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- terminal warehouses at state ex-

gthey are the only effectual reins
. g the people
flature.

» Two of them, the bonding and
. the salary amendments
. submitted . by ‘the legislature.
' The third,

‘ ment which the legislature was

* -"ment.

jjboth ' the Warehouse

People of Michigan Opportunity
~ to Vote Upon It

(By FORREST LORD)

. The legislature is a machine of government.

It was provided forvby accustitution adopted

. by the people of Michigan in 1835. It there--

fore, derives its~powers from the people and
is d1rectly responsible to the peeple for its
acts._ It, is essentially theinstrument of the
maJority. The majority choose; its members.

{And the majority may amend the Constitu-

tion which gave it birth and fixes its duties

l and limitations. « ,
This machine of government has not always ,

functioned according to the wishes of the
people. In 1913 the' people found it necessary
to‘ place a more effectual governor upon the
legislature” which they could control at will.
And so they provided for the referendum

_.~ and the initiative. Under the referendum the

legislature «may submit amendments to the
Constitution to the vote of the people and
their vote revails. But if the legislature re-

’ fuses to en mit‘to the people, then the people

may'take the initiative and by petitions, rep-
resenting 10 per cent of the electorate, take
such matters entirely out of the hands of the
legislature; The referendum and the/initia-
tive are two of the wisest pro-
visions in the Constitution, for

date .of submissal to the fall election of 1920.

The leading farm organizations endorsed
the measure. It was passed by the Senate. It
got over to the House and in regular course
of' legislative, procedure found its way into
the hands of. the committee on revision and
'amendmen? of the Constitution. Then its
enemies go busy. Every association of deal-
ers in farm products passed resolutions
against it. Many- small town banks owning
interest in local warehouses protested against
it. Farm members of the house, trying to
serve two masters at once, and aproached by
both the friends and enemies of the measure,
urged the committee not to report it out that

 

 

WHERE THE GOVERNOR STANDS

I received your telegram in regard to
the Warehouse Amendment, which evi-
dently is in the House. I am not opposed
to it, but I have made it a practice not to
interfere with legislation in either‘ the
House or the Senate, and therefore feel
itwould not be ethical or wise for me to
dictate to them what to do.—Albert E.
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they might be spared the embarrassment of
going on record. The session is drawing to a
close and the warehouse amendment is still in
the hands of the committee.

About a month ago while in Lansing I. met

Mr. A. B. Cook, president of the Michigan '

Bean Growers’ Ass’n. Together we went to
the Governor’s office to interview him on the
warehouse amendment. The Governor had
callers. We waited in the outer office and
chatted with Major Dufi, Mr. Sleepcr’s decre-
tary, and with Thos. (Continued on page 3)

WOOL DEALERS MUST '
REPORT cannon

Those Who Purchased 1918 Clip Without
Permit From Government are Asked
_to Make an Accounting
of Business

When M. B. F. recently referred to the
War Industries Board a list of its subscribers

who had not yet received a rebate from their '

dealer on their 1918 wool clip, we; were in-

formed that a number of the complaints were Q
directed against men who had no authority 3

from the government to buy this wool. Know-

ing that many farmers had sold their wool in';
total ignorance of the government’s regula- }
tions with respect to authorized dealers, we 5

protested that every dealer, whether holding

permit or not, who bought W001 at less than

the government’s price should be obliged to
return to the growers the same rebate as
authorized dealers were expected to return.
In other words, that they should not be per-
mitted to profiteer at the expense of farmers
who did not know of the government’s chosen
dealers. To this suggestion the Bureau of
Markets, to which has been delegated the task
of closing up the government’s 1918 wool op-
erations, has agreed, and we are advised that
all dealers are being asked to submit a report
of their operations and will be expected to
make final settlement with the
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have upon the legis-

There have been several elec-
tions since the adoption of» the
referendum and initiative when
the, people have voted upon
amendments to the Constitution.
,Atr/theVIIast election three such
amendments, were submitted.

were

, the Wine and beer
amendment was submitted un-
der the initiative. '

There was stll another amend-

asked to submit. to the people
~ It was
known as the warehouse amend-
, ‘ Its purpose was to give
the legislature the authority to
issue bonds to biiild and Operate

penisefBut the attorney general
expressed a doubt as to whether ’
and the.
‘d’ roads bonding amendment

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seine-time. ;,'§° the ware— a
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of your office in' bringin

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

.. , April 14, 1919
Governor Sleeper,
Lansing, Michigan.
We quite, agree with you that it is neither ethical nor wise for
a state’s chief executive to dictate to legislature what it shell or
shall not do. If you will carefully read my telegram, to which your
letter of April 12th is reply, you will note that word “dictated” is
neither used nor inferred. That the state’s chief executive should
express his views to legislature as a body or to any member of
legislature, .is, however, quite within the bounds of both good ethics
and custom. That this is prerogative which every administration is
expected to exercise is evidenced by fact that people give credit for
good- legislation or blame for bad legislation or indifference, to. ad-
ministration rather than legislature. The years of nineteen sixteen
to nineteen twenty will be known in state’s political history as
Sleeper administration, and all the acts of legislatures of those
gears will be charged up against or credited to that administration.
our active support of constabulary bill is well known. We are
. therefore unable to understand your refusal to lend the good graces
about vote in House upon warehouse
amendment, a measure en orsed by all organizations that speak for
farmers, passed by Senate and now being throttled by House com-
mittee. It is not a' vote upon the merits of proposition"'but a vote to
submit to the sovereign people that is sought. The farmers can se-
cure submission by initiative; ifneCessary. It will bea great mistake
for your administration and/nineteen nineteen session legislature
"and a‘ political-misfortune for many if warehouse amendment is
‘ not‘reported‘ out. Once more I respectfully petition you toemploy
the honorable influences of your alike to get matter before House.
MICHIGAN BUSINESS «FARMIN G, Mount Clemens, Mich.

The following correspondence

ers the matter quite completely.
We might add that a large num-
ber of complaints referred to
us by subscribers are being in-
vestigated by the Bureau, with
the asurance that all rebates due
the farmers will be made as soon
as possible.

Oul'mtter to Department

“We note what you have to say
regarding incompleteness

you.
much as no information was giv-
en to wool growers as to the coun-
try dealers holding permits from
your department, that the wool
dealers to whom they did sell are
to be permitted to pocket the pro«
fits, which undoubtedly belong to
the growers?

manner in which you have cover-

Of the .’
facts set forth in letters we sent
Are .we to infer that inas— ‘

“We appreciate the very complete .

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ed this subject and are glad to
know that you will do what you can .
to trace this wool and see that the
proper rebates, if any, are returned
to the growers.

“We have a letter from a sub-
scriber asking the following ques-
tions: '

“What were the sale prices at the
recent wool auctions-17 Has the Eng-
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' .» both in the United States; and foreign countries.

We deSire- this for the enlightenment of our read-
ersi” ,
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Chief of Bureau. of Markets Ewlzinssvsituati‘om

“In your second paragraph you state that not. in-
formation was given to wool growers regarding
country dealers holding permits, from the govern-
ment. The Wool Section of the War Industries
Board by publicity through the press and. in com-
munications to wool growers’ associations en-
deavored to give nation-wide notice of the fact
that country dealers in wool of the 1918‘ clip'wcre-
, required to secure permits from the government.

“Regarding the policy to be pursued with coun-
try dealers who failed to secure permits, we. are
demanding that they submit the same kind of re-
port of their transactions as we required of those
who secured permits. In the meantime if the
names of any persons dealing in wool without
permits from the government should come to your
knowledge we should be glad to have you com-
, municate such names and addresses to us.

“With reference to your request for information
concerning the sales prices of wool at the, govern-
ment wool auctions held in Boston and Philadel-
phia the- following prices were received for cer-
tain lots of Michigan wool that were sold:

“Michigan Delaine, estimated shrinkage 62%,
sale price 56 to 600; Michigan Fine, estimated
shrinkage 64%, sale price 49c; Michigan Fine, es-
timated shrinkage 60%, sale price 55c; Michigan

8% Md guard-1%» sale ”are...

      
   
  
  

“With regard to V(he continuation of the Wool

control in “Britain, a meeting of the British
Wool Council was held in. January. under. the.
chairmanship ofl the director (1 raw materials.
The chairman stated that thy» dangers- a‘t short;
supply we definitely, ones“, that be estimated?
that. forty thousmd tons: per month for a; period.
of sirmonths' would be avaiiabiie for France: Bell»
glum, and Italy from the British Empire

"In their report they recommend that specula-

tion in raw materials should be discouraged and

that prices should be. established as much as pos—
sible. It was announced .that early in April the
stock of Australian wool' held'by the British gov-

‘ ernment would be disposed? of by- auctions- and

they. would continue to sell by that method in
such quantities as the market required, and asthe -
brokers'were able to handle. The'reserve prices
on the-wool at these auctions willbe'somewhat
lower'than the present Bradford issue price-and
theylproposeso long as maybe necessary-to. coir-
tinue tozissuevwool outsiderof- the auction at‘ fixed
prices. It was stated at this meeting of the coun-
cil that both British and Allied consumers should
have three alternatives; First, purchases at gov-
ernment auction; second, purchases at the govern-
ment fixed issue prices; third, purchases of free
wool from all éources of supply except Australian
and New Z'ealamt prices fixed by unrestricted
bargaining; The chairman stated that to prevent
excessive competition at auction sales it had been'
decided by the government that wool would be
available at any time at fixed prices which would

war may i

Mlatifin Wraith between imum an m

scoured Wool and What W 01?th
in the diflerent gradesis a very difficult quefit‘ifitfl
toanswer. Weéaclosesmmemmdtnmwvhm wa

preparcdz by the War Ind’usfl'ieg Boardfillustmti 115; '1 .
the method! of murintw‘mgreme price pen pounofii

wheraythe estimtedi shiink and the soouned wines
are known ‘alsm a table whibh was prepared 33¢ a»
committee or expert wool“ man of the approxiina fie
shrinkages of the various grades. of wool in the
fieeeeiwoolistatsa. " “ ’

“Thwfolicwing figures are taken from an

timate made by the statistical committee crane

British. government showing: the present world

smelt: chromium prom amt! consumptibn- tee

1919 and 1920 also the estimated stock. at. the end».
of 1929::

Greasy: weight

Million lbs.

Present: world stock of weal __-_. _______ 1.265

Add production. estimated for 1919 ______ _ 2,673
- 3,938

Less consumption estimated for 1919 ____ 2,6209
Estimated stock at. end of 1919 __________ 1,318
Add production estimated for 1920 ______ 2, 700
. _ 4, 018
Less consumption estimated for 1920 ____ 3,094
Estimated stock at end of 1920 __________ 924

—0hafle;u Brand, Chief Bureau of Markets.

 

 

STATISTICIANS ARE STILL CLAIMING ,
THAT FOOD SHORTAGE IMPENDS

Had the statisticians had their way the world
should be on short rations about now, with the
cheerful prospects of starvation six months
hence. Figures compiled by the Department of
Agriculture, showing comparison between the
increase in population and increase in food pro-
duction, seem to have proven every year for a
number of years past that many must starve. to
death before another crop harvest. And yet,
despite these alarming predictions, all have
been fed according to their ability to buy, and
there has been a safe carry-over of the most‘esi-
sential foods year in and year out. Instead of
caplainlng this contradiction to’ their estimate
the statistcians proceed to make another esti-
mate based upon the same facts and figures
' which formed the basis for their first.

Here we have Prof. Warren of the New York
College of Agriculture, saying: prophetically be-
fore a New York club that the nation’s present
food problem is no more serious than the future
problem promises to be. According to Prof.
Warren, the population of the United States and
many of the countries of Europe have increased
enormously in the last hundred years due to the
ease with which they have been able to procure
food, owing to the invention of labor-saving
'farm machinery and Waning of vast tracts
of fertile land. Food became cheaper in terms
of human labor. For the last 15 years it has
been getting more expensive in terms of human
labor. As a whole we have reached the max-
imum food production per hour of effort 20
years ago. From now on it will mean tillin’g of
poorer land at higher cost, with of course, de-
creasing returns. Prof. Warren also asserted
that with the reduced food stores of the world,
the situation would be critical for the next three

years at least, especially should there has. gen— .

eral drought.

Much as we are inclined to scoi! at the Prof-
essor’s conclusions there is much food for
thought in what he says. We do not fear a
world-wide shortage of. food so long as premt
pric r prevail. Let these pricesdecline to any
considerable extent, eliminating the already
meagre profit, and the farmer must of necessity
curtail his operations.
United States have shown what they can do in
an emergency. Several of the crops they raised
last year, with a labor shortage and high pro-
= duction costs. were the greatest on record. It
. is true, however, that the best land has already
I . been utilized and that the rate of increase in

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The farmers of the .

production can only be maintainedrby more in-
tensive and intelligent cultivation.

BEET: INDUSTRY: THIS YEAR PROMISES
T0 EXCEL A111: PREVIQUS YEARS

The sugar. manufacturers are feeling very op-
timistic over the present year’s prospectswhich
they claimare the brightest. of any year in their
history. The present contract with the beet
growers enables them to make a very fair profit
from prevailing wholesale prices and there is
every indication that the world’s sugar demands
will shortly send this price higher with corres-
pondingly higher profits. Sugar beet growers:
will do well; to watch the trend of this. market.
Should, prices" advance materially they should
make an organized demand for a share of the
additional profits.

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The beet; sugar'output for the United States
for the 1918-19 season, which has just closed,
was 764,867 short tons, or 1,529,734,000 lbs. 18
This total is from the final reports made by
factories to the Bureau of Crop Estimates, Unit-
ed Statcs Department of Agriculture, and is al-
most the same as last year (1917-18), when
765,207 tons were produced.

The beet sugar production of leading states
in 1918—19 was: Colorado, 191,880 tons;
Michigan, 132,092; California, 122,795; Utah,
105,794; Nebraska, 63,494; Idaho, 44,682; Ohio, -
35,476; Wisconsin, 13,358; other states, 55,297
tons.

The beets from which this sugar was made,
the crop grown in 1918, were harvested from

  

593, 887 acres and amounted. to 5 890, 227 tons,
valued at $58, 908, 000. In 1917 there were
664,797 acres harvested, yielding. 5,980,377
tons of boats, valued at $44,192,000.—Leon M.
Estabrook, Chief of Bureau Crop Estimates.

/ . .
1/AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS
FLINT—Few returned soldiers will work on
farms is the discovery that has been made here by
the citys employment bureaus Several applica-

tions for farm help carrying wages ranging fromr
$40 to $45 have. gone begging, whilecity openings.

are quickly filled.
MARSHALL—The Albion Farmers! Elevator.
00., which has been doing a successful business is

' considering the purchase of the elevators at Me-
A number: of the members-1

rengo : and; Echinrd:
or the company reside in the vicinity of than two
places, and want a more convenient outlet for
their products.

I-THAO'A—According to ‘a report issued by the
board of directors the Ithacan‘Grance' Co-operative
Shipping Ass’n did over $18,000 worth of business
during March, the first month of its operations.
Over 200 farmers of the community have already
joined this association.

SOUTH LYON—A. F. Newberry, Pontiac banker,
was one of the chief speakers at a recent meeting
held here for the purpose of organizing a farm
bureau». In other sections of the state the-banks
have not been so friendly to the farm bureau move-
ment since the county agents have begun to talk
co- -operative marketing and buying. Until the banks
of the state withdraw their interest from local
warehouses creameries, elevators, etc.,
talk all they please about co- -operating with the
farmer, but the farmer knows that they are. only

. talking for effect.

Here is how They stand on the Warehouse Amendment

HEN THE city of Detroit. wants anything

in the Michigan legislature, it gets. it. How?

By sending, delegations to Lansing and by

the liberal, use of telegrams and. letters to the

members; When the farmers of Michigan want

311mm they don’t get it. Why? Because they’re
too busy or too indiflerent to take. the time to

write gutter-1:0: telegram. When members. ofthe

legislature receive letters and telegrams from the
folks “but home" they sit up and take notice.

We have made a poll of the members or the

House committee and: below show their attitude, ,

not on. the. merits or the warehouse amendment,
but upon r‘bporting‘ it out. so that the people may
express their wishes. If you believe that the pee-
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iness, you should lose no time in writing or wir-
ing the members of‘this committeevthat you expect
them to reportltheamendment out; The session
ends next week. Write or wire today. Simply
m your; message to the representative,
“Lamina Mich" ,
IN FAVOR 0F RE,
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' , 11‘ Mr. Reedifhe thought the
voommitte'e would report odt the amendment

, “Do you want thot amendment repented out,"

‘1 the Speaker asked me point—blank.

“0striatinly;w I replied. “Mic do not know

‘ whether the amendment will accomplish the de— ,

sired results; but that is beside the question. .It
is a measure that the farm organisations have
.. endorsed. The farmers want a chance to vote on

it. We have a year and a halt .to decide the

merits of. the proposition, and 'iftthe',peepire#don’ft
' want it they will reject it at the-polls."

‘ “It apparently doesn’t make any difierence,”
said Mr. Cook, “‘whether we want it submitted
or not. ’It seems to be sewed up in the com-
mittee'. ” ‘

‘.‘Well," replied Speaker Reed, “Don’ t be too
, sure about that. I wouldn’t besurprised tosee'
it reported out at mostany time.”
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Two weeks later-.a'thansing I had :a talk with

Mr. Fred L. 'Woodworth, deed and drug room-
On this occasion Mr. Woodworth
told me that Governor Sleeper in conversation
with him a few days previously had said that
the House committee should report out the
Warehouse amendment and that he would see
Later we sent the
governor the following message:

, Mt. Clemens, Mien, April '7, 1-919
“Respectfully request you use the honorable
influences of your high office to get Warehouse
Amendment out. of committee’s hands for vote
in the House before present session ends. Would
you care to have it laid up against your admin-
istration that the most important measure spon-
sored by the farmers was killed in a House com-
mittee after passed by the Sena
‘ t I II II
. A week later by appointment I met Rep. Ivory
of Lapeer, who is chairman of the committee
which is holding up the amendment. I found
Mr. Ivory a very courteous gentleman. He was
Quite willing to discuss the matter but found it
rather difficult to explain hisown .position.
“In behalf of the readers of our publication
I would like to know whether your committee

. will report out the Warehouse amendment” I

said to Mr. Ivory.

“I don’tfknow,” he replied, “I don’t believe..that
it will. I have .made a poll of the members and
the majority of them seem to be opposed to it.”

“But don't you think. your committee can

_ trust the House to vote upon it, and don’ t you

think the House can trust the people to express
their wishes?’
“I am not at all convinced,” said Mr Ivory,
"that the farmers want these warehouses.’
“But upon what do you base your conclusions.
The leading farm organizations of the state have
endorsed it. The Senate has passed it, and I

&e 1"hmwfiht well that the restless .ef mar paper

want a Chance to vote on it -”

. “Well,” cautiously responded Mr. Ivory, “you
‘imowhawthm got through the‘ Senate. It was
on a trade. Do you think that was right?”

"No matter how it got through the Sena-,te ”

I suggested, “that deesn’t alter the fact that the
people of the state should have the right to vote
on this measure. ”

"As I said before, i don’t think the farmers
want it. I know those .of my section of the

».sta.te don’t for I have talked with them. At

the meetings we have held 'I have explained the
matter and none of the farmers have told me

they thought I Ought to vote for it."

“But, Mr. Ivory,” I urged, “you represent
only a very small part of the state. Why are
you so willing to ignore the wishes of the rest
of the state and respect the Wishesof your own
particular section? .You ask for evidence. It
the wide-spread endorsement that has already
been given this measure isn’tevi-dence enough,
it will be impossible to convince you.”

"Nobody seems to know how this thing is
going to work out,” parried Mr. Ivory.

“Does that matter?” I asked. “It embodies a.
fundamental idea. It is a step toward bringing
the producer and the consumer closer together.
The details of the plan may have to be changed
altogether. The legislature does not have to
build warehouses if it is satisfied that the plan
will not work. But we have nearly a year and
a-half- to investigate the merits of this plan. Our
publication will openits columns for a‘ full dis-
cussion of the proposal. Certainly in 18 months’
time the people of the state should be able to
inform themselves and vote intelligently. The
farmers will never vote for the amendment if
investigation proves that it is" not a good thing.
You have had this measure under consideration
for about three months, and your opinion has
been formed. Would you say that the people
could not form an equally intelligent opinion if
given 18 months to think it over. I can trust
the people. Can’ t you?”

“But do you think, ” asked Mr. Ivory, “that
we men in the legislature should vote to submit
something to the people to which we ourselves
are opposed?” .

“Absolutely,” I replied. “The legislature is
purely an instrument to carry out the wishes of
the people.” 7

“I don’t altogether agree with you," returned
Mr. Ivory. “We are sent here to choose the
good from the bad, accept the good and reject
the bad.”

“If this were a bill and the legislature’s de-
cision were final, then your personal views, in
the absence of a definite expression from your
constituents, should prevail. But you are not
asked to decide the merits of this plan; you are
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decide them. And this ‘you refuse to :do!’ -
"Well, I am not the only one here who has a
say about this.

and I get blamed if it isn’t. Yes, I’m the goat."

"That’s pretty well understood,” I said, “it’s
the opinion of those on the outside that certain
members of the House are playing politics and
trying to influence your committee to hold this
measure up, because they don’t want to go on
record.”

Mr. Ivory did not deny this assertion. On the
contrary he admitted that many farmer members
of the blouse were opposed to the measure,‘and
were not at all anxious to have the committee
report it out. He insisted that he wasn’t satis-
fied that the farmers of the state were in favor
of the amendment, but when asked to name sev-
eral representative farmers who had asked him
to vote against it, he could not name a single
one!
only letters he had received from the farmers
back home were in favor of the amendment.

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The refusal of the committee to report out the
warehouse amendment is an affront to the farm—
ers. It taunts them like a red rag taunts a doc-
ile bull. It says in the plainest of words, “It

makes no difference to this committee what the-

farmers want. We are opposed to this measure,
and We don’t propose to let the people have a.
chance to vote upon it.”

We have honestly tried to get the viewpoint of
these legislators, but it is simply impossible.
Either they have an exaggerated opinion of their
own importance, forgetting temporarily that they
owe their positions to the people, or else they
It is
plainly the duty of this committee to report out
the amendment. In doing so, they need make no
excuses to their own conscience or to their con-
_ stituents. In doing so they may antagonize a few
friends who fear their selfish interests are being
jeopardized, but the only answer they need to
make to their critics is, “We were willing to trust
the judgment of the people when we ran for office,
so ,yvhat excuse can we have for not being willing
to trust to their judgment in this matter?"

ii: 4: * III

The agitators the world over are using their ml-
croscopes to detect defects in the established or-
der that they may have a theme with which to
arouse the people against real or imaginary
wrongs. No state or country is entirely free from
a certain spirit of unrest which exaggerates lit-

'tle grievances and emphasizes class distinctions

Those who wish to cool this fever of unrest will
pamper the patient a little, will honestly imesti-
gate the alleged trouble and if anything is really
wrong, honestly try to correct it. But there are a
lot of people who held the lofty idea that they are
made out of the original clay and that their
opinions and welfare are the only ones to be con-
sidered. They are the men who are sitting on the
“safety valve” gazing off into space. If there is
anything left of them after the explosion their
interest in things mundane and their respect for
the wishes and the rights of others are usually res

. vived.

* * III *

Now here in Michigan the skies are blue and
serene. There isn’t a cloud on the political hori-
zon. The Republicans nominate their men' for
office and the Democrats nominate theirs and all
good Republicans and all good Democrats meekly
sally forth under their respective banners. All
eyes are rigidly on the major-demo and all re-
spond obediently to his commands. But methinks
away back in the ranks I can detect a stir; the
column seems broken. Evidently a soldier, per-
haps in a playful mood has stepped on his neigh-
bor’s toes, and the owner of the toes resents it.
Anyway, he' raising quite a clamor that threatens
to disturb theisinglefi‘mindedness and uniformity
of the rank. And strange as it may seem there are
others whose toes are being stepped upon, and
they, too, resent it. The line is badlyout of step;
confusion reigns; but the major-demo and his
staff strut Oil—eyes fixed on'the cloudless skies—
all unmindful of the break in the ranks.

i ‘ $ 3

And over in the House of Representatives a
committee of nine men sit on the farmers’ ware-
house amendment, defying the will of the people
Certain farmer members of the House afraid to
go on record, applaud the action of the commit—
tee. And the governor who makes it a practice
“never; to interfere in legislative matters”; says,
“Don’t .ask me to help. I’m neutral.’ .

‘ It * II! II:

The farmers will nominate a candidate ”for gov- ‘
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gel: the blame if the amendment is reported out ‘

He was frank enough to say that the-

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tween farm and city are large] to blame for the ridiculous sys-

tem of distribution of farm pro nets of which the American farm-
er has been a slave for the past quarter of,acentury? The steam road,
and‘of recent years. in some sections the electric roads, have been the
only- mediums by which farm produce could be transported from the
farm to the city. The physical nature of these transporting agents has
limited their scope. They have sufliced very well to pick up farm pro-
ducts at the village loading stations and carry them to unloading sta-
tions in the great cities. But they could not reach out to the farms and
gather in the products fresh from the field; nor, having reached the
city with their load could they distributmit to the proper points of con-
signment throughout the city in easy reach of the consumer. ‘ This

. . r HAS IT ever occurred to you that the methods of transportation be-

important service at both ends of the line fell upon other distributing

agencies. The frequent transfer from farm to country warehouse, from
warehouse to railroad, from railroad to city storage, from storage to
retailer, from retailer to consumer, often required or at least invited
at each step the services of other individuals who had no direct inter-
est in either the production or the consumption of the goods handled.

Could the locomotive have picked its way about the country, gath-
ered up loaded cars at this farm and that, and laying its track before
it. hauled those cars to the cities and delivered their contents at the
very doors of the retailers or even the consumers themselves, there
would have been no need for the many middlemen who are a part of
the present elaborate marketing scheme. And surely it is logical to
assume that as transporting agencies are provided which can operate

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direct from producer to consumer, these middlemen will naturally fade." Z"
'away, for they will, so to speak, be, out of a Job. - ~ 3

The truck has come to emancipate the farmer from his bondage to

the inflexible and inemcientrmethods of transportation above described. .

And in time it will entirely remove the barriers ’twixt the producer and

the consumer. Of course, the usefulness of the truck will depend upon .

the kind of track over which it must travel. Good roads are being

rapidly built in the vicinity of 'the larger cities so that farmers for":

many miles around may ship in their preducts via’truc‘ks.

We have read a great deal of late about the “Rural Motor Express."
It is a term that covers any one. of several plans whereby the truck is
utilimd for transporting products from farm to city and supplies from
city to farm. Thousands of individual farmers in all parts of the
country own trucks and do their own “expressing." In other sections
where farms are smaller and the amount of crops to be transported
annually are not enough to warrant every'farmer owning and Operating
a separate truck,. several farmers of a locality have pooled enough
funds with which to buy a single track which takes care of all‘ their
business very satisfactorily. Still others have organized co-operative
motor-truck corporations, sold stock, and from the funds thus derived
have purchased one or. more trucks which make trips as regularly

. almost as the steam trains and the electric cars. The details of such a

plan are presented in the following article. _’It is a plan that can be
worked out in Michigan as rapidly as the construction of good roads

permit. Anyone desiring additional information upon the subject, may ‘

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6‘ HAT COULD we do when railroad ser-
vice was unsatisfactory, distance to
market was excessive for horse travel.

and local charges for transportation by motor
truck were unreasonably high, but in self-defense
organize a co-operative association and handle our
own hauling," replied the secretary of the Har-
ford county, Maryland, rural motor truck route to
the query of why the association was formed.

“We incorporated our association and capitaliz-
ed it for $5,000, selling 200 shares of stock which
had a par value of $25 a share,” continued this of-
ficial. “Each member is obliged to own at least
one share of stock, but is limited in his stock pur-
chase to 20 shares. We purchased a four-ton truck
which operated between Bel Air and Churchville.
M6,, and Baltimore, for hauling milk, cream, and
other farm produce to the city, and feed stuffs,
seeds, salt, fertilizer, machinery, and supplies for
the rural merchants on the back trip.

“A Bel Air business man kindly furnished office
room and clerical assistance for the association,
Ag soon as the project was well underway a cen-
tral receiving station was established in Baltimore
for the reception and centralization of the supplies
to be returned to the country. No attempt has
been made by the association to earn dividends.
Rates are made with a view to meeting the ex-
penses. providing for depreciation, and-accumu-
lating a surplus to be used as working capital. The
rats on goods classified as first—class and inclusive
of apples, axle grease, baskets, buttehbean, buck-
ets, buckwheat, barley, empty barrels, blankets.
blanking, canned goods, coffee, cabbages, canta-
loupcs, fish, groceries, hardware, dressed hogs,
harness, hay, iron, molasses, machinery under 400
pounds, notions, oils, onions, oranges, potatoes,
dressed poultry, stoves, auto tires, vegetables, and
automobile, auto truck. buggy and wagon wheels
is 16 cents a hundred-weight, while second-class ar-
ticlessuch as axes are hauled for 12 cents a hun-

dred pounds. Calves are transported to market
for 50 cents apiece, while live cattle and hogs are
handled at 50 cents a hundred-weight. It costs 25
cents a coop to ship chickens, while cream and
milk are hauled at 21/20 a gallon, the empty
cans being returned. Wagons (knocked down)
are hauled according to size: One—horse wagons,
$2; two-horse, $3; three-horse,.$4; and four-horse,
$5." _ .
How Losses Are Paid For

The association pays its members. for all goods
lost or destroyed. Where the shipper desires in-
surance against loss the charge for hauling cream
is 4 cents a gallon, while, if the farmer is willing
to assume the risk, the same charge is made for
hauling cream as for milk. In case of loss all
cream shipments made at the milk rate are com-
pensated for on a milk basis. If the shipper pays
the 41 cent rate, ‘all losses are settled at the mar-
ket price of cream: Thus far damages have been
paid out of operating revenues, although it is be-
lieved a safer policy would be to create a. special

reserve or claim fund, to provide for such ext.

penses. Another good plan is to take out sufficient
insurance to cover both the trucks and goods in
transit in case of loss.

The members of the association who live along
the route have constructed loading platforms at
their front gates.
the floor of the truck, thus facilitating the trans—
fer of freight from the farm platform to the mot-
or vehicle. At present, due to the expansion of

the business, andespecially to the hauling for"

country stores, the Harford association operates
one 4-ton and one 5-ton truck, which makes daily
trips to Baltimoreuthe distance traveled being
about 60 miles. ' .
Both Buys and Sells for Members

This Maryland cooperative club is of valuable
assistance to its members in both the purchase
and sale of produce and supplies. Members notif

They are of the same height .as -

trucks will not cease.

the secretary of their needs, and as soon as a
sufficient number of orders is on hand he buys at
Wholesale in large amounts in Baltimore, thereby
markedly reducing the cost of the articles to the
farmers as wellas minimizing trouble in purchas-
ing and hauling goods for these consumers. In

The association also aids its members in selling
produce. One farmer had 1,500 bushels bf wheat
which he desired to market, but as the local miller
did not want to buy, and because the farmer was
too busy with other work to haul the‘wheat to the
railroad, he turned the marketing over to the sec—
retary of the association, who sold the wheat in
Baltimore and delivered it there in the club
trucks. Milk and cream are hauled daily to the
city and delivered at six of the metropolitan dair-
ies, while poultry products -and other farm pro-
duce are marketed with commission dealers and
other wholesale firms.‘ Because the eggs were
strictly fresh, the association marketedthem for

its members at a premium of three to five cents a _

dozen over the city quotations.

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Obtaining Good Operators

Competent, reliable, and honest operators who
will make trips in a minimum of time, and ban-
dle their cars so as to realize the maximum sill-
ciency from their operation, are essential where
the rural truck route is to be successful. The Har-
ford plan is to have both the driver and his helper
qualified to operate the‘machine, so that the5help—
er can replace the driverséwhen necessary. This
association also keeps several emergenCy drivers
and helpers in reserve, so in case of sickness or
accident to the regular crew the operation of the,
It provides a furnished
house at Churchville for the accommodation of
these employees, and also suggests the advisabil-
ity of rewarding faithful operators with a cash
bonus for-honest and faithful services. The Bar:

ford association is completing a garage and re- -

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»_. the United States have commenced on their spring

work and very few of them will leaye the farm to
ffldeliver beans that he is confident will go higher.
They will not sell at less than $8 per cwt., and
E‘the grower has money encugh so that he can af-
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1 “cost.”
.- meetings at which the growers set up their “cost"
_ and even the writer was shock-ed at the facts.

5:d8y are very much different than the men we knew

   

yesterday. They have the confidence borne of suc

cess, and the comfort derived from a good bank ac-

' count, with very favorable prospects ‘ahead. He is

coming into his own politically as he never did be-
The farmer really is the man of the hour. '

While in Michigan there is less than 12% 0f the
,crop left in the farmers’ hands, and about 50%
in California—that does not worry him——he is

,5 net even offering them at present market prices.

They are going to materially reduce the acreage
planted to beans, and if necessary carry over their
present holdings until the trade is willing to pay

3 a price that will allow them a profit over and

above the’ cost of production.

While we have all been learning various lessons
Mr. Farmer has been taught a few things about
The writer has attended a number of

In order to reduce the present price and main-
tain a lower market on beans, it will be necessary
to make a corresponding decrease in the cost of
production LabOr, machinery, clothing, food, feed,
general farm accessories—~in fact, the purchasing
power of the farmers’ dollar must be reconciled to
any change that is made in beans, or any farm
product.

A Republican senate wili be in session about
the first of May, and it is safe to predict that we

" will not permit the Jap to continue shipping the
'. results 0? their cheap labor into the United States

to scatter disaster among the American growers

Ninety per cent. of the beans held by the elevat-
ors in Michigan and New York cost better than
$8. 50 per cwt., f. o. f. cars and most of them are
inn as strong hands as the farmers owning stock.
In fact, during the past few months the elevator
and farming interests seem to have learned for
the first time that they have something in com-
men, and that to put the price up 500 one week
and break it 75c the next will not increase the
consumption of Michigan beans.

The growers and operators are planning on co-
operating in an effort to increase the use of Mich-
igan CHP pea beans and to so handle every branch
of the industry that they will give better service
and greater satisfaction to the distributors upon

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Editor’s Note: The writer of the accompany-
ing article is one of the best posted men in this
section upon the subject of beans and the bean
market. He is thoroly conversant. not alone
with the situation in this state, but in all the

' bean growing states of the country, and has a
fair knowledge of the situation in other coun-
tries. We know of no one better qualified to
speak upon the subject than he, and we can
safely say to our readers that the statements
and opinions contained in his article are based
upon first-hand knowledge and many _’years ex-
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' whom \they rely for their outlet. We are credibly
advised that'the California growers will reduce
their acreage 60% this season, planting in the
place of beans—wheat, barley and sugar beets-

There are less than 400mm of beans left in the
hands of the elevators in Michigan, and it will be

' 51/.) months before the new crop will be ready for

    

market; and with stocks of pork’ and beans and
'dry beans carried in the'hands of the retailer the
lightest they have been in years, we can see no
reason why there will not be a demand for all of
these beans from the domestic trade even if we~
did not have a quarter million people to feed on
the continent.

As soon as the articles of peace are signed, and
the embargo on the central empire” is lifted it will
open up the greatest outlet for dry and canned
beans that we have ever known.

There are so many underlying factors which
make up the general situation, but all'of them
seem to point to higher prices for food before we
can produce a new crop. Very few people go into
the finer details of a proposition. The average
student of conditions has been predicting lower
prices for all food, paying no attention to the fact
that it will be at least 1920 before Europe can pro-
duce anywhere near a normal crop, and that before
we can supply the consumer with cheap food at
home it will be necessary to reduce the cost of
everything that is necessary to produce it.

Shall the Farmer Plant the Usual Bean Acreage or Not?

HIS QUESTION has been
I asked M. B. F., by hun-

dreds of 1eaders during the past sixty
days, and to each we have stated that an
investigation was being made and by mid-April we
would be ready to report. We have passed through
three mighty uncertain years in bean growing, and
at the present time farmers are well night discour-

aged over the returns. received for this Michigan’s '

money crap. Unusual weather conditions reduced
, the yield far below normal; the market has been
unstable, and manipulation has put the whole in-
dustry in the class of “uncertainties.”
Considering, first the stock of beans on hand, it

~ would appear that the trade is well cleaned up.

Never before were there so few beans in the hands
of the wholesale grocers; the larger jobbers are
sailing close to the market breeze, and aside from
small stocks ‘in country elevators purchased at
higher prices and perhaps
farmers' hands waiting for the $5 price—there are
no navy beans in sight. It is because of this fact

that elevator men and the Bean Jobbers’ Associa- ~

tion have started a campaign for at least last

year’s acreage of beans in Michigan.

It must be remembered” however, that the for-
eign demand for Michigan beans will not~increase
over last year’s requirements. All Europe is‘hard
up for cash, and this means that they are going to
get food Where they can buy it the cheapest. They
are not going to quibble, over the relative merits
of “pintos,” “rangeens’ and “kotenashls” and the
American product—they will be satisfied with
“just beans." As to the demand at home, we can’t

By GRANT SLOCUM

seventy-five cars in,

expect an increase, unless
other food products should go
higher; and that is hardly possible' unless
the climatic conditions interfere either with
planting or harvesting. As to the requirements
of the government, we can expect no increase over
last year. Certain dealers claim that Uncle Sam
will need as many beans for the army and navy
during the coming year as were purchased during-
I'ne past year, because of the fact that only the
American product would be used; while last sea-
son the boys over—seas were fed on Orient beans.

No matter how far you pursue the investigation,
you find mighty little which would encourage the
farmers of Michigan to increase their bean acre-
age and much to suggest that, the acreage of
last year be reduced. The acreage has been
boosted far above the average before the war, and
we must get back somewhere near the nominal
acreage, if profitable prices are maintained. The
farmer can not grow beans under present condi--
tion at pre-war prices. In fact with the low yields
of the past three years, beans can not be grown
at a profit at a price less than eight cents a pound
net. This, being true MH‘llIGAN BUSINESS FARM-
ING is going on record as recommending that the
farmers of Michigan reduce their 1918 been acre-
age about onevfifth. If you planted ten acres last
year, plant eight acres this year. The bean grow-
ers of California have decided to decrease their
acreage, and we believe that the farmers of this
state will receive a greater profit from the reduc-
edacreage we have suggested, than from an acre-
age equal to that of last year.

would it be Practical for Farmers and Laboring Men to Organize and (lo-operate?

0W THERE is no way to get votes neerlei
N eXcept by an alliance with the labor ele-
ment: it is either that or give up because

m01e than half the population are wage- earning
veters. Let’ 3 see if that is practical. The capital-
ists keep the .upper hand by controlling the-
newspapers and magazines, and by this and
other means ”try to sow dissention and keep lab-
orer and farmers divided, so, as I have shown,
they destroy their political power. They tell
the farmer he must not unite with the laborers
because the farmer is a capitalist, and their in-
terests are opposed. Now the majority of the
farmers are capitalists in a limited way, that is
they own their own job, or at least the most of
1 As for dividends on capital, that is a.
joke. If he counts his and his family’s labor
at decent wages it takes all his product to pay
Nine-tenths oi the farm labor on eastern
and middle-western farms is done by the farm-
ers’ themselves. There are times when there is a
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By ERNEST PUTNAM

(Concluded from April 12th Issue)

of a corporation in place of the thousands of
employees who are the farmers’ customers when
there is a strike on. Now the interest of the
farmer and the consuming laborer is one when
it comes to cutting the profits and number of
middleman; that is if the middleman’s prOfitS
are to be divided equitably between producer
and consumer, as they should be.

It seems to be the purpose of those who op-

pose the terminal warehouse bill to put the
farmer in a false light in order to alienate the
-support of the laboring classes. The farmer
can’t and does not expect to hog the whole thing
any more than can the wage-laborer; conse-
quently there must be a compromise on a fifty-
fifty basis between the farmer and the city 1a-
borer in order that their joint demands‘can be
backed upby a united vote, and then-let them
see that the men nominated for office are friend-
ly totheir cause, and if.they can’t control the

5"big parties inthat way, see that there is some
'1 ”party to throw their support to for the things
A'sffthey want done
.' 1711113 business men will haw] anarchy and b01-

"‘»3-'shevism, but let ’em hanl
L-to worry, nOt us.

Of courSe, the big dailies and

They are the ones
The more they are frightened
the better for us, and when they begin to im-._
sine they see the r'ed waves rolling high above-
heads thenjtyill .be time 611011811 to.

colored shorts and earn their bread by. the sweat

reach out and grasp them by the hair of the head
and lift them to the surface and give them a
little air and then ask them 110w about getting
that terminal warehouse bill through at Lan—
sing, and they will gasp out, “Sure thing, but
please Mr. Farmer do keep out of politics." And
when they begin to quibble about government
ownership of railroads just let them feel our

. hold slipping a little and they. will come to time.

Now that is just where we have got to get
the capitalist, and that is where he has had us
for the last fifty years, and sometimes he has
loosened his hold and many a poor derelict farm-
er has drifted out on the tide and finished his
working days in a factory and died in an alms-
house or a burden to his children. Of course,
this is speaking figuratively, and not meant as
a joke by any means. What I mean is this: The
time is coming and may God speed the day, when
the capitalists are going'to beg for the farmers'
Vth to save them from the rising tide of dis-
content that is bound to sweep the whole, world
and when thatftime‘comes if the farmers are
wise in their day, that” support will cost seme-
thing more than a pleasant look and a promise.

Now, Mr. Editor, these may not be your’
views of the matter, but you have let the doc-

_ tor farmers, and the Hon. farmers and the farm- ,

are who farm thru tenants or hired labor have
their say, and now I ask to be heard in behalf -
of the great majority of farmers who wear the

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' ation whereof, it speaks as follows:

warm . . van-
' Another case {if-somebody else, —mOWing. ‘
more about the farmer’s business than the
farmer himself. Wé arc-very curious to know
how the Departmental“. Agriculture compiled
these figures. We openly challenge their au-
thenticity. Farmers .. themselves .will testify
that farm property does not command the
prices oftformer'yvcars; There are exceptions
to the rule, of course. But the large number
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( Consolidated Feb. 1, 1919. with The Gleaner)

    

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
_ MT. CLEMENS, MICK.
Detroxt Ofl‘lce: 110 Fort St. Phone. Cherry 4669
GRANT SLOCUM. .Presldent and Contributing Editor
......... Vice—President and Editor
GEO. M. SLOCUM. .Secretary-Treasurer and Publisher

 

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gavdbfl Clare Ladd....Women's and Children’s Dept. the. country and the’ absurdly 10W Prices $0]:
FriiiiimRE' Brown ................ Legal Departmep‘: Whlch they are sold on almost any terms give
fibW—ffl the lie to the figures of the Department of Ag-
Th gNE YEAR, 52 ISSUES, ONE DOLLAR riculture. . ‘_

’00 6M8. 156 1 ...................... $2.00 . . -
Mars, 260 1:33;: ____________________ $393 Even if the figures were correct, we want to

ask where the Department of Agriculture se-
cured the authority to make them public. If
the farm wealth has increased $45,000,000,000
in the past two years, the farmers ought to pay
a correspondingly higher tax. But it is the
business of the tax assessor and the boards of
equalization to discover increases in the value
of taxable property. We haven’t heard of any
government agency making investigations. in-
to the increased”value of city property the
last two years yet we are pretty Well satisfied
that the unprecedented prosperity of the com
mercial centers has added greatly to the value
of such property and that it ought to pay a
greater portion of the nation’s taxes.

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The Farmer in Politics

HE MICHIGAN farmer is going to en-

ter politics. He‘s been on the outside
a~looki1i" in for a long time, but some things
that have transpired within the “inner cir-.
clcs” of state and national political councils
have not been entirely pleasing to him, so now
he is about to get inside and take a finger in
alfairs himself.

The need for more participation by farm-
ers in political matters has been observed for
a long time, but the requisite courage, fore—
sight and leadership for kicking over the
traces of long established customs have been
lacking. It took the farmers of the northwest,
with their all but socialistic doctrines to
demonstrate to the farmers of the cast that
politics was a game at which farmers could
play and win. The success of the Non-Parti-
san League has furnished the inspiration. The
insidious meddling into state and national
legislation by seekers after special privileges,
and the almost total disregard of bodies in
power and authority of the rights of the com-
mon people have furnished the excuse. And
the spirit of the times has furnished the oppor-
tunity for the farmers to- declare their politi-
cal independence.

The people cngagcd in agriculture repre-
sent a far greater number than those engaged
in any other vocation or trade. In this govern-
ment of, for and by the people agriculture
should hold the majority representation, and
every other class should be represented in
proportion to the number of people belonging
thereto. If this plan for a just division of the
responsibilities and benefits of government
does not meet with the requirements of a
democratic government, we know of nothing
that will. It is a well known fact that of the
leading industries or occupations agriculture
is the least represented in the state and na-
tional governing bodies. So it is merely to
bring about a balance of power and to secure'
recognition of common rights that the farm-
ers now seek a place in legislative chambers.
T HE DAILY press has carried highly

colored stories the past week or. so of
the farmer’s growing wealth and affluence.
One of them describes the farmer thusly,
“Man with hoe now a plutocrat.” In explan-

’ The Victory Loan

ICTORY BONDS will be the best invest-

ment, safety considered, that folks of lim-
ited means can make. They will bear interest
at the rate of four and three-quarters per
cent. Terms of payment are very liberal, a
small amount down and the balance within
five months from date of purchase. This over
comes the objection that has been raised in
many quarters that the spring of the year is
a poor season in which to sell bonds to farm-
ers.

The prices of farm products ar'e advancing.
The gray clouds that covered the horizon a
few weeks ago have disappeared. Agriculture
faces a most promising future. With pros-
pects for a year of good ,crops and fair prices,
the farmers'of the nation will be ready to do
their share in subscribing to the loan. Farm-
ers must be heavy purchasers of the Victory
loan if it is to be floated. And it mustibe
floated. The integrity of the government,
and the immediate prosperity of the nation
depends upon the flotation of every dollar of
this loan. , If every man, woman and child
does his or her part, every last .bond Will be
sold without hardship upon anyone. If a few
are slackers, the burden will be the heavier on
the truly patriotic. And remember, always,
that you are asked to give nothing—merely
to lend. Money invested in savings account
or tied up in the old sock under the mattress
is safer in government bonds. And while
working for you, it works for your govern-
ment.

Reforming the Milk Business ‘

OR A YEAR and a half M. B. F. has ar-
gued for reform in the milk distributing
business. It endorsed the compromise be-
tween the Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n
and the Detroit distributors because at the
time there seemed to be no other way of sat-
isfactorily adjusting the differences without a
large loss to the producers and a milk famine
for the city of Detroit. At the same time, we
were well aware that the compromise put the
producers in. the position of approving the
ridiculously wasteful methods of the distrib-,
utors, if not actually making them partners
thereto. ,
The frequent discussions upon this subject

Feeding the Gullible

“A ‘by-profit’, (the quotation marks are
ours) of nearly $20,000,000,000 is one of the
benefits accruing to the American farmer from
his bumper crops. Based on. reports to the
Department of Agriculture, this sum is the es- in these columns have. sown seeds that are
timated increase in the value of lands owned‘ now bearing fruit. From all~ parts of the
by American farmers. The» reports showed ' state com-e5 evidences; that. the producers are
plowed land had increased in value 71 per realizing, the position they are in, and that
cent. since 1910; most of the increases having they can never. hope. to secure a. satisfactory
been made during the war' years. Another solution of their distributing: problem so. long
‘biprofit’ is: an estimated increase of nearly assuch a large part of the consumer’s dollar
our bill'bn 11' ‘s in the value of buildings. is wastedinthc peddling ofthamrpmduct.

  
 

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. because of their inability to arrive at an ami- . - 3

‘ ed a County association and scarcely was the

x _ . _ , on’to bdn the ci y" 1038;: ' .
tablish a central milk depOt‘. Theprodtixcers ,. _Q
of ‘Jacksoncounty, too, have long been restleSs‘. , * ’

cable understanding with the distributors and
the city oficials, and they are now asking for 1"
a central distributing station in that city. A '
month ago the locals of Macomb county form~

ink dry on their by-laws before .County Agent
Kittiebegan work on a plan to be backed by
the Macomb association, which, has fer its pur—
pose the enlistment of all milk locals in a cam-
paign of education and reform which shall
eventually simplify the present system of
distributing milk in Detroit and give to the
farmer a larger part of the consumer’s dollar.

The farmer __is being advised on all sides to
forsake his old inefficient methods of {undue-
tion, He has been shown that production
costs can be greatly reduced by the application
of certain-simple rules. Having plugged up
the leaks and put his own house in order ‘he
is disposed to be a little more critical than for-
merly of the fellows who carry hisproducts to
the consumer. He is insisting that the Waste-
ful duplication of service between himself and
the man Who consumes his product be elim:
inated and he stands ready to do the elimin-
ation if the other fellow refuses.

Alas! What Will‘the Boozers Do? ,
“so FUR as I’m personally cencerned,” ~

said the barber with the red nose, “it
don’t make no dif’rence to me, tho I allus
liked to have a little whiskey in the house in
case of sickness. I don’t know what people
are going to do when they git sick.”

“They’ll do without it, just as several mil-
lion people havc always done,” volunteered
a customer. ’

“But that’s jest it,” says the barber, “how
do they do without it? Now \jest tell me
what they’re gonna do when they ketch cold
or the liver gets outer order or lots of other
things. go wrong with the human system that
makes a man feel as; if he’d have to have a
drink or die.”

To those who have never indulged in the
good old whiskey sling or hungover the bar of
the corner saloon, such a question is_amusingi
You utterly fail to get the “victim’s” view-
point. Oh, yes, it wasn’t so very long ago
when the family medicine chest was not com-
plete unless it contained a demijohn of brandy i .
0r whiskey. Whiskey was the infallible rem-
edy. The artificial stimulation caused the
user to soon forget his aches and pains and
during the course of the peaceful, if inebriate
sleep which followed, nature 0 ten reasserted
herself and repaired the damage. It has only
been within the last decade that the medical
profession has been Willing to confess that
alcohol is not. necessary as a stimulant any - ,
longer and that there are other and better
medicines to take its place.

But the barber with the red nose, the town
drunkard, the “tired business man,” and
the “no—beer—no-work” laborer, have a chronic
illness which nothing can satisfy but a drink
of “half and half,” so long as it is procurable.
After that they’ll have to treat their colds
with ginger and hot foot-baths, and how sur-‘
prised and chagrined they will be to find that
they do the business! ‘

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The subscriber who declared. a few weeks
ago that'the farmers’ political movement sav-
ored. of class legislation and. he was therefore
opposed to it, need have no fear. We know of “
no legislation, that is asked bythefarmers a; ._

' higanwhich allothcrsintcrested in the [
common weal could not support. I’

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Many farme' _ rs. are askihgif.’ the stringent .
ImwisbflLprohibits. them from utilizingtheir :
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ANTI DISCRIMINATION

g‘ HERE ARE two bills pending in the legis-
lature having features highly commendable
from the standpoint of the farmer' s inter-

‘ sets and also from the standpoint of fair dealing.

:. . The Braman potato g’rading bill provides that

:ngdal'ers in farm products shall secure a license
1 from the drug and food department for each town
.g fin which they propOSe to do business before enter- .

‘ ing on the business of dealing in farm products.
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5 rounding at which the centralizers are
butter fat. On this certain date all are paying 50,

‘the established order.
. "discrimination"

the business without the license. In other words

their right to do business in that field rests upon

the possession- of a license the same as the right

. to Sell whiskey used to rest upon the possession
It further provides that the food ,

“and drug department may revoke the license for
-' certain reasons.

of a license

Among the‘reasons for which it
may be revoked, is “discrimination. " In the House
a milk inspection bill has been under considera-

tion that contains the same provisions as to li-

cause and penalty for discrimination. To those
wishing to buy farm products or milk and cream.

: a license would be something taking care of, and
liars is where the anti discrimination

clause

comes in.
' Often a local co- -operative creamery is establish-

’.ed and goes merrily at the business of making

”butter from the cream of their stockholders and
other local patrons.

The centralizers do not take kindly to the es-
tablishment of' c'o-operative creameries nor do
large dealers in potatoes and other farm products
take kindly to the formation of co-operative mar-
ket associations. They would drive them from
the field and then pay for the farmer’s products
what they should please. How is this done? Easy
enough. The creamery of market association does
business in _a restricted territory. The big dealer
'or 'the centralizer spreads his business over a
large territory. Using cream for the illustration:
Say at a certain date cream or rather butter fat is

. worth 50 cents per pound. We will say‘that there

is a co-operative creamery at one or two towns in
a countw and buying stations in. all the towns sur-
buying

cents for butter fat and. everybody is happy. The
The co-op is_in high favor because its patrons
get the regular price for their product and a‘ pat-
ronage dividend at, stated intervals which the
patrons of the centralizers do not getthat is, they
getthe profits of the businesa in dividends which
in the other case goes to the centrallzers. This,
of course, is all wrong from the view point of the
centrallzers. This is non-partisan-bolshevik-social-
ism and must be disposed of in the interest of
And here is where your
comes in. The co-operative
creamery is at Podunkand at this point the cen-
trallzers raise the price of butter fat to 52 cents
and at the surrounding towns of Pumpkin Cen-
ter, Burnip’s Corners and
price is made 49_ cents.
Now the shipper gets his supply from that sec-
tion at an average price of perhaps a shade less
than 50 cents while every poundthe CQ-Op gets
costs it~ 52 cents. . The co-op is between the devil
and the deep blue sea. If it sticks to the legit-

imate price of 50 cents, it loses its customers, and

if‘lt meets the competition. it dissipates its profits
and disgruntles its membership. In either case the
monkey wrench is in the machinery and the co-op
is headed toward the breakers.

The bills mentioned seek to deal with this situa-
tion through the license system by providing that
any of these dealers' licenses may be revoked and
they be put out of busineSs if they resort to such

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discrimination. This license
splendidly with the federal food administration
and there is no doubt that it can be made to cover
the evils of discrimination in our present market-
ing system. Write your legislators about it.

THE IVAREHOUSE BILL .
HE’HOUSE Committee on Revision and

Amendment of the Constitution still has
the Warehouse Amendment in the ice box'

and it is generally expected that they will ”sit”
on it till after adjournment or in other words
that they will smother it.

The farm organizations Of the state are back of
this proposed amendment. They ask that it be
submitted to the people that they may pass judg-
ment on it in 1920. The members of the commit-
tee are not asked to endorse the plan. If they
personally are so financially independent that
the marketing proposition means nothing to
them, they should pass it up to those to whom it
does mean something. The people'know what
they want. .They will not vote for this amend-
ment unless they deem it necessary for their wel-
fare. At any rate this committee should not as-
sume to decide what the people want. Their judg-
ment islnot infallible. While sitting on the ware
house amendment, they passed out the judges’
salary amendment in great haste so that the
judges might be included in the general salary
grab of this session. The dear people, however,
sat down on the only salary raise put up to them
and sat down On it hard. You can lead a horse to
water but you cannot make him drink.

Our friend, Jim Helme, who had something to

. do with the preparation and introduction of the

warehouse amendment, has this to say about‘it
in the last issue of his paper:

“The farmers' warehouse bill has passed the
statesenate an is now in the house where it is
liable to stay It cannot be voted on by the peo-
ple until 1920 and not then unless the house sub-
mits it to a vote

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REPRESENTATIVE CHAS. EVANS, LENAWEE

Mr Evans is
serving his sec-
ond term in the
house. He is 3.
e211 farmer who
as made a suc—
ess of his busi-
ess to an ex-
eptional degree.
He is easily the
best talker

er members and
the lawyer who
crosses s w 0 r ds
with him in debate is sure to get all that’s com-
ing to him. There are some strong men among
the farmer members of the house, but the palm
of leadership is generally acceeded to Mr. Evans.
He has been seriously mentioned as a farmer
candidate for United States senator, and if the
farmers should put him in the senate, they
would need offer no apologies for him.

system worked»

among the farm- '

ed it. The writer favored the introduction of the
bill, not because he hoped for its passage for he
had no such idea but he thought it would be a
great object lesson to farmers to wake up to the
fact that distributors and middlemen control the

' legislature and no farm measure can be passed ‘

against their opposition. These men are powerful
politically and even farm members in farm dis- .
tricts fear them more than the farmers’ organiza-
tion, who never get beyond the resoluting stage
and can always be depended on to vote the ticket -
We hope to see a record vote taken in the house
on this measure, so that we can properly separate
the sheep and goats.” _

If Jim islooking for “goats” on this measure,
he needs but to “look about him.” Two of the
strongest opponents of the proposition are the
two farmer members from Lenawee county. Both
of these men are well-to-do.

They can hold their products till the market
situation suits them. They cannot catch the view
point of the man whose necessities compel him to
sell his products as soon as they are harvested, and -
at the minimum price. We would suggest to our
friend, Jim, that he look up“‘g0ats” near at home
and get busy on them. '

GET READY

HERE IS little doubt that the tax rate in

Michigan will this year be the highest in

the history of the state. This would not be
so bad if the people were really getting something
for the increase. They are getting something for
their money all right in the support of necessary
boards and institutions, but are they getting value
received for the increase in their taxes? The aver-
age citizen knows that this legislature has been
very busy creating new jobs and boosting salaries,
and while a large part of the increase of state ex-
penses is to be accounted for in the increased
cost of labor and supplies used by the state, the
major part of a million dollars of increase occa-
sioned by new jobs like the state constabulary
and the increases of nearly everybody’s' salary,
will to the aforesaid average citizen, stick out
like a sore toe.

He will be interested to know why a legislature
that finds it so easy to spend the people’s money,
can find no new sources of revenue to offset the
increased expenditure. An income tax might have
fixed the thing up all right.

“Senator Scully was quick to see this," says
Helme in his Michigan Patron “and introduced a
constitutional amendment to provide for an in-
come tax. The legislature after fooling around
with it for a while finally junked it. The big bus-
iness men with large incomes did not look with
favor on helping bear the tax burden.”

The Income Tax amendment was not however,
“junked” by the legislature. It would, very like-
ly, have been passed by the legislature if given a.
fair show, but it was smothered by the senate
committee on taxation.

We shall have more to say about this amend-

ment at a later date.

THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR WAR FUND

N RESPONSE to the Senate resolution ask-
ing for a statement of the expenditures made
by the State War Board from this fund, Audit-
or General Fuller has submitted a carefully pre-
pared statement covering expenditures up to
March 1st, 1919 and it makes mighty interesting
reading It was supposed to have been sent to all
who get the legislative journal. If you did not
get a copy, you can secure one by writing to the

. secretary of the senate or to Auditor General Ful-

ler. Only five hundred extra copies were printed.
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REPRESENTATIVE JAMES E. McKEON, BAY
Rep. McKeon
comes from the
sugar— beet sec?
tion of Bay coun-
ty and lives on a
farm about six
miles southwest
of Pinconning.
He does not have
to char preof'
thatrhe is alarm-
er—you know it
as soon as you
, see him. He
-locks the part.

   
  
    

‘ , is - chairman of

IREPZ DESENTATIVE O. JAY TOWN. JACKSON

Mr. Town is
one of the sub-
stantial farmer
members of the
House, where he
is serving his

first term. He
hails from Par-
ma, and is a

r e a l honest-to—_
God farmer. He

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and is ~ also ’a
member f‘ the committee on Agricultural
College. " -

SENATOR ROY CLARK 0F BERRIEN COUNTY
Senator Clark
is one of the
farmer members
0 f the senate
and easily the
best natured one
in the bunch. If
there is such a
thing as grouch
in his make-up, '
It is such a little
puny affair that
it will never get
to the surface.
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ATS OFF to the women of Michigan. They marched to the polls "on

April 7th; asked no (questions; 'entered the election booth, and with

blue pencil in hand, exercised the elective franchise in a‘high‘ly cred-
itable manner. The “booze gang" claimed that the women voters in Chi-
cago voted “wet,” and reasoned, therefore, that Michigan ladies would
follow suit.

Well, the result ought to satisfy Mr. Boozer and his gang that they
are done for good and plenty. When Michigan rolled up a majority of
more than one hundre’dand twenty-(five thousand to prevent the return of
e'the saloon, the 'vote against the curse was ‘just double that .given two
years ago. If the saloon ever had a ghost of a chance to fasten itself up-
on Michigan again, that hope forever vanished when women were .given
the ballot.

It is clearly evident that the rladies voted right on every question .for3
zthe common good, and thatrthey used the fiyswatter with a vim on propo-
sitions that would not stand investigation. 'If'there was a man in Michigan
-—an’d there was—~who was not in favor of equal suffrage, he will freely
and frankly say ~today: “I never suspected them wimen. folks knowed how
to vote; I was fooled, by gum.’

Some pleasure in walking across the fields withwifezte the old etown
meetin’ house, on election day. No tobacco juice on the 'floor; 1the room
was not filled with smoke and cussing—just a place where American cit-
izens, men and women, could assemble and exercise the rright-of suffrage.-
Sovereign rulers we, charged with the responsibility of safeguarding a
government of, for and by the people.
yourselves right at home.”

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“He that'hath energy enough to root out vice, should
go further and try to plant a virtue in its place; other-
wise he will have his‘labor to renew. A strong soil that
has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat."

PON MY desk this morning I find a letter from the Corporationfier—

U vice Bureau, of Detroit, branches in Chicago, New York and San

Francisco. ‘It is in the nature of a circular letter, so I violate no
confidence when I quote two paragraphs:

“We take the liberty to call your attention to the fact that the radi-
cal labor elements in the city of Detroit arebecoming more aggressive
each day, and if you do not protect yourself against these elements, your
business interests are bound to *be jeopardized.”

The following paragraph closes this most remarkable letter:

“Allow us to assign o'ur capable representatives to .mingle among
those employees, and to preach to them the true facts regarding this so-
!called workingmen’s cause; to discover the radical agitators who are
spelling destruction tothe common laboring'class, so you can expel them,
.and by so‘doingprotectand encourage those ‘who are worthy to remain in
your employment."

Never was a greater ~mistake made than this attempt .to solve {the
labor problem through a system which will surely add fuel to the smould—
ering coals, destroy all 'confidence and ‘lead to more serious troubles. The
plan suggested is nothing more or less than .the German ispy'systemxap-
plied to American manufacturing enterprises; a system which eats its
way to the Very heart of .things, and finally recoils and is destroyed, togeth-
or with the governmentor enterprise 'itsought to save.

The suggested plan will hardly meet the approval of forward~looking ~

employers of men. The great war was fought to make the world safe
’for democracy; to make all men, everywhere, free; to give equal oppor-
tunities to all children 01 men, and to the fulfilment of this :great prom-
ise the leaders of the nation are now conscientiously working and prayer-
r‘fully planning. You cannot build from the top down; .a fonndationsure
and secure must be placed. ‘It is true that there .is much unrest at the
present time. The nation has suddenly emerged from a world-wide strug-
gle; the delegates are still discussing plans about the peace table; the
nation is not at war; neither is the nation atpoace; the armies are not on
the battlefields, neither have the soldiers returned to shop, forge and
fieldw—everything, everywhere is unsettled.

Business men are discussing questions of the reconstruction period;
bankers are discussing the problems which confront them; manufactur-
ers are perplexed to know how to proceed as they turn from war work
to works of peace; farmers are wondering what the sudden end of the
great struggle, and the changing of millions of men from non—producers
to producers means to them—~as yet nothing has settled down to pro-war
conditions. It is not surprising that 'workingmen are wondering what the
great change is going to mean to them, their homes-and little families.

If there is discontent the wise employer will locate the cause and ap-
ply the remedy. If there be anarchists among the laboring men; the em-
ployei need only to treat his employees right; give them their full share
of. the result of their toil; treat them as men and remember they are
brothers—the truespirit and character will ”assert itself and the working-
men will get rid of'the “Judas” in'their midst. Nothing can possibly be
gained by “placing spies among the wworkirrgmen of America.’-.’.I‘he undesir-
able wor-kingman, located through thelspy system, and discharged, rmoves
onto another factory, more than ever determined to poisontthe minds of
his brother workmen. Such a man needs help; needs to knowtheitrue
conditions; needs to be rebuilt; needsla friend; not to be harasseduand
made an outcast, to spread the'very disease society is strivingrtov‘mrae.

m.‘* ‘J

' EARE going'to‘have some .tarifflegislation duringthe-Inext session

of Congress. “-No matterhorw you may personally feel aboutthe ‘

“ taiiff and the tariff tax,” it goes without saying that with Uncle
Joe F01 dney as- chairman .of the Ways. and Means Committee, there will
be something doingin the tariL’ line. 1t is true that the farmer cannot be

 

“Glad you are with :.us, ladies, smaloe

‘henefltedyrthrough ~the tariff, on any commodity which must seek an open

market.

The tariflmn wheat, for instance, has .heen a lake for these many
years for the simple reason that .Ltvarnool has been .the price market for
our surplus wheat. However, «the dormer moat get into thegamsandget

something for himself while the “getting is 35mm. ” At the present dime

Japan is raising hob with the bean market :inzthis wintry. They enemy,

ing a nation-wide business panic over there, and which: are on who ..

bottom.

Ketenashis, a- little :heern which .is, to a certain rextent, a rival to our
own pea bean, can the purchased 1111 Japan at three and one—half cents per
pound; 'the freight to San Maison its mind mm and moo-half cents-
total, about six cents in this country. More we humanized modest madne-
ed hypauper labor, if you please, competing 'with “the American dormer-.—

bringing .him very. near to the $3.60 per bushel prices “for Michigan

beans

Why not boost the warm on beans? fBrotect American industry: Aor-
‘tify the American *farmer against the pauper labor employed by the land
owners of Japan? What is :good for the manufacturer ought to ’be good
for the farmer—for markyou, the farmer is a manufacturer. And a tariff
on beans is no more a tax on the necessities than is a tax on sugar, farm
.machinery andlother products manufactured .in America. .If.a tariff .is a
~goodthing,.let’s passit ’round. .

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“We need no power or splendor;
Wide hall orflordlyidmne;
7 {‘f' ;‘ Thegood, theetruentho-‘tonder,
.w‘ These form :the wealth of home."

PRINGTIME or fall, summer or winter, home is ever 'the same.
boys are coming back; they have 'been three thousand miles away

from that dear spot so long that'their one great desire is to "‘get back.
"home." The daily press tells us of troubles arising among the troops over ‘

the delay in getting started. ”They have been waiting, waiting to get
"back home,” but the ship they look for fails to arrive. Finally patience
ceases to be a virtue and trouble begins. Thesis noble boys have braved
shot and shell—but the war is over; and the home magnet is constantly
tugging at-their heart strings urging'them to come home. Home, that dear
spot on the hill or cosily‘nestling in the valley. '

The other day a little eight—year-old :noighbor boy drove with me to .3
the city. As we neared the metropolis, passing many beautiful mansions j

of the wealthy, the little fellows eyes were full of wonder. Finally- who ask-
ed: ”Does just one family live in that big, big house?” pointing to a state-
:ly mansion. “Nesfi' .was nthelrepLy,.and .this .eage .remark .folloewed: HMy,
but they must'beflonesome.” Thislittloifellow lives do a veryssmall house,
with brothers four and sisters :two; but-there is ,no such :thing as this .be-
‘ing lonesomeat ‘his house. Somethingkgoing‘on :emary.monient; .androveny-
Ibody enjoying What-is going on; because all that is going ondsgoingion
right there where all can take a band 3111 what 11s goingcon.

Phil Armour, head of the big packing plant, is quoted as saying the
other day that he had about made up his mind to become a tramp; free
himself Lfrom .the tremendous responsibilities, and have a real (good time.
Weoanihardly'imagine ”Phil" as a “hobo," andyet we are sure that no
.hobo went ~ihrough quite such a trial,as_ this samegentleman haspass-
ed thrdngh :during :the past few months. Lots and lots of money—but
lonesome. Henry .Ford told a friend recently that the happiest days of
his life werespent in the little shop, back of the house and .on .the alley,
where ,he labored night and day, with neither money nor the encourage-
ment of his friends, to perfect his first automobile.
kings of old, yet lonesome.

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A half hundred busy clerks making out income tax reports for as .

many white—haired wealthy men, who had finally found within their
grasp their heart’s desire. Cross and sour, explaining and complaining,
discussing and cussing—every one of them. My, but they were lonesome.
A lady, past middle life and alone, who had worked hard for many years.
and now drawing a salary sufiicient to require an income tax payment.
She was asked the usual questions aboutexemptions, and answered: “Yes,
.I have helped the Red Cross and other charities, but I claim no exemp-
tions; thank God I have a little left upon which 1 can pay an income tax."
Remember the ancient king, Who longed "for‘happiness, having heard of a
happy man, and wastoldihat:ifhecouldgetttheman’s shirt and~ wear ilt,
heitoo, Would be happy. -His couriers .found‘the man, and indeed he was
happy—but alas and alaok, he were no shirt; his back was sun-browned
and bare. ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’

“Blessed be nothing,” an adage old, yes, and true, 5’er .times «have
achanged b,11t.little.
not the happy man. There are .many .very poor and unhappy zrich men;
many cold, inhospitable palaces, many pleasant, 119..pr (cottages; many

poor little rich :girlsaand boys. Theswinter has givennsanaopportunity to 3.

gather abouthearth and fireside; toaenioy the true atmosphere of home.

And now-as spring time'advances and nature .bestirs :.herself in field, for- .~

chard and wood, let us take up *the busy work of 1the coming season,
satisfied with our lot; determined to gather happiness m we labor and let
our future ambitions center around that God—given sanctuary—home
Remember: Man’y traverse the world in Search of happiness,
within the reach of every infill—"A contented ~
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[mess to one dollar for site value.

_ and others to hire them to work.

* its products.

- m seem an
R'en'lydng. to Min Gcsnell 1n. the M. B.. F., 01" Mar.

.‘ ”325;. I will. say. that when a man is continually till"
the to browbeat his opponent it shows that he
‘ knows his ownficase is Weak and? is
1weiakness w1lI be found out.

afraid’ his

Mr. Grenell Speaks of the value society gives

"the. picneer farms and wants to tax that harder.
Are’

Who is the society that made these values?
not we. part. of it? And we have done much more

to make the country valuable than we will ever be

paid for doing. If We have produced these values

‘ by our labor then they belong to us just the same

as do the other products of our labor. Mr. Grenell

_._speaks repeatedly of the great values of Detroit

sites. But‘ he does not seem to know. that these
lots have theirhigh value because business worth
many times mere than 'the'lots are worth can be
I know of .cases; where the
ratio would be one hundred dollars for the busi-
Iln others it
would he fifty for the business to one for the site.
' In the Country the difference between the im-
provementsflof the land and‘ the land values are
not so great except'su‘ch properties atl the Stand-

,ard‘ Oil pipe lines and terminals, also the rail-

roads. Anyone who has had piping done or even
priced an oil barrel will know that the big Stand-

- ard oil pipes are worth more than, .one hundred

dollars to one for the land. Then, when we con-
sider the cost of grading, fencing the right of
way, the cost of ties and rails and the cost of.
placing. them and the cost of the rolling stock and
terminals we conclude that the land constitutes
less than one dollar in a hundred of the value of

' the railroad company’s property.

Now, it is a law of taxation that taxes must be
paid so if we exempt thirty dollars worth of prop-
erty to one left that one would have to pay thirty
times asmuch taxes as it did before. So the men
who had the largest pro rata exemption would
gain by site value taxation. To this class would
belong most of the very rich men and the great
corporations. Th0se with the lowest rate of ex-
emption are mainly the poor class of peeple in the
cities. Many poor men buy a lot hoping to build
a home on it in, the country. They buy a small
piece of land, hoping to make a home and farm
of it and they would be the losers; thus the rich

would get richer and the poor poorer by this wick-

ed scheme, the excuse for which was formerly the
false one that it would cause farmers to improve
their lands and so make food cheaper. The facts
are the farms have not improved faster because
there is no money in farming. Mn. Ford gives
his common workmen five dollars a day. Our high:
way commissioner getslmen for two and men,
teams. harness and wagons for five. That tells
the story. Give us a fair share of what the city
men pay for What we produce and wages would
raise here and improvements boom. The middle
men cry down our products to us and cry them up
to the consumer and so by bearing the market at
one end and booming itat the other they get rich
andethis is one class of men Mr. Gre‘nell would
favor.

Mr. Grenell’s reason for special increase in land
taxes is that society has a right to the values that
society has made. Let us apply this rule to the
property that he would exempt from taxation. He
calls them- the products of industry. They are in
reality the results of society’s favors and not One

,of'them could exist without society and all of their

millions represent only their profits on society’s
favors, the richest being those that had the best
monopoly of society's favors. . Mr. Ford could not
make autos without the help of others. Still less
could he sell with. no one to buy them and what
is true of! the Ford factories is just as true of all
other factories whatever their business. They

must have workers and; buyers to exist. Therefore

the public made them and has a perfect right to
take them. Then there are the elevators: burst--

install of grains that the farmers have raiSed

and the consumers buy. Without both there
could be no elevators; so the public has a right

. . to) take them too.

The railroads must have men; to build them,
The Standard
Oil. Co: must have men to work its plants and buy?

cm the public than the; land OWner does and

‘ With no one‘ to hire monesy'there ,
‘ would be 110 banks nor anybody to buy stores” In
Ect- every kind of business receives more benefit 1

some. of. the? mainstays of the country. Think of?
taxing our pioneers from two to ten times what
they now pay and then letting a. lot of. society’s
favorites escape almost untouched? by taxation.
such a; scheme would he a. slaughter of innocents:

and so revolutionarythat wise men are shunning

it, and so wicked.- that many of our. highway rob-
bers would. scorn it as many of our robbers robbed
only: the rich, and. often gave» of their plunder to
the poor. '

But Mr. Grenell proposes. a plan that will. rob
the poor for: the benefit of the rich. Now, why
cannot Mr. Grenell see what he is doing?" The
answer‘is found in Moses’ directions to the He--
brew judges, “Thou shalt take» no gift, for a- gift
bindeth the wise and“ pervereth the judgment of
the righteous.” Take away his office and°his sal;
ary and he might see veny differently from what
he does now. At the least he would not have so
much to say about it. for. “money makes. the mare
go” you know. As for myself I have fought en-
tirely for the right and have not even- got my
postage back—Frances G. Smith, Blanchard, Mich

 

 

THE DAY AND THE WORK

To each man is given a day and his work for
the day;

And once and no more, he is given to travel this

. way. ‘

And woe if he flies from. the task, whatever the
odds;

For the task is appointed to him on the scroll
of the gods.

There is waiting, a. work where only his hands
can avail;

And so, if ‘he falters, a chord in the music will
fail.

He may laugh to the sky, he may lie {01' an hour
in the sun;

But he dare not go hence till’ the labor appoint-
ed is done.

To each man is given a marble to carve for the

wall;

A stone that is needed to heighten the beauty
of all;

And only his soul has the magic to give it a
grace;

And only his hands have the cunning to put it
in place. a

Yes, the task that is given. to each man, no other

_ can do;
So- the errand- is waiting; it has walnut]; thnough.
ages for you.
Amdl now you; appear; until the hushed ones are
turning their. game
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GOE’S GRACE‘DOES N051? EXTEND TO THOSE
WEE) ENJURII} HEB Gl’ EA‘TURES

God. is the positive element in creation. Created
things are the" negative element. Intellect is the
highest gift of God to created.things, therefore
spiritual. I will pour out of my spirit upon all
flesh. Where there is brain matter there is a nu-
cleus of. intelligence Mr. W. M. Bowman and his
dog seem to have attained an equal amount of His
spirit. It would be of great assistance to me in the
study ‘of the Gospel of Christ to learn thru the M.
B. F. from Mr. Bowman’s neighbors Whether or
not he and his dog are held in the same degree of
respect. .

“By their works ye shall know them.”

A coal and wood dealer in Milwaukee noticed a
dog with a bone in his mouth come into the yard
and disappear in a pile of wood. ' He continued
these trips for several days and- thedealer decida
ed to investigate. He replied the wood and found
another dog which had been injured. stowed in a
cozy nest. He carried it to. the ofliceand put it in
a barrel on a bed of straw; Upon his: return. from
lunch. he brought a pan of food and. placed it be-
fore the invalid. The charity dog returned on his
regular trip and discovered that his: charge had
been; transferred to the care of man. The dogs
talked: the matterover and evidently decided that
the charity dog need not [come again. This is- a
conclusion arrived at from the fact that he did not
return. He left the boue he brought and did not
clean up the plate. .

Another case illustrating the Good Samaritan in
animals» is this; One morning I started out with

'the milk pail upon my arm. I heard Prince, the

horse, calling. He was calling me. He continued to
call and- 1” ran up to the pasture. He was stand-
ing at the gate. When I got to him- he turned and
lead me thru the brush to the other side of the
pasture where I. found his: mate astride a poplar

“ f and Pri ce could not help him.
. ' that I could. This is the transference 01.11115111-
’ gems from one nucleus to' another. '

    

‘ They renewed.

We have a catwhich was up stairs looking for

mice. She discovered some in a box covered by a .

board. She "canie‘down to the door and‘ scratched
and. mewed. When my' wife opened; the: dbor the
cat ran up the stairs again, stopped at; the-topxandz:
looked down andseemed: to say, "Come up; I want

help.” My wife understood‘ and followed the cat to ‘

the box, removed the cover, and the cat caught
three mice. Who will say that this cat did not rea-
son? Many of the horses, dogs, cats and other an-
imals, judged by their works, have more of His
spirit than men and women who advocate the de-
struction of one of these for the conservation of
another. They are interfering with God’s/ plan, the
balance of nature—John L. Curtis, Occana county.

WHY SHOULDN’T THE FARMERS JDIN THE
NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE?

I have been reading today about the Non-Partis-
an League. The movement seems to be spreading
like wildfire and the old line politicians are be—
ginning to stop, look and listen, in fact, are get?
ting mightily scared.

Now, what I want to know is this: Why should
not the farmers join the league if that is the only
way we can get our rights or what manifestly be-
longs to us? Isn’t it a shame thbat the farmers.
(who form about one-half our population) and
who produce 75 or 80 per cent. of all wealth are
producing and selling their goods about nine times
out of ten for less l‘nan cost of production? The
other fellows who are organized put a price on
their goods which covers 00st of production and
a reasonable profit. I ask all farmers to think of
this. In order to get 100 of the consumers’ dol-
lars you have got to deliver to your shipping sta—
tion $300 worth of your goods. isnt’s that H—~

If there is any harder work than farming I don't
know What it is unless it might be mining, but the
miners put in lees hours per day than do the far—
mere. Think of selling your labor and the fertil-
ity of your farm for 350 on the dollar and that is
What we are doing year in and year out. Is it
any wonder the boys are all leaving home for the
city? I have just offered a 15-year-old boy $30 per
with board and washing and that is more 1han I
can afford to pay. And it is more than he is worth,
based on what he could earn me. But no, he is
going to town and work in a. freight office and
there you are.

The goods 3. man produces 011 a farm will not
sell for enough (on the 350 basis) to make him the
wages he can get in town. The farm sales on all
sides of me last fall and this spring have increas-
ed fully 200'V.Ii‘.11111(>rs are getting lircrl of work-
ing for tl1at1‘10 dollar and are ,ari'rluu; up in dis-

gust. selling the old farm and guirgr- into other
businessrfiSee? Can you blame them 1’ We work a
year to get 1150. of the consumm":< dollar. but the
other fellows turn our growls ()VM‘ almost daily,
and get 65c of that some lln‘lur. ls flu-re any--
thing fair or right about this. but who is to

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Til-E BEAN Sl'l‘l'A"“0N

Now it seems funny in regard to the beans. If
you buy beans here out of the stores they cost you
$10 per 01111., and up. Across the straits of Macki-
naw they cost you $15 per cwt, but the farmer
who raises them cannot get $8. The one that pro-
duces an article should get a. fair recompense in-
stead of some exploiter making a hog of himself.
It’s a wonder to me that we are not thickly in-
fested with Bolshevists or Anarchists or I. W.
W.’s, or even anything, the way the farmer is
suppressed. The producer and the consumer are
held up and skinned to the quick. Why wouldn’t
they kick? We don’t like to work unless there is
a fair recompense in it. As we read the heading

of the fifth Liberty loan, we don’t mind giving-

two or three days for some benefit, but when it
comes to the point of giving half or better of what
you make to the exploiter and then pay a‘big in-
terest on money borrowed, it .is like a man on a
limb of a tree with a coon sawing'it off next to the
tree. He is liable to come down soon with Mr.
Coon. It is a hard proposition to face; it will get
you in time and not long. You are exploited all
through life, the first: place if your parents are
lucky enough to have the price and the undertak’
er is the one that gets a rake at you last—S. H.
8., Wemford county.

Mr. Lee, a. traveling. man, who hails fr0m De-
troit, claims the distinction of having visited the,
smallest town; met the smallest man and the
smallest wife; and received the” smallest order as

the smallest store,.—-a.nd. all. on. his first trip. The, ‘
order consisted; of five spools of. Coats’ thread. andi .
Tires, ‘

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amendment for the'use of the legisla-
ture to be spent on the highways of

y- , Michigan, I wish to say that I 'will

not vote for it, nor. do I see how any
taxpayer in the state can be expected
to support the measure. We are asked

to place fifty millions at the disposal

of the state law makers. We all know
the state legislature has not used the
people’s money with care or economy
in any sense of the word. Will sight

' one of their last acts as an example
‘ of their way of handling

the public
money. What I refer to is the law just
passed to keep the present constabu-
lai‘y which is not needed in anyway
whatever only to draw salaries from
$4,000 for Col. Vandercook, 5 captains
$2,000 each, 6 lieutenants $1.800 each;
all board, clothing. and expenses paid
and so on down the
whole row of the fifty or more officers
until the state taxpayers will have to
reach down in their pockets for about
3500.000 3. year. It. has been figured
out that the cost will be but a few
cent per $1,000 valuation but we know
that it will cost more. We also know

Jones pays the freight. All we are ask»

ed to do is to place the $50.000,000 at
their disposal and they will do the
rest. I am heartily in favor of the
best roads possible but don’t see how
the lawmakers of the state can expect
the taxpayers to place money at their

i disposal when they squander the pub—

lic’s money as they have done in the
past. By their fruits ye shall know
them. You will probably say your
forms are made up and you got this
too late for publication this week. If
so. and you don’t want the article in

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your paper just simply throw it in the
waste basket. Farmers and others, no
doubt, have the question already set-
tled in their minds how they are go-
ing to vote on the amendment and
this will not change their views.

When our public officials Spend their
money in a way that we get fairly
good returns for it we will vote them
all the funds they need. Your for good
roads, but under some other manage-
ment—J. B. Hummel, Mason, Mich.

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terns! '
. . , _ ..’W¢$fiisf8.en”‘ ?’
one ‘ of our Uni-ted States” sans. r

shall know the truth,. and that said
figures represent the Civil war debt,
and no other, therefore, .1 have ms f1

reason to doubt them, and. it ist‘not- j]
in“ my power to revise them. To”

avoid any misunderstanding I-“will

state that my aim is to getsall't‘he ' ‘

good roads possible, but Iam'n‘ot

in favor of helping to create a; debt .1

which, if possible, could be avoided. ‘

In the item I sent in last week 1
based my~figures at one and. one-
half million; that might be the auto
~tax each year. I pounded, 'so to

speak, on the bush for the rabbit ~to '

come out, and he did come out, in
M. B. F. in the issue ‘of March 22nd.

‘ in round fat figures, over three mil-

COuld the people ask
for anything better? Why should
We. borrow money when we, have
plenty on hand? Why not start work
at once, and set the» soldier boys at
work? By the time the three mil-
lions are exhausted the Federal gov-‘
ernment will step in with their three
million, which will keep the boll
rolling. _

It must'be immaterial to the Fed-
eral government whether the state
uses automobile tax money to build
roads or raises a fixed amount by
bonded debt. Bonded debts are
easily made, but not so easily paid.

I enclose a test case, showing how
millionaires play their cards to evade
etheir just share .of the taxes. This
was published in the LincolnFree
Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

lion a year.

“A decision of the utmost impor—
tance to the people was made a
short while ago. The defendant in
the case was the U. S. The plaintiff,
a woman, was an income tax payer
residing in California. The attorney

for -the plaintiff was Charles . E
Hughes. The Judge was Julius
Mayer. The action was to recover

$19,000 paid by the plaintiff as in—
come tax. The plaintiff owns Stand—
ard Oil stock, and the amount sought

to be recoveredgwas assessed upon
earnings of the stock.
“There was no denial that the-

stock had earned the income assess-
ed by the internal revenue collector,“
but—the corporation had not paid
the earnings in CA'SH. It had paid
the stock’s earnings in more stock:
therefore, Mr. Hughes contended
that the earnings of the stock were
not income, because not distributed
in the form of cash; and, Judge
Mayer decided that Mr. Hughes was
right and that the government must
return the $19,000 paid by plaintiff
as tax upon that part 'of the income
derived from Standard Oil stock and
paid to her in stock certificates,
which are not actual cash, but are
just as good as cash and can be con—
verted into cash in any' market in the
world.

“Do you comprehend what this
decision means? The plaintiff had
only a few thousand dollars at stake.
But the Rockefellers or the other
mum-millionaires have millions at
stake. The new income tax lawr pro—
vides that they shall pay a gradu-
ated percentage of their huge ' iin-
comes into the public treasury—but
they do not care to do it. To evade
the payment of millions of income
taxes, they pay (atleast now for a
while) the dividends in securities in-
stead of in cash. These securities or
stocks are negotiable. In other
words they may be sold for cash.
The same mum-millionaires (organs

ized capital) are now fighting Presi- ; '7

dent Wilson, because he insisted that
they shill carry the principal burden

profiteers, while our boys risked their,
lives. And now they seem to be able?
to evade even the. just taxatiop."{~
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Was ’glad to do so but for one year _

only at a time, that is I had to renew
each year; added a $40 bonus and a
$60 note I owed and made it out for
$400 even; could not pay this year be-
cause my bean crop failed; had -.to pay
a3,110ther $40 bonus and $28 interest, so

3370!). see it takes almost a payment to ..

keep interest up. Have come other
notes also and interest to pay on
them They have got me where I
Etand to less all I have. I could have
3taken $1, 000 for the. farm before the

“Mar, but can not sell now. They re- .

119w. a mortgage for only one year at
a time and I have to pay a $40 bonus
19".?” time, besides 7 per cent. inter
’ " I am in shape now if. I could get
,‘it for five—years I could pay out eas-

ily. Now I would like to knew if I can ..

make them do so through an incident
‘ that happened a short time ago. 3

My sou is a. school treasurer. The
school money is in this same bank and
they. hold the bonds the money was
borrowed on. The interest on said
bonds was due in August, amount
, He received no notice they were
due and forgot about it .. His bank
book showed $118 in the bank to his
credit. He gave the .‘teacher a check
for $50 and at once received notice
that his bank account was overdrawn
$4. He went at once to see why when
his; book showed $68 to his account.

, The cashier said they had signed a .

check for the interest as they did not
suppose he would care, He demanded
'ch’eck which was filled out with, type-
writer and his name signed to same.
Had they the right to do this - and
would it be right for us to use it to
make them give us a square deal?
'Our son is also part owner of the land.
We want a chance to pay what we
honestly cure and can do so if they
will give us'a chance. They have al-

, so signed checks to make paymentson
patrons.—- .

Liberty bonds for their

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The transaction with the bank by
which'they take 7% interest and a

'bonus of $40 amounts to usury and

the mortgagor would only be required
to pay just the principal originally
borroWed less all payments made. The
«bonus charged would not be a part 'of
the principal. As I take it the orig-
inal amount borrowed-was $300 and
”certain payments have been made in

cash. All of these payments will, be 3

deducted from the $300 and the court
will find the balance due if they under-
take to foreclose. Mortgagor should,
however, consult a good lawyer in
this matter.

”,The bank has no right to sign the
treaSurer’s name to a check but the
general rule is that the bank would
have the right to charge up to a fund
in their possession a debt owing to
them from the owner of the fund.
Were the check used‘upon any'other
iund it would be forgery but no rights
would be gained in this matter as the
bank can destroy the check and still
charge the school district for the bond
‘if the money was money from which
the bond could be paid, It would be a
criminal offense to threaten another
withprosecution or arrest to make
him do something he would not other-
‘wise have done. The better position
would be to refuse to pay the loan and
let them commence foreclosure.
ldesires he may file a bill and obtain a
settlement on the basis of paying 5%
- est and» no bdnus; or, of paying»

and to a iriémi who was a bank clerk, ,
. E, or the sum of $300 to be paid back in

fe'r'to pay the original ”amount not in:

cluding the minus, less all payment
made whether made as payments on
interest or principal. —-W. E. Brown,
legal editor. '

 

' - CHANGE OF SALARIES

Is it legal to change the salary of,
for example, an undersherifl’.‘ or pro-
bate register during the term or of-
fice of the sheriif or the probate judge?
Our prosecuting attorney. last year

'advised' our board of supervisors that
‘ a change of salary of deputies could be

made at any time as they were only in
office at will of principal Officer, but
this decision 'dOes not seem to me to
agree with the section in Constitution
submitted now for amendment ..——J G. .
B.,Avoca,M1‘ch.

I am of the opinion that undersher-

-iff, probate register and that class of

employees‘are not f‘omcers” within the

m-
: The; upr- 111 Court held that the po- .
sition of chief clerk in the office of the

assessor or the city of Detroit was not
an “moor" In that case they dis-
tinguisn between an “officer” and an
“employee. ” I am of the opinion that
such persons come under the head of

“employees” and not
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

“officers.”—

POINTS ABOUT THE DRAIN LAW

I would like to have you answer the

following questions through the col“

umns of your paper:

1. How can I compel the drain com-
mission to have a drain completed ac-
cording to specifications when the con-
tract was given?. The drain was to be
completed by November 1918 and it is
not done yet according to specification
and some not at all

2. Do I have to keep my farm open
till such time as they see fit to flu
ish said drain?

3. Do I have a right to put my
fence on right-of-way .of a drain ?1—
Joe Murray, Brown City, Mich.

The Drain Law provides (39) that

power to grant ”a rose 1"

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of time 101' the completion of.
If he acts reasonably and: W
cording to his best Judgment it is my
opinion that you can not, max-31311,
with his exercise oi! that discre‘tion.’_

Should he act unreasonably and with- -’ '

out discretmn I am of the opinion that
he would be liable on his bond for-
any damage that occurs; and I am al-
so of the opinion that he may be com-
pelled to act as he ought to act by
mandamus. The commissioner would
be bound to see that the drain Was
completed according to specifications
and I am of the opinion that he would

be liable on hisbond'if he neglected

to have the work so done.

You could build your'fences on the
right-of—way if it does not interfere
with the right of way so as to injure
the drain or interfere with the cen-
struction.—-W. E. Brown, legal editor. -

1 received a sample copy of the M. B.
F., and am well pleased with it, so am
enclosing a dollar bill for one year’s sub-
scription —Ford Shenefield, Arenac coun-

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and rattles.

the hardest service.

the roughest roads.

 
   
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
 

The frame of the Essex is as strong as a

Road strains do not affect it in the slightest;
consequently, the Essex is free from squeaks

There, isno weaving or twisting of the radi-
ator. The Essex remains rigid and firm under
Every wearing part is
adjustable as' well as’ being well lubricated.
The Essex retains its newness.

Just ask any of the tens of thousands who
have ridden in the Essex and who are so
enthusiasticin their praise of it to describe
how substantially and quietly it rolls over even

How often motorists, particularly those with
light weight cars, have driven miles out of their
way to avoid a stretch of bad road, because of
the torture to themselves and to the car.

But the Essex is affected by no such abuse.

The Essex Stays New

admiration.

cars.

Detr01 t. ,

Its spring suspension is unusual and effeotive.
Its construction is so solid that even the rough-
est cobblestonc pavements are passed over
with an case that has created the greatest

Its friends declare the Essex has no equal in
easy riding quality regardless of the size,
weight or cost of the car.

When will you take your ride in the Essex?

Any dealer will show you how and why the
Essex rides so easily, performs so well and
retains its quiet and rigid qualities.

And you will see also a performance of lil
acceleration, speed and power that is com— ll

'parable only to the highest powered costly

Think how rare these qualities are, even in
cars costing much more than the Essex, which
in the five-passenger model sells at $1395 f. o. b.

   

   
      
    

     

  

 
 
 
 
     
       
       
    
   

   
      
    
     

 
 
      
  
  
 
      
       
       
     

 
      
        
     
     
       
 
       
         
       
       
        
      
       
       
      

  
 
 
 


 

 

  

 
 

 

 

GRADE Detroit IChicago N. Y.
No. .2 Red. . 2.65 2.50 . 2.51
No. 3 Red..

No, 2 White. 2.58 2.47 ‘2.”
No. 2 Mixed. 2.53 2.47 2.48

 

The week has witnessed additional
advances in most of the grains.
Wheat has been especially active.
most of the mills are again in opera-
tion, but many of them are having
extreme difliculty getting supplies.
Some primary markets are totally
without Wheat for several days at a
time. The stocks in the hands of
farmers are pretty well exhausted so

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' little trading.
“particularly, is making desperate ef—
’ toms: to move its surplus crop.. It is

premium prices until the new crop
comes on the market. The scarcity
of wheat and the advancing prices
reminds me of a conversation I‘ had
last January with several gentlemen
on a train. None of us knew the
others at the beginning of the talk,
but just about five minutes before
the train reached Detroit we dis-
closed our several identities. The
three gentlemen were all millers and,
of course, they had the millers’ view-
point. They were emphatically de-
claring that the government would
lose an enormous .amount on its
wheat guarantee. “But how do you
explain that?” I asked. “There
won’t be enough of the 1918 crop to
fill the demand.” At which they
laughed in chorus and proceeded to
show me that 1918 wheat was al-
ready a glut on the market. I don’t
know whether they are still of the
same mind or not.

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago . Y.
No. 2 Yellow 1.80%
No. 3 Yellow 1.65 1,56 1.80
No, 4 Yellow 1.62 1.59 1.78

 

 

The speculators are looking for a
decline in corn as usual. But the
argentine grain has either not yet
been loaded or has been lost at sea,
for it hasn’t yet been seen on the
American markets. The hog price
is well sustained, and so long as that
condition continues, high corn prices

, will rule.

 

 

 

GRADE ‘ Detroit lChicago N. Y.
Standard .. .70 .70 .79
No. 3 “’hite. .701/2 .69 .78
N0. 4 ‘VlliteJ 1391/2! .68 76

 

 

Oats have been showing strength
quite independent of corn the past
week 0 rten days, and is quoted on
the Detroit market at 71 cents for
standard.

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Rye and 'Barley are both a little
higher. The Detroit market on rye

.is around $1.71 per bushel and on
'barley, $2.15@$2.25 per cwt.

 

 

éGRADE Detroit IChieago 291.. 5:.
(l. H. P.. . . . 7.50 730 " :00
Prime . . . . 6.75 7:00 31.25
{Bed ICidne 10.25 11.00 .75

 

 

 

 

 

 

; There h‘ave been no recent hovel-s
opments in the bean deal, and very
The west, California

, stigma that: there arehoé‘ver $000,200

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All grains firm; wheat, oats, rye higher. Beans inactive. Po-
tatoes and onions continue to advance; Detroit still good market.
Poultry firm and higher. Eggs firm. Butter easy. Dressed calves “
T f and hogs firm and slightly higher.

 

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bags of the 1916 and 1917 been

crop and a similar amount 011918

crop still on hand in California to
sell. Most of these beans, however,
are of the Lima or pink variety which
never have competed to any great ex-
tent with the Michigan variety. The
California Bean Growers’ Ass’n has
opened an office in New York City
for the purpose of getting'in closer
touch with the export situation and
possibly finding an outlet for the do-
mestic surplus.

As we go to press representatives
of the bean growers and jobebrs of
Michigan are holding a conference
in Detroit to discuss the bean situ-
ation and lay plans for co—operation
in the planting and marketing of
the present year’s crop. The results
of this meeting will be given in a
later issue.

We urge our readers to read care—
fully the article on page 5, by “Wm.
Luther.” It will give you a much
better .idea of the world bean situa-
tion and may restore your confidence
in the future of the market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark is No. 1 Standard No. 2
. Timothy Timothy Timothy 1
Detroit 3450 35003350 34003250 3300
Chicago 31 00 321.00 30 00 3! 00 2900 30 00
Chi-anti 3650 31500360. 0650 M 36-00
Pittsburgh 34 50 '35 00 3300 34005100 ”'00
Now'York 4100 410040“ “503900 40.”
Richmond
No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
M"‘"" LightMixed Clmmma Clover
Detroit 33 so 34 00 32 50 33 oo 29 oo 30 00
Chicago 29 oo 30 00 21 on 29 oo 25 oo 27 00
Cincinnati 34 so 35 so 33 so 34 so 30 oo 31 00
Pittnbnrth 32 oo 33 00 33 oo 34 oo 31 50 32 00
' New York 39 ‘00 4o 00 37 .oo 38 no 33 no 33 £00
Richmond
Markets are very strong this week

with further advances in values re-
ported from a number of cities, espe-
cially in the East and South. 'The
Western markets seem to have reach-
ed the top, at least they. are holding
pretty close to the price level of the
past two weeks. Supplies of hey are
small at all markets and there is a.
closing up in values as the trade has
been compelled to turn to the lower
qualities on account of the shortage
of top grades. The condition of coun-

try roads has restricted the move-~

ment of hay and loading. is small.
Available supplies are probably be-
low normal because of the large gov-
ernment consumption both here and
in Canada, but since November this
has been rapidly decreasing. It is
stated this week that Shed’25 in Mon-
treal will shortly close down, which
means a further reduction in the de-
mand for recompressed hay. Present

high prices will bring out larger sup- .

plies although as soon as the weather
permits farm operations will begin in
earnest and until planting is complet-
ed the movement will be restricted.—
Hay Trade Journal. '

   

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white-sk'd szrslk“

D trolt , 2.30 cwt. o .
Chicago 1,90 cwt. 1.90 cwt.
Cincinnati 2.25 cwt. 2.15 cwt.
New York 2.50 ewt. 2.40 ewt.
Pittsburgh 2.25 cwt. 2.20 ewt.

 

 

as it we’ll have to
the Cedar Springs
farmer who made a wager that pots-
toes would go to $2 before May 16th.
The market has steadily advanced in
all sections the zlaat two weeks and

It begins to look
pay our bet with

there "is no sign of a slump. Ship-
ments are slowly on the decrease.
Tuesday, April 15th, only 373 cars

were reported. The exports of old
stock to South America and the Indies
more than offset the imports from
Canada. .

The Chico-go Produce News, which
has proclaimed for the last three
months that the spring market would
be .a declining one seems to have
changed its mind, for in its ‘April 12
issue, we read:

“The market is much firmer. Every-
thing trom the country indicates that
the old crop is pretty well cleaned up.
The roads have been in bad shape and
farmers, even if they were 50 disposed,
have been unable to haul heavily.
Every indication is for a strong mar-
ket all the way, through to the end of
the season. There is a better trade
from the South and. Southwest be-
cause there is no new stock coming

 

 

Foster's Weather Chart for
3', . .
Severe

Severe

..WASHINGTON, D. C.,
1919.—-Last bulletin gave .forecasts of
warm wave to cross,'eontinent April
18 to 22, storm wave 19 to '23, cool
wave 20 to 24. These storms are ex-
pected 'to the adults severe and .to be at
their greatest force near A rll 20. The
warmest week of April wll center on
20 and temperatures will continue 'to
average high to .end of month. Rain-
fall will be generally deficient to end
of April but a few heavy local rains,
not easy to locate, are expected from
the severe stems. General cropwearh-
er only ,fair.

Next warm waves
acouver about April as and 276 audits
peraurres will rise on sill the {Pool c
slope. They will cross crest of Rockies
by close of April 22 and 27, plains sec-
tions ‘23 and'28, meridian 90. great
lakes, middle Gulr‘fitetzes and ©th-
Tennesaee valleys 2‘4 and '29. «cameras:
sections 25 and 80.nreaching vicinity
of Newfoundland about 26 and May 1.
Storm waves will ‘follow about one

  

 

 

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

 

April 19.

will reach N; 'n— '

   
  

cool

day behind warm waves and
storm

waves about one day behind
waves.

This storm will be a continuation of
the weather conditions described in
first paragraph above:-

Raint’all for May will not be well
distributed. Some small sections will
get too much rain While large sections
will not get enou h. Greatest storms
and most rain wil be near May 3, 17
and 30. The storms will be moderate-
ly severe near May 3. very severe near
May 17 and very dangerous near May
30, Look out for tornadoes and local
floods with the last storms of Map].
You should be on the alert and keep
to the tornado

the w clear enroute
cave i you live in the great central
valleys. (particularly if you are near

latitude 40. Lives and property may
be saved if you heed this warning.
Don’t go boat riding about that time,
nor on any kind of excursions.

While I am not now publicly advis-
ing about buying and selling farm pm-
.hen declared. Now is the time to pne-
ducts readers of this paper, who as
.sintcrestejd. can hear from me private-
3m I expect a very great changedn
. so matters soon after peace
been declared. Now is the time to gt:-

are dor that ' eat change in all .,
guess affairs ‘ America and Eurcpe.

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' reduced price, ’is immune.

 

   

hormrdrthat ‘therefiiusuaily is at this

time 01 the year. The planting in the, , .
South is extremefly light because ‘of '-
heavy rains. Every advice from ‘the -
country is of a bullish nature and tar- '

*mers claim there are no potatoes let‘s.

However, shipments are fairly heavy
and receipts are fair. There has been ,
a good movement to keep the tracks f ,'
clear.” , *

And the Packer has this to say:

“The fact that the (trade, has" taken
the unusually heavy shipments of the
last two weeks indicates something of
the demand that has prevailed. The
call from all outside sections has been f
active and operators do not anticipate
a let-up 1n the requirements; on the
other hand a decrease in the daily av-
erage movement from producing sec-
tions is expected to develop very soon
as ‘the supply of stock in many sec-
tions has been drawn upon quite heav-
ily during the last month or so. With
the old stock about two months yet to
run, and ,the Southern produculon
shortand late, the potato interests
here say they look for a steadily rad-
vancing market to prevail from now
on, with only now and then a tem-
porary lull. By the close of the pres-
ent week the total carlot movement of
the crop of 1918 will be within about
7,500 cars of the entire movement of
the preceding crop when the estimated
production was about 52,000,000 "bush-,
els greater. In this connection, how-
ever,’ it must be taken into considera-
tion that the present season has, been
decidedly favorable ‘for the safe har-
vest and movement of potatoes and
the loss from freezing has been only a
fraction of the loss,sustained a year
ago.”

Reports from extreme western po-
tato growing states declare that their
supplies will be exhausted before the
new crop and that they will have to
import enough tor their own needs.

All .in all, the potato situation is
very encouraging and ,we think no
farmer will make a mistake in bold-
ing the tow spuds'that may remain in
his hands until well along to the last
of May. ,_ -

 

_No change in the market. Supplies
are heavy but ‘consumption quickly 'ab-
sorbs them. Prices run from 40% to
43c.

  
 

New York Butter Letter

New York, April 12, 1:919.———Ind'l-
V-cations of the close approach of
spring have caused dealers to be
more than anxious to keep' their
stocks well cleaned up. As a result
the market has been keenly sensi-
‘tive and factors which ordinarily are
considered of no cohsequenco have
caused the price of butter to fluctuc
ate. Reports from butter producing,

A .sections show that the make is grad—

nally‘ Increasing and it is expected
that the next two weeks may" bring
.iorth a market of 'a very diflerent
complexion. 'While receipts during
the week have shown an increase of
about 1,100 tubs over those of last
week, Mend has just about equal-
xled supply and stocks have cleaned
up well. Loom consumption
.tlnues good and there has been con-
siderable export buying which has
had the usual eflect of keeping pric-
es high. It is thought that exporters
would have been more active had it
been possible to secure shipping
space, :but :at the present time than ‘
.is a scarcity of ships for itemize
was which acts .as a barrier .to in-
cneased shipments abroad. Unleu
more ships are available when the ._
hush 01, production arrives, a greatly

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Of a World without a Seam.

Man being one, as God is One,
Brother’s brother and Father’s son,
All earth, all Heaven, without a seam I"

"SHALL WE HAVE A LEAGUE OF CHURCHES? »

.. ONE OF the very important questions before
‘ us this Easter season, is that, of. a union of
all churches. The war. has taught us
many things, and not the least among them is
the fact that in the great things of life, the cris-
is, we must stand together if we would win that
which is right, At the battle front, creed was
forgotten; priest and rabbi, together with chap—
lains, ministers and Y. M. C. A. workers, asked
’ not of a soldier what his creed. They‘simply
ministered to their wants as man to man—they
“did unto their brother as they would be done
unto,” and men who never before thought of re-
ligion began to feel that there must besome—
, thing in it; men who never attended a religious
. service at home went to' the Y huts’to hear those
men who represented the best we have in our
religious life, and they heard, not creed, .but
straight heart to heart, but right from the shoul-
der, talks. Stripped of all 'its tinsel. life and
the worth—while things lay before these men.
Now they come home! Are we going to wran-
gle‘over which church shall claim them until
they, disgusted with the whole thing,
their way, outside the influence which might
alter the Whole tenor of their lives? It’s a big
question which must be answered along with
the other questions regarding reconstruction. ‘
And after all. there are only ten “thou shalt
not’s” in the Bible laid down by our Heavenly
Father. The rest are all just creed. And why
not let creed slip into the background, if in so
doing we shall reach millions of men, yes and
womentoo, who have chafed under the yoke of
dogma. What does it matter after all when the
big things of life face its—.when death stares us
in the face whether we dance for pleasure,
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HOME N EEDLE \VORK

HIS SECTION is proving
very popular among our
readers. This week we
have secured a dainty
yoke design, of which 0
one-half is shown. 1t 0
is made especially for
the oval—shaped night- 0
gown, the smaller de—
,sign being designed for
the top of the sleeves.
‘ 0n the cotton g0wn,
work it in eyelets and
satin stitch, but if you
are going to make your
very f‘best silk night-
ie,” then I would sug-
gest that French knots
_and loop stitches
b e substituted
for the eyelets

and satin stitch.

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sleeve edges are Q
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binding of the
material or of
silk. This same
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led, and whether we read our prayers or com-
pose them ourselves? ,

It all churches were merged,what a power
for good they would be._ Then the smaller min-
isters, those who are not fitted to preach and
never|were, could earn their living at other
work and the really big preachers could be di-
‘vided so that all localities could have a’ leader
in their religious work, one who was big enough
to meet all, the problems of the community. It’s
a vision, but it’s coming closer. ,Shall we have

“THE COAT WITHOUT A SEAM?"

MUSIC IN THE HOME

CHILD’S musical taste is formed in the

home, therefore great care should be ex-

ercised that the right kind of musical in-
fluence is exerted.

“But,”_ you remonstrate, “I have no time to
keep in practice, and we cannot afford to let one
ten er twelve-year-old Julia take lessons from
a music teacher.” '

It is non-at all necessary that the child take
music lessons to learn to play and love the very
best music. If you, yourself can read music, it
will be a very simple matter to teach the child
to play. You ,need not even go to the expense
of an instruction book'if a hymn book is at
hand. .

At first the very simplest hymns should be se-
lected, such as “Work for the Night is Coming,”
“No, Not One.” The child will loveto learn to
play songs that he can sing. And what finer
songs are there than hymns? -

The first step is to teach the names of the

keys. Begin with middle C, and teach him to
locate all the C’s on the keyboard. Then take
D, and have him find all of the D’s on the key-
board, and so On with the rest of the scale. '
As soon as he is thoroughly familiar with the
keys he is ready to learn to read the written
rinsic. In teaching the daughter of a dear
friend to play hymns by this method, I found it
helped to letter the notes in the first hymn se-
lected to learn. At first teach the treble all
alone, then the treble and bass together. If the
child has a desire to learn, you will be
amazed to 'see how quickly he will be
I playing the more difficult hymns. And
| after the most difficult hymns are mas-
‘. tered. If. it is impossible to let him take
music lessons it will be possible for him
' to go on with other music with occas-
‘ ional help. '

It is a good idea to insist that the

‘ .child play whenever called upon to do -

\ so. Home singing with the whole fam-_
\ ily gathered about the organ or piano,
teaches the child to be self-confident and
soon he will be able to play at Sunday

\ school or Young Peoples’ meetingsif
\ called upon. While it is very desire-

\ able that the child take musicles-

\ sons, still, if that is impossible,

\ the above outlined plan will

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.urable enjoyment from music, and What mimic _'
gives more Quiet enjoyment; manifhead} Kindly;
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'SEEN IN’ CITY snoPs

MONG NEW materials or rather revived
materials, is moire, and there is much to‘bé ‘.
said in favor of this, silk. It does. not crush ,
easily and it outwears both taffeta. p Whole suits
and separate skirts are" being shoWn, and the
only objection to it is its price, but'the clever 5
woman who makes her own clothes ean devise a:
very attractive suit for summer of this -._very
And with the moire suits and _,
skirts, are worn the dull black leather pu‘inp's ‘
With the large buckles, (both sui‘sland buCklest
so old that they are new. . ' s. '
Then for dresses dots are once more popular...
Both small and large, in foulards and-scott’ons,'
they are daunting their shapes'to' beW‘ilder the '
eyesight. Some very 'clever- conceits-‘are'being;
worked out, combining the dotted materials with’
a solid color to match the background of the
dotted goods, using the-plain cloth _for the
underskirt, (which is still too tight tobe com—.
.fortable), and using; the dotted material for
the short overskirrt, and bOdy of the VWaist.

HOUSEHOLD ~ HINTS

UST A few helpful hints to busy women. In

washing dishes have water over edit will

be hot and lots of it. ,. Use a large dish pan
with a suds, and a drainer, a, toaster over a drip-
ping pan will do. Nowluse another dishpan-
clear hot water to immerse each dish as it
comes from suds, and place on drainer, having
drainer at the left, except knives, forkshand
spoons, dishes do not need wiping, a big item to
a busy woman. .. Much more sanitary too. How!
many women wash all the dishes,_then find they
have a quart of water to turn over the backs
of the dishes, and call them rinsed. -

Soak peas, beans, cabbage, etc., seed over
night in soft water. Onion seed put on a little.
screen Or a wire' sieve or tea strainer'and boil— ’
ing water turned over for a minute will split the
shell and they sprou‘t alm’ost while yOu are look-
ing at them. ‘

Watering all plants with rain water or water ‘
from roles—I get mine along the road—warmt
will germinate the seeds in no time. Have had
peppers and celery, which usually takes three
weeks, come up in eight 'days.

Use a potato sprayer with kerosene in it to
keep lice out of a chicken coop. The roosts
should be all on a level and so made to be set
out and a new set placed once a week in warm
weather. By having two sets you can spray re- »
moving droppings and place new set (that has
stood out doors a week) in 20 minutes. Then
if. nests are frequently changed bottomless
boxes are best, no lice are seen. If cedar can
be used around coop it‘is—flne. Ha‘ve roosts of
small cedar poles if possible.

Will ‘A Subscriber’ who wrote “Some Good
Philosophy” in bet. 26th issue, please send me
her name and address at once?~——Mrs. M. C.,
Thompsonville, Mich., R. 2.

 

 

Ltssofis , IN HOME cooxmc

(Conducted by-Miss “Uzavbeth Matheson, of the Val-
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Orange Marmalade

The following recipe will make from fifteen
to eighteen jelly glasses of marmalade:

The perfect orange marmalade islight amber
in color and ‘as tender in texture .al a good jelly.
Follow directions carefully and ‘you will beam-
ply repaid for the‘labor involved. ' _,

Take one orange, one lemon, and one grape}; ,
fruit. Squeeze out all thejuioe,‘ butdihcard any -, 7
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84 inches Waist measure. To make the
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third':day slowly bring to the boiling
point again, and boil
minutes, or until the juice is well
clarified. Then add an equal measure
ment of sugar, bring back quickly to
the boiling point and in about three

minutes a bit of the mixture cooled.

should, “jelly." Pour into steiilized
glasses and let cool. When cold, put
paraflin over top to seal.

The scientific part of making this
marmalade is one of the most inter-
esting phases of cookery. What is
true of this lesson istrue of all ejlly

, making.

To make a jelly there must be pres-

ent an acid, pectjin, and sugar. The
acid is easily‘accounted, for g in the
fruits used in this marmalade. The

pectin iS‘a substance found in various
iruits,and some vegetables and is what

“‘jellies" upon the addition of the sug-

ar. The ideal fruits for jelly-making
contain both the acid and pectin in the
correct proportion; but some may lack
either property, and hence we combine
various ujiccs.

The whites of “the skins of the lem-
on, orange and grapefruit contain
plenty of pectin, which accounts for
the use of the skin. The water is add
ed and the fruit stands the long per—
iod of time simply to draw out all the
pectin possible.

In a great many cases this pectin is
not available for jelly making until
after cooking. I cannot explain why
this is if it is a mere statement of a
fact.

Before adding the sugar to the juice
I would advise taking just a little ex-
tra. trouble and making the scientific
test for pectin. Take a little of the
boiling juice, say about two teaspoon-
fuls, and put into a small dish, or hot-
tle or test tube. Add an equal quan-
tity of alcohol and if pectin is present
a jelly will form, the firmness of
which indicates the quantity of pec-
tin present.

If a good result is obtained do not
hesitate to add the sugar and proceed
as rapidly as in jelly making

If a good result cannot be obtained
at the test, I’d add the skin of an-
other lemon or orange and let stand
another period of time to draw out
that pectin. But I certainly would not
add the‘ sugar before I was able to
make good test.

Do not boil the juice and sugar too
long. Three or four minutes ought to
bring, the jelly and too long boiling
the sugar with an acid, splits up the
sugar into other sugars not quite as
sweet and an entirely different pro-
duct results, and the, touch dark col-
ored product which results k far
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pQOLER FOR DRINKING \VATER

We have a gxavity watei system
with a pipe running to a faucet in the
kitchen But in summer the water got
so warm that it was not fit to drink,
and we had to carry fresh water from
the well in buckets. That was before
we made the simple cooler described
below.

We procuredptwenty feet of half
inch gal-'anized iron. pipe, and bent it
into 21 (mil by wrapping it tightly a-
bout a five galloncream can. Both
ends] were left straight, the bottom
one for two inches, which is later

connected to a faucet, and the upper

one for a foot to run through the cor-
ner of the house, and each at a right
angle with a tangent of the coil. The
top pipe ends on the side. opposite that
of the bottom end.

An old ten gallon cream can was
then deprived of its cone shaped top,
and the coil placed inside, with holes
for the pipe ends. Two strips of wood
were slipped in between the sides of

, the can and the pipe, to hold it snug-

ly, and the two holes soldered water
titht. .

In one corner of the kit,chen a shelf
two feet from the floor, was made of

. svood and the cooler placed on it after
’ — a hole hhd been bored thru the wall

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was ‘ .. then huiltlf‘rbe.

to support a pail under the faucet.

A brass faucet was then screwed on-
to the outlet end of the ,pipe, and the
pipe running to the faucet in the kit-
chen direct from the supply tank, con-
nected to the inlet pipe projecting

‘ through the wall.

This about completed the device. A.
cover for the ,top was cut from the bot-
tom oi' an old wash tub slightly larger
than the diameter of the can, .and the
edge out at regular‘intervals, and the
edge bent over, to fit.

When paint was applied to the tank
and supports, it.had rather a neat ap«
pearance, and we would not do with-
out it for anything.

' so so iisupport to take a dish
. to catch the water from the ice as it ‘
melted and it extended out far enough ‘

- strip of. light strap irou was placed a

m e'
th ore pipe soldered in. is,
ried oftthe water as fast as it- far.
into the dish on the second shelf.

To hold it in place and to pre
the breaking of the soldered joints, fa

round the bottom of the tank and t
ends screwed to the wall

In winter, this ma: be removed by
simply unscrewing the connections,
and a cork placed in the hole through“
the wali.———Dale R. VanHorn, Nebras:
ka. 'v

Mistress—“How does it happen,
Mary, that you never saw finger bowls
before? Didn’t they use them in your
last place? ‘

Mary—“N0, marm,
washed themselves before they came
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The Comfort of the Grant Six is as

‘Pronounced as its Economy

, You should have a comfortable motor car.

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Without real comfort you ‘

sacrifice half the pleasure of motor car ownership and it's the best half. There

is no substitute for comfort.

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So, because it is a pronounced feature of the Grant Six directly traceable
to its unique spring suspension, we invite your special attention to this virtue

of the Grant Six.

We know of no other light car that rides so easily.

Owners continually

impress this point on their friends. Friends are equally quick to comment on it.

Thus the Grant Six enjoys a unique reputation as an exceedingly com-
fortable car that is as well earned and well deserved as its splendid reputation

for economy.

It is possible to explain the great advantages in engineering terms, but no
explanation can be half so eloquent or convincing as a ride in the Grant Six.

Make a point to get that ride.

As to economy we simply point to the fact that though this is a six-cylinder
car. with overhead valve motor, with full seating capacity for five passengers.
owners average 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline. 900 miles to the gallon of

oil and 7000 miles to the set of tires.

And these are average records.

Many do even better.

Some exceed the

average records by twenty to thirty per cent.

The Grant Six is a model of sturdincss. style and good finish.

pletely equipped.

lt is com-

From these five styles felect your;

Five-Passenger Touring Car $1120 -——Roadster $1120— —Coupe $1625
All-Weather Sedan $1645—Demountable Sedan 31400
All Prices F. O. B. Cleveland ’

GRAN T TRUCKS

are _now built in 1800' lb.. “/2 tons, Z'tons and 3% tons capacities. All are ’
electrically started and lighted. ~All are completely equipped—and all are
priced at figures that mean most truck value for every dollar.

Write for descriptive literature on passenger
cars. trucks or boil: and name of nearest dealer.

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EAR CHILDREN: We received
‘ ' such a-lot‘ of letters besides the
stories of the great men, whose
picture was the third in the list of ten
great men in our guessing contest. We
have room for only part of those let-
tors, and. will also print some of the
letters sent in by children who did not
enterthe contest; then we have a
pretty little poem which is familiar to
some of us already, but which Was-
sent in by Kilburn Parsons, of Caro,
Michigan, together with a free hand
drawing of the pussy'wiilow. Our art-
ist has redrawn this pussy willow and
it is a pretty little poem for all of
you to memorize. _

Now just a few more instructions
before we have another great man's,
picture next week. i am sure that it
15-». much better plan for you to look
up all the history of these men and
tell me than for me to tell you as you
will then learn something which you
will not easily forget, but I wish you
would tell the story in your own
words. And remember, if you did not
start at the beginning and even
though because of that you can’t hope
to win a prize, you will learn a lot
about our great men, so that this con-
test should be of interest to all.

And now the D00 Dads are teasing
for the rest of the space on this page,
so I won’t write a long letter this
week, but just before I close want to
tell you that when the contest is all
ended I have a surprise for the win-
ners, aside from the prizes promised,

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so. work ham. orb-these faces and con1
suit. your teachers, your parents or so
to the school library, because they are =

, all famous m‘em but. some of: them: we

hear solmuch moreof than others.
Affectionately yours; “Lactate.”

 

‘ Dear Laddie—I think the picturein the
M. B. F. was Thomas Edison. He is the
world’s greatest inventor. He invented
the electric, light in 1879. The next year,
1880, he built an electric car which he
used for a‘ while at‘ Menlo Park, New
Jersey, where he then lived. Later on Mr;
Edison took up a small top which shbWed
a‘ few pictures in motion the size of
postage stamps. He greatly improvedthat
toy and'out of it, in 1895, he produced the -
moving pictures which we know so well.
When some Indians in Colorado went to
see Edison’s pictures of a fast train, the
sight was too much for them. They jump-
ed up with a yell and ran wildly out of

’the hall; for there, directly facing them,

they saw— the engine coming straight at
them at a speed of a mile a minute. The
Red men felt sure that if they had kept
their seats a few seconds longer, they
would all have been dead Indians. But
for all these things, Mr. Edison’s favorite
invention was the phonograph. I will have
to close, hoping to see this in print.—
Fern Dennis, Greenville, Mich.

Dear Laddie~—I think the picture in the
M. B. F. on the Children’s hour page is
Thomas A. Edison, a well-known invent-
or. When he was in school he was very
poor and also very poor in his studies.
He was sent home as being too occupied
to learn anything. When he was six years
old he was found one day sitting on some
geese eggs trying to hatch them, When
he was ten years old he had a laboratory
with two hundred bottles of different li-
quids. He said he did not know what he
had in them but he wrote out two hun-

.dred'poison labels and put one on each

bottle. When he was fourteen he had his
printing press on a train. His paper was
the first daily ever printed on a moving
train. He also had a laboratory on this

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train but. one day some intro-glycerin
exploded; the conductor boxed hisears
and at the next station threw both the
boyeand his-printing'press om When the
conductor boxed his ears,. it. made Edi-
son dcaf‘ ' (i he is a little deaf to this
day ,He t on invented something that:
the Union Telegraph people wanted. He
was offered $40,000 for it. He accepted.
the. offer. After, receiving his check he
went to the bank and presented it. The
people at‘ the bank asked: him if he want—1
ed it insmall money. He said that he did
and wanted to know if the check was any-
good. They gave him the money and sent
a detective after him to see that he got
home without being robbed, Mr. Edison
is 72- ears old now and works from 15
to 20 ours out of every 24. He says he
only needs four hours for. recreation. I’
am 14 are of age and in the 8th grade.
——~Mona ell Sechlar, Homer. Mich.

 

Dear- ‘LaddieogThe-last picture in M. B.‘

F. was Thomas A. «Edison and the follow-
ing is his- biography: Thomas A; Edison
was born at Milan, Erie county, Ohio,
February 11,.1847. He came from a
hardy and industrious stock, but owing

to. the limited means of. his parents his,

education was sparing. He never at-
tended schoolr more than two months. His
father taught him to- read and write. Be’-'
fore he was 12 years old he became train
boy on the Grand Trunk railroad between
Detroit and Port Huron, Mich., and dur-
ing this time he became an expert tele—
graph operator. He traveled from city to
city learning all he could about it. He
has invented many different articles use—
ful to mankind, the Madza. light, the day~
light rival, phonograph and other electric
articles. He is known as the electric wiz-
ard. He is a great reader and on his trips
he always takes his favorite books with
him. He employs many men in his fac-
tory but he will not employ one who
smokes cigarettes. His home is in Or-
a‘nge, N. J. His age is about 72 years.——-
Elizabeth Marvin, .Holton, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I wrote to you last week
and I was so glad that I got it right and
I thought. this week it was Thomas A.,

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Edison that. you had for the puzzle.
form

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boy: H‘s-rosette be-a; flag;

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Among his great inventions were - '
Duplex telegraph; our talking machine;

and that great invention which all we
young folks~ like' so much, the moving'pic-
turn. During” this present! great win" he
was—called upon byv'our'president‘ to give
of his great knowledge for the benefit of

our- go
1' arm 10 years old and in the

We . keep five h

vermnent which he did? Willingly.
3rd grade-
at‘ school; I‘ hire on a. farm- or 160 acres;
. 20 head of cattle;

oases,
about 60 chickens which I have to feed
most of: the time. My. papa gave me a calf
last summer. She is getting his now and!

I will soon have 3». 00w.

II have thrown,

brothers; one of them is with the Ameri-
can army- in Germany: I think he will be

back soon.
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The Children‘s _Hour,
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This is the first time there ever
was a moving picture show in the
Wonderland of D00, and what 3. won-
deriul show it is, It is being held
in a. hollow log. Dashing Dick, the
Cowpuncher, and Charlie Chaplin
are on the program. Smiles, the
Clown, is at the door. A drop of hot
wax from the candle has hit. him in

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everybody keeps good order. The ad-

’mission is one hazelnut. See the
long line of Doo Dads waiting toget
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tle rogue on the knoll. He is mim-
icing Charlie Chaplin, and doesn’t
seem to one about the eyes and
noses of those around him. Here is
Sleepy Sam, the Hobo; he‘ wants to
t‘ in to see the show awfully bad
he Mi: 9» hazelnut. He ig- play
ing. datum, on his tin whistle hoping
that someone will drop a nut in the
tin cup. One little rascal has become
so impatient that he has kicked the
hit Boo Dad- in front of him.
The Cop Will be sure to arrest him it

  
  

he doesn’t behave. There we Roly
and Poly; the: Twins, with their lit:
tle' caps on as usual": Poly is whist-
ling away patiently. You can hardly"
see Percy Haw Haw, the Dude, ‘b‘e-
hind the paper, but you‘can always
tell him by his eyeglass. He is. so; in-
,terest'e‘d‘ in reading the sporting
neWs that he hasn’t noted that the
little mischief in front of him has
set‘ fire to his paper. Up there in
front of the big bill board. are four
Doo Dad‘s greatly excited. over” the

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performance of the rough riding
cowboy. Isn’t it too bad that they
have no hazelnuts,- and can’t get‘ in
to see the show. But,’ oh, ohit What
have we here on; top of the moving
picture house? Some little“ rascals
are crawling through the hollow
limb and getting in without paying.
But they are‘goihg...to be .dimpoina
ed for one of the keepers is kicking ‘
them out throughthe. side. door as.
fast as they can get in. Don't you
wish you. won there with. a bag on
hazelnuts so that'you could give one
to‘ each little: Doo Dad» that harm!
any and let him, in to“ see "the . big

    

 

 

      
      
         
  
       
  

 

 


 

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“were anxious m tmmm
duced to the minimum, the was was
shaded one-half sent on Friday and
. ‘ the market closed With za weak ”teal-

wing One brisht spot during the

week has been the active demand. for

finite and seednds. ii‘hese have clean-

ed up readily and the range of pric-

es of those grades is ranging much ,
narrower than for the past few

menths. Several cars of centralized
have been receiv‘od during the week

and have sold readily .at about the
‘ quotations for firsts. Also five cars

of California butter in cubes have

been sold at prices hanging :from 64

to 65 cents. Unsalted butter is in
good supply. but the demand for it is

limited Establised quotations of

yesterday are as :follows: Extras,

65% cents; higher scoring than

extras, “@6635; firsts, 33%@65c;

and seconds, 6IlI@63c. The quote-

tions on unsalted butter is at a dif-

ferential of .1350 over correspond-1
ing grades of salted butter.

 

The poultry market in Detroit is
firm and quiet. Chicago also reports
a firm market. Prices are:

Live Poultry—No. 1 springs, 35 to
36c; stage, 30c; fat hens, 40c; small
hens and Leghorns, 37 to 38c; roos-
ters, 25 to 26c; geese, '27 to 380; tur-
keys, 38 to 40c per pound.

STOCK

Detroit-FDressed calves, scarce and
higher, choice, 22 to 240; fancy, 26 to

 

27c. Dressed ho,gs firm at 21 to 240'
pound

Detroit, April 1.5 «Cattle: Mar-hat-
dull, but nearly all were disposed of;
best handy steers, $14 to 315; hest
handy weight butcher steers, 31250 to
$13. 50; mixed steers and heifers, $12
to $13; handy light butchers, $10 .50
to 31.1. 50; light :butchers, 38. 50 to .310;
best cows, $10 :to 311; butcher cows,
$850 to $9. 50; cutters 37 to 37 50,
cannons, 36 to :36. 75; best heavy hulls,
$10 to 312; bologna 111111838. 50 to
39 50; stock hulls, 37. 50 ,to 38; feeders,
$10 to 313; smokers, 38 to 310; milk-
ers and springers, $65 to $125.

Veal calves—saMarket steady; best,
317 to $18; others 3853 to $15.

Hogs—All the hogs on hand were

sold late Tuesday at prices averaging
as follows .(one-order took .them all):
Pigs, 319; mixed hogs, .320 to 320.25..
I! 0 '0
Chicago, April 14,1919—Lastweek’s
receipts of cattle numbering 45, 628
showed a falling off of 7.100 compared
with the previous week’s marketings.
Nevertheless, that decrease had no ef-
fect in arresting the downward course
in prices on the rank and file of steer
- offerings. Last Week’s general de-
cline on bulk steers was 50 to 75c
and to that depreciation was added an-
mther 10 to 15c decline Monday of this
week. Strictly best yearlings and high
dressing heavy steers remain un-
changed by virtue of scarcity.

The best price for steers last week
was $20, but 320. 50 is quotable for the
right kind. Most of the steers coming,
which are on the light and medium
fleshed order, are selling from $14 to
$17, with a. thin, cannery kind as low
{as 39. Feeder buyers are looking for
high qualitied light cattle to put on
grass which is stimulating trade on
that class, feeder buyers being willing
to pay as 111811 as $15 50 and better .for

‘ the right kind.

Plain qualitied butcher cows and
heifers suffered only 25c break since
a week ago, while other grades of
cows and heifers are 50 :to 75c zlow‘er.
Best eanner cows are quotable as high
0336;,“ mtoodmeaty cutter. are
selling as high as $7. 25. “Bull trade has
:been steady on sausage grades of late,
while butcher classes are not meeting

, 2 Inith any reliable demand and are un-
' , . dug an a week basis. Best bologna!
,m‘w Womble which as 30.85
film- @3103! advanced sharply

, e "‘ all botanic, duo tossed-

in quotab ,
this week ends the Lenten «season

which naturally has a do-
fiuence on the. meat trade. With re-
strictions .lifted after/this week the

cattle market is expected to give a
better account of itself as receipts due
for the market in the near future do
not promise. to be any too voluminous.

Packer buyers are putting up a very
stiff fight to keep hog prices from set-
ting s. new top record. However, the
short supply available is making it a
hard proposition for them to keep
prices down. Last Thursday a new top
for the year of 320.65 was recorded,
while on the militia] session of this
week 320. 60 was paid.

A year ago at this time a spread of
$1 per cwt. existed between choice
butchers and .mixed grades. Now,
however, the spread isonly 25c per
cwt. This narrow breach between
those classes of. offerings has brought
mixed hogs’ up to a record basis for
all time.

(Continued on page 19)

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Ingham (central)——Very fine spring
weather at, present, but ground very
wet, and country roads are hard to
travel on. Farmers are very busy;
some are working on land that is rot-
ting enough to allow it. Full sown
grains are looking quite good. Much
of the clever is imported. Farmers
are not selling much of anything. The
grass is growing rapidly and pastures
are looking green; Hay and feeds are
quite scarce. The following prices
were paid at Mason April (it—Wheat,
32.07 to 32.10; corn, 32.75 cwt. ;oats,
55; hay, 23; beans, 36.50; potatoes,
31; hens, 18 to_ 20; ducks, 20; butter,
55; butterfat, 64; eggs, 38; sheep, 3 to
9; lambs, 163/2; hogs 17; boat steers,
,8 to 10 beef cows, 4 to 7; veal calves,
16; wool, 40 to 45; apples, 31 to 31.25.
—0. I. Miller, Dansm’lle, Mich, Apr. 5.

Kent, (N. E.)—The past week has
been a good growing time. Pasture .is'
fast coming on. Wheat and rye look
the‘best in years. Farmers are draw-
ing manure, dragging for oats and
plowing. Borne are selling potatoes at
\Harvard and ’Greenville. The price is
going up nearly every day. The roads
are, bad but we raised the money to
make them better. The Grand Rapids’
wholesalers and the Grenville mer-
chants are earnestly planning .and ar-
ranging the details necessary to the
establishment of a rural .motor truck
route between Greenville and Grand
Rapids. Who said Good Roads would
not be a benefit to farmers? The fol-

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as high as 317 50 per~

     

mar-1m. , . ;
20; butter, 58, eggs, 37 sheep, 10;
samba, :15; hogs, dive 1s; dmmod, 22;
best steers, 111; beef cows 9; veal

wealves, 19 to 11—0. M. -W., Greenoi‘lle,
‘,Mich., April .11. ,

Jackson, (N. .E.)—The weather the
fore part of the'week was ideal but.

the latter part has been stormy, .re-
tarding the farmers in getting in their
oats. About the usual acreage being
put in. The winter grains are look-
ing fine and promise a good crop but
the hay crop will no doubt be very
light and all are planningon a catch
crop for a substitute. There are still
a few scattered auctions but prices
are off on nearly everything except
hay and grain—A. G. W., Munith,
April 12.

Calhoun, (N. W.)—Farmers are
sowing oats. The weather is fine.
‘Wheat and rye are looking fine. Hey
is high and scarce. There is a good
show for fruit in this section if it
does not freeze the blossoms. The
prices paid in Battle Creek April 12
were—Wheat, $2.38 to 32-40; cats, 68;
rye, 31.40; hay, timothy, 30; light
mixed, 28; potatoes, 90; hens, 25;
springers, 25; eggs, 35; lambs, 12 to
14; hogs, 15; beef steers, 12; beef
cows, 6; veal calves, 11.—C’. E. Beard-
sley, Battle Creek, April 12.

Ottawa, (north)—-Spring work has
started. Peas are mostly sowed and
some have their oats in. Grass seed
has all been sowed too. Farmers in
this part are drawing considerable
fertilizer. The following prices were
paid at Coopersville April ll—Wheat,
32.40 bu.; corn, $1.50 bu.; cats, 65 bu.;
rye, 31.60 bu.; hay, light mixed, $29 to
$31; beans, 35 cwt.; potatoes, 90; on-
ions, 34 cwt.; cabbage, $2.50 to 33
,cwt.; hens, 29; springers, 29; butter,
dairy, 35; butterfat, 60; eggs, 36;
sheep, dressed, 22; lambs dressed,
28; hogs, dressed, 22% 1b.; beef
steers, 18 dressed; beef cows, 14
dressed; veal calves, 19 dressed.—
J. P., Coopersville, April 11.

Bay, (east)——The weather is fine
and the ground is in fine shape. Farm-
ers have started spring work and it
looks as if crops will get in early.
Wheat is looking good. Quite a num-
bermf farmers arg sowing spring
wheat. The following prices were paid
at Linwood April 4—Wheat, 32; corn,
$1.80; oats, 58; rye, 331.40; abarley,
31:80; hay, timothy, 18; light mixed,
I16; rye, 9; wheat-oat, 8; beans, 3.6.50;
hens, 25.; springers, ,26; butter, 55;
buiborfat, 62; eggs, :38; sheep, 15;
lambs, 20; hogs, .21; beef steers, .15 to
18; beef cows, 12 to 14; veal calves,
205—61. F., Linwood, Mich, April 4.

Have four other papers but yours is the
real thing. Hear it praised everywhere.
Wish your efforts success. —-Jos. Messlin,
Wexford county.

 

 

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are points difficult to attain with this sq.-
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stock sale in ‘Michisan. ‘If you ”DE
considering a sale advise us at on”:
and «we will claim the date for m
Address “Live Stock Editor, M '.“B on;
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April 21, YHolsteinsw-I‘Boht. "R. "Bointer
and John McClure, 'Waync, Mich.
April 24, Holsteins—Langhurst Stool:
Farm, Sebewaing, Mich. '
April 25, Hleteins—Ji‘he Fricke Dairy

Company, Perrinton, Mich.
May 13, Holsteins—Mark H. Piper, L.-
C. Ketzler and Floyd Pierson, Flint.
Beautiful

Mich. .
Flowering 811R.”

The largest collection on! oileud. ’fio
assortment in so arranged that their lowed-l
lessons overlap. thus providing

Nine Months of Fragrant
Flowers Every Year.

The Shrubs are about a foot high.

the best size to pilot. Thcyl .
are well packed in own to
preserve the roots, and are
GUARANTEED to reach you

In growing condition.

Your Favorite Shrubs

The collection consists oiibe follow- . '
log beautiful shrubs, which grow
rapidly to the size indicated. '.
2 Golden Ball. B lo 0 In I very uriy,‘
brilliant yellow flowers. 14-16 it.

3 Cullehrry. Canary flowers, ted
berries rennin throughwlnier. Foliage .;
scarlet and gold In loll. 46 it. high.
8 SIM! Sink Wood fragrant. flowen
chocolate red. 4.5 ft.

I loud SLIM BosndhlvvotiWIMI
non-lo until has (all. 10-12 it.

I 'I’n-poi Vila. Grows rapidly. bearing lmmoou
cluster: of omxmd ammonia-pa flowers.

The-o shrubs are 11¢!th hardy. Will (to. m
and It planted My.“ Instructions '

They Will all’Blooo thPiutSu-n
futon" you draw-rd. ever increasing In also ul
bounty. and bearing thousands of fragrant flows. WM
each collection mound complete loonuctlooo MIMI.

To secure these 10 shrubs with abso-
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neighbors to subscri toMichigan Busi-
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your trouble
One condition: . The name you mend do
must be a NEW subscriber, not a. renow‘l.

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PEDIGREED SEED BEANS

(Inspection N05,, 31'10—A, 3121—A)

I GBEW 34 BU. 0F ROBUST
Beans to the acre, on 20 acres, last
year.’1‘hese won 14st and 2nd. place
t garmen' Week Ex osition at M.
They were dove oped from 30

Prof. Spragg four
Price
‘ .30 per incl in: bags. Only
' about 280 bBu. left, first orders get ,
them Send postofllce order or check -
Cheboy an (lo-operative Market
iss’n" Che oygan, Mich” Olof Nel- .
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The Thresher for .
Your Own Work

The Nichols-Shepard “Junior” Red

River Special is the ideal thresher for
. the farmer who wants to do his own

threshing. It is a small machine but

does big wet . .

It beat: out thcgmin just like the big
Red River Specml. It has the Man
Bell ind the Gun," the Beatinngakefl.
and a perfect cleaning mill.

Two sizes: 22 x 36 and 28 x 40. The
smaller, Without extra attachments. is
easil operated by any farm power that
can duct 12 H. P. at the cylinder.

“JUNIOR” '
Red River Special

Sold fully equipped with Self Feeder
and Wind Stacker, or with Hand Feed
Parts and Common Stacker, as desired.

Just right for indiwdunl farmers and
for custom threshing whei‘e jobs .are
small and the country is rough and hilly.

James Arnott of Bradwardlne. Manitoba.
says. October 25. “is: “The 22136 'Junior'

Red River Special purchased this year Is

a strong. durable machine. We had no

breakages. and lost no time. We had no

trouble from start to finish. It thrashed the

stain out of the straw thoroughly. anddid a

lint-class lob of cleaning. "

Do not judge the "Junior" Red River
SpeCIaI With other so-called small
threshers. It is not a plaything. It is
built to earn money threshing and wxll
serve the men” thrash bill like the
Big Red iver Special.

Write for Special Circular

Nichols & Shepard Co.

In Continuous Business Since sass
Builders exclusively of Red Riva- 8pc
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fills as; fast;
{as You; Can.
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And elevates your Silage to an height with
‘ess power any other mac ine. That’s

Guaranteed" With the “Knife on the
Fly-Wheel:—"

    
   
   
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
  
 
 
    
      
 
 
  
 
     
     
   

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SHOWER-
It overcomes all the faults you ever
heard of in $110 tillers. A dozen im-
portant features th at are innovations
in Silo-filling machinery. You can't
choice it: and i; won't blow up. It means
better 811 othh less labor less power and
screens? “I“! "fie“ yr: cal:

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Ann 'Arbor Machine Co.

Box 143 Ann Arbor..Mlch.
Manufacturers of

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the tires when it it left standing;
It is easily made, as shown.
Hardwood is best. '
It con-

two up-
rights,
braced .

as shOWn auq a movable piece between the
upright. Holes in the upright allow adjust-
To use place
next to the wheel, and put (1:) under hub;
place foot on (a) and the wheel is easily
If four are made and used the tires

ment to different sized cars.

raised.
Rapids, Michigan.

 

 

(Readers are incitedto contrii‘bille‘ to this,débfilltmllfvi.14§¢3.034 .’ 35291511“
of labor-saving devices will bepfidfor according to lengthgaiidvpractiooliilitp.

FOOT LIFT FIRE SAVING JACK
The jack shown in the illustration is very
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WRENCH FOR DIF.
FERENT SIZE NUTS

A v e r y h a n d y
wrench can be made
from a piece of square
bar, shaped as shown
and fitted with a han-
dle. The joint (x) may
be halved and riveted
or welded as
desired by the
one who is
making it. The
size of the bar
and the space
between the parts
will depend on
the size of nuts to
be turned. The
sloping notch per-
mits the wrench to
be used on nuts of
various sizes. —- A
Reader, Big Rapids,
Michigan.

   
 
   
   
  
  
   

OILI% HAMMER
HANDLE

A hammer handle that
is well oiled will outlast
two ordinary handles,

 

l. springy and preventing dry rot. The
handle may be oiled by drilling a 1/4
inch hole in the end of the handle for
a depth of about two inches. The nam-
meI handle is then put in an upright
position and the hole filled with lubri-
catin; oil. When the oil has soaked
in, oil again and repeat until the han-
dle is well oiled. If desired a plug can
be inserted in the hole to-keep the
oil from leaking out before it has com-
pletely soaked in.——J. P. 0., Big Rap—

ids,, Mich.

EASILY MADE BRUSH HOOK

An old spade handle, a piece of one
inch steel 1,4 inch thick and two bolts
is all that is required to make this

 

useful brush knife. The steel can be
fashioned in a forge and on the anvil
and grindston'e into the shape shown.
Then attach it by two bolts to the
spade handle—P .A. G., Big Rapids,

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as the oil penetrates the wood making

A DOOR FASTENER
Often it is necessary to fasten a
door in a manner to prevent children
from opening it, yet so is easily
opened from either side. This can be

 

easily done by putting a screw or cur-
tain hook on the inside of the door
frame and using a piece of cord long
enough to loop over both hooks. A
person coming in, or out can remove
the loop from either side—P. A. G..

 

NAIL HOLDER PREVENTS INJURY-
TO THE FINGERS

An easily contrived device for' pre-,
venting injury to one’s fingers, and
for starting nails beyond one’s reach
is shown in the sketch. The nail hold-
er is made of wood; the end of the

(2%

stick is slotted to a depth of about two
inches and a 14 inch hole bored at the
end of the slot. The various sizes of
nails are held firmly and may be driv-
en as far as the hammer will reach.—
P. 0., Big Rapids, Mich.

 

PLOW CONNECTION
'It is claimed that this connection
permits gang plows to turn without
removal from the ground and Without

 

 

 

 

 

 

undue strain. The connection forward
of the axle of the tractor permits the
plows to move vertically; and the
turntable, under the rear axle, per-
mits them to move laterally. (Oliver
Chilled Plow Works, South Bend, 1nd.

 

 

    
 
 

 

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Do you remem-
ber the last time
that re" put that
big hog in the

crate an: she
went out of the
side ? My, but
you were mad,

weren’t you?
Well, put some
braces on t h e
corners of - the
crate made of-2-
inch band i r o n,
and as long as
woul; b.» suited
to your crate and
‘your. troubles in
this respect will
be atranr end, and
. the worker making-
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Kreso Dip No.1
(STANDARDIZED) '

' Parasiticide. Disinfectant.

USE IT ON ALL LIVESTOCK

To Kill Lice, Mites, Fleas,
and_Sheep Ticks.
To Help Heal Cuts, Scratches and
Common Skin Troubles.

USE ITUIN ALL BUILDINGS

To Kill Disease Germs and Thus
Prevent Contagious Animal Diseases.

EASY TO USE. "EFFICIENT. ECONOMICAL

FREE BOOKLETS.

We will send you a booklet on the
treatment of mange. eczema or pitch
mange, arthritis, sore mouth. etc.

We will send you a. booklet on how
to build a. hog wallow. which Will keep
hogs clean and healthy.

We will send you a booklet on how
to keep your hogs free trom insect pm
sites and disease.

Write for them to
Animl Industry Department at

PARKE, DAVIS & CO.

DETROIT. MICH.

 

 

 

 

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the trees will be sent to you prepaid for
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must be’a NEW subscriber. not a renewal.

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‘ 256 cars compared with 3,479
'- week and with 2.083 for the corre
' spending week a year ago. Area F101;-

8
$911811 and throwont pwkera $19 to
$19.50. Pigs and underweight light
hog are meeting With very poor re-
ceptien and are selling largely at $18
to $19 50.” ‘ '
Sellers are very canndemt that anew

record top price for hogs will he 93--
* tablished this week. Export demand is

of extremely large volume with call
for lard being exceptionally good.
During last week May lard .sold as
high at $30, being-the highest in fifty-
.six years. There is little probability

of any large run of hogs reaching the
. market until about the middle of June 1

when grass offerings begin showing
up. Prospects point to a good market
until then at least

The sheep market slumped badly

- for a time last week but toward the

weekend showed a tendency to re-
cover. An advance Monday of this

week of 251': per cwt. brought values

within 15c of prices in force a week
ago when best wooled lambs were sell-
1111: as high as $20 per cwt. Best shorn
lambs are now quotable as high as
$16 60: .best wooled yearlings as high
as $18 50; best wooled wethers as
high as $16. 50; best wooled ewes.
$15. 50. Aged sheep are very scarce.
not enough coming to make a market.
with prices on such showing about the
same- fluctuation as lambs.

 

‘U. s. WEEKLY
MARKET REVIEW

The general upward trend of the
preceding two weeks was followed
the past. week by firm prices with ‘few
very marked changes. Values of cab-

 

bage. onions, sweet potatoes and dry-

'beans were fully maintained. Spin-
ach, tomatoes and strawberries were
fairly steady, but strawberries advanc-
ed at the close". Potatoes and. lettuce
declined. Shipments 7,204 cars, which
is‘ about recent average volume, but

245 cars below last week and. com- »

pared with 5,910 year ago. Decrease
this week chiefly in potatoes and or.-
anges Gains mainly in new south-
eln produce.
Potatoes Slightly Lower

General market tone was reaction-
arv losing part'of recent adVances.
Wisconsin and Michigan shipping

points after further slight advances,‘

receded to last week’s closing range
of $1.80 to $1.90 f. o. b. sacked Nov. 1
northern sacked whites weakened

slightly in Chicago carlot market. rulw

ing $190 per cwt Colorado and Ida-
ho No 1 sacked white stock was weak
and inactive in producing sections,
closing $1. 60 f. o. b. Greeley and $1. 50
f. o. b. Idaho Falls, but this stock

strengthened in Texas catlot markets

to a range of $2.40 to $2.65. No. 1'
sacked Burbanks declined 10 cents. to
a range of $1.75 to $1.85 f. 0. b. North-
western shipping points. Trickside

sales by growers in western and north-,_

ern prod icing sections followed a

twide, somewhat weaker range of $1.25

to $1.70. New Yerk round/whites lost
ten cents in shipping sections, clos-
ing at $1.92 per cwt. f. o. b. and weak-
ened in consuming markets also,.clos-
ing considerably 10wer at $2.25 to
$2.40. Maine Green Mountains were
dull and weak in producing sections
and declined to $2.35 to $2.42 sacked;
New York and Boston. Shipments 3,-
last

ida potatoes as lately revised by Bur-
eau crop estimates 17, 515 acres com-
pared with 32. 615 last year and yield
mostly. not over 30 bbls. per acre, com-
pared with nearly sixty bbls the past

" two years.

.- onion -‘ Prices Generally Firm
(Good sacked . yellow ' stock Was

8 ‘ teady in most consuming markets

th firm general range of $3 50 to $5

Callfd‘rnia Australian Browns

iflrafld strong, ranging $3. 80
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spending wedit. last rear :of 184 cars.
Bean Marinas Nearly Steady

Producing sections reported gener-
ally slow demand with; prices steady
to firm Michigan white sacked, hand-
picked basis held at $6 to $7 per cwt
cash to growers. Scattering sales in
New York producing sections were re-
ported at $7. 75 f. o..b Eastern hand-
picked sacked white pea beans were
irregular, but firm in most consuming
markets, ranging $7.50 to $8 with slow
demand. Southern California sacked
small whites were steady at $6.25 to
growers in producing sections and
were firm also in consuming markets
ruling $7.25 in_ Kansas City and $8 in
Boston. California Limas were firm,
ruling $675 f. o. b. shipping points
and continued steady in terminal
markets at $8 to $8.50. Northwestern
white stock strengthened to $4.50 to
$5 cash to growers in producing sec-
tions. Colorado Pintos. were firm at
$4‘to $425 in bulk cash to growers
and nearly steady in consuming. mar-
kets ruling $5.75 in, Kansas City. Ship-
ments again increased with 156 cars
compared with 135 last week. The
sale of 715 carloads‘of California Li-
mas is reported unofficially at $6.75
per cwt. f. o. b. shipping points. Ac-
cording to Rocky Mountann bean job-
bers’ associations records 528 cars of
Pintos have been shipped from Colo-
rados and New Mexico on government
orders.

OPERATING A CO-OPERATIVE
MOTOR TRUCK ROUTE

(Continued from page 4) which also
will be used as a receiving station for
country freight of the members who
do not live along the regular route.

According to experience of the Har~
ford County Cooperative Association
the rural motor route supplies a solu-
tion of transportation and marketing
problems for many farming sections
which are located not more than 30 to
40 miles from a desirable city market
and which are favored with perman-
ent, hard roads. Farmers who organ-
ize such associations are advised to
study carefully their'local conditions,
so as. to be sure that there is enough
year-round hauling to justify estab-
lishment of a truck route. They should
raise sufficient funds at the outset, so
they can pay cash for a truck It is
cheaper to operate a four or five-ton
truck than 'it is to run one of two-ton
capacity, provided there is sufficient
tonnage available. As a rule, the
new club will not go wrong if it 'begins
business with a larger truck than it
really needs, as the surplus space will
allow for the expansion and develop-
ment of the business which is sure to
follow in well—selected territory.

Trucks of only standard make
should be used, as under such condi-
tions repairs will be my to get and
the overhauling of the truck will not
be outside the ability of the average
mechanic. In purchasing the truck,
special attention should be paid to the
cost of operation and records of per-
formance as well as so the price of the
machine.

. ‘ ‘ lace {teeming the}.
- past week withai. care. compared with
' " fairly octfv9; mmm for the corre-

’ ,There are

 
  

  

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.MEcHANIeAL TRAINING —Th._ere

is a new song. out on the phonograph.“ .

records, the title of which though sup-
posed by its author to be hilariously
funny, that suggests however, one
that is mighty serious. It goes, “How
are we goin’ to keep mm down on the
farm", after he’s seen Paree?”

I am not one who agrees with the
alarmists who see all of. our Michigan
farm boys leaving the farm, simply
because their visions have been broad-
ened by travel and contact with the
outside world. Rather I believe a
goodly percentage have had their eyes
opened to the great possibilities in
the farming business and the old
home, the setting sun across the
fields, and the smell of piping buck-
wheats and sausage never meant so
much to him before.

It'will be a foolish boy, indeed, who
leaves a fertile farm in Michigan,
close to the great manufacturing mar-
kets that are building in our state,
where soon a paved highway will pass
his very door, linking him with all
the advantages of the nearby town or
city. But, there are many of our‘boys
who will be tempted by the tales of
factory work, because they have a
“hankerin” for machinery. It is safe
to wager that three out of every five
farm boys have a natural mechanical
aptitude. You can tell. them at a
glance, from childhood days they are
always tinkering with something that
moves, building wind-mills or stand-
ing in open-eyed wonder before the
threshing engine. _

That type of man is going to make
a mighty good farmer of the future
because he is adapted to the new age
of power farming that is already es-
tablishing itself in Michigan. We
want to hold his kind in every county
in our state because they are going
to be needed to keep the machinery of
their less fortunate neighbors in run-
ning order.

This then, is my theory. That in
every farming community in Michigan
there is a good opportunity for a me-
chanically inclined man to establish a
small repair shop in which he can con—
tribute largely to his yearly earnings
from his or his father’s farm by re-
pairing the tractors, automobiles and
farm machinery of his neighbors.
short-course technical
schools right here in our home state
that give courses in mechanical sub-
jects which require only two or three
months to complete, and which would
serve to break the period of unrest
which occurs to every man who is
mustered out of service and returns to
civil life. Surely this is a subject that
ought to be discussed in every home
where a farm b0y is returning from
service, because few months’ loss of
his time now and the small cost of
such an education would be made up a
hundred-fold in the satisfaction of
having settled “back home" and with
the added interest in a profitable bus-
iness, even though it be only a side-
line of his farming work.—-—G. M. S.

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SEED CORN

TRUE T0 NARIE; CONTRACT.
'ruwn; High Germination.

White Cap Yellow Dent $4.50

King of the Earliest 4.00 .. -

Pride of the North 4.00

Reid’s Yellow Dent 4-00

Wis. White Dent 4.00

Strawlnrry Dent 4.50

improved Leaming 4.00
(For Ripened Ensilage)

beaming Fodder 3.00
(For Large Ensilagc)

Rod Col) Ensilage 3.90

F. o. b., All Shelled Corn,
'0 lbs, in grain bags, 500 each. Cash
with order. “Marquis” Spring Seed
Wheat at $3.25 per bu.

Ypsilanti.

Martin Dawson Company, Ypsilanti,
“In Seeds We Lead.”

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Save the Baby Chicks

Our book “CARE OF BABY CHICKS .’°.
and a. package of GERMOZONE are tho
best insurance against chick losses. Those
fonnerly losing more than half the,
hatched now raise better than 90 per
cent. To you who have never tried
GERMOZONE. we will send postpai
book and package as ab ve. You pay
satisfied, 75c; 60 days’ trial. We trus.
.V.0ll

Druggists and seed dealeis sell GER-
MOZONE, the best poultry remedy an
preventive, For old and young—bow
trouble, colds. roup, musty or spoile
food Iimber neck, chicken pox, sour cro
skin disease, etc. Sick ch' ks can't wait.
Do it now. 3

GEO. H. LEE C0-, Dept. 416,

 

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AUTO OWNERS, ATTENTION
Your name and address on a postal wi
bring you “Valuable Informat1on Con-
cerning Your Motor. Free of charge. Le.
Richard 152 Washington avenue, Mus-
kegon, Mich _._

SHARPLES CREAM SEPARATOR 1N
good shape; used very little; 700 lbs.
capacity. $45 takes it G. V. Newcomer,
Waldron, Mich. .

 

 

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Barrel, tapered 10 inches
breech block, makes the action absolutely safe from rear explosion of. a defe .‘ .
great care and has a built-up steel jacket, making it unsurpassed in strength, durability, and accuracy. Weight. 2% lbs .. ."

Sights, rear,

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This is a practical, powerful rifle and beautifully finished. It is chambered for 22-ca1ibre long or short rim fire cartridg-
ogen; Iadljlustable front knife sight.
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by passing out a few copies’of Michigan '
iness Farming among your neighbors Wht
waiting to subscribe You have no idea how
easy it is to get subscribers and how Quickly
you can own- the rifle. Just send in the cou—

. pon below and we will tell you just how to

CIRCULATION MANAGER,
Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens. ‘

Please tell me just how I can earn the Hamilton i
Rifle without itcostifng me a penny. ‘ ,-

coco-topoo-o-nou

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j ' . ,pelied to eliminate all book-keeping.
" full with, order,
Mich group of figures, both in the body of the ad and in the address. The rate '
regardless of number of times ad runs. There
h us by Wednesday of preceding week.
low rate by making your remittance exactly right.—
Adv. Dep’t, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

is 5 cents a word for, each issue,
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Address, Michigan Business Farminl.

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USINESSFARMERSig_ .
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FARMS AND LAND

 

price and terms

FARMS FOR SALE—BIG LIST OF

farms for sale by the owners, giving
nis name, location of farm, description,
. Strictly mutual and co.-
operative between the buyer and seller
and conducted for our members.
ER CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N., Land
Dpt., Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

GLEAN—

 

I HAVS A 400-ACRE FARM. I' “'ISII
'to hire man and wife by the year; good
gay and good job to right parties. Chas.
odges, St. Johns, Mich, R. 3

 

town; 215 acres dark

100,000 timber,

ets everything, easy terms

gains 19 States, copy free.

 

milk
silo,

rm :1 i1
barn,

arranged for
basement stock
ed ; house is

die.
McKillen. Capoc, Mich.

(let
116,

fa rm.
Box

root and celery
from J. Nickless,
Mich.

STORE FOR SALE
ing rooms above;
warehouse. For
write Peter Cook,

fixture
further
Pcwamo,

ter.
24x24 near
warehouse,

end "extension,
all in good

semi—bungalow,
eered, 8 rooms and bath, furnace, lights,
all buildings new. $1,000 down will han—
For further particulars write ’l‘roy

Detail

Strout

parti

_ WIDOWED OWNER. MUST SELL 515
acres, 16 cows and ‘3 pair young horses,
lot heifers, hogs, poultry. complete tools,
Wagons, etc., on improved road, near RR
loam tillage,
cow pasture, estimated 1,000 cords wood,
100 apple trees; 9
house, 2 large barns, silo, horse stables,
carriage, ice, poultry houses, etc.

50-
-room

$8,000
3 this

ig money-maker page 8 Catalog Bar-

Fa rm

Agency, 8141319. Ford Bldg, Detroit.

A BARGAIN, 304m“: DAIRY FARNI
in village of Capnc, fronting on west 2nd
business;
electric—light-
bricl<~ven~

full

BARGAIN 1r son) soon—47 ACRES

culars

East Jordan,

\\'iTI{rIvn Liv:

s complete;

parti
Mich.

and a

condition.

culars
This

store is located at Pewamo, Mich., in a
fine farming region and this would sure—
ly be a good place for a co—operative cen-
This building is 18x54 (two—story);

20x30

 

east and four miles

Mich. ; well

under cultivation; log hous
good location; .
school; one-fourth mile

Price $20 per acre.
ply to B. J. Finnegan,
Albion, Mich, or S. \V_
Gaylord, Mich.

104

especially for
apple, peach and cherry,
8-room house hardwood fin

repair; flowing well;

close to good schools, chu

mics and assemblies;

lah, Mich.

to RR

county seat on Dixie highway,
drive; opposite large summer club house;

known as Finnegan’s Corners; 60

e and

North

ish,

relies,

”Iron slime—so ACRES, SIX MILES
south of Gaylord,
fenced and young orchard;

acres
barn ;

one and one—half miles to
. station.
For part1culars ap-

street,

iluck, State Bank

BEAUTIFUL FRUIT AND DAIRY
Farm overlooking Crystal Lake for sale;
65 acres A—1 soil, all tillable, 10 a muck
gardening. 10 a orchard,
good condition,
bearing; trout strutm; private trout. pond
garage,
etc, hip roof barn, silo, all painted good
one mile from town,
boulevard

acade-

nicc neighborhood.
A bargain if sold soon,‘including several
head stock and tools. Charles Sears, Beu-

 

 

" «is

FOR

brought over $1,000;

30 years,
and postoflice,

so a stopping
large barns, connected
head of cattle,
construction ;

cellar; hay track and

er pumped by windmill;

houses,
heuse 16x29 attached to

 
 

of ‘ farm and shrubbery

school house across from
churches, lodge
ous neighbors;

 
 

  

  

‘ miles from M. .
seat. 28 from Petosk'ey,
Mackinac Island;
mail ; have Registered and
. horn cattle, O. I. C. pigs,
‘ oats and , dependable

     

 

 
 

part; row of beautiful maples d

telephOne

    

SALE —- FINE PROD UCTIVE
farm, 138 acres, clay. loam ; good clay
sub-soil ; 100 acres under cultivation,

badance in pasture, wood lot, and sugar
orchards,

new

bush; fenced, stumped ;
and old; 13 acres Fall grain; 40 Fall
plowed; hay crop alone

in year 1917

" "‘ Hist of tool house, ice house, hen a
double corn cribs, ‘
" rear of
own front
grounds;

also

on
farm,

Grade

etc, : also hay
home-grown seed

new seeding done
every year; large, modern residence, well
painted and finished throughout, spacious
porches, hot air furnace, sanitary chem-
ical closet, big fruit and vegetable cellar;
a part of this large house has, for over
been used as a general store
making a very attractive
addition to the general income, and is al-
' place for transients; two.
in an L shape,
with Stalls for six horses and ties for 25

basement of. solid
a cement frost-proof root
waterworks are
other desirable features; pure, cold wat-
outbuildings con-

stone

nd hog
ware-
store

near

halls, etc.; good, prosper-
near five summer resortm:
insuring fancy prices for produce; four

C R R., nine from county
Bay View, and
and daily

   
  
  

  

     

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‘fluins: ledge list of -best.farm machinery,
. ill ce heavily for

  

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, quick

sale.

a at, once pr. come, and,be
r- *1 * QM.“ i ,

FOR SALE—zto-ACBE FARM. .ALL
fenced; 80 acres under cultivation, good
land. good buildings; with or without
stock and implements Paul Hamann, A1-

 

ger, Mich.
FOB SALE—lfio-ACBE FARM IN
Manistee county, $35 per acre. Box 3:

in care Business Farming, Mt. Clemens,

Mich,

 

FOR SALE—GOING OUT OF BUSI-
ness—Blacksmith shop, tools and stock'
also seven-room-house, well equipped
well, cellar, water‘in house; 1% acres for
garden; cheap, to sell‘quick. Terms on

application; 'phone 22. Van Buren Co.
Telephone Co. A. W. Shannon, Covert,
villeii Mich.

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SEEDS ‘AND PLANTS

I HAVE EARLY RECORD, ROUND,
White Seed Potatoes and will pay postage
in Michigan at $3 per bu. C. O. D. J. W.
Aldrich, Falmouth, Mich.

 

 

 

 

PURE BRICD SEED—W'IS. HARLEY
(6 ROW) and College Success Oats. pass-
ed inspection in field and bin. Worthy oats
not inspected this year. These grains
took 4th prize at M. A. C. Grain Show.
Write for prices, Earl C. McCarty, Bad
Axe. Michigan.

SEED CORN—~“PICKETT’S” YELLOW
Dent, early maturing selected seed. $3 for
56 pounds shelled corn. E. N. Ball, Ham-
burg. Mich. ‘

I HAVE 100 BUSIIELS OF GOLDEN
Wine Seed Peas to offer. They are a good
variety; will yield 25 bushels per acre.
Price, $3 per.bushel; sacks at cost. A. M.
Caverly, Prescott, Mich., R. 2.

SEED OATS. BEST MICHIGAN
northern oats. Buy good seed and grow
80 to 100 bushels per acre. Price, 90c per
bu, Sample free. Mayer’s Plant Nursery,
Merrill. Mich.

 

I HAVE 1,000 liUSlll‘lLS OF “'ORTHY
Oats to offer at $1.50 per bu. Sacks free
fob. They are nice bright oats and free of
weed seeds, 10 acres of these cats yield-
ed 90 bushels per acre—Elmer E. Smith.
Redford, Mich. .

DENT SEED CORN;
heavy yielding; butted and tipped; shell-
ed 56 lbs., $5; sacks free with 2 bushel
or more. Germination test above 90%.
Leo M, Worden. Ionia, Mich, R. . D.
No. 4.

ONION SETS, CHOICE, HAND SE-
lected reds; postpaid, 2 lbs., 35c;
lbs, 75c; quantity price on application.
Thelo Gifford, Winn, Mich.

 

 

 

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FOR SALE -— SOME OF THOSE
large rangy big boned Poland China
males are left yet. Very prolific One
registered roan Durham cow, four years
old. Wm. Cox, Williamston, Mich.

FOR SALE—FIVE MONTIIS'-OLD-
Registered Holstein bull calf; color
about half white, nicely marked; sire's
dam has 4‘ years’ record of 7 da. B.,
33.11 lbs.; M., 723.4 lbs.; 10 months R,

1,007.76 lbs; M., 21,419 lbs. Calf’s dam
has 7 da. record of 13., 22.72 lbs; M.,
560.0 lbs. Price $1251 0. b. Write for

pedigree and photo. Floyd G. Pierson,

Flint, Mich.

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who distributes over a large area of
Michigan: ' . i
“The .Fordson tractors areyespec-
ially good for belt power,” said Mr.
Hubbell. “It is true that the pulley
at the present time is not supplied
with a governor. However, the gov-
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pletion at the factory and all owners
and'dealers- will be supplied with
them in the near future. But the
pulley can be worked without the
governor at the present time very
satisfactorily with a little attention
on the part of the operator and a.
little ordinary horse sense displayed.
Any ordinary tractor operator can
install the belt power equipment in
‘45 minutes and an experienced man
in. much less time.” '

tractors are built so that any im-
provements, such, as the governor,
which is now coming out, can be ad—
ded to even the earlier types.
all *

One of the first principles that: the
prospective tractor operator should
adopt is that of cleanliness. We do

'not mean that it is necessary that, a

tractor should be washed and mani-
cured and powdered and perfumed
all of the time. There are certain
parts of the tractor that will be dirty
within, five minutes after it has been

, started and it_ is absolutely impossi—
‘ ble to keep a tractor all polished up

and looking as attractive as 'a new
one if it is to be used for real work.
Dirt in certain parts of the tractor
is fatal to its life and good perform-
ance and the tractor operator should
keep clear in his mind that the best
way to keep a. tractor clean "is not to
let it get dirty. Dirt is one of the
worst things with which the tractor
operator will "have to contend, and
since it is ever present in all kinds of
work, whether in the field or on the
road or at the belt it readily can be
seen that one of the first steps to—
ward successfui operating is to keep
as much dirt away as possible.
at e

Wherever there ' is a. bearing on
the machine it usually is indicated by
the presence of a film of oil or grease
which has worked out thru the bear-
ing. Dirt and * dust collect quickly

The dirt may indicate that an exces-
sive amount of oil is used in certain
bearings and it may be well for the
operator to examine them. Wher—
ever there is a shaft turning in a
bearing, whether it be at high or low
speed, dirt and dust certainly and

operating the kind
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gradually ”win work into "theibea‘r
ings.

of little fine hard particles. that grind;
into the bearings. The amount @517 f
be small at first but as ,the'abrasion‘f?" " "
continues more and more dirt and
grit enters and-a. vicious cycle 8 9,87:

tablished. ’ Thefight is won and'the‘
dirt is usually victorious for'it can-.

not be overcome by adding more‘oil.
e a ‘K . ., .

Take the power plant of the trac—' ,
How - many .‘

tor itself for instance. _
bearings are there on the engine.
with its crank shaft, its connecting
rods, its valve gears and, perhaps,
its Starter. Manufacturers know pera *
fectly well what happens when dirty
gets into bearings and they do their
best in guarding, hooding and en'-
closing as well as theyican all of
these vulnerable spots. In spite of
this there are many tiny crev1ces and
cracks where dirt can work in and

do harm. * a! , ,’
One' place in an enginewhere dirt
is especially likely to get 1n is in the
housing of. the valvepush rods espe-
cially if the valve slide 15 not enclos-
ed. The‘tendency for the entrance of
dirt at this place becomes greater and
greateras a little wear occurs. A very-
good remedy in this; particular m-
stance is to insert a'rather stiff felt
washer or ring between the bottom of
the valve stem .guide and the top of
the valve spring making the hole for
the valve stem slightly smaller-than
the diameter of the valve stem itself:
These little washers hug the valve
stem snugly and every time the valve
lifts the felt wipes the stem clean and
keeps all of the dirt and dust from the
underside of the washer away With
the result that the common, trouble
of worn valve stem guides and the
proper valve setting Will be to ‘a
great extent eliminated: .
This is just a. single instance. It is
possible to go from one end of the ma-
chine to the other and pick out a score
of places where dirt is gettlng in its
Work' and where its action can be OVer-
come by alittle care and attention.
The tractor operator should make it
his business to spend 15 or 20 minutes
once or twice a. day to goover the en-
tire machine- with a handful of clean
cotton waste and wipe off .all super:
fluous grease. If the first w1p1ng does
not clean it up well dampen the waste
with some gasoline which W111 mater
ially'aid in softening stiff grease.
The good tractor operator wlll when-
ever ‘a stop is made during the days
work make a round of the machine,
wiping off the dirt and grease that ha:
accumulated. Many operators thin
that a. stop is the opportunity for
grasping a wrench and start tlghten:
lug nuts here and there over the ma-
chine. It should be borne in mind
that as long as a machine. 18 running
well it is better to leave 1t alone. A
little experience will tell the operator
whether his machine is in good "run-

ning condition or not.

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RHAPS THE most common
putrouhles caused by lack of proper
gottention to the feeding and care
of pigs are scours and thumps, ac-
“:cording to L. A Weaver of the Uni~
' versity of Missouri College of Agri-
' culture Scours are usually caused by
changing the feed of the sow, over-
,1eeding,_ dirty pens and troughs, or
'é'xposure of either sow or pigs to cold

"fir-2:111 or to cold weather in such a way
that they .become wchilled

. Since the cause of scours is some-
indigestion, the

Changing from sweet to sour milk will

often cause the trouble, as will also .

the feeding of too much of the hi gh
protein feeds, such as tankage or lin-

seed oil meal, when the animal is not .

used to them. If the sow is fed too

, much, her milk flow is so stimulated

that very young pigs will get more
than they can utilize, thus causing
them to scour.
kept in dry, clean quarters and fed in
clean troughs._ They should not‘be al-

" lowed to run out in cold rain or al—
‘ lowed to“ become chilled in any way.

Bows running thru filth and then be-
Jug suekled will often cause pigs to
scour. .
There are a good many remedies
used for this trouble. The first thing

,' to do is to cut down, on the so‘w’s feed

and clean up ‘her quarters, if they need

. it. A tablespoonful of sulphur in the

sow’s feed for two days is also good. If
the sow is given a good physic such as.
Epsom salts, good results will follow.
Scalded milk is also a good remedy.
Each pig may be given a good physic,
such as a tablespoonful of castor oil
or Epsom salts. Charcoal is also good.

There is also a contagious form of
scours called wh-ite scours. The cure
is to clean and disinfect pens and give
a good physio.

Thumps often occurs in young pigs
It results from lack of sunshine and
exercise and from high feeding. The

remedy is to cut down the sow’s feed

and force the pigs to take exercise cut
in the sunshine. Thumps may also
Occur in large pigs after . they are
weaned, but when'old pigs have it, it
is usually caused by some affection of
the lungs or bronchial tubes.

FOR CAKED‘ UDDER
“At this time of year many cows are
to be fresh milkers; some of them are
heifers. Old heads claim that if you

L‘ milk a heifer before she calves she

'will always lose her milk, so you see
the young cow stands a good chance
to have a caked udder as well as’ the
old cow . This was thé case with a
farmer in this vicinity. He had a beau-
tiful .Shorthorn Durham heifer; she
hadfa caked udder for about 10 days.
The owners did everything they could
think of, and what their friends told
them to do. 'But it availed .little. So
the farmer’s wife made a visit to an
old stockman and under the circum—
stances they exchanged their ‘views in
«He told the lady
to bathe the sudder with some tincture

'aconite and not having over one half

'ounce the lady thought it would be
quite proper to make it go as fa1 as
possible So she melted . about two

ounces of lard and put into it the one-

.half ounce of aconite and beat it to—

, * gether as you would an egg and ap-

-puea it on the udder and it did more

- good than all of the 10 days’ treatment
<before Perhaps some of the readers

some use for this receipt—G. M.,

E'., Honor, «v

m AND THUMPS IN files

Pigs should always be

inosis of your case, and the

for registry. in the
Book, provided the Polled Durhams
are registered in the Shorthorn Herd
Book. .A Polled Durham in order to
be eligible to registry must "be a
double standard Polled " Durham.
Double Standard means that such an-
imal is a pure bred Shorthorn Without

‘ the horns. Ped-igreed manuals contain-~

ing further information may be had
upon application to this office—F. W.
Harding, Secretary A. S. B. A., 13 Dex.-
tcr avenue, Chicago.

.. FEEDING HENS .

In answer to, A. O. B., St. Louis,
Mich., feeding whole grain the hens
get no salt. I would suggest‘having
some of the grain ground in the same
proportion it is fed Whole. ._Give a
mash once a day with one tablespoon
of salt to each two dozen hens; also
put salt in when Cooking'small pota-
toes or other vegetables for them. We

- begin with the baby chicks; salt‘their

feed to taste as we like ours. Hogs
would not eat their young if the feed
was salted regularly.—M. R., Monroe,
Mich.

I Usicrina r9 Department

I have a litter of six pigs 21/.
months old, which doesn’t seem to be
doing well. I first noticed them about
a month ago. Two or three especially
seemed to be‘very lame and could
hardly walk on their hind legs. I al-
ways kept their bed and pen floor cov-
ered with nice dry straw so couldn’t
believe it was rheumatism. Will too
much ‘ground oats and not enough ex—
ercise cause this?‘ This morning I
found that one had begun to show
signs of bleeding piles and some show-
ed signs of black. teeth. Will you
plase inform me the cause and a reme
dy for black teeth and piles? The piles
have not begun to protrude yet. Will
you also give me a good ration to get
these fellows started right and to
overcome their 1ameness?——W. (I. H.,
Snover, Mich.

This condition is often. caused by in-
breeding and is becoming quite com-
mon in this country. Of course, im-

‘ proper feed and not enough exercise

will no doubt encourage the trouble.
It is undoubtedly a form of paralysis.
The following treatment has proved
quite satisfactory in my experience:
Rx.

Nux Vomica F. E. _________ drams 2
Potassium Iodide ________ ounces 2
Aque. add q. s. ____________ ounces 8

M. Sig. Give one tablespoonful night
and‘ morning.

No. 2., The following prescription
will be found very useful for Piles;
this is brought on by debility and
weakness.

Rx.

Ung. acidi tannici

Ung. ballad

-Ext. Opi ________________ drams 1/;

M.>Sig. Apply several times daily.

No.3 Black teeth in Swine is an
old Whim and should be forgotten.
Your pigs should be given a complete
change of food. It does not matter so
much what the change is so long as
you give them a nourishable diet.

 

What causes young lambs to breathe
so'fast? They are just pulling and are
lying down most of the time. Is there
any remedy for it?——W E. H.,A1m Ar-
bo13M1‘ch.

You have. not Stated how old these
lambs are or, given’thesymptoms very
fully. This should'be done in all cases
if you wish‘ to be given a c6'rrect diag-
.proper
treatment for Same I should say your
lambs have been exposed to the cold'
and rain. They should be given good

‘ dry, warm quarters and proper care;a
' little stimulant may be necessary such

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m L. Salisbury Breeds High Class
Holstein-iFriesian Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
Walker Lyons 1 seven

average 30.11 lbs. of butter 11

days. Nothing for sale at this time

b1": young bull calves. .

E- L. sanshnry. Shepherd, Michigan-

——————'-":.-—-—’—

We are now booking
YOUIIg bulls from ~King Pieter
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. . nu-
"'ifh r‘redible records. Vie test ani _
ally for tuberculosis. Write for Dr C
as and further information.

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.AUCTION SALE

of 45 Registered

Holstein Friesians

mostly 2 and 3-yr—olds, from the best
strains. See last week’s ad for detailed
description of some of the animals.
Don’t forget the date, April 24th. Sale
begins at 10 o’clock. Lunch at noon.

Langhurst Stock Farm

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1200-“). Bred Young Bull

Ready for service. The sire Maplecrest De
K01 Hengerveld own brother to a world s
champion junior 4-year-old, 1,263 pounds
butter in a year. Brother, in blood to the
lax—champion cow, record 1322.93 lbs. but-
ter in a. year. Write for pedigree and
rice.
I) ‘HILLCREST FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr,
' Kalamazoo, Mich.

TWIN BULL GALVES
Born October 29, 1918; sired by Sir
dam S
record, 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
milk in 7 days; fine straight calves. Send
for particulars—C. & A. Ruttman, Fowl—
erville, Michigan.

Woodland 'Border Stock Farm

Oflers a splendid two-year-old grand-
son of the great sire Dutchland Cream-
elle Lad; dam a high producer and will
‘be tested this spring. Bull is a very good
individual, nicely marked. and priced to
sell; also a 5-months-old bull calf whose
young dam is sired by 40-1b. bull. He is a
fine growthy fellow nearly white. Cheap,
it taken soon. Fred Lord, Stockbridge,
Mich

.

33-LB_ ANCESTRY

FOR SALE—Bull calf born Feb. 6,
1919. Sire, Flint Hengerveld Lad whose
dam has a 33.105 4—yr.—old record. Dam,
17 lb Jr. 2~yr.—old, daughter of YpSiland
Sir Pontiac DeKol whose dam at 5 yrs.
has a record of 35.43 and 750.20 lbs. in
7 da. Price, $100 F,O.B.

Write for extended pedigree and photo.

C. ICE’I‘ Flint, Michigan

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PREPARE

For the greatest demand, future

L’ t has ever known. Start
now with the Holstein and convince
yourself. Good stock always for
sale. .Howbert Stock Farm, Eau
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‘ ’, sired by a son of
Bull 1 ' . vesrlriend ‘Hemerveld
'De Kol Butter

.3” and by a son of King Segls De Kol
from A. R. 0. dams with rec-

iKorndyke,
.imls c! 18.85 ”Jr. two year old to 28.25
.1 full ago. Prices reasonable breeding

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‘ ~WALN‘U'I‘ GROW STOCK FARM
N w. Wm Napoleon. Mich.

:mcuussr vsrocx FARM

Holstein-Friesian Bulls
records up to 24 lbs. and
sires dams up to 46 lbs. Write for pod-

«and prices Fred J. Lang's. Sobe-

 

mmmwn BABY 3m
advertised in last issue is said.

She's dam’s average 87.76 lbs. ’Butter'
7 days. 145.93 lbs. . Butter 30 days,
tesiing.5;52% tat. Dam, a first-calf
granddaughter of King of the Pomi.
tee and Pieterta‘e Hengerveld’s Count
DeKol. Write .for price and detailed

7 BOARDMAN “ms.
: ‘Wnfl Michigan.

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Herd Sire.
'dyke Seals," a son of Klnzof the Ponti-

wonmm "s'rocx rand
1 wwant to tell you about .our Junior
“King Pontiac. ‘Lnnde Korn-

acs, his dam is Queen- Segis'of Brookstde,

.a daughter of Pontiac Clothllde "De ‘éKol

2nd and Prince Segis Korndyke, a. great
combination of breeding.

We are breeding this young sire to
the daughters of Judge Walker Pletertje.
our Senior Herd sire whose first five
dams each have records above 30 lbs, he
also has two 30 lb. sisters. How can
you go wrong by buying a bull calf of
this popular line of breeding?

T. Sprague, Battle Creek. Mich.

 

lbs. per day ;

FOR SALE—TWO 3-YEAR-OLDS;
heavy producers; have been milking 65
bred to '40-.lb. bull; were
fresh in January Priced to sell. Harry T.
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CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

‘PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
' ANGUS.
DUROCS.

DORR D. BUELL, ELMIRA, MICH.
R. F. D. No. l

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEINS OF QUALITY. Two near-
est dams of herd sire are both abova 33
lbs. butter in 7 days, average 700 lbs,
milk. E. A. Hardy, Rochester, Mich,

EG. IIOLSTEIN BULL CALF from
R good producing Cow and sired by a
No. 1 bull. Price $50.00 for quick sale,
F. W. Alexander, Var‘ar. Michigan.

 

R HOLSTEIN COWS, bull and heifer
eg. calves for sale. Come and see
them. C. L. HULETT & SON, Okemos.

'IiouAi

 

JERSEY

 

Dollars in profit writh
Jerseys. 'l‘lie actu ly " milk
money.” They fee less. They look real
value. Jerseys are a gilt-edge inmtment
for the one-cow home or ‘
'the hundred-cow dairy
form. There are a thou-
Iand proofs of Superiority.
Write to_ Breeders for prices
and ple‘digrees. Let'us send'
you Jersey Facts". free.
The Amerlen Jersey Came
Club.3(,7 West 23rd St.
New York City

 

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey Cat-
.tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty’s Oxford Fox
134214; Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull" calves for
sale out of R. of M.— Majesty dams.

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

GUERNSEY

 

 

FOR SALE—REGULAR GUERNSEY
Bull. S. N. Stampfio, Fife Lake, Mich.
A FEW

GUERNSEYS giefi'ergiAaYidg cows for

sale, also a. number of well bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms,
Grass Lake. Michigan.

ABE.R])EEN-A NGUS

ABE...’:EEN ANGUS CATTLE

We are offering at attractive rices, a
number of high-class young bu ls, well
able to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of the
ocean. Write for price list, or call and
see us.
Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Michigan.

ANGUS BULLS and HEIFERS» from
choice registered stock. Also
have some nice Registered Duroc Bears”
ready for service. Will crate and SM

for $50.00. Geo. B. Smith &'Co.. Add-
son. Michigan, ‘

 

 

 

SHOBTHORN

SHORTHOBNS, 5 ROAN BULLS, 4
to 7 months old, pail-fed; dams' good
mllkers; the farmers’kind, at farmers‘
prices. F. M. Biggott & Son, Fowler,
,‘Mich.

 

 

FOR SALE—dFIVE FULL BLOOD.
red Bulls, 3 Short Horns, and 2 Failed
Durhams; 1 .Polled Durham, 18 months
old; 1 .Polled Durham, 6 weeks old; 2
Short Horns, 12 months gold; .1 Short
Horn, 6 weeks old. Clarence ’Wyant,
Berrien Center, Mich, R 1.

36 Points for Aberdeen-Angus Sweepstakes

With the award of the grand championship for single steer to an

Aberdeen-Angus at the Wichita show racetrriltlx, the War Record of the‘.
r .

Edmonton, Alberta, to Jacksonville, *‘Eloridawfrom Honolulu, Hawaii.

i‘ng superiority has .been shown .by

  

“Doodles" went up to 36 points on the No
to Syracuse, New York, beef mak

this breed .under the acid test of war. 'Write to
nnnnnmt Wmm, .

:freo literature. ' ,
AMERICAN ABMEN-Am
, . , . ‘817 II,

  
 

   

FM “LE FIVE HEAD REGISTERED
- ' Durham Females from .four
months to four years old. Bates strain.
Also some large Poland China '«Boars, six

months old, bred from a sow that has

just farrowed 16 i

pgs. .
Wm. Cox, Williams’con, Michigan.‘

 

SHORTHGRN FOR. SALE AT REA-
Sn' ‘wlc prices. The

prizeaw‘inning Scotch ,..i11,. Master Model

576147, in many states at head of herd of

50 good type Shorthorns.

E. M. Parkhurst, Reed City, Michigan.

FOR SALE—4 'DOUBL‘E STANDARD
Pulled Durham bulls, age from 7 to 14

-months. ,Edw. Gunden. Pigeon, Mich.

 

 

 

."BgfimfAva. 011193 0' 7 ,

‘MI‘IJK'ING SHORTHORNS
.Maplelane .Laddie No. 504725, a. Grand-
son of General Clay 255920, at head of
herd. Young st‘ock of both sexes for sale.
Can spare a few cows. , .
A. ‘W. Thorne. Fife Lake. “Michigan'

 

DJIAL :‘PURPOSE snonrnonN Bulls.

One yearling and two fine calves; all
mans; heifers all sold. _
ROY FINCH, - -Fife Lake, Michigan

'~.

'FOR SALE —- SHORTH‘ORN AND
Polle‘d Durham Cattle. Herd bulls are
grandsons of Whitehall Sultan and Avon-

 

vek'stoek and-poultrymibeeenu meg . , ,
. . canyon whatitmlll‘ofltfirjlflfiaoiormmes. iron“
must be receive" one week before date of issue. Breed’ ers‘ Auction

ens, Michigan.

 

 

on Wheat",

 

.2

13.28. 11?. 0. BREDme, ALL 18%;
two boars ready .for service and one Zhull
boar. H. 0-. "Swartz, Schoolcraft, Mich. ‘

~IG TYPE '1’. 0., I have a few extra.

good Fall Bears left, sired by Grand

Superba and- onto: Big Prolific ESows.
Their breeding traces to the best head in
111., Iowa. and Neb. ‘

C. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
Large Type Poland China Hogs
Write that inquiry for L. T. P. C. serv-
iceable boars 'to Wm. J. Clarke, Eaton
Rapids, Mich, instead of Mason. 1 have
soldimy farmemd bought another, one
mile west and eight and oneahalf miles
south. .Come and see me in my new home.

Free livery from town.
. WM. J. CLARKE, -
R. No. 1, Eaton Rapids, Michigan

'BII’CHIGAN GHAM~PION HERD ~O-F
Big Type P. C. orders booked for spring
pigs. in. R. Leonard, St. Louis, Mich.

 

 

 

BIG TYPE P.0LANDS, .GILTS .ALL
801d. one yearling sow bred to farrow
May 29th, for sale. 0. L. Wright, Jones-

- ville. Mich.

 

WALNUT ALLEY BIG TY-PE, Gilts

. all sold. Keep
watch of 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena-
tor and Orange Price. I thank my cue--
formers for their patronage.

 

 

“W" 0- Carlsonv Leroy! Mic“. A. D. GREGORY. - lonia Mich.
FOR. SALE—SHORTHORNS

Of Quality, Scotch and Scotch topped. DUROC

Maxwalton Monarch 2nd & Maxwalton DUROCS; BRED STOCK ALL SOLD.

Jupiter in service.

John Schmidt & 'Son, Reed City, Mich.

 

IIORTHORNS and POLAND CHINAS
all sold out. None for sale at pres-
ent. ‘F. M. Piggott & Son, Fowler, Mich

 

WHAT Do YOU WANT? 1 represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put youin
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls

all ages. Some female. W Criim,
President Central Mic lgan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michi,r 1.

 

FOR SALE—Two Shorthorn Durham
bulls. Bates strain and good individuals.
One 3 years old; one 6 months. Geo. W

Arnold, Bates, Mich.

 

THE VAN BUREN ,CO. .Shorthorn -

Breeders’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. FYVrite
rank

our wants to the Secretary
Bailey, Hartford, Michigan.

 

SCOTCH TOPPED
For sale SHOR'PHORNS, roans
and reds, both sexes. Atrhead of herd
grandson of famous Whitehall
Write for prices and description.
S. H. PANGBORN, Bad Axe, Michigan.

 

HEREFORDS

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

Not how.-many! but how good! A few
well-developed, beefy young bulls for
sale, blood lines and individuality No. 1.
If you want a prepotent sire, that will
beget grazers, rustlers, early maturers
and market-toppers, buy a registered
Hereford and realize a, ‘big profit on your
investment. A life-time devoted to the
breed. Come and see me.——E. J, ’l‘AYm
LOR, Fremont, blich.

 

THREE HEREFORD BULL CALVES,
about eight months old; one horned and
two polled; best of breeding. Prices rea-

sonable. Cole & Gardner, Hudson, Mich.’

 

 

HORSEE

 

Sultan. '

Will have a limited number of yearling
gilts bred for August farrow. Order ear’ly.
Newton & Blank. Hill Crest Farms, Per-
rinton, Mich.

 

“’l‘~“’0 YOUNG BROOKVVATER, DUR-
oc Jersey Boars, ready for service. All
stock shipped; express prepaid, inspection
allowed. Fricke Dairy Co. Address Fric-
ke Dairy Co., or Arthur W. Mumford,
Perrinton, Mich.”

 

DUROC JERSEY S\V-INE. Jillian)
Sows and Gilts all sold. Nice bunch of
fall pigs, both sex, sired by Brookwater
Tippy Orion No. 55421, by Tippy Col., out
of dam by the Principal 4th and Brook-
water Cherry King. Also herd boar 3 yr.
old. Write for pedigree and prices Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. This. Underhill &
Son, Salem, Michigan.

 

DUROC BRED SOWS AND 50

fall pigs. You need a. litter by Or-

. ion’s Fancy King, the biggest pig

of his age ever at International Fat Stock

show, Catalog tells all.—Newton Barn-
hart, St. Johns, Mich.

PEACHHILL FARM
Registered Duroc Jersey, fall boar pigs.
Also two choice last springboars. Write

 

to us. Our prices are very reasonable.
Visitors welcome.
INWOOD BROS, - Romeo, Mich.

 

OFOR SALE—TWO REGULAR DUROC
Jersey boars, 1st of October fai'row;
weight. 150 lbs; sired by Orion Cherry
King 6th No. 79931; dam by Defender.
C. E. Davis & Son, Ashley, Mich, Ft. 1.

MEADOWVIEW FARM
Registered Duroc Jersey Hogs.
your spring pigs now.
J. E. Morris, Farmington, Mich;

0. l. C.

O Saginaw Valley Herd

Headed by C. ‘C. Michgan Boy

 

Buy

 

 

 

1‘ S‘ :Islon1 oft Grand Champion
FOR SALE—FIVE REGISTERED c 00 mos er and Perfection
Percheron horses, three stallions, 'two 5th February pigs for sale.‘
mares, all blacks and priced to sell. John G‘bs°n"
C. s. Young, Shepherd, Mich. Bridgeport, — Michigan.
BLACK PERCHERON STALLION,
Hugo; recorder number 99855: weight,

2,100 E. Zlngrebe, Latty. Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

Shadowland Farm

 

SHE'I‘LAND PONIES
For Sale. Write

SH-ETLAND PONl ~ .. .- ..

prices " ~‘- R ("iirdy Hyman, M'irvh,

' EGGS

POLAND CHINA

AT HALF PRICE — REGISTERED
Percheron Mare. da‘pple gray, 7years old;
weighs a ton show fit; heavy win foal toan
imported stud weighing 2,160. Price .3300.

 

 

 

 

A good worker; prompt. Also stud edit, 2
years old ready for service; color brown; f

from .a ton mare and imported ton stud.
Price $250. A show colt, a great .actor.
J. CfButler. Portland, Mich

lG TYPE ‘P. G. gilts, bred for April
:farrow. the big smooth :kind. A. A.

 

*WOQD a SON, Saline, Mich.

 

    
  

    

merican continent. From,

 
   

     

  
 
 

r list of breeders and

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. O. l. C’s.
and June.

' in May
Bredcdts Booking orders for‘
Spring Pigs. Everything shipped ‘C.O.D.
and registered in buyer’s name. If
you want the best, write

J. CA'RL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.

0.].C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FALL BOARS AND GILTS;
Extra large 1boned. Best I ever
raised. Priced to sell, .alsa xgoodugnade
HoLstein bull calf. “Will ‘Thorman, Elm
Front Stock “Farm, Dryden, Michigan.

RAY ’WARN'ER, Route ’3, Almont, Mich"
Breeder of Pure Bred vShorthorn Cattle
and,0. I. C.- Swine. A few Oct. pigs
on hand. . ~

 

HAMPSHIRE ,

 

naursumn neonates or JAN,
30th far-rowpnly, for sale now. Book your
order for Spring Pigs now; John»w, -Sny- .

derFSt. Johns, Mich“ B. 4,_ '

 

  
 

   
 
 
 


   

 

  

tries: at raw price
frigatander, Vassar, Mich

fiesteISfrom W film ms_.%‘n

 

'1‘. West
bi t e Chesterwhite swine
M73 133331-131 egde yp by Petrolium Kin

I!
he b Petrolium Giant 37.11,
ghd'olaieagi'i time‘s- grand champion Some
’ V ‘ ‘ good October males for sale. Write me
’ ‘ ' ‘ ' - for further partiCuIars and prices. J. '1‘.
' " westail, Breckenridge, Michigan.

DOGS

' ' SALE—COLLIN} rurs.
‘ ww'r’rawaikerton, Indiana

CHOICE STOCKI COLLIE PUPS FOB

sale: mother natural heeler. J, H. Ses-
sions, St. Johns, Michi, R; 8

POUILTRY'

  

OEA S.

HOMESTEAD FARMS

A“ Federatiorh oi“ Interests»

Our new Catalog of Pure Bneed Practi—
cal Poultry is nova ready some breeds

are sold out for a number of: weeks. 019,.

ders for Chickyam- still‘ being. booked for.
Barred and White Rocks.
Rose and B. 0. Rhode Island Roda,
White Wyandowes
Single Comb Black Minomas.
Single and Rose Comb White Leghorns.
Single and'Bose Comb Brown Leghornsn
Single Comb Anconas.

EGGS FOR HATGHING
Eggs from: any of the foregoing breeds
for sgittings or iny quantities for incubators.
Special priCe on. 500 to 1000 eggs during
season. and on Eggs for Broilers. Eggs
from White Pekin Ducks and Gray Tou-
louse Geese.

Hares—Belgians and Flemish Giants.

Orders should be sent now, in advance,
so that your order will not be crowded
out by orders that have been sent earlier.
Send for Catalog

BWOMINGDAL’B FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich.

BARRED BOOK

 

MUD-WAYLAUSH-KA FARM 01r-
fers for May lst shipments our breeders
-- . in Parks bred-to-lay Barre Rocks (Pul-
let mating) yearllnkg bhens, 3 to $5 each;
eight hens and cock bird , $ 0 Rock eggs,
$1. 50 per 15; $4. 50 per 50; its Runner
duck eggs; $1. 50 per 11. Dike C. Miller,
Dryden, Mich.

G. A. BAUMGABDNEB’S BARRED
P. Rocks are famous for winners, layers.
and yellow legs and beaks. Eggs by ex-
press. $1.50 301' 15, bfch“ parcel2 post; $3:
per 15. Mid leville. M011.

1- OHN’S— BIG BEAUTIFUL BARBEIF
Rocks are henvhatched, oquick growers,

good layers; 80 ceggs, eu‘ela'o 100, 0318' 00.

Postage paid. s. $4.00 Circu-

lars, photos. John“k Wbrthon. Clare. Mich.

THOROUGHBRED BARRED ROCK
Cockerels and females. Vigorous
stock; good layers; eggs for hatching.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Robert Bow.

man, Jr., R. No. 1. Pigeon, Michigan

BARRED ROCK WINNERS: Won 1'
Pen 2nd Cockerei and 4th~
- Cockerel at Chelsea Big Show. Hatching
1:32:33 froml5Pen s15 33: .50 p510 15B; Pen 2.
per or er a
' ,post. Carrier returned). y p rcel
SAM SflADEh. - Chelsea... Mich:

 

 

=man.

, per setting.

‘EGGSI‘Ofl HATOHING, .FBOM FARM

 

 

Wyandottea; a1 mail—
in $3 per 15 figmeo;
pagrcels post prepaid:2 Gillw'ence BroWning.
Portland, Mich” R. 2.

WYANDOTTES “Eidn‘wwn
WHITE for 15 years. Fine Bird's. Beet:
layers. Keeler’s“ strain Eggs 15 31. 25.
100. $0 50: Coekerels. '.$2 00
Nick Fleck R. 6, Plymouth Ind

RHODE- ISLKNII BEDS,
nuns Tnfivrhanm 31:315—78. 0. 013M.
b-ined- with g eggs—p ucmg qua ity
eggs per setting, 15, $1.50. F. F. Whit-
\r Williamst‘on. Mich.

gCOCKERELS n; 0.1!. 1‘. White. Large
pure white husky fellows.
prices reasonable, satisfaction guaran-
teed O‘~1E" Howler; Ludington, Mich.

FEW' COOKERELS. left and S. C. \V.
Orpington GEES; also White Guinea
Eggs $211 hatchmg—Odell A‘rnold. Cole.

 

S. C. B. BLACK MINORCAS; EGGS
per pen $1.30 per. setting. of 15: pens, $2
Selected eggs from main

flock. $7 per 100 R. W. Mills, Saline,
Mich.

 

CHICK-S

CHIC WE 'SHIP’ TROUSA‘NDS, DIF-
ferent varieties; Brown Leg-
horns, $13 hundred, booklet and- testi-
monials. Stamp appreciated. F‘reeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport, Mich.

 

 

TURKEYS

SHEPARDS' BUFF ROCKS; PRIZE
winners at the big Detroit Poultry Show
1919. I have tw0 grade pens mated. I
will hatch my winners from these mating.
I will have a limited number of eggs to
Spare at $3 per 15 If you want some
good But! Rocks order one or two of these
settings; they will please you. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Irvin Shepard Chesan-
1113. Mich

AMMOTH BRONZE TUBKEYS —
Strictly thoroughbred, for sale. Gob-
blers weigh 15- 38 lbs., Hens 9-16 lbs.
Price, $7. 00 to $25. 00, according to
weight and beauty. E gs, $4.00 not
setting of ten. John Morr s. R 7. Vassar.

EATCHING EGGS

 

 

EGGS 1708' HATOHING 0. WHITE
Leghorns; 7 Michigan cultural Col-
lege-bred trap nested masters with our
flock at present; eggs. so each. Geo. Mc-
KaY, Hersey, Mich.

 

raised S. C. White Leghorns’ 15

9388, $1; 26 eggs, $1.5
Sumner Simpson, Webberville, Mich.

 

HATCHING noes FROM PURE Blood
S. C. R. Reds Prices 15, $1. 50

$4 00; 100 $7. 00 Mrs J A. Kellie. May:
bee Michiga

ARRED ROCK EGGS; WINNERS AT
Chelsea show.5 Special pen, $2. 50, 15;
Second $2, ; $5.50. P. P, Prepaid
fiargier. Returned. 8am Stadel. Chelsea.

 

 

BEGHOBN

SINGLE- 00MB? WME LEGHOBNS;
bred to lays: OBarroxmstraln;. hatching eggs
per 15, $1.5 $2.7 50, $4; 100,
$7. 50; 300, $21 0Order6 direct from this
ad No' s check. Bruce W. Brown, May-
" ' ville, Mich. ‘

BRED- TO-LAY WHITE LEGHORNS.
leading M. A C. Demonstration Farm in
1918. Average production for 150 hens
last year 185 eggs each. Eggs for hatch-
ing, $2 per 15 or $10 er 100. Anna R.
Lindsay, Glenzburnie armstem, Romu-
lus, Mich. ,Box 54. ,

P ROFITABLE BUFII' LEGHOBNS—We
have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof-
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-
onable prices. Our list will interest you
—please ask for it. Village Farms,
Grass Lake, Michigan.

EGGS FOB HATOHING, FROM FARM
raised S.,C. hitse0 Leghorns 15
eggs, $1. 00; 26 eggs. $1.5

 

 

Sumner Simpson, Webbervillefl Michigan, ’

 

%6 Br: Leghorn eggs $1.50 for 15: $3

.Pekin duck. $ 60 10':- 8.
Cltl'neselpo goose eggs 4 cents each Mrs.
Claudia Bette, HillSdaie; Mich.

  
  

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Kletzeln, Bath, Michigan.

Ringlet strain; 15 for $1 50:30 for $2. 50.
. prepaid. Mrs. Geo. Weaver, Fife
Lake, Michigan.

 

EGGS FOB HATCHING, FROM MAR-

tin strain, white Wyandottes,

$1 50 per 15 Postpaid. William Kampen-

$11,652 Washington avenue, Muskegon,
c

 

HATCHING EGGS — PLYMOUTH
Rocks, all varieties and Anconas. Illus-
trated catalog, 3cR Sheridan Poultry Yards
Sheridan, Mich;

 

WHITTAKER’S STRAIN B.
Rhode Island Reds: eggs, $1 per 15.
garzl Steinbrink, Mt. Clemens Mich”

 

' From pure bred White
Half-11111815883 Rocks Fishels Strain
and Mammoth White Pekin Ducks. Chas.

 

NOTICE—PURCHASERS 0F POUL-
try‘ supplies will please refrain from send-
ing me remittances and letters intended
for The Bloomingdale Farms Association,

 

Sal’e ofl'lolstems ,V
_ 5 Cows and Heifers . ‘ . +

m. tion Write For Catalog

as I have not had any direct connection
with this company since February 22, '19.
Frazer. Miller. p

atrium. oonnnfm Aim WHITE;
per 50; b!’

  
    
       
     

[a late of the

Biggest H

in the E51013:I & mcfim
Robert R. Pointer
FARM ON ANN ARBOR LINE
ELM ROAD

 

       
    
   
    
  
   
   
 

 

 

lOO—HEAD-IOO

3 Also be sold on this farm the same day
instead of at Royal Oak as advertised.

John McClure, Salesman

        
           
        
       

 

HATCHINGfiEES 1313133! PRocks.

 

 

 

 

 

Langhurst Farm Sale

SebeWaing, Michigan

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

rd?

Tuberculin Tested.

'LF

a 3l-lb. sire.

ters 3 above 80 lbs.

24-lb. cow.

milk a day.

gie 46. 33 dam of the $53,000 bull.

lbs.“ in 7 days.

that may not come, again.
backing. Don’t miss it.

 

 

  
 

24th. Write for catalogue to

Langhuret Stock Farm,

45 Registered Holstein-Friesians
THURSDAY, APRIL 24th

60 Day Retest
Look Over the Splendid Offerings Listed Besides Many Others.

”' A 25-lb., 4-year-old granddaughter of Homestead Girl De 4..
kol Sarcastic Lad, 106 ABC daughters. Also her daughter from

A daughter of Pietje 22nd. Son 31.62 out of a 25-lb., 4-year-
old daughter of King Walker, with a yearly record of 848 lbs.
A granddaughter of Johan Hengerveld Lad 61 ABC daugh-

A granddaughter of Pontiac Korndyke out of a 24-lb. cow.
Another out of a 19-lb. 3-year-old.
A granddaughter of Spring Farm King Pontiac 37.45 out of. a

Two granddaughters of a 25-lb., 11-year-old with 100 lbs.

A daughter from a grandson of King anne Segis out 05 a
2341b, 3-year—old sister to HesterAaltje Korndyke 46.79.
A granddaughter of King Segis Pontiac out of a 28.1b. com;
A granddaughter of Pontiac Aa
lb. daughter of Pietertje Hengerveld
A granddaughter of King Segis Pontiac 87.21 out of a
daughter of Colantha Johanna Lad.
A son of Ormsby Jane King, son of Ormsby Jane Segis Asg-

gie Korndyke- out of a 285i
gis 33. 81.

Sons and daughters of the above from our junior herd sire,
Dollar Lilith Korndyke whose six nearest dams average 33.34

Just consider the breeding of these animals combined with qual-
ity and you will want to attend this sale. Here is an opportunity ,.
Young healthy cattle with good ARO ,-
Plan to attend. ,
Scbewaing lies in the garden spot of Michigan and is easily reached 1,
“by an hour’s ride on P. M. from Saginaw. Remember the date, April "

    
  
    
    
   
     
  
  
  
  
    
   
    
        
   
  
  
   
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
   
 
  
 
 
 
  

 

       
 
   
 
 
  

 
  

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HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY

DETROIT, M ICE, U.5.A.

comes along.

for you to work on.

 

 

The Michi on State Auto School, in our
0 inimi, is the most institution of its kindin
the country. So for as we are aware. its
rmii-sn of instruction is thorough. compre-
hensive and prnoticnl. In fact, we endorse
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We have recommended a great many stud-
ents to them and the results were very satis-
factory.
Yours very truly,

HUDSON MOTOR OAR COMPANY.

 

”our:

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narnorr. Mic"
Mr. James Williams, 20 Lincoln St., Glovcrsviilc, N. Y.
Dear Sir:—-—Your letter of February 23rd, making inquiry
regarding the Michigan Sign; Auto School receivm .

Wis to say that this is oneni‘ the bostschonls in
the country,_ and would not heSImtu to rccommcnd it to
anyone who is desirous oi‘ lcnrningfiliu automobile husiv
ncss. n recognized institution among the auto»
mobile factories of this city.

nve a grant many graduates from this school

in our‘employ and every one as L ivmi i-ntire satisfaction.

 

‘rusting this information will lie of benefit to you,
we remain.

Voi'y trulv vouw,

MAXVVIDLI. MOTOR COMPANY, Inc.
(TllAliMFfZRS PLANT.

H. H. LEE. Sunewmm \Vi-Ifsre and Labor.

 
   

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ACKAR

lur, Yours very truly
D moron CAR com ANY.

 

      

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The cons of the School are well known business
men, and the reputation of the School is of the highest.
It is known as the largest School of its kind in the
country. ours very truly),

DETROIT )OARD OF COMMERCE

WERNATIONAL HARVEEIFB COMPANY OFAMERIUA

 

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CHICAGO;

Your practice of co—o crating with the factories is
very commendable {or it rings to ether the biggest
men and most successful ideas to e .

We Wlll gladly co-opernte with the Michigan State
Auto School through our ninety branches in the United
States in lplacin your tractor graduates. There is u
constant ( emmi for competent trained tractor men at
very good wages. Very iriil yours

' lNTS‘lRNA’l‘lONAL ARVESTER COMPANY
U1" AMERICA.

SEND TH=!S‘EU|JPON"TUDAY

MICH. STATE AUTO SCHOOL
2264 Auto Bldg., 687-89-91 “'ood—
ward Ave.

DETROIT, AIICHIGAN, U. S. A.

Gentlemen: Please send me abso-
lutely FREE. New 176 page I]- I
lustrated Catalog, “Auto School
News,” and information as check- '
ed below.

   

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) Aerophne ”Motor Mechanics

) Tire Repairing

) Brazing and Welding

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logical place to learn the business.

the biggest men in

ates get actual, valuable assistance
from the biggest men in the business.

bile and tractor experts and this is your opportunity to ge

Earn $1 00 to $400 per Month

auto or tractor proposition. You learn~ to repairgany car that
enty—five cars for you to work On. Different cars go andcome
we. have twenty-five different motor“

a few short weeks to handle any

Our garage repair shop has from twenty to tw
In our block test depart ment, alone,

u cm s,

trucks

study at the Michigan State Auto

the field. All the big factories.

We have absolutely the best equipment obtainable. .

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. Six million entomobilcsf

in use, as well as thousands. of.
land tractors, means that: an';a'rmy .
_ of competent men will be needed,‘-—and"a‘re9 '

now in demand—to keep .them' running properly.
. This offers a wonderful opportunity for you to step into
a good salary Or even start a. business of your own. A feW-Wecks

School will do this for you, and

Detroit—~tlie Automobile Center—the Heart of the Auto Industry—is the
Here you get the benefit of close touch with

need trained men. Our gradu-

in garages, service stations andzas traveling service men,
The whole world looks to Detroit for its best automo-
t into that class of highly paid men.

 

OWN A GARAGE
Do Repairing

Hundreds of our graduates are in bus-
iness for themselves, repairing cars and
are making from $2,500 to $10,000 and
more a year. They went into a business
on a. small capital and succeeded because
they knew the business "thoroughly. There
are thousands of opportunities open to-
day right in your own town. You, too, can
succeed if you let us train you. You can
do more jobs if you know just how to lo—
cute the trouble quickly.

 

SELL AUTOMOBILES,

Trucks—Tnctors

Deal in new and used machines. EVery-
one has been making big money for three
or four years. Farmers have obtained big
prices. Everyone wants an auto, needs
a truck or tractor and has the money to
pay for it, You should know the busi-
ness thoroughly before you enter the sell-
ing end of it. The used machinefleld is
unlimited and you lose money if you do
not know how to._ judge used machines.
Then too you can give service properly if
you know how.

 

GET JOB IN FACTORY

Garage or Service Station

Factories are constantly asking
men at big, wages.
men, and are eager to have our gradu-
ates. Garages write. us for our men. Fac-
tories need men all over the world in ser-
vice stations and as
men. These men must be able to locate
trouble at once and our men are in con-
stant demand Then too our ,graduates
who have gone into business for them-
selves ask»us for graduates, for they
know We train 'them right. We assist in
getting graduates just what they want.

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C o m plete Enter t h 6
courses on classes any
Brazing and time_ 3 clas-
Tire Repair- ses daily, a.
ing are also m,, p.m.,eye-
given. Braz- n'g. Instruc-
ers and weld- tors members
ors get $8 to of Society of
$10 pcl‘ day. A u t omotii'ie
F n c to 1' ice Eng’s (S. A.
a, n d garages E.) Our grad
always need uates get Jobs
0 0 m p e tent ' ' ‘ ” ' eaSily. I f
men. Big OD- THESE TRACTORS JUST ADDED TO OUR TRACTOR DEPARTMENT necessary We
0 a. n secure

1) o r t unities

repairing tires—six million in use.

 

 

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Thorough instruction given in the care, repair
tractor makers—International, Moline and E. B,

Factories Endorse Our School

in Detroit
and other cities endorse our school, our equip-

The leading automobile factories

gient and our;1 methods of teéaching. ’fl‘hey cm W t t quail

orse the goo work we are oing, in act they 6 gum-an 80 0 " . .

assisted us in outliningour course and they fy you for a position as Th1? ichgol grounded

have included lectures on practical theory in chauffeur, repair man, on t e es, most_proc1—

the courses, knowing that you cannot learn the tester demonstrator auto 031 and newest DI‘IHCIDIBS

business properly without them. You must train lectrlcian “a 8 'man in Automobile, Truck,

the head to guide the hand Read some of their :utomobile. deal;- aero: Aeroplane and. Tractor
These were Wl‘ltten ’ business. It is the result

endorsements on this page.

in reply to letters from different parts of the
country asking about us. We enjoy their keen—
est co—operation and you, as a student (here in
Detroit, the auto center), get the benefit of it.
This school is highly endorsed, and has a world-

wide reputation for excellence.

and maintenance of tractors.

MONEY-BACK

Guarantee

plane motor mechanic or
tractor mechanic and my
erutor, paying from $100
to $400 monthly, or re—
fund your money.

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Big Demand For Men Trained Here

Everybody knows that Detroit trained men get the preference.
we are surrounded by the biggest automobile factories in the world.

 

Remember,

of the keenest co-opera-

service stations,

ideas of the biggest. best,

COMPLETE TRACTOR COURSE INCLUDED ' ,

Best co-operatign enjoyed with three largest
Students get actual practice on these machines.

NOT A ONE MAN

SCHOOL" \

with manufacturers-
garages
owners. it is not
man’s idea, but the

  

most successful men “n“

in each field.

Arthur G. Zeller, President

 

They. con-

stanvly come to us for men to fill responsible positions because they know our course is

thorough and our graduates are trained, competent men.
We get telegrams from all over

fullest (to—operation

men who KNOW how to take care of cars, etc.
School enjoys a. prestige and standing not otherwise obtainable.
I school,_your Opportunities are unlimited.

That’s why they give us the
the country asking us to furnish
A graduate of the Michigan State Auto
As a student of this

Get Our New l76-Page Catalog—Free

Tells complete story—answers all questions—~9hows 133 pictures of unexcelled equip-
ment—quotes hundreds 01' letters from satisfied graduates—dozens of letters from fac-

tories praisingwour school and methods.
prove that it pays to come to Detroit—the
of the Michigan State Auto School.
when to expect you.
done.

 

7,000 succeSSful graduates all oVer the world
Auto Center—and “learn the business right”
Don’t debate and delay. Use the'Coupon; tell us
Jump right on the train and come at once as hundreds have
If you can’t'do that, write today for catalog.

Michigan State Auto School

A, G. ZELLER. President
The Old Reliable School ,
. Automobiles—Jl‘rucks—Tractors——Aeroplanes .
2264 Auto Bldg., 687-89-91 W00dward Ave., DETROIT. MICH., U. S. A.

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