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Ok to the Farmers’ Interests Mr. N ewherryw'

L‘HOn; Truman 'H. “Newberry,
* _ Michigan’s, SenatOr-Elect,

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{My dearfsiri ~, , A 3- , .
. 'You have been chosen bf The people of
(Michigan to represent them in the senate of

what many believe is the most momentous

. period in the history of the world. The need
'for men who will subordinate their own inter-
J. ests to the public good was never greater. The
opportunity to serve was never more inviting.
You are to be congratulate’, sir, that you are
to have the rare privilege of taking part in
the shaping of the policies that will make for
the perpetuity of peace and the reconstruct-
ion of the world ’s commerce.

tered are special rather than general. The
worn-out platforms of the old political parties
g fjcan no longer'support the interests of the peo-
»' . aple. If beneﬁcial legislation is to be accom-
plished by party policy instead of individual
action there must be a party awakening to the
special needs of the hour.

_ No longer can a public servant go before
the people and defend his stewardship by say-
ing, “I have been a goodrepublican,” or “I
, have been a good democrat.” He who serves
‘ '. his constituents impartially and well must
KNOW, his constituents, must study their
problems, and vote according to the wishes
of the people who elected him, rather than to
'the promptings of party leaders.

7 If, _Mr. Newberry, you really KNOW the

them, to represent them intelligently in the
senate; if you really understand the problems
of the various classes and conditions of men
represented among them; if you have ,the
patience to study, these problems, to bring
yourself around to the viewpoint of these peo~
ple, we\bespeak for you a most successful ad:
ministration of their aﬁairs. _ .

; But if you do not possess the broad sym‘
V dipathy that will help you understand and re;

 
' the United States. "Your election has come at V

The problems of the era we have just en:

' bpe’ople of Michigan as you ought to know.

spend to our special needs, you are bound to
fail. . '

Over a million and a half people are engag»
ed in farming in Michigan. The state leads
in the production of several important crops,
and ranks second, third or fourth on the pro-
duction of many others. In the contemplat-
ion of this fact, you will realize, if you have
not already done so, that the men who would
represent all the people of the state must
know something of the needs of agriculture.

Farmers’ problems have always been with
us. Some of them always will be with us. But
the most of them are the result of either un-
wise legislation, or lack of remedial legisla-
tion.

The majority of the farxlers’ problems can
be solved. The reason they haven’t been is be—
cause the men they elected to ofﬁce lacked the
will to investigate these problems, the ability
to comprehend their importance, and the sym-
pathy that brings action.

As senator from Michigan, there are two
courses open for you. One of them is to take
the beaten path, be a “good” republican, step
on nobody ’s toes, vote “regular,” send us far-
mers free seeds and a Christmas greeting.
Mebbe you can fool us like some of your prek
decessors have done, but we don’t think so.

The other pathway is a little harder, but at
the end of it is a sign that reads, “well done,
good and faithful servant.” Few take this
path; for to walk its rugged .course requires
strong will power, determination and the sac-
riﬁce of many who call themselves your
friends. But nevertheless, it is the pathway
of service, and greatness comes to those who
follow its by-ways with persistence and cour-
age.

W’ehope, Mr. Newberry, that this is the
way you. will go. You start with handicaps
that you may never be able to overcome, but
if you realize this, the harder 'you may strive
to make good. You have never lived and
worked among those whom we are pleased to

call the “common people.” Among these are
the farmers, men who earn their livelihood
by the sweat of their brow. You are on inti-
mate terms with men of great wealth; you can
understand their pleasures and problems; you
can vote with exceptional intelligence upon
all matters which closely relate to the busi-
nesses in which they may be engaged. But
your knowledge of the conditions surrounding
the business of farming must be very lim-
ietd.

If you have followed agricultural matters.
at all, Mr. Newberry, you must have sensed
that there is wide—spread dissatisfaction among
the farmers. This unrest ﬁnds expression in
such organizations as the Non-Partisan
League, and hundreds of smaller bodies, the
mutual objects of which are the betterment of
farming conditions. This spirit of opposis
tion to the established order of things is rap-
idly becoming mone manifest and those of us
who have watched the trend of affairs know
that the majority of grievances are justiﬁed
and must be satisﬁed in the very near future.
Economic conditions the world over are rap-
idly changing. There is bound to be a balanc-
ing of rights. To insure the future peace of
the world differences within nations as well as
differences between nations must be settled.
In order to do this impartially, investigation
should be made by the federal government in-
to the problems of the various classes and
conditions of people, and honest effort be made
to correct the inequalities.

We respectfully urge you, Mr. Newberry,
to acquaint yourself at the earliest conveni-
ence, with the special problems confronting
the twentieth century farmer and to use your
inﬂuence in securing remedial legislation.

"May we have your assurance that you will do

this. that we may pass the information along
to our readers?
Respectfully yours.
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
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m at a meeting at Bow, Wash, last June,

.rﬁi’ch: m not for October 22nd, has been peso
, poued‘ until January To meet the legal require '
- mentor. counsel for" the defense at Seattle asked for
‘ga'nd the prosecuting attorney agreed to the post-

ponement, but this postponement was at the write

' er’s request and the preliminary. arrangements

were made by him: with theB'epartment on Justice

here in Washington.

Owing to. the fact that at least «ne’er their met
important witnesses would be in France, and the
strength at their case, the advisory board of. the
defense at Seatthwns very desirous of proceeding
with the: trial on: the date ﬁxed, but as it we: in
possible for the writer to leave Wan-inﬁrm until
early in the coming year, except at great possible
sacriﬁce and injury to the, work he is responsi-
ble for, State Master Bouck and his counsel. agreed
to muesli the postponement

This explagat‘ion is made public because the
writer’s correspondence shows that reactionaries
throughout the Northwest are asserting that the
trial of State Master Bouck is the Federal Gov-
ernment's response to the appeal ot the Executive
Committee to President Wilson on the Walla
Walla outrage. These assertion-s take this general
form: “Bouck appealed to the President and the
answer he gets from the Federal Government is
an indictment for disloyalty ”

This» is the way the tools of. the proﬁteers and
the enemies of the Grange are desperately trying
to make out their case. The truth is that the
Department of Justice completely exonerated State
Master Bouck from any charge made against him
at Walla Walla, and the writer has found no of-
ﬁcers of the Federal Government who have ex-
pressed stronger disapproval of the breaking up
of the Grange at Walla Walla as an. outrage than
the oﬂicers of the Department of Justice here. in
Washington, who had charge of the investigation.
Furthermore he has found no lawyer here in
Washington, either in the Department of Justice
or in any part of the Government, in Congress, or
in private practice, who disputes that Mr. Bouck
individually, and the State Grange that its execu-
tive ofﬁcers, have clear cases° of libel against those
responsible for breaking up the meeting atIWalla
Walla. His own opinion of the trial of State Mas-
ter Bouck is that a few'of the people who attend-
ed the meeting at Bow went secretly before the
grand jury and perjured themselves to an extent
that left the grand jury no alternative but to find
an indictment, and the federal district attorney no
alternative but to bring State Master Beach to
trial. In the writer’s opinion, the trial will re-
sult in Mr. Bouck’s complete vindication and the
Grange in Washington will be more solidly united
than ever before, and go forward to the accomp-
lishment of great things with increased power as
a. result of this period of persecution and trial. It
is the lesson of history that all who would serve
their fellow men in any large way must stand the
ordeal of ﬁre, and the very bitterness of the at-
tack on William Bouck is convincing evidence
that the patrons of Washington made no mistake
in electing him their Radon—George S. Hampton
ta Famers’ Forum.

Kaiser m Flees From Revolt-Torn Ger-

many; Riples’ Govelnmlnt m, 1’
Alisa Armistice Terms. ml All
Fighﬁg Ceca "

The war is over. Sunday at midnight Ger-
many signed the armistlce plowed by the

allies and ﬁghting ceased at 6 o c’lock Monday

morning
The terms of the armistice strip Germany

eftheremmtseﬁbershnttendmﬂituyi

machine, taking away from her the weapons
with which to ﬁght. The bulk of her cannon,
he'r boata. her submarines, her airplanes, all
become the warty of the allied countries.
Shorn of her poWer, Germany stands beaten
and humiliated before the world ready to ac-
cept any terms that the victors may impose

upon“ her.

The Kaiser has ﬂed to Holland He will
get his just rewards both here and hereafter
a little later.

The armistice terms include: -

Immediate retirement of German military

forces from France, Belgium and Alsace—Lor-
raine.

Disarming and demobilization of the Ger-
man armies.

Occupation by the Allied and American
forces of such strategic points in Germany as
will make impossible a' renewal of hostilities.

Delivery of German military weapons over
to the allies.

Release of allied prisoners.

Evacnaation of M1 countries on the left bank
of the Rhine.

Reparation for damage done. Restitution
of all gold, securities and: elect, team. from Bel-
gium. Restitution of Romanian and Racism
gold yielded to Germany or taken by her.

Pledges to assist in locating mines, unex-
ploded shells, poisoned wells, to safeguard
property while the troops are under retlre-
ment, to care for allied sick and wounded

Revolution Sweeps Germany

Bolshevism is, rampant in Germany. Revolt

against the established order is spreading like
wildﬁre. The situation is becoming much1 the
same as that which prevailed in Russia after
the downfall: of Kcrensky.‘ The people’s par-

' ty with Whom the allies are now dealing are

conﬁdent they can handle the situation, but
it may be necessary to use allied troops to
restore order.

The German people are clamoring fer food. a

Those at the head of the new government
have appealed to Pres. Wilson to save the
people from starvation. The plea has been

} nvy vii cchtinue as; man however . ..
' Fitness and mothers when sons elem France

med not expect tht thewwili retina imdialﬂf
Former Resident Taft believes it will require two.
years to complete the work of demobilizatiOn. It’
is. not behind as: any more will be returned
until after a period of at least, three months. A
huge force of soldiers will be” acquired to, police!
the my lines of. disputed tektitory, until all
to conduct their own affairs without further as-
sistance.

There is no prospect that the men in the navy

will be released inside of the w my cn-lht- »

lens period. intact, mm wﬁ-Ibeneedcd
in the navy to help in the work of sweeping the

seas for mines, of Wiring commercial rem

lations between nations and policing the inter-
national waterways of trade

EFFORT MADE TO MAKE U. S.
CROP E§TIMATES MORE AUTHENTIC

The ﬁeld agents of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mich-
igan and Wisconsin and some other western states
met last week at Lansing, Mich, for the purpose
of taking up the problem of coordinating the
state and national monthly crop) reports. With
the exception of Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Chic, and possib Missouri, most of the crop
reports put out state authority have been of
reallyjittle- or. no value. This can be said without
any invidieusuess, because it is well kmn that
the states other than those named have provided
little or no means or machinery for the collection
of reliable data, as to acreages in particular. The
state reports; therefore, have been notoribu‘sly dif-v
fluent, semtimes widely so, from the imports» of
the Bureauot Crop Estimates, and tor that reason
have created more or less confusion in the tr tde
Farmers particularly are quite likely to have as
much, or’mo‘re respect, perhaps, for their state re-
ports, being locals, than moths Bureau at Crop
Estimates reports, although. there is. no justiﬁca-
tion now and has not been for many years tor
any such beliefs, and the, farmer is very apt to be
misled. The ﬁeld agentstherefore, have gotten to-
gether with the purpose of creating an organiza~
tion that may in iii-me have its inﬂuence upon state
legislatures tm ultimately provtd‘e, the means and
the organization for better state reports and also
to bring the state» reporters and field: agents of the
Bureau of Crop Estimates into closer relationship,
so that by working in harmony the two reports
may be made to agree and to appear at substan.
tially the same time. It is believed that»this ar-
rangement if ultimately cousummated'would be of
grwt advantage to- the country. It would enlarge
the already very large organization of the Bureau
and at the same time it would give to the state
reports a completeness and dependability that un-
der ordinary circumstances they do not now have

 
ROM the assassination of the Archduke

Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenverg

at Sarajevo, Bosnia, by 3. Serbian student on
June 28, 1914, in all 1,598 days have passed up
to and including the signing of the armstice on
Nov. 11, 1918.

, Thirty days after the assassination, Austria
on July 28, 1914, declared war on Serbia, ro-
jecting Serbia’s almost complete acceptance of
Austria’s demands.

Three days later Germany, by declaring war
on Russia, entered on a conﬂict which, was
raging without interruption for L564 red dual,
ended with virtual surrender under the amic-
tice of Thursday.

Before the war had spent itself the (allowing

Powers: Serbia, Russia, Belgium, France.
Great Britain, Japan, China, Montenegro, Cuba.
Pcrtugal,£umania, Greece, Italy, Liberia, Pan-
ama, San Marine, Siam, Brazil, Nicarazlm. Coe-
to Rica, Hayti. Associated with these Allied“
Powers as a belligerent was tint United States
of America, which declared war against Gob
many on AM} 6,1917. ham that date to the
» armistice totals 590 days. 7

War Spectators
other nations, m... severed diplomatic rob
tion: with Germany, but did. not become com-

 
nations had become associated: an the Allied

A Summary of the Great World War, Now at an End

batants, included: Bolivia, Egypt, Guatemala,
Honduras, Peru, Uruguay

The conﬂaxration spread to the major powers
of Europe with the first week of. August, al-
though Italy did not join the ,Allies until May,
1915. Turkey, in February, 1915, and Bulgaria
in the following October, joined the Central
Power: ~ '

The total cost at tour‘m. of was up to
August]; ratesxmm-emufmm
at 3155000000.” h m m; Ill and
W WW in ﬁle m m
arty Poem M mm more
MW m; a m w cut d WM”
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‘ The cost to the United Sta-u m m
on November 1. WEAMM, with m
mammmuasmasmu
wry man. man; at! was in the.

The alummbmmnm 81.007,-
000.000
mmdmwmnmmmum
lows: 15me action 8,504,000; wound
ed, includim' m wounded; more than: once
and wounded who mm to the army, 25,;

' 500,000, Wadi!” W by wanna. .‘ ‘
m

6,110,000. m Wm. to a stato-
meat made in, the Mahala; almost a 13»me
had then lost em otiwlxich totai 1.000;-

000 were 'dead, 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 wounded
(500,000.01 them crippled for. life), and 2,000,-
000 absolutely invalided.

40,000,000 Armed
It is probable that more than 40,000,000 men
bore arms as. combatants in this war. The lat-
est ofﬁcial estimates, published a year ago,
pinned on total conservatively at 38,000; 000;
Watts side wmwamaraaoc;
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‘ -: Hilarity bi! them are is: theelevators’ hands. He
‘ . overlooks in few important points in reaching this
i conchtsion: - -

A V demand is no greater than it has been.

4 by Chem Res Given Recent
.. as. W and race

the 1918 crop has been harvested. A large num-
. be? of farmers have acted upon our advice and dis-
’posed or! only a part of their crop; others have

I -~sold their entire crop as fast as they could get it
ﬁne farmer tells us that thebearish.

_to ,. market
news we publlwshed showing the total production
of beans-y made the growers “panicky,” and they
cm}: to market. He believes that

course. go higher now that the

. 1. Gomnmmt ﬁgures on the prod-notion of de-
mestic been: and the importation of toreign beans
are prehuined to be authentic. Those are the only
ﬁgures we have given our readers.
2. There has, been no activity in the bean mar-
ket for nearly eight months. This is a matter of
' record.
3. There has been no occasion for the past ﬂour
years of a “panicky" marketing of any crap.
~‘: Farmers who are swayed by information of a
j; bearish character into disposing of their entire
_ holdings within a brief period always suffer tram
Such action.
_ _, 4. The bean market has shown recent signs of
' activity. This is because the government has
permitted unlimited canning of beans. Eastern
When
the canners get their wants supplied, the market

. may again become sluggish unless there is some

change in the eastern demand.

5. Dealers are prohibited under the rules of
“1 the Food‘Administration from making more than
a certain proﬁt. :Spme will exceed this proﬁt;
the most will abide by the law. The Food Ad-

ministration has effectually stopped speculation '-

in beans, and the 1918 crop will be out of the
' dealers’ hands long before the Food Administra-
tion comes to an -.end

.6.’ Enormous quantities or foreign beans are;
coming to this country. The U. S. Bureau of
Markets places Japanese imports of dry beans for
WedneSday, Nov. 6th, at 150 cars and ior'Friday,
Nov. 8th, at 110 tons, over twice' as many domes-
tic beans as were shipped during the same period.

The Western Import Company gives the fol-
lowing ﬁgures on oriental imports:

“Have just received the following statistics
from the Otaru Association in Japan which slight-
~ 1y modiﬁes the previous ﬁgures covering the esti-
mated crop of Japa ebeans;

'Ofukus (large butt 211, 790; Muros (med—

l’ 111m butters), 45 ,51e; Chu’i‘ukus (small butters),

176, 700; Harus (round Cranberries), 47, 2‘00; Chu-
naga's (short cranberries), 414, 524; Nagus (long
Cranberriee), 279,300; Kintokis \(reds), 508.930
Karmamotos (white kidneys) 325 ,9;10 Tenashie
(Whites), 1.954.380; Adzukis, 671.070. Total,
12,755, 334.

‘These ﬁgures may mean nothing or they may

mean much The demand for food products is so“

' great, however, that a market; will probably be
found tor every béan. The price which consumers
are willing to pay tor these beanie is a matter
yet to be determined, but we think the farmer is
playing a safe game if he markets the balance or

.ﬁ- ‘ his crop in the manner we have suggested so
. many times

New Mexico pinto growers and shippers are
holding for higher prices. Growers are offered
$7._ Colorado pinto growers are offered 86 Cal-
idornia whites are bringing $9. but the demand
is limited and few sales are reported.

We have lomited additional selﬂess of informa-
,- tion «on the bean situation and «will do our very
;‘ best to keep the growers posted each week
' There is nothing Ghent the hm situation to

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cause dormers. any alarm. Jhere will mmy not.»
be any radical change in prices «either way. Just,

keep your shirt on, and watch carehrliy, that s all _;

' Learners recoup our

«tam min and meted two unsatisﬁed
about t'wb. bushel to the acre, and fertilizer was ‘

applied to pmtions of this ﬁeld as shown below.

hthetaildlillﬁ thisﬁeldwasinsedandk

mMeMpdsessingofaboutMloadsd
m to «the acne, it was then tell plowed, and
the M‘ year planted to corn. Then the year fol-
lowing on com, the land was seeded to oats.

'The ﬁeld was divided into three portions, as. fol-
lows: - To the ﬁrst portion on the east side, which
was 8.4 rods wide, fertilizer was applied at the
rate of 2.50 pounds to the acre. The yield on this
plot was at the rate of 96 bushels to the acre. 0n
the middle plot. which was 6.8 rods wide, no ter-
tilizer was applied. This yielded at the rate of
60.6 bushels to the acre. 0n the west side plot,
which was 4.8 reds wide, fertilizer was applied
at the rate of 200 pounds-to the acre. This gave
a yield of 119.5 bushels to the acre. The fertilizer
used in tlrlg experiment was 14 per cent acid
phosphate, costing last year, at the rate or $24
a ton.

The acid phosphates was applied by means of
a grain drill, a day or so previous to seeding the
elite.

The total yield obtained from this two acre ﬁeld
was 189.6 bushels, which would be at the rate of
about 94.8 bushels per acre. The fertilized area
yielded on the average about 107.8 bushels to the

 
M. B. F. Article Saves Farmers Money

I think I can get some subscriptions in
this locality. You are some scrapper, go to
it. I take‘eeveral farm papers but grab up
M; B. F. ﬁrst. If I am not taking too much
of your time I would like to tell you what
we did to the King Seed Co, of Battle Creek.
It was from the outcome of that little clip-
ping in your paper some time in August in
regard to being caught with smutty grain
on track. Something like two hundred
farmers from Saline and Ann Arbor cancell-
ed-their orders, but the company wrote that
they would send seed just the same, subject
to our orders, not subject to cancellation.
To make a long story short, we simply re-
fused the seed at the car. We had taken
this matter up with our county agent, H. S.
Osler, at Ann Arbor. If you would like to
know more he would gladly inform you.
That little clipping saved the farmers of
Washtenaw county something worth remem- .
bering. I cut the clipping out of the M. B.
‘F. and showed 'it to my neighbors, then we
certainly got busy. The county agent had
it published in the local paper. The seed
company wrote the county agent they would
hold him responsible for grain, and we as-
. suredhim we were back of him to a man.
We heard nothing more from them. Yours

for success.——H. A. 8.. Ann. Arbor. Mich.

 
acre, whereas the unfertilized area yielded about
50.6 bushels to the acre. The fertilized area had
an increase of about 57 bushels to the acre as a
resort of the'acid phosphate applied.

Mr. Ghart was very careful in carrying out this
experiment, cutting different pieces separately,
drawing them separately, and putting a canvas
between the grain from each plot so there could
be no chance for a mistake. The ﬁeld has been
measured by two different parties to determine
the size of the plate and the size of the ﬁelds, and
these statements can be veriﬁed by the men who
thrashed the cats, and the'farmers who assisted
in threshing the cats

Another noticeable thing in this experiment,
was that the oats which received the acid phos-
phate ripened and had to be cut about ten days
ﬁrmions .to zthe plot which received no fertilizer.

. The 6101; receiving 250 pounds to the acre did not
Field as mﬁfdl”! an the plot receiving 200 pounds to
the tor the probable reason that it was on
higher ground and was thus damaged to some
extent W @959 hot and dry weather during the

Wee eats weigh at the rate of 38%
bushel}. just .as they came £10m the

'Kedsie,

Win be Held in the City of Grand Rapids
_. Thursday, November 2161:, When All
Interested in Farmers’ ’Brob’icme
Are Invited to Attend

The second Annual Livestock Congress will he ”
held in Grand Rapids, Thursday, November 2131:
This will be an important meet' and every?
body interested in the future of state’s agri~ .
culture will do well to attend. The program to ”be 1
rendered is given below:

1. More livestock (sheep, cattle and hogs) for
Michigan Utilization of cut-over or logged- on
land for summer grazing. Winter feeding. More
and larger ﬂocks of sheep among individual farm
ere.

2. Land for the returning soldier and sailor.

3. Greater ﬁnancial assistance for agricultural
development.

4. State drainage.

5. Land clearing.

6.’ Reforestation.

7. Reclamation.

Among the speakers will be.
Graham, chairman State Board of Agriculture,
Chairman; Prof. F. R. Marshall, Bureau of Ani-
mal Industry, U. S. Aepartment of Agriculture;
’Dr. Filibert Roth, University of Michigan; W. G.
Bissell, president Wisconsin Advancement Associ-
ation; F. W. Hanna, special agent Department of
the Interior, Washington; Dan Wallace, editor of
The Farmer, St. Paul; Hon. A C. Carton, secretary
Public Domain Commission; Dr H. H Halladay,
secretary State Livestock Sanitary Commission;
L. F. Titus, chairman Agricultural Committee
State Bankers’ Association; 0., W. Prescott, farm-
er and State Food Administrator; Dr. Frank .S.
president Michigan Agricultural College.

Others who will lead in round-table discussion
include, Dr. Eben Mumford, state leader county '
agent work; Ezra Levin, muck land specialist,
Michigan Agricultural College; and Vern A. Free-
man, sheep epecialist. Michigan Agricultural Col-
logo.

The committee on program and arrangements:
John I. Gibson, chairman, secretary Western Mich-
igan Development Bureau; H011. T. F. Mars-ton,
secretary-manager Northeastern Michigan Devel-
opment Bureau; J. A Jeffery, Land Commission-
er D. S. S. & A. R. R.; W. C. Byers, agricultural
agent New York Central lines; W. P. Hartman,
agricultural and industrial agent G. R, & 1. RR.

Swamp land development.
Hon. Robt. D.

SUGAR BEET GROWERS GET $12
FOR 15 PER CENT BEETS

The new 1919 California sugar beet con-tracts ’
are in circulation now, and growers are said to be
signing in numbers. The new contract prices offer _
an iuczcase of 50 per cent over '918 pr! es. and
are expected to result in a larger acreage helm;
planted in this IM ylity, a: well as in mhe. heel
growing sections. The 1919 prices are case) en“
tircly on the selling prices of sugar, and there is
no guarantee of n 1-1 ice based on 15 per cent beet-s
as has been the custom in the past.

Against a price last year of 50c for each 1 per
cent of sugar content above ﬁfteen per cent.
the companies this year are offering 80 cents,
the increase going still higher in event sugar acts
the factories more than 90 a pound. Twelve per
cent beets enter into the contract this year.‘
whereas they have not been recognized heretofore. '

Sugar beet growers, so far this season, have re,
ceived $8.50 per ten for 15 per cent beets. Under 1.
the 1919 prices being odered, a ton of 15 per cent
beets would returm $12.
this year will bring about $10.75,] With sugary
selling at 9c net to the factory next year. the same
beets will bring $14.40.

As the possible price of sugar increases, the
premium on each per cent of sugar above 15 in-
creases sharply, $1.07 ruling, if the average not
price is 120 for the reﬁned product. If the average
not price exceeds 12c the increase per cent is
81.33.33.

“The statement is made,” says the Cadillac;
Nerve, “that Oceana county farmers recently-rails»
ed 8600 for the support of the farm b reau e
that county, and that this action was taken within-
an hour after the board of supervisors of Doom
had decided against appropriating any money .
further support of the bureau. It would . _
that the farmers of Oceana county, as well
the other counties of this section, have "
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nor lessens appetites.
, have been the allowance of millions of people
.must now give way to liberal proportions that
, will help to rebuild wasted forms.

* .I If there has been ,
,pp’d‘rtunity for the farmers ,
6’ United States during the
dour terrible years of warfare

it re are far greater opportunities lying within '

theimmediate future with «peace.

‘eeuntries that have been devastated byGermany
Will be a long time prostrated. France, Italy,
England and Russia long since curtailed their
food production to less than domestic consump
tion. For t1. years European nations have .de—
The
end of the war increases neither food supplies
Starvation rations

The demand

for food products becomes greater. Ships that

' have carried men across the ocean will now go’I
.over laden with food from American farms.
-chasing agents of practically
'country will be active buyers in American mar-

Pur-
every important

kets.- For at least another year and possibly two

or three years, according to Herbert Hoover, there-

will be a satisfactory market for every pound of
foodstuffs that the American farmer canraiseng.
Hoover's report on the international food situa-
tion is as follows:

“The need for food conservation and the elimin-
ation of all waste by the American peOple was nev-
er slo great as at the present time.

“ ast year the Food Administration’s requests

. were very largely for the substitution of one food

for another. This your actual saving is required on
all foods. Before the war, with normal reserves
and normal conditions prevailing, with plenty of
agricultural labor, our exports to the allied count»
ries averaged 5,533,000 tons of food per year. Last
year, we were able to export to them 11,820,000
tons, and this year We have assumed the burden
of sending them a minimum, of 17,550,000 tons.

“Unfortunately. the common belief throughout
the country seems to be that the 1918 crop was a
phenomenally large one and that in consequence
there exists in this country a great plentitude of
food, and the time for saving has therefore been
passed. This rather universal belief can be under-
stood when it is remembered that last year, wheat
received the greatest emphasis in the pleas for
food saving, so that quite naturally public attent-
ion generally centered around the condition Iof
the then forthcoming wheat crop.

“When the harvest time was reached and the
crop assured, showing an increase of more than
250,000,000 bushels, conditions of other crops in-

.dicated that they also would show phenomenal

increases. Then followed adverse weather condi-
tions that cut down production ip/other crops,
but the opinion accepted at that time by the cou-
try at large, that plentitude was to prevail hasnot
been changed.

“Actual production conditions, as shown by the
ﬁgures of the Department of Agriculture for Oct-

ober 1, show that the 1918 crop as compared with

that of 1917 is as follows:

Increase
Bushels
..268,000,000
. 27,000,000
.. 5, 00.000
. 17,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000

322,000,000 548.000.000

“The apparent loss, however, is counter—bala11c~.
ed by the fact that the nutritional value of the
corn this year will be very much higher than that

Decrease
Bushels
. .442,000,000
Oats . 52,000,000
Potatoes .. . 52.000.000
Sweet Potatoes 2,000,000

Wheat . . .
Barley
Rice . .
Rye . . . .
Buckwheat
Beans

Corn . .

» of last, and there will be less spoilage. Also a por-
tion of last year’s crop, in the form largely of an

increased number of hogs remaining on the farms
adds to our resources. It seems fair, therefore,
to assume that ouractual food resources in life-
sustaining "value, are about the same as those of
last year.

“The increase of 50 per cent in exports to the
Allied nations to which we have pledged oursel-
‘ves is a minimum. It is based upon the_-lowest
measurement of necessities for those countries.
If peace should come, this would probobly have to
be materially increased-“’Any changeIin food con-
ditions that can possibly occur will, therefore,
add to our obligations with no possibility of sub-
straction, as there would be 180, 000, 000 people
looking to the United States for food in addition

"to. the 12Q .000, 000 Allied population as well as

our own. I‘ 3" "‘ *

“Even if peace should come at an early date, it

that '

- 1918 crop of sugar‘he

reach With food the people of Poland”
Serbia, Armenia, European Russia "and others

who are new ’withou't adequate feed supply The,“

'total number of these poppies has been estimated

at 180 £06,090 some of whom have partial food rjéa I.

sources and some of whom are .now literally in a"

starving condition.

.“Summarized then, our food condition is as fol-

lows:
those of last year.

must be increased about 50 per cent They will

be materially added to by every mile of territory

regained on the battle lines and enormously add~
ed to by the coming of peace.

‘ “It should not be forgotten that the United
States already has more than 2, 000, 000 men over- 4

seas and they are going over at the rate of 250, 000
per month. An immediate peace problem will be
to get these men transported back. It has been

estimated by the military authoritfes that this

will take at least two years.

Our food resources are about the same as I ‘
As a minimum our exports
- make to Isupply Germany with food or wheat safe.

of the: mothers 9

he '
possible bringing home of

the war. ” ‘ 'v' ‘
f‘Just what proV1slon we may. feel necessary to

__quards are to be imposed in order that Germany

Will receive food only after the pedple overseas;
who hays been our associates and friends are pro-—
vided for, is a question fer the future and for Con—
‘gress.

“A most casual survey of the SituatiOn. immedi
ately convinces one that the necessity for Amer-
ica’s supervision of food exports will be greater
in the months immediately followihg the coming
of peace than at any time during the war. " . ~I '

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Progress of World F eedmg from the United States

The following table shows the increase oIver normal in exports of foodstuffs by the United “
States since it became the food reservoir for the world on account of the war: '

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186,375,372
996,230,627
26,037,790
332,430,537
183,777,331
621, 745, 507

Total beef products, lbs.
Total pork products, lbs.
Total dairy products, lbs. __
Total vegetable oils, lbs.
Total grains, bu.
Total sugar, lbs.

 
1916-1917
Fiscal ‘Year

405,427, 417
1, 498, 302 ,713 1 H691 437,435I
351,958,336
206,708,490
395 ,,140 238
3, 084, 390, 281, [2, 149, 787, 050 1, 108, 559, 519

July \ ’18 to ,
Sept. 30, ’18; ﬂ
- 171,986,147
540, 946 ,324 .
161,245,029"
_ 26,026,701
121, 668, 823
1.065. 398. 247

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FiSCal Year‘

July ’17 to ‘
sept 30, '17
93-, 962, 477
, 196, 256, 750
130,071,165
27,719,553
66, 383, 084-

565 462, 445 m

590,798,274
151,029,893
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*Wheat harvest ’17-’18 was 200 217, 333 bushels below the average of the three previous/years

 
Are the Beet Sugar Manufacturers Entitled to
Higher Prices under the Present Conditions?

Two weeks ago, without any warning to the
consumer, sugar advanced one and one half cents
a pound. A little investigation on theth of the
consumer disclosed that the Food Administration
had voluntarily granted this raise upon the pe-
tition of the sugar manufacturers. ‘

Ten cents is not an abnormally high price to
pay for a pound ofgsugarf Undoubtedly had the
Food Administrationnot taken control of the
sugar market it would have followed somewhat

the same course as during the Civil war'when,

we are told it went as high as 50 cents a pound.
But ten cents is too much to pay for sugar dur-
ing these times of sacriﬁce and suffering if any
individual concerned in its productiwon manufac-
ture, reﬁning and marketing is making more than
a fair proﬁt on- his investment.

When ﬁrst taken under controlby the Food Ad.
ministration, beet sugar prices were determined
upon the priCes the manufacturers were obliged
to pay the farmers for beets, and to pay them-
selves a fair proﬁt. Presumably, under that ar-
rangement, the beet manufacturers made money
last Year. At least, the ﬁnancial statements of the
leading‘companies showed exceptibnally healthy
dividends at the end of the season. Of course,
factory operating expenses have increased some
over a year ago, but so have farm operating ex-
penses increased.
ﬁners took advantage of this situation to petition
the Food Administration for higher prices Re-
ﬁners were permitted an additional 15 cents pe1
hundred pounds, and the price of sugar to the
consumer was advanced $1. 50 per hundred pounds.
The exact distribution of the remaining $1.35
among those handling the sugar from the raw
beet to the censumer's table is not known, but it
wouldbe fair to assume that the major portion
goes to the manufacturers. The question natur-

ally arises, “are they entitled to- it 7’ and if so, .

“are not the farmers likewise entitled to a-- por-
tion of the increase?”

Michigan now produces in round numbers 250, -
000 ,000 pounds of Sugar annually. Assuming that

only one-half a cent of the recent advance in re-

tail price goes to the manufacturers, that ,means
an added income of 91, 250,000, but not one cent
additional to the far“

ould not add one pound of food to our supply.

the contrary, it would- enormously inerease'
food obligations because it would allow us to .

, Both manufacturers and re«

companies have not been merely.

But they claim, of course, that theolderice did
not pay them a satisfactory proﬁt. We have'bé-
fore us the ﬁnancial report of the Michigan Sugar
Co., for the year ending June 30,1918,as pub-
lished in a recent number of Facts About Sugar.-

During that year this company earned NET.
PROFITS of $570, 262.

The balance sheet as on June 30, 1918,Show$1
total resources of $14, 983, 742 as compared with
$15, 197, 060 on June 30,1917.

Current assets totaled $2,760,262, and current
liabilities $33,413. Net working capital at the
end of the ﬁscal year was $2,726,828, against $3.-
2240, 345 in the previous year. '

If those ﬁgures are correct, it appears the sugar
“proﬁting. ".
They have been I“proﬁteering.” Now on top of-
this comes the higher sugar price which will in-
creasethe‘proﬂts of sugar companies from an
eighth to a tenth of their last year’s net proﬁts. in
addition the governmentis planning on ﬁnancing.
the sugar companies, the war Finance Board
having announced that it will load for 90 days up
to 75 per cent ofwthe market value of sugar stored
in company warehouses. So long as the control of
sugar pioduction and marketing is in the hands
of the Food Administration, we think produCer‘
and manufacturer should be treated alike in all
respects. If the manufacturer is to be allowed a
20 per cent proﬁt, the farmer should have the
same. II If the government is to finance the manu-
facturing of sugar, it should assist in ﬁnancing
the growing of beets in a more practical way than
has yet been provided. - »

What the relations between ~beet growers and
sugar manufacturers may be after the Food Ad-
ministration has ceased to exist is problematical.
The public has been educated to higher- priced

.gugar, and we needn’t be surprised if the manu-

facturers should attempt to keep the price at
about its present level. In this case, what price
will the groWe-rs receIVe?
have already been given contracts for another

year considerably in advanc. of Whit —Michigv

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Op :1 Forum, in a recent

issue, discussed the subject as follows:
‘ “The condition of the market and proﬁts of con- .

ce trated Cbmmercial Feeding Stuffs Manufactuiu

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was thoroughly aired in a hearing before the
difference Committee on Agriculture. The, bear-

Appropriation bill which prohibited the transport-
was or foering for shipment/in commerce among

the severaI states or with foreign countries of any-
’ concentrated cemmercial feeding stuffs containing

any damaged feed mill, elevator or other sweep-
lugs or dust, buckwheat hulls, peanut shells corn
cobs, screenmings chaff or other screenings derived
from the preparatiqon etc, of any seed or grain
when seperated from the‘s‘tandard product as an

offal or by-product, or conta1ning~anyone of some .

dozen other foreign ingredients except with a
written permit for such shipment issued by the
seeretary of Agriculture. Severe penalties attach
in the amendment for the violation of this pro-
vision.

“Among the most important facts brought out
in the hearings are that the American Feed Man-

‘ufacturer‘s Association is cemposed of about 175
commercial concerns including the Armour Fer-

tilizer Works. The Corn Products Refining Com-
pany ( a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company),
and SWift & Company; that many of the manu-
facturers of commercial feeding stuffs are making
a net profit of from $10 to $23 per ton, and some
even more. and that farmers are paying as high
as $20 and Occasionally $60 for water in these con-
centrated commercial feeds ’The hearing was
asked by the American Food Manufacturer's Assoc-
iation to oppose the amendment.

“This infamous measure will practically

feed ” Naturally this telegram aroused suspicion.

Senator Gore Chairman of the Senate Agricutural .

Committee expressed this feeling in a statement
t the hearing:

of low feed value stuffs as high feed value stuffs
would hurt the producer or the consumer, either
one.” Mr “Harold A. Abbott President of the
American Feed Manufacturers AsSociation, a num~
ber of manufacturers of consentrat'ed commercial
feeding stuffs the Presidents of the Duluth Board

.of Trade and the Chicago Board of trade—whose

friendship for the farmers has been so well and
{reguently prbven—eappeared in opposition to the
amendment. with something like 57 reasons .why
«general farmers dairyman and stock raisers

should blindfold their eyes and let the manufact- '

~urers sell them commercial feeding stuffs without
any knowledge of their contents. It would be just
as reasonable to abolish the grading of wheat and

and for elevatOr owners and grain dealers to be

Vlcompelled to‘ pay No 1 Northern prices for any

V In addition to these experts, such as Dr. EdWin‘

sort of wheat, though 50 per cent wheat and 50“
per cent corn stocks. Resolutions and. letters, on-'

dorsing the amendment were presented from the

- National Milk Producers Association, and many'

other organizations of cattle men and farmers

This assOCIation
sent telegrams broadcast throughout the country,
asking a large attendance at the hearing which in: .
eluded the following statement about the amend“

'ment:
prohibit the shipment of every commercial mixed '

“I do not see why. the incorporah‘
-. on of a provision against the interstate shipment.

common stock while in 1908 their earnings were

"..,£asures far

HE proper measures and precautions taken

this fall or during the early winter will do
much to keep down many of the insects of the
farm

Was this mere true than in the prevention of in-
sect depredations. Many of the insect pests of
'the garden and ﬁeld, as well as those of the or-
chard can be controlled, to a g1 eat extent by cor-
rect farm practices. The fall and early Winter
' presents an ideal time in which to forestall the
.. damage of many insects that otherwise prove to
be very serious during the coming year. During
this time the insects are inactive, and can the
more easily be controlled. Many insects spend
the Winter in the egg stage, some on weeds near
the host-plant some 011 the remains of the host-
, plants themselves. while others lay their eggs
in the ground or in tle trunks of trees. Others

ally,‘within silken cases or cocoons of some sort.
or. else under rubbish. Others may pan the win-
ter in the pupal stage either in the ground or in
some sheltered place. Piles of trash or heaps of
brush 'or even crevices in the ground afford pro-
tection where the adults may pass the cold

 
Six acres of clover seed on the farm of A. I. Ber-

ry & ﬂon, of Remus, growing shoulder high.
months._ Some pass the Winte1 under the loose
bark of our orchard or shade trees.

_ “’EEDS
Millions of insectsmake use of weeds in one
way or another during the winter months, the
weeds affording them shelte' or sustenance while
their particular food plants are not, growing. If
all weeds were cleared from the farm, in the fall,
particularly from the fields and fence~rows where
the insect pests have been bad, the previous seas-
on, some of our worst enemies would soon be for-
gotten. The corn root-aphis. which is found in
' the south-western part of the state, has to have
a‘ food-plant in the spring until the corn is ready.
hense it makes use of smart-weed, purslane. rag-
weed, crab-grass, fox-tail grass and a few other
weeds usually found growing in or near the corn-
’ ﬁeld. The damage to the next years crops will
be worse if these weeds are ‘growing in the ﬁeld
- which is to be planted. Some insects like flea-
: beetles pass the earlier part of their lives on the
roots of weeds, such as nettles and later in their
adult stage they prove to be among the worst pests
i, of the garden . Many of the most destructive
plant lice, or aphids, spend portions of their lives
on Weeds, the remainder of the time they are dams
aging some particular crop. Thus the rosy apple
aphis Spends a part of its time on the nariow-
. leaf plantain The potato stalk- borer spends the
“winter. as an egg on ragweed, the potato tuber.
-..a very serious pest of the potato in Cali.

‘killed by the frost.

It has been often said that “an ounce of .
.. preV‘ention is worth a pound of cure,” and never '

spend the winter in the larval stage, most gener-V

‘use for fodder.

” ' effect 0f the proposed amendment of the Agricult

ural Appropriation hill. A community of interests

is well illustrated from this fast. _ .
“The amendment will not be pressed at this see-

s’ion but a bill to regulate feeding stuffs and fer

tilizers will be introduced as a separate bill during ,
the winter and the piinciple should have the sup

port of all farmers ”

“SBCt . Contr.

often of melouns and squash vines that haVe been
The stubble of corn very often
proves to be an ideal hibernating place, as. does
the sheltered ground under shocks. If corn is

again planted in these ﬁelds the chances are ideal-
'for the renewal of the pests.

Even if the crop
is not planted onthe 'same ground the insects, if
nothindered. will readily ﬁnd their way to the
new ﬁelds. Both the wheat joint-worm and-411‘s

' corn stalk-borer hibernate in the stubble of their

respective host plants On the leaves and stumps
of cabbages in winter will be found the eggs and
the stem- mothers of the (abbage aphis. The
writer has bred the adult of the cabbage maggot
from-rutabagas that had been frozen in the ground
all winter. The squash- bug and the tarnished
plant, bugs live under garden refuse, or in shel
ter near the garden. dining the winter season
These remnants of the gaiden are the source of
next years infestation and should be cleaned up
and either burned or buiied. The man who cleans
up the crop refuse around the farm is many times
repaid for his labors and the man who does not
care to spend the time is conducting a Winter-
resort for our most troublesome insect pests.

OTHER PRA ()TICES

There are many other places where a little care

and foresight will save the farmer money by les-
sening the chances for insect losses.
destroy the breeding places or the hibernating

places during the time of year when these places '

are vital to their existence, he will enjoy a great
er freedom from their depredations the following
year. For instance small accumulations of old
grain are often left in the corners of the bin In
these accumulations may be found several variet-
ies of insects that eat the germ of the seel‘. mak-
ing it 1117i.- 1‘c.~ planting and causing it t‘i heat
and acquire a musty “old” odor that injures itfor
milling purposes. This‘old grain with its inhab-
itants should be destroyed and, if possible, the
bin should be fumigeted before the new grain is
brought, in Likewise old clover hay should be
1emoved frdm the corners and sides of the mow
before putting the new hay in.
is webbed to a greater or less extent by the clover
liay- w-orm. The small worm or larva eats very
little itself. but ties quantities of hav into felt-
like masses in WIlIth 1119 to be found numeimis
cocoons and fecal matter. When the hay is badly
webbed cattle refuse to eat. it. so that it is of no
merely serving as a. source of in-
festation of any other hay placed with it. The
clover hay-worm will also do a. lot of damage
when hay is stacked in the same location year
after year. If possible. star-k in a new place each
lime and destroy any remnants of the Old stack

The Buffalo tree-hopper does more damage in or-_
‘chards that are ﬁlled with weeds than in thosr-

that are clean, the weeds supplying a part of its
food. The plum curculio. the little snout-beetle
that stings. apples, plums. cherries and other
fruits. spends the winter in the graSs and rubbish
in or near the orchard. The codling moth’ and
pear psylla are found under
this bark is scraped fiom the apple
enemies the birds s‘eet and sprays.
prunings from the on hard left from vcai to year,

If he can.

onenume old hay

loose bark and if:
and pear 'V
trees these insects will be left exposed to their '3
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and clean up and destroy all of the insect inhah«
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from day to day during harvesting, and a
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,I. would like you to advise me about the flour, if
"LII take my wheat to the mill must I take substi-
= tutes mixed in it and give toll for the g1inding?

j We are here to serve you. Call 1130'

 
wish ynu would print the proper Washington

us: Where things against the government
tiling should be reported.~—1L B. Alma Mich.

olations of 1ulings of the Food Administrw

. should be rep01 ted to George A. P1 escott fed- .

- toodadministratbr for Michigan. Lansing.

‘betIitioushtterances, coercion and similar offens-
=-ea’._should be reported to the Department of Jus-
tine, Washington D. C.

FENCE VIEWERS MUST DECIDE
WHO _WILL BUILD FENCE

Having recently purchased a small faim of 12
acres, I would like to learn whether there exists
a law to gOVern the building of line fences I have
heard some say that the owner of the farm while
facing it from the road begins at the right. Prob-
Wy I haven’t expressed myself correctly, how-
yo-u will understand what I would like to
in the statute as to

There is. no designation

"which portion of the partition fence each owner

is to build. The statute says: “When any con-
tmersy Shall arise aboﬁ the rights of the re
spective occupants, in partitim-i fences, or their
obligation to maintain the same, either party may
apply to. two or more fence viewers of the town-
ship where the lands lie. who. after due notice to
each party, may in writing assign to .each his
thereof. and direct the time within which
each party shall erect. or repair his share of the
fence in the manner before provided; which as-
signment being recorded in the township clerk’s
omce, shall be binding uponthe parties, and upon
all the succeeding occupants of the land; and they
shall be obliged always thereafter to maintain
their respective portions of said fence.” It is up
to the discretion of the fence viewers as to which
portion they shall assign each owners-47V. E.
Brown. Legal Editor.

COTTON SEED MEAL AT $65 GIVES
DEALER ONLY FAIR PROFIT

I am enclosing a copy of duplicate sheet I re-
ceived from Mr. M , a Grand Ledge business
man. He now says that the Government. has
ﬁxed the price of this meal and I must pay him
$85 Must I take the feed and pay $65 or can I
force him. to furnish it fm $60?——4 E, E. Grand
Ledge, Michigan.

The duplicate submitted by our subscriber was
in. eﬂect a. memorandum showing some kind of
agreement to sell one ton of cotton seed meal at
$80.. The date of the memorandum was August
8th. We referred the matter to the Federal Food
Administrator, who replied as follows:

In regard to this transaction. we will say that
we do not see how Mr. Eaton could make a con-
tract to sell cotton seed meal to be delivered
as the Food Adminis-
tration’s rules prohibit any such contracts in mill
feeds. The basic prices- of cotton seed meal is
about $53 a ton. adding freight rate to car lots
in Michigan. would bring this feed close to $62
per ton. The dealer is allowed $3 per ton proﬁt
where this is handled through a warehouse. So
you can see that $65 a ton wouldn’t; be an ex-
o-nbitant price for the same. The Food Adminis.
tration does not care to interfere. with any con-
troversy between the buyer and seller, where ver-
bal contracts are made—Jim, .-t. Prescott. Federal
Food A (I'm. in ,5 st m for

KILLERS MAY GIVE WHEAT
FLOUR WITHOUT SUBSTITUTES

Am sending one dollar for
which I have been taking for the

v‘lliilleis here mix the substitutes with the wheat
flour, give thirty-ﬁve pounds of the mixture to-
gather with the bran and middlings. and will not
"take money for grinding—F.

'th your ﬂour ground from your own wheat.
11 111111311, however, agree to buy substitutes else-
and, use with your wheat hour

‘ certain conditions miller are obliged to .

will have the Food Administrators oﬁee investi- »'

gate the case:
The wheat ﬁghter: who receives wheat"

farmers wagons and grinds such when; on a toll .

basis, or exchanges such- Wheat for m and"? feed.
shall change not to exceed thirty-ﬁve? cents per

bushel for each Sixty pounds or cleaned wheat So -

received, and on such basis he shall' return to the
farmer ﬂour and feed in accordance with the fol-
lowing schedule:

 
renewal to your ex!

111., Coleman. Mich.’
According to recent amended rules of the Food
Administration yOu need'not accept substitutes

No. "' Pounds
Flour

Test weight

of Wheat , Feed .

Per BuShel Returnablo Returnablo
58 lbs. or hv‘r ‘ .. ' 15 lbs.
5? lbs. or hv’r - x . lbs.
56 lbs. or hv'16
56 lbs. or 11 r 17 lbs.
54 lbs. or hv'r . lihl.
53 lbs. or hv'r . 1.8 lbs.
52 lbs. or hv’r ‘ 19% lbs.
51 lbs. or hv’r ‘ 20 lbs.

Soft Wheat

'No. Pounds No. Pounds
Rand W11
Feed
'Returnable

 
lbs.

 
Millers shall continue custom and exchange
grinding. The wheat miller, who, prior to July
1,1918, had customarily ground wheat for farmers
on a toll or exchange basis, shall continue to op-
erate upon such basis when the farmer offers
wheat, grown on his own farm, to the mill for
grinding or exchange, and where the farmer takes

in exchange ﬂour of the character made from his-

own wheat. I

Note: ——Nothing in the above rule plevents a
fa1me1 selling some portion of his wheat to the
miller at‘ an agreed price and using the purchase
price to cancel the charge per bushel made for
milling.

Size of Exchange Transactions2-..There" is 110
limitation on the quantity of wheat that may be
exchanged if the substitute rules'are complied
with and if the farmer does not take more than
an annual supply for his household or establish-
ment. Flour can only be delivered without sub-
stitutes if the farmer signs the certiﬁcate approved
in his zone, which will be furnished to mills on
request by the federal food administrator of the
state where the mill is located—Rule M. S. 20 hs
amended Scptcmber 20, 1918.

To all Mills and Hierarm'met has long been
the custom for farmers bringing in their own
wheat to receive in exchange their annual supply
of ﬂour.

Nothing in the present regulations prevents
the continuance of this custom," except that the
general wheat conservation ruling requires. wheat
flour to be delivered only with one pound of sub-
stitutes to each four pounds of wheat ﬂour. Such
substitutes cannot always be handled by a small
country mill, and a year’s supply of some of these
substitutes is likely to spoil.

Under these circumstances, it has been consid-
ered desirable. where farmers are willing to pledge
a strict compliance with the program of the Food
Administration. to permit the delivery of ﬂour to
them without, substitutes in exchange for their
own wheat.

Mills and elevators are therefore authorized, up-
on receipt of. the following 3 .edge. properly signed,
to deliver wheat ﬂour to farmers without substi—
tutes, but the amount of wheat ﬂour so delivered

must not exceed the amount which can actually be '

extracted from the farmer’s own wheat, or an
amount in excess of normal supply for one year.
(The word “faimer” in this connection is deﬁned
as “a peison actually living upon a farm and per-
Sonallx ' conducting farm operation. ”)

Pledge to be Signed by Farmers Exchanging Their
Own “'lleat to Obtain Flour Without Substitutes

] heieby certify that the wheat this day delivered
by me to (name of miller) was-
grown by me on my farm.

I pledge myself to use such ﬂour only in my (mn
household 0) establishment, and not to resell .my of it
without permission.

I further pledge myself, in using such flour. to con—
form to the program of the United States Food Ad-
ministration with regard to substitutes and to use in
the baking of all bread at least one pound of substi—
tutes to every four pounds of wheat ﬂour; or if rye is
used, two pounds of rye ﬂour to every three pounds of
wheat ﬂour.

Name . . . .
Address
Wheat Flour Substitutes

Milo ﬂoux, corn meal, corn ﬂou1,kaﬁr ﬂour" bar-
ley ﬂour, feterito ﬂours and meals. rice ﬂour pea-
nut ﬂour, oat ﬂour bean ﬂour potato ﬂour sweet
potato ﬂour, buckwheat flour.

Farmers who are unwilling to sign this pledge
may obtain wheat ﬂour on the same basis as othe1
individuals—United States Eood Adm'inixh'ﬂtirm,
H. I). Irwin, Zonal Agent Cereal Division.

cu: nonnspme

 
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mfnnit they set down they cornnioneed shootin .
hot air to each other In particular an? ovarybgdy.
in general, an' it was all about whit the farmers.
didn’t. know about their ﬁermin' and. what these
wise guys would do ifrthey was farmers». Now,

"your Uncle Rube is rather slow to 111131111, 811' of
' a mild an’ retirin’ nature‘havin’ been married

considerable an' at divers times an’ places an?
generally I keep my mouth shot for quite a. spell.
on ordinary occasions, but sometimes I sort 0’

‘ boil over a- little, an’ this bein' one 61 the boilin’

times, I jest kind 0’ natcherly, an’ in a gentle way
sort 0’ batted right into the talk am’ asked a few
questions jest for luck, so to speak

One of these wise men sez, "The d-——~—d farmers
are a set. or hogs; they want two or three times
what their stuff is worth, an won’t sell unless
they git their price.” 1

I sez,"‘Mr. Man, what’s your, business when.
you’ to at home?” ,

He sort 0’ swelled up like a warty toad in ny-
time, an’ sez “well, sir, (accent on the Sir) I
handle a line of agricultural tools also sell wood
an’ coal."

“Jest a minnit, Mister,” sez I, “do you sell any
of this stuff at the farmer’s prices or do you ‘put
a price on it you1self?”‘ .

“Hell!” he sez, “farmei’ s price be damned!
How long do‘you think I could do business if I
let somebody else ﬁx prices 011 my goods?" >

“Well,” I’ sez, “I dunno ’bout that; but are yen
sellin’ at before the war prices or d’ye charge
a little mite more for tools, coal. wood, an‘ every-
thing—I’m jest askin,” I sez. ,

Well, say, your Vort to of seen his face. He
nearly swan-ered a whole potato that he had stab-
bed his fork into, absent—mindedly, 01! course, an’
he give me jest one little look an’ bliirted’ out, “A
little mire more.r Why man.” he sez, “prices on
tools has more’n doubled in the last two years
an’ anybody but a damned om fool like you would
know it, t.,oo ” sez he.

”Take care how you talk, Mister," I sez. "I
allow no man to call me old, not by a darned site;
but it’s a wonder to me,” I sez. “that. a teller as
dum smart as you seem to be has kept out ofthe
legislature or jail, an’ everythingﬁgosh!” I sez.
“you’re foolish to fritter your time away Jest.
sellin’ things. Why don’t you go on a 133m
where you can use all. your wisdom an’ git rich
in jesta few months, an" then start an agricul-
tural college or sumthin’ an’ tell the poor- ignor—
ant farmers how you did it? You poor old simp,"
1 sea. kind 0’ warm'in’ up to the subject, “don’t
you know that farmers are not: allowed to set
prices on anything? Thunderation,” I sez, “if they
Want a binder your set the price. If they want: to
sell a cord of wood, you. set the price. You git the
farmers goin’ an’ comin’ an’ then if he kicks a
little you an‘ others of your kind call-him a being,
a miser, an’ a proﬁteer. You say he is not ﬁt to
live, an' at the same time. you are chargin’ un-
reasonable prices on purty dum: near everything
you sell, an’ try to make yourself think you are
anwhon-est man an‘ that the farmers are a lot of
robbers. when. if the truth was known, you are
not in the same class With them in honesty, truth-
fulness, patriotism, nor in manhood.”

“By ginger,” I sez, before he could ketch his
breath to" speak. “some of you smart alecs from
the city make me fired with your everlastin’ talk
about: the. farmers, for. you know less about farm
conditions than a ’possum knows about the north
pole' I sez, ”gosh, you see a farmer come into
town with a load of. stuff for the market an’ you
know the price he is gittin” an" you jest say, ‘see
that old cuss, jest a coinin' money, gittin’ rich
hand over list out on the farm.’ an’ then you lay
for him an’ try to sell him somethin’" at double
price to git ‘his money away from him, when, it
you was to know the facts the man has, in a
good many instances at least, had to sell his pro
duce at an actual loss " ,

“Say!" sez the wise guy, ,“be you a farmer?"
“Well,” I sez, ”not exactly now but I was One
till I found it payed more money to sell things to :, -
the farmers than I could" make farmin’ an' buy

. things of tellers like you."'

Well, that sort 9’ eminent please. t‘ title

 
can two townships, has an ASSESSED site-value '

4‘01; $466, 165, 000; and as its assessed site-value is

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91‘ to grade up a good article one must have
1118 from which to grade it.
ave 300d potatoes one must have good soil
for potat6e‘s; good cultivation, good seed good care,

.ﬂtreatment age-met diseasepand a good season,

then one can make a good grade.
,Now, if the inspection service of the Bureau of

'- Markets could be given to potatoes graded over

1%, inch round mesh screen and Michigan growers
could obtain as good prices for such potatoes as

I , they could for U. S. No.1 grade, then I would say

_ passes inspection
ﬂy cats being turned

,ha Account However, 11.11119 care is exercised
fin grading I do not believe there will be much

-. trouble over rejections this year, and I do not

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share in the sentiment of a recent article in the
" Michigan Farmer that the potato- industry

is
threatened with ruin. I believe the reverse is
true. I believe that the outlook for the potato
1ndustry-1n' Michigan is the brightest it has ever
been. '

As .regards to the matter of grading for this
year, I am free to say that after careful consider-
ation of the matter I unhesitatingly favor mak-
ing the grade over the 1% inch round mesh
screen, and I also favor making it as free from
defective potatoes as possible. .

As a member of the Michigan Potato Exchange,
I would most Strennously object to making a
grade any lower. than U. S. No. 1 made over 1%
inch round mesh screen. Such a, grade is practi-
cally the same as that made over 1% inch square
mesh. But I would advise strongly against the
use of the little- 1% inch shaker grades, as care-
ess grading might cause a rejection of a car of
ota‘toes and serious loss. What we potato grow-
rs want to strive to do is to put a potato on the
market which, because of its excellence, will com-

ICD’ng

mand a premium Should one’s ﬁeld-run potatoes-

grade out 10 per cent he might better take fer his
[1,0 000 bushels pay for 900 at $1 per bushel than
pay for 1000 at 90 cents per bushel. He would
have just as much money for his graded potatoes
and 100 buShels at home for feed; or he might sell

the 100 bushels to the dehydrating or starch fac-

Utories.
' The marketing of quantities of ungraded pota-

”toes is a damage“ to the potato. industry, as y

_ heapens the potato so that the best ‘articlei
dragged doWn by the lack of value of the poorest.

grade according to the standard set by the Mich-
igan Potato Growers’ Association. -But they can-
not do that, and moreover, if they did such pota-
toes wOuld sell for less money than U. S. No. 1
Michigan potatoes, and the margin of loss would
be niuch greater than the small gain obtained by
making a smaller grade. And now that there is
"sale for, No. 2 potatoes and culls to dehydrating
and potato ﬂour plants, I believe that it is to the
interests of the potato grower to make the U. S.

‘No. 1'grade in every sale, and wherever possible

either sell his No. 2's or use them for feed and
seed. I believe the thing for all our co- operative
associations and Gleaner houses to do is to aim
at high quality, both in production and marketing,
and for such products there will be an appreciative
market and higher prices.

And last, but not least, but most important, I
want to mention the present inspection system.
Under this system a car of potatoes which is grad-
edU. S. No. 1, orU. S. No. 2, and sold for just
what it is, if it is found up to requirements, can-
not be rejected because the market has declined.
Under the old system many cars of potatoes of the
best quality were rejected when the market de-
clined and the shipper suffered a loss which
eventually the farmer had to make up, because
such losses had to be made up by a larger
margin on subsequent shipments. So, on the
whole, it seems to me that the present modiﬁed

gradingsystem should be accepted and that the \

potato situation is fairly satisfactory, and all
growers should work heartily together to put the
potato, the great money crop for Western Michi-
gan “over the top ” In such an effort we need
the co- operation of all potato inte1ests, growers,
Shippers, .co-operative associations, the Gleaners,
every individual and concern connected with the
potato industry, as well as the hearty and con-
structive assistance of our farm papers which have

. already done so much for us, to the end that we

may furnish the consumer the best potato to be
had in the market at prices that will pay cost of
production plus a reasonable proﬁt. And I believe
the only agitation the potato industry needs at
.present is along the constructive and sane line
which makes for better potatoes in quality, better
prices to the grower, and more direct and economi-
cal distribution to the consumer. ~—A. M. Smith,
Pres. MiChigan Potato Growers’ Association

Judson Gnnncll, Slte- Value Taxer, Says Tax

Ezra Levin’s article on {‘Why Farming as
Business Does Not Pay " was Well worth reading.
Yet, I finished- with a feeling of disappOintment.
It seemed to me he had laid a ﬁne foundation, and
ilnished off 11ch rather a weak superstructure '

I am not a farmer, and for that reason pephaps

it is presumptuous in me to criticise anything or «4
- of ,farmers:

anybody’s utterances on so important a problem

as successful or unsuccessful farming. But living f?
in a community consisting mainly of farmers, and
hearing them talk, and conversing with them, it»:

seems to me that Mr. Le “in is still some distance

away from a complete solution of farmers’ ’diﬂjl-i

culties

To say ‘fwe muSt get more money for our pro-.-

. duce” and to co‘nClude with mgeneral invitation

farmers to attend Michigan Agricultural Col-

" meetings, and “have representation for the?

present: and the future, ‘does net go to the root of .
d1

111111111101 what value is “more money for

’,’ if the things .we must purchase 0011- . ,,
in greater proportion than they sell I .1:

Burden is One Of Farmers Greatest Problems

expected in the way of constructive statesman-
ship from farmer legislators.

I have no panacea for all the farmers’ ills In-
(deed I do not believe a panacea has yet been dis-
covered; I recently read a little brochure by F

F. Ingram, Detroit, on “The Race Between Time

I see by it there are several kinds
(1) the tired farmer; (2) the re-
tired farmer; and (3) the rubbertired farmer ”
2 Society is talking considerably about the ﬁrst two
kinds of farmers, but the third kind is getting
away with the swag, at the expense of both pro-
duc‘er‘s and consumers. Let me quote one para-

and Fa ine. ”

graph

“0w; rubbertired farmers own packing houses,

., stockyards, ”elevators, cold storage plants, trans-

portation lines, etc" all public utilities or allied
to public utilities. This makes extortion inevita-
hie;- so. extortion will continue until the state itself
nuns see things.”
(in unity to farmers is the way he is
origears the state has had on its

improvements and personal
While the improvements
‘9 ityirolk gets otl.’ in much

So in order 4

7. portant matter.
' higher taxes, and it is bad for them when a'g _ .
of the state tax commission boldly claim, M 1111

. only two-thirds of its market value, as stated by.
'the assessors themselves, it shows that the land .
. value of Detroit, independent of all improvements -
and the personal property which its citizens poo.
seas, is close to $700, 000, 000.

Here is the true source from which to draw rev- .
enue for carrying on- a community's activities,
: whether it is a community of farmers or of mer-
And it would imme- ‘
diately relieve the farmers of Michigan of millions...
in taxes, while at the same time having a strong

chants and manufacturers.

tendency to reduce the cost of the manufactured
wares the farmer must buy
Money values are misleading.

as to What those dollars will exchange for. If the

state will stop‘ taxing labor products, labor prod-

ucts will be more normal in price; a tax on man-
ufactured goods is paid by the ultimate consumer;
it is passed by the manufacturer to the farmer who
buys. But the owner of city sites cannot pass his
taxes to consumers, it cannot be shifted.

With 25 per cent of the farmers of the lower
half of Michigan tenant farmers, and with this
tendency steadily increasing, it is about time the
farmers awakened to the situation. Our present
system of taxation is steadily dividing the people
of the country into two classes—a small minority
who own most of the valuable land of city and
country, and a vast majority of landless wage
earners and tenant farmers. Detroit is assessed
for over $1, 200, 000, 000, and over half of this is
owned by not to exceed a thousand persons, cor-
porations and estates.

A community can be taxed into poverty. This
is what has been going on in many European
countries.
of other states. When taxes are shifted from val-
ues the result of hard work to values created by
the community collectively—~site-values—the farm-
er will be encouraged to be industrioms and enter-
p1-,ising and the/lazy farmer, as well as the specu-
lator in land, Will be discouraged and will there-
after be compelled to earn his own living—Jud-
yon Grinnell Sec. Michigan Site- Value Tao: League.

STATE TAX COMMISSION CLAIMS '
FARM VALUES HAVE INCREASED

Have farm values increased? Members of the
state tax commission 'say “yes,” but many farm-
ers say, “no.” The question was recently dis-
cussed before the equalization of the board of
supervisors of Jackson county when F. R. Metcalf
a representative of the state tax commission took
exception to the assertion of a township member
of the committee that there had been a decrease
in farm values thruout the ,county since 1913, by
saying that “there has been a. material increase
in values of farm property thruout the state and

that Jackson county should prove no exception

to the rule.”

Township members of the equalization commits

tee contended that much personal property in the
city escapes taxation; that (the business of the
city man is not as well known as is the case of the
township property owner. It was declared there
are instances in which farms have actually de-
creased in value; that the mortgage tax and au-
tomobile tax laws have also cut from the town-
ship’s tax revenue.

This is a matter that should receive the atten.
tion of every farmer. If farm values have in-
creased; if it is possible for a farmer to go out
and sell his farm today for mOre money than he
could a year ago, the farmers will not object to a
proportionate increase in their valuation. For
this reason: Speculation does not affect farm
values as they do urban property values; increas-
es in farm values depend almost solely upon im-
provements and upon the increases in farm proﬁts,
If farming is generally more prosperous today
than a year ago, farm lands should bring more
money.

But is this the situation? Altho we have not
watched farm sales very carefully, conditions are
such that the opposite might naturally be the
rule.
in Michigan today than for a long time. Farm
help has been drafted, farm costs have increased
way out of proportion to farm income; weather
conditions have been discouraging, and there are
numerous other reasons why we might expect a
decrease rather than increase in farm values.

We wish our readers would write us the result-
of their observations or experiences in this in
The farmers cannot stand 1111111,,

proof, that farm values are higher and shoe}

~ ' assessed accordingly

It is not so much I.
what a farmer obtains, in dollars, for his product,

It is also true of Michigan, as well as ,

We do know that more farms are for sale

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We are all rejoicing over the cessation of the
III and the winning of the war. Now let’s come
back to our work" with renewed energy and vigor,
for in the days of reconstruction that will follow
the cessation of hostilities our position undulati-
tude before the world will be largely what we

make it.

We are, and have been at all times. contending
not for a price but for a p’rincipie. That principle
is the some consideration for our business that
isjgivsn every other industry. Possibly never be-
fore have we been face to face with a problem
whose results depend absolutely upon our Own
endeavor more than at’ the present time. Don't

ask yourself what" someone els ‘ is doing for your

industry, but ask what you are doing.

Your secretary is hoping that in the heir fu-
ture the man power needed to carry on this work
will be more easily Obtained. He is hoping to car-
ry out some of the plans that we have long had in
mind, and that are so vital to the milk industry
of the state of Michigan. This must be under-
stood: That if the Detroit area and the nap-state
territory is ever divorced or divided, it would be
one of the most unfortunate conditions possible
because the Detroit milk market is today the
backbéne of the milk market of Michigan. Many
inquiries are being constantly made from the up-
state manufacturing plants as to the Detroit price,
and prices are then ﬁxed according to the De-
troit price. Consequently, the tip-state milk pro-
ducers are beneﬁtted‘by our organized movement
as much as are the Detroit. area producers. 0n
the other hand should the upstate milk be allowed
to come into Detroit when there is a surplus, it
would destroy or unstabilize the entire proposi-
tion that we have been so anxiously building

Certain propositions here stand before us. First,
the solidifying of the entire state milk organiza-
tion. The up-state milk producers should bear
their share of the expenses of the organized move-
ment. for the beneﬁts they are receiving. a,

We are not just certain at the present time what
will be the method of operation to bring about
this result, but we are very sure that something
of this kind. must be done to steady this industry
in the days following the cessation of hostilities.
What the period of reconstruction may bring forth
to the nations of the world we cannot tell. They
must learn more of the food value of dairy pro-
ducts. We must bring to them the consciousness
of the all-important fact that we cannot go on and
prosper unless a price equaling the cost of pro-
duction plus a proﬁt is assured. With all these
things before us we feel we have much to accom-
plish which demands our utmost care and thought.

At the coming adjourned annual meeting, which
will be held in Lansing, Representative Hall, De-
cember 4th, these very important matters will be
discussed, and we urge you at this time to plan to
send to this meeting two delegates from each
local for there will be a complete discussion of the
situation as it relates to the entire state. Look
out for the program of this meeting in next week’s
issues of the diﬁcrent papers of the state. Re-
member the time and place.

Our Feed Problem

If we are to attain the position, that we so
much desire; if we are to be recognized as real
business men, we must not only look out for .a
proﬁtable price for our product, but we must
study the most economic means of production.
To this end your president and secretary have
been studying for months the feed problem, which
is such a serious one this year, and at the price
of which most of Our milk producers stagger at
the present time.

Let us for a moment consider, like any other
business man, what our supply of feed is; how
much added supply we will need for the winter;
and the methods we are going to use to obtain
this. It is a conceded fact that to obtain the best
results cows must be liberally red at all times.
What will we need to carry our cattle through the
winter in good shape and leave them in position
to do proﬁtable work next year? They cannot be
starved and render efﬁcient service in the succeed-
ing months. When we determine what must be

.‘done, then the next question is, “How are we to

obtain it?” Tire methods of’common practice are

One is to do as the best dairymen do, .

my other

part of their business. We Melt learn as «as this

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large quantities, at the cheapest price, and give "

this to our members absolutely with-vat proﬁt
of any kind. '

We have managements with main milling.

parties at the present time win-rem we can supply
oupeoptewtthatevhundr’ed toesotfeed, anda
ﬁne saving on be made from the regular retail
price. This will, of a necessity, have to be worked

by the way of the organized movement thru your .
It buying in large ‘

local and state organisation.
quantities is at any time of great value, then you
can see but the prospect of having a market of
possiblyﬁOﬁ” tons would be a. decided induce-
ment to the dealer who is looking for large busi-
ness (warnings.

We have the formula prepared for this guaran-
teed food, and we will giveyou prices and all de-
tails upon application. ' No one but members of
our organization "can obtain this advantage.

Detroit Area Meeting, November 26, at the

Board of Commerce
That we may arrange for those details which
pertain directly to the Detroit area milk produc-
ers, a delegate meeting is called to meet at the
Chamber of Commerce, Novena-hr 2t, 1918,81 1: 30
p..,m local time Questions of vital importance
will here be discussed. We urge each Detroit area

local to send two accredited delegates We are'

anxious that this meeting shall be along the line
of constructive service, and your plans, perplex-
ities, and endeavors should receive consideration
at this meeting. Don’t forget the time and place
and your delegates. Very truly ‘yours—R/C’. Reed.

WANT A WAR MAP? WELL, HOW
WOULD A “PEACE” MAP SUIT YOU?

On the face of it, advertising war maps after
peace is dechmd is like advertising snow-shoes
after a March thaw. But when you analyze the
matter, there is a dillference. A map is a—map.
And 'a war map may be used to advantage during
the war, and to equally good‘aiivantage after the
war. Boundaries of nations are npt~to change as
radically during the ﬁrst months of peace as they
did the four years of war, and no farmer can hope
to keep abreast of the times if he does not follow
carefully the readjustmente "that are to be made in
territorial boundaries. The war map that has
been advertised in these columns is one of the
most complete things of its kind we have ever
seen. All the countries of the world are pieced
before you by then: maps and it will be easy to
follow the changes that thepeaee treaty will un-
doubtedly make in the boundaries or European
countries. The maps enliven interest in world
and national affairs. Every farmer in Michigan
ought to have a set in his home for the educa-
tional value to his children.

The maps are printed in colors 'on, sixteen pages
of enameled paper, size 28 x 39 inches, securely
bound together and folded so you can lay them
on the ordinary reading table. They include maps
of the western front, complete world map—Russia,
in Europe, Siberia, Asia and Japan. Complete
European map, map of Italian front, map of sub-
marine barred zones, Asia, Palestine, etc.—.—A most
complete, compact and practical set of maps. and
they can be secured without cost by merely send-
ing $2 in payment. of some neighbor’ 3 Subscription
to MICBfGAN BUSINESS FARMING and your own re-
newal.

MICHIGAN 13am SUGAR CROP
PLACED AT 1,000,000 TONS

' The boot harvest in Michigan this year, which
is in full swing at the present time, i. expected
to turn out a yield of 1, 000, 000 tons, according to
the estimate of General Manager F R Hathaway
of the Michigan Sugar Company.

The Sugar content of the beats is reported to
be averaging very high, which will make the pro-

duction of sugar show an even greater increase '

over last season than the gain in tonnage, placed
by the present estimate at about 75 per cent, would

' indicate. On this basis it appears that Humane

crop will contribute materially to make up the
Shortage in other section. of the country.

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The greafelt? handicap to the farmer, aside
from 15W, which is beyond thc‘ control of

fact that taming seems to be. the only business
arm coed-acted on the individualistic system me.

.my government, is his lack of capital, and thef 7*

valent when women spun and were at home and ,,

the shoemaker was! perlpatetic. (All other mass

tries have been, capitalised and commendallzed;

the farmer still maintains what he calls his “inde-
pendence," which seems to mean conducting his
business amending to ancient formulas: Be is

often a good somerset! a poor business man. Yet

it is as essential to. his prosperity to market his
crops at a proﬁt as it is to grow them. He is also
generally, a conservative. A man at one time pro-
minent in agricultural activities, sent his sons
through the Agricultural College, but refused to

permit them to deviate, with their “new-tangled
notices," from his old methods. .

We are accustomed to think of farming as a
business requiring \little capital beyond the land
and a team. Julian Dimock estimates a farm of
160 acres requires a capital ‘of $4.000 for success;
ful operation. Improved methods arising octet
scientiﬁc investigation and knowledge, have de-
manded a. new equipment, which the scarcity of
farm labor has accentuated. Inventors have sup-
plied the machinery, but prices'are beyond the
reach of the individual purse. Modern «farming
has become capitalistic. The answer to this de«

‘ mend involves coordination and cooperation.

The tendency is already somewhat in evidence.
There are a number of manufacturing or shipping
corporations which grow crops of various kinds
to supply their plants. A New York company
raises L000 acres of vegetables for its canning
factories. A Chicago ﬁrm raises 1,000 acres of
Wisconsin potatoes. Orchards and contaiOupe
ﬁelds are maintained by other trading corporat-
ions.- They do what the individual farmer cannot
do, because they have the necessary capital. In
this development, making for emciency and m
berial economy, there are undoubtedly social con-
sequences wliich breed doubts and tears, and a re-
luctance to'surreuder‘ the farming industry to it.
The problem of finding a better means of organ-
izing agriculture toward greater efﬁciency, re-
mains

There must be a revolution in agriculture. Mr.

' Hoover recently asserted that the world is never

more than 60 days ahead of famine between har-
vests. If this is true in normal times how much
more so at the presenf! An enormous burden al-
ready re’sts on the United States, which will be in-

,creased before the stricken nations can revive

their industries.
(Emma’s Noam—The writer 0} the above article

misses the head of the nail as often as he hits it. '

He started out on the right track, but wandered
far from his subject;

What do our readers think about the points he
has raised anyway?)

«

HAVE YOU SEEN THE GREEN
CLOVER WORM? HE’SwABROAD

Look out, alfalfa growers, for the green clover
worm. He has escaped from his native haunts
and is traveling leisurly across the country
he has not already arrived in Michigan, it isn’t
because he intends to slight us. You can count
on the visit from him sooner or later. The De-
partment of Agriculture is quite worried over the
predatory instincts of this little worm and has

sent out warnings to alfalfa growers to keep an ‘7

mopen and capturehim ith‘e comestheir way.
it appears from a reading of a bulletin upon the

subject that you do not apprehend this worm in

the some manner as other wild animals, to-wit:
With a sun or a chm. You either starve him to

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The aromas crop of.

 
0! potatoes premiered aluﬁad this country’ 3 con-
sumption in the trade and. crop year beginning
with July, 1849, “9173,0111 bushels, and the
quantity had risen to only 234,000 bushels came

average yearly consumption of imported potatoes
Was 2,158,040 bushels followed by increase to
3,018,000 bushels in 1885- -1894,- the highest avei age
of any ten- year period

How and than a year of deﬁcient production
has come Whisk invited relatively large importa-
trons of potatoes mostly from the United King-
dull and Germany, and 1911 was the year of
greatest crop shortage, with imports of 13,729,000
bushels. Usually the imports of potatoes are less
than 500,000 bushels. in ten-year averages im-
ported potatoes have never been as high as 2 per
cent of the consumption, and in mme recent years
they have been about one per cent. ‘

While fereign potatoes have been arriving, do,

vmestic potatoes have been departing in somewhat
i greater quantities in a majority of years‘so that

it is fair to say that, although in the sum of many
years we have imported more potatoes than we
have exported, the preponderant tact in a major-
ity of years has been” a small national surplus of
potatoes. ‘

Conspicuous increase in the per capita produc-
tion of potatoes has followedvthe‘. average of 29
bushels in 1885—1894. In the following ten-year
period the average was 3.45 bushels, and in 1905-

1914 it was 3.8 bushels.

Per capita consumption increased from 2.88
ing ten-year period, after which there was 'a de-
cline. to 2.98 bushel-s i-n the next tenjyear period.
In 18954994 the per capita average was ‘3‘ 46 bush-
els; in 1905-1914, 3.77 bushels; in 1915 3 55 bush-
els, inll91‘6 2.82 bushels, andl in 191114.19 b11-.shcls
In the last mentioned ten- year period and in 1915
the per family consumption Was 17 bushels; in
19163137 bushels and in 1917,189 bushels the
largest of. record. /

The per capita and per tamily (onsumptions
include potatoes used for all purposes—«not only
as food for human beings, but for seed, for live-
stock ieed, Tor potato starch, and other products,
if any, and some degree of waste About ten per

_ cent of the potato crop {‘1 used annually for seed

and starch; for the reminder of the consumption
the per family average was about 15. 2 bushels in
1905-1914144 bushels in 1915,114 bushels in
1916, and 17 bushels in 1917.

 
OAKLAND SUPERVISORS REFUSE
MONEY FOR FARMIBUREAU

 
By a vote of 10 to 6 the board of supeivisors of
Oakland county refused to. make; the appropria-
tion at funds necessary for carrying on the work
of the farm bureau the ensuing year. The prin-
cipal reason given by those opposing the W0»
priaiion was that the services of the county agent,

1 Mr. (‘. ”B Cook, had not been of sufﬁcient value

the past year to warrant continuing the bureau
Quite a- spiritemiscussion followed. this assertion,
some oil the supervisors claiming that 1412.ka
was the best county agents.T in the state and that
he had been prevented: from giving more attention
to the duties of his omce by the extra burdens,

placed upon him in investigating and acting upon

claims for deferred classiﬁcation. b1 farmers.
Otheis contended that the county did not pay
him for such work and. that he was not justiﬁed

in neglecting his Own work.
~ .5113. defense of his own position. Mr. cook c.1aim-

that thru his en'orts more than a thousand
county farmers had. been given deterred
_ cati n on agricultural grounds .He fur-
as W ‘ increasing need for the
" ' ,wolsld like to assist
the twmers; ‘ , '
wganizer at {am

so was: farmers ?

 
beg-potatoes used in this country 8119 almost
{ entirely m raised in the United States, says
use some at Crap: home at the United? States-
[ 1)th at. Agrieulte‘re.
31905-1914 was 343,331, 009 bushels, and the crops of

1315-1916, and 1917 were 359,721,900,286,9153,090,
and 442 536,000 bushels, respectively. '

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1n the next ten years the

'bushels in 1866-1874 to_ 3.25 bushels in the follow- '

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He stands high or
ability and initiative among the county agents of
the slate. Perhaps some of our Oakland county

subscribers could tell us more about his work,

or the reasons for whatever dissatisfaction that
may exist.

SerxswnroH TURN GREEN
‘ snow WASTE OF GRAIN

As a ﬁnal means of judging whether grain has
been threshed clean, farmers are asked by the
S. Food Administration to watch their stiaw
stacks after the fall rains. Green sprouts reveal

 
w HERE is a firmer down in Oklahoma
who didn’t exactly apply eastern busi-
él ness methods to selling his ﬁne-bred
”7 Bermuda Grass. This man was as true to
' form as was the potato grower. He had for-
merly been a inister of the gospel. and
when he was cgmpelled by a failure of his
health to inhale an outdoor life be special-
,ized in Bermuda Grass and developed into
a mighty enthusiastic “preacher" on the sub-
ject of Bermuda. He calls it advertising.
but his publicity is so educational than it
.. smacks of preaching. nevertheless. B111 lhc

important thing is that it has made “Ber-
% mucla" Mitchell known all over his scciion

of the country. .

“I know farmers," he says. “who chop and
pick cotton and make enough to live and
pay a little on the mortgage 11nd then re
new it for another year. 111 my ofﬁce I
pound out some advertising 011 my typewric
e1 and live comfortably and have no lllf)l'l~
gage to pay. There is more than one no):
to advertise. As a minister i never missed
a. chance to kiss a bridc. As 11 farmcr I
never miss a. chance to advertise.

“For instance, a. booster train from Tulsa
. visited our town. 1' met it in my far111e1":=
garb with my pockets ﬁlled with Bermuda
Grass. 1 appointed myself to address them
upon the agriculture of Oklahoma. not for»
getting to make mention of my Bermuda

. Grass. They were so pleased that [ became.
, their guest for the trip with all expenscs
«paid, in make addresses :11 the towns vis-

ited.
‘ "‘A Kaiﬁr corn special was later sent forth
was on board

‘3 by the Rock Island lines. 1
one hundred

as the'grass expert. and in
towns l advertised.”

Mr. Mitchell is a very popular spculwr. 1:
:1. fact he owes to his long cxmerieuce in the

ministry. no doubt. But his real business
success was not secured so much by 111s
‘s-peec-hes as by regular advertising. lie

stationery which tastefully ad-
uses printed folders
all his letters, in-

' uses printed
vertises his specialty,
about Bermuda Grass in
1?; serts small advertisements in farm. papers
=’ and other mediums which will reach peo-
ple who want good» grass. He knowa grass
from A to Z and his advertising is not com~
, mineral in tone; but is rather educational.
' seeking to teach the reader what is the best
_ grass for his purposes and why. in a con-
i‘ vincin-g way. Mr. Mitchell: claims that his

success is built. on three principles: An

honest man. a thew-lass product and adver-

tising. He guarantees absolute satisfaction
to everycustomer. The result is that his
1 business is actually doubling every year.
Chilton. (711110.

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the presence of grain that the threshing machine
failed to remove and if stacks show much green
threshing is indicated.
Albina) gratifying savings of grain have been
secured this year by nationwide conservation
measum tn harvesting and th1eshing, waste has
not been eliminated entirely And the tell-rule
green appearance of straw stacks, is Nature’ s tes-
timony against defective threshing operations
Farmers w‘hose stacks are now showing g1 een
are educated to report the name of the threshei-
man; together with date of threshing and full
particulars, to their local grain threshing 1101111

.nrittee, or, 211 like absence of such a. committee to
the federal food administrator having jurisdiction.

By this means inefﬁcient threshing may be traced
taken to assist the thresh-
airman to avoid; its: urrmce.

Before asking the assistance 94 the food admin-

.istratol“ in arranging to have the: straw rethresh

ed; this om should have several; mus examine-

-,the-‘ straw Ila; moonﬁrm: his opinion that mm
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.e reclaimed t1; mar-am the adv

when he. visited the county 11 year ago to help
. ﬁtment: the m bureau.

.....

  
THE NEW SUGAR RATION
I INCREASES ALLOWANCE-

  
The sugar situation has changed and the Feed!
Administration has made good its promise to.
increase the household allowance. The sugar
ration went to three pounds per person’ou No»
vember lwiust the right time, too, with Thanks-
giving at hand and Christmas coming

The American public met the sugar shortage in
good spirit. The men did little grumbling over , ,
the level teaspoon. and the women went right on .
canning without sugar and using syrup to
stretch the two-pound allowance. This patriotic,
conservation on the part of households, and the f .
cutting down of the allowance to manufacturers.
have helped to make the increased ration possible.
Then. too, “the new crop of beet sugar and cane
sugar isgmoving rapidly and railway conditions,
have improved. ‘

W'hi-le ,the new

 
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three-pound ration cases the
Vliousehold situation it permits nogextravagance
with the sugar spoon. The housekeeper who has
faithfully adhered to the two-pound ration. will.
know just. what to do with this extra pound. She
will take care of the apples and cranberries now
available. or sweeten the sugarlresg iruit canned
during the summer and, above all. create a stock
for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The good man-
ager will ﬁnd this all the easier on account of the
change in regulations which permits the pur-
chase at one time of the monthly allowance for
the entire family.

    
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FOREIGN FOOD ORDERS AS '
AFFECTING THE PRODUCERS

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The effect of war on agriculture abroad 11111.)? be
bullied from 1119 following food regulation apply-
ing particularly to producers.

Bcginuing September 15. maximum retail prices 5

for milk and milk products were established
throughout France. The nulximi-un producer’s
‘price of fresh milk is 6 cents a quart. ln Switz-

crlund. trading in cereal seeds is permitted only
between producers of the same community. Sales ‘
outside the community may not be made except 1.
to ﬁrms authorized to deal 111 seeds.

An Italian food order required holders of pre-
served. eggs on August 25 to make-11. declaration ,
of such holdings lie-fore the end of the mouth. :1?
The order applied in “eggs of poultry preserved "
in' lime. or in cold storage. or by any other sys-
11-1111."

Norway has established ﬁred rations of boy for
livestock until November :10, 1918. The daily-
amount ranged from 2.2 pmnlltls for small cattle
lo 171/; pounds for horses.

Under a British order cfi‘cctivc September 21.
“No apples can be used for the manufacture of
cider except when sold under a license,”

The guaranteed price of wheat in Australia is
95 cents a bushel for the 1913-1010 crop. fob. and
$1.03 for the 1919-1920 crop.

 
CAN USE CULL BEANS
AS LIVESTOCK FEED

 
The large quantities of cull beans left on the
hands of farmers as a. result of the unfavorable
weather at the time when the bean crop was
harvested, can with certain precautions be used
as a. feed for livestock, a bulletin from the ex-
periment station of the Michigan Agricultural
College declares. .

“In fattening hogs,” the report sets forth, “the
following results were obtained: Fourteen hogs
averaging 159 pounds at the start and fed equal
parts by weight of cull beans r‘nd corn meal,
gained 1.52 pounds per head daily, and con-
sumed 2.03 pounds of cull beans and 2.03 pounds
of corn per pound gain. >
s “Beans alone, while‘very cheap, produced sort.
ﬂabby pork of' poor quality, and can not be rec-
ommended as a satisfactory ration for fattening
hogs. When combined with an equal weight 01
corn much better gains were made and a better
quality of pork produced."

A full report of the results at these feeding on-
periments will be published in an early issue 01.,
M. B. F. ~ ‘

'rlw total output W918 19 Cuban sugar scan»
is. estimated at 3446, 606 long tons, which is ”2. ~
363 tons in: excess of the previous crop , _

 
I quotable at follows:

I

natal-MARKET ,TA'KES

 
BY

ﬁrmness ’ruled throughout the market.

' 'All varieties were sharing in the move—
].inent, past accumulations were being'
- satisfactorily

reduced and prices
were working to a higher basis.

No. 1 to fancybarreled stock was
Jonathans $7 to
$9.50; Twenty Ounce, $4.75 to $5.00;
Grimes’ Golden, $7.50 to $8; Northern
Spy, $6 to $6.50; Wagener, $4.50 to

35,; York Imperial. $5 to $5.50; Pound
Sweets, $4.50; Tallman Sweets, $4.50
-to $5; Kings, $5.50 to $6; Winesaps,

$5 to $5.50; Greenings, $4.75 to $5;
Snows, $5 to $5.50; Hubbardson, $4.50
to $5; Starks, $4.25 to $4.50; Pippins,
$4 to $4.75; Baldwins, $4.50 to $5;
.Bellﬂowers, $4.50 to $5; Ben Davis,
$4. No. 2 stock, all varieties, $1.50 to
$3.25;. Bulk stock sold at $1.25 to
$1.75 per cwt.. according to grade and
variety; .Jonathans. $2.25 to $3.50.

Bushel baskets of Twenty Ounce.
Northern Spy, Grimes’ Golden, Hub-
bardson, Wagoner. Kings, Ben Davis,
Baldwins and Pippins brought. 75c to
$1.50, depending on grade and variety;
Jonathans, $2.50 to $2.75.

Western boxes sold 'as follows: Jon-
athans, $2.25 to $3; Grimes’ Golden,
$2.75 to $3; Winter Bananas, $3 to
$3.50; Delicious, $3.50 to $4; Spitzen-
bergs, $3; Rome Beauties, $2.50 to
$2.75.

"HEALTHIER TONE IN

THE ONION MARKET

 
Chicago, Nov. 8.—The onion market
seemed to be in somewhat healthier
condition this week altho there has
been no marked advance in prices.
Values, however, have been on a little
better level than a week ago.

Most of the stock is .now out of the
ﬁelds and, with all stocks in storage.

operators point out that lighter re-

ceipt-s may be expected which with a
little cold weather should give a better
tone to the situation.

Most of the trading has been done
on a basis of $1.35 to $1..40 per cwt.
i.o.b. loading stations.

 
Detroit Chicago New York
2.22 2.21 2.34 1-2
2.19 2.17 2.30 1-2
N. 2 mm. 2.20 l 2.2 2.34 1-2
"0. 2 “in“ 7.7." ‘ 2.7" 2.33

 
Altho peace has been declared, there
will be no change in the wheat price
for at least another year. There is
no question but what the need over-
seas for American wheat will be great-
er now than ever before. Just how
long this accelerated demand will last
no one knows. but it is certain that
the demand will take care of all the
wheat the government buys at the
present guaranteed price. The acre

age of winter wheat shows an enor-
mous increase,

 
‘Dctroii Chicaru New Yuri
Standard 72 72 .1)
No. 3 “11¢ 71 1-2 .71 .78
No.4White 10 um ' .10 .16

 
The premature announcement that

Germany had t. slightly bullish effect
upon the grain markets. Prices did
at so lower to speak of,_..but buyers
not in immediate need of, the cereal
held off waiting tor_the~rumor (to be
'i ubstantiated. when many Digww

'A' TURN FOR THE BETTER x!“

, ‘Mcago, Nov. 8.—4Late last weekra "
,hetter- feeling deveIOped in the apple
{mat-ket, due to more favorable weath-
Uer conditions, and in some instances
glprices showed slight advances.
.. 'the early part of this week this im-
- yprovement had become more pronounc-
ed under the fairly, active trade and

 
CHICAGO.——A'pple demand

change in prices.

inactive.

 
DETROIT.—Peace news had no effect on markets. All grains. nnd‘hoy stepdy..._
Beans active. Potatoes letter. Eggs and butter higher. Commission m‘en believe ' : .
peace will have beneﬁcial reﬂect on markets. , , ’ ‘*
good, price slightly higher-L
Hay in active demand with larger receipts. . . . .
NEW YORK.—Hay market; sluggish. prices lower.» Potatoes. lower. Beans

  
Potatoes dull, no ,

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GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
, No. ZYdlow 1.47 1.35 1.51 ,
No. 3 Yellow 1.45 1.30 1.45
No. 4 YIHow 1.35 1.23 1.42

an armistice had been signed with-

 
thought the market would drop. Sev-
eral days have elapsed without ‘much
activity to the oat market, but prices
have remained steady. Now that the
market failed to respond upon the
veriﬁcation of the peace news, buyers
are expected to become more active.-

 
The ﬁnal estimate of the 1918'crop
production is two and three-quarter
billion bushels. The carry over from
last year i, estimated at 115,000,000
bushels, the second largest on record.
The corn market ﬂuctuates a great
deal from day to day, but there has
been no radical change in prices from
a week ago. Another week will prob-
ably show the exact effect, if any, oc-
casioned by the peace news upon the
corn market. Some of the ﬁnest ﬂint
corn I ever laid eyes upon I saw in
the corn crib of a Washington, Mich..
farmer, whose place I visited a couple
days ago; That corn convinced me

that southern Michigan farmers CAN
grow corn successfully and proﬁtably
if they have the right. kind of soil and
use a little fertilizer

 
No. 1 Standard N . Z
Marketa Timothy Ti-o y Til-$111
Detroit 29 50 30 00 28 50 00 27 50 28 0
Chimo 31 00 33 00 20 00 30 00 28 00 29 50
Cid-n11 31 50 32 00 Q0 450 31 50 29 50 30 50
Huhnk 32 00 33 00 30 00 32 00 29 00 31 00
New York 35 00 37 00 34 00 35 00 32 00 34 00
Richmond
No. 1 No. 1 No. I
""h“ um Mixed Clover ulna '* Clover
Dotteit 28 50 29 00 24 50 25 00 23 50 24 00
Chiulo 29 50 31 00 29 S0 30 50 20 50 30 00
Cincinnati 30 00 30 50 29 50 30 50 20 50 21 00
Pitublnk 30 00 31 00 29 00 20 50 20 00k 27 00
Mow'ol’k 3100 33002000 30002000’2000
Rick-end

 
The lower hay prices predicted by
dealers have not yet materialized and
it is rather “tful now that they

will, altho the ending of the war; may

cut off government purchases‘and di-v

vert more, than enough supplies to
satisfy domestic needs. . .
Right now, hoWever. the trade deal
isvery firm'and active, with the sole
exception of New York where extra
liberal receipts havecaused a decline

When hay went to $47 a toner-in New

York axmonth ago, dealers and farm-
ers turned their hay shipments that
way, and the usual effect of a flotided
marketds the result, Chicago, Pitts-

burg, Detroit and all "the other big f

markets show a great activity in hay,

and receipts are barely enough to

meetall demands. With the except-

ion of the New York market prices

show little, change.

 
. Not much doingiyet in rye. It is
apparent that the market is not going

any higher. But this market like all
the other grain markets is subjected
more or ’less to the export demand,
and it will be some time yet before
we know positively just what the
needs of the foreign countries for our
grain is going to be. Rye was quoted
Wednesday on the Detroit market at
$1.61, adecrease of 3 cents from last
week. '

Buckwheat

Some of our readers have asked us
for the market on buckwheat. There
is not much trading in this commodity
on the Detroit market, but we learn
that it is quoted on the Chicago mar-
ket at from $3.70 to $3.85. Receipts
of buCkwheat have been very light,
which dealers claim is due to thresh-
ing diﬁiculties. ,, -' '

    
Detroit ’ Chico”, 'Novr York
C. “J. 9.00 10.50 10.75
Pri-o ‘ 8.00 0.50 ' 10.25
K011 Kid-ova 10.50 11.00 11.50

Trading in beans is more active.
The canners are taking advantage of

:

 
THE WEATHER
As iorecasted by W ’1‘. Foster

Weather Chart for November 1918

Severe ‘

Warm_

WASHINGTON, D. 0., Nov. 16, .1918.
——-Las’t bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbance‘s to cross continent Nov. 19
to 23, warm wave 18 to 22. cool wave

“‘21 to '25. This'will 'bring unusually
severe storms and will be of much
importance to section where a short-
age of rain occurre the "past crop—
season.’ This will be the last great
storm period of the year and the last
hope of good rains for the dry sections.
Following it the storm forces will be
wveak till near March 17. Thisprom-
ises a shortage of: pneci itation, for
four months. rom near. 0v. 1 to “near
'March 17. 9., . ‘ '

This (shortage ” of ‘
tion, particularly of snow, _was one
'reason‘for advising not to"sow_.wi-n-

last summer. Some good._, ins ac:
’cui'red' during the ‘ . r icte; ‘
storm periods or O 0 or where last

 
..,, . . :,

 
iwinter _ precipita?

tcr grain where dryweathermrevailed.
‘ievere ..
summer, was dry. .‘ and ' many..farm‘ers

.,'

FOR THE WEEK

for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

who do not get these weather bulletins
have .-own an unusually large amount
of Winter grain. i doubt their reaping
good crops. If'a dry spring follows
great losses will occur on the large
acreage of winter wheat sown in last
summer's dry section '

Next warm wave will reach Van-
couver about Nov.- 24 and tempera—
tures will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope.
It will cross crest of Rockies by close
of Nov. 25, plains sections 26, merid-
ian 90, great lakes, middle Gulf states
and Ohio—Tennessee valleys. 27, east-
ern sections, 28, reaching vicinity of
Newfoundland about Nov. 29. Sterm .
wave will follow about one day/be»
hind warm wave, cool wave about one
day behind storm wave. y

This will be preceded by a cold
wave, northern blizzards the heaviest
snows of the winter north and heav-
iest rains of the wintervsouth, and
followed b a great warm wave. and
.quiet wee. her with a shortage “of
precipitation. Quiet Weaﬁiergiep-eiea,
pected with moderate temperatures .
till about Dec. 10, after which; colder ‘

”than usual is expected and not much.
rain or snow. . f . .- ' .

 
, the 'Itarmers” , hands? 3.1?rice‘s ”ate“ e~
.ioc’al. points ,have ‘ been slightly ,

. creased, at othersthe‘yf are lower. The. »
effect of. peace, and-‘jth‘e releasing p1; :‘
tin cannot yet be detérminedQ-bpt can)?" '
tainly a couple, moreqweeks should p,

‘ prevailed and claim

‘show us whether these. factors are to
have any marked inﬂuence upon the
markets. . -“. ..

  
Detroit

Chicago

. innate

7 how York
”tuba-(k

 
Potatoes areslightly lower. ,The
continued warm weather has facil-

itated shipments and cars have been.»
rolling marketward at the rateot. 600 j
to 1,000 a day“ ever since the market,

opened. It, is estimated‘ that ship-

ments to date this fall have been 40* .-

per cent' greater’than during the same
period a year ago. ' Dealers couple this
fact 'with the steady-market that has
that
higher prices as soon as cold weather?
comes.

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New York Butter Letter
(By Special Cerre‘spondent) ~
New York, Nov 9,. 1.118.3—Butter val-
ueshave' gradually advanced during

the week. Last. week Saturday quota—

tions on extras were 59 to. 5917430, while
at the close yesterday the inside quo-
tation en extras was tlc. The market
was very ﬁrm and indications were
that there would be a further advance
in theiimmediate future. The causes
oi! the strengthened markct may be
said to be (1) a marked decrease in
production, (2) a scarcity of high
quality butter, and (3) a marked de-
mand which has gained trength thru

the recovery of high pe centage, of 'V

those who’ have been ill with inﬂuen-
za. There have been strikes on river
tug beats and also amen: truckmen
which 'undoubt-‘ lv have delayed the.
arrival of butter. Many shipments
which should have arrived early in the
week have not put in an appearance.
as yet. ‘ ‘

High quality butter hasbeen in"

it means

.-

strong demand all the week. As seen '

as lots which would score extras or

‘ better were received they were taken,”

However, .there has been an insuiﬁ-
cient supply 01 such butter to satisfy
the trade.

do not take kindly to them. On Mon-
day the price of extras advanced to
60c and remained at that ﬁgure until.

Thursday when an. advance of ’One'

cent.-was made. The quotation of 610
became more ﬁrmly established On
Friday and all the available supply
changed hands quickly atvthat price.
Additional quotations, at-the close yes—'
terday- were: Higher scoring
extras, 61% to 62¢;
601/2c; and seconds, 531/2 ”to 57c.

There is an abundance of j
- ﬁrstsand seconds available but buyers

than .
ﬁrsts, 57% J to ,

'While there is as yet some aicnmu— .

lation of .un‘salted, butter, the condi-

tion affecting it" is becoming better.:— i ,
iii undoubtedifﬁ.

will a strongmarket- '
. develonthis week. 'f ‘ .- . _

 
d

7:127; rigs. $15,-

alps,

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Emitting :8. 3'1". - '

sf -" tinie.’

it; magenta : '1 75 CY MARKET REVIEW ‘ it. i ‘
“ﬁgm‘ye‘iﬁ: " HITS AND VEGETABLES. _.

_ p 2111': mddgerate‘supply; butcher‘steers
<iand“‘.h.ﬂkni3.l’f weight steers sold 25 to Beans-

0:50,; lowier; fat» cows and heifers were

12, were. as-

25 to 2637 .‘sold_ 250 lower; .canners and cutters

. . 3 23®24c;
- ~ @200,- _geese,_, 24151256;
30.03 turkeys-.5 32@34c per

“a 1..

Cheese?Rivetsﬁ'..1ae.tter
(11311 ” 31.56102qu :jcfbr'respondcnt)
(gained, N on. 12.4.41: unprecedented
_, situation in the’livest‘ock trade at this
' "KmairltetiWas met onMohday by prompt

._"~A’g:_'—-.—¢a;etion§~ by the Chicago Livestock Ex-.
. , changewin declaring the market off for

' the hay, and byequ‘ally prompt action
by-the‘Bu‘rea‘u’ of‘Mal—kets by declaring

an embargobn ’all;.railroads ‘a'gainst'

loading of livestock‘intended. to reach
. Chicago pri’oiygtofThursday morning.
. with a‘Mor-ld'ay‘rungof 30,000 cattle,
51,000 ;,h'o‘gs, and“42,000 sheep in the
.yards, and with packers having carried
w:-"-~~,ov‘er thousands of cattle, hogs and

. . . sheep {rem last week, this action saved

the trade from a condition of demoral-
ization, and toaggravate matters, the
packing house and stockyards’ employ-
' ‘ ees decided to join'in Monday’s popu-
_' lar peace celebration.‘ '

~ “Today 7,000 cattle, 12,000 hogs and
5,000. :sheep, loaded prior to the plac-
ing, of the embargo, reached theyards;

and added to Menday's crop, made a,
" hearty ‘Supply .on sale.

.. However. with
" ’ leadings for Wednesdayfs market stop-
' ped, killers‘took hold readily in the
”cattle and, hog markets. The sheep

--and lamb';market, on the other hand;D

, stillshov‘ved the effects of the conges-
tion which prevailedylast week and

.ruled sharply‘lower. ' .
' The cattle supply included a small
showmg of good to choice beef or good
butcher grades and such sold strong
to 15c higher than late last. .week,
while .the *canner market showed some
improvement ‘ over last Weekk when

.$4.75."to' $5 tooksthe bulk of ‘canner.

. cows. Choice beef cattle were never
'sc’arce‘r‘and $19.75 is quoted for the

- best;,1bnti_$15.50.Jis‘buy‘inga good class
91.3%.)!!9’0 taillllrémwthsrféd cattle, and

a tartar warmed up and’» grass stuff .

weighing‘fi'oﬁi’ 1.000 to 1,150 lbs is
,movingat $11.50 to $13.50, with com-
lmon light killers down to $925. and
trashy little canners steers to $6 or
_ loWer. ost of the butcher stuff is
‘ , selling i a range of $6 to $9.25, with
$1.4 quotable for prime heifers.
Theend ofgthe War has. curtailed
, investment demand in 2.stockers and
feeders, and’prices recently have been
onthedoWn-grade. Bulk of themed-
. -ium and“ good quality .700 to. 900 lb.
._;.s,teers, now sell: at $7.75 to $10.50,. and

, ., there is practically no ocuntry demand“

,1’.for‘eommon sunlight smokers. Veal

"calves are "selling largely at $16 to

$16.75 for-good- to choice.

‘ . : Hog tradelTuesday was fairly ac-
, tive..and__isteady to'10c higher than

" last saturday and $18.-10 top was made
011, medium ‘and heaVy weight, butchers
with most ofthe good mixed and but-
CherJhOgs going at $17.65 to $18.. and
‘ing agr‘ad'es‘from $16.50 to $17.50.

. ign‘ orders for, pork, pro-
_:eipécted” o be. [enlarged

ohtractéd by the“ Sign—'
. d

Stardom armor
nth" “held .

”inhemry supply, sold 50c lower; bulls
ottallclass'es Were in heavy supply,

were in very heavy supply, sold from

. $1 to‘$1.25 per cwt. lower; fresh cows

and springers were in very light sup—
ply, sold steady; stockers and feeders

,were in very heavy supply, sold 25c to
500'lo'wer; yearlings were in very light

supply, sold steady. .

' With 20,000 hogs on sale early Mon-
day morning our market opened a
strong quarter lower. “,The bulk of
the hogs sold at $18; packers, $16.80;

' rdughs, $12 to’ $16, as to what they

were; stags, $12 to $14; pigs, $16.50
to $16.75. . '

~ The receipts of sheep and lambs
‘M-onday were 75 cars, and fresh ar-
rivals kept coming in all day. Good
-,lambs sold '75c per cwt. lower than
last week's close. Choice lambs, $14.75
to $15; culls, $12 to $12.50; yearlings
were $1 per cwt. lower, and the best
sold from $11 to $12; wethers were
50c lower and sold from $10.50 to $11;
ewes were 50c lower and sold from
$9 to $10. ‘About 30cars of sheep and
lambs went over unsold. Choice calves
sold from $19 to $19.50. which was
50c higher. About 1500 calves were
on sale. -

Receiptsof cattle Tuesday were 100
cars. The market was steady on all
grades. .

Receipts of hogs Tuesday totaled
21,600. The market opened 10 to 20c
lewer. Hogs sold from $17.80 to
$17.90, and very few sold at that price
as very few-were wanted: The bulk of
thehogs went over unsold as no Ynore
than 25 or 30 loads were cleaned up.
Pigs and lights were 25 to 50c lower.
selling from $16 to $16.50; good pack-
ers, $16.80' roughs, $12 to $16, as to
quality; stags, $12 to $14. .

With 30 cars of fresh sheep and
lambs and 20 cars of holdovers on
sale Tuesday, the market opened 25c
lower on‘best lambs, which sold from
$14.50, to $14.75; cull lambs, $12 to

' $12.50; yearliygs, $11 to $11.50; weth-
ers. $10.50 to $11; ewes, $9 to $9.50.

There were 600 calves on sale Tues-
day and ,best veals sold from 18.25 to
$18.50, which was 750 to $1 per cwt.
lower than Monday.

Choice'to prime weighty steers, $17
to. $17.50; med‘ m to good weighty
steers,,—$15.25 to 16; plain and coarse
weighty steers, $12 to $12.50; choice
‘tofprime handy weight and medium
weight steers, $14 to $14.50; fair to
'good handy weight and mciium wt.
steers, $12 to $12.50; choice to prime
yearlings, $15 to $15.50; fair to good
yearl-ings, $14 to $14.50; medium to
good butcher steers, $11 to $11.50; fair
to medium butcher‘steers. $10 to $10.50
Good butcher heifers, $10.50 to $11;
fair to medium butcher heifers, $9.50
to $10; good to choice fat cows,“ $9.50
to $10; medium _to good fat cows, $8
to $8.50; fair to good medium fat cows.
$7 to $7.50; cutters and common but-
cher cows, $5 to $5.50; canners, $4.25
to$4.75; good tochoiCe fat bulls. $10
'to $10.50; medium to good fat bulls.
$9 to$9.50; good weight sausage bulls.
$8.50 .to' $9; light and thin bulls, $7 to
$T50; 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 ch ice
fresh cows and springers, $90 to $120;
medium to good fresh cows and spring-
ers, $75 to. $90. ‘ _

Detroit Live ‘Stock Market
(By U. 8. Bureau of, Markets Wire)

__ , Deﬁcit; 51170.0. 1 12,—70mtle: Receipts.
,1,672;':".;market_extremely dull, fully 60
It!» MW”: @6311 :hsndr weight
ch‘er steers;*‘$_.@9;:50;;' mixed steers

15 media; handy, light

light" butch.ers,$6@
8gp8.§0; _.b.utcher

.. £5.50@5.75;

rooms lowsr~oa>ollgrades; .best heavy

3 138-5159

Prices to Jobbers and Shipments
for the U. S. .forithé-«Period
Nov. lst to \7th .
Inclusive

The height of the carlot movement
has pass‘ed for the leading lines. and
most products. show‘a continued de-
crease, the loss «including, apples, po-
tatoes, cabbages, onions, grapes. grape-
fruit, pears, sweet potatoes and to-
matoes.
in carlot movement of celery, cran-
berries. lettuce and oranges. Price
trends were like those of the; pre-
ceding two weeks, the most important
changes being conﬁned to a few lines
and mostly downward. Apples, sweet
potatoes. onions. grapes and celery
continued steady to ﬁrm, potatoes.
cabbages. beans. oranges and grape-
fruit tended slightly downward.

Potatoes

Conditions of the preceding week
continued in most sections with irreg-
ular movement of prices and the
prevailing trend slightly downward;
prices were better sustained at ship-
ping points than in distributing mar~
kets and were stronger in the west
and northwest than in the east. Min-
nesota and Wisconsin No. 1 sacked
white stock weakened fully ten cents,
ruling $1.70 per cwt. in carlots Chica-
go at the close of the week and the
jabbing range also weakened. ranging
$2 to $2.40 per cwt. sacked in western
and southern markets. Wisconsin No.
l sacked white stock .ngcd steaﬂv at
$1.60 to $1.75 f.o.b Waupaca. and Mill-
uesola Red River Ohios ruled ﬁrm at
$1.60 cash track. Idaho No. 1 sacked
white stock continued to advance.
reaching $1.40 to $1.45 per cwt. cash
trackside. Colorado sacked white
stock ranged $1.45 to $1.55 cash track~
side Greeley. closing at rthe top ﬁg-
ure, but declined about ten cents in
southwestern carlot markets, ranging
$2.20 to $2.40 per cwt. Grand Rapids.
Mich, again ducted slightly lower at
$1.70 to $1.75 fob sacked. Maine
Greenmountains ranged nearly steady
at $3 to $3.10 per barrel measure in
bulk trackside Presque Isle, but weak-
ened 10 to 25 cents in consuming mar-
kets, ranging $2.25 to $2.50 per cwt.
sacked. New York round whites
ranged about steady, at $1.82 to $1.87
per cwt. in bulk f.o.b. Rochester and
$2 to $2.25 in jobbing markets. Cali—
fornia fancy white medium stock
ranged steady at $1.75 to $1.90 per
cwt. sacked fob. Stockton. During
the corresponding week last year
prices were not far from those now
prevailing. Minnesota stock then sold
at $1.75 f.0.b.. and $2.50 in consuming
markets. New York round white stock
sold at $2.25 to $2.35 f.o.‘) shipping
points, and $2.33 to $2.80 in consum—
ing _markets. Shipments again de-
creased with 3,720 cars compared with
4.416 last week and 3,908 for the cor-

responding week last year

Florida growers reported preparing
potato acreage smaller than last year.
Ofﬁcial estimate 1.750.000 to 2.000.000
cwt. of white potatoes will he dehyd—
rated this season.

Cabbage

New York Danish seed again de-
clined fully $1. ranging mostly $12 to
$14 per ton bulk f.o.b. Rochester. In
consuming markets New York Danish
seed averaged nearly $5 lower, rang.
ing $15 to $25 per ton, while New York
domestic stuck ruled $12 to $18.

middlewestern market's, ranging ; $181
to $22 per ton. _ .-

slightly with 936 cars compared- with.
1,081 last week. - . a .

,ers

Moderate declines occurred,

, ington $1.50

> Philadelphia.

Wis-f
cousin Holland seed .weakened’ to Ia. ».
range of$14 to $16 per ton inthew
Racine district and declined , ini"th‘e-~

_ I
_‘ think, you are
hHarIaR.

Shipments decreﬂséd.‘ ‘7 {receive the paper-rogulaﬂya
0

November bﬂicial "cabbage .egtﬁn’ I;
‘ nine commercial ﬁrm

Values held fairly steady at shipping
points but were inclined to sag mod-
erately in consuming markets. Mich-.-
igan choice hand picked pea
ruled, $7.50 to $8 per cwt, cash to- gro
in shipping sections and sold
$10.50 to $11.50 per cwt. in NewYojfk'
and Boston. California small whites '
also ranged $10.50 to $11.50. Cali-
fornia limas weakened slightly, rang-
ing $11.50 to $12 in Chicago and $11.25
to $11.55 in New York. Pintos still
sol-d at $6 per cwt. to growers at Col-
orado shipping points and at $7 at
shipping points in New Mexico. Den-
vor quoted pintos at $8.10 to $8.25 per
cwt for sales to jobbers. Shipments '
for the week were 113 cars compared
with 190 last week. Total beanship~

' ments reported for the season to date, _

1,213 cars.
Restriction on canning of beans re-
moved for November. December and

January.

Celery

Carlot shipments became more active
as usually ’ happens at this season.

,Total increased to 204 cars compared
. with 158 last week but was still far

below the movement of 361 cars for
the corresponding week last year. Val-

ues tended upward in consuming mar- 7,.

kets. Michigan No. 1 washed stack
ranged 14 to 16 cents per dozen at".
Kalamazoo. Michigan crates 7 and 8’s"
ranged $3 to $3.15 at St. Louis.
York Goldenhearts 7 and 9’s ranged "7

$2.50 to $3 per crate in the roughﬂinﬁ'...

consuming markets. Colorado Games“?
enhearts advanced about 50 icenfs.;~
ranging generally $3.75 to $5.75 per «
crate in the rough. » -
Celery areas in leading Florian":
sections ofﬁcially estimated at :.50;t_o:7
70 per cent of last year. , ’3
Turnips .-
All kinds of turnips are selling"§low’--_i
ly as usually happens when potatoen'
are a full crop. Many markets are
fully supplied with hcme-growh 33m
Swedes, or rutr‘bagas, have been no
ing moderately from Minnesota};
consin, Colorado and Canada. f m
sota stock is quoted 60 to 70 centﬁp'er
cwt. from wagons, trackside, and
$1 to $1.10 1'.o.b shipping 1101an
nesota rutahagas appearediehieglof’
middlewestern, southern andii'ﬂ
western markets, ranging $1490 to
in Oklahoma City and $2.50 in ‘
Moines. Colorado rutabagas ranged
$2.65 to $2.75 in Oklahoma City, , it:
$2.50 to $3 at Fort Worth. Canadian
stock sold $1.07 to $1.45 per cwt. m
ed in Boston. and $2.50 to $3.50 a
Texas markets. Rutabagas, hour-2:05;

not stated. sold at 75c per cwt. 111.601: -’

umbus and Kansas City. Most'nuu-s
kets except Des Moines. Cleveland'uml!
Oklahoma City reported over-supplied;

Carrots- . .
Carrots are reported selling. slowly}- .
in all markets, many being supplied?
with homegrown stock. ‘Kans’as Ciby
quoted $1 to $1.25 pervcwt. Colorado;
and California s‘ock ranged $2.65 bb
$2.75 per cwt. sacked in Oklahoma'
City; $3 to $4 in Ft. Worth and $3.50
to $3.50 in Houston. Spokane quoted
$1.75 to $2. tCoéumbus, $1, and Wash.
0 2 per cwt. sack "
Cleveland 75 to 800 per bushel «rd 31:)va ‘
ers. New York carrots in 100 lb ‘
sacks ranged 75c to $1 per cwt. in"

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A Prayer

REAT GOD in heaven, we give you
thanks. The War is over. A cloud of
the blackness of darkest night has lifted. and
the rays of blessed peace fall full upon us.
We are glad. The relief is like the awaken-
ing in a chamber of sunlight from the horri-
ble nightmare in a dungeon. We are ﬁlled
with an unspeakable joy. The glardncss of the

.hour, and the spontaneous rejoicing of the

people bring tears to our eyes. The heart of
the nation has been 111o1'ed as never before in
the history of the present generation. ,

We did not know in the busy moments of
our preparations «for Wa1, what children we
are. We have gone about our tasks very
calmly as brave men and women should. We
have made oursecriﬁcesndthout complaint.
We have accepted theloss of ourdear ones in
a far-off land, with an increditable steicism.
We have conducted ourselves with Spartan
com-age and Napoleonic dispatch. And by
our deeds we have proven ourselves worthy of
the admiration and respect of all nations.
American democracy has become world dem—
ocracy, and as a nation we rejoice that this
is so.

Now in the early moments of victory and
pcace,‘ we lose our individual and national
sense of dignity and importance. The tension
relaxes. We suddenly feel small, humble
and Weak before the miracle that has
brought an end to the world ’15 great tragedy.
For in that miracle we see thy hand, far more
clearly than we have ever seen it. in war, and
we sense thy greatness and goodness as never
before.

The tears that. ﬂow unbidden to our eyes
today are not all of joy. For we remember
that then-”o are those whose hearts will never
beat with ours in the annual observance of
this hallowed day. The dead are many. The
sod of France and Belgium covers thousands
of g 'avcs that will never be 1m1rked, nor yield
their treasures until the day of judgment. In
our hearts their memory is enshrined, nor can
anythintr short of cternit1 obliterate it And
we pray in this great how that when all men
are called to give an account of thcmsolws
that the millions who have died to free the

, World will-receive thy gracious pardon and

welcmne.
Finally, we pray for thy guidance in the
“trying days ahead. Help us to shape the pol-
icies 'of our nation and the nations with which
we. are concerned that 1'ar shall. never be
again.
(1 died may not have made the sacriﬁce in
vain. Could we but know that the future of
world and the generations that are to fol-

‘ mt. destroyed we could fairly feel
seaward__ has been ~

I

Grant that those who have suffered _

Benewhg this report which 111 pubiidied‘en

.page 4 of this issue, we ﬁnd that ﬁe and of,
ﬁn war brings millions of additional tan

starved peOple under our manage. We ﬁnd"

that starvation is imminent in many parts of .L
the central empires, and the defeat of our

common enemy places Within our hands the
humane duty of feeding those Whom we have
fought.

Mr. Hdovcr assures us that Where there has
been‘ ‘substitution” before there must now
be rigid “saving,” or else some member of the
great human family will suffer. ,

Of course, this information is of the keenest

interest to the farmers, many of whom have

naturally felt that the end of the war would
decrease the demand and consequently the
prices on farm products. Farmers who have
made large additional investnients in land
and machinery to help increase the food sup~‘
ply, have looked to the future with anything
but optimistic eyes. With the nation’ 3 farm
factories keyed to imum production, a
sudden curtailment (faxthc present abnormal

demand for food products would certainly -

create ﬁnancial havoc. But it is now appar-
out that no such eventuality as this 18 in pros-

 
OUR “TEN-YEAR” FRIENDS if
A few weeks ago we announced that we .
would publish the names of our good friends
who in addition to helping establish MICH-
JsAN Busmnss FARMING. had shown their
faith and steadfastness 'by renewing their
subscriptions for TEN YEABS. We have
the deepest feeling of appreciation and grat-
itude of this support and we wish here and 111
now to reaffirm our deep done to justify it T
in the years that are before us. The ﬁrst ;l
week of the new year, we shah make known F1
the names of these faithful many. {H

pect. Quitethe contrary is the case: "The in-
evitable diiniinition of foreign demand which
must follow as Europe’s ruined ﬁarms are
again set to work, will be very gradual and
should permit Anionican agriculture, with the
assistance of the government to readjust itself
to normal conditions.

—And They Say Figures Do Not Lie

FARMER sends us a clipping from

“Successful Farming,” which asks this
ques'lnon,‘ "arc farmers making or losing mon-
ey now?” The purpose of the article is to
justify the government’s wheat price of ﬂ'ﬂﬂ.
By a comparison between the number of bush—
els of wheat required in previous years and
in 1918 to buy certain articles '01 use on the
farm, the author proves to his own satisfac-

 
tion, at least, that farm proﬁts are in excess

today of what they fomerly were. He gets
his ﬁgures from a report issued by the de-
pai rtment of agriculture.

Because less bushels of wheat are now re-
quired to buy farm machinery, fertilizer,
clothing, shoes, household articles, etc, than
several years ago, is it conclusive that farm
proﬁts are higher“.z

Nine‘out of ten farmers will answer no”
and/ from their own experience prove their
stand. '_ ’

Farmers do not ﬁgure proﬁts by the buy-
ing power'of the crops they raise. What
they-have left at the end of the year is the
barometer of their earnings.

While it may be true that 2.02 bushels of
wheat bought a pair of shoes in 190.9, 2.32-
bushels in 1914, and 133 in 1917, that fact
does not necessarily imply that the 'wheat
grow-er made a proﬁt on his crOp during any
one of these years. . I

It is unimpmﬁnt that the buying power
of farm crops may be greater today than
several years“ ago, unless it can be demon;

(‘

Moreover, ,

5111,1115 hear it argued
farmers be satisﬁed
the higher pme, reign dices 111 whether it pays

what you call a ”fair” proﬁt? We can only-f

answer‘ ‘noj F611 1.11111 reason: mam
expediency, the governniwt has 111111111 it nee-L
emery to control the prices of many commod-

. ities.Man11faot1rers have been granted mm-
imum PROFIT-S, farmers have been gum -

anteed minunum PRICES. But, someone
says, it Would be impossible for the govern
ment to guarantee every farmer a proﬁt.

‘ Quite true; but it is pasiible, and my inst,
at"

that the government should guarantee
least the AVERAGE former a minimum
proﬁt.

We must” remember that the increase of

wheat acreage and production that has en-

' aided the government to fulﬁll its comets

with our allies has come from the small gnaw-
er. Had wheat; production the past year been
conﬁned to only those specializing in the

. growing of wheat, and to whom no doubt the

$2.20 price pays a good proﬁt,- there would
now be an enormaus shortage of wheat. It
has been the 10 and 20-acre wheat farmer
rather than the 100 and 200410111 wheat farm

. er who has saved the allied nations from ac-
tual sufering. So then we mayconsider him _

the AVERAGE farmer, who is” certainly on-
titled to a. fully remunerative price, irrespec-

tive of what proﬁts his fellow- farmer may
make.

J t is strange that any farm paper having

the interests of the farmers at heart should
attempt to prove that $2 20 is enough to pay

' for wheat when the most reliable ﬁgures that

have been Compiled upon the cost of produc-
tion prove it is not. It is all very well to
applaud the patriotic farmer who refuses to

ask for a higher pﬁce during the period of ,
the was, but as a mic we ﬁnd that such farm- .
ers are ﬁnancially able to forego proﬁts or.

if necessary to Wand a loss for the sake

of patriotism. But the average farmer-1s not,

so ﬁontmately situated.
Figures are fascinating things.

gler they can prove that two plus two equal
ﬁve. The weakness of the departments of
agriculture has always been that it builds its
theories on ﬁgures 1mm of actual experi—

, ences. In the ﬁnal analysis the year-to—year

experience of the average farmer is what
should determine a rule for the entire comi-

Non-Partisa-n League Halted.
TEE defeat of the Non- Partisan League
‘ in four out of the ﬁve states in whim it

sought control of the legislatures may tamper
the farmers, but it will not discourage them.

Sudden success is often intoxicating. It dis-

arms the individual or individuals concerned
and induces them to do many “ﬂighty” and
unwise things which eventually react to their
detriment. Altho we recognize the crying
need for organization among fanners, and
concede that where all other efforts to secure
favorable legislation fail, that organization
along political lines is also necessary, we have
hesitated to encourage the Non-Partisan
League movement in Michigan because of its
undesirable features.

Just as it sometimes takes misfortune to
correct the faults ,in an individual, an occa-
sional defeat is necessary to pur c political
parties of their weaknesses. The ilonl’artis—
an League has not lost its pch1 by its de-
feet.
the leaders of the movement will now have

- ample appertunity to look into their Organiza-

produce this crop at-

They are
misleading, too. In the hands of a good jug »

Somethmg: 5 wrong somewhere, and.

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Levon ‘

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strated that the proﬁts 11f the earlier period: =‘ '

new ample {Fame whenade on my

 
.. h'umichinM. an:
.5 ‘ by. Gmri' Pinched. on the Gov-
' - Watt) the American Farmer

 
L. hieh Was oI'Ways good, but he has said
5 things of vast importance for the in-

“ 392 have ﬁneh a polite man to voice the farmers’
Maxis; also that M B F. takes interest in pub-
lishing the same.
, The Writer commenced farming in I860 at the
’age of eight years. Riding horses dragging har-
2 .' ‘2 rows in Pennsylvania at the age of ten years when
V " V «relatives were in the Civil war plowed among
‘1 ‘ the stﬂmps and stones in bare feet. I have lived
"over ﬁfty years west of the Missouri River and
. did some farming personally, or With hired help.
every year and have not learned half there is to
5 know about farming. But What we are up against
1 now. is that the best of our farmers are in the

 
to put up with help that perhaps never had one
month 01' year at most, of experience in farming.
but demand two or three times the wage of what
- we had formerly paid for good help. No limit is
r“ .1111: on wages but a price put on the farmer's
" grain that such label produces. The hands of
such help are too soft for muscular work and
their blra‘ins are not trained to run farm machin-
- cry, which is very expensive at present. If thev
do not know how to drive a horse to advantage
the farmer does not like to trust them with a
.32; 000 tractor any more than the railroad com-
pany would want to trust a section hand to run
an engine. Under such trying circumstances the
timber cannot ﬁgure out any proﬁt or be encour-
aged to increase his production of crops by hired
help. I have paid $3 a day for boy help this
season at certain kinds of work that I could per-
sonally accomplish as much work in two hours in
better form than was done by them in the whole
‘ day. Besides having as much damage done in
breakage of tools or machinery as a month‘s work
would any for
Then at the same time ninety- ﬁve per cent; are
willing to do their bit, but they must be backed
’ up in many ways as Mr. Pinchot suggests. ~And I
wbuld like to see a million copies of. his article
distributed by the governmen mong the farm-
. ‘ ers to let them know the “6% of their being
‘ ‘ -‘ assisted in various ways was 11; agitated by
' such a capable man as the said GiiYord Pinchot —
_W. 8. Pmﬁmg. Idmo‘n Colorado. .

' You Have the Right Idea... Friend Braden

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'was bodied to ‘an article entitled “Creamery can
m to accept milk 1111110111 contract " This
' article appears in the ﬁrst column on page six.
This article.“ 111e, personaliy, and I believe in
a general way, is a very interesting'artlcle. and
should be given. a more tlwmgh study than it
has been given or apparently so by Mr. R. 1".
,2 - 'M secretary of Michigan Milk Producers’ Asso-
. - elation. In fact I am somewhat surprised at the
" ' ' - spawni- Mr. Reed has given to the communication
by A. .R., of Fwiervilie, Michigan I do not know
what your state laws in this state are upon a topic
. wﬁlihis kind, however, I do know to some extent
the United States iaWs are, and gathering
_ what I do from both the original communication
and that of the reply I would infer thatjhere is

5 as owners of the different creameric’s and the ﬂeet
is clear that there Was conspiracy in this pariir
can ease and if Mr A. R. has any way to prove
that either or both of these creameries have here-

‘ More bonght milk without a contract and that

there is no reason why they should not be compel]
ed to accept his milk as I would construe their
businesses to be a pablh institution

: I think yon as editor of one of the leading Farm
Journals of. the State should take this matter up
and see that. this: man be treated fairly and ac-
cording to the laws'of our country. not only for

* thousands going. treated the same way as he has
.heenvjtreated, and I sincerely hope that a man,
holding the position such as Mr. Reed holds will
make a deeper and mere thorough study of a sit-
nation such as this, before he replies to same.
~—-W. 35.: Braden Manager Adrian (lawmanity

 
dollar to renew my subscrip-
' . '.I expect to quit

I have 1:
" . n'ch’dt lecture many times on fer-estry .

of tile farmer at the present time in said
‘ ban I have heard in any one lecture, or,
printed, statement and I am pleased to know that

- ‘ service of Some kind for the U S and we have 2 ‘

In’ your issue of October 26th. 1913. my attention“

an understanding between the two parties named;

his milk was not poor or an untaintcd product. '

hispa'rticular interest. but to my mind there are .

.2 ' _ Arc empower surrender!

ﬁ‘wiil have sheep and young cattle on th M 1'
am (nor draft ;uer—we must lick the Kaiser—and:

we—are bdund to try and do our bit in spite of
thyme it“: be. but it is no use to stay here

and. kick.—~—W. R. L. Tustz‘n Michigan.

All Election Echo

MICHIGAN Evenings FABMING is a valuable ali-

' dition to. the great number of agricultural publi-

cations, the editors of most of which are afraid
to say anything really thought compelling.

At this writing it looks as it Ford has been
defeued for the senatorship. If so, it is only one
other pointer showing that farmers are more par-
tisans than they are level-headed citizens.

Mr. Ford is not ideal material for a legislator,
but-at least he will vote right SOME TIME, which
is too much to expect of Mr. Newberry.—Judson
Grcuell, .Waterford, Michigan. '

 
(“in in receipt of the sample copies of your
uable magazine and have placed them in
the ofﬁce for distribution. Am also receiv-
ing regularly your valuable magazine and
think it splendid.

Hoping your efforts to bring justice to the
Michigan been growers brings satisfactory
' results and wishing you success in all your
endeavors. I remain, yours truly—Clinton
P. Milhom. County Ag‘l Agent, Tamas City.
Michigan.

 
Must Have a Silo to Maintain Soil Fertility

Speaking of general farming and stock raising.
this is a problem to solve. indeed; to do this
without silage and be a producer, and not a miner.
for we cannot continuously take from the soil
and notmeplace anything, therefore we must pro-
duce the minimum amount of barnyard manure
possible to‘ keepup soil fertility, therefore must
keep as much livestock as possible. However, in
keep and feed stock proﬁtably at the present prices
of feed, can be done only with sufﬁcient quanti
'ties of silage. We are still feeding silage and
have fed all summer. In fact, without silage this
summer out green checks would have vanished
and our 14 milch cows would have been at star-
vation. with such a dry summer our small pas-
ture lot is bareand only a parking ground rather
than a pasture lot. Only one-half of our former
pasture lot grows enough corn ensilage to feed
our stock, and the other half will produce a good
money crop such as beans, potatoes. or sugar
beets. Our gains are thus made in tripple way.

First—In a minimum production 01' manure.

and increasing soil fertility.

Second-In maintaining a full flow of milk in
dry seasons.

Third—In
crops.

the increased production of farm

Neither one of these can be ove1looked as they .

are very essential factors. A farm without a
silo seems to me like a chain with a link missing
in the center of it. In fact the time is not far
distant when every prosperous farm-er will not
only have one silo. but he will have two silos to
provide ample silage for the year ’round, one for
the Winter and one for summer feedingwﬂ. F.
Luckhmzl. Scbmming.
Till Then

1r
011’. Germany prepare this word.

. ’Tis retribution long deferred.

Till Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates.

And all his kulturc advocates.

And crown prince swears ‘no tm one for me,”

Well ﬁght for freedom on the .:vca

Till Bcigium is restored again

1- And recompensed for all the pain

And havoc wrought by savage foe.

0n respite we'll go mighty slow.

Roubwnia and Serb-is. too.

Must both be paid their honest dues.

In justice’s name ’tis our behest

’Erc we can grant your last request,

Indemnity must, too. be paid

To crippled Epsom Bill betrayed.

Or Foch shall keep his memoranda

To oﬁsct other propaganda

Jill .mﬁ'cring Alsace and Lorraine

Rejoice to be with France again.

We 11 make the big guns talk at Mctz.

Lest Bill forgets. lest Bill forgets'

Till you callf'in his 'U-boat ﬁends,

And all, his other war machines, :

And pay o1? all his chief’commanders.

We mm: avenge the ”dead in Flanders.

_ Tm all big We are disbanded

1 And m 3116!! met- its empty-hooded

.v Our more to Idle and yon remember,

 
5’ —o. s. D.-_

  
that goes wrong to the Almighty. The other day

~ the old man’s shins.

 
so old triad persists in attributing everything.

when plowing he cut thru a root. Upon making
another round the loose end ’was sprung ahead, :
and when released. the root ﬂopped back .hitting
“Um!” he groaned, rubbing
the sore shin, “I don’t see why'God Almighty,
when he made man, put a big chunk of meat on
the back of his legs and left his shins bare.”—
Gontributed by a Washington Reader. _ Thanks,
who’s next? ‘ ‘ .

     
PROBABLY MEANT HARNESS

Little Willie, a small city born and bred lad of
8 years, was visiting‘his aunt on a farm for the
ﬁrst time In the morning before breakfast, hav-
ing hurriedly dressed in order to see the various,
sights he journeyed toward the barnyard.

His aunt was somewhat startled a few minutes
later when Willie came rushing in, all out of
breath, shouting, “0, Auntie, there ls a horse out
here, What’s lost his suppenders.”

 
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" CAUGHT IN A TRAP _
He—Dldn’t some idiot propose to you before
our marriage? .
She—Certainly.
He——-Then you ought to have married him.

She—I did.
N0 OBJECTION WHATEVER

_‘ Wife4— Do you object to my having $200 a month
spending-money?

H11s‘ba11d-—Certain‘ly not, if you can ﬁnd it any-
where.

WAR IS——-—-.
in the English army wrote home:
they took away my

A soldier g
“They put me in barracks; :5:
clothes and put me in khaki;. they took away my 5.;
name and made me 'No. 575’; they took me to :3
church, where I'd never been before. and they 3
made me listen to a. sermon for forty minutes. 5'
Then the parsou said: ‘No 575. Art thou weary, 5
art thou languid?‘ and I got seven days in the E
gaurdhouse because I answered that I certainly g
was.” g

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WAS CERTAINLY THERE :
liberalminde'd young reporter, had
Later the city ,

1n:
(‘urrixr 11
been assigned to cover :1 town hall.
editor was going over his copy. ,
“Look here. Currin." he suddenly called out.
“What do you mean by writing here: Among
the beautiful girls was Councilman Oscar Dodge?
He isn’t a ‘beautiful gill.’ you dub. "
“I can’t help that ” responded Cilrrin doggedly;
“thz’ll s where he uas.’
ACCURATE ' :
An editor had a notice stuck up above his desk.
on ohich was printed: “Accuracy! Accuracy!
Accuracy!” and this notice he alwavs pointed out“
lo the new repor‘iem
One day the \oungest member of the stat! came .
in with his report, of a public meeting The editor.::_ '3
mad it though and came to the sentence: “Three ,
thousand nine humhed and ninety- -1ine eyes were
ﬁxed upon the speaker.
‘What do you mean by making a silly blun
like that?” he demanded. wrathtnlly.
“But it’s not a blunder " protested the m
ster “There. was a one-eyed man in the and;
ience’" ’
\ sMALL POINT.
Ba1”‘1iste1 s Wife—~90 your client was acquu3d
of murder. On what grounds?
Barrister—Insanity We proved that his father
once spent two years in an asylum.
Barrister’s Wife—But he didn’t did he? ..
Barrister—Yes. He was doctor there but we?
had not time to bring that fact out.

\ CONVINCING Amuunn'r.
Policeman—What are you standing ’ere for?
Loafer «Nuffink
Policeman—Well. just move on. If e y

was to stand in one place how would the rest gist '
past "Tit- Bits.

WE DON'T BELIEVE IT.

For Sale. Cheap—A young female billy-goat
for ﬁfty cents if taken at once.—,~<Hnmc Organizer
New Albany. Ind. ‘

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PREPARED
The Plumber——Take it from me, Joe. them that
doesn’t believe in preparedness ain't no good on
earth. By the way, ye'll have to go bark to the
shop for a monkey wrench and a soldering out- ‘
ﬁt.

       
In many hotels you will see a brass plate 0n
the door of each room, reading thus: “323"?
Have you left anything?” John Bunny tells no
that in most of the big hotels it should read on:
follows. “Stop! Have you anything left?” ' L

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Michigan Women Enfranclnsed

GREET YOU, fellow-citizens, upon the dawn of
a new day for democracy. Not only a world
democracy, in which all men hava a voice in the
affairs of government but a broader national dem- »
ocracy in which all women shall have a voice. ,

Last week our husbands, or at least the bus-
bands of most of us, gave us the rights of citizen«
ship. For the ﬁrst time in our lives we may go
to the voting places after January lst, and vote
upon the measures and the men who are to con-
trol township, county, state and national affairs.
I feel an overpowering sense of responsibility as
I think of this truly wonderful privilege that has
been placed in the hands of Michigan women, and
I hope you all feel the same.

When the men of Michigan gave us the right
to vote, they expected that we would exercise
that rights Oh, I know, some don’ t want to vote,
and I presume there’ll be many an election in
which not one fourth of the women will cast their
ball-,ot but I do hope that for a year or two at
least, we will justify the faith that has been plac-
ed in us by exercising to the fullest this new
right of citizenship that has been placed in our
hands

I don t believe and neither do most of you, that
many women will aspire to oﬂ‘lce At least not for a
number of years Men are better ﬁtted by virtue
of their business training to occupy public pesi-
tions, and for my part I am perfectly willing to
fo1ego my right to run for ofﬁce. In the course
of several gene1at10ns perhaps women may form
the oiiice- seeking habit, and if they do I am satis-
ﬁed that the positions they may secure will be
executed to the maximum of efﬁciency and suc-
cess.

When 1mp10pe1lv used, the ballot is a dangerous
thing But when cast intelligently and unselﬁsh-
ly it is a power for good in any community or
commonwealth. The ballot, in the hands of bad
women might eventually mean the destruction of
all things good and constructive; In the hands
of good women ,—-women who desire the best of
moral and educational beneﬁts for the rising gen-
eration ,-—the ballot is a splendid weapon for the
betterment of the state If evil measures or un—
, principled men receive future favors at the hands
of Michigan voters, it will be because the society-
loving, pleasure- -chasing women of Detroit and the
other large (ities exercised their right to vote,
while we women of the farms and small towns
neglected that right.

Invariably, the extending of suffrage to women
in other states has been productive of great good.
We are told that in the state of Washington,
equal suffrage is a splendid success and thruout
the entire west where women have been accepted
as men’s equals, suffrage is no longer among the
experiments. The western woman has demon-
strated her ability to think right and vote right
on the issues of the day.

, Now that the right of suffrage is ﬁnally ours
I shall devote a part of this page to the discussion
of topics of a political nature, and I hope to keep
my readers fully informed upon matters of state
and national legislation and the men who will
vote upon them A little later I hope to begin a
series of short aiticles on the science of govern-,_

 
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more intelligently Letters upon any matters
pertaining to- government will be very welcome.
Let's show our “men folks” that we 'oan- vote as
independently and understandingly as they-—

PENELOPE. ’ > , \ .,

Wanted—-Prepared Pancake Flour Recipe

EAR PENELOPE: —-We hava been reading-
M. B. «F for a year and think it true. I."

have enjoyed the letters for Mr. Ford and
Mr. Newberry. They gave us something to think
about.
have noticed what a beautiful fall for out- door
work we have had:
very much As it is getting time for buckwheat
cakes for~breakfast, has anyone a recipe fer mak‘
ing prepared pancake ﬂour? ‘ If so I would like
to see it in the Farm Heme Department I be-

lieve others would like to see it also ——Mrs C. I. '

H., Leelanau county.
0 e e _
HEN 1 read the above letter I 12211 as 11 1
could look up and see 'Mrs. H. standing in
the doorway with a 'smile of friendly greet-
ing on her face. And it was almost on the tip of

 
\

Changed

ITARRIED on my homeward way
To visit old friends for a day.
Up terrace steps of recent make,
To mansion grand my steps I ,take.
To friends I’ve loved since early childhood.
The boys have grown to sturdy manhood.
The eldest girl a regal queen;
No sweeter vision have I scenﬁ
Upon the youngest memory lingers——
To hidden power in her ﬁngers;
Her wondrous music wakes the soul
To efforts for a higher goal.
The mother once so sweet and fair,
Bears tell-tale signs of anxious care;
The laughing eyes which once impressed.
No"hint of sorrows unconfessed. ,
Theface which once with levelight- shown.
Now wears a look akin to stone.
And when the morning dawned',.anon,
’Mid feigned regrets I journeyed on,
What greater farce could be arranged,
Than _to visit old friends who have changed?
Spare me from wealth, if in avail
For entrance to the golden trail
I forfeit all to me endeared.
Until my very soul is scared,
In the mad struggle for outward show
Which speaks of. riches here below. 1
God keep me just a poor Man’s wife.
That I may still enjoy life, .
And meet my old friends with a smile
And bid them tarry” yet awhile.
God, never let them be estranged,
Nor let them say that I have.changed. ,
--C.‘ S. D.
. . ‘

 
my tongue to say, “Oh, good morning, Mrs. H. I
am glad to see-you. Please sit down and chat
awhile. Yes, indeed, this IS a beautiful fall and
I. too, have enjoyed every hour of it. Prepared
I’m sorry‘I haven’t
got the recipe but I’ll ask my readers for it, etc."
I do know that I would like _to make the acquaint-
ance of Mrs. H., and would certainly enjoy a morn.
ing 'call from her. .

Write to me, dear folks It doesn’t matter what
you, write or how7 you write it I want to hear
from yen. Tell me\about the farm, about the
children, about the son 'in‘ France, or anything

that you think other farm folks would enjOy read-~
, ing.

It’s a small favor I ask.
PENELOPE.

.To Have Fresh Meatthe Year ’Round

Please grant it.—

EAR PENELOPE—I \will tell you how I ‘
‘ made my pinmoney this year.
calf on Blatchford calf meal last summer .

I raised a

and sold him this fall; he Only brought me $36.

I also hatched 140 chickens under. hens; the crows

- and hawks took about 40 or them. We will keep 1.
. some. _to eat and sell the roosters and some of the ,
I do wish they Would pay a bounty onjf.» 7 ‘
crows, havvks and Weasels, a large enough one so;:
_, it would encourage the men folks to hunt» them‘

old hens.

They have certainly made away with a good. many

 
meat that will be helpful in guiding us to vote

. and put the covers 011 tight »

I wonder how many of the farm sisters ‘ '

I for one, have enjoyed it .
_ once our surroundings have upon us and .our like

a be larger than ever this year.

~iny—they are ﬁllers and save bread

_with whatever you do.

  
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fresh meat the year «round if yo.
it You ~ean can beef by mutual

 
The Kitchen Willow View

HE OTHER day I were, out, to. one of 1121;.
city parks with a woman from. the ecuntry. .
"Oh, how restful and lovely!” she .Said. “It I _‘i
could leak from my kitchen Window and see a
beauty of trees like that I know work would not
be so hard.” Few of us think how great an inﬁll-4”

  
or our dislike- of our Work; Work .is partly play.
when we do it in a place that is good to look upon
Home is restful, even in the midst of hard work
if it is beautiful to look at. almagine a tired wom~
an Working in a hot farm kitchen with nothing»
to see frOm the kitchen window but here, brOWnéd ,
prairie grass or worse still, summerfallow. Trees
grew very rapidly in this country. [They are eas-
ily obtained. Little care 'is necessary. Surely for
the small outlay in time, money and Work it takes,
every farm should have its grove of trees and its
green grass. But green is prettier when there are. _,
cont1asting colors A bed of scarlet geraniums» ,_ ,,
between the kitchen window and the grove’ of ' ’ '
trees would be' a joy and delight to the tired wom
an who so many times a day looks through that
kitchen window. For the work, they repay in foli-
age and blossom better than anything else. A
farm woman writing to me not long ago told me
she herself planted more than 2,000 young trees.
She was determined that she was going to have
something lovely and restful to gaze upon. Give ‘
the farm woman more pretty out-door things to
look at, when she is giving so much of herself, in
places too often dreary.— Canadian Grain Grow-
ers’ Guide. ..

  
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, Kitchen Korner
VICTORY LOAF . .

t that fed our boys and the

allied brothers last year must.
Fifty-two per cent
more breadstuff has been called for, and we must
make it possible.

All the methods of breadmaking with"su‘bsti-
tutes which we learned last- year must be uSed
again and any new ones added.

> HERE ARE A FEW REMINDERS‘

Have you any. new suggestions or any that have
not been printed here? They will be new to many
’and if you have proven them good, we would like
to try them '

1. Keep your hand in on cornbread and buck-l
wheat cakes. ‘ ».
2. Continue to use breakfast cereals liberally
and cut the bread allov’v‘ance. '

3. Go right ahead with potatoes, rice and hem-

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4. Use now or can any vegetables and fruit left
from summer—they help to ﬁll up.

5. Mix at least 20 per cent of other cereal with
all wheat ﬂour used, and above all mix good sense

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6. Ask for the “Victory Mixed Flour, There
are several brands—Henkel’s Velvet pastryis han-~
dled by most growers. The mixed ﬂour saves
trouble in mixing before using and are very good
for general use. .

Has anyone tried using corn syrup for sweet-
ening in apple pies? '

A delicious boiled frosting may be made by. us-‘
ing one-half cup of brown sugar, one and a quarter
cups of white corn syrup, one—quarter teaspoon of
cream of tartar and one~half cup of boiling water.
Boil the syrup until it threads then put into stif-
ly-beaten whites of two eggs and beat until creamy.

Pork and fruit cakes are economical in the use"
of sugar and fat It made now they will be very
rich by Thanksgiving. '

Suet puddings also make a most nutritious, 1
tho economical dessert.

. sun'r PUDDING , , ' ' .

One cup of s'uet chopped, one. cup of molasses. I-
one cup sweet milk, one cup raisins, One cup cur,- ,
rants, one cup citrOn, one cup bread crumbs, two
cups ﬂour, two. teaspoons of baking powder, one
teaspoon of‘s'alt, cloves cinnamon Steam
three hours. 7._ p. . , “

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wthe‘ pepular models for suit or costume

;;~’WEfl$ts, The tted sleeves and inset vest.

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. inches waist. measure.

' Lit title child’s dress.
rid 8 years.
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Holy in the

Cut in

  
The front

. with a narrow lace edge. A

t one—piece skirt is gathered to a
heading thru which narrow ribbon
. ,. b’e‘ rim. A two- inch ruffle of same
‘ rial may be added to the bottom of
thanking improving the style greatly. If

 
. 'a‘ son is capable of making tatti‘ng, the

oak and sleeves and beading will at-
ford an opportunity to use this lace to
@611th advantage. Fine white dresses
maybe made up in this style, also.
--No. 9066. L—Lad31es‘ and miSSeS’ blouse.
38, 40 and 42 inches
semi- tailored blouses are.

eta are seen in even the finest of geor-a
a but are especially good in the wash

“‘8! ins and taffetais‘, This waist ﬁts smooth—

:over the shoulders and has only 9.
{gm blouse across the back and side
The vest is out with the lower

his cut in one with the side revers

Which turn back down the sides of

“the vest. Small black satin buttons on a
white satin vest is a new, and striking

combination.

N.o 9051 -—Ladies'-- 'sllp-over apron. A-
- stiggeStion for a small but most accepta-

ble Christmas gift. In dainty ﬁgured
lawn or creto‘nne._ these aprons become
chaﬁng dislh aprons. In the plain per-
bales or ginghams they serve for work.
aprons and still in another combination
of light ﬁgured ginghams they may be
used for house dresses in the hpt summer
weather- The pattern requires only the
two lengths: the sleeves being cut short
and the fullness held in place by bands
'aet on across the front and back of the
contrasting material used for binding the
neck and sleeves. In the apron of white

or light dimity a very pretty effect is ,
~ gtyen by using a dainty cretonne for the
ihdings. - The apron is cut in sizes $6,~

40, N44 and 48 inches bust measure.

9083. —Ladles’ one—piece plaited
Cut in sizes 26, 28 30 and 32
The skirts grow
longer and narrower as winter progress‘
es; and the effect as shown in this model

yet, but hip measure and taper—
in: to d the9 hem is a predominating ’
note or t , season, for both separate and
suit skirts. The panel effect is given by
.the double hills on both sides and out-
lined b bitty-ans. The rest of the straight-
' line skK'ltbti tiis gathered onto a slightly rais—

A greater share of the skirts
:re ﬁnished with a belt, either narrow or
tallbred or a crush girdle. -

’ No. 9067 .——-.-Mis$es’ or small woman’s
Cut in sizes 14,16,18 and 20

    
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Usually the shirts wear out at the
neck band, under arms, and about the
The back can be used very suc-
cessfully for an apron which, by the
way, is taking the place of» the 'ging- the
housewives
V care to use gingham apronsany more.

  
"of the aprOn to be out whether or
it can all, be taken from the fronts’W
and back. If larger, sleeves must I)
used for strings and pdckets. The
entire back may be used for the body." ,
part which will make an apron that‘51
will reach almost all the way around
the waist.
Illustration shows the shape
ay it may be laid on the cldth"
to make it thirtv inches long and
wide enough to cover almost the
tire dress A bib may be attached if".
desired or cuffs may be made With-‘9.
elastic run thru to hold them on?"
when in use

     
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very neat and attractive apron may
be made which is also very useful.
This style is especially good for a
large woman. Large women always .
have troulﬂe in getting aprons large“
enough to ﬁt and protect them, while;
almost any size will answer the pur-
pose for the small ﬁgure—Esther A.
Cosse. Patterson. N. J.

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Call Their
Bluff

The very ﬁrst time you hear any one say “Michigan Flour is all right for
pastry but it won’t bake good bread” just tell them to guess again.

Any one making so silly a statement is either binding or betraying a lot of

ignorance.
Call their bluff—quick!

we have been making ﬂour for more than thirty- -ﬁve years and during that
time have tested practically every variety of wheat grown in the United

States.

It is our business to know what kind of wheat makes good ﬂour and what

kind doesn’t. Furthermore we do know.

We use a blend of the best Michigan and Western wheats in the manu-

Lily White

“The Flour the best Cooks Use”

facture of

milling process.

Thousands upon thousands of the best cooks in the land are daily baking
the most delicious bread from Lily White.

These cooks know Why they are using Lily White Flour.
attempt to tell them. The splendid results they have obtained, and are

obtaining from its use, is convincing enough.

As Lily White Flour is a pure 100% wheat ﬂour substitutes must be pur-
chased and used with it. Satisfactory results are positively guaranteed.

Our 'Domestic Science Department

to our Domestic Science Department.

because we, have found that a blend of hard and soft wheats makes a better
ﬂour for home use than either a straight soft winter or hard spring wheat.
In other words, we obtain the best qualities of each variety of wheat by
blending, and separate the undesirable qualities and impurities during the

 
furnishes
canning charts upon request and will aid you to solve any
" ~- ‘ other kitchen problems you may have from time to time
g7! ,, Public demonstrations also arranged.

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Address your letters

   
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By using the shirt in this way a ..

 
_, and girls, and some grown-ups,
like fairy talee.‘ Even your
enelope- isn't’ashamed to say

ertnl people and cities and
re happenings that the fairy
liars tell us about, altho it has been

Irarngoing- to tell you a fairy story.
"is quite too long to tell you complete
,‘in'this week’s paper. It will probably
take three or four papers to tell the
whale story. The name of the story
_. «is “The Giants of Lilliputania," and
it. Was Written by Mr. Will Pente, who
" ‘ doves children and delights in doing
I-‘ith‘i‘ngs to make them happy!
The story" is about a race of tiny
people, no bigger than your little fin-
‘ 3131‘, who lived-in a marvelous city of
.5 Wonderful parks and buildings, the
biggest of which 'were about the size
of your blocks. When Mr. Petite wrote
this story of the pigmies he said to

himrtelf, “Now wouldn’t it be nice if.
~all the children who read my story.

could go to the land of Lilliputauia
and see the things 1 am going to tell
them about. But, they can‘t do that,
because thele be sure to step on smile
01' the little people who live there or
stub their toe against. the buildings.

i.

It is easy for the children to build the fairy city of Lﬂnputanio.

But I know what I can do. I’ll bring
the city of Lilliputania to the child-
ren.”

And that‘s just what he did Of
course, he couldn't bring the real city
and people themselves, but he .did
build a great. many cities and people
just like them out of colored paste-
btlul‘tl, out and notched and ﬁtted so
that the boys and girls who read his

story Teena

blind a city? .,

Wright in

i their ’own»

play' room's.

Now when I '

ﬂ r s t s a w
Mr. Pente’s
w. 0 nd e rful
fairy city I
- c o u l d not
h e l p b u t
w is h that
my boys and
" girls could
h a v e one.

But they’re

quite expen-
sive, and
w h ll e I
would like
to make a
C h ris tmas
, present of
one to every reader of my page, I
couldn’t afford to. But I made up my
mind that I would ﬁnd some way for
them to get a set- of Mr. Pente’s cut-
out fairycity and people, so I went to
the man who looks after subscrip-
tions to MIoHioAl}; BUSINESS FARMING
and said, “I want my boys and girls
to have the fairy 'city. cannot we
GIVE a set for a subscription?” He

came and mitigate than? ?
‘girt who ’1 would havetheirftatharer .,

o .

I subscription to‘fthepiipe: could,»

- (5pr [at the rah-y .story and with .

the fairy people and city-FREE... this ._‘=’-

plan is'eirphined, fully/en page 21 or ,‘
this issue. . ’ ‘- ' ' :-
‘ That’s pretty good news‘to me, and
I know it‘will be to you. So I’m going
to tell you the story i5 fheSe mass.-
and if you want to get the‘falry city.
talk it over With 'iather'and mother-
and I am sure they will explain to.
you just how it can be clones—Amer
Prmmorn. ‘“ '

“THE GIANTS or
' LILLIPUTANIA.” . .-

CHAPTER 1

Once upon a time, not ' so many
many~ years ago, there was a great big
prosperous country named “Lilliputana
ia.” This country was not big accord-
ing to your ideas and mine, for entire
“Lilliputania” was no larger than your
dining room. The diligent and peace
loving people who lived in this coun-
try in absolute harmony were called
’Lilliputians. They were kintf indus-
trious and very' honest. Indeed, so
clever were these little people that it
is thought the ﬁrst high ofﬁce building

 
w

:trum'mnt

' E HAVE terrible news for

I ‘2‘, the friends of the D00 Dads.
The Wonderland of D00 has

j been invaded by the ferocious and
kernel Hun Dads. But the D00 Dads
g are preparing for the ﬁght. Here
they are shown in target practice
gagainst the Kaiser dad. Every
branch of the service is in opera-
tion; The cavalry. is spurring on at
“ " ll gallop; the infantry is advanc-
il‘g with grand spirit; the big guns

' ' are

 
- \

The Doo Dads are at War with the Hun Dads!

this engagement. Just as the ﬁght-
ing grew intense his mouse fright-
ened by the noise of the hig\guns,
bolted into a dug-out,.and the poor
old colonel is cutting a sorry ﬁgure.
‘But Captain Percy Haw Haw seiZed
the oppbrtumity to cover himself
with military glory. Hejjtmed in-
to the breech and is leading on the
gallant troops; See how the iane'ers,

mounted on grasshoppers, are'rush- I

L ,ing in at full gallop. One poor. lit-
tle fellow~has been throvsfn off, but

the rest are rushing on intent only

' "t‘

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r

isn’t Sleepy Sam, the

on winning the day. Smiles, the
Clown, is also doing his bit. He was
watching the enemy through his
periscope, and when the proper mo-
ment arrived, signalled the troops
to advance. , What strang artillery
the Doc Dads have! ,
obo, ..leanlng _
right up“; against the mouth of a big

cannon and dozing away as usual.

The mischeivous ‘ little~ gunnaf is
just touching the match-to ﬁre‘the
' lg gun. ' If the sleepy ”head ..doesi1",tg

, were, upsand get out»! the we}, lie .5 I

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IQthH‘ QﬁueJ /

And if. ‘ﬂi‘ere “

,Wi' , sage
, . h’ .. .

 
will have his head blown off; The
infantry are making; a ﬂanking .move- -
ment. See how they are cheering
as they rush into" the fray. The air-
service is also doing good work. The ’
Doo Dads found a bird’s. next with
some stale eggs in it. and "they are
using them as «bombs. So far there -
have been no casualties-1 :but old Doc
Sawbones and the V'Redxcrose nurses
are ready to handle them"- as soon
as they coine in." [0111" D90 1133 his“
eyes installed on Sleepy Sit-mile Harts
wondérlng it with ‘ﬂ1.‘hipi‘,.qkﬂl,ii‘ ..

' "them " "l1;

 
, o- scanner den Liliiputani ,
'_ednld' do this. That will have to re-
f'maiamy secret, for I have givm a
,rsoiemn ‘ promise to a descendant oi
‘Wt'hese tiny people never to tell any-
on‘e tram whom I get this information
his -whereabmiis, or the location of
Lilliputania; and of course, no one
’m wants to keep all his friends will
ever break a promise. ' p ' ‘

I will not attempt at this tiiee to
tell you the entire history of Lilli-
putania. I may-do that some other
day if you care to hear it.‘ This tale
concern«sv__.what “very likely wasﬁ‘the‘
end' of Liliiputania—although I am
not sure that Lilliputania is no more.
,--Lilliputania at one time was thick-
ly populated, ”and scattered through-
out the land werea number of large
cities; In the Capitol, which was the
finest city, there .were a great many
.ﬁne stores and factories, and as near
as “I can judge about 150,000 Lillipu-
tanians. These thrifty people had a
ﬁne bank building. I am told the
vaults were ﬁlled with gold and prec-
ious stones. .

Even the children would bring their
pennies to this bank, for according to
law in Lilliputania everyone must
save some money every year, no mat-
ter how little. Children thus in early
life soon enquired the sarings habit
and nobody was‘poor or ever in dis-
tress. , . «I

The schoolhouse was a building to
be proud of~the rooms were clean and
airy, and so built that all the child-
ren could be dismissed in a very‘few
minutes it necessary.

All the streets of the Capitol were
paved, and kept as clean as snow. It
. was everyone’s business to help Mayor .
Frickieschnitz and Chief Dnlin en-
torce the law. If anyone would forget
the rules made by the Mayor and
throw paper on the street or allow
rubbish to collect, someone would
step up and say, “Pardon me; ~my
friend—is this your paper? What
shall I do with it?” or, "Excuse me,
John, but I know you are very busy
these days—~let me help you take care
of this rabbis .” This was a polite
reminder. It wasn’t necessary to do
this often, for. Lillipwtanians loved
each other just as you love your broth-
er and sister, and avoided being care-
less. Thus ‘life'was very pleasant for

all the Lilliputanians. ,
' I think you will learn from this
' tale how much trouble we make for
others as well as ourselves when we
plan and act with only a selﬁsh mo-
tive. 1

_ (To be continued)

 
Dear Aunt Penelope-—I am a girl 13
years old. I, will be 14 in March. I am
in the 8th 6 at school. My teacher’s
name is iss Dora Ludwick. I have
read the letters, stories and poems on the
Children's Page and thought I would like
to write to you, too. They are talking
of a boys' and‘ girls’ club. We were go-
ing to have singing and speaking at the
hall last Monday night, and there were
going to be two «speakers and then we
were going to organize the clubs. but one
of the speakers fell sick with Spanish ln-,
ﬁnesse. and so now we .wiil have to wait
until he ets well. We had the program
last We nesday at school, but when he
can come we will have it again. We have
one horse, one cow and one pig and six
hens opal two kittens. Papa owns three
lots here in Muir. I have one brother.
his name is William, he is ten years old.
New a cousin who just landed in France
and one who is hel ng guard the coast
of New Jersey, an mm or my uncles
had to register the last time. This is
my ﬁrst letter.—-—Mary Rogers, Muir,
Mchlgan. r

Dear Aunt Penelopez—Yon have gotten
one letter tram me, but I have no
todo just now so" I thought I would write
. ‘ toyon. I haves. cominin r,
' , *ho has had the nish inﬂuenza and
U ’ on topof it, but he
‘ . 'He laid .he
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.ciothes, as winter is coming soon.

. shells saved up for the soldiers.

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‘DﬁVﬁOfmuchérr Wilts-Red Cross
every m masses have amberrty bond
oft e curthVLlherty ioa‘n. All of us
workto heipvraiee ﬂoodfer our boys over
,there‘. ' I have troy?” Savings Stamps
and fourteen ‘ amps: I expect to
exchange them for a War Savings Stamp
,wh‘en Lget my card full. I have been
picking up ate and I got ﬁve
quarts. I have mad $1.35. for which I
will buy Thrift Stamps. One day at
School our teacher told us about saving
fruit pits and-nut shells for our boys, and
Uncle. would make gas masks out of
them. , e were interested. We have
in school two large boxed full of nut
shells and fruit pits. This is the way we
got them: That day at school sortie of
the boys went around to some of the
houses with a high-wheeled cart- and

. they collected almost a. bushel, and as

someof the school children live in the
country they came out with a. small wag-
on and gathered a bushel of-butternut
shells. ‘Nig'hts after school and Satur-
days the girls would seed the wild cher-
ries and save the pits, so that way we
saved a lot. I try to help my father
and mother all I can this summer. Your
friend—Laura Mallow, Cassopolis. Mich.
Doing 01n- Bit.
(Tune: ‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp")
In this, world everywhere
We must help to win This war.
By gr saving nut shells and fruit

D .
For our own dear boys over there,
They will need them every one,
To make gym masks and all the needy
thingsl -
Chorus ,
Gather, gather, gather the nuts in.
them every one, »
For our dear boys over there,
The?! are ﬁghting for our land,
e will clothe them, arm them, help
them every one.

Watch the children gather the nuts,
Lying on the ground so thick,
They are helping our boys to get the
we "I '
And we save the fruits of trees
.60 that we can save the pits,
And we do it all for our dear coun-
try’s sake.

 
Dear Aunt ‘Penelope:—-This is the ﬁrst
time I have written to you, but now, I
will write a. long letter. First thing I
amrgoing to tell is how I am going to
save pits and nutshells. I have a bowl
which I place on the tab-lo with the fol-
lowing on it: “Fruit pits, peach, plum.
prune, apricot, olive, cherry and dates.
Nutshells, Brazilnuts, Walnuts, butternuts
and hickorynuts. If anyone cracks nuts
or cats fruit they will have to put the
pits and shells into the box.” I am a boy
nine and one-half years old and am in the
ﬁfth grade. I a war garden this
year oi! popcorn and potatoes. I have two
War Savings Stamps and three Thrift
Stamps, and I am going to draw my
money out of the bank. which is $37.00,
and buy more stamps. We have seven
3 heifers: their names are Bin-
go, Bob, Sukey, Bonnie, Belle, Lady, Jane,
Mutt, Jen, Molly and Brindle, and about
150 chickens. My pets are two kittens,
three ducks and two cows. My kittens’
names’ lire Billy and Smutnose L WW ducks’
names: are Sammy, Teddy and Pete. My
cows‘ names are Sukey and Mutt. I hav
two brothers in the service. One is a
sargeant in the cavalry, in Mercedes,
Texas. The airships alight right by my
house. My letter is getting pretty long.
I guess I will have to close now. From
your respectful nephew—Ivan Johnston.
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 
Dear Aunt PenelopezuAs I have been
reading the children’s page, I thought I
would write a letter too. I am a. little
girl nine years old, and am in the 5th
grade. I have a dog; his name is Ted.
I have a little kitten. its name is Top. I
have eighteen White Leghorn chickens.
I have a calf. I am saving my money to
buy War Savings Stamps. I feed the
calv and pigs so as to let papa have
all he time there it to raise food for
Uncle Sam. We have two cows and two
horses; their names are Heck and John;
our cows' names are Cherry and Jersey.
My calPs name is Beauty. 1" have a ﬂow-
er garden; you can ﬁnd most any kind of
ﬂowers In it. I have some nice house
plants too: We had lots of apples this
year, but we have ‘them all picked now.
——-Josephine Coons, Akron, Michigan. ~

 
Dear Aunt Penelope:-—I have been read-
ing the letters, stories, songs and poems.
in which I have been hteusted for some
time. I am 13 years old and in the 9th
grade. Father takes'the M. B. F. and
he thinks that there is no r farm
paper than that one. I will now tell you
What I did this fall. I picked up pota-
toes which money I invested in nvtgr

e
are going to move in a few days to an-
other farm not ,far from here. We have _
about 6% pounds of fruit nits arid nut

must
close, as my letter is rather long. Your
niece—Violet Schutt, Coral, Michigan.

Dear Aunt Penelope:—I have beBi‘l‘ rigid;

. . a
the-boys and gir write.‘ Irlive on a. 65—
acre farm, one-half mile from town. I am
ears of age, I am in'the 6th
elp‘ pick up potatoes, wash the
dinner and supper
en and do all

I can to help Uncle am. I have two
’ s ’ their names. are

b o hers and no sister
r t' be new, and.;li‘le¥.d. 17 yam

 
grade. I
sweep. get the

    
time I“ have written to on.

twelve years d. I. live on a
- form. We have four-horses, three cows,
four calves and four igs.~ Our buses
fumes are Babe, Bill, oily and George.
and oar calves’ names are‘Liliy. Cherry.
Rumors and Blackspot. Our ouws’ names
are Star, Rose, Dale . We had 9 80765
of beans, 3 acres of tatoes and We had
a garden. I helped pull the beans. I
picked up potatoes today. I have one
Det calf. her name is Lilly. We take the
M. B. F. and I like to read the letters
from the children. We have a dog. I
help mamma in the garden so that the
stuff won’t freeze. I will have to close
for this time. Love to all.--A1ice Moore.
East Jordan, Michigan.

 
Dear Aunt Peheiopct—I have never
written for our page before so thought
I would now. I like to read the letters
written by other children. I am twelve
Years old and in the seventh grade. We
have a nice teacher. I like to go 1'0
school. I have three brothers. Lisle. Ivan
and Claire, and one sister, Margaret. We
have four cows and six. horses. We have
140 acres of land. My father took out a
Liberty bond. Well, I hope this war will

soon end; it does seem so terrible. I
haven't any relatives in it yet, but per-
haps will if it lasts very much longer. I

think that stories. riddles and letters are
nice for our children’s page. This is all,
so will close. with love to Aunt Penelope.
—~Velmn W'clch. Riverdalv. Michigan.

 
Dear Aunt I‘enelope:——l would have
written you before, but I have been pick—
ing up potatoes all last week and this
week. S-honl will start tomorrow. i am
a. girl 10 years old and in the ﬁfth grade.
For pets 1 have two cats. We have two
mares, Topsy and Bess; ll cows, Daisy,
Nig and Jumbo. and l have four Thrift
Stamps and so has my hrothcr. 1 think
“Little Helper (‘m-ncr" would be a good
name for our page—Joannctio andie,
Leroy, Michigan,

HOW A 14-YEAR-OLD
BOY CLEARED $672

 
The war gardening experience of
Dormin Baker, a 14-year-old Fowler-
viile boy should interest every boy on
the farm who has any spore hours to
himself. This young gardener has a
bank account of $673.83 as the result
of his 1918 war garden activities. It
is contended by ofﬁcials in charge of
war garden work in the county that
Dormln will walk away as the state’s
champion war gardener as his achieve-
ments are the best yet recorded. in
a well prepared statement of his suc-
cess the young horticulturist sets
forth the manner he acquired his efﬁ-
ciency.

I ﬁgured that Uncle Sam needed
the support of every loyal American
so I decided to garden it on an exten-
sive scale and market my crops,” said
the successful gardener. I went after
the proposition systematically. After
preparing‘my hot beds in the spring
I planted cabbage, pepper, tomato and
cauliﬂower seeds for plants. The ﬁrst
week in April 1 plowed my garden
and prepared the seed bed. 1 (in gged
the soil line and used lots of I'crtilizer
when I planted my seeds.

“In about. three weeks things began
to pop out of the ground. As soon as
they were large enough I cultivated
them and kept right after it until the
ﬁrst of August. About, the middle of.
June, my early cabbage patch was
looking ﬁne. A few days later, how-
ever, I noticed the cabbage worms had
quite a start. i got a pail of lime and
sprinkled it on the plants. This turn-
ed the worms black. Then I noticed
some of the plants had died. I pulled
them up and found maggots had eaten
the roots away. About half my plants
died' before I stopped the maggots.

“I took all my vegetables to the city
market where I found good sale for
them. I am willing to turn the wheel
again next year and take a straight
aim at the kaiser, for I want to hit
him straight in the head.”

The young gardener spent 805 hours
working in his garden, making a net
proﬁt of 83 cents ah hour for this sum-
mer’s work. He raised four bushels of
beans, ﬁve bushels of onions, 20 (its.
01 string bean seed, 10 bushels of car-
rots, 79 bushels oi potatdes, ﬁve tons
of cabbage, ﬁve bushels .of beggas, and '
tour bushels of tomatoes. His total
expense for the ' season was $83.11.—

 
'- Dear Aunt Penelope :-Thls’ s the his ‘

  
“ grunts common a;
{no can. a... Dominates. ‘

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SALE or summers ’ ;

Beach Faun, Goldwater, Mich. 3.
m“

  
Because 0! Feed Shortage
change of tenants, I shall sell Forty
head of my pure bred Guernsey's of:
auction. ' ‘1

The sale will be at the Beach Farm.»
Goldwater city limits. commencing at
One o'clock sharp on Tuesday, Nov-,
ember 28th. The choice of the herd
will be sold, consisting of.cows, heif-
ers, calves, bulls of varying ages. Some

 
of them imported. A rare chance,
easy terms. »
Milo D. Campbell. Goldwater. Mich. _‘

 
luncheon-ow. ,7
assume: do an ,
”- u-v ,W.

 
Cheap if Sold at Once.

Pony Saw Mill complete with saw
and track. Can be run with six horse
or larger engine. Will load on car
for shipment For particulars write,
J. Howard deSpelder, Greenvilie, Mich;

 
WANTED — CLOVER SEED
PEAS, ALL KINDS. Please subm
an average sample of any guantities you}
want to sell and we will te- you what~
is worth either in the dirt or _ '
We believe we can make you a. price thug

Aim
u on2

 
will look attractive. Sioux City Seed 0;}
Millington, Michigan. . , ' . p .

YOU CAN SELL YOUR FARM m
rect to the buyer without paying. Gem-r
mission through my cry-operative m.
and be free to sell to a ' ‘
anyone, anywhere, any tune,

price or terms. W e to 0?”
JAMES SLOCUM, Holly, Michigan;
Roup. COM:r CW

CHICKENS SICK? Bowel Clowning;

bemeck. Soreheld, etc.. the best reme?.i€'ama
k; . ,

      
GERMOZONE A! most dealers or
wilh 5 b’vok poultry library free.
GEO. H. LEE CO., Dept. 416

SPRING WHEAT for sale: .1
variety, heavy yielder. The new
that does well in Michigan. ‘
Mills, Farwell, Michigan.

 
130 CRATES PICKE'I‘T seed corn
crates Michigan Hybrid Dent. for
Write for prices. Alfred T.
Washington, Mich. ‘

FOR SALE—Rebuilt 12-24
Boy Tractor. $750. Big Bill!»
$450. 12-25 Mogul, $660.
plowed 60 acres, $950.
Ryan 00.. Toledo, 0

WA N TED—A competent dai
qualiﬁed to take charge of a. herd-or!”
istered Holstein-Friesian cattle, ’
R. 0. tests and prepare animals foe:
purposes. D. D. Aitken, Flint,.Mic

FOR SALE -— Sharples Milking
inc 2 single units. Complete in goo

dltion. If interested write W. D. Z ‘
R.F.D. 4, Jackson, Michigan.

WANTED, FIFTY CARS hard
M. B. Teeple, 3003 Woodward 3
Michigan. “r

 
FOR SALE—A Choice Farm, Bord
a beautiful lake. R. W. .Redrnan,5
ering, Michigan. ~‘ .

TOO LATE T0 CLAssrrr‘ i

WHITE ROCK COCKEBELS. '

ous Fischei sue;
Priced to sell. Mrs. F. J. LangerSebe-x
waing, Michigan. ‘ f“

 
on ‘-sALE:—Pnre
Bronze heavy boned turkeys,
moth Pekin ducks and Barred

Cooker-sis, none better.
Lewis Hess, Ceresco, Mlchl,

FOR SALE'léaerrh.1tr°s2..mvanm
Dillman. R. No. 5. Dowagiac, Mich “

O I C 9 ghoster Wihitemgrwoam
rows, spr ng 7

‘ ' ‘ S to..$50: can breed;
Polled Durham Bulls nearly one
Heifer Calves and other Record
New Marquis Spring Wheat ~46 In.
crop. Beardiess Barley. Whit. e
Frank Bartlett, Dryden,

LAN’oHURsr smog,
Offers young Holstelewv'ﬁ;

trom damswith record‘s.
sirea' dam: up to 46le.

        
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Fowleroille Review.

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igfees and prices. Filed 3 ‘
waing, Michigan, . .. .

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was; poems:

.13 South Boardman, Nov. ,3.

large amount of rain the past few
ys and farmers have had consider-
,jable trouble in getting their threshing
idone, 'at least those who had to stack
their grain and beans. Potatoes are
early all dug and have not, yielded
ﬁ‘Well as expected, averaging about
.100 to 125 bushels to the acre. Beans
Ware turning out fairly well from the
" straw but not so good per acre, aver-
aging not over 6 bushelsper acre. The
'j-‘Tbean market, is not very encouraging,
the buyers offering $8.80 per cwt.; po-
tatoes are 84c per bu.; hay $28 per
ton; butter 500; eggs, 40c; chickens,
’22c; bags 15 to 18c; cattle bring from
5 to 9c.——C. F. W., Alden, Nov. 4.

Arenas (East)——Rain, rain, and still
‘ , more rain, which makes things rather
Wet, keeping farmers back in their
fall plowing and in getting out their
. beets. Beans took another fall this
pweek, and it looks as tho they were
going lower. Guess the Michigan
bean grower will have to look to some
other crop. The farmer is the one
who suffers the loss. and he is the
one who made the Fourth Liberty

 
. der how the farmer makes ends meet
at all. Wheat and rye looking good.
Stock lower and prospects are for
lower prices. Following qutoations
.33 , made at Twining this week: Oats,
:,,,_ ' . 62; rye, $1.45; hay, $15 to $18; beans,
' $7.50; potatoes, 50; hens, 18; geese,
2,. ~' 17; turkeys, 22; butter, 45; butterfat.

 
beef cows, dressed.
Twining, Nov. 4.

"9f, Gladwin (S.W.)—~Weather rather
damp. Everybody pulling‘and haul-
ing beets and plowing. Beets are a
. good crop. Bean threshing is well
if, under way, yield about 9 bu. to the
£3 . acre Quite a lot of buckwheat this
year, also clover seed. Early sown
:1, . rye looks good; not much wheat sown
here. Cows sell at auctions at $80
to $110; sheep ewes, $15 to $20. Fol-
lowing prices quoted this week at
Beaverton and Gladwin; 'W'heat, $2.08
oats, 65; rye, $1.57; hay. $22 to $25;
beans, $8; potatoes, $1.20 cwt.; clov-
er seed, $20; butterfat. 57; eggs, 42.
—R. J. B.. Beaverton, Nov. 1.

a Calhoun (S.W..)——Fine weather with
>55. some rain. Some corn in the ﬁeld yet.
but most of it will be husked with a
husker. Threshing beans and buck-
wheat now. Lots of sales. Farmers
”k- are selling stock as hay is scarce and
high. The following prices quoted at
Athens this week: Wheat, $2.10; oats,
. 60; rye, $1.50; hens, 21; butter, 50;
. butterfat, 56; eggs, 54; hogs, 16.——E.
B. 11., Athens. Nov. 8.
Ottawa (North)—The following quo-
,3}. ' _‘ tations were made at Coopersville this
~'~ week: Wheat, $2.10; corn, $1.40; oats,
70; rye, $1; hay. $28; wheat-oat straw,
$14; beans, $7.50; potatoes, $1; onions,
60; cabbage, 65; hens, 20; springers,
20 to 22; ducks, 20; geese, 16; turkeys,
26; butter, 45; butterfat, 58; eggs, 52;
sheep; 16; lambs, 24; hogs, 19% dres-
sed; beef steers, dressed, 14; beef cows,
dressed, 10; veal calves, dressed, 20;
apples, $1; winter pears, $1.50.—J. P.,
Coopersvﬂle, Nov. 8.
- Oakland (North)—Not much change
in the situation since the last report.
,We are having a rain today and this
ith the warm weather is a great time
' for wheat and rye, which are in good
condition for winter. Apples about
secured. Most of the apples were
blown off the trees, they are going to
market by trucks; great call for cider
apples. Corn husking is the order of
the day. Corn is in ﬁne condition.
Some buckwheat being threshed; it is
a very light crop here—E. F.. Clerks-
ton, Nov 8. '
. ’ ,Mecosta (North)—Farmers husk-
‘ing corn, gathering roots and plowing.
,t has been very wet, the ground is
full of water, a good time to plow sod.
Farmers are selling potatoes and beans
. and are not holding many potatoes.
5; was following prices were paid hero
, st'we'ek: Wheat, $2.06; corn, $1.35;
,3. . 60; rye. $1.45; hay. $20 to $23;
1” i s;- $7.50; potatoes, $1.25; onions,
‘ cwt; hogs, 15; apples, $1.60 cwt.—
’ 'Htpﬂersey, Nov. 7.= . ,

15.—M. B. R.,

 
i.

    
‘ . .. . , , $13.5:- ‘cwtgj;
en: 45;: vbutterfat, ‘58.; eggs; ‘40.-‘— j ~ "

lei-«mm (S.W.)-—,—We have had'quite ‘1

loan go over the top. We often won- ‘

57; eggs, 44; lambs. 121/2; hogs, 13;'

 
q,

t «if, ,_
(WHEN I .. . ‘
Genesee “‘(South) .;_ Farm: '-
ers are threshing beans, husk-
ing corn and plowing. .We
have had rainy weather ,late— ‘
ly; soil is in fine shape for

 
working in most sections.
Yield of beans is rather poor,
especially on the lat beans.

 
Farmers are selling otatOes,
apples, beans and livestock.

 
Auction sales are quite plen-
tiful and prlces are not as-
good as they were last spring.
Horses are selling for nearly

  
nothing. Rye and fall grains
are looking good. Potatoes
are nearly dug and yield from
50 to 180 bushels per acre.

 
The following prices paid at'
Flint this week: Wheat,
white, $2.12; red, $2.14; corn,

 
$1.55; oats, 63; rye, $1.50;
hay, $20 to $25, according to
quality; beans, $8; red kid-
ney beans, $9; potatoes, 75c

 
to $1; onions, 75c to $1; cab-

 
bage, lc 1b.; cucumbers, 30c .
dozen; hens, 20 to 22c; ducks, 22 to
25c; geese, 18 to 19c; turkeys, 25 to
28c; butter, creamery, 58; dairy, 550;
eggs, 58; sheep, $8; lambs, $14; hogs.
$15.50; beef steers, $7 to $9; beef cows,
$6 to $7.50; veal calves, $10 to $15;
wool, 67; apples, 500 to $1.—C. W. 8.,
Fenton, Nov. 8.

[0800 (East)—-—-Rainy Weather; get-
ting most too wet to plow. Bean
threshing has not started around here
yet. Not much going to market as
the roads are bad and potatoes are too
cheap to draw thru the mud, and
«those having grain to sell are holding
for a little better prices. Chicory is
all delivered; a good crop and a good
~price this year. Farmers wondering
what’s best to put in another year", as
the bottom has dropped out of the bean
market and potatoes are uncertain.
Chicory is a good paying crop but as
it requires a lot of work and with
help hard to get it is impossible for
most of the farmers to grow it and
take care of it right. The following
quotations were made at Tawas City
this week: Wheat, $2.05; oats, 63;
rye, $1.43; hay, $20 to $25; Wheat—oat
straw, $6 to $7; potatoes, 75c bu.; on-
ions, $1.25 bu.; butter, 55; butterfat,
60; eggs, 40; beef steers, dressed, 15;

——m ake every

beef. cows, dressed, 15; veal calves,
dressed, 20; apples, $1 bu.-—A. B. L.,
Tawas City, Nov. 8. ' "'

Mecosta (S.E.)—Potato harvest is
over in this vic‘nity. It has been the
ﬁnest weather for fall work I have
known in twenty-ﬁve years; not a
frosted. potato in the whole county. '
The dealers here are charging 10c per
pound for sugar, ﬁxed at 9c°by the
government. Fall grain, both wheat
and rye, looking ﬁne. Corn husking
is 'Well advanced. Fully 75 per cent
of the potatoes in this vicinity were
marketed in October and the farmers
are still hauling. The following qoo-
tations were made at Millbrook this
Week: Wheat,'$2.02; oats, 70; rye,
$1.45; hay, $20; beans, $8.25; potatOes,
$1.25 cwt.; butter, 35 to 50; butterfat.
57 ; eggs, 48; beef steers, 6 to 8; beef
cows, 5%.—F. M. E., Millbrook, No-
vember 8. '

Ingham (N.E.)—Farmers are plOw-
ingand husking corn. Husking about
all done; corn fodder badly hurt. Bean
threshing all done; beans nice and dry
but small yield, from 7 to 9 bushels;
only three places that they turned out
any better , and those went 14 to 15
bushels to the acre. About 50 per cent
of beans have been sold; not going to

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and some fall pldiving done. ﬁnite an, ”
amount ofr....pot: toes are: being- sold.‘
. Following“ auctaitiqns made this week ,
at Muir: Wheat; $2.12;,‘oats, 65; rye, . ,
$1.57;.beans, $7.75; "potatoes, $1.50.—-“
Emmet, (NEJ-r—rlniiuenaa ﬁis still-
' raging in this‘part of the country. It
seems to have subsided someWhat in
the towns bu "the , armors' families
, are badly. a ,icte‘d'; in.-.-nearly,;eyery'
home some member~ is; illiof the mat
.ady, mm in; many instances. whole 4»
families are down with it. This his ~, ,
been a ﬁne autumn 'for doing fall ‘ A

Work. The groundhas notbeen‘froz- bad
f en yet and fall- grains are, looking wh'
ﬁrst, rate. The" following prices were ~ » ing
paid here this weekz',‘ Wheat, $2.10; ' ere
oats, 78; hay,.$25; beans, $7.50; pots» but
toes, 70 ;. butter, 50; butteritat, 58;,811- hm
pies, 75.——C. G., Cross VizliageyNov. 8. Ion
Clare (Nprth)——Some rye going in . ver
"yet. Some farmers are stumping. The 9 - 80?
weather hasbeen very showery the Vele
past three days and some carrots and ‘ ‘1‘“
roots are not gathered yet. Stock (and ‘35
horses going cheap at sales but feed , as
- going high. Thefollowing pnioes were ‘ . 1'”
quoted at Clarelthis week: Wheat, ' 3°C
$2.07; oats, 64; rye,$1.48; beans, 57.75; m
hens, 20; turkeys, 24; butterfat, 58; ”‘1‘
eggs, 48; lambs, 17; hogs, 20; beef du‘
steers, 18; beef cows, 12; veal calves, ma
10.——D. 3,, Lake,.Nov. 8. g - 131$
Branch (North)-.—Farmers husking . 22.
corn, some plowing. Weather very un- I“;
settled, lots of rain. Soili-n good con- 15
dition. Selling stock,thay; and..grain, - '
not holding. The following quotations
were made at" Union City this week: 1M
Wheat, $2.08 tob$2.13; corn,’$1.25; oats »
58; .rye, $1.48; beans, $6; potatoes, $1;
cabbage, 2176c 1b.; hens, 22; 'springers, 1
22; ducks, 20; button; 60; butterfat, «
54-; eggs, 52; lambs, 12'to 14.75; beef b“
steers, 7 to 9; beef cows, 6;» veal ‘ 0‘
calves,‘16——F. 8., Unioa City, Nov. .9. _, i8
Grand Tratkr‘se- (N.E.)—-Are having mi
lots of rain. Fall grain looking ﬁne. b“!

Some corn yet tobe hushed; potatoes _ ,. , A

  
all out, a poor crop in this" vicinity. . ”f tio
The following prices- were offered here , ’ wr
this week: [Wm-heat, $2;foats_,‘85.; we. 19‘
$1.50; hay, $27;ﬁpotati_)es, $1.20; onions _ be;
$1.50; cabbage, 4c lb. ; butter, 48'; eggs, ‘ , i ’ ex]
45—07 L. 3,, Williamsburg, Nov. 8. cm
Monroe (West' Central) ~Far’mera in:
are busy with their fall work; some 0'0,
husking corn, others drawing stalks; - be‘
a few are t-hru with their fall crops ‘
and are plowing and hauling manure. , 3“
The corn. crop .in this .part' of the’ ,. 3“
county will average about 50 per cent; ' ca:
some will go a little better and others he
lower; some farmers have good seed ’ / mi
corn and others ;,poor.'; The potato ,
crop was poor, about? 25 per cent. The . 1,,
following quotations made at Peters- Pﬂ
burg this week: Wheatr red, $2.12; - , ‘ r‘
, white, $2.10; corn, $1.75; oats, 66c; ‘_ .7"
rye, $1.50; buckwheat, $3 cwt.; barley, 88?
$2 cwt.;». hens, 22 ; springers, 22 ; ducks, us
25; geese, 18; turkeys, 20; butter, 50; ‘ ‘13
butterfa’c. 58; eggs, 54; hogs, live, $16; ~ ‘- f ,
dressed; $20; veal calves. $15.-—WI H. - to
L., Dundee, Nov. 9. - . _. ' - _- 3:
Bay, (S.E.)——Too much rain now, * _ ,_ \ do
though we have had an .extra”good '_ " , ‘av
time for beet harvest; they are nearly ‘
all delivered to thew‘eigh “stations, . . ye
and some are being loaded on; the ~ '+ 015‘
dumps. Some fall'pldwingir'fairly well pe
along. Farmershave not the; time to, “1‘
son. hay. loose ami'vthexbslers "havealot, . m
the. heir to one. is; .“E3,!1'~_"Wll§8t2100k‘-‘ ; 9.:
inssvgusﬂstmsshécorn, “3.1131931118536110... to
yet—J m at J. - ,;e

 
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—._.cse’ao)‘;—'-‘-rlne , in we

7. _'Plenty‘- of moisture ”for
. .The‘_‘£armers have much-
pﬂtatn‘ ' ' seat Wolve e
e- on: “a about 3,000 toil.
, L j price paid early, last week
$1.50 per own, but betore the and
9 week dropped: to $1.15. Follow-
priees were offered toda : Wheat,
10; 'oats’,‘ 84; corn. $1. ; putter-
. ‘,60.—+Welvm1nc, Nov. 11. " ‘ .
. ﬂaunt”) (Northl—The weather con-.
Hydltjoéns‘since. September have been

  
y‘gosn huskin-g and fall plowing the
general occupation.— Auction sales are
val"! numerous. and everything going
' high, except, horses. The following
quotations were. made at St.‘ Johns
- Lthis— week: Wheat, $2.120; cats, 62;
rye, $3.40; fhay, $22 to $23; ”beans,
$1.15; pot oes, $1; hens, 18. to an;
' rims, an; geese. 20; butter, 45;.eggs.

  
11058. 16%; beet steers, 4 to 10;. veal
catves;15.—-A. E. J.. Bannister, Nov. 8.

Arcane (EMU—The roads are. in
bad, condition after the heavy rains
which has put a ban on produce mov-
.,_. log” to any extent. Peac’e talk has low-

:.'.:; cred prices. of products of the farm

mouthing that the farmer has to
I buy We think prices will go still
.~ lower it anything.

Auction sales are
very numerous and goods bringing
good prices. A far'tners’ co-operative

\ . elevator has been formed with head-
quarters at Omer, with a.capital of
. imam. Business will be commenced
" f. ' as, seen. as things can be gotten in
’~ reaﬂhess. It is hoped that this as-

. ' satiation will be able to handle all

 
sale here formany kinds of farm pro-
duce. The following quotations were
made at Twining this week: hay,
$15 and up; cats, 62; beans, $7150";
hens, 16 to 18‘; springers, 18; turkeys.
22; "butter, 50; butterfat, 57; eggs. 45;
1m 12-; hogs, 1.5 to 15%; been cows,
169-1. B. R., Tremor], Nov. 11..

 
~ IMPORTANT TO KNOW MELK
'YIELD OF BELL’S DAM

"i ‘ '- Not much headway can be made 111
’ breeding up a daffy herd if the dam
5‘ I - ' o! the-bul1 is not a good milker. This
is new a well—known fact and very
high prices have lately been paid for
‘ ' bulls out of heavy producing cows.
(ﬁfth-e Cap Rouge Experimental: Sta-
tion a very-ﬁne French-Canadian bull,
which will be called Z, was bought a
few years ago. one that would easily
have won championship honors at any
exhibitidn in Canada against all
comers: Moreover. this bull, accord-
ing to ordinary standards, was of a
conformation which induced one to
beﬁm that he was ota heavy-milking
strain and would produce good heifers.
But, unfortunately, such was not the
case and he did.not' leave a single
better-which was worth keeping as a
milk. producer. . »
Ow A, to the scrvice of another bull,
produced a daughter whiph later qual-
iﬁed" for Record of Performance with
7,794 pounds of milk, whilst to the
‘service of Z, we gave o heifer which
never gave ﬁfteen pounds of milk per
day during her ﬁrst lactation period.
Cow, B qualiﬁed for Record of Per‘
.tormance as a three-year-old With,
3332 pounds of ﬁnillt, gave 4,624 lbs.
during her ﬁrst period of lactation and
averaged 6.9117 during her ﬁrst ﬁve

 
only gave 3,040 pounds during her ﬁrst
period .0! . Imitation, .

4

{Or Record oi Performance, with

 
' W011. 3‘ I. ~ _v . ‘. . _ ,
lemme: a. cow which
' save 10.2396 pounds or milk in 365

. days and harm ' oh}! ﬁnely gave

’ and beans: to ~

ﬁne Wheat and rye looking good,

481‘ sheep, 5 to 7; lambs, 1,1 to 13':

kinds of farm produce as there is no.

years in milk. '-Her daughter, by Z,,

:76?in C Was out of’a dam Which qual-~

.. v

. ‘ periodd or ‘iio-

3,401 swinging: no '- lactation period.
(30w G averaged 5,271 pounds dur-

ing four lactation. periods, going up.

to 6,224r'jinlone or them and her dau-

‘ghtor, by ,2, only gave 2,947 pounds '

during, her ﬁrst 365 days in milk.
-The cost at barn room; care, feed,
has gone up faster than the'price of.
milk, so that every dairy'farmer must
see that he does not use a bull like Z.
——Ea:perimental Farm Note.

 
THE SUCCESSr’uL
RAISING 0F CALVES

 
This subject could be very well di-
vided into, three parts, via, (1)
Breeding, (2) Feedingga-nd (3) Hous-
ing. , _

(1) Breeding—In order to get the
most- proﬁtable results for feed con-
sumed and labor spent in raising
calves it is necessary to see that the

breeding of the calves is of the best. '

that their sires and dams are good
individuals or the breed which you
are Working with, and that they have
good records of performance behind
them. This applies to beef breeds as
well as dairy. '

(2) Feeding—3A5 soon as the calf is
dropped it should be separated from
its dam and not given any food for
twelve hours, when it will have de-
veloped a good appetite and be ready
to take its ﬁrst food, which should
consist of ﬁve pounds of its mother’s
milk. This should be duplicated in
twelve hours, which will make ten
pounds per day,_ which amount the
calf should receive for the ﬁrst two
weeks. At the end of two weeks the
calf should be getting six pounds
twice a day, which ‘should becomin-
ued for three weeks. At the end of
ﬁve weeks commence feeding the call
a small quantity of skim milk, mixed
with the whole milk, gradually in-
creasing the skim' milk and decreas-
ing the whole milk until at the end of
the seventh week the calf would be

getting ﬁfteen pounds skim milk per.
This‘amount should be contin- -

day.
ued until the call is six months old.
As soon as the calf is getting skim
milk alone there should be added to
the milk a small quantity of equal
parts of oil cake and ground oats
with hulls taken out. This is a good
cream substitute, which partly takes
the place of butter tat which is
lacking in the skim milk. An ounce
of this mixture, at ﬁrst, twice a day,
is sumcient, but should be gradually
increased as the calf develops. When
the calf is six or. seven weeks old,
there shoul be placed before it some
nice, swee clover hay and equal
parts of ground oats and bran, which
it will. soon learn. to eat. It should
have as much‘ot this feed as it will
eat up readily twice a day. Always

‘ be careful that there is no feed left

over in mangers and that all pails and
bakes in which calves are fed. 'are
kept perfectly clean and sweet. They
should befed an accurate quantity at
regular times, which is very impor-
tant in keeping the‘calf’s digestive or-

, gans in, the best condition possible. "

which-is very essential for
robust development. -_ , *

(3): Housing.———A1l quarters in "which
calves are kept shouldbo was; and

rapid and

' they should? be/givenxalhitlte room pas:

sible,so as 'to :‘allovspme 5:” ex.

, “guise. '1, ’Thoy.shonld,;mg¥§ be won

bedded. nth 'illénfr‘591“11&ht._aﬁdf ’gooo'
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' V The “poor-milker” is usually non-productive _be- ;‘
cause of some'disorder‘of the digestive or genital
organs that is sapping at her health and strength.
Even apparently slight troubles of this nature usually
lead to more serious ailments so common among dairy
cows, such as Abortion, Retained Afterblrth, Bar-
renness, Scouring, Bunches, etc.

A sick cow should be treated like a sick person—.w1th
medicine that will correct the trouble. Kow—Kure 13 the
most valuable and best known remedy for the preven—
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Original Idlers onﬁle;
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s '
art {Pr/tar eve

 
see the tracks and signs, he Would not
be able to distinguish them one from
another. ,

To be able to read the signs accur-
ater is essential for successml hunt~
ing and trapping
per will know instantly, on seeing 9.

passed that way, and by knowing its
‘habits will know about when it— is
likely to return, and how to place a
trap for its capture He can also
tell with a fair accuracy at what time
the animal passed that way, and fre-

male' or female; whether it was look-
ing for food or a place to rest; wheth-
er it was on its regular route of trav—
el and where it was going;
novicerall of these signs”'are unintel-
ligible.

The art of sign reading
learned only from experience.
the writer can distinguish the signs
and tracks of the fur-bearing animals,
to put this knowledge in print is ex-
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endeavor here to describe the tracks
of the fur-bearing and game animals
and believe that the description will
be of value to the amateur.

Before the coming of-the telFtale
snow and the myriads of tracks which
then appear, the stream with its mud-
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most promising place in which to
'look for signs. In the mud alongside
of a. pool' of water the tracks of that
busy little animal, the muskrat, can be
seen.

The trail of this animal when seen
atthe water’s edge, and only "a few
tracks are visible, appears to be
‘irregular, but if one can see where
it has walked for some distance it
will be noted that the animalhas a
regular step,Isome five or six ‘inches
in length, and there 'is also the trail

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of the dragging tail, ,n1-ost plainly
seen in the soft, muddy bottom of the
still, shallow water. In the snow the
track will appear the same. Only the
prints of the hind feet are visible, the
front feet being obliterated by thosfe
of the hind feet, When the animal is
running the prints of all four feet
are readily discernable. The print
iof the hind foot will measure about
two and one-fourth inches in length
if the full impression of the foot is to
be seen. ,
In addition to ,Ilhe tracks other
signs may be seen; Where the ani-
mals are found in fair numbers they
will have well-deﬁned trails leading
from the water. Where the bank is
steep the trails are sometimes/worn
an inch or more in depth, owing to
the muskrat’s habit of sliding down
the bank, which habit is not practiced

 
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the banks.

in play, but for convenience: Other
signs are the droppings on the logs

' which extend into the ’water, the dens

with an accumulation of grass at the

entrance, also the scratch signs on

the bank, the feed beds, houses, etc.
All signs are plentiful in' early

fall and at such times the novice is _,

likely to overestimate the number of
animals, as the muskrat is Ivery active
at that time

Muskrats are trapped in the fall,
Winter and spring, but they are not
prime until mid-winter and some are
not fully prime until; the ﬁrst of
March.

 
ping is done at this time, tha “'
“b‘a’nk rats"—-those living in

number. and kinds of fur-bearing 5,111-.
, mills found in a locality, while the‘ ’
I» novice would see nothing, 01“,. if he' did

The expert trap-.1

track, just what animal it was that

quently will know whether it was a
To the ..

While

'all that, is needed.

one year to begin at once—w—Joseph 951..

» mon county.

It looks to me like a splendid
. the farmer to have. ..
--.of no- particular ,v
,‘ders Gr ‘1: 31

Nevertheless they are more.
easily caught in the fall, and as the ‘,
skins bring a fair price, the most trapé "

  
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The muskrat when caught

   
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bank: «Others prefer to tie a. stone m
the end of the chain and Ilay the stone.
in deep Water. . ’ '»
One of the most common methods
or trapping the muskrat into ﬁnd their
slides On the bank and Set the trap
at the foot of the slide under about I
two and a half or. three inches 0f... I!-
water No covering is needed. . ‘ 'Y'
Where muskrats are found .in large ,
numbers, as in a pond or slough, pro- ‘ \‘
need as follows: Get a oard about
.12 inches wide and 16 feet long and
nail Strips across it, arrange them in ﬂ-
pairs, just far enough apart to let a ’ .1 ‘
trap set betWeen. A board of this size ‘, it
will hold six or eight traps The '
traps may be stapled to the edge of 1“ J
the board and some small pieces of i f»)
bait scattered the entire length. The " ' :t 37,

     
ﬁnd it.

The best baits for muskrats. are <
sweet apple. parsnips, carrots, pump, '1
kin, corn and the ﬂesh of the musk -
rat While they do not eat the meat K
they will go to smell at it, which is
Muskrat musk
beaver‘castor and catnip are all at-
tractive to the muskrat. —-E. Krcps in
Science of Trapping. . _ .

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water where the gnuskrats are sure to if“:

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All the people are there too, Dave .,Dough the Baker, Heave Ho, the Sailor lohn Bu,“
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Bull, the Butcher’s Son, they are all here.

Everyone from Professor Plus to Fire

Chief Puff and John Lung, the Laundryman:

There are street cars on the streets and steam boats on the river.

biles and ﬁre departments Even the street lamps and the trees in the park are here.

There a re automo—

All you have to do 15 to cut them out and build the most beautiful city that you eve1

dreamed of.

And—Oh, yes! A whole circus is here
all ready to cut out and put into the circus parade.
ful, you ’-ll go crazy about it ,

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Wagons, elephants, wild beasts and clowns,
And it s all so colorful and beauti-

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75:" both little boys and girls.- A - l. H
1 whole city'- full of interesting , :1!“
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_ Something 18 happening every
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, A' wonderful secret dis~
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3 the baker; John Bull. the
butcher. and Heave Ho, the
sailor. suddenly grow to be
gisnts, to the great conster-

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86y.“ the kitten, suddenly
becomes a. ti er, and kno ks
building's oWn with '
tail!

All these exciting events
are told in a m st remarkable '
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and the whole city and all the
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Read below how easy it is to
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Send one- of your sets of “Giants of Lilliputania” to me postage
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Wonderfullygood coﬁ’eeis only

one of s hundred features that
will please you at the Port Shelby.

Servidor Service is another.

450 Rooms provided with every
service feature found in the ﬁnest

hotels. Rates $1.50 to $3.00.
250 Rooms with Beth at $2.00.

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Bkooxs' .11’1’1 1A\til

 
the modem scteunli L‘
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that relieves rupture
will be sent on trial.
No obnoxious springs
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Binds and draws the
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AND GET HIGHEST PRICES. HONEST GRADING,
PROMPT CASH Rm, ME! lLLUSTRATaD'
TRAPPERS’ GUIDE TO SHIPPERS : : :
Write for Price List

McMILuN FUR 5111111110.

MINNEAPOLIS,M!NN.

MapleSyrup Makers ll

Tap Every Maple Tree f
you have on the place and *1—
help conserve su~
gar. Order aClnm-
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’NDWifyou want , I
11 next Spring. Rail-
roads are-slow in War

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and state
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Company - Hudson, Ohio

 
\Vheu answering advertisements, please
mention .‘Hrhlu’illl Business Farming.

   
" WISE DAIRY'MEii FEED . .
THE cowsruxERAHJ

 
3 today bringing from $175 to $225 per '

' time.

 
“Cows whiehm'enet well fed at this
time of year go into winter-‘with a
handicap, thin in ﬂesh and With a re-'

duced milk ﬂow. For this reason, wise ,

da’irymen feed their cows liberally dur-
ing the fall months. It isnot only ex-

, pensive but useless to attempt to br" g
3 cows back to normal ﬂow after

433’
go on winter ration. It pays to in
feeding liberally early.

It pays also to provide cows with
ample protection from tall winds and
wins. Comfortable cows give more
milk. ’

“Can a satisfactory dairy ration be
made from straw bran and mill by-
product feeds?” is sometimesasked.
Such a ration would not properly
nourish an animal’s body.

The leafy part of the plant is neces-
sary to furnish the elements needed
for growth and reproductidn. Silage
furnishes these vital elements in an
available form A liberal supply of
corn silage and straw with a small
amount of hay and a few pounds of
mill by-product feeds, is the war-time
cattle ration. Silage is the cheapest
available roughage, considering its
feeding value. It saves grain and pie-
vents the loss of calves by properly
nourishing the pregnant cows. A full
3110 means food llSlll‘allfe

GOOD DRAFT HORSES ARE
A GOOD INVESTMENT

I believe good draft horses, espec-
ially good Percherons, are the best
bu}r a farmer or ranchman can make
right now. We are short on feed, and

 
} I have no more than I absolutely need

to carry thru the horses and cattle
I now have; but if I had the feed
available or could purchase it, I should
buy a thousand head of the best young
draft horses I could get.

What wealth I have obtained has
been by going contrary to the road
most men follow. 111;.893, when no
one wanted horses. 1 went into South-
ern lowa and bought seven earloads
of good grade Percheron'nmres. I
did not. buy any that weighed less
than 1600 lbs... and they were good,
clean, well-shaped mares. I paid
from $50 to $90 a head for them, and
they cost me an average of $65.me
head on the farms where I bought
them. The same kind of mares are

head. yet farmers are now grumbling
about low prices. They don’t know
what low prices are. '

I shipped these mares to Tyndall,
South Dakota. and sold them at ap-
proximately $¢00 per pair. In nearly
every case i had to take small horses
in as part, of the purchase price, but
I got money enough to boot. to paylt‘he
original cost of the big mares, leave
me a good proﬁt, and i had the plugs

left over. I then shipped all these
plugs to the northwestern corner ot‘
the state, where the farmers lacked

horses and money, and sold them on
Practically every man paid up

 
Smashing Bargain Price - j
ForAIlRepairmgNeeds ‘ .‘ .2

Big Savings for Michigan Farmers ,
This' 15 your chance to buy best quality Rooﬁng .
'Of leading makes. Asphalt Shinéles,Bu1‘1d1n3 Papers,

men . as, at eesthst hold therecord
Rmﬁnac t'wlgeﬁﬁglggﬁrgmsermtwes of manufacturers

fort econom

‘ Ibeet Rooyi‘mue and Repairing mater-19.1110!
opentions. and 0m entire use:
consumers at contractors and manufacturers

sin stocks are limited

rite“
at:

now offered
’mnﬂd‘ wh‘gesuée 11311993111: you

 
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a: ital-set

”DID "O a“. 1'

  
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money for my work "

sites were brought in.

‘ CABE‘ OF THE WW3

.:1;hut -.

. About the the: that I distributed
thus sever undead: at mares around
Tyndall, and their their inferior. hors‘

‘es away; an Illinois horseman traded

"several good Percheron stallions to
men in that locality.
for these stallions and Sent some very
good horses into the neighborhood. .
' The resulting improvement in the
horses in that vicinity was almost be-
yond belief. I was back there about
ﬁfteen years atterward, and in walk-
ing down the street one Saturday at-
ternoon I remarked to Dr. Hamlin;
of Tyndall, that I had never seen so
many) good, big, grade Percheron
teams in any locality. He told me

then that the improvement dated back ,

to 1893, w' .en I brought in seven car-
loads of good mares, and the good
He also said
that horsebuyers came to Tyndall
from all parts of the United States,
and that single geldings had been sold
direct from the plow for prices as
high as $425 per head. .
History repeats itself. Today 101-
eign countries are almost stripped of
horses suitable for farm work. All
European countries will want hmses‘
as soon as ships are available to take
them over. Good, big drafters are
bringing from $800 to $1,000 apiece
in Great Britain, and in France, $600

 
From Satisﬁed Advertisers

Enclosed ﬁnd your bill for $28
f01 advertising and check for same.
We had a very satisfactory sale.
Yours very truly—H. W. Norton,
Jr. East Lansing, Michigan.

 
“My seed coxn advertisement is
proving to be a regular “corn- -pop-
per ” Others who wish to insure
themselves a supply of good corn
will have to hurry their orders, or?
. get '.lei’t”—4lfred J. Halst‘cnd. Wash-‘-
inglon.

Enclosed ﬁnd small ad. We feel
as if it was our duty to give all
the encouragement and help to M.
B. F. that it is possible for us to
do. We will have use for more

space" later. Congratulations on
your success. I remain—.7110. (Y.
Butler, Pres. Portland

Farmers’ ﬂ
GWcratioc Association.

 
is the lowest price for even a common
sized chunk. . The American consul’s
report from Stockholm, Sweden, in
August, states that, the German mil-

itary commission-had recently bought -

250 horses at 3400 crowns each, Swed-
ish money, which means that they paid
$1,740.21 per head for them.

Some men fear the inﬂuence of the
tractor on the horse market. As a
practical farmer, with long years of
experience in the west, I know they
will not displace the horse. Don’t fret .
About them. While my chief intelests
have been in cattle, I have sold $27, 000
worth of horses ed? the range since
1911, have twice as many horses left
as I over had. and my horses have

. made me more clear proﬁt, proportion-‘

ately to numbers, than my cattle

My advice to my friends is to get
21d of their inferior horses, and to
put in all the good ones they can han-

\dle now. Don’t sacriﬁce a single good i

Illarter, and go in debt, if necessary,
to put your teams on a ﬁrst-class basis
now While horses are relatively cheap.
The time to buy is when the average
man is distouragsd and wants'to sell.
You am liner gr :1 rang on out; plan.
--—-Pci_er Wagner. Montana. A

 
5 sets 11,11 none at the littl'
"that. mum uery much 11:11:

He took land ,

 
look like a little thing t
milk com exposed todheveslll,
frosty mm {from mm 11111111 *w

 
milk new, causing. the cows to drynp

much eaﬂier than they would it kept“

It is very llt- . 1

. 1tle,if any, more work to look after the
stable than to search for the cows be.- "

,1 in comfortable quarters.

fore daylight. Our carbide are affected
quite as much by the changing condi-
'tions between summer and winter, as
we are, and as they grin: us returns in
proportion as we care tor ﬂiem. It
would be fully tospay .a (good price for
a Cow and, then through neglect or
carelessness allow her to practically
go, dry. If it was a cane ot'iekeeping
them as- cheaplyas possible, it might
be advisable to let them roam at will
airer the pastures green or bare. but
as it is a case of manufacturing. the
roughage of the farm so get the great-
est amount of returns therefrom, it
behooves every one who is keeping
cows to shelter them from the rough
weather during the fall. and to feed
liberally to keep up the milk ﬂow. It
is much easier kept up than it is to
- build it up after it is once lost. It 'is
much better to feed some shocks of
corn now, th 11 to chop what remains
of the shock (after the mice and cows
have taken the grain) out of the ire
and snow next February. Marc-h or
April, when very little‘nourishment is
left in it. A little extrf attention just
now will make you money directly by
the production of-more milk and indi.
rectly by fertilizing the farm for hair
tel crops in the future, while a little
neglect of the herd means loss in the
business. I will ask every cow owner
to answer this question for himself.
Which will it be?——R. H. H.

 
CDMBINATIONS OF BARLEY
WITH "OTHER FEEDS

The urgent necessity
the barley crop for feed both in order
to save the price of the barley and
also to release the pressure of de-
mands for .wheat feeds, has suggested
that like most whole grains barley
should be supplemented with a protein
concentrate.
the Douglas company of cedar Rap-
ids, has worked out several rations
with barley, which should be passed
along to feeders in order to get the
best results and also to help the feed
business in general.

Ration No. l—Corn gluten 4 parts.
oil meal, 1-2, cats 6, barley of barley
feed, 6.

Ration No. 2—Corn gluten feed 2
parts, oil meal 1—2, barley of barley
feed 6. ,

Ration No. 3—,—Corn gluten feed 2
parts, oats 2, barley of barley feed 3.

Ration No. ‘4—Corﬁ gluten feed 1
part, cats 1, barley of barley feed 3.

Ration No. 5—~Corn gluten teed 1
part, barley of barley feed 2parts.

 
Breeders’ Notes

“The Holstein bull calf I am adver-
Using," writes Mr Alfred 'l‘ Halstead
‘of Long View Farm, Washington,
of world r-etord bree ling on One hand
and 33 pound breeding on the. other
When we test his dam another year
he will be made worth ‘double price’ ”
Here i a real bargain for someone

 
A very successful sale was held by.

the Holstein Friesiau Bgeeders’ Cattle

:Club at Ypsilanti on Nov. 6th Gen-

. , “were made its 11 J Birdm‘
‘ uperlm‘ "w. o. Fisk o1 Ypsilanti, Ly:
xot Allin Arbor, E H.

   
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' “ ‘ ' "“’ , . Come out no as writ. for prices. , ‘~
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Egan 3.353221%: {"51}; ﬂail-1:: urmt‘,dd.vnntlu-.I Bond In 0:32.31: Bllgngflfalt P. 6. nongi .31 13.68% ’ .
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qua ‘ --'a. million dol- . . ‘ . ,. . .
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Itbggﬁgﬁsy. 3:31. i’éteﬁs‘loea wogk; ‘ FOR SAEE . 2 $3; 8337!- sa. .3? ‘53?“ng mos. old. LARGE TYPE r. (L 1.11 ‘11“. bred:
the, interests. of its mem- ~_ 21 3 months old .1. E. Tanswell. Mason, Michigan. to 8,3116% ready at.“ am “Va“ “Ff

,. A- ,. _ . ' BEE], snonTnonns. A few and Sept. Will also mil a tow BMW

HOISteIn Bu11 calf BATES oung bulls for sale. _ _ boars. Fun sale Nov. 29. _
' sly 3- Hummel. Mason Michﬂga” Wm. J. Clarke. R. No. 7, Monrl’ich. .

Es‘f’l‘tth 35%??gmer 0f, aSehagf grog: up roux»

0 “ e . COW, 818 3 Poland China I!

_ ' - . 0R SALE—D l urpose Red Polled _ on

Johanna, and sxred by a ‘son of a ‘F bulls and Qquggdogm rams. 0x10“ Sheep

.u , ,, , . . 'ch' an. Toulas Gloom
. 33 lb. cow. The youngster is L. H. Walker, Reed City!“ ‘3 Whit. Wnndotto o Barred Rocl. cums.
straight. and handsomely marked, . A HORSES s. .r. mmr‘fi‘ﬁ‘épr‘i‘iﬁci“ﬁlth-m.

> . ' , ulls 11g 7 8.Wh‘l.e' SHE'DLAND PONIES ' B P. 0.. The best 18 of his.
_ . '. ' '. 5 __‘ - , ‘f l $1001dedSeon - . F Sale Write boars- the lgﬁiigﬁc lbsdiiediitt lieavy-bone3
for 811?, Rmyfor sci-“cc ., ~ E Ah ‘ “'1‘“! w - Mich - SHETLAND POMES ‘«?-raovnrlnﬁnrv & better, than p10 the pafst's yeegisé‘ erage
, “high“, ‘

 
0-78 from a 25 ’lbr‘cow 2111:0333” 3‘ Drives Mark R (‘urdy Firm-o". Mich H. O. Swartz, Schoolcraft, Michigan.

mbffour year old. Write or pe igrees . ‘ ‘ .

_, and prices. E. L. SALISBURY“ _ ’ existerea Holstein Bull one yea? 9m . HOGS BIG TYPE :ﬁdc‘ngﬁﬁrﬁisr'eRiéﬁﬁ‘émizh
1,2. . ' / _ Shophorderchigan - for sale. Good type. Dam givmg ewes for sale.

1 ,NOW from 60 to 65' lbs. .of 3.7 milk v. A. A. . .
daily. Price $90 crtared. Also young 0. l. 0 Wood & Son, Saline, Michigdn.

 
.bull calves cheap. C. L, Hulett &,Srm. ,' HAMPSHIRE

.. . - . ' ‘ - ,. HOLSTEINS ' lemos, Mich; .l
¥lﬂlolfpno§39£iml m... m R . mm... O Bred GI *3 HAMPSHIRE 3.2m .. R piss:
young bulls from King Pieter 588” e lStel'e gnaw by a 3243 ”L and \ your order for bfed gilts now. I

. .-. ' ,A. R. O. dams , . of Kin Se is . ‘ . ,. .
'iaﬁ‘bnsérlezbblg' reégrdg?mWe test annu- Pontiac Alcartra. large enough in iix— mm] W‘ S“) de“ 5t- “”1”" ““3“" R‘ 1“” ‘

‘uily for tuberculosis. Write for [3140' mediate service. Prices from $100 to $150M seerceable Boars SHEEP

Write for pedigrees.
«5 and further information. Si (11' .
7 “ . , Ml Mun. . n inger Brothers. Lake Odessa, Mich. r.

J .I'Isolﬂ Bros. South Lyons 0’ K _ FOR SA Eleven head . of Holstein J. C‘d jeweﬁ’ Mason, Midl- SHROPSIHRES
_ ” . cows and heifers. Three SHROPSHIRES REGL‘VTERED Shrop-
3 . (‘ Yearlkng‘s not bred. the rest to freshen . shire Rams, some
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMIN " _ this fall and winter. A good start I'Pas_ SLARGE TYPE 0 I C ewes. Write for prices or come to the
:has sold two-different lots of cattle I onable for some one. Write. t , . ’ ' ‘ farm, Dan BOOher, R. 4, Evart_ Mich.
. 5339’"! offered. I nowoffer heifer calves W. C. Hendee & Son, Pimrkney, Michigan. l Spring boars. Also 2nd prize Jr. yr. 1'03” REGISTE SHROPSHIRE RAMS
J'rom heavy milking dams. for $100 . I Mirh, State Fair, 1918. RED of quality. One ‘ im-
each, and the same kind of bull calves One cah‘ma R istered Holst - I‘LOVEB LEAF 81:00“ FARM ported three-year-old Ram Priced right
10’335. » ‘ . ex ems Monroe, Mich. Harry Potter & Son D i M' h‘ .
,_ , Yearlings sued by 30 pound bull and . ' av son 1° 18'3".
ROBIN CARR “For." hgaVy-producing cows, Also some DUBOC HIGH ﬁﬁASgh REll'ISTERED'b year-
. . i'lOIPP.‘ uroc open guts. , 8 rops ire ewes red to
,FOWLERVH‘LE} MICE-“Mb J Hubert Brown. Byron. Michigan PeaCh Hell Far ram 0’? extra quality. Also healthy. '33—

I orouS, We“ Wooled. Ram lambs ready
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 3 JERSEY

eld J s . W ‘0’ Semicac Flack estagiished £3991.
. months old, grandson of Hengerv p . BULLS readv for 3"- Registered ‘Duroc ersefy wme. e . men, exter, ic igzm.
. m K° W by shag Ems? JERSEY vice for 3...... by “so we f:“..§:§:.* ”mm
gut rho has 613 A. 1d randdangh‘ter- Majesty's ‘OXfOI‘d FOX, upa “them " ' '
I?! s an 18 lb. Yr. 0 g and out of R. of‘M. Dams by Majesty's an see . RomOO, Mich. IMPROVED Black Top Deioins. Sixty

 
to! King Sezis who has a. sister that re- Wonder Herd tuberculin test‘rl an lnwood Broth, R R
_ ‘ ,>. d % eg. ams to choose from. N
'my 1218319 WEIR: :a‘lgeits lﬁgllitd‘lgscglso: freedfrtom abortéon. Our aim is size with SWINE Bears Sows MiEbank’ H111 CF85“. Farm, Peerwﬁogna
, . . - , . . ‘ oo , 'an . ' - ' - ‘ . . ~ . ' ' '
_~weli grown and a. splendid individual §ersey inﬁrm, Alvigrgglﬁéganapmﬂdgfgi‘d DUROC JERSE Gilts and Fall pigs Middlegzrm Situated four mlles 5011”! or
Price 3100. Write for 9130“? and Ded‘gree' ’ ' ‘ for sale. Choice spring boar, sired by
L C. .Ketzler, Flint, Michigan ‘ ' GUERNSEY - Brookwater Tippy Orion No. 55421. This FOB SALE—Registered yearling Rams.

 
15 an unusually good bunch to select mproved Black Top Delaine Merino.

_‘ Q I A”‘*‘" l 7 ‘ _.,,_, I
.1 - , RN WE HAVE A FEW h or I will shi Frank Rohrab - ' . '
E. WOlve e Sték Farm $1515 1 SEYS Heifers and cows for 310 ’prggﬁ agglisegiéseglls each, “the? REZigi‘rE Lalmngurg' M101].
oners two ons about 1 yr." old, sired 8' a so a number 01 well bred young sex. Home Farm. Thos. Underhtil, & Son. FOR SALE RED IMPROVED

bulls—write for breeding Villa 9 Farms Black TOD Delaine Merino
by Judge Walker Pietenje. (These G . . - g . Props, Salem, Michigan. Rams. V. * ..
calves are nicely marked and 1181“ m rass Lake. M'cmga" ‘ Michigan. $ti£algku1§h§ne$om POtteane'

”.color and are ﬁne individuals. Write .. Biz, long, can, grow-
.for prices and pedigrees. Pattie Creek. -—- , SHORTHOB} DUROC BOARS thy males that will FOR SALE PURE BBED and regis—
_’ R. 2_ - , . HAT DO you WANJ‘? 1 represent 41 add size and growth to your herd. Big- tered American Delaine
. BHO¥THORN breeders. Can put you in gest March fax-rowed pigs in the coun- sheep. Young, Both sexes.
touch w th best milk or beef strains. Bulls try, 200 lbs. and not. fat. F- H' 00111930 Maple Rapids» Michigan.

 
all ages. Come females- (1 W_ Crum... Newton Bamharti. St. Johns, Michigan MINES, bred on same farm for 50

 
- . ' I ' Secretary Cmrai Michigan Shanna-m . _
, 3 . years- Size. am -
PREPARE . 5W McBrides. Milehigmm for sale delivgxad.ty\7i?i'rii30tem' rams

‘ . For the greatest dimand, fgtturi' F811 IéAcIffggéfre 3%va sngng‘lﬁlémd . ~ . DUROC BOARS, GILTS [ S. H. Sanders. R. No. 2, Ashtabula, Ohio.
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Every day now that automobile of yours becomes more valuable and as it does, your risk increases.

To- -day you will ﬁnd it hard to duplicate your auto at anywhere near the price you paid for it and yet it
probably is worth as much to you as the day you bought it. ., , » p

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As winter comes, the risk of losing your auto by ﬁre increases from Storing in buildings, from Cold weath-_' *
er back-ﬁring and a dozen different causes that make more autos burn in winter than during the summer"
months. . . v - ., ‘ p -1 ‘ p ‘
Auto-thieves are everywhere, because the market for second-hand cars improves as the factory production
slows down With each month of war. Already great factories like the Cadillac, Buick, Packard, Ford and
MaxWell are given up almost altogether to war work, some of them will build no cars for sale to the public,
after January ﬁrst. Think what that means to you.

Every day people are being hurt or killed by automobiles right here in Michigan. Courts will not take
the auto-owners’ excuses, they look upon them all as we do the “didn’t-know-it-was-loaded” stOry. Lia-
bility is a costly seatmate to carry in your auto, when we will carry him for you at a cost so small that no
man who can afford to drive an auto in Michigan can afford to be without it. '

Citizens’ Mutual Auto Insurance covers every possible risk to which the owner is subjected, Fire, Theft
and Liability in one policy—Gellision insurance, too, if you want it.

"I III ’ 'III’ II" 1‘

One Dollar for the Policy and 25c. per Horee Power!

Don’t you put off this important matter another minute—or it may be too late and you’ll Wish to the end >
of your days that you had followed our advice, which is—

Sit right down now, and tell us on a postal or in a letter the name, model and year‘of your- car, that’s all
you need to do for we will tell you immediately how much it will cost to insure you against all worry in
Michigan’s largest, strongest and pioneer

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The Citizens Mutual Auto Insurance Company of Howell
William E. Robb, Secretary

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are urged to stop and visit our new building, every convenience will be g1 ‘
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