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SlIeSS Farmers Of Michigan

By Special Correspondent

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" WEST ERN UNION SPECIAL
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, NEW YORK, N. Y., FEB. 10, 1919.
, ‘ MT CLEMENS, "MICH. . '

. _ AM. CONFIDENT INVESTIGATION WILL RESULT IN OPENING DOMESTIC TRADE AND FOREIGN
:. 'MARKETS OF THE WORLD TO THE AMERICAN GROWER. INQUIRIES ALREADY COMING IN WHICH
SUPPLY APPARENTLY WILL NOT FILL. IT SEEMS RIDICULOUS FOR MICHIGAN BEAN GROWERS TO
PERMIT THIS PRODUCT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM AT PRESENT PANIC PRICES, WHEN WE
.7. HAVE EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE NEW CROP, AND LESS THAN ONE- FOURTH OF CROP LEFT. MR.
I 'QURNER PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA GROWERS, HERE AND WISHES ME TO ASSURE YOU THEY WILL ,
NOT SELL THEIR BEANS AT A LOSS. COST_ IS AROUND NINE CENTS COAST, ALSO THAT UNLESS
' - PRESENT HOLDINGS ARE SOLD AT PROFIT WILL CARRY SAME OVER AND REDUCE PLANTINGS OF
., MEMBERS ACCORDINGLY IF HIGH COST OF PRODUCTION COTINUES NEXT SEASON. CAREFUL IN-
V‘YESTIGATION CONVINCES THAT STOCKS OF FOOD PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FAR BE-
.LOW NORMAL AND BEANS WITH SUCH HIGH PERCENTAGE FOOD VALUE MOST DESIRABLE. PRES-

 

 

 

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ENT PRICES ARE UNDOUBTEDLY DUE TO MANIPULATION.
RESULTS WILL PLEASE YOU. - _ .

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IN ONE part of the world we have had millions of people clam-
oring for food; in another part we have had millions of people
producing feed in quantities far in excess of their oWn or com-
mumty needs. So great has been the scarcity of foods 1n the one
section that many thousands have died of starvation, so great has
‘ ' the plenty OI IoOd in the other section that vast supplies
fWaVe piled lip' . Pnces have gene down, down, down; and many

producers face financial loss. . The people who want food and
have it not, dumbly wonder why they have it not; and those who
have more than they Want and cannot sell it dumbly Wonder why
they cannot sell it.

There has been a veil of mystery and uncertainty about the
international food situation that the most vigorous winds of pro-
tests, appeals and investigations have failed to dispel. It is now
established that much of this uncertainty 1s due to the mercenary

mfornmtlon, have sought to demoralize the markets. My two—
thirds of ‘v'flbearlsh information that has been placed before the
flamers thrufth‘e “news” stories Of the city press, has been pre-

by speculators for the definite purpOse of frightening .
‘ . things just ahead.
' restrictions. on food products grown commercially in Michigan

fariners into selling their produce. , .
. ._ ';_The other third of the food reports Were frequently contra-
dietary and unreliable. Oiie instant we have been told that the
” orld'was on ”the verge of. starvatlon the next instant that for-

' able.

t0” be wondered at that the crest of the marketing seasbn finds
farmers and dealersalike in a most unsettled state which natur-

ally results in a depressed market and low prices.

For months Michigan Business Farming has felt the futility
of trying to fathom the food situation. It has sensed that some-
thing was wrong, that certain valuable facts were being withheld

‘ from the farmers, and that many of the statements given out were
misleading either purposely or otherwise.

Particularly was this
true of the bean situation, which, however, was merely typical of
other cases. But the investigation of the bean deal which we de-
manded and after a long delay secured is letting in a flood of
light upon a hitherto dark subject.

The telegram shown on this page was received Tuesday morn-
ing from our special representative who is attending the bean
hearing at New York City. Its language is plain and unmistak-
It was penned by one who is in on the ground floor and
knows whereof he speaks. It contains 3 message of hope to every
farmer, not only of Michigan, but of the United States as well.
It lightens the gloom that has shrouded the markets for the past
thirty days, and should c‘Onvince the farmers that there are better
It should be remembered that the export

have just been removed. This was done Without any preliminary
announcements and found those interested in both the domestic
and export trade unprepared to' take immediate advantage of the
resultant situation. Therefore, the removal of restrictions has

had no "appreciable” eiIe‘ct upon demand and prices as yet, but 'it 4 I .
seems inevitable that it must sooner or lat“ make.» itself felt as _ '-

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‘ W1: and. Indicates the highways yet

"weld these many completed link into one, huge chain of state ‘ If

7 award roads,
7 No one any longer disputes the value of good roads to the
cemmnnities which they eonnect and to the people who travel

upon them. There is,- howeVer, very serious diiferenoes‘of opin- '

ion as to the material, out of which these roads should be built
and the sources from which ’i‘evenue should" he obtaihed. The

sifiiation in a nutshell 1s the—everybody wants good roads but

wants the other fellow to pay for them.

We may as well make up our minds to one thing at least,
' and that Is that Michigan IS going to build many miles of gravel
and concrete roads during the next five years. We don’t know
yet who Is to pay the major cost of these roads; we are no more
prepared than anyone else to announce a definite plan of raising
road funds which will be equitably distributed among the tax-
payers according to the benefits they receive from the roads,

at 1, ‘V V , .
a . The legiflflture has.veted tn :8 constitutional amend-
mm; to the people {to mam the "

and issue hads for road building gpm‘poses Wit-heat being

any inter-med as to the manner in Which debt:- thin contracted

are to be ultimately liquidated, there is a tendency among the .

'fiarmem and those representing the farmers to knock the propo-

sition. The fear of death and taxes Seems to have been born in '
man, and any legislation that calls for an expenditure of the
public funds sends a shiver down the spines of many good people. ,

During the next few‘weeks there will be many conterenoes
between good roads leaders, leg1slators and farmers to diseuss
the good roads project to the end that farmers, as well as all
other taxpayers, may become thoroughly informed upon the sub-
ject. Michigan Businem Farming will lend its aid by opening
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can trace any symptoms of organic diseaseS,
11 possibly might hays loll to present condi-
a.» Ellison years ago the railroads out the

   

ey had entered mums, attended cane-mes,
township and county; controlled mum“;
state and national; kept their paid Iobylets at
all sources of legislation—41m had, in fact, both
that in the public trough. It was about this time
that the “public bedamned“ policy was put. in
force; ofl‘lcials rode rough-shod over the rights of

, ' the people; numerous eflelals drew enormous. 881-.

‘ Liartesandthlmgemellyweeerunwithahigh

l‘ . iv ‘ hand. The farmers of Michigan will quickly so
’19» can theseMefldargwhe-n we refutethe
‘ a ' “immortal nineteen” in the state £13151:th

for two sessions, gains the railroads what they

asked, andrefusedltoeveneensiderthe-neodgor
, V ‘ ' desires of the people.

’ l ' ‘ _ Quite naturally there foliowed a period of

' ' \“manipulatlon,” which finally resulted disastrous

13 to the very much abused; patient. Here in Mich-

II isms we recall the plundering at the Pare Mar--

.. “ auntie as well no the crimiml manipulation of

['35 . - seven! other companies; The Pen Hammett:

/ _’ , with an invested capital of not to cancer] eighty

~ " f” ' ‘ - million, was so manipulated that its capital stock

" was increased to more than one hundred and.

.. thirty million—the stocks watered to the extent

- . of Minimum dollam Thenbandbmesoldto

' ,4 . II the public, and when it came time nor dividends.

7 _ j which were not forthcoming, the cry was made
»-:‘ ', that widows and orphans held Pen Marquette

' ’ stock,‘a11d the state should increase rates, in «-
d'er that the interests: of these innocent third. par-

.ties might be protected. At envy session or the

legislature increased rates were asked for, but

the pleadings were in vain, for the people remem-
bered the hastile 'attitude and deceptions prac-
ticed in former, days, and the old Water-soaked

Concerns were permitted to arm with the cm-

‘k. 1-, - rent. Many companies tailed, rolling flask was

depleted,roadhedsawedtognflrombadto
worse, engines in such shape that emezlon‘t service

‘ was impossiblHnd the management sitting idly

,. '3. . - by until the people “got enough at it.”

‘ And then came the war. When called upon by
' ” the government to Motels transportation tor war
materialsand troopsmthese old. ants-horse shays

. fell in pieces. The government was. obliged to
take over the railroads, and then indeed, was the

actual condition of these companies fully brought
l 5 ‘ to light.

' . z , “ appropriate money for new cars, for. rebuilding
1” engines, linking the roadheds safe, and in tact

»., “ bring order out oi chaos. This the government
accomplished in short Ogden; the. freight of the

' . nation, thousands 0:! cars of war materials and

' millions of men were hand-led without delay and
with very little friction _

To accomplish this required not only an appro-
.priatlon by Congress, but an increase in both
'ireight and passenger rates. And: because of this
fact, we hear the cry, that “Government ownership
of railroad; has beaten 3. failure. ” Have we had an
experience with actual government ownership in
this country? No. What we have had is this:
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‘. .31 . . u found them, and ag' old to pay certain dividends '

. " or interest. rates to the stockholders. So we have
" had government operation of railways but we

' have not had “Government ownership and opera-
tion of railways.” What. is the menace? Let
,4 v 1 your question. be answered through the asking of
- ' another: “Suppose. you, Brother Farmer, took

    
  

      

’ '_ 5 tag that you-honld pay him a certain interest on
, _; <2; the investment, employ his men and use his mar
2“ I} E: chinery. Now, the farm, warth ten thousand del-

' lass, is Capitalized at eighteen. thousand, so. you
must pay interest. on eight thousand dollars worth
of Water before you can use the machinery it
must be repaired at a tremendous em; his men
,_ rike and must have more wages»; fie tam is all

 
  

 

Identifier illnesezan‘d may

for a decade or more. and see it we ~'

We! musically controlled the several states '

The government was at once obliged to _

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five-year period for getting your money back?
Surely you could not have expected to make a
showing the first year, especially when. because of

' war you were obliged to carry on certain branch-

on at less than mill—(W fares one cent
pu-nsile, etc.)

We might as: well look the proposition right in

the thee. The: railway Inflammation figures a
deficit at $256,900,668 for tlk year. There has

been. a saving in the running expenses. oi the,

M and the income has been increased, but rep
member the government in paying the railroad
minus: MGM'flflfm annually than the
commute: were 113ny We the war. Direc-
tor-Gaul! Ill-ea, who has succeeded Mr. McAdoo,
will ask (ileum for 1 half billion dollars to be
mt manly for betterment of the roads and
improving the mice.

The More at Michigan. are vitally interested
in this Mi. of “Win mu own the railroads ?"
The eastern and western rmds get the Iang hauls,
and that nulls; the his end of the freight revenue,
the inter-due lines, at short-haul roads are the
ones which Meir. And keep this fact everlast-
ingly in mind: It is" the lines running through-
out Michigan which serve the people of this state.

And too, write this down: “Under private
ownership railways will not be run which do not
pay operating expenses.” This simply means,
more short lines torn up on, Sundays when an
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——Sykes in the Philadelphia. Evening Ledger.

moment that the rural routes by your door could
or would be maintained by a private corporation?
The long haul lines, the railways which run thru
thickly-populated districts. and reach the great
consuming and manufacturing centers will sur-
vive under private ownership, but the railways
which run to your town and thru your county
will eventually pay or the tracks will be torn up
and you will be left high and dry so far as ship-
ping facilities are concerned.
- TherallWayé of the nation are our main arter-
ies of commerce. They are our common carriers.
They are absolutely necessary to carry on the busi-
ness oi the town, state and natiOn; they are
patronized by nil oi the people all? of the: time.
And Yet many impatient mortals are crying, “Gov-
crumt. owner-hip is a failure," when the plan
has not even been tried. Would you my friend,
went to do without your rural WP delivery? A
thousand times no, is your reply. Well sir do you
know that for years and years and years this
service to the farmers. cost the Federal govern-
ment millions"ci dollars annually?‘ Why, under
your ‘llesent' reasoning should we not have
thrown this plan into the discard; surely it didn't
Y Would. you be willing to again inaugurate.
“ital; rMp” plan '0! handling the mails?
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railways of the nation in the interest of all of the:
people. all of the time.

is plan would do away- With the bungling

of the state- commissions; would at rem

give iederal supervision and be an imth
over the old order of thugs.
‘ Private ownership and operation. to be main;-
tained.

Regulative power invested solely in the nation-v
al government. '

Interstate Commerce Commissions relieved or!
administrative duties to act as a quasi-judicial
body, passing on rates and hearing complaints.

A Secretary of Transportation in the Cabinet ‘
to take over the Commission’s executive fune-
tions, oversee the country’s transportation facil-
ities, look out for maintenance of service and
financial credit, distribute traffic in emergencies,
and allow building of new lines and terminals.

Rates to he initiated by carriers in accordance
with ratemabing rule embodied in statute and
subject to approval of Secretary on Transporta-
tion and appeal to Interstate Commerce Com-
mission.

Commission to establish regional commissions.

Antitrust, laws» to be modified to allow pooling,
rate agreements, joint use of facilities, and mer-
gers, as approved by Secretary of Tran ortation.

Labor questions to be handled by age Board.

Federal Government to regulate security issues.

Railroads. to be federally incorporated.

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Those who thought that the proposed “hitching
up" of the farmeis’ Non-Part1: an League with on- ,
ganized labor was no hing more than an idle
dream have another guess coming. Last week
Gov. Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota met with
John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Feder-
ation of Labor, and Duncan McDonald, president-
elect of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and
these three worthies laid the foundation of what
is. fondly hoped to become a. national political?
party that will supersede all the old parties. '

“Democ1acy,” said McDonald “means rule by
majority, and the workers wboth 111 industry and
on the farms—ale the 1119.301 1ly. From Chicago,
the great industrial center, must radiate labor’s
political movement, with ‘the farmers joining us,
for our interests are identical."

“We are going into this joint political move
ment,” said Fitzpatrick, “feeling it is our duty to
break down thexold political games, and we’ll fol-
low the Declaration of Independence, which says,‘
that when a form of government is oppressive it. .
is our bonden duty to destroy that government f
and build up another.”

Farmers of Michigan. are you ready to join
hands with organized labor to “destrOy this gov-
ernment and build up another “according to the
patterns of peoples whose inte1ests, environment
and traming are as far apart from yours as the ‘
two poles? Are you 1eady yet to renounce this»
government for which your forefathers bled and
lend your hands to the construction of a hierarchy
ruled by the iron and arbitrary hand of organ- "
ized labor? Are you ready yet to admit that you.-
do not know how to use the weapons that are in:
your hands to force obedience to your Wishes, and?“
must as a final resort join in an unnatural ani-
ance with those who have long held you up an,
profiteers? We cannot believe it.

Yet if the fusion of labor and farmers contin-
ue along the lines laid dowu by our non-partisan
fliends, the day will surely come when you farm
ers of Michigan will be asked to get on the bani
wwagon Do not delude yourself into believing tm
you as farmers will be leaders. Nay, nay. You
will simply ride in the procession and say “amen"
to all that the labor leaders propose. All is sweet .
and lovely yet. Labor leaders who have cantons
eyes on the powerful potentialities of organized”
bodies of farmers are letting the yeoman halve .
their own way, ‘but once let the fusion be can: 2
plate, and labor will assert itself and take the

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Farmers Pledge Support

The long-looked-for day has arrived. The di
tenant farm organizations of the community ha
“gr” _' and talked for years to have a. com-r ~

' on which to stand, and at last we ,
here with the goods. No doubt the war had s
thin: to do with bringing it about. After
trimming we farmers got in price-flxing‘on 'f
stalls and all thinu we had to buy, sacks,
and 1mm allowed to soar in price:

We wish to go on record that whatever 1,'
from plans we will stand behind with
last vote—Signed, Jam Committee "
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it And... at

Law WEEK the—Michigan Agricultural ’"

gonege opened its arms to the farmers- of
_;_‘Michigan, and over three thousand represent-
'ing almost every county in the state, rushed
‘ in and took possession of the college grounds
‘ and buildings fer five big days of Comingled
' entertainment, instruction and business. It
~.was by far the biggest crowd of visitors ever
assembled at the College on one occasion.
More important still, the visitors were for the
..most part actual working farmers, typical of
the great producing class. Very few of them
were of the “country gentleman” variety,
who in times past have made up the bulk of
the attendance at the college doings. Many,
of course, wereiindividuals who make an an-

: nualflpilgrim-age to the college, but the great .

majority were on their first visit.

The great crowd taxed the accommoda-
tions of not only the College but of the city of
Lansing as well. During the day and early
evening the college buildings where the var-
ious meetings were held were thronged and
in several instances hundreds were turned
away from the doors. At night many who had
failed to arrange for hotel accommodations
found themselves without rooms, and the ho-
tels turned away scores after all rooms were
filled, all cots utilized and even the lounges
in hotel lobbies occupied by tired visitors.

Meetings representing practically every
branch of agriculture as practiced in this
state were held at the College during the five
days, and almost without exception were well
attended. Some of the various organizations
which held their annual conventions at that
time were the Michigan Crop Improvement
Ass ’n, the Farm Bureaus, the Muck Farmers’
Ass ’n, Drain Commissioners, Potato Growers’
.Ass’n, Bean Growers’ Ass’n, Improved Live
Stock Breeders’ and Feeders’ Ass’n, and its
various affiliated associations, Maple Syrup
Makers’ Ass’n, and Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs.
In addition two very successful sales were
'held by the Holstein-Friesian Ass’n and the
Michigan Horse Breeders’ Ass’n, and the
poultry fanciers showed 'fine exhibits of
championship birds. All in all, the Farmers’
and Housewives’ Week of 1919 was a very
successful affair, of no less benefit to the Col-
lege itself than to the thousands who attended.

For the additional information given be-
low we acknowledge our indebtedness to Mr.
Earl R. Trangiar, M. A. C. publicity man-

ager, and to Ross G. Coller, his capable as-
slstant. .

Favor Pure Bred Sires For Michigan

IF SCRUB SIRES are at all sensitive creatures,
they were made most uncomfortable last week

by what Michigan’s foremost breeders and
feeders of live stock had to say about them dur-
ing the course of their annual convention at the
Michigan Agricultural College. The live stock
men were at once with

. Parnall, Ann Arbor.

Agricultural C
remedial legislation in theiirectin oinleaiiing
up tuberculosis in Michigan herd

flese "

providing something’llike more adequate compen-
bercular ani- . - ' '
sati‘on for tu- ,

mals sent to

the block. ,

“It we could .
clean up our
herds," said D.

D.Aitken, pres-, ,

ident of the

National . Hol-

stein - Friesian

Association, in

addressing ' the

general- meet

ing, “it would

be an immense

business asset

for us. If we

could go be-

fore the marl , .

’kets 01' the COLON o. LILLIE
country and Pres. Improved Live Stock Ass’n.
say ‘Gentlemen, we can guarantee you that every
animal you buy in Michigan is free rom tuber-
culosis,’ it would give us a talking point that
would immensely boom the live stock industry
within this state. But to bring this about we
need larger state support—and should iiisist upon
being given larger state support.” ‘

Two highly successful sales, one of Holstein-
Friesians, and another of Percherons and Bcl-
gians, were features of the meeting of. live stock
men. »

A partial list of the officers elected by the Mich.
igan Improved Live Stock Breeders’ and Feeders'
Associations and 'the various breed associations
affiliated with it, follows:

Michigan Improved Live Stock Breeders’ and
Feeders’ Ass’n: President, Colon C. Lillie, Coop-
ersville; vice-president, Herbert Powell, Ionia;
secretary, George A. Brown, East Lansing; as-
sistant secretary, W. E. J. Edwards, East Lan‘
sing; treasurer, H. H. Halladay, Clinton; execu-
tive committee, J. Fred Smith, Byron; Jacob De-
Geus, Alicia; J. Lessiter, Orion; Earl-C. Mc-
Carty, Bad Axe; Alexander Minty, Ionia. .

Michigan Holstein-Friesian Ass'n: President,
M. W. Wentworth, Battle Creek; vice-president,
H. W. Norton, East Lansing; secretary-treasurer,
Charles Daniels, Okemos.

Michigan Guernsey Breeders' Ass’n: President,
E. J. Smallidge, Eau Claire; first vice president,
Arthur M. Smith, Lake City; second vice-president,
H. G. Roy, Albion; third vice-president, J. L.
Snyder, East Lansing;. secretary-treasurer, C. C.

Michigan Horse Breeders’ Ass’n: President,
Jacob DeGuess, Alicia;~vice president, June ‘El-
liott, Onondaga; secretary-treasurer, R. J. Hud-
son, East Lansing; executive committee, L. C.
Hunt, Eaton Rapids; John Jacob, St. Johns; John
Hawkins, Hudson; _Henry McNamara, Alma; and
H. L. Foster, Parma. . ,

Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders' Ass’n:
President, Alex Minty, Ionia; vice president, Gale

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tion was made‘that this Work’ wouia‘ be hastened,
it the state ‘government‘would do its'tull, duty» by, "

. $13,245.

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. . . . w executive committee M
Jacobs. St. ,1 ‘ " Leonard. St. Louis; L. L
Cheniberl‘ai‘n, j ' ‘

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line.

5301:;an adopted. by the Mich-Y

igan Live ’Btock Breeders? and Feeders" ‘Ass’n fol;

lows: _ _ . 7-
Resolved, That the Hive Stock Breeders' and
Feeders' Association meeting“ be held at the usual ‘

time in January, and that the’we‘ekbe devoted ‘8",

clusivoly to the livestock meeting. .
~ That we commend "the. service andhi’ghly sues"
cessful work which the Live Stock Sundanese»,
mission has been doing. . , _ , "
That we request the legislature to appropriate —
sufficient funds'to reimburse farmers .tor cattle.
condemned with tuberculosis. ,
That every member of this associationlend 'hi‘s
hearty support to the College Extension force and
county agents in their campaign to eliminate scrub .
sires. - f -
‘That we heartily endorse the pending legisla—'
tion'to eliminate scrub sires; .
That this organization urge upon the state leg-
islature and the Governor the urgent necessity of

a speciak appropriation to cover the funds accruv 7

ing to the Cbllege through the Smithdaever bill,‘
tQ provide for normal development of work at the
College and for extension work in the state.

That the secretary be instructed to extend to

. the early members and founders of this organiza—

tion our sincere appreciation of their early labors
and our hope that the evening of their lives be
extended many ,years.~—Jacob DeBeus, A. O. Ander-
son, Frank Lessiter. ‘ .

Michigan Holstein-Friesian Sale at M. A. C.

., EMBERS of the Michigan .Holstein-Friesian‘

'Ass'n held their “annual meeting at the

Michigan Agricultural College during the
Farmers' Week program, February 3 to 7. The
meeting was featured by an auction sale of reg—
istered stock, 38 high grade animals selling for
This average sale price of $3‘i8, as com-
pared with the average of. $227 a year ago, shows
the upward trend of the Holstein breed in Michi-
gan. .
A large number of cattle buyers were in at-
tendance at the sale which was held on February
6. Buying was brisk. the cattlemen being, an-
xious to pick up the good offerings that were pre
sented at the sale.

The association reports a big demand for Hol-
stein stock, as evidenced by the size of associa- «
tion auction sales and continued shipping 0! ani-
mals from all Holstein centers.

On page 22 will be found the sale list of the
Holstein-Friesian association auction at M. A. C.
on February 6th. ' '

Michigan Horse Breeders’ Association
ECLARING that the present outlook is for
. steadily increasing prices in the market for
the better quality of animals, members of
the Michigan Horse Breeders’ Ass’n pictured rosy
days ahead for the horse business in Michigan at
their annual meeting held during Farmers’ Week,-
February 3 to 7, at the Michigan Agricultural col-
lege. Sale of 25 registered horses was held

February 7. ‘ M

“Horses of low, drafty type with goodnnderpin-
ning are what the mar-r

 

each other on the ques-
tion of. the need in
Michigan for legisla-
tion to do away with
scrub sires. It was
their expressed opin-
ion. that the scrub sire
should be condemned——
and that as far as they
are concerned they
will make every effort
to see that it is con-
demned.
'The sentiment of the
Michigan Improved-
Live Stock Breeders’
and Feeders’ Associa-
ti0n on this subject,
was summed up in a
resolution, -as follows:
“We heartiiy endorse
the pending legisiation
to eliminate scrub .
,sires." H ‘ l

.. Much stress was laid
also upon ‘the' impera- . . ’ "
tive need for further ..

 

_ Agriciqiwfal Wilding,

 

{EL

ket ’is calling for to»

on in “theiuture,” de-
clared Eli Sprunger of ’
Saginaw, who address-
ed the convention. Mr. ,
Sprunger and John W
Sharkey of Bellevue,
both buyers of com?
mercial draft horses
said they could find but
few of this type of
horse in Michigan, and
'When’ they did .find,
them, the price was
high, ranging upwards
trem” $~2002 ‘

Dr; Judso‘nBiack of

__that are 'being taken to
. ‘ overcome some of. the ~
diliiculties , , encountered
“ in ' ’3

 

 

 

 

day and will insist up: - .

Hudson outlined, steps ,« ‘ '

 

 


 

 

V at thefig cram at the id held ab-

' pr‘o‘iniacd when farmers 'were

_ last [fall to plant a maximum acreage. In
connection the suggestion was made that if
Wm.V would make it a point to write to their

_ congressmen "and schators, it would do much to-

steers! 1»: 1591's, when certain an. or the po-
' o grading: system we're given a thorough airing,

V was found at last week’s. session to have been

_'fruitful' during the year. It was reported from

" practically every section or the state that dealers

have corrected their screens, and that further

great strides had been taken in the direction of‘

tie-operative marketing. Much credit was accord?
‘ were mobilized into a powerful unit with the or-

ed both the Gleaner Clearing House Ass'n and the
','.Michigan Cooperative Potato Groviers’ Exchange

4 v"_for their efforts in securing for the farmer more

afavorable prices than would have been possible
without their assistance.

The same officers were elected as served last
year. They were: President, Arthur M. Smith,
Lake, City; vice-president, M. B. MéPherson, Low-

ell; treasurer, Dorr D. Buell, Elmira; secretary, V

Lawrence A. Siple, Greenville.

The growers passed resolutions favoring a state
grading law, asking the legislature for an'appro-
pristion of $3,500 to further the industry, co-op-
. 'erati'on with growers’ organizations of other states.

6 - Pres. Smith appointed Dorr D. Buell, Rep. Bra-

manand L. A.. Siple as a committee to draft a
state potato grading .bill.

The State ' Championship Poultry Show
/ HE “BLUE-BLOODS” of poultrydom in
' :Michigan were. placed on exhibition at the
Michigan Agricultural College, Feb. 3 to 7,
as one of the big features of the farm, home and
. health exposition 'at"the college. 013 the several

score of birds filling the cages, all were prize»

winners at'one'or more of the various shows con-
. ducted in the state during the pasLseveral months,
and all were pitted against each other for a grand
‘state “sweepstakes. " ,
J. G. Tucker of Concord, well known as one of
, Michigan’s shrewdest judges of poultry, acted as
:judge at the college show.
NeXt week we will Publish the complete list of
poultry awards.

‘ Demand Wheat Price Be Held Up

SESSIONS of the Michigan Farm Crops Im-
' provement Ass’n at'M. A. (3. last weék, while

they Were notable for one of the finest pedi-
-‘ greed grain shows the association ever put on,

t ,1 .' “
. .é --

ward encouraging them to oppose any attempt

by the millers and other factions to knock the
price down.

The corn show of the Crop Improvement Ass’ 11,
arranged for under the direction of the Farm
Crops department of the college, was one of the

‘indst pretentious thatadmirers of improved corn
have had the privilege 'of inspecting.

Michigan“ Musk Farmers’ Ass’n
NTERESTS of the muck farming industry of
Michigan which heretofore have been left on-
tirely‘in the hands of the individual farmer

ganizatiOn of the Michigan Muck Farmers’ Ass’n
at the Michigan Agnicultural college during Farm-

- ers' Week, Feb. 3 to 7.

More than a hundred members of the newly
organized association returned to their homes af-

'ter completing plans for uniting to secure legis-

lative action and agricultural extension work
which are deemed vital to the prosperity of "the
muck land industry. The association'decided up-

,on a campaign to acquaint the people of the state

with the agricultural possibilities of Michigan’s
swamp lands.

The birth of this association emphasizes the
increasing importance that is being attached to

. the development of the millions of acres of muck

land in the state. Until recently little attention
has been given to muck land problems and it was
not generally appreciated that the muck farmers
were unable to utilize agricultural information
as developed from the up-land point of view.

Resolutipns favoring the adoption of the new
drainage law now pending before the state legis-
latu’r'e were adopted by the association and the
request was made for. immediate provision of
funds for research, extension and demonstration
work on the swamp' lands of the state.

The association appealed to the Federal Land
bank Of St. Paul, Minn, to bend its efforts toward
providing government loan's”on muck lands. As-

,s'urancethat such change in the federal banking

provisions will likely be made soon was received
by the convention from federal banking officials.
Endorsement of the work of Ezra Levin, muck

‘ specialist of the Michigan Agricultural College,

was given in a special resolution by the muck
farmers. The delegates also requested that a
short course for muck farmers be established at
the Agricultural College and conducted each year
during the winter term of school.

I were cited as examples.

J. C. Merriman of Deckerviille, was elected press r
ident of the new state association; 0. E. Downin
of Vermontville is vice-president; Ezra Levin 0f
M. A. 0., is secretary and Dick Kapetyn of Barry:
is treasurer.

'The Michigan Farm Bureau ..

HILE THE Farmers' Week meetings yer ;

in progress at M. A. (I, delegates #01!) T

farm bureaus in sixty counties met and .3
formed the Michigan Farm Bureau, which
sponsors count upon to do for Michigan as a whole
what the smaller bureaus are accomplishing in
the various counties. In the course of two days .
of stirring meetings the delegates laid the foun-
dation and erected the framework for a state
bureau binding the individual county farm bu-
reaus into one for the furtherance of their com-
mon interests. ,

The aims of the new organization as set forth
in its constitution, “shall be to encourage, aid
and circulate the efforts of the county farm bu-
reaus and to provide ways and means for concert-
ed action in the solution of agricultural problems, 4
of state and national scope."

There was some misunderstanding of the real
objects and motives of the proposed organization
when the meeting opened, but this was quicklv
d-'pelled by Dr. Eben Mumford of M. A. C.

“This is not intended to be a college association
in any sense,” said Doctor Mumford. “What we H
desire to assist in bringing about is the formation
of an organization by farmers themselves, for the
interests of farmers, that will do for the state as
a whole what the county farm bureaus do for the
individual counties.”

The oilicers elected were as follows: President,
Roland Merrill, Benton Harbor; first vice-presi-
dent, Ray Potts, Macomb county; second vice pres-
ident, F. H. Vandenboom, Marquette county;
treasurer, Fred Van Orsdahl, St. Joseph county;
secretary, C. A. Bingham, Oakland county; vice
presidents: Fred Cornair, Saginaw county, farm
crops; J. P. Munson, Kent county, fruits and
vegetables; A. E. Illenden, Lenawee county, live
stock; Alfred Hendrickson, Oceana county, dairy-
ing; James Nicol, Allegan county, department of
buying and selling; Austin Cowles, Clinton coun-
ty, farm management; Mrs. John C. Ketcham,
Barry county, boys’ and girls’ club work; Miss
Jennie Buell, Lenawee county, home economics;
Arlie Hopkins, Manistee county, legislative de-
partment, and Earl R. Trangmar, East Lansing,
publicity.

(Norm: Lack of space prevents our giving fur-
ther details of “Farmers’ Week” events in this is-
sue. These will be published complete in a later
issue )

‘y it Pays to Hatch Chicks Early

 

 

 

 

Early HatchOd Pallet

Hen Moltlnghi the Fall
. laying in the [all

and not laying

Early spring is nature’ s most favorable grow- .
the result of being infested with lice which are so
prevalent in the summer.

Ling season. By hatching chicks early they will

*have the advantage of this fav6rable growing sea-*
" son and a longer growing period than those hatch- .
, _. ed during the late spring or early summer. Given _
“ the same feed, care and attention, chicks hatched . '

are" of March will Weigh more when they are

nths old. The rate. or growth fa chick.- is,

' ing the first four weeks of .. lit
H her" period. "

' tember, October or November.
'fall months that the hens are getting ready for
winter by molting and groWing new feathers.

' “ins.
‘ prices are high. The solution then is to hatch
early so as to have early maturing pullets that

February, March and April are the best months
for hatching in the north‘middle western states.
. If you do not have any broody hens, get several
from a neighbor or elsewhere, use an incubator,

or take some eggs to a nearby hatchery. Chicks
hatched early with proper care and attention

should reach maturity and start laying in Sep-
It is during these

But few hens grow feathers and produce eggs at
the same time. Therefore, when hens are molt-
eggs are scarce. When eggs are scarce,

will produce eggs when hens are molting.
Millions of late hatched chicks die‘ each year as

Then, too, hot weather
'rowth. of chicks. Hatching should
0 that" the chicks will get a good

are; the hot Weather. It for

will not be interrupted by

.. the presence of lies. Late »

when sold and the time marketed. Thus it would
seem that in order to increase the amount of
money from the sale of broilers and friers, early
hatching should be employed so as to have a »
marketable sized cockerel early in the spring
when prices are highest.

Market all cockerels, not wanted as breeders at
as early a date as possible. Never market good,
strong, vigorous pullets, as these will make your
early layers. Many farmers who depend entirely
on hens for hatching find it difficult to hatch for
the reason that but few of their hens go broody
early enough in the spring. This difliculty may
be overcome when early hatching is once prac-
ticed, as early-hatched pullets are the ones that-
go broody early the following spring. By hatch-
ing early the farmer is enabled to give his full
time to other spring work, the task of caring for
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ear Weather" With Rising Temperature
f T THE opening of the session after Lieu~
tenant Governor Dickinson hadmade some

very "pertinent remarks about recent polit-
events and had posted a few red lanterns at

tel traCk laid out by Paul King, and when
either “Tom” Reed had said that nothing but
praise for,both thetra/ck and its rolling stock
was well’as lts'other equipment, and had received
, the glad hand of approval from his colleagues, the

,, . lieutenant governor moved about in a mighty

chilly atmosphere at the Capitol. There were

V‘suppressed mutterings and side glances.

and there was all the time a serene, unrumed
.. lieutenant governor who came and went about his
ibusiness with that calmness and earnestness of
manner betokening honesty of purpose with "mal-
ice toward none and charity for all.”
, Gradually it has seemed to soak into the con-
"sciousness of all that in polities as well as in
business there are “cmdit” and “debit” pages in
the ledger—political “assets" and political “lia-
bilities." Predestination hugs no favorites. The
p‘lebescite separates the sheep from the goats, with
unerring hand, and the plebiscite shows so plain-
ly that he who runs may read, that the lieutenant
is not one of the g. o. p.’s liabilities, it shows in
fact that he is one of its principal assets. He is
serving his third term as lieutenant governor. In
each election his total vote has been up near the
‘top of the list. In the last election despite the
resentful mood of Mr. Newberry’s friends; des-
pite the fact that the booze gang was out with
hatchets, the old Charlotte farmer, the Si Plunk-
ard of the state ticket, without spending a dollar,
comes across with a majority of 108,897, While Mr.
Newberry, who owns up to an expenditure of over
$176,000, creeps over the line with the measly
majority of 7,567. The densest political dopester
could scarcely fail to find in these figures "food
for thought,” and only the “ivory domed" could
ignore them. In the politician the instinct of
self-preservation is highly developed, and it now
looks as though if anyone has to go overboard it
Will be the Jonahs rather than useful members
of the crew. At any rate Dickinson stock is al-
ready above par and the weather signals indicate
“clear weather with rising temperature" in the
lieutenant governor’s office.

Stop the Bolshevik
HERE ARE those about the capitol who
seem to be greatly excited over the pros-
pect of Bolshevism developing in Michigan,
and there are others who see red every time the

Non-Partisan League is mentioned. Sane think-
ing people recognize that each of thesa phenom-
ena is a protest against some deep-seated form
of inustjice of long standing; that they are more
effectively treated by corrective measures than by
repressive ones. These are critical days in the
world’s experience. Forward-looking men realize
that pro-war conditions can never return. They
can never again be made to fit our social, polit-
ical, economic or industrial status.

What are we‘doing in Michigan to meet and
solve the great problems of reconstruction? In
Wisconsin a. special committee on Reconstruction
has made a report to the legislature that Michi-
gan salons would do well to read and carefully
consider. A broad field is covered in the re-
port which makes recommendations covered by
' the following summary:

Agriculture—A policy to bring about not social-
istic state ownership, but the widest possible de-
gree of individual ownership of wealth and mans
of production. The committeebelieves this can
be attained by state control of marketing in lint
with successful experiments of the war food ad-'
,ministration; encouragement of the cooperative
enterprises; entire prohibition of profiteering and
unfair Competition and standardization of farm
products.
turai laws should be entrusted to the state mar-
keting commission, subject, as a safeguard against
' bureaucracy, to recall by the legislature.

For Living Wage
Labor—The report declares that the working-
man is entitled to a living family wage; that his
right to unionize for collective bargaining should
a be unquestioned, and that to an industrial com-x
m should be entrusted comment of a law

_ .. There .
. ' , were remarks about Zese majeste and party loyalty,

The work of administering agricul- .

the minimum wage "law be extended to include
men; that the state board of vocational education
should adopt a policy to train victims of indus-
trial accidents so they will be self-supporting; that
organized labor be represented on the educational
boards of the state; that aliens be required to
learn the English language; that courses in Amer-
icanization be included in indsutrial and voca-
tional classes; that vocational educationbe made
compulsory to the eighteenth year.

It suggests that industrial concerns be requir-
ed to make provision for the election of one repre-
sentative of labor 'on their board of directors and
that employees be permitted to buy the stock nec-
essary to quality the representative as a director;

r

that an investigation committee be named to in- '

vestigate old age pensions and invalid insurance
and report to the next legislature; that eight hours
he made the basic working day; that women re-
celve equal pay In industry; that one day rest in
seven be a legal right‘in industry; that the work-
ingmen’s compensation act be amended to provide
more liberal payior injuries.
Seeks Free Books

Education.'—'Provision of state scholarships to’
enable all classes to enjoy the' advantages of the
university and the normal schools; increase of

 

 

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ANNOUNCEMENT
IN ORDER to make our readers acquaint-

 

ed with the senators and representatives
who come from rural districts, we will
begin shortly on this page an “illustrated
biography” of the farmer members in both
houses of the Michigan legislature.
O O 0

Already certain interests in the state who
fear legislation in behalf of the people are
. trying to arouse class distrust and disunion

by holding up the farmer members as “lob- ‘
byists" and “dictators." No one can truth-
fully say that the legislation proposed by
the farmers savors of “class” in any re-
spect. It is designed in the interest of the
majority of the people, and it the majority
of. the people have their say it will go thru.
It is the novelty of the farmers taking so
active and leading a part in state affairs
that is worrying the other members of the
legislature, but as soon as they get accus-
tomed to it and discover that the farmers
want nothing except what is fair, they will
accept the situation with good grace and
fall in line for progressive legislation:—
T‘Hn Entree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

the minimum wages for rural teachers from $45 to
$60 per month; dental and medical inspection. for
school children; furnishing of free text books to
elementary pupils; extension to the rural schools-
of the principle of continuation schools.

Land Settlement—Creation of .a state land com-
mission to supervise the colonization activities,
with special incorporation and license for colon-
izing companies; colonizing companies must be
supplied with sufllcient capital to carry on initial
land clearing, and properly equip the settler with
means to engage in farming, and to protect him
from loss of his homestead an a result of illness
or temporary setback.

Drainage
BILL fraught With great possibilities of good
to the state is one fathered by Rep. Henry
Grail of Beaverton, applying the principles of
the Covert road law to, drainage matter. Under
thepresent law the taxes for drains must :be paid
inside of three years, and in many instance. nec-
essary improvements or this character are index.

,initely postponed because of the short time al-

lowed for payment or their cost. ,sflroll’ hill pro-
vides for spreading the cost over a mind of not
more than ten years and issuing beads against

the dullness district to be paid from the annual

instaflmentsotthedraintmastheymeoly

le’cted. It is expected that this measure will ra-

Ionic Folks Peeved at Local Salon’s Attack
on Primary H A

N UP- STATE newspaper man who hasn't,
yet been convinced that the people yield the
primary to the convention method of nom-
inations, recently complimented Rep. Fred L.
Warner of Balding on his “courage” in sponsor-

ing a bill to restore the convention system. Sim , ..

then Mr. Warner has heard from his home folks,
and we‘d like to but that'Mr. Warner isn't mite so
brave as he once was. The Balding Bonnier-News .

‘ has the following to say about the matter:

“Quite a good many. of the farmers living in
this vicinity are opposed to the proposed. change
in. the law regulating the election of candidates .
in the primaries and they think the primary law
is'so far in advance of the'old time worn and dis- ’
honored convention system of nominations that
it should stand on the statute books of the state.
Several of them with whom we have talked forci~
bly expressed themselves as disgusted with the ,
measure introduced into the. legislature by, our .
local legislator, Rep. Fred L. Warner, and think
that he is making a mistake in fostering such a

JEDVG.

“The men with whom We have talked have ’
come to the conclusion that there may be some
faults in the primary law, but’that the {acute of
the old convention system are so many andgross '
that its return should not for a moment he cpn-
sidered and that with a few proper amendments '
strictly adhered to, the primary would serve the
purpose for which it was created and intended—
that of giving the mass of the people a chance to ,
make a free choice of their candidates without
the influence of any political boss being exerted
on them or without the possibility or a convention
being “packed” as was the case in the old days and
methods. ‘ _

“It is claimed that the convention system was
the father or the political boss and old time pol-
itician and the child, not facing as well with its
parent taken away and left- to the indifferent
care of the primary law, which stands for the
complete rule of the people by themselves, is put-
ting up quite a fuss to have 'the old conventions,
with their politicians, “packing” and other polit-
ical impurities reinstated. _

“We are given to understand that possibly there

~might be some action taken by the various farm-

ers’ clubs and that the legislature would hear
that so far as the local farmers are concerned,
they are in raver of the primary law as they are,
with possible amendments to better them and will
resent any attempt or effort to have the primary
law; removed from the statutes."

The Dog Law

On reading your paper of Jan. 18th, the item on
“Drastic Dog Laws” caught my eye. If Mr.
Davis, in his amendment, would add the following
we would get the desired effect:

“That all cur dogs born after a set date be
taxed twenty-five drillers a year. ”

This would early pass, as an unborn cur has
no friends. Then would allow our dogs now
living to be taxed the same as other dogs until
they die of a natural death'and it would reduce
the dog population by 50 per cent in five years,
for all person having a registered female would
take better care in breeding them, and the one
who owns the our female would have to kill the
pups, for he surely could not give them away as
he has done in the past—J. 8., Benton Harbor.

MINNESOTA FARMERS OPPOSE
UNITED STATES GRADING RULES

——__..

More than 6,000,000 bushels or Hinnesbta’s
bumper crop of 32,,256 000 bushels were unmark-'
stable in 1918, and thousands or has” were
left to rot at me markets because of present
gradesdnedasawnrflmeooneervation are.
by the Bureau at Markets and me. Federal Food

. nonmetal: according to F. A. Cornice. county

agent tar Hennepin eomty, Minnesota. A meet-
ing or Hmepln Cmty potato growers was held
at Ocean, to discuss the citation.

In Email: county 3.301.000 bushels of patch
toes were raised on 27, 000 name in 1.918. Otlthis

new, about mm ins-has m hummus: ' ' ”

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' .. season, is; expected.

f rm , casualty are theQudiitifi ,9: it???
,1 d lares’rDr.’ _ J. R. Mdhler, Chief “ef‘the

t6 _‘...‘smim our. fine. as mism-

to our population means, dependence on other
can tries?" said," Dr. :Mohle‘r. “it; means depend-

eie ‘On them for meat, fer' leather} and for 'ani- '

fat. T'It means dependence on them also“. for

if: tiiiz‘ers with which to maintain crop yields in _

jhsence o'f manureL It, may even mean depend-
. on them" for milk with which to feed our
hildrengvas Europegrat‘ely. has- been depending on
,‘e'z‘United. States for milk in condensed or powd-
ered form. Inhther words, if we fail to feed our-
r’iselyes or» to satisfy our home markets, someone
‘else'l'Will,.vand in factis already doing so.
. Discussing the rapid development in artificial
: 'refrigeration- and ocean shipment of meat, Dr.
;, . Mahler said- that “important changes involving
Vthe meat industry. are going on constantly . and
, aSouth'America is preparing to feed nations. that
_ failmto provide meat for “themselves." Discussing
why, South American. countries are able. to pro-
duce meat cheaply enough to compete with the
.. home-grown products of other countries: he men-
, ' tioned thesystematic upbuilding of South Amer-
z‘ican herds to a superiority over even imported

‘ » , strains, the extensive growing of alfalfa, insuring

an abundance of the best pasturage, and the fact
, that, the cattle are in the-'open throughout the
year. ‘
"These conditions are strikingly similar to con-
ditions here in the southern part, of the United
States,” said Dr. Mohler. “I want to call your at-
tention especially to the ‘ importance of better
1_' types of live. stock. The proper type of pure-bred
., animal—whether cattle, hogs, sheep or poultry—
"makes its. gains vastly more economically than
:frub' stock. The same is true to dairy produc-
on." . C . ~ - ‘
. " “Scrub live stock is he leuger fit .for perpetua-
ticn in the United States. A scrub is wasteful of
feed, and wasteful of" its oWner’s labor; The
scrub animal has, served its purpose as a connect-
‘r ing link between .the amt-obsolete method of farm-
ing and new progressive methods. Thousands of
, farmers, in 'this countryjalready, have discarded
'scrub stock and are better off because of that de-
cision. Pure “brads are worth more to keep and
are worth mere to sell. The scrub animal has
. been useful as a connecting link, but our aim frhm
g now on' should be to make the scrub extinct and to
make it a missing link so far as, live stock is con-

cerned. That can 'nothe'done immediately, but it,

istheg'oal toward-which we should Work;n ,,
NEWS OF TEE cofopE’RATIvE 7 [
ASSOCIATIONS on THE STATE

St. Louisa—The St. Louis (Jo-operative Creamery

-is one ofithe most thriving in the. state.‘ In 1918
“it paid nearly $175,000 to its patrons injexhhange
for butterfat, milk, poultryand‘eg'gs... The cost‘of
the manutactur'e of. butter‘w‘as .032' per7p0und
_ and the average price paid "for shutterfat, '
cents. The company has paid its "stockholders
wdividends for the year in the shape of? 1 cent per
. . pound, for all butterfat and 1 cent per dozen for'all
eggs purchased from them. ‘ ‘

j Omtantine.—The annual meeting of the Con--
"stantine Cooperative Creamery disclosed that.

V $135,000 Worthmf business was done during the
‘. year Just closed, a showing that met With the
ngprcéval fohut'tu the stockholders. ‘

poun s o . or» were manufactured durl 1918
.' than 1917, and 78‘-een‘ts‘ net to the mrmz‘rs was

the highestpriee paididuring the year for butter.
This company now has p4351patrons. ’220-"off

. gfat. , _ ‘
~Vh°m are Stockholderég;

. 7- Grand Rapids—Theorem; Rapids "Farmers! co. '
‘ tiye Ase’n "has. been q:m,tzsd“"‘tb encourage . ‘
; ' djbet‘ter economical" methods, or WONG -. ,

he better, resultafh Ira? d
"Rand "#18 _. my?

dent of the Flint Milk Producers’vAsein.

Vima’l 31ndustr , U .8.» De" "‘ talent or“. ,, .
a? ‘- . y : W ‘— , . O'Hara was elected vice-president and W. C. Hall

.488 ,

46,144. more '

s} ’ “ y;les's than; in previous years owing

{wig-‘13“: id‘sog‘lhffm 8839111113 their 'whole milk,

W1“, ether bréncheszof the business. showed decid-
ed 'uincgreases’, New members have recently been
added to- this association and a ; very promising

 

,-’ Flinn—L. ‘C. Ketzler has been re-elected presi-
Peter

sec’y-treas- Over 200 "-members» were present at

'.the meeting and voted unanimOusly to affiliate

with theistate‘aSsociation and permit it to write
contractsiwithfihe distributing companies, for the
Flint producers...‘

Marshall—Duringthe six months ending Jan.
27th, the Marshall Farmers’ Co-o'perative Elevator
Co.. handled 71,000 bushels of wheat, rye and
oats, and 2,300 bushels of beans. The members
have not been caught for a single cent on a drop
in the market, which will be news to the grain
dealer who says the farmer is bound to be caught
when he gets in the marketing game.

Boyne, City—During the four months begin-
ning Sept. lst and ending Jan. let, the Boyne
City Co-operative Marketing Ass’n handled for its
members $55,885.22 worth of farm products. The
association sells on behalf of its members pota-
toes, apples, beans, cider, buckwheat, rye, winter
vetch and hay. ‘

Marshall.—+$305,991 worth of business was done
during 1918' by the Homer. Co-operative Live
Stock and Produce Ass’n. There was 124 decks
of stock shipped including 0,250 hogs; 1,980 sheep;
830 cattle; 760 calves. Steps have been taken to
form, a grain buying association and a committee
was appointed to sell stock.

South Haven—The South Haven Fruit Ex?
change has declared a 6 per cent dividend on its
capital stock for the year 1918. Out of $200,000
worth of business; the Exchange did not have one
bad account. The business transacted was the
largest in the history ofthe Exchange.

Marshall.——The farmers of this vicinity who are
interested in the newly-organized co-operative
threshing association, met last week and purchas-
ed their machinery. They expect to effect a con-
siderable saving in their threshing bills the com-
ing season. ‘

Albion—Four hundred and twenty-one Albion
farmers shipped nearly a third of a. million dol-
lars’ worth of live stock during the year of the

..A1bion and Marengo Co-operative Co.,,just closed.

The shipments varied from 5,533 hogs to 16 goats.
Saugatuck.—The doubling of its 1917 business

was the proud achievement of the Saugatuck Co-,

operative Fruit Ass’n during 1918, which recently
held its annual meeting here.

Nashville—During 1918, the Nashville Co-op-
erative Creamery manufactured 191,836 pounds of

- butter worth $114,000. The average net price paid

to farmers during the year was 54.37. ’

Williamston.—About 100 farmers of this neigh-‘C
borhood have organized a live stock association")
and will soon be ready for business.’ ‘ ..

GENESEE FARMERS WANT
CITY MARKET AT FLINT?“

Petitions from 700 'Genesee county \. 3”me
asking that the city 011 Flint erect a suitable mm
ket building on a central site, have been submits": ,

ted to the common council by Miles P. Cook of,

the Farm Bureau which was recently organized.

“We know you are long on sites but short on
buildings,” said Mr. Cook, in presenting the pe-
titions for a' suitable market. “The farmers think
the city of Flint has assumed towards them the
attitude of ‘the farmers be'damned.’ The farmers
are avoiding the city of Flint because they feel
that they cannot have a chance to deal directly
with the consumers. There is a crying need for
a market building in Flint. It should be at least
50 feet wide by 150 feet long and should have
rest rooms and other conveniences for the farm-
ers.” .

“Almost any city of this Size has a suitabi
market. We are promised a city of three times
this size. 'Now if we expect the city and country
people to co-operate we must provide a suitable
place for them to get together. A market with fa-
cilities where the farmers can rest and where
they can meet the consumers will provide this
place.”

WAR RECORDS OF AMERICAN-»
' LABORER AND FARMER

“Labor won the war for us, but labor is still
Without any recognition,” says Charles Edward
Russell. “Labor has no place in the plans for
reconstruction, in the plans for meeting the huge
problems projected upon society by the unparal-
leled upheaval of this war.”

Piflie! Labor did not win the war. No class
won the war. The war was won by the men who
went. over the top with fixed bayonets. Everyone
at home who helped loyally behind the lines had
a part in the victory, but a. small part compared
with the work done by the men on the firing line.

The war record of the American farmer is much
better than that of the American laborer. There
were no farmers’ strikes, none of the lasting on
the job that disgraced our shipyards and airplane
factories. .

We do not want government by class in this
country, though we have come mighty near getting
it at times—with labor as the ruling class.

We want the laborer to be paid well for what
he does, but we farmers do not intend to work 14
hours a day to support loafing laborers. When it
comes to running the government, labor will have
to take its Share at the ballot box like the rest
of us.——Prairie Farmer. '

 

 

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'Entered as second-class matter, at Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Why 3,000 Farmers Went to East LanSing

VER AT EAST ~Lansing they’re still
talking about the great crowd of farm-
ers, farm wives and children who came from
all corners of the state to attend the farmers’
week “doin’s.” Staid professors who have
. taught hundreds of farmers’ sons the A-B-C

of modern agriculture with never a sight of ‘

the sires who footed the bills; and college of-
ficials so long removed from contact with the
actual tillers of the soil that their perspec-
tive has become somewhat dulled,——-gaped and
Wdered as the incoming street cars and tax-
icabs poured their burdens upon the college
groundE—M: A. C. has never before set eyes
upon so many farmers at one time. Memory
could easily conjure up many occasions when
the total attendance of “home—comers” was
less than two hundred, and men of national
prominence engaged to speak had departed,
vaguely speculating upon the vacant seats and
the empty college grounds. So we may for-
give the college folk if just for an instant of
bewilderment they forget their manners and
stared! For the next moment they let out a
whoop of joy and took the farm folks unto
their bosomsi

It wasn’t just by chance that the biggest
crowd of farmers in the history of the college
came to participate in the scheduled meet-
ings. Neither was it the cordial invitation,
nor the wide—spread publicity. It required a
force far more potent than the alluring ad-
vertisement to impel three thousand farmers
to leave their farm work and spend hard-
earned dollars to journey to East Lansing.
The same mighty, unseen force that drew two
hundred thousand western farmers into a
great political organization; that brought two
hundred outraged potato growers to Lansmg
last year; that has federated the milk produc-
ers, the bean growers, the sugar beet growers
into potential organizations; that recently
sent a thousand and more farmers to a nation-
a1 reconstruction congress at Washington,—

 

_that is the force that made the biggest, busi- '

est farmers in Michigan put on their Sunday
best and spend the price of a Holstein calf
to visit the Agricultural College.

For years without number the farmer has
plodded the furrow by day and dozed by the
hearth at night. His environment, his liter;
ature, his agricultural college have all con-
‘spire‘d to lull him into forgetfulness of the
injustices heaped upon \him. If troubled
thoughts came to him .as he worked in the
fields, kind Dame Nature was always at hand

if I to drive them away. If at night, overcome

with fatigue and fearful of the year’s out-
come, he permitted the fires of doubt and dis-
. trust to smoulder in his brain, they were soon
quenched by: the. falsely reassuring philoso-
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. .. _- .mber 0.118; *exw‘ceptwihe ism?
er, and he proceeded with . unth‘ ughtof~al-‘
acrity to build up his defenses andciplan an
oflr'ensive "against the parasites. that :had been '
feeding; 01% his 1 business «since time inimem—
orial. He developed an abnormal appetite
for marketing knowledge; he attended farm
gatherings; he joined farm organizations; he
boldly protested any trespass upon his rights.
Last March he made his new'temper known
when nearly two hundred of his kind took the
Agricultural College by storm and for two
days ran things just about to suit themselves,
Speaking of that occasion Dr. Eben Mumfdrd,
state leader of the county agents, said before
the 1919 convention of potato growers, “ Great

  

‘ good has come out of the potato war that was

staged here last year. There has been no
event within my recollection that has been of

so great benefit to the College and the farmers,

as was the gathering of potato growers here
last year.”

And that was the straw that tickled another
giant Rip VanWinkle under the nose and
woke him up! An old, conservative college
that‘had worn a deep—deep rut in the path of
progress, bestirred itself, rubbed its eyes, and
also saw! It saw that in its trance-like sleep
it had wandered far afield from the roadways
and the byways where the farmers trod._ It
saw in the distance an oppontunity; not mere,-
ly an opportunity to instruct youth in the
isms of farming, but an opportunity to
SERVE all who came within the shadow of
its influence. It took a‘new interest in the
farmer; delved deeply into' his problems; en-
cumbered as it was with political alliances it
sought as best it could to help. And it has
helped. , '

The Michigan Agricultural College and the
Extension Department affiliated with it have
meant more to the farmers. of Michigan the
past year than all the other combined years
of their existence. And the farmers'know
this. In their seeking after the material ben-
efits that should accure to their business they
no longer expect to find hindrances placed in
their way by those whom they believed should
help them. Where before there was indiffer-
ence, now is active interest; where before there
was often opposition, now is co-operation.
There are many able, sincere men consecrat-
ing their lives to the education of farmyouth
within the walls of the M. -A. C. There are
earnest, able men working out in the counties
to counsel and help the farmers. There is a
new confidence among the farmers in the edu-
cational agencies placed at their disposal. But
far more important than that, there is a‘new
confidence among these agencies in the farm-
ers they were created to serve. There is a
new vision of responsibility, a new interpre-
tation of service, a new understanding of
farmers’ problems that portends well for the
future of Michigan’s agriculture.

And these are the reasons why three thous-
and farmcrs went to East Lansing.

_ The State Farm Bureau
AHUNDRED or so farmers sat in ' dis-

_ creet silence at the gathering of farm
bureaus last week while a. prepared slate of
candidates and prepared resolutions went
thru the convention accompanied by prepared
speeches and prepared applause. Everybody
who wanted something had their man Friday
right on the job to look after their interests,
and there wasn’t a hitch in the carefully
planned program- After it was all over the
farmers silently departed and thought it was
a nice little show. , .

“It was very evident,” said the president
of one of the farm bureaus represented, “that
the oflicers had been chosen before the meet-
ing and that certain men had been prompted
to make the nominations. When one of them

suggested that the newly elected president

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~. i: ”gin ’Etate farm a

. ermeréthe' 'Opportunity't‘o haves »
voice in the perfectingbf that organization, _ :E
30 Will 131.16 farmers deny the bureau-itheir ‘
support which ‘it must have. to thrive. _ If _. ‘

‘ Michigan’s - state farm bureau cannot "trust

the farmers, it’s a cinch that the farmers can— ,

net trust the. bureau. , -.
" With all due respect the fine character of
the men chosen to head Michigan’s farm bur-

. eau, they do not, ofcourse, represent modern -

agricultural thought and aspirations. There
are a hundred men in Michigan better qual-
ified by experience and the 'courage of great
convictions to weld the ecunty farm, bureaus

into a state organization whose influence '

would count for something. .. _
Be not deceived, the state farm bureau as
now constituted was not; the handiwork of the

farmers of Michigan, and it cannot speak for

them. - Even those who set the trap must
know this, 0' despite their extravagant claims
to the contrary. The state farm bureau or-
ganiZation is 'a nice piece of brie-a-brac and
will take its place on the shelfwith other use-

less and ornamental things. It is perfectly ‘

harmless. It has no program. It is devoid of
purpose. Even though it had purpose, it
could not function for it lacks the vital forces
of courage and conviction that are essential
characteristics of farm organizations which
would be heard.

Do the People Rule?
“ 0,” says a Michigan senator, “the
‘ people do not rule. They vote just
as the friends of different candidates tell
them to.”

He was discussing Michigan’s primary law.

“The more complicated, the more cumber-
some, you make your election machinery,”
l“ continued, “the safer is democracy.”

We listened some more.
to hear a senator elected by the popular will
of the people explaining how and why the
intelligence of the people could not be trusted.

“No man should'be permitted to run on
more than one party ticket,” he declared.

“Whynot,” we asked, “don ’t‘ you believe
in majority rule? _ Don’t you think the peo-
ple ought to have the right to say whom and
in what manner they shall nominate and elect
to state andnational offices?”

“But if a man runs on the republican tick-
et,” he explained, “he ought to stand by re-
publican principles and not let the democrats
’ support him in the belief that he will vote for
their principles.” _ .

“But really,” we argued, “there isn’t
much differénce today between the policies of
the republican party and those of the dem-
ocratic party, is there? So that a man could
run on both tickets and if he voted according
to the wishes of the majority be reasonably
sure of satisfying the majority of those who
voted for him.”

“But you see, the north is republican and
the south is democratic, and—”, but just then
the Senator remembered an important en-
gagement and hurried 01f. ‘, ’

There is no popular demand for changing
the primary law to limit a man’s Candidacy
to a single ticket. The idea originated with a
few politicians who are anxious to destroy
the efficacy of the primary law, bring it to
disrepute and substitute the 'old convention
system. The law is sure to be changed in
this respect unless our readers get busy and

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" tiiifs, this nation would finally be
on 3136' to takebontrél of the distribution of
an food products. "A bill has been presented
toiGongress asking .for an” appmpriation of;
one; billion two hundred and fifty million dol-
lars to enable the Food Administration, or
whatever agency of control the President may
designate, to take over and store all food
prOducts at established prices.

  

  

; I Talk about making progress; here we go
‘1» ;"“heIl'-a-t-o¢o-t” spanning the j development
usually requiring years, in a single jump.
From uncontrolled speculation to government
rco'ntroldwhy, compared with the Food Ad-
. ministration bill, passed as a' war measure,
I I the proposed legislation is clean out of sight.
' I . And yet, who will deny that we are fast
i f ‘j. 1 {approaching the time when such legislation
_ .~ 4‘ . ,will he demanded. ‘
. " Without regulation, ,the 1919 crop of wheat
'5 - ‘ ' would not bring a dollar a bushel, and mil-
‘ ' . lions of dollars Ioss‘ would have to be borne by"
the farniers of the .natiOn. No doubt the
’ - speculators w0uld make their millions, but
the producer of wheat and consumer of flour
: Would pay the bill. The other day a Cotton
II ‘ King down inNew York, cleaned up'fourv
~ Imillion dollars through speculation, shoved
the money into his trousers pockets, and then
'gave a dinner costing $40.00 per plate to
g, , his friends. .
1 ‘ Purchased any cotton goods lately? Wheat
speculators jumped the price of that com-
.modity to $3.40 per bushel within thirty
days after the war across the seas got fully
under way. We felt, once upon a time, that
‘thelaw of supply and demand. would adjust
the scales—hut “there ain’t no sich‘animal”
these "days. Under present conditions the
law of supply and demand supports and sus—
. tains the consumer in the same‘measure and
V ‘ with the sa. *" results, as the ‘rdpe supports
‘ and sustains the hanged.” .

I_ Thereis Such a Thing as Being Pro-German
," f _ . I Right Now
i ' .. ON ’T BE a fault-finder; remember you
.. . - were right here at home during the war;
, had plenty to eat; kept comfortable in your
oWn home and read the news.from “over
I . , 'there” while comfortably seated in, a rocking
{é - " - chair “over here.” ' .
. ,I , , Nodoubt you would have run the “War”
'1‘ differently. No doubt you would have avoid-
ed the many mistakes. No doubt you would
3 . - have saved some money for Uncle Sam. But
' - ” you didn’t do it; you purchased a few Lib-
. 3 erty bonds, drawing four per cent; you gave
a little to the Red Crosse—and you have been
“‘cross” ever since. . _ .
Those in authority are not having an easy
time of it, settling up the expenses of -I'ItheI
war, and bringing order out of chaos. It is
just as necessary for you to be loyal tO’the
.. Government now as it was when the war was
I-«y ’ ’ in progress.
' ‘ ' been @igned; ~Waris being waged in many,
lands and starvation? stalks over hills and

- was: .A

during the war as yen are today, you would
havebeen ridden on a rail, or'treated'to a
coat cf'tar- and feathers. It, has been said
' ‘ ' that the “yellow streak” shows with: bold
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things: beingI'pro-German right now.
Ea“. ‘ .Libérty;I;¥ou’ll..,Haveé

  
   

 

 

    

 
   

, the soil of the good old‘ U.’ S. A. The other

I. 1-, ’VVIDIso'tne time ago that unless ‘
' "spook?” Mistaken out of speculation .

The terms of peace have not.

valleys over there. , .
as If you had been as free with your criticism‘

the "-“yellow.” I Remember, there is such 'a
.. fee
to Turn ‘Round”II i.
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slight as once more they step foot on

  
 

days "a big transport slowly entered the New
York: harbor, loaded down with returning

soldier lads;'a tremendous shout went up .
= from five thousand huskies, “There is the

statue of Liberty; .Hurrah! Hurrahi” .
As the good ’ship drew closer to the statue

that great female figure, holding aloft the
torch of liberty—“Liberty Enlightening the
World,” the boys shouted as one: ‘

“Hello, there, blessed girl of Liberty;

we rejoice to see you again—but; ~

It you want to see us again, you will have

to turn ’round.”

The statue of Libertyt has its face set to-
wards the east; it ever looks out across the
seas. Perhaps the 'figure of iron, copper and
brass, conceived by Bartholdi, and a gift to
this nation from France, was a premonition
Which came out of the long ago, that some day
this nation would be obliged to aid in making
it safe fer liberty across the seas. I

That perhaps some day the rays of light

from this torch of liberty would welcome

home the boys who helped make the world
safe for the liberty-loving people of all na-
tions. Let us imagine, anyway that this was
the thought of the great artist who designed
the statue—at the same time we hope and
fervently pray that if Miss Liberty ever gets
a good look at our soldier lads again, she
will be obliged to turn ’round and greet them
on American soil.‘

“Every Soldier Back at His 01d Job”

ABOR CONDITIONS are far from sat-
isfactory right now, and every day brings
us nearer toIthe acute stage, as the boys are
honorably discharged from service; It has
been quite unusual to see men standing
’round factories looking for work during the
past three years, however, at this moment
there are ten men for every job at manufac-
turing centers. '
The slogan, “Every man back at his old

job,” sounds good and we are pleased to note.

that many manufacturers are giving prefer-
‘ ence' to soldiers when engaging new men, and

. making a place for every man who left em-

ployment at their shops to enter the service
of their. country. '

However, this is not going to solve the
problem, and it’s going to be necessary for
the government to step in and aid in the finan-
cial readjustment which must precede any
speeding up of the manufacturing industries.
There is plenty of business in sight in nearly
all industries, but prices on all material is so
high that people will not build and buy. They
are waiting for the much-heralded readjust-
ment.

The government has on hand a large stock
of almost everything needed in the manufac-
turing hne; these stocks must be sold, and it

I is not'eXpected that the government can get

what it paid for this raw material—there is
certain to be a loss. It has cost billions to
fight and help Win the war, now if millions
must be lost to readjust matters let the tail
go with the hide. There should be as little
delay as possible in readjusting matters—if
amputation it must be, let the surgeon get
way.

, Everybody has time to rest on the farm
but mother. 'And mether needs a few hours
ofrest more than all the others. Well, times
» have changed. I Mother, you must, you really
must, be a good citizen and not a slacker.
Remember, you have a'vote now; you are an
‘Aineriean'citijz'en. Well, don’t you see “dad”
knows an about voting; you, don’t. Let ‘ ‘dad”
df.tlie;,calves, Weep the floor, do the wash—
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> wondering what the future has in store for

I far and no farther.

You have plenty or work,

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The Hammond Standish Packing Company
of Detroit came into the, spo“‘-li~ghtat Wash-I
ington last week. Thomas W. Taliaferro, Vice-‘
president of the company, was before - the“
Senate Committee in connection with t'II
packer inquiry, and he agreed with 'theII
Other packers that the Government should‘fI
keep its “hands off. He admitted that his;
company made 88 per cent profit for the
year 1917 and twenty-two per cent last year' .
--which was quite satisfactory—~“konsider-
in’.”' I He stated that it would be unwise for
the Government to tackle the packer business
as Uncle Sam already has a white elephant
on his hands through guaranteeing the price
of wheat. Please pass the forty-eight-cent
bacon.

Senator Townsend of Michigan, was the
only senator who put up a fight against the
appropriation of $100,000,000 asked for by
President Wilson toIfeed the hungry people
across the seas. We have the foodstuffs,
proof was submitted that the people over -
there were starving, but Michigan’s semor
senator felt that he ought to say something
sometime, and he said it. Later he said:
“The bill will pass and it would be foolish I
for me to fight it further.” True, Charley,
and you were very foolish to have fought the
measure at all. Our good senator is wander-
ing away, so far from his home folks that
they will hardly recognize him a few years
hence.

 

The farmers of the Canadian northwest are i

them. With a wheat acreage larger than the
preceding year, and no price guaranteed, it
is quite probable that when the 1919 crop
reaches the market things will be in rather an
unsettled state. No doubt the United States
will prevent shipments of wheat from Canada
on the guaranteed basis, and this leaves only
the export demand to be supplied. Canada
and the United States should have joined
hands in the price—fixing program.

 

We are told that the city people are “ag’in
the state warehouse proposition.” All right,
folks, you are in the cage; the farmersIare
willing to feed you. If the feed IIlS r1ght‘\
handy all of the time we can supply your |
needs all of the time. If, on the other hand, I
you want to continue to live from hand to. l

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mouth, all right—but don’t grumble about it.
Pay up and shut up.

 

Flour prices will be kept up; so we are told
in the Food Admimstrm.

by the left-overs
‘ All right, so long as flour

tion department. . . }
is not kept up too far above the price of

wheat. Now that the farmer has been told ’
what we can get for wheat; Why not tell the i
miller just what he can get for flour—Ithus I

 

If your daughter simply will not remain I 3 -
on the farm and marry a bright young farmer
lad; let her journey to the city and meet a
“ne’er-do-well,” who has a six head and ,I,
wears a thirteen collar. If that won’t cure
her the case is hopeless.

We hope Weather Forecaster Congerx of
Detroit doesn’t predict fair weather and ~
warmer, because we’ve put our car muffs and
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The daily press of Michigan seems quit
surprised ’ at the announcement that. 'th‘
farm, organizations of Michigan have finalix
got together. M. B. F. is not surprised .
they' have finally seen the light, but 1,.
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9 wish to personally thank you for the article,
at the Wine and Beer Amendment Means."
{a talking with different ones about the vote at

,the‘ coming election, I find that no women, and
[159130 few men, know what the amendment means;
nor how soon it takes effect.
rate print it again before election? Hope so.
. qyou send me some extra 'copies, of the paper Feb.
,1“ issue?

I will gladly use them and preach

amendment to all I meet from now until election.

. ‘1‘

" very far off.‘

Wish copies could be printed in pamphlet- form
«its. be used everywhere to instruct voters what a
~vieious, thing the amendment is.

V ; Who were anxious for suffrage on account of the

liquor question now feel perfectly safe and unin-v

Many women

terested in voting because the U S. has gone dry,
and do not intend to even register.

Right now we need every right vote, or see all
the blessings of prohibition lost, and a worse-than-

, , ever condition exist.

. Am going to use my one copy at lodge Thurs-

‘ day night to wake them up. Will make good use

of every copy you send me. Shall take it up in
our local papers.——Mr._ and Mrs. L. K. 0., Thomp-
sonville, Mihcigan.

Answer These, if You Can?
Through the paper I want to ask L. B. L, of

, Beaverton, and C A. M, of Carson City, Who are

still trying to make the people believe they did

, Wrong when they voted for Newberry for senator,

'a few questions.

L. B. L. do you know that Truman Newberry
was elected illegally? Did his friends not have
the same right to spend money to elect him as
the Democrat Central Committee did, which spent
a large sum trying to elect “Grandma” Ford?

And C ..A M., when you talk about Ford letting
his plant to the Government with not a cent of
profit to himself, will you tell the readers of M.
B. F. how he paid a dividend of 200 per cent this
last year, and worked for the Government for
nothing? Will you also explain how it came about
that the Government’s expert engineers estimat-
ed the cost of the Eagle boats at $275,000, and
they cost when completed at the Ford plant $450, -
000? Will you also tell us that when myself and
many other farmers asked for our boys to be left
on the farms until we had the fall work done, and
were refused, why it was that Edsel Ford could
get excused, claiming he was needed to run the
tractor factory, and then played golf all summer?

You say he gave ships to protect our boys. How
many did he give and where were they launched?
Now I can answer all these questions for myself,
but would like to have you two people do so, as

. you have made these assertions over your initials,

in the M. B. F.———Geo. M. Weaver, Fife Lake, Mich.

Regular Bank Loan vs. Federal Loan

I am taking the liberty to write a few lines to
let you know how ,much I appreciate your paper.
I see you are printing articles in regard to na-
tional loan associations. We haveI one at Flush-
ing, Genesee county, have been running one year
and ,have _loaned‘ $53,900. Note the comparison
between privately—owned bank interest and na-
tIOnal Land Bank interest: -

I j A loan taken from a bank on straight interest

for a long term, 341/2 years, $2,000 at 61/2 per cent,
$130 per year. $130 for 34% years Would amount
to $4,485 in interest. $4,483.83 plus $2,000 would
amount to $6,485 interest and principal.

Under the Federal Loan system $2,000 loaned
for 34% years at 6% per cent, $2.000 times 61/2
per cent equals $4,485 interest and principal;
$4,485 minus $2,000 principal is $2,485 interest.
Which actually reduces interest to 3 6- 10 per cent.
If you can find space to use this I believe it will
help some thru a paper so well liked as the
NMICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.—W. J. Short Sec’y

' and Treas. Flushing National Farm Loan Ass’n.'

“Poverty Plus ‘the Devil” Amendment

1"The time for holding the annual election is not
It will,’ soon be’ here and with it
comes the much-fought liquor question, this time
in the shape of'the light wine and beer amend-

Zment, a different name, but it means the same

; his thing, and it will bring with it its same 01d}

lifelong cronies, poverty and crime.

After seeing the State of Michigan dry. :d' s

 

 

Can yen find time ‘_
can

~ those. ‘

N' "J

t .
Of course, there are: some who will vote for it,

'.but all we can’ say for them is that We hope that

some day When the cloud is lifted from their

. brains they will realize. it Was a good thing for

them, that the amendment Was defeated as it . 3

surely will be, and we know that they Will feel
like kicking themselves for having been such big
table as to vote for the .“Poverty Plus the Devil"
amendment—0. A. M., Carson Oity, Mich. y ’

Why’I Went Out of the Sheep Business

I noticed an article in the M. B. F. of Jan. 25
about farmers going out of sheep raising because
of the dogs killing them off. Up until a few
years previous I have kept from twenty to forty
sheep on my farm each year.

Never but once in my twenty years’ experience
did I have any sheep, killed by (loge. At that time
I had three, but the township paid me well for
It may be all right to lay it onto the dogs,
but that isn't the reason I went out of the busi-
ness, and I think that ninety per cent of the
sheep raisers of Montcalm county went out’ of
them because of the low prices. Thelast. I sold
I got five cents per lb. for good fat lambs, aild \
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Where Brains Are Needed

‘6 CLAIM it takes more brains to farm ”
said Ebenezer Brown,

“That what it does to git ahead and make a
splash in town,

Why, I know sin or seven chaps from this
here neighborhood

Who went away to .,cities where Ithey' re busy
making good.

“You take Chicago and New York—size up
the big men there—

The lawyers, the doctors, merchant and the
multi- millionaire—-

You'll find they’ be all been farmer boys, or
lived in towns at least,

Where they could have a chance to learn the
ways of bird and beast.

“Now, take these city chaps that come to
cultivate the land—-

I don’ t mean millionaires who farm for fun,

' you understand——

But take the common city folks who try to
farm, and say!

It’s pitiful the way they try to make their
farmin' pay.

“I've saw a dozen of ’em fail; I never seen
one yet

Who managed to be prominent or not get
into debt;

And so I claim a man may make an awful .
splash in town

And net have brains enough to’ farm,” said
Ebenezer Brown.

—S. E. Klsnn. in Chicago Herald.

 

 

 

 

 

 

afford to raise sheep at that price even on land

not worth more than $20 an acre.

If you could get a guaranteed price of ten cents
a pound for fat lambs and forty cents for wool
there would be plenty 'of sheep and we could keep
the dogs. But by the time a man could get
stocked up again the price would be down to the
former prices—H. H. W., Lakem’ew, Michigan.

Yes, W. A., You Started Something
Just a‘few lines in reply to W. A., Kalamazoo,
who says price of wheat is. too hign and claims
that some years ago farmers were hoping for $1

wheat. Does w. A. know that in 1902 the’ writer
bought a complete Champion binder for $95? I
also had a go‘Od hired man for $17 per month,
7while in this year of grace our hired men are
asking $50 and board? Granulated sugar was So
per 'lb., a good grade of roasted package coffee
could .be bought for 13c, and-a complete Jackson
wagon'iwith double box cost me in 1-903 $42.50.
Good shoes cost from $1. 50 to $2, which now cost
from $5 to $8. At the present price of flour and
feed the mills are making a profit of about\75c
'on each bushel Why not cut this down some and .

lower flour- prices? If the government would re- , '

about $2 per pair the poor con-
is two dollars and buy nearlyt

county found that they
benefits, and it was not.
enacted that the county

What the farmers need‘is not a

the avert act Was
and favor.

lines so much as a systematic improvement 01 all j ,

the roads so that they can get to the nearest
market with their products at all seasons of the .
year, and thereby take advantage of the highest

prices. . .
If the state highway commissioner desires to ~

lay out. certain roads as trunk lines, let the coun~
ties through which they run petition for and pay
their just proportion under theyprovisicns of the
Covert act and, obtain the, increased state reward _

for building this particular type ,-.of road.

To ask the farmers to vote for 50 millions for
building trunk lines only when there are so many ,
roads that- are almost impassable during certain
months is an insult to\their intelligence »

The Governor shows his magnanimity toward

-the farmer in his advocacy _of state parks con-

nected by trunk lines so that the farmer can, run
out to them in his flivver in the goodiold sum-
mertime, after hegets his chores done; and listen

to the soft Soughing of the winds thru the tree-
tops, or the lapping of the waves upon the shore

but in the autumn when nature’s tints are upon

the leaves and “the frost is on the pumpkin and
the fodder’s in the shock ” he will be unable to
take advantage of the Governor’s suggestion be-
cause he has to stay at home to “slop the hogs,”
and then you know, the Franklin 20’s and the

’Buick 15’s would not care to hob nob with tin

lizzies.

And what can be done to show our appreciation
of the condescenticn shown us by the Hon. Sena-
tor who stands sponsor for this heavenly dream?
It has been suggested that statuettes of him be ,
cast from plea and placed as markers along these
various trunk lines so that the poor cuss strug-
gling along to pay off the mortgage on his 40-
acre farm, from which he could not draw his
produce to market because of the bad roads, may
console himself that a portion of his taxes has‘
gone to commemorate a benefactor.—A Hayseed.

How About It, Mr. Warner?
In the article in-your issue ofFeb. 8, by Stanley

Warner, I netice that he advocates the govern-

ment buying up unused land on a “basis of pru—
dent investment, " presumably then staking would-
be farmers, in order that they may successfully-
compete with farmers Who need no such govern-
ment aid.

It seems to me that if the government should
start to buy vacant agricultural land for “invest-
ment,” there would immediately start such an
orgy of speculation in this kind of land that every
acre would go sky high in price.j Then where "
would be the “prudent investment?" ’

‘ Read the advertisements of real estate men of-
fering lots for sale in and around Detroit, or Flint,
or Pontiac, and it would seem as if there was
not a single foot for sale that _'was not a remark-_
ably “prudent investment. " Indeed the ownership
of a few lots is sure to in a very short time make

' one rich.

I think farmers can stand natural competition
between themselves for markets. I do not think

- they would like to also face ,the artificial stimu-

lation of competition.

Exempt farmers’ improvements. from taxation,
and it will be an encouragement to those who imo
prove, and a diséouragement to those Who allow
their areable land to lie idle.

Mr. Warner says, “the product of labor should y ‘ V

not be taxed if owned by a laborer ” Fine.
Agreed. But isn’t it self-evident ithat, if I am
taked as soon as I_ buy a bushel or potatoes from

the farmer, that it dlscourageg the from huying? -. .

“Guess I'll take a peck " Certainly I shai cons

' slime fewer potatoes!“

Better stick to"

' that

he meney saved on each ., ;,

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riy'an farmers would
the middlemen who have

, all- the small towns in Mlch'igan,
11991: as the farmer tries to help him-
have these pirates on our back so I favor

Senator Baker’s_ plan to license elevators and

 
  

  

W. punish, parall- ways of competition against farm-

marketing the1r grain and livestock.
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have no neighbors as you have them in

’ course, but what are such calls?
affairs, cold as ice; oftenjust to see What you’ve '
.‘got in your house, how you live, an’ more often
vjest ’cause it’s the proper thing to call, an’ is

Washtenaw, with the exception of the old state
v. road between Ann sober and Jackson, is that, the

good roads people tear up some of the best grav-

;, sled roads and spend thousands of dollars on
. them, when a few hundreds of dollars of repair
~ Twork Would be cheaper and make a good road.
; I believe_$enat(1r McNaughtcn’ a bill for five mil-
lion dollar's for terminal warehouses is all right,

but I would clip the 5 millions from the 50 million
7 road bonding proposition

Now Michigan is an agricultural state: Why
not farmer members investigate the way they do
in North Dakota and Western Canada? The
. state governments help the farmers to market
their crops and also help them to purchase their

5;, "(feed for stock. I believe the legislature should go
f the limit in these matters. \ The present way of

most, villages in marketing is wasteful; it allows

I l—theglive stock buyers and grain buyers to take ad-
’ - vantage and We could get along without these

men if we get 3. Square deal in the other end.—
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Country Life the Best -
, After spendi'n’ most of my life—or most of what
I have already lived of it—on a farm, where real
life is the thing, an’ then bein’ shoved by cir-
. cumstances into town—I’m jeSt a goin’ to say
somethin’ to the boys an’ girls, old or young,—
’ who might have a desire to leave the farm an’ .

seek lids an’ employment in the city. ~ 0
*An’ my advi‘ce‘, given in jest a few simple
Words is: Don't do it ’

Stay Where you are—~—where you can live your’

life as God intended you should live it. Where

you knew folks an’ folks know, you; an’ where'

life ’is not all sham, all hurlyéburley; an"make-
believe; where'ycu haVe Your friends an’ you
can trust them, too; an’ where all is happiness

' an peace, an a man: or a woman is worth all they

think they’ re Worth

In the city nobody knows anybody. You can’t
the
country. i Folks call on each other in the city, of
Just formal

“doneas a. sort cf duty, 'like going to church or

_' givin" to the'poor o'r buyin’ Liberty bonds, or any-

thing like that, that folks do to ease their con-
soienee, an' are glad when it’s ever an’ done with.
It seems to me that most everybody in the
city is livin’ 'way beyond their means, as tho
they were expected to throw on a lot of style they
can’t ,afford; livin’ ' like millionaires on mebbe
twenty million dollars a week salary an’ thinkin'
they can- pull the bluff an’ get away with it, but
let me tell you, young folks, it can’t be done, not
t‘éfi. .You’ re jest nothin’ in the city ’less you' ve

 

   
  

  

 

 

  
 
 
  

.. "5 bank account 1111' can travel in the two-
e Class an’ have two or three automobiles,
men suits of clothes or more—are able to give

6.111" theatre parties, an’ be snobbish to those‘
can’t afford such things, an’
.31; to let it be known they can’t—unless you

pan 1’ get that you are human 1131' have a- warm

two for humanity, the cit? is no place

rulers in handling their grain and -

'if'ali other steps are legal.

. grounds ,of protest.
to recover any drain tax unless brought within

dinners an' little pink teas—whatever they -

- aura. ,. ‘ _ ,
requests reg-“infirm .

Dram Assessment

Recently til/ere has been a drain ditch put across
lily farm, and believing the assessment to be
wrong, I write you for information. One of my

, 80’s has‘th‘re'e acres or low land and has 3 per cent

or a tax of $105; the other 80, next to it has 36
acres of low land and carries 7 per cent of the
total cost of construction. Is there no tax limit

for. an acre of land in Michigan; and can the

drain be accepted since it is so crooked that one
cannot find 20 rods of straight ditch on about a

mile? The drain commissioner says he will make <

an allowance because the contracts did not follow
the stakes but went between the trees. Can I
compel him to rebate, for I paid my tax under
protest?—H. R. K., Robinson, Mich.

If one desires to contest the apportionment of
the” percentage of cost assessed his land he must
make an appeal within ten days. If he does not
make an appeal the assessment becomes binding
‘The drain commis-
sioner makes the assessment and shall announce
it at the time of letting the contract. Lands are
to be assessed according to benefits. That seems
to be the only limitation, except part paid school
and state lands. ' The law says: “All assessments
of benefits under the provisions of this act shall
be upon the principle of benefits derived.” The
communication does not state what were the
No suit shall be instituted

thirty days from the time of payment, and if the
tax is paid under protest the reasons therefor

shall be specified, and they must follow the same'

procedure as they are" to follow under the general
tax law. The court is given authority under the

law to makevsuch an award as right and justice'

shall require on the grounds specified in the pro-
test.—-—-W. E. Brown, Legal Editor.

Must Sue to Collect

In April last year I sold a piece of machinery
to a man in an adjoining county. He agreed be-
fore one witness that he would pay for the ma-
chine when he sold his crop of beans. He did not
do so. In the fall he agreed, before another wit-
ness, to pay when he sold his potatoes. He failed
to do this. I have learned lately that he has sold
the machine to a man in his county and received
cash for it. I have been told that I can go and get
my property wherever I find it. Is this true? Is
there anything I can do?——Mrs.. L. I. 3., Grand
Traverse county.

Under the statement of facts given the seller
has parted with the title ,to' the machine and she
cannot reclaim it in the hands of an innocent pur-
chaser. The only way she can retake the property
on a conditional sale is where she expressly rc-
serves title topthe property until fully paid for.
Her only remedy is to collect the amount by suit
or otherwise, from the original purchaser.—W.
E. Brown, LegalEditor.

From Far-111' to City Market
One of the many successful co-operative live
stock shipping associations is the Union Co-opera-
tive Ass’nof Shiawassee and Clinton counties, lo-
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dressed to this department. we ad‘s here to serve you.) ‘—

" satisfied with the returns from stock ‘shipp

'per cent for the 9 months, and none at all .

anthem to elf"

this association. A. B. Cook sends us the 10119

statement showing the complete transactio: {at ' -

shipping two hogs thru the association
tion: How much would Mr. Cook have? ,
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To Prevent Heating and Spoiling of' Silt! 1
Could you please advise me thru the M. I
the cause of silage constantly heating and .
ing, and how to remedy it?—-E. G. G., Banana 0'
Undoubtedly the cause of this silage heat
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enough moisture present when the corn was put ‘

into the silo. In other words, the corn was too
ripe or it had been injured by frost and contained .
too little moisture. When corn is cut at the right
stage before it gets ripe, when the kernels are
fully matured, glazed, and some of them dented,
then the crop contains a sufficient, amount of
moisture in itself to make good silage. But if
you haven’t got this condition, water must be ad- .
ded at the time of the filling of the silo, otherwise
fermentation will develop to such an extent "as to
actually spoil the ensilage.

Little can be done now to remedy this condi-
tion. If lots of water is poured on top of the
silage and around the edge of the silo it will help
some, but you must get water evenly distributed
down through the silage to step this fermenta:
tion. However, pouring on water is the best
that can be done now—Colon 0. Lillie.

 

Poor Fertilizer.

When farmers order fertilizer through a farm
agent and it arrives at our station and the farm-
ers unload it the same day, do we get what we
pay for, in quality, I mean. 15 it inspected be-
fore it comes? We know it isn ’t after it gets here.
Now the elevator man told me the other day
that when we farmers bought that way we didn’t
know what We were getting, as it wasn’t inspected
by the state inspector. He said it was better to
buy at the elevatbr because theirs was all in-
spected and we knew what we got—F. E. D.
Vassar, Michigan.

Sec. 6299, C. L. 1915, provides that all fertilizer
sold or offered for sale in the state shall have on
each bag or sack, in a conspicuous place on the
outside a legible and plainly printed statement
in the English language clearly and truly cer-
tifying: (a) net weight; (b) name, brand or
trademark; (c) name and address of manufac-
turer or person responsible; ((1) minimum per-
centage of available nitrogen; (e) minimum per-
centage of potash soluble in distilled water; (f)
minimum percentage available phosphoric acid
and total phosphoric acid; (g) no other statement
of chemical compounds except above.

Sec. 6300 provides that before any is offered
for sale there shall be deposited with the State »

Board of Agriculture a certified copy of the an-

alysis and shall also deposit in a sealed glass at
least two pounds of such fertilizer with affidavit
that it is a fair sample. Sec. 6304 provides a
criminal penalty for violation of the 1aw.-—W. E.
Brown, Legal Editor.

 

Should the Average Farmer Keep Hens?
Nearly all farm papers have for the past five-
years or more urged all farmers to keep more »
hens, at least 200 on every farm, and a bigger mis-
take could hardly be made if farmers were to fol-
low this advice. .-
I have been greatly in favor of hens since 1891
up to three years ago, when I began buying all
the grains of various kinds which they eat. After
paying out several hundred dollars for feed more
than the hens paid for in eggs my enthusiasm in

regard to hens died a sudden death.

Hens, as handled by 99. per cent. of the farmers,
are a, source of big loss if more than 50 are kept. '
Fifty hens will pick up most of their living ‘dur‘
ing the spring and summer and fall, and will ~
just about pay for their feed and care, but if 100
or more are kept htey will have to be fed. nearly
as much in summer as in winter if you expect]
them to do their best in shelling out the eggs
Nine months out of twelve anyone ought not 7
be satisfied with less than 50 per cent production
cf eggs, but I dare say most farmers don’t so

   

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, crop year.

.. "‘ter’f in» 1918 than in 1914.
— rrexcept for wheat. “the reduction in
the volume of breadstufi’s has not been

.. In fact, the only
shortage positively Teported in the
allied countries named was of seeds,
as to which Taylor, chief B. P. 1.,
washington, said: . _
{-diti‘ons tend to favor the forcing of '
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r-Honths of “Investigating"
, and ’.“Surveying” Nobody
" Seems to Know What
Europe’s Needs
Really Are

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Barnes in his reply to

the New York Flour Trade, Ltd., nor
;~ ' lMi'. Ho'over in his Associated Press in-

:tefiiews, went into the extent, of the

__European, demand on this continent

[for cereals after the end of the 1918
Mr. Barnes said the sur-
"plus 1918 crop would be needed, every
pOb'nd of it, and that the Grain Cor-
"poration proposes to market it"at the
,going prices. There he stopped. Mr.
Hoover was somewhat oracular, as he
always is, mixing praise for Food Ad-
ministration accomplishments with
other comment in quite an indefinite
way, but dwelling especially on “fats"
and the “difiicult situation” ”in the in-
terval until a peace treaty shall be
signed. There he, too, stops. Secre-
tary Houston in his statement of Jan.
27. is more to the point. He says that
.Europe, including the Central Powers,
will need to import 728 millions of
wheat, 65 millions of rye, 179 of bar-
ley, 118 of cats, and 255 of corn—if
they can pay for it all. And- Congress,
at least in the matter forbidding .im-
ports of potash, is throwing such ob-
stacles as it can in the way of Ger-
man and Alsatian ability to make pay-
ment.

On the other hand, the report of

Jan. 17 of the Agricultural Commis-
sion to Europe, composed of several
agricultural college professors and
members of the Department of Agri-
culture, sent to Europe last fall to
find out just what is the condition
over there,‘ has said in substance that
they were able to learn practically
nothing outside elf-England, France
and Italy. President Thompson of
Ohio University, who wrote the sum-
mary of the Report, said: “It is im-
portant to bear in mind that condi-
tions in Russia, Roumania, Germany
.and other wheat producing countries

_ are so unknown and so uncertain that

no prediction can be made as to the
influences of these countries on pro-
duction and markets,"——except that
they will become increaSed consum-
er's (cnntpared with when?) “when
governmental restrictions upOn food
are relaxed.”

President Thompson adds that Eng-

_ land’s 1918 war agriculture increased

her homo-grown bread supplies four-
fold and that “in the matter of‘bread-
stuffs England could supply herself
40 weeks.” compared with 10 in 1916.
Fwnr’e has suffered her greatest loss
in beet sugar production, but bread—
stuff production was “somewhat bet-
In Italy,

very serious.”

real abnormal

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Tend-thus to endanger the. welfare of

farmers as well as of thousands
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lt’eody; hay native.

 

DETROIT.—Hoy firm; apples um and higher; potatoes slow, and prim
slightly lower; dairy products firmer; beau inactive.
CHICAGo.—Pototoee firm dud higher;

NEW YOBKF-Pohw- dull and prlool slightly rowan nothing doing at
all in bonus; hay market dun. Apples higher. . 7 -

.pplos arm and higher; onion-fl

        
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EiADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. Zlel 2.3. 2.30 I-Z 2.35
NO. 3 Red 2.3!
NO. 2 m. 2.25 2.28 I.“ I-2
No. 1 gal - 2.26 2.21 2.33

 

 

 

 

 

There is considerable difference of
opinion as to whether the government
ought to stabilize the wheat prices
until it has carried out its agreement
with the farmers, or whether it should
permit the market to take its course,
and niake up the difference to the
farmer out of the treasury. ‘ Julius
Barnes, president of the U. S. Food
Administration Grain Corporation, be-
lieves the former course by far the
best, but the grain dealers, and the
Chicago Board of Trade ,are almost
unanimously in favor of restoring
the laws of supply and demand. A bill
is now before congress giving the
President practically unlimited lee-
way in firing the government’s wheat
policy, and grain dealers also take
exception to this.

Mr. Barnes expresses the view that
the Government should maintain the
fixed price to millers on the basis of
the guaranty to the farmer and that
all exported grain should be sold at
the world’s market prices. By this
means he believes the Government
would stand no loss on the crop. He
further believes it unsound econom-
ically for the Government to sell
wheat for less than it pays for it; and
he has doubts of the presence of any
great surplus of wheat in other parts
of the world and questions the prob-
able existence of 1,250,000,000 bushels
in the United States as the outcome of
the 1919 crop. He believes that begin-
ning with the next crop year, July 1,
there will be an exportable surplus of
only 45,000,000 bushels in Australia
and of 120,000,000 in the Argentine.
With these conditions in view, he is
convinced that there will be a demand
for all the American wheat abroad.
He also anticipates that it will be nec-
essary to ask the farmer to‘hold back
his wheat because of lack of storage
facilities. .

Representatives from the Minneapo-
lis, Duluth and Buffalo exchanges ex-
pressed the belief that the wheat
should be sold to millers on the basis
price fixed by theaGovernment guaran-
ty and that the Grain Corporation
should be continued to administer

the process of liquidating the guar-
anty. They alsobelieved that“ the ex-
ported products should be sold at the
world market prices and that it would
be ethical for the Grain Corporation
to get as much as possible for it.

So far as the farmer is concerned
it makes little differenco which plan
is adopted. .His only interest is that
the price guaranty be carried out as
agreed, and there is no longer any
fear'that the few who have believed
the government could go back on its
word to the farmer, will make any
headway with their arguments.

At present there is a slightly easier
feeling in wheat and wheat products,
though generally speaking prices rule
about even. ‘ ‘

 

 

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GRADE \Dotroit M York
No. 2 Yellow 1.41
No. 3 Yoflow L35 1.35 I.“
No. 4 Yellow L30 1.“ 1,11

 

 

 

 

 

All the credit for the better feeling
in the corn market should be given
to the farmers. The efforts of specu-
lators to frighten farmers into selling
their corn on the declining market
have had little results. Corn farmers
are simply sitting back, holding tight
and looking wise. Meantime, supplies
are decreasing, labor troubles in the
Argentine are holding up export ship-

‘ments. to this country, and European

demand is picking up. The weather
is still the big “bear" in thqcorn sit-
uation. In nine,years out of ten at
this season, the ground in the live
.stock producing sections is covered
with snow, and feeders are obliged to
buy large quantities of corn and other
grains. This year there are very few
places where cattle could not graze
during the major part of the several

months, and they have thus picked _

up enough food to materially lessen
the demand for grains.

 

 

 

 

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Wench-r Chit for In. . '

Feb. 15.

D. C.,'
1919.-——Last bulletin gave forecasts of
disturbances to cross continent Feb.

WASHINGTO N .

20 to 24, warm wave 19 to 23, cool
wave 21 to 25. This will be most se-
vere on western part of continent, de-
creasing eastward; not much precipi-
tation: some scattered snows north
and light rains south. Temperatures
will average lower than usual, inclined
toward cold, quiet weather. .
Next warm wave will reach Van-
couver about Feb. 23 and tempera.-
turos will rise on all. the Pacific slope.
It. will cross crest of Rockies y close
_of Feb. 24, plains sections 2 merid-
ian 90, great lakes, middle Gulf states
and Ohio-Tennessee valleys 26, east-
erm sections 27. reaching vicinity of
Newfoundland about Feb. 28. Steam
‘ wave, will follow about one day behind
warm wave and cool wave about one
day behind storm wave. .

 

 

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colder rthanus

ual a
the, .

THE WEATHER. FOR THE WEEK

As forecasted by W. T. Foster for MICHieAN BUSINESS FARMING

' consumers? I

end will be down-f

reaches your vicinity and then a great
warm wave will ,come in. Not much
preci itation; conditions not favorable
to wfnter grain.

March will be colder than usual
east of Rockies, warmer than usual
west of Rockies' crest; less than usu-
al precipitation; not good for winter
grain, nor for southern truck farm-
in-g. Frosts far southward near Mar.
17. Difficult for truck farming in
cotton states because early planting
will get best moisture, while the frosts
near March 17 will threaten early
ve station. .

grofiteers have largely sold futures
on corn, oats. cotton, rye, barley, etc...
and if they can induce farmers to de-
liver their products we may exp ct
market prices to go up again. 0
necessities were produced under war
time expenses. A bar 6 part of man-
kind and the domest c animals must
be fed from America's products, at
high prices. Shall the farmers at
.the rice’s required b the great e-_-
man orlshall the pro eel-s make mil-
lions at the expense of producers and
conltiinuet tgh advfifie
reducers not to de ver 0 e pro -
lgore. Farmers, merchants, dealers,
bankers; consumers, ofthe agricultur-
al products, are all .in the some , ,
and should unite to protect M‘an-
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strent‘Iththis Week, mm enda-
port, demandfflor both corn and

is somewhat better , probably
export .
It is our Judgm‘. out that am ',
for a slight advance’ Within
few days. .

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Rye. in common with corn and oats.
il in better demand after a tempor-
ary slump from a week ago.

This grain also, may advance some
within the next few days, but the ad—
vance will not be considerable. Do-
troit market quotes No. 2 rye at $1.42. ’

 

 

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1300 2.50260. 21.0255. 2‘5.
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No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
Huh“ Light Mixed Clover Mini Clovor
309M 155. 230.115. 22.02.50 2]”
Chan 3‘“ ”“22“ 3‘00”.“ 23...
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The hay market is holding up well
despite large shipments. The demand
in -Detroit has thus far been able to
move all supplies and the condition of
this market is firm. The Hay Trade
Journal gives the following review of
the hay market for ,the Week ending
Feb. 8th. "

“Most markets have been rather
heavily supplied with hay this week
and values have eased off from $1 to
$3, the receipts generally having been
more than the trade requirements
could absorb. Conditions generally
are rather unsatisfactory, buyers’
stocks are pretty well filled and trad-
ing is slack. The open winter is de-
creasing the demand and as the qual-
ity of the hay arriving in most ter-
minals is of the low varieties, these
will remain a drug on the market un-
til a. change in the weather creates a
demand for these descriptions. There

is very little No. 1 timothy or choice
clover mixed on the markets and the
upper grades are holding relatively
steady to firm."

 

 

GRADE Detroit Cbicuo New York
C. H. . ' , 7.25 7.5. to.
PM 5.59 1.“ 3.5.
Red Kidnevz ".25 IZJO ".75

 

 

 

 

 

There is absolutely nothing to say
this week concerning the iinmediato
future of the bean market. The Mich-
igan bean men who have been attend-
ing hearings‘in both Washington and
New York before which the bean sit-
uation is being thrashed out from a'
to ,z, are confident of higher prices,
but they cannot say how seen this
may 'come about. Unquestionably it
will take some time for the market to
entirely recover from its‘ slump of the
past six weeks, and we need expect

'no, material improvement for a month

or two. The government, ‘for some .
reason, is still holding, off purchasing.
but as seen as it gets into. the game
again, a very different tenowill be
p The, telegram reproduced, on . ' ‘
the first page of this issue is ab " .‘
' ‘9’ Clip

  

    
 
   

 
   

 

 

 
     
 
      


  
   

leavesthig week‘to'
idem :9: Michigan been
' hrn’mre’ get-together
e held, next week. at-Ith-
_ ‘Xork,iunder the auspices of
New, York Agricultural Society.
therein will learn all there is
learn. about the New York been
on and will find out something
t the bean picking practices
New York dealers. Upon his return
he will give the readers of MICHIGAN
.gismss Fanmno an account of his
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. 1.10 1.
‘- onus 2.00 _ l .95
New Yolk 2.22 1.].
Worth 1 .90 1.85

 

 

 

 

 

’ , Last week was a very unsatisfac-
tory potato week. At nearly all points
potato prices declined, with the excep-
tion .of the Chicago market where the
week, beginning ‘with slight declines
and a weak feeling, ended~ up with a
Strong demand and higher ' prices.
There is a. noticeable decrease in ship
meats, and this .will probably contin-
ue until supplies at primary points
are cleaned up and the market shows
a ilrmer tone. Right now there is
' less certainty about the potato market
than at any time since the season
. opened last fall. It is paradoxical that
- many who formerly looked-for higher
prices have lost their faith; while
others who said right from the start
that the potato market wOuld'ehow a
steady decline all thru the season,
have revised..their estimate and are
now saying that'prices will be higher.
The Detroit market has been one of
the poorest in the country the past
week or two, as home ”grewn supplies
have practically taken care of the lo-
cal demand. Usuaily, these home-
grown supplies do not come onto the
market until spring when all danger
of freezing is over, but the mild
weather has brought them out early
this year, 0 /course, whatever the
small produc in the vicinity of De-
. troit dis of. now, they won’t have
to dispose 0 later, so that the Detroit
, market may prove ’to be a good one
- later on. Chicago, Cincinnati and
Pittsburg- have all been fairly good
markets of late, prices frequently ad-
vance at these points while declining
at others. .
Th is little doing now in local
buying stations. Growers are refus-
ing to sell at present prices- Particu-
larly is this true of Michigan, Maine,
Wisconsin and extreme western farm-

ers. . '

   

! . .The advance that was expected this es in prices had a stimulating effect

week did not materialize for the prin-
cipal reason. that the cold snap prom-

ised by the weather bureau turned '

dot to be a warm wave. Still, many

insist that there will seen. come a

change in the potato situation, regard.

and we are
right.

less of weather conditions,
,inclined to think they are

  
   

. 7 . New York ButterLetter

New‘l’ork, Feb; 8, 195195—At the
, 1 clinic yesterday the market seemed to
, ‘ , be_,weakming, The, week as a whole

   
  
   

[tit/ice of accumulated stocks have
moved. The reason tor the increased
jctiVity: Was. the replenishment of

all '91”.me had cleaned :out

    
 
 
 

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t"? ‘. ‘ a. . -
. Egg priceshave reached

‘ has been ._ fairly active and large quan- .

   
  

(stocks hyiobbers and retailers, mac» 7
y
' t . . oaks during-thextime of“

   

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where people are beginning to eat

them in lhrger quantities and this in-'

creasedde'mand has tor the time be-
ing halted the remarkable decline of
the past -month. No one should be
foolish enough to expect that
prices will be any higher before next
fall, as receipts are very liberal and
will certainly continue so for the bal~
since of the spring. and summer
months. On Feb. 12th, eggs were
quoted on the Detroit market at 89
to 40 cents per dozen.

POULTRY

”There has been little change in

poultry prices over a week ago. Both .

receipts and demand are light and the
market continues steady from day to
day. Detroit prices this week average
as follows: Live poultry—No. 1

springs, 30 to 310; small springs, 28
to 29c; hens, 31 to 320; small hens
and Leghorns, 29 to 30c; roosters, 20
to 21c; geese, 28 to 29c; ducks, 36 to
360; turkeys, 36 to 370. per lb.

    

Chicago Live Stock Letter
(By Special Correspondent)

Uniou Stock: Yards, Chicago, 111.,
Feb. 10, 1919.—Last week brought
about a favorable and encouraging
turn in the cattle market and changes.
were in favor of the producer. Broad
shipping inquiry and liberal buying
by local packers together with de-
creased arrivals proved the bull fac-
tors and prices reached a new high
level for the winter season. Receipts
were moderate in all departments of
the trade, the run for the week ending
Saturday, February 8, being 58,333
cattle, 9,258 calves, 171,789 .hogs, and
81,580 sheep, against 53,017 cattle,
9.620 calves, 217,674 hogs, and 67.880
sheep. ~

‘At the close or the week the good
to choice steers were quoted around
25c higher, with the medium to fair
grades showing an upturn of 50 to 750.
Fat cows and heifers and butcher bulls
were in marked favor and finished
fully 500 to $1 higher, calves lnounted
$1.25 to $1.50, while about the only
class of killers that did not show a
gain for the six day period was can:
ners, holding generally steady. . A
new high record was made for the year
when a load of choice 1,370 pound
beeves sold at$20.10, passing the pre-
vious record made in January of
$20. General quality of oiierings that
arrived was rather mediocre, although
quite a large per cent of the steers
graded good enough to sell at a spread
of $16 to $17.50. Medium to; fair
kinds of killing steers. on the short-
vfed order, have changed hands at $13
to $15.50, with only plain grades down
from the $13 mark. The sharp advanc-

on the demand for feeder cattle and

      
  
    
   
  

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cal packers and eastern or-
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ly one. simply and demand basis than
any time since government regula-
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mend served to tone up the demand
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kept working a little stronger each
day last week, and with a moderate
supply Monday additional strength
developed and the cost of all droves,
for slaughter, at $17.851stands as 33
cents higher than that of a week ago,
February 3rd. On the opening day of
this'week $18.10 was paid for strong
weight butchers, standing the highest
since November 27, last year. Good to
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$17.90 to $18.10, medium weight butch-
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$17.35 to $17.90, with heavy packing
grades mostly from $18.75 to $17.33.
and the general bulk of all classes from
$17.65 to $18. '
Although receipts of live mutton
last week showed a slight increase
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showed enough expansion to cause

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Country Life is the Best
(Continued from page 11)

There is crime of all kinds here, an'
wickedness; there is discontent an' de-
ceit; there is the everlasting grind
an’ struggle to exist; the ever-present
fear of losin’ your job an’bein’ penni-
less; there is sickness an' death;
there is trouble an’ divorce—~an’ once
in awhile there is love an’ peace.

To my young friends, Wherever they
may be, I want to say this: If you
are in the country, whether on a farm,
in school as teacher or pupil, in mills,
or whatever you may be doin’, stay
where you are, for now durin’ this
period of reconstruction everything
will be worse in'the city than it has
ever been before. For a time men an'
women will be out of work, crime will
increase, an’ the struggle for existence
will'be a hard one in the city. But
out in the country, which the good
Lord made to be lived in, it will not
be so bad. Farmers will have plenty,
an' anyway you will nothave to com-
pete with the mob that would not hes-
itate to drag you down an' even take
your life, if there was a few dollars
to be gained by doin’ it. Your Uncle
Rube has had experience in both plac-
es an’ I truthfully say that the hap-
piest times of my life were spent while
on the farm, out- in the country, ten
miles away from any place called a
city.

For true friends, for good times an'
for a place to live the life, the country
has the city beaten 3. thousand ways.
Here I see nothing but sidewalks,
buildings, factory smoke, struggling
humanity and policemen. Out in ,the
country I could see birds, flowers,
green grass (in season), kindly faces
an’ good friends.

An' so I say, as for me give me the
country, or show me a diilerent city
than I have ever yet seen—Uncle
Rube.

   
   
 

 

  
  

    

  
   

 

 

 

 

   
  
  

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FARM FOB SALE—167 acres, 125 til-
lable. balance sture and woods. Seed- .5
60 acres timot y, 20 Rosen R e, 131-!
acre woodlot, original oak tim er. Fine”
for lumber. 1% miles from Grass Lake.
Gravelly loam. soil. Young orchards.
Good buildings. 10«room house, water
system. acetylene gas. furnace, new base—
ment barn 36x80. House and ham slate-, '
roofed: ow chicken coop, 14x80. two
parks. Other outbuildings. Place in ex-
cellent condition, never having been rent-
ed. Price $16,000. Carlton J. Sopen’,‘
Grass Lake, Mich.

       
    
   
       
     
 
  
   

 
 
      
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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waste land. 20 acres good t mber,
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'~ ‘ An Aspiring Author
EAR PELELOPE: Some time ago I noticed
D on your page your reply to a letter, stating

magazines, etc. That is exactly the information
. I have been looking for. Once your work is fln-
.~. ished,.how does one go about disposing of it? And
, having decided upon whom to inflict the .task of
a probably turning you down. What sort of letter
does one write to accompany it? In‘ what form
should the work be sent? And is there much hope
Athut other than typewritten work will be consid-
ered? Do current magazines pay enqugh for ar-
ticlesfrom the pen 0: an unknown to pay for
the time expended.——G. E. M., Cohoctah, Mich.

e e e ' .
, HERE IS a wide market for meritorious
,' \ writings of any kind. Usually unknown

authors do not hope to attract the big mag- *

amines which prefer to deal only with authors of
established reputation. But there are other av-
enues, thru which even the most humble efforts

: may be presented to the public and the way
" ‘ cleared for recognition from the higher-class jour—

nals. Sunday newspapers of large circulation are
interested in certain types of articles; and press
syndicates which sub-let aritcles to many news-

papers will buy most anything that has merit.‘

The price paid varies widely. Some journals pay
as low as $1 per thousand words; others as, high
as one cent a word. ,

If you hays stories for sale write to the “Writer
Magazine," Boston, Mass, which should be able
to supply you with a list of newspapers and mag-
azines that are in the market for stories.

In submitting manuscripts, write, as briefly as
_ possible. Do not mention your inexperience, or
any personal detail. In your most simple and
natural manner, merely ask the publisher ad-
dressed to give your manuscript a respectful read-
ing, name the amount you desire to receive for it,
or else_indicate that the regular editorial rate
will be acceptable. Always enclose stamped en-
velope for the return of your/"manuscript in case
it is not accepted. Type-written manuscripts are,
, of course, best, altho neat pen-written manuscripts
, will suffices-PENELOPE.

The Old Spinning Wheel
EAR PENELOPE: I have never written to
" D this department befOre, but I am coming
with my needles along with the multitudes
I have a fleece of 9% lbs, and I would like to
hear from some sister who has a spinning wheel
who would like to spin it on shares. I find there
are quite a number spinning around but the ladies
I. know are all too aged to spin for anyone be-
sides their own family. . If any readers of this de-
partment know of anyone who spins I would re-
turn the compliment in any way I can.——Mrs. H.
H., Bag/shore, Mich.

0 t I
‘ . DON’T suppose many M. B. F. readers have a
I spinning wheel: Oh, I know that in some dusty
attics hidden away under the old garments and
, things that have accumulated there, will be found
. the old spinning wheel that grandmother used in
the days of long ago. But I can hardly believe
that there are many farm homes today where
the spinning wheel is still in operationf If there
are and the owners can give our subscriber the
assistance she asks, I shall surely feel indebted
‘ to them. PENELOPE. '

\ Child’s Underwaist
UST BECAUSE a little girl has ceased to
wear baby clothes and has become a real “lit-
tle lady”——wearing colored ginghams and

bloomers to match, there is no reason why she
» shouldn’t have at least one suit of daintiness.
Remember, Mother, dear, how you
loved that flimsy ruflied and tucked
petticoat or panties. I know you
would like to have sister wear them

  

, . that you would be glad to ‘give the sub-.
scribers assistance in disposing/of ,articles for‘

communicatione"ior,thil§ use; should

pause to

; dainty suits;
but one suit

and these
long even-
ings are Just

do such work
and it ~ is
amazing how
fast embroid-
" ,‘ ery. work
goes, once you get started. This transfer pat-
tern may be used for baby bonnets, baby yokes,
across the front of little petticoat and! on ruffles.
The embroidery is outline and raised satin stitch.
The style oi” petticoat suggested is more work
than those that hang straight from the shoulder;
the latter also cuts to a better advantage, requir-
ing about one or two-thirds lengths.

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embroidery herself and it is an excellentidea to

allow her to help, even tho the work isn’t perfect,
how proud she will be to do it herself. To‘ use
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A, Kind Word, ,
0W little it costs, if we give it a thought,
To make happy some heart each day.
Just one kind word, or a tender smile,
As we go on our daily way.

The cloud from a neighbor’s face
And the press of a hand in sympathy

Perchance a look will sufiice to clear gL
A sorrowful tear efl‘ace.

‘\

It costs so little, I wonder why
We give so little thought! ,

A smile, kind words, a glance, a touch;
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Rural Health

ROVOST Marshal Crowder takes his place on
the side of the country in the‘race for health
between city and country. Figures being
compiled by General 'Crowder’s office show that

four per cent more city boysthan country boys,

from selected groups of each were rejected in the
draft because of physical disqualifications.

This advantage on the part of the country is‘

a small one, however, and, according to other
Government figures, it is less now than it was a
few years ago. Here are some facts that are as
significant in their bearing on the farmer’s work
during peace as on his part in War. ‘

The county death rate is low'er than that of the?

city, according to the Department of Census, but
it has increased since 1910, while that of the city
has been lowered. Country children, says the
Children’s Bureau, are more likely to fall victims
to children’s epidemics than the boys and girls
in cities. Babies under a. year have a better
chance to live in big cities than they do in the
country. / -

.The farmer’s wife also sufferes from the lack of.

skilled medical and nursing care. In many re-

mote country districts, mothers and babies under-

go unnecessary suffering, illness,

and sometimes death, because they

lack thehealth facilities common

in large cities. Pathetic letters of-

‘ . ten come to the Children’s Bureau,
0 whose campaign to save the lives of
one hundred thousand babies has

   

‘ . M addressed, to :
“MW” 3““ mm ”Winona 1f“- clowns-"mane

butfyou feel-
it is a lot pf ..

work and ex-- 7. months old now whose

make ”105% . ed their cabin last November:

visn’t,‘ m u c h-

the time to'

revealed startling conditions. Here ,

' T Agriculturq‘ls: swine theitarm'm or, corsets ‘

    
 
 
 
   
  
  
   

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zero. and I had toride 7mileshorsebacki She
was nearly dead when I got momma died attor-
gi—ving birth to a 14-pound'boy.»1tsee;ns awtul
to mate» think '0! 81m uil’all"my work and leave _
ing my little ones, two of whom‘are “WM-T‘s
‘girl' of. 10 and this'baby." 1V ‘

Such conditionsmake unfit soldiers for the.
army of peace as Well as war,‘and adequate recon-
struction for the farmer must ~be‘based on a new "‘
development of public health facilities adapted to
meet farm conditions. Farm leaders themselves,
are urging this. The Farmers? Nati’onalAContot-
ence on Reconstruction, called by the Farmers’
National Headquarters in Washington, adopted
the following plank in its reconstruction pro-
gram: , 2 , ' = '

“We urge adequate financial support by Con-
gress for the necessary extension of the work of
the United ”States Public Health Service; provis— '
ion for a greatly-increased number of public health
nurses in rural districts; such service to be none
compulsory.”

Secretary Houston also states that country dis-
tricts must have “the advantages of modern hos-
pitals, nursing and specialized medical practice.”

Miss Julia Lathrop chief of the federal child-

 

.ren’s bureau, asks for more public health nurses.

especially in country districts. The lack of these
trained women, she points‘out, is hampering the
work of her bureau in saving mothers and child-
ren.

To help to meet this demand of the farmers for
better health facilities, the National Organization
for Public Health, Nursing is planning ways to in-
crease the number of public health nurses with
ability and training ”to meet rural prdblems.

“The health problems of the farmer and his ’

family are many and serious,”, said Miss..Ella

Phillips Crandall', executive secretary of the or-
ganization,” and they cannot be'adequately met
without the aid of the public health nurse.

“The great value of the public health nurse to
the rural community lies in the fact' that she is
at work all the time. No single "family could af-
-ford to have a skilled person at hand to give help,
whenever it is needed, but a county or a group of
people ,can easily afford to co-operate in employ-
ing a public health nunse. .

“By being thus constantly at work in the homes
Of the district, the nurse is able not only to cure _
sickness, but to teach methods of~ keeping well. "
She also detects contagious disease and is able to
checkit. , ‘ ‘ . 4 _,

“The great prOblem is to find sufficient nurses
to do'the work, and to provide the right sort of
training for them. The National Organization is '
raising a fund ”for-scholarships to enable trained
nurses to take the additional course in public
health work. , '

“It seems to ”me that the thing for farming co_m-
munities to do is to study their own needs, when-
ever possible to appoint one person or a committee
to'study the situation, decide what service a nurse
could perform, if possible raise money for her ser-
vices, asid communicate at once with the National,
Organization in its New York omce, which is at
156 Fifth Avenue. rPart of the work ~of the or-
ganization is to advise communities and to assist
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LESSONS IN HOME COOKING ,,

5" Rye Flour . .
. .ANY WOMEN I find are greatly disappoint-
— ed with their experience with rye flour.- r
Now there are different varieties jof rye‘and
the resulting flours vary greatly, and it is not
enough to merely ask the grocer to'send"“up a sack
aims; for. you‘ma‘y not like what you get.
There is no rye gr/ownthat is superior to. our _
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board and work 3' your bread by told-
- 'Vlllgéfit over rather than kneading. it.
_ 'Thie-‘v‘white rye dour. cansbe. success-
mny used in cake making, especially
in those flavored with chocolate,
s’piées, or molasses. As these, are ~al-'
ways moist cakes, and rye 1s a moist
flours, it {is suggested. that you use
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sitablespoons of, _
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in: rye bread the dough must -

w eat-bread. Stirllwith a spoonuntil' , ~ 7
"‘filfl’fldflr is mixed with the liquid..- 90- One and one-half cups sifted Rowena
‘ ‘ rye'flour, 1,5 cup Lily White flour, 1 ts-
blespoon melted butter, 1 beaten egg, 1
cup milk, 1,4. teaspoon salt, 4 teaSpoons
baking powder.

boiling water, 2 teaspoons salt, 3 table-
spoons fat, 3 cups Rowena. Rye Flour,
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Rye Muffins well'

Bake as usual. U to-Date
Nut Bread
One cup Rowena corn meal, 2-3 cup a. CON ISE

lustrating 30 of

dressmaker.

’ retrained or Rowena
' =« " , ' haw/bout) boiling water,
. 2 tablespooni: shorteninc, 1 teaspoon of
salt. 5‘ talisman soda, 1 cup ,Lily White
Flour. learner-1' teaspoons, baking
powder, .1-» cup mil-ls, ‘% cup raisins, u,
f a

   
    

Pour the boiling water over. the
corn meal and let stand until luke- yards of 36-inc
'warm. Put the soda into the molas-
ses and 'stir in the flour, mixed with
the baking powder and salt, alternate-
ly with the milk. Add the floured
raisins and melted shortening. Mix
Bake one-half hour. This makes '
eighteen mufilns.

CATALOGUE N OTIOE
Send 100 n siIVer or stamps for our
PRING & SUMMER, 1919
0 TALOGUE, containilnfl 650 desi us 01'
Ladies’. Misses’ and C

C AND COMPREHENSIVE
ARTICLE ON DRESSMAKING ALSO
SOME POINTS FOR THE NEEDLE (11—.
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yards, 97, inch-material loathe .
and 1% yards for the trousers.
No. 2740.——A; Smart Freak. -
sizes, II 18 and 20 ears. "3’
quires ‘29s yards 0 40 i
With pla-
about 1% yards at the foot.

No. 2696.—Giris’ Dress.
4, 6 8, and 10 cars. Size
material. . _. ,

No. Z762.—Ladies' Drfss. .0“: its
sizes, 34. 36, 38 40, 42, 4 and 4
bust measure. Size 38 requires 6% .
of 44 inch material. ~ . "

No. 2752.-Giris’ Dress. Cut in
6, 8 10 and 12 ears. It requir .
yard of linin 27 nches wide for t e u
derwaist, an 3 yards of material for
dress, for an 8 year size. ~‘

No. 2750.—-Ladies’
Cut in 4 sizes, small, 32—84; medium

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inches ust measure.

\ 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size
3% yards of 36-inch materia .

No. 2760.—Ladies' House Dress.
m’mzes, 34, , , 4 . 42 44 and
inches bust measure. Size 18 requires
yards oi! 36 inch materia. The
measures about 2%. yards at the foot.

No. 2749.—Gir1s’ Dress. Cutll’n 5 sizes,
dren’s Pa terns, 1

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The Essex must have made a hundred
‘thousand friends since" January 16th, the
day on'which it was first shown in all parts
of the country by hundreds of dealers.

. _ It is the new light, moderate priced car that
,' has the endurance, comfort and rich com-
pleteness that you expect only in large and

‘ costly automobiles.

Most of the hundreds of dealers who will
sell the Essex have been doing business with
us "for a lon time. ' They know the kind of
cars we bui d.

' Under those circumstances they were not
as skeptical as they might otherwise have
been about a car of which no details were

. given. But even if 1 hey had felt uncertain

because of the newness of the Essex, all

doubt was removed as soon as they had
ridden in itfi

That is a distinctive characteristic of the

d ‘Essex. It is remarked by nearly everyone.
Pride offbwnership does not alone spring
from. beauty and richness of . detail and
finish. It is mechanical as well as optical.

' Something more than the sense
of height must be gratified.

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\Have You Ridden In The Essex?

It‘ Is The New Moderate
Priced Fine Car—Price

   

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$1395

comfortable cushions, with their high backs;
associates the moderate priced Essex with
costly cars. The owner need never apologize
for either its appearance or- performance.
Squeaks do not develop, as in other cars of
its type, because an unusually heavy frame
assures absolute rigidity. Body bolts cannot
work loose. The finish will long retain its
freshness. -

Ride In The Essex Over ‘
Rough Roads

Every dealer is demonstrating the Essex
over the roughest pavements in his locality.
It reveals a new distinctive motor car qual- »
ity. You might easily think you are in a
long wheelbase car weighing two or more
tons. This feature alone will appeal to you
with more than ordinary interest. '

The Essex motor deserves yOur special
attention. Note how it is arranged to get
the maximum power from every drop
of gasoline. See how stable it
is and why it is free from the
need of tinkering and atten—
tion. The Essex has stability.
It has quality as well as light-
ness: endurance and comfort
aswell as a low first cost. These
things will be apparent when:
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BOYS AND GIRLS: I are
net going to write very much to
you, this. week. We have so
‘ . letters to publish that I would
‘ give the space over tonne let-
R18 'nlways a pleasure to re-
;t: letter from a farm boy or
., d I want to publish them all
o ihle. If you do not see your‘let-
in, print. for several weeks after
’ (mailed it, do not fear it has
me With the mail or destroyed.
estates we celebrate the birth
amniYG'I‘EaIY-fof another great man,
George Washington. the first presi-
'38“ of the United States, or whom it
said he never told a lie. Now isn’t
a splendid thing to remember a
or girl by? I am afraid that not
y boy! ‘and girls of this day can
t" their fathers and mothers straight
.' the eyes and say, “I never told a
lie.” ‘._It is easy to tell an untruth,
. zbutgaft‘e'r you have told a. few of them,
..’you always find that it doesn’t pay.
The truth is alwayg the best.
My older boys and girls have all
-- read about the place of George Wash—
ington ’in American history. It was
he who led the American armies to
victory against the British who had
come here to force our forefathers to
_ pay unjust taxes. And it was he, who
- alter the battles were ever and peace
was declared, was chosen by the peo-
ple as president—Am Pastor-E.

YOUR SCHOOL CAN DO THIS, T00
F YOUR child does not do so well
in school as you think he should

one reason may be he has only a
cold lunch at noon, for more and more

 
  
   
   
 
  
 
   
 
  
   
   
   
  
 
 
  
    
    
   
   
  
  
  
   
   
  
    
   
     
  
   
  
  
  
  
   

' and a stew kettle.

it islbeing discovered “that warm,
wholesome food helps to make alert
minds. , _

How to provide warm flood, or at
least one warm dish, 'in the school
lunch may seem a difficult problem
but the following letter from a rural
school teacher to the New York Col-
lege of Agriculture shows that it can
be done: .

“Our idea, of a warm school lunch
grew from the fact that neither the
teacher nor the pupils ‘ liked cold
lunches. we purchased a two-burner
oil stove without legs and fastened it
to an unused back seat. If school
funds are sufficient, legs and a: over
are convenient, but they were luxuries
for us. We also bought a. dishpon
The pupils donat-
ed the other cooking utensils. We
use an old bookcase for a cupboard
and e‘l'l child keeps his cup, plate,
knife, fork, spoon and soup dish there.
Such supplies as .salt, pepper, butter,
soda and sugar are also,kept in the
cupboard. The pupils take turns fur-
nishing the materials for the soup,
creamed potatoes, hot cocoa or what-
ever we serve and the oil for the
stove is bought from the school fund.”

Dear Aunt Penelope: I haven’t writ-

ten to you in so long I thought I would "

write to you.” I have read in the M. B.
F. the story of Dads; I at-
ways read them.
letter. I had a,

butldidnotsaendit. Iaminthe
grade. I am 11 years old. My birthday
is in November. My teacher's name k

m»-

V‘mse meanness-erase. Our school is .
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out. on; “semi of influenza.

"have a. nun his name is Dewe . ~I-Ie is
run of m? ' black and n

  

m "We? luwo three hones‘otourf " .
' own and. we are keeging one for, some; -

one else. I an! In! 9 fourth ' do. '

. He is as a. have one-war saving starnp. I- ve two
white ring around his 1:. and’tail. My » stern and. (me- ,M'Mhe'r- My. sister?)
father is media: in. t e M. B. F. now. names-are. ‘ _ ‘ gamma, _a.nd'my

.msn 1, can read more about the brother’- name is William. ily’
Wonderland at Doo. The "story of the Kathleen is 3 ..

Giants of ‘ Lil’liputania' is nice to
”Well, I will w
’;Little Red Dress.

. Mary's‘New Rod IJressA
‘flother, may I wear my new

school after Christmas.
let me,

“Last spring when

read.
'a story about Mary’s

red
dress?" asked Mary on the first day of
“Please, Mother,
I’ll take such good care of it."
lure..Mary," said. her mother. "I ‘-
will tell you. a story while I comb your
hair and get you ready {or school." And
this is the story Mary's mother told her:
it was warm and

four lita-
My father takes the M. B.~-F. '
. like it very well. I like to read
the letters in it. I have half a mile to
go, to school.'—-Mary Peck, Greenvihe,
Michigan. v » .

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and I '

 

Dear Aunt Penelope: I have never-
written before. I like to read the letters
the boys and girls write. I like the D00
Dads very much. We live on a 4

farm. I had a War garden last summer.

pleasant, a little fairy knew that me

little_ cotton dress that she was then £53133 gun? Iagiicgfiheelt. alafilelhfin ”1';

wearing was not'warm enough for her years 01!} and in the ”3' th grade. I

gar‘t'e?rontto tSChflMOM thign “7mm" ”hm" have four sisters and three brothers, their
0 ‘ e warm 3’” names are Anna. Hannah and Elizabeth.

Soon she came to a. green meadow- .“ba, John, 5009?}! and Tlueodore'. My b

b": fibtahafalid amndollad 53y 5%,”;‘3’ “I brother was in France and was wounded

WIS . -co - y . m co‘a ' u..t at Chateau Thierry, but he is back in the

the Ithlilnag, ysald tther 3113' ' I?“ in“; _ U S again He'will be home next week.

can an ou ge o a rea sea 0 ' " ‘ . ~

wool? “We can help you, said the My letter is getting quitelong, so I will

sharp shears.

on the ground. ‘But the wool is
some soap and water.
what We can do.
the wool was as white as snow.
nice,’ said the fairy.
spun
little red dress."

Here is a poem also:

There was a. wicked man, and he had a.

wicked look.

He was a wicked Kaiser; what he want-

ed he just togk.

He fought a wicked war and he said it

was 1m right. ‘
Until some little Thrift Stamps ‘just put
him out light.

you before.

. And snip, snap they went
until the great coat was all in a heap
» not
clean,’ said the fairy. Swish. swish, said
We’ll show you
And sure enough soon
‘How
And then it was
into yarn and made into Mary’s

A. Willis, Came. Michigan.

Dear Aunt Pacing: '1 am a li’Rle
girl 8 years old. I we not written to
We live on a farm of forty

close. hoping to see this letter in print. -

The Tar Baby .. .

A rabbit, a. fox and the coon lived close
together. The fox had a fine melon
patch and nobody was to touch it. One
morning while looking at his patch, he,
saw seme tracks and he knew that some-
one had been stealing his melons so he
told his troubles to the coon and the coon
said it was the rabbit. The fox made a
tar baby said nothing and the rabbit got
When the moon arose the rabbit went in-
to the melon patch, and when he saw the
tar baby he called out, “Who’s tint stand-
ing there ready to steal the melons?" The
tar baby said nothing and the rabbit got
angry and hit him with his paw and it
stuck fast to the tar baby. 'Then- the
rabbit said, “Let me go, or I’ll hit you
with my other paw." But the tar baby
said nothing and the other paw was soon
stuck fast to the tar baby. When the
fox came along he found the rabbit
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Sawbones. All the Doc Dads
. , seem to have gotten the tooth-
ache at once. But old Doc. is ready
for them. He has fixed up a dentist’s
office in the ollow of a big tree. It
1' 1.3. nicely ug ted up with fireflies.
Wee what a wonderful tooth-pulling
machine he' has rigged up. ,He is
trying it out On Sleepy Sam, the Ho-
be. ; First, he strapped him firmly in
the. dentist's chair. Then he test-
done endof the (ford to the ach-

tooth and the other to the rope

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Doc Shwbones’ ‘Toothpulling Factory

which passes out through the hollow',

limbland is attached to that .big
stone. Everything is now ready and
all old Doc. Sawbones haste do is
to pull out the prop from under .the
stone. It will then, fall to theground
and out'will come Sleepy Sam's tooth.
Sandy, the Piper, is surfing away

on his bagpipes.’ ounce. ‘Sawbonesf;
has got him. toployso loud that‘no‘v;
body will be able to hear the. cries .

of his patients.
acting as old Doc’s helpers.
greatly puzzled for he can’t find the
tooth in the Clown’s head. That lit-
tle fellow who wasmeddling with the
false teeth has got himself into trou-
‘ble. He thinks that the set of teeth
which has snapped on his finger is a

Holy and Poly are

mouse trap. See how he is Scream- '
(ying' for help!- Look at thOSGZlHW»
'oldj codgers on the bench- Kahlfiivfidil‘f -

Roly is

swollen jaws. _They are surely suf-
fering enough already, but thoSe
mischevious. little fellows, behind .
them are torturing them still. more
Some of the D00 Dolls are suffering '
item. the toothache too. for. here
,gcomes the old lady D00 Doll with a
“couple of them. Like all little girls
they‘doynot like to go to the dentist’s.
That-ypung fellow with‘the pencil ' '
has added a line to DQC’SQW'hQnsS', v "
slingffle is; o;bout»rig_flt ford D‘ " '
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. ‘ t‘Pen61bps: ”I have written to
‘33? Mi "sd‘I-"thought I would write
’ ain. keg-to readthe. letters of the
‘Afi‘fims 'ys‘and girls., You: said to Write

and-fits .you .what- we did in the winter
time and to look some Doo Dads. I

' = '_ am, some t'o-do both. Our Doo Dads have

awful times, don't they? I should think

'. . that, the, doctor would get tired running

around every. time the D00 Dads get into
‘trouble. .‘The three little Doo Dads on
the limb of the tree are having a lot of
' am watching the others tumbling around.
Old Sleepy
come to watch the others and had brot
his dinner along, but I guess he won’t
need any if he sleeps all the time. I
'wrote to Josephine Collier because in her
letter she said she wanted someone to
write to her. and I have gotten a letter
from her, and would like to get one from
some of the others. Was Santa good :to
you? He was to .me.- He gave me a
silk handkerchief and a silk ribbon, a.
book, a puzzle, a nail file, a. pencil box,
fifty cents and a nice ivory comb. Our
school has joined the‘ Junior Red Cross,
but we don’t do the same things as the
big Red Cross. In the winter time I go
to school, slide down hill and some days
take the letters to the box and go after
the mail. I take our dog With me. My
father has two cars, a Ford and a. Dodge;
We went. to Gresnville yesterday with
the Dodge. I am a girl 11 years. old
and in the sixth grade. I guess this is
atL'-——Fem Dennis, Greenville, Mich.

'Dear Aunt Penelope: (Well, this is the

‘ first letter I have ever written to you

but have been readi
girls’ letters in the M. - . F. and think I
shall also write to you. I am a girl 12
years old and live on a farm of 200 acres.
I have two sisters. One of my sisters
and her husband work in the Frst States
Savings bank at Croswell and my other
sister and her husband have a grocery
store here in Bentley. We have 29 cows
and 7 horses, 50 sheep. and 40 chickens:
The "flu" is quite bad up here. My
teacher’s name is Miss Toutant. Well, I
must close—Alice Snyder, Bentley, Mich.

the boys' an

. Dear Aunt Penelope: I have never
written to you before, so I will try and
write to u for once. I am 9 years old
and in he fifth grade at school. My
teacher's name is Miss Lena. Bauer. I
like her. I have four brothers and fo r
sisters. My brothers’ names are 12.00 ,
George, Ferdinand and Franklin. My
sisters’ names are Rosa, Orpha, Olive
and Myrtle. I wrote to you once but I
didn’t send the letter.- I have a mile to
walk to school. My brother and some
neighbor boys are going coasting tonight.
-—Alfred A. Mettert, Coleman, Mich.

 

.. Dear Aunt Penelope: I have‘ been
reading the letters from. other boys and
girls and I thought I would like to write.
We have four horses their names are
Dolly, Stub, lu an Dave. We have
five, cows and four yearlings. I live on a
loo—acre farm. I am 9 gears old and go
to the Porter Center so 001. just across
the road from where I live. I have been
earning Thrift Stamps and War Savings
stamps. I have three lambs and a Jet.
sey calf. My calf’s name is Marie. For
pets I have a dog named Buster, two
cats and one kitten. I have two sisters
and one brother. their names are May,
,Doris and Paul. I curry off the cows
and cal es, feed my lambs and do all the
horse ' ores and help ‘in the house. --—
Max' Streeter, Lawton, Michigan. .

 

. Dear Aunt Penelope: Since I have been

' reading the other boys’ and girls' letters

that make the‘ poor'children happy, I feel

_ I will
do the, best I can to make a happy letter.
I earn a, £11118 years 01%, in tthe third grade.
0 no ,. aVe very ar 0 go to schOol
and I like to go. I live
on a farm. We have three cows and two
horses and three calves. I have two kit-
old fishflbne of my said fish
died. We ‘ ve 2d chlckens._ Near our
house is a woods which I like very much ,
in the summer time to gather flowers in.
There is a river in the «woods; too. I
the wmter I go skating on the river. We]
I will stop now and write some other time.

Genevieve ‘Bean, Kibbie, Mich.

 

' Dear Aunt Penelope:
time “I have ever writte
thought I would write. I
log tin letters. in the M. B. F. for a long
time. I think they are fine. I have one
sister, her name is Pearl Dollons Cowles;
she is seven years old. I have no broth-
ers. We live on a large form. I go to
school every day an am in the 6th grade.
I am ten rs 01 The name of my
school is rue school, Dist. No, 2. . My
teacher‘s name is _Miss Elva, Sigsby.‘ I
will close—Dorothy A Cowles, Crystal,

an. .

This is the first
to you, so I
ve been read-

 

Dear Aunt Penelope: I have never
written to you before so I thought I would
write. I have been reading the letters in
the M. B. F. I live on a form. We have
160 acres of land. We have '6 cows and

‘. The cows’ names are Roany,
31ackie, Rosia- Minnie. Pansy and Star.
The heifers’ names are MLi‘lley and Grace.
We- have '2 hogs, 3 pigs, about 60 0111621:-

_ , ‘ 3 roosters. My pets are a dog,
$311.. weight 45 lbs.,.a.nd a gray rooster,

p.213 metame, and a cat named Tiger.

-. Phones and. a colts, the
. . Pat ‘5): ymd Go

am looks as though he had "

in the country "

. to 00
Doc Dads an e can‘t I: wait for
the next pa or to come. I e a sister

~my sistervwho is married is
James. Cleo used 0 belong towznlggg
called ”Children's £3.er Telling Club.”

    
  
 

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rii es:
eyes and can't see out .0
Answer, Mississippi. What ass up hill
and downhill and-always ands still?
Answer, the read. What is to be .seen
but never can be seen? Answer, tomor-
row. ' What is something small that any—
one can. break, but never, n‘ever fix again?
Answer, ' n egg. My father is a black-
smith. e are all glad that the war is
over. I worked very hard last summer.
Will have to close now, will write a story
soon—Herbert Seipke, Butman, Mich.

      
  
   

 

Dear Aunt Penelope:
written to you before, so I thought I
would try. I am a little girl eleven year»
old. I go to school every day I can. I
am in the 7th grade at school. I have
two sisters and one brother. Their names
are Blanche, 12; Noreen, 3: Blake 5. My
mother had the influenza. The rest of
us didn’t take it. Santa was very good
to me. My teacher's name is Miss Mina
Mosher. We had two weeks' vacation at
Christmas. We started to school again
Monday. I was out skating today on
the ice. We have an incubator and we
hatch chickens every year. They look
pretty when they come out of the eggs.
I like to help feed them in the summer. I
help wash the dishes and sweep. I also
helped pick the ap les this year.and I
helped pick up 60 ushels of otatoes.—-
Bernice Cheeseman, Yale, Mic igan.

 

_ Dear Aunt Penel pe: I have been reads
mg the letters an like to read them.
We live on a forty-acre farm. but my
father owns 340' acres. We take the M.
B. F. and we like to road 1:. We have
38 head of young cattle an we have so
many that we could not take time to
name them all. We have eight horses,
their names are Tim, Mad 0, Neil. Dick
Nellie, Nancy Pearl and an , and we
also have 28 sheep and about 8 chicken;
and three geese and two ineas we
have two pl 3 and a '03 named Ti or.
We have a , press, If tractor an a
threshing m. We about one-
quarter . a mile 1 m t church to
which we 'o, 3.38 t 0 so oolhouse is
acrosg the it“. ur t cher's name in
Miss tone. There is a a re at the cor-
1nor.h I 11913;: [three sister! “a. d Ltolur
rotors. er 0 no no. uu.
Ella, No n. Russell. “Henry and Ar-
thur. My lather Norman in in Arch-
angel, Russia, where we think he is
fighting. .-—Es+hsr Miller_ Crosweil, Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez. I have recently
read the letters of the 0 er girls and
boys in the M. B. F., an ‘I thought I
would write to you too. am a girl 10
years old and n the 6th grade at our
district school. I live on a 100-acre
farm. We have 9 cows and 8 calves.
The cows' names are Jennie, Bess, Spoils,
Topsy, Molly, Swan and Bird. We have
3 horses, their names are Dick, ‘Duke and
Fanny. I have flvo sisters and three
brothers. I will tell you a little story
about Jack Frost: A wintréy night in
Janu Jack Frost came (1 is said to
be Jac Frost, anyway) When I woke
up in the morning my brother told me
it was he who pointed the window panes,
but I know different because. I never
forgot the story my teacher read to me
when I was a little girl at school.—Jose-
phine Laprad. Monroe, Michigan.

 

Dear Aunt Penelope: I am a. little
girl 10 years old. My father takes the

B. F. We have two white rabbits and
a black one. We have 10 cows. Daisy,
Kicky, Beauty, Jersey, Nellie, Spotie.
Warty, Darkie_ ‘Ruby, Irene; one calf.
Polly; 3 calves, 2 cats anda dog, and
his name is Watch. We have one pig,-
4 turkeys, 6 ducks, 65 hens. We have a
Buick car. I have 3 sisters and 4 broth»
ers, Arthur, Norman, Henry, Lizzie. El“
la, Russell, Esther, and a brother-in-law
and a. slster-ln-law, Pearl and Albert,
and a brother in Russia. I hope I will
see my letter.—Lulu Miller, Croswell,
Michigan.

 

Dear Aunt Penelope:
reading the letters in 9
like them very . ooh.
and heave a br
amazoo”
He has

I have

M. B. F

am 12

er 18 years 01

sad another brother 5
e . or first

ears old.
at the

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inflow ' _
E“ in K31 and a sis

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. 00 but the is led, and
have a 'er sister 15 years old, at
home. My rather just began taking the
M. B. F. and likes it very match. I have
aW. SSandmeanlto getsomemore.
My itlrgthelr hlias plaguimd my sister has
one,»o. you. '01:: .
go to school. In? 9:96; quart? to

. 0 hi . .
school was closed all Deoefi'ggr. 1181' £3:
had the “flu" and don’t like it at all»
grotto}; which” 155 {mm dd
ro rw ,sMJand.mbh'
1.8 is Wilbur. my slag in isyCaIi-orrtiabl:

They would write stories and letters and
the ones With the best stories would win
.a prize. We luvs in chickens. -6 pigs,
filling“, gtfiowsi '2 c;1;.i:s.1‘l Well, as my ‘
ee sg ng 033‘. vi] .-—

R. Fender, Woodland. Mieialgggse Arlo

Penelope: ' I

 

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middleomdhu-dan around. A Bed.
. looks most like half of a. moon?
Answer, the, other halt.——Gumeth Church,
Bad Axe, Michigan.

Dear Aunt Penelope: This is the first
time I have ever written to you. We have
taken the M. B. F. for WW or three years.
I have hardly ever failed to read the
children's page. I am thirteen years old.
I go to the-B. S. Teft school; I am in the
7th and 8th grades. Our teacher's name
is Miss McDonald. ,1 like to. go to school.
We live on an 80-acre farm. We haVe
two working horses, one driver, two colts,
three cows, four pigs and ten chickens.—
Hilda Tisban, Hemlock, Mich.

 

     

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raise
raise
nice garden of ve

Dear Aunt Penelope: I thought I
wouldwrite to you again. I got a lot of
thmgs for Christmas. A five dollar hill,
2 boxes of writing.r paper, a. paid of beads,
bracelet, hair ribbon, 3 handkerchiefs. a.
bottle of perfume. glass to drink out of,
two big paper rlnlls to dress and a bag.

quite a lot

running from it.

Marie. Michigan.

firm. 'We _
I have a. brother an
ter, their names are Wilma and
I have a~~ War Savings stampvand he
cousin 'in France and. one. in Camp , ‘
Well, I‘ have written a. long .letrel!’

will close for this times-Flo
Steadman, Ashley, Michigan. .

This“ .lsi'th'e.

 

Dear Aunt Penelope: . ,
time I have written to you. I am,_a: , _

from the Dixie highway.
B. F. and like it very much,
and make butter from them
hay and grain mostly.-

   

from town.
We take

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of fowls. We 11
getables this year.

have a small Orchard.fl 1Eherfihis 8':th ‘-

k in our asture e w a __
in e p I have one sister and.
a brother.—~Bertha A. Tawner, Sault Ste

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cooking, as only boys can! '

lected design, embellished in natural colors or gold?

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ly, you would be willing to give up a few hours' time to
new set of dishes on your table!

 

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
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l I would like to earn a new set of am by getting a tow new in
are to your weekly.*8end no color pains-of the sets you adorns

Judmaflifiemhrcdorphkandmofler, Free!

Isn’t it about time to get that new dinner set you

r the war’s close brings good news—now we can offer a
beautiful set of dishes to every lady friend of Michigan
Business Farming! Don’t Miss this Opportunity!

HEN WAR CAME, shipments of dishes and china-ware
from England and France were cut off. Our army taxed
the resources of every American pottery and prices went
sky~highl Consequently, few indeed, are the farm homes that have
added a beautiful set of new china to their tables during these try-

But now peace is here, we have so much to be thankful for, that we
Our boys are com-
ing back and we want to greet them with the wonderful spreads they are
dreaming of over-there or over-here, Where they are longing for mother’s

Let’s dress up our tables—and What, tell me, can add more to the spread
than a wonderful set of beautiful dishes, white and glistening with a se-

 

A NEW SET FOR EVERY BUSINESS FARMEB’S HOLE

So we have scoured the market places where good dishes are sold for
the most modern designs and beautiful sets, and have selected the 42-piece
set illustrated as the one we believe will be most satisfactory in every way.
It can easil be earned by passing out a tow copies of our weekly. MICH- ,

S FARMING, among your friends and neighbors who are
waiting for an opportunity to subscribe. You have no idea how easy it is
to get subscribers for this weekly unless you have actually tried it.
place a beautiful '

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.RACTICALLY 95% of Michigan
land needs lime to counter-act the
acid condition of the soil.

Do you know about your land?
Do you know if it needs lime?

It is important that you do—for acid
soil will never produce full yields. -.

Here Are Three Tests:

Firs t, and perhaps the most satisfactory
way of answering the question, is to ask
your County Agricultural Agent. He is
familiar with the conditions applying in
the case of your soil. He will gladly tell
you how to test it for acid re-action. He
is a state and county employee. You can
depend upon his advice.

S ‘econdIy, write us for an envelope of
litmus paper. Full instructions and an
analysis of the results will be given you.

Thirdly, the big practical test is ‘to
know whether or not your land will grow
clover. Clover as you know, is an essen-
tial part 'of every farm crop rotation. If
your land will grow good crops of clover,
it is not acid. If it will not, it needs lime.

Farm Owners Will Tell You

PULVERIZEB %
“Linnaeus: V
—Is Best

Solvay Pulverized limestone is used by the
great maiority of farmers in your state. Your
neighbors probably use it. This in itself is about
the most dependable endorsement you can get.

Containing a higher percentage of carbonates
and magnesia than any other limestone—more
finely pulverized so“ that 95% of it will pass
through a fifty mesh .1 screen—furnace dried—it
is the sort of limestone that you can depend upon
for 100% effectiveness.

  

 

The Solvay Process Company
2097 W. Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, Michigan

 

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“Banana , thief week ? Wheat. . $2

Genes‘ee - isms—mass am out " ‘ ~ .
. ting Wood and doing repair work on. f
thefarm besides their chm-esp Weath- *

er has been colder during the i'week
and we had a, couple of light snow
hurries during first part. butthere is

no snow now and soil is freezing deep-
or right along. Wheat? and rye are .

suffering during the past couple,_of

weeks; rye not suffering as ‘bad as“

wheat. Some livestock, apples and
potatoes are moving but quite slow.
Some ice houses are being filled dur-
ing the last few days. Auction sales
are plentiful and are becoming more
so every week. Several farmers from
this county attended the M. A.‘ C.‘
farmers’.week. The following prices
were quoted at Flint‘this week: Corn,
$1.20; wheat, white, $2.22; red, $2.23;
oats, 55; rye, $1.30; hay, $22 to $27;
beans, $6.50; red kidney beans, $9;
potatoes, 90c to $1; onions, $2.50 to
$3.00 per cwt.; cabbage, $30 ton; h‘ens,
24; springers, 25; ducks, 26 to 30;
geese, 20 to 24; turkeys, 32 to 36; but-
ter, creamery, 45; dairy, 40 to"50;
eggs, 48 to 51; sheep, $8; lambs, 14.50
to 15.00; hogs, $15 to $16; beef steers,
$8 to $10; beef cows, $6 to $7.50; veal
calves, $12 to $15; apples, $1.50 to $2
per bu.——0. 8., Fenton, Feb. 7..

Tuscola (N.E.)——Snow all gone. The

ground frozen and dry, which is hard ‘

on wheat and clover. Some are sell-
ing cattle. Several farms here have
been sold. It looks as though farm-
ers intend to raise sugar beets in-
stead of beans. The following prices'
were offered at Cass City this week:
Wheat, $2.14; oats, 51; rye, $1.25; po-
tatoes, 70; hens, 23 to '25; springers,
23 to 25; ducks, 23 to 25; geese, 20
to 22; turkeys, 22 to 25; butter, 35;
butterfat, 40; eggs, 30; sheep, 5 to 7;
lambs, 13 to 15%,‘hogs, 14% to 151/2;
beef steers, 5 to 10; beef cows, 5 to 6;
veal calves, 1 Oto 15.~——S. 8., Cass City,
Feb. 7.

Arenas (EMU—This week finds the
weather still mild, warm days, cool
nights and no snow. Farmers are
still-wondering how much longer it
is going to last. Hard weather on fall
grains, 'as the freezing and thawing is
heaving it badly now. Stock seems to
be doing well. Butterfat took a tum-
ble of nearly 25 cents a pound last
week, enough to frighten the Kaiser

' off his throne. Oats dropped to 48c,

beans to $7, barley off. Peas for seed
the only thing in grain to hold its own.
Poultry high, while the beef and pork
lines are quiet. At an auction here
last week a common sized brood sow'
brought $63, a- record. price for a
brooder. All classes of live stock
seem to bring good prices. The open
winter is holding the price of hay
down. The following prices were
quoted at Omer this Week: Wheat.
$2.10; oats, 48; hay, $15 to $18; beans,
$7; potatoes, 60; oniOns, $1; hens, 16;
ducks 18; geese, 18; turkeys, ’25; but-
ter, 40; butterfat, 48; eggs,, 45.—M.
B. R., Twin/mg, Feb. 1.

Bay (S.E.)——The weather has been
like spring for about three weeks, ev-
ery day bright and with frost at
night. Wheat has had a hard time
and is looking brown. It is nice f
other things and great for coal saving.
Prices of all farm produce seem to have
taken a tumble without any reason.
The supplies in farmers’ hands are
not increasing at this time, and is not

Tsufllcient to induce farmers to in-

crease production. The following pric-

es were quoted at Bay- Citythis Week:
'Whéat, $2.15; corn, $1.25; oats, 54;

rye, $1.30; barley, $1.757_cwt.; beans,
$6.50__tn\ $7; potatoes, $1.35; creamery
butter. 56; eggs. 52; hogs. 2.0 to 21;
veal calves, 20.—J. 0. A., Hunger, Feb-
ruary 4. ~ . ,

Hacksaw .(8.W.)'-e-The farmers ‘ are

:back on the ‘gravel:.ha1il,zrosd [frozen

and a goodstimefitoihaul. Some p0.
tatoes moving to Muskegon. Farmers
'hereihaye been taint: ~, advantage of

7 the good weather and five been plows

ing and getting, bumper'woo'd. Sheep:
and cattle in',,unusually good seen.

 
 

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corn, $1.40;'oats, 65; rye, $1.40; beans,
$6.50; potatoes, $1.25.——E. E. .P., Ra-
venna, Feb. 3.

Monroe (Eden—The weather has -
been mild so far this winter, 16 above
zero this morning, coldest in thre
weeks; No snow to protect wheat an
meadows, som‘e wheat looks brown or
top. We floated our roads just beforl
it froze up making a good track tn
drive on. The following prices were

offered at Monroe this week: Wheat, 1 4

$2.15; corn, $1.35 to $1.50; oats, 52;
rye, $1.25; hay, $23; cabbage, 2c 1b.;
hens, 15 to 22; springers, 27; butter,
35;"sheep, 8 to 9; lambs, $12.30 live;
hogs, live, 14 to 17; dressed, 20 to 22;
beef, 6 to 12; veal calves, 15 to 15%,
live; 20 to 21 dressed; apples, $1.75.—

E. H. M., Mpnroe, Feb. 6. .‘ "

Kent (N.E.)—Farmers not very
busy. Some ave potatoes they want
to sell but th%arket is bum. Grand
Rapids is prett well filled up, espeei
ially with seconds. The grocery stores
handle quite a lot of seconds and sell

_jthem for $1. That hurts the sale of

good potatoes more than you can im-
agine. Some local buyers have quit
buying potatoes on account of none to

be moved. A large per cent of those

in growers’ hands Will be trucked to
big cities giving growers middlemen's
profit, the railroad’s big rake-off and
relieving the grower of the humilia-
tion cf having his potatoes graded
and stolen by local dealers. Wheat is

suffering from the hard freezing. The '

following prices were paid. at Green-
ville this week: Wheat, $2.18; corn,
$1.40; oats, 65; rye, $1.30; potatoes,
$1.20 to $1.25; hens, 20; springers, 20;
butter, 45; eggs, 35; sheep, 10; lambs,
15;_ho_gs, live, 16; dressed, 21; beef
steers, 10; beef cows, 7; veal calves,
9 to 11.-——G. M. W.,‘.Greenvilw, Feb. 5.

Mecosta (Northfi—Not much doing
just now. Farmers are doing chores
and cutting wood and fishing. Weath-
er is quite cold, the ground is bare;
bad weather for fall grain. A few
farmers are selling potatoes; no mar-
ket for beans. A few of the boys have ”
returned from France. The following.
prices were offered here this Week:
Wheat, $2.06 to $2.08; corn, $1.30;
oats, 52; rye, $1.25; hay, $18 to $22;
potatoes, $1.25; butter, 30; butterfat,
7; eggs, 36.——-L. M., Hersey, Feb. 6.

Battle Creek (Ween—Farmers are
not doing much but chores. and taking '
care of the sick with the “flu." Weath--
er is fine. The following prices were
paid at Battle Creek thig’Week‘: Rye,
$1.30; wheat, $2.18; oats, 55; hay, $28;
potatoes, $1; hens, 22; springers, 25;
butter, 50; eggs, 50; hogs, $16.25; beef
steers, 8 ; beef cows, 6; veal calves,
14; apples, $3.—-0. E. 8., Battle Creek,
Feb. 7. - /.

Kalkaska (Ween—Weather fair but
a little cold. The farmers are hold-
ing potatoes fora higher._ price. ‘ The
farmers are Lb'uying grain. ‘f The fol.~

lowing prices .. paid On. Saturday at _ I. f

Kalkaskaz- 5R”. $1.35: ‘hiy; $33: 110—

tateee. 31.16 m: dawns. $1.50; can.» .-

ba'gg, .' 1b.; hens..>16,to-19;Uspringers,

         
     

   
 

   

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it $15.75“ to 17. 25, cull-s
, 1m 131513 Feeding lambs
... -' 111g rapidly at 514 to
5" 50', though the supply coming is
" y.‘ light, while as high as 516. 50
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yearlings from 513. 50 to 514. 50, while
good to. choice aged Wethers are quoted

;_ewes' from $10.50 to $11.50.

. , ‘Eas't Buflalo Prices
East-Bufld‘lo, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1919.—

 

 

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, or strength . _
mes sold today. at .

from $15 to $15. 56 with best heavy!

'at 511. 75 to 512. 40, and good to choice

-.ehoico to pr1me
your!ings,5- 515.50: to 515; fair to good
year-lingo, 514.50 to 515; medium to
good butcher steers, 514 to 515; fair

to medium butcher steers, 510 50 to -

511; good butcher heifers, 511 to

' 511. 50; fair to medium butcher heif-

ers, 510 to 510. 50; gppd to choice fat

cows, 510 to 510. 50; medium to good

fat cows, 58. 50. to 59; fair to good

medium tat c0ws, 57.50 to $8; cutters '
and common butcher cows, 56. 75 to

57.25; cannors, 55. 75 to 56; good to

"choice fat bulls, 510. 50 to 511; med-

ium to good fat bulls, 59. 50 to 510;
good wt. sausage bulls, 58. 50 to 59;
Light and thin bulls, 57 to 57. 50;
good to best stock and feeding steers,
510. 50 to 511; medium grade of stock
and feeding steers,\§8 to 5 .;50 good
to choice fresh cows and springers,
590 to 5120; medium to good fresh
cows and springers, 575 to 590.

U S. WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW

OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

' . Prices to Jobbers and Shipments

‘ ‘ for the U. S. for the Period

' February 4 to 10
Inclusive

 

Winter prices and movement reach-
ed their height about the middle of
January. For the past four weeks

orado No. 1 sacked whites declined
50 further, closing at 51.15 to $1.20
f.o.b. Greeley, and ranged 51.75 to
51.90 per cwt. for cariots in south cen-
tral conSuming markets. Prices to
growers for wagon sales, trackside, in-
cluding bulk and sacked, ranged "from
900 to 51.25 in the west and north.
California fancy sacked white stock
declined 150, closing at $1. 75 to $1. 90.

carlot movement has steadily decreakNew York bulk stock declined about

ed and prices hays tended downward.
Volume this week was 5, 826 cars com-
pared with 6,774 last week and 5,013
a year ago. -The decrease this week
was chiefly in potatoes, oranges and
onions, and to some extent, also in-
cluded apples, old cabbage, dry beans,
grapefruit and spinach. Movement of
, new cabbage, celery, lettuce and other
= new southern truck crops is steadily
increasing. Price trends were like
‘ those of the week before, but were
7 somewhat more steady with tendency
‘ to recover for potatoes and Cabbage.
Onions, grapefruit, oranges, celery
1' and lettuce ranged fairly steady. Dry
beans were still the weakest and ap—
1 pics the strongest feature 0f the mar-

. ket.

' Apple Advance Continues

New York Baldwins,
.oold storages,'gained 75c to 51, reach-
ing 58 to 58.50 per bbl. f.o.b. ship-

ping points and 58 to 59 in consuming
. markets. Pennsylvania, .West Virgin-
. 1a and Virginia Yorke 131-254;, from
1 cold storages, averaged 50c higher.
ranging 58 to 59 in leading northeast-
ern cities. Virginia and West Virgin-
ia Ben Davis, A236 from cold storage
made similar gains, ranging 56. 25 to
5'7. 50 per bbl. Northwestern extra
fancy boxed Winesaps held »--about
. , steady in shipping Sections at '53 to
' .' 53.15 f.o.b., but sfrengthened 25 cents

' toe range of 53.50 to 54 in consuming ,

markets. Apple stocks in storage
from 534 storages reporting both of
-. the two last seasons were 2,226,324

barrels and 5,191,876 boxes, or com-
, Mned stocks stated as barrels, 3,.956-
., 949 on February 1,1918, compared

with stock February 1, this year, of
1623 357 barrels and 4,,064 569 boxes,
or combined stocks stated as barrels
2.978180. Barreled stock at present
.is coming chiefly from New, York
.,state which to January 1, had shin-
ped over five times as many apples as
to January 1 of the year before.
state shipped 16 936 cars to January
1, compared with 3,343 cars to Janu—
Qty 1 of last year.
January 1 to February 1 were 2,614
ears. Army purchases of northWestern
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‘to 58.50 per cwt.,

This.

Shipments sin ce'

fibruary. o'Ver seas consumption, 25

 

So to a closing range of 51. 67 to 51. 72,
but held fairly steady in consuming
markets at $1. 90 to $2.15. Maine
Green- Mountains fell 300, closing at
51.58 sacked f.o.b. and lost about 20c
in consuming markets, closing at
52.10 to $2.15. Shipments again de-
clined with 1,971 cars compared with
2,550 last week and 2,364 for the cor-
responding week last year.

OniOns Nearly Steady

Price ranges held about as last quot-
ed, butrgeneral tone appeared slightly
weaker. Western New York shipping
points quoted 51.90 to 52.10 f.0.b for
best sacked yellow and red stock and
leading consuming markets still rang-
ed mostly 52 to 52. 25. California Aus-
tralian browns followed a wide range
of 51. 50 to 52 f.0b. and ranged 53 to

’ 54 for sales to retailers in south cen-

tral markets. Shipments decreased
to 258 cars compared with 310 last
week and 239 for the corresponding
week a year ago.

Beans Decline Further

Michigan pea beans declined 50c\in
producing sections, ruling $6 per cwt.
bulk, handpicked basis. New York
bulk white stock handpicked basis,
held nominally at 56 and northwest-
ern white stock also ruled 56 to grow-

' ers. Southern California small whites

sacked, ranged steady at 57.50 to 58
to ‘growers’ warehouses. Colorado
pintos ranged weaker at 54.75 to .55
in bulk, recleaned basis. Sacked re-
cleaned pintos ranged $8 to $8. 50 in
the smaller south central markets.
Eastern white stock declined 51 in
consuming ‘markets, closing at 57.50
recleaned, sacked.
California small whites held steady
at 59.25 to 59.50 in Boston. Shipments
again decreased, with 95 cars compar-
ed with 139 last week.

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Better Roads!

Good roads mean goodJnarkets to the farmer.
They mean inoreased trade between the farm
and the city home.
to the farmer; they mean farm to
for eggs, poultry, pork products, vegetables
and all farm produce.

The war is over. The millions of dollars that we have
been spending on engines of destruction can now be ex-
pended on civic improvements, and if there is any one
thing above all others the war has taught us is the need
of, it is good roads.

Now is the time! 'Thousands of returning soldiers
and thousand of ex-munition workers are now available
to furnish the necessary labor.

Back to the Better Roads Movement!

You know what it means to you.
power to make good roads appropriations in your locality.
See that this body acts!

The day of the heavy motor truck is at hand.
omicai use spells good roads.
perity for the farmer, lower cost of living for the city dweller.
The laborer is employed;
comes in direct contact with his market; the consumer deals
direct with the producer of his food.

If interested in this idea, write us for our Road Construc-
tion and Maintenance Booklet No. 704. It's free.
you a lot of valuable information on this timely subject.

E. l. DU PONT DENEMOURS & CO.

Wilmington,
Plants, Warehouses. and Sales Offices in all principal business centers

———-‘-The Principal Du Pont Products Ar

5 Explosives;
Plastics;
Stains, Fillers; Lacquers and Enamels;

For full information address; Advertising DivisiOn

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del.

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Bred to lay and pay their way. Eggs
and Baby Chicks.

Catalogue Free.

BUFF OBPINGTON FARMS
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with salt the year ar0und keeps
flock healthy and free from stomach worms
and ticks. A 55. 00 box make: 560. 00 worth of
medicated nit—saves U311 big money—A
$2. 00 size box of “Tlx- N MIX” by parcel
post will medicate a barrel of salt.

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For Sale. Write for samples
and price.

WM. DAVID, -- Redford, Mich.

     
    
    
  
 
  
 
  
   
  
 
   
  
 
  
  
    
 
   

 

 

 

 
 
   
  
 

 
  
  
 
 
 
  

 

It pays to buy ’I‘.1 xTonM} with salt the year
’ around keeps flock healthy and
free from stomach worms and

ticks.

. ,gngu oi inc-hated saltwsaves you--
’ . big moneys—A 5:1 .00 size bonds".

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I'medilcate 56 barrel oi: salt.

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, Right now—when milk prices are break-
ing allrecords-is the time to make new
. 1 high reeOrde.in milk production. It is cur-
i f' m how efiectively this can he accom-
'» " . ' by raising the health standard of
" your dairy cows.

most prevalent cow ailments—~Abor» "

_ petite. Seoul‘s, eta—arise from an impaired
condition of the genital and digestive or-
gans. Row-Kare has remarkable medicinal
properties that act directly on these organs,
producing regular, healthy action.

Feed dealers and druggists sell Kain-Karo,
in 600. and $1.20 packages. »

“ms HOME cow DOCTOR"

[lain Association to. ,
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Paint Without Oil
Remarkable Discbgr; that Cuts Down

the Cost of , Paint Seventy-
Five Per Cent

-Jwa.

‘ A Free Trial Package is Mailed to Every-
one Who Writes

A. L. Rice, a prominent manufacturer
of Adams, N. Y., has discovered a. pro-
cess of making a new kind of paint with—
out the use of oil. He calls it Powdr—
paint. It comes in the form of a dry
pewder and all that is required is cold
water to make a paint weather proof, fire
proof, sanitary and durable for outside or
inside painting. It is the cement princi-
ple applied to paint. It adheres to any
surface, wood, stone or brick, spreads and
looks like oil paint and costs about one~
fourth as much. ‘

Write to Mr. A. L. Rice, Manufacturer.
No. 13 North Street, Adams, N. Y., and he
will send you a free trial package, also
color card and full information showing
you how you can save a good many dol-
lars. Write today. - .

CHILDS’ hiistaken its
GIANT p see every-
where asthe
KOCHIA 8 ran test
floral favorite. 1:. rivals
the best Ferns or Palms
in decorative effects and
is equally valuable for
garden or pots. a pyra-
mid of dense feathery
green foliage all sum-
mer; in fall, a dork clar-
et. red till Christmas.
Easiest; of all plants to
grow anywhere. . .
“(H T0 COOK
V i 26 ETA “LES,
. .. a. booklet giving 1666 re-
ceipts for cooking. can-
nin and preserving vegetables of all kinds. 109. .
F0 20 etc. we will iuuiisiunple packet. lxochia
Cook Book. New Matchless Lettuce. Two
Pound Tomato. and Chinese Wooil'lower.

QATALOG free. All flower and vegetable seeds.
bn be, lants and berries. e w the finest
Dahlias. Cannes. Irises eoniee. aren-
be.Vines. Ferns, Roses. éweet Peas, Asters,
Beets. Beans. Cabbage. Onions. Tomatoes.

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ONE YEAR .
Tomi,

, ' ” ‘5 , , , . 2
8 Light running, eas c caning.

_ close skimming, dura Ie.. ‘

new BUTTERFLY @

Separate a are guaranteed a m in. - .

, ainet cfecte In material an workman<
:fiip. Made also in four larger sizes all sold on
-3 TRIAL

and on a plan whereby they earn their i
own cost and more by what they save. Poe ‘
brings Free Catalog Folder. Buy from the
manufacturer an o ey. [9)
llhuglwover 0-2260MauhallILChlcalo

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, close the ‘doors.

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Petoskoy Golden Russetts or Russett
Rural. Freest from disease of any
variety grown. State inspected, hill
selected for. eight years. 1918 seed
plot yielded 340 bushels per acre, with
individual hills yielding as high as
573 bushels per acre, digging and
weighing witnessed by C. W. Wing,
Alba high school superintendent.
Price $6 per 150 Pound Back
All business done through Alba Mar-
keting Association.
TWIN BOY FARM,

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i y‘ for bread or. new at. wholesale”
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or

like [to
which saves both time andglabor. We,
haVe pens on both,..~sidee o‘ffithe alloy
to , save climbing over the jam to
We run a 'rope,~_from
the alley thru a. pullyuin the .ceiling
over theidoor and fasten to theetop of
the sliding door, and ‘by’having a hook

 

 

made of wire fastened, on the rope
between the pulley and post, you can
hook this in a staple in the post to

raise the door. For a hinged door
fasten the rope two inches from the
bottom of the door out have the pul-
ley farther out, as in diagram. I
find both of these very useful—R. A.
W., Lccota, Mich.

Practical Water System for Barn

water works which I have installed
in my barn for cows and horses. This
is an inexpensive system, as it only
requires a little one-inch pipe and
small cement tanks. ’Nearly all farms
have supply tanks to connect to.

 
   
     

.2 , '; . , . are: $4....maaex’?
° - device Which ire-use in: hurjrhoghonse

Here’s a drawing of a system of.

edge..‘ai.tfie'v‘o. 1:
.cved byheatij‘ _

en ,the‘aflder x'whan it is easi y taken

off. " Holes‘ii

or a suitablobit. After they have been.
drilled, the ,rough edges inside may

:be smoOthe‘diiiith a ' round. file or; a

small nail insertiod thru from the in-
side and securedrin the chuck of the
drill, and the handle turned.

If a. wood masher 'is not ‘on hand,
one may be easily/madefrom a piece
of green mind, as shownvin figure two.
Dale R; Van Horn, Nebraska.

Cultivator Attachment ,

I notice you are starting a depart-
ment of hints and, labor-saving de-
vices. I will try to give an idea Which
I found to save much time andeasier
on the man, and that‘is a little attach-
ment that I placed on our two-horse
cultivator. , '

 

Ali-"those who have had experience i

in cultivating corn when it is but a
few inches high will know. the trouble

they have in keeping the corn from

being. c0vered in spite of the guards.
There are always pieces of sod, clods

'of dirt, stones, etc., that will get be-

tween the inside shovel and the guard
which will crowd over on the corn and
coverit up. You will now have to
stop, climb off your seat and get un-
der the cultivator and~etraighten the
corn plant up. If one hasito do this
many times in aday, it will soon
count up. '
What I did was to take the guards
off and punch a hole near the top and
at the back end of the guard and fas-

low

., , , nv‘the'fiides are made-1m H
a Smallhand" dr-ill'and sharpened nail?-

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Cow’LiFnN‘G

‘ COVER To
V p oer
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Before I installed this system it took
at least one hour daily to water my
stock. It requires a little time to
train the stock to drink and handle
the covers when first, installed. Hook
the covers up as showu- in the cut,
then in a few days let the lids down
one inch and repeat this, as the stock
learns to handle them in a couple of
weeks you can let the covers down.
The beauty of this is that the stock
can drink when they want to, and the
water is much warmer they will drink
twice as much as when turned out in
the cold—C. H., Mason county.

DISH COMPLETE

A number of cheap and quickly
made watering dishes for the poultry
yard may be made as shown in the
sketches.
.four or five inches deep, smaller at
the bottom than at the top, and lined
with‘an inch of concrete. After the
concrete has set for an hour or so,
water is poured in, to prevent its dry-
ing out 'too quickly, and it is then
ready for use. A number of these can
be made in a short time, and they will
last along time. Should they become
filled with litter they can easily be
cleaned. These are especially.good
for ducks and geese—:Dale R. Van
Horn, Lincoln, Nebraska.

 

Cheap Water Dishes for Chickens

A hole is dug with a spade.

tened wire hooks in the hole and
tied a heavy cord to these ahd brought
them up over the top of the projec-
tion that holds the seat.
work stiff a large nut, washer may be
put on to make it heavier. Now, when
a clod or something gets caught, I
simply give the cord a jerk and the
guard is lifted so that it cannot be
pulled over a. hill of earns—T. J. 12.,
Montrose. Mich.

Here is a brief sketch of my device.

 
 

    
 
 
 
  
     
       
     
      
 
  
   

 
 
  
  
  
    
 
    
     
     
     
   
    
   

     

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not‘fneeded, and other places they am;—
In this case I hang the cord' over‘tlie,
spreading lever, which‘ holds" the} ‘
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KEROSENE as pANTrln-nnnzn menu)
1) Why can’t I use kerosene in my,
radiator in place of water, in winter? 1‘.
I heated some on the stove, until it ,
was pretty hot, and» found that a light-'
ed match and to beheld closer than
one foot from it before it caught fire.
(2) Will a teaspoonful of salt put in

. 3ach cylinder remove the carbon?W.
. H. v

 

 

(1) You can use kerosene for this
purpose and it is used to some extent,
but you will have to take what fire
risk there it. We do not believe this
to be great, if there is no leak any-
where and if the kerosene is n6t .11~
Kerosene be?
comes much hotter than water, under
the same conditions. There are safer
oils than kerosene,- especially the
grades that are used for cooling elec-
tric transformers. (2) _ Perhaps so,
but we do not see why it"should. We
have not tried it and Should, prefer
that “the other fellow” should try it
first on his engine, as'salt is of a
scratchy and corrosive nature and
might remain in the oil‘ and do‘som‘e
damage. Why don’t you use no of

-the liquid carbon removers of estab-

lished reputation? They cost very
little, do not injure the engine and
have been used with good success in
very many instances. ’

Silo at Corner of Bath

For those who prefer two small
silos to one larger one, or who in-
tend to use more silage some years
than others, the following plan may
be of interest: Two silos are here
placed at the corner of the barn at
the angle shown. If of concrete, 9.
wall between them to the top makes
- the chute tight. Walls of either,
' concrete or other material is also
' run up between the silos and the
' barn, completing the chute enclos-
ures. If desirable, a door may be
made in the wall between the silos.
———Dale R. Van Horn, Nebraska.

 
  
  

       

  


  
  

  
 
  
  

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(Bricks hatch

 

ts.

led by? hens "they re-

  

?timeior, got three days. Chick's
snapped minim boxes are kept warm
,.,-,\sy'2thag'héat1.or their bodies so long as

‘ treading temperatures, but-this natural

“We": . ”wheat is not sumcientw en t ey 8.1;

the . "siren mere liberty. .
the"; . g, 'Buyers of chicks should have 'a

brooder such as is required for the
number of chicks bought ready, warm-
_ rive. " ,
, :pf {vs-.11, for any reason, the brooder is
j‘not ready, take the chicks from the
‘ shipping box in a "warm room; feed,
. and returnto the box; repeat at inter-
‘ Vale of three hours until the broader
‘ is ready. - , '
. “For the first few days give close at-
tention to regulating the brooder for
the comfort of the chicks. This is the
most troublesome state in the opera.
tion‘of a brooder, and the, most 'crit-
ical period in the life of the chick.
Delay in delivery of a br'oodersome-
times puts a novice in a quandary as
.to what to do with chicks. A brooder
for temporary use may be made as fol.-
Vlows: ‘
Take a box, without cover, about 18
to 24 inches square and 10 inches high.-
In one side next the bottom, cut an

 

his opening 3 inches high by 3 ins. long
mt, for the chicks to pass through. ' Pro-
fi" 3 te‘ct- this Opening with a strip of cloth,
his “ tacked at the upper edge, having per-
.ny— _ p 'pen‘dicular slits from the lewer edge

Jl‘ to Within half an inch of'the top to
50* give the chicks passage. ‘ - ‘
der This box, covered on top with 'a
191' “ piece of old blanket or quilt, may be
the —: used without heat when the outside
“’0' ' temperature is 70 degrees F. or over.
5°» For lowertemperature a jug or bottle
W? of hot‘ water should be placed in the
19" box, and refilled as often as necessary
it to keep the‘ chicks comfortable. .

3' Young chicks should not be fed for
:1“ from 24 to 36 .hours after hatching,
of and'will not suffer if given no feed
ab- until the third day. The yolk of the

egg, which-is absorbed by the chick,
ary furnishes“ all‘the nourishment required
.nd " during this time. It is this provision
in of nature for'the first sustenance of
' the chick that makes it possible to

ship newly hatched chicks consider-

able distances.
all . At the start it is advisable‘ to feed
in- five times‘ a day, dividing the day into
3'; ~ 'equal periods and alternating a mash
”a or soft feed, such as johnnytrake, with '
at a hard grain or scratch feed.
,a. Scratch mixture: Cracked corn, 5
[es pounds, cracked‘wheat, 3 pounds, pin- .
ler _ headoatmeal, hulled or rolled oats, 2
[:2 ' pounds. "
os- ‘ _The above mixture when available
he " . ,makes—au ideal ration. In the ab-
os. » sence'of corn, crackedikéflir corn, roll-

ed. or hulled barley may be substitut-
ed. Feed morning, noon and night,
scattered in chaff litter.
‘ Johnnyoake: Corn meal 5 lbs,
, eggs "(infertile)," 6, baking sada, ~1 ta- _
‘. 'q _ blespoonful. Mix with. milk toimakea
,Jstiif batter. 'Bake well; or amixture
cf dried bread crumbs with hard boil-
".41.? ed infertile eggs making about one--
’ 1 Quarter cf the mixture of eggs. Roll-

bread crumbs.

days or 2 Weeks.~
Wet-eWhen iniertil

    

   

  
   
  
    

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-~ an t» new 105 dew"

6r the-hi9thers nearly all the ‘

:fgths. boxes are .in-otfexposed to near»

-..ed, and regulated when the chicks ar-.

ed" oats may be. useu in place of. the 7 ‘
.Feed in middle 'ogf'r‘
broaden and afternoon ror‘the first

5 sshe'iinteifisr nemesis

a 'd"~2bids tau torrmake' agili- mam rec-1:

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a regularsupfly in quantity is

   

sprouted“ oats.

‘.- WATEBr-‘Little chicks should be»

supplied constantly . with ’ fresh water,
ineither. shallow bays or small drink-
ing fountains: - ' , -

fi'Prv-evisio'nfi-forlieeping young chicks I

twarm is always required. It may not

be needed on the hottest days ordur—
ing' the heat of any bright day, but
the chicks should always have heat
available if they want it.

In extremely'hot weather special
.care is’ necessary to prevent chicks
from being overheated by exposure to
the sun. confinement where ventila-
tion is bad, or overcrowding. The
broader should be under. shelter, with
good circulation of air around it, and
the number of chicks should not be
greater than it will acc0mmodate com-
fortably under hot weather conditions.

-Skim-milk, either sweet or sour,
and buttermilk are especially valua-
ble feeds in hot weather, making. the
diet lighter without reducing its nutri—
tive value. The milk should be given
as a drink in vessels,‘ from which the
[chicks can take it without soiling one
anotherwith it. The use of milk does

» not do away with the use of water,

which should be given as usual.
Unless the premises where chicks
are kept and all appliances used are
knewn to be absolutely free from lice
an-d‘mites, and it is certain that chicks
have never been exposed to them, it
is a wise precaution to paint or spray

' the bro'dder with a mixture of 4 parts

crude petroleum and 1 part kerosene,
allowing it to. dry thoroughly before
using. Puffs of insect powder on the
chicks when .in the brooder, about once
a week, will destroy any lice that may
be on them.

Another Persistent Jersey Comes
to‘Light

Successful Queen has just complet-
ed her fourth ofiicial year's record at
'her Ayredale Farm home in Bangor,
Maine. . There is a striking “paring
off"_re_vealedin the four records, two
of which are around 680 .pounds of
fat and two that are around 850 lbs.
of fat. Another feature of her work
that'stamps her as a great animal is
in the production of calves. In her

first three lactations she‘carried a
calf over the 155-day period required

 

‘for classification in Class AA, Regis-

ter of /Merit. If her next calf, due
soon, is dropped alive, it will make
her a four-time Class AA cow.

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16,389.3__ __852.72__ "4 - 5
12,848.4__ "689.100,“, __5 - 8
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good for horses as well as for dairy:

cattle, is often challenged by many
While it is’ a well-known fact
that ensilage in excess, produces a. pa
culia-r flabby fat, and is therefore un-
desirable fur 1eod for work horses,
still if used in moderation and with
roughage, the results are entirely sat-
isfactory. .

For the past five, years we have fed
ensilage, not only to "our work horses,
but to practically all of the stock on
the place The horses coming in from
the field will oftentimes prefer a bit
of ensilage before their grain, as it
seems to have a cooling effect, and
is satisfying“ Fed with any hay ex-
cept the brightest alfalfa, they will
eat all of the ensilage before touch-
ing the hay.

Results from feeding experiments
have shown that when ensilage is
fed with wild hay, the ration is well
balanced and all. through the heavy
season in this instance the horses kept
in good flesh.

This is a cheaper feed than all hay
and the horses seemed to do better
on this mixed ration than they did on
hay alone. Also less grain was fed.

.We usually feed ensilage to all of
the young stock,~—the young calves,
and colts and cows coming fresh, and
have never had a. loss that we could
in any way trace to the use of epsil-
age.——Dale R. Van Ham, Nebraska.

 

700-Lb. Jerseys are Quite Common

Making records of 700 pounds of »

fat or more seems to have become
quite a custom among the Jerseys.
Within the past few days seven Jer-
seys completed their yearly tests with
records ranging from 737 to 762 lbs.
of butterfat as follows:

Ruthella's Ethel, 11,570 lbs. milk,
762 lbs. fat. E and R. E. Cope, Salem,
Ohio, owners.

Rochette’s Golden Princess, 15.286
lbs. milk, 752 lbs. .fat. M. Gray, Ros-
well, New Mexico, owner.

Fountain Sayda’s Queen, 15,199 lbs.
milk, 750 lbs. fat. Meridale Farm,
Meredith, N. Y., owner

Ada P of F., 14.668 lbs. milk, 748
lbs. fat. AyredaYe Farm, Bangor Me.,
owner.

‘Meridale Oxford Lrily,
milk, 745 lbs. fat.
ville, Pa., owner.

12,633 lbs.

Boisg._Queen, 12,118 lbs. milk, 745
lbs. fat. Ed. Cary, Carlton, Oregon,
owner.

Jap Sayda Rose, 14,391 lbs. milk,
737 lbs. fat. Meridale Farm, Mere-
dith, N. Y., owner.-

The frequency of 700-pound fat rec-
ords threatens to cause a change in
the A. J. C. C. gold medal rules, to
make the 80'0-1b. mark the special aim
of the breeders and dairymen who are
working with Jerseys.

Result of Holstein Sale at M. A. C.

Winnifred Mutual Friend—Frank H.
Alfred, Detroit. Mich. S300

Eleer Lawn Canary De Kol 328459——

$.B 5545 Armstrong, Pierrepont Manor, N.

Canar5 Butter Boy 410689—41. I. Burg-
bacher. gan Ohio, 2.65

Bessie etertje Canary De Kol 244848
—John Bazley, IYpsilanti, Mich. $3 25.

Calf—Chas. Brannon, Williamston,
Mich., $150.

Agatha. Pauline De Kol 161714—John
Bazley, Ypsilanti. Mich 3400.

BI‘Dorag: DeD Kol Oosterbaan 113613—Buth

E. Waters, Grand Rapids,

Mich, $1,000.

Snowdrop Korndyke Butter Boy 321,-
ggiB—H. I. Burgbacher. Charlotte. Mich.,

Winnifred Mutual Friend 121995—John
Bazley, Ypsilanti, Mich. . 00.

Calf—E. C. Box, Lansing, Mich., $175.

Rose Fern Kornd ke 410684 ———H I.
Burgbacher. Chariot e, Mich., $230.

Silver Creek Pride De Kol 253573——
F L. Corbin, Pottervilleo, Mich., $230.

Natsen Pletertje 331808—17. L. Corbin,

Pottervllle, Mich.,
Nellie De Kol Monk 411099—13 R.

 

Clamim Charlotte. Mich., 185.

Pearl Johanna Hongerved 24355%—F.
F. Consaul, Mt. Pleasant Mich., $
"Egon—.1; D. Dusemheller, Bath, Mich.

Queen utual canary amass—Hunter
.Bros” Northi‘ield. 40. .

K0 rndyke

Hoover, Howell.- Mich

   

out aninch or more.

L. B. Carter, Tltus- ‘

' the milk should not be used. This cow
the symptoms to which you refer. Up-

» more apt .to 09cm when she has plant
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Bessie ’ ‘ ' mail ‘2-
dore Jordan, Woodland, m"Conch $470.
. -—Geo. Luis Cerosoo, 111011350.“
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Bull Run ora Yeoman—John B. Mar- ' ‘-
tl% Grand Ra ids, Mich., $62 ,i'
alf -~ Merr man Bros. ., oDeckervllle.

 

Mich., $225. . .
Calf—Murrett Ridenour, St. ‘ Johna- .‘s

Mich., 314
Madam Yeoman Do K01 118047—W. S.

Almont, Mich., $310.
X0? 2116* Butter Maid Wayne De
4423140 61—August Rohdl, Midland,
Mich
Winnlfred Mutual Friend 151823—RA.
Reed, Howell, -Mich., $4 05.
Lady Ophelia Comelian 216856—Frank
Stone, Charlotte, Mich 5.
Lak keside ‘Korndyke Alcartra—John G. \
Stortz, Lansing, Mich., $440. -
Prince cons Notherland Jane 281838—Wm.
Sohnabin o, Lansing, Mich. 90.
bLakesi 6 Princess 371910——
Lansing, Mich.
bLol'le Sarcastic Duchess 170409—0. 3.
Welsh, Mason, Mich, $2 5.
Flint Maplecrest Korndyke 246568-—
33%??0 Waters. Grand Rapids, Mich.,

       
 
     
  

 
 

   
   
  

  
   
  

  

 
    
   
   

   

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Will you please tell me what to do
for a Holstein cow that has a form of

   

   

growth in her eye that looks like a

strawberry. It grew from inside her
eye. I was thinking of catching it
with nippers and cutting it off. Please
advise me.-——A Reader, Newport, Mich.

Cancer of the eye is the only dis-
ease of this nature commonly affecting
cattle; however, this does not corres-
pond to the symptoms to which you
refer. Most of these cases begin as
a small, flat mass of granular tissue
near the margin of the eye. The mass
stands off from the globe quite prom-
inently and has the appearance of
what is commonly termed “proud
flesh.” This slowly spreads over the
surface of the eye-ball; in most cases
at first a thin, flat layer. Later there
is a purulent flow of mucus from the
affected eye, and the growth begins
to assume the form of a bunch. This
continues until the growth projects
The tissue is
very vascular; slight handling or
touching in any manner induces bleed-
ing. If the disease is not checked
the growth continues to increase in
size, crowding the eye—ball deep into
the orbit. Treatment of cancer of the
eye in cattle is not very- satisfactory,

 

 

. surgical treatment only is recommend—

ed and should not be attempted only '
by a. veterinarian. This disease is

very painful to cattle and affected an-

imals usually become very poor in a

short time.

I would like your opinion about a
young cow. We have had our veter-
inary to see her. He has treated her
but does not seem to help. He ap-
plied the tuberculin test, satisfied him-
self there was no tuberculosis. When
she cats or drinks she wheezes like
asthma and heaves. She is in very
good health gives her usual quantity
of milk. She has bad this for two
winters; does not bother her so much
in summer. She does not cough more
than the others. never did. She is
not fat, but neverwas: is about six
years old. Do you think it will ever
kill her? Is her milk fit for use. I
would like to hear from you‘thru M.
B. _F.——Mrs. P. D., Deckemille, Mich.

If y0ur cow was properly tested and
did not react to the tuberculin test,
is in perfect health other than stated .
in your letter, there is no reason why

 

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. silos-3. 110151151155 ,
‘ - es re now’ booking .orders . 01'
0' ng‘, bulls (from Kim Pieter Sect!
f. .hs 17,0606. 2 ll fromA.,,R. O. dams
. _. th cr'edibievre rds. We test annu-
‘é. ally, {for tuberculosis. Write for pric- .
’ 98.'Pand:‘ffiflh°’ ‘Intomution EG. HOLSTEIN BULL CALF' from
in” Mum!“ ”PEI-1303‘" 717039: M'”'"‘“‘- . good producing Cow and sired by a .
. ' s ; ‘ ~ > ' - , ' No. 1 bull. Price $50.00 for Quick sale.
3.: . , “4 ' . F. W. Alexander, Vassar. ‘Michigan.
)0 1 ”-- M .3. Ethan sold my calVee. I now‘ . t
d" offer a? liih't colored 6 yr. cow that . SUNNY PLAINS HomTEle
., ‘- milks up to 60 lbs; 3. day._$250. The Type, Quality. A few bull calves from
L - host‘of'geil gradibulchalve‘si bred to; p. R. o. dams for sale. -
” , show an pro uct on. rom ams w1 ARWIN KILLINGER
11‘ . .1 A. R. o. re'cords‘of 25 lbs. butter, 546 . , ~ . . .
1 ; f. ; to 5,” lbs. milk .7 days, $1.25. Jowlervule, Michigan.
d" ' ‘ y , ROBIN CARR ’ JERSEY
' .. w FOWLEnerLE, MICHIGAN
i- .- . . , The Wildwood Jersey Farm
3. ‘ ‘ 1 . CLOVER DAIRY FARM .‘ _
, Offers a beautiful Holstein bull calf born tlegrfigfgs fifiiigajefigeigfln 83:53, (frag);
- -'October 10, 1918, Sire Flint Hengerveld 134214. Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934
L" Lad whose dam and sire’s dam average Herd tuberculinLtested Bull Calves for
_32.651§utter (£13 7 dhaiyfi. PEI-1m 19 131611.132 sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams
yr. 0 gran ,aug er 0 enger e e . . -
Kiln. a'I;'!r(f1ice,d$1100 f.o.b. Flint. Write for AM“ Baldeni Capacv Mmhlgan-
.1) etc _, pe gree. '
i ‘ » ' L. c. KETZLEB,'Flint, Michigan Gunnnsnx
- -' GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A FEW
_ Heifers and cows for
2 ’ . all? Meg": fnungberdiilf welflubred Fyoung
I s~—-w or ree ng. i age arms,
a ’ PREPARE ‘ Grass Lake, Michigan. .
r For the greatest demand. future
t prices that has ever known. Start ABERDEEN-ANGUS
‘ inow with the Holstein andnconvince
6 . yourself. Good stock always for ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE
L sale. Howbert Stock Farm, Eau We are offering at attractive prices. a_
Claire. Michigan. number of high—class young bulls, well
5- - able to head the best herds in the land.
_ Best in blood lineage on either side of the
g ocean. Write for price list, or call and
i- . ‘ sired by a son of 580 118-
tock Farm. Ionia. Michi a .
. iBullilalesweresi ,
s Boyan yaaono ng egs e o
e ’ Korndyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec- SHORTI-IQBN
0rd; (lllf 18.25 3i: iIr. two yearboldbto 2d8i.25
s- at 11 age. rces reasona 9 rec n8 F r S 1e at reasonable
1‘ confildered. SHORTHORN paces‘a’ The prize_win-
WADNUT GROVE STOCK FARM .ning Scotch Bull, Master Model 576147, in
I W. W. Wyckoif, NapoleonL/Mich. many states at head of herd of 50 good
i . gpeMéhgefglghggst, Reed City, Michigan
9 LANGHURST STOCK FARM . -
Otters young Holstein~Friesian Bulls MILKING.SH0RTHORNS
s from dams with records up to 24 lbs. and Maplelane Laddle No. 504725. a. Grand—
9 ‘ sires' dams up to 46 lbs. Write for ped- son of General Clay 256920, at head of
3 ~ ' igrees and prices. Fred J. Lange, Sebe- garg-Sggrini Sgg‘é‘ ggvggth sexes for sale.
5 ‘ wamg' Michigan ‘ A. w. Thorne, Fife‘Lake, Michigan
5 ' . . ,
. , snonTHonNs. Three
3 , BULL CAL]? OAKWOOD $1118 from Bates cows,
Born Au us 15, 1918.“ Si . 10 to 13 mos. o - _ _
5 average 37g.76‘Lbutter 7 da rs? S1322? Collar Bros, R. No. 2, Conklln,, Michigan.
l' lbs. butter 30 days, testing .62% fat.

Calf's dam a 21‘1b. daughter of a cow
with 4 A.R. daughters. Nice straight
calf, well marked: Write for price
and detailed description. Herd tuber-
culin tested annually.
BOABDMAN FARMS
' Jackson Mich.

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WOLVEBINE STOCK FARM

I want to tell you about our Junior

Herd Sire, "King Pontiac Lunde Kern-

dyke Segis," a son of King of the Ponti-

' . acs. his dam is Queen Segis of Brookside

i a daughter of Pontiac Clothilde De Koi

2nd and Prince Segis Korndyke, a great

combination of breeding.

We are breeding this young sire to

the daughters of Judge Walker Pietertje,

I. our Senior Herd sire whose first five

_ dams each have records above 80 lbs, he

also has two 30 lb. sisters. How can

you go wrong by buying a bull calf of
this popular ine of breeding?

. . W. Sprague, Battle Creek. Mich.

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HOLSTEINS OF QUALITY. Two near-
est dams of herd sire are both above 38
. lbs. butter‘» in 7 days, average 700 lbs.
. . milk. , E. A. Hardy, Rochester, Mich.

e . T We Sell at Breeders’ Sale

, at College Feb. 6th, coed Foundation
-, cow, ARC. record as 3-year-old, 40
~ ‘ lbs; of Inilk 18.77
, . sister. bred to 30 lb.
0. L. Hulett a Son. Okemos, Mich.

FOR SALE
*' cows. just bred to a 31.61 lb. bul _
. . _‘Paul Steinacker, Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

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bull.

 

 

 

 

Five or . six good
lasso Reg. lHolstein

 

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. Association.

HEREFORDSHerd headed by Bob Fair-
‘ fax 494027. Can furnish
you with males or females, Polied or
horned. Write for prices. Earl C. Mc-
Carty, Bad Axe, Mich., Sec. Mich. H. B.

 

REGISTERED AYEBSHIBES’
_ FOR SALE
We have a number of fine heifers
and bull calves to offer at bargain
prices. Write for description.

Michigan School for the Deaf,
W. L. Hoffman, Steward

 

 

 

 

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SHETLAND PONIES

SHETLAND PONlES For Sale. Write

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. rm Poland: Chm a
All Sold/cut new, none to .oifer at,
out, 88 head sold Nov. 39. at auctofi
for ,$4,440.50. .Thanks for your pate
mouse and you’ll always be Welcome?

Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7‘, Mason, Mich.

 

 

' i a '. BOARS Ram cu
BIG TYP ‘ Etude Hampshire raise"
ewes for sale. -
A. A. Wood & Son. Saline, Michigan.

' l’OLkND CIIINAS. 1' "
BIG TYPE boars all sold.

ready for shipment. Inspection“ inv
L. L. Chamberlain, Marcellus, Michiv‘

 

 
 
  
   
      

  

 

  

  

ALLNU'I.‘ ALLEY BIG TYPE Polan '

China. Gilts. Sired by Arts Big Bob;

Will be bred to a. son of Giant Sen-
ator for April farrow. If you are look-i,
ing for the best of breeding and the kind f
. that gets big and has quality here is the
place to find it. Please give me a chance
to tell you more about them. A. D.
Gregory, Ionia, Michigan.

 

 
        
    
      
     
   
 
  
  
   
   
   
    
 

 

 

L S P C BRED GILTS now ready to
- - - ~ - ship at prices any good farm.
or can afford to pay. Also dealer in Raw

Furs. Write for prices.
H. 0. Swartz Schoolcraft, Michigan.
BIG TYPE 1’. 0. Choice bred SOWS from
. Iowa’s Greatest herds. The

big bone prolific kind with size and qual-
ity. Elmer Mathewson, Burr Oak, Mich.

 

 

BERKSHIRES

 

 

prices. Mark B. Curdy. Howell. Mich. RECORY FARM BERKSHIRES for
Profit. Choice stock for sale. Write
your wants.
HUGS W. S. CORSA, - White Hall, Ill.
0. I. C. HAMPSHIRE

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOB SALE—SHORTHORNS
Of Quality, Scotch and Scotch topped.
Maxwalton Monarch 2nd & Maxwalton
Jupiter in service.
John Schmidt & Son, Reed City, Mich.

TWO roan double

For Sale standard bred Polled

Durham Shorthorn

Bull Calves, calved May 2nd and June 4th.

Paul Quack, Sault Ste. Marie. Michigan,
R. No. 2, Box 70.

HORTHORNS and POLAND CHINAS

all sold out. None for sale at pres-

» ent. F. M. Piggott & Son, Fowler, Mich

SHORTHORNS have been kept upon

Maple Ridge Farm

Since 1867 and are Bates bred. Two red

heifers for sale; 1 bull. 10- mos. old.
J. E. Tanswcll. Mason, Michigan.

 

 

FOB. SALE—Two Shorthorn Durham
bulls, Bates strain and good individuals.
One 3 years old; one 6 months. Geo. W.
Arnold,.. Bates, Mich.

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in

 

t uch with best milk or beef Strains. Bulls

I a es. Some females. . . Crum,
ecre a Central Michigan Shorthorn
Associat on. McBrides. Michigan.

FOR SA BEG. SHOBTHOBN BULL,
18 mos...old, of best Bates
breeding. W. S. Huber. Gladwin, Mich.

DUAL PURPOSE ‘SHOBTHOBN Calves
both sexes, from good milking

cows. for sale at reasonable prices.
Roy Finch. Fife Lake, Michigan.

THE VAN RUBEN CO. Shorthorn

 

 

 

Breeders’ AssociatiOn have oung stock
for sale, mostly Clay bree ing. ‘Write
your wants to the Secretary. ‘Frank

Bailey, Hartford, Michigan.

W Writeme your wants. Prie-
es reasonable. Wm. J. Bell, Rose City,-
Michigan. . - ,. ‘ .. _

 

 

EflfiaSfl‘fii _, ”es. in:

old, : one 6‘, months. -'

  
  
 

 

100 head to select rrc'im. .

shortho' m‘ VDur-

 

0. l. C. GlLTS ,

Bred for March and April farrow. also
choice fall pigs.

.CLOVEB LEAF STOCK FARM
Monroe. Mich.

O l C SPRING GILTS, bred to good
' . ° son of Grand Champion Cal-
loway Edd. Priced right. . ,
Dike C. Miller, Dryden. Michigann

 

RAY WARNER, Route 3, Almont, lVIich.
Breeder of Pure Bred Shorthorn Cattle
and O. I. C. Swine. A few Oct. pigs
on hand.

 

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IG TYPE POLAND CHINA tried SOW
to farrow Mar. 24th. Two gilts to
. farrow May 8th, all bred to Bob-O-
Llnk, grandson of Big Bob.
0. L. Wright, Jonesville, Michigan.

Bred dGilts
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’Serviceable Bears
J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DUROC

DUROC BRED SOWS

and' growth? big type last fall boars.
State Fair champions and winners. Or-
ion’s Fancy King 83857 heads herd.

Newton Burnhart, St. Johns, Michigan.

 

Spring Boars and gilts. Ten years
Durocs experience. A few black top
Rams left. Newton & Blank, Hill Crest
Farm, 4 miles south of Middleton, Mich.

 

 

DUROC-JERSEY SWINE

We have some choice big sows and
gilts for March, April and May farrow to
offer, also fall pigs, both sexes, and two
spring boars. Write for pedigree, descrip—
tion and prices, or come and see them.
Will ship on approval. .,
Thos. Underhill & Son, Prop, Salem, Mich.

PEACH HILL FARM

We are now offering Registered Duroc
Jersey fall pigs, either sex. We can
furnish you unrelated pairs or trios.
Write to us. Our prices are very reas-
enable.

Inwood Bros.. Romeo, Mich.
DUROCS SPRING GILTS and brood
saws. Gilts by a ood son of
Panama Special. Newton & lank, Hill

Crest Farms, Perrinton, Mich. Farm d
miles is. of Middleton, Gratiot county.

MEADOWVIEW FARM

Registered Puroc Jersey’ Hogs. Buy
our rin p gs now. »
y {SDI}. items, Farmington, Mich.

 

 

 

POLAND CHINA

 

B 16 TYPE PQLAND bHINas. Two
big boned boar pigs farrowed in June,
sire Michigan Buster. Gilts bred to Bob—
O-Lin-k, Gerstdale Superior and Gerstdale
Lad; 0. L. Wright, Jonesville, Michigan.

 

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FOR 25 YEARS
.. aims... pin”. “chef.“ . m.
‘” _ » ‘ an . .
fniodglot of heirs and sows of strictly

gm“ gay mg at .very low price. Let

  
 
 
 
  

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H A M P S H I B E S ~

Bred Gilts all sold. Spring Boars only "for
sale at 18 cents per lb.

John W. Snyder, St. Johns. Mich, RA.

 

CHESTER WHITES

HESTEB WHITEs—Gilts bred for ,
Mar., Apr... and May farrow of the 1'
large growthy type. Priced ri ht. '
F. W. Alexander, Vassar, ichigan.

A FEW SPRING BOABS and bred gllts
of Joe Orion and Defender Breeding

at a. bargain. Write. for prices.

John W. Esch, R.F.D.“Nc. 1, Honor, Mich.

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SHROPSHIRES

Registered Shropshires ,élf°"fl駧§3
three and four- ear-old ewes bred to high
class ram to limb in Mar. and April.
Flock established 1890.

LEMEN, Dexter, Michigan.

 

 

     

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‘TlX-TON MIX' with salt the ear
around [me s flock healthy and free from
worms and icks. Saves you big money ~-
$1.00 sample box by parcel post will ined—
icnte i barrel of salt. Write for club offer
' n ‘ ‘Nature and Care of Sheep."

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PARSONS TJX-TON C0., Grand Ledge, Mich

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DOGS

DOGS FOR SALE
2 thoroughbred English Fox
Pups, 8 months old: females.
W. G. Rice, Springvale, Michigan.

Chickens Sick or Not Doing Well?
A; Extraordinary Offer: Germozone is a stand.

ltd remedy every-
where ior chicken troubles. roup. colds, cholera, "Veiled heed.
bowel complaint. chicken pox. canker. not doing well, no'n‘
laying, etc. Now our proposition: If no dealer there band-
ling Germozone end you will agree tone it and pay lf'lnt‘
isiied, we will lend you a 750 package without a cent in mi-
vence. No pay if not satisfied. can we do more! And we
mil send the I poultry booklets. Write today.

Local dealers handling Germozone will do the “me.

cso.n.l.sl-:co.. Dc mile .OMAHA.NEB.’ "

POULTRY 7 1

HOMESTEAD FARMS

DAY OLD CHICKS AND. EGGS
of our Pure Breed Practical Poultry

The new illustrated catalogue of on
Pure Bred Practical Poultry is now ready ..
Barred, White, Buff Rocks; R. C. and 8. ~-
C. Rhode Island Reds' White ' ”
dottes; White and B11101: O
C. Black Minolcas; S. C. and . C. ,
and Brown Leghorns; S. C. Bun“. Leg.-

Cookereis: Barred and ,White Rocks-
White Wyandottes; s. C. and R. c. Reds
lSi. C. and R. C. White and Brown Bag
orns. ~ . ,
If you want really practical stock 86%
for our new catalog. . ‘9"
BLOOMINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATIOH
'Bloomingdale. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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.OHN'B BIG BEAUTIFUL Barred ,
are hen hatched quick gro‘we ._
sold on approval. $45 to 55.8;

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