lines of produce, although
, still above the general level of last
- year at this season.
DEciJNING POTATO MARKET
Potatdes have been- Selling so‘me
below $2 per c‘wt., in cariots at Chi-
gcago, having declined fully 75c since-
, the‘bpening of the season and losing
25c-5‘9c. since September 1, Eastern
markets declined later and more slow-
ly'than mid western markets and in
October all markets appeared some-
what more steady in, the preceding
month. The October crop estimates
shows 'gain of 6,000,000 to 7,000,000
bushels since September and indi‘
cates a crOp nearly 30,000,000 bushels
above the, five-year average, although
still 15,000,000 bushels below last
year’s crop. The northern potato crop
has been coming to market about 20
per cent faster than last year. There
is comparatively little talk of holding
the crop and not much complaint of-
car shortage These conditions sug-
gest possibility of a more steady and
uniform market season than the one
preceding.
muons Lownn
Slow, steady: decline has been the
feature of the onion market. The
price fell to around $1.50 per cwt. at
various eastern-markets, but has held
a little ,higher in the west and south.
Eastern onions started the season at
about $3 per cwt., but have been sell-
ing lower than potatoes much of the
.time this fall. The northern crop is
moving to market faster than it did
last season. The price has declined
much -earlier than in 1917 and the
position appears safer for that reason
because. lower prices tend to increase

_ the demand.

CABBAGE mum! WEAKENS

,Domestic cabbage has ranged close
around $15 per ton in New York state
shipping sections, and arbund $20 in
Colorado. Eastern. markets have
ranged $15-$30 for sales to jobbers,
and westeri markets $37.50. The 9.5-7
tlmated crop is 10 to 15 per cent lar-

, ger than-last year, and stock has been

comiig to market faster by about 10
pmjrentﬂhai last year. New York
Domestic stock was jabbing at $25532
per ton in October of last year. '

FAIRLY STEADY APPLE MARKET '
\Apples, have followed a somewhat
more steady range of prices than most
other lines, Best grades of standard
winter kinds have been selling at
$444.50 per bb1.," in east'ernprodlrelng
sections, and $5-$6 in Michigan. Sales ‘
to jobbers in consuming markets have
ranged from $45046 per hbl. l

, kinds have‘ been closing out at 5-

$6.-50.; Price: above these levels were
ducted in some middlewestern markets"
where Jupplies‘appear Lighter than
in the east. Northwestern boxed Jon;
athans, ext ancy have ranged $1.80-
$2.25 1. o. b. shipping points, and $3«

» $3.75 'in eastern markets. . The Oct-

[0116} crop- esti te showed a“ slight
increasepver the‘September estimate. ‘
brun- jumps Ago visors-anus
" 'SWeetwpotatoes have declined steadi-
. ,0 Maia per bbl..,in some

.cents a'pound for fat provided he

.~ to add to her labor: by thrusting this
‘unproﬁtable labor upon her. In most

. 'ing, butter Will not pay for the time

‘ and buys from it the butter he uses

. f TLETTER
s. or MARKETS

,. .-

 
7 "ReVieW 0!. mark-ct conditions on
grain, swans ground feeds, and prior
es‘ atl-whi‘ch. these commodities were
being tradﬁ in at Close of market on
october 1st, (.1918.

Albany, 'N. Y..——-Corn: Stocks mod-
erate; Demand light. ,Western car-
lots delivered quoted No. 3 yellow,

. $1.51 to $1.55.

Oats: Stocks good. Demand fair.
western carious delivered quoted, No.
2\White, 80c; standards, '791/2c.

Ground‘ﬁ‘eeds, Hay: Wheat feeds
very scarce, Demand good. ‘Supply
'limite‘d. Stocks light. Demand good.
“Nearby carlots quoted No. 2 timothy,
$28 to $30.

Scranton, Pa.—Corn: Stocks good.
Western carlots delivered Scranton,
No. 2‘ yellow, $1.72; No. 3 yellow, $1.56.

Oats: Demand poor. No. 2 white
oats,” 800; \standards, 791/20; No. 3
white” oats, 7835c. ..

Ground feeds: Stocks light. Demand
.goo'd. Wheat feeds very "scarce. De-
mand urgent. ‘

Hay:,-Stocks light. Demand good.
Western not quoted. Local grown No.
1 timothy, $35; No. 2 timothy, $32.

Washington, D. O.—-Corn:
normal. Receipts light. Demand fair.
quoted No. 3 yellow, $1.50 to $1.55;
No. 3 white, $1.55; No. 3 mixed, $1.49;
No. 4 yellow, $1.47. > _.

Oats: Stocks low. Receipts light.
Demand good. Quoted No. 2 white,
78%c; No. 2 mixed, 76c; standards,
78c; No. 3 white, 77%(1 . .

Hay: Stocks increasing. Demand
fair. Quoted No. 1 timothy, $37 to
$37.50. »

Mill feeds: Stocks very low. De-
mand strong. Alfalfa molasses feeds
quoted $55 to $58. '

Buﬁalo, N. Y.——Corn: Trade light
owing unsteady market. Receipts

_ light. No. 2 yellow, $1.45.

Oats: ’No. 2 white, 74c to 74%c.

Hay: Market quiet. No. 1 timothy
new...$24. .

Ground feeds: Feed scarce. Bran,
$36; middlings, $38; barley feed, $47.
’ New York, N. Y.—Corn: Stocks
low. Demand Slow. Some export in-
quiry. [Carlots to arrive, No. 2 ye]-
low,.$1.72; No. 3 yello , $1.58. ‘

Oats: Domestic . ks light. No ex-
port inquiry. No. 2 white, 791/20;
standards, 790; No. 3 white, 79c.

Ground feeds: No stocks.

Hay: Stocks light. Demand good.
No. 1 timothy, $43; No. 2 timothy,
$42.00. : ’

DOES. IT PAY THE
'.-HOUSEWIFE TO CHURN?

Many farmershave the option of
selling their cream or churning it on
the farm and selling butter. With
them comparative prices of butterfat
and butter is a question of interest.
One pound of butterfat in cream when
churned will make approximately 1.16
pounds of butter. When butterfat is
worth 40 cents a' pound at the cream-
ery, the farmer could realize about 46

 
churned that cream and sold his but-
. ter for .40 cents. However, he usually
f. gets only 30 to 35 cents a pound in
trade at 'the grocery store, when but-
terfat' is selling to the creamery far
40 cents. In‘this case the farmer is
losing money 'by makingbutter. If
he can sell his'bu'tter to a regular
customer who will pay creamery but-
ter prices, or even prices as high as
those paid for butterfat at the cream-
,ery, then he mayrealize a little more
'money by making butter.
Butterm’aking on the average farm
is left to the housewife. Wit-h her
many hard tasks todo, ‘it is unfair

cases the extra money made by mak-

and trouble required. Except in ca:-
es where v-fancyﬁpriee lsbbtained for
the. butter, a farmer will be better off
if, he hauls‘hi's cream, to’the Creamery

  
- condition

Stocks 1‘

’18; the ‘

. 1915.9!!! tie ,
lambs will already:- bite been
and it, frequently admire that‘:- "

 
drain of nursing. one. or more mbs

for several, months.

to quite an extent on the condition
of (the ewes thepreceding fall. It
has been deﬁnitely proven that a. ewe
that is- in ,good condition and gaining
at the time of mating with the rain
will produce stronger lambs and at

the same time will be more likely to ‘

give birth to twins than one in thin
condition by the use of rape or some
other succulent dpaszure. In case no
such feed is available it will pay to
feed some grain to tone them up. A
feed of oats or cats and bran mixed
is suitable.
to each sheep would be a reasonably
good feed along with some pasture or
other roughage. ‘

A few of the best ewe lambs should
be kept each year to take the place
of ewes that for various reasons are
past their usefulness. Those with
broken. mouths, bad udder: or non-
breeders should go to the butcher. it
is only by careful selection that a un-
iform ﬂock can be maintained.

 
M. B. F. is right
I hope it continues
My dollar will he
the expiration of
R. Palmer, Cratiot.

in every way and
to use high explosives.
on hand promptly at
my subscription.-——-M.

 
Enclosed ﬁnd $2 for ygur valuable pa.-
per. It is really the only paper that was
ever published in the interests of the
farmer. It is the real thing. Please keep
it coming—S. E. Eberly, Midland Co.

We are very much pleased with M. B.
F., especially the market reports and the
weather forecasts—N. P. Collins, Benzie
county.

 
M. B. F. is sure some paper and it hits
the mark. I hope it will remain the
same.-——Norman Bragg, Ogemaw county.

 
I think M. B. F. the bgst farmers’ pa-
per, yet—Flynn H. Robinson. Chum—
volx county.

 
The paper is all right and 1 look for
it every weel<.~——John S. Harris, Macomh
county.

 
FARIVIERS, ATTENTION:——Am want-
ing, net“ cash shipping station. choice
uallty; Comb Honey, Handpicked I918
cans, Black Walnuts, Shell Bank Hit-k-
ory Nuts, One Car Rye Straw, One (":xr
Marsh Hay. What can you offer and
price? C. G. Freeman, Pontiac, Michigan.

 
YOU CAN SELL YOUR FARM Di-
rect to the buyer without paying com—
mission through my co-operative plan,
and be free to sell to anyone, through
anyone. anywhere, any time, for any
price or terms. Write for circular.
JAMES SLOCUM. Holly, Michigan.

 
FORD PAYS $5 PER DAY.~~YOU can
make Ford wages building Perry Brood-
ers for your neighbors. They’ll all want
one next spring. I give you exclusive
rights free. Write me today. E. 0.
Perry, 37 Henry 811., Detroit, Mich.

 
CABBAGE CUTTER. 6 knives. Slices

all kinds Vegetables rapidly. Prepaid
$1.00. 3 for $2.00. Lusher Bros, Elk-
hart, Ind.

 
WANTED to hear from owner of good
Farm for sale. State cash price, full
description. I). F. Bush, Minneapolis,
Minn.

 
130 CRATES PICKETT seed com, 300
crates Michigan Hybrid Dent, for Sale.
Write for prices. Alfred T. Halsted,
Washing-ton, Mich.

 
Strictly Pure Rosen Rye cleaned ready

One pound of grain a day‘

ewes are in thin condition from f‘th‘é‘

The success .of—
the next year’s lamb crop will depend

   
utsout rats, ﬂ' ,_
t prowlers. Built - vir ‘
. galvanized steel and!“
a etime. Everyjointreinforcedwitb
heavy angle steel. Defies --
wind and-weather. izes
for every farm- 00
bushels capacity to
4,000. Builtround. _
oblong and 14in ’
double shod
form. Get one
of these perfect
cribs and save
your corn and» '
grain.

Write for de-
scriptive folder
and price list.

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her is soarce and high. Some of
'{ﬁ'ihreshing machines are idle on
Let's hear from other

Winﬁeld Oct. 15.

the wheat that is up looks fairly
$95511. Digging potatoes is the order
“‘fIith‘e day. Some are sowing rye on
"their potato ground. There will be a
”bigg’ r crop of rye and wheat for next
year’s harvest than there was this
' Some good ripe corn and some
Some are selling corn
151' seed at $3 per bu. The following
’_’prices were paid at Cadillac this week:
:“that, $2.07 to $2.09; corn, $3.85 per
...‘c1wt.; rye, $1.50; hay, $30; potatoes,
' 1.90 to $1; cabbage, 3c 1b.; cucumbers,
‘ $2.503per cwt.; hens, 17 to 20; spring-
.”ers, 21; ducks,‘ 17 to 20; geese; 10;
.. butter, 54; butterfat, 60; eggs, 44;
' dressed beef, 14 to 16; veal calves, 15
~to 18;» hogs, 19 to 21; apples, 60 to 75.
,1 8. H. 18., Harrietta, Oct. 18.

,Genesee (8.E.)——Farmers are sow-
ing ‘ rye, - picking apples, harvesting
beans and husking corn. A large
acreage of beans have been harvested
1;, 1 during the last few days and a few
5." more days of good weather will get
' the beans all done. Beans have been
:55. ripening very unevenly this year and
5* it takes a long time to cure them,
1. due to the. green vines being mixed
1 ' with the ripe ones. Lots of farmers
, are letting their apples drop this year
. - instead of picking them; after their
. rush‘ of work is over they expect to
6‘1 sell them for cider apples, getting
5'; 1' about 55 to 65c per cwt. for them.
' Weather has been good, and we have
not had any rain lately. The ground
is getting rather hard for working.
,1. Farmers are selling grains and live-
1“ "‘1' stock. Not many potatoes dug yet.
Fellowing- quotations at Flint this
3ng. week: Wheat, white, $2.12; red, $2.14;
corn, $1.55; cats, 65; rye, $1. 50; bay,
’3; $18 to $25; beans $8. 25; red kidney
beans, $9; potatoes, $1.50 to $2; on-
ions, $1.25 to $1.40 bu. , cabbage, lo
1.11. f lb; cucumbers, 30c doz.; hens, 25c;
springers, 32 to 40; ducks, 28 to 30;
geese, 18 to 19, turkeys, 24 to 25; but-
“'I.I:.~.' _ tor, creamery, 57 to 60; dairy, 55; eggs,
45; sheep, $9 to $10; lambs, $14 to
$15; hogs, $16. 50; beef steers, $10;
beef cows, $8; veal calves, $11; wool,
67; apples, 75c to $1.—O. 8., Fenton,
October 17.

Grand Traverse (NE) —Farmers
are beginning to dig potatoes. Nearly
all beans and buckwheat are taken
care of and in the barn ready to be
thrashed. There is a great deal of
threshing yet to be done. :
ther for caring for crops. Potatoes
.not a very good crop this year, they
I I run about 80 bus. to acre in this vicin-
.2: . ity. Corn not an extra good crop, but
'Will have enough hard corn to fatten
some hogs. Some apples are being
made into cider. Some farmers are
selling potatoes. Following quotations
at Williamsburg this week: Potatoes,
$1.30 per cwt.; onions, $1.50 a bushel;
butter, 48; butterfat, 64; eggs, 40c;
apples, 80c cwt.——C. L. B., Williams-
burg, Oct. 12.

Kalkaska (S.W.)——Farn_1ers digging
mg» potatoes which are not turning out
_ -.very good. Weather 1quito cold at
1:5" present. Soil very dry. Some farm-
' are selling potatoes, others are hold-
ing for higher price. Following price
7 es paid at Kalkaska this week: Oats.
', 80; wheat, $1. 75Ito $210; rye, $1.40;
1'. bay, $27. 50; be_,a‘ns $5. 31; potatoes,
' $1. 40 cwt. 'butter, 45 to 50; butterfat,
.. 60, eggs, 40; apples, 50. _——R. E. B., So.
Boardman, Oct. 14.

1. Calhoun (N. W. )—Farmers husking
corn and digging potatoes. Potatoes
," are poor around here. a Weather ﬁne;
' soil getting dry; we need rain. The
following quotations made at Battle
Greek this week. Wheat, $2.13; oats,
0; rye, $1. 5-;2 hay, $26 to $28; pota-
as, $175; onions, $1. 50; hens, 25;
pgingers, 28; butter, 50; eggs, 48;

 
. thaws, 6; Veal cal' cs", 12. —-O'. E. B,
I (stile Oreeh, 0611.11.

Our‘elevator here is" .
Farmers '
price is to low compared ?

   
IWearford (West)——Quite a lot of rye
"'in’g SOWn in this locality. Some of.

Great wea: ‘

95111113 14; hogs, 18; beet steers, 7,

 
$9; veal calves, $9 to $11; appl,es 65c;
grapes, 3c lb.4—E. W. Coral, Oct. 14.

Calhoun (North GentraZ)——Farmers
are picking apples, sewing rye, husk-
ing corn and a few are hauling gravel
on the state road. Warm and dry;
need rain. A lot of rye being put in.
Bean-s and potatoes are very scarce in
this locality. We rather enjoy read-
ing Uncle Rube’s meditations, as we
think he was born and lived in this
locality nearly all his life. The writer
of this will n‘ever forget Uncle Rube,
for he was the cause of us getting one
awful licking in school; but hurrah
for Uncle Rube! The following quo-
tations were made at Ulivet this week:
Wheat, $2.10; cats, 65; rye, $1.50; hay,

$23; potatoes, $1.50; onions, $1.50;
hens, 20; springers,. 20; butter, 50;
butterfat, 55; eggs, 45; sheep, 11;

lambs, 12; hogs, 17; beef steers, 10;
beef cows, 6; veal calves, 16; apples,
$2.—G. R., Oltvet, Oct. 12.

Osceola (N.E.)—Weather ﬁne for
fall work and farmers are making
good use of. it. Potato digging is the
order of the day but help is very
scarce. Rye and fall wheat are doing

M1L°N INN I '
Montcalm (West) —-. Mest‘
- farmers are digging and sell-
ing potatoes which are yield- ,- .
ing around 75 bushels to the , 'L '18“ 91»
acre on an average. Some'are . g“ 1' a , 0
husking co’rn,- which is very e9 2. ”d" i‘i‘o‘
good; Some are still’ putting <06. 0, (1.. lg, 65"» > ‘.
in rye. No potatoes ‘are’ be- P' 4 >6 ' I3. I?“ ’ . 7%.
ing put in cellars yet'on ac- ‘ '~?'- 9. 0 <3- ” '
count of being green. Some 6’63 f7 04-" by“. Jr". ' .0“
are not yet frozen on high 1. -. e g 1)“ .
v E
ground. Having exceptiona . 9,9 Q3 17- 0. .
ally ﬁne weather for October,‘ by '7'?
mild and warm. The starch ,‘p ‘95“ 96° - (y
factory at Greenville is pay- qr 5129' ‘ _ ‘ ,' °
ing $1 per cwt. for culls and "’ d. 7!, 4;" 135‘
second-grade potatoes. Fol- 9‘ 1,8,0" 3" v13 573 c
lowing prices were paid this 0’ J? 32"? 9' 7 ,(17
week at Greenville: Wheat, 0“ i" '3“ " 1‘755 5* 5
$2.08; corn, shelled, $1.50; ‘ {23‘s. $10“ or”?! 1' t8“)
oats, 68; rye, $1.50; beans, 6 ‘ 0‘. ,
$8.50; potatoes, $1.60; on- ° ‘4‘: a"; .499
ions, $1.50; cucumbers, $2.50; 1)?" J96“ ~11? ‘
hens, 20; springers, 30; but~ (317' Jr (1° “
ter, 48; butterfat, 52; eggs, 8"»9'51“ 33'
46; sheep. 10; lambs, 15; _ 9" v9 ' 9°
hogs, $18; beef steers, $7 to

'Potatoes not turning

=‘ or.
beans Grain ‘
as expected Resets rye. yielding 1.er
~16 to 15 bnslfels'm the acre owing to».
much of. it .bping/wintorvkﬂled. . oats
turning eut’abonL25 bushels to the

. acre; The. 1911er quotations at:
014m this week' heat 32 09Foat1g,
- 64; rye,- $1.481; hens, 19; loge-s,

18; ducks; 16; geese, 15; turkeys, 15;
butter, 50; butterfat-,I- 58; eggs, 41 ~19

B. Lake, Oct 11.

Arenas TEast)-—-Weather fine but
ratherydry.1510ts of wheat and rye
being sown. The ivriter’ has one ﬁeid
of Red Rock Wheat up ﬁne and as this

is my first Iexperienoe With this var.»

iety Will' follow it closely. Sugar

beets big crap here.

change in this line Michigan’ 5 farmers
will surely be hard hit. The following
.iquotations at Twining this week.
0111.13.64,
’potatoes, $1. '25; :henSL 17 to. 19' button
fat, 58; eggs, 42., hogs, 15% on' foot;

well. out as '

well as expected earlier in the season. 30531;; for apples “—1” B R’ Twirling,
Farmers selling everything; not hold- c

ing anything for higher prices. The - Bay (SHE ) rSugar beet harvest is

following prices were offered'at Mar-
ion this Week: Wheat, $2 to $2.10.;

corn, $1.35; oats, 66; rye, $1.40; bay, 1

$18 to $25; beans, $7.50 cwt.'; potatoes...

$1.10 cwt.; onions,'$1 bu.;. cabbage, 2c '
butterfat. .

1b.; hens, 25; , butter, 56;
60; eggs, 42.~—W. A. 8., Marion, Oct.12.

Jackson (Central)——A~4 very large
acreage of rye is nearly sown here
but very little wheat. It is too dry
for plowing and husking. Following
prices paid at Jackson this week'
Wheat, $2.05;
rye, $1.45; hay, $23 to $26; rye straw.
$9 to $10; wheat-oat straw, $8 to $9;
beans, $8 cwt.; potatoes, $150; onions,
$1.25 bu.; cabbage, $1 bu.' , cucumbers,
$1.50 bu.; hens, 22; springers, 26; but-
ter, 58; butterfat, 58; eggs, 48; sheep,
10; lambs, 151/2; hogs, 15, beet steers,
12; beef cows, 8; veal calves, 17; wool,
65; apples, $1. w—B. Tl, Parma, Oct. 12.

Alcona—Beans all harvested and a
fair crop; a bigger acreage of rye and
wheat sown than usual. Threshing

 
—makc cvcry

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corn, $1. 55; oats, 68c?

the most important work now; the
mast of the crop is out of the ground.
Sohoo.l has been closed for the past
three Weeks to allow the s‘choOl child-
ran to help in the boot ﬁelds.
or has been warm and very 'dry; the
ground hard to plow. Not much can
husking done Cattle and hogs rath-
er; scarce: Little change in prices;
_ eggs a little higher.——J. 0'. A., Manger,
October 18. ' _ .
Ogemaw (Central—Beans practi-
cally all harvested; secured in good
condition, as there has been no wet
weather for a long time. Some pota~
toes to be dug yet; they run good size
but not many in hill; the yield is from
75 to 150 bu. to the acre; none being
sold here at present; there was too
» much green stock rushed on the mar-
. ket at the start, so buyers quit buy-
ing. The following quotations at
West Branch this week: Wheat, $2.06;
oats,- 63; rye, $11. 42; hay, $22 to $24,
potatoes, 75c1bu.;'butterfat, 58; eggs,
48; apples, 50 to 75 .—-.W N., West
Branch, Oct. 18.

Monroe (Ewen—Farmers husking
corn and drawing beets. Weather is
good; soil dry and hard. Selling grain
and sugar boots and buying steers and

- a few new milclr cows. There have
been quite a few farmers who think
the M. B. F. is the best paper they
have ever read, and I guess they know.
The ‘followingmrices were paid at
C‘arleton this week: Wheat, $2.13;
cats, 63' rye, $1. 42; hay, $20 to $24;
onions, $1. 50; hens, 18' butter, 50 to

60; eggs/50; hogs, $17; 1 veal calves,
$16; apples, $11.50.——.R. H., Carleton,
October 20.

Jackson (North) - Following mar-
ket quotations were made at Jackson
this week: Wheat, $2. 05; corn, $1.45;
oats, 68; rye, $11. 50; hay, $25; rye
$1. 50; hay, $25, rye straw, $10 wheat-
oat straw, $9; beans, $8.25; potatoes,
$1135; onions, $1.25; cabbage, $1; hens
springers, 24; butter, 58; butter-
at: 59; eggs, 46; sheep, 10; lambs.
15%;. gs, 15; beef steers, 11; beef
coWs, 7; veal calves ,016: wool, 65; ap-
ples, $1 pears, 8150—3. T. Parma,
October 19. -

Ingham (N. E. )——Farmers picking

apples, husking corn and a few ﬁom- ‘

men'ced fall plowing. Pasture about‘
"whipped; no rain for two weeksr A;

. good many’ sales a god! big cow soils-

for from $100 to $140.

_ Feed pretty
high; cornstalksEC

a bundle. The

4 following quotations; made at William: . “

sten this week; Wheat, $2. 05; corn,

150 to 75; cats, 68; rye", $1.56; beans, '9
”5&5 25; potatoes,$1.25jtog$1.66 01110118;
:hens, 250;; Spring:

 
80; «5119.39.30 ._ .,
are, 6202 1111;11:134520ii bu
fat eggs. 2 "
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to 9411: 9.91111?
at 11129114113 out 3'11; wen

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rye. $1.45; beans, $8 own, '

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October 18.

' quotations were made at White Cloud
this week.

.. toner 18. ~

_, very disappointing. Ground very dry

‘Mning‘, Oct. 19.

J ' beans nearly completed and they are

'~"very good, also buckwheat is being
thrashed and it is very poor, there
, being a small acreage.

' continue but a large quantity of po-
‘ ' tattle:

   
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’ $1. 50;. cab-
:50 per th; 1111115, 28; spring-
ducks,_26 geese, 23; butter,
515.60; sheep, :5 to 16_; lambs,
g26'010gs, 21 to 25; beet steers,
18 121118; beef cows, 12 to 14; Veal
ca1v‘és, 22 to 24; 5111111615 $1 to $1. 50;
pears, $1 to $2. —-—E. W H., Erte,M1'c71-
9W, Oct. 18. '

:.Tﬂocola (N.E.)—Silo ﬁlling about

 
"done Seine corn to husk. Ground
91:96 dry‘ for fall ploWing Fall wheat
" .looking ﬁne, but needs rain.
. ° don sa’les almost every day; cows sell-

Auc-

his all the Way from $90 to $180. 00.
Il’wo carloads have been shipped in
from Grand Rapids and all sold to
learners here. The following quota-
‘ﬂan's at Cass City‘this week. Wheat,

’ $3.10; oats, 65; rye, $1. 50Nbeans, $8. 25

411111;; potatoes, $1. 2;5 hens, 20 to 22,

_‘espringers, 20 .to 22; d11,cks 20 to 22;

geese, 15; turkeys, 20 to 22; butter,

:50; butterfat, 55; eggs, 45; sheep, 10;

' limbs, 15; hogs, 14 to 15; beet steers,
3 to 9; beef coWs, 6 to 7 veal calves,
12 to 14; apples, $2. ~S. ,Cass. City.

‘\

Hanistee (N.E.¢—
in all kinds of crops, ﬁnishing sow-
ing rye, digging potatoes, threshing
beans and buckwheat about done. The

’ weather has been warm, for this time

of ye;ar no frost for some time Soil
‘is somewhat dry. Selling rye apples
and potatoes, possibly some stOck a1
so. Dry weather hurt buckwheat. Po-
tatoes and buckwheat a failure; «farm-
are are hardly getting much‘more than
seed on wheat.‘ The following prices
were [paid at Manistee this week:
Oats, ‘65:, rye, $1. 40; beans, $281; pota-
toes, $1.20 cwt‘.; springers, but-

" ' ter, 58; eggs, 40; hogs, 20; veal1 calves

13 to 15, pears, $2; grapes $3 bu.——

H. A;. ’Bear Lake.‘ Oct. 18 . ‘

Grand Traverse (N.E.)-_—Farmers
are digging potatoes at present, some
are hauling to warehouses and stor—
ing them, others are selling; prices
are very low. The weather is great
now. several silos are being built
this all. There is a carload of cattle
being loaded at Barker Creek today
Following. quotations at Traverse City

this Week: Wheat, $2; corn, $1.;50
oats, 65; rye,. $1.50; potatoes, $1.20 ~
cwt.; onions, $1.50 bu.;4 8cabbage 4c
11).; hens, '60; buttel, butterfat,

64; apples $2. ——0. R., Williamsburg,
October 18.

Newaygo (N..E)—The following
Wheat $213; corn, ”$165;
oats 66; 1ye, $1. 45; hay, .;$29 beans,
$8.25; potatoes, $1. 60 cwt.; thter, 55;
butterfat, 60; eggs, 4'0 hogs, 22; ap—
pies $1 cwt. 'T'F S. Big“ Rapids. Oc-

Arenac (Eden—As help is scarce
tanners are digging early and late
harvesting beets, digging potatoes
'hlisking corn etc. A- few beans out
yet; some being threshed and are

and hard to work, and no rain in sight
Following prices paid at Twining the
past week. Oats 62; rye, $1. 45; po-
tatoes, 75 to 80c bu.; hens, 17, spring-
ers, 19; butter, 50; butterfat, 59; eggs,
45; sheep 7 to 9' lambs, 12 to 14;
hogs, 15%: apples, 50.—M. B. R.,

_' liontcalm '(S.W.) —— Farmers are .
digging potatoes. which are yielding
from 100 to 175 bu. t6 acre; the acre-
age here is not as large as com-
pared to last year. Threshing of

not yielding good, but the quality is

The holding
«eh-grain for higher prices seems to

being sold and the local
mite the price at $1 50 per
Wt. Weather cool and soil is very
(In The tonowing quotations marle
Greenville this week: Wheat, “$2,418

, orn, $150; oats, 65'; rye,
use 3.48:;- 'eggs..44;~
hogs .17;

. crop.

Farmers harvest- .

"disciple

\ , ' ing. Weather change-
able withoutram, soil getting in need
of rain. Farmers selling stock and
grain, not holding. The following
quotations at Union City this week:
Wheat; $2408; oats, 57; rye, $1. 46;
hay, $20 to $30; potatoes, $1. 20; on-
ions, 2c 1b.; beans, $5; hens, 20; sprin-
.gers, 20; butter, 46, eggs, 48; lambs,

..14; hogs, ;;16 beef cows, 6; veal calves,
ﬁ‘165ﬁrrF. S., Union City. Oat. 19.

oakland ‘(North)-—-Potato digging
is the order of the day, nothing else
going; a ﬁne lot of potatoes being

dug; not many going to market. High

Winds doing a lot of damage to apple
In need of raTin for wheat. Corn
is about all in the shock and silos
———E. 142, Clarkston, Oct. 18.

Ionic (West)——Very dry in this
parg of the county. Has been excell-
ent time for apple and potato harvest,
also late beans. Apples are extra nice
this year and potatoes are fair, but
much better than farmers anticipated
last summer during the drouth. Po-

, tato buvers talk of buying next week.

Some clover seed avera:ing about 1
bu per acre. Cows are selling very
high at sales; horses are a dead letter.
——A. W. G., Saranac. Oct. 18.

Clinton ‘(No,rth)—Bean threshing is
well under way. Dry weather has
greatly shortened the crop. Yield be-
ing from 6 to 10 bu. per acre. Many
being marketed. Sugar beets are an
excellent crop and road and weather
conditions ideal for delivery; help is
very scarce. The following prices
paid at St. Johns this week: Wheat
$2.10; cats, 62; rye, $1.45; hay $19
111820; beans $8.;25 potatoes, $1.;25
hens, 17 to 20; ducks, 20; butter, 45
to 50; eggs, 44; sheep, 5 to 8; lambs,
12 to 14/; hogs, 161/2' beet steers, 5
to 10; veal calves, 16..—A I}. .7.. Ban-
niste'r. Oct. 18.

 
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‘Michigan’s Seat in the United States
Senate forSale to the Highest Bidder”

IS a Bad Motto for the Greatest State 111
the Union to Adopt as Her Win-
uﬂthc-War Policy!

Presidcnf'Wilson asked Henry Ford to accept the nomi-
nation because he knew what Ford was actually DOING
every day for the Government.

If John W. Bailey had been Governor of Michigan he
would NOT have been NEUTRAL when the peeplc 2151(-

ed for an inVcStigation.

Vote for Henry Ford

  
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and John W. Bailey

for Governor '

 
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1 ‘ Democratic State Central Committee
.' . «1 .- . . _ 210 Congress St., Detroit, Mich;

   
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The letter follows: .
Oyster Bay, Long Island,
Oct. 19, 1918.
Commander Truman H. Newberry,
New York City.
My Dear Commander:

I congratulate you on your nomina-
tion, but far more do I congratulate
Michigan and all our people. It was my
Rood fortune to have you serve under me
as Secretary of the Navy, and I can tes-
tify personally to your efﬁciency and your
disinterested and single—minded zeal for
the public service. To a very peculiar de-
gree you have stood for that kind of gov—
ernment which puts the interest of the
people as a whole ﬁrst and foremost, and
treats all other considerations as negli—
gible, when the public weal is involved.
The record made by you and your two
sons in this war is typical of your whole
attitude as a public servant. Both your
boys at once entered the Navy, and are
on the high seas. You sought employment
abroad; when that was refused you, you
accepted any.position that was offered in
which you could render public service.

SeeskEn-or in Age

The nomination of Mr. Ford makes the
issue sharp and clean. It, is not primarily
an issue between the Republican party
and the DemocraticParty, for Mr. Ford
does not seem ‘to have any ﬁrm political
convictions, and was content to take the
nomination on any ticket without regard
to what the general principles of the
men supporting that ticket were; and his
memory about past politics is so hazy
that although he has mentioned a Repub-
lican candidate for President from whom
he thinks he once voted, it does not ap-
pear that this is possible unless he is in
error as to his own age.

The issue is inﬁnitely more important
than any merely political issue. It is
the issue of straight Americanism‘, ”of

straight patriotism, and of preparedness

ofr the tasks of peace and of war. as
against a particularly foolish and -ob—
noxious type of paciﬂsm, preached in
peace and practiced in war;

‘ First .Time, He Says.

This is the first time in the history of
our country in which a candidate for
high ofﬁce has been nominated who has
spent enormous sums of money in demor—
alizing the people of the,United States
on a matter of vital, interest to their
honor and Welfare. The expenditures on
behalf of paciﬁsni by Mr. Ford in connec-
tion with the peace ship, and in connection
with his great advertising campaign in
favor of the McLemore resolution and of
the paciﬁst and pro-German attitude

.

a'ga'inst our participation in the war, was
as thoroughly demoralizing to the consci-
ence of the American people ,as anything
that has ever taken place. The failure
of Mr. Ford’s son to go into the Army at
this time, and the approval of‘the father
of the son's refusal, represent exactly
what might be expected from the moral
disintegration , inevitably prodiiced by
such pacifist propaganda. I

Mr. Ford’s son is the son of a man of
enormous wealth. If he went to the war
he would leave his wifeLand child immeas~
urably distant from all chance of even
the slightest ﬁnancial strain or,,trouble,
and his absence» would not in the’ smallest
degree affect the efﬁciency of’the business
with which he is connected. But the son
stays at home, protesting and appealing
when he is drafted, and now escaping
service. , ~

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- Sons at the Front.

Your two sons have,.e%gerly gone to
the front. They stand rea y to pay with
their lives for the honor and the interest
of the American people,.and while they
thus serve America. with ﬁne indifference
to all personal cost, the son 0f wealthy,.
Mr. Ford sits at home in ignoble safety,
and his father defends and advises such
conduct.

It would be a grave misfortune to the
country to have Mr. Ford in the Senate-
when any question of continuing the war
or. discussing terms of peace may arise.
and it would be an equally grave misfor-
tune to have him' in any way deal with

the problems of reconstruction in this

country. .
Michigan is facing the test, clear-cut
and without shadow of a chance for mis-
understanding, between patriotism and
Americanism on one side, and on the
other paciﬁsm and that foolish sham-cos—
'mopolitanism which thinks it clever .to
deride the American ﬂag, and to proclaim
that it would as soon be axI-Iin‘do'o or
Chinaman as anAmerican. . _
Could Seek Membership , . ,
If there should be at any "time in the
future as Hindoo Senate, andfit should:
choose. in a ‘spirit of cosmopolitamsm, to
admit outsiders. there is nowreason why,
Mr. Ford should not aspire to membership
therein; but he would'be signally out of
place in the American Senate so long. as
that body is dominated by men who zeal-
ously believe in the American ideal 'and
fait fully .eﬁdeavor to serve the An'rican‘
people. ‘ » V, , .
.Wishing youall success, I am_ every

. ,/faithfully yours,

8' d .
( igne ) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

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' at. agfew'bushel‘s of grain better than .

icy. could aﬂord the cash outlay for
the construction of dependable, perma-
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”shin; ‘the.,_,jprops from under this

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onset corn or wheat; in view of the
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average crib of this character.
To give the building proper

height, and pitch of roof to ,‘ijfavor' (

the-"eﬁicient—use of either a Ista‘
tionary or portable elevator, this
otherwise\surplus\Space is nec—
‘ essary, It is occupied by the overhead
wheat bin. Present-day economical
construction necessitates the use of
high studding in wooden structures
rather'than the use of long, sloriing
roofs. \ '
A special feature of this corn crib
‘ which has
been devised
by experts of
. thelRural En-
gineering Di-
vision, con-
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study and investigation of every Spro-
‘gress'ive farmer. This, storage has
~ "made. a hit with practical farmers
. ,5)?th have subjected it to the acid test
0,! extensive use under a wide range
, “:otavarying conditions. It is adapted
or the average, general purpose, corn-
bgitfiarm. It furnishes as nearly
4th conditions ‘for the drying, cur-
'fg,.and storage of grains as are‘prac-
frnnv'lgxns Spender) oonN
. {sinvestigations have :hown'that corn
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g p _ 4;,tlime may contain as high. as 33 per
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Furthermore, the crib is provided
with removable ventilators which sup-

plement the shelling trench in the’

floor, to provide a correct system of
air drainage; this combats the ten-
dency of moist, damp corn to damage
in the crib. As the corn is dumped
from the drying. racks it falls in coni-
cal piles in the crib, where, over a
wide surface, it is exposed to thorough
ventilation ,and drying before more
corn is dumped on top of it. These
racks do not interfere with the maxi-
mum ﬁlling oi the crib, as the outer
rack may be fastened back on the
rafterswhlle the inner rack
can be raised and the space
below ﬁlled.

THE SHELLING TRENCH
.. . The shelling trench in the
" . ﬂoor of the crib is another
valuable labor-saver, because
. 0",? man with
4—,: ' ’ . a,long-handled
rake can roll
,- the grain from
7”,; the top of the
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in the ventilation system by screening
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the wall in order to provide for across
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Complete working plans and bills of
material for this desirable combina-
tion granary and crib will be furn~
ished to any farmer in the United
States if he will direct a request for
them to the Chief, Division of Rural
Engineering, United States Bureau of
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and would be worth more than that to every farmer, as they would often}:
save valuable time besides a trip to town for repairs. ‘ ‘ ' ’

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A pipe wrench, a nut wrench, a screw driver and three dies for cleans

threads on‘blank bolts.
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Will work in closer quarters than any other wrench. ~~
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BUSINESS FARMING, ask him for his subscription and mail it’ to us on '
coupon below together with his dollar bill. The wrench illustratednwill
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. .But before you sell the COW
that is not producing well, try
:19 improve her condition. Her
3111: value is much greater
an her meat value.

 
M0st poor milkers are non-
ductive because of some de-
ect of health, which can be
quickly remedied by intelligent
treatment.

   
Kow—Kure is a medicine that
acts quickly on the organs of
digestion and milk production.
”Its widely knovvn tonic and
- curative qualities have made it
'1'. i the standard cow medicine for
- .the prevention of disease and
the treatment of Abortion, Bar—
renness, Retained Afterbirth,

Securing, Lost Appetite, and

unches. '

 
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will do for you what it is do—
ing for thousands /of others.
Feed dealers and druggists sell
Kow-Kure; 600
and $1. 20 pack-
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free treatise,
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Cow D 101'.”

DAIRY
ASSOCIATION C0.

Lyndonville, Vt.

   
daysofhis'h prices _

 
Second Annual Public SALE

Waslitenaw County Holstein-
Friesian Cattle Breeders’ Club

At ‘ ‘Stoneacres, ” home of Hatch Herd
3 miles S'outhwest of

YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN
November 6th.

1 o'clock sharp. Autos meet all trains.

About 60 head—mostly A. R. O.
Pontiac—Korndyke breeding—bred
to King Korndyke Artis Vale (2
nearest dams average 37.61; seven
nearest average 31.56), son of
King Korndyke Sadie Vale, the’ 41
lb. sire; and Rag Apple Segis Korn~
’dyke, a 38 lb. son of Rag Apple
Korndyke, out 'of a granddaughter
of King Segis.

A few choice younger ones, both sexes

Liberty Bonds at par acceptable. All
animals old enough are tuberculin
tested. For catalogs or other infOr—
mation address

WILLIAM B. HATCH, Secy,.

Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 
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LARGE 51212
IN cows

Is fauorablc to economical yielding of
milk. The food of support in compari-
son tQSize is much less in large cows
than in small ones and for this reason
the Holstein- Friesian cow
greater net proﬁt on the total amount
of food consumed.
If interested in

HOLSTEIN CATTLE

Send for our booklets—they contain
much valuable infornmtion

HOLSTEIN-FRIENAN ASSOCIATION OF
. “AMERICA. Box 295 Brattleboro, Vt.

 
BETTER HOG FEEDING
' MEANS MORE PROFIT

 
At present food prices, judicious
feeding is necessary if any kind of
livestock is to return a proﬁt. The
greatest aid to ‘proﬁtable‘hog feeding

run on as much of the year as pos-
sible, says L. E. McGinnis, extension
animalhusbandman to the Univers-

Only in rare cases can afarmer make
. money in feeding a grain ration alone
the vear around Quite often forage
is the deciding factor between proﬁt
and loss

Rape is one of the best forage crops
for hogs, altvho it has the disadvant-
age of being a short-lived crop. Of
the more permanent pastures, alfalfa
probably ranks ﬁrst. It is high in
protein and ash consztuents. These
are lacking in corn and are something
that the hog necrls to build hone and
muscle. Probably no other forage
crop will produce as much pork per
acre as alfalfa. Clover ranks close
to alfalfa as a hog pasture. Blue

ers a long grazing period and with
some other more succulent pasture to
turn the hogs on in the middle of the]
summer when it is hot and dry, makes
a good supplement to corn. Rye
sown in earlx tall for winter and early
spxing pastme ﬁlls a needed place on
a great many farms

University of Missouri, Agricultur-
al Experiment Station Bulletin 110,
Forage Crop Rotation for Pork Pro-
duction." contains data on providing
green stuff for the hogs for a maxi-
mum part of he year. It is not only
necessary to have green. stuff to sup-
plement the grain ration as much as
possible, but the grain should be fed
judiciously Even with a good pasture
of leguminous crops such as alfalfa,
clover, and rape a protein supple
ment to com such as tankage, or oil
meal should be fed for economical
gains. In other ,words. the hog re-
quires 11 balanced ration and makes
more economical gains if 'he has one.

Some good balanced rations for
bugs on forage are: Corn 9 parts,
shorts 3 parts. tankage 1 part. Corn
6 parts shorts 2 parts oil meal 1'
part. Hominy feed 9 parts, shorts 3
parts, tankage 1 part.

For the brood sows: Corn 10 parts,
shorts 5 parts, bl an 3 parts oil meal
1 part. Corn 4 paits, shorts 4 parts,
bran 4 parts. tankage 1 part.

For fattening hogs: Corn 10 parts,
shorts 2 parts. tankage 1 part. Corn
10 parts tankage 1 part. Corn (nog-
get down) shorts (self-feeder), tank-

age {self- feeder). Corn (self-feeder),
shorts (self-feeder), tankage (self-

A geoi ration for fattening hogs
is to put corn, shorts and tankage in

 
returns a .

 
separate compartments of the self-
t'eeder -111.l let 'hem balance t‘ncir'own
rations. They can do it as well if not

«better than the farmer.

THE WORLD’S RECORD
PRICE‘FOR HOLSTEINS

 
Reports from Great Britain show
that the big prices for ‘Friesian dairy
cattle .continue to hold sway among
dairy cattle breeders on“. that side of
‘the'Atlantic. The climax wasreached

. on Sept. 5, when one of the oldest es-

tablished herds on the east coast of
England, owned ’by F. W. D. Robinson,
of Roos Hall, Beccles, Suffolkcounty,‘
was sold atypublic auction. Anto'tal

erage of $1090 per head, and 10 young
averaged close to $1940 each: tap.

price being made 011 the twoé'y'eanoid,
Clockhou‘se Victor.

 
(bred from imported parents) '

 
is forage, something for the hogs to.-

ity of Missouri College of Agriculture;

grass has an advantage in that it off-x

of 77 COWS and heifers brought an av- .

bulls-—the oldeSt two years of. age——«
'ensilage. ,

This young builal -a

strong- in the blood' of Allied, the
Champion Frinsidn hull of Holland.
He was bred by Trevor Williams pres
'ident of the British Friesian nttle
society, and was purchased by ' es
Mitchell, a prominent north of ag-
land breeder, for $12 0. .

TLe sensation of he sale was the
p1 we paid for, the 5-year-old imported
cow, Golf Sietske 10th, which animal
changed hands for the world’s: record
.price of $22, 500. She was purchased
by A. ,8. Bowlby, of Harlow, England,

This cow was formerly owned by'
.John Bromet, a noted York County

Friesian breeder, and Was sold last
year at a. big price to Mr. Robinson.
She recently dropped a bull calf sired
by Botermijn (imported into England
as a calf and recently sold by Messrs.
A. & J. Brown, of St. Albans, Eng,
to the Olympia Agricultural and Dairy
00., London, Eng” for $15, 000), and
Mr. Robinson retained this oil! for a
future herd sire.

Golf Sietske 10th was bred by H. L.
de Vries, a'well-know Holland breeder.
She gave .9664 lbs. milk with her ﬁrst.
calf, the milk averaging 4.09 per cent
butterfat. With her second calf she
produced (in 38 weeks) 9287 lbs. of
4.02 per cent milk, and from April to
June of the present year she averag-
ed 50 lbs. milk per day under purely
hatural conditions.

Among the other "exceptionally
good prices made at Mr. Robinson's
sale were $3000 for a 2— —vcar- old heifer.
$2400 for a 3-year old, $2000 for a year-
ling while several young females ex-
ceeded $1500.

The day following, 69 cows and heif-
ers owned by H. W. Daking, an Essex
county breeder, were sold by auction
and brought an average price of $970
per head,‘ top price of $2500 being
made on a 3-year-old cow. Three 2-
year-old heifers brought over $2000
each in this sale.

Wandermeere Belle Hengerveld (18,-
300) is the highest priced Holstein
cow in the United States. and the pre-
vious best price received for a Fries-
ian cow in England is $17, 500, paid
by the Olympia Agricultural & Dair)
Co for Eske Hetty, a cow then owned
by F. . May, of Saltcote Hall, Hey-
bridge Eng. This cow was the ﬁrst
and only British bred cow to exceed
20 000 lbs. milk in one lactation per-
iod and the ﬁrst to give over 100 lbs
in 24 hours. M1. May holds high aver-
age; 29 females from his herd selling
for $2118 per head.

New breeders of Friesian cattle are
springing-up all over Great Britain
and the membership in the British
Friesian Cattle society. is increasing
at a rapid rate. It is plainly evident
that British breeders are‘awake to the
times and that the close of the war
will see large shipments of the Black-
and-Whites to Holland, Belgium and

‘ other European countries, where the

dairy herds have been depleted to a
lamentable extent. To send Holsteins
to Holland, a few years ago, would
have been akin to “sending ’coals to

Newcastle,” but the war has changed .

many things and the
made by :a few prominent-
breeders. just previous

importations
British

GROUND BUCKWHEAT 'roo
HEAVY FOR DRY cows

 
“Will you Itindly advise me through'
your columns,” writes a New .York

farmer to the Holstein. Friesian Reg-"

ister. “what‘grains should be mixed
with ground buckwheat to make a bal-
anced ration to feed fresh cows for
milk production, or would it be bet-
ter to use this bufkwheat in forming
a. ration for cond tioning cows prior
to freshening? ‘We have a large sup-
ply- of whole buckwheat which we pur-
pose to have ground and mixed 'with
other grains, without saving any part

4 of the ﬂour and do not know just how
to combine it for best results. f

“We should also like to ask you
opinion of the value of green pea, vino
For roughage we uso allot.
fa, clover, and mixed hay,
and corn ensllage .We

  
picking, run through an

'such a bin should,
. keeping with the dimensions of the

to the 01119"
break of the. war, now shows the wis-
' dom of that undertaking.

. ﬂavored ﬂesh.

just right -——W

_ for the New.'Y0rk,./mark
usually some peas the re
and some that are not mature, '

remap: on the vines at picking ' The
vines are immediately raked up after

millage cut-
tor into the 31111. We have had very
little experience in feeding this pea

‘ vine .ensilage and do not know how it

compares with corn ensila‘ge. We
also haVe plenty of roots-11. -.C W.
New York ”

While buckWheat middlings is a '

most excellent food for dairy cows,
and a. great milk maker, the whole
buckwheat, grOund, would in my opin-
ion be to pasty to feed without caus-
ing digestive troubles. Buckwheat
flour is very heavy and even when
fed with other grains would be very
likely to “pack." There is so much
use now for the ﬂour in conservation
baking that if you have the facilities
for grinding the buckwheat, you would
no doubt ﬁnd it proﬁtable to sell the
ﬂour. In that case Yen would have
a very valuable feed in the middlings,
and if you will tell me what other
grains you are able to get on your mar-
ket for winter use I will be very glad
to make you up a ration,.useing the
best and cheapest of those grains you
can buy. With hays such as you have
and ensilage and roots, you could get
on very well with corn meal and
ground oats only. ,
The pea vine silage is a most ex-

‘ pellent succulent, 1 lb. containing .021

lbs. of protein, while 1 lb. of corn sil-
age has only .009 lbs. The ratio of
the former is 1:71 while corn silage
has a ratio of 1: 143 By using the

vine silage you can save on your
orn silage and also on your grain, be-
cause of the high protein content of
the former ,.

As to using the buckwheat, ground,
for dryc c,ows I would think it very
risky to give them such a heavy feed.
—V. E. Fuller in Holstein-Fricsion
Register

HAVE FEED STORAGE
BOX FOR POULTRY

 
'

The common practice of mixing up
a quantity of feed at certain intervals
makes it necessary to have storage of
some kind. Instead of having bins or
boxes in some outbuilding removed
from the poultIy house, which calls
for extra steps and lime, every time
the birds are fed or the hoppers are
replenished a storage bin should be
provided in every pen. The size of
of'corrse, be in

/

pen or poultry house A bin' nine inch-
es wide, 12 inches high in‘front and 18
inches high in the rear Will be found
convenient for most‘ conditions: the
length depends entirely upon ‘the wall
space available—from four to six feet
is usually easily provided fo1. If pos-
sible the bin should be lined with some
rat and mouse- proof material.

SELECT THE T/HRIFTY
. BEEF FOR SLAUGHTER

1

 
' ouy healthy, thrifty animals should
be taken for slaughter. They sho‘uld

be in good flesh,7but not necessarily

very fat to make good, economical
beef, The very fat animals make
juicy beef, but yield a great deal of
waste fat. The young animal, baby
beef, makes tender meat which is
lacking in ﬂavor The more mature
animal will give a carcass of better‘
An old own well fat-
tened, makes beef of excellent ﬂavor,
and the desired tenderness may be
secured ripening in storage and

ing.

  
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by the skill of the housewife in cook'- ,

 
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\ prices that has ever known.

,- " Holstein-Fried“ Cattle

 
I50._rlb.. cow." Seth Payne.
and" sired by arson" of a
_ 47.91263.” ., The, youngster is,

5 handsomely marked

 
shanghai. and“

being 778' white. . . ,
, ,_:;.;_‘,'_$Ioo‘if 501de
“ml Hostel; Washington, Mich.

lid" uglier on. half“ Broth-era?

 
: ,1 f‘waQ/Young , Bulls ‘

« r» forSale, Ready for Ser/vice
‘ xOne frOm a 25 1b.. cow arid one from a
22"). four year old. Write fer pedigrees
3mi- prices». E. I... SALISBURY

‘1, " . , Shepherd. “Rhini-

’.'.i

 
'0‘“
W ._ will
Wort. new .

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:Jﬂpj‘to 14 lines or one inch and for less than 18 insertions under this
consent: not ﬁt? Title displayed, ”best advantage. in
recon. 1’01ij ads or for ads to run 18 lanes or more we will me o
' “ ' Mil: be lent on applico'tion to the Advertillng Dept.

 
Send in copy ind

 
cam—nominee non-cum Show
3" l 06 age: Pontiac Korndyke,
Price right. John A. Rinks.
Warren. 'Michigan. ‘ j '. "

egistered Holstein Bull one yealj 01d
for sale. Good typew Dam 81"in
inowfrom 60.to 65 le. Of 3‘7 mllk
y. 7 Go 390 crtated. Also young
bull calves cheap. C, L. Hulett & son,
Okenros, Mich. '

One Car-load Registered Holstem
Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heaVY-producing cows. Also some
choxce Duroc open gilts,
J. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan.

  
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SHORTHOBN ,

 
. MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS
We are now ' booking orders for
Young. bulls from [King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. 0. dams
with credible records. We test annu-I.
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and. further information.
, Mine!!! Bros.,'Soutl Y.yons. Mic-Mean.
\’ . -

WHAT DO YOU WANT? 1 represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can [3‘11 YOU in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum.
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides. Michigan;

UR SALE. pure bred Shorthorns and

0. I. C. pigs. Five young bulls 7
. to 9 months. 3125 to $150 each. play
Warner. R. No. 3. Almont_ Michigan.

iSHETLAND PONlE

. ‘ HEREFOID,

 
8 bull calves Prince

Herefords Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN 31103., Paw Paw. Mich-

 
_R.ED POLLED

FOR SALE—Dual purpose Red Polled
bulls and Oxforddown rams. ’
L. H. Walker, Reed City, Michigan

HORSES

 
SHETLAND PONIES

 
For Sale. Write
for description &

.4 2”!“an

 
okrrrn’ 1s.“ . Reina. all
kind that'make good. He?” Q
R. R. Leonard, St. j" Q13.

 
.:

. . t .
Large Type Poland China Swine,
LAndE TYPE P. 0. :fall gllts, brai-

and ready to ship. 'Will weigh W :i
to 365 pounds.‘ Will farrow inAug.
and Sept. Will also sill a few spring.
boars. Fall sale Nov. 29. ‘ . :2
Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7, Mason, Mich. "

—_

 
¥

 
HAMPSHIRE

SPRING BOABS now. ‘
ready at a bargain. Place
your order for bred gilts now.

HA'MPSHIR

 
FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
ﬁegistered Yearling Rams of extra qual-
y

 
. ' . - 3

prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell, Mich. and breeding. Flock established Hi9 .
C. Lemen, Dexter. Michigan. ’1 . .

~ EGGS SHROPSHIRE RAMs

 
0. I. C.

REGISTERED of quality. Ono im-

ported three-year-old Ram. Priced right.
Harry Potter & Son, Davison. M.chigan.

 
_ Holstein. Heifers

o'l‘he, cows and bulls advertised have
behn sold. I have 6 or 8 registered
Holstein heifers from heavy produc-
ing dams, 3 mos. to _2 years old at

-sex, for sale, at farmers’

 
$125 apiece.
EGISTERED HOLSTEIN ' BULL 6
months old, grandson of Hengerveld

. ROBIN CARR ‘
FOWLERVILLE, M\ICHIGAN
R De Kol. sired by
Lad who has 61 A. R. 0. daughters.
Dam is an 18 lb. 3 yr. old granddaughter

M King Segis who has a sister that re-
gently made 33 lbs. butter in 7 days as a

yr. old. This calf is light in color.
Well grown and a splendid individual.
Price $100. Write for pho and pedigree.

LC

, . Ketzler,’Flint, Mulligan.

_ .Wolverme Stock Farm

omens two sons about 1 yr. old, sired
by ‘Judge Walker. Pletertje. These
calves are nicely marked and light in
color and are ﬁne individuals. ‘Write
for pricleisggnd pedigrees. Pattie Creek.

imch” . .

 
greatest demand, future
. . Start
now With the‘ Holstein and convince
yourself. ,Good stock always for.
/§ sale. ' Howbert Stock Farm, ‘Eau
Claire, Michigan. '

H
'rsired by > a son or
a ves Friend Hengerveld
, , De Kol Butter
Boy and by a son of King Segis De Kol
Korndyke, from. A; It. O..dams with rec-
ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM

W. W. W‘yckoif. Napoleon, Mich.

For the

 
_ HOLSTEIN BULL .‘CA‘Lvns

, Sires‘ dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs 30 das. testing
45.52% fat. Dams good A. R. backing.
Calves nice straight fellows; % white.
Price $65.00 each while they last.
Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Boardman Farms, Jackson, Michigan,

 
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 areall with calf-to a ﬁlo—pound
hull. .1. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan 1‘

W SUNNY PLAINS . LSI lNS

A hwﬂyoungbulls left. Also a young

pair heavy draft horses. Phone “FIE.

.. ’ ARWIN KILLING-ER,
Fowlerville, Michigan.

.9. 4"
FOR 5- Eloven head of 'Holstein
ﬁ , ,1 , cows and heifers. Three
year-lingo not bred, the rest to freshen
this {all and. winter. A good start reas- ‘
. for some one. .Write, ‘ _

W. C. Hendee &.Son. Pinckney. ‘Michigan.

 
‘w

 
GISTERED xVSr0cx '
unions; “ ‘ ' '

 
Johan Hengerveld ‘

HORTHORNS and POLAND CHINAS.
Bulls, heifers and spring pigs, either
rices. F. M.
chigan.

S

 
Piggott 8;: Son, Fowler.
have been" kept upon

SHORTHORNS Maple Ridge Farm

since 1867 and are Bates ,bred. Two red
heifrers-for sale. J. E. Ianswell, Maso .,
Ic .

 
Bred dGills ,

Serviceable Boats
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 
,-

 
BATESBRED' snon'rnonxs. A few
young bulisrfor sale. -.
« J. B. Hummel, Mason, Michigan.

"GUERNSEY

GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A FEW
Heifers and cows for
sale. also a number of well bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake. Michigan. ‘

For saleYOUNG REGISTERED GUERN—
SEY cow, popular blood lines,
also young bull Golden Noble II breeding.
ren A. Dygert, Alto, Michlgan.

JERSEY

THE Jersey is
an investment
breed. not a luxury. The “dc
e!
pared. Tho! do equally
well in Southern exec and the \ .
Canadiniilil Northvgat. 3::
ey w .prove on .
must have 9 herdy Write
or men god pedi-
- green. Send to us for Important
‘ acts about Jerseys.

 
1n mayo-inocu-
3531?? 2 5:... New Your cw

 
LARGE TYPE 0.]. C.
Spring pigs pairs and trios. Gilts bred
for fall farrow. at prices that will please.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM
Monroe, Mich.

 
DUROC

 
EACH HILL FARM. Registered Dur-
oc Jersey spring boar. He is a grand-
son of the Prin. 4th, weighs 225 lbs.,
good deep red color, with plenty of bone,
good back, fancy head, backed by the
best of breeding. Write quick if you

want him for $60.
Inwood Bros, Romeo, Michigan.

 
Resistered Duroc Jersey Swine.
For sale Yearling and spring boars of
quality, also bred sow. Aug. and Sept. far-

.row. -Spring gilts. Write for pedigree
and prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. l.
J. Underhill. Salem. Mich.

Big, long, tall,

DUROC’ BOA

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.

 
grow—

DELAINE

 
NIPBOVED Black Top Delalns. Sixty
lReg. Rams to choose from. Newton Jr.

Blank, Hill Crest Farm, Perrinton.
Mich. Farm situated four miles south of
Middleton.

 
0R SALE—Registered yearling Rams.
Improved Black Top Delaine Merino.
Frank Rohrabacher, Laingsburg, Mich.

FOR SALE Black Top Delaine Merino

Rams. V. A. Backus & Son, Potterville.
Michigan. Citizens’ Phone.

REGISTERED IMPROVED‘

PURE BRED and regis-

FOR SAIE tered American Delaine

sheep. Young. Both sexes.
F .H. Conley, Maple Rapids, Michigan.

ELAINES, bred on same farin- for. 50,.
years. Size, quality pr‘epotent; aims
for sale delivered. Write ...' ._;,,
S. H. Sanders, R. No. 2, Ashtabula, Ohio.
PURE BRED Black Top Delaino
Ram. William H. '
Michigan, P. O. Box 116.

30

 
RA MBO UILLET/

PURE-BRED Rambouillet Ewes. .'
Priced for quick sale. Eugene W j-

 
‘TIX-TON MlX' with all: th

 
o ear
around koe _ ﬂock healthy and free Kan:
wonnl an cits. Saves you big money -I.
.8130 sample box by parcel post will ' -
icete a barr$of salt. Write for club If
—booklet o 'Nnture and (‘are of Shle ."
ARSONS TlX-TON (20., Grand Ledge, adds.

  
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“THE OCTOBER

  
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Ivory enimd told in

Fem:
and make
hon. Fido
Soil

every animal

All Anita-is
inspect Sound

      
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' Y ' MIGHBANBREEDERS' Cons:

  
1 OO—CHOICE REGISTERED HOLS TEINS—‘I 00

. SALES PAVILION
HOWELL, MICHIGAN. OCTOBER 30th

    
~ HW Nemesis; Mgr-
_.' ’ L i: 7 EAST

QUALITY SALE”

55 good young cows, fresh
or due soon; 40 yearling and
two-year—old heifers. the ma—
jority of‘them bred; 4 high-
class bulls.

The sale includes:

4 daughters of Grant Har-
tog Concordia, a double 32-1b.
bull, bred to a 35-1b. sire.

3 daughters of Johanna
Korndyke DeKol. sire of two
30-1b. cows.

2 daughters of King Heng.
Palmyra Fayne, brother to
bhe 50-1b. cow. ,

7 granddaughters of Colan—
tha Johanna Lad, bred to a
grandson of Pontiac Korn-
dyke and Pontiac Pet. ‘

10 cows With records from
20 to 27.2 lbs. Daughters of
cows with records as high as
33 lbs.

4 bulls out of 25-32—1b. cows
and sired by'bulls with the
best of breeding. f

Guaranteed tree from tui-

- berculosis and sold subject to
60yd'ay retest.

GNMENT‘ SALES COMPANY _

  
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Constantine. Michigan.

‘WYAND'o'rTE

 
ilver Laced, Golden and White Wyan-
dottes of quality. Breeding stock after

 
Oct. lst. Engage it early. Clarence
Browning, R. 2, Portland, Mich.
LEGHORN

 
IiOFl'l‘ABLE BUFF LEGHORNS~W€
have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat~ '
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof--
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable price. Our list will interest you
—-please ask for it. Village Farms, ,

Grass Lake, Michigan.

CHICK each season, different
varieties, booklet and

testimonials, stamp apprecxated. Freepcrt

Hatchery. Box 10,_Freeport. Michigan.

 
CHICKS

 
We ship thousands

 
BARRED BO (3 K

 
PUR BF'CI) BAR‘RED ROCK Cock-
rels for sale; decendents of E.

B. Thompson’s Imperial Ringlets.

E. J. Allman, R. No. 3, Lachine, Michigan.

 
\TURKEYS

\

young thoroughbreds. . Booking order;
now at early fall prices.
and save money.~ . . A. .
N, Evalyn Ramsdell, Ioma, Michigan. ,

J ,

HATCHING EGGS

PLYMOUTH ROCK

Barred Rock Eggs me] “W" T

Buy early

 
0 am ‘i’
at. 82.0 per 8-.
3:: 333:, Circular free. , .

runners: "

 
LANSING, Mien.

John W. Snyder, St. Johns, Mich., Rubia);
SHEEP
I SHROPSHIRES
SHROPSHIRES REGISTERED sex-op-
shire Ram 4' some
ewes. Write for prices or come to the
farm. Dan Booher, R. 4' Evart. Mich.

Meier, Byron. "

Meirer, Byron, Mich., P. 0. Box 123‘ ,.,

POULTRY "'

GIANT BRONZE TUBKEYS. Big boned. ,

   
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To- -day you will ﬁnd it hard to duplicate your auto at anywhere near the price you paid for it and yet it
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As winter comes, the risk of losing your auto by ﬁre increases from storing in buildings, from cold. weath- -- 1
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William E. Robb, Secretary ' '1 ‘

 
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Memba, ,, ,, .. 1 - ~.:,. :5 , Surplus
muumnmuummmm I.“ " _ um":mummnunmu,
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