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.1919 SESSION

 

1 Agriculture Well Represented in- Both Houses
‘_ of Legislature and Igarmers Are Given

Posnions on" Many Important
' ' ' Committees

 

7;; L1entenant Governor DickinSon, farmer and

,. banker, started the 1919 session of the Michi-
. gan senate off with a hang, in a speech on

primary campaign practices that sent a shiver
down the spines of certain well- known poli-
ticians and brought a nod of approval from
the legislators who frown upon the illegal use
of money in political campaigns. Mr. Dick-

inSon mentioned no names, but his plain and ,

forceful language in denouncing the “buy-
ing of offices” at “public auction” left no
"room for doubt as to whom he had in mind.

7 Mr. Dickinson’ s remarks upon the purity of
. elections and his plea for a corrupt practices .
.2 act that would give the poor man an equal
1 chance with the rich are Worthy of a place
, among the state’s documents. The full text
' of his address appears elsewhere 1n this issue.

Speaker Thomas Reed,i a Shelby, attorney,
and an' active Newberry worker,
House that he‘ had no apologies to- make for
his support of Mr. Newberry. He carefully

avoided all mention of the money that Was '

eXpended by the Newberry campaign commit-
tee, and thought the state of Michigan might
Well be proud of its senator- elect.-
Aside from these verbal fireworks, the in-
itial session of both houses passed off quietly
The farming interests scored a signal vic-

‘ tory in the election of Chas. B Scully of Al

mont as president pro tem of the senate.

ahot contest on between Sen.

seuny and ’Sen. Condon/ of Detroit, but the
agricultural fellows pulled
hard for Mr. Scully and
won out.

‘ Another tribute to agri-
culture Was the appoint-
ment of Senator Herbert F.
Baker of Cheboygan as a
member of the judiciary

(the histOry, of the senatt

that committee.

Frank H. Vandenboom,
: iwho, comes to the senate
Sen. 81311113; "etagged as a farmer,

,fr'oside‘nt pro tour
, of the Senate

   

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will tell, an
in

teld the . '

committee, the first time in I

‘ that a farmer has sat upon .

.was. .

- ‘ Mr. Van— .
._ ,1 ‘ ‘denboom s home is m the mmmg district, of
"the upper pemnsula and-he 1s ' puted to be

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Our Good Old World
as,

The green world, the clean world—
lt’s mighty good, my boy!
, And if we onl look for it
' The world' is full of joy.
Sad enough—and glad enough
In almost every spot— ‘
So let us make the best of this,
The good old world we’ve got.

The green world, the clean world—
he world we’re living on,
Has every night a lucky star
And every day a dawn.
Everywhere are smiles to spare
And everywhere a song“
Our good old world can run itself
And keep from going wrong.

, The reen world, the clean world,
t swings along its way—-
The finest place that we have lived,
And better every day.
Smiles are here for every tear
so'let us not be vext—
Butletus build up happiness
To treasure in the next.

The clean world, the green world —«
It’ 5 good to you and me.

It holds for us our heart’s desire
If we can only see.

Sing and smile most all the while
And roll the griefs away-

The happy world, the friendly world,

. The world we have today! -'

 

 

 

 

 

 

DeFOe is strongly in favbr of primary reform.
I11 Mr. DeFoe the farmers of the state may
feel that they have a friend.

.It would be quite impossible to discuss the
personnel of both the senate and house com-
mittees, but a careful review of them shows
that agriculture has fared well in nearly all
instances. While, so far as known, there is
little legislation directly affecting the farmers
in contemplation, there will be a number of
very. important measures having to do with

bonding proposals,'taxation, elections, etc., in .

Which farmers are interested. (Cont- On 119'- 4)

 

 
  
   
  
  
  
     
  
 

 
 

 

 

 

' seating 6, 000 farmers. ”principally in Northwestern
i Michigan. Thadisbanding‘ 01: the food. administra. , ‘

.mtato grading, rul 61M.

'their contracts.‘

101110 PRICES A111
1111an UPWARDS

Prediction of M. B. F. That Potato Prices
Would be Higher is Verified by Re-
cent Developments and Attitude
of Growers and Dealers

 

In normal times it is hazardous to predict
the future trend of any market, but in abnor-
mal times likethese, it is almost suicidal.
However, there are certain well—known mar-
keting principles and economic influences
which may be safely used as a guide in study-,
ing marketing conditions and if care and
judgment be used, certain definite conclu-
sions may he arrived at.

Several months ago .‘Vlichigan Business
1* arming beg can a study of the potato situa-
tion in compmisou “llll that of a year ago.
The crop was 50,000,000 bushels short of a
year ago, but despite this fact farmers every-
where rushed their potatocs to market in the
early fall. Notwithstamling an unprecedent-
ed movement, potato prices did not greatly
decline, and we. soon came, to the conclusion
that the first of the year would see the low
point of the market and that thereafter prices
would tend upward. This conclusion was
strengthened by the report of. the Bureau of
Markets, showing that two—thirds of the crop
had been sold in the three months of October,
November, December, with six months left in
which to diSpose of the balance.

We have therefore, urged farmers not to
sell all their potatoes on a declining market;
we have pointed out the desirability of feed-
ing the market gradually, so that primary
points might not become congested. Our ad-
vice in this connection seems to have been
pretty well followed, for we find many farm—
ers 'who still retain a part of their crop, with
a few here and there who have sold no pota-
toes whatever.

When ~the holiday season passed with no
lowering of prices, it became more certain
than ever that the potato-situation was sound
and for the past two weeks both groWers and
dealers in all states have talked higher prices.

The executive committee of the Michigan
Potato Growers’ Exchange, one of the largest
potato marketing organizations in the United
States. in session at Cadillac recently pre-
dicted higher potato prices, if we may believe

_ the. following report which was published in

the daily press:

“Cadillac, Michigan. January 2nd, 1919z—Po-
tatoes are going up in, price this winter but
the increase will be gradual and will not reach
the height of two years 'ago,‘ officers of the Michi-

' gan. Potato Growers’ exchange,.here ’for' a state
. conference, declared today. Farmers are not an-

anticipating any difficulty this year in disposing

, of their potato crop as. about one-half already has

been sold. Almosrtwice as many potatoes have,

been shipped as last year at this time, they said.

“The association is composed of managers of
45 co- operative potato growers’ alsisociations reprea?‘

L

tion has left nobody tor the enforcement a th
the producers are In, ”
to go. to court noW to rec buyers to livenp

Some means of obviating“:p tit

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.vSEC’Y HOUSTON UNGES STRONG
' STATE DEP’TS OF AGRICULTURE

In addressing the National /Association of Ag-
rlculture at Baltimore, Hen. D. F Houston, See-
rciary of Agriculture, spoke earnestly in favor of
strong state departments of agriculture to co-op-
crate with the federal department of agriculture
fin regulatory activities concerning animal and
‘ plant diseases in the same way that the federal
department now co-operates with the state agri-
cultural colleges in educational and research work.

The Secretary related the difficulties that the
department has encountered in many of the states
due to the lack of well-equipped state departments
or other regulatory agencies with sufficient legal
powers and funds. He explained also the method
, otco—cperatlcn and joint support between the fed-
eral department and the states under the Smith-
Lever agricultural extension act and the federal
aid road act, and contrasted these effective meth-
ods of co-operation with the lack of co-operation
in respect to regulatory measures. He said:

“Now the matter stands in a different situation.
Two great state organizations, your own and the
association of land- -grant colleges,, have had the
matter under advisement and have arrived essen-
tially at a common mind. I am informed that the
thoughts of the two bodies isthat a great gain
would result if the states adopted the policy, in
general of confining the agricultural colleges to
investigational and educational work, both in the
.colleges and in the field, and the commissioners
or boards of agriculture to administrative and
regulatory matters, heading up under such com-
missioners of boards all the appropriate admin-
istrative and regulatory activities affecting agri-
culture, thus providing ln each state two great,
strong, central agencies for the betterinent of
agriculture and rural life. .

“This course, it seems to me, would 'be eminent-
ly wise. It would remove possibilities of dupli-
cation of work, of wasted energies, of jealousy
and friction, and make it possible for the two
great state establishments to work with a common
purpose and with united forces. It would also
very greatly facilitate the work of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, much of which must be car
ried on of necessity in co—operation with state
ofiicers. The department would then be in posi-
tion to cooperate untrammeled with the colleges
of agriculture in investigational and educational
work and with the state departments of agricul-

 

ture in all matters involving regulation, such as.

quarantines, the control of animal diseases, or-
chard and nursery inspection, seed inspection,
feed and fertilizer control, statistical inquiries,
and the highly important tasks of aiding the
farmer in the promotion of better rural finance
and in the distribution and marketing of his pro-
ducts. If this is the plan of the two bodies, I
shall be very glad in all appropriate ways to give
itsuch support as I can, and to aid in securing
its acceptance in any state where action may be
needed. fknow that there will be difficulties and
that the problem will have to be dealt with in
each state in the light of local conditions. It
may be that no given plan would be feasible for
every state; but I take the liberty of suggesting,
for your own consideration the desirability of de-
veloping and presenting a tentative model law.”

HOOVER THINKS FARMERS’ MAR-
GIN OF PROFIT IS SMALL

 

Mr. Hoover in Europe just before Christmas is
reported 'to have said:

“As I view the world’s food assets this moment
I am convinced that the extra marginal surplus
from the United States is of priceless value to the

immensity of human life at stake between now

and next harvest. I am sure that to sacrifice the
. margin of American production, upon which the
allies must peace out existence, by reducing the
American farm price 10 per cent—which would
be 6 per cent when it reached the English con-
sumer—would be the rankest kind of folly
"In a broad view, I am certain that our agri-
cultural margins are so low that a 10 per cent re-
duction in prices to our farmers would stifle our
~ production to the extinction~ of our consequential
export surpluses.
“It is certain that with 10 per cent lower prices
:‘we could provide our own home necessities. so
that this margin 01.10% is the price our own and

tion. In every individual food commodity 85 per

cent of our American people are consumers and .

only 15 per cent are producers, and " these con-
sumers rightfully but cheerfully feel that
are taking from them this extra 10 per cent in
prices in order that we may take our part in car-
rying this world burden.

The American farmer at present receives 693

,per qr. 61.98% per bu. ), as compared with 318

pro-European war average, a war increase of 383
($1 15%)

“I keenly realize how hard the present price lev-
els bear on all consumers, and mere especially
upon the Allied peoples whose economic wage
plane is much below that in the United States.

So far as the United States is concerned, it is not .

a matter of profiteering, but is one of deep com-

plexity of economic forces and provision for world .

necessities," etc.

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN COMMISSION L

BRINGS MANY SHEEP TO STATE ,

 

Some details of the work of the Public Domain
commission of which August 0. Carton is secre-
tary, are shown below:

Examined for trespass, 18,425,000 acres.

 

 

From the Morning’ 5 Mail

Am sending $1 for renewal to your paper
for one year and as a word of appreciation
will say that you have a class 1 farm paper,
which shouldbe in the home of every intel-
ligent farmer. You have met the biz prob-
lems as well as the smaller ones, and solved -
them .from a farmer's standpoint. You
have proven yourselves worthy of our con-
fidence from your attitude and manner of
meeting attacks of politicians and corpora-
tions upon questions of vital interest to
farmers. Thanking you -for the vigorous
and honest stand you have taken in our
behalf, Iam.—Chas. F. Summers, 111ng
county.

 

You will find enclosed my check for $5
to renew my subscription to r10 years. Af-
ter reading your paper for one year this re-
newal will certainly assure you of my ap-
preciation of your valuable paper. Your
correct market reports, also estimates you
give on different commodities in number of
bushels, tons, etc.,- enables us farmers to
sell intelligently at all times, not having
to take the middleman’siword for what enor-
mous crops are in the adjoining‘ county, or
state, thustrylng to force the price down,
which they could easily do before M.\B .F.
came to our rescue and gave true estimates.
Keep the good work going on; all we ask
is a fair deal. No fair-minded man can
ask differently—Albert Hayley, Arenac 0’0.

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Exchanged between U. S. and individuals and
Michigan, 2,050,000 acres. .

Examined for dead and down timber, 702,500
acres.

Appraised, 1, 015, 000 acres.

Timber classifications, 1,360,000 acres.

Examined for water power, 357,500 acres.

Land examined for homesteads, 1,032,500 acres.

In addition, the commission has stationed a
trespass agent on St. Clair flats, looking after the
sand and gravel taken from the lake bottom lands,
who has collected for‘ the state $17,300.23.

Trees have been planted on 825 acres of land,
46 miles of fire line has been built and 290 lbs.
of tree seeds have been sown in the nursery and
reared 5, 000, 000 seedlings.

One of the activities of the commission has
been to induce sheep-raisers to come to Michigan.
This campaign, conducted in co- operation with
the Upper Peninsula Development association, has
resulted in sheep valued at $520,000,000 being
brought from western states since the first of
last January. Cattle from the.west taken to the
Upper Peninsula have been valued at $166,000,000.

Western grazers in 1918 took over 324,000 acres
of hitherto idle cut-over land in that territory.

Shipments from that region .to the Chicago live‘

stock market have increased 2,000,000 pounds of
mutton and 2,000,000 of fat. beef. -

Estimating that this has added only fifty cents \

per acre to the value of available Upper Peninsu-

la lands the profits of 1918 in land values was; 5'
,3, 500, 000. . . ,.

  

your consumers pay for stimulation 51: m/HOW’FARIERS. fiA, A _
- ' BY CO-OPERATIVE BUYING?

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Farmers of Dukes and Nangucket Islands, 111113 - I
511 the Massachusetts coast, saved mgre than $150 . _
on each of four. 20- -ton cars of feed purchased 00- ' ‘

OWiWIY The islands, each of which consti-
tutes a separate county and has a farm bureau

co-operatlng with the Massachusetts agricultural ,

college and the United States Departnmnt of Ag-
riculture, use about three cars of feed a month.
The county agent who covers both can

attention to the advantage or cooperat vebuyinz, ‘

and the farm bureau omcers arranged with local

, bank officials for the purchase of feed in car lots.
The farmers deposit their, Orders at the bank
on the first of every month. 'When orders aggre- .

gting a , earload have been dchsited the bank
buys the feed, pays for it upon arrival, and noti-
fies the farmers when it is ready for delivery.
EaCh farmer makes terms with the bank, either
,1 paying cash or giving
’cent interest, and is given an approval slip. Upon
presentation of this slip the attendant at the car
delivers the grain.
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NEW COMMERCIAL ORCHARD PROP-
OSITION FOR ALLEGAN COUNTY

 

 

Two partnerships have been {formed in the last
few days for the launching ‘of commercial orchard
propositions at Pullman, Allegan county. One is
the partnership of George K. Taylor of Kalamazoo
and Otto .7. Gibson of Pullman, who are now pre-
paring ground for setting out 65 acres immediate-
ly adjoining the village on the northwest and the
other is Joseph Mort of Pullman in connection
with Mr. Taylor, who willflset out 35 acres ad-
joining Pullman on the south.

The West Casco fruit growers have formed a
branch of the Fennville Fruit exchange and are
making arrangements to commence theserection of
packing and loading houses at Pullman. These
buildings will cost $3, 000 this spring and will be
added to as the business justifies. Stock in the
new company is all subscribed.

FARM LOANS APPLIED FOR,,AP-
PROVED AND CLOSED IN NOV.

 

As indicative of the progress being made under

the federal farm loan system, the Federal Farm
Loan Board announces that during the month of
November a total of $8,079,605 were loaned to

' far mere, maklns the total farm loans to date

$147,452,861.
Since the organization of the farm loan banks,

162,294 farmers have applied for loans aggregating

$406,542,109. During the month, of November ag-
gregate applications were, 5385 for $17,259,878.
During this month 143 Michigan farmers applied
for $341,700, and 97 Michigan loans aggregating
$168,500 were actually closed. Altogether Michi-

gan farmers have applied for. $9,192,980, and have

been loaned $2, 987, 800. ,

The Federal Land Bank of Spokane leads in
amount of loans closed, $1, 246. 800 with the Fed-
eral Land Bank of St. Paul running slightly be~
hind in amount, $1,232,100. The other ten banks
closed loans in November as follows: Houston,
$1,040,082; Wichita, $711,100; New Orleans, $600,-
650; Louisville, $565,400; Omaha, $529,000; St.
Louis, $522,623; .Berkeley, $506,600; Columbia,
$422,230; Springfield, $395,420; and $307,600.

COUNTY FARM BUREAUS To UNITE;

STATE ASSOCIATIONS PLANNED

 

" One of the results of the conference at M. A. C.
in February of officers of the farm bureaus of
Michigan’s 82 counties is expected to be the for-
mation of a state-wide farm bureau association.
\The aim of the new body, it is announced, will be
to foster and encourage all- that is beneficial to
country life and the taming industry within the
state.

         
   
  

   
    
   
 

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his note bearing 6 per“,

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sun’s 8: term bureaus, it is reported, will be. in.
attendance at the mamas in February. Tum see-,-
sion. which will" he conducted from .liblu’uafir 3""

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rush oft-fallswork to be. done before cold weather.
Labor situation is still very bad, and the worst

.» part of it is that it never can be any better until

farmers get a price for food products which will
enable them to compete with city industries for

declared that city laborers must be given min-

. ~imum wages. with increased pay for all overtime.
”Farmers must produce food under the "free din-

ner-pail tariff" in competition'with the lowest
pauper labor all over the world and with a food

Veadministration to set maximum priceson prac-
tically every food product raised on the farm.

Sometimes this is done directly, as with wheat,
and more often indirectly, as with eggs, hides or
dairy products, and sometimes as with potatoes
in starting rumors which may hamper prices.
Michigan potato growers had a dose of that last
year when a wonderful surplus of potatoes was
told. of, which later disappeared as mysteriously

. as it came, after it had done» its work in' driving

down prices to the grower. Farmers must work
together, must unite and must vote for their
rights or they will suffer for the next fifty years,
as they did in the fifty years following the Civil
War.

-’ The potato crop of 1918 is going into consump-

tionvery fast, though estimated at 10 per cent

Smaller than in 1917. Up to Deer 16th the Bur-
can of Markets reported that 64,510 carioads had-
been shipped from the principal potato growing
states, against only 49,210 cars during the same
period of 1917, though as was well known to dis-
tributors city consumers had stocked up much

heavier than usual that fall. The total shipments

for the season of 1917-18 were 102, 218 cars. This

, year the crop will on the game basis of shipment

as last year. ship 94 ,144 cat‘s.

This leaves only 29 .634 cars to ship as against
the E3, 008 cars shipped after Dec. 16th,191'1, from
the potato-shipping states. Also cars have been
loaded much heavier this year. This may be
onset as prices go up in the spring by the fact
that farmers ship the crap out much closer in

‘ spring when prices are high. feeding less to stock
, as well We do not lmow how much city voters
- will succeed in their efforts to hammer down the

price oi farm produce while holding up the prim

of labor and everything else the city has to sea

to the farmer The potato-shipping season for the
late or main crop is from September to June,
nine months. More than two-thirds oi the amp
has been shipped in less than flour months. The
answer, as Dean sees it, isthat out othia crop of
7,712 lushels only 600 bushels have been sold. of
which :00 went to a. hospital at $1 '15 per bushel

_ and 220 for seed at $1. 70 for fall and 82. (10,19:

spring delivery.
Am considering attending meeting .1 Wash-

»_ington 1311.7“! and 8th. Would like your plan

opinidn as to whether it would do one at the
common or garden variety of farmers any good
to go. Have heard rumors that the Gompers and
Wilson crowd are getting control of farm organ-
Do not like to waste
my time by going to a meeting like the Potato
Association meeting at Washington a year ago

. where I was the only member to vote “net'on

resolution urging potato growers to sell potatoes
m enough to drive the price dorm to a point
satisfactory to city consumers. —-—D¢miel Dean,
Nibhols, N/'?.

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Ew your DAIRYMEN ARE AGAIN
same man; rRoosL'Es

 

at we Wrote Mr. Daniel Dean, form
for his opinion on the potato situ-

1123.5 a potato authority, and what he says
,_ m considerable weight.
,‘Dean’s letter below: \ z »
,:__Regret that I have been unable to furnish you’
with opinion on potato prospects, owing to usual

' W is too infinitesimal to appreciate"

renovate-s of this prejudiced public opinion
to force the price of milk down

Hearings have been conducted and testimony
submitted. As usual, in such cases, the court of
inquiry was entirely prejudiced against the

~ farmer, so it is not to be expected that he will get
the consideration to which he is entitled.

The [ampere claim that the entire fault rests
upon the shoulders of the distributors, who charge
more for the service of delivering the milk than
the farmers get for producing it.

.is being thoroly aired and if the investigation
follows the same course as has the Chicago inves-
tigation, the farmers will get little satisfaction.
Some'happy day, the farmers everywhere will get
tired and disgusted with the eternal strifebe—
tween themselves and the distributors and will
either Emit the business or take over the mach-
inery of distribution.

City industries have tariff duties to pre-/ LIME VALUE SHOW IN NEW

YORK STATE EXPERIMENTS

Fields treated with lime produced an average
of 1% tons of cure'd hay an acre more than 11n-
limit-ed fields in tests of-ground limestone, burned
lime, and hydrated lime, conducted by the farm
bureau through the county agent in Cbcmung
county. N. Y. A farmer who used 1 ton of ground
limestone to the acre secured 4.840 pounds of
cured hay, compared to 1,208 pounds on an unlim-
ed acre Another. who applied 700 pounds of hy-

rated lime to an. acre, obtained 6,292 pounds
against 1.461 pounds on an u-nlimed acre. A third
farmer used 1 ton of burned lime to the acre and
obtained 3,400 pounds, compared to 1.040 pounds
on unlimed land.

 

jolt and some cases'out of ten the distributors

The situation

they have been successful
A couple weeks ago the farmers

tion of the state, and with very few exceptions,

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township, Genesee county, organized a shipping _: . ‘

association and have already made their initial
Speaking of the association, the 0110’} 1

shipment.
Messenger says:

“The plan is to have every farmer who has live].
stock to sell communicate with the manager of
the shipping association, and as soon as a car-v

load can be arranged for to ship it to Buffalo,
where it will be sold, and after paying the costs

of handling and. transportation, the owner of the»

stock will get the full proceeds of the sale- A
detailed statement of all expenses will accompany
each check sent in payment. for stock, so that
patrons will know all about the big markets and
about what they are entitled to receive. Austin
Cummings, of 0110, was elected manager of the
association and it is propesed to make the first
shipment as soon as. a carload can be arranged
for. H. D. Gage is president of the new associa-
tion, Harley Jennings, secretary-treasurer, and
the directors are I. R. Acheson, Chas. Montague,
Oscar Sears, A. J. Brabazon and F. A. Runnells.
This plan for th-e'shipment of stock from the"
points where there wereyno regular shippers, as
at Clio, has been tried out in different parts of
the state with a great deal of success. At Davis;
on, particularly, the farmers have found the plan
very profitable and have shipped hundreds of car-
loads of stock. Thgpersonnel of-the men who
are behind the movement in this vicinity gives
assurance that it will be ably and honorably con-
ducted.”

-Montcalm County Farmer Expresses Himself on
Developments in U. 3. Potato Grading Fiasco

Mr. Forrest A. Lord, Editor: It is nearing a.
year since I met you at the memorable meeting
of five hundred potato growers in the city of
Greenville, when you designated me as one oi a
committee of five to investigate and formulate
various phases and propaganda concerning p0»
tato grading.

I am informed you have done heroic service
ever since, to make headway against the follies
and injustices of this particular graft that cuts
both ways into the producer and consumer, to the
great satisfaction of the big schemers in distri—
button.

In’ the discharge of my services upon that 00mm
mittee, I published an; opinion that it mattered
not what growers and consumers did or said or
pleaded, the graiters had the “pull” upon federal
sympathies, and no changes would be made until
the proposed policies had run their full course.
That. they might eventually he succeeded by some.
thins worse, as I did not say it then, 1 will say
it now.‘ Thus far my estimate has been justified.
Did i hear an echo? Oh, the Michigan Potato
Growers’ Association demanded and secured a

‘ change (‘2’) Yes, and it is truly quite amusing. I

suppose the thing to say is "It is psychologic.”

, Thepestifl'erous little brat peeked away at the
skirts of’ its federal guardian until that guardian-
‘and something like "If I don’t do something to
still'that neisy brat it will squeal until the neigh-
bors, figanizedlabor, organized consumers, and
organized politicians. will call in the humane
agent and interfere with my plans altogether.”
Hence t e change—off goes an infinitesimal mo
tion 0 size of Grade No. I, and minor percentages
of difiused grades were changed. “so scientifically."

When the other day I asked a buyer (hired to
bill?) if Old Boggs got a rake-oi! for a new sized
riddle belt under the, new order of things, here-
plied, “Yea. but-go tar as lean see the changes in
Just

8'0. the results upon the grade armimperceptible,
but. the ‘mchologic” influence is to still the
{brat into contemplation of its treat ('3) achieve-

‘mcn‘t. Do not mistake my illustration for dis-

"respect 0% the Michigan Potato Growers' Associ-

, Vatioi'r. it t not... rather it is complimentary of the

  
   

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' I believe firmly to a fair grading of potatoes, but
I do not believe a choice baking potato should f; =
~ bring a lesser price than a good boiling potato.

neither the grower or the consumer has been hen--
efited by the grading. Let the speculating grafter
speak ior himself. The hired buyer and the sorter
have no sympathy with the system.

Not long since a mere lad of my acquaintance
happened on the buying market. A farmer turned

in a load of fine. quality but below grade in size. ’

There were 15 bushels of No. 2. The dealer would
buy them at a very few cents per hundred pounds.
The farmer declined. The bystanding boy asked
what the farmer would take per bushel of 60 lbs.
The price was named, 30 cents.
loaded them on his auto and ran them dinette
a near-by retail market and sold them for $1.25
per bushel, netting $14.25, or nearly $1 per bushel
profit. The consumer paid $2 per bushel for the
potatoes, the producer received 300. But once at
least the farmer boy beat the grafter to it, and
the consumer paid the some old graft. This must.
needs lead to two conclusions: The man who
believes farmers are better satisfied than they
were ten months ago is deceiving himself to the
limit of danger, and so long as the double-size
standard of potatoes of equal culinary value is
maintained the consumer will pay the big graft,
and eventually the poor consumer must, go'withr
out, for similar reasons that the poor consumer
goes without milk and his babies die tor want of
milk and milk products, and a similar reaponsl~
bility will rest upon a similar set of scientific(?)
blanked sap‘heads of federal and'municipal char‘
acter, who have thrown around the industry such
regulations as to bring the expense of production
above receipts for product. Then producers out
their activities to home consumption limits. It.
is. inevitable and will soon assert the W of
potato growers, limiting their acreage to what
they can iertilize and unto the limit at high
production in sizable No. 1's, he will refuse to
sell good No. 2's at a smaller price than No. 1's.
This every farmer can do of his own volition, and
sooner or later he will recognize this as the sure-

'way to “beat the same.” ,
You may recall at the Greennlle meeting, I, -

said I suspected out of the grade system might
evolve something of especial value and benefit to
the farmer. 1am still of that opinion,.but it will
not come as the “scientific assistants” planned in

It is the double standard, and not the sin
either grade that lets in the graft. As ’
stand now, the speculator will come out 4
the farmer will be a close second, but filmed

 

 

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tile to all whether in factory,

‘perience I know paity strings,
interests and othe1

”influenced thereby
:‘ now are, not the senate of the republican party
_,aiox_119, but the senate of all the people and justice
[to all means strength and admiration for the re-

tions. in which to live.
1 “21-“. ,, . . ,

LIEUT -GOV. DICKINSON RAPS
‘ VIOLATION OF PRIMARY LAW

 

Since the adjournment of the last Senate

{among the most important pages of history have .

wheen written; the greatest nation in war or

. peace has been stamped above the name United
, States of America; and changes not thought pos-

sible a few years ago have taken place in our own
state“ The greatest of all wars has been won by
the forces, for righteousness, Whileempires and
kingdoms have been wrecked; and democracies
are being established on their ruins; the United

States has been acknowledged as the deciding

factor in these great changes and conceded to be
.the nation to which the world can look in the
future for advanced ideas on charitable moral,
industrial social, political, legislative and dem-
ocratic lines; the women of Michigan have at last
been granted the inexcusably delayed right. \of
suffrage and the saloon, the direct or indirect
cause of so much crime, insanity, business wrecks.
social degradation, etc,
within our borders. There is not a man before
me whowould dare say that these world, national
‘ and state chan-

 

been wrought
without th e
faith in, the

the prayers to
and the aid of
Almighty God.

“History is
divided in t o
epochs. T h e

closing of this
great war with
us is the be-
ginning of a
new one. The
last. one was to
America one
of so surpas-
singly wonder-
l‘ 11 1 advances
in all lines,
the application
of which at
such dreamy
heights and
_ fabulous dis-

tances away
from the D1-
vinely appoint-
ed mission of
the truly pat-
r'iottic citizen
that the war with all its horrors to us as Ameri-
cans was the only agency potent enough to point
out to the true citizen the proper use of our won—
derful resources and privileges if we were to merit
Divine approbation
ment.

“The war has emphasized safe democracy, elim-
inated caste and brought together the millionaire
and the laborer. made economy the watchword of
the present and the future, opened to the public
pages of crime, infidelity, disease, degeneracy and
011161
the saloon that, menace the welfaie of a state or
he ion.

“Thus with these wo1 It] changes the advent of
woman suffrage in Michigan, and various other
commonwealth matters. we enter the new epoch
as one of the great states of the union obligated
to dedicate our energy, wealth. intellect and tal-
ent. of whatever nature to purer democracy, cleaner
politics, more elevatin’g legislation ,stricter econ-
crry, better business methods, higher morals, 511s.
store, office, or on
farm and whenever opportunity offers be ever
ready to reward the boyswho sacrificed so much
to bring about these great changes. These de~
mantis make this session of the Michigan tegis

 

 

 

LUREN 1).
Lieutenant.

DICK] N SON
(-‘ovi-rnor

V latwure i believe, the most important of any of the
; state’s history

f‘We are an all republican body. From past ex-
local or personal
selfish influences may pull'
hard and we at times are tempted to be unduly
But let us remember that we

publican party as well as pleasanter state rela-
(Continued on page 7)

 

has been eliminated from,

gcs Could have‘

and escape future chastise- .

demo1aiizing influences all the products of .

 

 

The Governor Recommends

’ ‘ 1. Immedi-
ate action .011
report of .bud-
get commis- ,
sion. .

.2. Abolition
of any langu-
age except En-
glish in , the
first eight
grades of all
schools, both
public and
parochial.

3. Vest'ing»
powers of state
highwaY\. de- 1
partment in
Commission of
three men in-
stead of one.

4. Appropria-

, tion of $200,-

000 for comm--
uing campaign against venereal diseases.

5. Better county health organization to
combat “flu" and other epidemicsf

6. Regulation of commercial fishing so
that citizens of state may buy‘ direct from
fishing grounds. \

7. Immediate ratification
prohibition amendment.

'8. Law to prevent anyone becoming a
candidate for office on more than one party
ticket.

9. Making state constabuiary a perma-
nent police force.

 

IM-

Albert E Sleeper
Inaugurated Jan. 151;; Gover-
nor of Michigan, Second Term

of nationai

 

' these columns.

 

 

 

Important Senate Committees

Agriculture—Senators Stoddard, Miller,
Vanderbloom, Davis and Clark.

Banks and Corporations—Senators For-
rester, Hayes, Miller, Millen and Stoddard.

DrainageMSenators Amon, McNaughton,
Bierd, Holmes and Henry. ‘
Elections—Senators DeFoe,
,Baker and Condo-n.
Finance and Appropriations -- Senators
DeLand, Holmes, Bryant, Wood, Clark, '
Smith and Vandenbloom.

Highways —~ Senators Bryant, Connelly,
Penny, Deland and Baker. ;

lnsumnce——Senators Scully, McRae, Hayes
Watkins, Milieu, Connolly and Smith.

Labor—Senators Connelly, Baker, Wilcox,
Rowe and Stoddard.

Michigan Agricultural College—Senators
Henry, Lemire and Bierd.

Prohibition -—- Senators
Amon, Milieu and Miller.

Railroads—Senators Smith, Henry, Rowe
and Lemire. .

Taxation—Senators Vanden‘bloom, Henry,
Harvey, Scully, DeFoe, Brennan and Amon.

'McRae, Scul-
ly

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(Continued Jrom gag ,
to keep the farmers ’ dfijised of the progress 0!
‘légisi‘dtioii, '
possible to 11:31:31: 1:
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I sEN. nAv1s WANi‘S LAW :11) civE * , 4.5::
FARMERS FAIR CREAM rEsr-g,“ ‘

Sengor Davis of Lawton is drawing up a bill . ‘y

. which will be introduced at the present session of .
the legislature, designed to settle once and for all.
and ,'

the vexatious difficulties betvv‘een farmers
creameries over the cream test. This is a sub-
ject that has been discussed to some extent in-

who sell cream that frequently, withtmt apparent

reason, the butterfat content. of. their cream will];
vary widely from day to day; As a result of this]

farmers .are aIWays'suspicious ‘of the .test, and
hard feelings invariably‘iollow. Sen. Davis be—

lieves a law‘ could be enacted which would makel 4

the county agent the official tester of the county
and act as a mediator when differences arise. «m.
Davis is very anxious to get the farmer’s opinion

upon the variations in the cream test and their

suggestions as to how the situation may be rem-
edied. 'M. B. F. will welcome any letters upon

the subject and will see that they are placed in'

Mr. Davis'. hands.

“HERB” BAKER WOULD LICENSE
ALL HANDLERS OF FOODSTUFFS

Sen. Herbert F. Baker of Cheboygan believes
that the licensing of dealers in foodstuffs during
the period of the war was a good thing and ought
to be perpetuated. He thinks the Michigan legis-

lature should pass a law to license the operations '

of creameries, elevators, potato buyers, and all
others dealing in foodstuffs, either directly or in-
directly, revocation of the license to follow any
attempt to profiteer, to engage in unfair compet-
itive tactics etc.

, “Take around my home toWn,” says Mr. Baker,

.. ”We’ve got a farmers’ co—operative potato associ-

ation that buys potatoes in competition with'a
In order
to get businesa away from us, they'll boost their
prices in Cheboygan and lower their prices in
places where they have no competition in order
to meet their 1055 in Cheboygan. That is abso-

lutely .unfair and a violation of honest trade rules.

‘MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE RATLFIES

N'AT’L PROHIBITION AMENDMENT

On January 2nd, the Michigan legislature rati-
fied the amendment to the federal constitution
providing for national prohibition. Michigan
was thus the 16th state to declare for the amend-
ment.

In the Senate the vote was unanimous. "In the
House there were three dissenting votes, cast by
Rep White of Detroit; Daprato, Iron Mountain;
John Holland, Bessemer. \-
‘ Both houses also unanimously passed a resolu-
tion calling upon the congress of the United
States to pass the federal woman suflragemend-
ment.

Senator “Herb’.’ Baker will keep Tab on Legislative ’ "

,

Senator Herbert F.
" Baker, farmer-member
from the 29th district,
will report each week
in MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING” the “doin’s”
in both houses of the

; . (legislature.

   
  
  
 
  
 
    
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
 

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been a prominent

.- ure in Michigan pol -'
g / tics and agriculture for
"pa ”number or years. He

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Matters for Readers Of Michigan Business Farming ‘

and is heart and 150111 with the farmers.
Mr. Baker is-éhairman of the governing board

' of the Farmers’ National Headquarters and is at-

tending an executive session of the board at.
Washington this week. He is also preSident of;
the Cheboygan Co-operative Marketing Ass’n; was

a member of the executive committee of the Mich’, '

igan State Grange, and is actively identified With."

numerous other agricultural organizations. 7
' Mr. Baker was a member of the legislatures 01"“ 1;
,~. 1911], i909 and 1911, and was speaker 01 the house :1‘ ‘
‘=durii'1_’g the session of 19.11 In 1912 Mr Baker e ‘
‘._ paused the cause of the ProgressIVe party, and 1
made a remarkable run for the Office '01: Audit, _ ,.
,- General for which. office he Was dorsated by " /

by only shout; 7 .0119

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‘derstanding abomthaorigin, auth91:1 sand 1,1
pe sajtibn. at this body The MichiE ' '

7‘.the Michigan Milk Producers'
Detroit members, which go
Commission to make up the" Detro1t Area Cem- ~

 

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mission, were se1ected 13y the Board of Commerce,
representing the financial interests. the federa-
tion 01! women’s clubs, representing the hemesy
and ‘the federation 0'1 labor representing the la-
borers of that city These were appointed at the
request of’ypur secretary. These Individuals, out-
standing in their. respective fields of private en.
deavor. many of them men or large financial in-
terests, have given, much of their time and their
very best thOugbt, without one cent compensation
for the sake of the service that they see they are
able to give’to this the most vital food industry
«lit the city of Detroit. Every milk producer and
distributor. and consumer, is under great obliga-
tion to this body of broad minded men and women
for their conscientious, painstaking endeavor to
so stabilize and protect this industry, first,
Detroit may have a suflicient supply of milk at a
' reasonable price. second, that the distributor and
producer shail have a price that they are entitled
to‘, namely, cost of production and distribution,
plus a legitimate profit These propositions have
ever been before this Commission and to reach a

proper and equitable adjustment of this we know
. . has been their most sincere desire, and this one

thought and purpose is what has caused them to
make the severe sacrifice they have of time and
energy at our request

A Profitable Market

To the average indiVIduaJ this may not seem
evital to your success, but it is absolutely so. The
Only way to bring any industry a stable and equit-
able business is in some way to provide a good
market, and a market is raver good unless there
is a profit in it to the buyer. So we a concerned
, about our market. We want the Detroit distrib-
utors to have a fair and equitable price. We are
bound to see to it, however, that they do not have
more than this. They cannot have less; if they
do they will not stand by the organized movement. 1

Your secretary has now a notice served on him
thirty days ago by the distributors' organization
that they would no longer co-‘operate with us. It
has been our great aim and desire that the differ-
shoes should be adjusted the wrinkles ironed out,
and no open clash made as a result of this deter-

. mination. To this end We have werked most earn-

estly Conference after conference has been held
8 With the Detroit buyers; winning one and another
back to us until we felt we were Warranted- again

in calling the Commission together, which has so ‘

long been delayed.
After this most earnest endeavor and adjust-
ment the Commission was called and convened
Friday, January 3rdrat the Board of Commerce.
The distributors convinced the Commission that
they had been conducting their. business during
the past month absolutely-without profit, and Some
of them at mg; a loss as imperiled their future
prospects. d to this was the attitude of some
of the buyers—esome reliable and some unreliable
~V—tho were offering mor‘mthan the Commission ‘
price for milk in an endeavor to disturb and
destroy the business of their competitOrs.

ing a condition which bordered on piracy in the
Detroit milk area, and one little act of indiscre—

Hikindled, would have. bfiuxht on a disturbance and
a. loss which might have cost all the principles

reducer or the Detroit

' “generate with them thru the Milk commis-

. ,, 410111;th present arrangement but refused

that ~

Con-"7
sequently, for the past. month we have been fac—VI .

tion; one little spark to ignite the fires already . . »

516: which we have been centendin'g. and hundlx "
reds of thousands of dollars to.‘ the distributor ands-f

 

 

Developments in Dairy Situation

'1: 2A few weeks ago, Detroit distributors
notified producers they would 'no ledger co.

Producers’ executive board patches
to.

81011.
up d-ififerences, and distributors agree

to advance the price of milk to consumer in
orderto meet producers’ demands.
, 2. Producers agree to accept price for
balance of winter months which means a
loss to them, Vin. hopes of sufiicieptly high-
prices in spring and summer to compensate
them for loss.
' 3. Commission fixes January milk price
at $3. 88 for 4 per cent milk, with a vari-
‘ ance of 4 cents per point for milk above or
below that test. .

4. Secretary Reed calls upon producers
to abide by decision of commission, believ-
ing that the problem will be eventually
solved to the satisfaction of all.

feeds bought at a time when he could take at!

ocCaSlon required.
LThese are just simple business methods applied
to the dairy industry. We believe this individua

than has any distributor

poet of success is in getting a better price—when

Is this a strong assertion? Is this true? '

trying to do.

tities at the lowest possible price.
tiat-ed with many feed concerns; finally settled
to one proposition with one feed that stood the
state requirement, and guaranteed pure from
every adulterant, and we have been offering this
feed absolutely without profit to the Association

'was asked for the same quality of feed from the
retail stores in small quantities. Your associa-

 

 

 

 

 

 

.to the same consideration in the business world

as the producer'of any other product. He is en-
titled Vto a voice in fixing the price of the com-
modity he is putting on the market. Second, he
is entitled to a. price for that product that equals
the cost of production 'plus a profit. Our milk
commission has had this always in mind; and

_ the president and secretary of your organization

have» in every instance voiced this thought and
this principle before the Commission.

But, in orderx that we may have a. successful
business, certain business principles must be ad-
hered to which are fundamental to any business
success. Your secretary has in his possession a
list of 64 Detroit distributors who have been forced
out of business in the last two years, while others
have succeeded. What is the difference? The
latter was careful about his business methods;
the other, possibly had no business methods. This
applies with equal force to the producers of milk.
No one concern is more quoted in all we hear than
the Detroit Creamery Company and its profits;
and yet we are about to give you the history of
one milk producer which is comparable to any
profits of the Detroit Creamery Company We
have the figures of one herd of nine cows that, in
the year 1918, sold 118, 575 pounds of milk, bring-
ing in $3,481.75._ The owner of this herd has a
farm of seventy acres, with no unpaid help avail-
able. The oldest of seven children is less than
nine years of age, and 'we will concede that the
wife has quite enough to do without assisting
with the cows. We don’t know what the 00st of
feeds has been, but we do know something about
this man’s methods. . Limited in every way ten

years ago, with no personal asset but a determin~ -

ation and a business sense to apply to milk pro-
duction, on a rented seventy-acre farm, he has
gone forward until he owns the farm he then rent-
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

Jan. 8th, 1919
. U. S. Food Administration,
~. ‘ Washington, D. C.

Contrary to expectations Food Ad-
ministration prices of both flour and
wheat feeds have advanced since re-
moving milling restriction. Thirty days
ago bran sold in Detroit at $36. 50 and

._mi;ddlings' at $38.50. Today both are
‘_'quoted at $50, an advance of nearly 40
per cent. Somebody is profiteering. It
is not the farmer. The latter is forced to

, Vsell Wheat at government price, but must
ced for cattle at prices established
pply and demand. We insist that
resent situation is discriminatory to
who is. facing unprecedented
0.8135 .9 production on one hand and on
* organiZed opposition to his
{profitable prices. We re-
11011 you to employ powers
- at to either re-estab-

   
    
   

  

 

 

    
 
 

 

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tion has spent over $200 in the salary and travel-
ing expenses of a man, trying to give to you the
benefit of this one business move.
solutely in this endeavor; not selling one single

carload of feed until the price went up $20 per /

ton on bran, and today we are deluged with or-
ders by letter and word 'of mouth, wanting to take
our feed. You had the opportunity to avail your-
self of this business advantage. .This has gone by
for the present. while'ihe poor boy to whom I
referred has his granary stocked with feeds at
the cheaper price. and his production is at a
profit anyhow. When will our
a business basis of action? When will the farmer
stop asking the people to give him something and
when will he apply businessmethods that will
obtain success?
The milk commission has met;
layed because of the uncertain conditions sur-
rounding the proposition of co- operation between
the producer and distributor
'the distributors convinced the Commission of the
jeopardy in. which their business was placed by
the price for December, and with true business
instinct the Commission sought a way to relieve
this strain and loss and not ask pioducers to suffer.
The Price and Future Prospects
The Commission xecognized the injustice of
asking the producer to accept a less price in the
face of advancing l‘ecd cost and this was obviated
by the way of determinations which follow; The
price for January milk is $3.88, less the regular
railway freight rate from the point of shipment;
with the understanding that in March and April
the price would be sufficient, to conmensate the
producer for the loss sustained by the January
reduction. This is on 3 5 milk with 4c 3. point
instead of 5c 3. point above 01 below. Last month’s
experience showed that the great majority of
milk coming into Deiloit tested below 3.5. Conse-
quently, an increased percentage price, while it
helped on the small amount of milk testing above
3.5, was an injury to the producers ..whose milk
tested below this point. and as the greatest good
to the greatest. number n as sought, it was decided
to leave it at the lmmci figuie of 4c :1 point above
or below. _
Another matter of vital inmoriance, and one
which we think may inaugurate a new era, was
the arrangement mad‘eVWhereby the distributors
agreed to abide by the decision of the Commission
' to pay for the months of July, August, September
and October possibly as high a price as milk has
ever reached—provided commercial conditions in
the city of Detroit. remained as they are at the
present time. Conscouently, we are anticipating,
under normal conditions, $4.00 milk for the
months above named. _ ~
We feel that we would be derelict of duty if we
did not call your attention to one item in this al—
ready too long article. With a proposition where
better than nineflmillions of dollars worth of prop-

erty is sold, it seems to us that we should recoga- ,

nize the dominating mind and business instinct
that could handle so well this proposition, and we
want to call attention to the services renders
the milk producers by President N. P. Hull, who",
is not only: willing but competent and has brou
from his business knowledge a stabilizing '
ence and a financial return which can any
realized or appreciated. .
We trust for your co- operation, for y
port, that this great endeavor may Cont
years to come. ——R. C Reed.

 

 

vantage of the market to have on hand as the

they would be a failuxe with milk at any prices;

Let me tell you what your association has been :2
We have been trying to bring to ‘3
our members dairy feeds purchased in large quan- I .
We have negoa. ‘ '

at'a price that was from $5 to $11 per ton less than .

We failed abs

people get onto_

it was long dc:

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has made a greater profit on his dairy overturn ."
in the Detroit area x
What he has done can be and should be duplicated “
by hundreds of men who think their only pros-f:

  
    
  
  
 

   
  
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

  
    
   
   
 
 
 
 

 
 
  
 
 
  

     
 
   
  
  
  
 
  
  

 
 
  
 
 
 


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inv‘nsr IN LIBERIY EoNDS; THEY
ARE THE BEST BUY wE KNOW OE

{iamwfltlngtoyonboseeityoucan'tstirup

buyers here and make them pay $8 per
in buying in Le Roy and all he will
- I told him tho bean jobbers guar-
the I'm-mere $8 nor their beans; he said he
must pay it. We are just threshing in‘ this
fihelflty; they are going from three to five bushels
per acre. I had in 12 acres and got 35 bushels.
f Could you advise me of some good safe secur-
Awas I could invest my money in when I sell? I
. min love with your paper; it hits the nail square
t on the head. Go to it. boys. If we farmers don’t
891: a little more of 21 Square deal in the future
fast Rusaia won‘t be
able to hold a candle to us hen we get started.—
0. (7., Le Roy Michigan-
m Beam Jobber-s Ass’n has already been ad-

IV“ of the Le Roy situation and we are of the “

mien that your local buyer will change his
man It he doesn‘t, let us know

There are at preamt many speculative ‘secnr-
film" on the market which look gilt- edged but
on the inside are only “tinsel." Leave them
alone. Don't invest your money at this time in
motor stocks, rail stocks or western gold and
oil mines. There are all kinds of good bonds
available municipal, state federal farm loan Lib-
erty bonds—all of which are absolutely safe and
pay fair rabes of interest. At present Liberty
bonds can be bought below par. A week ago they
were sold on the N. T exchange at 94. Anyone
with money to invest cannot do better than to buy
these bonds.

PDSTMASTER REFUSES TO BUY
W. S. S. WHAT SHALL I DO?

In September my husband signed up for some
War Savings Stamps, of course, expecting to keep
them, but understanding that he could sell them
by giving ten days’ notice at post. office. Beans
and cloverseed did not lurn out as well as ex»
pectedhence need the money.
with the postmaster at Breckenridge he says he
has no such instructions. also talked with one of
the carriers from Wheeler without any success.
Do you need a printed form? If so where can you
get them? Or can’t we get. the money at all?
Even the certificate says it can be cashed on ten
days' notice—Mrs. F. J., Wheeler. Mich.

As you will see from the enclosed post office

, circular No. 3348, holders of Savings Stamps are

entitled to redemption of their certificates by giv-
ing ten days’ notice in writing to the postmaster.
If the stamps are registered, they are redeemable
only at the post office of registry and to the per-
son in Whose name they were registered If they
were not registered, they are redeemable at any
money order postoflice.

While the redemption of Savings Stamps is a
privilege accorded by law we wish to point out
that these stamps represent‘a- means by which
patriotic American citizens are extending finan-
cial aid to their government Although the ac-
tual fighting o; the war is ended, the enormous
expenses resulting from it will have to be met
‘for many months and the government is depend-
ing upon investments in War Savings to meet
these. expenses at this time

‘The Government has no desire'to enforce any
hardshlps‘upon individuals whose circumstances

' _ are such as to make redemption necessary and we

would suggest that your subscriber point out to
his postmaster the paragraphs in the “enclosed
circular which give the later exact directions for
redeeming savings stamps. ’

.11 is a pleasure to be of service to you in this
‘ connection and if at any time you desire further

information, please do not hesitate to call upon

us.——Harry R. Strenger. Savings Division War

Loans Organization.

1 tCANA SCHOOL BOARD EXCEED AP-
PROPRIATION VOTED EY PATRONS

Last spring the people of this district appro-

“printed $9 000 for the erection of a new school-

house. They have exceeded this by several thou5-
and donuts and it has resulted in the peeple of
1 this district being taxed beyond their means. The

School tax alone is $14 on the thousand valuation,

which 15- caused by the excess over-appropriation
t can be 110116? Are there no laws to protect

' mm from such as this? 1'10th state

‘ enforce the Installing of turnaees in modem
buildings in rural districts? Can the tax;-

but when we talk'

No school house Shall hereafter be erected in any;
helical district in this state and no addition {to a
school building in any such district; Shall here- '
alter erected, the cost of either of which shall:
exceed $390. 11:11:11 the plans and specifications tor .

the same. shall have been submitted to the sup-
erintendeut of public instruction and his approval
induced thereon. M plans and speculations
shall be submitted in duplicate and shall Show 111
detail the ventilation heating and lightihg: Pro-

vided,’1‘hat the said superintendent of public is- ,

stmction shall have authority to inspect such
building on building during the process of con-
structlon in order to determine that the provisions
of. this act are bein’g complied with.."—W 1'.
Brown Legal Editor.

CLINTON CO. FARMER WANTS Ao-
‘VICE 0N COOPERATIVE THRESHING
I Wadi. to ask a questicm and will also answer

W. P. H of Walkerville in regard to the square
silo; The first silos in this part or the country

that I remember were square and very unset“.
factory. As I remember the silage did not set:

tle in the corners and being square it was hard

to build them strong enough. Round is the best»

shape. Mound one requires less material to
build a given capacity. and can be easily made
strong. Colon C. Lillie says any material will
“make a good silo if built right. I think he is
right, but I prefer the cement block. I have two

on my farm, one 12x30 the other 14x30, both givfi

ing perfect satisfaction. Were built tour and six
years ago. I bought a second-hand block machine
for $7. My farm help made the blocks and I did
an the rest except the plastering. If Mr w. P. H

lived near here he could use my machine, make his '

own blocks and get a good silo very cheap.

Now my question is in regard to a thresher as-
sociation. or whatever it may be called. A num-
ber of farmers here are not satisfied with the
wax our threshing is done, so we are talking of

going in together and buying a rig. How many '

ouht to take in? How should the business be
managed? Will some one who has had experi-
ence answer?~E. A. 0.. Clinton county

QUESTION 0F,SUPERVISORS? RIGHT
‘ To DONATE To THE RED" CROSS

I do not call to mind any decision Of the courts
in regard to public appropriations for‘tbe Red
Cross. I would be of the opinion that the Board
of Supervisors would have no authority to donate
or give the public fund to the Red Cross. I would
suggest, however, that it is probably the fact in all
such cases as you cite that a contract was made
by the Board of Supervisors with the Red ,Cross
to do some particular thing like the care or atten-
tion of the poor and to pay the Red Cross a‘specl-
flc sum for the doing of the actior which,the
Board of Supervisors would have authority to con-
tract.
act for which the contract was made there might
be the necessity of letting the contract by'public
notice and to the lowest bidder. But without
the full information concerning each specific ar-

rangement, I would hesitate to say that a Board '

of Supervisors had no authority to pay the sum
of $14 000 to the Red Cross as I understand it the
work of the Red Cross there are many. things
that they do, that the Bgard of Supervisors would
have authority to contract with them for and to
pay them the contract price. Before. however,
I could pass upon the legality of the appropriation
it would be necessary to have all the facts and the
resolution and records of the Bomfi of Supervis-
~ ors.——W. E. Brown, Lego! Edit-o1".

HOW ERROR 1N FARM ASSESS-
. M-ENT MAY BE CORRECTED

I am very glad I subscribed for your paper.
Now I would like a ,little legal advice regarding
my taxes This summer the state tax commis-
siOn was around appraising the value of our farm

and he raised the cash value on my farm to ,

$7 500. 00, which is about $1, 000 more than I figure
it is worth if it was for Sale. In the spring I
sent in an application to the dam] Loan bank
and the same men that appraised the value for
the state came as ledéral land appraisers and

much I was to l)
was $500 less than . .
' cg “Sinner. The local

innd appraisers were he he and they 1qu me
they could recommend‘a whom: I asked The
all . . " ' '

gained and in thp 111a"
p'rhisrmievbythe‘"

There would be the possibility that for ‘the"

mason w. .
tended to equalize the WW ‘ ‘ ” “
am. After the review 337:. theme/Tax - ,
also it Was provided in the lawm; Inflows:

“The mum at said board: Or madam a, pm}
arty has been reviewed, assessed 21111511! valued by ,_ .1 .

said board as herein éuthorized Such property

shall not be assessed or veluod at a lover figure ‘
within a period or three years.- where on prop- ,

arty remains substantially the same. without the
written consent or said board.”

The Appraisal by the Federal Landvhank; or by
its appraisers, has no effect upon and nothing
do with the valuation which. for the taxation pur-

poses is fixed by the state board 01 Tax Commie»

sloners. ,

If a wrong has been donein fixing the Valuation
‘by the state. board of tax commissionoos it mum

be necessary to appeal to than directly and upon
the proper showing thal a wrong had been done
I have no doubt but what the State Tax Com-
mis would remedy the error upon .s an
pllcatlon. —‘W. E. Brown, Loyal Editor.- ?
REMINDS US OF DARIUS GREEN
AND HISFLYING MACHINE

I have a patent on a flying machine and would
like to get the address or some good motor con-
cerns and some factories or large shops that would
be able to build a model or it for me .——R E. F.,
Roam. Michw.

This isn't exactly in our line but we'll gm you
the best information we have available There
are three Detroitconcerns that might be interest-
ed in your proposition: Lincoln Motors, Henry
Ford, Fisher Body Corporation. The, Wright
Aeroplane Company at Dayton, Ohio, might also
be interested. All of the above concerns manu-
facture various parts of airplanes. The Rex Ma-
chine & Tool Company, 1084 Gfatlot Avenue, De-
trait, do special experimental machine work.

DO .YOU KNOW OF ANYONE RAIS-

likfi

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, 'ING SUFFOLK PIGS? '

Do you know or anyone that raises the suffolk
pig? They are a chunky, white pig. We used to
call them the grass pig, for they more always
fat on grass. 7F. H., Cooks, Michigan;

We know of no breeder of the sodium breed.
The development of this breed of swine has, been
very slow and largely confined to the Mississippi
valley. Perhaps our readers can advise this sub-
scriber of someone who is raising Suffolk pigs

INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF
INTEREST TO ALL READERS

I saw in your paper about the farm loan act
To whom should I apply for a loan?

Also, where can I send sample of ground where
I can have it tested to find out how much fertil-
izer to use per acre for corn, oats, potatoes and
peas?

Also, can you tell me Where to write to find out
about homestead land in the upper peninsula?—
A. R. Maple City.

A letter addressed to the Federal Land Bank,
St. Paul, Minn, will bring you complete informa-
tion about the federal farm load act. Reference
to our farm loan map does not Show that there is
a single farm loan association in Leelanau county.
Perhaps you can be instrumental in interesting
your neighbors in forming one.

For soils and fertilizer informatiOn write Soils
Department M. A. C., East Lansing, Mich

Augustus C. Caton, Public Domain Commission?
_ er, Lansing, Mich, should be able to give you the __
decked information Concerning homestead and I

cut-over lands of the upper peninsula.

Repatriation bill introduced in New Zealand
parliament provides scheme for J's-employment,
land settlement and vocational training for re-
turned 3011119”. It is proposed to make loans up

5 to $l, 500 to soldiers to. notablish them in bdsfness.

when I cot my notion. from the bank .‘as to how
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nut Tt'ak ,_ collectively they should mas {Fan «‘11:?

; Potato groove,
' that: the profits are, as elusive
as the provbrbial snowball in
diaries. ,._ NQ less a person than
our President tells us that we
cannot raise 'an average crop
of wheat or we would not com-
plain. We are asked to raise
rye instead. Another in high

position tells. us we are not fit .
Other states

to raise beans.

can grow them much cheaper.

.Undoubtedly Our 3011: will soon

,. ' 22 be depleted and undeniably

“Stank" Wm” farming as a business does
fno't pay. Poor old Michigan!

Someone has said, “A wise man moves with

"the shade, while a2 fool site still and complains of

2; the heat, " and many have thought him Wise. They

hays flitted around in the business world, until

they found temporary shade. Some acquired

quick wealth by easy and tricky methods and

others found, still shadier places and are greater

2burdens to society, supported by the state in.

_prisons, asylums, and in many public offices. The
man who by conscientious endeavpr enlarges le-
‘gi-timate little business to legitimate big business
is not tube included with these for his growth is
slow and substantial and he prospers in the open
sunlight No matter what he grows or manu-

factu-res. it he combines efficiency and/economy»

with brain power and honesty he will benefit
humanity. His product will be an aid to other
' men. who work in the open.

We have it from good authority if we have not
realized it ourselves that our s ate is becoming
Worthless for many of the staple crops which it
greW Well for our fathers and grandfathers, who
so recently cleared it. Our soil, like most cf the

shallow soils on and around glacial moraines is '

already woefully lacking in many essential plant

foods.
deposit lands? Shall we hunt for shade in com-

mercial life? Shall we stay and eventually starve,
01' shall We put farming on a business basis?

The shade of the old apple tree is very conduc-
We to health and prosperity, but it is a hard pull
gfrom diversified farming to fruit growing ,with
many pests to flzht I am an orchard inspector,
but I cannot inspect any other man' s orchard un-
til I first cut doWn my own, and I am “one man in
two hundred acres with much else that must be
dens Yet we must out these orchards and cease

planting them until we can arrange to grow fruit,

properly I think this is What we are all coming
o-the utilization of the subsoil unless farming is

immediately put on a2 profitable; basistkwithout ‘

ruining the soil According to present standards
mining is a very legitimate business and yet there

tan be no doubt that it is the practice or absolute,

mining of the deep fertile deposit lands and new

lands of our nation that is whipping us who live‘
They do not cbmplain. They
year after year With-72;

can grow corn and wheat
out fetati‘en or fertilization and without noticing
the loss of plant food. On top of this add three
successive years of drought, frost and war, and I
say Michigan has responded nobly. I tried to

“do my bit ” but hoW will I pay for my Liberty“.
bonds and W S. 8.01 which I am pledged to buy 2
-practically one hundred per cent of my present 2

a“ e.
;,bnying of my father will scourge of little value 1'

valuation? My interest in the eighty acres I am

7'16 the goVernmenvif I am so Dolled to mine it

Elena for'zxnuch thought

are well aware '

, will survive. ,

Shall we abandon it for the more fertile.

ring, help to

' the cities. .
"the Wisdom of a profitable agriculture we can at-

_,2fa'r
. t hasr‘been mined, and as we have always had ;, 11';

 

 

paper -Ke_ep the fight clean ahd I an!

re to help. My article is based on and '-
. stimulated by articl'es I have read in M B.
,'._.Ii‘ Every issue has been excellent. You
j have brot to light enemies of the public
Which I could feel but could not see. You
2. are gaining an army of admirers which I
2 hope will support you in the fights which
are now necessary for the farmer. I talked
with several farmers today who think it,
an outrage on the part of the Government
to lift the restrictions on wheat and products
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Issue, extraordinary intelligence, or excessive soil
fertility, must help make average farming prof-
itable. The' city man‘ must help in order that he
achieve his dream and own a well-kept farm,
which only the rich can now afford. We hear
much about the city luring our young people to
destruction, yet under existing conditions this
does not cause one-half the suffering. that the
lures of the soil and land agent cause middle-aged
city people who are led to sink their savings in
some worn-out farm. They usually fail and re-
turn to the city broken-spirited and ill-fitted for
their job, if they are lucky enough to regain it.
The fact that our young people go to the city and
stay is proof conclusive that they are better off.
A real live prodigal son is like the real live Indian
Or bison—nearly athing of the past. It is only
with very careful and honest treatment that they
The mere open air of the country
has not been able to combat its enemies, viz.;
overwork on the farm, commercialized vice in the
city, wantonness and wastefulness as a nation,
and a host of smaller foes which are the offspring
of these. Germany’s strength was due largely to
concentrated and intensive agriculture. Her weak-
ness was the permitted arrogance of her rulers.
If we wish to continue as an agricultural nation,
and that is the only nation that will finally sur-
vive, we must not only make farming, but re—
build farming profitably, that we may populate

. our nation with healthy, happy peOple and meet
.the required needs.

If, before the war we had
been able to feed the impoverished— immigrants
for a month as guests of our nation before asking
them to work, their would have been no war. The
mere fact that we did not wish it would have
been sufficient law among nations. The people of
other nations would‘have knowu of our gener-
osity and would have compelled their rulers to
respect our wishes if we. had had food to be gen-
erous with instead of to gamble with. A soil
tiller becomes naturally generous with his food
if permitted by circumstances to be.

I believe it is understood today that plant food
is not destroyed to sustain animal life. Certain
solids and liquids merely need redistribution. The
air does a wonderful 'job with the rest. Let those
with a surplus of fertility mine their soils, but

‘make it profitable to return the solid and liquid

refuse, (the sewage and garbage of the cities) to
the barren‘ places. First give us help to distrib-
ute what accumulations of fertility we have and
to eradicate weeds, then let us have‘ever increas-
grow more and better food. To do
this We must make farming more pleasant and
profitable for our children and the children of
- If the consuming public cannot see

tack the problem from the rear and pass a na—
tional law requiring a high percentage of plant
food to be returned to the soil, the percentage to

2be increased as methods are devised to save the
C se‘Wage and garbage wastes of the cities
2,W0111.& prevent the absolute mining of the deep

This

rich soils and allow the continued use of shallow

= fenes4

If the Consuming public will not swallow the
“higher prices for farm products? they un-
doubtedly would assist in administering to the
' ' the butt. of the Nation, on whom all
0th s est)..the injection, or law, which would
' If outed; we would have plentiful

oduction, for by profitable pro-

mean a. profit which will allow

ions for ’your

fore Ou rarriyal‘ and man’s position
is to aid and not to; hinder
either plant or animal growth.._:

number good and make each generation stronger 5,
2 and better able to care for itself. Let us till the. ' ;
land carefully and make each generation of plants 2. 5‘
Let us cooperate
2 not only with farmers, but with the cibv and 11
'tion, and With other nations as a civilized world ..

more productive and hardy.

We might soon have “Peace on earth and good.
Will toward man.”
sheviki nightmare—Stanley Warner, Doster, “Mich,” I .

2LIEUT.-GOV. DICKINSON RAPS

VIOLATION OF PRIMARY LAW

(Continued from page 4) Millions of lives were sac-
rificed to start the world on newer, higher, better,
nobler lines. It must not stop with the war’s
end: It is the beginning for us as a senate of a
great state on new legislative lines. ‘Legislationw
must be thorough, clean, right, just. Legislative
action must be abOVe suspicion. We must know
a change for better things is at hand. .’Tis to be
an epoch on higher lines and this means elevat-
ing legislation. This says your responsibilities
are great. Before and since the election many
subjects for legislation have been suggested to me
to bring before you. Among these are those made
prominent by the War, by the enfranchisement of
our women and by the elimination of the saloon.
in the main they are old questions to be dealt
with under the responsibilities of‘ the new epoch-
questions of taxation, appropriations, highways,
insurance, railroads, public health, budget system,
returned soldiers, temperance, and primary elec-
tions. The first four suggest nothing drastic. Be-
cause of the return of millions from war activit-
ies the labor problem may be one of the most per.
plexing of the session Satisfactory labor con-
ditions mean pr'osperity, beltel moral and social
1elations, safer gwernment and truer patriotism.
This question may try you as much as any of the
session. The release by the government from the
control of the railroads may bring to you another
equally perplexing matter. The epidemic of Span-
ish influenza. causing thousands of deaths. and
the exposing of venereal diseasexcondilions by
the war boards make the recommendations from
the public health department among the most ser-
considerutlon. The suggestion of
doing everything possible for the soldier boys, I
know. will be carefully and favorably considered.
The temperance question. because of the elimina-
tion of the saloon from our state and the result-
ant manifold. benefits on every hand. is looked
upon by many as settled. But a law does not en- '
force itself. The state constabulary must be
given power enough to make the bootlegger and
his kind understand they are criminals and that
the state has a police force alert and strong'
enough to enforce the state’s law to the last let-
ter; The ratification of the prohibition amend-
ment to the federal constitution will doubtless be
advertised more than any other act of this legis-
lature. It will be gratifying if this can be done
as early as possible because of its influence on
other states and the police force of this state and
also as a iiotice to the spring re-submlssionists
that we are in a newer and cleaner epoch with no
patience to consider a move, the succeSS of which,
means the wrecking of business. homes, health
and character and the making of criminals, in-
sane paupers and degenerates.

“Governor Sleeper appointed a budget commis-
sion conceded to be made up of men among the
best qualified for such work that could have been
selected. They have put in months of careful in-
vestigation from the unprejudiced standpoint.
Radical, if not startling, changes in various lines
of the state’s activities, are recommended with apfi
parently cold facts galhere d from within our statd'
or from other states substantiating such recom-
mendations. This report should be considered that
of thorough and expert investigation and its rec-
ommendations studied long and searchingly from,
the standpoint of new conditions. No misconduct ‘
seems to be charged anywhere but the matter 0

‘ as much as any act of the session.

some of your friends of patronage influer'm

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farmer, reciting his experience to the Writer,

said, “I had the {inset looking field of wheat this

year I ever had. The heads were all nicely filled

“(intend it looked like a bumper crop. All at

once the grasshoppers began to put in their 'Work

and within a week’s time, a third of the grain,

was destroyed. " And this was typical of the ex-
periences of many.

So great was the damage from grasshoppers last"
‘year that a number of the counties have made

special' appropriations for’combatting th'e ravag-
es of the pest next year.
mpvement along M. B. F. has secured some .val.

, uable information upon the subject of grasshopper

control and eradication, and presents below a des-
cription of some of the methods that have been

suggest to our. readers in counties where the

grasshopper has become a menace to crops ‘that

they clip this article and save it for future ref-
erence, and that the subject matter be brought to
the attention of their neighbors and county agent.
Only organized and systematic efforts can sue-
ceszully combat this pest: ' ~

There are going to be lots of. grasshoppers dur-
ing the summer of 1919 in the grasshopper belt,
according to indications found by entomologists
of the department of agriculture and the state
agricultural colleges. Farmers are urged to start
a clean-up campaign against them right away.
Plowing to a depth of six inches and subsequent
harrowing during the fall and winter, at any event
not later than April 10. will cover the eggs so deep
that the young will not be able to escape. When
grasshopers make their appearance they can be
destroyed by the common poisoned bait method.

But there is antoher way of getting rid of grass-
hoppers that makes the pests pay for the trouble
of killing and catching them. This method con-
sists of driving a grasshoper catcher through an
infected field, catching all the grasshoppers that
hop, and then feeding the insects to chickens.
They can be dumped into sacks and hung up to
dry and fed as dry grasshoppers, or, if it is pre-
ferred to feed the grasshoppers alive. the ma-
chine can be hauled to the poultry yard and placed
so that the front will face the light. The insects
will find their way out but not too fast for an or-
dinary flock of chickens. Thus the grasshopper
catcher becomes a poultry self-feeder.

An analysis of grasshoppers shows them to be
high in protein and therefore geod chicken feed.
It is known that chickens are more productive
when insects are a part of their ration and grass-
hoppers when dried can be used with other feeds
during the winter.

Where it is not practical to plow infested fields,
such as ground in clover or alfalfa, they should

be thoroughly disked in the fall or winter and.

 

In order. to aid the

farms graham cost the arses; »' '
of Michigan several minim dollars. one!

, found by actual use to be the most effective? We ’

 

best breeding places for grasshoppers.
The poisoned bait recommended consists of than
or sawdust made tasty and attractive by the addi-

tion of molasses and fruit and treated with arsen- I‘ A
ical poison. The following, formula is recommend- ~
ed: Bran (half and half bran and hardwood saw- .

dust, or sawdust alone), 25 pounds; paris green
or article arsenious oxide, 1 pound,’ or white arsenic
1% pounds; molasses (cheap feeding grade),2
quarts; lemons bananas or oranges, 6 fruits, or
1 ounce of cheap lemon extract; water, about 2 to
4 gawllons

In Indiana cover and alfalfadelds as among the. I"

shay until about the eat of!)

.work in the winter,«
- grain all the time. The other three horses, Which
are getting straw, are then given: a little grain ’

straw instead, except the team which I use for
they set hay and a little

" along with it, preferably chopped, oats and wheat

The poison should be thoroughly mixed with the -

bran. The water, molasses and finely chopped

fruit or extract are then mixed and added. The

mixture should be wet so that it molds in the
hands but is not “sappy" The bait should be
scattered broadcast at the rate of 7 to 10 pounds
to the acre. applications being made in the early
morning. .
In clover or alfalfa much material and labor can

be saved by first cutting around the field until-

there remains a small central uncut area where
the grasshoppers will have gathered and gnay be

.quickly and cheaply destroyed by the poisoned

bait. If the grasshoppers are feeding in corn or
young trees more water or, better, more molasses
and water. should be added and the mixture
thrown forcefully so that the particles will ad-
here to the crops to be protected. ,

The grasshopper catcher, which has an advant-

age over the old style hopperdozer, in that the in- ,

sects can be utilized for' chicken feed, is about .16
feet long with an upright but curved iece of tin
in front and so arranged that thewégassh-oppers
will strike it as they hop up, falling. to the bottom
and back through a narrow trap opening into a

box “behind. The tin front does not extend quite,

to the bottom, where just in front of the, tin
shield is a strip of tin placed so that there is .an
opening about~117§ or 2 inches wide.” This front
strip or lip may be made by using a 16~foot length
of gutter, one side of which is flattened outward.
The back and top of the box in the rear is covered
with wire screen and the top should be so hinged
that it can easily be opened and the accumulated
grasshoppers shoveled out as needed.

'A horse is hitched to the extended beam at
each end and the catcher dragged through the
infested area, beginning at the sides and working
toward the center of the field. A boy riding on
each horse can handle the machine nicely. A
heavy rope attached to the hames so that it
drags a few feet in 'front of the shield, is an ad-

vantage in that it stirs up, just before the catcher ‘

passes, the hoppers not otherwise disturbed.

 

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It will be understood that the catcher consists
first of a screen, preferably constructed'of sheet

'metal, approximately 12 to 14 feet in width and 3

to 4 feet in height, built so as to present a con-
cave surface to the insects which strike it as it is
dragged across the field At the bottom of the
screen is left an opening partially screened by a
transverse plank placed in such manner as to

" make anarrow groove into which the‘insQCts fall
‘ from the screen. At the back of the screen a box
. fior cage is constructed, the back of which consists

'- of ordinary fly screening. When the insects fall
irfto the groove, they are attracted by the light ~

transmitted from the screen at the back of the
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the purpose of removing the accumulations of

' track of the trap itse

very large numbers where grasshoppers are abund-
Doors are provided in the top of the box for

liVe grasshoppers. 'The sketch presents a fairly
forrect jepresentation of these traps with the ex-
ception of the fact that the cross timbers, to which
the whiifletrees are attached, projects for a fact
or so beyond the runners so a sto place the horses
at the extreme edges of the trap and out of the
It will, of course, be ap-
preciated that these
omically or successfully on- rough land 1101- in

fields where the crop has attained any consider,-

able height but nevertheless, they; have preven
to be or great. advantag "under favorable condi-
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cereal and Forage deceit mastication. .-

Entomologist in Charge.)

cps can not be used econ»

b

‘ “French homes

and all other coarse grain—A. K.,

‘Idle horses, or horses doing very little work do

  
  

bran in about egnai parts; and at the rats of two

hearts per horse, morning and evening

When the weather is fine in winter; we turn

them out in the daytime for exercise, bringing

them in at night. If the weather is not fit to turn
them out all day, I hitch them up and drive them
for exercise We have always had our horses

come out fine by handling them in this way. NVe

give them plenty of bedding when in the name

to keep them reasonably clean and comfortabler ,

as ”I think that comfort is as important to, the

horse as the kind of feed’given him. I never feed ‘
any silage to my herses and no, roots, except car- 1

rots and potatoes\ I think the latter is the best
of any if you have warm stables and do not feed
tOo many at a time, about four quarts a day is
about what I have found safe. We feed them in
this way until the weather begins” to turn warm

in the spring, then we begin to fit them for the ’

spring work.

I do not think it pays to sell the coarse grain
off the farm if you have the stock to which you
can feed it, at least, that has been’ .by experience.
Sell your wheat and feed your oats and barley
in Canadian
Countryman. '

1

HOW SHALL I FEED OAT STRAW
To HORSES AND CATTLE?

 

We have seen in yours and other farm papers
about horses and cows doing well on oat straw.
Now, we have the best of oat straw and nothing
seems to care for it, and we would like you to
tell us how to feed it, that is, What do you feed
with it?—Subscmber.

Neither horses nor cows would do ,‘well on oat»

straw as the only food. That would be practically
impossible. They might live through one winter
but you would be unable to make any gains, or to
get any yield of milk to amount to anything,
neither could your horses, perform very much
labor on oat ‘straw. The food nutriments are,
not there. But oat straw can be used as a rough-
age where'hay is scarce if the primer amount of
grain is fed in connection with it. No animal

4 will do well on grain alone; the food is too con-

centrated. Nature demands that a certain
amount of bulk be combined in a food in order to

get the proper action of the/”bowels, hence you 1

could use oat straw as a filler or bulky part of the -
ration, and of course, it contains a reasonable
amount of food nutrfments but a larger part of
it is fiber and is indigestible.

If you have oat straw only as a roughage in the
ration and want to feed milch cows, it will be
necessary to feed quite liberally of grains or con-

centrates, containing a good per cent of protein. _

A ground cat and wheat bran, [equal parts, by
weight, may be used as the major part of the
grain ration, but you should also have 'a conCen-
trate like oil meal, .rich in protein. I would sug-
gest that you feed three pounds of oil meal per
day to each cow, 11/2 lbs-night and morning, and
then feed a sufl‘icientpi' amount of ground oats and
wheat bran to give the cow a pound of grain per
day for every four pounds of milk she produces.

If the milk tests less than 4 per cent, and one

pound of grain per day for every three pounds of

milk she produces if the milk tests more than 4 ’
per cent, and one pound of grain per day for every , , "

threepounds of milk she produces if the milk‘
tests more than 4 per cent. With this combina-
tion of grains, I am positive that if you have good
oat straw that your cows will Consume a liberal

__quantity of it.

Horses can be very nicely winter-ed on oat

'straw in place of hay if you will feed in addition

corn meal and bran mixed, equal parts by weight.

not require as much protein as cows producing a
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eat is probahy‘the most frequently 1
by these pests, although they are often

I than devouring corn,. barley and oats (inland

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grain in the bins.

. good quality

"also subject to their attacks. ' _ ’- .
The chief insect mauraders of the farmerS’ grain

7....bin are granary and rice weevil, saw-toothed grain-
tbeetle, confused flour-beetle, cadelle and a few ,
' others, to say nothing of the rats- and mice. Col-
~llectively these are spoken of as “weevil” and are
hall very small in size. none of them exceeding
' five~e1gl1th of an inch in length, and most of them

being Jess than one-fourth of an inch long Their
color is reddi -brown or black but fortunately
it matters 1106 what their (MM is nOr what their
size and species is. for all succumb to the same

oatment. _

.’ . Nature of Their Work

The weevil begins by, eating a small hole in the

grain of wheat inKWhich 1t deposits a small white

egg, after which the cavity is closed and to all
.. appearances no damage has been done

But soon
this, egg hatches and ‘the’ little white footless

“grub starts in to satisfy its enormous hppetite.
. The inside-of the grain is eaten, leaving practical-

ly nothing but the outer shell. ,As the insect de-
velops, holes appear, in the grains which are used

’ by the adult weevil in emerging. As the season

advances and the demand fer wheat is better, the.

quality and quantity of the grain generally be-

comes reduced. ] "
Preventive Measures ~

The observance of two general rules will do

more to protect the farmers grain, against these

pests, than any other methods, and. if'faithfully.

carried" out fumigation will, in most cases be un-

necessary. First, neVer put new grain on old
Second, clean the bins of the
granary thoroughly each year before putting in
new grain. If at threshing time there is any old

wheat left in the bins it should be placed in a bin

by itself, even if the presence of insects has not
been noticed. If the new wheat covers the old
in-the bin it will be a'greater attraction to the in-

,sects which are sure to be present there, if any-

where, in the granary. In many cases the in-
sects /are already in the old wheat when the new

is added and they are ready to begin feeding at

once. The work of these insects causes the new
wheat to heat, which renders it more favorable
for their development. If they once set a good
start they will overrun everything around the
granary. If one suspects the presence of insects

. in the bin just previous to filling it with the new

crop he should- clean out all the grain taking care

. to set it out of the corners, cracks and crevices.

This should be swept up and destroyed. If nec- ,
essary a good fumigation should be done at this
time as it will cosh less and be more theroughly
done than would be possible if the bin were full

* of grain. On the other hand if no insects'are pre-

sent a good sweeping will be sufficient and at the
same time any holes or large cracks should be
closed. It is very seldom that these insects are
brought into the granary from the threshing ma- ,
chine. They are either there to start with or find
it soon afterwards.
Control Measures
Probably the best and most universal method

-of controlling these grain-destroying insects is

by the use of ca\bon bisulpbide. This; when of

is clear almost colorless liquid,
which on being exposed to air is rapidly convert-J
ed into gas. The gas being heavier than air
rapidly settles through the grain and becomes
strongest near the floor of the bin where the in-
sects themselves are the thickest. This fluid can
probobly be purchased at any local drug store or
through- them. Almost any wholesale drug com-

. - nan! sell it and one can- get it direct from them

To apply, the bin to be fumigated must first be
measured to find the number of cubic feet This

. can be done by. multiplying the width by the
* length and then multiply this result by the height
a ,.

lie-bin. For every one bun cubic is in
use unopened of thee than bisumb de.
ofgthis m'a'te'riiil- is 3159.4 it can be

     

  

,when the pipe is thrust into place

"nantly.

  

thise‘ the bisulphide is poured MP-
nj will be a little slower but just as efleetiva

If the grain, to be fumiseted, is“ four or five feet, I
‘ '- or. deeper, it is advisable to get the fluid deeper in
the grain. This can readily be done by means of.

a" short piece of gas-pipe,1n which isditted a
stick, loosen than the pipe itself. The pipe with
the stick in place is thrust down in the center

of the grain, the stick withdrawn and the blsul-.
The stick

phide poured down through the pipe.
merely prevents the pipe from becoming filled
If the bin
covers quite an area the above operation should
be repeated in several places. As soon as the 0p-
eration is finished, no matter which method you
employ, quickly cover the surface with blank-
ets or canvass and leave foratwenty- four to forty-
eight hours when it can be opened up and aired.
The ‘gas mixes very readily with air so that with-
in an hour or so little odor, if any can be detected.
Shoveling over the grain will hasten the airing.
Do not take a lantern or lamp of any kind near
the bin that is being fumigated as the gas is high-
ly inflamable and explodes when ignited and would
be likely to cause a serious fire. If properly band-
led, keeping any light and animals from the see,
no danger need be feared. Rats and mice as well
as insects will be killed by this treatment.

Heat is another method of controlling insects
but in most cases it is impractical for general
farm use. Where possible, any infested grain
that is heated up to 130 degrees for a period of.
a few hours will kill all of the insects present.—
Don B. Whelan.

u

TON 0F PHOSPHATE PER ACRE
IS NOT A “COVERING”

“No, we haven’t covered any of our land with
raw rock phosphate, though we have applied 20
tons or so to the ground,” is the way S. J. Height
of La Salle county, 111.. answered a question about
the acreage he had covered with phosphate in
Prairie Farming.

 

7' cues of what {as now do."

pmoible to raise crops far 1 ., '.

In the last two or three years Height has medo

a fine start in permanent soil building Practis ‘
cally all of his 624 acres is sour and quite defic-’ { ,
‘1ent in limestone, so Haight 'is covering it withi, ,
limestone as fast as he can get it hauled. This?
goes (in at the rate of two or three tons per acre. .
, The principal effect of this is to increase the 1310-.
ver crop and to allow clover to grow where it had

refused to grow before.

As the clover sod is plowed under, Haight puts, :
on phosphate rock. At first he used one ten per ‘
acre, though this year one’field got a dose oftwo j

tons per acre.

“Soil improvement has just begun on this

place,” Haight told me. “I expect to apply a ton
or more per acre of phosphate every time clover
sod is plowed under and limestone will be used
as needed.”

Not many men have the courage of their con-
victions along the lines of permanent soil im-
provement as does Haight. He is not waiting to
see what sort of returns he will get from his
limestone-clover-phosphate combination, as he
knows that in a few years the increased crops
will pay for the soil treatment and more, too. He
knew this because other farmers are securing
such results under similar conditions on the same
soil type. In the meantime he is going ahead
with big plans for the future.

DO ANY OF OUR READERS
USE rSELF FEEDERS?

It takes good management tq keep the hogs
gaining when they come out of the cornfield.
‘Tbe best way to do it is to put them on self-
feeders, with shelled corn in one self-feeder and
tankage in another. If there is plenty of skim-
milk or buttermilk available the tankage can be,
dispensed with. Pigs that have gotten a good
start in the cornfield can be finished quickly andY
economically on self-feeders, and without any
set-back.

We should be glad to get the experiences of
our readers with self-feeders.

Hark back to Days when Snakes were thicker’n Grass
and every Native had a “Champeen” Snake Story

The old New England story teller was a jolly
old soul. Good humor oozed out of every seam
and wrinkle of the aged face that reminded you
of some rugged shagbark hickory. At least his
face<furrows were all plowed the riht way.

Three things could be honestly said of his tales
-——'they were clean, they were harmless, and they
were eriginal. He never befouled his mouth, or
his soul, with vile stories. The neighbors claim-
ed that he sat up, nights to invent his tales, but
then neighbors say many things when the days
are long, and farm work not too pressing.

He reveled in snake stories; the old Blue Hills
were fertile ground for them. There were just
enough c0pperheads—or chunkheads, as we call-
ed them-to keep his imagination working. “Nar-
row escape I had yesterday,” he remarked one day

~ to a neighbor.

"What Was that?" responded the neighbor,
with an expectant air, and listening ears.

“I started to go up to my mountain woodlot
yesterday,” said the old story teller, as the wrink-
les deepened and broadened on his face; “my!
but I had a narrow escape from being bitten by
a chunkhead! It was this way: I came to Pine
brook,,,and the rain of last week had swelled it
considerably, and it was a fairly good jump if a
man wanted dry feet. I took a good start and
intothe air I went. Just as I was over the mid-
(11.6 of the brook I’ll be eonsamed if I didn’t see
a whoppeir of a chunkhead coiled just where I
Will)! land. Gee whillikens! But my hair stood

. up straight”

“Did you land on the chunkhead?” said his
hurry—up listener. , 2

“Land en him!” said the story ‘teller, indis-
"‘did you ever know me to commit sui-
cide?" Norsir, I just whisked around in the air
and landed exactly on my starting place!” ‘

His story of the chunkbeads of his Blue hills
medder was the most popular among the farmers.

{Here is the story as he told it:

“Chunkheads was unusual thick that summer.
Qto the Blue hills to mow that
, did a. lot of thinkin,’ on the way.
1, calculated that brains was made
‘scytbes, so I out quite a swath with

burned the corn began to pop, and as the wind was
just right it floated down in clouds over that im.- 2

"lay down and d1ed ”

Smith make corned beef 01' that cow, "

care and rest their toir- worn bucks

“I took graSS and wound it 'round and ’round
my legs to my knees, and tied it securely. 'Better
be safe than sorry,’ I said to myself. Then I be-
gan to mow and such a safe and comfortable feel?
ing came over me that I clean forgot about chunk-
heads. erll, I mowed along, comfortable like,
but my legs began to feel quber, they seemed to
just drag along ’stead of following the scythe
promptly. I didn’t understand it but I mowed
on to the end of my swath. Then I looked down,
and l vum! I nearly jumped clean off the Whole
Blue hills at one jump.” ,

“What was the trouble?” asked 'his b'rgithless
audience.

“Trouble? there want no trouble, but it was
mighty lucky for me that it wasn’t a funeral,
“said the story teller;” why, there was six chunk-
heads dragging along back of me. All unknowin’
to me they had struck at me, and tangled their
fangs in the grass. No wonder my legs was
heavy.”

The old story teller never tired of telling the
story of Smith’s cow. Here it is as he first
told it: / _

"When neighbor Smith went to California he
took a fine Jersey of his along. You know she
was a-prize milker, and Smith was sorter at-
tached to her Well, the cow was getting 'climat-
ed when a strange thing happened. You see Smith
raised a big lot of pop corn on his ranch that
season, and he stored it in his old rickety barn—
a reg'lar flre- trap. Qne night 11 110110 crept into‘
the barn, and when he smoked, the old barn said,

I’ll make it trumps,’ and down it burned to the
ground.

“Well, that prize cow was down in the pass
ture. Bein’ woke up out of a sound sleep is ex-
citing to the imagination of a cow. As the barn

 
  
   
    

aginative creetur, who thought it was snow. Th

poor animal grew colder and colder until sh
“\

“Say,” selri one of his group of listeners

   
 
 

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_' There is no change in the wheat sit-
none anticipated in the
inimediate future. Local shortages
of the grain for milling purposes are
V Flour has re-

cayered from its set back of a couple
f1 weeks ago and is now quoted at al-

‘ mOSt exactly the same p1 ice fixed by

111% government. Thus is the theory

V‘..of,the Food Administration that the

V- removal of milling restriction would

V~ do.

.ing on the Detroit

V, cago. however,

' “corn movement

'mand and supplies are
.aabundance of oats for immediate de-

lower flour prices, knocked into a

took the hand-
gamblers and

old
war.

cocked hat. It merely
cuffs off the market
they are right back in the same
game they played before the

~Bran and middlings are still at $50,

but dealers look for further advances.
“to offset the loss"(‘?) millers are
meeting onvtlouivat present prices.
MNHIGAN an1NEss FARMING has
wired the Food Administration ask-
ing that something be done to pievent
furtiiei advances in pl‘ltOS of bran
and middlings.

There is still

much speculation

‘ about how much the guaranteed price

on wheat is going to cost the nation.
The Price Current Grain Rr'portcr has
it all figured out that the loss will
average about. $15 a head for every
man. woman and child in the United
States. There will be a lot of sur-
prised peoplc all right. if the Food
Administration succeeds in placing
the enormous 1919 crop without loss.
as it is predicted by some they will
It. is reported .that prices 20 cents
over the guaranteed basic price have

"been paid at, some terminal markets.

CORN

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New Yorlr
1.71
1.65
[60

Detroit Chicago

1.53 I

: GRADE 5
No. 2Ycllow
No. SVYcllow
No. 4 Yellow

1.53

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The corn market. is in healthy con-
dition. There hasn‘t. been much do-
market. since the
holidays. 1 There are few buyers and
the supplies are very light. In Chi—

good and alike the season is now rap-
idly approaching when the crest of the
is normally reached,
the market‘is well sustained and has
an upward‘tcndency. There is some
talk of the importation of corn from
Argentine, the freight rate having
been reduced sufficiently to make it
a profitable venture, but even the max-
imum amount that is liable to be in-
troduced into this country will cut lit-
tle figure with the demand and prices
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Oats, which have suffered declines

'ior the past three weeks, are again

Both de-
light. An

showing a little strength.

livery on almost any market would

“send the price down right now. What
the futiire of hats Vis to be nobody can ,

ens. That the allies will need an

1 hormone ain'ount of oats before their

Wrest is firmly» believed, but
flifie. so far shown no. great eag-
" to buy in largequautities»

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Rye is showing no activity. Prices
remain practically stationary'with an
occasional advance or drop of a cent
a bushel. Detroit-quotes rye at $1.62.
Barley is 'showing .a little more
strength, the best grades having ad-
vanced from $1.95 a week ago to $2.
Perhaps the action of the distillers in
pledging a fund of a billion dollars
to defeat the wishes of the people on
prohibition is having a bullish eiTect
upon the market.

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Beans are holding their own and
that’s about all. Were it not for the
efforts of the bean jobbers to hold
them at $8 per cwt., we are very
much afraid that prices would go
lower. The demand is very slow, the
government is doing enough of the
buying to maintain the price at pres—
ent levels, but should the government
dr0p out we hesitate to say what
would happen to the market. We be-
lieve that farmers will be able to dis-
pose of the balanceof their holdings
for $8 per cwt. if they‘feed the mar-
ket slowly. The bean jobbers are liv-
ing up to their promise to see that

the growers get $8 and are investi-V
gating every case referred to them‘

where a member of their association
accepts beans at less than that figure.
We are still getting numerous com-
plaints about the bean pick. The sit-
uation is not as bad as a year ago.
because the beans ,are of much bet-
ter quality, but it is bad enough in
some sections to warrant an investi-
gation. Some farmers declare that
they will get leSs than $3 a bushel
for their beans after the elevators
get thru “picking” them.

Some of our readers are « wondering,

‘

- the interstate

1
1 I

what happened _to the resolutiOn' ad- _

opted by the bean growers at their
annual session calling for an. investi-
gation into bean picking practices.
We are advised by Pres.- A. B. Cook
that the matter was taken up with

Who advised that it did not come
within their jurisdiction. 3
reason, however, for dropping .the
matter ”and would respectfully sug-
gest to the bean growers’ organiza-
tion that the legislature be called up—
on to enact a law that will give tarm-
ers some protection from bean ole
vators who ro‘b them on the “pick."

DETRoIT.—Po¢atou higher; my iii-m3 shah; M143. wintry iii-m3 and.” 3
Grain in fair 30mm! , .
CH-lCAGO.——Stronger tone in potatoes.
NEW YORK .--Hay lower; potatoes steady, been: inactive; onion- 23.601“.
_ Prr'rsnuno. -—Potatoee firm and higher. .- V

commerce commission.

We see no .,

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Detroit has been a good hay market
for a couple of weeks. While prices
have gradually declined .at eastern

markets, the Detroit market has been

well-sustained and demand has read-
ily taken care of rather light supplies.
Now that snow has come to most of
the hay regions and the movement is
bound to be more or less interrupted,
it is not believed that hay prices will
Cold weather usually bet-
ters the demand, as everybody is
afraid supplies are going to be cur-
tailed and hurry to lay in supplies.
The Hay Trade Journal gives the fol-
lowing~;:,excellent report of the hay
trade conditions the past week:-
"Slack holiday trading ls,_the fea-
ture‘ of the eastern markets but the
principal‘Western centers have shewn
a good demand and rule firm or high-
er. Snow and storms have reduced
the arrivals and at the same time in-
creased the feeding demand; in con-
sequence these markets are well clean.

 

 

 

raw- Walker 01.23747" 1010

Cold

Warm

WASHINGTON, D. 0., Jan. 11.—
Last bulletin gove forecasts of dis-
turbance to cross continent Jan-1.14
to 18, warm wave 13 to 17, cool wave
16 to 20. With usual fluctuations th‘

ward till about. Jan. 22.
precipitation. Force or intensity of
the storms will increase near ‘Jam 13.
General weather conditions of balance
of January about normal; that is,
about a ten-year average ,

Next warm wave will reach .VaVn-
cou’Oer about Jan. 19 and tempera-.

Ametrica that lies west of the Rockies'
cres
by close of Jan. 20. Elaine‘sectiong 21
meridian so great 1 Res. middle Gulf
states and bhio-Teripessee valleys 22
eastern sections 23,
of waoundlawabou

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

as forecasted by W. ’1‘. Foster for Mwmmrv Busmnss Panama

perature averages Will progress up,
Not much

' i t e s rin
tures will rise on all the Pacific slime: ., will be plowed up n h D
that is; on all that part of North .
It will cross crest of Rookies blamed and- VVsoan where the winter- '

evolwaveaoutlfla
v.

In front of this storm as it moves.
eastward. temperatures will reach the
top for January. These warm waves.
with low temperatures near Jan 7,
and 30, are dreaded by those« who
ha1e sown winter grain. They will
be repeated till late in the spring of
1919. Not much snow is expected
during winter and these conditions
may damage winter grain that had
too zank a growth during the fall 01'
1918. It is too early for the govern-
ment to be alarmed about having to
pay the farmers 21 billion dollars bon—~
us on the 1919 wheat crop. Let Aus-
tralia and South America sell their
grain at low prices. I advise Ameri~
can _farmers to hold their products for
the present. I believe.- that before the
1919 crops are matured We will have
the greatest demand ever known . in

this country for farm products. par- 3. V

ticularly for grain and cotton.

I believe that much of the winter
grain crop. new in exhallent con ”1013
an _i
farmers should begin to think it over ‘
as to what spring crops should- he

grain crop will have been killed Th

 

 

 

queSthn, titre e, will dpend on t e —
. cropweathe; 111% 9. . .

reaching {vicinity . 5:
.2_-4. at ,

wing Mayl

.. Kansas. 611}

_ cares to discuss.
- to say that prices will not go as high
‘ as they did two years ago, but they
don’t need to go that high to enable
_farmers to realize a profit.
.our readers will watch this market
very closely, for after the unfortunate
" BXperiences of a year ago, they ought
’to. make some money on their 1.918 \

into competition with the regular 811D“

«ply at some of, the seaboard 11151er

There will probably not be Va gent!!!“
resale «of government held ksJ
rumors to the contra netwithstand-
ing, for by: the time t army is do

mobilized and the unnecessary horses 3

and mules sold the supply of hay at
Camps will have been consumed and

.inossiny more purchased The gov
. ernment hay that was sold laiat week

was stock held outside of the actual
consuming areas and. does not consti-

tute an over-supply except locally.

The fellowing table shows the high-
est prices, also the prices {or No. 3
timothy in the markets this week:

_ Choice No. 3

“2;”; _____ $31.00 $25.00
__'__‘..-__>_1 33.00 20.00
_ 33.00 26.00
29.50 26.00

Boston --__
Philadelphia _____
Baltimore ___
Pittsburgh
17, 50
31. 50
_ 26. 00

Chicago _
Chicago prairie
St. Louis
Richmond
Duluth
Detroit

__________ 29.00 24.00
_28. 50 23.50
_.30 00
26 50
26.00

Kansas City prairie _
Minneapolis ._,__
Minneapolis prairie
St. Paul __ -

St Paul prairie

24.00

26.75

. San Francisco

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V " Potatoes advanced 20 cents a'thn-VI
from

dred on the Detroit market
Jan. let to Jan. 7th. .Nearly all other!
markets'report an advance. Supplies
are meagre, and while the demand is
not particularly active yet, following‘
the holidays, there is a feeling of
confidence on the part. of both grow—
ers and dealers that demand will be-
come more active and prices will con-
tinue to advance.
the potato market at this season of the,
year is usually followed'by decreased
shipments,
alike hold back supplies. This is
what will undoubtedly happen during

the next few weeks in all the potato .

growing states. ,It is significant that

Ithe executive committee of the Mich-
. igan Potato Growers’ Exchange, which

has marketed several thousand car-
loads of potatoes this year and knows
marketing conditions pretty wen,
should publicly predict higher prices
Just how high prices may .go before
the next crop is a. matter no one.
Of course; it is safe

We hope

26.00 '

28.00 .

Any ’advance‘ ‘in-3

as growers and dealers.

24.00 7 V

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were. ”flinging 1:4st to “$6 but
-:outside‘ figure; was. eitrei’ne.

—. ‘1‘ Fancyrwestern ”boxed apples were 0

.j in good! demand and values were firm.
; ’Rome‘aBe-authe‘ 'were selling at $2525

‘.'~..-.jt'o"$3_andeelicious at $3.50 to $4.25.
' WineSapsl‘we‘re bringing $2 to $2.35,

uJ'Staym‘an Win 'ps $2.25 to $3, and

- . spitzenbergsszsoto $3.75- ~

. ’The export demand continues
1 gent but steamship space is scarce
. just at the moment, There was no

. - way ofgetting a line on What the ex-
ports were this week but ’they were

. " g-rmuch lighter than any week since

4-; Thursday that he had heard a reporh

shipments. abroad were resumed. All
yapp‘lesbn the other side are bringing
maximum prices, irrespective of qual-
‘ .ity and grade. ’The maximum price: on
barrelled. fruit’ is about ' $17 and on
boxed apples $4.75. , " E
= Wayne M. French of the Simone,
Shuttleworth- &:French 00., said on

that the. limit on “the. weight of hexes
and barrels had been taken om So
“for, the British government has allow-
.. ed boxes to be sold‘ at 38"poun’ds and
‘ barrelsat 130, pounds net. and if they
- weighed any more the extra amount
Motlfiruit could not be ,collected for.
Mr. French said that the, report had
not been verified but if it were true:

3‘ boxes and: barrels could 'be. ‘sold by

weight at 12cgperpound‘ih’e}. ; He
looks-.ior a heavy? m0vem'ent abroad.

" ” the latter part of. January when many

' -01; the boats that‘jhavo‘ been going over

5 t willbe in port and ready to sail again

7 ~ for "Europe.

-, down movements

7 '4" H‘du’oted

.. _:;eemws image-«sum .

_ T “ New york—smegma... ' '

. . Steamship space will .be
more. plentiful then.——-C’hicago Packer.

    

been many up and
in . " the , .egg market
‘ . weeks, before, the 1101- '
many are still predicting $1.00

. _‘Altho.~ther9 has
’ since” a Couple.
Mays.
eggs before spring.
. foolish renOugh ' to, think that
might ‘go that high, but we have
to the; conclusion that" the American
people, despite abnormally high food
"jprices,~will, never pay that much—for
egggi Whi h ’
spot 11 w c the egg market has ac -
.ed the past month enables- us to makte'
no other conclusion. Fresh fflr'sts are
this week in Detroit at 62. to

‘ eggs
come

out.

  
      

 

fl _ m, ‘Im'v‘i.’i7'.1'§19..—§While the
am no any; or, theweokmessed-
in, enhance, Thursday

.‘Tl’iatwvyas'iolloymd‘ by a half cent gain

.. .. _. . . one
-hey_Were on the decks.
‘ say‘this' Will tend ‘toj'draw

J, . niAyalues. . Coidstorage Bald-
,Wins were bringing $5.50 to $6.75 and
, $57110; $7. McIntosh- and
porn Spies rwe'reselling at $5 to
. i: impairing iat-sa. to:
Conmon Istorage Baldwins
the“

u re.

._roosters, 20 to 21c; geese, 30 to 31c;
- ducks, 35 to 36c;

‘The cattle run was lighter than has

At"once' we were *

'higli’est January levels in trade his-

may be wrong, butt-he man- 7

. the past week and the bulk of the med-

iillfii‘9_.’was no change
palliation Wednesday

y 110,-» business was tran-
quotation at a full‘ cent.

on Friday .; Because 01; the shortage

causedir‘liy the freight" handler's strike "

considerable quantities of accumulat-
ed. firsts and seconds were moved at
better. prices. Centralized -b’utt_er has
been moving in‘ considerable quanti-
ties during the week'at prices rang-
ing from three to
,the quotation for extras. Several
cars of California butter in hexes has
arrived and has moved at prices any-
‘where from the quotation on extras to
four and five cents below, depending
upon the Quality of the butter. At the
close yesterday established quotations
Were as follows; Extras, 691/2c; high-
er scoring than extras, 70 to 701/2c;
‘firsts, 641/; to 681/2c, and seconds, 60
to 631/2c.

 

All poultry with _j the exception of
turkeys is in good demand. The tur-
key is essentially a Christmas bird
and after the holidays the demand .is
very light. Prices paid on ot er
kinds of poultry this week in Detroit
are: No. 1 springs, 31 to 32c; small
’springs, 28 to 30c; hens, 32 to 33c;
small hens and leghorns, 28 to 30c;

turkeys, 35 to 36c
per lb. - . .

Chicago , Livestock Letter

Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Jan. 6.
F—Live stock trade opened this week
as it closed last week, in healthy con-
dition in all departments, this despite
material increases in supplies over
the light Christmas "week marketing.
Receipts today were estimated at 25,-
000 cattle, 44,000 hogs and 21,000 sheep. »

been generally expected in view of the
fact that the market closed last week
at advances ranging from $1.50 to $2
per cwt. over the depressed period just
before Christmas. The hog movement
has been elfectively limited to pack-
ers” killing capacity by the car allot-
.ment plan explained in these columns
last week. Were the bars let down
the marketward movement of swine
would doubtless again overtax killing
facilities. In the live mutton trade
the feeling in general. that the big’runs
of the fall and early winter are a
thing of the past, as Iowa cornfeds
have been drawn on heavily, the move-
ment direct from the range is over
and supplies to come are daily get-
tininnto stronger hands.

‘The fat cattle market is showingthe

tory. No strictly prime longfed bull-
ocks are coming but choice, heavy cat-
tle have sold as high as $19.75 during

ium and good short ‘fed steers are now
cashing at $14 to $17.50. prices that

Thursday witnessed an in... ,

,flve cents under -

   
    
    

  

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Cadillac Evening Newa, Cadillac ................ 4.00 3.00
Clarksvillo Record, Clarksville ................... 2.50 2.00
Deerflold Times-Journal, Deer-field ............... 2.50 2.00
Grutiot County Herald, Ithaca .................. 2.50 2.00
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11.: Milking Shorthorn

 

 

 

is the Farmer’s Cow

Come with me to the Milking Shorthorn Congress

at Erie, Pa; March 20 and 21, 1919.-

' If you are thinking of attending this
about. it write

Chas. Bray, Okemos, Mich... Breeder of Milking Shorthorns

Show and Sale

meeting or wish

to know more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Meg-W}. with salt the year around keeps

flock healthy and free from stomach worms
and ticks. A $5.00 box makes $60. 00 worth of
medic-ted alt— saves you big money—A
$2.00 size box of “Till-TON MIX" by parcel
post will medicate a barrel of salt. -
Writ. for club ofler'rbooklet on "Nature and Can of M"
PARSONS CHEMICAL WORKS, Grand Ledge. Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
  

 

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around keeps flock healthy and
free from stomach worms and
ticks. A $5.00 box makes $6000
worth of medicated salt-—Saves you
bigmoney—A $1.00 size box of
willy-by parcel post will
medicate 54 barrel of. salt.

Write for club ofi'fiu—booklet on
“Nature and Care of Sheep”

. , masons CHEMICAL weeks-Lg:

[gonna Panamanian-cop. GRAND Lanai,

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~ .sLocmu , . . . , passed over the prbblems-
_ .- - -E~DITO ., 7.. -- .,,,,.,.
‘ mm: 363%? . J VETERINARY EDITOR lightly." Does; he, too, have, the ,opmionthat

E. BROWN - .LEGAL Enrron
x}; 0239mm M. snootm , ,. BUSINESS MANAGE?
" ‘ ‘ .Published every Satur, y byrthe
RURAL PUBLISHING COWLEY
MT. CLEMENS, MICK.

' Detroit omce': - no Fort St. Phone, Cherry 4669 .
Woes: Chicago; New York, St. Louis, Minneapolil

. ': ONE man], 52 ISSUES, ONE DOLLAR,
Thu.- Years, 156 Issues, ..................... /.sz.oo
five Years, 260 Issues. ...................... $3.00
cilia Premiums. me List or Clubbing Otters. but a
’ Efiwgg worth five times what we ask for it and guar-
.i 4““ to please -or your money back any line.

.. Ilium-In: Estes: Twenty cents per state line-
. fourteen lines to the column inch, 760 lines to page.

Douala—1y

 

Sleeper islcertainly cognizant of the Weakness

afiect the taking of usurious rates of intol‘est
from farmers, for" .
pointed them out to him, both personally and

 

 

 

cut-over lands, principal of which is the lack
L" “0 mm. We on" of capital and credit. Dodge it as you may,
.~;opeciai lowo'krzile: 13343:“?‘3‘1: iai-evéiers of live stock the fact remains that the state of: Michigan
,. , Mid poultry: Write us for thefn. , holds Within its hands the key to the solution
‘ OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS of the problem of idle lands and struggling

We respectfully ask our readers to tavor our adver- farmers. This is a proposition that. the 'GOV-

, users when possible. Their catalogs and prices are , _ ,
cheerfully sent free. and we guarantee you axe-inst 10“ ernor and the legislature ought to] get behind
at once. -How about it, Mr. Sleeper? ‘

providing you say when writing or ordering from then}:
"I saw your ad. in. my Michigan Business Farming.
career came to an end.

 

 

 

Wei as second-class matter. at Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

 

Roosevelt

LATE ISSUES—We are anxious to have OOSEVELT, 18 dead. 1,11 the tranquility
this weekly in the hands of every subscriber
,for Sunday. reading, which means it must
reach you on before Saturday. Once in
awhile late trains or other unavoidable delays
make this impossible, lint if your copy ar-
rives regularly on Monday or Tuesday, write
us and we will do our best to find where the
trouble lies. '

heart, big in mind, big in everything he said
and did, Theodore Roosevelt swayed the opin—
ion of all classes as few men of either ancient
or moderntimes have been able to sway it.
His will was indomitable; his courage like
steel; his convictions as fixed as Gibraltar.
By the sheer force of his personality he con—
qucred where others failed. He never com-
promised with his own convictions.
the world said he was wrong, Roosevelt was
the type of man who would prove that he was
right and the world was wrong.

Roosevelt’s popularity was entirely of his
own making. He depended upon no political
machines, no secret promises, nothing of the
usual tactics of the office-seeking man to our-
tail favor with the people and those who sway
‘ihe people. He preached his doctrines, and
rested his case, upon them.

 

 

When the Governor‘ Reads His Message

HE SENATE is in. session. The hour is
I 2 p. 111., January 2nd. A smattering of
resolutions, petitions and bills are presented.
'The clerk reads the titles in a monotone»
Lieut. Governor Dickinson, presiding, gravely
‘ apd with business-like dispatch calls for the
vote or orders the sundry matters referred
to the proper committees.

The .door opens, and a delegation from the
House is announced, who formally “invites”
'the Senate to meet in joint convention with
the House. The Senate, anticipating the

“invitation,” immediately accepts it. Michigan was a particular friend of Mr.
fl, The scene changes to the representative Roosevelt. It StOOd by him thru thiCk and
‘ hall. The advancing senators are announced thln; he"was a popular idOI amdng factory

and the house and visitors rise to their feet
and applaud while the senators march in and
take their seats.

.Anothcr stir at the door and the state of-
ficers are announced. The Senate, the House
and the visitors all rise to their feet and ap-
plaud while the state officers gravely march -
in and take their seats.

What. more Visitors! So it would seem.
This time the members of the Supreme Court
are at the door. The state ofi’iccrs, the Senate,

' the ‘House and the visitors rise to their feet’
and applaud while Michigan’s highest judi—
cial body is seated. -

But not even the presence of the supreme
court seems to satisfy that attitude of cxpec~

_ tancy. There is still another commotion at
the door. Ah, the Governor and his staff are
about to enter. The mmnbors of the Supreme

' Court. the state officers. the Senate, the House
and the visitors rise to their feet and vigor-
ously applaud as Mr. Sleeper and his retinue
marches down the aisle and take their places
on the forum back of the speaker’s desk.

‘ But why all this ceremony and coming to-
gether of the state’s legislature. administra?

-,tive and judiciary heads? Why, don’t you
know”? The Governor is to read his message.

’Tis an occasion for ceremony.

.. There is prayer, a few choice preliminary

V words by Lieut.-Gov. Dickinson, moderately

.‘.perfumed with customary bouquets directed

‘at the‘Governor, then], the message!

' Fully half of Merleeper’s-message .con-

i: of a review of Mr. Sleeper’s “arious

e l andg-semi-oflicial acts as a “we . gov:

” .2Th3 message. proper contained' no

es, for, the aurmises.. that “had-been

‘ byliatMr. Sleeper Would or would.

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workers and farm owners alike who remained
steadfast and loyal to the day of his death.

Mr. Roosevelt’s earthly career is over; but
the influence of his deeds and his preachments
will live on and on. His mistakes, like. the
mistakes of all great men, are entirely oblit-
erated by the elfulgence of his wonderful at-
tainments and accomplishments, and we how
our heads in reverential respect to his mem-
ory.

“Yep, Farmers Can Grow Potatoes for 15
,_ Cents a Bushel.” ‘ ‘

T IS truly surprising how much the. city
folks know about. the farming business. Go
anywhere you please these days, office, shop,
store, railway coach or hotel lobby, and you will
find the popular topics of conversation to be
food and the farmer. I have learned. more
astonishing things about the farming bus1-
ncss thru recent chance conversation with
city people than I have from all other sources.
A few days ago I went‘into a Detroit store
g which advertised itself asa co-operative store.
The clerk, not knowing my occupation, pro-
ceeded to enlighte’nxme on the transcendant
pleasures and profits of farming. l let him
talk. ' , '

“This company,“ he said, “owns 3,000
'acres of land, and' we; sell shares to people. .
We raise“ almost every kind of vegetables and
we-sell these direct to’the consumer.”

T‘You see,“ he added rather confidentially,
‘we ‘can sell 'much‘cheaper than theother. fel- "
lows ,and still -,make good profits, because We

.cut 'out the middleman. " Take, potatoes, for

 

 

potatoes at 75 cents a bushel.

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oragmultnre » o

[for the ’ pininlypIout‘Of myel‘ementgir;~
, the. Dr "nee that dreamer gentleman, so:

prevails that ‘agriculture has are
problems amenable to state legislation 2. Mr. f

innthe state’s banking law, particularly :as‘
we have time and again-
editorially. IWe greatly . regret , that Mr. ,

Sleeper did not make some mention of the.
difiiculties lying in the way ofdevelbping the-

— otherwise have escaped, the burdens of‘war

of Sleep his vigorous and, tempestuous

The world has. lost a great man. Big in ‘

Though '

_ legislature to enact such laws as will distrib-g

law enacted that will'give a‘ poor man

.. that the his publicity Mr.Scu11ygives to that“
fact, the better for his political‘fortnnes.

instance; .Ia -farme“r . makes lots of money on1
You-known

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that whiteaapronedgclerk’s' confidential as.
surance‘ that potatoes can, be groWn for, 15 ; _ ’
centsabushel.‘ ‘ " "

p - AState Income :l‘ax g i ».

A N INCOME TAX to . supplement the

. real and personal property, tax is pro-

posed by the Sta~ Tax..Co_mmission in [its . _ .
annual report to-{t 'Governor. ._ V. .v » _ . *

This is a who suggestion and-should receive, _

the -=favorable attention of the legislature. _ . ,
Men of large incbmese do not pay'théir prepor- . ~. 5‘
tionate share of the taxes, and it has been
IOng so recognized. The federal income tax .
uncovered‘muc “unseen” wealth that would ’

  

  
  
   
  
 
 
   

   
 

   
  
    
   
   
   
    
     
  
 
   
  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

and which should without
to pay taxes. 7 . - .
A state income tax would be a great boon
to the farmers of the state. Present methods
40f taxation have always borne heavily upon'
agriculture. Nearly every year farmers are
forced to sell certain crops or live stock" under
most unfavorable marketing conditions in
. orderito raise money with ’which to-pay their
taxes. At thesame time people whose incomes . ,
were largely from “invisible” investments, -»
such as stocks and bonds have gotten off easy. . , "
Moreover; there are thousands of people liv-
ing in cities who have incomes from $3,000
to] $5,000 a year and wn nothing but the
clothes on their backs, .hdenjoy all the priv-
ileges of the organized community without
contributing one cent toward its support. , -
It is high time that those receiving com- 1,

fortable salaries or incomes. from investments , . . I
pay a part of the. expense in mai taining the
state government, and we look or 'the,1919 ' I

l I
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The Governor and his political advisers‘ . '
.want 'a law passed that would prevent a man i , ("
from becoming a candidate for anofiice on , , w
more than one “ticket.” Looking at the /
proposition purely from the' standpoint of. Z
the people’s interests, we don’t exactly get ‘ _
the “p’int.” If -the people want to nomin- " ‘ i ' -
ate the same man on two or ten'tickets, whose . '
business is it, but the people ’s? W e‘ vote for
men now-a-daysand not for obsolete “party” \
planks. Let’s hope the legislature of Mich-
igan doesn’t add another disgrace to Michi— . . .
gan’s political history by enacting any such 3 - . ‘\
.law to curtail the privileges of democracy. ' ’

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The politicians are after Mr. Dickinsoii’s
“goat,” merely because he 'wants a primary
a
chance. to hold office. VBut the politicians for-
get that the lieutenant govern-er, is elected by -
the people. Mr. Dickinsdn ‘is more popular
today with the people of- Michigan than ever .
before, and he may safely laugh‘ at the threats
of hisenemies. .

 

The (Lansing State Journal, in a highly
flattering article upon I’the new president pro-
tem of the SenateZSen. Chas. B. Scully, pride-
fu‘l'briannounces. that Mr. ,Scully‘ was one of
the few? who boldly took a stand against the
Non-Partisan! League. WeLhaVe ‘ a’ feeling

  
  
  
 

 
  

 

 

  
  
   
  

    

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cage e-of- how this :sreat pack: ,.
thefiarmers-‘anr' the consumer;
.. 86;"3'11’ d" it so. cheerfullytanl-
margin of “ eat that it’s not worth?
_ , gra1,;w’.mt_ 'em ‘tell'i‘t; in fact, as.
‘ "’toTlileirv’atory their profits are inflamed .
awesome amounts to a loss, done you know,
air yet this poor company is diggin’right down
Jim) their pockets an’ ,spendin'hundreds of: thous-
ands of dollars fleet to let folks know they. ain’t
.«fmii'tin’i’any money to speak of, an' are only doin'
, . ’ 'a."little businessgjes't’ to keep their help busy durin’

" ‘ f the" slack. time while the war Was on, an’ by.gos-h,
3 ‘ we don't see how they. can afford to .throw their
--.., , . .1 ifmonley, away like that when they’re almosrrun-

" ' " jn-ln’. behind anyway. f ~. . l,
:- ' 4‘ gmw'l knew a tenet who W to work for (a.
.. newspaper Once, an! he; says it costs like the
" 1 I‘dickenatd buyspace income of the large daily
‘ ~ W}- W ’pap’ers, anilLas sane 3: Go. is buyin’- space in purty
.s' ‘ idum nigh allot ’em it must amount to quite a
E " tidy snmwtaken'..aii- together.
‘ 3 Now, ‘Ijadmire a writer of sad things, ’cause I
1 4 L ‘ write'a'goed deal of sad stuff myself, an' I know
'3. ‘. ,' _7 ' ' how it p‘ulis onto the heart-strings to do it, an'
' ‘ , .so I feel like weepin’ with Swift 85-0.0: every time

I read the articles written by their great writer

.——.- equalled only by Lydia Pink‘ham, an’ Teddy

Roosevelt; An’ I often wonder why they spend

their hardearned money so foolishly.

It can't be possible that Swift & Co. is'prevari-
‘catin', can it? ’GOurse they wouldn't do that?
They can’t be afraid the government will set
after ’45:): 'cause the government has never harmed '

- 'em any yet the it’s promised ever since I can
1., . » remember to get after the meat packers an' reg-
,. ' ulate' some of 'em» but of course, Swift & 'Co.

. ‘ rwasn’t meant ’cause_=they’re doin' business on

, '- ‘ (such asmail margin of profit nobody could find

‘ ; fault with them. ththey admit that them-

' selves; an’ so I can’tunderstand why they keep

spendin’ their .,good money tryin' to make folks

see that they are 'only a benevblent institution.

‘ ; . ‘ .. fan 'jest doin' business for the fun of it, jest'cause

% _- i ,1 , they like to see blood runnin' and' hair fiyin’, so
,1 ' _,; to speak. . ' , ' .

' " ~‘ ' 'Now, sometimes after readin' one of their won-

, dorm! articles. the thought jest natcherly comes
to me that maybe they’re a tryin' to pull the
wool over somebody’s eyes, an’ that mebbe they
are makin' a little so’methin’ after all—maybe a
good deal more than they ought to make, an’ that
they have all that twaddle printed so the con-
. ~ . sumer an' the producer won’t "howl quite so loud
j, ~. when they do find out that Swift &,Co. have made
r . -, millions of dollarsan’, that both the producer an'.
' . ’ consumer are a payin’ of'the bills for advertisin'
: an' for a‘lotvof ether things as well. ‘
g ‘7 Swift £300.13 have :but little to fear from the
l . SOVérnment as long as they can keep the peepul
monitor who has ever known of any rich an'

I powerful corporation suEerin' any great hard-
ship. at the hands of 'the government? To be
sure "the Standard Oil Company was ohce fined

. the tidy sum of twenty-nine million dollars or 80,
,. may be a few cents ever that; .but' did they ever
_ I ,.pay it? Not by a dumsite,"alt’ho they did use it

- for an excuse to boost the price): oil and gaso-

line 'a few cents, but now they don’t wait for any

such ' proceedin', theyboost ’er up Without any ‘
1 excuse whatever, an', b‘gosh the dear peepfil have .
tot so used to it they never make a whimper any
more, jest pay the price an’ eay nothin’. ’ '
. ’Ain' so, it kinder looks to me that if Swift 1:
co. was to do business on the small .marg'in Of“

     

  

  
     

  

 
 

 
 

 

  

  

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'. ’me Presq ue Isle County Rancher

, ”While lam-.no longer engaged. in farm has?

hand’ry; nevertheless I feel, as a liberal educa-

"tion', chan ill, afford to be without} magazine as,__
unerrmgfy devoted to the welfare of the industry

directly connected with the soil. as the M. B. Ft.

The farmers of Pres‘que Isle county are grad-
ually awakening to the importance of team work,
co-operafion, ’so profitably adopted by manufact‘
More and middlemen—and even the boot-blacks

' are organizing. . .

By and .by most farmers will shed their preju-
dices and jealousies, which is ,only another name
for ignorance—and come to a realization of the
immense power of. cooperation; and then farm-
inx will be worth while, and ‘not until then. I
am enclosing/check for $1 for year's subscription
to include al December numbers.~—John G. Knuth,
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. Opposes State Constabulary Expense

Is it not about time we began to ask ourselves
where we are at and what this all means? Taxes
going up'yearly‘by leaps and bounds, and now a
move on foot to create a permanently Constabu-
lary which consists of state mounted police with
headquarters at Lansing, for the benefit of who.
God only knows.- unless it might ‘be for the care-
r'ful protection of the Capital City of Lansing. If
so, let them pay it.

It is claimed the world is getting better and I
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How M. B. F. Serves
An up-state elevator had been paying
« farmers $2.00 for No. 2 red wheat. A sub-
scriber thought it ought to\pa_v more; we
knew it. We asked the Grain Corporation
to intercede. Monday we received the fol-
lowing letter: ’

UNITED STATES Fooo ADMINISTRATIOX
Food Administration Grain Corporatit.
' Philadelphia, Dec. 28, 1918
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.
' Mount Clemens. Michigan.
Gentlemen: Referring to your favor of
19th. We are writing the—‘—Elevator stat-
ing they should pay $2.08 for cleaned No. 2
red wheat bought from the farmers.
Yours truly, .
Food Administration Grain Corporation,
' H. D. Irwin, 2d Vice President.
By F. Graff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

because they cannot make a living without being
put on a salary basis. where heretoforejhey
worked on mileage, percentage, etc.

I do not know the cost of maintaining this
state constabulary, but I do know it mgans a bill
of expense for the tax-payers of Michigan.

They tell me they have fallen in line in other
states and we should do the same. If other states
vote a big tax on themselves 'is it any reason we
should?

Now Gentlemen, if you are not in favor of a
State Constabulary, get busy and get up petitions,
send same to your representatives and senators
and tell them where you stand and commence
cutting corners at once.

, l have no axe to‘ grind. My interests are all with
the tax-payers‘ of Michigan now and all of the
time—«Inc. J. Bale.

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doned Scotch distilleries, made 60.000 mines. which
were laid in the North Sea between Orkney ls.
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Japanese investments in securities of allies were

: 5,597,500,000 at end of 1917. Her exports in 1917

were $901,500,000, increase of $237.760000 and
imports $517.900,000, increase of $139,000,000.

  

 

   
 

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- VThe young man” slipped into 'the'ieweler’sfi

with a furtive air. He handed the jeweler airing"
at he wished it.

'with the stammered statement ,
marked."with some names.” '

_“What names do you wish?" inquired the Jews}..

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOVEEINOB?

The Governor of a western state determined
not to be interrupted by so many callers, instruct:
ed his negro doorman to say to all callers that

“the. Governor is not in." -

“But if they say they. have an appointment with
you, Governor?" asked the,doorman.

“Just say "(hey all say that,’ " ordered the Gov-
ernor. ‘

All went well until the next day, when a lady

called, and when she was told that the Governor,

was not in she replied:

“I know better than that. You tell the Governor ‘

his wife is here to take him to the theatre.”
“0h," said the doorman, “they all say that."
\.

SUPERILUOUS .
Upon the recent death in a western town of a

politician, who at one time served his country in'

a very high legislative place, a number: of news.

the young
man and said, in a fatherly manner, "Take my
have it engraved simply

  
 
  
 
 
     
        
     
   
     
    
    
 

   
       
     
   
   
   
 
 
  
 

paper men were collaborating on an obituary no '

tice. ' .
-“What shall we say of the former Senator?"
asked one.

“Oh, just put down that he was always faithful '

to his trust.”

“And,” queried a third, “shall we mention the '.

name of the trust ‘2"

THIS IS MY DUTY
To use what gifts I have as best I may;
To help some weaker brother where I can
To be as blameless at the close of day
As when the duties of the day began;
To do without complaint what must be'done;
To grant my rival all that may be just;
To win through kindness all that may be won,
To fight with knightly valor when I must.

FAITH AND WORDS

. One Monday morning two little girls, aged seven
and nine,~ were on their way to school. Fearing
they would be tardy, the seven-year-old said to the
nine-year-old: “Let’s kneel down and pray that
we won’t be late.”

The 9-year-old said to the 7-year~old:
keep on hiking and pray as we hike.”

“Let’s

AND THEN NO ONE SPOKE

“Pa,” said little Willie, “what's an echo?” “An
echo, my son," answered pa, casting a side glance
at little Willie‘s ma, ”is the only thing on earth
that can cheat 'woman out of the last word.”

“Another definition of an echo, Willie,” observed
ma, “is a man who goes to old patent medicine al.
manacs for his alleged wit.”

VERY STRANGE
“I’m very sorry. mum. I ’aven’t been able to
paper your two top bedrooms." said the decorator
when the lady of the house returned from her
snnmler vacation “They took away my last man-
a week ago for the army. Seems to me they think
more of this- war than they do of paper ’anging.”

SAVED

Little Harold. having climbed to the pinnacle of .
the roof of a very steep shed. lost his footing and ‘
began to slide with terrifying swiftness toward
that point Where the roof swept gracefully off.
into space. '

“O Lord, save me!” he prayed.
me! 0, Lord . . . . Never mind.
a nail."

“0, Lord, save
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y.clubs are many, and below is given an account of

. are especially successful in the south.

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We Need More Rural Clubs

leadifig states in the “number at its rural
, Tw0men‘s clubs? Clubs are of inestimable
nine to communities They promote community

‘ :‘in'terest, lend variety to the ottimes monotony of .
_ :rural lite, and give women of the country an op-

  

,portiinity to study and discuss the events of the
great outside world. I would like to see more

“ Clubs established, in Michigan rural communities,

“and w0uld be pleased to assist any of my 1eaders
The opportunities of such

what clubs have accomplished in other sections:
, Through baby- welfape conferences and contests
arranged by clubs, mothers study the development
Of their children and have the Opportunity of se-
curing instruction- on health subjects from the
{competent physicians whose services for this
. purpose can ‘be secured without expense. The
civic committees of the Montgomery County Fed-

.eration' in Maryland arranged for such welfare

conference at the county fair. Twenty-live child-
ren were examined, of whom manvaere found
to be subnormal, the physician reporting malnu-
trition as one of the main causes of the trouble.
Mothersrcould remedy this to some extent by
planning a better balanced diet for their children.
Several national organizations of women are en-
couraging the celebration of baby week, which is
already observed» yearly by hundreds of farm
women’s clubs. A club of country women living
near Renwick, Iowa, celebrated baby week by co-
operating with two other local women’s clubs in
holding a baby contest in Renwick. The State
Agricultural College, through its extension ser-
vice, detailed a physician to make a mental and
physical examination, and a specialist to speak
on child welfare, and local physicians volunteered
their assistance. The rural women were notified
by telephone, notices were published in the local
paper, and prizes of five-dollar savings deposits
were offered for the boy and girl between the
ages of six months and three years found to be
in the best physical condition. To defray inci-
dental expenses each member of the club volun-
tarily contributed 30 cents. The prizes, equip-
ment, and rooms for examination, as well as the
services of doctors and nurses, were donated.
Such contests are promoted by a single club or
several (to-operating, but are most successful
when open to all mothers and children in the
township or "county. regardless of club affiliation.
’ The study of food at club meetings raises the
standard of family health and tends to remove
physical defects caused by malnutrition. The
woman’s club is often the only channel open to
the married woman through 'which to continue
the study of such subjects. The Troy Culture
Club. of Eagle Grove, Iowa. was organized for this
purpose in 1910. Meetings were held every other
week in the. farm homes. The committee for the
day prepared the food and looked up scientific
facts to be discussed. Various methods of pre-
paring different cgetables were shown in seas-
on.
lets and in cake was studied in comparison with
yeast and baking powder Types of food consti-
tuting a balanced ration for the family were
studied. These clubs form at present the most

direct channel through which to promote the COD-‘

servation of wheat and the use of war breads and
meat substitutes.

More varied diet in many farm homes has been
made possible through canning clubs, which are
to be found in every state of the union and which
Vegetaé
bles of all kinds fruits and even meats are can-
nod for home use '

jThe promotion of penny savings by women’S‘

organizations has done much to encourage thrift
Labor-saving devices have been
installed in many homes and new ideas of house-
hold efficiency developed through club ,.work.
Clubs organized for purely social purposes often

1 become instrumental in interesting the members
2111 home economics and community work.

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Caring for’Baby in Winter _
All I: put in a word for the baby? Now. that
theeol'duwinter is at hand, thought perhaps .

, a suggestion on caring for the baby might,
‘lp some mother who has her hands full.

  

0 .YOU know that Michigan is one of the

The leavening value of beaten" eggs in ome- ~

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This is what I have used for my lastothree bah

163: a box 16 inches deep, 16 to 18 inches wide and.
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ithe tOD;.taK€f‘tw.o pieces 111‘ 2114 as long as the ‘ ‘

box is Wide and-.4 ballhea‘r-ing bed casters or trunk:
casters; flt casters on the 2114’s, nailing theSe on .
bottom of box at each end This makes it easy to.

take baby from room to room.

Fold something easilyowashed and put in the .
bottom, but it baby is just beginning to walk, the

cloth will bother and just the plain box is better.
Put toys in the box or on a chair by the box. When

in the box, baby is off the floor can stand or sit '

or even walk a little, has a change and is free

and happy; -can be near the fire and won’t get
_ burned So now the mother can go to work, may

go outdoors and know that baby will be safe.

or course, one can make the box' as elaborate
as one desir,es by painting first, pasting bright
pictures around the sides, then varnishing; also
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The Value of aSmile

THE thing that goes the .farthest toward

making life worth while.

That costs the least and docs the most, is
just a pleasant smile. ’

The smile that bubbles from the heart that
loves its 'fellowmer '

Will drive away the cwuds of gloom and
coax the sun again.

It’s full of worth and goodness, too, with
human kindness blcni~

It’s worth a million dollars and it doesn't
cost a cent.

There is no room for sadness where we see
a cheery smile;

It always has the some good look—it's never.
0141‘ of style——

It nerves 149 on to try again when failure
makes us blue;

The dimples of encouragement are good for
me. and you.

It ,pays a. hiohcr interest. for it is merely
lcnt~

Its worth dnyillion dollars and it doesn’t
(10.91 a cent.

4 smile comes easily enough. a twinkle in

‘ the eye

79 natural-ond does more good than any
long- drown 31071.;

It fonche9- on the hearfstrings till they
quieter blithc and long.

And always leaves an echo that is very like
a song-—

So smile away! Folks understand what by
a smile is meant... ' »

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is just plain but I would not know how to, get

along without it as my baby is. not walking but 7

trying very hard. I put her in the box and 1
know she is safe while I go and do photos or any-
thing necessary while the good man is away.

The only precaution necessary is to see that
there is nothing putrinto the box by other children
that baby can climb onto and thus fall out.

‘ Puzzles the Male Mind

EMBERS of the English house of commons
stand self-accused, and'women are begin-
ning to understand why there was so much

opposition on the question of their being allowed

to sit in parliament.
“The house of Commons is not a fit and proper

‘ place for respectable women to sit in, " said Sir
Hedworth Meux, making a speech in regard to
“I propose this resolutibn, " be con- '

the proposal.
tinned. "‘not because I do not love the female s',ex

but because I adore women. But is it a proper
thing for women to be sitting here until 11 o 'clock '

at night? When we sit until 2 and 3 in the morn.
ing the historic cry or ‘Who goes home‘?’ will be- - ‘

come ‘Who Will take m6 howl)...” 1“. 1‘ ’1 "I ,

  
  
  
   

 
 
  

 
 

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Child’s Knitted Cap -one to TWO Years
- HIS CAP is made of light Weight wool and
knitted after the fashion of the tops of men’s
stockings using thesazne needles.
pie.
three needles.
Knit plain seven inches; ‘
No; 12, knit one and one‘half inches. Cut on the
wool leaving a length of six or more incheNith
a sewing needle pull the wool through all
stitches.
en. For the pom-pom wind the wool around
three'inch‘card 80 times. Slip the; wool otf
tie tightly in the. center. Shear threads evenly
until a nice, round pom-pom is formed.
top of cap. ”Edith M. Owen.

Knit tvm and purl‘tW-o, two‘in‘ches.

Some. Geod Recipes

POTATO DOUGHNUTS . ' ‘

Two cups hot mashed potatoes, 1 cup milk, 5 1er
teaspoons baking powder, flour. 2 cups sugar, 2 table'—
spoons b'utter, ,1 teaspoon vanilla.

Mix as usual add flour enough to make a soft dough.
Roll out pne~half inch thick fry in hot fat. The po—
tatd'es keep the doughnuts soft. Thes‘e keep moist
longer than doughnuts made with eggs. - .

POT ATO CROQUETTES

One quart mashed potatoes 1 teaspoon salt pepper 1

butter size of an egg, 1 egg, 1 cup milk or cream.
Mix, mold into’ small balls and fry in very hot ~11
APPLE FOAM
diThis makes a very delicious dessert after a hearty
nner.

Tart apples, sugar, egg whites. lemon juice, Whipped
cream.

Core and bake, or‘ stew tine flavored tart apples rub
through a sieve To each half cup of apple pulp allow
one egg white .1111 sugar to taste; 'A little lemon juice
improves the flavor although this is not necessary.
Chill the mixture and serye in sherbert glasses with
a little whipped cream on top. If you have any canned
cherries cut one- in petals, tulip fashion for the top
of each glass. Serve ,yery cold. ,

_ ; CHOCOLATE RAISIN PUDDING

1% cups finely rolled cracker crumbs, 1 3 cup molas—

5113.1 688.2 squares chocolate, 21/2 cups milk, 34 tet-
spoon salt 1 cup raisins. 1 teaspoon vanilla

soak— the cracker'mrumbs in the milk, then add the
mOl'BnSSBS, my 133;, raisins melted chocolate and 11111111111.
Turn into a; well-«buttered pudding mold and. steam
foul- hours

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Cast on 96 stitches;-32 stitches on each of , ‘

change to steel needles
the _

Draw the topvtogether tightly andjiast- '

Sew ,to ,

Serve hot with liquid or whipped cream :

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33" lines are‘rtbe popular effects of
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and trimmed with a military braid and
buttons makes. a, frock suitable for
High or' low neck may ,he
afiwoolchalais or figured voile. The yoke
.ls especially adapted to wear for winter,
being, high in the ,neck and worn with
.Iong‘wdeeves. Note the cellarless neck.

(1 5 so popular in womenfe blouses.

,. Large. ‘ .4. ”in . "as
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Price 10; cents;

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’ 7 ‘biitmnin‘g ‘own,..the“ front, with atraig‘ht
, ‘ ; iinefiwel shapédr knee trousers.
‘ ' 2&Girlshpress. Cuthin 5 sizes; 2,

 

c: 3,
requireazié yard-
, straight lines of waist and

iNo. 2729.-.—-Lad'ies.' Costume:
Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, (4 and 46 inches
hust'rneasure.. 2e 38 requires 6 yards
or 44 mch material. Width of skirt at
lower‘ edge is~about 17,5 yard. The long
,- , skirt are nar-
tioularly adapted; to the stunt. figure and
especxally the blouse. showing the deep
pnplum. The blouse ix‘fitted smoothly

Cut in

\ across, the bust, a‘".5light fullness gathered

in at each side frpnt. giving a mum”
efi’ent. which is also emphasized hy th

 

‘ in boiled‘sweet cider.

'aoakcd overnight;

any' pics: and simmer together until done.

 

with"
ad »..currsv

the line 0- mpire‘. skirt, and from

the e ,
there hangs loose,'adding fullness to .the .
, skirt... The dream buttons in‘ the back

and ‘the yoke is semi-fitted. ‘
SOME swEms's FROM
'. ‘ “THE ORCHARD

pf.—

~ Apples' Cooked in Olden—For a dish
that needs neither. sugar .nor epice,

try apples or pears cooked until clear
' Serve hot in
large portions with meat.

Apple?» and, Raisins.——Simmer rais-
ins in the "water in which thevaere
add quartered ap-

Applcs and B(manas.—'—Quarter fruit
and place in a baking pan; dot each
layer with butter and chopped nuts;
bake in a quick oven basting frequent-
ly with a. sauce made of a half-cup of
Water, a tablespoon of white syrup
and a little lemon juice.

_ Inked Pears.—On baking days, try
baked pears. Place pears in deep bak-
ing dish; cover closely and bake slow-
ly until pears are a. deep red.

Steamed Pedro—Steam pears until
tender with a little water and a table-
spoon of white syrup.

.- Good News

' For the Housewife”

'Wartime Flour is a relic of the past!

“basin :0
:wat‘em. .
panics the Sunday chicken ‘i '
South, do. gone [Tropics maintains
bananas. , cooked in domewhat
same style; are-Served. with ‘Ch-i ‘
Squash in Ramckfns.=——For this , '
use pumpkin, hubbar’d 'squaeh. or
neck squash. Boil, draindndif
smooth; add butter. lemon juice
namon. and ainue syrup; bake !
ramekins or baking'pan. Page
kins hot from the oven after the la
have been served. ‘

Last season 1,000,000 tonsjof dbl?
beans were imported from Manchuria-
and Japan and several montha
consumed in moving the consignment.

The shortage of the domestic crop~-“

and the high market prices were re—‘
sponsible for thebig import. Impor-
ters are somewhat skeptical ‘ p
market futures for soy oriental bearing.
American crops have improved. The ,
.probable size of imports'trom Man:

churia will be. difficult to forecast“ 41th...

is not probable that the output through
Puget. Sound will be as ”large as man

your.

Delicious, Nutritious, Wholesome White Bread is again on the menu.
. How good it tastes!

, And how easy it is to make good bread from good flour compared with
the effort required to produce just ordinary bread from War Flour.

Of course, we were all perfectly Willing to use war flour as/a wartime
necessity. It helped our boys over there gain the Glorious Victory.

But everybody is delighted to have it all over and mighty proud of the

amazing record our own preciops America has made.
It is also good news to the particular housewife to know she may again

obtain the good old fashioned, high quality

.. " Lily White

“The Flour the best Cooks Use”

for no better flour has ever been made or sold than LILY WHITE.

N o flour had ever given the housewife better satisfaction for either bread
or pastry baking than LILY WHITE.

There haVe been mighty few flours that even equalled it.

We are making LILY,WHITE in the same old way, exercising just as
‘much care in the selection of grain, being just as particular to see that
exactly the right blend of the different varieties 0f wheat is. secured to
‘ produce the best flour it is possible to make.

, ,, f g-You‘r'" dealer will cheerfully refund the purchase price if you do not like
lLIL/Y WHITE FLOUR as wellOR/TBETTER thanpany flour you have
; Li Fever/11595. for either bread or pastry baking; in other words, if LILY
15"Wfilm. does not completely satisfy you for every requirement of home

"to. specify you do not want war flour

7 4 . , ,but the real old tune
gore LILY WHITIngLoUR now ‘on sale. j . '

; ALLEY CITY 'MILLING COMPANY

 

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you GET YOUR ' ~
'* «THRIFT STAMPS?

EAR CHILDREN: To every boy
and girl who sent in in Christ-

   
  

 

.” mas story I have mailed 3. Thrift
Stamp certificate. I want to be sure
__ ery one received his or her stamp
_,,a d if you did not, you should write
at oncmand tell me so that I may find
ltlre reason. .
_ >1 guess some of my boys and girls
have forgotten that Christmas is over,

101' I am still receiving Christmas
,stories. [Of course, we can’t publish
Christmas stories after Christmas, so
:we’ll VhaVe to hold them until another
fl Christmas. I want you to write me
.‘ stories, though, upon any subject you

i

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_ In this issue of the paper we are
- 7. continuing the story of the Giants of
" ‘ Lilliputania. There are only two
more chapters to this interesting tale,
>‘., which explain what finally happened
4 to the Chief of Police and the others
5 who .drank of the milk containing

the magic food. We are still receiv-

ing orders from children for the toy

city of Lilliputania. Over three hun-
f- dred of these attractive toys have
been given away and if any of you

   
 
    
   
  
    
  
  
  
   
   
   
    
 
 

_ will have to hurry with your subscrip-
. lions for We have only a few left.

Next week we are going to add an

3 interesting department for the older

' boys, those who can handle a saw

' and hammer. It will tell how boys can

i make‘ useful things for father and

 

1‘ boys and girls want to get one, you “

mother, and ,will giye drawings of
the plans.” I am sure‘ithe older. boys
will appreciate this new feature, and
it you do I want you. to write and,
tell me’ so. ' '

With love, from AUMr'PrNi'nom *1 ..

The Giants oiLilliplitahia/

 

THE CHIEFS cro Tins. Imam

HIEF PUFF of the Fire Depart!
C merit and Police ‘Chief Dulin,

who had‘ responded to the -11
alarm with the entire departm nt,
dashed up Main Street in Chief Puff’s
auto and caught alglimpse of “Bell
Boy” as they reached Capital Avenue
about four blocks from Main Street
bridge and stopped. Both men were
brave and always quick to act. But
here was something so unusual to Lil-
liputania that it was frightful—a
great big beast running wild through
their streets, crashing into houses and
knocking off roofs,
do? What could be done?
recognized this terrifying creature as
“Bell Boy," the timid little pussy that
lived at the General’s house.

Chief Puff was the first to recover
his senses. “Chief Dulin,” said he,
“isn’t Suarkenbeck’s ZooHippodrome.
Circus due to arrive in town?"

“I think so." replied’ Chief Dulin.

“Well, jump into my auto and drive

live the wind down to the railroad
station. Come to think of ', I re-
member hearing the whistle of the

engine as I left the fire house. We
must get Snarkenbeck’s animal train-
er," continued Chief Puff. “He has
caught elephants and lots of wild an-
imals, and he will tell us. what to do.”

What should they ,
No one '

, v-._ /‘ ‘ ”V." “A ‘W
. F . “Fine," 3h“ 1 ea ,Chiet Dru lino ‘ “I,”
the man to help us." ' - x . ,

It - was » indeed fortunate for" Lillipu-

tania that Mr. Big Hed had planned-

to reach Capital City that night The
’ engine of “Snarbenbeck’g ‘Z-H-C Spec-
ial”‘was just p‘umng over the viaduct
as the chief’s automobile dashed up
the incline on Railroad Row leading
to the station. Henry A. 31111, the
butcher’s son, and Mary Dough, the
baker’s daughter, who were waiting
with Mr. Bull to see the giraffes, ele-
ph‘ants,‘ camels and horses unloaded,
were almost run over in the excite-
ment. . ' '

Chief Dulin jumped out of the auto.

’

and signaled the engineer to stop. The ’

engineer quickly threw“ on the brakes
and almost jarred Mr. Big Hed out of
his bunk. Before the train came to a
standstill, the Chief rushed aboard
the train, shouting, "Quick, your ani-
mal trainer; where is he?”

“What da matter, Chief?” asked Mr.
Spaget, the organ grinder, who a'lWays'
followed the circus with Joco, his lit-
tle monkey. ,

“Out of the way, Mr. Spaget; we
have, no time for monkey trainers,”
rudely yelled Chief Dulin excitedly.
“Where is your elephant man?”

“Here I, am,” answered Mr. Big Hed, 1

who was now wide awake ready to.

see that the entire circus was properly
unloaded. . _

“Please come with me right away,”
begged Chief Dulin; “there is'no time
to lose.” ’

Chief Dulin rushed Mr. Big Hed but
to Chief Puff’s auto and away they
raced up Main Street until the fright-
ened’ Lilliputanians sho‘uted, "Don’t
go any farther; the big animal is com-
ing down State Street.”

 

   

 

 

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gladyou thoifght kof 111$:th is Just

     

N. grammes to_"Mr‘.gBlg‘ new ,
the“ '
' Mt. Big. Hed was e's cool as you
would‘natnrally expect a man _ . ‘
such a large head as his to :be. As .'
soon- as he caught sight! of “Bell Boy”?
he actuallyshouted‘withjoy. It was -'
the. only animalof its kind that he had _
eyer seen. ’He had often wished to
capture a tiger; for his “show, and here
was his chance, for this certainly
looked like an immense tiger. ,

"enter Dulin,” said he, “follow my. . " V

orders and everything"will heal] right.
Command every man, wornan and child
to quickly collect all of the sticky fly,
paper, rope, twine and glue that they
can lay‘their hands on and bring it"

. to the City Hall Square as fast as pos-

sible.” Next he directed'that the tire
department repert to the fire static
at once. - ‘ ,

“New; Chief Puff, let you and I run. .
to Dave Ddugh’s bakery." ’ Down
Main. Street, over the bridge, under
the viaduct clang-clanged the Chiefs
auto. In a few minutes they were ,at
Da've’s~bakery and found that worthy
man with his hands full of dough, mak-
ing bread for his next day’s custom-
ers. ,

“Tell him to roll o,ut.every barrel of
flour he has," ordered Mr. Big Hed,
“and send a hundred men down to the
warehouse for more, for we will need
at good many barrels.” .

“Dal/e,” yelled Chief Puff, “if we
want to save Lilliputania there’s no
time to be lost—roll ever}: barrel of
flour you’ve got down to City -Hall
Square as quickly as you can.”
“Friends,” he called to the crowds who. .
were gathered around with blanched
faces, “pitch in and“ help Dave.”

 

 

‘ There is great excitement among
9 .gthe,Doo Dads. The artist, who, to
‘ tell the truth is a hard smoker, lost
his pipe and match box on on of
[his trips to the Wonderland of Dec.

   
 
  

 

 

 

  

this is what he found.
Dad:

The" Doc
had discovered them first and
«curiosity to find out what there

   

 
 
  
   
   

I [Enjoyment , prompted them ‘to.

 

   

S'“When he went back to look for them‘

r‘the pipe that gave the artist .
tle fellows around the tree.

 

The Doc Dads F 11ch the Artist’s; Pipe and 'Matchesx

try it. They propped ituml and with
great difficulty got the matches
alight. Then they took turns, at“,
smoking with the~ same result as
happens to had little boys when’fthey
steal, a smoke. " See these poorglitg,

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,Am'bulance “to take-th-em'to the hos-
pital, thoughthe policeman, who is
,reeling one 4' little .iellow’s'pulle ._is«

_ They" "

   

,. they .had never seen “the old
line. But here comes‘the ‘Red Cross

wish

   
 

afraid it, will, not*getj him ushers _
80°“ “enough, . _, "That proud;- little ree‘ ' *

    

cal. who is blowing the rings ~will .
‘not be feeliiig'so-fih’e in a few min- _ .
ntes.‘The Doo‘ Dadsr- who have struck g4; ' .
'a match. with a. mallet are scared
out or their wits. They thin; greasy, ‘- i ’
must“ hayegotten hold cit-a the " > "
bomb», “The “13550 “9.335 611
a“’"fssol.fl‘ . ,.

   

 

 
 
 
  
 

 
    
    

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" so he ' ‘lng‘ sticky,

,. Tea and attests on
. ‘ rant.” Those
pipes “and twinor‘were to hold
e in readinessa‘toact instant- .
- , sleommand and-be prepared to
sacrifice their lives :fosLiiliputania, if
necessary." -~:Meanwhile Fire Chief Puff,‘
“ Mr. .Big Hell’s direction, had order-

';hoetily'~knocked out: and the flour

dumped into the big vacant, lot on

«Front Street: rWhen this was piled up
.Chi Pullordered Campany No. 37 to
pl ~ the hose on the mountain’of flour

‘, until-it Was a mass of softdough. You

" In all boys are,

”Louis. Michigan.

v .

* name'is Tamoy,

have probably noticed that cats do not
l-ikeyater- or, anything fwetfand sticky
and; you have no doubt wondered why,
but after reading “Bell’ Boy’s experi-
_,ence you/willunderstand. Mr. Big
.Hod knew this and that is why he "felt
sure he could capture “Bell"Boy.”
, (To be continued)

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—«I hope on are
well. I certainly am, tho I am li/able to
come down with the “flu" any day as
our neighborhood is just peppered with
it, but it is not” so bad as it.was. have
written a letter before but did not get
it sent, I am ten, years old and live on
a §0-aore farm. ‘ I have three brothers
who‘are very noisy; I can’t hardly stand
them, partlcularly one of them whose

. name is Myron, but my‘pet is Robert.

who is, 3 years old.~

An t
ears old ,who 13 0 her brother 13

fiery (rough givg ngisy,
_ suppose. e a '
about 40_ hens. I have 8 roosters whigfi’
I am gomg to sell for Christmas money.
We have S cows, 3 horses, 6 pigs. I
, our driving horse as well as
Walter can. I wish I could send a sub-
scription for the M. B. F. so I could get
the L but papa sent for

. .. illiputania city,
it two years last year.—-—Beulah Kipp, St.
N

Dear Aunt Penelope:—-I, have

reading the bee"

letters in the M. B. F. and en—

joy them very much. I am a girl 12
_ ears old and in the ‘se
five-onan Bil-acre farm, venth grade. I

which has so
woods; and roaming thm fliers:
,I love_to .the Doc Dads
Would like them every month; they. are
wonderful little men. My pets are cats
9, little calf andsoimfhrabbits. My cat's'
an 0 little calf'
is Lady Pandora. _We have two :a’habrptg
who have the names of Nellie and Jimmie.
Extewgohave 12 rabb‘ilts and ten of them
names.—-Em
Michigan; ‘y Kass, Scottvllle,

I enjoy
read about

 

, .Dear Aunt Penelope:——This is the fi

time I have written to you. My fatlfesx13
takeetho M. B. F. and I love to read the“
letters. .I have two brothers and their
names are Louis and Charles. For pets‘
I have a dog, his name is Cute, and he
wgég’hs 12 pounds. Louis has a dog, too,
a his name is Smart, and her weighs
10% pounds, and Charles has a cat for a

. pet and his name is Chum, and he weighs

.11 pounds. We live one farm of 40
acres. We have two horses and their

. names are Doll and Bob, and two cows

_.' old. My brother’sI name is Rex
’ will be 12 the 25th 0%ecember.

.

and one calf, their names are Cher a d
, e. and the calf's name is Mabel-3:, agd
one hog and nine pigs. I am 13 years
g3: atnmd lit!i the seventh grade. I will close

3 me.——. orena Bell 1 '-
liamsburg, Michigan. _ Pu ver, W11

 

Dear Aunt Penelope:—-—-My father takes
the M. B. F. and I like-to r d the. let-
ters from, other boys and gir s. I have
written one or two letters before but
have not sent them out. I have two '
sisters and one brother. VMy ‘ slsters’
names are Eulance. and Electa; Eulance
,is 13 years old and Elects. is 11 weeks
Burr, he
’11 years old 'but
Eulance
We go
My teacher's

is 4 years old.

and I are in the seventh grade.
to the Hardsorabb'le school.
name is Mabel Bowlua .I like her very
well.- We dive on a farm of‘80 acres.
,Papa works grandfather’s farm.’ we
have three hcrses, their names are Frank,
,Roc an :Lady. j-Four cows, their names .
are. Blackle; Rosa,lMabel and Nell; four '
calvesfibFanny. Topsy, Beauty and John- '
ny. r pets we have two cats. Billie
andrPeter and a bantum, his name is
Red VVlng. ‘ We have some ~.War Saving
stamps. . -x Menus and so has Eu-
lanoebaxtid Ii! Mamntia' vianfis to get Elects.
one u, - as. no .-—- st or ivin .
Shiloh. Michigan. ' t‘ L Baton

 

-—-I wrote once
Xglgg‘kwri,t to again.
0 ,
what we had to be thankful forfgnl Shot:
thankful that I ha’ve a father and mother
makemre of me. We are. going to
hit? as: nice Thanksgivin dinner. ‘ 4"
men one of the: soldier; ya could be
I. liked thatstow'of t .. two
Igo to school every,- ay. .1-
school. We have a "$0.6 wax-

 
   

Dear Aunt Penelope:
before and. thought I
You wanted us boys a

       
   
  
    
 

  

 

  

    
  

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0mm.“ wine.

I am‘ sea

 
  

salsa sticky side '

' g ables;

. have the

p and Charlie.

. 21. turkeys, so‘m

  
 
 

did the _22nd’ of.»
were "their“ .

' rWI 9.11.5319 ”‘blefin

Va. 1' and i e
_ "again Eagenaazoo, gut
, . pg , La ,‘.niy>gran ma's e-
cause. myyimother is ». sick in the has ital.
My. father, is a traveling man so . can
not stay home:.with .hlm. ’ I am having
armed-timeout here. ,I h lped grandpa.
carry in thewo‘od- last nig t. My, uncle
livespiust'across. the road and he has six
horsesrcandnine cows. some pigs and 3
cats. . I Hitherto plaNith the cats and
"they like to play,u.too. I am in the 4th
(grade. My acher’s name is Miss Browri
‘mma ,. I like or very much. The name of

  
 
     

 

   
 
 
     
  
   
   
 

   

    

school I go to is Vine Street school.
Last yearin school we knit a blanket

. for the soldiers, and I knit 13 squares

. or it. ‘1 I knit a sweater for the French
'My uncle is building a chicken
coop, but it rained this afternoon so he
could not work. I belong to the Red
Cross. My father has a Fourth Liberty
bond. 1 have 8 War Savings Stamps and
live Thrift Stamps. I am sure glad that
the war is over“ and I think everybody
‘is besides me. I told you thatmy moth-
er Was in the hospital. She had the
grip and we couldn’t find anyone to take
'care of her so she went _,to the‘hospital.
She was so weak when she went that she
cOuldn't sit up. We got a letter from
, Daddy and he said she salt up long enough
to have her hair bombed and she thought
she cOuld write me a card. Grandma
washed this morning and now she is
ironing. Grandpa went to town to take
a calf to sell and some" chickens, too. I
am crocheting a wash rag for my doll; I
am just learning how—Maxine Stowell, 8
years old. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

  
 
    
 

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I have never
written before so I thought I would write.
I live on a farm of 140 acres. We have
six horses, their names are Ned, Queen,
Old Fred, Snip, Beauty and Elaine. We
have two mules, Jan and Notafour colts,
Clnderela,‘Bobby, Flora and June. We
have seven cows, all registered but two;
sixteen hogs and fifteen pigs. I hope
that none of my girl and boy friends
”flu," I haven’t. I am eleven
years old and in the sixth grade. My
teacher's name is» Misg Marian Barnes.
I» like her very well. I have three War
Savings stamps that I earned myself. I
will draw a» picture of a._ Christmas
wreath. I guer this is all.——Doris But-
les, Portland, Mich. -

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I have been
reading the letters in the M. B. F. and like
them very much. My father takes the

. B. . I have a. brother 8 years old,
his name is Basil, and I have a. sister 5
yearsold,.her name is Gladys. I am 11
years old and in the 8th grade. ‘ We live
on a forty-acre farm and have two hors-
es, two cows, two calves, and one hog.
Our pets are a cat and a French Poodle
dog. I had a half acre of potatoes in
last season and .took,the money and
bought a cow. her name is Rose. I had
three-quarters of an acre of potatoes and
my brother one-quarter of an acre this
season. Haven't sold them yet, but when
we do we expect to put the money into
Thrift Stamps. I have a mile and a
quarter to walk to school, Ellen Delbert
is my teacher.“ Will close for this time.—
A-rden Deibert, Fife Lake, Michigan.

You sound like a most prosperous
young man, Arden, and it pleases me
greatly to know my. boys are taking
an interest in their homes and the
work on the.farm. I hope you may
get a good price for your potatoes,
and I believe you will a little later
in the season—AUNT PENELOPE.

 

Dear Aunt Penelo e:————I have read
many of the stories n the M. B. F. and
like them very much. I am ten years
old and in the fifth grade:- I have a mile
and a half to walk to school. I have a
patriotic‘fund. I live on an 80—acre farm.
We have six cows and four calves; the

‘cows’ names are Dutchess, Spots, Belle.

Beauty, 'Minnie and Kittie; the calves’
names are Queen; Lady, Princess and
Pauline. We have *hree horses, Dick.
Maud and N‘lgger, for pets I have four
rabbits, two kittens, John and Belle; three
bantams, one reoster and two hens. their
names are ‘Mr. Jiggs and Margaret and
Frances. Have written you quite a long
letter—Amelia Bensch, _Atkins. Mich.

 

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Dear‘Aunt Penelope:———This is the first
time I have written to you. I am a girl
11 years old. I have been reading the
letters in the M. B: F. and enjoy them
very much. For pets I blame a dog and a
hen. The .dog’s name is! Bingo. and the
hen is yBanty,‘We have eight calves, their
names erg. Blossom. Ebony, Hoover;
Woodrow Pansy, Star, Liddy and Bud-
geon. .‘U'w' horses names are Bob, Ned
.We live on a‘farm of 360
acres. :1 have three brothers and one
sister. Well, I'mmust, close for this time.
-——Emma Keck, ‘ Wolverine, Michigan.

 

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Dear Aunt Peneldpez—I ’am a little
boy 9. years old. ’I am in the 3rd~grade
this year. - I have..one. sister and one
brother. My sister, is "11.years old and
my brother is 7. his birthday is the 22nd
of November. We haveloo chickens and
12 cows, their names are Stop, Nellie,
Daisy, Slowpoke, Pinhead; Minnie. Kerry,
Cherry, Pansy. Mary, Dan, Nan. We have
diod'butwe have 21 left. .
—.—Edward‘ W11 soaljtorley. Mich;

Den? Au itiBenelope‘:
” “mm

—-—I was? years
~_ \We have 6_

    
    

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. . ,, fat-both .én'
highz’ln the middle? r Answer, Ohio. We-
live on quite‘ a big.f&rm.~ I will close
now—Teresa. Nitho'l, Manton, Michigan.

Those riddles are fine, Teresa. Can’t
you send, us'a favorite story now?
——AUNT P‘ENELOPE.

  
  
 

"to; selfi'oner‘heli' and
on, the Red Cress could,
5 two eight chickens.
100.-——‘~Dorothea, Mary Snow
Michigan. " . "

Dear Aunt Penelope:——Oh, how '

the Christmas. stories the girls Wr
the M. B. F. ;I have-a litie sister
’ Phyllis. She is sixteen months 0
has light hair and blue eyes and" ..
dark hair and dark eyes. I .am so,
years old. I have a white Incl-alias;fill ,,

     

   
   

  

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Dear Aunt Penelopei—I have written
to you once before but will write again.

I go to school no . but there isn't an I named Teddy: 119, is big m . , .
now because of . influenza. Harry, 3% hair. One morning When th‘o‘re w
brother, is in Newport News, Virginia. anyone in the kitchen PhYHa - ' ‘

     

can of cocoa ad the table and. ,
rubbing it on the white cat who
found her. My, he looked funny.
wrote this letter on my father-'s.~‘t
writer. Don’t you think I .did we‘l

Virginia Dean Jewett, Mason, Mic .

The war WI" soon be over; I hope so
anyway. We got a letter from him the
other day. He said he was well. I help
my mother quite a little now because she
has a cold. We washed and ironed to-
day; I did most of the ironing. I saw
the story about the two little raindrops;
a very nice story I think for a little girl.
It is pretty near winter now, I hope so,
anyway, so we can 3 ate. [like the M.»
B. F. very much. ill clohe for this
time—Hazel E. Par-shall, Fenton, Mich-
igan in the good old U. S. A.

    
    
     
    
   
   

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I have n_
written for our page before so thought
would now. I like to read other let,
that other children write. I am .32 ..
10 years old and in the fourth grade- I
have a sister seven years old in the firgt,

  
   
   

 

   
 
 

  

       

   
    
  

 

    
     
      
    
   
  
 
     
    
   
    
  
  
 
      
      
     
     
       
     
    
  
     
   
       
    
  
   
 
     
   
      
    
     

 

‘ Dear Aunt Penelopez—I have been is Mrs. Margaret SCOtt- I have 9' pe
reading the letteran the M. B. F. and I dog, his name is Wag. We haveone:
thought I would like to write. I am a.

cat, two horses, their names are Dan anr
Prince. We have one calf, his name s.
Bunt. We have three cows, their names
are Nigger,.J-eff and Mully.. I haveone-
War Saving stamp. I have an uncle ,i
'the service; he is ‘a sergeant in, France. ,
My letter is getting quite long. so: will
close.——Helen Glass, Kingsley. Mich.

boy 9 years old. I have three she‘ . I
live on a (SO-acre farm. I go to so 001
every day. I am in the fifth grade. «We
have five cows and four yearlings. We
have four horses, their names are Dave,
Lulu, Stubh and Dolly.~Max Streeter.
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Wyou‘doing‘this? Here .15. one‘way ' * ' .- 37 Henry SLDetroit‘;

thatyoucan save. 'Pick up sortie old - . DearSih—eI'have had the v‘ if)! _
,- rd: around the place: tear up thesis of success. with the breeder, p All
-» :‘chicken‘coops and build va-‘brooder - . which I received fromlyoulr To'sum it.
» that‘will save the chickens,"labor and _ up, I say it is-rall right.“ Nonebe’tte’rr‘
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, art laying those 60 cent eggs again. Hatch/with hens if you wish. The
:3, One brooder will take the place of saving in feed alone at present prices
a dozen hens and all can be cared for i will pay many times the cost in one
‘ easier and quicker than one hen with season.
, chickens. It will be a pleasure if you In order that every chicken raiser
Shave a. proper .brooder. built right at may have one of these brooders I am
{home from mat rial on hand. This selling the right to build for YOUR
makes it inempens ve. OWN USE. You will have most or
This country is short of eggs and all of the lumber. The.heater will cost
-,chickens. Other untries are looking but little. Send me a One Dollar bill
tothe United Sta s for these supplies, and your address plainly written. By
so .why not incr ase your output to return mail you will receive full in-
enjoy some of e profits. That was structlons and drawings as .to build-
the idea. in the mind of E. 0. Perry, ing the Perry~ brooder, with full in-
ot Detroit, in perfecting a brooder that - structions as to operating and copy of
could be built by any person right at the government patents. .Build dur—
home. The idea and plan was so new ing the winter? pick tip the lumber
and unique that the government has now. Let the boys tackle the job and
granted a. patent covering same, yet have it all ready for the coming sea-
it costs only a fraction or what a man- son. . _
ufacturer would charge. Any bright Don‘t delay. but write today.
. boy would be delighted to build one . . 0. Perry, ‘
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A Michigan organization to afford protection to Michigan live stock
owners. ,
We have paid over $17,000 in death losses since we began business
July 5th, 1917. . .
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$17,000 of losses on $1,500,000 of business? '
Your animals are well and sound today but tomorrow some or
them are dead. INSURE THEM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
We indemnify owners of live stock—horses, cattle, sheep and
hogs, for less by accident and disease.
See our agent in your vicinity.

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A record (or (went . A yearly record of
five consecutive men: 8 30’2303 (be. milk and
of 2.067 lbs. of butter. U. 11.56 lbs. buncrfat.

 
    
 

 

   

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The cows with the big production records are first of
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‘ .lig‘ht supply. sold steady; smokers they more likelytodeveloplcolds, Wt

supply, soldio to 259 higher. , flock... ,Itia
, _. Receipts of hogs Monday: were 15,4 ' izhavfe‘t “*

. atne“ deals 1:
. JO 89 its belowfioiém

   

$1811 -. m
8.11. MDfldflYl cull
'ltfil‘liliga f.31‘8f€'i»'qu .
" 1163110114”; hast yea
An occasional small lotfloii choice val” quotedin 06:31:52; gggegségg
Kosher cows lands up around'313 and $11.53, to $12‘Vewes $950 to $10,303
ripe. drylot heifers are quotable at $15 inth'1257caives 'én sale Tuesday. hes \
aildlbetler. In the bull trade it és a veals’s’old at $22 ’~ ' ’ f» ‘1
gs el y case that now sell below $ .50.’ ~11 '. . ' -- ‘ ",i 1 V ~
good heavy bolognas are werth~$9l50 :9; (1Tb: 53129;}; :0; hogs Elma”? v-totalsi,‘ » . ;..
and choicecornted bulls sell upward :53“, 0 head. and our market
to $12.50 and better. Veal calves. pgeni “250‘ hliigher, With theubulk‘ Of
have kept up with the sharp upward “£40933”; n3: at} $18f401’ “film '”
revision of prices shown on more ma? f '§$1,%)15%§21.V°ry, s CW 33, e, 3° ngfi vi
tured cattle andeare about $5; per cwt. , "in“ , , ‘ 510.518, as to weight. ».
above the pro-Christmas low spot. - Choicesto m1?“ weighty steers, ‘17
choice vealers commanding~ $16.50. to “7'59; medium to good weighty
Cold weather has temporarily depreSsJ steers, $15725 to $163 plain and coarse-
ed stock cattle market but with kill- weighty steers, $12.50 ’30 513; choice
ers absorbing cannery light' steers , to prune handy weight and medium,
around $8.50— no bargains are to be weight. steers, $14.50 to $15; fair to
found. Bulk of the stack and feed— 300d handy weight and medium Wt- ..
ing steers sold here today at $9.50 to steers, $12-50 “[313; choice to prime- ‘
$11.50, and choice feeder steers avers ‘yearlings, $15 to $1550; fair to 300d “ '_
aging 1,000 pounds or better were “not yearling-s $13-50 to $14; medium to
to be had below $13. 5 good butcher steers, $11 to $11.50; '

After showing an $18 top and a fair to medium butcher steers, $10 to
general average ranging from 25 to $10.50; goodtbutcher heifers,~ $10 to
356 above the government minimum~ $10.50; fair to medium butcher heif-
ot $17.50 at the inception of the new gels, $9 to 559-50; good tile-“110109 tat
year. the hog market weakened under cows, $10.13 $10-50; medium to 300d
an iz‘creaslng supply late last week fat COVEv $350 to $9; fa” to good
and closed Saturday with a $17.85 t0p medium fat cows, 37-50 to‘ $83 cutters
and general average of $17.60 To- and common butcher cows, $6.75 to ,
day, however. an active 5. to 10c high- 37-2.“; canners,, $6 t0 $6.50} 800d 1" .
er market was had and the top quota- chome fat bulls, $10.50 to $11; med-
tion was shoved bac‘k to $17.95. The 11"“ t0 300d fat bulls. 39-50 to. $10;
range in prices is comparatively nar- 8:00‘1 Wt- sausage bulls. $850 to $9;
”TOW. practically no h6g5 weighing llght and thin bulls, $7t0 $7.50; gOOd
above 150 pounds selling in load lots to best sunk, and feeding steers, $950
below $17 and the bulk of the mixed to $10: medium grades of stock and , . ,
and packing grades going at $17.35 to feeding steers, $850 to $9; common » 7'
$17.70, and butcher bags from $17.75 to fair stock and feeding. steers, $7.50 . '
to $17.90. Pigs oil good and choice to $8; good to choice fresh COWS-8nd.
class found a good demand at‘ $15.50 springers. $90 to $120; medium 'to
to $17_ A meeting is to be held in good fresh cows and springers, $75 to
Washington on Wednesday of this $30-00- -‘
week at which the workings of the m
stabilization plan. are to be discussed HATCH EARLY
and action probably taken relatiye to Early hatched chicks get a better
the maintenance Of a Set Price during start than late hatched chicks and are
February. ‘ théretore stronger and better able to
ad§Z§cLngg $321 a§2ggiiigggt§gagvgi Withstand the attacks of licerand dis-
the depressed market just prior to ease: If you wiltnotice a HOOK or
the holiday season. Matured 'muttons growmg Chmks Wthh are lice ““935 - r
meanwhile haVe gained $1.50 to $2.00. ed you will find that it is the smaller,»
Dressed trade conditions are show- weaker chickls which are suffering“
l-ng much improvement-and the trade most; Observation will alsoshow that
regards any reaction from this ad- the lice are more troublesome during
vance that may 009‘" within the near the warm weather than during the

future as of temporary nature. feel- »
in g being general that prices ’are cooler weather of early spring, so that

scheduled to work still higher. Choice F119 “mks “aimed 93“? are “0‘ sub'
and prime lambs sold today at $17 to Jected to such severe attacks 0! lice
$17.25 and little of decent quality un- while still very young 88 are the
less showink excessive weight drop- late hatched chicks. This of course,
ped belo.w.$16. Michigan feeders were does not mean that if the chicks are
in the market and expressed 9- will- early hatdhed the matter of lice should

lngness to pay up to $15 for choice i . i
feeding lambs but supply was limited be neg acted. By all means exam ne

them for lice, and it round, take meas-
gfi‘lugghgghgs tggltd l‘tlilndtoageizlagfi ures to free the chicks from the pests.
handyweight yearling}; to $14.25 while It does mean, however, that not
matured ewes at $10.25 and $10.50 so much trouble from lice will be ex-
would not have been eligiple to show perienced and that they will be easier
ring hOUOI‘S- - to controldnd will interfere less with
East Buffalo Live Stock Letter the “myth 0-, the Chicks"
. ' It is usually the smaller, weaker
East BMW", N- Y-’ Jam 6- ~ Re“ chicks in the flockwhich are attacked
ceipts of cattle Monday, .160 cars. The ’by disease. The older chicks are

marke o ened 15 to .25c lower on. ,
mediuitn ngght and weighty steer cat- stronger and larger and are more re-

tle which were in very light supply; sistant to disease. This is true dur-
butcher steers and handy weight stars “1% the entire growing season, but is K
"were in very light supply, sold steady; perhaps mast evident inthe fall and
fat cows and -heifers were in light sup- early winter. At this time immature
DIV: 901d steady; b11115 0‘ all classes fowlsse‘em to be much more likely to '
Were in mOde’at“ supply, 501d steady develop colds. Pullets immature when

to 1°C higher' campers and cutters ~ ._
‘ ' - _ . put in winter. quarters are a menace
were in moderate supply, sold steady, to. the‘whole flock, or not. onlyare .

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lower, all, grades “selling at, $18.15;.“ .
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. . .‘Wfifidfix promoters, “Schumann“ deny its exist] ’ but these facts

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, “Defiant In mind: High .as the current price “gasoline seems there

”911$me any. liquids except-water andskeros'ene ‘which-are‘cheaper. There is -

'30 grumble heat energy in the former and the Wise 1 the latter are I

. “1; km ' No'one can ut‘ heat units into a' liquid b we as a magic. wand '
rover ital-flay putting anything into it. unless there are at units in the things
#71: pm; in.) Addingcx'plosives to Gasoline is 01' no use, as heat energy. in explosives is
whormo'llfly costly, relatively speaking, and it is quantity of heat rather than
" ' 'suddonness of liberation of heat that is required. I ’can be taken as assured
that‘th‘e cost of motor fuel will dependupon the co t of production of hydro-

carbons, alcohols, others and other well—known materials, and that no amount :

o! messing" With chemical mixture. will produce. a cheap fuel, for there are 1

no cheap materials to compound, which carry available heat energy. In con- ‘
section with substitute fuels, mention" may be made of gasoline which is
,é ‘dope'd” or doctoral] upon the “premises by the addition of tablets or minute
/’ doses ot‘occuit liquids. The moth balls‘had much better be applied to their
. lgltimate purpose and the camph‘oresaved to fight the “flu" and it may also be
remarked that'high test gasoline and high test cylinder oil can be bought much
more cheaply as such than under fancy names. 13 it not‘reasonable to sup-

pose that if there were any "seasoning" that could profitably be added to gaso- ;

line, it would be added “at the Jource?" Fortunately motorists as a rule are too I

sensible to bother with 'doctoring gasoline by the tanktul, at least for any j

length ot time. Probably the history of gasoline substitutes in the future will ‘

be similar to that in the past. We shall read of miraculous fuels but never

burn them but, when the oil companies find a real fuel improvement they will

adopt. it '(being the only people that can handle it) and we shall continue to

let them fill our tanks. . .

ons‘me‘mnrrv on rrr IN Pnlva'rn: What is the best preparation to use

. , , GARAGE on a so-called leather top, which has

I am planning to build agarage and begun to crack and show signs of i

should like your opinibn as to whether leakage?-—E. G. i

it Will Pay me to provide it With 3 There are top dressings .upon the '

MVP-“L J- H- _ . market which are doubtless well ad- !

If you are building quite a roomy apted to this purpose. Any good cam :

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garage and not trying to keep the ria e trimmer can e m d t
outlay down to the limit, it would be g , 1' com on one 0

well for youto install a pit, with suit-
able drainage, in some portion of the
‘floor space where it would be unob-
jectiou‘able. We should, however, more
strongly recommend the expenditure RUBBER JUNK PRIGES
of the~same amount Of. money for a How much ought I to be able to get 4
. chain falls or auto-hoist}; by “19339 0: for discarded casings and inner tubes? .
which the front or the rear end of a -—-A. 0. L.
car could be lifted sumclently to, per— Prices on rubber junk vary in dif-
mitwork to be conveniently periorm- ferent localities and at different times.
ed . beneath it. The hoisting device Your local tire‘ repair man can prob-
‘ . would be ”useful in many ways, while ably give you the market price more
9 the pit w0uld have but one function, accurately than we can3 Tubes sell
but it both‘could be installed it would much 'higher than casings. on account
be very desirable. Even an inclined of the greater proportion of rubber in
plane of timbers up which one end them. They ought to bring something
. of a car can be run and then rested like 11 cents per pound and casings in
upon horses makes a fair substitute the vicinity of '5 cents or 51/2 cents
for a. pit and is not very expensive. per pound.

you. Boiled linseed oil is good as a
waterproof dressing and good results
are obtained by brushing over the top
material with it, allowing it to. air
dry and then applying a second coat.

”I Questions of general interest to motorists will be answered in this column.
space pmittz‘ng._~ Addressldlbert L. Clough, care of this ofi‘icc.

all over. from a bucket of water. 0r-
dinary sandstone found in other sec
tions would not require nearly so
much dynamite for the mudcap.

~ A great many farmers in this sec-
tion of Michigan can get rid of these

SNAKE-HOLDING A BOULD-
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The accompanying pictures, while
not very good. will show the results of

' a “run-in" .between dynamite and a
“regular" Michigan monument left
to its own memory by the great glam
cier whichlone time swept dyer Che-
boygan county. The boulder is ex-
tremely hard and will hardly break at
all. The farmer on whose land the
boulder was found had tried .to break

-\ it with dynamite and all other means
and failed. The county agent, Mr. C.
H. Knopf and the writer were given
an opportunity to try our hands at it.

It probably weighed about ten tone or
even more. \
First we piaCed three‘pounds of 20

per cent dynamite underneath one side

in a. deep hole. The boulder was turn~
ed out on to!) of the ground. The
first picture shows this charge being.
placed. " The other picture shows the
boulder after being completely brok~
an up by a charge of. three‘cartjridges
"01. 50 per cent straight nitroglycerine

. . dynamite placed in a slight depression
9:1 top {lithe-boulder and fired. 'This -
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Farm Ditches-
] and Grader
“Works in any soil. Makes V—sha
also or cleans ditches up tofour eet
deep. All steel. Reversible. Adjustable.
Write for tree book and our proposition.
Owenebern Ditches- 81 Grader Co" Inc.

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Seeds Wanted

Red Clover, Alsike, Sweet Clover, Rye
and Vetch mixed Eur Corn, Peas, Sweet
Corn, White Kidney Beans. some variet-
ies 01 Garden Beans, etc. Write us stat-
ing what you have, send samplis with
priCes, or we will m1. he offers. Our 1919
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bring you one.
THE C. E. DE PUY 00..

Pontiac. Mich.

Cheap Food--Eat Fish

We have Salted Herring, Frozen
Herring, Trout, Perch, Whitefish

Quality Guaranteed. Writeior Prices.

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130 CRATES PICKETT seed com. 300
crates Michigan Hybrid Dent for sale
Write for prices Alfred T. Halsted
Washington. Michigan.

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS .—
. Strictly thoroughbred, for sale. Gob-
blers weigh 15-38 ~lbs.,.,Hens 9- 16 lbs.
Price, $7 00 to $25. 00 according to
weight and beauty Eggs, $4. 00 per
setting of ten. John Morris, R. “Vassar.

Michigan.
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FOR SAL 1.3%.? 13.1 todiizfieksifi'lzis:

Gelden Glow seed corn in the ear, Wol—

verine and Worthy seed oats, VHS-cousin 1

Pedigree barley and one extra good Reg,
English Berkshire spring boar. Robt p,
Reavey & Son, Caro, Mich. R. 1) No -

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on SALE: -—-—Pure brad Mammoth
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ting and wood. S'oil troten so

plowing done here but not much (11-11
will be for beans. The reason is 1111
certain crop, no heipand the dealers
baway off—whole hog or none. The fol-
lowing‘ prices were quoted at Smith’s
Creek this week: Wheat, $2.10; ‘oats,
~70; rye, $1.50; hay, $18 to $20;
straw, $5.50; beans, $8; apples, $1 to,
$2; potatoes, $1 to $1.50; onions, $1.50;
hens, 22; springers, 24; ducks, 24f
geese, 20; turkeys, 26; butt-er, 60; eggs
60; sheep, ,7 to 10; lambs, 12; bags,
16 to 17; beef steers, 7 to 9; beef cows,
5 to 7; veal calves, 16.——I. J.. Smith’s
Creek, Jan. 6. 1

Mecosta (North)—Farmers are not;
very busy theSe days, except those
who have timber to handle. Some are
cutting wood. The weather is getting
colder, the ground is covered
snow: Roads are very bad on account
of so much wet weather. Selling beans
and a few potatoes. The following
prices were paid at Hersey this week:
Wheat, $2.10; corn, $1.30; cats, 62;
rye, $1.45; hay, $22 to $25;_beans. $8;

 

‘uii’i mans roi- 5.11.: from pedi-

potatoes, $1.25 cwt.; butter, 50; but,-
.terfat, 68'; eggs, 50.——-L. M. ,Hersey,
Jan. 1. ,

Manistee (N.E.)—Farmers are not
doing much except buzzing wood and
doing chores. Weather cooler. Get-
ting more snow.-—H. A.. Bear Lake.
Dec. 30. ‘

Wexford (West)—A little snow, but
not enough for sleighing. The weath-
er ls mild and nice; couldn’t kick on
the.“old man” this time. I see some
camps have the gall to cut wages $5
a month. The corporations see that
the soldiers are coming home and they
think they can get them for a song.
That looks very patriotic(?) but the
prices at the stores don’t drop; they
still go higher. They get the same
old prices for their material. It looks
to a man up a tree like a skin game.
Anyone, in our mind, who could do.
the like should be taken for highway
.. robbery in the first degree. Talk
about Mr. Hohenzollern, late of Ger-
many, we have plenty of them right
in the United States. If you don’t
believe it search the records of Lud-
low, 001., two or three years ago; that
will show you. The following prices
were quoted at Cadillac last week:
Wheat, $2.07 to $2.08; corn, $3.25 per
cwt..; oats, 90; rye, $1.45; hay, $30;
beans, $7.75; potatoes, 60; onions, $1
per bu.; butter, 60; buttertat, .73;

Kent (N.W.)—Roads are bad; neith-
er wheellnz nor sleighing; deep snow
banks in some places. A few farmers
are drawing potatoes to- Greenville.
A good many have sold their entire
crap; some trucks are still-maving
potatoes and apples to Grand Rapids.
Lots of hand-picked apples are being
made into cider at mill in GrandRap-
ids. Cider brings from 350 to 50c per

31.021111 (EMU-wFarmers are but;

Not selling much. Roads in terrible" ,
conditidn No snow here Lots, of fall ' .

rye ’

with.

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gallon so that the apples bring $1.00
and upwards per bushel. Your cor-
respondent who stated in the last M.
'B F. that farmers were trucking field
run potatoes to Grand Rapids to get
away from grading, made it too
strong.-My observation has been that
all were sorted reasonably good, as
thEy ought to be, and if he trucks
field run potatoes down, there he
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‘ deal, a great deal of harm. The fol-
lowing‘prices Were quoted at Green-'

ville this week:
shelled, $1.50;

Wheat, $2.15;
oats; 65 ;~

corn,

65; hens, 20; springers, 20; butter,
53; eggs, 55; sheep, 10; lambs, 15;
hogs, 151/2; beef steers, 8; beef cows,
6; veal calves, 9 to 11.——~G.' M. W.,
Greenvillc. Dec. 28.

Negmygo (East)—a—Agai,n we have
slelshing. Some stock being shipped

from our local market. Potatoes about‘

all sold that will go to market. Again

the highway commissioners are gravel-'

' lng state award roads. Farmers did
but little shopping and visiting this
Christmas' time on account of , the
influenza.

ted at Big Rapids this week: Wheat,

$2.13; shelled'corn, $1; oats, ,70; rye,
$1.45; hay, $28; beans, $8; red kid-
ney beans. $9; potatoes, $1.30 cwt.;

onions, $2; butter, 50; eggs, 50; beef
cows 4; apples 75.——'F. 8., Big Rapids.
January 2. . .

Kent (N. W. )wNothing doing on the
farm these days. except wood cutting.
Snow has spoiled the roads for either
wheeling or sleighing. Not much
produce‘being moved to market. Feed
is very scarce. and high.‘ Lots of old
horses have gone tothe tankage works
in Grand Rapids. in consequence of

' which there is going t be a scarcity
of horses this spring. There is some
inquiry already for horses. 0. A
Rasmussen, auctioneer, sold a team
this week for $491 at an auction sale
north of Greenville. Farmers are
holding potatoes for more Coney. The
following prices were paid at Green-
villévrthis week: Wheat. $2.14; corn,
$1.50; oats. 65; rye, $1.50; beans, $8;

 

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items baton. spring.
for the coming season.

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Every reader of M. B. F. will be in need of one or more of the following
The next few months is the time you will do your buying

Check below the items you are interested in, mail it to“
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rye; $1.50; _
beans, $8; potatoes, $1.60 cwt.; onions;

The following prices quo/

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Apex Brand Field sates exactly“ . -

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cause they’ re all northern grownb, I“.
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to us for samples and send his“
name.

For Bigger and Better Crops in 1919

APEX BRAND,
“FIELD SEEDS

CAUGHEY-JOSSMAN C0.

Dept. BF:
DETROIT, MICH.

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the use of a. conveyance can
make that amount 113111 in‘
the. county where they are no
living, taking subscriptions for .
this weekly

Hundreds of farmers- are
only .waiting for someone to
ask them to subscribe for the
weekly that is the talk of all

Michigan.
We want earnest and above
all, honest men and women

who will devote .111 or part of
tl1ei1 time to this rk, we
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give you all necessary equip-
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Substantial Furs for. Women 81 Clnldren
at very reasonable Prices
RA‘V FUR SKINS ACCEPTED AT FULL
MARKET VALUE AS WHOLE
0B. PART PAYMENT
' ROOM 507 and 608,
Chamber of Commerce Building,

State K1 Griswold Streets,
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I HAVE ONE Hundred and Fill)? bush-
Swing Rye for sale at
fob. Mayville; sacks
Borck Mayville. Mich.

$2.00 per: shel

 

SUDAN GRASS seed, Northern 3103
free from Johnson grass, _20c per. lb. ..,
free, postage express or freight extra.
White Sweet Clover, sacrificed. 300. Al-
falfa $8. 00 per bu. and up. Order early.
Supply shmt. Quality guaranteed satis-
factmy Henry Field, Shenandoah Iowa.

BUR '5?an (.1 GILTS and brood

,. sown. Gilts by a seed son of
Panama Special. Newton 1&1 Blank; Hill
Crest Farms, Perrinton. Mich. Farm .4
miles s. of» Middleton, Gratio't county. 1,

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Has the government, .
, of ‘price or what“ is ,.
his not listed on the”;
. if} e butmthengold me V‘ttln grille JD
t e‘y pa 81.. nor cw e;
211an prices were paid at Monroe.“ 9‘ " W G." flat-anal: JG" 3
" week: Wheat $213; oats 7o; ‘ Jackson (south)-—Weather moder
. 3cabbage; 25 lhf'f‘ hens. 2‘0 55‘] sting som‘ehrhat: has been very cold
._'sp,ringers 22 to 25; butter 55;." « .. for a few days; Many farmers selling
‘ to 57; sheep”, 8 to 9 lambs 5 their rye ‘Roads have. been rough
.. live, 14 to 13 25; dressed.” hut are getting smooth again Few
.2155le 55m 6- to 1‘2; veal .‘__V,-.cattle fed on the aims this winter,
5 live 16 to 17; dressed 22 to - price of cattle and feed too high to
applesk 1755—17} H M Monroe. take the risk Potatoes somewhat
3 , higher and better demand. Some
V think there is going to be scarcity by
spring. some hard coal mixed with
coke has been sold in this vicinity
“lately but not very good quality; a
great many farmers using wood. An
, old resident oi! this section lost his
health recently He was in great dis
tress both day and night and on con

. all
file some districts have
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,_ nod and doing chores. Weather ’
. - colder; some snow. Not much
Waving. mm. The quotations at flat-
tl‘e Greek are as follows: Wheat, 82.18;
cats. 88‘; rye, 81. 50; bar. $28 to 830;
potatoes, 81, onions, 81; hens, 23:
springers'. 25; ducks 28; geese, 28;
~ turkeys, 30: butter 60; eggs, 69; bags.
,- _ . 16: lambs, 14: beef steers, 8; beef cows
3 7, veal calves 14—0. E. B. Rattle -
- ' Greek. Jon. 3. ~

Mecosta (8. E. )-—~There is nothing to

- . report. here as everythinx is closed up
. tight on account of influenza. We have
i had a fine winter so far; on our farm
we plowed until the day before Christ.
mas. Farmers are buzzing Wood. -

   

was “suffering from kidney trouble. As
he did not improve he went to another
doctor who diagnosed his case: as
blood disorder, and pres:cribed ac-
cordingly. As he grew much worse
a third doctor was called, who. after a
,thorough éxamination said. "There is
nothing at all the matter with you.
You’ve got lice, genuine cooties, not

 

4-— the common American breed." The
= $1,212; girgf§°fign°ggh9rfigtgfigzge man recovered. Farmers, take notice
‘ {m were oflered at Millbrook thi: ' iorwarned is forenrmed. The doctors
ek Wheat $2 07 to $2.09 8 rin allbelong to the union and their fees
. , eat. 82-. 09 to- $212 oats (’34 pryeg areyery high—G. 8.. Hanover. ert. 6.

j 81. 43 beans. 88: potato s 81. 35; hens, ~--_..______

‘ 2; t: 19: springers, 20 to 21; duCks,~ POTATO PRICES ARE
utter. 50; buttertat, ‘67;- eggs. 55:

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V‘ ,3_V‘V“Mflm'°°k Dec 31 ‘ 1 (Continued from page 1)

dofigndsmwgillolf fllfimtfi'fic" A88001at‘ion. It is also common prac-

' are aéain runnin mg the M. & ‘Na g3 ties with some buyers to refuse ship-
" 7" RR after a 2.5 k. ti ' menta when the market is declining
’ es s e-up on so because the potatoes are “not up to

$3111: of a strike it made a bad at; grade n 'The association wants Some

1' or “8" no getting our mail or any 5 means adopted whereby the potatoes

freight or express The weather is .
fit 1 uit _ setup to grade canbe sorted out and
£113 q 6 cold, 10 below this morn 'a deduction made without the entire

in; and we are getting quite a lot of
‘sno The toll W shipment being turned back or so]
W 0 ing prices were paid at an arbitrary price. The associdL

at Karlin this week: Wheat, 82; cats,

70; corn $1. 40. rye $135, hay, $24 tion is also advocating better quality
to 825; rye straw, 810; wfihat- oat otuseed
straw. $10 beans, $7 50. potatoes. The association believes that the

farmer should get 81.67 per cwt. for
his potatoes whereas now most pota-
to groWers are being paid around 81.40.
The association will market about
2,500 carioads of potatoes this season.
The officers of the association are:

81. 25; butter, 55; buttertat. 69: eggs,
anew. W 0., Karim. Jan:- -3

Wemford (N. E. )r-Ten inches snow

aid still snowing; getting quite cold

. nights. 12 below last night and just

as c'oid tonight. Some of the farmers

President, Dorr E. .Buell, Elmira;
are working in the woods and some vice president Henry Curtis, Jen:
ware cutting w°°d Plenty 0‘ snow for dings: secretary, Charles A. Wood

 

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:6 quoted at Cadillac this week: Wheat.
-,~ 82.07 to 82.09; com. 83. 25, oats, 71;} ha b m
'9“ . rye, 81.45; 11355630; beans. 37. 75; 00- your 353d gagmspegapnefi- £3330 Wfifdfio-fg
tattoos", 50c bu.; onions 81. 5O bu; but- ,Berrien county.

u, ter. 60; butterfat, 74; eggs 60 ~SV' H ,

5.. Human Jan 5 “5°... 18235333552252? 535?”?

~ Calhoun (N 0)-—Plenty of sharp
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’3: KEEP M B. F COMING—ESE THIS COUPON
like .
“‘5 , .jMICHiGAN BUsiNEVss FARMING, _ . _
g; i" MT. 'CLEMENS, MICH. _. _, _ .
El: , 7 1 Send your Weekly for one year for which I “
2y. -
3;: 1/7 Enclose in dollar bill herewith or ( ) mark
5‘71 I will send $1 by Mar. 1,1919 ( ) which
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Will offer at Public _ _ . '_‘ . _
farm 2 3—4 miles South do of. fElsm, . ; ,5;

M1ch., on
Wednesday Jan. 15 191955

ain or Shine”

6— Percheron Mares - 6

Everyone a good one and a great chance to get seed
stock from imported Stock.

1 - Percherbn Stallion - 1

Coming 2 years old, color grey, a real drafter, and
nicely made.

40 -- Oxford Ewes -- 40

18 are ewe lambs, balance bred ewes. One of Mich— _. .
igan’s leading Pure Bred Flocks. V _ V 1 ~.

‘ 3 .- Shorthorn‘ Bulls 3

Two roans and one red-of rare breeding and individuality.

H A few early fall Poland China Gilts
age

and two Boars.
This sale is called on account of shortage, of feed’
room and labor. Will positively sell everything-

H. B. PETERS, Prop.

“ P. 0. Carland, R. R. Elsie
ANDY ADAMS, Auct. ..

    
 
  
 

   

 
 
 
 
  
 
    

   
 
      
    
     
       
     
       
    
  
 
  
  
  
   
   
 
    
 
   
  
  

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live-stock from
Superior to Ohio
and Indiana!

You breeders of pure-bred

stock who are still wondering
whether or not it pays to advertise ,

in M. B. F. read- this letter from

Gratiot county’s. leading breeders:

 
   
    
   
    
  
   
     
  
      
 
   

 

 

    
  

I find it wise to put in name of county because your
ads. go so far that they can't find a small place like
Perrinton on the map. Have had inquiries from U. P. in
the north and Ohio and Ind. in the south. Here's to
the most useiul farm Journal in the Northwest,
Sincerely yours,

Newton & Blank, ;

Perrintun, Mich,

        
         
       
   
 
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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N whether it pays to advertise in M. B. F 9 Our readers are the

kind of business men who want to know where they can get
pure-bred stock at the’ right prices. Treat them right, tell them what
you have to sell and keep your name before them regularly and it will
pay and pay big! Our present Breeders’ Directory rates are so .low that
no breeder in Michigan can aflord'to have an issue of this weekly go to; .
press without his ad. The weeks are slipping, are you letting this op— _

portunity pass? Simply write us what you have to offer, let us set it up :
in type and mail you a. proof with our price for 13, 26 or 52 issues. It“
you want inquiries “from Upper Teninsula‘ to Ohio and Indiana " it you»-
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”KEEPER? DIRECTORY incurs“ enemies; “some, Ml. a...“ .1139.

 
     
     

     
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
   

 


 
  

  
    
    
  
  
  
  

   

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. “of Agriculture to Addison T.
Rmith, a member of the House of Rep-
uehtatiVes.
The Secretary calls attentioh to the
n sesity for state co-operation in the
”dual Gov't’s campaign against this
destmtive animal disease.
‘ » The losses for 1914 totaled 6,304,300
«isthmus, which, valued alt-$10.40 a
“ head, made a monetary loss‘ of 367,2
697,461: for 1917. 2,952,144 animals,
valuedaat $11.73 a head, a monetary
less of $32,475,190. During the four
, years the number of animals taken
. by the disease was 18,835,901, repre-
. eventing a value of $188,448,643.
' “‘Estimates obtained from state
authorities during November and re-
ports from our inspectors in charge of
chorela control work,” says the Secre
tary, “indicate that there will be a
further reduction of losses from the
disease during the present year (1918)
except. in New York. Pennsylvania,
and Washington, where.no co—opera-
tive work is being conducted by the
department. The monetary loss, how-
evtr, will still be great owing to the
increased value of this class of farm
animals over that of previous years.

“A recent article in which condi-
tions in Iowa are discussed, indicates
that the number of hogs lost in that
state from cholera in 1914 was-approx-
imately 3,000.000 while the 10sses for
1917 amounted to less than 200,000.
Conditions in owa, however. have
'been more favorable to the efforts of
the co-operative forces engaged in
hog cholera. control work in that state
during the last two years than pre-
viously.

“The reduction of losses has been
less in certain ot'hei states due large-
ly to circumstances which have handi.
capped our efforts in controlling the
disease. We can not hope to be suc-
cessful in states where boas have ac-

' cess to open ranges as in localities
where herds are restricted to the
premises of the owner and kept away
from sources of contamination."

 

 

 

 

Prize Fowls of Douglas Bow, Saginaw.

      

Uetcrina r9 Department

Being a new subscriber, I do not
like to start from the beginning by
asking for a lot. of information, but
being a. case of necessity, I am com-
pelled‘ to, since I know practically
nothing about stock, for I moved on
this farm a few months ago from the
city and the’place was stocked.

,_ Now, the information I am seek-

. ing is regarding one of the cows. She
was bred, I understand, last June, and
- has been, apparently, in the best of
, condition until a week or so ago I
noticed a protusion on the lateral as-

pect or the left side, located, as close
as I could determine, over the last
three ribs, or floating ribs. Now, of
‘ course, I paid little heed to this, think-
ing it Was possibly due to thefact
'that she wasmarrying a calf Yester-
,doy this protusion burst 0 on and a
We exmtion came lathe
bursting, no“ doubt, being due to her
. ing on her side. From all appear-
‘ it now looks as tho this is a

 

m. 11:18 says a letter from the Secre- " T ‘

possible that it is due to traumatism.
The bursting thru the skin is the

abscess, due to a comb
it ‘ 5

best thing that could have happened,
I believe, for It allows a means of
draining of (all the formation, but
there is no. doubt a cause for the for-
mation of it, and that is what -I want
to get at, so I would;like to know if
it is a. lack of something in the food,

or too much of certain kinds-of ele-”

,ments in the food.. Their food con-'
sists of.corn silage twice daily; and
soft mash once a day, consisting of
middlings and salt lick in the man-
ger at all times;
and let me know what the cause of
this is, and how to treat it generally,
or constitutionally, as well as locally,
that is what to do for it, I will appre-
ciate it greatly and return the compli-
ment in another Way.

(The Story of the

(Continued from last weekl‘

The most fashionable hog in England
at that time was about 150 lbs. Most.
of the breeds in England would easily
attain 100, lbs, and there seemed to
stop. Hampshire blood was/introdim-
ed in order to bring them up to 150 to
200 lbs. weight, which were the best
sellers and best killers for their par-
ticular-market. Professor David Lowe
says that in 1842 there were very few
herds of this old English breed in
their pure-bred state, although they
had been kept so in the Hampshire
district of England from which this
noted breed in America gets its name.
He speaks of their superior flavor of
meat, of their most (sxr‘ellent bacon
quality and of their extreme great
size; and on account of their ex‘treme
size, they were not kept. in their pure
state of breeding after about 1840, but
during‘the time from 1825 to 1835
they were kept in their pure-bred
state in very large numbe‘rs and in
some districts were called Hampshire
hogs, such a title being given to them
on account of their being more prom-
inent in Hampshire than in any other
section of the country. It. was in 1830
that a large drove of these .hogs were
imported to America. being imported
into Massachusetts by Mr. McKay.
’l‘bey spread through Ontario, Canada,
and south and west in Pennsylvania.
Major Joel Garnett had seen and
heard ofrthem in England. and as‘soon
as he learned they had been imported
to America he sent his agent to buy
them. He purchased a large herd.
They were driven through Pennsyl-
vania on foot;
mountain country they were hauled in
wagons and. driven by turns. They
were loaded on flat boats at Pittsburg
and sent down the Ohio river to Boone
county, 3. point ten or fifteen miles be—
low Cincinnati. These bogs were
kept pure-bred by John H. Aylor; our
late president, J. E. Rouse and before
his day, by his father. George Rouse;
F. M. Hallett; E. H. ,Blankenbar'ker;
J. M. Craven and a few others who
were prominent in pure-bred hog breed-
ing in Boone county, Kentucky.

' The Hampshire Record was organ-«-

ized in 1893 but on account of. the
easy~living, Boone county habits,
there Was not very much ambition put
into the Record association in order to
get classification at the different fairs,
which is the best means of presenting
livestock to the public. It was in 1903
when the present secretary was elect.
ed and having a slight acquaintance

with the Secretary of Aggiculture~

James Wilson, who had visited the
Chicago International in 1.901 _and
saw- the first champion five Hamp-

, shire barrows that had ever been ex-‘

hibited to the public, asked Secretary‘
Wilson for a classification for {lamp-

shire hogs as a national breed. The i
"request Woergrsnted. When Honor—15';
able James. Wilson, in company with -

" the late ..

 

So if you will write,

through some of the‘

loo notice

said cowl-every 1'ng chain thestan

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pose a time. Thanking you in ad'-
vance and awaiting an early reply, I
remain—411'. E. 7., Pain

The swelling to Which you rate? V35

’eithe‘r "caused by a. bruise or the en-

trance of some instrument, stick,

needle or something of the sort, ho'w- u

ever, the condition, is a local condition
and shold have a good dependent open-
ing at the lower portion to allow free
drainage. Syringe. the wound out
thoroughly morning and night with

Honipshire Hog

other ‘frieuds, was looking over the
Hampshire swine exhibit at the Chi-
cago International, he gave utterance
to this remark, A
hogs which has come to revolutionize
swine husbandry in America." But
few of us~could realize at that time
that this statement,-coming from so
great and so well-informed,
could so suddenly come true and vin-
dicate his 'statement. At the time he
made this statement, t-here'were less
than 'a dozen owners of Hampshires,
registered or eligiblelto register, in
America. As we write'this article in
December of 1918, we find about 35.000
well established herds of Hampshire
breeding stock in America. and on this
day, December 17th, 1918. the U. S.
government has lifted the‘embargo
from Portugal so that Hampshire
breeding stock may be exportedfrom
the United States to Lisbon, Portugal.
This is a record which has never been
attained by any other association Or
any other breed during these days of
war times and readjustment after war.
The Hampshire hog will be the first
hog to leave America after/the em-
bargo is- lifted. He has» been the
first hog in the hands of those who
have handled" him for the past four-

g-teen or fifteen years.

The present secretary has kept a
very close record of the doings of all
Hampshire breeders and this sad bit
of history is a record in these days
of Spanish influenza—we hays lost
more breeders by death in a period

"of one month out of the Hampshire

ranks than we have lost from all
other causes, including death, dissat-
isfaction and unpopularity of the
breed, in its history. It is a matter
of present-day history that wheneVer
a man takes up with the Hampshire
breed of hogs, he has taken up With
something ’which he became very
fond or and stays with. In looking
over history of men who have tried
this breed, we find that a largé per-
cent ol‘ them today own the farms
which they rented when they com-
menced with the Hampshire hogs.

( To .be continued next week)

Paw. Mich. ‘

“There. is a breed 01"

a man, .

‘ - onion. seems to Want to get up against
, something to scratch herself. _
I am enclosing a stamp to:- your cou- '
,venienc'e, so that you can answer me
postshsste', for I must get right down '
, to treating her for this at the earliest._

 

   

WHERE CAN TII’IS READER

«

7 " BUY HUSCOVY DUCKS?

 

Do you know of anyone Who rains
Muscovy ducks?,~ As I have lost my
drake Jvould like to know where I
can get anotu}, as I have three ducks
and no drake. Please let me know
thrn the M. B F. We like the paper
very muCh; I understand someone
near Howell raises the Muecm
ducks but I cannot find out his name.

. ——Mrs. Myron Elnen, LeRoy, Mich.
The College will be able to furnish -

The Muscovy

you one drake at $4.
We Only

is not common in Mic-higan.’

have ,the white ones ..——0 H. Burgess,

Prof. of Poultry Husbandry.
HOW TO USE FOWLER’S
‘ SOLUTION OF ARSENJC

Can you tell me if Fowler’s Solu-
tion can be used and for what ail-
ment; and how much as a dose?—-J.
T. 0., Port Austin, Mich.

Fowler’s Solution of Arsenic, to
which I presume you refer, is used as
an alterative and general tonic in
wasting and chronic diseases. Given
to horses and cattle in from 17.1110 54)
‘ounce doses, twice daily; for sheep
and swine in teaspoonful doses, twice
daily.

‘_ As arsenic is an accumulative drug
when administered internally it is
best to prescribe "it for a period cov-
ering a week or ten' do. 3, to discontin-
ue it for \an ecual pe led to again
repeat as before. Arsenicmay, it do

 

sired in the form of Fowler’s Solutian'

be given with’ other general topics:—

R. H. Lyman, Dean Veterinary of Med?

icine M. A. 0.

7"

 

 

 

 

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We have just had a. good call ' for
registered Jersey cattle, having sold sev-
eral head at good prim. and have sev-
eral head of cows and heifers left. We
are uttingflc tor butterfat. Will send
pictures of cattle. We have some of the
best registered Jerseys and young
for sale at all times. Michigan Business
Farming sure hits the nail on the head,
and it looks like the farmer was coming
into his own. having been the ’goat long
enough—C. 41. Bristol, Fenton, Mich.

 

 

 

 

E. C. Foreman, extension specialist in
poultry for the Michigan Agricultural
College, spent a day in Saginiw county
and .vislted Douglas V. Bow’ 3
Kochville township, Saginaw,W %.
No.3, and went through his flock of
red Plymouth Rocks. He found mun
hens which would not lay at a profit. He
also helped Mr. Bow mate up his breed-
ing pens for the. coming season, and also
gave him Some good advice on'better ven-
tilation. Mr. Bow has been breeding for
high egg production for the past six
years. His laying house is 22x30 ft. and

he has one hundred and twenty-five of .

,the best hens and pullets he has era-er
raised. Mr. Bow is aiming to some time
in the near iduture enter a pen at one 01'
the egg-laying contests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
    
 

  
 
     
    

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rde Write for pric-

fim,aros., 30.19”] Lyons, mam“.

 

 

, est breeders .,

    

still, write "out“

__ A :- ; {SING RATES under _
of If g och and~ poult will be sent on,request. Better,
, what you. have to offer, let us ‘put it. in type, show you
a proof andtell‘ You What it will cost for 13, 26 or 52 times. You
can change one -oftgad. “or copy as often as you wish. Copy or changes
must be weaves one week before date of issue. Write to-‘day!
BREEDERS’NDIRECTO'RY, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
' '-" , ~ ‘ ,Mt. Clemens, ' ' ' - .,

     

  
  

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his headin

Michigan.

 

 

 

WeSéll at Breeder-3’, Sale

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”mcmoAN nosmnse FARMING
11love offered. now offer heifercelvss

rom boa milking dams for 31
yeah, and‘vilhe same kind of bull calves

7 ROBIN CARR

"- ,1 f 'FOWLERVILLE, MICHIGAN?

 

 

 

 

. ‘ ‘ ' ’ Otters a 10 months
Clover Dairy. Farm on .grands’on of
HengerVeld‘ De K01 sired by Johan Hen-
erveld Lad 61 A.R.O. daughters, eleven
T0111 25 to 31 lbs. 19 others from 20 to_25
lbs. Dam is a granddaughter of King
$6818. who has .a. 32 lb. 9. yr._ old sister.
This calf is a splendid indiVidual, (well
marked and well grown, price 5100 f.0.b.
Flint. Writefor extended pedigree and
description. L. Ketzlerg Fllnt. Mich.

 

' ‘Wolverine Stock Farm

Offers two sons about 1 yr. old, sired
by Judge Walker Pietertje. These
5 ”Calves are nicely marked and light in
color and are fine individuals.
for prices and pedigrees.“ Battle Creek.
Mich., R. 2."

 

 

PREPARE

For the greatest demand. future,
prices that h ever known. ,_ Start
now with the olstein and convince
yourself. Good stock always for
sale. Howbert Stock Farm. Eau
Claire; Michigan. '

 

 

"has sold two ifferentlots of cattle 1,.

Write ’

at: College Feb. 6th, Good Foundation
cow, A.R. . record as 3-year-old. 40%
lbs. of milk 18.77 of butter. 30 lb.
sister. bred to 80 lb. bull.

C. L. Hulett a Son, Okemos, Mich.

 

 

 

 

JERSEY

 

BULLS ready for ser-
vice for sale. Sired by

JERSE Majesty's Oxford Fox,

and out of R. of M. Dams by MajestY’S

Wonder. Herd tuberculin tested and
free from abortion. Our aim is size Wltl‘i
good type; and production. WildWood

Jersey Farm, Alvin Balden, Capac, Mic-h.

 

' Reg. Jersey bull 14 months
F or sale old St. Lambert breeding.
J. ,E. MORRIS, — Farmington-, Mich.

 

G UEBN SEY

GUERNSEYS Ivivelgfersl.I Aa‘rltl‘: ' cfiwsF Efg:

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

 

 

- ABERDEEN-A N GUS

ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE \
_ We are offering at reduced prices, a
number bf high-class young bulls, well
ablé to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of the
ocean. Write for price list. or call and
see us.

Woodcote Stock Farm, lonia. Michigan.

 

SHOBTHOIN '

 

 

' sired by a. son of
Bull calves Friend Hengerveld
' - . .12: ' K° ms
80 andb asono ng egs e o
Ko¥ndyke, ¥rom A. R. 0. dams with rec-
Ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
comma“. VE s'rocx FARM
ALNU'I‘ 630
W. will Wyckofl, Napoleon, Mich.

OAKWOOD SHORTHOENS. . Three
bulls from Bates cows,
10 to 13 mos. old.

Collar Bros, R. No. 2. Conklin,. Michigan.

 

FOB SALE—SHOBTHORNS
01 Quality, Scotch and Scotch topped.
Maxwalton Monarch 2nd & Maxwalton
Jupiter in service.

 

LANGHURST STOCK FARM

Offers young Holstein-Friesian Bulls

from dams with records up to 46 lbs. and

sires’ dams up to 46 lbs. Write for ped-
igrees and prices. ed J. Lange, Sobe-
waing, Michigan. .

 

HOLSTEIN 'B‘ULL. CALVEs ,
Sires dams average 37.76/lbs. but-
‘mr 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 ans. testm
, Dams good A. ‘R. backing.~
rfcalves nice straight fellows $6” .white.
Price $65.00 each While they" last.
Herd tuberculin tested annually. _
Boerdman Farms, Jackson. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Holstein-lineman Cattle .
~ Under the present labor conditions
I feelthe necessity of reducing my
herd. Would sell a few bred females

cows, are all with calf to a 30-pound
bull. J. Fred Smith-Byron, Michigan

' SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTElNS

Type, Quality. A few bull calves from
A... ;R‘.' O

 

 

 

 

. dams for sa e.

ARWIN KILLINGER,

. , 1 Fowlerville, Michigan.

 

. caoxcr. REGISTERED siocx

i PERCHERONSa
-. HOLSTEINS, ‘ , ..
.. ”WIRES, x “m' '1
- ANGUS-4‘
DUROCS.

 

 

‘1 .- *boniflw— Wm all!!! rules.
' - . north-n.1- , ,

I, - .*-- L"‘ , ., 4.. '..¥ . .
. f y in ,nis'riocx FARM v,__j
wolf mtg? outabo‘ut our Junior

   
 
  

  
  

‘ ii 113 .0. Kern-f
. h 6 O -I‘ .. ,‘Z
. éofihildo"pe.1§oig .-

-'John Schmidt J: Son, Reed City, Mich.
'rwo roan double
standard bred Polled

For sale Durham Shorthorn

Bull Calves, ealved May 2nd and June 4th.
Paul Quack, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
R. No. 2. Box 70.

HOBTHOBNS and POLAND OHINAS.

Bulls, heifers and spring pigs, either
sex, for sale, at farmers' prices. F. M.
Piggott 8: Son, Fowler. Michigan.

SHORTHORNS assesses .33.:
since 1867 and are Bates bred. Two red

heifers for sale; 1 bull. 10 mos. old.
' J'. E. Tanswell. Mason, Michigan.

 

 

 

THE VAN BUREN CO. Shorthorn
Breeders' Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the Secretary. Frank

Bailey, Hartford, Michigan.

 

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

on s-ALE,‘p'ure bred Shorthorns and
Five young bulls. 7

_ O. I. C. pigs
to 9 mont s. 3125 to $150 each. Ray
Warner. R. No. 3. Almont, Michigan.

FOR SALEREG. SHOBTHORN BULL.

. 18-mos. old, of best Bates

breeding. W. S. 'Huber, Gladwin. Mich.
HEREFORDR‘ .

 

 

 

 

you with males or females, Rolled or
horned. Write for prices. Earl C. Mc-
Carty, Bad Axe-Mich" See. Mich. H. B.
Association.

'W 3038138 ,
,, ’ sun'rLAxn reruns
.1 SHEILAlllJ‘PilNlES arson":

g, prices: Mark. 3- .Curidx. Howell. Mich»

 

   

 

  

  
 

 

 

eme‘ know what you want

 

0 I C 9 Two 13m: sen-in: b21318?
also 2‘ une cars. a y

‘ ' ' Slot of last spring gilts

bred for next spring farrow. Also last

fall Digs not akin. All good thrifty stock.

Otto B. Schulze, Nashville. Michigan.

Citizens’ Phone, 124, ,

0 Bred dGilts

(I: Serviceable Boars
.l. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DUROC

DUROC JERSEYS

Bred. sow and gilts. Special price on
bred sow and big growthy fall boar, not
related to sow or litter.

Newton Barnhart, St.

 

Join us, Michigan.

 

PLEASANT VIEW DUROCS
Three choice bred gilts priced at $60
each for quick sale.
W C. Burlinghamc. Marshall. Michigan.

Peach Hill Farm

Start the New Year right. Buy a reg-
istered Duroc Jersey Boar from
PEACH HILL FARM

Inwood Bros., Romeo, Mich.

 

 

DUROC BOARS, GlLTS

We are offering some line. Big type. tall and
spring Boats and Gilts. At Parmers' Prices.

. F. E. EAGER and Son
HOWELL, - - . MICHIGAN

 

 

 

DUROC JERSE SWINE. Bears, Sows,

Gilts and Fall pigs
for sale. Choice spring boar, sired by
Brookwater Tipr Orion No. 55421. This
is an unusually good bunch to select
from. Come and see them or I will ship
on approval. Fall pigs $18 each, either
sex. Home Farm, Thos. Underhill. dz Son,
Props, Salem, Michigan.

spring Doors and gilts. Ten years
Durocs experience. few black top
Rams left. Newton & Blank, Hill Crest
Farm. 4 miles south of Middleton, Mich.

 

POLAND CHINA

 

B 16 TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Two

big boned boar pigs- farrowed in June,
sire Michigan Buster. Gills bred to Bob-
O-Lin-k, Gerstdale Superior and Gerstdale
Lad. O. L. Wright. Jonesville, Michigan.

 

 

[C TYPE P. 0. BOARS, all ages, the
kind that make good. Meet me at the
fairs. E. R. Leonard St. Louis, Mich.

FOR 25 YEARS

This establishment has been head quarters
for Big Type Poland Chinas. We have
a nice lot of boars and sows of strictly
big type breeding at very low price. Let
Bell phone.

Portland, Mich.

 

JNO. c. BUTLER —

  
  
  
  
   
  
  
    

 

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1W 'gain-,~ bred gilts now. ready to

81:110.an W., Snyder, R.F.F.' No. .4,

St. John‘s;- Michigan. ‘ - ' ‘
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Registered Shropshire: .fijfi’wfléfizgé , j,
3115:: arid fotur-yeargold civics bred to high. "
m o a ' ., . "a

Flock establishedm189151. at and April”
C. LEMEN. Dexter, Michigang

ELAINES, bred on same form for'ffit)’
years. Size, quality prepotent; rams“-

, for sale delivered. ”Write '
S. H. Sanders, R. No. 2, Ashtabula, Ohio;
», ‘I

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‘ _POULTRY

. HOMESTEAD FARMS,"

A Federation of Interest
Day Old Chicks ,

We are now at the beginning of another
hatching season. Our new poultry Cata-
log, with illustrations and full description '
of each breed, will be ready for distri-
bution about January 15.

If you want to buy Day Old Chicks
this spring, write to us so that you‘ may
learn something of our Pure Bred Prac-
tical Poultry; each breed in a colony en-
tirely separate from every other colony,
a free farm-range stock. '

   

Breeds for the Season are:

Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Plym-
outh Rocks, Bui’t’ Plymouth Rocks, R. C.
Rhode Island Reds, S. C. Rhode Island
Reds, White Wyandbttes, Silver Laced
Wyandottes, S. C. Black Minorcas, S. C.
White chhorns, R. C. White Leghorns,
S. C. Buff Leghorns, S. C. Brown Leg-
horns, R. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. An-
conas, Sicilian Butter Cups.

Eggs for Hatching

Eggs from the foregoing breeds in quan-
tities for incubators and also in single
sittings. We would appreciate corms--
pondcnoe with any person who will need ’
incubator eggs this spring. ‘

Plymouth Rock Eggs for Early Broil-
ers also in quantities and at lower prices.

Cookorelsr—A few Cockerels of nearly
all the foregoing breeds.

We will send you illustrated catalogue
anguprlce list; ready about January 15.

HOMESTEAD FARMS ASSOCIATION,
Desk B Bloomingdale, lilichigan.

 

WYANDOT'I‘E

 

Silver Laced, Golden and White Wyan-
dottes of quality. Breeding stock after
Oct. lst. Engage it early.

Clarence
Browning, R. 2, Portland, Mich.

 

LEGHORN

 

P ROFITABLE BUFF LEGHORNS—We,
have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for profs
itab'le egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable prices. Our list will interest you
«please ask for it. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

 

 

ORPINUTON
\VHI'I‘E ORPINGTON (‘OCK-
For Sale crcls $3 and $5 each. \Vhite

African guineas $2 each. ' .
Odell Arnold, Coleman, Michigan.

 

BARRED ROCK

 

Large Type Poland China Hogs

All sold out now. none to offer at pres-
ent, 68 head sold Nov. 29 at auction
for $4,440.50. Thanks for your pat-
ronage and you’ll always be Welcome.

Wm. J. Clarke, R. No; 7, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HEREFORDS listings? harass '

'better than '10 the

 

WALLNUT ALLEY BIG TYPE Poland

China Gilts. Sired by Arts Big Bob.

Will-be bred to a son of Giant Sen-
ator for April farrow. if you are look-
ing for thebest of breeding and the kind
that gets big and has quality here is the
place to find it. Please give me a chance
to tell you more about them. A. D.

Gregory, Ionia, Michigan.

BIG TYPE £330" ,3? “Kt lot of his.

 

ed, ’ h“ I-bo
bears: the prolific king;slitters 39,1223
at y

6318.:
H. O. Swartz.» hoolcraft. Michigan.

BIG m v.3 o. BOABS, Bamboulllet
ewes for sale.

. A. A. wood-ethos. Saline marlin

land " him spring.

e. Boo'in , orders. for bred ' 8

OHN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL Barred Rocks
J are hen hatched quick growers, good
layers, sold on approval $4 to $8. Circu-
lars, photos. John Northon, Clare, Mich.

Rock males and fe‘

For sale males, also eggs for

hatching after Feb. lst. Bradley Strain

 

Thoroughbred Barred

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. A Special ; oposation. to“ lame- sers ; _ . ',
g Durmg January aad F ebru. : w . ; .. _ ~.
V - 1 You remember that last year Solvay Pulveriized Lunestdne was in suchbig , i J 4 j . ‘ g _.

demand that some farm owners had to plant their cropsr'without it; in acidiseil, . j , : a - , ‘ a

fl That was because many Michigan and {Indiana farmers waited until they ‘ , ' ,

wanted to spread [their lime before they lordered Solvay. jOrders came in . , ~ . '
masses, naturally, and everyone, could not be supplied at once. _ H

This year, to make sure of getting :your lime, order in advance, and we ' - . ,
will co-operate with you. / _ I
Place your order for Solvay Limestone for January or 1;
February delivery now, and we will date your invoice April «l
. lst and extend you our usual terms of 3% for cash if réeived . ,1;
3;} g ' ’ ~ before April 10th or ninety days net. - ' ' p l g y
3' By this method you can order your lime [now—get 'it'nOthaul it during . i i
P the winter, when hauling will not interfere with other work—store it in \ 'n
‘ safety, for any shed with good roof ‘will keep bulk lime in good shapeé—we f.
provide air-tight wrappings for the smaller quantities—and pay {or it _a
g, ‘ . a When you use it. , " . x, 01
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~ Why Farmers Choose Solvay v i, u
if” C It is not necessary [these days to tell the Solvay lime is so finely pulverized ‘th'at \ a.
f1, fi modern farmer {the benefits to be derived 95% of it_will pass thru a 50-mesh screen. '
_ 1 from the proper use of land lime. Every- "This meangjhat every particle of it comes ' u
one knows them—the bigger yield and in contact with the soil—works on It— .0]
l improved crops land lime removes the acids—makes P t}
l develops. Your county the soil sweet. * fl
' 3 . agent knows y our' SOil' He ‘ , _ Another reason for the ._ l a; ‘ '3
i I 5 Egg: liumsecsxgztvgihpzsgfk ‘ better results Solvay pro- . l 3
E4 in it, and he will gladly dis- pULVERIZEb duc“ ”the fa“ that w" , g 91
~ cuss the” matter with you ‘v _ guarantee 94% carbonates. ? u
, . LIMESTONE All Solvay Limestone is~ b¢
i The big thing to be sure ' furnace dried. ,It is ghip- ta
of, however, is that you are getting the ,ped in bull: in box cars or in 1001b..dry, «fill
best land lime you can buy—for only the air-tight paper sacks in box cars. " V ”t?
be“ Wm give full returns. Remember ”that to make “sure of getting a\ , "of
The demand for Solvay Pulverized Lime- your Solvay Limestone this year you , ' pt]
stone is sumcient proof of its quality. should order it ear-1y! :‘9
SOLVAY PROCESS COMPANY 81
2097 JEFFERSON AVE, DETROIT, MICH. m
:5 Ask your county agent. about the value of land lime. ., g :1:
h \_. Write us for a free envelope of litrnuo paper for testing the acid in your _, , f6
soil. Ask for Solvay from your dealer. V