SATURDAY, FEBRUARY let, 1919

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HE WAR )irought into the lime-
light several es of_ citizens. One
iof these was the own-right traitor and
3 slacker, Who. has already been or fill be

punished in due seasOn by conscience and the government. \ Another
lirsfm the truly loyal, chantry-loving citizen, who talked patriotism, act-
tri'ctism and felt patriotism.- He has already had reward for
hisoyalty in the censciousness that he helped to overthrow the men-

ace of military animation that tow.
cred over the ones of free people
everywhere a few short months ago.
But in between these two there
Was engines—the pocket patnot,~who
'gave his services to the government and
'talked and acted patrio because it

iserved as an impenetrable cloak to cover '

up “flatmanipulations for private ain.

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Manipulate and Comer the Bean Market TWJ $33111 m g:

‘ I By FORREST LORD

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

.Ben Gerkes, Member Grain Corporation,

.8. Food Administration, New York City.
In interests of bean” growers we protest against ap-
pointment of K. P Kimball buyer coordinated food
urchasing agencies. Secret manipulations bean mar-
et as result inside information make it imperative
Pnositibn be given party having no financial interest
bean business. Give growers square deal and save
this industry. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.

 

 

 

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that have already been presented to the readers of Michigan
Farming. Thesefactscanonly besmmnfizedhmandfllqfl.
necessaryinordertoleadtherzaderintelligenflytothefinal

of a huge plot to speculate and profiteer under the protecting

of UncleSam.

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to$10,asa,resultofashartuopi;:

an unprecedented world demand.

thefirstthneinyearsthefamersreal’

afairprofitfromtheircropsgth

minority of elevators. and jobbers en-'

jayed good dividends, ands

fewhero‘

and there cleaned up small fortrmes.’

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held at u A. c. Febhury 6th When
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Wears ddvised by Pres. A. M. Smith‘ or the
Michigan Potato Growers' Ass’n that the annual
1'. " meeting of the association will be held at the

; Agricultural Building, M. A. 0., Thursday morn-

ins, Feb. 8th. «x
The list of speakers had not been arrangg in
aumcient time to enable us to publish it this week.

. but we are told that it will include men of both

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state and national prominence, who will discuss

~_the potato industry from all endear—production,
marketing and possibly—grading.

. It is known that a representative of the Potato
Growers’ Exchange will be present to tell the
growers semething of the successes and trials
of co-operative marketing. Mr. L. A. Siple, secre-
tary oi the organization and manager of the
Gleaner Clearing House Ass" 1: at Greenville, is
also on the program. Prof. G. W Waid, of the
M. A. 0., will tell of the progress _oi the work of
his department in combatting potato diseases, ee-
lecting clean seed, and other short. to aid in the

production of this great crop. We are promised \

that other speakers, coins of them of national
fame, will discuss other potato problems of a
national scope.

The regrganization of the Michigan Potato
Growers’ Ass'n was effected a year ago after a
series of turbulent meetings in which everybody
not actually a potato grower persisted in miscon-
struing the" motives and misunderstanding the
attitude of. the growers. The pivot oi the dit-u
ierenceg which brought over a hundred farmers
to Lansing from all parts of the state, was the
U. S. grading measure. The opposition voiced
at that time by the farmers of Michigan to an
arbitrary measure in the adoption at which they
were given no voice, has zines spread to nearly
every other potato growing state; and the argu-
ments presented by Michigan hammers against
that particular method of grading have since been
substantiated by many acknowledged potato spec-
ialists who were at first inclined to view the
grading measure with favor. As a result of the
agitation started by Michigan farmers, Michigan
dealers were instructed by the Potato Division
to Moos the size of their screens, and there has
been little complaint since that timb. This may
be accounted for by the fact that last year's crop
contained very few small potatoes. Should Mich-
igan farmers produce a crop oi. small potatoes
this coming year as they did in 1917 and the same
grading rules are in sheet, there is bound to be
trouble again. We don't know whether the peter

 

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- good construction ideae presented that should be

of help to every commercial potato grower in the
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GOVERNMENT NOW/CHECKING '

or wear. OPERATIenSf
\ very large numbers during the coming spring and

 

"We sold our wool to a’ dealer tor sixty cents'

and wish to know what the rnment price is.
Noticed you were discussing this matter, and it
there is anything due as we would like to have
it."——- In. Li B., Wolverine.

We have been following the wool matter closely
and scarcely a week, goes by that we are not in
communication with the War Industries Board

urging it to carry cut to the letter the provisions
oi the wool-purchasing plan and return to"growers
any extra amount that may be due them from
the ma profits of the dealers. The last infor-
mation we have had upon this subject is the fol-

lowing letter from Mr Chas. J. Brand, )chief of ,

the Bureau of Markets, which has taken over the
wool- -regulating functions of the War Industries
. Board.

“In reply to your letter of January 20, I wish
to state that the operations of the approved wool
dealers in country districts are now being checked
up and it it bifound that they have not made pro-
tits in excess those allowed by government reg-
ulations, any such excess profits will be taken
over by the government.

“It is our intention to have any excess profits.
returned to the individual growers interested
wherever it is mgossi‘ble to do so. Where the iden-
tity of the woo has been lost, we will attempt to
secure such fir distribution of the excess profits as

will be to the advantage of the producers in the ,,

territory in which the dealer operated.

A distribution of excess profits will be made only
throun this ofMe."——0'hm‘lea J. Brand, Chief,
Bureau of Karissa.

Our readers are again urged to wait patiently
until we are advised that the governm‘n’t check-
ing has been completed when we will bp glad to
handle any individual complaints where readers
do not receive additional returns to which they
,think they are entitled. '

WILL E. A. C. GIVE US FURTHER
ADVICE 0N GREEN/T SILO?

 

If possible would like further information from

m A. 0., Clinton county, on how to build cement"

block silos. Could you have him write to me {li—
reotandtellmeaatethemakeothismachine:
if it has a silo block attachment, how the silo is
\rmmd,whnnm simmer—3.8.?”
’J’acl‘cm county.

5" Cmfi'.fi“m§,fw>,oi “Breasts”: 1 ,
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The most interesting insect, in the world: the L “

periodical clouds, 13, gluing to be seen perth. in

early summer over large regions of the United
states where this breed has not appeared before
torliyearesndom otherrogionewhmanother

brood appeared 18 years ago. This is the insect ,

commonly referred to as the “17-year-looust.”

“ The statement that this is the most interesting '

insect in the world will hardly be questioned

here, and it is the most interesting because -

the most anomalous; or possibly, because it:
ye appeared to be so mysterious. The
fact “ssh” it appears. in countless numbers one

year, then is not seen again for halt the average

lifetime of human beings and then suddenly ap-
pears agai in countless numbers, has kept the
popular m nd mystified and has woven many sup-
erstitions about the cicada. When. it is known
that the insect spends the thirteen or seventeen
years in slow develgpment bonath the ground
and emerges at almost exactly the same spot
where it entered the ground thirteen or seventeen
years before—then the mystery disappears but
the interest, if anything, is intensified. One of
the queerest things in nature is that in spite of
such extremely ‘slow growth in their subterran-
ean habitat, all the milkons of individuals attain
maturity and burst from the ground at almost
the same moment. N

- No doubt the cicada will, as usual, be greeted
as a harbinger of disaster, and as usual, there

will be reports of deaths caused by stings of the .

cicada, a. belief that "has \persisted in spite at
positive proof that the cicada has no sting, that
only by the extremest accident could it inflict a
wound either with bill or ovipositcr, and that it
could not, in any case, inject a poison.

Upon every appearance of large broods of the‘~
cicada. ileuriaarousedthattreesw‘illbedeotrolyed:~
particularly youngtreesofthdiruitingandornar
mental species. Thennmherofthsinsectgialo
large that one can hardly nudes-mud how they can
deposit their eggs in the branches oi trees without
killing them. Yet the M remains that there
have been outbreaks of cicadas in some sections
of the United States in most of the years since

thiscountrywasdisooveredandthatneury

grave damage. ever has been done. *
inasmuch as the coming 1919 brood of locusts

mybemeofmehrgestonmormitispan

ticulariy tinportant to (flourished on We 15)

Mrs. Dora Stockman, Michigan’ 8 Ffirsi Woman candidate for”; Board Of— Agriculture

EREWITH is presented a good picture oi
Mrs. Dora Bushman, m has the distinc-
tics: of being the first woman candidate but
the Board 0’1 Agriculture To our
readers upon the accomplishments and ability-of

brief. sketch of her lifei

Mrs. Stoohman was born in 1872, in a little
log cabin in the wilderness of pine forests at
Northern Michigan. As a small child, she had
two great ambitions: to be a school teacher and
to write plays and poems, which she dreamed of

giving in response to the call of the worthy loo--

turd-Tr. so as a more child she began to “scrib-
ble" and “speak pieces" at the Grange and

school exhibitions.” At the age of 16 she taught
school. but her career was cut short when she

acquired a “life certificate" to marry a farmer

of a neighboring community. also a former teach-
er. Thosewmhudyears forthepioneeriarn-
ore of Northern Michigan. years of persistent
drouth that burned up the crops for several soar
and low when (corn 10 cents a bushel), tn!
it was more than unprofitable—4t was starvation

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country tramp. with the “small boy" of the
family, Mrs. Stockman studied for recreation,
Greek, Latin, Ger-
man, French, his-
tory and litera-
ture, drinking ‘
eagerly at- these
fountains at in-
spiration till she
was granted two
degrees by this
institution. The
ill heath of Mr.
Stockman oom-
pelled a change
of business and
lolimate. After
some time spent in the west, Mr. Stoclunan re-
tunedtoliiohigamtoohashortcourseatm. A.
0.. where his son was attending, and becoming
thoroughly inoculated with the farming bacteria
sc..ahundant there. he bouat a ‘iworn-out” tern
just outside the city of lensing.
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. Hilledale college, Mr Btockman’s alma mater, / ‘
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that in close contact with Nature on an everyday
farm were more wonderful pictures mysteries
and poems than she had ever read about. For
the _ state teachers’ paper she wrote play. and
dialogs, furnishing“ the special day program tor
15 years. These dialogs have been published in
a book by H. R. Pattengill, late editor of [odor-
otmTopics; nannigan‘m, Chicago; the Silver
Burdette 00., and J. W. Darrow of New York
State Grangalwdm use her plays; which are on-
clusively along home and farm lines: , .

There are also recent articles on firm topics in
the Youth'e. 0W5“ other magazines. One
of her books, “A Bountiful Harvest,” on Sunday

school missionary work in the pioneer parts, of “

the stamina. been anilncentive ta greaterintu~
esttotheneedsodthlswefkinNorthernMiehi-
an. Arecntbummmerhinal‘amnbmes,”
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um sum to of“ been, in certain sections
of tho Detroit- area. some misunderstapding in

regard to diner-ant clauses oi the milk producers’
on ma” figflfiment for membership: in
but "siniost every one of these clauses have been,

 

by- different individuals. out out and the an» .

merit mutilated belore sell it to this rallies:

Whmnuoormam seven; some-l.
letttheproduceropentev

amen-lumen”
mmuo’thmbuyeroihisproduct.
inhuman-youarenotmskingtheagreement
with the buyer but with your own association,
it an readily be seen that there is but little

, GlanceiorthebuyertbhaveanyadyantageasaI
firesultoiyourvlolctingymregreement. Itcan
' well kudos-stood, too, that should aIIdealer at-

tempt to tshemivsntage of this proposition, this
usihlnxwouilbeenoughtoareuseallthepro-
dueersin theDetrolt wepd causes general
stampede under the leadership of the association,
which would make it mighty unpleasant for the

I "dialer who attempted such a thin.

Our contracts with the dealer are as strong and
bidding I. could possibly be made under the cir-
Iceman-noes. Their claim was that wove-re tying
them up too close, leaving them without oppor-
testify to adjust themselves should their busineu

‘ fdemnd.

Your ashocintion 1... been trying in all its
career to no stabilize and sateguard the business

thateachandeverymanwouidbeproteoledhom,

any undue manipulation or change We have
goneasiaeteaIgoodbusinessludgment would

wmnntin bringing about a basis of action be"

tween the producer and distributor. ’We must at

all times establish dict fundamental principle (of -

.cenddeuce) upon which to base our future ectiw
egand maize a permanent business foundation.

The ”Detroit buyers are paying a great tribute to
yous-association in that they have declared them-
selves willing to abide by our test on the entire
Detroit area ,product at any time we are able

to man the ileld and look after all the test. While.

would be a large addition to the work oi
theIsecretary‘s oince, yet it “seems to us that in

_ ihenmr‘iuturethig'willneedtobetehenovdr

lid us. /

Vb trust that all the interests in this undertak-
ing may be considerate looking forward to the

possible‘iriqtion all along the line.

It is estimated t at the loss to the New York
producers in the strike has meant more than
",0”, 000. It is safe to assume that an equal loss
he been mutiny the distributors. it this be
true. here is a loss of $4,,000000 that must be
charged up to the business and this lions is
ough to bring a severe check to even so great
e‘ business Man as the dairy supply for
New York city. More then: this, a general feel-
ing of lack oi confidence must have resulted which
will, in years to come, continue to be a menace
to the milk industry. \ -

Ultimate success must depend not only is”
laying well the foundation, but upon a. minus-
tien of the united (tort of all Michigan terri-
my. mnewtm-mnot, witheeiety be
divorced or separated tron: the up-state produc-
tion, udtothlsendwearemakinssmgeu-
dearer to bring the condensing interests into

~ harmonious action, which in a large measure is

being accomplished ”The general superintendent

a , of one of the:~ ’largest condensing concerns in

Michigan recontly informed your secretary that
they were willing and auiious to «so—operate with
undo our great constructiv v, campaign. The con-

- densory and the producers oi Mt. Pleasant are

just at the pres ?t time-g: swinging into mug, hav-
ing gone a littl bit further than «he? “a“:
zone, in that they are authorizing“?
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up now MEETING AT FENNVILLE

The Mid-Winter oi the State

ma nasty programwiilhepsr

sentid and a large attendance from all over the

.statewillbeouhendiortheopesi session.
3131‘: M‘smallll‘ruits”will
'M'IIM newnentcnflarbor

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ner,8euthflava.

Accounting for the Fruit Grower,” by I.
1'. Md, extensitm specialist in horticulture,

“The? present Status of the Pear Psylla in Mich-

l'Eecunatestinsm-aying"l’rotfi J.Esstace.
'Thequestion xwfllbein 010.1315!-
ligan, East N we

“The Grape Situation in Michigan,” M. H. Pugh

. sley, Paw Paw.

Other timelytopics willbediscnssedand'i‘nee-
day evening Prof. Eustace will give an illustrated
talk along horticultural lines. No fruit grower

Imegu afford to miss this meeting.

“mmwllyotprogramepplytothe
Becretary’somoaBangor, Michigan.

 

SPECIAL momma, or MICHIGAN .
STATEDAI'RYMEN’S Assocmrron

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The mm‘wmm‘mmm will

_.aepecialmeetingatthexernshoteiat

February 4th at 1:00 o‘clock pun.
Mr. M. D. Munn, president
hairy Gouncfl, will be present.

The object oi this meeting is to flex-mutate plus

ior carrying on the educational work at the’ For
tional Dairy Council in Michigan. It is desired
that everyone attend this meeting.

Portable electric machinery has been invented ..

to screen coal and load it in wagons.

Tubes_ made 01- glass have been invented in,

Europe for handling :potroleum, gasoline and

some gases in place or rubber tubing

SocietywinbeheidinFennvmaFehn"

hmgnnton, Bureau oi Entomology. '
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'“bea‘rish” week we have seen in many a day. All:

with the exception oi wheat went down
trash 8 to 15 cents a bushel and they have not
eco'vered from the slump. Butter to'ok and
spectacular tumble from 63 cent; on January 17

to pieces. Potatoes declined.
fact. about the only thing the farmer soils, that
did not show weakness were apples.

Were we not so well conversant with the ‘_ ,

causes for this unusual 'bearishness" oi the mar-
ket. we might naturally tool considerable am.
over the situation, but we do not bellows there

This is the situation as we view it:
ruled hiriy steady right up to January ,lst, trad-

ing being active in the belief that the government .
'and

the foreign nations would be large buyers oi
But the actual demand was her loss

oiouriormersllieaandtheholdingupotl’res.
Wilson's iood emergency appropriation bill in th‘e‘
salute are believed mountable tor the lesser de-
mend. Moreover, the Food Administration has
constantly warned of the large stocks of grains

in Australia and Argentine. and other hitherto '

Wilde sections, that are now expected to
come into competition with American grains.

e actually the effect of this competition will
be scarcely felt, such "bearish" discussions have

a most depressing effect upon the market. in .

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not. awakened [the greatmossibii-
at my hetero 1t. Manpraoturing,

The manufacturing needs of mankind

on, which was often his home Merchan-
: was carried on in a small way, and trans-
.portfit1on w s by wagons and slow—moving sail
ind steamboa s.
e- wagon maker, the harness __makor, the weaver,
with the hand loom, supplied each locality with
its needs.
{from the raw material to the finished product.
It was a slow, laborious process, but no better way
was then known, and few believed a better way
would be devised. At this time, co- operation was
unknown. The individual was the commercial
unit, and each one worked out his destiny in his

' own way r~~

The development of the wonderful resources of
America awakened a development in the minds
of its people, and the artisans who had been work-

: ing alone, conceived the idea of,unitin'g the small
.shops of’a community, making a similar product,

into a larger shop or factory, where all could work
This idea stimulated business life and

facturing process was sub-divided, each artisan
working at his part, soon became an expert, which
resulted in greater production and a decrease in.
costs, which brought a larger profit and at the
same time lowered the price to the consumer. By
the co—operation of these artisans new ideas were
developed and machinery was invented and manu-
facturing industry grew and prospered. A sim-
ilar development took place in merchandising
and transportation.

Every home in the nation was benefited by the
remarkable growth of commercial industry Today
the modern home is supplied with numerous con-
veniences, labor-saving machines and appliances
that were undreamed of a hundred years ago.

I These conveniences are not confined to the towns

and cities, but the farm home is being equippd

, with its electric plant to furnish light, and power

to operate the churn and washing machine for
the housewife, and her home is also provided with
hot water heating and modern sanitary plumbing,
all of which are products of co- operative industry.

The modern farm today, with all its conven-
iences, is still operated as a single unit. Each
farmer and-his family is working alone, produc-
ing the products they have to sell. The farmer is
operating in the same way as the shoemaker, the
blacksmith, the cwagonmaker, the harnessmaker
and the weaver, of one hundred years ‘ago. While
it is true the farmer of today has advanced in

agriculture over the "farmer of one hundred years

ago, his progress has largely, been,made possible

i by the introduction of labor-saving tools and ma-

chinery invented and produced by men in‘co- -oper-—
atlve manufacturing industries; more than thru
improved farming methods.

(Jo-operation of the old~ ~time artisans, mer-
chants and traders produced the great manufaov
turing, mercantile and transportation industries
of today. Their success has made America.fam-
one for its millionaires. Gould similar success be

.partly or fully realized by co-operatlon among

the owners of averaged-sized farmsrwt’
It has been said that theaverage farmer is not
many suspicious and distrustful of others. That

,,,,u a rule, farmers will'not stand together‘as men

111;: and transpartation, were in their.

pplied by the artisan, working alone in' “

The sheemaker, the black‘smith, -'

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the were 6,,361- 502 ”farms 1:: the U_-.S

which produced madness that aim.
valued at $5 487, 000, 000, or at the rate of
$863. 00 forleach farm. This census gives
the value at theSe farms at $_,40 991.449 .030
The same year manufacturing- industries...

factured goods to the value of $20, 672 ,002, 000.
The average value of products grown on;-
each farm in 1910 was~$863.00, whie’h‘ in—'
cludes the labor of the farmorand hired
help, while in manufacturingindustry, each-
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do in commercial industry, and for this‘reason it

is diflicult for them to succeed in a co- operative
way. If this is true, there must be a reason for
it. The farmer leads a more isolated life than
the city man. He does not get in as close touch
with his neighbor in business ,, matters, afthe
man -in town. Hogs following largely. in ' the
foot-steps of his 'father and grandfather, and is so
thoroughly occupied with his farm duties that
he has little time to give to matters of reform.
He does not stop to think that he is a part of the

greatest industry in the world, an industry rem;

senting an investment that towers high above any
other industry. "

Agricultural industry is a giant in strength,-
but it lacks organization to ,use'its strength to
better its condition. It is like the elephant that
is controlled by the hand of man to do his bid-
ding. Without organization, agricultural indus-
try is at the mercy of organized commercial in-
dustry. This is why the ”farmer has so littlein-

fluence in shaping legislation, controlling the mar:- ”

ket condition of his products and the supplies he
needs. Many of the leading men In commercial
industry today were brought up on the farm.
There, as boys, they learned to work, and*when
they left the farm for the city, they were quick. to

'see the advantages that came to all industries

thru co— operation

Farmers' co-operative organizations have but re-
cently begun. The movement is still in its in-
fancy. Splendid success has already been achiev-
ed in various ,,localities which has been principally

'along the lines of marketing.

The co-operatiom of the U. ‘8. Dept. of Agri-.
culture and the state agricultural colleges is pave
ing the way for a great organizad awakening
among the farmers. The county farm bureaus s-
tem, in charge of a trained farm agent, proviso
the logical organization thru which the farinei’s;
can place themselves on equal footing with com-
mercial industry. When the farmers unite their
strength thru the county farm bureaus, now being

organiZed throughout the nation, the evils and'
. discouragements of farming in the old way will
gradually ,disappear. ' ,

As co-operative marketing has proved profit-
able for the farmer, why not go a step farther and
work out a co- opeqative system for producing the
crops and preparing them for market? Why not
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ganization‘it would produce similar adrantages.._g
The co-cperatim farm would; represent a large.“ ‘_ »
This would create advent-3:
ages iiifbuying power/ and locating favorable mar-
kets—j Production would be on a large scale, with"

investment of capital

an economic saving. Large flolds could be laid out
so that the c9st of cultivation would be reduced

through the ties of machinery that could not be ’

operated succefully on the email farms.

The cost of tools and‘machtuery would be greatly, * :
reduced, over the cost 'to equip the many small . ,.

farms, composing the larger farm. By using large
fields, the cost of fences would be greatly reduced,

and the 99st anew} would he less, for with 1111':
proved machinery each farm hand would produces

, larger results , ; ._..

The large oesoperative farm would have 1128,
threshing machine silage cutters so this part of
the harvesting could be done at the right time
and a furthersaving over the old way. When it
comes to buflngmuppliu, the «lo-operative firm
would have further advantages. Fertilizers, til-
111g, fencing, building material, machinery and
10013 and other farm supplies can be purchased
in large quantities at reduced prices. To bring
these advantages about, the owners of small iarms
could farm an association and incorporate under
state law At a preliminary meeting”, the farmers.
desiring to organize, should choose a chairman

and secretary to preside and keep the minutes of ,

the meeting. They should choose a name for the
corporation andImako application for Articles (‘11
Association, so as to become a legal body, also dew
“side upon the amount of capital stool: necessary
to meet the needs of the corporation. Suppose 20

farmers desired to unite their terms in one large ,

farm corpOration, and these farms, with the live-
stock, machinery, tools, hay, grain, etc, are ap-

' praised at $200, 000. 00.. They should incorporate

for say, $25, 000 to $50, 000 more than these values,
so as to provide treasury stock that could be sold
to outsiders, if desired, to meet the growth and
financing of the business. ,

A committee should be chosen at this meeting
to appraise the various farms, and the personal
property to be turned czar to the. cgrporation,

Each member should transfer; his term to the ‘2
' serpention by deed and the personal property by

bill of sale, and in return should receive a certi-_
heats of stock from the corporation of equal value.
Each farmer would now becomes. stockhOIder,-a-nd
from «their number a boardxof directors should, be
elected to take. charge of the large farm, The. board

‘ of directors should choose from theirL'number ‘a

president, vice-president, seeretary and treasurer,-

also a general manager to ever see the farm and

carry out the orders of the board. It yould he an

advantage to choose the oflcers «and general man-

ager from among the stockholders, When possible,

for they would have 9. {Continued On page 27)
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~- The biggest monument to Henry Ford's gems and M8 1111th
and has accomodations for severolathmand people. The attractors has silly!
' charge to the United states government for the care
. The manner in which the mutate» will be operated thercdft

Henry Ford Hosp1tal which has been turned over to the Government for the Care of Waunded soldiers

whitetail '
has sat ”

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‘ and confined “within the narrow limits of their
cages, _

they become absolutely dependent u n
etaksrs, and meekly watch --and wait for.
grime. ‘~

Willingly do we concede th point that you city
'79 dWellers handle more actual cash during the year

do the farmers, but remember yOur’ money,
all, represents only so many yards of clath,

so many garments, so many paunds xof butter,

beef, pork so many dozens of eggs—or; these

commodities which build and sustain human life,

’ the farmer. has in abundance—so it iS clear that

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Fi’ciatte-r offhoots over the pavements.
9 testing of the truck horns; ,the patient “puff;

-‘- result-e4has' resulted—in ardrop in price.
country has payer been starving, nor have any
' people eyerstar‘ved for lack of read enough to go
' aretitid. This overproduction has iong‘since reach- 9
‘ "ed the point where aid-y the best is salable at all, 9
- i and today ”our. grain, potatOes. and fruit are all
. ' grafled, only the best geing to market. The great:
“i need is nut‘ftr raise more, but to market What we .-
E'Very activity of the Department has ‘
‘ been traced on the theOry that if the farmer-raised '9
-~ ' ~~ ‘ he would get more, and if he saved more he“
1d lose less; and so we have been given‘ the

'- do raise

'9‘ a human being in a cage, though his pockets may:
be filled with money, must of necessity meekly
and; patiently wait for the hand that feeds.

Sup-
this very night, Mr. City Dweller you lie

sinks for three bours:—-—from three a ’clock to sun-

Hear the rumble of Wagons and carts, the
Listen to the

 

ins SEEN often said, and within the last.

iii"
2 I reW mthsiit has been oftener repeated, that
- , . the farmer’s Worst enemy is the United States
" : = Department: or Agriculture.
' sec Houston have perhaps helped to crystallize
‘- this idea, but the feeling did not exist before his

The oflicial acts of

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in adios. \ ’1'

1". ‘

. The paltry ”or the ‘Department has alWays been
to increase the nation’s agricultural output.
. all know that a general increase in the agricul-

We

output, carried to the logical extreme would-
The

out Who acts—hall too often insists upon

asingle” sweating,‘
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' dollars and eighty cents per bushel.

.9 dollars and twenty cents per bushel.

potatoes or beans at country points/

. his pocket- book.
- either more or less.

9-..commercialist9 controls our politics.
‘meroialist is willing to put up the’hard cash to
x, ,‘phi'y the omce for one of his fimpathies, and our

:I'hold office.
I . neWspa are, perhaps not by actual cash (tho some

puff”- and the muffled Whistle of the iron horse as
it bpsily sorts the freight train car brear.

at an hour When people should be asleep? You

drawSily aSk. My gbod city friend, the keepers
sare‘busy Wits cart, can, bottle, truck and Ram‘iunity for speculation" Are not all
a preparing to feed the human beings caged up in
. : your big, over-grown city, where they can not get
an. ounce of food to sustain life (without buying it
dram their keepers-who graciously deliver the
: needs 161‘ the day at the back door pf cage No.—

and tier Noe-m Now that you have had three
hours at pensive thought here‘s a thriller:

Suppose alltrains to Detroit were cancelled for
uteri days; suppose the highway should be closed
,9 and the! farmers, would lock their granary doors

wand bike for a- thirty-day’s stay in Florida. After

. the fifth day poor people would be walking the

streets asking for food; within ten days hunger
iriots would occur and before/the thirty-day Flor-
ida trip was over, marshal law would be invoked;
the farmer‘s’ granaries would'be broken open—-
and you would then, M11, City Dweller, realize
that your boasted independence was aft all the
most abject sort of utter dependence.

9And'it is because of the consumer’s dependence

that speculation sets aside the well—known and
just laWs of “supplyjand demand.” In January
one year ago potatoes were selling at retail in the
city of Detroit at seygnty cents per peck—two
Beanswere
selling at twenty-two cents per, pound—thirteen
‘Within one
hundred miles from- the city farmers would have
been glad to have sold their potatoes atlsev'enty
cents per bushel and their beans at fifteen cents
per pound—but there was no market for either
True, the

By ROYAL D. ROOD

loscg County Farmer

The commercialist well knows what is good far
Consumption cannot change
All that the consumer uses
:must go ,thru the hands of. the commercialist. The
commercialist, not the consumer controls demand.
It the commercialist can contrive to increase the

' production, the supply to him will be greater than

he will need, “and he will have to pay the farmer
less; butthe consumer will need all that the com-
mercialist buys, and will have to pay as, much as

ever. Who. gets the extra cash? The commer-

cialist, of course.

It would be a political crime to appoint a
tarmer, a genuine ‘hardarworking farmer to any
important oflice where he might exert any influ-

.. once, and the person who made the appointment

would be committing political suicide, for the
The com-

laws permit that cash be paid, and that man to
Also the commercialist controls the

such inStances probably do exist), but thru a

-« much more powerful influence—thru the fact that

the scam at our. influential papers live in town,

L -' and absorb the point of view of the commercial-
";é‘istswamongwhom they live, also thru the fact _
‘ ‘ m

casesithe profits they receive direct-
eg-han'ds of’ commercialism in pay-
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Why .
.4111 this activity? Why this noisy demonstration

The armor is , 7

  

thereby clearly proven—the city dweller is abs
. lutely dependent upon his keeper for his daily
’l-food. 4

Could iron bars and Steel cages prove more et-
'fectual in keeping one- -half of the human family
from securing the necessities of life, at prices ‘
they can afford to pay, than absolute dependence
- upon‘ men, who as keepers, profit most when the.
supply is limited? Do we not find here an oppor~
barriers
against market manipulation leveled, all effectu' ’-
al' opposition prevented; every gun spiked and
powder w’ater-soaked—that the ship may be the
9more easily boarded by the pirate gang, Which
finds plenty of protection behind the outgrown
distributing system, which has neither been._
changed or improved in a century?
" James Helme, formerly Dairy and Food Commis- »
sioner, has drawn up an amendment to the con-
stitution of the state, which, if adopted, will place
the real obstruction in the pathway of the “pirate-
gang;" The proposed amendment provides for a
bond issue of not to eXceed five million dollars ’ ‘
for the purpose of erecting in the larger cities 99!
the state storage warehouses TheSe warehou-r
to be owned by the state and operated at actual
cost, and to be used only by individual farmers
and farm organizations as a distributing center.
It is not expected that the full five million‘flol—
lars would be called ‘for, but this whole matter
would be worked out thru a law provided by the
legislature, and these storage warehouses erected
as necessity demands. E :

As has been previously explained, under pres~
*ent conditions, there is no way of providing for
the future needs of the people of the cities. It is
a. market basket proposition, sufficient for the day
isthe supply of food, therefore. And so long as
this plan is left free to operate, there will be
congested markets, lean markets, high prices to
the consumer and low prices to the producer-
market manipulation by (Continued on page 28)

   

.» 'rlculture 1n Hands of Commercialists
Dept 99 of Agnculture and Subordinate Organizations Controlled by Men blind to

»Real Ailments of Farmng

,x pointment be to the office of secretary of the state
department of agriculture? As I" write this I have
before me an editorial in The National Stookmian
and Farmer, a. paper published as a farmers’ pa-
per (owned by men of distinct commercialist sym-
pathies, if they are not themselves commercialism)
an editorial‘ which congratulates the state of -,
Pennsylvania on the appointment to the office of '
state secretary of agriculture—n0, not a farmer, J
but—a college professor. \ _

The commercialist control of our press is not
confined to the daily city paper, but practically
all of our so- called farm papers are edited by men
of commercialist surroundings. I have a collec-
tion of the editorial sheets of the abOVe named
paper, for some time back, and not one issue but
What contains from one to four editorials actu‘
ally bucking/the attempts of the farmer to help.
himself. ‘Another editorial in the same issue ‘
(Jan. 1,8 1919) berates the “misrepresentatives of
agriculture ” consisting of representatives from all
the leading farm organizations of the country,
who commit themselves and the organizations 7
and class of people of whom they are a part,’to

- the4as they put it) “support of government oWn-r/
ership, control and development or the natural
resources of the country, including about 'eyerr'
thingexcept the air. Government acquisition‘and
operation of railroads, pipe lines, express, tele-
graphs, telephones, inland water transportation,
elevators, etc ” Another editorial “in the same

' sheet attacks the New York farmers for their at-
tempts to get as much for their milk as it costs

them. ‘ And in anather editorial the papal-7v

’ withithe Federal Trade Commission in «use

 

"ingested beet year (And it might be
. passing that there“ .13 another commission
no farmers “are allowed to sit )_ ~ «And
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“an Division of the Food Administration was
practically closed on January 15th. ‘ ' ‘
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a mistake, but there are so many things to be con-
Iidered in connection with all this work, that it
. ' rather difficult for one to feel certain without
fill information on the subject.
"I want to assure you that I would be glad to
to anything that I can to help in these matters,
bubocstated above, the Food Administration in
[fliehrlh as an organization is at an end ”
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iiched in the January 18th issue in which it was
claimed that millers were profiteering in Wheat
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out the whole country were oblig-
ed to pay a certain price for wheat

gram phi .
\, Even this action on . __ mills ,
, ~. not tcilei‘lt t: bring out fills 1mm 1: “in hsnmcégt

dual tya‘h afloat manym erg tone -...

Continue to Pay High Price! y, 0.108% down Mr 31ml:- on ~
acoou lite! inability to secure raw mate
It became very apparent unless the Grain

west p'crtionly}

“honing the buck” seems to be a favorite same price.
M new among those having anything to do with {Dementia} mixedmso‘igzb 1;! its holdings that
Io present teed cituatiOn. The Feed Adminis» many I we 11

1*mn claims it i! \LWONOSS to MC control This intonation I” placed 1’0er “1. Food All.

. ass “I milli busin ' the miller. claim their migigtratiion w‘h‘fih made tilts own investigations
, n1; 6“ an sun 1: ns exac res :1
Mil 8" 1°35 110'" than “11‘!” government com on the Nth of Jaguary theylgitretip Shiites:

he]. and the farmer still complains of the high Corporat1.n began (flaring Wt of' its “mm

eat of feed. ._ storage stock of wheat at Kansas City, Omaha:
Loot week we wrote to Mr. Geo. A. Prescott, ted- St Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee and Toledo

oral food administrator for this state and asked tn: raci- 0:1? ceiriite mansmaemizkm tiger th .

"m t fin. mnmun ascpce. c m e ec
a. m§:“&“$§2§f, “153; 13:12?! $211,311“, of wheat to the miller 82‘. 88 {mob Chicago as the

in“ will, no doubt, understand that the Mich-I “WW” minimum 9"" 1' ‘3 3“

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tournament all.

and

is action caused reduction in premiums of

A. an interesting sequence of the article pub- “ brings the total addition to

about 6 cents per bushel and aflorded mills an
opportunity of resuming operations.

Al 1 h ' ‘
tionc governing retail of feeding stuns were ro— must? :2; a: egdatpacegrgnolb 2111,3320 -wtha:

minded and as you intimate, this may have been together with what wheat We wm

Iota obtain

thru elevators in the state, the train roosting no '
at least 21 cents per bushel more than the gov-
ernment minimum/price.
It requires approximately four and one-h '
bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour of 1 0
pounds, so we have an advance oost‘of 94 con-ts
per barrel’and inasmuch as we have resumed the
manufacture of the high-grade pro-war dour,
t 35 cents per barrel more to
produce than the 100 per cent vernm

nt straight

barrel

“To on-set this we have had an advance of'
$21 per ton in mill feed and an advance of $1 per
\ton on feed on an even wheat market should to-
icetien from Mr. L. E. Smith, vice president of suit in a decline on flour of 3 3 4 cents per bar-

Three and three-quarters times $21 per ton

ids. This is one of the largest and most reputable for feed equals 79 cents per barrel loWer cost on
Bill“!!! ocucernsxot the middle west and we are flour, so deducting 79 cents from $129, the high
thence to give Mr. Smith's defense of the milling er cost of raw material and grade equals a not ad-

- vance of 50 cents per barrel on flour, or 50 cents .
industry a respectful hearing. We are sure that per barrel higher cost on flour.

under government control at $11. 30 per barre,
one-eighth paper i..ob. mill and today we are
ill! Wilts “1‘0 determined and his comparison be- obtaining $11. 70 per barrel f.o..b mill same pack-
mun present conditions and those prevailing age, or $11. 90 delivered anywhere in the state. So
you can readily see we are obtaining less money
“Du ng the eight or ten months prior to Dec. for flour than under Government regulations, ad-
21st. on which date the Food Administration can- vanes in feed included. .
oeiied many of its regulations mills through- “This is not due to any (Continued on" page 27)

Keeping It‘Stirred Up-

We were workin

‘ I Mn and Amedflrmfiom, Will

Hold Series “eiilmportant Meet
ingsiim Week at n. no

 

We are ploeced to announce the annual meet-
is: of the Nisan {rummage Stack and
Breeders' Ass’n. anti! member organisations. at

the Anionlturai College next week. Mr. G? A. .
Bron. secretary of the aesociatien, promises a -
fine program, and everyone interested in Michiv“

gan’c great live stock industry is urged to attend
the various sessions. A summary of the events
and programs to be held under the auspices oi
this association ioilow: * , . -
res. e, flip—ones. ~
President, I. ”it. Waterbury, Detroit: secretary,
George A. Brown, East Lansing.

Secretary's report, appointment or committees,-

President‘s address.

«lo-operative Live Stock Marketinx.” Hail Ton-
nant, state marketing specialist.

‘moulating a Fender’s Income in Accordance

with the Income Tax Law;’_' Han J. J. Jerome, . -

chairniaa Ways and Means Committee, state leg-
islature.
Recess .fer lunch.
Meeting at 1:80 p. m. .
“The Legislative Program for 1919, " Hon. Fred
Woodworth, state food and dairy commissioner.
why M. A, 0. male quartetto.

Loans From the Government,” W. L.‘

hos, Federal mm Loan Bank, St. Paul" Minn.
Reports of co'mmitte'es; election of odicers.
] , w rob. H180
Joint ineetn all allied organize"?
R. 8. Shaw, chairman.

"The American Federation of Meat Producers
and What it has lpone,’ H. H. Halladay, President
State Live Stock Sanitary Commission.

Reports of association secretaries.

Banquet tendered Wednesday evening by the
State Board of Agriculture to members of the
Michigan Improved Live Stock Breeders’ and
Feeders' Association. (Continued on page 29)

BEAN PRACTICES COMMIT- .
- TEE TO MEET NEXT WEEK

The committee appelnted at the annual meet-
ing of the bean growers to investigate and report
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meet on Wednesday afterncon of.

 

based on a figure made at some
terminal point. In our zone this
basic int was Chicago and price
”.80 f: No.1 Red Wheat, which
reduced to Grand Rapids basic flg-v
hre equalled $2.13. ‘

“Around Grand Rapids there are
more fruit producers, dairymen, ‘
gardeners, etc., so that while it '
was possible for us to buy some .. \
_whoet. probably enough in 30 or "‘

40 days to run our mills one day, . / \

  
 
 

direct from the producer, we were
forced to go to the elevators thru- ’
out the state of Michigan for our \ '\
supply so that our milling wheat .
cost no approximately $2.18 per /
bushel fob. Grand Rapids. At that * ‘
time the Government maximum
price tor small lots of flour in 1,5
paper cocks was $11.30 per barrel /—\
. t.o.b. Grand Rapids. The average 4‘ 4
wheat cost was $2.18 per bushel. ’\ i - r
The average return from mill feed, F / '-
seehc included, was $35.00 per ton. ’
Thee. were government prices and ' - V\ \
you own experience teaches you
the government doesn’t set them
say too high. ‘ -
“The basis on which we worked
in. a most unusual one. We were
compelled to pay not less than the
Government price for wheat with
the privilege of paying as much
more as we wanted to, while we
could not obtain more than the ,
Government price for flour, but
,y'ere permitted to sell it at as low a-
glance as we desired
,_ “During the early movement 0%
wheat from the country, mills were ...—— ‘
sirloin tomake a living profit but _"""”......
. odiately the receipts began to ..., "~—
r‘y up; the grai having moved so -. --—‘-..
rapidly that l l elevators could .
r not handle it, it ultimately bein *
‘ah to terminal markets an ~.
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next week- at East Lansing. This
committee is composed 9:, the tol~

lowing: Miles King, Montcalm

. ,county; Jas. McBride, Shiawassee;
?\ _, Wm. Hill, Mecosta’; F A Lord,‘

A ._ is not clear thru what medium an

~%fi7 r investigation can now be? made of
v {1), these bean practices or a remedy

provided, new that the Food Ad-

4 ‘ g 'ministration has virtually gone
out of business. It has been sug

gested now that the bean jobbers

adopt some method of picking and

.. - (
v69 / , are ill a tractable mood that they
/

) , settling for beans that will be uni

V'form thruout the state and meet
, with the approval of the growers.

 

-. 1 Attention; Farmers! ,
Readers of this publication who

ter; dressed poultry, and other "small
l farm produce direct to consumers
in Detroit, by means of the parcel
pest, should send their names, with

, , ~ 310 Hammond Bldg, Detr‘bit. Mich.
" ,_.' .. These names Jill be placed in the

’12.. 'hands of city customers who are 3 -

"‘3' interested in this means at combat- ,

 

Maoomb; A. B. Cook, Shiawassee '-

/ C) county. At that time the matter of
bean picking practices will un-

doubtedly be taken up. though it ' ~

A are interested in selling 6888, but- -

.7 . a list of what they have to sell, to ,
“ the U. 8. \Bureau of Markets, 312- , '

, tingjhe high costot living, and the
producers will n"also be furnished f .'

   
    
    
 
 
   

 

  
   
  
 

   
   
  
  
  
   
 
 
 
 

    

 

 

 
  
  
 
   


  
 
  

 
  
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
  

 

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. ’ ”010.996: oes’roamd and ’mund—a
..- T , :lbdml :6 pins Ito/play.

" The ma fro ' ’mlmd the monkey’s cube
Had bettér keep my.

4 no.4

oUR WEEKS of the 1,919 session have passed
md to' outward appearances, little or nothing
‘ .‘ hastbeon accomplished. The average citizen
' wonders Why there is such delay in getting into
~octlbn ,1 Suggestions of. swelled heads and exag-
‘ ' gerited egos flit across

lowed by reflections as
Ito the workings of the
'Recall and Referendum

stitution. Periods of
apparent delay at the

tlve sessions are in re-
ality to a large part of
the membership 9. per-
iod 6: apprenticeship.
That a, legislative body
composed of men, many
of whom ,are inexperi-
|enced ‘with legislative
procedure, lacking that

personal acquaintance essential to efl'ective knowl-
_ edge of canditidnslwithin the state, without which
I ‘ sane legislatiOn can come only by more chance,

  

' net-hero *i'. nuke: '

tion, is: ridiculous.

The handicaps incidental to each succeeding
legislature are being overcome, and effective ac-
tion in the near future is foreshadpr by ex-
" ioting conditions at the beginningof ofthe fourth
” ‘weelrot the session. . I,

_" eluded, the personnel of this legislature compares
, very favorably with any legislative aggregation
I _ over assembled beneath the dome of the capitol.

that the “public be damned" element is conspicu-
ous by its absence. If public conscience and
public interest refrain from the use of cordialo

'oion, good things may be expected of this legis-

its members. Election to the legislature cures

the human frailties of no man, neither does it

supply the lime so frequently lacking in the
vertebra of the colon.

The greatest stimulant to properlegislative ser-

~ vice is an alert and discriminating constituency.

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this time I want to say to YOU, Hr. Farmer, that
; the biennial legislative period is now on, as stated
. at the beginning, ,
The elephant new map ’round and lroumt:
; The bond begin; to play—-
‘ " If you permit the 91d, cob pipe to keep you in a
* condition of coma while tthcgislature is in ses-
sion during the succeed ng months/ you may find
/: relaxation but mighty little satisfaction in damn-
-' \ing the legislature for what it did or what it
failed to ‘do. It seems to the writer that ”just
ordinary prudence wuld dictate that NOW is the
time to know what is going on; now is the time
- if ever, when your influence will mount. Sena-
tors and representatives are your servants. Do
hot be’timid about telling them what you want of
them. Letters from constituents are powerful fac-
tors in shaping legislation. They also perform a
. wonderful service in fortifying your agents
1 against the pleadings“ or grafters, and the activ-
ities of the head hunters of ’i’rivileg’e. The better

 

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:ESENATOR SGULLY’S INcOME. TAx ,
' BILL MEETS WITH FAVOR

 
 

‘ his other good works, Senator “Bonny

‘ ' Introduced a resolution provid-

_' I ”j. the Mutton nut-hor-
booms

ANT so Arms Ir

I .11.“ consciousness, fcl- .

provisions of our con-‘

beolnnins of 1685813'.,

should begin to function properly at its incep» , '

It is only fair to say that, present company ex- "
h The people ct/the state are to he congratulatod ‘

and soothing syrups during the period of its oes- ,1

lature. There are no superman, however, among ‘

'a uniform rule of
-3% attend. to your duties the better the fellows ouch

firm can
operatem

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dependent incomes, but who own little property
,whie'h under present laws is subject to taxation.
Thom-is a considerable class in this state rcceivh
log mm... of 88,000 a year and upward onjoying
all tho benefits of state privilogeo and protection,
without paying anything toward their support.
No one can taiI-ly argue that those people should
not be compelled tohelp support their state gov-
ernment and institutions, and thus partially rt

‘liev'e; the heavier burden now placed upon the

owners of farms and other rear estate.
' Sen. :Scully‘s resolution is as follows:

“Resolved by the Senate and House of Represen-

tives of the State of Michigan, That the follow- '

amendment to section 8 of article 10 of the
Constitution of this State to authorise the enact-
ment of a graduated )ncome tax law, and to per-
mit classification of intangible personal property

 

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Of Special Interest to Farmers

HERE are several pieces of pending
and contemplated legislation in which
farmers of ‘ Michigan are< intorootod.
As Sen. Baker suggests in his article on
this page, infill harmful and noedlou laws
are enacted simply because the. pooplo no-
glect to make brown their wishes. It is
a brave legislator who dares to veto against
the wishes of his constituenc ,but many a
time, in the absence of up sentiment
from back home, he is is to vet porhops
unwittingly, directly against the osiro of
the majority of those who elected im.
Wide open discussion of state affairs is the
surest way of plumbiig public continent
upon current legislation. The roadoro of
mm Bums Fanmm are urged to
recs their views upon the following sub-
which if not already acted upon will
' sooner or later come before the logislature
for adoption or rejection:

1. r'l‘her 860,000,000 road-building bonding
measure. Both houses have voted to sub-
mit at the sprin election. Are the farm-
ers in flavor of i f _

‘2. Appropriation to maintain the State
Constabulary. Are you willing to foot the ‘
bill?

2—43. State-owned warehouses. Will they
help you market your crops for greater
profit?

4. Ben. Scully's income tax hill.

5. Ben. Davis' proposed bill to give farm-
ers a fair/cream test. We have had some
letters upon this subject. We want more.
Do you have trouble in getting alfair cream
test from ur creameryf Tel us what
your expo cases have been. It will help
Sen. Davis to draft his bill for remedial
legislation.

6. Sen. Baker would license all elevators
and punish cut-throat methods of compe-
tition employed against co-operativo market-
ing ventures. Is there need of thip in your
town? ‘

7. What changes would you sag ost in
the road law the banking lawn, e tax

"laws. Thib‘ paper is open for all lotters

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‘for purposes of taxation, is hereby proposed and

agreed to, that is to say, that said section be
amended to read as follows;

“Sec. 8. The Legislature shall provide by law
ticn, except 2 propsrty

iii-Y1 311061119. ,an taxes lovi on
m p was shall be p by law.
( mtemdobylowforatoaoum-

  

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‘state police force, that the principal work of the

bore, the violations of the liquor law would
been much greater.

 
  
  

vide by law a uniform rule of taxation 1
- rcporty as shall be assessed by a State B
and the rat-oi of taxation on such

arty ahallbe the rate which the Staterlsc‘
Assessors shall ascertain and determin
average rate levied upon other property,
than classified intangible personal '
(on which ad valorem taxes are assesse 16:
county, township, school and municipal xp',’
"Resolved further, That the foregoing Ni
ment be submitted to the people of this state a. '
elegtion to be held on the first Monday in Apflfé;
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FARM ORGANIZATIONS SEEK .
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The bill introduced by Sen. McNaughton pro-
viding for the submission of proposal to apprc- .
prints 85, 000, 000 for the building of terminal
warehouses in the largest cities of the state was“
not greeted very seriously. Those who ha, T
failed to watch the trend of the timEs or interest
themselves in the tremendous important subjecto‘
of food distribution and ‘the high. cost of living.»
did not at first fully comprehend the temper of the
farmers of Michigan, who for the first time have
unitedly determined that the legislature “(:1
bestir itself to the consideration of measur I
which, if drastic, are nevertheless for the bane—
”fit of the mass of people.

Those who a few months ago railed at the “so-y
cialistic” doctrine taking root in North Dakota,
which found its expression in such tings as state-
owned elevators, banks, public utilities, etc., are -
new strangely in sympathy with this move of the , ‘
harm organizations to erect and operate storage
warehouses at state expense. The power of the
press that has studiously, and some times viciour'
ly, attacked the farmers of North Dakota. has '
been mighty, and fooled a lot of people. But
those who had been led to look with unfriendly .-
syeg upon the aspirations of North Dakota tarm- ‘
ors, see now that they have been deceived in many
respects.

The bill is still in the committee. It is expecb- .1 3
ed that it will be reported out. favorably without
opposition, and those who vote to submit it .to
the people won't have to make any excuses to tho “
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STATE CONSTABIILARY SENTI- ,
MENT ABOUT EVENLY DIVIDED»

 

It looks now as if there will be a mighty scmpj
when the appropriation bill for the enlarging and \
maintenance of the state constabulary comes up. ‘V
Rep. Carl Young, the recognized legislative leader
of the labor forces, is opposed to the bill and is, ‘V
rapidly creating sentiment and opposition against:
it. Organized labor claims that in other states, '
notably Pennsylvania which has a most efficient

constabulary is to intimidate men who strike for
higher wages in the mines; and that, inasmuch
as the constabulary is largely supported by the,
employing class being the tax- -paying close it ..
be unfriendly to labor disturbances, no matter
how justifiable. ¥

Not a few farmer members are opposed to the '4
measure also. The cannot see that any great need: ‘.
oxists in this atate for a stato police force and do ;
not believe that the benefits derived would wor- ‘ ~
rant the large expense, estimated at about a half
million dollars annually, of maintaining the :
force. There are many other large expenditures
that must be made which will run taxes up high
enough without appropriating funds for ventures
'of questionable value.

0n, the other hand the proposal is known to.:‘
have the support of Governor Sleeper and tho
prohibition forces. Everyone acknowledges th" ;
the work Of the constabulary in policing th >‘
routes over which liquor has been smuggled i
the state, has been most effective, and that wi’
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5alooed loans in December as follows:

_5 Federal Land Bank districts as follows:

  

ascending to the monthly statement of the Farm
Loan Board. The Federal Land Bank of Houston
ends in amount of loans closed, $1, 634,035, with
11 Federal Land Bank of Spokane running slight-
” ybehind in amount, $1, 627, 915. The other banks
St. Paul,
$1,650, 5000; St. Louis, 3851, 790; Omaha, $723, 900;

5. New Orleans, $712, 650, Louisville, $_,647 700; Wich-
1129.. $629, 400; Berkeley, $565, 000; Columbia, 3442,!

5,600;- and Baltimore, $380, 400.

5. On January 1st the total amount of mortgage
loans closed since the establishment of the Feder-
al Land Banks was $157,020,751, numbering 87,-
882 borrowers. During December 5,672. applicae

55wtions were received asking for $19,199,613. During
»5 _5t5he same period 4,251

. 5 amounting to $15,014,778. Altogether 167,966 have
aplied for loans under this system, aggregating .

loans were approved,

$425,741,722.

The grand total of loans closed is distributed by
Spo-
‘k‘ane, $24, 531, 715, St Paul, 822, 555, 400; Omaha.
$16895, 640; Wichita, $16, 358,100; Houston, $15,-
202. 546; New Orleans, $11, 356 915; St. Louis, $10,-
-,829 430; Louisville, 810 111,000; Berkeley, $9, 573, -

’55600; Columbia, $7,,795850; Baltimore, $6,129,450;

Springfield, $5, 681 ,045.

The total of loans to Michigan farmers is 2,012,
_5figgregating $3,138, 700, which represents about
one— —third of total amount applied for by farmers
of this state.»—

 

MASON COUNTY FARM LOAN
ASSOCIATIONS ARE ACTIVE

 

There are three active farm loan associations
in Mason county. The association of Marquette
tawnship has amended its charter to include the
townships of Summit, Riverton, Pore Marquette,
Custer, Eden, Branch, Logan townships and that
part of Carr settlement in Lake county lying south
of the Pe’re Marquette river The president of
this associatiou is Henry M. Agens; vice- -presi-
dent, Howard A. Cowell; secretary and treasurer,
0. F.01mstead.

At the annual meeting of the Crystal Lake Farm
Loan Ass',n the following oflicers were elected:
President, 0. H. Molyneaux; vice-pres., John P.
Hanson. This association embraces the townships
of Amber, Victory, Hamlin and that part of Pere

' Marquette township lying north of Pore Marquette._

river.
The officers of the Freesoil Ass'n are:‘
dent, Wm.‘ Tobey; vice- -pres., John Swanson;

Presi-

041 ED FARMERS 1N DECEMBER'

5 5 ed to. so: farmers of the United states by the. 5. 5‘
. Federal Land Banks on long time first mortgages ,5

societio '
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Benevllle—Jl‘he local 'b‘racéh of the (molar

Milk Producers' "Ass 11 will held a community--.

meeting Feb. 14th, when topics oi genoral interest
to farmers will be discussed. 55" _ ,

Lamar—The farmers of :Lapeer havo or

891111101!
11. live stock shipping associatidfi,‘ with the ioilox- .

ing oflcers: Rosa, Arthur Dodds; secretu'y and
manager, Edwin 5-.'R Stewart; directors, (.15. A. Bul-
lock. Frank Davis, Clyde Coulter. "
Ann Arbor—Branch No.1 of the Washteno. a:
County Shippers! Ass' 11 has just been organi

at Chelsea. Otto D. Luick of Lima is president ‘

and Chas. Spaulding of Chelsea is secretary. It
is expected that several other branch organizations
will be effected in the near future.

Ludmgton—The Farmers' (lo-operative associ-
ation of Victory township, this county, has been

55presented with one of the best bred Holstein sires

in'the United States, according to W. J. Barton,
secretary of the association. The animal was the
gift of W. R. Roach, president of the W. R.
Roach Canning Company" 4 - _

Marries—The Morrice Co-operative Live Stock
Ass’n is getting ready for business. Upon the
agreement 0: the association to ship at least three
carloads of live stock a week the .Grand Trunk
has promised to put in a set of scales and provide
suitable stock-yards. A manager will soon5_.be
appointed.

Hollamd—Oi‘ficers of the Zeeland Poultry and
Pet Stock Ass’n for the ensuing year have been
elected as follows: President, Wm. D. Van Loo
vice president, Harry VandePels; secretary. J. A.
Hartgerink; treasurer, Matt Lookerse; bxecutifi
committee, Henry Van Haven, Thos, VanderPels,

and Paul De Groot.

Grand Rapids—The date; oLthe West Michigan

State Fair for 1919 have already been fixed, Sept. -

15- 19. The state fair at Detroit will be the first
week in September, the Jackson fair the second
week, Grand Rapids the third, and Saginaw and
Hillsdale the last. The annual meeting of the
West Michigan Fair Ass‘n will be held Feb. 4th.

Three Rivers—The bee-keeping industry in St.
Joseph county has become so large and important
that the bee owners have found it advisable to
effect a county organization to further the in-
dustry. Oflicers of the new association are:.
President, W. Z. Ruggles Three Rivers; vicevpres-
ident, Arthur Reed, Thr/e Rivers; secretary-tress»
urer, Frank E. Jones, endon. Membership fee
has been fixed at 50 cents per annum and ell rte
will be made to secure every bee-keeper in Qthe
county as a member.

5. . 1.1115109, R. F 2814.1..5
,5 prom directors elected,

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President, W. H. Arneyh ce-prflident 0.1 W.

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tary and treasurer. 5 , ~ 5
The Mort of
show: that in the year-1918 the total receipts. were"

I $180,811.40 and thero was 51141511 to shipsoi $1573,

"960. 89. During "the year shipments of oigh-t car-

loads of potatoes and” 74 Asoka of stock were moo1.515.,_
The stock shipments Were made up as follows: 5

Cattle, 4065; 11088. -,;;3274 calves, 482‘; sheep, 842.
The report shows“ a balance of 967436 on hand.

WASRTENAW GRANGE orposns

 

BILL TO CRIP-PLE PRIMARY LAW,

 

The following resolution was recently adopted
by Washtenaw Pomona Grange, No. 7. It is sug-
gested that other local Oranges,- Gleaner and
Farmers' Clubs, organizations opposed to restrict-
ing the primany law, take similar action and noti-.
519 their representatives at Lansffig thereof:

‘Wmnss, A proposition is before our legisla- '4

'ture to so ‘changer the primary election laws that
one person may e nominated tor an oillce by only
one political part, and

‘Wmms, we have just emerged tram a war
in which Michigan gave blood of her sons and

millions of money‘to establish justice and demoo- 55

racy for all the common people,an

"W nnnnss, A large number of new voters are
about to- take part in attain of state for the first
.tiine who should be allowed to do so in the freest

$191- the ensuing year-'1 _D
Sturgis was elected odd Clare ill Bordner secre- -

Secretary“ -Treasnrer Bordm

  
 
 

 

 

ossiblo manner, unhampered by biasing rootric- _

ions or party lines: therefore, 5 .
' ’ “Resolved, That Washtenaw PomonaGrange pro-
tests against any change in the primary law un-
less that change. assist the people to more fully
express their unbiased preference for nominees.”

menus-At the annual meeting of the Four-
‘Counties (lo-operative Ass'n, held here recently,
it was announced that‘e'ver $80 000 had been paid
out to members for stock shipped thru the asso-
elation. .

Clare—“ATM farmers of this locality have tried
co-operative marketing and found it pays. At a
recent meeting of the Grange CooperativE’Ass‘n,
Inch enthusiasm and plans laid im-

ctr-operative principles Clare
farmers are now selling their own live stock,~ their
own cream and farm products, and even handling
their own groceries thru cooperating mediums-

Michigan’ 5 First Factory fer Commercial Manufacture of Potato Flour, _at Cadillac

. ESTERN Michigan is to have a new in-
dustry and one that gives promise of being
of more vital concern to agricultural in-

." ‘terests than any other one single development

factor in recent years.

The new industry is a potato flour and starch
plant at Cadillac. The Falk Company, Pittsburgh,
Pa., manufacturers of animal and vegetable. oils is
behind the project and recently’ purchased the
Williams Brothers plant, buildings and some 21
acres of land; the buildings including large two-
story mill and among others a battery of eight
large buildings, steam heated and
adapted for the storage of potatoes.
' A crew of twenty men is now at work altering
1 the buildings, getting ready for the machinery

b

admirably '

the next week or ten days. This company is
planning to be ready for the manufacture of flour
and starch within. six weeks. The new plant is
under the immediate direction of the secretary
of the company, Mr. I. 11;. songs. The machinery
is being installed by the Potato Machinery Manu-
facturing Company, Minneapolis, Minn. The potar.\
to dryersmi‘ll be of the Adt design and manufac-
ture. which is, so for eerie known, the most ap-
proved machinery for this purpose manufactured
in this country.

No.2 and oull potatoes are admirably adapted
to the manufacture of both flour and starch. Only
sound potatoes, however, can 119 used for flour, '
whereas for starch even pctatoes which have been
frozen can be utilized.

The new company plln to co-operate with the

 

Michigan Potato Growers Asseciation, independ-
ent buyers and others in obtaining their supplies
of potatoes. They figure a capacity of 700' can
load; or more per season, and it they. can set a
greater quantity or the raw product will increase
the capacity of their plant accordingly. The‘com-
pany further considers the installation of smaller
\plants in other potato—growing centers.‘ ,
The establishment oi this new industry in Cad-
illac is due 1101: a little to the- persistent efforts
of W. P. Hartman, agricultural agent for- the G.“
R. it 1., who 1111i long believed in the commercial

makers snooéos at the venture. it Will no doubt
mean; the starting of similar industrier in other
profitable utilization of the surplus and roll-grade

potato crop t reby forever 5

pmsibilities of 11mm (1me If the Cadillac plant ‘

    
   

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1me delwered ‘
1t when on use it

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A Speaal Proposition to Lime Users ‘

.i‘ “I“ '. 4" You rememher'. that last year Solvay Pulverized Limestone was in such big ‘
. I ~ " I “ ' demand thet some farm owners had to plant their crops without it, in acid soil.

     
     
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
     
  
 
   
 
 
  
 

. 1 , ,. That was because many Michigan and iIndiana farmers waited until they
V a - ' - ' _ . wanted to spread [their lime {before they lordered Solvay. Orders came in
; H , . . . masses, naturally, and everyone could not be supplied at once. r

2 Q. Pkg. ' . ‘ This year, to make sure of getting your lime, order in advance, and we ,
g: j g _ _ l L. will oofoperate with you. ‘

~ ‘ Piece your order for Solvey Limestone for January or
ebruory delivery now, and we will date our invoice April

i ‘1 ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ , , ,.\ st and extend yen our usual terms of 3% 0r cash if received
_ - ‘ ‘ ._ .1 ~ '9 ’fl 7’ . before April 10th or ninety days net.
‘1‘, g" ‘ p ' , By this method you can order your lime lnow—get it now—haul it during

1 the winter, when hauling will not interfere with other work—store it in
‘ etyfor any Ehe'd with good roof will keep bulk lime in good shape—we

v1etye air-tight wrappings for the smaller quantities—and pay for it
1 _ when you use it.

Why Farmers Choose” 11:11:73}? . ~ . “

 

 

It is not necessary‘lthese days to tell the ~ Solvey lin : is so finely pulverized that
mobrn farther lthe benefits to be derived 95% of it will pass thru a 50-mesh screen.
frdm the proper use. of, land lime. Every- 1111:: means that every particle of it comes
one knows them—the bigger yield and in contact with the soil—works on it— - .)
lrhproved crops land lime“ , removes the acids—makes _ l
._ ‘ . ; develo s. Your with}? ‘ the soil sweet. l

\ 1-, 4 . ” I ' ‘ gagent om your 3° e , . Another reason {or the
' ' ‘ ‘ ' / knows, ust what improve "‘5" better results Solvay pro-

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| “ments estone will work ‘ ‘2‘ V :5 duces is the fact that we ‘
‘ - - ' l 1.121221111112113: 1.1111251” '11: ‘3 guarantee 94% whom... ' , 3
‘ " . ‘ g y” . . All Solvay Limestone is I ' '
/ The 151.: thing to ho sure furnace dried. It is ship-
“ . :-- . of however is that you are getting the pod in b: "1 in box cars or in 100 lb. dry,
'T ‘7‘“, ‘ . ~ 5 .hest loud lime you can buy—for—bnly the air-tight 11. .pe' sacks in box cars.
1 ' ' ~ ~ " ‘ best will give full returns.

: Remember that to make sure of fitting
; " - The demand for Solvsy Pulverized Lime- your Solvay Limestone this year you
.1 ’ stooo is sufllcient proof of its quality. should order it early!

I, ‘ .o f ' a §09LVAY~3£ROCESS QQMPANY "
t ' ' i ' ' 209s JEFFERSON Ave. '— omoir, Mich.
"“ All; your county agent about the value oflend lime.

Write us fore ll'ee envelope of litmus paper for testlng the sold in your
, soil. Ask for Solvsy from your dealer.

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release by the government o!

1de easier tone to this market.
It some oints prices are a little low-
o Detroit market there is
The Food Administra-
ls deep into the study of the
d carrying. out the wheat

7 V and the groin tredov 1s Of-
$31: kinds of advice and saying,

you so." It the government
‘ to heart all the grain trade is
' ' non-days about the foolish-

s

H I Idle ofnxing prices, it will "never,
not do so again as long as it lives."

, grain irede paper voices its con-7

Men that every farmer from the

. tie to the Pacific and from the
its to the Gulf will plant spring

M "is simply going to continue is
Mieflo efforts to put money in his

that he made in 1015, '16 end

,7: and it contends that it would be
' ~ patriotism if farmers would
t eern instead of wheat so that

, the guarantee would cost the govern-

fllt as little es possible." We sup-
grnin trede would do. However,
war is over. Commercial enter-

ennounced that "business
out to
up ell the money they can.

a your ego in order to plant

wisest which they believed the gov-
ernment would need will be entirely *

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notified in carrying out these plans.
been st ll enother view-

point, the tamer still hes a chance
to secure some of the pronto denied
to him during the war period. On the

_ ether hend it would show e splendid

     
  
   
   
  
   
   
    
    
  
   

  
  

 
 
 

  

  

"appeared home
wheat area

‘due the condition to
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spirit * for farmer. who ere not com-
mercial wheat growers to devote their
attention to their usual crop end not
aloe edventege of a rather unfortu-
‘n’ete situation.
however, that there’s
be such a terrible big wheat surplus
oomeve after all and that the govern-
; ment’s‘loss on its wheat guarantee
.73: 1 will he tar less

“ g. ed u percent); snow hes dis-

We- have a feeling,
not going to

than anticipated.
at is lookins fin. (resort—

seotion oi the
leceuse ed ed
condition ed the it w i be

seventeen wonders if e tyLbelovF
lore snep doesn‘t come ong and re-
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tendencies.
, eo'rn dropped 10 to 1| cents a bushel.
«The causes for this sudden drop ‘m‘
. shout the some as have ruled the corn
market for some time, via: govern-,

the .
M the market wi

The stampede in the corn market

. flick] startled about ten days ago has
y reec ed on end eltho the first
3‘31.

week there were downward
In e single week’s time

ment indecision in fixing prices:

threatened release of Argent no corn; -

weather; and the everpreseut ,_
a of speculation. Fortunately,
ers 01 than) bolt have kept
their heads endure releasing their

thegfoed' appropriation bill enabl-

It‘, is the
of of the majority denim.“
slump in con 7 ,
_ recover Ilest
fist all that it has lost.

 

plies only gradually. The passage \
, . the government $0-15!” supplies if
. xenon" shipment isv' expected to

five" a vstiiuleting of

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Oats declined also 10 to 15 cents a
bushel in a single week. The inflo-
enoeg besetting, this market are sub-
stantially the some as those directing
the oorn movement. Relees'e by the
8mm of l supplies bought
for its own use added to the
supplies at primary into, and re-
ceipts the past, week ve been con-
siderebly larger than eoeld he moved.
In view of the large erep o; oats still
tobemoveLitisdonhttnlifthil
market will again show its old-time
strength. sltho it, is believed that—the

bottom oi the merket has been reach- '

ed and prices may advance some with-
in the next few weeks.

 

There is positively no demend for

rye tron the domestic tredo. The
government is doi a little buying
but only meeeeds in ing the price
at on even level on the nerkets where
it is ng. No. I rye which was

qqu 'we months ago et $1.61 has

declined to $1.48. At that time we
said. "Thero is not ,the demand for

thisgreinthet 1 syear ego.
Morales ryeiensfketmeyas
wen hand-mu

it
interfpt'l‘he fell week we nag
wrote. “Nat much doing in rye. It
apparent this market is not going
any higher.” Almost from that very

deg rye began to decline. ~ .
. er ey in with other

Rains hes reeehe the lowest point
oi the season, the vs best grades
bringing lees than $1... a hundred.’

 

 

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:l‘he hay market is decidedly week
right now. Detroit *prlces ~ have
dropped 81 a ton. The supply is

'ie and demand et en points

or light. in the hay'deel, the
warm weather is held largely eo-
oonntable for the easy feeling. The
Hey We Journal gives the follow-
ing excellent review of hay conditions
for the week ending Jan. 24th:—

"l‘hs demand for hay has fallen
01 sherply ill nearly on the principle
market. this week end altho prices
are little changed, values are not held
as firmly as a week ago: Consumers
are well supplied and the‘uuusually
mild weather'hes reduced the demand
to a minimum. Reports indicate thet

country loading is beginning to pick _

ups in atterfltho sharp drop follow-
ing s decline. Consumers, renewed
their depleted stocks when the price
dropped, and they took on enough
hey to last them some time, and buy-
in lasted long enough to the

back tron: the low level. th.

price -

the drop in riees the tamer sto

sellingwhi eisehelped to stifien
went there is a ten-

M
a for he to move forward again,
tax list at t e moment the consumer
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'weves about 'one def-behind storm
waves. . ‘
On mefldisn so temperatures will
very low near Feb. 1! unusually

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future ed them " :, -"‘es seen as
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ed" our estimate oi the potato site-
tion. All. .. thing considered—«the
warm weather and the test that

he. been _a bearish feeling in
other farm produeefiwe erereally
surprised thet the potatom’erket’hu
not tone lower. 1179 week one we
expected a much I greets: decline.

' warm weather continuation “h:

actually taken place.

when receipts were the- eel: and
the weather the warmest, e» Chime
market showed considerablexstr '
In our judgment. the test that e
recent decline did not bring potetees
to their lowest previous level is pretty
sound widen , that all those cells
oorned with s market huotho at»
most confidence in its stability; We.
do not «post potato prices to go much.
lower, do-expect a reaction very

soon to h gher‘pric‘es.

    

While‘x grains and vegetables are oo-
vorting, and tobogenning at will.

ap-
‘plos maintain a dignified em, and .

the tooling if anything is stronger th

a week ago. The export demon ,
keeps up: supplies, at consuming mars
kets keep down, and ,withsl‘ the apple
situation is very. .encour . " Chi-
cago quotes following o cos: North-
ern Spy, $9 to 10; York In erial 0.50:

to 7.00; Tallmen Iweets, 8 .50 to 0.90] *"‘
Kings,-$7 to 7J0; Wineseps, 7 to 7.50!“

Greenings, $6 to 6.50; Starks, 38 to
6.50: Baldwins, $8, to 8.50: Golden Rus-
sets, :6 to 8.50: Rock Russets, 88.“
to‘ 6.00 and Genes, $0 to 0.50. No. !
stock brought $3.75 to 4.00 per barrel.
according to quality end variety.

    

’ Union; have resisted 'weether, ”Q0-
ulation and every other > Mo! “
and the market’ig strong with fine

outlook. - 'i‘ho Ohiooao foobar no
the following review or the i
”It looks op though the onien mer-

» hetis, bdobetterfremmw“
my endyeilow obes this .113

. 10!, muse 3 Join 100'lb. ,
bag. Agreatdeelof,

how‘e‘vo‘r, we) bringing? j to"2.00. ‘

“From what. can be learned. stocks »

of tone onions in the podiatryere‘not

u
sir-York eta ' onionsf'melnot been

   
 
  

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“Developments have fully vindicsb-

oo'r ’ stock . ”

they ',arei‘*yery . small. ‘

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weeks with the price of butter

    

1. here it that at some time during the .
" winte? there would be a cenfiition .

milieu t that it was a matter oiw

The whole story is lack o1 consumm-
tive~ demand and an inopeesod produc-

es my to furnish this purchasing
wibl. While labor vdielo do
7 well employed there “E‘s feeling
t it in e'qnostion of nly a short
tune before many will be out of work
d, it not, t wages will be mater-
ly reduce With that feeling a
grena- economy is being precursor!
and e constitution of butter is be,-
' .e'firtailod. The mild Winter Which
. mailed this winter has stimu-
lated milk production with the re-
‘ Elton film great edger-supply out butter

3 - The market opened Monday with
» sf ~ extras quoted at 06155 to We and there
‘ . sied ism-ester confidence.
1 an new ewever. sweetness db:
\ . - veiop'od and on Wednesday there was
'_ [g -' edeoflneinptdooeiebontddwhich
- ,w ‘. 1 . followed by a turther decline of,
(, 3 * g . on Thursday. (in Friday, as job-
' .2. _. stocks were practically depleted
”f ” wesmorebuyingend endogeino!
.\ ; “as? . mount we. made, the market on-
j~ hibiting/i. firmer tone than at my
«j otherbednringtheweek. Thede-
~ -- mundane endowed” is very limit-
.3' i ‘ r are seeking bargains
. ‘ _ thmm At the close on Friday so-
an 2*: - * lbhd quotations were as follows:
. ,4. ‘ ' .. gnu, 551,5 to We: higher looting
' , (11%certne, 561,5 to 57; firsts, 52130
.3 . ' ‘ H 3 seconds, 49% to no.

 

Cold weather in the southwest
whence many of the eggs on eastern
erkets are now coming is given as
e reason tor a slight strengthening
at this ma Eliot. The Detroit rmarkot
he's nmpl offering. for all demands,
however. and every day- or two the
as works a. little Iowan, Candied
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f‘ . . , ‘ A long dull iooling‘lu poultry has
c ‘ to. been followed by a firmer tooling and
y ,. slightly highen prises. ”Few hens .
o “ y. 7 ere coming to market now. The prin-
, ' cipnl offerings are chickens. The
it , _ rices prevailing this week on the
' . ’ y. it market are shbstantially. as
.. 3‘ , y ‘ lows: Springs, No. 1.2% to 29¢;
‘-' i" . ens, 89 to 800; mediums, 28 to 29c;
:’ . leghorns. M to 28c; ducks, 38~to 840;
“to ., jk , 87 to 280; turkeys, 85 to 86o.

tossed springs. 20 to 80c; hens 89' .
80c; ducks, 85 to 380; geese, 83 to
:tnrkeys, 42. to “e per lb.

     
  
 
  
 

'» . ' .j," .. C cage Live Stock Letter
” ‘ ‘- ‘ ‘ y ' (By Specialfiorrespondent)’
f *‘ mien Stock Yards, OMoago,
«3“; 23. 1919 .«Jrno trend my [tank
" -’ A nl'm the past week been '
pressing influences including
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., unprecedented figure, dealers .
”about es 1;. at present, but it, "h
several weeks before the break would *

'oomo, hence no one JVas wavered. f

‘ .. non. The consumer depends on was- -

35nd forinsirucfive 1113- I ' ' ‘ I ,e 3 with International ttac—_ _
‘ on books. Attend our ' ( l ‘ tors or horses. These '.
tract: school n your \w E hold our customers ,3 3213 12135315: finest
Id! borhood thiswinter l e e e , 0
mm Sessions ~ J by keeping faith With \ Cm Dams
' " W Cm KIW- them by “giving any inetruc-i‘ “mm
H aovsnmr, . ’ ' EMPIRE 18-.
2°?“ “m” tion or assistance necessary WC"

Most eflective wide . Light draft, sure.
spreading machines. to the 800‘! Work Of our steady seeders in any. _.; ._
Twostylefieachoiendless desired quantityperacre. . ' ‘7
addreturnepronspread-«r mehines m the field, and Four kinds of inter- 3 L3;

”cumin sizes, f“ small, I changeable furrowopen- ‘ f l ‘ "
._ . mammmgcm by prenupt, cheerful service .... an Sm. plum
Lifht l0? dreflinfl 01' ,Whenever and wherever all kinds of large and .

V Implements! '

ODiskhan-ows that can be, easily set ff
level and that stay level in all kinds;
.1 soil. Spring-doom barrows for cold,
wet soil; adjustable for depth. Smooth- ,.
" in! barrows with strengthening bars .
and levers for settiné '1‘ 7 f .;
slant of teeth. All work of

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chines yon shady have. dr’awliu' and
. , s " l'hitchesiorbindernmowb
‘ ere; wows. ,Sprc prcaders. and wagons.
. g .mans- 16, 10-20, and 15-30-h.p..

,slloperatingonkerosone
Lender all conditions.

   
 

 

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heavy spreading. as/de- . .
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,mm This policy, estabhshed CW 5.
Klaxons: S
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. steady m‘ ae- , business 88 years ago, v c1... skimminfi m-

’ pendable engines chines that h old he in
from 1 to 15-h. p..- in ap- and faithfully followed, lids every dairy swhile butter
31:35:53.1?33 brought us the confidence 33:62:15; 32.3.35:
and under all conditions. . ’ _ hand setting west -
High grade engines. up- 0‘ thousa.ds 0‘ farm ful sch-atoro‘wlll ocean .
‘to-date movery detail at as who now are stand- pay for the machine. Ask . '
reasonable prices. Ask ‘ the dealer to show you ‘ ’

the local dealer-about the ardizing on our machines. . why these machines at
International Type II __’ all the cream. thin or

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(INCORPORATED)

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Cut Your Feed Costs

Direct Dealing Saves You All the Expense and Profit of the Middluuen

Lowest Prices to All—Special Favors to none.
Write soday for Price List. Everything ll hell-
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~~-\1‘his is the highest grade of . For hogs. pigs and poultry, 1. ...]

manufactured. containing 60% rth to‘ middli when fed to the
and enables the feeders of hog-s any. “33 m.
about 40% of his feed bill, on the and at several dollars per ton led;

  
 

 
   

 

   
  
  
   

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personal fortunes at the
, got _ Europe’s misfortunes.

and the formation of the Food
tration gave the unscrupulous
tow an opportunity for which they
were looking Self-seeking “patriots”

 

to Washington and tendered their ser-
use: to the" government at $1 per
”.1.er emergency was great; thire
': was no time for careful investiga

into the business connections of these
men, nor of the motives which brought
{“Qem to the capitol city. The first

who came were the first accepted; and
you may count on it that those who
were looking for something besides a
job were not the tardy ones.

«Among other departments of-— the
Food Administration, there was or-

hit means or foul, to en?

declaration of war against Gen

Aron all quarters of the nation flocked '

y
.ooiitrol is: as summing .
’ we shall hereafter re'fer. to t, e b

' regulating and bean-buying branch big"
the Food Administration. Les merely

‘ the “Bean Division."

The history oi- the "Bean Division"

is one ignoble chapter after another.
(It is' blotted with dork deeds and

questionable procedures; it resign with '

evidences oi conspiracy to defraud a
*vast section of country of its legiti-

mate place in the commerce of the!

nation; it frankly reveals the use of

money of the United States govern- .
“practically repudiated the ciaimg or

ment to advertise and purchase the
product of one section of the country
to the detriment of another sectidn:
and in its final chapter is hali- -diSclos-
ed a plan whereby those, who by vir-
tue of inside information of-the food-
purchasing plans of the government
secured thru association with the
Bean Division, would manipulate the
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advertise and
stocked ‘ ..

_ Came harvesting time, the govern-

ment amlnce‘d’ that; it would buy
beans for the army and navy. Bido
were submitted by. holders oi beans

  
   
       
       
    

thruout the country. Uphn one pre-‘ '

text or another then Behn Division

the Michigan bean growers and Job-
bars to‘ a. part of the government busi-
The price was too high; the
beans Were too wet; the Bean Divisd

. ion would buy later. This vacillation

worried the bean growers; they plead-
ed with the Bean Division to buy part
oi their crop; they urged an investi-.
gotten to prove that the prices they

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

UNIVERSAL TRACTOR

“One man and a MolinaJJniversal‘ Tractor will do about
the same work (taking a search through) as two men with
four horse teams." - Crambongh Rm, Vandalia, Illinois.

Statements‘such as this from Molina-

hsve mmf $82. $0 to plow this with 6hoxses not

 
    
    
       
     

     
      
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
   
   

Universal owners—and we have many of f“ s-‘m ' °' “my mi" dam”

them—support our claim that the Molina. if? to M85343“? so the 3333?» ow; figs. 5

Unicvhersal Enablh‘oonhnlfmth to do twice .i: has" i hi“ I kind the Moline-Universal I would ‘ /ll‘
0 i.

m“ instants". WW“ Wen-2° seawxv‘mm ,/ t.

With a Molina-Universal you can low 9
acres a day. double disc 27 acres. 135
acreacultivate l5 to macros, mow 25 to 35
acres,and harvest 30 to 35 acres. Figure
out for oneself how long this would take
you withf horses. Then keep in mind that
in case of necessity you can work night as
well as day. because the Molina-Universal
has complete electrical equipment. includ-

Many other statements similar to this ’ ‘
prove that the cost of operating a Moline- ~- 1
Universal Tractor' is no greater than maln- ' " \ {i j
taining three or four horses. while it will do , {
twice as much work. Then therein another w .
big advantage -- belt work. The Molina-
Univereal has enough power for all ordin-
, my belt power requirements.

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ing electric lights and self-starter. “i purchased Oxfiésepsrstor andthen threehed ’ I 3. i

As for expense it runs about half what } my Kminh. valid tliltuwithth zMoline, Mod ilei D. .d'léhe / ['

tame: “m"? 167°?” ““3; size. “We“, i Tm Kiwi .333” * ii

I o my neig rs. u acres ,,

plowed“ some: mounted mtot$32P9im ltwould in all.' -G. C. App penu‘x. Bouton. ._ i1

- ' Considered from sycsy the Molino-Univenal isthe best tractor for you. , /l"
' " does farm suit? hvsnng. One man past both tractor .

fndim imam“ thzdimplement. hwillm‘hkeyoehdey. See ,. V/ /l

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Manufacturer-sci Quality Farm 5
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. other underminifiy
ing perilously closeu'to’
grams and ltte'rs oi! protest (rein
outraged gro‘We'rs” jobber; and farm
papers at the navy bean states rained
upOn the Bean Divisioumbut to no

avail. ~~The pinto publicity and put»

chases went on\ Finally, a' delegation

ot iraté representatives of the bean
‘ industry in this state went to Wash-
ington and laid bege‘re the astonished
was of Herbert Homi- the evidence
at this mini: discrimination. and an
order went out terthwith that the
pinto publicity should cases and Mich-
igan éhould get a share of the govern-
ment’s orders. Thusinded the pinto
deal. It has already east nthe farmers
of Michigan. several million dollars
and what its ultimate efiect upon the
navy bean industry may be, no one
an hazard a guess ~ '

The 1918 Bean Situation
"We are at the height of another
marketing season. There is an enor-
mous crop oi: beans g—navies, pintos,
pinks—from Michigan and New York;
from New Mexico, Colorado and Call-

" fornia; from Japan 'and from Man-

churia,——twenty‘ to twenty-five million
bushels—-—ail looking for a market in
the Unitedfitates or Europe. thru the
agency of the Food Administration.
Domestic demand is light; proht~
'iable prices to“ growers are maintained
with the utmost difliculty; fear is en-
tertained that the bottom may go out
01! the market and cause growers an
enormous loss. It is a situation that
calls for the utmost diplomacy, the
highest skill of salesmanship and the

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l« . closest «yo-operation between grower.

elevator and jobber”

Several months ago the Michigan
Bean Jobbers' Ass'n foresaw some of
the things thatwould happen to the
bean market and,‘ began to plan a‘ de-
tenslve, Members or the associatiof
clearly realized that unless Michigan
growers were protected against lose
this year there would be few beans
grown another year. So, after lengthy
negotiations, the Association was
able to convince the Grain Corpora-
tion of the advisability of buying
enough of its requirements in Mich}-
gsn to enable the elevator; to stabil-
iza the price to the farmer at $8 per
hundred And for. the most" part this
price mags} maintained. Not with—
out diflioulty, however Because of
the large stocks of beans casted for
sale and the spasmodic buying by
the government, there have been Wide
fluctuations, but by careful selling and

- ’buying between grower and elevator

man, the price has ruled iairfy' steady
with few it any losses to date to
those who remained true to the pledge
e: the Association K.

“ "The Speculators Enter the Scene

But once more the “villain” enters

tiemcn‘, (or shall We say a certain
gentleman) but ~recently (lilo-reed

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frontih3,3ean Diyision and possessing

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-, . million dollars to purchase toad for

' and with this movement there ought ‘j

' ' the banks will not permit speculatmn

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, ‘ ; matedeg when the interests of thous-
’ ~_ ; nude of producers and millions -of ,

" ' stand the nature or the influences

price at the close of the marketing
«season.

' beans are if the gr

The tot31 airman; 1)! grain handled
1'1 1913 by the “339‘! Gram GrOWers ~ Growers is 343, or which 233 are m
or calgary thé (so-operative iarmers’
:org3nization oi western Canada, was toba government. ,5: > __ :1 .

1918 were reps
1, surplus, 81, 900,000.
The t6t31 lininber of country I».
are operated by the United

ed and 111 as leased aim the my:

 

"ham 0‘: thé oo-orditgtad
;Qhaeing agencies oL 9.23?
Ta “W

_!§et, tilt”;
able, indead. ‘

This acemniai for the antics of the
I bean market the past tW0 weeks, and
What might have happened, had nbt
the “bears” been cornered in; their lair, '
nobody knows. It is str3n‘ge, indeed;
that such questionable if hot actually
Icriminal manipulation should be per- ‘

‘ .

2

4 consumers are at “3&6

What is Future of Market? :
The head market is not in such a -.
:fihad way after all, noW that We undpr—

that have been at work to tear it. doWn
There are many encouraging aspects.
' Last Friday California groWers ug-
:3niniously de'cided to continue hold-
, ing their crop, and not interfere with
g the movement of Michigan beans
, This action was not taken because
they had any special interest in the
problems of Michigan groWers, but
bmuse they have figures to show that
less than eight per cent of the Mich-
1331). crop refn‘ainan the hands or the
growers, and that the elevators do not
hold a sufficient quantity to seriougly
affect the future market. The 'bill re-s -
cenfiy passed by both houses at Wash-
ington appropriating one hundred

the starving people across the seeas
was asked for by President Wilson
and Will be quickly signed by him
This means a demand for more baths

~92 b8 a clearing up of the present sit-
nation._ ‘ :

, It is true that thwbeaa buyers of
Michigan have been disposing at beans
33 met as they could be sold or} the
"basis agreed upon. At lite dollars per
bushel beans ran into money fast, and

Where they furnish‘ the money, new : '
that conditions are so 3;, uncertain '
Farmers niust be patient,- We are con-
mom that the Michigan Bean Joly-
hers’ Association is striving to main:
tain the market, and it stands to:
reason that they Itvould not at this ‘/ ,
stage of the game become a party to 2”
r311}? Scheme Which would lower the

_. It has been only thru ie$ing the
~in3rket carefully that the five dollar ,

that less than eightxer cent of the
were’ hands, it

     

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The Statement
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The answer to the statement recorded by the
Senate Statistics!) of the 45th Congress that a
saving in labor of forty-five million dollars would
result to American farmers through the use of
Oliver plows is found today in the universal de-
mand for Oliver products. '

Even as early as the 45th Congress (187 7- 1879)
Oliver quality had been proven in actual practice
and Oliver leadership in providing plows that

assured better seed beds already wtahh’shed.

' The agricultural history of the years that have
followed has borne out the correctness of this
statement.

Oliver predominance has hept pace with the remark-

able progress of American agriculture in the past half-
century—with its doubling of farm mite tripling of pro-

duction,' its tremendous reduction of Content! humanlabor.

Today, as we stand just on the threshold I modern
power farming, Oliver leadership and progress coats are
Iignallizcd as emphatically as in the early days. A. large
majority of tractor manufacturers have openly declared
their preference for Oliver plows and tractor implements
to be used in connection with their tractors.

. This preference is based on shear merit. It has been
earned by Oliver's thorough knowledge of soil conditions,
plow design, plow hitches, tractor construction and

- Operation. It has been held and cemented by Oliver's

country-wide service organization.

In the “Statement of Yesterday—proved by the cxpcri— .
once of a generation—holding promise of greater achieve-
ments in this new era of American agriculture—~you will
find ample justification for Oliver’s slogan: “Plow Makers
for the World. ”

Oliver Chilled Plow Works
South Bend. Indiana

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on government, contractg‘sold late last
week and again at the inception of this
week’s trade 750 to $1. below the
month's high spot. Declines narrowed
on the cheaper grades with strong
competition dram the country for
' steers » suitable to the feeder outlet
~ holding the kinds selling, below $14
up» well,‘in fact goo and "choice feed-
ing steers which h vs gone to the
country during the past week at $12.50 .
to‘ 314.50, weighing 875 to 1,000 lbs., 8?? People‘ofrmm‘ope- Just “1.0mm“
showed about a 260 advance over heir the toad-purchasing 886M195 start
value as feeders the week prie ious\ buying, it will take the slack out of
and never sold higher in the history “ the market and we may’be absolutely
.0: this market. There continues, how- sure that prices will advance. More-

9 er, a slack country call for the more .
common light stockers, the future mar- :Zggsyggnfiigznfifi 3:226:12: 2'; 13:.-

ket being regarded with too much un- . .

certainty by prospective investors in market t0 buy on “1911' own account,-

stock cattle Jan warrant investments . and as soon as domestic buyers ‘860

in such stockrat recent high levels. »‘ the surplus stocks going into govern.
Receipts have carried a big (propel~ .ment and foreign hands, there will

tion of mixed butcher 4ettle and the be a scramble to'fllL their own needs.

market has ”1’”!wa 9°V°r°\9fl“ Another encouraging feature oi the

cuts. 'Most of the butcher cows and . ‘ .
heifers sold today 3? declines of fully market situation is that most of the

$1 per cwt. from a week ago "while
_canners and cutters are 01! as much,
and/tat bulls are being“ neglected at
declines of $1.50 or more per cwt. ‘as
compared with their value ten days 0
since. A spread of from $7.75 to $9.50
is now taking most of the\decent to
good butcher cows and heifers.
While hog receipts have been held
down by the car allotment plan,,sup-
plies all around the circuit have been
large enoug’ to keep the trade in a
more or less congested condition. On
Monday of last week at $18 ‘top and
general average of $17.64 was made
at Chicago, but the price worked down
rapidly to the set minimum average
01317.50 'tor the month. A moderate
supply today prompted some better
actiou on the better grades of butcher
hogs and an extreme top of $17.85 or
150 above Saturday was recorded. The
trade, awaits with great interest an-
nouncement of the plan of the Food
Administration relative to sustaining
February prices. -~.. _
Live mutton trade showed some re-
action today from declines ranging
from 25 to 500 enforced last week,

Congress; has Just pasged the $100
000,000 appropriation bill for the

plies for distribfition among the hun—

Desp its the promise of. large export
orders there have been few years
when farm sing/has moved as- freely
to market as it has the. present season.
With only about a third of the mar
keting season passed, probably two
thirds of the total crop hasmeen nan
vested which, leaves a long period 0!
time in which to dispose of compar-
atively small stocks.

We think the marketing situation
is anything but alarming. We must
.. remember that conditions are very un-
usual; there is a lack of confidence
'due to the uncertainty of what the
first. few months of the reconstruo'
tion period may bring forth; every-
body ls loath to “load up” on farm
mproducts or anything else. But unless .
we/have been grossly deceived as to
the probable food wants of foreign
nations,“ we need have no fear but
that there'will be a market for every
pound of feed-stuffs now. on hand.
Farmers should keep their 'heads
level; market their stuff gradually
as prices advance from time to time
to pay them a profit. The situation
is entirely in their ‘hands. A rushing

of crops to“markei., now would simply

demoralize the entire trade, bring

about disastrously low prices for a

couple" of months’only to result in a

reaction to high prices. long before

another harvest. Keep cool; don’t
rock the boat; the harbor is just
“ahead. '

dition and light receipts will be re-
quired during the current week if fur-
ther improvement is to be expected.
Good to choice fat lambs"’sold today at
$16 to $16.40. There "was inquiry for
, feeding lambs at $14 to $15 and fleshy
kind on the shearing order was quot-
able up to $15.25. Choice medium and
hanmv weight yearling wethers \are on
a $14.25 to $14.50 basis with the best
heavy yearlings selling around $13.50
to $13.75, while good to‘cholce aged

  

 

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penny; the accumulation at :
for: speculative

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omeflmes happens that a late

“ spring freese’ over varying ~areas de-
eater part of the locust

e:ud other natural causes fre-

' quently “tend to diminish the possible
devastation. '

Latitude does not appear to mater- ~

’ tally affect the time of emergence

 

from the ground. the cicada in the '

Lake states coining but within a week
or two of the“, same tlnie as in the
Gulf and South Atlantic states. This
date ranges from the "last week in
my to the first in June, and the
shriekipi hosts marge looked tor
throughout the whole territory indi-
sated at about that time. Late in May
or early a: June the under sides or

leaves on practically all trees in dense

brood areas will be studded With the
east skins and every wooded place
will be resounding with the shrill
drums. V

. Armonth later the deposition of

eggs in branches will have become '

general. of forest trees, the oak
and hickory appear ‘to~-be preferred,

“ though" the cicada deposits .eggs in

all kinds of trees, with apparent ten-
dency, however, to avoid pines and

cedars and such other species as ex-

ude gummy substances. or orchard
trees, the apple is the favorite with

. peach and pear trees second, and all

others, even grape vines, come in for
some share of attention. In the case
or large trees, only slight and tem-
porary injury is done but with young
orchards and nursery stock the re-
sult may be fatal unless some pro-
tective measures are adopted.

Fear crowd by the presence ’ at
this insect in great numbers is out of
proportion to the real damage likely
to be ”done
tions should not become ‘unduly al-
armed but should apply suo‘h meth-
ods of control as are possible. In
young orchards and nurseries, themat-
est method is the hand collection of

.. the insects at the time of emergence

or as soon afterward as possible.
Every cicada \n'ies to climb some
plant or tree immediately after com-
ing out of the {round bud great num-
bers of them can be shaken or! and

,. collected in Bags or umbrellas. This

practice may be continued 1e:- an in-

definite time after emergence and the ,

work should be done very early in
the morning or late in the evening

I when the insects are someWhat torpid

and sluggish. I! undertaken at the
first appearance’md repeated eaehday
control. Will be iacilitated by the

fact that most of the insects Will be
. on the young trees or short branches,
" or on the lower branches of large
r trees and within comparatively easy

reach.

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applied at the moment of emergence
from the around or shortly after it

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soft 'and comparatirely helpless. This

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AGRICULTURE ' 4.
0F COHERCIALISTS

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(Omflnued from page 5)

ading under the name of farmers’

friends, who \do what they can to con-

vince the farmer that he is being my» -
ally treated 11 he is left with some—‘
e arrives for deposit; thing with which to fill his hungry

mouth and those of his wife and babies
after a iourteen hour day of the fam-
fly in the best field.

The commercialist controls our de-
pattments in the government; the
commercialist controls our press; the
commercialist controls our . polities.

This has‘been the story, and. there
are rory' few exceptions. We in Mich-
igan are very fortunate indeed to have
so true a iriend as the Mromem Bos-

\nmss,’ Diamante, but it only reaches

the firmer, and until the farmer
learns to vote intelligently for his
own interests—even more, for in the
future his wife must vote intelligent-
ly tor the interest of the farmer, for
we may he sure the. women in town
will wvote as every American should,
and the farmer‘s wife is just ae,.Amer-
loan as the townsman‘s wife—the peo-
ple in town will control the vote. We
must reach the man in town, show him
our side of the case, and show him
that if the farmer can get better jus-
tico the town‘sman will'share in the
benefit. Such a move would, of course,
injure the commercialist, and the city
newspapers will never aid in such a
move out. And so the whole prob-
lem s mmers down to the simple ques~
tion, "How can we get a hearing be-
fore the man in town?"

The commercialist has himself giv-
en us the means whereby we can get
before the people. In trying to in-
crease the production the commercial-
ist has given us the county agent for
the benefit of the farmer calling 19m
an agent, but for their own benefit de-

manding that he be a professor and .

putting every obstacle in the way of
the agent should he attempt to really
benefit the farmer thru bettering mar-
ket conditions. In most counties the
agent has a “County Agent’s Column”
in the local newspaper. Thru this
column it the agent is truly in sym-

. pathy with the farmer, he can place

the farmers’ case before the people
in. town. Oi course it the agent is
not in empathy with the farmer; but
remains the pliant tool of the commer-
cialist influences surrounding him as
he lives in the county seat in town,
then it is up to the county farmers to
get one who will be. The county agent
is very necessary,
should insist that he be the farmers’

agent. not the commercialist's agent.

That’s where the hitch comes. The

- county iarm bureamxne county Grange

or Gleaners’ society, and the boards oi
supervisors have it in their control
to demand that the county agent be a
real tarmers’ agent, and thru them the
banner can speak for himself. Per-
haps after awhile the farmer will then
stand some chance of being honestly

represented on the boards, bureau-

end departments of agriculture, where

*has shed in pupal skin- and is still hecanepeekforhimseliandinnuenoe

the government‘s actions toward ins-
tice rather than to the special benefit

eithe 00111th (as in the case

of mill feeds) at the loss of the farm

suits are obtained with methum - «And the’ expense of the consumer.

powder, kerosene emulsion, 5 two per

;pereeatselutionoiaoetioeuld.
Mum ~

toeluticn ofcarbeliooold,or-a'

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In a recent issue you asked for or.

perform with sou-feeders ior hose. 1
samba/m7 hogs was and mid-
mixed (about I pounce to the

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EDITORIAL COMMENT

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The Fallacy of Increased Production

A VERY FOOLISH nation has a very fool-
' ish notion that production of food should
be eajtly- increased. The propaganda- that
hasi'be set afoot by the Department of the
Interior to encourage soldiers to take up farm-
ing ,is one of the manifestations of this very
dangerous doctrine of increased production.
The city gardening idea is another. So are
' the redOubled eiforts of the agricultural col-
leges to teach methods of efi'iciency in produc-
tion to the total neglect of efficiency in mar-
.keting.

No evidence has been submitted to show
that more food is needed than can be supplied
4 by those already engaged in its production.
" ’. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that
_ . there is an over-supply of certain staple arti-
' ,.cles of food, and that the utmost care must
{be employed in marketing them if the Inc
. ducers are to be spared great losses.

'-‘ There is too much wheat. The amount on
. hand and in prospect is far greater, accord!
“A ing to the Food Administration, than the
--world can possibly consume during this and
the coming year. _

There are too many beans for domestic
- , , consumption. The 1918 crop was the big-

, goat in the history of the United States. The
market has been glutted; the prices oflered

give the glowers littleif any profit; nothing
but a vigorous foreign demand and large gov-
_ “ernment purchases can move the crop at a

" fair price to the growers,

A year ago there were too many potatoes.
This year there are just about enough to go
around. An increased yield of only 'ten
bushels to each acre planted in 1918,.or an
increased acreage of ten per cent, would have
meant an over-production and subsequent
. low prices that would have brought ruin to

“many potato growers. ' ‘
2 Last. ear withmless men engaged in the
. .vproduc on of food-studs than for, several
' years, more food was produced in this coun-
' try than during any other single year of its
. ‘- history. Necessity drove farmers tocultivate
-’ .. larger areas, with less help and less money,
_ . ' fend having made a successful 10b of it, they,

- , a may be expected to maintain the record they

' i .have established. ‘ " ,

. - secretary Lane wants the government, in
, conjunction with the stateato reclaim, irrigate
' and develop 200,000,000 acres of land and set ~

them to work producing crops. That vast
area, divided into farming tracts, would make
2 million farms of 100 acres each, whieh'it
properly cultivated would; producer—in terms
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{The Trials of the‘CountyL Agent ‘ '

HERE ARE a lot of fine, capable, and
ty agents. _. But they sure do have.their trot»,
bles. If they tend strictly -_to' their knitting
and preach only the good old, sermons on in-
.creased production, they‘ don’t get" very: far

, with the farmers who “don’t want no‘ city fel-
lars telling us how-to farm.” And'if. they
wander from their text and try to show the
farmers how to market their crops tie-opera;
tively and for greater profits, they trespass.

upon the sensitive toes of the town middlemen
who help pay the county agent’s salary from

the profits they make oil the farmer.

The county agent of New 0 county made
a martyr of himself when‘he ook precedent ’s
bull by the horns, and tried to assist the farm-

ers to organize for co-operative marketing.”

He was pré‘mptly-gored to death by the near-
sighted and close-listed produce dealers who
thought they had some God-given right ,to a
monopoly in f -stufl trading. And the
farmers whom e had tried to help stood
around and watched the goring.
A writer in the Big Rapids Pioneer, dis—
cuSsing the matter, says: '
. “I: Mr. Smith had been looking solely to the sol-
ldlty of his own situation. he would probably not
have tackled the question of co-operative market-

ing. The‘ outright campaign which he has con-
ducted in this behalf was likely construed as hes-

tlle to established lines of producepgbusiness, and”

consequently involved the risk of o , osltion. The
shock of this was all the greater in Mecosta coun-‘

ty, where it has been generally supposed that the?

agent's energy 'would be chiefl
proved methods of pmduetion."

So there you are. The cat’s out. The town
produce dealers, the merchants who make a
double profit by exchanging merchandise for,
butter and eggs, and the banks that hold the
purse strings, all help to pay‘the county"agent
to teach the farmer to raise more crops to
help the local middlemen make more profits.
But the instant that Mr. County Agent talks
about helping the farmer to some of these prov
fits, out he‘goes.

Men who try toserve two masters inevitably
come to grief. The county agent who at all
times has all the interests of the farmer at
heart and boldly takes the" lead in the solution
of marketing as well as production problems,
will sooner or later run afoul of the town
'folks. Many‘ county agents took a valuable
part in the development of the co-operative
marketing idea in this state last year. But in
many instances, it cost' them prestige among
the commercialists of the towns and villages.
And it is no credit to the farmers to say that
merely because of an ancient§prejudice,’many
of them, too, ‘forsook the man who. tried to
help. Farmers, if you have -a”cou.nty agent
and he’s got nerve enough to talk co-Operative‘?
«marketing aloud, for the sake of your repute->-
tion and your-epocket-book, stand by: him.

There’s sponscian Around acme;
SUNBRY EFFORTS are being ‘malde . by

the tottering remnantaoi the ‘old guard "’
to_.;restore" the convention Wenclgd nomina.
tions in {1150 Mite. ill seine form on'hther.

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nominate men to, omce. rfll‘h‘e conventionsys‘
tom is the politician’s my... Theprimary‘r .
method gives democracy :a‘, chancefor its wid- ', ‘ ‘
__ est expression. The convention method, by i ._ ‘ "
its very nature, puts in’the hands of- a few
who are not accountable to the people the
power of nd'minating men for pdblicmofiice
who must be accountable to the people. ,
This boss-controlled convention is a'relic‘of
the past. ,It now‘reposes in the ash-Can 'with'
other things that have been tried and discard-
ed for something better. And. the voters will I
relegate to the same receptacle any legisla- '
tor who listens to the siren voice of the pol-.
.iticians and votes to further. impair or destroy

Michigan ’s primary law.
7 Give Soldiers the“Preference .
EMPLOYERS "of labor should frown upon
the chimerical eflforts of the U. S. Depart-.5
partment of Labor. to build upacfive' org‘an-
izations of boys and Women to bid againstmalfé
adult labor.” Today in, the city» of Detroit"
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the undisputed obligation of those who, staye'i'd!‘
7 at home to, rovide work at living Wages for
those who ought the nation’s battles. The
Department of Labor is renouncing this ob-
, ligation when by, a single word 'or‘ act “it"en~
courages the employment (it-child; or" female
labor. There is no manual labor " that a boy
or a‘wom‘an‘ can’do whichevestalwart, Willing
soldier cannot do better. Even if 'it' 'costs__a
little more to employ- the soldier,- he should
by all means be given the preference. , 'Any
manufacturer or any farmer who gives .em-
ployment to boys, women or male slackers ,
when discharged soldiers are ‘available,.;<is ..
lacking in the qualities of our beasted 'pat- ,-
riotism. . “ " " 4 '

Individual eflortstogincrease‘ the acre yield
and thereby reduce the cost of production
should certainly be encouraged, but any plan
having for its purp0se *a nation-wide increase” .
of food production, .91" fithmbringing undo); ;
cultivation; of vast areas 01? hitherto. unpro; '
ductive'land‘, should be...weighed. with the ut- ‘-

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’ ludgmcnt, very animus -

. . Government in any way,
” -. m erotica in all demands in

Lamb precident of the North Dakota
1‘ ~Gallegos, a very kindly, cultured
. clarly , was chairman of the
egi‘fion. He $01d of the aflorts he had put
' - tomake the agricultural college a real
"' {benefitto to the tumors of North Dakota during

,thspssttwenty ymmhisaght with the

combinations whitih not Only controlled the
markets, but mtablished the grading rules,
and theprogremhehadmadesmce the farm-

" 3:, ,. mhdtahnhddotthestatagovernment.

ofitrymg to “make =
w}? While certain gentle”

Simpban
bdchwithout
men; scrim ingots! easy jobs atgoodmsalaxfes
mgoing ut chiancryhgfiwo w ”
“diverting

the entrance of the»

f a; there are farmers in
semen at the state who have
, freaks bricks without straw”
. _ ey have long prayed for relief

, ” only ask for “M131 ,
. .,;Ind “straw” in this instance means sufli
dent finance; to operate thankusmess—mon—
szwe mmhh‘thnttheymaybeahleto
'"w farm products and pay. 3.01- their home
and land: Ifbank era, moneyed men and the
,f ’ would hear the cry for "straw" and
Maid: it, contented farmers would supply

1‘ “The surest W to pro.
at ‘_ and the

it : Million ”allure—Why, a Maro\

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the votém at the April electron. There"

A 9t sediment time for the discussion cf the
cation, therefore, the amendment will go

A 'efore the voters only partially understedd

If the amendinent passes, then a law, speci-
fieally setting forth the plan of handling this
immense fund, will have to be passed,

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road-building pro ram outlined and the ma;

chinery finally as in motion.

The farmers of Michigan are burdened with
taxation, they are right now paying more

than their portion for good roads. Good roads

henefit the farmer; he is vitally interested,
but he 15 not the sole beneficiary, and, as only
main arteries of travel would be constructed,

it is true? that the farmers of the state would
receive less benefit from a state system of
roads than would the automobilists and truck
lines.

_ If this amendment to the Constitution
could be presented at the spring election one
year hence we would favor its submission;
but to spring a fifty million dollar bond issue
amendment on the people sixty days before
the election 13 hardly fair. Finally, those who

. use and misuse the roads most must pay

their just' portion of both building and main-
tenance. Under present laws and regulations
they escape through the dustbarrage of their

‘ own making.

We Have Bridged the Atlantic

ASHINGTON, whose birthday we shall

, celebrate this month, warned us against
“entangling alliances with foreign nations,”
and just now those who were most anxious
that this nation should engage in the war back
in ’15 and ’16, are swinging their arms and
crying danger.

The nation has been afflicted with these
‘nuts” formany years—like the signboards
along the highway, they are ever pointing the
way but never'get anywhere.-,The United
States got into the war thru circumstances
not of our own making, the Atlantic was not
bridged until necessity demanded that we
should move in next door.

The United States will never stand again
where it stood five years ago, in its relation
to the nations of the WOrld. When Washing-
ton gave his warning it would have taken
’ronnd the
world; today a message of war or peace races
to every part of the world, —— ’round and back
again in seven minutes.

The people of the nation have a vital inter-
est in the Peace Conference, and it is well that
this nation holds a commanding position at
the peace table. We attempted to keep away
_£rom the fighting, from war, from bloodshed
and sorrow, but we couldn’t do it. Now that
the war has been fought and won, and we real-

talk- ' ize that neighbors have moved right in next

fiftymillimdollmforroadnnprove—
'_.Andwouldyonbeheveit,sevenoutot

door, it behooves us to get acquainted.
‘President Wilson is insisting that every
possible step be taken to secure such action as
v19] give the greatest possible assurance of an
and he should have the united
support the liberty-loving people of this
much. oti’s‘ the most important piece of bus-
inm this initial: has on hand right now, and
all hit the ‘innts” realize this fact. ’Tis well

i . 1ichfigtin Vthflrlatter years We pay less and

fits the ravings of the‘ nu’

i' 1 Jim Helms, hss tit
city {GE and gives es
farmers

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LL THIS TALK about placing the re.
turning soldier boys on unimproved

corned. This nation entered the War Ju
1917—the day of the first conscription?
rollment Millions of young men regist
and finally leftutheir jobs and entered:
service.

Eighteen months have since passed, the.
War is over nd the boys are coming home. ' _
Mark you, a boys who left home eighteeng
months ago are coming back, the very same-
boys, but not with the same hopes and am-- ‘
bitions. They have been thru an experience ‘ "
that has builded rather than destroyed, hope,
ambition and individuality.

They are not coming home as worn-nut vet-. ‘
erans, as men who have been so subdued by ’
military training and discipline that they are
ready to‘ ‘go way back and sit down.” They.
have returned to enter active business, to ':~
better, if possible, their former condition; if '

not they at least demand, and should have, _ I, '

their old jobs back.

Some of the farmer boys will not again re-
turn to the farms; This is to be regretted,
but it is true. Mighty few of the boys are
looking for “muck and timber lands,” where

7 they can make a home for the little lady, who

,1” on is going merrily on.

has longed for the day when “Bill” would
return from the war.

Every soldier who has given his life to the
cause; yielded up his life in the expectation
that Uncle Sam would care for his dear ones.
Every injured soldier must be placed in a po-,
sition where he can earn his own living if
possible; must be cared for and looked“ after
by Uncle Sam. Every young man who enter-
ed the service is entitled to his old job back,

and something better if it is to be had. For~

get the “muck and timber” land idea.

\ .
The investigation of the Jackson state pris-
Now that the war is
over, this investigation will give the daily
press something to talk about. In the mean-
time what the present warden needs 1s a little ' '
encouragement and help He is a new man

on the job, and he has tackled the state’ s big- - ‘

gest job. Some good day the old hulk of a
prison, the relic of days long since passed, Will

" be moved out frOm Jackson, into God’ 8 coun-

try, under the clear, blue skies, Where weary
men can look up, and where other men can
help lift up. In the meantime let the investi- -.
gation, go on"; turn up the putrid soil in the ‘
old prison yard, tear down and quarrel and
wrangle-11 thousand human beings are hous-
ed within those grey prison walls.

Several sheep bills before the Michigan leg- '
islature. If any or all go thru, Mr." Dog is
going to have less liberty than he has enjoyed

the past. Make the dog owners bf each ' _/ °
township pay for all of the sheep killed within '5

the township and you will have a dog law , I

which will mighty soon rid the country of 1 "
sheep-killing dogs. .-

There' 1s such a thing as drinking the “dish-
water” of life. When yOu listen to and re-
peat scandal and small talk, when you have
no good words for your neighbor; when you

uarrel and fret—just remember you are
drinking the dish-water of life. Throw it in r_

-the sewer, and drink from the pump.

J. Ogden Armour, better known as “Uncl’

, J H says that flab packers should be left 9.1% ,

True, they haven’t grown.

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your encouragement, so I think that
you are onthe main trfik to the beE-.

' torment of all concerned. but cs

tally the farming class, and hope

1‘ you will not get side-trackedyby those '

who oppose your splendid methods of
aiming at the truth along economic
lines.

“There are so many “sharks" in the
pond that as soon as You bat one over
the head another bobs up, and then
others in different directions, so_that
to be safe we must adopt that glorious
old maxim, “Eternal vigilance is the
'prlce of liberty."

I have noticed for many years that
the farming class, as such, is consid-
ered by the other “interests" of an
inferior class, all by themselves, as
it were, but very essential, however,
sothat they may thrive. The- farmer,
as a rule, has many considerations to
keep him busyind therefore does not
take as much interest in public affairs
as he should in order to be able to
battle the “sharks" successfully as
they come to the surface to pull him
under for a square meal. They kno
just about where to find their prey,
and have in the past been successful.
All other "his interests” are thorough-
ly organized and therefore know one
another in detail, while the farmer

* has been in the habit of attending

the Grange or the farmers' institute,

etc., telling of his grievances and

resolving to do this or that for a

whole year thru, or rather” for 804

days, and the very next day, being
election day, votes the 'same ticket in

name, as he always did, not thinking
but what he has exercised his mum)

of sufrrage until another year rolls

around, and then does the same thing
over again. The cream hindrance
to a farmers' national organization is
that their respective intends are dihi
forent. One is a dairy farmer, anoth-
er a grain or stock farmer. etc. So all
along the list, and so look at econom-
ic interests from c different angle,
when, if they might pull together they
could have things their own way in-

stead of being dictated to in s hund-

red and one ways. I am truly glad the
farmer has a friend in the M. B. F.

and also hope Uncle Rube will con:
tinue to make it lively for the “in-

terests" from time to time. ”Eternal

vigilance is the price of.liberty,” and

if we cannot reach the ideal exactly,

we can attain to somewhere near it.

80 let the good work go forward.—
F. H. 0., Allow» county. ,

A Good Idea on the Road Build-
ing Proposition
" I have been reading with some in-
terest the various papers in regard to
what we shall do to keep the ban
busy after the war. Some oi the
schemes are so elaborate that it would
take years and billions of dollars to
get them in working order. Others
are so impractical it disgusts a think-
ing men, while others are so\ lull of

. graft that weary self-evident. Now.

some may my on action just so
impractical and foolish. at here it is:
ht tho legislature first change the
road law. increasing the general town
or county maxinium tax for road con-
struction from one-half of one per
canteens contend out the mud-
holo tund one-fourth of one per
cent. This would permit of many
roads bein built in townships where
they have uilt one road and took so
mrtetime that itranthctaxtotho
t, so that it has tied up read
buildins in these townships for

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him! would let the state or county
highway commissioners go ahead with
the Covert cot roads, already noti-
tioued for but cannot be actod‘upon
on account oi inch of funds. ,Then lot

so; rye, :1.“ h her. 8103'”

thousand foot of red ; ‘ cpa‘y

percentonellrcedsbuiltbythe
various states and approved by the
state. This method would prevent ‘.

slump in labor prices. keep money 7

plenty, and help to keep farm produce
steady by helping/to prevent over-pram
ductiom. is teams would be diverted to
road work, thus keepins brices steady.
all around wages. farm produce, the
merchant and manufacturer; for if the
farmers prosper the rest will. but if
the farmers' prices slump he is down
at the heel. Then it is the law of na.
ture that all else follows except the
mM-slicer, end he always iattens
at the misfortunes of others. Now it
looks to me as if this method followed
for four or Ive years would solve the
problem and benefit everyone by giv-
ing us good reader—J. 0., Hillsdale,
Michigan. E

Why Not Abolish All Township
Ofices?

I see there is a scheme on foot to
put all county omcers on salary basis.

That is a good move, but why not go.

o step farther and do away with en
township sum? Let the county
officers do the work, and hereafter
elect them for four years. Do some-
thing towbeep down taxes. Of course,
you will find some in every township
that will oppose it but they are mostly
cities-seekers.

The state can look after this road
building and give better satisfaction
than any ether way. The only thing
they need to improve on is to make
the ditches so they will drain the
road bed. They will never have
roads until they do this. Another
thing that should be done is to do
away withdirl reeds. Make all roads
of gravel.
made of clay and it is no good. They
have spent something like 325500 on
two miles of it and have got nothing

yet. When we bonded the town for

$12, 000 to build the road we were to
have a gravel road but the towinship
embers toot it up and changed it and
made a dirt road of it and have got
nothing to show for‘their money. It
is all gone including the state reward
You can see how money is wasted by
men who don’t know what they are
doing. You can't have roads if you
don’t drain your road bed.

Now about that 350, 000, 000 bonding.

’If the bulkqgf the money is to go to .

build roads between the b‘lg oities,l

don't blame the taxpayers for kicking
against it. Of course. we want good
roads but we mt them paid for
right. The entire road building prepo-
sition should be handled by s state
road commissioner, who ought to be
held responsible for its m "0,-

000,000 is s lot or money to saddle on- -

tothe some“ Don't you think so

urself, it they want this issue

carry the reed law should be chang-
cal—W. It. Midland county.

(mum's News: Wofbeal'ti‘ly agree
with the subscriber Eh much money
is wasted because of look or road
building knowledge by those who at-
t to build reeds. Not enough ct-
tent on is 3 _
drainage osuu theruinstion or
s m in o short Elm good drainage
insures long life. road building
matter looms up big at this time. and
we would its to “hear here other
readers. upon the subject).

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this time eW.bad on wheat. The
read. very Not much stock and
train movin.
offered at lllicnston this :
Wheat. $2.12, corn, own.

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Russell, Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
giving a statement of the facts and
he will send you ( proof of claim to
fill out. Then when/tho final adjudi-
cation is made, you will receive the
pro rats amount ‘due you from the
remaining assets of the company.
Should you not for some reason, Tail
to hear from Mr. Russell, advise us
and we will lntercede, though we
are certain that all claims will be giv-
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greatest number of varieties. Grown in
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you Without charge. The materials you use are all-important. Don’t waste
time and moneyon ineffectual spraying, and don’t run chances of injuring trees.
Orchard Brand Bordeaux Mixture, Bordeaux—Lead and Zinc-Bordeaux, each in
either powder or paste form, are standardized. Let us tell you why you will
find Orchard Brand Arsenite of Zinc more satisfactory than Paris Green for
spraying potatoes. For dusting potatoesuise Lazal: Orchard Brand spray
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PEACE stops fighting, but not feed- \

ing. Our armies, at home and abroad, our
Allies and ourselves, must be ’fed‘. MORE food
must be produced in 1919. Lack of fertilizer
will cut down your production. Labor, cars, raw

1 materials are1 all limited. Fertilizer factories
must begin shipping at once, to move even a .
normal tonnage by planting time. , . . ‘ - ,3;

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.qul in mg state to import, transport, mote -»

. malt, brewed or fermented liquors

. significance.

. license. the manufacture

and regulate the sale and keeping for

"* mg for sale 01! such liquors.

importing or transporting 01 sue
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The ”about amendment «is 13- ha}
tended to. stand: as section 12 131‘ Arti- . or 5113
Ole XVI and reads: ~ " ' 4.; fire

Section 12. “It shall be forgoér low: 51“?"-

   
 

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manufactwre, use, buy, sell keep for on d ty, 11511111151 'dmnkard 99.9.1511
sale, give away, barter or. furnish person 111111519 51'55‘1111Y. 9001' 11911555
every kind of Cider, Wines, Beer,4!eepr18°n5r 1115155 0.1 15111. 151' ”flak: 11"
and Porter and to possess the same in
a private residence. So Much of Sec-
tion 11’; Article XVI of thisconstitu—
tion as prohibits the manufacture, sale,
keeping for—sale, giving away, barter-
ing or furnishing of vinoua, malt, posed amendment

brewer or fermented liquors is 716767 21. Neither the legislature nor an
by repealed. The legislature by gencr- ' “111111511151 551111511 110/” 1119 P902191”
a, laws shall reasonably license the any initiated state law or local ordi-
manufacture of, and reasonably lic- nance could punish any person no mat
‘cnse and regulate thereto and keep- ter What 1115 employment 389 01' 003111'
ing for sale of oinous, malt, brewed tron 1301‘ decanting and using ‘any
or formatted. liquOrs; Provided. 'how- amount of any 01 the named 1.1911015:
. ever, that the electors of each city, vil-
lage,‘or township, forever shall have
the right to prohibit the manufacture,
sale, or keeping for sale of vineus,

sane asylums or any one else
stopped by punishing the user for tin
use is made- iorever‘lhwfnl by Ehe pro

and b'rQWeries. ’ . ‘- .
22 It will be lawful—no one can pre-

ale, wine, porter or hard cider where
anyone may get it on Sundays, holi-

wzthin such city, village or township.”
days and election days.

Before you go to the polls you 23
should thoroughly understand its full, .
For your convenience ors on trains, interurbans and at do-
this analysis is presented at this time: ”0;: W21 pltlazmiijuag 1d 19:

. o c y r 9 con mpose-
t 71' If stagtedflt’llielggendment Win any regulation upon saloons, for the
a -° efi'cc W ’ . ’ legislature only may pass laws upon

2' Saloons Wm be ”mm“ for such subject and its laws must be
”‘15 551‘: and 1:559”: i” 551: 3’ 2’35? géneraI—anplyins to the whole state.
wine. griwgeerfiiz I)??? 6:19 c e ' . 25. A city or village could not by

‘ 3 g i 1 ordinance nor évemby votg or the pee—
p(.:;edTh5 195‘” 59“” law wl 1’5 ’5' ” pie collect any local saloon license

' fees.

5' The legislature Cannot pass a 26. Or regulate saloon closing hours
new local option law giving a county 27 Or the number of saloons - ,.
a right to prohibit such liq'uOrs.

6. ,The people could not initiate

such a law by petition. could operate.

29. Or the use." of saloon screens, g,

, 7. The legislature cannot' pass a
‘home rule set giving cities or villages 100335 Dr “1° custom of treating in '5'
the right, even upon popular vote, to ’ *
prohibit the giving away, furnishing, 131.01‘ the ”’8th of pay 511551“ in
impartiing 'or transporting of such 83' cons,
liquors 32. Or the employment of 31111
' therein,

0 51071127111111): 05:: gznzzizgfimm ”Ch 33. 0r~the exclusion of dance balls
9. The present state wide prohibi in connection With saloons, \'
tion amendment (Sec 11, Art. XVI) 34 Inasmuch as the 51351151115111
will be repealed in so far as it pro~ _ provides no "1511105551 55"?“13. 111“
hibitg the“ manufacture, sale, keeping effect the 1551 0151155 51 1115 51115115‘
for sale," giving ,awayg'ba‘rtering' or
furnishing of vinous, malt, brewed or
fermented liquors -
10. Beer, wine, ale, porter and hard
cider fall within one or more of the
classifications, vinous, malt, brewed or

fermented liquors.

11. Such liquors could'be imported
and transported by the bottle or the
car load.

12. The- legislature shall reasonably
of vinous,
malt, brewed and fermented liquors.

13. And shall reasonably license

ple in cities, villages and townships
upon prohibiting the manufacture,
sale and keeping for sale or videos,
malt, brewed r~fermented liquors
within such city, village or township,
such clause will be ineffective till the
legislature passes a law- for. holdili‘
such election.

35. It the legislature does not pass
and put into effect a law licensinl
and regulating saloons by May 7th,
1919, than anybody and everybody

place (Sundays, helidays and election
days included), until such laws become

sale of such liquors. operative

14 It is questionable whether un-
der the proposed amendment the leg-
islature can “regulate” the manufac-
ture of such liquors by prohibitingthe *
location of breweries near schools,
churghes, in residenCe districts or
otherwise. . .
‘15.After the legislature has pro-
vided the necessary election machin-
ery and the people have so voted,
cities, villages or townships may pro-
111th the manufacture, sale or keep-

. Michigan would be absolutely- without
any restriction or regulation on the
sale or use of beer, wine, ale, porter
and hard clder+the State 'flivobld be

‘ wide Open on thOse liquors in the wid-
est sense of the word:

ed and put into operation, saloons
could probably be established any
.. where in the " tats. withou/pny license
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or regulate the.-giving away or use,

 

The giving way a": 51ml; liqu:

28. Or the district Wherein they ‘

ment to ascertain the wil} of the 1130-" .

may sell such lieuors at any timemr _, ,I‘

36: Should such an- interval occur, 7'

37. Before such law could be pass-

lineman on his beat, initiates of is-

20 And such giving could notlbe .

at any time or place except in saloons '

vent or punish—to place kegs or beer,

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lawman mourns affecting the vaporIZing function.
. “mtggthesmotorist should consider the carburetor, and the entire intake system
"is shingle unit, responsible for carburation results‘and should act accordingly,
not making? too many ventures én new carburetors until he is sure that the in-
takeaystem is‘ supplied iwi’t’h su clent heat to permit the vaporization of the fuel
andaairameasuredinto it by the old carburetor.
obtainable fer" many models‘ai‘ifi for others; a. heating Jacket can usually be made
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What are/some of the things that
make an ”ermine ."skip?"
been giving me trouble of this kind
and I have not’yet found the cause
0! its—8. R.

- Among defects ' in‘ the” ignition sys-

, Item itseltare the following; Cracked;

badly" adjusted‘or dirty «plugs, "short-

~sircuited or leakymlug cables, loose

connections to battery, coils, switch,
magneto or interrupter, and breaks. in
the wires connecting'the same; dirty

-or. {badly adjusted contact points in

magneto or battery current interrupt-
‘ short-circuiting distributor
contacts; 'wea‘k, battery. or magneto
magnets, burned'fint condenser or coil
winding and faulty; mechanical action "

;of ,, .Dmaltesend-brealg mechanisms."
' _-Among the causes oyskipping“ ,other.

than electrical... ar9."16§x;l,9§n mixture

'7 ‘ E0. he’isnlffsble; too rich gamer... to. be

‘lgnltable‘ 9r such vas»"to.,_=7shf’oift;cii‘c‘ ..
‘ . the plugs’Wlth sodtkair leaks"ifi"_lntake

between carburetor and cylinders, ob-
structedf carburetor " spray/in'ozz'le," wat-
‘or in gasoline. yalyes-«fih’ich do not

, 91.3in of normal (interestdobri'oioflsts willie; answered in this: column
- 'cpace,pe1mtting._ Address Albert L. 0mg». caregof this office. ’

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theiri‘i‘coms

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.and somewhat restrict the passage of

~' cohol evaporation somewhat by using
/it,/the somewhat syrupy character of

/ tent"; the distilling away of the alco-

Wh'st are You in the Market for! Use Weenies!
, Everyman!“ of ”.13. 1'. will be in need of one‘ier'more of flu follow!
is... scion sprint. The next few months in chronic, on will “‘
fuelling season» Check below the items you are’lniielfe'ste'3:9 you bu in:

s and ye wul‘ask dependable mbniwen to. send you their use
__'i‘ewest prices free and without an: obligation on usurp-rt .- ' f

  

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33-1093 “dimprovernents have been made in the more-therough atomization of
< . the {uaLrgs‘Dalitlcularl'y lit/low gas demand but, under adverse conditions especial-
' ‘ afliijrch" carburetors require assistance if performing the. vaporizing func-
. When a motorist experiences Carburatlon difficulties ntfthing is more nat-
ural-«than chathe should lay these troubles; to .thecarburetor, which is commonly
dispensed-to he solely responsible for carburation, and that he should install a
dme§§9t\,one.,«..This reasoning frequently proves incorrect for the simple reason
‘ :thaaijttlifefcarburemris' not the Only agency concerned. in the function‘which gives
ityltrgnaxfiefitfie length and/design. of the intake piping, the provisions for

It may be suggested

Exhaust heated manifolds are

seat properly, particles of detached
carbon deposits lodging between plug
points and. oil entening the combus-
tion chambers and\{ouling the plugs.

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OIL TO REDUCE ALCOHOL
EVAPORATION

I have been told that the addition
of a‘small quantity of oil to the radi-
ator will partly stop the/evaporation
of alcohol from the anti-freeze mix-
ture. Is this true?—L. 0. W.

Weshould think that it would have
this effect, as it would form a layer of
invol‘itile liquid over the surfaces
from which evaporation takes place

alcohol vapor bubbles thiough it, es;

.peciaily if the oil used be rather vis: ~

cous. Probably the oil would. attack
the rubber water connections some-__
what, but these are not expensive to
replace, You can also reduce your al-

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the miXture preventing, to some ex-

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. 1) 'mfthou-t eliminating theirouble‘and fife’W‘Words as to this may not be
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with a jimmy pipe! '

You’ll have a streak of smokeluck.
‘that’ll put a lot of happiness in your ‘
life if you’ll start in with a jimmy
pipe or makin’s cigarettes and some
Prince Albert tobacco. - ._
You never will get real top notch k
smoke enjoyment until you can call a
pipe your pal, then, to get pipe pleasure
at its best you land square on that two-
fisted-man-tobacco, Prince Albert!
, Quality makes Prince Albert so
different, so appealing all along the smoke line. Men who
never before could smoke a pipe and men who’ve smoked
pipes for years all testify to the delight it hands out! P. A.
meets the universal taste. That’s Why it’s the national,
joy smoke! And, it can’t bite or parch. Both are cut out
by ourexclusive patented process! -

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You buy Prince Albert everywhere tobacco is sold. Toppy redbags
tidy rod tins, handsome pound and half-pound tin humidorr—ami
—that classy, practical pound crystal ”glass humidor with sponge
moisten" top that keeps the tobacco in such perfect condition.

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Our strain of this Corn produced 20 tons an 1
acre last season on the farm of S. A. Foster,
Okemus, Mich., the soil was sandy and moisture

was lacking, but Saier's “Victory" produced a big

crop. It’s the best corn you can grow for green
fodder and filling the silo. Write for
special prices.

Michigan Grown Seeds for Michigan Planters

That's sensible and practical. for northern-
grown seeds produce the biggest and best cro .
Our central location means prompt shipmen i
we give helpful service to our customers: we
offer only fresh and tested seeds.

- 7 explains our methods.
salers Garden 800k Lists our northern-
grown farm, vegetable and flower seeds, and
other seeds that the Michigan farmer and

gardner needs. Write todayior free copy.

HARRY E. SAIER, Seedsmim '

Box 21, Lansing, DIichixan.

  
     

      
       
    
    
      
   
 
   
 
   
  
   

   
 

Does not winter-kill. Succeed: on all kinds of soil. Better than red“
clever as a soil builder. Prepares the land for alfalfa and other clovers. J
Equal to alfalfa in feed vaiu We do not handle Southern seed, but“;
‘ofiei‘ choiceet‘selectionis of Micfi :1 grown ; 99.75% pure: high 89min,
atibn scarifled. best in the word. Selling at about half the price of
red'elover seed. every farmer should investigate it. A Special Bulletin _f
eiplsigingdcnltiyfgtign 8:23.13“ :1 this mos: :dugvhie‘rlgtii’Ee sample
wisest! out-H Book" .ree.onequ mu ,
‘fior Michigan Clover. Alsike. Vetch. Pu'é‘florthwsebun Alfalig-,_ ’

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«111-ch which I 1111111: you one to read

‘ You will do me a great favor and yourself“

ng benefit '11 you will take the time to read

hot 6nce, but tw1ce and thrice, until its signi-3.
Moe phrases and beautiful lessons are enshrined

delibly in your heart.

"The book of life has many noble passages. But

how: often we skim thru the really worth-while‘

italics, and spend ourselves with sordid chapters
Lthat awake within us the sleeping demons of dis-
content and unhappiness. Happiness is a state
of mind, pure and simple. Look about you. Here

I V is a woman with a large family of children. They.

are 9001‘ and there is much work to be done and
mudh sacrificing to be m e to keep the little

. brood fed and clothed. We expect ‘to find a grim-

vissarged and/ self-pitying creature, who has soured
’agai-iist the world But what a pleasant surprise
3 it is to find so often that she is quite the reverse;
‘sr‘n’iling, happy, contented; carrying her burdens
cheerfully; thanking God each day that she has

. the strength and the willingness to work and sac-

rifice for the children. Surely her happiness is
” not of the kind that is born of material posses-
sions. It is a state of mind and nothing else.

I am acquainted with the Woman, too,‘ who has
’no burdens to carry. One expects to find her for-
ever content with the things of the world, always
cheerful and kind and agreeable. But what a dis-
' appointment it is to find in many cases that
the care-free woman is the unhappiest of all. It
would seem that'she has everything in the world
to give mental comfort. But she persistently i’e—
jects happiness and refuses to be anything but
miserable.

The mind is the mint where the golden doub-
lens of happiness are coiled. So be/careful of the
materials that you store within it. Glean from
the book of life only the beautiful lessons and
apply them to your own experience. The artible
below contains many of these and will help you
on your road to happiness.—-—PENELOPE.

Sunshine in Your Home
HEERFULNESS may almost be said to be the
“philosopher’s stone " as far as daily home
life is concerned It’s value is priceless and
it blesses its possesors alike as it does all with

" \w-hom they come into contact.

As one looks around at the world in general,
one cannot but se€how great an influence a cheer~
ful person has, and that that influence is a good
one Depressed and morbid people infect others
With their own dismal views and feelings; while
on the other hand, the glad make others see life
through rose colored spectacles, simply by refus-
ing to 100k thru any others, themselves. This
does by. no means imply that the cheerful person
is unsympathetic and cold as regards the woes of
others, or is so insensiijve as never to weep at his
own. No; the cheerfulness that is as a ray from
the Sun of Righteousness Himself leads its pos-

’ ‘ .‘sessor to weep with those who weep, as well as to

'be glad with the rejoicing. I
In Mr. Ruskin’s book, “Christ's Folk in the Ap-
‘ ennines," there is a. very sweet thought of an
humble woman on the subject. The Tuscan peas-
-'\ant'said there was no reason why each of us
should not. have “two paradisés”——one in this
world and one in the next; and “as formyself,"

she added, "I trust in my Lord about everything, '

and I think that is why I get on so well."

This, truly, was having the “merry heart” that
“doeth good like a medicine " And most true it
is that the patient and cheerful endurance of the
ills of life, great and small, and the determinate
locking on the bright side make and keep the body
in health, besides tending to the well- -being of both
mind and soul.

A writer of the day, says: “Evenness of mind,
to the sensitive, nervous temperament, depends
very much upon order. Regular hours of rising
and of sleep; a certain broad order of duties in
the day, to prevent hurry, and to give the sense
of rest,.of duty dune—not many things undertak—
en, but few and finished; this is part of the self-

‘ discipline depends upon.
"Besides order of time, visible order is a great
«:‘helpA—neatness of person, and. of home, with the

proverbial ‘place for everything, and everythigg '
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in its place, or rather restored to its place on

old-fashioned principle of clearing as we go. Vis-

iblexordei in its highest degree becomes highest
beauty—the home full of- brightness and good

 

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~ innocent recreation, a pie

‘ plenty to do.

the face andidress ands will: no pl

as cars can make them. . All this outward order if:

a tonic for the mind.

”Another thing which much 1301111111113 to chier-

fumess is the habit—and this can be acquired:
though, perha‘ps with some natures slowly—of
taking pleasure in small matters.

sources of pleasure and to be glad at trifling
causes of joy. The sight of the blue sky and
sunshine, a bunch of 11 were, or beautiful fruit;
‘ ant book or a favoritd,
piece of music; surely to be pleased at such things
is one way of thanking the good Giver of them all.
“Not thankful when‘lt pleaseth me,-
As if Thy blessings had spa/re dgye,
But such“— a heart whose pulse should be
Thy praise. "

The one who isever“ ready toybe pleased/and
is. happy in hims‘élf is easily amused, and here I
must quote Ruskin again. .. He says: “Never seek
amusement, but be always ready to‘ be amused.
The least thing has play in it, the slightest word
wit, when your hands are busy and your heart
free. But if you make the aim of your life amuse-
ment, the day will come when all the agonies of a

- pantomime will not— bring you an honest laugh."

One great recipe for cheerfulness is to have

‘ ‘That Shall Abide’ ’

E' hug our grlefs too tightly,
We count them overmuch,
When hourly, daily, nightly,
Joy lingers for our touch. _
We are too prone to borrow,
We are too prone to lend
The sorrow of tomorrow——
What gladncss it may send!

The snow laugh; in its falling,
The rain laughs with the grace
The breezes allrare calling
A jog song as they pass;
When wlntry days are over
The rose laughs into bloom,
The chuckle of the clover
Comes drenched with its, perfume.

Have done with mete and measure
That tell of saddened whllcs;

Count yp our richest treasure—
The lasting gold of smiles!

Let us link hands with laughtcrh— ‘
Grief lolters'overlong;

WHhall find our hereafter
Built up of smile and song.

Idle people are rarely cheerful, and
busy people are often quite the reverse. “That
awful yawn which sleep cannot dispel" is never

known by the busy individual, and for this alone ‘

,cheerfulness is of benefit. It kills ennui

Even, regular work, of which mind and body
are capable, not spasmodic fits of undue labour
undertaken only now and again, should be entered
on. With regular employment will come a sense
of peace, and cheerfulness follows not far 011'.

The checking of allneedless complaining is a
great conductive to oheerfulness. I have often

noticed how the habit of grumbling grows “P611 I

people, until, indeed, they seem to forget that they
have any mercies for which to be thankful. Com-
plaints about the weather, f dz, clothing, minor
trials, petty vexations—all these are very/small
matters, but when they detract from that serenity
of mind which is so beautiful and helpful, they
become serious. To talk needlessly about these
tiny troubles is.to make them more real, whereas
to ignore them often d‘faces them almost entirely.

“A merry heart goes all the day,

Your sad tires in d mllc- a!”

is true enough. Carlyle very incisively remarks,I
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, alto-'

' gether past calculation its power of endurance "

It is easy enough to be cheerful, many may say
when all is bright; but when sorrow comes it isII
not so easy. No 6110 would aver for a moment

":that it is, but thére is an~old Irish saying. that in

.3 very homeiyrwey “presses what is a very valu-

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. cheerfulness Would; be impossible. *With‘ it, it is
pdssible; and names the fact that 11 page: 1111
trouble easier- toé bear, it also heightens a/n hap-
piness hnd gives the power to receive it
home life the cheerful member- of the fam y is
ever the -one who charms the family circle, and
mothers particularly can do much towards makinfl
home pleasant. Anything that tends to this is of
great value, and as mother who is cheerful with
her children, joining in their interests as far as
she can, and ever bright and sunny, is linking
them to home by a very strong chain. ' ' " . - _\

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‘ (lieom In the oily schools the children have .
cours s in Domestic Science and the housewives

can secure all this information through a similar
course in file Y. W. 0. A., but for the womcn‘ of
the farms this advantgge is not available, and

* so With the out: 511% in mind to have just as good

for M. B. 1". readers ,as is enjoyed by any women
anywhere, we have secured the services of Miss
Elizabeth Hgtheson, who is the director of the
Domestic Science department,” the Valley Oity
Milling Oommny.\Mlss Matheson will give us a
practical lesson in foods and the ingredients of
which they are made up,a and will also furnish
some recipes from time to time. She will also
answer any questions sent to her, in care of Tmt
MronIeAN BUerEss FARMER.

KNOWLEDGE of cooking is like a knowl-
edge of spelling—easier for some than for
others. While some may be “born cooks”
still it is possible for" others to acquire the art.
Surely no art is of greater importance s nee it
deals so vitally with human welfare and em ency

"We may live without art, we may live without
books. But civilized man cannot live
cooks."

Too much importance is usually placed upon
recipes. A good cook book enculd be a part of
every housekeeper’s equipment but it should be
used as a help over the Oceasional hard places
rather than as a guide in detail for every dish .
prepared.

Cooking becomes more interesting "and very
much easier if we learn something of the princi-

, pies underlying the preparation of certain foods.

To be a successful cook one must have a correci ..
sense of the value of proportiOns. An experienced
cook—one who prides herself on “never using a
’recipe"——h'as, it may be unconsciOusly to herself,
developed this sense of proportion, But this art is
acquired only by long successful experience, and e...
_wel!l- developed judgment. Sad to say, not all of us
acquire either though we may cook, every day.

Intimate relationship exists between many of 3 .

our common dishes and instead of using a new
recipe for each new dish let our experience of
proportions make one recipe serve a score of
needs. . 7. -

Returning to Wheat Fl

BELIEVE one of the best pieces 0 news re-
ceived lately by the housewives is that the re-
striction .regardingtthe milling of wheat flour
has been remOved and the millers are again al-
lowed‘ to manufacture a high-grade flour. And,

---no matter how willingly and patriotically we) ate

corn meal and dark bread we are glad indeed that
we can once again eat our familiar and dearly-
loved. white bread. , .\
A great many women have been sadly disapw‘
pointed the last few months in the flour they ,pur- 3 .;
chased and the resulting dark and heavy bread.
They thought their baking troubles were ended“
when the necessity for using "dubs tutes" was
over, and expected the same good wh tI flour that ,
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ent in about it, I am sure yen all
enjoyed it. Too bad, wasn't it, that

General‘nissatisiaeuon and the others
“gihou'id have "come to such a sad end.
(fa; and be compelled to leave their pretty
J home? But something bad like that
always happens to those who are sel-
’Tilsh enough to wish for things Ahoy -‘
”cannot have.

Some day I hope to tell
you more about the giants who went

to afar-oft land, and there built homes
I and raised families
themselves.
' This week we are printing a cute'

of giants like

little story about a modern Red Rid-
ing Hood. Of course, you all remember

the. story of how little Red Riding Hood '

went to visit her grandmother, was

. chased ,by a wolf, and how‘her father

killed the wolf. This is a much nicer
story. for the animal that our little
Red Riding Hood thought was an ugly
wolf was really only a big kind shep-
hird dog, who wanted to play with
little Red Riding Hood. If you like
this 'stoi'y, perhaps we will print other
stories later on.

This month occur the birthdays of
two great men, Georgmm
and Abraham Lincoln. 1 know all of
you have read about these was and
their wonderful deeds in behalf of hu-
manity. Next week I will tell you
something about them, for every' boy

i and girl ought to know the history of

two of the world's greatest men.—
AUNT PENELOPE.

Giants or Lillipntania, and .n

" Liza every Saturday morning.

I T HA!) been snowing all nigh-t and
in the morningthe world welt 96v»

mad with a deep white’ mints; [It
was Saturday morning, too. Elizabeth

looked out of the window and. Iaidx.

“My graciousi I never did Iee Io
much new in my life! Ila wear my
red cape and red hood hid‘jrubber
boots when I g6 with the basket to
Maum Liza's" ' Q

It was Elizabeth’s custom to take a
basket of good things to eat to Maum
Maum
Liza. was Elizabeth's old nurse, crip-
pled with the rheumatics and 1uit¢
poorly, but dearly beloved by her
“honey chil’."

"The snow is pretty deep, Eliza-
beth, " said Mother. “Perhaps I had
better send Joe with the basket to-
day!"

“Oh, please no!" cried Elizabeth.

“I’d rather take it myself. I just love _

show!”

So then Elizabeth’s mother said all
right and packed the basket with
great care. laying a snow~white cloth
on top. There was jelly and celery
and a roast chicken and ham and a
loaf of corn bread and apples in the
basket, so it was quite heavy, but.
Elizabeth put it over her arm and
stepped out into the snow with her
red hood and caps on, and red mit-
tens besides.

“I'll take a short cut through the
woods," thought the little girl. ”My,’
how nice and white the snow isTHow
it crunches when I walk! I wish it
would snow oftener down this way."

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' rest beside a‘ Itump.

She reachyd thewoeds .. f
tindso alone; Warrant"
under the trees Alfies't "
were evergreens and fight
looked trimmed with snow
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is!" thought Elizabeth “flail?“

    

   
    
  

  
 

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sound did she hear.
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orit'e playground of Elizabeths gin
other days. She had gathered tearly

aner‘nones there. / She knew where
the lively little rill came crappy;

down thru the moss and ferns from

the icy spring. Somewhere near was

~the rock under ‘whidh ~tio

chipmunks lived, and a chinkapin tree,

grew close by, but where was it new? .
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niendly

t was all changed, and a. strange
I. if she had never been there before.
' "Fairy stories could happen here,"

said Elizabeth out loud, taking up her .' '

basket and trudging on again.

It was stiller and stranger than ever
as she went on, her footsteps crunch,
crunch, crunching thru the snow—-
“as it I was a big, enormous giant
coming," thought she <

So, to_ make it more sociable. she
began talking to herself.

“Snow White and VRose/ Red—that’s
a nice fairy story.‘ Wish I_ had a
sister. Let’s see! They lived in a
little house in" the woods.’ One night
a bear came—aheml" Th. mention

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walked and pretty- soon she met-r1
wolf. ” --/ ~‘
it.» Here Elisabeth looked over her
shoulder again and said, "Aheml" very
loud.

"Oh, well, I’m
Hood," she am:

“I’m new thra the wood.

To ses‘Maum»Lim- -/
‘ Treks-tee, Wad." ""

Just then she heard a “and!
'cept fer hermown little Voice and‘her
m crunching through the snow, it
was so very still—in the wood; that the
tiniest so could be heard cl
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'A. Large, Shaggy Animal.

come back’?“ that Elizabeth. 'fshe'il
look rename, but she won't find anys
thing but my red hood because I'll be
eaten up.” '

This was a sad thought and made

her on Then she thought of" the

chicken and fined» things in the has-
ket.. . .

“I'll throw something out to the
woltfl she :thought. f'an’d he'll stop
to eat it and PM get ahead! _ -

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grabbed the first thing that came to, 4

hand—r which was the bath. She threw

‘ it on the ground and the wolf pounced
on it and gobbled it up in three licks. ,

Then Elisabeth siezed a drum stick
and."drewout the roastchicken. Down
she threw it, and aWay she had.

now.
do fine,~ sheppa'd dog dat Sam done
brung me to’ to keep youah ol' Mam-
my company. Go open de do’ 150’ him. "

Elizabeth went and unlatched the
door and peeped out. There stood her
wait with a roast chicken in his mouth.

’ In he cammd laid the roast chicken

down at Maum Liza's feet.
“Dar, now!" cried Maum Lisa. “See,

you-all mus’ have dropped disheazh.
nus he a good doggie to brung it
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, Elizabeth agreed that he was a good
deggie and in a minnu'te or two she
and Ebenezer had made friends, and

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low: 81-11111 beanie miand thong. .50
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tions there will be" a big in

high prices and tho government can-

ceiling their contracts has caused the '.
Farmers are caning .

demand to stop.
some he cattlo, etc. The epidemic
of “flu" s ll prevails in this county.—
The Eastern M Elevator Co.

at Omer is still handling .e~vast quan— ;
tity of beans and is a grand thing:
for Arenas county. Farmers are not

as yet talking much of spring work.
At an auction sale here Jan. 14, m-
mon grad. cows averaged $193 each
flow isethat for prices. ' Some, iarinsf
changing
satisfactory figures. The following
prices quoted at Omer this week:

is, 66; hay, $15 to $18; beans, $7. 65;

one, 16 up; butter, 65; butteri'at, 71:

eggs, 56; hogs, 16.——M. B. 15., Twin»

ing, Jan. 24.

Kent (NE. ) -—-F'armers aI-e doing
nothing but choros and fish thru
the ice. The weather is mil, the

roads bad. Snow about all gone and

01% a?” neatly worked. wheat bare. Wheat so far. uninjured.
mm,» m eat ‘1“ could t2“; Lots of hers); changing hands and
“a” .1” mg in,“ the chm, bringing good figure, several. teams
out some names, big. round have been sold for $400 and better.

a? “0 mogul 1’30 "1‘3 31‘: Many horsos being wintered cheaply

as g; m. d they snafu“ on oat straw and a little grain and‘

{he 11 snow guns and spread out the are standing. the rocket flne. That’s

a? if $1; $39 33”,}?! “amt? th better than the tan-kage works for the
o to eat with them b the doe} 5 horses and thoir owners as walk/Po—

would not eat, they weren’t tatoes are, nearly 75 per cent market-

m" ‘mmh they Gd £110 6 around here "The following prices

basket days were for 9 °

um 3mm they were my, “3,. quoted at Groonville this week: Oats,

at play in playhouse. Th spent 66; wheat, $2120; corn, $1.40“ rye,

3:33;: 23;” “"111“ 33‘ Th” 2 g 1.40; beans, $7.50; potatoes, $.50 to

white and blue. It waved Re time. 1. 60; hens, 20; springers, 20 ; butter,

Thnmwmmstoodnpos ongaath 52to 53 epps,45t050; sheep,,loi

hm" 3”” a“ “a” “'33 3° 8‘3 lambs 15; hogs live 16' dressed 20-

W and ho 56321 , as e ' . ’ ’ ’ ’ '

d Ever-r y it seem m3}. beef steers, 6, beef cows, 7; veal calv-

or. it 123;} tngins urging-(1% not; es, 9 to lie-G. H. W., Greemflllo, Jag-

it. Thumaorhantoe sadfor “"11 28-‘ . ‘
good glues they Muskeg» (Baum—Farmers are

m h“ in it“ __ hauling gravol, but the mild weather

. is taking tho snow. .Farmers are

m an: mb’fiseen that thew selling potatoes and straw. The Go-

1 sad it does seem so , _. i operative Groomer)“ company held its

"' ‘30 “if"? ”‘1‘ ° "‘1‘ annual meeting this week and they
new lot It) - .

I h, wind had a good" showing; paid an average

g5%1m5 mm innit of 530 per lb. tor butter during the

m ’ year 1918. .A number .ot new silos

"within: a: tho 3% F3? ”me are being sold here for the coming

em a” new sub-en we to: year. The following!a prices were of—

. 3"" 3°" /" ‘fered at Ravonna th week: Wheat,

m’ m 91.3%“ “' $2.12; corn, $1.50; oats, 7o; rye, $1. 40:

m I meiv a hay, $30; no stray, $14; wheat-oat

%er ”it: m m straw, $16 potatoes, $1. 50; apples, $2.

£ng m a, m to 731:” 1’ -E. E. 13., Revenue, Jan. 22.

th ——

m, .. m Wm“ “23222221.“. 1.3.:“22223232
- .__..__. . y weather and bed roads. No
Deaf gm: Panels? 1“th 1:11. £30155; grain moving at present and livestock

a?“ 1th,: 28'... boys and moving slow. Prices on most every-

file also ~ g “The thing weaker. Auction sales are very

... .. we. ” 2‘3 22°22?“ ““2::““:.“““ “2mg":

~mm . e on -operave so
m %M Ed Pet; is planning on buying the Fenton teed
his Wu .0 and flour mills, and it will probably

be in operation as a iarmers’ coop-
native mill by the middle of Febru-
ary. The following prices were paid
It Flint this wook: Whhat, white,
$2. 22; red $2.28; corn, $1.50; cats, 62;

I?” $1.345 hay, $25 to $80; beans,
$ .50; ”red kidney" 2”; otatoos, 60
to $1.105”. , $8 mi
cabbag bag”, 31552 ton: honor” to
2!: oprinpors, 25: ducks, 36 to”
poise, 30 to 24; e, 83.. to 3:;
«may butter-35,3; 314
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; bee! M $3 to l Mm

to $7 .; ml tons;
apples, 1n111uc .-—o. 5- .1th
lo». 24.

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hands" and bringing very ,. 90; butter, 50 to 60; eggs, 504—15.

Hersey, Mich, Jan. 17.

Emmet (North)-——The weoth :- man
must have turned “a. new 1 i or this
part or the cou ry, and o sending .
us mil winter w ather, at any rate
that is hat we have had so far and as
the last few winters hays been very
severe we can appreciate the mild
weather. Lumbermen are getting an-
xious about their logs as the onow.isl
very thin and the weather so warm
that making ice roads is impossible.
.No ic in Lake Michigan yet. The
tollow ng prices quoted at Harbor .
Springs this week: Wheat, $2.10;
oats 78; hay, $25 to $28; potatoes,
60 hutter, 65: eggs, 55; dressed b
12%; apples, $1..——0 L. 0., Gross Vl-
zage, Jan. 17.

Oakland— (North)—-Everythinfi quiet "

here. Not many potatoes gong to
market and most of them by trucks.

Not much fat stock going; great call

for hay, which is scarce and . It

has been hard on wheat undo cover

ground is bare and freezing and
thawing every day. Farmers not do- ,
ing much but cutting wood. Been
“threshing cloverseed lately; not much

seed but it counts up in money at

the price. Farmefi in some localities .
are talking oi forming companies and .
buying grain threshers on account...“

the high price charged by threshers.

The .iollowing prices were quoted at

this place this week: Wheat, $2.10;

oats, 76; rye, $1. 40; hay, $25 to $30;

beans, $8; potatoes, 70; hens, 25: but-

60; eggs, 55.—E. E, Ulaa-kston,

Jan. 26.

Tuscola (NE. )—Springllke weath-
or; about all gone. Farmers
are hau its out manure. A oarload
of horses was shipped from here last
week. Farmers are buyin miloh
cows. prices are irom $80 to 150. The
condense at Cass City is doing a.
large b nose and farmers are well
The fellowing
quotations at Cass City this week:
Wheat, $2.14; cats, 60; rye, $1.805
hens, 21 to 23; springers, 21 to 23;
ducks, 30 to—32; geese, 20 to 22; tur-
keys, 28 to 30; butter, 50; butterfat,
60; eggs, 50; sheep, 5 to 7; lambs, 18
to 15%; hogs, 14 to 16, beet steers,
5 to 10; best cows, 4 to 7, veal calves.
10 to 15 ..——5 5., (lass City, Jan. 24.

Tuocola (Caution—Farmers are not .
doing much but chores Just now, and
getting up wood Weather is warm “
with some rain n& no frost in ground,
bad “for rye an wheat. N‘ot selling 7
much grain new; no market for beans
and most of the other cro in tarm-
ers'. hands and taxes are no; looks
as tho some taxes will be returned or
we will have to sell our bonds ato
big discount to y them. There was
s car .loaded wt th ctatoes at Day-
tonic. last week at 6 c, and it did not

  

take lo to load it. One car is not 1
much w n most of the crop is still
in Willows. The following
Woo . a at 09.16“: this week

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m outlining the duties of its
Mix the time oi its meetings
and the meetings of stockholders, also
In the salaries or its members and
employees. including stackholdcrs who
sou west the farm.

The large amount of capital now rc-
presented by this corporation would
call for carom busineSs management.
The secretary should keep a complete
sot oi books, showing all income r.—
) and expended, also giving com-
pleto details of the business. ‘This
would client a considerable saving
an tho ordinary loose way in which

small farmer looks after his busi- ‘

1m could be worked out so that
the tam work could be divided into
various op ments, with one of the
Mam or an employee, adapted.
that particular line, at its head.

I could be placed in charge of the
cattle, another the hogs, another the

sheep. horses, etc. One could look
after the. machinery and . tools, tho

I ' tonnes and buildings, and see that tho

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came woro kept in good repair. ‘ Ex-

rienco would soon work out a_ prac-

plau along these lines. '

The, co-operative farm plan would
cal" the labor shortage, for by unit-
in: the mall farms, the land could
be worked more rapidly and with does
help. The complaint of the boys leav-
in: tho tonne and geing to the cities,
would h~largely overcome. Bye con-
ducting the large co-ope’rallive iarm
slons continental lines, with the best
of machinery, it would prove attrac-
five to most farm boys. The social

life would be augmented by their com- .

in: in contact with more associates.
Those boys would aspire to place a
port. of their savings in such a corpor-
otton by purchasing its stock, and to
become directors and ofilcers, and to
share in its\dividends.

In organizing the small farms into

' the larger one, each stockholder could

remain in the farm home and take ac-
part in operating the large farm,
desired. His having entered the

We]: would give assurance that ‘

fie firm would be operated, even
Mid he desire to leave it. He would
to relieved of the responsibility of se-
curing arenter, and he knows the farm
work will go on successfully, whether
he is th or not. A corporation is
not disturbed by the deaths)! a stock-
holder, “his stock simply passes to
his heirs. This \stock is negotiable
Moan be .old or transferred at any
time ii desired.

The. great industrial corporations of
fio country are made up of thousands
of stockholders, working together in

‘Ihity. Experience has proved that
large corporations have many advan-
uses, both for the stockholders, and
fie publlb, over the single individual.
Ra memo is demonstrated on every

ca
mic no greater or mcbe impor-
tant industry today than farming.
his great industry is the foundation
upon which rests all other industries.
m people are engaged in this cccu~,
Dillon m in any other one industry.
an: finial census of 19.10 shows that

which Mucod that yeatr products
uses at‘ ‘6 487:009, 000, or at the rate
' ghi iaum. This census
' V It $40,-

  

or heard or: directors-
oi. oi steakhcldexs,

wheat.

mm 4.881, 502 1811115111 the U. 8., {v

. the tenuous make use. or the means 02
. and state governments?

The suggestions herein submitted

are oilcr'ed 101' your consideration with

the hope that it may awaken an ins

spiratinn that will assist the tarming
industry to take its place in the ranks
of commercial industry, where it may
enjoy the privileges at greater reward.
The great world war is revolution-
king methods of government and in~
dustry. Old customs are breaking
down and new andbottor ones are be-
ing established. The spirit oi"demo-
cracy and love of liberty is asserting
_ itself. throughout the world. Can we
catch this spirit of progress and apply-
it to the everyday affairs of our- lives?

MILLING CO. EXPLAINS
‘ IPOSITION 0F MILLERS

\ (Continued from page 6)

desire to make less profit than the
government allowed, nor because it
is not necessary to get as much or
even more, but on account of competi-
tive conditions.

"I! you will investigate we believe
you will find our price on flour is as
high as the average mill, higher than
many or them because we are making
a higher gr de flour. 0n the ether
hand, of con e, low grades or clears
we have taken of! from the high grade
sell at from $1 to $1. 56 per barrel less
than Lily White. -

“The writer, has been in the milling
business fifteen years and has never
seen such unfavorable conditions or
Worked under suc handicaps as we
have worked under during the past
year and a half.

“We can readily understand the
wheat growers' vieWpoint. He can-
not see haw he has somehow or oth-'
er led to believe the Government price
on wheat was a maximum as well as
a minimum price, while as a matter
of fact it was a minimum price. We
understand in several cases he was
told wheat would be no higher while
instances he was urged to hold his
grain ,when he was able to do so, as
a patriotic duty, thereby preventing
all stocks moving from first hands to
terminal points, where, sooner or later
it was knowu it would have to be re-
shipped at a/big cost.

“The most difficult phase of this
subject for the farmer to understand
is why he should have been led to
believe he could obtain only a maxi-
mum price for his wheat, and While he
.was ”obtaining this minimum price
have the price of flour and feedstufl
regulated, and as soon as he had clos-
ed' out his crop of wheat to have both

_ flour and feed advance as well as
”Neither can we understand it
from a standpoint of fairness. It isn’t
understandable: However, it is not
the fault of the milling industry It
is the eflect of halt-way regulation
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' millers, understand why the raw ma-

terial, the grain, should be sold for
export or tied up at terminal points
thereby depleting,'as far as the Amer-
ican miller is concerned, the supply
of raw material, forcing up the' price "
of wheat on account oi'competitive
buying and scarcity, all of which re-
sults .in higher price of flour and feed
and scarcity of both, particularly so
of the food because of our raw ma-
terial being sent abroad to be made
into‘ flour and feed by foreign mills.”

Aremw (Easti—PricOs on produce

a; are down a little, especially on beans
w‘hich dropped 50c c

On account
:01 the government not coming in for
the beans it expected to buy last
month raised hob with the market. It,

- is hoped, that the price oLp'roduce

will right itself shortly. There up,

still some auction sales and the prio. ,'

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:tion When a car of read»
eived on: track in Detroit‘ii must
be unloaded, else demurrage charges
must be paid. Unload “we must; where

» ment of some commission man"

building, where the potaEOes are held»
for speculation. It’s a caise of “heads
he wins, tails you lose " It the pr0-.

farmer gets a price below the‘ cost or
production; but mind you,-Mr. ConI
sumer. you get no ahvantagenfiOm the
loss on the part oi the farmer Those
potatoes are stored, and when the
price goes up you pay the price and the
profit goes to the piratesJVho scuttled
the ship. Mark this down Mr. City
Dweller where you can for to it oo-
caslonally: “There has not been a
time during the past three years when
the farmer reCeived more than thirty?
] five cents of the dollar youpaid for

or fellows got sixty- -flve cents for
handling; you paid your dollar and
received thirty-five cents worth of
farm products.” And herein you find
the reason ththe farmer complains
because he is not making a living
wage, and you complain because ‘you
are paying such high prices for the
products of the farm.

So here, Mr. City Dweller, you have

independence; here’s where you. cut
the first knot in the repe or distribu-
tion. It the state owns these storage

warehouses the state can and will reg-
ulate their operation. It will. not be
left for the “parasites" who exist thru
party manlpulatiOn in the cities, to
establish rules and plans, but the
whole matter will be up to a board or
commission, which will establish reg-
ulations in the interest‘oi beth pro-
ducer- and consumer Speculation will
be barred and we will have a sufficient
supply of food products within haul-
ing distance, so that it can no longer.
be said that the city d‘Welier lives in
an iron-bound cage, dependent always
upon the whims of those who do the
feeding, for their daily bread. 0n the
other hand it will place the individual
farmer as well as the organized co-op-
crating farmer in a pesition where
they can establish themselves well in-
side the market walls which now ei-
fectually surround every city in the
land. And when these storage ware-
houses are once established and the
country districts organized how easy
it will be for the city of Detroit, and

toirs or slaughter houses and cold

cost. Paris, Texas, is one thriving:
little city which has beaten the pack-
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Reading of minutes ci- last meeting.

Address, by President, M. W. Went-3

worth, Battle ek.

Report of Sec. -Treas-.; C. A. Daniels,

”Okeincs. * w.
Awardin of. prizes for 1918.
Business ession.‘ . _
Noon recess. - r
‘ . Afternoon Session,1 1:80
“How Can the Extension Depart-
ment and the local Associations Co-
operate to the Best Advantage?" Wm.
M. Rider, Director of Extension Ser-
vice, Homtein-Ffi‘iesian Ass’n of Amer-

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‘Trohlems of. Milk Comm1ssion ”‘

Prof. A. C. Anderson, M. A. C

‘Fnture Possibilities for the .Mich- '

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\President, Harry Balfard,’
Sec’ y, C. G. Parnell, Jackson.
The President\ is preparing an at-
tractive program and urges every
breeder of the Guernsey Cattle Club to
be present

men. unmonn EREEDEBS' ASS’N
~Wednosdny, 21111.5, 1:30 p.1n.
President, Louis Norton, Quimby;
Sec’y, Earl C. ficCafiy, Bad Axe
“Why I Breed Hereiords, ” Sam Big-
elow Cass City.
"The Hereford as a Feeder,”
sentatiye Wallace.
“Advancing Hereford Interests
Jay Harwood, Ionia-

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President, Fred’J. . Droot, Monroe;
Sec’y, O. F. Foster, Ann Arbor.
t‘Breédlng Better Durocs,” Discus-
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City; Sec’y, 1. Carl Jewett, Mason.

Annual meeting and election oi of-‘

doors. An interesting program is being
prepared.
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ASS'N Moder, Feb. 0, 4:” in.
President. Jay Smith.
M, W. W Knapp, Howell. '
“How to Improve Our Sher-thorn
Horde.” J. L. Tor-may, American Short—
horn Brocders’Ass’n.
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Short business meeting and tutor

, ml discussion by member. of ‘Eiuh.

In addition to the above inee
the annual W Week at the Col-
logo is *cing held at the same time
and will provide evening entertain-
ment each night. The college is also
staging very attractive exhibits iii
the buildings which were erected for
barracks. The character of the ox.
hihits will be such that no one can at-
tord to miss seeing them while here

Salon—Thursday, February 6, 9:00

' am—Eolstcin sale, pure—bred cattle
Friday. Feb. 7,1020!) can ~3an of ~8hom1soa

pure-bred draft horses.

Hotel Accommodations .—’— Visitors “

will find it to their advantage {ma con-3
romance to secure rooms for thef
in landing before canning to

wins will be practically- continu-

usual hotel rates prefl’v j‘
anode” of these meefiin
assured. If they are t.
to ”you you must attend.
executive committee:

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All men who work ont—oi—doors will appreciate these high-laced,

They Keep Men’s Feet Warm and Dry
Those Bongo Rex boots are lighter, better for the feet than
heavy rubber footwear, and cost 1% per year. You won’t go back
to harry Antics and Lumber Jacks once you’ve worn them-
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~AlsoGa rm Fence, Barb Wire at bargain
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Servidor Service is another. 9

450 Rooms provided with every
service feature found in the finest

hotels. Rates $1.50 to $3.00.
250 Rooms with Bath at $2. 00.

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testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport
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cows the University ct Missouri Oob" :
logo of Agriculture usually recon» :.r
mond‘i‘thatthecowsbetedelithed-‘é
'alth'o it is slightly more expensive

tolls or clover bay they will-readily
consume, andtofeedcorndiueWhfln
available. To this should be :4de o

grain mixture if good results are/to

follow. A grain mixture often recom-
mended is four parts. by weight," of
corn chops. two parts wheat bran, and
one part either ecttoneeed or linseed
meal. This mixture is to be fed ac-
cording to the: quantity of milk pro-
duced. One pound of the mixture is
eumcient for every four pounds of

milk produced by a Holstein cover for '

every three pounds produced by a Jer-
sey.

seed or cottonseed meal is preferable
is answered by W. W. Swett. At' the
present time, linseed meal is retail-
ing at $70 a ton while cottonseed meal
is $68. The linseed meal contains a
somewhat lower percentage of protein
but a higher percentage of carbohyd-
rates of energy. In total digestible
nutrients they are almost identical,
so that at the foregoing prices each
pound or total digestible nutrients
costs 4.5 cents in linseed and 4.34 cts.
in cottonseed meal. The linseed meal
is slightly laxative and cooling and
even in small quantities, "acts as a
conditioner o; tonic to term animals.
It is of special value to a dairy cow
in preparing for her calving. It tends
to produce a soft butter and is a use-
ful addition to the ration when butter
is hard or tallowy. The relatively
higher carbohydrate content of the
linseed meal makes it useful when a
ration is not Daft’lltfly low in pro-
tein but lacks carbohydrates. It is
particularly valuable when alfalfa is

led without silage.

Cottonseed meal is valuable because
it can be added to a ration containing
a very low percentage of protein to
bring the protein content up to re-
quirements. It is the cheapest source
of protein obtainable. In contrast to
linseed meal, it is constipating and
must be fed with laxative Iceds. But-

ter made from cows ' receiving large

quantities of cottonseed meal, is hard
and tallowy, and pale in color with
poor flavor, except when the cotton-
seed meal is fed with corn silage. In
addition, large quantities cause a
poisoning to the animals receiving it.
Such small quantities as are fed in
the mixture recommended will do no
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is the F armer’: Cow
4 Come with me to therlking Shorthorn Congress Show and Sale

at Erie, Pa., 'March 20 and 21,1919

It you are thinking at attending this meeting or wish to know more
about it write

Chas. Bray, Cherries, Mich, Brader of Milking“ Shorthorns

 

 

 

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nished.

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Corn is the king 0': silage plants on-

account of its lush yield and mm
al use in the stock-growing country,
but there be many other plants which
can be mode equally as well into good
sum

The sorghums thrive in many of. the
western and southern states, and have
proven not only dmuth-resistint'. but

also hig wielding amps; of these perm
A haps -k
A feeding test at the Kansas superb.

corn is the meet valuable.

ment station'lcund it the equal 0! In-
dian corn. Kadlr. corn makes excel-
iént silage for all kinds of live stock
and its mouth-resisting qualities make
it a dependable ‘.crop

Milo maize, sorghum, feterita and
sudan gross are also members of the
sorghum family, which are very val-
uable as silage Pints, being drouth-
resisting and yielding a high tonnage
per acre.

Root crops. such as suar beets, man:

gels, mtabsgas and turnips can also
be silosdwith good success. ,

Beet pulp as produced from the
sugar tectonics has been used for
many years successfully as silage.
Best tops are also easily made into
silage, and in many parts or the coun-
try have become a staple forage for
term animals. "-~~Whers boots are free
from. dirt, the beat plantpbothgop
and root can be successfully cut up
and put into the silo and will come out
as. excellent silage. In sugar "beet
growing sections the/ silo should be
used to save the large crop or best
tops, which is produced each year.
These tops make a splendid food,
pecially for milk-producing cattle,§and
can be equally well fed to fattening
and growing stock.

.The inuch- -despised Russian thistle
of the northwest and west has been
proven to make good silage. It will

*grow when practically nothing else ‘

will survive in long drbuth seasons.
When out while still green and put
into the silo, it undergoes a fermen-

tation alnd as out as excellent sil-
age, relish yl farm animals.
Sun flow s also proven to be

good silage plants and big yielders.
At the Montana experiment station,—
My were successfully tested out dur-
ing the" year 1&18. They have the ad-
vantage of a very high yield: often

running a? high as 30 tons per acre.-

The silage is relished by livegetock
and has a high feeding vs no, nearly
equal to corn. In many
ern states wild sun flowers are a nox-
ious weed and grow in the cor-n ileld
with shch “1me“ that they some-
times get the s o! the corn and will
make up one-half. of the crop. I have
seen corn and wild on} flowers har-
vested where the sunflowers composed
two-thirds of the tonnage. The I:
produced was not only relished by the
stock, but also proved high in hood
nutrients. '

Many of the weeds, such no pl!-
weed. rag-weed. pigeon grass and bind

weed, will also inake fairly good sil-
e, and for this reason a corn crop_
ch has been taken by the weeds
[“11 be profitably? ‘ ' '
t M

‘ should be put to their most
.uee‘. Hanyefthehaycrmsmu

.' peas. and soy-beans in

the west-

its proper use. a
-In this reconstruction peflnfl

steel: products all across
clover, alfalfa, timothy, fill, eats.

profitably sliced and in this why will
not only be saved, but turned to a vol»
noble end.-- Practically all our grass
and grain crops can be made into In-

‘389-

, -,Wheat rye, spelts, barley and peer

nut vines will make fairly good silage. '

In the high plateaus of the ”west and
southwest where peas and Mexican
peas produce large yields, the silo can
be used to store these crops and put
them in such shape thatthey can be

* fed. thruout the year or even carried
f6r two or three years

The silo has proven itself the most
valuable equipment on the; stock torn
and without it a/stocksfarmer is bent
icapped and is not making the best

. use of~his fofage..—-4. 'L'. Hawker.

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Uelcrmary Department
Will you tell me thru the columns
of your good paper what time of year
is the best for ~dehorning cattle and
the best method, and what would»):
a gcod remedy to stop the bleeding.
—Leo J. Hofl‘man, Carleton, Hick. _
Cattle may safely ,. be' dehorned a
any time of the year, however, who/n
dehorned in the winter and the weath-
er ls too severe they should be kept
in a fairly warm place after the horns
are removed ‘ as a matter of protec-
tion; the inside of the horn next to
the head is very sensitive. The proper
and only safe method is a dehornin‘
instrument which clips the born 00

quickly; applying a strong cord tightr~

around the horn close to the head will
in the majority of cases contbpl the
bleeding; in. severe cases it may be
necessary to apply the
however, this is seldom required. A!“
ter removing the horns a pad of ab-

sbrbent cotton well soaked in oil of

tar should be applied to \pm'nnt ex.
poems to cold and dirt. Care should

be taken to prevent a too firm scab to ~

form as sinus and nasal catarrh' rev
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I am writing you to iind out what
is wrong with my 3-year-old‘ heifer
She eats well and is in good shape
but she vomlts nearly every morning.
I will thank you very much if you
will tell me what to do for it.--J N.
Y., Kinda, Michigan.

Your heifer is slightly affected will

an» obscure abdominal sums. and

should be given some" good int
antiseptic. I would advise you
her one quart raw linseed oil to which
add two ounces of turpentine. This

s , should be followed “in‘ *twentyetou .,
hours with F. E. nux'vdtsica, twe "

ounces, one ounce salon- add ancient

water to make eight ounces, and m

one ounce mominz and night.
nit III. B _F. is ‘11 ‘ I

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class of farm

       

(1' enable you to carry
a maximum load of any commOdity regardless of its: density
Many attempts haVe been made ‘50 deVdOP a bddy that would be read1ly fl;

Convertible into several practical forms. 1 ,

Some of these have been successful to a degree. ' 5,

* Fault with all of them, however, was too much cornplieation—too

many adjustments and connections to get out of order.

Such construction also ran into a lot of needless weight to be carried

all the time. . X

It remained for the Rec engineers to solve the problem in the simple,
direct, substantial Reo Way.

And they did it, not by making a Convertible body that would fold
first' into one form and then another, but by a set ,of sectional units
with one basic body as a foundation.

This basic body itself performs fully fifty per cent of all’delivery service.

‘ No user will need all the extra sections. ‘~ f‘ -

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Each user will, however, need one or sew bf them. ,
You buy the Rec chassis equipped with the basic—low express-body --
shown below. _
Then, to fit your special service, you select such other attachments or

. sections as you find most applicable to year work. .

This Reo body in its several forms meets everyrequirement of speedy, '
economical hauling—in city and suburban as .well as rural service.
There are seven forms' 11; all.

On the left we show four forms of this body.

The other forms ypu may obtain‘at a few dollars extra cost.

Need we add that the chassis on which these body types are mounted
has been longer in service and has been more conclusively proven than
any other?

It is,‘ 1n fact, the pioneer of its class—the first motor truck to be mount-
ed on pneumatic tires. ,
Also, lest you forget; Reo was the first to see the need for, and to equip '
a motor truck with electric starter and lights. .

The very classification “Speed Wagon” was original with Reo.

r. This Reo proved the superiority and the greater economy of the pneu-

matic-tired truck. .—
In operation and upkeep cost this Reo easily surpasses all others. —

And so it should-for it represents the ripest experience and the sound-
est engineering known to the industry.

Your own Reo dealer will show you this versatile Rec “Speed Wagon”
with the seven styles of bodies and quote you price on such as you may
select as best suited to your own requirements.

Demand is—tremendous. Always is for Recs, but this season more
so than ever before.

Only way to Be at all certain of getting a Reo “Speed Wagon” for early
delivery is to place your order at once.

Today won't be a minute too, soon.
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Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing, MiChigan

I '1 -«|- ‘ Pdoo— Chassis eq uépped with low Express body

(shown below) 313 0 I o. b. heron, plus Special
Federal Tax.

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