afimwarr of Z5715: Media? I for?! ffETRorrisarmaqy, M'a‘rcz. 1,11 I913 ONE CENT PER corn 29,.ngng ) SUBSTITUTE FOR GASOLINE FOUND STANDARD OIL COMPANY FEE? PARES TO PUT “MOTOR SPIRIT” ' ON THE MARKET. ‘ Our Servrcc as Broad as the Farmer’s Needs .sati‘sf 113 service to the ten thousand readers of Michigan Busi- nose arming, is encouragement sufficient to spur every man on to do his leVel best. No paper ever established had a greater number Or. more loyal friends than the “Pink. Sheet,” and as we proceed fear- lonely down the highway which leads to the marketplace we find ample T HE KNOWLEDGE that we are perforrning a real, distinct and I- . T3 that it}? ended. This bill was commented: _ ' racent issue of the “Pink tie ‘a good one, and a stall b y. the legislature in} session Iati by a vote of 104 to 3. ; i ' Will 11- aRe far-reaching effect in manner 0f handling goods on (3011- ‘ signment The law, which is known the Winans Bill, provides that .Issoqiation ortcorporation, shall fur- nis’h to each ..customer or principal, e purchase or sale of any hay, -vegetables, fruits, poultry, eggs, . ,po o (1.9 address of the parties to ' Isuch property or any part has been sold the time when, When "and the price. The A delegatiOn of cummissiOn mar-I chants andvrrepresentatives of the dimer- ear exchanges throughout the state ‘ immediately got busy and had a hear- The pres-r ing before the Committee. 11111111 oi the National League of Com- mission Merchants appears very in- iguant ovr'ar this attempt to pry into the commission man‘s business. He says: » ‘. “ “1 any any one to come into the AcomnIission district on a morning, say about 5 Jociock, and try to get the correct names and addresses of the ’" LI foreig’nérs who purchase fruits and. Vegetables. we would have to hire an interpreter to straighten out some of the names. We would have to hire a corps of detectives to see that we are getting the correct names. Sup- pose a peddler buys a barrel of apples ‘ = and a barrel of potatoes. Suppose he gets aWay; with an extra barrel 0f po- es and, giyes‘ us an incorrect name. . WI? furnish this name to the shipper,_ o writes and receives no answer. , (II The shipper then accuses the commis- siqn man of swindling hiin. The com- mission men would have to. hire extra bookkeepers to keep records which commission merchants shall I‘ . cppOrtunitiIes fer even greater service. CF the farmer receives a sauare deal ROM TIME TO TIME we shall add new departments, for we pro- pose that this little paper shall supply your every need so far as lies Within the poWer and! scope of the printed word. This week we announce the appointment of a representative at Lansing. legislature has just got down to business; many laws that are of vital interest to the farmer, are to be considered. You need a representative right on the ground who is bound‘ by no- organization, who champions no special cause. who is honest and square himself and only asks that Such a person is Mr. E. C. . mann, who will furnish the “Pink Sheet” ”with a hot letter, right off the bat frOm the legislative ball field at Lansing. He is at your service. Letters addressed to this office will have his personal attention. The Linde- ~"N.ot here toISing the OldISIong—but to Join in the Chorus of the New.” matter for the commission merchants to arrange the terms of sale so that the shipper would not be any Wiser after having written a let- ter asking for information. You cannot make a man honest. There- fore, if the bill is passed, in our opin- along. it will not 'cerrdct the evils that. exist. Let the conimissibn me'n be bonded so that shippers know their financial responsibility, and then they can invoke the aid of the law if it is necessary. Every week from one to a. half dozen commission firms fail, and they always leave a string of lia- biiitres about three times as long as the list of assets. . “You are doing} aIgood woflc, Mr. Slocum, but you. dOn’t need to be told that, you know W ”-——Wilson I J. Bumngton, Rushton, Michigan, Boa: 29, R. 2. ' ? KICK AT PARCEL POST. Editor, Michigan Business Farming:— The parcel post is a step in the right direction, and a great convenience to the rural population, but why plants and seeds should have a higher rate than merchandise is something more than I can “understand. The real ser- vlca of a parcel. post is to aid those who live miles from any express of- fice to get their packages. Under the present law .plant seeds, which should be rushed by parcel post, can-_ not be sent because the price is al— most prohibitive. For instance, our city cousins can ’phone to a rural router ten or twelve miles out in the country, and get eleven pounds of popcorn brought to towu for 15 cents, but if the farmer wants the same amount from town, for seed, it will cost the farmer 88 cents—J. J ORGER— SEN, Poysippi, Wisconsin. has a value. LaSt Moment Market Flashes _ The Weekly Pink Sheet’s visit reminds you that another week has slipped by. Shows you the “Shoddy” nature of the commercial fabric. GiVes you an X-ray picture of the situation. Don’t miss a word—each. . yery latest quotations are: Butter 0.0-o-.aoo.,. I \ ». on the several commodities from the principal market centers A THE LAST MINUTE before going to press, we secure quotations detailed statement covering conditions, our predictions and special advice, will be found with each commodity on the following pages. Wheat No. 1 White (large mills paying) Wheat No. 2 Red (large mills paying) Oats,Standard .. .34 Rye .. .. .63 Beans Hay (best market today, New York), at ..... . Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh) at... .55 ....... .' .33 Poultry ._16 Breasted Hogs (Detroit Market)... . . .. noocqoacacoeoooo-cu-n The ...$1.O7I/z 1.08% 2.05 20.00 'pr'esidents, I guess. .- The New Fuel Will Cost About Three Cents per Gallon Less Than Gasoline ——-Tests Show More Mileage to Gal- lon Can Be Obtained. On the heels of an announcement by the New York section of the Soci- ety of Automobile engineers calling a meeting of its members to discuss ways and means of reducing the high cost of motor fuels, the Standard Oil company yesterday made public the fact that a substitute for gasoline had been discovered after a year’s experi— ments. It also was announced that, the new product, which will be called motor spirit, will be marketed by the company immediately. Motor spirit will cost 3 cents a gal- lon less than gasoline and Will fur- nish, it is asserted, 25 per cent more mileage. The new fuel is an additional by-pro- duct of petroleum. It was discovered by by W, M. Burton and patents for the process of manufacture were granted the first of the year. The spirit has a greater range of boiling points than gasoline. This, it is said, will allow a motor to be started as easily or more easily, with the new fuel than with gasoline. By the discovery of the spirit the output of fuel for gasoline engines from a given amount of crude petrol- eum is declared to' be practically doubled. This it is believed, will tend to prevent any rise in the price of gasoline. . Motor spirit resembles gasoline closely except it is yellow in color and has a pungent odor. The company in~ tends it for use in motor trucks and stationary engines, but its cheapness is expected to encourage its use in pleasure cars notwithstanding there are several discouraging-features from the standpoint of pleasure car OWn- ers. Chief of these is the exhaust of a car which employs the spirit as a fuel is a white smoke similar in appear- ance to that caused by an excess of' oil, The great consumption of gasoline by motors has been threatening the available supply for some time, and has been advanced as the chief reason for increasing the priceof gasoline. The new fuel has been under test » by the Standard Oil company for sev- eral weeks, and its efficienqr it’ls de- clared, has been proved satisfactory to the company’s engineers. PENSION, THE TEACHERS. .1 see that the teachers are trying I I II to get a pension bill passed.,’Why should ex- -teachers get a. pension anyf more than ex- farmers or ex- anybody, They get good wages and have. . What can payers do to kill'the blll"-—-L M ‘ . Auburn, MichI. ~a,$ ‘We believe that you wil‘lagree givith us that a resume-pf the hay , . ..,_ situation this season‘dis-closes a, "condition which has not visitedjus in a . number of years. The writer of‘this article has been connected commer- _ cially’ With the disposition “ of hay and in ‘a very large way for the last 15 . . years, and never during this period do - I’ recall a time when the situation as- , sumed'this year’s position. Never has ,the situation from ,all angles, consid- ering both grower and local distribu- ‘ tor, been handled as this season. We started outknowing that we had, a most abundant crop for disposition. ‘Aswstatistics tell us, this surplus is represented by three million tons. The ,“Pink Sheet" was aware of this con- dition and the the percentage of dif- ferent qualities of hay for dispositibn, advising you in our October number that not over 5 per cent of this sea- son’s crop would grade as No. 1 Tim- othy Hay, could not be termed commercial hay. With these conditions put before you it should have been apparent that this season Was one in which the most careful consideration of conditions and that an outlining of activities must be indulged in. Nothing has been done this season to bolster up the situation in the least. Everyone connected with the disposition of this commodity has seemingly had cold feet from the very inception of the season, it being the disposition of all inter- ested to dump on the market just as fast as possible. Never has there been a time during this season, so far, in which this is not absolutely true, and the only feature holding back hay at all has been “car supply.” The only regulator that has been on the whole situation is found in this one element, the Railroad Carriers. We have been most unfortunate in the feature of weather conditions, not hav- ing had practically any real winter weather up to the present. It can be conservatively stated that not three weeks of good snug winter, or feeding weather has visited us this season. Weather conditions is considered com- mercially as one of the greatest and grandest asset possible in the fur- thering of better market conditions. It is more than commercially true . with the commodity in question. We ‘ have an example on the farm of the lesser amount of hay that you have consumed this year by virtue of a mild and open winter. Self-evident is this that the amount of hay you have not fed at home will result in an excess in the amount you will naturally put on the market. While it is not pos- sible to determine exactly the amount of hay you have saved, or in other words, have not fed, as a result of weather conditions, still we do know that taking the whole situation into consideration that this item would stand out in large numbers. Not only does this weather condition affect the feeding at home on the farm, but it also cuts down consumption at nat- ural receiving centers. A great per- centage of markets taking our hay are those which are partially self— supporting. Going farther than this, it is absolutely true that not as much will be consumed, in off or out of sea- son weather, as will be the case in ‘ snug ever present zero' conditions. We are fast approaching a time when spring will be with us, when the natural consuming months for every quality of hay excepting“ high quality No. 2 and No. 1 will not be looked on _, with any favor, being entirely out of season. The season for mixed hay, ‘ ’ for instance, is during winter months and usually for' cattle consumption. With the advent ofsipring this,,a_venue .‘of";escape, escapes with it. , With ,[abundance of eommOn quality hay ' k,~it. isnot logical to conclude that,- Wz .. . Dear Mr. Slocumz—l thought I». would drop you a line, first: word for the “pink sheet.” l received 16¢ a pound for our‘turkeys and if I hadn’t the “pink sheet” l would . ' have got only 14c. I received $2 per bushel for my beans, machine-run, and‘they were only paying $2 on hand-picked basis. So it Is worth a whole lot to know what our stuff is worth and what we dare hold It], .at. I consider the “pink.~sfieet”'a farmer’s guide! —-_-Fred ' Asohen' White Cloud, Mich. , W , « , POTATOES . C ? We think there is just adittfile" disposition on the part of both. I \ ‘ wane... ’nt‘.:0" ' ‘- mi. - 5.. a; , producers and distributors to, . ease up on the reins they have been holdmg on the market situation. Taut . have you held the lines almostcon— tinuously‘ up to the moment. ,It may i be that You have not loosened your * grip on the, situation or. taken any definite conceptions of. it, but the out side situatio‘nlwould suggest it, and also the “moVement ofPotatoes would haveaxtend‘ency, to, prove it, bu‘ t the Same timeif these Potatoes I ' ” we ,.riaveiabea-. fighting; g is true the armed c. ,t‘ cma;.sfiomd ‘ .4 ‘. I I,” ...-.... missus ' = . ing with this market sheet. ' n tigbntors-‘to place their" I)Po— . ’ market at a. price out with the generally conceded ,_ _l“ ituation Adjacent to the 13 trait market are some very good tat sections and some of these 11 9‘" access to the Detroit market over the rate the carrying charge from these- ~ localities to this market is much less - than to: other. outside terminals. In- . ., stead oi holding the price up and tak- . ing;*; the advantage of their location . -.P0tatoes held back ‘jits. We think this is at naturally we know " . Page 01.: Potatoes held in 1 can important factOr with ' xSprihg situation. Yen don t Want , for a minute that this. 20 ‘ been talking _ As the e is would say, it is going 1: . e tight, ” and men, we want , o appreciate that the situation y (ices suggest that some fight is ‘d,of us to maintain or improve situation now before us. No liv- man has a right to .tell you that AS, raisers of Potatoes I will gu.a-r- a tee, that you have been so com- so many times long expectancy lines that you will agree Wth the above The writer has pgrienced, been in actual touch way,» "hat we would naturally r ‘anipulatOrs, who . went com- letely wrong on the future situation, therelOre never be entirely dependent on the dope given out by someone else their ideas and otherwise. your own head,.compare your notes 7 ,With others, form your own conclu- sions We want‘ it thoroughly under- Stood that you can so consider the matter in Working along and afiiliatl It is a big situation—too big for any one man. The situation today goes to i1 MTATCESaMICHIGAN ZONE PRICES. 2 ~ Michigan ......... $ 4 Michigan. . . .‘ ..... 5 Michigan ......... No. 8 Michigan. . ..... . . . . No. 7 Michigan.. , . NOTE—From present market con- dltiofua,’ local deal’erl‘ In the freight - acac- ' abould pay you the price quoted uMVc tor No. 1 stock dc.- llvercd at their Itationb. The-c .prlcc- can be increased by taking advantage! of special carlot ofle‘rl. ‘ \No. ,No. N o. 1 ‘ and 908150 Use 1 n to this market, they are giving it. aWa'y in the form of a low— .éred price. This is a case Where the groWer and distri utor is not taking advantage of the ituation at his dis- posal The market at the moment is ’topheavy; receipts out of line with demand, With the disposition to cut priCes. POTATOES—DETROIT MARK ET. Bulk mil car. p’er bu. .40to .43 . ’Sackcd tram car, per bu. .45 to .48 .‘Sack'a mutt be even "$1.“. 160 ‘ hounds. , Price quoted' lucludea coat of lack. about 10%|: each. CHICAGO~There is no material change to report in the market sit- nation existing at this point Quite uniform have been market quotations and the. market situation at this point for some time.- change from day to day, possibly ,from Week to week, the situation be- ing entirely governed and made pos- .' sible. by the nature of receipts, but at situation has [ been-quite sympathetic wth the sit- all times- ‘ the“ general nation generally ‘existing. The tone to the market this last Week has been quite satisfactory. ‘ POTATOES—CHICAGO MARKET. Bulk from car, per bu. . .43 to .48 'Sacked from car, per bu. .45 t050 ‘Sacka must be even weight. 150' pounds. ' Price quoted Includes coat of lack, about 1.0%“: each. \~ CINCINNATI—We are not able to report a very snappy condition ex- isting on the Cincinnati market, in- stead the mar-ket was pretty'slow, POTATOEs—émcmNATl MARKET. Bulk from car', per bu. . .5030 .55 *Sacked from car, per bu. .55 to .58 ‘SI‘cka. mutt be oven wellht. 150 pounds. Price quoted Include. coat ‘0! lack. about 1096c each. I Electric Railroad, at any " The wheat situation, during the past week, makes the. writer think of an old hen With a brood of young ducks; most everyone taking a stand on the bank and ap- parently becoming nervous watching the Wheat market on the commercial _ ~sea, when We believe the wheat mar- ket is just about as safe today as the little ducks were in their water posi~ tion. About the only ground for con- versation during the past week has been the feature of the weather con- ditions on the outside. Dry weather 'has been reported over a great por— tion of the Wheat section. Being Well ‘ WHEAT—DETROIT MARKET. No. 1 White. . . . . No. 2 Red..'..... Speculatlvc Prices. July” delivery ......... . ...... is *May delivery ....... .. ...... ‘The prices given for Decellnber and May delivery represent the tn- turc delivery prices. This Infor- mation merely give- you the future basis of this commodity as lured by those who speculate on future pro-recto. 1.1}61/2 ' natural influence. We are well aware\ that the situation may showa little aware of what happened last year through this same angle the weather Cry at this time has more than a It is even now considered by practical people, that the crop has not yet been injured These are called Bulls to the situa- tion, ones who haVe a. strong senti- ment in the trade, which will not be checked until the Wheat has had plenty of moisture. We believe there is room for a conservative View of the situation as it shows at the mo- ment, but on the other hand we be- lieve there is no reason why the pres- ent situation does not give every promise of a good healthy future. WHEAT—fCHICAGO MARKET. No. j: Red.... ............... $1.08 Speculative Prlces. *July delivery ............... *Muy delivery. ............... .9314 The price given for July and May delivery reprclent the m- ture delivery prices. This Informa- tion merely given you the future basis of this commodity as flared by those who speculate on future prospects. .91‘54 “Your ‘m‘nlc sheet’ has been like a light in the night. I have followed its advice with profit. I want it regularly as long as I can depend on the 3011. If it can grow, let it always be as fearless as in the past.."-—S D Ellison, Bog/no Falls, Mich. Do you know;- men, that this getting high time that We set right down and study good an , ._hard on the future possibilities, man nor of disposition, etc, of this coni modity. We have. a patient here that _ is gradually getting Weaker? as the weeks go by. It is suicidal On our part to allow this situation ‘to go along and not give it some attention. We would like to have you get your “Pink Sheets” together from week‘ to . week and read the outlines of the situation as therein giVen. We think you will find that we have stol‘idlyv'” maintained a line of- attack and de-' fense for this commodity, which if it had been carried out, would have . maintained the possibilities of this season’s output. inception of the season we all know _ the nature of the crop, the ahund- anCe thereof, etC., ' nothing suggeStive whatever in either of these elements that we should haVe our present‘sit- , ‘ ' nation. That being true, then why is it that our present-demoralized sit- uation should be visiting us? the cause the manner in which dispo- sition has been made? Don’t you be- lieVe it is true that the disposition of beans so far this year and the sit- uation in general has been thoroughly misused, and demonstrating that a real mistake has been made. As dis- tributors you are coming to a. time when the percentage of beans in your hands will be very small. The large handlers of beans are very likely looking forward to this time, that they may be working with this end in view. If they are, the reason for the present situation is therein ex- plained and just the moment that these handlers think the situation is right, Will be the time when the per- centage of beans left in the Farmer’s hands have reduced to the minimum, this is the time when you will see a. great change in the gen-era] bean situation, the time when the great bean dealers’ organization of Michi- gan will step into the field and show you its strength from a marketing standpoint. We had a case just like this in 1911, beans were forced down to $1.90 by the dealers over the State, the situation given out to the Farm- em as very bad, etc. On a falling market you fellows break your necks to sell your stuff. At-that time you dumped your beans on the market at $1.90, which was a reduction—from the normal level, of 15c to 250. When the beans had been dumped by you. the elevator situation turned the ta- ble. We saw beans climb to $2.65. The question is are we facing, What possibly is, a recurrence of like 00114 ditions? Is the general situation war- ranted, or is it not? You all know that beans will keep until next year if this year’s price don’t suit you. The future to the situation bears Castaneda-Pogo Six N order to keep in touch with the market conditions you should know ' the freight rate from your shipping station to the leading market cell. ters. I! you have the trelght. rate you have the key which places you in a po- j-gsltlon to know whether your local dealer ' e‘j giving you the market price for your roducts or not. In connectmn with uslness Farmer Zone Map. You wm notice that this map is divided into . seven freight zones. Your: farm is locats‘ fled in one of these zones: and by refer- to the table given below you Will approximately What it costs for car- his article we give you the Michigan' , rates Hglvcn cover hay, potatoes MIC HI G'AN ; FRE I G HT Z ONE 8 Zone 3-—-Bay City. Pittsburgh. for instance, show that Nt. 1 Timbthy hay is worth $16 00 per ton. The freight being $4. 40. would show that the dealers in Tuacola. county should pay $11. 60 per ton, less handling charge. The minimum weight of a car of hay is 20, 000 pounds; the minimum weight of a car of potatoes is 30, 000 pounds; the minimum weight of a car of beans in .40, 000 pounds: and you will have to pay for that number of pounds in each car, so be sure and ship a full carload. Th3 an beans only; all kinds of grains take a different rate. We will be glad to fur- ‘ nish you with full information with ref- Zone 4—Greenville. Detroit Zone 5-—Sandusky. New York City ................. Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Detroit New York City ................ Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago New York City ................ MICHIGAN WITH APPROXIMATE RATES TO FREIGHT LEADING ZDNES ' -. "=— MARKETS _' ~~ (SEE TABLE 7 sELow) Going back to the Isn’t ' Pittsburgh - Cincinnati . . . Chicago ....................... Detroit . Zone d—Vicksburg. : New York Clty....« ...... Pittsburgh Cincinnati stance to the maximum and minimum ' car-lets. or you can get this information from your local agent. ,. ‘ shipments to the different market rs. The rate given is per 100 a‘and it should be remembered ise are the approximate rates l, 01! course, differ a. little from some in the several .zon'es’. t“ on it is advisable that you‘ secure ‘ ur local;statloh agent the correct . ' -s_tatlon' to any of the. Remember the railroad . trans-legit:t and, the-m c ' 291m l—Sault Ste. Marlo. New Yor City“... Pittsburgh ....... Cincinnati , Chicago,......,..... ......... .‘ Detroit 1 ...\(.-.. -'-~--v- ~2-~- ... ....... . ...... ... a-aqnclfl’o‘rv ’, ~ . I ' 59' J: "r25". I Zon 7—Pontiac. ew York Clty.........~......., , dew York City” . rumours}: .1. . . Pittsburgh Cincinnati {Scinnatl ' 0‘80 ulna-q ............... 11- -. Detroit ‘ - . . ’ 3‘Ifiotla'llnlnn .o...\.u Vuoooobo-r’npo * "They copied all they c'o‘uld fallow but: t19¢y coolant lam-1 my mitt And I left’ e‘m sweating and stealth a year and (1 11011ka ll This “pi’nk- sheet” has no creed, nor party. plays no favorites 111111. s": ' ., .to neither f1 lend nor enemy, if they Would swerve it from the single puh"w% has laid for itself to solve the greatest problem that confronts the farmer today,- AT 0F 'DISPOSING OF HIS CROP FOR A GREATERI IPROFlTl . 11 The market reports are written directly to serve the farmers of lgchlgan and to assist them in receiving at their own local market the prices which shou theirs. ll MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING maintains a Sexist department, under com. 't'petent and experienced direction of men, whose duty it to aid our~ readers in any 'part of this state to secure fair prices and ‘gdod markets and if the. local buyer will . ' not meet these conditions to aid, if possible, in the disposing of his produce an a favor- . _ able market. 11 In the unpretentious little‘ ‘pink- sheet” which you hold in your hands, the farmers . of Michigan will find a militant strong- arm, ready and anxious at all times to defend ‘ their rights and to right their wrongs wherever and whenever they be found. No rider , , pendent farmer or group of organized farmers in this state need hesitate to call upon this' - publication, at any time, if it can be of assistance to them. 111 MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, let it be clearly understoodw represents no single organization, be it Gleanexs, Grangers, Farmers’ Clubs, Society of Equity or whatever its creed 01 title. It does, hOWever, stand for organized farming, because in this way only do we believe the farmers of Michigan can come into their own. ONE-CENT- PER- WEEK (when ordered for 50 weeks or more) SEND 501: FOR 50 WEEKS. v (In remitting it is to your advantage to write full name and address carefully and. tell us whether you are an old or new subscriber) PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT DETROIT BY ‘ RURAL PUBLISHING CO, INC, GEO. M. SLOCUM, SEC’Y—TREAS. HOME OFFICES: 95 WEST FORT STREET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN. OTHER OFFICES: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Port Huron. {www 15- W1; ‘2'?! WW" 6 "=1 a hand, as the son wastes the money left by- his dOting father? have kept right on, year after year, taking money from your till. ljbecomes more produc’nve Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Oct. 13, 1912, at Detroit, Mich., under Act of Mar. 3, 1879. EDITORIAL OU HAVE HEARD about the merchant Who was arrested for robbing his own till? city in t’the early morning, and entered his store late at- night, to get some cash. He had just10pened the till, and was counting .11; out his cash when the policeman on the beat saw the “robber” and, ' hustled him away to the police station. He told his story straight; claimed owner- ship of both the cash and the store; but the sergeant in charge laughed at- his flimsy ex? cuses and he was locked up for the night. In OUR the police court at 10 o’clock the next morning, OWN TILLS he convinced the judge that he was really . robbing his own till and, therefore, could not be convicted of a crime. Eight out of every ten fauners are robbing their own tills. can’t convict them of robbery, because they have a title to their tills They are soil robbers nevertheless, and could be convicted in any court, with the prosecution in the hands of Attorney Outraged Nature. _ We claim to be prOSperous; call attention to the fact that we have been successful; and boast of the increased value of our hold— ings. Yet we bought our farms when land was very much cheaper and the paper value has increased a third or a half. And why? Isn’t it a fact, brother, that you came along ten or fifteen years ago and stumbled on to a lot of wealth lying right near the surface? It was placed there by a beneficent Providence, and all you had to do was to await the increase price of farm products—and condi— tions added to the value of your farm The value of that farm of yours is determined by its productive— pess. No matter what kind of buildings you may. have; no matter what crops you have raised in the past—the value of YOUR farm lies in the amount of fertility remaining in the soil. Isn’t it a fact that you have been mining from the black top soil for years; taking the wealth and spending it with just as laysh ou ROBBINC And now that the cash does not come so easily,‘ayou are anxious to move on, where you can again Spread your net and get a larger . and more profitable haul When you move on, some one gets a ‘sucked lemon” ———a wornout farm. . , ,.It is possible to so conserve the soil, that with, added years it He was going to leavefor a distant» You I But you (can’tm‘mamtam fertihty by. productive ye And- 3399 nature, so . . nature that which, not 1nflated . We can only know whether pres. nt values are stable applymg the‘ busrness principle to the present day value '_ farm will show a gOod interest return om the money, time, the labor and ability invested in carrying on the busmesé .. ' Then present valuEs W111 remain. But only so loncr as yzouc" ' 3 take each’year from nature’s storehouse a sum sufficien , - , tain the dividend payments. Possibly for/a year or so not interfere with the Value, but finally When things get right dpwn to busmess '1't is the" count. Values are not based upon acreage, buildmgs in? I fin ments—land values f3r farming purposes will be based, in the” near future, solely and Wholly upon the productiveness of the S 0 don’ t rob your own fill. A7ature has a watchman 011 gram; you will get “mm in” sooner or later. WHO? THAT’S THE QUESTION' WHO? The Department of Agriculture is occasionally placed in a humorous if not an absurd position. 1y they sent out the welcome state- ment that the cost of living ‘was grow: ing less and that its’ statistics proved ,. wants is someone with the nerve to: that the materials of life sold for less during the past year than these same materials sold for in years previous. The average wage- earner; laughs at this statement because he has only to look . at his bills to see that he has paid inore for almost everything, includ- ng oils which ought to be cheaper since the trust is “busted.” ‘ It is not so easy to laugh at the statements of the Department of Ag- J ust- recentr sumer is paying a. big margin for products than he1 did ten ,ag'o. Ahd,’ our dear “Farmers the Department of Agricultu , tinues to send out starletlcsr tics lock- well bn paper, and interesting material for the. ow" paper editors, but what the tar, go beyond the statistics and get a the non- producing middleman whcgi'~ ;. in reality the individual who is go ting the increased Wealth E G.L . _' MINNESOTA FRUIT riculture in connection with the glow-_ ' ' ing reports of the increase in wealth which must have come to the farmer during the past ten years. Recently it has been the hobby of editors or various papers to qubte the Depart- ment of Agriculture to prove that the American farmer is becoming rapidly wealthy. Don’t the statistics show that corn has increased several mil- lions of dollars in‘ price? Hasn’t Wheat ‘ brought millions more this year than it did ten years ago? Yes, some of ‘ these statistics may be true, but THEY TELL ONLY ONE-HALF OF THE STORY. What the American» farmer wants to know is, “WHO IS GETTING THIS EXTRA WEALTH?" Why doesn’t our venerable Depart- ment of Agriculture tell us something about the difference in price between what the farmer receives for his pro-_ ' duct and the price which the con- sumer pays? A few years ago they teld us that the farmer received on an average about 46 cents out of each dollars’ worth of product 130111.181 he still doing business with this 46- cent dollar? If he- is, why hasn’t some— thing been done to enable him to mar- ket a dollar’s worth of produce for less than 54 cents? He knows it doesn’t cost that. much. 1:: it fair to tell to the world that,‘ gtime final arrangements Were madc. ncsota Fruit Association, a tsp—ope 11% company of ,truit growers, he d a meeting at' Minneapolis, at which up for incorporating. The association “will incorporate for $100, 000, with“ a limited liability of $50, 000. There Will‘ ' be ten thousand shares of stock with a par value or $10 pe‘r Share In speaking of the organization. . work Manager H. H. RoWley Isaidi‘ “We have found that although we *’ have met to a Certain. extent Wit, more success than We anticipated w. have felt at 8,11 times the need ‘3f 11 working capital or fund Which could; be used for extension and assistance ' *’ "of the ordinary agriculturlst. We want” “ > to be where We can be of material as- sistance inasmuCh as they may Dos: 131ny be short of funds from time time and need outside aid.- We make them an advance on their Stock- and take up their notes. In fact W 01161- ate as a sort of clearinghouse the local organizations posits throughout; this terrltf . ,_ l tyrant. W631” not att‘ern‘pti ‘g' h ' mmiblwth’ of distrl lines 11in the farm products are worth millions ' /moro this year than ever before Wi't out ”also telling the public who gets these extra minibus? ,- _‘ .. T ‘ .. s11 v % “L .- ‘ 1,L - 9 efafiir '8. . " Washington, 13 LC'.', March 1.»-Last 'Lll'eti'n‘ gave forecasts of disturbance ”rose continent- March 4 to 8, warm will be about an Leverage disturbance and therefore of no great importance. .5The interesting matter in connection " With this weather event is the kind ,N or weather it will give to Washington r11, the inauguration. 1135 911161111er fair Weather . for that vent. According to our calculations, on March '4 and therefore. clearing W mguration;' - 95.11911 disturbance will reach Pacific ' coast about March 10, cross Pacific -5"sl50pe by c10se of 11, great central valleys 12 to 14 eastern sections 15. ~ about March 10, great central valleys .'.;12, eastern sections 14. Cool wave twill «cross Pacific slope abOutL March ‘13, great central valleys 15, eastern sections 17. This disturbance does not promise .9- any dangerous storms, but there. are. {indications of m6re than the average 2'1'rain'fal-l for March, 1913. But the rainfall of this disturbance Will prob- .-1abl'y be iii- the country from Galves- 51911:. New Orleans, Houston, San. An- ytonio and Dallas, north to eastern "Kansas It alSo promises rains in the New England States Elsewhere prob- ,2 ably dry..- Large 'parts of the country fare threatened with a. March drouth 15.5and a general thaw. ‘ for March 16 to 28. doubt that very destructive storms twill occur during that two Weeks’ period, but, as we cannot now locate them, all shbuld be on the alert- for "the ‘ Much property and seme lives 1111.8 1: be. saved by being prepared. 1.1101115; February "casts Were certainly 1.'good and should encourage ally.» who. desire reliable Weather forecasts, L 91111191211 they were tied together and could ”not separate. ruary Weather. No. other fore- ther forecasts a month ahead. th‘hn usual seat 9133 Rep L ' .Ln‘ffal-I' will be greater than. human w'ith'ln .150 2' long}: u'lf: coast, along Atlantic coast from South .. 5h‘1part of Pacific coast." Elsewhere lees than, .L '2 tomcafiaturee not far tram March 5320, 26 and 30'. Cold. ‘ do g1 {tail on Waves. Will ores/s- continent Fool? '26 to March 2, ” ..'" 2671.6 25' and 26 to‘3915;5severo we‘at‘her- marsh 1. to 6. s storms L16 to 29. Our danger signals will hang oht during Lhancee. are about even, for good and for bad weather ln vLe chart the treble line represents normal precipitation and L As temperatures and precipitation lines rise' probabilities flog-ea e for more precipitation and higher. temperatures. (ii-Meridian 9'0. Count one to three days earlier for west of that line in a much later for cost of it, in proportion to distance horn that Merl-. LdlLarl which runs Lnorth through St. L011! . 1193,19 7,0001 Wave 6 to L0. This he indications are favorable to . a made about middle of January, the cool wave will be due at Washington either may be expected for the in-5 JWarm Wave will cross Pacific slope -- knot to sell Again We hang out danger signals We have no5 .durLinLg the year co temperature fore~ 1 The temperatures ' '1' February seemed to. follow our‘ gchart lines, made two months bolero, ' pound and 111. or has ever dared to chart his?» so“ to make that feature or, j.L'l§'L-L.. the greatest scientific suc- ‘kies' L'ami cooler than Dates are . 5 .31: 5.F'ebruaryL,L:20' prices Lof grain and cot? ten are tending downward. This Was expected, because we are now at the season when proddcers will deliver. large ' Quantities, ” of ‘ farm products. Another influence favorable to lower prices wil be the warm weather of. March and‘ April, which will bring early crop growing weather. Still an— . other influence for lower prices is the prespect that the European war will soon be closed and the- Turk elimin- . ated from Europe. . . The big business interests seem to ‘ be favoring a depression and many _L.peo5ple in' New York city are out'of employment Another index to lower prices is' that the public entertain- ments are not being well patronized. The people are holding the dollars more firmly and many shows .have .1 been forced out of business. These statements are made because heretofore we have advised farmers The affairs of our coun- try are in. excellent condition and .1913 should be one of our most pros- porous years. But it all depends on the managers of big bus 1.15s. 1913 SUGAR BEET C ..‘o'T-RACT. A Few Little Changes i That the Grower Appreciat 5 we Contract ' "I- Not ~ of inquiries 1 .1.r Beet Con- herewith a 5 wact adopted _ We have had a mom with reference to the tract for 1913. We cOpy of the uniform 1 by the Michigan sug 10mpanies: ‘ Concerning Raising Delivery of. _ . ugaq' Be . 1 or ’ CA IPAIGN M1, 1913. The undersigned 1, 1 ,by agrees to plant, culthate, he -t and deliver ncmg' With the Spr1n'g‘. of 1913, to f' . . . ...................... at its factory in . . ......... Mich, we? at one of the 5,.)any‘ s weigh Sta- ions ............ ..acres of - Sugar 1 Beets 1. 15 on the following Wit: .......... described lands» in SectiOn . ship of in the Com of Michigan About 15 pounds of seed per acre ..u-n-u-n-u-~$ ......................... .5’ shall be planted, which seed shau b . We have a right; 8 55L\toi boast of the marked forecasts or furnished by tl e ..................... SUGAR, comp my 111' 15 cents per cost or same to be de- L-s'eek to blade Mic 6L; progressive states ‘ important bills were passed {5 to" act favorably up measures which 'O‘n Thursday of' last" Week two very The Flowers Resolution" which aims to give the ballot to the women 'of the State was pasSed by a vote 01 74 to 21 This means that if the resolution is 1 . concurred in by the Senate the voters ' or Michigan Will again have an 0pm 5 portunity of deciding whether or not ’they Wish to extend the suffrage to women. BecauSe of the part that the liquor interests played in the elec- tiOn of last fall, many believe that the amendment to the constitution will have a better chanCe in the spring. On the Same. day that this import- ant measure 'was passed the House. also passed the. much-talked-of Glasner bill. - This is considered one of the -most revolutionary bills that any leg- islature has ever considered. It pro- vides that "‘no idiot, epileptic or per- son who has been afflicted with open tuberculosis, syphilis or gonorihoea and has not been cured Of the same shall be capable of contracting mar- riage.” It further provides for a stringent examination by a compe- tent physician with a written report which must be presented to the county clerk before the parties may be solem- nized in marriage. Physicians or others who do not comply with this It is agreed that freight on beets delivered shall be paid by the grower at a rate which shall not exceed the rate on beets delivered to any other sugar factory from the same 1stat10n. Said beets shall be hartested and loaded by the grower for the Company on cars or delivered at Factory Sheds at such time and in ’such quantities as may be directed by the Company. The Company will not be liable to receive or pay for 'beets which are rotten or otherwise unfit or undesirable for mak- ing sugar. Payment to be made on the 15th of the month following the delivery of the beets. All wagons used in the haul- ing and deliVering of beets grown under this contract must have boxes with tight sides and bottoms and be free from holes and cracks of any sort. Beets must be forked from wagon and all dirt remaining in wagon must be . Weighed out with wagon. All samples for fare and test must be forked into tare baskets in the regu— lar manner. This contract not valid until ap- proved by an officer of the Company or its Agriculturist, and N0 AG 41 TT OF THE COMPANv HAS ANY AUTHOR- ITY TO CHANGE OR ALTER THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS CONTRACT. (Signature of Grower.) Two'things you will notice: First. that the clause Which guaranteed $5 per ton in 1912. has been lost sight of and does not appear in the 1913 contract. And, again, the clause with reference to the payment of'freight has been Changed somewhat; it now reads that “the grower shall pay the freight.” This means that the price for growing beets for 1913 will aver- age at least $1 per ton less than for 1912. \ MICHIGAN POULTRY ASSOCIA- TION TO MEET. The tenth annual convention of the Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg As- soc'iation, will be held at Hotel Gris- wold, Detroit March 6 and 7. Let it .5136 understood that this is not a meet- ing of the poultry men and dairymen, 5 but of those who1dea1 in these pro- ducted frm: t1 9 first payment me. e o beets _ slim-rel. The title to said"1 aged and to said (10p of beets,- from the gtivme who 119 some begin to grow, shall be am: remain-tin the. meany. , 1 :‘The' beets are to he give due (53.1%),)". . . La'nLq ache grewer wlimn l nstrwptlonm. .- regard to 111911 9135911.»; ad L Lug for. harms ' d deli 9r. ducts. 1853/11; Agricultural College; 'H. M Lei mom-U5. S. Bureau Animal Industry, 5 Ottawa ‘ ' bobbing progres' . ye. Time .1111: it has shQWu a. tandem? 13111151; in the rank Among the speakers for Fri-. .day afternoon, March 7, we find the ' " ‘names of J. W. Helme State Dairy and Food Commissioner Lansing; J. lo»: 5 " ' . th 1: b all) LL ,s L; 01 Iaintou, Poultry Department, 5M1ch‘i— 1' "my “‘ 1‘ her will have t3: r. _ ' receive your copy «for-1 three; (8). Washington B;- 0.5, and: W. A. Brown by. Representative Guise. '1‘ Barry County, and is intended check the incredse in Lfeeblamind.‘ and diseased children. Tuesday afternOOnL the Senate by ‘ Vote of 26 to 5, agreed .to submit th’L question of Equal Suffrage to th voters at the April election; the1 House agreed to the resolution last..- Thursday. Nothing now stands in the way of giving the people a right to vote on this important question in April. . There are five farmers and 12 111W... yers in the present Senate of Michi-1 gan This is about the usual reprer sentation Which the farmer gets. in the upper house. ' A national convention hasLLbeen1. called in Chicago to be held in the early spring and whose business it will be to consider the business’side'z of farming. Marketing and co-op- oration will be the tWO chief topics of -.. discussion. At last a few of those Who‘ are intelested in farming and the farmer seem to have gotten a ‘ray of light on the real problem. Well. we hope they do something besides talk theory In the meantime, We,“ shall continue to preach the doctrine of co-operation which we pioneered .. when most people were talking about “ggrowin two blades of grass where Only one giew before.’ ’ .., Even the statesmen and near-states- 1 5 ""2 men at Washington seem to realize 5 that there is something wrong with.' the marketing end of farm products. . Senator Hoke Smith introduced a bill -. " last session to establish a Bureau of'-'L-'-1 Markets. That was lost, and now there is an appropriation asked for . 15.; in the Agricultural Appropriation Bill to give the Secretary of Agriculture $50,000 for the purpose of acquiring ' and diffusing knowledge on subjects '.connected with the marketing and dis- , tribution of farm products. Really,‘ .1'4 our old Department of Agriculture .1'. seems to have a new lease on life. * * a: ' A recently published interview with Secretary R. L. Drake of the Michi— gan industrial Accident Board reveals, the fact that even though farm lab-‘ orers are excluded from the Work- men’s Compensation Law, the farmer may still be affected by the law. 5 Section 2 of the first part of this ‘ law says, “The plOViSlonS of section one shall not apply to actions to rep. (ovei damages for personal injuries sustained by household domestic serv— . ants and farm laborers.” 5. This statement seems distinct enough,- and yet there is a possibility of the farmer being held responsible for accidents occurring to men in"hiLs employe. This is due to the fact that it has not been-determined in Michi= gap just what the term “farm labor. ers” means. For example, when ,a "1. man is injured while operating a grain . binder, mowing or threshing machine." it may be held that he is not a1 farm laborer but is a mechanic. In that case he could ask for compensation under the Act. There are already applications at the office of the Accident Board for. such men as are operating dairies, greenhouses, etc, to come under-the- provisions of this law. It must be remembered here that this law is en- tiiely optional with the employer and? the employe. If the employer doeéfl not elect to come under the law he' is liable to a suit in the common law . ‘ in case of accident. If the employs makes claim to his employer who has Come under the law for compen tion, he cannot thereafter sue his ems . ploye‘r at the common law. ' ‘- We want the malllng' arranged “pink-sheet” 111511115 builds week- by Saturday, at Lle‘aot. It you consecutive issues later tkilns day, hdvlee our Mailinggnehorhnent Lon 11"“ postal, Just what tine. lt M .. i! m WGHIGAN ZONE PRICES o. 2 Michigan. .. . . ‘ WHO. Michigan. . c . g a ._ 2:10 . 3-. TIE—We em you above the * j" a that Michitun denier. should ,I'Ic‘ uble to pay :yon tor Denny, hand- picked basin, in the intern: freight none: of Michigan. The Pink Sheet. in! net the pride for bennl, hand- ‘picch Ian-in. at t” uvernxe Miehi- . gun points, at $2. per bushel. , . . .. 35.1163? 7 w’ ‘filJune; “TIME. s ‘n ‘ . o a .\‘c . A 1 M ammoth,.nrime ,.:...’. Albike'. ,1) Timothy sea. p‘rfine ...... _ .‘I A “I was one of the original sub-v ‘ soribcrs and 181m cbnsidér it a' paper which every farmer ought to read. ”—W. A C'ulp, Duster, Michi- , , gen, N0.- 2. 'i“I. am much pleased with the paper ”'—»S’ B. Curtis‘s, Shepard, 0113 x As the weeks come and go the ability of Oats to withstand . their position is clearly demon- strated. In face of a constant fire from heavy market guns Oats have " almost steadily and maintained their position. This week you will notice they have come back 1/430. This goes to show that the gen- ,» eral stability to the Oat situation is i one to be‘ relied Upon. It all goes to Show that there is nothing spirited about the situation, therefore no ma- terial change should be looked for, for some little time. OATS—DETROIT MARKET. No. 3 Mixed ................. CINCINNATI—There was but little animation to the situation with a heaVy tone generally prevailing The quality of arrivals was not very sat- , , isfactory receipts grading No 3 and under. Oats grading standald or No. 2 would have met with ready sale‘ at quotations. OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET. Standard .351/2 No. 3 White ................. .3435; N0. 4 “’lIlte ............. . . .34 No. 2 Mixed .34 No. 3 Mixed ................. 33% , PI‘TTSBURGHwReceipts of Oats ion the Pittsburgh market were fully Vup' to the demand. Owing to condi- tions on some other lines of coarse feeds, the general tone to the Oat situation was not very satisfactory. Receipts ran high in common quali- “ ties with a great percentage of the trade looking for something a little . better. OATS—PITTSBURGH MARKET. Standard . ................... No. 3 White. ................. No. 4 White ................. No. 2 Mixed ................. No. 3 Mixed ................. “We can’t get alonng’thout the ‘pinlc sheet,’ with it we know what the other fellow lcnows,”—anlc E. Sattler, Smith Creek, Michigan. CLOVER SEED There is but little change to report from week to week on the general situation and out- 2 00k of the seed market,~ It contin— , use to bear every promise, and ful- fill every hope that we have, in the , past, entertained for it. At the mo- ment, the situation is‘ most healthy [with every angle to the situation all a ’could hope for. We do‘ not look "any particular change ".to the sit- on for. some time, but we will, be a little surprised if the seed sit: 11 does not take a little ‘5qu e continuously ' CORN we are raising Flag No.1 be- cause based on the general sit- . _ uation we can see nothing wrong with the price or time to the situation price at the moment is just what we might hope for or possibly experi- ence, but from a. large angle you must appreciate that it is practically im- possible to maintain a unifOrm level throughout the season. There will be times and conditions over which con! trol is absolutely impossible. The car situation, for the last fortnight, has had much to do with the little depression manifest in the corn mar- ket. We have done m{ghty well this year to show the present and past standard of, levels because we all know that a bumper crop was in ac- tual evidence that the cat situation was a little depressed, that the hay situation was very much depressed, therefore, in harmony and in sympa- they with other coarse feed stuffs we have done very well. As far as we are concerned from a market stand- point feel very pleased over the sit- nation we have enjoyed up to the present time. The tone to the situa- tion at the moment is good, healthy and bears every promise of continued health and tone CORN—DETROIT MARKET. . 2 white .................. . 3 white .................. . 4 white .................. . 2 yellow .......... ‘ ....... , 3 yellow ................. . 4 yellow ................. V . 2 mixed ................. . 3 mixed ................. No. 4 mixed .................. CORN—CINCINNATI MARKET. No. 2 white .................. No. 3 white .................. .12 N0. 4’ white .................. ASV; No. 2 yellow................. No. 3 yelloW. . ._ .......... '. . . . .50 No.4yellow.............‘.... .49 No. 2 mixed ..... . ............. No. 3 mixed ................. .53 No. 4 mixed ................. .52 oofl’N—Pn-rssunc MARKET. No. 2 white .................. No. 3 white. .................. No. 4 white ............... '. . . N0. 2 yellow ................. No. 3 yellow ................. No. 4 yellow ................. No. 2 mixed .................. No. 3 mixed ..... ‘ ............. 53% .521/2, That don’t mean that the . No. 4 mixed ............. , ..... “I have found Michigan Business Farming O. K. I think every farm- er within reach should have it in their home.”—O s c a r S t l m s o n, Brown City, Michigan, No. 2. APPLES The apple situation is gradually working around to a point where special grades and kinds When a condition D ale looked after. like this is in evidencegproof is at once established that the small hand- lers and storers of apples are gradu- ally coming into- the market for kinds called for and specified If they run out of some particular kinds then they come'into tlge fmarket. .~ ‘Red in e 7 do so or not ‘bnly time canl'v'_ - . APPLES—GENERAL MARKET. -‘ ‘ Fancy, pe‘g- barred. . .1. . . £2.00 to: 3.13 . ' Ordinary. per barrel . ..' “The .‘pink' 'sheét’ educator Should be when by every , farmer in Michigan, as it 1'3 (1' guide which is .a help to every, farmer in future marketing mar- f. craps”—a—M. 0 Witta’lcer, Marlettc ONIONS We have endeavored to get more than the usual line up on the onion situation to give out to you in this week’s, situation. .We are, very much disappointed in not being able to give you any data‘sup- porting the situation we are now/ex— periencing. 'We have only the gen- eral situation, trend of affairs and ex- pression of the market on which to base our’ write-11p: We continue to maintain that there is absolutely no reason or excuse for the present mar- ket situation being forced on us -It simply demonstrates that the men do- ing the business end of your onion business do not care particularly What. the general market is as long as they can have a well understanding of it So that purchases from you can be made, thereby guaranteeing a profit. The point being brought out is this, that the local man don’t care one snap what he pays for a bushel of onions as long as they guarantee him a profit- looked for. Just as long as business is done along these lines and by these agents just so long will you be sub— ject to conditions of this kind visiting you. You cannot look for these local dealers to bolster up the situation. I have heard it explained this year that producers ought'to be satisfied with ‘the present condition because-last- year for a few» minutes in the spring onions happened to touch better than $1 per bushel, but let me tell you right here, very few realized the advantage but of the advance that was manifest at that tlme,. practically all these onions drawing these prices were out of stor- age. We/are of the opinion that lo~ cal dealers have enough (if this sea- son’s crop in store so that they can govern the situation as they see fit and on the same basis. If they con— tinue to- dump these onions on the market as they have been, there will be.no brighter future or advanced prices. On red stock the situation is almost critical at the present time The outlook for yellow stock is a lit: tle Wider, covering a larger range, and while the market is low, are mov- ing quite freely. ONIONS. Detroit. Yellow Globe. sacked, per ewt.$ .00 Red Globe. lacked. per ewt. ..... Yellow Globe, bulk. per cwt. Red Globe. bulk, per ewt ....... Cincinnati. Yellow Globe, sacked, per cwt. Red Globe, necked, per ewe. Yellow Globe. bulk. per ewt Red Globe. hulk, per cwt . . .‘ . . . . Pltttburfi. ~‘ f ‘1 .Yel w" sighs, agcked, " 1.00 to‘ 2.511 ' 0r farmers». ’ ’ l: producers , Dome-tic, per ton. trncK.; ,_ “The. pink sheet’ is all right n a dull line in it showing the freight zones is. worth 5—0. A. Fall, Elberta Mich BUTTER butter maiket at the moment There is no 11111119- Why the mug ‘ There is real activity to the 1:: All traders feel secure in the - gene1al situation diate possibility of the situation eVen 1 suggesting a decline. and promising is the butter situation on all top grades of both creamery;_ and dairy. While this is true the re verse is true .on irregular Shipments- of dairy butter ored shipments, eté. Dairy shipments, really. have no definite basis, While fanCy dairy butter, if having estabe lished a reputatiou, will draw extra" Mo'st healthy w in rolls and 011' 001-. creamery prices but before establiSh-F '* ing this, reputation has to be estab—': lished through shipments, and aéco‘rd- ' ingly introduction to the trade BUTTER-GENERAL MARKET. Creamery No.1. per no nd Fancy Dairy. Der poun “The paper is a hummer.”——Geo. W. Yale, Kingsley, Michigan. EGGS uously warn you that from now on, regardless of how healthy the situation was, the tendenéy would be to show a decline. her this because it is simply inevita- ble. At the moment the egg Situa- tion is healthy enough, but the price It has been our aim to contind' Please remem- ‘ has declined by virtue of the heavier, ' receipts from the state, Ideally and f" also as a result of heavy southern“ » receipts. Let us advise you that from now“ on you should be able to get ' better and safer prices for your eggs at home than yen can by shipping, ‘ unless you have some special outside - market arramngement EGGS—GENERAL MARKET. Large fresh .................... 3 .20 Medium fresh. ............... 7.. .109. “I am well .pleased with the Michigan Business Farming. I am} sure it is going to do a world of; good for the farmers of Michigan!" ~Samuel wanner, Ida, Michigan. ' If‘duite close to. 1 ‘ much. the same gen rat tone existing, ’ 8,...th as Quotations shown. an advance " . has visited the neg market and some . ’h 511' aboutlast week’s The good. butcher range was . $7550 to $9 with kinds below 111 300 demand . . -, : Beet steers,- _, ,1 Busmess Farm-i119 1's. 1 right fiir the farmers. The sale'. '.1~11¢se mere 07111760171076 potatoes (7 more 01170110 than we can sell at a profit.”~—Horace Hart Bell‘s- ‘ I'vue, M 1ch1gcm , LIVE STOCK ATTLE—CHICAGO STOCK -. YARDS. good to " . . prose , heavy . . . . . . . $8.50 to 9.25 . Beet steers, medium to ‘1 good Beet steel-i. Io9mmon to to r ‘13th cows. selected . Fat heifer-9‘" wroICe 8.50 ‘ com-gin»... nono- 8,00 to. 6525 to 7.15 usulovonqool‘suug common ‘5. 7.30 . . 4.50 to good . 5.25m Couriers and cutters. . 3410 to 4.40 Good to prime veals. .1 9.50 to 11.00 "the Opening of the week. ,were shy of high-priced steers. Con- , Cattle—Detroit. IThe week at the Detroit Stock II M‘ 7‘ Yards marks one of activity and gen- . ', good I , Heifers..se1ee'ted ....... 5.00 to 7.00 {Last Week " Previous week. ,erally considered liberal receipts The range of stock continues to be of £6919? good kind with the trade seem- ‘70;le disposed to 100k on the general si‘tiiation as healthy and warrantabln in face of its high latitude Good handy. weight stuff, not too fat, con- itinues to be looked after in prefer- 1 efice to the prime heavy fat kind. This has been explained as a. result :‘iof high meat prices and an indispe- sitlon to pay for “fat ”x Best steers touched $8. 20, with handy weight steers and heifers going at. $7.50. The entire rnn from canners to top steers Were "anything but disappointing. CATTLE—DETRO lT STOCK ' YA R DS. Beet steers. good’ to prime heavy Beet steers. 7 medium to . , 6.0010 7.00 Beet steers, common to fair ._ ........... / . ‘. . . Beet cows. common to ~ ‘~ selected 1 ......... 4. 00 to 6. 50 5.00 'to' 7.00 Stock steers ' ‘Feedcrs ‘ Gunners and Cutters. :Good to prime vculs. Bulls ..... . 5.00m 6.00. ' 5.25 to 5.75 . 2.75 to 3,25 . 0.00 to 11.00 .. 4.00 to 5.00 . generally. ....... 38.00120 8.20 1y high prices .I , Cattle—Chicago. ’ This table is .of great value in the A establishing of future expectancy and the understanding of the actual situ- ation now present: Bulk or 1.5316111 wExtreme -‘ » range FoilrI weeks ago .. 6.1.0@900 ...... 4.80@8,35 . ..5 00@6 85 ' . 13%;; .10 .. I The opening of the. market gates :Monday revealed light receipts resultant snappy disposition on .' aders. A load of fired 1, 579- 8. 1310111 Missouri were snap~m - . 1:89. Twenty- -four hours later, '. hate the situation to have assumed; pie, 5‘ .dllferent aSpect—quite some form evident 185;Whlle.plain and .29.. ............ .......$e ammo $7. saesss' . 0.010900 :1 .Monday supply at Buffalo. The fancy . .' Bulls ...'.:..‘.\‘....‘..'.'1.- 4.25t0 6.85 _ cattle—Buffalo. . Good weight ‘steers‘ fared badly, at Packers sumers continue to protest against high-priced beef and. killers are try- ing to meet the demand for lower- priced stuff by killing half fat steers and more of the female stuff. Eastern killers of better .Weight and more costly steers, who are the main sup- port‘to the better steer trade, were indifferent. Chicago showed 22,000 to open‘ upwith this week and in con- sequence the‘ east was slow to come- here with orders for the strong weights. the best steers audit was not until the afternoon session that much was accomplished and transactions finally shewed a 15@25—' cent decline from the week before and at that the buyers cared little whether their bids were accepted or not. Market on the lighter and less expensive butchering grades did not show so heavily a takeoff the decline figuring from 10@15 cents Stock and feeding cattle remained steady, several loads of Can- adian feeders being on offer and sell- ing from $6@7.25, the highest range in the history of the local trade on. these kinds. Bulls held to a steady market, a few teppy heavy kinds bringing $7 25@7. 40 nothing in the bull line, which are showing extreme- selling below $5.75. Fresh cows and springers market was strong on the best quality heavy kinds, steady on others. CATTLEeBU FFA LO STOCK YARDS. Good to choice. ' hem y steers . $8.25 to Medium to fair heaxy steers . . . 7.75 to 8.2 Handy weight hutch- cring s1eers..1 ...... 8.00 Fat heifers, inferior to ' choice . Fat cows. choice. . Cduncrs and cutters. . . Bulls . 6.75 Stacker-s and feeders. 6. 75 Milchcrs and springer-s 35. 00 to 85 00 Calves. choice to extra. $11. 50 to 12.50 Fuh- to good. . ,. . ..... .3. 10.00 to 11.00 Cull and common. . . . . . 9. 00 to 9. 50 light thin....‘ ..... 0.50t0 8.50 Fed calves .......... 1. . 4.00 to 0.00 8.90 7.2 medium to 6.50 4.00 Trade progressed slow on. Calves—Buffalo. One thousand'head comprised the Active trade at steady prices, with i. last week’s close. = ' ‘ 1 . _ -, . Calf Quotations. \I‘Galvcg, choice to: extra. 10,501.. 11.00 Fair to g -b.00t010:00 A ' ..'.'.'...8. t ‘. .Lig‘ht. thin . .. .90 o 850 . '1'. .60 red some: 4%": 9.50 ‘ . say- has taken 06 its coat preparatory . to making some stay. ' IHOGS—DETROIT MARKET Fair to choice butchers . $8.30 to $8.35 nghtweights . .20 to 8.40 Bonn. according to . weight . . . . . . . ......... 3.00 to 3.25 Pigs . . 8.35 to 8.45 . Stags . . . .One-third ofl’ Hogs-ChicagoI. The aviation “meat” is still on at the Chicago yards. Hogs sold at an average of $8.43 which is the highest touched since October 25th last. The cause for real Sn and, advance is 9 . mostly due to the falling down miser- ably .Of receipts. The shipping de- mandeased just a little so that the market ranged to ‘the heavier grades or butcher varieties. -On heavier re- ceipts the market assumed a lower level at midweek, going mostly at about 10 to 150 under opening code, the average being about $8.30. Ac- tivity seemed to keep up, but seem- ingly aware was the trade, that con- cessions were due, sellers being satis- fied to meet the occasion. With the market range in the present latitude, it is natural to expect. that variation will be in evidence continuously. At spresent level the situation is sensi~ tive, quickly responding to any and all influences: The market closes ' with the top for the week set at $8.50. with the'bulk of good handy butcher kinds hanging close to $8.35. HOGS—CH ICAGO STOCK YARDS. Bulk of sales .......... $8730 to $8." Common to good mixed. 8.30 to 8. 45 Fair to mcdhun v1 eight . 8.25 to 8.35 Lightnvcights . 8.15 to 8.30 Selected 260-300-1b. packers . 8.40 Stags, 80 108., dockuge. 7.00 to 8.10 Hogs—Buffalo. Eighty cars or 12 800 head on offer for the opening day of the week. Prices advanced 156325 last week. Packers paid $9@9.05 bulk of shipping grades $9.05@9.10. Roughs, $8@8.10. Stags, $6.50@7. There are more bulls in the hog trade than bears, general opinion being that the high prices for the year have not been reached as yet and that next summer will witness a higher level. Pork demand is heavy, provisions are active and general opinion is that the cholera has depleted the horde in some of: the heavy hog producing states and that the visible supply will not meet the demands. HOGS—BUFFALO STOCK YARDS Extreme hcavics 280 up. 8.90 to 9.00 Heavies, 240 to "80 ..... 9.00 to 9.05 Mediums. 220 to 240. . . . 9.00 to 9.05 Mediums, 190 to 220. . 9.00 to 9.05 Mi'xcd,180 to 220 ....... 9.00 to 9.05 Yorkcrs 150 to 1'0 ...... 9.00 to 9.10 Do light 130 to 1 ’10. 9.00to 9.10 ' Pigs 120 down ......... 9.0011) 9.10 Heavy ends 8.75 lo 8.90 Roughs 8.0010 8.10 6.00 to 7.00 . Last week cents over ' Sheep and Lambs—~Detroit. The receipts of sheep and lambs for the last two weeks has ShOWn a variance of only three, last week be- ing 5,961—week previous 5,964. The run being very uniform has had much to do with the maintenance of steady conditions existing. The nature of all markets is to throw out a sympa- thetic glow on others, making the Whole horizon hear one general ap‘ pearance. Detroit, as. quotations /,.,show, is keeping well up in the race for‘top notch lanrels. While nothing [lexciting is in evidence, still a most healthy situation exists at this writ- ‘ amt... "good to choice 08.21110 0050‘ 60, fair to good 00 10 0.501 Yearling lambs, choice. 7.50 to 8.06. Mixed keep '. ' .00to 5.50. Call 311' 3.00to 4.00 Sheep and Lambs—~Chicago. 7;. The table below furnishes a good ‘clear synopsis of the sheep and lamb situation. ———Sheep~—-— ———Lambs————’ TOp Bulk. Top Bulk. ..... ~. ..$7. 00 $5. 75@6. 60 $8. 80 $8. 40@8. 75 Week ago 6.40 .650@ .25 8. 90 8.35@8. F gur weeks ago... ' 9.00 8. 2 7.00 5.0512630 5..75@600 8.75@9.00 ' 5.50 7.25 1908 ................. 5.60 4.75015. 60 . Buyers for sheep were on the ‘ ground at the sound of the gong with anxious eyes directed in this, quarter. Trade was very active on anything at * all desirable in quality. Good handy,‘ weight kinds drawi‘ngreal attention. Receipts were somewhat smaller than anticipated, which had much to do. with the feeling in’ evidence. The , game opened up with prime handy» weight wethers selling up to $6.60, with straggling sales above. Top ewes [tipped the financial scale at $5.85, with good handy killers going at around $0.50. A large bunch of feeding ewes went at $4.25. Yearling‘s were a keen attraction and close scrutiny was placed on this division, tops going at $7.75 to a shipping trade. Local chan- nel took the bulk of receipts at $7.25 ‘ to $7.50. Packers formed the market squad for midweek, being the only contenders with not enough in sight to meet their demand. There has been a tendenCy from the start of the week's operations for a tightening of the market tension. The situation was up to “high C” on aged wethers at the close, with the highest point being attained since last May. Year- lings weakened around ~10 to 25c while lambs suffered a reduction of 25 to 400. SH EEP —— CHICAGO STOCK YARDS. Lambs. good to choice $8.25 to $8.75 do, fair to good ...... 7.00 to 8.00 do. cull to ('(llnmflll.. 5.00 to 0.00 Yearling: Lambs, choice 7.00 to 7.50 do, cull to fair ...... 6.50 to 7.50 “'cihcrs, choice... ...... 6.25 to 6.00 lil“cs, choice handy ' “cight _ do. choice hcnvy ..... '. (Tull shocp ............. Bucks 3.50 to 6.00 0.00 5.50 4.25 Sheep and LambS—Buffalo. Seventy-seven loads or 13,400 head made up the Monday supply. It was estimated by buyers that there were not exceeding ten to twelve loads of real prime lambs included in the day’s run, showing that the feeders are in- _ clined to liquidate, rather than cash ‘ the corn via the lamb route. Active lamb market prices being a quarter higher, top bring 30 cents above last Saturday. Extreme Monday lamb tOp $9 1.1 with majority good ones bring- ing around $9, culls selling mostly from $8 down. Yearlings steady, with sheep, which were in liberal supply, quarter lower. Indications are that there will be a scarcity of choice lambs in Michigan, which is a heavy shipper to the Buffalo market. SHEEP — BUFFALO STOCK YARDS. Lambs, good to choicc.. 8.85 to D0 fair to good ...... 8.10 to Do cull and common. . 7.00 to D0 skips ............. 6.00 to Yearling wcthcrs, choice 7.50 to Do cull to fair ........ 5.00 to Do ewes. choice ...... 6.50 to Wefhcrs, choice ........ 0.50 to Mixed sheep ........... 0.25 to. Ewes. choicc handy “t. 6.00to 1 Do choice heavy ...... 5.75 to. . L Cull sheep . . . ‘. ......... 3.00 to . 9.15 8.75 8.00 0.75 .“I think . every farmer in state shOuld‘take the ‘pink sheet.’ or as I call 11‘ the Farmers Friend. ” L —B. 0'. 18071110107067 Merrill, M7 71. 625 .85 . 5 . gm; account of a. temporary oven page; .“mnst not be used as in basis .1 mating for the future. ‘ 1 "position to tell what the future of the market is going to be The ’ largest operators are taking a general surVey of the commercial situation for the purpose of: arriving at some cal- culating point in order to establish a price to Work on Contract bhsiness and I_.I‘earl season shipments. The smaller 'Is'3"‘operators will have .to trail behind with their proposition, prices etc. ‘ The general feeling among the op- Aerators is that they will not have to - experience the labor trouble this 1 spring, that they did last spring and their daily output will be sufficient to .take care of their contract and out- side business during the spring, Sum» - ,mer and early fall season without any trouble. There is an active demand for all steam lump, especially slack, . which is scarce on accmmt of very Mlittle.domestic lump being prepared. Soft Coal. F.O.B. Kind of Coal. Mines. Hocking rescreened lump ....... $1.70 Cambridge lump . 1.60 ' Cambridge '%-1ump ............. 1.40 West Virginia splint lump ....... 1.50 White Ash block 1.50 Kentucky 4-inch lump .......... 2.00 Kentucky 4x2—inch egg .......... 1.80 Harrisburg 0-inch lump 1."? Pocahontas lump and egg 3 Pocahontas mine run Michigan domestic 4-inch 1ump.. Anthracite eggI stove or nut. . .. Note: Quotations on anthracite coal are based on gross tons. FLOUR AND FEED. The wheat situation being unsettled, the market on flour is a little easier. The sales on feed are not very e-n— conraging and prices are practically the same as last Week. Price I Z Kind. per bbl. “Blend” flour, 1Ag-paper sacks. Spring patent ................. 4.60 Toweling sacks or wood barrels . " 20c higher. Per ton. Coarse corn meal .............. 23.00 Cracked corn ................. 24.50 Chop feed..................... 22.00 ‘Coarse .middlings . 23.50 Fine middlings ................. 24.50 -Bran (standard) ............... 22.50 The above prices are it. o. b. De- troit, Mich, on car lot shipments. ‘ Tankage, averaging 60 per cent protein, $41 per ton f. o. b., Chicago, 'Editor, Michigan Business Farming: Will you advise me through your paper. the oflicial measurement of a '. bushel, in the city of Detroit?.—E. F. B., Mr. Clemens. Two thousand one hundred fifty and forty-two on‘e-hundredths (2150.42) cu- bic inches is the measurement for one bushel, stricken measure. But the law demands that apples and potatoes anti like p1oduce shall be seld by heaped measure, which means all that will lay upon a measure of above ca- pacity without special design And the , law seems to imply that 2748 cubic inches is the measurement for such a crate. This, however, we feel is 'excessive measurement and ham in- formed all Who inquire that we will be Satisfied with a crate having 2600 *cubic inches inside measurement to “hold a bushel of coarse commodity “when level full ., GEORGE F. AUSTIN, City Sealer ‘V‘I like the pink sheet’ very VI 1 t the present moment no 0116 is in 3 .$ 5.30 . 3 raising" tler‘fland pi'iiees hafv' the lessening of 1 Is] ? D growing very rapidly. . production has not Rep}, p333 With it. Thirdly prices fer live Stock of late years have been such that feed- 'ers, with high-priced corn,,could not. figure out substantial profits from fat-I toning cattle, even with hogs follow- ing, and So we find that this year. live stock markets all over are Show- ing diminished pplies and prices have been Skyward. A few months ago ster prices reached the highest reCord in the history of the world, not . even excepting war times. prim‘e steers selling on the hecf‘up to $11 per cwt. showing a dressing percentage of 60 to 65 pounds, it is easily to be seen that the cost of the dressed beef was . high, so high that the working man could not touch and only available for large hotels and restaurants which obtain very high prices. It Was but natural that toppy ‘prices brought up prices on the cheaper kinds and for a time we heard thundering com- plaints from the eastern cities that the public-could not stand the prices that were being exacted for all kinds of meats. But the high price's con- tinued right along,» notwithstanding and under excitement of these high prices, feeders began to fill the feed lots with. steers. After they were in and started on feed the bears came upon the scene and of late 'the big killing interests have acted badly on ‘ g'ood weight and expensive steers. Did they tiap the feeder? Did they get him in the feeding game and then pOund down the prices? The pack— ers are able to protect themselves at any stage of the game, not so with the feeder, who buys the corn, takes the chances and comes to market, only 1to find that he has spent his money and his time fer three or four months, only to lose several hundred or per- haps several thousand dollars. Ordi- narily, cheap corn produces many feeders, as it is no doubt a fact that corn can be cashed in at a. higher price, under a heavy production, by way of the American hog. But high- priced corn and low-priced steers and hogs, comparatively speaking, mean nothing if not discouragement to live, stock feeding. Opinion prevails generally among most authorities at this time how— ever. that prices on good weight steers will come back .Iand that the holder of good weight cattle along in April or 'next summer will reap the benefit. It looks as certain as any proposition could, that the Michi- gan feeder who played the lamb feed- ing game this year will be taken good care of and be‘ amply repaid for his. work and that hogs Will put the feed- . or on the right side of the bank This is a great and growing caun- try. Demand for food products was never as strong. The little farmer who raises a few head of live stock' each, year is the prosperous, We'll-to“ Idoone who is contributing much to the greater prosperity of old Michi- gan theSe days is ready cash, can be fat- tened on waste, so to speak, and bring to the prOd-ucer the biggest dividend of any. chigan is One of the great-1 ' .I est lambbfeeding sectiOns Vin1 the World, ‘1. is showing snitch! d sells live stocky I, 3 saying. With steers of this price. Any animal in the meat line. . to hinge as though; there ‘w3 . mg top this on the part1 of easttern ope? tV this year.- Meet been pretty badly purist, and the old-1? “A burnt child fears the flre,"I1;1' will undoubtedly hold good as far asI‘af 'speeul‘a'ting in eggs. is concerned this 1,; The consensus of- opinion seems to be that about, 138 to 1831/21: 1‘ seaboard are the prices that should Season. , rule this SeaSon.1 Storage eggs are about down and out as far as their being an active commodity is canoerned The middle; of the week the bottom dropped out of the marléet and What stoCk was moving sold around “.16 to 16%03 and this graded as firsts. Storage sec- onds were quotable at 14 to 15%c with poorer stock selling down for. anything it would bring. Nearby eggs have declined with western an_d1the quotation which has been going out at 25 to 26c is' extreme, the bulk of offerings cf white eggs selling around 23 to 240 with mixed 21 to 220. It will be noted from the above re- port that the dealers are going to fight shy of high prices for summer. eggs. Eighteen and nineteen-cent eggs, f.o.b. eastern points doesn’t mean 3 very I profitable prices for the Michigan farmer. It is to be regretted that the farihers are not sufliciently or-. Iganized so that they Could take ad- vantage of the cold storage facilities- when the prices range from 12 to 15 cents per dozen. " oar laid; stO handle/ ‘Dletaen brought suit ’aga ’ ‘1 head concern for the d Ian-med; aid whit the car was so. 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