’11an . Independent‘Farmcr’s chkly Owned and iEditflcd in Michigan

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' ‘ “held the market down have. been ., re-

 

 

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. ‘ _HE.BEAN investigation has been
' . completed; the influences that have

moved; the Grain Corporation will move
the» surplus holdings of Michigan beans
‘ by “buying at once 700 cars at $9.25 a
hundred; and all is well. ’ ,

' The committee of Michigan bean men
consisting of W.‘J. Biles of Saginaw, E.
E. Lewell'yn of Grand Rapids, J. John-
son of Detroit Fred Welsh of ,Owos‘so,
Mike Hart of éaginaw, Joe. Frutchey of
Cass City, H. E. Chatterton of Mt. Pleas-
ant and Christian Breisch of Lansing,—
returned last Saturday from New York
City—where they proved -‘to the satisfac-
tion of oflicials of the Food Administra- 3-
; tion Grain. Corporation that there had
been’serious manipulation of the bean‘
market by men inside the Fecd Admin- -
. istration, much. to, the detriment of the
bean trade in general and of Michigan
, .in partiudlar; and secured immediate
' remedial action; .

7 77 M. B. F... Gets Result!

It migfitfbe repeated in pasing that
this investigation, came as a direct re-
sult of. the'insistence of Michigan Busi-
I "11888 Farming that, artificial influences
Were at Workto, undermine-the bean mar-
~ ket'and that the 1;? Food Administration
- ' should scrutinietheseiinfluenees, locate
, _'the_ persons responsible “for them, and-
' remedy the situation. Three: weeks ago,
the matter came‘to such! a: head that the Food Administration

 

ernment as A-No.

summoned the abovebean‘men to Washington and asked them to .

_ , present such evden'ce as they had to prove the charges. that had
1 been made. Thehhearing which was instituted at Washington
was removed to New York Ci before R.W. Boyden, head of the

“Food Administration Rules nforcement Committee.

. in. Boyden, as well. as Mr. Julius: Barnes, president or the
"Grain Corporation, extended;__thef committee! Of, Michigan bean.
, , menithe utmost courtesy and opene‘dqn‘pgthe records of the Grain

' VCOrpoi'ation for their. inspection, an_'d7 otherwise" co—operated in

. throwing light upon the Various points brought out by the com-
mittee insubstantiationj of its charges. , ' , '

' e; . Whenall the evidence Was gathered. and-submitted it“ consti-

‘~ utedéa most damaging indictmentof the supposed integrityiof .

" henna-had beeélf'eyntrustedwith sacred powers of responsibility
Rim behalfofthe United ~‘State's "government. And the Michigan
--beanmen Werenotaglong‘inwconvin‘cing Mr. Barnes that the‘con‘fi-

“dénceiibf rF‘oO‘d . Administration ofiicialsfhad’ been decidedly mis. -

Plaeédi " ‘ ’ '

.r Ll ‘(S-‘ible.

hrs [of Michigan Beans

.RESULTS OF. THE BEAii Iii- ons
VESTIGATION

1. Removal of men proven guilty of
'questionable practices in the conduct of
their work on the Food Administration.

- 2. Change of methods employed in
buying beans for government, to the
end that every holder of beans may
have an equal opportunity with every
other to bid on government purchases.
Hitherto the government’s bean busi-
ness has been given to achosen few.
Change of methods of inspection,
insuring a square deal for both the gov-
ernment and ‘theseller. In the past in-
spection has frequently been so lax and
mercenary that many worthless and off-
grade beans have been sold to the gov-
1. From now on
beans for the government will bebought
strictly on their merits.

4. The Grain Corporation will buy
immediately 700 cars of Michigan beans
and Julius Barnes, president of the
Grain Corporation, has wired Mr. Hoov-
er, who is in Europe, soliciting his aid
in moving-the balance of Michigan’s
crop at fair prices to the growers.

”we“

 

 

ers, because of frendship, or “other reas-

77

As a result of the discovery the Grain

it would “closely scrutinize” any out-
standing contracts that Mr. Kimball had
made with certain friends or business as-
sociates, and to conduct such further in-
vestigations and make such amends as
seemed proper and would convince the
bean trade of its sincere desire to regain
the confidence of the trade and facilitate
the movement ofthe bean crop, with ad-
vantage to all concerned.

The Grain Corporation announced its
intention, whch it has already carried
out, of making a change in the manage-
ment of it'bean business. Both Mr. Kim-
ball and Mr. Ben Gerks, in charge of the
export end, have been relieved of their
duties; and contracts which they have
made with close personal friends or with
firms with which they are financially as-
sociated, are being closely examined to
ascertain to what extent these two gen-
tlemen have been financially benefited
thru such contracts.

Buying and Export Policies

In addition, a change will be effected
in the method of buying beans in the
name of the Grain Corporation. Instead
of going to certain restricted sections for
it wants, it will bid in the open market,
thus enabling "any holder of beans to of-
fer his stock to the Corporation. The Grain Corporation agrees
to carry out its tentative agreement with the bean jobbers’ as~

 

 

.sociation to buy Michigan beans on the basis of $9.25 per cwt. to

the jobber, thus allowng the grower $8 per cwt. for the product,
the elevator a return of $1 and the jobber 25 cents.

The export policy of the Grain Corporation undergoes a
radical change. During the war and until a couple of weeks ago,
the exportation of beans was solely thru the Grain Corporation.

. Private concerns could not get export licenses, altho they had

many orders for foreign shipments. Similarly, many of the for-
eign countries forbade private importation. Now, however, the

_ Grain, Corporation has not only removed export restrictions on

beans, but is actually encouraging private trading with foreign
dealers. Also, foreign countries have already removed, or are
contemplating the removal of import restrictions. These actions
are expected toresult in much freer trading between‘private in-

terestsof the various countries and a stronge‘ market is expected

to‘de'velop as a result. . 4 .
In explanation of its purchase of foreign beans the Grain

Corporation explains that most of these beans were secured for
ré-shi'pment to the Allies, but that contracts for foreign beans in- .
fluenced by mercenary motives, will be cancelled wherever pos-

What‘ the V erdict' fMeans' ..

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Corporation promised the bean men that.

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'3- .,The verdict of the Grain‘ Corporation can" mean but one thing,
’ that the qbe'anlm’arket Will Come“ (Continued on following page)" ,

 


 

 

m. DORA s'roomx

 

I. i" . a.
..L Whitney wfitflfiiths ,.

e ' “as.
solidi?!“

l dates in the. Bend & amass-re, wnenommated byaecclams m

. ,., tie; at the Republican mate convention held at Lansing Tuesday."
' ' It was Moral early Tuesday 7
h - .9 maningthdLJ Debut-17W ‘-
wbeur the fitness had W to run .
Mrs.’ Stockman, would withdraw ,
, from the race, andw’hen Mrs. Olivia
" J. C. WoodmanofPawPawpresent—_
ed the nar’ne of Mrs. Stocliman to the
convention in an eloquent address
which brought
very much in evidence was the senti-
ment for Mrs. Stockman that the
chairman of the delegation from Mr.
. Doherty’ s home county,0 ‘
nounced that Mr. Doharfy
,xmiutea to succeed A. s n.- sided to withdraw in favor of Mrs.
herty on Board of Agriculture Stocktnan Accordin ly, the nomin-
ation of Mrs, Stockman was made by enthusiastic acclamation.
The chairman of the Kent county delegation nomihated’, Mr.
Robert Graham to succeed himself on the board. John O. ' Ketch
am, master of the State Grange, presented the name of L. Whit-
ney Watkins, and the balloting was on. Jackson, Mr. Watkins’

down. the house, .so
The strength

an-

had dew

women delegates to the convention
were much in evidence. There were
women in every delegation.
conducted thanselves with a dignity,
grace and intelligence that aroused
the respect and admiration of every male delegate present. .
There were, of course, many little incidents arising from the .
women ’s first participation in political affairs. To illustrate, one
woman delegate said, “Now, we areall equal the \men may smoke
if they want to.” That time-honoredprl
and sensible and chivalrous MEN voted “NO,

inflame of

L. WHITNEY wermNs

13on to eicceed Bolero Gra-
ham on. Board el Agriculture

They

vileg’ewvivtalf put to a vote
aroar. '

 

 

BEER AMENDMENT
MEANS WET MICHIGAN

Anti- Saloon League Explains the Effect of
Adoption of Light Wine and Beer
Amendment on State Pro-
hibition

A number of our readers have asked us what
effect the adoption of the light wine and beer
amendment would have on statewide prohibition;
also how it would make the state “wet" since the
federal prohibition amendment had been adopted.
We asked Grant Hudson, superintendent of the
Michigan Anti- Saloon League to explain the re-
spective status of the light wine and beer amend-
" ment, the prohibition law and the federal prohibi-
tion amendment, which he has done in the follow-
ing paragraphs:

We now have as a food emergency measure, the
enactment of Congress forbidding the use of grain
in the manufacture of distilled liquor. This has
been effective since September 8, 1917, but does
. not prohibit the sale of such liquors. We also
have by the order of the President, made as a
food conservation measure, the prohibition or the
manufacture of beer and malt. This became ef-
fective December 1, 1918.

War prohibition as a; national measure. was
passed by Conzress in November and signed by
President Wilson November 21st. It prohibits the
use of grain and fruits in the manufacture of in-
toxicating liquors, after April 30, 1919, and pro-
hibits the sale of all intoxicating liquors as bev-
erages after June 80, 1919.

This war prohibition measure remains effec-
tive until the termination of demobilization of the
Army. the game being determined by the order of
the President. How long this period of demoblllr-
atlon will continue of course, no one knows, and,
therefore, no one knows how long a period war
prohibition might ,be effective.

On the other hand there is the possibility that
the President might declare ,the Army fully de-
mobilized even before it became effective at all.
In such case we would not have any war prohi-
bition.

The Federal Amendment providing for national
prohibition was ratified by the necessary 80
states on January 16, 1919, and the proclamation
of such ratification was issued by the Socratary
of State’ a department at Washington, Jan. 29, 1019,
and therefore the operatfim of the amendment 1;...
comes effective January 16,1920.

. Hence, there may be anthers may not be a
period of time elapslng between war prohibition
and Federal prohibition, both being national in

.903” and both operative alike In all states of the

union. ’

, Should the saloon amendment to be submitted
} 40 the voters at their!!! election carry, is there
(my danger of the liquor traffic gaining a foot.
hold in Michigan again, if the manufacture a all

liquor under war prohibition should cease April".

, 30,1919, and Federal prohibition become effective
' January 16,1020?\ . .

Yes; we may never have war prohibition as
stated above; If we should have war prohibition
we cannot tell for how long.

Yes, Federal prohibition may be délayed thru
litigation, and not go into effect for one, two or
three years.

Yes, whatever the period might be, before Fed-
eral laws would nullify such an amendment, MZDh-
lgan would become the dumping ground and the
storage place for all kinds of liquor, much legally,
m‘ore illegally, and the curse of it would be here
for years to come.

Yea; should the proposed amendment carry and
should the National prohibition, amendment be-

 

 

National Prohibition Amendment

“Section 1. After one year from the raw-
fication ,of this article the manufacture, sale,
or transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from, the United States
and all territory subject to the jurisdiction"
thereof for beverage purposes is hereby pro-
hlblted.

“Section 2. The Congress and the several,
States shall have concurrent power to en-
forcer this article by appropriate legislation.

“Sectiou 3. This article shall be inOperal-
tlve unless it shall have been ratified as an
amendment to the Constitution by the legis-
latures of the several States, as provided by
the Constitution, within seven years from
the. date of the submission hereof to the
States by the Congress.”

Light Wine and Beer Amendment

"Section 12. It shall be forever lawful in
,thbetautofmporaumporgmanufaoture,
use, buy, sell, keep—for sale, give away, bar-
ter or furnish every kind of Older, Wines,
Beer, Ale and Porter and to possess the same
in a private residence. So much of Section
11, Article XVI of this Constitution as pro-
hibits the manufacture, sale, keeping for
sale, giving away, bartering or furnishing
of vinous, malt, brewed or fermented liqu-
ors, is hereby repealed. The legislature, by'
general laws shall reasonably license the
manufacture of, and reasonably license and
regulate tlfe sale and keeping for sale of
vinous, malt, brewed or fermented ll uore;
Provided, however, that theel each
city, village, or township forever all have
the right to prohibit the manufacture,sal
or keeping for sale of vinous, malt, brewed
or fer-Inented liquors within such city, vil-
7lage or township.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

some effective in January 1920, Michigan sheriffs, .

constables, police, etc, would have no authority» to
aid in its enforcement. This would be aserlous
condition. There would be no concurrent enforce-
ment legislation in Michigan laws. This would
make a condition of lawlessness beyond compre.
heneion.

Michigan hoe a statewide prohibition mend-

msnt now. Keep it. And the sure way to keep it ,
is to defeat like moms m W. This] ‘
new amendment submitted to the voters ff qarrlsd

means the old saloon Safety M! ”livery" man
and woman who believes in a. drv strive registered”,

Every man and woman at the polls and voting NO

April 71:11! N

U. s. GRAIN CORPORATION WILL

PURCHASE MICHIGAN BEANS _.

(From’ preceding page) a half million bushels
still in the farmers' hands. When the.Grain
Corporation comes into the Open market and
announces that it will pay $9.25, for Michigan
beans, ”the result may be readily imagined.
When the canners and the wholesale grocers». .
realize that nearly one-half of the remaining
stock of Michigan . beans are to be removed ‘
from the market at practically mono fell swoop,
there will undoubtedly be some hasty scramb-
ling and some, stiff- bidding in 'order to secure
a part of this crop for the domestic trade. For
while the 1918 yield was. only .369 pounds "to
the acre, the qualitylwas excellent. Michigan
never produced finer beans'than the 1918 crop-

The Grain Corporation acknowledges the. past ,-
excellence of the Michigan product and unher'

ltatlngly announces that this is one of the
things that influences them to turn to Michi-
gan, for the bulk of their immediate needs.‘

But the“ end is not yet. So-far as the Foot!
Administration and the Brain Corporation are
concerned, they have done their part with com-
mendable dispatch and thoroughness in reno-
vating their bean purchasing departments. But
the job ’of renovating is far from complete. The
evidence compiled by the been men and the
Grain Corporation has been placed in the hands
of the department of justice where proper pro- ,
cedars will be taken against those who have
violated with impunity the nodes of law and
honor. This, however, will be merely an incl:-
dent. The grievances 'of the, bean growers:
have already been largely satisfied; justice,
long deferred, has been restored. the manipu-
lators of the bean market have been shelved,
artificial barriers have been removed; and the
bean trade resumes its normal trend.

AGRICULTURAL COLIZEGE MAY
MANAGE STATE EARMs

If a bill proposed by Rep. Welsh of Grand Rapids

. is made a law, the Michigan Agricultural College

will take all the state far-ma, comprising some
“,10 000 acres, under its wing and endeavor to show ‘
what scientific farming can produce when properly“
guided. Pres. Kedsle and Dean Shaw are both very

anxious that the college should be given this on»

portunlty to demonstrate in a practical way the

value of the college to the state, and unless some

unforseen Opposition develops they may have

this very opportunity. Now‘that thefarmers are,
putting their own representatives on the Board of 9,
Agriculture, they will no doubt be willing that the

College shall try the experiment

Iuponrasr IIEE'IIIIG or TIIE . . .
nsrRoIr m semester:

"'no.n-oa

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meefln’g of are ..
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_ .good was were given oil
of North Michigan development problems. 1'. W.

_ rm. Quamme oi the

 

 

.‘fthose interested in
the development oi

, cofink:tlon, through.-
7 . big «unpacks hav-

M
W and am Slack Congress washeid at Basic
the Northeastern Michigan Development Bur
oin. Theattendancqwusmalhbut chamber Oi
various solutions

Hanna, of. the department of the interior present-

J ed in detail the plan of Becretary‘ Lane to spend
8100. 000, 000 for the development of cut-over lands ‘
’ and the building of farms for returned soldiers.

He declared that agricultural production mustbe
increased. He cited statistics to ‘show that while
the- nopulatlon of the United States increased 20

per cent. from 1900 to 1910, the tillable land area ..

Increased only 11 per cent. He argued that the
idoptlon of Secretary Lane' a plan would help to
bring about the desired increase in farm pro-

' ducts, and at the same time vitalize all industry.
‘ Mr; Hanna disregarded thewell known fact that
Tidespite the showing. of statistics, the world was
fed well and cheaply for a long period of

time up to the opening or the war and that the
actual reason for the temporary shortage of food
stuffs was due to the devastation 0'! European

. terms; the taking of men out of agricultural pro-
; duction and putting them into the army, and the

destruction of vast quantities of food by subma-
nines. Also, while Mr. Hanna was fully posted on
statistics covering the period of 1900-1910, he
seemed not to be so, well informed on those for
1918 and 1019, else he might have noticed a
strange incongruity between his conclusions and
the actual facts obtaining today.

Be that as it may, Mr. Hanna encouraged the
members oi the congress to lend their aid in ’se-

. curing the adaption of» Secretary Lane’s appro-
\. pflatiim bill which is now before the national
congress asking for $100,000,000 to carry out his

project. II! this appropriation is made, the states
having cut-over lands will be asked to enact laws
to carry out the provisions or the national bill.
It is proposed to create “land-holding" companies,
who will receive the stewardship of such lands as
the owners may desire to sell to the government
for settlement purposes.

As security for these lands, the government will

tissue stock to those pooling their lands, and this ~

stock will be redeemed as payments from the sol-
dier occupants will permit. The government will
provide .the funds for developing the lands, and

. setting them to work, and will-have the first lien

on the lands.
A part of the plan contemplates "colonization,”

may alternoon the second Michigan}
new in conjunction with the annual meeting at ~

1

that is developing adjacent tracts so that the pro-_

je‘ct may be localized as far as possible. Commun-

ity welfare work, both of a social and financial

nature will be encouraged
Members or these communities will also be en-
couraged and helped to form cooperative buying
and selling associations.
’ Mr. Hanna told the congress that the most desir-
able available lands for purposes described were
located in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A paper written by E ‘

_' a! Land Bank
' ,‘Paul’, described
"details at coloni-

& methods that
' she pursued
with financial suc- . . ,
ceis by private lndl-' ‘ in.
new. and corpora r
tidal. It is the 81‘0""
conviction or

North Hichl‘un ,that Z i _-

 

 

 

atures oi the annual banquet of the North-
W Miment Bureau at the Ho-

llie: Paddock, 111 'Seglnaw, presided, whilst

28m}? '1‘ M. Huston looked after the comfort
2 n: his guests and mowed them one by one be-

iore the camera where all the handsome men sat
proudly and all the homely men in misery as the
camera snapped their profiles. Later in the even-

lug each guest was presented with his picture

pasted in the front of the program, as a valentine
and remembrance oi the occasion.

I). D. Aitken Discusses North-Mich. Problems
D.\D. Aitké'n was the principal speaker of the

evening, As president or the Holstein Friesian
Association of America, Mr. Althea is supposed

.to know all about the problems of dairying, but

 

 

D. D; Aitken and the Farmer

"I believe
it requires
more ability"
to run a
farm than it
does to man.
age a factory
or a com-
mercial busi-

 

ness," s ay‘s
D. D. A i t-
R 6115 “T he
farmer must
‘ always take
11 is chances
w i th t h e

weather; be
m u s t know
the soil; ha.
111 ust know

when and
how to plant,

(3 u 1 t i v a te

a n d h a r-
vest, and finally he must use exceptional
businesa judgment when it comes to selling
his crops."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he shortly proved to the satisfaction of his hear-
ers that he knew something about the problems of
developing North Michigan as well although he
does not‘ live within that district. He told the
representatives of, Northern Michigan that the
biggest obstacle standing in the way of the de-
velopment of their lands was lack of capital for
the settler. .And in the next half hour that audi‘

'ence of bankers, farmers, merchants and develop-

ment bureau officers were presented with an ar-
ray of argument that left no doubt in their minds

‘but that Mr. Aitken knew what he was talking

about.

Those who have lived in Northern Michigan, or
who have investigated to any extent the great ag-
ricultural possibilities of that section, know right
well that it takes money to clear the lands and
so them to, producing. There are failures in

~ North Michigan as‘well as there are in all other

agricultural sections, simply because settlers ex-
pected to farm with faith instead of money. This
publication has repeatedly emphasized the need
of cheaper money for North Michigan settlers. It

has endeavored to show (Continued On page 19)

   
  
 
  
  

1 Government Guarantee of $2. 26 Will Not

Return to Farmers the Piofits 'Which
Price-Fixing Took. Away
From Them

 

Some time ago a reader wrote to us that he
could not agree with our stand for higher prices
on wheat.
“has a humane side to it that appeals to me great-
11."

All he r to this big-hearted farmer who was
willing t the. government should fix a price on
his‘ product that would permit the poor to buy
of the staff of life without suffering hardship.
Looking at the proposition from a purely senti-
mental standpoint he is right, the the world' at
large would not appreciate the sacrifice he would
be willing to make for their sakes. But we must
remember that there is a practical side to this con-
troversy; that not one farmer but a million farmers
of widely diversified opinions and financial con-
ditions had to be satisfied ; that justice should be
rendered not alone to the consumer of the food but
to the producer as well; and that, finally, the’same
rigorous control which was placed over the wheat
growers’ business was not applied to other lines
of business manufacturing products essential to
the welfare of the race.

For every farmer who claimed that the fixed
price gave him a profit, there were a thousand
farmers who claimed that it meant a. loss. For
every farmer who was willing, for the sake of pa-
triotism and his brother’s welfare, to accept a
loss there were a thousand who said, “No, that is
not Justice; if manufacturers of other war supplies
are assured of an ample profit, there is no reason
why it should be denied to us simply because we
produce a. commodity that is absolutely necessary
for human existence.”

But the end of the war also ended the hopes of
the grain growers for higher fixed prices, and ag-
ricultural Efforts are now directed to securing
legislation that will carry out the government’s
guarantee and move an enormous crop of wheat
with the least possible loss to the nation.

Everyone but the farmers applauded when the
goverment fixed a maximum price on wheat. Mr.
Consumer was perfectly willing that the govern-
ment should assume a risk of a billion dollars in
order to prevent the prices of wheat products from
responding to the demands of the period. But now
that the war is over, and the danger of famine is
past, Mr. Consumer is perfectly willing that the
government should violate its solemn and written
pledge to pay the farmer $2.26 for his 1919 crOp of
wheat. There is no danger that the government
will not carry out its guarantee altho secret and
selfish agencies are working to hamper its program
Farmers and farm organizations everywhere
should seize every opportunity to vindicate the
government's action and prove to the consumer
that the goernment’s price fixing policy has cost
the farmer infinitely more than it li‘as or Will the
consumer. .

Government control in 1917 put wheat prices
down by more than a dollar a bushel. On this
basis, price regulations deprived the wheat grow-
ers of Michigan alone of over $20,000,000, and
the combined loss to all the wheat growers of the
s country was un-
doubtedly more than
, _ a billion dollars be-
cause their crops
were sold at the
prices fixed by Con-
gress instead of
prices fixed by sup-
ply and demand:

Speaking of this
phase of the matter,
the New Yok Tibune

ridicules the asser-
tion that the gov-
ernment’s control of
Wheat prices was an
act of favoritism to
the wheat growers.

“A year ago last
summer,”
Tribune, “cash whoa. '
was selling in tit

Chicago market 1%
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V the potatoes eaten by the people of

in on trucks and sold direct to
retailers.

E- quality, for the consumer, buys the

All winter long farmers living on good roads

.1 within a radius of so miles of Grand Rapids and
Detroit have supplied a large part of

 

those cities, which they have hauled .

In so doing they have been
able to sell ungraded potatoes, (that . .
is, potatoes not conforming to the U.
S. grading rules, but sound neverthe-
less) at prices equal to those paid by
the retailer to his commission house.
Th! retailer is not particular about
the minimum size of the potatoes he
buys, so long as they are of. good

 

 

“ungraded”. stock just as readily as

"EE GCCD many farmers. wlii'buy truck! the “T“-

,cominz year." writes Magma a'usrssss-

. ’ Emma’s Kent county reporter. "Freight- _
rates, potato grading, dishonest weight and low.
prices will force them to this mm."

 
 

 
 

, or our facilities for anti-thaws “wish—I. -.
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. a I} J , Discussion as to the cost of diaerent‘

_ 431‘." ‘ . ’ ' >_ i . foods, as to whether or not we can 't

7' .fl - _ eat. this or that and feel just as well

/{»7 .- and pay less does not bring satisfac-

~. 1' In, tion. 1 1--

,“ ‘ “ ’ . ' I ) “Suggest as we- 1011!, the same. rela— .
/ . /~ I ’ . l , .. .- , . tive «inferences exist. The stores or-

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the “graded." In thus selling direct
to the retailer, the farmer has elim-
inated at least three middlemen, all of
whom receive a part of the price that
the retailer pays when he buys thru the regular
channels or trade.

Potatoes are not the only food product to be
transported in this manner. Grains, beans, ap-
ples and live stock are among other commodities
that have been marketed in large quantities in
the cities by the farmers who raised them. The
value of these products, would, if computed, prob-

. ably mount up into the millions, and thousands

of farmers have this year securedthru this meth-
0d of marketing a much larger share of the con-
sumer's dollar than ever before.

Unfortunately, the areas from which cities can

‘ be supplied by motor trucks is limited, owingto

poor roads. It isn’t practical, even if possible, to
drive heavily loaded trucks over dirt roads, .for
the roads are soon made unfit for any trailic and
the progress is so slow and laborious as to make
the operation a very expensive one. Farmers liv-
ing on good roads have benefited enough financial-
ly from those roads this winter to more than pay
their share of the cost of the roads.

We need not be surprised if, within the next
ten years, the bulk of our crops for home con-
sumption will be sent to market via the motor
truck. Nearly every "state in the union has a good
roads program mapped out for the next five years;
city commissions are showing a keen interest in
food problems and are encouraging any method
of buying and selling that will mean cheaper food
for the consumer; the railroads are crippled and
over-loaded; the freight rates are becoming bur-
densome; and the farmer is seeking avenues of
marketing which will cut down the overhead and
bring him larger returns. Even the U. S. govern-
ment is encouraging “motor transport routes,"
and Mr. Jas. Blakeslee the fourth assistant post-
master general, would empioy the thousands of
army trucks rendered useleSs by the close of the
war to transport food products, at cost to the
farmer.

“At present," says Mr. Biakeslee, “there are but

four avenues by which food or merchandise can

be distributed, namely: airways, canals and in-

_ land waterways, railways and highways.

“Heretofore railways have always been the most

efllcient avenue of communication and distribu-‘

tion because they have been the most available.
We cannot fail to note, however, that apparently
their growth and expansion to meet the needs of
the country is being curtailed. The reason‘is

self-evident. The cost of containers and terminals
is so high that it is becoming increasingly diflln

cult to procure the funds necessary
railway facilities

"Where formerly a tie cost 25 cents it now
costs in the neighborhood of $1. 05. Labor that

to enlarge

once asked only $1.25 and $1.65 a day, now asks“

between $3.00 and $4.00. These high prices have
made investment in railway expansion unpopular.

“Nor is this the only reason that the develop-
ment of railways has been curtailed. The cost of
operations has also increased It has gone, in fact
to a point where a profitable freight rate is so
high that it limits the use of the railways as an
ancient avenue of distribution. .

“New, railways have rear bed the limit of their
profitable capacity, airways being unprofitable be-

Army Truck Trains proposed by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, - ~ _
for hauling farm cargoes to market. ' ‘

\

~ cause as yet impracticable and canals and inland ,
,w’aterways being so limited in. their range that E
telliiey cannot provide any substantial relief, there
.rs'emains but] one efficient meansf‘or the. expansion ,

,_ in order
" the .

__Durbom magma“. How does the farmer feel after read- .
in: some literary contribution on '
-“Farmers getting rich, " gathered from
- the imagination and put in print, who
last spring paid $35. 00 per ten for fertilizer and
gets in today's mail a notice that his car or pota-
toes were received in bad condition—“on the road
‘ two wee ”--having been required to accept a bill
of ,la‘dlng stamped in red letters across its face.
“Subject. ,to Delay Account or Freight congestion." , ' _, ,
If he had a lot of perishable vegetables which, l l _ ~
after he had sent, them by E'express ,as a proper ' '
piecaution, had been lost entirely, it is just a
part of the process of “Farmeragetting rich" but
that doesn’t calm his feelings or reconcile his
mind to the conclusion (Oonttnued on page 19)

Shall we Keep and Strengthen the State Constabulary?

HE PROHIBITIONISTS say “5708;" the vio- was to get them all, with such a limited force or
latorg of law and order and those who gr. men. (At that time the force did not constitute
afraid of taxes say “No." To strengthen and . over a (1023”. active men.)
maintain the state constabulary will cost the state Since then the troubles of the state police have
of Michigan nearly a half million dollars a year. multiplied rapidly. The smuggling of liquor has
Will the services rendered by it be worth the become a business. and a big business at that.
cost? . Clever executives, seeing the opportunities to get
To answer this intelligently it is necessary to ”Ch (“1101‘ have Organized smugglingtcompaniefl’.
know somethingabout the splendid Work the state and fOur or five successful trips mean a small
constabulary has done in enforcing Michigan's fortune for 0V”? “stockholder.” Despite hundreds
prohibition laws. When the farmers of Michigan of captures, the demolition of scores of automo.
voted the state dry and placed in the hands of bliss, and continual danger in which the lives of
the Food and Drug department the responsibility the smugglers are placed the 500“”ng 3°93 0.3.
of enforcing the law, they did not suspect what more boldly ”1d defiantly than ever It has now; .
a stupendous job they were loading upon the reached a stage where the law violators carry ,
shoulders of Commissioner Fred L. Woodworth. 811113 and openly 1’09“ that they will 3110013 1’70 kill .5
For a few months after the state went dry, anyone who steps in their path. ,.
while the bibulous ones were consuming the li- Violation of the liquor laws 15 bad enough 8?“ .
quor they had stored in their homes, there was under the restraining influence of the st te con.-

little law violatiOn and little trouble. .But last Embula’y ert it might hag? 1”” hm» ”‘9
fall professional b00tleggers established liquor “a“ no law enforcement mae nary w ”9”? at

routes between Detroit and Toledo, over which its command no one can hazard a guess. It
hundreds Of thousands of dollars worth Of liquor seems certain, however, that vialatlon-s of the law

would have been so great~as to make a farce of

hfstebgeoriictzansported despite the vigilance of the . the vigil")??? moviegiznt and 10211189 adrevulfilo:

of fee ng a Wou are one y un one a

Several months ago the writer was a guest of work that temperance people have worked gener-
Gov. Sleeper at dinner at the stateconstabulary ations to accomplish , _
grounds which lie in the shadow of the Michigan Providing the legislature votes the necessary
Agricultural College at East Lansing. The appropriation to increase the strength of the state
trip from the Capitol to the grounds was made in' constabulary, so that the Michigan-Ohio border.

one of the automobiles confiscated by the state may be more effectively patrolled, we may expect,‘.
troops from the notorious Billengsley brothers, a rapid decrease in the number of violators and.“
who have since been convicted as rum runners, eventually a complete vindication of the wisdom,
sentenced to prison. (and they are now of Michigan citizens. in outlawing booze. ‘
~out on bail awaiting v. -_
a new trial). Whllt ‘ ”“‘
at the grounds Wt
learned considerable
of the difliculties en-
countered by th e
state troops in appre-
hending the bootleg-
gers, and were shown

portation. That device is the proper vehicle.

“This is the only conclusion at which we can
arrive. There is no getting away from the fact
that the motor vehicle is- our only hope in the
situation in which we find ourselves today.”

0 0 U

Another writer says: “What shall take pre-
cedence to insure the prosperity and welfare of
the country must now be carefully considered and
planned. A period of cenfusion must be avoid-
ed. We must no longer wait, now that the war is
over. Lack of transportation was and is our great-

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

numerous clever de-
vices used by the . ,
smugglers in which .

 

to conceal‘the liquor.
Col. Roy 0. Vendor: ,
cook, the chief of the. '
constabulary, told of ,
many of the cache;

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ibution and exchange and brilx;

i touch with the markets. '* ' _ _
, Ae*5 rule the farmer puts all his energy and
.. effort in making his acres produce, and therefore
has very little time for the consid;rati_.on and
work of marketing and as a rule take3 What the
‘most convenient method yields and satisfies him-
‘ self with the belief that nothing better is avail-
' able. However, with the high cost of living and
high prices of land, labor and equipment it- is

-: becoming manifest that a farmer must market ~

, his produce more intelligently and efficiently.
Occasipnally a farmer is found who cansolve a
. am- part“ as his market problems for himself,
“but as a rule they can be much more economically
solved by a group of farmers working together.
There must be some reason for undertaking the
organization if it is to succeed. , If the town deal-

era: are asking unusually wide margins on busi- -

11933 done, we farmers have a right to investigate
‘ the possibilities of doing business for ourselves,
but it must be done different from the old methods
of each looking out for himself or the enthusiasm
I- for cooperation is sure to suffer a collapse. Co-
' operation has no magic by which it can feed and
';_ grow on nothing, nor can it change the market
prices where they are as high or as low as facts
will warrant. It. should'bring produce and con-
sumer closer together. . Sufficient business is es-
sential to success, there is danger that too much
dependence may be put upon .the bare principle
of associatibn.

Zttendance at meetings and pretty close. ' ao-
qna'intanceship, determination and good, will are
- essential. Intelligence and cpen-mindedness are
‘ important. No~tarmers’ association éau succeed

Ever. caring

By One who Grows Timur-FRANCIS G. SMITH

“ small for marks .

on the loyal support of its members It is
dépendent upon its members for business. Where

some of this is withdrawn it means less prodpe‘rity
~1’1er can for what remains.

It must be remem-

fend as soon as it becomes known that there is fric-
:ftio‘n,’ we. are discredited in the public mind.

The board of directors must be made up of

hops flde farmers who will actually direCt the
Some men are un—willa»
ing to yield a point of difference with respect to:
_ anything affecting their own affairs.
may succeed when left to themselves; their ways

affairs of the association.
These men

maybe worthy of imitation; but they are not the
best men for ace-operative movement, since eyery-
thing must go as they say or they are out of the
game. '

Without doubt farmers are capable of becoming

direct‘brs of business undertakings, but to do this

usually means that they must devote the greater
part of their time to such business and turn over
to others the operations of their farms. To be a
good member each one must feel that his interests
are those of the association and its interests his;
little differences must be set aside for the com-
mon good.

Leadership is 'of the utmost importance. Even
though every man could do the work of a gen-
eral, no army can act as a unit unless some one
man actually be given the.authority and put in
charge. The same applies to a co-operative com-
pany, someman or small group of men must ac-
tually become leaders or nothing will be done.

‘ In almost all successful co-operative movements
there will be found a few faithful ones who give
a great deal of time and energy without hope or
prospector material reward. In connection with
farmers' movements leadership is poorly paid, or
unpaid sometimes. It is as necessary to pay the
market price for managerial help in a co—operative
association as it-is‘ in any other business concern.

One of the main advantages of a co-operative
company is, or at least should be, an assured
patronage. The company must be able to count
on the patronage of its members or it may better
quit—Chas. Lausten, Grand Traverse County.

Strawberries

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Gpthering Everbearino Strawberries on a Lwrge Michigan Farm.

N 1918 Mr. samuel Cooper, of Cataraugus (coun-
ty. N. Y., noticed one mother plant and eleven
. others' bearing berries in the fall. They were
Zin a bed of the Bismark and were enough‘i'“‘ke

:them so that many supposed them to he a partwf

' that variety Or possibly. a natural cross as t ere
were both, wild and [french sorts that b6l‘e some
—in the fall
and unsuccessful efforts had been made to improve

’ them by crossing with some cf- the improved sort.-

7 ’ * The berries Mr. Cooper found he named the Pan: .0?"-

, American and he find others Started to improve
them by crossing in _’ with ether sorts- Mr.
' Cooper produced the Superba and some others,

, since discarded and later he produc’ d; the, Peer-

"berries as soon as the first are frosted.

4:0 all of the old sorts in certainty of producing a
crop in spite of frosts, as they will start new
Then
they produce a crop at a time when strawberries
31‘9 out of season, and so b1ing a big price, and

’ theY Will bear in the fall after spring setting and
again the next spring and more in the fall, making

But they did not amount to- muchg ”fibres crops in two years instead 9f one.

Gallium—Set as early in the spring as the
around is fit to work and danger of freezing is
The ground should be rich and kept well
tended, and the blossoms kept picked until the
mantis well rotted; in this locality as late as

the Eourth of July or later if you want a lot of

plants->43 cried as yen stop picking the blossoms
grown and berries produced as long
One year we got good

(called the Dunlap of the

E11 Dunlap, and like that

send with some 1

we picked over thirty
rise at a pickipg from a single hill of the Pro-
gressive and were I limited. to a single variety it
would he the Progressive. '

The Superba is second in importance for _ 7 -

farmer’s family. The plant is hardy and the
fruit is larger than the Progressive. I have'ipické
ed Superba berries that measured 4% inches

. around and were perfect 3
This does not equal the larger Junes, as I_ have "
picked some perfect berries 6 inches around. Theyf .
are very even in size and above most of the“
common sorts in appearance. They do not beat»
near as much fruit the season that they are set as :1
the Progressives do. Nor are they as early
June classing with the medium sorts then.

After a rest then they will bear again in the
rail and rather more the second fall than the Pro-
gressive as well as averaging much larger. Some
big everbearing men prefer this kind to all others.
It is not quite as sweet as the Progressive.

Americas is one of the first kinds introduced.
.In flavor it is rather tart here, and does not yield
quite as well as the Superba, and is not quite as
large on the average, but it has a very fine odor
that helps to attract the buyers, so I keep atfew
for that purpose It grows its berries high above
the leaves, so they are easy to find.

The soil and other conditions make a difference
with what kind of berries will do best, so I will
tell you of mine and may tell you later of my
experiment plot that I keep. My soil is rich clay,
a little inclined to be wet. It is on top of the
divide between the great lakes and rather cold.
As weeds and grass-are hard to keep down I use
horse cultivation and coarser teeth on my culti~

. vator than some, so I like large plants and hardy

ones, as sometimes they get neglected through
haying and harvest time—Francis G. Smith, Blan-
chard, Michigan.

How We Made our Poultry Pay 11 Profit

HE WINTER of '16-’17 we wintered around
225 hens and that was the first time we
bought all our grains to feed them. It cost
from $2.50 to $3 a day to feed them and we got
but very few eggs from November 15 to March let.

The winter of 1917-’18 we kept nearly 200 hens
and feeds were a little higher priced than the
winter before and it took from 80 to 100 pounds
of grain per day to feed them and no 6338 worth
mentioning for nearly four months. Up to three
years ago we had fed our hens out of the same
grain bins we fed everything else out of, so we
didn’t know what it cost to feed them; that was
when I was very enthusiastic about hens because
the returns from them were quite an item, bought
all our groceries, including flour, but for all of
this I found when we began buying all they ate
that they were losing us big money, especially
the past three years since grains have been so
abnormally high.

Well, after I found that the hens were losing.
us money I wanted to quit them. but you ought.
to have heard the how] which went up from the
women folks. That wouldn’t do at all for they
had the pleasure of handling the returns from.
the hens, so I told them something would have to
be done, we would have to change our methods iii
handling our hens,
hatched out 200 chicks with an incubator and-
took good care of them, so they grew and devels 9
oped rapidly. Out of the 200 chicks we had about
125 pullets which began laying in fairly good
season this fall and winter.

In addition to the pullets we have about 40
yearling hens. Last fall I built a roosting room
onto the hen house so they could have all of "the
old house for an exercising room or scratching
shed, if you please. In this room we have deep
straw and we make them dig‘ all their \whole
grains out of that. ,_

We are feeding a war-time ration consisting of
80 per cent. cracked corn and 20 per cent. oats for
their Whole grain. Mash composed of 100 pounds
bran, 100 pounds middlings and 40' pounds beef
scrap is kept in troughs and they‘have access to ,
this at all times. Under this treatment they ave
been paying for what they eat and a little more,
and this is the “off season” for eggs.

A little later in the season we expect and know .
they will pay us quite a nice profit unless the
bottom drops out of the egg market. , 1

The above is the way we have put one branch
or side line of the farming gamble, which w '
losing us big money onto a paying basis, an
grains are now higher in price than ever help

 

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Uniform Dog LAst

ow THAT the subject of sq; laws that will «7

protect the sheep industry of the state is

before the legislature, it might be Well to '

take cognizance of what the Department or Agri-
culture has done and what it recommends should
be done to secure effective legislation.

For several years now the Department has car-
' ', d on a campaign of education in the sheep-rais-
" V. 1 states, to show the enormous losses to the sheep
, business that are caused by roving- and unlicensed
dogs. Actual investigation discloses that over

100, 000 sheep are annually slaughtered by dogs,
a and it is to stop this big loss that states where
sheep are raised commercially have lready passed
drastic dog laws or are contemplating so doing
It/ is generally agree»: that Michigan’s dog law
does not “do the business" in that it fails to fully
compensate owners of sheep for losses caused by
dogs. It is to remedy this defect as well as others
that the sheep interests of the state propose rad-
ical changes in the present dog law. The Depart-
ment of Agriculture suggests “uniform state dog
laws," and odors the following for a suggested
law which it believes will answer allIobjections
and meet all requirements:

1. All dogs over six months old to be listed by
the county tax assessor at the time of listing
other taxable property. (A more complete list of
dog owners is obtained in this way than is the case
Iwhen) the dog owners are required to list their

age

Tax to be he follows: One male or spayed fe
male, $2; each additional male or spayed female,
$3; each unspayed female, 85. Kennel licenses to
be issued with restrictions.

2. Dog owners to pay their dog tax and obtain
a dog license at the same time other taxes are
paid, unless proof is furnished that the dog has
been disposed of.

3. Counties to furnish metal tags bearing the
registration number of the dog and the name of
the dog’ s owner. (This would eliminate any ques-

tion arising as to the owner of a dog found at large

or in the act of worrying stock.)

4. Provide for the impounding and, after a
reasonable term of impoundment, the humans
destruction or dogs found at large without collars
bearing license tags.

5. All dogs to be confined from sunset to sun-
rise unless under leash or under reasonable control
of their owners.

6. Dogs found at large between sunset and sun-
rise to be impounded and owner notified. Owner to
regain custody of the dog on paying a fine for

’ violation of the law.

7. Any dog, registered or unregistered, may be
killed by anyone when caught in the act of chas-
ing, worrying injuring or killing sheep. Dog own-
or to have no recourse for the killing of the dog.

8. Any dog found running at large upon the
inclosed lands of a person other than the owner of
the dog may be killed at the time of finding him
by the owner of the land, his agent, tenant or em-
ployee.

9. Stock owners suffering losses from dogs to
report the same to the local justice of the peace.
Justice of the peace to appoint a committee of
two or three disinterested farmers residing in the
locality where the loss has been incurred, to ap-
praise the damages. Committee to give sheep own-
er a certificate showing in detail what the dam-
ages consist of and the amount. Damages beyond
the value of the sheep actually killed outright
should be allowed. Farmer to present the certifi-
cate to county commissioners to be passed on at
the next session.

10. Compensation to be taken from money de-
rived from the dog tax. Access to be had to state
fund it dog tax fund is insufficient to pay claims.

11. Dog owner to be held liable to the county
for all money paid out by the county for damages
done by his dog, plus all costs of suit. .\

12. Reward of at least $10 to be offered by the
county for the identification and proof of a sheep-
killing dog.

13. Owner of a dog known to kill sheep to be
required to kill, or cause to be killed, such dog

within 48 hours after notification under penalty I

of $5 and $1 per day thereafter until such dog is
killed. -

14.
son on his farm if he gives public notice of same.
15. Enforcement of the law to be the duty of
every police officer in the state. State to furnish
sufficient assistance, it necessary, to carry out all
of the provisions of the act.

Terminal Warehohse Resolution
PUBLIC hearing before the Senate Committee
on state affairs, on the Terminal Warehouse
bonding constitutional amendment warheld

last Wednesday, which ”suited in clearing the,
Members of much of the fog which interested.
into ‘

interests had succeeded in ini

Sheep owner to be allowed to set out poia.

its surroundings. In the first place it was made
plain to the shivering votaris's of traditional pro-
cedure that the hayseed legislators had no de-
signs upon the established order; that they were
not intent upon knocking the underplning from
beneath the temple of Liberty: that there was
no intention on the part of the aforesaid hayseeds
to make pumpkin seeds 3. legal tender for the
payment of debts; and that the resolution evidenc-

ed a sincere desire 0n the part of rural producers

of foodstuffs to straighten, shorten and unshau‘e
the avenues connecting him with the urban con
sumer. It was madeclear to the shivering indir.
iduals that this resolution should pass both houses
that we should not witness immediate entry of
the state upon a course of IreckleSs state social-
ism; but rather by its passage, the legislature
would be putting up to the people for their deter-
mination, the question whether, when the farmer
of Gaylord sells his potatoes at forty cents abushsl
and the Detroit consumer is compelled to my two
dollars and forty cents a bushel for the same po-
tatoes, in the interest of both the producer and

consumer, the state should not be empdwered to '

step in and supplant the antiquated machinery
of distribution under Which such wide divergen-
ces of prices occur with something better constitut-
ed to serve their interests;
come of the matter until amajority of tbe'people
of the state had approved it by their votes and
provided for an issue of bonds to finance the matter
and until a majority of both houses of the legis-
lature and the governor had approved plans for
putting it into effect. When these details. were
grasped by the excited gentlemen the danger of
bolshevism seemed to recede into the distance,
calmness succeeded agitation and nothing more
was heard about somebody rocking the boat. The
resolution was attacked by mill and elevator men
who,evfdently felt themselves slipping and de-
fended by J. W. Helme of Adrian and J. C. Ketch-
am of Hastings whose convincing arguments left
the friends of the resolution, when the hearing
closed with a feeling that “we have met the enemy
and they are ours”.

Senator Aaron Amen

ENATOR AMON of the 25th district, is an
honest-to-God farmer residing at Remus Me-
costa county. He has lived on a farm all his

life and makes no apologies for it. He does not ,

need to, for he has been slgnally successful at it.
He is the bell weather of the senate—At least his
name heads the

roll call and

when his name is

called his answer

is prompt and

p as i- t iv e.

needs no assist-

ance in making

up his mind and

his vote serves

, as a sort of flu-

’ gar board for any

other senator fur-

ther down the

roll doubtful as

’ ‘ to the real path

of duty. Senator Amon served an apprenticeship
of two terms in the house before coming to the
Senate. He is a member of Senate Committees
on Drains, Prohibition, Military Taxation and In-
dustrial Schools. He is a well known breeder of

Jersey cattle and one of the state’s most success-

ful potato growers. \
I Legislators Banquet—and Then Some

Michigan legislators have just emerged from a.

Very busy season of banqueting, speech-making

and political fence-building. On Feb. 12th, a num-1

ber attended the Lincoln banquet at Grand Rapids.
Many others spent a part of the week at their

respective home’s, rubbing elb we, with the constl-_

tuency at the county conventions. ‘The Zach
Chandler banquet at mains, \ Feb. 17, attracted
most of them and of course, there was no time
for law making- on Tuesday when several hun-
drsd delegates came from all over lilohiga'n to
attend the BMW state convention. But all

that nothing could

He'

sermons

l “t {‘3 Domenic]: at liquor is‘ 2;,

full! leach homes, automobiles, or other pri-
“u M“ where it is suspected liquor is
stored.

The court hoIds that the Demon law, the
set that makes possession of liquor a crime, is

. not good, but is super-seded by the Wile law.
which prohibits the saloon and the m ufac?
ture or, sale of liquor. ' I
. The court’s decision means that legal ‘ob-
structions to prevent the bringing in of liquor
from Toledo and other wet points/must be re-
moved, and that those who must have their
booze in order to make life werth living may
bring into the state .and keep in their own
possession all the liquor they want As a re-'
sult of the decision which was rendered on
Tuesday, it is claimed that hundreds of liquor-
lade‘n automobiles are already plying their
traffic between Toledo and Detroit, and the of—
ficials are rendered , practically helpless to
curb it.I I

Heretofore, drunkenness was a sure index of
law-violation,;' as it did not matter whether the
drinker I’coneumed his own booze or bought
from somebody else. i In either case, it was
held unlawful. Now, however, drunkenness
will give no one as to the source of the liquor
and it will be almost impossible to trace down
its illegal sale.

Commissioner Fred L. Woodwortb acknowl—
edges the additional difficulty which the court’ s
decision places in the way of enforcing the
prohibition law, but declares that his depart-
ment will leave no stone unturned to enforce
the law.

Assistant United States District Attorney
Le Clear “of Detroit, says that the invalidating ‘
. of the Damon law by the supreme court pre-
sumably placed the burden of preventing impor-
tation of liquor into Michigan on federal offi—
cers. pledged to enforcement of the Webb- Kén-
you act. He said that he had not had an op-
portunity to study the text of the supreme
court’s decision and could not determine what
the federal oflicials would do until he had re-
'ceived the oflcial decision. ‘ ,

If the federal encore use as much diligence
in ferretlng out law violators as have the state\
oflicers, the situation may not be so bad, as
there are many who violate a state law with
impunity but live strictly to the letter of the
federal statute. , ' fI.

College Claims Earnings of Five Millon
Dollars
The Michigan Agricultural College. has just

issued a statement claiming that it earned for the
’ farmers of Michigan4nore than $5, 000, 000 dur-
., ing its last fiscal year. Below are some of the
dividend-paying investments which the college
claims to have made:
, An extension specialist in poultry, who culled
more than 100, 000 hens yin 1918, and eliminated
from farm flocks more than 40, 000 hens that fail-
ed’ to lay—saving farmers more than $100, 000 By
placing in the hands of farmers an improved va-
riety of rye, the experiment station enabled farm-
ers to increase their yields of this crop by 616,-
000 bushels, valued at three quarters of a million ‘
dollars. County agricultural agents working with
the state livestock sanitary commission, cut down
the loss from hog cholera from over a million dol-
lars annually to less then $50, 000 last year New
co-Opcrative marketing associations to the num- .
ber of 52, organized under the auspices of the
college, earned over a million dollars for tam
ers, and placed from products in the hands of
consumers at reduced cost—these were a few of
item mentioned. Others brought the total of
earning up to more than $5, 000, 000.

The. repart dealt only with the experirhent sta-
tion and extension work of the college, and made

nesting men and m for agriculture, eggs-E
nearing, veterinary medicine, forestry and m

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rwaiving o bout tho overi'go for the out?» country. ,

The prices 119de by the Milk Producers’ Mar-
Eating Ass'n oi the New York regional milk mar-
ket hoe not been accepted by some“ of the milk.
distributing organizations operating. in New York '
City, Albany, Budalo, Binghampton, Rochester,
Newark, Scranton, Bridgeport, Hartford. The
producers' association price applying to the 150-
mile zone is 34. 50 per cwt. for 3% milk. The
price offered by some distributors is 33. 60 per cwt.

. Irv-roan Paton: .

Tho folloWing prices per cwt. are reported to be”
poid for the month of February, f...ob Boston,
Mass, 34. 48 for 3. 5% milk; Pittsburgh, Pa, at
flcountry stations, 33. 70 for 3. 5% milk; 1. o. b. Green-
Hive, 8.0 ., 35. 80 flat price 1 1.0.b. Spokane, Wash,
311.00 :51- 0.0111 milk. . ,

 

“BONDING Nears DAKOTA, ss
‘ BY AN UNENIENDLY PRESS

The Price Current Grain Reporter is very much

 

f .110 property to mortgage.
'fered to, the careful

over the growth 01 the

9 in marketing their own products.

.. so; sample. or the 9pleen or this paper:

‘ “Bill 75 introdhced in the North Dakota Senate
has received the O. K. of the
Leagu9’ secret estrous. It provides for an issue
of $5, 900 ,000 inure of- state bonds, “North Dakota
Elevator Series,” “secured dollar for dollar by the
first mortgages upon the real and personal prop-

" ‘9rty at the North Dakota M111 and Elevator 00!”

o corporation at this time having no existence and
The bonds will be of-
investors, including . of

course the Bolsheviki, in denominations of 35,-

' 000 to 810, 000 each, said bonds to run not less than

10 nor more than 30 years from date of issue,

payable with 6 per cent interest. It is provided
that “from time to time the Industrial Commis-

T 91011 shall out of the earnings derived from the
North Dakota. Mill and Elevator Ass'n pay to the

treasurer said moneys as the Commission shall

,‘deem advisable’ (7) to devote to the purpose of

paying said bonds and interest." If for any rea-
son the fund “deemed advisable" to be so devoted

shall be insufficient, the treasurer shall supply the
deficiency out of any other available moneys of

the state in his custody; but, he shall in this case
“as scan as possible" out of the Mill and Elevator
payment fund return the amount of the deficien-

9y whence taken.

“No doubt there will be a riot of applications
by loyalNorth Dakota farmers and business men
to secure this kind of "gilt edge" security having

. the Nonpartisan League’s O. K. This seems to be
_. some-cf the legislation of which Representative

Hanson of Grand Forks said: “Go ahead and let
it pass, boys, but you will have to account for it
later. 'The motto is, 'We’ll-stick, we’ll win,’ but it

looks to me 113 though it will be ‘We stuck, we

are stung,’ "

 

, FARMERS’ CLUB SEES No BENE-

EFIT INTHE COUNTY AGENT

 

The Burton Farmers' Club of Shiawassee coun-
ty voiced the opinion at a recent session that the
county agent was of no benefit to Shlawassee
county. Those who opposed the county agent

cooperatives» -
tin; movement, and never loses a chance to“

:m‘the forms 9 who disregard recedent en- 4 _,
1' p and Visit! ghey believed he should help the farmers of .

the. county in selling their products to 911 mm ' V
7959 when there was an over-supply in the c'oun-
Wty, and in buying products of other count193 or-‘i

Below is ~

Nonpartisan .

[graduate of an agricultural college. .
'a businesg expert and not an agricultural ex-

  
 

fave as the principal reason that he did 1195987
‘enough attention to market conditions. They

states where the supply was large, as cheaply as 7
possible for the farmers of Shiawassee. In short, 5

3 they would have him be a business agent.

, Anéther. former answered, ‘Well if that is what
you want your county agent to do, you had bet-
ter hires a business man and not bother with a
You want

port."

The county agent topic is a live one at. nearly
every meeting of Shiawassee county farmers, and
the sentiment 13 pretty evenly divided.

BIG CCIéONIZATION PROJECT
IS LAUNCHED IN THE U. P.

 

 

Right in line with the recommendations 91 Mi'.
Quamme, president of the Federal Land Bank of 4
St. Paul, that cut-over lands be reclaimed and put ., _
under cultivation through the colonization plan, '
comes the announcement that the Northern Mich-
igan band 00., of St. Paul will spend 33,000,000
in purchasing land in the upper peninsula, build-
ing houses and barns, clearing ten acres out of
every 80, furnishing stock, tools, etc., and "stay-
ing with" the settler until his success has been
assured.

The counti93 where the plan will be worked
out are Chippewa. Luce and Schoolcraft, and it is
understood that 80,000 acres of land have been
bought for the purpose. The company expects to
begin clearing the land about the first of April
and hopes to have 500 settlers on them within
the near future. One feature of the plan will be
the establishment of an improved farm in Chip-
pewa county where blooded stock will be raised,
agricultural experiments carried 611, etc.

The Red Cross estimates that in reconstruction
work in France 81,000 pIOWs, 56, 000 cultivators.
88, 000 harrows, 85, 000 seed drills, 18, 000 fertilizers
88, 000 marrowe, 35, 000 seed drills, 18, 000 fertilizers
and thousands of other types of farm implements
will be needed.

Sm'vcy of the World’s Supply and the World’s Needs of Live Stock and Dairy Products

'4 Horses and .Mtiies
HE NUMBER of horses and mules has

, since 1890 to 26 .459, 000 Job. 1 1919. It may
be assumed. therefore, that this rate is sufficient to
meet the normal requirempnte or the country.

- The war in Europe stimulated $19 export demand

for horses and mules,.the number exported in-
creasing from 88,451; in' the fiscal year 1818 to
27059 in 1114.110 300118 1:: ins. in 469,488 in
1816, it was 415 .468 in 1917. and tell to 113 ,644 in
1918.1‘ho average exports tron 1914 to 1913,

inclusive. were therefore 235,738, which wiu only _‘
1 per cent of the number estimated to be on farms.”

January 1,1313. These abnormal exports rolled
to maintain the average farm. price of- horses and
mules prior to the War, indicating a supply in,

excess of domestic demand. There word on hand 7’

with the American Expeditionary Forces, Decem-

ber 25,1918,a total of 191, 881 animals. , -

“It appears certain that tho obnormals ofx'port
demand due to the war will not continue; The

displacement of horses by trucks in cities and the . ‘

prospective increase of trucks and tractors in the
country will tend to limit the market. '

, Dairy Cows ‘
“All censuses and estimates of numbers of live

' stock on farms show a' consistent and uniform

1119119999 in the number of dairy costs

The in-
e in I913 was 0.7- per 09114: and the total

 

 

shown a uniform rate 93 increase annually ,
pounds in 1918.

 

an opportunity and a tendency to expand over
pro-war requirements in this direction. For in-
stance, exports of condensed milk rose from 16,-
000,000 pounds in the fiscal year 1914 to 580,000,000

Beef Cattle
Exports of beef and beef products fell from

788,000,000 pounds, the high point in the fiscal year

1800, to 151,000,000 pounds in 1914. They rose to
885,000,000 pounds, in the fiscal year 1915, and to
801,000,000 pounds in the fiscal year 1918. A

’most significant change was the decline in ex-

ports“of fresh beef from 352,000,000 pounds in
1801 to only 6,000,000 pounds in 1914.

T‘An increase in the number of bee! animals in
this country would appear to be justified by our
own, relative increase in population and probable
eprrt demand, but the extent or that increase

-' will depend on the feed supply on prices, and on
other economic conditions.

Swine
The number of swine tell from 85, 620, 000, the

filth point in 1911, to 58 933,000 the low point in
. ”19.141 and under the stimulus of war demand and

a’ record corn crop in 1917 the number increased

; to 70;, 878 ,000 on January 1,1918. Reports indicate

that the number on farm; on January 1, 1919,
wits 75 587,000, or an increase of 6. 5 per cent.

I sf‘The number of swine per capita of population
in 1 11. W0. 678 of one animal.

, On the same
basis there should be 72, 471, 000 on farms in 1919
“ port of; pork and pork- products fell from

and rose to 1,692, 000, 000 in
to data are lacking, reports
reduction in the number.

  

 
 

16780000300 pounds in the fiscal year 1899 to

A erapresentative of tho ,. ..
t 1 . i 1333p. rose from 33. 48 per head on January. ‘
i

1,521, 000,000 pounds on September so, 1917, to 309,-. _, ‘

“January 1 1919. The domestic situation indicates ‘
" _ that a further increase in the number of sheep fl. .

in mind, namely (1) large stocks now on hand isn
the United States, and (2) the rapidity with
which the number of swine can be increased in,
Europe. Another factor of importance is the-
relatively large proportion of lard in the exports
of this country, amounting to about 50 per cent
of all pork products exported in the 5-year period

.from 1910 to 1914, and about 200 per cent more

than the total quantity of beef exported. Exports
of lard amounted to 481,000,000 pounds in 1914,
476,000,000 pounds in 1915, 427,000,000 pounds in
1916, 445,000,000 pounds in 1917, and 392,000,000
pounds in 1918. All reports emphasize the short-
age of stats and oils in Europe at the present
time. No shipments to Germany and Austria
have been included in the exports of lard from the
United States since 1914. However, prior to the
war Germany was our second largest customer,
taking 140,000,000 pounds in 1914, or about 80
per cent of our total lard exports. The foreign
demand for lard i3 likely to be .heavy during the
present year. '

Sheep

f‘Sheep steadily declined in numbers from 53,-
633,000 in 1911 to 47,616,000 in 1917. The number

increased sl-ightlHo 48,603,000—on January 1,
‘1913, and reports indicate 49,303,000, er a mater?

19.1 increase to January 1, 1919. Exports of mutr
ton fell from 6,144,000 pounds in 1903 to 220,000
pounds in 1911, and rose to 5,553,000 in 1916 and
8,098,000 in 1918; and exports of wool rose from
144, 000 pounds in 1911 to 8,,158 000 in 1915; and
fell to 993, 000 in 1918, while imports of wool rose. .

'from 138, 000, 000 in. 1911 to 535, 000, 000 in 1916,

and 87.9, 000, 000 in 1818. Stocks of wool fell from
000, 000 on September 80,1913. Farm prices

12 to. 3.11.82 on January 1,1918, and $11, 61,;

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Special low rates to- reputable breeders of live stock
“Id Poultry; write us for them.

OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS
We respectfully ask our readers to favor our adver-
tisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices are
cheerfully sent free, and we guarantee you grainst loss
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Entered as second-class matter, at Mt. Clemens. MEIER

Economic Barriers

“N A'SPEECH charged with patriotic fer-
vor, Judge Wiest of Lansing, thrilled the

Northeastern Michigan banqueteeirs at the “

Hotel Bancroft, Saginaw, last “Friday night,
by an appeal to Americanism to preserve in-
violate and vigorously defend the principles
of democracy and the sanctity of the Consti-
tution from Bolshevism, both native and im-
ported. ‘ .

According to Judge Wiest, the war is not
over. ‘Germany is not licked.“ Germany is
still defiant.” “Germany wants peace, but
only peace that is advantageous to her.” -

“I am against any peace terms that are sat-
isfactory to Germany. " ‘ "' I am against
any peace terms that do not make Germany
pay for her crimes. ‘ " ’ I am against any
peace terms that will remove economic bar-
riers. ‘ ‘ " Germany agreed to the restor-
ation of Belgium but not to resoration and re-
paration. I am against that. ’ ’ ’ I want
Germany to not only restore the territory that
she robbed from France and Belgium but I
want her to make restitution, dollar for dol-
lar, for the damage she did to the buildings, to
the trees, to the ground of that territory.‘ " ’
I want Germany to indemnify every nation
that she forced into war. Even if it takes
forty years, or generations, I want her to pay
the price.”

Thus spoke Judge Wiest.

And the good red blood of two hundred
American citizens boiled in their veins and
thunderous applause approved. \

We American people have fallen into a
very bad habit of permitting our hearts to
run away with our heads. Ordinarily we
succeed in overtaking that very important
member of the body before it is irretrievably
lost and in eventually reasserting our com-
mon sense and judgment. But when coldly
judicial heads like, Judge Wiest’s get lost
in the shuffle of human emotions, we fear for
the. honor and safety of the nation.

We admire Judge Wiest’s’ indubitable
Americanism. His defense of our institu-
tions of democracy and his bitter arraign-
ment of Germany for the terrible, terrible

crimes she has committed must find response ,

in the heart of every true American citizen.
A nation that has left a hundred thousand
sons in foreign graves cannot forgive and
forget over-night. And yet,—
“Vengence is mine,” saith the Lord.
Nothing can prevent the victorious na-

tions from using the lash on Germany if they
so elect. ’ They need never permit the van- "

quished foe to rise again to her feet. They
can beat her down, down, down into the

dust of repentance; they can lash her into the.
, depths. of despair; they can kill the hope and

ambition (3 her citizens and paralyze their

industry,- and 's’marting under our woundsjwe ’
- , may shout with eglee as‘th‘e thong comes down
1°?”ka thmiwhefbut reg?"

  
 

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ed by her~ own war debts, the debts "of all the

not surmount. Inpforty years you will ve
a nation of slaves; in four generations u
will have a nation" of savages and 'madmen. '~

Retaliation will not permit reparat' n. I!

Germany is to pay her debt to the wor d, the"
world must give her the opportunity to- pay .,

that debt. If Germany can neither, buy not
sell from other nations, Germany can create
no wealth and Germany. must create vast
wealth if she is to liquidate --her obligations.
This is business, not sentiment. oreover, itis
good business that should have a most practi-
cal appeal to the nations that have a hundred
and fifty billions of \war debts to pay.
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous ’
FTER DWELLING at length upon the
sacred duty of the United States to do
somethin for its returned soldiers and de-
claring at the proposal to provide soldiers
wth farms at the ex’pense of state and nation-
al government was part of that “do-some-
thing” program, —the department of interior
cloaks the sublime with a mantle of the ridice
ulous by announcing that it does not intend to
immediately provide farms for more than 20,-
000 soldiers. And there are over 3,000,000
soldiers Wearing the uniform of Uncle-Sam!
That means that ONE out of every ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY soldiers will be
financially assisted in becoming a farmer.

'We breathe easier. We had supposed‘from‘

the national publicity that had been given to
Secretary Lane’s proposal to nfake farmers
out of returning soldiers that this was to be
undertaken on a large scale. We had visual-
ized the" enormous over-productiOn of crops
that would inevitably result from a back-to-
the-land m0vement of any scope and we could
not with conscience sanction any action on the
part of the st to and national governments
to hasten the demoralization of agriculture
that such a movement would portend.

Let us purge our minds of any delusions
that we may have as to this matter. Mr. Han-
na, representing the Dep’t of Interior, is cer-
tain that the adoption of Sec. Lane’s plan
will be a stimulus to business. Will it? Not
if it contemplates developing only“ 20,000
farms. The spending of $100,000,000 for
purposes of reclamation in ten or twelve dif-
ferent states will not produce .a tremor in
the business barometer of the nation. If,
'on the other hand, enough of the pubic funds
are expended for reclamation, building ' of
farm homes, buying of farm implements, and
the stocking of farms to insure the industrial
prosperity promised ~by Mr. Lane,—~and all
these reclaimed acres areset to, work produc-
ing food,———nothing but widespread disasters
of the elements could prevent over produc-
tion of food that would precipitate both the
industry and the agriculture of the nation
into chaos and ruin. Mr. Lane and his assist-

ants may quote statistics until doomsday to ‘

prove that the increase in production is only
50 per cent of the increase in population,
without explaining the reasons for the“ present
apparent surplusages of wheat, oats and
beans. ' ‘

We would be immeasurably pleased to see
several hundred thousand acres of Michi-
gan’s fertile cut-over lands reclaimed and set
to w0rk. We are perfectly willing, even that
,the state. and national governments should
co-operate in, furnishing the necessary funds
for this commendable project.- But we want
to be very .sure’of what the exact consequenc-
es are to be.» It would be v foolish, indeed,

for the people and the} ' ture, of Michi- "
. gen....to" aid , in .a proJeot, which, no matter

what’its immediate benefits might be,-'Would

the very Ionesffivitrwas meant to,he’1p..'

' 99“” “Isis surely as, take-ths‘gnb-eg; ,.
with” 333511“; Whom she fought. then erect ,. Michigan lastweekandwul voteat the spring _
economic barriers against her that “she can. , . . . ‘ .

' an organ ;

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to ‘hl’hisear that overao'ne

election! I ’1 .95.

. Th6 numbbtl'of.v‘reg7istrations by women far,

exceeded the most enthusiastic predictions of
the sufirhge leaders. During the early reg-
istraton days~ little 'interestiwas. shown, and
those Who had“ advocated and worked for
equal sufirege began to fear-that ‘i‘love’s labor,
had \been lest”, But the contest for the-5
Board of Agriculture and the proposedlight
wine and beer amendment, finally aroused
the women out of their apathy "and on the
lastday of registration, they came under the
'wire' inflame-numbers. , , >
The woman’s vote was .a big factor at the.
state, convention and will be a big factor in
all future elections. A new force has entered.
Michigan politics. To some it is a disturb-'
«ing‘force; to;others,areassuring force. In eith-
er case, from now on, the politicians Will .po-
litely “make way for the ladies.” ~

Beware of the Plausible Spider ,

“IF THE government can afford to pay
$1,000,000,000 to. maintain the - priCe
of wheat, it can afford iii/1,000,000,000. to
keep upthe price of labor”, Geo. R. Kirk-
patrick, socialist candidate for vice-president
in 1916, told a gathering of laboring men at
the House‘of the Masses in Detroit.

Mr. Kirkpatrick is one of those astute gen- ,
tlemen who would proffer“ the farmers an 01-
ive branch and a convincing argument for
a coalition between labor and farmers. But
when he talks the language that his cohorts
best understand, he appeals to class preju-
dice and temporarily forgets that he has in-
vited the fly to make herself at home in his
parlor. , , p '

7‘ The Detroit-Free Press feels that Attorney

Heney is too severe on the packers; that after
all the packers have hearts; it does not follow
that all , this big monopoly has a heart. If
indeed, the packers’ combination has such
all testimony
would tend to prove the contrary. The Free
Press was against state-Wide prohibition;
snarled at nation-wide prohibition; suggested
that President Wilson was a block in the way
of Congress’ progress while here, and then,
when the President decided to go ‘ ‘over there”
the same publication stated that he was need-
ed over here. And there you are ;' you, pay
your two cents and get as many kicks, growls
and grumbles as y‘aou care to read.

Who is that inoffensive little chap, with
the “please-protect-me” look, which the car-
toonist delights to dub, “The Consumer”.
Oh he’s the fellow that spends one-fourth of
his salary for clothes, another fourth for
cigars, another fourth for amusements,———and

' raises a howl because he has to spend the last

fourth for food to keep body and soul to-
gether. _ ‘

 

The “booze gang” of Michigan are not

wise enough to know that they have been
kicked out into the street, run over by public
opinion; pounded with ballots and pummeled
with righteous indignation. They insist that
the people of Michigan shallvote 0n the open
saloon question again in April. All‘right, old
soaks, get ready for another sense. ‘

 

 
 

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gt ‘ _ . evidence that thepro-
.g‘ttting pretty wan crowded;

' ' legislature gin the interest“ “it.

animator lawyers and physicians. 'A half
czar! bill's-W providing for more pay for the le-

f :igélflfratermty . have beenwpresented, and two
. «or. three *‘cun'ningly devised Schemes to give ,
l» more Jobs and better pay to “pill dispensers.”

lg iis'fnow proposed to abolish the State

Boardof Health '- and -oirganize in its stead a

health commission in charge of a Health Com-

minioner. The‘TComminioner would, of course,
be appointed by the. governor fer six years,
. ,r the: salary would. be attractive, and the coni-
: minio‘nwould- be‘composed of five members,
all oft/whom: must be, physicians. This is known
:as the Moore bill, and. all laymen are to'be, ex-

cluded through its proVisions. _ __ .
Under the propbsed order of things the com-

’ missioner will be “IT”, and if the pepulace

survived a - six~year term of “operations”
under-the knife of the Commissioner and his

' “ five trusty “pill dispensers,”‘. they would sure-
ly he minus many, organs now considered

necessary for good health and longevity. The

D

, citizens of Michigan desire good health; but
, they don ’12 feel that more commissions with
p more authority and more physicians with
.. more pills would have a tendency in the right

direction.

Michigan, has a case of “lawycritis” just

' new; the good Lord save us from an epidemic
, ofZ _‘\‘ physicianitis. ’ ’ '

 

' flA Fete Which Proved a Mote in a Brother’s

Eye -

OUIs F.—.SWIFT, .one of the “Big 5”

packers, was‘on the. stand beforezthe Sen-

il'i-at‘e- Committee recently, and gave such testi-

mony Which would tend to prove that the pack-

’ "ere were running a sort of “benevolent .8311-

.aflfworyf’thattheywere' sincere; hm: ‘ ' '

._ is . the numerous-"hills presented? :9 ,
boards; .new'fdepartments- and increases

   

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damned “1' and striwng' tog‘fdo for”-rathe_r7thanir

to 9‘66” the stock raisers and consumers , .
_When he left the stand he left a copy» of the

"Federal Trade Commission report, in whichfi

‘_ he had made many notations. This book was
. picked “up byuAttorney Heney unintentionally.

Now Mr. Heney,had claimed that one Priebe,
. President of the Priebe & Co., a subsidiary

poultry concern of Swift & 00., was connected.

as with the feed' administration and had used

this connection in the interest of Swift & Co.
This Louis Swift had strenuously denied.

However, this notation was found in Swift’s

handwriting'on the margin of his copy of the .

Federal report: “Priebe matter shows us up
rotten. Am sorry it got this way, am sorry we
cannot change over to Swift & (30., or sell out.
Think we must—LP. S.” And this was the
very note that Honey turned into a mote which
found lodgment in a brother’s eye.

Now that the Fifth‘Liberty Loan is up for
consideration, it might be well to look else-
where for, inspiration, if we have forgotten
about the war; what it cost and what it might
have cost. France gave more than two million
men to the cause, and besides that she suffered
a "property loss of more than fourteen billion
dollars. She must ,rebuild her villages and

, cities; restore the/farms; reclaim her mines
and set the whole house in order. And listen,
she proposes to do this without calling on other
nations for help—and all this after raising
nine war loans. France has indeed made a
sacrifice; we are now only asked to supply the
necessary funds to clean up the war debt and

‘get the boys back home. '

The business farmer is interested in the
nation’s progress; in the’doings ofCongress;
the nation’s finance and the world’s doings
at large—and in all these matters from the
viewpoint as affecting his business. The farm
papers which continue to‘ talk production only
are still useful to the farmer in a commercial

. way.

‘Here’s a New One: “The Parlor Bolsheviki”
“1 It seems but yesterday that a half hundred

' .' fellows were hustled 0133 to jail in New Yarn?
. ~city', because two of their number exp d _.
their on ’ons as to the war and its 0 e..:; ~ -

And’ we. ave not forgotten the fellows who

were hustled off to prison because they were

not loyal to the President, the Federal govern
ment and the best interests of the United
States. They, received their just punishment
and learned a very necessary lesson. ~~

A very few months have passed. The ar-
mistice has been signed, but the war is not
over. And yet many people who should know
better, are bitter in their criticism of the
President, Congress, and those in authority

in army and navy, and do not hesitate to en- .
gage in seditious talk which cannot but have ..

the eifect of destroying confidence and caus-
ing dissatisfaction and unrest among the peo-

ple. .
And, mind you, the fellows who are now do-

ing the talking are the ones who “demanded” .

“war to the knife and knife to the hilt” be-
fore this nation engaged in the war. These
are the felIOWs who lead the conversation in
the parlor car and in the parlors of their own
homes and in the homes of their friends. They
seem to delight in spreading broadcast de-
structive criticism, and this too, when we
nation, we should be standing squarely behind

all those in authority.
These master manipulators, and war time

profiteers are every whit as dangerous as were
the disloyal of a few months ago. These cit-
izens, if such they may be called, should be
dubbed the “parlor Bolsheviki” of the 'United
States and should be given a wide berth by
those who are seeking that peace which shall
make future wars impossible. The “yellow
streak” is more clearly distinguished when
“fright because of the probability of a fright”
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.ORWAB‘D‘ LOOKING MEN AND WOMEN will not grow
7"“er 59f: the .gdiseussi‘ons and disclosures- in connection With
‘11"("Faker’sil’g-linqnirywhich has been drawing its weary length

before the Senate‘investigating committee at Washington. The
fact must be keptin' mind that many vital issues are at stake in this

investigation ;' and" that the-final outcome of these hearings means
much to the present, as well as to. the future generations.

, The question of /‘fControl” is really the paramount issue; the
one-great problem‘that is nation wide and world wide. As a nation
we are just emerging from a great world war; in blood and treasure
the nations of the earth have contributed most generously.~ The
mind which planned the'war;arranged the scene of conflict, and at
awgiven signal applied the terch which set the destroying agencies
at war in flame, was'amind long trained. and fully determined
to“control.” '

CONTROL—To restrain; rule, govern; .manage; guide},
‘hlnder‘; direct; check; curb; counteract; subdue. A

The Federal Trade Commission, appointed to make an im-

regulate,

- partialinvestigation, is made up of men anxious to get at the facts

and only the facts, in connection with the operatiOnsof the “Big 53’
packers. The efforts

“3 shown by $119" dischaures must be considered mighty p3,. policy,
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. , r . I». do not ch'arge'thatthnlackgof-,edimla,1---gommentson the part
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on the part of: the packers to discredit the ,
. ‘ report of this commission, throngh paid advertising, rather "than
' 1 to furnish the. Senate Committee with ‘facts to justifyf‘their actions

Ii " lyreturned as a. scepter in the strong arm of

fOI' the publicityso generously displayed in the magazines and
newspapers of the country. The evidence of these men amounts to
little. They are employed by 'the packers- write from figures and
information arranged for and by the pee ers; and always from
a “paid” packer ’s viewpoint. ' .
Positive evidence has been presented that the “Big 5” packers’
combination fdoes not exist; that these packers control the livestock
markets; that they control the stockyards; that they have crushed
competition; that they are big enough to require governments of
of the allied powers, including the United States, to accede to the
concessions asked before they would unlock the meat supply of the

"world; that they have entered many lines of business and are reach—

ing out for more—and evidence positive, has been presented that
when the packers enter a line of business they soon take over the
little fellows “body and britches and all”. '
Finally let it be remembered that the problem of the packers
is essentially the problem of “control.” M any grave questions are
involved. Shall ,the Federal government control, in the Interests
of the many and for the common good? Should absolute controlbe
left in the hands of greedy men, and the combined, capital Whlch

they already control? The Federal Trade Commission is an agency

of the people; acting in behalf of the people. The packers repre-
sent a group of individuals amenable to the government, under the
protection of Which they are enabled to do bus1ness. No one den
sires that the packers shall cease to do business nor that‘their bus-
iness shall be destroyed;'rather_ is it the desire of all good citizens
that the interests of the packers shall be harmonized, with the in-

terests of the peoples-with the two greater interests, if you please, ~
' of the great army of live-stock growers and the greater army of

consumers. To this end let us stand by the Federal Trade Commis—

‘ Vision; diligently consider the evidence submitted and demand that
p"‘co_ntrol,” as an instrument of government,'be fully and complete;

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' quarterrhaster;
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The State Coimtab -_. - .
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Wt thing. The bill provides for a command-
'ingodlcer, to be appointed by the Governor.

elude One assistant to the commanding emcer,

.. who will be the adjutant and quartermastor; six
captains, eight lieutenants,

twenty sergeants,
thirty corporals and one hundred and fifty troop-
ers. The sum of $375,000 is asked for mainten-
anceyof this state police. ’Saiaries provided by

the bill are $5,000 a year, or $13.70 a day for the”

commanding officer; $2,500 for the adjutant and
$2,400 each for the captains;

flaunts; $90 amonth for each of the corporals,

' . and $75 a month for each of the troopers, except

in their first six months of serviCe, when it would

‘ be $65 a month. An increase 0f $100 a year each
”for emcers and $50 each for troopers is provided
This force '

fora maximum period offifive years.
tobe equipped with uniforms, quarters and horses,
the railroads and steamboatseto carry them on
requisition orders, to be paid for later by the
state.

At the present time reconstruction is the most
important thing to consider. We were asked to
Werk hard and give and give until it hurt, and
help win the war and put down militarism and
we did it. And now we are asked, before our

. boys'are through bleeding, to raise $376,000 to

pay gunmen, or men to carry: fire arms. When

this constabulary were in my county and adjoin-

ing'counties their conduct was such as to lead to
an arrest and conviction for shooting a man’s
auto We farmers don't mind paying taxes, if
we get proper results from money expended. Un-
der this reconstruction period we expect to raise
$375,000 and We do not object to it, _if it is used
where. it will be of use to the people. It seems
to me it would be of much more benefit to the
people of our great state of Michigan if. it were
spent in the following way: For the Governor
to appoint a commanding officer, but call him a
general superintendent, in place of captains, lieu-
tenants, sergeants, corporals, .we would have as-
sistant superintendents; in place of troopers we
would have foremen. As to salaries we would
give the superintendant $2,000 a year and expens-
es; $1,500 and expenses for each assistant super-
intendent, and $6 a day for the foremen.
them with horses, plows, shovels, spades and
tools for building fences, the railroads and steam
boats to carry them on requisition orders to be
paid for later by the state. The superintendent
to establish headquarters in the different parts of
the state, where the assistant superintendents and
foreman would be best located for efficient vvork.
Each of these workers to have 10 days' vacation
on full pay each year. We would put them at
reconstruction work for the benefit of our soldier
boys and the state in general in the following
way:

Place them On unoccupied and“ run-down farms,
their work to be to. reconstruct and build, or if
you please, to lend a helping hand to those under
heavy obligations. I,By expending our money along
this line we Would be making our dear old state
of'Michigan one worth while. But this state con-
stabulary as provided by the bill of Mr. Weissert
is of little good either to the state or people in
general, except to make good fat jobs for those
who know how to pull the wires and get in, and
perhaps it might come in handy to police the
subways and tunnels that are being built by the
state near Jackson..——F. H., Reading, Michigan.

Successful Co-Operative Threshing Company

Reading the inquiry of Clinton county farmer
and also the answer of Mr.>G. W. J., of. Bridge-
port, also answer or R. A. H., of Vassar, I thought
I would also give you the experience of our com-
pany ' '

We were situated in a geographical location so .

thit the threshers avoided us until everything
around was finished, then finally, just before win-
ter, we might get our threshing done. Finally, in
1917, twelve of us organized a co-operative asso-
ciation and went fofivard and bought a small ‘No.
As 'our

It arrived so late‘ in the season that we only tried
it on one Job; we found it wOuld do our work.

‘Then for the season of 1918 we hired an old Cad- ;‘
‘illac motor rebuilt with governor, for power, and,

we found it ample and light to get over our sand .
g . hills, and our record with this small outfit was“
' ""100 bushels of cats per. hour. .. ' _ .—

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«aims to make our state. constabulary a per- .
All". '
~ ether appointments are to be made on the recon:‘

mandation of the ,commanding ember. They in»

__ borhoods.

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were on our s, and not. tributary to.
ritory. Had our soasdn- been teed ’wo‘ iron; .
made enough besides our, members’ share to pay

   

   
  
  

for our machine, but our craps were poor as a let". 1' "

    

of grain got June frosted, so that we still owe f.
$190. 00 on our machine and we have just recontly

purchased a motor like the one we rented a your. '
" ago, and I am sure that next yearlwe will pay as:

our entire outfit, and the advantage or having our
threshing done early is “net measured in dollars‘
and cents at all. One of our members sold Out .'

and moved away and there were a dozen neigh-\

bors after the share, and the nearest one getsit,

"so you can see what the suujoundfng ones think—

of our success J~Iaving our own power this year
we may do some outside threshing which we did
not do last year We are all agreed that this is

one of the wisest moVes ever made in our neigh. w
I am ready to answer any inquirieae— ,1

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Build Roads "From Auto License Money

The question which will be submitted to the '
qualified voters of the State of Michigan in the
coming election to bond our state for fifty million.
dollars to build good roads, is so important a
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Copyrlgmod by the low York Tribune Association
SIGN HIM or BEFORE as ours even me nnAnsoaa.
i«Darling in the New York Tribune.

more known to give the people_an opportunity to
consider. Please permit me ‘to place some facts
which I desire important, so every reader may
use his own judgment.

The nation' 5 war debt of the Civil war was not
quite two billion and a half. At the beginning of
the present war there was still one billion unpaid.
That would show, in a' period of fifty-five years, -
we paid less than onefbillion and a half of the
Civil war debt. The cost of the present war is
estimated at not less than thirty-five billion-—
that's the nation’s mortgage. Shall we mortgage .
the state likewise? We must also take into con-
sideration different contracted debts, like school
bonds, township, city, county and state debts,
which must all be carried at the same time; then
comes every man's personal debts that he must
meet. I ask what laboring man would like to live
in a state where he practically buys his house and
lot each year in taxes?

Farmers and small industries, likewise farm
production is on a decline now; the laboring class
has no guarantee what their income may be, but a
contracted debt stands and has, and if of a con-

"suming nature how’ are We going to get good

roads? I prefer the plan, “pay as you go system.” ,
If I am informed right the state receives a mil-
lion and better for automobile licenses and tax
each year, then raise by direct in tlfe amount

.. required for interest on a titty million loan, and

we would than about two million dollars at our
command to build good roads‘each year, end such

. an amount wisely expended would. soon place the C
on

state of Michigan as one e"! the leading states in ~
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, the milling industry published in M. B F. I cer-

, iar

. $2. 52 for flour from one bushel of wheat.

' pound. There is 16 lbs,

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, and or the 1135'. new company. stripped—of
its buildings; machinery, etc., is 3;? Just .948 [
much as any other land 1111 Detroit. 11 the single .
tenors raise the” land value or the small house
holder to that o: the Ford Meter Company or
lower, the value of the Ford Motor Co 31.3, along! to
that of the small householder? / V .
The single taxe‘rs. claim that taxes cannot be ' "
passed on to the consumer. I think they will find
.di‘fiicuity in proving that the Ford Motor Co. doe!!! i .. a: . I
not _‘add its takes to its other Overhead, 5 ' 1-
charge it an in the bill. And they would do the 1 - "
same with any increase The householder would ~ ,
also raise his rents, but there is nothing to " '
prove that the employees of the Ford Motor 00.
could be paid any more to meet the increased cost:
'of living And there is also nothing to prove that ‘
Mr. Ford would make any less profit than he does ‘ 1 1’.
now. Ferd can make a large profit from opera-~' I '
tions on an acre of land equal in size to that 00— " ,- —.—
cupied by the corner grocer, who Works hard to -
make a bare living. Why? Patents give the ,
corner grocer the sole right to sell groceries in the
11.8., or even in Detroit, jfor 30 years, and you
can talk his 100 feet square for anything you please. ' 2 '
He will add it in the bill. But Ford has not the ‘ ' » ‘ .
sole right to make automobiles.- No, and neither ~ ' A' ”
is Detroit the only town on earth where automo« "
biles can be made Suppose you tax Mr. Ford to ,'
the place where its cheaper to move When he
leaves toWn what becomes of the 51,000 employees
and the $20, 000. 000 spent annually for goods in .
Detroit, which he represents? (1 quote from the ‘ -. , ,
daily press.) Then where is your tax to be spread? -
The trouble with farming is that it has no se-
crets and has been granted no patents. How‘
ever, income and inheritance taxes do frequently
even things up, without removing that hope of
profit, which is the only reason for improvement
in anything. ———Georae W. Straight, Ottawa county.

    

    
 
       
           
  

 

     
     
       
     
 
   
   
 
  
    
    
   
   
 
   
   
 
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
    
   
  
   
   
     
  
  
  
   
 
   
    
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
  

 

 

Farmer vs. Miller . . ’
I have been studying Mr. Smith's defense of K ’,

tainly agree with Mr. Smith on one point. H6 is , ' .
in a position to be much better informed on the ’ -
milling proposition than most farmers, but I can-
not think that those conditions existed for any
length of time. The Valley City Milling Company
had a representative in Vicksburg this past Week.
They claimed to have an abundance of wheat on "
hand, but he stated that for about one week they ,4 3;"
had hard work to get any wheat. Be that as it . .
may. we will leave the Grand Rapids mill out of -* .
the question. I am going to submit some figures L
from Our local mills with which we are all famil-
Now for the figures: They have paid for
the best wheat delivered at the mill, per bushel,
$2. 10. One bushel of wheat will make 42 pounds
of the best flour. They are selling this flour in i
25 lb sacks for $1.50, or 6 cents per 1b., making
Now,
they are getting for bran, $2. 50 per cwt., farmers -
to furnish bags, or 21/; cents per pound, for mid~
dlings, $2. 75 per th. or 2%, cents per pound", for
convenience we will figure both at 21/2 Cents pen
or better, of bran and
middlings per bushel of wheat, at 21/2 cents would
sell for 40 cents. Now 40 cents for feed plus $2.52
for flour .makes $2. 92 for the proceeds from one
bushel of wheat, which cost $2. 10, ‘making a profit
of 82 cents for handling one bushel of wheat. Now ' ' ' ' - ~*
our miller, E. H. Miner at Vicksburg, Mich., ’claim- ' 'r .
ed to have more work than he could do, and I ” '~ ‘35 '5 ‘
have been unable to get a bag of feed ground there ‘
this winter, as he has run on wheat and buck~
wheat all the time. You will see that I have al-
lowed for 2 pounds waste, which they; do not- have;
These figures are not exaggerated and will apply

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I notice that One of Swift an‘ C‘OIBDIIW’B P945

_, »MIters has, kind 0’. taken." notice“ at one of my
' “stories, " it they can be called stories—aw says"

‘jii Uncle Rube had known that since November
1, 1,917, the large packers had been under gov-

,ernm'ent regulations he woman’t have written
what he did. ” . ,
Well now b’gosh, your Uncle Rube. ltnevi about
that gay ’ment regulation eh’ also knows lost about

what it amounts to where millionaire corpora-
tions are concerned; an’ knowin' it so well is jest
the reason he wrote what he did mi? by ginger

' '. your old uncle ‘also knows that Swift an' Com-

pally. as well as some more big packers are ex-
periencin' a little gov ’ment investigation, notwith-
standin’ the tact that said gov ’ment has been reg-

A . ula'tin' their business since. November 1st,1917.
. ' {Anl a real investigation is a doin’: the business,

an’ things don’t look quite so innocent as the nice
little articles—paid for with 'good money, would
seem to indicate.

., Accordin’ to gov ’ment investigators, Swiit an’“
00. an? the other big packers, have been takin’

encrmous profits—«they have practically controll:

ed the, stock markets, transportation, "wholesale
prices of dressed meats, an’.a lot oi'_ other things

too numerous to "mention, an’ all this in spite of

the tact that the gcv'ment is supposed to be reg-H
ulatin’ the business—an' that’s why I said in my ‘
other article that mebbe Swift an' Company was .

tryin’ to pull the wool over somebody’s eyes, My
why they was willin' to _pay out hundreds of
thousands oi. dollars for space in newspapers—to
kind 0' quiet an outraged public when the real
facts should be made known.

However, I was real glad to hear from Swift .|
_ an’ 00., thru their hired man, an' if he wants to

take this for an apology_ he’ 3 Welcome to it free.

Bein' here, right near Camp Custer where sol-
diers have been more numerous than flies 'round v

a molasses barrel, an’ comin’ in contact With ’em

. considerable, I jest want to say something .about

the jubless .sold1:er an’ why a godd many of 'em
are jobless. only a small percentage of the dis-

2 ‘_ - charged soldiers are lockin’ for jobs—it’s positions
~ they 'want, where the pay is heavy an’ the labor is

light—an many of 'em who only had jobs before
entering _the service are not willing to go back to
the some jobs nowvithey want something a little

‘ mite more dignified, an where they can wear good

clothes an’ be noticed by the women, an’ kind 0’

    
 
 

 

 

looked up to by everybody.. There are jobs open to

i V ? most of the boys who want jobs an’ are not afraid

of work, but there is a. sort of a shortage of posi-

tions“. jest now—not enough to accommodate all the "
army men, an’ as leng as the buys refuse to ac-'

cept real jobs, _where muscle. is the main require-
ment, there will be many men idle.

It might be a good thing to give each soldier 6
months or a year’s pay when discharged, but that
would net help the labor situation a particle.
The only remedy lies with the soldier himself——
' ' e back. to an equal footing with other
_ —-accept the same wages an’ do the

Idiots jest ’cause they
willin’.

to '11.??? them for‘

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- young. and tender.
succession will furnish a good goose pasture.

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for much per acre. If there is anything to use

:tinlste'ad or? limestone, please let me know where
1. it can be obtained..——G H. Oak Grove, more.

When .iime is needed on land, that is, when the

soil becomes deficient in lime, there is nothing
that will take the place of it. To get the best '2

results it is absolutely necessary to buy the lime
at any price. There is no substitute for it what-
ever.

If your land is acid so that red clover will not
grow luxuriantly it is a pretty good indication
that the land is sour and needs lime to sweeten
it. You can determine this quite readily and in-
expensively by getting a little blue litmus paper
and burying it in the moist earth over night.
the blue is turned to a reddish or pinkish color
that is positive evidence that the land needs lime.

Caustic lime or hydrated lime, in other words,
burned lime, is more concentrated and takes less
to prodiice results than simply ground limestone.
one reason it is very much finer. Another reason
because the heat in burning drives of! the carbon-

' ic acid gas and the moisture. “One ton of hydrat-

ed lime 'is equivalent to over a ton and a half of
ground limestone for practical purposes. You
can get very good results by applying one-halt ton
of hydrated lime per acre, where it you apply
ground limestone, at least one ton should be used
because much of this is coarse and does not be-
come available for some little time.

There is no other form more concentrated than
hydrated lime. Any other form of lime will re
quire more per acre than this—Colon 0. Lillie.

Soiling Geese
I wish advice thru your columns On what to

* sow tor succession of crop for grazing for geese.

I have one-quarter acre of low, heavy, rather wet
clay for one plot; another that is high, dry and
of gravelly sand, in an orchard; another is where
it has been used for a barnyard, also dry and of
a gravelly sand. In your opinion would the cow-
peas with oats or rape be advisable for a finishing
crop for fall? Please advise .-Mrs. C'. —.M L., Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan.

.Geese will eat almost any plant while it is
Any crop that will grow in
As

a matter of fact, you could sow the same crop in
different fields and then alternate the pasture,
that is, let the geese feed in one pasture until it

'is eaten pretty close and then turn them into an-

'~ Easex rape would make a splendid pasture

this seed.

other, and When the first one starts up they could
be turned back again. Geese, of course, graze the

. closest of any kind of animals, even closer than

sheep, and it is not a good practice to let them
eat the tender plants t00 close, especially in hot
weather.

For an early crop I would say there would be
nothing better than field peas and oats mixed
and sown together. They come about the earliest.
Some dwart Essex rape could also be mixed with
If you already have a. little red clover,
part of this Could be used for an early pasture
and June grass pasture which comes the earliest
could be used the first thing in the spring. By
the time the June grass and clover were well
eaten down the peas and oats would be ready.
Cow peas and soy beans sown thickly, with dwarf
for
later on. Of course, it is understood that these
icrOps should not be allowed to grow up tall before

the geese are turned in, otherwise they will waste .

a larger portion of it by tramping it down and
wallowing it. ,

This piece of clay land would be all right for
the peas and oats and you could put them in any

' time as soon’ as the land will do the work. The

dryer up-land is better for cow peas and my beans

' but you could raise a pasture of peas and oats on
any kind of land .—Oolon 0. Lillie.

Objects to Big Road Tax

W hear there are petitions in for good roads
‘ sides of our farm. They claim every farm
mien .

re; that would be on the three
That means more trouble for
" let the millionaire auto

heat it until we set
stamps paid which
ears th

  

01 said- good roads will be taxed ,

:fllat it they want the

m .
Now as it required as
time to draw the ammmt of limestone men—-
as I would like to know if there is anytth elaj
can US$311} its place which would not require: .

  

, and unloading, and he is also taxed to pay the?
- other follow his six dollars. 7
ernment take over the farms and pay as interest

‘1

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farmer.
~35: education in the co

. possible exception that a Custom. or

upon it. -—W. E. Brown, Legal

I read in the
people to the city.

go to the city to live whether we want to or not.

Maybe we had better quit farming for a couple",
"or years and work on the good roads. .»

Now this good roads business is a
sive concern. They pay their men six
, gilt; tor drawing gravel and no loading or unlo
[allowed three dollars a day, does his own loading

Why don't the ‘0V‘

on what we have invested. We will work for
them for less than $5 a. day, but would like to

know how it would seem to quit after eight hours '

Work?
Please let us know in the M. B. F. it we have

“ to pay this tax or can we get out of it. Don't we

haVe a vote on it, or have“ we nothing to say?

Why not send Uncle Rube Spinach to Washing-
ton, D. 0. Nature did a lot for him. If you
could see the vacant homes in the country you
would realize something must be dons—8145-
scriber, Armada, Mich.

Sec. 4671, o L. 1915, and following provide. tor,
a method of improving highwaysby petition of ,

60 per cent or more of the owners of frontage.

Sec. 4680 provides for objections and hearings '

thereon. Sec. 4686 provides for the assessment or
the benefits that will accrue to each parcel of

“land included in assessment district, and shall

be assessed according to the benefits received.
This section provides for an appeal fmm the
assessment for benefits and section 4689 provides
for the review of the assessment. Sec. 4711 pro-
vides for an appeal and application for the ap-

pointment or a board of review by the Judge 01

Probate of the proper county. The decision of
this board or review is final and whatever taxes
are assessed for the improvement would then b0
come binding—W. E. Brown, Legal Editor.

Supervisors Hire County Agent After Voters
Turn Him Down

Please answer in next week's issue whether the
Board of. Supervisors can hire a college-bred agrie
culturalist for this county, Benzie, without the
voice of the people. This they have done and the
people of this county have voted this'down two
different times, and still they have hired him. I
always supposed the majority ruled, not the min-
ority. How about it? If it lays in my power I
will have the supervisors pay the bill, not we, the
people, who have voted him down twice.——€lustrn'~
Higgins, Benme county.

0. L. 1915, Sec. 7868, provides that the provis-
ions ot the act to authorize and regulate county
agricultural department shall not apply in any,

county until the question of adopting the same ,_ -
shall have been submitted to the qualified elem"

tors thereof. The supervisors would hays
right to appropriate money for such purposes nor
order any tax spread for such purposes until ap-

proved by the electors flrst in adopting thepro;

visions—W. E. Brown, Legal Editor.

Question of Lease

A man leases a‘building for 10 years. After six
years he sells his stock to another party; said
party agrees to take over lease as it stands. Now
third party, after getting some repairs made on
building gets a new lease for another 10 years.
Does this necessarily make the old lease void?

The owner of building is trying to make the party g , :7

of the first lease pay for said repairs, as the
lease reads,
party occupies building must be paid by said
party." The question is: Is the old lease void 12
owner makes another lease to the new party so-
cupying his building?——J. 8., Coopersville, Mich
_Under the statement of facts from what is said
about the lease it would be my opinion that upon
surrender of old lease, acceptance by landlord
and making of new lease the Original lesee would
not be liable further upon lease. —W. E. Brown,
Legal Editor.

What Must Tenant Pay?

It you rent your farm and furnish teams, tools}
and stbck, give tenant one-third, what share will

he have to have for feed, threshing, fertilizer, and .,

repairs, it any‘l—H. A., Oxford, Mich.

   

You do not state what the tenant agreed to do;
' If. the ”tenant did not expressly agree '-

to" D,
portion of the cost of "seed, threshing,“
he would not be obliged to pay any at“:

Qity- might“ be so strong to ha“

 

strait Journal that lack .:

was driving the young“-
Now I know merchants, touch:
one and lawyers in Detroit from the“ country, and ‘
you can’t blame the young, for the old are her
arming to leave their homes, and we will all have, ,-

The rarmer, when doing his road work, ii 1

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Belief of Market Experts That
' Slump is Only Temporary

and Higher Prices are
Expected

 

All markets seem to be in a waiting
position just now, and there is consid-
erable speculation as to which way
prices will go when trading again re-
sumes its normal activity as it is short-
ly expected to do. Many profess sur-

prise ‘that prices have not declined

more in the face of lessened demand
and believe that as soon as the export
demand improves prices will advance.

It is reported that the army and
navy departments, when asking con-
gress for appropriations for the pur-
chase of food supplies urged that pro-
vision be made for ten per cent higher
‘ costs on food products purchased next
July over present prices.

Export restrictions having been
lifted an effect is expected to be no-
ti'ced soon upon the general markets.
Germany has received permission from
the allied nations to import 6,000,000
. bushels of breadstufls a month. The
bulk- of this business will come to
America. Added to this will be the
demands of allied nations and the ex-
penditure of the $100,000,000 for Am-
erican food for European relief work.

A Detroit dealer in food, Edward
Neuman, recently warned the people
of Detroit not to put too much con-
fidence in an era of low prices. He
believes this period of undec'selling
‘ will be brief and followed by a reign
of high prices due to an increased
shipment of canned goods. During a
visit to jobbers this dealer discovered
that enormous orders were coming in
from hungry Europe. Germany, too,
it is alleged, is buying through Sweden.

Mr. Neuman is under the impression
that as overseas shipments increase,
the quantity of domestic supplies will
decrease and . higher prices will
follow. He points to coffee as an ex-
ample of the effect of European orders.
. Coffee has jumped 38 to 50 cents a
pound as a result of the intention of
the Brazilian planters to reap big
profits because Europe is off oofffee
substitutes and wants the real stuff.

A temporary decline in the ,demand
for meat is analyzed by Thomas Glynn
another dealer, as a condition entirely
due to the weather. He finds that
where damp, or mild, unseasonable
weather prevails, consumers will not
use the normal amount of meat food.

HoWard T.. Keating regards the
slump in butter, eggs and cheese as
undoubtedly due to high prices be-
cause these are staples that the people
can and will do without where prices
seem out of proportion. Today eggs
will be sold at a phenomenally low
price at the market because retailers
are endeavoring to circumvent the
condition that will naturally follow
high prices. Farmers claim they can
get 60 to 75 cents a dozen for eggs
and they will sell only where they can
obtain those prices.

Buttér suffers from the same con-
dition, but here and there will be no-
ticed a considerable reduction in the
retail price. Cheese is high and not
moving easily.

“Look to speculators," Mr. Neuman
says. “I recently returned from the
celery centers and found that specula-
tors were buying right and left at $4
and $5 a crate where the usual price
is $2 50. Growers who refused to deal
.with the speculators told me thin; the
propositions put to them were to sell
. all or none.

"Where growers altered to sell part

of their produce at the abnormal

“ prices,- the speculators refumd to do
business. “Sell all you have and we'll
pay 34. Otherwise we do not want-
sunny‘ Naturally it required a kit of

we J1

  

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ne chain" in prleee.‘ one one o’c-

and cabbage lower.

some; in beans. expert
ale-e) potatoes trifle lever; hay condition better: greine eve-dyad week.

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than
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perishable produce." _

We have been advising farmers for
a couple oi months to be “patient" and
wait the turn of the tide that will sure-
ly come in most markets. But we real-
ize that there comes a time when pa-
tience ceases to be a virtue and farm-
ers will become anxious over the pros-
pects.
the slowness with which trade, picks
up following the removal or export
resrictions. Unless there is a radical
change for the better in the markets
within the next thirty days, we, too,
will begin to lose faith in the situation
and come to the conclusion that some-
bbdy has been “ham-stringing" us all.
But we expect that change to come;
we expect it to come soon; and when
it does come, we expect prices on
such products as are in demand for
export to steadily advance.

 

 

 

 

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Winter wheat has been damaged
to some extent. The weather has
been dry, and the alternating freel-
ing and thawing hes injured the
tender plants in many sections. Just
how great this damage has been is
a matter of conjecture. No fears
are expressed. however, that it will
make any material decrease in the
estimated crop. There is promise
of colder weather for March and if
snow does not come in the wheat
section it is entirely possible that
large areas will be seriously affect-
ed. '

The bill to make effective the gov-
ernment's guaranty on wheat only

awaits the president’s signature to .

become a law. The bill gives the
President practically unlimited con-
trol over the distribution and pay—
ment of the 1919 crop and author‘-
izes him to retain control until Dec.
31, 1920, as originally provided. 0!
course, the grain men are raising
loud and vigorous protests against
what they believe to be a trespass
upon their rights, but they availeth
nothing. As long as the government
has to foot the bill, the government
should retain the right to control
the wheat market so long as a sin-
gle bushel of the 1919 crop remains
unharvested. .

Despite the alleged surplus of
1918 wheat, prices still remain
acmewhat in excess of the govern-
ment price. Most of the wheat is
out of the hands of Michigan farm-
ers, something over 125,000 bush-
els being harvested in January.
Some farmers are holding their

‘* wheat in the belief that the govern-

ngent will permit freer trading and
as a result prices will go higher.
This is extremely doubtful, altho not
outside the range of possibility.

We would like to learn from our
readers what their plans are so far
as planting spring wheat is concern-
ed.
mal acreage or will you increase
your acreage as a result poi ,Jhe
guaranteed price? Will our cropsre-
porters tell us in their, next report
what the farmers of their. localities
are planning in this respect?

  
   
  

  

We are unable to account for,

Do you expect to plant a norr

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, The grain trade papers say that
the present feeling in corn. is decid—
edly bullish, altho they fail to ac-
count for the comparatively -low
price in view of the ‘known shortage
of the crop. The speculators are
still ‘playing up the menace of Ar-
gentine corn. and were it not for

the farmers’ ' fortunate and persls- .‘T.
tent refusal to sell, the situation"

would be decidedly shaky. The

~farmers seem to hold the situation
in their own 'hands and if they sit
tight long enough, prices on corn
should soon advance to where they.
belong.

 

 

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Altho cats are quoted a triile
higher on the Detroit market than
a week ago,~ there is no firmness to
the market. There has been the
same story for several weeks. long
receipts, small onerings at country
points and a slow domestic and
foreign demand. Light as it is the
demand exceeds the supply and
should the export trade pick up to
any appreciable extent, it would cre—
ate a temporary shortage in the ac-
cumulated stocks at primary points.
The future of the cat market is very
uncertain and even the wisest ones
attempt no estimate of, what may de-
velop. To a certain extent cats will
continue to follow corn,‘ but this
sympathy will cease. when high

enough prices are reached to induce
holders of cats to sell liberally.

 

The best report on the rye situa-
tion we have seen in a long time
was published in a. recent issue of
the Price Current Grain Reporter.
lt is as follows:

“The stock of rye in the United
States presents the only available
surplus of this grain anywhere in
the world, while the shortage of rye
in Europe far exceeds our‘snrplus.
In addition to the requirements of
the Scandinavian countries, accord—
ing to newspaper advices, Germany

has been accorded the privilege. of ‘

buying in this country 6, 000, 000
bus. of breadstufls per month, and
it is quite certain that Germany (a
rye bread eating country) will pre-
fer rye at $2.26. The result of the
recent developments then is to 'open
to individual exporters the world‘s
markets for our surplus rye.'1‘em—
porarily, while the necessary ar-
rangements are being made, prices
may decline below the real world’s
value,. but competitive bidding will

" soon bring prices to the proper level. ,

If the true world’s value of "rye is
above current. values, then rye will-
surely advance, while on the other
hand, if. this value is below current
quotations, rye. will dust as surely
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We believe the present range of

"hay values will continue thru the

balance of the season with little
change. Nothing but unusual. ac-
tivity and much higher prices in
feeding grains can stimulate the hay
market to any extent. The mild
winter weather has put e. crimp in
the hey business from which it is
not likely to recover. 'Texas. and
other southwestern states will soon
be putting their new crop on the
market, and while it will not be
large and may not enter into any of
the markets where Michigan hey is
sold, it will nevertheless have its
effect. The Hay Trade Journal gives
the following review of the hey
market for the week ending Feb-
ruary 14th:

“The supply of hay moving mar-
ketward ie lees than a week ago
and a. better feeling prevails gener-
ally. There has been market
clinee in values at nearly all points
within the past ten days. but just
at present the market seems to have
steadied at the lower range. Heavy

supplies forced declines on all var-

ietles of stock, there being I. rush

to get high-priced buy on the mar-

ket to avoid heavy losses. As the
decline became more rapid there has
come e hesitation on the part of
shippers to accept the sharp declines
and in consequence the pessure of_
oflerings has been reduced during
the past few days. Continued Open

‘ ,weather has reduced the demand

away below normal and altho re-
ports indicate that there are a few

sections of the country that are pret- ..
'ty well cleaned up, in fact, farmers

are buying from each other, the
country as a whole has at least 25
per cent of the crop back. This

amount under the present volume of.
demand, would seem to be ample
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“at“. Inn-each] Bulk
Beta 1.15 at. I.“ owl.
‘ I ‘0 1.55
Clad-lei '. 2.00 1.95 .
New York 2." 1...
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We have no ”encouragement to
give our potato growers this week:
The market is still in a bad way,
and sentiment is still pretty evenl
divided as/ to which we tvfl?
turn. Shipments are stil tlarge, -
Maine shipping out 50 to 76 core a _
day and Wisconsin and Minnesota
almost as moor. It doesn't seem-
considering the

  

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. I , The =bean situation is». (:va

complete on the first page» ‘01 than!"

sue. ‘As we‘ go to press the market
is extremely. dull and the; price
quoted on, the Detroit market is
$6.50 per cwt.

 

Onions, like nearly all other vege-
tables, are in a more or less unsatis-

‘ factory position. The warm weather
» has raised havoc with the demand.
-’ Both dealers and growers are holding
for higher prices'which, we are afraid,

‘ are not very apt to materialize.

    
 

     
 

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g APPLES
Apples are firm, with no change in
pricesover last week. Chicago prices
are as follows: Barrels, of fancy North-
ern Spys were quotable at $9 to 9.50,
Winesaps $7.50 to 8.00, Greenings $7,
Starks $7 to 7:50, Baldwins $7.50 to 8,
Rock Russets $6.50 to 7, Canoe $6.50,
Ben Davis $6 to 0.50, and No. 2 stock
$3.75 to 4, according to variety.

 

Both the butter and egg markets.
are in a better condition this week than
they have been for many weeks. For

_ a, time farmers quit selling eggs, al-
together and creameries withheld but-
ter shipments.
on the market, and both products are
now quoted firm- and a little higher.
It is not believed that this condition
is .more than temporary, however, as
receipts are already showing consider-
able increase, and the least over-supply
will mean lower pgices. .

New York Butter Letter

New York, Feb. 15, 1919.—-—The feel-
ing of confidence that pervades the
market at the present time is in very
strong, contrast to the feeling of two
weeks ago. With the'quotation stead-
ily advancing jobbers and retailers
are stocking up and seem tofeel that
there will be no decided set-back in
the near future. Demand, which must
necessarily be backed up by consump-

" tion, came as a strong surprise and
dealers have as yet hardly been able
to realize the ..-. changed condition.
Heretofore, since the advent of high
prices all of the free buying has been
~ confined to high quality butter, but at
present all grades are ,‘moving well.
All ,the fresh arrivals are absorbed
quiCkIY and a large part of the accu-
mulations have melted away.- In‘ad.

“ ;.dition, to the active buy ' In .t
‘ ; ‘ of optimism-hagbeen (digested eollng

partial promise i-‘ojf the' govsrnment

‘ . _.1that,very little mere/of the command-

, ered butter will be turned backv'togre—

.‘It is. thought that oussmy
hat is "not needed by .thiiifdof
will undoubtedly he uses by

    

‘ F.1rst8.,-;£.X 329:; . ,
46c..- Use. . is selling at a «inferen-
tial of two cents above corresponding
grades or; salted abutter. . .

But wait till AUnclo;
. w Sam places his order "for 700 cars.
“ . ‘ Then watch the indicator.

This had a good effect ~

by the,

   
 

close yesterda , tablished notations
were as tollows: shares, :5 ; high-
er scorj .‘thang‘extras. _ 58 @54c;

and. 'Secon s. 43(5)

    

Poultry receipts are again increas-

'- ring. The smallpsnpply of the past (on

day' boosted prices a notch or two and
one uaged farmers to ship moreiree-
ly. The market is still active, and will
doubtlesstake care of considerable re
ceipts for the next week without much
change in prices. Prices quoted this
week in Detroit on live poultry are:
No. 1 springs: 30 to 31; small springs,
28- to 29; hens, 31 to 32; small hens,
and Leghorns, 29 to 30; roosters, 20 to

.21; geese, 28 to 29; ducks 35 to 36;

turkeys, 36 to 87c per lb. ..

 

Detroit Live Stock Market
(By Special Correspondent)

Detroit, Feb. 19.-—Hogs (dress-
ed), light, 21@22c; heavy, 19@20c.
Calves, (dressed)~ choice, 20@21¢;
fancy, 22@23c. The market on
both hogs and calves is steady, with
no immediate change in prices an-
ticipated.

Michigan Central Stock Yards,
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 18.—Cattle: Re-
ceipts, 551.; strong, best heavy

steers, $14@$15.50; best handy wt.
butcher steers, $10.50@$11; mixed
steers and. heifers, $9.25@$10;
handy light butchers, $8.25@9.00;
light butchers, '$7.50@8.00; be at
cows, '$9.00@10.00; butcher cows,
$8.@$8.50; cutters, $8.50@$6.75
banners, $6@$6.25; best heavy
bulls, $9.50@$10; bologna bulls, $8
0$8.50; \ stock bulls, $7@$7.50;
milkers and springers, ‘ $'60@$125.

Veal calves—Receipts, 451/; mar-
ket steady; best, $17@$18; oth‘ers,
$8@$15. ,

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 712;
market strong; 250 higher; best
lambs, $17.50@$17.75; fair lambs,
$16.50@-$17.25; light to common
lambs, $14.50@$15.50; ‘ yearlings,
$14.50@$15.50; fair to good sheep,
g:.go@11.00; culls and common, $7

Hogs—Receipts, 1,778; pigs dull;
hogs, $17.50. ,

Chicago Live Stock Letter
,(By Special Correspondent)

United Stock Yards, Chicago, 111.,
Feb. 17, 1919.——-A strong underly-
ing position of ”the live stock mar-
ket is daily becoming more. appar-
ent. The cattle trade showed some
rather sharp price recessions early
last week from the. high close of the
week previous under a material ex-
pansion in the marketing but values
rebounded the moment supply pres-
sure eased up and has since recov-
ered on most classes the,loss regis-
tered-.a week ago. Monday with
18,000 cattle on sale here and
crop of only 43,000 at seven mar—
kets or 30,000 less than the same

'day last week, the market Was ac-

tive and generally 250 higher than

;best or closing levels of the week

previous. It seems evident that
there will be’ a very moderate move-

.ment of fat cattle marketward for
.se‘Veral months to come and senti-

   

imfint ; ll, "conservatively bullish.

  

.: Quill“: ‘ _ conditions of beef steer

gs“ was novicr ‘poOror at this
' Dal ' rhetings“ are our—

' ‘ "dads of beef
t1Iiivunds or
' .ng‘fjot fa

. an , .
oropked, thin [stud ,not adapted. ‘tO
{cedar-needs “at $11 or under. ' In-
deed it is a sorry feeder steer weigh-
ing 800 pounds that will not now
command $11_ and a long string of
good to choice 800 to 900 pound
feeders have gone to the country
during the past week costing $12
to $14.50, such cattle along with
good qualitied stockers are, com-
manding the highest, prices in trade
history but demand is coming from
all sections, evidencing feeders’
faith in the future market.

Butcher cattle values are f w-
ing much the same course ,_ the
steer market, Monday’s trade being
’50 to 75 cents higher than the low
spot the fore part of last week and
back to the high levels of the week
previous. Most of the medium to
good butcher cows and heifers sold
Monday at $9 to $12.50 with choice
strong weight beef cows up to $18
and higher, a few prime Kosher
grades in fact reaching $15. 'In
the scanner trade only occasionally
old shells sold at $6 or below; bulk
of the canner cows making $6.25 to
$6.85 and poor to good cutters from
$7 to $7.75; bologna bulls are go—
ing largely from $8.75 to $9.50 and
butcher bulls mostly at $10 to $12,
with choice heavy beef bulls as high
as $13. Veal calves of good to
choice grade are making $15.25 to
$15.75.

A marked expansion in eastern
shipping demand for hogs, sugges-
tive of dwindling supplies in east-
ern territory, has been a strong
prop under the hog trade the past
week, only moderate declines hav-
ing followed a much heavier mar-
ketward movement which, modifica-
tion of the car allotment embargo
has made possible. It is planned
to permit the arrival of 4,000 cars
of hugs at Chicago this week and be-
lieved that this number can be tak-
en care of providing eastern demand
is unabated." A run of 52,000 hogs
on Monday together with 11,000
r'holdovers from the week previous
was fairly well absorbed at prices
averaging about steady with last
Saturday, although prices were un-
evenly 20 to 35c lower than Wed-
nesday, high day of last week. A
top' of $17.95 was made early in
the session on prime heavy butch-
ers, but few hogs sold after the
opening round above $17.80, and
the bulk cashed between $17.35 and
and $17.80. The general average
at about $17.65 was 20c lower than
a week ago. Below the $17 line
only pigs and throwout rough stuff
is now selling and most of the do—
sirable pigs are moving at $15.50
to $16.50.

Live mutton supply has been
light all around the market circle
during the past week and prices
have been marked up sharply, fat
classes advancing » anywhere from
25 to 750, while feeding and shear:
ing lambs are as much as $1 per
cwt. above prices current 10 days
ago. The entire trade is on the
highest basis since last September
and predictions are freely made that
the advance has not yet run its
course. A few Colorado lambs are
reaching Missouri river markets,
but none have yet reached Chicago,
and a few are expected before Mar.
1. Best lambs sold Monday at $18,

( Continued on page 19)

killers around $12,!» $1.5

onlo FARMERS OWN
MANY ELEVATORS

 

More than 100 grain elevators in
Ohio are now owned and operated by
farmers' co-operative companies as
found by a survey made by H. E. Ejrd-
man, of the Ohio State University;
Only four were in operation in 1910L
the oldest of these being at Rocky
Ridge, Ottawa county; it was started
in 1904. ,

I While the principal line of farmers!

elevator companies {s that of buying

and handling grain, the selling actiy.

'7', lties have beenrapidly developed with

m farm supplies such as feeds, coal, dour,

binder twine, salt, fencigg and posts,
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Remarkable Discovery that Cuts Down
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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 4
powder and all that is re uired is col
water to make a paint weat or proof fire
roof, sanitary and durable for outside or
nsido painting. It is the cement princi-
pie applied to paint. It adheres to on
surface wood, stone or brick, spreads an
looks lko oil Ipaint and costs about one-
fourth as muo .

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No. 13 North Street, Ad N. Y., an
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Nine Months of I’rsgrsst
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the best also to plant. They] '

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brilliant yellow flowers. 14-16 It.
2 Cssdlsbu'ry. Canary lowers. rcd
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scarlet snd gold in MI. 46 is. high.
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bosoty. sod besrlsg thoussnds of fragrant lowers.
cscb collection we send complete [sanctions let

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,lutely no cost, sling? got one of '
neighbors to subscri to Elohim
nose Farming. Send us his name ,
dollar to pay for 1 year’s sul scriptloat
the shrubs will be sent to you pro ‘
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.. Greetings, Friends!

‘_ LREADY we are preparing for the, rush of
spring work. The sap. pails are being hauled
out and rinsed, extra wood chopped for the

~-bollin8. and Mother has put in her "plea for some
' help in the home. ‘_ So I’m to bathe new “hired
girl, ” and I hope that I will please you and that
we may work together so well that we will both
be very happy in this new relationship.

In the city they have a parlor maid, and a skitch- ,

. on girl, with perhaps one or tw° others if they
can afford it, but in the country we just live and
,work together, and so I have come to offer my
services in the kitchen, the living room or any-
where that I can be of most assistance to you.

If you have an idea which has helped to make

your housework easier, please pass it on to me,’

- and I'll tell the rest of our family, for the biggest
job I ever tackled is to make of this the best
Home department in any farm paper, and with
the help of everyone, we can do it. '

Do the young people in the home want to cele-
brate some special occasion with a party and
long for some new ideas in entertaining; perhaps
a new guessing game or something different to
serve for refreshments; just write me a week or
ten days before the party and let me help you.
Tell me the kind of an entertainment and let me
tell you what other people have done on similar
occasions and we’ll share our ideas.

And then, if your’home store doesn't supply just
what you want, remember the city shops were-
plate with the out-of-the-ordinary things, and I
shall be glad to get prices, samples and even do
your shopping for you.

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of Critics’ ’

tigation onto the methods and means of con-

ducting the state school for girls at Adrian
should interest every mother of Michigan. Be-
cause these poor unfortunates are deprived of a
real home and motherlove is all the more reason
why the state, which takes upon itself the taskof
feeding andclothing them, should select with the
utmost care the teachers and matrons of this state
home who are to look after the moral and physi-
cal welfare of these young girls whoSe ideals have
.been shattered and who haVe strayed from the
beaten path. These young girls are just now at
the impressionable age. Are they to grow to
grow to womanhood with their ideas of home life
so perverted that they will want nothing of it?
What kind of wives and mothers will they make
if this is to be their idea of the home life?

Very commendable indeed is our action when
we raise thousands upon thousands of dollars to
educate and Clothe the homeless children across
the seas, but in so doing are we going to forget
the well being of our own little charges, for lack
of proper funds, if that be the real reason? To
meet the problems confronting the teachers at an
institution such as this requires more than medi-
ocre skill—both teachers and matrons should be
those who have a keen insight into human na-
” ture; who are naturally adapted to that kind of

work and who love it and do not work simply for
1 the pay they receive and also they should be w-om-

en especially trained to deal with the varied needs

of these girls who are making this their home
for the time being. In the regular schools the
teachers have their pupils for only a few hours
each day, but here it is different. After the stud-
ice are finished, there is no inviting home to go
" to, and it is then that the teachers have their
greatest opportunities for good—oportunitieg to

‘ instill into these young minds right ideals, not

at their tasks and guiding their recreations so
that they will leave the home to'go out into the
world and make useful citizens.

 

 

And while this investigation is going on, let it .

continue to other state institutions, such as city
.hospitals where it will be found oft times that
the patients, because they are unable to pay, are,
treated with the same lack of consideration by at-

tendants whose only idea is to draw their pay ..

envelope with as little work as possible, as are
the girls at Adrian. ' .
, Just a few weeks ago a- poor girl reeled into
' my office, so weak she could just reach the chair
-I pushed forward. She had just been "dismissed"
eon one or the free wards of a hospital in the

titer. and had come to ask- a little help to get back. '

“Children Have More Need of Models Than -

HE TURNING of the search-light of inves: _

by lectures. but by working patiently with them-

saaa Munster—Asa LA I

her first term of teaching when the dread influenced

had claimed her as a victlm~ Witn ”I “I lg.

couple of weeks am she hadn't the railway fare

to get back to her school “easier-naps the mm, 1,,
ran of the heapital didn’t know just how the

nurses on duty had treated this poor sick girl,
but wasn’t it her duty to know? When a patient
is unable to pay for treatment, the state does pay,
and who, pray, is the state?

When public opinion is so stirred by the recital

of these stories that it is waroused to action, con- » .

 

fl
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The Toy strewn House

IVE me the house where the toys are
strewn, ~
Where the dolls are asleep in the chairs; »
Where the alumna blocks and the toy
balloon,
And the soldiers guard the statrs; .
Let me step in the house where the tiny cart
With its hdses rules the floor, .
. And the rest comes into ply weary heart «
For I am at home once more. '

Give me‘the house with the toys about, '
With the battered old train of cars,
The boa: of paint dmd the books left out
And the ship with her broken spars,-
Let me step in a house at ”the close of dcyV
That was littered with children’s toys,
And dwell once more in the haunts of play
With the echoes of lay-gone noise.

Give me the house where the toys are seen,
The house where the childrcnrom/p, .

And I’ll happier be than man has been
’Neath the gilded dome of pomp.

Let me see the litter of bright-eyed play
Strewn over the parlor floor, ~

And the joys I knew in a far—on day
Will gladdcn my heart once more.

Whoever has lived {matey-strewn home,
Though feeble he bound gray,

Will yearn, no matter how far he room,
For the glorious disarray

Of the little home with its littered floor
That was his in the by-gone days.

And his heart will throb as it throbbed be-

fore
When he rests where a baby plays.
—Copyright, Evens Gussr.
(Used by permission.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

ditions will be bettered andl not until then. We
are to be voters now and it is up to every woman
in this state to make it her business to find out
what position the candidates for nomination are
going to take on 'matters of this kind.

LESSONS 1N HOME. ecoxiuc

(Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Matheson, of the
Valley City Milling 00.)

One of the most interesting phases of cookery
is that of watching the various changes sugar un-
dergoes at the different temperatures and for that
reason both jelly and candy making prove so fas-
cinating.

If certain principles are understood one can
always obtain the desired results by exercising a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

”little care, but the chief thing is to know- just

what you want, and then to recognize the result
when you obtain it.

There are a number of kinds of sugar in nature
but the one we use most is the cane sugar, or su-
crose. It will undoubtedly be sufficient to say that
this is the sweetest of all sugars and by boiling it
with water we cause each particle of sugar to un-
dergo a chemical change and split up intb two
other sugars. This process of 'breaking up the

particleeiL" of sugar can be hastened by adding a '
little acid and using a little less water with the ~

same result. The acid also aids in preventing
the crystallization.

An acid is always present in jelly making and.
will take care of a certain amount of sugar. If ‘

too much sugar is added for the acid and pectin to
take care of, the remainder will crystallize. Too
long boiling will also cause sugar to crystallize.

In both jelly and candy making we always wish .,
on. In jelly mar-mg one .;

to avoid the crystalli
should avoid too much sugar. and boil for astsho
a time as possible museum the jelly. dy

o her rural wheel, ewhere she had just séntered " ‘

qt

are moistened by the steam which forms
must be taken. of course, that the cover- is
left on too long, else theV candy boils over an ills“

it. Stirring will also cause sugar to crystalflseV -
and that is why one is cautioned so frequently
to avoid stirring the boiling candy.

or course the perfectly accurate way to make I

candy is to have a candy thermometer, but very
few of us indeed make candy enough to consider“
the expenditure, and there is no reason why one

cannot obtain perfectly satisfactory results by . ‘

watching the physical tests. As I said before, an
chief thing is to know just what result you are af-
ter and to recognize it when you have obtainedlt.

The first thing that one notices in boiling sugar
and water is the formation of a thin syrup. A
drop pressed between the thumb and finger and
then slightly separated will form a very short thick
thread which quickly breaks. After boiling a bit
longer we have the formation of “thread?!” ‘ ‘
"hairs”. This is the test for “boiled fnosflni‘or
“seamen". '

Just a word of caution here. Do not , let the
sugar continue boilinggwhile making any. of‘thes‘ei
tests, for the change from one result to another in

~ made so quickly that whilerpou are getting the re-
sult of your test, the balance of your sugar will
be carried way beyond the point desired.

Most of the candles call for the various “ball
tests”. These are made by \dropping a bit ef‘tlte
boiling sugar into a cup containing some very- cold
water. There is the '“soft ball" which is reached
when the bit can be rolled between the lingers
and the ball remain soft but still firm enough to
retain its shape. The “hard bay” stage is roached A
with very little more boiling, and then comes the
time when the ball will crack, or will rattle against
thecup. . ' .,

Fondant

Fondant, the base of all cream candy, is made
by boiling sugar and water together with a small
quantity of cream of tartar added to prevent the
sugar from crystallizing until the soft ball stage

is reached.

3% cups of .
= cup of co water
teaspoon 0 cream of tartar. -

Put ingredients into a smooth pan and bring
gradually to the boiling point. Boil without stir-
ring until the soft ball stage is reached Pour into
a slightly oiled cold platter and let stand a few
minutes to cool, but not long enough to harden
around the edges. Work with a spatula or knife ~" ‘
until it becomes creamy and white. It will quickly
change and begin to lump when it should be
kneaded with the hands until perfectly smooth.
Put into a bowl, cover closely to exclude the air ’

anulated sugar ,

and let stand for at least 24 hours to “ripen. "— It , ,_

can then be worked into various shapes and vari-
ety obtained by adding different flavoringg and col‘
orings.
. Maple fondant is made by using maple sugar
for half the quantity of sugar. Boil and work the
same as the white fondant ..
Children love Jo make candy and while the
boiled candles are hard for them to make it is well
to have "up your sleeve” for their benefit a recipe
or two that they simply cannot spoil. Then one
obtains two results: material is not wasted, and
the\children do not become discouraged. -~
A satisfactory fondant and One where ‘
results can be secured 1 ads by stirring use the
stifliy beaten white of an egg :ae: much; ed
sugar as is necessary to give the right.
for kneading and s aping. Or a; me one,
and scarce, let them try the feudant . "

sugar, so gauge your
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Penn W35 once, urging 3
'w to stop drinking to ex-

. me. 011.113 ” the man ex-
land I will promise upon
as do as you tell me‘"

my fri3n ” Penn answered,
th93 tindoa glass of liquor

51' firm caudles' can.“
attained edand used to:- eat!

{dust cloths.

When washing your “best” glasses,

: put bining in the water and it will add

to the brilliance.

Rice is rich- in starch and (1
shot

in oils, therefore rice pudding is 3:31;
served as a dessert when you have had
pork in any term for your dinner.

When. mashed potatoes are

_ serve

with gravy, you don’t need to put an?r

“butter in your potatoes

It honey becomes granulated, put

' are used

, Vt
.611 the state.

In cakes and puddings, one does not
have to use as much sugar if raisins
A good towl has enough fat of its
own to season it without using butter

in the dressing.

To tighten sewing machine bands
put a few drops of castor oil on the

“hand, turn fast for a moment and no
{cutting will, be necessary.

A little flour spread over the top of
cakes before they are iced will prevent
the icing from running off.

When baking, if the oven seems too
hot, put pans of water over the bread
or article being baked.

A cup of strong codes will remove
the odor of onions from the breath.

'1

.1 1 a“. we :2 .
no 3 w s
Size8 4 wilire quire 3 yards _of 44..
lterie.l. With plaits extended
yards at the

measures about 2%
Soot. .

’ Cut-m
No. 2755.413“ dress. "iii 9:“,

2, 3. 4311115 years. Size4
31,4 yards of 27- inch material.
cut 13:71

435 —Ladies' A ro'n.

sing}: 312113.11. 82- 34; med 364118;}
40-41: extra 13 3, 44-46 inc 03,". ..
measure. A me um size requires , 7
yards of 36—inch material. ., .é
Cut 1114 since.-

41. —-Girls’ Dress. .
6 1:?1267 and 12 years. Sizel 0W3}. fl?
quire 4% yards of 36-inch mater!

54.-—-—A Stylish Frock. Cut
No {‘41. 16.18 and 20 years.

in
M16! ,5, 15.2.:
ards of 86- inch Inning ‘
reggtiaelsa; 23:13; at lower edge is a
1 an! s.
‘ “is: 1it'7119.--’-Child's Romper. Cut in 3
sizes 8 and 4 years. Size "—
quir3s Iii yards of 86- inch material. ,
2485. ——Ladies' House Dress.
inNsoizes 84, 36, 38, 40, undon-
Size 38 require.

easure.
infihegaipdlsfi ofn 27yinch material.
dress measures about 2% yards at

lower case-

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thy hand. open that hand before the < ,
, uches my lips, and thee will ' ' ,
flick to 310833 again.“ ' 4
ynizin Was so struck- by the sim-
or £113 great Quaker’s advice
that he followed it.

Feed 7 Your “Family
Healthy Nutritious Food

If you want to avoid doctor bills, illness, inefficiency and all the (1183'

greeable things that go with them.

Medical Science says most ailments are traceable either directly or indi-

rectly to improper eating.

It isan undisputed fact that most peeple eat too much and not properly

balanced food.

Sour pickles and sweet milk are a poor combination to put into a healthy

stomach to say nothing of a sensitive one, but this combination has noth-

ing on sour, soggy, indigestible bread and heavy, sticky pastries when
» it comes to destroying health.

.Look well to the flour you use when baking for flour is really the founda-
tion of cookery, and the use of good flour will prove just as gratifying
as the use of poor flour will be disappointing.

 

 

 

 

One thing is certain, if you always insist onhaving ,. 4m, 4

~ Lily White
“The F lour'the best Cooks Use”

(in hand, you will always be in a position to serve a healthy, nutritious,
palatable meal.
Only the very choicest wheat is used in the manufacture of LILY
WHITE.
This wheat is all cleaned three times, scoured three times, and actually
washed once before going onto the rolls for the first break.
- The result is a perfectly pure, clean flour.
That is not all. Flour must be more than pure and clean to bake good
biscuits and breads. It must be properly ground.
Every womhn knows it is necessary to have the pieces of potato of equal
* , size to insure thoroughly uniform cooking.
' Thesame principle applies to flour. The granulation must be absolutely
uniform to insure uniformity in baking and without this uniformity
‘ good baking results are impossible.
Why take chances when you can get LILY WHITE FLOUR and be
positively assured of having the very best. ' *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

EAR CHILDREN: How do you

‘ , like the new name for our page?

. Gather up close while I tell you

fill about this new name and then we

111‘hav'e a puzzle to gum before
. ’ "’rch' 81h.

‘ Years ago there was a wonderful
,1 fold man who loved children so well
’- ,‘that he wrote many poems just for

them... In fact he wrote so many of
chese poems for just little folks and
about little folks that the grown-ups

“same to call him “The Children’s

,Po‘et.” And the poem which he loved

"best of all was the one he called
-. - “THE CHILDREN’S HOUR.” It starts
1111's this:

- “Between the dark and the daylight,

‘When night is beginning to lower,
.w'flomes a pause in the day’s occupation,
. That is known as the children’ 8 hour.”

And what a wonderful time of day
~ that is for Us all. Supper is over, the
dishes are done and then we can gath-
er in the sitting room and learn pretty
little poems like this one, or if. MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARMING. has come dur-
ing the day, we can turn to our own
page, read the stories, the other child-
'ren's letters and look at the pictures,
for there are always some pictures or
puzzles made by our artist just for
your page.

This week I give you the picture in
outline of the poet who gave us the

 

 

name for our page and whom I have
told you about. New I want you all to
guess who he is and send your guess
in to me before next week is over. To
, every little girl or boy sending in the
correct answer I will send a copy of
«the whole poem “The Children’s Hour,”
so that you can memorize it, and I am
going to keep a list of the successful
children and every other week for
awhile we will have the picture in out-

line of some great man with' a little
story about him so that you can guess
who he is, and when we have guessed
who ten men are the children who
have guessed the largest number cor-
rectly will be given a lovely book. The
boys will get a boy scout book and
the girls will have a wonderful story
for girls. ‘

- The D00 Dads played so hard last
week that they are all tired out and
so didn’t come to see us this week, but
we hope they will be rested enough

so that they can perform some more

or their funny tricks again next week.
. ,‘However, we haVe another pretty lit-

. tle story which I am sure all the little
cousins will enjoy. Affectionately.——
LADDIE.

"Story of Our Club Trip to Lansing

We went to Lansing on the third
nd stayed until the eleventh. I went
‘11 alone and found my way to the Asa
' ltural college three miles out of

There are over a thousandsacrss.
here and there with large build.
We all went to the Capitol and‘
. overnor, Mr. Sleeper. - V
when all the barracks. the;

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war relics, war munitions, army can-

‘teen in charge of the Y. M. G. A., and
‘ Girls’ exhibits from the college depart-

manta showing what ’M. A. 0. did dur‘é
ing the war. We also saw a caterpillar
tractor, veterinary display, boys' and
girls’ exhibits, reception room exhib-
its, garden, kitchen, drying, canning
crops, sewing handicraft, school lunch,
demonstration ‘on canning, and sew-
ing. Among other things of interest

were forestry or Michigan lumbering, i

maple sugar, entomology, insect pests,
horticulture, showing fruit, botany,
plant diseases, farm management,
home economics, wild life, game birds.
state department of health and all
through the stock buildings.

.There were a hundred or more that
slept in the woman's building in cats
which were the soldier boys’ beds,
and in the same building we girls
made ice cream for ourselves. We all
had our meals in Wells hall which held
176 but there were over 218. We all
registered at room 213, one of the col-
lege rooms. All the clubs made the
rooms sing wherever they went with
songs. .

One night we went over to a big
four-story building and played games.
The next afternoon we went to the
movies and the last night we were at
the college gymnasium where they had
a grand march by counties and our
county was led by our school commis-
sioner, G. F. Roxburt.

We saw the swimming exhibition,
plunge from a great distance, Ed Van
Dyke, state champion fifty yards, had
a record oi; a hundred yards, and three
other swimming people, and six dif-
ferent boxing and two wrestling acts.
One of these by Naito of Japan, who

(send .1! Stories and letters for ‘thie Bepft has to Fri-inns, ,m. who 0.0.. m;0 0'

knew 130 different kinds of wreifiling
holds. I went through the museum
and saw hundred; of different things.
There were members of lots of differ..-
ent kinds of clubs. There were three _‘
state champions, the writer being; the“
Osceola champion. . .- , ”x.

Hoping that the boys and girls of
Osceola will carry of! the state ribbon,
for the coming year and that the con-

‘test from beginning to end will make

them as handy and practical in home
work as it has done for me.——-A 011w
Member, Martha G. Ealy, Tustin, Mich-.1

Farm Leaders of Tomorrow Visit

M. A. C.

0.1! all the many huhdreds of visitors
whmflocked thru the halls of the Mich-
igan Agricultural College during the
Farmers’ Week and the Housewives’
Congress, none received a more cor-
dial welcome, and none were accord-
ed a greater measure of respect than ‘
225 boys apd girls who came upon in-
vitation of’the boys’ .and girls’ club
department of the college. The young
people" were .“achievement” members
of the young peoples’ clubs—boys and
girls who had carried out their club
work in full and filed reports with the
state leaders. Among'them Were half
a dozen state champions and members
of a number of prize-winning demon-
stration teams. The demonstration
teams were one of the hits of the club
exhibits of the college exposition One
of these was the championship can-
ning team from Goldwater—Helen
Hadley, Alice Boss and Ruby Butcher;

The Story of Little- Miss Talkey

HEN Eleanor Robbins was six

years old she and her father

and mother moved back from
China where they had lived for two
years, to America, Where Eleanor had
been born, and the very first thing
they did was to put Eleanor into
school. Not the big public schools,
where Eleanor would be proud to go
later, but a tiny little school in a
friend’s house where the little girl
might learn something of the ways
and customs of the country she loved'
but knew so little about. '
, All. the first day Eleanor kept very
quiet and watched what the others
did, but the second day she felt more
at home and she began totalk. She
talked about the room and the lessons
and the children and everything that
happened to pop into her head and all
the polite little hints the kind teacher
gave her about stopping did no good.

So finally the teacher said, “Eleanor
I guess we’ll have to call you little
Miss Talk~eyl Don’t you see, you’ll
have to keep quiet dear. Suppose we
see if you can. You put on this paper
cap and hold my ruler and‘see if you
can stand on this little stool for five
whole minutes without saying one
word."

Eleanor didn’t mind, in fact she
thought it would be fun to stand on
the stool in front of everybody and
she meant‘to watch the clock and see
just how long five minutes was. One
minute went by; ‘two minutes, and
then Eleanor happened to look down
at the floor.
stool was a tiny, tiny mouse nibbling
at some crumbs left from luncheon.

Eleanor thought she’d have to scream,

butfno, she’d promised not to speak
and fpromises were things'one couldn’t
break. So she opened hernmuth all
ready to speak and then kept. still!
Three minutes; four' minutes; the

teacher looked over to prais‘o the little.
girl who was keeping so still—and .
‘ saw the mouse! ’ "

.Then there was a hurry and scram-i,

his in that school room and not one

bit of quiet till Mr. Mouse, who was '
11 had foils}

[the m memos 6:

There, right below the

FEleaner took her seat,
I'll have to call yen Miss Talk-er be-
cease you tau:

only known, had skipped off into the
safe darkness of the basement.

“Eleanor,” said the teacher, " I think
you were the quietest of us all. I wish
you would tell me why, when you can
be so good and still, you talked so
much before.”

Eleanor blushed shyly at the praise
and said, “I thought I was helping. I
thought I ought to talk, that’s the
way they did when I went to scho'ol
to visit. ”

The teacher laughed and petted her
on the head. “Why didn't I think of
that!" she exclaimed, “of course they
did.” And then she let Eleanor tell
the school about her visit to a Chinese ,
school; about the queer bgys and girls
who dressed so much alike and how
they all studied their lessons out loud
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“And I thought that was the way to
do,” ended Eleanor.

“Not here,” laughed thé teacher as,
"but I think

well about land we:

' Fay

' given a talk by the Governor.

amazoe county.

 

"another we; the sewing team“

Weiss, nun-.61 Siackman and

Wachowlcz, from Buena Vista, Begi-
naw county, ‘a third was the Eat school
lunch team from Coopers vile. The
members of this were Jon 0 Hinton,
Esther Lou Cook 9. Minnie Van ’

,‘Allsburg. A hot school lunch team

was also present from Scotte. Kala-’
he :m‘embers“ eithls
were Lucille sci mith, Louise Smith
and Alice Hayward. A boys' poultry
demonstration team was another fea-
ture
'Eland Spotts, Cliflord. Geddlngs ahd
Welding, came from Hilledale.
The boys put on, for the instruction,
and ediflcation .of their elders, aser-

ies of demonstrations in the practices . '
I of culling pullets and hens, identifying

breeds and making feed hoppers.

While in East Lansing the young"
people were banquetted and plated;
treated to shows and expositidns, and
A visit
was also paid by them to thelegisla-
ture, now in session at Lansing.

But to the grown-ups inattendance,

the records made by the members of

the clubs themselves were of most in-
terest. As doers of deeds, the 225
young men and women—the farmers
of tomorrow in [ Michigan—would
probably have been able toexcel any
other similar number'of junior citiz-
ens within the state. While in East
Lansing,’ Ray M. Turner, state leader
of Junior extension, and Miss Anna.
M. Cowles, leader of girls’ clubs, com-
piled a list of. the accomplishments
of their guests. These showed that
among the 225 there Were 46 who
owned Liberty bonds; 134 who owned
War Savings stamps; 103 who had
bank deposits, 18 girls who had earned
the money to buy their kitchen equip-
ment,15 who owned pigs, 8 who
owned sheep, 25 who owned poultry,
19. who owned calves, 69 were attend-
ing high school ‘and 68 ekpected to
go to college.

It was also mentioned that during
the year, these young people, with the
other members of the boys and girls’

,clubs in Michigan, earned a net profit

of more than $188,000 in 1918.

Winners in 1919 will also be brought -
to‘the college, probably during Farm-
ers’ Week in February, 1920.

My Dear. Laddie:
years old. I am in the Seventh grade at
school. I live on a 40- -acre farm. We
have three horses and two cows. The
horses’ names are Dick, Pat and Jim.
For pets I have a dog and a cat. I have
about a half mile to go to school. My
teacher’s name/ is Miss Hazel S rague.
Our house burned last year. I ave 3
brothers and one sister: their narhes are
Charley, Marvin, Lawrence and Ila. We
take the M B. F. and like it very much.
I have three uncles in the army. I will
‘sefid lyou a song that We learned at
SC 00

I am a girl 12

Over the Rhine
Goodt~hbye everybody, for we’ re going o'er
6 sea
Going“ faor a visit to some friends in Ger-

any
. Theym don’ t think we' re coming, but they'll

find out mighty soon.
Wait until they hear us marching to the
Yankee tune

«

Chorus
Over the Rhine, -
Over the Rhine, ’

Over the Rhine to the German line.

Tell Kaiser Bill that his time has come, . .

We' ll

bum

He’ll bite the dust, he’ll bite the dust. .

Oh, we’ll get to Berlin or we ‘11 bust, we
must.

So come. come on, you’ re going to miss
the f,un

For we’ re all going over the Rhine.

When those Germans see us they ll have
fifty-seven fits;

We ll just take the- Kaiser's crown and
fill it up With Séhlit tn.

put his army on the bum, bum,

\We know lots of other things we're going

I

~ to make him d.o .
And then put In; in a can and send him

here to you
-——Minnie Doolittle Stanton, Mich.
The Enve Hi3)“ '
Eessie and. Ned thought they
some fling» so Ned sai ’t,
.1) reel: pd ‘

1,;

One d8.
.woul uld
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The members of this; who were _


ir nam‘ee ,, are.

/ .

. A cross. old woman of ion: a o

Decltred that she- hated no se-
“The own

Would‘vpbe so pieae'antf you;

. W, . - .
If onl there were no boys." —
She sooizled and fretted, about it till
413%”). ”“1“”"5 ”"3; “wit," still
- on o a en on. e '
, For all the boys hadgfled. . '

And an thru the long
There wasn’t a be in vi w,

, The baseball lot w’ ere they used to meet

Was, a sight ‘to make one blue;
The ' ass was growing on every‘base,.
Angr‘the paths

Who knew howthe game was played.

Th do were sleeping the livelong day;
e y‘dmum the bark or leap

.There wasn’t a- w istle or call to play,

And so they could -- only 3 eep.
The pony neighed from his lonely stall.
'And longed for saddle and rein;
'And even the birds on the garden wall
Chirped only a dull refrain.

The cherries‘rotted and went to waste,
There was no one to climb the trees;
And nobody had a single aste, ~
Save only the .birds an bees:

. There wasn't a messenger boy—not brie-—

To speed as such messengers an:
If people wanted their errands one,
" They sent for a messenger man.

There was little, I ween, of frolic and
. , no so;
There was less of cheer and mirth-
The sad old town since it lacked irfiIboys.
Was the drearlest place on ea .
The poor'old woman began to weep,
Then awoke with a sudden scream:
"Dear me i” she cried, “I have been

, asleep, _
\ _And. oh, what a horrid dream !"

‘ My Dear "Laddie:”. As I have never
written' to you before I thou ht I would
write. I am 12 years old an in the 8th
“grade at school. I have about a. mile to

walk to school. We have 8 cows :8 hors- *

es and quite a few young catt e. For
pets I have a cat and a dog. T e dog’s
name is‘ Colonel and the cat's name is
Nix. I have a little nephew living at
our house and he is a war baby; his
name is Eldred Arthur Tho son, his
daddy is “somewhere in Franc ,” he has
never seen his baby yet; he is a sergeant.
I have a little sister, Vera. She is not
big enough to write yet, she is 7 years
old and in the 2nd grade at school. I
wish’ that some of the children who write
to you would write to me. too. I like to

, read the letters from the boys and girls

in the paper.

.. My father kes 'the M.
B. F. and likes i

very mu .—Beatrice

E. Bawson, Harbor Beach, Michigan.

M‘y D’ear;“Laddie:" I amtweive years
old and in the‘seventh grade‘. We live ,on
a 6'o-acre fang. We have two horses and
four cows. '1‘ e horses are Dan and Nel-

Z and thg cows are Snookum Fanny, Gol- '
e five igs and.

and pott . We have
more than 10 chickens.“ I wal nearly
two miles to school. teach r's name
is Mrs. Hoyt. Ihave t\ ree sis ers older

 

 

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_, *per.
-W .. ~day,

Any man or woman who has
the use of a conveyance can
make that amount right -in
the. oeunty where they are now
living. taking subscriptiov for
this weekly.

Hundreds of farmers are
only waiting for rsomefne to ‘
ask them to subscribe or th‘.
weekly that is the talk of al

Michigan. _ - '

. We want earnest, and above
-. all, honest men and ‘women
who will devote all or part of
their time to this work, we ,
._ can' make any arrangements
satisfactory" to you, and will

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d dusty street _ .

. that the runners made;-
‘For there wasn't ,a soul in all the place

'ly?" asked Janet.

“ .' .. name
“five yo“ {0.11 necessary equips ‘- war savings stamps. nn,“ v“

menoémmflfiw ‘" m

e
nurses-Grace *Groh, Pinconning.

.‘ ' ' ’ 1.: .
My Dear “Laddie:" I am a

_ 1'3... ear; very muo T
, 1' names
no Trickle; and Molly. 33?
be: ., . e have two we. \ y broth-
er wro a'ietter but dd not see it in

print. like the children's e vs
much—Laura Roy. Paw Paw. pMich. ry

‘ ». a

Dear "Lad.die:” I have tglrea‘d written
to on once before but ough I would
wrte ain. My tathe takes the . B.
B. an e likes to rand it vs no . I
am 1 y old an “th 11$ trade.
'We have , ve cogs; eir n es are
Daisy. Spottie, Bla . Cherry an Baldy.
I have five sisters ' their names are Grace,
.1 Ethel, Sylvia, Goldie“ and one brother,
his name is Emery Grok—Helen Evelyn
Groh, .Pinconning, Michigan. .

Dear “Laddie:" I think I would like to
join your club, so Imam sending you a
story ‘which I 'made up :1: self. I have
two s sters, Marie and arriet; one
brother Chapin. We have organized a
junior ed Cross in our school. We have
not gotten our material to work with
yet. Marie/is our president. I am 11
years old and in the seventh grade.—

' Milan McAllister, Bangor, Michigan.

, , The New Nest
“Oh,” said Janet, “there is a stone i

‘ my shoe, I'must take it off." -.Janet sa -

down and took off her shoe; there was
the tiny stone that caused her so much
trouble. Just then Billy boy came run-
ning along. “Where are you 0mg; Bil-

"Down to he am,"
said Bill . “There is a calf. a black calf,
come on. ' “All right,” said Janet, forget-
ting her shoe. Shh had tucked her shoe
in behind one of t. e posts on the porch.
The shoe stood behind the rch and said,
“I cannot walk alone. ust I.sit here
all day? I 'want to see the calf, too.”
Just then a twittering and chirping was
heard. Down came Mr. and'Mrs. Wren.
Soon -Mrs. Wren saw the shoe. They de-
cided to make‘ their nes here, so there
was no time to waste, or it was after
noon..when they found the shoe. When
it was bout. four o’clock Janet came
home. S e had been to the "village. Her

mother said. “Janet. where is your ether ’

shoe?” "Oh, it is oilt on the orch, I Wil
so, and get it." She saw t e wrens in
the shoe and called her‘ mother. "May

we let then. have the nest, mother, in -

my shoe?" "Yes," said her mother. Every
day they chirped to each other as if they
were thanking her for her shoe.

My Dear "Laddie:” I have 'beefi
reading the childr n's age for a long
time. Llike the 00 a s and also the
Giants of. Lilliputania. ‘ hopsmthat it
will keepa ug as long as the ildren’s
age las . have only written once be—

ore, but I thought I would write again. -

We have six cows and two calves. and

three horses. The cows' names are Nigzr, ‘

Silver, Rosie, Star, Foxie, Spottie.
horses’ names are Dan, Belle. Mabel.
For pets I have a dog and cat. We have
80 acres of land and we have four pi
and about fifty chickens. I saw in t e
children's page that we could set the City
of the Giants of Lilli utania if we sent a
subscription for the . B. F. My father
sent his in about three weeks ago, and I

gwas wondering if I could get the city

anyway. f so. I Would be very glad if
36;»! would send it.—I—Iiida Shafer, Saint
air, Mich. ‘

Dear Hilda:- Wouldn’t it be possi-
ble .for you to get a subscription from
someone else? The subscriptions
which" were entered before this ad-
vertisement appeared will not count.
I, believe if you try you will succeed
in getting'tgiecity which I am sure
you~will [greatly enjoy.

ghmatzz;‘gsdgt°="trfl°cl h“; ”3*
. 7 . p e 0 er s an is
I thought I .would Write oney to yougr

I-live on a farm of 60 acres. We just put

’up a silo this summer and papa thinks
it is very nice as we had me soft corn.
We have seven cows an two 0 lves.
The cow names are Dot Lu , u an
Jane, Ne lie, Brownie. Bel e an L city.
The calvei n ,mes are Mary a ? eter‘.
I have rot er in the army, 1h s name
is tan ey. I had .two other, brothers

’ and °“.° 513‘” but. theyfdiodt. Stanie is
18 dy in

. I am a girl 11 year ‘0!
the, st ifiade at, school." Surat mdher's
s has Bertha Graves; .I i‘ave 8

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i h What‘dm it profityou iiyou raise his 'cropsyt if ,y‘llll‘;

products are of the highest quality, if you use. economies

methods of 'production—«but-if you are not sure of how,

when and where to sell your products at the best pricesifl
Of course ‘youvwant to produce big crops, cf the bes‘

possible grade, and in the most efficient way, but—again-fi

isn’t the BIG thing theprice you get for them?

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Do ou' simply sell all the product of your toil, knowl-

edge investment at whatever the nearest buyer oflers
you on without any thcught to the conditions that govern
the market at the timel

.How many times have you been in doubt as to selling
or holding with nothing to guide you but .the advice. of

men who want your stufl at the lowest figure they can' ..

get it at?

How much would it have been worth to you in DOR- ,.

LARS AND GENTS at those times to have had reliable ad-
vice about prices and selling conditions coming from your
side of the fence?

\ The men you sell to know all there is to know about
these prices and selling conditions,—-—through market pap-
ers published in their interests, but not in yours.

That’s rather unfair to you, isn’t iti

BUT-here’s a market paper devoted entirely and
wholeheartedly to your side.

1

Michigan Business Farming

is known as —“the weekly farmers swear by, but the
market gamblers swear at.”

The market reports in the M. B. F. give the farmer the
same information as that given the buyers through their
market papers. Our market service is ,entirely for the
farmer and not for the fellow he sells to, and we give you
actual market conditions—not what the buyer tries to tell
you they are.

This fearless Farmers’ market weekly has gone a long -

way towards solving the marketing problems of the farm-
ers of Michigan and would solve them still more completely
if every farmer in the state would get in back of it.

Every informed farmer added to our list means just

that much less dumping of products on the market at the .
wrong time, or in the wrong place—or at a price that is not;

the true market price.

A united army of informed producers of agricultural
products would so change marketing conditions that the
business of farming would step into the place and receive
the profits it is entitled to.

You can 'help us to increase the number of informed
producers by getting your neighbor to take M. B. F.

Tell him of one place where he can get honest market
' reports and advice and that it is time to quit working for
the sole interests of the market gamblers and manipulators:

If he doesn’t save a dozen times over the small sub-
scription
want his

GET BEHIND AND PUSH!
A BIG UNITED EFFORT WILL DO THE WORK”

USE THE COUPON “

ollar and will give him back every cent of it.

MICHIG'A’N BUSINESS FARMING, ‘
Mt. Clemens, Michigan. «

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. gamblers swear at.” Here's a dollar ‘to pay for it for one year (525‘, ;
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acreage. Investigate to

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i0 Grafted Apple Trees

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your trouble.

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on send in
I. renewal.

Michigan Business Farming, 1
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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: Winston 5W. .)'—'-’i‘he warm, pleas- ' 1

ant weather 0 the at few weeks has ‘
given pl e to. co der Weather, and
raw wind. There is now a light cov-
ering of snow. Wheat seems to be in
'good condition despite the unseason—
able weather. Tho Mason County Cc
operative Association is now conduct-
ing a vigorous membership drive. It
is hoped a membership of two hun-

dred will speedily be obtained. Work '

was Ieginning on the formation at
the association last fall but had to
be discontinued on account of the in-
fluenza. Now the farmers hope to get
it in working order before the rush of

- spring work. The Fruit Association

in the southwestern part of the county
has completed plans for enlarging its
membership. A large packing house
and storage room will be provided at
Ludington.——B. MK, Feb. 8.

8aginow (West)——We are having
quite a lot of rain with the weather a
little colder this morning. Not much
doing at prBsent. The‘tarmers have
been drawing a lot of tile getting ready
to do some ditching this spring. The
Ford agents are selling quite a lot at
FordsOn tractors to the farmers this
winter. Prices offered at St. Charles
on Feb. 15: Wheat, 2.10; corn, car, 55;
cats, 52; hay, 17 and 15; potatoes, 1.00;
hens, 21; springcrs 21; butter, 35;
butterfat, 40; eggs, 32; “veal calves, 16.
G. L., 8t. Charles, Feb. 15

Jackson (N. JED—Weather good un-
til the 13th then rain for the rest of
the week, which made the roads very
soft and badly rutted in places. Farm-
ers are getting out wood and some ma-
nure being drawn. Feed very high,.
farmers using cull beans for hogs and
cattle, a carload beingsold here at
$38.00 per ton of good quality. The
meeting held last Saturday, the 18th,
for the formation of the live stock
shipping association was well attend-
ed. Mr. Floyd Anderson oi! the Farms
00. gave an interesting talk regarding
the results attained by their county in
the past two years. Following Mr.
Anderson was a representative of the
or the state burea of markets, who
spoke of the formation of associations
meeting this week is to elect officers
and directors and proceed to file ap-
licaticn for the charterH—A F. W.
Munith, Feb 15.

- Cook—Quite a few farmers have been“

doing spring plowing already. Truck "'—

gardeners are fast preparing and get-
ting ready for the early spring. All
the hot beds are planted already; the
hay and strawbalers have been busy
all winter and will be yet for quite
awhile. Those people who still have
woodland are cutting and splitting
wood. Not much ice made. All the
milk trucks are again hauling the
milk to the city, also the stock trucks
which haul the livestock to the stock
yards, Chicago. Winter rye looks very
good. Not much, very little winter
wheat was sown-last fall; reason, for
three years the farmers in this local-
ity had bad luck with it. Corn
shredders have been doing their fln-
ishing jobs where they had to quit
last fall. Very few farmer .boys in
this locality have been discharged
from the army; farm labor is still
very scarce; robins have been around
for the last two weeks.

The following prices were offered at
Arlington Heights on February 12th,
1:‘919 Wheat, _82. 05; com, $1. 20;
cats, 55; rye, $1.15; hay—No. ITim-
othy, $25; No.1 light mixed, $20 to
$22; strawrrye,’ $9; Wheaboat, $7,,
$8; hens, 25; springers, 26; butter, 57,
eggs 35; sheep, 17; hogs, 16. 50;\veal
calves, 18. ‘.

Grand Traverse (West)—-—N6t much

 

to Kar in; some gone to camp to war .

Most oi the “flu"- is quiet her. now. _
The weather is quite cold lately, not '
much snow, hardly enough for sleigh.
ing, yet. Prices on everything the
former has to soil has gone away down
excepts hay, and there is “but little

the

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ought to be in favor of it, and the‘

laboring class in the city also. The
rollovving prices were quoted at Karlin
this week: Wheat, $1. 90; oats, 65;
rye, $1. 35, hay, $5 to $30; rye straw,
$12; wheat-oat straw, $12; potatoes,
$1.10; butter, 30; buttertat, 35, eggs,
35 .—W'. W. 0., Karim, Feb. 7.

Wewford (Ween—Two inches more

snow this week; not hardly enough
for good sleighing. The following
prices were quoted this week at Cad
lac. Corn, shelled, $3.25; cats 55;
hay, $25; beans, $5; potatoes, $1. 20
cwt.; hens, 16 to 19, springers, 18,
butter, 40; butterfat, 47; eggs, 83;
hogs, dressed, 19 to 20' beef cows,
dressed, 10 to 14; veal calves, 10 to
15.—8. H .8 Harriette, Feb 7.

Bay (N. E. )-—Weather very mild for
this time of year. Roads fine. Not
much giain being sold; farmers hold-
ing for higher prices. If the prices
do not come back farmers will lose
money on their 1918 crops. Beets will
be the main crop this year, and it we
do not get a square deal on beans the
farmers will raise no more. The fol-
lowing prices were oftered atrLinwood
this week: Wheat, $1. 75; corn, $1. 25;
cats, 50' rye, $125; hay, $16 to $18;
wheat-oat straw, $8;
beans, $6; potatoes, $1; hens, 25c,
springers, 25; butter, 40; butteriat, 50;
sheep, 12 to 14; lambs, 19 to 20; hogs,
19 to 20; best steers, 12% to 14; beef

' " than hirer knoWn before in the same -,

'Mason the' following prices were 01- l
_ tered on Fell. 111Wheat,$1.07 to 1.10;

. 1.00 to 125' 8,lsik8 88181.8
seed, $18; hens, 20; butter1
teriat, 43; eggs, so: lambs, 15% hogs.
. 16%; beet steers. 9 to 12; bee

era are drawing manure, cutting Wood,
- threshing clover seed, etc.

. and do what work they can themselves

" men.

- DI‘ODO .
.ioes are 200 a cwt. higher in Chicago

' eggs, 33; sheep, 10; lambs, 15; hogs,

   

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xenon, ‘92 time “‘ Beans tar-mars are.
drawn: stamina the state road. At.

hay, 18; spotatoes.
clover
lo; but»

sets, 50; rye, 1. 2;

we,
8 to 9; veal calves, 15%;—w 65 to
705—0.

I. 11., Mason, Feb. 15.

Ként (N. E.)-,-Weather mild, a lit-y
tie skim ‘92 snow on the ground. Farnr-

Clover seed
is turning out fair. No stud is being
moved to market. The Grange Ship-
per's Association oi- Gourtland is got .
ting some fancy beet prices for its
members. A good many farmers are
going to lay down the coming summer

and let the rest go. They are also
going to tell the agricultural implc
ment dealers to keep their old imple
until they can price them in
ion to farmers’ returns. Pots-

and 200 a ,cwt. lower in Greenville.
Kind of funny, aint it. Let them 0 ..
it. We-should worry. They’ re t e
ones to do tho‘worry'ing. Mark what I
say. Thos dealers will hunt new jobs
inside of we years or go to the poor
house. Wheat is $2.18; corn, 1.40;
cats, 50; potatoes, $1. 00 cwt. ; hens, 20;
springers, 20; butter, 40, butteriat, 45;

live 16 to 161/2; dressed 20 to 21; beet
steers, 9; beef cows, 9 to 11.———G. H. W. .,
Gree'lwillc, Feb. 14.

Branch—Farmers doing chores most-
ly. Wéather, rain and anew, no frees-
ing. Soil lightly covered. Selling
stock and hay; holding beans, no mar-
ket. No building or buying; several
are planning salsa and moving. Pricea
offered at Union City on Feb.14:
Wheat, $2.16; corn, 1.;25 cats, 42; rye,
1.25; hay 17 to 18; potatoes, 80' hens,
20; springers, 20; butter, 36, buttoriat,
40; eggs, 32; lambs, 15, hogs 16
beef steers, 9; beef cows, 7.—F.’
Union City, Feb. 15.

 

make every coupon connt

You want this weekly to succeed beCausc
it means better profits, and this better living tor

every man or woman who farms 1n Michigan! ,
This is a year of co operation—we must all help each other—-

down the road in the next home to yours is a neighbor who does ‘
not receive our weekly. Ask him tonight to sign this coupon and
send it in. He can give you the dollar now or send it to us any

time between now and April 1st.

IF YOU ARE NOT A SUBSCRIBER—use this coupon NOW, ,
you’ll need our weekly more than ever the next few months. Send .

your dollar now or later.

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MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Send your weekly for One year for which I
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'about the New Idea Spread-
er: Wewiilgladlysendyvuthe
writer-3’ addresses and copies of
similar letters from many others,
if you. want further proof. These
letters. like the New Idea itseli.
"and every test. They prove
that. you yourself should have a

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THE ‘ORIGINAL wide spread-
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Gentlemen:

\ . deemed
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convinced that buy on ”have have ever need. one:
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when: «1mm Pen: (1th in flu‘vm'ted seat“.

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confettiiity. Send yournamo today.

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ENDORSES THE leco
Bliss, Okla... December 15th. 1918.

mm Smaller; We have need severe! other make. but seeing
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Wonder and 'Robust Beans.
Can Corn."

Michigan Crop Improvement Associa-
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allied shrubs want when
j cm .' try ‘atfiik and a class of heavy

head My lainhe for which shear-

,ers banker-ed" was gobbled up by

killers “116.50, to '317. Prime
handyweight yearling: are quotable
to 318, some averaging 94 pounds
reaching $15.90, while mixed year-
lings and two-ye’ar—old wethers with
heavier weight touched $14. Choice
aged wethers would easily command
812.75 and prime lat ewes are
quotable to 812.

FARM T0 BARKET

.‘_ VIA. moron mucus,

(Continued from page 4)
that all’s well. Nothing so far, has
taken form that will bring to life the
emergency has been for the time being
set aside, or which will adjust our
actual living conditions within pro-
portionate fairness. We started into

the war woefully lacking in tranSpor-

tation facilities, not to say anything
of its inefficiency. , The development
greatly hindered and in convenienced.
Our railroads were falling down;
waterways were not being utilized and
we were beginning to realize that our
improved highways are incapable
of sustaining the loads we wished'them
to carry. Railways were struggling
to care for the long hauls; short hauls
were being thrown upon the highways
and in the case of transporting cer-
tain lines light in weight and great
bulk, long distance hauls are resorted
to. .

“Highways have been considered tor
years the avenue, bearing only the na-
tion’s production to the primary mar-
ket. Ofnecessity and through the en-
couragement of the Government Trans-
port Board, they are now carrying
an ever increasing secondary haulage,
relieving the railroads and helping to
keep alive industrial activity, but
moving the freight without a single
track provided for wheels to run on.

“Farm products—food—is so bur-
dened with such transportation dis-
advantage that no other expectancy
than low price at one end and high
price at the other can be expected.

“Cost on the farm has been studied
relentlessly. Whether in terms of
pounds, dollars, labor or so many
bushels—what 100 bushels of wheat
or 100 pounds of pork costs is known to
a "cent.

“Freight rates for railway transpor-
tation have been studied, criticized
and compared, trimmed in fractions,
and raised in multiples, regulated by
rule as if life or death were hanging
in the balance.

“All men know, once on the cars, the
cost of a bushel of wheat—Peoria to
Shanghai. 011 the farm, the cost of a
bushel of lime, a hundred pounds of
barnyard manure. and even by com-
parative tables the worth of one per
cent of potash in a ton of fetilizer is
known.

“But who knows the cost of anything
between the farm gate and the city
kitchen? Who knOWs wthe cost of haul-
ing the production 0: 160 acres of
farm products to a five mile delivery
point over a. mud road?

“The future progress of the country
in all its industrial efforts is affected
by great disadvantages of inadequate
transportation facilities; loss and
waste in which everybody shares the
burden, is perfectly apparent, not so
keenly as the crop loss and low price
at one end and high price at the other,
but in the aggregate volume enough, if
laid down on the bank counter, would
discharge our war debt in five years.

“A commission composed 0f broad
minded men, capable of appreciating
the whole question in all its phases
is the remedy. The highways of the
country must be placed under federal
care and supervision and made to re-
spond to the nation’s needs.”

MICHIGAN LAND
BOOSTERS MEET

(Continued from page 3)

.1

how the development of that part of

the state will be retarded so long as

* the settler is left to work out his own

salvation, "with little if any capital,
and nos-cures from which to obtain it.
It has triedyto’shew, also, what a not
impetus would begiven to development
and settlement 1! the prospective set-

”i tiereduldbeamotmi‘m3dtflp

; Med} of time to theSe hardyf‘ nd
' honest mimwho are Willing to undo! .‘
{8‘0 the hardships of pioneer mg; in
order to build themselves a business

and a home. In our judgment nothing
could be better calculated to stimulate
interest in northern Michigan lands
and speed their development.

Mr. W. P. ' Hartman, agricultural
agent tor the G. R. & I. R. IL, who has
co- operated with Mr. John I Gibson”
secretary at the Western Michigan,
Development Bureau, in attracting not”
tiers to that part of the stats and con-
ducting numerous successful experi—
ments to prove the agricultural excel-
lence of western Michigan, addressed
the gathering upon several prases of
the development work, and urged that
the plan of Secretary Lane be encour-
aged.

Judge Howard Wiest of Lansing pre-
sented a very able address upon the
duty of American citizens to protect
the Constitution and property rights
from the devastating influences of Bel.
shevism and red socialism. He talked
at great and fervid length upon the
dereliction of Germany, insisting that .
this common enemy had not been
whipped and urged the erection of
economic barriers that would make it > -
impossible for Germany to again par-
ticipate in the benefits of the world's
commerce until she had expiated her
crimes.

Jas. R. Snody, president of the
Northeastern Michigan Development
Bursa, told the story of the bureau’s
achievements; and the secretary oi
the Bay City Board of Commerce spoke
enthusiastically of the benefits north-
eastern Michigan was receiving thru
the work of the bureau.

PRICE-FIXING COST
WHEAT MEN MILLIONS

(Continued from page 3)
kets as high as $3.75. The govern-
ment stepped in and fixed the price
at $2.20, Chicago base, subsequently
raised for the next year’s crop to $2.26.

“Bear the date in mind, 1917, the
year when the American wheat crop
tell to 651,000,000 bushels as against a
yield in 1915 of more than one billion
bushels. The crops in 1916 and. 1917
were short in this country and still
more scanty in Europe. Wheat, along
in the summer of 1917, was responding
to the law of supply and demand and
there is every reason to believe that it
the government had not laid its hand
upon the price the market would have
gone! to $4 or $5 a bushel.

“Who are the beneficiaries of this
government price suppression? Very
largely the people of the non-wheat
growing states of this country.

“The North Atlantic group of states,
as shown by the reports of the United
States department of agriculture, had a
wheat deficit in 1917 of 110,534,000
bushels. That is that group of states
had to buy for their own consumption
110,000,000 bushels from the wheat-
growing states of the union. Massa-
chusetts bought 17,000,000 bushels:
New York, 43,540,000 bushels; New
Jersey, 12,047,000 bushels, and Penn—
sylvania, 23,530,000 bushels.

“0f the same 1917 amp the South
Atlantic states bought 10,472,000 bush.-
els, and the south central states 20,.
688.000 bushels. '

"The New York Tribune ridicules the
assertion made by other New York
dailies that under the priceguarantee
the government is likely to lme one
billion dolars on the 1919 crop. On
that point it says: ‘Some experts of
perhaps equal competence will be sur-‘
prised if the govemmv ent loses by its
guarantee one single. dollar. Even if
it would, the loss- would benefit a class
that has endeared long in adversity
and could well on y a little tempo}
rary prosperity. here are no million-
aire farmers, yet the farmers patriot- '
ically accepted a government price for _
their wheat one-third less than the,
prevailing market price and onathird '
less than the relatiVe price received by ,
the south this year for its staple pm-
duct, cotton. We note that cotton in a
free market is still selling at around ,
30 cents a pound, or three prices over
the pro-war average. Wheat is only a
two price. and our {on man, m 59‘
patently not to cut wheat down was
pro-war basis, while farm; meg“

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D-leli' Heeli- Ends over

h their”): a Via—{”3
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Hrd’S- Rolin B’s Nestor 5401 ,

His dam, Rosalind B. Champion 6 yr.
old R. O. P. 16,804.4 lbs. milk 727.84
lbs. fat. Will soon have some of his
get for sale.

At present we have for sale Butter-
worth of Huron No. 6787, born March
26th, 1918, a son out of a full sister
to‘Edna C. 3rd No. 6092, champion 4
yr. old R. O. P. 16,4961 lbs. milk.
669.35 lbs. fat.

Several male calves and a few fe—
males.

Herd under Federal government con—
trol and tested for tubercullne.

ERWIN‘ H. KRAUSS,
Sebewaing, - — Michigan.

 

 

 

 

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Terraces

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claim aban- .
doned land.
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Villa is! FREE Farm pitcher. Tel-racer
leek all Prices_ and Road Grader
All-steel — Adyustable — Reversible—No wheels.
levers or co e to get out of fix. Cuts new farm
ditches or c cans old ones to 4 feet deep—
grades roads—builds farm terraces dykee

and levees; Does work of 100 men. Every

term needs one. Send your name.

lumen 'lltchu I. Grader c... lee.
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IN ENGINE PRICES
Ktnosms —- assume

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Immediate Shipment
" Stationary. Portableor
Saw-Rig—ailatgreatly
reduced prices; Bes‘ _
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terms. Nocutin uali ,bnta big cutinprlee
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' uaranteed House Paint. all colors, .
. $2.00 . gallon. "1 rd Ian, Balm.

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I take it for granted that every man
who owns‘ 'a bull has taken the pre-
caution to put a good copper rin'g in
the nose of the,_2hull. ‘- -

By the timei'the" calf is nine or ten .

months old this should be attended
to....-The ring Will not 'Only aid'a great
deal in the handling of the ball but
is the first requisite for further pr
tection, by use of the bull staff. 2 '
Many a life could have been saved,
had the bull been handled with a staff.

The drawing below illustrates. the
most common sort. The head snap,
chain and screw eyes can be secured
from most hardware stores at little
cost. When properly attached to a
stout staff, about three feet long, you
have something that can be relied on
more strongly than a rope.

We have two suchstafts, one hangs
by the door to the bull stall and the
other for emergency use. Combining
the use of the staff and a nose lead you

can handle a vicious cow to advantage.
—0. I. Hammet, Indiana.

A Sanitary Paper Funnel
CUT HERE

AND HERE

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Take an old envelope and cut off
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ope.——-M. G., Macomb county.

Repairing a Monkey Wrench

Quite fre-
‘quently, for
one reason or
another, the
wooden han-
dle on a mon-
key wrench
becomes bro-
ken or worn away before the wrench
is too old for use. '

By removing the nut on the bottom
a piece of pipe can be fitted to “take
the place of the wooden part-of the
handle. When the pipe is cut the right
length and the nut replaced. File off
the rough place and you' have a
wrench that is as good as new, so far
as utility is concerned—0. I. Hammei,
Indiana.

 

Grafting Wax Heater ,
Recole ntly,
while doing
- some grafting
it was found
t h a t s o m 6

Keeping the
w a x warm
was necessary

 

c old, wind-y
_ ‘ dam when
it cooled quickly. A'dish, tapering as
shown, was procured from the kitch-

en and the wax melted in it. Then it ~

was placed in the top of the teakettle
as shown and carried to the work to
be done. The heat from the water
kept it melted a long While.

Making Paper Fuel
The waste paper which accumulates
about th house day by. day, may be
converted into. fuel that: does quite

 

‘well, especially for starting ilree‘ind

when a figure 11% to I? kept for a
ength o 2;e.,2\ _,e vow, newspapers
1 ‘ _1 and throwninto‘a tub

w... Hanan... as.

goverone entire hall's an i‘~ '
‘ der the .meLéi-‘j-‘Dole‘R-EJV

'and place a few matches in

{means of’

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.Weeder for lLl‘Eerse'pult’iVator '
. Take » the (two back teeth, off yang."
'ol -

cultivator, then hunt up" that
orosscut .saw you'threw away and
out off section ‘of it long enough to

    

 

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reach across the back of your culti-
vni’nr from—om is: m the other, and
allow about two inches lap on each
blue, tn-.. "l... m. gown edge up gull.
tw° holes into- the saw so- you can
bolt it to the legs, then bend the lower
edge up a little andhflle the edge down.
When going thru the rows it is the flu-

est thing in the world to get the weeds.

—M. Grcnell, Macomb county.

Making Tin Cans Useful.

Open the next few cans of corn and
peas on the side as shown in the
sketch and after they have been
cleaned, tack in convenient places as
match holders. Place one over the
stairway to the cellar, one in the hen-
house, one; in‘the granary, and so on,

 

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them.
They will often come in handy. ; Still
others may be nailed to trees and
fences for the birds to nest‘in. A
sco .p for use in the kitchen may be

ma e by cutting the tops off as shown .,

in flguretwo and- nailing on a suit-
able handle. The rough edges, after
Cutting with a pair of tin shears may
be smoothed off with a file, and if de-
sired, palnted.+—Dale R. Van Horn,
Nebraska.

Easy‘ Way to Remove [Corks

Corks that have been replaced in
bottles are often hard to pull out
again. To remedy this before replac-
ing the cork wrap the cork with a
thin piece of white cloth, tying it at
the tap with a piece of twine and al-
lowing the cloth to extend far enough',

to take hold of with the fingers. In

this way the cork is easily removed.
This saves time when one is in a
hurry and can’t find a corkscrew or
knife—Mrs. E. H. 0., Mccosta. ‘ -

Anchoring Fence Posts . "
The sketch below, r resents the
manner of anchoring sit or 'gate'posts
or corner posts used by a great uncle
of mine. Many of the posts on his
farm have been there for years. When

. properly not they stay as long as the

. om. We .

‘ 'j my ‘magnet‘

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. 10th: Oats,
cows, dressed, 13.——A. L.,

considerably higher.
capable of turning over above 3,000 ’ -
"revolutions per -~ minute and at this

   

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" head ‘against'the. exposed end of the; .»
coil. Hammers thus treated will 3

pick up small tacks and broadband“!
.nails and makes ”it ,ossible, to 38'!
carpet much tighter,
places,

too, which would otherwise

' require the- use of -a step—ladder.—

Dafe R. Van; Eom,‘Nceraska. ; , —

 

Fresh" Meat—Haw to Keep a week

or Two in Summer

For’farmers orghthers, living a dis-
tance from the butcher shop, they can
keep fresh meat very nicely for a week
or two by placing the meat into sour
milk or buttermilk; put away in a
cool cellar. The bones or fat need not
be removed. Rinse well when ready
to use—Mrs. E. ’H. 0., Mecoata.

 

Iowa (Edd) — Farmers are doing
chores and going to auction- sadee, get-
ting up wood and ice. Getting tired
of the way we have been used in re-
gards to buying and selling produce;
Thefardlens had a his meeting on
February 12th and pledged -.money
enough to put up two farmer elevat-
ros under- the Grange Cooperative
System, T. W. Michael being our or-
ganizer with good success. ‘ We

earnestly hope that the mrmer will

get what is due him for his hard

‘work. The following prices were of-

fered at Tawas City on February

50; hay—No. 1 Timothy.
$18 and 319;; No. 1 ligh mixed, 8‘18; '

Feb. 12. ; ”M?" City

 

 

 

HlN’l'S FOR moromsrs

DANGER or FLYWHEEL BURSTING

I have had a' good deal of experi
ence with machinery. and sometimes,
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I cannot help Wondering whether there
is any danger that the flywheel may
gun? BHag this ever happenedi—A.

We believe that cases of burst ny-

wheels have been reported, but we per-
sonally never knew of one and they"
are extremely rare. With the‘dlam-
eters ordinarily employed, a scun'd
cast ironxwheel should be safe up to
fully 5,000‘;revolutions per minute,

,without taking “into consideration the
«strengthening effect of the solid web

and the-actual bursting speed would , be
Fe‘w engines are

speed the factor of safety must be be-

tween 3 and 4.; Steel or wire wound
. wheels can safely be run at much

higher speeds than the ordinary cast
irOn Variety, but they have never been

generally adopted, their advantages .
from the. standpoint ‘01 safety being ‘~

too slight to warrant the additional

outlay. ~ .2 .

 

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' gent with '-t_he;coil. ns‘If possible} ,4}.

an Ordinuily- .:
Nails may be driven in out of the war _ .2 2_

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figd, forbidding reception.
mops as Wheat or grass, that havo~
fired through the’ winter, often fail to

shrine.
,. “This soil condition accounts tor the

   

 

 

  
  
   
 
  
  
     

4' ' A slew start—Available Nitroce-
La chins.

so often see for several weeks atter
the young plant has broken the sur-
face crust of the soil. The basis for
rpoor crops, weakened plants subject
to disease attacks, slow growth and de-
Joyed maturity, are laid right there
we then. A’ little quickly available
nitrogen at hand just at that time is
valuable out of all proportion to its
cost or actual F‘planttood" value.

A sixty, bushel corn crop removes
gtrom the soil 105 pounds of nitrogen.
At the usual rate at application, ter-
tili‘ze'r containing two per cent of am-
mania or less, turnishes but a small
traction ot the total needed supply or
this plant hood element, Its value
lies in the tact that it serves as a
starter—it furnishes available nitro-

 

th. PI“!

4"!“ Plenty of. P15 :1 ,
v Fortes Ahead 3:?!“

(on (or ammonia) at the time when
it is most needed, and when other
sources supply little or none.
I «Every Corn grower wants .1 “hard
’cornf'ecorn with ears that are “big
and kernels that are deep; ears that
dry out hard and mud and make high- I
eat quality tood. To grow that sort ,
of corn, the plant must work every
minute of the growing season. , .
The seed kernel contains but little
ammonia, and when this reserve tood
1-,Isu'pply is exhausted the young plant
has to stop growing until the 13011
.W warms up and nitrogen becomes avail-
able trom the organic matter in the
soil or 4er manure. That is the
freason why; the young plant otten
stands for dayI at a time without

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Even such §

to the treat date. A week lost in the

-Icause the wheat to tiller'out. cover

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A Quick start Helps Make Hard Corn, “
That 'is one reason why ,we harvest
softcom instead of. hard com.
‘ “It doesn’t matter where you are
growing earn, you probably grow a
variety which works pretty close up

early spring is almost as bad as a
week lost later—time which cannot
be made up.

Ammoniated fertilizers give the crop
aa running start ‘in the spring, and
keep it growing every minute at the
season. Even a small amount ot am-
monia placed where the young root-
lets can reach it as soon as they start
otten makes the difference between a
good and a poor start; between a
crop at ripe corn that keeps, and a
crop of soft corn that rots in the crib.

The small grains show very plainly
any lack of available ammonia, or
lack ot ayailable phosphoric acid. They
show it in restricted leaf growth; and
in failure to ‘stool out” and cover
the ground Lack 0t ammonia espec-
ially is indicated by poor color at
the foliage, as is the case with corn,
with grasses, and with many other
drops. I
. The Delaware Experiment Station
has found that both ammonia and
phosphoric acid are necessary for the
proper "stooling out” of all grains.

 

 

 

 

 

per coW per year
with a

fig LAVAL

Formerly, with butter-fat at 25 to 35 cents a pound, a
De Laval Cream Separator saved $10 to $15 per cow per year
over gravity skimming.

Now with butter- fat selling at 50 to 65 cents a pound, and
even higher, the saving with a De Laval' is doubled.

If you have only two cows and are selling cream or mak-
ing butter, 11. DeLaval will soon save enough to pay for itself.

With butter- fat at present prices' you need a De Laval
more than ever before, and if you already have an inferior
or half-Worn- out separator, your cream loss with such a ma-
chine is too big to be neglected.

The best cream separator you can get is the only machine
you can aiford to use these days, and creamerymen, dairy
authorities and the 2,,325 000 De Laval users all agree that
the De Laval is the world’ 11 greatest
They know from experi-

cream saver.
once that the De Laval skims
closest, lasts the longest and gives
best service.

Order your Do Laval now and let it b.-
gln saving cream for you right away.
See the loot! Do Laval agent, or, it you
don't know him, write to the nearest
De Laval 06100 as below

165 Broadway 29 E. Madison 8
New York Chicago

OVER 2,325,000 DE LAVALS IN DAILY USE

The DeLavaI Separator Co.

   

    

 

 

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that up to a certain point increasing
the quantity of both of these plant
toods favors the “stooling” and in-
creasing the yield nearly pro rata.
By using a high grade ammoniated
fertilizer, the available planttood will

the -,soil and make a worth-while crop
where otherwise only a poor crop

Oats and spring wheat are essen-
tially cool weather crops. They. must
be planted while the ground is still
cold.- The cold soil does not furnish
enough available ammonia to start
the young plant rapidly on' its way.
At" least twp per cent of ammonia
should be used in the fertilizer to fur
11181! this quick start. As to how much V
more may be used at a profit, de-
pends, ot course, on soil conditions.
and upon the amount of manure and
how often it is applied, and the quan-
tity 0t legumes grown.

 

   
  

$4800 9. YEA

Rabbi“. “mull! hlgh (Ind. flock Ind
87.0. 8 Palr, also express charges, for All
you rule. from nine.
got" .005?“

DAVIStSOlI. IZ8AVE. 3|. LOSANGEISIES, CAI.

ity that skill
produce making

Quality First

tor purity and germination.

our Quality seed overhead expenses ena

give the buyer atny advantage in QUALITY and PB.
’ OUR 1919 SEED BOOK

and sam€3e5 of any Farm Seeds you wish to buy,
request.

you investigate our values.

on ’t buy anything for either
THE C. E. DePUY C0.,

mom-toot
m “d “.3313: Most poor layers are “OUT 0F

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ble,
MOZONE is the best remedy for
disorders.
with 5 boo<
LEE CO.,

on need weekly. Get out
how to that,“ breed and house.

Poulti y Librai y.

PONTIAC,

   

Our first effort is to supply the best qual- ,
experience and money can

DePUY’S SEEDS FIRST AID T0 GOOD CROPS

The are Northern Grown and must stand the most severe tests

give the grower practical crop
8 insurance at low cost.

Light
ble us to
ICE.

Free on '

Garden or Field until

MICH,

Chickens Sick or Not Laying?

CON DI-

TION" or have Colds Roup, Bowel trou-
Sorehead Chicken pox, etc.

GER-
all these

At dealers or postpaid 750,

GEO

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ept.1961/g OMAHA, NEB

 

    
 
 

  
  
  
 
  

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It pays to buy ’11 Ton-M} with salt the year

around keeps flock healthy
free from stomach worms

  

   

worth of medicated salt—saves
big money—e—A' $1. 00 size be

L‘v)

mediCate 54 barrel of salt

Write for club otter—booklet on
“Nature and Care of Sheep”

masons CHEMICAL ij

ticks. 1A $5.00 box’ makes $30.00

Mfg-my by parcel post will“;

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time my. cum arwment m- enu's insurance? than
a was an Woo at alga-r
Yet-ram“ Mumdmabuttmwmot
, them are dead INSURE THEM BEFORE IT Is Too LATE!

  

  
 
   
  
  
  
    

hon, nor has by accident and disease.

See our out In your vicinity. ' ~
cala- o. Lillie, "President . Harmon u. won'- in. and True. ,
up wuaiwnh 31:13.. Grand Rapids, man.- onahnar man, Saginaw. w.s.. Mich-

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ALA-uction, Wednesday, F eb. 26 -

Sale bezinninc It 18 o'clock and will consist of eleven held oty young Horses
\‘coming 3. 4 and 5 years old. Agood sound lot and all sired by Re stored
' Percheron and Belgian Stallion; 22 end of Cattle, mostly grade Holstein eiters .
thatI bonght from the good dairy}: erdl! .in the neighborhoods. They are 9.
Mg mum. willflooeellaferPnneBredDumoJen-yflogsandm
; eedotyonngns mahmhmmfcwcs.

‘ Write for Sale Bill and if in need of anything that I have to alter. I will .
be glad to meet you on sale day.

CHAS. BBAY, OKEHOS, 1““ County, MICHIGAN.

 

 

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Are you in the market for a good
Holstein Calf from 38 lb. Bull, 3 .
son of Rag Apple 8th. ~- ’

ROBERT R. POINTER & SON
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

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WOULDN’T YOU LIKE BETTER RETURNS
_ If no IF!) your FURS to

BEHR BROS. ca JRAW mm

351-” W Ava, Detroit, Mich. BER: R rgog‘cdupgn

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CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

CLAY, ROBINSON & CO.

1 LIVE STOCK (DMWSSION

Chicago South ht. Pull SoutIIiOnehl Denver . I Klan-City .
Eat Batista Fort Worth “fl. Lenin Sim City
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flockhea healthyandfree from stomach worms

- andticks. ASSJIOh-x-IkeeSflLWII-fief

. , . mediated alt—saves you big money—A

. 2 :2. 00 size In: of urlx-Ton MIX” by parcel ,
" post will medicate a barrel of salt.

'iin-‘Mi with salt the year around keep;
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PARSONS CHEW WORKS, Grand Lake. Midis-n

What 15°»... "‘" You‘rliatlons

Whlngi‘on, 1:32:33: ntqn’ssamwerw Is the ‘fimmp‘m m“ '1“ animumwm

nerve-center o 11 got an' to

made at this world capital: The Pathfinder,” .l malesizcfllgml'I'ggind:neednffisfggmliamgnngngggllal'thprl’n’t:

llhutmfial‘wedw {ed-o glmagou gun-Clem; 1111- Intel“! ”a. This mtfillrthe ill-1mm ‘mm m

‘9'” ‘1:me _ ”I, “d 1:.” veer. “you minke» ”Mammoth“
“on! "he“ ' ”0‘“ - “V" nthe expense of time mmAhis is oil:

means. "you want: paper lnyourhome which in sincere,“ rddlfle, en te.ruinlng wholesome. the Minder is yours. you ,
. \ wmmrechtca pap: per which puts eventing gm“: deny—henna. Send ch tojhowthat you mightlike such a

and will end the Pathfinder
Elie 15c doezzot rezay us: we are glad iganerends. 1]" Faun-M", I“ 3 .W D. co ‘
' . fvv A N 11 om VALUABLE Poultry Catalogue

‘ - ' . Free, pure bred poultry, our win-
. EVE! LACE!) GOLDEN and White .

nings prove 111:1:me
Wyandottes. Only a few Large Golden all leading Tidal-dam Don't delay,

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rWhite omke rels left. Egan in season write Blue ihbon P lltry Mm.
$3. 00 per 15, $5. 00 per Built]? l d. h. Altoona, Iowa.
Elarence Browning on an Mic I‘UBXFIS

 

 

 

" B. C. White. Large .

CW” cure with}? 3mm“ fellows. ,, Mifi‘lwmgfiho “Wm firmware” .—
, rioes reasons. e, 83. is a blers we 16-«3

ygt’e‘ed _o n mwley. Ludinxtongu Mich: Pd“, {£30m 31m.“ «10 Hens 9-14 1115,

" STANDARD nB‘BatEadD $303533;ng Ari—d setth of ten. JohtzirMorrs. n' iftzflfif

I Partridge Rooks; Renal smokes. ‘I—Iatch;

it" Eizgtoute 5 31mm Michigan“

     
  
 
    

    
  

 

  

We indemnity owner: of live stock—horses, cattle, sheep and- ‘ ' .

Thé cattle a Europe have ”W
been depleted .They are mom of . . "
cow; shdrt These must is supplied

great problem b91013 the Americanm of ham. {Guam aid m.

l

The economy 9'; the 3110 13 well dissussed the question oi! iorage crops
known [than beenprcven mt it will bringingwut at some length the 1111-.

of butter; {00 on the production of inent at breeding olivine. He would

hundred pounds at beet. it also saves plenty 9‘ good clover or aim pan»

and quick fattening. It insures your

' lot.
corn crop, hr, neither mouth, frost afull grain ration in dry

' ' ' ban claim Thrsuhaect, “In What wry on. the
or can the tot in s where - ,, . ,
the silo 13 used , 8-1 s , Association Help Most? ~,was _, ably

discussed-by the daddy Of Michigan’s
big typo Poland-China. business, NVE
Livingstorn- Mr. ' Livingston” is, no
doubt, Michigan’ 3 bat known Poland-
China. breeder. He had Just returned

Silage is the cheapest known loin-cc
of the great (cod element known as
carbohydrates and the wise farmer
makes liberal use/oi this ration. This
is why you find 81105 on our best
stock farms. Most of the great dairy
records have been made from cows
fed on silage and nearly all of the
prize-winning tat stock have had sil-
age in their ration. Success in tfl'e

and says that these states have, "us
badly beaten. In reply to the ques-

us?” Mr. Livingston said, “In price.”

dairy and five stock business a“ 80 In the general discussion and
complished thru the liberal use of round table . talk in which Boone .
‘ silage. ‘ Hutchins, Maystead, Clark, May,- Jw_

Supplement your pasture with a silo. . . ,
Six times more feed can be raised on lain, Haka’s and others. took part.

an acre put into corn and that put many- points M interest t° Michigan

grass. Land 15 high and actors on “seemed to be the concensus of opin-
high-priced land 15 s. 108131; pmposi— ion of the breeders that the time was
tion. Make your acres earn each m1. ripe for some definite action on, the
a good dividend. ' part of the association looking toward

Silage and alfalfa or clover hay the advancement 0f the breed 1‘“

makes a balanced ration and wonder- Michigan and the benefit of members
tul results have been obtained from . of the association. The executive
these two feeds alone. It is of the committee was instructed to get out
greatest importance to the keepers of a. directory» of Michigan breeders and
live stock that they feed a cheap and attempt any promotion Worklthai
wholesome ration during periods of seemed advisable. The election of of-
high priced grains. Good feeding 13 floors resulted as follows: President,
profitable leading P. P. Pope, Mt. Pleasant; Sec’y and
. . Treas, Wm. J. Clark, Mason; execu-
miheogerys.'exD;:m°llstaziin 3mg tive committee, John L. Jacobs, St.
on... ............, ...., .0... £°h8§;mti.tsnfli‘£n§ ..
agent, every stock and farm paper and ' ' '
every silo user advocates the silo. “—_‘
Plan to have one this season or add Result 0f Horse Sale at M A- C

, , Topsy 1111-47 dark grey, star foaled'
A very luteres-ung program was car- £121, 33.295191
- u 1" ‘
ried out and ranch enthumastlc discus— Victor Hugo 134738 red m‘am white
$1011 engaged 111- Premdent P. P. Pope strip, foaled May 246.1916——Eli Sprunger,

spoke briefly in his address along 53'9“?” M10“

Saginaw,

             

lines vital to the best interests of foaleds Ju 10 1917—131; Spr nger, 3220

Michigan breeders. He brought out Queen Belle, sent for record, foaled

plainly the fact that breed improve- ‘35? 050‘ 1918"“1‘, 1' Hicks“ Gregmy' MiCh’

ment could be brought about only by Edith 148383, blchk star, roaled June-
retaining the best of our stock for 'éghfilgoswfies Bmy’ Elkem’ Mich”
herd building, that the feeding end 0f Susanna 103368, black grey, star foaled
the game should never be 1081; sight June 23,1'913—1101! Hunt, Eaton Rapids,
of, for feed is the stuff that makes . Bird 57597 gray with white strip foal-
the blood tell. He laid special em- ed Julysl3851908~Aiex Fenton, Jonesville,
phasis “Mid the application Of business DOII‘I. Bettie 83343 grey“ tom May LR. I
princ1pl_es to the work in hand, which ' 1910—3- C Butler P01151116 M301! 3210
" ' - K70nette 142925, grey, foaled April 17,
would mean “mg by the Other fellow 1917 R. Moye’r, Eagle, Mich. '314 5.

as We would be done by This includes 0 Rosamond 45547, black, small star.- foal-

the his! 1 0 ed April 4, 1904—«George Pratt, Grand
83 3' ng if every customer even Ledge, Mich $155

. . M the 13558 mailed Ma 1 1
etc. President Pope. also called at— ~R§lli_e Spam-flan, men. syss g ‘

tuition to the importance or adver- fefigggfi Egg: mmgfifigug‘gg 19"
titling and the continuance of public incl '
sales in Michigan He reminded the Bertha m 31;“ .535: so .1
breeder; that they were back or the .‘May c~,>1916-—L. & Mars #31 '
best swine nominating earth, that ti“ 4” “ ~ 7
the breed didn’t need" any hoomins,‘
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main-1t you!“ mad rm:
by the United States. Therefore to ”'1“: Int mt, %?thm ’
teed well and with mmy is the 3"” ”’7m 9 . . ; '

farmer ,_ 'Mr; L'.‘ Lam-111mm o: Mercelms‘

save 10c on the production of a pound, penance pas-tune has in the develop“
100 pounds 0! milk and $1. 50 on a rather have for his breeding m ’~‘

labor, insures large milk production I ture and ‘halt of a grain ration than ,

from-artrip thru Ohio and Indiana ,

tion, “In. what way have they beaten

obs, Livingston, Leonard, ,Chamber-y

into the silo than thig same acre in breeders were brought to light. It

another to your farm equipnlentr— ‘ PEIwHanNs ,
A. L. Bunker. Black Joe 136685, black, star, foaled
. _ May 21,1916—Vernon .‘E. Preston, Fre-
, . . mont, Mich. ' 0.
‘ ' _ ' . Golda 107522, black, scar, peeled June
Michigan Poland China Breeders :28 61,3 E P; Kim,” mung, Mwh’.
. Bald Meeting Cinderella’s Queen, black, small star,
About, fifty of Michigan’s prominent gig; Afllh 11‘3056913—4 H- Rmvland.
PolandChina broadensmet in annual Verdun 129448, black, small star, foal—
session at the Michigan Agricultural ed February 25 1916—8. C. Gridiey,
College, Feb. 5‘ Lansing, mm, $25”.

' E51119 143832 black. Email an, I

though it may call for a sacrifice, . Ruby 10488 black, white crescent,.
promptness in answering correspond. foaled yMfiJ‘ch 3, 1913—Creyts Brothers,
once es eciall etti t ‘di " Lang ng’ ' " 4505‘

1 p Y g ng 0“ pe grees Mar 135538.13131rt grey, foaled June
and certificates of registry, shipping 127,19 G—Ahgnst Miller. St Johns. Mich.,
animals in clean attractive crates, 230' 0'0

 
     
   

  
    
  
 
   
 
 

   
 
   
  
  
   
  

 
 
  
   
   

 
 
    

 
      
     
    
   
  
   
  
  
 
   
   
   
   
  
    
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
     
   
 
  
    
  
   
    
  
   
   
         
    
   
    
   

 

  
    
    
     
   

       
  
  
  


  
 
  
   

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, . 'es and further information.

- this pular line of
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‘ 2" * "Holsteingl-‘riesign Cattle
,‘Tww dams of our herd sire

' m V Iao.11 lbs. 01' m: in seven
- it?! Nothin for sale at this time
, NI; 10mgbufi. calves. '1

3* 14‘- !allebury, Shepherd, Michigan.

 

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'We' are-«now booking orders for
~ W'bulls from King Pieter 'Segis
. 3‘93 170508. All from A. R. 0. dams
with credible records. We test annu-

iny ror- tuberculosis. Write for pric-

_ E 1.. Salisbury 'Breeds High Class

Winter ‘Lyono '

 

 

Mlle]! Bram, Soutln Eyonl, Wilt-II.

 

'M .B. F. has sold my calves. I now
alter a light colored 6 yr. cow that
milks up to 60‘ibs. a day, $2502. The
best of well bred bull calves bredtor-
show 28d production. From dams with
A. R. ‘. records 01' 25 lbs. butter, 548
to 574 lbs. milk 7. days, $1.25. .

ROBIN CARR

FOWLEBVILLE, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

CLOVER DAIRY FARM

Otters a beautiful Holstein. bull cal-f be
October 10, 1918, Sire Flint Hengervel .
Lad whose dam and slre's dam averag;
32.65 butter lg 7 days. Dam 19 lb. gr.
yr. old grand aughter of Hansel-vol D

. Price, $100 f.o.b. Flint. Write for
pho o- and pedigree. . '

L. C. KFTZLER, Flint, Michigan

 

I ZPRE FARE

For the greatest demand, future
prices that has. ever known. Start
now with the Holstein and, convince '
yourselt. Good stock always tor
sale. - Howbert Stock Fbrm, Emu -
Claire. Michigan.

 

 

 

sired by a son ‘0!
u a ves Friend Henge‘rveld
”B. ' a by x 1’2? 33‘: fluid:
yan, asono ng egs
Korndyke, from A. R. Oi'dams with. rec-
ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered. ~
“’ALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wyckoff, Napoleon, Mich.

LANGHURST STOCK. FARM.‘

.from dams with records up to 24 lbs. a

sires’ dam‘s up to 46 lbs. Write for p -
igrees and prices. Fred J. Lange, Seba-
waing, Michigan. ‘

Otters youn Holstein - Friesian 3133

 

 

BULL CALF
Born August 15, 1918. Sire’s dams
average 37.76 butter 7 da 8 145.93
lbs. butter 30 days, testing disarm.
Calf’s dam a 21 b. daughter of a cow
with 4 AR. daughters. Nice strai ht'
calf, well marked. Write, for pr co.
and detailed descri tion. Herdtuber-
‘ c’ulin tested annu y.
BOABDMAN FARMS
Jackson_ Mich.

 

 

wonvnnmn swoon: FARM *
I want to tell
Herd Sire, "King Pontiac I"...
dyke-Segis,'! a son of King of the Penn.
“,acs, his dam is, ueen Se at Extreme
.3 ganglia? iof gntiacKClothn‘d'e De Keri
n an rnce~ egs ornd
"c“é‘vbmmnb“ .gfeedinhgi. ~ yke, a neat
e are ree mg 1’. s on any.
the daughters of Judge Wafikeg‘Pi t0
our Senior Herd sir whose first

’ dams each have recor s above 30 line; he

also has two 80.1b. sisters. H .

you :0 wrénx by bugln‘zd‘a b?ull 3i: “‘0,
. ree ng. .

.~. Sprague, Battle Crock; Mich.

HOLSTEINS OF QUALITY. Two
of. herd sire are-both sum-‘33?
7 da :5, average 700 lbs.

Har y, Rochester. Mich.
> ,' .EQREGISTERED STOCK _g, ,4

  

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1:0. I bull. Price

P. SUNNY, PLAINS HOISTFJNS
' Filo dams {ii-’35..
AHWIN KILLINGE‘R,

 

 

7 IWe Soil/st Breeders’ Sale

at College Feb. 8th, Good Foundation
cow, A .C. recur an 3-year-old, 40
lbs. of milk 18.7 or butter. 30 l .
luster. bred to 3' lb. bull.

C. L: Hulett d: Son, Okemos, Mich.

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ion to ego-yr, let a put it in gpgmgfll
, 't. it will cost for ~13, Z‘Ger es. 0!!
go size of red. or My as often ‘aoyeu wish. ,Copy or changes
one peeklefm date of issue. Write to-dsyl
DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
‘ Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
r EG. .HOLSTEIN BULL CALI from
w and sired by a

50.00 for quick sale.
W- Alexander, Vassar. Michigan.

bell calves from

3 Iowlerville,‘ Michigan. »

 

FOR SALE Five or six, good
cows. Just bred, to a 81.61 lb. bull-
Paul Steinacker, Howell, Mich.

enter: ‘1 I

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders or Majesty strain Jerse Cat-
tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty’s Oxfor Fox
. 1342.14; Eminent Lady‘s Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams.
'Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

GUEBN S EY

GUERNSEYS Win In” A m
- , , Heifers and cows for
sale, also a number of well bred liyoung
bulls—write torbreeding. Village arms;
Grass Lake, Michigami

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE
We are entering at attractive p a
number of‘ high-class oung bu is, well
able to head. tho best. rein in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of th
ocean. Write for price list. or call an
see us.
Woodcote Stock Farm, Ionia. Michigan.

SHORTHOBN

SHORTHORNS For 8.1. at reasonable
firices. The prize-win-

ning Scotch Bull, acts Model 576147, in
many states at head 0 herd of 50 good
t e Shorthorns. . ‘1 ‘
. Mi. Parkhurst, Reed City, Michigan

MILKING SHORT?OBN8
Maplezlane Laddie No. 28 T25, a Grand-
son of General lay 25 20, at head of
herd. Young 3 0: both sexes for sale.
spare a M
A. W. Thorne,

OAKWOOD

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filo Lake. Michigan

SHOBTHOBNS. Three
bulls from Bates cows,
10 to 13. '

Collar'BrOs., No. a, Conklin., Michigan.

FOR SALE—SHOBTHORNS
0! Quality, Scotch and Scotch top
Maxvaliton Monarch I'm!z «I: Mam
Jupiter in service.
John Schmidt & Son, Reed City, Mich.

HOBTHOBNB and POLAND CHINAS'
all sold out. Non for sale at res-
ent. F. M. Piggott Son, Fowler, ich

summons h... 1.... k...
, Maple Ridge Farm
\since 1867 and are Bates bred. Two red'
heifers for sale: 1, bull, 10 mos. old

J. E. Tanswell, Mason, Michigan.

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTEOBN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all. ages. Some {exhale . C. Crum.
Contra

Associat on, Morn-ides. Mining:

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M“ ifbn all lid:
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can this,

. Hartford. chigan.

. 7 10." head to “sailth from

$ writ - ' _‘

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Better

Jean
will be sent on requ

HEBEFORDS

wifiiifizi fifi- EN” BULL
at once. Fred *tit, Midland, Mich. R. 6
HEREFORDS W ‘3 n“ m”
to: 494027. an furnish
ou with miles or females]; Pulled or
orned. Write for prices.. arl C. Mc-
M't)’. Bad Axe, Mich, Sec. Mich. H. B
3800 ation.

 

REGISTERED

FOR

We have a number of fine heifers

and bull calves to offer at barsln
prices Write for description.

HOWE.

AYEBSHIBES
SALE

chool for the Deaf,
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beets qbreed d: the

a he on by hero‘ifl
it. Pm give me- n.
I-yai mor- aiaut ~
Gregory, Ionia, Michigan.

 

 

wean-Jodie atprma‘ny
r . 0 ea
Furs. Write “guy _

H. 0. Swartl Bchoolcratt.‘

   

been prolific kind with size .
:13. finer MatheWson. Burr Oak,

, BEBKSHIBES '1
REGOBY FARM
Profit. Choice sto
u: -wants.
W '. CORSA, -
HAMPSHIRE
H A M P B H I B E

for sale. W"

sale a It cents per lb
John $W.

“ESTER WHITES
HESTEB WHITES—Gllte
Man, Ann, and May tarrow at
lmwwthy type. riced ri ht.

F. . Alexander assar Mchi an.

FEW SPRING BOABB and bred gilt;

at a bargain. Write for prices.
John W. sch, RFD. No. 1, Honor, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HORSES
BHE'I‘LA ND PONIES

SHE-”AND PONIES For Sale. Write

"‘1' description &
prices. Mark B. Curdy. Howell. Mich.

noes fl
0. I. O.

0 I C GOOD 125—“). BOAR PIG, 30.
' ' ' Parks Barred Rock Eggs, 3 .50
per agiting ‘
ike C. Miller, Dryden, Michigan.
RAY WARNER, Route 8, Almont, Mich.
Breeder of re Bred Shorthorn Cattle
and O. I. ,. Swine. A few Oct. pits
on hand.

0 d
I ‘Serviceable Boar:

/ C J. Carl Jewell; Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIEM Sprin Bears and gilts. Ten. years

grits for March, April and May tarrow to

spring boars.
tion and prices, or come and see them.
Will ship on approval.

Thos. Under-hill & SonI Prop. Salem, Mich.

Jersey tall pigs. eit er sex. We can
rnish you um- ted or tries.
rite to us. Our prices are\very reas-

enable.

DUROCS

Panama Special.
Crest Farms, Perrinton, Mich.
miles 5. of Middleton, Gratiot county.

your spring pigs now.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS.
sire Michigan Buster.

q. w.
Michinn Shorthoru _
”fl...

ghisgistablishment has been head (marters
01‘ l
. I. nice lot of boars and sows of strictly

b type breeding at very low price. Let

B“! IYPE‘P. 6. ROADS, IKE ages, th.

DUROC '

DUROC BRED SOWS

and growthy big type last fall boars.
State Fair champions and wanes-s. Or-
ion's Fancy King 83857 heads erd._

Newton Bernhart. St. Johns, Michigan.

exper nee: A few black top
Rams left. Newton & Blank Hill crest

M‘:
SHEEP
SHBOPSHIBEB

SHALL BE ABLE to furnish for seas-
on of 1919. anythin needed in Regis-
tered Shropshire S eep of the same
High Quality that have given satisfac-
tion in many States since 1890.
C. LEMEN, Dexter, Michigan.

 

 

'TlX-TON MlX’ 'th It
around Rouge flock he‘avlhy n her“
arm in. :11 —

  

' and c Saves you not I
’1...‘ sample box by parcel poo villa-
cate lrrel cl nit.

Write far In oils:
on ' ‘Nature and Case CI "

—boo cl: 8 on .
PARSONS TlX-TON C0.,Grnd Ledge, fie!»
POULTRY

HOMESTEAD FARMS

A Federation of Interest!

After a long delay new illustrated
catalog is ready. In We ex lain the
development of the Homestead rms '

Pure Bred Practical Poultry

Every farmer poultrym and poul-
trywoman in the State 5 ould have a
copy of this Catalog; It explains pure
breed poultry stock that is practicable for
the farmer. If you are interested in
poultry, .send for a copy.

Day Old Chicks

Everything indicates the?! there will be
more orders for Chicks t is year than
can filled. Orders are already booked
for future delivery; tho e who want to
be sure of Chicks shoul order now and
have them shipped later when you Will
want them. Our breeds are:

Boned. W. and Bud Plymouth Rocks.

R. C. and S. C. Rhode Island Reds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farm, 4 miles south of Middleton, Mich.
DUROC-JERSEY SWINE
We have some choice big sows and

offer, also fall pigs, both sexes, and two
Write for pedigree, descrip-

PEACH HlLL FARM

We are now ofleri Registered Duroc

Invood Bros» Romeo, Mich.

SPRING GILTS and brood
sows. Gilte by 0. 00d son of
Newton &. lank, Hill
Farm 4

MEADOWVIEW FARM

Registered Duroc Jersey Hogs. Buy

J. E. Morris, Farmlngton, Mich.
POLAND CHINA

Two

big boned boar pigs farrowed in June,

Gilts bred to Bob-

Link Gerstdale Superior and Gerstdaie

d. . L. Wright. Jonesville, Michigan.

FOR 25 YEARS

Type Poland Clo-inns. We have

V what you, want
0. . BUTLER —

sings“...

kind inatn make good. Meet me at tho

Leonard, SI.

 

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Large Type Poland China Hogs '

All soldaut now none to efler at W
'ent, 88 head sod Nov. 29 at auction
for $4,440.00. Thanks to: your m—
M and you'll them be welcome.

 

 

Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7, Mason. Mich.

 

 

 

  
 

 

lowest 3.2;

  
  

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r. 'o.. no ‘ Runboumet
and mfl- rams and

' Special pro.

. Grill Lake, Michigan.

SINGLE

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,nnm

  

White and Silver Laced Wyandottes.

Black and White Orpingtons.

Single Comb Black Minorcas.

S. C. and R. C. White Leghorns.

S. 0. and B. C. Brown Leghorns.

Single Comb Buff Orplngtons.

Single Comb Anconas.

White Pekln Ducks. Guineas.
EGGS FOB HATCHING

E e from any of the foregoing breeds

for e in or n quantities for incubators.

or 500 to 1,000 eggs dur-

ing season. Special price for eggs for

early Broilers.

E gs fro White Pekin Ducks, Gray

Toufouse an Embden White Geese.

Hares—Belgians and Flemish Giants.

Guarantor—Read our comprehensive

' and thoroly justdguarantee in the Catalog.

Ins ect stock an r not satisfactory, feed

an water and shi back to us prepaid,

and your full remit ance will be returned

to on.

I you really want poultry stock this

season, especially Day Old Chicks, you

should order now; stock can be shipped

later.

BtOOMlNGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich..

BARREL! ROCK
J OHN’B BIG BEAUTIFUL Barred Rocks
are hen hatched quick growers, good
layers, sold on approval $4 to $8. Circu-
lars, photos. John Northon, Clare, Mich.
‘ From strain with
Barred R06]! Eggs records to 290 eggs
per year. 32.00 per 15 Pre aid by ar-
cei post. Circular free. ed Ast ing.
Constantine, Michigan.

Thoroughbred Barred
For sale Rock males and fe-

males, also eggs for
hatching aft}; Feb. 1st. Bradley Strain
Bred-to-lay. . E. Hough, Hartford. Mich.

 

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ROFITABLE BUFF LEGHORNS—We
have’ twenty pens of especially mated

 

. Slim is Comb Buffs that are not only mat-

or exhibition but, above all, for prof-

“ Eggs at very reas-

ltabl’e egg production.
enable prices.
——please ask for it.

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Bred Gills all sold. Spring Boar: only for '
Sn der St. Johns Mich. 11.4.
bred ' for
the

A of Joe Orion and Defender Breeding-

Our list will interest you
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' Q wRedUCe-d to one point what is
the single greatest thing you can say
about the Maxwell? '

A.——It is reliable;
Q. ——What makes it reliable?

A.-—The chassis was designed five
years ago to be extremely simple.
Then We kept on making and mak-
ing Maxwells all alike on this chassis
year after year until now We have
made 300, 000 of them. Our policy
is to do one thing well and thus ob-
tain perfection.

Q. -—Have you changed the original
design any?

A.——Not in any single fundamental.
We have added an improvement here
and there from'time to time—but no
changes from our original program.

Q.~—Have there been any great.
chassis improvements in the last 5 0

years ?

A.—We believe not. . There have
been multi-cylinder cars and multi-
valve cars; but in a car under $1000
we do not believe them to be practical,

Q.—How much of the Maxwell
car do you build?

A.——We believe that we manufac-
ture more of the parts that go into our
car than any other’manufacturer.

Q.———Why do you do this—can you
Price $895!:

.'- good as we can build them.

I

not buy parts from others cheaper; 3:

than you can build then}?

A.-—-In seme cases yes; but not so ‘
In other
cases no, for We operate 8 great "

plants, have an in’Vestment that runs

into many millions of dollars, carry a
tremendous inventory, have a rapid
“turnover” and a large one. Besides,

" we make parts f‘Or cars other than

our own including some that cost in
excess Of $4000.

Q. —-H_as the Maxwell every modern
equipment? _

A."-— -—Yes, even including. the carry~
ing of the gas tank in the rear.

Q. -—Have you improved the appear-

ance of the Maxwell any?

A.—-Yes. We have made a. vast
irnprovement in the last few “months
——so much so that many persons
thOught we produced a new model.
Note the illustration. This is drawn
from a photograph without the slight- ’
est exaggeration.

Q. —How about parts?

A —There are $5, 000, 000 in parts
carried by 2500 Maxwell dealers all
over the United States.

Q. ——Will you reduce the present '
price if I buy a Maxwell now?

A.--No. The present price is
guaranteed until July. \ ~-

0. b. Detroit

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