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Turning” Idle Land into Wool, Beef andMutton

LAND IS of no value to civilization unless it works. Land is work—
ing which supportsva. building, yields mineral, or grows crops
and grasses. . ’ Every'state in the union has idle lands. They all con-
tain potential wealth, but man has not yet discovered the method
through which that wealth may all be developed and converted into
something useful. ‘
~Here in Michigan there are several million acres of light, sandy
lands, commonly though erroneously called “arid.” These soils
will sustain leguminous growths, but agricultural investigators
have not yet been able to find a method of treatment and tillage that
will induce them togrow with any success cereal or root crops. But
contrary to the general opinion of those unacquainted with the light-
er soils of the state, they are not barren, by any means. Year in and
year out they yield more or less luxuriant growths of grasses which
start up in the spring-time, thrive during the summer and are strick-
en down by the frosts of winter; Every season witnesses the same

cycle and the same waste of thousands of tons of live stock fodder.

 

 

Sheep and cattle are the machines which Will transform the
grasses of the idle lands of Michigan into useful products. Well-wat-
ered by streams and lakes and abundant rainfall, and in easy acecess
to lines oftransportation, these lands are attracting the attentlon of
sheep and cattle grazers of the west and trainload after trainload of
half-famished western live stock have been brought 1nto the best
sections of Northern and Upper Michigan. Res1dent farmers of the
state, also, are beginning to open their eyes _to the wonderful facil-
ities existing in the state for live stock grazmg, and numerous live
stock cattle associations have been formed of late for the purpose. of
taking over some of these lands and setting them to work feeding
sheep and cattle.

A movement is on foot at the present time to organize a Sheep-
Wool Ass ’n in Michigan, similar to one that has been 11] Operation
for some time in Indiana. This is a mutual plan between persons
who have money to invest and land owners, whereby the former fur-
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CAMPAIGN anagrams FARMERS

‘The interest in good registendliwnmk is quite
Every week there is some additionto

There are several good herds of Shorthorns. Hal.
stains, Jerseys, and Guernseys in the county and
more are being purchased every week.

Not only are the men 01 every community get-

’ ting together on some breed, buying good bulls.

but the men are purchasing bunnies which are
registered as fast as good ones can be located.
' Several exceptionally good sires owned within
the county have been shifted so they can be used
lonaer. -

-Mr. Fred Smith of Elk Rapids, returned two
weeks ago from Indiana with two shorthorn cows

' and a .heifer call.

‘Mr. Wm. Holt of Alden, brought in a Guernsey
cow from Charlevoix and the latest and largest
deal was made last Friday qu Saturday when
Edward Fox purchased a Guernsey cow in Charle

vet: and on .Saturday a heifer in North Port and ’

Chas. Fox came back from North Port with three
registered cows and Wm. Hoopfer with. two young
heifers two years old and Lewis Hickin with two
heifers one two years and one a calf.

These were all purchased from Mr. Branau &
Son who own one of the finest herds of Guernsey
cattle in the northern part of the state.

The Farm Bureau is promoting the breeding of
registered cattle in every way possible, because the
members know that live stock is the one big thing
for Northern Michigan and there can be no move-
ment which will advance the interests of this
country like real good registered cattle.

Last year the Farm Bureau took the markets’
problem on as the one thing which needed imme-
diate attention and they have today a county
which has a co-operative marketing association in
every town, thru which the farmers have saved
thousands of dollars.

This year the Market Associations are receiving
what little attention they may need, but the live-
stock is the large program for this year. Nearly
all of the live stock which will be shipped .out of
the county will go thru the Market Associations
where the farmers are getting better prices than
When marketed in the old way—R. E. Hon-ow
Secretary. ,

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RESOLUTIONS FROM ALBION FARM-
ERS‘ CLUB ENDORSING FARM BUREAU

Wmmas: We, the members of the Albion Far-
mers' Club, believe that the Calhoun County Farm
Bureau is a firm foundation on which to build a

strong county organization, and,

Wmnss: This club has a member on the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Farm Bureau, and our
Co. agent is chosen from our membership. Be it

Resolved: That we declare the Albion Farmers'
Club to be a volunteer member of the County
Farm Bureau, opening our meeting for, the dis-
cussion of farm bureau subjects. ‘And that we
spread the gospel of county organizations thruout
our whole community. Also, that we inyite all
farmers’ clubs, Granges, Gleaners, improvement
clubs, ladies' societies, Red Cross sewing circles
and all other organizations in Calhoun county

' having members engaged in the business of farm-

ing to endorse the farm bureau and to join us as

Be it further
Resolved: That we as members of the farm bur-

:eau recommend to the Executive Committee that

a large part of their effort for the year 1919 be

"given to extending the organization and that all

facilities for publicity be used to teach the princi-
ple of co—operation, and that they encourage the

_ organization of co-operative companies thruout the
‘ county. Signed, S. A. Bascom, Paul 0'. Jamison,

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EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR

The flrstlive stock entry to be made for
the 1919 Michigan State Fair, August 29th
by William
Newton, a veteran sheep breeder of Mich-
igan. Mr. .Newton, who is ninety years old.
made a special trip on Sunday from St.
Clair, Michigan, to the home of Secretary- ,
Manager G. W. Dickinson in Pontiac, to
me his entries and pay his fees.

Mexhibitatiheensuingfairwillbe
the fifty-fifth consecutive showing he has
made at the State Fair, having started con-
testing in 1&4. Mr. Newton entered ten
pens of sheep containing seven diil'erent '
varieties, and purchased his 1919 mem-
bership in the Michigan State Agricultural
Society.

Mr. Newton is the oldest sheep breeding
I specialist in the state. During the past
halfcenturyhehnemademanytripsto
England, where he purchased sheep for
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EOKFORD FARLIERS ORGANIZE FOR
BETTER BUSINESS AND POLITICS

At a meeting of the farmers of Eckford the com-
mittee in charge of the elevator proposition re-
ported that very good results had been secured.
and that the farmers are wholly alive to their own
interests and in favor of owning their own ele-
vator. A large majority favored taking stock in
the Albion company and having it buy and Oper-
ate the Eckford plant in connectiouwith their
own business. The committee was made perma-
nent and instructed to get in touch with the Al-

World Situation as to Sheep

HE world sheep situation is a confused knot

I of conflicting factors that fail to furnish

indications of the industry’s status in all
countries, but that seems to make it certain that
the United States has about ten per cent of all
the sheep, and that leaves unaltereed the depend-
ence of the world upon sheep for clothing, food
and other comforts. These statements were made
by Dr. John R. Mahler, chief of the Bureeau of
Animal Industry, United States Department of
Agriculture, in an address here today before the
More-Sheep-More—Wool Association of the United
States.

“Raising sheep for wool alone or for wool prin~
oipally must eventually give way as a farm pram
ties to the double-purpose animal," said Dr. Moh-
ler, who- called attentiOn to the comparatively
small proportion of mutton, that is eaten in the
United States, with the possibility that the con-
sumption of that meat may be largely increased,
not to the detriment of beef or pork, but to take
the place of thee meat products that have been
imported from other countries.

Keep Production Cost Low ~

“It is highly important that the cost of producr
ing all sheep products to be kept low,” he declar-
ed, “so that the price factor will attract consum-
ers other than repel them. This is one of the un-
derlying reasons for the bureau’s constant effort
to eliminate losses from disease, from parasites.
and from other causes. Losses'that in the pat
seemed unavoidable already have been reduced,
and we are trying to hammer the per cent .of
loss still lower. We are confident that a more ei-
efctive control of lisease will mean more yards of
woolen cloth sold over the counter and more
pounds of mutton in the market basket.

“If the women of the United States learned how
unrestrained dogs menace the sheep industry and

bion directors. at ,‘nce The Epkford Farmers' and .
Votora’ League was also launched, with ,L. J. .

Decker at the helm as president; Mrs. Jeannette
Taylor, 'vice president, and Mrs. Luella Adams.
secretary-treasurer. H. E. Bradley, ~A. E. Adams
and Mrs. Bertha Ball were appointed a committee
to draft a constitution and try-laws and the chair
will appoint a program committee. The league
will meet regularly the last Friday evening of
each month alternating between the two churches.
The aim and intentions of the league will'b‘é’fii-
plained in later issues.

 

LANDS INTO
WOOL, BEEF AND MUTTON

(Continued from page 1)
latter furnish/the lands to support sheep. We
shall have more to say of this movement later.

That sheep and cattle can be, profitably fed
on the cheaper lands of Michigan is now a prov-
velopment of the live stock industry in Michi-
gan as a result of this discovery.

Men have grown gray and weary trying to
discover the elixir that would magically change
these unresponsive lands into fertile soils capa-
ble of. producing human food. But they have
bent so closely to their testing tube that their
eyes have not seen and their minds have not
appreciated the abundance of animal food which
these lands are producing every year without
any artificial stimulation or treatment. In these
.foods is found the origin of the meat we eat,
the milk we drink, and the woolen clothing we
wear. Therefore, the simple solution of the uti—
lization of thése lands is the utilization of the
grasses which they naturally grow.

run: we mm

Encouraging to this Industry '

are a. factor in the price of lamb chops and wool-
en clothing, they would do something about it,
directly or indirectly.

Save by Eating Mutton
“The average housewife would be surprised to
learn that in a year she buys for every person in
the household only about live pounds of mutton

or lamb, as compared with about 71 pounds of'

pork and 67 of beef. If we could induce all the

people to use sheep meat one day a week in the'

average amount of other meats, that would mean

more than 20pounds of mutton and lamb annually .

per capita, or four times its present consumption.
Morse than that, the head of the family, who pays
the bills, would no doubt‘encourage purchasing
mutton and lamb in larger cuts instead of merely
a few chops at a time‘if he were made to realise
the greater economy and the greater encourage-
ment to production. In that connection, a shoulv
der of mutton or a leg of lamb, being smaller
than the average beef joint, ,should appeal espec-
ially to small families."

Increase Size of Flocks

Sheep raising should be encouraged chiefly
where the land and other conditions are suitable
for it, said Dr Mohler, and the aim should be not
so much for an increase in the number of flocks
as increases in the number -of sheep kept by men
who are real shepherds or have the qualifications
and desire to become shepherds.

“By the use of best methods of breeding and
management, and by planting the sheep industry
where it will flourish best," he said, “we should
be able to make it a more vital part of our nation-
al life than it is today. Sheep, which serve man-
kind, embody democracy.’ Possibly in these gen-
tle creatures we may have a fulfillment of‘ the
promise that the meek shall inherit the earth. In
any case let us give them every opportunity with-
in our power to do so." '

 

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industry.
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dispensation. It is an
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‘ FTER all it is to the next generation mainly that we must

look for the transformation of our groatest and most vital
The man who assumes to be the farmer’s friend'or hold
willconstitutehimselfamissionaryofthenew
act of patriotic service to the country. It is
welfare of all humanity, and will strengthen u
that must otherwise waver in some
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opportunity greater than our own for are
on; or invaders, (put our oz: children’s children, who as.
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- ‘ ‘ERHAPS THE most popular error these days
, g is the tendency to compare values by the dol-

the'dgllar is merely a medium: of exchange which
fluctuates daily. For example, if a given commod-
ity is worth ten dollars now, as compared with a
selling price at five dollars a few years ago, we
~say the price has doubled and that we‘ must be
careful to.buy just as little of that commodity as
possible because the price m‘ust soon return; to
it former value.

Sober reflection will soon correct this erroneous
belief. What good reason is there for believing
that measured in terms of dollars any foodstuffs
will decline to values current in 1913? Is two
more valuable than one if one has the same‘pur-
chasing power as two?

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Of all staple products of the farm perhaps none _

has been so disappointing to the grower during
the past six months than beans. And at this
important period'of the year it is timely that some
thought he gives to the attitude of the grower to-
wards the planting of beans this year. Farmers
need not be told that conditions have been chaot-
ic and are still moderately unsettled nor need
they seek far for a reason for the recent unfortu-
nate state of affairs. The farmer today generally,
speaking, is well" informed-regarding world condi-
tions and will readily appreciate that the unex—
pectedly sudden ending of the Great War is re-
sponsible for his troubles. Beans, however, were
not singled out for any special drop in price as
serious declines occurred in practically every ar-
ticle of food.

‘ Close observers of market fluctuations will
agree that prices always swing too far in either
direction and the late decline in beans has been
no exception._ Can any sane, well-informed per-
son, seriously befieve that every other important
food product can advance to high levels and leave
beans unnoticed and unchanged? Quite true they
are slow to move, but the advanco is nevertheless
inevitable and when it'comes it is the more likely
to be rapid because of the delay in commencing.

There was a time when farmers were looked
upon as "easy marks" and smooth salesmen sold
them “gold bricks." And in many cases this rep-
utation was well merited. Today, however, the
farmer is more independent, and may be credited
with some thinking on his own account. He is
far less inclined than formerly to govern his ac-
tion by the action or his neighbor. Farmers have
.also been humorously described as a "flock of
sheep," because if prices are below on a certain
product this year the shrewd city buyer can be
reasonably sure that there will be a small crop of
that commodity, next year. Should it not be ob-
vious,to any man, whether he be farmer, banker
or merchant, that if suflcient people produce the
name product the market will be flooded and
prices low? The wise farmer this year is the one
who refuses to join the flock of disappointed. bean
growers, but "quietly plants a record acreage us-
ing the best seed obtainable and giving his crop
every attention until harvest time.

But, you say, the farmer’wants to know what
.will happen to the beans he now has on hand.
The answer is that he has two courses open—one
is to use his brains—keep cool, and thereby get
a good price for his beans—the other is .to lose
heart—become panicky and threw his goods away
to the benefit of everybody but himself. Some
will say that they have remained cool until they
have lost patience and want good reasons for
waiting longer to market their product. Very
well, let us see what the position of the humble
bean is at this time.

The cause of any advance in price is of course,
demand or anticipated demoed, from someone who
wants to buy, and the farmer has been told that
his beans are not moving because of lack of de-
mand. Is this true? Yes, generally speaking, it
has been true up to the present, but the situation
is rapidly changing. There are two markets to
consider, the first domestic and the second, for-
eign. The domestic market has been dull because
of various factors, the most important of which
are (a) increased productiou fiver previous year:
(b) sudden ending of war—causing all buyers to
discontinue purchases except on a strictly hand-
(0) prosperity, linked (as usual)
with extravagance, which, curiously enough, caus-

.05 a demand for anything and everything high in

. price, without regard to its_intriusic value. The
. been, being cheap, sndln a sense, looked upon as

mam-times" food, has been frowned upon by

financially able to afford sirloin steaks

‘ - lar and cents standard without realizing that -

of Other Fwd Products

  

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CHEAP BEANS or ORIENT NAVY
BEAN’S wons'r ENEMY

_ ACCOMPANYING article was
written by a. man who has had long ex-
perience in the bean game. For vari-

ous reasons he desires his name withheld.
We know, however, from personal contact.
with this gentleman that he “knows
beans.” There is no phase of the pres-
ent situation ‘with which he is not well ac-
quainted, and we place great confidence
in his opinions and conclusions. His ex-
planation of the situation is logical, con-
vincing and in keeping with the facts as
we lmow them.

“I predict $10 beans f. 0. b. New York
before the new crop," says this correspond-
ent. “I think it. safe for you to go to your
people saying you are convinced . that
choice hand-picked beans will sell freely,
-‘—-—demand exceed supply—at $9 f. o. b. cars
Michigan before new crep. You are safe
in making this statement.”

Our readers should bear in mind that
this is the opinion of one man, but it is
shared by thousands of others. The ex-
planation of such an optimistic attitude is
not hard to find when one becomes familiar
with the tremendous demand for food
products existing in all parts of the world.
It is easy to understand why the domestic
market has been near stagnation when we
realize the freedom of access to this coun-
try and the extent of the.governmcnt pur-
chases of foreign beans. Once these alien
beans are moved out of the way the de-
mand for the American bean will be as
great as ever. . '

The confidence of American bean grow-
ers in the future stability and profitable-
ness of the bean industry has been shaken
by the ease with which foreign beans have
gained admittance to this country the past
two years.

Truoasitmaybefliata“tariilisatax,"
if the things that the farmers buy are to be
taxed to protect our “infant industries,”
then the industries in which farmers are
engaged must use be protected by a tar-ii!
that will keep out the cheaply grown arti-
cles which compete with the products of
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ties. The result of this period of rising prices has
been that from the standpoint of comparative food
value beans are ridiculously cheap and, with cur-
rent prices of meat, butter, eggs, dried fruits, etc.,
almost out of reach of the individual of moderate
income, he is beginning to realize that both his

 

by the regular use of beans once more in his daily
ration. This individual also observes that ’his
shelves are now bare of beans and he must buy.
He visits his grocer, who, fearful of pro-war prices
and mindful or lack of demand from his lately ex-
travagant customers, finds his supply almost out.
He therefore orders beans from his jobber, who,
alas, is in a similar predicament for similar. rea-
sons. The foregoing is not a dream about the
domestic market, it describes a condition which is
just taking form and“which will gain momentum
like the proverbial snowball rolling down the hill-
side.,

Now for the foreign market, Europe in particu-
lar. There are, of course, certain classes who have
accumulated great wealth as a result of the war,
but the great masses of the people of all belliger-
ent countries are poor—seriously so—many on
the verge of starvation. What opportunity had the
millions of soldiers and their families to do more
than eke out a bare existence? The first thought
therefore—now that hostilities have ceased—As to
secure food. They, too, would like to buy sirloin
steak, etc., but they must be governed now by
their ability to pay, and are more concerned with
the problem of avoiding starvation than of living
luxuriously. Even those who have money and
could buy luxuries are sensibly inclined to con-
serve their resources. Their dollar, or pound, or,
franc, or mark, has too, shrunken in its purchas-
ing power and must be expended judiciously. This
is the position of the poorer and middle classes
of Europe today and here'is what the American
bean salesman will now tell those people: The
bean is far less costly per pound today than any
other commodity of similar food value; it is not
perishable, but will remain in good condition in
any climate for any unusual length of time; it is
convenient to handle and safe to transport; it is
easy to prepare, and requires . little technical
skill; its food value per pound exceeds that of
beef, eggs or fish, and finally, we have maerous
supplies in America and even if your heavy pur-
chases should cause a rise in our markets, to
double the present price it would still he the
cheapest food available. The arguments admit of
no denial. The position of beans today is funda-
mentally sound and thoughtful people will agree
that from this time forward there can be only one
logical trend to the bean market. Let the farmer
who reads this remain firm. Let him be sensible
and continue to produce beans; they will all be re-
quired and at good prices. It is the opinion of
the writer, who has given much thought to the
situation and who has no “axe to grind" that mid-
summer will see beans at higher prices than have
thus far been witnessed since last September.

From Brewery to Creamery; Booze to ‘Milk

HE notion that the coming in of prohibition

will throw millions of dollars of investment

upon the junk heap is devoid of slightest
foundation. Breweries and distilleries are rapidly
being remodeled to accommodate a different raw
product and finish it for the market. Here are
some “converted" breweries:

The Rainier Brewery of Portland, Ore., is now a
tannery employing 1,600 men, where it formerly
employed 156 men.

The brewery of the Portland Brewing Company,
Portland 01‘s., is now a furniture factory and em-

ploys 600 men.

The brewery at Lansing, Mich., is now used in
the manufacture of automobile parts.

The brewery at Huntington, W. Va., is now a
meat packing plant.

The Raymann Brewery of Wheeling W. Va, is
1now the Raymann Company engaged in meat pack-
ng.

The Iowa City, (1a.) Brewery is now a creamery
and produce company.

The Uneeda, (W. Va.) Brewery is now a milk
products company.

The Coors Brewery of 'Denver now makes malt-
ed milk and a fine quality of porcelain.

The North Yakima (Wash.) Brewery is now a
fruit by-product company.

The Salem (01's.) Brewery in now manufactur-
ing loganberry juice.

The Star Brewery, Washington, Pa., is now the
Capital Paint, Oil and Varnish Company.

The Pacific Coast Brewery, Portland, me, is
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HERE BEGINS the first of asseries'of articles on ”the Non-Par-

' trsan League'o'f North Dakota; These articlesare publi‘shed'in‘

"response to a very definite deman’d‘from our readers for complete

"information on the farmers’ movement in the Northwest. Practi-
cally all of the discussions that" have appeared in the state press or
from the platform have been unfriendly to the underlying .princi-
ples ofthe League and inspired largely by selfish motives.‘ .Many

. of , those who have gone about the state “lecturing” against the

' Non-Partisan League have not done so because the felt they had a
mission to perform to awaken the farmers to the ‘menace” of the '
League, but because they were paid to do so by certain interests '
who fear the spread of the League principles.
have been wholly one-sided and not always in strict accordance with
the truth. Nearly every large newspaper and magazine in the
country have published articles 011 the N on-Partisan League. Some

of these have been intentionally biased against the League, but the

about" its . program.

the Northwest.
of application.

These discussions ,

 

 

HE NON-PARTISAN League was organ-

l ized to gain certain benefits for the farm—

_ ers of this state thru political action. Every
state official and legislative candidate elected by
the League was pledged to vote for certain
definite measures.

Non-Partisan League members were in a ma-
jority in both houses of the last legislature and
these members fulfilled their pledges to the peo—
ple by enacting the entire league program into
law. -

No other legislature in history has ever passed
such a progressive and constructive body of laws

, at a single session and probably no other legis-

lature in history was more directly responsible
to the people and so completely free from cor-
poration control as the sixteenth legislative as—
.sembly of North Dakota.
All Program Pledges Fulfilled

The Non—Partisan League legislators enacted
every one of its pledges into law and to strength—
en and extend this program they also passed a
number of other closely related bills.

This legislation naturally falls into several
great groups. First, there is the industrial pro-
gram consisting of the laws creating the Indus—

. trial Commission, the Bank of North Dakota, the

Terminal Elevator and Flour Mill Association,
the Home Building Association, State Hail In-
surance and bonding acts necessary to create
funds for the state-owned institutions.

In the second group come the taxation meas-
ures which provide for and distribute fairly the
revenue needed to carry on these new state in-
stit tions. The taxation measures, in brief, are
,the income tax, the exemption
V improvements from

A; Few of North Dakota’s New. Laws

Industrial CemmiSSion; Bank of' North
Dakota, Terminal Elevator and Mill Assor
elation, State Hail Insurance, Home Build-
ing Association, Bank Bonds, Real‘Estate
Bonds, Mill and 'Elevamr Bonds‘,_ Freight
Rates Reduced, Public Utilities Controlled,
Inunigration Commissioner, Workman‘s
Compensation, Mine Inspection, Eight
Hour Day, Ago Limit for Children, Min-
imum Wage for Women, EightPHour Day
for Women, Child Labor, Protection for
Railway.Employees, Full Train Crew, Anti-
Injunction, Union Label on State Printing,
Polls Open in Evening, Reclassification of
Assessments, Taxation Exemptions, State
Income Tax, State Inheritance Tax, Motor
Vehicle tax, Oil Sales Tax, One-Man Tax
Commission, Board of Administration (Un-
ification of Educational System), Printing
Bills, Soldiers' Compensation, Judicial Re-
districting. ’

NOTE:—A booklet, containing exact
copies of most of the laws referred to in the
foregoing, has been issued by the North
Dakota Industrial Commission. Copies may '
be secured by mailing your address and
four cents in postage to the “Industrial
Commission, Bismarck, North Dakota."

 

 

 

more fearless and independent publications hive'not hesitated to
tell the truth even 'at the risk of creating sentiment favorable to,
the League. Though Michigan Busmess; Farming ‘WétéDPPOSBd to
theLeague it would still 1ns1st on giving iareadersgthe FACTS .
The arpicles are published: without any idea ,
.of «endorsing the League or. its abilityto operate successfully, .in '
Michigan where conditions are altogether different than they are in -
North Dakota’s new. laws read fine- capapér, but, ~
we must remember that they have not yet been given the acid test. .
Let North Dakota try out her new laws. ‘
accomplish the results hoped for every other agricultural state in -
the union will want to adopt them.
tical we shall have been spared a failure that will set agricultural -,
organization back for a score of years. * . . ;
Creditjorlthese articles should be given to the North Dakota
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the recall of all state, county and legislative of-
ficers, and the judicial redistricting law.

These are the most important measures pass-
ed by the last legislature and a brief synopsis of
each follows: .

/ Industrial Commission Parent‘Bill

House Bill No. 17, which created the Indus-

trial Commission, is the parent measure of the
Non-Partisan League program, for this commis-
sion manages all the state-owned industries and

. without it the program could not be put into ef—

fect. ~
The Industrial Commissionis composed of th
‘Governor, the Attorney General anrlthe Com-
missioner of Agriculture. and Labor. «These
three elective officials are really made into a

board of directors over the state industries. The .

Industrial Commission has the power to appoint
managers and 0th employees for the Bank of
North Dakota, the' erminal Elevator and Flour
Mill, association andthe Home Building associ-
atiOnn' These managers will be responsible to
the Industrial. Commission and maybe remoVed
at will. ‘This will put these managers on their
mettle and assure efficiency and economy in the
operation of the state utilities. “
The Industrial Commission has the power to
buy, sell and lease'property. It can fix the
prices of the farm products it buys and the
manufactured products it sells. It can make
rules and regulations forthe operation and
management of all the state utilities. ‘

The Industrial Commission also has the right I

or eminent domain. The right of eminent domain
means the state'has’the power'to condemn and
purchase private property for public, use. In
such cases the price is fixed by a board Of ap-
praisers who are disinterested parties to- the
transaction. If' the=board .of appraisers fix up-

on a price which is not satisfactory to the own--

or he has a right ,to appeal to the courts and the
price wil be determined by a jury of twelve men.
The right of eminent domain is

 

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taxation, the new property re-
valuation, the tax on inherit-

and corporation stock.

Splendid Labor Legislation

In the next group are the lab—
or;laws, consisting of the work—
tmen’s compensation act, the ’
mine inspection act, the eight-
hour day and minimum wage
for women, the full crew act,
4 a law making it obligatory for
employers to erect shelters for
workmen engaged out of doors,
in railway car repair work, the
anti—injunction act and the law
which. provides that all state
printing shall bear the union
label.

The fourth great group con-
sists of what might be termed
the regulatory laws. The prin-

 

frank,

are the laws reducing railroad
rates, placing the public ser-
vice corporations under con-
trol of the state Railroad Com-
mission, the grain grading act,
and the law establishing stan—

Other important laws which
cannot be designated under
any group heading are those
creating the Board of Adminis- -
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soldiers' compensation act, the
printing ‘ bills, the proposed

\VHY THE BOY LEAVES

W’hy did you leave the farm, my lad?
Why did you bolt and leave your dad?
“’hy did you, beat it off to town
And turn your poor old father down?
Thinkers of pulpit, platform and press
Are wallowing in deep distress.
They, seek to know the hidden cause
Why farmer boys desert their pas.

“Well, stranger, since you’ve been so

I’ll roll aside the hazy bank:‘

I left my dad, his farm, his plow,
Because my calf became his cow. , p
I left my dad, ’twas wrong, of course,
Because my colt~ became his horse.

I left my dad to sow and reap.
Because my lamb became his sheep.
I dropped the hoe and stuck {he fork
Because my pig became his pork.
The garden truck that I made grow.
Was his to selland mine to hoe.

“It’s not the smoke in the atmosphere. -
Nor the state of life that brought
me here.

Nor fear of toll, or love of,“ 857.1: .
Is driving of! the farmer m. $3,:
It's Just the methods 01m W
I ' *Auricultura;

Why They Leave the Farm

HE Agricultural Review is credited with a poem, widelvcirculated in
the Northwest, giving the alleged reason Why the boy leaves the farm.
An ex-farmer has warmed these verses over to answer the ,more’ im-
portant question of why the “old man” leaves.
move the reason for the fathers leaving,~.we wouldn’t have to worry much
about the young fellows. Here are the original half1baked verses and th
others which have gotten near the truth with more cooking: -

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WHY THE OLD MAN mnvns
“\Vhy did you leave thefarm, good

The unobserving ass 'began.
“Why did you beat it of! to town,
independent living

Thinkers of pulpit, platform, press,
Are wallowing in deep distress.
They cannot find a rhyme or reason
For farmers leaving every season."

And straightaway Farmer John replied
“Thepulpit, platform, press have lied
Full well the bluffers know the reas0n
For farmers leaving every season.
Their bankers gathered 12 per cent, 1
And half of us were ganged with rent.
Their market plates skimmed off the

We held the sack when prices dropt.
They caught us when we came to sell
An' soaked us when we bought as well
The game is rigged by grasping men
Who boss the lads of the tongue and

Pen .
:It wasn’t the sidewalk farmer's gufle,
. , p . Nor» my.d1§like for the country
Please tell the platform, pulpit and That.,mado malprefer two bucks a day
' ~ d farm' in Ioway;

“h £13910 plain and'well-knoWn

Oil my back.”
.- N. ,_ , . ~Em-Farmer',

uals refuse to surrender proper-
:ty needed for public purposes.

this power. g The right of em—
inent domain has been used by

'tio‘nsi County officials have
the. power to use aminentvdo-
main in locating court houses
or other public institutions. It
is a power ”which is inherent
in the State. ' ‘

There is no case on record
where the state has ever used
this power to deprive a man of
his property without just com-
pensation. In nearly all cases
the board of appraisers fixes a
fair and generous price and it
is seldom necessary to appeal
to the courts.

eminent domain is dangerous.
They have declared the Indus-
trial Commission will use this
power to deprive individuals of
their property. These state-
ments are false and absurd. The
state already, possesses this
Dower. It will-only be used
where railroads or other cor-
Dorations refuse to sell the
state sites for elevators broth-
"er‘state utilities} III such cases
the recite an" condemn a. site
and- 5.511” f5 twelve men will
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been mismanaged,

This rig-ht will pro-

91 ' goo
people against exploitation and make it

mnessible fer great corporation to crush out‘

comiétitors by illegal methods.

_ Three Elective Omen]. Responsible I

The Industrial Commission flxes on three
elective qflicials responsibility for ‘the successful
management of all the state enterprises.’ Every

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' motive for efficient work is brought to bear on

these men

Some objections have been made to placing so‘

much pewer in the hands of three men. This
was done deliberately so that responsibility as
well as authority might be' centralized. The only
possible alternative was the appointment of a
separate. board for each state enterprise. Each,
of theseboards. wouldhave been primarily in-

‘ . terestedin the success of; the industry .over.
:which it had charge and as a. consequence it is ‘
likely that there would not have been proper -.

co operation between all the state enterprises.
Furthermore, had any one of these enterprises
it is only natural to sup-
pose .that the board in charge would have tried

' ‘passing the buck"

rs highly probable“

a members of the board might allege that they

.were handicapped by failure of the bank man-
, .agers to finance them properly '

With separate boards over each of these in-
stitutions there would be a constant process of
and trying to dodge respon-
sibility. With only one board,~ the three mem-
bers cannot escape responsibility, and on the
other hand they can not be blamed for anything
other than their own failures. All managers
and employees of state institutions are answera-
ble to the Industrial Commission and the three

industrial commissioners are answerable to the

people.

The Industrial Commission is given wide pow--
ers so that it will not be handiéapped in operat-
ing the state industries. It the hands of the
members were tied by red tape they could not
take advantage of opportunities to shape the
conduct of the business by changing conditions.
Managers of private business concerns have this
power. The Industrial Commission is given the
same latitude so it can conduct the state enter-
prises upon an efiicient, economical and business-
like basis. I

The placing of heavy responsibilities upon
men usually reSults in developing bigger men.

view of these facts only men of highest tyf
ability and integrity will be chosen candidates

Banking Act Important Measure

Next in importance to the Industrial Com'

mission act is House Bill No.18,which declare
the purpose of the State of North Dakota to.
engage in the banking business under the nam
oi' the Bank of North Dakota.

Banking is an essential foundation of all in-
dustry and it would be impossible to Conduct -
the state enterprises except upbn a firm finan- '
cial foundation. It the: state industries irate
privately financed, it would be necessary to de—
pend upon the Twin City banks and these banks
are controlled by the same Minneapolis Cham-
ber of Commerce interests which have
fighting the N on-Partisan League. If these state
institutions were dependent upon private capi-
tal they certainly would be curtailed both in
cash and credit at critical periods

With the Bank of North Dakota in operation,
however, the state-owned terminal elevatorland
flour mill system will have enough money to
move the crops, our vast lignite deposits may
be developed, home building can be. enconmged, ,
and public funds can be used for publir pur- 5
poses and thus make the state independent of I
hostile and p1 ejudiced outside financiers. '

(To be continual),

Summer Contracts will Reimburse Milk Producers for Losses Sustained During Winter:

T GIVES to the World -a new vision of what
Ireal constructive endeavor for which: the
"' Michigan MiI'lk'Producers" Ass’ 11 has from the
first contended can‘ do to stabilize this industry;
not for the geod of the farmer only but for all hu-
manity who must depend for the fullest mental,
moral and physical development upon this product
for which there is no substitute.’

D" To the Detroit Milk Commission composed of

conscientious, broad- minded public-spirited citi-
zens, who have given their best thought and time
without compensation, and whose sole desire has
been to so adjust these delicate matters that jus-
tice should be meted out to all, do producer, dis-
tributor, consumer alike find themselves deeply
obligated.

The tarmer gets cost of production plus 10%
The farmer gets back what was deducted from
January, February and March milk price to help
the distributor through that expensive and criti-
cal period to his business.- And for the first time
in the history of the milk supply of any great
city has the producer and distributor been assur-
ed of a fair profit, and the consumer given the
cheapest food product on the market. If we but
continue steady to our purpose in our constructive
campaign, the highest ideals ot'co-operation can
be attained.

Price for May, $3. 25; price for June $3.10; price
for July, $3. 40.

All of 3 5- 10 milk Detroit delivery. Study care-
tully'the following Commission findings:

We Will be glad to furnish copies of this report
if desired.

Address all communications to RI C. Reed,

1. .

IIFebruary, 1919—Cost or production

' HoWell, Mich" Secretary and Selling Agent, Mich-

igan Milk .PrOducers’ Association.

Schedule 01' Percentages of Deviation and Mouth-
ly Costs o'i.’ Milk

The percentages of deviation are based on
monthly costs from data obtained by four years
accounting on 100 farms in Livingston and Ing-
ham counties.

The average yearly cost for 3. 5% milk is $3.425.

Month Percentages Monthly
of Deviation
January

February . . ,

March . . ..

August
Beptember . . . . .

October . . .

November . . .

December . . . . .11.0%

Monthly Cest of Production Prices Compared
With Prices Actually Received by De-
troit Milk Producers

January, 1919—Cost of production
Cost of transportation ..

Total Cos

.'.......,.;378

Joe-onccpeto

Due‘ farmers .

ICost of transportation .

'Total cost . ,
I‘Yj‘I" February prices 1:11.11. Detroit... .3 .......

‘ Due farther: ."l‘

e'eo-n

. new beginner.

is caused by overloading and

empty gasoline tan-.k
IpliotIo taken with the tractor

V .Deering Binder.-

By R. C. REED
Secretary Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n

March, 1919—Cost of production
Cost of transportation . . . . . .

Total cost . . .

.... .‘ ............. $3.98
March prices, f.ob. Detroit

............ $3 61)
Due farmers

April, 1919——Cost of pi oductlon
Cost of transportation . . ..

Total cost . .

Due farmers . . .

May, 1919—Cost of production
Cost of transpoxtation ‘

May prices 1?.po Detroit

June 1919—Cost of production
Cost of transportation . .

Total cost

$2.94 1A;

Allotment of Deficits 1

January Deficit . . . . .................... 3 13
February Deficit . . . . ........................ 2.6
March Deficit ........ . . ....... .38
April Deficit ..

Question~Since there is heavier production in
May and June, what part of this deficit rate shall
be allowed to apply on May and June production?

When proporitionate ratings a1e applied to the
monthly (1918) receipts of the Detroit Creamery

Co and Towars and the two ar e (ombired and ex- 5
pressed in terms of 1191 cent 01’ Dec-91111161 leceipts '
the following is shown. 1
December. 1917
January. 15118

February, 1918

March, 1918

April, 1918

Total for 1

May, 1918

June, 1918

Total fox 2 month
Average per month
2 spring months '1vmag1
4 winter months frucragc

Excess pm month (of Docs. 1111191)

Allotment of Deficits

What per cent excess does the avexagc spxing
month have over the average winter month?

20. 5 plus 112. 9 equals 18%.

Therefore $1. 27 is 118% of the amount to be al-
lowed as deficit.

1 27 plus 1 18 equals $1 08.

Hence $1. 08 is to be divided on the May and
June prices and if the May and June p1ices are to
be the same, 291/2c per cwt. must be added to the
May costs and 78140 to the June costs.

According to this plan. May and June prices are '
figured as follows:

Hg.
rouse-am _ '

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Ioltow
or
a?

May, 1919—Cost of P1 odm 1 ion
Cost of Transportation

Total Cost

12.93175,
June, 1919—Cost of Produttion $1I 98
Cost of transpoxtation
Total Cost

June 131 10cc: 1’. o. b.
10 per cent added

This Calhoun County Farmer is a Tractor Enthusiast

MY EXPERIENCE with a tractor has been

very satisfactory. Our farm of 267 acres

is practically level but we have a few cob-

ble stones but they do not seem to give any
bother. My hired man and myself plowed, fitted
and took care of 105 acres of spring crops last
summer. We keep 4 horses to assist the tractor.
The manufacturer of my tractor seems to try
and give the best service possible under the try-

ing conditions of last year and are always ready

on tlactor and myself on the binder) By run-
ning the tractor on high speed 3% miles per
hr., we averaged an acre evexy 20 minutes or
three acres per hour. The field was 80 1‘.ds by
40 rds

My advice to the man who is expecting to buy
is to attend a demonstration where a number
of makes are exhibited and buy the one best
suited to his needs. “Don’ t buy too small ”——
Ray H. Cook, Calhoun County.

 

to give advice and help to the
I think lots of tractor trouble

improper care by the operator.
One should use the same judg-
ment that one would with a
valuable .team. Don’t lose
your head and “0118157-, the
tractor company the first time
somethng, doesn’t go just ex-
actly‘ right. All machinery is
liable to breakage and even the
best auto engines stop some-
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Cutting cats at the rate of 3 acres per how with. a' Case 9.418.
tractor and 8- -foot Deen’ng binder on Chestnut Hill
(Hired:- Mman Farm.-I—R. H. Cook, manager, Calhoun county.

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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 19;.9

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110 Fort St. Phone, Cherry 4889.
UM. .President and Contributl Editor
ORREST LORD ......... Vice-President an Editor
:GEO. M_ SLOCUM.Secretary—Treasurer and Publisher
' ' ~ . - ASSOCIATES. 2
abel Clare Ladd. . . .Women’s and.Children’s Dept.
William E. Brown ................ Legal Department
rank R. Schalck ............ Circulation Department

ONE YEAR, 52 ISSUES. ONE DOLLAR
, Three. Years, 168 Issues ~
, Five Years, 280 Issues ........................ $8.0.

' . Advertising Rates: Forty-live cents or agate line.
j 114 lines to the column inch, 764 lines 0 page.
Live stock and Auction Sale Advertising: We offer
‘ special low rates to reputable breeders of live stock
and poultry; write us for them.

OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS
' We respectfully ask our readeres to favor our_ adver-
tisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices are
cheerfully sent tree, and we guarantee you against lou
providing you say when writing or ordering from them,
"I saw your ad. in my Michigan Business EQWl'P';

, meted as second-class matter, at Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Who Shall Own the Public Utilities? '

UST AHEAD of me in the ticket line at a
. ‘ Detroit railway station a few days ago was
' -' an elderly gentleman who asked for a ticket
to a destination on another railroad. The
clerk politely informed him that he could not
sell him a ticket to that place, and referrlng
to the time table of the other road, told the
gentleman the time his train would leave and
gave him careful instructions how to reach the
other station.

This is one of many instances that have
cometo our attention of the changed attitude
of railway employees to the traveling, public
since the government has been operating the
roads. Our own observations and the obser-
vation of those with whom we have discussed
the matter have convinced us that the govern-
ment’s initial efforts to operate the railroads
have been remarkably successful when the tre-
* mendous handicaps that the war emergency
has placed upon railroad operations are taken
into consideration.

We read many stories on the other side—of
rudeness, inefficiency, lateness of trains, delay
of freight, etc. Ninety-nine per cent of these
stories we may put down as a part of the de-
liberate propaganda to antagonize the public
against government ownership and arouse
public sentiment in favor of the early return
of the roads to private owners. Very few of
these kind of articles are inspired by disinter-
ested motives or written by disinterested per-
sons.

The critics who do not actually own railroad
’ stocks are financially interested in other pub-
lic utilities and of course, they do not want to

give the government a fair chance to demon-
strate what it can do with the roads. If gov-
ernment ownership of railroads should prove
preferable to private ownership there is no
telling how far the government might go to
acquire or control other public utilities. There-
fore, they oppose government ownership of
railroads, not because they honestly think that
- government ownership in itself is a bad thing
for the country but. because it savers of “state
socialism,” against which all corporate and
special interests must align themselves.

The postal system is held up by the enemies
of public ownership as a glaring example of
governmental inefficiency. Yet who would
think of suggesting that this greatest of uni-
fied enterprises be turned over to private
hands? Who would think either of advocat-
ing private ownership of schools, highways,
parks, etc? Great as are the abuses found in
the management of these public service util-
ities we somehow have the feeling that it
would be neither safe nor wise to give them
over to the mercenary control of private
capital. Why should government ownership
of the railroads be any mere in the
.‘nature of state socialism than govern-
ment ownership of the utilities , just
named? The government hasn’t had a chance
to demonstrate what it can do with the rail-
roads. Its critics have convicted government
control without giving it a trial and that is

.. siren. 1. .'
’ owners havéllhmitted them _

to the gtivrernment the same right to , _
its charge for service rendered to meet "in
creased operating expenses asyou give to pri-

vate owners. Treat‘ the: mistakes of, the gov— ’
ermnent as generously as you treat the mis‘

takes of private interests, and you will find

that government ownership of railroads meas- .

ures up to as high a'plane of efficiency and
economy as any private ownership of utilities
of similar scope and importance.

What is Success?

MAN MAY have the wisdom of Solomon

and the goodness of Paul, but if he has
not the wealth of a Croesus, he falls short of
the American standard of success.

Gold is not only the stande of the nation ’I
monetary system, but of its social system as
well. - The possession of wealth excuses the
owner for his lack of good breeding, brains,
and moral stamina, and admits him to pres-
ences and honors to which the worthy poor are
barred. Altho the war slightly upset our
standards of social values and gave greater
recognition to worth of character and train-
ing, the mad race for the dollar is as swift as
ever and money still commands the homage
of the nation. -

It is perfectly honorable and necessary that
men strive to earn money, for it is the medium
of exchange through which the comforts and
necessaries of life are secured. But it is con-
trary to the teachings of God and against the
welfare of the .race to make the earning of
money the ruling passion of life. _

We need a new standard by which to meas-
ure the deeds of mankind. He who serves his
fellow-man most and best stands highest in
the favor of God. Should he stand less high
in the favor“of his fellow-men? Should not he
who “lives in a house by the side .of the road
and is a friend to man,” be far more deserv-
ing of'praise than he who makes friends only.
to use them to satisfy his mad ambition for
wealth and power? '

It is the poor, frail, deluded‘plodders who
are to blame for the false conception of what
constitutes success. They envy the growing
wealth of their neighbors and pay almost ser-
vile respect to the Vanderbilts, the Morgans
and the Actors of their respective communi-
ties. The preacher and the schoolmaster are
deserving of far greater homage than the rich-

est man of the communty if all he has to com-

mend him is his wealth. Though a man may
possess millions and contributes nothing to
the happiness and welfare of his fellow-men
he is a failure and greatly to be pitied. Though
a man may be poor in material wealth, yet
does good to those about him, he deserves to
be crowned with the 'laurels of success and
achievements.

m.

' Wcts Give Dry Laws the “Ha-Ha”

,OU DO NOT need to know the names of

our leading brewers and distillers to
know that they have Prussian blood in their
veins. In almost every utterance and act of
the past year they have preached the doctrine
that “might is right” and booze is “uber a1-
les.” Care they anything for the wishes and
the mandates of the majority? Nein, oh, nein.
There is. no majority outside of the National

Distillers’ Ass ’n, the National Brewers’.Ass’n, ‘

the National Wholesale " and Retail Liquor
Dealers’ Ass’n, the Bartenders’ Union, the

-Bott1ers’ Union and the Boot-lickers’ Union.

They are sovereign. Woe unto the common
dub of American citizen who dares to chal-
lenge their “rule of ruin.” They laugh at
the laws. passed against them. For their pock-
etc are lined with drunkards’ dollars and their
vaults are bulging with the pennies of the

cor Money is poWer and according to the,
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prohibitiOn l’aws and federal mandates mean '
3min: to us. . Money will find-a way around
. em. ' " , ..
The brewers are manufacturing and openly
boasting that they will sell beer containing
alcohol in excess of the amount allowed by

e government. For months the distillers-
have had highly paid lawyers scrutinizing
the federal prohibition law which goes into.

effect July 1st, trying to find some flaw, some

technical imperfection, some constitutional
abrogation that will render the law void. They
profess to have found such a flaw and Will
openly violate the law so that they may have
a Chance to test its constitutionality, and per-
hAps delay the operation of the law for months.

Is it pomible that we must use the same

‘methods against the Prussians in America as
[we used against the Prussians in Germany to

convince them that we mean business?

Political Provender'

OU DON’T have far to go to find the rea-

son why certain farmer members of the.
House of Representatives. spoke and worked
against the warehouse amendment. Conspic-
uous among ,the most active opponents of the
amendment are several who are already men-
tioned as candidates for higher political hon-
Qrs. These men voted against giving the peo-
ple the right to vote on the amendment to
please these to whom they expect to look for
political support, and not because they were
opposed to the proposition itself.

It is easier for a farmer candidate to ex-
plain his position to his farmer constituents
than to his town constituents. To keep his
political fences intact, he keeps on good terms
with the political bell-wethers of the towns
and takes the chance of mollifying the farmers
for his favoritism to the townspeople. Those
who voted against the warehouse amendment
do not have to explain their positions to the
peeple of the towns. The bankers and ware-
houses interests will attend to that. But they
will have a little explaining to do to the farm-
ers. It won’t be as easy as it used to be eith-
er, for the farmers have followed legislation
closer this year than ever before and we ex-
pect to see our politicalfriends taken ofi their
feet by the rapid fire of questions from the
trenches of the farmers. They may find-that
what they expected to use as political pro-
vender will turn out to be political poison.

Economy in Road Building '

cc ON’T STAMPEDE in spending state

bonding money” was the admonition
given by Horatio S. Earle to the delegates at
the Michigan State Good Reads Ass ’n recent- ‘
ly'held in Grand Rapids. Mr. Earle did not
sound that warning just to hear himself talk,
for he isn’t that kind. He sounded it because

' he knew that there was danger of wasting

the state’s ~m0ney in such a gigantic enter-
prise as the construction of a hundred million
dollars’ worth of roads. This statement is no
reflection upon those who will have the spend-
ing'of this money. It does not infer that there
may be intentional waste but rather uncon-
scious waste incidental to the desire to build
the roads in the shortest possible time and to
the expenditure of the huge sum of money at
their command. The men who will have the
spending of the state’s road money are per-
fectly trustworthy and we are very sure will
exercise/good Judgment and economy in car-
rying out the good roads program. Such
friendly cautionings as uttered by Mr. Earle
and others will not come amiss, however. They
serve to give notice that the poo s will watch
the spending of their money and will ask for
an occasional accounting.

“Pacifism and anti-military. training . are
horses of the same colOrfi’ ‘ says the Detroit
Free Press, and the‘ Free Press, being both
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I ‘ HsNTnn mange or? the; Terminal Wares '

‘ house amendment, near the close ‘of the

, , session announced that the matter would.
hernitiated bypetition and themachinations of.

the ‘highbinders set at naught, Aunt Priscilla
_ from whom theiunkers had been. batting'on' the
back and encouraging to sit on the safety valve
regardless of consequences, became a little ner-
‘ . vous at, theprospect of being made the goat for
" thewhole bunch of offenders and he frantically
”peeled to his backers to hurry up and help
. him let go. It was arranged. that the amendment
should. be reported» out 'at‘the last minute and
then laid ”on the table quickly by a viva-voice
vote in which no one would get on the record.
‘ So Mr. Ivory reported it out after twelve o’clock
at. night and as. per arrangement. promth
moved to laymen the table. The speaker lost
noflmetncaninggfor thereto and therewiasa
steam of “year” and ,a few scattering "um"
_butoldFarmerBrammefKentcallediora
‘roll call and got it. Then there were-serious
ambulances. Some of those who like the way
the Junkers do business thought, eulously before
going on the recordto lay the matter on the
table. One popular candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, who, taking his one from the junkers.
he opposed it'in committee and quietly wal‘
loped it in private conversation, got in out of
thewet and got his name on the right-side of
the roll call when the record vote was taken.
The real exhibition came, however, when Peter
Lennon of Genesee moved just before final ad—
journment, to take the resolution off the table
so that a vote might be had on its submission to
the people. The matter” had all been planned
out in minutest detail. The Honorable George
Washington Wel'sh promptly moved his heavy ar—
tillery into action, and the Jackson Common—
wealth light artillery rushed to his support. The
warehouse was soon demolished and then a few
gas shells served to asphyxiate the friends of
the measure so that no one thought to demand
a roll call. At that point Rube Evans of Lena—
wee blew out the gas, Bill Ivory was moved to
tears by the touching tributes of those who love
a good strangler: Bill Fitzgerald of Detroit,
did a cake walk in defiance of Jim Helms, and
Lord Fauntleroy Haan of Grand Rapids, defied
the alligator: Speaker Tom Read Who would
like to be governor or something “equally as
good” was quietly figuring to himself whether
there was real dynamite or nothing but com-
mon! airin this subject. The former members
were clearly under the influence of the gas to
sunhnn extent that they could neither stir nor
speak and the 'matter was quickly disposed of
by socialization. , .
‘ Ben. George‘Welsh of Grand Rapids, publisher
of the Fruit Belt, led the fight against the ware-
house amendment . In the course of his remarks
house amendment. In the course of his remake Mr.
Walsh said inwsnbstance: ‘The proposition to es-
tablish state-owned terminal warehouses to han-
dle tnrmers’ products tron: producer to con-
sumer is the child of a disordered brain. It is
a sodnlistlc, communistic, bolshevik idea. that
was promulgated by and now advocated by a
bunch of rural bolsheviks. It would be disgrace
to the state of Michigan and the
should lose no time in sitting down on it hard.
And the man who delivers himself of such rot
as this, discloses~ such an amazing ignorance of
the economic questions involved and such a dis-
regard of the public right to pass on important
questions of public concern because forsooth
this particular question involved the welfare of
only farmers and workingmen, is the publisher
of a “farm paper” depending for its support on
these very farmers whom because of his imme—

 

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REP. NATHAN NAGEL on DETROIT

Rep. N agel is
one of the two
Detroit members

of the House to,

vote for the Ter-
minal Warehouse
Amendment. The
other was New-
man Smith. Mr.
Smith is a law-
yer, while Nagel
,ls d. real. estate
man and is sim-
lated with organ-
. [zed labor.

legislature '

diate environment, he glibly brands as "social-
ists and bolsheviks." '

“Firm paper” indeed. He should sell his pa-
pers to those who applauded his remarks. No
reader of Business Farming should waste his
money by taking both of these papers. If the
"Fruit Belt." edited by a man -._of this type,
is the kind of a paper he likes, he should, at
once, discontinue the Business Farming because
its message would come to him in a strange
tongue. He would be wasting his time’ reading
it and its "bolshevifiic" slogan of “co-operation”
might work the everlasting corruption of his
morals.

The farmer in Northern Michigan who sells
his potatoes, government standard, at the car
for sixty cents per bushel and finds that his
own sons working in Detroit, pay two dollars
and forty cents a bushel for the same potatoes,
who suggests that there is something wrong
with our‘ marketing system and odors a remedy
intended to bring producer and consumer closer
together, is surely tainted with “bolshevism.”

He surely is “rocking the boat.”

He andhisuke should be suppressed post haste.

Such “bolsheviks” as Senator McNaughton,
who presented themarketing amendment, Grant
Slocum, John C.'Ketcham, A. B. Cook, Senator
Scully, James W. Helm, N. P. Hull, Clem Bram—

ble, J. W. Hutchins, Senator Bierd, Dorr D.

 

 

SENATOR WM. J. BIERD, OF BAY COUNTY

Senator Bierd
is an ex-farmer,
now retired, de-
voting part of his
time to the bank—
lng business at
Auburn, Bay Co.
He has served
four terms in the
House and one
in the Senate.-
There is. no man
connected with
either branch of
the legislature
better posted on parliamentary proceedure, nor
has any member of the legislature been more
zealous in protecting the interests of the
farmens than be. He has the courage of his
convictions, and the steadfastness of Gibraltar.
In this session he has been chairman of the im-
portant committee on state affairs.

 

 

Buell and a hundred other of its supporters,
trusted leaders and workers in farm organiza-
tions, any one of whom could, if they wished any
day, buy the “Fruit Belt" and junk it, will, of
course, be interested to find that the publisher
of this “farm paper” provoked applause in
the popular branch of the legislature by his
eulogy of the man who boasted that he would
strangle it, and his characterization of their pro—
posed referendum as the “child of a disordered
brain.” . .

Men of vision appreciate the importance of a
square deal for agriculture. »

Mr. W. H. Manss, former Director of the War
Service committees of the War Industries Board,
illustrates this situation by means of a perfect
or isoscles triangle, of which agriculture is the
base, labor one side and commerce the other
side.
any side is changed, the perfection of the tri-
angle is destroyed and all suder. There is a
balance and harmony which must be maintained
between the several related elements. In an
autocracy this balance might be maintained by
mandate. For the continuation of a democracy,
this balance must be preserved by the'mutual
effort of those interested. The present unfortu-
nate conditions of business are due to the fact

that labor, agriculture and commerce have failed

to apprehend fully their necessary interdepend-
ence. . .
The producer must have guaranteed to him

' a greater part of the consumer’s dellar than he is

If the value of any angle or the length of '

now getting or the movement from the farms to?

the industrial centers will continue till produc-T

' tion is restricted to a point below consumption,

and if this shall come as the result of the fatuoue
policy of those riding backward in the cars, see-‘
ing nothing until they have passed it, it may take
more than terminal warehouses to clear up the
situation. [Let’s get busy and initiate the ware
house amendment.

“DICK" FLETOIIER’S FISH SUPPER

ROBABLY THE most picturesque figure in

Michigan politics at this or any other time,

is “Dick” Fletcher of Bay City, present la-
bor commissioner. He is a politician all over.
No one ever heard him say a word about any-
thing but politics. He talks about it three hun-
dred and sixty-five days of the year and dreams
about it every night. The deepest political
strategy, of friend and foe, is like A. B. C. to
Dick and political “surprise parties” on him are
as scarce as the proverbial white blackbirds.
One of his outstanding characteristics is loyal-'
ty to his friends and some of his most striking
asbestos epigrams have been provoked by the
dawning consciousness of bad faith on the part
of someone in whom be trusted. Loyalty to his
friends has kept him poor in this world’s goods
but has all along made him a millionaire in
faith and confidence. Thousands of dollars of
public funds have passed through his hands
without a suspicion of graft or dishonesty. Some
few people who have not the pleasure of his per-
sonal acquaintance, but whose knowledge of him
comes from long distance observation, speak of
him as a “roughneck.” However the writer
knows that he speaks two languages with excep-
tional fluency, finding no difficulty in making
himself clearly and definitely understood by the
red-skirted Lumber Jack and reaching the con-
sciousness of the cultured and aesthetic mind
with equal facility. The old saying that “Speech
is silver, but silence is golden” does not fit here.
Speech here is studded with glittering diamonds
which dazzle and scintillate and captivate. Mo-
mentarily word pictures are drawn so full of
expression, so true to life that in comparison the
works of Michael Angelo look like mud pies.

But, the Fish Supper.

Early in the session Dick had the boys pass a
bill extending his term of office from two to four
years. This bill was voted down decisively in
the House but Dick had it reconsidered and laid
on the table. Then he went to work to show
the felows the merit of that old slogan “Never
Say Fail” and when. the bill was taken oil? the ta.-
ble, if the roll call had been delayed one minute
longer, he would have had the man who led the
fight against his bill the first day, voting with
him at the last. -

0n the next to the last day of the session all
members of both houses were invited to a fish
supper at the Labor Bureau’s rooms and every-
body went. There was an adequate supply of
splendidly fried perch, bread, bevo, ginger ale,
pickles and cigars. It was just like a Polish
wedding. It must have cost Dick at least two
hundred dollars. Everybody was ready to swear.
by Dick.

The next and last day of the session a little
bill came ambling along bearing a distinct odor
of fish, increasing the salary of the labor com-
missioner one thousand dollars a year. It pass-
ed by a narrow margin.

Now, gentle readers, if you see anything in
this incident to kick about, just sit down and
think it over and figure up just how much at-
tention you have given to selecting the men who
should represent you in the legislature, and then
put the blame, if any, where it belongs.

 

 

REP. MILO N. JOHNSON, WAYNE COUNTY

M r . Johnson
lives at North-
ville, and he is
one of the few
farmers who part
their hair in the
middle, but to
affect that, h e
slaimsstill to eat
dinner in the ' "
middle of th 6
day. He was one
of the three
Wayn 6 county
members to vote
for the Terminal Warehouse Amendment.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

, - 4‘1: is to self government, the great principle. of popular' renré-
sentation and administration; the system that let: all per-
ticipato to its counsels, that we owe what we are and what

we hope to be.”—Doaie1 Webster; ' '

TIE FARMERS of Michigan took their first cold dip in the Political
Pool recently-4.1m immersion was complete; the experience, worth
while if not wholly pleasant. But there is no need 01.13111811th the
incident; a little shaking up stimulates action; and action hardens the ines-
rcles and fits us for doing greater things. If we are to enjoy the fruits of
progress, we must of necessity remove the problems which obstruct fruition.
Merely expressing through legislative action what Milton expressed in
_words; “What is the people but a herd contend; a miscellaneous rabble.
who extol things vulgar; and well weighed scarce worth the praise. They
praise and they admire, they know not what, they know not whom, but
7‘ as one leads the other.” The House Committee on amendments passed two
resolutions, for changes in the constitution, on to the voters without debate;
the third, one in which the producers and consumers were vitally interested.
2 never saw the light of day. *'

Indeed a strange transformation has taken place. More then 0: the com-
mon herd; willing to forego all that they might serve; clothed in sombre
grey with countenances meek and smile serene in the late fall ; have indeed
this early spring turned into strange and ,haughty things. From servants to
masters they have been transformed, and with little regard for those who
took them seriously before election they tarried at Lansing for a time, sip.
ped of the good things there— ‘ ‘

And flitted back home—leaving little else than a blazed trail, which we
shall be obliged to take up and follow when tax-time December comes again.
But if the lesson has been well learned, the experience is worth while. The
Lansing incubator is no place for day-old incubator political chicks, with no
pre-election pedigreed pledges. It’s the old, old story. “Two kinds of men
best succeed in politics; men of no principle but of great talent; and men
of no talent but of one principle—that of obedience to their masters."

A Government 0f the People, By the People, and For the People, makes

provisions for all emergencies, The People, and only the People, are empow-
ered to make or amend the fundamental laws. In order to bring such amend-
ments as the people may desire before the people, the Legislature is empow-
ered to set the direct legislative machinery in motion. It is not within the
province of legislators to determine whether a fundamental principle shall
be amended or not—~they have no rights or powers beyond those expressly
provided by the voters—the sovereign rulers of a free people.
- The farmers of Michigan merely asked that an amendment to the con.
stitution 0f the state, providing for state~owned warehouses, be submitted to
the people. By no stretch of the imagination could it be considered that this
amendment savored of clues legislation, for mind you, the proposed ware-
houses were to be owned, operated and controlled by the state and in the in-
terest of all of the people all of the time. But our little “Kaiser's” at Lans-
ing decided that they would save the people from themselves—that the
people Were not competent to pass on the basic laws, upon which the vital
principles of self-government must finally rest. .

A high-handed piece of business, gloss it over as o m — '
germ which breeds the autocratic government our boys ycrissezythtehesezeg
destroy. My Farmer» Friends, you did not expect such a medium to arise
did you? Well there is right where the framers of Michigan's'constitution
were more far-sighted than yourself. Wi
felt that such a condition would arise an
‘gmdaialentlilt law: thiuulgh pleitition. Don't sit down and accepfaigizgfég;

on: e ores s w c see to furth
curely bind you. or their own interests and more se-

A vital principle is at stake. No matter whether
state-owned warehouses or not—the question at issue “yogi-item? 1:3: 3;
Michigan competent to govern themselves?" “Are the voters of Michigan in
telligent enough to say whether the fundamental laws of our state shall be
amended or not?” It is your duty, Mr .Farmer, to see that the proposed
amendment is submitted to the people through petition. If you sit down
now and refuse to accept the challenge to action; a more important measure
will be presented some day, and the precedent established here and now will
work irreparable injury to the cause of self-government. ”

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‘N; E ARE getting on famously, A recent ruling 0f the bureau of chemis»
try legalizes the packers' trust practice of charging retailers for wrap-

ping paper at meat prices. This means an increase of two to four
cents per pound on wrapped meat to the retailers. Of course
retailer who sufiers, for he never, no never, shoves these unu
to the consumer.

, A Washington report says that the reason the
ing was disclosed at an investigation held in 3. Ch
the month of January. It was found that the p
paper wrappers at from 50 to
500 per cent profit, according to

sual charges on

packers wanted this rul-
icago packing plant dur-
ackers were selling these

, it is only the»

me. In other’worda dens mound , oed‘ 'up- and running ”9’."
‘ my ma to comm mm the Winter“ his 11ve>3t°9k ”95°39, ~
they were weighed for shipment;- Iii-order to get even, farmers Should M996 _

a cross between a kangaroo and s Holstein; and thereby not only have built
and boquut the added advantage of'the punch, widen-could be fined- with
brick bats previous to shipment .However, ’ifsuch a bysbreed could be dis-
covered, no doubt some would claim that the farmers were dishonest.

Elli UNITED mine workers of America have declared ,fOr GOVernment

ownership and the democratic operation or the coal mines. There are

more than five hundred thousand men Wm h the mines of the
United States, au’d to prove that they are vitally intended in the preposi-
tion, they have sent their president, Mr. Frank J. Knee, to Paris, where he is
to meet the officers of the mine workers’ organization “over there!

The plan as outlined. includes: Government acquisition of all coal mines
at the very earliest moment and then an equal representation of the public
and the miners in the democratic operation of the mines. It is proposed that
the wages be fixed by a board of directors made up of an equal number of
members representing the workers and the public through the government.

The board of administration would have to determine methods of economic
distillation of coal; and thereby protect the consumers from the enormous
profits made by brokers, wholesalers and retailers during the past few years.
And by the way the miners’ association proposes that the mine owners re:
ceive the actual value of the mines; no bonuses or pay for watered stock.

Right now when the people are paying for the poorest soft coal ever used
more than they paid for anthracite before the War; this talk of government

’ ownership of mines sounds mighty good. Better not hold, off laying in your

winter’s supply, however, for" you must remember that congress “grinds
slowly but exceedingly fine." ”It took Congress one year and three hundred
and sixty—tWo days to settle an election contest between two congressmen,
and the cost to Uncle Sam was thirty thousand three hundred and sixty dol-
lars.

If it took one year and three hundred and sixty-two days to settle an
election contest, how long would it take Congress to acquire the coal mines
and get three buckets of hard coal into your bin in the wood shed? How old
would you be when you put the first bucket into: the fire? What would be
your place of residence at that time; and would the first word used in con-
nection with the wood flre, commence with “H?" A cross-eyed brindle pup:
for first correct answer. ' '

ERE’S A STRANGE condition of affairs. It is estimated that the ag-
H encies of the Federal Trade Commission during the period of the war

obtained the cost of production in more than ten thousand of the na-
tion's important and minor industries. These industries cover almost all
lines and represent annual sales value of more than thirty billion dollars-

This simply means that government agencies know what it costs to pro-
- duce almost all of the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. These ag-
encies had access to the books; they know just what they are talking about,
and the information was secured at enormous expense—this people, of course,
paying the bill. ‘

Recently General Director Hines, of the railroad commission, refused to
buy steel rails because the best bid he could got was two dollars per ton too
high. Had nét Director Hines known what it would cost to produce steel
rails, this extra profit would have gone into the pockets of the owners of the
rail mills—4n other words, the steel trust.

And now Mr. George Hampton, of the Farmers’ National Conference, has
asked that the commission make the costs ascertained public, in order to ,
prevent manufacturers from getting back to pro-war profits at the expense
of the consumer. The manufacturers have raised a bowl. which can be heard
from New York to San Francisco, and the cost figures will never never, no
never be made public. , , ,

Information secured because of the necessities of war, should no doubt
be withheld. But here’s the funny thing about the proposition. The farm-
ers of the nation have asked the government to ascertain‘for them the cost
of manufacturing farm products. And Secretary Houston, of the department
of agriculture, says, "Such costs must not be secured and he discharged from
service Dr. Spillman, Who spent seventeen years in the department, because
he had the audacity to try to find the cost of raising wheat.

Strange, isn’t it? The farmer, manufacturer of food products; with
money invested in a, plant; paying taxes, employing labor, paying overhead
expenses same as any other manufacturer—and yet the department of agri-
culture will not aid him in determining costs—He wants to actually know
and wants everybody else to know, what farm products cost. The other 191-
lows know but they don’t want anybody else to know. Strange, isn't it?

Just at the time when we are feeling fine and things look bright—war
over, last Liberty Loan out of the way; peace treaty all but signed—along
comes the gloom dispenser and calls attention to the fact that the Legislature
is to be called in extra session. Horrors, upon horrors! Will we never get
back to normal again?

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other words, the paper 11 ed to
_ wrap liver only brought enty-
eight cents per pound, f’while the
same grade or paper on tender-
loin brought fifty-eight cents
per pound. .
' There's money in this paper
business. The Packers pass the
.“buck” on to the retailers, and
they pay the bill. The retailer
places another piece of paper on
the scales to wrap a little bit of
meat in; and the consumer pays
' for the paper the retailer pur~ ’
chased oi the packers and also

the meat inside the patio In

HE RISES in; the 'mystic dawn
And charges . with the burning sun.
He battles till the light'is gone

And all his victories are won.

In earthytrenches, rows and rows,
He throws his shrapnel of the seed:
And blithely sings, the while he'sows,
A battle-cry against the weeds. ‘

He rides no tank across the fields
Where daisies sway in wind-swept
mirth; ' -
A kindlier Juggernaut he wields
To open up the heart of earth.

 

 

A Soldier of the Soil

No doubt you are a tax payer.
If so, as such you may possibly
. wonder sometimes where all the.
tax money goes. In case you
sometimes wonder, I wonder if
you have thought to ask Audits
or General Fuller for a- copy of
the Michigan War Preparedness
Board? Better send for it; lots
of figures 'n everything.

0 c t '

Will someone close up give
the weather man a hint that the
farmers. of Hichigan are anxious .
to get to work. The hired man
as. rested ~suiiicently; we are.

Entanglements he finds to pass,

And rushes through the fragrant vise
Where berry thorns attack in mass
And red fruit forms a ripened line.

A sudden cannonading sounds,
A blinding sword the lightning casts;
Barrage of frowning clouds resounds,
He runs to cover while it lasts.

Emerging with the sun once more,
Retrieves what damage storms may
make;
He whistles gaily through his war,
For life, not death springs in his wake. '
. -MARION' LYON FAIRBANKS.
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Society gives little or no site value to “pio-

usumes great value. That is the case with De-

“non. What was once primeval forest in Wayne
~county, Michigan. has, in places become worth,
_,over a million dollars an acre.

"When Michigan was a “howling wilderness,"
in the language of the orator, there was so near

,nosite value anywhere, that the pioneer could
. squat down almost anywhere and dig from the
' sail a living Without paying anything to anybody
tor the privilege.

But in order to fix titles, the'
government, that is to say', the accredited agents

to! the pioneers, came along “and surveyed the

area, and the $1. 25 an acre charged, just about

paid for the cost of the work.

My contention is that everything the pioneer
did to improve his holding, and everything the
to make the
farm more valuable. should be free of taxation
so long as there are certain other values, not

created by the pioneer or his heirs, on which
society may levy for the expenses of govern-

ment.

Now, what are these “certain other values”
which are accessable to the assessor and, tax col-
lector?

It is only when two persons desire the same
plot of ground that site value arises. When
three persons desire it, this value is increased.
It tens of thousands cast longing eyes upon it,
the value begins to run into the thousands of
ddllars per acre. It is wanted because less la-
bor will bring greater reWard than on other sites

' —its‘ value depends upon its location.

Did it ever occur to Francis G. Smith, of
that if the original pioneer
never did a thing to his original farm; at least,
never did more than the law demanded in order
to confirm title, that these Detroit farms would
be Worth their tens of thousands of dollars an
acre just the same? _,Think of it: Here is De-
troit, covering- only a little more than two town-
ships, yet assessed at close to $500,000,000! The
land alone; not theimprovements.

Why is it worth $500, 000, 000? Simply be-
cause within this area live close to a million
people

So, the Michigan Site-Value-Tax League de-
mands that taxes be shifted from the improve-
ments of the pioneer and all others who bytheir
labor create wealth to'these values created by

, society collectively, and in the collection of

which taxes neither enterprise nor industry will
be burdened Which includes everything the
pioneer or his heirs have produced.

By the way Mr. Smith gives me a sly dig by

‘ remarking if I was detached from my salary, I

might see things differently. Good. The joke
is that there is no salary attached to the posi—
tion of secretary of the Michigan—Site—Value—Tax
It would help me
out in paying the unjust taxes on my improve-
ments—Judson Grenell, Waterford, Michigan.

WHY NOT KEEP HERB BAKER IN SENATE?

“What the Neighbors Say" this week is very in-
teresting.’ The lady from Benzie county, Slagle
from Wexford, Mrs. Curtis from Ingham, Orr from
Allegan, and “A Reader" from somewhere, why
don’t you sign your name afraid of something?
Ashamed of what you write? Well it seems as
though all of us ought to be bold to write our
convictions for “What the Neighbors Say” and
proud to attach our names thereto. A personal
opinion backed by a three-cent stamp and publish-
ed in the M. B. F. Or a good farmer's signature is
worth more to me thana library full of political
religious or scientific generalities,

Now there is Watkins just elected to the State

card. of Agriculture.
There’is adertile field fer, his abilities. He can
certainly do more good there it he can bring that
greatest of our state institutions—the Michigan
Agricultural Coileng to its greatest usefulness
to the wholepeople oi! the state.

And there is Herb Baker! Is he not too big a

‘ man tor governor? He has fought every graft and”
"woodland stand-pat proposition first, last, and al-

. sons-.aerhcflyfnatural for him to swat
people don’t want and boost the

Oprogressive constructive measures.

his only when the pioneer farm;
Pbecomss. the site to: a great city that the site.

Let’s keep him there.

Why not keep
him in the state senate?. Can you think or any
more benighted stronghold of conservatism than
the lilichigazi State Senate? Fill it up with fifty-
one per cent Herb Baker and you could notice the
diflerence all over the. U. S. A. Thanks for your
zeal however, “Brother," (and I hope “compan-
ion”) Orr. It “Brother’ and “Companion” Baker
thinks'he can be of more use as governor we are
for him and we are for him. ‘

There is the warehouse proposition. We say

- "Amen” to that, but we would say "Amen" twice

if the farmers would make the Gleaner warehouse
so large in the city of Detroit that there
would be hardly room for one owned by the state.
Would it not be more practical for us farmers to
“whoop it up” for a $5,000,000 Gleaner and Grang-

er warehouse fund than to persuade the whole

state to go'lnto it? Have we confidence in our own
farm organizations? Do we believe in the hon-
esty, ability and progressivesess of the head men
of the Giearfer‘s, Grange, farmers’ clubs.'bean and
potato-growing associations? You bet we do. A
more capable set of men never existed and what
is more the heart and soul of these men are in the
work. Then why not bring them together for a
business proposition like these warehouses. We
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THE PROFESSIONAL BACKER

Again the springtime draweth near,
Again. the auction sales appear;
On your attendance they depend——
You’re such a sort o"'handy friend;
For folks are bidding mighty high
And pay-day’s coming by-and-by.
Bill bids on a piano grand—-
His wife can play to beat the band,
John has a sweetheart—so of course,
He needs the sw‘ell‘new driving horse.
You like the jokes the auctioneer,
, Is passing ’round, you laugh and cheer
While daylight goes a-slipping past—r
'Til you discover you're the last.

Bill slips around to get your name
Though backing is a risky game—
You take his note—your name goes down,

You’re quite the proudest man in town.
But—just when “tater digging" comes,
The bank commences sending duns,
There’s Bill’s piano and John's horse—
Your wife decides on a divorce,
You swear you’ll spend a month in jail—-
Ere you'll attend another sale.
Next spring as you are passing by
Another sale bill meets your eye
You clamber out to read the list—
And‘of the terms to get a gist,
Then when the day comes rolling ‘round—
Right in the front row you are found.
Bill buys a team of nanny-goats
You say, “why yes, I’ll sign your notes.”
. And then you pay, reluctant still—-
To lay the blame on John or Bill
You’ve clean forgotten, ain’t it queer?
And thus it happens every year.

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the money and credit too. All we need to do is
to wake up and wake our leaders up and prpceed
to do business. Why bother with legislatures and
constitutions and governors? They come and go,
but a sound business proposition will go on in
spite of them.——J. C. & J. M. Stafford.

‘ Lets’ beat ’em to it!

SOCIALISM AND GOVERNMENT CONTROL

(A Farmer’s Wife is very much perturbed be-
cause she wrote a letter to the Grand Rapids
News which the News censored and refused to
print in full. She accuses the editor of the News
with favoritism and asks M. B. F. to publish her
letter complete. While we cannot agree with all

the statements mdc by our correspondent, this.
department is conducted as an open forum where .

all may empress their views regardless of how
those views may conflict with our own opinions.
We are, therefore, glad to give this reader an and!-
ence through this'dcpcrtment, and if any there be
who wish to support or condemn the theories of
"A Farmer’s Wife," these columns are likewise
theirs to use. Communications must bear the
names of their authors, but will be withheld from
publication upon request.)

 

Mr. Eshleman says he is a firm believer in cam.
talism, but he believes in legislation to control it.
I do not.

\

Antwan): .. Maud always 'wiilbabued es
tide and reason. He says “many industrial Isis
_ tators argue that the products of industry should,
belong to the workers, it is not enough that
theyreceive wages, they must have also the things '
they are paid to produce, and without compens’a-'

I believe in legislation, to prohibit and '

.- ‘ —._._
——‘—‘ ————-

. ‘Mormsnisomsas

tion." Now, such a system as that, we know,
would be utterly impossible and beyond reason.
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cate such a doctrine as that, they are not working ‘ ‘

in the interest of the laboring class of people, but
they are hired by big business, to go and preach
that theory, to give people already prejudibed

against socialists the idea, that the socialists wish- ~ _ ‘ '

ed to destroy everything, even to the government.
The socialists do not advocate destruction. The

socialists contend that all industries should be, .

owned by the whole people, through their govern-

ment, and to be established and maintain‘i on the '
same principle as the United States postoflice de- '

partment. There isn’t anything that is managed
any straighter or truer than the postoflice depart-
ment. There isn’t anything that will get a per-
son in trouble any quicker, than to break into a
mail bag that belongs to Uncle Sam. That proves
what the people could do, if all industries were
managed on the same principle.

There is no special privilege in the mail indus-

try. When we wish to buy some stamps or send a .

money order, we know just what we have to pay.
The mail carrier or postmaster does not say, “Oh,
you can get only three or four stamps today for 25
cents, on account of the war, or the scarcity, or
the paper trust is to blame.” There would be no
paper trust, or any trust it we had government
ownership of all industries.

Mr. Eshleman seems to think that the “indus-
trial agitators” contend the workers in a factory
should own that factory and all in it jointly. Just
the few that worked in that one factory. I have
never heard ofsuch an unjust, unreasonable the-
ory, and I do not believe there are any industrial
agitators, working in the interest of the masses of
the people, that advocate such a doctrine. We can-
not, if we have any sense of justice, blame the
capitalists as individuals, for the present special
privilege system. We must blame the capitalistic
system. We do not have millionaires in the Unit-
ed’ States because of their mental superiority. Nor
because they have earned more money than any-
one else for no person can earn a million dollars
honestly in a lifetime.
dollars it is because he has got it by exploitation. .

Mr. Eshleman says if the workers owned the lac»
tories it would cause embezzlement to become the
universal rule of conduct. What is the universal
rule of conduct now if not embezzlement? And the
worst part of it it is also legalized. u If a person
wishes to borrow $100 from a bank the banker
will keep out $5 or $10 as a bonus. The person

If a person, has a million .

that borrows has to pay interest on $100 and pay .

$100 back again although he doesn’t get but $90 or
$95. That should be called “Legalized Embezzle-
ment” but instead it is termed
Ability,” or “Modern Methods in the Banking In-
dustry. ‘

If a man steals a sack of potatoes or flour, he is

“Good Business '

liable to go to prison for 10 years for stealing, but '

it a man can, by fraud and deceit, and with the
help of a corporation lawyer beat any individual
or company out of $40,000 or $50,000, just so it is
done by papers, so it is “legal,” he is liable to go
to Congress, for he is just the man that is wanted
by Big Business.

I have heard a few—not manyasay they had
all they wanted of government control, during its
control of the railroads- The railroad companies
did all in their power to hinder the government,
during its contol of the railroads. This was not
done to help Germany any, but worse; it was done
to discourage the American people with govern—
ment control so thé’ railroads would go back to pri-
vate interests again.

In regard to our boys in Russia, I think they
should be brought home. What would the United
States as a nation have amounted to, if, when she
rebelled against England, Germany, Austria, Rus-
sia, France and Spain had all combined with Eng-
land to whip her? The people of Russia rebelled
against their masters, and I think they should be
left alone.
rificed for the masters of Russia.

So many will say, “We would all do the same
If we had the. chance. Greed is the nature at man—
kind." Very well, it that is the case, then it is up
to us, as loyal citizens, and in the interest ,0! hu-

manity, to remove that chancel Not by destroying.
capitalists, but by destroying the capitalistic sys-W
tom. Not by bombs. not by machine guns, not by};
civilized way—the but

poison gas but by a sane,
lot. -—A Farmer’s Wife, Honor, Mich

j——.-~—«-r

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. as b'
_ f, of amendments voted on?- ht,
are a few voters who wish'éto
"vote on the amendments and not

Infants have to be destroyed, when
‘munting them, to make them tally
.1 11111: the same number as the number
ioi- emcers? Is it lawful for anyone
. You a supervisor voted for or other
town officers who are not on the elec-
tion board and have not taken the
. oath with the election. board to come
in and help count the votes on the
‘- .Meudments and tell how it should be

  

“ done? Whose place is it to make out

all the reports on election that have
to go-to the county seat and seal
them} Does the supervisor have to
sign .‘these reports and see that they
- are all ri t or is it the election
board's ,-place to attend to this?——A
Woman Voter Eaton County.

The votes cast for omcers do ' not
have to be the same as the number of
votes caSt for amendments. The num-
bar of votes cast for oficers or for
amendments must-not exceed the total
number-of voters on the poll list. No
amendments should be withdrawn
from the ballot box and destroyed if
the total number of amendment bal-
lots do not exceed the total number of
voters as shown by the poll list . At
every election there shall be a board
of threeinspectors of election. No

tracers will that number of amend-‘55:;

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(A Clearingibepertment- for fermeu’
Mafia! ruffle. all complaints or requests
I habit-b.1111 serve you.)

candidate for office shall serve on the
board of inspectors. There shall be
two clerks. All shall take the consti-
tutiOnal oath of office. No one else
should1be allowed to handle the bal-

-lot_s or assist in counting. unless they

have been duly appointed a precinct
counting board. The board pf’inspect-
ors shall canvass the votes prepare
the returns, and' certify it under their
hands. If the supervisor is a member
of the board he Signs as a member of
the board but does not sign unless he

is a member of‘ the beard. ——-W. E.
Brown, legal editor. -

DISPUTED WEIGHT .

I have about: 1'5 chickens, Buff: Or:
pingtons, for sale.

30' cents per lb. I told him all right:
We weighed one lot of feur on his

scales which weighed 20 lbs. and eight '_
We have the Fairbanks platform.

oz.
scales which weigh with all scales
within an ounce or two and“

weigh exact if carefully balanced. A
poise on his scales weighs 2%, oz. “and

A buyer drove in»
this morning and said he Would given,

will

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'e‘v'ery'dny' troubles. Pr'em
(111'. information addressed 1;;-

n'lflv ‘

. the same poise weighs on our scales

4 to 5 oz. He says the government
seal is on his. It is not on ours. Can
we hold to our weight it he is going
to'cause us trouble? We want all that
is ours but don’t want what is others.
How can we tell who is-coi-rect? The
lot referred to weighed on our scales,
21 lbs. and 141/2 oz. His scales are
draw scales which should have had a

platter on for weighing meat but he .

removed platter and allowed % lb.
for weight of platter.
the government seal when manipulat-
ed in that way?——-—W. A. 6., Pierson.
The statute concerning weights and
measures can be found- in the Compil-

ed Laws of 1915, commencing at .sec- .
If your scales are right _.

tion 6234.»
you can claim your weight but to be
sure you had. better obtain directions
-from the stale dairy and food commis-
sioner for testing. 'If your. scales prove
:to:.be inaccurate you should notify the
dealer that sold you the scales and re-
quire him to make good if the error
was the fault of the machine—W. E.
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For years you have been cheerfully complying with
Government request to save materials by repairing
your old machines rather than making replacements.
Now that the need for this has passed, would it not be
the part of real economy to buy a new machine and be
assured of uninterrupted and maximum service at a
time when a break-down would mean serious embarrass-

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Are they under'

I Let er'e name.-

can said person, who is running for

.- “0ch by slips, be a member of election, _

board? , -
..= Can the supervisor of. a township.

...who has served one year, and“ Who 1; ‘

was turned down by own party at “
caucus and who is having slips pass-
ed in town hall for him be chairman
of election inspectors?

Under these conditions is he legally

elected?———M E 0.
, ‘_‘No person shall act as an inspector.
of any election who is a candidate at
said election for election by balls. to
any public office "

The general election law provides.
that “it shall be unlawful for any in- '
specter or clerk of ”election or any '
person in the polling room or any,
compartment therewith connected, to
persuade. Or to endeavor to persuade
any person to vote. for or against 'any
particular. candidate or party: ticket,
or for or against any proposition
which is being voted on at’such elec-
tion." And also, “It shall be unlaw-.
ful for a gate keeper to aid, assist,
suggest, advise or entreat an elector
to prepare his ballot in a particular
manner or to coerce or attempt 'to co-
erce an elector in any way'to vote" or
to refrain. from voting for any partic-
ular party or person." '

The primary election law provides
that one can not solicit for votes at
the polling place nor within 100 feet
thereof

I think slips may be handed to vet-
'ers by a candidate or another for him
if he makes no attempt to violate the
above provision .

A candidate running on slips can
not be a member of the board of in-
spectors. .

The supreme court has held in two
cases improper conduct made the elec-
tion illegal. I would not want to ven-
ture an opinidn as to the legality, of
an election under the circumstances
without a complete statement of facts
as to what was said and» done at the
election and the effect of the miscon-
duct of the supe1v1sor if any. _—W. E.
Brown legal editor.

LEGAL STATUS OF SECOND WIFE

What is the legal status of a second
wife? If a man has children by his
first wife does a second wife have the
same share in his property that the
,first wife would if she had lived?
What is that share?——-Mrs. M. F.,
Brooklyn, Mich. '.

The second wife's property rights
‘in the property of her husband is'the
same as though she had been the first
wife. Upon death of the husband she
has exactly the same property right
the‘ first wife would have had even
though there ale children by the first
'wife.——W. E. Brown; legal editor.

DITCH TROUBLES

“A" has'a farm or 160 acres. and'to
drain a low spot, dug a ditch through
a strip of land that was not the natur-
=a1 run of the water. Later the farm
was divided and sold to two parties.
.Can the other party compel me ,to
keep the ditch open? It is of no ben-
efit to me and was not the natural
run of the water in the start. —A. J
0. COOPC’IS’l/ille, Mich.

I think you are under no obligations

. to maintain. the ditch. As the water

way was created by your common
grantor the upper owner would have
the right to continue its use and you
would not have the right to (abstract
it. But I think he must do his own

cleaning out and keeping in repair.—

W E. Brown, legal editor.

DIVISION OF PROPERTY
A father and two sons bought a
farm, the father putting in what mon-
ey he had towards the place and the
Q ns furnishing the personal property.
hey all worked together to pay for
the. term which was bought in the
All lived off the are
pelt! on the mot-t

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' _ sonar. TELEPHONE CONNECTION

There is a farmers’ telephone line
irunning past my farm. They refuse
_ to let us on the line as they say it is

loaded. Now the manager of the ideal
exchange said it was not overload-.ed I
'w’Ould buy stock or pay rent. I prefer
‘to buy stock. Is there any way we can
force a connection on this line? As

thereiz'are no other families along this '

line who desire a telephone and are
not already connected but oulselves.
We could not get a new line and we
need the connection badly. I—‘L. H.,
Weidm’aIn, Mich.

It has been held that the State Rail-

way Commission has authority to Or- ‘

Q1181 a Rural Telephone Company to
make connection with persons desir-
‘ing the same and being Willing to

~IcO1Inply with all reasonable rules and»

regulations that. the rural telephone
company might prov1de ‘ If this cem-
pany will not give you connection you
should take up the 111atter with the
State Railway Commission stating all
.1119 tests and your willingness to com-

ply with any reasonable rule and reg- -

plation conce1n1ng the same. Ask for
an order from them to compell the
rural ._telephOne company to give you
“telephone connection. You should
state in your communication to the
State Railway Commission the name
and postoflice address of the rural
company you desire to be connected
with, and also give-the name and ad-
dress oi the president and secretaiy of
such company. If it is an incorporat-
ed company you should so state in
your communication. —W. E. Brown,
legal cidtor.

LIABLE To ASSESSMENT
FOR BENEFITS

, A meetingw‘as called to, hear objec-
tions to building a road under the.
“Covert Act.” Said road is of no val-
ue to me as ‘I live on another road
which leads direct to market. The
road abutts my property. I was told
I would haVe to pay a special tax,‘
(frontage) almost equal to those who:
live on the road and use it exclusive-
ly. As this looks unjust to 111a I would
like your advice .as to how the assess-
ment is determined. Lam enclosing
a diagram of road and my property.,—-.
4 Sabccrltcr, Isabella County.

The law provides that at the time of

LANDS

_.~111earing objections to the proposed _.im-1“

provement the county road commis-
sioner shall finally determine thespe-
cial assessment district to be assessed
for benefits. and shall not asSess any
lands therefor not included in the dis-
. trict. Errors may be corrected. The
county. road commissioners shall .ap-
portion the per cent of cost of con-
struction upon the county (if under
the county road system) at large. up-
on_'the triwnship at large, and’ upon
each parcel 0f land in the assessment
district, ' according to benefits received,
and shall announce their apportion-
ment at the time and place cf hearing
objections Such apportionment of
per cent for benefits shall theieupon
be subject to review and correction in
.. the manner pointed out by the law. I
think the premises described in the
letter would be liable fer assessments
for benefits. If the percentage as-
sessed is not just an appeaLmay be
made-W. E. Brown, legal editor.

 

DRAIN FUND MUST-TAKE cans
OF COST OF BRIDGES ‘
There has been a large drain put
through our township. ”The assess.
meat was spread on two years divid-
— ”Eff“? with the usual 59511111911

00 ,

'.when it is posted?

" felt all interest
icents for 15 days overdue interest on
for ex'pessesI Alb‘ng’ this $28 is usury. —I-W E. Brown, chal ed-.

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hen they are for use at? the public.
at large Of course a small per cent

. of the cost of drain was spread on top
at large but when spread the bridges

were not then considered .—Sam Fer-
ris,10uster, Mich. .

Sec. 4898, C. L. 1915, provides that
the cost of Construction of bridges
shall be charged in the first instance
as a part of the cost of construction
of the. drain. From the fact that the
townshipat large had good bridges
and for the benefit of the land the
drain was reconstructed and the
bridges destroyed I would be of the
opinion that the cost should fall on
the drain. There is some doubt about
this being the correct rule because of
the wording of the statute but I do
not-call to mind any case that the
courts have construed the language.—
W. E. Brown, legal editor.

.PUBLIIC HAS' NO RIGHT TO CUT

' LINE FENCE ACROSS RIVER
-I own property through which there

’ is a river'and also a small creek run-

ning. I Wish to know if the public

has—any right to-cut any line fences

.which . we may have across these
streams. to keep ,cattle, from destroy-
ing crops? The river is about 24 ft.
wide and about 15 in. deep in the sum-
mer time and the creek is about eight

, ft. wide and 12 in. deep. Have hunters
.or trappers any right to

set traps
along river or creek on our property
We are paying
taxes on full amount of land, there be-
ing no deduction for river or stream.

‘The land along river is all under culti-'

vation. The river is not considered to
be, a navigable stream.—M. P., Lud-
ington. I

The publicwould not have a right
to cut or injure the fences across the
river or creek constructed as line
fences. Hunters and trappers would
have no right upon the premises for
hunting and trapping without permis-
sion and are trespassers if they do in
violation of the “posting.”——W. E.
Brown, legal editor. ‘

MUST TAKE OUT PAPERS TO BE-
COME U. S. CITIZEN

A woman is born in a foreign coun-

try. Must she take out her papers to

become "a citizen and legal voter of

the U. S. ‘A.? Her children were born

in this country, but if the parents

:have never taken out their citizen apa-
1pers are these children legal voters?

Please explain, as it has caused con-
siderable dispute since women have a

right to vote and to hold oflice.—-G.IH. '

P., Ludmgton Mich.
' A woman born in a foreign country

'must take out papers to become a citi-
.zen unless she marries a citizen, or,-
unless her husband takes out papers.

Children born in the ,United States

are citizens of the United States even
=though their parents are not citizens.
Children of foreign-born parents be-

come citizens upon the naturalization
"of parents if papers are taken out dur-
ing the minority or child.'—-W. E.
Brown, legal editor.

'NO RIGHT TO CHARGE 80],, INT.

Has a bank a right to charge 8 per
cent interest on a note when it is
made out at 7 and the note was paid
15 days before it was due?

Here is another deal that occurred

in the same bank just a few days ago.
.71 had a. son who borrowed $28 and he
1, gave a note for the same.

He has
been in the army for a year-now and

as he didn’t return in time topay this

note I went and paid it myself and the

-note was overdue 15 days and the

bank charged me 50 cents extra. Has.

. it a right to do that?—J. (1., Silver-

wood.

A bank has no right to charge 8%
interest under any circumstances. The-
taking or reserving of 8% is usury-

and in a note reserving it Would for-j
The charging of 50

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can’t afford to use a
second or third grade

CREAM SEPARATOR

 

T E LAVAL

Many users make the mistake of “saving” $10 or $15 in
the first cost of a cream separator. More 'of them continue the
use of an inferior or half-worn-out machine simply because it
still separates.

1

These users fail to consider what it means if the separation
is not complete; if the capacity of their separator is so small
that it needs to be run longer; if it is out of order a good part
ofthe time, or if the quality of the product is not the very best
it: could be.

They fail to realize what a very little difference means in the
use of a cream separator twice a day every day in the year, and
what a, difference it makes in first cost whether a machine lasts
three years or fifteen years.

All these differences led to the great majority of experienced
users buying De Laval machines when butter was worth 20c a
pound,.and they mean just three times as much when it is worth
60c. a pound and when every minute of time saved is worth so
much more than it was a few years ago.

De Laval superiority over other cream separators is no un- ,
certain quantity that cannot be seen or measured. On the con-
trary, it is capable of demonstration to every separator user,
and every De Laval agent is anxious for the opportunity to dem-
onstrate it.

If you don’t know the looano Laval agent, write to

the nearest De Laval oflice as below and we shall be
glad to put him into prompt communication with you. .

THE or. LAVAL SEPARATOR COMPANY“ ‘

165 Broadway, New York 29 E. Madison St... Chicago
1 _ M OVER 221325000 DEII. ILXAVAILS IN DAILY USE

 

    

 
 

     
    
   
   


   
    

   
   
  
 

 

 

  
 

“RECOVER AGAIN

, last minute suggestion last
"it thatthe break in the corn mar-
, ”was only temporary and urging
armors to pay no attention to it was

 

.ket recovered and .went to new high

(levels. There has been a slight decline-

from these levels since but the general

, tone orthe grain markets is very good

; and except for a continuance of tem-

» porary breaks we look for a steady ad-
vance to higher prices. ’

 

to“: Chicago ii. 1'.
2.70 2.50 2.36

2.03 2.47 2.33
2.03 2.47 2.30

The latest estimates, based on pres-
ent acreages, are of a wheat crop of
'863,000,000 bushels, or better, by far
the greatest crop of wheat ever pro.
duced in this country. .Should this es-
timate prove correct the United States
will have an exportable crop of well
over 600,000,000 bushels, which some
claim, is in excess of the entire re-
guirements of all Europe.
standing these estimates, the fear of a
few months ago that there would be no
market for the 1919 surplus seems to
have entirely disappeared, and while
many, are wondering who is going to
consume all this wheat there is a more
or less certain feeling that it will be
all taken care of without a loss to eith-
er producers, dealers or government.
The condition of the fall planted crop
is excellent. Some sections report a
rank growth which may diminish the
estimated yield of the grain. Other
sections report that the winter crop is
not doing well though they are unable
to find the reason. It would be front
cal, indeed, in the face of the extrava-
gant statements that have been made
~ of the enormous surplus yet to be har-
vested lf weather conditions should so
combine as to not only reduce the act-
ual yield to normal but cause a short-
age. While that is not a probable de-
velopment, it is certainly within the
range of possibility.

The cry that the price of wheat be
reduced in order to bring down the
price of bread, which was so insistent
a few months ago, has now all but
died away. The millers were quick to
advise the public not to expect any
material reduction in the price of
bread even though wheat did become
cheaper.

Not long ago the president or the
American Ass’n of the Baking Indus-
try warned the public that “even tho
the price of flour falls so that flour
should cost bakers of the country no
more than the water they use in their
bakeries, the price of bread will not
'. fall to itsformer level.” So the farm-
ers who have been worrying because
the high price of wheat was the cause
of high-priced bread may throw their
scruples to the wind. As a matter of
fact the cost of the wheat that enters
into the making of a loaf of bread is
only a small part Of the total cost. The
cost of other materials and equipment
required in the manufacture of bread
and the labor that turns it out has in-
creased far more than the cost of the
wheat. We are glad, that the millers
had to tell the public the truth about

 

 

 

 

this because the public has long had a .

foolish notion that the farmers were
Wholly responsible for the high cost of
living.

 

 

' GRA DE Detroit Chicago

 

 

 

 

N. Y.
No. 2 Yellow . . 1.86%
No. 8 Yellow . . 1.70 1.78 1,84
‘ No. 4, Yellow . . 1.67 1.71 1.82

The corn market is anything but a
taple market. The slightest rumor,
whether with or without foundation,
“ as it spurting ahead and dropping
downward. For months the bears
played up the, Argentine situation with
Ptlsfactory results to themselves un-

   

 

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corn steady. . Potatoes easier.

   
  

and feeling easier.

Beans in active demand and prices higher. Grains excepting

Poultry firm and dressed live stock easy.

 

Butter on decline. Eggs actiw.
Hay receipts increase

 

 

til Argentine grain finally began to
reach this country without causing
scarcely a tremor in the markets. Over
2,000,000 bushels 0: Argentine grain
have already come into this country
but it has been quickly assimilated
with but very little effect upon the de-
mand or the price of the domestic pro-
duct. The foreign grain is no; of the
best quality and one cargo was infest-
ed with weevil. Traders in the corn

‘ pit eagerly devour press and cable

statements attributed to, Hoover or
Barnes and rush to sell or buy accord-
ing to the nature of the statement-
The latest news to upset the corn mar-
ketand bring lower prices were the

announcements that Canadian grain-

would be admitted to this country and

that imports of Argentine grain would‘

greatly increase. . '

As stated many times before these.

occasional breaks in the; corn market
are only temporary and are not justi-
fied by the actual conditions.

   

 

Detroit Mm N. Y. A

. . . . .70“ .70“ .80“
No. 0 White .. .1. J! .70
NO. 4 White . . .n J}. .1.

 

 

 

 

The trade papers are a little more
bearish in their leaning toward oats

than they have been for some time.

The fear that the oat acreage would be
greatly reduced this year as a result
of the increased wheat acreage has
been an important factor inkeeping
the market steady. Luck of trading
and the practical discdntinuance of the
government orders for any large quan-
tities have given.the oat market a
slightly easier feeling which may re-
sult temporarily in lower prices. Over

 
 
 
 

four months ago we made the predic-
tion that the bulk of the out crop
would move at an average price of 78
cents a bushel or better. While that
figure may be a little high as applied
to the total crop, we certainly expect to
see a large part of the remaining hold-

 

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The fact that the government is turn-
ing back into domestic channels large
quantities of wheat which it had
bought for export and will export rye
in its stead has given a stronger tone
to that market altho prevailing prices
are slightly lower than a week ago.
The future of the rye market is very
uncertain owing to the almost total
lack or knowledge of the quantity that
will be needed for export trade. We
are of the opinion that price changes
will be in an upward direction. The
Detroit market quotes rye this week
at $1.75 per bushel. '

The barley market is stronger and
higher prices are expected. The week's
quotg‘tigns are around $2.80 to 82-40

 

 

 

3.00 0.0
Prime ... .... 7.00 7.25 1:}
Bed Kidney . . . 10.50 11.00 5

“Beans in brisk demand" say many of

 

 

 

 

the wires flashing from the trading'

centers to the sources of supply. It is
the best news we have heard on the

 

 

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‘nith WHO'S Gomr’rm wno‘ '
sure? gum 012 no em u= nr ‘
wears? H: A cramp: PARTY
we KNOW or were BOTH

 
 
     

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bean situation, since the government's ,

last\purchase of 360 cars. No further .
government business is in sightyet, ,
3 though there is a more or less vague

rumor being circulated that the gov-
ernment will buy earns more Michigan
beans in the near future. But private
buyers for export and domestic con-
sumption are taking beansin consider—
ably greater qusntities and with less
fussiness as to price. The market is
quoted active. Most sales are being

- made by jobbers on the basis of $8.'hut

we understand that some of the jobbers
are asking 88.25 and expect to get it.
Under the ”price agreement between
Food Administration, jobber and ele-
vator man, $8.25 should mean $7 beans
to the tarmer, and foolish’, indeed, is
The recent
strength to the bean market seems to
be quite independent of' abnormal in-
fluences and is the most encouraging
sign we have seen for a long time. It
looks as if the bean market was rap-
idly recovering from its long “illness"
and will be strong and healthful from
now on. .

Readers will recall the story that
was taken tom the San Francisco Call
and published in these columns sev—
eral months ago, which stated that
the government had cancelled the
Kimball bean contracts. We, our-
selves, did not vouch for the truth of
the statements, and we have since
learned through Mr. Frank B. Drees,
secretary of the-bean jobbers, that the
government has NOT cancelled the
contracts. On the contrary, we learn
from still another source that the gov-
ernment has fulfilled at least a part
of the contracts and that thousands of
tons of European beans have been or
are being purchased by the Food Ad-
ministration to fill Mr. Kimball’s con-
tracts. Not only does this mean that
millions of American dollars are going
to the Orient, but that foreign beans
are in actual competition with Ameri-
can grown beans and taking care of a
demand which, by all the rules of fair-
ness, should be filled by our own large
won

At the instigation of been growers
of .California, the question or propos-
ing a has tariff on foreign grown
beans will

indignant over a current report that
~ while the California, blackeyed beans.
have been a drug on the market. with
prices for under normal, beans grown
in the Orient‘have been imported since
January 1 in vast quantities.

    

 

Markets] I I
I Light Mix. St’nd. Tim. Tlmo
Detroit 36.50 87.00
Chicago 37.00 38.00
Clnoln. 30.50 40.00
Pitts. 38.00 38,50
N Y, . . 42,00 42.00

Markets 1 ,
Light Mix, Clov. Mix. Clover
Detroit 85.50 36.00 34.50 35.00 31.00 32.00
Chicago 35.00 30 00 33.00 35.00 31.00 33.00
Olncin 37.50 38.50 36.50 37.50 33.00 34.00
Pitts 35.50 86.50I36.50 37.50 35.00 35.50
N, Y. . . 40.00 41.00I38.00 39.00 34.00‘ 34.00

 

36.00 37.00 35.00 42.00
89.00 33.50 38.00 89.00
36.50 34.50 34.50 35.50
41.00 41.50 40 00 41.00

 

 

 

 

 

Hay trade conditions this week
(ending May 3rd) are less uniform
than they have been for some time.
Some of the markets hold steady; val-
ues in others are a little higher, while
other cities report an easier feeling
and lower values. In no instance, how-
ever, has the slackness been due to in-
creased receipts, rather to a lack of de-
mand. Values are so high that con
sumers‘hesitate to purchase and are
coming into the markets only as their
immediate requirements demand.
There has been more effort made with
less results in an endeavor to secure
shipments of hay during the past
three months than ever before in the
history of theIhay trade. However, as
soon as pasturage becomes universal,
there will be an increase in the sup-
plies, but most of the best quality bay
has been already absorbed and future
receipts can consist of only the medi-
um and poor grades. At this time of
the year and especially this year, it is
very diflicult to forecast the market;
but under these circumstances, conser-
vatism is especially desirable with
shippers in the matter of prices to far-
mers. Those who lost on the slump
after the war, havam an Opportunity

, to recoup their losses but should an- ‘

   
 

taken up. Growers are.

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cease

‘ -_hay between now and
.. ugus't will insure steady prices.» but
, . should there be an .effort» on the part of
‘ flippers and farmers to unload, unsat-
' hfactor‘y results are bound to follow,
one with the advanced shortage of
supplies. ‘

 

 

 

Markets Choice E"! B" White

‘ white-sk'd m
Detroit ...... . . . 2.80 owt. 8.20 ewe.
Chicago . . . ..... . 2.15 cwt. 2.05 cwt.
Cincinnati . . . . 2.40 ewt. 2.80 ewt.
flew York ....... 2.70 m. 2.00 cwt.
Ettsburgh ....... 2.40 cwt. 2.30 cwt.

 

The spud market is in a waiting posi.
tion. The advance of a few week's back
brought a large surplus of supplies,
some in none too good a condition,
which has giutted some consuming
markets causing a weaker feeling and
slightly lower prices. Shipments have
decreased again from over 400 cars a
day to the low figure of the season,
888 cars. Growers everywhere are
holding for higher prices. New pota-
toes have steadily declined as was to
be expected until the first of the pres-
ent week when they strengthened and
advanced on some markets. Imports
of Canadian stock are quite heavy, the
Bureau of Markets reporting 48 cars
for May 5th. The Canadian potato,
however, is not a favorite and the re-
ceipts are not in the best of condition,
so their effect upon the prices for do-
mestic potatoes is problematical.

Before the end of the week we ex-
t to see a further advance in pots-
prices and do not look for any fur-
ther slumps. We again caution our
‘ readers to unload their holdings a lit-
tle each week from now on, as the sea.
son-is rapidly drawing to a close and
none of them should take a chance of
tting caught while holding the bag.
ces are a little off right now, so
don't sell until the market strengthens
again. Keep in touch with your lo-
glmdealer or your city commission
by wire and as soon as the market
swings upward again, sell at least
art of your remaining crop. Prices
produce? should e in Michi-
gan from 1.10- to 81.2 per bushel
and most growers ought to make a
hir profit at those prices.

    

% BUTTER

New York, N. Y., May 3, 1919.—
The Butter Market: Apparently the
long-expected slump in butter prices
is on. While consumption has been
good and ,general demand normal.
stocks are gradually increasing. The
price tendency therefore has neces-

ar ' - slightly below

‘ demand.

’ innit!!!“ av
We"? cases @1131le .
normal“ because of the

 
 

presence of weedy flavors.

That was followed ‘by—vdeciines 01"20
on Tuesday, 1c on Thursday, and 10

The price. .
or butter declined is p on Monday.

on Friday.” The market seems weak

and unsettled at the close which in-
dicates that we may expect a still fur-
ther decline. At the close yesterday,
the following were the established
quotations: Extras, 58% to 59¢;
Higher scoring than extras, 59% to

' 60c; Firsts, 57 to~ 68c; and, Seconds,

55 to 56 15¢.

Eggs

The egg market is iirm and in good
Packing concerns are tak-
ing eggs freely for storage and there
is nothing to indicate that prices
will be any lower.

STORAGE' EGG PRICES

I am appealing to you for informa-
tion as regards the present quota-
tions on the egg market. You will
notice that storage eggs are quoted
three to four cents higher than fresh
eggs. What is the cause? We know
that some things improve with age
but did not know that this was the
case with eggs. As we want to bring
this matter up in our next meeting,
we are looking for your answer on
this subject—O. R., Grass Lake.

You are mistaken as to what the
quotations apply to as referred to in
the paragraph above. Current re-
ceipts are quoted in the market at a
certain price. Eggs for storage pur-
poses are always number ones with
everything out but number ones.
People preparing eggs for storage
usually buy current receipts at the

' market price, then candle these eggs,

taking out everything but the num-
ber ones, repack them in new cases
and they are ready for storage pur-
poses.

The storage price referred to is
not the outcoming price for storage
eggs which is yet to be determined
by subsequent markets, but it is the
price for eggs going into storage,
which are always handled "14 cand-
led with everything out but number
ones, and naturally an prepared
as above in new cases wi cost more
money than the current receipts.

Understand, you are confusing
eggs as ingoing with storage eggs
as outcoming. No, age adds nothing
to eggs, but candling and handling,
new containers, etc., do have to do
with the value.

pron LTRY

   

Live Poultry—No. 1 springs, 33
to 34; stags, 27 to 28; fat hens, 37 to
88c; small hens and Leghorns, 35 to
36c; roosters, 22 to 230; geese, 27 to

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ASHINGTO
—-Ls.st bulletin gave forecasts e
waTn wav s to cross continent May
to 2 and 3 to 17, storm ways. 9 t:
13 and 14 o 18, cool waves 10 1
and 15 to 9. rth
the cool waves of this period 11 be
cold waves, causing late frosts arth-
er south than usual. Rainfall of May
has been expected to be less than
usual with most rain near Ma 1, 16
That includes above escrlb-

w N, D. 0., May 10, '10:

~ will bring most rain during May. Cold-
' est week of May is expected from 11
to 17 inclusive.

Cropweather of May is expected to
average fairly good and June condi-
tions will bring in a very considerable
change in crop weather. There is a
long cropweather period in Nature’s
workshop which extends over five

‘ months at times and more than six
months at other times. In periods of
)any years‘» this cropweather period

at long intervals, is in the Winter sea-
‘ spnsand then, at other long, intervals,

THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
As Forecasted by W. T. Foster ‘for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

nd-29.
:3, weather period as one of three that /

occurs earlier, as an average, so that, .

in Summer seasons. Its changes now
occur in June and December; later
they will occur in May and Novem er,
The coming change will come in e-
tween June 1 and 16. 'fiheseh changes
have much to do in t e c ange of
crops.

Next warm ways? will each Van-
couver'about May I and tem»

peratures will rise on all be P lilo
slope. They will ore“ ore if
ice by close of an 1 pl
akes, middle G
Tennessez valle 20 an 8
sections 1 an 26, r ng
3f Newfoundland 11% By 2 an
7. Storm waves ow
one day behind warm waves and coo
waves about one day behind storm
Both these storms will be more se.

vere than usual' hi h-temperatures
will prevail till the se‘

' cool wave
enters that will be a col wave car-
ryin freezing and f , farther

sou than ususal. Last 0 these two
storms will be one of the three heav-
iest rain periods of May.

Six months i' advance I published
the following: " st half of April will
bring numerous, severe, dangerous
storms and frosts will be general."
This prediction had reference more
particularly to the s orms §nd frosts

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,, "orchard housef-with crops, “toned-Will

, ’ Which Separator did
John Brown Buy 2?

Suppose you were Farmer John Brown
and you wanted to buy a separator.
asked several separator manufacturers to
send you a ten-word telegram,stating in the most
convincing way, why their separator was the one
you should buy. Sharplcs would only need five
words: “Skims clpan at any speed,” and you
would not have to ask for anything further.

SHARPLES

SUCTION-FEED
Casan- seswuro

No other separator manufacturer could put into
five words or fifty words, as convincing an
argument as “Shims clean-

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at any Jspecd.” They would
tell you about the durability
of their separator, thatitwas
well—known, that it cost less
and everything else but the
one big reason why you need
a separator—to get all the
buttcriat out of your milk.
Sharplcs also has the exclu-
sive advantage of no discs in
the bowl; knee-low tank;

once a month oiling system;

durable construction and,
besides, it is the pioneer
American Separator. Write
for catalog to nearest ofiice,
addressing Dcpt.‘155

“There are no substitutes for dairy foods’ '

THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR C0., West Chester, Pa.

Sharples Milken—the ONLY Milker with a Squeeze

You

 

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BRANCHES; CHICAGO

SAN FRANCISCO , TORONTO
Over 2,425,000 Sharpie: Separators in Daily Use 9085

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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

mnmn FARM. BIG TYPE P. 0.
B all sold, nothing for sale now,
vs some cracker asks this t
ad. I want to
atronage an eve:
customer has been p eased with my be
fine said. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rap-
1 s. .

GOOD CHANCE FOB POULTRY m
—Acocunt of wife’s poor h th want
sell my farm of 20 acres, all enced, wi
flne 8-mom home, good we. in house
large poultry house. one bl from h
school and railroad. Near churches. r‘nvar-

ts st mill and lar e saw m l. m.

‘63. fight, Box as, Pefismn. Midlilgan.
‘ A REAL BULL

Just old enough for service. His sire is
one of the best 31 lb. bulls in the state:
his dam a 23 lb. cow of great capacity
His three nearest dams average fat, 4. d

r cent; 514.0 milk 7 days. ’Priced at
200 it sold soon. Harry T. Tubbs, El-
well. Michigan, .

'r‘wo MILES count or REED CITY;
80 acres, all im roved, he‘aVy rolling land.
Base, barmtoo house, granary, pigpen

 

 

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also sell cheap 8 ho tools, hay, stra
cc. Isaac

cash, lon time f
. B. Granniieed City,
n.

REGISTERED ANGUS BULLS CLOSE-
& related an International Grand
good

 

ions. see/bulls are bound to
eef calves even from grade in a

cows, because of many generations
line breeding, making them extremely

pre tant, especially with grade co
W to for our easy terms for purchase _
Thousand Dollar Community bull ° our
directions f raising a hundred dollar
beef %oheap home—made calf

and less .

guarantee to re und
p the bull and his calves
rom gra co are not satisfacto .
Geo. B. Sm th & . R. 7, Addison, Migh.

REGISTERED nun‘oo BOARS FROM .

prize—winning Golden Model family,
smooth type, adapted for mating with the
coarser-boned females for early maturing
pigs. Subject to immediate acceptance
and change without notice I will crate
and ship for 25c per pound. Pa are if dc.»
sired $1 extra. Send 850. ill refund
difference or return entire remittance if
reduced offer
weigh from 150 lbs. to 200 lbs.

e0 3.
Smith, Addison, Mich. ..

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MOTHER'S DAY ’-

i p 0 THE LIST of days we celebrate, has re-
‘ I cently been added that of ”Mother’ 3 Day, '~’.

which is set for the second Sunday in May.

It is not aholiday in the generally accepted

sense of the word, for it falls on Sunday, but
it is a day set apart when we dohonor to the
mother who bore us, who cared for us when we
were unable'to do for ourselves, and who'plan-
ned great things for our futures. And no mat—
ter how old we may be, no matter if some are
now mothers, we can never grow away from the

influence of our mother.

The other day a mother said to me: “I do not
live for my children, I live with them,” and it
gave me food for much thought.‘ HOW many
mothers are such slaves to their families, that
they, haven’t time to live with them. Much bet—
ter indeed that each should have his or her task
in the household so that “mother" will not work
for the children entirely, but with them, and
when-the day’s tasks are finished all are ready
for the evening together

And if the mother has grown old in years, still
remember there are very few of them who en-
joy being coddled; or being taken care of. Given
strength ._p'ermits,
they want to live with you, and not be made to
feel that they are old, by being Continually told
“not to do this” and “don’t do that.” It was

never intended that we should be helpless mor- » ‘

tale, and nature takes her toll; when wecease
to be active, then our life’s work is finished, and
so the gd'al ,toward which We strive .is to “wear

out; not rust out,” and what we get out of life,

and what our mothers get out of life, is all de-
pendent on the attitude we take toWard life and
them.

I have in mind a ve1y good example of grow-
ing old in years but growing younger in spirit
each year, in a grandmother I know, who now
in her eighty-first year is living on her‘ eighty—
acre farm, managing it, caring for her half acre
garden alone, tending her flowers, and incident—
ally planning on some sort of a trip this year to
see something more of the world. Nor does she

. depend on others to keep her posted as to the
- The daily '

happenings in this world about her.
paper reaches her door each noon and for a few
minutes thereafter, if you are a guest in the
home, you better find something to do, for
“Grandma” won’t be ready to visit with you
until she has learned all about the latest world
news. And as to Equal Suffrage, although she
had never cared to vote, when she found that
her vote would help to defeat the saloon, it was
only those voters who reached the polls when
they opened in the morning who saw her, for
she was there to cast her vote for “bone dry’
when the doors of the voting booth were opened
in the morning.

Sunday, May 10th, we will wear a bright col—
ored flower for the mother who is still living and
a white one if she has finished her earthly task
and been transferred to the other life. And if
the flower we wear is significant of “life,” by its
color, then let us help to make that mother en-
joy “life” by living with her while we may.

FIRST LESSONS. IN MUSIC .
(By Mrs Hairiet Ayers Seymour)
NY MOTHER who loves music and has

A studied enough to play faii 1y well can give
her children their first lessons. It is in-

deed a great advantage to

 
  

1111..
.habit :9! regular work, which is of the greatest
‘ value both musically and otherwise. ‘

Edited byMABEL CLARE LADD

Keep to this arrangement, for it forms a

What is music? This question ought to form

' a part of the very first lesson, and without actu-

ally giving the answer, lead Bobby to feel that

.music is a language, the beautiful language of

sound, and that when we play, we must say

- something that we feel.

In our new education, we are going to let the
child grow and develop, and‘fiot force facts into
his mind, so that the main thing is not to “tell
him” or “make him,” but to ‘flet him.”

After a little friendly conversation, play a low
then a high note and ask Bobby to tell you with
closed eyes which it is, high or low. Have him
sing high and low for you. . Finally give him' a
sheet of music paper or a music blan-k book and
let him write the notes you have played and he
has sung.

It is better to start out at once with beth
treble and bass clefs, and to give the child a
clear mental picture of the two staves and clefs
as a unity and not separated. “Grown-ups”
complain to me that they cannot easily read the

 

 

A MOTHER’S LOVE

" _ IFE DOES not hdld enough of years
In which we can repay ' '
‘A mother’s love—so do your best
Before she goes away.

No sweeter thought wasgiven birth
Amid the worldly throng.

No truer words were ever penned
In verse or sacred song.

No purer theme could be discussed
In mankind’s vast domain,

And heaven’s dream is far surpassed
By this true, sweet refrain.

Can mother's kiss still thrill our heart!
Then happiness is ours.

The world can give no sweeter bliss,
There are no sweeter flowers.

Life does not hold enough of years
In which we can repay

A mother’s love—then do your best
Before she goes away.

——FRANK L. MONTEVERDE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

two together because they have been taught first
one and then the other. Have Bobby write
middle C on an added line placed between the
two clefs and connect it with both the C which

is next above in the treble clef and the C next '

below in the bass clef. In'this way he will get
an actual picture of the connection betweenthe
two clefs, and realize that the C on the added
line either above the bass clef .or below the
treble clef is one and the same. note.

Great things come thru music: Character,
health, and mental clearness, if it is taught in
the right way.

Let your child try picking out little

some

, familiar tune on the piano, or let him sing orig-

inal tunes to given words, like “Sleep, Baby,
Sleep,”- or any little phrase you may think of.
Jessie Gaynor’s “Miniature Melodies for the
Young Pianist,” published in two volumes for
54 cents each, by the John Church 00., New

York, and a; blank book are all you 1111,. .
for some time, the latter for writing intervaglbE .

Even if he is “through fractions,” he probably.

_ ren to hear it.

and tunes, the former (of reading material sea
to harm little tunes from. These, written ‘6

both staves, are so very simple that every step ..

taken is readily understood.
You will have to teach the child note values

has never really grasped the difference between
the eighth and the quarter.‘ Spend a week pa»
tiently working out this problem. An apple Cut
into quarters and eighths will help.- But aburvo
you which are long and which are. short.

ter and eighth notes, until he makes no mistake
about them. -

children enjoy playing these little Folk Songs.

  

 
  
     
   
    
      
     
    
    
     
    
    
 

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all, play diiferent values to him, and let him tell- , 141
Then .

have him write over and over, whole, half, quare -‘ I;
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The Schwalm book of easy duets is a help; and 2‘

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Its exact title is “Young Musicians. The Very
Easiest Children’s Pieces,” ‘ published by G.
Schirmer, New York, for 75 cents. The bass
should be taught at once and robbed of its"
After having played six or more of the Jessie
Gaynor melodies, have Bobby begin to listen for;
the bass of the dust you are playing. Play the
tune and get Bobby to sing or Whistle, or pick
out on the keys the base he hears. Every melody
has its bass, but we must listen and hear this;
ever present harmony, and stimulate the child-

.1 ;‘ 1"

Play a scale from c- b -a and so on down. Step
at d and ask for the next note. The child will
invariably give C. Why? Because he heal‘st it
mentally. This is a point to dwell (311,101- if he »
hears that tone, he is able inwardly to hear all,
including the bass. .

Drill a long time on hearing the three simple.
chords of the Tonic, the Sub- Dominant, and the.

[Dominant and if you, Mother, are a little at sea

about these chords, get a simple harmony book
and look them up. Every key has its three
chords, and every human soul can, by listening,-
hear them. .

To hear and play and write intervals and the
simple chords should be a part of Bobby’s lesson
for years, unless the child is naturally devel-
oped in this way, as some children are.

God gave us all music, but we have centered
our attention too long on the outer things and:
forgotten this language of harmonious sound as‘
a means of expressing happy and beautiful
things.

 

 

' LESSONS in your ' coonNc I

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

 

 

 

 

Leavening Agents -. 1 :g

EMEMBER first of all, no leavening agent“

is a food. Its one pupose is to make our".

food light.

our aking are three in number, namely, yeaSt1‘
soda and baking powder; though we sometimes
depend upon the expansion of air beaten into
themixture to make it light. 'I‘hoSe mixtures
however, always contain a large quantity of egg,

‘ which stretches as the air contained within its

bubbles is heated and expands; and .it is the
hardening of the egg, assisted by the hai dening
of the gluten in the flour that preserves the
shape of the article- -.baked
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have Mother'teach, for
music will thus become
a part of the daily life of
the home and prove inval-

Your Order, Please

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Are you making use of the Home Cook-

.cake are familiar exam..
‘ples of food lightened by
“the expansion of air.

» Yeast is,-of course, fa-

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growth of the children in
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love of it killed by inad-
eduate teaching!

How shall we begin?
Bobby is eight or nine
years old and has asked
to be taught music You
are eager to teach him.

 

:day when you and he are

. rested, and have a short

, Most children love mus— .
ic. But how often is the '

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, lesson at that time every ..

‘I‘If I were editing that magazine, I would

 

well, tell me—just what you would
have on this page. .

Would you devote the whole page to
one article, or would you divide it and
have several subjects treated each week
as we are doing now?

Do you enjoy the plans ‘for the modern
farm house, and would' you like more of
these? ~

Or do you wish more space devoted to
home dressmaking, fancy work, sugges-
tions as to what is new in the way of dress
accessories?

Would you like a Whole page devoted to

the June bride early in the summer, with

suggestions for her trousseau,,.,her clothes,
entertainments for her, etc.?

ing Department and the recipes contained
therein?

The other day a letter came to my desk _
stating that one mother was very much in- *

terested in the subject of Kindergarten
helps for parents and thought music very
essential in child training, and would I
print another such article? I am glad to
do so, and this week have given a very
good one from the pen of an expert who
is hired by the United States Government
to prepare just such articles. Do they in-
terest you? Would you like them once a.
month? . _
Remember, this is your page of our pa-
per. Tell me' whatyou are most interest-

,ed in so that you will feel that it is indeed

the farm paper which caters to largest

, number of. its subscribers.

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_' to take 'care of. Yeast is "
a plant, and needse‘xact-
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miliar' to all of, us,‘ still
I find many wom_en'-who

bug ofgsome description.‘ 1 ‘
and exceedingly .dimcult‘wf ;

moisture; but it does not

need light. Now, yeast is

yeast, and it doesn’t mat- .
ter in what form it is, it. I
is the same plant. In the '
30ft yeast on the market
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‘9‘. yardstof 44~inch material, The skirt
measures about 2% yards at the foot.

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sizes; Large 40-42: and Extra Large,
4446 inches bust measure. Size 38 re-
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.essary, bicarbonate of soda, moisture

yeast’i’ a day ahead of- baking day.-
gf-be‘cbme active. \

I believe many women are convince,
ed now;,to their own satisfaction'that
not quite all their. baking troubles
have been due to the war flow, which .
has been on the market; but as the
high-grade flour or former days has
reappeared, they have been disap-
pointed in not obtaining the good re-
sults they expected. ‘

I believe I have tried ‘out baking
under almost every condition and I
find that many troubles are due to the
yeast, no matter what the kind used. *

Yeast cakes are smaller, 'as we all
know; but their quality is frequently
inferior to [that of former days. I
count always on using one and one-
half cakes where we formerly used
one. » -

Of course, many women make their
own yeast, with the greatest of satis-
faction and the best of results; Much
can besaid, both- for and, against the
"lightning starter” or “witch yeas"
used. I recently talked with a lady
who had used her “starter’ior about
twenty-two years but she knows how
to care for it. 'I believe the vast may
jority of women fail in its use after a
short period of time. ’

The yeast plant reproduces by bud-
ding, just as a cactus leaf sends out
the new leaf from the end of the old,
but if the budding ceases, the yeast is.
“used up.’ Germs that cause things
to sour seem closely related to the
yeast plant, and are present in quan-
tities when this happens, and then
the bread is sour.

Sugar is a food for the yeast, and
while good bread can be made with-
out it the action of the yeast is has-
tened and a little stronger fermenta-
tion brought about, if a little is used.
Salt retards the action of the yeast,
so I would not advise putting that in-
to the yeast—wait until later in the
bread making process.

The action of baking soda, or bi-
carbonate of soda, and baking powder
is as follows: Three things are nec-

and’ an acid; then when the heat is
applied, a chemical action takes place.
The gas,, carbon dioxide which makes
things “light," passes off into the ov-
en the loaf we are baking hardens
and preserves its shape and the other
products-of the chemical action are
left in the loaf tobe eaten. Success-
ful baking means applying the heat so
uniformly that at the moment the
greatest amount of gas is formed, or
the loaf is at its highest, the heat is
sufficient to harden the eggs. and the
gluten in the flour, so the loaf pre-
serves its shape. If not, the loaf set:
ties back and the gas escapes, and the
loaf is heavy. .

In using baking soda, the acid is
in either the molasses, or sour milk
used. But I believe many of us err
in using too much soda. The time
honored rule seems to be one level
teaspoonful of soda to each half pint,
or a cupful of sour milk; but if'you
use one-half level teaspoonful of soda
to each cupful of milk, and then bak~
ing powder as you would if using
sweet milk, I believe you will have a
better result.

Suppose your recipe calls for one
cup of sour milk and one teaspoonful
of soda. Change that to use one cup
of sour milk, one-half teaspoonful of
soda, and two level teaspoons of bak-
ing pewder, and see it you do not like
the result better. Too much soda fre-
quently gives a soapy taste to 'a rich
cake, and that is exactly the chemical
action that has taken place. The soda
has united with some of the fat in
the cake to form a bit of soap.

One level teaspoonful of soda is re-
garded as having the same leavening
properties, as four level teaspoons of
baking powder, so remembering that,
it is an easy matter to substitute the
baking powder for the soda.

 

We have-received an inquiry
.trom one of our readers for
the full name and address of
, Mrs. J, M. Bream. ~ If‘this sub- ,
scriber will Jurnish us with
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You can’t think of “delicious”!
or “refreshing” without think-.
ing of Coca-Cola.

You can't drink Coca-Cola without
being delighted and refreshed.
The taste is the test of Coca-Cola
uality—so clearly distinguishes it
rom imitations that you cannot be
deceived. -

Demand the genuine by full name
——nicknunes encourage substitution.

THE COCA-COLA Co.
. ATLANTA. GA.

     
         
        
 
      
      
     
   
         
        
          
       
     
      
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

t the doughboys called The Salvation
Army workers on the battle-fields and back of

France.

“real people ” to the soldier, because
ust like the folks back home, with
hands accustomed to work and . eyes always

ready to smile.

And now these same “real people” back from the war
els, have built, their trenches in the Streets
They will wage the fight for the
st as they have done for

with new laur
”of Poverty in

poOr and unfortunate at home, ju
years, only on a larger scale.

The Salvation Army conducts Rescue Homes—Day
N urseries—Homes for the .Helpless Aged—Lodging

Houses for the Down and Outers—Fresh-Air F arms—-

Free Clinics.

It must extend this service everywhere where Misery and '
It must continue to reach down and lifl:
up'the men women and children who have fallen.

Poverty .exist.

America.

1 W211 You Help? 1

, The Salvation- Army Home Service rand Meyliith to- 26th.

 

 
    
 


    
   
  
    
 
 
  
   
 
   
     
  
 
   
 
  
   
  
   
   
     
  
  
  
    
   
 
  
   
 
   
  
  
  
 
   
    
 
    
    
  
     
 
   
    
  
  
   
   
   
   
    
  
   
   
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
    
    
    
  
 
  
 
 
   
 
  
   
 
  
     
  
 
  
 
  

  
  
   
  

     
    
  
  
 
 
   

 

‘ ' EAR CHILDREN: One om.
little cousins suggested this

is time, a puzzle, a recipe and then

ave more room for letters which we
have not been able to publish before.

Haven’t you noticed from the let—
ters received each week how many of
our little cousins were helping their
fathers and mothers with the chores
and. the housework? This means
that they are learning to be business
men and women; that they are spend-

" ing some time in work as well as

play and I am sure that we have the
most industrious family that ever

lived. Affectionately yours, LADDIE.

o—o—o—o—oé— o—o—o—o—o
3 WHAT HAPPENED TO DUMPS o

I
O—O———O——O———O—0——O—O
(By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey)

NCE UPON a time there was a

queer little elf named Dumps,

who lived all by himself in a
dark little house down in a valley.
Ever since he could remember, things
had gone wrong with him.

He shivered in the cold and kicked
the coal bucket when the fire would
not burn; He howled when he stum-
bled over his own dinner pots that
he had left sitting in the middle of
the floor, and he stood in his front
door and scowled when the other hap—
py elves went by, without speaking '

* to him.

He and his family had lived like
that for years. When any elf wanted
to describe something very sad he
would say it was “Down in the
Dumps," and so Dumps went on with;
out a single happy day.

But the elves decided, suddenly,
to give a party. Oh, it was going to
be a very jolly party indeed, and
Dumps heard about it. Almost every
elf who passed was whistling, or
singing something cheerful. And
some of them were carrying their
best green suits to the Wood Fairy’s
house to be pressed. And when
Dumps heard about the party, he
cried so loudly because he knew that
he wouldn't be invited that the Wood
Fairy heard him. The noise disturb-
ed her so much that she went right
down to Dump’s house to see what
was the matter with him now.

“Tell me all about it from the be—
ginning, my dear,” she asked poor
little Dumps.

. “I can’t see the sunshine!” Dumps
howled.

“Of course you can’t”
Wood Fairy. “Your windows are
dirty. Get some nice spring water
in your little pail and wash them.”

Dumps had never thought of doing
that: When he washed the windows
the sunbeams streamed in like a gol-
' den - ladder.

“Is there something else the mat-
ter?” the Wood Fairy asked.

“My fire won't burn, even though
I kick the coal bucket every day,”
Dumps sobbed.

”Well, do try blowing the fire,”
the Wood Fairy suggested.

'Dumps had never thought of doing
that. His bellows were stiff, but he
blew them very hard and, crackle,
there was a nice bright fire and his tea
kettle began to sing.

said the

“Is that all?” asked the Wood
Fairy.
“Oh, no!” Dumps sighed. “The

other elves are giving a party and I
am not invited.”

“It is for all the elves and you
don't have to be invited,” the Wood
Fairy said. ”Stand up straight and.
1‘ me brush your suit. Now run‘
along, my dear."

So Dumps started up the hill to

_ Just couldn't stop. You see he
" ' so many years of being one of
,fls Dumps to make up for. He laugh-
of until all his wrinkles were gone
' ' . he was puffed out with happiness.

started been beams and grass:

E party, laughing all the way for

 
 

, week that we allow two weeks y‘
A, instead of one in which to guess the
. . names of the remainder of the great
, .men, so we will be glad to skip this
‘ 1,, week, and put in a picture next week

5 instead, using our space for a story

hoppers, fiddling. and crickets chirp-
ing, and a whole crowd ‘ of yellow
butterflies flew along with him.

“Who .can’this new, fat, cheerful"

elf be?" asked all the other elves as

‘ Dumps arrived at the party, turning

a double somersault into their midst.

“Wé are all here except Dumpsg

and of course, this isn’t he?”
Then Dumps showed them how he
could turn back somersaults and

Letters from Our Boys and Girls

(Bond .11; Mia’s as man one. papa new... “media," can Burn} rub. om. m. elemeni, inch.) '

make a see—saw out of a rush leaf.
He taught them how to play base
ball with 'white clover heads, and
how to make a swing of braided gras-
ses. He surprised himself with all
the good time he was able to think up.

”Of course, this isn’t Dumps,” the
other, e'lvesdeCided. “His name must
be Delight," and Dumps never told
them their mistake, for. it wasn’t real-
ly a mistake at all. Now was it?

 

 

 

 

Dear Laddie——Thls is the first time .I
have ever written to you but I hope it
isn’t the last. I enjoy the. letters and
stories in Michigan Business Farming.
Papa takes it and has~f0r some-time. I
go to school and like it real well. I have
a real nice school teacher. I am 11 Years
old and am in the 6th and 7th grades. I
have three brothers, I live on an IOO—acre
farm. We have six cows and four horses.
We have three pets, a dog and two cats.
Well, I will close for this time,——Lynetta
Provost, Hartford, Mich.

-Brightening All It Can

It had been a dark, rainy day, but as
night drew near the mist rolled away
and the sun began to shine bright .and to
lightlup the woods and fields W'lth.h18
glad rays. “Look, father," cried a little
girl, “Look, the sun is brightenmg .all
it can.” “Brightening all it can, _so it is,”
said the father, “and you, my little girl,
can be like the sun if you will.” “How,
father? How can .I be like the sun?”' she
asked. “By looking happy and smiling
on us and never letting the tears come
into those blue eyes. Only be happy and
good, that is all.” The next day the mus-
ic of this little voice filled the house .all
day. The little heart seemed full of Joy
and love. When asked why she~was so
happy, she said with a laugh, “Why,
don't you see, I am brightening all
can!" “Thatis right, my little girl,” said
her father. “try to make others happy
and it will make you happy yourself.” I
hope that many other children will try
this little girl’s plan. If we would be
happy ourselves we must first try to
make others happy. If we would be
loved we must first love.

Dear Laddle—Ienjoy reading the let-
ters in the M. B. F. My name is Her-
schell Powell. I am in the 8th grade and
am 14 years old. I like to go to school; it
is one and three-fourths miles from us.
I like to skate and have a new pair of
skates but haven’t skated with them yet.
It rained hard last Friday so that I
couldn’t skate until it froze over.‘ I
haven't done much trapping this winter
because we haven’t had enough snow. I
have a little red headed brother ;» his

~na.me is Clifford. Clifford and I get in

the wood on a pair of sleighs that 1
made We have about 60 hens. I like to
gather the eggs and have the others
guess how many I got. We have a silo.
It is an inter-locking cement stave silo.
We have 17 head of cattle. We feed
them silage. I milk two cows night and
morning. and father milks two. I like to
milk. I feed two calves; one is red, the
other red and white. We have two pigs
and seven horses. We have a farm of
200 acres. We had 50 tons of sugar beets
last year. I hauled with one team and

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my brother hauled with the three-horse
team. I like to work on the farm. It is
very healthy, My brother just came
home from camp last week. He was very
sick but he is well now. I would really
like to see my letter in print—Herschell
Powell, Applegate, Mich.

Dear Laddie—We take the Michigan
Business Farming and like if very much.
I havelbeen reading the boys’ and girls'
letters, so‘thought I would write too. I
am a girl 12 years old and in the.6th
grade at school. There are 25 scholars
in our school. It is called the Maple
Grove school. I have two brothers. For
pets I have a Collie dog, named Shep. I
also have two cats, one is a kitteh and is
almost all White. We have» two horses
and eight cows. My mother has been sick
for a. long time and I have to do most of
the work, That is why I did not write
before. I like the D00 Dads very much.
They are such funny little men. I also
read the story of Lilliputania. It must
have looked funny when all the people
began to run when they saw Bell Boy
after he had eaten the magic food. I hope
you will print a story like that one about
Little Red Riding Hood every week. Well
my letter is getting long and besides it
may land in the waste paper basket so
I will say goodbye for this time. I may
filing} again—Bessie Fliger, Kingsley,

c .

Dear Laddie—This is the first time I
have written to you. I am 12 years old
and in the 7th grade. We have seven
horses. We have a farm of 160 acres and
I help my father cultivate, pulverize and
put in the grain. In the fall my brother
and I husk corn and we can husk 70
bushels a day. We have a little calf and
its name is Spot. I have four brothers
and one sister. I invest my money in

 

.War Savings Stamps and I love to read

the M. B. F.—-Donald Martin, Clifton, Ill,

Dear Laddie—I have never written to
you so will. try to write now. My father
akes the M. B. and likes it very
much. I like to soothe Doo Dads. I am 9
years old and in the 4th grade. I have a
sister, I had a little dog named Jack,
but he ran away. In the winter I go
skating and sliding. Sometimes I help
father and mother.——Madge Thompson,
Lucas, Mich.

Dear Laddie:——-—I have never written to
you before. I am interested in the boys'
and girls’ letters. I am a girl 11 years
old and live on an 80-acre farm. My
father takes the M, B. F., and thinks it
is fine; We have 10 cows, two calves, and
15 rabbits. I have no mother or brother
or sister. I live With my father. We have

so DQVD Dnoynuo

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When Mother Lets You Make Salad

Wash one head of lettuce, pick the
leaves apart, drain, wrap in clean
cloth and put in' a cool place till need—
ed. . ,
Scrub ’two bright red apples.

Crack and pick "over six English"

walnuts.

Put one tablespoonful lemon juice *

(or mild vinegar), two tablespoonsful
vegetable oil, one-quarter teaSpoon
salt and one—quarter teaspoon paprika
in a small bowl and mix well.

Just before time to serve the salad.
core the apples and slice.them in thin
slices—be sufe that the rim~of red
skin stays neatly on’ each slice.

Arrange lettuce on salad plates.

Lay three slices of apple on each;

plate.
Put two halves of nut on top apples
Put two teaspoons of dressing on
each plate, letting it run over the ap-‘
ple to season. - '
Serve at once with crisp wafers.
This serves six people.

 

 

a victrola and a piano. I have to walk I.
mile to school. I am writing a story
which I wish to see in print, and also
mv letter. We live seven miles from town.
Well, my letter is getting long so will
close.—Olieda Pyard, Comstock Park,
Mich.
Orphan Mary

Once upon a time there lived a girl
whose name was Mary. She lived with
her aunt because her father and mother
were dead. Her aunt was very rich and
also very cruel and mean. She would send
Mary to school without any lunch. But
Mary semed to bear her aunt's cruelty
very bravely. The holiday season was

fast approaching and there was to be I. ~

Christmas entertainment at little Mary's

school. There was to be a Christmas
tree too, after the speaking. When the
night came for entertainment Mary’s

aunt gave her a torn dress to wear and a
pair of heavy shoes. Mary did not want
to wear them but She had to as her aunt
would give her; no others. At the tree all
the other little girls got nice presents,
but Mary did not receive any. She went
home with tears in her eyes and hung up
her stocking thinking Santa Claus might

'remember her too. She then went to bed

and slept, dreaming of old Santa. Mean-
time her aunt in her bed in another, part
of the house was having a. terrible dream.
She dreamed that little Mary died, and
then all she could see before her eyes was
the ragged dress and the heavy shoes,
when she might, have bought the little
,girl a new outfit, When she awoke she
made a promise that if she lived until the
next day she would give Mary a happy
Christmas. So the little girl was made
happy by receiving from her aunt a. nice
dress. a big doll and lots or toys. After
all Mary’s Christmas was a happy one
and the aunt learned to love her little
niece,

 

Dear Laddie—We are. always glad
when the M. B. F. comes, and I always
read, every word on the children’s page.
I liked the story of the Giants of Lilli-
utania, very much. I have a little story

ere I would like to tell you.- It is about
our trip from the west to Michigan,
was born in Odessa, Wash, just 77 miles
from Spokane. When I was about 4 years
old we moved to Spokane, which is a.
very fine city. Then two years later we
moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, A little lat-
Mont., and
when I was 3 years old we. mother. my
sister, Bella, and I, started for Michigan.
We started October 7, 1913. We made
several stops. We stopped in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, two
weeks. We took the sleeper through to
Omaha. Oh! It was fun going to bed at
night. We had little electric lights in the
berth, and put some of our clothes in a
tiny hammock, that would have made a
nice hammock for a doll. We took some
of our meals in the diner and that w
lots of fun too. When we left Coun
Bluffs we stopped over in Atlantic, Iowa
and two days in Chicago; also Eaton_
Mich., a week. We have been in Michi-
gan now five years. We would all rather
live in the west, Spokane is our favor—
ite place altho we had a fine trip. We
went through four different capitals,,
Helena, Mont, Lincoln, Nebr., Des Moines
1a., and Lansing, Mich. I just wish
could travel all the time. Well, I have
to feed the chickens and get the wood and
kindling—Helen E. Gehrig, Vanderbilt.

1c .

Dear Laddie—This is the second time I
am writing to you. My first letter was
not very long. My father takes the M.
B. F. I read it before he does though as
I'm very much interested. in the pages. I
live on an 80-acre farm though my fath-
er owns 320 acres in all. I’m going to

make a guess at the outlined picture. I

think it’s Theodore Roosevelt, for I know

he liked huntin ,very well and also“!

our president, r. Roosevelt and his so
Kermit, went to Africa for ane‘xten '
hunting .tour, soon after retiring m
the presidency. I know a good' deal, ‘
about him butt ,itthink’ it wag? taxi;

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, "l market has been .very‘ unset-
M since the geyernment‘ relinquish-
. H control, .and quotations fluctuate
. . widely; A Washtenaw Subscriber ad-
' ,vi'ses us that local dealers were of-
fering aroundp‘40 to. 45¢ a pound a
month ago, but upon the refusal of
‘ the majority of the farmers to sell
, at that price, have since raised their
quotations to 61¢ a lb. This is a
' really higher figure than present
deals would way-ant, as the highest
prevailing" quotations to farmers are
45 to 500 according to grade. Wool
growers who are in doubt as to how
much they should receive fer their
1919 fleece should watch these col-
umns next week, as they will find
some information on the wool situ-
ation which will be of interest to

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East Buffalo, May 5, 1919.——Re—

coipts of cattle Monday, 180 cars,
, including 40 cars of Canadians and
18 .cars left from last week’s trade.
Our market opened 250 to 50c low-

or on medium weight and weighty;

steer cattle which were in heavy sup-
ply; butcher steers and handy weight
steers were in good supply, sold
strong to 10c higher; fat cows and
heifers were in light supply, sold 15
to 250 higher than last week; bulls
of all classes were in light supply,
sold steady; canners and cutters
were in light supply, sold steady;
fresh cows and springers were in
light supply, sold strong; stockers
and feeders were in very light sup-

‘ ply, sold 15 to 25c higher; yearlings
were in very light supply, sold 15 to
250 higher.

The receipts of sheep and lambs
are called 40 cars. The general
market is about steady with Satur-
day. There were some very choice,
handy weight lambs sold at $16.85

, to $16.90, and about four loads of
handy weights, that had a growth of
wool about an inch long, sold up to
$17. Aside from these, best lambs
sold from $16.50 to $16.75; culls,
$13 to $14.50; yearlings, $18 to
$14.50; wethers, $13 to $13.50;
ewes, $111.50 to $12.50.

Receipts of calves are estimated at
3,300 head. Choice calves, $16 to
$16.50, which is steady; throwouts,
120 to 140 lbs_, $13 to $14; heavy
throwouts, 160 to 1901bs., $7 to $8;
heavy fat calves, $9 to $11, as to
weight and quality.

U. 8.05121“ .
MARKET REPORT

Fairly Steady Prices and" Average
Movement

Few very sharplchanges occurred-

but general tone appeared somewhat
weaker. Potatoes, new onion, straw-
berries, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers,
and egg plants declined moderately.
Cabbage, asparagus and celery were
steady to strong Shipments 7,051
cars compared with 7,512 last week.
Volume in recent weeks has averaged
about 1,000 cars daily, which is not
far from the average movement dur-
ing the corresponding time a. year
ago. Shipments of old potatoes, on-
ions and cabbage are steadily de—
creasing. Apples, lettuce, citrus,
fruits and dry beans are also de-,
creasing. Principal increases were
in new cabbage, strawberries and col-
ery. Shipments as compared with a
year ago are much lighter for new
potatoes. cabbage, tomatoes
heavier for oranges, cucumbers,
leis-ms and new onions. Apple ex-
port .nquiry reported still active from
north~ European “countries, but stock
nearly exhausted. Exports July 1
: .to;:March 20 were 1,352,189 bbls., in-
. ‘ {piling 921,079 to, United Kingdom
and-1249,503 to Canada. Exports
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..‘:g§rao bus, spot: ‘neaau'tb _
Eastern mend-picked. sacked white

beans still ranged‘fympstly $7.50 to' $8.
per 5wt., although declining slightly
in Chicago. Southern California sack-
pd small whites were, also steady. in,
consuming markets, but slightly weak-.
er in producing sections, closing at $6
to growers. California Limas ruled $7
to growers and followed the wide
range in terminal markets or $7.50 to
$9. Colorado Pintos held at $4.50 per
‘cwt. in bulk, cash to growers, and
were nearly steady in middlewestern
and southern markets. Shipments de-
creased to 164 cars, compared with 192
cars last week. '

Potato Prices Recede

Losses of 5 to 25 cents per cwt.
about offset the average gain of the
preceding week. No. 1 northern sack«
ed white stock closed 20 cents lower
in Chicago _at $2 to $2.15. Range
in middle western jobbing markets
was about steady and southern mar-
kets were firm, closing at $3.25 to
to $3.50 in New Orleans and $2.85
to $3 in Atlanta, while Michigan
shipping points quoted No. 1 sacked
white stock at $2.10 to $2.15 slight-
ly .below last week’s close. Colo-‘
rado No. 1 sacked white stock ranged
slightly weaker at shipping points,
closing $1.65 to $1.75 f. o_ b. Greel-
ey, but held about steady in south-
western markets. Western track-
side and warehouse sales by grow-
ers followed a slightly weaker range
at $1.25 to $2. Undertone in pro-
ducing sections appeared confident,
growers often being reported hold—
ing for higher prices. New York
round whites bulk weakened consid-
erably in producing sections, clos-
ing at $2.37 to $2.97 f. \o. b. ship-
ping points and consuming markets
averaged about 15 cents decline for
this stock at $2250 to $2.85. Sacked
Maine Green Mountains are dull and
unsettled in producing sections, but
averaged 40 cents decline in consum-
ing markets, ranging $2.60 to $2.85.
Shipments of old stock 2,097 cars
compared with 2.675 last week and
2,251 a year ago. Principal ship-
ping states are still Maine, Minne-
sota, Michigan and Wisconsin. Val-
ue of new stock also showed moder-
ate declines New Florida Spaulding
Rose weakened further in northern
markets, ranging $8 to $9 per bbl.,
and closed stronger, mostly-— $8 per
bbl. f. o. b. shipping points. Texas
Bliss Triumphs followed the slightly
weaker range in middle western
markets of $3.50 to $4 per bushel
hamper. Shipments of new stock
332 compared with 392 last week
and 932 for the corresponding week
last year. Canadian imports 158
cars. Louisiana potatoes expected to
begin shipping movement about the
middle of May_ Crop much lighter
than last year. Jobbing market
range of eastern andnorthern pota-
toes a year ago $1.35 to $1.65 per
cwt. bulk. New Florida $4.50 to $6
per 'bbl.‘

Detroit Live Stock Market

(By Bureau of Markets)
Dressed Calves, 20 to 280; ,mar—

ket easy. Dressed hogs, 22 to 250;
market flrm. '
Michigan Central Stock Yards,

Detroit, May 6.———Cattle: Market dull-
and draggy; prospects look lower;
best heavy steers, $14 to $16; best
handy weight butcher steers, $11.50
to $13.50; mixed steers and heifers,
$11 to $13; handy light butchers,
$9.50 to $11.50;‘light butchers, $8 to
$9; best cows, $11 to $1150; butchi
er cows, $7.50 to $10; cutters, $6.75
to $7; canners, $6 to $6.50; best
heavy bulls, $11; bologna bulls, $9
to $10; stock bulls, $8 to $9; feed-
ers, $10 to $12; stockers, $8 to $10;
milkers and springers, $80 to $160.

Veal calves—Market steady; few
choice, $16; bulk of best, $15 to
$15.50; others, $10 to $13.

Sheep and lambs—Best lambs, 500
higher; others steady; best lambs,
$16 to $16.25; fair lambs, $14 to
$15; light to common lambs, $11 to

‘$12; fair to good sheep, $11.50 to
$12; culls and common, $6 to $8.

Hogs—«Pigs 35c and mixed hogs,
40c higher than ‘Monday; pigs,
$19.85; mixed hogs, $20.90 to $21.

I consider the M. B. F. the best farm

Bel— ‘

 

paper that 'I ever read—Elmer Stead,
Gratiot county.

 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
 
 
  
   

 

There are over 135,000
stockholders who own the
American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. This
great body of people, larger
than the entire population of
such cities as Albany, Dayton
or Tacoma, share the cam-
ings produced by the Bell
System. "

More than 45,000 of these
partners are workers in the
telephone organization. They
are linemen, switch board
operators, clerks, mechanics,
electricians. .

The vast property of the
Bell System represents the
savings of these thousands of

 

Our Stockholders

people, in many cases all
their savings.

In the truest sense of the
_word this big public service
corporation belongs to the
people. The people own it
and the people receive the
profits. More than 93% of its
stock is owned by persons
holding, each, less than 0110-;
ninth of one per cent.

The Bell System is a real'
industrial democracy. On its
economic operation depends
the future independence of
many citizens of small means.
as well as the profitable em-
ployment of thousands of
other men and women.

AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
Ono System

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KAWKAWLIN UNION TO HOLD
IMPORTANT MEETING

. Farmers’ Union of Kawkawlin,
Mich, Will hold' their meeting at the
town hall 'on May 15th at 7:00 p. In.
Important business will be taken up.
-—Peter LaFlamme, Sec.-Treas., Farm
ers' Union, Kawkawlin, Mich.

Kies says, “Hogs all sold.” Dont send
any orders to B. E. Kiss of Hillsdale
for the hogs which he recently adver-
tised in these columns. He’s all sold
out!

 

  
   
   
    
 

Manufacturers of high-
0 Tires sell us their
surplus stocks of “FlRSTS”
at rock-bottom prices for
s 01: cash. We sell 'YOU
. t eso brand new Tires ss
.. “Seconds” at an average
,\ 4 REDUCTlON or 40%,
Guaran'cci
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. 62.55 .
.60 0.70 3 60 :‘
.. . 3.10
< . . 3.25
. . 3.30
.' . 3.40
. . 4.15
. . . 4.25
. . 4.35
< 33 x 9.55 . . 4.45
34 x 4 $.00 21.90 4.55
< 35 x 4 21.06 23.05 5.20
'<.. 36 x 4 23.50 25.50 5.35
< 34 x 4 1-2 20.90 29.35 5.001
< 35 x 4 1—2 28.60 80.70 5.70
36 x 4 1-2 25.60 31.15 5.90
37 x 4 1-3 82.05 35.00 6.70
35 x 5 ”.00 33.” 5.95 '
30 x 5 33.55 85.75 7.
37 x 5 32.70 35.05 7
Thousands of our satisfied customers are getting

from 4000 to 6000 miles service—why not you?
Pay After Examination. 3% Discount for Cash Vllih Order.
We ship C. O. D., subject to inspection. When
ordaing state if Clincher, 0. D. or S. S. are desired.
ORDER TODAY—prices may jump. Full infor-
Address, '

nation. on request.

Philadelphia Motor. Tire Co.,

246 N. Broad Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

 

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The Citizens Mutual
Automobile '
Insurance
Company
Howell, Michigan

makes the following statement for the
first four months of 1919

Paid 31 claims for lire $. 6,249.65

 

Paid 56 claims for theft 10,270.50
Paid 121 claims for lia- .
bility - - - - 14,269.92 ‘
Paid 76 claims, collision 7,698.97
Total 284 claims - $38,489.04

5,209 new policies written
the first four months of the
year.

The Company has on hand
May 1 a surplus of $72,833.88-

    
   

      


 

 

7 oonunissions..lf you want.

1 Farmers' Exchange gets results. Address ’

Full acks-x
- Empty Stacks

You worked hard foryour grain
crop. Don’t let the thresher-
man waste it. You can’t afford
to let a single bushel of it be lost
to the straw stack. . ,

You insure your grain crop
when you hire the man with the

Red River
Special

'.. He has the thresher with the famous
Man Behind the Gun" that beat: the
am out of the straw. Doesn't wait
or it to drop out as in other threshers
but goes after every kernel and saves it
for you. That’s why the Red River
Specml saves the farmer‘s thresh bill.
' O. I. Kindle and three others of
Roanoke, 111., write Nov. 25th:

In 1916 we purchased one of your
30x46 Red River Specials and it has
done more and better work than we
expected. We threshed as high as
3.500 bushels oi oats in one daz and
it saved all the giain. It eats
them all.”

Saving rain costs less than growing
it._ Look lor the man with the Red
River Special. It will pay you.

W rite for C z'rcularr

Nichols & Shepard Co.

In Continuous Business Since 1“.
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe-
cial Threshers Win ekers,Feeders,

Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines
Creek

 

 

 

 

 

I.'.
. Ross Silo Fillers positively '
require less power to do the same work because
they are lighter running.
Run with s stesdy hum—Won't choke—Won't break—-
Out on clean—Make silase that cattle lick up quick.
The Jan blower, self-conforminc besrings, positive
hits mustment, ball bearing end thrust adjustment. sub-
_ stands! angle steel frame and other points of supremacy
. make the ROSS the best buy ior you. Backed by 69 years'
alien th cylinder and flywheel types. Sizes for
every size ensine. Prices Are Right.

Get The Facts—Learn Why
Send for our Free
'Books. They show just
how Ross construction
, excels. Teach how to
, . iudze s machine's
' worth. You should know this.
Write {or booklets at once——
TODAY.

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Is Your Farm for Sale?

Write out a plain description and ii;-
ure «(So for each word, initial or group of

figures. Send it in for one, two or three

times. There’s no 01103 e or better way
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your farm, send in your
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Just talk about it. Our Business
Michigan Business Farming. Adv. Dept.,

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,_ WHEELED PLOW , p
The new features claimed for this
plow are: First, that it levels itself
and that the operator needs only to
regulate the depth; second, that 'the
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point is always below the heel except
when out of the ground; and third,
that the plow can give when it strikes
an obstruction. (Janesm‘lle Machine
00., Janesm‘lle, Wis. U. S. Patent 1,-
215,818.)—C. J. Lynde, Canada.

TANK FOR GRIND STONE
A gas tank from an old oil stove
rigged over the grind stone makes a
handyfidevice for getting an even
amount of water to the stone at all

 

 

times. If there is a valve in the pipe
line, so much the better, as that can
be used to regulate the flow of water.
If there is none, the end of the out-
let pipe can be flattened or plugged to
the amount desired, regulating the
stream in that way. ‘

This tank was supported over the
stone by two braces or strap iron,
braced as shown in the sketch. =

It is much more convenient than
hanging a tin can above the stone, as
the tank holds more water, and the
amount of water can be regulated.—
P. 8., Saginaw.

CLUTCH MECHANISM FOR
PLANTERS
Variable drop seed planters have
previously had one of two types of
clutches; either, one using a half revo.

lution, or one using a whole revolu-
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tion. The latter have provEd the more
satisfactory, but have been complicat-
ed. The present invention, it is claim-
ed, does the same work with a. much
simpler clutch. (International Har-
vester 00., Chicago Ill. U. 8. Patent,
1,215,478)——C. J. Lynda, Canada.

 

STARTING BOI/l'S AND SCREWS
IN DIFFICUIJI‘ PLACES

A bolt that is hard to get into place
may sometimes be handled easier it
A"; it is placed in a.
-||lln Vise and a notch
sawed in the

. head with a hack

3 saw, as shown in

     

figure one. I i:

may t h e n be

, ' t u r n e (1 down

, “fixinwifr 1 with a screw-
‘ driver.

A wire bent as shown, will often
come in handy starting screws and

small bolts, as the Wire can be bent to ;

any form, and the bolt can be held in
an upright position until it is started.
Small copper wire is the best, as when
finished, it may be pulled oft—T. IL,
Kent County. . 3

all kinds of garden produce.

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alfalfa to the poultry flock tor several '

winters, throwing it on the floor and
letting them pick it over. This was a

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rack which was nailed to the side of
the scratching room wall as shown in
the sketch. . -

The rack was three feet long, two

‘ feet high and about ten inches wide at

the top. The frame was built of
one inch strips and the slats were

wainscoting, sawed in two lengthwise. _

The rack, when built as showu in
the sketch, lets the small. stems fall
through to the floor, making it easy
to clean.

Four nails hold it in place, and it is
so built that it may be removed in a
jiffy and put in another place if de-
sired—Geo. M., Clinton County.

PREVENTS HENS FROM SETTING
This device is made of twisted «wire
and is placed on the hen as shown. It
prevents her from

setting, but does not

prevent h e r f r o m

walking, feeding, or

lroosting. It breaks

i ’her of the habit of

setting without the

~-— , use of a coop.
(Hattie R. Hayes, Sallx, Iowa. U. 8.
Patent 1,274,266.)———C. J. Lynda, Can.

VARIABLE SPEED MECHANISM
FOR DRILLS
The feed shaft in the hopper of this
drill is driven in the ordinary way by
means of a sprocket chain and a sproc-
ket wheel on the main axle. The new

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feature is a “differential—”mecharnism
which permits the feed shaft to be

, driven at four different speeds. (In-

ternational Harvester 00., Hamilton,
Canada. U. 8'. Patent 1,218,807.)——C.
J. Lynda Canada.

DEVICE TO KEEP SCALES CLEAN
Platform scales often weigh inac-
curately because of chaff and debris
‘ getting into the cracks
around the platform. The
sketch shows an arrange-
ment to clean them quickly

      

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and easily. It consists of a section of
a cross cut saw with a handle at-
tached to one end. The teeth of the
saw lift the debris out instead of push.
ing it down under the scales—P. A. G.
Big Rapids, Mich. .

THE FARM GARDEN
Farmers' Bulletin 937, “The Farm.
Garden in the North," and Farmers'
Bulletin 934, “Home Gardening in the
South,” give directions for growing

 

Write
for“ either one to Division of. 'Publicap'
tions,; Department

 

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Parasitieide. Disinfectant
USE H ON ALL LIVESTOCK /

To Kill Lice, Mites, Fleas,
and Sheep Ti >
To Help Heal Cuts, Scratches and ‘
Common Slsin‘Troubles.

usr. rr Hi All; BUILDINGS "

'l'o ' Kill Disease Germs and The
Prevent Contagious Animal Dinner. .

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FREE BOOKLETS. '

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

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

We will send you a booklet on how
tokeep your hogsireeirom insectpara-
sites and disease. .

Write for them to
Animal industry Department at
PARKE, DAVIS & CO.

DETROIT. MlCl-l.

 

 

 

 
  
    
   
 
     
   
    
    

Special S'ale'f‘
15.000—750 lb. Size
SEPARATORS

This special factory-run. low- T
price is the same for one or it
on bought the “1““?! 15.000.

size—curb se or

as all our stest 19-19
mprovemsnts. Shims close.
Easy to run and clean. Every
drop of tall ts full skim-
mingjorceo i. re bowl. Sold on
l80 milking tests too.

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old towers. other makes 0 mills, and to replace. at
small cost. the caring oft eesrlier "
Aermotors, ms ing them self-o - ’
inc. its enclosed motor
keeps in the oi an
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rain. The Spins -
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floods every enringurith oil.pre-
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GKING Afin SELLING EGGS
reader of the M. B F. and
. s a very good paper for every
? farmer to have, and am going to do my
,' hit to get you some more subscribers.

i, A121 asking the editor or any of the

.‘ readers if they could give me the ad-
. dress or could put me in touch with
smn'e comn'xission house in Detroit
which handles eggs. How should eggs
be packed for market?——J. A. 1., Lud-
tnato‘n.

We receive many requests from
“readers to recommend reliable oom-
. mission firms. This we do not like to
do, for we are liable to be made s. par-
ty to any controversy Which may arise
between a reader and the commission
houses so recommended. We are will-
ingnt all times to' lend our services in
the settlement of disputes between
farmers and buyers of their produce, ’
but do not wish to be held responsible
if, the outcome does not Drove satis-
factory tothe farmer. In giving the
names of the . following concerns we
can only say that they are financially
responsible, and we believe that they
will give fair treatment.

The Gleaner Clearing House Ass'n,
323 Russell Street,’D’etroit, N. F. Simp-
son,-manager. This is a strictly farm-
.Aers' organization and should be the
logical selling agency for the farmers
‘ cf the state. The J. W. KeysCommis-
sion 00., 470 Riopelle; Griggs-Fuller
& Co., d2th and Jefferson Streets; Mc-
Donnell Co;, 366 E. High, are reput—
‘ 'ed to be reliable commission firms.

Should Candle Your Eggs

Buyers who are accumulating eggs,
in order to get a better price than quo-
tations on current receipts, should
candle their eggs and “grade them.
Most buyers are familiar as to the
methods of grading and the numerous
grades known to the trade. Farm
white eggs No. 1s', No. 2's, and so
forth.

But to the farmer who is shipping
his own eggs no grading is necessary.
In fact, the daily accumulations are
not sufficient to carry the numerous
grades. The farmers' eggs "are usually
, of the same grade If kept clean and
'. gathered daily. Farmers should gath-
er eggs every day, keep in cool place
and ship as often as once a week.

expensive.- - once used 3 dozen egg
cases usually can be ohtained at a
reasonable price. Where farmers are
over one week filling a ail-dense case,
better join with some neighbor and
make shipment quickly.

Gather every day; keep in cool dry
place; do not wash and make promp
shipment. ,

THE BREEDING 0F RAB" BITS FOB
SLAUGHTER ‘

I am contemplating starting a rab-
bit farm for the purpose of growing
rabbits for city market and would
like to have these questions answered.
Is there a demand fer them in the city
markets? Do they take them fur on
or off? W t time of year do they
sell best? at breed is preferred by
market buyers? How about cost of
production If they were allowed free
run of clever; alfalfa or grass pasture
all summer and finishing for market
by feeding purchased oats and hay

with carrots and other vegetables to .

supplement?
Would it be a better and cheaper

'plan to keep them in a house con-

structed for the purpose, a few rab-
bits in a screened front box, place
boxes in rows and one row of boxes

above the other, using land to grow al— '

falfa, clover and vegetables for feed in-
stead ot pasture?——R. Y., Lowell.
Rabbit meat can be produced the
way you indicate for less than 10c per
pound. This is simply information
gleaned from what is considered reli-
able sources and not from my own ex-
perience in the matter. As I under-
stand it, it would be wise to put the
rabbits out of doors during the sum-
mer time but in the winter time I

0 would believe that the house question

would be more preferable. —C' H. Bur-
gess, Prof. of Poultry Husbandry M.
0.

Aln regard to rabbits the favorite
breeds are Belgian Hares and Flemish
Giants. They are salable the year
around, although we have just passed
the most favorable season, Easter. The
popular price has been around 15c.

Late in the fall and winter months
is seasonable for wild rabbits, at
which time they should be shipped in
same condition as when killed by the
hunter. Domestic rabbits should not
be killed and dressed at any season of
the year, but should be shipped in
coops alive. Poultry coops can be used
or any improvised coop. Dressed rab-
bits If at all salable sell by the dozen,
while live rabbits sell by the pound

Better shippartial cases (leaving fill-and .for this reason live rabbits bring

erg complete) than hold‘ over

onebetter returns—N. F. S.

 

YOU WANT THIS WEEKLY IN YOUR MAIL BOX EVERY

SATURDAY, BECAUSE—

>-—-it brings you all the news of Michigan farming; never

hiding the plain facts.

it tells you when and where to get the best prices for

what you raise!

it is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up!

~-—~—it has always and will continue to fight every battle for
the interest of the business farmers of our home state,
no matter whom else it helps or hurts!

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Be a Good American With Us

Farmers of Sanilsc County and other Counties of Michigan

This is our last greeting for Spring 1919.

We would like to have every farmer in Michigan realize and
know what SWEEPSTAKES PEDIGREE SEED CORN will do for
him in 1919 and by ordering direct from our representative, Mr.
Aley Jacobs, Snover, Mich., what Seed Corn you may need or at least
one bushel or bag of XXX grade at $6.00 .per bu., or XX grade at .
$4.00 per but/with 20c for each sack holding two bushels or less, you
will be doing‘the best thing ever for yourself.

We want you to write us after you receive your corn and again
in July telling us how it grows.

Note this: ——Any customer planting SWEEPSTAKES PEDI—
GREE SEED CORN this year in Michigan and after growing and
feeding same, if he should be dissatisfied with the results, we will
authorize Mr. Jacobs to furnish him Seed Corn for 1920 at half
price and try it over again. It fills silos and the pail.

- We want you to exhibit at the State Fairs.

Send your order with cash at once, to Aley Jacobs, Snover, Mich.

His car load will be in Michigan about May 10th, and you
should have some of it sure—Truth will prevail.

Let us get acquainted with you this year in your own field.

Yours for the best silage and food, '
INTERNATIONAL CONSOLIDATED RECORD ASSOCIATION, Inc.,
Elmira, N ew York.

Do not order from us—
Order from Mr. Jacobs as above——
Satisfy yourself what Mr. Jacobs is doing for you.

 

 

marks the product of the gardener using\ / _ . -
The Areanddee ‘
Celery Bleacher

bleaches the stalks quicker and be
ards or dirt. A stiff band of water-pros
paper, 10 or 12 inches high, held inplace by
wire arches, is applied to the rows almost
as fast as a man can walk.

— Enough to do 100 feet of row on both
sides weighs about 60 lbs. This' we fully
tested trucking necessi which has dem-
onstrated its value. rite for circular.

THE RUSSELLOID COMPANY
Dept. M Harrisburg. Penna.

 

Government reports show that tiled land
yields from 25 to 60% bigger crops That
means that of your labor is wasted on
untiled- land— t will not produce as it should
on tiled land
American Vitrified Salt-Glazed Tile

It’s the best—It’s frost and acid proof and

give you a lifetime of service. Ask us
for name of dealer near you.
AMERICAN SEWER PIPE COMPANY,

(mu! Branch)
309 St James St, Jackson. Mich.

 

 


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Address, Michigan Buelnou Forming, Adv. Don’t. Mt, Clemens, Michigan.

NOTE: .

An illustration helps greatly to sell farm property. By adding I

810 extra for each insertion of your ad.

you can have a photo-

graphic reproduction of your house or barns printed at the head
of your ad. Be sure to send us a good clear photograph for this,

purpose.

 

 

FARMSCAND LAND

 

on ACRE. FIFTEEN MINUTBS’

’ walk to center of city; twenty.minutes'

with: to good fishing and boating. Modern
house of eight rooms and hail; fireplace;
good
large poultry~ house and an outside coal
house; quantity of small fruit, Price,
$3,000. Address Ray Disbro, 230 Race
Sh, Goldwater, Mich.

 

FARMS FOB SALE—BIG LIST. 9F
- farms for sale by the owners. giving
his name, location of farm, description.
price and terms Strictly mutual and co-
operative between the buyer and seller
and conducted for our members. GLEAN-
ER CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N.. Land
hm. Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

I HAYS A 400-AUBE FARIVI. I \VISH
to hire man .and wife by the year; good

 

good job to right parties. Chas.‘

 

and
Eodges, .St. Johns, Mich., 11.3.

1'03 SALHOING OUT OF BUSI-
nem—Blacksmith shop,
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.
ville. Mich.

 

$2,500 DOWN SECUBES 808 ACRES,
28 cows and other stock, hay, etc. Two
miles R town. 100 acres smooth ma-
chine—worked fields, ha] land cutting 100
tons, spring—watered wire-fenced 50-cow
pasture, estimated 2,000 cords wood, 100.-
000 ft. timber: 60 apple trees; good 8-
room house, big basement stock barn,
horse barns, granary, corn houses, etc.
Owner's interests elsewhere demanding
quick sale, $9,350 takes all, easy terms.
Details this big money—maker page 35
Claiming Bargains 19 States, copy free.
Smut Farm Agency, 814 BE Ford Bldg,
Detroit. '

 

FARMS FOR- YOU AT $25 PER ACRE.

Write O. W. Clark, Bendon, Mich.

FOB SALE—£5115 ACRES, 1% MILES
west of Chelsea, Mich., Washtenaw coun-
ty.; 65 acres ploWed land and rest is used
as pasture. but can be used as a good
hay land; two—story barn with five horse
stalls and 21 steel stanchions; loo-ton tile
silo; chicken coop. granary, groom house;
small orchard. \Vhole milk is shipped to
Detroit Roy C. li'es. Chelsea. Mich.

SFACBE FARM FOB SALE, 4 11,;
miles from St. Louis, Mich. Good schools
and churches; good soil. 55 a. cleared.

‘ pasture and wood lot; 10-room

basement barn 36x48. Price,
“.500: $3,500 cash, balance easy terms.
_ Monroe. St. Louis, Michigan,

. NI SALE —‘ 6,600 ASPABAGUS
M- ‘20 takes the bunch. F. J. Strat-

 

bar‘n wand garage, electric ‘lightcd ;.'

tools and stock;-

 

goo scans. $6,000. wrrn' 13.1101.-
stem Cows, and 3 yearlings, bull, wagons,
harness, manure spreader, corn. harvest-

rer_ grain drill, walking and sulky plows.
barrows. cultivators, hay tedder, milking ,

machine, gas engine, ensllage implements,
other high-grade machinery,.to.ols; \mile
to .town, creamery,, midst of fine market
cities. About 100 acres productive tillage,
balanCe spring-watered pasture for large
herd, valuable woodland, large fruit or-
chards. Good 9-room house, dandy barn,
ties for 50 head, 2 silos, water at house
and ham, milk, poultry houses,
barn. _Retiring owner names for quick

sale low price‘s6,000 for all, easy terms, ‘

Details this big money-maker page 42
Catalog Bargains 19 States, copy free.
Strout Farm Agency, 814
Bldg, Detroit. ,

 

YOU CAN SELL YOUR. FARM

anyone, anywhere,
price or terms.
JAMES SLOCUM.

any time.
Write
Holly.

for
Michigan.

SEEDS AND PLANTS’

PURE BRED SEED—“'18. BARLEY
(6 ROW) and College Success Oats pass-

 

 

ed inspection in field and bin. Worthy oats _

These grains!
C. Grain Show. .
Earl C. McCarty, Bad'

not inspected this year.
took 4th prize at M. A.
Write for prices,
Axe. Michigan.

 

“Results came
quickly

from the

Ad. ”

Shepherd, Mich., Apr. 1, 1919

M. B. F.: You may take out my

ad. for sweet clover seed for sale.

I am about sold out. Results came
quick from the ad. '
C. A. THOMAS.

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folks want or need a little ad
.in M. B. F. ’s Classified Farm—
crs’ Exchange will sell it for
you. ‘

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» ture has an important, menin-
lng. Food spoilage,‘ especially

on our farms; amounts to a. great deal,
and from a national standpoint, it is
stupendous. It is difficult always to
prevent this spoiling or wasting of
food, especially in“ busy seasons and
unfavorable weather; but much can be
prevented, and as we advance in el-
flicent production and economy, we
will give more attention to this im-
portant branch of farm management.
Without doubt, the greatest spoilage
of food in this country is that of fod-
der, especially with the corn plant. It
‘is estimated that from twenty-five to
thirty per cent of the value of this
plant is wasted each year after it has
been grown. Millions of dollars
worth of this forage go to waste each
yearfiwhile at the same time stock

ing high prices. A more liberal use.
of silos would “prevent much of this
wastage. '

Even~where the corn fodder is put
in Shocks the spoilage is great, as
'win'ds, rain and snow all break down
and destroy the value of the forage.
By spring little is left which "could :be
termed good or palatable feed. The
silo would save this forageand pre-
Serve'it' in the'best possible form. 0th?
er fodders such 'as sorgum, kafir,,corn,
millet, oats, peas. soy beans and clov-
er are. greatly damaged by weather
and unfavorable conditions at the
time of harvest.
'spoiling could be prevented by prop-
erly housing, or placing in silos where
it could be kept, if need be, for several
years in good condition.

A wet season at the time of har-
vesting clover or alfalfa will often
make it impossible to cure the for-
age and produce hay of any value.
With a silo this food could all be sav-
ed and put in the best possible form.
A rainy season in the fall-will like-
wise prevent the curing of such for-
ages as cane, kafir, corn, millet, and
a late cutting of alfalfa. The silo
could here be used to save the feed.

There. is a fearful loss each year
due to frosted fodder. This loss often
runs into the millions; especially in
the northern states. It has been

found that corn will make excellent

silage even though frosted if put in
immediately after the freezing, before
the drying out process. It is a com-
mon practice among many Of'the ex-
treme northern fanners to allow their
corn to stand in the field until it is
frostedbefore putting-in the silo. In
this way they gain every possible day
of growth for their crop. Corn frozen
before it matures will make excellent

freezing. In this way all fodder
grown can be saved. Corn damaged
by hall can be saved in the same way.
So long as there is any forage left, it
can be siloed. Drought stricken corn
or forage crops of any kind may also
be turned to valuable feed. There is
always enough forage grown in this
country to feed at least twice as much
live stock as we keep, but the spoilage
and wasting gets rid of at least'half
the fodder we grow. The economy de-
' mended of us during the progressive
years to come will frown upon this
spoiling. We will find it necessary to
use progressive economic methods in
our industry, and the silo must be
considered one of the first equipments
to preventthls great waste—A, L.

ADVANTAGES OF MOTOR TRUCK

Statistics compiled: from Govern-
ment reports, and gathered together
from various thoroughly reliable
sources prove that it requires the
gross. returns from five acres of av.-
era a land to feed one horse a year.

', 1,:wjtt_‘.,_;erm land worth from $200 to 5‘

 

53300 per acre, does it seem‘ like good

food is in great demand and command-v

Much" wastings and '

silage if put in immediately after the ‘

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" kept the farmer kept, the rams
sacrifice thereturn's from. .. ..
four horses means 20 acreg's
40 acres—20 acres at an " esti
value of even $200 per acre‘meam “a
investment of $4,000 per yea‘r‘to-mal-n' 3

min 5 horses whose combinedworthi ;
is not to exceed $800, and the swarm)" ,{ :
farmer keeps from 4 to 8 horses, mocha
ing an 'inve‘stmeqt of f.rom“$4,_000 t” f
$8,000 per year depending upon ,wheth»

or four or eight horses are kept, ‘ fi‘hfs

, appears to be another case. ot.,_‘fs,av-
ing at the spigot and Wasting ,etthe -
bung.” . ‘. . _, 3‘“ ,

What about the cost of operation of
the horse as compared with thextru‘clc?
One two-horse team, with driver- costs
$6.46 per day to operate (this- figure.
was based upon prices '-pr.evail~ing
more than ayear ago, and-is today
greatly in excess of. that amountwbut
we will assume, $6.46 to the correct).
Two teams would,~.v tliei'efore.*"*'=c‘6st
$13.92 per day to operate. whereas one
two-ton truck will easily-do théfi‘work
of two teams. "r'The daily -"'~0p'eration
cost of one two-ton truck'iis estimated -
to be $9.35, a direct saving-lof‘sih?’
per day in operation alone” torsay‘noth:
ing of investment. The'investjm'ent
cost for one year for four'hoIrsies‘bas-
ed upon 'aj-ile‘nd value of 'only‘szoitli'pci'
acre [(‘which1 is away below "the (aver-
age forlsuch states as In'dldha',"-Ohio,
Illindis, Iowa and many others) ‘is $4.-
000 whereas the truck investment is
but $2,750, (based upohAchib'li‘th
pieces.) and it should beremembered
that‘the second year the truck' invest-
ment ranges from nething'to 'affew'
dollars at the outside for repairs'in-
asmuch as the investment cost was fig-
ured in the first year’s figures. Each
truck will last many years, whereas
the investment cost of $4,000 for the
four horses is exactly the same as the
econd and succeeding years. ‘

In view of. these facts, it is small
wonder that thousands upon thou-
sands of farmers are daily turning to -
the motor truck and rapidly changing
from the extremely costly and waste
ful horse-hauling method to the motor _‘
truck. _

Many instances are on record where
by useof an Acme truck the owner
has saved from ten to one hundred
dollars in a single day because he was
able to ,take advantage of, higher
prices by getting his live stock or pro-
duce onto the market before 'a. price
drop or before some obstacle arose
which would have made delivery im-
possible with the slower horse and
wogan method. > g .

The facts as set forth above explain
why the farm field is looked upon by
most! motor truck manufacturers as
one of the most promising of all, and
why farmers from Maine to.-.California
are buying motor trucks.—_—.W.- 42:001.
penter, Adv. Dept. Acme Motor TruCk
'00.. Cadillac Mich. ‘ ° "

BLACK TEETH IN S‘VINE=

Your veterinarian in ' arisWer’ffo " W.
G. H., Snover, says black teeth: in
swine is an old whim and shou‘ld”be
forgotten. This may be sob‘ut I'Want
to say that pigs are born with needle-
like teeth that are‘ often a source of
discomfort to the sow as well as the
pigs themselves. They often grow out
sideways and came great sores. in
their mouths. I have found it the saf-
est way to remove these teeth when .
the pigs are two or three days old.
This can be done with a small'pair of
n1ppers.——F. W. Alexander, Tuscola
County. -, "-

DO YOU KNO‘V A SOLDIER”

or sailor back from service, -who"‘for
physical or other reasons is finding it
hard to adjust himself to-‘old condj.
tlons. He does not want togo t0:tho
city to find work, yet he cannot stand
hard labor; We have a plan that will
make his time profitable, particularly
if he can have the .“59 “.013 an auto,
horse and buggy or bicycle. "The wof‘k . _,
is all out-of-‘doors’and Can be confined...
to his countywhel'e he can get ham“. 1
'ae otten'a! he desires; If you- km":
such “ soldier 9.! 39410.?»~ who has ’ 7'
' M honorable discharge “.-
“ ink would like chit "
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it ‘ may. enjoy
waterflfiltoredgand good
" the bathroom, or for

; a simple arrange-
,whilegit. in itself, may not
table, dam as shown, is of
for-ithje fact that the other
{he used for irrigation pur-

mme'r and for ice in winter, '

_"furnishing a permanent
ply for the stock that can
ed upon. In case it is not do;
etc so to the expense or mak-

::o" concrete dam, the system may I

it“! be installed,» it there is 'a pool in
nine-stream that is protected from
flock and not liable to excessive wash.
Willem flood times. « .
, .vge‘l‘he system consists of a length of
.‘ porous clay tile \seCtions, cemented
".vtogothe’i', and plugged at both ends.
"Watersee'ps rapidly through this com-

.merciai tilethat is not glazed, and ten '

cr-fitteen feet of four inch tile will fil-
ter You the water that. is needed in
. an. household. ,
' 3—: mile, arrangement in, figure one
shot”, the tile laid on the stream bed,
. {answer 'end imbedded in the dam.
' [A Bipipe line extending through the
, ioweri‘plug carries the water to the
"point wanted. , In some cases it, would
bebetter to lay the tile along the up-
. er side of the dam, in that it would
_,_‘e’,mox‘;e protected and less liable to
. disarra, ement. In some instances
Ottmfi 'in'd, the tile have been laid
‘ below the surfaCe of the creek bed, in
suring safety to the joints. The seep-
age thrOugh the walls is not quite as
free, h‘ovvever, but the quality of the
Water does not differ“

"The type 'of dam shown is good for
small streams where the country is
subject to occasional high waters. It
i's‘provided with a spillway, and the
extension below prevents any chance
undermining.

'Those ‘who are provided with cis-

‘rai’n storm, when ‘waterriromthe root; 3
has run into, the '.cistern,,;i_t is some: ;
times days before the water, coming ;

through the pump becomes élearp

A small concrete box, constructed
as shown in figuretwo remedies this.
If it is made two feetsquare with two
inch walls, "the water seeps through

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and dirt. The concrete for the box
should be mixed quite lean; so that,
when cured will have a porous nature;

The simplest way is to make a form‘

of twodry goods hexes above ground,
and build the filterer upside doWn, of
course leaving a hole for the outlet
pipe. This may then be lowered into
the cistern, the pipe put in place, and
the lower edges made tight by packing
with a rich mixture of concrete. The
pipe is cemented in in the same way.
This is especially good for old cis-
terns, or those which have cracked
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"- " ‘ Boom T0 MILK
(Continued from page 3)
employs 2,500 men, as against 123 men
employed when it manufactured beer.
.: The .CedarRapids' (1a.) Brewery is
nowha creamery and produce company.
.The Fairmont Brewery of West Vir-
ginia is now an—ice and milk products
plant. ‘ ' ' ,
» The ‘Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso-
ciation plant, St. Louis, that has so
longimanufactured “Budweiser," one
"hr the most extensive brewing plants
,lnx’the World, is to be.the scene of
'meatfpacking before the let of March.
A. new corporation, known as the
Bevo PackingCompany, with $1,000,-
000“.capita,l, has already been. formed.
The affine and selling forces are ready.
and. the association’s private railway
.‘Will insure ample transportation facil-
"flick—The Continent. \

H "_».:’~1;T’he Jackson Brewing Company of

.a-New Orleans and the National Brew-
‘ .71 ’ Mpémpany of the same city are ,be-
’éiihverted respectively into a dehy-
ting plant for driing vegetables
dzlruits and a plant for the produc-
' sit-denatured alcbhol. -
"oideAcme Brewery of Macon,
is it”? packing millions of dollars’
Git. ; -- "

nick, as become
,1 ..

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Beornes.

.Rttsse l.

watermelons; ' one in Peoria, 111., is
grinding, cornmeal; one. in Rhode‘ Is-

-land is producing moving pictures;.
one in Seattle is turning rice into syrfi

up: one in Chicago is a hospital and
another is a soft drinks factory; sev-
eral others are in the dairy business.
Most of these now empIOy more work-
ers than before—Union Signal.

What the Neighbors Say

I received sample copy of M. B. F. and
am very much impressed with your able
defense of the farmers’ interests, which
will most certain] also prove to be a de-
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find one dollar for M. B. ’F..—Wm. Smith.
Branch county.

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more times former prices. Good farm pa—
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c, .

. Please send me the. paper as I think it
iiuxe;y good—Henry Eichler, Huron
c .

I think your paper is the best for the
money I ever read.—Robt. Dunworth, Ne-
waygo county. , ,

. I am sending you my subscription be-
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,Have read the copy which ou in
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s_ The best farmpap’er
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QR, _, “It county.- ..r as: ,,

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‘ With}. “new spring; now. he'r'e it is
‘the time YOU} would 'mfos't enjoy a '
camera. Whether boy, girl“ man or
woman the Seneca Scout Camera
pleases-all: It‘jm'akes splendid pic-
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Once you get one of these handy,
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any number of people and objects _‘
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Just see a few of your neighbors
, who are not now subscribers to M.
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—MICHIG=AN BUSINESS FARMING. You will be surprised how easily
. you willg‘etthed-subsriptions. Everybody is talking about M. B. F.,
and everybody likes it. . - ‘

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to subscribe for M. B. F. is a whole tool box in your hand!”
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MONKEY WRENCH PIPE WRENCH

. HE “CROCODILE” WRENCH is drop forged from the
‘finest tool steel and scientifically tempered. Every wrench is
guaranteed against breakage. It is 8:} inches long and weighs

ten ounces. Teeth and dies are case-hardened in bone black, mak-
ing them hard and keen. Requires no adjustment, never slips and
is always ready for use.

Dies Alone Would Cost $1.50

and would be worth more than that to every farmer, as they would often
save valuable time besides a trip to town for repairs.

Six, Handy Farm Tools in One

A pipe wrench, a nut wrench, a screw driver and three dies for clean-
ing up and re-threading rusted and battered threads, also for cutting
threads on blank bolts. 2 - ' ‘

The ideal tool to.carry on a binder, reaper or mower.
Will work in closer quarters than any other wrench.
Light, strong, compact and easily carried in the hip pocket.
Dies will fit all bolts used on standa'fl farm lachinery.

---how to get your crocodile!

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a dollar bill and the wrench will be sent, to you prepaid in the next
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SALE DATES CLAIMED

To avoid conflicting dates we will,
without cost, list the date of any live‘
stock sale in Michigan. If you are
considering 3 sale advise us at once
and we will claim the date for you.

, Address Live Stock Editor, M. B. F.,
Mt. Clemens.’

 

 

 

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

May 14, Holsteins—W. R. Harper,
Middleville, Mich. Sale at Fair
Grounds, Grand Rapids, Mich.

May 21, Holsteins—Livingston County
Breeders’ 'Sale 00., Howell, Mich.

CATTLE

 

E. L. Salisbury Breeds High Class

Holstein-Frieda n Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
‘Valter Lyons
average 3011 lbs. of butter in seven
daYS. Nothing for sale at this time
but young bull calves.

E. L. Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now hooking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
' Lyons 170500. All from A. R. 0, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information. '

Muslofl' Bros" South Lyons, Michigan

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
ex-champion cow, record 1322.93 lbs. but—
ter in a year, Write for pedigree and
price.
HILLCREST FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr,
Kalamazoo, hiich.

 

 

 

 

TWIN BULL CALVES
Born October 29, 1918; sired by Sir
Calantha. Segis Korndyke 104008; dam’s
record, 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
milk in 7 days; fine straight calves. Semi
for particulars—C. & A. Ruttman, Fowl-
erville, Michigan.

 

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, 3100 FOR.

Write for extended pedigree and photo.
L. C: KETZLER, - Flint. Michigan

 

 

PREPARE

For the greatest demand. future
prices t1...t has ever known. Start

 

 

 

 

 

 

now with the Holstein and convince

yourself. Good stock always for
sale. Howbert Stock Farm. Eau
Claire. Michigan

 

 

 

 

sired by a son or
u a ves Friend Hengerveld
De Kol Butter
Boy and by a. son of King Segis De Kol
Korndyke, from A. R O. dams with rec-
ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.
WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wyckoff. Napoleon, Minn

 

 

 

TEN-MONTHS-OLD-BULL

Bull last advertised is sold. This
one born June 7, 1918. Sired by best
‘son of famous $30,000’bull heading
‘Arden Farms herd, King Korndyke
Pontiac Lass. Two nearest dams to ‘
sire of this calf average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 days and over 145 lbs. in -30
days. Dam, a granddaughter of King
of the Pontiacs, Sir Gelsche Walker
Segis and DeKol Burke. A bargain.
~Herd tuberculin tested annually_

BOARDMAN FARMS, Jackson. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOLVEBINE STOCK FA RM

want to tell you about our Junior
HeIrd Sire, “King Pontiac Luna. Eon“
dyke Segis," a. son of King of the Ponti-
acs, his dam is Queen Segis of BrookSide,
a daughter of Pontiac Clothilde De K01
2nd and Prince Segis Korndyke' a treat
combination of breeding.

We are breeding this young sire to
the daughters of Judge Walker Pietertje,
our Senior Herd sire whose first five
dams each have records above 30 lbs, he
also has two 30 lb. sisters. ow can

of

is popular line .of reeding?

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED srocx
PERCHERONS,
, HOISI'EINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS. .
ounocs,

DORE D. 30E“... MIRA; ”CH.
R. F. D. No. l V

 

 

 

reasonable. Wm, J. Bell, Rose City,

1 Durhams ;

- Shot Horns,
Hor‘li, 6

 

FOB SALE—-TWO 3-YEAB—0LDS;
heavy producers ;. have been milking 65
lbs. per day; bred to 40-1b. bull; were
fresh in January Priced to sell. Harry T.
’l‘ubbs. Elwelln. Mich.

HOLSTEINS OF QUALITY. Two near~
eSt dams or herd sire are both above 33
lbs. butter in 7 days. average 700 lbs.
milk. E. A. Hardy. Rochester, Mich.

EG. HOLSTEIN BULL CALF from
R good producing Cow and sired by a
No. i bull. Price $50.00 for quick sale.

W Alexander, Var-er. Michigan.

 

 

’HEmERs AND CALVES ALL SOLD._
.Bred yearling and young

sow for sale.
Prices, $150 and $250. C. L. Hulett & Son,
Okemus, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—FIVE MONTHS’-OLD-’

Registered Holstein bull
about half white,

calf; 'color
nicely marked; sire’s
dam has 4 years’ record of 7 .da. B.,
33.11 lbs.; M., 723.4 lbs.; 10 months B.,
1,007.76 lbs.; M., 21,419 lbs. Calf’s dam
has 7 da. record of B., 22.72 lbs.; M.,
560.6 lbs. Price $125 1'. o. b. Write for
pedigree and photo, Floyd G. Pierson,
Flint, Mich.

JERSEY

 

THE Jersey is famous for tho .
little money it costs to keep
her compared with the big yield

she gives in return. Owning a

Jersey is like having money in-

vested with sure interest. . It
has required 200 years to develop her perlection
—io-diiy she is supreme. Write breeders for
prices and pedigrees and let us give you valuable
facts, free.

The American Jersey Cattle Club
367 West 23rd Street New York City

 

 

The. Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders 01' Majesty strain Jersey Cat-r
tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty’s Oxtord Fox
134214; Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams.

 

 

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FOB sALn—rwo mun snon'ra
horn Bull 13 months old: at farmers“
prices. arence Wyant, Ber-rich Ce!»
tor, Mich,

' 'ro, ’sn-
100 HEAD Prices
Mich.

snonrnonNs,
lect from. Write me your wants.

FOR SALE—FIVE_ FULL BLOODd
red Bulls, 3 Short Horns, and 2 Polle
1 Polled Durham, 18 months
01d; 1 Polled Durham, 6 weeks old.
12 months old; 1 Short

weeks old. Clarence Wyant.
Berrien Cent'er, Mlch., R

FOR SALE FIVE HEAD REGISTERED
Durham Females from four

months to four years old. Bates strain.

Also some large Poland China Boars, six

months old, dbried gram a sow that has

ust farrowe 6 , s.

j Wm. Cox, pVgilllamston, Michigan.

F01 SALE — BHORTHORN AND,

Polled Durham Cattle. Herd bulls are
grandsons of Whitehall Sultan and Avon-
dalej C. Carlson, Leroy, Mich.

 

HOBTHOBNS and POLAND. CHINAS
all sold out. None or sale at pres-
ent. F. M. .Piggott & on, Fowler, Mich

Big 6 P. C. Orders booked for

BIG :rrrn r. o. gilts. bred
far-row. the big
_ 100D & SON.

‘L.s.r,c.

Saline. Mich. ,
nnno GlLTS, ALL semi)

,boar. H. O. Swartz. Schoolcraft, Mich.

Write thatinquiry for L. T. P. c: serv’--
iceable boars to Wm. J. Clarke. Eaton.
Rapids, Mich., instead of Mason.
sold my farm and bought'another, one
mile west and eight and one-half miles
south. _Come and see me in my new home.-
Free livery from towu. -~ -

., WM. J. CLARKE

R. No. 1, Eaton Rapids. Michigan

BIG TYPE POLANDS, GILTS ALI.
501d. one yearling sow bred to {arrow
May 29th, for sale. 0; L. Wright. Jones-
Vllle. Mich.

 

HOMESTEAD FARMS. POLAND
China's are the large, big—boned prolific
kind. Wm. Cox. _ Prop. Williamston,
Michigan. . -.-

 

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DUROC

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
wSHORTHORN breeders. Can put you ll]
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. W Crum.
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. MlChl' i.

VAN BUREN CO Shorthorn
Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the Secretary Frank
Bailey, Hartford. Michigan.

For Sale

ds, both sexes.
Eggnd‘gon of famous Whitehall
Write for prices and description. ‘
S. H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe. Michigan,

THE
Breeders‘

SCOTCH T 0 P P E D
SHORTHORNS, mans
At head of herd
Sultan.

HEREFORDS

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

No 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, TAY—
LOR, Fremont, Mich.

HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO
knlizv? of 10 or 15_ leads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 800 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 50c
com‘misgion. C. F, all. Fairfield, Iowa.

 

 

 

Alvin Balden. Capac, Michigan. v
GUERNSEY HREE EREFORD BULL CALVES,
abgut eightumonths old; one horned and
GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A FEW two polled; best of breeding. Prices rea-
Heifers and, cows for sonable. Cole & Gardner, Hudson. M1011-
sale, also a number of well bred young ’ —v--7~———:-fl
bulls—write for breeding Village Farms. HORSES

Grass Lake. Michigan.

 

' Guernsey Bulls
Registered 1.... 8...
One born April 2, 1918 Price $75
One born Dec 1, 1918 Price 2560
(me born, April 7, 1019 Price $50

Wm. T. Fisk, Vestnhurg, Micli., R. 2

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABE-._.EEN ANGUS CATTLE
We are offering at attractive prices: a
number of high-class young bulls, well
able to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of the
ocean. Write for price list. 0. call and
see us.

Woodcote Stock Farm.

ANGU BULLS and HEIFEBS from
choice registered stock. Also

have some nice Registered Durqc Boars

lonia. Michigan.

ready for service. Will crat and shi
for $50.00. Geo. B. smith &P'bo.. Add}?
son, Michigan.

 

SHOBTHOBN

FOR. SALE—SHORTHORNS
or Quality. Scotch and Scotch topped.
Maxwalton Monarch 2nd & Maxwalton
Jupiter in service.

 

 

SALE—FOUB-YjEAR-OLD R1316}-
lstle‘roeg' Clidesdale Stallion, a, State Fair

DUROC BOARS ~READY Fm SER-
vice, also high class sows bred for sum-
mer farrowing to Orion’s Fano King, the
biggest pig of his age ever .at, nternation-
al Fat Stock Show, Newton Barnhart.
St. Johns, Mich. '

 

DUBOCS; BRET) STOCK ALL SOLD.
Will have a limited number of yearling
gilts bred for August farrow. Order early.
Newton & Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Per-,
rinton, Mich. '

 

“TWO YOUNG BROOKWATER, DUB-
oc Jersey Boar's, ready for service. All
stock shipped; express prepaid, inspection
allowed. Fricke Dairy Co. Address Eric-
ke Dairy 00., or Arthur W. Mumford.
Perrinton, Mich." .

 

DUROC JERSEY SWINE.
Sows and Gilts all sold.
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. Thus. Underhill &
Son, Salem, Michigan. ,

PEACH HILL FARM

Registered Dumc Jersey fall boar pigs;
Also two choice last spring boars. Write
to us. Our prices are very reasonable.

Visitors welcome. ~

INWOOD BROS, . Romeo, Mich.

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FOB SALE—TWO REGULAR DUROC
Jersey boars, 1st of October farrow:
weight, 150 lbs.; sired by Orion Cherry
King 6th No. 79931; darn by Defender.
C. E. Davis & Son. Ashley,'l\{lich.. R. l.

MEADOWVIEW FARM

Registered _Duroc Jersey Hogs.
your .spring pigs now.
J. D. Morris, Farmington, Mich.

 

 

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Winner. D. T. Knight, Mariette, Mich,

‘ALE—FIVE REGISTERED 0
Pekrlgliiéronb horses. three stallions, two 0 Saginaw Valley Herd
mares, all blacks and priced to sell. Headed by C. C. Michgu Boy

C. S. Young, Shepherd, Mich.

AT HALF PRICE—REGISTERED
Percheron Mare. dapple star. 7 years old;
weighs a ton show fit; heavy in foal to an
imported stud welghlng 2,160. Price $300.
A good worker; prompt..Also stud colt, 2
years old ready for serVice; color brown;
from a ton mare and imported ton stud.
Price $250. A show colt, a great actor.
J. C. Butler. Portland. Mich

 

BLACK PERCHERON STALLTON,
Hugo; recorder number 99855.; weight,
2.100 E. Zing‘Tebe, Latty. Ohio.

HOGS

 

 

POLAND CHINA

1G TYPE P. C., I have a. few extra

good Fall Bears left, sired by Grand

Superba and out of Big Prolific Bows.
Their breeding traces to the best herd in
111.. Iowa and Neb

 

John Schmidt & Son. Reed City, Mich.
FOR. SALE AT REA-

SHORTHORNS sonable prices. The

prize-winning Scotch Bull, Master Model
576147, in many states at head of herd of
50 good type Shorthorns. , -

E. M. Parkhurst, Reed City. Michigan.

 

C. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.
BIG TYPE, Gilts

WALNUT ALLE all sold. Keep

watch of 1919 crap sired by Arts Sena-
tor and Orange . I thank my cus-
formers tor their tronage.

A. D. GREGOB . - Ionla, Mich,

 

 

Eu go wrong by bu 111g, a bull cal:
_V ’1‘. W. Erratum Battle Creek. Mich.

   
 

Perth Index to World Pure-Bred Trade

The canny Scot places an extra. $235 a head on yearling Aberdeen-An-

gus bulls over the present time and a. year ago when the War looked
The advances marked ,up on ‘ . _
100%j1n ,a rear-v
Aberdeen-Angus now before the‘li {advance comes later in the year.
Free list of breeders byrcounties andstates.

AMERICAN annnn'nizrr-Auanssnnmnnns' ' ASSOCIATION
011 J. ~33. We Avabvhioop

the blackest.‘
students of world trade are near]

   

son of Grand Champion
Schoolmaster and Perfection
5th. February pigs for sale
John Uibson,
Bridgeport, - Michigan.

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ready. Book your
Boar Pigs now. 0
Johns, Mich, R. 4

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hn W Snyder: St.

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Profit. Choice stock tor sale.
gem wants

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Digs. . R. Leonard, St. Louisville 7

for April
smooth kind. A. A _ ‘
two boars ready for service and one but

Large Type Poland China’- “033‘ 5 ii

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have sun have eggs to:- hatching. nearly all Deckerville, men. Route 1. Box as.
0'19 stabilised breeds. Send for new . , lee.
““93 0,—0rders for eta 1331:]! more. Winners at Chi; -
ame- fdr tall‘oan be placed 11. , Detroit and Battle Creek s ws.
« Hens—Belgian and Flemish Giants. Four pulle‘t; med 19:0 $1; i3:- 03nd.
Imus FARMS “seamen r. 88. . or : . .'.
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--—- . meshingoEgg-s fro arks bred-today man, Michigan. -
‘ND gymdottegkgt 1 so per 1? 9 We mi: H M, s 0 wnmn'
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gig: m;- ducks, 3135 r 11; White Chinese “233,351,”, Michigan Agricultural Col-
' geese. 4'00 ' rders filled in turn as legs-bred trap nested roosters with our
L—. ”091"" Order now. Dike Miller, dock at present; eggs, So each. Geo. Mc-
Dryden, Kay, Hersey,_ Mich: ‘ . ,
~--- 6. A. BAUHGABDNL‘B‘S nAnnn-n s WINNERS AT
ER- P. Rocks are famous for winners, layers, 33,12?st £33K gggiai pen, 32,50, 15;
“51?; m“ ”1.13:, “’33 “an ”:31“ ”Erna 91; SecondR :2. 1-5; 29.50. spa 11>, gierlaaid.
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101;- per 5.’ Middlevillo: Melt, R. :- finch.” e e am
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ours BIG BEAUTIFUL BARBED EGGS FROM PUBE-
-— Rocks are hen-hatched, quick owers, HATCHINGbred Barred Rocgs,
Ln. . .‘ good layers; 30 e .3330- 10 , 38. o. Ringlet strand- 16 for 1.60, 30 for $2. 0.
ling est-ca paid- Coc er 8. $4.00. Circu- P. P. pre ai . Mrs. 60. Weaver, Fife
,rly, lax-s. photos. John Worthon, Clare. Mich. Lake, Mi inn.
Peru, . .
KOBOUGEZBBED BABE!!!) n HATOHING EGGS -- PLYMOUTH
- 7...... “mind We Q’s-:33? sacs .fh‘sfit as rare the
. . ' ayers: em or , , .
”,3; Satisfaction mm. Robert Bow. Sheridan. wait, a a. .
“0,, man. In, R. o. 1. . eon. Michlsan. . Egg: From WP. bred White
1““ ‘ Hatching Rocks Fishels Strain
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.... BARRED 90015.31 5.12552, .32.; .n. Mm... wn P.1d. Duck... cm.
* Canisters! at'Oh Hf how. Hatchi Kletzeln, Bath, Mic izan.
—— “MP“ “.031” “£713“
53;. s ””c 15,53" t. of” so. m1 HATCHING EGGS WANTED
‘ - EL, - ' 1..., Hundreds of readers of umm Bus-
iiéi - _ Che Mich. iness Fanning want to buy Elicia“
*0 - ,‘smanne' nun moons run h“, u, to span, a mu. m 1,,
3:: flare" the M! Detroit Poultry 8‘” this cmmn will zen them in a hurry
l & 191 . ye two mted. Write out your ad and send it in.
will my wiring? mating) will set it in type and tell you what it
- I'm.“ 3 limit‘ fimgfdime oosttonm ,
WHIP 7 posse you. hereo—
iiigtsé' dongs-auteur Shepard, Chesan- mm, MISCELLANEOUS
8' In: roam-ABLE Gasomx
LEGHOBN wilting}? The Wade is the King 0
M‘- drag saws The “mi hty Wade" will pay
__ snow—com WHITE LEGHOBNS; for use}: in fifteen aye. We sell direct
_ bred to in? Barron strain; hatching eggs to the consumer. s. N. Castle a 00., Con-
..OC 15, 3 .60' 39. 3335' 50. u: 100, stantine, Mich, State Agents for -Michl-
9W: ne- 3 a, sh. Order direct from this an,
g"? » ad. N‘o chicks. Bruce w. Brown, my... -
‘95" “11°- m wnntnn—mnnmn MAN BY Tim
M ‘ ear on stock and seed farm. (Holsteins,
BIIDJIO-L%Y WHITE LEGHOBNS. Durocs, Registered Field Seeds.) Small or
i f, "N— A. - Demonstration Farm in no family preferred. Part living furnished.
Suy 1’18. Avenue Droduction for 150 he d wages and a home in a good con}-
* ' l munity. .State wages, experience and re -

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P ROMABLE DUFF LEGHOBNS—‘Ne

have twenty ugns of especially mated
{1 Single Comb that are not only mat-
ed for exhibit on but, above all, for prof-
- V “Ema a“ reduction. E888 at very reas-
m onable prices. Our list will interest you
m —-piee.ee ask for it. ' Hinze Farms.
8 Grass Lake, Michigan. .

 

ORPING'I‘ON

COOKEBELS left an s. o. w.
Awnston eras: also to Guinea
Em for hatching—Odell Arnold,

man, Mich.
RHODE ISLAND BEDS

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nfyser,‘pWilliamston. Mich.
It . B. O. B. 1. White. Large
COCKERELS pure wait: ltusky fellows.
easonable, sa s ac on guaran—
.‘... i223?! 5.111. Hawley. Ludinzton, Mich.
: WYANDOTTE
» ' NDOTTES "Exclusively”
""3 - v WHITE 33% years. Fine Birds. Best
hi; ' ' ' layers. Keeler’s strain. E 88. 15. 81-25:
st; - - #13, $35k, C°°k°r°1§f s,'p1'ymouth, Ind.
“A LDEN AND wnrrn
wgamggtne's; G: s from es ecial mail-
.9. . ins. [is per 15- i? er 30; 3 per 50: by
his . male ost pi-epaig. Clarence Browning,
flea» ». , gortlwci.) Mich, R. 2.
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THOUSANDS. DIF-
etieej'; Rown Lei-
,, ,gr booklet and test -
a ’eciated. Freeport
1 ‘- .eeport, Mich.

    

 

erence i first letter to Fertiland Farms,
Route i,n Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

 

AUTO OWNERS, ATTENTION
Your name and address on a postal wi
brin you “Valuable Information Con-
cern ng Your Motor.” Free of charge. Le'e
Richard, 163 Washington avenue, Mus-

$5 5:; !-

Any-m or woman who has
the use 0 a conveyance can
make that amount right in
the coun where they are now
living, in; subscriptions for
this we . , .

Hundreds of farmers are
only waiting for someone to

61..ka them to subscribe for e
weekl that is the talk of

Mic lean.

We want earnest, and. above
all, honest men an women
who will devote" all or part of
their time to this work, we
can make any arrangements
satisfactory to you, and will
give you all necessary equip-
ment and help without a pen-
ny’s outlay on your part. .

‘ Write us fully about your-
self. in confidence, '1! you pre-
fer, and let, us. make you a

— definite and fair proposition
to act as our agent in your
locality during the next few
weeks or, months. . ,

;. Address,» Circulation Mane}
er, Michi an BuSiness Farm-

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HOWELL MICHIGAN

Wednesday, May 21, 1919

4512.20 animal.
70 Head of High mas

o g e '

Registered Holstems

' " will be offered - J

A large percentage of the oflerings either have A. B. 0.
records or are from record dams.

Among the lot are three daughters of 32-lb. cows and a 25—
lb. 3-year—old daughter of a 28-lb. cow.

' A few high-class young bulls will be included.

Many of the females are bred to bulls whose dams have
records from 30 to 85 lbs.

P. M. TAFT, Secretary ‘

Oak Grove, Mich.
Catalogs ready May 10th

   
    
  
  
  
     
  
  
   
  
  
   
    
  
   
  
   
   
    
      
    
    
    
   
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
   
        
   
 
  
  
   
 

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GUARANTEE QUALITY SALE

Seventy head of Hi h-Clasa Registered Holstein Cattle, mostly from Herds
under Government and tate Superv ion,

Carefully Tuberculin Tested by Government or State
and Guaranteed to be Breeders if of Breeding Age.

What can the buyer as): more? '

Just note the Quality of the cattle consigned to this .8315,

Two .26-lb. cows and a 24-11). cow bred to Glen Alex King De Kol, a 43-ib,
Bull with a 42-1b. Grand Dam.

A daughter of a 30-1b. cow out of a 38-lb. Sire.

Six good young COWS and heifers nearly realdg
Mighty Ragapple, a $10,000 Son of Rample
Ormsb Jane Piebe Segis. .

A fill-lb. three-year—old, a 23-1b. Senior two-year-old a 23-lb_ three-year-old a
28-lb. four-year-old, and a son of a 26-“). cow, and a High Record Sire from the
noted Tra rse City State Hospital Herd.

A hum of good A. R. O. cows safe in Calf to Bulls from Dams with records
from 30 lbs. to 43 lbs. .

Good A. R, O. Cows and choice Heifers that will be fresh at time of Sale, or \
soon due to freshen and bred to Sires from High Record Dams.

Choice yearling heifers and heifer calves from well-bred Dams and high—Class

s. . .

SireFive choice heifer calves. all from one 32-1b. Sire and them Dams, all from one

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32 1X fgwechoice bull calves of excellent breeding. This is the buyer's opportunity to
purchase healthy cattle of good type and breeding.

Remember the date and place of this Sale, Wednesday, May 14th, 1919, at the
West lilichig‘an State Fair Grounds, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

If interested, write me for a Sale 1(‘51talog.

Buyers of Holstein Cattle from.ot. -r States should note that this Sale follows
The Mark Piper Dispersal Sale which will be held at Flint, Michigan on Tuesday,
May 13th, 1919, and Where 77 head of High-Class Holstein Cattle will be sold.

Plan to attend both of these sales where Good Healthy Holstein Cattle can be
bought in car-load lots, and easily shipped to destination by purchaser

W. R. HARPER, Sale Manager. D. L. PERRY, Anotioneer
~Mll)DLEVlLIiE, MICHIGAN

accredited veterinarians.

to freshen, and in calf to the
rndyke 8th, and a 88-lb. cow,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LIVESTOCK COMMISSION

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